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What Came of Holding Vanderbilt's Hourse.

A young man from an adjoining State, who ha* recently been rescued '■>'from a score of hungry creditors, and Who still has a credit at his banker’s of about SIOO,000, but who not long ago was in reduced circumstances and obliged to live in retirement on Staten Island, makes the following solution of his sudden acquisition of a competency : The gentleman—Holt by name—was residing in one of the fashionable hotels on Staten Island. He was extremely down-hearted. This was the reason of his low spirits: About two years ago he had married a very handsome woman, .on whom he fairly doatod. At that time he had $25,000 in cash. Soon after the nuptial ceremony, Holt removed to this city, and became a broker on Wall street. He was too honest to succeed there. The bulls and bears gored and tore him—financially—and in less than a twelve-month he had not a dollar left. Disgusted, he retired with as good a grace as possible, leaving his cash to fulfill its mission. With wife and child he went to the country, and finally, a* before stated, settled down in a hotel on Staten Island. His wife had some means, and she gave it freely for the support ofthe family. About two Weeks ago, late in on® hot afternoon,, A gentleman drove up to the hotel w nere Holt was living, and gruffly whether there was a boy there who co.uld hold his horse. “ I will, do it sir,” said Mr. Holt, and he dkl hold the animal during the time consumed by the elderly gentleman in obtaining hi# dinner. A few days later 1 , the. same gentleman, driving the same horse, stopped at the same hotel, and hunted for a boy to hold his horse. No boy being' present, Holt again volunteered. He held the horse till the hostler came to take tWanimal to the table, and then retired within the hotel to dress for dinner. Mrs. Holt had a way of making herhutband get'hlniself tap tary respectably at least once each day, and that was for the ditiner hour. Generally he had been rather negligent of his costume, and since his financial fiasco had really become seedy. When Mr. and Mrs. Holt entered the hotel dining-room that evening. Mrs. Holt was resplendent. Her husband was at least dressed in gentlemanly style.- At an adjoining table ant the elderly man whose horse Mr. Holt had on two different occasions the pleasure of holding. The eyes of the elderly individual were observed to dilate considerably, in fact, he stared at Mr .end, Mrs. Holt. But he said nothing at that time. After dinner, however, he Bought out Mr. Hrit, and bluntly asked his name, “Holh.sjr, at your service.” “And wh'o do you think lain?” agiin asked the elderly personage. “On, you? You are‘old’ but! 1 know yott, and the horse’fhkve held is Mountain Boy, an animal any man might be proud to draw & rein over." Instead of taking offense at the epithet "old,” Mr. Vanderbilt—for it was the Commodore—seemed to like it, ■ and be made some inquiries about Halt's antecedents, took a iancy to him, andpeyemptorUy ordered the young man to make his appearance at his up town office on thb ensuing forenoon at precisely 11 o’clock. Holt promised to obey, did ijp, arid "Bad an interview of over an hour's tiuratiou with the millionaire. What was done or said on that oocasien no one has ever been able to learn. But a few days later Holt made bis reappearance in Wall street and speculated strongly and successfully in a oer tain line of Blocks known to be moßtiy controlled by Commodore Vanderbilt. 8o well did he work hi* card with the .instructions undoubtedly obtained from the Commodore, that in’, a. few weeks be cleared over SIOO,OOO in cash, which "he deposited with a prominent banking house, whore vault# : are protected by bUrglarproof locks, and who keep day and night watchmen expressly paid to see that-no unauthorized person tampers with those safeguards. Two days ago Vanderbilt sent for Holt again and said to him: “Young man, I hear you have made some money. lam glad to learn it: Now just take my advice a second time. .Never put foot in Wall street regain. You are not suited for that atmosphere. Shun it as you would the devil. You’ve got enough. Keep what you have and be contented.” ur HpUrnow shuns Wall street as he would . a pestilence.— lfm York Sun, July 22.

Deseription of the New Air Ship.

