Ea Eil &■ ■g Ije American Volunteer. r.i UJLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING LI. ►U U BRATTON & KENNEDY. OFFICE-SOUTH MARKET SQUARE. ’KiiMS :~Two -Dollars por year If paid strictly advance; Two Dollarsand Fifty Cents If paid Lhln tlireo months;' after which Three Dollars II bo charged. These terms will be rigidly ad red to In every Instance. No subscription dls itlnucd until all arrearages are paid, unices at > option of tho Editor. professional starts. 'NITED STATES CLAIM AND SEAL ESTATE’AGENCY! •wm; b. butler, t ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office In 2d Story of InhofTs Building, No. 8 South ’ Hanover Street, Carlisle, Cumberland county, PonHlons, Bounties, Back-Pay, Ac., promptly ; p °AppncilUoM by mall, wlll .rocolvo Immediate at pani™iar attention gluon to tho selling or rent ing of Real Estate, In town or country. In all lot tera of Inquiry, please enclose postage stamp. July 11, 1807—ti T M W EAKLEY; Attorney at Law. *1 . office on South Hanover street. In the room formerly occupied by A. B. Sharpe, Esq. Tjl E. BELTZHOOVER, Attorney H . and Counselor at liAW, Carlisle, Penna. 4 Office on South Hanover street, opposite Bentz s (Store. By special arrangement with the Patent Office, attends to securing Patent Bights. ■ Dec. 1,1805. i ' • CHA9. E. MAGLAUGHLIN, Attor ney at LAW. Office In Building , formerly -.'--roccupicd by Volunteer, a few doors South of Han-, (on’s Hotel. Deo. 1, 1805. ' _ fOHN. a GRAHAM, Attorney at I law. Office formerly occupied by Judge ■ ■-yfirahara, South Hanover street, Carlisle, Penna. fof Dec. 1,1805— ly. }' ,'Tv /r C. HERMAN, Attorney at Law. VI Offlco In Rheem’s 1 Hall Building, In the - 1 tear of tho Court House, next door to the "Her-. - o id M Office. Carlisle, Penna. V-; i Deo. 1,1865. • air. SADLER. Attorney at Law, . Carlisle, Ponna. Office In Building for oocnplcd by Volunteer, South Hanover street. - Dec. 1, 1805. -TTT KENNEDY Attorney at Law, •VV Cj.»U*lo- JtViatia. Ofllco same aa that ol the “Amoiicuu Volunteer,” Bohtb side of the Pub lic Square, v Deo. I 1805. JOHN LEE, Attorney at Law, S i 5» I North Hanover Street, Carlisle, Pa., •Xi hob. 15.18IH)— ly. $5 TAMES A. DUNBAR, Attorney at •! Law, Carlisle, Penna. Office a few doors West of Hannon’s Hotel. '.y Dec. 1,1805. IT\R. J. R. BIXLBR offers his profes- I y sional services to the citizens ojf Carlisle and vicinity. ..... a. Office on Main street, opposite the jail, Intno room lately occupied by L. Todd, Esq. ~<* April 11,1807—ly | PwR. GEORGE S. SE ARIGHT, Den 'wk I j tist. From the Baltimore Oollcnc of D'cntaj Suryiry. Office at the residence of his mother, VA* Ensl Louthor Street, throe doors below Bedford, v!t Carlisle, Ponna. .. Dec. i, 1805. - JUrg tSooiss. BPEIN G! X 307 1 1867. BAM GAINS Now opening In ■I DOMESTIC GOODS, ■;| DBESB GOODS, ’ CABSIMEREB, battinetts and j bans, WHITE Q OOD.S , BEESS TRIMMINGS, ZEPHYRS , RIBBONS AND NOTIONS ;f RING’S NEW STORE, NO. 05 WEST MAIN STREET, Opposite the Mansion House, Next door to the Post Office, Carlisle. April 18,1867. OUT DRY GOODS MEN! TO THE PUBLIC. II have just returned from the East with my Spring Stock, and as usual. I am selling Goods a little cheaper than any other Dry Goods House In town. Ido not think It necessary to occupy a column of newspaper to endeavor to keep up ray I reputation for selling Cheap Goods, nor do I .><f wish to resort to any other clap-trap to gull the i - u'J public. All I ask of them is to call and examine for themselves, and 11' not satisfied with the prl ■ races, not to buy. Remember the stand. No. 02 North Hanover street, next door to Dr. Kieflor a,- , J and Miller & Bowers’ Hardware store. ' ■ WM. A. MILES. • •■•I P. S. I will say nothing about ray third and ; gj fourth grand openings. *3 April 18,1867. HOOP SKIRTS. 628, 628. f NE \V SPRING STYLES, J I “OUE OWN make;” ■ embracing every New and Desirable size, stylo ■'.ji? uud Shape of Plain and Trail Hoop Skirts, —2. 2 1-4,2 M, 2 3-4, 8 1-4,3 1-2.3 8-4 and 4 Yds., round every length and size Waist; In every respect Fitst Quality, and especially adapted to meet •••Via the wants of First Class and most fashionable .VS Trade. . .'Vy •• Our Own Make,” of Hoop Skirts, are lighter, more elastic, more durable, and, really chaper ..'•ic than any other make of either Single or Double Spring Skirt In the American Market. • They are warranted In every respect, and wherever intro dnecd give universal satisfaction. They are now \tis being extensively Sold by Retailers, and every : $ Lady should try them. • x Ask lor “ Hopkln’s Own Moke, ’ and see that ; -ag each Skirt la Stamped “W. T. HOI*KXN tS MANU ■’,$ FACTUHER, 028 Arch Street, Philadelphia."— No others are Genuine A Catalogue containing ri Style, Size and Retail Prices, sent to any address. A Uniform and Liberal Discount allowed to JJeal i'-'t'h ors. Orders by mail or otherwise, promptly and - •Sfi carefully Abed—Wholesale and Retail, at Manu -:■% , ' factory and Sales-rooms.' ;'c.g No. 028 ARCH Street. PHILADELPHIA. Skirts made to order, altered and repaired. A - Terms, Not Cash. One Price Only ;■! 1 -WILLIAM T. HOPKINS, rjjg April 18.1807—10 m. Q.REAT WATCH SALE! 2000 WATCHES, Patent Lever Movements, full jewelled, Hunting Cases, Sterling Silver, Beauti fully Engraved and in every.respect first class Timers, -To be sold at six dollars each, being less than three-fourths the cost of manufacturing.— These watches are retailed by Jewelers at from 815 to 8■ 8, the actual cost to the manufacturer being 80 each. This'stock of watches was purchased at a Bankrupt Bale in London, and are now offered at such extremely low figures, that oil may possess a correct Time-keeper at a merely nominal sum. Every watch warranted for 2 years, Parties or dering them sent by mall, must enclose Btf cents extra to repay postage. Money enclosed in a well sealed letter may be sent at my risk. Address all orders to , ■ MARLIN CONNOR, May 16,1887—1 y ' Albany. N. Y E .Conrhan. | Dr. C. M.Worthington. IJEW DRUG STORE. The subscribers have opened a now DRUG AND CHEMICAL STORE, 9 ill m No. 7, East Main Street, Carlisle, where they have Just received a large and fresh supply of the very best DRUGS AND MEDICINES to bo found In the City Markets, to which they Invite the attention of the public. Also, a large variety of PERFUMERY AND FANCY ARTICLES, Di/c Stuffs, and alt Vie various Patent Medicines. Ah Drugs and Medicines warranted pare. **- April 25,1587-Him . XAOR SALE .