The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-05
MISCELLANEOUS JOTTINGs.

Inc reported ueatn OF tne lteV, AieXauuer
Campbell Is untrue. He Is nov residing az
Bethany, va. f Ni tt,t 81,
An engineer was recently arrested and sent
to Augusta for nying the Rebel flag on his engine
on the Georgia Railroad
From San Francisco, news is resolved OF the
death OF Hon. Fletcher NJ. HaiRht, late Judge of
the United States District Court. He formerly
resided I'm Rochester, N. Y. 1.
Mrs. Catharine Fay, an old lady residing in
Rochester, was burned to death on the 23d ul-
timo. She laid down on q lounge to sleep with
matches in her pocket, and in moving about
they lgnited.
The Academy Of Sciences at Paris has Just
awarded its Monthoyon prize for statistics TO NJ.
Chenu, the wellknown army surgeon, for his
work on The losses OF the allied armies in the
Crimea.
The Russian Government has given a warn
ing to the Russian Word, for an article ap-
proving Auguste Comics 'Idees Hstoriques,"
which the Home Secretary deems opposed to
Christianity.
The first second, and third mates, and cooper
of ship HdrUest, OF Honolulu, burned by the
pirate Shenandoah, who lett Ascension last April
for Guam IN an open boat, arrived safely after
passage oil only twelve days.
The Imperial Geographical Society Of France
has admitted Mime Dora dlstIa among its mem
bers as a worthy successor to Mime Ida Pfeifer,
the only foreign lady that had been elected into
that body. The new member has distinguished
herself by her travels in Roumelia and the Morea.
The death of Lord Monteagle, better known
by the name of Hon. Spring Rice, is announced
at his residence in Ireland. He filed many i'm
portant offices in the State, and was formerly
Chancellor OF the Excheauer, and on his retire
ment from that position was elevated to the
peeraee.
In consequence of the alarm about the pork
disease, the pig dealers OF Vienna nave tele-
graphed TO their agents in Servla and Hungary
not to send them any more animals for the pre-
sent as most of the greatest hotels have sup
pressed all preparations OF pork in their bills OF
fare.
About twenty thousand colored troops from
the Department OF Texas, are to arrive shortly
at City Point, to be paid of and mustered out of
service. A number Of vessels have already
arrived and active preparations are going on
with view to carrying out the order disband-
ing these troops.
An Austrian expedition, composed of the
corvette Friedrich and the frigate Scb1drzen-
burg, under the command of Rear Admiral Te-
ge,hofT, is to leave the port of Trieste IN the
spring for the Indian and China Seas to nego-
tiate treaties OF commerce similar to those which
the other European Powers have been making
for several years past
An interesting incident took place at the
grand ball given at the PIusslan Embassy III
Paris. AT midnight, Count de Goltz received
telegram from his sovereign At Berlin, directing
him to offer bouquet from his Majesty to the
Empress. The commission was at once executed,
and Immediately after the thanks of her
Majesty we're transmitted TO Berlin by the same
channel.
u
ming OF the summer of 1864 to l,l35, 900 men and
$4,000 horses. On the 1st of January, 1865, those
numbers were reduced 70 909, 900 men and 81, 600
horses and at present the effective force amounts
to only 805,O00 men and $4,000 horses. The
Budget TOR the army amounted to l52, 10000
roubles in 1864, to 127, SOL 900 in 1865, and has
been reduced to ZIG, 900 for the present year.
Two Paris papers, the Pays and the Gazette
de France, have both entertained their readers
with premature and sensational account OF the
execution OF Poncet the murderer of Lavergne
Poncet, however, may himself have had the
satisfaction OF reading these descriptions of his
last moments, Inasmuch as he was only guillo-
tineC forty.eight hours after their publication in
the Pays and Gazette de France.
Wild Edgerton Brock. L. McVickar),
some time since published few verses
on the Empress Eugenies visit to the cholera
hospitals OF Paris which were sent to the hands
of Napoleon through the French Consul of this
city, and the young poet has received grateful
acknowledgment OF his charming tribute -
CABINET OF THE EMPEROR, PALACE OF THE
TUILEBIEs, January 12 1s66-Monsleur: . The EN-.
peror has received with easure copy of your lines
addressed to the Empress and has instructed me to
thank you for them in his name.
E-According to the latest official returns, there
are il the H., 3l4 cafes, beer houses, and wine
shops of Paris, 27 I'll public billiard tables; some
of the cafes on the boulevards have from twenty
to THIRTY. The receipts from every public table
are supposed to average about 10 francs per day,
which would give 277, ITO francs tor the daily
receipts of the whole, and 10l, las 167 francs for
the year of 1865 DAYS Even reducing this sum
by one half, there still remain above so 000 900,
a great portion of which is paid by the working
classes
The Herald gives an account of a ''privatt
banquet whether real or imaginary we cannot
say, said 10 have been given TO Becretary Seward
by MIR. Richard Schel, OF the Manhattan Clut
House, on Saturday evening, at which MIR. Thur
low Weed and others were present The Herd!C
says: "Mr. Schell presided and the vlce-chal
was occupied by Mr.. Bryant" Mr.. Bryant wa
not present, nor had even heard OF the ''ban
quet" till his attention was drawn to the article
in the Herald.
The Irish papers announce the death o
Lord bIiltown, a nobleman well known IL
former years for his sporting habits, but lvin'
lately in retirement, owing to hnenc al embar
rassments. Parayzed in both his limbs, h
used 10 be carried in aud out of his pheton a
Newmarket, which ne drove so well as never 4
lead to the suspicion of his inhrmities o
racing he was an excellent Judge, and ne wa
likewise fine billiard player and capita
shot, and as boon a companion at dinner tabl
as ever Lever painted IN any of his novels.
"A terrible catastrophe occurred recently il
CronstaOt, and occasloned the loss OF ftty-fou
lives. At halfpast two in the morning I
wooden building, constructed on Battery No
10, serving as "a habitation for two hundred an
fifty YoTkmen, took 6re, and was In FEY
moments enYeloped in flames. There wer
three doors to the building, but only one wa
unlocked, and this opened inward. The unfol
tunate mel, pressing forward IN crowds, KEEP
it closed, and it had at length to be broke
down, but fftyfour men had already persisted
The rest were rescued with great difficulty.
Baron Rothschild has been swindled. A fe
weeks ago. says an English journal, yenerabl
and decrepit old man offered to sell HIM
splendid service of old china-tWelve plates onl