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NEWS DEPARTMENT. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., NOVEMBER 19. 1864 
NATIONAL THANKSGIVING. 
By the President of the United States of America. 
A PROCLAMATION. 
IT lias pleased Almighty God to prolong our 
national life another year, defending us with 
His guardian care -gainst unfriendly designs 
from abroad, aud vouchsafing to us iuHie mercy 
many and signal victories o\' r the enc- . y, who 
is of our own household. It has also pleased 
our Heavenly Father to favor as well our citi¬ 
zens in their homes as our soldiers in their camps, 
and o ir sailors on the rivers and seas, with un¬ 
usual health. He has largely augmented our 
free population by emancipation and by our im¬ 
migration, while lie has opened to us now sour¬ 
ces of wealth, und has crowned the labor of our 
woi kins; men in every department of industry 
with abundant reward. Moreover He has been 
pleased to animate and inspire our minds and 
hearts with fortitude, courage and resolution 
sufficient for the great trial of civil w r into 
which wo have been hr tight, by our adherence 
as a nation to the cause of freedom and hu¬ 
manity, and to afford to us reasonable hopes of 
an ultimate and happy deliverance from all our 
dangers and afflictions. 
Now, therefore. J. Abraham Lincoln, Presi¬ 
dent of the United States, do hereby appoint and 
set apart the last Thursday iu No vet her next 
as a day vhich I desire to be observed by ail 
my fellow-citizens wherever the} may then be, 
as a day of thunksriving and prayer to Al¬ 
mighty God. the bench cut creator and ruler 
of the universe: and I do further lecommend 
to my fellow citizens aforesaid that on that oc- 
c eion they do reverently humble themselves 
in the dust, and from thence offer up i ent- 
Usnt and fervent prayers amt supplications To 
the Great Disposer of Events tor a return of 
the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and 
harmony throughout, the raid, which it has 
pleased Him to assign as a dwelling place for 
ourselves aud our posterity throughout all gen¬ 
erations. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 
hand and caused the seal of the United States 
to be affixed. 
Done at the city of Washington, this 20tb 
day of Oct ber, in the year of our Lord, 1864, 
and of the independence of the United States 
the eighty-ninth. Abraham Lincoln. 
By the President. 
• Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State. 
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. 
There have been twenty Presidential 
elections (including the one held on the 8th 
inst.) since the Federal Government was inau¬ 
gurated under the present Constitution. The 
people have made choiee of eighteen Presi¬ 
dents and the House of Representatives two. 
The 4th of March is the day designated by law 
for each newly elected President to enter upon 
hisdutics, though there have beentwoexceptions 
to this rule. Gen. WashINGTON took the Cliair 
of State (first term) on the 80th of April, 1789, 
(no quorum of Congress having assembled at an 
earlier day to canvass the Electoral votes,) and 
Gen. Taylor on the 5th of March, 1849, (the 
4th being Sunday.) 
The first election by the Home took place in 
1801—' Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr 
having each 73 Electoral votes. On the 3Gth 
ballot the House made choice of Mr. Jeffer¬ 
son by the vote of nine of the sixteen States— 
each State having one vote. Mr. Burr became 
Vice President— he being entitled to that office 
in consequence ol his having the highest num¬ 
ber of Electoral votes after the choice of Presi¬ 
dent was made. The Constitution made it the 
duty of each Presidential Elector to vote for 
two persons for President — designating no one 
for Vice President. A person then as now, to 
be elected by the people, was required to have 
a majority of all the Electoral votes. If no 
one had a majority the House was to choose 
the President from the five persons hav¬ 
ing the highest number of Electoral votes. Pro¬ 
vided two or more persons had an equal number 
of votes, and those votes the highest on the list, 
(as in the case of Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Burr,) 
the choice had to be made from them. The 
Constitution was amended the same year 
(1801) so that Electors were required to vote 
for Vice President at the same time they voted 
for President, and make distinct returns of the 
result for each. 
The second President elected by the House 
was JonN Quincy Adams in 1826. There 
were then twenty-four States. .Mr, Adams 
had thirteen States, (votes,) Gen. Jackson seven 
and Wm. H. Crawford four. 
After the people have voted for Presidential 
Electors, us on the 8th lust,, (each State being 
entitled to as many Electors as they have Sena¬ 
tors and Representatives La Congress,) consid¬ 
erable formality is required by law before the 
election of President is perfected. 
