uf ; his may have earned that significance tin
rnisteknblv for years. Thank God, there is a
day of sure judgment coming, when conventions
nnd shields of usage will save no man from the
due vengeance of truth upon smooth and plau
eihle duplicity !
In due time Mr. Waring recovered. If |
there was any change in his manner to Jo, it |
was too slight to he seen, though it was felt,
and was, after all, the carelessness of a person '
certain < f his foothold in Iter good grace, ra |
ther than the evident withdrawal of attention,
which I could have, pardoned even then, had !
it been the result of hottest regret for past j
carelessness, and stern resolution to repair that ;
past. Whatever it was, Jo perceived that her I
ideal man was become a real man ; but, with
a tenacity of nature for which in my fate tel
ling 1 had not given her credit, she was as
constant to the substance as she had been to
the dream ; and while she lost both health
and spirits in the contemplation of Arthur
Waring's fitful and heedless manner toward
her, and wa9 evidently pained by the discove
ry of his selfish and politic traits, —to call
them by no harsher name, —it was inexpressi
bly touching to hear the excuses she made for
him, to see the all-shielding love with which
she veiled his faults, and kept him as a mother
would keep her graceless, yet dearest child
from animadversion and reproach.
In the meantime I heard often from Letty.
No good news of her husband, but that her
child grew more and more a comfort, that her |
friends were very kind, aud always in a tiny ;
postscript some snch phrase as this : " I try j
to be patient, Sarah," or " I don't scold Har-1
ry so much as I did, dear." I hoped for Let-1
ty, for she persevered.
That summer we saw less than ever of Mr. 1
Waring ; he was very busy at the mill in ol
der that it might be far enough advanced to j
resist the inevitable spring freshets ; and he- .
sides, we were absent from the \ alley some !
weeks, endeavoring to recruit Jo's failing health j
at the sen-side. But this was a vain endeavor; j
that which sapped the springs of her life was
past outward cure. She inherited her father's j
delicate and unreliable constitution, and n tier- >,
vous organization, whose worst disease is ever I
the preying of doubt, anxiety, or regret. As
winter drew on, she grew no better ; a dim,
dreary abstraction brooded over her. She
said to me often with a vague a'arm, " Sally,
how lar off you seem ! Do come nearer !"
She ceased to talk when we were alone, her '
step grew languid, her eye deeper,—and its j
bright expression, when you roused her, was j
longer in shooting hack into the clouded sphere '
than ever before. She sat for hours by the j
window, her lovely head resting on its case- ;
meat, looking out, always out and away, be- !
youd the hills, into the deep spaces of bine
air, past cloud and vapor, to the stars. Sud
den noises startled her to an extreme degree ; i
a quick step flushed her cheek with fire and
fluttered her breath. How I longed for spring!
I hoped nil from the delicate ministrations of
Nature ; though the physician we called gave '
no hope of her recovery. Mr. Waring him- j
self seemed struck with her aspect, and many
little signs of friendly interest came from him.
As often as lie could, he returned to his old
haunts ; and while the pleasure of his presence :
and the excitement of his undisguised anxiety
wrought on her, Jo became almost her old sell
for the moment, gav, cheerful, blooming,—
a'us ! with the bloom of feverishness and vain j
hope.
So spring drew near. The mill was nearly
finished. One day in March a warm south-{
wind " quieted the earth " after a long rain, j
the river began to stir, its mail of ice to crack
and heave under the sun's rays. I persuaded
Jo to take a little drive, and once in the car
riage the air reanimated her ; she rested against
me and talked more than I had known her for !
weeks.
" What a lovely day 1" said she ; " how
bnlmv the air is ! there is such an expression
of rest without despair, such calm expectation!
I always think of heaven such days, Sally !
they are like the long sob with which a child
finishes weeping. Only to think of never more
knowing tears ! —that is life indeed !"
A keen pang pierced me at the vibration of
her voice as she spoke. I thought to soothe
her a little, and said, " Heaven can be no more
than love, Jo, and we have a great deal of
that on earth."
" I)o we !" answered she, in a tone of grief j
jnst tipped with irony,—and then went on : !
" I believe you love me, Sally. I would trust i
you with my—heart, if need were. I think
you love me better than any one on earth
does."
" I love you, enough, dear," said I ; more
words would have choked me in the utterance.
