'GIBSON FEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXI-NO. 257. (THE EVENING BUIiJuETIN PUBLISHED EVKBT EVENING . . . (Sundays eiceSteil), . at TBI NEW BULLETIN BEILDINO, 607 ObMtwilMKMt, EUlladeljpliia, . ' ST TUB \ EVENINa BULLETIN ASSOCIATION* mBSON PEACOCK. FBOPBI EHNEBT O. WALLACE, The BnM.*TtH la aorred to subscribers in the city at IS emits per weak, payable to tha camera, or A 8 par annum. Btatloneiy. Catlap look sHgsg |]nr< Butlonel . \1,7 . , , . -788 Arch street. MARRIED. ' DUNLAP.—On the Ithlnat. at Bt, Peter's ‘ChurcnTby' the Kev. Oeortte Lceda. D. D., Gcorae M. Cenarroe to Nannie, i oonseit daughter of the late Thoa. ■^Kvift.A^fj— LOOBLEY.—On the M of Februair, at the Tealdeneo of the bride's mother, by the Kev. William H. Z'nrness, J.. Sami. Evi laod to Nellie M., daughter of tlie late William Looaley.Eaq. * DUD. FARRETT.‘-On tho 3d hut, after a longlllneaa, Cynthia Snyder, wife of uhaa.l). 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In these latter times, when we are all more or less reflections and echoes of one ano ther, is interesting to flnd_a man who has cndnghJAUh Inhimself to be himself—a dearly-' cut bit of Individuality, like a type In one of the old dramas; a self-believer, a solitary, an egotist, an original. Such a man should properly be a recluse. But it seems-to be a penchant with recluses to be Been* occasionally darting-out:from their lairs Into' the highest places, like Elijah before Ahab, and-astonishing the sunshine with remarks very much to the purpose and very Inconvenient. Among the most privileged and sacred amities of ComplSgne, when ceremony was abandoned and replaced by themore sensitive etiquette of good breeding, they report* an observation which threw a silence over the little circle, and paused a slight elevation of the pretty eyebrows tof the Empress. “In my humble opinion”— 3t was Bonssean who was speaking, and he had Interrupted his glorification, of Hobbema to hear Eugdnle 'assail the gray preeminence of man’— •«‘ln my humble opinion your majesty does too mu£h honor to certain of our lady contempora ries who have become famous in letters and the .arts. . There has never been a time, there bos never been a place in heaven, no more than on the earth, where the genius of woman has bqpn the equal of the genius of man. Mrs. Raphael, 34rs. Rubens and Mrs. Rembrandt never existed,” This was severe on Engdnle, whoso dreams, in the moony nights of Gonjpligne, are dreams of •» Regency. But Rousseau was not bom for a courtier. Though indebted to Paris for his birth, he was at the greatest distance possible from the represen tative Parisian.. But Paris, proud to bo'a comu ■ copio! of everything, affords all, even solitude. 'To thohermltsho offers a wilderness. In an hour or two-frpna the rattling Rue de Rlvoll you are Jn the shades of Fontalnbleau, watching for the spectre of the Black Huntsman. Hither Rousseau fcetbok himaelf for hla' CruSoe merfiSsing' the evenings of a whole season in utter silence on a divan, listening to the wind In the oaks, and communing with the proper Egeria of a Crnsoe, a tame parrot. And he could, find- excellent .' ■ ■ .. .l .—■ —.- L.-. : ■’ ' ——J :—'■ ■ ‘/C.. ‘.l : ‘ ~ ' v ‘ ' '•i' V ■ ='■ -Wi- •-.■'ir. ''i-l arguments (when he would talk at all) to prove that hisbJrd listened to him, comprehended him and divined his Ideas from the altitude of its perch! Indeed, like a veritable priest of nature, ho came very much to lose.tbe distinction between: men and dumb creatures and plants. All that' breathed or seemed to breathe, 01l that suffered or seemed to suffer, interested him to agitation. Ho liked to live bn apples and bread, the seed o : the earth and the fruit of the air, imagining him self thus in some sort purified and thrown In, contact with.thc elements. And when, Inter rupting by a lunch of this kind his day’s labor in the woods, he found the rnstlc spiders, ants, and: other wild things disposed to familiarity and de sirous to nse hls-napkin for a promenade, he was much gratified, and would' rest without motion until he was cramped, watching the actions that to him were a drama. He was capable of com prehending that agreeable naturalist of the thir teenth century, St Francis of Assise, for whom tbe birds sang, alternating in his masses,. who preached them sermons, and who said, “Swallow,: thou art my sister.” . But the oaks and elms of Fontainbleau were his best friends, abd to them he gave the most of bis confidence. Intertwined with the former, interleaved with the latter, he perpetually per ceived the dryad. “Loving trees,” says his friend, Tbbophile Silveßtre, “llko living beings, and per haps more, he saw in the inflections and contor tions-of their branches so many expressive ges tures or doleful convulsions,.and took the mur murs of the foliage for a ballad or a moan; and gathered astonishing parables from the thnnder rlvcc oaks, from the elms overthrown or lopped closo by the woodmen. . ■ The adjustments of nature were the right ones, and the only right. One afternoon, walking through his Tbcbaid of Fontainbleau along with his friend Millet