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I can't say I'm proud to say it, because it's too sad an ending, as far as be was concerned, poor fellow, though I myself bad a lucky escape. James Bayle was a very peculiar man. I don't think any one understood him ex cept myself. He was certainly more open with me than with any of his other friends or acquaintances. It was three years ago, in November, when he came up to London to stay with me, in this very house. Ho used to go out on long walks by himself' every day, and I knew his object, for he had confided to use the &et that he was going to marry a young girl somewhat be low him in station, and he was looking for a house in London, as he intended to work hard on two or three journals, to the staff of which he had long been attached. The sort of house that he looked for, was, as you may believe, not a very dear one Ho naturally wished for a very quiet situation; and as he was a man who had always lived in the country, and was very fond of flowers, he said he would put up with any inconvenience as long as he could have a piece of ground to himself. He told mo the sort of a house he required, and I told him the direction in which he would most probably-find one. It was one Wednesday, I remember, four days after he had been with us, that he went out rather earlier than usual. We never ex pected him to return very early; but when the dinner bell rang, and we found he had not come in, we felt a little uneasy. He was a very shy man, as you know, and ve ry particular; the last thing he would be likely to do was to be purposely late for dinner, without giving us any warning We waited twenty minutes, and then sat down without him. He never came back at all that night, nor the next day, nor the day after that; in fact, as you all know, he never came back at all. We went to the police office at once; and I was very much amused at the theo ries set up by the excellent detectives to account fbr his disappearance. I told them I believed it very likely that be had been looking for a house, or if not, that be had gone to the British Museum ; but they got it into their heads that he had been decoy ed into the slums of St. Giles or Westmin ster, or had committed suicide ; and noth ing would dissuade them at first from these two ingenious theories. They asked 1130 if he was not a man of studious, solitary habits, rather eccentric. I answered : "Yes, certainly." "Then depend upon it," said the ser geant, 'he's in the Regent's Canal or the Thames." This reasoning was so unanswerable that I did not attempt to answer it, but I de termined to test my own theory first. Hitherto we had been able to find nobo dy who had seen him. He knew very few people in London, and he was not the sort of man to attract attention. I began my endeavors to trace his movements in rather a novel manner. I started every morning from my own house at the same hour as he had done. I stood for about five minutes in the street, and then I set out in whatever direction chance suggested to me. For eight days I walked about fifteen miles a day, looking everywhere for any house to let which would have been likely to attract Bayle's attention, but I did not get any clue. I found several which he had been to, but not on the dayupon which he disappeared. On the ninth day I started at the same hour ; this day I selected a district which I knew to contain one or two houses such as he required. I walked on in the same unpremeditated manner, turning down any street as chance led me. I was very much dispirited, so much so that I had forgotten I was hungry, when I found myself in a very quiet part of one of the western sub urbs. I was just going to try and find some place where I could lunch, which promised to be no easy matter, as there seemed to be no shops or public houses near, when my eye caught a very crazy looking board which was peering over the dingy corner of a dead wall straight in front of me. I walked up to it and read : "This eligible villa to be let, unfurnished, with one acre of ground, stabling, etc. Terms very moderate. Inquire within." I could only see the top of the house, which seemed very low, and some little way from the road. The front looked on to Duddon's Grove; on one side was a Dissenting chapel, standing in a - small piece of ground; on the other, a very qui et, lonely lane; there was a door, evidently leading to the stable yard ; it was bolted, and there was no bell. I tried to make the people hear, and failing, I returned to the front entrance, which I had not seen before, and after some little trouble, I found the bell, and rang it. Five minutes elapsed before any one answered the sum mons, and then a man opened the door, and asked me what I wanted He was a cunning, dirty-looking fellow, with very peculiar eyebrows, growing in patches, as if he had the mange. He looked as if ho had been drinking, but he did not speak quick, nor was his gait or hand unsteady but the bloodshot eyes and blotchy face made me feel sure that he was not a man I should care to leave in charge of a house. One other peculiarity I noticed then, and that was the great length- of his arms, which gave him the appearance of a great ape. He led the way down a damp gravel walk, overgrown with weeds, through what had been a little garden. On the right hand side I noticed a largo patch of very very rank grass round a broken sundial. I remarked to the man that the soil seem ed pretty rich there. "Yes," he answered with a kind of hoarso chuckle, "the grass do grow very thick and sweet juit`there ; and it ought to, con sidering wba'ts underneath." "Why," I inquired, "what is underneath there ?" "Clay, of course," he answered, with another chuckle, and by this time I found myself at the front door of the house. It was a singular little place. The win dows of what was probably the dining-room opened into a rickety, moldy veranda, which terminated at the porch. This porch projected some little way from the house, and at once struck me as space very ill utilized, since there was no room above.