Soon we turned homeward.
" Tell John to drive down by the river, said
Josephine,—l want to see the new niili."
" But you cannot see it from the road, Jo ; j
the hemlocks stand between."
" Never mind, Sally ; I shall just walk
through them ; don't deny me ! i want to !
see it all again •, and perhaps the arbutus is in i
bloom."
" Not yet, Jo."
" I can get some bnds, then ; I want to I
have some just once."
We left the carriage, and on my arm Jo ;
strolled through the little thicket of hemlock- i
trees, green and fragrant, She seemed ttnu ;
sually strong. I began to hope After much
searching, we found the budded flowers ; she
loved most of all wild blossoms ; —no scent
breathed from the closed petals : they were
not yet kissed by the odor giving south-wind
into life and expression ; but Jo looked at tlieiu
with sad, far-reaching eyes. 1 think she si
lently said good-bye to them.
Presently we came out on the steep bank of
the river, directly opposite the mill. A heavy
timl>er was thrown across from the shore to
the island, on which the workmen from the
west side had passed and repassed ; it was firm
enough for its purpose, hut now, wet with the
morning's rain, and high above the grinding
ice, it seemed a hazardous bridge. As we
stood looking over at the new mill, listening
to the slight stir within it, apparently the set
ting to rights by some lingering workman of
such odds and ends as remain after finishing
the great whole of such a building, suddenly
the cool wind, which had shifted to the north,
brought on its waft a most portentous roar.
Nearer and nearer it swelled, crashing and his
sing as it approached. Josephine grasped my
arm with a convulsive energy, and at that in
stant we perceived Mr. Waring's plain cap
pass an open casement. She turned upon me
like a wild creature driven to bay. I looked
up-stream—the ice had mixed with flood-wood
aud timber, and, bearing above all the uproot
ed trunk of a huge sycamore, was corning down
upon the dam like a battering ram. Jo gasp
ed. " The river is broken up and Arthur is
on the island," said she. in a fearfully suppress
ed tone, and, swifter than I could think or
gucs< her meaning, she had reached the tim
ber, she was on it, —and with light, nntrem
bliug steps half across when both she and I
simultaneously caught sight of Mr. Waring
running for dear life to the other and stronger
bridge. Jo turned to come back : but the ex
citement was past that had sustained her ; she
trendded, she tottered. I ran to meet and aid
her. Just then the roots of the great syea- j
more thundered against the dam ; the foot j
bridge swept down toward us She had all
but reached the end of the timber, —I stood j
there to grasp her hand, —when the old tree, :
whirled down by the torrent, struck the other |
end of the beam and threw Josephine forward j
to the bank, dashing her throbbing, panting!
breast, with all the force of her fall, against
the hard ground. I lifted her in my arms.—
She was white with jxiin. Presently she open
ed her eyes and looked up, a flush of rapture
glowed all over her face, and then the awful
mist of death, gray and rigid, veiled it. Her
head dropped on my shoulder ; a sharp cry
and a rush of scarlet blood passed her lips to
gether ; the head lay more heavily,—she was
dead.- But Arthur Waring never knew how
or for what she died !
Five years have passed since that day.—
Still I live at Nook Cottage - r but not alone.
Of us three, Josephine is in heaven. Letty j
is still troubled upon earth ; her husband tests
her patience anil her temper every hour, but
both temper and patience are in good training;
and if ever Henry Maiden is reclaimed, as I
begin to sec reason to hope iie will be, he will
owe it to the continual example nnd gentle j
goodness of his wife, who has grown from a ;
petulant, thoughtless girl into a lovely, unsel- j
fish, religions woman, a devoted mother and j
wife, " refined by fire." For inc, the la<t, — ;
whenever now I say, as I used to say, "Three |
of us," I mean a new three, —Paul, baby, and
me ; for Jo was not a prophet. Four years I
ago, while my heart-ache for her was fresh
and torturing, a new pastor came to the little
church of Valley Mills. Mr. Lyman was very j
good ; I have seen other men with as fine I
natural traits, but I have never seen a man or
woman so entirely good, lie came to me to ;
console me ; for he, too, had just lost a sister, '
and in li.-tcmug to his story 1 for a moment
forgot my own, as he meant I should But I
did not love him, —no, not till I discovered, <
months afterwards, that he suffered incessant- j
ly from ill health, and was all alone in the
world I was too much of a woman to resist
such a plea. I pitied him ; I tried to take
care of him ; and when he asked me if I would
like the office of sick-nurse, I told him 1 lik
ed it well enough to wish it were for life ; and
now, when he wants to light my eyes out of
tnat dreamy expression that tells him I am re
living the past, and thinking of the dead, he
tells me, for the sake of the flash that follows,
that I offered myself to him ! Perhaps I did.
