Northern items.
--From our special files from the
North we gather the following items.
In order to satisfy public curiosity, we will say that our Northern files arrived by the ‘"contraband line:"’
The colors of the
Highland Regiment of New York,
Colonel Stevens, were returned to them on Monday with befitting ceremonies.
The colors, it will be recollected, were taker from them at the time of their insubordination or scrutiny by order of
General McClellan.
Two 68-pounders intended for the frigate
Pensacola are on their way to this city from
Charlestown.
They are of the Dahlgren style, smooth bore, and weigh about four and a half tons each.
An elegant $240 sword is soon to be presented to
Captain Dericke, of the
Duryea Fire Zouaves, stationed in
Baltimore.
Another beautiful sword is to be presented to
Colonel Paine, of the Fourth Wisconsin Volunteers, by the
Jefferson County Guards.
It is stated that the sale of arms in
Cincinnati has fallers, off largely.
Not more than one-third is now sold that was a few weeks since.
Captains Morse and
Humphrey, of the Michigan Second, to be had an interview the other day with rebel officers in regard to the mutual firing on pickets, publish a card, in which they say, ‘"the pledges have been kept.
There has not been a single shot fired from the pickets on either side, up to this time, (3 P. M., 12th,) along that part of our lines at Balley's Cross Roads."’
Two more companies are to be raised.--What place in the
State or country can show a more patriotic record than sterling old
Marblehead?
Massachusetts has in active service in the army or navy, or will have, when the regiments now recruiting shall have been raised, nearly thirty thousand men.
