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NEWS DEPARTMENT. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., SEPT. 17, 1864. 
The Army in Virginia. 
Dispatches from the Army of the Poto¬ 
mac of Sept. 9, to the N, Y, Herald, say that 
deserters and prisoners brought in within a day 
or two state that Gen. Lee has moved his head- 
(fuortera from Richmond to tho neighborhood 
of Ream's Station, on the Weldon railroad, with 
the avowed intention of giving battle. If this 
proves to be true, we are probably on the eve 
of another terrible contest. 
Our preparations for offense and defense are 
admirable, and Lee will have to elect between 
allowing us to retain onr occupation of the 
Weldon railroad or attacking our intrenched 
position. 
The Herald's correspondent with the 5th 
corps, under date of the 8th, says:—Yesterday 
morning at 7 o’clock, the rebels made an attack 
on one of the advanced picket posts of the 5th 
corps, driving them upon the nextline, wound¬ 
ing and capturing eleven. 
The Herald’s correspondent with the 9th corps, 
says:—Gen. Grant visited Gen. Wilcox’s front 
line to-day, viewing tho recently constructed 
works. A branch railroad of that to City Point 
will be in operation in a few days to every part 
of the line, dispensing with tho hitherto difficult 
transportation of stores over lengthy, tortuous 
ami heavy roads. The feature of this new road 
is, that it runs up or down hill without any re¬ 
ference to the time-honored requirement of 
grading, Ac. Tho route is marked oiit ahead, 
ties are thrown down and rails brought up and laid 
as fast as the construction corps advance. The 
road is now in operation to the Jerusalem Plank 
Road, 
A correspondent writing from Ream’s Station 
battle ground, several days after the withdrawal 
of our forceB, in speaking of the destruction of 
the nine miles of track and Iron by Hancock’s 
corps, says its re-possession by the rebels is hope¬ 
less and impossible. He says the crops adjacent 
the road on both sides are utterly destroyed 
the entire distance. The fences also were de¬ 
stroyed, using them to fire the ties of the track, 
and the houses and barns are generally reduced 
to smouldering ashe9. 
The Army of the Potomac is fast tilling up, 
and the rebels are represented as quite despond¬ 
ing of their cause in Georgia. , 
The Tribune's special from Harper’s Ferry, 
September 9, says our cavalry has been en¬ 
gaged almost constantly skirmishing with tho 
enemy’s pickets, driving them in when they 
are unsupported by infantry, and returning 
whenever found too mauy for us. 
Early manifests no further symptoms of a de¬ 
sire to attack us in force, but on the contrary 
seems only anxious to retire in such a manner 
as shall give himself and us the least annoy¬ 
ance. 
The warm days and cold nights are beginning 
to tell on our men, including chills and fevers to 
a considerable extent. 
The World's special of Sept 0, says intelligence 
from the front and Shenandoah seems to lead to 
the conclusion that Early’s forces must be re¬ 
enforcing Lee. It is quite certain that Lee is 
massing re-enforcements in front of the Weldon 
railroad, and they were believed to be from 
Early’s command. 
Parties on the mail boat from City Point be¬ 
lieve that the enemy’s attack for the possession 
of the Weldon rai Iroad is near at hand. 
A special to the Bulletin from Harper’s Ferry, 
0th inst., says: An ambulance train of thirty- 
five wagons, after leaving the wounded, was 
captured by Moseby, the train being without 
escort, ('apt. Blazer pursued the rebels and 
captured fifty horses and five prisoners. Major 
Kellogg, of the 123d Ohio, and Dr Snelling of 
the 39th Ohio, are among the prisoners captured 
by Moseby. There was no fighting at Jlorry- 
viile on Sunday, and there is no news from there 
to day, Monday. 
Berry vilte dispatches of the 10th to the Herald 
states that Col. Lowell, with the 20th Massa¬ 
chusetts and two other cavalry regiments, yester¬ 
day destroyed four large flour mills and several 
other smaller ones on Opequon creek, capturing 
several prisoners. 
