MISCELLANEOUS.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

It is said in au American paper that in North Carolina there is a weekly paper, the Patriot, which is owned by a woman, edited by a woman, and set up by female compositors. It is added "that the pressman employed on it is a stout woman of color." Kossuth, following the example of Mazzini and Garibaldi, has now written to the Republican leaders of Spain supplicating them not to let the opportunity slip of proclaiming a Republic, A son of Sir Rowland Hill has invented and patented a machine for stamping letters. By its help as many as 218 letters can be "single-stamped" and 180 " double-3tamped" in a mimite, The salary of President Johnson is only about L 3700 a year — quite inadequate to the due hospitality of his elevated position. It is thought likely that a proposition will be made to raise the salary of the new President to 100,000 dollars, equal in present currency to about L 14,320. General Lee has been offered the Southern superintendency of a New York assurance company, at a salary of 10,000 dollars. Captain Ferguson, R.N., the harbormaster of Victorja» has succumbed to the operation for -winch he visited England. A notice of his death appears in the London journals. About twelve months ago Sir Culling Eardley was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for bigamy. He was in failing health when he went to prison, and his confinement told so severely upon him that his life was in danger. Under these circumstances, he has been released from prison upon his undertaking that he will go out of the country until the term of imprisonment to which he was sentenced shall have expired. He has gone to Madras. A man and woman were sentenced, the former to thirty days' and the latter to fourteen days' imprisonment, at Dunfermline, for being married under false names. Two fatal occurrences took place in London on Christmas Eve. In Alfred street, Barnsbury, a party was given at a house in which two young men were lodgers. In the course of the evening a slight quarrel arose between the latter, when orve took a rifle which happened to be near and shot the other dead. In New Gravel-lane. Shadwell, two men, who had always been on good terms, disagreed on some trifling matter, when a scuffle took place, and one of them fell from a platform, 16ft. in height, and was killed immediately. In both cases the delinquents were taken into custody. One of the last of Nelson's brave companions at the battle of St. Vincent has just died at Fremington, near Barnstaple, at the great age. of 97. Thomas Pile was one of the crew who boarded the San Josef, and assisted the immortal hero into the chains of that vessel, Nelson exclaiming, "Give m© your hand, Pile; I'm a good soldier, but a poor sailor." It may be mentioned that, although a sailor from his boyhood, he never indulged in a pipe of tobacco. Colonel Bates, Justice of tho Peace at

Tipperary, lias been shot in that city by unknown parlies and killed. No arrests. Despatches have been received giving tho particulars of the accident which occurred recently near Smyrna,. The Asia Minor and Egyptian mail steamers came i;i collision in tho Gulf. It is caid that over 200 passengers were killed by the shock. It seems that the Pope is ■ two years oltler than would appeal- from tho books which give his biography. We have reason to believe that he was born in 1 .'9O, and not in 1792 as is guile rally supposed. , Should his Holiness live to June next, he ; will have -equalled all his predecessors in the length of his reign since St. Peter, i with the exception of Pins VI ; if he • slukild live till June, 1870, he will have . equalled St. Peter himself. ' Reports are received of a collision between a -band of invading Greeks and a Turkish force in the Turkish province of i Albania. The Greeks were victorious. The Morning Post publishes corres- . pondence between James G. Bennet, and • Mr As bury, of London, .about an ocean ; yacht race between the Dauntkri and . Cambria. In its comments, the Post pre- • fers the Azores track, as one much better adapted for a test of the seagoing qualii ties of the vessels, and seamanship of ; their masters, than the transatlantic route. ■ The writer exhorts the owners of British : schooner yachts to join in the race, and i says the Sappho will participate. Latest news received confirms recent i reports relative to the safety of Dr i Livingstone. It is said that he is in the vicinity of Loki Nilssi, near the confines of Zanzibar. Owing, it is thought, to wars between the native tribes his pro- ■ gress has been impeded, and consequently ; he has been uuable to reach the sea coast. A telegram from Alexandra reports an , earthquake at Tabreez, a Persian city of 60,000 inhabitants, on Sunday, 3rd jar. i The shocks wore said to "have been , violent ; no lives lost.