But he is well now ; the air of the Tunxis '
hills, and the rest of a quiet life, partly, I ;
hope, good care also, have reslored to him his j
lost health. And lam what Jo said I should
have been, —a blessed mother, as well asa hap
py wife. The baby that lies across my lap
has traits that endear her to me doubly,—
traits of each of us three cousins ; Josephine's i
hair on her little nestling head, Lctty's apple
blossom complexion, and my eyes, except that
they are serene when they are not smiling. 1
a-k only of the love that has given roe all this
unexpected joy, that my little Jo may have
one better trait, —her father's heart ; a stron
ger, tenderer, and purer heart than belonged
to any one among " Three of us."
Horrible Tragedy.
T
IWO LITTI,E BOYS MURDERER BY THEIR F ATTIER.
—We learn from the Binghamton Republicm
that a most shocking affair occured at Maine,
Brooine county, on Friday la=t. Oliver How-!
nrd, a tanner about 30 years old, deliberately
cut the throats of his two sons. His wife had
gone to visit her mother, and took her two j
little girls with her, leaving her two sons, aged
T and years, at school. The following ad
ditional items of this horrid deed we take :rom
the Republican of the l'.tth ilist ;
We have Leon furnished, by John Congdon,
Esq., Coroner, with the following particulars I
in regard to the murder of the two little boys j
by their father, Oliver Howard, as revealed
by the evidence given at the inquest over the ,
Lolies on Saturday morning last :
Howard's wife having been unwell for some
time past, went to her father's honse, near ;
Kattleville, on Thursday, taking with her the
two girls—the two biys being left at. home j
with Howard's father. About 3 o'clock Fri- ;
day afternoon Howard went to the school j
House and took his boys from school, saying
that he wanted to take them home ; he stop
ped at a house on the way, the lady of which
asked the boys if they would not like to have j
something to eat.
They answered yes, and the woman went
into another room to get something for them, 1
but when she returned the boys and the father
were gone. A sister of Howard was at the j
School House when he took the children
away and, fearing something wrong followed
to her brother's house, but could not get in.—
She then went and got a Mrs. Cnmmings and
another woman, and they returned with her to !
the house. They called Howard and asked
to bo admitted ; when he replied that he i
would kill them if they attempted to enter.—
One of them then looked in at the widow and !
saw one of the boys lying on the floor dead. The ,
neighbors were then called and Howard soon 1
after opening the door, was arrested. After
he was in custody, and had admitted his guilt
he related to a physician present how he killed 1
the boys. He first took the oldest one between
his knees, and holding him by the chin with
one hand he drew the razor across his throat j
with the other. The boy at first fell to the
floor, but afterwards got up and walked across
the room before he died. The other boy was |
then killed in the same manner.
This is the most horrible affair we have ever
been called upon to record. The verdict of
the Coroner's Jury was in accordance with
ttie facts as related above. The bodies of the
murdered boys were taken on Saturday to
Kattleville for interment, their mother being
too sick to go to Maine. Their names are
Royal and Alfred —the oldest seven years old
and the youngest five.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. —Ou Tuesday the
13th instant, Danville was visited by a very
severe thunder storm. It seems that the
storm was confined to a very small section of
the country, and its course was marked by the
sad havoc it made, —blowing down trees, pros
trating corn ; and, in some places, severely
damaging the grain. The barn of Mr. John
F. Herr, in the North Ward of Danville, was
struck by lightning, and two valuable horses
were instantly killed. A large tree was also
struck near the Montgomery Mansion and
very much shivered, otherwise doing no injury.
|srai)to ileporkr.
E. O. GOODBICH, EDITOR.
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REPUBLICAN COUNTY
> COMMITTEE.- The Republican Co.
-* Committee will meet in the Conit
House, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, IS5*. at 1, I'. M. A lull
attendance of the members is desired.
