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The bell, wkich weighs about twelve tone, bore some, Inscriptions which have not aa yet been) deciphered. On a cloee inspoo tion it was, however, found that it bore the date of 1181, aad is- suppose ti have be longed to St. Mary's Cathedral, and to have been thrown into the river during the siege of Limerick. AIR AS A CANAL IHOXOH. Can tne Kiarara Falls be Hade Available to Mot mere handiaw froan Lake Erie to tb MadUsan.

7b the Editor iff Ike Among the various methods suggested for Aheap motive power on the Erie Canal, none seem to me as good or as cheap as my own. Having devised a practical method of ntilis-Tnjr Uds motive power on railroads, I find that it Is equally valuable on canals. I have in the course of an extended scries of experiments within the last two years discovered that power can be transported twenty miles in suitable pipes with a loss due to friction of one per cent. With this great fact established beyond a question all tho rest is easy. I am sat istled that an air pipe can be placed along the bank of the canal between Albany aud Buffalo, extending the entire distance, nnd at every ten miles attached to reservoirs, to be constructed as ordinary cylinder boilers, and of such capacity as to supply the propelling boats with their charge of compressed air.

The propelling boats may have anv desirable power from five to fifty horse, and tow two to twenty caunl boats. The compressed air can be worked off in engines very similar to the steam engines of projK'llcrs, more likely by other devices, the details of which are not yet ready for the public. The cost of operating tho Erie Canal can be reduced to tho small charge for my motive jiowcr, and the Interest on compresMt, pljcs and reservoirs. The pressure need never exceed 300 pounds in the pliies and reservoir. I'pon the close of navigation this power can be sold to thc.citics on the line and used through the ordinary steam engine In place of steam.

I am now building an air dummy to operate city railroads, but tho principle will extend to all railroads. Two eminent scientists, one In New York nnd one in Pennsylvania, aro now engaged in constructing boats to be moved with compressed air, whose inventions will cro long bo made public by demonstration, uiul have great conlidence that the time is not very distant when the canal commerce of our State limy tie trebled, defying competition from all other lines aud modes of transit, and aid the inauguration of that revolution which is sun-to come from the use of this new motive power. Hokacb H. Dat. No.

Zi9 Broadway, N. Sept. 1, 1871. An Indian Juggler. from the PrriHOf the lir Kast.

While the tom-tom wns beutlnjr and the pipe playing, the juggler, singing all the timo in low accents, smoothed a place in the giv-el, three or four yards liefore u. Having thus prepared bed for the plant to grow in he took a butkot and placed it over the prepared place, covering it with a thin blanket. The man himself did not wear a thread of clothing except a strip round his loins. The timo seemed now to have come for the detective's eye, so just as he was becoming more corneal in his song, nnd while Uie tom-tom bout aiftl the pipe shrilled more loudly, I stepped forward with becoming dignity an'1, pegged him to bring tUg bust- uuu covcr 1 1L, ''Iioeriully complied, nnd I carefully eummed the cloth covering which was thin, almost transparent, and euruiihly had nothing eon ecuied ni it. I then tlxed my eyes on this strip of clothing with such intensity that it was not possible lt could have been touched without discovery, und bade him go on, feeling sure the trick could not succeed.

Setting uown btreieiicu out nis nakeu arms under the basket, und singing und nmding us he did jbo. he then lifted the basket cdYl he ground and heboid, green plant ubout a foot high. Salisiled with our applause ho went on with his inoantations. After having sat a Uttlo to glvo his plunt time to grow he again lifted tho basket, nnd the plant was now two feet high. He asked us to wait a little longer, thut lest the fruit! But on assured by those who had -eqr.

ihe trick performed before, that result would be obtained, I confessed myself "done" Without the slightest notion of the how. I examined Uio ground aud found was Kiuuoth and unturned. Apparently de lighted wilh my surprise, the Juggler "stood up laughing, when one of his companions chucked pebble to him, which lie put into Ids mouth. Immediately the Hume companion walking backwards, drew forth cord of silk, twenty yards or more in length; after which the juggler, with his hands behind his back, threw forth from his ruouUi two decanter stoppers, two a spinning top, a stone. ana several other things, followed by a long jot of lire! If the wise reader regrets so much space being occupied by such story, let Uilll puss it on to the children, i'j myself who will be glad to re- 'IL A Torr-niNO Sjcki 'the New Orleans Picaywu.

tells Uie following: "Shortly after the close of the war, Mrs. Beach, living near Carroll ton, went insane. The cause of her derangement was attributed the loss of her husband In one of the numerous conflicts in Virginia. Notwithstanding the unsound condition of her mind, she went ubout her daily duties as usual, taking care of her children fshc had two, a boy and girl), and sewing for lueir support. It wus only 111 conversation that her inlirniity was apparent, and her utter aversion lor society.

Naturally weak nnd deli cate in her organization, her overtaxed strength gave way under the nnluotis work she performed, and day by day her thin pale fact) grew carewornand her soft and silent footsteps drew nearer and nearer to the grave Uut to all inquiries of friends about her health, she would shako her head und say I in well 1 can die) who would care for my little ones The sad und lonely lifo of the woman excited coinpussion, but she would take no alms. She toiled early and late. But not great while since she sent for a gentleman living a short distance from her, und when he arrived said to him 1 am going to die now my children nrc provided In less than two days she was dead, aud contemporaneous with the fact came the intelligence that by the death of an uncle, her children had become heirs to a large fortune iu Maryland." Pise atohi AL. A curious lish was captured near Cape Charles' a short time since, and taken to Baltimore for preservation nnd exhibition. It is tlfty-eight Inches long, eleven and one-half inches in diameter, and weighs fifty-one pounds.

The head is just one foot long, from nose to back part of the gills, and when the mouth is closed is formed very much like that of a herring. When open, the month shows a larg cavity, nnd is armed on each side bv a powerful bone, with edge like a file, and the lower jaw is joinU-d near the center, it bus iurgo teeth, but on both tbe upper Jaws there ure rows of tine teeth. The bwdy bears the same size from the head to the low er end of the dorsal tin, where it tajicrS rapidly, though not uusymmetrically, to the tail, which is very broad at the points. tne lower extremity 01 tne dorsal tin is a tin which attaches to the back by a joint, and about one fool in length, uud entirely without bone or leudon. The eye of the fish is as targe as that of a horse, and is very bright and clear.

One of the most singular features of this strange fish Is that near tho centre of each side, from the head to the tail, there is a dlstluct line, all the scales above which are of a silver color, nnd all below lt of high gold color. Persona have followed tue sea ior year Bay they never saw the iii Josh BiLj.rsitiS oj Kkeb. free ftghl, especially amung dogs. I beleaf in free rides on a gato. -I beleaf cats and I beleaf in freed urn of every sluvc on arth But free love is one ov them kinds of free dum that It don'tdo to limber with.

If this world was a gardin of Edin and full ov Adam and Kve, nv. they was when they was fust launched, then I kan imagine intgni uo ior some oilier Adam lo hold my Eve on hi lap, and talk about his afflnitech and spintoal essence, aud play Iamb. In them daze, there waut no humin nutur, it was all God natur. Human natur hns bin soaked so much sinse, it is tew weak to be trusted in a lot whar the seed Is poor, next tew a meddo, without much fence between nor enny poke on. Free love wants more poke than enny other animal.

I-don't believe in total depravity unless a man nas a good cnanco, 1 ree love is a gooa aeai lute arinkiruz six shilling gin for a bevndge. Bevridge bj a Chi nese word, uid mjeans cusaidneaa. Aui the free love i have witnessed thus far. has existed between a villainous letchcr on one side and lunatic virtue on the other side. that has been deodorized out of its truth, and had lost aui of its modestv and shamn in huntln after a condishun whare sin ceased to be a crime.

The first free lover wo have ennv akount ov was me aevu. Rosro's STiTuims. John Rogers, whose brown statuettes hava made him so famous, is a native of Massachusetts. In early Uie he was a dry goods clerk in Boston; then be learned the trade of a machinist, but seeing boy modeling figure in clay deter mined his vocation. In 156, still being poor, and having no hope orf supporting himself by modeJiitftThe went West and.

took charge of machine shop in Hannibal, Mo. The (Inan. cial crisis of the next year carried bun to Chicago, where he was appointed clerk in the city surveyor's office. While there be pro-doe ed his first finished work, "The Checker players," which was vey well received, and followed by "The Town Pump' and 'The Slave Auction." Learning from an Italian manner of making flexible moulds for casting forma, he came to Now York, set np studio aud prospered. Rogers has produced about forty groups In all, and has sold some 50,000 copies of his works.

It is said that bis next undertaking will be Bret Harte's Heathen Chinee, Before and at the beginning 11 I at UCl a uj my to tbe the their business is immense, tbe benefits which Duluta, will derive 2t tho trantfer 'will be greaV jiaw wrrifxyrr ajbody. A L.I vlna; Head on a Paralysed Tronic How tie Kpia lata 'lia Off. From the St. Louis THmes, Aug. SI.

