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Pen.us, March 2 7.--Late Rio .Taneiro Utters reoeived here state that General Palydoro has been assigned to the com mand of the allied forces now 4n Para gUdy; Taraguayants :at a recent as -aemblage in Asuncion. adopted a petition praying the allies to form atrovisional government, Witli.that city ate capital. , 2 • Femirk Peste, March 27.—The Gaulois news. paper says that the Emperor Napoleon bras demanded an explanationoftheKing •of Prussia in regard to the recent mobil ization of troops in,. the western provin- ATMENE I / 2 March 2 7.—Photiades Bey, the 'Turkish envoy and minister ,pletdpoten tiary. has arrived from Constantinople. and resumed amicable relations in behalf -ends 'government with the Grecian cotirt. • FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. LottnoN, March 27.—Eversing-•LConsols, 93X@933(; Fl Twen.B3;Eile, 24%; Illinois, 97. Pe troleu m s firm at ls. 10d. for refilled. Common Rosin, 6s. fld: Tur pentine, 81a. 9d. LIVERPOOL, Mai'ch 27.—Cotton,. Bread tiftiftlf- . and Produce markets closed to day: • - ANTWERP, March 27. Petroleum it idet;•fitanderd white. 56@.563i. Pints, Mardi 27.—Bourse firmer ; renter, 7O! 40c. - '. NEW YORK CITY. ,Pactile Ita l 4olo—Erie Broad papiteßonte to Chicago—Escaped Con vict Amsted and Rescued. IBT Telegraph to the Pltteburgo.6asette.3 NEW YORK, Ityggh 27, 1869. ,The deaths for the week ere 483., The steamship City of Paris, for Liver. pool, took 825,000, and the Rapidan, for Havana, $15,1100 in specie. Jiidge Rosecrans, of the Suprenie 'Court, to-day issued an order removing to the United States Circuit Court the•. castirof.JameaFisic vs. • the Union .1 1 acific Railroad., In the Circuit Court, . before . ...Tuclge }Betel/ford, Recorder Racket asked and, was given time to make re. _tura to a mandamus in the Pacific Rail-- , _road -ease served:on limou, the .-,2114 .After , arguments .Indge Blatchford de cided the order of judge Roaecrarts was a compliance with the terms of the mandamus served on the Supreme Court, end the Case was now properly in United States Court. it,is stated the Erie Railroad h • tereid4nto a contract with the Mehl •• Sob:them Itailroad to build a road from Akron, Ohio, to Toledo, the Erie road • receiving therefor the right to use the track of the former road until the 10th of next October,_the right renewable on expiration. Engineers and workmen leave here for Akron on Monday. This arri ge tiingeent gives the Erie road a broad _gau throughto Chicag William Forrester, a es cape d convict from the penitentiary at Joliet, 111. , was Sheriff on Houston street by a Det Sheriff yesterday a ft ernoon. He m a d e some resistance, whereupon the 'foto - novas •Theodore Ailed interfered and Forrester escaped. Allen was arrested, - but;for Want ofevidence, was discharged. ; The steamer Pennsylvania, from Lis-. ricpool, and Deutchland, from Bremen. tare arrived. The. latter brings South ampton dates of the 16th and £33,000 of specie. _ NEW YORK, Marchdispatches by Atlantic' cable have been received since Saturday night. Ciprai NNATI, Contested Eleettou Case—War on the Dogs—Robber Caught. CST Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.] Cr/CeINNATI, Minh 27.—The testimony in the oontest of P. W. Strader's seat in r Congress, from the First Disttict, by Benj. 'Eiglesari, commenced to-day be fore Judge Cox, and will continue many . 41 7 6 . The people are in ecstaeiea over the action of Councils, yesterday, taxing 21slrfiver do ll ars each, and giving one o ar reward for every unmuzzled dog, delivered to the pound. ..Chas. Morris, the cork-legged robber, implicated in the Schlsnker robbery last Wednesday, was arrested last night. On ~.his person were found $1,500 in cash, and fr 1260 gold watch."' Jesse R.. Grant arrived from Washing son last night. AnjuncUon Against Union ?acids /tail ' • • - road Officers. tEI Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gasette.l Louis, March 27.—Wayman Crow, _zillantuel M. oobp end others, on the part of the stockholders of the Union- -Pacific ',Zailroad, applied to the Circuit C6urt toe I : 47, :r o2 ' lll :lo,ititcatiOnto, refittain the oaf - sera of thia, Otsiiany2froin entering on the' 01l book, to be used at an election for directerstleXk Monday, the names of all pities to whom stock has been trans ! . ,r l s4Blhoe February 26th . It appears i'.