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BAKES & C0..78 Marko et. spa;l - ki -- NVffekii. Finest READY-MADE CLOTHING I! and I MERCHANT , 11 TAILORING, at JOHN WAN AMAKER' S, 818 & 820 11 Chestnut Street. / i; GRAND VISITATION KNIGHTS TEAIBLAR, • FULL t TO' ATLAPITIC CITY, - On Friday., Aug.ust-2.6th,_18-71),__ lIENA ING UNTIL Monday Afteilloon,. 291 h: N *riot))) Coleman erica of. Xisighte 'Templar have to))) , !e arraheornoote for a repetition of their vitat to t'ainth City thieseason, loarthg VlNE:Street Ferry at On Friqni, August 2&3 Programme while at Atiaatio City.' FRIDAY EVENING. G..h.plithentliry Hope tciil be.giren itt:•ettch of the 1:.) the propriettn-e. MA flUtinAIG - At 9A. M. will rnport tat In full dr.-m T. , r paradvozi.tlie.t,each. A t 1,, P. - itlrthe - "Cirarriltrright9 Tiqnplar's nereption'' ill l) given at headquarters, under nu" litl4piC , ,A of ) true Curntnandrry, pre:c.dect by a diaphs) of firvnurk9 ill uitrallug Masonic eta blezna. SUNDAY. Item. Sir WM. fl . JEFFP.E IS, E. G. P., of New Jer ). 1, in kad iu devotiou, in Ow 111014iDA. 'At ri373l.%i'M reDvriaCllol, 1 ., r the Grand fieviev. before the Sir WAI WALLACE GOODWIN, P. E. C. Cyr.ne niznandery and E. 0. 0., of NewJetaeY, gill hare [;mineral command. tienorol Headquarters will be at the Sea View Excur Pion li o n t ,g. See time table for running of trains, etc. Hound Trip Tickota. good from Friday afternoon unti rilon,lay afternoon, inclusive, 83 00. au2.5-2trpt IiESQUEBONING VALLEY RAIL ROAD COMPANYr-Oilleo, ]2 South SECOND ttreet. PHILADELPHIA, August 22, 1870. A NOTICE -TO STOCKHOLDER/3.--Thu Seml annual gpument of interest on the capital stock of this Com rADV, nutter the. leas. , to the LEHIMI COAL AND AVIGATI.O.N COOPANT, at the rate of TEN PER LENT. Vet aimutn: Or TWO-AND A-ItALF DOLLARS share.crear of tasee, will bout/We at thy/ °nice, on and after THUM:WAY, goptembei. 1;7370. uu2s to l W. B. WHITNEY, Treae nrer. gr, NOTICE—THE PENNSYLVANIA F IRE ItifdtillANCE COMPANY.. Aucitisrssth, WM. The annual meeting of the Stockholder.; of the Penn f.;. Ivania Fire Insurance Company will be held at their ()dice on MONDAY, the sth day of September next, at ]o o'clock, A. ht. when an election will be held for nine Xirectora, to serve for the enauing year. MAL G. CROWELL, a u 25 eJ - HOWARD HOSPITAL,__ NOS. 1518 cal Vatetiard street; Dliplin sar DpartMnt. —Medical treatment ncl medicine furnished gratuitousir to the poor POLITICAL NOTICE 1870. 1870, SHERIFF, :WILLIAM B. LEEDS. jel6 ti ocl2ribg EXCURSIONS. BIECK'S PHILADELPHIA BAND, No, I, The New Treaty as to Bel,..rlant. _. The folloWing , are the conditions of the new :reaty signed between England and Prussia : "AirricLE I. His Majesty the King of Prus sia having declared that, notwithstanding the imatilities in .which the North German Con :ederation is 'engaged with France, it is his iced deterniiiiation to respect the neutrality of Belgium so long as the same shall be re spected by France, Her Majesty the Queen of the United _Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land on her part declares that, if during the said hostilities the armies • of France should N ielate that neutrality, she will be prepared to co-operate with His Prussian Majesty for the defence of the same in such manner :IS may be mutually agreed upon, employing for that purpose her naval and military forces to in sure its observance and to maintain, in con junction with His Prussnui Majesty, then and thereafter, the independence and neutrality of llelgium. " It is clearly understood that Her Majesty the Queen of the United 'Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland does not engage herself by: this treaty to take part in any of the gen eral-operations of the. wax', now. carried on between the limits of Belgium as defined in the treaty between Belgium and the Nether lands of APriil9, 18.19. '• '• • m'An'r. 11. His Majesty the King •of Prussia agrees on his part, in' the event', provided for " . , --- 7 in the foregoing artiele,,to , co-operate with Iki CAPE MAY. E REDUCTION OF FARE AND . ller Majesty the Queen of the United Kin g : CHANGE OF TIME. - dom of Great Britain and Ireland, employing The Stemer Arroweialth will run as follOwa until his naval and military forces for the purpose she close o the Benson : aforesaid ;• and, the ease arising, to conceit' Leaving Arch Street Wharf on SATURDAY, 27tb, with Her Maiesty , the measures which shall VEDNEs DAY; Mat of August, and FRIDAY, tha 2d of iSeptember. at 9A. AI, he taken, Separately or in common, to secitre the neutrality and independence of. Belgium. , Leaving Cape May at 8 A. ht., on 1110NDA.Y, 28th Au gust, and THURSDAY, Seviendairrist. Fare 82 25. , ir - . ,anm.'lll. This Treaty shall be binding on Excursion Tickets for the round trip, e 2 80, good any '• day during he balance of the getteoe. nassteeirp§ the high eerftraCtiug _ parties - during - the , con--• - - ' tinutinee - Of theniesenf war between the North 'SAGS.-2 BALES RAGS NOW - LAND- ' 40-rwinn flunfedurAtiote, an or ' 'ann.§ after the ratification of any Treaty of __JA.—INGI-frofh-steinnor - Pienuor, from winningbon, , C... and for ealo by COCHRAN, RUSSELL ~54. 