Near Glenwood, Iowa, resides James T. Anderson, aged twenty-six. Three years ago lie died from his neck -downward. His head, however, is alive, and mere vigorous and active than before the body, which it once governed, Ceased to be vital. At the age of two, James' father died, and his mother soon married again.

At the age of three he was tossed several times by an angry cow. Shortly afterward, while be was eating bread and milk, a rattlesnake Joined him, and whon the two had finished hie snakes hip made his bow and retired. At live years old a horse ran away with him, and made for a stable, across the entrance of which was a bar. The horse reached in under a bar, aud his mother seized him just in time to save his life. Ho grew up active and strong, and was fond of sports, lie became a good gymnast.

James, at tbe time of the accident that left him with a dead body and a living head, was a fine, handsome young man. Ho weighed two hundred pounds, and there was not a su-lierfluoms ounce of flesh on bis body. One afternoon, when on a visit to an uncle at Glenwood, ho was exercising on a pole placed from one tree to another in the back yard. He had on a pair of goiters tipped with putent leather. He swung down from the pole by his feet; the leather slipped and be fell.

He struck hia nsck just where it Joins the shoulders. He was bewildered, but perfectly conscious. His body ietfr as though smashed to a jeHV. ITe exp-rienced horrible tingling, and when the doctor came he told him not to touch him as hia body was broken to pieces. His neck was broken; inflammation set iu.and all thought his end was come.

To the surprise of all, in a few days he began to mend. He was shortly after removed to hi atupfathcr'a houto, where he still resides. Time hung heavily on his hands, and he resolved to learn to write with his mouth. Ho accomplished this, and, as he snys in a letter to Mr. J.

K. Nutting, he soon wrote a tolerably good mouth, lie is now trying to paint, nnd hopes by this means to Cai something for his support. He hns been, and still is, tenderly cared for by his sister, herself a cripple, nnd speaks in the highest terms of his stepfather, who, though a poor man, has shown him every kindness. Hii. worst enemies are the flies which buzz about his face.

He holds a leafy twig In his mouth, however, and manages to twirljt about in a wonderful wsy and drive off his tormentors. This case is without a parallel, except that of John Carter of England, wtio was injured in a similar way, und who became a famous painter. TriR Last Heaps on Bau. In May, 17111, the head of Col. Oxbtirg, concerned in the rising of Mar, as placed above the liar, and six years afterward, it received a companion In that of Counselor Layer, convicted of plotting the murder of King George.

Tho lost remuinexl "blackened and weathcr-bcateu with the storms of many successive years, until it became tho oldest occupant. Infancy had advanced Into matured manhood and still the head repulsively looked down from the summit of the arch. It seemed part of the- arch itself." For more than thirty years did Layer's head look down on busy lecl-street; at last, ono blusterous night, 1 friendly gust sent it rolling Into the strand aere it was picked uphy an attorney, who 11 ono a jiuuuc-uuui oy, unu tlurc, ue-cording to Nichols, it found "a resting-place uimcr uiu uiiur, wnne Dr. the antiquary, ho va i.uxtoux to become its possessor, jwid a liundsoine consideration for a suosiiuuc ioistea upon him or the genuine nrlicle. He, however, died in happy ignorance of tho cheat, and was buried, 111 accordance with his desire, with the precious relic in his right hand.

Before Layer's beud fell from its spike, it had been joined by two more, those, of Townley and Fletcher, two of the '45 rebels who were done to death on Kennington Coinmrra on the flOUi of July, I4o, unci heads elevated over Temple Bar the day after. It was to tlioso Waliole alluded when he wrote: "I have been this morning to the Tower, and passed under the new heads nt Temple Bar, where people make a trade of letting spying glasses nt 11 halfpenny look." 1 1 was these hi uds that suggested Goldsmith's Knm that so tickled Johnson's fancy; The two frionds, both of whom were perhaps Jucohitc in their hearts, hud been meditating amimg the tombs at Poet's Comer, when Juluieon had quoted Ovid's lino: "Forstitan i rostrum nomcn misceliitur istis." (Perhaps, some day our names may mix ith Ibeirs. As they alked together homeward, Oliver stopped nt the Bar, and in iillusion to their own Jacobite opinous) pointing to the bends above, whispered; "Forsitun ct nostrum uomen mleoc-bitur istis In iTbii a man was taken into custody for shooting nt the Temple Bar heads wilh a steel crossbow. He explained that his locality was so intense that he. did not think death a sullieient punishment for traitors, and tliat he had relieved h'lu 'ndii'-uant te.

oy firing balls at the head's for his pastime of an eveuing. vys supposed he wns related to one or other of the unfortunate men, of whose, heads he had made targets, in hopes of obtaining possession of them. I'pon the 1st of April, 1772, one of them was blown from its perch; tho other did not long remain in solitary glory, and the Bar at last was rid of the executioner's ghastly trophies, although the spikes, or one of them nt least, remained to remind passers-by of the tender mercies of the good old time, until tho beginning of the present century. Vhiwtlxri Juunuii. FuioiiTFri, Accident the Railroad.

Yesterday morning us the express truin from mis city to uiiituio was near Corfu Station, (ienesee County, Mr. Hurt, the engineer, discovered a horse running away with a wagon containing man, woman und child. The highway ran along nearly parallel with the truck and crossed it diagonally. The crossing was but a short, distance ahead of the locomotive und the horse was running at high speed. Mr.

Hurt hud but an inslunt to determine what he would do in the emergency. To stop before reuching the crossing was already out of the question. He at once concluded to beat the horse if he could and get the train out of the way. He put on all steam but did not succeed in etleeling his purpose. 1 be runaway horse dashed forward still faster and plunged into a cuttle guard just as tbe locomotive crossed it.

The horse was instantly killed and the occupants of the wagon thrown to the ground. The train was not in the least disturbed. As soon as possible it wus stopped nnd bucked up to the scene of the dis-iioter. The man whose name was Connolly wus considerably, thongh not dangerously injured. The woman, whose name wns Robinson, had un arm broken but was not otherwise harmed.

The child, un infant, was found lying near by upon the grass unharmed and appeared to enjoy the utlair highly. The affair turned out much better than was anticipated tiy those 'who saw the frightful spei tuclc of a race between a locomotive and a horse for a crossing. Ruclttster I mom, ed iwxtla 1. A "Potato Race" in New Hampshire. A correspondent of the Boston Af'-rrrtiner writes from East Wilton, N.

IL, that outdoor nthlclic exercises aro tho fashion, and oue of the novel lies is the potato race, which is thus described: "A very curious trial of speed and strength it is. Three lines of potatoes were laid. Each line is of fifty each a yard from each other. Of course eac line is forty-nine yards long. At the end of each line is a basket, by which ut the start a contestant stands.

In this case there are three competitors. At the word go," each one begins where he ehoses on his Une to pick up potatoes that ho may I rirrt; Uiimi to the basket. He rp'6 pick up but otic at each Uip add turn to bring lt back into the basket. Your mathematical readers will see that this involves 7,350 feet of running, with sticu deduction as may he made Tor an out stretched arm, when one comes to his basket: and, with the epriwus od Union of two turns ior every potato, or one nnnarod turns In all Three spirited contestants entered, and one of them, named distinguished here as having won a tub race in the last sports, which were aquatic, performed the feat in little more than nine minutes. The other two were close behind him.

If vou Iiave ever any occasion to try, let me toll yon that the scientific performance fg to take your long runs nrst, when your wind is good. hen you want to regain your breath, take vour short run, which involve the delnv of turning, but aro easier for breathing. You see how good the time was for a distance of a mile and a half." A Ksowrnq Wasp. A correspondent lends ihe following to the Albany Journal: Two persons of Veracity stated to me the following story: They saw a wasp riding on a green worm one and a half inches long. How far l(: had ridden they did nol know; but after they 'saw him, they watched him until he had ridden all of twenty-live feet.

Occasionally toe worm would stop, lie motionless as though he was dead, when the wasp, afters little, would spur him up, and then the worm? would go on. The wasp wonld keep the worm in a direct a course as he could. After a while the worm stopped, and the wasp dismounted and quickly ran and removed a little stone or piece of ground about two Inches from where the worm lay, and then seising the worm by the bead drew it into the hole. Presently the wasp came out. put the gravel top over the hole, covered the stone over, and seemed to begetting ready to ny, when "I killed him," and then I dug down about two inches and dug out the worm, who was dead.

A Bblx. Ssvhh IIuwdsid Ybars Old. An Irish paper state that as three men "were poling a boat along the Abbe River, County Limerick, on Saturday, August 19, the pole which they were awing stock in the bottom of the rives, aad tor a tohg time their united exertions failed to extricate it- At last they succeeded, whew to their astonishment they discovered that it was taught in an i a tJi his the good fortnne of a poor adventurer of Uiat. town in former days: hi la ml nas de Han llornnbo Wo dleron tan htiena ley. No caaaria Juan Hurra Bon la hUa dol vlroy.