L<i . I • ■ A numhich of our citizens,on Saturday, received invitations from the Sfccretary of the Aerial Steam Navigation Company, to attend a private. .view of then- model carriage, which has for a long time past been in course of construction At qliell Mound Track, in San Mateo WSuaty. Among others we cquolddcd to accept the invitation, and the 8:80 train of the San Joee Railroad Company landed us 'at lhe tr *ck yesterday at 10- o’ciook a. m. } We found the "Avitor" inflated, and the engineers and attendants leading ’the stately little fellow from the ahed where 5? wes constructed out into the open air. Unfortunately a stiff breeze had justi sprung up, and it was too evident that the managers had thilr oWn doflbtf as to nothing wad left but to> return hftn to:the shed, wherehe waaput Uircugh a measured paw. V(e are compelled to sa/t&aT-the performance lookedsomething Hire afcllUW,;Md a filing .of regret, rather than of ndieujq. perjaded the, company present, at the lowering bf the hopes thutjh ad been raised py its over sanguine tevWtor. Tho “Avitor” can he briefly described simply as a balloon of tfaA form Of a Aery short and thick cigaf, its extreme, length

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being about ninety-five feet, its height ten feet, and its width at the center about seveh leet. A delicate frame-work of light and strong wood passes longitudinally through ft, and serves to hold the guides for regulating its movement in their places. At the after end of the frame the rudder is placed— ap Ingenious contrivance for directing its course either vertically or horizontally. The propelling power is furnished by a very small engine and boiler, of the very lightest weight, and certainly of no more effective force than could be produced by turning a crank by a man of ordinary strength. The engine and boiler—the latter fired up with alcohol—are in dangerous proximity to the balloon itself, and are placed in a niche in its bottom. From the engine, by light shafts and gearing, the power is transmitted to a couple of propellers working in the frame first mentioned, and a number of lines, bands, ribbons and network, all of the lightest material, serve to bind the frame to the balloon and preserve its contour. The inventor has evidently made his greatest error in supposing that any practical speed can be obtained from the application of so little power to so great a mass. It is apparent that to give any velocity to the balloon—relative to the air through which it travels—the air in front must be removed and passed to its rear so that a bulk of its own size must be moved by its propellers in order to fcrce it to move its own length. The scale upon which the machinery is constructed is so very trilling and inadequate to do this, that its failure cannot be a matter of surprise; in fact, until some other power is discovered that can be condensed in a far less compass than that of steam, we fear that the success of the present affair is hopeless.— San Francisco Atlas.

Stopping a Passenger Train.

fhiznd informs us of the novel mode adopted to stop a railroad train in Vermont, the other day. He was at Centre Rutland, a way station, where the train did not stop except upon the signal of a red flag. It was early in the morning, and the station-master had not arrived. A woman with two small children came to take the cars, and was anxiously awaiting their arrival. The time was nearly up, and yet no appearance of the station-mas-ter. The woman grew more anxious. She said there was no signal, and she must take that train at all hazards. “Why,” said she, “ I can now hear the cars coming—what shall I do ? I must go on this train.” This appeal was addressed to our friend, who, by the way, is over six feet tall and “well proportioned.” After thinking a moment, he asked the woman if she did not have -something red about her, a shawl or something. She replied that she had not. In a moment a thought struck her, and She said “ yes, I have on me a red petticoat, will that do ?” “ Certaifily,”Said our friend, “I will elevaleit On my walking stick, and if that don’t stop the train then there is no virtue in woman’s expedients.” The experiment was tried, and the emblem of woman’s rights brought the rushing train to a stand, on time. The woman was delighted with her success, and laughed as heartily over the sengers on the train. —Albany Argus.

The New Fractional Currency.

The Treasury Department has commenced the issue of the new fractional currency. The printing is done in New York—the face by the American Bank Note Company, arid the back by the Natonalßank Note Company, on the same paper used for printing the United States and National Bank Notes. This paper is superior in quality to that used for the currency now in use. Instead of the flashy bronzing heretofore used on the face of the fractional currency, which was easily counterfeited, an engraved seal, printed in red, has been substituted. This is the finishing touch to the notes, and is done.at the printing division of the Treasury Department under the management Of its efficient chief, George B. McCartee. The ton cent note, instead of being ornamented on the face, as now, by the head of Washington, has the bust of a woman supposed to be the Goddess of Liberty. The fifteen cent notes will have on their face the figure on the dome of the Capitol. Fessenden’s head will be taken off the twenty-flve-cent notes, and that of Washington substituted. General Spin net’s handsome bust will be taken off the fifty cent notes, and be replaced by that of the late President Lincoln. All the issues will be out and ready for circulation about the Ist of August.— Eechange.