Harper’s Ferry dispatches of the lOfch state 
that the rebbls are Still in force near Winchester 
and Bunker Hill. AH quiet in Jront. 
There him been considerable fighting ln the 
Shenandoah valley lately, but the rebels have 
been generally roughly handle*). The Balti¬ 
more America* of Sept, to, contains the follow¬ 
ing, dated Tuesday night, the 0th inst. 
To Maj-Gen. Kelly, Cumberland:—Early re¬ 
treated this A. M. toward Winchester. I am 
on his heels. I have whipped Vaughan’s cav¬ 
alry, captured all his trains which were not 
burned, and taken two battle flags, lie has no 
artillery. 1 have cut off Imboden. 
W. W. A v krill, Brig.-General. 
Early attacked a brigade of General Averill’s 
division, at Darnsville on the 10th, and was de¬ 
feated. The rebels lost heavily. 
Movements in tho West and Bouth-West 
Tennessee.— Advices from Nashville of 
Sept. 5, say that Wheeler’s rebel force was 
across Duck river, and had joined Rhoddy. 
Both were retreating toward Florence. 
General Kosscau pronounces their raid a com¬ 
plete failure. General Kelly, reported mor¬ 
tally wounded, died at Franklin yesterday. 
Gen. Haskell is also reported killed lately in a 
skirmish. 
Considerable damage has been done the rail¬ 
road, but a large force is employed in repairing 
it, and will have it Ln running order again in 
a few days. 
The damage done the Chattanooga railroad by 
the rebels is also being rapidly repaired. Only 
one bridge had been destroyed,— that over 
Stcwart’8 creek, fifty feet long. 
Advices from Louisville of Sept. 6, say that 
three thousand rebel cavalry, under Williams 
and Robertson, with three pieces of artillery, 
were near Murfreesboro on Saturday morning. 
They were attacked by Geu. Milroy, and brisk 
fighting continued all day. 
On Sunday the rebels retreated toward Tri¬ 
une, followed by Milroy’s forces, which made 
several attacks during the day. 
The Federal loss was ten killed and wounded, 
including Colonel Erford, of the 2d Kentucky, 
killed. The loss of the rebels was much larger. 
Gen. Milroy having exhausted his ammuni¬ 
tion, joined the forces of General Rossean, near 
Franklin. 
The main rebel force of Wheeiei was on 
Sanday tweny-four miles south-west of Colum¬ 
bia. Roseau wag closely following them. 
A later dispatch from Nashville reports that 
Rosseau, while pursuing Wheeler south of Duck 
river, bad captured 500 of his horses, the rebels 
having dismounted to fight. 
Dispatches to Nashville from Pulaski, the 9th 
ult., report that Gen. Rosseau had concentrated 
all the forces of Gens. Steelman and Granger 
and his own at Athens, and was moving toward 
the Tennessee. 
The country is filled with strolling bands of 
rebels who have straggled from their commands. 
A report has reached Gen. Starkweather that 
the rebel Gen. Dick Taylor has crossed the 
Mississippi and joined Forrest, for the purpose 
of enlisting in West Tennessee. 
The negroes at Memphis having desired to aid 
in the defense of the city, Gen. Washbnrh has 
given authority for raising a regiment for that, 
purpose. 
Mississippi. —The Vicksburg Herald of the 
10th, reports that 150 rebels under Captain 
McNeil, made a raid ou Wilkin's plantation, 
near Goodrich's Landing, on the 25th ult., and 
carried oil' seventy mules and horses, 200 ne. 
groes, and killed the plantation guard and burnt 
the stables. 
All males between the ages of 15 and 40 
were being conscripted. The country was full 
of stragglers. 
Missouri. — A St. Louis dispatch of tho 5t.h 
ult., says that a considerable force of rebels, 
under Gen. Shelby, bad appeared at Chalk 
Bluffs, thirty miles from Charlestown. A part 
of his force was expected to attack Charles¬ 
town while the remainder demonstrated against 
Cape Girardeau. This is doubtless Tom Free¬ 
man’s gang of guerrillas making an incursion 
into Missouri, as the last accounts from Shelby 
placed him in the vicinity of Helena, where he 
has been operating for some time past,. 
