NEWS DEPAI t r r M ENT. 
ROCHESTER, N. T., JANUARY 7, 1865. 
NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
“ God bless the old flag! ab He ever has done 
Since He strengthened the arm of our own Washington; 
And God bless the freemen, devoted and true, 
Who are ready to die for the Red, White and Blue.” 
From the South. 
Wb predicted in the last, number of the 
Rusal that before the close of 1864, Intelligence 
of a most cheering nature would be received 
from our forces operating in the " Sunny South.” 
So far as General Sherman's army is concerned 
all loyal hoards may well beat with patriotic omo- 
tSou. Notwithstanding the flaunting lirnggado 
cio which pervaded the columns of the Richmond 
papers that General Sherman would get entrap 
ped, that, he would find such a powerful foe when 
he arrived at the Atlantic coast as to baffle all his 
efforts to sccnrc a victory, and that his army 
would become a flying, disintegrated mass, 
whose great object would be to leave as groat a 
stretch of the '‘sacred soil” as possible between 
it and the invincible aristocracy, the frowns of 
tire “god of war” seems to have made some- 
tiling besides brave men out of the ehivalric 
gentlemen of Georgia. Although Sherman's 
great campaign is, we trust, far from being 
ended, he has already achieved enough in liis 
march of three hundred miles through the 
center of the enemy’s country, to place bis name 
in the catalogue of the greatest Generals of the 
age, and his army entitled to have engraven on 
their banners '“The Bravest of the Brave,” and 
their deeds of valor emblazoned on the most 
honorable escutcheons in the archives of the 
National and State Governments. 
The American Eagle having perched upon 
the battlements of Fort McAllister under the 
immediate eye and guidance of the Commading 
General of the thus far victorious Army of 
Georgia, preparations were immediately made 
to invest the city of Savannah. With com¬ 
mendable alacrity both officers and soldiers were 
ready to carry out the programme to the very 
letter, and 60 oh the veteran hosts environed the 
city with a wall of the heaviest artillery and 
of bristling bayonets. The summons, on the 
16tb nit., to OPCC more acknowledge the supre¬ 
macy of the Stars and Stripes having been de¬ 
clined, with the understanding that the town 
would be defended till every Confederate soldier 
had yielded up bis life in the *' last ditch,” the 
“ war dogs” were unmuzzled and made ready to 
be let loose as soou as the children, feminines 
and decrepit old men could be removed beyond 
the confines of impending danger. 
But what was General Sherman’s surprise on 
the morning of the 21st, to learn that General 
Harder and his 13,000 warriors leal bid the 
city of Savannah “good night,” and with the 
stealthy tread of midnight marauders mid the 
sneaking cowardice of whipped curs, slunk 
away, under cover of the darkness, to a place 
far removed from the vicinity of the “ hated 
Yankees! ” 
The valorous “military” being on a “pros¬ 
pecting” tour to find a more congenial place of 
safety, the Union army found Diat the Mayor (as 
at the Capital of the State who surrendered the 
place to ten Yankee soldiers,) was the only func¬ 
tionary who had the “keys of the city,” which 
were immediately given into the possession of 
the Gcncral-in-Chlef,” and “Yankee Doodle” 
and “Hail Colombia” once more, no doubt, 
made glad the hearts of many down-trodden cit¬ 
izens as the “glorious old flag” was nnfurlcd in 
the streets where it was so ruthlessly trampled 
upon In the winter and spring of 1861. 
With the city has fallen into General Suer- 
man’b hands 38,000 bales of cotton, 150 heavy 
guns, 13 locomotives in good order, 190 cars, a 
large amount of ammunition, three steamers, and 
much other property which the rebels, in their 
hurried exodus, were unable to destroy. They 
managed to sink several of their gunboats, and de¬ 
stroyed much other public property, but when we 
consider the great value of the cotton captured, 
(some $80,000,000,) the amount of property do- 
j strayed by the rebels is not to be thought of. 
Only about 800 prisoners were captured, and it 
is not certain but that more has been gained by 
this bloodless victory than the capture ol the 
whole of Haudkb’s army after a great conflict. 
