General News

The reooipts of the Pittsburg Sanitary Fairup to Saturday evening, amounted to $257,000. The 18th army corps, Gen. Baldy Smith, has lost about 5,000 men since it joined the. Army of the Potomac. The transportaron train of the Army of the Potomac would make a line of wagons sixty-two aud a half miles in length. The room of Tom Thumb's troupe in the hotel at Whitehall, N. Y., was entered and $1,297 which was in theirmoney trunk was stolen. Several typos eonnected with the Cairo Democrai have been arrested, charged with disloyalty, shouting for Jeff. Davis and cursing all the Yankees. A man named Wm. Alarks was arrested in Louisville on Saturday on suspicion of being a rebel spy. It is said that a Boston company has purchased 3,000 acres in the Missouri pineries and are preparing for the manufacture of turpentine. There are over two hundred varieties of birds, American and Foreign, in the Central Park, New York. Thirty miles of the railroad from Saratoga to Ogdensburg are to be built this season by European capital. A fire broke ont in the foundry of Jas. Sheriff, at Milwaukie, on Tuesday night, and destroved property to the value of $8,000. A large bed of pure silver - or white flint quartz - extending over 25 or 30 acres, bas just been discovered near Toledo. Sherman is said to have lost 10,000 men in all but to bc stronger now thsn when be left Chattanooga, having had heavy reinforcements. A man named Lehna was arrested in the vil lage of Crotón on a chargo of stealing a wallet containing $60, t!io propei-ty of a Et-v. Mr. Curtís, and is now in jail awaiting cxaminntiou aud trial