The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1864-03-23
VARIOUS ITEMS.

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last accounts, and vas about 10 re-enlist - vet
eran, and possibly he will next go with his eve
oct
fheNN Gil, Phaaiephan, lately lad leg
aey OF = 1000 lett him, and an advance payment
OF $1,000 was made him. Overcome bv his
good fortune. be- i3rs0Ok bis wife aud business
ior ~AisAey and debauehery and wound up his
course Of wickelaoss oa " Weduesday last bv muir
uefi NE wife With poker, aud committing
every mdgnity upon her l.eiess body. Since
ms arrest Re has teigned insanity.
The Washington correspondent Of the New
lork Espress SAYS that il Mr.. Ben. Wood OF
the Asrs viii come hack 70 Congress and attend
4 TO business, he Nil fad that there are but ten
f Democratic members @, the House. who do not
+ u pa. ciple aud substance agree With what Nr.
/ BROOKS said, VIZ: That as fact. be 10 right or
"ro"9- -"d ar fact - bc recognized aud &C
cepted, as much daylight or darkness. the
slavery Institution is dead
Private Geo W. Baird. of Compsnv II lstb
lnyalids Connecticut Yankee, on Thursday.
passed the best examination before Casey'z Board
iof Negro Commands ever yet passed by any can
dldate thus Tar brought before IT, When the
Questioning was ended 10y his skilliulis handling
bi igade ei infantry ia all possible bad fixes
III lace Of the enemy, he was unanimously voted
TO be = colonel
An advertisement in the New York psners
announce that Oh the first OF March the prices
oi tAe hrsi class hotels in that city would be in
creased to three dola,s ami 6fty cents per day.
lac Increased COS; oil food and labor IS assigned
for the reason of the rise
The Richmond Dispatch contains ,n .dser.
tsemcnt of the Danvie Female Colege an.
nouacins that the price Of board for twenty
weeks is five huadrcd dollars, or five barrels OF
-four
There il said to be tenement house in New
ORR having GS rooms, $ by 10 feet, containing
40 iaR.illes, OF IA adults and l3s children. n
dogs ana 4s cats.
Accounts from Ireland represent the tide OF
einistation as still unchanged. At che last ac- /
counts, there were more persons waiting for
passas' ia Cork, GALWAY, Liverpool aud the
great American shipping ports, than could be +
accommodated for months TO come-and this
TOO, ~ advance OF the usual season of emigra.
Ton, which does not commence until March.
Goldsiu Smith, the eminent British scholar
and statesman, is now showing up ia the London
papers the barb1rous way with which the Enr- .
llsh conduct the war in New Zealand They |
hunt the natives with blood hounds. and the sol. .
u.
up NeN Zealauder's skull Oh a pole, and then
pelted it with stones.
Between one aud two hundred foreigners, en-.
plo5ed IN the various gangs in the Navy Yard of
Chariestown, Mass. have been discharged with
IN a f." days, for neglecting to become natural
lied citizens of the United States.
We learn from gentleman Just from Natchez
Mississippi that corn is very plenty in that vi.
clnty, at ten cents per bushel in the field The
crop averages from forty 10 sixty bushels per
se9 al hes R9ihGeRe egatbegfots having joined
tre1 uy NOrtnern MEN, ana several lots have al
ready been shipped to St. Louis Cincinnati
Times.
John Morgan is said to have determined upon
a novel course Of treatment for the prisoners he
may capture, in retaliation for the prison disci-
plno which he was forced TO undergo in the
Ohio Pcniientiary. There will be barber at
Iachci 10 his band and TO his skiiul hands eve
~ prisoner taken, who Is higher in rank than a
sergeant, will be delivered, and will be shorn of
noustaches, wbiskers aud hair until his head il
-hsven rs bare AZ an egg.
A hal. fsmished fellow Ia the Southern State
tells OF a baker, whose loaves haa been growing
smaller by degrees and beautifully lcss, who
y hen gong his rounds 10 serve customers stop
ped at tie door ol one and. knocked, VIXEN the
Ldy within exclaimed, Who's there :" and was
,H=weTd "thc baker" What DO Won want ="
a To leave yonr bread Vel. ,ou need not
make such "a iu-s about it-put il through ;hr
whole
New Orleans correspondent writes Among
be humofs OF the Gnhersatorial canvass r. NAV
,e stated that a merchant who was in the ilahn ,
Ril~ some time sia-o .4.l. g.. co.tfar- ,.ff, Zach
f4 ...r f. D
lmn of ADVERTISING i4r month. the mi.ter 20 hc
.haf ged daily The publishers were much sur
lis,d when under the contract they we're COM ,
1elied to print each day number OF articles in
support of Mr. Hahn; and it Is a matter Of boast .
With TIE Rug ths the editors did not dare ,
"a vieW of the vigor of martial law-to repudi.
ite in their own columns the doctrines OF their
EDITORIAL advertiser"
The statistics cf the number of cattle and {
logs packed in Chicago the last season are SO far
made out that able 10 report the total
lumber ot hogs packed here at 9G4 OOu head, }
against g7e 264 head last season
This is "a. 204 head less than were packed last
eason.-Imes
An English hsirdresser has hed the ceiling Of
is establishment itsed with an iron spindle With
hree wheels carrying Inda rubber baads Cir
.ular brushes are put thereon, wheel sets them
pinuing, and the customers being placed under
Ieath have their pates polished by machinery. ,
TIE Philadelphia merchants evidently believe q
n the national banking syesora. On Friday t,sy 1
eHt IN a memorial to Congress- praying that the
ssues of State banks might be taxed so heavily
s - compel them 90 call in + cir Issues and
Wind up their business, leaving the field clear {
or the National banks. Their argument is that I
he issues OF the local banks have already depre-
sted in value, eld are liable TO still further de-
,recaton.
Since the first Of February 9Ss non-conlnis.
toned officers and privat,s. and FIVE commis-
ioned officers, have deserted the rebel ranks in
1est Tennessee, come into our lines aud taken ,
he oath. The aggregate since January ! It i
500.
One swallow doesn't make a sumner, but Q
oung men should remeber that TOO many sEol- >
0ws are sure 70 make fail.
The Atlanta Confederacy is paying 50 20 per
,ound for its paper.
OF about zoo passengers, Who arrived at New
York. from Liverpool, in the British ship Penn
ylvania, We learn that at least 200 came ex-
,ressly to enlist in the {. s Army being aitrac.
ed by the large bOunties. r
ANY Tribune correspondent says:
The reception Of Gen. Grant at the Presidents
evee in the evening was more furious than snv
Gene that ever transpirei in the Esst Room.
lie was literally lifted Up for a while, and in
obedience 70 a demsnd and 10 q necessity, so
,reat was desire . have fair look at him, he
Eas obliged 10 mount a sofa, under the auspices