Commercially considered, Savannah was the 
center of a thousand miles of railway. The city 
lies at the mouth of a river which is navigable 
up to Augusta for steamers of 150 tunB, and for 
Vessels of smaller size nearly 200 miles further. 
In a military point of view, Sherman now 
controls the two States which lio on either side 
of this river, and Is able to send a force to capture 
Augusta, and from that new base to hold or de¬ 
stroy the vast railway system which thence 
stretches north and south. Augusta is the key 
to both Georgia ami South Carolina. 
Established, as he is, at Savannah, Sherman 
has a choice of campaigns either north or south. 
Whichever be the future purpose of Lieut.- 
General Grant, it is enough to know at the 
present time that the occupation of Savannah 
makes cither feasible, and that its central posi¬ 
tion and its communication by river with the 
interior gives to Gen. Wuekman a mastery of the 
situation of the Gulf States. 
A private letter from Gen. Sherman to his 
brother, lion. John Sherman, in Washington, 
the 30th ult., gives a most hopeful account of 
affairs in Georgia. At the date of his letter, a 
portion of his army were in motion northward. 
The great naval expedition, under the com¬ 
mand of Rear Admiral Porter, which sailed 
from Fortress Monroe on the 18th ult., attacked 
Fort Fisher, at the mouth of Cafic Fear River, 
20 miles from Wilmington, on the 24th. The 
assault was continued on the 25th, but was 
unsuccessful. Gen. Butler, who accompanied 
the expedition with « land force, landed 3,000 
men under command of General Wkitzkl, to 
co-oporato with tin; fleet.. Difficulties were en¬ 
countered which rendered it impracticable for 
the troops to operate against the fort, and they, 
therefore, ro-embflrlted without doing the rebels 
any further (lamagc than taking some detached 
batteries and lessening their numbers two or 
three hundred in killed, wounded and prisoners. 
Gen. Wf.itzel lost but few men, notwithstand¬ 
ing the reports from the enemy that, whole regi¬ 
ments of colored troops had been decapitated. 
But few casualties occurred on board the fleet 
from the missiles of the opposing forces, but 
sad havoc' was made on board several vessels by 
the bursting of six 100-pound Pnrrot guns. It 
is reported that sixty-five men were killed and 
wounded by these explosions. 
Two hundred tnus of gunpowder were fired in 
a vessel a short distance from Fort Fisher, but 
without producing the desired result. 
Advices from Washington of the 30th ult., 
say that the expedition against Wilmingt-on is 
not abandoned, and that Admiral Porter is Btill 
operating. 
The Herald's Newbern correspondent of Dec. 
27th, sayB that Gen. Palmer’s expedition from 
Plymouth, under Col. French, up the Roan¬ 
oke, penetrated a considerable distance and had 
several engagements, defeating the rebels on 
every occasion, driving them out of intrenched 
positions and taking a number of prisoners. The 
gunboats were to co-operate, but were prevented 
by torpedoes." 
It is reportod once more, by parties who 
recently left Richmond, that Lee is making 
preparations to evacuate the city. They also 
state that Lee’s force is now less than 40,000 
men, and that the whole army is on short 
rations — their supplies of meat being almost 
exhausted. The recent destruction of the rebel 
lines of communication has seriously damaged 
their ability to concentrate the supplies neces¬ 
sary to sustain the people of Richmond and 
the army. 
Tliere has been considerable commotion ob¬ 
served lately along the rebel lines before Rich¬ 
mond. It is thought that Lee has been sendiug 
off re-enforcements to Lynchburg and Wil¬ 
mington. 
Information from City Point is to the effect 
that heavy cannonading was kept np during 
Wednesday and Thursday night, the 28th aud 
29 th ult., as well as severe skirmishing along nnr 
lines in the immediate front of Petersburg. Sev¬ 
eral casualties are reported. 
There was considerable firing in front of Rich¬ 
mond on Wednesday afternoon, and along the 
lines of the picket guard. 
About the usual amount of picket firing still 
continues along the lines in front of the Army 
of the Potomac. 
General Cuhtak’8 division has been making a 
rcconnoissance In the Shenandoah *'Valley near 
Harrisonburg. 
