.. , COLitangiVignirKlNE , I AL Manion" Itohoodoo on a Foe,, drifiraillaa=lllZ as follows from Washington to the Chi cago Tribe*: Tinter frectrualha.- tiny. Tomllawkins is the dueliskinr y HA, : *Act*: Hetrernot SteVenhOtil Inimec-! wit tc)r h 4 tt i firj l l= l l:l e man' hur.! gh e ar , ig, w o i r k x r r nr w but 1 Witt ' it' 11 8, f t. H is,; pertglpe, fifty yea's; of age, pow,_bu% stitliode'oßthe....hekt shots tin:ZNen . tuelty, and has fixed up morequer retsanfArteeis mereond onm3Ore IWO! than any'ether man aliVe. Personal ly,i he is a geotter faithhil fellow, but he Is deadly whe%Nr i lpfie et r 1 / 14 'eat me y• T Is. 666 hest of his the finished duelist of the South always Illce upon points - of, f.,nor Rug prompt : M advise oily body to fig t when% rid thfrikti hfis been Injured. „His last' aUpearaneo in proximity to the field of honor was occasioned by a mooted duel be.' never dune fb a (dim r. eopie wire - knew him Heat for Tam in case of a duel, ust as you send for a physician and the preacher when you are sick., lie was wounded a Benno Vista, and he MIS with Henderson, Critten - den,' Lopez and the rest when they invaded Cuba. During the war he was on Dreekenridge'S staff, and the affairs of pr's/Me blood in which -he hag been edgeged ;are Inumerablfi.4-- For instance,he ems Ben, 'Johnson's and Whin ltd' killett‘Toni White, id you ever hear of that? No! Oh! Toni Hawkins had to leasie the State for some' yens after that .kluel. Old'. 63km .I%l7Hite was there when Ben shot his son, and he went on - awhilly. The papers raised a howling row about that duel. Tom %Vhiferand Den - Johnson:had , a fuss' 'over Cards, both pretty full, and a. .. challenge passed. The' wouseik,and families on both sides took a big in terest %n it, said lien's mother mould ed the balls with her own hands. - She was all upend alive about it.' reckon she'd shot Ben . herfielf,:if he had not gone to the field. Ben was all crippled up with the rheumatism, and they had to set him up and hand him his gun. They fought with' shot guns loaded with balls. There the old man White, ha ling in' the tiekkahouh plots . ; of , tl kitdrins a)bibgiy,ste4 went the guns and Ids son lay ead; at the old man's feet, with a hold • right through Ids, forehetul. they say it was dreaditil to hear - him go mm. I don't know whatAxsune. of Ben Johnson. Tom HawkinS scared John Pope; mast dead once. They were at old Heneral Wool's table when Pope lm pugel the eouroge of General--,. and Tout Hawkins Just glanced and opened out. John Pope had to take water. ' Toni iviii'Breckehridgo'S amend when the challenge passed. between John and Cutting. There Tom 'showed the generalship of Alexan der the (front, Cutting's sassed was old Proiltient Monroe's son of the regular army, and Toni turned him inside out. lie put him on the de fensive, thundered at him, and. got.' John Breckenridge oft with the hon ors. I Porn Hawkins bin terrible: fellow. If he looks at you with his wide open eycs.full of ferocity, you . are half gone filreatlyt . \Vhen they tried Henderson in New Orleans., ,antl . Judah Benjamin, was employed by the Spanish government to , twist in. the prosecution, Tom, whose trial was to- follow, sate w hat n terrible tongue Benjamin had, and he follow ed him out of the court room, and said: 'Look here, Mt. Jew, I want to tell you something. If, when my trial comes off, you say ono word: against my character; I'll kill you in your tracks.' Benjamin • saw those big eyes ready tojump out of Tom's head, and he said: `Mr. Hawkins, I shall not want to hilt° any dlnicul ty with you, sir.' They did uot , convict Henderson, and . Toni never came to trial. I reckon you never heard of Torn Hawkins' connection with the Fitch -and Stephen A. Douglas trial, did you?: nit has never been publishl ed to my knowledge, but It was _a remarkable episode in the preface to the rebellion..., You see it was com ing on toward' the political' taonV4n tion of 1850; and Boughts had the strength, so that it Ms hard on to a certainty that ho would be notninat ed and crowd out the Buchana n par ty. • I got sure. luforznatiou ,ef,. _the nightlY'eaucussta' of Slidell/ 1 ' Iftstle D, Bright, liowell Cobb, Benjamin and that Gulden in Washington—fbr. they met at Cobb's house, chiefly, and one day it came to me straight as a wire that they had determined to force Douglas into a fight, and that it had been proposed that Slidell should insult Douglasln the drink ing ninon Of did Senate. and; if resented it, shoot him down. I wrote to Douglas at once, but know ing his habits so well of leaving let ters unopened fts days and , weeks together, I sent the letter to a friend, and commanded him to melte Doug, - las open it and peruse it, that lie might, be fully prepared for them.