%he Tineariftv pitiligencer, PUBLLSISED EVERY WED?? =DAY ET n. G. snI.TH & co A. J. STEINMAN H. G. SMITH TELIS—Two Dollars per annum, payable In all cases In advance. TEE DIMCASTER DAILY INTELLIOZIPOEFL Is publimbed every evening, Sunday excepted, at 55 per Annum in advance. 0 PrICKOTITISWEBT CORNER or CENTRE 3CLUANE. pioceitanculto. , A CONJURER AT ROME Tr Ick■ of Legerdemain A writer in Belgravia describes a visit to the "magician" Hermann, at his private residence near London, and the tricks there played for the en tertainment of the guests ; The dinner passed off handsomely ; the viands were of the best in the sea son ; the wine was of the choicest; con versation was brisk, if not brilliant; and geed humor threw a radiance over the. whole party. It was, in fact, a merry meeting; and there was juSt the number seated around the table tol con centrate the talk and prevent the party frdm breaking up into knots. Herr Hermann, who was seated at the head of the table, had Skeptic placed at his right hand. This collocation, whieh was supposed to be accidental at the time, was designed by the conjuror. He had seen and noticed the incredulity of his guest, and was determined to make a convert of him, or at all evepts to show off his powers at his expense. The conversation turned 'Sport presti digitateurs and their various feats of legerdemain. Herr Hermann—who, having passed many years in America,- and being no stranger in England, spoke English with much fluency said, " I am well aware that all you sevens have an Idea how the best of our tricks are ac complished." "I should think so," from Skeptic. "But I fancy I could puzzle even you." "Oh, Indeed!" again from Skeptic. "Ay, sir, and even you," turning to Skeptic. "By all mewls try it." " I shall; awl after dinner I will show you w few tricks, and will defy any one of you to have the remotest notion how they are done." " Bravo !" from all the company except Skeptic, who laughed and helped him• self to wine, and congratulated himself on being so much cleverer than the conjurer. The(tricks played by Hermann are thus described: Presently Herr Hermann rings the bell and tells the man-servant, who an swers it, to fetch some cards. The man retired, and came back with two packs of cards, in secured cases, and placed them on the table. "Take one of these packs," said our host addressing him self to the Skeptic; "open the cover, and see If all the cards are right." "No preparation?" demlnded Skeptic. "No, I assure you. NVl.at I am about to show you now I could do with any cards." " Of course," ejaculated Skeptic sneer ingly, and began to tear the cover from the pack. Speptic looked at the cards, and we all looked ut the conjurer.— When Skeptic pronounced the cards "all correct." Herr Hermann took them In hls hands, and flinging them down on the table with their faces uper most, said, "There are eight of you. When I leave the room and the door is shut on me, let each person draw a card from the pack, return it and shuffle the cards." lie left the room, bidding us to recall him when we were ready. Each man took a card and put It back. Then we all had a shuffle at the pack, expect• ing Skeptic, who thought he knew all about the trick, and the conjurer was brought back in due time. He took the cards iu his hands.— "There are eight of you," he said. "Each one has drawn a card and re placed it; and the eight cards, if you have well shuffled them, should be persed thrMigh the pack. No eyecould see into this room when tire door was shut. Even knowing the cards—were that possible—would leave the seeming impossibility of bringing theeight cards together, you will all acknowledge that. Behold what art can do!" He gave the cards a sort of flourish, and placing the pack on his left palm, drew from the top the eight cards which we had drawn. He then turned to Skeptic, and with a good-natured smile Inquired whether he had any idea how that trick was done. Our "nildidmirari " friend laughed, and said nothing; but shortly afterward was heard to observe, " Curl, one, ain't it?" This trick gave rise to a good deal of talk and some disputa tion ; but there were no two opinions about it; it was allowed by all to ue the most complete and inexplicable feat of legerdemain ever witnessed. Trick No. 2 was even more astonish ing and incomprehensible. "You know," said Herr Hermann, address hg the whole party, after some discus sion had gone on about the slight-of ;hand performances, " I work by wit and not by witchcraft." "For wit read trick," interposed Skeptic. " But what," continued the conjuror, not heeding the interruption, "supposing I were to interpret your thoughts—to know what was passing through your minds?" "That, indeed, would be a trick above natural magic," I exclaimed. Skeptic tilled his glass and winked at his neigh bor, as who should say, " I know all about it." "We shall see," said Herr Hermann. " Now, each of you two gentlemen," he went on, speaking to his two right•hand guests, " think of a card ; I do not ask you to touch one ; " and, taking up the pack, he threw the cards front upwards on the table. The choice was quickly made. Mr. Hermann recovered the cards, shuf fled them and spread them out as before. "'The card," he said, "one of you thought of Is there; the card the other thought of is absent." The gentlemen searched. One of the cards selected was not to be seen—the other was found. '• So far so good," exclaimed Herr Her mann ; "but the trick is only half done." The conjurer took the cards again, shuf fled them as before, and exposed them as before, and exposed them on the table. "Now," he cried, "the illusion is reversed. The missing card reappears, and the card thought of that was present is not to be found. Search !" And stivh was the case. The cards had come and gone at the bidding of the magician,who seemed to exercise a mental rather than uphysicalinfluenceoverthem. Wonder wasexpressed in every countenance, and Skeptic, annoyed because he was foiled, drank off an additional bumper to qual ify him for elucidation. A moment's consideration of this trick mast satisfy everybody of its ex treme clevoEaess and incomprehensi bility. The only possible solution that oilers itself is in the supposition that the conjurer, by some process of his own, was enabled to follow the eyes of the gentlemen in their direction to the cards spread on the table, and to mark those they made choice of Knowing the cards, of course an expert practitioner would find no difficulty in manipulat ing;them as he pleased ; and getting rid of a card and returning it to the pack, contrived with whatever rapidity, is no extraordinary feat of legerdemain. As certaining to a certainty ethe cards upon which two persons have thrown a glance for the shortest possible space of time Is, it must be allowed, one of the mostremarkable and puzzling achieve ments of the conjurer's art, and may be termed its crowning feat. Ido not as hart that it was by this process Herr Hermann ascertained the cards his two guests thought of ; but if not this, I can conceive no other method by which he made them known to him, unless, in deed, it were veritable witchcraft Some ten or fifteen minutes had passed, and the conversation was about to lapse into generalities, when our host rose from his seat, and, taking from the table the cards, went to the other end of the room. "I want to ask your opinion of a trick which, no doubt, you have often' seen—your opinions as to how Ido It. Will you oblige me by ?taking a card ?" "Would you allow me to suggestthe unopened pack of cards?" inquired friend Skeptic, looking round him with an air of wisdom. "0, cer tainly," answered Herr Hermann, "open the untouched pack yourself, and then give It to me." Skeptic removed the envelope'from the new pack, and scrutinized the cards carefully. The eyes of the company, were now fixed on the pair, and no one spoke. Skeptic - having satisfied himself that the oarde had undergone "no preparation " handed them to. the conjurer. "Take a card," said the latter, It was done. "Now take the pack in your own hands, put the card back and ehuffie." Skeptic did as he was told, and smiled as he shuffled the cards in various ways. "It would be difficult, would It not," asked Herr ,Hermann, "to tell you the card you drew 7" " Rather:" ejaculated Skeptic. " What " if I were to do more, and make you draw again the same card?" " I should like to lay ten pounds to a halt crown of that." " Keep your money, my friend, I don't want to rob you; give me the cards," He took the cards from Skep tic, and shuffling them, said : This time when you draw the card do not,let (it c I,lixittatet $ ti /ittettigtteet VOLUME 69 anybody see it, nor say what it is until I ask you. I must do my tricks after my own fashion.. Draw!" He drew. "Now place the card on the table, back upward, and cover it with your hand, holding it tightly." Skeptic did as he was desired. "Now, sir, is not that card the one which you drew first?", " Certainly not!" ex claimed Skeptic, loudly • and triumph. antly. "Indeed!" crie,d Hermann, "there must be some mistake." "Of course there is," rejoined the guest, "but it was your mistake!" and he laughed with much glee. "Are you sure ?" "Positive." "Name the cards." " I drew the Queen of Spades first, and this under my hand Is the Nine of Die. monde." "Let me look at it." Skep tic took away his hand, turned the card, and beheld—the Queen of Spades. Au explosion of laughter at Skeptic's ex pense was followed by a volley of cheers for this wonderfully clever feat of slight of hand, if Indeed it was so, for I was utterly at a loss at the time—and am now, when I think of it—to account for the manner in which it was accom plished. Many other tricks were exhibited in the course of the evening, but these re lated above are decidedly the newest and best, although some of the others would have made a common conjuror's fcirtune. Several times Herr Hermann held out a deck of cards, and named be forehand the card any of us would