and an artist from Alsace, he stopped the party to lecture them on tbe lichens, the mosses, tbe white spots of dead wood, and the richly colored pine-cones along the bank of an avenue. The Alsacian having collected some of the cones to take back to the studio, Rousseau watched him at the business with impatience. The other continuing, Rousseau's bile was ex cited, and he said to him with altered features, “Can't yon leave tbe things of nature where na ture has put them? Nature does what she docs better than cither of ns could: do. Leave those bits of wood there; leave thoss pine-cones. Some day we may be glad enough to find them again.” Nothing for it hut to yield; nothing for it but lo replace everything, to the smallest mor se), after the nicest trials, the most precise meas urements, under the absolute direction of Rous seau, all on edge,.nervous, and.brcathing quick, He turned, overturned, balanced, or pressed down a straw with the hand of a woman who fosters a fainting infant, or rather of a priest consecrating a wafer. . Such a personage could not be conspicuously sociable. Man seemed to him a generally uselesa or noxious being, and I think I never saw a human figure in one of his exquisite landscapes. His softest sentiment for mankind was that of the deepernnd gjfAttcr 'OifieTtif'JKftaHffiropes, a profound compassion. Out of this trait pro ceeded the* impression which led to his marriage, late in life, after a youth of severity, study and woman-hatred. The piotecting goodness of the strong nature for the feeble, which he had in excess, surprised him into matrimony; he found himself in the confidence of a weak and unhappy woman; and though she was neither amiable, nor wise, nor quick, nor pretty, he loved her in a masterly, fatherly fashion, and lifted her to his own elevation. A certain coldness in bis way of holding him self towards you, and a decidedly dogmatic ex pression of opinion, were his assertions of the dignity of genius and the rights of personal dig nity.- Tbfc extravagant good-fellowship which modern journalists, novelists, dramatists or artisiß of the French nation affect amongst each other now-a-days displeased him. The poor familiarity, the false equality of the age, he met by an assertion of the dignity of the mind, the privacy of the person, poshed into something al most sacerdotal. But among his few friends he was gay, witty and generous. / Millet was one of these, his companion in the pine-cone incident related aboyc. Millet’s pic tures are among the most pathetic eclogues of modern country life I know, and he has, per haps. got nearer to the secret of light and hu midity in a landscape than even Rousseau him self. His pointings, telling little and feeling everything; are strains of heart-searching music. This rare intelligence, now desolated by Rous seau's death, was his companion among the Gothic colonnades and arches of Fontainbleau, and the recipient of his fancies and theories— the theories,- often; 1 of--a- solitary,-opinionated, fantastic, Unbalanced and untenable. They say he spent one golden afternoon with HUlet in proving that, when the sun is at onr backs, the spreading rays converge toward the horizon in front of us. Millet, clear-headed enough, but of an affectionate and conciliating nature, resigned himself, not to over-ride a friend, to this Inquisi torial arrangement of natural laws; but he aptly recited, in a low voice, out of Montaigne, “I de test not the being pnt down, provided that they doit n’ot with a visage too imperieusement ma yiitTale." 1 i Now those walks, those agitations, those some times overhearing words have ceased, and the na tnre-painter.is biting, as the French bitterly say,* the roote of the daisies. By a clause in his will he was buried under those waving woods of Fon tainbleau, which had been his: home and temple for the greater part of his Ufe. Ho was naturally of strong constitution, active, athletic and handsome. One of his friends re marked in his features,ennobled by death, a resem blance to Shakespeare; his age was fifty-five, three years greater than that of the poet who has left ns his ideal of solitude- in the Forest of Arden nes. His death,attributed to a “cerebral decompo-' sition,” resembled that of a tenderly-remembered mother at abont the same age. For the past three years Rousseau had scarcely touched the pencil. His masterpiece; the Avenue of Cheitnut3,itßA sold yesterday or to-day (Janu ary 16th), at the Hotel Druout, In the famous collection of Khalil-bey. He sent to the Uni versal Exposition eighteen vases,the most strik ing of which was a picture of 1862, Effect of Sun l after Earn, of which a journalist,De Fonvlelle, observes: "In this picture Rousseau surpassed as it wore himsolf, and tour de fotce which no-painter perhaps bad attempted before him; tlTis painting, too, reprcsentinga moment ’most characteristic of our climate, is considered ‘a veritable chif-d'auvre," - ■! His greatest carelessness, or weakness, jras in his design, which was of a nature to render Mr. i :X Ruskin iih One'of hla oldest friends, M. Alfred: Bensler, contributes a reminiscence Of