The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-17
MISCELLANEOUS JOTTINGs.


bounties for wolf scalps.
1t is said that our Government has paid
$50, during the past month, out of the secret
service fund for the arrest of consplrators.
The Louisville JouYnol contains call for a
grand mass meeting of the friends OF President
Johnson's restoration policy,n to be held in that
city on che 7th OF May.
The GAINESVILLE Era thinks that Florida will
soon have superintendent population, as emil
grants are pouring in from all parts of the
world. 1t bids them welcome aud assures them
of a kind ecepCion-partlcularly If they bring
money
The San Antonio (Texas) Herald is charmed
with tue serene peace that prevails in that city:
with the exception OF fifteen or twenty fights
and the exchange OF atew friendly shots, without
any unfortunate results, nothing has happened
OF moment for two days.n
-Anti-monopoly meetings are constantly held
through the West. At Orlsnd, Cook county
iii. J, the farmers have formed a league for the
purpose of working in concert towards the re-
duction OF the present evil. They insist that the
only remedy for overcharges in freight is a ship
canal around Niagara Falls.
Cleveland has no water to drink. The
petroleum rehneries throw their waste into the
river and the result is that the water supply is
touled past remedy. Even the ice which has
been cut for use next summer is impregnated
with oil. 1t is proposed to extend pipes far out
into the lake, in imitation Of Chicago.
"A Raleigh letteT-writer thus photographs
Governor Holden:-"A man apparently OF fifty
years; above the medium stature; rather heavy
set dark complexion; black hair (slightlv bald
IN tTont), sprnkled with grey; blue eyes; heavy
eyebrows; prominent and strongly marked fea-
tures, expressive of determination even to stub
boTnness."
Illinois cotton commands premium of FIVE
cents per pound in New York and this fact is pro-
ducing decided effect in the culture of the
staple in that State. Jefferson county produced
half million pounds the past year, which, at
western prices ttorty-fve cents per pound), Is
worth S225, goo, while some of the more southern
counties have raised four times that amount.
The Louisiana State penitentiary at Baton
Rouge is undergoing repairs. 1t is proposed to
teach the criminals the shoe trade Says the Ad-
oCcdie:-"The labor of one hundred convicts,
steadily applied, will result in the manufacture
OF torty-eIght thousand pairs of shoes per annum.
This alone will keep within the State very
large sunl that is now paid direct to Massachu-
settS.'
The Nation has investigated the matter, and
states that G8l books we're published in the Uni
ted States during the last six months of 1865
Of this number l05 are publications of foreign
books, and three-fourths of the remainder are
pamphlets, dime novels, or law reports, which
are excluded from literature proper. In England
the number published in the same time is about
$500.
The Mobile Tribune regrets 'that the last
cold spelln very seriously touched the orange
trees. "These trees,n it adds, "are not so deli
cate as they seem. They become accustomed to
COlu WGdlUST III IL Oe CODJluuOuSs IOey are
very susceptible to atmospheric caprices. Given
cold shock, and then suddenly few days of
general warmth, succeeded by severe weather.
and they sink under it,"
A dinner was given on Monday evening to
MIR. Parke Goodwin, of the New York EUening
Post by few of his friends, at the Mason
Doree, on the occasion of his approaching de-
parture with his family for Europe. The affair
went off pleasantly. Speeches were made-some
very shortly Mr.. Blodgett, who presided; by
Mr.. Goodwin, II. w. Beecher, G. W. Curtis, W. B.
Ogden, c. P. kirkland, S. j. Tilden, and others.
"A correspondent of the Boston Commercial
writes from Oqunquit, Me-. tin the houses of
our two nearest neghbors are four generations
Children born last tall are surrounded by their
parents, grandparents, and greatgrandparents,
who all live under one roof. The two houses
are not more than a stones throw apart. One
of the children has seven grandparents living;
the other, poor fellow, has only four"
The Richmond Enquirer says Asa Hartz de-
hvered lecture on "Babies," in Raleigh, re-
Gently, for the benefit of the poor The people
OF Newbern want to hear it. He responds:-
WheredS, We have been invited by sundry citizens
of Newbern TO deliver our lecture on "Babes;" and
whereas the SAID lecture ought to be delivered for
the benefit Of the poor; therefore.
ReSotV6d, That SCe are the poor.
ReSOtUed, That we will deliver the lecture accord
ingly. ASA HARTz Chairman and Secretary.
Previous to the war the militia of Virginia
numbered l43, ,255 officers and men, including 92
troops OF cavalry, 26 batteries of artillery l13
companies of rifemen, and Ill companies of
light Infantry; but by The so-called detection
and treason" of the section known now as West
Virginia, the number of militiamen of all classes
was reduced to about 10000. After the passage
of the ordinance of secession, the available State
torce was as tollows:-l3l troops of cavalry, los
batteries of artillery, 404 companies of light in
tantry, and 277 companies of riflemen. Notwith.
standing this great preparation the actual num-
Der of regiments from Virginia in the Confede-
rate service on the 1st of November 1861, was
only 6S, including all aims, or little more than
10000 men.
Since the war the attention Of capitalists
has been directed to the oil regions of the South.
Gadsden, in Alabama, is one OF the most pro-
missing sections. 1t is situated at the western
terminus of the Lookout mountain, on the
northwestern bank of the Coosa river, and is
fitty-iour miles west of Rome, Ca, and twenty
seven miles north of Blue mountain, the present
terminus OF the Alabama and Tennessee Rivers
Railroad. Derricks are going up everywhere,
and an immense amount OF machinery has
already been brought in play. There are no
statistics, as yet of the yield. A writer in the
Columbus Enquirer says that the country also
abounds in silver copper ore, and COAL while
"there is iron ore within ten miles OF Gadsden
in sufficient quantities to supply the world Tor
ages.'