, 1864-06-20
MIsCELLANEoUs NEWS ITEMS.

Patent leather cloth, an American in
ventiOn, finds large sale in saxOny.
The gentleman who taught J. Fennimor'
Cooper the alphabet died recently, ageC
ninety-seven.
1t is estimated that 81 100000 worth o.
tobacco was grown in Lancaster county
Pa, last year.
A man named Fisher, in Virginia, On
T. had two of his fingers bitten off by q
camel few days ago.
There are now forty-three vessels on the
way to San Francisco from Eastern ports Of
the United States.
Inthe FirstMichigan Regimeatof Sharp
shooters there are two companies of full
blOoded Chippewa Indians.
The Maryland Legislature has passed a
law taxing bachelors, over As years Of age,
$40 per annum. The old maids next.
A heifer only fourteen months old, be-
longing to W. II. Brainard, of Sacramento,
gave birth few days ago to a healthy calf.
The members of the New York Board
of Brokers have subscribed sG,9U0 towards
securing recruits to fill up Gen. HancOck's
corps.
Some of the married women in Virginia
City have taken to carrying revolvers for
selt-pro;ection, according to the Gold Hill
NeWs.)
Seventeen thousand votes were cast in
the recent election in Arkansas, only two
hundred votes being against the new Con-
stitution.
Austin B. Williams, printer, lately died
in New York city. Heweighed 420 pounds, |
and required seventeen yards Of broadclOth
to fit him.
Capt. H. G. Wilson, Of the 93 New York |
Regiment died at Harris Island recently
from the effects of the bite Of a rat on one |
of his fingers.
The California Steam Navigation Com
pany carries passengers between San Fran
cisco and Sacramento for fifty and twenty
five cents.
Gov. Corwin, our Minister to Mexico,
has procured leave to go home, and he
writes as if he had but little expectation of
going back.
Van Amburgh's travelling menageric of
beasts and birds, now exhibiting in New
York, makes a great show. Its train is
more than mile in length.
Forty-fve thousand votes were cast at
the Metropolitan Fair for the army sword.
Grants majority was sixteen thousand.
Grant is heavy on reserves.
The General Conference of tho Metho-
dist Church sits this year at Cincinnati
During its sessions daily newspaper will
be published, to report the acts and debates
of the body.
A Boston merchant who failed twenty
years ago, and subsequently, was able to
pay all his debts, has recently also paid the
interest on those debts, which he was una
bic to meet when he settled the principal.
Gen. Kimball of Indiana, declines the
nomination for Lieutenant Governor, saying
that while the war lasts he wants to help
the Government in the field, d,-=would not
quit the service for any civil Office in the
gift Of the people.
The Federal armies arc now stated to be
| ,20O,0 600 strOng-24O, 900 more than they
numbered year ago. 1t is plain to be
seen that the Government is preparing to
strike the necessary blows for bringing the
present contest to triumphant close.
It was admitted in recent debate in the
House of Commons that during the last
ten years ireland has lost two-and-a half
millions Of its population, and that the
exodus is still going on at the rate of one
hundred and twenty thousand per annum.
The Governor of Illinois will, it is said,
be authorized to commission officers for the
negro regiments raised in that State. This
Of one Of the stifFest rules Of
the War Department is to encourage en-
Iistments by substantially letting the re-
rruits pick out their own white officers.
DR.. Breckinrige, Of Kentucky, in q re-
cent speech said, " Let it be forever rc.
that it is the secession Of the
South, aud the war which has followed,
which has brought slavery to the crisis Of
its fate. Let it be settled in your hearts,
that the alternative so often spoken Of has
come"
Gen. Rosecrans lately said in speech in
Tennessee that he was in favor of the Gov
ernment as it was, if il could be had-if
not, then the next best thing to that. But,
in order that there might be no misunder-
of his views, he added, that if
one of the rights to be restored was the
right Of hanging people for opinions sake