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Destbuctiv* railroad acddenta are nnturoal in KarO[»e, bat one occurred a day or two ago in Spain between Barcelona and Valencia which quite parallels uoine of the bloody achievements of our roads. Many i*aHeengers were killed, but we are not told how many. A Senator and General were among the killed. Fall details bad not been received in consequence of a failure of the telegraph lines. The new Spanish monarchy is in a had way tinanCially. The budget to lie submitted to the Cortez, shows a deficit of 200,000,000 reals, or about $2:>0,000,000, as the telegraph states it this morning. But we fancy this must be an error either of the telegraph or the types. There is probably a cipher too much in the state meat and the actual deficit in only 200,000,000 reals, or $2>,000,000 and that would be bad enough in a government ran so nearly “to the girth” as Spain. This state qf the Treasury is no new thing in the country of Ferdinand and Isabella It Iim been hampered for years by debh and bad management, and at one time a war with tlngland was iminent in conse quehce of a long failure to pay the claimr of English holders of Spanish bonds. A t emuuption of these payments, which watattempted some time ago, probably aggra • vales the embarrassments produced by the revolution and the generally <Usordered condition of the country. What Was It ? < >ur Johnson county neighbors, as app*>ara by a letter in a morning pa{>er, luwt been pmodd by a celestial demonstration of strange brilliance and unaccountable progress. The w riter of the letter asks “what is it?” He describes it thus: “lu appearance it was larger and more brilliant than the brightest star, leaving be hind a beautiful stream of light very like tb« tail of a comet. Its movement wa:i much slower than that of a meteor, as it must havt been twenty or thirty, seconds describing ai arc of 90 de; es. The movement was in ai almost din line eastward, with . scarceh any deflection towaref the earth. The cor ruscaMone, or scintillations of spark or tiame, falling off in the rear of the moving body were visible to the eye, making altogether the most brilliant specta< lo 1 ever .saw in tht heavena.” The ptuuded narrator proceeds to discuss the possible character of this biilliant and perplexing visitor, but without arriving at any conclusion other than a repetition of his intention. It could not have been the comet ol Plantamour’s prediction, h© says, for it was too late, and he might have added that no comet ever moves with an apjtarcnt speed that would cover 90° of the heavens in lialf a minute. When that happens, creation will be in a fair way to get, as Burns says, •'A thog mulst ruin ” A comet has no more motion to the eye than a planet. But, he adds, if it w ere a meteor its conduct was strange. “I have “been accustomed to suppose that me“teors always moved in the direction of “the earth and with great rapidity. But “the stranger of last Thursday evening “did neither. Its voyage was horizontal “and exceedingly leisurely.” Here is his mistake and the source of his puzzle. Meteors do not always move downwards or towards the earth, by any means. Prof. Loomis tells us that they frequently appear to move upwards. And a motion }>araUel with the horizon is, so far as our own observation goes, the ordinary motion of brilliant, train-bearing meteors. Shooting stars, which are only smaller meteors, usually shoot towards the earth, though not always, but the Urge meteors usually appear to sail along the horizon, and most of them not far above it As to the leisurely motion of the Johnson county phenomena, there is to be remarked first, that there is nothing so hard to do as to “time” a meteor by guess. Two seconds will seem like ten and five like half a minute. Ten seconds is the longest period Out a meteor has ever been known to remain visible, and that ten seconds, to unpracticed observers, would doubtless appear like a full miuute. It is to be remarked secondly, that the motion of meteors varies greatly, from one to <the last limit) ten seconds. 5k) that the unusual lassitude in the movements ol the* Johnson county wonder was really nothing more than one of the variations of which there are hundreds of collected instances. The writer of the letter asks whether the appearance was a comet or a meteor. There is no question about it If there ever was a meteor, this was one.

