D J LUR AND FIFfY CFNTS PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. - T OWANDA : Thursday Morning, March 5, 1863. " fdcctcb jfMrjJ. IPRIKG VIOLETS UNDER THE SNOW. Nothifls is loit tliat beaut >' to save > Purity rises in flowers from the grave, Aud from the blossoms that fade on the troi Falietli tbe seed of the blossoms to be ; Life tn tu Death is mortality's growth, Something immortal is under them both : Surely as cometh the Winter. I kuow There are Spring violets under the snow. Seethe old man in his gie.it easy-chair, Farrowed his forehead and white is his hair : yet. as he roguishly smiles to his dame, pointing her eyes to the lovers, whose shame Makes them withdraw Irotn the light of the lire, Bodiood, light-hearted, reveals in the sire I Surely as eomcth life's Winter, I know- There" are Spring violets under the snow. Seethe old wife in her kerchief and cap, Dropping her knitting-work into her lap, While, with a laugh that is silent, she shakes, And o'er her shoulder another peep takes ; Years are full forty since she was a Miss, Yet she's a girl in that overheard kiss! Surelv as cometh life's Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow. SectheOld People, with nods of delight, Stealiim together away for the night-, Ever too fond and too cunning to own Why th'-v should leave the Shy lovers alone ; Rut their eyes, twinkling, arc telling the truth- Down in their hearts is an answering youth! Surelv as cometh lilc s At inter, I know There arc Spring violets under the snow ! ill isttllaittous. The False Clerk. A THRILLING EVENT. About ttvel* years ago, the S'cttr Clodo x; Frenois. a rich merchant of •he Islam! of Mauritius, was discovered dead, and fright!ul !v disfigured, in his own habitation. His body *as found lying on the floor, with the head and face mutilated by a pistol, aud all doubt D? to the cause of the catn-trophe was dispell id by the di.-coverv of the fatal weapon by the side of the corpse, as also of a piece of paper in the handwriting of the deceased. The pa- j per contained the following words : "1 am ruined. A villain has robbed tneof tweutv-tive thousand livrcs sterling ; dishonor i must be my portion and I cannot survive it j I leave to my wife the duty of distributing i among rnv creditors the means which remains j tons: und J pray GOD, my friends and my J enemies, to pardon my self destruction. Yet j another minute and 1 shall be in eternity. (Signed) CLODOMIR FRENOIS. Great consternation was caused by this tra \ gic event, which was the more unexpected, as , the ioss uiluded to in the above note hud nev j tr been made public. Tue deceased had been held in great esteem ! over the colony as a man of strict honor and j probity, and was universally lamented. His ; attacbed widow, after endeavoring to faithful ly luilil bis last wishes, found her grief too! urt-rpoweiing to permit her to uiingie longer with ibe world, and she took the resolution to coiiit-ernte her remaining days to the service of religion. Two mouths alter tho sad end ul fctr husband, she entered a convent, leaving to iiie nephew of the late meichant, a physician, the charge of completing the distribution of j 'ae tHeels of Frenois among his creditors. A minute examination cf the papers of the defunct led to the di.-co Very of thb period when the unfortunate merchant had been robbed, mid this period was found to correspond with the date of the disappearance of a mac flamed John Moon, being iu the employment of I* re kms. Of this.man, on whom suspicion not un naturally fell, nothing could be learned on iu tjtiirv ; dm shortly after the division of the late merchant's property, Moon re appeared in the colony ; aud when taken up aud examined respecting the cause ot his flight, tie stated that he had been sent by his master to I'ranee to recover certain sums due to the merchant 'here, in which mission he had been unsuccess ful lie further averred that if Ciodomir Fr Ciodomir Freuois, whom he had be " u nearly a year before, a murdered corpse, n - wbooi he himself had followed to the grate J .What passed at that interview, between Ivir. Burnett aud his strauge visitor, remained a secret. Mr. Burnett was observed to issue several times, pale and agitated, from his dwelling, and to visit the magistrate charged with criminal processes of the colony. Iu the course ol the day, while John Moou was re galing himself with tea uuder the palm trees of his garden along with a Circassian female, wliom lie had purchased some time previously, he was arrested, aud tukea to prison by uu of ficer of justice. On the following day hefras brought before the criminal court, accused with robbing the late Coldoiiiir Freuois, the crime beiug eou