him exam ining, or “taking the .auscultation” of an oak. After resting long before the tree/ln a singular concentration of spirit—his eye gradually kind ling, and his' Ups letting escape in a low voice, like a reluctant secret, the rapturons how fine A how - beautiful! —after this prolonged measure .ment; he could go away to his studio, and there, like a calculation, evolve his tree agaln, without corrections, and “withoutrepentances.” This unrepentant manner of design was cer-, tainiy a sign notof strength but 1 of obstinacy, and Is inconceivable in any but landscape art. - ■ EnrASTdV.BDB. Tbe Various Species of Slate—Bitumi. nous Slate—.Bohemian* : PollsUing Slate—Slate a ycillucnlary Bcpoalt- Tbe Process: Visible oat: the Florida Boults—vast Antiquity %t the Deposit —Bine 1 Formations Between'. Slate and coal—lts Occasional .Exposure Sue to Volcanic Action, Ac*— lts Clea>; Yabllity Canted by Beat—COnse el Its 1 Colors—Their Durability-Slate Found in Nearly all - Counties—Where in : America—One Bile Thick—Principal Quarries—A bmall Trade Before the War—Came as Ballast from Wales- First Quarries in Ireland—French Baked Slate* (Correspondence of tbe Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] Chaiiian QcAjmncs, Northampton Colotv, Pa., Feb. .'J, 18G8.—I come now to a brief con sideration cf tho geology of Slate. Under this general term the lollowing species are included: Mica style (used mostly, for flags); clay slate (Che principal slate of commerce); Talco-mlcaccous slate (used for whetstones, &c.); polishing slate, drawing slato or black chalk, adhesive slate, bitu minous shale, and slate clay. Roofing and school slate Is known geologically as argillite. Some of these varieties pass into each other by insensible ‘ gradations, as docs the clay slate also into the in terior schistose rocks and limestone. The shales, indeed, appear lo be nothing else limn slate clay Imperfectly indurated, and have been compared to bricks half-bnrnt. Yet the bitnminons shales contain a deal of oIL There was lately a boat-load of this mined from the bluffs of the Ohio river, twenty miles below Portsmouth, and brought to the oil works' for the purpose of testing - its properties. It yielded from 15 to 20 gallons ol oil to the ton, which was sixty per cent, fine lubricating oil, and ten per cent good burning oil free from paraffine. Ike polishing date found in Bohemia has been computed to contain in every cubic inch forty one thousand millions of infusoria, many mil lions more than are found in the same amoun t of - chalk. These minerals may be called the ynwe* stones of extinct organisms. 4 There can.be nodonbt that the slates, like ihelr neighbors, the limestones, are sedimentary deposits. This process can be seen going on everyday. For instance, in all storms of much violence, the water over the Florida banks be comes white with the bottom deposit Captain Hunt, of the Topograph!cal Engmeem, who fur nishes this information, sayß: -‘As tbe storms subside, the white mud is gradually thrown dowiq, and the water dearaelter a dayor two to its pe culiar delicate transparency: During the ‘white water’period, the flood tidal, current sets the white water over the north aide of the bank into the Bay of Florida, where, by reason of the greater depth, the process of deposition goes on, and the floor of this bay has become covered with a white mud, andjhas been brought up with a singular evenness to the prevailing depths.” That the sedimentary rocks (of which the slates are among the oldest) are tbe secretion of an al most infinite antiquity* is attested by their aggre g ate thickness of nearly twenty miles, every atom of which was deposited on the ocean's bed by aqueous currents. Upon the granite gneiss and schist, the fundamental formations oceur in regular succession along the Appalachian chain; first, the primal white sandstone, second, the magnesian bine sandstone, and third, the Matinal or Hudson River Slates. Nine other formations follow each otherup to the coal measures, and still others to the horizon. This is the regular order; but the volcanic action -which has up heaved them, and the superficial action of water, frost, icebergs, and the air through vast epochs have had the effect of exposing the basset edges of all these formations at various places, thus bringing them within the reach of man. When thus upturned they are, of course, ’ often thrown out of their natural relation to the horizon. For instance, in the valley before me now, 1 can see masses of slate the original stratification of which was horizontal, and con sisted of a series of lanunie, lying parallel with the water-level. The lamina; now presents an angle to the water, in most places abont ten de grees, bnt in some places of twenty-five degrees, in Slating ton and at the Blue Mountain, I have fonnd them “on end.” Wecan everywhere trace the origin of these planes of cleavage; to^un ex alted temperature/ 7 Rogers'says:' “The cleavage planes .invariably approximate to parallelism with' those great planes in the crust which appear to have been the planes of maximum 1 temperature. Major Parrish, of