, 1864-05-14
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.

WIN tuC sudii-poA'
Missouri's quota under the last call for
500 900 men is 9,Sl3.
The Chicago "Water Work Lake Tun-
ne" is to be completed in two years.
Chicago has its religious revival, and
noon prayer meetings are well attended.
Gen. Grant Il III command Of forces which
ccetpy front Of hearty four hundred
miles.
Ehgiand's estimates for the ensuing year
are: Navy, e1O, ,423,61O; Army, slS,S44,-
SSS.
The receipts of the Custom House, San
Francisco, for April, to the 9th, were s634,-
762 81.
Prentice, Of the Louisville journal, has
been elected by the Legislature, State Prin-
ter of Kentucky.
The Richmond Examiner has come to
the conclusion that cottoti is the curse Of
the SOuth-the words suggesting the vilest
avarice.
The estimated territory Of the whole
United States embraces an area Of $780,
900 square miles. The new States embrace
1861 ,421.
Quite number Of the old residents Of
Los Angeles and San Bernardino have
lately crossed the Mexican lines, bound to
Dixie's land. .........
Tn twelve counties in New York from
which the vote on the Soldiers Voting
Amendment is received, the majority for il
is over sixty-six thousand.
An intercepted letter from rebel SOL
dier to his wife contains the agreeable in
formation that he had been in several " fits"
since he had lust Written her.
The Raleigh IN. c. Progress Of Feb.
25th. advcrtises a reward Of S25 for the
recovery of mulattO negro woman, Tiney,
81 years of age, with her fight breast cut
off!
The COprerhead papers manifest great
fear ut the prospect OF the denomination
Of Lincoln, and are endeavoring to create u
little enthusiasm for the pathfinder. It's no
go, gentlemen.
The Richmond papers say "those who
have heretofore been bountifully supplied
with the necessaries Of life arc now, from
sheer necessity, forced to content themselves
with bare sufliciency.
From s25;COO to $4,000 worth Of bull
lion is daily shipped from Virginia City by
Wells, Fargo 4 Co.'S Express. The weight
Of this freightaverages from a half to three
quarters Of ton each day.
Henry Ward Beeclcr said in late lcc-
ture that the institution Of slavery was not
dead, but only paralyzed. II every spark
Of life was not ground oEt Of it, il would
revive and manifest itself again.
The rich, liberal and eccentric Zadeck
Pratt, of Prattsville, N. y, perpetuated
the memory Of his brave son, Col. George
Pratt, by having his bust carved ont Of a
huge rock near the public highway
The editor Of "African descent" who
conducts the Anglo african says the negro
is better looking, more capable, and has a
more permanent color than the sharp-nosed,
hatchet-faced, lank- haired white trash.
Horace Caldwell, a returned rebel, was
killed recently in Lagrange, ILL.,, by some
Union men whom he had prosecuted. Think!
ing the storm had blown over, he went home
to settle up his affairs, but got settled him
self.
By an estimate in the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, it appears that the Federal Army must
have, at the present time--the losses in
1868 being balanced by voluntary enlist
mOnts and the draft, in the same period
strength greater by at least 250,000 ihen
than it had on the FIRST Of January, 1868.
A New York paper remarks that at
the recent election in that State, wherever
the Democracy was strongest, there was the
largest vote recorded against the PROPOSE
tion to allow soldiers to vote. Coppcrheads
have more symi iathy with the rebels than
with those who are fighting them.
Since the first Of February, three hun
dred and thirty-eight non-commissioned
officers and privates, and Eve commissioned
officers, have come into our lines at Knox.
vile, as de erters from the rebel army,
have taken the oath and been released
The aggregate during january was six
hundred.
The Gloucester Telegraph says that at 4
funeral in that town not long since, while
the mourners were leaving the tomb one Of
them approached the sexton, aud taking