CURRENT NEWS. Franklin Pierce is now the only man liv ing who was ever elected to the office of Pres ident of the United States. A young fellow of one hundred and sev enteen years is on ajoarney from Florence to Paris. The Rev. Gilbert Haven—a clerical Jen* kins—speaking of Schuyler Colfax, says : ' Ilia face is a banqueting house." Next fall it will be a " banquet hall deserted." The difference between procrastination and Butler is that tho common proverb makes one the thief of time, while common scandal makes tho other the thief of ready money. There is a man in Delaware who has had fifty.one children and three wive 3 One of the latter and thirty of the former are still \ living. An exchange says that the girls In some parts of Pennsylvania are so hard up for bus bands that they sometimes marry editors and lawyers. A Babylon (LI.) fa-mer caught in one day, by hook and lines, 1,300 pound of blue* flsb, which he 6old for 13 cents a pound. Many of the young male nigs in the contra band camps, at Arlington, are named Ben Butbr for want of a better. I Tfcete is trouble in Louisiana, because the darkies refuse to attend their own schools but insist on mixing with tho whites. The ! weather i 6 too warm for " equal rights " , there. Brick Pomeroy says Ben Butler's father hung for piracy, off the coast of Spain. The family has degenerated in courage—Ben has ! not pluck enough to be a pira'e—though the hereditary fondness for robbery is quite per ceptible. What nice leaders the Radicals have for a '• God-and-morality " party ! The Radicals met with a terrible in Mississippi, and, it is said, through the vote of the colored men. This, if true, is the 41 unkindcst cut of all." The first Lightning Rod put up in this country by Dr. Benjamin Franklin, is now to 1 seen on the old house, 52 Daniel street, Portsmouth, N. 11, Two men committed suicide in Philadel-• phia, recently, by shooting. One was a pris oner in the county jail. Ileenan would like to fight McCoole for SIO,OOO. Canada has recovered from its Fenian fright. Prentice says Ben Wade is no civilian.— There is nothing civil about him. Mrs. Lincoln is fulfilling her threat of leav ing the country if Grant was put up for Pres ident. She can come back safely in the fall. Senator Spraguo, from Rhode Island, is said to be the richest man in Congress. A clerk in an Ohio pnat office has invented an adding machine. Subtracting, unfortun ately, needs no machine. About half of the newly appointed cadets at West Point failed to pass the cxamina tion. One of Mr. Rreckinridge's <rtd slaves is stumping Virginia for the conservative tick et. A forthcoming lecture by Annie Dickinson is entitled, "Children and Marriage."— Shame. Annie, Why don't you say, " Mar riage and Children ? " The Radical party is about to undergo ■peedy dissolution from the fact of its affih* ation with the niggers. Epitaph—'• Died in the Wool." 41 The good die young " —hence the longev ity of Thad. Stevens, Beast Butler, Parson Bfowalow & Co., show that they are not prepared. A speaking machine is now on exhibition in Perth, which imitates the voice with great ecu racy. At Honesdale, Penn., two children, aged respectively seventeen and fifieeD years, hav irg first obtained the written consent o' their parents and guardians, were recently united in wedlock. A Mulattto girl from Savannah now lives in a house of her own in Paris, with fur servants, a carriage, and a box at the Italiens- The Viscount de Guezol is her patron. The first locomotive engine ever made in this country was run on the South Carolina railroad ; and this road was the first to carry the United States mail by contract. Misery and famine are raging in the Cas tilhan provinces of Spain, and many poor families are driven to the most cruel priva* tions, such as living on roots, Lzards and other reptiles. Ail the farmers have dis missed their servants and are killing the cat tle in order to 6ave the expenses of keepiug them. A girl in Chicago died lately, from swal lowing the point of a needle, which broke off while she was picking her teeth with it. A large number of Israelites in St Louis* over two thousand it is said, have pledged themselves to vote against General Grant.— This action is mainly, if not wholly based upon an order issued by Grant during the war banishing all Jews from one of the South ern military departments. If Grant gets aa many voles as he sacri ficed Federal lives in his military career, he Will not run so very far behind his Demo cratic competitor at the coming election. "Has the railroad got in ?" at-ked a gentle man of an Irishman, standing at a depot, thinking to quiz him. "One ind has, air,*' was Pat's reply. Our circulation is increasing. ®|e ikmocrat. HARVEY TICKLER, Editor. TUNKHANNOCK, PA. Wednesday. July 15, 1868. FOR PRESIDENT, HON. HORATIO SEYMOUR. CF SKW YOKK. FUR VICE PRESIDENT, GEN. FRANCIS P. BLAIR. OF MISSOURI. DEMOCRATIC STATE TOM Auditor General, CHARLES E. BOYLE, of Fayette. Surveyor General, Gen. WELLINGTON ENT, of Columbia idgr A press of new advertisements and other matter, with the space devoted to the proceedings of the Democratic Con vention, prevents us from giving our usual variety of matter. 