— And in that letter I said, 'lf you are pushed to the wail, telegraph for Hawkins, of Louisville.' Well, I came on from the 'South soon after that, and went up with Deer& Pugh to see. Douglas: There we found nobody to pay much at tention to us. Douglas seemed ab sorbed with something else, and looking out of his library wear' the hall, I saw Roger A. Pryor and O. Brown, of Mississippi, stepp into another room. L asked no questions , but came away, and soon afterward started for New York. When I got to the Relay House there was about three minute's delay, as the western train hadlust come in, and f saw' gut out of it anti step towards the Washington train—who, but Tout I law k ins ? 'What, 'rem,' I cried, you doing here?' 'What, are you going away, from Washington?' Zen. ." ' toNew York.' 'New York. what? Do you • get me here and 'then run off to New York? Douglas has sent for me, the light's on !' 'I will get off my baggage at Bal timore,' said I, 'and wiii return to Washington , to-night.' :And With that' the' trains steamnd contrary ways. I found the matter at Washington that same evening. The conspira tors had arranged to force an insult upon 'Douglas, and then, if he chal lenged he would lose the vote of the North. If he refused no person in the South would touch him. The creature of the conspirators to insult Douglas was 0. N. Fitch, of Indiana —still alive, I believe—and he had dorm it in cxeeetive session the day before I reached the, titY Peuglas lard demanded a retraction or a fight, and Tons Hawkins had been sent for: I found the Douglas household all warm for the .duel. Mrs. Douglas and the Cuttses and everybody was bound to SOO Stephen out. His wife said he might -lose the Presidency or anything before he should be beaten by Jessie Bright and eld Buck's tuyrmidons. Bilit douz had lean passing all day betwixt Buchan an 's headquarters., in the Vita Presi dent's room of the Capitol; and one of the committee rooms where the Douglas men set in council. The messenger for Douglas was Roger A. Pryor; and for Fitch, Judah P. Ben jamin. The Fitch gang wereSildell, who was the arch' cons_pirator, and bloodthirsty as a bat; Bright, who was jealous of Douglas, and despised Mtn Cobb, etc. When Judah' P. Benjamin the second day, came into the committee room with another letter, Red, ation,Rlctipylion, of lin*/ ThigthNrrytpriahyvnount rest, ea* Toni Hawking' glancing at; him, they say he' shrank back until ECtqc494grankbentgUrg CZEI . 'Why, Mr. -Hawkins, I'm very ! glad to see you.' Z W l r r rag o , ti rt ct i V i t t M l = . n .0 - .. the particulars, and rum a n t' a r. yam. ..we j ug yw ok orill Ohat' ie 4 the thhietrat knew. that Aim owning to he , b ood by. Tome big eyes: And :my wrote a retraction. He had. it In tea ruin-; Ides. w . ~ elt/Tonged to try Douglas!. cpur-, age by tellini l d7 tnat the duel was to come,qff next plom.Vg. Trn,, ratstrtM ar piettddk kilo*, raised objections to this, and refused to have anything to do wlth.lt: ' We entered Douglas' library and there he stood, with as pleasant a smile as I ever saw, waiting to hear the re sult. 'Mr. Douglas,' said I, 'how do you *Orr • . . •" 'Very - Whet's . the metre 'You are to go to the field to•mor row morning at five o'clock, - and fight with sw ot-guns.', 'Very well;' he said; 'make all the arratigegeents,' We watched limn 'again" and fie was as I ever saw him- n ainiost cheer ful. Tom Hawkins could stand it no more. He said, 'Mr. Douglas, they have retracted.' Douglas drew a sigh, .whether" of feller or regret Ido not know. He was a aplendhl,shot with fowllug fleck, and ho would havi Ibnaht his weight in wlld'eats rather than be crowded out of the path of his ,am bition. He was the greatest leader any party - ever had, to my *Do yoU want to be Introduced to Toni liriaPkins?'. 'No,* Said I, with out thinking about 4, 'lf it isn't offensive, I prefer not to' know Tom Hawkins.' , A soGilti rgiNculro. Edllha Gllhertik Monte: a Mu bus—houte of Her Exploits, lu Ohlo-.Who acid What she Is. I'' Our readers h •n in our dis patches from t 4" time reference to a young wo u ?i ming to be the daughter of Lo . -Mentes and King , Leopo following oceou from Day ournal will thro some light on fe '7eissitacter and teeedenta t• 1• . 