‘taaPtat that daYthe directors of the Cow... ' , any had all tite'nW . .bl owned by them • Trantrferred in lots of tweitios .to, divers r2artien. in nrgej to pr ajarffe vtihi;" but; at Ullet =WO the fty that even with 'this t hey*s' l2l 4iesten by: the opponitiori to, gie "white line" ticket? . *apt the book some eighteen 'days mono. told tneatilloselwtsigtit *bre stock winch . they had transferredto parties who 'do not really' own the stock, until they • 11.ionght r they had Kaiaks' enough, when they hook's., The fejunction was , Coventof,sf. V/rglnla Removed. Telegraph t 0 the Pittsburgh thnette. 3 litcrniietab; March 27.--Gen. Stioneman to - daY Witted an order removing Governor -Wells. and ashuming B a rguties of the "Moe himself. Mayor ss. of Peters : burg, Was also removed from odiee. ITIO TURKEY. - The Cubanlnihrrection." (By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh tiarette.3 HAVANA, Mardi 27.—The report pub fished here a few days ago that a heavy battle had been fought between the government troops and insurgents In the Eastern Department, on the 'road from Remedios to Moron, is untrue. The en gagement was only a slight skirmish. The steamer Comanditario, which was taken poisession of by her, passengers, carried but one day's supply of coal. The vessels which arrived to-day report seeing the Comandittrio off Stirrup Heys, unden;'Sitil. Others ::report , seeing her an chored off the Bahama banks, one hundred miles from Nassau. A Spanish man-of-war has gone in pursuit of her. Intelligence from tikigua states that a party of young Oubatis organized them selves into a military company with the intention of joining the insurgents. They were betrayed, however, by one of their number, and all, including Medurio; their reputed leader, Inapt:Awned., Havana journals publish dispatches from all parts of the Island. The news received is favorable to the Government. Reports of several skirmishes between troops and insurgents haVe been re ceived. The steamer Comenal has been armed and fitted out as a gunboat, and to-day sailed from Cardenas to, intercept an expedition ekpected frord Nassua. One of the Peruvian. Knonitorh remained four days at PuertoNaranjo,fohr leagues from Gibra, during which time the crew were engaged in cutting wood for the pulpose of suppivinir steam. HAVANA, March 28.—The rest of the passengers and crew of the steamer Com andltaro have arrived at Cardenas. They denounce the - Purser and Engineer as leaders in the plot for seizing the vessel. Two men were killed in tue streets- of Havana .to-day, and`six were arrested for uttering seditious cries. E. R. Car; dingten ' American Consular Agent at 'olbrala, has brought a prisoner to Ha- Vane. Fromtiliimpilch Islands. (By Telegraph to the rlttsburgh Gatette./ SAN FRANCISCO, March 28.—Tio.steaux er Idaho arrived this evening witli_Hon oltilu advices up to March 17th. Bust-. nem was tinusally dull. • rebruazy 22d was' - -observed in Hono lulu by the flying of bunting from Punch Bowl -Battery and foreign Consulates' private residences. The crater of -Hilania is reVoorted-in-aa Van again. Two ,shocks of Mt-earth.; quake were felt 'at Hilo. No, danger of draught prevails in the islatid of Howell: ' ' • : 'News - rnnulaisitt. [BiVelOriaph lothe ttaburgh Gazette.] HAVANA March ---- rt.,Advices from Porte•au-Prince 'tbe 180Iaie received. Bali:lave was In a precarious dictation. Owing:to thcrtitate of;the ;finances the navy kid not received' any'pay for three knonthe, rimdAesa was a murmuring feeling s t> -"the Cipitalcagainst t3alnave.: The blanks wocejealons., of the whites and issawsinitlons , were feared. 'A 'peti tion was in circulationpraying' for the blockading; of titc port of Aux:Cayes. ' Gold was 270 premium. ' • - • —At San. Frstocisco,_Cal., in the libel edit of Captain IL Winsor against the lilvening hs/Aufn for,. ilk, _thousand' dol lars "damages, the Surly : . were absent three minutes and rendered a verdict for defendants, .The.Allegecl libel con sisted in stating 'that while- in command of the ship Intrepid, on a voy age from New York in , 1887, was dist& pitted; treateptbis sailors brutally, finally set one of his seamen adrift in an open boat off Easter Island, and that the man was never beard from and was supposed to have perished. Advice' from China and Japan. (By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.) SAN FRANCISCO, March 27.