THE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCEL PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY H. Cl. SMITH ik CO. H. G. SMITH. A. .1. STEINMAN. TERMS—TWO Dollars per annum payable In all cases In advance. TIIR LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER 111 LupbolltslalinudevmerlyneLnevnalnge;.Sunday excepted, at OFF/C7E-80177IIWEBT 00101= 07 077T31D ISCWAILE. Voctry. MY WOODLAND PRINCENIC What it wo mot In an old log•rond Whuro Om lef-mould clung LO but small Into heels, And Imael of WflOillatill llowera. her loud Was 0 atr ol ial; of !soul. and hilver eels erown WN raged nd with Ilow But g It rounded g n ded n pair of oplentlld ;, deli red torrent wit" 1110.111 m( Ili startled pulses to n 111.01114 101(1 througa. h Witololorne bronzn or hrr ruddy fare \Vox like ripe fruit In it bower of green : And Ow welkell world WI the ency grane An I firm fret) ettip of woolnel queen. The dew had moistened the Jetty hair That waved :Lied floated about her head, I caught, aglimpse Jr the shoulders bare, 'Thu sparkling eyes, and the Iles of red. 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Aphasia Is the general said ror IL disease, usually, but not iuvariahl connected Wilt sone , Herbals or the twain, whiels valises those wb still'er from II frequently In artleulte sounds or words very illltbrent from lie hi)111111,1 I,r tvurlln illt'y 111'o' 111111110{ la. - An aphasia lady has liven It 11m011, ror Instance, to come Forward to meet a guest with a cordial smile and eel• stretched hand, imil then articulate pig, brute, iminhl tool!" In 1,10)0 01 the W trlIS really expressing the thought in her mind, while in other canes the words articulated When the patient. was Intending to read aloud, turned ant sPulldy gibberish. Thus, or 11111. 1:11I11.11t, il. in 11.1.01111:11: 111 1,1:111.1' to usrOrinlu toot place on re cord the peculiar Imperfection of him gunge N 1 .1111.11 he I.X1111.)1It'll, Dr. Osborne neleeted Ile , billowing MeilMlll.o from the by-lawn the college of physicians, viz: " 11 410011 be In the power of the college to examine or not to examine any licentiate, previous to his admis sion lon fellowship, as they shall think lit." Having requested him to read this aloud, he read 118 ('suitors: " And the he what in the temother of tt•otho toilo to inaloritin or that . tinildrate cis chilcrastral inestreit to (tetra totonthrel del to ra fronitreitlo asthat kek idlest," —where, its the physician remarked, the patient, though unable to articulate the words and letters beMre hint, did yet articulate combinations of letters and W01:11,1111111.11 more difficult. Again, there Is a ease registered where a man with this allertion lost his way, as uue may say, only in relation to a single letter—always substituting a for so 1101 asking (in (erman) for Kaf fee (cotree), he appeared to ask for Kaz zee (sounded like Rat cc, cat), ( Dr. Bate man, p. 531. Again, another case is given (p. haul of a gettjlesimn who, af ter a blow on the head lost his knowl edge of (1 reek, and did not appear to have lost anything else. In some cases the mind seems to go in search of the right sound or word, and to seize the wrong one, through some confusion ill the action of the proper nerves or muscles; in some cases not to know even at which sounds to aim at all. Now. what is the proper mental interpretation of -ooh facts as these? slow is it to be explained that, without any loss of intelligence, the great " instrument if thought," as lan guage has been called, should so com pletely defy the power which produced it and defined its exact sphere of duty: Tho ease of the patient who, by a blow I n his head, lost completely the knowl edge of li reek, without appearing to suf fer any other loss whatever, would to many suggest, us the physician who at tended him (Dr. Scon,by Jackson) re marked, that the 11reek knowledge wits all "deposited" in a particular square inch tub brain, theinjury or which just destroyed this knowledge without ill- Vlltlittg any other sphexe of the intellect. But this kind ot fact does not stand 1110Ile. A French priest, attended by 81. Piorry, after an attack of paralysis, lost entirely the power of employing sub stantives, while retaining in general the full command Mall other parts of speech. 'l'll us, when he wanted to ask for his hat, he said, " Don nez-inoi ce qui se met sur la " '" but he could not re mein ber the word for "head" any better than the word for "hat;" and his phy sician adds, '' mais de !not 'tete' lie lei venal pas," and goes 011 tai say that he sought to express the same thing twenty times, but that lie tllSVflyti got to au In surmountable difficulty whenever he came to a noun substantive. ' - Again, a Dublin physician ;Dr. Uraves, had a case in which a patient could not • recall any noun substantive (common or proper), but could always recall its ini tial letter. lie, therefore, made himself a pocket dictionary or the words in the most general use, Including die proper names of his children and servants and friends, and In conversation would al ways refer to this dictionary, and run his eye down the initial letter he recall ed till he reached thepatne of which he was In search, " keeping his finger and eye lixed on the word until he had fin ished his sentence ; "—but the moment .he bad closed the book, he again forgot the Wane, though he never forgot the initial letter, and could always again _ recover It by means of his dictionary. Now, take these three cases together, and we observe that in one case the whole network of associations contained in a single language was lost through the agency of the disease ; In the next case, only all the examples of a single part of speech (noun substantives) In one language, In the last case not even this, but all the examples of the same part of speech, minus the initial letter, which was uniformly retained. There is a case of a. patient In the Edinburg royal infirmary, under Dr. Gairdner, whose loss of language was so complete that he could communicate with other people only by signs. After a time Dr. Gairdner observed that the atie 14/4/11tatet VOLUME 72 other patients In the infirmary thought this man wan shamming, and the rea son they gave was, that, though he could not speak In any other way, he could swear freely. Yet this patient .soon after died suddenly, and his brain wan found to be much eaten away by cancer. Leaf from the Private Life of Mrs. Wharton, the Modern Borgia. We do not purpose to re-write for the readers of the Telegraph the thrum stances of the crime, on the charge of the commission of which Mrs. Whar ton stands arraigned. They are now extensively known, and the re-telling of the story would be but a tedious lengthening or our article. But our Hole purpose in to lay before the public come facts that are not known, mite culled by laborious search in private avenues of information, and which, combined, contain to a certain extent the private iire of m Wharton, and throw a great light upon what will moat necessarily be her only ground of defence. Ellen tr. Nugent was born In this city ((bout forty years ago. 11er father, (leorge Nugent, woe a moat prominent and successful merchant of the day, do ing a large Importing business of fine goods, silks, etc. ,In character Ito was strictly upright and honorable, 'living as It were, by a set rule of firmness and justice to all. HIS daughter, Ellen, was by his second wife, he having been pre viously !unified to a Cuban woman, by whom he had two children, both boys, one of whom Is now a respectable and prosperous member of our community. There were six other children by the second wife, Mar SOUS 0(111 two daugh ters. Both of the daughters are inar tied mill living in the city. It is somewhat difficult to ascertain who Ellen's mother was, speaking in a family sense. She appears to have been a Very beautiful, and at the same time IL very Oi”,i•l11.• girl, living here in Phila delphia. Itto no it is not particularly with Mrs. N Liget' t. or the other children that we haVO to It,, it does not putter muclt ; but we will remark, en p(18.10./it, that MI'S. Nugent has only been dead a few years, having outlived her husband, who died about the time of the great California gold excitement. And now having cleared the Isom of our story of cross-threads, we will pro-' reed to weave the narrative of 'Airs. Wharton's life, whose most exciting scene has just taken place in Eutaw street, Baltimore. Mr. Nugent did not remain long in Philadelphia after the birth of his daughter Ellen, Or Nellie. lie had been very successful in business, and finally concluded to retire, which he did, purchasing a lovely place about a mile this side or Conshohocken, at to Spot culled Gulf Mills, whore, with his family growing up around him, he set tled down to pass the closing hours of his life, amid the sylvan scenery of our beautiful Schuylkill's banks. Of all the children his daughter Nellie was his idol. lie lavished every atten tion upon her, that money could com mand. Especial pains were taken with her education, and she spent a consider able time at Bishop Doane's Seminary, in Burlington, New Jersey. And DOW the real interest of our story contmenues. Nellie has grown up under our pencil into beautiful womanhood, and her !nature character is beginning to deter mine Itself. The scene is the (lull Mills House, and the time Is about twenty-five years ago. By the universal voice of those who knew her at this time, she was certainly a most lovely girl. About twenty years of age, of slender and graceful, yet queenly herring, with magnifleent jet black halr or unusual length, dark eyes, and fair complexion—such wits her physleal beauty. But those who knew her well say that that was the least of her aldrinalons. It was rather her en gaging manner her winning ways, her dashing, Inspiring disposition that bound captive at the chariot wheel of HO many or her (utile IW , IIIIIIIII . 