Arkansas. A dispatch from Cairo of Sept. 
8, says that reports reached Memphis last Sun¬ 
day that the gunboats Hastings and Nauinbang 
had been captured by the. rebels below Claren¬ 
don. on the White river, and that Capt. Rodgers, 
of the latter, was killed. 
It is also reported that another gunboat was 
sunk by the rebels on the St. Charles river, and 
that, Duval's Bluff is threatened by a large rebel 
force. These reports are confirmed through 
rebel sources from Helena. 
A cavalry force under Gen. A. Owens left 
Memphis a few days since for White river, und 
an infantry force is umlcn-tood to be embarking 
for Duval’s Bluff - . 
The Little Rock Democrat contains the par¬ 
ticulars of a recent rebel raid on Duval's 
151 u 11. On the Little Rock raiLroal a large quan¬ 
tity of Government bay was burned, and other 
property destroyed, and some damage was done 
to the road. 
North-Western Georgia. —We give the 
following condensed sketch of the doings about 
Atlanta, from a letter which we find published 
in the Albany Evening Journal, dated Chatta¬ 
nooga, the 5th inst.: 
Wc left Jonesboro, twenty-two miles beyond 
Atlanta, at ten o’clock on the morning of the 2d 
inst., and traveled under the protection of a 
cavalry escort to this place. Hood’s army was 
then retreating, with Sherman fiercely hanging 
on Ids rear. The head of the Union column was 
skirmishing with the rebel’s rear near Fayette¬ 
ville, some six or seven miles from Jonesboro. 
The fighting around Jonesboro has been very 
severe, and the enemy has been routed at all 
points. 
On t he 30th ult., the 4th and 23d corps struck 
too Macon line some five miles beyond East, 
Point, Junction. Meantime the Army of the 
Tennessee and Kilpatrick’s cavalry were skirm¬ 
ishing briskly with the enemy on our right, 
driving them across Flint, river toward .Jones¬ 
boro. Haz.en’s division of the 15th corps took 
possession of a prominent hill, which was on the 
way to the enemy’s position. The other divis¬ 
ions formed on his right and left. The 10th 
corps, Howard’s command, somewhat retired 
forward of the extreme light, with the 7lh on 
the left, the'4 th ami 23d corps forming a con¬ 
necting line, and extending beyond the railroad 
on the left. 
The 16th corps spent the night intrenching; 
and next day, before the right and left flanks 
had t:iken up their advanced position, the enemy 
burst in masses on the 16th corps, but were 
steadily and resolutely met, their repeated as¬ 
saults being'repulsed, they losing several gen¬ 
eral officers, including Major-General Anderson, 
mortally wounded, one Colonel and one Major 
killed, and several officers of lower rank, und 
live Colonels and several Mujora wounded and 
taken prisoners. The enemy’s loss in rank and 
file was quite severe, while our loss was slight, 
fighting, as we did, behiud our works. 
The brunt of the light fell ou the division 
of Major - General Hazeu. The next morning, 
the. first of September, the Mtb corps marched 
along tho Maeos line, destroying the track tor 
several miles, and about four o’clock took up a 
position on the left of the 4th corps, which had 
now formed in line of battle. 
The enemy bail intrenched themselves in 
front of the 14th corps, who were ordered to 
assault them. Cavalry and infantry steadily 
advanced under a surging lire of musketry and 
artillery, and, after a most desperate conflict of 
two hours’ duration, succeeded in driving the 
enemy from thoir works, capturing two flat¬ 
teries—one Loomis' celebrated battery, taken 
from us at, Ghiekainauga, of five guns, and 
another of four guns—some battle flags, and a 
large number of prisoners. They also took 
General Gaveu and bis Adjutant - General. 
Brig.-Gen. CummingB, of S. D. Lee’s corps, 
was mortally wounded. It is said that an 
Arkansas brigade was captured with Gaven. 
This swells our list of prisoners to near two 
thousand. 
