GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXIII.-NO. 279, / - - 0 1r DING for Yertfees &c. New stylee., BletiJON & CO., 907 , 'mutant street. de3ofmw • I " EfiDING .• . INVITATIONS -- _ EN . _Armed fu the newestand beet tpanner. LOUI S DN Ise Stationer and Snaraver. 103 e ° tart , street. • DIED. SHHEA D.—On the ntornititt of the 3(1 Inst., , Thonias E. Mnona, Jr., In the 21st year of his age. The funeral trill take place at the residence .of his fattier. No. 1503 Pine etreet, on Saturday, morning. nth inst.. et twelve o'clock. BOY LAN .—On the 3d instant, at one O'clock 'Sarah Boylan.' Her friends- and acAmaintances are Invited to attend 'her funeral: from No. 1339 Spruce street, title ( Friday) :utter - noon, at 3% o'clerlz. Funeral to move at 4 o'clock, JUDSOS.—On the morning of rriday, 4th Mat., Wit. thou Yraucle Judson. in the 37th year able age. • 314:ILVAINE.—At Norristown, on Wednesday.Mareb '2d. Charles Blootalleld.only child of the Roy. Charles E. :and Chinentinii B. Nicllvaine, aged eighteen months and nine days .. • The friends'of the family In Philadelphia ere requested to tare the 2.10 train on Saturday.from the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Depot. Interuient at the Ott Swedes' Churchyard, Pt Wilmington. THOMPSON.—On the 341 Inat., George C. Thompson, in the Shit year of his Ago. Ills friends are Incited-to attend the funeral services, at Woodlands Cemetery'. tomorrow (Saturday) after. MOOD. At 4 o'clock, without further notice. PLAID BILKS BARGAINS. POI NY RE I.ANntr.L. YOCUM! and ARCII btraiah, Are selling some SLLE.B AT ONE DOLLAR, That 'will toittoly theßarsain Minton. SPECIAL NOTICES. Boys' Clothing. Boys' Clothing. Boys' Clothing. Boys' Clothing. .70FIN WANAMAKER'S, SiS and 620 Chestnut Street. ery, 'Variety of Ybuths' Wear, Alade in Highest Style and of the Finest Cr 44 ode. ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, C lIEST NI; T Street. SHERIDAN'S RIDE, GREAT !NATIONAL WORK OF ART. T. Buchanan Read'B Life-size Painting OF SH - FAIIDAN ' s NOW ON , . --XS CUNT& fmr IlMin I.: the m tirc .... of lb, Aemitmr. to- (11110 MOS .1 .1 11m talor,.. m:lebratel Palming, in piz.-1.1)3,2S M11e.., .$lO. Ptlyl) fion) 9A.M. to 8 I'. 31., and from 10 10 P. M. ,Mlrff tf , • - ' „ . rr-zia --A Pl'lt I.4STICES' LtA IL 17 Up - u14...Y PAN Y.--:The Piftleth Animal Mestfrig 'et this coropatty Will be held at the Library. S. W. carrier of Mel. rivet Fifth stets*. On TlllltlbDali (Tor-Asir EVHSING next. the Stir ins , — sts aelrr..:k. The Anunul Deport will be reed and an eleetion for *tanager.; held. The Lit rary has been extenr.ivoly surprove t,and worthy of exarnitintion Ly sll the members and contributor*. • THOS. RIDGWAY. Secretary. r.” M Titio. March), ism. rnittuXt" COF/10.E ri NSYLVAIi LE). ROAD COMPANY. PHILADELPHIA, 141,1-nary 16, ICO. . • NOTION TO bTOOKUOLDIM.B. , The annual election for Directors will Ur twirl on the 7th day .of March. M. at the Office n't AtteDVIDPAAY• - 20.13 , 1 donth Third street. The irons will be open trout 10 o'cloA. A. H. until G o'clock P. M. No share or ',hares trunsforred within sixty days preceding the election will entitle the holler or holders thereof to vote. JOSEPH LP.SLP.Y, re/GtinhStroi S , Tretary. . _ .1111LAD1•r'LI 3 11 a., 31 ARC II 4,1870. -kr)", —7kte anuwil meeting of the Stockholilorit of the Exeeloli , r Pro.s rirlek ft on tifooturing Company will by 'held on MONDAY, 'Kutch U , PC7O, t&V Walnut otteet. at o"clerk noon. W. I). COM EGYS. mht 11 t.t• Secretary and Treatu rer. AN ADJOURNED MEETING; Of" the Citizens' Association oppose.' to erecting the Pullic.Bui'dings on Independence egnare. will be held at the Hall, N. W. corner Market and Metric!: at', et., TII 18 t Friday) EVENING, at 7 o'clock. A. B PAUL; Prcillent. firaric:n B. Pout.Talnen. Secretary. 07OFFICE NAViGA- Ticiti IyIIAN V. na.neu 4th. ITN. Weather permitting the Line win o p,, n f or tho pas.. sairixtd boats on MOIN VA T. March 7th,, 107 U intl-Ctrni FRED. FRALEY, President: ,c9ii 'TRENTON, 13..1., NEARCU- 1, MO. Delawnre aryl 'Raritan Canal ill be opened for'natigatiuu on the loth inst. JOUN G. STEVENS, tub.",-4rp; Engineer and Superintendent. 1169 GIRARD:STREET. 1109 Niatlitiesf Rasura; AND P.ERSUMICD BATHS, Poti9rtixenta for Ladles. ilattutoatitt from A: .to9P. At , -VHOWARDHOSPITAL, NOS. 1518 suit law Lombard street, Dispensary Department. liold treatment and medietuora mashed gratnitouslv ito Poo. AnnAgmENTs: ---- See Sixth page for additional Notices A MAI DILA:WING ROOM, 4tl Setenteenth fit r reet: abuse Chestnut. west side NKW YORK FRENCH COMEDY. VRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 4 tie, econd appearance of and MADAME MOREAU. First appearance of M. EDGARD. LE SUfPLICE LIOMME, , Cornatly In .S'Acts. ; LES TURONS DE CADILLAC. Proverb, in 1 Act. SATURDAY.Oth MARCH. MATINEE, at 2 o'clock, P. M., with Mill three lively jsiecea of' LIVRE CHAPIVRE lor.—Unwed OROQUE-POULlC—Vandeville. BRUTUS, LAMLE CESAR—Coiii.ily. with Beseryed Natal 6' I 00 Tickets Yet Bon cr.'s, 1102 Cheat:au* street , THE P9TAIL REGIONS. Another Arctic Expedition Capt. C. F, is : now in Watthington en deavoring to obtain such an appropriation as will enable him to set out on another Arctic exploring expedition. He intends to fit out a steam propeller of - 1156 tons and a topsail schooner of 125 tons. It' he cannot get the money to do this Ito will try to have a Govern nin.fit vet6sel detailed , to 'carry. him, as' far as- Barstene Bay, lat. 78 deg. 17 min. N., and to leave hint to make his headquarters there. ;go tontoOkycsnoh aid to !