Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-06-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


A woman in country costume, entering Rome
a few DAYS ago was stopped and examined at the
Vate when o letter was found on her containing
human ear. She was brigand messenger sent
N for q ransom.
Macmillan. OF Mexico speaks huently in six
languages, and generally wears duck trousers ana
rou1da bout and symbrero hat. His wife, tie En-
press Charlotte, is rather good looking brunette
with psnchant for waterfall curls.
a Raleigh (S. c. correspondent OF the New
York Tribune, after describing the wretched con-
dition of the negro population in that part OF the
country. SAYS cucn is the state OF aiails' and
such must It contnbe Tor some 10 come, that the
United states TO yernment must provide directly
for thee freed people or they will perish in large
large numbers.'
II now appears the reported loss Of lie occa-
stoned by tie sinking Of the Kentucky below
Shreveport was greatly exaggerated. gentle
NAH who was on board the steamer when she
sunk states in the IT. Louis Republican that not
mote than fifteen or twenty white persons and
ab.ut fifty negroes, mostly women and children,
wore drowned, instead Of two bundled, rs has
baen stated. About that number of the latter
We're on board, and, being Oh deck, were sub
merged Immediately with the sinking oil the boat.
An interesting young lady, daughter Of John
Dearaw. proprietor OF the principal hotel az kah.
waY N j. was killed last Thursday in shock.
ING manner. As she was stepping fir: IN a car.
riare. the horses took q sudden fright and dashed
on ~ furious speed. 1he young lady's crin3-
line became entAnglsd in the steps OF the carriage,
and with head and shoulders dragging upon the
ground. the horses made the circuit VI the village
twice before the citizens could stop them. When
they cid So the young lady was liieless and ter
rby mADged.
The superintendent Of the Mount Vernon es.
tate com ,lains Of the outrages committed by
relic hunters who visit the tomb Of washing
ION. One OF thess yandals recently cut piece
from the bedstead on which Washington died.
only two or three weeks ago another fellow OF
His class lefaced the beautiful marble mantel in
the dining hall by breaking oil and stealing one
OF the carved ornaments.
The Toronto Globe" Of Saturday says " We
riye TO day the statements, over their own sigma
lures Of three responsible parties, justices OF the
peace residing in the county OF Waterloo, re-
specting the character of DIR. Merritt, late Of the
village of Ayr one of the secret witnesses against
Jefferson Davis and his Canada agents. This tes-
timony is only in confederation Of what has been
sid before in various ways and on pretty good
authority; but these last statements, taken in
connection with the previous ones, appear utterly
TO destroy the value Of Merritts evidence
A despatch from Fort Smith says that Ex-Go.
vernon Wade, Of the Choctaw Nation, has or.
rived at tn at post from Dooksve, TO confer with
General Busy, commanding the District Of the
Choctaw Indians who have been engaged in the
Confederate army. temporary treaty of peace
was affected with the ChOctaw Indians at Docks
willie on the 18th inst, by Col. Matthews, Of the
Ninety. ninth Illinois Infantry, who was sent as
commissioner on the part of the United States
The Indians agree TO cease at once all hostlities
against the United States, and return to their
homes and resume their former occupations.
A few days ago q farmer, named James Crow.
lev. re iding within three or four miles of Peter.
boro, c. W., opened a well that had been closed
for a long period with a view 70 getting some
water for a sudden emergency. The water being
rather low one of his four sons went down TO
gauge lis depth, but on remaining what was con-
sideIed too long below, he was followed by one Of
his remaining brothers, who stood on the brink
for the purpose Of learning what caused the de-
Law. He, too, not returning as speedily IS was
conceived proper, was followed by third, and
then a fourth, until all four were in the well,
when, to the utter anguish and disma7 Of the poor
father, il was discovered that they had each fal-
len victim TO foul air.
Leavenworth papers contain an advertisement
of the American Union Cattle Association, acting
under orders of the Secretary Of the Interior in.
viting 100 volunteers TO join the society, for the
purpose Of going n the Plains TO capture herd,
and tame not less than 500J, nor more than TO-.
900 buffa.Oes, with the ultimate object OF driving
the animals 10 the markets Of the States. The
expedition is under the superintendent and CON-
mand Of a gentleman who is said to have had the
most thorough experience in the roughs and
tumbles Of prairie life. A good deal Of money IS
supposed to be in the enterprise, and no little
amusement and physical IMMIGRATION. .