PUBI.JSHfa> BVBBT WIEDiraSDAT BT KI. G. SMITH it 0«» H, G. A. J. Steihman TERMS—Two Dollars por annum, payable in nil cases in advance. THE LA.HCASTEE DArLT INTEL.I.IOEKOTE IS published every evening, Bunday excepted, at 85 per Annum In advance. OFFICE—SOUTHWEST OORNEB OF OE29TBE Square. Jtoektj. jonssi s IjEssow. Johnny, come hero and look at tho cat! Notice how nicely aho washes Kow rubbing this cheek, now rubbing that, Carefully putting each hair in Uh place, Johunv. you dear little, dirty elf. Don’t you feel a littlo ashamed of yourself? Her hands sho Lakes Johnny, lpok there J , . Carefully, dalntly, see her scrub! - . NnW she arranges her soft lllkenhalr, ‘ And her tall and her ears have an extra rub. She owns neithor looking-glass, towel, nor comb. , . Yet sue keeps herself neat, abroad and at home. Johuny, what do yon think of this? With that smile on your bright, little smutty face; , declare there Is not a spot I can kiss . Aud you kaow that your hair Is never in place. , , , No wonder your hands In your pockets go. You’re ashamed of them. Johnny! yon arc, you know ! . Playing with marbles down on your knees, Drubbing for angle worms uudcr the ground, Hiding the fences and c linhing the trees, You’re the dirtiest fellow anywnere round; You kno w you aro, Johnny; you uecd not look hurt! You know you delight to play in the dirt. O, Johnny! O, Johnny ! what shall I do. Jk a question that, puzzles me evening and morn, With a dear, loving. Jltjlo fellow like you, Who Is always dirty, and tumbled, and lorn, Johnny, if you don’t do hotter ihtn that, I bebeve I shad send yo-i to » bool to the cat! piMeltoncflUi?. Two Portrait*. A life ill spent. Who has not kuown one such in the course of their exist- ence; How easy is the earth-weary, disappointed, ever..seeking look to be detected in the face of one whose life has been ill spent? None who once caught a glimpse of Henri Hellicr could doubt that his past life had been one of wretched disappointment, and that his p.resent life was one of bitter retrospec tion of the past. At tho ago of thirty- three he sal in his apartments, in an obscure street in l’aria, without a friend in the world, or tiie means of making any. He was a portrait painter by pro fession, but without inlluenee ami with littlo ambition. At the early uge of fourteen ho hud been compelled to work for his and his mother's daily bread ; by perseverence lie, when sixteen, was enabled to give his mother what lie termed luxuries, but what people in better circumstances would have con- sidered but the hare necessities of lift— n comfortable bed ill a cozy room and sulllcient to eat—he was then as happy as possible, when, returning home one day to his dinner, lie found his mother dead. From that moment he ceased to care for himself; all ho undertook ho fuilod in; his employers all blamed him ; lie blamed fale, and thus lor sovenienn years ho existed, too indill’er eiit to do good or evil—fully persuaded that lie was one of God's unfortunates, and that to alter his destiny he should have locoiKjiier the world. He had always possessed ability for painting, and it was jusl after the death of his mother that lie took a fancy to it, and tho wish to paint a picture of her urged him to study ; the result was, at theend'of six months he produced a most perfect picture of his mother ; but as no one had ever seen her, his genius was unacknowledged, and once more he gave up in despair, and for years ne glected his art. He traveled from place to place, arriving at. each place without a cent. One thing he never ncgcleted, the cultivation of his mind. 11 e educated himself on every learnahle subject, and finally, having acquired all the know ledge possible, he dropped study, and without any settled purpose he went to fans, his birth-place. The gaiety fora time drove away hH mc-iancholy, and in one of his jojous moods he became' possessed of the idea to once more turn to hU art. Ileal once, with the very .small sum of money he had, hired two I .rooms —one he made a studio, of the other his hod-room. Not a picture was visible in either room, nor was there the slightest item to indicate tho artist about either room, except, apl/itoon the door with the words, “Henri Sellier, portrait painter,” engraved upon. it. P’or two weeks lie had been installed in his studio, waiting for what evidently was not going to come—a customer. In two weeks more Ins rent would be due, and it was this fact that he was medi tating over when the door opened and a lady, deeply veiled, timidly entered. Of course Henri rose instantly, but 100 astonished at the unexpected visit of a lady to be the first to speak. “ Will monsieur show me tho way to the studio of Monsieur Sellier?” “ Mailanu* in :it present in thatplace.” “Thru you, I [ircMinu*, urc Monsieur 1 Krllirr.” | “ Madame, I run.” _ i “Are you ;i good portrait painter?” ! “Yes,” quietly rejoined llenri.” i “ By whoso verdict pronounced such, | might I imiuire ?” i “Ahem! My own solely, Madame.”; “Could 1 nee a specimen of your: painting?” ! “ .1 have but.one portrait hero at pres- | out, huvlbg just arrived. I will show \ it to you; hut pray he seated,” • The lady looked first at the door, then [ at 1 lenri, and dually at the 'proffered ; chair, in which, after a moment’s hesi- | tation, aho oat. Henri placed a foot-i. stool before her—an action which sotuc- | what amused the lady and caused her j to laugh audibly, llenri, very much puzzled at her merriment, knew uot what to say. The tintli was he had never done tho slightest office lor any lady hut Ids mother, and her comfort was a foot-stool, llenri, forgetting the age and weakness of his mother, and never having been thrown in contact with any other woman, fancied, of course, that to one and all were l.hesame things necessary and agreeable. The pause that followed Ids action was most awkward and was likely to be a long one, had not the lady risen suddenly, apparently with the Intention of going. .“ Pardon, Madame, I would show you the picture.” “ At once, then, 1 am in lmstc.” In another moment llenri had pro* iluoeil from some remote corner of the room Ids mother's picture, and held it up to his visitor, who ruined her veil. “ 1 low beautiful!” “ Wonderfully beautiful!” exclaimed Henri. “ I see monsieur is a most enthusias tic admirer of himself, and not without .cause, for certainly the painting is very artistic/, the resemblance of tho portrait I cannot of course judge of. Who is It?” “ My mother.” my rude remark, monsieur, I well understand your admiration.” “ Worse and worse,” thought Henri, whoso exclamation had been caused by the more thau human beauty of the lady. To paint her picture would be moro pleasure than Henri had ever thought to experience in his life. “ I wish you to paint my picture as carefully as this is done. I will come to-morrow and sit as often ami long as necessary. I will pay you an}' sum you name to have as tine a picture as this, and I wish it at the end of two months. Will you do it? ” “ With a’ll the pleasure in the world, and to-morrow, ifagreeable, 1 will name for the first sitting.” “At what hour will you ho disen gaged?” inquired the lady, preparing “At any hour—l mean after one added Henri, remembering it would not do to confess Ills time all his own to a stranger. “ Then at two ? ” “ At two.” “(»ood morning, monsieur.” “Good morning, niadame.” . “Who and what is she? Evidently some one with plenty of money and nothing to do,” soliloquized Henri. What beauty ! For the first time I feel enthusiasm inmyart; wouUlto-morrow were here,” which to-morrow arrived in due course of time, and with it the lady. “ You see I am punctual, monsieur.” “ For which I thank you, madame.” “ Before we commence I think It but right to explain my coming to you alone, aud somewhatmysleiiously. lam Mile. Hassab, the daughter of Doctor Hussan, of whom, you may have heajd. We are the only two surviving members of our family, and whatl do is very difficult to conceal from my father. I wish to sur prise him .with a picture of myself on Ills birthday, which comes, strauge to say, on the same day as mine. If I went —pardon me, to any artist well known, some of my friends would be sure to And it out, aud uuless I surprise him, I would not care to give him the portrait. Now you know what I think was but right you should know, and if you are ready we will proceed.” “ Hqnrl was bewildered and charmed VOLUME 70 by the innocent manner in which she explained what to his mind was entirely unnecessary. How he wished he had. a dozen portraits of her to paint, and that she would sit for them all. The arrangements were soon made, and both were in their respective posi tions; the position was so new to both that for sometime they were both greatly embarrassed. Henri was a fine looking man and excessively fascinating in manner. Mile. Hassan was young and beautiful; and, naturally, both facts did not pass unnoticed by either of them. “May I talk?” inquired mademoi selle. “ To be sure, the more natural you are, the better the portrait will be.” “But Tam not naturally a chatter box.” “ You misunderstand me.” “ No, I but jest.” A long silence followed the permis sion to talk. “ Is not mademoiselle tired?” Henri inquired at the end of an hour. “Yes, very; won’t that do for to day?” , ~ “ Certainly, I can continue alone.” “ Tills is odd, but I will come early to-morrow, and stay ever so long. Good by.” “ Good-by.” Helene Hassan’s