joiued with breach of triist and violence. — Moon smiled at the charge with all the confi dence of a man who had nothing to fear. The judge having demanded of .dm if he confessed tiie crime, the accused replied that the charg es were altogether absurd ; that clear testi mony was necessary to fix such a delict upou him, that so far from there beiug such evi dence producible, neither the widow of the de ceased, nor any one person in his service had ever heard the pretended robbery even cucc mentioned by Frenois during his life " Do you affirm your innocence?" repeated the judge gravely, after heariug all the other had to say. " I will avouch tny inmcenee," replied Moon, "even before the body of ray late master, if that be necessary." [Such a thing often took place under the old colonial law. | "John Moon," said the judge, in a voice broken by some peculiar emotion, it is before your lale master that you will Lave to assert your innocence, aad may God make the truth appear !" A signai frotn the judge accompanied these words, and immediately a door opened and Ciodomir Freuois, the supposed suicide, en lered the court. He advanced to the bar with a slow and deliberate step, having his eye calmly, sternly fixed on the prisoner, his servant. A great sensation was caused in court by bis appearance. Uttering shrieks of alarm and horror, the females present fled from tile spdt. The accused fell on his iu abject terror aud shuddering, guilt. For a time no voice was hearjNfawy However, us it became apparent that man stood before the Court, the advocate of the prisoner gained courage t? speak. He demanded that the iudentity of the merchant be established, and the mystery of his ex istence be explained. He said that the court must not be biased by what might prove to be a mere accidental iikeness between a person living and one deceased ; aud that such an avowal as that of the prisoner, extracted in a moment of extraordinary terror, was not to be held of much weight. " Before being admitted here as an accuser or witness," continued the advocate, address big the resuscitated merchant, " prove who and what you are, and disclose by what chance the tomb, which so lately received your body, mangled with bullets, has given up its tenant, and restored you to the world iu life and health ?" The firm appeal of the advocate, who con tinued steadfast to his duty uuder circura -tauces that would have closed the lips of most men, called forth the following narrative from Colodmir F enois : "My story may soon ba told,and will suffice to establish my identity. When 1 discovered the rubbery committed by the accused, lie had then tied from the Island, and I speedily saw that attempts to retake him would prove fruitless. I saw ruin and disgrace before me, am me to the resolution of terminating tny life before the evil day came. On the night in which this-determination was formed, ! was seated alone in my private chamber. I had written thejeiter which was found on my table, and had loaded rav pistol. This done, I prayed lor forgiveness from my Maker for the act I was about to commit. The end of the pistol was at my head, and my finger on the lock, when a knock at the outer door of the house startled me. I concealed my weapon und went to the door. A man entered whom I recognized to he the sexton of the parish in which I lived. He bore a sack on his shoul ders,and in it the body of a tnan newly buried which was destiued for my nephew, the phy sician, than living with ine. The scarcity of bodies for dissection, as the court is aware, compels those who are anxious to acquire skill in the medical profession, to procure them by any possible secret means. The sexton was at first alarmed when he met me. " D.d my nephew request yoil to bring this body ?" said I. " No," replied the man ; " but I know his anxiety to obtain one for dissectiou, and took it upon mo to offer him this body. For mer cy's sake," continued the sexton, do not be tray mc, or I shall loso my situation and my farnilv's bread." " While this man was thus speaking, a strange idea entered my mind, and brought to ray despairing bosom hopes of continued life and houor. I stood lot" a few moments absorbed in thought, afid gave to the resur rectionist the sum which he had expected.