The Pranks of a Water Spout.

Dobing a severe storm at Tenn., a few days ago, the following Incident occurred, as told by the Banner, of that city: Just above the upper landing there is a small bathing boat, which is fitted up with evergreens as a screen to the bathers as they perform their toilets. At the time when the storm came up, a party of about a dozen boys and men were bathing in the river, and had their clothes hung on the evergreens which formed the side of the boat next Ur Broad streot. Along came the waterspout in its course, whisked the tfPes from the side, clothes and all. sod, sent the whole far up into the sky. Away wont the raiment of the bathers before their ovfn astonished eyes, the spirits of the air crawling in and oat of the different articles, and trying all sorts of ways to foel comfortable and at home in them, but without success. Away went the clothes, sailing through the air and followed by the anxious gaze of the bathers, until having risen to a considerable elevation in the region of the water works, they disappeared trom view. The party swam, Borne to the boat, which had been drenched and partially filled with water, and others to the shore. All called loudly for clothes, and each was eager to securo the services of some one to go for a change of attire. A number of articles of apparel were finally secured, and then there was greats swapping among the crowd to get fitted out. The whole crew finally succeeded in getting sufficient covering to evade the law and then started home. The whole affair partook considerably of ue ludicrous, and caused much merriment among those who witnessed this freak of the Wind. At Lawrence, Massachusetts, a farmer was recently tried for putting Btones in his loads of hay to increase tho weight. He pupils pounds of stones in one load, and was detected in pulling them out after the hay was weighed. One witness ttsti fled that he hid been annoyed for a year or two past, at times, by piles of country stones, moss covered, being left where the prisoner unloaded his hay. '

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, JULY 29, 1869.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN. Mr. Bagley, of the United States, presented a petition to the Earl of Granville on the 10th, asking the release of the American Fenians. France and Prussia have recognized the Spanish Regency. The Cortes has taken a recess until October. M. De Lesseps has officially announced that the opening of the Suez Canal will take place on November 17. Hon. Samuel Shcllaberger had an interview with the King of Portugal on the 10th, and presented his credentials as Minister of the United States. In the House of Commons on the 10th, several of the amendments of the House of Lords to the Church bill were rejected. Several thousand Remington rifles have been shipped from Havana to arm the volunteers about to take the field against the rebels. - An official decree contains the following appointments to the French Ministry: Minister of the Interior, De Forcade La Roquette ; Justice, Duvergier; Foreign Affairs, Auvergne; Finance, Pierre Magne; Commerce, Alfred Leroux; Public Works, Gressier; Marine, Admiral Geneovilly; War, Marshal Niel; Public Instruction, Bourbcau; President Council of State, Chasselonp. The first geheral meeting of the Woman Franchise Society of England was held in London, on the 19th. Among the notables present were John Stuart Mill, Lord Houghton, Hon. James Stansfeld, Henry Fawcett, Rev. Charles Kingsley, and Louis Blhnc. There were also many ladies present. Addresses were delivered and resolutions unanimously adopted in favor of female suffrage. The Harvard University crew reached London on the 20th, in excellent health, and would immediately go into training far their rowing match with the Oxford crew, which is to come off on the 31st of August. Captain General De Rodas, in view of the prompt action of the United States in arresting filibusters, has issued a decree annulling Article 7 of his proclamation of the 7th instant, relative to the right of Spanish cruisers to search neutral vessels in waters near Cuba.