—The Gr e Republic, from Hong Kong February 19th, arrived to-night. The arrar gements between Burlingame and L^rd Claren don that hereafter all megetiatioss -are to be conducted with the Central Govern ment inste.,d of the local authorities, and that before war is inaugurated disputes meet be referred to the hcme government gives great dissatisfaction to the Hong Kong Press, which cites the Swotow affair as sufficient commentary ;on the first part of the stipulation. The British gunboat Algerine returned to Kong Kong from an unsuccessful search for the missing French man-ef war Lemonge, which left Saig w h ic h e lat of November, the loss of is now looked upon as certain. , - A meeting of merchants °ill:an:how in respect to tea deflcultieS resnited in the Viceroy, in concert withlhe trade com mittee, imoing a proclamation swiftest the fraudulent conduct of tea men in the false packing of cargoes. Intelligence from Japan is meagre. Admiral Enomatto is strongly fortifying Poseteon, near Volcano bay, intending to fight it out unless the Mikado complies ` with the demands of the exiled Kers! that they shall return to the island of Yed: de,and that the late Tycoon be sent as their ruler. The ram Stonewall left Yokahomo March 3d, for Yeddo, to be immediately transferred to the Japaneze government. A difficulty occurred at Mote between the followers of Satsuma and Chola°. It is reported several streets were set on fire and that the flames reached the pal ace of the Mikado, who fled to Osaka. It is reported the assassination of the governor of Osako originated from the fact that a high official was murdered there. Admiral tromatto celebrated the event of his taking entire poasession of the Island of Yeddo by firing a salute of one hundred and one guns from the fleet and batteries ashore. He notified all the con- Imhof the formation of the provisional government, and of the appointment of the necessary permanent officers of the principal departments, His forces are rapidly increasing•and it will be no easy matter for the Mikado to subdue him and retake the Island. China Catholic priests from the north report the Mahommedan rebels strong in force _on the mad to Pekin, and predict the fall of the Celestial Empire within a year. Mining at Cheafos is stagnant. - A --further missionary difficulty oc curred at Foochow. The assistance of the !latish gunboats Was Called. Pla cards we:e posted exalt the city calling on the people to arise'and exterminate all roreigners. An English fleet of three gunboats - destroyed two villages near Swato, because of an outrage, by the Chi nese on the crew of a gunboat. The Washington treaty of 1868 be tween China and the - UnitedStates has been received at Shanghae, and only awaits a fitting opportinity for delivery to Prince Rung at Pekin. PITTSBURGH, MO NECORIDITIOI. vault o , cx.cibiz d. DS. TEE CAPITAL. Sunerxisor Appointed Army - Orders—Money Department— en.Sickles—Revenne Frauds . in Tennessee Ex-President JoSnnitsa-Treasetry Register— , Cnrreney Statement Con gressiontill-c StasiOn—Appoint . • . .meats and. Rentovals—With-- holding Of ComisdpiOns—The 'Case - of Reelslit...Pacific Rail. reads. 1.137 TOttraoll to the Plttabein viugetect IVAsstwerrort, March 27,1869. SEPERVISOR APPOINTED. N. A. H. Ball was to.day appointed t Supervisor of IntOrnal Revenue for the Department of California, Utah and Ari zona, in place of L. W. Wiggins. ARMY an ORDER. The following grder has just been is sued: The following orders have • been re ceived, an'a are published for tbe gov ernment of all cond erne d : 74, , war Department, March 26.—8 y tion of the President, the order of the Secretary of. War, dated War Depart ment, March .5, published in General Or ders No. 11, Headquarters of the Army, .dated March 8, except so much as directs Gan. Armyhermin to aisitme command of the of the Uniteiltitates Is here by rescinded. All official business which by law or regulations requires the action of the President or Secretary of War. will be submitted by the Chiefs of stair of Corps, Derartments and Bureau to, the Secretary of War.. All orders and instructions relating to military opera tions issued by the President or. Secre tary of War, will be issued through the General of the Army. • - [Signed] , JouN A. RAWLINS, Secretary of War. By command of Gen.,Sberman. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. The officvof the Superintendent of the Treasury building was this morning thronged with persons of all sexes and colors, anxious concerning the dlstribu 'tion of the sweeping and scrubbing pat ronage. The Superintendent has charge also of the , watchmen of the Treasury, and has been'engaged to.day in listening to claims of applicanta. Air. Jules Golay, a clerk in the Treasury department, has been,fappOsistaliststatoutto Lbw •,attlef the Bureau of Fri ting. CURRENCY The currency shipped to New Orleans was one hundred thousand dollars; to National Elnks one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; held for security fog circulation, 534%740,100; for deposits, - 241 335; total currency issued to date,. 5313,460,896; currency redeemed during theweek, 063,535; total circulation, 5299,- 896,323. ASSIGNED TO DETY. General Adelbert Ames is assigned to duty sik Assistant Commissioner of the Freediffen's Bureau for Alissitsippi. General Reynolds is assigned to duty as Assistant Commissioner of the same Bu reau for Texas. General T. S. Crain, re tired, is assigned to duty in the improve ment of the St: Clair /tall in Michigan.. ILLICIT. nisTihnrso. . • J. J. Noah; - Sapervisor of Internal Revenue for the District of Tennessee, has reported to the Bureau iniormation of an auditional ,seizure of eight illicit. diiitilleries in therFourth District of that State, where troops are helping him. TEE EX-PRESWEET. Surgeon Basil Norris telegraphs to night from Greenville that Ex.,President Johnson suffered intensely from neu ralgia with calculus. He is relieved, however, and on his feet again. GEN. SICKL&s. - • By direction of the Secretary of War, Daniel E. Sickles is orde red, at his own' request, to report for examination to General McDowell, President of the Re tiring Board at New York. REGISTER OF THE T 'REAM:SRL There'seetns to be nodoubt that a Reg ister of the Treasury will be nominated onMonday neat. WAS }ILNOTON, March 28, 1869. CONGRIipSIONAL BESSION. It is now thaught by members Con.. green of both parties that adjournment sine die will not take place before the. middle or April. COMMIssIoNs WITHHELD The commissions of various parties who were confirmed for office in the last ;lbw days of the former administration are yet withheld and: the subject is in the, hands of the Attorney General. " nevisiori. xlikas A delegation from division and anti division part lea in Texas were before the Reconstruction Committee yesterday" morning, by appointment. The Georgia bill'haVing been taken ups by the Com mittee, tthe - oase ..was postponed until 1 Tneaday J .S.gPoPiTsterrp., The several heads = of• Departments were busy all day yesterday, urincipally with Republican members of 'Congress, in lulatign to temcvids from and appoint ments to office. According tg Ape repre.. bentations of some of these inbuibers, ragements are being made, for that pur pose in view of the anticipated repeal of the Tennre.of.Offloe act. _ THE PARAGUAYAN NATTER; . • This nOilee- Conimittee on P'orelau Af• fairs will next make an. invettigation into Paraguayan affairs, isoludin the official - oondnet of Ex-Minister Wash- bunts and Rats Admiral Davis, and the impriaonment,of. Messrs. Bliss and Ides termati. Witnesses have been summoned. CASE OF GEORGIA.. th lt e Committee said in Republican circles that the Committee on. Reconstruction pill early this week report back the bill reraMOlTl bllng the original Georgia. Legislatdre i imposing the test oath qualifleation and EEC - • : , MARCH 29, 1.8;i9 declating the expultion of colored mem bersivid. PACIFIC RAILROADS. The following telegram was, recently received by the Secretary of the Interior: Salt Lake, Utah,ldarch 19.