— Two urns, that looked as if they were af flicted with gangrene, surmounted the front door; the lattice-work that had once been put up for the creepers was nearly all rotted away. One or two chimneys were quite ready to drop, and the whole place looked as if it \vas built of moldy cheese. "Not in very good repair, this house," HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1873 I observed to my hideous guide. "Oh, quite good enough. Only wants a little touching up here and there." I can't tell you when it was that the peculiar feeling which had taken posses sion of me ever since I looked at this un inviting' property, pronounced itself so strongly as to become a distinct sense of horror. But it was so now, and as I look ed up at the puckered faoe of this ape-like man, I saw something that almost made me utter a cry of dread. But I restrained myself. I should not have been such a fool any other time, but I had been now walk ing about for seven hours, and my break fast had consisted of one cup of tea. We entered the house, and in the pas sage we found a woman waiting for us. "My wife," said the man, "she will go through the rooms with you," and then he disappeared through the house into the bad: yard. The woman took me into the rooms on the ground-floor. I observed nothing par ticular about them, except that they were very gloomy. There were no rooms on the basement, except cellars. The kitchen, scullery, etc., were on the ground-floor. I say that there was a yard, with stables and wash house in it; I went into the stable, and found that it was a little more than a shed; the wooden back abutted on some waste ground, enclosed by the low wall of tane which I have mentioned before. Al together, I never saw such a lonely house so near the busy part of the west end of London. I asked the woman how fur it 'cas•te Piccadilly, and she told me only tfteen minutes walk. She turned out to be quite right, for I had wandered round and round so much in that day's expedi tion that I was much nearer the civilised region of Belgravia than I thought. The peculiar feeling which I have men tioned was still strong on me. I was per fectly sure that, somehow or other, I had lighted on the real clue to my dear friend's fate. I dare say you will laugh at me, a practical old money-getting fogy, when I tell you that I felt, as I ascended the stair case of this house, that James Bayle was close beside me. As I said, there were only two stories to the house; but it was a straggling sort of building. The woman took me through a sitting-room, which she called a drawing room, but which in its present state was much more like a lumber•room with noth ing in it, and through this, across apassage to a much smaller room, which she and her husband used as their dwelling-room. There were two children of very unpre possessing appearance—a boy and girl. They were fightinc , for something when we entered, and we had hardly got inside* the room before I saw that the boy bad wrest ed from his sister a small pencil case. "What have you got there, my little man ?" I said. "Let me look." He show, ed it with pride. There was no mistaCing it. It was a somewhat peculiar one, made of ebony and silver, and I recognized it at once as having belonged to James Boyle. I suppose my face must have betrayed my agitation, fot the woman looked at me closely and then remarked : "It's a pretty little thing as little Johnny picked up the other day when he was out; If I could find who it belongs to, I should be very glad." "Oh, its not worth much," I said; "it is well it has fallen into such honest hands." We now went up three steps, and into a larger room. "This is the best room," she said; "there is another one next it, in which rubbish can be stored." I saw nothing in the room worth no ticing, and followed my conductress into the next one. These rooms had all doors opening into the passage. I thought I heard the handle of the door move as we came in. There was a peculiar smel here, a very sickly smell. I began to feel uncomfortable, and was at a loss how to act. There was no reason to disbelieve the woman's statement about the pencil-case ; and yet I felt sure that it was untrue. I went to the window in order to gain time. I heard the passage door open, and when I turned around, the man was standing there. "I hope the gentleman likes the house," he said. "It's a little damp, but it is very cheeerful in the Summer, and so quiet.' "I suppose there is net much more to see. It's rather a gloomy place," "Well, you see, it's a dark sort of a day, but with a little trouble it might be made a beautiful villa." The man moved the door leading to the bed-room as if he was going through.' When he said this he turned around from the door; he had one of his long arms in the pocket of his coat, which was open. I noticed that many of the waistcoat