‘ accomplish the' wiii.ch is "to place his foot on' the'- northern ' 'extniinity of the axis of thetlobe." -Senator Patterson, of New Hampshire, will shortly present a bill to aid the explorer, which will give him, it is 8 41., an aprutopriation of $150,000. ' A highly cxnrklignientary letter has boon sent to Captain Halli:regnesting hilt to deliver a lecture , at Washington; It is signed byPresident-Grant, Vice Preiddent Colfax; Chief Justice Chase, Geu. Sherman, Admiral Porter, and Secre taries Boutwell, itteheson, Fish and Hoar, be si cles Aber lidgji oftieex and, Congress num. Captain Hall has accepted the nivita-, lion, and will lecture on the subject of his. Arctic travois ItY•xliorrow evening, wrought4ro 4 chimney, 5 teet, high, Is , an the colim9,ot; cipistFactigit at Ilittsb'urgly. . . . . . . . . . . 1; .. f . 1.. ' t '''' '.: . •;" '''.-* ;,•.' ', ' '-' .:;.: t . "'. - ..(4 ~3 , •• ' 1 .. ,-•, .. --, • ,-, ..,• - • : ::.;, - . f . .ii,i..y .. 5 .',.-.':•••ciiy, ,:, „ , ....,..t-:-.--:. , .. • , ._. .. ~ . :. r - ,:,.,•,, ~..,i-,,, ....,,,. ':1?.. •i , t , , , ~ ,,, , , ,7 . . . - . , . .. , ~ . • ..„ • . .. hs, , ~ h, -,;.,•.'•'.:',.. i ' '',..,' 41. 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The corpse of the unhappy girl wan taken to, the Morgue- at Schaarbeck, and was afterward - identified by her "frienits. It proved to be the body of a young German- American, of Chicago, named Blondine Jo sephine Peters. She bad itted in the house Mb Rue Vert, Ernst:leis, with her family. She MILS 'the third of four daughters, who lived with their mother in that home: The family, originally of Flemish origin, emigrated some years ago to America, and settled ion Chicago, where the father and son still reside, the termer being the proprietor of a very large sugar refinery: At Chicago the son married the daughter of a very wealthy and important person, through whese,influ ence he became a city official Last year, in April, he was sent on Home mission connected with the sugar business to France, and took the opportunity of visiting . Belgium to see his mother, who had left America for their native country, the 'climate of Chicago being too severe for her. The daughters went with the mother, the old man taking up his quarters in the house of blit son. The young ladies were all most ,carefully educated, speaking fluently French, English i. German and the soft dialect of the Auxerrois, known familiarly as 'Flemish., Josephine, the poisonedgirl, had been for seVen years a boarder in the convent of the Sacred Heart., in Belgium.' She had aLso, after leaving the convent, taught Sunday-school, or what artiounted to the same thing, in the eon ,eregation at Sehaarbeck. She had learned thorotighly the trade of dressmaking, and in tended to open au tadablishment of her own. She loved music, and was an admirable pianist, playing on the piano being her only recreation. Ole the evening of the 14th of last month, a little after 7 o'clock, she asked ' her mother's r efilliSSIOD to see a lady friend who lived in Market Street.' The mother said afterward, to a reporter of the lidepclidUltee Beige,' that she was well acquainted with that young person, who often Called to see Josephine, and had no reason Li) the world totliscourage the intimacy., 'She only told her on this occasion to wrap up well, it was so cold. The girl promised not to be long. as she wished to finish a bonnet which she had begun, in time for the following .Sun= day. !diss Josephine departed humming a favorite tune. In•the street she met her :Ming est sister, whom she accosted with a smile and a johe,and left her promising to be home soon to play a game at dominoes. " Good-by, pet," were the laSt words she spoke to her, sister. She went then to her friend's house, re mained there until half-past eight, and left her then. with a promise to go home soon. Her fri evil accompanied her part of the way home, and left her at the corner • of the Rue des Croisades. •• After that, what passed is buried in mystery. The mother was full of anxiety all the night, and her daughters tried to appease her fears by saying that Josie had probably stopped all night with her friend;heciuse of the cold. But the next day they learnedfrom the friend t hat Josie bad left her at 8.30 on the preceding The day passed in unavailing search, and it was only on Sunday, the day the half finished bonnet, was to , have' been worn, that she learned the botriW truth. She flew to the morgue, and at once recognized the body of her daughter. Neither her mother nor her sisters knew that. she bad an illicit intimacy wit/tiny man. Thepost mortem examination revealed that she teas not with child, and at present nothing is known positively of the aflair, Save the Each; that have been given But the police.talk mysteriously of an. unre lenting, premeditated vengeance, of which she was the victim. Sl!t Womeil flamed Deatd in a Build ing.' The Boston Transcript furnishes the follow ing account of ..;to awful accident which has been mentioned already in our telegraphic columns : ' • The Granite Bridge Drying Works,formerly the old cabinet factory, on Adorns street, Six teenth Ward, was burned to the ground this forenoon, and six poor laboring women em ployed there were burned to