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NEWS DEPA RTM E INI T- 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., NOVEMBER 26, 1864. 
The Army in Virginia 
The Herald dispatches of the 16 th from the 
Shenandoah Valley, give further particulars of 
the late pursuit of the rebels through and be¬ 
yond Front Royal by Powell's division of cav¬ 
alry, and an account of another cavalry victory 
over the enemy by C us tar and Merrit on the 
same day. 
Gen. Powell sent back from the Luray Valley, 
as the fruits of his chase of Early’s flying troop¬ 
ers, two pieces of artillery, 150 prisoners and a 
large quantity of ammunition. 
Cu&tar’s and Merritt's fighting consisted of 
several hours' skirmishing, the rebels being 
finally driven back in great confusion. While 
this cavalry shirmish was in progress. Early ad¬ 
vanced his infantry as far as Middletown, but 
immediately withdrew pn the defeat of his cav¬ 
alry and returned to Fisher’s Hill. The Union 
loss in this engagement was very small. 
Early’s infantry force Is ascertained to be a 
considerable one; but Sheridan’s men are in ex¬ 
cellent condition aud the best of spirits, and 
prepared for the rebels whenever they choose to 
come. 
During the present campaign in the Shenan¬ 
doah A'alley, the 18th Cavalry division, com¬ 
manded by Gen. Merritt, has captured fourteen 
battle flags, twenty-nine pieces of artillery, 
eighteen caissons, five hundred wagons and 
ambulances, two thousand prisoners of war, 
including one hundred and twenty-two commis¬ 
sioned officers. Since the 18th of May the com¬ 
mand has captured 10,000 prisoners. 
Fredericksburg has become so fur depopulated 
that it is estimated that not more than one 
house out of every ten is occupied. Fuel is so 
scarce that the inhabitants are pulling clown 
vacant houses, the market price of the article 
being $150 per cord. 
The Herald's Shenandoah correspondent of 
the lf'th, says the main portion of Early’s army 
was in the vicinity of AVoodstock, in a wretched 
condition and much discontented. When Early 
made his advance last Saturday, he thought 
Sheridan had been weakened ; but on learning 
his mistake, he heat a hasty retreat. Early’s 
retreat is regarded as an abandonment of the 
lower part of the A'alley. 
The Commercial's Washington special of 
the 18th, says Gen. Grant is expected in Wash¬ 
ington Monday, having been sent for to consult 
with the President. 
This fact, in connection with the war esti¬ 
mates being based on the large force and active 
operations, indicate that the Administration is 
determined to make the rebels feel the full 
weight of the sword. 
To those who are aware of what is going on 
at this moment in the prosecution of the war, it 
is not surprising that gold trembles. 
Instead of the campaign being ended, there 
has not been a time in six months when the 
Confederacy was in so much danger at different 
points as now. 
From the fact that officers and soldiers’ fur¬ 
loughs were expiring yesterday, it is thought 
that Grant contemplates another movement in a 
few days. 
It is certain he will make another effort before 
going into winter quarters, which, however, 
will depend on Sheridan’s movements. 
The Oonimo'daPs Washington special of Nov. 
19th, says advices from the Army of the Potomac 
say that the rebels yesterday refused to ex¬ 
change papers. This is regarded as indicating 
that Sherman lias accomplished something. 
The rebels have never suppressed news unfa¬ 
vorable to us. 
Movements in the West and South-W68t 
North-western Georgia.— Private re¬ 
liable news, dated Rome, Ga., 11th, says the 
destruction of manufactories, mills and other 
buildings of value to the enemy, wag commenced 
at half past 3 o'clock yesterday. The extensive 
Rolling Mills, stables and -.torehouses were de¬ 
stroyed by order of Gen. Corse. Some places of 
minor importance were fired by the soldiers. 
The number of private residences destroyed 
was very si nail, and these were accidental. The 
enemy attacked our pickets while we were 
engaged in the destruction, but were driven off. 