In the House of Lords, on the 21st, on a motion of Earl Granville to restore the preamble to the Irish Church bill, the Government was defeated by the following vote: For the motion, 95; against it, 173; majority against the Government, 78. A petition asking for franchise, signed by 25,000 women, has been presented in the House of Commons. Much excitement existed throughout Spain on the 21st, and there were many arrests of parties fomenting insurrection against the present Government. A plot for the assassination of Serrano, Prim and Rivero had been discovered. The French Corps Legislatif will meet on the 26th of October. The old Confederate cruiser Tallahassee was totally wrecked near Yokohama, Japan, June 17, Twenty-two lives were lost, including the captain, many of the crew, and several passengers. The differences between the House of Lords and Commons, respecting amendments to the Irish Church Bill, were compromised on the 22 i, by Lord Cairns, on the part of the Peers, and Earl Granville, on the part of the Commons, and the two Houses subsequently agreed to the compromise. ~ Two~cTtTz«nsofthe United States, named Printado and Cabias, who had been in a Cuban prison since February, and Senor Gutierrez, a Mexican, have been released through the intercession of the American Consul General. Hon. John Rose, the Canadian Minister of Finance, has resigned, and the resignation is accepted. Mail advices from England give details of the loss of the British ship Blue Jacket, burned at sea in March last, while on her way from New Zealand to England. Out of sixty-nine persons on board only eight are known to be saved. The cargo of the Grapeshot has been confiscated at Jamaica, by the British authorities, because of her violation of the neutrality laws. Another dreadful colliery explosion occurred at St. Helena, a small place a few miles east of Liverpool, on the 21st. Over fifty persons were killed outright, and sixty injured.

DOMESTIC. The Secretary of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee officially announces that the fourth reunion of the society will take place at Louisville, Ky., November 17. The gauge throughout the entire length of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, a ills tance of 308 miles, was changed] between the hours of 4 a. m. and 8 p. m. on the 18th. An Omaha telegram of the 18th says “ General Carr’s troops aro in fine condition. The victory is more complete than , first reported. Over four hundred horses and mules, a large quantity of powder, five tons of dried beef, and other valuable stores, were captured. The soldiers found over S9OO in money, which they donated to Mrs. Weigel, the white woman recaptured from the Indians.” The constitution of the. Washington Typographical Union has been so amended that the number of apprentices at the Government pffioe may be increased to meet the desire of Mr. the Congressional. Jointer. The case of Douglass, the colored compositor, has been postponed until the next stated meeting. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that when a manufacturer purchases second-hand articles and roI pairs the same and tells them, he should

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be required to include the sales of such articles in hi# quarterly return and pay a tax theron as oh sales of new articles. A large quantity of lager which had been seized in Boston was returned to the owners on the 17th, on the ground that the property would spoil before a legal decision would be reached. A keg of lager was seized in Cambridge, and the owner sentenced to three months at the House of Correction, and fined SSO. The Gpban Junta, in New York, has resolved to make a Southern port their base of operations hereafter. A steamer is reported to have left for Richmond, and the Ryan expedition will proceed there in squads and then embark for Cuba. In a message to the City Connell, Mayor Bowen, of Washington, recommends that white and colored children be educated under the same public school system in that city, and under the same roof. He has also nominated Prof. Yashon (colored), as one of the trustees of white schools. It is reported that a bark recently left Baltimore with 24,000 stand of arms and 170,000 rounds of ammunition for Cuba. She got off withont tronble. professing to be loaded with hay, and reached her destination successfully. The colored mechanics of Baltimore are forming a Trade Union organization, to embrace in its jurisdiction the State of Maryland. A society for the protection of Chinese Atom the abase of lawless white men and boys has been organized in San Francisco. The Central and Union Pacific Railroad Companies have agreed to carry fruit from San Franciso to New York at five cents per pound, and immigrants from New York to California at SSO, and from Chicago at S3B. The Trustees of the Purdue University Agricultural College have decided that it shall be located not more than two miles and a half from Lafayette, Ind. A Washington telegram of the 21st says the statement that Secretary Fish had given authority to land the French cable at Duxbnry, Mass., is not correct The Secretary don not consider that he has the power to give such authority, as it belongs exclusively to Congress, and the Secretary simply expressed the opinion that with the concessions which the cable company propose to make to the United States CoDgres# will probably not make any objections. The first case and death from yellow fever at New Orleans, this season, occurred on the 20th. The victim was a young Frenchman, lately from Havana, where he stopped only a few hours. Another successful trial of the air ship Avitor was made in Ban .Francisco, on