PWUTICA1. MOTES. The Kentucky papers, without exception outside the Radical press, heap ridicule and scorn on the late Louisville Convention. “How knew they O Conor’d accept. When O'Conor'S already recanted 7” “Why, HnmaJrall, you fool, don’t yon see: The delegates took it foe Unat-ed.” Trabue and Golladay, who are being supported for Congre* by the Radicals of their districts In. Kentucky, both took an active port in the Blanton-Duncan side ahow. Since their nomination, the Republican candidate for Sheriff of Macoupin county, and the Liberal candidate for Attorney of Morgan county, Illinois, have committed suicide. The President’s new stables cotd thirty thousand dollars, and were built, not only without authority of law, but in direct violation of it. Congress never voted a dollar to build them. In Huntley, McHenry county, Illinois, where only twenty-four Democratic votes were polled in 1870, a canvass of voters by the Grant Club shows: For Grant, 188; Greeley, 35; doubtful, 00. There is no occasien for weeping over Vermont, The New York Tribune gives us the following figures: “Republican vote of 1W>8, 44,167; Grant vote of 1872, 43,180; loss, 981. Democratic vote of 1868, 12,045; Liberal and Democratic vote of 1872, 17,031; gain, 5,580.” In bis letter to David A. Wells, the Hon. -.liaries Francis Adams s(*oke of aspirants for the Vice Presidency as “thatcrowd.” In his letter to Blanton Duncan, the younger John Quincy Adams sjjokd of the Vice Presidency as “that thing.’’ The scornful hight of the Adams family is something bewildering.—[Chicago Tribune. DR. Ml H<KPI»B HIm Alleged Olme and Marrow Escape. I From the Germantown Chronicle.] Miss Steineoke was an unmarried woman about 65 years of age, a resident of Baltimore. who became ill while ou a visit to Carlisle, and was attended by Scb<cppe, a practising physician of that town. On the 28thday of January, 1869, she died, and a will, executed by her on the 17th of the preceding November, was admitted to probate in the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore on the day after the funeral in that city. By this will she devised her estate to sundry legatees, including several charitable institutions. A few hours afterward Paul 8chcf:pj>e filed a will in the same court, purporting to have been executed by Miss Steinecke ou the 3d Of December, 1868. This will was in Sch'eppe’s own handwriting, aud it was witnessed by his father, then living in Carlisle. It beuueathed the whole estate of the deceased, amounting to over $50,OUO, to Paul Schouppe. The friends of Miss Bteinecke very naturally declared this will to be fraudulent, and the suspicion at once arose that Schmppe had shortened the old lady’s life with a view to obtaining her property. He was accordingly arrested and charged with causing the death of Maria Steinecke by “administering poisonous substances” to her on the 27th of January, the day before she died. The trial commenced before Judges Graham, Stuart and Blair, In the Court of Quarter Sessions of Cumberland county, on the 24th of May, 1869, and was concluded on the 3d of June, having lasted ten days. The evidence against -kihoeppe was mainly circumstantial, and the I'ase for the prosecution rested chietiy, if not entirely, upon the testimony of two Baltimore physicians, one of whom, Dr. Conrad, had made a post-mortem examination of the •Kxly of Miss Steinecke, and had discovered no natural cause of death, while the other, Dr. Aikeu, had examined the contents of her stomach, and testified that he had found '.races of poison. The jury found A verdict of guilty. Certainly all apjiearances were terribly itroug against Schceppe, but there was just one Haw in the testimony. The test upon which Dr. Aiken relied to establish the presence of noison was altogether insufficient and unreliable, and wa s declared to be so by the most competent chemists aud medical jurists throughout the country. It was on this account, and this only, that a number of the prominent physicians of Philadelphia interested themselves in Schojppe’s behalf, and their belief of the insufficiency of the evidence against him has since received a most striking confirmation. This Dr. Aiken, whose testimony convicted Schtcppe, was the ■tame chemist who appeared as the chief witness for the prosecution in the trial of Mrs. Wharton, where his evidence was completely overturned by Dr. Reese and others, and where he was shown to be grossly careless and incompetent. Under these circumstances it is impossible to resist the conclusion that Schmppe, whether guilty or not, was not rightfully convicted. The end of the first trial, however, was but the beginning of the case. A motion for a new trial was made and overruled. A petition to the Supreme Court for a writ of error was dismissed. A pardon was asked from the Governor, but refused, and a warrant was issued for Scbmppe’s execution on the 23d of Deceml>er, 1869, but for obvious reasons not carried into effect. A wnt of error was subsequently granted, and after argument the Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the Court below. Scho ppe’s counsel then applied to the Legislature and procured the itassage of an act which made it the duty of the Supreme Court to examine into the law and facts of the case when a writ of error was sued out, but the Court decided in May, 1870, that the act could not operate ex post facto* and declined to hear the ease. Again pressure was brought to bear on the Governor to induce him to give Schceppe the benefit of the doubt and pardon him. but this the Governor, for some unexplained reason, refused, though he declined to fix another day for the execution. Scbccppe’s friends then went once more to the Legislature and induced it to pass a special act to empower the Court of Quarter Sessions to grant a new trial in this case. We are not sore that anything would have come even of this extraordinary act, but that a new Judge had meanwhile been elected in Cumberland county, and the motion for a new trial being eefore him, was granted. This new trial has just resulted in an acquittal by the jury, after being out but fifteen minutes.