On Tuesday last, the outworks of Atlanta were 
aLtacked by 1,500 cavalrymen, who were beaten 
off with but little difficulty. 
An expedition was tent, out on the night of 
the 9th to capture the guerrillas who captured a 
squad of-Sherman’s headquarters’ guard. 
The expedition returned on the 19th with the 
Captain of the rebel squad a prisoner. 
A private in Gen. Sherman’s army writing to 
a friend recently, says every man had been sup¬ 
plied with two pairs of shoes, and that the gen¬ 
eral preparations were for a sixty day s’ campaign, 
but none of the men knew the destination of the 
army. 
The Commercial's correspondent says:—Sher¬ 
man has fooled the rebels by making them be¬ 
lieve that he is going to Mobile. There are in¬ 
dications that he has gone to Milieu, at the 
junction of the railroad leading from Augusta 
and Macon toward Savannah. 
A letter of the 10th to the Herald , mentions 
the arrival of an escaped Union prisoner from 
Andersonville, who continns the statement of 
rebel atrocities toward prisoners, and who also 
states that in traveling through Georgia he 
found that the harvests had been gathered, barns 
and warehouses filled, and but very few rebel 
soldiers were in the interior—showing that there 
is plenty to subsist an army upon while but 
little resistance can be offered. 
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The last train from Atlanta bound north was 
to leave Atlanta on the 11th. Tbe only troops 
in Atlanta on the 10th were Slocum's corps. A 
Chattanooga correspondent of the Herald, 
dated 5th inst., states that he had just arrived 
from Atlanta. The arsenals, foundries and roll¬ 
ing stock in Atlanta had been destroyed. All 
the factories, mills and foundries from Chatta¬ 
nooga to Atlanta, and several miles beyond, are 
destroyed. The railway was torn up and all 
the iron put beyond use or brought to the rear. 
Atlanta is no longer of military importance, 
and the country for miles around is wasted be¬ 
yond possibility of service to the rebel army. 
Atlanta is in ruins, and its streets will soon be 
overgrown with grass. For weeks, trains com¬ 
ing north have been filled with Government 
stores and refugees, and scenes at. the depot have 
been those of confusion and suffering. 
Another account says Sherman had his head¬ 
quarters at Kingston with the 14th corps. He 
had issued an order telling the troops they were 
about to pass through a country untouched by 
either army, and they were expected to subsist 
on the country, taking all horses and mules 
within their reach. 
Brig. Gen. Barry, Chief of Artillery of Major 
Gen. Sherman, arrived at Buffalo on the 39th, 
seriously ill from an attack of erysipelas. He 
left Gen. Sherman ot 9 o'clock on the morning 
of the 12th at Kingston, Ga. 
Gen. Barry says Gen. Sherman has every in¬ 
fantry, cavalry and artillery soldier that h§ 
wants. The men have all received eight months’ 
pay. Their outfit has been especially adapted 
to a hard and rapid winter's campaign, and the 
morale of the troops is unequaled. 
The genius and valor of Sherman will carry 
the army triumphantly through the work it has 
to do. 
On Monday night last, Booths entire force, in- 
incJuding Forrest's cavalry, were in the imme¬ 
diate neighborhood of Tuscumbia and Florence, 
Alabama, watched by a body of troops, under 
command of Maj. Gen. Geo. H. Thomas, of such 
strength as will render the invasion of Tennes¬ 
see an impossibility, and even tbe withdrawal 
of Hood for service elsewhere an operation of 
extreme delicacy. 
Letters dated the 17th, say that reports placed 
Beauregard, with a considerable rebel force, 
at Corinth. The rebel Captain Thompson was 
conscripting every man he could find around 
Germantown. 
There were about 4,000 rebels at Mount Pleas¬ 
ant, twelve miles from Colliersville. This is the 
only large body near Memphis. 
Chalmers and Longstreet are reported at Holly 
Springs. 