Which may bo rendered: If ML Barnabas' mlno Had not yielded ore so fine. rtan Barra nor had wwlded A maiden of the viceroy's linn. Manuel's song ceased when he reached the Rinconada, a sltarp angle In the path, bcdo which tha precipice sank plump down, a sVeer descent of mora than five hundred feet I'he reool loot ion of what his wife had lust; told him sent a cold shudder through his frame, and he had not recovered bis usual, orayety when he reached the shaft. hi the or -(Treat shod surrounding the pit hn ound the English director, Dou Jaynie, the overseer, Miguel Gomea, aud several clerks, miners, porters and mule-drivers. Don Jay me seemed to be In bad huiiicsr, and tho overseer looked black and sullen.

Enhorahurna iu good tlm, my 'nun," aid the director. We are albready for you and now lot evory ono here be attentive to bis duties. There has bei too much cure lessnoss heretofore, partteulirlv in the Masting- Many coiupluhd. hoyo been made among tile towns people 1x1 proprietors of the aecidionts whioli ociit hero. Vou, 1 11 111 told, ore a quick-witted arorkintn," he con tinned, addressing Mamel.

"in well that wo have Some on wboifl we can rely." Gomes listened to this significant iqiocch without venturing reply, but' his swarthy faco grew livid, und.tils eyes flashed with 1 baleful fire. Two horses espoe.iallv trained to the dutv, were 110W attached to the a by whlHt tho buckets were raised and lowered In the shaft. Manuel thuu pine ed upon uishcadacoulcolhul, having socket on the top, whjrli held a lighted candle. He took In one huhd small rope, of liich olher ond wa held by the overseer, disking which the inutelillglitorMTa- l( the signal when he wus ready to Ihe promptitude with which ftseenl took place drsHinded, of course 'nls'suf. ty from the cllocta of the exploslo'- Mmniel now stepped into ineiiciiei, w- Wns lowered down the shaft a distune', of about hundred vnr.ls Two Mres, or drivers, field the horses' neaus an(n vvnlted in anxious sihuicn for th, "'glial from Gomez.

All wu still as di nth In tbe falt ra. go?" shouted the overseer drivers loosonod the lieu Is of tho Inn ses, and Uio ell rallied iniimiil dashed oil St and circled the nt full speed. Iu a minute the bucket rose to view emptyl "Buck! Down wilhll! For life! for life!" exclaimed the director, stamping with tmpu Hence. "Oh, what Idiotcy, hut insanity It, this!" The iiici hastened to obey the orders, but. before tho bucket had descended dozen yards tbe roor of be explosion smote upon their curs; und cloud of smoke find dust was.

driven violently up the hhuft, und tilled th When it cleared awny the faces of nil present were seen to be pule wilh horror. "Yon villinu!" cried the director to Gome, "what Is the meaning of this?" "I'pon my life as 1 am Christian I he rope shook in my hands," replied Come, whose teeth chattered, nnd whose whole frmne summed to tremble with nervous utiln tion, while his ryes carefully avoided those of the director. The In tier did not waste nnollifr word np on him, but, seizing he 'sprung into the bucket, ulon vitli two of the nnd wus lowered down the shaft Here 'ujOv set ubout removing, na ruiiidlv oorcfully us pos-ible, the pil- of nu lh uud si ones ilh bit the explosion bud Ml. Uie bottom of he shaft, not doubting that they should lind the mungled remuihs of tho poor iiiutchlightcr hcncHlh llicin. While they ure I bus engaged in a finillcsi search, let us follow- tin- 111 tuul course of Milliners proceedings.

He has 'jusl lightc the ma3clie.s,und wus on Hie point of stepping into tin- bucket, hen it was suddenly liruw 11 up. A coiiv iction of the i rseeCs perflditv instantly liushed upon hlin, uud with it 11 t.enso of the horror of position. Jlut Mann, wus, as the director hud said, a quick wilted fellow. He knew Hint the workmen euiblov ed In the shaft had, a few days U-fure, conic upon 11 small side cut, or jiussuge, hare! large enough tw admit the body of a man. uud thut, on li-uciiig It to its termination, wns found to loud to nil iiiiineUHe chamber ii.

the old mine fJ Sun Adrian. This fninoii mine, tut ii well know 11, was worked shortly nflor the conquest of Mexico, and, haiinl-yielded Immense wealth lo its proprietors, was abandoned, bout Hie end of tin- sivtei nth century, on iiccount of the dilllcultt expcii cneed in its drainage. The workmen who hud explored Uu puKsujro bud reported that, the cbuir.ber wm neaily full of water, und wu, no large Hint the light of their ei.n.Ile lid no', j. net rule to the further extremity The recollection of this disi overy now occur ed lo Manuel's miii, I. and seemed to oiler him 1 ehuiicr of escape.

Looking eagerly niouinj. he, observed Hie opening ubout three tfi nbove liis bend; und gaining It by a spring, hedrew himself up by the (isii'Ih, and plunged into the passage. I rged by the dread of the, coming explosion, eagerly onward, and just as the roar 1 the blast tilled bis ears be foil headlong forward into a sheet of water, Kjirend nboul. three feet below the extremity of tin- pas sngf. He sank beneath the surface, mid when he rose, confused nnd hrcnlhhrss, it vns to lind himself lloiillng in utter darkness, wiLh out the slightest iden of the point by which he hud entered, nnd with liurdly chiu.ci of discowi lng the opening, which luv high ulioi Ihe water.

A more horrible hilimli.ni can hardly be conceived. Hlill, even in this, extremity, hope did not desert him. After some reflection, h( fixed upon direction in which Ik Judged the passage lie, and swam carefully toward It. He was soon con vilieed; by the space passed over, that he was iiiisUtk.cn hi his judgement; but eoiiHulerlng IL better to keep on until he found the wall hm to waste his strength in swimming about ni. random, he proceeded steadily forward for 11 distance, us lie of nearly two hundred yards.

At length ho encountered the, i wliich lose perpendicularly fur above hit. as he found by the splash of the wnl which he throw against it. Coasting along it, uiel occasionally touching it with me bund, he nil vnneed, tor about a yurdu further, by which lime his limbs bccoiiimbii' slid und benumbed in Cif o-cohi wider, mid lie heiirt hud almost, fulled lllm. But fie was not lest ined to iidiUdi thus. Ho suddenly ami.

iiiM.ii a Paatugc, the ojmhhig of wliich was 11 lilllc iuwer tiiiin the unfit of the water It: wusi videiil from Ihe fuet. 11 well us from tho size of Ihe pussuge, thnt eoiiM Hot be Hint n.v wlnt li he hud entered lloweVi 1 11 olli red him ut bust respite from dcuth, und le promptly availed himself of It. After sittiie lllOtiollilesH for II timo ll, recover from xh.iustion of his rciviit efforts, he rose an. proceeded tu explore Ihe pkssuge. ft to be it oit of vaulted chamber of nboul 1,.,.

wu height, and Just wide enough fo, him P. uch its shies with Ida outstretched l. A soul cheering-idea suddenly Hushed his mind. There was a tindition, lellt or lldit, wilh hlld ln.111 driven ut vast expense through the ic.oiint1ii, to ef icci uramngo 01 the mine of Hun Adrl an. When the mine v.

lUI abandoned, the adit, of course, wus no longer attended to; lis li-ruiil-oiiciiii bwaioe closed up, and, In tho space uf dioro than two hundred veurj wliich hud ruiMted, Its prei Ise locality -Indeed, id cry Unrig bulthe mere fact of lu cxlutenco was forgotton. Manual well remembered to liuve oiim day heurd Ijon Jayiilo suv too Mexican gentleman, ho accompanied film on 11 former visitto Die mine. thai hestiouldcoiisid er the discovery of thu old mctifun un mublc service, as it would, probably, suve the cotiiiny an immense ex (h use for drainage in their new works. The further the miner ad valued hemoru assured he became of the truth of his supoosi lion. 1 he adit was us from lu situation il.

iuut neecsKtiiily be of great length; and Manuel walked, as he (apposed, nearly rlvo hundred yards before reaching the extremity The ater nil the way was Jut up to his ankles, and he thought he could perceive at times thut lit had slight current In the direction In which be was going. The passogo was closed, as he had anticipated, by solid inns Of earth and stones, which he at once set alxmt roiSoving. Making good use of his long knife, ho worked iiidcfatigubly for than an hour. At hist ho struck the roo'j, tree, a circumstance which assure thut he was approaching tho urfr convict ion gave him renewed rengtU He cut with his knife, and dug j.j, tn; bleeding hands, until at loir- lucky push loosened a largo stone wl' lf.C 1,.. tweeu two of the root', thH tree forward, and the nyil heaVen pour Cdtr" Siu b.