death. The build ing was a one and a half story wooden struc ture, eighty feet long and about twenty-five wide, and s,.npplied with an engine, boiler and heating apparatus for drying cotton, wool and other material. It was theorem:ay of George Mcßride. Three men and six women `corn ' prised the operating force. of the works, the , men. having -been -employed on the lower cor the women in culling the material on the upper floor, immediately under the roof, which was furnished with windo*S. The fire originated in the room where the women were employed, and owing to the high temperature at which the interior 'of the building was kept (125 tOI3O Fahrenheit) and the consequently dry nature of the wood, it had made great headway before the oc cupants could alarm the workmen beloW. When the men were made aware that the building was on fire, their first thought was for the safety of the women. The Mill- com munication with the loft from the inside was by . means . of , a ladder; but all attempts reach it in that way were baffled by the smoke and flames. In the meantime the cries of the unfortunates werrrheartrend fug, and the only way possible that remained ter their rescue was •by a ladder to the win doWs from the outside. Without delay, one was procured from the nearest house. While the men.were putting it into position, amoral was seen outstretched froM one of the win , dows, which was partially open; but just as the end of the ladder, was. Within grasping dis tance, the limb disappeared, and its unfortu nate owner sank back into the mass of flame within: All eflOrts to enter the loft were re- I - wiled by the flames, though there were many who, made repeated, , attempts, to do so. All. Lopes of saving life , having been abandoned, the remaining .operatives, and the few residents of the neighborhood, which is sparsely populated, turned their . •attention to putting out, the tire. The structure Was al most entirely con.snmed before the tire appa ratus of the distriet,consistingOfsix steamers, arrived, when the sitimilderin,g ruins were speedily drenched,'in the hope - of recovering' the bodies : before they .were entirely con- sumed. When the heat had subsided; the re- ; mains were sought for among the multiplicity' of gas pipes ,• and charred debris, which: was all that was left of the building. Ono by one the bodies ;were found, until the six un recognized anti incomplete fornis wore placed., side by side in the field near the ruins: The deceaSed,,who belonged in the adjacent villages within a eircuit-ot three miles, Were all married wonien or, witlOWS, compelled by their poverty to travel long distances night midmorning •to earn scanty sulmisteuce in! what the neighbors terin•!” thin cotton Mill." of them, heW matay.,We•could net ascer tain, had children depending "n04,01°1 . 14, The following were their natheS -Mrs. Pat-, 'rick 'Dunn, Mrs. • P.,RtMtiedy,.'MrS,'Tbothas llurley, Mrs. P. Martini , Jr.; hiss. Itoht. Mar' • tin, Mrs. P. clunniff. • ; .•, CRIME. THE BOSTON TUAGEDY. PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, M utort 1, 1870. NEARLY A DISASTER. • A Panic in a West Virginia% Church. I Front ttio ineetiogi West Virginii) Register;ireb. 29,1 Last evening an immense crowd , gathered at the Island M:. E. Church to bear Hey. Mr. Webb's sermon. It being the end of the con ference year, more per Sons were in the church than ever gathered , nit before. Just as the preacher bad given out his text the joists cinder the centre of the floor parted • with a crash like the roar of artillery, and the itoor commenced settling. The scene that ensued beggars description. Some rushed for the doors, but could' not get put for tho pressure of 'the crowd behind them. Women fainted; others uttered wild cries of fear and terror. • Men tried to get out '4,f the windows or to push their wives out. One enterprising man, findingg that he could not move the bottom sash of a • win dow, and that the top one was partly down, climbed up the window and . jumped out. He picked - himself off of the ground somewhat bruised. As soon as the first scare was over, and the persons who remained cool got the others quieted, all got out uninjured. Fortunately, there is no basement under the church, and the floor could sink only about a foot before striking the ground. Had the audi ence remembered this, the excitement would have been unnecessary. DISASTERS. LOST AT SEA. The Loma of the Mlbstonary Schooner atornlng Star. The Honolulu' Advertiser givas the following particulars of the loss of the missionary schooner 7 forning Star,, obtained front Cap tain Tengstrom " The brig Morning Star left the south harbor of Strong's Island, for 'Honolulu, at 3.30 on the 18th of October, with light wind off shore. Were towed out with two of the brig's boats and the pilot boat. At SP. .51. the pilot and all the shore hands left the vessel, and one of the brig's boats _was _sent. to._get_ some lines which had been left on the reef. At 6.15 the boat returned and was taken on board the brig, which was at this time fully three miles from shore, with wind very light, north.by west. During the evening, which • was cloudy and dark, ft was found that the brig had drifted inshore with a strong current. The beats were at once manned and sent ahead to tow her off, but still the vessel kept drifting- in. Finding that nothing could be done to keep her off shore, the port anchor was let go at 