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f Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin]
THE LATE TIIKODOBE. JtORSSEAU.
The?landscape artist,Bouseeau, recently de
ceased athlseonntrlKhou&e at BarbUon, in the
forest of Eontainblean,was a strongly-marked
character. 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
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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 '