'd enchanted vL-loii. He felt a rin nr tombed Uforo his Urn might experience when doors of his sepulchre flew out and him back once more to wanriui and iigni. itn a littt le additional lalior bo enlarged Uie aperture, until be wus able to force himself through It. But what was his astonishment, when at length he stood lunder tho open sky, to find that he wu Uie exact spot in which he had tuken hia noontide meal only a few hours before! A moment consideration cleared up tbe mystery. The fountain was no natural si hut simply the place of exit for the water which slowly accumulated in Uie rainc.

and wren I ted through the mass of rocks earUi and vegetation that closed the entranco of tho adit. So exact, however, was Its resemblance an ordinary mountain spring, Uiat this was, doubt, the main cause of the locality of old sorabon having fallen into oblivion since so body of course, retimed of looking It tn the vicinity of a fountain. It clear to the young miner If at ghad made discovery of great iinporianoc to the coni-panv. WIUi this thought in Id mind eager to Inform bis friends: of bis wonderful escape, he set ont at onite ma tha lln Was futwl Iadabu a 7--- 7-1 1 mov vo rcscn inn galera without encountering yet another very lr i.T inn ueiore describing it will be nccessarv to relai A hrloflv events Uiat had occured at the shaft during; time be had snent in th mine. lion J.

v. after laboring for nearly an hour In hia useless search, and being excessively puzxledV th cowplcu duappearance of tie, bod 3p4 thereby saH an Hm of expeaa- T9 ctioa wjll be' underntood as an todlcatlam intjend ts) be at thffcoriyeii-4Ion In with th hope to again power the trrry-mow and cheese-prttw Democracy, and control tho action of the he The recollections of last year's opera- tions of the gang of roughs that visited our ncJchDBrinir cltT. will lead the Rochester people to the exercise of extraordinary vigi- Uaricsiih bollie and detective regnlatlorwi, to the end that they may not bo despoiled at- their goods and chattels. Thai venerable Chairman of the BUte Central Committee will also be i-eminded of tho importance of leaving hia watch at home, lest it may be taken from him as it wa by soma) delegate! at the last convention. TUB AT1JLNTIC ANV OKKAT WEST-KRH RAILWAY.

On the 1st inst. tho Atlantic and Great Western Railway, with all the property connected with that organization, was formally transferred by the receiver to the trustees under the reorganization of the company. The transfer took place at Akron, and on its completion the three trustees. Gen. McClellan, Judge Thurman, of Ohio, and Mr.

Duncan, of New 1fork, took possession of the railroad and all Its appurtenances In behalf of the newly organized Atlantic snd Great Western Railroad Company. All arrangements with the Erie Railway Company ceased at once, and the two lines are now merely connecting roads. This, however, will work no Inconvenience to the traveling or business public, who will have the same facilities as before, to say the least. The Cleveland Herald says that important changes are in contemplation, nnd will bo commenced at once, the Object of which Is to inako tho Atlantic and Great Western independent of the Erie, while maintaining friendly relations with lt. Among other designs, according to the Jferald, Is that of a connection to be made at once with the New York Central, cither over the proposed Buffalo division of the Atlantic and Great Western, which, In that case, ill be completed without or over nnotber lino in course of construe tion.

Willi these arrangements completed, the Atlantic and Great Western will form a part of a narrow gauge lino by way of Corry Harrisburg and Philadelphia, another narrow-V gauge line by way of Btiffiiio and the New York Central, and a broad gauge line by way of the Erie. Tin Cunrir treats the election news from; California very much as lt did tho Tammany frauds in New York. It has nothing, to say. I lt distasteful to our neighbor? LITKttAItV. An American lady has written "Picture from Paris In War and Siege." Robert Browning's ni.

poem is basod. upou the Alcestis of Euripides. 'Al Home with the Patagonians," Is the title c-f a new book by George C. Musters, the B-itlsh Navy. Dr.

Henry Cop pec has a new work nearlj ready entitled "English Literature Considered a a key to English History." Prof. Seeley.the author of "F.cco has completed the first volume of his edition of "Iivy," and it will shortly be published. Charles Klngsley Intends to publish ancw edition of his poems, which wilj contain sev' crul pieces that havt) not hltliei to been col. lected. Colonel Forney's "Reminiscences Public Men" are to lie published in a boo when they Bballbave reached their hundrcdtl number.

John Forster's lifo of Dkkcrm, the only authentic biography of the novclisl by his friend and executor, will bo published in months by J. B. I.lppineott A simultaneously with Its appearance In Ldnv don. The reign of the Commnuc In Paris destroyed Homo literary treasures of value. Iq the burning of the, house of M.

Brrtrnnd hit great Treatise on the Dillcrcntial nnd Iu tcgrnl Calculus," just ready for the press, wa consumed. It is irreplaceablo except at th cost cf years of labor. jjjhe Rot. O. W.

Cox, M. A. Cinthor o. MyShology of tho Aryan andj Mr. Hinton Jones are preparing a work tq bo entitled Popular Romances of the Mid die Ages, In which they will endeavor to.

give, in a popular prose form, some of the earlier Metrical Romance. It Is to comprise-the stories of Arthur," Roland," Bevis, of Hampton," "Guy of Warwick," "Sir Tristuim," "Merlin," Hart-lock," "01, gor," and "Beowulf," together with notes and introduction tracing the comparative mythology of these stories in tlieir relation to older myths. PERSONAL. Bright is being urged John to visit America. The Queen of the Belgians received, this year, the golden rose which tho Popo sends nnnuaJly to a Catholic princess.

Southern Journals report that Gen. Wado Hampton and his wife nre both seriously ill; ho suilering from etlrcmo nervous prostration, and she from an attack of paralysis. The goldon-aged Theodore Tllton shone pro-eminent at Mrs. Woodhull's reception on Sunday night, and held spirited council as to tho continuance of the campaign against Mr. Greeley.

Tlhe Princess de Met tern Ich has returned to Paris, where she must feel like one whoj treads, alone, borne banquet hall deserted, now that she tinds the Kmpress is DO longer her rWal In the matter of good clothes. I in the height of her fame, Alico Cal-y conld only earn a year by her poems, and Phabe, writing much less, of coumc earned much less. They were, pnid from $15 to 125 for an ordinary poem, while a longer one was good for 'iO. Tie son of tho dead Dumas announces that the removal of his father's remains, and the funeral service, now await the evacuation of the: Department of the Aisno by Uio Prussians, whero the grove of tho author pf 4. -The wife of Nathan Bakor, of Notaway 11 4 1.

ai.i. 1 "iiinj, uii.ius, itiioun 01 iiiu ciniu 4 near iicr heart, has given thereto. In tiften years of married bliss, no fewer than nineteen children. Of these, thirteon survive; and Mirs. Bakor is but thirty-seven.

Will Mr. Blaine sell his Washington property for Maine Stanlard. We aro authorised t.o say that lie will i promptly and gladly. He will, moreover, al low to any ono who will negotiate tho sale at that price a very largo commission. Has the Standard a responsible bidder to put forward? 1 Kennebee Journal.

i Col. Pickett, a Georgia planter, has plant- cd this season, in the southwestern part tht SJjite 6 acre in cotton and 3.500 5 acres in corn; ana It Is estimated that he will This Is 1 said to be the largest cotton crop planted In 4 the South. He employs nearly 400 bands, all 1 of them negroes. Aa English lady, visiting Bismarck's Castle of Varzln, In Pormeranla, describes the Prince's ton and heir, Count Otto, as a tall young fellow, very much resembling an. Englishman.

He spent two years in England studying the English army organization, and afterwards took lessons la diplomacy In Paris, where he was a frequent visitor at Gen. Dix's receptions. He la master of five modem languages, and a great sportsman. In pobtatio or Stokb tmou Giumca, The Boston Journal says: The arrival of a vessel; from the classic shores of Greece is rare occurrence at this port- The bark Edwin has arrived laden with fire hundred tons of white cHff stone, quarried near the seashore on the Island of Negropont, in the Grecian Archipelago. As ft Is the first Importation of the stone here.

It haa excited some notice, and many cartons questions have been asked respecting it Since last March this speeiea of atone haa attracted the attention ot acientifla men. It has a white, chalky appearance, and is need for the manufacture of artificial atone of rare beauty and poiiahi, and is also made Into emery wheels, oil stones, etc The process of mauufactare is first to reduce the stone to a fine powder, which, after being mixed with any mineral substance, sand, gravel, or dther kind of stone, In varying proportions according to the deaired result, lt la then moistened with bitten water, by which trade plastic tad 5 I' I On can )f I From the day of the death of Alcestii, there bad been growing in the bcarw of Ad-mctos a sense of bis cowardice, of his unutterable meanness in letting his beautiful wife die for him; and though tho quarrel wrai-nis father and the just sneers and insults of Pheres enraged him, though the wrahgTe kept the man from eee- li gr dear," 1 yet Uiat reeling 01 having acted unwonniiy. 01 oaring disgraced mmseix, grew ana deepened in the king's heart; aud when the funeral rites were over, and he came back to hia house, from which the glory had departed, then in Ui silence he knew at last how much better La death than a dishonored life: Texed waters sank to Smooth 'Twnsrmly whon the last of bubbles broKe, i latest circlet widened all away. And left a placid lever, that up swam To the surface tbe drowned truth, in dreadful change, bo, through the quiet and submission ay, 8pite of some strong words (for yon miss the tone) The grief was getting to lie Infinite Grief, friends fell back liefore." Then comes the return of IJerculeB-with Alcestis veiled; tho trial of the faith of Ad-mentos, and the reward. Balauatiou continues: Ah, but the tears como, find the words at fault! There Is no telling how the hero twitched Tho veil tin re stood, with such tiled oyea And such low smile, Alkestls' silent self! It 'Wits the crowning grace of thut great heart.