draw, in spite of our efforts to foil him, and this without falling In any one instance. Of course, "passing a card " is one of the commonest tricks in card jugglery; but to " pass a card " and name it be forehand, and " pass " it on a company so " cunning of fence' and so wary as ours, was a very different matter. Better than "passing the card" with such magicaldexterity—which we know is achieved by rapidity uud neatness of fingering—was the trick with the pear, which indeed was as inconceivable as anything shown that evening. One of the party was asked by the• conjurer to take a pear from the table, and mark it, then to cut a slice fipm it, to eat the slice, and hand the pear \to Herr Hermann. This was done, and the pear given to the conlu4er, who, taking it in his hand, thremit up toward the ceiling, caught it as it fell, and returned it sound and whole to the.gentleman, who declared thatit was thesame pear he had marked, and from which he had cut the slice. The Niagara of the West The Oregon Statesman gives the fol lowing description of the neighborhood of the splendid Shoshonee Fails, Idaho : Snake river is tLe south fork of the Columbia, having the alternative name of Lewis river; The valley of the Snake Iles along an almost direct lino from the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, and in the early days it furnished the most practicable route overland to the Pacific. In its decent over the elavated plains of Idaho, about .100 miles from whence it takes its rise in the Rocky Mountains. Snake river forms the great Shoshonee Falls. The river here runs through a narrow, rocky gorge, which widens and terminates abruptly in pre cipitous cliffs, the summit of which is about one hundred feet above the level of the rapids, and so steep that the traveler can descend at only one point —au old Indian trail, its numerous windings making it about a mile in length. Following this trail slowly and carefully, the tourist will in due time find himself standing upon the bank of the river ou a level with the rapids and overlooking the falls. The width of the river at this point Las been variously estimated ; we thought it at least two hundred yards. The rapids here form a series of cas cades, ranging from thirty to sixty feet each in height, and just below them the river, In one unbroken mass, leaps two hundred and ten feet into the bottomless pit below. The course of the river at this point is almost due east and west; the contour of the falls is that of an irregular horse shoe, and their width, following the course of the water, is at least four hundred yards. Although the river is not quite as wide at this point as the Niagara river, the falls are higher and quite as beautiful. The most,com plete views of the falls, including the river above and below the rapids, cliffs and surrounding scenery, is obtained from Lookout Point. Lookout Point is a narrow cape of rocks projecting from the main bluff about three hundred yards lower down on the river than the fall, so narrow that two persons cannot walk abreast. Standing upon this point, we will en deavor to name the prominent places of interest. The first object which at tracts our attention is Eagle Rock, a perpendicular pillar of rock about one hundred feet in height, rising from the midst of the rapids fifty yards from the south bank of the river, and almost overhanging the main cataract. Upon the topmost peak of this rock an Ameri can eagle has built his eyrie, a fitting home for our national bird—long may he live to occupy his unique and ro mantic abode! Just above and about the centre of the cataract is Ballard Is land, a small rocky island covered with cedar and juniper trees. Several smaller islands to the right and left of the large one, or Ballard Island add to the beauty and picturesqueness of the scene. The Two Sentinels—two huge rocky pillars—are one on the north, the other on the south side, overlooking the falls, and reminding one of grim sentinels guarding their object. Lower down the river, and from a bigherstandpoint, one can obtain a fine panoramic view of the whole—the falls, the foaming rapids, Eagle Rock. the Two Sentinels, the huge pillars of perpetual spray arising from the bottom and near the centre of the cataract, but extendinges it rises to either side, and made beautiful by the many-colored rainbows which shed a halo of glory upon the whole scene. Still lower down the river is Prospect Gulch. Several gentlemen of the party, actuated by the spirit of adventure, de termined to atinmpt through the gulch to reach the river below the falls. 'ffiley lowered themselves fifty feet on the rope down the perpendicular sides of a rocky cliff: Reaching firm ground, they managed with but little difficulty to scramble down about five hundred feet to the banks of the river. Arriv ing there they found that their troubles had just begun ; they were six hundred yards from the falls, to reach which their path lay around and over some huge boulders of slippery rock, winding along the foot of the steep banks, and then through the foaming and boiling waters, the heavy swells of , which reminded them strikingly of the breakers on the sea-shore. Finally they reached a point ;bout thirty feet from the falls. Their.oourney here came to an abrupt termination by the shelving of the rocks into deep water. The wind struck this point with such violence that they feared to trust themselves in an erect posture. On their knees, they held with their liana to the overhang ing brush to prevent being blown into the river. We think that one cannot fully com prehend the immensity of the sheet of water and the sublimity of the scene, until he can gaze upward as we did. This point is the cave of the Winds. The Sboshonee Falls, as a whole, will Compare favorably with Niagara. Those of our party who have seen both places pronounce the former superior in many respects. In beauty and mildness of scenery, the Shoslionee cannot be Bur passed. Niagara excels in magnitude only. Self•liado Men. We do not wonder that great men have been born mechanics ; for those who have been brought up exclusively In drawing -rooms, intelligence is a game, a recreation ; for those who have held the sword or the helm, who have driven the plough or worked with the chisel, intelligence becomes a passion, a force, a oeau ty, a worship, and a love divine. It is from the stall, the shop, the work room, that the most powerful minds have issued. Maliere from the upholster's, Burns from the farmer's, Shakspeare from the hosier's shop, Rog seau from the wheelwright's. Long en gaged lam struggle 'with physical na ture, they all took refuge in the free domain of thought. Even an Inferior mind would soon become tempered to strength in these mechanical appren ticeships ; and if ever the spirit of re form, which has seized on the world, should extend to• the act creating citi zens, we doubt not that good sense will gain a victory over custom, and that one of the most important parts of every ed ucation will be henceforth the due ad mixture of the development of the mind and its action on nature. Baby Travelers, I.From the London Spectaterj English travelers on the Continent rarely or never take young children with them. French people do, Russians do, and so do Americans, though the latter seem to prefer boys and girls just out of the nursery. Germans, however, seem to be the great offenders, wealthy persons of thatnation thinking noshame to be accompanied by entire families, children, governesses, nurses, wet nurses, and till. What with one people and another, children are numerous enough on the great routes to form a distinct feature in tourist life, a class well worth studying, a race who supply to observers perhaps the most distinct and curious of all subjects of specula tion. They are, to begin with, so very separate and so very national. We would undertake in any hotel on the Conti nent to tell the nationality of any child by the arrangements made for his or her food, and by his or her relations to the servants. There is the American child, I first, whose position is the simplest and easiest conceivable. She, if above three years of age, is " a grown-up," paid for like any other guest, entitled to the same privileges, displaying the same entire independence of any kind of control, and evincing all the curious national contempt for servants of all gradea. An American child of four in a Swiss hotel is perfectly capable of ordering a petit verre after dinner, and if she did would get it without the slightest interference from mamma, or the governess, or indeed any.human being except possibly the waiter, who would speedily be brought to a due sense of his position and responsibili ties. Dining at Zurich, a few days since, the writer noticed a perfect speci men of the kind. She was a bri,ht eyed, fair-haired little thing, probably seven years old, but in appearance scarcely five, who marched into the room with the air of mingled curiosity and pomp so comical in sharp children, made way for her father, a grave man of fifty, but calmly ordered her mother to take another chair. Mamma had seated herself outside her husband, and Baby intended to sit between her and the governess. This arrangement ac complished, and a waiter who proffered a high chair summarily sent into dis grace, Baby unrolled her napkin, read the menu carefully, remarked that she likes sweets, and gravely went in for dinner. Of ten or twelve dishes that child tasted every one insisted on a separate glass of claret, and at last fixed the affections of her over-filled little person on some cheese cake. First she ate her own share. Then she sidled up to her governess, remarked in Amer-- can that she had not half enough, and, in French, that the lady opposite was clearly English, and, under cover of her chatter, quietly stole and bolted the poor woman's cheese cakes. Then she turned to her mother ; but her mother had passed the dish, and we thought she was at the end of her resources.