,roolzo cl ilmri LT:3 • Pitualltday.arstir WEDiriatokflit L:' Z'Oe A. J..STEnnisit a a: SMITH TERMS--Two Dollars per an um, payable CI meg in advance. OFFlCE—tiotinrirmoT CORNER OE CENTRE Eincrezz. lettere on—busbiesa ahotad be ad dressed to H. G. SKftn *Co. Nutt* MEMORIES BY DR. A. 2d. LOOP The sweet south wind was murmuring thro' the trees Laden with perfume from a thousand flowers; And stirring up a thousand memories. From amaranthine bowers. I asked the dallying breeze that fanned my 'cheek And cooled the burning fever of my brow: What is it amid these solitudes ye seek, -•- Deal plainly with me now? Have I not sought seclusion here alone, Far from tae crowded city's busy hum; And even here, thy melancholy moan Murmurs, I come, I come ! I come from over mountains far away, I've whirled along the city's busy street: I've fanned the couch whereon thy childhood lay, And here, once more we meet. Dost thou remember in the lung-aeo, A gentle being, with a face as mild As summer morning's first etlierial glow. Sinless and undefiled? The grave hull won her to its cold embrace; Her heart was broken for a love as vain As the soft hues which gild the rainbow's face, After the summer's rain One day a messenger from unseen lands Passed by the dwelling where the sufferer lay, And gently folding her angelic hands, She sweetly pasied away ! And now that age has furrowed o'er thy cheek And dimmed thine eye with unavailing tears, Amid these solitudes I only seek The friends of former years. And leaving here my casket lu your hunde Freighted with hol memories of the pu.st I hasten onward to those unseen 'lands Where we must meet at last! Xittrarm. The Dead Alive. A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE The subjoined narrative, erom Cham ber's Journal, is said to be transmitted from a foreign newspaper. It is neces sary to remind the reader that the island of Mauritius, appertaining at this day to the English, was originally colonized by the French, and that the population yet consists in a great measure of per sons of that nation, to whom, by a for mal treaty between the powers concern ed, their ancient laws and -usages were preserved without any material altera tions. . - - some time ago, the Stour Clodomir Freuois, a rich merchant of the island, was found dead and frightfully disfigur ed in his own habitation. His body was discovered lying ou the floor, with his head and face mutilated by means of a pistol, and all doubt as to the cause of the catastrophe was dispelled by the discovery of the fatal weapon by the side of the corpse, and also of a paper in the handwriting of the deceased. The paper containing the following words: "I am ruined! A villtan has robbed me of twenty-five thousand Hyrum sterling; dishonor must be toy portion, and I cannot await or survive it. I leave omy wife the teak-of distributing ameng my creditors the means which remain to us; and I pray that God., my friends, and my enemies, may pardon my self-destruction. let In another minute I shall be lu eternity ! CLODOMIR FIiENOIS Great was the consternation caused by this tragic event, which was the more unexpected, as the loss alluded to in the note had never been made pub- ' tic. The deceased had been held in great esteem over the colony us a man of strict honor and probity, and was universally lamented. His attached widow, after endeavoring faithfully to fulfill his last wishes, found her grief too overpowering to permit her to mingle longer with the world, and took the resolution of consecrating her remain ing days to the service of religion. Two months after the sad end of her hus band, she entered a convent, leaving to a nephew of her late merchant, a phy sician, the charge of completing the distribution of the effects of Frenois among his creditors. A minute examination of the papers of the defnuct, led to the discovery of the period at which the unfortunate merchant had been robbed; and this period was found to correspond with the date of the disappearance of a man named John Moon, long iu the employ ment of Frenois. Of this man, on whom suspicion naturally fell, nothing could be learned on inquiry; but short ly after the division of the late mer chant's property, Moon reappeared in the colony. When taken up and ex amined respecting the cause of his flight, he stated that he had been sent by his master to France to recover cer tain sums due to the merchant there, In which mission he had been unsuc cessful. He further averred, that if Clodomir Frenois, in his existing correspondence, had thrown any injurious suspicion on him (Moon) the whole was but a pre• text to account fordeficiencies of which the merchant himself was the sole cause and author. This declaration wade by a man who seemed to fear no injury, and whose worldly circum• stances remained to appearance the same as they had ever been, had the etreel of silencing, if they did not satisfy, the examiners; and the affair soon fell, in a great measure, out of the public recollection. Things remained for a short time in this condition, when, one morning, Mr. Wm. Burnett, principal creditor of the late Clodomir Frenols, heard a knock ing at his gate at a very early hour. He culled up one of his servants, who went down and opened the door and immediately returned with the intelli gence that a stranger, who seemed de sirous of keeping his person concealed, wished to speak with Mr. Burnett in private. Mr. Burnett rose, threw on his dressing gown, and descended to the parlor. He saw there a stranger tall in person, seated in au easy and familiar attitude upon a sofa, with a copy of the "Morning Post" in his hand. The back of the visitor was turned to Mr. Burnett as he entered. Rather surprised to see a stranger con duct himself so like an old friend of the house, Mr. Burnett said aloud, " Sir, I beg to know your business with me." The stranger turned around and ad vanced to salute his host warmly and courteously. Mr. Burnett started back and uttered a loud exclamation of sur prise and alarm. Well he might, for before him , stood his old friend and debtor, Clodomir, who he himself had followed to the grave. What passed at that interview be tween Mr. Burnett and his strange visi tor, remains for the time a secret. Mr. Burnett was observed to Issue several times, pale and agitated, from his dwell ing and to visit the magistrate charged with the criminal processes of the colony. In the process of that day, while John Moon was regaling himself with tea un der the palm trees In his garden, in company with a Circassian female whom he had boughtsome time previously, he was arrested and taken to prison by the officers of justice. On the following day be was brought before the criminal court, accused of robbing the late Clodo mirFrenols, the crime being conjoin ed with breach of trust and violence. Moon smiled at the charge with all the confidence of a man who had nothing to fear. The Judge having demanded of him if he confessed the crime, the accused replied that the charge was al together absurd, that clear testimony was necessary to fix such a crime upon him; and that so far from there being any such evidence producible, neither the widow of the deceased, nor any person in his service, bad ever heard the pretended robbery ever once mentioned by Frenois during his life. "Do you then affirm your inno cence?" replied the Judge, gravely, after hearing all that the other had to say. " I will avouch my innocence," re plied Moon, "even before the body of my late master, if that be necessary." iSeuch acolonial thing law.] often took place under th old "John Moon," said the judge, in a voice broken by some peculiar emotion; " it la before your late master that you will have to assert your innocence; and may God make the truth appear. A. sigrial from the judge accompanied these words, and immediately a door opened, and'Clodomlr Frenpis, the sup posed sulolde v entered the court.' lie .4 , ..: .74-,,,,!