To keep back Joy; procrastinate the truth 1 nui mo wile, who nail uuulo nrool and wile found The liuibund wanting, mbjbt essay once more. Hear, s-e. nnd feel him renovated now Able to do. now, all herself had done, Ui'iMi to th height of her; so. bund in hand.

The two minht go together, live und die." The objection that Balanstiou could not hive seen what she prulcssi tl lo have semi, for actors were masked, and masks are with out clrmge of expression, she hersi If encountered nnd answered. Tho graver questions, ns to the rank of Euripides among poets, and the true character of Hercules as he appears in this play, whether hn wjt, mighty and loviug and glorious, as this ikm-ui represents him, or was, as other crilieg declare, drunken glntton, making tho scenes grotesque und ridiculous whenever he uppe.urs, wr shall not undertake to decide. It is impossible to cuter here into a critical of the merits of the translation, or of the many dif fere.Bt intei-protations of tho atory of Hercules. We can only say of Mr. Browning's rendering hat Balaustion said of the origi mil: "Kor I have drunk this pooul, luenched my thirst.

Satislied hear nnd poui til H. a chuich stil! sUmdii iu Philadelphia wliich was elected The first camp nn'cting In this country was held by the Presbyterians in IMm. Plainticld, N. with a population of b.iKK) Buuls, has t'ftceti church 1 diticcs. The Jews of Turin arc building a synagogue which will, it is tic the lincst building of its kind iu the world.

All Amcriciiii Episeopul church Is to be erected in the city of Rome, to cost 70,000. The enterprise has every encouragement fron. the Italian government. Prof. Reissmnnn, a decided opponent of the Papal claims, has Imcii elected Rector of Wurzburg niv rsity.

in spite of the streiiu ous exertions of thu I'ltrnmontune party. --Tic- Russian authorities in San Franci-co have given orders for the of a church to be shipped to, und erected on, tt Puul'-s Isii.nd in bchring Bca. Eighteen copies of the lirst edition of the Bible ever printed arc still in existence. They were printed nt between the yrnrs 1440 and 144o. Mr.

Jamas Lenox, of "New York, owns one of the copies, having purchased il at a cost of A memorial sermon was recently preached at the grave of Philip Embury. 111 Woodland Cemetery, New YorK. Embury was the founder of Methodism la America, and the Methodist clergy are asked to give $1 each towurd creeling a monument to him. Spurgeon tells the following: "I like the storv of the maid, who, when she was" asked, on joining the church, 'Arc you 'I hope so, 'What makes von think you are really li child of God?" 'Well, sir, there is a gn-ut change in me from what there uxed to be." 'What is that -J don't know, sir, but there's a eh In nil tl. lug-, but there is one thing, tihj'iy xirscjj ihr tfw ia niu It is not generally known that John Wesley, the- founder of Methodism, nearly one hundred nnd forty years ago.

was the first missionary of the Church of England, in Sa nnd -'-ally the what is now hrisi's Church. The present number of communicants in the Episcopal Church in that, city is nine bundled and sevent v-t wo. Last year they gave to the various church objects an average of $53.40 to each com municant. -Tl te comment of a colored preacher on the text, "It is more blessed to give than to receive ii inimitable for its point ns well ns eloquence: "i ve known many a church to die 'cause it didn't give enough, but I never knowed a church to dio 'cause it gave too much. Dey don't die dat way.

Bredrcn, has any of you linowed a church to die 'cause it gave too mneh If you do, just let me know, and I'll make a pilgrimage to that church, and I'll climb by de soft light of de moon up de inoss-eovcred roof; nnd I'll stand (Inr. nnd lift up my hands to heaven and sav, 'Blessed are de dead dut die in de Lord A young Episcopal clergyman, spending few- days ut Saratoga, culled on the Baptist minister, a college friend, who expressed a desire for him to preach on the coming Sabbath, but, us it wni the day of their commu nion, il would bo embarrassing for him to prv.uii to Iiia people and nol. be allowed to commune with them, which lould not do, not hnving been Imptized. The Episcopalian replied: "Don't be I will preach for you; but were I forty tunes baptized, I could not sit dow to your table; for, by the rub of our church, you, you know, are not ordained, and can not udtnitiistei 11, ordinance at all." And so he preached, and at thu close went out to his dinner, while the saints sat nt the table. A London correspondent relates that a Ritualistic clergyman of the Establishment recently hud a confessional put up in his church after the Roman puttcrii, where, in a dim cubbyhole, kneeling before a pictured ucilix, his penitents would whisper their sins in his cur through a discreet grating.

Ine dav, sitting at dinner ith his wife, nnd bile a female serv ant was waiting on the ta ble, he 6aiu: My dear, 1 heurd a most extraordinary story this morning in the confessional," and went on to re-late the interesting urlicu'urs. The servant who was waiting, istcued, turned pale, rushed from the room. went to a Catholic priest, and became a Catholic. was her confession the Ritualistic Father Confessor was telling his wife. One of the most enterprising and successful Methodist laymen in Indiana says when he began life for himself, he worked three years for ninety-five dollars and gave one-tenth of it to the Lord.

He continued to do so for many years, finding but little difficulty when making but little. At lost the war came on, and he found himself a partner iu hominy mill, which was run day und night to supply the army. His Iniome was between f'itA) and $.100 jer day. Now came a terrible conflict: "Shall I give away between twenty und thirty dollars a day?" The sum seemed to appul him, and one night, after a severe struggle, in which covetousuess gained the mastery, he sank into a troubled sleep, but soon awoke to see the hominy mill in thousand flames! He has never had any trouble to j'ice one tenth b.iico. This brother st that time estimated 1hat the same rule of giving in the Methodist Episcopal Church would realize a year for the snpport of each pastor, pay all the conventional demands then made on the people, aud leave a surplus of 110,000,000 annually.

NeaRLT $2,000,000 at Stake A Queer story is told, which, If true, will result in vexatious lawsuits and financial loss to several New Haven property owners. is said that somewhere in the neighborhood of 1771 all of the land lying between Chapel and Court streets, and' Church and Orange, was leased by a gentleman named Ball to certain parties for a period of ono hundred years. Since that time the land has been built upon nearly every foot of it being now covered, and tho property has been sold and resold, warranty deeds have been given in every case. About ten years ago, a Dr. Ball, of Brooklyn, wro'e to the heirs of the said -to bo leaser, many of whom are now living In North Gull ford, in regard to tho matter, informing tiem that the lease would soon expire, and that steps should be taken in order to secure their rights.

Tho doctor dying soon after, rustier was not rushed for a time, but' now, it is said, some uf the heirs of the ancient Ball are enerceticaUy stirring to collect the evidence and facts of the matter with a view of claiming Uio property. If this proves to be true, and the matter nasses into the hands of lawyers, it will cause a shaking of the dry bones, for the property la probably worth $2,000,000, including the Exchange Building, the block of handsome dwellings overlooking Green, the Tontine House, Governor Eng- lish' Iron building, and the New Haven 9ra- tional Bank cdillcn, besides other valuable structures. Dcloth The Duluth lilnnesntinn states that, on Wednesday of last week, Messrs. John Freeman and George Rankin, acting for N. W.

Kittson, as-ent of the Hudson's Bay Company, leased the property of the Duluth Dock Oompany for a term or nve years ai a rental of $12,000. The leased pinraisos son sUtof 400 feet lake frontage and the Citizens' JDock and warehouse. Tbe lease is take effect April 15, 1872. By this arrange mentthe Hudson's Bay Company propose to transfer their Minnesota base, ol of pr)dlctio- tt various kinds of flttiflcial storhy, eitfcei1 plain or higjay ornamental. WITTBJf FOaTHB BXPHESaJ 0 neinorial.

in xixour or cvrus ir. lkb. In While Ambition still called him her own; While Hope's brightest rays were adoh-nlng fntnre so glorious to coma; While to him earth seemed blithesome and fair, rfir It nlMamumn rrnrt rlrlnV To U(rn from tne ol! dfaT To be aerered from love's every Uhk. But the soul Haxken out of the skies Yon may hear a voice answering-, say, Man's spirit, his soul, never dies. the body It eatne frm the earth, To mimrla it must with tho sod; But the soul, wliich in heaven found birth, Itcturns to the bosom of God.

Oh ye who believe In the I-orxl, Ye shrink not from death or the tomb: He luut imam Ml through Its portals before thee, And his love Is thy guide through the Kloonu Then, friends, mourn ye not for him dead. Ho rests, from all trials forgiven; Go, take ye your Bible Instead, Sue, the grave la the entranco to heaven Then, oh Father, in heaven to Theo, shall we look for our solace and peace! May our prayer, night anil morn, ever Ie, IM ffrant ns, like him, our releiwe! Oh teach us Thy ill to obey To trust and believe in Thy word He gave, and Ho taketh away. And praised be the name of the Lord. C. F.

