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NEWS DEPART 2VI E JST T . 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., OCTOBER 1, 1864. 
The Army in Virginia. 
We have most cheering news from the 
forces under Gen. Sheridan in the Valley of 
the Shenandoah. We give abstracts from offi¬ 
cial documents from the Secretary of War and 
commanding Generals: 
The Secretary of War to Gen. Dix, the 20th 
nit, says:—Yesterday, Major-General Sheridan 
attacked Early, fought a great battle and won a 
splendid victory. The rebel Generals Gordon 
and Rhodes were killed, and four other general 
officers were wounded. All of the enemy's 
killed, and most of their wounded, are in our 
hands. Gen. Russell (Fed.) was killed. 
Gen. StevensoD, at 12 M., the 19th, telegraphs 
Secretary Stanton from Harper’s Ferry, that 
General Sheridan moved on the enemy at day¬ 
light. Soon after the movement commenced 
there was heavy and continued firing for two 
hours. It then ceased,apparently receding. It 
was resumed about 9 o’clock in the vicinity of 
Bunker Hill. 
General Stevenson’s dispatch at three P. M., 
says:—Continuous firing between Opequan and 
Winchester—very heavy since 10 A. M.; the 
engagement is general; line about five miles 
long; xYverill is heavily engaged with the 
enemy near Daiksville. At 4:30, fighting in the 
direction of Winchester much heavier. Our men 
near Buuker Hill seem to be driving the enemy 
rapidly. 
At7 P. M., Gen. Stevenson telegraphed:—Our 
cavalry, under Generals Averiii and Merrit, had, 
up to one o’clock, driven Ereckenridge’s corps 
beyond Stevenson’s depot, a distance of seven 
miles, killing and wounding many, and taking 
two hundred prisoners. 
On the center and left the enemy were driven 
about three miles beyond the Opequan into a 
line of earthworks. Our infantry attacked them 
in position. Everything is most favorable. At 
7:20, the General says the enemy are retreating 
up the valley. 
General Sheridcn, at 7:30, sends a dispatch 
from Winchester to Lient.-Gen. Grant, in which 
he says:—I have the honor to report that I 
attacked the forces of Gen. Early oyer the Ber- 
ryville Pike, at the crossing of Opequan creek, 
and after a most stubborn and sanguinary en¬ 
gagement, which lasted from early in the morn¬ 
ing till 7 P. M., completely defeating him, driv¬ 
ing him through Winchester, and capturing 
many prisoners. • 
The conduct oi our men was most superb. 
They charged and carried every position taken 
by the rebels from Opequan creek to Winches¬ 
ter. The rebels were &trong in numbers and 
very obstinate in their lighting. 
The rebel loss amounts, it is thought, to 
10,000 men in killed, wounded and prisoners. 
The prisoners numbered 3,000. Gen. Steven¬ 
son says our loss is but 2,000. Five pieces of 
artillery and nine battle-flags were captured 
from the enemy. 
The N. Y. Herald's special, dated at the right 
of Sheridan on the morning of the 22d ult., says: 
The second morning, Tuesday, (the 20th,) when 
he advanced, Sheridan found the enemy had not 
been idle during the night, but on the contrary 
had taken advantage of it to add as much dis¬ 
tance as possible between himself and the vic¬ 
tors of the last, field. Still moving up we had 
to engage in skirmishing of a rather heavy 
character. Our cavalry, both on the right and 
left were very active in harrassing the retreat 
of the enemy. Our infantry also did first rate 
work. 
The forward movement this morning was at¬ 
tended with more fighting. Preparations are 
being made to send our wounded to the rear as 
soon as possible. Field hospitals will only he 
established for temporary use. Many of the 
wounded are being cared for in the houses 
along the line of our march. 
The rebel dead on the field htwe been prop¬ 
erly buried, and the rebel wounded cared for as 
well as our own. 
As we advance, the report is that Early will 
make another stand just ahead, but as we reach 
each point “just ahead,” Early is found to have 
retired. 
