The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-26 00:00:00

Miscellaneous American News.

The Pittsburgh Mining and Manufacturing
Journal states that among the many iron regions of
Virginia one of the most remarkable is the vast
deposit of brown hematite ores in Alleghany county,
known as " The Iron Mountains of Virginia."
The Messrs. Jordan own, near Covington, in that
county, a tract which has been described as a cubic
mile---not a superficial mile—of brown hematite
iron ore ; and that vicinity alone is estimated as
able to furnish a million of tons of iron a year for
more than a century.
There is a single bed of salt in Nevada that is
computed to cover 50,000 acres. It is solid rock
salt, 95 per cent. fine. It now yields at the rate of
2,000,000 bushels per annum. The water rushes
up from a distance of about 35 feet, and makes a
constant deposit of the finest white salt.
The Portland Transept tells a story illustrating
the thieving carried on at the great fire. It says
that a man and his wife, who were burnt out and
went over to the Cape to board, on being shown to
their room, found it furnished with their own fur-
niture.

Calhoun Ml. Derringer, the newly appointed
Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Second Dis-
trict of Pennsylvania, in place of Thomas W.
Sweeney, resigned, entered upon his duties on the
Ist November.

The activity manifested in Atlantic City by the
people there in improving the place exceeds any-
thing of the kind since it was incorporated. Some
twenty new buildings are in course of construction,
and about as many more have been contracted for.
The railroad company have and are delivering an
immense amount of gravel for filling up the side-
walks and other purposes, and the authorities are
grading and raising the streets, so that in due time
the proper grades will be filled up in all the spa-
cious avenues. Every train conveys to that
city building materials of various kinds, and scores
of carpenters are busilyengaged in getting it ready

for the structures intended. From present indica-
tions Atlantic City has a prosperous future. Sur-
veyors are engaged in laying out streets and lots at
the lower end of the town, intending thus to survey
about four miles of the island. A new Episcopalian
church is to be erected next season, and during the
holiday vacation an addition is to bo finished to the
public school. These indications show that those
who own property there are determined to make
such permanent improvements as will contribute to
the rapid growth and popularity of the place.
Fifteen hundred acres of peat, twelve feet thick,
are said to have been discovered in Hardin county.

The Watchman and Recorder remarks that a
strong feeling bas sprung up among the coloured
people in favour of emigration to Liberia. The
feeling is not confined to any section of the coun-
try ; it is manifested North and South. Young
and old, and of all occupations, now desire to go to
Liberia. They declare that as soon as the coloured
population arc admitted to the full rights of
American citizens there will be a rush to Liberia
that will astonish every one. The reverse was ex-
pected. It was supposed that freedom and citizen-
ship would retain the negro in America. But the
coloured people say they are unwilling to be sent off
as rubbish or as people out of place ; they will go
as independent passengers, as emigrant citizens—
not leaving the country for its good, but for their

