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-Jar to rUieolotti nojgn. "Ws are told bow often illuatxiooa men strop tbeir razors, or put en tbir spectacle, bow often the eat, and wbattMT drink, ud npon which leg tbey at aecoatom)d to eater a room, bow tbey look in nightcap, and wlut appearance they present in drens-eoat. If tbey smoke, the average number of cigars is chronicled it tbey drink of the liquor which Dr. Johnson aprnopriated to heroes, tbe quantity is KXjcd down with exactitude. As there is ztoUubff too minute fur a Lie-writer in tbe nineteenth century, so it is possible also that thing can be found too great but, nbcT pily, there is rarely room in thij iirftftiun for the exercise of ills gening.

Perhaps it is well that so little is known of the men of letters who are the pride and boast of our earlier literature. The bloom of a plum is spoiled by over-much handling ana there are not many men who, like Dr. Jonstxts and 8ir Walteb horrr, cau bear without serious detriment the research of the modern biographer. Fail Malt Gazette. THC MAOXOIAN EARL.

In one of the lakes is a small island, reeky and wooded, which is bettered by the peasantry to represent the top of the highest tower of tbe castle which sank, under a spell, to tbe bottom. In certain states ef the atmosphere, I have heard educated people aay, when in a boat you hare reached a certain distance, the island appears to rise some feet from the water, its rocks assume the appearance of masonry, and the whole circuit preaents very much the effect of the battlements of a castle rutin above the surface of the lake. This was alias Akkk IJaily'8 story of the submersion of this loct castle: It is well known' that the great Earl of Desmond, though history pretends to dispose of him differently, lives to this hour enchanted in his castle, with all his household, at the bottom of the lake. There was not. iu his day, in all the world, so accomplished a magician as be.

His fairest castle stood upon an island in the lake, snd to this he brought his yimuK hnd beautiful bride, whom he loved but too well; for she prevailed upon his folly to risk all to gratify her imperious caprice. They had not been long in this beautiful .1. It it nua iliv niMUtiti tlfnMilf In the chamber in which her husband studied btaforbiddeu art. and there implored him to exhibit before her some of the Wonders of bis evil science, lie resisted loug; but her entreaties, tears aud wheedling were at length too much for him. and he consented.

lUit before beginning those astonishing transformations with which he was about to her, ho explained to her the awful conditions and dangers of the experiment. Alone in this Vast apartment, the walls of which were lapped, tar below, by the lake. wboHe dark waters lay waiting to swallow them, stie must witness a certain series of frightful phenomena, which, once commenced, he could neither abridge nor mitigate and if throughout their ghastly succession she spoke one word, or uttered one exclamation, the castle and all that it contained would in one instant subside to the bottom of the lake, there to remain, under the servitude of a strong spell, for ages. The dauntless curiosity of the lady having prevailed, and the oaken door of the study being locked and barred, the fatal experiments commenced. Muttering a spell, as he stood before her, feathers sprouted thickly over him.

his face became contracted aud hooked, a cadaverous smell tilled the air, and, with heavy winnowing wings, a gigantic vulture rose in his tead, aud swept round and round the room, as if on the wint of ponuciug upon her. Tbe lady commanded herself through this trial, and instantly auother began. The bird alighted near the door, and in less than a minute changed, she saw not how, into a horribly deformed and dwarfish hag who, with yellow skin hanging alout her face, and enormous eyes, swung herself on crutches toward the lady, her mouth foaming with fury, and her grimaces and contortions brooming more aud more hideous every moment, till she rolled with a yell on the lloor, in a horrible convulsion, at the lady's feet, aud then changed into a huge serpent, which came sweeping and arching toward her, with crest erect aud quivering tongue. Suddenly, as it seemed on the point ot darting at her, stie saw her husband in its stead, standing pule before her, with his ringer on his lip, enforcing the continued necessity of silence, lie then put himself at his lengtn on the floor, and began to stretch himself out aud out, louger and longer, until his head nearly reached to one end of the vast room and his feet to the other. Tbis horror overcame her.

The ill-starred lady uttered a wild scream, whereupon the castle and all that was within it sank in a momeut to the bottom of thp lake llut once iu every seven years, by night, the Earl of Desmond and his retinue emerge and cross the lake, iu shadowy cavalcade, liis white horse in shod with silver. On that one night the tar I may ride till daybreak, and it behoves him to make good use of bis time, for, nntil the silver shoes of his steed be worn through, the. spell that holds him and his beueatb the lake will retain its power. of Lough Guir. Frederick Lkmaitri.

thf. Don Cesar De erhaps the most admired and idolized of all French living actors and actresses do do not hereby include amongst them the Schxeidkrs and others, who raise a laugh and make you stare at their fearlessness is Frederick Lemaitrk, often spoken of affectionately as plain Frederics. He touches nothing that he does not adorn, even the strangest absurdities and incongruities; witness his performance of 'ere Gackette at the Folles-Dramatiques, in 18G7. Such a drama would never enter your head such a promising glut of crimes and corpses. It was a posthumous piece which would never have been played bad its author, Deslan'DE8.

still survived; but there was his family to be assisted, and certainly it would have been a pity to lose one of Frederick's most striking creations. Frederick is the soul of this crazy drama. In his hands, impossibilities become probable, absurdities superb, and the ridiculous story haunts and worries you like an actual occurrence. FREDEKick's old age resembles a Summer's evening, in which, after a tempest, under a cooler sky. yoa give their full course to thoughts ox the past.

Those who knew him in his fever fits, in the hot battles of other da vs. in the 'Thirty Years of a Gambler's Life' and behold him now with renewed admiration, calmed down, softened, majestio with bis white bair, which be keeps completely at his coommand. which he makes stand on end. flattens, or puts in disorder, almost gifting it with speech, reminding you of Michael Anoeu'8 prophets in the feist ine Chapel, with their hoary locks streaming in tbe wind. The voice is sometimes in default, bat the intonation is so correct, tbe countenance so eloquent, that everybody comprehends or divines what he says.

And then tbe gestures are always magnificent, surprising in their truthfulness. In fen Gackette we have none of the grand impetuous movements of Don Camar, nor. as in the j. -Thirty years." the haughty pantomimcif an Ajax who would brave the lightning. More subdued, but equally powerful and singularly accurate, at once homely and superb, Fkkpkkicx's play is a succession of minute but marvelous details which melt into one hannouioua composition.

For instance, when be writes letter he does not do it on-hand, passing the pen over the paper without making stroke, as other actors do. On tbe contrary, be wipes bis pen. dips it in the ink from time to time, and turns toe leaf over. In Andrw G4rmrm he acted one of the most Sathetic scenes and its eflect was thereby ou bled mechanically holding bis cravat in bis hand. In the last act of Thirty Years of a Gamblers poverty-arrack, iu rasa, when he aits down to table, ha has ft way of unfolding bis handkerchief to serve as napkin, ft remnant of the habits of his better days, which is a master-stroke of observation.