friends would doubt less have censured her for her conduct, but there would have been more harm in their censure than was dreamed of by Helene in her action. Henri was lost in admiration after her departure, when u knock roused him from his reverie. Turning, lie beheld a gentleman stand ing bat in haul; he was a man about fifty, possessed of a remarkably woman ly countenance, and Henri was struck with the idea that he had somewhere seen his face before. ’ “ Are you Monsieur .Sellier ?” “ Yes, monsieur.” “I wish to have my portrait painted. I wish you to devote all your care and attention to it. I intend it for a sur prise, and it is for that reason I come to you instead of going to some of the artists of the day. Let me see a speci men ?” Again was Henri’s mother produced, and again (lid it product) perfect satis faction. “ When shall I come ?” “ To-morrow at four.” “ 1 am a physician, and can spare but little lime. Hero is my card.” ] lenri took the card, bowed his visitor out, and then looked at the card in his hand. What was his amazement to read “ Durand Hassan, physician, Kue “ This is an adventure, and a perplex ing one. My life begins to be a little less monotonous. How i long to be rich. I should—well, make a fool of myself, I daresay.” The next day Mile. Hassan camecar lier than expected. “ J am going to remain two hours. Is that not nice? You can do a great deal in that time.” “Likewise yourself, mademoiselle.” “ How ?” “ You givo me pleasure, for it is a great pleasure to talk to you.” “Thank yon. You are the first one to make the discovery, except papa; hut then ho takes a pleasure even in looking at me.” “ You are very fond of each other?” “ Fond is too cold a word ; we are all theworld to each other.” “ What happiness.” “Greater than you can imagine.” A pause followed, ami then Helene abruptly asked : “Have you been an artist all your life?” “No.” “ Is it pleasant to he one?” t “ All things are alike to me.” “ You have a happy disposition?” “On the contrary, a most unhappy one.” “ [ am so sorry.” “ TJiank you.” “Do you paint many pictures?” “Youra will be the second I have painted in my life.” “And if it is good you shall come home with it wheu it is done, and papa will get you lots of people who want lots of portraits.” “You are very good.” “If I am it is an easy thing to bo when 1 am surrounded by so much goodness at lioine. Will you come?” “Your father would be displeased.” "At auythiug Ido ?” How absurd.” “Then I will come.” “And now I shall go, it is almost “What!” exclaimedllenri, “I knew 1 should tresspass on your time.” “This afternoon I confess you do.” “Pardon me for it, and you must promise to tell mo when I do so again.” “I will.” This time Heleile extended her baud when she left, much to IlSnri’s rap ture “What an angol she Is,” thought Henri. “ Poor artist, I wish I could help him to fame, lie is very handsome.” Scarcely had Helene entered her car riage when her father arrived, even be fore Henri could conceal all traceoi his work. $ “Monsieur is occufned in painting. Might I see the portrait ?” “ I dislike to refuse, but I have an ob jection to showing my work unfinish ed.” “As you wish. And now let’s to work, my time is precious.” “ Y’ou are in a very obscure part of Paris. Y’our talent will be unapprecia ted here.” “ I know it, but ” “ Cannot help It, The old story, an artist, and poor, of course.” “ Monsieur ” “There, don’t fiy into a passion. I was once muoli poorer than you are, until a friend took a fancy to and au intereet in me. He lived to seo me prosper, then died, leaving me his wealth. I have taken a fancy to you, and will assist you. I will bo the same 'friend to you, with theexception that I shall not die if I cau possibly avoid It. You shall come to my house when my portrait is finished, and I will Introduce you to some newspuper men, a few old fogies, and some famous but undeserv ing dabblers in the same profession you follow.” “ I shall bo most grateful.” “ First, are you worthy? I mean, are you educated aud single ?” “Both.” “ The first is essential, tho second is preferable, for nil artists, when poor, marry uncongenial, unappreciative wo men, and when they become rich —if they ever do with such wives—they see their mistake, seek to remedy it, and make matters worse. They fall in love with some they can’t marry, for the reason that they have married someone they can’t love.” “ Your arguments are odd. hut forci ble.” “Facts my friend, as you will notice as you rise.” At the end of the hour Monsieur llassan took his departure after conver- sation in which he had touched upon almost every subject to tost the quality of Henri’s mind and education. The result was he was delighted, and only wished he could at oiue assist him ; hut he must first see his pictiue. If he had no talent he would make something else of him. Henri feared to be sanguine, for had not everything fulled him, aud just at the moment of realization Weeks flew by, each day bringingliis two visitors, and each day did he lose a portion of his heart to Helene, and feel stronger friendship for her father — Books were sent to him, costly pictures decorated his wall and with each gift came the words, “do not try to guess the donor,” written on a card. Of course Henri felt convinced Monsieur Hassan was bis good angel, and knowing him to be somewhat eccentric, he refrained with great effort from mentioningthem to him. Finally came the day of the last sitting. Helene was charmed, aud was as exstatic over her picture ns a child over a doll. “Now, when will it come homo? To-day is Monday, and ou Friday is papa’s birthday—you are to come, too, remember.” “ It will be impossible for me to ac cept your kind invitation.” and the very cheeks of Helene became pale for an instant. “ I thought you cared to come.” “ I have promise to dine with a gen tleman on that day.” “ Oh! very well.” “ Would it please you moro were I to come ?” “Oh! yes, so much—and papa, too,” replied Helene with downcast eyes. " Then I shall be there,”; . “ I would like to—to- ” “What?” “ Pay you for the picture now.” “ I shall not name a price until I -see if it pleases.” “Really*.” “ Really.” “ It is such a good resemblance, papa will go wild over it. Suppose you come on Friday morning at ” “ One o’clock.” “ Just the time.” “ Now I shall go. I may stop in to morrow to see how it looks when it is dry.” “ I would prefer you did not.” “ You are frank.” “ Would I could be.” “Then on Friday. Good-bye;” and this time Helene extended both her hands. . __ At the usual hour Monsieur Hassan arrived. . T “Well, Henri, you are a genius, i find ; you are a true artist; you make a most pleasing portrait, aud yet you do not flatter,” observed monsieur, after the usual greeting. “ You think, then, I can successfully follow my art?” “ Beyond question.” “ I shall name my own price for this picture. Here it is, fifty pounds.” “ You are too generous.” “ Thatis a worldism, Henri. No more such nonsense.” “ Then thank you, gratefully, friend.” “All right, Henri. Now, don’t forget Friday. I have hosts of persons invited, the greatestof humanity you can imagine. Come early—until then, aurevoir.” It seemed centuries to Henri until Friday, but it did come at last, and be fore Henri could collect his many dif ferent thoughts he found himself, a picture under each arm. inquiring for Monsieur Sellier at his palatial mansion. “ He will be in in ten minutes, but mademoiselle is expecting a gentleman, probably you are he.” “ Yes, I am Monsieur Sellier.” “ Mademoiselle is in her father’s study, where I have orders to conduct you.” Helene met Henri at the door, and welcomed him most warmly. “ Come in quick, papa is out, and we will just have time to arrange my sur prise,” eagerly said Helene, leading the way into the study, and not hearing Henri instruct the servant to give Mou aeur Hassan a parcel he handed to him, when he returned. “ We are going to have so much com pany for dinner —the very thlug for the display of my picture. 1 was so fearful that you would not come.” “ You need not Jliave feared on (hat subject.” “ See, I procured this stand for the portrait, aud see how nicely it suits. Listen, I hear papa, aud now for such fun.” “ You naughty child, to hide here from me,” spokeMousieur Hassan, be fore he entered the room. “I want to surprise you. Here, papa, is my present to you.” “Your portrait —impossible!” Here Monsieur Hassan burst into a most un necessary (as Helene' thought,) fit of laughter, which ended in a exclamation of surprise when his eyes fell on Henri, “You here?” * “ Papa, that is the artist that painted my picture, Monsieur Bellier.” “ Helene you have, indeed, surprised me. Here is my present to you, aud there is the author.of it.” “Your picture, papa, and painted by—” “My young friend. Henri, whom I have invited iiere to dinner, and whom I am going to do all In my power to ad vance. Have I your approval ? ” “It is for that I asked him here, too, ,papa.” Then followed explanations between father aud daughter, during which time Henri busied himself in arranging both pictures side by side. “ You see, Monsieur Sellier, how much papa and I are to each other; we even think alike.” “ Not quite, if I am any judge, He lene.” “ Why, papa?” “ Because I like Henri very much.” “ Aud so do I.” “ No, you love him and he loves you.” “ Monsieur.” “Papa,” exclaimed Henri ami He lene together. “ Am 1 not right ?” Of course silence was the only answer Monsieur