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From Belgravia for Octofctr. THE AVAfcAKCHE. Down wHh rusli and roar and a clatter, Down from the peaks of snow, To crash and to chill, to smash and to nivinc the pine trees while laying them low; Spoiling the vioea, nod then splitting asunder Groat ganite rocks with the blast ol its breath: Down with boom, and a hound and a thunder, Ruthlessly dealing destruction and deaUi. Down like an'ormy to waste and to pillage, Thundering dowii the Buow-couqueror came, Doing Its work in our bright little village More sharp than the uword, more sure than the flame; Its vengeance on lowly cota Boon it is wreaking, Quickly it tolleth the poor peasant's knell, Mournfully mourning and savagely shrieking, Like gibbering fiends in Borne glacial Down it comes, down like a grand giant crushing Poor puny pigmies that stand in its path Down with the sound of mighty wind rushinc, Breaking the bridge like a reed or a lath. Through pleasunt pastures 'tis fearlessly flying, Crushing tho crops with a shower of stomiu; Heedless alike of tho dead as the dying, Prayers disregarding like curses and groans.

Down comes swift, over church, hut and chalet Down tho steep hill-siilo 'tis hurrying fast; All that is bright in the sweet snillli.iR Bows 'noath the blipht of its witbcnug blast. Men cower down in wild consternation, Ou rolls Lawinc, and soon it is pant, Dark is the day of the dire Thu woiik of the snow-fiend is over at last. NKW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE. Whore now Is the "Dceriield farmer," Where now is the "Decrfleld farmer," Where now is the "Dcerfluld farmer," Seymour of the horny hand Ho is planting a patch of melons, He is planting a patch of melons, He is planting patch of melons, Way np in the Land! 'Where now is Blairing Francis, Where now is Blairing Francis, Where now is Blairiiig Frnncie, With his sword nnd fiery brand (y) He's got tickets on the steamer Ku-Klux, He's got tickets on tho steamer Ku-Klux. He's got tickets on the steamer Ku-Klnx, A light draft, fast failing low pressure," Side-wheel boat, duo November 4, in th bait Kivcr Land I Where now is George H.

Greenbacks, Whore now is George H. Greenbacks, Where now IB George H. Greenbacks, Searching for the Promised Land He went np with his rag-tag Escort, He went up with his rag-tag Escort; He went up witli his rug-tag Escort. Safely to the Salt Kiver Limi I Where now is Vallautfi'pham, Where now is Vallanmohain, Where now is VnllnuDlGham. He-who leads the "niarlyr" baud He went np in a rod-hot canvass.

Ho went up ifi a red-hot canvass, He went up in a red-hot canvass, to the Salt Kiver Laud HOW BEAUTIFUL IS EARTH. The suu may warm-tile grass to life, The dew the drooping flower, And eyes grow bright and watch the light; Of Autumn's opening honr; But words that breathe of tcudcrncs.s, And smiles we know ure true, Are warmer than the euuimor time, And brighter than the It is not much the world can ghv, With all its subtle art; And gold and gems are not the things To satisfy the hi-art; But if thoac whn round The altar and liesrth Have gentle wordh auJ Vung smilce, How beautiful in Earth Jfetua dnfi ptisccllotnj. commended. The experience of this of- ce has justified the determination of the epartment to make no contracts for -the rpctiou of buildings, save in exceptional ases. The supplies of material and jnan- factnred work have, been ob- jiined after due advertisement therefor, nd in no case has the contract been award- to any save the lowest bidder.

Could any system be devised that would THE GOVERNMENT BUILIUNUS. Report of Hon. A. B. JJliillctt, Super vising Arcliltcct for the Govi-rn incut.

The annual report of Hon. Mu lett, supervising architect for the ment, for the year ending September 30 1868, bus been laid before the Secretary the Treasury. It is yely lengthy, but ex. ceediiigly interesting, iu going to show th necessity of changing the contract system for the supply of nmtcrinl for government buildings; the workings of the eight-hour law, aud the iucrcnsed cost of erecting buildings since this law has.been in force, beside uiut-h other interesting matter. The following is an abstract of the- most important portions of the report, for the publication of which permission has been granted'by the Treasury Department: have the honor to submit the following report on the condition of the public property under tho supervision of this office, and upon the work performed and the expenditures made under its direction, during the year ending Sept.

30, And iii so doing. I have to say that the business of the office has steadily increased and is now greater than at any time since its organization. Tho commencement of new buildings, the preparation of plans for others, the progress of the work on those now iu process of erection, the repairing of those already completed, aud the supervision of the large amount of real estate owned by the department, have involved a constant amount of attention and anxiety. No pains have been spared to hasten the completion of the various works now in progress, though I regret to state that the results have not been in all cases satisfactory, from causes beyond the control of this office, which will be explained in detail. Prominent among these has been the impossibility of compelling contractors for tho supply of material and manufactured work who have taken contracts at rates they deem unremuuerutive, to with their principal difficulty having been with the contractors for tbo supply of cut stoue; they in many cases owned or controlled the quarries from which a supply could be obtained, thus placing the department entirely at their mercy.

The contracts have been prepared under the advice and with the approval of the solicitor of the treasury, and are, it is believed, as stringent and thoroughly bind- -ing as could be made. It is true, the penalty they provided for tho delay remains charged against the contractors, and wil be enforced by the department, but an im pression appears to prevail that it is oulj necessary to prove that the price paid them was inadequate in order to obtain relie from Congress. I trust dhey may be mis taken, and they will be held to the Etric letter of their obligations. Another serious cause of embarmssmeu has been the adoption of the eight-houi system on government works, which hai greatly increased the cost and retarded th progress of tho buildings under charge this office. The idea that as much labo: can bo performed in eight as in ten hours has proved to utterly fallacious; indeed -tho experience of this office justifies assertion that loss labor per hour has most cases been obtained under the than under the ten-hour system.

