The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1861., [Electronic resource]

The Thames Iron Works, London, have received an order for a steam-ram for the Russian Government. The vessel will be of iron, 3,500 tons burden, carrying an armament of forty heavy guns, and having a beak projecting under water more than twenty feet in advance of the apparent bows.

Hopes are entertained that the large roadmaking operations now going on by Napoleon's orders near Vichy, will lead to the discovery of important Roman remains.

The State musket percussion cap factory of Tennessee is now making over one million percussion caps weekly, and can increase its rapidity to thrice that number if necessary.

Dr. Wm. H. Merriner, Surgeon General of the State of Mississippi, died at his residence in Starkville, on the 9th inst.

The Lord Chancellor of England receives £500 for proroguing Parliament, and the same sum for opening the houses ‘"by commission."’

A man named Samuel W. Elrod accidentally shot and killed himself at the City Hotel, New Orleans, one day last week.

Garibaldi was one of the first to sign the Italian protest, originated by Mazziul, against the French occupation of Rome.

A pretty woman's soul sometimes sits and looks out through a bright eye, like a purring cut out of a sunny window.

An old buchelor says that the talk of women is usually about men — even their laugh is but ‘"He! he! he!"’

In a lecture on the Turkish bath, Dr. Thudicum asserted that the human body can bear 300 degrees of heat.

It is stated that recently one firm in Sheffield manufactured in the space of three months no less than 280 tons of steel.

Gov. Pettus, of Mississippi, was married on the 15th inst., to Miss Susan Howell, of Tuscaloosa, Ala.

On last Friday the freight on wheat from Chicago to Buffalo rose from 7 to 14 cents per bushel.

Grand juries, it is said, are about to be abolished in Great Britain.