Some cavalry attempted to surprise Costar’s 
camp, dashing In, disguised in Federal uniforms, 
which, for a time, produced much confusion, 
and prevented our men from distinguishing 
friend from foe. They captured 50 of the first 
New Hampshire cavalry', but Die rebels were 
soon overpowered, and the men rc-captured. 
Having accomplished his object, Gen. Cdstar 
fell back, which Gen. Lee immediately pro¬ 
claims a forced retreat. 
From the West. 
Nashville advices of the 30th ult., say that 
Maj. Gen. Stoneman arrived in the city last night 
from his great raid in West Virginia. 
The following is his account of his expedition : 
The force consisted of Gen. Burbridgc’e troops 
and Gen. Gillcm’s East Tennessee troops, all 
under command of Gen. Stoneman. They left 
Knoxville on the 18th. The movemont was un¬ 
known to the rebels until alter three days. At 
Kingsport Gen. Jones’ command was attacked 
by a body of rebels consisting of about 500 of 
Morgan’s old command. The rebel forces were 
killed, scattered or captured. 
Next the rebel forces of Vanghn were discov¬ 
ered at Papertown, near Bristol, trying to effect 
a junction with Breckenridge at Saltvilic. Oar 
forces pursued some to Marion, whore an engage 
rnent occurred, resulting in the loss to the rebels 
of all their infantry force and artillery, except 
about 200 men, who retreated toward Lynch¬ 
burg, Va. 
Breckenridge’tt command had followed Gen. 
Stoneman with Galtner’s and Wither’8 command, 
tiie balance of Duke's command, who had been 
in Kentucky waiting to attack the infantry, 
Gen. Stoneman attacked the enemy at Marion 
and drove them over the mountains. Ills com¬ 
mand then attacked the salt works, which were 
defended by about 700 men, who were either 
captured or dispersed. 
The loss by this raid to the rebels is immense. 
All Die railroad bridges from New River to the 
Tennessee line arc destroyed. Thirteen rail¬ 
road trains, with locomotives, and Bovcral extra 
I trains and cars without engines, were taken and 
destroyed. 
All the depotsof supply in Southwest Virginia, 
factories, storehouses and wagons, and ambu¬ 
lances and turnpike bridges were destroyed. 
In addition we captured 2,500 rounds of artil¬ 
lery ammunition, 2,OCX) pock saddles and a large 
amount of harness and a great quantity of small 
arms, 2,000 horses and 1,000 mules. Among the 
captures were also two rebel editors and four 
secession printing presses. Tho latter were sent 
to Parson Brownlow us a Christmas gift. 
The severest loss to the rebels WAS the destruc 
tlon of the salt works at Satvlllc, and the lead 
works at Leadville. Both were rendered value¬ 
less. Our losses were very small. 
Our captured rebel prisoners amount to 24 
officers and S45 men. 
East Tennessee is now free from any consider¬ 
able force of rebels, am) Kentucky is not infested 
by Confederates. 
Gen. Stoneman had possession of the rebel 
telegraph line and held it for 18 hours, during 
which time he discovered all their plans and 
movements. 
The first train through from Chattanooga ar¬ 
rived at Nashville the 30th nit. Regular railroad 
communication will be established and kept up. 
Gen. Thomas’s headquarters were at Pulaski 
the 30th. 
Our advance was closely following Hood, who 
It was believed was trying to cross the Tennessee 
river. 
Gens. Granger and Steadman arc on hie flank, 
and the gunboats are shelling hiB pontoons, 
which he has not yet been able to cross upon. 
Tlie water in tho river is ten feet deep, and 
falling. We have had a steady rain all the even¬ 
ing. 
The very latest news from the front is that 
yesterday, (the 22th,) while Gen. Thomas was 
proesing Hood on tie west bank of the Tennes¬ 
see, tie was trying to lay his pontoons, but could 
not make any progress, as our gunboats were 
shelling his working parties. 
Considerable fighting has occurred since onr 
last issue, between the forces of Thomas and 
nood, and the army of the latter is pretty 
effectually broken np. 
Gen. Steadman readied Decatur on the 24th 
ulk with a large force, and was also threatening 
Hood. 