In the late battle the loss in field officers to the 
rebels, killed and wounded, seems to have been 
extraordinary large. 
The Secretary of War in a dispatch to Gen. 
Dix, dated Sept. 22 —9 30 P. M., says a portion 
of the rebel cavalry having turned off to Front 
Royal, were pursued, attacked and jlriven by 
our cavalry, which were pursuing the enemy. 
The rebels were roughly handled on the night 
of the 21st ult., at Flint Hill. Secretary Stan¬ 
ton says the rebel Infantry made a stand in a 
strongly intrenched position at this place, be¬ 
yond Stra&burg, which was attacked by our 
forces, and the crest, carried and held by our 
troops. 
A fight took place at Fisher’s Hill on the 
afternoon of the 22d. Gen. Sheridan to Gen. 
Grant on the 23d says:—“1 cannot as yet give, 
any definite account of the results of the battle 
yesterday. Our loss will be light. Gen. Crook 
struck the left flank of the enemy, doubled it 
up and advanced down the lines. 
Rickett’s division of the 6tli corps was swung 
in to join Crooks; Getty's and "Wheaton's divis¬ 
ions took up the same movement, followed by 
’ the whole line, and attacking, beautifully car¬ 
ried the works of the enemy. 
The rebels threw down Lheir arms and fled in 
the greatest confusion, abandoning most of their 
artillery. It was dark when the battle ended. 
I pursued on after the enemy during the night 
to this point (Woodstock) with the titli and 9th 
corps, and have stopped here to "rest the men 
and issue rations. 
Torbett has pushed along on the Surreyville 
road according to my directions. He will 
achieve great results. 
I do not think there was ever an army so 
badly routed. The valley soldiers are biding 
away and going to their homes.” 
Dispatches from Gen. Sheridan np to eleven 
o’clock Saturday night, (24th,) six miles south 
of New Market, have been reoeived. He had 
driven the enemy from Mount Jackson without 
being able to bring on an engagement. The 
enemy was moving rapidly, and he had no cav¬ 
alry present to bold them. Torbett had at¬ 
tacked Wickham’s force at Laura and captured 
a number of prisoners. 
Sheridan found rebel hospitals in all the towns 
from Winchester to New' Market, and was 80 
miles from Martinsburg. 
Twenty pieces of artillery were captured at 
Fisher's Hill, together with 1,100 prisoners, a 
large amount of ammuniton, caissons, &c., and a 
large quantity of intrenching tools, small arms 
and debris. 
The small towns through the valley have a 
great many rebel wounded. 
Gen. Stevenson reports the arrival at Harper’s 
Ferry of a traiu of our wounded, 20 captured 
guns, and a large number of captured rebel 
officers. 
Breckenridge has gone, it is announced, to 
take command of the rebel Department of the 
Southwest. 
A brisk skirmish took place at an early hour 
on the 18th ult., on the extreme left of the army 
before Petersburg, in consequence of the rebels 
changing their position. 
The news of Sheridan’s victory in the valley 
of the Shenandoah on the 19th was read to the 
troops along the lines on the afternoon of the 
20th. A salute of 100 guns was fired in honor 
of the event at daylight on the 21st. The news 
created great rejoicing. 
The Herald's City Point correspondent of the 
24th, (after receiving news of still more victories 
by Sheridan,) says that these great victories 
have inspired our army more than would 20,000 
men as a re-enforcement. 
A salute of ten shotted guns from each of the 
batteries was fired this morning, making alto¬ 
gether over 1,000 discharges, on the rebel lines. 
It was considered a very appropriate way to do 
honor to Gen. Sheridan and his victorious army. 
The rebels continue to shell those at work on 
the Dutch Gap Canal, but do not inflict much 
damage. 
Movements in the West and South-West 
Arkansas.— CoL Thompson, of tbe First 
Iowa cavalry, just returned from Little Rock, 
Sept, 22, says it was understood that from 20,- 
000 to 30,000 rebels under Price had eroded the 
Arkansas river, between Little Rock and Fort 
Smith. AH communication was cut off between 
these points. It was not known whether Trice 
would strike Fort Smith or march in some other 
direction. Shelby is expected to co-operate 
with him and enter the State from the south¬ 
east, while he pushes a column to the south¬ 
west. 