4 4 1 daring ys, it will be remembered, a yeun wo, maul/ giving her naiad 'asAilanche Soleinon, and'Groech. as her flatly° couatry, pecl at theneeket Rouse and crea cline a sensation wring her'sinet, stay. Those who, w her wherritetaiteptjuseat her as look ing, highly ethicated,lett e g ble to roi4and talk in three Tali , and cupabTe - Ohnuetsingintelligently n general suttl.'.' • • • • r arrival t the hotel, be r . og :h 1711 dlne to mo her ••.• k, she san kkkk tot lanatialt: ii t.klaxl run ning rom Mouth A physician \ was cailledosmitiudor. the belief that 'she was about to die, at her request a priest also. She soon re covered, however, and inive-her hiS-• tory nod the moan of berNisit here. She said•hernatiieWtts - Bleriche'Sol . o- mon, that her parents were Prussiaus that she was born 'in(/recce, that they cattle to ,t is. country . several years ago! and - settled In the South,- where they Ilvedduring the rebellion. She said that her father was dead, and that her mother and a brother lived in Cincinnati; she had no means, and tame to Dayton to see a worthy gen tleman who was acquainted with her history and family and to whom she came for information regarding the one whim she loved. It was "an af fair of the heart," altogether, and' she sought information as to the wherea bouts of her affianced. Whether In her wild or most calm moments, day and night, she poured forth the most Interesting and exciting converse on all manner of adventure, and all man ner of subjects; some of f her relations were after the manner of the orient, while others were., decidedly tragic. Her picture of scenes In.the South du ring the rebellion were superior to neything her listenerstuuldver heard. Indeed, she appeared to have traver sed the entire earth, and her mind was a storehouse of the most enter- Mining knowledge, which she offered in the most captivating speech. The party of whom she professed to have come here to see, was sent for, and he promptly visited the hotel. lie is an' excellent gentleman, and contributed what he mold to quiet the agitation of the fair young woman. He stated what he know of the young holy and her family but ho was not fully ac quainted with the history of the poor girl. He gave the name and address of the younghuly's mother and broth er—a lawyer in Cincinnati—who were sent a telegram stating the condition of the girl. The reply Stated that the daughter was a hinatic; that she had given the family a great deal of troa ble, and that they were unablelo con trol her. In the meantime tNe' con vulsions and hemorrhage continued at short Interval the physician'. came incredulous, and took occasion during the absence of the attendants, un the fair and mysterious patient to tell her that the cause of the hemorr hage was voluntary, the effect Of her self-rodtteed,hyStoria.c. • The worthy Catholic prioft grew tired ofthe non sense, and refused to come to pro nounce absolution until there was a reasonable prospect of death coming to the relief of the sufferer. After three or four days of excitement a gentleman was dispatched to Cincin nati for her brother. • Iler brother mercilessly extracted the romance from all Illanche,s bril liant narrative] concern* hemialf, her birth, travels, etc. etc: He said his sister's true. name was Annie Sol °Mon, and tittat , she was born in Ken tucky; that special pains had been taken with regard to her education, ,but that she had been a source of mil itant trouble from .the time of 'her graduation at school. The meeting of the brother and sister•was not by any means affectionate, and was the occasion of a violent display of hyste ria on the part of the romantic girl. Shei tried to escape during the night, but failing, alarmed . the 'mese by the most - frightftd, screams, and pitiful appeals' to be rescued. She was put on the Cincinnati train the other day ul in cl of her brother, and since then w ave heard nothing of her until wl in a few days, when. she Appears in a new role under a new name. . tier set:Lytton in'lDayton, as we have stated, occurred last .Decem ber, toward the latter part of the month. , 'what are • It is asserted putt Manche Solomon, who created the sonSatkat here at the Becket Rouse, Edith& Gilberto Mon tag, daughter of thocelehrated actress and danseuse, and Annie Solomon, of Kentucky, birth, are one and the same person. She lacks&few of the essential elements of a first class hum bug., and has chosen the very worst field for the sue sinful pursuit of her avocation. The Commissioners of Charities have decided that the young Woman Ls not at all insane. 