Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-08-09
THE EVENING STAR.

~ Brick tea IL nearly all shipped to Rus
STA Probably very few people out Of Cnina
know what brick tea ia II is the refuse ana
powder OF various kinds OF tea worked up
with blood into cakes looking like bricks: AZ
10 very cheap, and sold at six taels per picui.
A tas In 81 %; picul I33 pounds
SSome time ago the Philadelpn councils
passed resolutions expressing their regard for
General Hancock and appreciation or his ser
vices. They were sent to Mrs Hancock, at st.
Lonis. and she has acknowledged their receipt
IN q very pretty letter.
~The first installment OF prisoners from
the Rebel hell hole at Tyler, Texas, have ar
rived at New Orleans. They are reported as
almost skeletons and are hates. shoeiess, ana
have scarcely suficiency Of clothing TO cover
their pakedness.
- An American came very near Immortal.
ling himself at Alsen, by blowing up the
whole Prussian army; but. alas owing to
some fptxpljcable negiet, after he had done
all in his power, his explosive materials were
sent to him from Copenhagen an hour too late
SCincinnati papers are pitching into the
men OF that city who have grown rich and
prosperous In times of peace, and now refuss
OF their abundance to use enough money to
place representative substitute in the army.
To HoUsRKEEPBRs-Od from boiling
ham, cabbage, &c, 1t Is said, may be prevented
Sv throwing red pepper. pods, or a few pieces
Of ensrcoal, into the vessel where they are
toilsd.
~ The crinoline is fast disappearing from
Partisan society. At many OF the watering
said that in another twelyemonth IL will be
comparatively unknown
y Major Gregg, OF the 5sth Pennsylvania
volunteers, run a rebel othcer through with
Petereb burg, at the time Of the explosion Of the
mine by our forces.
~ The French Charivari has a cut repre-.
.entine two men leaning against guids-post.
One has tPle scope looking towards America.
The other asks-"is the American war yet
ended Z" mo, still see some inhabitants"
~ A Portland fisherman, q few days ago,
captured horse maekerel off Mount Desert,
which measured 10 feet in length, and girted
sK feet, with an estimated weight Of 1900
pounds.
- Among the prisoners captured in one OF
the recent fights near Atlanta was q ragged
belt OF the late Gen. Mcpherson.
~Ir is reported, semi officially, that since
Gen. Hood took command Of the rebel army he
has lost $4,000 men in killed, wounded and
prisoners.
~A Philadelphia court has decided that
when wife leaves her husband, tor cause or
net, she cannot recover against him in a suit
for m maintenance.
~ Capt Geo. p Webster, @ uartermaster at
Covington, KY, has been anonymously
Threatened with assassination il he persists in
employing colorsd men as laborers
~ VIM. Fitch Arnold. the last surviving
Issue OF Benedict Arnold, is magistrate in
Buckinghamshire, England. He has q family
OF six children.
~ California is said, owing to the drain of
war upon che male population, to want $4,000
women, and the emigration Of the many desti-
tute females in the East is suggested.
~ Eight hundred thousand pounds of wool
were recently purchased by one party in De.
roit at 20 cents per pound
- Georgia has but two regiments OF able
bodied men not in the rebel army. That is out
OF free population Of 595,0sS.
- The Sovereigns OF Austria and Prussia
are corresponding in cordial language with
The petty princes OF Germany.-English paper
SA suffer at Fortress Monroe has HI d four
ship loads OF goods confiscated for selling
bottle of liquor to a soldier.
~Fifty thousand hogsheads of tobacco have
been sold at Louis Vile, KY, since November,
1869.
~ The Confederates propose rebuilding the
Virginia Hilary Institute at Lexington.
~ There are 1900 Federal prisoners now
NJ Anderson willie, Ga.
- New Jersey onions are worth 81 per
bpshel.
~ Jenny Lind's husband has become Lon.
don difor.