Tennessee.—A dispatch from Louisville of 
the 19th, says that very recently the rebel Gen. 
Breckinridge with 10,000 men, attacked General 
Gillen at Bull’s Clap, and after a desperate fight, 
defeated him. 
No fears of an invasion of Kentucky as con¬ 
sequent on this reverse are apprehended, as the 
military authorities are fully prepared to meet 
any advance of such a force into the State. 
The defeat of Gen. Gillen at Bull’s Gap is an¬ 
nounced in the Richmond Inquirer of the 16th, 
by an official dispatch from Lee. He says on 
the night of the 13th, Breckinridge arrived at 
Bull’s Gap, when the enemy attempted to re¬ 
treat. At 10 o’clock on the 14th, he struck their 
column and routed it, taking several hundred 
prisoners, ten stand of colors, six pieces of artil¬ 
lery with caissons and horses complete, fifty 
loaded wagons with teams, and ambulances 
with medical supplies. 
A telegram of the 20th, says that Gen. Gillen’s 
loss is 400 In killed, wounded and missing. 
Department of the South. 
We have advices from Port Royal to the 
10th inst.. per steamer Fulton. A fleet of 
Steamers from Fortress Monroe with 10,000 
rebel prisoners on board to be exchanged at 
Savannah, were at Hilton Head. Four or five 
deaths occurred among the prisoners daily—a 
small number compared with the mortality of 
the Union prisoners under the starvation pro¬ 
cess practiced by the rebels. 
The 7th was duly celebratd at Port Royal as 
the anniversary of the capture of the place by 
the Unionists. 
The World's Hilton Head correspondent says 
all the rebel prisoners taken down from Fortress 
Monroe were first to be transferred to the au¬ 
thorities at Savannah, which would be con¬ 
cluded by the 17th, when (Jol. Mulford was to 
commence receiving released Union prisoners, 
all about ten thousand. 
Many Union prisoners have been sent to 
Camp Lawton, near Savannah. 
The bombardment of Charleston and Fort 
Sumter is reported as being still continued with 
great steadiness and severity. 
A rebel arsenal near Charleston was burned 
recently. 
A letter to the N. Y. Herald, dated the 12th, 
states that a rebel steamer with 400 bales of 
cotton on board is blockaded up Shawnee river 
by our boats, and another up Crystal river. 
Department of tbe Gull 
Late New Orleans advices saythe rebels are 
building forts on both sides of tbe river above 
Alexandria Falls. 
Registered enemies sent out of the Union 
lines have been conscripted by the rebels. 
The rebels have Brownsville, and prohibit 
importations except corn, Hour and vegetables. 
There are 1,500 bales of rebel cotton there. 
Our returned prisoners say immense quantities 
of cotton pass Tyler for Brownsville und Shreve¬ 
port. 
Our Consul at Matamoras is still protected by 
a French guard. 
Over one hundred deserters from the rebel 
army came across the Rio Grande in one day. 
Gen. Bailey had made two very successful 
raids in "Western Florida. 
The N. A*. Commercial of the 10th, quotes 
from a private letter from an officer, which 
states that Gen. Canby was on his way to Little 
Rock, and while standing on the hurricane deck 
of a steamer was shot by a guerrilla in the left 
leg, near the thigh. 
The officer was standing at his side at the time, 
aud says the wound is an ugly one, from a rifled 
musket ball passing clean through the upper por¬ 
tion of his leg. It was hoped that he would 
soon be able to resume his duties. 
There was no election in Louisiana by the 
people, for Presidential Electors, on the 8th inst , 
but the Legislature in joint • session selected 
the delegates to the Electoral College to cast 
the vote of the State. 
A dispatch from Cairo of the 20th, says the 
clerk of the steamer Sticbuey from New Or¬ 
leans, on the evening of the 12tb. says he was told 
by the Quartermaster at New Orleans that 
General Canby died on that afternoon, and on 
the arrival of the steamer at Morgan/ia the 
latest telegram received there confirmed the 
statement. 
