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The Terrible Disaster at Santiago, Chili.
Twenty-two Hundred Bodies Recovered.
Intense Stupidity of the Police—Re.
volting Barbarity of the Peones.
The Providence Journal publishes a
letter received by Mr. W. A. Pearce,
of Providence, from his father, resident
in Santiago, Chili, who witnessed the
recent appaling catastrophe by which
more than two thousand human beings
were burned to death. The writer
says:
"I hear yod asking, why were these
sufferers not rescued'? Yes, why were
they not rescued ? 317 heart sickens
within me at the quesVion. Those de
termined, stupid ignoramuses of police
men! Fifty foreigners, had they been
allowed to work, - and to work in their
own way, could and would have saved
nearly or quite the whole mass. But
no, as is - always the case here on an
alarm of fire, the police place a sentry
on every avenue leading to the fire.—
They have, .as you know, no fire-en
gines, exeept some two or three old
Gordon pumps. I fought my way past
the police one entire square, by wrest
ing guns and sabres from their hands,
knocking them out of the way, and be
ing knocked in return, until I was over
powered by numbers and forced to re
treat, and all within hearing of the most
heart-rending lamentations that ever
sounded on human ears. And nearly
every foreigner fared similar to myself—
was forced back. Mr. Demiloy, of the
gas work's, received a bayonet wound
at the fire, while in the act of rescuing
a young lady that he recognized, a Miss
Larren. He had 'fought his way in
company with one of the workmen at
the gas works, to the church, battered
down a side or a private door, and saw
Miss Larren ; she at the same time re
cognized him and called on him to save
her. He could not enter on account of
a sheet of flame between them. He
reached his cane to her, which she grasp
ed with both hands, when he and his
friend attempted to drag her through
the flames, but she was so surrounded
and hemmed in with the dead and dy
ing that her strentgh was not sufficient.
They abandoned this method and sent in
pursuit of some other means to rescue
her, and returned again, and `on pre
senting themselves with the means of
saving her at the door, the police order
ed them back and not heeding the order,
he (llemilow) was bayoneted! His
friends wrested the gun from the police
man, knocked him senseless to the
ground, and made a second :attempt to
save the girl. 15ut the time lost in dis
pute with the police was a life with her.
This is only one of many similar cases.
1. I. HUFFMAN
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"Your brother Charles battered a
door down on Cabo Bandera, or Flagg
street, entered and found in a small an- ,
to-room some thirty females, and all liv- ,
ing, bat like so many statutes, perfectly
unconscious. He was compelled to
take many of them in his arms and car
ry them into the stree, t and saved them
all. Mr. Meiggs and H. Keith fought
their way through the police and reach
ed the church at a late hour, and when
the tower was falling all about them, I
succeeded in saving . several. Mr.
Meiggs saw a woman still alive under a
(Tom , d of others then dead. She recocr
nixed him and called to him, saying,'tor
God's sake, save me!' He rushed
through the fire to her and pushed sev
eral of the dead from her, then attempt
ed to lift her out from among the dead,
but they were so firmly wedged in about
her and on her, he had to abandon that.
He then procured a lasso, fastened that
about her waist, and the united strength
of eight men could not extricate her
from her companions; and they had to
leave her amid such cries for help as no
christian heart could endure, neither
can language describe.
"The police had full charge of the
front of the church, and in such force
that the foreigners could do nothing
there. The police rescued a few. Axes
and crowbars were not to be had until a
late hour. A single instance will suf
fice to show the stupidity of police.—
An officer of the police set some half doz
en of his men to hew or batter down one
of the large front doors with their old
broad swords. The doors are made of
two-inch hardwood, double thickness,
and riveted through and through with
iron rivets. Yon can judge the effect
their old cutlasses made on the door bet
ter than I can describe it
"The scene at the church the follow
ing day was the most revolting, heart
distressing, that ever was witnessed
since the world was created. There
were the poor, unfortunate dead in all
stages of decompositibn, the greater por
tion of them naked. But few could be
recognized by their surviving friends.—
The police ordered on the peones or la
borers to remove the dead. Those de
mons worse than devils damned—com
menced their work with as much hilari
ty as you ever saw school children en
ter on some pleasure excursion. The
dead were pulled about and pulled apart
as one would pull apart tdhgled brush,
wood. You could see two 6r 'more pe
ones pulling on a limb of some one who
was buried under the others, until the
limb was pulled from the body. Then
they would have a peon howl of exulta
tion, and commence at another. The
dead were aet ua l with crow
d bars arid picks . 'hea ds and frag-
WAYNESBITRG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1864.