Jirtv 20. E. O. GOODRICH, Chairman.
RAILROAD DIFFICULTIES. —The X. Y & Erie
and the Central Railroads having got at log
gerheads, for some weeks the former has been
carrying passengers from New-York lo Buffa
lo for §5, and to Dunkirk for $6,10. \ arious
attempts have been made to reconcile the diffi
culties, but without success. As a lust resort
a railroad Convention was held at Cleveland
last week to take the matter into considera
tion. The conclusion arrived at was to make
a general reduction on all the thoroughfares
leading West, to correspond with the low fares
on the N. Y. & Eric, and to refuse all bnsiness
relations with the iatter road, such as receiv
ing tickets, billing freight, &c.
The fight is a very pretty one as it stands,
with nobody interested except the stockholders,
and nobody benefitted but the public.
THE " ATLANTIC MONTHLY " for August, is
one of the best numbers of that very excellent
publication We take great pleasure in re
commending the Atlantic to such of our rea
ders as desire a publication of a high order of
merit. The articles by the " Autocrat of the
Breakfast Table," are alone worth the price
of the work. PHJI.MFS, SAMCSON A Co., Pub
lishers, Boston.
Bug- We hope the teaciiers and friends of
education, will not forget the meeting at Scran
ton, which is to commence on the tenth of
August. We are authorized to say that the
Seranton road will pass delegates both ways
for one fare. Those going should state to the
agent of whom they obtain certificates, the
fact that they are delegates to the meeting of
ihe Teachers' Association.
St-iT A friend of ours, a few days since,
measured a head of oats taken from the field
of Capt. C. 11. CORBIN, of Albany township,
and found its length to be plump eighteen inch
es. This, be assures us, was not a picked head,
but was taken off by a person standing by the
edgp of the field. Let us hear how many of
our farmers can beat the Captain on long /tends
IfcxF Pic NlLS —we observe by our exchan
ges—are just now the rage all over the coun
try. Some of our citizens, to be in fashion,
or for other reasons, "got up" an affair of
the kind on Saturday last in a beautiful grove
near the mouth of Towanda Creek. A lovely
siimmer day breathed its softest breath upon
"fair women and brave men"— DITTRICII'S
brass band discoursed its best music—edibles
and bibables were in profusion, and every one
as " merry as a marriage bell." More ration
al enjoyment or a plcasanter time could hardly
be experienced.
MARBLE YARD. —Attention is called to the
advertisement of F. 11. BALDWIN, who has
commenced at this place, the manufacture of
Tomb Stones and Monuments. Mr. B is al
ready well known to many of our citizens, hav
ing for some years been engaged in furnishing
his manufactures to this section, and needs no
recommendation from us. His endeavor is to
punctually and properly fill all orders—to ac
complish which he will keep constantly on hand
a large stock of the " raw material," aud cm
ploys none but the best workmen.
DROWNED. —A young German, a blacksmith
in the employ of Mr. SEERIOH, was drowned
on Monday evening last, while bathing in the
river at this place. Deceased was a good
swimmer, and it is supposed was seized with
cramp. Some boys in company with him, on
ly became alarmed, when he sunk to rise no
more. His body was recovered a few hours
afterwards. He was about 19 years of age,
and has parents residing at Dushore, Sullivan
■ County.
teg- Col. C. F. WELLES, President of the
' North Branch Canal Company, lias construct
' ed a telegraph line from Athens to the N. Y.
&E. 11. R. at His own expense. A small
share of like enterprise here would place ns in
telegraphic communication with the "outside
world " generally.
The repairs upon the lower part of the
North Branch have so far progressed that
1 several boats laden with anthracite coal pass
ed this place last week, on their way north.
We trust they are the avant couriers of a large
number to follow.
♦
FIRE AT WELLSBCRG, N. Y.—A destructive
fire occurred at Wellsbnrg, on Saturday night
last, by which seven buildings were consumed,
; supposed to be the work of au incendiarv.