It ar. estrict competition for tho erection of ublic buildings to those only who are ompeteut to estimate correctly the valne the work required, and sufficiently re- ponsible to meet their obligations, it rould undoubtedly be the most desirable for performing the work. This prin- iple can be, and is, earned out by private ndividnals, who have the right to select heir own bidders; but I can see no means which this system can be applicable to mblic works until it is deemed proper to ntrust government officers with the same liscrction that is exercised by private per- Until that can be done, or some ther remedy devised, I see no alternative except to continue the present system of executing the work under the immediate supervision of a superintendent The re lairing and remodeling of the old bnild- ngs has been proceeded with as rapidly as ho means at the disposal of this office would permit The report then details at eugth the condition oi'the various public juildings throughout the country. The site of the marine hospital at Kapo- Ark, which was selected with admir- sagacity, has been swept away by the river, which was, perhaps the most favorable disposition of it that could have been suggested, the building having never been needed or used for hospital purposes since its erection, and all attempts to sell it having proved abortive. After all efforts to dispose of it had failed, the officer in charge was authorized, at his suggestion, to wreck the building and sell the material, which appears from his returns to have realized the net sum of $30.

The original cost of this building was $62,431,02. In submitting this report, I desire to urge the importance of a reorganization of this office on a basis that will make it the interest of competent and valuable men to main in its employ, instead ot using it, as is often the case at present as a mere temporary expedient and a steppingstone to business elsewhere. The peculiar character of government buildings and other work under the supervision of this office requires a much higher order of talent than mere draughtsmen, and it is of the utmost importance that provision should be made for the retention of a class of men who have little inducement to remain under the present system. I have the honor to submit the following estimate of appropriatous required for the remainder of the present fiscal year: For construction of custom-house, Cairo, 111 50,000 For construction of custom-houee, Ogdensburgli, N. 25,000 For construction of custom-house, fit.

Paul, Minn 50,000 For repairs of custom house, San Franciaco, Gal 15,000 For construction of custom-house and post-alike, Madison, Wis 50,000 For conRtiiT'Uon of custom-house aud post-oilice, SpriugUeld. 111...... 60,000 For construction of a marine hospital, Chicago, III 50,000 For construction of branch mint, Ban Fraucisco, Cal 250,000 Fm' cc.niitruction of appraisers' stores Philadelphia. Pa 75,000 For construction of basin nnd new dock barge cilice, New York 50,000 Fort construction of post-office and sub-treasury, Boston, 400,000 For completing north wiug of treasury building 100,000 For completing approaches to treasury building 46,000 The following amounts arc required for the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1870: For extension custom house, Eangor construction customhouse, Cairo, For construction custom house, Portsmouth, Me Report of tlie Surgeon General. The Surgeon General has submitted his annual report to the Secretary of War, which shows the total amount of funds on hand for disbursement to have been $3,230,400 4-7.

The total amount of disbursements was $1.017,082.46. Of this amount $902,427.60 was merely transferred to the appropriation for discharged soldiers, and not drawn from the Treasury, but subsequently carried to the surplus fund. The report then continues as follows: "At the date of my last annual report, epidemic cholera and yellow fever prevailed among the troops in various sections of tho country, a very full and exhaustive report of which was published for the information ef medical officers of the army, in Circular No. 1, 'War'Department Surgeon General's Office, June 10, 1868. 'To thin date there has been no well authenticated case of epidemic cholera or of yellow fever reported as occurring among troops in the present There are now forty-rune vacancies in the grade of Assistant Surgeon.

Most respectfully, your obedient servant, J.K. BASSES, Surgeon General U. S. Army. COMPOUSOEY EDtJCATIOH.

The for and It. H. 'A, ford, of Niles, read.an able essay on compulsory education before the Social Science Convention which 'was in session iu Chicago last week. It embodied many statistics of school attendance in the various States in the Union, and also in the Kingdoms of Europe, showing the connection between non-attendance and crime, and cited the school laws of Prussia and other countries which enforce regular attendance. Without' himself taking' a positive stand on the question, he summed up the best arguments for and against compulsory education as follows: For construction custom Oregon For construction custom-house, St.

Paul, Hinn For construction custom-house and Madison, "Wis For construction custom-house and GO.OOO 120,000 50,000 100,000 100,000 has it ic It ap! pears to mo that the law in force up to thj passage of the act in question, which thorized government officers to conform to the rules and prices established by cui torn in the different localities, was not oulj eminently just, but uuiforii practice ou all works under charge of this department having been to pay full maiv ket rates for labor, aud to give the mri- chanics and laborers employed the full ad of the interpretation of the lo oal customs on nil points, aud to avoii interfering in any manner with thes questions. It Is also, iu discussing this Eubject, worthy of remark, that a man can earn larger sum per annum wheti employed on public than on private buildings, at the same per diem pay, there bs- ing a much smaller percentage of lost tinie and employment being more permanent. It is a matter of no small importance to me whether mechanics and laborers worfc eight or ten hours; but it appears manifest that the system of paying the mechanic, who is employed on government work, tlie same price for eight hours that the one cri- Dloyed by private parties receives for tau hours' work, is unjust. It has at any rate increased the cost of public buildings from 20 to 25 per cent, beyond the umoufit for which I can consent to be held respsh- 'sible. I can see no reason why the price Of should be regulaicd by law, nny than thut of provisions or any other Merchandise, or why the mechanic should with whom he became connected the postoffice, Portland, Me 50,000 For construction custom-house and postoffice, DCS Moines, Iowa 25,000 For construction custom-house, post- otliec and sub-trcasurv, Boston, Mans 400,000 For construction branch mint, San Franciaco, Cal 500,000 For construction bargo office, New York 250,000 For construction marine hospital, Chicago.

Ill 100,000 For construction appraisers, stores, Philadelphia, Pa 100,000 For paving the approaches to the custom-house, at Springfield, 111.. 5,000 For paving nnd approaches to tho a custom-house, Ogdensburp, N. 5,000 For removal of hydraulic -weights and construction of northwest stairway, treasury building 40,000 For completion of south park, as per original plan 45,000 For removing aud re-setting west urea wall 6,000 For completion of main wing 8,000 For fencing and approaches to south 20,000 For annual repairs to treasury building 10,000 For repairs and preservation of public buildings 100,000 For furniture and repairs of same for public building's 50,000 For heating apparatus and repairs of same forpublic buildings 40,000 For fire-proof vaults, for depositories 25,000 Very respectfully, A. B. MnmiTT, Supervising Architect.

To Hon. Hugh McCiuloeh, Secretary of the Treasury. The Harqafs of Horse- Racing Career. Our cable dispatches briefly announce the death of the Marquis of Hastings. The career of this unfortunate nobleman has been very Eifirt; but during the last seven years of his he lived a century.