Philadelphia, has lately pub iished in the American Journal of Mining tm able “Statistical' and Geological Report tipon the Slate Trade in the United States," to whlcn I am much indebted. In speaking of the formation of slate he saysi—“To the casual presence 1 of metallic oxideß' their colors are ■ mainly to be ascribed. The bine color is due to the presence of carbon, the purple to copper, the green to magnesia, the browns to iron, &c., &c. An excess of either iron or lime renders 'tbe slate worthless. In the product of some quarries these colors are per manent and unfading, in that of others they : gradually fade to that of a dirty chocolate or : coffee color. Hence in covering coatly struc tures with parti-colored slate (or any color), whose roof and spire are often Intended as ea . lient points of beauty, too much caution can >' scarcely be observed in tracking the slate home to ( quarries of repute." One can see whole rows of i good houses in Philadelphia whose roofs are \ covered with brown and rotting slate. The slate of commerce is found all over the i world: It has been mined in nearly all parts of ‘ continental Europe,, as well as in England; Scot ; land, Wales and Ireland. The exposed zones in this oonntry extend from Canada nearly to the ! Gulf of Mexico, and from a line on the‘Atlantic i slope toward the base of the Rocky Mountains, jOn their eastern edge they display a belt from ‘three to twentymues in width, and attain in ! places to the stupendous thickness of a mile. A number of qnarries have been opened along this edge, beginning on the Bt. Francis ! River, Canada. .. Yon find.. them. next tin Maine at Blownvtile, in Vermont and tho ad- J oining pait of New York. The belt enters New {Jersey, six miles wide, at the Wallklll river, fol lows tity-Blno Mountains through New Jersey, i Pennsylvania ‘ and Maryland; as far ' south as {Shenandoah county, Va. It may be traced ,at 'intorvallbln South Carolina, Georgia and Ala ibama. AH along the line : slight 7 attempts have |been made at quarrying. In Vermont, New iYork, Northampton county and Peach Bottom, !Pa., quite large and valuable qnarries have been ‘opened. - But the buslneas ls in ita infancy. - As date as 1844 eighty men comprised the. whole {force engaged In the trade fit 1 thin conntiy. ‘Previous to the:; rebellion ■ thb most of • dhe slsto usedhfejv ~~2 i ®Bported. Vessels com ing here would load it for ballast in Wales, where 'there ire immbnse qnarriea-eicftvations of an area of 40’acres, 800'foet deep,’And employing .3,000 to 7,000 men. : v v* i As to pm origin tt Parrish 1 » . »* -liwA v *- v'.L'-.v-i, QUR WHOLE COUNTRY. PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1868. SLATE. says- The earliest historical account of slato as an article of commerce refers to Ireland as tho origi nal source of supply. ' :;Tbc‘ qttarrieß (most probably those of the epunty of Waterford, adjacent to navigation) were in a region then known aaArdolsia, whence (bby were shipped early In the middle ages to all parts of Europe. Hence their French and conti nental name of Ardoisis. No reliable record of the exact origin ol this commerce can be fonnd, bnt it must have preceded by many centuries the opening of the quarries ol other countries. . ■ .France has plenty of slate of her own. One sort there is so soft that it needs baking before it cpn be used. To-day’s paper, by the way, in forms me that “the largo state quarries of Grand Carreaux, France,' have been entirely buried by an earth slip, and three lives lost.” In my next and probably final letter, I will, as promised, describe the qualities and uses of the article obtained at various quarries, and the methods employed, difficulties, drawbacks, dis appointments and deceptions encountered In quarrying it. Qc.estor. SiMaUexs’ and Sailor*’ Matloaal Con. vention. A tan adjourned conference of Union Soldiers and Sailors, held, inpnrauance to published call, at Washington; D. Cf., on Wednesday, January 8. I8G8; it was. unanimously resolved to hold a National Convention oPUnion Soldiers and Sail or? at Chicago, HI., on Tuesday, May 19, 1868, for (be consideration of national questions, with .the paramount object qf.nniting and consolidat ing tbp loyal element of the country for the ap proaching contest , with its enemies, and; if deemed advisable, to inominate or recommend Candida tea ibr the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United. States; . Each State shall beeatitledto twenty delegates at large, and twenty delegates for each Congres sional district. Territories and the District of Columbia, will be entitled to twenty delegates c&cti* • The disordered Btate of pnblic affairs; the re storation of rebels to power; the designing efforts to repudiate onr national obligations; the failure throughout tbe country to recognize the just claims of the Veterans of the , war; these, c oup led with a desire to perpetuate the fundamuntal principles of our Government, are deemed suffi cient'reasons that the men whn crashed rebellion should counsel such measures os shall tend to preserve and protect the civil aud political rights