Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-06-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

General Grants monthly pay, income tax de-
Quoted j ore thousand and SXty-tSo dollars
and seventy cents. This sum is exclusive OF COM
mutation o. quarters, etc, which amounts TO
nearly ss much mere.
The New Orleans Picayune demonstrates, By
figures, that the Crescent City; New Orleans
Merchants and the Union Banks OF that city are
solvent and will redeem their notes and pay de-
posilors.
Advices from the Red River country are not
encourl ging. The conduct Of the col5red lobor-
ers is represented as giving great deal of trOu-
Die. They have the widest ideas Of the new or.
der Of Affairs aud ae leaving the plantations in
great numbers.
Some military officers shot a citizen in Mich
igan-they were arrested and held by the civil
authorities. Mr.. Stanton d!manded their surren-
der 70 the L. $ military power but Judge With.
eie refused, and holds them for trial in consti-
tutOnal and legal manner under the laws OF the
state. The Bureau OF Military Justice" ID not
q lowed 10 supercede the supreme Court OF the
State in this instance.
DLrng the performance of keyerbeer's Pro-
pEete in the Russinia theatre, at Madrid, recent.
", Just as Jean &c Leyden, the prophet, WAS
singing. shres was heard uad man fell head
long on The stage, without any one being able TO
see whence he came. After a short interruption
Of the performance, the manager came forward
and stated that the man who had fallen was q
scene ShifteY. whom comrade had stabbed TO the
Leart, AMI killed on the spot. In the confusion
the murderer escaped.
Among Jules Gerards the lion.Sillers. arms,
sold recently ia Paris, were a magnificent double.
barrced riHe-carhine and Q superb huuting knife,
presented by the Emperor OF Austria, double
baneed carbine from the Duke Of Aumale and
marked on the stock by the teeth OF q lioness; a
pair Of holster pistols used in Africa by that gal
liant son OF Luus Philippe, the Duke of Orleans,
and presented u Gerard by the Count OF Paris,
in l74S on the very eve OF the revolution Of Feb.
ruary two Damascus daggers, with Of jade, a
gutlee from the Emir Abd-el.kader
4 Southern Sponient Of the Cincinnati
Commercial recently charged that Lieuienan.
Colonel PritCh nd, who captured Jefferson Davis
robbed brother officer OF that honor by an act
OF had faith, and by conduct dishOnorable
brought about the fight that occurred between
the Wisconsin ana Michigan csy9'ry, OF the time
OF the capture Of Davis. in which two soldiers
were killed and several wounded. The Official
report Of Lieutenant Colonel Rarnden Of the
First Wisconsin cavalry, which has been pub
hshsd in 4 Wisconsin paper, corroborates the
statement.
The orscular Owl announces that the latest
British priuceliGg is 20 be christened Albert
Christian Enanuel-afieT papa and grandpapas,
on both sides-aud that he will ordinarily be de-
siEnatsd by the second name-prObably to avoid
mistakes between him and his brother. Their
-prucely pa Is Is indsiatgab!c as ever in his
public dutes-ln so much that have heard bis
assiduity dslOyally attributed to a desire 10 re-
press his tendency toward competence. Also he
goes 10 the thcltsc very frequently, and is there
fore extremely popular with the actors. One of
his recent feats was the opening OF new hotel
in Regent street.
Charles Dickens had very nan escape from
the catastrophe on the SOuth-Ess Railway,
last week. The carriage in which b IS sitting
toppled over the edge OF the embS .ent, and
hung there for awhile, giving him an 0r,unity
10 scramble through the window 90 10. as plat
form where he found himself with1dt scratch or
bruise, great 10 his own amaZement. When tie
dead bodies OF the victims were laid out for re-
cOgnition, one overZeslous gentleman, knowing
that Mr. Dickens was in the train recognized one
corpse as bis, which statement was at fist credited
The novelist was returning 10 his country seat,
from a shoJt continental trp, when the accident
aecurred