THE LANCASTER INTELEIGENCER, PanLori= EVERT WEIDREISDAY , IIT H. G. SMITH ,dc CO. H. SMITH. A. J. STEINMAN. - TERMS—Two Dollars par annum, payable n all oases In advance. THE LANCASTER DAILY INTIRLIGLIC(CER IS published every evening, Sunday excepted, at par annum In advance. OFFICE-SOUTIINVMT COIFICER OF CENTRE QUARE. Voettv. DREAMING OF ME. My love she lay In slumber Though morn was to the sky, And so I dropped the curtain whit, And took a seat near by. "She dreams of me, my darling wife I cried o'er her !face Dimples and smUesniternately, In teeny ply gave chase. I watched her quivering eyelids move So 111,4„441 1, 1 4 1v's cup, Till, ster g from her trance or love, My darlh one woke up. Oh, such a dream, Fro had - eried sh " Of angela,' qui.rleti 1. I.llimUott; more den r In 100 'Chan angel all aIAI ry !" "Dreaming of MO my vain heart, eried ine, her all In all ;" ISM seta the Inighl Illusion did, And hear: hail .seen a rn. I thought ti falrty cattle, she ' , aid, Anil :tit:bred intiortt toy eytts Sloth lovely sttt lns, sllk4 tool hltutt.l As tillt.tl TM' with surprise. And :LS, rvels, why tiny .h.or, Ea,:lt brig and dazzling grill That (La, might gr., A mnarch's diadem. Affil 11.11 were 'nine. - sad.lcutal tun I :41,1,11,1111.r utterance frvo; All4i SO, Illy thlrllng, SI lu.o yOll `MIA. You had 110 Or Inc?" Hhe threw her arm , : olgoil my noel All of her own Kw eel will— " 1"4.8, prelow+ ono, I'm Nort• I had /dreooo , / you Lill:" I+lt%CrUalroua. THE ()NMI CALAMITY DECISION OF Tit F. lllllTttilf COURT have received front Yokohallia, Japan, a full report of the proceedings of the Court of Inquiry held at llie Brit bill Consulate at that place on the 27th of January, to investigate " the circum stances of and attendant upon" the re cent fatal collision of the English Steam er Bombay, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental,Steitin 'Navigation Compa ny, and thd nit,' States war corvette ()neida. 'rile Court consisted of live members, namely: John Frederi, Lowder, the Itritish Pre:hie:lt ; Jelin TillI:- Inr, Commander Itoyal Navy, :11111 David Afoore, Stall' Commander Royal Navy, teeth on Juty uu Want tile Prilklt War Steamer th•ean; John master In:trine's, in i,1011.11 . 1 4,1 the ISritiAt Ste:llll,h ip Nultan, NVilliam l'hap -11,;t.11, ( 1 1( those presenl :mending npen the pro evedings \veil. Sir Harry Parkes, the British Minister to Japan; Captain Stanhope, E. 1)e Long, States :).1 Mister to Japan, who appeared as vonnsel representiner the sur v ivors ~r the (nleida. 11E1=11= Arthur otlkt• officer of the Bombay, deposed to the following : Ili,, ship ul six about a wile to the northward of the lighthouse; he heard the gong sound on the fore castle [wive, and looking ahead saw it bright light half a mite otr on the port bow, almost directly after saw the two side lights; the captain turned on the whistle anil telegraphed "port the helm," which was kept :wort till the green light Was to,t,ight, or; the pilot then said, "'That will do, she's well clear now;" the captain said, " No, keep the helm hard :mon ;" suddenly the other steamer headed right across their bows ; the engines were stopped !mil the holm starboarded to try to pass under her stern, Militia. Itinnhay sud denly struck her between mizzen iihan nets and illiarlor gallery: she instantly glided ell', :Ind lie Was seal by the cap tain to sound the well, :it the salmi time the order was given, " hard-aport," to clear their boats :mil stern ; he went, to the roreliolil to see if ally Water Was be ing illaile, and to the forecastle, where some pieces of sail Were It:miring over the !tows, and sent the gunner on the bowsprit end In see what semis married away; the only thing that he could there iliseover Was the bobstay carried away; he reported 111 thin captainshe was making water in the sioreroolli, but lie rould lag tell how Mach till the stores were cleared out, hut there did not seem to he much damage; the cap tain was then standing with the pibit and said, "if they wart assistance they'll certainly show a rocket or two or lire a gun ; what do you think I had better do? do you think she i, much dam aged t" the lilt said, -Nii, you ran i_to ;rpm like, 101 l see there's any ()evasion for it ; you don't know what damage IS aline inn your eau ship, and you have the mails etc board ; you had better go on ;" Captain said, "tint.- pose she !mil met with any severe dam age, is, there anywhere sin , could go for safety:"' the idiot replied, "Yes, on the spit (dose here;" Captain asked then "Could slit , sink then , '."' pilot said "No;" directly after that witness re ported that the cutwater and head work were gone and a spar hanging under the bowl:, and that she Was making water fast in the ( . 0111p:ill ineli ; the Men were clearingout the storerooni, punipingand bailing water; on hurtling thin' mail sig nal, a blue tight over the bows, lie discov ered aspar through them; on anehoring, he lowered a bon! :Intl Weill mnlerihc bows where he found the spar had gone right through, and that other plates had started below water; it was:Mout an hour after the collision they nffind (rut the spar through the bows, when tiring the mail signal oil " Treaty Point ; the signal is a gun, Iwo rockets and a blue light; only reported it after they anchored, he could polite:lye the forecastle before; at the lime of the collision the 1 - 10111 1 / I ty WaSl/111 . 111112 . a inastli,ml :111,1 two side lights, all burning . brightly; he did not distinguish any boats on board the other vessel ; did not hear ally S./1111d or voice calling ; he WaSl/11 the bridge till she cleared 11112111111111 COOlll have heard if they:lnul been halted; he heard no guns and saw no signals of any kind from the other ship; he was in a position 111 hare heard and seen if there had been any; he was some fell ntinntei below; When he entire on deck he raw nothing of the other Ve,,Cl; the other vessel instantly cleared after the collision; he did not See any lights on board the other vessel at the time; he did not see any lights through the vessel's side or through her port holes; the collision was just in touch ; just a hound and a graze, 111111 oil she went flying; he could not see her crew ; he went down below immediatelvaftershe had cleared them; it was a dark starlight night,with strong northeast wind,with not 111111 . 11 sea; the other vessel was about a mile till' when we first saw her ; she was bearing about north half west almost imm e diately after they saw the masthead light they saw the side lights; when they shut out the other vessel's green light the two vessels must have ireell almut four or five ship's lengths apart ; when she hauled across them of course we opened her green and shut out her red light; they did not starboard our helm until thoy saw that if they did not do so they must strike her right amidships; he could see no one on board the other vessel ; saw no nivaiures taken on the other side to avoid the collision ; when site hauled up to cross their bows the vessel must have been about four ship's lengths off; if any order had then been given to lower all the; r boats it would have taken six to seven minutes; this would com prise boats that Would carry the whole ship's company ; two InKits arc always kept ready to lower; they could he both in the water in two minutes; it would not take ten seconds to strike a blue IL`4 they are always kept read.) ; this is customary on the I'. and 0. ships; lie did not see the other vessel clew up her sails. The evidence given by Richard Con nor, the pilot on board the Bombay, was to the effect that he was on thestar board side of the vessel and went over to the port side and saw a steamer's light about four or five miles northerly; he told the captain there was a steamer coming down, and the captain turned on the whistle; the vessel way about half a point on the port bow • he sang out to the helmsman to port the helm ; right away afterwards the captain sang out, " hard a port," the ship went off about two points, so as to shut in the green light, when he spoke to the cap tain ; said his ship was off far enough; the captain said, " Let her gO a little further ;'' just at that time they saw the green light open out and the red light shut in ; they were then about a mile or a mile and a half apart; the other ship was then heading right across the Bom bay's bows; the captain rang a bell to stop the engines, and got hold of the bridge and said, "My God ! there's go ing to be a collision ;" witness told him .ti," , --', _. ,_ I ! ;I'; I. ,e_ . ./ (_l , --),:.1. - 7 (..I_' i ;., .; I: i I*/ ,-1 i )_1.1.1:1'1 - /". I '1(, !dH I /7 ',I - 4T, -. / ' ) "--- , !-.!I I ' P a , , .:,,.,1.. , r . .. 