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Selected Miscellany. THE BABY'S DBA WEB. BT MRS. I. T. BUTTB. *rHKBE's a, little drawer in my chamber w 9 uilr < l < I <l with toudurust care, « ? tl,c ,‘lalnty clothes are lying, Jvbst my darling shall never wear. „!j,! h ® ro ’ while the hours are waning, I 111 the house Is nil at rest, 1 sit and fancy a hnby vlosa to my aching breast. My darling's pretty white garment* I rbu Kht them, sluing apart, his mystic lifts waa throbbing . Jnder my throbbing heart. And often my happy nrcamlng Breaks in a little song. Like the murmur of birds at brooding, When the days are warm and long. I ftnishdd the dainty wardrobe. And the drawer was almost fill! With robes of the finest muslin. And robes of the whitest wool. I folded them ajl together, With a rose for evelry pair. Smiling, and saying, "#am fragrant) Fit tor my prince to weur.” Ah, the radiant summer morning, SOfult of a mother’s Joy 1 •' « .• I “Thank God, he is Mr and perfect, Mv beautiful, new-born boy.” Is>t hint wear the pretty, white garments 1 wrought while sitting apart; Lay him, so sweet and so helpless, flora, close to my throbbing heart Many and many an evening I sit, since my baby came. Saying, “ What do the angola call him!” For ho died without a name ; Sit while the hours are waning, And the house is all at rest, And fancy a baby nestling Close to my aching breast. —Putnam’s Magazine.

A Sober Meditation by Mark Twain.

In Mark Twain’s new volume of reminiscences of loreign travels he for once abandons his persistent habit of nuiking fun of everything, and thus discourses of the Egyptian Sphynx : After years of waiting, it was before me, at last The great face was so sad, so earnest, so longing, so patient. There was, a dignity not ot earth in its mien, and in its countenance a benignity such as nover anything human wore. It was stono, but it seemed, sentient. I fever image of stone thought, it was thinking. It.was looking toward the verge of the <’laijtlscape, yet looking at nothihg—nothing but ilistan.ee and vacancy. -It was looking ever and beyond everything of the present, and far into the past. It was gazing out over the ocean of time—over lines of century waves which, further and further receding, closed nearer and nearer together, and blended at last into one unbroken tide, away toward the horizon of remote antiquity. It was thinking, of the wars of departed* ages; of the empires it had seen created and destroyed ; of the nations whose birth it had witnessed, whose progress it had watched, whose annihilation it had noted ; of the joy anti sorrow,, the life and death, the grandeur and decay, of five thousand slow-revolving years. It was the type of an attribute of man—of a faculty of his heart and brain. ’R; fen? Memory—Retrospection— wrought into visible, tangible form. All who know what pathos is in memories of days that are accomplished and facts that have vanished—albeit only a trifling score of years gone by—will have some appreciation of the pathos that dwells in these grave eyes that look so steadfastly back upon the things they knew before history wife bJFn —before t radition had being—things Stint were, and forms that moved, in a vague area which even poetry and romance scarce knew of—and passed one by one away, and left the stony dreamer solitary in the midst of a strange new age and uncomprehended scenes. .;» ; JJThe sphynx is grand in italoneliness; it is imposing in its magnitude $ |t hrjpjprcitfive in the mystery that hangs over its story. And there is that j the overshadowing majesty of this eternjl figure of stone, with its accusing inemqfynf tlje deeds of all ages, which reveals to one something of what he shall feel when he shall stand at last in the awful presence of God. . .

Rcmarkable Effect of Lightning—The Gift of Preaching.

The ease of Mrs. Birney, hear TippctAnoe, Harrison county, Ohio, is a remarkable one. At the nge of eighteen, while pitching a load of hay from a wagon into a ’ mow, she was struck by ’lightning, which paralyzed the right half us : her body, from the crown of her head down. She was entirely insensible for the space of two hours. She recovered froth tlfc effects of the stroke, and at the age,of twenty-three years married lion husband. About twenty-three years ago she was suddenly taken ill, as was# supposed, and while in an unconscious state delivered a religious discourse. ;J From that time until the present those spells have come upon her regularly every two weeks. At first they occurred on week days, but for the past twenty years they have invariabjy happened on Bunday at ten o’clock a. in., When, raip pr shine, summer or winter, whether there be a crowd or only her family present, she regularly passes into an unconscious state, and delivers a religkmf rtjtacourse always one hour to an hour and 'thirty minutes in duration, and of truest orthodox stamp. She always feels unwell for hours before and ashy thes delivery of a sermon. She says she feels a painful, prickling sensation in the right half of her body, which hcgifiS several hours before, and lasts until luicgnscfotisness takes place. Between the spells She feels perfectly well, and . performs ilmr household labors as vigorously as if’she were many years younger thai) retjlly is—being now in her eighty-*ecorttl year. —Exchange.