—A Family Rookawoy A} Carriage, (nearly new,) for salo on reasono- Die terms. Apply at this office, or at the Nation- Id Hotel, South Hanover street. ; July 16,1607-tf ihe American folnnteet BY BRATTON & KENNEDY. Heal IBstate. ESTATE FOB SALEH W. J. SHEARER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND AGfeNT FOR THE SALE OF 4 Cumberland Co. Real Estate, OFFERS THE FOLLOWING VALUABLE REAL ESTATE FOR SALE AT REASONABLE PRICES IN THE BOROUGH OF CARLISLE, No. 1. SIX of the finest BUILDING LOTS in tho Borough, on South Hanover Street. No. 2. The six most elevated BUILDING LOTS In tho Borough, situated at the head of South St. IN THE COUNTRY. No. 3. A TRACI OP THIRTY-SEX. ACRES, with small but comfortable BRICK DWELLING HOUSE, Fromo Stable, &c.. and a young and thriving Orchard ot CHOICE FRUIT, situate on the Railroad, In North Middleton twp., West, and within a mile of tho Borough of Carlisle. This property as a HOMESTEAD and for general or Truck Farming, Is the most desirable tract of Its size to bo found anywhere* in tho vicinity of Carlisle. ‘ The certain extension of the town West ward, partly consequent upon tho Improve ments made and contemplated by the Railroad Company In that direction, drawing, as they necessarily will, nearly tho whole trade of the town to that end, will very greatly enhance tho value of this land to tho future owner, for any purpose whatever, rendering It a safe and profit able investment. Fob. 28.1806. jFurniture, &c. EWING, CABINET MAKER AND UNDERTAKER, WEST MAIN STREET, CARLISLE, PENN’A. A Splnfdid Assortment of NEW FURNITURE for the Holidays, comprising Sofas, Camp Stools, Lounges, Centro Tables, Roclclng Chairs, Dining Tables, Easy Chairs, Card Tables, Reception Chairs, Ottomans, Bureaus, What-Nots, Secretaries, &c., &c., Parlor, Chamber, Dining Boom, Kitchen and Oillce FURNITURE, of the Latest Styles, COTTAGE FURNITURE IN SETTS, Splendid Now Patterns. BEDSTEADS AND MATTRESSES, GILT FRAMES AND PICTURES, In great variety. Particular attention given to Funerals. Orders, from town and country attended to promptly and on reasonable terms. Dec. 43,1868—tf QABIHET WAEE HOUSE TOWN AND COUNTRY. Tho subscriber respectfully inforpis his friends \ and tb© public generally, that ho still continues tho Undertalcing business, and Is ready to wait upon customers either by day or by night. Ready made Coffins kept constantly on hand, both Elain and ornamental. He has constantly on and disk's Patent Metalio Burial Case, of which he has been appolute'd.tho sole agent. This case Is recommended as superior to any of the Icind now In use. It being perfectly air tight. He has also furnished himself with u now Rose wood HEAitafc and gentle horses, with which hp will attend funerals In town and country, per sonally, without extra charge. „ Among the greatest discoveries erf tho age Is Well's Boring Maitrass, tho best and cheapest bed now in use, the exclusive right of which I have secured, and will be kept constantly on hand. CABINET MAKING, in all Its various branches, carried on, and Beau reaus, Secretaries, Work-stands, Parlor Ware, Upholstered Chairs, Sofas, Pier, Side and Centro Tables, Dining and. Breakfast Tables, Wash stands of all Icmda, French Bedsteads, high and low posts: Jenny Lind and Cottage Bedsteads, Chairs of oil kinds, Looking Glosses, and all other articles usually manufactured, in this lino of business, kept constantly on hand. , ttih workmen are men of experience, his ma terial tho best, and his work made In tho latest city style, and all under his own supervision. If will be warranted and sold low for cash. Ho invites all to give him acall before purchas ing elsewhere. For the liberal patronage hero toilre extended to him he feels indebted to his numerous customers, and assures them that no efforts will be spared in future to please them In style and price. Give us a calk Remember tho place, North Hanover street, nearly opposite’ the Deposit Bank. Carlisle. 1 DAVID SIPE. Deo. 1. 1805. jp T FEE'S BOOK AND FANCY STORE, AND GENERAL NEWS DEPOT, 33 WEST MAIN STREET, CARLISLE, PA. A flno assortment of Goods on hand, such us Writing Desks, Port Folios, Ladies Companions, Work Boxes, • Satchels, Ladles’ Purses, Pocket Books, Scgar Cases, Card Cases, Gold Pens, A LARGE SUPPLY OP FAMILY BIBLES and PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS, AT -REDUCED PRICES. DIARIES FQ R 1867. Subscriptions received for all Magazines, Fash ion Books, Papers, Ac,, at publishers prices. You save postage and always sure of receiving your Magazines by subscribing Piper’s. Special attention is paid to keeping always on hand A supply of SCHOOL BOOKS, for town and country schools. Books and Music ordered when desired. May 23. 1867-tf Jg SALE'S. (LATE POWELL’S) EMBROCATION, For'all Diseases incident to Horses, Cattle, and the Human Flesh, requiring the use of an external appli cation, ■ ... This now Compound, prepared by a practical Chemist having u full knowledge of all the medi cal virtues of each ingredient that enters Into Its composition, is warranted to exceed anything of the kind ever yet offered to the public as an ex ternal application for the diseases which it is rec ommended. We are satisfied that it will work its own road into the confidence of all who use it, and those who try it once will never be with out it, and therotore we rely on experience os the best test of its usefulness. It is pronounced by Farriers, and all who have tried it to bo the best application ever used. This Embrocation bos been put up tor over eight years, and it Is only through the increasing demand and urgent re quostof my friends and the public that Xsend it forth as the grand remedial agent for the various diseases to which that noble and useful animal, the horse, is subject. Many remedies have been offered to the nub ile under different formn. some of these are inju rious, others at best of little use, and many whol ly Improper to answer the puroposes for which they are recommended. AJudiolous and really useful composition, free from these objections, has therefore long boon de sired by many gentlemen who have valuable bur-' ,ses, and are unwilling to trust them to the care of designing and pretended Farriers. Their wishes are a- length fully gratified by Dr. Beale being prevailed upon to allow this valuable Embroca tion (which has proved so efficacious to Die vari ous discuses) to oe prepared and brought out to the public. . ; , ■ This KmbrocaDon was extensively csedby the Government during the war. Address ail Orders to “ - lY ‘ DR, EDMOND BEALE, 002 South'Second Street, Philadelphia, Jra. For sale at the Drug Stores of Uornmau A Worthington, East Main St.eet, and D. Ralston, South Hauovor street, Carlisle. April 11,1807—dm J)HOTO GRAPHS fOE THE MILLIONI I will send, post-paid, 50 Photographs of the most celebrated Actors for GO •■on Is; SOAotrossoa for 60 cents: 60 Union Generals for 50 cents; 60 Eobol Generals for 60 cents; 60 Statesmen for 60 coats; 60 boautlfnl young Ladles for 60 cents; 60 flne-looking young Gentlemen for 60 cents; 0 large Photographs of French Dancing Girls, in costume, beautifully colored, exactly os they ap pear. for 50 cents; or for GO cents,(fof the most beautiful Ladles of the Parisian BaUotTroope, as they appear in the play of the Block; Crook, at Nlblo’s Garden, New York. •' _ Bend all orders to P. Q»Box 177, Troy, N. Y May W.lBo7—ly fSlcJilcal A GUA DE MAGNOLIA. Alollot delight. Superior to any cologne, used to bathe tho face and person, to rondor tho skin soft and fresh, to allay Inflamation, to perfume clothing, for headache, &c. It Is manufactured from tho rich Southern Magnolia, and Is obtain ing a patronage quite unprecedented. It Is n fa vorite with actresses and opera singers. It is sold by all dealers, at 81.00 In largo bottles, and by DEMAfI BARNES & CO., New York, Wholesale Agents. Saratoga Spring Water, sold by all Druggists. Persona of sedentary habits troubled with weakness, lassitude, palpitation of the heart, lack ofappotllo, distress after eating, torpid liver, con stipation, &0., deserve to suffer If they will not try the celebrated PLANTATION BITTERS, which are now recommended by tho highest medical authorities, and warranted to produce an immediate beneficial effect. They are exceed ingly agreeable, perfectly pure, and must super sede all other tonics whore a healthy, gentle stimulant is required. They purify, strengthen and invigorate. They create a healthy appetite. They are an antidote to .change of water and diet. They strengthen tho system and enliven tho mind. 4 They prevent miasmatic and intermittent fe vers. They purify tho breath and acidity of the stom ach. They cure Dyspepsia and Constipation. They cure Liver Complaint and Nervous Head ache They make tho weak strong, tho languid bril liant, and are exhausted nature’s great restorer. They are composed of tho celebrated Calisaya bark, wintergreen, sassafras, roots and herbs-all preserved in perfectly pure St. Croix rum. For particulars, see circulars and testimonials around each bottle. Beware of impostors. Examine every bottle. See that It has our private U. S. stamp unmutila ted over the cork, with plantation scone, and our signature ou a fine steel plate side label. See that our bottle Is not refilled with spurious and deleterious stuff. Any person pretending to sell Plantation Bitters by the gallon or in bulk, is an Impostor. Any person imitating this bottle, or selling any other material therein, whether call ed Plantation Bitters or not, is a criminal under the U. 8. Law, and will be so prosecuted by us.