Miscellaneous And News Items

You can not dream yourself into ft character ; you must hammor and forge yourself, Winter too often changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man. The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with, thQ eye and half with the fancy. There are 28,182 houses of worship in the United States, of which 12,814 or 33 per cent are in the South. There is no fault so small that it will disappear oí itself. You must ma,ke a business of puiling it up by the roots, and thrawing it away. Congre8S isn't done with the whisky question vet. It seema to be a (sher? ished subject. Every member has io relate bis experience, bence the delay. On Monday evening, Pab. 8th, the splonciid residence oí Mr. M. H. Crane, in Albion, forrnerly owned by Mr, Q, Hannabs, was entirely cqnsumed by fire. Mr. P. Stone, an o]d pitizen of Adrián, diod on Saturday last. I$e has lived in that city since 1830, was a prominent man, and a liberal and public spirited citizen. A special di.pnfch from San Francisco, duled the 9th, states that the Snprerne Court of California has decided that the law permitting alodiers to voto is qncoustituiional. In a late speech, Fred Douglnss said : "This country x have no irue dignity tiill the colored man is aHawed to vote aad hold office." Commisisoner Newion'a Agricultural lieport discloses the fact that thore ia a deficiencv in the eorn erop, for the year, of 150,000,000 f buxhels. The wine erop in the vioinity et Sandu?ky is estimated at 200,000 gallons in 1863, and its value $400,000. It is expected to be more than doublé ia 1864. There are 10,000 children in LenaweO county, of which only 3,000 to 4,000 attünd Sabbath schools. Over 500 of the rebel officers held as priboners of war on Johnson's Island have made known their dtísire to take the oath of allegiance. Sincc July last between 130 or 140 heavy guns have beun landed on Morris Island, Charleston h,arbor. Qng o? the guns weighed 27,555 lbs. The Paris Preste computes the population oí the globe at one thousand - millions, speaking three thousand and sixty íour languages, aod having eleven hunclrod different forma of religión. The sak product of the Saginaw Valley for 1863 will reach the immense aggregate of 700,000 barrels, or ji,500,000 bushels. Of this amount, 4Ga,000 barrels were marketed at Chicago. The bank of England covers an entire parish, and it has a clergyman wliose salary is L700 per year. A room in the bank is kept to represent the church for the sake of keeping up the living and its emolumenta. A correspondent tells oí a soldier wounded hy a shell at Fort Wtvgner. He was going to the rear yitb. a mutilated arm. "Wounded by a shell ?" he was asked. "Yes," he ooolly answered, "I wao right under tbe darned thiDg tfhen tho feottoffi drapped ooh"