— Not a bit of it. In the shrillest and calmest of trebels she ordered the head waiter, then about fifty feet oft, " to bring papa some more cheese cakes,' clutched three, and putting one on the governess' plate—either out of a theory of restitution, as we hope, or an idea of making her au accomplice, as we fear —bolted the other two, and then mudg ed her mother for admiration. With insignificant variations of circumstance she was the typical American female child as so frequently encounted in Switzerland—the most Independent, self-helpful, greedy little imp alive. Male children from that continent, we are bound to say, are different, their main characteristics being a portentous ' gravity, and a certain slow but real po liteness wonderful to behold. Outside the table ( - 1' bate, the last remnant of self restraint seems to be thrown off; balco nies are turned into play-rooms, pas sages into race-courses till the entire building seems given over to shrill voiced, dyspeptic, high-spirited little imps, who in an hour or so attract to their sides a cosmopolitan assembly of all colors and ages, make them all as wicked as themselves, and, we are bound to add, rule them all with the most serene aplomb. Next to the American children, the German are the most prominent; but their prominence is not at dinner. There they are at work on the business of life, and are remarkable only from the half quizzical, half servile attention paid to them by their fathers, and their astound ing linguistic capacity. One of them, who sat opposite us a fortnight since— a meek, staid-looking, self-impressed little person with red hair—talked three languages with equal fluency, ordered her father's wine, dictated some extra ordinary combination of foostools and chairs which ultimately seated her-about six inches above the table, and was watched by her father, a widower ob viously, with a sort of admiring awe. Somehow she was like Pauline in Cur rer Bell's " Villette," and before she had been in the hotel three hours some especially In the child was recognized; everbody nodded or rather bowed to her—salutes which she returned with the gravest of inclinations—and the waiters watched her as if their places depended on her flat. We have an impression, quite without evidence, that her father was a man of considerable rank, but anyhow, in -twenty-four hours the child had made her presence distinctly felt throughout the.house, and so complete ly asserted her position that if she had ordered champagne for breakfast some one would have brought it without a glance to seek the father's consent. She, of course, was not typical, being in her way a Character, and, as we suspect, but do not know, aided by her father's place in the world; but it is true that, next to the Americans, the Germans seem to accord their children the most liberty, to treat them with the least reference to disparity of age. Both nations spend for their children, too, with a liberality which approaches extravagance; the Germans lugging about small armies of retainers, the Americans submit ting, on their behalf, to the most pre posterous claims. We met in Oberland one party of nine, for whom a careful mother had not only engaged nine, mules, but nine guides, all strictly charged to prevent the slightest attempt at rapid. motion. The French children are much less independent. French mothers also allow their children to join the table d' hot e, but they do not allow them such independence, on the contrary, restrain• lug them, if anything, more than Eng lish people do. On the other hand, they pay them Infinitely more attention. A Frenchman cares probably a great deal more about his dinner than au Engllsh• man, but he will interrupt it much more frequently to talk to a child, will mix its wine more carefully, will dis cuss with a waiter more at length the suitability of particular dishes. The American child seems to rule the family much more; but the French child ab sorbs it, and has, we suspect, much more influence upon its movements. It is very unusual, for example, for any but a French family to seat : servant at dinner; but they, if they hay.. children with them, do it constantly, e. at the little ones may be well and qu . looked after, and compelled rigidly to observe lee cony enanceB. A certain fore thought for the little people, a sense that they have rights, Is very percepti ble in their arrangements, the care sometimes, no doubt, degenerating into most injurious fondness. We saw a French father whose son, about five, had expressed a wish for water en route to Chur, pay a franc for a glass, then, as the train started, buy the glass itself, and then, when the little imp threw glass and water out of the window in a pet at the delay, take him on his knee and spend half an hour In vain attempts to bring him to a happier mood.. One could understand after that why free dom of bequest seems unnatural to Frenchmen. Sulkiness among French traveling children is, however, very rare. As a rule, they seem as happy as birds, and like birds they are every where at once, till they form a distinct feature in the prospect. Their momen tary importance pleases them, so does the variety of scene,and when not suffer ing torments from indigestion they generally contrive to fill the hotels with life, and movement, and happy if some what shrill laughter. Though not left independent, they are lel t with servants much more than English children are, and not always with the most beneficial result. They see too much of the great vice of French servants, their indiffer ence to truth. Approaching Paris from the South a little while since, the writer and his wife noticed a child, obviously of very good class, attended by two nursemaids, and a young seminarist, whose relation to the party was not easily intelligible. Arriving at the ticket eta LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 18 1868 tion, the superior bonne produced two tickets, and remarked audibly that she intended to carry the child through without paying for a third. The little lady was About seven ; bat the conduct: eur was informed, with all the gravity of a French woman when telling a de liberate lie, that she was under two.— "Under two! but—Mesdames." It was of no use, she was under two, and the conducteur turned to the theological student, still reading his breviary. "At least, Monsieur, you will not affirm a story so monstrous, so incredible." The seminarist half-raised his eye-lids, bow ed in a manner quite sacrosanct, and replied, "I know the - child, and she is under two." " Well," affirmed the conducteur, with some slight temper, "if you get that child through the barrier without a ticket, I'll eat her," and with a courteous bow disappeared. The women seemed frightened—having, we suspect, received the fare from their mistress—and we anticipated a scene; but we had underrated French ingenu ity. " Fan must play baby," said the nurse, and Fan was obviously delighted, In a minute or two she was stripped, clad in a nightgown or chemise of some sort, a handkerchief folded over her head, her hair combed back, and she herself transformed into a baby in long clothes. No human being could have detected ihe deception, unless he bad noticed that the nurse stooped with her weight. The little imp shut her eyes, and did ingcnue as if she had been bred to the stage, and a baby in arms she was successfully carried into Paris, the sem inarist leading the way through the wicket, book iu hand, and eyes on the floor. The women who played that trick, nevertheless, watched over that child as none but the best English ser vants would have done, would have thought of losing their own dinners to gratify any whims she might express at table. Does traveling benefit young chil dren? We cannot say, for we have never watched English children under the ordeal; but we suspect not. They are injuriously fed, keep late hours, and enjoy far too much excitement for their mental health. The constant change of scene Is a strain upon the mind for which they obtain little or no compen sation, and which accoOlats for the weary, half blase look ihey wear on their return. They be me querulous as the journey advances, the waiters' habit of non-resistance tempts them to new demands, and they end not infre quently by making themselves nuis ances to all around. The new faces be wilder them, the new scenes overfill their minds, and the new diet gives them a permanent dyspepsia. Change is as good for children as for grown-up people, but It should neither be rapid nor frequent, and for any English girl or boy under twelve we should depre cate Continental travel, and above all, ContinentAl life in hotels. Our American Girls The litheness in the American girls, though often beautiful, is too universal ; an eye from the old country begins to long for a rosy cheek. Lowell said that color was a thing of climate, and that I should find plenty of rosy cheeks amongst the mountains of Maine, where there is more moisture in the air. It may be so; I never got to the Maine mountains to see. But as far as my ob servation went, I never saw any either on mountain or valley in any part of New England. My private impression is, making all allowance for the influ• euce of dry air, that the peculiar pale; nese of the New England girls connects itself with too moth metaphysics, hot bread and pie. I have strong convic tions on this subject of pie. Not to speak of mere paleness, I don't see how the Americans can reconcile it with their notions of what is due to the laws of nature, to live to the age they do, con sidering the amount of pie they eat. I don't remember that I eversat down to a dinner in America, even in a poor man's house, without finding pie of some kind—often of several kinds—on the table, and without finding that everybody partook of it, down to the microscopic lady or gentleman whom we shall call the baby. Pie is indispen sable. Take anything away, but leave pie. Americans can stand the prohibi tion of all intoxicating drinks; but at tempt to