, 1864-06-20
nrIscEL1ANEoUs NEWS ITEMS.

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MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.
There are in ireland forty thousand cot
tiers, or one acre tenants.
The estimated territory of the whole
United States embraces an area Of $780,.
900 miles.
The Emperor of the French, with view
to encourage cattle-breeding in the Limou-
sin, has purchased largely Of Durham stock.
The number of ilIcsitiMate children
born in the English work-houses for three
years is as follows: 1860, 1907; 1861,
5000; 1862, S,l15.
Another instance Of negro "cowardice''
We find in an official report of late fight
at Vidalia, La, where 800 citizens of Af-
rican descent defeated four OF Eve times
that number of chivalry.
An exchange says that the New York
Herald has changed its programme, and
now goes for Grant on Mondays instead oi
Tuesdays reservins the latter for it
Mcclellan day. Thursday is still its Ere.
mont doy.
New York city has church for every
three thousand inhabitants, and a groggery
forevery one hundred These facsaccount
for the fact that the city gives a Copper
head majority of from $4,000 to 10000
every election.
Late information from Vienna states that
the death of the King of Bavaria was ow-
ing to lOckjaw, originating in scratch on
the breast froma pin attached to an order he
was fastening on his coat. He was sick
but four days.
The London Herald remarks that unless
the Emperor Napoleon and Macmillan rec
Ognize the South, the establishment Of the
Mexican empire will be a frltless expend-
iture of strength by France and viii end
in humiliation to all concerned.
When a repentant SeceSsionist takes the
oath of allegiance, his old associates say he
is ''ironclad" 1t is better, says the Nash
vile Uaion, to be "ironclad" with loyalty,
than cOpper-clad with treason, or 60 down
to Dixie and not be clad at all.
A new way to get higher WAGES was
devised by the nail cutters in Dudley and
Fast Worcestershire, Eng. They notified
the owners of the mills that unless they
received an advance Of six cents per thou
sand, they intended TO strike for twelve
cents.
Brownlow's last W1ig contains rebel
dispatches from HI" He says: "The
Richmond Whig must have received its
details from John B Floyd and VIM. l..
Yancy, resident reporters for the Rebel As
sOciated Press, who went below some time
in advance Of the false rumor that We had
gone down."
A proposition is to be submitted to Con-
gross for abill organize Provisional Gov
ernInent for the Choctaw Indian Nation.
This tribe of Indians are most intelligent,
and-as a tribe-highly educated. The
debates in their local legislative assemblies
will compare favorably with more august
delibefatite bodies.
In an exciting debate in the New Jer-
sey Legislature, Mr.. ScOvel said Of the
Camden Ambcy Railroad Company:
% You may subsidize newspapers-you may
bribe legislators-but you cannot corrupt
the hearts of the people, Legislators and
editors have no hearts. That's an uncOnsti-
tutional declaration.
The Copperheadoutbreak in Coles county,
ILL.,, is likely to result very disastrOusly to
the scoundrels who we're engaged in it.
Forty Of their number have been arrested,
and the work Of apprehension is still going
on; whilst still greater number have fed
from their homes to wander like towards
and criminals through the land, or lie con-
cealed where the officers of justice may not
be able to find them.