While the 14th corps was thus nobly and 
fiercely engaged, the Army of the Tennessee 
and 4th corps were vigorously pressing the en¬ 
emy on the right, and early in the night Lee’s 
corps moved noiselessly away, with the inten¬ 
tion of forming a junction with Steward’s corps, 
and the six thousand militia Hood had stationed 
at Atlanta to watch Gen. Sherman’s movements. 
The command in the field, therefore, devolved 
on Gen. Hardee, who retired along the Macon 
railroad. 
Hood, finding his situation desperate in At¬ 
lanta, retreated, first burning up nearly one 
thousand hales of cotton, eighty-six wagons, 
laden with ammunition, chiefly cartridges and 
canister, besides much other public property. 4 
At the break of day, when Sherman found the 
enemy had retreated, he put his whole army in 
motion and followed in hot pursuit; his object 
being to get between Hood and Hardee, and 
thus cut off either party. 
The defeat bad a most paralyzing effect on 
Hood’s army, for the soldiers are breaking for 
home oti all sides. We heard the roar of the 
exploding rebel ammunition for a distance of 
many miles. 
Gen. Slocum, who was guarding the commu¬ 
nication ami trains along the Chattahoochee 
river, sent forward detachments from Ward, 
Geary and Williams’ divisions ou a reeonnois- 
sance. They advanced to the city, which they 
found evacuated, ami entered about 11 o’clock 
tlio 2d of September. They were at once met 
by a deputation, consisting of the Mayor, High 
Sheriff and citizens, who made a formal surren¬ 
der of the town to Gen. Ward, simply making 
the following request through the Mayor: 
Brig.-Gen. (Card, 3d Division 20 th. Corps — 
Sir:— The fortune of war has placed the city of 
Atlanta in your hands. As Mayor of the city I, 
ask protection for uou-combatants and private 
property. J. M. Calhoun, Mayor. 
The protection asked for was readily grauted, 
and the Stars and Stripes hoisted upon the Court 
House amidst a peal of cheers. Yankee Doodle 
followed, and thus wus consummated the fall of 
Atlanta, the hack-bone of rebellion in the south¬ 
west-giving Sherman the complete control of 
a large portion of the State. 
A Nashville dispatch of Sept. 5, says that news 
from Sherman’s army to-day report the loss of 
the enemy at 3,000 killed and wounded, and 2,000 
prisoners. Fifteen hundred will cover our losses 
from all causes in the battles and skirmishes of 
the past week. 
Gea. nood left little of value in Atlanta, most 
of the public stores and material having been 
previously removed to Macon. 
An oiticer from Atlautain Washington, Sept. 9, 
states that Hood’s army is demoralized to the 
condition of a mob. Gen. Sherman’s communi¬ 
cations arc being restored to perfect order. 
Department of the Gulf. 
Wr. have advices from New Orleans to the 
3d inst. It appears that our forces occupied 
Clinton only two days and two nights. The reb¬ 
els hud made a demonstration on Berwick City 
but accomplished nothing. They are reported 
to be preparing a formidable expedition to at¬ 
tack Brasher City or some other place. Gen. 
Banks will come north probably on the steamer 
of the 16th. The gunboat Selma and tho cap¬ 
tured ram lie at New Orleans attracting much 
attention. The Creole, in her last trip to New 
Orleans, was chased by a pirate. 
The Herald's Fort Gaines correspondent of 
the 30th ult. says:—Our troops have effected a 
lauding at Cedar Point, line© miles above 
Dauphin Island, and twenty-live miles of Mo¬ 
bile. Mobile is la id by the rebels. It is reported 
they have no fortifications on this rotid, except 
near tho city. A torpedo drawn from the water 
last week exploded, kilting five or six, and wound¬ 
ing fifteen men. The work of destroying Iho 
sunken Nashville in the channel, above Dog river 
bar, was progressing. 
A fight recently oocuredatRed Wood, 17 miles 
from Baton Rouge, in which 18 of the 2d Lou¬ 
isiana were killed. 