In Fert Gackette, when he offers UAUIA KTft.W a. dance, he holds his silk gloves between his lingers be does not pet them on. And whiie conversing and arguing with, the doctor, he instinctively helps himself to a pinch trout his snuff-box. It is these innumerable nothings which constitute the really superior actor and give the part tbe intenaitv of Ufa. Aim! all ihnan details- ap parently uuugnioeaat.

make up together an admirably consistent whole. In tbe days of Kay in til tnkinr scene in the third act. where Don timUmttc, dressed as lackey, compelled his valet, HUu, to shut the window, it is amid that the actor. Alexandra aLauzix- who played ixUltute, aud who sat in an arm-chair facing: the public, while Frederick, who stood behind bun. walked to tbe back of tbe stage.

sirw at that moment, rrery night, the whole audience suddenly moved! and then bursting mto Tebeineni applause, without 1 Ytuar.U3CX? uttering a word. Ao tiaXtmnte, with bis back turned t-j Blaa, could make oat nothing X7or even guess by what admirable by-play tee rat mgbt Macziw ceuld not zUt looking. Ktoopmg and torning bead, be beheld iis-krviKttr ro 1 Iimi. sting to go the window, crashed bv the and weeping weeping every StaLt real tears. wLien slowly fr-ll from his reddened eyelids.

This rift of tears, this prodigious artistic faculty of identifying himself with a part mm to live it. is possessed by no one to a liks decree. We may say that he ha acluailr and Mircesivt-ly been Gewmaro, Geornea the Gamb'rr, Andre Gerard, the 'ere Gackette. On (Jb trench Stage, ta Loudon boctty. Woman's Laughter iki Teapa Alexander Dumas JiU is at La bis much-talked -of preface to L'Ami de Femme with the poets of ancient and modern times.

The Greeks, who bad such a keen sense of the beautiful, qualified Venus as the laughter-loving." KiiAKESFKAitE was very fond of sprightly heroines, whose sallies provoked Ltnghter. Moork immortalises the feminine laugh in his exquisite sketch of an Irish girl-to whom he was pleased to give the Asiatic name of NourmahaL Balzac (who can hardly be called a poet) was verv fond of silvery laugh," and used to say that none but thorough-bred gentlewomen had a right to weep, because they alone wept without disfiguring themselves. Now, hear what M. 1 ruMAft the younger says on the other side "If comedy has been so long in disfavor, it is becanse women do not like it. And wby do they dislike it Because in a comedy men are only conquered by the ruses, the tricks, the malices, and the graces of the fair.

This does not satisfy woman's ambition. It smacks of the feints of a fencing-school. The conqueror neihter sees the blood nor bears the groans of the conquered. Woman delights in the real biiud-to-hand fight with the other sex. which is the soul of tragedy, fehe wants publicly to prove that she has tbe power to subjugate her adversary, to make him bite tbe du-rt.

to kill him, to devour him. Kiie wants to see him down.A.jd to tear his heart out unless he sue humbly for mercy, and confess her as the sovereign of the univerne, or acknowledge himself a wretched fool for having misunderstood and insulted her so long. But there is another reason why women do not like comedy. No woman wishes to laugb in public. A laugh depoe-tises her, and contorts her visage.

There is a frankness in a hearty laugh which jars with her diplomatic genius. A woman throws away her best arm when she laughs. The tear is what she triumphs in. A humid eye is always interesting, whereas an open mouth never is. It is simply an abomination.

Smile if yon will, lovely woman, but never laugh, lor twenty actresses who can draw tears, there is hardly one who can excite to laughter. Tbe laughter of au actress is seldom communicative, because it is a surface thing. It is at war with the female organization. A comical does not really belong to ter sex, and other women dislike her. Nevertheless, glory to tbe laughter-loving female who is not so much a boarded man incognito as an excellent companionable garcon." A Cocntrt Parson in the.

Eighteenth Centvby. A musty diary of a poor country parson in England, in the eighteenth century, which was recently founa among some old papers, edited and published, is full of quaint details of the daily life of such men, and throws a light on many strange customs since become obsolete. The diarist shows ns that he was a parson only on Panda vb and days of preparation, and at other times a jaek-of-all-trades yet ever ready to visit the sick onen of his little flock, to "write letters for his illiterate neighbors, or to go on horseback unou errands for them, none of these thing being considered too unimportant for entry in the diary, the pages of which are half-filled bv records of the part taken by the domesticated worthy in the afiairs of the household, such as: "In the evening I minded my family;" "got my family np, and their breakfasts helped my love to serve the calf, then supped, and put my little ones to bed, "took mv little daughters upon my mare, and carried them to school." Other entries, call up the old diarist paving the shippen. helping his love by which term he invariably designates bis wife and his sou to gather crow berry, hay-making, "reaping my wheat with Mary Richmond," cutting turf on the fells for the Winter fires, mowing the chapel yard, or fetching coals from Preston, aud taking a supply of them to the dame's school, for my daughters Masy and Ann to warm em by this Winter." The almost numberless references made by the diarist to pots of ale would be more noteworthy, were it not remembered that in his day beer was the common drink on all occasions. The old man records that, after a morning service, being in a cold, and the day cold," he resolved to get a gill of hot ale." Two of the worshipers entered the country public-house with him, snd a pint served for the three, "pence apiece" being paid for it.

On another Kabbatb, after re-, ceiving a legacy wanting money. I refused; it not, but accepted it" he went to the alehouse and spent two pence "on my love and Alice Martin, and paid Thomas Walmsey quarterage." Frequently, a pint of ale. with a pennyworth of branny in it, sufficed for himself, his love, and a friend and often the entry of the quantity is clenched by the extra note, "and no( more." At times, the iourney home from the little chapel was broken by snnilry calls for penny pots of ale, even when "Icichard Parkinson'sdaugh-ter" was riding pillion behind him. On pome occasions the fact of his daughter Mary's thirst, of the congregation not having gathered, or of mighty rain with'thunder," is urged ss the reason of an adjournment to tbe vicinity of the inevitable penny pot, or for the ordering of another gill, to which at times the old preacher ate a pennyworth of gingerbread, or kindled his tobacco, and smoked one pipe, and no more." Although undoubtedly the old divine lived so as to make all his days feabbatbs. it is somewhat startling to read of men coming to his dwelling on Sundays to ask for tbe loan of a horse for plowing, or for payment for a cheese, or even of the minister himself receiving legacies on the sacred day, or after preaching a funeral sermon, sitting awhile in the hope of receiving payment, but 1 got nothing" being the end of the entry.

If food was cnesp in tbe diarist district, wages were very low. Carpenters were paid at the rate of a shilling a day; a smith was satisfied with a halfpenny for having fastened the mare's shoes and when old John Berry" claimed eightpence a day for repairing tbe stone-work of the house. Walk den thought tbe amount excessive, and offered sixpence and be and my love bad some words about it. bnt in A girl alluded to as Ben's daughter" is rewarded with a penny for helping the minister with eight hundredweight of coals at Preston a similar amount is paid to the hostler wherever the mare is put up. Threshers were paid fourpence a day; a thatcher ninepence a day, and his assistant received sixpence for three davs' work and a journey of nineteen miles.

