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July 20-July 27
The President is still at Long Branch.
_Depurtntents.—A counterfeit ten dol
lar green-back has been received from
New York, so cleverly done that the ex
perts of the Treasury are divided as to
its genuineness. The National Banks
report resources and liabilities amounting
to $1,564,175,000.
—Official publication is made of the
treaty with Peru for the settlement of
claims of citizens of either country against
the other.
New England.—The French cable has
I cen landed at Duxbury, and the con
nection was to be completed on Monday.
The managers have filed a pledge to
submit to any conditions imposed by
Congress, and to give up their exclusive
privilege as regards France. [The Im
perial Government has the control of all
French telegraphs, and requires all des
patches to be sent through its officials.]
—Yale Commencement began on Sun
day week with the Baccalaureate ser
mon by Dr. Daggett. On Friday the
class of '69, numbering 117 members,
graduated. Of the 126 applicants fbr
admission to the class of '75, fourteen
were rejected.
New York.—Frank W. Ballard. a lead
ing man in the Y. M. C. A., while absent
at the International Convention was de
tected in being
a ddfaulter to the Secu
rity Insurance Company for $63,000, of
which he was Secretary. Stock gamb
ling caused his ruin. He was the N. Y.
correspondent of 'The Boston Post. Hen
ry Ward Beecher visited the Gold Room
on Saturday and made a speech of•a kind
to quicken the moral sensibilities of the
brokers. Mr. Lemus has been superse
ded as President of the Cuban Junta by
Senor Macias, a South American. Mr.
Koopsniantiettup, the California Coolie
contractor,' has been feeling the public
pulse iti the matter of an importation of
Mongolians. He found the matter not
promising
enough to make a public
meeting feasible. Another ship brings
a load of yellow fever from Matanzas to
quarantine. Buffalo is to have an In
ternational Industrial Exhibition, Oct. 6.
—Renselaer has had one of its old anti-
Rent riots. A sheriff attempting to levy
was driven off with firearms.
Pennsylvania.—Hou. Wm. A. Gal
braith, of Erie, becomes chairman of the
State Democratic Committee, and will
have the disbursement of " that $2,000,-
000." The State Convention of School
Superintendents has been in session at
Harrisburg.
The South.---The Washington prin
ters postpone the Douglas case till New
Year's. Walker's majority in Virginia
is 18,202.
—The Supreme Court of Md. sustains
the lower Court in fining $4OO for selling
goods without license.
—The Supreme Court of North Caro
lina decides that miscegenation is unlaw
ful. Eight illicit distilleries have been
seized in Wake county. The whites of
Barnwell District, S. C., have had apo
litical free fight, in which two were kill
ed and several wounded. The old in
cumbent and the new appointee to the
Charleston Collectorship are fighting
with fists and injunctions for possession
of that office. The latter is a "carpet
bagger."
—A. Commercial Convention for the
Mississippi Valley is arranging for. The
cotton catterpillar has appeared in Ala
bama, near Selma.
The Interior.—The Swedes of Minne
sota claim the Secretaryship of the State,
and the Republicans will probably nom
inate a Swede.
—The trial of Rev. Mr. Cheney, at
Chicago, ended in the issue of an in
juction by the Superior Court of Cook
county, forbidding the ecclesiastical court
to take further steps at present. The
Mississippi is within two and a half feet
of the high water mark of 1861. The
low lands on its banks are flooded. The
sub contractors are suing the contractors
of the Pacific Rail road for $604,000
claimed as due, while the defendants
claim that $57,000 mote than is due has
been paid.
—Secretary Boutwell has written a
letter in support of Stokes, the Radical
candidate for Governor in Tennessee.
—The third accident on the Pacific
Rail road has killed three persons. The
two lines agree to carry emigrants from
New York to San Francisco for $5O, and
fruit back for five cents per pound. The
taxable property of Nebraska aggregates
$2,000,000. The Ways and Means
Committee have started for the East.