tnents were shoveled into carts with
no more feeling than Irish laborers
would have in shoveling gravel into a
railway car. Hundreds of bodies but
partially burned, entirely naked, were
tumbled into open carts and packed up
in the cemetery in one promiscuous heap,
without even a bundle of straw or a bul
rush, and hundreds of those heartless
wretches commenting and joking on
the scene, and all under the supervision
of the police. I have seen within the
past ten years here among these peo
ple, many things that to me were very
unpleasant, but 1 this is so horrifying to
the soul that I cannot find language to
express my disgust of them.
"Twenty-two hundred bodies have
been counted out from the ruins, and it
is supposed many were burned entirely
up. The prevailing opinion is the num
her of lives lost will reach twenty-five
hundred. The count and names collec
ted to date amount to some fifteen hun
dred. Many families have lost their en
tire female members—six, seven, eight
and nine from one family. All those
that could not be recognized by their
surviving friends are now buried in one
grave or hole. A place twenty-five
yards square was excavated and into
this they were laid or tumbled and shov
eled
"This accident has given the Catho
lic religion here the severest blow that
church has ever experienced. The men
express themselves openly and publicly
against the clergy having such complete
control over the females.
"The city authorities have had their
hands full the past week in keeping
down mob violence, as the masses are
determined the church shall not again
be rebuilt.
"The Government has stepped in
and ordered the ruins to be taken down
and carted off, and will purchase the
ground and erect a monument to the
memory of the dead: The place is to
be inclosed with e substantial iron fence,
and the remainder of the ground laid
out in a flower-garden."
The Irish Exodus.
Savo, perhaps, the Jewish, no nation
in the world, says the Irishman, has so
large a number •of its children in exile
as Ireland. The exiles of Erin they
are: counted by the millions in America,
and by thousands in Australia. There
is scarcely a country beneath the sun
upon whose soil their foot-prints may
not be traced. They have left theif na
tive land, not because they did not love
it, but because they could have no "hap
py homes nor altars free ;" because of
its bounty, it was forbidden to furnish
them with bread. Had the Irish labor,
which, during the last twenty years,
has been expended upon the canals, the
railroads, the wharves, the prairies of
the United States, in leveling the Cana
dian forests, and clearing the Australian
bush, been devoted, under proper direc
tions and on fair conditions, to the de
velopment of the material resources of
Ireland, this Island, to-day, from the
centre to the sea, would bloom like a
garden. Throughout its whole extent,
from the Giant's Causeway, to Cape
Clear, and from Connemara to the Hill
of Howth, not one acre of uncultivated
ground would be seen ; every marsh
would be drained, every unprofitable bog
reclaimed, every mine explored—lre
land would be a fairer, a brighter, and
more prosperous land than Belgium :
Whilst in distant lands, beneath strange
stars, Irish arms reclaim the wilderness,
andey the banks of noble livers lay deep
and strong the foundations of great cit
ies, here at home the fruitful soil is
without cultivators, and over field and
town desolation and ruin hover awfully.
The Spring Campaign.
General Halleck, in conversation with
prominent public men, says a Washing
ton dispatch, has expressed his belief
that the last grand and desperate effort
will be made in the ensuing spring by
the rebels to transfer the real fighting to
Northern soil. They cannot subsist
their armies in their own desolated re
gion, from all the most fruitful parts of
which slaves have been withdrawn into
the interior cotton States. It is dificult
to determine whether their new campaign
will be due North into Pennsylvania
again or across Kentucky into Ohio,
using Longstreet's present position as a
base of operations. All the secret ad
vices received at the War Department
show that a Peter-the-Hermit crusade
against the North is now being preached
throughout the Confederacy, and that
they are conscripting into the ranks with
ruthless violence everything human that
is able to bear arms.