For a number of terms, (four years,) all the 
States, (except South Carolina, which elected 
its Electors by the Legislature,) have made 
choice ol their Electors by general ticket, each 
voter having on his ballot the whole number 
his State is entitled to, — ail the Electors, 
therefore, elected in a whole State, are of the 
same political stripe. Thus New York has 
thirty-three votes, and they must be all Demo¬ 
cratic or Republican—ouch Elector of the re¬ 
spective parties generally receiving the same 
number of votes. The election by the people 
must take place on the same day throughout 
the Union. The Territories and the District of 
Columbia have no voice in the election of 
President. 
The Electois meet at the State Capitals in 
their respective States cm the first Tuesday in 
December, (succeeding th>ir > lection,) organize, 
fill vacancies, if any, and adjourn till the next 
day. [AH may be assured that when au Elec¬ 
toral College, as they are called, till vacancies, 
the appointees will harmonize in politics with the 
appointing power.] When they again meet, 
they vote by ballot lor President and Vice Presi¬ 
dent, make three certified copies of the result, 
sign and seal them, and direct two of them to 
the President of the United States Senate at the 
Seat of Government. One of these lists they 
send by mail, and one by a messenger whom 
they appoint. The third list or certificate they 
deposit with the United States District Judge of 
the district in which they assemble. The pay 
of an Elector is eight dollars per day, and forty 
cents per mile traveling fees to and from the 
State Capital. 
On the second Wednesday in February fol¬ 
lowing, the two Houses of Congress meet in 
Joint-Session nr >< National Board of Cauvassers, 
the President of the Senate presiding. The 
President of the Senate opens the certificates, 
the returns are canvassed, and the result de¬ 
clared. 
In case more than two persons have been 
voted for by the Electors, and no person has a 
majority of all the votes cast, the House must 
make choice of the President from the three 
having the highest number of Electoral votes. 
The Senate elects the Y'iee President from the 
two having the highest number of Electoral 
votes, provided no one has a majority. The 
Senate made choice of the Vice President in 
1837. The choice was made between Richard 
M. Johnson and Francis Granges —Col. 
Johnson received 33 votes to Granger 16. 
We have received sufficient returns of the 
late Presidential election to warrant us in giv¬ 
ing the following, which bhows Abraham 
Lincoln to be re-elected President of the 
United States lor four years from the fourth 
day of March next, and likewise the election 
of Andrew Johnson to the second office in 
the gift of the American People: 
State. 
California. 
Connecticut.No. 
Delaware.. 
Illinois. 
Lincoln. McClellan. 
. 5 — 
votes. 6 — 
.— 8 
_ 16 — 
Indiana'. 
. 13 
— 
Iowa. 
. 8 
— 
Kansas. 
. 3 
— 
Kentucky.. 
.— 
11 
Maine.. 
. 7 
— 
Maryland. 
. 7 
— 
Massachusetts. 
. 12 
— 
Michigan.. 
.8 
— 
Minnesota. 
. 4 
— 
Missouri. 
. 11 
— 
New Hampshire. 
. 5 
— 
New Jersey. 
.— 
7 
New York. 
. 33 
— 
Nevada..,. 
. 3 
— 
Ohio _ 
21 
Oregon.. 
. 8 
_ 
Pennsylvania. 
. 26 
— 
Rhode Island. 
. 4 
— 
Vermont. 
. 5 
— 
West Virginia ....... 
. 5 
— 
Wisconsin .. 
. 8 
— 
Total . 
. 213 
21 
There are 234 Electoral votes 
in the twenty- 
five loyal States of the Union. 
Necessary to a 
choice, 11S. 
The majority on the. popular vote for Presi¬ 
dent Lincoln, according to the figuring of tlio 
Albany Evenin') Journal of the 14th, is three 
hundred and forty-three thousand five hundred. 
Movements at the West and South-west. 
Arkansas.—W e hear from Little Rock 
that Capt. White of Steele’s army un the 23d 
alt., after a hard fight of four hour?, captured an 
entire rebel train of 20 wagons with 200 horses 
and Sl.lGO iu money, and scattered to the moun¬ 
tains the guard accompanying it. They had 
probably been sent ahead of the main portion of 
the retreating army by Price with the design 
of saving it. 
From a dispatch from Fort Smith of Nov. 11, 
we learn that Gc-n. Price turned westward from 
Cane Hill on the 4th. On the Ctb, General 
Thayer moved a force up the north side of the 
river from Fort Smith for the purpose or attack¬ 
ing Price, but fearing that Gen. Cooper would 
move towaid Fort Smith with a rebel force of 
7,000 men, he thought it best to return there. 
