, 1863-10-21
NEWS 8UMMAKXs

The Boston Transcript says "Charlee
Sumner viii have An article ia the next
Ai1antie Monthly that will be read in Paris
with fnte1est".
Another tiaanciI crisis has oveEtateu the
Great Eastern. A report BY the director. ~.
nounces that more capit.l must be obtained
to pAt Of extsfipg trado debt+, amounting To
over $l5O,0OO, and for the maintenance OF tho
ship, or the company must BE- wound up. Il
is shown rhat her earning. during the present
season bare been about $i0o. 600 less thanthey
would have been st the rates current year
sgo. Fierce competition In the New York
stesm trade has produced It's result.
The Virginia City (Ney.da) BaQ>tin says
It is Absolutely No figure of speech TO say thss
the ltre. is Of that place are paved WITH silver,
for 1t is a]itersl fact that they ara Thousands
Of tors Of rock, which 10 othe: countries
would pay well to extract the silver from, are
used to level aud In acadauize the streets.
Rock that will not pass through the screuea
at the quartz Mills is carried 0n to the roaas,
though some Of it in spy other locality would
be considt rec rich.
! The Chinete eat picked caterpillsr5, sud
think they reaemble truiiles.
Tom Hyer's friends report him siaktug
FIST, and they say they do not believe be will
| llve the Heek out Rheuu1uc affection,
dEopsy. and series Of complicated intlrmi-
ties have set in, and he is rapidly tailipg.
An Itslian woman near Turin gave birth
recently to twins without heads. The priests
! Esy 1t IL because her husband Wished the de-
cApisation cf the Pope.
If: Paul MendelsBohn, brother Of the cele-
brated composer, has just handed over to the
Mayor of Leipsfc a sum of / 800 thalers,
arising from the sale of his brothers letters.
The interest of this sum is to be given yearly
Oh the Sd Of February, the Anniversary of the
great ,nusfeian's birth, TO two widows Of ar
t!sts Of tie Lepisic orchestra, designated BY
that nlaglstrate.
-Ap1ocess Ia talked Of at Lyons by which
silk csn tc uluified, and the produce Of the
WORMS kept In casks for artificial reissue in
tilanen,s susceptible ofa quite novel form Of
manipulation. 1t would appear that what Ia
neant bears come affinity to the treatment
md uses Of gutta pe1cha.
-The cultivation Of sugar In the Sandwich
Islands is ceasirg to be remunerative on ac-
count Of the scarcity Of labor. Many pl4nta-
tons viii have to be abandoned If labor caa-
Lot be had.
"A Msire regiment recently garrisoned .
post In the department Of the South, and Of
s' confte II became the duty Of the Adjutaut to
provide cou1tersigns. After running through
The names of wcll-kuown battles il ancient
AID modern history, it became NECESSARY to
look elsewhere for material Somo Of hia
Wo1os Lad been difficult for uneducated per-
sons to pronounce, which called forth the cen
eufe OF the Colonel, who ordered the Adm
tant to take the names of rivera, lakes or
towns OF bis 1ative State. as the men would
be fam'liar with them. The following ia a list
sent to the Colonel for approval: Eysiadobsts,
Chepu,raticoek, Magaguodaric, Weiokeneba.
cook, Motselucmrgnnttc, Molechunkemunk,
quassabamtook, PeAaguimack, shrke..
tshalk, Panguckamock, Mooselockamogun-
tic, MolJclaIkanug.
E-A crack b1eired correspondent of the
London Morning Herald, If not considerably
more than that, writing from New York on
he 18th Of August, says: at is tha frat
titles Of roasted apples sold in the market.
Ttey are toasted on the trees by the heat Of
the sun [! j. and then gathered und brought to
the market. They sell at hfleen cents the
peck roasted" Speaking also Of the recent
tonr OF the foreign dlPlon,atists, be adds:
Tho diplomatic company tina. is travelling
West under charge Of Seward, has met with
q loss. The French minister NEARLY 70.
drowned In q lake that backs up to SelcaFd's
house. He was SO III that he had to stop ut
Auburn, and did rot 60 on with the compa-
ny. This is ominoua, and looks as though It
trds designed I Mink ii 1etN be found so.'