00. $ 1.41 • +.l '1 he s t n u t greet. es t. • ---, ---- WILL GIVE A .Grand Eioursion to Long Branch, Saturday, August 27, 1870, leaving Philadelphia, from WALNUT Street Wharf, at welock A. IL, BY SPECIAL TRAIN over Camden and Burlington Cuunty and New Jersey Southern Railroads, giving parties Eight Hours at Long Branch. 'And nn opportunity of viewing the Trotting Matches at 3llouniouth Part:, and the Enema pment and Dress Parade of the celebrated Ninth New York Regiment, •-;. Colonel James Fisk, Jr., Commanding. Furs for the Excursion ,s 2 BO Tickets will positively be limited. They should there fore be purchased at an early date. They can be procured until 7' o'clock h. M. of the day previous to the excursion, at the office of Beck's Band, 028 Market street ; Ohms. Brlntzinghoffer, 936 Market Eltreet ; Enos 0. Renner, 601 Girard : wpm); J. 0: If eim, E 215 North Tenth street ; Ticket Office, 828 (Blastula Eitreot ;'also, Camden and Amboy Railroad Ticket Mee :Walnut Street wharf.; any dny.nrions to the exeurslon,. 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'A. , ' '"?).' -I ' e, " • .:I -T- . - '__= ---- f - f' - '- ' :7 - -',' ,,- ...'''' %IS' •., ~.e.y - - VW 1 ...,' 1- , 'C'.'''':l.-- ---,==---. - ---", - ., - - - - - --- - -a- - ' 4 '`----'"'---' .-: 1111 C '' . . ... • -•-• • ' -- ' - ' 4 ' 7-= ' - ' - -•'''..-5.-i- - -%-u- -•-• - ,, •_;-,52-7_;*-i - • •5 , ....- .-,- , 7 - .--- -ice ...• .. :.-.--,.......-`..- --- ...- i • • + , . __ O,F THE THE WAR IN EITROPE WHAT THE COPU3ATANTO WANT. A Letter from Berthold Auerbach. the Novelist. I was wandering through the villages and forests of my native country, when thesounds of war from over the Rhine reached my ear. The solitary wood-cutter leanedon his axe and asked, " What does the Frenchman want ?" The stone-breaker on the road held the ham- Mer in his hand, the reaper In the field let the sickle rest and in the village the old maa who was teaching the children, all asked, " What does the Frenchman want?". Here and far off it wax said, "The Frenchman has had a bad harvest; he is coming to get something from -its."--Yes,-indeed ; the Frenchman has a blid harrest; but in a different way and not from this year alone; and that is.why he wishes war, While for war the worst pretext is good enough with him. And . what I said to many .a parting man courageous for the, - efiroleati to many 't.'" one remaining behind, with a rigid, earnest face, .I will now proclaim to the whole German peo ple, to those fighting abroad - and to - those wait. Ing at home : In- these quiet days,Wheri every one is unsheathing his sword, all minda—as in the waiting room of a railway station--are in agitation, in suspense. We count theminutes, we ask, " Why not begin ?" The time until' something is done seems - so long and weary. Our hearts have not been able to put up with the idea that such a war is. possible in our days, that the peacefiil acquisitions of two na- tionieshould be at stake through the gambling of an adventurer, declaring war against else lization„ -However, this-is the case, and. ever figani. the--;:eaine. - question - arises;• ' "'What: does the Frenchman want?" . I am going ..to tell you. The Frenchman has a bad coscience, he is displeased with hiMself, and n therefore, he wishes to deafen himself by the din of war and as lie cannot put his' own miserable household in order, he wants to make a row in the world ! Be is at war with himself, and there fore seeks to stir up quarrals.with_others, -He serfi his .neighbor, the German nation, quiet and pr intent, steadily working, increasing in Ns ell being, arrive at unification, make whole mOCUli laws. awl administrate conscientiously for the public - v. elfare. The Whole world looks —with respect on all this. The Frenchman_ ,- tilene, Instead of taking an example.what do • L ite_ . ..... l' Jealous of his neighbor he e anis to destroy the- harVest of - - his strenuous labor, -and in doing. so he speaks of liberty and civilizationi_But4*- Li:rill - Ms /S a gfeed for territory--a common rapacity. Our hills are crowned with verdant tillage. The French have despoiled their for -es-IW--A-trit -deep tinder the soil whiell the r firtiter tills lies, from time immemorial, the Crud which furthers our industry.' -The French e` Want to take our-coal-beds on the Rhine - and .-te the Saar, and speak at the same time of lib ii rty d - of civilization can they are to Mg a, ! Why t? Who bring what he I,as not got himself, and what cannot -be , i, , len? The man who governs the-French has. otten acted the lucky gambler. "He has . specu- • tided on tbestupidity and the baseness of men ,Jel has won. On the stupidity - anti baseness of he Germans he has also speculated, has hoped to find men foolish and vile enough, to take his _ part. But what had he to experience?:He has already helped Its to V ietory, the most' beauti ful and indestructible! The wicked . One ~ w as cuing to bring us a curse and he has brought as a blessing already. - There is' no more a ' -any and a South Germany :- there - a united G erman._we_n o _ ...selves to be torn asunder, so as mg, and to be emiSidered - as noth- -- ing in our disunion. The French have an im moral dance—they call it the cancan. -The war-dance to which Napoleon now plays the riddle is the war-cancan. What do