Gen. Thayer is able, it is said, to hold the fort 
against both rebel Generals combined. 
Tennessee.— A dispatch to the N. Y. Times 
of Nov. 10, gays Gen. Gillctt has utterly routed 
the enemy in East Tennessee, driving them in 
great conl'usiou forty-four miles. His advance 
is ninety miles cast of Knoxville. 
Missouri.—A rebsl Major (Wolf) had been 
ordered to be shot at St, Louis in retaliation for 
the murder of Major Wilson, but the Presi¬ 
dent had ordered a suspension of the sentence 
for the present time. 
North-western Georgia. — The news 
from General Sherman’s army, (says a dispatch 
from St. Louis of Nov. 10,) is highly important 
and most favorable, bat as yet it would be un¬ 
wise to give it to the public. Everything is 
working in the right direction to give success 
to the Union arms. 
The rebels had made several attacks on At¬ 
lanta during the past week, throwing shells 
into the town. Their artillery as well as their 
infantry, advanced to within from one to two 
hundred yards of our works. They were re¬ 
pulsed as often as they made the attack. 
Finding themselves unequal to the task of 
subduing Atlanta, the enemy took their back 
track toward Macon. 
Macomb then landed about 100 men from his 
ships, In charge of Lieut. Dewar and Paymaster 
Sands, and they immediately charged upon Fort 
Bateman and carried it, capturing about forty 
prisoners. 
The rebels finding things rather severe, evac¬ 
uated the town immediately. 
We captured forty pieces of heavy, and twelve 
pieces of light artillery, together with a large, 
quantity of small arms. The road leading out 
of Plymouth, as far as wo havo been, was strewn 
with muskets, haversacks, Ac., showing that 
the rebels had made a complete stampede. The 
whole garrison did not have stores enough to last 
them twenty-four hours. ^ 
In the eug3gement, one of the rebel magazines 
was blown up by our guns, and its explosion set 
fire to the town. AU the buildings on Water 
street were destroyed. 
The town is now held by our gunboats and 
a small land force commanded by Colonel War- 
drop. 
The Army in Virginia- 
There is but little news from the Army 
of the Potomac. On the night of the 9th the 
enemy made some demonstrations in front of our 
lines near Fort Steadman, when the guns of the 
fort opened fire, which sent them to their works 
for shelter. The rebel batteries replied briskly 
for a time, but were soon silenced by our shells. 
A force of 150 rebels shortly after, had an en¬ 
counter with our pickets, but were driven back. 
The pickets in front of the 2d corps were en¬ 
gaged with the rebel pickets most of the night 
of the 10th, doing each other but slight injury. 
Gen. Sheridan has been trying to bring the 
rebels to a general engagement in the Shenan¬ 
doah Valley, but was unsuccessful. On the 
11th and 12th, cavalry fights took place, in 
which the enemy were severely handled. 
Department of the Gull 
The Herald's New Orleans correspondent 
of a late date says our gunboats were watching 
at the mouth of the Red liver for three formida¬ 
ble rebel rams which were expected to come 
down as soon as the water would rise suffi¬ 
ciently. 
Jeff. Davis’ currency has been almost entirely 
set aside by the rebels of Texas, only gold and 
silver beffig accepted. 
Some of the people of New Orleans had pro¬ 
tested to Gen. HurlOurt against their enroll¬ 
ment for duty as soldiers. 
Torpedoes have been placed in the Mississippi 
river, along the Louisiana shore, by the rebels, 
but they will soon be removed. 
From Mobile there is little news. Our gun¬ 
boat- make experiments in sin Hing the city 
three hours a day. 
ANARCHY IN LOUISIANA. 
We give the following rsad picture of affairs 
in Louisiana from the Louisiana Democrat, a 
rebel journal, of a late date: 
The condition of affairs, of what was once 
the State of Louisiana, is becoming really alarm¬ 
ing. The iong-dread winter at hand, the town 
and country filled with a population whose pros¬ 
pects for a subsistence at best were precarious, 
but rendered doubly so now by the action of 
the government; hundreds of families, many of 
those of soldiers, whose only means of living 
is the little store of Confederate money they, by 
most pinching economy, had managed to save, 
is rendered worthless by the neglect of the 
government in not providing the necessary fa¬ 
cilities to enable them to exchange the old issue 
for the new. None oj the absolute necessaries of 
life can be purchased with the old issue; and 
the people have none of the new or any way of 
procuring it. The depaitnents here are refut¬ 
ing it even at the discount made by Congress. 