'Au Editor tutus Former. andel Dechort, En., editor and proprietor of the Hagerstown,. Md.n, Mull, purchased a farm in Ha lifax Co.. Virginia, some eighteen months since. He got it cheap. This is the first season ho has had n full ' crop, and he writes as hollows: , "I' wish you would run down and am me this summer, while I am at tr as akarm.— There IS plenty cif tliyi there. I expect My &Op` to net met year not left than ten , thousand doNrs, and they , mitY reach twelve thousand dollars. I will have fifteen hundred bushels of wheat, one•thousand bar rels'of corn, (five bushels to the bar rel,)'abOut ten tons of bream. corm' (besides the seed,) and , about three thousand dollars worth of tobacco. I begin to see snore money in harming South than in printing In Maryland, and sun preparing to locate perms. Wendy on my plantation." r . • • WEIMI744I"Pf*-;:i. • , 1 4 4 7 41cchlt'floichie? hf zI. MK' Irdifterd lo i ebtorett ' Hw",90800,. ,61 Vbllii.lo46,6itheirt • tAtiee , :' 13rttil 'I biro' wtittitililehert letter' to: Cadet Smith , ' (the volcPredicadeth; and the thosight occurs to me 6E4; =perhaps inn pence high minder Asyslving. you my letter .for; ,publicatWn. .I.'he ninnies who will' •ratee nisei because they,amdis iniPunlif., _will hide their hide When the Indignation' of true, die d itexcited against them: • If Weal Point has not povier enough' to protect such it young man as •det Smith-;-quick, able,. honest, I noble. spirited as •he is—then •West Point will have a hardstruVainst the returning tide of fee • that will break in from the peo .lam a graduate ot West. Point, 'Lend .arm proud other sons who haveboat true to their country and true to humanl tLebtustdishiuncstrultslYb;siiimairn ;4U! `dice, that ought long ago to have been , smothered. 0. 0.-Howsun. • • Washington D. C., July 8, 1870. ••'• • . HOWARD. HNIVRABITY,. i — , WAKILLNOTON. MyLearYoung Friend: . ..t have just received your letter of the 29th ult. It 18 pol:dished in The "Washington Chron i cle of this morn ing. do hope you will, never think. of giving up while you. haVe health to stand the storm.' I suffered quite D.. 4 much' when I first went to West Point. • Endure the• insults without any show of Raz. A prompt and able reply when off duty will sometimes avail you. Apleasantsmlle will win hearts to you. Clod, who allowed you to be born and live-with the blood of the African in your veins, wilthear you through every trial: - To-be a soldier one need not only be brumin battle, but belie an abundance of gen-. nine fortitede, so alto bear up,in 1:11.4." aster' and apparent - defeat . -- There is no real defeat to the true soldier—his soul is unconquerable. Affectionate ly ypur friend, 0:0. HOWARD, r • Bray% Mii. Gen. U. H. it. To Uidet J. W. Smith, West Point. Tho following is eadetSmith's let ter: Wear POrivr, N Y, June 29 '7O. • DkAit PIM:ND: Your kind letter should have been answered long ere this, but really I have been so haras sed with examination and thci insults and treatment °flirts° cadets, that I could not write or do anything else scarcely. I passed the examination all right, and got in, but my com :on Howard failed and was re ected. Since he went -away I have lonely indeed. And now these fellows appear to be trying their ut most to run me off, and I - fear they will succeed if they continue as they have begun. We went into vamp yesterday, and not a moment has passed since then but some one of them has been cursing dud abusing me.. All night they were around my tent, cursing and swearing at me collet I did not sleep two hours all night. It isjust the same at the table, and what I get to eat I must snatch ftirlike a dog. I don't wish to resign if I can get along at all; but I don't think Itwlil be best for me to stay and take all the„abuses and in-' sults that are heaped upon me. The examination was very hard this year —harder thanever haw° -andsinee I have been sueemsfut in getting in, I will stay as long as I possibly can.— One of the cadets refused to drill the squad because I was in It, and they reduced him from a corporal to a 'Private for • disobedience of orders, and they are all mad about that. The one who drills the squad now is the meanest specimen of humanity I ever saw. After marching us out to the drill ground this morning he said to me, "Stand off to one side from the line, you d—d black —.