FOREIGN* NEWS. —The Canadian screw
steamer Indian arrived at Quebec, from Liver
pool, on Saturday afternoon. Her news is to
the 14th inst. The most interesting item is
the return of the Agamemnon to Cork, and
the renewal of the attempt to lay the telegraph
cable. The squadron was expected to sail for
the mid-ocean station on the 17th. Advices
from Arabia give details of a horrible mas
sacre of Christian residents of Djidda, the sea
port of Mecca. On the 19th of June the
Mahometan population suddenly rose, and
commenced an indiscriminate slaughter of for
eigners. The French and English Consuls per
ished in the massacre. Others were saved
through the interference of the British man-of
war Cyclops, which carried off numbers in its
small boats, not, however, without having to
fire on their pursuers. In reply to an inquiry
in the House of Commons, Government stated
that three Tessels-of-war had already been dis
patched to the scene of slaughter. The Queen
has officially announced her acceptance of the
invitation to be present at the Cherbourg
fetes.
THE AUGUST ELECTIONS. —The elections for
members of the Thirty-sixth Congress com
mence in August next, and an interest is im
parted to them from the fact that, if, at the
next Presidential election, the people should
fail to elect, the House of Representatives to
be chosen will have to make the choice. In
Missouri, the election will be held on the first
Monday of Angust. On the first Thursday
in August, North Carolina will eleet a Gov
ernor and members of tire State Legislature,
which latter elect a United States Senator in
the place of Mr. Biggs. The candidates for
the post of Governor are tlie Hon. Duncan K.
Meßae and Judge Ellis, both Democrats.—
Alabama, Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee,
hold elections in August, but do not this year
choose either State officers or members of the
next Congress.
Itejjr We learn from the Sunbury Anwrican
that on Thursday week Wiiliam Conard was
arrested for placing obstructions on the North
ern Central Railroad track, below Shamokin
creek bridge. Mr. Conard owns a farm on the
hill, and complained that the company had
rendered the wagon-road up almost impassable
There were several persons with him, who
kieked'off the obstruction about which time the
watchman caine up. He now says that he
did it in fun, knowing that the watchman was
near But as the road had been obstructed
before at that point, and as Mr. Conard had
said some hard things of the company, he was
hound over in the sum of one thousand dollars
to appear at the next sessions.
TRYING IT AGAIN. —The advices from Eng
land bj the Indian represent that the Atlantic
Telegraph Company intend to make another
trial to lay the cable across the ocean. The
vessels were to start on 17th, and by this time
are in mid-ocean, again at work running off
the cable. It must be confessed that the h ope
of Ihc company keeps up well under all the
discouragements they have experienced, but
they probably think they will never again have
the chance of trying the experiment under
such favoraole circumstances, with the best
ships of two Governments at their service.
INDIANA POLITICS. —The Anti-Lecompton
Democrats of Indiana, unlike those of Illinois,
are uniting with the Republicans of that State
in one grand phalanx !to overthrow the Pro-
Slavery party, led on by English, Foley, Nib
lack, Hughes, Gregg, Fitch and Bright. The
present prospect is that a clean opposition dele
gation will be elected to Congress.
PROMISED DEVELOPMENTS. —It is stated that
Secretary Stanton, now on the stump in Kan
sas against the English bribe, will, if called
upon, publish a letter of Senator Bigler, of
Pennsylvania, in which the aforesaid Bigler
denounces the President and cabinet for re
nounciug the doctrine of popular sovereignty.
flsaT* A little son of JOHN LACGHI.IN, pro
prietor of the Bridge Street Hotel, fell into
the river on Monday last, and was barely re
covered in time to save his life. The precipi
tous banks of the river make it a dangerous
play-ground for children.
Edward 11. Iluloffe was sentenced, at
the General Terra of the Supreme Court held
at Delhi last week by Judge Gray, to be hung
on Friday the 27th day of August, at Owego,
for the murder of his child. The execution
to take place betwecu the hours of 10 A. M. and
12 R. M.
The Tioga County Agricultural Fair,
will be held at Owego on the 28th, 29th und
30th of September. The Premiom List is
made oat and published in the Owego papers.
* The Corning JOURNAL informs us that
a Mr. De Witt of Elmira, while on the Camp
ground at Addison on Tuesday evening listen
ing to a sermon, had an attack of bleeding of
the Lungs, from which he died in twenty
minutes. He had previously suffered from
similar attacks.
NEWS FROM KANSAS states that the re
doubtable General Calhoun has given certifi
cates of election to all those members of the
Legislature elected under the LecomptonCon
stitution. The Free State party will have a
majority in both branches of the Legislature.