63T The nomination of Seymour and Blair has pretty nearly thrown the nigger ites iuto fits. They are dreadfully afraiJ of a civil war. Blair, say they, is blood thirsty. If they continue their infamous, tteasonable practices, they may create a necessity for "blood letting," "The wick ed flee when no man pursueth." Our Candidates It is with pleasure, resulting from an assurance of the success of our cause, and the triumph of constitutional government over despotism and wrong, that we place at the head of our columns the names of Seymour and Blair. Horatio Seymour is the first choice of every fair-minded and intelligent man of the country for Presi dent. Ilis repeatedly expressed determi nation to refuse the nomination, created a diversity of opinion as to the merits and fitness of other men for the position. All concurred in acknowledging his eminent fitness in every respect for the position,— It was only when the united voice of the people demanded of him. that he consent ed to lead them on to victoiy ; and when to have done otherwise would have been regarded as a shrinking from duty in a conflict near and dear to every patriotic heart. With Gen. Blair who is imbued with the Jacksouia spirit of his father, to lead forth the legions of the young Democracy or the West, we shall march on to victory. His is no untried blade, lie bears no un- deserved nor empty title. He has met and opposed secession as he will meet and oppose puritan oppression . With Seymour and Blair, wo repeat, our success is assured. The Most Corrupt Party that Ever Exist ed. Donn Piatt, one of the leading and most active Republican politicians of Southern Ohio, in writing of the attempt to impeach the Prisident, says the unpleasant fact is developed, 'that not Andrew Johnson, but the Republican party has been on trial, and the sentence is a sentence of death "'Piatt says: "We would have survived a blunder great as this is, had it come alone,but it is the concluding act of a long series. Through the unsettled condition of a country suffering from civil wars, we have developed more rascality that>any organi zation ever called into existence. We have tilled the offices with thieves and their Dockets wnh stealings. We have or ganized lings that in turn create office-hol ders and control the government. Men go in poor and come out millionaires. For one dollar paid to the government from hard earned taxes, hundreds stick to the diity fingers of official scoundrels. We have wiskey rings, Indian Bureau rings, land-fobbing rings and internal improve ment tings. From the lowest official, up to Senator and Cabinet officers the taint of cor ruptien runs until the people, dazzled and confuse, confound the right and listen with indifference to the threats of exposure." Here is a photograph of the Radical party by a good artist. The Amnesty Proclamation. No more fitting time could have been selected by tbe President for the promul gation of his general Annesty Proclama tion, than the day chosen by him—the anniversary of the birth-day of our nation. It came to the people while they were ob serving and enjoying the greatest National Holiday known in the civilized world, and we cannot be mistaken in supposing that there were but few indeed of our many millions of citizens who did not feel new zeal added to their patriotic rejoicings by the knowledge tbat one oi the last, and the greatest, barriers to a full lestoration of the Union, had been swept away for ever. The general pardon includes every body who is not undet indictment in the U. S. Courts for offences against the Na tion, and relieves them of all disabilities, as American citizen*, at least eo far as the President has power to relieve them. It is one most memorable official acts of President Johnson, and will always con stitute a bright page in the history of his Administration. SPEECH of HORATIO SEYMOUR. The statesman and the nation's favorite, —Horatio Seymour—of New York recent ly delivered a speech, in New York city, to a large enthusiastic meeting. We give the following synopsis from his ad dress which is well worth a perusal: He said in every part of our land are proofs of a wide-spread change in political feeling, while the ablest Republicans refuse to go on with a party which tramples on the