Show K T it was estima estimated ted that there were probably between between two and three million bushels of grain besides other property properly locked up in the ice on the erie canal most of which would faveto be re halted and tran shipped on the railroad at a large expense gen required fifteen columns of a french newspaper to describe how he was vanquished in italy the methodist conference of south carolina at a late meeting passed secession resolutions lut ions A waggish sort of a man was listening recently to a conversation relating to iversons aversona Iver lver sons sona s speech h in in I 1 C congress 0 ri gress when he Tec declared lared that the e southern cori Cort confederacy feder cy would have thirty millions of slaves in a given number of years thirty millions of slav esl exclaimed the wag it would be so dark they eDul doul dInt see the sun rise I 1 it is said that the press is as free in brazil as in new york and the law requires the printer to be paid both for pape paper er and advertisements in advance that is certainly a good arrangement Ferdi ferdl ferdinand nind nand king of spain the man whose wife befriended columbus once tried to do a good thing shortly after the discovery of america he enacted a decree that no lawyers should embark thither fearin fearing that they would corrupt the morald of the native natives sand and kick up rowl rows just for the know buclaw but bub lawyers are more potent than kings and soon were lords of the new land which they rule ruie to this day the washington monument A fund coin coln committee report that california contributed atthe late election to this fund and that colusa calusa county contributed the most in proportion to her hgr vote where wherefore fore she has been awarded the prize statute A preacher whose text led him to speak of the prophet jonah remarked 1 I am of opinion jonah was an old man neither smoking nor chewing from the fact that the fish retained him so long in his stoin ach if the fish had swallowed the house bouse we are worshipping worshiping wor worship shipping in he would DO no doubt have puked himself to death the farmers of mexico having been driven from their land during the civil wars 9 the people le are now be beginning inning to experience the hardships of famine fadine it is said that the american bible society has eleven col coi porters sj native italians engaged in this work and is said to be doing more in that inter interesting field at the present time than any other bibie bible society in the world A case in chancery begun in england in 1791 was decided desi dedin in london last october the leading synagogues in san francisco have voted to appropriate from their respective treasuries the sum of to enable e mr 1 IJ J benjamin to prosecute his bearth for the the lost tribes of israel who according to his belief may be living in in some of the unexplored brov provinces inces of africa majorsack major jack downing remarked to general jackson during g the troubles of south carolina thirty years ago that he be bad always observed that persons who who had bad a great deal to say about shedding the last drop of their blood were amazingly particular about the first r an english engineer has adapted the screw and lever to the production of a railway brake which is said to be immense in in that a child by turning the brake handle can abonce at once stop a train of cars cars mrs munroe aged 44 years is the mother of 24 children at scotland A little b boy 0 returning from sunday school sar said sald id to his motier motter mother dla dia ma ala aint there a kitten chi chism for little boys this cat chism is too hard gen harney by the decease of his wife recently in paris pans I 1 has come in possession as the property of himself and children of he is a little rising fifty years old wand gand by much service and much exposure is ii iome gome somewhat what broken in health he is the fourth in the list of our army officers scott wool and ana an d twiggs coming before him K A witness in a certain court not a thousand miles from rappahannock Rappa hannock on being interrogated terro gated as to whether the defend defendant antin in a i certain case was drunk replied well I 1 cant say that I 1 have balce seen him drunk exactly but I 1 once saw him sitting in the middle of the floor making grabs in the air saying that hed held be hanged it if he catch the bed the next time it ran past him ham 21 mrs calhoun relict of the distinguished senator has been complimented by the south carolina state fair with the a pair of silver pitchers as a premium for beautiful window curtains wrought with her own hands during visit to her daughter 0 in prince george county about eighteen P young ladies ladles just seceded from the seminaries in pennsylvania and new york passed through washington recently on their return to the south two citizens of la grange stanislaus county Cali cail california formia having some difficulty resolved to figh fight accompanied by some twenty friends they prospected the whole country from la grange to Dickinson sperry on both sides of the tuolumne to find a pla pia place ce tor for a duel duei but have not yet succeeded fth the niease lairde toman foman ail all a roman catholic C j journal ourn al of Paris thinks that luat a dictator is needed coset the united states right and recommends cap capi J tain Bona bonaparte parte parle formerly of baltimore for the office the trou brou troubles bles bies of the country were alluded to in a sermon at philadelphia recently and the preacher alluding to are port an was about to resign exclaimed god grant that it may be sol to which the whole congregation a ned ped amen amen A tract distributor in belfast has been sent to by the magistrates for one month for annoying the public captain nathan jaquith of winchester mass a man in his year walked to lowell 18 miles to spend thanksgiving with mrs L eames his daughter ha accomplished shed the journey in 5 12 1 2 hours