— Telling him to keep his own counsel, and that all would be well, I sent him aw at and carried the body to my cabinet. The whole of the household had been sent out of the way on purpose, and 1 had lime to carry into execu tion the plan which hud struck me. The body was fortunately of the same stateure as myself and like me in complexion. I knew the man; he had been a poor offender, abandoned by his family. u Poor relic of mortality !" said I, with tears in my eyes, " nothing which man may do can cow injure thee ; yet pordon me it i rudely disfigure thy lifeless substance. It is to prevent the ruin of not one but twenty families ! And should success attend my at tempt, I swear that thy children shall be my children ; and, when my hour comes, Wc shall rest together in the tomb to which thou shall bo borne before me !" At this portion of the merchant's narrative the most lively interest was escited io court, FU3LISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. 0. GOODRICH. and testified even by tears from many of the audience. Frenois then proceeded : " I then stripped off my clothes and dressed the body iu theiu. This accomplished, I took up the pistol, and with a hand more reluctant than when I applied it to my own person, I fired it close to the head of the deceased, and at ouce caused such a disfigurement as render ed it impossible for the keenest eyes to detect the substitution which had been made. "Choosing the plainest habit I could get. I then dressed myself anew, shaved off the whiskers which I was accustomed toNvear.and took other means to alter aud disguise nay ap pearance, iu case of being subjected by any accident to the risk of betrayal. Nest morn, iug saw me on board a French vessel on my way to a distant land—the native country of my ancestors. Tue expectations which had leu me to the execution of this scheme were not disappointed. I knew John Moou was the man who had robbed me, aud who now stands at the bar of this court,aud that ho had form ed connections iu this island which would, iu all probaoility, bring him back to it as soou as the intelligence of my death gave him promise ol security. In this I have not beeu disappointed. I have been equally fortunate iu other respects. While my unworthy servant remained here in imaginary safety,l have been successful iu discovering the quarter iu which, not daring at first 10 betray the appeurauce of wealth, lie had lodged the whole of the stolen money. I have brought it with me, and also snfiL-ieut proofs, supposing his confession of this day to be set aside altogether, to con viol him of the crime with which lie stands charged. By the same means," continued Ciodomir Frenois, with a degree of honorable ! pride, in which all who heard him symp.ilbiz | ed. " will I be enabled to restore tny family ! to their place iu society, and to redeem the i credit of a name on which no blot was left by those who bore it bffore me, and which.please God, I shall transmit unstained to my children Ufid my children's children. The news o ; Ciodomir Frenois' reappearance j spread rapidly, and the high esteem iu which his character was held, led to a universal re juicing on the occasion. He was accompanied Lfrooi the court to his home by a dense mulli- Ftude, who welcomed him with prolonged shouts. It would be vain to attempt any de sciiption of the feelings cf his wife who was restored thus to the beloved being for whose s ike she had quitted the world. She was releas ed from iter cclesiastical vowsaud lejoiutd 1 o husband, no more to part till the grave really claimed the one or the other of them. THE IKI-IIMAX AND Ills DRINK. —When Mr. Dodge, electic physician, was lecturing thro' the State on the laws of health, and particu larly ou the effects of tea aud coffee, he hap pened to meet, one morning at the breakfast table, a witty son of Erin, of the better class. Conversation turned ou the doctor's favorite subject, as follows : " Perhaps you think I would be unable to convince y<>u of the deleterious effects of tea and coffee 7" " I don't know,'* said Erin, " but I'd like to be there when you do it." " Well,"said the doctor, " if I convince you | that they are injurious to your health, will you ! abstain from its use 7" " Sure I will, sir." " Lluw often do you tiso coffee and tea V j asked the doctor." " Morning and night, sir." " Well, did you ever experience a "flight dizziness of the brain on going to bed V " Indeed I do." " Aud a sharp pain through the temples, in i and about the eyes, in the morning ?" " Troth, 1 do, sir." " Well," said the doctor, with an air of as surance and confidence iu his uiauner, " that is thetea and colLe." "Is it, indeed ! Faith, and I always thot' it was the whiskey I drunk 1" The company roared with laughter, ar.d the doctor quietly retired. A SMART MAN. —My friend lives three miles from the post office : and one stormy night last winter he told his new help to harness the horse, go down to the office, and see what there was in the box, giving Lira the number. In due time Jerry returned, and put up his horse at the library door of Mr. C , who sitting in gown and slippers, wan