Polynesian., 1861-11-16
Varieties.

NEW 0RLEANs.-From the Courier des Eats Unis,
New York, Sept. 81. we take the following
We accidentally received yesterday two New Orleans
journals of the 9Th September which consequently have
been less than four days in coming to New York They
contain nothing very remarkable but observe therein
dispatches dated Washington the 9TH and Carlo the 6h
giving the same news which we received from these
two towns of the same date Certain quotations prove
moreover that New York journals of Sept. 1st had
rived at N. o. The price current of the day quoted
was Flour, 81 so % IS so per barrel corn, SO
cents per bushel hay, $50 per ton pork, $50 per
bbl bacon, l5 "a II cents per h.; ham, Is "a 20
cents lard, 20 "a cents; salt, 50 80 81 90 per
bushel, according to quality.
The New Orleans banks on the 18th Sept acknow-
ledge specie in vault 1927 36s, about 80 millions
bonds and mortgages, and Is millions of deposits
On the 9TH eight prizes were sold at auction-6 ships
l bark and l schooner-fetching the total OF
SS1 $50.
COAL OLA Canadian painter, named W. Nc
Nay, has discovered process for substituting coal oil
for turpentne in the Preparation of paints. What
lucky discovery for the oil wells of Pennsylvania and
Canada.-Ldem.
ALEXANDER DUMAS (PERE. "A correspondent of the
Frankfort Journal says that Alexander Dumas has
ed to be literary and to write dramas, and has
renounced the Academies for pork sellers shop. The
author of "Heary HL' has established himself the
most popular and requented place in Naples. His shop
is SPLENDID gilt, brilliant with singular devices and
superb paintings reminding of the principal works
Of ne greet romance writer The sign is The Three
Musketeers'' The most beautiful serve up the
new products of the master the public There may
be had sausIges Ia Henri III. hams VicOme Bragg
lonne pies Ia Tour de Nesle and wonderful pastry Ia
MonSOreau. Dumas, who understands better than any
one the '' mise scene" hes dressed his handsome
sales women in costumes of the highest fancy, and all
Naples is running to buy hams and have look at these
women The police however, objected these tabeaux
vvants and insisted that they should be dressed little
more decent.-Idem
-CANDY.-One of the latest and rarest discoveries
in chemistry find reported in French Journal, stat
ing that immense quantities of old shoes sold to the
candy manufactures Of Rheums where they are con-
verted into good saleable candy.
ELECTRO MAGNETIsM.-A French locksmth is
manufacturing safes, which by the aid of electro mag
netism capable of holding the strongest thief cap
tive who ventures to lay his hands upon them.-Iden.
"A FIGHT AVOIDED" You are sot,' said one
gentleman TO another.
"How, sot 2" replied the latter with air of vex-
ation fearful lest he should be obliged TO fight.
''Yes; sot and say so,' resumed the first in
terlocutor.
eff you had been the only one who said so, would
demand satisfaction Tor such lnsolence, repned the
other very calmly 50 but you ought to know that
cannot fight with everybody therefore despise it
a calur1ny.''
PAPER DREssE.-Gentemen's paper collars are
an old affair." but French paper manufacturer has in
vented process of making ladies' dresses of paper
semblng the richest patterns of velvet MORE antique
The stuff is waterproof made in slips and pasted to
skeleton hoop Hereafter. instead of buying dresses
at FIVE or six hundred francs it sufces to buy dozen
rolls of paper at twelve cents ch and send for glue
pot 1t is simple. like all great ideas.-Idan.
Monsignor Nadi has just told the Catholic world
what has been the amount Of its subscriptions to the
Peter Pence. The 35,0O0,00 Catholics of France
have given in two years f320, 900 sterling Austria,
with 900 900 Catholics subject to the eoneordat,
has sent ESQ 900 while the Irish have raised f70,
Four hundred and seventy millions of pounds
sterling in two years and what has become Off p
Ed Pol.
MARITAL LAw.-The American people have lived
so long in bssful ignorance of this form OF law that
il is not surprising they ask what is meant by It.
Martial law is the application of code OF laws, IN
tended for the army alone to citizens. The Duke OF
W ellington gave the best definition of II, when,
upon one OCCASION having ordered it to be declared,