The diarist's son received thirty shillings and his food "to do husbandry" from Candlemas to Michaelmas; and a scrivener agreed for a shilling to instruct son Henry a fortnight in writing. An extra penny a day was allowed to a workman who is alluded to as tindmg his own victuals." Tattooed IIeaix. The Sydney trader cave his order for heads as he would have done for any other article, and was not careful to inquire how they were obtained. He did not ask in what particular spot his bales of flax were grown wby should he he more particular regarding his heads If the head was ft good head, well tattooed, and well preserved, it mattered nothing to him whether it had been taken from a dead or ft living body. A head was a head all the same.

There is, indeed, a story told of one unscrupulous trader, who, struck with the pattern of ft living head borne on the thoui-dera of ft slave, bought it there and then of hie owner, and deemed himself very ill-used when the slave took to his heels ana refused to give up his head, as per agreement bat we have, always deemed this story too pat to be true. At length the abuses connected with the bead trade" became so irrct that the Gov-error of Sydney interfered, and prohibited it on the severest penalties. Tbe incident which led to this prohibition is worthy of reeerd. as it serves to illustrate the man-mersof the period. -A Sydney trader hap.

peninc to touch at a next of the coast where wftVwss raging, bough tor mersaong a whols sacklol ef heads in the hnest condition on reaehin another part of the coast he sought to amaae the natives who came on 1oard br emptyfac ths. ek heads on the sck. Tbey er- the heads ot their rehv -o tftd fa2n in war: ft cry of horror from their lips as they plunged into tbe sea. It was well for wrr skipper that a favorable breeae sprung np, or he would never haTe returned to tell the tale. His brutal bnmor had one good effect it put ft stop forever to this revolting tralhot Letture How.

The Constancy ok Lovers. The tender-eat of lovers cannot live always on hope and it most be remembered that waiting to man is much less serious than to a woman. While be is fighting his way in the world, she is gradually getting older. There is a very charming Tyrolee song whiebjnuts the case with sufficient plainness. The first three verses contain the absent lover's declaration of his pas ion.

He is dying for vrrv love of ber. lie has twisted a garland of ilowers, and he has bound his heart in it TcnD dn wrl-wt la ru wobl. I-um irli de.ii Kiraiuw dir gben soli." Tbe last verse gives the maiden's reply. She is a practical creature: IHm whom I love.be is so far swar; lliai whom I love not aee I evety day." And she closes with tbe natural question that, as she does not wish to remain always unmarried, what is she to dot It is very Eleasant to have a lover, and she would wed im if it were possible but, as it seems im-ltossible, she mns take the nearest offer. Huch conduct, of course, is in defiance of the canons of fiction but then she is not a heroine of romance, and she does what large numbers of her sex are doing every year.

They would like to marry the voung man who first mado love to them but be. not having tbe wherewithal to stock a bouse, goes out into tbe world to seek his fortune. A bitter good-bye is said, rings, and locks of hair, saturated with tears, are exchanged, and two empty and aching hearts are separated. He goes to N'ew-York, or Nankin, or St. Petersburg, and lor a year or two devotes enormous quantities of writing-paper to the reiteration of his afiection.

The girl he lett behind him would tain remain faithful, but the prospect of their marriage is as distant as ever, for it is not every young man who can set the Thames, or the Hudson, or the Yang-tee-Kiang on fire: and her youth is gradually leaving her. If she were heroic, of course she might resolve to sacrifice her chances of marriace ou the altar of her love but then tho majority of women (out of novels) are not heroic. The end of it is that she marries somebody else, and when, some years after, ber former lover returns, he finds that her vows are al gebrocken, dot lUnglci it entztcti." I ttuiUy'i Magazine. Have Plants Intelligence If the oyster fasteued on the rock can feel, why not the rose or the convolvulus, or the great oak tree that is fast rooted in the ground Of the glow of tbe sunshine, or the freshness of the Tain and tbe air, are thev not pleased recipients Who cau telPT Or who shall de-nv, and give good reason for his incredulity Who, however learned he may be, can decide where animal life ends, and where vegetable life begins What, for instance, is a sponge And if. as Liskos says, plants have no feeling, what makes the mimott, or sensitive plant, shrink so timidly from the slightest touch, and apparently with such fain or terror from a ruder blow Whether am scientifically and philosophically right or wrong, I take pleasure in believing that the possession of life, in however infinitesimal a degree, presapposes in its possessor, whether animal or vegetable, a faculty of sensation that administers to its hap-piuess, and that may consequently administer to its Buffering.

For, pleasure and pain are twins, and the one is not attainable without liability to the other. The idea is not new to poetry, though not accepted by science. It blooms and epurkles in the graceful mythology of Koine as all who remember tbe Uryads and Hamadryads tbe loves of Apollo for Laura, Daphne and Acan-tha or who at school or college bave pored over the metaphors of Ovid, will readily admit. The Oriental poets of India ami Persia delighted to animate the flowers and trees, and, according to Hafez, the rose appreciates the tender melodies of her lover, tho nightingale. Greek superstition endowed the atropa mandragora with all the sensations of an animal, and believed that it shrieked with paid when its roots were wrested from the -ground.

Science may laugh at all such notions, but science, though a very great and learned lady, does not yet know everything. Her elder sister, poetry, often sees further and deeper into things than she does. Lnd not Shakespeark. in tbe Tempest." orahadow the possibility of the electric telegraph more than two hundred years before Wiikat-BTONEt Did not Dr. Eismus Darwin, long in advance of James Watt and Robert Stephenson, predict the" steam-ship and the locomotive Did not Coleridge, the "Ancient Mariner," explain the modun operandi of the thttn unsuspected atmospheric railway All the Year Hound.

FOREIGN ITEM 3. Bismarck has the jaundice. The current expeuses of the Mexican Government are double its income. The Princess Dora dIstria is preparing a new work on the popular songs of iiungary. There have been more deaths among the Americans at Koine than among the Kugluh.

There are over 10.0CO attorneys on the English Law Bolls. Another Republican journal, called Le People Gounerain, will aypcr in Paris about the 1st of June. The painters at Dusseldorf number about 200, and tuey produce pictures every year to tho value of about 360.0OU tbalrs. A Si erica takes thaler worm annually. The highest salary paid to a school-teacher in Lidsa.

Austria, la 4i dorms. A German lady, who studied dentistry in this country, is now practicing her profebsion at Berlin. A method of manufacturing artificial butter has been patented in France. The latest luxury to which Parisians have become addicted is kangsroo-neah. The London Ainr acknowledges onr inalienable rights.

It says The rigSt to discover sea-serpents is indefensibly vested in the United States." The theatre at Pompeii, has been (reopened after an interval of 1,800 years, with The Child of the Regiment." A Shakerpeart- Grammar is announced by a London publisher. The slag from iron blast-furnaces is now used in Brussels and Parts tor paving, aud surpasses the best natural stones in strength. il. Raspatx. has accepted from the lann-dreases of Lyons the title of Honorary Washerwoman.

Tbe King of Greece has ordered the erection of a national monument, in order to celebrate the anniversary of Hellenic Independence. It is said that an English counselor advised the Cmperor to issue the plebiscite. Tbe Globe thinks that "whatever is, is Is wrong." the political creed ot the present English Mima try. The General Council of the University of Edinburgh has finally refused to admit women to study in tae regular medical classes. The Xorth German Correspondent learns from Urats that a withdrawal aurase of the Koman Catholics in that town from communion with Home la apprehended ia ease tbe doctrine ef Papal Infallibility should be aceepted by the Council.