the French want? To tight— haughtily to try their strength against their leaceful neighbor, and to conquer tracts of and because of his own accord nobody has a desire to participate in French grandeur. What can the French write on their tiagA, 'or a device? Nothing more than this : '' 'We want to light and rob." But what do we Ger mans want? What can we write on our ban ner? We fight for the purest and holiest cause, and for a century the struggle for the equal rights of' man before the law has lasted. Let us not forget—for we Germans • arejtiSt even towards our present enemy—that the • Fench have done much -in this struggle. E pm! rights before the.law have been gained in all essentialpoints. To-day Germany fights 1. for the equal rights of nations. What do the French want? They want the preponderance, ,i the guardianship over na tions, the prestige. They are impertinent enough to say to the neighboring people, " you dare not feel well, for I myself am not well ; you dare not arrange your affairs as it seems best to you; you must pat the soup as I salt it fbr yon; and of course everything that I like to eat must be served to me frost—l am the chosen people of liberty and civilization!" The bragging of Frenchmen, behind which they hide theirgreediness for territory, must receive the bIONV which it deserves. No agreement,. no means of culture would help us. We no incite blush at our own abjectedness ; now the blood roust be spilt that ought to have risen to our face. Our German device is, "Equal rights to all oar time; !" We free ourselves and the world from the arrogance of the French, and free the French froth their own arrogance. We know what we want, and dare proclaim it to the world,.The French must bolt for a pretext . AtTniseli . es; and try - to 'perSfiaddAlMWorld by all sorts of artful means. As sure as truth triumphs over untruth. so snrely the victory will be ours.—N. Y. Pos;,• - and on the expiration of that time the inde pendence and neutrality of Belgium will, so far as.the high contracting parties are respec tively concerned, continue to Test as hereto fore on the Ist Article of the Quintuple Treaty of the 19th of April, 1839." The Euipress Eugenie and queen Victoria. We translate from the New York Stoats Zeitung some extracts from a leading article on English, intervention in the European war. The Empress of the French in her troubles has requested Queen Victoria, the mother-in law of the Crown Prince of Prussia, at present withtlie - arm - y - on -- its-march-to-Paris, to medi ate, so that a peace may he established which ;will make it possible to the Bonaparte dynasty to,continue in France.., Queen Victoria was, however, thereby asked to do something. which . doeS not at all agree with her wishes, for she has always been opposed to that dynasty. -She - may be - a - woman of narrow views, but she has a strong sense_of the right, and - the act by which Napoleon, after, break ing the most sacred of oaths, has• placed. bins, - self - on thenthrone, conVinced her longlago that a reign so Commenced could not end well. The Queen only knows what the King •of - Priissia has decided to do, in case of „victory; and, while' her sYniPatilles are.with the re-es tablishment of a constitutional monarchy in France, with the Orleans family at its head, she has simply expressed her regrets that she is unable to do anything. She is a constitutional Queen, who has to act .strictly in accordance with the views of her Cabinetlthat Cabinet is of opinion that at the present moment an in tervention might not be favorably'received. Queen Victoria has therefore made a State allair of that which was asked of her as a per sonal favor s , ThesEnspresS meant ' that Jam, -should speak' Odd Word for her . liuSband"and child, but the Queen -who knows• full well the part which the Empress has taken in the declaration of war, tells her as plainly as possible that the „Bonaparte dynasty has nothing to expect from her personally; that whatever she may do will be in accordance ith• the, views of her Cabinet, and that the Cabinet is of opinion that only - when the French army shallsbe victorious -can a diplonsatiest tervention he of use. This answer must have been, to •the Bonaparte dynasty, a mirror to show it its own weakness. It will have learned therefrom that in case it has nothing further to hope for from its own endeavors, it is 105 t,.. and thats-ansearnest intervention of" Nbut ral Powers 'n favor of Franeesean-o-nly be made-when it shall have fallen. Neenea and Ineidentsin _a_Former-Ad.. Vance on Parts. _-th __Tb_e_graphicspensof-Carlyle---has-clatcribed e i nvasion Pratide. 