without fat fatigue 0 ue james knaggs sr died in monroe michigan recently he was eighty years of age and served under general hull the albany penitentiary has hag realized a clear profit of 19 over and above its expenses for the year ending oct 31 1860 the number of prisoners confined during the year ear was 1726 of whom two thirds thieda were of foreign birth of these 1402 acknowledged themselves herm hero selves of intemperate habits and only 82 laid aid claim to a character for sobriety the ladies of south carolina arolina C have abjured crinoline manufactured at the north petticoats are consequently high with an upward tendency aman amanias was arrested arres in stockholm sweden in n october for murdering seven infants which he ie justified by an unique philosophy A man now living in vienna austria Is years old though he has been helpless for a quarter of a century the six degrees of crime are thus defined he who steals a million ia is only a financier who steals a half halt a million is only a defaulter who steals a hundred thousand is a rogue who steals fifty thousand ig is s knave but he ie who steals a pair of boots or a loaf of bread is a scoundrel of the deepest dye and deserves to be lynched an irish clergyman once broke off the thread bread of his discourse and thus addressed the congregation my aly dear brethren let me tell you that I 1 am now just half through in my y s sermon bermon er mon but as I 1 perceive your impatience iw I 1 will i ll 11 say bay ay that the remaining half is not more than a quarter as long as that you have heard the industrial statistics of boston as recently published show the number of industrial establishments to be the capital employed value of raw material employed value of products product siw sil 1 the number of men nen employed is and their monthly pay is the number of women employed is and the monthly amount of their pay ig is the aggregate a g regate yearly amount therefore ig 1 2 2 but very many producers in boston are from this account the aggregate of products therefore should be n nar na a r forty millions upwards of will be realized in keokuk county iowa from the quail trade alone they cost sixty five cents per dozen eight murders were committed in con cord texas in one week recent recently ay the people hanged four of the murderers mad madame ame patterson Bon bonaparte bomparte parte first wife of the late prince jerome is ia at present in in paris notwithstanding her advanced age she retains her vivacity she has a number of letters of herbus bands which she proposes to publish with a memoir in yielding to the desire of her grandson to follow a military career in the french army she wished he should preserve an independence worthy of his name and has allowed him aia an annual pension of franes francs the fortune of mrs patterson she accrued by her economy and judicious else use of the pension accorded to her by napoleon 1 I this pension was suppressed by the bourbons but it is rumored that napoleon III thinks of restoring it the election of a member of pa parliament rii ril ament for southward South wark warle resulted after an arduous contest in the success of mr layard the eab eastern tern traveler seven out of the cotton mills in fall river have reduced their operations to thre three and the print works in the same city have done the same agassiz estimates that there are now living at least different species of animals A novel application of the electric light was wag recently made at schaffhausen on the rhine the celebrated waterfall or cataract at that place feet in height was illuminated by five electric lamps lameg the effect efred was wag magical the water of the rhine mine appeared like a sea of fire A Hearl dic review gives the following as the arms of the principal cities of italy aples naples has a siren rome a she wolf florence lilies medena and piacenza a cross I 1 venice a lion and turin a bull the arms I 1 of Sicily are a head with three legs there are according to the bluebook blue book south carolinians on uncle saias suras pay roll of this number dumber have haye recently resigned england anc wales bae bai llanet affe 0 ver i factories and they pay their operatives per peri annum th their air entire trade trad e in th the e vario varlo various us fabrics amounts to annually giving employment to operatives they have ave of coin in the kingdom exclusive of that held by the banks their cotton fabrics alone exceed the entire exports of the united states exclusive of specie itras it has been calculated that the great artesian bore at columbus ohio would if passing through to the other side of the globe strike exactly fifteen miles fron the great chinese wall about miles from pekin should new york secede the albany standard says the croton and the er erie erle ie canal will be stopped and it asserts that the canal tonna tonnage L e of the great grat west exceed exceeds all the foreign toi tor tonnage inage which enters new york a and iid lid that close the canal against the city broadway lots would fall 75 per cent in value the french Go is about to bring into france for interment the remains of the empress maria louisa the remains of the duke of reichstadt will then be the only one of the imperial family out of france and will no doubt be transported in their turn to the imperial vaults in paris A writer in the london shipping gazette styles the iron screw steamships now extensively employed in navigating the waters of northern europe as seagoing sea going coffins 2 no less than six or seven of them were lost five foundered during c a gale in october the he loss of life amounting to about two hundred persons A clerk in a store in providence it I 1 L has managed by abstracting small amoun amounts from the till every day for several years to purchase a house aad lot and live in luxuriant style being detected he be was obliged to enter into an aga agreement ement to refund to his hish employer the total amount stolen with interest |