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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 5, 25 November 1862, Page 2

Cotton and Negroes in Russia. — The following letter has been received from St. Peteisburg, da;ed the 31st of July:— "The civil war in Nurch America has produced an injurious effect on our manufacturing interests, akhou"li ihe consumption of cotton in Hussia is trifling as compared with what it is in En; land and in Francs. The Russian manufacturers have pu chased all the raw cotton to be had at Boknara and at Kiva, at a veiy high price. At this moment there aie 2,000 hor&es laden with cott a on tlie road from Kiva to Orenburg The slave population in Ameiica have sent a deputation to ■Sibe. ia to s__k for a favorable position on the Amour river to establish a Cjfony. The siave inhabitants of Njitli America would emigrate in a body if they could find ground on the banks of the riv^r. The Russian Government is favorable to the plan. It has oH".\ ..d to giant land to the colonists without any remuneration, and to suffer them to live th re tree of taxes for twenty ye.irs. It further olfers a grant of mo icy to enable "the colonists to .stablish themselves on the lands. Tne Imperial Council have authorised the Mini.-' r of Finance to issue small coin to the amount of &,- 30,000 iou: les — nearlyLl,ooo,---000 sterling. — .European Times. Dangers of Alpixe Adventures. — The Alpine climbeis, says the Alhenccum, who went for^n, early in June, to scale the Matterhorn — and add the last triumph of skill and daring to be won in the Swiss mountains — have been again defeated. The peak defies all attempts. Mr. Whimper, one of the Alpine Club, reached a higher point than had hitherto been reached ; but an accidental fall, which may be truly desciibed as one of the most muaculous escapes from inst .nt death on record, caused him to abandon, for the present, and perhaps for ever, all f urtl" :r attempts on the virgin summit. In ascending the mass of ice and snow, Mr. Wh'. ■ -i", who w ; alone, was compelled in one place to cut a series c.f steps in the ice. Knowing theie was no further difficulty of that kind to be feared, he left his hatchet fcjiind him, and on rcturnirg from his baffled at empt to mount, he found to his horror hat his steps were gone. The sun h 1 melted them away ! As his hatchet could not be jecovered, he leaned over the precipice and began to prod at the ice with his alpenstock, borne snow gave wiy, and I.c rolled over the lec'ge, grazing his face and body on the rooks and ridges, cra-h, crash, down the sidi s of a chasm eight hundred feet deep ! By happy chance, he was caught in a rou^h bed of rock in the crest of a precipice scarcely tqualled in the Alps and there remained for an instant stunned and bleeding, though not seriously hurt. He is slowly recovering from the shock and his wounds. A few days later, Prof. Tyndal re-appeared on the scene of his last years adventures. Mr. Whimper's tools and experience were placed at his disposal, and the conqueror of the Hiffel set off full of confidence and courage. But his courage and his endurance were taxed in vain. Again and again he risked his life. Higher than any has ever been up the peak he crept ondclomb: higher than Mr. Whimper: but the steepness of the highest peak repulsed him, and the undaunced but unsuccessful mountaineer left the Matterhorn unsealed. Punishment by Flaying Alive at Woolwich. — The official inquiry spoken of by Sir Ci. O. JUewis in. the House of Uomnuns as I having taken place relative to the cruelty I practised upon a man named Bishop, who j was with sand in the cells of the Royal Artillery Barracks, by order of i Seargeant Ashton, has, it appears, not tei ruinated in. a very unfavorable manner to that non-commissioned officer. The pubiie will be surprised to learn that, a few days since, Sergeant Ashton was selected from other candidates to be sent out to St. Helena as sergeant's clerk to one of the military offices, which will entitle him to receive one shilling per day in addition to sergeant's pay. BujiAki.no Jjlax. — E. Brosier, ot Depttbrd, Euglauil, patentee. This invention consists in breaking and drawing the fibres of flax and hemp between two fluted rollers of different diameters, which have an alternate back and forth motion These draw the stivers of flax to their lull length in one direction, tben reverse and pass them baclc» waads and so on, until the fibres are separated and the sbive or woody portions aro complctoly broken. —Scientific American,