A heavy Federal foree is concentrating at 
Brownsville, between Little Rock and Duval’s 
Bluff. Davidson's divisions, under General 
Dennis, from Morganzia, has already arrived. 
A gentleman from Duval’s Bluff, reports the 
arrival of Gen. Moore at little Rock with a por¬ 
tion of the 19th corps. With this accession of 
force Gen. Steele will be able to take the offen¬ 
sive. Nothing is known of the whereabouts of 
Gen. Price. Between 00 and 40 of the 3d regu¬ 
lar cavalry vyere captured fifteen miles from Lit¬ 
tle Rock on the 10th. 
Kentucky,— A small foree of Magruder’s 
gang fired into a railroad train at New Haven, 
on the 20th ult., and were repelled with a loss 
of several killed. The guerrillas returned and 
burned the New Haven depot. Nobody was 
hurt on the train. 
Misso tau.—Advices from St. Louis of tbe 25th 
ult., say that Price has entered Missouri with a 
force 30,000 strong. His plan is supposed to be 
to march to the central part of the .State in three 
columns and capturing all the important points 
of the country. 
It is reported that Kirby Smith w ill join him 
with from 10,000 to 12,000 men. The Arkansas 
guerrillas are also concentrating to aid in the 
movement of the column now in the south-east 
doubtless under Shelby, who has some 6,000 or 
8,000 men. Millitary preparations here arc- 
very active and troops are uiready moving north¬ 
ward. Gen. Rosecrans will issued an appeal 
to-morrow calling the people to arms. 
Two hundred guerrillas plundered the town of 
Keetville on Wednesday, burned the Court 
House and all the books and records of the coun¬ 
ty, and killed the Sheriff, and Robert Carman, 
and W- Young, noted scouts. 
Kansas.— Advices from Fort Smith say the 
train which left here Sept. 1st for Fort Smith 
was captured by the rebels at Cabin creek. 
The train consisted of 200 wagons laden with 
supplies, COO mules, 40 artillery horses and two 
sutler's trains. The loss is estimated at one 
million dollars. 
The escort numbered eight hundred, all of 
whom were captured except Lieut.-Col. Wilder 
and a few wagon-masters. The attack was 
made at 2 o’clock in the morning by about 250 
rebels, and must have been a complete surprise. 
Tbe train was destroyed on the spot, indicat¬ 
ing a very rapid movement northward by the 
rebels. 
A dispatch from Mound city, Kansas, says 
that a large force of rebels is moving north- 
one colamnd toward Fort Scott, and Springfield, 
Missouri. 
North-western Georgia.—A dvices from 
Chattanooga of Sept. 22, say that Gen. Sher¬ 
man, by special arrangement with the rebel 
Gen. Hood, has effected the exchange of 2,000 
prisoners. 
The truce between Sherman and flood ex¬ 
pired to-day, but will be extended several days 
to complete the removal of families. 
Cols. Campbell and Garrison, at Athens, on 
the 23d ult., were attacked by a large force of 
rebels, and after a severe fight of two hourB’ 
duration, were forced to surrender. Several 
buildings, including the depot, were set on fire. 
Department of the Gull 
The Herald’s New Orleans correspondent 
of the 12th says: 
It is reported that Forrest and Taylor have 
joined foiceB and number 20,000. Gen. Ghol* 
sou’s command is also said to have joined them. 
Great secrecy is maintained concerning their 
movements, but the Secessionists here said as 
soon as Farragut took Mobile, forces would 
have to be sent from here to hold it, and then 
they would move on either New Orleans or Mo¬ 
bile. 
An expedition by gunboats had been sent 
through the lakes and bayous near Grand Lake, 
capturing boats, soldiers, horses and some few 
stores. Some of the soldiers were perfectly na¬ 
ked. 