- ' f ....rt , “ -g.J. q.,...,...! re,,::,-: , .. - . - ...1, - _ - ..7:1. ',la' I '..1E:. , .. t..,:-..1.,..e r. :,;.:1..! .. -.. - ; ::,.'t. 1.1 i.,...., nr' 'i - , ric o.. 4 1 ; ,... 7 ...,1 ~,i , 7 . A r: , t d ,; rt. 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He said that the court should not be biased by what might prove to be a mere acci dental likeness between a man living and one deceased; and that such an avowal as that of the prisoner extracted in a moment of extraordinary terror, was not to be held of much weight. "Before being admitted here as an accu ser or witness," continued the advocate, addressing th resuscitated merchant " provoi who and what you are, and dis close by what chance the tomb which so lately received your body, mangled by bullets, has given up its tenant, and restored you to life and health." The firm appeal of the advocate, who confirmed steadfast to his duty under circumstances that would have closed the lips of most men, called forth the following narrative from Clodomir Frenois: "My story may be soon told, and will suffice to establish my iden tity. When I discovered the robbery committed by the accused, he had fled from the island, and 1 speedily saw that all attempts to take him would be fruit less. I saw ruin and , disgrace before me, and came to the resolution of termi nating my life before the evil day came. On the night on which this determina tion was formed, I was seated alone in my private chamber. I had written a letter which was found on my table, and had loaded my pistol. This done, I prayed for forgiveness from my Maker for the act of despair I was about to commit. The end of the pistol was at my head, and my finger on the lock, when a knock on the outer door of the house started me. I concealed the weapon, and went to the door. A man entered whom I recognized to be the sexton of the parish in which I lived. He bore a sack on his shoulders, and in it the body of a man newly buried, which was destined for my nephew, the physician then living with me. The scarcity of bodies for dissection, as the court is aware, compels those who are anxious to acquire skill in the medical profession, to procure them by any pos sible secret means. The sexton was at first alarmed at seeing me. "Did my nephew request you to bring this body ?" said I. "No," replied the man, but I know his anxiety to obtain one for dissec tion, and took It upon me to come and oriel him this body. "For mercy's sake," continued the sexton, "do not betray me, sir, or I shall lose my situation, and my family's bread." "While tile man was speaking a strange idea entered my mind, and brought to my despairing bosom hopes of continued life and recovered honor. I stood for a few moments absorbed in thought, and then recollecting myself, 1 gave two pieces of gold to the resur rectionist, the sum which he had expect -ed. Telling him to keep his own way, and that all would be well, I sent him away and carried the body to my cabinet. The whole of the household had previously been sent out of the way on purpose, and I had to carry into execution the plan which had struck me. The body was luckily of the same stature as myself, and like me in complexion. I knew the man ; he had been a poor offender, abandoned by his family. " Poor relic of mortality !" said I with tears:in my eyes, "nothing which man can do can now injure thee; yet pardon me if I rudely dis• figure thy lifeless substance. It is to prevent the ruin of not one, but twenty families. And should success attend my attempt, I swear that thy children shall be my children ; and when my own hour comes, we shall rest together In the tomb to which thou shalt be borne before me." At this portion of the merchant's nal , rative, the most lively interest was ex cited in the court and testified even by tears from many of the audience: " then stripped off my clothes and dress ed the body in them. This accomplish ed, I took up the pistol, and with a hand more reluctant than when I had applied it to my own purpose, I fired it close to the head of the deceased, and at once caused such a disfigurement as rendered it impossible for the keenest eye to detect the substitution which had been made. • Choosing the plainest habit I could get, I then dressed myself anew, shaved off the whiskers which I was accus• tomed to wear, and took other zdeans to alter and disguise my appearance t in case of being subjected by any accident to the risk of being betrayed. Next morning saw me on board a French vessel ou my way to a distant land— the native country of my ancestors. The expectations which led me to the execution of this scheme were not dis appointed. I knew that John Moon, the man who robbed me, and who now stands at the bar of . this court, had formed connections in this island, which would in all probability bring him back to it as soon as the intelligence) of my death gave him the promise of security. In this I have not been disappointed. I have been equally fortunate in other respects. While my unworthy servant remained here in imaginary safety, I have been successful in discovering the quarter, in which, not daring at first to betray here the appearance of wealth, he had lodged the whole of the stolen money. I have brought it with me, and also sufficient proofs, supposing confessions of this day to be set aside alto gether, to convict him of the crime with which he stands charged. "By the same means," continued Clodomir Frenois, with a degree of hon orable pride in which all who heard him sympathized, " will I be enabled to restore my family to their place in society, and to redeem the credit of a name on which no blot was left by those who bore it before me, and which, please God, I shall transmit unstained to my children and my children's children." John Moon, whose guilt was thus sud denly and strangely laid bare to the world, did not retract the confession which he had made in the extremity of terror; and, without separating, the court sentenced him to confinement for life in the prison of the colony. The news of Clodomir Frenois's reap pearance spread rapidly, and the high esteem in which his character was held led co au universal rejoicing on the oc casion. He was accompanied from the court to his home by a dense multitude, who welcomed him with prolonged shouts. It would be vain to—attempt any description of the feelings of the wife, who thus saw restored to her the beloved being for whose sake she had quitted the world. She was released from her ecclesiastical vows, and re joined her husband, no more to part till the grave really claimed one or the other of them as its due. The Luxemburir Trouble Late advices from Europe, by the Cable, say that Is it now known that the Emperor Napoleon, deeming the possession of Lux emburg Indispensable for the military security of the French frontier, not long since commenced negotiations with the King of Holland for the purchase of the Grand Duchy and its incorporation with the French Empire. But as th c e fortress of Luxemburg, which is one of the strongest fortifications in Europe, is held by Prus sian garrison, and the Prussian Govern ment, backed by the whole of Germany, firmly objects to the transfer of the Duchy to France, the King of Holland has with drawn fain any further negotiation on the subject. The French Emperor insists _that his propositions shall be carried outand thci treaty completed. The national pride of France hail been deeply wounded, and a wild anti-Prussian feeling has seized the country. Meantime, while the dispute•ls pending, both Prussia and France are making military preparations, This threat ening state of affairs is the pause of anan. dal panic which now exists In London, Paris, and all the principal commercial centers of Buropo, gPtibuouo. Charles Felix Lemaire. There is nothing surprising in the In terest excited by the trial of Lemaire. A total paralysis of the moral side of the imagination, without paralysis of the moral side of the intellect, is a very rare disease even in those psychological hospitals the Criminal Courts, yet no other theory will precisely account for