prohibit pie, and you would plunge America into revolution in a day. Then metaphysics! In one family which I visited in the Connecticut Val ley, two of the girls were deep in the study of Algebra and metaphysics, as a voluntary exercise, and shut themselves up for three hours a day with Colenso, Sir William Hamilton, and Kent. This was, perhaps, exceptional, but the New England brain is very busy. It devel ops very soon and very fast, and begins at a very early age to exercise itself with theabstruseretudles. Parents and teachers frequently told me that their difficulty, with the girls especially, was not to get them urged on, but to get them held back. In one young ladies' seminary which I visited, they were held back with the following light stu dies, in addition to all the ordinary branches; Virgil and Horace, Latin prose composition, Anatomy and Hy giene Moral Philosophy, Mental Phil osophy and Quadratic Equations. To this add pie and hot bread, and what could you expect but paleness, even among the mountains of Maine! Paleness and pie notwithstanding, the American girls are very delightful. And in one point they fairly surpass the majority of English girls—they are all educated and well informed. It is a painful, but I fear a too incontrovertible fact, that most of the girls on this side are very ignorant on general subjects. I don't blame them ; I blame the sys tem of education. Some girls are fas• cinating whether they are educated or not, but to be left alone, as ono some times is, with a girl who knows noth• ing, in a room with no piano, is exceed ingly embarrassing—after the weather has been exhausted. There is never the same difficulty with American girls. The admirable educational sys tem of New England, covering the whole area of society, has given them education, whether they be poor or rich; has furnished them with a great deal of general information, and has quickened their desire for more. An American girl will talk to you about anything, and feel (or what has the same effect, seem to feel) interest in it. Their ten dency is perhaps to talk too much and to talk beyond their knowledge. With the cleverer (or as they would say them selves, the "smarter ") of them, It seemed to me sometimes to make no perceptable difference whether they knew anything of the oAls t, c.t they talk ed about or not. Mentioning this feature of American character to a • Boston gentleman, he said: "It is true, I was struck in Eng land with the silence of the people when they -had nothing to say. One time, traveling in the same carriage with a nobleman, I asked him his opin ion of the ballot. He replied, " I have not considered that subject yet.' You might travel all over America," said my friend, "and never hear a man say that." But the American girls gener ly know a little of everything, and their general intelligence and vivacity make them very delightful companions. I had an idea before going out that the New England ladles spent time over intellectual pursuits to the neglect of household duties. I did not find it so. Comparing class with class, they are quite as good housekeepers as I have seen anywhere. They had need be, for service at present Is in a very wretohed condition in America—so much so that middle-class families in the country often dispense with servants altogether. The young ladies can make bread as well as demonstrate proposition, and their mental philosophy, whatever it amounts to, never interferes with the perfection of the pies Samuel Johnson used to say that a man would rather that his wife should be able to cook a good dinner than read Greek. But he does not seem to have anticipated a time when a woman could learn to do both. —From Daniel Macrae's Notes on America. Coal fu Husain. The foreign scientific journals report that recently large and most important discov eries of coal have been made in Russia. The mines of one district alone are, according to the St. Petersburg journal Golds, capable of supplying annually 900,000 tons for one hundred and filly to two hundred years. Since 1804 there have been surveyed in the valley of the Don forty-four beds, the ag gregate quantity of which is estimated at more than eighteen billions of tons. The Golds asserts that the mineral wealth of Russia far exceeds that of England, and ac the same rate of production, would last for two centuries after the English mines had been exhausted. Veloclpeding by Moonllgbt The flat has gone forth. American ladies are to velocipede. It was all set tled a few evenings since, and. with great eclat this novel amusement was inaugurated in the metropolis by a grand moonlight velocipede race, got ten up and entirely conducted by a rev olutionary bevy of enterprising ladies. This brilliant affair, as might be imag ined, has electrified all upper belledom with an absolutely new sensation. It is said to have been the happy thought of a restless and bewitching demoiselle, but lately returned from Paris, whose passion for the hitherto unknown nov elty, in common with others of her charming sisterhood, has been contract ed In the classic shades of the Bois de Boulogne in the suite, and under the express tutelage of the Empress of the French. At all events, the initiative step, has indubitably been taken here in the city of Gotham by one of our American belles, and we all know what the result will be. Velocipedes are al ready the rage, and for the season, at least, among the fashionable denizens of our imitative metropolis threaten to supercede carriages. In this instance, however, fashion, (if for force only, has inaugurated a sensible and health ful exercise; and a lady can manage a velocipede in an ordinary walkingdress. When fully mounted, too, a pretty foot and ankle show to as great advantage as even at croquet. Not of course that they would give this accidental circum stance a thought. The manufacture of these articles has now commenced in great numbers and varieties iu thecity, and as is natural te Yankee article is infinitely superior to the French. At first glance one w cold fancy it a for midable undertaking to mount and at tempt to steer of these double-wheeled articles, but a little practice is said soon to remedy all such perturbation and awkwardness, and any lady having mastered the intricacies of the "sewing machine," "skate," or "German," need have no misgivings on the subject of her ultimately deft acquaintance with the mysteries of the velocipede. A striking improvement is said to be manifest in the arrangement of the American tiller or steering-handle, which is brought well back and is of sufficient height to force au erect position of chest upon the rider. The fault of nearly all the Parisian vehi cles is, that the position of the body grows to be tiresome after a short time, as this desideratum—a fully expanded chest and good separation of the limbs, is not ably borne in mind. Another point of difference, in which the Ameri can invention has the advantage, is the stirrup. These, again, in nearly all makes which have their single flat side, upon which the foot is set, kept in posi tion by a weight cast at the bottom, made three-sided, with circular flanges at both ends, which flanges turn upon crank-pins. Thus the ordinary pres sure of the foot always brings one of its three flat sides into the necessary posi tion. Another advantage of this pa tented stirrup is its roughened surfaces which keep the foot from slipping; which surfaces, moreover, are so arranged as to bring the ankle-joint into free play thus using the fore part of the foot as well, besides rendering the propulsion of the vehicle much easier, by relieving the knee of any excessive strain. In this latter style the saddle is springed, there by giving a very easy seat. Another objection met is the stirrup-cranks which are made moveable to as to ac commodate all sizes of figures and in clines of roads. 'the crowning miracle, however, of comfort and desirability is the brake, which issimply a hard block of wood firmly placed at the backs of the saddle, where it serves the double purpose, both of brake and by being properly shaped, of a comfortable rest or brace at the lower part of the back of the rider. The American vehicles are said to be much higher and infinitely more grace ful in design than the French. They are also much less costly. Those im ported from Fiance are all cast in one piece, and besides being without ade quate provision for the wear and tear of the article, either as a whole, or in the minutie of its parts are, comparatively speaking, excessively cumbersome in movement. One more of the American improvements is a tubular substitution of a solid frame. The bearings of this tubular description of vehicle are all of composition or gun-metal, and so con nected and matched that when worn out or broken they may be replaced in parts, like the machinery of sewing machines and fire arms. The hub of the back wheel is banded with compo sition or gun-metal, and the axle is a wonderful combination of simplicity, constituting in itself, by reason of its form, an oil-tube as well, on the re moval of the two end screws of which it may be filled with oil, which oil reaches the bearing as fast as necessary by means of the two or three fine feed holes, perforated for that purpose, in the axle.