He was born in the year 1S42, and went to Oxford at the age of seventeen. At college ho lived very fast, and broke down his constitution by dissipation of every kind. He came into possession of a very fine property at the age of twenty-one, which brought him in a yearly rental of about $150,000 per annum. At an early age he evinced a great passion for sports of every kind, and especially for those to which the excitement of heavy gambling was the main attraction. His name appeared very prominently before the public in 1865, on the occasion of his marriage with Lady Florence Paget, who at the time was engaged to Mr.

Chaplin. The incidents of the rendezvous at a fashionable millinery establishment, nnd the subsequent marriage, are already a matter of history. In the same the Marquis of Hastings and Mr. Chaplin both commenced iheir career on the turf, and considerable rivalry existed between them. The Marquis purchased two well imown two-year-olds, The Duke and Kangaroo, at.

a fabulous price, and Mr. Chaplin added Breadalbane and Broomielaw to his string. These four horses were the prominent favorites for the Derby of 1866, and enormous sums of noney wore bet on their respective chances 3y their owners, but none of them proved successful. Last year it was generally supposed thai tho Marquis of Hastings lost when Mr. Chaplin won the 3erby with Hermit.

It is an entirely mis- year. The monthly reports of sick and wounded for the fiscal year terminating June. 30, 1868, received in the division of records of this office, to date, represent an average mean strength of 45,257 white, and 4,774 colored troops. For the white troops, the total number of cases of all kinds reported under treatment wus 131,581, or 2,908 per 1,000 of strength three entries on the sick report during the year for each man. Of this number of cases, 118,928 were for disease alone, and 12,656 for wounds, accidents, and 2,628 per 1,000 of strength for disease, and 280 per 1,000 of strength for wounds, accidents and injuries.

The average number constantly on sick report was 2,852, of whom 2,510 were sick and 342 wounded, or 55 per 1,000 constantly under treatment for disease, and 8 per 1,000 for wounds and injuries. The total number of deaths, from all causes, reported, was which, 1,175 were from disease, and 178 from wounds, accidents and injuries; being at the rate of 26 deaths from disease and 4 frem wounds to each 1,000 of strength. Of the deaths from disease, 4527 were from yellow fever, 139 from cholera, 609, or 13 deaths per 1,000 of strength, from all other diseases. The proportion of deaths from all causes to oases treated was one death to ninety-seven cases. Nine hundred and eighty-four (984) white soldiers, or 22 per thousand of strength, were discharged upon surgeons' certificate of disability.

For the colored troops, the whole nuni' ber of coses of all kinds treated was being at the rate of 3,061 per thousand of or 3 cases of sickness for each man. Of this number 13,550 were for disease: being 2,838 per thousand of strength; 1,066 were for wounds, accidents and injuries; being 223 per thousand. The average number constantly on sick report was 283; of whom 248 were sick and 3u wounded; being at the rate of 52 per thousand constantly under treatment for and 7 per thousandfor eidents and injuries. The total number of deaths reported was 268; of which 242 were from disease, 26 from wounds and injuries; being at the rate of 51 deaths per thousand of strength from disease, and 5 per thousand from wounds. Of the deaths from disease, 25 were from yellow fever, 89 from cholera; leaving 128, or 27 per thousand of strength from all other disease.

The proportion of deaths from all causes to cases treated was one death to fifty-five cases. Ninety colored soldiers, or nineteen per thousaud of strength, were discharged on Surgeons' certificate of disability. During the year tho records filed in the record and pension division of this office have been searched, and such official information relative to deaths, discharges and treatments, as they has been furnished in reply to inquiries of the Pension Bureau, in 16,786 cases; Adjuant General, U. S. in 15,582 cases; Paymaster General, U.

S. in 473 cases; and in cases, to other authorized inquirers, making a total of 34,770. In division of surgical' records, the histories of 74,954 coses of wounds and injuries have been chiefly from field reports, hospital case books, and registers of-lSGl and 1862, and the earlier of 1863. The records of the offices in regard to injuries of tne head, face, neck, thorax and abdomen, spine and pelvis, have been classified and studied. Illustrative cases have been selected and written out in minute detail, while numerical tables have been prepared, exhibiting the progress and results of the different classes of injuries to which these individual examples belong.

To illustrate these injuries, for future publication, there have been completed during the year 6 chromo-lithographs, 8 lithographs and 3 diagrams. There have also been prepared during the year 122 wood cuts, to be intercolated in the text, descriptive of the various classes of injuries and operations. Five hundred pages of manuscript arc in readiness for the printer, and a large amount of the statistical material is in such forwardness that it cau be made ready for the press at a few weeks' notice. To make the publications of this office as valuable as possible, in relation to the results of the major surgical injuries and operations, and especially in legard to the excisions of the larger joints and other operations embraced under the general designation of conservative surgerv, much time and labor have been expended in tracing the ultimate histories of patients who have undergone such mutilations. This has been accomplished to a very satisfactory degree, through the co-operation of the Examining Surgeons of the Pension Bureau, of the Surgeons General and Adjutants General of the several States, of ie- tired volunteer medical ofncers, and of private physicians.

Beside the digestion and tabulation of the surgical data pertaining to the late war, there have been received and consolidated 699 quarterly reports of Post Hospitals, thirty-four reports of the 1. The parental rights are 1 not proprietary rights, but rights of guardianship which should bo subject to the superintendence of the State, therefore a law compelling- parent to do his duty in sending his child to school'does not conflict with his'natural rights. (Memorial of citizens of New York to Cone; Cbnv. of 1867. 2.

The state by its citizens assumes ijoining obligations the corresponding duty to see to it that through proper education they ore enabled to perform the same. (Ibid.) S. The stato has the right, of prevention as well aa of punishment. Or, in. the terse hrase of Macauiay.

"He who has a right to ang has a right to instruct." 4. If any citizen may demand of the government the -provision of ill the requisite facilities for a liberal education, may not the government, with equal propriety, demand of every citizen that be shall avail himself of those facilities? (Handall, "First. Princi- 67The state has the right of self-preservar tion and perpetuity. Education is necessary to -liberty, and hence may be compelled. Sa lue fopuli suprema lex.