The transport California from Mobile Bay, the 
8th, has arrived. 
She left at Mobile Bay United States steam¬ 
ers Hartford, Richmond, Lackawana, Mo- 
nougahela, Kennebec, Metacomet and the moni¬ 
tors Chickasaw, Manhattan and Winnebago. 
Tbe tin-clad gunboat Rattler, was recently to 
be surrendered to the rebels by her commander 
on the Lower Mississippi. A writer in reference 
to the affairs, says my information is rather in¬ 
definite; but it is said that the commander had 
so disposed his men on the boat as to prevent 
resistance to her in the night, to which she was 
to be delivered; but the subordinate officers on 
board had their suspicions aroused and fired 
a revolver at the rebels and frightened them 
away. 
The affair was subsequently investigated, 
when it was discovered that the commander of 
the gunboat had already received two hundred 
thousand dollars, and other payments were to 
be made in cotton. 
The commander was arrested, but escaped 
and declared that he would command a priva¬ 
teer and give the Yankees h-11. 
The rebels intended to use the Rattler in cap¬ 
turing the gunboat Gen. Bragg. 
New Orleans papers of the 12th, confirm the 
above statement. 
The recent Treasury orders declaring New 
Orleans in an insurrectionary district? and pro¬ 
hibiting shipments of produce from its market, 
have been countermanded, and the commerce 
interdicted by those orders is again permitted. 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
The Commercial's AVashington special of the 
16th, says Gen. Butler had an interview with the 
President to-day, and it is already reported that 
he has been assigned to command an important 
expedition, and that he will not return to the 
Army of the James. His speech in New York 
is warmly commended. * 
The friends of Mr. Chase are working earn¬ 
estly to induce the President to make him Chief 
Justice. They also urge the retention of Mr. 
Stanton in the War Department. 
As there, has been disputes in the papers con¬ 
cerning the resignation of Gen. McClellan, we 
give the following, which sets the matter at 
rest; 
War Department, Washington, ) 
November 14, 1864. 5 
Ordered by the President, 
1. That the resignation of George B. McClel¬ 
lan as Major General in the United States Army, 
dated Nov. 6. and received by the Adjutant Gen¬ 
eral on tbe 10th inst., be accepted as'of tbe 8th 
of November. 
2. That for personal gallantry, military skill 
id just confidence in the courage and patriotism 
’ his troops displayed by Philip H. Sheridan 
1 the 19th of October at Cedar Run, whereby, 
ider the blessing of Providence, his routed 
my was recognized, and a great national dis- 
ter averted and a brilliant victory achieved 
, r er the rebels for the tbird time In pitched 
ittles within thirty days, Philip H. Sheridan is 
ipointed Major General in the United States 
rmy, to rank as such from the 8th day of No- 
:mber, 1864. 
By oitler of tbe President of the United 
E. D. Townsend, 
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Rear Admiral Stirling communicated to the 
Navy Department November 19, the particulars 
of the destruction of a valuable rebel fishery on 
Marsh Island, north of the Okaloma river. Flori¬ 
da, by an expedition lrorn the steamer Stars and 
Stripes, Oct. 19th. The fishery, whch was a 
large and valuable one to the Confederacy, was 
entirely destroyed and 16 prisoners captured, 
without any loss on our side. 
The following captures are reported to the 
Department: 
The English schooner Lucy, with an assorted 
cargo, by the United States schooner Sea Bird. 
The crew all escaped to the shore in a small 
boat, with the exception of one man, who 
was too drunk to move or say anything. She 
was from Babin, and cleared for Matamoras. 
Acting Vol. Lieut. Schmidt, commanding the 
United States steamer Nipa, reports the cap¬ 
ture of an unknown schooner on t he 21th of Oct. 
