, 1861-10-01
MISCELLANEOUS-NEW5.

There are 130 students In the new fresh.
man class nt Yale College, which cumb .r hss
BEEN excel1ed but once or twice in the history
Of the College.
The Great Western Railway Of Canada is
about to replace all the ties upon lis lines with
white eak-
While the laborers are at work behind The
City Hail and near the Hall Of Records In New
York city, exeavatiDg for the new County
Court House, as they get few feet below the
the ehovelfaL All dsy long knot OF passers
By is gathered about each 1aborer, who has
struck All Gaseous placer, and COLLECTORS Of rel
lea have carried OF the fragments OF bone al.
Mo5t aR fast as excaVated. Some Say that
these mortua1y relcs are skeletons Of the un-
fortunate negroes who were executed on the
frat for participation in the alleged negro plot
Of lT41,
Mrs. General Scott, says Washington let
ter, Ia expected to arrive from France In the
course Of ten days or fortnight; aad the
General, with tho devotion ola true cavalier,
irtends to 60 to New York to nee. her.
Coy. Andrew, at the request of Mr.. Whit
vel, State Engineer OF the Hoosiac Tunnel
Mass, summoned some seventeen Of the most
skilfful civil oGg ginee1s In the country to an in
te1vicw, having reference to the suspension Of
work On the tunnel
"A melancholy accident occurred at Black
Rock, Cohasset Mass, about oae o'clock last
Wednesday afternoon It appears TINT par
t. Of gentlemen from Manchester, n. Il, con
sistiug OF hessrs. 4. G. Baker, Paymasterand
Clezk of the Manchester Print Works, G. G.
B,fr AndJ L. Kennedy were On the point OF
Embarklng On cunning excurston, and were
launching their boat On high sea, when Mr..
Baker, vino had double barrel gun, one bar
! rtl CT which had been discharged, attempted
| to take It from the boat. In doing so he drew
| his Gun toward him, when the hammer Of the
loaded barrel caught upon the thWart and I'll.
lirg discharged 1he piece Tbs contents pas.
Red scross the cords and muscles q fhe 1ors
tteasm above the elho n, destroying the mus
cular action Of the arm
Among the prisoners captured at Fori
| Hatta,ss there il a man By the name Of Jane:
h. Sturges, who WIS stolen frcm New YorE
/ cttv when cnly about eight years old. He hae
! living, when stoleB, three brothers and o sis
/ ter. lie Has carried of by one DR.. Spears tt
ls,er by the name OF Jarvis, whom he served
pntjl he WAS Of 3 lawful age, after which h
married, ard had no means Of getting back.
/ "A fire in South Charlestown,: N. n, 0,
Sunday morning destroyed the shirt factor
IL d STOCK Of A. ". Adams. Loss $4,000; in
spra1ce $1,000.
| - Col Colt, Of Hartford, has subs scrihedfo
sloo. 900 Of the Loan.
i The Catskill N. ~ Journal says that
woman, calling herself: Hannah Smith, by
whose Ieal name is Polly ParEon, residing i
frattsE1lle, presented check at the Tanner,
BsEk, purporting to be signed by zsdoc
Pratt, tor so. Il was At once pronounced
forgery, aId the woman arrested. On sxam
| nation che appeared to he woman Of INTEL
Cerce, but gave very conflicting and .evasiV
answers. She had other checks on her perso
filled cut on the Catskiu Bank, ready for prel
eHtatiou. She Is supposed to have accompn'
ee, but the check was draWn 'on the wron
Bank, as Col. Pratt kept his account at th
: Catt kill Bank. She isnow In iail. >.
BCY1SG BAD HoRsEs We learn from arelil
Bile tor1ce, that authorized agents. bnyin