Show EASTERN NI NEWS THE thu new york cor correspondent corresponded nt of tile the boston Journ journal ell til says I 1 met at the astor house last week an officer wll wil lias has recently been released from libby prison he informed me that tile the soldiers on being liberated did not know how J to contain themselves some maue made made themselves sek s ek ck with running fourteen died from joy the officer states that no pen can describe tho the suffering and privation that exist in richmond it cost him ninety dollars a day to live at the hotel the few days that lie he remained there small loaves of bread hardly as large as an inkstand ink jand tAnd cost twenty dollars the rations rati oris olis of the prisoners consisted chiefly of beens and pork the stench of which was intolerable ana THE cairo calro ili iii ill dry dook wag destroyed on tuesday f by by the current of tho the river forcing it from its mooring mR qIng loss over A member of the alabama legisla ture recently introduced a resolution ution offering conciliatory terms to tp the federals p and Ae demanding manding the cessation of ho hostilities which caused much discussion the legislature had adjourned without acceding to the governors call for aid to strengthen the defence de fences of the state judge kelley presented to president lincoln on tuesday evening nov a gold me dallon dailon gotten up by mr broomall of philadelphia Phil idelphia formerly coiner of the mint upon one side of the me dallon dailon is a good relief likeness of president lincoln and upon the other othor the same of washington the inscription upon the inside is abdal abraham iain inin lincoln an honest man the crisis demands hisae his je clention 1864 11 general McClel lans resignation and the appointment of P H sheridan to fill the vacant major generalship in inthe the regular army is announced in the following official order geheran GENERAL ORDERS NO WAR washington nov 14 1864 1 j ordered by the president 1 that the resignation of george B mcclellan as major general in the united states army dated nov 8 and received by the adjutant general on the loth instant ln stant be accepted as of the ath of november 2 that for personal persona I 1 gal gai gallantry lantry military skill and just confidence ili in the courage and patriotism of the troops displayed by philip H sheridan on the of october at cedar run bun whereby under the blessing of providence providence his routed army was reorganized a great national disaster averted and a brilliant victory achieved over the rebels for the third time in pitched battle within thirty days philip H sheridan la Is appointed hinted major general in the united abates states army to r ank rank as such from the ath dahlof november ov ember 1864 by order of the president of the united states x E D TOWNSEND assistant adjutant general JUSTIC JUSTICE 13 of the U S supreme renie court has not failed hitherto of being present at the opening of the su preme court fon for fo 27 terms or years but is now unable nabie U toe to IN e present WHILE filling the reservoir of the charlestown Charles town mass water works a few days since the pump would not operate and an examination proved that the pipe completely filled with eels if the he next day clay the fhe trouble red again and on the two occasions 2500 11 pound ds of eels were removed pre Ppe iDENT EX tym CA was Saturday oh 1 rdby the oth ota anat presented by a Califor california nili iid ild lid hunter riter with ia a cli ell arnade annade r of elk horns efu i largo ahders the baek back are aro i set ket n the tho aror ohp anil anit ivil A I 1 number r of ladles ladies and gentlemen were present t S GENf rai BAi ill all m has hag roce rece received ived ivea an appointment to the important and lucrative position of engineer in of essex railroad his salary icher accepts the biter will lii lil ill be twenty five thousand dollars a year ar I 1 1 in paris alone aloia 0 there are at t this tills moment no less than thap sixty thousand men mentho who have no other religion or creed than that of or as we call it s spiritualism 11 there the belief 14 is as wl thoroughly orough ly organized organised zed sed a 1 85 system 8 as any sect of the chri christian stian religion g on it has its disciples its priests its altars etc as well as its papers reviews publications of all sorts sort with editors and booksellers of its own some na naturalist said that a aper soil sorl should keep two consciences one and one religious and should ked keg keep them separate as they tiley cannot be reconciled this an author calls bookkeeping by double entry but double bookkeeping kee makes each entry twice once on oil the debtor and once an on the tho cred creditor itoi side go so that no two things thing are sure more surre sure of entire coincidence |