The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1865-01-02
General Intelligence.
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v1,v poor family in Cincinnati has fallen Lclr
n fortune In Europe Of seven millions of dollars
CONTACT for three hundrci barrels ~ eorn
meal awarded In Warrington on Saturday, Of
81 S5 por barrel of iQ6 pounds.
A PRoFEssoR n natural history, NAMED wsher
writes 10 the English psrers that the ChAnn,l
Islands are gradually sinking into the sea.
nssHRryus rcpcut that General Ice Ia hnsy re-
moving heavy m ,chinery from the Arsenals and
public worksN Richmond, preparatory N au cvac-
uation Of the city
THE trial Of Colonel North, Nov York Military
s'stc Agent, and NJ ". Jones and Low Colin will
he concluded on TucsslAy. IL has been pending
before the Militia y Commission month AMI a half.
THE Governor ~ Ohio has received authority 10
raisc ten new yments Of infantry under the las,
call for the terra Of two and ,hrcc years ss the
recruit may el ect.
ntRfNa the month n November there werc drank
IN Cincinnati b. sSS barrels - beer or equal 10 On
hb2 kegs or 2,0O9l,a2O glassos which At cents q
glass amohi iis " 100000.
ABorT f. ar hundred thoufs1d dollars hiss thus
far hccn e. pended In paving to the parolci prison
ers - AN apolis the comWuteton of rAtonr duo
them VII Ie in the hands u the rebels. Up To- Fri
day eight thousand had received their certificates.
EEiTL sUy was rccenty cspturod near City
Point pon whose Ierson elaborate drawings sud
descrI tye sketches OF dcienccs in that locality
were 5und. II Ia stated that when taken, he WAS
on his way tn city Point 10 complete his mission by
7 R Richmond papers are very indignant st
sh' Tmsnu seizure ~ twenty-thrc thousand bsles
v cotton At Savannah, and Says II must have he
l1 'ged to Jowa aud Yankee speculnturs who infeSt
Ia city and who refused b. yield to appeals Tor ia
eHst Gctiun. No doultl
a "a 'mrN0-noueE IN wsslingtn has icon re-
Gently 9, sol IN su affidavit of Pardon Worscv, tho
spy who HORNED on the Baltimore and Vast n-'-
ton merchants for selling goods T. MoHby's Ruerrl-
las. wursley swore that hc lost three Lousan /
dollars ~ ltUV a. uTugFt in tho late.
PAssESGyls who lcT city Point dag or two
since report that picket airing Was still going q.
the front within two days ono hundred -ri Gfty
tescrtcrs have come into our lines, smoug thcm
hvc North Csrolus couEcrirts One Of them sayr
thnt four or i've days ago AdivNDn Of General
Eariy's command Was in Richmond, preparing 70
move southwest.
A LETTm from Lo, Angeles, California, 10 The
Commissioner Of A45cultur,, stst,s tha, ust STAT
has suffered very much from drought ior two years
| written, tne Irospcct for rain wRs bad. OF ths
| eighteen hundred thousand cattle AZ all kinds
In tho stn,e half million had died Of starvation,
| causei by lack Of ieed, induced by want of RAIN
or been killed to tnem from the Same, 10 pr,
serve their hides.
FouE new recruits have been arrested IN the con.
| Of belonging 10 tho St. Adams raiders. They die
played good deal o' Canadian silver, and bulls a
| South Carroll and Georgian banks and wcis anx
| ious 10 know II tho bills on the st. AlbSns bank
| which they also exhibited, would io rriecmed
They enlisted IA WIldsor VI, snd are Southerucrs
| Of good appearance. 50 lar there spJ ears to be
strons case against tcn.