BtM 3trm0. 



Gen. Davis has been ndicted for manslaughter. 



Paper has risen thirty-six per cent., on the pound. 



Garibaldi has been removed to Spezzia, and is still very ill. 



Illinois, under the last call, sent thirty-nine regiments into the 

 eld. 



Serious resistance was made to the draft in'several towns in 

 iichigan. 



About 25,0(10 bales of cotton arrived at Liverpool from Bombay 

 i one day. 



It is said that there are now 1000 officers absent from their corps 

 rithout leave. 



The Alabama has a crew of 125 men, and is fully armed, but 

 he is not a fast boat. 



Iron elads are to be placed in the New York and Boston har- 

 ors to protect them. 



Senator Kick, of Minnesota, has declined the appointment of 

 lajor-General in the army. 



The total number of volunteers raised from July 2d to Oct. 23d, 

 862, in the State of New York, is 88,300. 



In the Richmond markets, wheat is $4 per bushel, and flour $25 

 barrel. Whiskey, $10 to .$15 per gallon. 



Count de Gasparin, a patron of agricultural improvement in 

 'ranee, has just died, at the age of 79 years. 



It is estimated that there will be 600,000 persons in England de- 

 endent on charity during the coming winter. 



New and stringent orders have been published in the army, 

 making desertion punishable by death in all cases. 



The insurance on American ships has advanced from 8 to 5 per 

 ent., in consequence of the ravages of the Alabama. 



The T t , S. steamer Montgomery captured a fine side-wheel 

 teamer, loaded with munitions of war, about 50 miles from Mo- 

 ile. 



Gen. Mitchell' died at Beaufort, S. C, of yellow fever. His 

 wo sons were ill in the same house at the time, but could not see 

 dm 



A Cleveland paper says that the 'people of that town are 

 ising mouse-traps, old jack-knives, and shirt buttons, for small 

 toange. 



The captain of the famous rebel privateer SumpUr, was killed 

 in the 15th of October, by his first officer, who has been committed 

 or trial. 



An extra of a Houston paper confirms the report that the Rebels 

 lad left Galveston, and the city was (on the 5th) occupied by the 

 Jnion troops. 



Aliens in the South seem to be losing taith in the Confederacy. 

 )n the 21st, no less than 300 applied to the British Consul for 

 mssports to go Norih. 



Messrs. Glass, Elliott & Co., write to Cyrus W. Field very 



topefully of the Atlantic Cable, and offer to take the contract on 

 toe most liberal terms. 



The latest accounts from the Colorad'o mines, are rather discour- 

 sing as to placer diggings, but extensive quartz ledges give rich 

 Drospects, both of silver and gold. 



The whole number of slaves in the District of Columbia, that 

 have been presented by their owners to the commissioners for 

 sompensation, has been about 3000. 



Two ladies from Virginia, who had been spending some time 

 in Washington, were arrested. One of them had 800 ounces of 

 luinine concealed about her person. 



The Pacific Telegraph works well. A message sent from New 

 York at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, reaches there a little alter two, 

 nearly three hours before it was sent. 



Mr. Gladstone's speech in favor of the South, created quite a 

 panic in Manchester. Many manufacturers stopping their mills 

 altogether. He has since modified his remarks. 



Mk. Cameron, Minister to Russia, has retured in the Scotia. 

 He says three enormous iron-elad rams are being built in the 

 British ship-yards for the Southern Confederacy. 



Foup. of the nurses in one of the Washington hospitals— three 

 women and one man — have been arrested for stealing articles be- 

 longing to the Goverment, and also from dying soldiers. 



Gen. Rosecrans reached Nashville on Monday, the 10th, and 

 there are signs of a steady and rapid advance after the enemy, re- 

 ported to be retreating as rapidly as possible out of Tennessee. 



An officer from the West, says that the contrabands who come 

 to our lines, are so impressed with their own importance, and have 

 such a contempt for Yankees, that they are quite unmanageable. 



A Union officer became fascinated with a rebel young lady, 

 and one morning went over to breakfast with her— but she, as 

 false as fair, betrayed him to her friends, and he was taken pris- 

 oner. 



A thoroughly Anti-Slavery paper, in the French language, 

 has lately been started in New Orleans. The first number repro- 

 duces a letter, written ten years ago by Victor Hugo, to a Hay- 

 tian poet. 



The decrease in cotton may be realized by comparing the 

 amount of bales received at Liverpool on July4ih of 1S6I, and 

 the same day of this year. On the former it was 1,108.300, and on 

 the latter 181,940. 



It has been decided in the Supreme Court in Ihe State of New 

 York, that adding water to milk is not properly adulteration, and 

 therefore that it is not punishable under the Milk Law lately 

 passed by the Legislature. 



Gen. Pope recently sent from St. Paul, Minnesota, by tele- 

 graph, the names of 324 Sioux Indians, who were sentenced 

 to death. The dispatch cost $400. Pope evidently thought that 

 the Indians would not " keep." 



Libut, Col. Ludlow has been successful in making an ex- 

 change of prisoners. All the officers and men captured at Mum- 

 fordsville, Ky.. in September last, are now ready to take the field. 

 They numberj about 4000 men. 



A dfstructive flre took place at Harper's Ferry, on Tuesday, 

 Oct 2Sth. Some teamsters were cooking their dinner under 

 the trestle work near the bridge. Twenty-four loaded cars were 

 destroyed, and 3^0 feet of the trestle work. 



The blacksmiths employed in the ChaHestown navy yard, 120 

 in number, marched in a body to the commandant's office, and 

 demanded higher wages; but they finally returned to work, oil 

 the assurance that the subject was already under consideration. 



The London Daily New» says, in speaking of Gov. Moee- 

 iif.ad's speech in Liverpool, that he has proven to the shame and 

 confusion of his predecessors in Europe, that '• wilh the South Sla- 

 very is the beginning, middle, and end of Ihe whole revolution." 



On Sunday night, after the order for the removal of General 

 M'Clf.llan had been received, the officers of the army of the 

 Potomac gathered at bis head-quarlers to say farewell. The only- 

 toast was that proposed by the General himself: "The Army or 

 the Potomac." 



Capt. Mui.lan. of the army, recently arrived in New York, on. 



his way to Washington from Oregon, where he was sent four years 



ago to construct a wagon road from the navigable waters of the 



Columbia to the Missouri river. Tho, work is done, and a fine 



1 road of over 600 miles is in use. 



