The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1862-06-27

| Si,2oo to $4,000, and No. women from 5000 10
Si2o0. few days ago Il trader told me that he
saw four No. hands sell for eleven hundred dol
lars Tor tho lotsay three ioirths Of their value lost
ia a little more thnn u year. -Four thousand dollars
Is the tax Laid that seller in that one transaction
| by his southern rights friends.
TME Richmond DIsrArCH, 2fsf, contains the
! recent srcoch of B,n. wo Il, and says at will be
pcru-od with Intense Interest by every one who re-
| members the gallant position lo maintained In
defence of the south, long before thc commence
men, ot losti'tirs. The receptions take 10 his
| speech will ho found Ia his day -droam Of a rcstora.
ton of tho tni". Reconstruction Is impossible
One sent incut pcry'd our d, arts, and that is
| must 20 frcr The uhl liuonlsts have determine ed
to crush the Huihor of tie speech, and put M end
TO any further public utcrance Of hs sentiments. 4"
OK Monday night about eight O'Clock, five
prisoners who were locked up In Richmond
| County Jail, ono On charge Of arson, and the
others piclockots, 'nade their escape. It appears
some female prisoners were hghtlns In another part
| Of the building, AMI tie sheriff and jailor went
there ~ stop the disturbance. whsu tho male
prisoners who 1t Ia supposei had their cell doors
| unlocked, came out and pushed the sheriff and
jailor into the cell with the women and turned the
key on them. aud lefore che alarm could be
| given, tie prisoners had reached tho rivor whore
/ they crossed into ", W Jergcy.
TIE Jewish boy Edgar Mortara, who caused
so wide s.nsHtion few years since, Is still in
Rome IN n particular convent la tho city, whore
once week h' appears as one Of the choiistcrs at
the mass. Tie other children dr, ssed in " lite
the little Mortar, in black Ho is now ten Years anj
FIVE months old is timid, laalh, and almost me.
lancholy aud having quite the jewish cast Of f.s-
lures Ills health u good, Laying had only one
slight sickness In three years. He learns all he
likes, and especially Latin, Tor which ha seemB To
have y marked inclination. lie Las uot been visited
by his parents since 1850.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred on tho 2ith,
At the Bridgewster Iron works, Mass, killing six
men and wounding twenty-t others. The cxplo.
zion was accompanied by fearful crash, heard for
miles. The building, which wHs an l. Of tho main
forge, about sixty feet square, WAS entirely demo-
lishcd, and pieces thrown all over tho yard
aud tho other llildiuEs the huge chimney was
tppIlei 10 the ground aud about two hundred
wolkm.n were buried beneath the runs. The III ta
pss will reach t20 600, Some of the bodies 30
horribly crushed that portions fell to Iress 4" lilo
they we're bCus removed. Tho scenes uioGt the
brAe were Of n most distressing charac'sr.
EpwIs a. STEVENS, Esq, or ll"bokcn, is
| nJw in Washington with q prop'.to4 I" Congress
,n u, AIM aislrauon - coT'. ,' , ','i' , p-s'
| vcruneut shonld convey 20 him al! tAs right and
III b. the Stevens hslteIy, and cancel tie mort
gaze given by his brother Rpbet Tor the faithful
| p, rfurmanoe VI Ms coutfhct, and lie tlcn binds
himself under prullsy Of $iO0, 900 H. finish il out
of Lis own fund, as war steamer, IL one year to
| throw a h.av.or hrnadside than any war steamer
| in the world now throwa and amer its completion
| tho Gayorunent shall have tho option ol buying ID
| for >3uOu, the amount Of itS appropriation and
| iis estimated cost 10y the late X Ard. Should lie
Government rciuse 10 accept it. IL will then become
the property OF Mr.. Stevens.
TnE Duke of brunswick has published oata-
loguo Of f3,OOo,OOO worth Of diamonds IN his Dos
session. II relates how this once adorned a Turk ish
sabre, that a royal disiem, another an Imperial
collar, fourth a grand electoral hat This black
diamond WINS An dois eye that brilliant rose dia-
| mond WAS taken nom the Emperor Rlhcr st ARA
IN Weighs II carts aud IN worth $50 O0O) tho "a
| were the wals,colt buttons of the Emperor D,n
Pedro; this ilNmoM ring, with mo oypher ~ = :.
b elcnsed h S'ry 2t,g al s'otS that pin u ear,