78 ;years ago, which,in in, military aspect, LI in many respects paral leled to-day. The advance toward the French - Capital: Was thenunder different.cireumstances froth the present, andstne system of warfare. has. in the meantime - completely changed, - but -the-events- of that day still continue to be a subject of•constantstuds; with militarrwriters, and-are noiv invested with-special interest. Carlyle gives us a life-picture-of the scene in• the alarmed capital; not unlike what may- be epeatest within a few days : • - I'k - 6r - doe's the other MoVerlientSladk - ein the hive against - foreign Desfitits. Strong forces -hall meet in 'death grip ; drilled Europe agaiimt mad undrilled France, and singular coneinsionS will be tried, Couceive,_ there -ferija iri some 'faint degree, the tumult that whirls in this France, in this Paris! Placards ;rem Section, lroni Commune, from Legisla tive, trom the individual Patriot, flame moni tory on all the walls. Flags of Danger to i. Fatherland wavnat the Hotel-de-Ville; on the Point Neuf—over the prostrate Statues of Eilias- Thera issuniyersal-erdistingoireringstni enlim ,_' there is a tearful-boastful leave-taking; rregfilar intirebing•on the , Gtent Northeastern [toad. I.klarseillese sing their wild To Arias 11 chorus : which now all men, all women and children have learnt and sing chorally in Theatres, Boulevards, and the heart burns in every bosom. Aux ert-mes ! itlarchons —Or think how your aristocrats are skulking into covert; how Bertrand Melleville hid den - in some garret in Aubry-le-Boucher street, with a poor surgeon who had known me.' Dame de Stael has secreted her Nar bonne, not knowing what in the world to make of him. The barriers are sometimes open, oftenest shut ; no . passports to be had ; T'uwnhall Emissaries, with the eyes and claws of falcons, flitting watchful on all parts of your horizon ! In two words, • Tribunal of the Seventeenth, busy under howling gal leries ; Prussian BrunSwick, ' over a space of forty miles,' with his war-tumbrils, and sleep ing thunders, and Briarean 'sixty-six thou -and right hands'—coming, coming ! "Oh,Heavens !in these latter days of August he is come! Durosoy was not yet guillotined when news had come that the Prussians were harrying and ravaging about Metz in some tour days more one hears ' that Longedi, our -first strong-place on the border, is fallen in fif teen hours. Quick, therefore, Oh ye impro vised Municipals quick, and even quicker. The improvised Municipals make front to this also. Enroffinent urges itself; and clothing, and arming. Our very officers haVe now "wool paadettes ;' for it is the reign of Equality,aud Ilse of Necessity. .Neither do men now ssseis sr and sir one another; citonen (citizen) were suitabler ; we even thee 018 the "Free peo ples of Antigtiity". did, so have Journals anti he Improvised tlolumunes suggested; which shall be well. • lutinitely better, meantime, could we sug gest where aims are to be fosind. For the present our ' • ;!. 1! , (0 , chant chorally To (wins ; and have nu arms: Arms arc searched, pas sionately : there is joy over any musket. Moreover, intrenclunents.shalll4? =dere td. in Paris ; on the Slopes of `Montmartre men dig sue shovel ; though even the simple - saspect this to be desperate, ti They dig; Tri-colpr , as hes speak encouragement and ?cull-speed-ye. Nays 'twelve members ,of the Legisla ure go daily,' not to encourage only, but --to mar; athand and delve; it was decreed-with acclamation. Arms shall 'either be pro vided, or else the ingenuity of a man crack itself' and become fatuity. Leon Beau marchais, thinking to serve the Fatherland, and do a stroke of trade in the old way, has commissioned 60,000 stand of good arms out of li elland ; would to Heaven, for Fatherland's sake•• and his they were come ! Meanwhile railings are torn up ; hammered into pikes ; chains themselves shall be welded tcigetlier into pikes. The very coffins of the dead are raised for melting into. balls. All church bells must down into the furnace to make cannon; all church-plate into the Mint to make money." The advance toward Paris is then described : "And so Brunswick advanced from stage to stage; who shall now stay him—covering forty miles of country? Foragers fly far; the vil lages of the Northeast are harried ; your Hes sian forager has only 'three sous a day' the very Emigrants it is said will take silver-plate —by way of revenge Clermont, Sainte-Mone hould, Varennes especially, ye Towns of the Night of:Spurs trete ye! Procureur Saussy and the Magistrat s of Varennes have • fled ;• brave Bisnitace Le 'Blarfe. of , this alms ttOr is r to -the woods ; , MM. •• Le Blanc, -a young woman fair to look upon, • with her young infant, has to live 111 green wood, like a beautiful Bessy Belle of Sang, her bower thatched with rushes S catching premature rheumatism. Clermont may ring the tocsin now and illuminate itself ! Clermont lies at the foot of its (low (or Vache sothey name thaq Mountain) a prey to the Hes, sian spolier; its fair women, fairer than most, - are robbed ;.not of lite, or .what is dearer, yet of all that is cheaper and portable; .for. Nece ssity On - three half-pence - a day; has no laW. At' Sainte-Menehould the—enemy-has—been-ex— pected more than . once—our Nationals all i. turning . out in arms ; but was not yet seen." .._,Tho_.paucipitLebosingsceue-of-the.caulpitigni ALE remembered as the Cannonade of Vainly, in which the army of the Duke of Brunswick was finally repulsed, is thus told: "At seven In the morning the mists clears off: see Kellermann, Dumouriez, second in command, with ' eighteen pieces of cannon' and deep-serried ranks, drawn up around that same silent windmill on his knoll of strength Brunswick, also with serried ranks and cannon, glooming over to . him from the Height of La Lune; only the little brook and its dell now parting them, So that the much-longed -for. has come at last! Instead of hunger and dysentery, we shall have sharp shot ; and then !