the symptoms presented in this case. The man, Charles Felix Lemaire, only nineteen years of age, fair-haired,bright complexioned, and of slightlrame, son of a locksmith, that is, of a man be longing to the highest ue of Parisian artisans, lazy and profligate, but studi ous after a fashion, conceived the idea that if he killed his father he would for a moment be independent, would have a sum of money at command, would en joy, for once at least, an unrestrained orgie. He meditated on the idea for eighteen months, and thought—we are writing from his own confession—some times of poison as his instrument. He rejected it, however, as he himself hints, because poison was not sufficiently bru tal, "not energetic enough," but in re ality, we suspect, from a different though cognate reason. There can be nodoubt in the mind of any person who reads the record of this trial, that Lemaire, evil as a devil, was also as brave as a devil ; that he was one of a very limited class of brave men, those in whom fear is not subdued by any sentiment of honor, or by faith, or by an intellectual conviction of duty, or by that acute pleasure in danger which Mr. King lake seems to think the only form of courage but, owing to some break of connection between the nerves and im agination, is absolutely non-existent. The writer has known one other man with the same peculiarity, and has heard him repeatedly aver, under cir cumstances which did not admit of de ception, that total absence of fear was in his Puritan ;dialect " a snare." Le maire was not brave, but he was fearless, and the idea of poison, we suspect, re pelled him from an instinctive percep: Lion of its cowardice. He wanted to commit the crime openly, face to face, to give it something of the character of the duel, so as to diminish its mon strosity, not to other men, but to him self. It was only as the end or climax of a series of open murders, committed under the ruostdaugerous circumstances that he decided to kill his father in his sleep. At last the temptation and the oppor tunity occurred together. His father resolved to marry again, thus reducing the family income first by another mouth, then by other possible mouths, and Lemaire resolved to kill his future mother-in-law, a widow with one child. As that would be incomplete work., he also resolved to kill the daughter of the woman and his father and an apprentice girl, who would probably witness the deed, and give information too soon for his orgie. Then he would plunder the house, and though sure of arrest,—an arrest, which to a mind incapable of fear meant nothing,—he should have at least one orgie with a full purse and the enjoyments it can secure. On the 20th of December, aceoi uingly, hiding a sharp knife in the wool, lie called on the widow, with whom, be it observed, he had been on very friendly terms, hung a rope on a strong nail in a lobby below, and saying he had a message from his father, enticed her to speak to him in this lobby. There he tried, being clearly a stupid, though calculat ing man, to strangle her with the cord, to hang her in fact, but finding this im possible, stabbed the poor woman all over with the knife, inflicting some two dozen wounds. The mother's shrieks roused the daughter, .who found the door locked, but forced it open, and the assassin was arrested, red-handed, with his sleeves tucked up, the knife in his hand, and his victim's blood spattered all over his face and clothes. So far the story admits of the explan• atory theory of insanity which Le maire's counsel endeavored to set up, which Lemaire peremptorily refused to accept, and which was contradicted by all the medical testimony ; but another scene was yet to come. Committed for trial, Lemaire was interrogated as usual by the judge In a mode which we utter ly condemn, and which, indeed, has no conceivable recommendation, except that in France it elicits truth ; and it is his answers which give interest to the case. Any insane man who retained brain enough to give his answers would have set up some defence or insisted on his own insanity. Any ordinary French criminal would have endeavored to justify himself, to have excited the sympathies of his audience, to have proved that everything was in fault ex cept his own nature,—that was always gentle and holy. But to Lemaire, whose imagination on one side was vivid, but on the moral side entirely dead or non existent, the atrocity he had committed presented itself in its dramatic aspect. For once, as he said himself, he had played principal character" in a great tragedy, and not being moved by the fear of death, he resolved to sustain that part to the last, to represent himself as a facile princepa among the wicked,—a devil with a nature which instinctively preferred evil to good, even when it did . - not pay. We are not quite sure that an uncon scious remorse prompting him to con fession was 43ntirely absent from Le metre but at all events asortof criminal truthfulness got possession of the man, who could not feel how deeply his narra- tive struck horror into an audience usually lenient to atrocities. He never made the faintest effort to extenuate his acts. He had, he said, meant parricide. He was, he said, with a villanous real ism only to be thoroughly appreciated by Frenchmen, who would think the statement infintely worse than any number of mere murders, " on the whole, very glad when his mother died. It was a mouth less." He "had always been lazy, was only active forevil." He " knew perfectly well he was bad. If anybody told me I was not, I should hold him as bad as myself,"—a state ment almost unique, probably impossi ble, except to a criminal who had used the Confessional, or had been taught that he ought to use it. This man's intellect was on its moral side perfect ; he could gaze im partially into himself, could feel pleas ure in a self-examination absolutely pitiless, could say decisively this and that emotion is bad, but he did not feel the horror which be saw. Like a French adept in vivisection, he per ceived the pain, saw every quiver, ap preciated every groan, but never winced with sympathy. His intellect told him precisely his own crimes, but his im agination never for an instant realized the horror of those crimes, or sympa thized with the loathing they excited in other men. "You shock the feelings in my heart," said the judge ; "You are right," 'said the criminal; but the criminal was not shocked, for a shock of that kind cannot be communicated to a paralyzed imagination and an im , movable nervous system. The man detailed his plans with a sort of scien tific relish, though, be it remarked, as curious feature in the case they were very stupid plans. The intellect was analytical, but not constructive. "In what way did you propose to com mit all these crimes? First, to try strangu lation ; then to cut their throats with the razor that is now on the table before you ; and then ding the bodies into the cellar, the trap-door of which I had left open. For that purpose I bought the cord you see there, and the large nail which I fixed in the wall after bending the end of it to pre vent the cord from slipping off. The knife I put on the table within my reach, taking care to hide the blase under some rags, and only leaving the haft visible. 'What did you intend to do after you had done all that?—To take the keys of the widow Bainville, and then those of my father, steal all the money I could lay hands en, and quit the house. I knew very wall that 'I should soon be taken, but at least I should have had a few days in divert myself in the meantime." There was no necessity for heaping on himself that load of infamy. It was quite open to Lemaire to argue that he had killed the widow , in a burst of pas sion, or 'even to give a sentimental color to his Orhne byflileging that he had LANCASTER P.A.. WEDNESDAY.MORNING, APRIL 17, 1867. inilliered her to4sparehlsfatherthenn happiness he 'fneettaw for him, but net fearing &nth; not realizing in the faint est degree the instinctive horror of Man kind at such atrocities, he spoke as calmly as if he had been on the boards, with a sort of enjoymentin the ethotlon he created among his audience such. as Mr. Kean feels when some evi l trait in Louis XL makes the pit and gallery wince. The dramatic faculty which the man possessed shows that his imagina tion was strong on every side except one, !