A Romantic Marriage.

We have just heard of a rather romantic story, which has transpired hi this city, the truth of which we enn vouch for, notwithstanding its sensational plofcifvkLs. A few years since, a girl livinb asadomestic in an aristocratic and WAfilhy family of Liverpool, England, wop the affections of a son of that family. Th*,ytrt*ig man became smitten of his inamorata, arid resolved upon marrying Mr. WMh he made his intentions known to his parents, serious opposition was manifested. The girl, although a good one, virtuous and honest, was not in keeping with the family standing in isociety. To marry subh a one was considered a disgrace in England, especially when the family of the young man is Of the highest blood. .Notwithstanding all this, the young man cast aside all family ties and married the poor girl of his affections, who was only a servant in his father’s house. The result was, that the boy was driven from the parental roof, and topic up his humble abode with

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his wife. 'Tlidy lived idgethef 1n jicwcc and ’happiness a long while.' A son wtaT born out of yds. anarriage. finally, the husband of the gfr| was taken sick wi,tb that terrible disease, consumption, and died, leaving the girl a widow with her child. Dppng the illness} of her husband, the latter reteiycd kiifd , consideration gc the hands' of Iris parents, although they’ never, in person,' visited Ms bedside. Soon after the ’ death of her husband tlu: widow and child came to this country with her father .and mother. They settled-in this cily>-.Tho father arid mother took upj a home stir ■ tMemselves, Wlrilo the widow went out to service in a well-known family living on -WashiughMkiavenue. She. had been there, for. a Jong time, and was' honored by her employers. Last week she received a letter, announcing the fact that the whole estate of her husband’s father, amounting to £500,000, had been bequeathed, to her son, . Arrangenoapts Were at once perfected^AAfi’rM WedmSSay last, the servant girl, accompanied by her father, sailed from New .York to Liverpool, to look after the fortune coming to thcitilAkAAftn.y Kniekfirboch r, August 21, -

Sayings by Josh Billings.

A slandeikJz like a hornet, \if yu kant kill it dead the ftast bio, yu better not strike at ft. J’ulilenass xz way folks haz oV flattering themself®. I make this distinkshun between charakter and reputashun— reputashun iz what the world think* ov us, charakter iz what the world, h noirs ov us. Wliaka ridikilus fare it iz to be continually on the hunt for peace and quiet. No man ever yet increased hiz reputashun bi coqtradikting lies. Anxiety jilwus steps on itself. Silence, like darkness, iz gcnnerally 1 safe. Thare iz only two things that I kno ov that a mair IrcAit brag oV, one iz lieing, and tuther iz jealousy. Jtetakcs branes tew make a smart man, but. good luck often makes a famous one, •- I think most men had rather be charged with malice'thMi with making a blunder. Love cuts ftp all sorts ov monkey shines, it makes a fool sober, and a wize man frisky. ~ I donU Believe in total depravity, every man haz sumthing in him to show that God made Mm. S I stippftsfe that one-reason whi the “ roftdto ruin’’ iz broad, iz tew accomodate the gtatc amount oV travel in that dirckshun. When a man iz squandering hiz estate,' even pnool. - . ■ I judge ova matrs viftew entirely bi hiz plupnon.^—it iz if grate deal efizier few be a good'dovc than a decent sarpent. Thare are menny ways to find out how brave and how honest a man may be, but there uiil’t-no way to find out the e-xtent ov hiz vabity. A lie iz line a cat; it never cums to yu in a straight line. Nature iz a kind mother. She couldn’t well afford to make us perfect, and so she made us blind to' our foilings. Studdy.tlw heart if yu want to. learn human natur; there ain’t no human natur in a man’s heart / Beware ov the man with half-shut, eyes —he ain’t dreijmiijg.. e z Experience makes more timid men than itfjdus wize ones. One ov the safest and most successful tallents i kno ov iz to be a good listener. Thofifffho Wcum disgusted and withdfa’W from the-world, musn’t forgit one thing,' that Hie.world will forgit them, a long timebenirc they will forgit the world, Wize nittn Itflf every good chance they kan git. Lasing iz only a weakness in phools. ■■ '

The Eclipse in Alaska.