A Perileu RM*. Two South Boston youngsters, 12 and 14 yeaj»oW.J»und for the suburbs, Monday, i bought to shorten the time of their outward trip by availing themselves of the advantages of tbs Old Colony railroad without the payment of the customary fare, by seating themselves upon the break beam of one of the tracks. Contrary to their expectations, however, the train was ran express to Quincy, nine miles oot, and by the time they had reached this point they become so far exhausted that, bat for their discovery by one of the train hands, they would have Wu carried still further and ultimately have follen from their perilous position.

Falsa aa Fair. Florida is a lovely but insidious clime. It is gorgeous in its flowers, profuse in its fruits, and doubly generous in its insects and reptiles, but it is not altogether healthy. At Gainesville, in that delusive State, recently Mrs. Smith was shot through the head while watching with a sick friend, and the friend died before morning. It is said that the bullet was meant for another woman, but it matters Httle. A region where one is likely to receive a bullet in his brain in the still hours of the night is not healthy enough for an earthly paradise.

Governor Washburn has returned to Boston from his imqiectioi^ of^he ^ work on^the on the whole, in a favorable condition. The removal of rock through the central shaft works has been some time interrupted on account of accidents to the pumpeand the tilling of the excavations with water: but foe pumps are now in condition, and after the fortnight which ft will take them at the rate of three hundred gallons a minute to get the water out, the labor of removing the rock can go on. The hole will quite certainly be through from the east entrance to the central than by the end of this year.

life has no vmloe «s sn end, bat means; Aa end deplorable, a means diviner When ’Us oar all. Us nothing: worse than naught; A nest of pains; when held as nothing much. _ —{Young. Sectarianism. ^ Let who will Qnsmio’er outward form* ao quarreled they Who gambled for the garment* of the Lord, And beard not the deep agony of soul Of him who As* all mantles by aa vain. And died for simple truth. HT. B. Read. SleepOil thou best comforter of the sad heart. When fortune’s spile Meads, come, gentle sleep. The weary mourner sooth* : For well the art Thou know rt, in soil forgetfulness to sleep The eyes which sorrow taught to watch ana weep. —IMrs. Tight. Solitade. O, lost to virtue, lost to manly thought. Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone. Gommunion sweet! Communion large aud high: Our reason, guardian angel, and our God! —{Young. Mewds. I cried, “No heart is true! The sky has lost its sun: The earth is cold ami desolate; 1 would that life were done!” A hand was clashed in mine. Tiro hearts foreveaone! Now earth and sky in beauty foiue; • 3fy life has just begun’ —{Old and New.

Desp «fr. , And who shall find the pe fec* whole In the small fragment that we see? Or mirror in the flesh bound soul. The image of Immensity ? Our hearts within us f*iut, and we. Amid the storm and darkness driven. Cry out for God to earth and heaveu; But what if all our answers be. Only our cry by the echoes given? Only n Lock of Hair. Only a day—and yet how long a story; Only a dream—and yet return it will; Only a curl from out the auburn glory That crowned her hoa<l, now slumbering so

stiff

Only a little life, aud yet it led to heaven. The homes that longer ones may never win; £he had no wanderings to be forgiven lie foie the gulden door could let her in. v Love. O Love’ no habitant of earth thou art— An unseen seraph, we l>elieve in thee A faith whose martyrs arc the broken heart. But never yt t hath seen, nor e’er shall see The naked eye, thy form, as it should be: . he mind hath made thee, as it peopled heaveu, Even with its own desiring phantasy. And to a thought such shape and image given Ashaunts foe unqueneh’d soul pandi’d—wearied

wrung—and riven.