• You are to near that white man. I want you to remember you are not on an equal footing with the white men in your class, and what you learn here you will have to pick up, for I won't teach you a d—d thing." And thus he kept me standing until the captain came around inspecting, when he pretended that he put me there to teach me a movement which I had never practiced before. And I mold say nothing at all, or I would have been locked, up for disobedience of orders or disrespect to "superior °liken." If it ever happens again I shall deny it to his face and then re sign. If I complain of their conduct to the commandant I must prove the charges, or nothhig can be done, and whereatni to find one from so many to testify in my behalf? If this af ternoon's drill is conducted as this morning's was, you need not be as tonished at hearing that I have re signed. I have borne insult upon in sult until I am completely worn out. I have written a plenty of bad newS; and I wish I had some good news for you ; but, alas lit seems to be getting worse anti worse. I:forgot to tell you that outer 86 appointees only Mt pass -NI the examination. They had pre. Tared it to fix the colored candidates but it proved most disastrous to the whites..l hope you are. all well at home. •I soar ri, very'finn article rela ting to me In The llarVord await!, and I feel very grateful to Mr. Capron for his kind words.concerning me. I hope my brlght(St hopes will be real ized, but I doubt if they will ever be here. - • 1 'Give my kind regards to all, and write soon to your much benetitted and thankfal servant. J. W. SMITH. P. B.—There were 91 - aPpointees ; failed physically 47 tailed mental. y, leaving 39 admitted. Tie Maltese Flight Ewer Made by Mae. The most remarkable balloon as cension on record Was made in ,1804, by Blot and Gay-Lussac, in Paris. By this enterprise they endowed sci ence with n series of now and im portant facts, questionable before that time; as they carried with them a complete net of sultalitxratus, and moreover, an unsu rpassed knowl edge.of observation an experiment. They ascended to o a height of d 8,000 feet, and observed ,that at the height of 8,000 to 9000 feet the animals they had taken with them in order to observe the:tetrad of rar ifled air and cold upon them, did not appear to suffer any inconvenience. In the meantime the pulses of the two ex periments were much accelerated; that of Gay-Lussac, otherwise always slow, 62 bents per minute, was 80, and that of Blot, naturally rapid, 79 beats per minute, was 111. At a height of 11,000 feet a pigeon was lib erated; it dropped down whirling through the air. as - if it had been .a stone. ' The air was too thin, too mri fled, to enable Me fly. Three weeks later, Gay Lessee went up alone, and attained the, height of 24,000 feet, four and ono-sixth miles, or 2,000 feet higher than the top of Chimborazo Mountain. Tho barometer Was only thirteen inches high, the thermome ter eighteen degrees Fahrenheit be low the freezing point; while at the surface of the ground it was eighty degrees. lie left the - court yard of the ainserrodolre des Arts et Metiers, in Paris, and, after an renal' voyage of six hours, descended near Rouen, one hundred miles • distant... The result of this ascension on Gay Las sac's health was very lejurious; par tially by the want of Jr for respira tion, combined with sudden cold; bat chiefly by the abscence of the accus tomed 'pressure. At the extreme height 04000 feet his face and neck were swollen enormously. his.eyes protruded from his-head,. blood ran from his eyelids, nose and ears, and also came from his lungs, by vom iting; in short, his system received a shlck from which he never fully recovered the rest of his life. —.The prattle° of Kentucky. distil lery hands of bathing after working hours in the vats of whiskey, not only refreshes and •cleanses the uum, but Otis to the "body" of the oWtifs•AMKTlPlft,fa--: 1 1 1 .. ThtliksitsdhObfßithieralfedildnir, 'and , the "Ittati3t: itimpkWla • *aid 'Mower did Ilritiou7 giveicaxsagiod for Imaolitstudy vestigationotthodedinlenitiew,The old and the young. 1:10 and ,the /ow, Agt all twire pr gyp, apitPct to these ,troxiblesome a tie ;: t r:3 tho diabetes of inlaid" to thh i llut graVel of old agd;thd itilieh' e taborerat toll; to 'thy" laicurtoua Ibia. at his aise. l ' '•'l"'''" "' • From theLvery nattire'of peed liar wydenrotpeactiee,•wetadd per. haps .had. more 'experi, in :the treatment of these afttions than usu ally falls to the iototany practitioner , I Rho *me , •, Mit it ifAtetbese ce-t 1 9 11 t 3 4 1 , 0 1 13 4n any, ofortf,, 11 0 an exruninatlim or the urine re.