The crew also escaped to the shore in a small 
boat. Before leaving, they fired the schooner; 
but the flames were extinguished by a boat’s 
crew from tbe Nipa. 
A small sloop—no name—was captured Oct. 
24th by theU. S. sloop Rosalie. All the captured 
vessels are now attached to the Last Gulf Block¬ 
ading Squadron. 
Eleven or twelve of the officers of the pirate 
Florida have been brought from Point Look¬ 
out aud committed to the Old Capitol Prison. 
The Tribune special of the 21st, says Secreta¬ 
ries Seward and Welles are at variance concern¬ 
ing the capture of the Florida. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The United States Mint in Philadelphia has 
coined in the last four months about eighteen 
millions of the new copper cents and six million 
two cent pieces. 
The Government of Chili has acknowledged 
Spain and Peru as belligerents, and pro¬ 
claimed coal to be contraband of war, and not 
to be supplied to either of these nation's ves¬ 
sels. 
A woman was found dead in her bed re¬ 
cently, in Bordeaux, France, and physicians say 
that she died from the effects of the smell of 
quinces, a large basket of which was in the 
room. 
General Hooker has added an aphorism to 
literature. In one of his late orders he an¬ 
nounces that “No one will consider the day 
ended until the duties it brings have been dis¬ 
charged.’’ 
An excellent and not extensively known shell 
fish called scollops are caught on the Rhode 
Island coast in abundance this year, nearly 500 
bushels being caught dally inside of Warwick 
Creek Light. 
A farmer near Davenport, Iowa, has forty 
acres of onions which are estimated to yield 915 
bushels to the acre, or 36,GOO bushels in all. 
At $1.50 a bushel, this anti-scorbutic patch will 
bring $54,900. 
Col. James Redfield of Iowa, was killed 
in the last fight at Altoona Pass, Georgia. He 
was a native of Clyde, W T 3yne county, N. Y. 
graduated at Yale in 1846, and was an eloquent 
and brave man. 
The big white ox, weighing 3,600 pounds, 
given to President Lincoln, is now tranquilly 
chewing his cud in the vestibule of tbe Boston 
Theatre, and is to be the object of a raffle in aid 
of the Sailors’ Fair. 
The Canadian Custom House officers have 
received orders to make a careful search of all 
vessels which are about to sail for ports in the 
United States. Operations under the new rule 
have already commenced. 
The remains of five revolutionary soldiers 
were found while digging a cellar at Winter 
Hill, Mass., lately. Tbe remains were identi¬ 
fied by the colonial buttons, which were in a 
good state of preservation. 
A coiter statue of Buddha, seven feet in 
height, which was discovered while excavating 
for a railway in India, has jnst reached Birm¬ 
ingham, England. This statue is said by anti¬ 
quarians to be 2,500 years old. 
More than 75,000 trees, shrubs and herba¬ 
ceous plants were set out in the Central Park, 
New York city, the present year. The carriage 
drives, now compleeted, comprise a distance of 
eighty miles, the walks twenty miles. 
The St. Albans robbers are loud in boast¬ 
ing of their work, and threaten all sorts of 
retaliation in case any punishment, is inflicted. 
Their friends are trying to delay the decision 
until instructions can he got from Richmond. 
Mr. Wm. P. Wood, a famous detective em¬ 
ployed by the Treasury Department at Wash¬ 
ington, to hunt up counterfeiters, has just re¬ 
turned from the West, and reports the where¬ 
abouts of several gangs of thieves. Measures 
will at once be taken for their arrest. 
William Turner and his wife of NewPaltz, 
New York, went to find some hickory nuts one 
day last week, locking their three children up in 
the house. When they returned they found the 
house in ashes, and their children burned to 
death. The oldest child was about seven yews 
of age. 
The St. Paul gas company has notified its 
patrons that their works will be closed after 
Nov. 14th, they having been unable to secure a 
Bupply of coal, owing to the low stage of water 
in the Mississippi during the past season. 