The Germans have invented a paper dinner napkin, upon which popular songs or piano music is printed. They have. It is to be hoped, very little use for napkins. In experimenting in London recently on telegraphy, messages wers aent to Teheran, ia Persia, a distanoo of S.70S miles, and aaswsca were received in thirty seconds. A number of ladies of Pans have formed themselves into a society for the purpose ef reforming the fashions that is to say, to redoes ths preeent extravagant expenditure en dress.

Tbey call their association Union dm Ftmmmtt Ckrt'ttenne. Each lady promises to spend so much and no more on bar toilette annually, and to pay ready money. M. Dklorme. a colored gentleman of HaytL baa taat published a work anUtlad 1m Tkeerictenm am aWaear, In which several of the philosophical, aoeial and political questioas ef the day are The English yachtsmen consider the Dwsaf-lest as mors to be dreaded than the Sapph.

Each of the Rothschilds havs sent 10,000 francs te the Pletuaoitary ComsDittae. They have an association in England for renal tin families new a wilttngiy separated One was has nftersd separation Xrean wife" sends ft) to the rand. "In the course of next Sumner," says ths Cologne tToarate, the celebrated tract play, Tbe Paaaion. the lastrelle ef tfcoaa relixtoas teprsseatanoas treaa whMsh the atrareelte btera-toree ail the modern nstton ef Karoos are sop posed to, ha vw sprang, will be attain per- in im vtuasw voce The paries ta Mat vowed te tradertare the praaentaUau tn order is the ptajra. and the ptaaj was an aas ta ta reumnnr Tsar, it Was repeal every tea years till M7.

aatd than agala In from wkneft Una till the imiiil It haa ha played every dewni a. There eaa he AgeM that the play i tar If la older than lass, mm thoagh some slight changes have been saade, It ass rs-maioed eaaeaUally us altered." The ceremony of washing the feet of twelve old men and women waa perforaned at Kaaler by lite eoveceiawa of A nutria. After tbe eereuMiry tbe Eiperur and Einpreas washed tudr huuda. and t-viig tou-iJ the neck of each of the poor people a bus: rT1ntnr thirty pieeo of eUvrr the ltter were totm aoot home la Conrt raj iiar. ejej 'n txaii.

of wine and the veaxel custainlnttT his or her dinner. THE CEREMONIES lit ROMS. nswiSeewt Display la Abater the Cbwreltea Tac Crow 4a auael the Clowi- a vTeaUfcer tJeoJ VrxT mm Italy otoralT Wmmtw a llaaaiwaUaawao Cirmwal MiKhta auaal ftoauaate. from Onr Own Correspondent. Rome, Monday.

April 18, 187a After a dreary Winter and late Spring the weather has within a few days settled down into a mood so gentle and amiable as make one forgive or forget tbe Ill-humor of the past. For the week of ceremonies nothing baa been left to find fault with in tbe color of the sky or the flavor of tbe air. By day the sun has warmed ns uninterruptedly with genial ray, and at night tbe broad, full moon has shone on temple and ruin with that beauty which gives to tbe Imagination its most delicious solace. Movement, which is so disagreeable and difficult in had weather, has not been hindered by wet and slimy streets, or tne driving rsin-stonns which sometimes sweep over Borne. The season here, as in the North, la quite a month behind, but now a tender green la bursting out, and nature 1 beginning to put on that Bpnng charm, the praises of which we delighted to alng years ago.

I have never seen eo many flowers in. Borne as are offered for sale this week. And so, with a sky of pearl over our beads and dry roads beneath our feet, we have been able to make our Jaunts from 8t. Peter's to St. John Lateran.

and from the Palace of the Ca-aars to the Plnclan Hill, with twt tittle Inconvenience. Indeed, the last named of -nn places have had but few visitors, for ths week has been exclusively devoted to the shows ot the great churches, which all came here to aee, and whieh, like the more splendid feativitiea of the last days at a watering-place, close for foreigners the Roman season. FircLiAErrnt or the season. This snaaon is limited to about four months, and Its beginning and ending are as abrupt as fashion has made the opening and close of the elegant display at one of the great Bummer resorts. Hers tbe lodging-house proprietors and inn-keepers live upon foreigners, and the season over, their places are shut up.

The English biscuit-maker, and others like him, who have squatted for a little vagrant gain, strike their tents, and seek for harvest fields and profitable pastures new. Our relatives of the leg-of-mutton or ham-ahapea ialand, stlU succeed In making very conspicuous here their remarkable whiskers, and tbeir still more remarkable shoes. Everyone of them teems ambitious te publish to the world that he ia a member of the great British Halryetocracy. But within the last few years. I think more modesty has been noticed among these visitors to Borne.

THI EKSLISH. The many disappointments of rhe Enarlish, snd the eonaoiouaness that they are not loved, bnt even cordially disliked, for the airs of foolish pretension which tbey bave so long put on, makes their tone now more subdued and in harmony with a well-bred civility. This may at least put foreigners of tbe- Continent once more Into good humor with them. Not so much to the Italian as to the Frenchman. Is the Englishman with his peculiarities a caricature.

Italians are a good deal accustomed to extravagances of manners and drees, and bvicgonthe high road between Africa, Asia and urope, have witnessed many exhibitions of eveu barbaric excess. CTKKEMONIE9 Or GOOD PRIDAT. But Rome, and what is done here now. are the object of most interest to us. I closed my last letter on the eve of Good Friday.

Tbe principal rites in Bt. Peter's ou that day are the washing of the High Altar and the solemn visit by the Gcrarch to the sepulchre of the dead ChnaL. In the evening the last sad Jfisererels sung, and this time the lamentations, with the mnsle of Alkorl No harmonies that human skill has yet invented are more beautiful than the strains of the voice with careful training, the parts perfectly adjusted, with no instrumental accompaniment. Of this the Papal Choir, without doubt, furnishes the moat excellent example. That must be good musio which can keep a crowd of twenty thousand by the hour upon tts feet, watting with a hush of reverent expectation for thoe last touching and impressive strains which close the long office.

HOLT SATTJRDAT. On Holy Saturday followed other ceremonies tn various churches, the Basilicas of St. John Lateran and St. Peter's drawing, as usual, the greatest crowds of visitors. At tbe former the principal rite performed was that of the baptism of all Jews and Turks converted to Christianity during the year.

The list is not usually a long one, and tbe drops of baptismal water sprinkled are consequently few. There, also, the skulls ot Saints Peter and Paul are once more shown. At the Vatican Basilica there is Papal High Mass in full pontificals, with blessing of fire, water snd other elements, and at tbe end of tbe solemn function, at the moment of the Gloria, tne bells all over Rome peal out once more, after two days' silence. The guns of tho Castle of St. Angelo, with rapid explosions sive emphasis to tbe joy awakened by the approaching hour of the Resurrection.

