, 1865-09-01
Miscellaneous Paraoraphs.

went into operation on the 4th of July.
Providence, Rhode Island, has 81, 1877 inhab-
itants, with 1895 females more than males.
Gen. Halleck was announced to leave New
York for California on the first steamer in Au-
gust
One third of the Union army was computed to
be composed of foreigners.
John c. Breckinridge has left Havana for Eu-
rope.
At New Haven, a race between horse and a
locomotive took place short time ago, for ST.
OOO The horse won.
About two hundred and fifty pardons have
been granted by the President under his amnes-
| ty proclamation.
The California State Fair of the present year
will commence on the 18th Of September.
An immense warehouse, with steam elevator,
has been erected at St. Louis. 1t cost $3.50 600
and is capable Of receiving 10000 bushels per
day and discharging the same amount
The New York Tribune says that prairie hens
are rapidly becoming extinct in the United
States, and urges the passage of game laws for
their protection.
In Missouri, it is said, common laborers are
| getting abundance Of employment at from ST. rs
to So per day.
For each representative in Congress New
! England furnished a little over 8 900 soldiers
to the late war, while Pennsylvania furnished
over 5000 for each one. Pennsylvania, with
one-third less population than the six New
England States, furnished larger number of
troops than all the latter combined
! Black hair for ladies is now out of fashion in
Paris, and red hair is all the rage Nature
''sorrel tops" may now haunt their glowing
tresses with becoming grace.
The new three-cent pieces cost the Govern
ment half a cent each
The male population of Idaho outnumbers the
female twenty to one
A man in Virginia City was troubled with bed
bugs and commenced roasting them with can
die. The result was that he succeeded in burn
ing up his house and the bugs all at the same
time.
One feature of the Fourth of July celebration
in Troy, New York, was the building of two
story house in the procession while it was
marching.
Colfax and party have been treated to a grand
complimentary dinner by the leading Chiuamen
of San Francisco. The entertainment included
!
sumed in disposing of the viands.
Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, the ilIustrious
novelist, poet and statesman, has become utter
! ly deaf, and has been forced to abandon the So
ciety even of his most intimate friends.
An effort is being made to establish an agri-
cultural paper in Oregon to be devoted exclu-
siyely to the farming interests.
Superintendent Huntington, of Oregon has
effected treaty with small band of Snake In
dians under the leadership of a noted chief
| known by the name of Pauline. Pauline's
country lies upon the Upper Des Chutes, Crook
ed River and the upper waters of John Days
River The stipulations of the agreement are
that the whole tribe are to remove Immediately
| to the vicinity of Fort Klamath, and to remain
/ there in future. The government is to pay them
annuihes of two thousand dollars year for the
next ten years.
/ The California Union State Convention, with
/ great unanimity, voted down a resolution call
/ ing for the repeal of the specific contract law
It is rumored that J. H. Mitchell, of Portland,
Oregon, is an aspirant for the Republican Con-
gressional nomination. The Mountaineer says
| Oregon has sent some very weak men to Con-
! gress, but never such putty-head as Mitchell
! The Dalles Mountaineer says up country mer-
chants, including those at Dalles, will do well
/ to hurry up their Fall stocks with the least pos
/ sib!e delay, and thus avoid the 'lighterage"
| tax.
| It is confidently predicted by persons who
have recently visited the mines on the Middle
] Fork of John Days River that three thousand
miners will find profitable employment there
next season.
The San Francisco Bulletin, speaking of the
! dullness of the thnes in that City SAYS "The
prevailing stagnation runs through all the ram
ihcatiOns of trade. We have arrived at a period
when the business in dry goods for the Fall sea-
son is usually brisk, but this forms an excep-
tion to the rule. The Mexican trade is at com
! pete stand, while the demand from Oregon
usually active at this period is unaccountably
behind hand"
! It has been officially ascertaned that there are
ten thousand widows and orphans in the city of
! New York. made so by the war, who are objects
of charity, and most of them entirely destitute
It is estimated that there are half million such
in the whole land.
New York city furnished 1000 men to the
war, besides %, 900 three months troops The
city of Philadelphia furnished less than 80, 900
men, and the loyal city of Boston furnished still
less in proportion to population.
Speaking of the Abolition meeting at Boston.
designed to induce the President to force negro
suffrage upon the South, the New York Times,
the home organ of Secretary Seward, declares
that 'the usurpatOn which is urged by the
Boston radicals is infinitely more dangerous to
the national liberties than anything we have
witnessed hitherto"
The Corvallis Gazette 'tcompliments" the peo
pie of Dalles follows: "Rev. |. D. Driver is
assigned to preach to the Sabbath breakers of
the Dalles the coming year.
Several bodies have lately been found on the
beach near Crescent City, having been washed
ashore from the Brother Jonathan wreck
Among the identified bodies, were those of Mrs.
General Wright Captain DeWolfe and Mr.. Mes
bet. The latter belonged to the Bulletin e6ito-
rial corps.
The Yreka Journal says some of the demo-
cratic orators thereabouts have been "claiming
Andy Johnson as their President" The Jour
nal thinks it too bad that they have stolen An
dy but the editor can console himself with the
reflection that the theft is very small and the
loss little, or nothing. 1t takes thine tailors to
make man."
It is said that the President has been assailed
by such an immense army of ofhce-seekers that
be has feigned sickness to get rid of their gross
opportunities.