Official information from Nashville gives Hood’s 
losses from the 13th to the 22d of December at 
2,050 killed, 9,720 wounded, and 5,870 prisoners. 
From Louisville, Ky., the 80th ulk, we learn 
that on Saturday last Capt. Samuel Tabor, of the 
homo Guard of Harding county, and his nephew, 
15 years old, were surrounded at their residence 
by seven of Capt. Pratt’s rebel gang. 
Capt. Tabor and his nephew fired from the 
house, killing Pratt and three of ids comrades. 
The remainder escaped with the loss of their 
horses and guns. 
Acting Major John J. Shirk and Capt. R. A. 
Ncwberick, Acting Brigade Inspector of the 
7th Pennsylvania Cavalry, were murdered in 
the parlor of Mr. Grigsby’s house, near Bards- 
town, Ky., to-day by sixteen of Magrudcr’s guer¬ 
rillas. 
A package of Quartermaster’s vouchers, 
amounting to nearly $300,000, approved and is¬ 
sued by Capt. Crain at Nashville, were taken 
from a train captured by the rebels on the. Louis¬ 
ville and Nashville' Railroad on the 22d ulk 
They arc in Jfhvor (I parties in CUicVunati, Bor- 
falo,Chicago,Michigan City, Albany, Boston, Phil¬ 
adelphia and New York. Adams’ Express Com¬ 
pany notifies the public not to negotiate or 
receive them. 
From the South-west. 
AjmcES from New Orleans of the 23d ulk, 
say that the late expedition of Gen. Graugcr had 
landed at Pascagoula, and pushed rapidly on 
towards Mobile. 
A brief skirmish occurred near Franklin’s 
Creek on the 15th ulk 
Many people rejoiced at the sight of ourTorcee. 
The navy rendered valuable assistance to the 
troops in landing. Two iron-clad gunboats have 
gone up the Pascagoula river thirty miles, and 
everything progresses favorably. 
Some refugees report but 7,000 militia in Mo¬ 
bile, and that the Union sentiment prevails there. 
The large reflection of a lire was observed near 
Mobile on the 9th ulk, supposed to be caused 
by the burning of cotton. 
The news of the rupture of Savannah caused 
great rejoicing among the Union people here, 
and a feeling of depression among the rebels. 
The steamship George Washington from New 
Orleans 34th ult., arrived the 30tb. New Orleans 
papers arc nearly barren of news. Galveston, 
Texas, papers contain the following; 
“ Yesterday, the l2tb, 344 oxclianged Federal 
prisoners were stmt out to bloekodere, and 12 
females and their eldidren, among them Mrs. 
Jack Hamilton and Mrs. Judge Duval. Tho 
prisoners delivered yesterday were exchanged for 
all our prisoners captured in Fort Gaines. The 
exchange will not be continued until the Fcdorals 
are willing to include Admiral Buchanan.” 
A disastrous fire Recurred at Galveston on the 
15th ult. 
The New OrleausAVa learns from an old resi¬ 
dent of Mobile that the people are very gloomy 
and desperate, and two thirds are longing for our 
forces to capture the city. There was much 
disappointment felUncauae the fleet did not push 
on to the city immediately after the capture of 
the forts. 
There are abouti seven thousand troops at 
Mobile, all militia except Baker’s brigade of 
Alabamians, numbering five hundred or six hun¬ 
dred men, and the))5th Confederate cavalry, of 
Forrest’s command There are but two iron- 
I clads, and neither qf those of raucb use, owing 
to the lack of prevailing power, tt is the firm 
belief of our iaforUant that the defences of the 
city can be taken Without much fighting by a 
land force; but he thinks gunboats would expe 
ricnco great difficulty from toqvedocs. They 
can, tiowever, get irittiin shelling distance of the 
city. 
The steamer North American, which loft New 
Orleans on the 16th ulk with 303 sick soldiers, 
twelve cabin passengers and a crow of forty four 
men, foundered at Boa on the 22d. The bark 
Mary E. Libby rescued sixty-two persons from 
the sinking vessel. The 197 remaining were lost. 