--N. Y. World. The Velocipede In From Le Courier des Etats•Uuis For some time the velocipede has at tracted public attention in Paris. It ;is to be met everywhere on our great thoroughfares, moving rapidly and skillfullythrough the crowd of carriages and foot-passengers, and accomplishing marvels of equilibrium under the guid ance of a skillful rider. This rapid and elegant vehicle of locomotion has gen erally two wheels. The three-wheeled ones, owing to this third point of sup port, have a larger and more comforta. ble set, and have also more stability, but they move much slower. The two wheeled velocipede—the classic vehicle, as one may say—excites the most aston ment. Pleasure-seekers and men of business, all stop to follow with curious eye this strange affair, which might be called .the democratic carriage, and which appears to solve the problem of cheap personal locomotion. In France, people receive every novelty by laughing at it, and after wards they begin to reflect. The ques tion of velocipedes, after having passed through the first of these periods, has entered on the second. This bold, odd carriage has already taken the right of a citizen among us. It has its special manufacturers, its professors, and its enthusiastic practitioners. It is even used for betting purposes. Velocipede racecourses, with prizes and crowns, have been instituted at Nesinet, and at the Hippodrome. Velocipedes i(abbre viated to veioces) run upon the turf like the horses of our sportsmen. If these courses have not been instituted for the physical amelioration of the human race, they have amusement and diver. sion for an object, which is something. Paris, however, has not the exclusive privilege of this new machine; it has invaded the provinces. There is not a city in our departments in which the velocipede may not be seen. In short, it is in possession of a veritable fashion, or world of its own. This may not be thought much at present, its only object being amusement; but as soon as certain improvements are made in it we shall see it enter upon a more important phase. This is not the first time the velocipede has made its appearance in France. In vented in 1808, it was attempted to nat uralize it in Paris. Public experiments were made with it in the Jardin du Luxembourg, but met with no success. It was mounted on very low wheels, and the rider had to support himself by placing his feet directly on the ground. Such a mechanism was rudimentary, and failed completely, and it is only lu caricatures, those archives of ridicule in our country, that we can find any traces of the experiments made in the garden I of the Luxembourg in 1808. Forgotten for more than twenty years, the velocipede reappeared in 1830. At this time a public functionary, M. Dreuze, perfected the machine of 1808. He secured the rider's point of support the axletree of the two wheels instead of the ground, and created thus the actual velocipede. M. Dreuze, who belonged to the administration of post offices, formed the excellent idea of proposing this machine for the use of rural post men, to whom, he argued, it would be of great avail in the matter of speed and promptness, and at the same time caus ing them much less fatigue. M. Dreuze's plan was adopted; but unfortunately, at this time winter set in and velocipede locomotion presented some difficulties; the wheels slipped about oa the hard snow without ad vancing. One would have said that it was only•necessary to iron the wheels, or suspend the use of the velocipede during the winter. Government found it the easiest way to suspend their use entirely. The same vehicle appeared some years after, under another form—a little carriage upon three wheels and pro• gelled by the hands of the rider. This machine did not succeed on account of of the difficulty in guiding it, and the fatigue it caused the guider. It is in fact well known that the muscfes of the legs can be exercised much longer than those of the arms. In all good . - veloci pedes the action of the arms -is merely complimentry to that of the legs. We describe in our " Armee Seientift que " for ISGO a machine called the drofrope, invented by an old naval offi cer, M. halicie—a machine that seemed to be a first step, in a practical way, in the construction of these vehicles. Weights attached to the wheels light ened the muscular movements of the rider. The solution of the problem was satisfactory, and it is to be regretted that little attention was paid to this machine. A few improvements would have sufficed to render it of certain utility. We have helped resurrect the veloci pede of two wheels, with the point of support on the wheels, and propelled by the arms of the rider. The indications are that this time the movement is in earnest, and will lead to important re sults." One cannot doubt this iu view of the interest which this attempt excites, and of the continually increasing num ber of its proselytes. We should be careful, however, not to over estimate the real merits of the velocipede, nor cry victory before vic tory is reabhed. Such as •it is, this vehicle can be of great use to private in dividuals for rapid travelling, upon good roads; but this, at present, Is the only way in which it can be of use. Some think it may be made available for postmen and therunners of telegraph offices in the coautry. The idea is an excellent one, but if they consider the bad condition of our country roads during bad seasons of the year, they will agree with us that before this use of the velocipede can be made practicable it will be ne cessary to make such improvements in it as will allow of its travelling through all seasons and upon all roads. To place the velocipede, as now constructed, at the disposal of our country postmen and telegraph runners, would be a very un fortunate movement, as it would .only result, as In 1830, in replunging this power into the limbo of forgetfulness. Poo great haste often destroys the best projects. Let us, then, perfect this ma chine before speculating upon its use. Let us not gather the fruit while it is yet green, that we not be obliged to throw it away after having tasted it. Does It Hurt Bugs to Stick Pins 10 Then'? The American Entomologist, speak ing of sticking pins through living in sects and the inhumanity of it, makes the following statement, which leas the saying is, "strange if true," but in fact is, perhaps, more strange than true. The Entoniologist says: "In reality, however, it is the confinement, and not the wound made by the pin, that the insect objects to. You may take any night flying moth and silly transfix it with a pin to the object on which it is sitting in the day-time. It will neither flutter nor struggle. Now watch it as evening approaches, It begins to struggle most violently, and most per sons would believe it to be in extreme agony. The truth of the matter, how ever, is,that it now wants to be flying abroad, and is fluttering to get free from the pin. If it is the pin that is hurting it, why did it not flutter by daylight when the pin was first stuck into its body? The British entomologist, Ste phens, tells a story of a dragon-fly that lie once caught, which, upon his directing its tail to its mouth by way of experiment, actually bit off and ate four joints of its abdomen, and then, having accidentally escaped from him, flew away as briskly as ever." This may be true enough as a fact, but how did Mr. Stephens know what agony the tall, if not the head, of the dragon-fly suffered? Perhaps, however, the pleasure that the head experienced in eating the tail just balanced the pain that the tail felt in being eaten, which is fully in accordance, with Mr. I3abbage'a theory of the " divine average" of pleasure and pain in the universe, which he so ably held in the •' Bridgewater Treatises." The pain that the chicken feels in hav ing its neck twisted is not so great as the pleasurb that a man has in eating the chicken, ani thereby the " moral government" of the universe isjustified, and nature feels encouraged to go to work again with renewed confidence that she is not misunderstood. Busloess Properly speaking, man lives to work; he does not work to live. lie is him self better than his vocation; and if he lets the care of that wholly occupy and exhaust him, he sacrifices the greater to the less, and makes the things which should have been for his wealth become unto him an occasion of falling. Take the lowest ground, and suppose that a man toils beyond the limits of legiti mate endurance, in order to amass a for tune or raise the prospects of a family, what is the frequent results ? He units himself for the use and enjoy ment of that fortune, or deprives his family of that length of lifeor intercourse which is needed to protect and influence it. It is a great mistake to be busy over much. There are jaded slaves who come home with no reserve or love for, or even interest in, those who are dear to them. They are almost strangers in their own houses. They hardly speak to their own wives; they hardly see their own children. Business is busi ness, and has no right to encroach upon the claims of affection. He is worse than a slave who, not content with working when lie ought to work, robs his dependents of their share of himself, by spending his whole energy In labor, which leaves him none to bear his part in the burdens of home. No man is intended to be a mere income or wages pump. He must win bread, but he must win love too. He who gives himself no time to play with his chil dren injures them, as well as the man who neglects to work for their support. Edmund Barke's Idea of a Perfect Wife She is handsome, but it is not a beauty arising from features, from com• plexion or shape. She has all three in a high degree, but it is not by these she touches the heart—it is all that sweet ness of temper, benevolence, innocence and sensibility which a face can express, that forms her beauty. She has a face that just arouses your attentfpn at first sight; It grows upon you at every mo• ment, and you wonder it did not more than raise attention at first. Her eyes have a mild light, but they awe when she pleases, they command like a good man out of ollice, not by authority, but by virtue. Her stature is not tall; she is not made to be the admiration of every one, but the happiness of one. She has the firmness that does not ex elude delicacy—all of the softness that does not imply weakness. Her voice is soft, low music, not formed to rule in public assemblies, but those who can distinguish a company from a crowd; it has its advantage, you must come close to hear it. To describe her body, de• scribes her mind—one is the transcript of the other. Her understanding is not shown in the variety of