8.30 P. M., in twenty-five fathoms of water. At 10 P. M. a squall came up from, the eastward, which ppeared very threatening, but gave us hope that by slipping the anchor we might get out to sea before the force of the squall struck the vessel. Everything was made ready for this emergency. "As the squall struck us,the fore and aft sails were hoisted, the chain slipped, and for a moment the vessel went ahead; but the heavy rollers which came in checked her headway, and before she could gather again she struck a little aft the mainmast, the next sea lifting her broadside on to the rocks. The current at the time appeared to be at least four knots an hour, in the opposite direction to what it usu ally rune. At 11 P. M. the passengerS were sent ashore in one of the boats, at, great peril. At 11.30 the foremast was cut away. A heavy wave which had • broken over the vessel made a complete wreck• of every thing on sleet: and in Ole cabin—state-rooms, doors and furniture being completely smashed by its force—and all the clothing, stores, &c., scattered and destroyed. At 1.30 the boats re turned from the harbor, three miles distant. As every sea washed entirely over the vessel, nothing could he done further to save her or the effects, and at 2 A. 31. the officers and crew went ou shore. They returned at day light, but found everything so completely de stroyed by the breakers that nothing could be saved. • Captain Teng,strom chartered the British trading brig Anne Porter, Captain Davie, of Shangbae, to bring the passengers to Mono lulu, among whom are _Rev. J. If. Pogue, Rev. Mr.' Sturges, wife and child,_ and Rev. Mr. StoWe.. The brig has been seventr.seven days on the passage up, touching at -Ehon and Iltitaritari.' POLITICAL. HOTECTION IN PENNSYLVANIA A Word to Democrats. The New York World forcibly and manfully urgesthe Drinocrats of Pennsylvania to stop cheating in the Tariff question and take ground openly for Free Trade. We have re peatedly anticipated this entreaty, to no par pose; Ire trust the World will be more success- Could we in 1844 have persuaded those Democrats to be truthful and. manly, Henry Clay would have then been chosen President, and our whole subsequent hi Story would have been different. But they persuaded Polk to Write his juggling Kane letter; they lioldly appealed to the nomination of Dallas as an earnest of the soundness of their party on the Tariff question.; they persuaded a Democratic douse of Representatives to lay a Tariff-reduction bill on the table by a docidect majority; one of their leaders, Francis' W. Hughes, held a pub lic debate in which he maintained ,that Polk was a snore decided. Tariff man than Clay ; and—they won. If the World; can convince them that honesty will pay as well as fraud did: it can easily bring them over. It is but fair to say that they had abettors outside' of their own State. The Democratic organ at Washington issued and circulated the prospectus sit a campaign paper which was red hot againSt protection. But in the copies of that prospectus diffused throughout PenusYlvatda all that related to the tariff was struck out! Are the Pennsylvanians to be reproached for that? We add ono consideration to those urged by the' World. It will do no good to try to cheat further, Messrs, " Pennsylvania Democratic wire-workers ! for you are fuynd out. You may dissemble, but you will not again de ceive. So just 'make a clean breast of it, and declare yourselves hostile to Protection; un less you mean ~hencotorth to act and vote with its friends !—Tribune. CONISISTENCY. iteigah Treattmeat of Dr. Mary Walker. . -I ,ew„ Orleans suddenly grows virtuous. Ifav tog just passed through its annual celebra tion of filardi-gran with, the usual giving up of its streets-absolutely to the Prostitutes,who paraded on horseback, attired in flesh-colored dads; or in the airiestliallet-dancer's apology for a toilet : or dressed entirely in . the dash costume 'et their male friends, the gamblers, while the Mayor gives , orders under no cir cumstances to make , an arrest that can 1f05:41.4, ' avoidotid, the startled city „ now suddenly discovers that the co:Annie- of Xis. Dr. 'Major Mary -Walker is indelicate, and directs that she be arrested every thuo She makes her appearance in; the streets. That this distinguished, chain 'Oen of the Womait'S titaftrage curie in not al ways Wise, is an: assertion, which, we think, inay be ventured Open: - But the city ilehich arrests her, and allows tile disgraceful revels ,of Mardi:•masi is straining at one ridiculons little gnat, after swallowing' a groat many scores of camels. nice little game has been stoppedat the New York Custom House. Some of the men' baye been accustomed,to - wear "stomach can teens," fitting about the body under the ()Nit.' into Ashich . they - would syphon off- liquor fronr Unloading; .carry it away, empty it safely,. tiMl;rethrtt; - • • . • OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. 