— The demand for Drake’s Plantation Bitters, from ladies, clergymen, merchants, dec., is incredible. The simple trial of a bottle is the evidence wo present of their worth and superiority. They are sold by all respectable druggists, grocers, physicians, hotels, saloons,steamboats and coun try stores, P. H. DRAKE & CO. Saratoga Spring Water, sold by all Druggists Have you a hurt child or a lame horse? Use the Mexican Mustang Liniment. For outs, sprains burns, swellings and caked breasts, the Mexican Mustang Liniment Is a cer tain cure. For rheumatism, neuralgia, stiff Joints, stings and bites, there is nothing like tho Mexican Mustang Liniment. For spavined horses, tho poll-evil, ringbone and sweeny, tho Mexican Mustang Liniment never For wind-galls, scratches, big-head and splint, tho Mexican Mustang Liniment is worth its weight in gold. Cuts, bruises, sprains ami swellings, are so common and certain to occur In every family, that a bottle of this Liniment is tho best invest ment that can bo made. It Is more certain than the doctor—it saves time in sending for tho is cheaper than tho doctor, ana should never be dispensed with* In lifting tho kettle from the fire, It tipped over and scalded ray hands terrible. • • • The Mustang Liniment extracted tho pain, caused the sore to heal rapidly, and left very little scar. CHAS. FOSTER, 420 Broad St., Philo. Mr. S. LUeh, of Hyde Park, Vt., writes: “My horse was considered worthless, (spavin,) but since the use of the Mustang Liniment, I have sold him for 8150. Your Liniment is doing won ders up here. , . .... All genuine Is wrapped In steel pinto engra vings. signed, G. W. Westbrook, Chemist, and also has the private U. 8. stamp of DEMAS BARNES A CO., over the top. Look closely, and be not deceived by Counterfeits. Sold by all Druggists, at 23,50 cts., and 81.00. Saratoga Spring Water, sold by all Druggists Pen Knives, Ac., Ac. It is a most delightful Hair Dressing. It eradicates scurf pud dandruff. It keeps tho head cool and clean. It makes the hair rich, soft and glossy. It prevents hair turning gray and falling off. It restores hair upon prematurely bald heads* This Isjust what Kathalron will do. It Is pretty—ltls cheap—durable. It is literally sold by tho car-load, and yet Its almost Incredible de mand la dally Increasing, until there is hardly a count ry store that does not keep it, or a family that does not use It. E. THOMAS LYON, Chemist, N. Y. Saratoga Spring Water, sold by all Druggists Who Would not bo beautiful? Who would not add to their beauty? What gives that marble purity and distingue appearance we observe upon the stage and In the city belle I It Is no longer a secret. They use Hagan’s Magnolia Balm. Its continued use removes tan, freckles, pimples and roughness, from the L*co and hands, and leaves the complexion smooth, transparent, blooming and ravishing. Unlike many cosmetics, It con tains no material injurious to the skin. Any Druggist will order it for you, If not on hand, at 50 cents per bottle. 4 ' W. E. HAGAN, Troy, N. Y., Chemist, DEM as Barnes & Co., Wholesale Acts., N. y. Saratoga Spring Water, sold by all Druggists Helmstreet’s Inimitable Hair Coloring la not a dyo. All instantaneous dyes are composed ol lunar caustic, and .more or less destroy the yltali- Sand beauty of tho hair. Tills is the original air Coloring, and has been growing In favor over twenty years; It restores gray hair to its original color by gradual absorption, in a moat remarkable manner. It is also a beautiful hair dressing. Sold In two sizes—GO cents and Sl—by all dealers, O; HEIMSTBEET. Chemist. Saratoga Spbino Water, sold bv all Druggists Lyon’3 Extract of Pure Jaixaica Ginger— fov Indigestion, Nausea, Heartburn, Blok Head ache Cholera Morbus, Flatulency, «feo., whore a ■ warming stimulant la required, Ita careful prep aration and entire purity make it a cheap ana reliable article for culinary purposes. Sold every where, at 50.cts. per bottle. Ask lor Lyon s Pure Extract. Tali'- no other. Saratoga Spbinc "V* ater, sold by aU Drpggffi* For sale at Ha~ -u-s tick’s and Ralfiton’fl Drag Stores, Carlisle. S. T.—lBGO—X. CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1867, Potltcal. WOULD 1? Do you think if I’d a baby That I’d let him pull my hair ? Do you think I’d put on collars Just to let him soil and tear? Do you think I’d call It pretty When he bites bis little loo? Yet I havo-known some silly mothers, -With their babies, doijust so. Do you think I’d sot him crying Just to»see his cunning frown? Do you think I’d set him walking Just to see him tumble down? / Would I call my baby pretty, When he’d neither teeth nor hair? Yet I’ve known some silly mothers, With their babies, think they are.* Would I buy him drums and rattles Just to bear him make a crash? Would I watch him most delighted Break my mirror all to smash? Would I smother him in flannels Just because his voice was low ? Dose him up with belladonna? , Silly mothers treat them so. Would I think his brow Byron le * Just because it was so bare ? And his head Napoleonic In its shape though minijs hair? Could I trace tho marks of genius In his eyebrows arched and low? Yet I’ve known some silly mothers, With their babies, thlnkjustso. Would E thlulc my baby destined To become a man of men And go to govern and control thorn Hy the might of sword or pen 7 I dare say these noisy babies Play the very deuce—l know, And I’vo scon the wisest women. With their babies, thlulc just so. itlthrollatuan, HUGGED AGAINST 11IS WILE. A most ludicrous scene transpired in a place not a thousand miles from this city, one night lost week, which, though a lit tle annoying to the parties immediately concerned, wasyetso innocentand funny that we cannot refrain from giving the general outlines, suppressing names, of course. Two sprightly and beautiful young la dies were visiting their cousin, another sprightly and beautiful young lady , who, like her guests was of that happy age which turns everything into fun aud merriment. If the truth were told, wo should have to record the fact that these three misses were just a little bit fast.