matter it ex erts upon, but the goodness 'of the choice she makes. Her politeness flows rather from a natural disposition to oblige than any rules on that subject, and, therefore, never falls to strike those who understand good breeding and those who do not. First Lore. Ask a young lady what she thinks of "first love," and she will tell you that it Is the quintessence of all that is ecstatic compared with which any so called love that may come after It must be the sky-blueskimmed milk to clotted cream. Put the same to an enamored young gentleman of eighteen, and he will vow that It is the Cliquot cham pagne of human existence to which all subsequent emotions, dignified with the name of love are mere Jersey cider. But the nature of both sexes, In nine cases out of ten, can tell a different story. Boys and girls love is but a fain tshadow of the intense passion which often over comes and enthralls the middle-aged. The capacity for loving is not fully de veloped in the young miss who has just cast aside her doll, nor in the youth whose chin is but newly acquainted with the razor. The enthusiasm in these novices in the tender passion is generally evanescent. Of course there are exceptional cases, but as a general rule, love does not take firm root in the heart before the age of twenty-five. Professions of undying devotion from young men of nineteen and twenty are not to be trusted. The question which a lady who receives an offer of marriage should consider is not merely whether she lias won the affections of her ad mirer, but alsowhether, if won, ahe can keep them. To have and to hold are two, things. The Colorado Rirer The' Poufll Explotil!yr Expeditions— 1411g — r;e1;idlis7 Work We made ,familiar acquaintance with Prof. Powell's scientific exploring .party, from Illinois, while in. the Mid die Park. They were in camp there for some time, and made it the end of their summer and the beginning of their winter campaign. Theparty comprises a dozen or more enthusiastic young men, interested in one department or other of natural science, or eager for border experiences, mostly from Illi nois, and giving their time and labor to the expedition for the sake of the edu cation and the health. 'Prof. Powell, the originator and head, does more; the Government furnishes food, allowing it to be drawn from the supplies of the nearest post, and the Illinois Universi ty and Natural History society contrib ute small sums of money; but he draws upon his I rivate purse for all deficien cies, and these must be many thousands of dollars before he gets through. The summer has been spent among the higher mountains and in the parks, taking careful notes with barometer and thermometer, collecting flowers, and birds, and birds, and larger animals, and studying tile rare geological phe nonia of the country. The collection of birds is very full and valuable, and numbers over two hun dred different specimens. Prof. Powell, two or three of his assistants, and Mr. Byers, of the Denver _Neu's, who knows all these mountains better than any other man, probably, have just accom plished the ascent of Lung's Peak. This is the prominent northeastern mountain of the Coioradian series, is seen from the railroad, and is 14,000 feet high, and has heretofore defied all the efforts of explorers and mountaineers to reach its top. They had a terribly hard climb of it, but felt amply repaid in the glory of the fact, and more in the glory of the landscape spread before them at the summit. The plains and the unending eastern plains, with Den ver and the intervening settlements, the whole of Middle Park, and the surrounding and far-beyond mountains —all Colorado, as it were, and part of Dakota, lay beneath their eyes. Streams flowed out from the mountains In all directions, and no fewer than thirty nine lakes on that and the neighboring mountain sides, nearly all of and above the altitude of 10,000 feet, were visible from their commanding height. From here the explorers will follow down the Grand River, out of the park into western Colorado, and then strike across to the other and larger branch of the great Colorado River, the Green, and there encamp through the winter. After leaving the Grand, they will fol low down the White River branch of the Green to its mouth, and probably make that junction their winter quar ters. This is in the Territory of Utah. The great and final object of the expe dition is to explore the upper Colorado River and solve the mysteries of its three hundred-mile canon. They will probably undertake this next season, by boats and rafts, from their winter camp on the Green ; but they may post pone the advance still another year, and meantime discover and reveal the moun tains and plains of Western Colorado and eastern Utah, which are so little known. But the mocking ignorance and fast fascinating reports of the course and country of the Colorado ought to hasten them to this interest ing field. The maps from Washington, that put down only what is absolutely, scientifically known, leave a great blank space here of three hundred to live hundred miles long and one hun dred to two hundred miles broad. Is any other nation so ignorant of itself? All that we do know goes to show that, beginning with the union of the Grand and Green Rivers, the Colorado Is con fined for three hundred miles within perpendicular walls of rock averaging three thousand feet high, up which no one can climb, down which no one can safely go, and between which, in the river, rapids, and falls, and furious ed dies render passage frightful, certainly dangerous, possibly impossible. The general conviction of the border population is that whoever dares venture into this canon will never come out alive. But we have an authentic account this season of a man who made the trip last year, and lives to tell the tale. He and a companion, prospecting for gold in southwestern Colorado, and driven by Indians, took to the Grand River just before its union with Green, made a raft, and committed themselves to the waters. Foam-rapids and a whirlpool swept the companion and all the pro• visions of!, and they were lost, and White, the surviving hero's name, pass ed seven days more, a second seven days, without food upon these strauge waters, between frowning walls, over danger ous rapids, through delaying eddies, before he reached Callville, in Arizona, the first settlement and the head of navigation on the river. His entire journey upon the river must have ex ceeded five hundred miles, and he represents that for most of the distance it was through these traditional high walls, impassable as a for tress, a dungeon over a cataract.— ..Nearly all of the rivers of the Colorado and Utah run for brief distances, from one to twenty-five miles, through these gorges of rocks, or they " canon," as, by making a verb out of the Spanish noun, the people of the country described the streams as performing the feat of such rocky passages, where their banks are unapproachable, and trails or roads are sent over or around; but this rock guarded career of the great river of the interior basin world, and oue of its most ' wonderful marvels. Its passage in well protected boats by careful navigators can scarcely be deemed impracticable, however dangerous, and the country willawait the Powell movementthrough it with eager interest. The whole field of observation and inquiry which Professor Powell has un• dertaken is more Interesting and im• portant than any which lies before our men of science. The wonder is that they have neglected it so long. Here are seen the central forces that formed the continent; here more striking studies In physical geography, geology, and natural history than are proffered anywhere else. New knowledge and wide honors await those who catalogue and define them. I can but think the inquiry, vast and important as it Is, Is fortunate 1n its inquirers. Professor Powell is well educated, au enthusiast, resolute, a gallant leader, as his other title of major and an absent arm, won and lost in the war, testify ; seemingly well endowed physically and mentally for the arduous work of both body and brains that he has undertaken. He is every way the soul, as he Is the purse, of the expedition ; he leads the way In all danger and difficulty, and his wife, a true helpmeet, and the only woman with the party, is the first to follow. Giants or Olden Times In one of his recent lectures, Profes sor ;8111iman the younger, alluded to the discovery of the skeleton of an enor mous lizard, of eighty feet. From this the Professor inferred, as no living specimen of such magnitude has been found, that the species which it repre sents has become degenerated. The verity of his position he endeavored to enforce by tin allusion to the well known existence of giants in olden times. The following is the list on which this sin gular hypothesis is based : The giant exhibited at. Rouen in IMO, the Professor says measured nearly eighteen feet. tioradius saw a girl that was ten feet high. The giant Culebra, brought from Ara bia to Rome under Claudius Camr,was ten feet high. Fannum, who lived in the time of Eugene 11., measured eleven ana shalt feet. The Chevalier Scmg, in his voyage to the Peak of Teneriffe, found in one of his caverns of that mountain, the head of Gunich, who had sixty teeth and was not less than fifteen feet high. The giant Ferregus, slain by Orlando, nephew of Charlemagne; was twenty eight feet high. In 1814, near St. German, was found the tomb of the giant Isorant, who was not less than thirty feet high. In 1580, near Rouen, was found a skeleton whose skull held a bushel of corn, and who was nineteen feet high. The giant Bacart was twentytwo feet high; his thlgh•bones wore found in 1704, near the river Moderl. Ih 1823, near the castle la Dauphine, a tomb was found thirty feet long, six- NUMBER 46 teen wide and eight high, on which was out In gray stone these words, " Kin to lochus Rex." The skeleton was found entire, twentyflve and a quarter feet long, ten