110(15, It was 10/1111t 111111 limn 11101 she began ho develop a passion that has over since been Inordinate with her, and Ihut was the desire to dross magifilleently. leer father spared no expense to gratify her lightest whim, and gave her mono' enough to clothe 0 duchess. As a con sequence, there was no more !valve!' at• lendant at the then fashionable bazaars (dour city than Al les Nugent, whose car riage got, to be familiarly !intim!, no doubt, to the salesmen within. As we have said, her father allowed her to carry the purse of a duchess, and consequently the reader can judge of Ills surprise when outsidu Mils that had been contracted by hie daughter to tht ri mount of lhouBands of dollars ;were sent Into him for settlement, and all tills heavy running into debt had taken place In a comparatively short tune, and without the slightest premonitory Intel ligence, Where had the money gone '.' Hardly upon herself, since, although always ele gantly attired In obedience to Fashion's latest mandate, this debt excess was too absurdly largo to be answered for on the ground or personal expenditure. But a little investigation showed. It was found that this money had been ex pended for laces, silks, jewelry, etc, etc., which were lavished with an im perial hand as presents, upon her young friends. This was certainly a little eccentric, and quite enough to cause the eye-brow to raise. Beautiful young ladies do not generally run their fathers into debt simply to give away indiscriminately costly gifts. But something more strange was yet to come. The debts were paid by the father, and the current of events drifted along towards the most remarkable feature of this remarkable woman's life. As we have intimated, and as may naturally be supposed, Miss Nellie was the brilliant centre of a large circle of people of the best class in that vicinity. So that when, shortly after, each and all of them received an invitation to the marriage of that young lady, you may be sure it created some little stir of ex citement. in the first place, it witsso entirely unexpected that it almost took most took away the people's breath; and secondly, wit.,t caused the most surprise was, that the happy man had not been selected front the large num her ofeountry gallants of wealth and position Who constantly surrounded her, bat was a Mr. William son, of the city,-"Who was but a casual visitor, and whose matrimonial atten tions had not been suspected in the least. It appears, also, that he haul been so indiscreet and impolite as not even to have spoken to Mr. Nugent about it, and knowing the character of that, old-Lime gentleman, we are somewhat surprised that the marriage was allowed to go on, did we not also know that whatever his daugh ter Nellie had set her heart upon ae complishinkshe could most certainly do, especially where tile father s consent was only to be gained. Well, at length the auspicious hour rolled round, and all the invited guests assembled at the Nugent mansion to witness the marriage of the beauty. Great preparations had been made for the event. Mr. Nugent was determined that the daughter who was queen of his heart shout I be mated in a regal mariner. Never had the young girl looked so love ly. as did the bride, seated in her satin and lace,with her attendant maids about her, and waiting, with the love-light in her eyes, for the happy groom. It was now nearly the hour for the ceremony, and still he had not come. "Where is Mr. Williamson ?'' and, "Why don't lie comer were now frequently asked by those who were present. The hour at which the nuptial knot was to have been tied struck with a dismal clang,and yet no bridegroom. The minister was there with book and gown, the guests were there, the beautiful bride was there and everything was waiting for the ap pearance of the tardy gentleman from the city. The father's brow began to darken, and the bride's cheeks to pale. Another dismal hour wore away, and its death-knell was tolled by the clock, and still no groom. Another hour, and still no groom. "Possibly he may have met with ,an accident; let messengers be sent." And messengers were sent in haste,:whlie the guests sat in silence, and the bride now thoroughly convinced that her lover was false, raved and sob bed like one mad. The minutes Hew away on wings of lead until the mes sengers returned, who instead of .bring- Mg with them Mr. Williamson, or an nouncing at once some reasonable cause for his non-appearance, beckoned the father mysteriously apart, and whisper ed in his ear. The news could not be kept secret, and in a moment it was known. Mr. Williamson had not con tracted the marriage, and knew nothing about it. Slowly and sadly, as if from a funeral the guests' departed, glancing askantly at the bride, who eat weeping before them, and shaking their heads significantly. This was certainly the maddest freak that it Is possible for a yo.ung lady to commit, and the incident reads like a chapter from Mrs. Southworth. sub sequent investigation showed conclu sively that the marriage had not the slightest foundation, so tar as any inten tion of Mr. Williamson was concerned, and taking this fact into consideration, it is not strange that people now began to speak mysteriously about the young lady, and to intimate forcibly that something was wrong in her head. This bitter suspicion began now to shape it self into the solemnity of a fact in the utinil of Mr. Nugent, and after careful pondering of the matter, it was resolv ed to have Nellie removed tour asylum for the insane. As a key to subsequent events, It is to be presumed that she knew the Inten tions of her family at the time. I t want ed but a day or two-of the execution of the asylutu project, when one morning IL was found that the beautiful bird had gown in the night from the paternal nest. But in a very little while the father received intelligence that his daughter had eloped with young Lieut. Harry W. Wharton, had proceeded with him to Philadelphia, had been there married, and that now, us Mr. and Mrs. (harry W. Wharton, t hey were living at Jones' Hotel, fir Chestnut street, above Sixth, just where the office of the Uconan 1)i eo'rol now stands. This With almost as strange and_unac noun table a movement as the burlesque marriage, and caused a great deal of com ment. Although of acquaintance there had been considerable between the par ties, of courtship there hail been-little or none, and, furthermore, at the time of the elopement and marriage the young lieutenant knew full well thathis lovely bride with intended by her friends fur a temporary seclusion in a mad-house. But the runaway couple had not been long from home until they received as surances of forgiveness, and returned to the house at (hilt Mills. They also for a time lived at Norristown, and in Phila- delphia again. It wasn't long after mar riage until Mrs. Wharton was in finan cial di tilculties again, which were again settled by her indulgent father. After this, her husband, who was cap tain now, was stationed at Fort Kearney for some five or seven yea's. Mrs. Wharton accompanied him, as indeed she did In all his wanderings, even go ing down Into Texas with him oil one occasion. But while out upon the Plains the eyesight of the Captatu had become defective, and he and his wife returned again. They put up at Ulass S Co.'s Hotel, on Chestnut street, during such time us the Captain was under the hands of an oculist. At the breaking out of the war the Captain got a commission In a Delaware regiment, and eventually was appointed general disbursing agent, having his headquarters in Eutaw stteet, Balti more, right near his house in ' Hamil ton Place." With the exception of a short time they lived In Washington, this was his Mane up to his mysterious death in 1567. Such are some of the salient points and bold outlines in the career of this most remarkable woman. Is.;olwlth standing the growing suspicion that she poisoned her husband and son, It is the universal testimony that never was there a more loving wile. She was most passionately devoted to hint, and fol lowed him everywhere. We have also seen that money was her great weak ness. She was neatly always in diffi culties of this It Ind, and would borrow from any one. This is of course to be accounted for in a great measure by her inordinate passion lor dress. Wherever she went she was bound to move In the must fashionable circles, which she in variably adorned by her beauty and en gaging deportment. We do not purpose, Its we sold at the start, to touch upon the pat Oculars of I his most remarkable c a st', Mrs. Whar lOU unite months 1/0(01%o the liar 1,011141N', 1'11114(141 with murder and attempted murder, and It seems to be the general opinion that three or lour more Merits V 111 be added to the crimson lint, two of them the murder of Mathewl and scot. Thu facts the piddle :UT already fa miliar with ; the theory that will em brace every case van never be arrived at. The whole story only goes to show that keen as has been the scrutiny of human character theme Ihoustinds or years, It still has unsounded depths and uudls• covered latitudes. And this ISlonunient al City tragedy, whose eentral figure is un elegant lady of the first circles of society, only adds another enigma to the lengthy list that our poets, philosophers, and scientists are railed upon to solve. Resuscitative Measures The 310141 Fewdble Method. of Reviving Permonw In lllowri of prow Ili nu.. As a matter of Interest In these Sum mer days, when so many persons are Indulging In ofsm-air bathing, we pub lish the following directions for the