The national Republican., 1861-01-03
Miscellaneous Items,

Female labor in the Pacific States is far bet
ter paid than in the East. At San Francisco
the average wages of sewing girls is dollar
and half day for ten hours work. Servant
girls demand from thirty to forty dollars per
month, and female teachers obtain from sixty.
five to one hundred dollars per month. In the
interior it is found impossible to retain good.
looking servants in families at the above rates,
as advantageous offers of marriage enable them
to hire instead Of being hired.
The Boston Tareller furnishes the follow.
ing:
"CUrTING THE RoPE.-The position of South
Carolina is we'll illustrated by the Africans ex-
perience and threat on the occasion of his first
visit to a coal mine. AS he was lowered down
the pit, it grew darker and darker and the as.
tonished African, frightened by the thick night
which closed about him, cried out, hold on,
dare; hold on, dare hold on dare, say, if
you don't hold on, dare, l tcU cm de rope
Bishop Mcfarland, of the Roman Catholic
diocese of Hartford, which includes Rhode
Island and Connecticut, has issued a circular
letter, addressed to the clergy, and relating to
the dangers which threaten the Union. He re-
quests all the Catholics to unite in fervent prayer
for the country, to observe with strictness the
fast of this season, to give aims to the poor,
ohN w tuih w 'Ou WIN tueil WhOlc utdTtS.
A fearful accident occurred to several ecclesi.
astical high digntaries at Vienne, (France,) on
occasion of the consecration of statue OF the
Virgin. A scaffolding twenty feet high, from
which several bishops and arch deacons had ad.
dressed an immense assemblage, broke down,
and scarcely one Of the clerical dignitaries es.
capped without at least one fractured limb, and
many less eminent persons, military and civil,
were more or less seriously injured
A frightful death by burning occurred last
week at Columbus, Ohio. Some courtezans had
been drinking to excess, when the clothes of
one of them caught fire, and were completely
burned off her back, nothing remaining upon
her but leathern belt. Her death, says an
eye witness, was awful. Those who witnessed
it, and heard her mingled songs, curses, and
prayers, will never forget it.
The coal dealers of Pittsburg have deter.
mined not to ship any more coal to the South
at present.
There is family in Belgium, the females of
which are all born with six fingers and toes,
while the males are as usual. portrait of an
ancestress of the family, painted by Rubens
shows this peculiarly faithfully delineated.
A Noisy EARTHQUAKE.-The Bangor Whig
says, that in Redfeld, Maine, the noise of the
earthquake on Sunday last was so loud that it
drowned the ministers voice, and started sew.
eral ladies to their feet and to the windows.
Mile Augusta Roger has advertised, at Lau.
same, Switzerland, course of forty lectures,
of one hour each, in which she proposes to in.
struct the ladies of that town in 1.-THE entire
circle of science, with its latest conclusions and
received hypothesis"
A petrifed tree has been discovered at Pixies
Peak, standing in natural position, as if grow.
ing. 1t measures twelve feet in diameter, and
two pieces Zone weighing 5000 pounds) were
broken off, and will probabl be broug ght to
New York for exhibition.
The population of New Mexico, including
the public towns, according to the census just
taken, is $4,000. Great difficulty was expert
enced in taking the census the native nhabit.
ants not understanding the object, and suspect
ing that it was for some purpose Of taxation.