Paofte Coast.—The Republicans of
California oppose Chinese suffrage in
every form, and all changes in naturali
zation laws, but demand legal protection
for them while in the country. About
$15,000 worth of smuggled opium has
been seized at San Francisco.
—The Republicans carry Washington
Territory, electing the Congressional del
egate by 148 majority. The proposal
for a State constitution was defeated by
188 majority.
Canada.—Father McMahon, the Fe
nian chaplain, has been released. Mr.
Bose, the Finance Minister, has resign.
ed. Only one fourth of the 20,000 em
igrants who have landed in Canada in
six months past, have stayed there. An
accident has 'destroyed two lives and
swept away two gates on the Redeau
Canal.
Cuba.—The Government have mis
managed the finances and is seeking a
new loan. De Rodas annnls the rule for
Spanish vessels to search neutrals. Two
of our citizens and a Mexican have been
released at. the instance of the American
Consul. Twelve hundred estates of the
rebels have been confiscated. Admiral
_Hoff has received somewhat satisfactory
explanations from the Spanish authori
ties in regard to the execution of Amer
ican filibusters, but severely censured the
Governor of Santiago for giving them no
trial. The Governor pleaded the clamor
of the volunteers, and promised to do
better hereafter.
IlaNti.—Pres. Salnave is still in the
field, but the Northern rebellion is un
subdued. Paper money sells at $7OO for
$1 gold, and is depreciating. Mob vio
lence is feared by merchants and resi
dents at Port au Prince, and a U. S.
steamer has been ordered thither.
South America.—Lopez has entrench
ed himself in the mountains with QOOO
men. Three Paraguayans have been ar
rested and shot, for trying to assassinate
the Count d' Eu, the Brazilian comman
der in chief. It is claimed that Lopez
is again surrounded, but it is conceded
that his rear guard gave
,the Brazilians
"a check" before crossing the.Parana.
The revolution in Uruguay, headed by
Carabello, continues. The capital and
its neighborhood is quiet, and President
Battle has marched on the rebels.
Great Britain.—The•deadlock on the
Irish Church Bill is at last at an end.
The Lords receded from their concurrent
endowment position, and other importabt
amendments, but refused to restore the
clause in the preamble forbidding the use
of the surplus for religious purposes, or
to restore the clauses specifying how the
surplus is to be disposed of. The date,
Jan.,1871, was restored.
Mr. Gladstone, amid the cheers of
the Commons, announced that the Min
istry would accept the Bill as thus pre
sented, since the substance of the Bill is
unaltered. He ended with apologies for
any warmth of feeling that had been
displayed, and congratulations on the
happy solution. Sir Roundel' Palmer
thought the result an honorable,
and statesman-like concession in favor of
the Irish church. Mr. Disraeli express
ed his satisfaction with the compromise
as fair'and just, and emphasized the fact
that the main points claimed by the
Lords had been conceded. The Bill
was then finally passed without a divis
ion, and amid great cheering. The Bill
has received the Royal assent and is now
a law.
—The Times thinks the Lords might
have gone farther and fared worse. Re
cent agrarian outrages in. Ireland are
among the fruits of centuries of misrule,
which a milder and more beneficent leg
islative policy must undo. This Irish
Church Bill is the first step and no tran
quility need be expected until the estab
lishment of religious equality.
—The new Telegraphic Bill provides
for the transmission of cable, telegrams.
A colliery explosion at St. Helens has
caused the loss of fifty eight lives. The
Harvard boat crew have reached Lon
don,
a, and declined challenge from the
London Club.
—London has a population of 3,126,-
635 souls, and-with• its suburbs, covers
an 'area of 78,000-mires.' The inHabited
houses number 400,000 ; the annual val
ue of real estate is £76 309,995.
Prance d —The Ministry have , prepared
a senatits-consultum, to, give effect to the
proposals of Reform •proposed by the
Emperor ,in his message to the Corps
Legislatij: De Chasseloup Laubat, Pres
ident of the Ministry, declares for free
speech as quite consistent with loyalty to
the Empire. Mlll. Victor Duruy and
Adolphe Vintry have been created sen
ators.