I do not know what impression so much burning of gunpowder, wax snd tallow may bave upon a though ful Pagan making a visit to Rome, but upon a reformed Christian, the sight of so many platoons of soldiers in Church, drawn up in line with fixed bayonets, with the fizzle of so many fireworks, and the smell of so much saltpeter belched out of the great guns, all at the moment of the Savior's death and resurrection, seems Uks a mingling of contrary elements. kbit i iirr iixirwntAriOKB. On Saturday evening there was an illumination, with Bengal lights, of the ruins of tbe Baths ot Caracalla, which, presenting a mass nearly as vast as the Coliseum, are suited to produce a hardly less picturesque and imposing effect; The glare of so many lurid flames through tbe openings and along the broken lines of the enormous structure, making the shadows more solemn and gloomy, forms spectacle which takes bold of the Imagination and carries it back to some great moment or event in Soman history, like that of tbe conflagration of the Capitol, when that symbol of the nation's creat-neaa fen with a crash, soon to be succeeded by the fan of tbe Empire ltaelf. The ruins of the Baths of Caracalla are In the most remote part of ancient Rome, and the gleams of the illumination lighted np wide scene of splendid desolation. tbs inroii or thx mxsrmExcnojr.

Testerday, the Bandar of the Eesurreetion tbe most important day of tbe whole Catholic calendar waa sne of those pure, bright days of Bpnng which make so beautiful the fins weather ef Rome. The sun-clams' was announced by salvos from tbe guns of ths ee pule hre-f ortreae of 6t Angelo, and the Pontifical banners, of ancient Roman fashion, were be hi ted on tts walls. Long before tbe august procession earns down from. tbs Tatlcan. St.

Peter's was fined with a compact masa. sad before 13 o'clock thirty or forty thomsaad, to nsaae a saederste calculation, mast havo been within the tn-closuro, if any one eaa estimate the number able to stand sa sa area of three or four acres, they may know the capacity ef St. Peter's, ss it pat to the proof em ths two oo-sc tbs opening ef the Council and tbs centenary ef Saints Peter and PasL Ths crowd of visitors to Rosas is really very giant, tn spits of denials, and tbs smashers fcspthk by ths faJss reports ordinary aaheaithy sosatlttonsf the city. begin early 4 and are kaa bnt ths occasional ttrneieef ths Papal tbs somadlasr ox ta all at Os anaanemt of Us asrrattss) CM the srewd tolerably psttent satttl ths appro tft tor the Is wattiac.t tu asiid by tbs Irvine streams stfU gushing la at every opening. Seven or sight thousand troops ef the garrison of Rome are extended ta Tts as across the plana, and tae snaamit of tbe Colonnade ef Bernini, on.

tbs sad ef th Vatican, has Its throng ef privileged spectator, among them several hundred Bishops and tbs members ef the families of tbe several petty Sovereigns sat of efflce. now finding acyuum la Rem. It was well toward 1 o'clock before the bells of the Cathedral tor the first time broke eat, aaaownctag that tbe Pope was mounting slowly on bis portable throne toward tbe central loggia. When be appeared, and while be pronounced the bene-dietlon of rM etori, it is net extravagant to say that the seen presented was aTcand to tho last dcai co. The kneeling crowd of se many taea-sands, tbe grouping, the color, the ripple of feeling moving, with a gentle pulsation, various porta, nod tho whole closed In with the vast lines of so many noble arch! lectors 1 construction, made np a living pie tare which can nowhere else be composed with snob elements.

iixraisATcio bt. rxTxa'i. Tbe day dosed, as nsual. with the (nomination of St. Peter, Tbe night waa favorable for tbe spectacle, for tbe bvely breeae of tbe day were laid to rest, and tbe moon, Just past tbe full, did not rue until after I bave seen this lighting up several times, but never saw all tbe line ot the building ao distinctly broua-ht oat, and this at tbe Just point of distance of two miles, which is that of the Plnclan Hill, the favorite place ef observation.

At the moment of tbe first hour after tbe Arc Jforio, when the signal is given to change the illauinaUoa from silver to gold, the effect is truly magical. Almost with tbe quickness of an electric flash tbe brilliant tights go leaping over every part of tbe building, and there stand out tbe great structure, dazzling tbe sight like one of those dreamy visions of tbe glorified city. I do not know from observation what la tbe effect from Albano or Tlvoli, or any ether place ten or twenty mUes from Rome, but it must be very flln To-nlgva the ffirandola is te be fired off from the Plnclan Illii, the evening ef tbe day after to-morrow is to follow a general Illumination of Rome. One cannot ten whaa mew sensation Pics may invent, for the purpoee of brlngiag back visitors te the Eternal City, unless it be that connected with hi own death and burial, and the election and installation of bis successor. Tbe celebration of tbe 90th is in honor of two events in the life of tbe Pope, both of which, by a stnamlar coincidence, happened on the same day, in different years the lath of April.

On was hi restoration to Rome and to power after tbe exile at Gaeta. and the other the preservation of his life at tbe time of tbe faUlng of a part of the Church of Ban la Agnese. ANGELICO. PISTOLS A. coffee-holtse.

Hlooaty haat BOW All from the Jfenr-Orlemno Pteaywnc, Jflay s. Testerday evening a rencontre took place pbetween Mr. J. M. Barsstt, local reporter this paper, and a man named Jas.

Smith, an ex-special Police officer. The difficulty occurred in tbe Diamond saloon, at tbe corner ef Caron- delet and Lafayette atreet. aad there were three parties wounded. Mr. Bakkstt received a flesh-wound in the right hand Smith was shot twice in the body and once In tbe head, and an ex-special Police officer, Jacob Imepkiit.

was shot tbronch the body and Is supposed to be dan gerously if not mortally wounde The cause of the trouble was an ontrageonalv slanderous post) r. which wss signed by Smith. and circulated through the eitv yesterday after noon, uis poster was or so onecsive a enarac-ter that Mr. Barrett felt instantly called upon to see its author. Entering the Diamond saloon, he discovered sitting at or near one of those circular tables usually found in coffeehouses, J.

A. Smith, ex-special Police oftieer, Capt. Caix, Sapertntendent of the Metropolitan Police, Jacob DiarcaT. ex-speeial Police officer, Mr. Tim Drafts, reporter of tbe JiepubHean, and Mr.

Alex. Dalshcimkr. At thia point statements of the difficulty differ very materially. Mr. Barrett states that, immediately on his entering tbe room.

Smith rone, placed his hand on hla pistol and made a movement forward; that, knowing tbe desperate character of the man, be at once drew his own revolver and commenced firing. The first shot from Mr. Bauett's pistol went, it is believed, between the feet of Mr. Drapes and passed under the table. At the second or third shot.

Smith was observed to drop or aU by the side of one of tbe tables: but be rose again al' most instantly and fired at Mr. Babkett. Several shots were then fired so rapidly that It was impossible for tho a tan ding near to notice the result of each. Having exhausted his revolver. Mr.

Bakbstt turned and paaeed out of the door through which entered. Smith, however, following- close upon his footsteps, fired at him near tbe door, or Just outaide the banquette, the ball passing through the fleshy part of bis right band, or tbe Inside base of tbe thumb. net at this moment Smith fell on the banquette, and Mr. Babbbtt crbaaed over tbe atreet. He there surrendered to Capt.