, , San Fkancisoo, August 20. A Special from Victoria says the eclipse expedition of the United States coast left .Sitka on July 15, in an : open boat for the Chelkal river. On account of heavy weather it waslldaysin reaching a proper position on the river in latitude 59:23, and longitude 135 degrees 58 minutes—only 20 milesfrotn the cental path of totality. It tons impossible to carry instruments and provisions over the Iron mountain range. ThbT9M Was the cloudiest day experienced, out a break in the clouds enabled the different phases to be watched, and thebeginning of totality wasaccurately noted. Instantly after obscuration, rpseeolored flamps were visible to the unassisted eye, and their extent, position, and elevation approximately measured on the southeast, and southwest jmrtsof the sun’s limbs. ‘•The corona was visible over a part of the limb only, The whole picture was magnificent. The end of the eclipse was not seen. The phenomena of coming darkness and grotofng light were very marked along the course <rf t|j< valley. Mr. Seward and party visited Prof. Davidson’s camp, and watched the phases of the eclipse, and saw all the phenomena, rose-colored flames, and corona. The parties on the steamer Active, at the mouth of the river, had the best view of totality. The clouds broke, and large, clear spaces enabled them to see the flame and corona; also, the planet Merguryjfld stars of the fourty magnitude. At Sitka the not quite total, and was widchm thflmgh broken clouds. AtiFort Wrangel the weather was densely cloudy. At Fort Tongass the -yreather was favorable, and the officers observed the time of beginning and endihg. The Indians, fear, fully alarmed, liid in their houses or took to'the bushes.

Coming to Claim His Bride.

The readers of the SiiA inay ’’rMdfctrtbcr the story of Mr. (Low Benedict, of Duprez Benedict’s Minstrels, wjm five years ago, ■being then a ]M>er courted tlie daughter of a New York millionaire, and obtained tlie father’s consent to his marriage with her on condition that he would first 'amass $50,000: ’He entered the bfirht cork profession, became part proprietor of thfe troupe fiamed above, and toiled aud scraped together tor five long weary years for thfe price of his happiness. After counting th? receipts of the box office of the Arch Street Theatre, in Philadelphia, on Tuesday evening, he found that the last $l6O waa in his possession. He immediately telegraphed to his intended father-in-law the joyful intelligence, and claimed the fulfillment of his wellearned contract. Mr. Benedict intends to cling to his profession until he has made enough to provide his bride with' a handsome trousseau.— N. Y. Sun, Aug. 19. At Buffalo, recently, a pet Cushat -dove, was lost for seven days, and whcir found was between two closely johaed houses, so confined that it could not escape. The bird, it is thought, had nothing to eat for the ■even days, but whan rescued waa as. lively M * cricket. x

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Weekly News Summary.

j ■ POREieM . I General JUc-Bouf succuedsMarshal Nicl, The Regent Serrano positively.- denies that he sustains’thb y>rttfensfoft!J rif thft iw /tfpw Spaia,,Aud dcoUrQs tUa4,lu) ja mftttmi Oh tjiytplejtign of tfte disposal of the crown. " ‘ ‘ w of ffrc Spanish navy,i is dead. t ’ In Struck for high4|Hragcs, pjwservaofder is scSbWy t&eqlOppd; . ' La Ermu» (a Paris newspaper) 4>f-Ihe JJlst says’Guba 'ls- iosi to Spain, and, .-tho wisest-thing fjpaui eaq' do is iO.'.tiike advantage Of present sitsiliatfrm. A Madrid telegram of .the 22d says 'it was asserted hn reliable-tfnlhority that-fte pre liminAriqs of a- treaty fori tjie -cession of CvJiL (o the .United States had been signed. . ; . «■•'