buttons were torn off. I stood reflecting a moment calculating the chances I should have in a struggle with him. They seemed in his favor. "I think I may as well be going if you will give me the address of the landlord, I will write to him." "Here's twe more nice sleeping rooms on this floor," said the woman, and she opened a door at the further end of the room, which I had not seen. I followed her down two steps, into a fair-sized room. The sickly smell grew, stronger here. There was a stain in the middle of the floor, which looked as if it had been lately washed. "You can go out this way, sir; the landlord will re-paper these rooms, and do all necessary repairs, he told us to say, sir. I tries to keep this place as clean as I can, but of sours; it looks rather dull." She had got to the door, and stood still to allow me to pass, and with her hand on the hen; dle. I could not see the man. I was feeling in my pocket for a small coin to give her, when she opened the door half way, and courtesied. I passed on. and before I had time to turn back, the door was shut on mc. The smell I bad already perceived was horribly strong here. I turned giddy. I had almost lost my senses, when a blow from behind knocked me down . I had jest time to get a glimpse of some chemical apparatus in the corner of what seemed more like a dark closet than a room, when I felL I remember nothing of what happened then. The first signs of returning sense was the perception of a pungent odor. Then I felt something run over my head. Then I tried to move. I was covered with straw. I was in the shed of the stable evidently, and the smell of the manure acted beneficially in rousing my brain. I was very weak from loss of blood, but I knew that if I didn't exert myself at once I had little chance of escape. I crawled to the door of the shed ; it was locked. If it had been open I did not know how I I could have escaped across the yard without being seen. I examined the outside wall of the abed. I found a place where the boards had been mended, about three feet from the ground. Fortunately I had with me a large pocket-knife, containing, among other things, a saw and a screw-driver. I worked away at the boards as quitely as I could ; it was very bard work. My head was very bad all the time, but my arms were not hurt. I started at every noise; sometimes it was a rat running across ; sometimes the horse in the stall; but no one came to the door. In about half an hour, as near as I can reckon, I had sawed through three planks, and loosened them sufficiently to make a hole big enough to crawl out. I put the knife in my mouth, and slowly crept on my hands and knees into the open air. It was raining, and the rain refresh ed me very much. I could not walk up right very well, so I crawled on till I got to the wall, which was luckily very low. I managed to pull myself to the top, and then reeled and dropped in a heap on the other side. There was a gutter in the lane, and it was full, for it had been rain ing very hard. I washed my mouth out with the water, which, dirty as it was, was grateful to my parched throat. Keeping by the wall, I staggered along till I came to a lighted street. Here I got help; the police office was close by. I got a couple of policemen ; then we got into a cab. They made me stop to have my head dressed ; but I could not rest, though the surgeon insisted on me doing so, till I found out what had become of James Bayle. • We got to the house. The police got over the wall and lifted me over. We' found the an and the Woman sitting in the kitchen. When they saw me, all pale and bandaged she fainted away and he', was paralyzed with terror. He made no resistance. We went up stairs, and I showed them the place where I was struck. The little room, or closet, at the door of which I fell, had been fitted up as a labratory. An old retort, on a spirit lamp, stood' in the corner. The window was blocked up; there was no chimney. The strange smell was still very strong, and the poisonous vapor had not yet all dispersed. We searched the rooms, and found some clothes and other articles which I identified as belonging to James Bayle, and which be. had on or about him when he left my house. The man denied all knowledge of Bayie, and swore the things bad been given him. But we had no doubt as to his fate. Both the man and woman were taken to the police station at once. I bad fainted, and they took me home. A po liceman was left in charge of the place. The next day, on examininr , the garden, his attention was =directed to the spot where I had noticed how rank the grass was. He got a spade, and about two (feet under the ground he found a body. When the sergeant came they worked together, and dug out three corpses, two in a very advanced state of decay; the other was still recognizable as the body of James Bayle. I was very ill for some time. I owed my life to an accident. Almost immedi ately after I was knocked down a ring at the bell came. They thought I was dead, and, hastily throwinr , ' a coat over me, carried me into the shed. They hid my body in the straw. Meantime the bell rung twice. It was the landlord's agent, who had called upon some matter of business. He did not stay long; but al most immediately after he had gone, a friend of this respectable couple came in, bringing with him a most welcome guest in the shape of a bottle of gin. To this happy arrival I owe my escape. The murderer and , his accomplice, as you