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New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 277, 1 October 1864, Page 6

r.u-i-n It is said that tho rebels captured at Mansfield two wagons loaded with papov eollars, and that Goner.il Dick Taylor returned rhccollars through a ling of truec, with a letter to General Banks in which fho facetious rebel saiil: " I have boiled, baked, and stewed these thing.-;, and cnii do nothing- with them. \Vt> cannot ea4 them. Thcv are a luxury for which wo havo no. use. and; I would like, therefore, to exchmsrJ thesi for a like nunntitr of hard tack! ' Tho joko is a good oua and has convulsed tho "Western boys, who have no great admiration of the " Liberator of Louisiana." When tho Western troops passed Banks's headquarter, coming into Alexandria, they groaned, jeered, anil called nleud, i; How about those paper collars."—2\~ew York I'aucr. A literary discovery is announced in Fr'a&w -1 bookseller, rumroagjng the top shelves- 0 F his dustv littlo shop m Cuen, is said to fevd found a manuscript which, in all Hms t have been deposited there by liis predecessor It consists of 20 pages, and is entitled, <• M-u A el pour les Directrices des Classes, Oc Sam- Or. Eighty-three pages are in the handwriting of Madame de Mr.-'i-tenon, and U\c> lomaiuder appears to been dictated ■ y her to. lU-d}e. ct -iumaie, who fre-queiitly acted as her -rfcretary.—J.,.!* 1 *! Jlertew. Pickens '• Great Jjhipectatioijs'' lias been translated into I'n-iK'k.