Hassan received or expected. “Henri,” continued he, “I will give you something to work for. Henri, if you prove all I expect and feel you will —she is yours: Am I free to give you, Helene?” “To Henri, yes.”, “This is no new idea of mine. I thought if I could find such a man as you, Henri, to love and protect HeieDe I should die happy. Y’ou have saved me much bother by already falling in love with each other, and I am not less happy than you both. I will leaveyou now for ten minutes, at the end of which time I shall expect you both down stairs.” It is useless to repeat what passed between Henri aud Helene in these ten minutes; it was the “old, old story,” told sincerely by both. Two years after, hereighteenth birth dry, Helene was married to lleuri. He was fast attaining fame—his wife ever by his side, assisting him more by her gentle devotion and timidly given ad vice, than If she had painted all his portraits for him. For years he contin ued his art, until at length his wife persuaded him that there were so many little portraitsof hisathome thatneeded his attention, that he relinquished his art and devoted the remainder of his life to his children, and never were they so happy as when he would tell them, as they grew up, the oft repeated story of the romance of his love. Uscfnl nints. Put a few live fish into wells, If angle worms Infest them. Toad are capital helpers in takingcare ofvine patches. New milch cows should be carded dally. They like It, and it pays. lUch milk is uot the best for calves, A butter cow is not a good slock cow. Insects do not infest very late sown peas as they do early ones. Stewed pumpkin as a poultice has been found of great value in reducing inflammatory rheumatism. The potato is a great übsorber of pot ash. Therefore wood ashes are a good manure for it. Experiments seem to prove that fence posts set up the reverse way from which they grow, will last much the longer. Calcined plaster is as good a fertilizer as the uucalcined, but it is usually wasted after its use in the arts. Some one says if salt is kept before a horse in the stable, he will not gnaw his manger. Trial will tell. Root crops, not grain, are the things for young orchards. They do uot steal so much tree food. Look out for morals as well as mus cles in hiring farm hands. They may ruin the boysby their vicious examples. Smoke from rags, dry wood or corn cobs is better Ilian from tobacco in pacifying bees to remove honey, etc. Carrots are recommended for horses to aid digestion, and tomatoes to cows to improve and increase the milk. Mangers should be low, and stables well ventilated and well lighted. Many horses are made blind by being kept in the dark. It is difficult to tell colic from bots in ahorse, but a tablespoonful of chloro form, in twice as much mucilage, is a good remedy for either. If the roots of trees are dipped into water just before planted, theearth that sticks to them will give immediate sup port to the small fibers. John Johnson says that farmers must give special attention to sheepand cattle keeping if they want to make grain growing more profitable. Nine-tenths of the diseases which happen to the hoofs and ankles of the horse are occasioned by standing on the dry plank floors of the Btable. Shoots will push on old and young trees just where the limbs are not wanted. Remember that the new ten der shoot will soon be a hard, woody branch. A slight rub will now remove it, but if left a year the knife must be used. Rub off these shoots when young and save cutting hereafter. Cultivation in the orchard has a two fold effect—it destroys the weeds, and leaves the surface in that light, mellow condition which enables it to answer the purposes of a mulch. Young orch ards, with crops between the rows, Bhould be cultivated with as much an eye to the trees as to the crops. LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING MAY 26 1869 The Sewers of New Torfc, Experience of a Wanderer (brootb: the s«nent of new Torh-rttetory of a Self- Hade Scavenger—-Daring Exploits— -31 ysterlons heene*— Kecovery ot Valua ble rroperiy—Horrors t'uaer the Streets, Etc. In the Nineteenth Ward, bordering on the East River, can be seen a very neat little two-story frame-house cover ing almost an entire square, surrounded by a beautiful garden, the occupant and owner of which, though a German, is what we call one of the self-made men of New Y'ork. and ranks among the wealthiest. Tnough a man of little or no education, it would make one’s blood run cold to listen to his daring exploits, and.the many adventures that he has passed through under the streets of our city. Some fifteen years ago he landed in this country a perfect stranger, and with but little money; this he had the pleasing satisfaction, if such we may call it, of being robbed of on his very fir3t night in the city at a German boarding house in Greenwich street. His vocation at home was that of a night-scavenger, and he was not long in procuring a situation in the same business in this city. For five years he fol lowed the same as an employee, which enabled him to save considerable money. DuriDg the time he had frequently found many valuables, and so persist ently were applications made to search for lost property that he conceived the idea of working the sewers of our streets in its search. He had also become quite accustomed to sewers, as he had fre quently been compelled to clean them out, and was as much at home in these narrow and filthy passage-ways as upon the streets. The leading contractors in the above business found him so valua ble and so daring an explorer that they were continually calling his services into requisition. There is hardly a sewer on the island in which he has not been ; and he seemed to take a great interest in watching the buildingof new sewers and drains. He knows their size, length, every turn and crook, their inlets aud outlets, and claims to have many haunts below the ground, where, by the force of water, valuables that are lost are sure to settle ere they can be carried out into the river. It will be remembered it was but a few weeks ago that a man was arrested in Hoboken with quite a number of valuable arti cles in a basket, and It was discovered that he had got them out of the sowers of New Y'ork. Now. many presumed that this was a new business, the like never having been heard of before, yet this is not so. There are quite a number mostly Germaus, who follow this same business; but they are very careful not to divulge tlie same, as it is said they are making an independent fortune. It is a regularly established business in Frauce and Germany, and in many places they pay so much for the proceeds of the sewers. It is said that there have been those who have tried to accustom themselves to the business, but who were unable in many instances to en dure tho unhealthy odor and poisonous gases. A I’ROFITAIILE TRIE The first trip ever taken by our in former along the sewers of the city was on Courtlandt street, in search of a pocketbook that had been lost in the sink of one of tho prominent hotels on thatstreet, and which contained $1,350 in money, ami drafts aud notes to the amount of $23,000. The sink had been searched, but all efforts to receive the lost property were fruitless ; it was evi dent that it had been washed out Into the main sewer, nnd the owner offered the whole amount of money in cash, should it be recovered. Her mann, for as such he was known among his associates, concluded to work tho street sewer that uight and see if it was possible to find the same. That night, accompanied by two others, he equipped himself in a full rubber suit, arevolver, a hook, a dark lantern, and a sieve shovel. Descending at the first open ing, which was about a block below the hotel, he set out on his journey on his hands and knees through the dismal passage-way. He had no sooner got well under way, the powerful light from the dark lantern affording him-plenty of light, when became face to face with one of the largest dock-rats that he had ever Been. Thepowerofthelightseemed to stagger the rat for a moment, when Hermann drew his pistol and shot him dead. He then resumed operations, and sifted after mud and fiilth as he went along. The first thing of note that he found was the body of a stll born, about three or four mouths old. On lifting it, it was so much decomposed that it fell apart. A little further, he picked up a silver watch, with a com mon cord tied to it, aud it had evidently been some time in the sewer. Keeping on, ho soon picked up two silver table spoons, one bearing the word "Nation al,” and, evidently belonging to the hotel of the same name, which is located on the same street; he also picked up part of ;an old silver urn. As he lifted the pieceof urn, he feltsomething heavy against it, which he at first imagined to be a piece of board ; but when taking it out, lo and behold ! it was the identical lost pocketbook. All was found safe within; but wet through and through. Being unable to turn in the sower, he was forced to back out; aud in a short time he was at the opening, and in a few moments found .himself safe on terra firma. Returning home, he dried the bills, notes, and papers; and the follow ing morning handed ovjr the book and contents to their owner, who fairly jumped willi joy at their recovery. When told how it had been recovered, lie could hardly believe it. The 51,350 was paid over to