Ren forth has won.tlic race for the championship of 'jhp ’fhhmhft, and r ßrown, the American i-oarsman, has-uhajieiiged the Wi nnpr... The match will comc’off between Bept._2B>pnd Oct. 1. An open-air meeting, attended by 20, : 000 persons,-was held at Drogheda, Irelahd, on the 23G, akwbich resolutions were passed declaring fjjat any farther detention of Fenian prisoners -bt- British jails was unwise, impon tie,* anoun just. Th® Bishop of Winchester has resigned. . Prince Arthur arrived at Halifax on the 23d, and his -appearance -djrew .a great crowd and much enthusiasm. Eugen® atKUthfo-Trince- ffnperittl were at Lyons, on the 24th v on their way to the East. -Recent details of the .epndition of the gfowipg grain crops in Greht Britain exhibit favorable promises of good returns, provided the late dry and 'Cool weather continued. L~~<y , **‘ , '~ r 'J l llV ' ■ ' The father of Ailelina and Carlotta Patti died in Paris, on tftc*§|4ijk A dispatch from; Koflg, August 3, ria London, states that the Chinese Government rcfudfe’rte fathy-fIM treaty conStates? -The Chinese text of Burlingame’s credentials tliffers from the foreign version. In the former‘lie is appointed." Envoy §f China to tribirtary nations.” It was reported on the 25th tliat sixteen hundred insurgents, With tpeir families, httl *' presented themselves before ttw Spanish authorities at Ilolquin, and ' asked forgiveness and protection. One million people witnessed the boat race on the Thames, on the 20th, between the Harvard and - Oxford crews. Oxford beat the Ilarvards, making four and a quarter miles jn jjj .njinutes and 20 3-5 seconds, and coming out four lengths ahead. News from Tripoli state that' two English ladies atttshdante were murderml by their "Own ctfrttebdrivers while tHvelfng south of that city. » The Empress and Prince Imperial arrived at Toulon on the 26th. Engenie has abandoned her trip to Jerusalem. .. - 1 ' The Agamemfitm, from Hankon, June 9, has arrived in England with the first cargo of tea of tlie seasttn. . The recent amnesty granted by Napoleon does not extend to those who have beeif convicted of an_Bttempt_to take the life of- the Empetor, or that of any otherpolitical person. .<- . - DOMESTIC. Fourteen cases »bf ■. sunstroke—five of tlienl fatal— York city on tire 21st. > . An order has been issued from the War Department forbidding residence of settlers on military ; reserviitionk. All intruders will be notified by the military commanders to leave the military reservations, and if they refuse to do so, they will be removed by force. A Rochester locksmith on the 21 st operated bn the lock-adopted by tfic Government' for’ its use in the Treasury Department at Washington, and succeeded in ripening the safe in the Supervising Architect’s office in seven minutes, and-afterwards aecmiqilfehed the same feat in twclvetminntafe ‘The telegraph says: “The process, it seems, is one known to a number of artisans, and after seeing the performance, those present ceased to wonder at the skillful bank robberies reported in New Jersey and New York ” .;

Three millions of gold were shipped from Nmv York city on Uic 21st to prominent San Franciscoffi(Xisbs,Tjy the Pacific road.' The National Labor Congress, in session at Philadelphia, adjourned on the 21 st. The officers for Vite -castling' year are: Richard Trevelhck," of Michigan, President; A. T. Cavis, - of Washington, First Vice-PreskkSit;’ Ctonriid Kuhn, of New ,Ydrlt, Bebobd Vi<*-Pr<wMcntf ■of PhiladeUMt, Bceretary? A. C. Pheltis.SwNew lijUgn, drew C. CaMnmMflrahiMgo, was tinanijnoupiy><jlected delegate to the European International Labor Congress, to be held at J^slfe,' on ttfejWtti-’of September. The neXCscssion of the Congress •will be held jri, Ojpciapati bn the third 'Monday of August, 1870.. Railroad freights from Now York to thq jVest were advanced on the J#d, as follows: Mileages 8&c; Cincinnati, 35c; Louisville, 500 ; and St. Louis,-56c per cwt. A Washington special of the 23d says:' “ A very/ large pumMr of soldiers’ dis-j charge papers are retained in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions. All the other'ftiHlift'hx.’turn them after acting upon the case which they accompany. After their final action in tlie Pension Bureau they are retained, but can be obtained by direct application to the Commissioner. Those signing their letters by mark must