The first object of a free people is the preservation of their liberty. (Webster.) 6 The aim of society is the protection of individual rights. Th'o child, equally with the adult, has a right to this protection. Education is as necessary to the child as THE ARMY. The Adjutant-General's Report.

The Adjutant-General of the army has made his annual report to the Secretary of War. The actual in service on the 30th of September, was 43,741 men, and besides these there were 4,340 men in ingineer, ordinance and other special branches of service. An unusually large number of discharges have been granted during the year on individual ap- plication.and these with ordinary discharges and are rapidly diminishing the regiments, except cavalry, which are kept in force because of Indian It is 4,500 men will be discharged before. Xew Year's by reason of the expiration of term of enlistment. 1 The number of desertions last year was 2,700 less than in the previous year, and the number of deserters arrested nearly 1,000 and the proportion of losses by desertion to the strength of the army is considerably less than hist year.

Becruiting was carried on lor all branches of serrite till' November 26, 1867, when orders were issued to reduce all regiments of infantry and artillery, except the ten light batteries, to the minimum of fifty privates per -company, and to rodnce recruiting service by breaking up all rendezvous, except four for and four for infantry. Becruiting for infantry and artillery was suspended April 3, 1868, except in cases of old'. soldiers desiring to enlist, and on the 28th of July, 1868, instructions were issued prohibiting all enlistments THE DUELLO. The Meeting ana Jneluon Mr. The following "detaila of the duel between Andrew Jackson and Mr.

Dickerson were related by Mr. James Overton, an old resident of Tennessee, recently Gen. Jackson was never communicative upon the subject of this duel, and the doctor related it as he heard it from his own uncle, Gen. Thomas Overton, a neighbor and bosom friend, as well as second in this affair, of OKI Hickory. Gen.

Jackson and Dickorson's father-in- law, named Erwin, had misunder- itanding, probably about horses and horse racing. son-in-law (DickersonV tfh- dertook to resent the affront, i He, "already a good shot, repaired, to Natchez, and spent there six months, his chief employ-' ment being practice with a pistol. Betnrn- ing to Nashville, dispatched one of his friends to Jackson, with a letter extremely abusive of the General, and on the virtue of his beloved wife. The messenger stated that if the General would not reply with; a challenge, the letter would be published in the newspapers. QThe challenge was sent.

Col, Archibald verton, who was a brother to the re- lator these particulars, and who at'that THEBARDENSHliPClHiir The Utility and Coat of tne Proposed of the Rente. UwKew Tori Daily American.enterprise'ha^ at last taken the initiatory steps for the construction of a ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien. A number of leading capitalists in our city have formed themselves info a company for the construction of the work, and the book for subscriptions of capital will be opened in a few days. The estimated cost of the work will be $100,006,000, and the proposed capital af the company is fixed at that The utility and advantages to American commerce of a ship canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at the narrowest point of the American continent is a subject that is familiar to the readers of the Daily Bulletin. 'This journal has already demonstrated the importance ot the work, and the necessity for its construction if the people of the United States desire to retain tha commercial rank in the family of nations.

Kecent' events fully confirm this view. In a short time the Suez Canal will be Eastern commerce will then drift into the new channel. To European nations the advantages will be immediate and obvious, and even to the Uni- ima quouxicuuuii. TTJIU buia Aiguv. is associated the duty to provide th of education.

But if the state may free food. The parent has as much to do to educate as to nourish his children. Bociety must, therefore, see to it that both duties are performed. (Senior "Suggestions on Popular 7. Corsin says thatsuch a law is justified by the consideration "that the amount of education necessary to the knowledge and practice of our duties is itself the first of all duties, and constitutes a soqjal obligation as imperative as military service, and to my mind a similar law, legitimate in itself, is absolutely necessary." 8.

The whole matter lies in a Education is an mdispensible qualification for citizenship in an educated The State has therefore the right to insist on this qualification. With this right, however, i means demand the citizens be educated, and must provide the means, it follows that it has the right also to insist that these means or their equivalent ba used. Michigsn Teacher, 1867. ABGUMEHT AOAIKBT COSTPULSOEY EDUCATION. 1.

It is an arbitrary interference with parental authority. The State may enter the household to protect the child from starvation, nakedness and cruelty, but must not interpose to prevent his growing up in ignorance. Of the necessities of his soul the parent alone is entitled to judge. It is incompatible with the genius of institutions. "I must abserve." nays Guizot, in his Memoirs, "that it is almost exclusively confined to nations hitherto exacting little on the question of liberty, and that it has originated with those with whom, through the Eeformation of the sixteenth century, the civil power is also in matters of religion or touching upon religions subjects, the soyerign authority.

The susceptibilities of Xroo peoples, and the; strong mutual independence of temporal or spiritual power would accommodate themselves badly to this coercive action of the State on the domestic economy of families; when not sanctioned by tradition ths laws -would ful to introduce either they would be ed to an empty command, or to compel obedience they would have recourse to proscriptions and inquisitorial searches, hateful to attempt and almost impossible to execute, especially in a great country." 3 If the true theory of government is that which vests all power in the the people the the people can only delegate to offices chosen by them those powers which cannot be conveniently exercised by themselves as individuals. No American State has a right to nsurp power respecting education which can be efhcieutly used in the hands of the people. The beat policy in a Bepublic is for the Government to encourage the people to do then- own work as individuals aud communities. Its functions are more to adjust and regulate. (Nick.

Lib. 376." 4. That cannot be considered a right system of education which provides a great educational mill into whose hopper all children are thrown, and, when each nos been subjected to the same grinding process, hands tkem back again to society. At the best, State schools con only educate the head, their ma; chinery is much too clumsy to reach the heart. (Ibid, 395).

5. Wise words are spoken by the Hon. victor N. Riece, late State Superintendent of New York, in a special report to the Assembly of 1887: "Idoubt the expediency of compelling parents and guardians to send their children and wards of a proper school age to the public schools, or to provide education or re-enlistments, except as musicians, of any: more men in either of these two branches. It is also stated that in order to still further reduce expenses and the strength of the military establishments the detachments at the recruiting depots have been reduced as much as possible and the schools of instruction have been suspended.

