Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-01-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The Secretary OF the Treasury has decided that
canal boats duly enrolled and licensed, and on which
tonnage tax has been paid are not liable To the m
ternal revenue tax.
While the widow Of General NJ. X. Alexander, oil
Paris, ILL.,, dying on the 2d inst, Mrs. sanford,
An Old friend, called to see her and dropped dead
on the Threshold at the moment Mrs. Alexander
died.
The last census taken in Spain gives the popuIa-
ton as l5,46iOOO The area of that country being
1874 762 square miles, gives density of seVcuty-nne
to the square mile, or about one,hr5 thft "i If I'll
t nIit3'n'
\ stepmother in Marengo y. Y, lately crowned
a long series of shocking abuses perpctrated upon
boy six wears old by locking him in the house aud
atsentin, herself for three days When she returned
with her husband, the BOY was dead. The neigh
bors went in and found the lit creature lying on
his heap Of rags, nearly naked and frozen quite st
A duel was to have come OF at New Orleans on
the I'd inst between Mr.. Felix Limet, editor of The
Bee and Mr. Emile Leirdnc, editor Of La ReRaS-
Sqace LOuiSiaRaiSc. The cOmbatantS were about
crossing swords, when they were arrested by police
officers, who conveyed them and their seconds 10
the Second District Poce-statiOn.
On Wednesday night, the Petersburg theatrical
corps gave a performance for the benefit OF Mrs.
Stonewa Jackson. the gross receipts of which were
tress who declined to act for special reasons, gave,
in addition, a. her contribution, one hundred dol
lars
Col. B. F. Dill surviving conductor of the Mem
phis appeal died at Forest Hill, on the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad, on the 4th inst, after Il
long and painful illness, which lie suffered with re-
markable patience and fOrtitude Ii is but few
short weeks since the death OF the senior editor OF
the Appeal, Col. John II. McClanahan, was an
nOnnced.
The thieves have discovered q new use for chloro-
| form in stealing pigs. The porkers near Adrian
L me fNlhl
/ ner and what was regarded rs strangest they were
| carried of without making any disturbance.
| gentleman, however, discovered the depredators
operating one night when going to the pig pen he
found two fat hogs lying helpless and unconscious,
having been drugged with chloroiorm.
| The Philadelphia Mercury thus pays its respects
TO Thad. Stevens and Carl Schurz: And who Is
| Mr. Stevens Not Pennsylvania, thank God, but
/ a Yankee intruder into this State, whose reputed
wife is a negro, and whose children are mulattoeS.
! And who is Carl Schurz \ wretched adventurcr
who a traitor to his native land, He'd hther Tor To-
fuge kept lager beer saloon in this city, and fail
ing in that has lived ever since on the Government
that has rescued him from the penalty of treason
and the obseurity OF scullion."
| The House Committee on Freedmen have author
zel their chairman to report bill continuing the
Bureau, and enlarging It's powers in accOrdaue,
| with the accommodations OF General Howard. Tn,
BIN authorizes the President to set apart in the
states of Florida, Mississippi and Arkansas, unde
the Homestead law, three millions OF acres oil goOt
lands. the same to be allotted in parcels OF fort,
| acres each TO freedmen, at such rental as may b,
agreed upon, giving the freedmen the right to pur
chase the land at any time by paying its vaiud
ton.
The census returns of the colored population o
the city and county OF Alexandria, except Freed
mems Village furnishes the following: Total popu
aton. 1863 of which 1892 are black, 3 III ar
muIattOeS 5l2 are quadrOOns and l42 are octOr0on>
3gy7 are females, 8 T66 males, and 3,+2O are resi
ieuts. In regard to occupations, 2,554are aborers
I72 mechanics 424 employed by the Government
10 are employed by their former owners, aud tn
number without employment is 1922 of these
are being assisted by the Government l134 cal
read. and GIL are unable TO support themselves, sue
as aged people and young children. The estimate
money value OF property in the possession OF tn
| colored people is so SO4.