Hermann, receiving, besides, an order for a new suit of clothes from the proprietor of the hotel. A SECOND ADVENTURE. The most extended journey ever made by Hermann was through Veßey street sewer to Broadway, thence to Barclay, and down Barclay to the outlet at the river. On Vesey street he picked up numerous spoons of every description, especially iu the vicinity of tho Astor House, and tho case of a gold watch. He also found a broken bracelet, a dirk knife. and a pair of gold spectacles. On Broadway he found a neatcrosa branded dirk, and ou Barclay street picked up over $4O in money. Some two yeurs after the above journey he made another 1 tour over the same route, and found a ladies’ purse containing $lO7 in gold, also an old pocket book witheigbty • four cents in it. RECOVERING A WEDDING KINO In the spring of ISGlhe was called upon to recover a heavy gold wedding ring that hail been dropped down a sink by a lady, aud who seemed almost dis tracted over its loss. Money was no object if the ring could be recovered. Tlie sink was cleansed, but no ring could be found. The sewer was accordingly visited that uiglit, and after a diligent search of the passage-way leading from the dwelling to the main sewer the ring was found after nearly two hours’ hard work. He was made a present of two hundred dollars for his trouble, besides what was awarded his associates. OVER THREE HUNDRED DODXES FOUND IN THE SEWERS. During the ten years that Hermann followed the above life he states that, at times, he found over three hundred still-born infants in the various sewers of the city. As a general thing, be would bring them out at the opening at the river, and would receive a certain amount from the Coroners for such bod ies, while they would be a benefit to the Coroner financially for holding an in quest on the same. The press seldom took notice of such trifliDg cases. In fact, it was very rare that publicity was given to any of them. Chambers street, he states, was the greatest on record for finding still-born infants. He never visited it but he was sure to come across one or two, and sometimes as many as five or six. The only reason he accounts for there being so many on the above street was that there was located in that Street one of the most noted abortionists ever known in this country, and in whose house hundreds and hundreds of females have been operated on, and abortions produced. The sink was, of course, used to carry off and conceal that which would have once been a human being. The woman who then occupied the building, now resides in one of the most costly mansins on Fifth avenue, where she carries on the same business, but only caters for those of wealth, and who can pay her the highest prices for her services. • Any pleasant afternoon she can be seen riding out on Central Park in her carriage, and often accom panied by some delicate young woman who has been a victim to her hellish practice. A TRIP ACROSS THE CITY. One night Hermann determined to make a tour from river to river. He en tered one of the large Bewers on the North River side and came out at the month of Maiden Lane sewer; at one place he came in contact with hot steam from a boiler, but it being Sunday it did not amount to much, and he passed it with little or no trouble. During the journey he-found any quantity of things —spoons without number, a silver cup, two rings, a liquor-flask, a new pocket book, empty, a bundle of lawyer’s papers, a necklace, and auy number of pieces of coin. A STRANGE COMPANION While making a journey one morn ing through the Spring street sewer, he was startled by observing something of considerable size some distance ahead, and moving toward him. At first he could not make it oat; but getting his lantern to bear well on the object, dis covered that it was a live hen, who seemed perfectly at home, and was pick ing up whatever it could come across to eat. He managed to capture it, aud has the identical chicken now at his stables How it ever got into thesewer he canuot imagine, but it looked as if it had been there some time. We could enumerate many more interesting facts of bis life in the sewers, had we the space in our columns; but the above is enough to shew that it is no new business to explore the sewers of our city for a liv ing. Our informont is now worth over $500,000 in real estate alone, all made by digging through the filth of the sewers of New Y'ork.— New York Sunday Her* cury. The Salt Caverns ul Berchtesjaden It was not without reluctance that we turned from the crystal lake of Konigsee, and took leave of our fair oarswoman, who, with her father aud her betrothed, had rowed us between the steep banks and over the deep green limpid waters to the point where the wonderful echo responds with sevenfold voice to the boatman’s invocation, or peals its mimic thunder from rock to rock, till it is lost in the distance, as if to mock the solitary report which arouses its emulation. We could have lingered iong in the midst of the beautiful scenery that sur rounded us, but we were to be at the “Berg-werke,” about two hours distant, up a hilly road, by five, A lovely drive along the banks of the clear and spark ling Salza, surrounded with mountain scenery and overlooked by the jagged peak of “Watchman,” brought us to Berohtesgaden, a romantic little “bourg,” full of tho most enchanting detail in village architecture, looking doubly beautiful in the broad light and shade of an August afternoon. A slight halt here to water the horses gave us an opportunity of strolling through these quaint old streets, and observing the simple character of the inhabitants, who regarded us with respectful and unobtrusive curiosity, and seemed de lighted when we noticed their chlldreu or asked them our way. Our carriage overtook aud picked us up at the ex tremity of this peaoeful aud apparently industrial hamlet, and after a jolting drive of auother quarter of an hour, set us down at the hill-side close to the “Berg-werke.” The entrance to the adit had a some what gloomy and mysterious aspect, being of stone, and shaped like that of an Egyptian tomb. However, we made up our minds to do the caverns, and we banished all deterrent thoughts. We hastened, therefore, to apply lor the re quired permission, andhaviugobtained aud paid for the same a fine of forty-five kreuzers apiece, were ushered into the “ dressing-house,” tho lower chamber being for the toilet of the men aud the upper for that of the ladies. Hero we were nearly stripped, and provided, first, with a pair of loose white pantaloons; then with a short military tunic of thick material, for the mines are intensely cold ; next, with a blue cloth cap, likewise of military cut; the whole costume being by no means unbecoming, and suiting some of the party remftrkably well. There were no English besides ourselves, aud only two other ladies, both Germans. Thus attired, wo rejoined the gentle men, who in the meantime had been transmogrified utterly regardless of ap pearance, and looked so like a party of coal heavers that it was diflicut to recog nize our own party among the number wearing this grotesque disguise. We were now each provided with a lantern, indeed either to be held in the hand, or as occasion required, hooked on to the leather belt worn by each as the fasten ing of an outer precautionary garment of stout leather fixed to the waist behind, and alarmingly suggestive of the slides we were to descend. We now traversed the bright sunny road, and entered—a party of some twenty—the gloomy portal, the doors of which were closed upon those who remained without, and we found our selves iu a glacial atmosphere, forming a striking contrast to the sultry heat we had just quitted, and, save for the glimmer of our lanterns, iu outer dark ness and chattering of teeth. The scene was so suggestive of a visit to the infer nal regions, that it would be almost an impertinence to quote Virgil or Dante on the occasion. “Our “duca” prece ded us along a narrow gallery, or chan neled path, very cleanly cut in the tufa, i about two feet wide and six high ; large | veins of crystalized salt marbling the | Whole surface, and presenting a most ; beautiful appearance as the procession , of lanterns passed along, for they varied i in color as well as translucency—some ! being of a opal white, while others of fered every shade of orange, deepening to red, exciting tho admiration and often arresting the steps of the whole party. We proceeded at a rapid pace along many of these galleries, all precisely similar, and about four hundred yards iu length : but every now and then in tercepted by a door, through which we passed up several flights of narrow steps leaning from one tier to another. At length we arrived at an opening, through which we had no sooner passed than thero was an involuntary nnd simultaneous cry at the mysterious but beautiful vision which burst upon our sight. Before us was a low but spacious cav ern, almost entirely filled by a smooth lake of Balt water of the blackest hue. In the midst was the dark silhouette of a ferry being rowed towards us by a single boatman, and having on board a single light; but as the water dripped from his oars it received the glitter of some hundreds of lamps, placed at ex act intervals, forming a cordan round the water’s edge, and defining the boundaries of the lake ; and while they dimly lighted the strange scene, each starry point was reflected as a perpen dicularline