Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-10-23

copper IS replaced by zinc hllngs. These
two preparations, placed in vase and sep
arated by porous cell, make battery
which is said always to have the same in
tensity of action, on account Of its con-
slant humidity and the indifuite number
of its elements.
A report is now current that another ex-
pedition, to be placed in command of
Captain Inglefeld, is to be dispatched to
the Arctic regions.
The Dresden Journal says: "The great
subject of conversation in the military cir
cles in Berlin is new kind of small field
piece, capable of carrying correctly 1000
yards, and is mounted on wheels, and that
it can be drawn and manoeuvred by q
single man."
In New York, Monday morning, while
the steamer Roanoke was discharging, the
stevedors came across box which, on be-
ing moved, was found to contain negro,
who had taken this means to secure his free
dom. The steamer at once proceeded to
Richmond to return the man.
FIREs.-The total loss by fires in the
United States during the last month, so
far as information has been received, is
$l,336,O00: making the total for the year
thus far $l3,09O,00O. The number of
large fires in September was twenty-seven.
The cloak-rooms of several of the South
Western Railway Company's stations yield
more than 4l,OOO year. The charge is
a penny per article for anything left there.
Mrs. Julia Dean Haynes profits by her
Californm tour are estimated at twenty
five thousand dollars.
A GooD FINp1Na.-A party of three
miners, working in the Black Creek, at
Tarradale, at a depth of about IL feet
from the surface, came upon solid lump
of gold, weighing 54lbs., with about so
ounces of smaller nuggets in close proxim-
ity. The total value taken from the claim
was alittle under f3,0O0.-Mel6ourne ar
gus, of June 9.
HONESTY IN A HURRY.-An Irishman
having accidentally broken pane of glass
in window, was making the best of his
way out of sight; but unfortunately for
Pat the proprietor stole march upon him,
and having seized him by the collar, ex-
claimed, "You broke my window, fellow
did you not 9"-"To be sure l did," said
Pat, "and didn't you see me running home
for money to pay for t!"
JEWS AND GENTLEMEN.-Thank good
ness, your royal highness," exclaimed the
most clerical and casuistical of Churchmen,
the other day, in London, "thank goodness
we have gentleman in the civic chair at
lastT-"Yes, my lord, returned the prince,
"but you had to go beyond the pale of
Christianity to find him.
Paris contains about million of inhabi-
tants, or the 1-3Oth of the entire empire,
yet it pays no less than one-tenth of the
whole direct taxation of France.
Precious MoUTHFuL.-A young gentle
man of this city called at an oyster stand,
day or two since, and ordered a "dozen
in the she'll" The order was attended
to in moment and when he attempted
to swallow the first oyster, he felt some
hard substance in his mouth, which he
took out and placed on the stand beside
him. After the whole were disposed of he
examined the hard substance, which he
supposed to be q pebble. and discovarod
that it was large and valuable pearl.
Various jewellers estimate its value at from
$40 to $40.-Syracuse Standard
LoSDoN.-The present population in
London is estimated at two millions and
half; and it may be said with some truth,
that to feed and cloth, this population, the
whole world is taxed. Perhaps none Of
the great cities of ancient times included
so large population as London now con-
tains.