Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-11-18

SThere are fifty prisoners at Camp Ham,
ilton. New York, thirty Of whom are old de-
serters and bounty Jumpers. The balance are
negroes. An order is expected from the Secre-
tary OF War to close the prison.
RrThe extensive Government buildings an
Elmira, New York, have been sold at auction
Two buildings are retained by the Govern
ment.
ErIt has been ordered at Moscow that in all
public buildings the doors of the main entrances
shall open outwards instead OF, as heretofore,
inwards. The reason Of this arrangement is TO
enable people TO have free egress in the event
OF any accident or panic occurring.
~ j. y. Thompson, Samuel Swift and Thos
Crosby, formerly newsboys in the Army of the
Potomac, convicted Of robbing the Western
House, in Richmond, Va, have been sentenced
to the penitentiary for five years.
~ The New York Tribune on the Ist in
slant divided among its stockholders $4,000 as
the profits of four months business. As the
entire original stock of the institution was only
SlcO,Ct0, the dividend is somewhat remarkable. .
~ In Berlin, as well as Hamburg Bremen
and other German cities, meetings have been
held and arrangements made for the purpose
OF taking up subscriptions in aid of the freed =
men of the United States.
@rlt is reported that General AyeriIl, OF
cavalry fame, is a resident Of the oil regions
In the proprietorship OF a gang Of oil teams.
~ At Bangor, Sunday morning, the mer-
curry was at zero, and the Kenduskeag river
was covered with ice 70 its mouth The Wing
says there is few inches of snow on the
anu pdcedOlc
sS A soldier belonging 10 the garrison in
Toronto undertook the other day 10 beat his
wife with his belt, but accidentally struck the
baby in her arms with the buckle, and killed IL.
He and his wife buried the child, and kept
quiet, but their dreadful secret was discovered
and the man was arrested
SCamel's hair shawls constitute the latest
range in dress among the people Of fashion OF
New York. They cost q trIfie Of two or three
thousand dollars apiece. -
81 There are about one thousand acres of
land devoted TO market gardening, on the Jer-
sey side Of the Hudson river, within ten miles
OF New York. The average yearly product 10
estimated at $1,000 per acre.
0Goy. Hamilton has displaced the city of
nciais recently elected in San Antonio, Texas,
and appointed others.
1Gen- Dudley has arrested negresses who.
We're !eaoing dissolute lives at Memphis, and
bound them out TO work on plan tations for the
balance of the year and all Of next
@A convention Of the colored citizens OF
South Carolina is to assemble at Charleston on
the 10th Of the present month.
VThe police have recovered $500 the last
of the money stolen from one of the Adam 3
Express wagons in Chicago last week. They
discovered II buried AT depth of three feet un-
der ground, under Scandinavian church.
Swoolen factories are being started in
every section Of Iowa.
kSThe Cd and 10th regiments Of Illinois cav
airy. at Shreveport, louisiana, have been or
dered TO be mustered out This leayts but two
regiments of Illinois cavalry in the feld,-the
12fh and 18th. a. tE -s IL
pRMr Sol Muiialy, ofthe New York Metro
the Richmond Examiner, have associated them
selves with Colonel M. g. Gailaway, in the
Memphis Avalanche, the publication OF which
will be presently resumed.