Judiciary, usurps power, and is unset tling all ideas of political morality, and un hinging all the business machinery of the land. We are laboring under some em barrassments from the great volume of the change in our favor. Those who are rally ing around the standard of Constitutional rights have hit bet fore held conflicting views with regard to the events of the the past eight years, and the question now is, how can we set this great majority in the field so arrayed that they can drive out ot place the disciplined and desperates hords of office holders who now misgovern our country ? This is the only problem to be settled. The American people are disgusted with the conduct of the Congres sional party. Can we mark out a policy which will unite the majority to our stun dard ? This can onlv be done by a thought ful, forbearing, unselfish course. At the same time we must be out-spoken and must confront all the questions which per plex us. Men look forward with hope and fear to the action of the National Con vention on the Fourth of July. It shall not speak of candidates. Let the claims of each one be considered in a kind* and courteous spirit, and let us take care that no personal partisanship shall draw us aside from our duty to our country. We should support with hearty zeal every up holder of Constitutional rights. It is upon discord in our ranks that our opponents build their hopes. Let this hope be crushed by our action. It will in the pres ent state of our country be an unholy thing to go into the July Convention with any purpose which will not have in view the rescue of our Government from the men which now have it iu their hand. Mr. Seymour then proceeded to reiter ate bis views formerly expressed on the financial question, opposing both contrac tion and unwise issues, and urging the res toration of the National credit tainted by the wastefulness and profligacy of the party in power Lie contended that five hundred millions of money of • the thousand millions of money spent by the Government since the surrender of Lee could have been devoted to the payment of the rational debt, carrying by the proof of good faith the national credit to the highest point, while new bonds at a lower rate of interest, would have reduced our taxes and brought our currency to the value of specie. Gov. Seymour said that the Republican party at Chicago pledged itself to keep up its negro policy and said it is impossible to give untutored Africans at the South, uncontrolled power over the government, the property, and laws of the people of ten States, by excluding white votes, with out military despotism. You cannot give three millions of negroes more Senators than arc allowed to fifteen millions of white men living in New York, Penn., Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, lowa, Kentucky, Missouri, and Michigan, with out keeping up great standing armies.— Without a general annesty and the restor ation of suffrage to all the whites in the South, a great standing army must be a permam' nt institution. He ptoceeded to argue in favor of a general annesty, and the restoration of suffrage to all whites in the South, which would obviate the neces sity of keeping up military despotism to feed idle negtoes, to bieak down the Judi ciary to shackle the Executive, and to de stroy all Constitutional rights. lie closed as follows : I have said noth ing in behalf of or against the views of any one who is spoken of as a candidate for the Presidency on the Democratic side.— I have only said that each one agrees to and is in favor of. No man has been named who is not in favor of reducing the expenses ar:d then uiakiug our paper as good as gold. No man has been named who 19 not in favor of using the* money drawn from the tax payers to pay the public debt. No man bas been named who is not in favor of a general amnesty to the people of the South. No man has been named who is not an up holder of Constitutional rights. No mau has been named by the Democratic party whose election would not help the lax payer, the laborer, and the bond-holder. On the other hand the candidates of the Republican paity are pledged to their policy, which has sunk the value of our currency more than eight per cent, in the past two years. The discount upon our paper money was twenty per cent, in April, 18G8. It is about twenty-nine at present. It will continue to go down un der the same policy. As it sinks it will increase taxes, it will curse all labor and busines, it will endanger still more the public credit—for the greater the premium on gold, the harder it becomes to pav specie to the bond-holder and his claims becomes more odious. What claim have the Republicans upon our soldiers/ They take ..way from him