| Show NEWS ITEMS NICKEL and plumbago have been discovered in northern new jersey thie THE new custom house law of chili opens the coasting trade of the republic to vessels of all nations and declares that anch anchorage oraye orare conr tonnage lago iago light dues as well as wharf cli ell charges arges are abolished entirely trig THE last two of the six light draught transport steamers hullt hulit wiit built by norman wiard ward of new york have been finished one has already started for hilton head and the other will soon follow these vessels draw but three feet of water when loaded and will carry eight hundred men with coal and stores they are surrounded with bulletproof bullet proof iron plating with bronze bulletproof bullet proof pilot houses they can be turned completely around in the space of their own length bength T tre THE ordnance bureau report states that over twenty seven thousand muskets were picked up on the battlefield battle field of gettysburg one half of these were found to be double loaded and one fourth contained from three to ten loads ansome in some somo cases the baliwas ball bail was inserted before the powder and nearly all showed tho the absence of presence of mind on the part of those who had used them HON JAMES SPEED was confirmed by the senate on the in executive se session assion I 1 as attorney general of the united states the supreme court no longer will move at snails pace in this all the lawyers of course coarse are agreed for while at its meetings there mua bua ausba be a chase che the government causes can go speed tile THE new york sun of the loth dec gives the following account of the new fractional currency the new fractional currency notes of the denomination of fifty cents are red backed with the ring ning on the face which is printed in black it is the same width of the old fifty cent issues and is twice as long being full an inch longer than it should be to be perfect perfect in proportion it less iss a little more like money than the old dumpy issues the twenty fives are to be a little shorter and so on shorter down to the lowest denomination and all will be given out for circulation eula cula cu lation ion lon it is expected in a few days THE tue richmond whig says A gentleman who had occula r proof of the result of gen Ros bossers sers recent expedition to the baltimore and ohio railroad states that general Ros Eos sers sens force brought safely into new market fifteen hundred horses and mules eight hundred sheep and hogs and eight hundred yankees general rosser destroyed two hundred loaded wagons and a large quantity of army stores at new creek burnt all the bridges between new creek and piedmont and destroyed at the latter place all the machine ma c hine shops engines rolling stock and lost only two man killed and wounded tiie THE rebel congress has passed a series of resolutions relative to the seizure of the pirate florida by the united states sloop of war wachusett Wa chusett they state that thie the act was in violation of the rights of the rebel reboil government in neutral waters that it was an insult to brazil that it was in opposition to thel aws of nation nations na tiong and that the brazilian government is bound to make restitution in statu quo what they pr propose 0 pose to do with brazil in the event of a noncom non com aliance with this dema demand nd does not appear in the resolutions tre THE toronto leader of the loth in an article upon the case of burleigh the late erie pirate rate says on many many grounds rounds it aou would F d be desirable that both this lis its and the st alban raiders case should bo ba submitted to the law officers of the crown in england these off omm meers officers are better versed in international law than anybody can pretend to be in a distant province of the empire which has no direct relations with foreign borelan powers the gravity of these cases is is such as to demand the application to them of the best available talent beside the responsibility odthe of the decision is more than the province ought to take upon itself THE tue following item occurs in the charleston mercury of the oth dinst siege matters day during the progress of the exchange of prisoners now going on in the harbor and which will probably last for two weeks or the thereabouts re the bombardment bithe of the city by the enemy is to be suspended under this arrangement there was no shelling yesterday we understand that th the e truce was to apply to the tile various hostile batteries in the harbor but by some mistake the cause of which we have not learned the terms of the truce were not fully known at fort sumter and one of our sharpshooters at that post shot and killed a yankee who showed himself at battery gregg thereupon several of the batteries opened fire on sumter finally however the enemy was apprised by wig flag of truce of the nature of the mistake and on apology tendered for the unintentional violation of the truee truce the harbor then assumed its former quiet aspect THE mobile papers state that the grain crop ia in northwestern mississippi ri is is a failure and unless outside alt ait aid ald IS is extended to the inhabitants numbers of them must perish tye THE washington chronicle