know, Both committed suicide. He bad been a chemist, and was by birth an Italian. The two other bodies were never identified, but there is little doubt that they were murdered in the same way. poling fa the ii; Min. A Favored Planet, IS THE EARTH THE ONLY INHABITED WORLD? The idea that in other worlds life may exist in conditions widely different from those prevailing on this world in which we live, however plausible at first, becomes highly improbable when tested by the light shed on this subject by the accumulated knowleclge of modern research in the fields of astronomy, geology; spectroscopy, and chemistry, especially that branch of the latter science pertaining to organic com pounds. Thus it has been suggested that granted even that when the temperature of the moon, and other satelites of planets has been cooled to such a degree as to freeze all water—living ereaturos may ex ist there, having a liquid in their arteries and veins as uncongelable as mercury, gly cerine, alcohol,. etc. ; or, inversely—grant ed that the planet Jupiter is red hot, and the sun much hotter—living beings may exist, consisting of fire-proof materials, and of such an organization as to feel happy and comfortable in an atmosphere of su perheated steam, as in Jupiter, or even while swimming on a surface of melted lava, surrounded by an atmosphere of white hot iron vapor, rig would be the case in the sun. Astronomy, now so powerfuly aided by the modern tools of the scientist, having proved that the terrestrial, elements exist throughout the whole universe, only dif ferently distributed, and chemistry having studied the behavior of these elements un der extremes of temperature, we know now that the possibilities of the existence of organic life are comparatively within 'very narrow limits, and confined to a range of not much beyond 100 degrees among the 6000 or 8000 degrees to which our inves tigations have extended. We have learn ed that the wonderful properties of that common but most marvelous substance, carbon, aided by liquid water, at atemper ature below 110 degrees, are the absolute and essential conditions which make the development and continuation of life a possibility-. Without these, no life can exist. It may be objected that in other worlds there may be another substance, as effec tive in its function as carbon in our re gions, and that therefore we cannot make any conclusion as to the necessity of car bon for the existenc of life. In order to meet this argument, let us consider the properties of carbon, which, by modern scientists, has rightly been called the great organizer. _ _ A substance, in order to take the place of carbon in the economy of organized ex istence, must be able to combine in differ ent proportions with itself, to form a com plex molecule, in order to enter again into complex combinations. It must exist as a solid, but also easily pass into the atmos pheric condition by combination with another substance, equivalent to oxygen, so that all vegetation may bo surrounded by an atmosphere containing carbon in such a state that the plant may obtain it, and complete, with this substance as a solid basis, its organic tissues. We may go on and sum up other conditions which this supposed substitute of carbon would have to fulfill, in order to take its place; but then lee should in the end be driven to the conclusion that a substance which possess es all the properties of carbon would be carbon itself. But now comes the spectro scope and teaches us that even the comets consist chiefly of carbon dust, and that their purpose may be to supply the plane tary atmospheres from time to time with some of this necessary element, when sweeping close along them, as is often the case. As the latest investigations prove the identity of the elementary matter in our whole planetary system, (and this even extends to a great number of the fixed stars), we can come to no other conclusion than to accept a unity of chemical opera tions, of crystallization, cell building, or ganic growth, and organic life in general, of course greatly modified in accordance with the conditions of gravitation, atmos pheric pressure, distribution of elementary matter on surface, and especially of tem perature. If now we look carefully on all the conditions required to make life pos sible on the surface of a planet, we see that these conditions are very complex, that not only the elementary matter, possessing the different required qualities must be present, but also in the exact relative quantities, in order not to annul the re sults of this distribution. Let us, for ex ample, only consider the amount of hydro gen present on our - earth's surface, We know that nearly all of this element is combined with oxygen, forming the exten sive oceans, rivers, lakes, clouds and mois ture in general, in fact, the only source from which we can obtain this element is by decomposing water. This compound is indeed burnt up hydrogen, and this burn ing up, tf course, took place at an early gbological period of our earth's history. Therefore all the hydrogen has thus been burned up, consuming an equivalent amount of oxygen ; and the latter now forms eighty•eight per cont.