Cauc, who conducted him to the Police Head-quarters, where be remains, awaitinar the decision of the surgeon in regard to the case of Dihpxrt. Smith was removed to the office of Dr. Stye, near the scene of the affray, and his wounds being dressed, he was conveyed to his residence. DiErr.KT, who was discovered several minute after the shooting, in the saloon In a nearly faintinar condition, waa conveyed to the Charity Hospital In the local columns of the Puairvac bave from time to time appeared article which bave reflected seriously upon the Police, and member of that body bave frequently Indulged threat against tbe life of tho reporter. These threat were disregarded, however, and nothing short of tbe indecent and eal amnions attack mad by Smith could have Induced tbe reporter to take any notice of him personally.

The affair la deeply to be regretted, but nntil there la some radical change in the Police force of this city until men are selected for their character and standing such scenes and worse may be anticipated. Since writlnr the above we learn that both Surra and Disrsar were taken to the Charity Hospital and placed in Ward b'o. andor the charge of Dr. Smtthk. Smith, it seems, received a ball in bis right hip.

which passed through his body and cam out in the region of the bladder. He received another wound(alight) in the right breast, and a third (slight) ia the forehead. Dikfebt waa wounded in tbe right breast, tbe ball poaalng through hi body. Bota men are sertoualy wounded, but aooording to Dr. Smtthk, not necessarily mortal.

They suffered much, and were placed under the influence cf opiates at o'clock last night. The aaaczalia mmm Dooniaiare Whatl Iaoollsa What It WM Coat. from fa A'ew-Tor Star, May T. It implies ths emphatic assertion ef the Monroe Doctrine that no European State shall extend its possessions in America. It Implies tbe recognition by this Government and peopl of tbeir Inevitable destiny tbe eventual control and absorption of this continent and ths adjacent territory.

It implies tbe Immediate control' of tbe commerce of tbe Carrlbesn seas in peace, and of tbs seas themselves in war. It means security against any sach chance a made ths Bahamas a aest of pirates to destroy our trade ta tbe late rebellion. It mean one step, and an important one, toward tn building of th canal across tbe Isthmus of Darten. and the oscnrinar tbt nation the great Orieatal trade which give to the people who po ess it tbe commercial supremacy of the world. It mean tbe speedier aoqaiaition of Cuba and Porto Rico.

It mean the still more immediate absorption of Hay M. It mean the oetabliahment of free and stable Oovernaaeat In San Domingo th cessation of the Internecine strife that ha prevailed taer for centarle th influx ot emigration from the United States: the development of the boundless agricultural re-soaree of th Ialand. It means a new and fro market for tae prod acta of Ue West. It means a new and aieat demand fur tho commercial marine of the East. It means tbe supply of sll ear sugar, eoffes sad tobacco from our own dominions, and th eonaequeat saving ef Siaa.gKl.OU0 an anally, now aent out ef tbe country to purchase that supply It means the saving ef tbe import duties a all th prod act mt oaa Domingo coffee, agar, tobacco, mahogany, indigo, dye-woods, lignaaa-vltae.

etc It ass revived oeaeaere. increased revenue, enlaxgwl power and lmoortaae ia th eyes ef the world. -It ansa a that we appreciate oar position and our eecttay, sad seia th mraas that are offered to a by Provi-aenee to eoonre tbe sat and protect ta other. And what wui It east I One sailuoa five baa-dros, thnaaanit dollar only this aad nothing anor. Taer will be a war.

a there might in the esse teeosniaisg Cab. Taer will be ao haadrad million of price, a we shoo Id have to pay if th over ialthful ial ware to Im iwiiiaaiinl Thar will mm ao mixed aad bitterly hooaio noes to mm-pease, for there are ealv icoau aeopas, moody Uack, tat tb Republic. Thar will ho ao reeaat-ry emancipated aJLav, ae epsjuah volunteer. tal wiLh. Tasrswia as as asbts n.

tor greatly sparser mm Two Bz-PsUN- hiso WssaJai. rtaf'wtbspsrbas tae l.naaod ttoaea sent aay Atasmry. There will eaacUy salaroo. aaos Sat SSS nans-sc ami THS SRHsX OF TXXCFE2UOXX Few person are sware that the term soda-water, as representative mt th eoastitaents of tb great American beverage. a a saiauom st ta watenUat.but mrrv Ve-wtr impregnated with eaxboni acid gaa, Tbs sad aad authentic eeda-water went eat base staes, having bsea sop-planted by a nectar heaped with areamy foam, of which even a Jupiter might wary exeaaahly drink to exoeos.

Th harrerag. bow a universal Snrnmer lunry. stated havs first auade its appearance iu Philadelphia about tbsywarlftTT. Dr. JaTsks, then a draggast to have beea first to selllt From Philadelphia it atad its way to New-York, where It appeared- stated by experts th ensuing Summer aad from New-York it was carried to New-Or-lsaaa, Havana, Mexico City aad the Southern and aemi-tropeal ettiea tn general.

Setarsasan bntbeatlcany ascertained. Hew-York. In hl-torical order, was first sdpt tbe Philadelphia Invention, which is attributed to Dr. Jatses Southern, semi-tropical, and tropical cities introducing it from the metropolis, Ansoarnoa or soda-watks. The consumption ef tbs beverage ta New-York: and It rrcandlng still ranks first tn tbe world, though Boston tipple lavishly at tbe fountain, and all American cine are unstinted absorption of the exhilarating fluid.

Btiu. atranae ta aay. th great el ties of Kurop have Just begun Its introduction ss a staple, and, uati. tbe days of the Parts Exposition, the fountain mt fix waa comparatively unknown to Europeans. The great influx of Americana to Paris during tbe Exposition period led to tbs erection of soda fountain la' numbers la Paris, and, from being an Americanism beverages, soda water became, la a eertaio sense, cosmopolitan.

Llmltedly; tbe fountain bad previ-oaaly become a London Institution, but only llmltedly, while ia Paris it waa almost wholly unknown, aad, la German cities, wholly ao. Tbe Expaiiiiia wss effective tn giving aa impulse to European consumption, and tourist an that It ia now possible to obtain a gates ef tbe flss in almost any European town while, previous to tbe Exposition period, except in capital dties. tbe name of tbe beverage even was a word without moaning a result due mostly, it not wholly, to the Exposition. It is undoubtedly true that there is a national ity in beverage. Germane ef long residence tn this country srs not, ss a rule, addicted to the fountain, preferring lager instead and, gen erally speaking, foreigners retain tbeir home bred preference for ale or light wines.

Tbe consumption soda-water by tbs foreign element ta, in a word, very limited and when water impregnated with carbonic acid gas is used at all, tbe different mineral waters la the market are demanded. Tbe American element (native) is, oa tbe other band, devoted to tbe fountain persona In tbe habit of drinking half a dosen glasses a day being not at aU exceptional customers at tbe counter. XLTMI.VATIOlf or lbmoxadb. A shrewd expert in the fruit trade ventured. not long since, tbe remark that tbe trade In lem ons bad been greatly lessened within the past ten year by reason of the large consumption of lager.