proposes that abat mr fessenden shall have unlimited power to issue such foreign and domestic loans as lie he may deem expedient and even to issue legal tender notes if he shall think proper tiie THE bill for the payment of invalid and other pensions reported in tho the house on the dinst from the committee on ways and means for the year ending with june 1860 1866 provi provides ldes for invalid pensions for pens pensions lonato to widows mothers children and sisters and for revolutionary pensions an aggregate of 11 NOVEL way of steer steering ing steamships steam ships mr ir RC 3 sells an austrian an 8 trian has secured a apat patent entin in this country for a contrivance by which vessels may be steered by the propeller or screw which moves them ahead and without the help of a rudder the propeller is fixed in a case which supports it and in which it is moveable moveably move able by the turning of the steering cheel wheel either to starboard or to port in either case forcing the stern around while her headway is not stopped an and indeed scarcely lessened by this method a vessel avesser can be easily turned in her own length sheer SHEEP raising in the united states according to the last census in 1850 the number of sheep in the united states was while in 1860 the number was 24 the number of pounds of wool p produced in 1850 was against in 1860 at the same periods the amount of cotton produced was for the former year 2445 bales and anh for the latter 5 thus while the cotton product doubled the wool wooi wo 1 product increased only abort about pounds a smaller proportionate aie ate increase than of any other agricultural product of half its value or upwards sugar only excepted THE desolations av P WAR A acor cor eor respondent ht of the nashville union who has explored the region passed over by shermans Sher mans army says from chattanooga to Meri merl merietta merletta elta eita there is presented to the eye one vast beet sheet of misery misers the fugitives from ruined villages or deserted fields seek shelter in the mountains cities sacked towns burned population decimated are so many evidences of the fearful guilt that rests upon the chiefs orthis of this most wicked and causeless rebellion all along the roads are great wheat fields in which no sickle will enten enter I 1 crops sufficient to feed all new england are to be lost for want of laborers the owners have been driven into the rebel army by a merciless conscription and the blacks have been sent further south I 1 saw enough of this country to get geta a most vivid and p painful impression of the horrors of war this is a beautiful country exclaimed a friend as his hig eyes for tor the first time looked upon the gentle undulations of the valleys terminating in the windings of the rivers flanked by the maj majestic estie estle barriers barrier 8 of the mountains the entire country in almost every rood of it is a battlefield battle field trodden over by both armies in every town the more public buildings and the more conspicuous residences have been devoured by fire or riddled by shot and shell used as headquarters or for rebel commissary stores or occupied by prominent rebels suck such such sueh buildings have become singled out for destruction in some instances churches have not escaped they have been stripped for firewood or converted into barracks and hospitals in the towns one is struck wit with the absence of young men and men in middle life fences are demolished and here and there a lordly mansion stands an unsightly ruin THE HOUR OF DEATH A paper on this subject was read at the british association by mr haviland of the bridgewater infirmary it is stated that the author had collected over cases of death with the hour of death and other circumstances recorded which he had tabulated and exhibited exhibited on a large chart by this chart he showed that in 1000 cases of death lif inn children under five years of awe age age the periods of the greatest fours greatest rea test mortality took place during the hours between one and eight in the morning but an extraordinary depression took place in the succeeding hours and that between nine lilno and twelve pm the rate of mortality was at its mimi mum he then compared these statistics with 2891 deaths from all causes and the chart showed how remarkably the wave lines of death compared with those above in the cases of death from consumption although there showed a general resemblance in the wave line yet within the hours of four and eight am when there was a depression when compared with the first four hour period the mortality was the greatest the extra extraordinary ord inary moi mol mortality reality was in the early hours of the morning when the powers of life were at their lowest lowes ebb and strange to say when the patient was most cared for ho he urged the necessity of feeding and stimulating the patients at their weakest hour so as to tide them over a critical period even if death be inevitable to support tho plew plow patient a dent I 1 so that he might at least have a few hours more moro of life snatched enate hed from eternity to admit adroit of his being able to carry out some neglected duty pardon some enemy or see some beloved friend |