No recruiting of any kind but for cavalry has been going on since the end of last July, and there were only five stations for recruiting in this arm of the Begiments on the Pacific coast have, as far as possible, to avoid expense of transportation, been supplied with recruits obtained in California, The strength of all colored regiments in the service is nearly np to the required standard. The Adjutant General renews the recommendation he made last year, viz: that men be enlisted for five, instead of three years. He further recommends that Congress authorize enlistment of boys over twelve years, with consent of parents, as musicians. They must now be sixteen, are too old to begin training, especially for drummers, with any prospect of more than most ordinary success. He also, to meet a contingency which he regrets has of late several times arisen, recommends that the President be empowered to drop irom the rolls of the army any officer who deserts and cannot be arrested for 'Court-martial within three months from the time of desertion.

It is also recommended that superintendents of national cemeteries be placed on the footing of enlisted men. General Townsend says that at the date of his last annual report there were two hundred and three volunteer officers in the service, all of whom but General Howard, head of the Freedmen's Bureau, have since been' mustered out. At that date there were mustering and disbursing offices at Albany, Philadel phia and Columbus, Ohio; which have since been closed. Commutation money to the amount of S87.770 has been refunded under the act of February, 1867, and as one clause of said act prevents the payment of some just claims received at the department since it was passed, the repeal of that proviso is recommended. Nearly all legal claims for collecting, drilling and organizing volunteers have been paid or are on file undergoing examination and verification with a view to payment.

He speaks of fraudulent claims that are from time to time presented, andrecommends that legislation be had limiting the time within which claims with expenses incurred prior to muster into service may be presented. The Adjutant Generalspeaks at some length on the subject of military prisons, says the present system of punishment in the army fails toreform men, but tends to degrade them more, and by throwing hardened and desperate criminals in close contact with young and thoughtless soldiers, subjects the latter to contamination by both precept and example. He alludes forcibly to the evils of guard house confinement, and says they are a fruitful cause of desertion. He mentions that men guilty oi offences against civil law often enter the army to escape the penalty for their offences; and at present there is no way of getting rid of these men if they are not demanded by the civil authoritiesvfor if they are discharged from one regiment they will go to eral's second, Gen. T.

Overton. It concluded in these words; "Accept no apology; nothing but Eia blood will satisfy me." Time and place were appointed, and the aflair, it seems, was well known in Nashville; for, among other facts to give it'pub- h'city, Dickerson offered. S500 as a bet that he would his antagonist. Jackson's for thi rivate schools, until examination of men, who, having been wounded, presented themselves for reinstatement at recruiting thirty- two special reports of tho surgical opera- tionfc The Army Medical Museum continues to increase in value and usefulness. During the year 673 specimens have been added to the surgical section, 121 to the medical section, 202 to the section of comparative anatomy, 687 specimens and 114 photographic negatives of microscopical specimens to the microscopical section.

An anatomical section ot 163 specimens aken idea, as Marquis igainst the mtircly Captain the $500,000 which of Hastings laid Hermit was nearly a commission he executed for Machell (Mr. Chaplin's partner), who wanted to hedge on the morning of he race, as tho horse did not look very veil. The Marquis of Hastings won ibout when Achievement beat Hermit for the St. Leger at Doncaster in he i arne year. During the past season has been very- shaky on the turf, and ell into the hands of Mr.

Padwick, the nost celebrated racing blackleg in Eng- has been formed, and is rendered of especial interest by the large proportion of typical crania of the North American abor- iginies which it contains. A collection of 187 specimens of Indian weapons and utensils have also been added. Two hundred and sixty-six discarded specimens, tho histories of which could not be found at the period of publication of the Catalogue of the Surgical Section, have been identified aud restored to the collec- purposes of exchange with other nnd. Padwick has ruined over a hundred oung men of the first families in England, receive more protection than agricultural laborers, pay is less, and who work more hours. The report then says that the great pres- "Btire of important legislation on the late congress, and the consequent delay in the passage uf bills, piSea the "suspension' of work in soijie cases, and caused serious delay in others.

Great difficulty has been experienced teiamg the services of competent and cn- ergetic superintendents. The most fkb3e.re»uJtB have been attained at those ''plMM where superintendents have given to the work. The employment ctf resident architects who would act as the 'reprBgentatiyes of the treasury department and operate ae ft direct check on the in those cities where the most important public buildings are situated, is turf. The late scandal relative to the scratching of the Earl and the sing of Lady Elizabeth have been commented on very severely by the London press, and certainly leave a very black stain on the turf record of the Marquis of Hastings. The Marquis of in his turf career may have done many acts that will not bear close inspection, but they all savored more of the pigeon than the hawk.

THE.COST OF ATTEMPTING Forrest, the paid through Jay Cooke, at Philadelphia, $65,000, the amount in full of accumulated alimony due to his wife under the decision in the divorce, tie decree of which has at last been made final. Mr. Forrest has expended, it is estimated, upwards of $300,000 in this divorce suit tion. For museums, or with learned societies, either for specimens or publications, 4,472 photographs, illustrative of injuries and operations, have been printed. There were during the year 14,448 visitors to the Museum, including many military surgeons of eminence.

On the 30th of September there were 289 garrisoned posts in the various military departments, besides an almost equal number of detachments on temporary duty throughout the South and on expeditions, or protecting the lines of travel on the the persuasive power of good teaching, commodious and comfortable school houses, and free schools shall have been tried in vain." And again, in a remark that will apply to others than the Empire State "It would be unpardonable cruelty to make attendance at school compulsory, when we have no better accommodations to offer the children." (Pp. 6 Citiug these remarks, the editor of the American Educational Monthly (June, 1868) adds, in terms too pertinent and well stated to enable me to forbear making this final quotation: "There is another and deeper reason for the popular indifference toward the deeper cange for doubt of the nropriety of making attendance at them compulsory (even were more suitable accommodations provided) than Mr. Bice has mentioned. So long as nine persons out of ten can say as they do now, that not half of what they studied in school was worth the time they npent upon it; that nearly all thb useful knowledge, mental discipline or culture that they have ever received has been obtained outside of the so long will it be impossible to make them feel that a law compelling the constant attendance of their children to the same unprofitable routine, is anything short of tvranny. Let the schools provide instruction that IB demonstrably worth the time and labor, and money-price demanded for training that will show itself by its fruits to be ble in the competition of we will question whether there will long be eccaaion for complaints of popular indifference to the claims of the schools, or need of legislation to compel attendance upon them." DestrncOTe Fire at Lapeer, Nearly $50,000.

tha Detroit A severe fire broke out in Jennings Bros, store, at about 12J o'clock in the morning of the 12th, and entirely consumed the store and contents also the building occupied by Ford andBurgett as a harness shop, and the store of F. B. Cutting, and the building occupied by A. Vosburgh as a clothing store. Jennings Bros, lost time studied law ii, JacksonV dgtates there would be a considerablo thei letter obstruction given to the Gt.

a lesser saving of time and expenses of transportation. But Americans, by the geographical position of their continent have the means of securing a shorter, better, and more direct route to the East, and one that will achieve for them even larger results than Europeans con hope to gain from the grand work which so rapidly approaches completion, under the energy of M. de Lessepe, and the French Government. The route between Panama and Aspinwall bays, which was formerly the favorite one for the construction of a canal, has been found to offer inferior advantages to those that can be obtained at Darien. The neck of land at the narrowest point of indentation is only thirty-four, miles.

