The weekly sun., 1864-08-06
General Intelligence.


Bou>rY-JvIrEE was arrested IN Baltimore las,
week. who boasi.d that be had male upwards o.
slbovO since he commenced jumping.
TuE quota Of the / g, Congressional District com.
pr.sue the counties of Suffolk. Richmond and
Queens, under the call ion 500 OtO mcu.ls 2.6s3.
TaE "Fenidn" is the title a new weekly paper
10 be started in Boston this week. 70 he devoted To
the discussion oi the Nationality N Ireland.
ALApy was playing with a favorits magpie the
other day, lin Hartiord} which had been accus.
toned to receive It's daily bits from her rpoutn,
when, perched on her shoulder, it dropI Ell uppn
her tongue an immense green tat caterpillar.
Az Atlanta paper boasts that there are now not
less than hundred officers in active rele service
with but one leg apiece Thc rebel military az.
tLor.tie, ought ge, up hops for the poor fellows
every week.
~yrL-IsFoRTyD Washington correspondent.
says: "Rumors are current Vi the arrival o Com
missioner al Hsvanr, sn roHis from Mexico 10
Richmond. He II said W have been smt thithe-
by the Emperor Nsxinllan, but she special object
Of his visit II unknown"
FRos the statement Of correspondent, il seems
that the Rebel army In Maryl land lost f,ty men 10y
deserton where i gained one recruit. Msny rebel
symPathi,ers took up arms To rep-l their former
friends who last year were yeceived with many
demonstrations Of friendship.
AMY pies arr 50 terribly tough shat the soldiers
call th,ni leather PIES, Ioor fellow In Grants
army, whose arm had just heen smputated, was
h ng carried past stand the other aay here On
sell IN the ambulance and csled put II say, Old
iahy are those Pes sewed or peggedt'
ASofBu New jersey editor, Mr.. Eben Winton,
OF the Bergen County DENocRAI. was ARRESTED on
Saturday by command ol Gen. Peck, la the tcui-
poraTy absence of hen. Dix, for an article discour-
aging enlistment and opposing the execution OF the
draft. He was released on parole, 10 stand eXam-
inston this TUESDAY, morning.
II is rsmarksblc fact thai the contest before Al.
lanuI brought together three Old CLASSMATES from
West Point. General Hood, MaJor-General McPher.
son and Bligadcr General sclioield We're old
'chuus," being room -ulstes during the last year
Of their cadet life Mcpherson and Iood were par.
ticular friends, yet one fell 10y the hand OF the
| other.
IsrrILlorsox from Nassau to the 25th instant
Is 70 the elect that block ac-rrnning Is not active
lust now, owing principally TO the Wilmington
Quarantine regulations but III tie meantime the
block ade runners making extensive prepara-
tons tor the fail business. More merchants are
coming 10 Nassau, and new steamers arriving
or are on the way. 1.-TWO large vessels" CORES.
nonlent writes ''.ame in last week, and u dozen
more are expected. There are ten In port to-day.
MANY OF out old ones are running 10 Bermuda for
the summer. by doing So they avoid the Quarsn-
Ene III Dixie
Ta Most Right Rev. Martin John apaIdinP the
newly appanird Catholic Archbishop oi Baltimore,
was installed IN the cathedral of Baltimore sun
dsy last, mid the most gorgeous and solemn cere-
MONIES Gen. Lew Wallace and number Of Fed
ersl ofhcers present amid the immense audi
mon. reminded his brethren that "they were the
children Of those who founded upon Ibis Mary
landl soil, generations ago, the principles OF free
and religious liberty, equal rights and privileges to
| III, aud they bad continued 70 keep up the exam.
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