the 21st, in the presence of members of the press, a portion of the Chicago party and a number of engineers. Several of the latter expressed the opinion that the larger maohine now under construction will be a success. Returns from the Land office at Salt Lake city show that during the first two weeks of June last 883 declaratory statements, covering 140,000 acres, were filed in that office under the pre-emption act. The Northern Pacific Railroad Exploring Expedition arrived lately at Fort Abercrombie, July 19. The trial of Yerger before the military commission was concluded on the 22d, hut the verdict was not known. After the trial was concluded, Yerger was brought before Judge Hill of the United States Circuit Court, on a writ of habeas corpus. Judge William Yerger, on behalf of the prisoner, submitted a plea to which Judge Advocato.Col. Thomas F. Barr submitted a return, and Yerger was remanded to military custody. Measures have been [instituted for organizing a company having in view the holding of a World’s exposition of manufactures, Ac., in Washington a year hence. All the prisoners confined at Fort Lafayette charged with being concerned in the Cuban expedition have been releaaed. The first fruit car on the Pacific Railroad left Sacramento on the 28d, loaded principally with plums and pears for Chicago, and grapes for New York. The Commissioner of Revenue has decided that no tax be levied upon sales and loans of building associations

PERSONAL. Dr. Richard Edwards, of Normal, CC has received a letter from Maj. Powell, commanding the Colorado River Exploring Expedition, dated June 29, in which the Major states that himself and party were all well and in good spirits. They bad ran four canons, twenty-five miles in length each, and were then camped at the month of the Uintah. Miss Borie, daughter of the ex-Secreta fy of the Navy, rescued a young Baltimorean from drowning, who had got be yond his depth while bathing, at Cape May, on the 20th. At a recent interview with'a reporter of the N. Y. Timet, Mr. Koopmanschoop, importer of Chinese coolies, stated that it was his intention to import a hundred thousand of these men during the coining year, and hire them out at from $8 to sl2 per month t afld their keeping. Prof. Morse, the famous inventor, sustained a compound fracture of the leg by a (all apdt residence near Poughkeepsie, on the evening of the 17th. General Sickles, the American Minister to Spain, arrived at Madrid on the 22dGeo. Peabody left Baltimore on the 22d, for White Sulphur Springs. Commodore S. S. Lee, brother of Gen. R. E. Lee, died at his home in Stafford county, Va., on the 22d. Father McMahon, the Fenian, bas been liberated by the Canadian authorities. J. Russell Jones, the new Minister to I Belgium, arrived at Brussels on the 21st.

Ex-Gov. Henry Orapo died at Flint, Michigan, on the 23d, aged 67 years. POLITICAL. i The following is the Republican State ticket in Texas: For Governor, General Edward J. Davis; Lieutenant Governor, Colonel J. W. Flanagan; Comptroller, Carter; Treasurer, William D. Price; Commissioner of the Land Office, Jacob Kinchler. The Governor of Florida has issued a proclamation fixing the 2d of November next as the day on which the popular vote shall be taken to determine the proposed cession of West Florida to Alabama. The Minnesota Republican State Convention, for the nomination of candidates for State offices, is called to meet at St.[Panl on the 9th of September. The State Prohibitory Liquor Law Committee of Massachusetts have decided to hold a delegate State Temperance Convention, in Boston, on August 17, next, to decide upon the policy to be adopted in the fall campaign. The Democratic Convention of New Mexico has nominated Resente Romero for Delegate Jo Congress. Walker’s official majority in Virginia, as announced at Richmond on the 20th, is 18,202. A Richmond dispatch of the 21st says: “ Official returns show that the vote for Walker was 26,000 short of the white registration, and that for Wells 18,000 short of the colored registration. The objectionable clauses in the constitution were defeated by 40,000. There appears to have been an entirely new deal in politics, as only five members elected to the Legislature have ever been there before.” The official vote of Washington Territory is s,23B—increase in two years 698. Garfield’s (Republican) majority for Delegate to Congress is 148. The vote on the State Convention is small—4oo for, and 688 againgj. The "Republican State Convention of California, which met at San Francisco on the 22d, nominated Lorenzo Sawyer and O. C. Pratt for Judges of the Supreme Court. The next State elections will be in Kentucky, August 2; Alabama, August 3; Tennessee, August 5. Montana votes August 10.

