Sue §M(um guteUtgemer, PUBLISHED EVERY "WEDNESDAY BY 11. G. SMITH A CO A. J. Steinman U. G. Smith. TERMS—Two Dollars per annum, payable In all oases In advance. The Lancaster Daily intelligence* la published every evening, Sunday excepted, at §5 per Annum In advance. OFFICE—SOUTHWEST OOBKEB OV OEKTIUB BCiUABE. _ Down lu a DiYlngßcll, YVlmt » Diver Secs. Feels nufl Thinks TVticn Under Water. ( prom Ilia Detroit Free Press.] Haven’t you often wondered what mysterious things were hidden in the far-down depths of the waves of the great lakes? Wondered how the bot tom looked; of the strange fishes; the sensations that a living man would feel down there in the moaning waters? When you have read ofsofnegoodship, freighted with many happy souls, plunging down -into the dark depths, haven't you wondered how she rested, and seen.like a vision, thepalejfacesand floating locks, being washed hither and thither, their fingers clutching stifily at one-another, as the cold water swept them back and forth ? We can see na ture in the forest, in the air, in all her workings but that of the waters. And that is why we seek to penetrate the hidden mysteries; why the diver who descends into her closed cells is an ob ject of awe and admiration. We who live upon th“ shore see him in his armor often, hear of his successes and failures, sometimes of his death, and yet but few of us know Ills courage, his endurance, perils, his feelings down there alone, knowing that lie descends with his life in ids hands, and tnat the waves above him would gladly chant his death song for Ids boldness. 1 Foremost among the bold divers of the lake- is John Quinn, a resident of Dutrmi, and, from a long and varied experience eminently qualified to tell the readers of the /V"' /Vc.w of the inysterits of which we have spoken, and, with a little help to polish up his words, lie says : It is a strange bu*iis-*.s, this diving. The darner fusei nates some, but the peril is imver fora moment lost sightof. I pul on ill.- helmet lor ihe first time more than h) years ago, and yet I never resume it without a feeling that it may be the last time 1 shall ever go down. Of course one has mm e confidence after a while, hut there is: omething in being shut lip in an armor, weighed down with lot) pounds, ami knowing, that a little leak in your life pipe is your dentil, that no diver can ever get rid of. Ami Ido not know that I should cure to banish Hie feeling, Tor the sight of the clear, blue .iky, ami genial sun, and the face of a fellow nmu, after long hours among the fishes, makes you feel like one who has sud denly been drawn away from the grasp of death. I have had some narrow es capes while pursuing my strange pro fession ; every direr has, or has been unusiuilly im-ky Lt; eHcapo them. 1 think the most dangerous place 1 ever got into was going down to examine the propeller iouttf, sunk ofl Toledo, in working about her bottom, 1 got my air pipe coiled over a large sliver from the stoveii hole, and could not reach it with my hand*. Kvery lime 1 sprang lip to remove my hose my tender would give me the “slack” of tiie line, thus letting mo fall back again. He did not understand his duties, and did not know what my on the life line meant. It was two hours and a half before I was relieved, and there wasn’t a moment that I was not looking to see the hose cut by Use ragged wood. Jt’s a strange feeling you have down there. Von go walking oyer a vessel, clam bering up\her sides, peering here and there, and the feeling Unit you are alone makes you nervous and uneasy. Some times a ver-el sinks down so fairly that she stands upon the bottom as trim and neat as if she rode on the surface. — Then, you can go down into the eabiu, up the shrouds, walk all over her, just as easily as a sailor could if she were still dashing away before tin- breeze.— Only it seems s<> >pi'M r-> L<>mo like; there arc no wr. - -I r.vn there—only a swaying and forth of the waters and a rce cawing of the hliip. You .hear nothing from above; the great fishes will come swimming about, rubbing their noses against your glasses, _und staring with a wonderful look iulo your eyes. Tne very stillnes Home "limes gives me aelnll. ou hearjust a moaning, wailing sound iiko the last notes of an organ, and you cannot help but think id' dead men floating over and around yuii. I have been down especially to rescue the bodies of those drowned. About four years ago the propeller /bm/m.yr, belonging to the .Northern Transportation Company, went down in the river St. Lawrence, In 7S foot of writer, atnl it was known that a mother and child were asleep in their stateroom a! lire lime of iic-r sink ing. The father begged of-me, and offered me a good deal of money to take out the corpses, and though 1 dreaded the work, I at hi«L consented. I had been all over the wreck two or three times, amW knew just where the state room was. The door was fast locked, and I waited a good while before burst ing it open. Of course a dead person couldn’t’liarm you, but even in broad day, on shore, and with people around you, ilon’l you know that the sight and presence o‘f a dead person brings up solemn thoughts and nervous feelings? I knew bow they would look, how they were Moating around in the room, and if the father hadn’t been loiiifclng so wrct'died above, there was no money to tempt me in there, ljut, at I got a crowbar from forwards, ami, not. lellim: myself think, gave the light 1 1 ■*■ *c a hh.w that «"..ve it in. The water came rushing out, tlie vessel just then lurched over towards my side, and nut thev came, the woman llrnt, her eyes wide open and hair trailing behind, and in her left, hand she held the bund of her child. I knew how they would look, but I screamed out and jumped buck. Her face was fearfully distorted, allowing how hard death had been mot, and the eyes looked through the green waters at me in a way that made my flesh creep. The child hud died easily, Us livid white face giving no sign of ter ror. I was a good while before I fasten ed the line to tlmm and gave the signal to haul up, and I fdt so uneasy that I was not long in following. This is one of the drawbacks to any fooling of cur \ iosity a diver might otherwise have. I ' nevor godowu the hatchway of the cabin / Hteps without tliinkingiof a dead mail Moating about there. When Ihe Lac La Belle sunk on St. CMnir flats, the engi neer was'eaught in the rushing waters,, aud no trace was ever found of his body. His wife came to me, hearing that I was to go down to tho wreck, # and asked me to find the body if possi ble. I remembered this when I weut down, amt I went, groping through the engine room in momentary expectation of encountering the body. 1 looked so long without finding it that 1 got ner vous, and had started for the ladder to go lip, when I fell something strike my helmetaud give wav, and a chill went daueing over me as 1 thought the dead body was at hand. But, on rcachiug up, I found that I had run against the fire hose, the end of which was hang ing down,and that what I so dreaded was still out of my eight. A diver does not like to go down more than J2O feet; at that depth the pressure is painful and there is danger of inter nal injury. I can stay down for five or six hours at a time at 110 or 120 feet, and do a good deal of work. In the waters of Lake Huron, the diver can ase 30 or-10 feet' away, but'the other lakes will screen a vessel not lu feet from yoh. “ One of Ihe strangest of the strange things that I ever knew of in my line, was the case of the propeller J. W. Brooks, a northern transportation boat. It was about ten years ago, when she was about -10 miles oil* Salomon Point, Lake Ontario, and the next day was found by the steamer Wellington Moat ing near tho point, She was end up in the water, her. bow standing out, and stem down perpendicular, aud was towed into shoal water, ami I wont down to make an examination. As sure as I’m living, there wasn’t a hole in her aides or bottom that would have sunk a basin : she wa3 sound aud per fect as on the day the last nail was driven home, but there wasn’t a sign of her boilers or machinery loft in her, noth ing but the bed plate on which the boilers had stood, aud she had neither burned or blowedup; yet the boilers and machinery had gone out, and there was no trace of how they did it. and no living man can explain it. one had been seen only the day before, and was next found floating, and there never had been found—either captain or crew to unravel the mystery—none of them ever having been heard of. She 1b yet running, having been raised converted into a tug, and is now towing on the St. Lawrence under the name of William the Fourth. Yes, we get pretty good pay—s4o and $5O a day, and sometimes more, but our r.r-n. VOLUME TO ===== ~ LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 15 1869 NUMBER ‘R outfit costs $1,500, and there is a good deal of wear and tear. And the lone* some, uneasy feeling is worth a round sum. Up here, you seldom think of accident or death, but a hundred feet o water washing over your head would set you to thinking. A little stoppage of your air pump, a leak m your hosi , a careless action on the part of your tender! and the weight of a mountain would press the life out of you before you could move. And you may foul’ your pipe or find yourself, and m your haste bring on what you dread. I of ten get my hose around a stair or ran, and though I am not called cowardly, and generally release it without much trouble, the bare idea of what a slender thing holds back the clutch of death oil my throat, makes a cold sweat start from every pore.” Artificial Ejea. The manufacturerof artificial human eyes is a .distinct profession of which Paris, I afn told, has the monopoly. The ocularist enamellers, as they call themselves, of that city, have invaria bly more work on hand than they can accomplish to time, although their number is by no means inconsiderable. First of all, there are ten or twelve prin cipal manufacturers of these clever sub stitutes for the natural visual organ, and there are between one or two hun dred workmen and women in their em ploy, almost all of whom are well oil, or in the way to become so. It is true that Kuglish and Amerioun’.enumellers have tried to compete with their Pari sian brethren, but never successfully. “ You, see, sir,’* said one of the most celebrated Paris ocularists to me lately, “the English have not putUcient taste to exercise the trade. The eyes they try to make for human beings are only lit for stuffed animals.” It must bo confessed that Parisian ar- tificial eyes have not only great trans parency and a well imitated humidity, but have at times so tender or so lively an expression, that any one might he deceived by them and take them for real. Onelhing is quite certain, that those who have had the misfortune to lose an eyo are very well content with the substitute provided for them, which answers every purpose, except the im portant one of seeing, for every week there are between four and live hun dred enamel eyes made in Paris to order. The trade resembles all other trades, in so far that there are manufacturers oil a large and on a small scale—artists and workmen, skilled manipulators and ignorant ones. These people are packed iu two distinct quarters of the city. The important manufacturers, the scientillc men, the artists of the pro fession, inhabit the Faubourg E.