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ITEMS BY LAST NIGHT'S mail. The receipts at the St. Louis custom house for the fiscal year ending June 30, were $1 392,331. The receipts of internal revenue, from the 1st to the 25th of July, $21,500,000. The shipments of specie for Europe footed up to a little over a million last week, making & total of fifty-nine millions since the 1st of January. Over six hundred thousand acres of land along the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad have been sold to immigrants during the past six months. John Thompson, a revolutionary soldier, died at Smithtown, Long Island, on Thursday week, gears. 101 pers Saratoga county, New York, has a wild man pus 'triqs pedins Buoj 8 and wears 1843 lives, squirrel like, in the trees. Rev. James Rodgers, D. D., one of the oldest clergymen in that vicinity, died at his residence, in Allegheny City, on Thursday, in the sixty. eighth year of his age. Rev. W. A. Wilder and wife, and two children, have just arrived in New York from Natal, Africa. He is a missionary of the American Board, and went out in 1849 to the Zulu misssion. A grand pigeon shooting is to come off at Detroit on the 5th of August. About 1500 birds have been secured, and some of the crack shots of the country will be present. The bill authorizing the issue of $25,000,000 of three per cent. certificates, to be used in redeeming compound interest notes, has been signed by the president. About a bundred clerks have been discharged from the quartermaster general's office, for lack of appropriations to pay them. They were nearly all soldiers. A Cheyenne dispatch says several thousand cords of wood and a large quantity of coal, be. longing to the Union Pacific Railroad, were burned on Saturday night. John M. Wackerman, an old citizen of Buffalo, cut his throat at the Clifton House, Niagara Falls, recently. Domestic and business troubles prowoked the suicide. In Montreal, last week, two hundred and nine persons died mainly of sun-stroke and apoplexy. Prayers were offered for rain, on Sunday, in several of the churches. Gen. R. D. D. Mussey has applied. in the Washington courts, for an injunction to restrain St. Marie from receiving ten thousand dollars reward for the information which led to Surratt's arrest. Mussey claims fees for lobbying the resolution through Congress. The Merchants' National Bank, of Memphis, which was closed about a month since for an al. leged violation of the national banking act, after an examination by a special agent of the treasury department, has been turned over to its officers, pus Bill Rudd, an ex Confederate soldier, was shot dead in Waverly, Missouri, last Friday, by a party of armed men, and his body hung upon a tree in the woods by the perpetrators. His mouth was stuffed full of tow, and the rope by which he was suspended was passed through his mouth and then around his neck. A correspondent of the Scientific American commends onions as a specific against epidemicsnot as an esculent, but sliced and kept in a sick room, where they will absorb any atmospheric poison. They should be replaced by fresh ones every hour. It is noticed that in the room of a small-pox patient they blister and decompose with great disease. rapidity, but will prevent the spread of the Capt. Sylvester Wright, of Northampton, Mass., a lumber dealer,' has failed for $45,000; and forgeries amounting to $28,000 have been traced to him. He owned steam saw-mills at Northampton, at Holyoke, and at South Vernon, Vt.; was a stirring business man, and a member of the Board of Selectmen and of the First (Orthodox) Church of Northampton. The forgeries extend a period of three or four years. The footings of the Congressional appropriation bills passed are as follows: Military academy, $276,000; diplomatic service, $1,210,600 postoffice. $20,279,000; ocean service, $800,000; army, $33,082,00 navy, $17,370,000 legislative, executive and judicial, $17,950,300; civil service, $9,250,000; pensions, $30,350,000; Indian service, $4,160,700; Alaska, (in coin) $7,200,000; deficiencies, $17,460,650; charities, (District of Columbia) $216,000; charities, (private) $110,000; miscellaneous, $260,000, making a total of about $161,400,000. There's economy for you. The Minnesota Winnebagoes, who were removed to the Upper Missouri five years ago and placed on a sandy, barren reservation, destitute of wood water and game, are returning to the vicinity of La Crosse. They number only about 300, and are led by Short Wing," an old warrior, who was a sort of commissioner to Washington in 1846, when