--The report on the Central Pacific road will require time. We think you should know that we, who have seen both, deem the Cen tral Pacific Railroad as incomplete as the Union.Psidfic road. [Signed.] G. R. WARREN, • Brev. Maj. Gen. 11. S. A., J. B. BLICKENSDRRFER, Special Commission. The above refers to the manner of con structing the two roads. Another tele gram just received says the Union Pa cific road track is laid twenty-five miles west, of Cgden; which is tilts-one miles east of Monument Point. •The grading of the last mentioned distanee is com- Noted. with the exception of six miles: The Central road is laid to a point sev enty-five milks west oif Monument Point, leaving a gap betvreen the roads of one hundred and twenty-six miles, over which rails are to be laid. BRIEF TELEGRAMS. -- At - Cincinnati, Sunday morning, an express driver was kicked by his horse, and instantly killed.. . About two hundred and fi fty bags of delayed overland mail was received in San Francisco on Saturday. -All the breaks on the Delaware and Hudson railroad anti canal have been re paired, and the wholeline again open. —At Milwatiltee, on• Sunday, Alexan der Vitay . , aged eighteen years, fell out of a boat 'in the river and was drowned. —At St. Lotds, on Friday, a man ei named Chas. Moore was sued for defiling his steu-danghter, about fifteen years of age. —Edgar Irving, 'nephew of the late Washington Irving, has Peen appointed United States Dispatch Agent of NeW York, vice Derby'resigned. - -Orders have been received at the Portsmouth Navy Yard to tit the United , States steamer Galena for sea. It is sup posed her deettnation is Cuba. —Advices from Spain render it certain that Montpensier will be proclaimed King, HO will arrive in Spain within a fortnight,‘ as the ironclad Victoria is now at Lisbon. —Only thirty miles of te Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad remain to be built to complete the road - to the Missouri river, connecting with the Union Pacific Railroad. —A dispatch from Atlanta, • Ga., states that a negro, charged w.th murder and rape, was taken. from Jail in Dooley county, Tuesday night, by a disguised mob, and burned to death. k —The colored people of St. Joseph, Missouri, and. Leavenworth, Kansas, de sign to celebrate the 14th of April, the anniversary of the assassination of Lin coln, and also give ;hanks for the pas kr-tht? Fifteenth . Constiiptiomd •ThlWielYinaall - -A letter from ate City of Mexioo says General Rosecrans has recently had several private interviews with Presi dent Juarez. The writer deserts that the American Minister is urgitig the Mexican government to acknowledge the French debt. —Gen. Sheridan left St. Louis on Sun ' day for Fort Leavenworth. The Gen. hag issued orders to muster out the 19th `Kansas Volduteers that have taken , part in the late campaign, and Major Bates, Chief Mustering Officer of the Division, will leave for Fort flays to perform that iresvice. —John Henry, a negro went on - board the steamer Julia at St. Louis, on Friday, and becoming obstreperous, was ordered oft the boat by Win. Hates, one of the "engineers. Henry turned on Bates and gave Mn a terrible cut on the neck with a razor. Henry. was arrested. Bates' wound is very severe, but possibly not fatal. Burfalo Board of Trade after an animated discussion, endorsed the rmolutions adopted March 3d by the New York City Produce Exchange, fa voring the enlarging and improvement of canals in New York State and a gene ral reform in the management of the same. There was • only one dissenting vote. —At the regular meeting of the Wo man's Suffrage Association at St. Louis, on Saturday, a committee was appointed to wait on the County Court and urge upon them not only the propriety but importance of appointing a Matron for the county jail, who shall have special, charge of the female prisoners therein. subject to theireneral supervis ion of the jail, the Matroli to make monthly reports to the Court of the num ber and the condition of Said prisoners, and the Matron not to he tne wife'or rel ative of thejallor. A finance committee was also appointed to raise funds to carry on the suffrage movement , throughout the State, by putting speakers in the field and organfaing sub.associations. —The report of Uol. Moore, R aid, shows of the MiSsouri Pacific Railroad, showif the gross receipts for 1868 to be $3,770,890, an Increase over last year of 874,209. - The inerease in passenge earn ings is 883,721; increase in frei g h t t earn ings, 487,255; the decrease in express earnings, occasioned:by the withdrawal of the Mereharits Union Express Coin- Pani*-1 44 • 70 38- The net earnings of the roa , were, 8119,237; previous year. Per • 054, increase,' 8145,182. The track and machinery of the road are in good order. Many' ImproVementS have been made duripg the year. In anticipation of a change 'of gauge. contracts have b e en made for fbrty-six new enginesethirty dve freight can and fifteen hundred new rails, the whole equipment deliverable Gen.. Sheridan has issued`a general order assuming command of the Mill tiny Division othlistionri, with his head quarters at'Chicago. The f OII OWIOS Offi cers compose,. his staff: General W. H. A. Nichols, A. ..G.; Brevet Brigadier Gan.: eral John W. Forsythe, Aide-de•thunp; Lieutenant Colonel J; Schuyler Croaky, Aide-de•Camp: Brevet Brigadier George;A. Forsythe, Military Secretaryi Brevet - Major General 'D.