, 1864-03-25
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
(special Correspondence N. 7. Tribune.

There are over fourteen hundred negro
soldiers Mt the Connecticut conscript camp In
| New Haven.
The prospects Of Bates College, Maine,
are encouraging. Boston promises gift OF
$50, GOO, and part Of It is already raised.
The active preachers Of the Methodist
Church in the United States number six
thousand; the superannuated eight hundred
and twenty-four.'
Senator Sumner has sold the Sumner e.
| tate on the corner Of South Touro street aud
,Narragansott avenue, in Newport, Rhode ISL
and, to Mr. A. 7. Peckham, for twentX-h
! thousand dollars.
Rev. A. D. Mayo, pastor Of the Church
|; of the Redeemor In Cincinnati, has been ap-
/ pointed Professor Of Church Polity and
|: Administration in the Aleadville Theological
i School,.
I One of the ttfamous six hundred of Ba-
i 1aklava'' has enlisted in New Haven. Judg-
| ing by the number of these heroes who have
! enlisted in our army, says Boston paper, at
I least thousand out Of the six hundred must
have survived and come to this country.
-Eighty-three steamers, carrying 10000
toas Of Government a91; stores ter; haEs been Dc.
/ termination Of high water season the enor-
/ nous amount Of 260, 600 tons will have been
|: discharged at the Nashville wharves.
|! Mr.. Trowbridge's new and popular war
novel, "Cudjo'g Cave" having been drama
tised at the Howard Athennum, in Boston,
/ without permission, under the title Of tsPomp
! of Cudjo's Cave" the publishers u. E. Tilton
4 Co. J have sued out IN injunction at the in
/ stance Of the author.
The committee appointed sometime ogo
| by the New Jersey, Legislature to consider tie
| subject Of an Agricultural College, to be ,es-
tablfsled and sustained in that State by the
proceeds Of a grant Of land made for that pur-
commencing that the grant be assigned to
Rutgers College at New Brunswick.
/ On Friday the Dundenberg's propeller, a
mass of copper and tin, weighing 81, eco
pounds, was cast at Roach & Sons Etna
Works, New York. This propeller is the
heaviest ever cast In this country-to cost
sl6,0OO =
A COW in Concord, n. H, dropped four
calves last week. Two ofthem are alive. 49,.
Eight Thousand school houses have baen
erected in Russia since the emancipation Of
the serts took place.
.s-AliBs Kate Bateman, the actress, Is rep
resented In London paper to be nakingnot
less than 0,000 per annum.
1t is intiuated that E1-President Pie, &c Is
not SO much candidate tor the United States
Senate from New Hampshire as he was.
1T IS Of Importance to the ladies that 1t be
known that at public ball given ~ the wife
Of the Prefect Of the Seine, at which three
thousand persons were present, no crinoline
was worn., -.
1T was judicially decided in Philadelphia,
the other DAY, that the purchaser should pay
for the stamps on deed Of real estate.
Rev. Mr.: Spnrgeon is expected to visit
this country in May next we see the fact
mentioned In one Of our religious exchanges.
M. Rabinet and n. Barzai, French savaas,
hare expressed their arm belief IN an ap-
preaching solution Of the nfial navigation
question.
The kaugaroos have 1ately increased 50.
rnpidly In Australia, that O wholesale destruc-'
ton is proposed to get rid Of them. They
threaten to ove1run the country.
"A citizen Of New York State, Who Is ex-
tensively engaged In The telegraph enterprise,
| ideni on bis Investment Of S47o. 900.