The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-30 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS,

A patent has been taken out for a newore grinder
and amalgamator by Mr. H. A. Gaston, of Austin,
Nevada. It consists in a rotating screw operating
in connection with a case or cylinder surrounding
the said screw, and placed within the ordinary
amalgamating pan in such a way that when the
screw is rotated in one direction it will grind or
mash the ore or pulp in contact with the quicksilver
placed in the bottom of
direction
said. pan, and when
revolved in an Opposite
circulation
tion will cause a con-
tinuous agitation or . within the pan of
the ore or pulp and the intermixed
therewith, by which means quicksilver
-thiolvrt:orugh grinding
imetals con-
of the ore and the amalgamation of
teitnhsured. It
tained therein is said to be effectually
also consists in a novel arrangement
to the case or cylinder just mentioned reference
and to the
amalgamating pan, of partitions with sloping sides,
Which insure the proper passage of the ore or pulp
from the amalgamating pan into the said case.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has decided
that the vote of 1840 giving the negroes of that
State the right of suffrage is constitutional, and they
have the right to vote.
THE SEAWORTHINESS OF THE AMERICAN MONI-
TO118•--When. the United States iron-clad Monad-
nock arrived at Valparaiso on the Ist of March, it
may be estimated that according to the route taken,
stopping places, she had run quite
six thousand mil
This voyage, exceB since she left the United States.
Atlantic and back, in lenth a trip across the
ship has yet to do,
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destination, and at least rancisco being her port of
miles further. That she four thousand dye hundred
ofazosuld accomplish the task
was believed •
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behaviour having
been excellent in this s.v'erher
worthy of note having occurred to retard the pas-
VISIT to Chili.
ifou attracted
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—Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia''1" GRANT.
considerable attention at the White
day and to-clay, but owing to the crowd
waiting for admission was compelled
upon
without seeing the President. He called
General Grant yesterday, and the General returned')n
the compliment this morning. The conversation
naturally turned on Southern affairs and recon-
struction. :llr. Stephens reiterates his positive
convictions that the people of Georgia are sincere
in their expressions of submission and future loyalty,
and naturally desires the speedy admission of her
representatives.—New York, Tribune, April 10.
PETROLEUM IN IVIISSISSIPPL—The Mississippi and
Alabama Oil and Mining Company has just been

started at Columbus, Miss., with a capital of
$300,000 in 6,000 shares of $5O each, plr value.
PETROLEUM IN ALABAMA.---The New Orleans
Times says :—" A private letter, received in this
city, states that oil has been struck by parties who
were boring for it at Gadsden, Alabama, on the
Coosa River, and that the whole country there-
abouts was in a state of intense oleaginous excite-
ment. Several prominent oil-promising regions of
our own State have recently exchanged hands at
high figures, and already the work of boring has
been commenced near Lake Charles, on the Cale-
asieu River, where a sandstone formation was struck
at a depth of 120 feet. Quite a number of natural
oil springs have been found in the same vicinity and
in the interior of the State. A valuable spring has
also been discovered within two miles of Red River,
above the raft, and the prospects on the Ouachits
River, in Arkansas, is extremely flattering.
PETROLEUM IN COLORADO TERRITORY.—The
Leavenworth Conservative says :—" Mr. Cassidy,
managing the oil wells near Canon City, Colorado,
has taken 700 gallons of refined to Denver for
sale—the first oil from far Western wells, which
pump from 25 to 30 barrels daily."
America still keeps its superiority in the article

of " enormous lying." _ For example, the Maine

Farmer tells a story of a man whom it calls
Neverbeat. Somebody having boasted of the
speed of his horse, Neverbeat rejoined, " Why,
the other day I was up to sixteen miles
distant. Just as I started for home a shower
came sweeping on. The rain struck in the back
part of the waggon, and the moment it struck I
hit old Kate a cut with the whip. Away she
trotted, scarcely touching her fore-feet to the
ground she kept just nip and nip with the shower.
The waggon was filled with water, but not a drop
fell on me ! "
The new Naval and Military Club, Cambridge
House, the late residence of Lord Palmerston, was
opened to members on Tuesday week.
The Christian Index, an American paper, thus
prefaces an obituary :--4 But a week since we re-
corded the death of one who was an old father in
the Church, a careful reader of the Index, and