--that which realizes the moral baseness of crime. He did not feel base as he spoke, but heroic, looked round, sa y i the reporters, as he said the most.mous things, for the applause which came to him in shudders, and the " ahs" ut tered within the mouth which French men emit when surprised into abhor rence. He made his speech, too, care fully, confessed murderous plans in pithy epigrams, and detailed a scheme of parricide n little incisive, deliberately pruned sentences, impossible to a man who felt at all that his audience would choke him, if they dared. It was con sistent with the character we have tried to sketch, to reject eagerly the defence of insanity, which deprived his acts of meaning, and the plea of " extenuating circumstances," which would have saved him from the guillotine. The guillotine had no terror for him, and forced labor in the Bagne, he being "lazy by nature, active only in evil," had. He refused even toclaim his right of appeal to the Court of Cessation, os tensibly because he did not wish to cheat society of the stakes when he had lost the game . ; really, we trust, because even in his mind spate dim theory of justice, some. Pala notion that he had earned his doom, some vague hope that. in the supreme penalty itself might be some expiation, was secretly at work. There is the spirit of the Catholic peni tent, who reveals everything without repenting anything, In his finakspeech, which we might seek in vain among Protestant criminals : "I perfectly understand that there is no possible extenuation of my acts. If in a moment of excitement or of passion I had done them, I could conceive mitigating cir cumstances. But what I did I did with premeditation. Indulgence from you is impossible, and Ido not ask for it. If you accord me extenuating circumstances I shall owe them to your disdain, and not to your compassion. I want no extenuating circumstances; I will not have my life saved at such a price. He who inflicts death deserves death. Let us make a calculation. I had conceived great grievances against society; society has to reproach me; and, therefore, I say that the account is balanced between us. I declare that if you grant ex tenuating circumstances, though this is not probable, I am resolved to die of starva tion rather than be sent to the Bagne. want you to leave um the satisfaction of feeling, that I have been Judged responsible for my acts. The journals that announced my crime must also announce my punishment; and if I obtain what I desire, justice will have been vindicated. I shall mount the scaffold without a single shudder and without a word of repentance. In conclusion, I ask of you if it would be humanity to inflict upon lima slow death, to force me to die of hunger when you cap finish me by a single stroke? Are we to go back to those barbarous periods when criminals were tortured, and when the executioner was recommended not to strike at the vital parts too soon ? rant, therefore, my prayer and pronounce against me the condemnation which I have well merited. By so doing you pay homage to justice, and you render a service to society, and to one of its members, who is forever lost to it." The verdict of course was guilty, the sentence, death ; and Lerualre was led away, laughing easily, but perfectly tranquil. He was guillotined on the Bth of March. flow Tea Is Adulterated A New York paper gives the follow• lug account of the various modes by which the tea we drink is "doctored" and poisoned : In the manufactured teas, the leaves employed are of various kinds—almost any In fact suit the purpose—but the principal bases for the infusion are sloe leaves, white-thorn leaves, and bay leaves. Experiments, however, have detected the presence of plumb, oak, cherry and even cedar. When any of these are used in the manufacture, cate °Liu or terra Japonica (Japan earth) are employed to give the compound an astringency and color peculiar to tea. They as it were, supply the place of tanin, which belongs to the genuine article, and impart a flavor similar to that of Bohea or Hyson skin. Both terra Japonica and catechu are violent medicines injuriously affecting the sys tem of the unsuspicious tea-drinker, and doubtless in many cases tile dis eases now afflicting our people, especi ally women, have their origin In the use of these noxious articles under the name of tea. The manufacturers use, also, a sum, which causes a contraction of the exhausted leaves ou dying, and give to them the appearance peculiar to tea itself. It may be well to know, how ever, that the forms of the leaves in the manufactured article are shapelessly broken and agglutinated Into small, flattened, or round masses, which, if the microscope be used in examining them, present an appearance as differ ent from . tea itselt as cheese Is from chalk. The plan pursued In manufacture, or adulteration, is as follows : The exhaust ed leaves, or any others that may be used, are spread out on a drying floor, and dampened with water. After re maining here for a time they are taken up in parcels and placed In a pan before a hot furnace, when the gum is poured upon them, and .they are then stirred until the ingredients (which differ somewhat in imitation green and black teas) become thoroughly mixed. The agglutinated mass is then replaced on the dry floor in a room which is heated to intensity, and after remaining suffi ciently long thereon, it is packed in tea boxes, and is ready for delivery. There are also employed, besides the articles we have mentioned in imitating the color, taste, &c., of the several variety of greens and blacks, the following drugs, all of which are more or less injurious to the health : Sulphate of iron, rose pink, logwood (which imparts strength ' after the manner of chicory in spurious coffee), plumbago or black lead, china clay and soapstone (to give bloom and luster, or " face," as it is termed), indigo (used for the same purpose in making up spurious greens), trumerio powder, Prussian blue mineral green (a salt of copper precipitated by an alkaline car bonate—deadly poisonous), verdigris (used especially In the preparation of spurious Hyson, Young Hyson, and Hyson skin), arsenite of copper, chro mate and bichromate of potash, chrome yellow (all poisonous), chalk (which enters into the composition of Dutch pink, and is used to color the imitations of best quality greens), and many other deleterious articles, which, in propor tion as they are used, make up the Souchongs, Boheas, Twankays, &c., that are sold by dishonest dealers. In many eases, especially in the adultera tion and manufacture ofimitation black, sand Is an ingredient. The report made to the British Government mentions, that In one instance where a quantity of counterfeit teas was seized and ana lyzed, examination proved that twenty per centum of the base compound was sand only. Not alone do the manufac turers put into market the various imi tations made out of the materials we have mentioned, but by a strange pro cess of transmutation, the exhausted leaves of black tea are made to become most beautiful greens. Much of the spurious Young Hyson which finds its way into market in this city is " made over" in this manner. Wrong is but falsehood put in prat tice.—Penn. There is a comfort in the strength of love.— , Twill make a thing endurable which else would overset the brain or break the heart.— Wordsworth, Talkative men seldom read. This is among the few truths which appear the more strange the more we reflect upon them, For what is reading but silent conversation 2—.4andor. Two hearts which mutually love, are like two magnetic clocks ; that which moves in one must also move in the other, for it, is the same power which acts in both.