, 1864-06-20
mIsCELLANEoUs NEWS ITEMS.

Of 35U cOl0reu troops at fOrI flllOW,
not more than Sc escaped the massacre,
and not one officer that commanded them
survives.
There were manufactured last season, on
the Upper Mississippi and its tributaries,
the enormous quantity of SOO,OOO,O 600 feet
of lumber.
A row among the retail beer sellers Of
Virginia On. T.) has broken out because
brewer has been selling beer in small
quantities.
Two monitors-the Etldh and tS1tiloh--
now building at St. Louis, will be completed
in July. Each has a turret with an inter-
nal diameter of 20 feet.
In Philadelphia, the length Of the pipes
which supply the 7G,549 water tenants With
water is 357 miles, and the net income Of
the water works, S356,479.
A gambler, who had been thrown out of
the window for cheating at cards, was cOun-
seled by his friends "never to play again
except upon the ground floor"
A few weeks since, q block of buildings
in Memphis, used as Government store
houses, fell suddenly, killing II persons
and injuring many others.
The manufacture of pistols is about to
be resumed at Colts factory in Hartford.
Work at Sharp's new rife factory will be-
gin about the same time.
A Hungarian pianist named Tausy was
lately forced to pay heavy fine for having
played at concert at Pesth certain air
which is the Marsellaise of the Magyars.
The Legislature of New York appropri-
ated $4,000 to carr5 into effect the SOL
dier voting act. How extravagant the
people are getting, say the CopPerheads.
Forty-eight thousand Copperheads, in
New York, voted against allowing soldiers
the privilege of voting. The Copperheads
think it is honor enough for theM to do the
fighting
Gov. Yates, Of Illinois, lately tclcgraphed
to Washington calling for 1000 stands Of
arms, as he had secret intelligence that a
rebel raid was in preparation in Kentucky
for Illinois.
The Swiss are at last entering into the
ice trade, aud are exporting large quantities
to Paris. The ice is carried over the Gen.
tral Railway, some Of the blocks weighing
1900 pounds.
The Girard estate gave an income in
1868 of sl71, ,523, of which sS3,5S6 was
spent for the maintenance Of the College
for Orphans, and all but S22 Of the balance
for " unspecifed sundries."
The story is told Of the soldiers of the
army Of the Gulf, that after using their
coffee, they spread the grounds on rubber
blankets to dry, and then sell it to Secesh
citizens at one dollar per pound.
Spiritual papers are publishing great
story to the effect that out Of the mouth of
young lady who died in Mount Joy, Ohio,
lately, thore grew, after death, a rose, hard
as ivory. What is the next huInbugy
The Copperheads and SecessiOnists OBJ
ject to the doctrine of m;scegenation only
when it is proposed to make the fruit Of the
doctrine free. So long as they are held
as slaves, it is all right. They wish to
combine profit with crime.
Letters have been received in the City Of
Of Mexico from the Archduke Maximilian,
making detailed provisions for his reception
in Vera Cruz. Gen. Almonte is invited to
meet him there, and to make him report
Of the state Of public affairs.
The smallpox is making terrible ravages
all through Greece. Some of the Greek
papers declare that although it was now
three months since it broke out first at
Athens, the Government has not yet pro-
cured vaccine matter to prevent its progress
even in the army.
The ironclad frigate Lronsides has fred,
since she has been in the service, four thou
sand three hundred and si&ty-One rounds;
has been hit two hundred and fSrty-o
times; has only one nun killed; has not
been seriously injured, aud is probably the
best ironclad vessel in the world.
The report Of the rebel Director Of Hos
pitaIs in the department Of Virginia, states
that 203, 1855 rebel sick and wounded SOL
diers were received into the rebel hospitals
in that department duringthe fifteen months
between September, 1862, and December,
1868.
II is worth noticing that nearly all the
officers who recently escaped from Libby
Prison, and reached our lines, acknowledge
their indebtedness to negroes. They in
variably found the negroes friendly and
willing 10 serve as guides, and anxious to
provide them with food and point out hiding
places.
Forney says that few more victories as
that of Fort Pillow, and the rebellion is
ruined. 1t is too weak to endure the in-
fanny of such triumph, nor is there any
civilized people which will not turn with
aversion from despOtism which in the
frensy of failure turns war into butchery.
The Idaho Vigilance Committee, having
stopped active operations for the present,
announce that they have hanged twenty
seven thieves, robbers, and murderers, and
broken UP d gang of scoundrels that had
committed one hundred murders and rob-
berries during the previous IL fHonths.
There is more nutrition in one pound of
cheese than in two pounds Of flesh. With
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