impatiently waiting the arrival of the mail. " Well, Jerry, what was there at tho Pest office for me 7" " Two letters and a paper, sir " " Well, hand them to me ! What are you standing there for X" " liidade you dian't tell me to briog them at all at all " M r . C , finding that Jerry had the best of it, asked him what he went to the office for. Jerry replied : " You tould ine to go to the office and see what was in this box, and haven't I done it, sure 7" Jerry had to harness up again, fend take another ride in the cold, muttering as he went that he wished his Honor would be after man ing What he said next time. A farmer haVirig made his fortune, moved into f.he city to enjoy it, but his old iove clung to him, and he indulged in a small way in the agristic pursuit. "V isiting his friends in the country, and relating his ex perience in city farming, he said : " I put out side my window a large bo£, filled it with meld, andsowtd it with seed. What do you thiuk came up ?" " Wheat, barley, or oats?" " No, a policeman, who ordered mc to re move it." tST" My yoke is easy and mjr bdrden Is light," as the young fellow said when bis girl was sitting in his lap with his arm arouud her neck. * A drop of praise is an unsuitable acknowledgment for a ocean of mercy. " REQARDLE3S OP DENUNCIATION PROM ANY QUARTER." THE SAD EYES. The face was fair ; the lips soft and ruby ; the cheeks warm with summer flushes ; but the large, brown eyes were sad. It was not a painful, bat a tender sudues3 that lay like a thin veil over their brightness. You hard ly noticed it at first, but the shadow iu Mrs Percival's eyes grew more and more appar ent the oftener you looked into them. They were full of light when she spoke—danciug, rippling light ; but this faded out with a quickness that half-surprised you, makiug the shadow which came after it tho more notice able. " What can it mean ?" said one friend to another. They were speaking of Mrs. Perci vul und her sad eyes. "Is that peculiar look hereditary—a mere transmitted impression of the soul upon the body ; or is it the sign of an iuward state ? Do you kuow anything of her early history ?" " Something." " Is she happy in her marriage ?" " I am afraid not." " Theu it must be her own fault," was an swered. " Every one speuks well of Mr. Percival. I have seen a great deal of kira aud hold him in very high regard." " In no higher regard than he is held by his wife, who knows, better thau any oxe else can know, his worth as a man." " And yet you said, just now, that you did not think her married life a happy one." " There is a shadow upon it. As the wife of Mr. Percival, she is not, I fear, in her true place. Hence the sad eyes that look into the world so hopelessly." This was said of Mr and Mrs. Percival Let us go back a few years and coma near them in tho time wkeu this union was formed. There had Leen too great ardor of pursuit on the side of Mr. Percival. Tho beautiful giil who flashed across his way ia life, so duz zled him by her mental and personal charms, that he resolved to secure her baud, no mat ter what difficulties might intervene. And he soon found un obstruction in the way. An artist named L'stori, a young man of genius, but modest and shrinking, as such man usual ly are, hud already beeu attracted by this lovely girl, and she was meeting his slow and timid approaches with .vich tender invitations as maiden delicacy would permit. The quick eyes of Henry Percival soon dis covered the truth. lie saw that the maiden was deeply interested iu the young artist ; and also that Liston worshipped her at a distance, fearing to approach, lest the beauti ful star in whose light bis soul found light should veil itself u<> a rebuke to his advances. And seeing this, he resolved to press in bold ly ; to wiii the maiden for himself ; to carry off the prize another was reaching out to grasp. " She shall be mine 1" So ho declared in his heart, though ho fully understood the re lutibii which Liston and the maiden bore to each otrer. So resolved, when he knew that love had grown up between them, and that she v.as, to the young artist, as the npple of Lis eye. It happened in this case ns it happened in many others As the bold lover advanced, the less confident one retired. The ardour of Percival had no abatement. He pressed ids case with an impetuosity that bore down all obstructions, almost ex'orting from the doubt ing and bewildered girl a promise to become his wile. If Liston had not shown apparent indifference—had not held himself aloof—this promise, repented of almost us soon as made, would never have beeu given. Had she known that her image was iu his heart, treasured and precious, Percival's suit would have beeu idle. But