At the Sanitary Fair in New York there is a
great sale of cur:osities :—" The first bowie knife ever made by Colonel Bowie himself, and with -which he killed Dr. Wright at Nashville in 1838 ;" "a Yankee skull taken at Bull Run and manufactured by the rebels into a drinking-cup;" and a "hairy eagle" made of the hair of President Lincoln, Vice-President Hamlin, the Secretaries of State, and some seventy of the principal senators and represen- tatives,"—of course of all colours. There is something very quaint in this notion of presenting the American eagle with personal scraps of all the politicians who compose this republican group, as keepsakes, • we suppose, or tender memorials of their energetic efforts to save the Republic. There are also two splendid swords to be presented to the two military and naval officers whose friends buy the largest number of votes—each vote costing a dollar. For the naval sword Admiral Farragut was ahead, but Commodore Rowan nearly up to him. For the military sword General Grant had got 111 votes, and General Al'Clellan 98; but some shrewd Yankee had injured the latter's chance by ob•erving, "Give M'Clellan another sword— surely that is a work of supererogation ! Let him show first that he can use the one he has." The Fair had realized at the last date 839,191 dollars, or about 171,8381., for the Sanitary Commission, and was not yet near its termination.
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