, 1864-04-23

going on in the Army Of the Cumberland
for movement against Dalton.
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sIsCELLANEOUs NEWS ITEMS.
DislOyal words admit Of this defence:
Want of loyalty is want Of sense.
A key that fits eyerybOdy's trunk-Tu'
key.
A great oddity in these times-a cheap
commodity.
The rebel army in Virginia is described
as Lees Miserables."
California interior papers are complaining
Of unusually dull times.
About two hundred freedmen a week are
enlisted at Chattanooga.
Gen. Grant is said to be fatalist--bc-
lieves in his star The country believes in
his three stars.
The ladies secured four hundred dollars
to the Sanitary Fair by their tableaux vi.
want in Washington.
Foreign letters state that st. Petersburg
is very gay. Balls and fetes abound, and
Italian opera is in full swing.
Efforts are making to establish in France
the system Of "lectures and readings" in
vogue in this country.
a Belgian artist, strOens, said to be the
best skater in Europe, has been invited to
skate with the Empress Eugene.
A company has been Incorporated in San
Francisco for the cultivation of cotton, eof-
fee, sugar, etc., in Sinaloa, Mexico.
Senator Conness, Of California, is pro
posed by several papers for Vice President;
but being Of foreign birth, is not eligible.
The Chicago Tribune pays its own city
the compliment of speaking Of it as "the
common refuge Of tho erring and the un-
fortunate"
There are FIVE newspapers in Florida, en-
ploying nine persons. In Mississippi, where
there were seyenty-6ve papers, there are
now but nine.
Some one has reckoncd up that more
shells we're fred at the battle of Gettys.
burg than were used in all the battles that
Napoleon ever fought.
1t is said that rebel spy was caught
while dancing at the ball recently given al
the headquarters of the Sd corps Of the Army
of the Potomac.
By order Of Gen. Schofeld, several per.
sons have been arrested in Louisville for
kidnapping negroes in Missouri, and selling
them into slavery in Kentucky.
Hale and hearty conscripts who get ex-
empted on the ground Of weakness Of the
spine" may be said to be adopts in the game
Of baekgammoR.
The new official map Of France is fin
ished. This immense work, executed by
the general staff Of the army, has occu-
pied nearly sixty years.
The Mayor Of of Columbia, Tenn, has
been arrested and taken to Nashville,
charged with killing one Federal soldier
and wOunding another.
A Portland paper says there is ship
belonging to that State, now at sea, forty.
three years old, whose first owner, first mas.
ter and FIRST consignee are all living.
A merchant Of Philadelphia, who few
years ago was wealthy and making annually
from FIVE to ten thousand dollars, is now
driver on horse railroad car at ten dollars
per week.
The Cabinet Of the King of the Sand.
wich Islands contains an American, an Eng.
lishman, ScOtchman, a Frcnehman, q
Kanaka and woman. Apretty good mix
ture.
The loyal papers in Ohio call the oppo.
sition side Of the House Of Assembly the
"South Carolina corner" owing 70 the
uniform hostility there existing to all pa.
triotie measures.
An old lady in Nov Hampshire has a
bed-cOrd made nearly Fifty years ago, which
has been in constant use ever since, and i
to all appearance rs good as new. 1t is
hOmespun, made by hand from fax tow.
The Mission Woolen Mills at San Fran.
cisco have capacity now for the manufacture
Of 100000 worth of cloths and blankets
per annum. New arrangements are in pro.
gress to enlarge their capacity to 81 ,O0O,.
900.
Capt. Westervelt, who pilotcd Gen. Burn.
sides expedition to NeWbern, was among
those captured on the gunboat UndersTiter
The rebels had offered 81 900 for him dead
or alive, and when captured he was bound
hands and feet.
A member of Co. NJ, Cd Maine Cavalry
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