- quirett• in order to'understand the true nature Of the disease 'All Urina ry difltenitleit del not arise from gravel„ nor do'all g • indlea arise front aadion ravidly of the Kidneys andit is by an examination ,oft,the urine alone that dime facts are to ,be yeti , fled manv times. • • . • • 40.4414 the Pt'; ' )elso " alson between the unmy ills belmigiug to these arglids, 'GAO Wetire duibleti to Naito liy„this. mqvninatinp. that, w e' are so succetafid In their burt. The terrible sufferings, the writh ing agonlea; the, painful difficulties, and,tho wretched sleepleteneSs' non sioned by affection's of the Kidneys , aud Uriruiry Organs, make it a. mat ter of study to the humane physician, worthy of the noble cause he has es poused. • And he who would not put forth his utmost power for the relief of thitie terribly annoying dltaises, whereby so many quietly sullen in agony hetuusc of their delkney, not worthy to be trusted in •the pro fession. • Many delicate ladies have lived a lifeof suffering. Mini some of 'these diseases, who might have had years Of health.had the complaint been un 'derstood! by their physician. We believe that we have .troated, more patienta laboring under, _ these difficulties; than any other physigitua in the State of Pennsylvania, west pf the Allegheny mountains, and do not hesitate tolsay that we have cured 'a greater percentage, by one-fourth; of all our patients than has been done by any others. , 'these facts can be verified from our records. , We seldom ,fail to relieve our patients of their sufferings in those dLseasesatiince. Prom close attention and' long tied .. .patient Investigation we' have learned tO kncivf the precise nature of all these affections, and have found out elactly the-kind of medi cines to be used In each. Our reale diesin theteare adapted to each par ticular 'case,' and will give relief-at once. Try them.for yourselves and verify the facts. Send a vial of urine and, we can Send you the necessary medicine. . L. oLosuu.r.ot. IV Grant street Pittsburgh Pa. ATMni MUMMA RT. —ln Wisconsin metal, supposed to brjper f has been found In large ties hi the town sot' . Maple trove, Fond du Lae county-.ltle also reported to have. been, roondOn the. Neehoto rlyer,. in then, town - of . .—Au 'Alexandria (Va.) ruffian the other day, seeing two little girls on the opposite side of the street, ex claimed : "Well, Pli kill a nigger " , and picking up a stone threw it with fatal aim, stxl king °neer the children, who died In two hours. —A Hartford reporter of a New York paper was dreadfully mortified at the President's manifest Inaptitude for his high place and his general insig nificnace. Can the nation or Congress or somebody not do something for this mortified man? It is dreadful to think of him without relief, and it must make every loyal man falter to reflect upon his President's inapti tude and his general insignificance. —We learn from the Oshkosh Northwestern that Mrs. Sarah Rear don was badly stung about the face and neck by a hornet, on the after noon of the 3d. The hornets had formed a nest in the garden, and coming on them unawares, Mrs. Reardon was stung in about a dozen plates. She immediately took scold bath; and, two or three days after wards, exhibited symptoms of pois oning. She suffered the most agon izing pain until the 7th Inst., when death relieved her. She was about 56 years of age. —The New York Worki Sep, : As there are pious folks who think it sinful to cure d iseases or assuage pains which are sent as punishment for sin, It is perhaps not right for the medi cine men to discover that the new anesthetic, hydrate of chloral, is an almost miraculous remedy In deliri um tremens. Dr. George Balfour of Edinburg., has tried it in a atsewhich WIIS one of "maniacal violence." Two half drachm doses, at one hour's In terval, produced sleep, and cured the patient. . —More people are killed by lights ning than is commonly supposed. According to some recently publish ed statistics, more than ten thousand people have been smitten by the electric fluid within the past thirty years, of whom two thousand two hundred and fifty-two were killed outright. The fiery bolts, however. seem to make ['distinction on account of sex, for of the eight hundred and eighty killed within the last ten years, only two hundred and forty three were females. . —A party of Americans at Zurich, Switzerland, having become preju diced against the,country, for some reason, determined to wreak a terri ble vengeance on the unolTending Swiss. So, theyorgunized themselves into a base ball club, with two nines, and played a match game. The play excited great interest among the na tives, and our countrymen retired over the Alps, their faces lighted with a glimmer of sardonic satisfaction.