The Herald's Mobile Bay correspondent says, 
that an expedition sent out by Gen. Bailey had 
succeeded in destroying the largest salt works 
in the rebel limits on Bon Leeour Bay. Large 
quantities of rosin and turpentine have been de¬ 
stroyed by the rebels to prevent it falling into 
our hands. Immense amounts of cotton and 
turpentine have beeu sent to Selma in expecta¬ 
tion that Mobile might be surrendered. 
The rebel Gen. Page has been brought to 
Fort Morgan, where he is to be tried for de¬ 
stroying the munitions of war in that fort after 
surrendering. The offense is punishable with 
death. 
Large quantities of secreted ordnance stores 
have been discovered by our expeditionary par¬ 
ties. 
Steamer Emily D. Sanders, from Now Orleans, 
15th, arrived at New York, Sept. 22. A large 
supply of clothing, &e., had been sent by flag 
of truce via Red river to Union prisoners. 
Hereafter no persons will be arrested in New 
Orleans without written accusations against 
them. _ 
Department of the South. 
News from Charleston and vicinity to the 
19th, has been received. Our firing on the city 
continued, and deserters report immense dam¬ 
age done. The rebel commander refused to 
allow Gen. Foster to send supplies to our pris¬ 
oners in Georgia. 
Several rebel officers on Morris Island express 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
List of New Advertisements. 
the desire to take the oath of allegiance. The 
Richmond Examiner reports large fires in 
Charleston; doubtless from the effect of our 
guns. Steamer Terry, from Newbern 20th, ar¬ 
rived in New York tbe 23d. There is no 
news of importance. 
REBEL PIRATES ON LAKE ERIE. 
A tarty of rebels from Canada, numbering 
about thirty, capture two steamers—the Parsons 
and Island Queen—near Bass Island, Lake Erie, 
on tbe 19th ult. The captors were armed with 
revolvers and bowie knives. Capt. Orr, of the 
Island Queen, furnishes the Toledo Blade- of the 
2Utb, tbe following particulars of the operations: 
The Queen left Sandusky at 3 P, M., yester¬ 
day, (19th,) stopped at Kellogg’s Island for 30 or 
40 soldiers, passed to Middle Bass Island, where 
she found the Parsons in possession of pirates, 
who at once seized the Queen. The soldiers 
were paroled as Confederate prisoners. The 
other passengers were sworn to secresy for 24 
hours. The Queen was then lashed to the Par¬ 
sons, and the two steamed for Sandusky. When 
out fire miles the water-cock of the Queen’s 
pony engine was broken, opening a hole in her 
side, and she was cast off and left to sink. The 
Parsons passed on to the month of Sandusky 
Bay, and after hovering about some time, appa¬ 
rently signaling inside, started for Detroit river, 
arriving at Fighting Island, on the Canada side, 
about 8 A. M., where Capt. Orr, his clerk and 
engineer, were landed. The Parsons was then 
run up the river to a dock, where the Captain 
supposes the plunder was landed and the steamer 
burned, as preparations were made for that 
object. 
He had no doubt that the seizure of the U. S. 
steamer Michigan, and the liberation of the 
Johnson Island prisoners, were the objects of the 
plot. Both steamers were stripped of valuables. 
Commander Carter, of the U. S. steamer Mich¬ 
igan, telegraphed to the Secretary of the Navy, 
dated off Johnson’s Island, Sept. 21, concerning 
the capture by pirates of the steamers. He says 
they were pursued by him, and that he has got 
the principal agent a prisoner op board, and 
many accomplices. It further appears that Col. 
Hall has six of the pirate party on Johnson’s 
Island. 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
The President, by request of Gen. Grant, 
has appointed Gen. Sherman a Brig.-General in 
the regular army. 
The entire army is to be paid off on the first 
of October. 
Orders have been issued by the Navy Depart¬ 
ment directing that hereafter no substitutes will 
be recived for the Navy unless they be seamen 
or firemen. 