*agr It costs $25 an hoar to light the new
Hall of the House of Representatives with
gas.
The Atlantic Telegraph Cable—The
Shipping of the Electric Current.
Everything connected with experimenting
with the cable, und the existing fuilure, is in
teresting, and we there'ore publish the follow
ing extract from a letter, dated on board the
Niagara, July 5 :
June 26th, says a writer to the Journal of
Commerce we made onr stern fast to the Agu
memnon with a hawser, spliced the cable, and
commenced paying out ; but before 3 1 2 miles
had been payed over the wheels, a riding of
two parts in one of the grooves occurred. In
trying to adjust it, the cable was thrown from
off the wheel and parted.
The second attempt was made the same day.
Everything went well until we had paid out
43 1-4 miles, when the electricians reported
"no signals, continulj it interrupted." We
cut the cahle and stood back to rendezvous,
fully expecting to find it had been broken on
board the Agamemnon - T bat it proved not so.
On board of her they knew no more where it
was broken than we did. This was considered
very discouraging, and the theorists had a wild
and lively time with their conjectures ; but to
this day it remains unknown, und ever will re
main, a mystery. The cable may not have
been parted at all, but only the insnkition of
the copper wire destroyed. The effect either
way is the same. The third attempt wa3made
on tl>c 25th, the splice being made, and cable
commenced paying out at 7:3(1 I'. M. All
went well for 25 1-2 hours, during which we
had gone 101> miles, and expended 145 1-2
miles of cable, when the electricians made a
similar report to the one above described—
"uo signals." We were reluctantly obliged to
cut again, and go back to Cork, as had been
agreed upon if we went over 100 miles with
out accident. If under 100, we were to return
to our place of rendezvous ; over that distance
to Cork, a the British vessels would not have
coal enough to renew the attempt
Our further proceedings will depend upon >
the report from the Agamemnoo aud the de-j
cision of the Board of Directors.
Should the cable have parted,or the continuity
been interrupted in the same mysterious manner
as on the second of our attempts, it is thought
no new effort had ought to be made with the
cable. If, however, it has parted in a manner
to l>e accounted for, and guarded against, we
shall renew the experiment when the ships
shall have taken on board a sufficient supply
of coals.
There is now, I think, but little chance of
success with the cable, but doubtless the un
dertaking will yet be achieved in sonic way,
and the experience of tbb Company will not lie
thrown away.
It was noted by those who watched the pay
ing out of the cable, that after leaving the
ship it took many turns before it reached the
water. The number of turns tlve ealde took
opposite to the twist was eleven in the distance
of one hundred feet, which is the distance be
tween the stern aud the surface of the water.
Now, it is asked, if it takes so many turns in
a hundred feet, will not the outer wires be
wholly unlaid before the cable reaches the bot
tom, and will not the whole strain IK? brought
upon the gntta perrha and the conductor.
At the second break, some thought the diffi
culty was created from the brakes, the preju
dice against which existed from the first expe
dition, when the cable was broken by defec
tive machinery ; but this part of the machine
on board the Niagara was perfect, and realiz
ed all the expectations formed of it. It was
the belief of this class of persons that the
weights on the brakes, which never exceeded
nineteen hundred pounds, produced a heavier
strain than the cahle was calculated to bear,
and that it stretclied until the inner core or
electrical conductor ported, thus destroying the
continuity.
The Press and the Cable.
~t
Our New York cotemporarics comment at
length upon the lamented disaster of the fail
ure to connect the two continents. The Ex
press states that a thorough-going, old fashion
ed citizen, who bears a national name, though
not fame, says it was not designed, after the
Declaration of Independence was adopted,
that there should be any closer union between
Old England and America ! Providence, he
says, is against the union ! If that citizen is
a prophet, then it is all up with the connection
—but as Providence has tolerated clipper
abips and quick steamers, we do not think
any one has a right to invoke its name against
so great an event.
The Tribune thinks the present machinery
for laying the wire can never succeed, and
wonders at the want of wisdom and reckless
ness of ttie capitalists engaged in the enter
prise. Nevertheless, it says, by land or sen,
Greenland and the North Atlantic, Oregon or
Siberia, the telegraph must be made.