— Honoro and the neighborhood of the Madeleine; the others are lodged in the little streets of the Boulevard du Tein- de. Ordinarily theformeradd to their itle of ocularist that of oculist, which gives them, of course, a much higher standing in the profession. These gentlemen are perpetually trav eling all over Europe, and transport their manufactories to St. Petersburg, Vienna, and even Constantinople. The sumptuously furnished saloons in which they receive their clients iu Paris indi cate connections among the wealthier classes. They select, when practicable, a one-eyed servant, and their first care is to replace the organ of which lie is deficient by an enamel eye of their own manufacture. This does not arise from any absurd motive of benevolence, but with a view to business. When a client a little frightened, but certainly with out reason, at the prospect of theopera tion lie is about to undergo, hesitates and interposes some dillicultiea iu the way of confiding his eyelids to the in struments of the operator, the latter rings the bell, ami Jean Polypheme makes his appearauce, “ What do you think of this fellow ?” asks the ocularist of his elicuL. “ {Study his features, his look, an,d say frankly what you think ?” “ He looks well enough,” answers the other, laboring usually uuder some little emotion. ; “ Wall, Jean, reveal your secret, to j this gentleman.” I Whereupon Jean introduces a knit* 1 ting needle under his eyelid, removes his eye and places it in the hand of the astonished spectator as uucoucered as though it were a mere shirt stud. How is it possible for any one to resist such a demonstration ? These gentlemen charge from forty to fifty francs for an eye. The manufacturer of the R-uedu Tem ple has au entirely different way of doing business. He is generally nmau pretty well informed, simpte, polite, a little of an artist, a little of a workmau, and a little of a tradesman. He scarcely employs either apprentice or assistant, except when he receives an order from some naturalist for animals’ eyes for his collection. All day long seated at a table at one end of his work-room, he works by the light of a spirit lamp. Before him are arranged, in either cakes or stakes, the materials used by him in his profession. lie takes a little enamel, melts it, and by the aid of a blow-pipe blows it until i it becomes a small ball at the end ol the instrument. This ball is destined to represent tho whitoof the eye. Henext takes some more enamel, which is col ored tills time, aud lets a drop of it fall upon tho summit of the corner/. Gently heating It at the flame, it spreads out in a round spot, aud eventually becomes fiat, aud resembles the iris. A darker drop of enamel placed in the same man ner iu the centre of the iris imitates the pupil. The ball is now detached from the blow-pipe, cut to an oval shape and smoothed at the edges, so that on intro ducing it beneath the eyelids it may not wound any of the smaller nerves. These eyes cost no more than from twenty to twenty-live francs, which one can quite comprehend, as there is neither heavy rent to pay nor the wages of a*liveried cyelops. The manufacture of artificial eyes is both difficult aud tedious. It suits alike both men and women, and many <>f the latter succeed well In it; it is, moreover, one of the best remunerated of art in* : dustries. Most of the work people are , paid by piece work, that is, so much per ! eye, varying from ten to fifteen francs, and a clever workman will turn out his eye per diem. Others receive from the large manufacturers a share of the pro ceeds arising from thejsalee of eyes man ufactured by them, and have to take back any eye not approved of by cus tomers. These they put on one side to serve for their stock in trade when they commence business on their own ac count. One of these collections furnishes a somewhat curious sight. Reposing upon wadding atthc bottom of a drawer are several score of eyes ranged side by side, and exhibiting a singular variety of expression. Some are small, others large; some black, others blue, hazel brown, light brown, bluish and green ish grey; nearly all are brilliaut ail have a fixed stare —all are, in fact, look ing you through. On one side are laughing children’s eyes, next to them the liquid-looking eyes of young girls, the languideyesof middle-aged womeu, eyes with an amiable or sinister expres sion, severe olliciai eyes ; then come the old men’s eyes, slightly filmy; and in a corner are the worn-out eyes—eyes that have been alieady used ; and have been returned by the customers as models to make other eyes by. The enamel eye, after being exposed to the action of the atmosphere for some months, loses alike its color and its lustre, and becomes opaque-looking; a thick dingy coatlugof solidified humors spread over its polished surface, and it has a glassy look, like the eye of a dead Eerson. “Touch them, you will do no arm,” says the ocularist to visitors, just as though it was a collection of oolns or minerals they were inspecting. When a workman sets up on his own account he soon gathers a connection round about him. Many of his customers, and these are among the best, hand him on the first of January In every year a certain sum, for which he furnishes them with eyes all the year round. He has in his drawers the pattern pyes of these peo ple, who have consequently not to go to him every time to see precisely the style of the eye they are In want of. The loss of one eye renders the re maining visual organ remarkably acute. It is not, therefore, to be wondered at that a certain fastidiousness prevails among those who have the misfortune to be one eyed with respect to the ex act matohlng of the artificial and the natural organs, and that they should at times return to the maker eyes that they would disapprove of, just as a man sends back a coat which he regards as a misfit. These eyes have to be disposed of at any price, and it is now that the | artist disappears, and the tradesman re- I Yeals himself. His first thought is naturally of the necessitous classes. Many individuals, workmen and small tradesmen even, whohavelostan eye cannot command the means to pay the regulation price for the enamel sub* stitute that conceals this disagreeable infirmity, and it is to them the manu facturer firat-'bf all addresses himself. Their tender resources render them ac* j commodating as regards shape aud | color. What they/want is an eye, and : a cheap one—brown, blue, black or ; hazel, what does it\matter ? They are : quite willing to choose from among these waste eyes, rejected by wealthy customers, the bestmatch they can find. It is the cheapness that attracts them. They hesitate a little at first, and linger over different shades of color, unable to m ake a selection; but with them an eye is a necessity, two precisely similar eyes a superfluity ; and we all know thatsu perlluities are not for poor people. The oculist baa another resource. A class of customers, poorer than the last, who, unable to buy waste eyes even, are reduced to hire them, by the month, and sometimes by the day, doubtless for great occasions. I was shown some of the eyes that were let out on hire, and I must confess they seem perfectly presentable, although they were not to be compared to the lustrous eyes of the manufacturer's wealthy clients. There is however, still another class of customers who are more easy to satis fy than any of the others. These are the defunct, or rather that section of them who enjoy the honor of being em balmed. With the view of mimicking more completely the appearance of life, the operator pluces under their inert eyelids a couple ofglass eyes, which he has selected almost at random from some enameller’s collection. The color of the eye ball js a mutter of perfect in difference to him. He knows well enough that not only dead men tell no tales, but make no kind of complaints. Despite, however, of these various ways of getting rid of them, eyes remain in stock which can neither be sold or let out on hire, nor passed off upon dead people. These are destined to ex porta* tion, and are went to America, Asia, the Sandwich Islands, everywhere, any where, in fact. They appear to be quite good enough for Asiatics aud people of color, who does not care so much for a faithful imitation of nature as for some thing brilliant. To them an artificial eye is an ornament, Jikea scarlet hand kerchief or a plume. One of the Emperor Soulique’s lien mis, who was deficient of an eye, de termined upon having an artificial ono made by a Parisian ocularist. The eu umeller whoVeocived the commission surpassed himself, for lie counted upon this order bringing in numerous others j with possibly some llaytien decoration in addition. As soon as the eye was completed, it was wrapped up carefully in cotton wool, placed in a little box, amfisent to its destination. The ocularist waited anxiously for* a response, which did not come for nearly six months, when, what was his surprise to receive, in lieu of the anticipated cross, his eye back again, accompanied by a letter couched in these abrupt terms : — u Your eye is of no use to me. It is yellowish and recalls the memory of the Spanish Ilag. I will only wear an eye