1 it t , ~! , VOLUME 71 it could not be helped; they had done all they could to get out of her way; she was wrong ; he thought it must be a Japanese vessel, seeing she was under sail, and they did not know what they were doing on board of her; immedi ately after that they came together; , he was on the starboard side of the bridge when she struck; he heard no noise aboard the Oneida; he sang out to them and asked them what they meant; the chief officer was on the bridge and started down the ladder just as the collision took place; after the ship was just across their bows the captain sang out " hard a starboard," and when she was dropping down clear, " hard a port," to clear the stern and boats ; she had all canvas set, and it was blowing a strong northeast breeze, so she went out of sight In no time ; the captain then asked him in case the ship came to grief whether there was any place she could go to ; he replied that there was no dan ger of that, but if there was.the spit was close at hand and she could ground there, or, the way the wind was, she would drift ashore at Kanonsaki, for which she liras heading; the captain said then "Surely if there is any danger they will fire a gun or a rocket ;" they were both looking aft at the same time ; the chief officer conic on the bridge, and the cap tain asked what damage had been dune; lie replied he could see nothing, but the bobstay was gone, and a part of the ves sel's sail blown aerossthe bows—so that it could hardly be seen what was the matter ; the captain and he were still looking aft, and Captain Eyre asked him if he saw any signals ; witness told him, "No, they can't be very badly damaged, or they would give a signal ;" the chief ()Meer who had been down below came on the bridge again, and said there was a spar through the ship's bow and site was making water very fast; the cap tain asked witness what was best to do ; witness said if the other ship was in dan ger she would have shown a light, and the hest thing to do was to go to Yoko hannt ; the bell was rang to go ahead slow," afterwit - rds it was "full speed;" the mate then came aft and reported eight feet of water in the hold ; Captain Eyre asked him where the spar was driven through. John \lorry, the carpenter of the Bombay, in his cross-examination, said: I was about six feet front the ship's rail on the starboard side when the ships struck • I heard a person on board the other ship, just after the collision, sing out either "ship ahoy' or "steamer ahoy;" that's all I heard, and an officer from the Bombay answered; did not hear any to the Bombay's answering boil ; 7 (lid not hear her steam whistle; did not hear any gun tired; I did not see the flash of any gun ; I did see a break made into the Oneida by the Bombay; I think it was a little about the mizzen mast, near her starboard quarter ; when she struck I could not see if the other vessel had a Wheel 111/use, but I saw a part fall over to one side, but I could not say what it wits; I saw something that the Bombay had knocked away go over toward the port side; it was on the (leek; I cannot say if it fell overboard or rot; it looked like a wheel house or some thing of that sort; I saw at this point a light; I saw three met; 1 saw two men handing one man toward the fore part of (he ship ; I saw no more persons; I saw a light through this hole, which ap peared to me to fall on a table; I didn't see anything on the table, as if there was a meal spread, or anything of that kind; I saw the three men on one of the decks; if she hail a poop deck they must have been on the spar deck ; the third twin was being supported along by a man on either side of 111111; I could see a lamp, but whether it was hanging above or on the table I cannot say ; 1-41 W that lamp, I think, through the hole which hail been made ify the ; I did not see the wheel of the vessel ; I saw What I thought to be a table, but no other furniture; the light and the table were on the same deck on which I saw the Mall hemp supported. Robert B. Clements, of the Royal . Navy, testified as follows :- 1 went on board the Bombay on the evening of the • 24th ; I hoarded the steamer as ofileer of the guard and asked to see the captain ; lie came out of his cabin ; I said to him, " What a long way out you have anchored ;" lie asked me whom he might have the honor of ad dressing I told him who I was and that I wanted the senior officer's mails; he stud he thought he was quite justified in anchoring so far oil, as it was difficult to tell at what distance the lights were; he had never been on the coast of Japan before, mid that he was also in the hands of a pilot, who had advised him to an chor there ; besides that he had cut the quarter ill the Yankee frigate in coming up the bay; I then said it must have been the Oneida, I hope she is nut seri ously damaged, and is she in want of of assistance? ; he said no, he thought not ; he had laid to for some time, and he saw no signal denoting that she wanted rlSSislance; he added that it was seeing no signals of distress that he had made up his mind to go on and land his passengers and nails; he said he thought she wouldn't go on, but that site would come bade here to repair damages, and ' that he had got some of her booms and sails on board and that he must have knocked some of her boats away or something of Unit sort ; I asked him if he was thunaged himself; he said that he was, and that the ship was making water, but nothing very serious ; after that I proposed that I should go into the saloon and wait for the mails; we talked on different things ; I had a con versation with the doctor of the Bom bay ; either the doctor or the captain, I can't say which, said that he could sec the lights in her cabins; that was all that took place regarding the collision. • To Mr. Be Long—lt was between eight and nine P. M., that I boarded the steamer; I did not board her the next morning, ; I can't say whether the doc tor and captain were both present when the remark was made that the cabin could be seen into ; I don't know whether it was the captain or the doc tor who said it; one of them certainly did, as they were the only two to whom I spoke ; I will swear that Captain Eyre said to Inc, " I have cut MI the quarter of a Yankee frigate ;" he said, " Served her right, she crossed my bows with a starboard helm ;" I said that was a curi ous thing to do. Thomas H. Leventhorpe,sworn states —I am a lieutenant on board her Majes ty's ship Ocean ; I boarded the Bombay ! on the night of her arrival, almost di rectly she had anchored; I was not on duty ; the midshipman of the boat was with me ; his Milne is Henderson ; the first otlicer I conversed with was the doctor ; in the course of conversation he asked me what steamer had gone out that evening; I told him the only one I knew of was the American man-of-war Oneida; he told me they had been in collision With a steamer, and that probably that was the one; after wards I saw Captain Eyre, and he described the collision to me; lie told me he saw lights about half a point on his port laity, that he had ported his helm and was all clear, then that the other vessel had evidently put her helm to starboard and run right across his bows ; he also told me that he had turn ed on the whistle and 'stopped the en gines before the collision ; I think I made the the remark that she would surely put back; he said "Yes, you will g see her before lon ;" somebody said on board that they could see right into her saloon, but I am not sure who it was . made the remark; I believe Captain Eyre was present when this remark was Illatle ; several people were then on deck at the time ; Mr. Angus was there at the time I know, but it was a dark night and I could not dis tinguish faces; I cannot swear that the captain heard what passed: no conversation took place about signals; they certainly did not think on board that the Oneida had been dangerously Injured ; they seemed to think onboard that it was simply a question of repairs; they did not say anything about any man on board the Oneida having been injured; I went down into the saloon with Captain Eyre ; I was talking with lady passengers who told me that the shock was like a slight grazing, like running on a rock easily; the ladies were Lady Parkes and Miss Binns; Lady Parkes told Inc she was in the saloon, and that when she felt the collision she had run out; she said she had run outside the saloon, think ing that if they had struck on a rock she would have a better chance for a boat; she did not say anything about having seen the other vessel ; the other lady did not say anything to me ; I was talking to Lady Parkes; Capt. Eyre told me that he did not seem to have sus- tattled much damage, because his an chors were hanging athis bowsallright; afterwards he told me they had found a spar through the stern; the impression I had was that he had discovered it while I was on board ; I did not hear anything about what quantity of water the Bombay had made ; Mr. Hender son, the midshipman . , was present on deck while I was talking to the aaptain. MASTER YATES IN CHARGE OF THE The statement of Master Yates, one of the survivors, has already been part ly published. We give the main points of his testimony before the Court: Isaac S. Yates; sworn—l rank as mas ter ; am considered a responsible officer to take charge of a ship; when the Oneida left Yokohama it was generally understood we were homeward'bound ; the other men-of-war cheered as we railed ; at a quarter before six o'clock, outside the anchorage, all plain sail was set, and we were going at tux knots un der sail and steam ; the masthead and side lights were burning, the lookouts were stationed, there was a man at the lead, both sides, and the proper men at the wheel ; the course was south by east, one-quarter east ; Mr. Muldaur, the nav igating officer, was on the bridge; at twenty minutes past six they thought the vessel was drifting in to starboard or Kanonsaki light was drawing more ahead; they had it half a point on the starboard bow and it got right ahead nearly ; he thought the ship was sag ging in towards the right hand shore ; he sent for Mr. Muldaur and gave the order to starboard a little ; the ship was slowly headed up to port, his object be ing to bring the light to the same bear ing. Just then the quartermaster on the forecastle reported asteamer right ahead he saw a steamer's masthead light coin ing round Kanonsaki Point; the mast head light passed from ahead to star board ; then he turned around and saw Mr. Muldaur, who spoke to hint, and said. "What's the matter, Yates ? " Witness replied, " 1 think we're sag ging into starboard, and I ordered the helm a starboard, and there's a steamer's light going a head to starboard ; " Mr. Muldaur said, " I can't go any mom to port ; the must head our tours° ; he asked the quartermaster how the ship