•of all the ter restrial water. But suppose that there had been some more hydrogen, just enough to combine with the small portion of oxygen (21 per cent.) contained in the atmosphere; the result of the combustion would then have been some more water in the ocean, raising its surface only a few feet,. while no oxygen would have been left in the at mosphere. In this case, life would have been simply impossible, and the earth would now be desolate. It would be easy to adduce other instances proving how complex the conditions of life are, and how improbable it is that all these conditions are fulfilled everywhere at once. We conclude, then, that our earth is a highly distinguished planet, at present favored above hundreds, and perhaps above thousands, with conditions which have not alone rendered the existence of vegetable and animal life'possible, but de veloped it to the highest stage of organic existence, namely : civilized and enlight ened human races, able to investigate and discuss the highest problims in the uni verse, which are the laws of its creation, progress and ultimate purposes.— Scientific Ames-ken. What Public Men Owe to Newspapers Col. Forney complains, in a well-written article in the Philadelphia Press, that public men are, as a class, ungrateful to the newspapers and the journalists to whom they, in many instances, owe their position. Nobody is more competent to speak on this subject. than Colonel Forney himself. He has made more statemen out of small ma terial than any meg in America. He has taken snore active part in the personel of American politics in the last twenty years than alniost any other man. Much of his work has been that of a politician rather than that of a journalist, but in either ca pacity he has always been able to serve his friends well, and has always served them faithfully. His reward has been very small. If he had let polities alone, and devoted himself exclusively to journalism, he might have made a greater name than Greeley's, and a greater fortune than Ben nett's. But he was always very fond of helping some friend to an office, and his experience of ingratitude has, no doubt, been that of a hundred others who have operated in the same way on a smaller scale. Make a governor out of an alder man to-day,, and to-morrow he'll tell you that he owes his elevation to his own su perior merits. Forney made a President of the United States out of James Buchan an—but before the old public functionary lad taken his seat he repudiated his paten tee and manufacturer in the most ungrate ful manner. Congressmen are made by country newspapers—yet when they go to Washington, it wouldn't be safe to tell them so. There is too much puffer . ) , of small men in the newspapers now-a-days—too much disposition to exalt gentle dullness and amiable imbecility into intellectual great ness and real ability. Every chuckle-head in Congress gets more praise from tho press of his party now than could truthfully ha . re been bestowed upon Daniel Webster in his palmiest days. The Pennsylvania Central Extending to Halifax. One of the most important railroad com binations of the period is to be consum mated in a few days, resulting in a direct line, under a single management. between Halifax, Boston, New York and all the principal American cities of the South and West. The Pennsylvania Central is the chief figurehead in the movement, and all the intervening roads between Boston and Halifax are to be swallowed up by that giant corporation. A large party of railroad officials interested in the combi nation left here this morning on a tour of inspection of the line, and their journey will not end this side of Halifax or Prince Edward's Island. The party included the Directors of the Eastern Railroad, some of the Directors of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, and others. Along the route they will be joined by Directors of the Maine Central Railroad, and the whole party will remain in Bangor to-night. 'Tomorrow morning they will start for St. John, N. 8., over the European and North American Railway, the officers of which will accompany them, and from thence they will extend their trip the fol lowing day to Halifax, via the European and North• American Railway and the Nova Scotia Railway. The object of the tour is partly one of observation, and to this will be added the consummation of the proposed consolidation of the Eastern Maine Central and' European and North American roads by the signing of the con tracts between them. The presence of the Pennsylvania Central people is significant, from the fact that they are large owners L I in the European and North American road, and that they and the Eastern man agement are both largely and directly in terested in the New York and New Eno , land, formerly the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad. * Through trains between Halifax, Boston and New York will be run at an early day. —Cor. N. Y. Herald, Av. sth. The Release of Kuklux Prisoners Speaking of the recent action of the na tional Administration concerning the South Carolinans accused of taking an active part in the Kuklux outrages, the Charleston News & Courier says: "President Grant has done a gracious thing in ordering the discontinuance of the pending prosecutions under the Enforcement Act, and in virtu ally promising that. most of the persons al ready convicted shall be pardoned. In exceptional cases no pardon will be grant ed, nor will the prosecutions be discontin ued, and we trust that the President will see fit to designate by name, or in some other unmistakable way, those whom the Government includes within the excep tional class. Unless this is done a dan gerous latitude will be left to prosechting