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have it witnessed by two persons, and verified by some officer having a seal.” A death from Asiatic cholera was reported in New York city on the 28d. A cattle disease has appeared at Shrewsbury, Mass. The bronchial tubes of slaughtered animals are filled with threadlike worms. 'General Ames, Mississippi; has issued an order to the commanders of military post® directing them not to obey in future any writ of habeas corpus issued by the United States District Court and Circuit Court, or any order made by such court for the release of prisoners in their custody, but should any such writ or order be served upon them, to report the fact to him by telegraph. A Philadelphia dispatch of the 23d says not a drop of water had fallen there Since August 4, the night of the great whisky fire, nor had any account® of rain been .received from the interior, except of a short thunder-storm on the 21st, about thirty miles up the Schuylkill. All reports agrfecd as to great damage to com from drought in Pennsylvania. The scarcity of waler in the reservoirs in Philadelphia was causing great inconvenience. The City Council had appropriated $25,000 for the relief of the families of destitute canal boatmen out of employment on account of the drought. Reports from all sections of Maryland on the 23d represent drought as prevailing to an alarming extent. No rain had fallen for weekg in some counties. Farmers despair of making even half a crop of corn, and the potato vines had become parched and dried up before maturity. The tobatco crop was also suffering severely. Accounts from the tobacco-grow-ing regions of Kentucky state that but half the Crop produced last year will be raised this year, on account of the intense heat and the parching drought. Corn is almost shriveled. The first bale of new State hops was in the New York market on the 24th. The steamboats Evening Star and War Eagle were burned at the St. Louis levee on the 24th. Vincent Collyer telegraphs from San Francisco that if Governor Mitchell’s proclamation, declaring the Navajoes outlaws, be enforced it will break up the agency and school at Fort Defiance, as there arc no United States troops nearer than Fort Wingate, 40 miles distant. Hon. James W. Fizgcrald, of Cincinnati, has obtained a temporary injunction restraining the New York holders of the Fenian fund from any further disposition thereof He claims $5,000 of the money, as a contributor. A convention of colored mechanics is called to meet in Macon, Ga., in October, to devise means for emigration to the Northwestern States and Territories. A letter was received at the White House in Washington, on the 25th, from Paris, written by a Frenchman, asking permission to establish a gambling house in New York city, to be regularly licensed, and placed under surveillance of the police, to contribute a portion of its profits to the Government and be managed in all respects like the gambling houses of Baden Baden and Weisbaden. Preliminary steps for founding a commercial college for colored men have been taken at Washington, and it is proposed eventually to extend the movement all “over the country. • , ■ The Secretary of the Interior has ordered that hereafter all Indian claims—for bounty, pensions, damages for depredations, &c.—must be settled through the Indian Bureau. A Washington dispatch says the demands on the Treasury for fractional currency are so great and the amounts required so large that to supply them would necessitate tlw issue of currency at the rate of $200,000 a day for a year to come. In the recent suit at Erie, Pa., of the Bepublican office against the Erie Typographical Union for conspiracy and libel, the grand jury returned “ not a true bill ” in both cases. The general coal agentof the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company announced officially on the 26th that the striking miners at Scranton would go to work at once. Two miles of snow sheds on the Central Pacific Railroad between Casco and the Summit, were destroyed by fire on the night of the 24th, supposed to haVe bcefi set by tin incediary.

A base-ball match at Cincinnati on the 26th, between the Red Stockings, of that city, and the Haymakers, of Lansinghurg, I N. Y., ended in a quarrel after the fifth inning, when the score stood 17 to 17. The President of the Haymakers took umbrage at a decision of the umpire, and ordered the club to cease playing. The game was declared in favor of the Red Stockings. The century plant, of Rochester, N. Y., has been removed to Chicago, and is on exhibition in the latter city, under the auspices of the Young Men’s Christian Association. The Washington authorities disbelieve the news of the rejection of the Burlingame treaty by the Chinese Government, telegraphed to London from Hong Kong. Customs receipts for the week ending August 21, were $4,386,920. „ v ' '• A Washington special of the 26th says the accounts from the "growing crops, received at the Agricultural Depart me nt, are of a very favorable character. The cotton crop is estimated at nearly 3,000,000 bales. J The t reports received at the Department since the Ist of August, indicate a decrease of the corn crop in comparison with the product of 1868. At tho'Rc-union at Gettysburg, Pa., on the 26th,,the day wfls devoted to determining the position of various corps engaged in the battle at that point. The telegraph says: 11 The marble statue, representing

