Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-03-23
News ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
General Frank P. Blair has been appoin-
ted collector of the port of St. Louis.
A field of wheat buried under an avalanche
ceeded on its growth as soon as the snow had
melted
The gold claimed by the Richmond banks
remains in the vaults Of the Treasury De-
partment, and WILL it is said, be confscated
by the government.
The Salisbury Banner says that the mill
tary authorities at that place have suppressed
the sale of pictures Of General Leee, General
Jackson, and other Confederate Generals.
1t takes at least $50, 600 month, says a
Washington paper, to support the 25 900
lazy and worthless negroes who infest the
neig hbordood of Yorktown, Va.
The specific tax of Boston and the County
of Suffolk, this year, will be FIVE millions two
hundred and thirty-six thousand and six hum
dred and eighty-four dollars.
The number of widows, orphans and dis
abled soldiers now drawing annual pensions
from the Government, is about 81 500, with
out including those granted during the pres
ent month.
The Radicals claim triumph in New
Hampshire; but when we remember that the
Republican Convention adopted a resolution
Endorsing Mr.. johnson, the result cannot
be accepted as test between him and the
people Of that State.
a minister in Connecticut offered this
prayer last Sunday :. Not my will, but thine
O Lord be done: but if it be consistent nth
thy holy pleasure, we would that thou speed
ily telegraph for President Johnson, to come
up in heaven"
A number Of leading citizens of St. Louis,
have purchased for Gen Sherman, in that
city, a 100000 house He promises to
make it his permanent residence. He says
it exceeds all the money he received from the
Government for his four years of labor.
The New Haven Independent says that
one-ffth of all the clergymen in Connecticut
were dismissed their churches for improper
conduct, during the past year. In the same
period there were only eleven ordinations
There are seventy empty pulpits in the State,
and strange to say, while religion declines,
politics improve.
The Grand Assembly of the Old School
Presbyterian Church in the United States of
America will meet in St. Louis on the third
Tuesday in May. At the same time the Gen
eral Assembly Of what is popularity known
as the. New School, Presbyterian Church
will also meet in the same place.
The New Orleans Times says there are IN
the city Of New Orleans not less than seven
ty-fve thousand of the liberated slaves, of
all ages and sexes All the Southern cities
swarm in like manner with idle freedmen.-
1t says it would be vain to expect the cotton
crow for 1866 to exceed one and a half
millions of bales, or one-third the former
crop.
One-half of the volunteer force in Texas
has deserted. General Custer, knowing that
the trial for desertion was farce, tried eve
ry humane way to save his army from going
to pieces, but failed. He then tried new
way; and fogged several men and shaved
their heads This had the desired effect, but
brought down the friends of these soldiers
upon him, who charge him with being dis
loyal, inhuman, and everything that is bad.
The bill for regulating the military peace
establishment Of the United States, passed
by the Senate On Wednesday, provides that
the army shall consist in times Of peace of
five regiments of artillery, twelve regiments
of cavalry, and fifty regiments of Infantry
Eight Of the infantry regiments, and, in ac-
cordance with an amendment proposed by
Mr. Wade, two Of the cavalry regiments are
to be composed Of coored men. An infan--
try regiment has, beside the officers, FIVE
hundred priyates, which number may be in
creased at the discretion of the President to
one thousand. Our peace establishment"
therefore would number from thirty-iye
thousand to about seyenty-6ve thousand
men.