re suscitation of persons who are appa rently drowned, yet in whose bodies the spark of life yet lingers. Not to dwell on by-gone methods, we may give at once an outline of the scientific views of Dr. Marshall Hall, with his remarks on the customary modes of treatment, and his reasons for supplanting them. The method he proposes is termed the 'heady Method in Asphyxia," because no apparatus of any kind is required. The main indications are to renew in- Hpiration, and improve the circulation; the means are physiological and physi cal. All obstructions of the glottis be ing removed by placing the patient in the prone position, i. c. with the face to the ground, in which position any fluids and the tongue itself fall forward, our first ellbrt is to excite respiration, physiologically ; should this fail, our second is to imitate the acts of respira- Lion, mechanically. Our next object is to endeavor to improve the circulation, which is done by promoting the flow of the venous blood, and to restore warmth in the limbs. Here again, as we pro ceed, we must revert to the physiologi cal principle of exciting respiration from time to time. All these indications are effected by the following short rules: 1. Treat the patient iustautly,•on the spot, in the Open air, freely exposing the face, neck, and chest, to the breeze, except in very severe weather. :2. Send with all speed for medical aid and for articles of clothing, blankets, &c. I. TO CLEAR THE THROAT. . _ 3. Place the patient gently . on the face, with one wrist under the iorehead. (All fluids, and the tongue itself, then fall forward, and leave the entrance into the windpipe free.) 11. TO 1•:\l'I"I'I: RESPIRATIO:s:. 4. Turn the patient slightly on his side ; apply shaft' or other irritant to the nostrils ; and dash cold water on the face, previously rubbed briskly until it is warm. If there be no success, lose no time but apply the third rule. II I. TOII 11 'TATE ILESPI RATION. Replace the patient ou his face, U. Turn the body gently, butcomplete ly on the side, and a little beyond, and then on the face alternately, repeating these measures deliberately, efficiently and perseveringly, fifteen times in the minute only. (This number of thoracic movements per minute agrees with the natural order of respiratory thoracic di latations and contractions, correspond ing with a slow movement of the heart, averagingsomething less than sixty pul sations per minute, and t therefore, merits due attention.) The rationale of the operation is this: When the patient reposes ou the thorax, this cavity is compressed by the weight of the body, and expiration is promoted; when he is turned on the side, this pressure is re moved, and Inspiration is facilitated. 7. When the prone position is resumed, make equable but efficient pressure along the spine, removing it immedi ately before rotation on the side. (The first measure augments expiration, the second commences inspiration. iv. TO INDUCE CIRCULATION AND EMBLEM . . 8. 'Continuing these measures, rub the limbs upward, with a firm pressure and with energy, using handkerchiefs, &e. 0. Replace the patient's wet clothing by such other covering as can be ln• atantly procured, each bystander sup plying a coat or waistcoat. Meanwhile, and from time to time, proceed to the fifth rule. V. TO EXCITE INSPIRATION 10. Let the surface of the body be slap ped briskly with the hand, or, 11. Let cold water be dashed briskly on the surface, previously rubbed dry and warm. The measures formerly recommended by the medical profession, and now re jeqted by those who agree with Dr. Mar elikli Hall, are, removal of the patient, as involving dangerous loss of time ; the LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING JULY 26, 1871. bellows, or any forcing instruMent ; gal vanism, and the inhaling oxygen, as useless. "The inhalation of diluted pure ammonia has in It more of promise."— N. Y. Tinic.9. Newfoundland Obitervallouens turous or nn Joxu Eplorer—An AU vrney. Norrespendenco of the N. Y. ha.ellow P(.,(1.1 ST. JoHN'S, N. F., June 20, 1871. I Id a former letter I gave a partial ac count of the adventure of one Cormack, accompanied by a native Indian, who was the first European to explore the interior of New Foundland. I then re counted some incidents connected with his Journey through the wilderness, us told by himself in a pamphlet published at a later date, and ended my commu nication with a brief description of the Inhabitants of the forest. I now con tinuo the narrative by remarking that for a whole month the travellers tolled through the savanna country, advanc ing only about seven or eight miles day, though often traversing twice or three times that distance. The fogs, which are so common on the sea-count, they found to be entirely unknown here, and the weather during Septem ber was delightful. They often observ ed the houSes of the beaver on the mar gin of the ponds. Wolves were seen occasionally, but they invariably fled at their approach. The larch tree seemed to be that to which the climate and the savanna soil are most congenial. The wild berries were very abundant, and so large and fine in flavor as to be pref erable to the fruit of other lands. On them the bears, foxes and birds fatten, though the vast proportion perishes uti lised. The black duck of the interior Cormack considers the driest bird for the table in Newfoundland. The trout, he says, "being unacquainted with ene mies, take the artificial fly merely by holding nut the line in the hand, with out a rod." " No country in the world," he adds, "can afford finer sport than the interior of this island in the months of August and September. The beasts of the chase are of a large class, and the cover for all game excellent." The wild geese and ducks breed undisturbed on the edges and islands of the ponds anti lakes, feeding on the berries and seeds of grasses ; and when winter approach es, they take flight in immense flocks for South America, to return in Spring. Curlews breed on the barren hills; snipes and bitterns in the marshes; the red breasted thrush in the scanty woods; coons on every lake, while the ponds and lakes were well stocked with trout, of which there are three or four kinds. These great plains, in fact, that were conjectured to be untenanted wastes, were found to be teeming with life. Descending now from these command ing heights, the travellers struck into the vast, undulating plains which shone so brilliantly. These they found to be steppes or savannas composed of fine black, compact peat moul t, formed by the growth and decay of mosses, and covered uniformly with wiry grass.— They were in the form of extensive, gently-undulated beds, stretching north ward and southward, With running waters and lakes, skirted with woods, lying between them. Their yellow green surfaces were sometimes uninter rupted by either tree, shrub, rocks or any inequality for more than ten miles. They were checkered everywhere upon the surface by deep-beaten deer paths, and were hi reality magnificent nat ural deer parks, adorned by woods and water. The deer herd upon them to graze In countless multitudes.— Of the millions of acres here the travel ers could observe no spot exceeding a few superficial yards, (hit was not bounded on all sides icy the deer-paths, which took directions as various as the winds, and gave the whole country a checkered appearance, wlndlng from park to park through the Intervening :woods In lines as established and deep beaten as cattle paths on an old grazing farm. Judging front the herds they saw and their countless paths, floritmck von chided that these vast plains:aro amply stocked with (leer, for which no part of Northeast America possesses a territory no admirably adapted. There is but 011 t, specks In the Island—the caribou or Cer vus Tarmundus, Some of theme reindeer, which are liner even than those of Nor way iind Lapland, attain the size of six or seven hundred pounds' weight. The Newfoundland reindeer, like that of every other country, Is migratory, always changing place with the seasons for the sake of Its favorite kinds of food. Cormack saw them on their periodical migration from the mountains and bar ren tracks in the west and northwest division of the Interior, where they re sort in Spring to bring forth anti rear their young amidst the profusion of lichens and mountain herbage. When the first frosts of October nip the vege tation, the deer Immediately turn to wards the south and east, and the llret fall of snow quickens their pace in those directions, so that they may reach the low grounds, where browse is to be got, and the snow Is not so deep over the lichens. It is a grand sight to behold, this periodical migra tion ; the reindeer hi countless thous ands trooping in rapid succession over the whole surface of the country, all bending their course the saute way, in parallel lines. Each herd consists of from twenty to two hundred, connected by stragglers or pickets, the animals fol lowing each other in single tiles, a few yards or feet apart, for if in close bodies they could not graze freely. The lead ing stag of the herd is as tall as a horse, and invariably the fattest and finest. They travel with their heads in some degree to windward, in order that they may scent their enemies, the wolves, their senses of smelling and hearing being very acute, but they do not trust much to their sight. They continue to travel southeastward till the middle of February or beginning . of March, by which time the returning sun has power to soften the snow and per mit their scraping it to obtain the lichens underneath. They then turn towards the west, and in April are again on the rocky barrens and mountains where their favorite mossy ground abounds the most, and where in June they bring forth their young. At the necks of land that separate large lakes, at the extremity of lakes, and at the straits and running waters that unite lakes, the deer unavoidably concen trate in traveling. At those places the Indians (Miemacs chiefly) encamp in parties, :and stay for a considerable interval of time, because they can there procure the deer with comparatively lit tle trouble. Cormack had no trouble in shooting as many deer as he and his companions required for food. The venison he found excellent, the fat upon the haunches being sometimes two inches in thickness. He always aimed at Winging down the leading stag of a herd. "The ball having pierced him," says the traveller, "he bounds, gallops, canters, falters, stands and tosses his antlers ; his sinewy limbs quiver, un willingly bend, and he stretches out his graceful corpse. Should the ball have passed through his heart he falls at once, probably balanced on all fours.