The constitutional union., 1860-11-23
NUMBER 3.
CURRENT ITEMS.

named Mercier, who knew the genuine Louis during his exile in America. Her absurd story is to the effect that the realson of Queen Hortense died in AIercier's house, and that the present Emperor of the French Is a man named Bowen, who was steadfast compan- ion of the real Simon pure, and bore strik- ing resemblance to him! The imposture is alleged to have been connected in order to prevent an inquiry into the circumstances un- der which the Prince died.
 A new island has been added to the Pacific chart by late discovery made by Captain Green, of the Agate, brig in the employ of the Phoenix Guano Company. It lies at the northeast end of the Phoenix group, in lat. 2 deg. II min. s. and long. ITO deg. 10 min. ". The discoverero found spacious lagoon inside, and some appearance of the island having been inhabited, although at a remote period.
 The discovery of a method of manufactur- ing paper from the leaves of the tobacco plant is announced It is to be employed in the making of cigarettes and is the result of many years labor and research of a skllful physician, who has discoverd that one of the most fearful disorders of the respiratory organs is produced by the acrid vapor of the the burnt paper imbibed with the smoke of the cigarette.
 The women of the town of Canton, Ohio, yexcd at the drunkenness which has prevailed there, made a descent last week upon a rum shop and spilled all the liquor upon the ground. They walked across the street and notified the keeper of another groggery that he had ten days wherein to re- linqulsh the business under penalty of simi- lar treatment.
 4 LITERARY CAB-DRIyER.-A prize of gc2O for the best essay on the effects of Sun day cab driving has been won by John Cock raun London cab driver At the meeting at which the prize was awarded Cockraun told his audience that the essay consisted of l9,OOO words, and was all written in the open air, on the top of his cab.
 The slave trade appears to be in almost un- restrained operation Recently two vessels have been captured in the waters of the Cari- bean sea with twelve hundred wild Africans on board. It is fact worthy of remark that most nearly all the vessels engaged in the trade, belong to the French, Cubans, Span iards and Portugese.
 Accounts from Venezuela to the 21st ult, state that all the Spanish residents were leav- ing the country, in consequence of the inter- ruption of the diplomatic relations with Spain and the withdawal of the Spanish minister The question n dispute between the two countries has been referred to Madrid.
 AN unfortunate young man in Boston is tied up in two wills His sfather, under heavy penalties, demands that he shall marry no lady whose feet exceed a prescribed size; and his mother, with equal severity, insists that the lady's hair shall be of prescribed color. The young man had better stick to celibacy.
 William Hewitt, the well-known English author, pronounces his belief in and devotion to spiritualism. He has just written a letter in reply to articles in Once a Week and Blackwood on this subject, and the English journalists have taken up the discussion ex- tensiyely.
 The Prussian Gazette says that 100 persons 1 have died in Southern Russia and Kiey from the puncture of description of poisonous fly, which made its way from Asia. About 1 sixty or seventy years ago, great number of persons died from a similar cause. l The Russian government has ordered the Polish clergy not to urge the people to total abstinence, because the revenues from taxes on spirits may be diminished They are, however, allowed to enlarge in general terms on the blessings of temperance.
 
 A child of J. H. Heath, of Washington, District of Columbia, was baptized last week in water which was taken from the river Jor- dan, carried to Jerusalem, and consecrated upon the Holy Sepulcher, and then brought across the Atlantic
 Archbishop Dixon has left Ireland for Rome The only circumstance that renders this fact worthy of recording is that it was this prelate who said to Louis Napoleon ''Robber, take your hand from the throat of the Vicar of Christ"
 The two Hitchings, arrested in South Caro- lima, on suspicion of being abolitionists, have been discharged. That is, they were escorted to the North Carolina line, and warned not to show their faces in the former State again
 TIE Prince of Wales, before his departure presented a valuable diamond brooch, sur mounted by his crest, to Miss Mattie Taylor, of Newport, Ky, who was one of his dancing partners at the Cincinnati ball.
 George Tether is held for bigamy at Hartford, Connecticut. His reply to the charge is that his first. wife treated him wrongly" and the second would marry him anyhow"
 Among the curiosities discovered by the census takers Is pretty little girl of fifteen, in the southern part of Monson, New York, who has husband one hundred and seven years of age.
 q believe the jury has been inoculated with stupidity" said lawyer. That may be" said his opponent, "but the bar are of the opinion that you had it in the natural way"
 A young lady, writing enthusiastically, as young ladies generally do portrays Garibaldi as "a dear old weather-beaten angel" He don't let any thing but the weather beat him.
 William Blue, the self-starved counterfeit ter, in Jail at Lafayette, Indiana, has yielded
 to the agonzing importunities of his young