The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-07 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

IMPORTANT DISCOVE RT.—PAPER MANITFACTURED
FROM WOOD.--A company-of two hundred gentle-
men, representing the newspaper and book pub-
lishers of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia,
recently paid a visit to the Manayunk Wood Paper
Pulp Works, and witnessed the entire process of
converting cord wood into paper pulp and its manu-
facture into paper. The works Ware very extensive,
the building and machinery having cost $500,000.
The great feature in the works is the economy in
the use of chemicals which disintegrate the wood
and bleach the pulp, the refuse being carried to an
evaporating house where the chemicals are rendered

Ifit for use again, only 20 per cent. of fresh stock
being added to make it equal to former strength.
I At the adjoining Flat Rock Paper Mills excellent
printing paper is made with 80 per cent. of wood
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pulp and 20 per cent. of straw pulp. From twelve
to fifteen tons of wood pulp are turned out daily.
The works have but recently gone into operation,
and already prices of paper have been reduced three
cents per pound.
SILVER LODE DISCOVERED IN WEST VIRGINIA—
THE VEIN EIGHTEEN INCHES THICK. —A company
boring for oil on the farm of William Cunningham,
situated in Jackson county, Weat Virginia, in going
down went through a vein of metal about eighteen
inches thick. The company took no particular
notice of the borings, but continued drilling until
they became satisfied their efforts in search for oil
were fruitless, when they abandoned the well. In
recurring to the strata through which the drill had
passed the owners thought of the metal vein,
and immediately concluded to have it analysed.
A quantity of the metal borings was sent to New
York, where it has been assayed and pronounced to
yield 98 per cent. of pure silver. Underneath this
vein, which is 340 feet from the surface, is a vein
of silver quartz four feet thick. The gentleman
from whom we learn the foregoing
facts,
following account of the strata in thewellgi:Les hFitrset
40 feet, hard flint rock; next 200 feet, soft soap
stone ; then a layer of blue rock ; next soap stone ;
then the silver vein 18 inches thick ' • next four feet
of quartz, and then a bed of black sand, similar to
the sand found in the gold mines ofCalifornia.
This valuable discovery has been made on a
small farm, located above Letart Falls, six miles
above Ripley's Landing,
from Pittsburg 240 miles. West
The
oVirginia,wn e r
s and
have distantb been
en
loffered, since the discovery, 200,000 dollars for the
farm, but they have refused to sell at any price, as
they design developing it themselves. They are
already at work reaming out the well preparatory
to sinking a shaft, the machinery for which was
brought up from Cincinnati on the steamer Leonidas
on her last trip.
One of the Paris papers states that among the
passengers for America, who left Havre a day or
two ago by the Transatlantic packet boat Napoleon
Trois, was Stephens, the Head Centre of the
Fenians.
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The Cleveland Herald of the 14th April says Mrs.
Jefferson Davis and her party arrived there on the previous
evening, by the Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati
Railroad, from the South, and immediately passed on to
New York by the Atlantic and Great Western Road.
Mr. Thurlow Weed, of New York, received a
letter by the last steamer from the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird,
M.P., enclosing £5O for himself, and a like amount from
Sir Morton Peto, for the Freedmen's Bureau.

At a reception given in Washington by Lieut.-
General Grant, on the evening of the 13th April, President
Johnson, Hon. Thad. Stevens, ex-rebel Vice-President
Alexander H. Stevens, &c., were present.
Mrs. Jeff Davis is atpresent in Washington, and,
with the aid of the late rebel Vice-President, is endeavour-
ing to get permission to visit her husband at Fortress
Monroe.

The snit of Charles Burrill against the City of
Boston, involving $BOO,OOO, which the plaintiff claims for
procuring recruits for the quota of Boston during the war,
has been withdrawn from a jury trial by consent of the
counsel, and will be argued and decided on legal points
before the Supreme Court.

General Scott has left New Orleans for New
York, with his health somewhat improved.
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The Petersburg Express contains the following :--
" We have intelligence direct from Toronto, Canada, where
General Breckinridge is now residing. He says that his
health is good, but that care is making its mark upon the
handsome and intellectual lace with which nature blessed
him. Four years ago his hair was black as jet ; now it
is hoary. He is weary of exile, and anxious to return
to his home and friends. . In tho hope of accomplish-
ing this end, Ex-Governor Price, of New Jersey, a
warm personal friend and colleague of the General in the
Congress of the United States previous to the late war, has
proceeded, or will shortly do so, to Washington, and have
an interview with the President. We trust that the Pre-
sident will accede to the request. His relations with Mr.
Breckinridge, prior to the late political estrangement, were
quite friendly, if not positively cordial. Besides, there is
no charge against General Breckinridge that we are aware
of. All the political prisoners, save two, have been released
from confinement. Mallory, Stephens, Seddon, Hunter,
Judge Campbell, all except the President and Judge Clay.
Why keep General Breckinridge in exile? We can see no
reason for so doing, and doubtless the President will con-
sent that he may return to his home, his family, and his
friends.

General Grierson, the great cavalry raider, has
been nominated by the Secretary of War for colonel of
cavalry in the regular army. This was done on recom-
mendation of Gen. Grant.