then headed : lie said southeast by south so she had come up a point and three quarters: the witness then ordered her on her course—south by east one-quarter east—and the quartermaster reported her so when she got there; when the ship was on her course they could see the steamer's masthead light on their starboard bow, changing its bearing further alt ; not long after Mr. Muldaur and witness both saw her green light on their starboard bow—something over a point—and she was then evidently run ning nearly parallel to the Oneida— pretty well 01 shore on the starboard side—the right hand side—the western shore : Jlr. Muldaur said he saw her green light; wanes said he did also; Mr. Muldaur then said "She'll pass to starboard of us"—also witness' idea; she was then over three miles otT; the Oneida was on her course all the time, and the ships of course approaching each other; when the steamer was a mile off, three points on the starboard bow, he sass' she put her helm to port, by the new direction in wilt eh she headed; she headed right for the Onei da's starboard green light ; witness was standing on the starboard side of the bridge; the instant he saw her red light open he saw all three lights and gave the order " starboard" and then " hard a starboard :" t he quartermaster answer ed ; they headed off rapidly to port and kept on heading otrthat was; when the steamer was a short distance from hint she put her helm to starboard ; if she had not dmie so when she did she would have struck the Oneida more forward. Ile did not hear any order given on board the steamer, but knew how she was being steered by her motion ; heard no noise or any signals on the steamer before the collision or afterwards, Lot he heard one just as she struck ; some body then sung out, " What iii hell are you about but whether to somebody on board the Bombay or to those on board the Oneida I could not say ; the Bombay struck his ship not long after starbirmling her helm—perhaps fifteen seconds, but could not say—about the starboard mizzen rigging at an angle of forty-five degrees or thereabouts, and cut off the whole of the stern quarter diagonally, carried away the poop, which went, over into the water astern, the spankerboorn and gaff, the wheel and starboard binnacle; its she struck she cut the gig in two, smashing it ail up ; the only binnacle left was the one on the port side; the ship was instantly entirely unmanageable; as soon as she struck he gave orders to shorten sail; the square sails were taken off the ship, and the main trysail ; the spanker was gone, but the head sails were not haul ed down ; as soon as she struck the offi cers all rushed on deck from below ; Captain Williams was brought on deck by two men, and Mr. Stewart, as soon as he touched the deck, ran fur the port side, jumped up on an arnichest near the rail, and sang out in a loud tone of voice, "Steamer ahoy! you've cut us down. Remain by us;" the Bombay at the time was under the stern of the Oneida—across her stern, but immedi ately went out of sight ; only heard Mr. Stewart shout out once, and heard no body else hail the steamer; heard no answering hill from the Bombay; he then jumped down from the chest and said, "For Ood's sake an't there any primers about? Where's the gunners mate? Where's Langdon 1" the pri mers—all that were aft—were carried away, with all the rockets made up, and all the blue lights for signals; the blue lights were in a box made fast under neath the poop tootle of the beams ; the rockets were also made fast along the beam ; the primers were in the armory on each side underneath the poop; soon after Thomas Stephenson got primers and Mr. Stewart and Mr. Adams loaded and fired the gull "starboard No. 1, di vision :l," just forward of the bridge. The calibre of the gun was thirty-two pounds; the charge was six pounds of powder. When the captain came on deck wit ness told him that the other ship had ported her helm and cut him down ; lac said, "I know it, sir, but let's save the ship, we won't talk about it;" he gave orders about keeping silence on the deck, and also more orders about short ening sail, which had already been com meneed ; when he next saw the captain about a minute after, he asked witness to go and see if the jibs were set; wit ness went, and reported that they were set ; he said that was right; then there was a change in ideas; they then pro posed to pay the ship's head (amid run her on the western shore; orders were given to set the foretopsail ; there were several officers forward ; witness gave the order to man the topsail sheet ; he saw Mr. Sargeant there, and then heard Mr. Muldaur call out for witness to help Idin get the pumps manned; the car penter was there and got the pumps manned; both steam pumps and deck pumps were going, but the water was rising very rapidly, and the ship sink ing very fast by the stern ; just before she sunk—about three minutes—Mr. Muldaur asked witness to see how she headed ; he went aft to the port binnacle and saw she headed E. by N. ; he judged she must have run some two miles after the collision till her headway was stop ped ; just before the Bombay struek,tlte officer of the forecastle sang out " Port," with the idea to swing the ships paral lel, as the Bombay was passing their centre; witness would not repeat his order; Mr. Muldaur told him to go on the bridge and tell the captain, as he was sounding with the lead, trying to find bottom ; witness did so; the cap- tarn did not say anything; immediately Mr. Muldaur came running there and said the ship would sink in three mi nutes by the stern, and begged the cap tain to take to the boats ; they had been clearing away the boats before, and get ting them ready to lower; the first cut ter at that time was out of her cradle ; the first and third cutters were the only boats they had after the collision—ex cept a dingy, which was broken in two and was only hoisted at the davits to store beer in ; the captain would give no order to take to the boats ; he made re ply to Muldaur's request, " No, no, never mind the boats ;" he understood that notwithstanding this Mr. Muldaur gave an order to take to the boats ; about that time the bridge was very nearly in the water. Just before it floated in the water he asked the captain if he would jump with him into the cutter, but he made no movement to do so ; he made some reply which witness did not understand; it was something to the effect "he would sink with his ship ;" witness thought he would jump, and did so, dropping his trumpet as he jumped; he sank; having on heavy overcoat and a muffler, but came hp almost directly and struck his head against the side of the boat; while being hauled in he turn ed his head to the right and saw the LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING APRIL 6, 1870 pole of the foretopgallantmast sticking out of the water, but just going down ; when begot iota the beat he stood up and looked about for the ship, but could see nothing of her nor"anything in the water; just then Mr. Crowinshiels swam to the boat, and was hauled in ; then he saw an officer in his shirt sleeves in the water, who cried out, "Yates, for God's sake, save me; that was Mr. Stewart; witness - ordered the men to "back down," and they backed their oars for him, but he sank just under neath the stern of the boat; he saw no other person ; he had an idea that he saw Mr. Muldaur, hut could not say so on oath ; he begged the men to stay by the ship, and they did so ; but all soon saw that theirboat was full of men; they had quite a number in the boat when she was lowered, and half were hauled in afterwards; there were forty-four in it altogether, and it was not very large; there was a great deal of water in it too, and a little came in; orders were given to bale with shoes or hats; witness saw that to save themselves they must get ashore as soon as possible ; and the men were elaruoroustogo on, and commenced to pull their oars ahead ; he begged them to stop ; then theywould stop, but would go on in a minute; any way, they headed fur shore, and went before the wind heading into the land when possi ble, steering with a long oar ; just before they lauded they very nearly capsized in the surf, but finally all got on shore, landing on rocks near a village in a cove on this side of Kanonsaki lighthouse some of those saved stayed there all night, but others straggled off after wit ness went to sleep and walked to Yoko hama; next morning he got up and, leaving Mr. Crowninshiels and three men who could not walk, lie started off with a small party and got to Yokoska about ten. He had forgotten to mention that the Oneida's steam whistle was blowing from the time of the collision until just before the ship sank; saw the man Ja cobson turn it on ; Jacobson was lost ; think the gull was fired four times from the Oneida; all the shots were from the same gun ; the sound of the fourth was somewhat smothered, as the vessel was about sinking; the lieutenant wanted the gunner's mate to get primers and powder; he should judge the primers were got from forward; we fired four times from the same gun, because the primers and powder were at that gun , and suppose Mr. Stewart kept them there ; witness only stayed there with him until lie fired that 0110 gun ; none of the guns were loaded at the time of the collision ; he should say that thirty seconds after the collision their whistle was blown, and that five minutes elapsed before the first gun was fired ; the Oneida floated fifteen minutes after collision; I think the tonnage of the Oneida was 1,300 tons, with the engine room. (Admitted that the gross tonnageof the Bombay is 3,376.) The new tonnage of the Oneida was 605 tons; the boats they were short of were the launch, the second cutter and a dingy; they