BALAUSTION'S iDVUMTl BE. Itobert Bron ulug'a Now Poem. From the Boston Iii all history there it no story more cl. arm lng, none telling more clearly the Greek love of Mttry, none revealing glimpses of a more beautiful than the simple words of Plutarch, that, after the defeet of Nicius, "when a chip which happened to be pursued by pirates was about to take shelter in a port of Sicily, the Sicilians nt lii -t refused to admit her, but Us-n at-king the crew whether they knew any of the verses of Euripides aud being answered in the they received both them and their vessel." On this, as a corner-stone, Mr. Browning has built the greatest, perhaps, of his poems.

Yet, as wr write, we remember the temptation there i- to give too hliih rank to a poem, while under the excitement of its lirst reading, while we are still warm with the glow of its magniti cent passages, etiil spell bound by its power, but it is to the work of a inastitr only that we give the tribute of such admiration and Balaustion a irirl of Kami vi-ras, whose passionate prayers to her kinsfolk induced them, after Rhodes became the ally of Sparta, to leave the island and take ship for Athens, loyal "to the life and light of the whole world worth calling world at all." Driven out of their course by adverse winds, and hotly pursued by pirates, the oarsmen weary with long days of labor Magged their work, with land in sight. Then Balaustion, who tells her own story, says I sprang upon the altar by the r.ir.Ht, And sa.HK aloft oino uenlus prompt inc mc That soiii; of ours which suvttdut al.uni.x: sous or l.reeks! ki, set your country i ree. Jf'ren your wivoa, frt.e your children, -iree the lanes 1' the (roils, your fathers founded sepulchres Tiiey sleep iu. Or save all, or nil lie lost Then, in a frenzy, so the noble ours Churned the black water white, Hint well away We drew. Boon saw land rise, saw hills grow up, Saw spi i-Hil Itself aaca-wtdc town with towers.

Not nfty btudio distant." The land was Sicily. A galley hailed them, and denied them entry. In vuin they pleaded that they came from lihuuce which had cast in Jior lot with the League; the answer was Ay, but we heard all At hens in one ode Just now we heari 1 her in hut A iscb ulos You hrlnK a toiitf ul of Athenians here. Kaunluiia althouK11 you be Kor Athens' Futro, Hack must you, though ten pirale biock the buy We want 110 colony from Athens here, With memories of Snlumis, lorSoolh, To spirit up our captives." En treat was vain words to the wind and they were Just about to turn and face the foe when those in the galley cried "WUI That song wad veritable Aiseuulnx, l-'aaiiliar to the luotitii of mull and boy, old priory: bow about Kuripiili-s? The new er and so famous biird. He thut as born Upon the ba'llp While that soiur and Uio sulpiux sounded him Into the world, first sound, at Miht you know any ot his verset too?" Balaustion knew thnt to recite the verses of Euripides gave salvation to the wounded on the battle-Iicld, and freedom to the slave and she cried: "Save 111, uml I have cournge to recite The main of a whole piny 10 111 lirst to hist That strangest, saddest, sweotett song of his, Alkestls: wliich'was timbt lon-r veins ac At Athens, iu Idaukinos' archonshfp.

Kut only this year rtachuil our Islo o' the Uoso." "Thnn, because (iri-cks aie Creeks, and hearts are hearts, And poetrv is power, they nil outbroke In 11 great joyous liuighter wii much love: "Thank Ilerakles for tin? good holiday! Make for the harbor I How, und let voice rine, 'In we row, brlnprtnp: moi-e A 1 1 the crowi us 1 i ned ttie harlior now, 'Mori; ot l-)uripides t.ock up tin- crv. We himled; the whole city, soon iistir. iiine rushing out of prfttes in common joy-To the suburb temple; thero they stationed mo O' tho topmast step: anil plain I told the piny, Just ns I saw it; what the actors said. And w-hut I saw, or thought I saw tho while, At our KumctroH theatre, clean-scooped Out of a bill-side, with the sky nliove Aud soa before seats in marble row; Told and, two duii spore, repeated it. Until they sent us 011 oiir wny squill Witli good words and great wishes," Her friends, to whom she is tellinjr her adventure, would hear the play itself, and she once more repeat it: "Tis tho poet speaks: But if too, should try nnd speak at times.

Leading your lovo to whole my love, perchance. Climbed earlier, found a nest before you knew Why, bear with tho poor climber, for love's snkel Look at lluochelon's beauty opposite The temple with the pillars nt the porch! See you not something beside unison ry'. What if my words wind in and out the stone Ask vonder ivy, the irod's Thoujfh they loup all the way tiic pillar leads, osluoll liooni uie nmi 01, 1001 10 iriczc, And serpentliitngly the roof. Toy with some few bees ami a bud or two, 1 What then? The column holds the cornice up." This serves ns an Introduction to what Mr Browning calls A Transcript from Euripides which he has truly enriched with his own words from foot to frieze words which li puts into the mouth of Balaustion, and which aro sometimes an outburst of cuthu siusisin, aud sometimes delicate criticism of the story' or the characters. For instance wheu the time comes for Alcestis to die, sees clearly, for the first time, the sellishnes of Admetus; she knows that although his 1 griei lor nei uuuui i omuiic, 01.111 hi, uuni rtreftm.

of to keen his compact with still he never i ints atcs, or oying uimseu tuat sue uiigiu live, and so amidst, bis sobbing and his pro testations "All she seemed to notice In Ills spoeeu Was what concerned her After tho death of Alcestis, when Hercules comes, and not knowing of Ihe sorrow, calls My hosts here! Baluustion says )h' the thtlll that ran through us! Never was aught so good and opportune As that (p-eatlntorruptlng voice! Kor seo! Ilero inailiiderod'tUls disalrltcd old nc lkdore the palace: whence asomelhlu cre-pt Which told us well enough without a word "hat was a-doing touch O' the garland oil those temples, tendon himwimira of aoh arm aloni its side. Came putting out what warmth i' the world When, drop by drop, some lustral batu is brimmed mto the thin and clear and cold, at once Thoy slaughter a whole wine-kln: Bacchos' sets the white water all a-flamo: even so Sudden into the midstof sorrow, leapt Inna with til, ffltr lTlMlt nit ml imMlTillMI Hone. lov. salvation: Heraklcs was here! Himself o' the tnresnoia, sent unvoice on To herald all that human and dlvino the weary happy face of him, half god Half ron, which made the god-part god the mom, Aad again, when Admetas bas been so grandly hospitable, and with a slight decep tion, has put aside his grief, that he may fitly welcome ujs irieuu- Whereat the hero, who was truth Itself, 1-et out the smile again, repressed a while Like fountain brilliance one forbids to plav. He did too many grand nesso to note Much In the meaner thinks about bis path: And stepping there, with face toward the stopped seldom to pluck weeks or ask their names.

rTberefore he took Admeto at his won! This trouble tnnat not hinder any more true heart from good will and pleasant ways. Ami (As great arm, which tutd slain Ot rnnkf. his frimvTs head a moment in cm krone. that broatl breastbrneath the lion's hide. TUt the king's cheek wineett at the thick rough goto.

The last four line are wonderful in their poauty and fullness of expression. There be no grander conception man uiis 01 Hercules, as It appears in the ditferent scenes the play. The translation, or transcript, follow the riginal eloseiy, and differs from Other translations, aa Mr. Browning's style differs from any other style, having greater richneei and warmth of tone, more Tttahty, to that extent their effort will cofnriDUie IO the success of Tammany IlalL A a rtde. Democrat are 1cm Inclined to abaadOB-tbcir organization In support of tlMse rcfjjrm movcmcnU than Uepubricai, hence all etch action ail that of the Anti-Dramshop party la calmilaUul to weaken the reaf reform PrtX.

cty, the Good Templars and the Hons of Temperance, at the -same place on the Mta one day prior to the aflaernbling of the Kc publican Convention. We hope that ere thai Uoio these temperance enthusiasts will come to the conelsioo that the cause they pretend to- cherish so ardentty, will be more eflcxaually subserved by giving their support to ptM or the other of Uio political parties as ntay soara to them the moat likely to further their Interests. TIfK CALIFOJtXIA VICTORY. "One of the most im)ortnt and hotly con tented elections ever held in California oc curred on Wednesday last. It has resulted in' a glorious triumph of the Keptibllcan party over a well organized, strongly en trenched, and desperate enemy.

Both parties have made an energetic, vigorous and thorough canvass, and Republicanism and Democracy have had a fair trial before the leople of that far off State. The advantages in the campaign were in favor of the latter, which Is In jionsesskm of tho State govern tnent, whose power, influence and patronage iiave been exerted to perjctuate its authority. In addition to this they had the prestige of past victories thut have given them the State since 1107, then giving a Democratic majority of nearly lO.IKKI. these adverse circumstance the Kepnbllcans of the Pacific Slope arc descrv ingofull praise for the grand achievement tiiey have, now made. California Is again brought Into the Republican column from which t-bo was needlessly and unwisely diverted four years ago by the ill ad ised action of isirty lenders, nnd thus the political harmony Is restored between the extremes of Fast and West that existed during the trying times of our late war.