— There is regret us well as triumph felt in taking possession of the noble van quished. A single (leer on the plain, when there are no others near to give the alarm, may be approached anti knocked dcwn by a blow on the head with an axe or tomahawk from a dex trous hunter." Cormack left Random Sound on the sth of September, and on the 9th of Oc tober he found himself 110 miles from his starting point, and about the centre of the island. Here thesavanna country terminated, and he reached a hilly ridge which he named "Jameson Mountains," after his friend Professor Jameson, of Edinburgh, rising about twelve hundred feet above the level of the sea. The main deposit he found to be serpentine rock, with a variety of other rocks, which he considered ex hibited metalliferous signs in abun dance. In the serpentine, on this north east coast, rich copper deposits have re cently been found ; and the probability Ls that the strike of the serpentine is through the centre of the Island to the spot where Cormack found it so largely developed; and that In its track will be the copper-mining region of the future. The Indian now began to com plain heavily of the never-ending toil, excessive exertion, wet and Irregular supplies of food, and wished Cormack to abandon the expedition and take the nearest route to the coast. It, required all the traveller's persuasive powers to induce his companion to continue the journey. Again they moved forward, and now they found themselves entering on a primitive granitic region, separated from the low slate country, covered with savannas, by the serpentine:deposit. Mountain succeeded mountain ; and they had to creep their way, and some times climb over confused heaps of granite and white compact quartz. Here it was that, us they approached the shores of a large lake, the most Interest ing episode of their Journey occurred. To their great Joy they observed a faint column of smoke issuffig from among some islands live miles distant. No trace of the red Indians had yet been seen, and now they fondly hoped they were at last to meet them. As they wended their way along the shore of the lake " there appeared among some woody islets in front, a small canoe, with a man seated in the stern paddling softly towards us with au air of serenity and independence possessed only by the Indian. After a brotherly salutation with me, the two Indians kissing each other, the stranger proved to be a moun taineer front Labrador, and could speak a little of the Micmac language, his wife being a Micmac." He int'ormed the travelers that he had coma front Labra dor to hunt In Newfoundland ; that this was his second year In the island. Ile hospitably Invited them to Ids camp to rest for a day, where he said he had plenty of venlsoq. There is sonieth lug so novel and idyl lic in Cormack's account of the moun taineer's home that I cannot forbear making a few extracts from It. "'the island, on which the mountaineer's camp was, lay about three miles distant. The varying scenery as we paddled to wards it, amongst innumerable islands and inlets, all of granite, and mostly covered with spruce and birch trees, was beautiful. Ills canoe wits similar to those described as having been used by the ancient Britons on the invasion by the Romans. It was made of wicker work, covered over out-side with deer skins sewed together and stretched on it, nearly of the usual form of canoes, with a bar or beam across the middle, anti one on each end to strengthen it." His wigwam was situated in the centre of a woody islet at which we ar rived before sunset. The approach from the landing-place was by to mossy car peted avenue, formed by the trees having been cut down in that direction for firewood. It was occupied by his wife seated on a deer-skin. A large New foundland dog, her only companion in her husband's absence, had welcomed us at the landing-place with signs of the greatest Joy. Sylvan happiness reigned here. His wigwam was of a semi circular form, covered with birch rind and dried deer skins, the fire on the foreground outside. Abun dance and neatness pervaded the en campment. On horizontal poles over the fire hung quantities of venison steaks, being smoke-dried. The hostess was cheerful, and a supper, the best the chase could furnish, was soon set before us on sheets of birch rind. They told me to "stake their camp my own, and use everything in it as such." Kind ness so elegantly tendered by these peo ple of nature in their solitude com menced to soften those feelings which had been fortified against receiving any comfort except that of my own admin istering. The excellence of the venison and of the flesh of young beavers could not be surpassed. A cake or hard deer's fat, with scraps of suet toasted brown and intermixed, was eaten with the meat ; soup was the drink. Our hostess alter supper sang several Indian songs, at my request. They were Plaintive, anti sung in a ;high key. The song of a female and her contentment in this remote and secluded spot exhibited the strange diversity there is in human Mt hare. My Indian entertained them in cessantly until nearly daylight with stories about what he had seen in St. JOlllll.l. Our toils were for the time for • gotten. The mountaineer's larder was a kind of shed erected on the rocky shore, for the make or a free circulation of alt', and was ha reality a well-smelted butcher's stall, containing parts of some halt-dozen fat deer, also hits carcasses Of heavers, of otters, of mosk-roh4, and or martens, all methodically arranged." After resting for two days with this hospitable Itldluu, the travellers again set nut, their host having drawn for them on bark a map ()I' their route and given them directions as to their course, Now it was that theirseverest hardship( commenced, On the lath October, snow began t() Ihll ; their provisions were ex hausted and their strength was rapidly declining. Fortunately, when their need was sorest they fell In with it hunting party of Micmac Indians who supplied their wants. On the Zath October, when almost worn out, they discovered smoke rising from a wood, and on approaching found another Micmac party encamped, one If whom consented to conduct them to St. George's t h ey. Without the aid of this guide and the provisions he furnished, it is very doubtful whether they would have ever reached their destination alive. On the Ist of November, from the suminit of a snow-covered ridge, they were gladdened with the sight of StWeorge's anti the broad Atlantic. On the 41.11 of November, they reached the harbor, and received a most hospll, , able welcome. Their remarkable Jour- I !ley had thus occupied exactly three . mouths Debtruction of Rats several years ago, we took possession of au ancient mansion, in which the rats reigned supreme. 'Phe nights were made hideous unto us by their noctur nal rambles and gymnastics. The revels that they held banished sleep from all but young eyes. &council of war was held ou the side ot..he bipeds, and sev erali: remedies w e proposed—but cats, cats, were consi eyed the only means of defence; so tvo good-sized grimal kins were procu ed, and the conflict raged during a whole season. Many of the aged of the tribe went the way of all animal flesh, but the prolificness of the females was too much for their enemies. the eats. Another remedy was sought and found ; copperas or sul phate of Iron, is very obnoxious to rats. Mix it with whitewash, prepared in the common way, and add the copperas un til it is quite yellow. Whitewash the whole cellar wall, sides and ceiling, giving two coats of it if the underpin ning is not well-covered at tin“.. scat ter the green crystals of the copperas in every crevice and chink in the walls:. throw it broadcast into the corners of the rooms, and your rats will make a grand stampede fur other and more agreeable quarters. At least that was the result from our application of it. All night there was hurrying and scur rying in random; a new home must be sought. The next morning the cats had rare sport in the wood-house ard barn ; the ruts were attacked, and forced to surrender horsdu combat. The cats could not eat all their spoils in one day. It is now six years since the copperas whitewash, or rather yellow wash, was applied. Every Spring, crystals of cop peras are thrown broadcast about the cellar, and no rat dares show his whisk ered head. Occasionally a timid squeak or a feeble gnawing is heard in the walls. The sounds are from new comers, who soon belit a retreat. There is no gam boling among the old rafters—nu play ing ball with butternuts, as.of yore, In , the midnight hours. One huge cat, of ' masculine gender, keeps watch and ward over the premises, but with all his watching and prowling around, he can not feed himself, and is forced to seek his meals in the kitchen. In a