The llc;aid's New Orleans correspondent sayB; 
The expedition recently from Morganzia into the 
interior of Lonisiana met with great success in 
tracking up guerrilla camps, capturing stoics, 
Ac. Two thousand five hundred rebels under 
Wirt Adams and Seott were threatening Baton 
Rouge on the 24t.h. 
Death of George M. Dallas. — The New 
York Kooning Ibst of Saturday publishes a dis¬ 
patch from Philadelphia stating that George M. 
Dallas, the Vico President of the United States 
when Polk was President, from 1845 to 1849, died 
in thut city at 9 o’clock, Saturday morning 
The dispatch adds;—“Mr. Dallas was well enough 
to be about on Friday. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
New York Citv has already a credit of 10,000 
towards the call for 300,000 men, leaving but 
2,000 to reuse, and will be sure to get out of the 
draft. 
The petroleum excitement continues and waxes 
huge. West Virginia is now spoken of as the 
promising Oil-Dorado. Good for Die Oiled Do¬ 
minion. 
In boring for oil near Chicago bust week, a sub¬ 
terranean lake wu6 readied, at the depth of about 
700 feet, from which the water flows in a copious 
stream. 
Philadelphia will probably have to rai6conly 
about live thousand men under the last call, hav¬ 
ing a large surplus over the quota on the pre¬ 
vious call. 
A resolution declaring that the Writ of Ha¬ 
beas Corpus ought not to be suspended was voted 
down in tho rebel House of Representatives on 
the 34th by 41 to 31. 
Vice Admiral Fakraout will still serve his 
country and glorify his flag from the deck of the 
“dear old Hartford,” ns Farragut fondly calls 
tho gallant Admiral’s flagship. 
The Newburyport Herald calculates that the 
amount, of cotton captured by Sherman at Savan¬ 
nah would supply all the factories in Newbury- 
port, running all their works, for five years. 
In New Orleans, the Mayor regulates the price 
of loaves of bread every week according to the 
market price of Hour, and the bakera conform to 
the standard. 
W. 7. 
Li»l of New Advertisements. 
Watchra, Chains, Ac-Geo. Demerit * Co. 
Improved Croon-Cut Bawtng Machine— U. WcsUnghouec 
A CO. 
Important to Dorse Hake Manufacturers — Hussey. 
Well** Co. 
Vick's Illustrated Aiinnnl Catalogue—Jas. Vick. 
Special Notice Frank Baldwin, 
Great Chance, to make Monev—G. S. Haskins & Co. 
Grern'u Patent Hoohnc—Henry Smith. 
lnRersoll's Improved Hay and Cotton Presses — IngersoU 
A Doutthertv. 
Wood-Bnwluc Machine ,T. W. Mount. 
Tho most Laughable thing an Ktuth Amadcn A Co. 
Arthur's Home Magazine. T. B. Arthur * Co. 
Those Sending article* of Comfort to Soldiers.—Frank 
Miller 
Farm for Kalr. H. Harrow. 
Prince Alhcrt Pigs,—Win. Grldloy. 
Green's Patent Hoofing— Henry Smith. 
Quince Stocks, Ac.—T. G. Yeomans. 
Dairy Farm for Sale — Mr*. 8. W. Collier. 
Wood-Sawing Machines. Henry C. Lake. 
Farm for Snlc. K. A. Hnnldlnr. 
Sheep lor Hale- Walker Cole. 
Cancer* Cured— Dr*. Bnbcock & Son. 
Rent for as Cents.—.1 ullug Rising. 
Blooded Stock for Sale.—N. P. Boyer <fc Co. 
Apple Seed for Sale. J. A. Root. 
Iuutt and lamella Vlao* for Sale.—Rev. F. K. Cannon. 
Trees for Rale. -A Fahnestock. 
SPECIAL NOTICTS. 
Atlantic Monthly Tlcfcnor & Fields. 
Our Yonng Folk's Tlcknor & Fluids. 
Notice— Dis. Babcock & Son. 
®lg Nous dkmiicnser. 
— Oregon is organizing a border militia. 
— The Michigan farmers arc making rosin. 
— San Francisco supports ten daily papers. 
— The population of San Francisco is 120,000. 