— They were fond of practical jokes, and were continually playing all sorts of mad pranks with each other. All three occu pied a room on the ground floor, and cud dled up together in one bed. Two of the young ladies attended a par ty on the night in question, and did not get home until half past twelve o’clock at night. As it was late they concluded not to disturb the household, so they quietly stepped into their room through the low open window. In about half an hour after they had left for the party a young Methodist min ister called at the bouse aud craved a night’s lodging, which of course was cheerfully granted. As ministers always have the best of everything, the old lady put him to sleep in the best room, and the young lady (Fannie) who had not gone to the party was entrusted with the duty of sitting up for the absent ones and of in forming them of , the change of rooms.— She took up her post in the parlor and as the night was sultry, sleep overcame her and she departed on an excursion to the land of dreams. We will now return to the young la dies who had gone into thelrroom through the window. By the dim light of the moon beams as they struggled through the curtains, the young ladies were en abled to descry the outline of Fannie (as they supposed), esconsed in the mid dle of the bed. Thej’ saw more, to* wit— a pair of boots. The truth flashed upon them at once. They saw it all. Fannie had net them in the room to give them a good scare. They put their heads togeth er and determined to turn the tables on her. Silently they disrobed, and stealthy as cats they took their positions on each side of the bed. At a given signal both jumped into bed, one on each side of the unconscious parson, laughingandscream ing, “ Oh, what a man, oh, what a man!” they gave the bewildered minister such a promiscuous hugging and tousling as few persons are able to brag of in the course of a life time. The noise of this proceeding awoke the old lady, who was sleeping in an adjoin ing room. She comprehended the situ ation in a moment, and rushing to the room, she opened the door and exclaim ed : “My God, gals, it's a man ; it is a man sure enough I” There was one prolonged, consolidated scream; a flash of muslin through the door and all was over. The best of the joke is that the minis ter took the whole thing in earnest. Ho would listen to no apologies thatthelady could make for the girls. He would hear no excuse, but he solemnly folded bis clerical robes around him and silently stole away. Query—was he mad at the girls, or—at the old woman.— Louisville Courier. The Clrnml Hotel or Jtcw York. The New York Evening Gazette says: —The great Cranston hotel, which is to be built on Fifth avenue opposite the en trance of Central Park, and about which the public has heard more or less from time to time, will be commenced in about six weeks, or as soon as the season will admit. The structure is then to be com pleted ready for occupancy within the shortest period consistent with the prop er execution of the work. The plans and details have all been completed by Mr. Gilman, the architect; the stock has been nearly all subscribed, and the trustees will soon hold a meeting for the purpose of giving the elegant structure a name.— It will probably be called the Grand Hotel of New York. It is to be 201 by 220 feet in length, covering 34 lots. It will be seven stories high, crowned with a 'mansard, or French roof, and will con tain 157 private parlors, single and in suites, besides over 100 rooms. The size anti style of this Im mense building will exceed that of the Grand Hotel in Paris, making the finest structure of the kind in the world. The exterior of this building, rich with fa cades pavilions, balconies, high roofs, etc., will be truly beautiful and impos ing, contrasting wonderfully with the souare musses of marble and stone known as the Astor House, and the Metropoli tan and Fifth Avenue Hotels. The plan of the house is for the accommodation of a large number of families who wish to occupy separate suites of rooms, but there will be single rooms for transient guests. Eight spacious stair-cases will lead to dif ferent parts of the house, and two lifts run from the ground floor to the sixth story. It is expected that the location of this hotel so far up town, will pause that part of the city to grow rapidly, hand some private residences and churches springing up on all sides. BSf* 11 Madam," saida husband to his young wife, in a little altercation which will spring up In the best regulated fami lies, “ when a man and his wife have quarreled, and each considers the other at the fault, which of. the two ought to advance toward a reconciliation ?” “ The best natured and the wisest of the two,” said the wife, turning up her mouth for a kiss, which was given with an unction. She was the conqueror. jgyAn evilhabltlsneveroonqueredby yielding to It. HON. MONTGOMERY BLAIR. Delivered at Rockbridge Alum Springs. Virginia, Jnly 20. Ladies and Gentlemen.: I rise before you with more than usual embarrass ment. I carno here in search of health and recreation, but with no expectation that I would be called on to make a pub lic address upon the political questions ot thetimes. xet, when the representatives of nins of the Southern States of this Union call utfon mo to give my views of tbo, politial situation of the day, and, if any, of the hope.that Is in the future— when called upon thus under the evident promptings of good fellowship, I cannot refuse to give what information I can, and to offer such encouragement os my views of the condition of* the country may afford, And I assure you I never took greater pleasure in complying with any request than I do in responding to your invitation on the present occasion.— I most heartily thank you for your good iceling and the undissembled kindness with which you have mot me on all'occa sions. While these demonstrations touch my heart, they are alike honorable to you and to me. Such a demonstration by the men and women of the Soujh, of tbo classes here represented, towards one whe had hold opinions decidedly adverse to those held oy you during the long and terrible struggle In which so many of you have suffered, and from which many ot you are still suffering in person and es tate, ought to disabuse every candid mind of the false Impression so industriously propagated that the people of the South, and especially that class chiefly represen ted here, are steeled and incurable malg nanta towards all who have resisted them in the late struggle. Having simply pur sued tbo path uf duty us I understood it, and in advising strong measures sought to avoid actual conflict whilst maintain ing tbe Union, 1 have not been wanting in the charities of life, 1 am not surpris ed at iindingn slmiiarspiritamougapeo plo whose worst enemies allow to have displayed aheroism worthy of the noblest cause. It was to be expected that some strong feeling would have been engender ed by tbe late struggle, unparalleled os it was for its maguitude and destructive consequences; but it Is not in your na tures to foster and cherish the malignity attributed to you, and which belongs on ly to tbo cowardly and the base. When, therelore, the health of my family requir ed tbe help of this wonderful spring, and the bracing mountain air which environs us, I dime to seek it, and 1 paid.no atten tion to the suggestion made by some per sons that I ami my family would meet a cold reception here. I bore no malice my self towards you, and did not believe you would feet any towards me. It is uob sufficient, however,.to bear no malice to guard you against the suspicion of malice in others. Multitudes of honest and goad people of the North are entirely misled us to the disposition of the people here to wards them, and the foolish talk of uoto riety-seekers who go North, is coupled with the war; and the argument is, how incorrigibly bitter the SoutheVn' people are towards their.late adversaries! This nutu tally engenders animosities in returns and it is upon the existence oi these ani mosities that the Radical politician, mainly rely for a continuance of their powfer. It was In. view of the mischief thus created that General Grant, in his report of 1865* upon the condition of pub lic feeling’in the Boutb, expressed the wish that tbe people of tuc different sec tions could see each other more generally, intimating that such intercourse was all that was wanted to restore harmony. 