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There are 131,000 acres of coffee planted in Ceylon. Nowadays Is the name of a Womans’ Rights paper in London. W inchbnden, Mass., made 432,000 strawberry boxes last winter. An entire Jury of Smiths was recently impaneled in Sheffield, England. The State of California offers extensive bounties for silk worm culture. Upwards of 27,000,000 people have visited London Crystal Palace, since its opening, in 1854. Mount Whitney, in California, 15,000 feet high, is said to be the highest peak in the United States. The area of the unsnrveyed lands of the United States is fifteen times greater than the whole area of France. There are now in Russia 360 printing offices, 413 bookstores, 286 lithographic establishments, and 221 circulating libraries. The railways of France, which run at low rates, under restricted tariffs, have for the last six years averaged dividends of 11 per cent The Pittsburgh Mutual Protection Society have Instituted more suits againet car drivers, liquor sellers, etc., for violation of the Sunday law. The proprietors of the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, opened a large ball room, fitted up lust inside its mouth, on the 15th inst„ with a grand ball. Daniel Kinsley, of Auburn, Maine, 83 years old, has a pair of boats 35 years old, which he still wears on festal occasions, and are sound in every particular. It is stated that the Great Eastern, on her return to England from the present expedition, will immediately be sent out to India to lays cable between Bombay and Suez.

In Melbourne, the works of Artemus Ward, Orpheus C. Keer, Mark Twain and Leland’s ballads of Hans Breittmann have been printed and become as popular as in America. In Philadelphia use of sponges, saturated with water, as fixtures upon the heads of draught horses, is ne&rlv universal. The passenger railroad companies generally have adopted the idea. Madame Anna Bishop is on her return from Australia to England, having made a complete tour of the civilized, half-civil-ized and barbarous world, and given concerts in every country under the sun. Two rival senoritas at Puebla had a quarrel at a church door, and a duel was agreed upon. They drew lots, the winner having the privilege of one good stab at the other with a dagger. The loser died on the spot. A bot, while angling in the canal at Cincinnati, a few days since, got what he thought a very promising bite. He can-, tiously drew In his line, when he found on the hook a small tin box, which he opened and found to contain S3O in silver, S4O in greenbacks, and two gold rings, worth about $lO each. , The locksmith who picked the lock on the outer door of the vault of the Ocean Bank, New York, has repeated the feat, the lock having been set this time as it was on the night of the robbery. He was at the work about four hours, and after ho had finished said that he would open the lock at any other combination in half an hour. Tea New York Timet is said to have received, since Mr. Raymond’s death, an avalanche of propositions from would-be editor*. They are classified as follows: Persona willing to be managers, 6,869; financial editors, 6,670; leader-writers, 666; theatrical critics, 8.076; reporter, 1; night editors, 0; errand boys, 0. , A raw weeks ago an elegantly d rawed lady drove up to the house of a gentleman at Enghien, near Paris, and presmiting herself as the Queen of Spain, intimated keg desire to rent the house. Her manner was that of an insane person, and it turnod out that it was the widow ot the late Emperor MaximllUan, who had temporarily •scaped from her attendants.

NO. 44.