of light in the still, deep waters of the pool. It was like euchantment, and a more startling and effective sight can scarcely be imagined. We were intbe*mysUc caves of Avernus, and here was Charon, master of the Styx and of our destinies ! There was a certain ghastliness in the episode, but we were not allowed time for reflection ; the ferry had touched the shore, our hour was come, and we were desired to embark on the phantom-ship that we might traverse this silent and mysterious lake. Our subterranean voyage, if brief, was passing strange, and all seemed glad to find themselves landed on the other side, beyond the jurisdiction of our mute and unearthly boatman, whose features we could uot even distinguish, and whose arm seemed made for the measured stroke which formed the occupation of his gloomy life. As soon as all had stepped on shore, we were conducted to the descending shafts, the most formidable portion of the whole process. With the aid of our lanterns, we were enabled to make out the machinery by which we were to reach the depths below: but I confess I was thoroughly puzzled as to how mat ters were to be conducted, when our guide, seating himself in a narrow, slop ing groove, just wide enough to admit him, threw his legs respectively over either side upon a stout polished wooden rail slightly raised above it. He then desired the ladies to place themselves similarly acalifourchon, tne first behind' him, and the rest behind each other, and to hold each other by the shoulder, replying to all queries that they had only to follow these simple directions and they would find all would be well. I should have preferred fa further ex planation, and could only wonder that, UDder the circumstances, some accident did not happen. In another minute the guide, and, I may add, the whole cortege of which he now formed part, stated off at a pace increasing ever second in rapidity ; and almost before any of us had recovered presence of mind to ex claim, we found ourselves gently landed at the lower extremity of the slope, about three hundred feet from our start ing point. The gentleman had descended by a similar slide beside ours, but each was provided with a thick glove or mitten of pig-skin, and thus had the command of his own position, while we were de pendent on the steadiness of each other. This descent brought us to an illumi nated cavern lined with glistening tufa, the crystal veins of which were of va rious shades of semi-transparent orange and crimson. Passing through this, we came to another shaft similar to the last, aud through this we passed as be fore, leaching the most spacious vault we had yet seen. It was situated in the lowest depth of the mountain. In a beautiful grotto at the end of a corridor issuing from this, tastefully arranged with stalactites, and ingeniously illu minated, our conductorshowed us some very beautiful and clever handiwork executed by himself, consisting of a large-sized medallion portrait of the ; royal owner of these saliferous, and, we might add, auriferous mines, encir cled by two branches of laurel meeting at the top, the whole carved iu a large thin block of the salt crystal, and illu minated from behind, while over it pours a continual stream of clear water. The water, however, is a strong brine, and is therefore incapable of injuring the work, the substance Deing already 60 thoroughly saturated with salt tbat ; it cannot take up auy more. This was a very interesting portion of the visit,’, and the artist well deserved the praise we unanimously accorded him. We now arrived attheentranceoftho horizontal shafts, where we found wooden horses saddled with leather cushions awaiting us. Each horse car ries eight riders astride, and at each cud the seat has a back-rail which keeps the whole party steady. These dumb chargers we proceeded to mount, belDg recommended to keep our knees and elbows as far as possible from either wall, pour cause. Scarcely were all placed, when, as if impelled by some sqfsernatural power, off we went, rush ing through the air at a frightful speed, the atmosphere rendered absolutely icy by the force of the wind we were encoun tering. At this pace we traveled through a series of narrow corridors, not less than twelve hundred yards in length, the momentum being increased by tbe angle at which the tram lines are con structed. There was something appalling In finding oneself so helplessly at the mercy of a machine, In that cold, dark vault, where nothing on earth could have stopped us had we desired it ever so much. Close behind, too, were the other carriages, fiyiug after us at a speed as mad as our own; and besides this, the deafening noise would have render ed almost any cry inaudible. It was, therefore, a moment of real relief when our runaway couveyaucee, arriving on level ground, emerged from the yawn ing mouth of the cavern, and swept us round the curveof tho tram-line to the terminus a few yards beyond it and into the outer air. Never, perhaps, were warmth and light more welcome, though the dazzling sunshine of the cheerful day was more than our eyes could well bear after the darkness in which we had so long been groping. As tho salt in these mines does not assume the form of rock-salt, but is in terspersed in veins throughouUhe stra tum in which it is found, the method resorted to for obtaining it is that of cutting adits through the limostoue rock—a very laborious operation—aud through these the gypsum containing the salt is reached. A small cavern be ing then hollowed out, a communica tion is established with it from above, by pipes made of the entire trunks of fir-trees, bored in the middle and fixed one intoauothertill therequisitelength is attained. In the floor of the excava tion are cut outlets, which are preserved from filling up again by the introduc tion of similar wooden pipes; but these are supplied with valves, so that they are only opened when required. When these preparations haye been duly made, a torrent of water from the mountain springs which abound here, is turned on through the upper pipes, and tbe lower ones being closed, the excavated vault is easily filled. This water is left to soak info the surrounding marl or gypsum containing the sail, the time being regulated by the quantity of salt this description of earth has been found tocontaiu; thus, while three weeks is sufficient for some soils, twelve months is not too much for others. During the process of soaking, the salt thus melted is taken up by the water, while the soil is separated from it and falls to the bottom, so that, while the ceiling is raised and the walls are widened, a proportionate depth is filled up in the floor, and the water becomes brine. When it is sufficiently saturated, the outlets come into use, and the valves being withdrawn, the brine is drained off aud is conduced through the wooden pipes to the boiling-houses, at whatever distance they may be; thus, tbe brine is from Reichenhalle travels to Rosen heim, forty-two miles, in these wooden pipes, the works there being more easily carried on on account of the vast tracts of forest-land which supply at a cheap rate the fuel necessary for evaporating tho water and extracting the salt. Before the vault, which has now been drained, is again filled, the rubbish, stone 9 aud other useless materials are : withdrawn, nnd the clay which lias ■ fallen to the bottom is firmly beaten | down and pressed, after which the [whole floor is covered with a layer of 1 bitumen. These are most necessary i precautions, as these chambers, one be neath the other throughout the whole height of the mountains, are very nu merous ; aud as the ceiling of each is dissolved to the height of one or more inches by each process, it becomes nec essary, In order to prevent the floor of those above from falling in on those below, to strengthen each floor and maintain the original space between them. It will be seen that In process ofyears each vault or chamber will thus have taken the place of the one that was originally above it; and notwithstand ing these precautions, the chambers have spread to an extent which becomes dangerous, when they are necessarily abandoned. The Secret of Singing. Dr. Marcet, of the Brompton Con sumption Hospital, has been looking down tt»e throat of one of the Tyrolese singers who have lately been warbling at St. James’ Hall, the object of the inspection being to ascertain the phy siological conditions which produce the beautiful falsetto notes for which the Swiss artists are celebrated. The ob servations were made by means of a laryngoscope, a little instrument where of the principal is a miror placed at the back of the patient’s mouth. It is pretty generally known that the human vocal apparatus consists of a pair of membranes situated hori zontally in the throat, and just touch ing at their edges. A drum-head, witn a slit across it, may convey a popular idea of them. In the act of sing ing, the lips of these cords as they are called, are brought into contact, ami they approach each other throughout the whole length and remain parallel. When they are set in vibration, by the passage of air through them, under these the ordinary conditions, a full chest note is emitted; but if they do not meet in their entire length, either a posterior or anterior portion of them re maining apart, the sound is no longer full, but feeble and shrill; the note emitted is what the stringed instru ment player calls