The weekly sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1851-1869, 1861-10-12
Miscellaneous


large body Of snOw remains in Tuck ernanis
RsNine which will not be likely to diminisA
tu.s year, STOW has begun 10 fall on N.
ountain top already.
rARIY OF SIXTY CoLORKD KMIeRArru
, vo sttived from Buffalo en- route for Havti.
trefo ore some 40 more in the neiQhbor hood az
Detroit and Canada ptepa ring to follow 10 the
sanC desu nation. Last week 80 oniKrants lstn
o''on for Ilayti, making the tcftb colony sent
'.t since January last.
THE oILowING TABLE 81 ows the dsbt o<
he United States at tic time of tho adoption of
% g constitution. At the Close of the last war
Nilh Great britain, and its probable amount In
. coming year, together With the amount per
head Of the population at those three ssvural
Debt sso, 100000 III, 100000 O,Ooo, ,Ooa
Fer head ... $50 tiG el6 i6
lN ms FAsT-pAY sermon at Washington. ths
Rev. VIM II ChAun,ng, Unitari,n, save Il a.
his solemn opinion, that The reastn Why the
Almighty has brought this war upon NJ Is LAaf
so"c cfhe Northern States hare aJoiisAtd cap
nd' puhishmeV.
A FEw DAYS AGO President lincoln was A.
surtd that BcaureRard and his army would soou
I've in Washington. Ile calmly replied, "I
wish they!would come; IL L. much castor W
entertain our friends than 60 visit them"
SINGULAR ArroINrNrNr The Indianapolis
S,htinei says that Methodist minister at Atti-
ca bad, at last account raised twenty Eve rs-
Cruits for the Preachers Regiment Phil. Tis-
man, the celebrated bill AID player, is 10 b
Chaplain.
ZrhL IN \ BAN CAusE.-A lady just re-
Turned from one oi tn, south eastern countiss
of Virginia SAYS tha' al the schools have boon
broken up lon,, ago, the boys aru in tho army.
and the girls a'e at home knitting socks; that
wherever you ~ the lnlies meet you at their
doors aud gates with the nesdlc, going; the ssr-
wants in the house aud on tho plantation are
equally iailitiUut.
A Boy, ~ yelrs oil, nimsd james Little,
fell from a uCN ia Cemetery In Philadelphia.
on Sunday l.e' and broke hrs neck
KiLLFD IN Hs PRlNE--Mc. William Shop
harl, ot Italy, Yates Co n. Y, while assist
ing his father AMI others Ia cnling q thresh-
ing machine day last wock, accidentally
slipped from tho AaiIolding into the machine
The teeth of tho C,'linder caught his left foot,
Dragging his leg into the m,'hine nearly 10
the knee, tearing and hcerltirg tho wholG
limb % fthtfully that he died in eight hours
Mr. Shcphard was only 20 year. old, and left .
Young wife.
A VALrAuLF CAvrsFN lNrRovENENr.-A
combined cantccn stopple ard fltcr, all cf ono
piece, has been invented by Mr. e.. II. Mcllen,
cl bicridcn, Ct. While it acts as a cork TO tho
c,ui' cn, il is also a filter through which bOt-
A. Of the muddiest water Gao bo sucked up as
pun a. need be.
SrraM on THE CANN.-The canal propeller
Sturu Is nov running between Rochester and
Enfi'o. Three trips are made per week, which,
~ thr present iatcs OF freight make profitable
wwk. The Standsh has made ths trip from
lLuulo to Rochester in the remarkably short
time e eighteen and half hours.
NusKEr BARREs.--Mcssrs Field & Hor-
ten, O Trenton, have contracted with the Gov
erI Incrt for 20 900 musket barrels. They arc
To- l" ui puldled steel and are To be blrcd, fit
with tle nlfgut lFpfgh and finished
pste, whCn they are TO be sent to Frank ford,
Pa, TO he fitted TO the breech. They are al
lowed till the 18th OF December 10 get ready
for the work, and from then till the 18th o.
