Glasgow Courier. — 1862-09-04 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

WANTED, FOOD FOR POWDER AND SIIOT.—The following circular from Mr Seward to the United States Consuls is significant:—"Department of State, ' Washington, Aug. 8, 1862. —At no former period of our history have our agricultural, manufacturing, or mining interests been more prosperous than at this juncture. This fact may be deemed surprising in view of the enhanced price for labour occasioned by the demand for the rank and file of the armies of the United States. It may, therefore, be confidently asserted that, even now, nowhere else can the industrious labouring man and artisan expect so liberal a recompense for his services as in the United States. You are authorised and directed to make these truths known in any quarter and in any way which may lead to the migration of such persons to this country. It is believed that a knowledge of them will alone suffice to cause them to be acted upon. The Government 11114 PO 11414 authority to gar any pecuniary inducements to the advent of industrious foreigners-WM. H. Sim  It is said that the second son of the Czar is to visit America._ . . . .  A. M. Joubert is making arrangements at the Cape to grow cotton on an enlarged scale. Public drinking fountains, similar to those in England, have just been established in Brussels. An American steamer recently exploded at Shanghai killing eight Americans, one Englishman, and six Chinese. Others were also injured. The engineer  was incompetent. A scientific balloon ascent is shortly to be made under the auspices of the Berlin Academy, after the plan of Mr Glaisher's successful attempts, which have created considerable interest among scientific societies abroad. The Grand Duchess Maria of Russia, with a nu.  merous suit, has passed through Brussels on her way to England. Her Imperial Highness was met at the railway station by Prince Orlov, the Russian Ani.  The Grand Duke Constantine is anxious, it is said, to be relieved of the government of Poland, which he finds an intolerable burden. He passes his time, . . .  says the Augsburg Gazette, in excessive agitation, which only his wife can soothe. . . . _ _  An old molecatcher at Vevey, in Switzerland, committed suicide a few days ago in a very extraordinary manner. He loaded an old musket, and then placed the breech in the fire and the muzzle between his teeth, and quietly waited for the explosion, which blew out his brains.—Galignani. The Levant Herald says that the Porte has decided on conceding the right of passing the Dardanelles, by night as well as day, to merchant vessels of all nations. The regulations, specifying the signals to be displayed after sunset, will be shortly issued, It is to be hoped that this important facility will be extended to the Black Sea entrance of the Bosphorus. The marriage of Count de Chasselou-Labat, Minister of Marine, with Mlle. Pilie, was celebrated at midnight, on Monday last, in the Church of St. Augustin, Paris. The nuptial benediction was given by Monsignor Coquereau, head chaplain to the fleet. The near relatives and witnesses were the only persons invited to the wedding. Godard, the Emperor's reronant, has invented a new balloon, called the Gloire, to be used for military purposes, having 24g feet of circumference. He can fill the balloon by a new process in thirty minutes, without gas. The car is provided with an apparatus which will enable the reronaut to ascend or descend at will, without employing ballast. At La Rochelle an old man named Burell, of revengeful nature, having a grudge against a relation lodging in an adjoining apartment to his own, made a hole in the wall' filled the opening with gunpowder, and fired it with a slow match, with the intent of destroying the object of his animosity. He then hanged himself. The explosion failed to do much damage, or to injure the intended victim.  HuiMut Khan, the native who murdered the Rev. Mr Hunter, a missionary, at Skalkote, before the outbreak of the Indian mutiny, having been betrayed by a native, his house was surrounded by soldiers. . . . .  Hurmut Khan rushed out, sword in hand, determined to die a martyr; but, pluck failing, he closed his dark career under a well-directed cut from one of the assailants, which nearly halved him. An extraordinary and very sad accident is reported from Detmold, in Rhenish Prussia. It appears that a diseased cow,which had, however, according to the certificate of the veterinary surgeon, completely recovered, was killed, and about a hundred people partook of the flesh. All these have since been seized with frightful agonies, and about ten have died already, the others being almost despaired of. . . . . .  Extiact from a lettei, dated Port--au-Prince, 23d July, 1862 :—" The Egberdina Annechina arrived on the 18th inst., and is now discharging her cargo; the work, however, had to be stopped, for during the last night the whole crew, headed by the two mates, deserted the vessel in the longboat, taking provisions, water, and charts, nautical instruments, &c., with them. We suppose they went either to the Passages or to Cuba. A most extraordinary occurrence !"