a harmonic, and what the singer calls a falsotto or head note. The violinist who would bring out a harmonic so touches a string that, instead of making it vibrate as a whole, he divides it into segments, each of which vibrates by itself, and emits the note duo to its short length instead of that which the full length of the string would yield. The same sort of thing appears to be done by the falsetto singer; the adept can at will shorten his vocal cords so as to pass instantly from any note to its harmonic. The muscular process by which this transition is effected is not clearly made out, so that it cannot be determined whether all singers are alike gifted with powers of head-singing equal to the Tyrolese, or whether Al pine melody grows out of peculiar capa bilities of the Alpine throats. TheTrlnl or Mrs. Bfndnn for the Slarder of Her Son-in-law. Bostow, May 18. —The trial of Mrs. Nancy B. Mad an, charged with the murder of her son-in-law, Obadiah Jones, commenced be fore the Supreme Court in Dedham to-day. Jones was found in bis bed on Sunday, the sth of July last, with a pistol ballet in his head. A quarrel having existed between him and his mother-in-law, and she haying made threats of reveDge, was arrested and indicted for his murder. She is about 50 years of ago. A, 1. Stewart’s Great Enterprise. Interesting'' Details or tbe New SXoUel / Dnelttas. I. One of the most important enterprises | ever instituted in the iuterest of the i working classesof this country has been begun, and is now rapidly going for ward, ou Fourth avenue from Thlrty | third street. Mr. Alexander T. Stew j art is the projector, and is probably j determined ou making it not merely a great benefit and example worthy of imitation, but a remunerative invest ment. His purpose is to erect a mag nificent palace of iron somewhat resem bling his store ou the corner of Broad way and Tenth street, which, will have stores on its ground floor, and sleeping and eating accommodations for fifteen hundred persons in the remaining stories of thebuilding. Tbeextentofthe : now structure will beIOTJ feeton Fourth avenue, and 205 feet ou both Thirty second and Thirty-third streets. It will surround a court 100 feet square, and, consequently, every apartment will have windows upon the open air, and ample ventilation. The height will be seven stories upon Fourth avenue, in addition to the basement, and eight stories upon the side streets. The whole building will be painted white, exter ually and internally,and crowued with a Mansard roof of slate. It will be bricked behind tbe iron walls, aud be thoroughly fire-proof. The staircases will be of irou, and an elevator will be attached, which will transport luggage and residents to the various stories. A water tank will exist on the top of the house, and water will be in abundance upon every floor. The rooms will each be heated by a coil of pipes, afford ing rneaus of regulating the tempera ture. Those for sleeping purposes will either be small, for single inmates, or eight feet by eighteen, for two persons. Others will be sixteen feet by eighteen, for four persons. All will be well fur nished, and contain every essential convenience. The partitions will beof iron and brick. As little wood will be employed in the building as practicable. Bedsteads and tables will oe of iron. The basement will contain the engine and heating apparatus, bath and store rooms of different kinds. In the back part of the ground floor, which will not face on the street aDd cannot be used for stores, the kitchen aud lauudry will be located. Above these will be the restaurant or dluiug room, and large parlor for social purposes, elegantly furnished. To this a library aud read ing room will be added. The cost of the whole may exceeds3,ooo,ooo. A haud sorno interest ou this will be met, to a large degree, by the lease of the numer ous stores below ; leaving a very small sum to bo paid for each of the rooms. The food furnished in the restaurant will be at cost, iu addition to the ex pense of cooking, serviug, etc., and it is calculated that au iDmate will bo able to live abundantly well, washing, rent and food included, for little more than $2 a weeK. The more numerous the household, the less the expense to each. The Working Women’s Home at 45 Elizabeth street, costa to each person from $3 to $3.50, and numbers two hun dred and sixty residents. An aggrega tion of fifteen hundred inmates will effect far greater economies. The estab lishment is Intended solely for the bene fltof women who work fortheirsupport. If a sufficient number of respectable aud well recommended women cannot be found to fill it, single men willprob ably also be admitted. The Working Woraeu’sHome has proved that wo men much prefer to b 8 associated with a sprinkling of the opposite sex, inas much as that {establishment, notwith standing its advantages, has never been filled during its existence of eighteen [ months. This enterprise, If successful, j will be followed by the building of a similar dwelling for young men, on the part of Mr. Stewart, and may lead to the erection by other capitalists of im i mense residences of the kind for fami lies, where childred could be cared for properly supervised in a separato sec tion, and prove noannoyance to grown people. A thorough supervision of j young people at home is sadly needed. The present tenement house system is not only injurious to the minds and morals of children, but, by throwing promiscuously together young persons of both sexes approaching maturity, Is the cause of social ruin to many wo men. It is intended that in the restau rant of Mr. Btewart's new establish ment, outside women, properly intro duced, shall be admitted to participate in the cheap rate 3. Simon Short’* Son Samncl, Shrewd Simon Short sewed shoes. Seventeen summers, speeding storms, spreading sunshine, successfully saw Simon’s small, shabby shop still stand ing stanch, saw Simon’s self-same squeaking sign still swinging, silently specifying: “Bimon Short, Rmithfield’s sole surviving shoemaker. Shoes sewed, soled superfinely.” Simon’s spry, sedu lous spouse, Sally Short, sewed shirts, stitched sheets, stuffed sofas. Simon’s six stout, study sons—Seth, Samuel. Stephen, Saul, Shadrach, Silas—sola sundries. Sober Seth sold sugar, starch, spice ; simple Sam sold saddles, stirrups, screws; sagacious Stephen sold, silks, satins, shawls; skeptical Saul sold sil ver salvers, silver spoons ; selfish Shad rach sold shoe strings, soap, saws, skates; slack Silas sold Sally Short’s stuffed sofas. Some seven summers since, Simon’s second son, Samuel, saw Sophia Soph ronia Spriggs somewhere. Sweet, sees sible, smart Sophia Sophronia Spriggs. Sam soon showed strange symptoms. Sam seldom stayed, storing, selling sad dles. Sam sighed sorrowfully, sought I SophiaSophronia’ssoclety, cungseveral serenades slyly. Simon stormed, scold ed, severely, said Ham seemed so silly singing such shameful, senseless songs. “Strange Sam should slight such splendid summer sales !” salu Simon. “Strutting spendthrift! shatter brained simpleton !” “Softly, softly, sire,” said Hally, Sam’s smitten—Sam'sspled some sweet heart.” “Sentimental school-boy!” snarled Simon. “ Smitten ! Stop such stud'!” Simon sent Sally’s snuir-box spin ning, seized Sally’s scissors, smashed sally’s spectacles, scattering several spools. “ Sneaking scoundrel! Sam’s shocking silliness shall surcease!” scowling Simon stopped speaking, start ing swiftly shopward. Sally sighed sadly. Summoning Sam, she spoke sweet svmpatby. “ Sam ” said she, “ sire seems singu larly snappy ; so, sonny, stop strolling streets, atop smoking segars, spending I specie superfluously, stop sprucing so, | stop singing seremades, stop short! Sell ; saddles, sonny; sell saddles sensibly; see Sophia Sophronia Spriggs soon ; she's sprightly, she’s staple, so solicit, sue ; secure sophia speedily, Sam.” “ So soon ? so soon ?,' said Sam, stand ing stock still. “ So soou ! surely,” said Sally, smil ing ; “specially since sire shows such spjrits.” So Sam, somewhat scared, sauntered slowly, shaking stupendously. Sara soliloquises: “ Sophia SophroDia Spriggs—Spriggs Short—Sophia Sophronia Short, Sam uel Short's spouse—sounds splendid! Suppose she should say She! she shan't! she shan't!” Soon Sam spied Sophia starching shirts, singing softly. Seeing Sara, she , stopped starching; saluted Sam smil ingly. Sara stammered shockingly. “ Sol-spl-splendid summer season, . Sophia.” “Somewhat sultry,” suggested So- phia. “ S&r-sartain, Sophia,” said Sam. (Silenceseventeen seconds.) “ Selling saddles still, Sam ? ” “ Sar-aar sartaln,” said Sam, starting suddenly. “ Season’s somewhat sudo rific,” said Sam, stealthily stanching streamingsweat, shaking sensibly. “ Sartin,” said Sophia, smiling sig nificantly. “ Sip some sweet sherbet, Sam.” (Silence sixty seconds). “Sire shot sixty sheldrakes Satur day,” said Sophia. “Sixty? sho!” said Sam. (Silence seventy-seven seconds). “See sister Susan’s sunflowers,” said Sophia, sociably scattering such stiff silence. Sophia’s sprightly sauclness stimu lated Sam strangely; so Sam suddenly spoke sentimentally : “Sophia, Susan’s sunflowers seem saying, ‘Samuel Short, Sophia Sophronia Spriggs, stroll serene ly, seek some sequestered spot, some sylvan shade. Sparkling springs shall sing soul-soothing strains; sweet songs ters shall silence secret slghiDg; super augelic sylphs shall ” Sophia snickered ; so Sam