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Mrs. L. Virginia Smith, a lady of decidedly literary talent and reputation, has written a series of lectures, appropriated and relating to the times, which it is her intention to deliver through the principal cities in the South--the proceeds to be approximated to the purchase of winter clothing for the Confederate soldiers in Missouri.

Mr. Henry Couch, of Russell county, Va., was engaged in the experiment of making gunpowder, on the 17th. By some means the mass of material became ignited, and he was burnt so severely that he died on the 10th,

A. U. Tomlinson, of Remington, M. C. has put up a machine to run by steam to make shoe pegs, which the South has always heretofore been content to buy from the Yankees.

The people of Tennessee were started by a heavy shock of an earthquake early on Friday morning last.

George W. Bridges, of Tennessee, has been unconditionally released by General Zollis sooner,

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