she did uot know it ; and, in her blindness, she went astray —losing herself in a labyrinth from which she never escaped. The effect ou Liston, when it was known that Percival and the maiden were engaged, was very sud. He lost,j'for a time, all heart in his work—all interest in life. An intimate friend, who knew of his attachment, and un derstood the meaning of his altered state, di vulged the secret, aud so became public prop erty, finding its way to the maiden's ear. " Did you know," said a gay friend, " that j you are charged with a serious crime ?" " I have net heard of that accusation. — What is the crime r" she answered, smiling. " The Crime of breaking a heart." " Ah ! Whose heart?" There was a change in tho expression of her face ; the smile dy ing out. " Listen's." " Why do you say that 7" she asked, catch ing her breath, aud showing pallor of couute nance. "Ah haVen't you heard anything ahoat it? Why, it's the talk all around. He was dead iu love with you, it seems, but hadn't the courage to say so ; proving the truth of the old adage, that " Faint heart never won fair lady." And now he's moping about, and looking so woe-begoue, that everybody is pity ing iiim." " I am sorry that he should have pnin on my accouut," was answered, with as mtmh in difference as could be assumed. " Not a very serious case, I imagine." " Oh, but it is ; he fairly worshipped you," replied the friend. "Do you kuow that a lu natic asylum is talked of ?" " Dou't, don't say anything more, if you please 1 It's all gossip and exaggeration of course—but still of a kind I must not hear.— You forgot that I am to be married ia a few weeks " The laughing light went out of the gay friend's countenance, for she saw more than she expected to see. A few weeks passed, and the wedding day arrived, true to her promise, but false to her heart, took up the burden of Wifehood, stag gering under the weight as it came down upon her stooping shoulders. The young husband, when he kissed her almost colorless lips, and gaging Upon her pure face, said " Mine 1" look ed into sad eyes and feit that his ardent word bat half expressed the truth—that she was not, and never could be, all his. Ho, too,had beard of Liston's attachment, and of the ef feet produced on him when the fact of the eu gngeuient became public ; and something more than a feeling of triumph found its way into his heart. There was, at first, a vaguo sense of aneasiuess, followed by doubts and ques tionings. Smarting suspicioa crept in. He became keen eyed. But all be discovered was a dim veil dropping down over the countenance of his betrothed, and diminishing the splendor of its sunshine. In his eagerness to grasp the augel whose beauty had fascinated his gaze, he had rubbed a portion of the lustre from her wings. But she had taken her place at his side ; and no allurement could have drawn her thence, though she wulkcd in perpetual shad ow, and though sharp stones cut her feet at every step. iShe was too strong iu piirity and truth to waver from the lines of duty. The path might he difficult, but she would not turn aside even though she failed. She had the courage to die, but not to waver. " Mine !" said Percival, When his kisses were laid on tiic almost irresponsive lips of his bride ; and eveo as be said it, away down in his innermest convictions another voice au swered. " Not mine 1" So their wedded life began. It took nearly a year for Liston, the artist, to recover from his disappointment. A few times, during this period, he met Mrs. Percival, and read, in her inward looking eyes, fhat she was not a hap py wife ; and more than this he read, peu trating, by quick-sighted perception, the veil iu which she had enveloped herself. After this period he was master of his soul again,and dwelt iu his art. Years passed, aud though he went into society, Mr. Liston did uot mar ry. As an artist, he rose steadily, and some of his works attracted much attention.— Among them was a personification of Hope, in the single figure of a woman, exquisitely neuu tiful, yet showing in every feature of the ten derly pure face, trial and triumph " Have you seea Mr. Listen's llopctil the Academy 7" aked a friend, addressing Mr-. Percival, a few days after the Exhibition had Opened " Mot yet," was answered. " You must see it. Every one is charmed. And, do you know, it bears a remarkable likeness to yourself ; I've heard several per sons speuk of this. By the way, is it a com pliment of an accident ? It is said that be is one of your old admirers." The friends laughed, and in laughing, so dimmed her own vision, that she did uot see the strange startled look which came for an unguarded moment i r,, o Mrs. Percival's eyes. in company with her husband, Mrs. Pi-r cival went to see the Hope of Mr. Listen.