had a dingy, but she was useless ; he collie away in the first cutter, which was carried on the port side; the doctor Caine away in the third cutter ; which was carried on the port quarter; there was no other officer saved whose duty it was to be on deck ; the boatswain was saved ; he was a warrant ollicer ; Mr. Stewart hailed before the whistle was blown and immediately after the collision took place; witness did not know who ordered: the steam whistle to be blown ; the Oneida's whistle had a very loud tone and was a very large whistle ; from the Oneida lie could not distinguish any figure on the Bombay ; he saw a great many lights ; he was standing on the starboard side of the bridge at the time of the collision, and had to hold 071 with his left hand ; he was looking at the Bombay when she struck, an 4, did not see either of her side side light 7 - utter the collision ; he saw several lights on her deck, but could nut see all her lights at the time of the col lision ; he looked over his shoulder when she struck the Oneida; saw her green green light before she struck. IMICEMEI MT= Serge Istomiu, first Lieutemint of the Russian gunboat Vsadnik, stated that on the evening of the collision he was in the midshipman's room when he first heard the sound of a gun : it was about ten minutes past seven ; not being sure it was a gun, he did not pay any atten tion to it, shortly afterward he heard distinctly a gull, but from what direc tion he could not say ; shortly after wards he heard another; witness could not say if those guns were from a man of-war, and did not speak to any one about them ; could not say whether he heard the Bombay's guns ; he heard two guns; it was hetween seven and half-past; might have .been quarter print; he did not see any rockets. Further evideuee was offered on this point by Lieutenant Colehack, but the Court did not require more. Mr. De Long then offered to prove by Major Sheppard, United States Consul at Jeddo, on oath, and also by his own oath, that about the time the Oneida was said to have sunk guns were heard in Yokohama. He was sitting in Ids library with Mrs. De Long. They all heard and counted three cannon shots following each other; and at the time spoke of it to one another, wondering what it could mean. He further ten dered evidence of Mr. Lyons and other American merchants as to their hearing guns. Mr. Barnard observed that he had no objection to Mr. De Long bringing any evidence. He could bring two ladies who were in the Bombay's cabin who never heard g 1.111.4. He could also bring Mr. McDonald and Mr. Dare, who reside nearer the shore than the United States Minister and were more likely to hear the report, but did not. The Consul re marked he had consulted with every member of the court as to whether it was neceiiisary to call any more witnesses on the subjea, and they decided it was not. The President pronounced the follow ing decision of the Court : The questions before this Court are : 1. Was the injury sustained by the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Navigation Company's ship Bombay brought about by the fault of the Com mander, Mr. Eyre? 2. After the collision had taken place between the steamship Bombay and the United States corvette Oneida, what was the conduct of the master of the former vessel? The two statements of Captain Eyre and Lieutenant Yates are utterly irre concilable; and though the collision is accounted for by each of them, it cer tainly could never have occurred if both are correct. It is, therefore, necessary to look further, and see how far each is is substantiated. The statement of Mr. Eyre is borne out in all its material points by the evidence of the pilot and chief officer, who were on the bridge with him, and also by that of all the officers of the Bombay who are able to testify to the circumstances. With regard to Mr. Yates' statement, however, the starboard lookout man of the Oneida' affirms that about fifteen minutes previous to the collision he re ported to Mr. Yates that he saw a mast head light right ahead, and that as soon as he could make out one of her side lights he reported her green light be tween half a point and a point on the Oneida's starboard bow. About a min ute or a minute and a half after that he reported the steamer IBombay) about four or five points on her starboard bow and cominw ' right for the Oneida's green light; but at no time did he see the Bombay's red light before the collision took place. The helmsman asserts that he heard the Bombay reported three different times by the lookout to the of ficer of the watch—first, half a point on the starboard bow ; secondly, a point and a half on his starboard bow, and, thirdly, as coming right for the Oneida; that lie received an order " starboard," then "steady," and then to " let the ship come on her course again," after the second report had been made, and that after thp third report had been made Mr. Yates again told him to star board—after doing which" he saw the Bombay's masthead light about five points on the starboard side of the fore sail; that he kept his helm hard a star board until he heard an order given tq port, and that as •he was in the act of obeying the order the two ships came into collision. It will thus be seen that the statements of Mr. Yates, the look out man, and the helmsman, are more or less conflicting ; but it may be gath ered frOm them that when the Bombay's three lights should have been seen by the lookout man as well as by Mr. Yates, she was about three points onthe Oneidas' Starboard bow; about half a mile distant and porting her helm. Mr. Yates states that at this moment he gave the order "starboard," and: then "hard a starboard." If these Orders had been promptly. obeyed, the Court is of opinion that the ships'could not hate Come into collisiorf. But the statement of Albert Rugarirt, the bet meman4Shows that ,the Oneida's head was about south east when she struck—by which it would appear that she had only come up about three points in three minutes, so that Mr. Yates' orders could not have been promptly obeyed.. Hence it is impossible to account for the collision by the statements of the survivors of the Oneida if these are un reservedly accepted. We are of opinion that when Mr. Mul daur said to Mr. Yates that he could not go any further to the port or eastern shore, and ordered him to resume his course for fear of running on the Sara toga spit, he should—knowing that it was his duty-to getout of the way of an approaching vessel on his starboard side—at once have brought the Bombay on his port bow, and so opened out his red light insteadof simply resuming his course. That if when a collision was seen to be immient, the same prompt ness had been shown by the Oneida in porting her helm as shown by the Bom bay in putting her helm hard a star board it might possibly have been ar rested ;•while, after it occurred, its ef fects would certainly have been far less serious. It is shown by the evidence of the Oneida's officers that at no time was the Oneida's speed slackened / afte the Bombay came in tight; and that although the Bombay was considered to be persistently breaking a rule ui the road by porting, the Oneida's helm was nevertheless kept a starboard; and thus the judgment required to he exercised in order to counteract the presumed mismanagement of an approaching steamer was nut slump. These obser vations are not made tt.s a judgment on the management of the Oneida, which is peyond the province of the court to consider, but simply in order to institute such a comparison as is necessary to show the grounds upon which the court ar rives at its conclusion. If the statementi of Mr. Eyre, his pilot and officers are to lie believed, we judge that he was right in keeping on the starboard side of the channel, and that he acted perfectly aright in porting his helm as soon as he saw the Oneida's lights o. the port bow. We judge that he should have slackened speed as soon as lie saw the Oneida's lights; that he acted rightly in stopping his engines; that he had no time after stopping to reverse them, and that he exercised a sound judgment in starboarding his helm when he saw that a collision was imminent, and that the Oneida's helm was kept to starboard. Upon a comparison of the foregoing statements we find that the damage which has been sustained by the Bom bay is in no way attributable to the de fault of her commander, Mr. Eyre. As regards the second question which the court is called upon to decide, viz: the conduct of Mr. Eyre after the col lision had taken place, it may be ob served that it has not been without long and serious deliberation among our selves ' and a most careful consideration of all the evidence adduced, that we have arrived at a unanimous decision. We find, from the evidence before us, that on a dark but starlight night, the 24th of January last, the steamship Bombay, through no fault of her commandder, Mr. Eyre, came into collision with the United States corvette Oneida in the close vicinity of Saratoga spit, situated some ten miles from Yokohama ' • that the effect of the collision on the Bom bay was comparatively slight, that guns were fired frown the Oneida as signals of distress from ten to fifteen minutes after the collision took place ; that the re ports of these guns were not hefted nor the flashes seen on board of the Bombay ; that after the collisizm the fact of the Bombay having been hailed from the Oneida was reported to Mr. Eyre; that Mr. Eyre only knew that some of the upper works of the Oneida had been carried away, and was unaware of the amount of inju ry sustained by her; that the Bombay was a mail steamer, carrying passengers and cargo, and was built in compart ments, only one of which was reported to hint as making water