one-quarter of his pension by paying him in false mon ey, which is worth less than 75 cents on the dollar. A wise and honest adminis tration would have made it worth its face in gold. What right have they to call on the mechanic and laborer? They have lengthened out the hours of their toil to feed swarms of office holders at the North, and to support armies and holders oT ne groes at the South. How can they look the tax payetsin the face, when they have wrung from them as many millions upon the pretext that the debt compelled them to do so while they were using the money thus collected to supply standing armies and to trample upon the rights and liber ties of the American people. Can they with decency appeal to the bond-holders after tainting the national credit and sink ing to the level of the negro and endan gering their securities by throwing upon them the whole odium of taxation. Then let the East, the West, the North and the South, the soldior and the sailor, in shins or in fields, the tax-payer and the bond holder by one united etfort drive from power the common enemies of liber ty, honor, rights, and CoabtitotioDal laws, THE CONVENTION. (Continued from first page.) BALLOTING FOR CANDIDATES, After some preliminary motions, the Convention proceeded to ballot for a candi date for the Presidency. FIRST BALLOT. The roll was then called on the first bal lot, with the follwing result: Pendleton 105 Hancock 33 J Andrew Johnson 65" English 16 Hendricks 2 h lieverdy Johnson 8j Doolittle 13 Parker 13 Packer 26 F. P. Blair Chnrch 33 Whole vote cast, 317; necessary to a choice, 212. No choice. The third day of the Convntion closed with the sixth ballot as follows SIXTH BALLOT. The roll was called, with the following result: Pendleton 122J Hancock 47 English 6 Church 33 Andrew Jobnsen 21 Hendricks 30 Parker 13 Packer 27 Doolittle 12 Blair 5 On the fourth day ballots were taken up to the 18th, no candidate having received the required two-thirds, no choice was made. The 18th ballot at the close of the fourth day was as follows: EIGHTEENTH BALLOT. Hancock 144$ Hendricks 87 Pendleton 59j Andrew Johnson 10 Doolittle 12 Hoffman , 3 On the meeting of the Convention on the morning of the fifth day, Mr. Yalan digharn of Ohio, read a letter from Mr. Pendleton withdrawing his name from the list of candidates, and on the 19th ballot cast the vote of that State solid for A*a Packer whose name had been previously withdrawn —the Pennsylvania delegation casting her vote for Hancock. Horatio ScytnCUr having at the beginning peremptorily declined to allow his name to go before the Convention, no voles were cast for him until the 21st ballot. When Ohio was called, Mr. M Cook, by unanimos direction of bis delegation, and with the assent approval of every public man of that State, including Mr. Pendleton, put in nomination against his inclination, but no longer agaiust bis power, the name of Hon. Horatio Seymour. Let us vote for a man whom the Presidency has sought, and who has not sought the Prei dency. This he believe would drive from power the Radical cabal at Washington. He believe this nomination would com mand the unanimous approval of I)emo crats and conservative men of all sections. He asked, on behalf of the country, that Seymour should yield to this wish of the Convention, 4 Mr. M'Cook cast 21 votes for Iloratio Seymour. Mr. Seymour roe and said—The mo tion just made excited most mingled emo tions He had no language in which to thank the Convention, and to express his regret that his name had been presented, but in a question affecting bis duty and honor, he must stand by his opinion against the world. lie could not be nominated without putting himself and the Democratic party in peril. When he declined the nomina tion he meant it. He paid an eloquent tribut to Mr. Pendleton, atd bis magna nimity, and in closing said: Thanking the Convention, your candidate I cannot be. Mr: Vallandigham said—ln times of great exigence and calamity, every person al consideration should be cast asiJe. lie insisted that iloratio Seymour must yield to the demoustrat.on in his behalf. Ohio's vote must and shold stand for Iloratio Sey mour. He called upon the several dele gallons to follow that lead. Mr. Kierman, of New York, said: To re lieve everybody in regard to the New York delegation, he would say they have no lot or part in the movement of Ohio; they had heard something of it, but declin ed to take any part in it, out of regard for the proper sensitiveness of the President of the Convention, until other States should show by their action that Seymour was demanded by the party in Convention. He urged the necessity of success in the campaign, and expressed his opiuion that Mr. Seymour could