, 1858-04-09
Miscellaneous CJiDDingS.

carson VALLEY TERRITORY. From pri-
vate letters received from Washington, We
learn, says the State Journal, that the new
Carson Valley Territory bill will no doubt
pass, with little or no opposition. There
seems to be some interest felt as to the
probable action of our Legislature on the
petition to release all claims to Jurisdiction
on the east side of the dividing ridge of
the Sierra Nevadas, but that will not,
probably, interfere with the action of Con
greSs on the subject Judge Crane is there,
pressing the bill.
DAcorAH.-The proposed Territory Of
Dacotah comprises the area lying between
the western boundary Of the State of Min
nesOta and the Missouri aud White Earth
rivers, which streams form the eastern
boundary Of Nebraska. The population is
estimated at 1000, giving 1900 to the
Red River region, and the remainder to
the country open to settlement contiguous
to the Big Sioux. On the Big Sioux there
are several thriving settlements, the princi
pal one being at the Fals-Sioux Falls
City is the name Of it, Here there are about
thirty houses, q steam mill, and several
stone buildings. AT Alminja, Il few miles
below the Falls, and the head of steamboat
navigation on the Big Sioux, there are sew
eral houses. At Fiandran, also on the
Sioux, and forty miles above the Falls,
there are few houses. At Medary, sixty
miles from the Falls by the tortuous course
of the river, there is thriving settlement
Boosting upward Of twenty houses, and
probably as many families. Timber is very
scarce in the Territory. Tho navigable
rivers are the Missouri, Big Sioux, James
and Red.
SALT IN DAcoTAH,-A portion of this en-
bryo Territory, situated on the high table
lands between the james and Missouri riv-
ers, abounds in salt springs and lakes. One
of these lakes, near the head waters Of
Salt river, is four or five miles in circum-
ference, with few inches of water in it,
lying upon a bed of crystalized salt at least
three feet deep.
A MONSTER GUN.-The Dahlgren gun of
the U. S. corvette Plymouth weighs l6, 900
pounds. The weight Of each shell dis
charged therefrom is 1876 pounds; that Of
each solid shot ia pounds. The sound of
the shell and shot, traversing a distance Of
three miles, is lost in the enormous space
which it traverses. In experiments made
to test the strength of these guns, one Of
them had been fred of nearly two thou
sand times, with large proportion Of shell
shot, without bursting.
An ANcIESr RELIC. The schooner Fal.
mouth lately arrived from Acapulco,
brought, among other things, bronze can
non, Of the old Spanish manufacture, mark
ed 1928, showing it TO have been manufac-
tured two hundred and thirty years ago, or
eight years after the landing of the PHI
grims at Plymouth, and when the Spanish
realm was 10 its pride. The gun weighs
three thousand three hundred and ninety
pounds, and is twelve feet long.
VoDAL MAcHIERY FOR BtRDs.LGarden-
ers's Music Of Nature" speaking Of this
subject, says: -..7s.r.st
A recent discovery has shown that in
birds the lungs have several openings com
municating with corresponding air bags or
cells, which Gil the whole cavity Of the
body from the neck downward, and into
which the air passes and repasses in the
progress Of breathing. This Is not all
The very bones are hollow, from which air
pipes are conveyed to the most solid parts
Of the body, even into the quilts and feath-
ers, The air being rarifed by the heat Of
their body, adds to their levity. BY fore
ing the air out Of the body, they can dart
down from the greatest heights with aston
ishing velocity. No doubt the same ma
chinery forms the basis of their vocal pow
ers.
OLDEST MARRIED COUPLE LIvINe.-There
is now living in Burnside, Pa, a Mr.. Lud-
wick Snyder, Ill years old. His wife Jane
is l07 years old. The date of their mar.
riage is not given, but supposing Ludwick
was twenty-one years old at the that dis
tant epoch, they have been living together
as man and wife ninety-two yearsl
bO-A newspaper correspondent having
lately visited the Siamese twins, puts the
following question Should Chang, one Of
the twins, infringe the laws by something
worthy Of death, how should he be punish
cd and justice be satisfied, II IL could not
be without the death Of the innocent
D6rTo cure corns, soak the foot ia warm
water for q quarter Of an hour every night I;
after each soaking rub on the corn, patient
ly, with the finger, half dozen drops Of
sweet oil; wear around the toe during the
day two thicknesses Of buckskin, with a
hole in it 10 receive the corn. Continue
this treatment until the corn falls out; aud
by wearing moderately loose shoes it will be
months and even years before the corn re-
turns, when the same treatment will be eff
cient in fsw days. PAIRING corns is always
dangerous. besides making them take deep
er root.
A SrUPENDoUs WoRK.-An immense
aqueduct is about being built at Jenny
Lind, which, it is said, will surpass any
thing Of the kind every contemplated. 1t
will be fiVe-eighths of a mile in length, and
one hundred aud five feet high. 1t is to be