—! Byron.

“SCRAPS.” Governor Curtin will soon go to Saratoga. The Empress of China roles her husband. Camilla Urso will not remain long in New York. Trenton, New Jersey, has an old woman newsboy. Mrs. Charles Matthews has retired from the stage. There are now four hundred galley slaves at Toulon. The South hat lost by the caterpillars nearly $100,000,000. The Potomac around Alexandria, Virginia, is full of sturgeon. Guizot is furnishing tuel fora religious excitement in France. If a termagent wife cuts her nails every Monday, it is lucky—for her husband. Mrs. Clark runs a newspaper at Sacramento with the taking name of The Winning Way. New York objects to having the gloom of funeral processions spread over her pleasure parks. . One hundred and fifty carpenters arc reconstructing the Kearsarge that sunk the Alabama. Stonewall Jackson was very unpopular while manager of the Lexington, Virginia, University. Prince Satsuma is the only surviving chieftain of the league that overthrew the Japanese Tycoon. Sturgeon, the man who murdered a little boy in the river at Memphis, has been cap tured in Missouri. Hon. Caleb Cushing astonishes the members of the Geneva Conference by his remarkable ability as a linguist. Switzerland exports $4,000,000 worth of. cheese a year, that being almost the only article of export from that country. Georgia land has doubled in value since the discovery that the leaves of the saw' palmetto could be converted into paper. The question whether a Hebrew can marry his brother’,? widow or not has been solved in New York by a Hebrew’s doing it. Only one white man was present at the late Radical convention at La Grange, Ga. and he was the postmaster at West Point. Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell, of Boston, ha' a daughter in the freshmen class of Wealey an University, at Middletown, Connecticut. The eldest child of H. O. Hutchinson, of Iowa City, will be one year old when its father and mother celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary. A gentleman who has kept an account of the accidents that have occurred at the seaside resorts the past season says that it ba^ been the most disastrous on record. Sharks are making use of the Suez Cana for improper purposes. They find a short cut through it from the Indian Seas to the Adriatic, where there is said to be good teed ing, especially off Lissa. A was robbed in New Orleans the other day of his pocketbook, which con tained a piece of towel used as a bandage for President Lincoln after his assassination. He had been offered $400 for it. The Londoners have got through their fashionable season in town, and are beginning to throng watering places and other country resorts just as our upper ten are thinking of returning to city life. It is more difficult to enlist men for the Marini Corps than for any other branch of the service on land or sea, and the recruiting officers are not meeting with success in getting the number needed for the navy.