One hundred guns were fired on the20th ult., 
in honor of Sherman’s victory near Winchester. 
Great rpjoieing, also, for sueecesses attending 
the pursuit of the rebels up the valley. 
Post Master-General Blair has sent to the 
President his resignation, ami it has been ac¬ 
cepted. 
President Lincoln’s Private Secretaries 
(Major Hay and John G. Nieolay) were drafted 
in the city of Washington on Monday, the 20th ' 
instant. p 
A singular pear, grown this season at South p 
Westport, Mast)., is full ol' eyes, with a small , ! j 
leaf growing below each, something in the style » 
of a pine apple. I 
Hon. Schuyler Cole ax, Speaker of the 
House of Representatives, is to give the opening 
lecture before the Boston Young Mens’ Christian 
Association next winter. : 
Gkn. Fremont and Mr. Cochrane, nomi¬ 
nees of the Cleveland Convention (last spring) 
for President and Vice President, have formally 1 
withdrawn from the contest. 
Of the number drafted in Washington on the 
20th one hundred and sixty-eight were white 
and fifty-four black. They were notified to re¬ 
port for duty within ten days. 
The number of deaths reported iu New York 
the past week, was 600; of this number, 128 
were men, 103 women, 171 boys, and 58 girls,— 
IS deaths less than the previous week. 
Tiik arts of civilization are making fine pro¬ 
gress in the Sandwich Islands. At a recent 
election in Honolulu, the ballot box was found 
to contain 788 votes after 372 votes had been re¬ 
corded. 
One of the imported Dutch cows on exhibition 
at the New England Agricultural Fair, belong¬ 
ing to W. W. Cheney of Belmont, Mass., is 
said to have given 1,7041 quarts of milk in one 
month. 
The Erie Railway Company has created a 
Draft Mutual ius. Co. among its engineers. 
Each man has $100 deducted from his pay, and 
the Company undertakes to provide substitutes 
for those drafted. 
A man was arrested in Jersey City last week 
on the affidavit, of a women charging him with 
the murder of his wife. The wife, in Troy, N. 
Y., makes an affidavit that she is not dead, but 
refuses to return to the Jerseys. 
Jkkf. Davis’ salary is nominally $25,000 a 
year; but by the depreciation of the Confeder¬ 
ate money, it is equal to but $1,500, and on this 
practically he lias to live, for the Federals have 
overtaken and destroyed nearly all his private 
property. 
It is reported that Colonel Scott, command¬ 
ing from 4,000 to 9,000 rebels near Baton Rouge, 
bas offered to surrender himself and men pro¬ 
vided they are offered an unconditional pardon. 
He has given up the rebel cause since the cap¬ 
ture of Atlanta. 
The Indians, fighting on tbe border, are not 
“all Indians.” One. of the forest children was 
killed the other day on the Big Blue river. He 
was thought to be a Sioux, but when the paint 
was washed off the Sioux turned up a white 
man with red hair. 
Major-General John Nason says that he 
had at the last election voted at sixty annual elec¬ 
tions in St. Albans, Vt., and that there was no 
other voter now living in town who cast his 
suffrage at St. Albans in 1804. Gen. Nason is 
now in his 82d year. 
The Greenfield (Mass.) Gazette says:—“The 
hop crop in this vicinity has been a failure the 
present season. Some hop growers in the south¬ 
ern part of Vermont have acres from which 
thoy do not gather a pound. A blast appears to 
have passed over them.” 
The Alexandria (Ya .) Journal says, we learn 
through sources which cannot be discredited, 
that Mosehy received a severe wound in the 
groin during an engagement between our 
forces and a small portion of his gurrilla band, 
in tbe vicinity of Centerville. 
Asiatic cholera has made its appearance in 
’ the Lincolnshire Fens, in England, and has 
proved fatal in several cases, owing (it is stated 
' by the medical men) to the long continued drouth, 
which has caused the drains to become little 
better than stagnant pools. 