The people are going back to burning tallow 
candles. 
At a recent State dinner at Copenhagen, a 
certain quantity of Queen Margaret’s vintage, 
four centuries old, was produced according to 
custom ou State occasions. It is stated that 
plenty of sugar is required to make it palatable: 
“even then,” adds a person who tasted the 
ancient drink, “ we only cared to do so for curi¬ 
osity’s sake.’’ 
A deputation from the Quakers of England 
who came to this country to attend the yearly 
meetings of Friends at Baltimore and North 
Carolina, were, upon application to the Presi¬ 
dent, furnished with passes through our lines 
for that purpose, but were refused admittance 
within the rebel lines, and have consequently 
returned to Baltimore. 
Forty"SEVEN vessels are now on the way to 
England from the East Indies, with cargoes of 
cotton ranging from 1,800 to 7,000 bales each. 
The aggregate amount is no less than 221,80-1 
bales. All these vessels are at sea, and their ar¬ 
rival at Liverpool at different periods will keep 
the cotton mills in operation for a considerable 
part of the coming winter. 
Recently in New Orleans, a man, to all ap¬ 
pearance dead, was sent to an embalmer’s. The 
cmbalmer made the usual incisions, when, to 
his astonishment, the blood began to flow, 
and in a few moments the supposed corpse 
gave unmistakable signs of life. The subject is 
now doing well, and has not the remotest notion 
of being embalmed at present. 
Apart from the rebel announcement that 
Hood is marching on Chattanooga, the last 
authentic intelligence received is that he had 
passed the Tennessee, but had not crossed the 
Coosa; and even if be bas done so, he will proba¬ 
bly And Gen. Thomas’ or some other army in 
his front. At all events, he will find sufficient 
force to prevent him makiDg Injurious pro¬ 
gress. 
Id** ot New Advertisements. 
The Lady’s Friend— Deacon A Peterson. 
■‘Every Roy should Own and Read a Life of their Presi¬ 
dent"-Walker, wise & co. 
Pine Apple Cider—It. T. Babbitt. 
Senator Wilson's New Book—Walker, Wise A Co. 
Urear Prize Distribution-T. Inman A Co. 
Great C lianoe to Make Money— U. r. Haskins & Co. 
Wanted—Shaw A 1 lark. 
Stolen M. It. fioodwl i. 
Farm Wanted—Ceo. Lambert. 
A Small Farm 'Wanted—G. Wlnjr. 
S75 A Month—XK B. Herrlnton a Co. 
Ventriloquism- Julius Rising. 
dF.BCIAL NOTICES. 
Atlantic Monthly—Ttcknor M Fields. 
Economical Housekeepers—James PvlC. 
Good Reading, Very Cheap— D. D. T’. Moore. 
®!)C Nclus €oni»emict. 
— Lord Lyons is rapidly convalescing. 
— Gen. Butler has gone to the front again. 
— The new Atlantic cable ia to cost £700,000. 
— The capitol of Arizona is built of hewn logs. 
— A son of Pierre Sonic has gone into the rebel 
army. 
— The fashionable colors for the winter are to be red 
and yellow. 
— The dry dock at Cairo was swept away recently. 
Loss $50,000 
— The receipts at the Sailors’ Fair in Boston thus far 
foot np $118,000. 
— London Is now connected with Jerusalem and Si- 
don by telegraph- 
— John Leach, the artist and illustrator of the Lon¬ 
don Punch is dead. 
— Lord Palmerston completed his eightieth year on 
the 20th of October. 
— The Denver City News reports tremendous snow 
storms on the plains. 
— There are now organized no less than 290 different 
petrolenm companies. 
— A project is on foot for a million Irishmen to go to 
Spain and settle there. 
— A seal weighing 175 pounds was caught in a net 
last week at Yarmouth, Mass. 
— There have been 197,770 Ohio soldiers disabled in 
the U. S. service during the war. 
— The extension or the capitol at Washington will 
be completed the Fourth of March. 