‘ Plenty,’ was to.bq placed on the monument ,in the Soldiers' Cemetery. The remaining corner will be occupied by that of ‘Peace.’ The statues of‘War’ and ‘ History ’ have, for sime tiihfi, been in position.” ~ t ’i i PERSONAL. ' * ’J • President Grant wks received by the Newport municipal Atafhorities, at Uhe State Houst*,' on the 21st. In the afternoon, a brilliant reception Was fibld in his honor'at the villa bf Morgan. . . . : A Rochester, N, Y-, telegram announces the marriage, at London, Canada, on th® 21gt, of Commodore Vanderbilt and Miss Frank Crawford, daughter of Robert L. Crawford, of Mobile, Alabamar— Father McMahori, so l long held as a Fen ian ooh Viet by the Canadian authorities, arrived at Buffalo on the 24th. GoV; A. Mowbray and Col. John B. Brownlow, !of Tennessee, were in Washington on the 24Gm» route for New York. Governor Senter, wpuld'xejurn.to Washington in a few days, for the purpose of calling on President. Grant,. ,' . 1 President Grant attended, the reunion of the Grand Army of the licpublic, on the 24th, at Ocean Cottage, three miles below Providence,’ ! R. I. Secretary Boutwell, Senator Morgan and wjfe, Senator Anthony, and Other distinguished parties were also present at the Cottage. Both candidates for Congress in New Mexico, J. Francisco Chavez, Republican, and Vincente Romero, Democrat, are native Mexicans. Ex-Secretary Stanton was recently at Wolfboro, N, IJ., much improved in health. President Grant arrived in Concord, N. 11., on the 25tlx lion. David McDonald, Judge of the United States District‘Cdui-t es Indiana, died at" his resident* in Indianapolis, on the 25th. He was in his 65th year. John Durivage, an old actor and new* paper man, died in Memphis on the 27th. Ho was one of the founders Of the Alta Californian, at San Francisoo. Horace Greeley will deliver the opening address before the International Industrial Exhibition at Buffalo, October 6. ’' l ! Secretary Rawlins arrived in Washington from Danbury on the S?sfb, and was soon after attacked by a Severe hemorrhage of the'lungs. Hfi was' improving on the 26th. ' • - President Grant and party left Ooncotd, N. H., for White Mountains Oh thi mortling of the 26th. ... ! -'' r POLITICAL. The Massachusetts Republican Convefition for nominating'State officers will be held at Worcester,’ September 22. Walker’s official majority for Governor in Virginia is 18,319. The Massachusetts Democratic State Convention met at Worcester on the 24th, and nominated John Quincy Adams for. Governor, and S. O. Lamb, of for Lieutenant-Governor. v The records of the State Department at W ashington show the foi io wing regarding State action on the FiffGentfi. Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Complete ratification: North Carolina, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Maine, Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida—l 2. Defective ratification— Kansas, Missouri—2. Rejected in Delaware and Kentucky. The New York* Republican State Crin» vention will be held at Syracuse, September 29. : . In the first conviction under the new Massachusetts Prohibitory Boston on the 20tb, the fine imposcd,was $l5O and costs. The Minnesota Republican State Cqn* vention will be held at St. Paul on September 9. The Democratic State Convention will be held September 23. The Temperance party of Connecticut are to run a separate ticket, and Mr. Parker of Meriden, will bo their candidate for Govefnoi*.

The Cable Account of the Great Boat Race.

London, August 27. The excitement to-day over the great international boat race has been intense. The banks of the Thames have been lined with spectators since an early hour this mofniitg. Tile tntjr lifts beeh, almost deserted, nnd business quite neglected. Vehicles of all ouscrintlons, bearing the Harvard and Oxford colors, and heavily laden with people, have crowded all the roads letidltUf fothe 4>ptfr«e<undenting the entire day the roads In the vicinity dirutney, Hammersmith, Chiswick, Barnes, Mortlake, &c., were thronged with pedestrians. The railway companies found themselves almost unable to provide cars sufficient to eai'fy the vast numbers in waiting at the depots. It is no exaggeration to state that probably a million of people witnessed the race.

The Harvard crew won the toss for position and -chose the Middlesex side, the outside of .the sumi-circlii. . Both boats started at .4 hqurs, 14 minutes seconds. The tkhi.at the start was sluggish, and a slight sduthw’est b'tfceic prevailed, with smooth water. ThdHafvards were first to catch the water, and took the lead, gaiiiifig rapidly upon their opponents, and making forty-five strokes tier mihute against the Oxfords’ forty. At Bishop’s Creek, three furlongs from the start, the Harvards Jed half a length. Gaining headway, they increased their lead as they passed the WilloWd Their pace was subsequentlyskudwaed ,and the Oxfords pulled up. but .the Harvards wers still three-quarters of a length ahead at Craven Point, three-quarters or a mile from the start. Oxfords now went nn with a steady drag, but the Americans rapidly increased their lead, and at Crabtree, a mile and an eighth from the aqueduct, were a couple of lengths ahead. .Beyond here the Harvards were taken wide, and i the Oxfords quickened their speed, reduced the gap at the soap works, a mile and a half from the start to half a length. The Harvards now pulled up with a magnificent burst to Hammersmith bridge, a