— Something in the ideal figure heid her as by fascination. Mr Percival recognized the like ness, and with a 3ense of weariness. Many times, from the painting, bia eves turned to the countenance of his wife. Its expression was not satisfactory. There was mo;e in it than admiration for a fine picture. From the painting, he uw her, once, turu half around, suddenly as if spoken to : but no voice had reached his ear. He turned, also, in the same direction, and looked into the artist's face ; but did not encounter his eyes, for they were resting on his wife. The act cf Mrs. Perci vu! was but momentary. She turned again to the pictur;,at the same time placing her hand on the arm of her husband, and, by the move ment, intimating her wish to leave that part of the institution. Mr. Percival did uot fail to observe that his wife's interest in the exhi bition was, from this time, partial and forced " Are you not well ?' he asked, in his us uai kind, but half-constrained manner. " My head is aching," she answered, forc ing a smile " Shall wo go home ?" "If you hare staid long econgh," was re plied. And eo they went away, not again ventur ing to look at Mr. Listen's Ilope ; and not again visiting the Academy while it was there. The eyes of Mrs. Percival \Vere just it little sadder after this ; end so were the urtist's eyes ; and the heart of Mr. Percival was just a little heavier. But all three were pure enough, true enough, and stroug enough to bear the burdens this great error had laid tip upon them, though in bearing there was pain that made life wearisome. Alas for the3e sad eyes j See well to it, maiden, that in accepting some boldly wooing lover, yon do not, like Mrs. Percival, commit one of life's saddest errors, and so look out, with dreary eyes, upou the world, through all your coming years. MASRIAGE IN LAPLAND —lt is death in L-'p land to marry a maid without the consent of her parents or friends. Wbcn a young man lias formed an attachment to a female, the fashion is to appoint their friends to meet, to behold the two young parties run a race to gether. The maid is allowed, in starting, the advantage of the third part of the race, so that it is impossible, except, voluntarily, that she should be overtaken. If the maid outruns her suitor, the matter is ended ; lie mu.-t Dt-ver have her, it being penal for the man to renew the proposal of marriage ; bat if the maid has an affection for him, at first she runs hard, to try the truth of his love, she will, (without Atalanta's golden balls to retard her speed,) pretend sorno casualty, aud make a voluntary halt beforo she comes to the mark or end of the race. Thus, none are compelled to marry against their own wills ; and this is the causo that in Lapland the married people are richer in their contentment than in other lands, where so many forced matches make feigned love, aud cause real nnhappiucss. Woman is like ivy—the moro you are ruined the closer she clings to you. And old bachelor adds : " Ivy is like woman—the closer she clings to you, the more you are ruined." ; ' ■ m ipp- An instantaofious method of producing vinegar—Praise one young lady to acothtr. VOL. XXIII. K0.40. Diamond Fetters. Do you think, dear reader, that you should like to owu three millions of dollars' worth of diamonds ? Perhaps yes. IJut hew if three millions of dollars worth of diamonds owned you ? Do you think it is any pleasauter to be bound hand and feet ia fetters of diamonds than in links of iron ? If you do, just read the history of the Duke of Bruuswick ana his diamonds, every particular of which is vouch ed for by the Paris correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune. The most profound adamanto'ogist in the world is the Duke of Brunswick. He has in Lis possession three millions of dollars' worth of diamonds. He has just published a cata logue of his diamonds, and iu the appendix there is a notice of the most celebrated diamonds in the world. This catalogue numbers not leas than 268 quarto pages. It gives, with great detail, a hst of his while, transparent, first white, second white, steel white, blue white, light blue, black blue, light yellow, bright-yellow, umber-yellow, straw, cbampugue, deep-rose, rosy, light rose, opa lescent/pomegranate, violet, greenish, greeo sea green, brown, light-brown, deep browo* dusk-black, opaque-black, Londou-fog, sandy* frosty, black spotted, cracked, split, scratched iii-cut, uncut, round, oval, oblong, octagon, pointed, pigeon eyed,almond,Chinese eyed diamouds. It relates ho v this one adorn ed a Turkish sabre, thrt a royal diadem* another an imperial collar, a third a graud electoral