The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-04-26

extract of a letter just received from
Melbourne: "Professor Newmenger
on three years scientific visit from
Bavaria, tells us that in 1865 a GOMEZ
shall come SO close as to endanger thi,
our earth; and should it not attach it
self Gas one globule of quicksilver tc
another) nor annihilate us, the sigh,
viii be most beautiful to behold. Dur
ing three nights we shall have no dark
ness, but be bathed in the brilliaut ligh,
of the blazing train"
| A Newberryport (Mass.) merchant
receiving, dispatch that sugar had
gone up to % cents, ran ont without
saying anything and bought up the
stock of neighbor at 2l cents. He
went back III great glee and told his
clerks of the operation, only to learn
that during his absence his own stock
had been sold out at 20 cents, and that
he was out about $50.
A monument in commemoration of
Che surrender Of Vicksburgh, is to be
erected on the spot where the interview
took place between Grant and Pember-
ton, on the Sd Of July last. 1t will
consist of marble pyramid 90 feet
high, surmomted by a globe and eagle,
with appropriate devices. Gems. Thom-
as and Mcpherson have thd matter In
charge.
Gen. Gordon Granger has been re-
lieved Of the command of the 4th Army
Corps, and Gen. Howard assigned
thereto. The latter is man Of high
moral and Christian character, and is
denominated by those who know him,
"the Havelock of American soldiery.'' y
His headquarters are at Cleveland, Ten
nessee.
Wilbur f. Story, editor of the Chi
cago Times, was on Monday last ar
rested on charge of libel At the
office of the Justice, where he appear
ed to give bail, he met Mr.. Reno, the
plaintiff in the case, to whom Story ad-
dressed some contemptuous remarks,
which, but for the time and place would
have secured him a personal chastise-
| iiieuJ On tne spot, ~ the nanus OF the
outraged individual.
A STORY is going about Paris that
is creditable to the Emperor. tits said
that riding one day in the streets, he
nearly rode over little boy, and pulling
up suddenly, and ascertaining that he
was not hurt, asked him good-natured
! if he would like to see the Emperor
"No," replied the child, ''for my father
says he is scoundre'' Tying. ''Indeed,
said the Emperor, 81 am sorry to hear
that, but think your father cannot be
much of Judge" "Oh, yes!" said the
boy, che is Senitor;" upon which one
of the Emperor's train asked his name,
but was peremptorily interrupted by his
master, who declined to ask or hear it,
and rode on. $50
CAPTURE or Fort PILLow,-The
Capture of Fort Pillow by the rebels
under command Of Forest, Is the most
barbarous conduct ever known in the
annals Of war. Officers and men of
colored regiments were brutally nlur-
dered, after they were in the hands Of
the rebels, as prisoners. Among the
killed is Capt brady, Of Toledo, who
belonged to an Alabama colored regi-
ment.
The Cincinnati Gozene hopes that as
Mr.. Long and his friends contend that
the rebel States are out of the Union,
they will not deny that two-thirds of
the remaining States may amend the
Constitution, and that any act which
before rebuired majority of all the
States, may now be done by a majority
of the states outtide of Secessia.
The President has approved the act
extending for two years from date, the
time within which the States and Terri
tories may accept the grants of land
donated for the establishment Of cole
ges for the benefit of mechanical and
agricultural arts. Western Virginia is
now included within the limits of this
law.
sB" The 10th Illinois Infantry have
sent to Chicago base ball bat made
from piece Of chestnut wood found
on the battle field of Chickamaugua,
to be played for by the base ball clubs
of that city.
sSy In the report of the proceedings
of an agricultural meeting at Spring
field, we find this astonishing statement:
A man who grew one hundred and thir-
teen bushels of Dutton corn per acre,
had ears from twelve to fifteen inches
in length.
ss3" Mrs. Jessie Fremont sent the
following despatch to gentleman in
San Francisco, on hearing by telegraph
of the death of Rev. Starr King
"Put violets for me on the coffin Of
our dear friend who sleeps"
.W" Gen. Isaac Eastman, of Con-
cord, N. H., well known in Military and
Masonic circles, died last Friday, aged
eighty-four.
s" Mr.. Rollin Robinson, of Pal
myra, says woman named Ellis, whose
husband is n cripple, short time since
asked for on opportunity to chop wood
on his place by the cord. He granted
her request, and she now chops one and
a-half cords Of four feet wood per day,
earning o shillings. adrian EIpositor.
f5" Thad. Stevens, who has worn
a wig for these twenty years, was lately
applied to in behalf Of the st. Louis
Sanitary Fair, for a lock Of his hair to
put in Congressional wreath.
~" Tn Giles County, Tenn, 2,4oo
citizens have taken the oath Of allegi-
ancc. They say they are sick Of the
rahallian