-It .'ticker, chief 'Quartermaster; Brevet Major Gen eral Henryr. Clark, Chief VoitilnianarY • of Subsistence; Brevet Brigadier General F. D. Callender, Chief ofOrdinance; Brevet Brigadier General'. N. W. Brown, chief Paymaster; Brevet Colonel Udder. rill, Chief Engineer; Brevet Major Gen eraliTohn W. , Turner. Depot Commissazy of Subsistenceat St. Louis; Brevet Lieu tenant. Colonel' Charles W. Thomas, "Depot gilartermaster at St. Louis. 4; 1 : A Shiftlima Man An j artist tells the following story in Harper'a Monthly for April?' Instlie spring of 1841 I was searching for a sOdio in which to set up my easel. My "house hunting" ended at the New York !University, where I found'what I wanted in one of theurrets of that stately edifice When I had fixed my choice the janitor, who accompaniedome in my ex amination of the rooms, threw open a door on the opposite side of the hall and invited me to enter. I found myself in what was evidently an artist's studio, but every object in it bore indubitable signs' of unthrift anti neglect. The *statuettes, busts and mode's of various kinds were covered with dust and cobwebs; dusty canvasses were faced to the wall, and stumps, of brushes and scraps of paper litered the floor. The only signs of in dustry consisted of ,a few masterly crayon drawings and little luscious studies of color pinned to the wall. "You will have an artist for your neighbor," said the janitor.' "though he is not here much of late; he seems to be getting rather shiftless; he is wasting his' time over some silly invention, a ma chine by which he expects to send mes sages from one place to another. He is a very good painter, and might do well if he would only stick to his business; but, Lord i ",,he added,' with a sneer of su preme contempt, '•the idea of telling by a little streak of lightning what a body is saying at the other end of it I His friends think he is crazy on the subject, and are I trying to dissuade him from it, but /leper sists In it until he IS - almost rained:" Jndge,of, the astonishment when he in formed me that the "shiftless" individual, I whose foolish waste of time so excited his commiseration, was none other than the President of. the . National Academy of Design—the most exalted position, in my youthful artistic fancy, it was possi ble for-Mortal to attain—S. F. B ; Morse, since mach better known as the Inventor of the eclectic telegraph. But a .little while after this his fame, was flashing throughout the world, and ihe unbelievers' who•voted him insane were forced to con fess that there was at /east "method in his madness." Railway Snow-sheds in California. The Central Pacific- - Railway Company have erected a building which is doubtless the largeit ,in the world. It is twenty two milei in length, sixteen feet in width, and sixteen feet in height, notncluding the pitch of the roof. It is put up in the most substantial manner, all the timbers used being of the best quality to be ob tained. The sides are enclosed,'and were it not for the fact that daylight penetrates throttellthe interstices between the boards. the whole affair would be very like a huge tunnel. The building is braced together in a most peculiar manner, and is in ad dition, Array ,bolted ..to -the roc ks. wher ever the road nears thii Vibe of a cliff. . Where snow slides are to be feared, an extension of the roof has been carried, tothe cliffs, so that falling masses shall pass over the building and lodge on the other side. In mtiny places, where side tracks are located, the building is wider than the figures given above. More than 40,000,: 000 feet of lumber have been used in its construction. It covers an area of more than 1,800,000 square feet, or nearly 44 acres, One of the best p roofs of the sta bility of the structure is in the fact that, with the exception of a few miles which had not been really completed, it thor oughly answered the purpose for which