or the colors of my own country.'' The ocu larist hesitated as to the course he should pursue; then hastened off to the Ministry of Marine, asked permission to see the llaytien Hag, ami returned home, when he manufactured an eye of the description indicated —a lively mixture of red and green. The ebony general was ibis time so pleased with our ocularist’s workmanship that he refrained from introduciugthe remark ably brilliant organ under the eyelids, preferring to wear it among other deco rations upon liia breast. This profession of oeularisis is older than would be imagined. It has its legends, its traditions, aud its history. The aucients made artlolieial eyes, and it was in Egypt, I thiuk, that the man ufacture originated. The eyes first made were of gold and silyer, than copper aud ivory were had recourse to. It is related that at a period of general distress two citizens of Latiuum carried their artifi cial e>es to the public treasury, in the same way that the French women offer ed their triDkets as “patriotic gifts” durtog the first Revolution. It is to be hoped that these eyes were of the pre* cious metals. Artificial eyes, were no doubt, rarities among the middle ages, but became common enough after the invention of porcelain eyes in the six teenth century. There were certain drawbacks connected with these in lat ter times. The makers, with a view to business, used to insert the names and addresses in the white sufficiently distinct to he deciphered by any one who stared the wearer well iu the face. I have before me an eye of this charac ters. on which I read in blue letters on a white ground, “ W. Jobson, Dublin, Ireland.” It was in the eighteenth century that tho era of glass eyes com menced. They had the advantage of being light, and consequently less fa tiguing.to wear, and were full of bril liancy. Now-a-days hardly any but enamel eyes are made—enamel being after all but a species of glass. These last for a year at the most. Some of the best among them look so real that the makers of them conceive quite a passion for their productions, like the sculptor i of old, who became enamored of his marble nymph. They pretend even to surpass nature, and their enthusiasm curries them so far that lately one of the | craft, wbenhlspricipal customer, whose I sole natural eye squinted frightfully, | reproached him with not being able to 1 make him look straight iu frontofhim, calmly proposed to cure the defect by : making him a duplicate artificial eye to I replace the living visual organ. A Genuine Love Story J wasescortiug home the lovely Char lotte D ; to whom I was at the time quite devoted. Charlotte could scarcely find room to spread her crinoline and arrange her voluminous llounces. X stood up near her, there being no va caut seat. After a few minutes, there came iu a poor woman who deposited a basket of clothes on the first platform, and held in her hands a small child, while a little girl hung to her dress. Bhe looked tiled aud weary, but there was no vacant seat; to be sure, Charlotte might have condensed her fiouuc-.-s, but she did not. Beside her, however, sat a very lovely audelegantyoungwoman, who tried by moving down closer to others to make space enough for the stranger between herself and Miss D . At last she suc ceeded, and with the sweetest blush I ever saw, she invited the poor woman to be seated. Charlotte D blushed too, but it was not a pretty blush at all, aud she looked annoyed at the proximi ty of the newcomer, who was, however, cleanly and decently though thinly clad. The uukuown lady drew the little girl upon her lap and wrapped her vel vet mantle around the half-clad form, and put her muff over the half frozen little blue hands. So great was the crowd that-1 alone seemed to observe. The child severed —the keen wind blew on her unpro- tected neck. I saw the young lady quietly draw a little woolen shawl from uuder her cloak, which she softly put on the shoulders of the little one; the mother looked on in confused wonder. After a short time Bhe arose to leave the car, and would have remowed the shawl, but the unknown gently whispered. “ no, keep It for her.” The woman dlu not answer, the conductor hurried her out, but her eyes swam with tears. I noticed her asshedescendedtothebase meut, anil I hastily marked the house. Soon after, my unknown rose also to depart. I was iu despair, for I wanted to follow and discover her residence, but could not leave Miss D . How glad, then, was I to see her bowing as she passed a mutual acquaint ance, who was standingjn the doorway. Prom him, eremany minutes, I learned her name and address. To shorten the story as much as possible, the lady is now my wife. In the small incident which introduced her to me, she show ed her true character. A few days after our marriage, I showed her the blessed crimson shawl, which I redeemed from the owner, and kept as memento. There are sometimes pleasant things to be found in unexpected places; certainly I may be said to have picked my wife In the cars. On Thursday last Paul Ylnger, Esq., of this place, while engaged at work in repair ing the Columbia Rolling Mill, fell from the top of a ladder to the ground, breaking hie right leg below tho knee. A La Mort. Fight EttvTocu a "Wasp aud n spider. A spider had spun her web across the bars of a small trellis, at the corner of the front verandah of our Summer dwelling. It was in the great highway of insect life, where "they swept along from the thicket of evergreens down to the garden lawn, and its gossamer in the sun and rain, finer than any web ever woven by mortal hands. Back in the furthermost comer, and behind the angle of the slat in the dark, she had fashioned her own nest, curiously woven, aud from out which unseen she could watch all of her own preserves and hear the faintest and slightest .noise made by any unfortu nate who, in his unlucky fiight, should becomo entangled in her wide spread net. A wasp came nailing swiftly and by grace greenwood gracefuliy through the air. He was an I questioned our friend Mr. Gray in elegant and splendid one, full of rare regard to Washington’s dignity of man* beauty, with his long delicate wing 3 J ner> “ Was it,” I asked, of such a lof and needle waist, and of a rare blue .t y aD( j superhuman quality as has been than ultra-marine, or the splendid j represented ? Did it impose on small color of lluely tempered steel in the i boys anti foreign ambassadors alike ?” watch spring.—He darted through the ; "Why, as for that, Madam,” he verandah, out by the horse chestnuts, l plied, ‘ I can safely say that I have seen took a smell of the newly-ripened ; nothing like it in these latter times. It cherries, without rousing the robins, I hay gone out of fashion, even with Pre who were feastingiy filled with the 1 agents ?” truth of the adage about stolen fruits j Again I was skeptical and irrev and their sweetness, and starting with ( erent enough to ask : “ How much of a sweep to cross the drive toward the ■ wa3 j n the man, George Washington, honeysuckle on the sloping lawn, he [ ant j e ow - mU ch iu thestation and in the dashed like a wandering comet into the i c i o thcs ) The costume of gentlemen of spreading net of our watching and pa* I that q uy waa> y ou remember, elaborate tieut friend the spider. I and what we should call still’. A man He was caught at the first, hut in aj j u t he Continental uniform of a Major moment his struggles to be free had en* j (General, or in a full dress suit of black snared three or four of hia feet, and I or purple velvet, with rich lace rufiles, every effort seemed only to entangle | w i L h a SWO rd at his side, with his hair him more and more. , tightly queued and thorough!}’powder- The spider ran partly out of her nest, C( j waa somehow compelled to be dig ut the first shock of the collision with , uiiieu.’' the net, and quietly watched his frantic l »» Perhaps, so ; still, Washington was efforts to disentangle his limbs, hoving i impressive even for that time, and its only a few steps at the first, but regard* co »tume. I remember hearing, when I ing it all with watchful looks, that . WU3 a child, with something like hor clearly indicated she ment to have a ror, a story of a young Englishman of part iu the struggle yet to come. i rank—a traveler in this country, who She was very small indeed and young, I j a jq a wager with an American officer aud this was her first attempt at house* 1 that be would dare to accost Washing* buildiDg and housekeeping, aud she j w ith familiarity, at one of his own could not very long have escaped from j receptions. Accordingly, at the next parental trammels and restraints; she ; he just walked boldly up to the was not nearly as large as a house lly, i president, and laying his hand on his and her little round body was not more i shoulder, lie says: “How are you, than one-eighth of an inch in diameter, i ( jgneral 1 What’s new?” while her legs were not quiet half an, ' "They said Washington never uttered inch long. one word in reply, nor even made a The wasp, ou the other hand, waa movQmeut 0 f surprise; but he turned one of the finest aud largest of that i alow | y au q looked at the offender, who species of biue wasps that boys have \ a f terwa rd B aid, ‘He almost looked me learned to dread, as they are the fiercest j through the fiuor; ’ then he crossed to and their sting the mo*t poisonest of | l!ie othersideofthercom. I don’t think any of the great family of wn rj ps, bees, t | lo young man eve-r cared to repeat his or hornets. ' 1 title experiment.” The little spider, however, while she | Thi a ancc a uLe I K ; 3 been told of Uouv watclivd the struggles of her formidable , erueur Morris, but Mr. Gray seemed quarry, and no_ doubt reflected on ns ~u iu. I)(>g <tive that the rash individual ! dangerous lighting qualities—provided who thus playfully laid his hand on the 1 spiders ever relied (widen lew who inane ( ,f the Lion of the .Republic, was have studied their live 3 and habits will representative of the Btiliah 1 doubt) —gradually draw near the itn- Ej ou __ a sprig of the nobility—one who prisoned wasp, with an evident purpose ( j lu q locked on tno face of great George of attacking him. j the Third, and perhaps knew by sight fche felt that all was fish that ame that other George, most profliga 1 •• into