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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.
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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.