—Dumouriez with force and firm front looks on from a neighbor ing height, can help only with his wishes in si lence. Lo, the eighteen pieces do bluster and bark, responsive to the- bluster of La Lune ; and thunder-clouds mount into the air ; and echoes roar through the dells, far. into. the depths of Argonne Wood (deserted now), and limbs and lives of men fly dissipated this way andthat. Can Brunswick make an impression on _them.. tiielll.. The, dtill - -bright Seigneurs stand. biting their thumbs ; these Sams-culottes seem not to fly like poultry! Toward noon-tide a cannon-shot blows Kellerinann's horse from under ; there bursts-.a powder-cart high into the air with knell heard over all.: some sWagging and swaying observable ; Bruns wick will try, Cmarades' cries Kelkermann ".Pine la Patric Aliens vainere pour elle, Come - let us conquer tor Ler. Live the Fatherland,' rings responsive to the- welkin, like rolling fire from aide to side our ranks are as firm as rocks ; and Brunswick may recross the dell, ineffectual ; regain his old position on La Lune; not uubattered by the way. And so for the length of a. September' fiay—wittr bluster and bark; _with belloW far echoing! - The cannonadelasts till sunset and no impres sion made. Tiltan hour after sutiSet, theTe* remaining clucks of the districtstrikingseven ; at this late time of the day Brunswick tries again. With not ,a whit better fortune! He is met by rock-ranks, by shout of Five La Patric, and_driven back not unbattered. Whereupon he ceases ; retires to the tavern of La Lune ;' and to raising a redoubt last_ lie be - attacked !" A Poet to the Rescue. After many years of compulsory exile and voluntary seclusion, Victor Hugo has returned to Paris in the uniform of the reserve National Guard. "A la bonne heure I' says 31. Gaillar- Abt, announcing the fact byo_cerin cahle.a.of good omen. ICertainly it is significant, bntrather. of the T dowilfall of the Napoleonic dynastyl.than of the final,trinniph_of_the—E'rench_arms.--The poet and &reamer of Hauteville House would prove no great accession to the military strength of Prance, were_he to. enter-into acute service. and as a - member of the reserves - of the National Gbard, he can only look on at the final scene which seems so rapidly ap _proaching. His son is charged with complicity in the recent plots for the assassination of the Emperor, and whether the accusation Stand or fall, it is reasonably certain that. Victor Hugo.. would not clime to Paris except in the belief that the overthrow of "Napoleon le-Petit " acconiplished.-:- • Possibly, with this hope of witnessing the dawn of a new era in the government of France, there is united an aspiration to rouse the drooping spirits of his .countrymen with the - battle, sow!. Certainly the poetry of the war in Paris has so far - shown a plentiful lack of the ancient fire, and has given us but faint echoes of the lyre, of Berauger; The oppor tunity is thus afforded Victor Hugo of inter weaving with the laurels of his youth fresh wreaths, even though these be wet with the iit'e-blood of his cotintry,.and if his return ••hould only make the lyrical wail of Paris. V) ca•r! , relpectable s it willnet have been in-vain:- An Official Prayer for Peace. The Bishop-of London-, as ptovincial dean Canterbury, has forwarded to the bishops 01 the province of Canterbury a form of prayer which he and the Archbishop of Can terLiity have agreed to recommend as a help to private devotion during the continuance of the present war. The Archbishop, in a letter. to the Bishop of London, states that he found that precedents were against the issuing of a public form of 'prayer while his country is not engaged in the war. The form recommended is a follows: t Almighty God, King of all Kings,whose power no creature is.able to resist, to whom it helongeth justly to jaunish sinners, and to be merciful to them that truly repent; .assnaue, we beseech Thee, the horrors of this war, which Thou hast permitted to break. forth in Europe; restrain the passions of the combat ants : inspire the. Conquerors with mercy and the vanquished with submission to Thy will ; give patience to all who suffer ; prepare for the summons those who are called to die ; and to this warfare bounds which it may not pass, We pray Thee, 0 God, speedily grant . peace-to the nations, and so over-rule; in Thy good our the course of all events, that our Present anxieties may end in the spread of righteousness, enlightenment and true liberty, and thus Thy Kingdom may at last be established on earth. And this we pray through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ,our Lord and Saviour, the Prince of ice. Amen." A DEVELIBII PLOT. Attempt to Throw a Train oil the Penn sylvania Railroad Track. The Lancaster Express says : on Monday night last a most devilish scheme was attempted on the .Pennsylvania itiu tread ittl'abY'S 0 . 