her net, and while she had not | pnnees in morals and prodigalin \v .ust* spread it on purpose fortius exact kind I ‘, l)a^ of game, she liad no idea of allowing | Mr (;ray continued: “Commonly, this one to escape because only he was Geueral Washington walked out in the large and dangerous to attack. She ran ; moru i n g without any attendants. He down along the web to the wasp and j uaed to go from his house down High encircled him, plainly looking for some street to Second street, on which he of point where she could attack toaiivant* ten stopped for a few moments, at laid age, but his struggle and Lis relative wa t c h maker’s, to compare his time size made actual coJisiou a daugsious j ll i that in the shop. Sometimes, I experiment, and one that she evidently b elieve j lO set hi* watch by the clock in wished to avoid. After a moment, quick j o | ( j a ( e House. He walked down as a flash she darted in, and seizing one , y ee onl to (jhoatnut, aud up Chestnut to of the legs of the wasp bit it cruelly I t j. e corner 0 f Fifth, where he would hard, aud sprang back out of his reach. , gtQ p f or a Half hour or so at the War The attack was a complete surprise to Qfq co> From thence, he walked up to the wasp. Ho had been unconscious of I street, aud theu home. He was tiie spider aud was devoting himself i BO re g U i ar an d punctual, that the people wholly to the work of relieving himself i kuewjust when and where to nu-etbini from “entangling alliances,” but her ! llis wa ih* s . Every body knew him, bite not only hurt him most intensely, and everv body made way for him but roused at once all the fight that wus mo st respectfully—the men, unless in him, and his frantic endeavors to ua kers, removing their hats, and the clear himself, and to retaliate on the WO men bowingor courtesyiug. Wash spider, were redoubled but without sue- iog always acknowledged such marks cess. ■ of respect, even from the poorest and It would have been bettor ior the | n um bl e at. in his own grand way.” , spider.if she had now declined the bat- Mr . Gray spo ke highly of Timothy ! tie, but she was plucky and full of fight p ic heriug, Washington’s Secretary of ; and she hung around him just out of ins \Var, saying “he was au eminently reach, watching like a panther for a ■ }ioneat man, and a prodigious worker.” chance to spring in and strike, where . jiliustruted this Secretary’s tireless she could find an exposed point, but the i nt i Uß t ry an d rigid system by a singular wounded wasp was on the alert for her acco uut givon him by a family friend or now, and his watch waa as sharp and i _ elativo named, I believe, White, who his guard as vigilant as was her own. f or 80me years was employed in the This skirmishing lasted some litt.e ar q{H cc . time, the spider uuable to find aa ex* "Mr. White,” he said, ‘ heard that posed place, until at last, as if impul- pi c k er i U fr wanted a clerk, and he ap sivel.y and out of all patience, at a yen* i .qjed f or the position early one morn ture, she sprang at a leg and siezed it iu j n _ with a letter of recommendation, her sharp and poisonous teeth. It was . r . pidjeriug said little, but gave him the rasliuess of youth, for the wasp , a p aper to copy. He was pleased with brought her to close quarters aud hand-| handwriting and dispatch he to-hand lighting iu an instant. An 1 j ia h ugp( i aU( j Be t him to work at once, older head would have never accepted i qq iey wrote there in almosttotalsilence such a wager qf a battle as this. It was | tiU „ oon . Theu Mr. Pickering said : now “a life for\ife," ala morl, and the . »^- ow Mr, White, we take au hour for fight must bo “to death,” aud while this dinner. pe here promptly at one, closestrugglewaswhatthe waspdesired, u , )leasoi > From one to six they and the spider had apparently tried to 1 they worked, then MY. Pickering says: avoid, she did not shrink from the con- i m Fi White, we go to tea. I shall sequences of her rashness, but sprang | cx . )ect t 0 mee t you here at seven pre like a mastiff full at the throat of her | c | ae iy ( to work till nine.’ At nine the gigantic foe. ... T 1 poor clerk wna dismissed for the night, So long as the battle was of biting, 1 ■ wa9 told to report for duty at seven thought the game little spider would ,j n l 0 coming, which he did. , have held her own with her dangerous , * * 'l'lila day was a sample of most of antagonist, but as they were grappled j uya j n that office, aud tho work of —the spider biting with fury at the . l)0 th t i ie Secretary aud his man was liead of the wasp —ho turned his long [ performed standing, at high desks, body nearly double, and commenced to , qq ierQ waa one chair in the room, sting her fearfully, stabbing herturough an j waa aacredly set apart for the and through. You could see r , i President. Nobody ever sat~in it but quiver of iier little body thatshe suffered (jjmierttl Washington. He would come terribly irom these wounds, and that the j n ie sarne hour to a minute, every content must lie short, sharp, and dec s* j- or a cer t a in length of time, aud ivc. Sho made a last (juick grasp at the a j wu Ba y * (iood-morning, Colonel mouth of the wasp and bit him with all ]>j c kering !’ in the samemeasured tone, her force. He showed pluinly by his : qq ien he would lay his hat, gloves, and contortions that lie suilered iroru her rr o id lieaded cane ou the table, and sit. bite; but, smarting from the attack, he , down jQ the bjR arm . c hair. Theu the resorted ns before tohissttng, which he ecre tary wonld hand him papers to be again and again used until her grasp on j exam i ue d and signed, or stand before hia head loosened, her body quivered, ( him to receive his orders, saying little and her limbs trembled, and lost their | himself. Afterbusiness wasover, Wash* j hold, and after one great spusm, which , ipgton never staid to chat about lighter j seemed almost a throb ofagotiy, she let I matters, not even to ‘ talk horse hut ; go her hold on the wasp, and her limbs ' took up his hat, gloves, aud cane, and j dropped listlessly down. Theguinelilile with another stately ‘Good morning,' spider wus dead. Colonel Pickering,’ went out, and left The wasp had, in the contest, become the Secretary and his man to thedr well nigh clear of the net, a few fortu- W ork.” nate struggles relieved him entirely, , "Pray tell mo what salary yourfriend, and he flew away showing tho traces ol Mr. White, received.” his recent desperate encounter. Put the ■ “Three or four hundred dollars a spider hangs suspended from her own year< The Secretary himself hail lifteeu net, swinging to and fro in the warm hundred.” Summer breeze. What chief clerk of auy department Hers was not exactly the end of 11a- of Government.however well paid, feels man, dying on the gallows he had erect- called upon nowadays, to labor like this ed for therighteous Jew, butthe meshes old-time official ? of her own winding sheet and shroud, j asked Mr. Gray what he thought of and the lonely and deserted chambers Robert Morris, of her dwelling place are the only moil- “ I think what Washington thought uments of her life, and of her death. ofhim,”he said —“that his talent for She had “dug a pit for the enemy f*.nd fl nanc j er i n g an j his patriotic devotion she had fallen and perished thereiu. did very much toward saving the na tion. “My father was Washington's con fidential courier, and I have oftecn heard him tell of a call made by the Commander-In-Chief on Mr. Morris at a very critical time, and how nobly it was responded to. “The armyWasencamped nearTren* ton, and was nearly out of supplies, and quite out of money. “One morning, my father was sum moned to Washington’s tent, and the General said to him : “Gray, in how short a time could you ride down to Philadelphia? I want you to take a letter to Mr. Robert Morris, and there is the utmost need for dispatch,’ “ My father named the shortest time possible for making the journey with a fleet horse. “ ‘ Then Just take the beet horse in the army, and set off at once with this let ter,’ said Washington. ‘“Well, General,’ said my father,‘the best horse I know of in the army is your chestnut sorrel.’ “ He did not expect that Washington would allow him to take that horse, for it was his favorite, but he said at once : ‘Take him.’ And my father rode him to Philadelphia, and made good time with him. “When Robert Morris read the letter, he asked ; ‘How soon can you start for Trenton with my reply to General Washington, Mr. Gray? “‘As soon, sir, as I can get a fresh horse,’ said my father. ‘lt won’t do to ride back General Washington’s chest nut sorrel.’ “‘Of course not,’ said Mr. Morris,’ Go to my stable, and take the best horse you can find. lam In haste to assure Gen eral Washington that I will do alllean to meet his wishes.’ “ My father got safely back to head quarters with the reply of Mr. Morris. He said Washington’s face lighted up when he read it; but he must have known Jpretty much what it would be, for he had every thing ready for maroh- A Thrlllng Adventure, A merchant to cele brate his daughter’s wedding, collect ed a party of her young companions ; they circled around her, wishiug much happiness to the youthful bride aud her chosen one. Her father gazed proudly on his lovely child, and hoped that as bright prospects for the future might open for the rest of his children who were playing among the guests. Passing through the hall of the basement he met aservant who wascar ryingaligb ted candle in her hand, with out the candlestick. Ho blamed her for such conduct, and went into the kitchen to see about the supper. Tho girl soon returned, but without the caudle. The merchant; immediately recollected that several barrels of gun powder had been placed in the cellar during the day, aud that one had been opened. “Where is your candle?” he inquired, iu the utmost alarm. “I couldn’t bring it with me, for my arms are full of wood,” said the girl. “Where did you put it?” “Well, I’d no candle stick, so I stuck it In Borne black sand that’s in the small barrel.” Her master dashed down the stairs; the passage was long and dark, his knees threatened to give way under him, his breath was choked,'his flesh seemed dry and parched, as if he al ready felt the suffocating blast of death. At the end of the cellar, under the very room where his children and their friends were revelling in felicity, he Baw the open barrel of powder, full to the top; the candle stuck loosely in the grains, with a long, red snuft of burnt wick. This sight seemed to wither all his powers; the laughter of the company struck upon his ear like the knell of death. He stood a mo ment unable to move.. The music commenced above, the feet of the dan cers responding with vivacity; the ' floor shook, and the loose bottles In the cellar Jingled with [the motion. He fancied the candle moved—was falling; with desperate energy he sprang for ward, but how to remove it; the slight est touch would cause the red wick to fall into the powder. With unequalled presence of mind he placed a hand on each side of the candle, with the open palms upright, and the fingers pointed towards the objectof his care, which, as his hands met, was secured in the clasp ing of his fingers, and safely moved it away from its dangerous position.