1 Ell littAut Gaidtt. FIifiLGERM'S. (From the Saturday Bevies.) The ,classifigation of . engagements ac cording to,their duration gives us several interesting . types. ome engagements ( ed are of ,a short but ra ems kind; others are of a protracted nd Platonic charac ter. Some are con fora fixed term of years, as the en agement of a minor to marry when he att 'ns his majority or of ti..._. widow to wed aft two years' inconaol ability. Others e terminable/after an indefinite period, where a fellow • of a college engages t marry as soon as he gets a living, or where a young lady promises to make er lover happy when he can show that he is able , -to maintain her in the style to which she has always been accustomed, and to aupply her with the comforts and refinements which she:. has a right from her position in society to expect." Other engagements may be considered as terminable at pleasure, such as those projected between officers of small means and the notorious flirts of a gar rison town, which, it is pretty well under stood, are only designed to last until the •regiment is moved to fresh quarters, or till Providence provides the fur coquette with a more handsome or more substan tial lover.. These, with many others which it is unnecessary to enumerate, are various species of engagments differ- entia d according to the nature of their durat on,' But the division 61 the e. enga ements with which society is I most . familiar, and the one which will occur to all parental minds as the moat important, is the simple-division of them into Long and Short. The gen uine old-fashiOned Long Engagenient, of that life-long type with which our grand mothers and great-aunts were familiar, has happily almost ceased to exist. Any woman belonging to the professional rarika of the middle class, who is 'more tha v n fifty years old, will be able to recall se eral instances of men, generally Fel lows of Colleges, whoil when young contracted engagements which they were unable to fulfill until they bad reached that time of life at which it is not very nsnal, or very seemly, either to marry or be given in marriage. Such instances of life-long engagements were by no means rare 'fifty yeare ago. The Cellege Fellow of twenty-five hav ing engaged himself to a young girl of twenty, - and havink no sure expecta tion of. patronage outside of his College,' Odd not then, as now, cut himself adrift from his academicatties, and start forth tu make his fortune independently. by tuition, journalism., or the public service. Stich extra-academical means of making use of an widen:deal education were then Omparatively unknown or unpromising. The avenues whereby a gentleman of liberal education could enter the salaried sphere of existence were then compara tively few, and Atli' almost confined to , the "three liberal professions."' The , really well-paid schoolmasterships were then 'very few ; .there was no Hai leybury, and no Ridley, . and no Bradfield ; there were no professor ehlps at Ring's College, London, and no inspectorship of Schools. The young Fellow who had taken orders haft noth ing to.look to but a college living, so he waited on, perhaps for ten, perhaps for twenty, or even thirty years, until his youtidtd ardor had cooled down into a quiet, bookish sort of attachment,; and his betrothed had come to look forward to ', her marriage' rather with pride than with passion, as the event which would one day give her, the privilege of humbly helping that learned man in his labors, or at least secure her the mononoly of aura i• g his declining years. / Such long 'engagements as this are now e eraely rare; one scarcely ever earshes of couple being engaged twenty r, d the friends of a young fiancee are g =rally rather disgusted if she remains married 'so many months. Any en gement which lasts over two years is ow called a long engagement; and one Which extends to five years is reckoned a ' elancholy and yen! middle class affair. ong engagements, in fact, even in the odern sense of the terra, are confined alnibst entirely to the r middl ranks of the :i. community.: They nearly asi much a niddle-class institution as early dining or "eat. ....----- 273 Lord Rosse has been measuring, says ace a Week, the heat that comes to us tom the moon. 