fast; that the whole extent of the injury sustained by the Bombay was nut ascertained till the day following the collision ; that im mediately after the collision it teas nut considered to be serious, fur had it been se it is natural to suppose that the knowledge of the pilot would have been availed if, and the Bombay run on to the Saratoga Spit ; that, in our opinion, no danger to the Bombay, her passen gers or cargo was apprehended by Mr. Eyre; that from the questions he asked the pilot he evidently thought that the Oneida might possibly have sustained serious injury ; that he waited at the mast five minutes after the colli sion to see if signals of distress were made from the Oneida; that after his ship again proceeded lie gave no orders that a lookout should be kept in the di rection of the Oneida ; that had lie or any one else been keeping a proper lookout the flashes of the Oneida's guns must have been seen, though their re ports might not have been heard. Under all these circumstances it be comes our duty to pronounce whether, in our opinion, Mr. Eyre was justified in proceeding on his voyage Without waiting to ascertain whether the Oneida was ill need of assistance. We recognize the fact that he was placed in a position of great difficulty and doubt, and in circumstances under which he was called upon to decide promptly ; but we regret to have to re cord it as our opinion that lie acted hastily and ill-advisedly, in that, instead of waiting and endeavoring to render assistance to the Oneida, lie, without having reason to believe that Isis own vessel was in a perilous condition, pro ceeded on his voyage. This conduct constitutes in our opin ion a breach of the thirty-third section of the sixty-third chapter of the mer chant shipping act amendment act of 1552, and we therefore feel called upon to suspend Mr. Eyre's certificate for six calendar months from this date. FRED. LOWDER, British Consul, President of the Court. ARTIIUR Commander British steamship Ocean. EAvin Moons, Stall' Commander British steamship Ocean. JOHN GILFILLAN, Master steamship Sultan \\)t. CIIAPMAN, Master of Rocklin K ANAGAWA, 12th Feb., 1870. Mr. Barnard then rose and addressing the court said :—I have a duty to per form under the circumstances, which I will do very shortly, having somewhat anticipated that I should be called on in the interests of my client, Captain Eyre, to respectfully appeal against your judg ment to the Board of Trade. The President—There's no appeal to the Board of Trade. Mr. Barnard then respect ful y subm t ted that his Honor had misinterpreted the meaning of the act, and that there had been no legal duty shown by which it appeared Incumbent upon Captain Eyre to turn round and chase the other vessel, and that the Court was not called upon to give an opinion upon moral ob ligation. The President—Let me tell you at once Mr. Barnard, we do not ask for anybody's opinion, but we arc account able to the Board of Trade—and the Board of Trade only—for the decision which has been given. It is perfectly unnecessary for you to argue any more. The court then rose. Difference In the Quality of Eggs The Journal of Agriculture says, though most farmers keep fowls and raise their own eggs, there are many who have not learned the difference there is in the richness and flavor of eggs produced by well fed hens, and those from birds that have been half starved through our winters. There will be some difference in the size, but far more in the quality. The yolk of one would be large, fine colored and of good substance', -and the albumen, or white, clear and pure; while the con tents of the other will be watery and meagre, as in thecrent fowl, to proper ly carry out an complete the work nature had sketc ed. In order, there fore, to have good eggs, the fowlashould be well fed, and also provided, during the months they are unable •to come to the ground, with a box containing an abundance of fine gravel, that they may be able to grind and prepare their food for digestion. Of eggs; those from the domestic hen are decidedly the,best,;.but those of ducks :and geese may be used for -some of the purposes of domestic cookery. I StIIMOY, 1 Preached In the llTszlort Bethel. Lancas ter, on Sunday 7Yorning. March 27. 1570, by Bev. C. Forney, Pastor. THEME: CHRIST'S REAL AND I' ERPET- IS= Text And , lo! lam with you alwdys, oven onto the end of the world. Math. LN: If this language is to be interpreted according to the evident meaning of the words, it becomes: .1. A strong proof of the superhuman character of the speaker. Even confin ing the promise of His presence to the persons whom He immediately address ed, Christ could not have fulfilled it as a man. But among all Christians, and in all the ages since Ills ascension, this promise has furnished a ground for faith in the universal, real anti perpet ual presence of the Saviour. In addition to this thought there are three others suggested by the text and context, which have some bearing in determin ing the super-human or divine charac ter of the author of our text, viz: 1. The extraordinary conceptions which Christ had with respect of his mission and work in the world. This fact appears in striking contrast with the views entertained by His immedi ate disciples, even for some years after the Saviour's ascension. To Him the field was the world. Those for whom He came were the lost of all stations, and peoples. And this enlarg ed Character of His views is manifest in every word that He uttered respecting the Kingdom of God and His relation thereto. The second fact that lifts Him above the creatures which He came to save, is the remarkable consciousness of His self-sufficiency for the work.— All power is Mine, was the significant introduction to the commission. No whore in Ilispersonal ministry does He betray the least uneasiness as to the ad equateness of His power and resources for the full accomplishment of the work committed to His hands. 3. The third fact which lifts Him above the human into the sphere of the Divine, is the benitieent use that He proposed to make of His omnipotent power. A right use of extraordinary power betokens unusual greatness of soul. such were the events which had been crowded into the forty days previ vious to the time when our text was spoken, that the " language of doom" might come after the announcement: " All power is given unto Me iu Hea ven and in earth." But it was not for purposes of destruction, nor of punish ment, nor of revenge, that He would use this power. All power is given Me; therefore, go teach and save and bless all, and I will be with you and aid you to the end of the ages. 11. The character and magnitude of the work thus committed to the apos tles and the church, demanded the sym pathy and encouragement promised in this text. 1. 'Phe broad and far-reaching con ceptions of great minds overwhelm the the feebler powers of comparatively weak minds. This was the danger here. Twelve illiterate fishermen against the world—the sins, the prejudices, the opinions, the customs, the laws, the lit erature, the religions, the vast vested interest, etc., of the whole world. All these things must have presented them selves to the minds of the apostles. S. The resources at their command must have appeared otherwise wholly inadequate to the great work to be accomplished. Twelve men to preach the gospel in all the world! Men too in no wise qualified to meet the polished and learned peoples of Greece and Italy and Egypt. Their means were limited. Barriers were in the way of travel among, and intercourse with, the different nations of the world. And then, too, it was by the foolishness of preaching that the end was to be attain ed. Moral power has ever been under estimated. The apostles were not pre bared yet to trust it its the means of ringing the world into subjection to Christ. • Swords and spears and slings and all the cruel enginery of war, us ever, were the symbols of mighty con flicts. Of these they had none—were to have none. They needed the pledge of "all power" that their hope might not make ashamed. 3. The character of the work was such as to meet with extraordinary opposition on every hand. To revolutionize a nation's religious faith, to cause it to change its gods, is an undertaking of great magnitude. Men's religious opin ions, especially, area partof themselves, and to attack them is to quicken into active opposition every power that may be used for their defense. False systems of religion are allied with the corrup tions and lower propensities of our car nal nature. Christianity is the perpetual enemy of all forms of corruption, of sin and of impurity. A holy religion is, therefore, the most difficult of all relig ions to propagate in this sinful world. Besides, it is the tendency of Christian ity to unitize the human race. It breaks down the separation walls of nationali ties, of rank and caste, of wealth and intelligence, of condition and complex ion. Christians and man are the two words that permit of no sectional or specific definitions. 4. Then, too, they were called upon to wrestle with the powers of darkness that are ever in league with wicked men. The influence of these spiritual agents upon human thought and con duct is great. In their subsequent writings are occasional intimations of the character and strength of this influ ence. The presence and power of the Stronger one was needed to bind the strong one that the heart-palace might be 'emptied, swept and garnished as a habitation of Uod through tire Spirit. 111. And now in this great and diffl cult work the help of the All-powerful is positively assured. There are no wants experienced by Christian men in the work assigned them that will re main ungratified. "My presence shall go with thee," iq a sufficient pledge of all blessings. 