now accept the judg ment of the convention with honor, and that he should yield as a matter of duty to its wishes, With him as the candidate, New York was good for 100,UuO majority. The call of the roll was then proceeded with, when amidst the greatest enthusiasm every State voted for Horatio Seymour. Those States which had previously Vuted otherwise asked permission to change their votes, for that purpose. The acting chairman Mr. Price announced the entire vote 317 for Horatio Seymour. Upon this announcement the whole convention and audience rose en Masse waving hand kercheifs, hat, fans, & with such shouts of exlutation as rendered it iinpo-sible to re store order and proceed with business. After a recesS of an hour, the Convention pioceeded to the nomination of Vice Pres ident Kentucky named Major General Frauk , P. Ulair, of Missouri. Kansas named General Thomas 11. Ewing, jr., of that State. i lowa named General A. C. Dodge, of New Yoik. Before a ballot was taken Generals Ewing and Dodge were withdrawn, and General iilair was nominated by aeclama ; tion. Great applause succeeded the result, and for many minntea the Convention was wild with enthusiasm. The nominations were announced from the steps of Tam many Hall and was reeieved with shouts of approval, firing of cannon, and the para ding of Democratic clubs through the slteaU, with flags flying and music play ing. The Convention adjourned in excellent spirits and with feelings of complete assur ance of success before the people, Proclamation by the President Grant ing Amnesty to All Confederates Except those Indicted for Treason. By the President of the United States. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas , in the month of July, Anno Domino 1861, in accepting the condition of civil war in several of the States which constitute the United States, the two houses of Congress did soolemnly declare that the. war was not waged on the part of the government in any spirit or oppression nor for any purpose of conquest or subju gation; nor for of overthrow ing or interfering with the rights or estab lished institutions of the States, hut only to defend and maintain tho supremacy of the Constitution of tho United State, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several Stales unimpaired, and that so soon .as those ob jects should be accomplished the war on the part of the Government should cease. And whereas , The President of the Uni ted States has, heretofore, in the spirit of that declaration, and with the view of se curing for it ultimate and complete effect, set forth several proclamations offering am nesty and pardon to persons who had been or were concerned in the aforenamed re bellion, which proclamations, however, were altended with prudential reservations and exceptions then deemed necessary and, proper, and which proclamtions were re spectively issued on the eighth day of De cember, 1863, on the twenty-sixth day ol March, 1864, on the 29th day of May,1865; and on the 7th day of September, 1867; and Whereat, The said lamentable civil war has lons since altogether ceased, w'fh a " acknowledgment by all the States of l ' le supremacy of the Federal Constitution, ai 'd of the Government ttfere under; and ther c no longer exists any reasonable ground to apprehend a renewal said civil war. or any foreign interference, or any unlaw ful resistence by any portion of the people of any of the States to the Constitution and laws of the I niled States, and Whereat, It is desirable to reduce the standing armv and to bring to a speedy termination, militaiy occupation, martial law, military tribunals, abridgment of the freedom of speech and of the press, and sus pension of the privilege of habeas corpus. and ot the right of trial by jury, such en croachments upon onr free institutions in time of peace being dingerous to the pub lic liberty, incompatible withlhe individual rights of the citizen, contrary to the genius and spirit of our republican form of gov ernment, and exhaustive of the national re sources; And whereas, It is. believed that amnes ty and pardon will teud to secure a com plete and universal establishment and pre valence of municipal law and order, in con formity with the Constitution of the Unf ted States, and to remove all appearauces and presumptions of retaliatory or vindica tive policy on the part of the Government, attended by any unnecessary disqualifica tions, pains, penalities, confiscations, and disfranchisements, and on the contrary, to promote arid procure complete fraternal reconciliation among the whole people with due submission to the constitution and laws; j Aw, therefore: Be it known, That I An drew Johnson, President of the United States, do by virtue of the