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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 7, 16 June 1864, Page 3

Kk.vt. ll i;uoi:.s.- Men who succeed iii removing wants from tin; creation, falsehoods from our memory, and disgrace from our nature, are to the I realms ol" truth, what the heroes ol mythology are to tin- primitive wor I -they lessen the | number of monster* on the earth. Ax cm XT P.W'kk.- — In eastern countries paper Wii.i manufactured from indigenous fibres Ioii.l? before it was inlrrlured into Kuropeiu llie eleveiiili century. .According to (Jolonel Sykes, for jKHH.) yours paper had been iiuule in China; jh.-vlt from rags, but alwajs from fibre; but not generally of a good quality- -t l icir tliiek ink not requiring so lino a paper us is used in 10 v rope. The manufacture was probably introduced from China across the Himalayas. — Maoiiven and Cameron Paper Trade llerieio. The Polish" War. — According to the statististical reports of the War .Department at St. Petersburg ID.SG'O insurgents have perished in the field, and 31,573 have been banished into interior of Russia and Siberia, from the commencement of the insurrection up to the Ist (13th) January. During the same period the Russian troops have lost in Poland from wounds and disease tM-Sl men: There arc, according to these ollieial reports, 172, 000 men in Poland, and 8,000 more will bo added in March. — Daily News, Feb. 21; AXOTHER LILLrPTTTTAN WkdT)IXO. — The Rochester Jjenwcrat says -.—We received a call yesterday from Joseph LolVel Esq., of Springfield, Ohio, who has been spending a few days with Prof. .T. V. LUlie, of this city. Mr Lofl'ef is tho manufacturer of the celelirated Sectional Bee Hive. lie is the smallest business man in the world, and indeed quite an atom as compared with Gen. Tom Thumb, Mr L. being only forty four indies in height, and weighing but fifty five pounds. Mr Leli'cl is now thirty-two years of age. He is an intelligent, able-bodied, hand-some-featured man, and sports a moustache that would really do credit to the Scotch giant. He lias fdled tho office of Supervisor in Springfield, and is regarded as one of the most public-spirited citizens of that place. The object of Mr Leflel's present visit to Rochester (for he is unprofessional and not in the cxliibition line) may be inferred, when we say that the celebrated Miss Sarah E. Belton, of Millport, Choinung county, is also the guest of Prof. Lillie. Miss Belton will bo rememberd by our citizens as Dolly Dutton's little maid of honour, who attended the former during her receptions in the Corinthian Hall several years ago. Miss Belton is much smaller than Mrs Thumb, and Mr Leffel, as wo before remarked, is a head or two shorter than the General, but this, of course, docs not incapacitate the worthy couple at Prof. Lillie's from reciprocally indulging in the grand pas — . But wo had nearly betrayed the supervisor's confidence. He goes back to Springfield to-day, to make such arrangements in his domestic economy as the circumstances at which we have barely hinted may suggest. Teleobaphio Puogiusss. — The first line of electric telegraph on Signor Bonelli's printing system, will soon be opened between Manchester and Liverpool. Some intei'esting trials of the apparatus have recently been made. On a narrow table a small model of a tramway ran from end to end, a bridge six inches high scanning the middle. A long solid waggon, travelling on four brass wheels, moved up and down the i % ans, having on its upper surface ' two rectilineal 1 'openings, each extending, half the* lentil., of the .carriage,; and each coining-' under a comb-like series of live, needles. A simplified alphabet, of type, which requires no J'justi-; ■■lying,"-* 1 is placed izjj^thb opening' at the eiidbf tliei waggon neai'est the'lpbirtf whence it travels. Thei projecting type is divided in such a manner as : that the points of one r set; of needles shall fall over; the inequalities and be liftediini the passage of thewaggon. Aj strip of paper^m the same way, comes under the' socond comb, whicli obeys the" motion of the first, . and ; prints the message in a legible! brown character, which is due, in fact, to man-! ganesc. : Three ; hundred words in a minute are! thus despatched. The promoters only propose to : introduce the machine on lines wHero five wires i already exist. The invention may be vemomberetl ■■ by visitors to the International Exhibition; but ithas undergone several improvements since it was there displayed and tested.. • -j. • •