On the Pacific side the coast deflection forma a natural bay that can bo improved at comparatively slight expense into a spacious harbor. Then again, the Darien line is 11 miles shorter than Panama route, and pre sents fewer natural obstacles. Nature has, almost anticipated the work man. small cutting lias rendered the rivers Atrati and San Juan, which flows into either ocean navigable for small boats. These river: present the advantages of head waters, available during the entire year for thi canal.

It has been estimated that a cana on this route 150 feet wide at the bottom sloping to a surface width of 270 feet an 31 feet deep can be constructed at a cos inside the proposed capital of $100,000,00 of the new company. Estimates have beei formed much lower than this amount.som of them falling as low as 330,000,000, bu they are not reliable. The country certain lypossessaj snpi ii or advantages tha; occurred in the construction of the Sue: Canal, but experience warns us. agains placing original estimates of this kind to low. The completion of the Darien canal the New York merchants and capitalists, who have militated it would be worthy the future destiny of the Empire City.

In another part of enlist again under the other country and names. After speaking further and with much feeling and judgment, on this subject of army discipline and punishment he declares again, as he did last year, for military pris ons. These, he says, if properly managed, would serve reformatory purposes; would rid the army of many vicious and insubordinate men; would materially diminish the need and expense of courtsmartial; would prevent the discharge of many desperate men in unsettled parts of the country where they always become pests and outlaws, and would facilitate the recognition of offenders against tke civil law who have entered the ranks of the army. He proposes to build, first a prison in New York harbor; and if that is found to work well then he would have Congress provide for similar institutions on Ship Island, one point on the Pacific coast, and at one point in the Mississippi valley. The labor of convicts and the stoppages of pay would, he thinks, nearly support each prison after its erection.

He would have companies of discipline attached to each prison, into which, under proper regulations, all idle and worthless men of the class who prefer being in the guard house to doing duty should be transferred, and he would hava these vagabonds dealt with in a severe manner. He states his plan in detail, and suggests that it be submitted to Congress. The report closes with a general statement as to the number and rank of officers in the Adjutant-General's office. plains requiring medical attendance, number of Surgeons and Assistant The Sur- $20,000 on their $3,000 in the Home, New York. Cutting lost about valued IMPOKTAOT ACTION OF PEOSIINEOT Dssio- CBATS IN SOUTH the election of Grant was known in South Carolina, a number of prominent Democrat's including Wade called in a body on Governor Scott, and declared their determination to accept cheerfully and abide by the decision of the people, to stand by the State government in its acts, and to use all their influence in inducing the people throughout the State to do the same.

They expressed conviction that the future prosperity of the State depended upon a unanimous and hearty support of the Government, and reliance upon the ballot-box alone in the future as a remedy for the evils of unwise legislation. In reply, the Governor expressed the great pleasure their visit had given him, and his belief that this action on their part would do more to restore unanimity among the peo- family had no knowledge whatever of the affair. On the appointed day, Gen. Jackson and Overton, without saying a word or creating any suspicion about the aim. of their journey, started for the rendezvous.

Dickerson and his second, Dr. CattaU were not on the ground, and they waited a considerable time before they arrived. Gen. Overton, who was as imperious as CiBsar, and as stormy as a tempest, walked up to receive them: "Gentlemen, why did you let us wait so long; or is it your manners to let old men wait for young ones:" His policy was to confuse Dickerson, but hecouldnotsucceed. 'Dickerson was one of the bravest of men, and his handling of the pistol the most skillful I have ever seen," were the words of Gen.

Overton, which assertion, coming from one who passed thrbugh the seven years of the without a furlough, and who, on account of the unjust attack upon his friend, forever hated the man, goes far to establish the unquestionable bravery of Jackson's opponent The next policy of Gen. Overton was to gain the power of giving the word, and the third to extract Dickerson's first fire. To guard, against Gen. Jackson's firing too soon it was agreed that his double-spring pistol should not be sprung. Gen.

Overton threw who, according to his own acknowledgement, could at pleasure turn -up head or tail. The lot of givingicommand naturally fell upon him, and he ordered the two antagonists to their respective pegs. Th'e terms were: stand with hands down, and arms close to the body, until the word fire." While in expectation for the word, Gen. Overton saw, or imagined that Dickerson, who seemed very anxious to fire, move his right arm; whereupon he stepped up to him, took hold of both his arms, and in a stentorian voice, e-xclaimed: "Mr. Dickerson, keep your arms still, sir, and remember the terms of the deed Then he quickly gave the word.

Dickerson fired, and Gen. Overton knew that his principal was wounded, because he saw the dust fly from his coat. Jackson, after aiming, instantly cried out: "General, I cannot spring my pistol Whereupon the latter, more vehement than ever, turned upon him with, "Spring your trigger, it?" Jackson did so, and Dickerson was shot dead. Many years after, Dr. Overton asked his uncle, Gen.

Overton, whether Dickerson really moved his arm, or he only imagined it moved? The old man, upon his word of honor, declared that he could not tell. "And why did you use such language toward Gen. Jackson The answer of the old soldier was that, according to personal experience, a wounded man does not for a few seconds feel his hurt so much as to disable him to master his actions; but if these few seconds pass by, the chance of retaliation is over. ''He wanted, with his storming, to awaken all Jackson's energies. A few years before Gen.

