The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1861-10-01
miscellaneous

l1iN NAVIGATION ul tho Potomac ia now
,lp-,d hv tchcl batteries. S'nca their n oai-
tivn Ia unmarked, they will soon be shelled OUT
Tux RALliNonE ENrHFss edited, Il IL ,aiS,
ly relative of Archbishop Hughes, has abjufod
IFS secession doymas and Is out for the Union
rAyMAsrEH GAIAoHrH was released from
ouost On Friday llst, M Washington, having
.ot'lcd tho amount of hi, deldcatiOn'.
Tux UNIoN MEN in Auno Arundel Co, Ma.
held rousug meeting ON Saturday.
WILL MATCHED Ar LN,r John G. Breek-
irridgo escaped from Kentucky concealed be-
hind negro slave. IL was under cover OF the
same article that Breckenridge obtained all hia
political proiermenL
MARCUS c. STANLEY, late of Fort Lafayette,
had AN interview with tho Secretaries OF State
and Wat Aul General Scott on Friday last, and
left for tho West Immediately af.er. lie IN said
10 have impaired some important information.
A roRMuR EDITou and proprietor q thu
louisville Courier, was arrested in that city ON
Thursday last for secessonism. The steamboat
| Commercial was also seized the Same day, but
was released on security being given for her
| rendition. The captain, J. II. Archer, waa ar
rested and held to bail IN 10000.
| TnR UNoNFoRDvILLE nRIDGE over Greea
River, Kentucky was burned by tho rebels Ou
Thurday.
| TnE WAsutNdroS RFnEIs boast that the
| war steamer Pensacola, now at the Navy Yard,
| VIII NOT Do hllo ie pass inc IOtomAc DhttoneAs
Their Dragging is rather premature.
As A PoLIrE OMNIBus AGENr was going
1 through ladies car lately checking baggage,
he asked very pretty Young lady # sho bad
| any baggage she wished taken % tho hotel
| She replied, "No, sir" The agent then asked
| her II she desired u bus2 She Instantly gave
him very sweet smile and replied mo, sir,
am not in bussing condition thus evening. 4"
The agent dropped his memorandum book,
hastily retired 10 the baggage car and said hs
| lit uuwcll.
A LITiLT Boy living in Belmont County.
Obio went to his fathers room last week, and
| teeing a gun there, undertook 10 blow into the
| barrel, and Shlle handling the loaded piecs for
Ibis purpose his foot touched the trigger, dis
charging tho gun and scattering his brains
about the room.
PoIsoSED ny MUsHRooMs.-On Tuesday
week, u Mr.. Allen, Of Ilainfeld, ". j., gath
cred what lac thought to be mushrooms, and,
with his family, ate Of them for breakfast They
ate toadstOols, ard before night two Of his
children were dead. On Wednesday moning
the third died. Mr.. Allen recovered.
A SPARTAN MoTuER.-A Mrs. Clementins
llousemSn, living near Pittsburg, has now in
the army four sons and a husband defending
the Stars and Stripes. Her husband, Mr.. Isaac
| llouscman, who has again shouldered his mus
kct, was in the Mexican war, and marched
| overland from Vera Cruz To the city Of Mexico.
| RATHER Abtl.- ueIt hlh, Dctu
mistake committed here, said the house sur
Gcon; 'olno great moment, thought wa.
| the sound leg Ot Mr. Higgins which was cut
| OG. We can easily cure the Other-comes b
the came thing
TIIE NArIoNNI HoTFr, Of Palmyra, Mo F.,
| has been closed There T. now no puDlic house
| in that city for the irst time during its exist
cnce Of nearly forty years.
| GEN. Thomas l.. CRITTFNDES, who Is madc
1 TDmu nHfpF tI Ilp -fata lI kautugk in
| cooperation with Gen. Anderson, IL son Of hon.
John 4. Crirtrndcn. lilo was a Lieut. Colonel
| 1t a kentucky regiment In the Mexican war,
| was aid Of Gen. Taylor at the battle Of BuenA
| \i,ta, and gave the celebrated reply TO Santa
| Anna when that cheitan demanded a surren-
| Ger; Gen. Taylor never surrenders."
Az IMPoRrANr DErIsIoS recognizing the
| troedcd states IA b+lligerents, and entitled 70
| the rights and privileges Of civilized nations.
| engaged in warire, has been given in the case
OF the schooner q. W. Johnson by Judge Giles
of tho United state5 Court for the District d
Maryland.
A TRACK-RErAIRER named Murray, was
| struck by locomotive ON the Ncw-London
| railroad, at New Haven, on Friday last. His
| laf leg was broken, and he was otherwise hurt.
TuE INrLrrNcG or A coon MAN is an ever
lasting blessing.
TumtY-ruREE MuLtoN bushels Of grain
| including Hour estimated at live bushels to tho
| liutl-Iasscd through Utica from tho lst VI
May to the 9Th ui September.
| TuE CoNrsCArIoN Acr has heen interpret
cd "a mean nothing in regard 10 oyor' thing.
|, uover meant much, and IL will produce Ou'
| little.
Tug NEwsrArEEs are giving currency 20 a
| ,.or, exploded some mCn,hs ago, 10 the ehec'
| t.,t the Government Is removing all tho I'M
| rortnnt departmental documents hom Washing
rm 10 Philadelphia.
4 Cmp KILIrp ny MIsTANy.--A lady in
! f, IA r,stoWu, Ma, won't, on Friday lasIL 10 a
d.u- store ior somu tincluu cf iheuheTb Tor q
| ,.,k child al the same moment that the oruk-
| ui,t received an order from another party io'
| udsnum for a toothache. BY mistake ths
Lh,s we've misplaced. ard ths lady carried
home and administered the Opiate, and ala mo-
ir, over the mistake I'LL she found It impoaaioi'
| to awaken her child.
ToR MrRpERISG HER EMPLOYER, MI. Iltn
| : cot, VI Watertown. c., last spring, hAnnAi
5. Donovan has teen convicted and sentenced
| the State Prison for life.
TIIour or THE IScAPABLEs.-Not less @ tnA
;Dso colonels and 25 other officers IN GeneI.
!. I McCall's division, on the Potomac, have =
II ,ieped their commissions, through ieer Oh ooln
- allied before the Board Of Military kxAminsns