Tho fruits of Ibis victory are a full board of Mate olllccrs for four years, an I'nlted Mtnte Senator for six years from March 4, 1H775, two'and possibly three Congressmen in place of a delegation of two Democrats and one Republican, fi l.egiltiire in place of oue that now stands four Democrat to each Republican, s. vindication the great principles of the Republican party, an cn-dorsetucnt of the wise, economical and patriotic administration of lie.neral Grant, an augury of his re nomination and triumphant re-election in T1, and a repudiation of the new departure sham Democracy represented by renegade Republican ami converted cop perlicnils. This is glory enough for one day, and for this the galluut Republicans of the liolden Slate deserve the thanks of the lovers of freedom every where. AU hail California', lira vc and noble Republicans of tho Pacific, we greet yon I The tide of Republicanism has now fairly set 111, and is sweeping 011 with increasing force. The check that it received in New Hampshire in March lust only served to add greater Im etus to the returning waves that redeemed Connecticut saved North Carolina, reduced the majority in Kentucky, revolutionized Montana, captured Wyoming, and replaced California In the iriilaxvof Republican States.

Kvery election of importance held the prcs cut season, cither State or municipal, New-Hampshire excepted, has resulted in Ksitivp Ucpulilicau gains. The people seem to be aroused to the importance of the vital interests at stake, and the loyal musses everywhere are set ting the seal of condemnation upon modern bastard Democracy. EJNext Monday, from the extreme Kant, Maine will add her testimony to the judgment of her sister States and Territories, which will lie followed In October by Ohio, Iowa nnd I'enn lvunia, here n-HUlLs are scarcely less certain I hnn in Maine, nnd the rout of Tammany in New York and other November elections will prepare the way for certain victory in 1S7'. The political skies arc auspicious and the outlook is cheering ami hppcful. 1 .12 .1 DIHTItKSSTS'O 1'tCKLE.

The Court of Appeals has Just rendered decision that seems to have a very important bearing upon the operation of the new 1 barter, which the Democratic Legislature lust Winter forced upon this city. It has decided that lh- Legislature, has no power to i-vtend the term of of any ollicial elect ed by Uio people beyond the J.iuc for which ad elected. Tim (puestion cume befon Uio court on the reunion or Mill rowler. who. In lSiMi, was elected JuBtice of the Kighth District of New York and who was rcfue.l possession of the olficc oy the then incumbent, VV.

11. liall, who was elected in lHilo for si years, hut whoso term of office lmd been extended three years longer by act of the Legislature. The Court Appeals now derldi that the Legislaturi bus no power to extend I ho term of an dec live ollleer; thut if it could extend the term three years, it could extend it ten years, or for life, and thus defeat the provision of the Constitution hic.h guurautei-s to the people he right of electing their Judges and other ollh ials. Now, he new charter that was kindly de ixed for mi by ourlocal Tammany, Jast Win tcr, anil which coe tub) effect on the lirst of next, provides for the extending, until July 1H7J, of the terms of such Aldermen and city officer a9 were elected for terms that expire with the expiration of the yeur 1871. This extension was Incident to the change iiuulc In the time of holding our municipal elections, from November until March.

But, according to tho decision just pronounced by the Court of Appeals, the Legislature has no authority to make Mich an extension of ollicial terms. Consequently, the thirteen Aldermen, the Mayor, and all the other city unctiouaries who were elected for terms that expire on the 1st of January next, cannot lawfully remain in olllce beyond Unit date. At the same time, vrc are forbidden by our new city charter to elect their successors until March. What are wu going to do? Shall we have to pull through nn Interval of no government no Mayor, no Controller, no Treasurer, no Tax Receiver (most distressing of ull) and no Common Council from January till July? The thought is appalling. We beg he authors of the new charter to relievo us from our anxieties at once.

WHO IS TO BLAME! A day or two since we called attention to an item of city expenditure that apparently was amenable to the chnrgo of being per hsps cxhorbilant." The coat of supplying two city markets with lightniug rods seemed to us to bo extravagant. We are now assured by a well known and responsible citizen that a party In tho lightning rod business propos cd to a member of tho Council to do the work for twenty cents per foot, and that subsequently tho job was jfiven to another at forty cents per foot. If this be truo, and our authority Is from a responsible source, our intimation that thero was a smack of Tammany about tho matter was not untimely. We are assured by dealers that twenty cents per foot is, the present market prieo for the kind of rods put upon the markets, and no one will claim that the financial condition of tho city treasury will Justify paying one hundred per cent, more than tho market value. Who Is at fault For a long time it has been the custom of lioth political parties to hold their State conventions at Syracuse, which has tho advantage of being centrally located as well as easy of access from all points.

Ist year the Democracy changed their bane of operations to Rochester, and that city has again been selected for a like purpose UiU year. It may not be generally known why this change has been made. Tho motive will bo understood, whon it la remembered that Rochester 1 the first cltyVest of Albany with which the Erie Railway haa direct connection. The Impor tance of having largo attendance from the Metropolis, of that class of persons that swell Democratic majorities in the city, made It necessary to select some point on the New York Central, accessible by the Erie Road, uie core, and declared he would do his work as Ms heart and patriotism iirompted, and the public could buy or neglect aa It saw fit. At tne Window.

Only to listen listen and wait iur us aiowv-xixm atop down the gravo! walk: To hear tho click of his hand at tho gate. nuxx-ui uirougu careless talk. Ah loveis sweet when love la young And life and love are both so young. Only to "wa tob him about Uie room. 1 jgnting it nil wnn nis quiet smile, That seems to lift tho world out of gloom.

And brtmr heaven nearer me for awhile, A little while since love Is young, And life Is beautiful as long. Only to love htat nothing more Nevur a ohought of his loving me: Proud of him, glad In him, though he bore My heart to shipwreck on his smooth sea, Love's faith sees only grief, not wrong, And lite is daring whon 'Us young. Ah me! what matter Tho world goo ronnu. And bliss and bale aro but oatslde things; I never can lose what in litin 1 found, Though lovo be sorrow with half grown And IX life hlon when we aro young. Why, life is still not long not long.

And heaven Is kind to the faithful hmirt: And if we are patient, and bravo aud culm. Our fruits will lust, though our powers depart; Some day whon I sleep with folded pului. No longer fnlr, no longer young, l.ito may not hooih so bitter long. The tear dried up In her shining eyes. Her parted Hp took a saintly pence; His shadow ncroa tho doorwsy lies.

Will her doubts gather, dm ken, cease? When hearts are pure, and bold and strong, True love a lire 1 Lie If Is long. 77; the Autwr of John lluliaj-. XIII. MATCHLIGIITIJU OF SAN ADUIAN. A Tale of tho nexleau mines.

The. sun hn.l not yet attained iis meridian hei height above ihe burr mid rugged mouiitjiinx ofiucnteens, when man In the gurh of a Mexi can miner descended slowly down a narrow nnd tortuous path which wound long 1 side of a steep declivity. At length ho "cached spot where a small platform or shelf, Jutting from the mountain and covered wilh vegetation, seemed to iliMte him to rest, lit appeared, that he had intended to slop nt this spot, forhe turned aside at once and seated himself on the green swnrd beside a mountain which here 'gushed from the overhanging steep, and created by its tmoisturn he venduie, that surrounded it. Directly over Ihis spring, a large tree, a species of mountain nsh, sent It thousand roots into the crevice of the rock, nnd shaded with its spreading branches tbe pushing fount tunl the green turf beneath. The lirst net wus to take along dnmght of the refreshing wuve, tun! llicu he proceeded to bathe his face and hands in the running wider.

When the earth -stains which covered visage were washed uway, ho appeared a young Creole of some Iwonty-two or three years, withabright black eye, long straight hair, dark complexion, and 11 frank, gay, fenr less expression of coiiiiteniince, lie wore 11 coarse jacket and loose troiwers of some brown woolen stull', bound nt Hie waist by leather girdle, in wlt'icU was thrust tiie never failing kni'; ile bal for a time, whistling with his eye fixed ou the descend-ing path. Presently a wide covered basket became visible iu Ihis direction, with a small bund grasping it on one side. Then a preily face, with a pair of sparkling hic.k eyes, und two small ruddy lips, pa.U-U in a nunc of pleasure and surprise, came iuto icw Tlieii followed the meet und shapidy ligui-o to which Ihe face bclongedj guyly attired, as be cume miner's wife, 111 gorgeous petticoat, whereof tbe upper part wus of bright yellow, und the lower of a flaming scurlct; an equally brilliant roww, cotton shawl, of uinnv variegated hues, was thrown over the shoulders, nnd the simill feet were duiutily encased in sky-blue slious. iu good time, Margarita," snid the mince, showing his while teeth. "I am here before "Yes, in good trntb," replied the young woman, luiighing; "uud I was afraid nil the time lhal I might be too early, and the tortillas and frijoles would gel cold.