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AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
A Wash i vgton dispatch of tho 6th, says that 
during the last few days the number of men mus¬ 
tered into the army has averaged 4,000 j>er day. 
On the 2d inst. 4,136 were mustered in, and on 
the 8d, 6,160. These are the latest reports re¬ 
ceived. The number mustered in on the 3d 
instant is probably greater than has been mus¬ 
tered during any one day for two years. 
The following is extracted from the Secretary 
of War’s dispatch to General Dix, dated the 
7th Inst.: 
•‘The Provost Marshal - General’s office is 
busily employed in arranging tho credits 
of the several districts, and is ordered to 
draft without delay for the deficiencies in the 
districts that have not filled their quota, begin¬ 
ning with those most, in arrears. Credits for 
volunteers will be allowed as long aa possible, 
but the advantage of filling the army imme¬ 
diately requires the draft to be speedily made in 
the defaulting districts. All applications for its 
postponement have been refused.” 
The Secretary has dispatches from Sherman to 
the 9th. Every thing was progressing favorably. 
News from the Western Department he says 
ig encouraging. Recruiting is going on vigor¬ 
ously in most of the States. 
— - - 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The editor of the Wheeling Register, ar¬ 
rested by General Hunter, some weeks ago, has 
been unconditionally released, by order of Gen. 
Sheridan. 
Some two hundred of the rebel prisionets taken 
at Fort Gaines, now at New Orleans, have peti¬ 
tioned to be permitted to take the oath of alle¬ 
giance. 
The news from Mexico state that President 
Jaurez hod fled to the United States, and he is 
reported to be aboard a ship in the Mississippi 
river lying at quarantine. 
A Washington special to the Philadelphia 
Bulletin, says that reports from there place 
Pennsylvania in tho lead as to the number of 
recruits raised under the last call. 
A Correspondent from Mobile bay writes 
that all the men, women, and children he 
saw around the bay, were barefooted. They 
did not seem to possess boots, shoes or stock¬ 
ings. 
The Buffalo Courier is informed that Mrs. 
Robert E. Lee, wife of the Rebel General, and 
her two sons, have taken up their residence in 
the village of Niagara, at the mouth of the Niag¬ 
ara river. 
Rebel deserters state that since the Weldon 
railroad fell into our possession, pork has ad¬ 
vanced to $9 and beef to $8 per pound in Rich¬ 
mond, and their ollieers declare tho road must 
ho rc-taken at all hazards. 
Maximilian still pursues a conciliatory poli¬ 
cy. Ho has appointed Almonto Marshal of the 
Pulace, Ramirez to be Minister, and Uraga 
is to be a General of Division. Santa Anna 
has again been requested to return to the coun¬ 
try. 
The Navy Department has received a 
dispatch announcing the burning of tho United 
States frigate Brandywitie, the store ship at 
Norfolk, with all her stores. The cause of 
the fire is not yet known, nor any of the par¬ 
ticulars. 
The reports from Idaho are not very flatter¬ 
ing for surface or gully diggings, for gold, but 
many new discoveries of quartz have been made 
this summer. Indeed, in this character of 
mines the territory is the richest in the whole 
world. 
Tiie farmers of Lincoln, Mass., are doing an 
extensive business this season in raising pickles. 
One man from two and a half acres of vines, 
has gathered at two pickings, 67,000 pickles. 
One man gathered from his five acres, at one 
picking, 80,000. 
Poun DEI) glass mixed with meal makes a prep¬ 
aration of inimical nature to rats. It either 
drives them away from the premises whereon 
they cat it, or kills them. It should ho used 
cautiously, however, being destructive of all 
life, as well as that of YCrmin. 
Tjik whole number of petroleum refineries at 
Pittbhurg, Pa., is fifty-eight, with a total capaci¬ 
ty per week of twenty-six thousand barrels. 
Value of real estate, buildings aud machinery, 
$2,634,000. Value of oils refined, $8,590,223. 
Wages paid per annum, $350,000. 