The Red Bank (N. J.) Standard rejoices orer the discovery of a bed of young oysters along and below the railroad bridge at that place, of an extent inch aa has not been known at that place for years “ Oystermen and citizens have worked for the past week to such good effect that over 3,000 bushels have been transported from the native ‘ reel' to grow ana fatten on various oyster beds in the river.” ' The total number of Poles who are now in exile or in the mines, in consequence of the last insurrection, is 140,000, among whom six are bishops, three prelates, ana two hundred and eighteen priests; thirtyseven clergymen have either perished in the field or been executed by order of a eourt martial; and about two hundred more have been sentenced to Imprisonment forvarious periods. A correspondent of a Paris journal, who has been admitted to an interview with Garibaldi, gives a most distressing account of his appearance: “ The General’s features appeared contracted, his body emaciated, and he was lying on a sofa suffering horribly from an attack of chronic rheumatism. The ex-Oiotator, bent like the Tower of Pisa, is but a shadow of the past, and with difficulty one recognizes in the trembling and delicate old man the fierce Republican of former days. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger writes that a relative, a youth, who had been afflicted with epilepsy for the period of three years, or from the age of 14 to 17, was completely cured by the administration of bromide of potassium, in increasing doses up to a certain quantity. The attacks-became gradually fewer, and in about two years ceased entirely. It is asserted that not the slightest Symptoms of a convulsion has appeared in the patient for over three years. During the year ending June 30, there entered the United States through Michigan, by way of the Canadas, 85,656 immigrants, 18,956 male and 16,000 female. Canada furnished the largest number, 12,203 j Norway the next, 11,718, and of the rest Germany sent 4,716, Ireland, 1,931, Belgium, 1,851, England, 1,337, Denmark, 878 and Scotland 822. An overwhelming preponderance of the men, 17,280, are farmers and laborers. The Engineer, of London, publishes the following curious statistics of the weekly produce of the various manufactories in Birmingham: 14,000,000 of steel pens, 6,000 iron bedsteads, 7,000 guns, 800,000,000 of machine screws, 100,000,000 of buttons, 1,000 saddles, 5,000,000 of copper and bronze coins, 20,000 balls, 40,000 pounds weight of papier mache work, £30,000 worth of jewelry, 20,000,000 of feet in length of wire, 40,000 pounds weight of needles, 20,000 pounds of hairpins, 18,750,000 of hooks and eyes, 10,000 dozen fire irons, 3,500 pairs of bellows, 150 sewing machines, &c. The fact that a case of cholera has been discovered in the city should be received with firmness. People who are careful of their health—who have no bad habits of eating and drinking, and who do not deprive themselves of necessary sleep, or uanecessarily expose themselves to atmospherical dangers, may repose in quiet so tar as the cholera is concerned. It attacks mostly those who have rendered themselves liable by their own imprudence. Persons who indulge freely in whisky had better sign the pledge. It is among their ranks that cholera finds its fattest feasts. —JV. T. Express.

There is “ shoddy ” in glass as well aa in woolen fabrics. Consumersofkerosene are sometimes almost discouraged, so frequently do chimneys break, without any apparent cause, rendering the cost of chimneys about equal to that of oiL Cheapness being tbe order of the day, a a great many manufacturers make Chimneys from silicate of lime instead of lead. The initiated may tell the different qualities of glass by ringing them; the vibrations of the lead glass have a clear, ringing, bell-like sound, possessing the requisite strength to withstand expansion and contraction, as well as the general pressure of use, and will outlast half a dozen of the lime glass chimney s Exchange. A young lad at Lake Station, Miss., bad a large kite presented to him, about six leet by four iu size, which be attempted to fly the other day just as the wind was increasing and a storm was threatening. The wind drew the kite so heavily as to drag the boy along also. To prevent losing his favorite, he wound the cord around his body. At last the wind bore the kite and boy upward, until the young kite flyer caught in the top of a tree, and was suspended seventy-five feet above the ground. A flood of rain came on, slackening the line, abating the wind, and allowing the little sufferer to be rescued. He was found to be unconscious, and so bruised and marred as to be scarcely recognized, but was restored the same evening and is now doing well. The Detroit Free Prut says that about six weeks'ago a barber, named William Brewster, ot Chatham, Ontario, was called to shave a man whose death was occasioned by lung fever, and the inatrament was afterward laid by, to be used no more asaraxor. But, being one morning without a knife, and desiring to sharpen his pencil, Brewster used the razor for the purpose, and during the operation out a slight gash in the left fore-finger. In an hour or two the member commenced aching, and continued to grow worse and worse until the whole hand and.arm were fearfully swollen, and the flesh, in spots, assumed a mottled appearance. Having doctored for four weeks without success, among the physicians at Chatham, Brewster came to Detroit to seek relief. He had lost the entire use-of the arm, and it had swollen to four times its natural size, the flesh emitting a bad smell

A Pillar of Fire.