Mammoth Hog.
We have chronicled the killing of
some fine and heavy porkers in this
County this season, but they have a hog
in New York city just now that "takes
down" anything in the pork line that
we have ever heard of. The hog was
raised by J. W. Copeman, iu Cayuga
county, New York, and tatted to its
present enormous size, by A. B. Ben
ham, of Dryden, Tompkins county, same
State. In May, 1863, it weighed 1,120
p in September, 1,249 pounds, in
October, 1,276 pounds, and in Decem
ber,'l,43o. It has been growing rap
idly since, and is now supposed to
weigh 1,400 pounds. Its breed is a
cross of the Leicester and Suffolk, with
a alight cross of the Berkshire. This
monster pig is soon to be kale&
Infernal Machines.
The 14th of January, 1858, was
made memorable in France by an at
tempt at regicide, most diabolical in its
character, and yet the project of a man
who appears to have been by no means
devoid of virtue and even benevolence.
It was, however, the third time that
what the trench call an Internal Machine
was used in. the streets of Paris, for re
gicidal purposes, within the present
century.
The first was a Bourbonist contriv
ance directed against the life of the First
Consul Bonaparte. "This machine,"
says Sir Walter Scott, in his Life of
Napoleon, "consisted of a barrel of gun
powder, placed on a cart, to which it
was strongly secured, and charged with
grape-shot s so disposed around the bar
rel as to be dispersed in every direction
by the explosion. The fire was to be
communicated by a slow match. It
was the purpose of the conspirators, un
deterred-by the indiscriminate slaughter
which such a discharge must occasion,
to place the machine in the street,
through which the First Consul must go
to the opera ; having contrived that it
should explode exactly as • his carriage
should pass the spot." Never, during
all his eventful life, had Napoleon a nar
rower escape than on this occasion, on the
14th of December 1800. St. Regent
applied the match, and an awful ex
plosion took place. Several houses
were damaged, twenty persons were
killed o,i the spot, and fifty-three wound
ed, including St. Regent himself Na
poleon's carriages, however, had just
got beyond the reach of harm. This
atrocity led to the execution of St. Re
gent, Carbon, and other conspirators.
Fieschi's atttempt at regicide in 1835
was more elaborate and scientific ;
there was something of the artillery of
ficer in his mode of proceeding, although
he was in truth nothing but a scamp.--
Fieschi hired a front room of a hpuse in
Paris, in a street through which royal
corteges were sometimes in the habit of
passing; he proceeded to construct a
weapon to be fired off through the open
window, on some occasion when the
king was expected to pass that way.—
He made a strong frame, supported by
four legs. He obtained twenty-five
musket barrels, which he ranged with
their butt ends raised a little higher
than the muzzles, in order that he
might fire downwards, from a first floor
window into the street, The barrels
were not ranged quite parallel, but
were spread out slightly like, a fan ; the
muzzles were also not all at the same
height ; so that by this combined plan
he. obtained a sweep' of fire, both in
height and breadth, more extensive
than he would otherwise have obtained.
Every year during Louis Philippe's
reign there were certain days of rejoic
ing m July, in commemoration of the
circumstances which placed him on the
throne. On the 28th, the second day of
the festival in 1835, a royal cortege was
proceeding along thiS particular street,
the Boulevard du Temple. Fieschi ad
justed his machine, heavily loded with
ball (four to each barrel,) and con
nected the touch-holes of all his twen
ty-five barrels with a train of gun-pow
der. He I,lad a blind at his window, to
screen his operations from view. Just
as the cortege arrived, he raised his
blind and fired, when a terrific scene
was presented. Marshal Mortier, Gen
eral de Verigny, the aid-de-camp of
Marshal Maison, a colonel, several gren
adiers of the Guard, and several by
standers, were killed, while the woun
ded raised the number of sufferers to
nearly forty. lri this, as in many simi
lar instances, the person aimed at escap
ed. One ball grazed the King's arm,
and another lodged in his horse's neck ;
but he and his sons were in other re
spects unhurt. Fieschi was executed ;
and his name obtained for some years
that kind of notoritey which Madame
Tussaud could give it.