mile and three-quarters, but .in shooting the bridge lost the distance they list gained. Opposite the Middle Mail the Oxfords-spurted and camo up gradually to the Harvards, but when Apposite the Doves the boats wore found to be too close together and the Harvards gave way, and at Chiswick Alt, miles, the boats were level. After proceeding fifty yards further the Oxfords began to gain, though temporarily, and the Harvards again got even with theni. Oxfords gained rapidly at Chiswick, where it. became clear tha| the race apparently told on the Harvards, who were rather wild at this part of the race. From this point the . Oxfords rapidly drew ahead, and in a few strokes obtained' a lead 1 ' of two lengths. The Ilarvards, rowing pluckily, held them there for half a mile, when they fell astern, and Oxfords, at thirty-eight strokes per minute, shot Barnds’ brklge, 3®g miles, three lengths ahead. Along Barnes’ Reach the Harvards refreshed their stroke," Mr. Loring, with river water, thereby retarding their boat. The Amer - icans then tried to spurt, but found the effort ineffectual, ’and the Oxford’s- getting more of a lead, eventually won the race by four lengths, casing up in the last few strokes and pulling up fresh; The Oxfords arrived at the ship at 5 o’clock, 36 minutes, 47 seconds, "making the fonr and one-quarter miles in 21 minutes, 20 3-5 seconds. The Americans were well received at the finish, and, returning, landed at Barnes. The race was a good one, and excited a degree of enthusiasm along the banks of the river utterly unknown in former races.

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Dickens’ readings bring him £B,OOO a winter. There are thirty-five Americans in the French penitentiary. The Oregon wheat crop will prove larger in yield than was expected. Quincy, 111., has a population of about 36,000. Her directory contains 7,881 names. The Government stamps on the will of the late John A. Roebling amount to |637. A gold crown coin of the time of Cromwell recently brought $27 at a sale of rare coins in England. Ten men assembled recently in a hotel in California who count up among them seventy-three million dollars. The Russian Minister of War lately tried to commit suicide because his only daughter had eloped with a French actor. Jeff. Davis attended an agricultural fair in Glasgow. He was driven through th® ground* by the Marquis of Tw'tcadale. The North German merchant fleet numbers 6,057 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 316,374 tons. Boston expended |1,329,287 on her schools during the past year. Among the item® was one of <14,000 to furnish books to indigent children.. . • They say, in Berlin, that King William Is < alwayfi under the influence of strong doses of morphine when he appears on parade, or on other public occasions. A Spaniard, w’ho recently won 300,000 francs at Spa, has since been kept under lock and key by his wife, who is determined not to give him an opportunity to spend his money. A young man of sixteen, the son of a Cincinnati lawyer, is writing a tragedy founded-on the subject of the St. Bartholomew massacre. It will be brought out in Cincinnati next winter. Ida Lewis has accepted an invitation to attend a series of memorial exercises to be held in October under the direction of the Pennsylvania Seamen’s Friend Society in. Philadelphia. . ..- ; . ' The New York Jribune doubts the truth of the confcsiion of John Bowen in the matter of the Carr’s Rock tragedy, lielieVing it to be concocted by tt wild desire for notoriety. ■ ’ < The Howard University at Washington has been presented with a copy of Bunyan’s “Pilgrims’ Progress” complete, printed in the Chinese language. It was brought from China by a negro sailor. It is said to be a common ptacticc in Paris to hire poor people to attend, fashionable churches so that the preachers may say tliat they always have crowded houses. Two or three sous pay Tor a worshipper. The famous old Waterloo drummer boy at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, died there on the 27th of July. He lost both his feet at Waterloo by a spent cannon ball, and lived for over fifty years at the Hotel des Invalides.

Mr. Edes, the editor of the Dover (Me.) Obtencr, is eighty years old, has never seen a train orcars, and but two steamboats, one of them being Fulton’s original, the other a little pleasure boat on the Sebec Lake. The fat men had a clam bake at Norwalk. Conn., a few days ago. One hundred and twenty-six fat men were present, weighing in the aggregate 27,948 pounds. The most of them were prominent merchants from New York city. A prominent minister, who went to Greenwich, Ct, lately,to makes pulpit exchange with a brother minister, was, by some blunder, arrested at the station, under suspicion of being implicated in the robbery of a grocery store some ten miles distaiiL The parents of a Hebrew maiden of the Rhine having withheld their permission to her marrying a young Christian, she drowned lietaelf and her lover blew hie brains out. This tragedy occurred near Caub, a picturesque locality well known to tourists.