of all the people. We therefore invite' our lato comrades in arms to oiganize in theirmight and to express through their representatives their condemnation of the efforts to make treason, defeated in the field, tri umphant at the ballot-box. Let us stand shoulder to shoulder to protect the nation’s honor and maintain the cardinal principles of our Government—Liberty, Jnstice and Equality. By order of the Conference. Brig. Gen. T. T. Crittenden, Chairman. Wnx A. Shout, Secretary. * EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Gen. W. S. Hardman, Gen. H. H. Wells, • “ John Cochrane, “ F. L. Cramer, “ J. P. C. Shanks, “ H. G. Sickel, rr ~ B7TT. Butler," “ J. F. Fisher, ~ “ KB.Haycß, “ N. P. Banks, “ S. G. Bnrbridee, “ R.T. Van Horn, “ "Wm. B. Stokes, “ T. T. Crittenden, “ Nathan Kimball, “ J. S. Crocker, “ ' Thos. S-. Allen, ,l J. M. Palmer, “ Jas. 8. Brisbin, *• N. P. Chipman, “., Chas. S. Stannard, “. W. P. Laselle, “7E. W. Whitaker, “ y C. C. Andrews, “ A. T. A. Torbert “ ■ Coh'A. H-Grimahaw, Col. Samuel McKee! - «'*H. A. San,- i‘, A. A. Hoarier, “ H.G.OtiS, “ T. B. Fairlelgh, “ N. B. Howard, • “ Timothy Lubey, “ J. T. Dewees, M<U. J. E. Doughty,, Geo. B. Halstead, “ Geo.'W. Wells, “ G. M. Van Buren, Capt. A. J. Bennett, “ T.EUNJlcPherson, “ James T. Smith, ' Private wil Wm. Wiix A. Shokt, Secre Washington, D., C., AMUSEMENTS. The Theatres. —At the Chestnut this evening the Mikado Japanese troupe will give a per formance. Under the Gaslight will be given at the Arch to-night. Mr; and Mrs. Barney Wil liams will appear at the Walnnt this evening in the Shamrock and the fare e Latest from New York, At the American a miscellaneous entertainment will be given. Carl Sentz’s Matinee.— To-morrow afternoon Mr. Carl Sentz will give his eighteenth orchestral matinee, at Horticultural Hall. The following programme has been prepared: Symphony, No. a (firat time),Mozart. 1. Adagio—Allegro. 2. An dante. 3. Mlnuetto. Allegretto. 4. Finale. Song —“The Voyage of Ufe’’ (flrst time),' Thunder. (With orchestra accompaniment.) ’ Grand March (first time), Hoffman. Waltz—Wiener Bonbons (first time),Strauss. Coronet Solo—Der Schonste Engel (Beautiful Angel), Graben Hoffman. Gallop—lda (first time), Faust. Philadelphia Opera House —-The laugh able .burlesque; Tile Black Book, will be given at this popular establishment to-nighr, with all the accessories of -handsome scenery, eccentric cos tumes and a first-rate cast.’ This drama is ;well worth seeing. Besides this there will be a miscel laneous entertainment, in which the members of the very excellent company will participate. Mr. Frank ’ Moran WUI give some of his most amusing negro personations, there tnll beaing ing,“dancing, instrumental music, and a pleasant vanety Of farce, extravaganza and' burlesque. The entertainment at this house is a good one in every'respect.' ■ Concert Hall —“ Father Baldwin’s Old Folks” will give a performance at Concept Hall this even ing. This troupe eonsists of twenty-four artists whoattlro. themselves in ancient costume and sing old time music; consisting chiefly of selections of sacred music. Several of the per formers possess great ability, the boy soprano especially having a voice of great power and; compass. Eleventh -Street Opera House. —Messrs. Carncross & Dixey announce for this evening an entirely nqw bnrlesqne, entitled Ours; or Maxi— miliairs'Avengers.' - The piece has real merit. It is filled with .comical situations, sharp local hits, tunny Incidents and keen satire. In addition to this, Mr. J. L; Carncross will sing several favorite ballads, and there will be local an d instrumental music, Ethiopesn delineations, dancing, &c., by the members of the company. The GrARd Duchess.— On Tuesday, the 11th inst., Mr. Bateman’s French Opera Company will appear at the Academy of Music in Offen bach’s comic opera Grand Duchess of Gerohtein. Tho wonderful popularity which this opera haß obtained in this country and in Europe, is a guarantee that It will be iduncnsely successful in Philadelphia. It will bo well for every one, even those who ore conversant with the French lan guage, to purchoso - a libretto and become ac quainted with the plot beforehand. The public must not expect to heap a grand opera with stately and beautiful music. 1 The Grand Duchess is sprightly; lively and amusing only, and while some of the music is attractive and pretty, it is not of an elevated character by any means. There has been a very large sale of tickets already, and those who deslro to attend should secure seats at once. Tickets.. are . for., sale, at . Gould’s music, store. ( ’ Mr. Murdoch’s Reading.—On Thursday ove ntogMr.JakE.M-ttrdoch will give a reading at tho Haller thrWfesmilte4aphia KabiwSMi;- Mmve forty-first. • ; —T&b any man who .came theroi and Bald he w»8 from Boston, would be ln than anhOUr. Moj. Richd. Middleton, “ Wm. Edwards,. “ Wm.S. Morse, Capt. Wm. Larimer,Jr., “ A. P. Brock, “ G. W. Platt, U.B.N. 11 A. Short. . 