We now come to the attempt of Or
sini and his oonlpanions. A Birming
ham n nufacturer was commissioned to
mrke six missiles according to a particu
lar model! The missile was of an oval
shape, and had twenty-five nipples near
one end, with percussion caps to fit
them. The greatest thickness and
wight of metal were at the nipple end,
to ensure that it should oome foremost
to the ground. The inside was to be
filled with detonating composition, such
as fulminate of mercury ; • a contusion
would explode the caps on the nipples.
and communicate the explosion to the
fulminate, which would burst the iron
.shell into innumerable fragments. A
Frenchman residing in London brought
alcohol, mercury, and nitric acid ; made
a detomiling compound from these mate
rials, an filled the shells with it. Then
ensued a very complicated series of
manoeuvres to get the conspirators and
the shells to Paris, without exciting the
suspicion of the authorities. On the
evening of the 14th of January 1858,
the Emperor and Empress were to go
to the opera ; and Orsini and his confede
rates prepared for the occasion. At
night s while the imperial carriage was
passing, three explosions were heard.—
Several soldiers were wounded ; the
,
•Finperor's hat was perforated; General
Roquet was slightly wounded in the
neck ; two footmen were wound
_ ed.while standing behind the Emplanes
carriage ; one horse was killed ; the car.
riage was severely shattered: and the
explosion extinguished most of the gas
lights near at hLmaThe Emperor,
cool in the midst of Eger, proceeded
lortign fr
to the opera as if nothing had happened.
When the police had sought out the
cause of this atrocity, it was ascertained
that Orsini, Pierri, Rudio, and Gomez
were all on the spot ; three of the shell
grenades had been thrown by hand, and
two more were found - on Orsini and
Pierri. The fragments of the three
shells had inflicted the frightful number
of more than five hundred wounds—Or
sini himself had been struck by one of
the pieces. Rudio and Gomez were
condemned to the galleys; Orsini and
Pierri were executed. Most readers
will remember the exciting political
eventithat followed this affair in Eng
land and France, nearly plunging the
two countries into war.
The Tigers of Singapore--Their Ap-
petite for Human Flesh.
We quote from Commodore Perry's
entertaining "Expedition to Japan" the
following page, - relative to the informa
tion gained by that commander during
his stoppage at Singapore, at the end of
the Mal a y Straits, on, subject of
Malay tigers—merely remarking that it
was in 1853, and that since that time
the tigers have become much more nu
merous and destructive than ever, the
evil reaching such an extent about eight
een months since, that general and or
ganized action was taken to destroy as
many as possible of these pests for the
preservation of the people :
"The native animals are generally the
same as those of the adjacent peninsula,
from which many of them migrate.—
The tigers especially entertain a great
partitality for Singapore , _ and resort
there in great numbers by swimming
across the strait which separates the
main land from the islands. These are
the genuine animals which have no hes
itation in pouncing upon a passing
traveller, or snatching up and making a
meal of any unfortunate Chinaman or
native who may happen to be in the
jungle, busy in catlike, wood, clearing
lax for the rice plauliGons, or otherwise
occupied. It was stated on the best
authority, that not a day passes without
the destruction of one human being, at
least, by those ferocious beasts. The
Commodore was at first somewhat dis
posed to be incredulous of this statement,
but as the acting governor and com
mander of the forces both confirmed it
he could no longer hesitate to accept it
as truth. He was told by them that so
much of an every day occurrence was
this fatality, that many of the cases
were not reported, in order to avoid the
trouble and expense of a coroner's in
quest, which the laws require. ' Death
by tiger,' however, is a virdiet that
might be rendered aily were the legal
formalities complied with.