— When he reached the head of the stairs he smiled at his previous alarm, but the reaction was too powerful, and he fell into fits of the most violent laughter. He was conveyed to his bed senseless, and many weeks elapsed ere his nerves recovered sufficient tone to allow him to resume his business. An Evening With the Past ! ing, and in five minutes the drums beat j and the bngles sounded, and the whole , army was in motion. You see, he had ( written to Morris to supply money aud I provisions, and Morris had consented, ! and set to work with All his energy. I The morning after my father’s hurried 'visit to Philadelphia, my mother re j turned frommarket,ataboutsixo’clock, saying: * It’s well! went so early. If I had been a half hour later, I should not | have been able to get a pound of bcefor ; bacon. Robert Morris is sending his men all about to buy up provisious for the army.’ “When, a few months later, she was | one night roused from sleep by the old I watchman crying under her window, i‘Past twelve o’clock, and Lord Corn i wallis is taken !’ she knew, and all our j people knew, that Robert Morris had had a great deal to do in bringing 1 about that surrender, which virtually ended the war. He had been the right I hand of Washington. Yet, while | Washington was President, Robert I Morris was confined in the old debtors' , ' prison in Philadelphia.” j 1 “What a shame!” one of us hotly ex- ! I claimed. “Why did not Congress pay j i his debts, and liberate one to whom the I nation owed so great a debt?” “Well, that was not thought praeti ! cable. Ilia liabilities were immense, aud the precedent would have been, perhaps, a little dangerous. Hew&9 a rash manager of his own affairs. He bore his misfortunes bravely, they say; but I think he used to look very sad as ho walked up and down tho narrow Erison-yard. Sometimes, I remember, e seemed to be listening, in a pleasant sort of way, to old Billy Wood, the play actor, who was also in difficulties.— Wood was an educated man, aud good company.” I questioned our friend as to his im pressions of Lafayette, Jefferson, Ham ilton, and Burr. But he had only seen | them casually, and had very faint; recollections of them. Aaron Burr he ! remembered as “a little, alert man, j with very bright, dark eyes.” 0 those wonderful Edwards eyes, full ' of power, and fate, and predestination ! : —those keen, eager, passionate eyes— j they seem to beam ou uuqueuchably In ihe memory of all on whom their • glance ever fell, even carelessly and for | a moment! i When Wendell Phillips was a child, ! j Aaron Burr was pointed out to him on | Broadway, I .think. He did not then I kuow much of the life aDd the genius, j the sin and the sorrow of that famous I aud infamous old man, but he felt and I has never forgotten the power of his i eyes. Only to-day I asked a venerable j relative who in his youth met Aaron Burr, what he remembered of him. “Not very much,” he replied ; “he was a small man, very quick in Jiis movements, and with remarkable eyes.” . Mr. Gray also, I thiuk, described Jef ferson as small, or as lookingso, in coin* as h refusal un the part of our government jarUoti with Washington, that one j t<* accept it, or, indeed, to take notice grand and lofty figure, that evidently [ ot The representatives of the Cubans in stands apart and unapproachable in the j I I IUH vimuiry have already signified to ilr. long gallery of his He Bees I ’£ tliat figure still through the beautifying lt ‘ aro concerned, the basis of settlement and exalting atmosphere, the rosy , H ubiniiled bv General Sickles is their ulti mist of childish love and reverence— , nmtuiu. after all, a truer medium, doubtless, 1 Since the reception of Spain’s substitute than the cold light of later-day theories i and the reply of Secretary Pish thereto, of his life and character, speculativeaud i about hall'u dozeu telegrams have passed skeptical. To him Washington seems ! between Minister Sickles and Secretary both nearer and farther off than he They are merely advisory of the mt wm, to |1« Thoqp calm blue pvm I llHtiuu « however,’and report no material seem 3 to us. lnoae calm blue ejes, . . )r() g r(JSS , judging from thoir contents Mr. dust and darkness for nearly eev- ilf g ia oropin fe n that Spain will ultimate enty years, shine for the old man, iy accept the original proposition offered by as they shone ou the little boy, , llie United States. Itjappears that Regent I with a lofty but not unkindly look. Serrano, as well as a majority of his cabi- 1 Their color is to him like the fair blue , net, are convinced that the wisest and best of summer skies —not like the cold blue i thing for them to do is to take the Cubans of A.lptuo glacie*a. Tbo more than t “«■ their word, and get the hundred millions royal dignity of that martial aud pater I o( which poor .Spain atamta ao much in nal presence is to him simply and grand- | lronbla iS| however) that Ueret oforo puremorahty and honest ( lhe 3p UU i S u people have been kept in pro- Christian faith of the leader and saviour ; j- oun j ignorance as to the true proportions of the nation ; of the representativegen* ; Jind condition of the insurrection in Cuba, tlernnu, with his careful punctuality | They have been led to believe through their and unerring property, his generous : press, which is controlled by the govern hospitalities and exact economies ; of . meat, that the rebellion wus insignificant, the kind neighbor and just master ; of and that in a short time everything would the lover of children, dogs, and horses, l, e quiet and Cuba would become once more are to him better than all the philan- ! “ r f’ ue tahhlul isle.” Serrano and his coun thrnnv And much nf the religion nf mir ! sellors are in reality afraid to reveal the thropy and rnucn or tne religion or our true g(ute Df affairs, which the acceptance . . , , , ... T lof the proposition of the United States While this friend talked with us, I, j would d 4 o> r IL ia thought, therefore, that, as for one, felt that I had taken a dip into , already stated in these dispatches, final the golden past. I had fancied that I action will bo postponed until a king is too hadseeu Washington, and had my ! selected. little head thatched for a moment by 1 _ "" his broad white hand ; that I had eaten . sweetmeats from that bounteous table i iu the old High-street house ; or, better still, met Washington in his stable, ! among liishorses. j But all such pleasant illusions were j dispelled by our visitor glancing at the j clock on the mantle and exclaiming: | “ Bless me, it is nearly eleven ! I must be going.” Then he shook hands all round, and ; with kindly adieux and graceful com- j pllments, left us. 1 Ah ! what a troop of old-time shades | went out after him into the summer, night! Washington, stately as ever, | but more human and home-like than j Lie had before seemed to mo. About, him was a Caiut, ogreeableequlue odor, | and the shadow of a stag-horn trotted i after him. Besides him walked his . comely, comfortable wife; and just, following went pretty prim Nelly Cur- j tis, and that young prig, Master George Washington Parke Curtis. ! We might have pictured as waiting! for this august party, iu the dim star* i light, just outside General T ’sdoor, I the old cream-colored chariot, drawn by six spectral boys, with a ghostly I John on the box, the lively apparition of a footman besides the steps, aud a spook of a postillion mounted in front. These all vanished without sound of rumble or gallop, with silent cracks of of impalpable whips, and iuaudible huzzas from the little boys of long ago. Robert Morris passed out witli head bowed, and after him, with something of a stage stride, “Billy Wood, the play actor.” Then went Thomas Jefferson, witit his cold, unbelieving face, aud Timothy Pickering hurrying back to the War Oilice, and Alexander Hamil ton,with hisgrave, statesmanlike mien, and Aaron Burr, with his quick, nerv ous step, and his magnetic, masterful eyes. ! Ana so closed our evening with the 1 11,1,1 «*««/.■ D;»pcrn<ii>. Au Iligiit Tears’ Pestilence in Emlin< The i'Vi'cmi of Imllu says “ It ia almost impossible to conceive any- j thing more deplorable than the state of tho fover-atricken villages of Ilooghly and BurJwan. The magnitude of tho calamity and the utter helplessness of tho people, whilo they excite our pity, ulmost lead us to despair. In the shortspace of eigbtyears the fever has, it ia calculated, swept away two-thirdsof the inhabitants of thedesertud villages. tbe mortality has been far greater. When tho East Indian railway was opened, Pandoosh was a nour ishing town, numbering (5,071 souls. In 1862 tbe fover appeared, and since that time 5,222 persons have fallen victims to its at tacks, and the miserable remnant wander like spectres round their malaria strick en home, diseased in every limb, and bearing on their pinched and saddened laces the unmistakable marks of a linger ing but early death. The state of the chil dren who have a lifetime of work before them is even more deplorable than that of the grown uprnen. 