- Tan most carious phenomenon which we have ever heard of occurred out in Cheatham County, on Wednesday last. The day, it will be remembered, was remarkably hot, so that most people in the county had to seek the shade at noon. At this hour, cm the farm of Ed. Sharp, five milea from Ashland, a sort of whirlwind eame along over the neighboring wood*, taking up small branches ana leave* of trees and burning them in a sort of flaming cylinder that travelled at the rate of about five miles an hour, and developing size aa it travelled. It pesMd directly over the spot why# a tym of hones were feeding and tinged their manes and tails up to the roots; it then swept towards the house, taking a stack of hay in iu course. It seemed to increase in heat as it went, and by the time It reached the house, it immediately fired the shingle* from end to end of the building, so that In ten minutes the whole dwelling was wrapped in flames. The tail column of traveling caiorlc then con*

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tinued its eourse over a wheat that had been recently cradled, setting fin to all the stacks that happened to be in Ms course. Passing from the field, its path lay over a stretch of woods Which reached the river. Thegreen leaves oa the trees were crisped to a cinder for a breadth of twenty yards, in a straight line to tbs Cumberland. When the “ pillar of fin " reached the water, H suddenly changed its route down the river, raising a column of steam which went np to the clouds lor about half a mile, when It finally died out Not less than two hundred people witnessed this strangest of strange phenomena, aftd all of them tell substantially the same story about it. The finer, Sharp, was left houseless by the devouring element, and his two horses were SO affected that no good is expected to be got out of them in future. Several withered trees in the woods through which it paerad were set on fire, and continue burning still— KathnUe (Tenn.) Prtu, July 17.

Poisoned Sacks.

To the Editor of the New York Timet: In your issue of to-day, under the heading of “ A Strange Disease," you called attention to a case of poisoning brought about by wearing what you describe aa French socks Last summer, on the eve of leaving England for the United States, I purchased a dozen pairs of silk socks which were dyed in bright red, bine, green and other colored stripes In July I commenced wearing these socks in New York, and in a few days found my feet swelled and covered with pimples, which were charged with a colorless fluid. I suffered the most excruciating agony, and was driven crazy from intense itcl dug feeling. I called in the services of a medical gentleman who felled to afford me relief or account for the cause of the attack, although he saw me continue to wear the socks During three months I was confined almost constantly to.the house, and cast the entire skin of my feet several times lathe end I suspected that the bright aniline dyes used in coloring the socks contained some active poisonous principle. Since then I find that exposure of timiiar cases have been given in England by physicians who had patients suffering from similar attacks to my own, and in consequence of these exposures large contracts for such socks had beau canceled. It is highly probable that as these socks are no longer salable in England, they may have been consigned to the States in large quantities, and if so the pubUo should be warned as early and publicly as possible. F. M. RW.

Bees In a Mail Pouch.

The Post office officials in this city had a lively time a day or two since, handling the “ mail matter. In one of the pouches were two boxes of been on their way to Clarke county, in this State. The boas were about two inches equal* and half an inch deep. These boxes had breathing holes on top and side, covered by a very fine wire gauze. There were, perhaps, a dozen bees in each boat and each box provided with a small stick of candy for lunch on the way. The bees were lively, and their stingers in good condition, as the Deputy Postmaster, it is said, can testify, he having looked into the boxes to ascertain whether the matter was mailable. We believe he decided that bees are not mailable matter, unless their stings are polled. The bees were eo lively they could not be sent to Washington aa “ dead matter,” and so they were sent to tUr destination-all but that one stinger U» “Captain” retained.— C Xeadamd Herald, 17tt.

"Confldence."

An Indianian named D. L. Carver was fleeced to the extent of SBO yesterdayhy two confidence operators. Carver, who hails from Wabash Town, Indiana, arrived in the city a day or two since, ea route to Galena, and fell into the hands of the sharpers yesterday afternoon about 4 o’clock, on the owner of Michigan avenue and Washington street They acted very shrewdly and gentlemanly, and becamao familiar that they easily obtained a “ loan " of S9O from Carver, giving him a bogus invoice on tbe “ American Merchants Nar tional Union Express Company,’’ for a box 44 said to txmtain tills ana wsH, and addressed to W. B. Blanchard. The “bleeders” managed to shake off thaw victim after obtaining all they could of him, and left him to seek relief from the police authorities.—CWeape Pot S, July 88.

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