1 am sure the teeth ot Radicalism would be drawn if the New England villagers could be run through this valley, and see for themselves how entirely unlike the por traits drawn by Radical demagogues the Southern men and women really are.— These Radical painters have an object in their portraitures of Southern people. — The Congressional Committee on Recon struction —the military commissions—the Freedman’s Bureau—the inquests scat tered over the country —what was their vocation but to pile falsehood on false hood relative to this afflicted people—to show that you have become alien to the system founded by our fathers, and seek its destruction, as a plea for their subver sion of the Constitution, and their tyran nical measures for the perpetuation of their power? I thank God I have had no Eart in creating or cultivating sectional utred. I have said at thd North what I repent here, that there is no difference In the people of the different sections, and that tbe man who wants confidence in the South wants also confidence in the Northern people. There is no difference between them beyond mere mannerisms, not greater than exists among the people of the different Southern and Northern States, and not so marked us between the people of the different counties of 3Sng land, if it be true, us reported by Wraxall, that it is easy to distinguish their repre sentatives in Parliament by the peculiar local idioms of those counties. We are in all essentials the same people—sprung from the same stock. The war in itself, so terriffic in its character, demonstrates that it was American lighting American —worse than Greek meeting Greek. No other people ever fought a battle of seven days’ duration, Ourancestors/braveand stubborn as they were, did no such fight ing in the forty years of Cavalierand Pur itan civil strife. However deplorable such civil wars as ours are, it was not the first in history, or even with the race from which we sprung. Every century of English history except the present bus had its civil war. The common mind, therefore, distinguishes between the vio lence of such struggle and chat of indi viduals, and they are commonly marked with more cruelty than wars between for eign nations. But it is not the part of patriotism, when the conflict is over, to exaggerate such cruelties or seek to per petuate the memory of them. It was not patriotism, therefore, which sought, not merely to punish the actual perpetrators of the cruelties of Andersohville, but em ployed a drag-net process to procure testi mony, and held out every inducement to the witnesses to magnify their sufferings and to connect General Bee and the con federate government and the whole Southern people with those cruelties. Of the same character, and with the same object, the proceedings were taken to con nect tbe confederate authorities and peo ple with the assassination of Lincoln.— And they hanged Mrs. Surratt, now ad mitted to bo an innocent woman, because her acquital was inconsistent with their theory implicating the confederate au thorities. There, was no patriotism in any of these things, but only partisan ship of the meanest kind. 'lt was not the part of patriotism to connect the South with the murder of Lincoln, but the In famous work of studied malice seeking power at the expense of the national har mony and the National Union. In this way the Radicals keep alive the hatred upon which theh party depends for its existence. This is its 'whole stock in trade. No other party ever existed i;i this country that old not at least profess to act in deference to the Constitution.— The Radical party atone, of all the par ties heretofore existing in this country, discards all constitutional theories, ana legislates with no other restraint than ex pediency, and with no other object Chan to maintain itself in power. The calum nies against the people in the South, pro pagated by the agencies of military com missions, congressional committees, and tbe innumerable costly agencies sot up to maintain the military governments over the South, whose bread depends upon the continuance of this form of government, are all bribed in this way to misrepresent everything hero. All this is done from sheer partv necessity. But tbe truth will vindicate Itself and put down these nefa rious scavengers of falsehood. The mer cenaries who use the power of the govern ment to enrich themselves in that lavish and corrupt expenditure of money which keeps the rate of expenditure up to a war standard, whilst levying for themselves • enormous bounties, upon the labor of the whole country in the shape of tariffs mid irredeemable paper money, can only sus tain themselves whilst subverting the form and substance of cho government by making that government odious. Hence, also, their.vindictive persecution of every one who dares to stand up for the Consti tution. It matters not what services ho may have rendered or what dangers he may have encountered in the contest against the dangers of secession. Indeed, tbo statesman or soldier who has render ed most service Is only more odious to them if he opposes their present usurpa tions. because his character renders him a formidable opponent. The case of Presi dent Johnson illustrates this proposition. His decisive action against tbo rebellion, ic connection with his Southern position and antecedents, and tbe antagonism which this course, internally excited, cre ated between him and his own people, made him a favorite at tbe North, and led to his elevation to the Vice-Presidency.-r- Believing him to be a renegade Southern er, whose heart was steeled against his people by their injustice to him personal ly, the Radicals scarcely concealed their joy at Lincoln’s death. Their pulpit ora tors universally saw in it the hand of Providence opening the way to the ele vation of one who had more iron in his nuturothan had Lincoln, who they said had too much of the milk of human kind ness in bis heart to deal with subjugated rebels. Johnson who had been driven from his home—the tailor— despised by the Southern aristocrats, was, they sup posed, prepared, by his Southern educa tion and this history, to do the work of vengeance—the persecution, the confisca tion, and the hanging—to which he was now called on by Providence. But when tbe event proved that Johnson was not the foul, vindictive wretch they had thanked God for sending them, and would not disregard his oath in order to gratify lils personal resentment, nor consent to the subversion of the whole spirltof Dem ocratic institutions even where more than legal power over the lives and property of his fellow-citizens was offered for his Consent, their rage knew no bounds. — They at once set to work to prepare the public mind for his ejection from office; and