— The Richmond hotels charge forty dollars per day. 
— Paymasters in the array are not entitled to pen¬ 
sions. 
— A man In Illinois has raised ten tuns of chicory 
this year. 
— Vermont has a credit of 1,014 men to qount on the 
present call. 
— John B. Gough, the great loctnrer, has an income 
of $8,000 a year. 
— New England female operatives have adopted the 
Bloomer costume. 
— The Fenians hold regular and largely attended 
meetings In Boston. 
— Some of the farms in Illinois are larger than the 
German principalities. 
— Dangerous counterfeits on the North Bank, Bos¬ 
ton, are in circulation. 
— Forty millions of dollars are invested in mining 
enterprises in Colorado. 
A Vicksburg letter says that the appropriation 
of Jeff. Davis’s form for the use of freedmen 
will relieve the Government of the support of 
ten thousand negroes. 
The Richmond Sentinel expects a lively winter 
campaign on the part of Sherman; but pretends 
to deem the capture of Savannah of no great 
consequence. It expects an early attack on 
Charleston. 
Tile Virginia Legislature has raised the pay of 
its members to $40 a day, and that of the Gover¬ 
nor to $15,000 a year, and has adopted resolu¬ 
tions in favor of “ abiding the destiny of the 
Confederacy." 
A State Convention, oue of the principal ob¬ 
jects of which is to decide npon a plan lor put¬ 
ting an end to slavery in Kentucky, by legal en¬ 
actment, will assemble at Frankfort, in that 
State, on the 4th inst. 
A writer for Wilke.s' Spirit visited Flora Tem¬ 
ple lately at Philadelphia, and reports her some¬ 
what gray, but looking as bright and spirited as 
a threo-ycar-old colt, The queen of the turf is 
now about twenty years old. 
The Sisters of Charity at Detroit lately buried 
$700 in specie in the cellar, for fear of a raid 
from Canada, getting the assistance of a man to 
do the job. When they went for the money, a 
few days after, it wasn’t there. 
Alexander T. Stewart, the dry goods nabob 
of New York, has tho largest income of any man 
in America, or (probably) the world. He has 
lately paid an income hue of $250,000 on a nut 
income of five million dollars! 
Tnic recent cold “cycle” was very severe in 
the Northwest. At St. Paul Die mercury ranged 
from twenty-six degrees below zero to ten above 
for four dayB; and at Madison, Wis., it reached 
twenty to tweuty-four degrees below, according 
to the locality. 
Mrs. Warren Potter of Greenfield, Massachu¬ 
setts, who went to sleep some weeks ago, still re¬ 
mains in Die same condition. She remains ail 
the time in a condition resembling sleep, with 
her eyes closed, yet in possession of all her fac¬ 
ulties but hearing. 
Since the liberation of the St. Albans raiders by 
tho Canadian authoriUcs, guns for the arming of 
the Vermont militia have been sent into the 
State in great numbers from the arseuals at 
Springfield urid Wutervllet. The authorities in¬ 
tend to be prepared for any emergency. 
Bennett (1. Bailey, recently engaged in at¬ 
tempting to seize American vessels on Lake Erie, 
and who was released, a few days ago, in To¬ 
ronto, is declared by Jeff. Davis to be a regularly 
commissioned rebel officer, ami was specially de¬ 
tailed for the work in which he was engaged. 
The rebel Congress has passed a law to punish 
rebellion against the Confederacy! They Insist 
that “ the right of secession ” ended in 1861, 
and that “ State Rights ” is an abominable heresy. 
Jefferson Davis’s machine ,is like a patent rat- 
trap, wiUi a door only opening inwards. 
Some rascally tobacconists of Philadephia 
make a practice of mixing large quantities of 
sumac., which costs three cents a pound, with 
their tobacco, and sell it Oius adulterated us the 
genuine urUcle. Smokers using this compound 
soon find themselves suffering from cancer and 
ulceratiou of the throat, mouth and toungue. 
Edmund C. Stedman, poet and journalist, bus 
come to tie a broker in petroleum oil stocks 
and Secretary of the petroleum stock board in 
New York. There arc few poets in the the coun¬ 
try who would not gladly exchange places with 
him. It is, iu most eases, better to “ strike ilo,” 
than to burn it in the midnight lamp of the 
muse. 