There is now on exhibition at the Third Na- 
I tional Bank in Chicago, a nugget of gold weigh- 
i ing eighty pounds, which has been received on 
, account of the Briggs’ gold company. The nug- 
■ get is worth $44,000, and is a magnificent speci¬ 
men of the precious metal. 
A dispatch to the Richmond Hxaminer, 
dated Macon, Ga., Sept. 14, says:—“ A train 
• loaded with Federal prisoners ran oil - the track 
i last night at Camp Creek, on the South-western 
. railroad. Eight cars and the engine were 
■ crushed to pieces. A large number of Yankees 
i were killed and wounded. 
Pricks Current in Richmond are, flour 
4 $375 per barrel; potatoes $2.50(<33:60 per quart; 
^ water melons $10@25 each. Before the for.ces 
• of Grant had attained their firm position upon 
• the Weldon railroad, the price of flour was but 
5 $200 per barrel. Wheat bread, two or three 
ounce loaves, sold at $1.50 each, and bitter, 
raised with peach-leaf yeast, at that. 
A seamstress numed Townsend has been 
arrested in Philadelphia for stealing valuable 
articles from families who employed her in sew- 
, ing. A search of her room revealed the pres- 
L ence of live thousand dollars’ worth of stolen 
goods—clothing, jewelry, ornaments, silks, china 
and five hundred books—which she had pur- 
I loined during several years. 
i The National Convention of colored men, 
which was to assemble in New York, will be 
, held in Syracuse October 4th. The object ol 
the Convention is to deliberate upon the cou- 
; dition and prospects of the colored race, and 
the rneuns of advancing its interests, with 
> special reference to the wants of millions of 
. slaves, who are likely to become free in conse¬ 
quence of the war. 
Telegraph l!ii I Ilf Fn ^cncr— Charles K. Petrie. 
Washington Kt.tvi i Nurseries—Brown, Gra ver & Selo- 
ver. 
Choice fruit arul Ornamental Trees—F.d ward J. Evans 
& (o 
O. A. Walworth** American KurIwss Colleges. 
Fanikner Nurserk s John O Williams & Co. 
Wood Sawing Mn hlii's J. W. Mount, 
fruit Truer. in wLtlr. Roberts. 
Farm for Sale—.1. Uerhrrt, Foster. 
The American A utile Cutter—W. Williams. 
200,000 Apple and l’ear Trees—Cole & Wood. 
Wanted—A Farm, 
for Sale— E. IMllctt. 
®l)c Ncuis €oni>mscr. 
— Coal has fallen six dollars per tun in Chicago. 
— A National Sailor's Fair is to be held in New Eng¬ 
land. 
— A New York lady is the belle of Baden-Baden this 
summer. 
— Robert Bonner don't match his fast team with 
anybody. 
— More copper veins have been discovered in Hyde 
Park, Vt. 
— The Kearsargc is expected to arrive in New York 
in a few days. 
— The New York Printers' Union is said to be prac¬ 
tically defunct. 
— I. C. Seeh la the name upon the sign of a loyal tra¬ 
der in Pittshnrg. 
— A “ Wear-your last winter-overcoat club” has been 
formed in Boston. 
— A man in Maine has received a patent for clipping 
the hair of horses. 
— A Florida gallinule was shot on Lake Qoinscgain- 
ond, Mass., recently. 
— Minnesota raises nearly 3,000,000 bushels of wheat 
more this year than fast. 
— On the last Saturday of Jniy the temperature in 
Paris was 100* Fahrenheit 
— New IlnvcB, Conn., is building a $10,000 school- 
house for colored children. 
— Two more females in U. S. uniforms were arrested 
at Harper's Ferry last week. 
— A lady in Rhode Island lost two tumors lately, 
which weighed thirty ponnds. 
— Maryland farmers in the vicinity of Hagerstown 
are selling out and moving west 
— Oil Creek Valley, Pa , has yielded about $3,000,000 
per annum for the past four years. 
— New Hampshire newspapers have dwindled in 
number from forty to twenty nine. 
— A lynx was shot in Windham, Vt., recently, that 
had hilled more than a dozen sheep. 