—Obethe. k:altlllmebaro Ouilalr [Fri= the New York Warld.l Manzani the -younger was thirty-one years old whi3n he died. That is his father's itatenrept E and it is borne out by the photographs of himself which were found id the young - man's house when it was searched. He was brought up lu Williamsburg from ahoy, and at intervals he lived there until his death. This to rq - time the term, of his residence was some three or four years. Before that he . I had lived for some years to gether at Newtown Creek, and people recall now that he went out from there one day in a-fishing-boat with his wife and child, and returned next day breath less, drenched, and alone, and told his neighbor, with the imperturbable man ner he always- had, that a squall had overset his boat, and that his wife and child, in spite of all he could do, had gone to the bottom. Nobody suspected him Soon after this, that is, between two and three years ago, Manzani returned to Williamsburg, and his advent there was coincident with the beginning of a series of crimes that perplexed the police, terrified the Williamaburgers, and enlivened the newspapers. Stores and houses were broken into,.and ar- tides of all sorts and of various value were indiscriminately taken. 'The police wore out their wits and ground their teeth in vain. All the traps which the traditions of the service suggested were laid for the "gang" which weresupposed to have perpetrated these atrocities, but the "gang' were invulnerable. Once and again the officer caught sight of a figure leaping from a window or a balcony, or scaling a fence in the small hours, or they heard a plgtol-shot ou some distant street; but the figure melted in congenial gloom before they could 'challenge it, and there were no signs of quarrel when they came to where they thought the report was made; or if once or twice they found anything, it was only a heap of clothes ;• once it was a policeman's uniform, and that in them, which had been a man the moment before, but could tell 'l , tales any longer. " Stonedead hath o fellows." And no man ever confronted one of the "gang" so closely as to have a chance of recognizing him again, that was not fired on at the instant. °lacer Hipwell challenged a man coming out of a retired house in the early morning. The man fired without parley and the officerdropped dead. His comrade on a corner saw him fall, and ran for his murderer, but the murderer was too quick for them. Another officer was shot at and two of his fingers broken ; another has a bullet scar along his head. "I've had four men shot within ayear," said the worthy captain of the precinct, "and I believe now that this scoundrel did it all." This scoundrel, in the meantime, was so bearing himself, to all appearance, as to deserve the epithet as little as any man in the District. His hours have not been those of ordinary men, but nobody would have thought anything of that, even if he had not forestalled suspicion by exhibiting a badge pro claiming him an " U. S. Detective, Washington, D. C." 'l`li Is undisputed passport gave him the right to appear at whatsoever hour he chose, and to adopt the habits of the game of which he professed to be a hunter. He carried his stolid face and his hulking figure into restaurants at late night and early morning. "His stolid face"—that is the first notion one gets from his pic ture, but scanning it and the accounts of those who knew him, in the light of what has now come to light, one can imagine that the dull gray eye might have glowed in action with the "dull luster"of a night hawk's, that the hooked nose might have seemed a beak, the shuttle briskened into a stealthy stride, and the man have stood confess ed for what he was—a human bird of prey., He always went alone. Such com panions as he had, and he seemed not to care for them, he picked up among the frequenters of the German restaurants to which he made occasional visits. He had no bad habits, or if he had, he did not let them get so much the mastery of him as to impair the perfect quick ness of sense which he needed. He used tobacco very sparingly, if at all. Nobody ever saw him drink spirits. When he was urged to take something for good-fellowship he called, like king Cole, for his ale, or for that riotous pota tion, soda-cocktail. The only thing be could be got to say much about was crime, and crime in Williamsburg in particular. His fondness for this topic sorted well enough with his profession of detective. He was always deploring the robberies and murders, and suggest. ing devices whereby the thieves and the murderers might be caught. He particularly cultivated the friend. ship of the policemen. Always when he met one whom he knew on his beat, he would stop and say a pleasant word or two, and when he met one off duty would Invite him to a bite or a drink. All the officers in the precinct where he lived knew him, and they all liked him as a pleasant, peaceable, well intentioned fellow. Manzani hired a house on First street, a streetpracticable for horse-cars, which skirts the East River. The house stands between the street and the river, so low that its high brick basement must almost be washed at high tide. Houses have their idlosyncracies as well as men, and the singularity of this house is to have nothing singular. It sidles into the shadow of a great warehouse to escape observation. The clapboards are painted an invisible drab to escape observation. The solid shutters of the lower stories are of a faded green, which repels interest, and an old-fashioned glazed half-moon in the gable winks a perpetual injunction of secresy to the passer. This place was ransacked last Sunday, and here it was that the evidences were found that convict Manzani of most of the robberies that have been committed in the Eastern District. Money, notes, boots, clothes, pistols, trinkets, have been Identified by the merchants or householders to whom they truly be longed, and the miscellaneous collection gave the old rookery a look of some thing between a bandit's cave and a magpie's nest. On First street, at the corner of South Ninth (Manzani lived near the corner of First and South Eleventh) stands a row of seven or eight houses under one roof. Officer Scott, of the Forty-fifth Pre cinct, is a tall North of Ireland man, and has a way of standing about and a precision of speech, which, with' his heavy and suspiciously black and lus trous mustache, put one in mind of an old dragoon. He says he was saunter ing up past the row of buildings Just described when the bell of the Navy Yard told three last Sunday morning. As he reached the corner he heard quick footsteps coming down South Ninth, and the comer caught sight of him at the same time and ran off diagonally across the street. The officer crossed also directly, and waited on the op posite corner to see who it might be. He had hardly become aware in the darkness that the figure had a bundle under its arm, when the man's unemployed hand shot out from his side, and without a word or a sign fired a pistol at the officer's face. The ball went through his cap, as he founcrafter. Wards L and the powder burned his face. Scott ducked involuntarily, and drew his own pistol from his pocket. The other started off down - First street towards Manzani's house. The officer gave chase, and fired as soon as he could see his man. The ball, it turned out, had cut the aorta. The ruffian gave one cry but his pluck sufficed to carry him, with a bullet in his heart, to the next corner, where he staggered inwards to a little vacant plot of ground, and there fell. Scott came up to him, and stood over him, and "01 tell ye sur, 'twas no joke to stand by the man there at that hour o' the morning, with, no one near but me, and him a groanin' and a Jerkin' , and me the man that shot 'um." 