'Using one of his great 1, • fleeting telescopes as a burning mirror, e has condmped the moon's rays upon one of the most delicate of heat gaugera— a thermo-pile. Without ..being able to ; determine by what fraction of a Faren 'heit's degree the lunar warmth increases phers, he has found as an approximation, that the radiation fromthe moon is about the temperature of the terrestrial atmos the ninety-thousandth 'part of that from the Elan. He conceives that the variation of heat from our Satellite follows the same law as that of its light, viz: that we have most warmth from the lull moon, and least from the nearly new. 1 By comparison with the terrestrial I. source of heat, Lord Rosse estimates the actual temperature of the moon's surface at lunar mid -day to be about eve hundred degrees Fahrenheit. This scorching re-_ sults from the slow rotation of the - moon which makes its day equalto our month, and from the absence of any atmosphere to screen the lunar world. Years ago, Sir John Herschel, who has more than once proved' himself a prophet by his sa gacious Inferences' "remarked that "the surface of, the full, moon exposed to ns must: necessarily; be very much heated, posaibly,to s degree much exceeding that of boiling water." , Fontenelle and his followers to the,contrary ntAwitlistanding, the moon canto no place for living be. lags, unless they are, salamanders. _ . 1 GBOtagp WAS BROSSS for the foundation of the Lincoln a monumofet, atw Bpeek. Theringdeld, 111., on •Thrumday last Monument Astmciation oas t at its cora. numd, contributed from us sources, funds amounting $158,663. A. eon tract has , been entered into with Wm. D. Bicharthien for the erection of the monu. 'ment, except the statuatrthe founds .,lion during the year 1869, end ,: to finish the whole during 1870. for the sum of $186,550. Larkin G G . Meade has contract ed - to deliver the ecuipture required by his ,design for the sum, of $70,000, made Asp o Lincoln $18.700 fr the statue of • 518.700 for each group op , porting 'that Motu, and $15,000 for the coat of anus. - The Anociationhas there. , fore incurred' liabilities to the amount of .$1'51,750; leaving a balsam of $8,918. GELlMLrsTELutipice. Tintßoston Jubilee organ was destroy ed by the hurricane last week. Viz German language is being taught in the public ; schools of Wheeling. Mns. SCOTT-SIDDMis is to play at the New York Sixth Avenue Theatre. Tun Ohio Baptist Convention will be held at Springfield instead of Columbus. LL IT wasproposed to dispOse of the Boston Coliseuru by lottery; on the principle of the gift enterprise. ABMs"- one-half le Cotton crop in Georgia and Florida has been destroyed by the caterpillars. ' - THE Circleville (0.) Union says the brown corn 'men in that _neighborhood will have a reasonably good harvest. TUE 1 saloon keepers of St. ' Joseph, Mo., have petitioned the police to close up their bare on. Sunday, and prosecute them if they open. Tan grape malady is in the region of Lancaster Ohio, and promises to leave, but an insignificant crop of those hither to deemed standard sorts. FIVE Indians confined in jail at Omaha were purposely given an opportunity to escape, this being considered the cheap est way of ridding the `county of their presence. Mae. SPABIEAVE, aged sdenty, re siding at Walpole, and was shot dead on the 4th by her g n, aged eleven years, who said he did it "to git the old critter out of the way. 'Davin LELson, of Madison county, Ohio, the cattle king, is fattening two car loads of short horns iof the Christmas trade, which will it is estimated, a ton and a quartes each. Tun notorious, thief, Wm. Hall alias Poker Bill, who robbed Gov. Merri wether at Louisville a short time since, was arrested at St. Louis, while on the eve of starting for Chicago. On the sth, at New Berlin, Ohio, a son of Gideon Cornelius, aged seven years, was shot dead by a companion aged twelve years. They were playing with a gun which they supposed to be un loaded. • IT is authoritatively stated that nothing further will appear from Mrs. Stowe in the Atlantic.ldonthly, but that she will give the public an opportunity to read an explanatory and corroborative article through some other medium. THE father and mother of General Rawlins are both living at Galena, 111. He was one of nine children—eight sons and one daughter—all of them now living but two the sons. General Rawlins left three of children by his first wife. Is is reported in Boston that Mrs. Stowe is so overcome by the unexpected reception of her article on Lord Byron that she is quite ill. Domestic afflictions and grief are