'ldo notthink,’ writes the sanitary commissioner after visitiug these villages, ‘ that I exaggerate when I say that live sixths of the children under eight years of age hay© spleens four times as large as natural. Infants are to be seen like famished objects, bearing the expres sion of pinched and ghastly old uge, their ribs starling outwards, and the usuul tumid spleen bulging forward with ominous con vexity. Tney more resemble the monstros ities one sees preserved In pathological mu seums than anything else. An atmosphere of silent despair seems to hang ovor the worst villages, and no wonder for every thing Is rotting the air, the ground, the vital organs of tbe people.’ ” Tbe Jovial Hobeson. The Commercial Advertiser comes up to the defence of the Jovial Robeson. It says that it is no harm for such a Magnificent Secretary to take the Tallapoosa and cruise around for pleasure, even without tbe per mission of Congress, because it costs no more to run the vessel with Robeson and all his luxury aboard than to run her upon any real public duty. That ia all true, wo dare say, out it doesn’t justify tbe extravagance and pomp of Robeson in the least. If the Tallapoosa is needed for tbe public service, let her be kept running, and let the Treasury pay her bills according to law ; but if she is no longer needed, lay her up, discharge her men, stop consuming coal at $8.75 a ton in her furnaces, and save the whole one or two thousand dollars a day which she costs when in motion. To keep her afloat for the mere gratification of Robeson’s love of splendor and ostentation, carrying him about in royal state at two hundred times tbe ejpense of travelling by tho regular publio is an outrage upon publlc’honesty and an insult to publio de cency which will not soon be forgotten.— Y. /Sun. 1 Tbe Negotiations i n Begard to Cnba. ! The Baltimore Sun publishes the follow ' ine special dispatch : j Washington, September s.—There has been a great deal published lately concernfftg the negotiations inaugurat ed by Minister Sickles with the Spanish government for tho settlement ot the t.Niban difficulty, but it appears from the official documents on file in the State Department that very much of it is a mere speculation, and most of it wide of the mark. The original proposition presented I to Regent Serrano and his cabinet set forth I that, whereas thero is now prevailing in the j Island of Cuba devastating war, destructive j of life and property, and inimical to tbe in j terest of trade and commerce, the interests of humanity, and with a view to bring tbe i sanguinary struggle to u close, offer their j services'as a mediator, j The proposition submitted by. General Sickels was in tho following terms : First, | the Spanish government is to acknowledge ; tbe independence of Cuba* without contii ditions. Second, the Cubans are to indem j nify Spain for the Spanish property on tho I island, such ns castles, arsenels, forts, cus tom bouses and other public buildings ; the aggregate amouut of indemnification, bow • ever, is not to exceed one hundred million of dollars. Third, slavery’islo be abolished on the island. Fourth, as boou as these propositions are accepted by both parties, hostilities are to cease, and tho United States government will guarantee the ful fillment of ttie agreement to both parties. About two weeks ago Secretary Fish re ceived a dispatch by cable from General Sickle*, which was the reply of the Spanish government to tho abovo proposition. After statiDg that Spain accepted tho mediation of tbe United States, aud thanking our gov ernment for tbe interposition of itsgood offices for tho settlement of tho difficulty between Spain and the evor-faithful isle, tbe dispatch goes on to say that, in lieu of the basis of settlement proposed by tho Uuited Stales, Spain offers tho following : First, tho Cubans to lay down tbelr arms. Second, Spain to grant a general arauesty to tho insurgents. Third, Cuba to pay Spain for all tho Spanish property on the island and for all the properly of loyal Spaniards destroyed by the insurgents. Fourth, suffrage to be granted to all tho population of the island, so that the people may have an opportunity todecide whether they will romatu with Spain or whether they prefer to be separate uud independent. Fifth*, Spain will guarantee full protection to such of the insurgents as may bo selected to couic through the lines of the Spanish army for the purpose of treatiug with tho representatives of tho Spanish government for a settlement on tho basis of these propo sitions. Sixth, the Uuited States to guar antee to Spain the payment of Cuba’s pro portion ol the public clebt. In reply to the above, Secretary Fish sent a dispatch by cable stating that the govern ment of the United Slates wasglad tc know that Spam acceptod its mediation in tho difficulty which had arisen between Spain and Cuba. Inasmuch us tbe attempt at negotiation f>r a settlement had been thus far successful, bo trusted the Spnnish gov .-rnuu-nt would deem it to be for its best interests to accept tho proposition offered by Minister Sickle-'.. f ;Mr. Fish,in this dispatch, made no allusion to tho substitute pre sent, d by Spain, which may be regarded Bcrlons Affrny at a Cninp Sleeting. During lust week a camp meeting of col ored Methodists was held at Morrisville, Pn., a small town on the west side of tho Delaware, nearly opposite Trenton, N. J. Un Sunday the attendance was nearly 10,- 000, and the services during the day passod off with no disturbance worth mentioning. During tho evening, however, and while the preaching was in progress, Samuel Gaston (white), and Charles Brown (col ored), became involved iu a dispute rela tive to some trivial matter, when Brown attacked Gaston with a sword-cane. Gaston avoided a lunge, and, drawing his revolver, tired two shots, one of which took effect on Wm. S. Anthony, wounding him severely | in tbe thigh. Alter the second shot the no j gro again attacked Gaston, this time wound* ! ing him in the thigh. Hu fell, and his an | tugonist rushed lorward to complelo his j work. Gaston again fired, his first shot ’ entering Brown’s breast, and tho second taking effect in his head. While the light j between Gaston and Brown was raging, tho j crowd of whito and colored “roughs” ; who surrounded them, engaged in a goner* i «1 skirmish, during which James Latten, I (white,) of Camden, was cut so severely ou I the head that his recovery is doubtful.— | William .Shepherd, (white,) und Henry White, (colored,) were severely beaten, tho 1 latter being cut about the head and should ers with a knife, so that it ia feured he cun* j not live. Gaston rnado his escape from tho camp, pursued by a largo number of itifu 1 rimed negroes, and reuebed Trenton at a | late hour on .Sunday night, lie recounted ; tho circumstances of the case to tho Mayor : of thul city, uni} offered to surrender him -1 self, or to give bail for his appe trance. As ho refused to bo contincd, and as the Mayor had no authority to Imprison him without | his own consent, for a crime committed in unother Ntute (unless on tormiil complaint,) ! ne vras allowed to depart. Ho has not since been seen, although Pennsylvania officers are in search of him, aided by tho author!* ; ties of Trenton. Brown is reported to have ' died of his wounds, and While and Dutton t are now in a critical condition. Up to last 1 evening thero bail boon no arrests. How Ho Was Kllleo Tho Nashville Union of the 3d Instant learns from Wiley Steakley aud John Tem pleton, tho men who killed Carter, tho fol lowing particulars as to the cause und man ner of hm killing : It seems that Carter had repeatedly threat ened the life of .Steakly und Doc. Charles, a brother-in-law to Templeton, bccauso they hud assisted in arresting Carter in Alabama. Tho threatened purlies, knowing how well Carter usually kept his threats, were afraid togo about their ordinary business; Steak ley and Templeton armed themselves for tbe purpose, and were on tbe lookout for Carter. They overtook him on last Wed nesday night, at JimC’lark’sdriukingshop, in Van Duron county, and about three quarters of a mile beyond Rock Island, at the forks of the Kentucky aud Sparta roads. Understanding the situation they conceal ed themselves near by, when Carter scon rode up, aud just after ho dismounted (per haps he had stepped into the drinking shop and back again) they tired upon hint with double-barreled shot-gun. Carter tell at the first lire, and tired himself three shots. The concealod men then rushed upon Carter, when he begged them desist, as he was al ready killed, but thej tired upon him with pistol, swearing bo should not escape this time. Ho exclaimed: “Oh, my poor wifoand children; what will become of them ?” He lived only ten or fifteen minutes. These two mon wero the only participants in tho tragedy. Steakley and Templeton are still at largo, and show no desire whatever to evado un arrest. They aro both young men, and under tbe medium size, and do not look, talk nor act like they had com mitted any crime. Fatal Aoci(lenf|u> a Lady in Norfolk, Tho Norfolk Herald ot Thursday gives tho following particulars connectod with tbe sad event: “ Her husband, John Conoly, was night miller at Mr. Goodrldge’s flour mills, and Mrs. Conoly visited her husband at the mills on Wednesday night. On her arrival her husband hnving occasion to go to tho third story to attend to his business, she followed him up, and after seeing that all was ri*ht he sat down near the mill, his wife seating herself by bis side. In an In stant his wife was drawn forward, her clothing having caught between two cog wheels. As soon as Mr. Conoly discovered this he caught her by tho body, but was too lato as one leg had been literally torn off between the ankle and knee, and tho other near the knee joint. In savlDg her body from being crushed he pulled her from the machinery, but life was almost extinct.