will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out oat the sins of the week. Hitherto the husk of rice, known as rice chaff, has been considered refuse in the South. It has lately, however, been disoov. ered to be quite valuable in protecting glassware and other delicate articles when packed for shipment, and a large demand has sprung up for it. A block of pure marble, weighing 21 tons was recently landed in Boston from Leghorn, and is the largest block ever brought to this country. Twelve |x>werful horses were required to draw it from’the wharf to the Boston and Albany depot, whence it was shipped to Cincinnati. Some Massachusetts farmers who planted the “Cooley” corn received from the agricultural department at Washington, and which, it w as < [aimed, would ripen in thirteen weeks from the time of planting, are greatly disap jointed. Th’e corn did not tassel till about August 1, and is now just in the milk. A startling case of street robbery and murder occurred in Boston, Wednesday evening, on Washington street, while the walks were crowded with pedestrians, the murderer fell ing his victim under the wheels of a passing stage, and escaping by dodging almost under the feet of the horses attached to a passing car. A company has been formed in San Francisco to suj>ply steam to small factories and workshops, by means of pijos laid under the roads, the same as gas and water. The steam is supplied from an immense central boiler, and it is thought that steam power may in this way be supplied at a merely nominal cost to consumers. Some weeks ago a citizen of Rochester, New York received about twenty eggs of the Japanese silkworm. Nineteen of the eggs were hatched, and they have given jiromise of a handsome return of silk. The Japanese worm does not feed on the mulberry, but on common oak leaves. It is about twice the size of the mulberry silk worm, and its cocoon in the same proportion. The Reaction. • {From the Chicago Tribune.] The Grant party, for a few weeks past has Claimed a reaction in the political campaign, and asserted that the popular current which had Sit long been running in the channels of Liberal Reform had turned, and was setting in towards Grant, A brief retrospect will show tfic fallacy of this assertion. The Cincinnati Convention set in motion a wave of popular opinion, which gathered both in size and force as it progressed. The Philadelphia Convention apjtosed no considerable barrier to its progress. It surmounted it, and kept on its way without loss in either volume or rapidity. That Convention was so far a matter of form and a foregone conclusion that, while it did not draw off a single voter from the Liberal party, or cause one to hesitate, it did not add anything to its own strength, or present anything to the jteojde sufficiently fresh or novel to awaken enthusiasm or attract attention. The indorsement of the Cincinnati nominees and platform by the Democratic National Convention added still greater volume to the tidal wave, and it swept on from State to State, through the length and breadth of the land, growing day by day. Its progress and its results created alarm and consternation in the Administration. LTnless some barrier was opposed to it, the Grant managers felt that the battle would be won long before November. Of their own strength they had nothing to employ for such purj>oses. They had exhausted all their materials at the outset. Calumnies, falsehoods and personal assault had all fallen harmless. The politicians were not in the new movement, and, therefore, the usual jxfiitical modes of warfare were not available. They could not attack the platform of prineiples without self-condemnation, for they had stolen them almost bodily, and attempted to {taint them off ou the jieojde as of Philadelphia manufacture. They could not impugn the past record .of the party, for it had no past record. It was boru of an absolute necessity, and even in its cradle the young Hercules was already strangling the serpents of corruption. What could not be accomplished by open manly warfare was attempted by trickery and subterfuge. A covert alliance was made with ultra-Secessionists, and this mongrel crew were instructed to hoist the banner of the Democracy, hold a Convention and nominate Charles O’Conor for the Presidency, and were paid for doing it, with the expectation of drawing off votes from Greeley. The moment that the alliance was effected by Morton and Duncan, and the expenses had been guaranteed, then, by preconcerted action, every Grant organ in the land, from Maine to California, shouted “Reaction.” The suds of the Louisville Convention were blown into a very large and attractive bubble. The Bourbon movement was heralded as a great Democratic uprising. O’Conor’s name was kept before the people by the Grant journals, even more frequently and enthusiastically than Grant’s; and no effort was left untried to convince the ]>eople that the ranks of the Liberal party had been broken, and that a large proportion of the Democrats in the party had given in their idherence to the Bourbon movement. These issertions, enforced by the noisy cry of “Reaction,’’ elevated the Louisville Convention

The rumor, persistently reported by some ^ ^J| HI . Paris journals that the French government 1H th « r e are any weak spots in the ranks.

classes of the community argued the matter conditionally. If the Louisville Convention should be largely attended; if it should include in its organization any consideaable number of Democrats prominent for influence and respectability; if it should promulgate a stirring platform, and if it should nominate Charles O’Conor, then there would be no hojse for Mr. Greeley. To this extent there was a reaction during the two or three weeks in wkich the Ixjuisville Conyention was kept before the people by the Grant organs. The reaction, however, was not retrograde in character. The wave had paused for a moment, not gone back or discipated. The last danger which it had to encounter was before it ami it was gathering fresh force to overcome it. The Louisville Convention was held, and none of the conditions which the timid had suggested to themselves might prejudice the election of Mr. Greeley, were fulfilled. The Convention was largely at- • ended. No respectable or prominent Democrat attended it; on the other hand, it was packed by Grant men. Its platform was baavier than lead, and had about as much applicability to the issues before the people as an essay bn Trancendentaiism. Its nominees flatly, and almost rudely, refused to serve, and the whole toting proved a miser-

able farce.

The lull is now over. The only danger Which stood in the way of the Liberal Reform cause has blown harmlessly by, and a counter-reaction has set in. Those who have hesitated, pending the action of the Louisville Convention will hesitate no longer. It will influence a multitude of Republicans who were waiting for this convention before they made up their minds. It will close up the Democratic ranks solidly for Greeley. All that is necessary now is for every man m the Liberal party of Illinois to do his duty.

contemplated authorizing experimentally, gambling houses at Enghien, Vichy, Aix, Par, and other places, is authoritatively de

nied.