assigned as the cause of her imprudence in publishing the article. THE red-huot Democrats of Texas, will nominate for Governor Gen. J. J. Byrne, formerly a pressman in the New. York Herald OffiCe,-sfterWard Colonel of the New York 18th Cavalry, Brigadier Gen eral and United States Marshal for East ern Texas. HlLLSBOnonoti, Ohio, had been with out rain for three weeks. Tan Cincinnati conference of the At E. Church being in session there, the ministers, on the 25th inst., prayed fervently for rain, and that afternoon the windows of Heaven opened and it came in torrents. • A nrrutunous coal vein is supposed to have been discovered at Cowlesville, Wyoming county, 25 miles from Buffalo, four miles from the Erie road and five from the B. &W.R R. Its productive ness is not ascertained, but the coal men of Buffalo are greatly excited. Fusco. WrivaLow, son of Dr. C. F. Winslow, of Boston, has lately received the highest honors ,of the German uni versity of Heidelberg, and is but eighteen and a half years old yet.. The distinction has been bestowed on only One other American student for many y s. . THERE is a project on foot or a tele graph ship to be stationed fifty-give miles off the English coast, between Sycilly and Ushant, connected by cable ttritY Pen zance, and furnishing intelligence to all vessels that desire it, from all parts of the world in telegraphic connection with England. . AA-ImM LINDER, of Madison county, Ohio, in the last fourteen years has ship ped over 25,000 cattle, 65,000 i, sheep and about the same number of hogs, .to the. New York market, since 1865—more than shy other shipper in Ohio. Linder & Johnston bought, clipped and sent forward 8,000 fat sheep last spring. Bluotren Youno has returned a fraud ulent income return of the rents, profits, tic., of the church of the Latter Day Saints, for 1868. Having been requested to make a proper return, he informed the assessor that the revenues of the church amPunted to but $440. Not satisfied r i s with this ;the assessor will astiess the prop erty himself: Our. of the Landon pa sayr although all pare spring cre k ice E England goes under the n me of Is ham. Lake ice, importatio of ice the American continent h long ceased. In hard winters m ch ice I collected in England, and t least thousand tons are imported rum Ni to supplement the hone ply. A WELsa paper says th t, at 41 religious meeting in the di trict in it circulates, the assembl d clerk discussed `•gweddi gy naul eld fool, that the subject for debate thd meeting is " Yegrythrolc ed set. erefyinewn gwald." We have no hesita. tion in pronouncing forthe affirmative of this question. Why'not? ,' , A YOUNG Nan about eighteen years old succeeded in "seeing the elephant" at Bucyrus, Ohio, recently. He was teasing and abusing a young elephant in a men agerie and the animal, suddenly straight: eulogies trunk, dealt him a blow squarely between the eyes. • lie arose and departed a wiser young man, his sight of the ani mal having cost him an elegant pair of black eyes. ' ‘ • Tim corn crop of 'Wisconsin, says a paper of that State, is .a nonentity, it is a ,factotem, a humbug, a bauknipt. Every body seems to have planted the small yellow kind, and as eniblematic of its goneupness it Is wearing the weeds of utter disconsolateness. It no more ap• pears In silks ,and tassels. Joseph of old would make e,Poor stagger buying corn the •coming honest. t i k In Portsmouth, N. ~ is a young Irishman who seems ot -to be a favorite of fortune. Be lost n his wife a year or two ago by a railroad accident. His second wife,. with her child, died in child bed a few days since; after a terrible sur gical operation. Within a few hours a Lunar • lieut. PITT Omar: GAZETTE: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1869. rismorsoi good horse belonging to him fell and was severely injured; and somebody stole from fifty to eighty dollars belonging to him and his late wife from a drawer in the house. • Mn. &mum. STEVENS, of Belleville, Ontario, claims to have invented an en tirely new process for refining petroleum. The oil rune from the still complete, and does not require any subsequent treat ment by acid or other chemicals. This process is effected by superheated steam, and the direct kotion of fire on the bottom of the still is therefore not required. It is stated that about 60 per cent. of burning oil can be got off and the residuum is made into a splendid lubricating