– Hard treatment, hard-tack and hard-ship constitutes a regular soldier’s life on the frontier.

– There are 700 vessels engaged in dredging for oysters in Maryland waters of Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries – There are 200 cigar factories in San Francisco, which turn out 107,000,000 cigars annually, and seven or eight million of cigarettes.

– A special from Laredo to the Galveston News gives intelligence of a daring raid upon the towns of Candela, Savinas and Hidalgo in the State of Tamanlipas, on the 22nd, by a party of 50 Mexicans, mostly from Texas, under command of Col. Y. Salinas, an adherent of Laredo.

They seized the principal men of these towns and forced them to pay $6,000.

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