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OLUME Exxxiv.
IRS
6x-ssrxiimm o . c - Locm, M.
NEWS BY CABLE.
_
LB, Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.)
SOUTH AMERICA.
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
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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.
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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