"ft is said, and probably with truth,
that the tiger, after he has once tasted
of human flesh, becomes so fond of it that
he prefers its flavor to that of his ordi
nary venison or wild boar, and will make
every effort to obtain a supply of his fa
vorite food. It is this intense longing
for human flesh which makes the tiger
so very dangerous to the inhabitants of
Singapore, especially to the poor Malay
or Chinese who may be obliged to ex
pose hi:kis& in the jungle and the forest.
It was said, too, that the animal showed
decided preference for a Chinaman.
"Nor do these stories of the tiger seem
very wonderful, when the fact is well
established, that those savage® who are
addicted to cannibalism become passion
ately fbnd of their horribly unnatural
food. There is a tribe of Malays, called
Battas, who, like their fellow Malay ti
gers, are said by Sir Stamford Raffles to
eat one another, and to prefer such food
to any other. Nor are they to be class
ed entirely among barbarians, for . these
Battas can read and write, and have
codes of law of great antiquinity ; and
yet, according to the authority just nam
ed, not less than from sixty to a hun
dred Battas are eaten annually, even
during time of peace.
"In addition to the tiers, there are
deer and wild boa onnd upon the
island, and several 'Medea of smaller
animals, the m'mnkey, the wild hog or
peccary, the porcupine and the sloth.—
Birds abound, and among them are
some of great beauty,"
The Late Gen. Little.
A correspondent writes to the Boston
Courier : cannot refrain from send
ing you the following bit; an extract
ftom a private letter received from a rel
ative of the late Wm. IL Little, of Cin
cinnatti. It will speak for itself:—
"Cousin Will's sisters were very much
affected by the kindness with which his
remains were treated by the Confeder
ates. A Confederate surgeon, who
identified him, out of some off his hair to
send to his sisters. They also sent his
private papers, watch, chain, and
money, They had the grave marked
with a slab, and when the metalic coffin
was sent for the body, placed it tenderly
in it. They hrd covered the wounds
in his face, first with green leaves, then
-with lace net and a fine cambric hand
kerchief. His remains were escorted to
the lines by 16 Confederate officers none
under the rank of Colonel."
Or A letter from Naples of the 14th nit.,
says: "Vesuvius has become covered with
snow, and now presents the appearance of a
sugar loaf. It is d' vast cone, quite white
from the summit to the base. We have also
a wind so acid that it nips the face, and any
one ndekt fancy himself, at the font of ift.
Vise in the midst of4he meows of the Alps.'
pomestic nn itstral **kw,
Three Boys Frozen to Death in 11li-
A most distressing case of suffering
from the late terrible snow storm occur
red at Whiteley's Point, Moultrie coun
ty, about seven miles from this place, on
Thursday night last. Three boys, sons
of Mr. W. B. Hendricks, in attempting
to return home from school, about one
mile from their father's house, were fro
zen, the two youngest, aged nine and
eleven years, to death, and the oldest,
fifteen years of age, so badly that we
understand, he has since died. When
school was dismissed the three started
for home, but, becoming blinded and
benumed by the intense cold of the
stinging wind and snow, soon returned
to the school house, where they remain
ed until two or three o'clock in the
morning, when they again attempted to
to make their way home. When within
sight of the light at home, made by the
family, who were up by four o'clock,
the two smallest boys were no longer
able to walk, and leaned np against a
corn shock to keep off the wind, while
the eldest went home for assistance.—
When he reached the house his face was
badly frozen, and his limbs so thorough
ly frozen that he could scarcely move.—
As soon as he could make knoWn the
whereabouts of the brothers, assistance
was sent them, But alas ! it was too
late. They were both dead—frozen
stiff—and that, too, in sight of home.—
Mattoon Illinote Gazette.
