, 1864-05-07
MIscELLANEOUs NEWS ITEMS.


Meat is scarcer than morals in Richmond.
Marshal Wrangcl is tender youth of "a
years, and hale as buck.
They have little tenor in London seven
years old. Many families contain still
younger screamers.
fna recent burglary in Petersburg, Va,
one of the articles stolen was black vel
vet cloak, for which $4,000 were refused
the day before.
In Cincinnati. lately, wealthy Quaker
refused to give any money to aid the war,
but said there was loose 500 note at his
Office, which the committee might find.
Ben. Butler says he has found that a
good many of his chaplains are less fond Of
comforting his dying officers and soldiers
than Of waiting to condole their widows.
Gen. Howell Cobb has proposed to sell
the rebel government thirty thousand
pounds of bacon and forty thousand bush
els of corn, at any price it is disposed to pay
him.
1t is estimated that not less than six
thousand families, thirty thousand persons,
from Southern and Southwestern States,
have taken refuge in New York city till the
war is over.
One Of the most famous historical chat
caux Of France is announced for sale, viz; I;
the Chateaux Of ChenOnceaux, which be-
longed successfully to Diana de Poitiers,
Catherine de Medicis and Mary Stuart
A lady in Murfreesboro sends the Louis
vile Journal several pieces of music which
she cal rebel airs 1t replies: ave are
in no want Of anything Of the sort; some
of our ladies' here put on a great many Of
them."
A man in Ravcnna, Ohio. has caused the
timber Of building in Franklin Mills.
built by John Brown, to be cut into pieces
suitable for canes, and deposited them in
the Sanitary Fair building at Cleveland,
properly labelled.
The "Association for the Benefit of the
Colored Orphans" whose property was de-
stroyed by the New York mob, have been
awarded $4,000 damages. The ravages
of that mob have cost the city and county
Uf New York enormously.
The smallpox has become so prevalent
at Natchcz that stringent measures are en-
ployed to control it and prevent its spread
ing. The first regulation Of the Medical
Director requires every case to be reported
to him under heavy PENALTY.
Gov. Smith, of Rhode Island, saw cul-
prit fleeing from an officer the other day,
joined in the chase, caught the rascal just
as he was getting over fence, delivered
him up to the officer, and then proceeded
to his duties at the State House, us If moth
ing had happened.
Some one the other day asked Gen. But.
Ter why he employed certain person said
to be disloyal and of general bad charac-
ter to penetrate the rebel lines. "If yOu
wanted information from he'll" )" replied Gen.
Butler. "would you send Saint or Sister
Of Charity TO fetch it?"
The census report exhibits the fact that
not one State declined in population from
1859 to 1860. Vermont Increased tie least
--abcut one-third Of Une per cent. The
Slave States increased faster than New Eng
land; making due allowance for immigra-
tion, tho South gained as fast as the North.
MASSACHUSETTS is going to establish mil
itary school and expend $4,000 to teach
her young men how to fght She had bet
ter, until the war is over, induce them to
volunteer and trust to the military authori-
ties to teach them how to fight. There is
not time to educate young men at military
schools for this war. Let the youth who
would study the art Of war study It in the
camp and the battle field. The lessons
learned there will be remembered.