feet across the shoulders, and five feet from the breast bone to the back. Near Palermo, in Sicily, in 1516, was found the skeleton of a giant thirty feet high, and in 1550, another thirty-four feet long. Near Mazrine, in Sicily, in 1515, was found the skeleton of a giant thirty feet high ; the head was the size of a hogs head, and each of his teeth weighed five ounces. We have no doubts that there were "giants in those days," and the past was perhaps snore prolific in producing them than the present. But the history of giants during the olden time was not more remarkable than that of dwarfs, several of whom were even smaller than the Thumbs and Nutts of our own time. A Countess, Knowing her Rights, Main MERE We have already noted the curious performance of the lady in England who claims to be the Countess of Der wentwater, and has taken possession of Dilaton Castle. The last mail brings the second chapter of the story : "On Thursday, Oetober I, Mr. C. G. Grey, the receiver to the Greenwich Hospital estates, proceeded to the castle and urged the 'Countess' to quit, which she obstinately refused to do. The room which she had selected had been deco rated with pictures, and a tarpaulin tent had been erected to protect the 'Colin tees' from the weather. Mr Grey's orders from the Admiralty were, hew ever, premptory, and the men under his orders at once proceeded to demol ish these preparations. The eccentric claimant thereupon took up a sword and 'showed fight,' but was speedily disarmed. She then sat herself down one chair, and, refusing to leave vol untarily, was carried out, the chair and all, by four men, in a manlier strongly suggestive of the fifth of November. Mr. Grey had kindly sent round his carriage, with the intention of piaci tig it at the disposal of the ' Countess,' an d had even offered her the use of his own house for rest and refreshment. "Her ladyship, howeVer, declined to accept any hospitality at the hands of her aggressor, and determined to en camp on the highway, where she re mained during Thursday night, shelter ed only by a piece of tarpaulin and a military cloak, the goods that she had placed close by, and watched over by her servants. Provisions have since been supplied to her from several houses In the neighborhood, and many friends from Blaydon have visited her, and endeavored to persuade her to re linquish her project, without suc cess. The police have been etinal ly unfortunate in their represen tations that the placiLg of an encamp ment on a public highway was a nui sance. The Countess' readily admitted the fact, but referred the officers to Mr. Grey for a remedy. She had deeds In her possesion, she said, which unmis takably proved her right to be mistress Of Dilstou Castle, and it was her inc presslon that she must either be return ed to the Castle or sent us a state pris oner to the Tower of London; under these circumstances she must decline to submit to any dealings with the police. On Friday night Sly again slept in the open air, and on Saturday morning, as far as the "obstruction" was concerned she still remained mistress of the situ ation." Governor }Dotal:doer's Message to the Legislature—A Defeated Had en I Arm ing. the Negroes to Contest the Election —Great Excitement and Alarm. NASHVILLF; Nov. 10.—Governor Brown low's message was read in the Senate to day. After congratulating the country upon the election of Grant and Colfax, and the bountfful harvests which have rewarded the husbandmen, he recommends the nate of six railroads now in the hands of the receivers appointed by him, on behalf cf the State, the proceeds to be applied to the re duction of the State debt. Ile also recom mends that no further aid be given to rail roads, except to three which he mentions, in which the State has large interests, which it would lose If aid should be denied them. He recommends that measures should he adopted to wind up the Bank of Tennessee forthwith. In regard to the extension (tithe franehls , be suggests that there should be discrimi nation exercised concerning those who were in rebellion. They are not alike culpable for the past, nor untrustworthy for the fu tore. There are those who were involuntw rily driven Into the service of the rebellion, and who, since its utter fitilure, have given evidence that they accept the reanit ut geed faith ; that they are good citizens, quiet and law abiding. These have strictly observed their parole that they will not use political power to proscribe and degrade those whom war has emancipated and invested with the rights of citizens. For dinfranchiset persons of that desert pt ton the franchise might safely, therefore wisely, be extended, but the extension must, however be applied with suitable guards and checks, so that ad vantage could not be taken of its liberality to injure or harm the State. 'rho other class, who still remain hostile to the government, he thinks, should remain disfranchised for au indefinite period. lie also recommends the increase of the salaries of the governor and Judiciary, and makes sundry recom mendations relative to the Insane iinspital, etc. MEMPHIS, Nov. 10.—A dispatch was re ceived by lien. Granger, lust night, I rem It. P. Price, Commissioner of ite g istrw too et Mason's Depot, Tipton county, stating that the greatest excitement existed there i u Con sequence of a report that Gen. Smith, the defeated candidate for Congress, Was coin ing there with a large body of armed ne groes to take depositions fur the purpose of contesting the election of Leftwich, and asking for troops to preserve order. • This morning n dispatch was received from Sheriff Slaughter, stating thut nbout ono thousand armed negroes, principally from Fayette County, hod arrived there. The greatest apprehension was felt for the safety of the whites, and many women and children had left on the train, in cons, nuence, since noon. It is impossible to communicate by telegraph with that point, and it is believed the operator hits Peen driven away. General Granger dispatched fifty men of the Twenty-fifth infantry, under three offi cers, by a special train to-night, for the purpose of presovlng order, Return of Admiral Farrammt It was stated the other day that the frigate Franklin, the nag-ship of the I tided States European Squadron, with Admiral David Farragut and family on hoard, arrived at New York on Monday. The Tonr.itsays: The voyage was made in sixteen days, starting from Southampton, and was unin terrnpted by any special event. Nearly all on board enjoyed excellent health through out the trip. Considering the extent 01 the cruise of the Franklin, the attention which has been bestowed on her officers by many of the powers in Europe, and the significance which has been attached to it, the voyage ranks as the most remarkable in American naval annals. The Franklin was fitted out at the Brooklyn navy yard in the spring of 1887, and called during the following sum mer. On arriving in England Admiral Farragut and several of his officers were officially presented to the queen. Solis, tmently he proceeded to France, and woo entertained at u public dinner by his coun trymen resident at Paris, besides being re ceived by the Etuper r or at a epecial levee. Similar honors were also extended to him by the sovereigns of Etniniu, Turkey, Italy, Austria, Greece and in other places adjacent to the Mediterranean, The Sultan of Turkey recognized him as the equal of European Princes by allowing hint to enter the Bos phorus by the Durdanelles—it privilege which has heretofore been denied to Ameri can war vessels and their commanders. At COnstautinsple he was feted by the Prime Minister and the American Artilec.sador, and he wait also welcomed by the Russian neat and the Emperor with great ostenta tion. • The Franklin Is screw frigate, firmerate, carrying thirty-nine guns and nitent men. Annexed Is u partial leo. of Ir•r otll cere: Commodore Pennock remained with the squadron transierlng his flag to the 'newt deroga, and will command the fleet until the arrival In Europe of Iteml ddwlrnl David D. Phrter. Fleet Surgeon D. M. Foltz. who has his family in Europe, at hie own desire also stays out with the equudron until the termination of lie cruise. The Solar Eclipse Next Slimmer On the 7th of August next it total ecl ipse of the tom will be visible in a port of the United States. 'rho eclipse will be partial throughent the Union, but total in lowa, Central Illinois, Southern Indiana, Ken tucky and North Carolina,—following a line front northwest, to southeast, begining In lowa between four mid Live I'. M,, Rost ending on the North Carolina coast a low minutes past six. The rum will be nearly at its greatest distance front the earth and the moon at Its least, en Stettin, obscuration will last a longer time titan usual. There have been only two total eclipses visible in any large part of the United States during the present century—those of 1806 and 18,34. Several annular eclipses have occurred, ono of the most romarkablo of which was that of 1838. BATE OF ADVJOBTIAIXOr: HEWN= ADVIRTDIXIMNTS, $l9 a year per qaare of ten lines; 16 per year for each ad - dttloneU square. REAL EZELTE ADVERTISING, 10 cents. a lino for the drat, and 5 cents for each subsequent In - aertton. (RN/MAL ADVERTISING 7 cents a Ilno for the th-n I. end 4 coats for each saluotiuo'nt. In RCN SPECIAL NOTICJM tanned in Local Column 15 coals por line. • SPECIAL Norm= preceding marrlegq and deaths, 10 cents per line for tlrst Insti acai and 5 cents for ever, eubsequent insertior. OAL ANDOTHRn NOTICES— Executors' ...slices—. Adminlstratora• Assignees ..... Auditors' notices —..