to make.him odious, imputed to him every private vice and public crime; and with a press subsidized by the lavish pat ronage of the government itself, they have poured dut upon him such torrents of loathsome obloquy that they have brought a large portion of the people to believe that he is a monster of vice and crime, an associate of Booth in his mur der of Llucoln, and habitual drunken ness the feast of his private vices. » Under cover of these passionate appeals they have proceeded to depose the Presi dent from office— or rather they have sub stantially abolished the office of Presi dent—and if they leave him the name and the salary, it is only because he is really powerless; or, as Mr. Pike, of Maine, ex presses it, being dead in fact as President it is not decent to mutilate the corpse. I was everywhere met by tbo inquiry dur ing my canvassing tours at the North last year and the yea.' before, why the President guve.the aid of his executive power to the decapitation of himself? It was as manifest then as now that the pa bulum of the corruptionists, by which the Radical organization was effected and maintained, came from the Executive Department, and that his Cabinet in fuel took the lead in organizing Congress against him; that ho was surrounded by traitors and spies, who as the succes of their treachery was developed, would make a merit of having betrayed him. I had to confess there, as I do here, my in ability to account for the President’s fatal forbearance. His generous nature was probably successfully practiced upon by their duplicity. But whatever the cause, it is undeniable that the defeat of the op position to Radicalism is mainly due to the and demoralization caused by the war upon the mosea of the party by the Administration which they supported. . The Democracy of tiio North, in their vote for Douglas in 1860, showed that they had no. sympathy with seces sion. Multitudes of their meu fought through the war, and the money they furnished shows that tbo war increased rather than diminished their antipathy to it. They furnished more than their full share of the men and at least their quota of the money. And yet, when the war was over, aud they sought to sustain ttye President in securing for the bout-h -orn States their constitutional rights us States in that Uniou, they were not per mitted to do so—the whole weight of the administration, from the Premier down, was thrown In the scale against them.— And so earnest was the Premier to defeat the Democracy, with the gallant Slocum at.their head In the State of New York, that he took the stump in person to de nounce them as a disloyal party. And when the election was over he showered the Executive patronage, upon Logan, Kilpatrick, and other Radical demagog ues who had signalized themselvbs by their unmeasured abuse of New York De mocracy. Aud this is substantially the relations of the Administration to the party which support it to this-day; for whilst it is true that Mr. Seward and the corporal’s guard which remains with him appeared to su j p rfc the Democratic earn! i date at the last election this was after the Union party had been consolidated by the President against his own action, and Congress enabled to abolish the power of the President. I take no pleasure in re curring to those facts, and I do not do so with any wish to excite unfriendly feel ings towards Mr. Seward, nor any one else who took this course and is now with us. You have asked me to lay before you my views of the situation, and to do ho I must state the facts which are essential to its comprehension. In my judgment, the demoralization of the Democratic party goes far towards explaining the tri umph of the Radicals, and it goes far to wards explaining the disorganization of that party to recall to your recollect loa the anomalous condition of things I have depicted—a party attempting to rally to the support of an administration whilst the whole weight and influence of that administration is actively exerted to des troy It. Nothing but this unnatural an tagonism could have prevented the tri umph of the Conservative party. The 1,800,000 Democrats who voted f«r Mc- Clellan, headed by tbe administration, must have triumphed. Hoffman would have been elected last fall if he hud re ceived McClellan’s vote. He was de'eat ed simply by the demoralization I have sketched, and the Inst consideration will enable you to understand how all-suffi cient that was for the purpose. It was the cause of Constitutional liberty for which the flght was made, and the De mocracy was conjured to come up to the polls for that cause, and the great body of them responded. But oven those who came did-not respond as they would have done had their hearts welled up towards their leaders. Thousands turned with disgust from those who were allowed to hold high positions,#vho were to bo sus tained In tiieiu by their votes, remember ing that It was not six months since the premier had branded them publicly as a disloyal party; and I have never found a speaker or laborer in the cause who was not chilled by this thought, and who did not feel, when the people naked him why the President whom theyifcaffred turned over the government to and his own, that hla labor wat/'ln vain. If General Grant had been put in charge of the-VVar Department, and thus associated with the administration arid admitted to its councils, Radicalism would have per ished, and reintegration would have been long since accomplished. His magnani mous course at the serrendcr of Lee; his report to the President in 1805 on the con dition of the South; his avowed opposi tion to negro suffVago and the military bill; his good sense, good hem t, and high courage give tbe beat assurance that he would have given the President the beat advice, and his popularity would have given strength to the Administration.— His liberality, too, towards McClellan, having expressed his willingness to re store him to command, would have warm ed up every friendof McClellan towards the administratlbn of which be formed a VOL 54.—N0. 8, part. For nearly two yearn Senator Doo little and other friends of the President have pressed this upon him ; butthe Pre mier set by his ear, busy with his satelli tes, making mischief between the Presi dent and the one man whom it is visible to all eyes ho can and ought to rely in this emergency. Grant, soon after closing the war, took the liberty in the little speech ho made in New Ydrk (his only speech) to order Louis Napoleon out ofr Mexico, where Mr. Seward had helped him to go, if ho had not invited him, and was certainly willing that he should re main. This was notice to Mr. Seward that Grant would not support him for the Presidency. I still have hopes the Presi dent will take the counsel of his real friends and obey the voice of the nation, by putting General Grantin chargeof the work of ’reintegration. The Radicals, comprehending the intrigues at which I have glanced, have sought hy'tllolr re construction measure to antagonize him to the Present, giving him the power over the military commanders in the iSoulb which belongs, by the constitution, to the President. He would flank them completely if he would dismiss the intru garies by whom he is surrounded and give Grant, as Secretary, the authority by law which they seek to give him in de fiance of law. Ho could then defy the impeaohera, turn the popularity of Grant (which tn© Radicals are seeking to use to sustain them in overthrowing