closet where wee mice delighted to creep and steal jellies and sweetmeats, bits of the copperas were scattered, and not a trace of them is now to be seen. Last Autumn our neighbors were sadly troubled with rats; apples, pars nips, squashes and potatoes disappear ed mysteriously, or were devoured on the spot, but the contents of the boxes were utltouched. The copperas does tot seem to poison them ; no dead ones were found, excepting those brought in by the cats ; but it appears to be obnox ious to them, and so they "vamoose the ranch." .. -. Before this remedy was applied the rats were very bold—had learned not to fear us at all. They were everywhere ; and a fond couple even dared to make a soft nest in a Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine, which was not In daily use. The click of the wheel, as his ratshlp descended the treadle at midnight to procure food for his wife, revealed their hiding place, and they were food for the cat. This occurrence made us des perate; If our bleeping-room was not free from their tread, something must be {lone. Search was made for their wa of ingress and egress, and behind a uge wardrobe a large hole was dis covered. A piece of zinc was nailed tightly over it, and since then no rat has been heard within our walls. The copperas Is an excellent disin fectant; no better can be found for 1 purifying old cellars, drains, vaults, &o. It Is used every spring to sweeten the slittdligatOzr milk cellar, and a saucer of It always sits In the wash-stands and sinks. It Is very cheap—only three, four or live cents per pound.—Cor. Cbunery Gentle man. A Romantic Story. The Tote Earl of Aberdeen—Last at hen homonee of the I' —Will the a. lure Drina. rorth the Blissful; fan? From the Ma wheeler Examiner.' 75 Ines, July 7. One of the most romantic chapters in the chequered history of the peerage Is laid bare by the Judgment of the Edin burg Sheriff of Chancery in the case of the late Earl of Aberdeen. Fragment ary reports of the more prominent facts have been published, but we now for the first time get a continuous narral lee an most extraordinary series of events. With -the full information before us, we are justified in affirming that, while many men have gone through more ex• citing adventures, none have led a more truly romantic and, to the last, a more Inexplicable career than the late Earl. This unfortunate nobleman succeeded his father In 11464, being then twenty• three years of age. Within two years after—that is, in February, Isnit—he sailed from Liverpool to the fatted States on a visit confessedly of uncer tain duration. A few weeks after his arrival he entered himself its a common sailor, under the assumed name of Geo. 11. Osborne, on board the It. Wylie, of Boston, salting first to the Canary 14. ands and thence to fire \Vest Indies ; and he continued to follow a sea-faring life, with one brief exception, until he met with his death by drowning in January, 1870, while serving as first mate of the Hera, hound from Itoston to Australia and China. During all this time, it Is to be observed, he wrote regularly to his mother, the Dowager Countess of Aber deen informing her of the nature of his movemento, though at the same time studiously suppressing the names of the ships he sailed In, and even of the places he visited, where they would not be re vealedlny the postmarks on his letters. When this singular correspondence— which from its very nature admitted of no reply—ceased, his family naturally became roost anxious concerning him, and eventually the Scotch Chancery Court commissioned Mr. Harry Smith, advocate, to proceed to America, to ob• Lain the, depositions of any witnesses who might be able to speak of the late Earl's life in that country. The legal proceedings were formal in the sense a , being unopposed, and took the shape of a petition to the Court from the present Earl, praying that he might succeed to the title and estate, which he was enti tled to do on proof' of the death of his brother without Issue. This proof, as previously stated, the Sheriff deemed conclusive, and judgment has been pro nounced in favor of the claimant, who, as a matter of fact, assumed possession last year. Such being the leading Incidents of the story, it becomes interesting to know by what means the identity of George H. Osborne with the late Earl was established. These are classified under three distinct heads—First, pho tographs; second, handwriting; third, comparison of events. Six photographs taken in this country at ditTerent times were sent out to America, and all of them were identified by the American witnesses as portraits of the man they had known under the name of Osborne. There appears to have been no difficulty in tracing Osborne's movements from the time he assumed his incognito to the date of his death, and numerous re ceipts, memoranda, private letters, and particularly log-book entries, were found which he was known to have written, and In all it was placed beyond doubt upon comparison that the hand writing was the same as that of the lute Earl. The comparison of events was equally conclusive. Thus, though the writer did not mention the name of his vessel, he told his mother In one letter Unita parrot fell overboard ; that a shark was captured, and that. once when paint In tile yards he let the bucket of paint fail and spattered the captain all over withpaltit. All these incidenta are shown to occurred on the voyage of the it. Wylie, several of wh; se crew, with the captain, have been examined, and all of whom at once recognized In the portraits ()I' the Earl the semutw Osborne. Numerous other Incidents are given, too trilling, perhaps, to be repeated, but all tending to prove that Osborne and the late Earl must have been one mid the same person. 11 Is deserving of mention as illustratlnF the cool courage:of a man, that on a\\ inter voyage to Trinidad the mainboom of the sehooner—sixty feet long—Kul adrift when Osborne was milting at the end of it. He wits swung from side to side of the vessel, and In the storm which raged he was undoubtedly hi great peril, but he calmly gave the prop er orders for securing the boom, "which the captain, from terror, was unable to give at the moment." Two facts are also staled, which, though not falling under any one of the heads above men tioned, are, nevertheless, of a strongly corroborative eharaeter. Just before lie set, out to sea for the last time Os borne sold his rlfle to M. 0. Randall, of Itichmon 0. This weapon was shown to Mr. Harry Smith, and from the en graved number and murK upon it, it has since been identified by the maker, Mr. Henry, of Edinburg, who sold it to Lord Aberdeen on the :20th of October, 180:1. The other cir cumstance Is that among the effects of Osborne, found on board the Hera after his death, was a MS. copy of the "Rainy Day," by Longfellow, set us a song, with musical accompaniments. This, it is remarked, was a favorite song of Lady Aberdeen's, and the MS. words are proved by her to be in her son's own hand. So far we have been dealing solely with facts which,not indeed,of an every day kind, but still facts which hardly admit of doubt, notwithstanding their strangeness. But these, it may be said, make up only one-half of the story; they are the mere outward expression of a man's inner life. Admitting that fur nearly four years the late Earl of Aber deen led the life of a sailor, what were his motives for taking such an altogeth ;er unprecedented course? Here, it must be confessed, we are left very much in the (lark. We Lye not abso lutely !without a clue, but at best it is a slender one, and to fill up the pic ture, it would be necessary to draw largely upon the imagination. The SherifF, who appears to have a partialty for the tripartite method of treating a subject, observes that the motives disclosed in Lord At, erdeen's letters are: First Predi lection for the sea. Second—A belief that a seafaring life is beneficial to his health. Third—A wish Cogan] some in sight into the character and opinions of the industrious classes. The first two might have been followed without mys tery, but for the proper realization of the third secrecy no doubt was essential. The British tar stands in 110 need of a certificate of character. There is not an atom of sycophancy in his composition; but it is just possible that, were he to know that his messmate was a real Earl and grandson of a Prime Minister, it might put him on his best behavior for the whole of the voyage. The Earl wished to study Jack as he really is, and for this purpose Inc fearlessly placed him self on the same social level. What the "send-political topics" were to which the Earl referred in his letters we are nut told ; but perhaps we should not be very wide of the mark if we were to guess that more stringent legislation in the interest of our seamen was their chief burden. One other point remains to be noticed iu connection with this branch of the subject. The Sherif!' says explicitly thp there is not the slightest ground for attributing this change of life on the part of the deceased nobleman to any "infirmity of mind or temper, or unfitness for society. On the contrary, he appears to have been a man of super lorintellectual gifts, combined with con siderable force of character, and a de cided taste for acquiring and Imparting information." Equally flattering testi mony is borne by the witnesses to his uniform "correctness of conduct," and it is added that he commanded the respect and esteem of all who knew him. Minot a little strange, albeit the world is such a wide place/that the Earl was only recog nized once after he changed his name. In February, 1807, he went to the bank ing house of Messrs. Duncan, Sherman & Co., of New York, and got two checks on the Royal Bank of Scotland cashed. He was then recognized by Mr. Dun can, who had previously seen him in company with Lord Gosford and the present-Earl. Such are the broad out lines of this romantic story. On not a few points curiosity remains baffled, while It is not probable that further light will ever be thrown uponilt. By placing upon official record "all the evi- dence known or supposed to exist" con cerning this case, the most effectual step has been taken to prevent any Imposter from attempting to personate the de ceased Earl at some future period. It may not quite succeed In this design— for who can assign bounds to human elfrontery—but It will at least make the triumph of any such enterprise well nigh Impossible. Vampires and Ghouls. These gentry arb not yet quite dead. At least the belief In them still lingers In some country districts; while In Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia the credence prevails among whole tribes, and even nations. 