— The White Mountains have been capped with snow 
ecveral times during the past fortnight 
— The members of the city government of Toronto, 
C. \V., have been on a visit to Boston. 
— Gen. Tom Thumb has sold his splendid establish¬ 
ment in Bridgeport, Conn., for $20,000. 
— A catholic priest and a Univcrsalist minister were 
drafted the other day at Middletown, Ct. 
— Chas. Mason of New Haven, Ct., sold a Merino 
buck at the State Fair, last week, for $3 000. 
— A newspaper correspondent is said to have made 
$100,000 this year from a leased cotton plantation. 
— Captain Moses Libby of Scarborough, Mass., vo 
ted for Gen. Washington fur President and is alive. 
— In 1843 one eighth of the whole population of Eng 
land were paupers, and so relieved by Government 
— Elizabeth H. Whittier, only sister of John G 
Whittier, died at A tneebury.MassncnscUs, on Saturday 
week. 
— Five hundred thousand lbs. of fleece wool offered 
at auction in N. Y. brought 12 per cent less than cm 
rent rates. 
— An English gentleman traveling in Cuba took some 
sketches of Moro Castle and was arrested and impris 
oned for it 
— Forty five years ago 1,000 bushels of potatoes were 
delivered at the State Prison in Concord, N. H., at ten 
cents a bushel. 
— Gen. Sherman is to receive a magnificent war 
borpe, named “ Bronze,” from his fellow townsmen of 
Lancaster, Ohio. 
— Two hundred and forty-three deserters from the 
rebel army took tbe oath ol amnesty at Louisville in 
one day recently. 
— The Sheen water House on Niagara river wa9 de 
strayed by fire lately. It was a favorito place of resort 
for BnfTiiloninn*. 
— The Russians have commenced a railway between 
Moscow and Sebastopol, which they hope to accom¬ 
plish in three years. 
— A cloud of winged ants, completely obscuring the 
rays of the atm during their progress, passed over a dis¬ 
trict of France lately. 
— The Cincinnati Gazette says there is as much coal 
in the hands of dealers in that city, as will supply de¬ 
mands until May, 1866. 
- A custom now prevails in Austria of fixing on 
tombstones, in a glazed frame, a photographic likeness 
of the person lying beneath. 
— The largest tannery in the U. 8. is being bnMt in 
Maine. The main building ta GOO feet long with wings 
some hundred feet in length. 
— Gen Dix is 88 years of age; Gen. Hunter 82; Mc- 
Clernand 47; Hooker 47; Sherman 41. Grant 42; Han 
cock 40; 8!gel -10; Slocum 37. 
— All the cotton mills on tbe Chestnut Hill stream 
tn Windham CO., Conn , have Btopped running on ac¬ 
count of the high rate of cotton. 
— The Suffolk corporation In Lowell fouud a loaded 
. percussion shell weighing 16 pounds a bale oi cotton, 
which they paid for at $ 1 50 per lb. 
— A little girl in Philadelphia lately burst into a fit 
’ of boisterous laughter at the success of a childish joke 
and died In half an hour of its effects. 
— Iron follows the lead of gold. The heavy iron 
deeJers at Albany and Troy have made a reduction of 
ten dollars per tun iu the price of iron. 
— The postage stamp system has been adopted in all 
parts of the world by ninety different kingdoms, states, 
i provinces, colonies, islands and free cities. 
■ — A person who was sent from St. Louis to Indian¬ 
apolis to identify Quantrell says the prisoner alleged to 
be that raft urn did not meet his description. 
' — Fifteen hundred dollars reward is ofibred for the 
detection of the murderer of Owen Thompson, the cftt ' 
* tie drover, killed at West Albany last week. 
— A locomotive, on a trial trip, passed on the 15th 
' lust from Spain Into France, across the mountains. 
More than 18 miles of tunnel had to be traversed. 
— A new telegraph cable has arrived at fortress 
Monroe front England. When it is laid communication 
between Washington and Grant’s army will be perfect 
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