constitution, and j in the name of the people of the United ! States hereby proclaim and declare uncon ditionally and without reservation to all and. every person who directly or indirect- j ly partic pated in the late insurrection or rebellion, excepting such person or per sons as may be under presentment or indic inent in any court of the United States, hav- ] ing competent jurisdiction upon a charge of treason or other felony, a full pardon and amnesty for the offence of treason against the United States, or of adhering to their enemies during th civil war, with restora tion of all rights of property except as to slaves, and except, also, as to any property of which any person may have been legally divested under the laws of the United Slates. In testimony whereof I have signed these presents with my hand, and have caused the seal of the I'nited States to be hereun to affixed. Done at the City of Washington, the 4th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and of the independence of the United States, of America the ninty-third. (Signed,) Andrew Johnson. By the President: William H. Seward, Secretary of State Washington, July 3. " The Strictest Economy." One of the resolutions of the Chicago Convention professes to advocate " the strictest economy" in the administration of the Government. The party has at least had a chance to prove the sincerity of itsjjprofession. It has had" control of the Government for nearly eight years.— How has it exemplified what is here pledg ed by the Convention ? The Boston Post gives the answer, as follows : " Hundreds of millions are voted to railway schemes. Military government is maintained need lessly in the Southern States, at a cost to the people of from one hundred to one hundred and fifty millions a year. Milli ons on millions more are lavished on that party machine, the Freed men Bureau, in which dirty partisans get the places, and deserving soldiers are allowed ro consider able share- The revenues arc reduced as if ingenuity were taxed to the utmost to bring it about. The pay of Congress is increased by those who arc to havo the advantage in their own pockets. A few millions are denied to the consummation of certain grand commercial projects of a truly national and enduring character, while half a million is spent in a vain par tisan attempt to depose the President; and deficiency after deficiency is made up in the treasury of the Freedmen's Bureau. •' Strictest economy, " forsooth ! To de lude the people, taxes are cut down on in dustry to the amount of certainly eighty five millions ; but the current expenses are not rednced correspondingly, and a huge financial gap will have to be filled betore the end of the fiscal year. There never was such a recklessly, wasteful, ex travagant and corrupt political party in the country ; and its resolution for economy $t Chicago is tolerable only as it might be interpreted in the interests of repeatance of which we detect pot the faintest sym toras.'' The Decision of the Supreme Court. The recent decision of the Supreme Court of this State by which that infamous act of a Radical legislature, known as the Registry Law, has been declared unconsti tutional, will be hailed all over this great Commonwealth as an important victory for the friends of Constitutional Liberty.— The Radical majority at Ilarrisburg, not having the true welfare of the people at heart and filled with chagrin and rage at their defeat at the State election last fall, concocted and passed this law, which they fondly hoped would prevent a large por tion of the laboring men of the State from obtaining a vote at future elections. The Radical leaders well knew that the coming Presidential contest would be one of the people against a corrupt and reck less body of desperate politicians ; a con test of white men educated to think for themselves and vote intelligently against the irresponsible adventurers and ignorant mob of mi-guided niggers who now seek to have the controlling power in onr Na tional elections. It is important, there fore, for them, that the electorial vote of Pennsylvania, the second State in the Union, should be secured for the Radical candidate. Conscious of the unpopularity of the iniquitous measures they advocated, and driven to desperation by their love of plunder, the Radical legislature at Harris burg sought to so impede the right of the white laboring men to vote so as insure at all hazards a majority in Penn sylvania at future elections. But this odious Registry Law, enacted for party purposes, and in its character so destruc tive to all that is most conducive to the pu rity of the ballot-box, was in due time brought before the Supreme Court of the Slate, and has met with that