it was designed , during the : recent severe storm, in which it was subjected to the most severe tests. Boning. Another adaptation of a familiar fact to a prqctical use has been made in refer ence to increasing the rapidity of boiling in vessels. It will often be noticed in a vessel containing boiling water that the ebullition seems to start from, a very few, sometimes only one or two favored spots; and on close examination, it will be seen that this results - from the prevalence of some speck or particle adhering to the inner surface of the vessel, appearing to determine the escape of the bubble. By supplying to a steam boiler artificially such points of escape of the air bubbles, the process' of the disengagement of steam can be very much facilitated. mln an ex periment made by Mr. Tomhstion, when water was bolleilfor twenty minutes in a glass flask by. •itself, 9E15 grains boiled away; but when pieces of coke were added 1,130 , grains of water disappeared in the same , time. In another instance, it• was found- that . 262 grains of water were•evapqrated-from a 141.11 containing nothing btit water, while, • after some pieces of charcoal , .ere added, 334 grains evaporated in the • same time. These sug gestions have bemr•thrown out for "the consideration• of Practical men, and we have no doubt that like all inch they will soon be ntilized.--Phaa. Ledger. statistics of American Intemperance. Dr. McKinley, of , St. Louis, has com piled, a ft er a very careful research, Boni() very intetestintanii startling statistics of inebriation in.the United States., By him the following statements ate made: Tak ing the population oftbis dohntzy at forty millions; of NO men, 122 - never drink spirits at all; 100 drink moderately, but not to intoxication. ere• eiiherneral drinkers; 25 - drink ' PerioditallY, called "spreeing;" and 8 are habitualinehrintee- To every:l7B who drink 8 are confirmed inebriates, 25 are periodical drinkers; 50 are'ephemeral drinkers. There - is 1 con firmed inebrtate to every , Biii• of. men.• Of 700 women, 600'never taste alcoholics of any kind; 80 taste 'wine occasionally; 17 taste ardent spirits; 36 drink ale or beer Constantly; 14 drink ardent spirits period -10/4r and 8 are hebitual biebriates.• Pre dominance in confirmed inebriates of the sales: 8 men in every 178; 3 women in ervery•loo —1 tonfirmedtnebriate to every 881 'ofs ofwomen. Fewer women drink than men, but a larger proportion oLthelP become •• habitual • drinkers. pennon drinkers rarely become habitual, butperi odical drinkers; the latter rarely becittne . habitual inebriates, as the violence or their drinking~ is too great, and _leads to disgusting satiety, and hence to /Merv-ale of sobriety. CLIPPINGS. THE Michigan Senate unanimously voted for the cession of the Saut Canal to the United States. The lower branch has yet to act on the matter. PRINCE Lours of Bourbon, recently married in New York, is the direct heir to the Brazilian throne, in case the pre seat Emperor dies without heirs. A CAPT. E. B. WAnn, recently divorced in Detroit, was married on the 11th inst., ,at Conneaut, Ohio, It Miss Catharine I.,yorr of Conneaut, a niece of Senator Tint COADIUSIONER of the General • 'land.Office has received reliable Informa tion relative to diamond discoveries in Georgia. In a pit four by six, in washing for gold, three diamonds were found, pne of which weighed one, and the other two karats. A PLYING- MACHINE, It is announced, has recently been invented by a citizen of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and the r model is sail• to exhibit great ingenuity. The wings are fifteen feet in-length each, and together will cover nine 'hundred- -- square feet of surface. ":;r .