'When help and a light came they turn ed, him over; he was breatiting still a little, and one or two of his astonished acquaintances recognized him', and in five minutes more the turbulent s_pirit Was still, Eind the feign of tinter in Wil. liatnabnrg was over:- They put thebody , On •a , cart and sent ft to the station-, house and on 14 juryonday, a ft er the Coro ner% luurseen it, it was delivered to the dead man's father for burial." That this man was a robber was provb .ed over and peer again by the things found in his house, and by the things found on his body. He wore,-when he was killed, two suits of clothes—the outer shabby, the inner decent; and the bundle he had under his arm had been taken from a house in South Eighth street five minutes before he was killed. Of course, he never was a detective. Bad as Baker is, this man did not serve him. That-this man was a murderer is con cluded from, such a crowd of circum stances as may well bethought absolute proof. The murder of Hipwell was committed by a burglar who, as well as he could be seen answered Manzani'a description. A citizen—Mr. Wright— was awakeried one night by a hand groping under his.pillow for his watch. As soon as he opened his eyes the in truder fired though the ball missed him, and he himself in turn fired and fright- ened him away. The account he gave of the assassin will fit this man Man zani. And so of all the other omoers who had been assailed. The most cold blooded thing about the wretch, and the shrewdest, too, was his ingratiating himself with the policemen, and then as soon as one saw him in a suspicious posture, instantly killing him out of the way. Scott, who ended him, happened not to know him; but Scott was the only tracer in the precint who did not, and Scott says if he had told him any plausible story on Saturday night, he would not have detained him. But that did not suit Manzani. No man ,should live who was able to connect his name in any way with any crime. That this man was a, smuggler has come out since his death. ' I , have 'known him"—was oneof the few things his recent father could be got to say about him—" I have known him make four or five thousand dollars in a day." The police put this and several other things together, and believe that he had a small vessel in which he used to go down outside the Hook and wait for ships in the secret, which hand over to him the lightest and costliest of their cargoes, and that he ran these into shoals which only so small a craft as his could penetrate. Russian America. Probably the best description to be found of the vast territory recently pur chased from Russia by our Government is given in a pamplilet published in 1856, by Mr. A. R. Roche, of Quebec. TI:118 pamphlet (" Russian America and the present War") was written with a view of urging the British Government to aid in fitting out an expedition for the conquest of Russian America, and its annexation to the British possessions, but the war with Russia came to a close in the following year, and the project, if ever seriously entertained in England, was of course no longer thought of. We quote from the pamphlet a description of some features of the territory just ceded to the United States: " With a coast upon the Pacific of some fifteen hundred miles in length, indented by numerous sounds and capacious harbors, and studded with many large islands of considerable re sources, it extends back, for about one thousand miles of that coast, to a dis tance of nine hundred miles, and for the remaining five hundred miles of the coast, to thirty miles, the latter being the portion in front of our possessions which it cuts offfrom the Pacific ; while the peninsula of Alaska, about fifty miles in breadth, stretches out in the Pacific for upwards of three hundred miles, the whole territory comprising a surface of nine hundred thousand square miles. It is thus about sixteen times the size of England. It contains many mountain ranges of great height, and fine valleys, magnificently watered and fertilized by large lakes and rivers ; the mountain ranges in the upper and and broader portion of the territory having a transverse direction, anti therefore sheltering the valleys from northerly winds, which in that quarter are cold winds In sum mer, while, extraordinary as it may appear to many, in winter they invari ably cause a rise in the thermometer. At both these seasons southerly winds produce effects directly opposite to the former, being warm winds in summer and cold winds in winter. A great por tion of this vast region (In some places to within a short distance of the Arctic Circle), is covered with forests of the largest and most valuable trees. Even upon some of the islands of Prince Wil liam's Sound, in 81 degrees north Intl tide, where it might be expected that the influence of the wind and sea would prevent or retard the growth of trees, Cook found the Canadian and spruce pine of a large size; and of the country adjacent to Norton Sound, lying in 64 degrees and 55 minutes north latitude, he says : " From the elevated spot on which Mr. King surveyed the sot And, he could distinguish many extensive valleys, with rivers running through them, well wooded, and bounded by hills of a gentle ascent, and moderate height. One of these rivers appeared to be of considerable size. Some of the people, who penetrated beyond this into the country, found the trees larger the farther they ad vanced." In speaking of the re sources of Russian America, Sir John Richardson, in his work upon the Arctic searching expedition,' quotes Bongard with regard to one portion of it who says that the 'hill of Westevol,' near Norfolk sounds, in north latitude 58 degrees, which' is 3,000 feet, French measure, in height, is clothed to its summit by a dense forest of pines and spruces, some of which acquire a Or dumference of twenty-one feet, and the prodigious length of one hundred and sixty feet, and that the hollow trunk of one of these trees, made into a canoe, Is able to contain thirty , men with all their household effects l Sir John Richards adds The climate of Sitka,' (the name of the bay as well as the island upon which is situated New Archangel, the chief port of the Russian com pany, lying in 57 degrees north latitude,) ' Is very much milder than that of Europe on the same parallel, the cold of winter being neither severe nor of long continuance. The humidity of the atmosphere gives as tonishing vigor to the vegetation, but although the forest, nourished by a very moist atmosphere and compara• tively high mean temperatUrsi, is equal to that of the richest woodlands of the Northern United States, yet corn does not ripen there. This humidityi of the atmosphere, which Is occasioned by the surrounding sea, is doubtless the cause of corn not coming to perfection at Sitka; for some distance in the interior of the continent, as far east as the Mackenzie, in the territory occupied by the Hudson Bay Company, the cereals are success fully cultivated up to sixty degrees north latitude, and occasionally in some sots situated five degrees further north.' In the neighborhood of the Mac kenzie, Sir John Richardson says that ' Fort Laird, of the sixtieth parallel, may be considered as the northern limit of the economical of wheat', as in the interior of Russian- America the climate must be of a dryer nature than upon the seaboard, and probably more .the extreme, that is, colder in winter and warmer in sum mer, much of the Interior may be well adapted for the growth of the cereals, although they cannot be successfully cultivated at the Russian establishments upon the coast. The harbor of Sitka, and several other fine harbors are open during the whole winter; thus showing an extraordinary contrast to the oppo site coast of Asia, which are ice-bound for three parts of the year. Even as high up asHehring Straits great differ ence of climate exists between the coast of the Asiatic and American continents. In his Travels Round the World,' Sir George, Simpson remarks that, ' al thougb at some points Bell ring's Straita are only forty-live'' miles wide, in the general 'appearance of the two' coasts there isa marked difference, the west ern side being low, fiat and