— Heavy teams run across tho ice on the Hudson 
river at Albany and Troy. 
— A Pennsylvania musician has written a song en¬ 
titled “ Oil on the Brain.” 
— The new ten-oent postal currency will be printed 
on paper made of corn husks. 
— A valuable oyster bed 1ms boon accidentally dis¬ 
covered in San Francisco Bay. 
— Dnring the present year, 31,630 Union prisoners 
have passed into Libby Prison. 
— Gold Is said to have been found lately in small 
quantities near Bennington, Vt. 
— The divorce laws in Indiana have been changed. 
A year's residence or no separation. 
— Very rich gold mines have been discovered in 
Buenos Ayres, at LUe foot of tho Andes. 
— Speaker Colfax has sold out his interest in the 
Register newspaper, at South Bend, Ind. 
— The Fenians now claim to have a membership of 
500,000, and funds to the amount of $1,500,000. 
— The Cleveland (Ohio) papers announce important 
discoveries of rock oil in Uio vieiuity of that city. 
— The improvement in manufacturing property in 
Rhode Island the lust year amounts to $5,000,000. 
— The Canadians want a new railway from Fort 
Erie, opposite Buffalo, to Windsor, opposite Detroit. 
— The wives of two well known citizens of Cin¬ 
cinnati have been arrested in that city for shoplifting. 
— Admiral Porter’s share of the prize-money that 
has fallen to hie fleet for the last two months is $200,- 
000 . 
— A Greek girl, who was once sold ivj a slave, is 
now the wife of M. Bcnnedctti, French Minister at 
Berlin. 
— The produce of oranges on many plantations in 
Louisiana will be this season much in excess of sugar 
or cotton. 
— A few days ago, a boy fourteen years of age was 
killed in Nashville by a youth of twelve years, during 
a quarrel. 
— How to cleanse Chicago river is the agitating 
question at Chicago. They fear a pestilence unless it 
is attended to. 
— A woman recently died in Nancy, France, at the 
age of one hundred years, who had novor seen a sick 
day in her life. 
— Pertcy Vallandigham, a nephew of “ the martyr,’ 
has been sentenced to the State Prison iu Iowa for 
voting illegally. 
— The merchants of New Haven have Just sent to 
tiie soldiers of their State 350 puirs of gloves and 100 
pairs of mittens. 
— There are ten Raptist newspapers iu the Northern 
States, with a weekly circulation of about one hundred 
thousand copies. 
_M nl . Warren Potter, of Greenfield, Mass., went to 
sleep some weeks ago, and has not yet waked up. 
Her friends feed her. 
_ It Is said that the fine cut tobacco, which is so 
popular with chewers, Is made up of 60 per cent, peat 
to 50 per cent, tobacco. 
— By the great Are in St. Johns, New Brunswick, re¬ 
cently, 04 houses worn destroyed aud about 1,200 per¬ 
sons rendered houseless. 
— Mr. MeFate, a wealthy man at Oil City, Pa., whs 
found dead In tho sired, last Tuesday, with his throat 
cut aud his pockets rifled. 
Joseph Medlll, one of tho editors of the Chicago 
1'ritnuu, has just purchased a block of marble front 
buildings in Chicago for $06,000. 
It is estimated that $20,000 Jn counterfeit postal 
currency changes hands in Cincinnati daily, few know¬ 
ing whether it is good or spurious. 
— W. L. Lovelaces of Montgomery, was elected 
Speaker of tho Missouri Legislature, last week, and 
Mr. Dyer, Ufaier Clerk. Roth are Radicals. 
— Nicholas Thomas, of Kden, Me., now 86 years of 
uge, is the last surviving member of the convention 
which formed the constitution of Die Btatc. 
— The London Times tolls Queen Victoria that all 
honor lmvlng been [mid to the memory of l*rincc Al¬ 
bert, it is time she should think of her subjects. 
— Never, within the memory of the “ oldest inhabi¬ 
tant," says the Chicago TOst, tuts winter commonocd 
in the Northwest so early as In tho present year. 