— The alarm was given and the englno-stop ped, when surgical aid was sent for. She was taken to her late residence, where an Inquest was held. On examination of the body It was found that she had received internal injuries which cassed her dentb. Conoly was a native of Baltimore, and wastnarrled abont the* sth of August last. A despatch from Hayes City, Kansas, re ports a fight between railroad surveyors and Indians, in which one of the latter was killed and two were wounded. Sad Case of SalClde In Baltimore. i A case of suicido, attended with more | than ordinary interest, occurred yesterday morning at bouse No. 72 Sharp street. Dr. ' E. J. Hudson, a young physician, about | twenty-eight years ofage. from Richmond, I Virginia, took up quarters at tho house in question on Friday last, and stated that he came o this city for the purpose of going into the drug business. He appeared to bo in a dejected state of mind, but nothing strikingly peculiar was noticed in his ac tions. Yesterday morning he did not ap pear at the breakfast table, but soon after told the landlady that ho felt unwell. Sho administered to him a small dose of lauda num. He then sat down to the piano and performed the air “ Ever of thee, 1 am fond ly dreaming.” Shortly afterwards ho went out, but soon returned and wout to his room. A few minutes afterwards tbe laud lady, hearing some one fall in the Doctor's room, went up and found him almost life less, and in a few minutes lie expired. He left a seuled letter directed to bis wife in Richmond, and tho following note address ed to tho landlady: “Please telegraph my brother, Captain E. M. Hudson, Camp street, New Orleans, aud he will repay you for all your kind uess to me. Do not allow a post-mortem examination, as I can tell them that thirty grains of cynuldoof potassium, administer ed by himself, is the euuso of my death, or rather freedom from the accursed ills 1 caunot bear. Send tho letter to my wife, ite. Have my body decently buried, and my brother will repay you. Do not, by any means, let my wife’s picture be taken from my body. Truly, your friend, “ Du. K. J. JU nsoN.” “P. S.—Send my trunks, Ac., to my wife, in Richmond, Yu.” ’ Dr. Carr, city coronur, was not'Tied, und summoned a jury of inquest, who, after making an examination of the facts con nected with the unfortunate affair, rendered a verdict that the deceased “committed suicide by taking cyanide of potas-ium.” The body, after the inquest, was taken lti charge by tho coroner, aud banded over to Joseph F. Byrne, undertaker, No. 51) North J Liberty street, who will lake care of it un til disposed of by friends. The letter writ ten to his wife has been forwarded, and his brother at New Orleaua notified of tho ting ic-death. It is slated that before the war the deceased was in wealthy circumstances, uud at the lime of tbe breuking out ot tho conflict ho was sojourning in Europe. He returned to this country, however, and Joined General Elsoy’s command, of the Confederate army. The deceased was tall In statute, aud ruther prepossessing in ap pearance. The picture of hid wife was placed upou his bosom in tho coffin.— Bal timore &un of luetidiiff. An Important niseovery—A Hew .lletliixl of Prenervlni; tlio Human Uody—A HlvalofProl. Uiiuikpc'i A correspondent of tho London Atlie* nicum, writing Nuplos, gives snmo interesting information respecting Hie means employed by I’rofossor Abbate, of that city, lor preseiving the human body, He says: “Some secret similar to I>r. Abbule's lias existed for a long time, as all travelers who have visited Florence prnbuhly well know. In the cabinet of Physiological Anatomy, in Santa Maria Novella, there are prepara tions of portions of the human body by Dr. Segato. The Grand Ducal government re fused to purchaso the secret, which died with Segulo. Ilia preparations, I repeat, wore only portions of the body, whereas thut which is now being exhibited in Na ples, is the ontlre body of a youth ol seven teen years ol age, who tiled of phthisis about tho end oflust January. Fur live months thereafter, it has resisted tlio action of a very variable atmosphere. Thu features, tho integrity of the form, are perfectly preserved as they were at tho moment of death. Tho nails have a roscato hue ; there is no odor of any kind, and tho llesh has the hardness almost of marble. To this let it bo added thut the hair adheres so tenaciously to ihe head that H is impos sible to remove it, of course without vio lence. Tho operation of mnbalming or petrifying is effected in ajfew hours, without the necessity of removing the dress : Indeed another body has been potriffed, according to the name system, without taking otT tho dress, and even preserving the gloves on, ‘ We know,' says a medical gentleman, not an Italian, to whom I am indebted for these details, ' that some gentlemen in Naples, after having proved what wo have stated, have uiudo an alteration in their wills, im posing it us an obligation on their heirs that tbej’ shall apply the .sj’stem of Abbute to their bodies, lu the event cf llioir dying before the professor. “ This discovery has, however, a more practical and moro important phase, that Is, iu preserving meat fresh. Abbato as- i sorts he has succeeded completely. There are difficulties in this special application of it which would not present themselves In the petrifaction of human bodies, such as tho danger of introducing substances inju rious to health, or affecting the taste, the appearunce, or the nutritive qualities of tho meat. All these difficulties Abbate de clares he Lias overcome, and it is a known fact that a first ruto house in Italy, whoso commercial relutlous with tho Americans are considerable, has already niado off'erH to Abbate on the subject. I fit be proved by experience to be true that the whole somo food of mun, which Is now thrown away In vast districts as utterly unavaila ble, or Is only melted down fur the sake of the fat, ean by simple and inexpensive means bo exported to F.urope fresh and good, un inesiimablo boon will have been conferred upon humanity. This our pro fessor asserts he can do, and as ho ulready has done so much, surely Ills system de servos the attentive examination of all scientitic uioit, During his life Abbate has no Intention of making known the secret . of his discovery, but he is prepared to visit any part of the world which ho may be re quested to visit, and show the results of Ids Invention.'' A Ml gif cl ofUoM Found Worth 825,<>00 nml Weighing 100 Founds. | bYnm th ?i Francitco Herald, 22<1,\ A nugget of gold vviiH reco.vod yesterday morning hy A. T. Furrish it Co., weighing 10t3 pounds, helm: almost ii nut quito tlm largest over taken out in this Stale, and wltuin a few noun sof any ever found in modem gold digging. It is valued for about 1 $”'),0(H). In Iho sumo we find :j»>7 <i'»• 100 ounces werro secured in smaller quantiles, from tin to ToouneeH each, and al-o one cake ofline gold, retorted, weighing about l, ISO! ounces, all of which are now in the posses sion of Mr. Karris. This extraordinary pile, $011,1)00, wits obtained in one day by two men, from the Monumental Quartz mine in Sierra Huttos, Sierra county, owned by W. A. Furrish and others. William Famuli writes that In two days ho would send as much more. The vein varies from one to threo feet, find Is lilted with decomposed quartz. The gold is obtained by sluicing, | using quicksilver to catch the lino particles. •The tubings only go through an araslra. | The Sierra Br.Moa and the Independence Inline are located on lho same mountain. It is only two months since Messrs. Furrlsb commenced work on this mine, and they have got In a few feet. A week ago they sent down S;i,UUO ns the result of two men's labor for eight or nine weyks. from the i inn lYanchco Times, Tho gold nugget taken lust week out of the Monumental Quartz Company’s eluim, ia Sierru County, and weighing lud pounds, is not, as staled by tho Bulletin, either “ub moat tho lurgost ever taken out in the Stale,” or “ within a few pounds tho largest over found In modern gold mining.” A brief account of the largest nuggets whoso dis covery is rocordcd will show that while the Monumental one is an extremely satisfac tory “ Jind,” it cannot take rank among the tir.'.l-clas.s nuggets. In 17GU a jneco of gold weighing sixty pounds, troy, was found noar La I’az, in Peru. In 1 Sin a ntig get weighing thirty-seven pounds, troy, wu3 found in Cabarrus Comity, North Carolina. A mass weighing ninety seven pounds, troy, was discovered In Zlatouch, a district of the Southern Ural in 1812. Tho Blanch Barkly nugget, found in Australia, weighed MG lbs. Gdwts., trqy. Another mass weighing lit! pounds, troy, wus found in ISol in the same country, and also u nugget of 10G pounds. The ” \Vel como Nugget,” found in Ballarat, IHGH, weighed 2,020 ounces, or IGS pounds, troy. Another nugget, weighing 11- pounds was found in Australia a lew months ago. The largest.nnggel ever fouml in California, so far us we are awure, was 100 pounds weight, and several Imvo been averaging from twenty or thirty up to a buudred pounds. These largo masses have been almost inva riably found In deposits of a similar char acter to that in which tho Monumental i claim is situated, und wo shall not be sur prised to hear that there ure rnoro largo lu trips whore the hundred-and-six-potindor came from. Dexter HcntMiniNßUest'finddlo Time, One’ Friday afiornonn, after the heat of the day was past, Mr. Bonner drove tho famous Dexter In a road wugon over to tho Fashion courso to givo him a fast brush on the track. 