January they arc TO turn out ono hundred, and
altar the 10th OF January two hundred barrels
dav.
y SAuACIous GovERNoR.-GOv. Andrew
some weeks ago, anticipating risc Of price in
soldiers blankets, made contract with ono Of
the Lowell Mills for ten thousand, at price
much lower than they can now be obtained
SINGULAR ACC1DESr.-Mr. l.. II Holt, q
flour merchant in Hartford, Ct, fell on Wed
nesday last, with pitcher In his hare, broak-
ing every finger at the knucbles.
TIN WAR DEs.RIMENr is, We understand,
about To transfer number Of Eastern regiments,
now either in New York or New England, 70
81. Louis.
SuIoIDE.-John Showdy, a blacksmith by
trade, committed suicide al his residence in AZ
hany, on Tuesday night, by taking Arsenic
lie leaves a wiiO and nine children TO mourn his
uhtimely end.
IA BoRDER STATE USION MAN writes in Q
private letter in this urgent Jiyle " For Gods
-nke tsy to wake up your nOrthern people. You
all sem to us 10 be half aslc'p. You say, We
can put two soldiers into tia field TO their one-'
You sag II, and they ID il. You are con,ending
with maniac and YOU measure your effort by
the strength of a hali-gTown boy"
p'r's Ferry, is successfully canvassing the ro-
zion Of Ti,usyille, Pa, for picked rihemen. He
travels in gray shut and trousers, with lar 20 70
volver ard bowie knife protrudng from bis
pockets. lie is large, powerful man, and 10
upposed &c be a man of muscle, with desperate
resolves, anxious to avonge tho death Of his
| father.
TuE RICHMOND PRrSTTRs have raised tho
price of composition from 80 to % cents per 100e
| ems, and the prupretOrs pay IL in consequence
Of the Increased price Of all the necess aries d
| life.
NEGLECTED HIS ERRANp.-A man in Wis
cousir, was last week sent by his wife TO pro
urs tho release Of son, und'r age, who had
an away and oined tho Northwestern Tigers
his father fell in with DruTy's Artillery Com
any, and enlisted himself Tho indign atiOa
Il tbs wife can b. imagined.
* THE TowS of Hilsdlle, n. j., reside Mr..
Conrad ID Cker and we-the former IL in his
one hui dIeth v,ar ard this lattor In her ninety
ninth. The have been married seventy. seven
| ear. Mr.. Decker cultiyl'Cs his own garden,
and saws his own wood, while Mrs, d. does her
| avn housewOrk without thinking Of +" hired
| help" although shs complains occasion ally
| that she can't 90 about the hOuss as spry "a
she used 10.
| GCmLD TMURpERED.-On Wednesday SONS
| boys going 10 school, fCund the body Of a malo
| child near Troy TIC body was IN infant that
| hsd evidently lived and been murdered two 90
three days before. To all Appearances it had been
| 'trangled by string around its neck, and hAA
6l.o received punc,urod wound in Its head, In
| Licted by some sharp instrument.
Ir APPEARS that in all the fouthern eitiss
| funds were rails Il for the wife of jackson, Who
| murdered Col Ellsworth. 1t is supposed thAt
| the amount raised is at least 100000. Ii tho
| CoIE derates reward all their assassins in this
| munhoont style, il VII cost more than their
| regular WarfaTe-uulcss, as We have been in
| formed, the 5lCO, ,0G0 was paid in Coniederato
| lcnds, in which case they would get their Pois-
| cring and other kinds Of assassination dous
cheap.
| TuE TELEGRArH syprises us that az a Rspub-
li.an County Convention held at Syracuse On
| Tuesday.
"On moti,n Of the Hon. Austin Myers, the
| Cony,ntj,n warmly indonsd Benjamin ".
Bruce, the republican candidate for Canal Com
| miss onet.
| There are doubtless persons who would prefer