The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-09
NEWS JOTTINGS.


Young women in South Merrmack, N. H.,
made two dollars a dayand their board at reaping.
Upwards of $4,000 have been raised on the
proposed subscription of 100000 in aid of Mid
dlebury College.
-Sunfiowers are growing in the city of Boston,
in the buryiDg ground between the fremont
House and Park Street Church.
The Twenty first Massachusetts regiment has
returned home, after three years service, with
eighty-two members, all told. This remnant has
been mustered out of the service.
"A young man in Greensboro, Vermont, went
TO the provost marshal last week to put in q sub
stitute before the draft, but was exempted, aud
paid man $500 to 60 ms his representative
recruit.
The project of establishing Il Normal School
in Western Pennsylvania is regarded with much
tavorin that region, and is likely to be accom-
plished
The total valuation Of the city of Providence
is S79,999,6O0O, an increase of Sl3, ,5Si 900 since
last year. The rate of taxation is 81 on $1,000;
amount of taxation, 1850 ,99S.
While many ponds and streams have showed
signs of the drought Wdlden's pond in Massl-
chusetts CThorcaus fayorite) steadily rose during
the worst of the season.
The proprietors of the Cashmere mills a.
Rockville, Connecticut raised the wages of their
operatives ten per cent. on the lst instant.
The BARRIERS Of Hartford have bound them
selves unto each other, in the penalty of fifty
dollars, to shave no man hcnceforth on a Sunday.
The Magic, Of Bristol, Rho lc Island, boat
which beat everything easily a. the Bridgeport
regatta, was built and is owned and sailed by
blind man.
DIR. c. B. Webster State Agent of Connecti-
cut in the Department Of the Cumberland, has
visited the hospitals in JeiItrs jnville, Indiana,
Louisville, Nashville, and Cha,Anooga, and re-
ports the sick and wounded Connecticut soldiers
in good condition Any letters of inquiry ad-
dressed to him at Chattauooga "a will receive
attention.
"A Hartford paper says that Mr.. Ames, of
Falls ViILge, Connecticut, in trying one of his
wrought iron guns recently, loaded it to within
fourteen inches of the muzzlo with powder and
waddingi then put procclile eighteen inches
long, projecting from the muzllg one third of its
length; then placed the gun against an embank-
ment ten feet thick, composed OF several tons Of
iron backed with Garth, aud Sc, a slow match b
the gun and fred it., The gun lc,oiled sixty feet
and drove the proectile entirely through the
solid embankmcnt of iron and c ,rth.
legulatonsissuedb by tn War Department
for the settlement Of claims for commissary and
quartermaster's stores, provide that no consldera-
ton shall be given to ths claims Of dsloyal per-
sons, nor to those of citizens of States heretofore
declared in rebellion by the President, nor to
claims for damages, or thetts, or depredations Of
troops; and in all cases the claimant shall show
by his own oath, and that Of disnterested par
ties, that he was loyal at the time the claim origi-
mated, and has been loyal ever since.
The accumulation ofunpaid requisitons upon
the Treasury is rendering the necessity for a tenn
porary loan of at least fifty millions of dollars, in
anticipation of the payment of the nstalments Of
the new loan, urgent. 1t is understood that
Secretary Fessenden is averse to further imitation
Of the currency, and will depend upon the receipts
from taxes and long loans to meet the demands
upon the Treasury. With a continuance OF milf
tary success, which there is every reason to ex-
pect, he thinks he will be able thus TO meet these
demands. In the meantime he will negotiate a
temporary loan to discharge the more pressing
and urgent calls upon him,
The lately-pubiished report that Gen. Grant
has written political letter to somebody here is
true only to this extent He says, in a private
letter TO prominent gentleman, that he believes
1t the duty of every man to do all In his power to
put down the Rebellion, as well by filling up the
Federal army and contributing the means to sup
port il, as ia sustaining those who are and have
been using their efforts TO accomplish that desira-
Die result. He also expressed the opinion tha
the Rebel COnfederacy is so nearly exhausted
that it would soon collapse il the nation would
put forth Its strength promptly aud vigorously.