Tbe diminution of tbe traffic is a received fact but It is scarcely probable that lager ia wholly or even mostly responsible for it. Lemonade has become an obsolete or obsolescent beverage, but mostly, one may conjecture, through tbe general consumption of soda-water rather than through the general substltation ef lager. In fact, lager hi not generally kept on draft xn saloons mostly frequented by Americana though there ia no doubt that New-York-era of an nativities consume ale per capita to a far greater extent than formerly, which has re sulted, perhaps, from tbe increased cost of good liquors. The consumption of ales has, however. had little effect la reducing the consumption of lemonade; and, again, lemonade wss never a pet beverage among Germans, who, having b.ougbt lager to this country, bave eentaaaed their exeeaslve consumption of It.

Were statistics attainable. It would be found that a very small percentage of the body of lager consumed her is to be credited the native American consumer. On tb other hand, le monad waa once almost tbe American Summer beverage- was to be obtained everywhere, as Is the ease with soda-water at present. With the native American element, within the past tea years there has been a gradual ef tbe former in favor of tbe Latter; and to this fact ret to tbe consumption of lager Is ao doubt to be attributed tbe gradual lessening of tbe lemon trade, which has puzzled fruit-dealer aad Im porters. 1 thx btodbbji HBurxnr.

The Arab to his sherbet, tbe American to hla soda fountain, and tbe soda fountain is almost as distinctively American ss sherbet is Arable or oriental. In the crudity of its first manufac ture it would never have become popular, owing to certain medical objections to tbs free ns ef it, or of tbe soda with which it was impregnated. and even now the term soda-water renders It distrusted tn some quarters. Tbe fact Is. how ever, that tbe element of soda has been alto gether eliminated, except.in a few instances in which the old formula of manufacture ia adhered to, and tbe stock really consists of only two elements, to wit.

carbonic acid gas and water. If mere water is pro, then soda-water is poetry. for. If In aU forms of matter there be aa imagin ative element, that element Is constituted by the tbe really subtle and powerful gasiform sub stance. In a word, the impregnating gas is to soda-water what tbs lmpregnatisg Imagination ia to poetry; and soda-water; with cream es pecially, ia par trcrfltnm th poets la drtnka.

Helicon sever produced mors gently exhilaraat draughts Olympian Jupiter on a symposium, as painted ia Homeric never got tipsy ea fluid aaor seductively deneioaa, and it is scarcely a wonder that lemonade, which had no foam and fizz of romaac about it, has yielded place to It, tn eombtnatioa with lemon-svrnp. which sscnrss ta on sll tbs deUemosaess of both. i oca srmarKa bxvtbage. Tbe soda-water season cannot said to bave actually begun aa yet; rmt ta dally eoeaump- tloa Is sttn very heavy. Heavier and heaviar it win wax as warm, red-blooded, paaalonate draws nearer and near and heavier stmwin be tbs demand through fiery July, sultry August and dreamy September, untii October, range-hooded, conclude th soda-water months aad the fountain of flax, like so many bill put pal ace, disappear from counter.

Disappear, with few exeepciena, it may be sdded; tor, within tbe past thrss years, aa attempt has been made te tntrodace hot soda water, and seems likely to be Iimltedly successful. Ia tb few instance where it has beea dispensed during tbs past Winter, it has proved i aiinersttr saongti to iadnce the eonclnaion that axt winter win witness a mors general adoption of it, Tbs great perfcetioa te wines ders ta adoption of soda-water (hot! a a Winter beverage less problematical than would at first appear. Than water Imprecated with tioa with tb syrap that prevaOod four years since nothing mors insipid could well be iauur- Sjdoatloa af eoffe as a syrup has. of hoc soda- la dn sasooawBosoabLtea aad other weil-sdsptsd flavors vUl when tnjwess. alogn will be complete, aad safncisstly varied sar geaaral popularity.

wrra casAat oa wrraorr. Tbey was recall th enVfashloead fountain, with Ita slngi nortlo, will reaneasber when Wmt am syrup constituted ta oi syrup in oaa. Thi aauoa mo Mavaaoe a eapted several years. Ia aorta water, which annrrrTiMasTT i the sniy yran Pinc-sppl aad rruii being unknown in saaaa avast tataaasca mt CisisaHlia toed. Tbe water feasible; aad ket Pirn anM srptebeeam pepiart then iumJi at mob! atraaewavnina nk i lr waa aeCes and bather tmia lL Winter weU a hummer lavintlin of srssta.or rains taa hmimi or a aa in ml at the awvenura, waa ta aorr ait that gave aa tmaals to the trade, and ai nnfac tnr af syrup as walL Later, to ann- afaatar foentalH aad other atoaoiie ef t.ie a rsa baa neea aaad a specialty, aud at mm- ot litem are two laraw boose la the Culled State snnmavd exrhilvfly rn the latter, on being located la New-York and the other in Boo-toa.

Th nutnufacrare of syrup, in Instance where UeAitionaalioa I vary ianre. I eoiMluct- ed by ta ttrarrlesar of th d'spenoing ooanler; taougn a in.w arm in th'e City Mill mm a specialty of ntaaaraeror and supply of syruM to email dealers. The trstfic however. In trais same nee prtscipaHy. which are converted into proper form for th dispensing counter by the retailer, la qitanttlie aa needed.

HOWrrnwAOB. Tbe manufacture aad Impregnation th bev-cmxe 1 worth study, aa the tremendow po and prnaear gotauated I worth eoaaldf ration. Ordinarily, ooe would acta likely to aappeoa that a very palatable Ormk ceald be naaurao tared trass a ofeiKUjotin of vitriol, fsulrharic acidj a barrel of aaarbac-dnat aad a few bora bond ef water. Contact of tbe vitriol wiihta aaarbttat sets fro In vast vatanae ta eteoooai mt eerboai aatd ga with which, aaaur nrsamre, toe water ia impregnated. and ooaaarted tarouB giaea or tin-lined leader to toe counter.

Enter the laboratory, and yoa find yonraeM confronted by two, four, si z. eight, to or a dose iron cylinders mm ber varying aeoordln; to tb demand of the counter rather tea than a foot la diameter bv rather aaor than two feet in length. Tbey are very mmimt li i l.uig TTC-. iia, aad very baiuiUan Imi nig withal, vea woo th work ef Impregnation going oat yoa are told that yoa ar standing maroons aay tea feet by tea containing half a doses the creature eontaialns' aa im prisoned exptoatv tore oqnal to at.00 pound to to square foot, yoa ben In to look ctoueward almost involuntarily. Yet all ia quiet, Tber I no external tndMeboa of tbe tmmeadoas power la-prtaoned tn tho bait doaea iroa awdie.

tb berating of a auurl an of whtcS weald sumcieut to wreck a sevea-atory building rend It, IB fact, to original atoms of brick aad aiertar aad yoa start aad tremble ss the conclusion to drtvaa-into your brain that the power 1m nrleoaod tha quietly In either would bo ounieient, 11 properly applied, to lift tha heaviest nolldlna; oa Broadway in a aolid body from Im fwanSaiiuaa, The room Into which yoa have been piloted, and which yoa would like to get out of.aoly yoa prefer not to appear to be In a harry, perhap Lined with iron flour, wall and ceiling; wha aa attendant thevery lmperaonaikia mt Jinn in an Arabian biahta tury keep hi ao to apeak, on the very pnlne of the creature that, Inert as they aeeni. luipriaon the energy ef earth quakes, and himself the presiding spirit of tbs iron-lined apartment. raa rAHmo rornrr aib. i From thi room th tmatownabto liquid to oa-ducted to th dispensing counter, tho aPTpnrto-aaneoS of which need not be particularly scribed. Into tbe dispensation of no never baa the element of tbe sMtbetie entered a larceiy.