— Their devilish revenge has worked; and now poor Switzerland is cursed and inundated with a passion for base ball. —A New Haien man Wilke peo ple to use snow .hereafter instead of ice,lbr refrigerating purposes In sum mer. Provide, says he, a square box say 12 to 18 inches square, fill It with pure snow, stamping it together with a smooth block. of convenient form. Have the box made very littielaper, Just the slightest flare toward the open aide. On emptying it you will have a block of snow sufficiently sol idified, and ready, afterone real cold night, Int packing into your ice box. He says this will keep as long as ice, will, of course, be cheaper, and will be cleaner and purer; GENEn4L ALBEur Awls, United States Winder from Mississippi, and Miss Blanche Butler, daughter of General Butler, will be united in the bond&of wedlock in St. Ann's , Epis. copal Church, at Lowell, Mass., on the 21st day of July. A series of fes tivities have been organized by the leading families of Lowell, to begin .four days before the church ceremo ny, In honor of the event. Miss Blanche Is not only one of the most beautiful and accomplished young ladies In New England,' but is ad mired for her amiability and - high social and benevolent qualities in the society where she movea, 'especially with her own sex. . . • , ; --Anescited parent in Harrisburg overhauled his daughter on the . way to the depot with a. young man, with whom • she concluded to spend. the balance of her days. The „young man was arrested and i g the night in the lockup. In the ' morn ing the lady protested that she had gone with the young. gentleman 'vol untarily, and that they were to have been married. The Mayor could not see how he could hold the party and dismissed him, the father paying the costs. The young lady wascom mendably spunky, and, not being by any meatus unhandeime, she excited considerable Interest in the court room: She accompanied her father home. • • , ;ifirgr„Prf_r i f.: o l ll " , ••• , "liitteWlttellosetwaiddeldkaroru:nia 010 , 6 ,1 , Co_n; ,V,melonal detattllelgobilt-a ions inwwiecui 1.11 I,a - wlll ha/ O' Them tharentrin a debate =nosh the trailosition ab)lialutho,o3llldon to 13444 ! , i • Hi 7 4 14 141901, iienk .I,*et Tlieregoret e Mr.' nitifiddlhat • tteea to bo.V . MtiowNothlng." s %%enamel theta altould Inr4l bet -a , naliatkitk /to Ponse.' , o aw,c, 3- , , Cox eald that lbw inuseit to burn,a witches; la,: 2dasatebasetta-r Therefore,thereAmdd , be t a, Atdadon tti ) Morel Mr.. 7 ,Sroorlik‘i ;add . p, Unman Catholic Aeylittri 'Ilt" Wt. Therefore th ere should' be a IdEdtili ". , Bingham said ihati Powell was a much better painter Mate Tit. lan and Minnie Ream a trouch.bettor toculptor :than Michael Augek).”- Therefore. there should not Imo alon,tollome, „ ; , 1 , RepublkonAwituk.'24yoliarfa..,, Dm/octane chorus-1W 'Republican c,herue--Yon"dle ' Dentocnttic chorus-;,We . . ',' Sold by the' 8 ker--kktler.' f " .. Democratic . ' there idieukt be (do copa with gavel accompani ment.) •,:r: . _ Republican ehoru&—There .shouid not bo (ditto, ditto.) :liter weighing these arguments, the Rouse adiourned.without doing any9ting about it. : • . — Grate Grdenwood says ; - While Such sudden deaths as ThackerayN, Hawthorne s;.. and this of our friend shook us inexpressibly, it is comfort ing to thick that they went in: the fulness of their.genius and fame. I helm thought much of Sir Walter .since wo lost his successor—of how Death crept stealthily ,and slowly "ution"liiin,' throughout the piteous deely . of hismagnificent powers; and the picture has come up before me of his being wheeldd into his study at Abotaford p . ono day, when , the, old spirit was•flickering tbebly up,. `and asking fer. pen -and paper, saying he thought he could write. Then I see the .pen; frilling from his. nerveless fingers—l see him burst Into tears, sink back hlto his chair, and give up, Ah, cannot even that grieving circle et God's Hill House Dice that noth ing so drearily sad can ever take place in the pleasant 'study' but of which he pawed' on that inournful June day?. Neither the great heart or brain failed him, or them, till the swift, sudden boltdeseended. There was no. melancholy forgetfulness of slear facesmo confounding of familiar names there Aims no long, painful grouping In the twilight of thought- Sanely it Is well , '—A French pievincial papci; the