As for the .State issue, that levs all disappeared 
through the energetic, well meant and laudable 
zeal of the Governor, whose honest anxiety for 
the credit of the State is withdrawing it from 
circulation. And as a last feather :ulf*d to a 
camel’s back, comes an official notification mat 
from the 1st of December next the citizens 
must make the requisite arrangmentstoprovkU 
themselves with beef. Now, wc would ask, in 
the name of common seuse, how is it to he done ? 
We can not purchase it in Texas with Confeder¬ 
ate money, aud certainly wc have none else. 
Again, no wood lor fuel can be bud, though tim¬ 
ber is plentiful at hand; no labor, no axes, no 
transportation! Doubtless there are a lew 
among US who will be enabled to pass through 
the winter without much actual suffering, but 
the majority , the mass of the people, must and 
will be upon the verge of starvation and freezing 
long before spring. 
Again, thieving, plundering, pilfering and 
horse stealing seems to be the order of the day; 
uot a night passes but some poor unfortunate 
has his horse stolen, or a house Is entered and 
robbed. If matters arc suffered to go on os 
they now arc, it will not be long before men 
will be knocked down in the streets iu broad 
daylight and robbed. Misrule appears to be in 
the ascendant, and runs riot night and day. Is 
there no remedy 't Can not some one interpose 
and check it? 
God help the people, for they are certainly as 
patient as they are unfortunate!. 
Department of the 8outh. 
Plymouth (N. 0.) lias been captured by 
our Navy, under command of Com. Macomb. 
The account says:—On Sunday, the 30th ult., 
the fleet proceeded to theItoanoke river, through 
Middle river, above the town, aud shelled Ply¬ 
mouth with Idling effect. 
On Monday morning, Com. Macomb steamed 
down the river, followed by his fleet, and 
while passing opposite the town, he gave Hie 
rebels shell, grape and cannister to t heir heart’s 
content. 
The Election in New York.— For some 
days both parties claimed the State, but it is 
now conceded by the Democrats to have goue 
Republican by from 3,000 to 1,000 majority.— 
The Albany Evening Journal's footing of re¬ 
turns on Monday, (the 14th,) shows that the 
Republican Electoral ticket is successlul by a 
majority of 7,822. The is int o Republican ticket 
is elected, it is claimed, by about the same ma¬ 
jority. Governor Seymour will, therefore, 
on the lirbt day of next January, transfer the 
a 
Executive branch of the State Government into 
the keeping of Governor Reuben E. Fenton. 
The Assembly will be composed, as the Tri¬ 
bune asserts, ol 78 Republicans to 50 Democrats. 
Of 31 Representatives to Congress, t.he Re¬ 
publicans claim to have elected 20 —a gain of 
six members. 
The Next Congress, — According to the 
figuring of politicians, the House of Representa¬ 
tives in the next Congress, (the 39th,) will con¬ 
sist of 140 Republicans anti 4-1 Democrats —a 
Republican majority of two-thirds. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
An establishment for the manufacture of 
locomotives is just starting in Troy, New 
York. It is a new branch of industry in that 
city. 
A young man belonging to Andover, Maine, 
by the name of Poor, walked forty-two miles 
to cast his first ballot in the late election iu that 
State. 
The Iona grape, which recently received the 
prize offered by Horace Greely, is attracting 
gicat attention, aud is likely to be generally 
adopted by grape-growers. 
A grand stag-hunt was arranged for the 
Prince of Wales in Denmark. After riding all 
day, His Royal Highness was just in time to 
see another man kill the stag. 
A flour dealer iu Boston purchased $75,000 
worth of flour at St. Louis about a month ago, 
and will lose $20,000 on it. Another Boston 
firm has lost $30,000 In western Hour. 
Two brothers named Heinbach of Water¬ 
ford, went to bed in a Milwaukee holel after 
blowing out the gaslight! In the morning one 
was found dead and the other .nearly so. 
Every man who is put into the service at 
Concord, N. II., has his photograph taken. 
On the back ot it is placed his descriptive list, 
aud it is then filed away for future reference. 
According to the Richmond Examiner, the 
last gits litter was conscripted the other day 
He made an effort to get. into tho Union lines, 
but was captured and sent to Castle Thunder. 
List of New Advertisements. 
The Universal Clothes Wringer—Julius Ives & Co. 
Groat Anrttmi (Sale of Iona and Israella Grape-Vines— 
V, W. Grant. 
The Kventni' Post—Wm. c. Bryant Co. 