officers. * * * It is not pretended to be said that the peace, in public matters, which reigns in South Carolina, was a bait to secure a pardon, or a mitigation of punishment, for persons accused of Ku kluxism. The State is at peace because the public rights of the freedman, as se cured to him by the - Constitution of the State and of the United States,are frankly acknowledged by all classes of citizens. In elections the effort is, not to prevent the negro from voting, but to persuade him to vote a particular way. In like manner we do not pretend to say that to the clemency of President Grant will be the continuance of friendly public relations between the whites and blacks. Those relations would have been cultivated as a matter of self interest and self-protection, irrespective of the result of the petition presented by Messrs. Porter. Kershaw, and Sims. The value of the action of President Grant lies in a dificrent direction. It is grateful to us, because it is an indication that the ear of the President is open to the appeal of Southern men who now obey the laws as faithfuly as, during the war, they served the South. It is highly esteemed by us because it encourages the feeling that Gen eral Grant is President of the whole coun try, of South as well as North, and is not swayed by prejudice or vindictiveness in considering requests which can Ise granted consistently with his ideas of public duty. In a strictly material sense, moreover, the discontinuance of the Kuklux prosecutions will have a marked effect upon the South. At one time the stampede from the upper counties of South Carolina caused large tracts of valuable land to be abandoned, and left hundreds of women and children dependent one private charity. There has been some improvement of late, but the President's order will bring peace of mind to thousands, and in that way will encour age and help those who are working hard est to give new health and strength to the State. The action of the President does him honor, and time will show that his conduct in the Kuklux matter was as wise as it is generous and just." Tit-Bits Taken on the Fly The watch factory at Elgin is asseFsed at $882,000. Rome is reported to 14 very unhealthy this summer. Five women have applied for seats in the Graphic balloon. Wild horses are abundant in Southern Texas, and the hunters are after them. The health of King John, of Saxony, is such as to occasion apprehensions of drop sy. The Graphic has secured the exclusive right to the newspaper sale on the air line to Europe. Vienna has sixty splendid orchestras, each as full and perfect as that of Theo dore Thomas. It is perfectly safe to turn horses into. fields of potatoes where Paris green has not been used. The health officers of New York are in vestigatino•b two deaths alleged to be from Asiatic cholera. The spring clip of wool shipped from San Diego county, Cal., for New York this year was 249,004 pounds. Stars, it is said, make men dizziest dur ing the early morning hours. Hundreds of wives can testify to that. A Buffalo man•probed the head.of his son•in-law the other day with a pitchfork, to see if he had brains. Horses should not be allowed to nip at potato tops on which has been sprinkled Paris green to kill the bugs. Kentucky has 3390 manufacturing es tablishments, and ranks in this respect the fourteenth State in the Union. The brewery of Valentine Smith, at Jeffersonville, N. Y., was destroyed by fire on Wednesday. Loss $lO,OOO. . "I come to steal," as the rat observed to the trap. "And I spring to embrace you," as the trap replied to the rat. The man who comes on the stage exactly at his cue is prompt; but the man who does not - come on at all is prompter. The Indianapolis Sentinel thinks the regretta news, as set forth in Massachu setts papers, worse than the cholera. If you want a ride on Lake Winnebago, Wis., inquire for the little steamers. Suet en awbexuon and Ni nnogivan ishkote. The photographers recent convention at Buffalo decided that members of the pro fession were entitled to be called artists. A strictly temperate young gentleman in Virginia recently shot his brother to cure him of habitual inebrity. It cured him. It is announced that until the end of 1876 the commercial treaties of France with foreign Powers will remain unaltered. Six thousand blue fish, averaging three pounds each, were taken with a net at South Bay, Long Island Sound, the other day. A big bottle of prime rye whiskey has been dug out of the ruins of a building that was burned in 1860, at Jackson, Mi ohigan. A Cleaveland youth had his hand taken off in a planing mill lately. He was to have given it away in marriage next day, anyhow. Advioes from Berlin announce the fail ure of Herr Hoff, a well-known manufac turer, with liabilities estimated at 600,000 thalers. NO. 33. Surgeon Kidder has been ordered to the Naval Academy; Acting Assistant Sur geon Owen to the Philadelphia marine rendezvous. American newspapers and magazines published in German have been forbidden by the German government to be sold in that country. The Emperor of Germany proposes GO proceed to Baden-Baden about the Ist of . September, to spend there the latter half of the month. The total loss by the Portland, Oregon, fire is $1,158,666, which is comparatively greater than that by the conflagration in Chicago and Boston. Oue hundred and sixty Russian families have just arrived in Omaha, and will take up homesteads in Nebraska, one hundred miles west of that city. Controversy and Chemistry—Why is absolute dogma, your reverences, like ab solute alchohol ? So please you, because it is utterly above proof.