- - Other "Notices,"ten lines, or lees, three times 1.5 U Strik Ina - Southern View of the Pt•ei,Ulen- =MIDM • The Richmond Whig of Tti• sdayl has it lengthy article on the result of the Pre,i dential election, in which, while it denies it to be a free and unit wed expression. of the popular will, and declares that it lino no feeling on the subject, proceeds us follow,: They, (the North) whether they know it or not, have a Muster as well as we, (tor h me is that he will be mild and werviroi to Its poor tni•erable Mutters. All the huh. ss know of him, or imagine we know, i , th— rived (rout newspapers and currant and is scarcely sußletent to Juatity un s p in ion that is worth anything. '.l e Cnuuoi ,•- s.?rt that he will cut the ltndirele, or give ii fresh turn to the screw with which they tom torturing the South, We know not whethet• he will be a blood). Nero, or a mild aid benignant Augustus; whether he Wilt Ins' deep Auld broad the foundations of u lame etupire, or restore this lust rigb:s of the States, and re-establish Constitution in Its origi n al vigor :old lcirity. There are some inVorntilo t,cnc.s flmis—our ignorance does not enable it, ti. use a stronger Word—there are indict. I eat, which may excuse this wronged and op pressed for indulging hope. It he de, .1, %totem! Butler says, indifferent to liiiiiido suffering. he Itas never manifested, by a : or word, so fur as we tiro an are, any lire in torturing but s litmus. He has it ll the indulgeueis ling 1101010 oily to otlterN, who morn loudly vaunt th e ir humanity. lie ailed with manly heroism mantling that parole of Cm. told other Confeilertite °dicers should be ri - liglice•ly respected. hits contillet on licit oecasi , lit iiidniceS the holler thins, when in po.ilion to control illy [natter. tic wall nri-I iliat the spirit and intent sir that !aired. shall licit Isis ceuliucd Its the hot shall be extended to all thm peoptis sit the Confederate SUites. No 111:111 known h.•lTcr than he doss that liVileldt Lcu wuulit 11. r have surrendered his MS, aril It . it hut Is 1111lierSUNKI thet the people whom he repo. seated were to tie subjected to Ail 1..01 domination. General 14 rout's letter d..• Mantling a surrender eXt.I titles the possi I ty it auah an interpretation. That letter, Wo second to I lenerld Lye, says: "tt'ettcr,t(--Your note of htMl ertmhl:t, reply to thine of KIIIIIOIIIIIe, caking condi tions on which I trill lleCopt the Hurn•nder or the Artily of Northern Virginia. ht itt , t ret•ViVeli. In reply, I trout,' +ay that Iwo,• ht•ing toy great th sno, there Is hut one clot Winn) I would Insist upon—tunnel), that the won and ollltterg toirrentlered shall lei tlc-.lottlttled from t.iltlng up arittmagotrist the government of the United Stater 1111 pr ~it erly exchanged. I will meet you," II villct act:01,1111We ettlido (Ion" %vet, the terms of surrender. Het, I hey are: .kI•PoNIATTOX. Uouicr 11 April 11th, General—ln neconlune” with Iho sul stAni,, of lily letter to you of the Silt insl , I propose to receive the surrender of the Artily 01Northerb Virginia on the wli h -111g terms, to wit : Rolls Of till the :1110010 and wen to he itade in duplicate; one eery to be given to an officer to be designated by Ito, the other In be retainetr'by sitelt officer or officers los you they &Signeto. The ellicers to give their intitvidual,paroles not to take tip urine against the govern - matt all. trolled Staten until properly exchanged, and each company or ti,gimon tid conoliandor to sign a like parole for the oleo tit their commands. •''rhe arms, artillery and pithily property In be parked and stacked, and turned liver to the officers appointed by ino 10 receive It em. 'Phis will gal embrace the side-arias ofo the officers nor their private horses or baggage. This done, each officer and Mall wit be alit/Well le return to iris hullle, nut In be disturbed by United Stales antimony long Its they (observe their paroles, and the laws in lore() where they may reside. " S. Cl RANT, Lielltellitla-iioneral. " (kneral It. 1(7.. LEE." Wu are not left to conjecture why thoso liberal Corms were accorded. We urn not certain that General drawl himself bits nol nd milled that his object wan to ft , flloVoVel•ry inducement to a guerilla warfare " Il is friends have frequently confessed trait such was his motive, and we copied MI art Ich. last week from the Now York :Hum, mill, ollect, and el prensly conceding that it WI I , It wise stroke of policy us well as It gra to act of magnanimity. General (Irani kn 00,., that Meru never would havu been p.m,: that Southern num, with urine hr thl hands, never would have surrotalurial 111 , 111 on the condition that they were to exolciouo position with their mittvoa. Quibbles, be rained about a military capituintion e•lii - bracing political rights, Se. But h•nem Grant knows (befall intent and whole of that capitulation, and he knows it would never have been agreed to by the ides on the tempi ul Itauical reconstrme Wo appeal to his honor—which is more corned in the !natter Ihnn ourn Is. 11. , ti , stilied to our faithful observitoc. condition imposed ; he It lIONV in It 111.11.11 to exnrt a like compliance mi thoothersale. That. we do tint pervert the rneatong nI the capitulation, We auhloin the views .1 the French l'ourrler des I , :tant editor, being a foreigner and unhorsed be our dontentie Inationn, cony bo stipposed t., speak In the In:partial lout, if IVo give let aeourate a trail:dation can : "'Vire charge of inconsistency and moe! weakness is imputed to tieneral Cram, befell on his acceptance oven of 1110 l'ri,• dency at 011411111111 H Or HIP 10111114111.1111 party. \\lint, in fact, it, the act by which the or that. party it eMpel4llllly charactet izcti' The despotic laws 1,1 roomoitrootiiiii, whirl 11111104410 011 1110 vanquished a tyratitocttt yoke, which treat them us subjugated cm • W 1111•11, four yearn after the end ta tilt war, hold them still with foot upon thett necks, in contempt or the very treaty signet, at Appomattox Court I lease—witch treat, ititito.ed no other conditions to a frill toot ,attire reconciliation than the laying down arms by the Vanquished and tile disfstrstott of their forties. Now, the signer ttl Ili: treaty was 110 0111er thou tioneral (front and It is the violation or his own nand , the setting at nought of hie own secret I 4.n gagements, which Ire signs with 1/011111111141 ~ 11 acquiescing in the suppression ot rtglo conceded by him to the co-signers tti iit• treaty or paelfient ion." Celt. (]rant may have considered Ii heretofore it 151,5 only his duly Mallard il.c capitulation in its purely military Iteartint, as he did when he protected (lea, 1,..• against the loyal fury of Mr, Johnson; toot: his role Is enlarged, nod the whole subj. ct falls within his purview. We conceive there Is no want of rot.pect to (fen Grant In thus frankly 14.1q411,,11., our sense and that of all Con httlerittits as to time responsibility resting on him us a sot Bier and a gentleman, 11, this let:duff. Ile lion only to recur to the sweep log and comprehensive words of Ir., terms surrentler—"not to be disturbed United Stales authority"--not merely !Ito military, hut any authority rd the rioted States; and to recall the motives who. 11 prompted him, to know what honor, to s. .\ nothing of stinple justice, demands Ili ii hands. One crack of his whip would semi but tk howling to their kennels all tiat cot °f low degree. end give peace and prositt t ity to the country. •We have referred to Uenerul ()mare tea many before the congremeionalenntnillteo,o). I find our r.colleet lon cart eet. Has " I I..Jneve that with ouch terme ail the., arm lox would norrentler, and that we woo .1 I lien avoid bus..whaeldng and It contlnt,i ‘, of the war in n way that we could mule• v.. little progregn with. havAig no OrglitilZfol ot mire tome. L." Geo. Ctrastat aa papecela A number of 1118 Republican friend, headed by the Mayor, call, nn hon Washington, on Tuesday, end ollered 1., get up a " demonstration " for hint. Gel.. Grunt responded as follows: I am glad to Client you oil and to recei,.. your congratulations, but I hope you wi quire ale any further denimintratton. I live in thin city, and like to avoid dt•rnon !orations hero an elsewhere, and with in, consent there cannot ho any. lOMI/ I Wil‘ - ready to moot suet] gentlemen as may ce lit my office or !WINO ut ally time public display or detrionetration. 'I b.. would be muck more agreeable to me, an I hope it will be agreeable to you. I um not unmindful of tlul feeling inlind ed to be displayed by a public demoteora Mon, and you must take all lids I•II " granted." [Laughter.] Removal of Cho National Cnplial Ono ortlio edltoranr the Witalllngton lately traveling In the Weat, WI lien !ruin St. Louis LIA rOl/OWM : " People out here have a nettled Coll ii• lion that the sent of government will Ite re moved here or hereabouts within the next twenty paint. They nay that they will hate It, not to give Importance to any part len le oily Or locality, but as an emblem that the neat of elnplre Is In the Missilxxippl valley. 'Pilo capital, they bold, will route to Ilielo naturally and inevitahly In the emirs,. lir '1 few years. 'Pile East la not growing. the West Is gaining power In Uongrean through the rilfllllllloll or new Stales awl new congressional districts. V. het) all Ile-, vast prairies of the Hi-110,41am] are til led op with the population they are carat-do ta' supporting, the wealth and population od* the country will be no preponderant here that the Heat of government Will lita,,earlly graVILIIO to tile point where it will be in harmony with and au ( . 311.nont, or the nn tlonal heart. This is the 'Western id ea , an d It ix worth our while in Wilbhilllttlfil to pre pare to meet it by making our 'lily so cosy and agreeable no a pine., of residence ni I resort that members will he unwilling to let Ate it to seek quarters of doubtful health (Moons on the bunks of the muddy Wash ingi on, with her equable climate and favorable situation, has tirst class advantages for the permanent seat of government. The work now to be dOno is to bring the city up to the mark of equality with its advantages of position. But the subject is too prolific to be dealt with here.' Daring the last two mouthe,alore than twenty miles of new aidoW,afk *lre laid in Chicago. !!..W
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