8. Morse, Chairman, itary. ?eb. 1, 1868. DISASTERS. Fire on tbe Hail-A Sleeping Cur Burned While In nation. flrom tho Chicago .Journal, Jan. 3.1 . Ono of “Pullman's Palace Sleeping Cars" was burned on Sunday morning last, one mile from Buda station, a short distance this side of Gales burg,‘on. tbe Chicago, Burlington and Qutncv Bailroad. The car Was attached to the night pas senger train coming east, and fortunately there were but few passengers on board, only one of whom was a woman. Tho fire originated near tho stove In the rear end of the"car, and was not the result of a kerosene lamp explosion, as was stated by a morning paper. A Mr. Bishop, one of tho passengers, Btates that he was sleeping in the middle section, and hearing the alarm Bprang for the door. Beturning to get his boots from be neath his berth, he was driven back in haßte by the flnmo and stiflingsmokc. For a few minutes the Utmost alarm prevailed, and one or two of the passengers’ were with difficulty saved from their own lrantic efforts to leap from the train. All, however, safely reached the car In front but most of them left behind In their berths such articles of apparel and valuables as they had luid aside In disrobing for the night This brought two ntifortunates out in the light undress uni form, for a winter’s night, of cotton shirts and drawers—a state of affairs which instantly called for contributions from the baggage of their more fortunate fellow-passengers. When the fire was discovered tho train was stopped, tbe passengers .another car, and it was then decided to run the 'train to Buds, a water station, distant one mile; Arriv ing there, it was found impossible to check the flames, and tho car waß entirely destroyed, as were also the water-tank and a wood pile. The passengers of the sleeping-car are the losers of several watches, satchels, and outer garments, but deem tbe sacrifice a light one un der all the circumstances. The “City of Chicago” was a magnificent coach, built at the Aurora shops at au original. cost of twenty-four fhousand dollars. Like all the cars oi the celebrated Pullman line, she had been run up (o the time of this event with great profit to the proprietors, pleasure to passengers, and im munity from even the smallest accidents. Thelosßes suffered by passengers have been promptly paid by Superintendent Harris. Mr. Pullman has determined, in order to pre vent any such accident in tho future, to substitute water-beaters for the stoves, and candle chande liers for kerosene lamps. Accident on tbe Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad. [From the Baltimore San of Fob, 4.] At an early hour on Saturday morning, as a passenger train bound east was passing Korneys vilie, on tbe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a rail broke, causing tbe baggago car to overturn npon its side. Edward Owings, the baggagC-mastor, who was in the car at the time, had his left leg fractured both above and below tho knee. One or two of the passenger cars ran off the track, but fortunately, with the exception of slight braises, no one was injured. Mr. Owings was brought to this city and-conveyed to his rest dcnce } No. 157 Conway medical attendance. It was then ascertained that ho bad received severe internal injuries, and yes terday morning he died. . Coroner Chalmers was summoned and held an Inquest on the body. Tho jury retnrned a verdict that the deceased came to his death on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by tbe accidental breaking, of a rail—the break being caused by frost—and that the employes of tho Company are not to blame: Owings was thirty five years old and asing]e:man. 1 Deatrnctlve lire In Tferw T#fK-t#js About «100,vOO. • [From today’s N.-Y. Herald.] -, The fire which broke out at 1.30 o’clock yester day morning on tbe third floor' df the five-story brick building, No. 77 Beekman street, resulted in its complete destruction and an aggregate loss ol $lOO,OOO. Tbe firemen worked assiduously, but tbe Intense cold prevented them from check ing the course of the flames through the building where they originated, though they -succeeded admirably in saving the adjoining buildings, the Jobscb in which are mainly by water. The fol lowing is a list of the tenants and losses:. No. 77—The first floor and basement were oc-' cupied by George Sanderson & Co. as a steel warehouse. Their loss is $35,000; Insured for $15,300, as follows: Yonkers of New York,©3,ooo; Bowery,ss,ooo; Commercial,s2,6oorPark, $2,600; and Insurance Company of North America, of Philadelphia, $2,300. The second floor was oc cupied by Edward C. Dunbar, printer, who sus tains a loss of $3,000; fully insured. The third floor, front, was occupied by Whlttemore & Ab bott, spice-grinders, and their loss is $10,000; in sured lor $6,000. The third floor, rear, waa oceu- Eied by Wlsdone & Faradle, dealers in curled air. Less s3,ooo;’fully insured. The fourth floor was occupied by C. Johnson, printer, whom loss is estimated at $5,000;-covered by insurance. The fifth floor was occupied by R. G. Dun & Co., publishers Commercial Directory, and they sus tained a loss of $3,000, understood to be covered ;by insurance. The building was owned by Ed ward Don, whose loss Is about $30,000, the greater part covered by insurance. •Ho. 