hat; this black diamond was au idol's eye, that brilliant ro->y diamond was taken from the Emperor Baber, at Agra, in 1520 (it weighs 41 carats, and is worth SG9,OQO), those were the waistcoat buttons of the Emperor Don Pedro ; this diamond ring, with the Stuart coat of arms, and the cipher " M S belonged to Mary Queen of Scots ; that pair of ear rings hung once on Maria An cite* t® The Duke of Brunswick has iu bis posses sion fifteen of the ninety knowu diamonds, weighing thirty six carats, but he has not a diamond worth $260,000. lie baa a plenty of diamonds worth $20,900, $30,000, $45,000 apiece ; lie has two worth SOO,OOO each, one worth $7'),000, and one worth SBO,OOO ; but ho hasn't one worth $200,000. lie is in treaty now for two diamonds, one of which is worth $232,U00 and the other $050,000, and which rank in the order of precedence estab lished by adamautologists, in the sixth rank, which is next after the regent's diamond, and the former in the eighth rank, that is, next after the Orloff diamond of Russia. Iu his iist of celebrated diamonds he places in the front rank a brilliant white diamond, weigh ing 250 carats, and belonging to some East Indian prince, and worth $2,500,000 ; next comes the Koh i noor,which weighs 187 carats, and which he sets down as worth $1,383,840; next comes the Rajah of Mutara's diamonds, it is of the most beautiful water conceivable, the Governor of Batavia offered the rajah $150,000, two brigs of war, armed, equipped and provisioned for six months, and a large quant ly of caunon balis, powder and congrevu rockets ; the rajah refuged them all, ftnd preferred keeping his diamond, which passes for a talisman; it is worth $1,339,455. Next comes the Great Mogul, which is of a beautiful rose color, and of the shape and siza of half a hen's egg ; it is worth $784,000, ac cording to the Duke of Brunswick's valuation, though Tavernier, the traveller, sets it down as beiug worth $3,334,055 ; the regent's diamond of France (and which, by the way, belonged the Lord Chatham's grandfather, who brought ft from India concealed iu the heel of his shoe),comes only in the fifth rank; it weighs 136 14 carats —it is worth $739,* 840"; it is the purest diamoud known ; it re quired two years to cut it ; before it was cut it weighed 410 carats; the cbippings of it were sold for $40,000. The Duke of Brunswick says the Orloff dia • mond of Russia is worth only $344,300, and not $18,410,530, as some persons have pre tended; and he says the Sancy diamond,which Prince Paul Demidoff purchased at the price of $400,000, is worth only s2orlGo ; hut then the Duke of Brunswick reckons its historical value as nothing, although it once adorned the sword of Charles the Bold, was found after his death on the battle-field of Nancy, was sold in Switzerland, carried to Portugal and there sohf, belonged to King Antonia, to Henry 111., was swallowed by a uo'olo to whom he confided it—swallowed by the faith ful noble sooner than deliver it to robbers,and was found iu his body, which was disinterred for the purpose of discovering it The Duke of Brunswick dares not leave Paris at any period of the year ; his diamonds keep him chained there. He dares not sleep from homo (some people reckon this liberty of pillow one of the great franchises of Paris) u single uigbt. Then he lives in a house constructed uot so much for comfort as for security. It is bur glar-proof, surrounded on every side by a high wall; the wall itself is surrouuded by a lofty iron railing, defended by innumerable sharp spear-heads, which ate so contrived that if any person touches any one of them, a chime of bells begins instantly to ring an alarm ; this iron railing cost him $14,127. He keeps his diamon s in a safe, built in a thick wall ; his bed is placed against it, that no burglar may break into it without killing,or at least waking ; him, and that he may arouse himself with them without leaving his bed. This safe is lined ! with granite and with iron ; the locks have a ; secret which mii*t be known before they can ! be opened ; if they are opened by violence, a ' discharge of fire-arms takes place, which will 1 inevitably kill the burglar, and at the sArae time a chime of bells in every room of his house are set ringing. He has but one win dow in his bedroom —the sash is of the stoutest iron—the shutters are of the thickest sheet iron. The ceiling of his room is plated with irou several inches thick, and so is tlio floor. The door opening iuto it is of solid sheet iron, and cannot be entered unless one be master ! of the secret combination of the lock. A case I of a dozen six-barrelled revolvers, loaded and ! capped, lies opeu opoo s table within reach of I bis bed