Tli ■ Pat. nt" Blur" No- 1 hluiut-y Burner—F.Essisr&Oo. 
SS2 a Torin -.loll ii P. Griffin. 
For Bale—James Baldwin. 
$10 to *20 Per Day G . tea A Co. 
AVauted—A Farm. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Atlantic Monthly—Tieknor A Fields. 
®I)C News dnu&enaer. 
— Nevada is the thirty-fifth State. 
— Gen. Logan Is only SI years of age. 
— There arc <50,000 spliitunllsta in Paris. 
— A first-class locomotive now costs $25,000. 
— There are six Jews In tho English Parliament 
— A rag-gatherer’s ball was recently held in Toronto. 
— The rebel Congress convened at Richmond the 1th 
Inst. 
— California will make 1,500,<00 gallons of Wine this 
year. 
— The New York banks now hold about 25,000,000 
in gold. 
— The names of 190 ot the streets of Paris are to be 
changed. 
— Tho King of Oude, India, possesses a fortune of 
£5,000,000. 
— A hat of the genus “ stove pipe,” is worth $175 in 
Richmond. 
— It is proposed to establish a Newsboy’s Home in 
Pittsburg, Pa 
— A large number of Poles will, it is eaid, join Max- 
milian’s army. • 
— Late Paris fashions represent the ladies wearing 
coat-tatls a yard long. 
— Five noble elks havo just been added tothe attrac¬ 
tions of Central Park. 
— Rear Admiral 8. F. Dnpont is spending a brief 
vacation in New York. 
— Gen. Ilnrlburt has ordered the gambling houses m 
New Orleans to be closed. 
— Green, Die Malden Hank murderer, Is to be hung 
on iho 12th or January next. 
— The list of suicides at the German gambling hells 
is this year higher than ever, 
— Tho Charleston Courier claims that Gen. McClellan 
was bora in South Carolina. 
Leading New York grocers and capitalists 
have formed a company with a million and a 
half, to manufacture sugar from beets and sor¬ 
ghum, They have got lands in Dlinois to grow 
the material. 
Rev. JOHN W. Ciiickeking, D. D., pastor 
of the High Street Church, at Portland, Maine, 
for thirty years, having resigned, his congrega¬ 
tion have made him the generous gift of $10,000 
invested in good securities. 
The oeclectmen of Wells, Mo., have been 
flued $6 each and costs, because they refused to 
let a colored man vote. Tile defense was that 
a colored man was not a citizen of tho United 
States under the Drcd Scott decision. 
The wealthiestof the English nabobs are the 
Duke of Cleveland, the Duke of Sutherland, 
the Marquis of Westminster and the Earl of 
Dudley, neither of whose income is lees than 
£200,000 ft year, while some exceed it by one 
half. 
There is at St. Etienne, in France, a young 
lady, eighteen years of age, affected wilh a rare, 
though not unparalleled infirmity. She is una¬ 
ble to see while the sun is above the horizon, 
but sees perfectly well at night and in complete 
darkness. 
The United States haye one square mile of 
coal field to every fifteen square miles of terri¬ 
tory ; Great Britain, one to every thirty miles of 
surface; Belgium one to every thirty-two and 
a half, and France one to every two hundred 
miles of surface. 
There are two Irishmen at Bangor, Me., 
who receive annually between $20,000 and $30,- 
000 each iu gold, as dividends of the product of 
a mine in which they are interested in Califor¬ 
nia, and in which for a time they wrought with 
their own hands. 
A novel wedding recently took place at Sher¬ 
wood, Illinois. The ceremoney was performed 
in front of the officiating clergyman’s residence, 
the entire bridal party being on horseback, and 
Mro bride and three bridesmaids being dressed 
ifi trooper costume. 
The Department of Agriculture at Washing¬ 
ton, has redyed t wo hundred and fifty bushels 
of Mediterr&nt/in wheat, which they are now 
prepared to send vit in moderate quantities, to 
farmers or planters, wv, 0 m£ , y ftpp | y for tbe saJne 
by person or letter. 
'lliE wife ol Warren Tow or, of Greenfield, 
Mass., went to sleep on Friday u^ht, the 21st 
ult., and has not. waked since. PhysiG. ans wbo 
have visited her cannot account for the di» flMe 
and they are unable to wake her. A litiv. 
nourishment is forced into her mouth and her life 
prolonged. 