the gov ernment) to its suppoit, undo in one hour the Radical labor of to sow distrust of him in the minds of honest people, which has no other just foundation than the fact that ho has retained men in pow er in whose patriotism no one of any par ty confides. The programme of the Radi cals is plain. They mean to command the government by military power and corruption. They will set upßrownlow and Fletcher governments in the States now excluded from Congress. These, with the Brownlow. and Fletcher votes, will give them twelve States in the elec toral college, in virtue of their military power. They count upon the tariff* and use of the public money and party ma chinery to secure a suflicieut number of States, which, added to the voles cast by Brownlow, Fletcher, Sick els, Pope, Sheridan, and other military satraps, will give them the control of the government. The flimsy veil of negio suffrage, pretended us a protection of the ballot from “ chief traitors,” under which is concealed the naked sword with which the twelve States are to bo ruled, is too transparent to require to bo stripped oil*. Old Thad. Stevens, the real master-spirit of Radacalism, long ago declared that mean whites could be got at the South to organize and lead the negroes in the In tereatof those controlling the government for the sake of the patronage and the pe cuniary advantage they would receive.— For controlling the negroes they look to the antagonism of* race—the Freedman’s Bureau—promise of confiscated lauds.— There is not a feature iu the whole Radi cal system to redeem, it from abhoronce. It is a system of the*foulest corruption ; relying alogether on the basest and moat mercenary motives to receive support. — There are a few sentimentalists who urge negro suffr ge from better motives, who are anxious to have their votes counted, in the idea that in that way only they can be elevated in the scale of humanity and escape slavery, who construe the Declara tion of Independence, notas Jefferson, its author, and those who adopted it constru ed it, to mean that men of the same na tion were of right equals among them selves and in their own nation, but as abolishing and confounding nationalities, and establishing universal citizenship; so that Hottentots,•Canibals, Coolies, Indi ans, Africans, If born in our midst, are born to the same rights of citizenship with those of us whose fathers acquired the country and gave it its government and laws, although those persons so born in our midst are the descendants of those brought here as slaves, and are by their nature utterly incapable qf discharging the duties or bearing the burdens inci dent to full citizenship of such a State! The fact that no such citizenship is ac knowedged for the negro’ in any State of the Union out of New .England, and there only because they are 100 few in number to exert a particle of influence, proves that It is not upon any such principle of national justice that is is proposed to count the votes of of the South. Mr. Sumner, who seems to me io bo by far tlie most honest of uny of their public men, Ims contended for the establish ment of this principle, and has again of fered at this session the bill which he had repeatedly presented before, to give the negro that right of suffrage universal ly, but his efforts have met with no coun tenance in Congress, not because Congress has no power to legislate with respect to suffrage in the States—for nejtber he nor his associates regard that us an objection —but simply because they dare not at tempt to impose negro suffrage upon the No.them Slates. This they know can only be done by military power, and the time has not yet came lo exert military power at the North. As it is only when they exert that power that the ogro vote Is counted, it is after ail but the exertion of the military power,, and the suffrage is sham suffrage ; and it is an election in no better sense than if they counted the cattle in (be fields in support of radical ism. And the negroes themselves, if they could bo made to understand that there is no negro suffrage where any real suf frage is tolerated, would become sensible that they are but the tools in the hands of new masters, directing them for their own selfish ends and objects, with not a “thought or wish for their welfare. They are but the machinery or agency adopted by the military, which controls it and supports it to carry its will into elfcct. — It is simply a military government; and the Radicals, as I have shown, resort to the device of counting the negroes as a part of the machinery, taking care to dock the while vole sulllciently to bring about the result prescribed beforehand.. It was to secure the properdocklngoC the white vote that the present session of Congress was held. The supplementary net passed follows the Brmvnlow and Fletcher models closely. By' this the registers of voters appointed by the mili tary are clothed with unlimited power on that head ; and as the white men among them are generally, I presume, of the class denominated by old Thud, as 'the “mean whites,” those entirely subservi ent to the Radicals, they will cut and carve to suit the exigency. Besides the multitudes of military and civU ollieers which they have at the South to mani pulate tins business, their executive com mittee at Washington, with unlimited funds provided by their fraudulanl hank ing system, has scattered emissaries all over the South. Some go, as Senator Wilson, to supervise the work, report progress, and advise as to the further leg islation required to consummate the scheme. Others, like Kelly, to get up riots to furnish pretexts for such legisla tion. This Radical plot for the subver sion of the government, perpetuating themselves in power, and making them selves Independent of the will of tne peo ple, is bold, elaborate, and dangerous, and is being wrought out with indefatigable industry. You ask what we can do to foil it? I regret to answer, very little.— All that you cifn do is to register and should offer to register who can take tho prescribed oath.' Tho more numerous the arbitrary disfranchisements tho more easy it will be to demonstrate the reality of that scheme of Radical despotism which I have endeavored to portray. It is to tlie people of the North I look to rescue you amrthemseives (,I’or they are as much involved in it as you are) from the grasp of this fearful despotism. It is in fact that these Radicals seek power, not merely over you, but over the whole country, by the sword, and are squander ing, not your means only, but that of tho who'o people in their immense expendi tures, their taxation of every laborer, with their rotten banks and oxhorbitant tarifib, that constitutes your safety. Nor have I any fears for the result. If Mr. Johnson will cut loose from the traitors and spies who surround him, take Grant to his counsels, and others In whom the Rates for Hboertising Advertisements will bo Inserted at Ten Cents per lino for the first Insertion, and five cents per lino for each subsequent insertion. 