sterile, while tile eastern is wellywooded, audio every respect better adapted than the other NUMBER 15. , for 'the sustenance of 4 beth - man and beast. Moreover, the soil anddlimate im prove rapidly on the American shore as one descends, and at Cook's inlet, (in 60 degrees N. latitude, ' potatoes may be raised with ease,' although they hardly ripen in any part of Kamschatka, which extends nearly ten degrees south. Thus, both in soil and climate, the great portion of Russian-America bor dering upon the sea, is not, inferior tq the eastern coasts of America and Asia, whether lying in the same, or in a much lower parallel. Bitka, for instance, which is in 58 degrees north latitude, has a climate almost as temperate as that of London, in 51 degrees north lat itude, (the mean annual temperature of the former being 45 degrees 44 minutes, and that of the latter 49 degrees 70 min utes,)—and it has also about as mild a winter as the southern portion of Ja p an, situated in a much lower latitude. The superiority, however, of the soil and climate of Russian-America, over the soil and climate of the opposite coasts of Asia, has been observed from the time of Kotzebue up to the present moment " But we have still more recent evi dence of the comparative mildness of the climate upon the American aide, even in a higher latitude. At Point Parrow, in 71 degrees north, where there is a large Esquimaux village, and where Her Majesty's ship Plover win tered in 1852-3, her commander, Lieu tenant Pullen, reported that during the entire winter the fall of snow did not exceed one foot in depth, and that on the coldest day the thermometer only marked 43 degrees below zero ; a degree of cold not much greater than that which was experienced at Quebec last winter, where, also, the entire quantity of snow which fell during that period was about fifteen times greater than that reported as above to have fallen during the winters of 1852-3 at Point Barrow, situated 20 degrees further north. " Of the many large rivers which flow through Russian-America none of them have been explored to their sources ; but several of them, such as the Col ville, the Stikine, the Yuken or Kwich pack, and the Kukokwin, are supposed to run a course of upwards of one thou sand miles, and to be navigable for. a considerable distance. From their breadth as well as their length, and the volume of water which they dis charge into the sea, they may certainly be included among rivers of the first class. The Colville, which was dis covered by Simpson and Deese since the Convention of 1825, is two miles wide at its mouth in the Artic Sea, where Captain McClure observed its in fluence twelve or fourteen miles out at sea, the water at that distance being of a dirty mud color, and scarcely salt. The Stikine enters the Pacific at fifty degrees fifty minutes north latitude, where it Is three miles wide, and at a distance of thirty miles from the sea has a width of one mile; but its source is In British Territory. Of the Yuken, or Kwichpack, Sir John Rich ardson says : "It rises to the west of the Rock mountains, not far from the union of the Francis and Lewis, which forms the Petty, flows first to the north, and after receiving a large tributary named the Porcupine, to the westward, falls into Behring's Sea," and that "in 60 degrees north latitude and 14i degrees west longitude," which is about one mile and a quarter wide. These three magnificent rivers, falling into different seas, probably represent three distinct river systems •of the northwest corner of this continent, each being fed by numerous smaller, yet considerable, streams, and the three together draining an extent of country much larger than the whole of Canada. The Rat River, mentioned by Mr. Ibister, of the Hud son Bay Company's service, in a com munication to the Royal Geographical Society, flows from Russian America through the Rocky Mountains at the first complete break in the chain in 07 degrees north latitude into the Mac kenzie of the British territory, the lat ter having, according to Sir John Rich ardson, a course of 2,900 miles, (800 longer than the St. Lawrence); and an unbroken navigation, St for steamboats, from its entrance in the Arctic Sea to the Portage of the Drowned, a distance of from twelve to thirteen hundred miles. In addition to the Russian ter ritory being everywhere drained by the finest rivers, it contains many large lakes communicating with the former, and is indented with numerous deep and spacious harbors, and also by sev eral extensive arms of the sea. Of the latter, Cook's inlet runs upwards of two hundred miles into the land, these lakes and rivers and these inlets and harbors, may be viewed as very important features of the coun try. 'Phey not only assist to temper the climate (the former by draining the land) which generally shapes towards the sea and towards the Mackenzie, and the latter by the salt atmosphere, which their waters diffuse through the interior), but they tend to enrich the soli upon their banks, by a short period of overflow in the spring, and may be made to afford facilities for inter-com munication, rendering ,accessible the most retired and most sheltered valleys, and for the establishment and active prosecution of an outward commerce. areal Sayings by Great Men. Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.—Channing. Beauty devoid of grace la a mere hook without the bait.— Tallyrand. He is a fool who will not yield to rea son.—Shakspeare. Castles are proud things, tut 'tie best to be outside of them.—Emerson. It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.—La Roohefaucauld. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.—Sw(ft. Books are the depository of everything that is most honorable in man.—Godwin. An idle reason lessens the weight of he good ones you gave before.—Swift. Education is the chief defence of na lons.—Brooks. Costly aparatus, and splendid cabinets have no power to make scholars.— Web ster. . Virtue Is the rock, from which re bound all the arrows shot against it.— Kozlay. Take care of the Constitution and the Constitution will take care of us.—Orit• tens. What you leave after your death, let it be without controversy, else the law yers will be your heirs.— Osborn. Give your son a trade and you do more for him than by giving him a fortune.— Franklin. Success in life depends upon the heroic self•relialice with which one sets out lrt life.—Lowell. One-half of mankind are not born with saddles on their backs to be rid den by the other half.—Je ff erson. I would rather my daughter should have a man without money, than money without a man.-2hernisioeles. Ignorance is the curse of God ; knowl edge the wings wherewith we fly to Heaven.—Shalcapeare. The history of the world tells us, that immoral means will interceptgood ends. —Colebridge. I had rather have newspapers without a government, than a government with out newspapers.—Jefferson. Wit will never make a rich man, but there are places where riches will always make a wit. —Johnson. The troubles of the county come from uneasy politicians Lite safety, from the tranquil masses.—Benion. Agriculture is the most useful, the most hea flhful and the most noble em ployment of men.— Washington. Resist with care the spirit of innova tion upon the principles of your govern ment, however specious the pretext.— Washington. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes ; for he must be forced to tell twenty more to main tain one:--Pope. The Greatest friend of truth is time; her greatest enemy in prejudice; and her constant companion is humility.— C 04071. g l i J anaxm adiritMOHOWZ taktat2M4 l3 =Malit aftN Wawa; filarrl reges and • : par Ha* Int rlaaartiaa. staticeentdinreMyrr etedi oplitn sent .BWIENZON eearCL,4 4 3 44 l " " 1415 . 11 , 10 , , BuslaeaßairdisalT• ilsol one loca ltr ai occ e irt a Tarle rirdirOare- 7 1 ......5ux, Adrxdratratars . DO! 2 . 