A week filled with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises,

close them up by more complete organization. Do not wait for the assistance of victory In Indiana and Pennsylvania, but organize as if the battle were to be fought here n October. The fiasco at Louisville is a defeat to the administration, and now iathe time to make the Liberal party more strong

and compact than it was before.

NORTH POLR EXPLORSTIONS. The Anstrlaw Exeedltlmi to Urn Polar

Seoo.

An interesting letter on toe objects of the Austrian expedition, which has just started for the Polar Seas, has been addressed from Tronsoe to the Neue Freie Preese by Lieutenant Payer, one of the chief officers of the expedition. The writer says that it appears from the researches made by the Austrian expedition of |la»t year in the sea of Nova Zambia that it is the warming influence of the Gulf Stream which opens the Icy Sea to toe east of Spitzenbergen in the autumn up to the seventy-eighth and seventy-ninth degrees of north latitude; but he thinks it certain, nevertheless, that the Gulf Stream itself must disappear in those latitudes. The direction of toe maritime currents and formation of new gulf streams by the Siberian rivers can, he proceeds, only be a matter of conjecture so king as we are ignorant of the distribution of land and sea about the North Pole. All we know, for certain, on this subject at present, is, that there exists an extensive stretch of land to the north of Behring’s Straits: but that there must be undiscovered territories in the depths of the Polar regions is shown both by the observations of Captain Parry in 1827, and by those of the Austrian expedition above alluded to, for both encountered icebergs covered with earth, animals which are usuallv found in the vicinity of land, drift wood,'etc. The aim of the present expedition is not to find an open Polar Sea, or even to reach Behring’s Straits; it only hopes to be able to penetrate, with the aid of warm currents produced by the Siberian rivers, into the unknown region to toe north of

Asia.

It is to be expected that the expedition will meet with serious obstacles from the ice at Tchelinskin, the most northerly extremity of the Asiatic continent, and that it will have to have to pass the first winter there, if it does not succeed in discovering land to the north of it If, by the third summer, it finds it can neither reach Behring’s Straits nor return the way it came, the expedition will have no alternative but to leave the ship and return in boats by the Siberian rivere. In any case cairns will be erecCgd at all the moat important points visited by til© expedition, with {tapers concealed in them describing its proceedings. “From Nora Zembia w* Behring’s Straits, concludes Lieut Payer, “np to within a few sea leagues from the Asiatic coast, all is totally unknown; there is therefore no region in the world which is so promising to the explorer. Both in the autumn and the spring—that is, for three months in each year—detachments from the expedition will proceed in sledges to explore any new lands that might lie discovered, to travel along the still but little known coast of northern Asia, and, if possible, to transmit news to Europe through the Samoieds, Yahouta aud other nomad races. The expedidition is provisioned for three years, and, if it meets with good hunting grounds, may, if necessary, be continued a year longer; but if the original plan is carried out,it Will return in two years and a half.” The Imitation or Gome. Nowhere has chemistry—the science most essential for the purpose—been brought to greater perfection than in France. Accordingly, none have attained more skill in the art of imitating gems than the French. If the revenue that Paris has derived from this source alone for toe past quarter of a century were stated in plain figures, it would seem more fabulous than any story in the “Arabian Nights.” But it wouldseem worse than fabulous to say that three-fourths of those gems which are worn daily, or at least nightly, in New York, Philadelphia and Boston, including those that sparkle on the bosoms of some of our great men, have contributed to that revenue in proportion to their size and characteristics. Yet it would really be no exaggeration of the fact. Let those who think we want to trespass on their credulity turn to words of Kunkel, Neri and Fontainieu. That of M. Fontainieu alone would be sufficient That learned member of the Royal Academy of Science has been enabled, by a long series of experiments, to produce a perfectly colorless crystal. This he calls fondant, or base; he has formed one by each of the five different processes; he has also shown how the various colors are produced, according as a given piece of crystal is intended to be a diamond, an amethyst an eifierald, a ruby, etc. Several German chemists have given the world the benefit of their researches on the same subject and some have enriched themselves, and others by them. This is true, for example, of Professor Lippert, of Dresden, who prepared 3,000 casts, of which one jeweler bought 1,000, and rapidly made his fortune; the remainder were purchased by different jewelers, each of whom obtained the prices of real gems. Since the celebrated experiments of Lavoisier, every person of ordinary intelligence is aware that the diamonds is simply pure carbon crystalized, and that it can be burned in in oxygen, the sole result of the combustion being carbonic aotd. M. Despretz, another French chemist, has actually made real diamonds, having melted and crystalized carbon by means of a galvanic battery; but Nature has so carefully kept the secret to herself thus far, that the learned Frenchman’s diamonds are so small as to be visible onlywrith a microscope.

