MISCELLANEOUS SUMMARY. destination near Harlem in Long Island Sound on the 27th ult. with about 1400 passengers and a general cargo. When passing Montauk Point she struck a sharp sunken rock which opened a leak through which the water entered so fast that the pumps were unable to keep it down. Being divided into several water-tight compartments by bulk heads only one has been filled by the leak. Her bottom has been examined and will be repaired before she slight none of the goods were injured. burned at Shanghae China on the 16th of July last ; she had a full cargo on board most of which was ister built for Commodore Vanderbilt in 1852 by J. Westervelt of this city. Her engines were of the feet. She formerly ran between Panama and San Francisc and made the swiftest passage on record between California and China. at the Mersey Steel Works Liverpool. It has a bore of 13 inches diameter and it weighs 24 tuns exclu sive of the carriage. It throws a solid shot of 270 lbs. It is two inches less in caliber than the new navy Dahlgrens that are intended for the armament of the new iron-clad gunboats. The big English gun is soon to be tested at Shoeburyness in firing against Iron targets. hand-loom weaver was the inventor of the mule spinning frame which is a most ingenious cross be tween the old jenny and the throstle drawing frame of Arkwright. Crompton was one of the most modest and ingenious of English inventors. The finest yarns are spun on the mule frame. Mediterranean with those of the Red Sea. Four teen dredges are employed in deepening a channel across Lake Menzalek drawing up the mud and forming an embankment on each side six feet high. It is thought that the whole canal from one sea to the other will be completed in 1863. Macoupin county Ill. the bones of a man were re cently found on a coal bed capped with two feet of before the run cut any part away. The bones when glossy matter as black as coal itself but when scraped away left the bones white and natural. would
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