1. It is the presence of none other than God Himself. The preliminary thoughts submitted are a strong pre sumption in favor of this statement. The Bible testimony for the deity of Christ is clear and conclusive. He is God manifested in the flesh. The his torical Scriptures are not careful, in reference to the fulfillment of this prom ise, to distinguish between the three persons of the Trinity. " God was with them," says Luke, and yet in other places it is the Lord Jesus, and again the Holy Spirit. 2. It is a real presence that is spoken of, however it may be specifically defined. The proposition is a plan one, " I am with you." Mystical or mysterious it may be, but it is none the less real. It intimates His presence, i 1.) As a power —both physical and moral. During the apostolic times physical power was needed as a means to the se curement of moral power. As nations and men rise higher in the scale of in tellectual and moral development, phy sical power is less necessary. In Moses' time the dividing of the sea, the giving of manna, the sweetening of bitter waters, the quaking of the mountain, etc., helped to the enthronement of Je hovah. Christ's ministry was largely devoted to the physical wants of men by the exercise of miraculous power. But especially as a moral power is Christ with His ministers and people. It is power that saves. Christ is God's world-saving power. Without His presence the gospel does not save. (i.) As a quickening,strengthening in fluence is Christ with His ministers and people. It is not alone the body that weakens under burdens and labors. The mind and spirit feel the enervating effects of Christian labor. We are, too, inadequate for the committed work. But through Christ strengthening us we can rile all things. . . . (3.) He is with His disciples as a light to illuminate their minds and guide them in the way of truth. Christ said, "I am the light of the world." This is the light which shines upon the pages of the Bible, and removes the obscurity and darkness from the sacred text. God is thus the infallible interpreter of His word. Without Him as the light we remain in doubt or uncertainty or run into, error. Apostles, as well as modern ministers, needed this light. (4.) Christ is with His followers as their support and defense. "The Lord is my shield," sang the Psalmist. The echo of this song of confidence has been roll ing over all the ages. Christ always supports us in our labors and defends us in our conflicts. Nothing can harm the true disciple, 3.. And this real, divine presence is tissthell perpetually to the ministers and Cirkurt of God until the (eon shall have endedd . By the aon we ate to under- Stend the whole period of the gospel dis pensation ; the time intervening bo- tween the first and second advents of Christ. Down,to the period of His sec ond coming He wil be With His disci ples every day and all the days. This extension of the promise beyond the lifetime of the persons addressed assures us an interest in its blessings. This promise covering all days implies His presence. (1.) In the days of successful and pros perous toil. It is the divine presence as power that gives success to our labors. Some measure of success is needful to men in every enterprise. And God's presence alone can sanctify success to our good. (2.) In the days of adversity and defeat. Wisely is it ordered that the sun shall nut always shine. If God be with us in the hours of adversity they may become real blessings. The better a thing is the more adversity shall it have in this sin world—the more can it profitably bear. .3.) In the days of comfort and rejoic ing. Indeed, Ho is the very spring and source of all our joys. It is He that maketh glad our hearts and causeth us to shout for joy. There is no well-spring of joy so sweet, so satisfying, so peren nial us that which the soul enjoys in Christ. (4.) In the days of sorrow,ailliction and suffering. Many of these constitute man's common heritage, but others are special to Christian men and yet others to Christian ministers. But we should remember that there is no shadevi , with out a sun. There is always light behind the cloud. In the darkest days we may have light in our dwellings. But why particularize? He is with us all days. \Matey e, character of the day or the hour, with us in such a way us we most n• him. IV. In addition to this there area few other encouraging thoughts suggested by this blessed assurance of Christ's perpetual presence. I. We may properly regard it as a prom ise of success in the great work which has been committed to the Church.— Moral power we know is not omnipo tent, but it is cumulative. The power of the truth, the power of Christ, on the whole, has, therefore, been increasing, and is destined still to increase more and More. This power is secured to us by this promise, and it will give effici ency to promote the cause of religion in the world. This success may not al ways be immediate, uor uninterrupted. But still we shall not toil in vain. We shall bear some fruit. 2. We have an intimation of the ex alted and holy character of the work in which we are engaged and of the dig nity of the workers. We are fellow-la borers with God, the holy and infinitely perfect Sovereign of the universe. We are engaged in His work. In Itself it is the most beneficent work man can en gage in. Nothing is so full of blessings, nothing has so desirable an end in view as Christian labor. To work for Christ is, therefore, the most honorable and beneficent calling that men can fill. 3. 'Phis promise of Christ's perpetual presence implies the assurance, that, if we are faithful in this holy calling, all apparently untoward circumstances and events shall be sanctified to our good. This is directly affirmed by the apostle. In our work we may be persecuted, tempted, tried, afflicted, butout of these evils God still educes good. While He is with us and for us who or what shall be able to harm us ? We have above re presented Him as our support and de fense. Yet we know that apparent evils befall us. Here we represent Him as causing even these evils, which we suf fer and from which it may not be wise to defend us, to eventuate in our good. 4. Another encouraging thought is, that however changeable the instru ments and agencies for this work, the author of all our efficiency is with us the same at all times. There Is never a work to be done for God but He will have some one to do it. One after the other may be called from the walls of Zion but others will rise up to take their places. And though weaker vessels are substituted for stronger, the time is not yet past when the weak things may, through the All-powerful, be used to subdue the strung. 5. But the richest thought of all is that Christ's presence with us here is a sure guarantee of our presence with Him after the end of the mon—the world. The eternal presence with Him follows His temporary presence with us. To be present with Christ is the same as to enjoy the perfection of blessedness. To have a confident and well grounded assurance that such blessedness shall be ours is a perennial source of comfort, place and happiness in this life. But where Christ's presence is not enjoyed herr there can be no hope of enjoying it hereafter. Christ the hope of glory must be formed within us before that glory can be ours. In view of these things it is the high est wisdom to secure such a character as that this promise in all its fullness may he ours. God's promises are condit ional. These conditions we can ful fill by His grace. Wisdom directs that we shall do it—do it thoroughly—do it now. Hard of Hearing-1 Love Story A young Jonathan once courted the daughter °fan old man that lived "down east," who professed to he defieient in hearing, but, forsooth, who was more captious than limited in hearing, as the sequel will show. It was a stormy night in the Ides of March if I mistake not, when lightning met lightning, and loud peals of thunder answered thunder, that Jonathan sat by the old man's fireside discussing with the old lady (his intended mother-in law) on the expediency of asking the old man's permission to marry "Sal."— Jonathan resolved to "pop it" to the old man the next day; "but," said he, "as I think on the task my heart shrinks." To be brief, night passed, and by the dawn of another day the old man was to be found in his barn lot feeding his pigs. Jonathan rose from bed early in the morning, spied the old man feeding his pigs and resolved to ask him for Sal. Scarce had a minute elapsed, after Jonathan made his last resolution, ere he bid the old man "good morning." Now Jonathan's heart beat; now he scratched his head, and ever and anon gave birth to a pensive yawn. Jona than declared he'd as lief take thirty nine "stripes" as to ask the old man, "but," said he aloud to himself, " how ever, here goes it, "a faint heart never won a fair gal,'" and he addressed the old man thus,— " I say, old man, I want to marry your daughter." You want to borrow my halter. I would loan it to you, Jonathan, but my son has taken it and gone off to the mill." Jonathan, putting his mouth close to the old Luau's ear, and speaking in a deafening voice. "I've got five hun dred pounds of money." Old man, stepped back as if greatly alarmed, and exclaimed in a voice of surprise, " You have got five hundred pounds of honey. What in the mis chief can you do with so much honey, Jonathan Why, it is more than all the neighborhood has use for." Jonathan, not yet the victim of de spair, putting his mouth to the old man's ear, brawled out, "I've got gold." Old Man—" So have I, Jonathan, and it's the worst cold I ever had in my life." So saying he sneezed a "wash up." By this time the old lady came up, and having observed Jonathan's unfor tunate