41,13EiEN VHTORIA AND THE UNITED She Asks •n Interview with an Ameri can Lady. A person. writes to the Boston Transcript, over the initial " 8.," as follows : Several years r ince an American lady ofrare good sense and Christian attainment went to Germany to seek health. On her way home she Wont to England. Her position at home, her educa tion and refinement of manner, entitled her to be presented to the English sovereign. To gratify her friends she went to St. James, little thinking much pleasure was in store for her. As the Queen approached the lady she was attracted by her quiet and possessed manner, and by the expression of universal charity of thought and deed which came like a benediction from the face of my friend to all those who approached her. A. few royal words of welcome were said, the Queen passed on, and Mrs. --- thou,,, ,, ht her part in the pageant was done. A little after the "gentleman in waiting" brought a request from the Queen to the lady that she would visit her at Windsor. The day and hour hav ing been named, a carriage was sent to bring her. .The Queen and Prince Albert received her alone in the library. Her Majestyitold her she had long wished for such an opportunity, and had ventured to ask this interview, that she might learn from an American lady more 'particularly concerning the inner borne life of a country so nearly allied to England and claiming and fondly clinging to its old - traditions and histories, and speaking the same language. She asked of , the social relations as they manifest themselves in the diflerent grades of society; of the observance of public worship, - of the standing and influ ence exerted by the clergy in private life ; of the estimation. in which we . hold our learned literary and scientific men; of the religious training and educa tion given by the mothers of the land to their childmn ; how much they' were entrusted by a certain class.of mothers to the care of ser vants ; what was the interest people of the so talle-d-higifer-classes evinced - toward - the - ser ,- vants in their emnloy,' , and of the education and training received by them ; of the intel lectual education received and deemed essen tial, and of the accomplishments usually" at tained Jr i the young daughters of the better classes ; of the mingling of the various grades,, and by what rules society generally was gov erned. These and many other similar ques tions were asked and answered when the hour had passed, yet all the inforination the Queen and her husband, Prince Albert, wished had not been given. A second interview was appointed, and .Mrs. went again to the castle. At its dose the Queen said: " Madam, my country and your country are of one blood. Wo are bound together by traditions, by the past, and by like hopes and aspirations. God grant there be no unkindness between us; (then turning to her husband she added), and there will never be so long as we may avert it." These interviews, sought by the Queen to learn from a true woman of the home life of a People so connected with her own land, tell MY of a good woman, of a trite Christian, whose interest goes out to benefit, if possible, all who speak the language of her own realm, I thought often in those days, when distrust and wrong came between these two great nations, of that sad and widowed soul—of the .'good Queen, and of the hour when (part ing from Mn.s - she took her hand, then laying the other upon the arm of her husband, her supporter, her strength fu tier ninny. trials and cams, said again, "There will be no dis trust between my country . and your. country if we can avert it." Only one of that trio now lives. Prime Albert and the Ameri can linty have both passed away. John La Mountain, the fattens aeronaut, died at South Bend, Indiana, on the 14th of; February. La - Mountain's life was full of daring adventures and of incidents, which were frequently more interesting than agreea ble. He was among the most fearless acre= mutts in this or any other country, and Pur sued his chosen profession with a higher ob ject than to merely make money by exhibiting himself. He. was , compelled to make balloon ascensions or the public amuse ment as ~a...means of support, but -he hoped ;to , make , his- experiments inuse ful the advance of science and the develop ment of meteorological theories. He finally died poor- at the age of forty-one. A pet theory of La 'Mountain was that there was a current in the atmosphere corresponding with the Gulf Stream in the ocean, and flowing steadily from West to East. He was ambi tions to be the first aeronaut to cross the At. lantic, taking advantage of this current. He built the famous balloon " Atlantic " for this purpose. This is one of the largest, strongest, and most beautiful balloons ever made. The neronant determined: to test his theory by a land voyage first,...and started from • St. Lotus for the East, accompanied by John Wise. Mr. Hyde, an editor of the Missouri h'epetblican, and Mr. Gager, a scientific man of Boston. The party were in the air over nine hours, passing over Lake Erie, and into Now York State. Up to this point they had onjoyeil what seemed to theni a mini, though their me thins must have been very rapid. While cross ing Lake Ontario a tornado seized the balloon, arid it was left a wreck in the woods of Joliet.