—Punch. William H. Whalley, a member of the British House of Commons, has arrived at New York for the purpose of soliciting subscriptions to aid tho Tichborne claim ant. A New Orleans juryman was asked•by the justice if he ever read the papers. He replied "Yes, your Honor; but if you'll let me go this time, I'll never do so any more !" Van same man slaps me on der shoulder und say, "I vas glad to hear you vas so well," und den sticks pehind my pack his fingers to his nose, I half my opinion of dot yeller. The engineer who had charge of the el ectric light for a recent illumination in Constantinople found himself totally blind the morning after. The intensity of the light did it. The Sha's visit to England has given the burlesque writers ample material for Christmas pantomimes in London. In Paris they have already 'shown him up" at the cheap theatres. The Congregationalist says: It is only in the pulpit that striplings are formed. The professions of medicine and law de mand maturity. The congregations seem to have an appetite for veal. Two New Orleans dry goods clerks fought a duel with pistols in an empty Warehouse last Monday. At the first fire one was wounded in the hand, and honor vas declared to be all right. On Thursday morning, in the New York Supreme Court, Judge Pratt granted a writ of error which operates as a stay of proceedings in the case of the condemned murderer William J. Sharkey.. The English government has succeeded in finding coal in the central provinces of India. The mineral extends over a sur face area of 'sixty miles in length, and front fifteen to twenty miles in breadth. The New York Street Commissioner, who is backed by most of the people and the press in his conclusion, thinks that the city must return to a good stone pavement and waste no more money in testing wood. The total amount of the consumption of tea in the United States is about 50,000,- 000 pounds, of which 20,000,000 is green tea of various descriptions, about 15,000,- 000 Oolong, and the remainder Japanese and other varieties. Senator Ramsey is on his way home to St. Paul from Washington, with assuran ces that the good officesof the government will be interposed, and no doubt success fully, to secure the release of the party of Minneapolitans now languishing in the British bastile at Fort Garry. The whole number of dead letters re ceived and disposed of at the Post-office Department during the month of July was 321,379, a larger number than for some time past. Of this number 7701 were re turned from foreign countries, and 19,510 were returned to foreign offices. A project is on foot, says the London Times, for a subscription of about £60,- 000, to establish a short line of railway in China as a present to the Emperor; with the view of bringing the Imperial mind to a sense of the advantages to be derived from the introduction of such works. On Tuesday, iu Newark, during the ab sence of the family, a storm occurred, and the water poured down through the open trap-floor on the roof into the closet. It passed through an American flag, and then on to a number of light silk dresses, dye inn them all red, white and blue. Loss about $4OO. Some of our young lady friends are wont to observe that the only decent thing about Adam was his rib, and that was ta ken from him to 'make something better. An old bachelor asks, "Can any one tell why, when Eve was formed from one of Adam's ribs, a hired girl wasn't made at the same time to wait upon her ?" A philosophical Kentuckian who had but one shirt, and was lying in bed while the garment was drying on the clothes line in the yard, was startled by an ex clamation from his wife to the effect that ''the calf had eaten it." "Well," said the Kentuckian, with a spirit worthy of a better cause—"well, them who has must lose." Scene : crowded horse car. Strong minded female—" Sir, I would have you to- understand that, in this enlightened century, no one but a brute would suffer a lady to stand in this manner." Mild looking old gentleman savagely—" Madam, I belong to the dark ages, and, if you call me a brute again, I'll shake the life out of you." Female faints; grand hysterical tableau. A man of Springfield, Vt., has invented a new suspension bridge. It consists of a single wire stretched across Black river, and a car that will contain two persons, that travels back and forth on the wires. The east end of the wire is the highest, and the momentum of the car serves to carry it across, a distance of two hundred feet, iu fifteen seconds. Returning the car travels to the centre of the wire with out help, and from thence is drawn up by a cord attached to the ear, the entire trip occupying only thirty seconds. A curious battle took place, recently, at Pelham, N. IL, between a hen and a snake which wanted to dine off some of the young chicks. The matronly lien made a loud out-cry, and at the approach of the reptile flew at it with ruffled feathers and threatening beak, which its adversary eva ded as best it could, but finally, after re peated efforts to secure a chicken, and as many rebuffs by the hen, it crawled off into a wall, and the frightened and enraged bird clucked a retreat and got away with out the loss. of a single member of her family.
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