'rlie most detailed vampire stories belong to the Danubian and Week countries. Too melba describes a scene that came under bas personal notice In (Ircece. A peasant of Mycone was tour• demi in the !Veld In the year 1701. De had been a Illicit of quarrelsome, ill natured disposition: just the sort of man, according to the current belief of the peasantry, to be haunted by Yam. bfires after death. Two days after hie urial, it was !wised abroad that he had been seen to walk in the night with great haste, overturning people's goods, putting out their lights pinching them and playing them strange pranks. The rumor was so often repeated that at length the priests avowed their belief in truth.lts M1L21 1 ,04 were said in the chap els, and ceremonies WCrt!performed, having for their object to drive out the vampire that inhabited the dead man. 011 the tenth day after the burial, a mass was said. the body was disinterred and the heart taken out. Frankin cense was burned to ward off infec tion ; but the bystanders insisted on the smoke of the frankincense being a di rect emanation from the dead body,—a sure sign,,aecordling to popular belief, of vampirism. They burned the heart on the sea-shore, the conventional way of getting rid of vampires. Still, this did not settle the !natter. Positive statements went the round of village that the dead man was still up to all kinds of mischief, beating people in the byeaking down doors, unroofing houses, shaking windows. The !natter became serious. Many of the inhabit ants were so thoroughly frightened and panic striken as to lice; while those who remained nearly lost all self con• trol. They debated, they fasted!, they made processions through the village, they sprinkled the doors of the houses with holy water, they speculated as to whether mass had been properly said, and the heart properly burned. At length they resolved to burn the body itself; they collected plenty of wood, pitch, and Lar,and carried out their plan. Tournefort (who had found it necessary to be cautious as to expressing his in credulity) states that no nitre MIS heard of the supposed vampire. In the year 172.5, on the borders of Hungary and Transylvania, a vampire story arose, which was renewed after wards in a noteworthy way. A peasant of Madveiga, named Arnold Paul, was crushed to death by the fall of a wagon load of hay. Thirty days afterwards, four persons died, with all the symp toms (according to populltr belief) of their blo id having been sucked by vampires. Some of the neighuors re membered having heard Arnold say that he had often been tormented by a vampire; and they jumped to a conclu sion that the passive vampire had now become active. This wits in accordance with a kind of formula or theorem on the subject ; that a man who, when alive, his had his blood mucked by a vampire, will, after him death, deal with other permit's hi like manner. The neighbors exhumt;il Arnold Thud, drove a stake through the heart, cut off the head, and burned the body, The bodies a the four persons who had recently Bled were treated In a similar way, to make surety doubly sure, N everthe less, even title did not sullice. I t 173:2, seven years later these events, seventeen per sons died In the near übout one time. 'rile memory of the unlucky Arnold recurred to the villagers; the vampire theory was agnin appealed to; he was believed to have dealt with lie seventeen its he hail pre viously dealt with the four; and they were therefore disinterred, the heads cut all', the hearts staked, the bodies burned, and the ashes dispersed. One suppositkni was that, Arnold tun vitinplrized mime cattle, that lite seven teen villagers hall eaten of the beef, ant had Mien victims In consequence. This allitlr itttriwted much attention a the time. Louis the Fifteenth dlrectet his tunbustottlor at Vienna lea nake In qulries In the :nutter. Many of Ow wit uesses attested on oath that the dinin terred bodies were full of blood, and ex Whited few of the usual symptoms of death ; indications which the believers In vampires stoutly maintained to be al ways present in such cases. 'rids has induced many physicians to think that real cases of catalepsy or trance were mixed up with the popular belief, and were supplemented by a large Illiow atlVO of epidemic fanaticism. Mr. Pushley, In his 'travels In Crete, states that when he was at the town of Ask ylo, he asked about the vampires or katakhanadhes, us the Crelons called them—of whose existence and doings he had heard many recitals, stoutly corrob orated by the peasantry. Many of the stories converged towards one central fact, which Mr. nimble) , believed had given origin to them all. Vu one occa sion a man 01 some note, was buried at St. Ueorge's Church at Kallkrati, in the island of Crete. An arch or canopy was built over his grave. ]Sat he soon afterwards made his appearance us a vampire, haunting the village, and destroying men and children. A shep herd was one day tending his sheep and goats near the church, and on being caught in ashower, went under the arch took shelter from the rain. He deter- mined to 1,11 -QS the night there, laid aside his arms, and stretched himself on a stone tq sleep. In placing his firearms down (gentle shepherds of pastoral poems do not want firearms; but the Cretans are not gentle shepherds), he happened to cross them, NOW this cross ing was always believed to have the ef fect of preventing a vampire from emerg. ing from the spot where the emblem was found. Thereupon occurred a singular debate. The vampire rose in the night, and requested the shepherd to remove the firearms in order that he might pass, as he had sonic important business to transact. The shepherd, inferring from this request that the corpse was the identical vampire which had been doing so much mischief, at first refused his as sent; but on obtaining from the vampire a promise on oath that he would not hurt him, the shepherd moved the cross ed arms. The vampire, thus enabled to rise, went to a distance of about two miles, and killed two persons, a man awl a woman. On his return, the shepherd saw some indication of what had occur red, which caused the vampire to threat en him with a similar fate if he divulged what he had seen. He courageously told all, however. The priests and oth er persons came to the spot next morn ing, took up the corpse (which in day time was as lifeless as any other) and burnt It. While burning, a little spot of blood spirted on the shepherd's foot, which instantly withered away; but otherwise no evil resulted, and the vam pire. was effectually destroyed. This was certainly a very peculiar vampire story; for the coolness with which the corpse and shepherd carried on their conversation under the arch was unique enough. Nevertheless, the persons who narrated the affair to Mr. Pashley firmly believed in its truth, although slightly differing In their versions of it. Modern vampires In Western Europe seldom trouble society, so far as narra tives tell ; but across the Atlantic some thing of the kind has occupied public attention within the limits of the pres• en t generation. In 1854 The Times gave an. extract from an American news paper, the Ivorwich Courier, concerning au event that had Just occurred. Hprace Ray, of Griswold, died of consumption In 1840 ; two of his children afterwards died of the same complaint ; eight years afterwards, In 184)4, a third died. The neighbors, evidently having the vam pire theory iu their thoughts, determin ed to exhume the bodies of the first two children, and burn them; under the supposition that the dead had been feed ing on the living. If the dead body re mained lu a fresh or semi•fresh state, all the vampire mischief would be pro duced. In what state the bodies were really found we are not told; but they were disinterred and burned on the Bth of June in the above-named year. All the stories of vampires, ghouls, and were-wolves, we may safely assert, can find their solution in a combina tion of three causes,— a sort of epidemic superstition among ignorant persons; some of the phenomena of trance or epileptic sleep; and special monomaniac NUMBER 30 diseases which It I physician to study The Philosophy of the Birds' Nest White, In hitooNatural History of Shelburne," says: " It has been remarked that every species of bird has a mode of nldi fication peculiar to Itself,so that anchool boy would at once pronounce on the sort of nest before hint. This is the case among fields and worsts and wilds; but In the villages around London, where mosses, and gossamer, and cotton front vegetables are hardly to be found, the need. of the chaffinch has not that ele gant finished appearance, nor is so beautiful with ilehenn, as in a more rural district ; anti the wren In obliged to construct Ito house with