The fire-eaters can’t abandon their old prac¬ 
tices. On the 16th inst., a duel came off at 
Richmond between John M. Daniel, editor of 
the Richmond Enquirer, and E. C. Elmore, 
an official in the rebel Treasury Department. 
Daniel was shot through the leg. Elmore was 
uninjured. 
The finishing touches to the dome of the 
Capitol at Washington, were given lust Satur¬ 
day, and it now stands completed. The height 
of the dome from the ground on the east front, 
is two hundred and eighty-seven feet, and about 
three buudred and seventy feet from Pennsyl¬ 
vania avenue. 
The Secretary of the Treasury of the Con¬ 
federate States is under an indictment for gam¬ 
bling at faro tables. Tho Examiner of the 17th 
ult.., says if the money that has passed through 
his bauds at these tables was his own, his friends 
can congratulate him on the possession of a most 
ample private fortune. 
The third largest bell in America has just 
been fluished by Messrs. Meneely, of Troy, New 
York, for Newark, New Jersey. Id weighs 12,- 
000 lbs. The largest bell in tho States is sus¬ 
pended in the rear of the City Hall, New York, 
and weighs 22,000 pounds. The bell in the 
cathedral at Montreal weighs about 28,000 
pounds. 
A Union officer, lately released from prison 
at Macon, Ga., gives a vivid description of the 
desperate measure© to which the rebels resorted 
to rc-enforoe I food. Besides conscripting every¬ 
body, they put into the ranks all the unarmed 
employees, including even hospital stewards. 
To supply the place of the latter, women were 
conscripted; and every house in Macou had a 
certain number of sick and wounded billeted 
upon it. 
The emigration arriving at tho port of New 
York during last month reached tho extraor¬ 
dinary figure of 22,417 kouIh, an increase of 
about 7,000 over tho corresponding month last 
year. Of this number 8,920 were Germans and 
7,872 Irish. The Irish emigration has been fall¬ 
ing off for some mouths, and the Gerinuu 
steadily increasing. Eight German emigrant 
vessels have arrived within a week. 
Gist of New Advertisements. 
Trees. Bhnihs. Plnnjs T. Maxwell & Brothers. 
Genesee Valiev Nurseries—Krost ,v Co. 
The Wind-Mill 'burn- J. P. Davison. 
Trees f..r S tie— W. Crown Smith. 
Take Hoed .1. Kerch. 
Doolittle ffasplieiry I’lnnt* II. IT. Doolittle. 
Sale of HtMvt-lhd'riMl i atm R. Marks. 
Dogs. It him. Mlcr amt Sunken—.Limes .Johnson. 
For the Best Selected strawheri I*Wm. Parry. 
Employment I). It. Hi rrinton .<• Co. 
fiO.UCO Apple Trc * I*. Rr.wen A' i o, 
$6 Made rrnin Fifty CenlR U. I.. Wolcott. 
SPECIAL NDTICES. 
Photograph Albums—Metropolitan Gift Book Store, 
llale’a Improved Sheep Rack. 
3TI)C rictus Condenser* 
— Edwin Booth is a spiritualist. 
— Maine has inaugurated a Normal School. 
— A salt mountain has been discovered in Nevada. 
— The Chicago take tunnel will be finished In lfXifi. 
— Jenny Lind's husband has become a London editor. 
— In Lowell, Muss, taxes are at the rate of $13 SO on 
$1,000. 
— There will be $3,500,000 revenue from friction 
matches. 
— The people of Oregon have voted to have Salem 
for a capital. 
— Virginia’s war made widows and orphans already 
number 00,000. 
— The executioner of Paris gets $0,000 a year and 
his house free. 
— Jaurez, the Mexican President, has two recruiting 
offices in SI. Louis. 
— Forty thousand slaves were employed to build the 
defences of Atlanta. 
— The Washoo silver mines, Nebraska, have failed 
and been abandoned. 
— Franco and Switzerland have entered into a treaty 
of national copyright 
— There Is talk of establishing in Paris a universal 
museum of Sculptor. 
— A bout ICO government officers at Washington re¬ 
signed during Augnst. 