— A recent sale of oil lands has been made in West 
Virginia, for the pum of $1,365,000. 
— France has sent out an expedition to explore the 
mountain ridges of Lower California. 
— It has been decided in court that hiring a horse on 
Sunday is illegal, aud UuU liverymen cannot collect 
damages to their rigs done on that day. 
— The Poles in the Russian army are plotting for the 
overthrow of tbe Russian rule in Poland. 
— $250,000 worth of watch springs may be prodneed 
from a bar of iron originally valued at $5. 
— It has been judicially decided in San Francisco 
that a colored person may ride in the city cars. 
— Doctor Collins of Chicago has lost seventy male 
relatives during this war in battle and in camp. 
— The population of San Francisco is 120,000. In 
Sept, 18-18, the number of inhabitants was 450. 
— The Danish Government, it is said, is anxious to 
sell Its West India possessions to the United Stales. 
— J. W. Marshall, the discoverer of gold in Califor¬ 
nia, still lives at Coloma, a poor but respectable citi¬ 
zen. 
— There are now' about 115,000 miles of railway in 
the world. These have consumed 40,000,000 tuns of 
iron. 
— Ten Broeck, the great American horse jockey in 
England, is going to sell off his horses at auction and 
retire. 
— A blockade runner, called the Let her-rip, has 
been recently captured, with 600 bales of cotton on 
board. 
— In a recent Republican procession at Schaum¬ 
burg, near Chicago, 111., were fifty wagons loaded with 
ladies- 
— Phil- Sheridan has been made Major General in 
the regular army, in place of Geo. B. McClellan, re¬ 
signed. 
— A transport arrived in New York last week with 
1,000 French troops, on tbeir return from Mexico to 
France. 
— The St. Joseph, Mo., papers say that the streets 
of that town are filled with women with cigars in their 
months. 
— The famous Flora Temple was sold in Baltimore 
cm Tuesday week for $8,000, G. J. Presbury being the 
purchaser. 
— The Oregon Indians have ceded to the United 
States twenty-five square miles of torritory, says the 
Boston Post. 
— Mr. C. S. Fuller of Jeffersonville, N- Y., was swin¬ 
dled out of $200 by a confidence man in Chicago on 
Tuesday week. 
— A woman in Canada has had and nsed for thirty 
years one paper of pins, and has lost but one or two 
during the time. 
— Wisconsin is said to be the sportsman’s paradise 
now, as there are lots of fat ducks and partridges run¬ 
ning about loose. 
— A restaurant bas been opened in London for fat 
people, where nothing will be served up but viands 
which check obesity. 
— A veritable sea serpent has been captured at Fair 
Haven, Mas#., which weighed four bnndred pounds and 
was thirteen feet long. 
— A woman In Franklin county, Mo., raised a half 
acre of tobacco this year, doing all the work herself, 
and cleared $ 600 by it. 
— There is now In the military prison of Knoxville, 
Tenn., n grandson of Henry Clay, who was one of the 
rebel Gen. Morgan s start'. 
— Gen. Wallace has sent three Baltimore sharpers to 
work on tho fortifications near that city, for swindling 
soldiers out of their money. 
— Since: the beginning of tbe last Shenandoah Valley 
campaign five of Gen. Sheridan’s stall officers have 
been either killed or wounded. 
— A woman has just been convicted in the Chicago 
police court of the aw ful crime of debasing her little 
daughter, aged 9 years, for money. 
— The Brazil Mail states that many wealthy South¬ 
ern slaveholders have already landed as emigrant plant¬ 
ers In the South American republics. 
— After tbe raid on St. Albans, Vt. , an old gentleman 
got a rifle-shot at the party as they were leaving, and 
brought down a hat containing $1,10(1. 
— In Willmantlc, Ct., recently, a man was buried 
alive by the caving In ol a gravel bank near which he 
was at work. He was taken out dead. 