straws and dry grasses, which do not give It that ro tundity and compactness so remarkable In the cffilicen of that little architect. Again, the rural nest of the house-mar telt is hentimpherle ; but when a rafter, or a Joist, or a cornice may happen to Abend in the way, the nest In no eon tri veil as to conform to the obntruction, and bowmen fiat, or oval or compress ed." White, an everybody knows who ham read his charming book—and who hies not a strong believer in the old orthodox idea of instinct. It neems, however, that the name re-marks which apply to man In his savage stale, ap ply to birds. Man uses the materials which he can most readily obtain, and builds in situations which he thinks most fitting fur his own security and comfort. The birds do the same. The wren, for Instance, frequenting hedge rows and low thickets, builds its nest generally of moss, the material most abundantly found in its haunts. Hooks dig in pastures and plow fields for grubs, and thus continually come across roots and fibres; these they use to line their nests. The crow—feeding on carrion, dead rabbits, and lambs, and frequent ly sheep-walks and warrens—choose fur and wool to line its nest. The king fisher makes its nest of the bones of the Itch which it lUL4 eaten. Swallows use day and mud from the margins of the ponds and rivers over which they find insect rood. And so we might multiply Instances showing that the materials of birds' nests, like those need by savage man for his habitation, are those which come first to hand. The advocates of the instinct theory argue, however, that it is not so much the materials as the form and structure of the nests of va rious birds that differ. But the delica cy and perfection of the nest must al ways depend on the size and habits of the bird. 'lake a few instances: The wren—remarkable for the neat construction of its nest—ham a slen- der beak, long legs and great activity; it is therefore able, without any dinlcul ty, to form a well-woven nest of tile poorest materials, and places it in thick ets and hedgerows, which It frequents in its search for food. The tit-mouse— haunting fruit trees and walls, and searching the cracks and crannies for insects—builds in holes, where it has shelter and security ; while its great ac tivity, and the perfection of its bill and feet, enable it readily to form a beauti ful receptacle for its eggs and young.— Pigeons, on the other hand, having heavy bodies and weak feet and bills, construct rude, Hat nests of sticks, laid across strong branches, which will bear their weight and that of their young Taking a few of the sea-birds by way of example, we find that the HILIIIO rule holds good. Many terns and sandpipers lay their eggs on the open sands of the sea-shore. This Is not because they are unable to form a nest; but because, in such an exposed situation, they would most likely have their trouble for their pains, for a nest would he more easily discovered, (lulls, again, vary much in their modes of nesting, according to their habits. Ilence they build either On a bare rock, on ledges of sea (AIWA, or In marshes or on weedy shores. I lure, again, the materiels are those easily found, living sewweed, tufts of grass, or rushes, piled together In the awkward manner wide!' their webbed feel, and clumsy bill compel. Returning to the question of instinct, It Is generally supposed that. a yminig bird will build IL nestpreeisely like the conventional nest of Its species, oven if it has never seen one. Ii this were true, the I nsti net side would have It; but recent natural ists deny thud there Is any proof a this. Facts, ito far 1111 they have been ameer tallied, speak to the contrary. Birds brought up from the egg in cages do not make tile characteristic nest, of their species, even when supplied with t,ln same materials used by that species It building their nests. Often, Indeed they build no nest at all, but merely col lea the materials Lugether In a rude Luis nluyun beep.—One A !reek. A Chlnt•me Deisltsbed the Chinos° hay() many t•uatomm pa Intr to (lair withal which atmlt lUM===l rat and strange. Their religious traditions aro also deep-rooted and so strongly ton• tered by superstition un to give little en couragement to missionary , laborers. The most striking or these superstitions are those pertaining to the disposition of their dying and dead relatives. Very often the load bodies of chinos° men and women are round In untenanted buildings In the Chinese quarter of the city, and those un• acquainted with their MI ponAltions are prime to set the desertions of dying friends down its eats Or neithlllOOSS. Thin, howev er, is not no, as thin Chinese believe that If persons die in a house that they lived hi before death their spirits will haunt the places aver alter, and give unpleasant evi dence or their presence to all who remain. In order to prevent the manifestations of the restless spirit, as slum as the doctor gives it as his opinion that a patient can not survive he is taken to another place :and lett alone to die. Yesterday a case of this kind was reported to the coroner. A young Chimtwoman, who had been given up by her attending physician, was carri ed by her relatives to an untenanted house on Ellis Place, off Pacific, above Dupont. They then dressed her in her best clothing spread a new matting on the floor, and laid her on it. Then they brought in preserves meats, fruits, candies, boiled rice, etc., lighted some punks and retired, leaving her alone to await the corn ming of the ctilninon destroyer. During the day she ditd, and was found last ought. Coroner Letterman removed the body, and it is now at the Morgue, awaiting the further action of the relatives, who will probably leave her to be disposed of by the city, as is gen erally their practice iu all such civic's.— Many Chinamen, those of the wealthy classes, do not desert their dead friends, and for the furtherance of this desire there are several hospitals fitted up, in order that those about to die may be removed there until they have paid the debt of nature, after which they are buried with all the ceremonies of the disciples of Confucius.— Sus Franci.sco Indict in. ME= An Innocent Man Hung The trial of Connell in the Criminal Court last week created a profound sensation be cause it throw a new light on a question which was considered settled. Connell was accused of being accessory to the death of Fenton, fur the Murder or whom Ualvin was hung nearly two years ago. About twelve witnesses were examined, whose testimony ail went to show that Connell was blameless ; and a vast mass of the testimony went to corroborate the truth of the testi irony w hich.Galvin gave of himself, when on the point of being shoved into eternity, that he did the shooting in self-de fense. One young loan, who was not a witness in the Ualvin trials, named Ran dolph Miller, swore that Fenton shot first, while Ualvin had his hand on the door knob, in the act or 'going out.. Attorney- General Wright discharged a strong rebuke at the witness for having these facts undis closed in his bosom, when he knew that by telling them a new trial could be got for Galvin. The witness said that he had nev er been summoned on the case. The gen eral complaint made by thelriends of Ual vin was that everything was carried on with such a high hand, and persons were so Intimidated by the whole regime of the period, and the numorous satellites attacl ed thereto, that it wan worth more than a man's life was worth to voluntarily offer to tell the truth.—Memplatf Appeal. A Very Mad Came As day after day goes by, and the mem ory of the bloody 12th of July fades away and takes its place In history, new horrors that have been hid by the smoke of the car. nageon Eighth avenue develop themselvem, and victims of the riot that never by word or deed encouraged such unlawful proceed ings are carried to the grave. One of the saddest cases is that of the young lad Thomas J. Spring, a native American, and In the best promise of hopeful manhood, who was shot mortally in the side and lay In the improvised shambles, corner of Eighth avenue and Twenty-fourth street+ for an hour and over, among the dead and dying in the hot July aun. Young Mr. Spring had taken a walk over front the Free Academy, or which he was one of the brightest pupils, having, in every instance carried off the honors of his class, and while nearing the scene of the conflict, which had just begun, his life was aped by a Minis bullet from the soldiers in the street. He will be mourned by all who knew him as a bright, intelligent and gen tlemanly young lad. THE BALTIMORE #OISORIN6 CASE. The PrißOOPle to Isll—Her Visitors Derded.—sympathy for the Accused. The recent developments In the poison ing case, in which Mrs. Elizabeth G. Whar ton appears as the principal actor, continue to engross public attention, and yesterday there were various rumors afloat concern ing the accused, of her death, suicide, all ofwhich proved to be without the least foundation in fact. It is understood that although Mrs. Wharton appeared well and cheerful on Saturday, she had been very 11l the Friday night preceding at her resi dence, having been attacked with an epi leptic fit, to which she is said to be subject. On reaching the jail she was allowed to re main in ono of the ante-rooms wits her friends until the cell selected for her was made ready. 'this cell is on the tired tier, facing went, No. 1117, immediately adjoin ing that of the matron, and next to the ono occupied by Mrs. Marsh, who, it will be recollected, slaughtered her three children on Central avenue while insane, and who Is now, by order of the Criminal Court, confined i the Maryland Hospital. She has never recovered her lemon' shies that fatal calamity. 