The Daily Dispatch: May 7, 1864., [Electronic resource]

Major Freming, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of the M. & O. Railroad, was severely hurt near Okolona last Thursday. To escape the danger of a collision, he leaped from the cars and seriously fractured one of his legs.

Some of the Paris journals having said that the Prince Imperial had been promoted to a sergeancy in the Grenadiers of the Guard, the Constitution net informs the world that the young gentleman is still a corporal therein.

A London actor named Seymour recently made his debut in an extravaganza, and was much applauded. In the fourth scene he fell on the stage in a fit, and died in a short time thereafter.

M. Legoyt, of the French Ministry of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works, calculates that the armies of Europe now comprise 3,815,847 men, and cost annually £145,000,000 sterling.

During March 35 ships sailed from Liverpool for the United States, with 13,118 steerage and 359 cabin passengers 2,602 were English, 314 Scoten, 9250 fresh, and 945 "foreigners."

Mr. William Rothery, who was until lately the legal advisor to the British Treasury on all matters connected with the slave trade, died a few days age at the advanced age of 29 years.

The Supreme Court of Constantinople has prohibited the use of a narcotic drug, much smoked by lurks, except by physicians as a medicine.

Of the Sovereigns of Europe, out of the 43 now reigning, 17 belong to the Lutheran creed, 8 Evangelical, 4 Calvinist, 1 Greek Rite, 1 Mussulican, I Episcopal, and 11 Cathone.

M flardone, of Pottlers, has invented a method of making paper from wood and vegetables without the aid of Taxs.