own.
The following information of what writings re-
quire stamps in the United States will prove valu-
able to business men generally, and should be kept
for reference :-
Ist. Instruments of writing dated before October 1,
1862, do not require a stamp.
2d. Those dated between August 1, 1862, and August 1,
1864, may be stamped either before or after use by the
Court Registrar or Recorder.
3d. Those dated August 1, 1864, and more than twelve
months old, may be stamped before a United States Col
lector, without payment of the penalty of $5O.
4th. Those dated after August 1, 1864, and more than
twelve months old, can be stamped upon the payment of
the penalty of $5O.
And every assignment of a note, which assignment is
made since October 1, 1862, without regard to the date of
the note, is to be stamped as an agreement, namely, five
cents—no matter how small or how largo the note may be.
All persons having notes unstamped should have them
stamped at once. A receipt for money or property over
$2O, no matter what the amount, only requires a two-cent
stamp.
The grand jury of Newark, Ohio, have found
indictments against eleven persons for the en-
couragement of fraudulent voting at the late elec-
tion.
The new railroad to be constructed between
Mount Holly and Camden is an enterprise of incal-
culable importance. When completed and in run-
ning order it will open to the farmers residing along
the entire length better communication with the
Philadelphia markets than was ever before enjoyed,
and their interests are of no small consequence in
securing its early completion. The Camden and
Amboy Railroad Company, who now own the
charter, have taken an active part in perfecting
those preliminary arrangements, such as building,
purchasing, and settling the right of way, and other
necessary measures, and so soon as everything is
satisfactorily adjusted the work will commence.
This will be an important road, and cannot fail to
be advantageous not only to the people along its
route, but also to the stockholders themselves.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says the statement
that the Ocean Telegraph Company was about to
lay cables from Heart's Content to Halifax does
not seem to be substantiated by later intelligence.
It is now said that the plan is to construct a new
land line in Nova Scotia, ending at Placentia ;
thence a cable will be laid to St. Pierre, on the
Island of Miquelon. A land line will be extended
across that island, and a cable laid down to Sydney,
Cape Breton, where it will connect with the United
States. Another land line will be constructed across
Newfoundland, and carried by cable to Port Hood,
New Breton, where it will connect with lines to the
United States. The present land line across New-
foundland, which frequently gets out of order, is
to be kept up for the sake of the cable communica-
tion across the Gulf of St. Lawrence. By this
means there will be three modes of communication
with the United States, and it is hoped that one of
them at least will be always in order.
A railroad is proposed from Shelburne Falls to
Wilmington, Vermont, connecting the new line to
New Haven with the Western Vermont line, thus
making the most direct route to the Sound. A
meeting of those interested in the scheme was
inst. held at Shelburne Falls on the 9th.
The Boston, Hartford, and Erie Railroad will be
completed to Southbridge in the course of a month.
The State prison at Charlestown has 581 inmates
at the present time, about 50 of which are under
sentence for life. The receipts from manufactures
during the year amounted to $61,573, and the
price paid the labourers varies from 50e. to $l.
Among the contractors is the American Whip Com-
pany, of Westfield. There is a library of 1,600
volumes in the prison, mostly of the lighter style of
literature, to which the convicts have access twice
a week.
The receipts of flour at Boston for October
were 237,300 barrels—by rail 132,700, and by sea
104,600.
George Peabody's donation of $25,000 to Phillips
Academy, at Andover, will be devoted, at his re-
quest, to endowing the chair of mathematics and
natural sciences. Its income only will be used in
payment of the professor's salary, and any balance
not thus expended is to be added to the permanent
fund. The money comes in the form of Massa-
chusets 1883 Five per cent. Bonds.
The lumber business in Maine has been unusually
prosperous during the past season, with a good
supply of water for the mills, and a quick demand
for all lumber produced. There have been sur-
veyed at Bangor already sixty million feet more
than last year, and the amount will probably be
two hundred and twenty-five millions in all.
John T. Parker, of Farmington, has invented
a new machine for boring oil and artesian wells, by
which the tubing is put in as fast as the augur de-
scends, and this prevents all danger from covering
and considerably lessons the cost of the work.
When the well is finished, or at any other time
when necessary, the augur collapses and is drawn
up through the tubing.
Colonel J. W. Robinson, of Concord, has re-
signed the superintendency of the White Mountain
Division of the American Telegraph Company, in
order that he may accept the position of general
agent of the Brooklyn Home Life Insurance Com-
pany for the States of New Hampshire and Ver-
mont.
The work on the fishway over the Amoskeag dam
on the Merrimac, at Manchester, has been begun.
The passage will be 300 feet long and will cost
$5,000.
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dents connected with the institution.
The receipts of gold and silver by public sources
at San Francisco for the nine months to October 1
were nearly forty million dollars, indicating about
50,000,000 for the year. This is about the same as
1865 ; and Montana and Colorado, whose produc-
tion mostly comes east, will swell the aggregate
gold product of the nation for the year to about
7.5,000,000. This is less than was confidently ex-
pected, but quite up to the production of last year,
and probably a trifle beyond.
The Nation gives the following summary of the
Baltimore imbroglio :—" The course of the proceed-
ings which have been agitating Maryland, and ab-
sorbing the attention of the country at large during
the past week, may be summed up as follows :--
After Governor Swann had given his reasons for
condemning and removing the Baltimore commis.
sioners, and had appointed new ones in their place,
these latter first summoned the old board to sur-
render their authority, and then, being unheeded,
began to swear in their own policemen, in which
business they were aided by the Sheriff. A colli-
sion being imminent, State Attorney Maund ap-
plied to judge Bond for the arrest of the parties ,