'rho yell of Mrs. Wharton Is furnished an plainly as possible, she having been allowed to have seal from her dwelling one bedstead, lied, washstand, chairs, Over the grating or the door of her coil hangs a lace curtain, which ex cludes the occupants from the of passers along the corridor. Miss %% har lot', the daughter, has been idlowed to re main wJth her mother. On Saturday night Mrs. Wharton was restless, but ou Sunday remarked In the warden that she felt quite well. She slept through Sunday night, and both ire that day and yesterday had a good appetite, the meals for herself and daughter being sent from a restaurant Miss Nellie Wharton appears to be do• votedly attached to her mother, and does not leave her except occasionally to gel tho air in the corridor. The onlimrs state that, although cheerful 111111 lively In the el II with her parent, idle In Invariably seen In learn when out er her Illotheen preserve. Wilrduti Irving, k !lowing that close con- Multiunit In the 0111 would he anything lint conducive up health,particularly to it young person, suggested to Miss Wharton the propriety or using the Jail tinelosure for her walks, where she might Inhale the pure air of the !lowers and sli m bbery.-- she thanked hint very kindly, but remark ed that she knew her mother multi not au • vompany her, anti therefore she must ile• The warden shown no 1,110 to intrude upon Mrs. Wharton, and no visitors are admitted to her unless by express permis • sion of 010 Board of Visitors of the Institu tion, and the curious who tinny visit the Jail with t h e expectation of seeing her un authorized will be disappointed. Yester day she had a lengthy interview with Mes srs. Steele and Thomas, her counsel, and afterwards the Rev. Mr. Converse, of (I race Episcopal Church, spent 1111 11,111 r ill her cell, Several officials of the army, personal friends of the Into Ni ahir Wharton, 11311 i a member of the legal profession from Wash ington, also called at the Jail to nee her, but were only allowed to sand up their cards. Dr. It NI eSherry, NI rn. Wharten's lam llv physleian, in vompany with I/r. Jaeob W. Houck, the physician to thejall, visited the prisoner late fast evening, when mho imp peared to be net. so well as during the day, and the knitter expressed fears that she might have an oppeptie attack during the night. Whatever degree of erline may attach to the accused, it is evident that she has many warm, sympathetic friends in the community, especially among those of her own sex.--/laftiono . e San, July IS, The Brood Prospect-•Illeport of the Ile• portment of Airrleollore. WASHINIITON, July 111.—The July re• turns of the statistical divinion of the De partment of Agrieulturu show a marked increase In the average of corn, amounting to fully ft,ooo,oou of acres, of which 2,000,- 000 are due to the determination of the Cot ton States to supply themselves with bread ittid meat. It is assumed that the area In corn equals 42,000,0011 of acres, or more than half of the total 'wrong° of all tilled crops. The only Statics failing . to Increase their area In corn are New York, the New England Suites and the Pacific Status. The percentage of increase in other Staten, Is as fellows: Now Jersey 2; Pennsylvania I ; Delaware 3; Maryland 1 ; Virginia 5; North Carolina It; South Carolina 12; Georgia 10; Florida 7; Alabama 11; NI in ninnippi 14; Louisiana 15; Tuxes 15; Ar kansas 21; 'Tennessee 7; Wont Virginia ; Kentucky 3; Nllstiouri 1U; Illinois Indiana ; I Mio :t; ichigan 3; NV Isom. sin 7; Nlintiosina II; lowa 15 ; hCwsay fal; Nebraska 30. The condition of SN'inter wheat on the Int of J tily wan minnow hat above ail average. The Spring varlotlen presenteil a worse ap pearttneo titan has been reported for several years at the name date. The ripening of Winter wheat has been fully n week earlier than unual, and a largo proportlim hail been cut at the date of the return., Never was there a bettor promise In early Spring, and the coot 'strati VII preVlllolll'o lif insects and local injuries from drought have 'been the principal drawintickn. States show Ina a comparatively low condition ere New ilampnidre, Virgllllll, turd all Lho sa'n'e SOW l ore Staten, (Ikeepl, TOXII4, while liellleeky presents nu average of 3J ion• cont. iletiniii• ration, Indiana 7 per cont., and California 17 per cent. Among the States shaving average are t Gil', 4 per emit. above, M lehlgail 5, I Iltuuin 7, Minnottri 3, littimas 7, Nolininita lit, Oregon I, 'rho ‘Vllittir wheat of lowa and Wlneonnin Is In higircintilition, but in. sigh In area. The auction having the largest area of Nv hate . wheat is the erne ill Whieh its rnudiLluu in highest, though a majority or the Whiter wheat Stales torn comparatively poor condition, Thu mily Stitto4 front W 1114.11 favorable reports of Spring wheat are received are Maine, New Gamionhlru, Connecticut mid Oregon. The pertiontagen below art average amt Inmoit ri 30, Illluuls itU, Indiana 2, Ohio 7, Michi gan .1, WINeMINIII 20, :111111110011./130, I(IWIl itetelett It; anti Nebraska 11. ChineCm tug has been very destructive to Spring wheat, After allowing for Moine:onm In acreage and the large yield of Winter wheat in good wheat districts, the lons In tire Spring va riety :mint reduce the aggregate yield somewhat below tot average. Tile hay crop will bon comparatively ~mall one. Potatoes routine air average yield If they (swap° drought and rid in the future.— Notwlthntanding Me prevalence of the Col orado bug,eictitinued vigilance hum partially averted loss, 11111== The Nfonliginnery ( A laliarnit) Ailvertinrr roel rem the lineedoto of the In terelow of M r. wry Latirenn, of South Carolina, In lino, with I Shelburne, When the writ of ha bean C 011,11.4 became the nubf uet W mover nation. Mr. ',annum was appointed Minis ter to Holland by the Cot,thiental Congromn In 11W, ho wan explored before reaching ilk dontltmtßm, and detained in the Tower of London for more than a year. In the meantime the able Lord Shelburne became premier, and 1,1,11r0111i was released, and even treated with groat kindness by the British officials. On ono occasion when he was dining with Lord Shelburne, the con versation turned on the Independence of the American colonies, when Lord Shelburne quietly observed : "I am sorry for your people." "Why so Y' asked Laurens. "'1 will lose t h e habeas carpus," was the reply. " Lose the habean corp as I" said Laurens. "Yee," said Lord Shelburne. "We purchased It with centurion ol wrangling, many yearn of fighting, and had it confirmed by at least fifty acts of Parliament. All this taught the nation its value, and it ix so Ingrained into their creed IN the very foundation or their liberty, and no man or party will ever dare trample on it. Your people will pick it up and attempt to use It; but having cost them nothing they will not know how to appreciate it. At 1.110 unit great internal fettu that you have the majority will tram ple on it, and the people will permit it to be done, and SO will go your liberty." In view of the Ku-Klux and bayonet election bills, It would nem as If these ominous anticipations had been literally verified. Let us hope, however, that this is but a brief episode, the long continuance of which the people will not permit. The reasons which induce Englishman to prize haftems corpt<4 are equally cogent with Americans, because It was the common heritage of both, and the men who fought for it through centuries were their common ancestry. W hen the passions generated by "internal feuds" have ceased to exist, It will be found that .Ihere is no more danger of Americana becoming the Moves of des pots than Englishmen.—Baffintorc Sun. Practical Woman'. Bights About twenty miles from the Healing Springs in the Allegheny mountains, there lives a most remarkable woman. her name Is Morrison, but she Is known all throe ctli the country by her maiden name of "Miss Jennie 'tucker." She Is about sixty years of age, hasher hair bobbed like a man's, wears a man's hat, and rides a horse astride. Hunting Is her moans of livelihood, and she kills deer, bear, and other game with the skill of forty years ex perience. Not long since she wounded a deer, but before coming up with it anoth er hunter—a man—had gotten to it and commenced carving it up. The old lady expostulated with no avail, and finally drew a bead on him with her rifle to enforce her "rights." 'the fellow jumped behind a tree, but loft his heel exposed, at which vulnerable spot the old lady tired and hit. She got her doer. She has nine or ten chil dren, and is said to treat all travelers hos pitably who stop at her cabin. She uses tobacco, but never gots further in swearir.g than "by sounds, ' which Is her favorite exprenniorn If any woman wants her "rights," lot her floe to the Allegheny mountains.—Letter from, Bath county, Va Revere Storm In Tennessee Accident In Consequence. MEMPHIS, July 10.—A storm occurred last night which surpassed In fury any witnessed hero for years. The tele graph poles north of here wore prostrated, trees uprooted, and vast damage done to the crops. Tho night express train on tho Memphis and Charleston Railroad, hence for Chattanooga, when near Grand June. Lion, ran, through a trestle washed away by the flood. The engineer was killed and twelve or fifteen passengers wounded. MEmpllut, July lU.—The accident pro vlounly reported occurred to the eastern bound train on the Memphis and Charles ton Railroad, about a mile east of ithe Grand Junction, at daybreak, this A. M. The rain the night before had washed away the trestle, and the engineer did not ob serve it until too late to stop the train.— The engine, tender, baggage and two pas- senger cars fell into the ditch. The rear passenger car became separated from the others and was not injured. Railroad