stopped. “ Sophia,” said Sam, solemnly. “ Sam,” said Sophia. “Sophia, stop smiling. Sam Short’s NUMBER 21 Bincere, Sam’s seeking some sweet spouse, Sophia.” Sophia stood silent. ‘‘ Speak! Sophia, speak ! such sus pense speculates sorrow.” “Seek sire, Sam, seek sire.” So Sam sought sire Spriggs. Sire Spriggs said, *'Sartin.” State Items. A census of the dog 9 iu Allentown, makes the number 6-10. Chambersburg is afllietod with bund or gans. Hor&e thieves are plying their vocation iu Franklin county. John Marshall, of Hamilton twp., Frank lin county, huug himself the other day. The Franklin county fair will be held on the st h, 6tb, 7th and Bth days of October. George Miller has been appointed post master at Greencastle. Peter Herdic declines to bo a candidate for Mayor of Williamsport. At last acoouuts the sparrows imported for our public squares had reached Eastou. Norristown is bard at work adding im provements to that already handsome place. Rafting In the Susquehanua is about ended, at least so says Ihe Williamsport Standard. Reading letter carriers are to wear grey flannel suits and panama ha la during the summer. The boom In the LsMgh, above White Haven, contains about twenty-five million feet of lumber. R. Biddle Roberts, Esq., of l’Ulsburg will deliver the orntlon before) the anunnl meeting of th»;Pennsylvanla Reserve Asso ciation. It is estimated that as soon as ibe sum mer is fairly over au immense amonnt of capital from this State will seek the South for investment. A Mrs. Smith, of Crawford county, on dressing a two-year-old rooster, the other day, found a gold dollar in its crop. The coin was lost twelve years ago. The wheat crop of Pennsylvania looUh cheering. The prospect of a heavy yield vrasnaver liuer, a fact upon which we con gratulate nil parties, for all arc alike Inter ested. Allentown is making bold strides for ward m the way of additions and Improve ments. More building permits hare been granted dbis year than for several years past. A synagogue Is building iu Philadelphia which will cost at least a quarter of a mil lion dollars, and It 1« In the hands of people so rich that they will not he sorry if the ul timate cost Is twice ns much. Undoru law in force In Allentown, dogs are made posonnl proporty, and are sub ject to uu annual tax not cxeocdlng “one dollar for tbo first dog, two dollars for the second,” and so on in proportion. It is boldly asserted in soveral journals that the coal companies of Pennsylvania instigated the striko which has latoly taken place among the coal minors, for iho pur pose of raising the price of coal. An old doctor In Montgomery county named Fry, now In hla uighty-auoond year. haH within tho past two months proscribed for nearly one hundred cases of persons bitten by uind dogs. He is said to bo very successful. Frank lJ.Gowan, Esq., President of tho Philadelphia and Roadlng Railroad, wan ou Tuesday last clouted President of tho East Pennsylvania Railroad company. Hou. Will. A. Porter, of Philadelphia, was elected a director of the company. Washington, Washington county, by re cent action of the trustees of Washington and Jeflorson College, becomes tho solo seat of the united institution. To socuro this, the citizens of the village havo pledged themselves to repair the old college build ings, and raise an additional sum of fifty thousand dollars. A wealthy lady residing In Pittsburg visited Europe somo mouths since, and while in Paris became acquainted with a French nobleman who paid devoted ad dressees to her. Ho finally proposed, was accepted, and the lady returned homo to arrange for the wedding. The nobleman a day or two since arrived iu the city, uud tbo pair will bejoined early next week. The ConneatUville Courier says ; Just as the boats have fairly got to running, and business on tho canal opened, we have in telligence that tbo coal diggers are out on a strike. We are without particulars as to theoxtenl of the strike, but presume it in cludes most of tbo minos along the Shenan go, as the diggers are fully organized and stand by each other. Should the strike con tinue for any considerable time the result will be disastrous. In the town of Bethlehem, there la a fire engine built during the reigu of William and Mary, A. I). 16<J3. This engine wua shipped from London with the colonists, 1742, anil yet exists, just as it was received, with the exception of some common blue pi}int put on recontly. It is about eight feet long, stands on low wheels, with strong wooden axles, and in constructed much on the same plan as the New York engines of the present day. The Doylestown Democrat says: Dr. Reading, of liatboro’ has recently had two patients, who resided Ht Jnrrettown, who wore both similarly affected with soreness of the limb*, and stiffness of the jelnts. No medicine was able to allay the severe pains, although n number of the prominent phy sicians of the neighborhood wore called in consultation, and they both died in groat agony. Dr. Reading cut out apiece or the fiesh from one of the decensed, and found It full of these moving maggots, denomina ted trichina by the profession. It Is said by the Venango Republican that anew invention for boring oil wells has been introduced into the oleaginous re gions. It Is said to do away witli engine, derrick, beam, and nearly everything now used, and to accomplish tiie work rapidly to any dopth required, by the motive |X>wor of one horse attached to a sweep. There is a well now going down by the new process, at a contract price of $1.25 per foot. Such an invention, If practical, will tend to in crease development everywhere, as under present system it costs too much to ex periment with wells. Tbe statue of Victory, to surmount the Mexican monument in the Capitol ground, Harrisburg, has arrived in New York, and will soon roach its destination. Tho Patriot says : “ Tho figure is of msrblo, nino feet in height, anil represents a female holding in her led hnnd a staff entwined with tho American flag. In tho right hand is a lau rel wreath about to bo tiirown on tho victo rious nrmy. Thu right foot rusts on a can , non, nnd another laurel wreath crowns the head of the figure. Upon the nrrlval of the siatuo Mr. M’Faddeu, the contractor, will immediately procood to place it In position on Ihumonumont. The State having made no appropriation of money to warrant a corurnony there will bo none. Tho four marble osglos to docoralo tho base will also bo placed in position as soon as tho statuo arrives. Mrs. Ifr. Wnlkor on (tie Hmnpago. Tho Washington correspondent of tho /Jnllwiorc Sun gives tho following account of an interview between tho Postmaster (ioneral and ihonotorlous Mrs. I)r. Walker, whose masculine nttiro attracts attention wherever sho goes: Among tho visitors to Postmaster General CreswolPs ollico’, to-day was Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker, (bloomer) who has beon an invot erale office-seeker for somo weoka, carrying her Importunities everywhere, from the President down. To day sho secured Mr. Creswell's ear, nnd afiorsome! preliminary conversation in a mild tone, the fair doctor “ let her angry passions rise,” and “ sailed in ’’ in approved stylo, when about tho fol lowing dialogue ensued: Mrs. Walker,—l tell you I must have an appointment. I am as deserving of it us any ouo else, niul Insist that my claims shnll bu recognized. The Postmaster General, (very calmly.)— But I have told you there are no vacancies. Mrs. Walker, (snappishly,;—Well, then, make one. The Postmaster General.—l cannot. All the positions are filled, and, bosides, the ladies in. tbo department would objsct to your being placed in a room with them. Mrs. Walker, (with gestures.)—They do. Well, then, turn somo of the rebels out and put me In. I have always been loyal. The Postmaster General, (quietly.)—l was not aware that thero were any robel women in the department. Mrs. Walker,—well, I know 1L The Postmaster General.—Well, giro ine a list of them, and I will attend to them at once. Mrs. .Walker—l can’t glvoa list now, nor can I namothem, but if you will lot mo in the department I’ll soon find oat who tbvy aro. Tho Postmaster General (evidently do slrous of terminating the interview) —1 have given you my answer with reference to your apnointmeut. Mrs. Walker—But that answer is notsuf ficient for me. 1 must have the appoint ment because I am entitled to it. If the women object, put me in an office with the men, lam not afraid of them, and besides I am perfectly oompetent to do a man’B work. Mr. Creswell, at this point, condescended to explain to his persistent visitor that be was limited by law to a certain number of of appointees ; that the Dumber of foraalea to bo employod was specified, aa also tho number of males, and that there were no vacancies. Mrs. Walker insisted, however, that a vacancy should be made for her even if some "male bipod” was displaced, and bad much to say about ber loyalty, her army record, <feo.,-in support of this claim. Her manner was peremptory throughout, and Mr. Creswell was dignified and com posed, and, although much; annoyed, did not for a moment lose his temper, Mrs. Walker, declares, however, that sho will have an office. BATE OF' ADVERTISING. Business advebtibeiixnts, $l3 a year per quare of ten lines: 19 per year for eaob ad ditional square, Real Estate Advertising, lfcente.a ilneifar in ©first, and Scents Tor each snbseqtient In sertion. General advertising 7 cents a line for the first, and 4 cents for each subsequent Inser tion. Speoial Notices inserted in Local Column 16 cants per line. Special Notices preceding marriage* and deaths, 10 cents per line for first Insertion! ainri a cents for every subsequent lnßbrtloD(J Legal and oth kb notices— Executors’ n0tice5.....