The Perry Monument Association proposes a grand meeting at Put-in-Bay, on the 10th of September, the anniversary of the battle of Lake Erie, tha primary object of which is to raise additional funds for the monument. One of the survivors of the battle will deliver an oration. An English firm is manufacturing for the Russian government a huge steam hammer, which will weigh in ail about one thousand tons. The hammer head alone weighs forty-two tons, and the anvil block five hundred tons. The hammer, which is believed to be the heaviest in the world, is to be used in forgihg’Bteei guns. The owners of the Baden gaming establishments spend great s*ms in advertising their hells, by having inserted m the papers wonderful accounts of how large sums are won. One can hardly take up a German paper without reading how this duke or that baron has broke the bank by his lucky gains. A Saratoga jeweler recently sold a diamond ring for ♦11,500. The weight of the magnificent jewel is 10W carats, and Lis tttia to be the largest diamond now In the United States. flak, Jr., of Erie Railroad June, ownsjhe.next largest. The pur-

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chaser is a gentleman residing inNew York. ■' /.,>«,■ ..♦> f .STAfffinps sh<*w that the proportion df debt hi arilOng the ae compared with the total tnnnfcer-of daathS, is gfeaier in New York thaw dm. any efty in Great Brfhifti, if W'doew not -surpass that of lany city In Christendom. Bmlair, damp Apartments,’ Improper diet, ajnd.over crowdlng, are'the cbiof cauadsirf -this excessive mortality.q v l»» L ; A. steamer ' , Montevideo;' tibtflh America, .H£F aWVcd in Kqrianff With pipeteeh five ofto WnbAatd, theftrat sJHw ment under the eXpMinierff df’riitffilHmr English markets Witt/fresh Beef frotf’lhe Plata country.' A’jrtbatnefighbw building at-Loildon tyr flic trade cxclnslvriy.whleh will stflelua few ttafr otheni win EuscTpicnry ohj&.riijfrbddi jn praneb is taking the,,place of human watchful Hess.. ,Cfa many" there lire contrivances prhpre tfie. parsing oTa'train is Automatically anpouripetj to neighboring stations. The cafs pasS’ oVer connecting tyires and the frail,' records itself before and hphlnd, so that iW’ progress and appearance are", alikeirfdlcnted.'* "•< Mbs. Sabar E.ToW'pr- of Newburyport, Mass., is a phfiatilnropist. Recently, m passing over the Essex-Me rrirtiack bridge, She discovered a hole in one of the floor planks in a very dangerpus locality. Early the next morning she was seen on the bridge with a piece trf tflaulc of sufficient dimensions to repair th?.dangerous spot, Which she had carried from’her residence, about a mile, and nailed the same securely

A miner in Pennsylvania recently met with a horrible death. Hb Wils coming out of the mine when he gat canght between one of the ore cars and the drift. At the time of thfi accident he had scVeral picks on his shoulder, the points of which were driven info his back until stopped by Jhe handlek He lingered 1 Iff the most excruciatihg agony-for-tfivb IreuH, when death came to his relief , ■ Landisburg, Penn., boasts of a woman whois the methei- of thirteen children, fend goes into the-field, partially arrayqd in male jttire, and, swings the scythe with all the ease, grace and efficiency df any farmer. About the; eleven th houn she repairs to her domicih] prepares the frugal meal for self and, family, and after the repast, with rake in hand,’ does duty for the remainder of the dpy. u At Norwalk, Ct.,.during a recent storm, a servant girl was stung l>y a bee on the forehead, in the midst of the heaviest lightning, and, imagining that she was struck by an electric shock, ran home in fright anti Itnste, caught tsp a bottle of croton oil and rubbed its coptents over her face. The effect Was remarkable. When the family got home, her face was swollen so that hardly one feature was distinguishable from another. A Charleston paper says that in the upper part of South Carolina there is a young ex-Confederate soldier whose leg was amputated during tie was hear the ■ thigh. After amputation tfao wound rapidly healed, and.he was sent home. About a year afterward A fleshy protuberance was seen to grow oiit of the flesh, which, in the -course of a few months, took the shape of a foot, and Since that time It has been growing finely, until now.the man has a perfectly pqw foot and leg growing from his thigh. A young lady, of "New York City, a few days ago, saved the life ot, « gentleman who fell upon the railway track in a fit, near Orange, N. J., by rolling him off the rails. She came so near being run oyer herself iby the engine that a portion of her dress was cut from the waist. ’ The train was stopped, and the. passengers loudly cheered the heroic action. /The young lady persistently reflised to give her name when some New York merchants mentioned their desire of presenting her with a testimonial. The Supreme Court of California has rendered an important derision in support of the real rights of woman. A wife was driven from her home by her husband, and had no means of support. She brought suit to compel him to set aside out of his property acquired since their marriage a sufficient amount to sustain her and her child. Under the old English J»w, such an action would not lie, but a majority of the court decided in fevor bf the wife, holding that adherence to the English law, in this or similar cases, would be a reproach to civilization.

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