A Mobile letter to a Richmond paper says: 
‘‘A wagon load of oysters made their appear¬ 
ance on Royal street the other day, having 
been hauled thirty miles. Their npitearanee 
was highly welcomed by many bon vlvants , 
who wore selfish enough to enjoy a dozen in the 
shell ” at five dollars.” 
A drover in Cincinnati dropped a roll of 
greenbacks, containing $4(K), a fow days ago, 
wlieli a cow in his drove picked up and swal¬ 
lowed. The unimal was Immediitcly killed, the 
bills takeu from her stomach anl cleaned, but 
three hundred and fourteen dollars or tho mon¬ 
ey was found to be destroyed. 
President Gkffraud of Day it hns issued 
a proclamation, in which he annountes that tho 
insurrection is now completely qieiicd and 
order restored. Tho death senteneo parsed on 
those convicted of treason in the (jape Ilay- 
tien rebellion of July last, has been commuted. 
The condition of the Republic is favoiuble. 
— There is a line yeld of tohacco this year in Ohio— 
1,500 to 2,«K> pounds to the acre. 
— Brigham Young has a large cotton factory sup- 
plied wilh cotton grown in Utah. 
- The baby owned by the Prince and Princess or 
Wales is having Its portrait painted. 
- A lady in Taunton, Musa, recently applied to a 
grocer for a pound of ohlong tea. 
— A man in Massachusetts recently, while plowing, 
turned up n nest of 59 black snakes. 
— Murders arc becoming so common at Chicago that 
the papers scarcely notice them now. 
The \ alley of the Mississippi is the largest in the 
world. It contains 500,000 square miles. 
1 here arc no less than three one-legged dancers 
performing in the dancing saloon at Hamburg. 
— Three Marlboro men recently went hunting in 
Northern New York, and slnyed thirteen deer. 
— A petroleum spring has recently been discovered 
about. 17 miles from Austin, Nevada Territory. 
— The Princess Royal of Prussia, Queen Victoria’s 
eldest daughter, has jasl given birth to another son. 
— A Boston paper says there are now 165 suits for 
divorce on the dockets of tbe Supreme Court in that 
city. 
— A large sale of prize cotton took place in Boston 
last week. The price ranging from $1.10 to $1.20 per 
pound. 
— A female canary bird in Springfield, Mass., has 
laid forty one eggs, and raised fourteen singers this 
season. 
— They are going to introduce the Mexican firefly as 
an illuminating ornament for ladies’ head-dresses in the 
evening. 
— The Surgeon Dentists in Boston are going to form 
a Protective Union. Their motto will be— 11 Let us pull 
together. 
— Major-Gen. George H. Thomas had not seen his 
wire lor three years till he met her recently in Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn. 
— The records of the Patent Office for the past three 
months show that during that time 1,068 patents had 
been issned. 
— The fish oil of the Eastern fiisheries which sold 
for nine dollars a barrel a few years ago, now brings 
forty dollars. 
— Several religious sects in Turkey are debating 
whether tt Is sinful to take portraits by the process or 
photography. 
— Tho heaviest fall of snow that ever visited St. 
Louis occurred Thursday week. It fell to the depth 
of six Inches. 
— Besides a thousand barrels of apples, the New 
Yorkers are going to send Grant’s army 50,000 turkeys 
for Thanksgiving. 
— In Amherst, Mass., they report a wild man of the 
woods, who amuses himself by setting fire to all the 
barns ho can get at. 
— Macaulay got the biggest sum ever paid to an 
author, Ylz: $100,000 for hiB 3d and 4th volumes of the 
llistory of England. 
— The Savannah Republican says the losses during 
the bombardment of Atlanta will reach $5,000,000 
worth ot real estate. 
— Mr. ILudlrgo who lately married Miss Belle Boyd 
lias signified lit* Intention of running his wedding cake 
through the blockade. 
— A man n England recently stated that his wife 
had consumed onu hundred pounds ol opium since 
they had been married. 
— There is said to be in tho United States 50,000 
heathen. IdoJ gods are worshipped in two heathen 
temples in San Francisco. 
— It is said five wild cats were seen in the west part 
ofWhately, Muss , lately, at one time, feeding upon 
I he carcass of a dead cow. 
— A Young lady, a refugee from the South, and a 
ward of Gen. Joe Johnston, Is attending school ut the 
academy in WUbrabain, Mass. 
— A purty who was refused lodging at the White 
Mountain House while there were empty rooms there, 
is going to law to test the question. 
— home New Yorkers arc moving to send a thousand ‘yi 
barrels of apples to our soldiers in the army of flit; d 
Potomac for thanksgiving purposes. S 