But now they will be dinner lit fi a governor." Willi those words she quickly deposited her burden on the ground, nnd removed the covers, first from the basket, nnd tlieii from the earthenware dishes v. hii ii it contained. There was a plate of loiilllas, or thin pancakes of mioA'H, 11 bowl of stewed frijoles (a kind of sinail bluck Mliotller bowl cont-uill- ing utlrey sniice made of red pepper undtoma toes. 1 his wns the miner simple ip.ui-.br. louring oil a piece of one of the hi! twisted it with his fingers into of scoop iu ttU-luirn de Mmitr-ntnn or Montcauuia's spoon,) nnd taking up In ids 0 mouthful of brans, he dipped it into the burning sauce, nnd swallowed it, spoon and all.

"How is thnt you are so early to-day, Man uollto?" asked the female, who watched him with an affectionate smile, while he wus thus satisfactorily engaged. "Because, mi mv little the young man, "there Is to be an olher blnst the utminitral'ir wish es to have it fired hile the men nre at din ner." The smile in6tnntlv dlsappenrcd from Mar gnrita's face. "Santa Mnrin!" she exclaimed, "another blast! Oh, Manual, how long do you uicun to continue in thib dreadful duty? "I'ntil I can lind better, my life," replied the miner gayLy. "Would you Iiave me go back to my old employment of lmTirtcrp of simide miner at six dollars a week, when here as yahr, us the sole and trusted match lighter, 1 urn earning sixteen?" "Alas!" returned Margarita, "of whnt use will the money be, if it happen to you ns to Pedro Bravo, only three months ah, 1 think I see the mangled body, lis it was carried bv our cottage, with poor Inesita crying over it. And then, there is Juan Vnldez, stone blind now for five yours.

And old An ton a cripple from hi youth. Of what ud vanbige was their high wages to them!" "None, sweetheart," replied Manuel, "because what they won by Ixildness and skill tlu-y lost by carelessness. If man will persist iu firing mutches when his bruin in mud (lied with aguardiente, he must expect lo suffer for iL However, I shall not be jteoiuiirr always. In good time, if it please Sun rrnn Cisco, 1 shall he enptum or mine. And who knows but that some one of these davs I may be an culmiuxtratlo -1111 erscer, aud a rich man, us well as others' "To be sure," reJid Mitnmrita, eagerly.

Whv'iKit vou 1, well ns Miguel Gomez Don Miguel, forsooth, us he must be culled now! And yell remember lulu when he wus on ly a poor bifscon common mine huiitr. ind always in debt to my rattier for atruarat mtt und tobacco. et because ho happened light on a good vein, uud sold It to the English company for lull thousand dollars, und wu made over seer, lie thinks himself now grout gentle man, aud thut everybody must give way to him." "IVxir Ion Miguel!" suld the miner luugli lng. "You nre too hard upon our atbniHira tior Margarita. First, you refuse iiund and heart, not to speak of his and the" you abuse him behind back "Ah!" said Margarita, hastily "If you knew and then she stiii.taxl suddenly, an if she had said more Ucu she intended.

"Wind, is there you know, my miurrrstn my little wlfo, thut I do not?" asked Manuel, looking up In surprise. "It was something that hapiiened before our inarralge," replied Margarita, e-rously. "I promised then to conceal it; but 1 have often been troubled siueo with the thought of my promise If I sin In breaking It now, 1 wiu beg I'aore isldro lo absolve me, for I kuow there should lie no secret between lis two. was Anita, the wife of Juan IV druzu.Uio poor drunken cmywfor wlio told me what she heurd from her husband. When you und Miguel Gomez were quarreling for love of mo," continued the young woman.

Willi nainr gravity, "Juan said that Miguel promised him the place of captain of Uie ffalera, with twenty dollars a week, if he would commit a dreadful crime. it was to follow you when yon were coming down the mountain, and pu-h you off the precipice at the Riconada, so tliat you might seem to have fallen by accident. Juan would not be guilty of such a horrible act for the world, but he was so afraid of the overseer that he dared not speak of, it to any ono but his wife. did not know it till after we were married. and then I would not tell you because it would do no good; for Gomez knows now that If I ware free to-morrow I would rather Jump off the Riconada myself than take him with all his money.

"The villain!" said Mnnut-l, whllo his eves Sparkled and his bund clutched instinctively ni Kinre. "il was wen ior nun, aiargantu, that rou did not tell me tills a year ago. But pcrbsp he has repented of it since: ho has been very good naturedto nte of lute. How ever, I think his time is np. The English director, Don Joyine, came this morning from Mexico, and seem very much dissatisfied with the working- of the mine.

It was whls pcrcd among the men that tbe overseer i certain lo lose lib place." Ah that is good news. Indeed said Mar garita, chipping her hands. "And so this was the reason db Vn. CSVlV. Whv von TirftM-rvA tirwir Uro, with only hfs miner's pick and his dollar uay, tne ncn aaminstratlorT" HJf what good is moncv." returned Mur.

garita, earneiitly, "without happiueasr Rlcha sway, out uie good lieart remains." "That is true as though Padro Isidro bad said it," rejoined Manuel, as be rone hastily fS-ltn Id V. r. dear llttlo preacher, and they wril be waiting for tne at tbe mine." Tho young couple separated with many af fectionate Injunctions on the part of tha wife, which the miner laughingly promised punctual attention. Margarita, as sberepavuxl basket on her bead, heard the clear loanly voice of her husband, far above her, singing refrain of a ballad once very popular a in to no the for a Uin. this, Uie Die, by Ity oiilcr of the Hmli' (lolimiilliM-.

Ai.oN7.ii M. Coiinci.i., Imlrmnn. I.oi-kwooi linTT, Seercljiry. T1IK riTY xi iifir.nixas. Tim C'mrir unnouncert thai it Hhall pul- 1'imIi, lhi morning, engraving of Uio planx udopteil for tin new city and county build-iiii; In i miu'ct'Kin with these illuMtratiotm, we t.nut thut our Domocriilic neililuir, hc-in, us it loruMiirly the ornn of the Hoard of ommWsioiicr huvin tin coiiHtnirtion of the liiiildln In charge, will furnlah gome rv 1 ion cnli-ulated to he puhlic 1 1 1 1 1 1 iiKin 1 crtiiln point a Ihii wliirll 11 ood lcnl of lM('nlioniM cxiitljt.

Not only in the procuring and selection of planx for tin- rontemphktcd building, hut In thi-ir for the construction of the mime, the C'oinmlxBlonors have depart rd from the ordinary and generally approved 1 in 1 1 1 1) it Inic competition. In Kti'iul of irton in the city aixl out of the city, to unbuilt di-uinn, which should In- coinpHri'd and the best ehonen, or tic- ln-nt fi-iiturcx of cacli worked together In Home Inn out of many bukch-tionx, it is iiudei-Ktood thut an architect at itia -heMter wax alone favored with the opportunity to make a design for the and that hi.x jilunx h.ive been adopted without romparixon with any other. This Is certainly a departure from the usual method of pro cedure, when costly public buildings are pro l-( ted, and, to satisfy the public that it has liocn titkcn with wisdom and propriety, there nutria to be some explanation of reasons The name true with regard to Uio course adopted by the Cuiuuihwduucra In, unUertak-Jne; the construction of thfl bullillnpn tmder 8UK-rinteiHlenee, instead of letting It by con tract. At least In all public undertakings, the contract system Is commonly held to be the only safe system. If an houcat 4'liunce i.x given to the competition of bidders, and if a responsible contract Is made and utrit tly enforced, under competent inspection, that method surely affords Uio bust guarantee to the public of an economical execution of any public work.

Without 4-on tract, there always seems to be an unsafe opening- or cxtravaanca and. Jobbery, 4iven though ik utmost confidence maybe frit in the integrity of both Commissioner! nnd yuperinteudent. Wa know, in the pre-aent rase, that Uic Board of Cauiiaisaioners is nuili! up of gentlemen of Uc very highest character, whom nobody could inspect at l-ing cablo of making a New York court' house Job out of the construction of our new city nnd county buildings. Wo know, too, that the Superintendent whom they hsvo placed in charge of the work, Mr. Field, hears a reputation that place him quite above the suspicion of bosoming a party to any auch designs of job bery.

And yet we do think that It would Jiave been generally considered more satisfactory, and more safe, If the cost of the buildings had been fixed by contracts, made after an open recoption of couipotitlve bidding. There i wide-spread feeling to Uiat effect, -which causes dissatisfaction with the course taken by the Commissioners, and we are con hired that the Commissioners would -well to address some explanations to It- do Tub Anti-Dramshop party Is Unit tif -the field with its candidates for Stato offices. At convention held in Syracuse on Wednesday last, nominations were niado for tho various jolliccs to bo filled at the approaching State election. These reformers may conceive that tlm ar0 BdViMc'nK rw U'y represent by till action, but we think all rational juinds must seo that their coarse Is ill-advised. Tbn 'uw vote they will bo enabled to tor their nooilnw will almost nCM-.