61 4 ; ,'aliotit 'one West . the Gap Station, to throw the Cincinnati express train off the track. The object, it is. supposed, was to rob the passengers on the train or the express car. This curve is very short, and the embankment is pretty high, rendering it a dangerous portion of the road, a tat; should the attempt have proven success ful, no one can tell what might have been the loss of life, or how ter rilde an accident would have happened. It appears that a tie was placed across the track, hut fortunately not fastened tightly thereto. The Cincinnati express train being consider ably behind time, the freight trains received orders to proceed ahead to Leaman Place Btation. One of the freight trains struck the tie. Tarrying It Wring seine distance, until the ,11,,j0e was stopped and the tie removed, ' lien it was taken afterwards to Leaman Place. It is thought that the parties in put ting down the tip were frightened by the ap proach of the freight train, so that they did not stop long enough 'to fasten it to the rails. —A thoughtless lowa youth tied the bridle of his horse' abdut his waist and lay down to sleep. Isis •nocle was broken when- he was found, and the horse was careering across the country. —Alaska wants public schools, schools of 'herring having played ont. ' : • • : . -A Berlin correspOndent says the whole Almanac of Gotha seems clamoring at King William's headquarters for stall. position. The Prussian authorities seriously propose Orpheus 0. Kerr's proposition for corps of brigadier generals which , they will denominate cbrps - —,lenkitis tells how Many yards wore made up in a wedding-dross of a recent fashionablo bride. Extravaganco in this direction is very extraordinary, and, yards are of no account; some of the giylswill 7 put :lap with — nothing 'Short - Of a lawn. - Swedish • are building a city in the neighborhood of Syca more. Most of them own from ton to ilftoea Gores-of-laud,- LATEST FROM wEsiT HICKORY. PENN SYLVANIA. The 99 Tannin ' 9 of the 011 Itegtone.• The Titusville Herald says : West Hickory, besides being noted for its tlig - tielli, dry holes and rattlesnakes, has a new and charming feature of attraction in the vast number of wildcats, or 'catamounts, that are to be found in the neighboring forest, and which make night hideous with their melliflu ous notes, when on a forage. Since the un timely demise of the wildcat at Fagundas, by reason - of an encounter with a bull-dog, no " varmints" have been seen, and it was hoped i bat the aforesaid animals would let the peace ful.-settlers have - a rest. But such felicity was not to be—and now comes the story. Near the headwaters of West Hickory creek Jives an humble and upright agriculturist, by the name of Adam Goodman, who, after en gaging in the perilous occupation of an oil operator on the creek, reformed and opened a keno bank, and with the accumulations of several -Weeks retired - from - businesa-:out of . the babli window (as a . police officer entered the front), and purchasing a few acres of soil began to farm it. Not having- previously studied -Lydia- Thompson's work entitled : "What I Know about Farming," his first year's' work was not a success. His pumpkins were devoured by potato bugs, grasshoppers carried off his cattle, the weevil got into • his sheep, and the corn crop failed under the combined attack of the hoof-rot and murrain. To crown all, he was himself attacked with the hog cholera. This was the situation on Saturday night last, when from a dreamless sleep he was awakened by an unearthly howl,- a crash of glase, and:the striking of a ":heavy Something" upon his breast. At first he thoughtitmust be a horrible 'nigh - Una:re; caused by too rich vi ands, but when he considered the fact that there were no horses within ten miles of his cabin, and the only supper he had partaken of was a couple of buckwheat cakes, such rea soning seemed erroneous. All was..quiet, and tinnily, thinking. it miist have been an Oil Creek bedbug on_a raid,_he dismissed the sub ject, and was preparing to settle into an all night's sleep, when a scratching was heard beneath the bed. Hastily rising, lie jerked on Ms unmentionables, and, dropping on all fours, began to claw beneath the bed atter the mid night intruder. . tie foetid it, and in one : fourth of_a_minute_ -- all - tlfe — elothes there wore upon him would 130 t. have. made a _bib _fora china dcill. -He finally _found himself in the corner partly scalped, with his lower_limbs_e_looking—as. -- aratigh - 116 - 11 ad been through a wool-carding machine; while, at this juncture, with a spit and a growl, a catamount disappeared through_ the. open window. Such is the 'simple tale of Adam Goodman. He- now desires to emi grate to some spot where the insects are not so troublesome. His farm is a good ono, but he says he cannot stand the cats. SHOCKING SUICIDE IN NEWARK. A Leather Merchant, Hangs HlmielL ••• -The-N eivarkltdvetti Ser e Sss! • • A noon to-day the city was shocked by the intelligence of the suicide of one of our oldest and-most suceessful business men—Mr. Alex:; ander M. Utter, of the firm of Jacobus & Utter, leather dealers, of NO - . 100 - Market street. For sortie thirty-five .'ears Messrs. Jacobus.