, 1863-10-30

The CUP and chest ct Alexander selksrk,
the world famed Robinson Crusoe Of Defoe,
has recently been sold IN London
"A youth Of eixty years has been arrested
fr Rhode Island for whipping hts mother. He
said the old lady's morals we're bad!
~ This 11th Of November has been set apart
az cay Ct Thanksgiving In Canada.
The (copperhsad) RailadelqIia Ey:ning
journal couldn't survive the PeunsYlvAnia
election: It las given up the ghost.
IT is reported In FsaEce that NJ de Saa-
ley ia to proceed with q government expedI
ton, to explore the Dead Sea, aud that the
Empress Will accompaay the party as fI as
Jerusalem.
The Rev. D.. Vinton has presented to
the Long Island Historical Society several
documents tending to establish the identity
Of tie !ate Rev. Eleazer Williams as the lost
Daupbin, Louis XVII.
Eggs have been filled with whisky and
shipped in barrels. Bnt now a certain woman
sports gutta pereha hTeasts filled with old
Bourbon of best quality and greatest age.
From these the soldiers quaf copioua
dlaughts.
At recent meeting of the Boston So
cisty Of Natural History, Professor Agsssiz
announced The discovery ot . stase Of meta.
Is anaaagous to the tadpole condition Of
frogs. she difficulty of obtaining fishes fresh
from the egg had prevented previous know1-
edge Of this wonderful fact.
--Rev. Dr.. Alexis Casreu hes resigned his
pIofessofship Of NATURAL Philosophy and As.
tronomy IN Brown University. He has held
aP1ofessorsttp there for the period 1f thirty
five yea1s, giving instruction not only in Ill
the branches Of mathematics. bat alao in va
T1oue other departments Of study. For many
years he has discharged the duties OF Presi-
dent, whenever the head Of the College was
absent.
- The fortidcations ut New Haven include
formidable water battery extending from
the sa1tretrr works to the old barracks, hay
Ing front Of some ten or twelve hundred
feet, with formidable parapst, sea wall,
and glacfs and moat, or ditch surrounding
feet OF water. The fort is to be fanked, and
severed By other fcrtidca:ions, involving
complicated system Of defence.
Tie Ottawa (Canada) Tribune says the work
on the public buildings Is progressing rap
idly. Ths roofing OF the departmental build
irge is approaching completion and il is
ary buildings, with tic exception Of the Ii.
bra1y, the Assembly, and Council Halls, vii!
be covered in AID slated before winter sets fa
more than three fou1tLs Of this work being
now done.
"A recent squirrel hunt In Jefferson, Ask
tabu1a county, Ohio, In which there were Is
men on each side, resulted in the Staying Of
fifteen hundred Of the frisky little f1l1oTs On
one eide, and fifteen hundred and one on the
other.
The professional muslcla1s oi Boston
and vicisity, comprising the members Of the
theater orchestrns and the quadrille and tuili-
tary bands, held meeting Mt the Parker
| Roufe few days since, for the purpose Of
considering the proposed advance Of prices.
- The pauperism in the English cotton
| 1fsfr{ffa rfnf1nras fn 1a.1;na 1out
| p IT to the Executive Committee Of the Cen
| tral Relief Fund shows tha. in the last week
| in September The decrease was one thousand
two hundred and twenty-one- Tbs decrease
cre=ae in eight districts. During the entire
month # September there was decrease Of
| five thontand nine hundred ard sixts-thfee
amongst the persons relieved by the Guardt-
AIS Of Tie Poor, and fourteen thousand eeyen
hundred aid seventy three had disappeared
| decrease In tho months of July, August and
! September, Is shown to have been con.idera-
bly, In favor Of the last month, but 1t Is added
that the cessation Of harvest WORK has caused
| slight Increase in the number Of opera
! tires.
Thomas Woodlock, Of Syracuse, Was In
ju1ed in horrible manner last week. BE had
work, AID being suddeoly awakened rolled
into 1t; then leaping out ii agony he landed
in the next one, and again Into third. He
then rushed ont Of the house and plunged
into the canal, whence he scrambled out aud
walked home. He is not expected to surFiye.
t Wcodluck Is q discharged soldier, having
served five years in the regular army.
The Milledgcs5ue tGa.) Recorder says: :
"Eighteen negroes have been lodged In
Sparta jail, Hancock county, for combining
ard attempting to excite ins0Tectton. They
| had been holding secret meetings and plan
ming matters. In all, a5our oae huodrcd il
number are implicated. All the ringieaders
have been arrested. Their operations have
been utene1ye."
There is story in circulation In Naples
that mason there mas visited in the night
by two strangers H1o took him In q carriage,
bIindfold, to a etraEge house where lc Was
led up stoirs und ordered On pain OF delta to
mike a hole In tho wall Of chamber suft1-
ciept1y large to admit coffin. This done, a
coffin was brought In, and young lady
room and forced into It, The lid was
screwed down and the coffin was valled up
by the mason, who was then again blindloid.
cd and taken to the sea beach, paid 10 pias-
tres, aud told that he might tell all he knew.
He did. tell the police, but could not de-
scribe the house.
"a foreign paper says: ga quantity ol
buffalo beef was brought from America ia
Berlin at the beginning of summer. The
specu1atorB are SO we'll satisfied with tha
results Of their experiment that they have
Just aeht t-0rders for extensive con6ign.
ments Of thss novel article Of diet"
FA A tavern keeper At Leith, Lancashire,