Jackspn's'death, Dr. Overton happened to ride with him in his buggy from Tyree Springs to Nasaville. On the road they were conversing about this duel with Dickerson, and the old hero uncovered his bosom to show the received in the encounter. "Why, General, it seems to me you must have stood very badly to receive such a wound," remarked the doctor. The old man became silent, and did not recur any uiore to the subject.

Miscellaneous Items. Jewett is at Toronto. His idea now is to establish an "Internal Land Bureau." The authorities at Madrid have ordered tho deposit of the most valuable church plate and jewelry in the Bank of Spain. Passengers from St. Paul to St.

Louis, per steamer, pay only $1 for the ride. This is tho result of a steamboat war between the Northern and Northwestern Union line of iteamers. "Tell me," said one French child to another, "which would yon rather lose, your father or your mother?" "I don't know." "I do. I would rather lose mamma, because its papa who makes all the money." A boarding-house keeper in SpringQeld, is said to he in the habit, when her boarders neglect to pay promptly, of placing an extra fork by their plates, as a silent intimation to "fork over." Gen Sheridan tells some toll buffalo stories. He says he saw, two weeks ago, a herd of buffalo ninety-five miles five miles wide, and which must have contained three hundred thousand buffaloes.

Lieutenant Commander Mitchell, who connection with would divert the our Paaific Bailroad it commerce of the which makes and unmakes nations to our country, and, in due time, makes New York the chief commercial city of the world. It would relieve our commerce from the condition of vassalage to the Old World, and be the means of extending the influence of the United States over the entire continent south of the Bio Grande. That the work will be vastly profitable there can be no The South American in spite of their intestine commotions, are making rapid strides in an industrial point of view. They are developing their natural resources with an energy that promises the largest results. Even in desolated by the recent track is being laid for "the iron horse" from the coast to the city of Ariqnipa, a distance of over 100 an elevation of 7,250 feet above the level of the sea.

In the other Southern American States railroad enterprise is exercising ail immense influence in developing their resources. As these Pacific States grow iu wealth and importance the want of a shorter route to the Atlantic will be rendered more apparent, and it is probable that before a couple of decades shall have passed away the mere commerce of the Pacific, coast alone, without the Eastern trade, would almost engross the proposed canal. The necessities of civilization may require not one Pacific railroad, but many; and the construction of an additional that of the Panama and Aspinwall route. TfieFloTvoftuis Great i Experiments. Detroit Post, in an article on the arious methods- that have been tried from time" to time to solve the mystery of the npply and outflow of the Great'Lakes, gives an account of a new and successful just completed, for the purpose if measuring 1 accur.itely the velocity of the lurrents in their, tnkl flow into and out of he lakes.

The Poat says; fit is now about two years since the ewspapers of the West began to discuss whether tho great lakes are fed by sub-. aqeons have hidden The party favoring the theory of subaqeous springs asserted that more water flowed outtthe St. Lawrence than could be poured in by all the sources of supply known to sxist-while tho upholders of the idea of lidden outlets contended that evaporation and the visible outflow could not account or all the water which the lakes received and distributed. General W. F.

Beynolds, Superintendent of the Lake Survey, determined to give this subject such consideration as, in the West, could only work, and, accordingly, for the oast two summers observations have been iiadein the St. Mary's, St. Glair, Detroit, Niagara and St.Lawrence rivers for the purpose of ascertaining the exact amount of of thelakes. The river gauging has "rom the start, beeii entrusted to Assistant D. Farrand Henry, ot Cetroit, and the apparatus used is his invention.

This apparatus is so much more delicate and accurate than any previously tried that the results are of great value. 'To calculate the amount of outflow of any stream, it is necessary to have the area of the body of water, and its mean velocity, at any point. These two quantities multipled together give the discharge. The first is easily obtained by making frequent soundings across the stream on a known line. The second is more difficult.

The only practical methods heretofore in use, for the determination of the velocity are, first, by the tune of. passage of floats past a known line; second, by the difference in the height at which water will stand in two tubes, one of which is bent towards the current at the bottom and the other is straight; and, third, by water mills, aa they are termed, which consist of float weels exposed to the current, the number of revolutions being recorded by a system of decimal years or telltale. Of these methods the first is the only 0110 which has been used in deep water." Mr. Henry was dissatisfied with these methods, anddoviseda "Telegraphic Current Metre," which he has used with.perfect success during the past season. "This metre consists of a propeller, or float wheel, which has on its hub an eccentric, and on the axis an iron lever, which has one end kept on the eccentric by a light spring, while into the other end a hole is drilled, meeting another hole dril- ed at the angle with it, near the centr of the bottom side.

Into these holes a platinum wire is forced, so that the lever rests on tne center hole, Under this point a small platinum plate is fastened to the axis. The other end of the wire is connected by a hinge joint to a long copper wire, which is fastened to the axle, but insultated from it. At the rear end of tho axle are two vanes, at right angles to each other, sufficiently large to keep the wheel in the thread of the current. The whole is suspended by a wuv was murdered in San Franciaco on the 21afc was a fine mathematician, and was about publishing a mathematical work. He was first on the list of Lieutenant Commanders.

He graduated iu 1854. Gen. Shields is elected for tho Sixth Missouri District, as it now appears he is, he will have the rare and singular distinction pi having represented Illinois and Minnesota in the Senate, and Missouri in the House, beside having sought Senatorial honors at the hands of Oregon. the city of SchoffhauscUj a hotel .0 conscious- of the per- I.X1O tlLJ tt llULCi keeper has in a frame a hotel bill, which Louis Napoleon left unpaid, now thirty-nine yeore ago. He is a good Eepublican, and saya that he prefers to money the r.eae of being a cheated creditor jured Emperor of France.

most sensible election bet yet recorded was that between a gentleman and lady in New Albany, Indiana. In case oi Grant's election he agreed te marry her, and in case of Seymour a success she was to marry is to say, the gentleman TrfMi Tnn.rTn tho Tmticrer mif Russian Social Manners. The following highly picture of Russian social life is irom on English paper. There is probably a grain of truth iu it, but Americans will hardly credit the account as it reads: Perhaps the worst characteristic of Eus- sian society, when it does not care to put on holiday foreign manners, is its extreme coarseness. Every one is rude and loud.