- son county, N. Y. The " Atlantic " had traveled 180 miles . in less than ten hours. This difiaste r ruined La Mountain's plan of crossing the ocean for the time. He was saddened; but felt that the trip had im poitant results in- showing the velocity of aerial motions, and demonstrating the fact that a leilloolf. might cross large bodies of water: A small balloon was niade from the retanants,of the "Atlantic," and he started on a trip.from Watertown, N., Y., with Mr. John .A. Haddock, editor of the Refornier. This trip was a remarkable one. The voyagers, who'expeeted to return in a few hours, were not beard from , for , many days. Public ex citement became intense. The mystery was at last explained. , Having no compass, the acrouauffObad lost--their bearing, and were carried far into the dense woods of the Ottawa reservation, in Canada. After wandering . for many days, subsisting upon leaves and berries, they were accideutaly discovered in the last stages of starvation, by some Indian- scouts .in the employ of a lum berman. Their story was widely published and illustrated by the newspapers. When the late war began La Mountain turned his atten, Owl to, military balloons, and was the first, aeronaut , engaged in the service. The ad vantages gained in war by ballooning were very uncertain ; however, and the entire sys temwas soon given up. The last serious ad venture of La Mountain, occurred in Michi gan, and probably hastened his death. An im patient crowd castiiimoff before lie was ready, without an overcoat or instruments, and the valve rope tied several feet above the basket. He shot like a rocket up into a heavy cloud of mist and sleet, which - . froze the valve board fast. He climbek with frost-bitten, fingers, up the net-work; and tore the balloon with his teeth. The opening extended so far that the - balloon collapsaiLdlScharged its gas, and fell with great velopity from height of nearly two The aeratimit was picked up be numbed and insensible, though not danger ously injured, —A new street gas-lamp has been intro duced in ~ L ondoii, which. Is a great improve inept on the traditional pattern.. The`lamp is spherical, and the top • contains a reflector, which CAMS . the,light, down upon the paths where it is most:needed. STATEN. OBITUARY. La Mountain, the Aeronaut. THE COAL REGIONS. Threatened_htrltte of the Cowl 11Iluers. The Scranton (Pa.) RepuGlican says: "The miners in the vicinity of Wilkesbarfe suspended work yesterday,bitt the indications seem to be that the suspension will not be very general nor of very long duration. The minors in this vicinity have an abundance of work at ri.munerative wages, and there is no ,reason why they should stop work for the benefit of other and rival localities. Even the Schuylkill men, who are always clamorous for a suspen sion to take place in this region,do not appear to have Joined in the present suspension, and: in the. Hazleton region work is going on ex cept at two places. The Wilkesbarre correspondent of the Re publican writes as follows : "All the works of the WilkesbarreCbal and Iron Company are suspended to-day, as also are those of Messrs. J. H. Bwoyer, and all the individual operators hereabouts and on the other side of the river, including the Plymouth region. Mr. Swoyer's men say that they will resume work Thursday, and the impression seems to be that the suspension is a fizzle from the Start, and that work will be resumed at all points on that day. This impression is strong among all parties except the Wilkes barre Coal and Iron Company's men, who are probably the loudest for suspension. They say that at the meeting last evening it was resolved finally to stand out until the ith instant, when it is proposed to hold a convention here of :delegates from the various districts, and then ulthhately decide as to the most judicious course for them to pursue. Whatever is done then, operators seem to think that work will undoubtedly be resumed, and predict that the majority of miners will be at work before that time. Mr. Charles Parrish telegraphs from Philadelphia that the Schuylkill region will not sus pend. Ebervale and Stockton are the only places in the Hazleton region where suspen sion reigns. . . "thisiension is rife around the shops at Nan ticoke Junction. Last week a lot of carpen ters, engineers and firemen were suspended, and yesterday • abiciut forty more carpenters were suspended to await further orders. This looks as though something was. wrong, as though business WWI becoming slack." A QUEER CAME. A Singular Will and an Untamable Le- [From the ['Mahn rgh i Penn.) Dispatch of keb.28.1 A recent ease in Allegheny has revealed a curious loophole in the legacy tax. This im post, as is well known, is levied, or supposed to be, on all property devised, and is gradu ated according to the nearness of kin between the deceased ,and the beneficiary. On pro perty left to a child the tax is only about one per cent. On a property left to a - lirother it is somewhat higher; to an uncle or cousin Still higher; and on property left to a stranger five ,per cent. we believe, is the Government toll. In every case the law supposes sonic beneficiary, and makes no pro vision for cases in which there may •be no beneficiary, its framers not supposing, doubts less, that such cases were possible. It seems, however, that a man died recently over the river who, cutting off his wife with a cent and leaving a small helve:4 to his brother, de voted the bulk of his property, some *5,006, to the absurd use of building . a monument to himself. The cent he left to his wife, we sup pose, is subject to the legacy tax; the bequest he gave his brother certainly is; but the Monument money is exempt from taxation, because there is uo be.iicticiary, real or con structive,in the •case. See how this works. Had this man left this money to his friends, or given it to the poor, or to some charitable institution, or bad be devoted it to the cause of science or art or education, or