110 found tho eouree like a ploughed Hold, in consequent** of its being deeply harrowed for tho running meeting to bo held there next week, so that fast driv ing was out of the question. John Murphy, the famous trotting jockey, who rode Dux ter in bis momorablo match against tlmo over this traok.when he went in 2:18 I*s, ob serving that Dexter was moving freely nnd fast, asked Mr. Bonner’s permission to breeze bim around under tbo saddle, which was given. Procuring an old and heavy saddle, Murphy mounlod his old favorite and sent him around the track. He found the.littlo horso extend himself in his long vigorous stride so fast and freely that ho re quested Mr. Bonner and the lookers on to time him a mile from stand to stand. The traok had been' deeply harrowed fivo feet from the fence, so that ho had to go out wide on the track to get tolerable going. A fair send-off, and the white legged equine loco motive shot forth on his mile career at a marvellous rate of speed, and when the watches were stopped us the horse crossed thej score again, their hands showed the time of two minutes and seventeen and three • quarter seconds i BATE OF ADVEBTISIAG. JuanfEsa AnvKßTißEiiEjrcs, 812 a year per •juare of ten lines; so per year for each au- Ifclonal square. Real Estate advsbtibiwq, locenta aline for the drat, and 6 cents for each subsequent In* sertlon. letcrrai* Advshtl9iko 7 cents a lino ror the flm, and 4 cent* for each hubiequout luaer* lion, *. i’ttciAL Notices Inserted In Local Column 15 cents per line. /KCiAii Notices preceding marriages deaths, lu cents per lino for first insertion! and S cents for overy satseqaeut insertion!! JAX. ATTD OID RB NOTICES— Exocutora’ ..otlces ......... Administrators’ notices,... Assignees’ notices,- ...... Auditors’ notices, Other “Notices, ’ton lines, or loss, « three times, - 1.50 Outrage by n Negro iu flimtrr < omily. In our lust issue wb state.l that a n"gro had committed an outrage upon the person of a child nine years old. It was i hen m-ecs ary to withhold the lmmo until at) nrri-i had been made. On Friday muitrng Con stable Doran proceeded t-> the farm of Harrison Bradley, iu White Clay Creel; Hundred, and urrejlod the ia gr<> numi-d Edward Smith, about *JI years of n-;*\ who was tliero at work, and a hearing was held before Esquire O'Neill on S •tuulay mom. ing. The facts are briefly these: Hanlson Bradley is au unmarried man. Heem ployed a widow named Eliza M. Sanders. She did his marketing und was esteemed by him for lier honesty and care. On tho 7th of August she went to market and lett her child bidding her toswoop tho up -stairs rooms. Bradley went to tho null, und tho negro says he laid him to.stay at tho house. Tho child says she went up stairs to sweep and Smith followed her and threw her ou tho ted uud perpetrutt d a nameless out rage. The fretting of the child fn>;n Injur ies led to the facts being communicated to, 1 the mother, sorrrO days after the deed was ' done. The mother witn her child left Brudloy’s ami came to Wilmington to live, and on Wednesday lodged the complaint, on which the negro was arrested. Tin* ne gro plead not guilty; but lofused to make any statement In his defence, although re peatedly requested to do so by the magis trate. Dr. Askew’s aervicea were called in to make au examination, uud gave a cer tUicate that the'child had been irjmed, but that neither were nlVootod. with disease, was sent to New CJaytlo, to answer the charge on assault mi the child, in defaultjofJ-,000 ball. Tills Is a dreadful warning to parents ; and tho rich as wi ll ns the poor should heed it.— H7.>f r/nW. >• Jr/lasuniau, Horrible Accident—-A Itallroari 4'oiulnc tor f-'alln luto n Durninu- oil Tmulc Tho Boston of Tuesday gives the t« 1 lowing piutluilars of a terrible accident : A terrible accident occurred on the Bos ton and Albany Ballroad last evening which resulted in tho lalul injury ot one nmti and tho painful although not serious lujuty ot another. In the freight train winch h-Il Boston at seven oYiot k last evening were Home ears upon which wne tanks used n>r tho transportation of petroleum in bulk. Tho tanks had been emptied at East Boston, and were going back to Etio to bo tilled. They aro quite large, of cylindrical lurni, two upon each ear. Across tin* top of them Is laid a plank upon which brakomeu and conductors can pass Irmn cue part of the train to another. Last night tho conductor of tho I rain, M r. Samuel Brcslon.when near Now ton Cm uer, bad occasion to pans over onoot thnoii cms. Ho had his lantern in his hand, and im snon as ho roached tho first tank tho tiro ot Ids lantern ignited the gases winch wen? gene rated hy the residue of the petroleum, and au explosion Immediately took place. TM** interior of the Lank became cno mass of limning gas, into which Mr. I’reslon fell. Alter thu severest struggles he extricated himself from the tank and Jumped from tho train, and in his agony ran toward a lield near by. Om- of the employees about the depot at Newton Corner saw him, amhlmstllv got a blunket und by wrapping it around him suc ceeded in putting out the llames, which his burning clothing cuu scd. lie was fright lully burned, but did not lose Ins consciousness, except for a few moments, lie did not re member how lit' got out of tho luuk, but It is known that he extricated himself. As Hoon as possible ho was placed on a train and brought to this city, and was ‘uriiod on a litter to die Massachusetts (leneral Hos pital. Jn removing his clothing tho skm from his abdomen und legs came oil in shreds. His hands anil arms wero badly blistered, and his body was burned. Alter great nutTering he died this morning. Hu was about thirty years of age, and has a wife in Worcester. <;uiul>)lng'!n Until, For the latter half of the past week gold at New York was feverish and excited, and advanced from bid in the middle of the week to 1374 on Saturday—an advauce ol •Iji p C . r cent, in three days. There is noth ing in Uio business of tho country in the operations of tho Treasury, in the customs demand, or iu ihocomhlion ol the money market, that warrants any such Huctua lions in the prices of gold as wo have hood. Thu movement Is one of hold speculation—. speculation entered upon with the solo purpose of making money at whatever com to general business. A party of capitalists created a pool hy each contributing his quota, the purpose of which was to ninko gold scarce by buying up and holding as lurgo an amount of it as their means would cover. They have purchased many mil lions, and gold, on' Saturday, touched 137$ and closed at 137, with the avowed declara tion of tho operators of carrying it into thu forties the present week. We have in this transaction another evidence of tho hoHouh evil resulting to leglUinulo business hy the use of an irredeemable currency, which Is thu measure of raluo of a commodity itself n measure of values in every other country. No importer of goodH, no payor of duties, can do business with safety or satisfaction, under such fluctuations in gold as charac terized thu market last week. While Now York city is tho scene of operations the ef fects are seen and felt all ovor tllo country. The most Inconsiderable interest bears its part. The only real and permanent rem edy for this condition of things is the cur liest possible return to a currency converti ble Into coin on demand.— J’hiUolci/ifmA Lcdf/cr, A Judicial Trick. The Uiullcul innjorlty on tin* Supremo Hunch of thin State, young hs political par tisans, have issued un order preventing tlui holding of n Nisi l'rUi.s Court uulil niter the election. Tho order reads u* follow* : “ For (Jurlutn.— And now, July 7, IWI'J, it is ordered that no assignment cf iijudgo bu made to hold Nisi I'riun during Ihe months of September and October noxt, and that Courts for these months be omit ted for Iho present year.’ ! This older was imulo two months ago, hut not published until yostoniuy. It wus withheld Jrom tho public thus long, wunuh pn:t, to prevent those who desire to ho nut u rail zed from applying another court I until a late day, ami thus crowd the court with, applicants with a view to debar as many as possible from the privileges of citizenship. Jt is expected of course that those who inleud to vole Iho Kadicul ticket will lmvo precedenceuudiprefereui’o lu obtaining nut ! urallzatinn papers. Hut the maln'otiject of 1 tho Radical members ol the Supremo Court ■ in issuing tills order, doubtless, was to close I one of the main avenues to nalurall/.'ilion, and thus increase the difficulties and de lays incident to naturalizing foreigners, ills a trick worthy of Head, and Is a re freshing variation from the trick of last year to defraud of the elective franchise such foreigners as doslro to vole the bomo erulic ticket.— Sunday Mercury. Chicken C holera. A correspondent, writing to tholowu I)o partmunt of Agriculture, says • “My chickens have boon dying of cholera for the last two years—oven turkeys lmvo died of the same disease. When tho hens begin to droop und look sleepy, tflvo them tLiroo or four table spoonsful ol strong alum water, and repeat the next day. Also mix their feed (say Indian inonl) with strong alum water, feeding twice a day for two or three days—afterwards once a week.” Another gentleman, writing to the Htimo department, says : “ Take two eggs, oik* tabiespoonful of finely pulveriz-d alum, and a sufficient quantity of flower to make a thin paste, and force tho chicken or turkey to swallow a portion of the mixture, and there are two clutnci-s to one that it will recover. I lmvo also used alum once q day in their food as a preventative when tills is prevalent. Fowls should never have.ac cess to swill tubs or uny other kind of sour food.” Ills Own Executioner At Pond City, Kansas, on the Vloth ult., a muii named John Langford wus seized hy a vigilance committee of that city and taken outofthotown to be hanged. When lie was informed that lie eoulu hope for no mercy, ho confessed that be had alreudy killed six men, und IT Ids fate could L>o postponed for a few days ho would kill as muny more. Alter making this confession, uud giving utturutico to some horrid blas phemy, he puled nil'his boots, and placing tho rope around his own neck, swung him self oil the tree, aud thus wus his owu oxo cutionor. LungTord wus half Indian, about twenty-two years old, and bud led a desper ate life all over tho bordor. Tho Nelf-Inimolutlou of 1,700 Kaswlnua AW tbo extraordinary proceedings of tho tunny fanatlual sects whoso rapid Increase has excited so much anxiety In Russia, aro fulrly thrown Into tho shade by a terrible act of self immolution which la reported from the Qovermnentof of Suratoy. A few months ago tho prophets of a new religion made their appearance iu that part of tho empire, preactilng solf-dostruclion by llro ua the only sure road to salyatlou; and so readily was their dreadful doctrine received by tbo ignoran t uud superstitions peasantry that In one largo village no loss Jthau sev enteen hundred persons assembled In some wooden houses, and having barricaded tho doors unci windows, set the building on liro and perished la tho flames. Tho authori ties aro doing ull they can to stay tho pro gress of this new madness, but their task Is obviously a difficult one. Tho puulsh rnenta which the law can inflict must have little terror for enthusiasts who deliberate ly choose a death so horriblo as tbo true road to heaven.—Pali Mall Gazette. Tho X4»bor-Keforin Forty. Boston Sept, o.—ThoStato Central Com mittee of the Lubor-Reform party of Mass achusetts at their mooting to-day voted to call a political State Convention at Mechan ics’ Halit Worcester, on Tuesday, Septem ber 28th, to nominate a Stato Labor ticket.
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