Ihdependent du' Cbd te, relates that a few days Since Palals du :indite at Clairmont was the scene of a Ilearnd murder and suicide. The' Sitting of the first Clamber had just 'been , sus pended, and the next atm.:to be hearl,was a petition for seporofion de corps presented by-a wife agmnst her husband,. A swideq shriek Iti ,the oute.itotint attracted he attention of the' Perim; who w re Ipiitting die 4 court, antra men w seen kneeling and holdingamonia down od the ground. The -manly B'3 seized; and then it was found that the unhappy women, who wits uttering piercing cries of agony, had been littmly cut open at a single stroke. The man while struggling with his captors; found.untins to stab himself in the region of the heart, and died within a few minutes. The - womatiVaS 're moved to the hospital; but the sur geon declared her wounds to be mot , tal. It appeared that the seicide and his-victim were the parties to the separation suit about to .be heard, ' and as no previous altercation had been noticed, it is believed that the double crime was premeditated. —The London Mira soya; "It is well known that hitherto the United States have been represented at this as well as at other courts by a diplo matist having the rank of Minister only: At a recent'ineeting, however, of the Committee upon the Diplo matic Service, Lord Clarendon, in answer to a question from a - member of the Committee said that if the United States desired it, an 'ambas sador, representing the most impor tant of modern nations, would be most acceptable in this country; but it was for the United States to take the initiative.. There:was no reason why a Republic should not be repre sented by an ambassador, as the Re public of Venice had enjoyed that distinction." -4anies Lawlts, residing at Knowler' X Roads in Sussex county, Delaware, wasstruck by lightningon Wednesday of last week, and instant. ly killed. He had just walked to the well to get a Om of water, and whilst in the act of drinking was struck to the earth. Miscalaneotts. HOMES FOR THE MILLION!! - - - Rare opportenftim arc now offeren for securing homes Ina-mild healthy and congenial c li mate for one-tenth of their 'Cue five ye us hence. THE NATIONAL REAL ESTATE AGENCY Dam for sale real estate of every description, locat ed In the Middle and Southern Staten: improved Hoyt, groin:and/rote Amu; fie., *war and cot ton plantatMes; timber and mineral lands; CU R village and rural residences and business stands ; mills and *tin Atm Maarten et e. Write for Land Register containing description, !octane,. price and terms of preperties we have lOr ROC. . Also, connected with our Real &tate alike, we have a sreasnat Ueda and Agent Agency under the supervision of the well known Thomas Taylor, late of the Ordnance Department, who La both a 114 . 04 40 d stiffirrtarlietat meetuusis, and well aequntn ted la the different Gov emment Departments, es pecially' in the War and Nary, Ordnance and PATENT CIFrEICCE.• • Merit paper* enrefally prepared. Drawings testily executed. and Rarer neared for tarns& ors is the Illtorleat possible lime. Special attention - Oren to rejected rarer, also CAMP for rti. fie, e.rl erniipt., 'MEOW 4Ce.abandop. ,fc. Preliminary eAnninetion as to the patentability of an article made on receipt of A brief detterip. lion of the name—no model being required. Favor dawn • POOR INVUN'I'ORR by aallitmg ' them In procuring' patents and altar wants otithing Malt inventions. Confidential to our business retatloni VIM In ventora ' . .. Terme more riresrulebte thee any _other agen. Circnlarcontalnlparalmato trtformario” are! free. Addrees: B. W. CLARKS d The National Beal AWate Agency, Tr 7 'and lig Anna. Arenut, FarliOagtoe, juelolf C - OAL FOR SAIAL—Tho undersigned has constantly t baud a goads/Mk of Limp and Nat Coal, which be will sell at reasonable pricer, eltherat the bank, or will deliver to parchasere— The hank Ii located oa McKinley's Ram slew rods from. the Pitt. Ft„ Wayne& Chicago Mimed; sod bat .a short distance hoer Beaver radon.. balm also a good article at Fire clay, which I will dispose of at reasonable rates. (-Went left at my residence In Bridgewater; or at Michael Camp's in Rochester, or at the bank, will receive prompt attention. J. C: MOIILTER. • ape/MI:SW-1v BISSELL & CO., 236 Liberty Str'eiet, rittimburgli, Manufacturers or all Sizes and Styles of GRATE FRONTS. ; Slip= FRO, S, FENDERS. COOKING 'argots, pocri and Wood (baking iSfores,gtei&e: ,THE.TII I; M Pit STOVE FOIL CURL, The Jach.gon SYore for Cbal& Anil Coa Stove forW