made any conceivable worthy or sensible use of it, the Government would have readied out its hand and taken its percentage therefrom: But inas ninth as he devoted it , to the most useless object that could well be conceived, an object that benefits no human being, the Govern ment refrains from touching a cent of it, and it remains a fund , sacred to the purpose of erecting a monument which shall hand down to future.generations the memory of human folly and posthumous vanity. THE CEDAR WAR. ; Quesadis and his .31112Wein. [ From Lo Bevolacint of March J. I The General-in-Chief of the Army of the Republio delivered over his command. to Gen. Jordan, who was Chief .of Staff of the whole army, on the Ist Of December last, and left immediately after having bade adieu to the Congress for the fulfillment of his mission with which be was specially charged by the Executive. His intention at first was to em bark on the Southern coast, where a Spanish schooner called La Catalana had been cap tured. This was laden with, wax and its sails put to the bieeze, when immediately two Spanish men-of-war gave chase. The schooner moved back and was purposely driven ashore. A journey was then begun toward the Northern coast through a strip of territory, to the right and left of whichrWere encamped-the columns of Goyeueche. At the mouth of the Caunea River, the embarkation was effected in a small boat, on the 28th of January, and the party lauded at. Cayo Lobo on the :30th. Here eleven, were passed, at the end of which time an English schooner received them on board and landed them at Nassau on the 10th of February. The mission of General Quesada is to three countries—the United States, England and Mexico. His in tentiom is to put certain movements on foot looking:to the triumph of the Cuban cause. His business in no wise' Interferes with or altem the functions of the ministers already accredited, but bas all the official character requisite for. the task undertaken. COL. BAKER'S EXPEDITION. Experiences of Frontiersmen with the • • Indians. [From the Central City (Co).llleghtterj The down East version of Col. Baker's raid, as reported in the telegrams, is quite a dif ferent.one from that published by the Montana papers. .The letter say that this band of In dians ha,d made numerous raids upon the stock of the settlers; that a demand had been Made' that either the stock or the plundorera should be 'given up; that this &Maud had been made several times; that no attention had been paid to it, and having no ambition to " sillier and be strong," they determined to break that camp up, which they did most effectually. From our experi ence in this country we have most faith in the Montana version. The Commission speak of the "sickening detailii" of the fight. As they give them they are so, but it is just possible that some interested party has made them up to cinch an argument that lacked the neces sary, backbone.. It is also. rather a "sickening feeling" when a ranchman wakes: up iu the morning to find every:hoof of stock for which ho has perhaps endured solitude and depri vation to accumulate ' run off by the lazy redskins, who HIM it easier to steal than bunt. It is also " Aickelting" to: see,the 'muti lated bodies of whole families brought• into the settlements for burial, to have au innocent boy of only a few summers pierced full of .arrows near his mother's door, or to find a lierder shot in his tracks. But the genuine, slam) pure philanthropist,of the Vineent Col :lyer type, makes little account of all this. The 'firrnitierguien are tresspassera,and must expect to endure theft and murder without giving a blovi4u return. Tho: milleniun .may be at band down East, but we feel no symptoms, of Ithere. . :r„, EETHERSTON. Pub-lister. PRICE THREE E:Nri FACTIS AND FANCIIM -It, 111 suggested that Livingstone is out or postage stamps, the reason why he doesn't '' write, —There is nothing, lialfWay(about the Chi. nege. They do it in junks. —John Bright's trouble is with his head at stoniaeh, and !leis terribly nervous. '=Council MOTs haB an 585,000 hotel, but no one rich enough to keep it. —Miss Lecloreq is Mr. Feehter's Seeond wife. —Why way Tuesday like the "long roll'?" Because it was the first of March. —A. H. H. Stuart is to become a Washington editor. • —The women in Bristol, Tennassee, take their knitting to church. —Richmond has a colored Serosis called "The Daughters of Enoch." —The coal fields of America are estimated to contain :3,500,000,000 tons of coal. —The Mississippi river steamers now Muni nate with locomotive headlights, which are superior to the pineknots. —They haven new jail in Eldora. 