79—'The first,; fourth and fifth floors and . basement are occupied by Van Nest & Hayden, saddlery hardware;Joss by Water,ss,ooo; covered by,an insurance of $20,000 in the Humboldt,.. North River, and Commerce, of Albany. -The -second and third floors are occupied by T. P. i Howell & Co., dealers in patent and fancy - leo ; there; lose by water and fire, $3,000; insured for ; $56,000., The bulldlng is owned by Peter Hay- damaged to the extent of $2,000; In sured for $28,000, In the City, North American, and another company. . . No. 81—The first floor and basement Is Occu pied by Clark, Wilson & Co., hardware dealers, and they abstain a loss of $l,OOO by water; covered by insurance. - . ’ • No. 75—This entire building is occupied by J. J. Adams & Co., importers of > brushes. Their loss by fire and'water is about $3,000 on stock, and Anson Livingston: loses $l,OOO on ‘the build ing, both covered by insurances.. ■■■■•.. r.r- No, 65 Fulton street-’-The flrst -floor is occu pied by J, C. Conroy & Co.. dealers in- fishing - tackle, who sustain s loss of $2,000, coveted by on insurance’ of $BB,OOO. > The building- is owned by Murphy & Son. who Jose $5OO by water, insured for $6,500 in. the Phoenix, Resolute and Etna, of Hartford. .The lessee of this.'building, Wm. J. Howell, has a steam-engine, bolleiy&c., in the basement; loss $3,000, insured for $2,700 in the Insurance Company of North America, of Philadelphia. He has; also an (insurance' of - $2,500 ouhis lease. • - Freaks or; Frost,-, -Galignanf says: “The fountain of Stu Michel presents atthis moment a most beautiful appearance; The- two bronze dragons have become really fabulous • animals. < The water which they spouted forth has become,: frozen In such a • manner. as to form immense horns, supported on .ranges of. stalactites rising from the pedestal beneath. From tho three basins above each othor, hang columns , of ice of the most fantastic forma. The effect Is. marvel lous; and crowds of persons assemble every day to witness this beautiful spectacle.” • Quarries Buried.— -The large slate quarries of.- Grands-Carreaux. Franco, have just been entirely buried by on earthslip, and three lives lost The works on the previous evening wore observed to be In a dangorous state, and all the laborers wero withdrawn.- Eighteen hours later, the ovsrsoer, homed Choinot, and two men, were 1 engaged In. fixing barriers <to provont any one from approach ing the entay, when the earth sank beneath them foron extent of .two acres,.and to a depth of two hundred feefy and buried them in the ruins. Their bodies have not yet been recovered-' The mater rial lots Is estimated at JEB,MOO. , -v The Isle ox Man.—The population of the Tale bf Man-has diminished duruig the'past ten yearn, but - Schools' have ’ Increased..: Iu 1856-7 \ there Werednly sevcnty-;tbree wpwfe’fehool scholars; there were oae.hus<fte4ami ttdriyitwo. F. I. FETHERSEON. PuliWrfwr. PAIGES THEBE N CIES . - playhouses. —LoutevUlo is crazy Over Fanny Janauschek.' —Bright,; Carlyle and Dickens soflote'e. —Geffrard cut a tremendousswell in Parte. —There are more thantWO hundredand twelve thousand Odd Fellows ini the* United States.’ 1 -—Mr. McMullen' bit io’flf 'Mr. 1 Ford’s nose in Cincinnati. A ' - . . - > ' —The talleat man'ini Cincinnati la six fiet seven.' - . , . ; - > 1 ~*, ' —Victoria tells* bdw little “Vicky” sat oh & wasp's nest in the Highlands. ■ “ ' , —A Connecticut man slays that crow ds 'better eating than partridge, j , —Twenty dollars is the entrance fee chanted by the Parte Skating CitWr > . v —The Atlantic Gable jmakes about a day..., ~ I > ■ ■; »,«■_*!/ —Tennyson is to have $lO,OOO far twelve §oems. —A Baltimore clergyman is lecturing cm t%» “advantages of the modem dance.”. , , v< , A—Christine NUlsohl la a find- skater as -well si singer, and Paris is adniiring-hcr.in both r<M«, ? —Two hundred and nine divorces were (banted in Chicago last yekr. ' . .7 1 , },,A , —Lord Brougham has lost the power of speech and Is on his last legs generally. . v —Mr. F.'E. Ghurcb, the artist, is nowetraveiingr in Asia-. • ' —California, instead of a prohibitoryorilcenfe law, proposes to cnact stringent rules for the’ ior speetion of liquors. - . . : —Water-proof clothis now prepared byi'fts cent patent with baiata instead of India rubber, as it will stand a higher,heat than that gum. l • —ln SheffleldjEnglaud, awomin haaboeore-i mandedinthe police eourt for burying the dead body of her infant. .• , ,’ : ■ : —lt is difficult and unsafe to approach Mobile by water, owing to the .tifausandsof piles, sunken vessels ancf torpedoes, that still fillits channels,; . —lt is aggravating enough to be told thaf the anciettta bad no rata, and that, this popular do mestlc rodent is an accompaniment of modem civilization only. ' , f. —The manager of a theatre InUmahahas dis charged a’Vssry popular low' eoffledian for ‘gag ging," although ma broad and often groSs acting pleased the audiences that frequented the theatre. —lt is suspected that a yOungtady In who died was poisoned by att overaoso of arsenic, which she, Wfw in the habit of taking; to imprOyd^ercomplexion.,| ( —Aa Albany servant girl VWas discovered re-, cently piacing a letter, thatjshe had beefn in structed topoat, in n hydrantibox. v ßit this is not so badOs the case of the Qeorgia negroes placing;their ballots In the lcttler-bosm j / . —A Mrs. Sherman, of Chesteirfleld, Illinois/ was shot dead the day/ In 1 an altercation between her. brother’ and a brother s. of her <da? ceased husband* to .whom Me was, about to« be marrfid, : r, _ —Donald Cameron, a fatuous Higbland piper, who; has won numeroffagalff, medals fin- excel-; ience inula art during a period of thirty .years, has 'fast died. He was! also esteemed ag a coin poser. : B : .