luck, she put her mouth close to the old man's ear and screamed like a wounded Yahoo. "Daddy, I say, daddy, you don't un derstand, he wants to marry your daughter." Old illan—"l told him our calf halter was gone. Old Lady—" Why, daddy, you can't understand ; he's got gold, he's rich !" Old Man—" He's got a cold and the itch, eh!" So saying, the old man struck at Jonathan, with his walking cane, but happily for Jonathan he dodg ed it. Nor did the rage of the old man stop at this, but with angry counte nance he made after Jonathan, who took to his heels, nor did Jona than's luck stop here; he had not got far from the barnyard nor far from the old man, lie run him a close race, ere Jonathan stumped his toe and fell to the ground, and before the old man could "take up," he stumbled over Jon athan, and fell sprawling into a mud hole. Jonathan sprang to his heels, and with the speed of John Gilpin clear ed himself. And poor Sal, she died a nun. Never had any husband. Fulmer's tannery, at Richmond, Lower Mt.. Bethel township, North ampton county, was burned to the ground on the .sth. Everything in the tannery •was destroyed. Loss, eight thousand dollars, on which there was no insurance. NUMBER 1-1 Eyes Open Our minister said in his sermon last evening, said Mrs. Beach, the wife of n prosperous wholesale dry goods mer chant on Market street, as she dusted her mantle of porcelain and marble on Monday morning, "that he who wanted to be good must be on the constant look out for opportunities ; that God does not rind our work, and bring it ready fitted to our hands; but Ho spreads the world before us, and we are to walk throutth it as Christ and the apostles did, with eyes open, looking for the sick and suffering, the poor and oppressed." " Now I am certain," continued the lady, as she replaced a marble Diana in the centre of the mantel, "I should like to do something good everyday—one feels so much better when they go to rest at night; and I'll just keep my eyes npeu to-day, and see if I collie across any opportunities that under or dinary circumstances I should let slip." Half an hour later Mrs. Beach was in the nursery with the washerwoman, who had come fur the clothes. "I wish, Mrs. Simms," said she, as she heaped the soiled linen into the basket that you would get Tommy's aprons ready for me by Wednesday ; we are going out of town to remain until Saturday, and I shall want a good sup ly for such a careless little scamp as he " Well, try, ma'am," said the washerwoman. " got behind hand a good deal since Hammy got the whoop ing cough; but now that he is better I must try to make up for lost time." " Has he had the whooping cough ? Poor little fellow. How old is he ?" questioned the lady. " He was three last April, ma'am." " And Tom Is four," nillSed the lady. "Look here, Mrs. SiinniA, won't you Just open the lower drawer of that bu reau, and take out those four green worsted dresses in the corner? Tom's outgrown them, you see, since last win ter, but they're almost as good 115 new. Now, if you want them for little Sam my, they'll do nicely without altering, think.,' " Want them, :Sirs. Beach!" answered the washerwoman, with tears starting to her dim eyes, "I haven't words to thank you, or tell you what a treasure they'll be. Why, they will keep the little fellow as warm as toast all win ter." " Well, I'll place them on the top of the clothes, said the lady, smiling to herself, as she thought, "My eyes have been open once to-day." Not long afterwards Mrs. Beach was on her way to market, ffor she was notable housekeeper,) when she met u boy who had lived a short time in her family the year before, to do errands, wait on the door, &c. Ile was a bright, good-hearted, merry-faced boy, had been a great favorite with the family, and Mrs. Beach had become interested In him ; but this morning she was in quite a hurry, and would have Passed the child with a cordial, but hasty, " flow are you, Joseph, my boy ? Do come and see us," had it nut struck her that Joseph's face did not bear its usual happy expression She paused as the memory of last night's sermon Hashed through her mind, and she asked—" Is anything the mutter with you Joseph . ."' The boy looked up a moment, with half confiding, half fearful expression into the lady's face; the latter trioin "Mr. Anderson's moved out of town," he said, pushing back his worn, bui neatly brushed cap from his hair; "so I've lost my place, and little Mary's sick; and that makes it very bad just now.'' " So it does," answered Mrs. Beach, her sympathies warmly enlisted ; " but never mind, Joseph ; 1 remember, only night before last, my brother said he would want a new errand boy, in a few days, for his store, and he will give a good one two dollars a week. Now, I'll see him to-day, and get the situation for you, if you like." The boy's white face brightened. "0! I should be so glad of it, Mrs. Beach." " And see here, Joseph, I'm going to market, and perhaps I can find some thing nice for little Mary." The lady remembered that Joseph's mother, though a poor seamstress, was a very proud woman, and felt that this would be a gentle way of presenting her a gift. So she found some delicate pears aud grapes, and a nice chicken to make some broth for Mary, who, as she learned, was ill with a fever, before she proceed ed to do her own marketing. But it was a pity that she did not see Joseph as he sprang into the chamber where the lit tle Mary lay wearily moaning on her bed, while her mother sat busily stitch ing in one corner, and held up the chicken and the fruit, crying, " (Aood news! good news! I've got all these nice things for Mary, and a place at two dollars a week !" "Oh! how little Mary's hot fingers closed over the bunches of white grapes, while the sewing dropped from her mother's lingers, a: , the tears run down her cheeks. It was evening, and Mrs. Beach sat in the library, when she heard her hus band's step 'in the hall. Though the morning had been so pleasant, the after noon was cloudy. and the day had gone down in a low, sullen, penetrating ruin. Now Mrs. Beach loved her husband with the love of a true wife, but he was not a demonstrative man, and the first beauty and poetry of their married life had settled dtkwn into a somewhat bare, every-day, utter-of-fact existence.— But her heart was warm to-night—warm with the good deeds of the day, and re membering her resolution of the morn ing, she threw down her book and ran down stairs. " Henry, dear," said the soft voice of his wife, " has the rain wet you at all Let me take your coat for you." " Thank you, Carry, I don't believe I'm anywise injured, but you may help Inc, just for the pleasure of it," and he stood still, while she removed the heavy coat, with all the softness of touch and movement which belongs to a woman. She hung it up, and then the husband drew her to his heart with all the old lover tenderness. " You are very thoughtful of me, Carry, my wife," he said. And there was music in Mrs. Beach's heart as she went up stairs—music set to words, "Eyes open ! eyes open !" Victoria and Eugenie About a dozen years, I suppose, have passed away since I saw the Empress Eugenie and Queen Victoria sitting side by side. Assuredly the dillbrence even then might well have been called a con trast, although the queen was in her happiest time, and has worn out terribly fast since that period. But the quality which above all others Queen Victoria wanted was just that in which the Em press of the French is supreme—the quality of imperial womanly grace.— I have never been a rapturous ad mirer of the beauty of the Empress; a certain narrowness of contour in the face, the eyes too closely set togeth er, and an appearance of artificiality in every movement of the features, seem to me to detract very much from the charms of her countenance. But her queenly grace of gesture, of attitude, of form, of motion, must be admitted to be beyond cavil, and superb. She looks just the woman on whom any sort of garment would hang with grace and attractiveness; a blanket would become like a regal mantle if it fell round her shoulders; I verily believe she would actually look graceful in Mary Walker's costume, which I consider decidedly the most detestable, in an artistic sense, over yet indued by mortal woman. Poor Queen Victoria look ed awkward and homely indeed by the side of this graceful, noble form ; this figure that expressed so well the combination of suppleness and influ ence of imperial dignity and charming womanhood. Time has not of late spared the face of the Empress of the .1‘ rench. Lines and hollows are grow ing fast there ; the bright eyes are sink ing deeper into their places; the com plexion is fading and clouding. But the grace of form of movement is still there, unimpaired and unsurpassed. The whitest and finest shoulders still surmount a noble bust, which, but that its amplitude somewhat exceeds the se vere proportions of antique Grecian beauty, might be reproduced in marble to Illustrate the contour of a Venus or a Juno. I have seldom looked at the Em press of the French or at any picture or bust of her without thinking how Mary Wortley Montagu would havegone into bold and eloquent raptures over the superb womanhood of that splendid form.—Justin McCarthy in "Galaxy." On the 27th, Conrad Felton met his death by the caving in of an embank ment of the railroad, near Southampton Mills in Perry county. Although he was immediately taken from the fallen mass, he was so much injured that he died almost instantly. 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History of the florin:: of the Deepcbt Hole lu the World—The I tont Ile. =L=== The St. Louis Repubtican,"Manth is, sap; It is welhk now n that the fotatpre in con nection with the design of tip now, County Insane Asylum was that the water edpply was to be aerived from an artoelan well.