The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1861-12-10
Miscellaneous

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-. NtSR thousand porsons have this yoar visit Cd
| CT smounix on tho Alps OF these, i,IN
! we're from England and America.
GtN. SCoTT and Archbishop Hughes hsv,
| ,1i,ly arrived out. The Nashville intended 10
have captured Gen. Scott.
TuE President passes sono Of his time AZ the
O"r,nce Bureau. IIc has Invented , gu.
| Which II is said, 10 possessed Of considerable
lit.
Ina Chicago POsr notices the arrival in that
cry 81 TIE remains of a member Of Col. Farms
worth cav airy regiment who had been tried aud
not Tor sleeping while on duty A. gu1ri
CHARLOTTE CusuMAs Is in Rome. She ovus
lu,ro in tho Via Gregg riana in which she re-
'id''. She spends her time mostly in charitable
ac's.
Why Is Henry Ward Bescher or sny oth.r
minister, worsc than Brigham Young Becauss
| te married more women than he can support.
| 1hf would like to marry more.
a CoSTBAnAND at Beaufort thus describes
The light Of the rebels "Fust do Alabamains
run, len de Gtorgy cavalry wend after dem and
dty didn't como back len DC Souf Carolinaians
run, and len de Dutch to be killed"
Ir IL stated that Mr Cobden. Of Enpland. In
,'ill troubled by the bronchial affection from
which ho suffered last winter, and that he sgain
Cout"nl latcs the pos ibil,'v Of havirg TO spend
son,c Of the winter months in a warmer climate.
TUE Prince of wales will finally quit Cam
bridge in December sud shortly afierward win
proceed TO ConTantncplc ard make a tour
first year.
~ Old German who wen. 10 Paris few years
aCo "to enjoy life, as he called il, lately died
there childloss, ard left fortune of $50 900 10
ho I'll. ded amongst the authors and artists Who
contributed TO his enjoyment. The money Ia
distributed in proportion 20 the pleasure which
lie derived from each legAtec.
A PRISONER was lntcly discovered In the
Queens Bench Prison, London, who had beon
confined 80 years for debt. IL had life ints-
rest in small property, but received nothing
hom It since his Incarceration In 1914. He
said hc owed no man anything, aud did not
wish 10 he liberated.
1uE difference between king eu,hroned and
hug d,thron'd Is striking. The cx-King u
MAJ l., occupies an apartrut nj In the Ponufoal
Pal l,cc at Rome. lie drives cut in a coach and
four without livery, aud goes snd comes un-
greeted and almost unnoted. The Queen and
queen mother dress and appear like other ladies,
and receive no more attention.
1IS st. Louis REPgBLIcAN says the COM
maIdants a. tho diiicren. military posts in tho
Interior Of that state are now engaged In col
lec'h q. property of Ill de crip,ion taken by tho
10 W in their mavvh hrouph he country, and
will turn II over to the proper owners as ro-
qGired by the articles Of war.
Cot. PKiToS, of tho Confederate states,
who went TO Europe in the Nashville, thus boi-
sters up southern interests with tho most stu
pendous of lies about home. lie says that there
nre 200 900 bales of cotton Of the old crop, over
-four millions Of bales Of tho new crop, and ff,y
millions Of dollars worth Of tobacco in the naval
stores ready for shipment.
HENRI llENDRICK, great grandson Of the cal
elrnt,d Captain IlcLdrick of Revolu tionaIy
memory, has boon authorized by tho Governor
Of Wisconsin 10 raise an Indian regiment for
he war. Mr.. llcndrick Is of the Sockbridge
Title, iCrmeily of tho Mohicans. He pledges
siG eco from the Indians towards the equip
mcnt of the regiment.
Is the Toronto LEADER we find a letter fom
J. ]. Shaver, British subject confined in Fort
Warren, who claims to be guilty OF no offence
against the United States Government, and
askr that his release should Lo demanded or tho
charges against lin examined. Tho LEADKR
uDrcncrously says, this letter = shows that no
man can travel in tho States With prospect Of
getting safely out ol them
n PRIVATE letter from Manchester, England,
dated November 22d, and received by the AfIt-
90, avs: We have no sensible distress in Lam
casl ire just yet. Some Of the mills arc work.
ing iull tim', but most are working three days
week. We have had long season Of pros
pcIIiy, and masters and men have been able 10
save money, so that tho pinch will not lie very
scIiou for the winter. There has been much
money made 10y cotton spectators.
1uE London TIMES publishes report of tho
lndH Tor irrigation purposes. More than
il, zoo labOrcrs were at the date Of the last ad-
vices, employed thereon. The entire length Of
the main trunk line will extend over about $40
miles. II il estimated that between SOoBkasalA
and Mittacondal 10000 acres Of land will 10
commanded for irrigation. The Koondair divi-
zion ot the project will, II has been estimated,
CONN and for irrigation 800 900 acres Of highly
productive land in the valley.
lnE i.y,nuo' Of Trinity Colles', DuJln ara
HI tly derived iiOm estates granted by tho
tr' " and private indiy iduals, and amount to
- OO0 per annum. The number of students
" % .nnuilly < aduate averages 203, of whom
o. taLo holy orders, and Ill enter lay profess
sio. , The sum granted TO the Queens colleges,
is ,lj0,OC0 annually, for lay education only,
and the number OF graduates Tor each amount to
~ per year; so that for "A sum only little moro
thnu half that ia granted to the Queens colleges,
thu University Of Dublin does five times as much
work tor the Irish llity.
Two or three weeks ago, when the Sever-
tecnth Ohio regiment was encamped at Camp
Column neal Crab Orchard, some Of the troops
accidentally discovered coal cropping out Of tho
soil. Specimens Of il were scattered thickly
all over the surface Of he country, but the in-
habiants said II was slate. That night great
fires oi 'slate' diitused comfort throughout tho
camp, and the kentuckians who visited the regi-
mcrt were astOnIshed TO see the Buckeyes burn
ing II. One man said that several years ago
he had dug a well on an adjoining farm,
through the Same sort Of stuh,' but it had
never occurred to him that it was canne coal.
LAMARIISF, says a correspondent of the BOs-
ton Posi- il still lifting in his own hall gate cry
ing Dut for aims, and hol ling his hat, all new
and shining aud well brushed, for tho obolon Of
the piling pas,s hy No man has ever sacri-
decd such a reputation as lamntine, tor no man
bad oyeT such reputation to sacrifice. Tie
man has fallen into the very lowest abyss-nOt
Of contempt, but Of Reconsideration" For
gotten even in life, he seems lims,lf TO re-
men b,r his for aer goIy no more, snd has al
ready begun 70 descend the steep hillside, at the
Iott,m OF which lie that doubt for the future
ud rogret for the past which a mar like LAM
utho ought never to have been made to feel.