who paid for three papers in advance."
Certain German gentlemen in New York have,
for and in consideration of the sum of 60,000
greenback dollars, purchased the right and title in
and unto four lots, 50 feet by 205, situate in
Fourteenth and Fifteen streets, midway between the
Second and Third avenues, and forthwith they will
proceed to erect thereon a theatre capable of ac-
commodating about 2,000 persons. The locality
is certainly desirable ; and if the right kind of
amusement be offered the new theatre would re-
ceive liberal patronage.—Orchestra.
WONDERFUL LNVENTION.—A correspondent of an
American scientific journal sends it a very long
communication about an apparatus to record the
inclination of a legislative or other assembly during
a speech, as well as to indicate it, so that the speech
might be stopped when the majority got tired of it.
American papers record the death of one Mrs.
Forbes, of Ashfield, Massachusetts, at the age of
103, and state that she lived to see her descendants
to the fifth generation. Her father died at the age
of 90, and her mother died in her 100th year.
Among her ten brothers and sisters but one died
under 80 years, the others reaching 90 and up-
wards.

Dr. Livingstone arrived at Zanzibar on the 28th
January. He lost all his Indian buffaloes, except
four, on the voyage ; but although he will not, as
he anticipated, have the use of them as beasts of
burden, still he has sufficient left to enable him to
make a trial as to whether they will withstand the
bite of the " Tzetze" fly, the scourge of that part
of Africa which he intends visiting.

Win AND NAVY EXPENSES.—The disbursement
of the Treasury Department of the United States on
account of the War and Navy Department, for the
quarter ending 31st March, were as follows :—War
Department for January, $25,251,936; War Depart-
ment for February, $15,401,395 ; War Department
for March, $8,608,981. Navy Department for
January, $3,547,656; Navy Department for Feb-
ruary, $3,032,006 ; Navy Department for March,
$4,583,044. The one million increase in the Navy
expenses for March was occasioned by large remit-
tances abroad for the use of vessels on foreign sta-
tions.

Ten years ago, one barrel of petroleum a week,
or fifty barrels a year would overstock the market.
Now more than two barrels a year are an insuffi-
cient supply. If the productions were to fall short
of that amount, it would create a panic in the mar-
ket and largely advance the price.
The enormous profits of the National Bank Note
Company of Yew York have come out in a recent
law suit. During five months in 1863 it paid
dividends from its accumulated surplus earnings,
amounting to 310 per cent. The $5O shares of the
company are now worth $735.
There are about 3,000 coloured people in Boston.
They are generally quiet and industrious, and some
of them are worth $50,000 a piece. They support
five coloured churches.

Kentucky is the only State of the thirty-six that
has not adopted the constitutional amendment.
Gen. Schenck has been authorised by the Military
Committee to report to the house his bill fixing the
pay of Army Officers. It cuts off all commutations
and subsidies, and makes the annual pay of a
Lieutenant-General at $12,000 ; Major-Generals,
when in the field or in command of a Department,
$7,500; on other duty, $6,500; Brigadier-Gene-
rals, when commanding a division, department, or
an army, $5,000 ; when commanding a brigade,
$4,000 ; Colonels, when commanding a brigade or
military post, $3,500 ; when commanding a regi-
ment or other duty, $3,000 ; Lieutenant-Colonels,
$2,600 ; Majors, $2,200 ; Captains, $2,000 ; First
Lieutenants, $1,500; Second Lieutenants, $1,200.
When an officer is absent on furlough over thirty
days, except when sick or wounded, his pay will be
reduced 30 per cent. for all the time he is absent
over thirty days. All surgeons, chaplains, military
storekeepers, and other officers, having assimilated
or declared rank, shall be paid according to the
above rates.
SOUTHERN WOMEN WORKING.—The Richmond
(Va.) Republic asserts that it is a fact " known to
everybody that throughout Virginia, and all through
the South, ladies who were the recognised leaders
of society have betaken themselves to the needle for
the support of their families, and are toiling indus-
triously and as cheerfully in that vocation as if they
had been bred to it from their childhood. Not only
this, but in many instances they have performed
the household duties, the cooking and other work,
once exclusively done by their menials." All this
was done long ago by Northern women, who never
boasted of their industry.
General Burnside has been elected Governor of
Rhode Island by a vote approaching unanimity.
The Legislature is also Union.
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the firm finding itself $300,000 in debt.
It is estimated that the whole oil territory of
Pennsylvania might have been purchased a few
years ago for $200,000, and now it is held worth
more than $250,000,000.