—2.60 Administrators’ notices,-...-——*—* 2-60 Assignees’ 2.60 Auditors’ notices, —... 2.00 Other “Notices, ’ten lines, or less, " three times .. UjO Rows Items, A choir from Amherst College will elrg in tho Boston Peace Jubilee. A debating club for deaf mutes has been started in London. Tilting with padded lances on bycleles Is a Liverpool sport. Lots in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, now sell from $5OO to SSOO each. During the past wluter not a flake of snow felt in Portland, Oregan. Newport Is filling up very fast. First* class houses rent for $6,000 the season. It was ten degrees warmer in- Boston on Wednesday last than it was in New York. Mr. Thorntop, the British Minister, has selected Laurel Hill, in Nowburyport; Mass., for his summer residence. In 760 libel suits now pending against American editors,’tho aggregate damages to characters are estimated at $47,500,000. General Hancock has arrived at St. Paul, where he will establish the headquarters of the Department of Dakota. The miners at Plttston and at Ollpbunt havo not joined the striko in tho coal regions, but continue to work. An invoice of Japan teas has arrived in St. Louis, in thirty days from Yokohama, via tho Pacific Railroad. A. P. Rollins, a Job printer of Boston, committed suicldo in that city yosterday moruing. The Bouhommo Creek Mills, thirty miles wc*st ofNt. Louis, were destroyed by ftro ou Wednesday last. Loss $30,000. Shipment of spirituous liquors to Alaska lias been strictly prohibited by the treasury department. General Joo Lane, who was on the Demo cratic ticket with Breckinridge in 1860, has Joined tho Roman Catholic Cluirch. The Shiokasinny,Gram! Tunnel, Harvey, Union and Green Ridge mines, In tho Wyo ming coal region, have resumed operations. The Heorotary of the Treasury will.here after aeil $2,000,000 in gold weekly, Instead of $1,000,000 us heretofore. An English gentleman -has bought be tween 3,000 and 4,000 acres of land In Nel son county, Va., on which ho Intends to settlo 800 English families. A canal boat went over n dnm In the Hud son river, near Fort Miller, on Wednesday evening, and the captain's wife and child wero drowued. At Louisville, yesterday, the graves of tho rebel dead were decorated ; a poem wan olmnled, anil prayers were olTorod for Iholr repose In the cemetery. A man was instantly* klllod at Water town, Minn., on Monday, by his gun being accidently discharged by a kick from his horse. The German banking firm nfSohopler «V Go., iu New York, has suspended. Tlw-ir liabilltli'H lire estimated all the way from $1,000,000 to $10,000,000. Napoleon intends to celebrate the cen tenary of his great undo bv giving to the veterans of the old Empire fifty dollars uacli iu excess of their present pensions. Official returns show that during tho last twelvemonths tho numbor of horses slain in Paris for the meal market amounts to 2.400. Five per cent, have been employed iu making nausages. Hon. W. E. Lovett, for many years a resident of California, and a man of brilli ant oratorical tKiwers, is lecturing to largo audiences in Washington ou the subject of temperance. Mr. U. T. Ilelmbnld, the well known druggist of New York, n turns forthis year an income of $152,205. All thiscomus from advertising. Mr. llnlmbold’s expenditures for advertising average over $lO,OOO a week, Tho Patlfruon Guardian says that Mr. William Libby, of the housool A. T. Htcw • art A Co., who resides ut Hoboken, near that city, returns this year an income of moro than $130,000, and pays above $7,000 taxes. Tho Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity havo elected Chief Justice Chase and James Rus sell Lowell to deliver the oration and poem before tholr next Convention, which will bn held in 1870, at Hamilton College, Clin ton, N. Y. A correspondent of the liijmn Commonwealth gives tho number of clover seeds in a bushel. Ifo counted tho seeds In in one ounce, and found 17,301). In one pound thero Would Ihoroforo bo 276,8000; In one bushel, 10,003,000. A boy was killod anti a woman seriously Injured by the falling of a house, near La Crosse, Wis., on Saturday. The Farmers’ Hotel, in tho .inmo city, was burned ou Monday, and a man perished in tho Jlaraos while trying to save his goods. 4_n Omahadewpatch resnorts a light be tween a cavalry force, under General Carr, and 500 Cheyennes. Tho Indians lost 25 killed nnd a largo number wounded. Throo of tho cavalry men wero killed and three wounded. Fishback, Independent candidate for Mayor of Indianapolis at tho Into election, has the election of Mneauloy, Radical, nnd filed tho grounds of contest in the Circuit Court. majority was only 26. The office of the American Spiritualist, at Cleveland, was rocently entered and de spoiled, and Ha typo was thrown Into* the stove and over tho floor. Tho paper’s de fence of its peculiar theological views is sup posed to have been tho cause. Hunnicutt, tho most pestiferous of tho car pet-bag vermin In Virginia, announces himself as a candidate for Congross in tho Richmond District. Like WolU and Un derwood, ho too hasbcix)*»o maidenly vir tuous, and repudiates tho ovlious test oath. An " Address to tho People of Mississip pi ” has been iasuod, with tho signatures of ex-Congrussmau Barksdale, vx-Sonator Albert G. Brown, Colonel Yorger, nnd other leading Democrats attached, urging tho do something policy and a royival of the popu lar Interest In Htato polities. A woman calling herself “ the fomal" Blonilln,” while crossing a ropo sixty fee high at a circus at Bolton, England, missed her footing, but in falling grasped tho rope with her hands, and was afterwards caught by the crowd below. Sho escaped with little Injury. Senator Cameron’s opinion about Gov. Curtin was expressed with moro forrotlmn elegance “The only Minister we of Penn sylvania have (except a nogrn who cannot be u voter in our State),” Bald he, “ is a man sot down for Russia, who ought to be went to tho Lobos Islands,vice guano removed.” A boarding house, In Dayton, Ohio, wns destroyed by fire yesterday morning. One man was burned to death, and several oth ers wore severely injured by tho Humus. Tho rest of tho boarders saved thomsolvos by jumping from the windows. The fire Is supposed to have boon caused by an incen diary. Threo children, two bo vs and a girl, were buried by tho sliding of n sand bank, at Cleveland, Ohio, on Hnturday afternoon, and their bodio" wero not found until Sun day ovonlng. They were missed by their parents, but it was not suspected until Sunday ovening that they hnd been buried by the sand. Tho eldest was but flvo years old. A man wearirfg a pair of spotfejJ panta loons took a noonlldo siesta under a tree In tho neighborhood of Madison, Ind. A Ger man, who was out hunting, saw his leg hanging over a rock, and mlstnk Ing It for a huge boa eontructor tired a charge of shot into it. The moral is obvious. Don’t wenr spotted pantaloons when you take an out of doors nap In Indiana. Inn suit to compel the city of Richmond to redosm her.small notes, Issued during the war to the amount of $lOO,OOO, Chief Justice Chase has decidod that they cannot bo redeemed, having been Issued to aid the robnll ion. The legislature which author ized their lss'uo was a tic facto olio, with power to grant such authority, and had thoy been used for logat purposes they would bo redeemable. At Bodlno’s Station, Lycoming county, Pa., on Tuesday, a man named Field, struck another, named Matthews, with an axe, severely injuring him. Tho difficulty arose from a dispute ns to Fiold’w shnro of the proceeds of a sale of some railroad ties. Yostorday morning a constable nnrnod Gray In arresting Field, was also assaulted by the latter with nn axe, and Is not expected to recover. Field is at largo. A small boy at Portsmouth, N. 11., who accidentally fell off a wharf, and wns res cued from drowning, was so senred at the whipping lie expected, when ho saw his motnor coming towards hirn, thut he threw himself threo times into the water to drown In preference to meeting her angry cbn.s tlsoraent. Eacli time he was rescued with difficulty, and finally she promised not to punish him, nnd broko her promise tho moment sho roaohnd home, giving tho boy a morolless thrashing. The quarrel between the Sprague and Anthony factions has not y*t subsided in Providduce. The late Mayoralty election only stirred tho bile. Now tbe two Repub lican papers are abusing each other soundly, and bandying charges of corruption. Tho press (Sprague’s organ) asserts that the recent local olection was the most corrupt •ver seon In that corrupt New Kuglarul city, and that tho "groat family" bought up votes like sheep In order to defeat Mr. Doyle. New York's Solid Men The list of incomes In the Eighth Con gressional district Is published to-day This district is the wealthiest In tho Unltod States. Among tho rich men’s Inoomes of last year I notice: A. T. Stewart, $3,019,- 118; Hamilton Flsb, $31,520 ; James Gordon Bennett, $186,600; August Belmont $91,870; Peter Cooper, $80,689; Moses Taylor, $270,- 433 ; Rufus Hatch, $130,000 ; E. D. Morgan, $126,09*
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