__,_ ~.. ~,___ ,_ „ PORTUGAL, which, like opam, - t o l e rates , ...,- , -... slavery in its colonies, has also - taken & step toward emancipation. Thte official ' ' journal of the kingdom announces that the Ministry have submitted to-tlie Sing. a decree declaring all the slaves of, the Transoceanic colonies free, hat regtilring them to work as freedmen for their for mer masters until 1878. THE White Pine silver exeitement is unabated; notwithstanding bitter cold weather and heavy snow storms are pre vailing there. The rush of people thither is increasing, and new and rich di: c )ver les are daily reported. Hundreds of com panies are already hicorporatel In San Francisco to work the White Pinemines, alltit e are still being formed at the rate of thr to five per day-' . MOUNT HOOD an other hig g . h peaks in Oregon have begun te, smoke, and the in habitants of 'the State fear eadhquakes. AU the peaks named in the dispatch, Hood (13,000 feet higb,) Jefferson (11,00(1 feet,) and the Three Sisters—not Brothers, as some'of the papers print it— (11,000 feet,) are extinct volcanoes; and Mount Hood has been active within the tradition of the Indian tribes. ' Wu greatly regret to learn through a. gentlemen of this city, who recently visi ted Mr. Stanton, that the ex-Secretary's health is in a worse condition than is generally believed. His system is in a. very weak state, and so feeble has he be come that he is unable to leave his room. He converses with great difficulty with the few visitors who are admitted, on ac count of a painful cough which greatly muloysidin.---0.9/emou.s Journal. EurenarrOx to. California this spring's very heavy, with a prospect that it will. steadily increase during the summer. The discovery of new diggings in the -lower part of the State is proving a great attraction; besides which many mechanics and workingmen, who, have managed to save a little money, are re- Solved to begin life anew in a country where there is less competition than here, • and where the struggle for life can be waged on easier conditions__ Dreerri.nct among the female prisoners at the Hamburg Penitentiary is main tained by the following, very,instructive plan: The female prisoners are divided into, two classes, one ernbracing the old women and the otheethe - young girls. If one of the former clefs &es hot behave, which is very rarely the case, Shea locked - up in the dungeon on bread and water. Violations of discipline in the, department of the young girls are punished as follows: The offender is dressed In 'a very ugly costume - and sent to 'the -old women's class. The girls hate $lllB pllitishment so much that they will eve_ . hold their tongues for whole days in orderp esetipe it. .:. A DUEL which twe'Parisian editors, - were recently about' to fight, was brought to an unexpected close by the arrival of their wives at the duelling grounds. The two ladies had heard of the affair Of honor that was • pending between their liege lords, andt- being acquainted with one another, bad agreed, to prevent the duel. So they dressed In the deepest mourning, and reached 'thegrounds at the very moment when their husbands were ready to cross swords. When the two duellists saw their wives in mourn ing, cries of surprise burst from their lips. "Go. on," said the ladies to them; "go on with your mad purpose;^ we merely wanted to show you what yon are about to make.of us." Of course the duel was • not fought. .. 1, AKRozr, Ohio, didn't like;Wirt Sikes' lecture, and he publishes a card, In which he says of the occasion : "I had agony -, in my throat; I did not speak to my au dience; I read as fast as I•could read; I. added nothing to what wit/mitten, anctl subtracted fully one-third of what was written.' I 'skipped reckleisly; I omitted sometimes half a' dozen pages together. Sequence - could notbly be min- • tabled under these c possibly per- , sonal magnetism coald not reach my als dience, or, if irdid, it reached them only tolellthem that I was In atealute agony, and that In uttering words-at-all, with my tonsils as large as.pluidurn cherries, and. every word tearing its I,..: x tlt.as If li bad claws, ,was doing the i eat work rever did in MY li fe.' '' EXPLORATION OF Ascriettir , Abaia and'Pharlier rivErei of D ameeenew• mentioned.in the nenVtire% have ben" .thoroughly explored recently by Mee r, the famous canoe traveler. Mae gregor, after going frhm Cairo to Suez, an d exploring the Delta of the Nile, had his can oe carried by land ;.to Beyront, thence over Mount Lebanon, and finally launched in the river 'Aliatia, on which he paddled the 'plains 'tit' Damaacns. ` - .The rivers Abanailid Pharrar, corise .quence of the wild heasts, .deep jungles, and Savage Arian, , have been heretofore laid down .inWtcurately 'on. the maps by t 3facgregor gives an interest ing necetint .of a "giant -stoneteality with. stone doors, rafters and 'windo . shutters, covered with Greek inscription/4 dating before the Christian
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