—The opposition in the Corps have
held a caucus since the profogation, at
which the ultras voted down M. Thiers'
programme of moderate reform as too
monarchical. No plan of action could
be agreed upon, a fact over which Le
Moniteur crows.
Germany.—A Prussian Association
offers a prize worth $420 in gold for the
best essay, based on past experience, on
the best methods of extending relief to
persons wounded in naval enwa o•ements.
The essay may be in German, b french or
English, but must be sent in before Sept.
30, 1870.
—Bavaria is negotiating with the U.
S. to legalize marriages contracted by
her citizens resident among us.
Scandinavia.—The failure of the
crops in Norway and Sweden is sending
many emigrants to America.
Austria.—ln the Reiehsrath the Com
mittee on the Budget has reported against
abolishing. the embassies at Rome and •in
the minor European capitals,
—The liberation of a nun at Cracow
has led to disturbances between religious
parties, in which the military have had
to interfere. She had been twenty years
incarcerated.
Spain.—The Carlists are up in arms
and in earnest. Don Carlos has entered
Navarre. A battle has been fought at
Ciudad Real, in which (it is claimed)
the Carlists under Savariegies were de
feated with great loss. Agitation and
excitement pervade the kingdom. The
martial laws of 1821 have been revived.
—A conspiracy to assassinate Zoulla,
the new Minister of Justice, has been
detected. Several Generals and other
officers have been banished to the Cana
ries for fomenting discord in the army.
—Gem Sickles has reached Madrid.
Turkey.—The Sultan refuses an audi
ence to the Viceroy of Egypt, and has
partially reconstructed his ministry.
Asia.—A telegram from Bombay, da
ted July 20, says: "It is reported that
the Kirghees have risen against Russian
authority. All Toorkestan is also dis
turbed."
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY JULY 29, 1869.
—ln the letters addressed to the Paris
Academy of Sciences, Father Secchi, of
Rowe, announced a very curious dis
covery regarding the spectrum analysis
of stellar light. Some time ago he
mentioned a certain class of stars emit
ting red rays, and he now finds that
their spectra consist of three luminous
bands, one of which is red, another
green, and the third blue, separated from
each other by broad black hands, the
intensity of which decreases from the
red of the spectrum to the blue. The
typical star of this class is Schjellerup's
No. 152, to which Father Secchi com
pares Arcturus. He thus ascertained
that there was not an exact coincidence
between the bands of these stars, those
of the last named being identical with
those of the sun. The question now
arose, what might be the substance that
caused these new bands, and this our
author, from an indication in M. Ang
strom's table, suspected to be a com
pound of carbon and hydrogen. This,
hoWever, could only be verified by direct
experiment, and Father Secchi accord
ingly arranged an apparatus by which
benzine, which is a hydro-carburet, was
subjected to an electric spark from
Rubmkorff's apparatus.. Strange to say,
at this very first trial, he got the identi
cal spectrum he was seeking and the
natural deduction is, that benzine is one
of the compounds contained in star 152,
above 'mentioned. Nevertheless, our
author remarks that the experiment re
quires certain precautions, the vapor of
the hydro•carburet should be of small
density, and perhaps also mixed with
air, a point concerning which he still
!Ws some doubts. It now occurred to
him that probably the sun might also
contain some compound gas, and for this
purpose he compared the solar spectrum
of the spots with that Modified by our
atmosphere. He found that the bands
of iron, sodium and calcium were much
stronger in the spots, and also those of
chromiuni 'and cobalt; but -whatrparti
cularly attracted his attention was • a
large number of what he calls " Vene
tian blinds;" thereby meaning groups 'of
very - faint bands, not correponding to
any knoWn metal. This subject, how
ever,: the author informs the academy',
requires further researches.—New York
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and certainty of movement which proceed from the
perfect adaptation of every piece to its place. Instead
of a feeble, sluggish, variable action, the balance, even
under the pressure of the lightest main-spring, vibrates
with a wide and free motion. The several grades of
watches have more than a general resemblance each to
its pattern ; they are perfect in their uniformity, and
may be bought and sold with entire confidence as to
the qualities we assign to them.