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I have already stated, to be sure, that the Radicals are laboring to antagonize him to Johnson personally, and Co the principles Johnson represents ; but I do not believe that ho will be so weak as to abandon his principles, and thoonly true friend ho has, and agree to do the work of the Radicals; which is ab horrent to him, for the sake of getting their nomination to the Presidency; but if he Is. I am convinced that he will de grade himself to no purpose. Great as are his personal merits, they will weigh little iu the scale when the question is whether the people or.the military shall rule, and he i*put forward as the repre sentative man of military government. If our history teaches anything, it is this lesson,'that they will not tolerate any machinery which takes their government out ol their own hands. It was the asser tion of this principle which brought Mr. Jeflerson into power against all the pres tige which the federalists derived from Washington. General Jackson was nev er elected for his military services. His triumph over Mr. Adams was in vindica tion Of the popular rights violated in his person in casting the vote of Missouri, Illinois, and’Kentucky against the wish es of the people. His triumph over Mr. Clay was on the Bank and Tariff ques tion, when all the moneyed interests of the country were brought to act in con cert against him, and the people asserted by his election their determination to maintain the control of their own gov ernment. The election of Lincoln was equally a vindication of the popular rights against the political control which had been ex erted by tbo use of the slave question. It would bo singular that the people, so jealous of their political power, should sanction the radical programme by which twelve States are wheeled Into liue by word of command from Washington.— When we remember that the spirit of our people was roused by the attempt of the United States Bank k> control elect ions, and that the Democratic instinct from Main to Georgia rebelled when Mr, Biddle put the screw on tbo money mar ket to effect political power, we cannot suppose it will sleep while Radicalism openly wields at will the voles of twelve States by military power, and attempts to eke out its force to command the govern ment by the profligate expenditure of money and subjecting all industry to enormous taxation by tariffs, rotten banks, and thus installing an odious oli garchy upon the country. If the Ameri can Constitution was nothing more than u printed record of atempoary agreement, I should feet alarmed at the present usur pation of Congress upon it; but when I remember that there is not a line of it which is not incorporated with the blood of the nation—that it is the written ex pression of principles to which the American people and theirancestors have adhered for centuries, modified to suit their exact condition here, I feel that the Constitution is not a mere paper, but the reflex of the very nature of our people ; and that though it may be hero as it was iu the old country, that civil war leads to temporary suspension of constitutional ac tion, the return of peace leads necessarily to a return to the normal action of the government and the restoration of con stitutional rights and privileges. The confederates did not undertake to change the Constitution, but adopted it us their own because it was the express image of the American mind, and it must be per petual. To oppose it is. like lighting against God ami Nature ; ami it would bo as well to undertake to reverse the laws of gravitation. The Radicals know this, and ace aware of their doom. It is a mis take to suppose that they are reposing in ease and confidence upon their places ami patronage in the federal capita!. The consciousness of tneir guilt and the knowledge of their fate speaks in their faces and through their eyes. 1 thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your in dulgence. If I have trespassed upon your patience, you must tell me your selves, as I have been tempted to it by the polite attention you have paid me. If J have said anything to revive your hope and restore your confidence in the genius and indestructible nature of our govern ment, I am more than compensated for my effort. Be assured it is not in the power of the Radicals to triumph over the people. It is not in the ingenuity of man to withdraw the government from the'people. The Radicals are the lineal descendants of the old Federal party, who sought to destroy our republican system, and they must meet the fate of their’pre decessors in their inglorious work. The Ago oV the World mid Man. How old is the world? Tho general answer.of Christendom has been, “ not quite four thousand years from the Cre ation to tho birth of Christ, and there have been JL,BGS years since,, making in all 5,870." And yet we have all seen within a week or two that Professor Marsh, of yaie College, in describing the fossil bones of a mastodon, but recently found at Cohoes, New York, gives the opinion that the animal must have exis ted over ten thousand years ago—pr more than fljmr thousand years before the time when,.as tho Scriptural commentators have usually supposed, Adam gave names to all tho newly madccreatures. Nobody appears to be shocked by this statement; and in fact there is scarcely a scientific man, including some of the most devout believers of the age, who does not ascribe to the world a much greater antiquity than that claimed in the old-fashioned chronology. The evidences leading to this conclu sion are drawn from nearly every depart ment of natural science, and, of course, become irresistibly strong as they are brought together. To give an idea of them in a brief compass, intelligible to every mind, perhaps we cannot do better than to condense Agassiz’s estimates based upon the formation coral, reefs off tho southern coast of Florida.— These reefs are built up by an Insect that begins to work on the ground in water of twelve or fifteen fathoms deep and he cannot live unless he has the constant ac tion of the open sea upon him, so that he stops at tho pclght of high tide. By nu merous experiments it has been ascer tained that the coral builder con structs about half an inch in a century ; but hr order to err, If at all, on the safe side, Agassiz doubles his estimate in his calculation, making it an inch In a cen tury. Now outside the Florida Keys there is a long coral reef with an average height of seventy feet, which, therefore, must have been begun 7,000 years ago, orl.OOOyears before the creation of Adam. Secondly, the Keys themselves are noth ing but inner repetitions of the same sort of coral reefs, of at least the same average height; and the builders must have fin ished them before they began on the out side reef, as appears from their neessity of having tho open sea, and from the fact that there are now no vindications of the beginning ofa reef outside of the one wo have mentioned above. The Keys, there fore, swell tho record to 14,000 years.— Next wo have the shoar blufl’ of tho main laud, which carries the coral con struction, and which carries the earth’s record above..J2o.ooo years. Moreover, there are, as you go inland seven well de fined and successive coral reefs/which, added to the foregoing, would make the world seventy-five thousand years old.— And Professor Agassiz regards this a very moderate estimate. * Expensive Rivalry.— The marquis of Westminster (said to b the wealthiest English peer) lately appropriated $250,000 for the purpose of establishing a penny daily newspaper as a rival to the Times, This paper was named the Day, an « was very ably edited. The oxpensiveiuss of tho undertaking Is evidenced by the fact that the above largo sum was exbaustt <i by forty Issues, wEen the enterprise was abandoned. ‘
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