«d for hi. gwrt bravery In th. Urrible fight. SuT the e R.^i^Ld Ctoraadm Mde. eraf m&nv were the decorations which the Em^SaLption ejoeedUm^paofficer who had fallen oat with General Woraoaera The millions that had been drawn from the imperial treasury for the erection of a lortress in the conquered country went into toe pockets of the topographical chief engineer and his assistants. I have the above from a. Russian and not Polish source, and from a gentleman who was himself an officer in tne army. Of«couree, it has never been published, tor the vigilant eye of the censor would

never have permitted U.

Mr. Saner aa* Hr. Sehara.

[From the Philadelphia ReeortU

The departure (to most people unexp«cl«d) of Senator Sumner from Boston to Emop^on Tuesday, an the steamship Malta, * ei striking commentary on current predictiona as to the political intentions of prominent men. Soon after Mr. Garrison's letter appeared, criticising Mr. Sumner^ it was announced that the latter “was composing hi* reply, and would publish it before leaving Washington.” It was further announced by the correspondents that-Mr. Sumner was going to “take the stump” during the present canvass. On the other hand it was reported of Mr. Schunt, last summer, that he wee “disgusted with politics,” and was contemplating a trip to Europe until Congreea should meet in winter; and even the Nation itself, which is conspicuously cautious of predictions, hazarded the opinion that Mr. Schurz would not make any political speeches in support of the candidates then nominated. These general expectations have been most curiously reversed. It is Senator Sumner, and not Senator Schurz, who has quitted »he arena of autumn politics and gone off to Europe ; it. is Senator Schurz, and not Senator Sumner, who has taken the stump and made fervent public speeches in many parts of the country; it is the Senator from Massachusetts, finally, and not the Senator from Missouri, who may be said to have dropped the canvass in the very midst, since the latter is still hard at work, and probably will be until

foe November election.

Aw 4»l«t Blast Explodes after Twenty-

one Years Neglect.

I From the Lexington, (Ky.) Press.]

The dreadful accident of yesterday, which may result in the death of two unfortunate men. calls to mind an occurrence of a similar character which took place, some years ago, on the Lexington and Harrodsburg Pike. It seems that to construct the winding road down the hill near the Kentucky river, blasting was necessary to assist in the removal of the rock. On one occasion the blast failed to explode. The workmen avoided for some time, and, as it was finally determined to widen the road at that place, after it should be completed throughout its length,

the old blast was altogether neglected.

After a lapse of twenty-one years the longdelayed improvement was commenced. The old blast was forgotten; workmen set to work to drill new holes near where the old one had been made. Three men were thus engaged one day, when suddenly the rocks were tom asunder. One Gormley, standing on a loose rock, was thrown fifty feet into the air. and was saved from death only by his falling upon an elevated bank. Hie olber two were blown down the hill-mde. None were killed, but all were badly wound-

ed, Gormley losing an eye. The explosion of neglect means uncommon, and soi

ected blasts is by Tio

means uncommon, and some method ought to be adopted to render toe powder in such cases non-explosive, and thus protect human life from such terrible risks. It would seem to us that some chemical preparation might be invented to answer the purpose we have

mentioned.

RBMlaa Oflelal Corruptloa.