atarbl palace Gothic it may ao la straotnr or of other order a may suit tbe taste veined or costing from tieo to tlAos or oocoui tbe counter- very liiitpul palace, with au rot windows, silver doors, and silver flnial Hp-ping it at all available point. Glad enourh offset an exit trom tb iron bound rsusa la which slumbers a power ao terrible, yoa vour way to the counter whither, linked pressor toeg drawn oat, tbe suns terrible nerry pursue yea only to supply yea with a must sices bevcrag mafilod ia reemy foaat, instead of pushing yoa with one tell kick into the street, ns yoa weald naturally expect. Lastly, yoa drain th glaaa, regardlea af th reaeeuoa that you are wsiiowing a portion of tha asms temble nerry, tb notation af which yos have Just beea Studying. STATISTICAL. i Statistic, tn tbe accurate seas of th term, at nua Ha mahie JQ rYpm the sale of faonteln ia New-York City aa compared with the country at large, the conclusion ia taat the Metropoii eoa sumo about on eighth of th wbote aoda-watet manufacture of tae United Mtata ml her more than leas, perba pa.

Upon accurate count, toer arc about Ijauo fountain in blast durmg the Bummer month. Judging from dot uo-pUad by the manufacturer, only one store witaia City limit ha th capacity for gin a day and here, during the heated term especially, the capacity of the iron-lined laboratory to taxed on the average to tha -extern of S.OUO giaaaes The Instances are a eeptional, ho waver, where sales overran SuO glaart day; andtyMWO 1 ao vary x-eeptioual that not mors than half a doaea at any date last Summer exceeded It. Two thousand per fountain covers perhaps tbe dally average pending the heated term of tbs principal fountain in tbe City, that is, tb BMt frequented one; and of them tber not aaor than zuty. A couple of hundred a day, lodging trom to best data at baud, is about th averag of to rest. Summing up a conclusion trom tiieee osu-mate.

it to probable that New York City consumes at toast SOO.OOO glasses per day daring th three Infernal month; the whole eonntrrcon-aumlng not far trom 1,000,000, which te ninety days the avarag duration of tb brisk aaasa amount to the enormous aggregate ot 180.0m) glass supplied to thirsty YaakafMgfroa Us omnipresent fount! ot fizz. DESTRUCTIVE COH17. AflTT mVXIGZT. from IA aVrwnJoa (Pc. Hepublitan, JTay Tbe fire burning down from ths mountain to Clark's Green caused eonaiderabl sxatteasent at that pomt oa WedaeodaT afternoon aad nifct.

As ft approached tb steam saw-witH st ths Green, everybody turned out te fight tb Moment, sad it was only by the meat anrsmittiay labor that tbe mills were saved. As it waa, between six and sight thousand feet of lumber were burned. A portloa of tae nsohlssiy wa taken out of tha mill In xpeetatei that Was building would be burned, but ta fir was finally brought under control aad farther destruction prevented. Tbe fire presented a grand spectacle a ft swept through the Notch, covering the mu ot tbe mountain with a sheet of fire, th name leaping above the tree, rosring aaderaeklin as tbey blasted ths budding foliage. Under strong current of air sweeping bhrourh Notch, the flames spread with sa almost inered-lbl rapidity, so rapid wa it procraas and intense the beat that even tbs biros old awt escape, and several dead pheasant aad other bird were found in tbe road In the morning.

Eater new from Carbondato aad ataar points bring information of great destruction af pro. ertyby the lire. At Carbondale the Are recol tbe tannery of Mr. Moss, and it wa nlv throagh the exertions of the Fire Department that it waa saved. Tb bars aaar the taaoory with all ita contents was destroyed.

TueLr-men worked bard all tb afternoon to savs farther destruction of Iproperty. From Dun more we learn that Mr. Chaklt Cuans, near No. losty large a men at lumber, and had great diflfrnltv tn aavinr hi aj mill andtothor property. Thaoaeaadharn.i the enure content, belonging to Mr.

HaracKv, were burned to the ground. A house near Bunker Hill waa also burned, besides snitoscf fence aad aa Iniinnns quantity at oaru-woo. and timber. The Elk HIH Coal Company! breaker st Ei' soa waa threatened and wa oaly avd by t- greatest exertion; iare were ballt to aura i opposite direction, and by tha reoortlnr to tN old way of lighting firs slth Sr the Th heaviest sufferer by 'thi terrible hmhib- i conflagration taat nave taa rar nearu ei Meoar. Hasvbt A Co, of Coventry 1 own- ship.

We add tb following trots the JMmmtrml of yesterday afternoon Th fir commenced ragta? ta tbe woo about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, sad mo tae first victim were Meoar. Habvst Covtagtown township. Their toss toss fo' ow Brx dwelling-house one laar bar linns. cnwtalVrg salaries loo. eontaininc from lAO.SOO to aiO.00 feetrf pine and hemlock lumber.

Th tons falls heavy npoa Messrs. Habvet at Uinj hail nn msiiFsnnn Thotrlrnann aim largely, a tho flames spread wit sacn i. rapidity that tb good could nt removed from- ths burning The Urge barn af stirs. Hut, ot Bmrsoir. ia Medleon towaahin, ilslmjsil The earns parties loot a bono near their sissm eow-aalll.

Is township. A lam barn hwlanglng to Ik -ilrjixan. of Gubteboro', wa also buru i. y. large barn and out-balldinr in CoviD-vn were also bomed.

out our reporter -aoi rem the nam of Entire eouuaaaitie ar oat fighting the -atiwylng element, snd striving to star lu -ward march, hmt the high winds that have wiiH towaiiii it bom difficult and Asa yw-. Tho heavy rata mi proeabiy taa only u. mUon that can stay its onward and deu--fnarca. The aas tains sroand Whits Hsveelisve aad tber, too. aeorrnctioo of pr.

ha followed. Oa Wednaaday tae ftuna -pesaehsit tha lino-of taa railraad aa Ms deteaooa to tbs train, somol wtiw to ma ft gauntlet sf Tbs lr- i -berlng stat.ual.naonU of McCbab A btoDi aad bAJs A Co. ea-ht are. aad wera aaaanmad. Il Ml oatlmatad that a hs x.

feat af rnmber were burned belonging to two arm, veined at kJ per tbausaad. cy raslas ftai Hi. Mas at Caiiars iliat MOtmrmf fjto ToS-Zzrt! Tmmmtt Tour paper this morning ha ths f-j- tum mm Was Wit A mnnHa Kov. Flii'tui ujtovr Lovsix. i 1 1 sarin to mmww wr, I ii nan if a eaa of tar a Taer to act.

and nvr has bean, r- T-arversallst There ae L'aivoraaUst auaitr tn Croat Lao mt iopca ty la Pcaatsylvmaie atswsss. Sarw-SIUIa. L.aaaaor, Xlanbea.