111., but it, has no door. The first prisoner walked out. and off with that the other day. -It is said that the capital of Prance is soon to have tunnels under the crossings on the boulevards where these are the most crowded. —A bill to legalize marriage with a deceased wife's sister has had its first reading in the English Parliament.. —The cold has lately been so intense at. Vittoria, in Spain, that several farmers . were, frozen to death on their return home from the market. —The initiald "a. A. C.," which designates a new Democratic secret order, are construed as meaning " Grand Army of the Confdde racy." —The broken heart of a London cabman's . daughter, who was made love to by a boarder housawhere she was servant;was legally mended by a judgment of 20 shillings damages. —A Tennessee lover managed to write his sweetheart 200 letters, in three years, and now is having them read aloud in court in a breach of promise case. —And now)laine brings out an old lady who will make atlivavit that she refused to marry Daniel We biter because he was addicted to drink. —lt is announced that Rip Van Winkle will be produced hi London, but the name of the actor who is to assume the, title role is not 'given. Washington official recently wound ap an after-dinner speech with the Shalmspeariatt declaration : " 'What's [hie) Cuba to mo, or me to Lhicj, Cuba" —A youthful couple lately . eloped from a Missouri town, and the editor of the local pa per.orpresses the hope that they ‘! will locate somewhere where the husband will . have •a chance to finish his education." —Prince Obolenskoy, chief director of , tlie; customs, was recently arrested in Warsaw, besides ten other high officials. They are, charged with, being concerned .in the .plote against the Imperial Government that, were lately discovered. —Last week a man named Runless chased, at an express sale in Milwaukee, a package of unclaimed goods ter the suds of four dollars. On opening it he found himself the owner of twelve plauing-machine knives; each valued at ten dollars. Another ,gentle man bought a package which contained a soldier's overcoat, in the lapped of Which flay, dollars in greenbacks were deposited: —An English editor indulges in some very amusing reflections on the fact that a poor hawker of Brsith" is the fathersof thirty-eignt' children. The inconveniences of such a fop , midable number of pledges of affection, he says, are obvious. To express a hope that they are " all quite well"• would be absurdly to -ig nore the law of sanitary averages. Even the christenings of such a progeny may Well have taxed the invention of spongers. Seventh !ions' are sometimes called Septimus," tenth' sons " Deeimus," and so -forth ; but "Duode— '' quadragesimus would ,undoubtedly have au ugly sound. BEJECIEER'S ULLW O IT. Trylow toMaiie n chrlatlan Natlont. [Frost) the Christian Union, 11. , 11". Beecher's paper.) Gobd intentions, even When recorded by brave attempts at execution; are not always sufficient for the accomplishment . of worthy ends. It is highly honorablo, for instance,: to aim at the reconstruction of society on the basis that every human being is br ought to be at Christian. lint it is a " stubborn fact "—a very mule of a fact—that most men are not C hristiatei and do not really wish to be Christians. Say "ought" to an average man and he replies can't," which means won't.. -is idle to attempt to make this a Christian nation by acknowledging God in the. Constitution, or by enacting laws far iu advance of the average moral sentiment of the people. Such provis ions must be generally disregarded, thus inalt fug Christianity, as embodied in political forms, a mockery. We hope that Christianity will one day be recognized in all constitutions and laws, and methods of public instruction and of private business, but that hope, is founded on the expectation that the whole world will then be converted to Christ, and that such recognition,nnauitifously and volun tarily adopted, will have no savor . of hypo crisy about it. WO look forward to that time when upon everything shall be written "Holi ness unto the Lord," as to the'day of crimple lion, the day when the capstone of the temple shall be bid by Christ himself. But to antici pate that day. by constitutional recognitions of God the Father and Christ the Saviour iti like hanging a capstone high in the air and fasten ing other stones to it, instead of building up from a foundation in solid earth. We retvit build up from the Christ within us the hope of glory, not (town from a Christ hanging : upon the vote of an irrelittion. majority. ttJAk. The New Premier. count Bray. Count Bray, wham King Louis of Bavaria has charged with the duty ot forming a Min istry, is the son (ft* a Frenchman who entered the Bavarian service. At an early age the Count entered upon diplomatic duties, and vas charged withmany missions to. Vienna, Paris and St,. Petersburg. in 1846 he was made Minister of Foreign Affair*, but .8001 a resigned in order to protest againSt tin 4 faVor shown to the notorious Lola 31 ontez. increased his popularity,and on the reiOltitidit of '4B he returned to power. himself very hostile to the Democratic party and at first sustained the Prussian:, polic vi , but afterwards inclined to the Atistrlan.„(Blpr warmly attached in the Chamber, he,resiguea March 1849, and resumed his pest .aa,l4M bassatior at St. Petersburg., The inntiediate cause of llis appointment now was., the .vote of the Bavarian Chamber expressing want' of confidence in the Hohenlohe Ministry; which was followed by their :resignation. In the debate on the sth nit:, Prince .Reinnilobe said :' " The decision: at which you are about to • arrive will be one of, vast signiticauce, not that the political ,eireitts 'ot this kingdom are of 'such vast luipertance, but beertivei this struggle which' Tor . a week past has been Oar tied on within these walls is only a part of the •great contest which at this moment is oaa v tit,ing the entire 'world." • :The Qpposilion party, which now succeeds to power 1.) . _ . y the decision to which be refers, have ari..,llltriinioutaue anti, auti7rrillshui . Juyicy, ,
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