00 =sea' 2.01) as , Other "Notices," ten thief; or UN; three 1.50 • • sem i .: ; New Orleans has hist planted $7,000 worth of shade trees. General Sweeney has disbanded the negro militia companies at Augusta, Ga. , Five thousand men are said to be out of work in Pittsburg. Wolves are troubling the farmers in garly county, W. Va. The rebuilding of the Lindell Hotel at St: Louis has begun. The Catholic Church of St. Bernard, at Easton, Pa., has been burned. Loss $30,000. New Orleans has In circulation $4,000,000 of Its municipal "shinplasters." The Good Templars in Maine have 250 lodges and 24,000 numbers. The small-pox has appeared in the Vir ginia penitentiary. Jeff. Davis is receiving instructions in the art of painting from an artist of Baltimore. It is estimated that there is $2,800,000 of counterfeit money in circulation in this country. It la - estimated that Montana will yiold $38,000,000 worth of precious metals this season. Both houses of the Wisconsin Legislature have passed a woman suffrage constitutional amendment. Governor Orr, has appointed agents to go to Europe to encourage emigration to Smith, Carolina. The steamer Benefit, with 200 bales of cotton, has been burned on the Alabama river. One man was killed and three persona were injured by a railroad accident near Carpenter's Station, Alabama. Zebulon B. Vance, ex. rebel Governor of North Carolina, has been pardoned by the President. The people of Charleston and Savannah are indulging in ripe and luscious straw berries. During the past week 1,794 casks of spirits of turpentine were exported from the port of Wilmington, N. C. Over five hundred passengers sailed from Now York on Saturday, In different steam ers, for Europe. Gen. Sheridan has declared an election recently held in Livingston Parish, Louisi ana, to be null and void. It is said the Universaliste are deserting Radicalism— nottiellevlng In endless pun ishment. News from the Louisiana levees'continuo very discouraging. The destruction of property is very great. The number of deaths in Norfolk during the month of March was thirtyfour-14 whites and 20 blacks. St. Louis despatches represent the Indian tribes of the Far West as concentrating their forces for war against the whites. A Fenian named Conners has been re leased from the penitentiary at Kingston, C. W. Conners Is a Canadian. Twelve thousand five hundred and sixty emigrants arrived ut Castle Garden last month. The Wisconsin Legislature has passed a resolution to amend the State Constitution by giving the right of suffrage to women. The receipts from licenses for selling liquor in New York during the year ending March 30th amounted to $1,283,354. North. Carolina has followed the example of some other Southern States in passing a law punishing horse stealing with death. John C. Breckinridge, it is stated, advises his friends to accept and make the best of the military act. Minors can marry in Louisiana. The legal age for the bridegroom is fourteen, for the brida twelve. Benjamin Heath a Boston detective, is going to the Paris Exposition to look after American thieves them. F. W. Morris, a colored man, served as an election clerk in the fourth ward, at Cleveland, Ohio, last week. Gen. G lemon's father has been arrested in Ireland for Fenianism. He is over seventy years of age. B. T. Turner, proprietor of tho Delaware House, at Wilmington, Delaware, died on Sunday. He served under the Duke of Wellington at tho battle of Waterloo. The Cumberland Union nominates Speaker Colfax for President and Hou. Francis Thomas of Maryland, for Vice President of the United States. Gene. Kershaw, Chestnut and Garlic on, all formerly in .the rebel army, have been admitted to practice in the United States Courts of South Carolina. Oregon newspapers are Jubilant over the Russian treaty, not doubting its ratification. The entire press of California favor the treaty, The cell in which John 11. Surratt is con fined at Washington is only a few rode Elegant from his mother's grave. The Wisconsin Senate has indefinitely postponed the bill to pay Sherman Booth $1,500 and costs for resisting the fugitive slave law of 1859. The King and Queen of Portugal have rented the first floor of the liotelßrhitol, In Paris, during the Exposition, for £OO per day. Tho printers in the South agree to fie, a thousand ems each towards Artemun Ward's monument, and ask their northern brethren to do the same. A Now York company Is. preparing to bring from Rockbridge county, Va., 500 barrels per month of white sand, to be used n making fine glass. It Is stated that seven thousand more passengers passed over the Pennsylvania railroad In March than In February, and travel Is still on the increase. Forty prisoners have been sent from Erie county to the Western Penitentiary during the last year. The convictions exhibit al most every crime In the calendar. The several cotton mills in Petersburg, Va., have consumed 1,116 bales of cotton in the manufacture of goods since the begin ning of the year. Louis Schad°, counsel for Mrs, the keeper of Andersonville person, has pub lished a letter to the American people In which ho attempts to prove Wirz's Inno cence. A Boston dentist extracted a tooth recent ly, and found that the left superior molar tooth held within Its fangs united firmly to it, the wisdom tooth lying lengthwise the jaw. The whole number of boys and girls be tween the years of six and eighteen in Phil adelphia, according to the census just com pleted, is 142,517, of which 70,674 are males and 71,843 females. 'rhe Canadians are expecting another raid from the Fenians on Fort Erie. An engi• neer belonging to the Brotherhood wasseen examining the fortifications, and reinforce. ments were immediately called for to be stationed at Niagara and Suspension Bridge. The registration of voters in Washington has been completed. There are 1,200 more negro than white voters. The negroes are highly elated, and talk of electing a regular black ticket, brit the Radical leaders there urge miscegenation. A. fever has broke out in thel'hiladelphla county prison, which has attacked not only a number of the Inmates but also one of the inspectors of that Institution, Hon. Joseph R. Chandler, and some of the °Ulcers. A new way of bidding for election and of bribing magnanimously has been patent ed in California. A candidate for Connty Treasurer pledges himself, in case of elec tion, to pay , $l,OOO in coin for the benefit of the school fund. The Macon Telegraph announces the ar rival in that city of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and hopes that her sojourn in the South has been a pleasant one, and that she finds the morals of Southern people much improved since she wrote "Uncle Toru's Cabin." A woman, named Finn, whoiwas far ad vanced in pregnancy, was gored to death by a man cow at Highland Falls, near West Point, last week. Her entrails were torn out and a male child was released from its natural fastenings. It is still alive and gives every symptom of growing up. Mr. Sothern, It is announced, Is to play eight weeks in Parts during the Exhibition,• seven nights a week, for Sunday is the great play night In Paris, For this engage ment he is to receive fifty pounds per night, or in the aggregate, 2,800 pounds, equal to more than 113,000 In gold. A vast national cemetery, for the Inter ment of Union dead in the Peninsula, has been completed in thi3 vicinity of Norfolk. The remains of over twenty-one hundred soldiers have been interred In it, in which number New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts regiments have the largest representation. Jo. Wood (one of Fletcher's notorious militia), of Pettis oounty, Mo., went into the saloon of an inoffensive citizen of Sedalia, a few days ago, and commenced knocking down persona. The proprietor asked him to desist or leave the saloon. Wood then left, but shortly after returned and ahotthe saloon keeper bz the back, killing him almost instantly. He tbon Walked the drifet and defied arrest; the , peoPlci.listeintibled, took him, put &lope around hie . neck ann. bang hint until ha was *4, •
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