The Times says the experiment does not
give even an approximation to the success of
the enterprise. It hopes, however, for an
effort, and declares that England and America
never had an antagonist worthier of their re
sources than the winds and waves of the At
lantic.
The Courier says that " Although two fail
ures stare us in the face, it is not in the nature
of things that this great enterprise should lack
another and yet another trial, each failure
eliciting new suggestions for consideration,
and setting new lessons to he learned, until
even failure itself shall bring final success."—
This is the general feeling and encouragement
of the Press of the country, mingled with a
hearty sympathy with those who have failed
in the enterprise.
The Sun also says that " defeat will not
prevent renewed efforts to accomplish an ob
ject so universally desired ; and science, and
the indomitable perseverance which character
izes the two nations united in the most
wonderful task ever undertaken, may yet
triumph over the obstacles which the waves
and tlie depth of the ocean oppose to its
consummation
As Ixc WE XT —At a meeting in Blooming
ton, Illinois, Judge Douglas spoke to an
audience of two thousand persons. As soon
as 1m? retired loud calls were made for the
Hon. Abraham Lincoln. Mr. L. held back
for a little while, but the crowd finally suc
ceeded in inducing him to come upon the stand,
lie was received with three rousing cheers—
much louder than those given to Judge Douglas.
He remarked that be appeared before the au
dience for the purpose of saying that lie would
take an early opportunity to give his views to
the citizens of that place regarding the mat
ters spoken of in Judge Douglas's speech.—
" This meeting," said Mr. Lincoln, " was cal
led by the friends of Judge Douglas, and it
would be improper for me to address it."—
Mr. L. then retired, amid loud cheering.
News from all Nations.
—On Thursday night, at York p
largo btacksmith shop atta. hed to tin eaten, 1 '
Messrs. Bilmyer 4* Small, near the station T
Northern Central Railroad, was consumed'r, T *"**
about S3OO, but insured. •' " r *
—A New York poet, on the conw
of Awful Gardiner, goeth it thus A
We sing aud shout our grateful thanfe,
That Awful Gardiner's Joined our ranks-
Thut, as the lamp holds out to burn
There may be chance for Patrick H r j r .
And as his mercy's all endnren',
We may even hope for John Van Buret,
—We notice in the Charaber.sW„
a letter from Col. A. K. M'Clnre, declining the '
sional nomination. The RrponiUn-y intimate- •
be a candidate for re-election to the **
—Minnesota, it is evident from the i •
gence received from that quarter, will g„
ton by immense majorities. The movement >, :
the ablest and most substantial men of the m * *
The Chicago Demur rat, a Republican
nal of Democratic antecedents, urges, in an ex>
able article, the re-nomination of Colonel Freim *
candidate of the Opposition m 1860.
A few years ago, Mr. Mr Wroth* f
merly.Ticket agent of the Central Railroad r
became blind from transacting business throng-,
screens in front of his desk. The company 1„,, '
up a newsroom for him, rent free.
—A murder which happened a year <-
has just been found out at Onarga, 111. p}j. . "
man was I). J. Stanley, anil the murderer Mr. p •
who was detected by wealing the watch and c! •u."'
his victim.
Good wheat was sold four inileg W
Bristol. Tennessee, on the 20th of Juae, at 37J w
per bushel, though the place is connected
road with Lynchburg arid^Richmond.
—The cheers of the army of Vtahar?,
required to keep a journal, in which the geogrjphi.
topographical facts coming nutter tbeir ohstTTsti%'
all carefully noted.
—Robert Galloway, a respectable farm,
residing near Bentleysrille, Washington countr p. ,
found dead in a field near that place, on Thnndtj", *
He was observed by some harvesters, sitting .
tree: who, upon reaching him, found that he hac
some time dead.
—We hear it stated that the Hon.Stepi*
A. Douglas has been invited by the loard of rnaru,,
the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society to ,
the annual address of the forthcoming State fair, aj
he has accepted the invitation.
—A number of robberies have recentirW
committed In Pittston, Luzerne county, and
dozen perstw- have been arrested on suspicion.
the places roblred were the boot and shoe esta':'.i-r,-
of W. C. Blair, and the clothing store of John Bon-tt
—The Janesville Indeprndent sav; that :a
Southern Railway Company ordered some detc : . .
lice put on their trains to see whether the condu :>
ported correctly, and that there is a stampede in : _
quence, three having resigned.