— Ex-Secretary Chase is in Boston, the gnest of 
Congressman Hooper. 
— Idaho City was almost swept off the earth by a 
tornado on the 27lli nit. 
— A man tn Now Hampshire ent his foot the other 
day and became insane. 
— The Richmond Examiner calls the New England 
era 11 The Impnrltans!” 
— Pienro pneumonia Is rapidly spreading among the 
cattle of New Hampshire- 
— A London physician has been made to pay $25,000 
for seducing a married lady. 
— Sixty children were poisoned in Liverpool recently 
by eating " Calabar beans.” 
— Massachusetts is said to be out of the draft by ren 
son of her naval enlistments. 
— The Turkish cotton crop is said to be more than 
fourlold what It was last year. 
— John Mitchell, the Irish exile, is now fighting in 
the ranks of the Southern army. 
— The income of (he four Rothschilds of Earope is 
$ ii,tXK),t!(Xl a year, or $1,000 an hour. 
— Open air war meetings are held every evening in 
Oswego city, and are largely attended. 
— The eleven of France beat the eleven of Germany 
recently tn a cricket match at Hamburg. 
— A melon was exhibited at Urban a, Ohio, last week 
weighing twenty six and three quarter pounds. 
— Large mi tubers of miners are returning from Idaho 
to California. They say they can not live there. 
— The average price of day laborers throughout the 
British Isles and Europe is about 30 cents a day. 
— Hnyli ts Improving under republican rale. Less 
crime, less debt, more cotton and better morals. 
— The name of the Commanding General of the 
Army of tbo United Stales is Ulysses Simpson Grant. 
— The eommnndcr of the rebel pirate Tallahassee, 
John Taylor Wood, is a grandson of President Taylor. 
— Gov. Yates has issued a proclamation for the or¬ 
ganization of a regiment or infantry for duty in Illi¬ 
nois. 
— The average rocelpts or internal revenue since July 
1, are $638,0<K)per day. They are beginning to increese 
now. 
— The oldest person in Vermont is n black man in 
Pomfret named Peter Nasson, who was born about 
1731. 
— The American Wood Paper Co , at Providence, RJ 
I., advertise for 10,(XX) cords of wood suitable for thi ir 
purpose. 
— Provost Marshal General Fry decides that desert¬ 
ers from the rebel army are not subject to enrollment 
or draft. 
— A bail storm on Kelly’s Island, Lake Erie, dam 
aged the growing grapes to the extent of several thou 
sand dollars. 
— The people of Louisa county, Iowa, have donated 
twenty eight head of catUe to a Sanitary Pair now be¬ 
ing held there. 
— Tbe.ro arc in England and Wales, at large, 5,S96 
known thieves under sixteen years of age, and 28,2Cl 
above that. age. 
— Some Thibetan peacocks and two white elephants 
have been presented by an Eastern monarch to the 
French Emperor. 
— They have a servant's school near London where 
girls arc trained to household work, cooking, washing 
and needlework 
— A letter from England declares that Mr. Chase has 
invested a large sum, “It is said about £200,001 sterling 
to English funds,” 
— Therein a woman in Troy, N. Y,, who has been 
married four times to soldiers since the war commenced 
und is now a widow. 
— Cabmen can t cheat in Paris. They are paid by the 
mile, and a dial moved by one of tho carrlage’W heels 
registers Use distance. 
— They undertook to embalm a man named Martin 
nt New Orleans the other day, but he got up in his col 
fin, and they desisted. 
— Besides the United States bounty and pay, Califor¬ 
nia voinntouTs gel $180 bounty in gold, and $5 a month 
in gold from the State. 
— Secretory Stanton has ordered that the wages of the 
sewing women in the employment of the Government 
be Increased 20 per cent. 
— There Is less than 30 miles staging now between 
SI Louis and Kansas City, and the Pacific railroad will 
be in full blast by January. 
— It Is stated that the potato crop tn Ireland is very 
large this season, and that there can bo no risk ol a 
scarcity Of the "blessed root.” 