A friend, not overmuch given to rash
forms of expression either, remarked to us
in a serious tone, a little time since, that he
expected to see the day, if the ordinary term
of life should be spared him, when the chil
dren would actually stone him in the streets,
so bold, impertinent, disrespectful, and total
ly unmanageable had they become in the la
test and wickedest generation. It is not
the children, however, who are in fault, but
their parents. The latter are indulgent and
negligent, in the first place ; then the rage
for shows and pretensions has worked so
wildly, in the next place, that the mothers
of this day seem to think children are given
them merely to play them off, like mimic
chess-men, against one another, this mother
being determined that her child shall make
as good an "appearance" as that mothert,
and so the offspring are getting spoiled in
consequence.
A little girl is taken out with her mother
on a call—which she certainly should not be,
both for her own sake and the sake of a
friend who is made the victiir ; what is done
during the entire sitting but praise the beau
ty, (no matter how homely,) the finelothes,
and what-not of the young one—alt in the .
latter's hearing, too —and give up the rest of
the time to the noisy shouts and romping of
the little monster? The child would be
well enough if discipline was properly ap
plied to her ; but as it is, with the loose
magazine and millinery notions about "beau
tiful children" running in the mother's head,
we look to see nothing different from what
we do see, and set our hearts like flints in
detestation against the entire crop of boys
and girls of modern days. Yet we love gen
tle and well-behaved children to excess; but
these "terrible infants"—we desire never to
see them or their mothers coming near our
doors.— [Wide World.
A settlement in Canada West, was recent
ly the scene of a horrid spectacle. At a
place called Sandwich East there lived a
poor widowed woman named Rice, with five
children, the eldest of them a girl aged nine
years. The unfortunate woman was seized
with smallpox, from the effects of which she
become totally blind. Her neighbors at
once ceased to visit her, and left both her and
her little ones to provide for themselves dar
ing the intensely cold weather as best they
might. On New Year's eve from some un
explained cause, the shanty caught fire, and
although the neighbors saw it burning,
their humanity did not overrule their dread
of the small-pox and they left the unfortun
ate inmates to their fate. The woman and
two of the young children were burned to
death, two others froze to death at the ruins
of their house, while the eldest girl escaped
from the burning shanty and ran to a neigh
bor's house, but before she could reach any
place of refuge she sank under the influence
of the cold and froze to death. When her
body was found she was perfectly naked.
A Son to the Prince of Wales.
The succession of the crown of Great
Britain is not likely to be lost to the
house of Hanover. Thirty years ago
the young Princess Victoria W 36 the
only direct heir. But she has added to
the line so bountifully that there is no
possibility of the succession departing
from her direct descendants. She has
nine living children and five grand
children. The last- of these is a son to
the Prince of Wales, bore on the Bth of
January. The future queen of England
thus early gives promise of rivaling her
mother-in-law, the reigning Queen, as a
mother of children, The birth of her
son
.diminishes the chances of the
Crown's ever Coming to Prince Alfred,
the Queen's second son, who is said to
be the swat Mtelligest of the 404, and
whom many would fifer to have as
their sovereign after his mother's death.
NEW SERIES.--VOL 5, NO. N.
nois.
Children.
A Tragedy.
The Greaten of Rat HEM&
t; Everybody has heard of sbe vseteys
tem of sewers which underlies the great
city of Paris. Through . thessfulnarren
eau intricacies, according to lam Hu
go in the .41fiere/irms,../nan Yid
Marius on his hack for
of t he
the
barricade to the beaks ef the,
seems that during severe frosts, the vast
multitude of rats which abound ha Par
take to the sewers-as a refuge from the
cold. Latterly, the weather hos been
more than usually severe, and the con
ditions being itsvorable, it was resoleisd
to have a great rat hunt. Aectirdiney
the authorities, misted by a Mani* of
men, gamins and dogs; entered the sew
ers at varioueplaees, and began a grand
drive towards a common orator. Just
as the beaters in an Indian jtsngls l / 4 , With
tom-toms, gongs, horns, Aletuat and
frightful yells, send all the anhandh Kauai
the tiger to the smallest antelope,toirards
the hunters, the subterranean drivers
soon „had millions of rats massed togeth
er, struggling ? sq -useling and tilt
with extraordinary ferocity. At .
they were driven into a kegs sewernsor
the bridge of Asnieres, and forty dogs
were let down among them A ssord
battle,,' ensued; which lasted over lbrry
five hours, and at the end of it victory
remained with the dogs. But the later
had paid dearly for their triumph., !sour
were found in the drain killed ,eatritsfit z .
and quite number were totally blind
and helpless whey recovered by the
gantons, who at length ventured to sit
plore the profound depths of the bade.
