The Soldiers' journal. (Rendezvous of Distribution, Va.) 1864-1865, 1865-02-01
1893
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.

have an income of over ESQ, 900 year about
! quarter of million in gold.
"A Madrid paper talks confidently of pro-
! ject for q million Irishman going to Spain and
settling there.
in San Francisco the Chinese have three
heather temples, in which they worship their
heather gods, after the fashions of their fathers
thousands OF years ago.
In North England, a laborer rescued child
that was drowning in the Teviot and after
hours of eXertion brought it safe to the shore
The boss of the laborer deducted the time lost in
performing this act from the poor mans earn
ings.
In Europe the cotton famine has nearly
ceased, and that without the aid of the Southern
CROP The manufactures have nearly resumed
their wonted activity, and continue to supply the
worlds markets, with their products though at
considerably enhanced prices.
"A guerrilla attacked the shop of lonely wild
ow in Hawesvlle, Kentucky, the other night
He broke the window and pushed his head in,
when the widow laid him out with a billet of
wood, called for axe, and deliberately made
mnce meat of the body leaving the pieces for
the swine to devOur.
1t stated that in the late memorable con-
fct at Fort Fisher the agents of the United
States Sanitary Commission effected a landing
on the day Of the battle, and were on the hospt-
al ground with ample supplies several hours be-
fore the wounded arrived.
"A Washington telegram says that the whole
matter of the exchange of prisoners of war is
reason to believe that full exchange will soon
be effected.
Fifteen years ago slave woman ran away
from her master in Maryland and came north to
Hartford The other day an officer of Con-
necticut regiment brought home contraband
from New Orleans, who, on seeing the woman
discovered her to be his wife. They were re-
married.
They tell us ola New York regiment which
during their three years service, travelled by
sea and land more than 1900 miles, fought
twenty general engagements, marched through
fifteen States and had been under Burnside
Pope, Mcclellan, Mcdowell Meade, Sherman
and Grant.
a singular letter has come to light, address
ed, in 1924, by one Vincenzo Micarelli of Zante
to Prince Metternich, giving very unfavorable
MssOlonghi. The writer declares that Byron
was both hated and feared by the Greeks, and
that his death resulted from poison administered
by them and Micareli says the deed was not
only pardonable but creditable.
"A celebrated physician, occupying high
official position in Massachusetts, says that
since the beginning of the war there has been a
remarkable decrease in cases of insanity among
women, attributed by him to the various chart
table and benevolent operations occasioned by
the war, which have excited the sympathies and
received the support OF women.
Letters from Mazatlan to the Nth inst.
announce the arrival there Of Capt. Beauregard,
a brother of Maj. Gen. Beauregard, of the Con-
federate States, in the capacity of private Secre-
tary to VIM. NJ. Gwin, formerly United States
Senator from California. Capt Beauregard re-
ports that Mr. Gwin has been created a Duke by
the Emperor Macmillan of Mexico, and that
sonora, senaloa Chihuahua, Darango and Low
California have been ceded to the Emperor
Napoleon by the Mexican Government in pay
ment Tor the troops furnished by the French
Government to subjugate Mexico. and that Mr..
Gwin has been appointed viceroy over those
States and will soon enter upon the duties of his
office. This story is not believed further than
that Mr. Gwin has obtained certain grants of
land and is authorized to encourage emigration