A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune says that the following fraud was practiced upon the Czar Alexander, while yet Crown Prince. There was a certain fortress placed on the military map of the Caucasus. The Crown Prince, on visiting this latter country, expressed to Pnnoe Woronzoff, the commanding General, his desire to visit raid fortress. The General himself, who had never seen the fortress, addressed himself to the Chief Engineer, who informed him that the fortress existed only on the map. How to the Crown Prince from this notion to visit toe mythical fort was .not an easy task. The General resorted first to thestrategy of frightning back toe Crown Prince by the story of the fort being in the center of a very dangerous band of marauding Circassians; but when this did not have 1 the desired effect, he at last improvised a sham attack by a division of his Russian soldiers turned in Circassians, and stationed on the imaginary ronte to the fort. The sham fight lasted for an* hour or so, at toe end of which the prince was congratulated by the commanding gen-

flew We Oat Acquainted. WpII »?ave all sorts of waya. Those who come here without acquaffitwees will

be left to their own'

knows any persons ^ ave 1> * en h®*® * few weeks previous it is vei 7 ^ iatter * A lady friend is an invalC^M® •dvantaw to a young man at a watering place. Ladies have an easy way t>f becoming wqtiatnted with each other, as they discard k xll formalities of introduction. The subject oJ 8®J“2 g acquainted forms the most perplexing study to the young people here. Some h*Y« •** easy way getting over it, while others it troubles greatly. Now, that couple sitting out in the summer house had no troubl* whatever. On the evening of the young man’s arrival he was standing at the parlor looking at the dancers when he heard a young lady standing beside him say she wished she could get a dance. He immediately offered his services, was timidly but gladly accepted, and since that timoy-one wee k—they have been together like friends of years’ standing, and some say engaged. I know of A young lady Who makes acquaintances by sitting on the beach making holes in the sand, and then getting young men to fill them. Remember, it was a smile for which Antony lost the world for Cleopatra— [jiong Branch Correspondence New York

Express.

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Oppreftaed Bold**** Boy*. Women are often taunted with looking upon marriage as the end k'nd aim of their existence, bnt ft is something that London butchers have lo'oked for advancement and success in life tO toe same expedient Yet at a meeting of separative butchers, held in London for the puVP°re. °f forming a Journeymen Butchers’ Operative Society, one of the speakers stated as a reason why they should agitate for increased ivages, that the present master butchers had d® 611 able to set up in business through marrying West End cooks and housekeepers, whet having better wages than clergymen, saved up money enougn to start the butcher who called for orders in business. But these good days had gone forever. “The cooks got snapped up now by the area police and rifle volunteers; and once a buteher boy always a butcher boy, even when they got bald; so they must not look to noblemen’s cooks for an increase of comforts, but to better places,” the speaker logically concluded.

Comfort for tbe Aged.

Taunting an old man with hig age and bidding him prepare for death is a relic of savagery. Any man who does it in broadclotn and a white shirt is anachronous, and ought to receive a coat of red ochre, or have bis breast and thighs handsomely tattooed. It is not only barbarous, however, but absurd. A man’s age indicates little as to the stare of his faculties,and it is toe state of his faculties which is the important point for voters. When a man of seventy can command an army as Moltke has done, or a man of seven-ty-four can administer as Thiers is doing, or a man of eighty as Palmerston did, and a man of seventy-two judge as Six Alexander Cockburn is doing, to taunt General Dix with

being old, and bid him

silly as well as brutal.—[

prep i Natii

are for dgath, U

Terrible Work. Work in the rolling mills in the hof

of the rolling mill men, who work by foe ton, commences in the morning. During the early part of the day toe heat though intense, is patiently borne with the body clothed; bat between 12 and 3 o’clock-wheu rolls, furnaces, and the iron are all hissing hot, the endurance of toe men is taxed to the utmost. The thermometer marks from 125 to 135 degrees of heat Shirts dnnping with persp’ration are discarded, the muscular development may be studied to good advantage. Pants are wet and sterening hotiy, and even shoes most occasionally be emptied of toe sweet that runs into them.

Tbe Versatile Bias tow.

The melancholy seafaring man whose only joke was to call himself the cook and captain and mate of the Nancy Brig, the boatswain tight and the midshipmite, and the crew of the captain’s gig, because he had incorporated all these men and brethren in his own cannibal system, reminds one of toe figure cut by Mr. Duncan, toward the dose of his convention. Most of the delegates had rone home disgusted, and each ap he went authorized Duncan to cast his vote. So that as the meeting flickered to its close, the only imposing figure left in it was the undaunted Blanton, victorious over his gout and impervious to ridicule, swinging the votes of a continent in the twilight void.—[N. Y.

Tribune.

A Mississippi girt, just out of school, hired a few negroes last season and undertook to

in cash from the sale of cotton, after all expenses were paid.

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