Most of the rats escaped in the melee,
but yet no less than 110,000 were found.
dead. As the finest Persian kid glirear
are said to be made out of theakine 41(
these animals, there *UI be 'n2tiferial for
many grim.
Genealogy of the".Pstakee .et Wales.
He is the oldest sou Qf Vieteria, , who
is the daughter of the. Duke of grirt,
who was the son of George the Third,
who was grandson of Georgethe
who was the son of Princess
who was the cousin of Annie, who wan
the sister of William and Mary. Iraq
was the daughter and William the e
in-law of James the Second, who was
the son of Charles the First, who was
the son of James the First, who wawlhe
son of Mary, who was the grand-440-
ter of Margaert, who was the sister Ot
Henry the Eighth, who was the mon of
Henry the Seventh, who was the gal of
Earl of Richmond, who was the Son of
Catharine, the widow of Henry the MN*
who was the son of Henry the Fog*
who was the cousin of Richard the
and who was the grandson of Wooed
the Third, who was the eon of Edward
the;iSeeond, who was the son of Henry
the - Third, who was the on ofldhn,
who was the son of Henry the. Soloed,•
who was the son of Matilda, the
da
ter of Henry the First, who was tie
brother of William Rufus, who was the
son of William the Conquerer.
Who are thef.Happy?
Lord Byron said : 4 .Tbe medusa° . •
workingmen who can maintain Ate
farnilies, are, in my opinion, the happiest,
body of men. Poverty is wietehedneas,
but even poverty is, perhaps, to be per
fered to the heartless unmeaning ad
pation of the higher orders." Another
author says : "I have no propensity to
envy any one, least of all, the rich and
great ; hut if I were disposed to is
weaknesss, the subject of my envy would
be a healthy young man,_ in ;full peers
sion of strength and faculties, going
forth in the morning to work for his
his wife and children or bringing them
home his wages at night."
Horrible.
It is horrible to think what discoveries
science is constantly making. It is not
sufficient that some eminent astronomer
at Cambridge should discover a onatit
per month, but Professor Tyndall must
state that the weight of this earth is
such, and the velocity with which it
moves so great, that if it should sudden
ly stop, the heat it would create would
be §ufficient to reduce it to a thin vapor.
Professor Tyndall adds, that "after the
stoppage of its motion, the earth should
fall into the sun, as it ass uredl y would,
the amount of heat generated by the
blow would be equal to that developed
by the combustion of 5,600 worlds of
solid carbon."
A iioll7k.
• Judge Hoyt, of Bt. Psal, haajust returned
from the Bannock mines, Idaho Territory:—
He reports the mines on Soloman tiler eft
!twisted, and little being done at Bannock
City, the mines having been deserted for
those Virginia Qty. He says the Rabbis
reports from that quarter have been srently
exaggerated, and that most of the money
made is derived from trading. The people
of the States can safely &mount the repots
sent from the mining districts. Ia nearly
every instance a speculator will be found at
the bottom of it.
Goon NEWS zoa TOPERS.--We Mve
great news for the toper& Whiskey
and brandy can now be made out of
coal gas, which consists of carbon -and
hydrggen, as does alcohol, with the ad
ditiorof oxygen. For -several pairs
past the process of converting cdilidis t
gas into spirit has been talked of.
now a Frenedt pitenthas been
for the proems and said to a
in London.* You take sww,
the hydrogen, add a little—esgimma, a
presto 1 you have a bottle of innedit.
if.