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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 766, 21 January 1871, Page 3

The proprietors at Paris have been deprived of their power to sue for rents, consequently a family needs but little ready money to subsist on from hand to mouth. A correspondent writes : —" My landlord every week presents me with my bill. The ceremony seems to please him and does me no harm. I have pasted upon my mantel-piece the decree of the Government adjourning payment of rent, and the right to read and re read this document is all that he will set from me until the end of the siege." Among the mails of the steamer Calabria, on arriving at New York, were some two thousand balloon letters from beleaguered Paris. They are extremely light, being written on paper furnished by the Government, and excited considerable curiosity. The mails ''via sky," leave daily, and carry from 28,000 to 30,000 letters. Even in the event of their capture, the packages marked America are forwarded from Bremen and Hamburg via England. George Neman, a young Cincinnatian, while standing upon a girder and fastening rafters recently in one of the temporary buildings being erected for the use of the industrial exhibition, slipped, but grasped desperately at the timber on which he was standing. He missed what seemed the last chance, and would have been dashed in pieces, had not a friendly iron hook caught his coat sleeve, and held him suspended till his cries brought relief. The eleven States that in IS6I declared their secession from the Union, had in 18G0 a population of 9,101,321. By the census of 1870 their aggregate population is 10,010,557.