■ v. fellow lna Missouri town declared that he was sent on ear jh to redeem aU but ono of-hls audienf & carried a confederate* note to him and made ymeonfdaa his inability, to gq aa fan M that,, 1k .,l .., t v , -tOhe of ! the New York assemblymen (pro posed tO“passa resolution allowing the Ckmyen tion to amend the'Constifotibn to charge an ad 4 mission fee, inasmuch as the only place of ment in Albany had been deetioyea^r —At the late State Ball tr/s Empress Eugdnis. wore a, dress of. white | tnte over white- eitin, striped with gtfid and silver) Her diamond neck-: lace, consisted of ten rows fhf.splendid atones; As very email row ofdiamonds, fastening an'aigrettp; worn on'her left side, her only head orUa ment. . r .■, . !/■- ..... —The Mankato (Minn.) XTnion Bays that In- Sonth Bend recently a man, over 80 years of age, was married to a Swedish girl of 20 yearn of hie. Mr. Pugh is a Welshman, and cannot Bpeak a word of English nor Swedish, and the girl can. neither apeak Welsh or English.. ' —Miss Halleck, the sister of the deceased poet, requests that his correspondents and friends vM , furnish his biographer and" literary executor,- Gen. James Grant Wilson, r No.-51 Bt. Mark's place, New York, with copies 'inf unpublished poems and letters of general or- characteristic value, together with personal reminiscences of the poet. •; ' —ln Mobile, the other day, there was aGiherva icase. A young lad and his sister, while at-ploy i in an empty carpenter’s chest, were tasked in by: 'the falling of the lid, and not beingmissedre-. mained there clasped in each others’ arms for some hours. When their mother at length aoci , dentally, discovered their situation, they were'so nearly dead as to be resuscitated with difficulty.. —Private letters received from Chicagb state .that Mrs. Lincoln is inSano beyond nlTdonbt. Bhe recently sold all the furniture in >her house,•' ; and has two old men as a body guard, believfng' ; she will be rbbbed and murdered. Her mania la for selling.and a dread lest she mayeome to want. All her friends are said to. be conscious of , ;mental cbbdition‘,‘ btit. .th|nk,7SO‘fong^: t r Sh«hiv' harmless, her removal to a lunatlc SOTltini wonld increabeherderangement.—.Boston Herald. 'Cv- ' ■ [ —The poet of the N. T. Cammei&taF f thcr contributes the following “Snow Bong" to ! ta sung to the sir ©f;“BheUsoftheOcean;."—OH*: winter day, with careful foot, I.wandered o’er thdf siippeiy way; The snow, beneath say boot Made; if a task upright to stay. , And so I waddledlrij jmy walk I jostled eveiy one I matj.Sp that songr, ilh familiar talk, Remarked' “he’s very tight, 'ftyi, bet I” [Repeat. J I stooped andstood uportape; leg; With cane to clear my hshipiefed tread; But as I stooped a boy did .‘‘peg’’ another show-ball’ at my head. ,Analhne,,rs«d;.asdQwn ;my neids i I felt the melted snow-ball rnn.Wc gather balja and little reck Where% they go|or whence they. come. [Repeat.l ‘ j ; "r ; —A Parti Jnnrhalcatalogues the beautieeof.the Princess deMetternlch:—Eves which have. the sweetness bf a German revene;teethof brightest enamel; a forehead ‘smooth’tod 'cieto:£g u an in fant’s, high and wide as that of a thinker; and. abundant silky brown hair, theform of 'bead,'as * Greek aS tat of.thp Venus of Milo; her earllkea . C^pWre Ifonn 1 fonn of hw,ann, the lonSa>lstarati6 . hands; and the narrow, dainty foot,’ Be she , dressed in bine; red or yellow; be she colfled wlth., hertoque over her eyes,,or with a Bergent-de vjUe’sea|>, aa she apjmred one dajj at the Toller* I —An English mechanic, named Sarboy, is said • 'to have solved.>a problem- Which has eo long ■ foiled the, effortspf; engineers and scientific men, in discovering a carton means of detecting * the r alteration in the texture of iron, or cracks, ,<W£ minute defects^invisible to the eye, which .have , been afttltffcl'icauM of the breaking ofmUvnKp axles and other machlnery. hqgfOMtd that when an iren n • geneons. themagnetic needle will ! not • wfiiwfe 4 ,* denly displaced ffom |te position oabelng-e|ftpjy>, movedfo and fro in a dhrectipn. PMp«M»^ i W!| the-magnetic meridian of. the focto^rhttt.ir very intense “as it passes over detaajn points. In view of the loss of life tod resnlting from flaws mthelron work of m**. chinerv; the discovery of such Stoat of Iron must, prove of great value. ;, between jSpanco oad vpgWjia..to. 18®,. W>MRm. l»lB, 162.«ttWBoulogBd‘88,m England M»4&lglujn, »y weway '
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