—William T. Porter, the well known edtor
of " Tlie Spirit of the Times," and more rectal;,
" Porter's Spirit," dieJ in New York on Monday mug
July lhth.
—lt is asserted that there is net aeoon'rii
the t'nion tlurt produces fr m her own soil more vain
than Washington county. Pa. far ordinary year.-ii *!k
$2.10,000 of wool, J iUO.OOO wheat and flour,sl WOW :
$310,000 cattle, sheep and hogs, making a tola! oflliU
000.
—The Masonic ceremonies in Cincinnati 05
Wednesday last, upon the occasion of laying thecorv
i .-tone of the new Masonic temple, were quite au imp so;
affair.
The Syracuse Standard says the fhe tri
er has enabled the coarse salt makers to secure ac:a>
ally large crop up to this time.and it i-"f superi - 1
j ty. The line salt works have also made a large pr--
tion of the amount iuteudeu this season.
—The Hon. Joseph 11. Chandler, oornttit
I appointed Minister to Naples, left Philadelphia oil L.v
day, to take passage from New York
— A slave boy, named Godfrey, waste;
at Mobile, Alabama, on Friday last. His aw wi-ot?
thirteen years, and his crime the killing of a child!*:!•• '
years old. He split its head open with a hut hetbevs
j it attempted to get hold of the string of hi- kite.
—The dwelling of Dr. G. W. Haldemu.t
Mancliester township, York county. Pa., was Dre-ken aS
, on tlie night of the 14th inst., and robbed of
bank bills, a check for S3OO on the York llauk, aula • -
ver watch.
—The enormous overflow of waters "do* -
south" has given the alligators a widely extended ter
, tory. Orleans (lot.) Picayune states on #
plantation over one hand red of these amphibious
sters have been killed.
—At the Railroad convention held at Cleft"
land, July 11, it was resolved to make the throagh p*
senger fares from all points the same as by the N*
A ork and Erie road. Freights,however.are raised s
lar per ton higher than the New York and Erie nud
—A few days since, a man in Preston,(.
while perspfrting very freely from excessive heat. *
into an ice house, ivnd died in a few minutes.
—Lrefner, the Cincinatti murderer, isendei
voring to starve himself. On the I-th inst., he hid '
ther eaten nor spoken for five days. He refuses to p
take of food.
Charles Stantz, a panper in the Fr^nk
county (Ohio) poor house, received iuteffigence tba."
uncle, who had lately died, hadlett him fIfIO.OOO,
—Secretary Tltompsou, of the Interior !'
partment, now on a visit to Mississippi, hau a hasd-? 8 *
reception at Oxford, a few days since.
—There are said to be from (>OO to TOO ris
itors now at Old Point, Va. Gov. Wise is sojonruiGf Ji
Cobb's Island, Va.
—One day last week, a young man nM""
Lewis Nobe, residing near Butler,Pa.,fell offahay-vf
striking upon a pitch-fork which had fallen off and "
standing upright—handle down, running the pr<>R-" 1
tirely through his body. He died in a few days !"■
accident.
—The Eutaw (Ala.) TT'/i/g says there
living in that place at this time one of the soldirrs
old French Empire. He was in the battles of Marn- ■
| Jena, and Waterloo—went throngh them all unhurt-
emigrated to America wlien Napoleon was exiled ''
Helena.
—A lamentable accident occurred on
nesday afternoon at David's Island, near N< * or ' l .
which thn-e young ladies attached to tlie Attorn?.'' *'
Church were drowned while on a Survkiy .Scbo> 1
sim.
—Tlie Augnsta Constitutionalist, (he
mocratic orgau in Georgia, has omiio oat very emph
ly against pnsseribing IKwigis.) Dcm. crats, and r ar,H
larly against the Buchanan boPers in Illinois
—The Waverly House, Reed's IlakerT, B^
the residence of Mr. Alex. Rtowell, were destroyed I .-
at Elmira, on Sunday morning, the 11th iust.
—Frogs are now a regularly quoted t' r 11
in the New York market. The last re|H>rt s*y>.
are in demand aud sell at one dollar per d>>w°
are fast liecoming a favorite dish, and the de" linJ
them is becoming constantly greater."
—The population of Altoona is sct
at almost four thousand. X fiourv>Uui? lid'' t " n