& Utter have been engaged in busi ness in this city, and in that tithe have been unusually successful. Mr. Utter was a gentle man of the highest standing in his business relations and otherwise and always won the kind consideration of all with whom he came in contact. • Between 10and - ll'o'elock this ferenoon Mr. Utter sold a bill of harness leather and• then was seen to proceed up stairs. At about ,six minutes past twelve o'clock Mr. Jacobus, his partner, went up to the head of the stairs in the fourth story of the establishment at No. 300 Market street, which is used as a drying loft, and seeing Mr. litter reclining behind a bulk head about four feet high, against the railing of the stairs, said: " Come, Alex., it is 12 o'clack,'''and descended the stairs. Eliciting no reply, and thinking that, per haps, Mr. Utter was asleep upon the pile of leather behind the bulk-head, he retraced his steps and beheld a sight which riveted him to the spot—the body of his partner cold in death, with a rope around his neck,, which was fastened by a knot in a crack in the bulk-head, which had at some tithe been a door. Scream ing for help he cut the fatal cord, when Patrick Nugent, an employe, came to his as sistance. Dr. O'Gorman was at once sum moned, but his skill was of no avail, life was extinct. The, unfortunate man must have died an ex crutiatingly painful death—by slow strangula tion. The rope was about three feet in length. He evidently adjusted the rope around his neck, tied a knot in the end of the rope_ which he forced clown - ' a crack in the bulkhead, and then deliberately settled down upon a pile of leather. When found his tongue was protruding from - his mouth, and his face was frightfully discolored. Mr. Jacobus, between whom and the de ceased the most friendly relations have ex isted since they entered into partnership, could give no cause for the rash act. He was free from debt, worth some $130,000, and their business was going on successfully. Several times,'howeVer, - within the past three or four sears, -Mr. Jacobus said he had come from his home to the store in Tr eteSpentiiiig condition, and on tw6 or three occasions had buried his face in his hands and wept. Mr..Jacobus„:on2.thesw-oeoasionsi-knowing that his partner's trouble was of a strictly domestic character,. urged upon him strongly to overcome his feelings and try to look upon the bright side, at the same time assuring him that if he continued thus to give way to his feelings, and permit his home troubles to weigh so heavily upon his mind, he would cer tainly become insane. Others, too, who wore somewhat intimate with deceased and his family, attribute his suicide to the same cause. WHALING NEAR MOUE-. An Exeittniz Adventure. The New Bedford Ale Mo.!, says : " Captain George Harrison, of the fishing smack Quill), of New London, which arrived here Saturday afternoon,had au exciting chase after a finback whale while fishing on Coxswain Lodge, twenty-five miles southeast of Block Island, on Friday last. The whale suddenly appeared near the smack, and Captain Harrison threw a swordfish dart into the. critter. The fish took about twenty-five fathoms of line, and the tub was also allowed to go overboarfL i The whale Went down, and in, a few minutes was seen to ' blow' about three-quarters of a mile distant. The smack up jib and went after her, and when within a short distance Captain Harri son threw an - old lance into the small boat, and with two sturdy oarsmen started in chase. He was soon alongside; and threw an iron into the fiSh. "Thembegan the fun'; for three holiks,the whale dragged the 'boat' at a rate of about eight miles an hew, the captain standing ready to cut the line should things get danger ous. _That_moment - arrived at last, the-en raged lish suddenly went doWn, and the boat and its occupants were instantly submerged. Three desperate cuts were made, and just as the boat went over, the line was cut, and the whale and gear diSappeared. The smack was far in the distance, but the men clung to the bottom of the boat until she took themotU —The.T.Jticaßpaid-tells of a man who, has been pulling agony out of an accorrieon for seven clays in that city. That's nOthing ; we knew a school teacher once who did it-. for seven months, and there was just as muck llgeny the - accordeorfas wheu - he beattus- FACTS AND FAIgHBIES. [Translated from Graf von Platon, by it. W. 1,04. low, in the Atlantic Monthly tor . b'eptomber.r Remorse. How I started up in the night, irr the night,. Drastrwn on without rest or reprieftl!' The eets, with their watehmenywere lose to my sight, As I wandered so light In the night, in the night,. Through the - gate with the arelumediamL• The mill-brook rushed 'through the' rooky height, I leaned o'er the bridge in itly yearnins, Deep under me watched I the waves in their flight, As they glided so light In the night, in the night, Yet backward was not one-retitraing. O'erhead were revolving, so countless aridf bright, , • . The stars melodious existence; And with them the moon, more serenely be bight;— They sparkled so light In the night, in the night, Through,the magical, neasureless distance. And upward. L gazed, in the night, in the - night; And again on Ah woe! tho. b t a he t w w a a y setse d i n h he idflye tingd; e light, Now silence thou light, In the nighty, in• the night, The Remorse iii thy heart that is beating. -:General 'Butler was the "best boy".in school. -- • —A French.engineer has invented a steanr girl—a new machine for paving. —Oshkosh,WiS., will produce 50,000 pounds of Swiss cheese-this season. —" Full of elan" is the latest description Of intoxicated persons. —An Indiana - -base - ball club has leased a-- graveyard as a' ball-ground. . . —A man in Indiana, on bein asked Why he never combed his hair, nebg ly-remarke4" that "it was a heap cheaper to cut it." —Miss Helen. Taylor,.scep-daughter of John- S. Mill, is said •to be e_dithagosthumo works of Buck]. = --The Cincinnatl-Chronkiesayiri-"---Man's-in--- humanity to dogs makes our.ears tingle dailyP A fellawleeling,-.