These general claims to superiority are no longer
contested. An English watchmaker, in a recent lecture
before the Eforological Institute of London, describing
the result of two months' close observation at the va
rious manufactories in the United States, remarks in
reference to Waltham : "On leaving the factory, I felt
that the manufacture of watches on the old plan was
gone." Other foreign makers, some of them eminent,
have publicly borne the same testimony. They admit
that the results aimed at in Europe by slow and costly
processes are here realized with greater certainty, with
an almost absolute uniformity, and at a cost which
more than compensates for the difference between
manual labor in the . Old World and the New.
But we assert for the Waltham Watches more than
a genera superiority. Their advantag.- a, in respect of
quality and price, over English and Swiss watches, are
not more marked than are their advantages over the
products of other American ruanufactoriee.' Melte are
positive in their character, and are the natural conse
quences of the precedence we acquired in the trade, and
the proportions to which our manufactoryinte attained.
No intinetrial law is better established than that which
cheapens the cost of an article in proportion to the mag
nitude of its production. The extent of our establish
ment—the combination of skilled labor on an extensive
scale, with maehinery perfect and ample—enable us to
offer watches at lower rates than those of any other
manufacturer. The aggregate of prodt is the eud iept
in view—not the profit on any single watch. Atli, act
ing on this principle, with reduced cost of proluccioo
and an everwidening demand, our watches are offered
at prices considerably below the watches of other Amer
jean 'bakers, comparing quality with quality. Oar an
nual manufacture is double that of all other makers in
this country combined, and much larger than the en
tire msuinfictlire of England.
The conditions which makes this cheapness possible
are also Lave:sable to the excellence of oar work. Our
artisans long ago ceased to n be novices . Time and effort
under a superintendence which combines the subtleties
of science with the strength of practical skill, berepro
duced a body of artisans whose efficiency is for the time
pre-eminent. ,We have the best workers in every de
partment that are available—workers whose expertness
and experience would be alone sufficient to secure for
Waltham its high position. Among °filar tributary
causes, may be stated the readiness with which each
succeeding invention and improvement has been tested,
and if approved..adapted. We ere always reedy to ex,
'amine whatever experience, or art, or skid may suggest,
but we adopt nothing until experiments have demon
strated its excellence. In pursuance of this rule, we
have brought to our aid all the mechanical improve
ments and valuable inventions of the last fifteen years,
whether home or foreign in their origin. We have thus
acquired the exclusive posseseion of the best and most
valuable improvements now known in connection with
wateh-making, and secured for the Waltham factory a
force and completeness not shared by any 'similar 89-
tabliehments M the world. •
These constant efforts to perfect in all ways, and by
all means, both. the machinery of the factory and the
construction of our watches, have placed within our
means the production of a greater variety in grade and
finish than other Americah makers have attempted. In
the manufacture of very fine watches we have no com
petitor in the United States and only very few in Eu
rope. . '
The various styles of these watches have undergone
the severest trials in the service of Railway Engineers,
Conductors and Expressman, the most exacting class of
watch wearers, and the presence of over 400,000 Wal
tham Watches in the pockets.ot.the people is the best
proof of the public approval, and must be accepted as
conclusiye of their superiority by discriminating Watch
buyers, 'especially -se since the important matter of
price is also very 'greatly in favor, being at least twenty
five per cent, cheaper, quality for quality, than those
made elsewhere, in the United States.
An illustrated description of the Watches made by
the American Watch Company of Waltham, will be
sent to any address on application.
In addition to a description of the watches, the
pamphlet contains much other useful information to
watch-buyers.
AS THESE WATCHES ARE FOR SALE BY ALL
RESPECTABLE JEWELLERS, TUB
COMPANY DECLINE ALL OR-
DERS FOE SINGLE
WATCHES
For facts and all other information, address
ROBBINS & APPLETON,
General Agents,
Janell-6w. A IS2 Broadway, N. Ir
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