— The boring was commenced almost at the same time with the erection of the build ing, and was continued without intermis sion until within a few months ago, when it was abandoned. The boring wag carried to a depth greater, we believe, than any similar well in the world; but tho subter ranean water was not reached, at least where it had stltneient strength and vol ume to rise above the surface of the ground. There wars something - evidently - wrong in the geological and other foreeastings, and, after a large expenditure of money, HOMO - about. 'Zlie,ooe, the work was thrown tip in despair be tho County Court, Yes terday Mr. AtkillSoll, liuporlutend- Outof thy u mlerudi Mg, submitted alengthv report embodying a history of the front to bird we make the following abstract: The work of hiring was eommenced ou the grounds at the south side of the Insane Asylum ! in a well which had been dug tee the depth ~,..,11tv-,,n0 and 11 half Toot.-- The tubing having been played in position a 41 Mole drill WILY put down on the after noon of the 31st of March, 1800, and the boring eeiinenceil, and was contimftd day and night, with only the necessary stoppage, until the telt of Angust, 180, evilest it was stopped finally; at which time the well had 1,1411 Slink ton depth of 9,8411 feet. In the entire depth, el 3 feet ofsday has been passed through, ei feet of c0n1,3110 feet of shale, 2,72.5 feet of limestone, and 1380 fret ref 4anilstome. .k number of sport mono have befell saved from melt for mation. At a depth of 1,222 feet the wa ter was a little saltish. At a depth of 2110 1 . 01.1. a (linty opening was struck, which made' the drift decline from a straight course, and the , spot was passed with opening conmencel sulphur water. At 2313 Wet the .....It teas found flinty, with small openings, and the hardest yet met critic. eou the 14th of November, 1807 the poles parted lieo feet from tho top of the well, and also parted near the tole, allowing twenty-seven poles. At the be ginning of tho boring tlto drill fell on the, bottom 48 to 50 times leer minute. At the depths of 3000 feet, 28 to 30 thews; and at the depth of 3843 feet, 24 tee 25 times per mlttute. At the depth of 3020 feet the temperature is 107 degrees Fahrenheit ; at 3127 feet It is 1011 degrees Fahrenheit; at T-Tel feet it is 1011 degrees also. At 3393 foot the water WIN 2 degrees salt. 'rho variations to 3479 Wet in saltness and temperature wore tri lling. At 33.13 feet a soft, whitish sand stone was struck. 'rho borings change by exposure to grayish red ; solute places brown, other places yellowish, but the reel predominates. 'rho water from this rock showed from' seven tee eight degrees salt.— In many places this herniation is exceed ingly hard. At 3837 Wet the temperature is 103 Fahrenheit. The tests of tempera ture were made with a registoring thor• momoter of Fahrenheit scale. Another test was made. 'the white of au egg war tightly inclosed in a short tube, with a plug screwed in caele end, and lot down 382'3 Wet, and let remain one and a half hours, after which it WI. I.llkoll lip. It had un dergone no apparent change. In boring to a depth of 833 feet tine drill was often ob served to be' highly magnetized; after passing this point there appeared to be no such influence. 'rho Inns or time, front various accidents and (wises, in stated tee have been less than to leer cunt, of the whole period occupied in boring. Thee well was Left in a good condition for resum ing boring at any future time. Mr. Atkin -1011 remarks that hero is a good opportuni ty of exploring at it cheap cost a hitherto unknown region of the earth. IIIMIE! David McCrea is furnishing the Glasgow SCOLIaIII lj Herald with a series of interest ing sketches of American men and women. He described his first interview with Gen. Lee as follows : - - - •' When I got Lack to the hotel I found that Lee, who was aware of my coming, had already (with tho courtesy so conspic uous among n class of Americans) sent hls servant to inquire If I had arrived, and to say that he would like to see zoo at tho Col lege. "On going there after breakfast., I was taken up stairs and shown into the room sot lisido for the use of the College Presi dent. " A noblo-looking man, dressed in agruy military coat, who had boon writing at a table near the WIMIOW, ruse as I entered. fie was tall, straight awl soldier-like, with crisp hair turning white; short-trimmed beard, pointed at the chin, and dark im perial-looking eyes, very keen and search ing. It was Robert E. Lee, the old Confed erate commander. •' As the first word of grcetingpassed be tween is, there was a hidden sadness in his look which impressed me painfully.— lio was suffering fr. nn ill-health at the time; but it was not a look of physical pain. Per haps it was only in feeling, but it seemed as if the shadow of the past was over him —as if you could read behind the vigilance of his dark eves the fate of the South, and of the myriad who lay sleeping on the bat tle-fields. " When I was seated he began to Inquire where I had been in the South, and about my journey up—smiling at the somewhat doleful account I had to give him of my experience in the stage from Goshen. Ile said there was another road I might have taken—the one front Stanton. 'But they say whichever road you take, you wish by that you had taken the other." Ile had been twice by the Goshen road on horse back. The scenery was very grand. " Ire began to speak about Scotland, and said :—' You will meet with many of your countrymen here. The Valley of Virginia is peopled with Scotch Irish—people who have conic from Scotland by way of Ire land. They are a lino race. They have the courage and determination of the Scotch, with the Irish dash and intrepidity. They make line soldiers.' " Ile said it was an old wish of his to visit tlbs country; but it would never be re alized now. Stonewall Jackson had been in Scotland before the war. He had heard him speak of it. "When some reference was made to the odds against which the South had fought, and the want there was of accurate statistics, I told him it was understood ho was prc. paring it history of the war himself. " ' 1 have had that in view,' he said; 'but the time is not come for an impartial his tory. If the truth wore told Just now It would not be credited.'" " When the books that had already ap peared were spoken of, and I mentioned one, the proof-sheet of which, it was assert ed, had been submitted to General Grant and himself for revision, hn said: 'UM a mistake. I have never read a history of the war, nor the biography of any man engaged in it. My own life has been written, but I have not looked into it.' He added, after a pause, '1 do not wish to awaken memories of the past.'" " lie spoke highly of Sherman's abilities —said Sherman had always been a good sol dier." " lie seemed much gratified whon I told him of the estimation In which ho and Stonewall Jackson had been held from the first by the British people irrespective al together of Northern and Southern sympa thies. He said, after °pause, 'Jackson ]tea in the Presbyterian burying-ground at the other extremity of Lexington.' .1 horrible Cane of Hydrophobln—Tho Pollee Called In toile the Victim--A Newspaper Advocates Itiiitnir From the snritodiela ,O.inaverthier, Mnreh7.l. On Tuesday Mr. Haley was found to ho rapidly , becoming weaker from the growing frequency and violence of the hydrophobic spasms. In the afternoon ho became ao violent that it was found dangerous to be in the room, and the combined efforts of four men were required to keep the madman in his bed when the spasms were upon him. Dr. Adams called upon the Mayor in the afternoon and requested sonic, pollee force to aid In tying him fast. Several persona went to the house and succeeded In securing him. During ono of his attacks the hydro phobist serati,:hia.l one of the persons who Was with him. This person was In the utmost alarm in regard to the scratch. It Was proposed yesterday afternoon that it would be proper, and in the emergency necessary to give the patient chloroform to such an extent as to rid him entirely of all his misery in this world. This his tinn ily would not allow, and the patient lies, up to our latest account, in dying agonies. To take the life of a human being is surrounded with the gravest responsibilities. Tho circumstances must be the most alarming, and only done when it is necessary to pre serve life or as a penalty for crime. In the present ease the family and every other person that duty or necessity calla near the patient aro in danger. To have the horrid disease spread in this community, oven to the extent of one case, seems terrible to contemplate. It is mercy at times to take life when death is inevitable, and the pres ent instance seems to warrant it. It is a question that the family and the authorities must determine. How to Hill West Point. Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, did, it ap pears, really nominate a nigger for the military school but with his usual acute discrimination tie nominated ono who was ineligible. Somebody, however, will now nominate another; and a nigger cadet is a foregone conclusion of the radical mind.— This will pretty effectually drive the right sort of boys away from West Point, and leave there only snivelling hypocrites, willing to make believe that they are as fond of Sambo as of anybody else. That is to say, this wilt bo the effect unless the boys, IL .9 boys are apt to, shall decide to set tle this matter fur them-elves uu the first darkey that comes. West Point, indeed, Will be a very hot place for the pioneer nig ger, and we prophesy that he will reeigru. —N. Y. Herald.
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