&e.- —A soldier was so badly injured by the bursting of a shell that he actually took up his quarte-in-different-pasrts-of=thelownT-7 —A duel with eight-in - eh knives has. been... - staved off at Huntsville, Ala. Mr. Gallagher apologized to Mr. Venable. —The reason young'Cavaignac didn'tjoin the army was that he couldn't be allowed to make " certain dynastic reserves" in the oath. —The most terrible fatality yet for Napo-, leen is the news that . Louisa MahlbachL is_._ writing a " - historfeal novel" on-his 'wife. - -Stephen Pearl Andrews is writing up "the inexpugnability of mime elements" for Wood-. Mal and UtajliteslVealy. —Lillian Edaarton is to-lecture-abent-."G05,.... sip, its causes and cure." She should patent that cure. —" How happy should I be with ether !" as the patient said who couldn't get chloro form. —Daniel Boone's monument has almost dis appeared iu the shape of chips in the pockets of relic-hunters. Beetz, a new tenor - with - a - high o; has arrived in New York. Perhaps ho beats them all. —A jolly Texan painted and disguised him self as an Indian, went to his own house, scared his wife into a fit, set the dogs to howl ing, and caused his child tojunip into a cistern. —A French statistician estiinates that since the departure of the garde mobile from Paris there is but one able-bodied man •tb eighteen women. _ —The " Girli of the Period" in Arkansas is described as thirteen years old, shoeless, bon netless, stockingless, and with the sheriff after her, for stealing a horse. —Bostompeonle are chuckling over a land speculator who invested a quantity of his wealth in the purchase of " lot 17, block 21U.' It lies somewhere out in the harbor. —Monroe county, Mississippi, has added sixty pairs of twins to the census within' a year. This is what may be called going in t' win. —A dose of lowa whisky killed a water snake a foot long, which had slipped down the throat of a farmer while he was drinking from the river. —The first important action of the pre.sent war was - defeat of Napoleon 111. on the anniversary of the departure of Napoleon I. for St. Helena. —Mullins, of Tennessee,/ is out iu a circu lar on Roderick Random Butler, because Rod erick Random implies that.Mullius is an ass. —Ladies, you cannot be too . careful about your clothes-lines. Mrs. Mack, of Troy, boas' lost her nose, just because her clothes-line and' • that of Mrs. Sullivan became.eutangled. —Au old topermistook a,, pitcher of vitriol for cider, last week, at the railroad 'depot in Scranton, Pa.. and emptied -it before the sta tion-master could stop him. Only for the . momptuess. .physician-in- administering-7 an emetic the consequences would have been fatal. —The youngest lieronautin thelJnited States is a boy named Bird, at Poughkeepsie. Al though only thirteen years of age;he has made more than fifty ascensions, and looks forward with no little eagerness to the time when he• may travel across the continent in a balloon: made under , his own directions. Louisville boasts a base-ball player, who •• runs the bases so rapidly that nothing is seen or heard of him after the ball is struck until he yells 'score 'at the hothe plate. The papers say that as the umpires could not decide whether lie went around or not, it was neces sary to provide him with a red scarf. Now, as he flies from base to base, nothing can be dis cerned save a red streak, which, as he turns each . base, forms apart, and at last the whole, of a beautiful red circle." —A Chicago lady with a very pug nose has. been made happy. Says the 'Tuna "The. distorted feature caused the lady infinite mor tilication, but art was equal to the emergency. A few 'da y s since she applied to Dr. C. Thayer, a Madison street dentist, for the manu-. facture of a rubber nose, after the Grecian style of architecture, The result was the con struction of an organ of the required style. It was tinted to suit - the fair complexion of the wearer, am/ now Mrs.e—,--, follows as fashion, able a prdboSeis as any on the avenee, and one that shoUld put nattire!to the blush ter the fats error inher handiwork:""' • —The following lineS were found on a law yer's table in the Rochester court-hou.4e, after the adjournment of-the court - the other day: Fair woman was made to bewitch;. A A companion, a nurse, A blessing, "a curse, Fair woman was made to, be which? 1 ,7 —J ohn.Smith fell in love with a maid, Mich night near the window lie stood, And there, with his soft serenade, Ho awakened the whole neighborhood: , ::L - But vainly; e tried to arouse Her from sleep with his strains so beviltck. • in. While he played in front of the house, SU . sleptln Matti() haa-ititiAlQn.
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