condemnation which ever awaits an oppressive and un constitutional law at the hands of a just an ! wise judiciary. The following extract from the opinion of the Court, as delivered by Chief Justice Thompson, will enable the people to form some idea of the manner in which Radical representatives enact laws affeting the J dearest rights of their constituents: "In the casein hand, which is an act of the greatest public consequence, the Daily Legislative Rerortl, and official publication of the legislative proceedings, gives no ac count of petitions of the people for the great change of law attempted or so far as the city is concerned, that the act was the work of any committee : but it doe* .show th >t the provisions of it were virtually the work of a single member, and presented to the House in manuscript, ani without ha vino been printed, passed the House with out debate. In this shape it went to the Sen ate, where it was almost immediately anted to without the allowance of debute or jirint ing. This may w#ll account for the in congruous and unconstitutional features of the act. These facts however, have bad no weight whatever in producing the re sult at which we have arrived. They might well stimulate the activity and the scrutiny exercised in examining the pro visions of the act, but they had no other effect.''— Jetfersoninn. A Great Curiosity. The editor of the Griffin Star, after paying a vi?it to Upson County, gives thr following account of a great natural curios ity of Georgia: The first grand point of interest was the famous Thundering Springs, located in the northern part of the countv, about twelve miles from Thompson. We expected to find quite a curiosity, but were completely amazed to find so reinaikable a freak ol mother nature as this spring. It is located in the wildest part of the mountains exten ding through the country, and there in the solitude of the wilderness, presents a re markable phenomenon!. The dimensions of the spring proper are about five feet in diameter, and of an unknown depth, ex perimenters have repeatedly sounded its depth in vain, and n bottom can be reach ed. The water boils up with gr eat force; bubbles of gas constantly rise up through the water, and explodes at the surface. This gas is highly combustible, and is fre quently set 011 fire as it makes its escape. Such is the force with which the water rises that a human body cannot sink, hut ia buoyed up in a standing position. It is a famous bathing place *nd we took the first opportunity to pluni into the bottom less well. There we could stand upright for hours, with nothing to support us but waiei. The earth around the spring is a beautiful white san 1, of \erv fine grain, giving away readily.at the touch of the foot, but immediately reforming as before The temperature is delightful and the waters are invaluable, especially for diseases of the skiu and blood. The spring constantly makes a low, rumbling noise, from which it derives its name. Tae NEW TAMMANY IIALI.. —This mag nificent Hall, built by the Democracy of New York, and which was built for the Democratic National Convention which as sembled in that city, on the Fourth of July, cost 5300,000, and has the following pro portions: It is 115 feet front by 122 feet deep, and three stories high; but the sto ries are so high that the building towers far above its neighbors, and dwarfs the Acad emy of Music almost to insignificance. Ii contains a large club room, which is splen didly furnished; a coiumiiteo room. 35 by 70 feet; a library and reading-room, 32 by 40 feet; a concert room, 52 by 74 feet; a laige dressing-room for ladies, another for gentlemen, and several smaller rooms, for various uses. All of these are below the third floor, which is the crowning glory of t/ie building. On this floor is the grand Hall, 102 byllO feet, with a ceiling 50 feet high, and capacity for seating over 3,000 pet sons. Here the delegates to the N itional C invention assembled on thu Fourth of July, and here will be held the great mass meetings of the Democracy during the campaign. The Hall is the lar gest of its kind in the world, and when fin ished, with its commodious galleries and grand dome, decorated with appropriate designs of first-class artists, it w ill certain y be one of the most beautiful. Many years ago Colonel Weatherwax, pro prietor of the Eagle hotel in- , kept an ass in bis stable, near which stood a puinp. A lady lived acros* ibe street, having fre quenily heard I he animal bray, losing all pa tience, and mistaking the origiu of the discor dant sounds, exclaimed : "I do wish Colonel w Weatherwax would grease his pump-handle, it makes such a dreadful poise." mm & IMPS am. 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