All the company who have anything to say talk together at the top of their voices. No. one listens. They contradict each other flatly; they are abusive: they quarrel; they make it up over the tea-table. They absolutely take constitutional exercise in talking, and the department is so violent that they often appear like people possessed.

This probably arises from their extreme aversion to all other physical exertion, many of them living to an old age without ever having got on horseback, or taken a healthy walk. They possess no sense of poetry and seem to have a contempt for the beauties of nature, despising the pleasures of country life. They have no love of sport. Shooting, fishing, hunting, racing, are almost unknown among them, and there is not a single yacht in the Black Ssa, where it is summer off the coast all the year round. The houses, when most splendid, are but decorated with gilding and They rarely boast a statute, or a flower.

Their reckless expenditure and unthrift are equal to their covetousness. Nowhere is dress so costly, or so soon spoiled. A bovardwill give 1,800 guineas for a black ox cloak-lining, and when he takes it off in the ante-chamber of the ball-room, his footman will.roll himself' up in it till ordered to give it back again. The most costly ladies' dresses made in Paris go to Bussia; but a youcc; Muscovite belle will think nothing of getting intoya narrow open drosky and rushing about-with her train spread over tlie wheels through the winter sledge till it is spoilt. There is a British belief that BUK- sian dinners are of delicious fare, and made yoke which has two smal eyes on its aide.

"The methods of using the metre is as follows: A boat anchored in the stream at the point where the current is to be tested, a weight with a copper wire attached is let down from the stern. The upper end of this wire is fastened to a spring pole, which takes up most.of the motion of the boat. This wire is passed through the eyes ou the side of the yoke iu tho metre, is measured cord is fastened to a swivel ring in the upper, and a to one in the lower end of the yoke. The metre may now be lowered to any depth sliding down thej.in- chored wire, nnd tho upper end of this wire and of that are fastened together with "the platinum point, being connected with ab- batteryin the every revolution the wheel the cun-uit will he opened and cloied by the eccentric, raising the ivory lever, and thus breaking the connection between the platinum point and plate. If now a Morse's paper register be placed in the circuit, at every revolution of the wheel a dot will be made on paper, and thus the number of revolution in any given, time can be ascertained.

'The observations in the river were to- -keu on a known line, one hundred feet apart, and at each five feet of depth. One of the first things noticed was the irregul- larity of the beat of the counter showing that the curreat pulsated. pulsations are not regular, the common rnaximunis being from one-half to one and a half minutes apart, with every five or ten minutes a- greater increase or decrease. They are least in the maximum current, and increase towards the bottom aud side of the stream. maximum velocity of the current was found to be at or a little below the surface, and the velocity at tho bottom is pro- ably not over two-thirds the maximum.

"The following approximate and discharge of the diflerant rivers is taken from the computations of the work last Year. The quantities for tho Detroit Biver are accurately computed; ple, and place the credit of the State than any political at 53,500 insured $2,000 on building and $1,500 on goods. They saved most of the dry goods; and goods in the eel- HE gepns being altogether inadequate to meet this demand, it has been deemed necessary to employ contract physicians, especially at the South, where but few of the resident physicians could take the oath necessary to their payment, and the fees for attendance in individual would be far in excess of the contract rales. The number of physicians so employed 6n the 30th of September was 282 at rates of compensation varying from $45 to $125 per month; but a large proportion of these will be dispensed with as soon as the troops are concentrated in winter quarters and the condition of public aflairs will admit of the discontinuance of the numerous small garrisons throughout the states lately in rebellion. Since the date of my last report three Surgeons and two AHBJRtnnt Surgeons have died, eight Assistant Surgeons have resigned, two Assistant Surgeons have been dismissed, and one Assistant Surgeon sixteen.

A Medical Board, for the examination of candidates for appointment as Assistant Surgeons, United States Army, and of Assistant Surgeons for promotion, is now in session in New York city. lar lost. Mr. Vosburgh saved most of his stock. Jennings and Vosburgh occupied buildings owned by W.

H. Watson; loss on buildings insured $2,500. St. John Brothers store was saved by the al- exertions of the citizens. Jennings' mill was also much exposed, and it was at one time supposed to be impossible to save it Hart's block of four stores, across the street, 100 feet wide, took' fire, but was extinguished.

The flames were stopped from going farther west by the three-slory brick store of Dodge Van Dyke. CORNELL Ithaca Journal says: "The way the boys take hold of the upade and wheelbarrow indicates the stuff that great men are made ot The college is unavoidably belated with its machine shop and has had little to offer in the way of work, but what is considered the heaviest kind, requiring rather more muscle than students in general are endowed with. Yet in they have pitched. right heartily. Mr.

Cornel! himself, as if taken with the spirit of the thing, was seen a few days back with a pickaxe in Disown hands, giving to the boys his personal countenance and management." A unifonn for the "Cornell University Cadets" has been agreed upon. It will be a little darker cray than the cadet, with the exception of the be dark blue, as will also ths trimmings of the rest of the suit. The coat will be a frock with 1 the usual number of brass buttons. colored youth of twenty years, torn hands, and who -writes with his toes, reached Boston from South-America, DEATH OP ES-GOVEENOE TOD makes a vacancy in the chosen Presidential Electors of the State of Ohio. The Ohio statutes provides that when the Electors assemble at the State Capitol to cast the Electoral vote, they may fill vacancies in the following manner: "And if, on examination thereof (of the Governor's certificate of all the names of Electors) it should be found that one or more of said Electors are absent, and shall fail to appear before nine o'clock in- the morning of the eay of election of.

President and Vice President as aforesaid, the Electors then present shall-immediately proceed to elect, by ballot, in presence of the Governor, a person or persons to fill such vacancy 'or- vacancies as may have occurred through tho non-attendance of one or more of the Electors." The law further provides for, she made the wager, and not Gov. Seymour. At last accounts the parties were very well satisfied with the manner in which tho wager had been New York Evening Post, in calling attention to the statement that a Davenport centenarian voted for Washington, in New York, in 1788, jays that this a little too much of a brag, even by a forgetful old man, for New York did not vote at all at the first Presidential election, and she was the ouly State that did not. (See Appleton's Cyclopedia, title Washington.) Howard tells a good story of a planter, who assembled all his hands in the spring, and told them they must vote for the democrats, or he would not employ them. The darkeys waited until the cotton crop waa whitening, and then called upon him and told him he must give hia word to vote the radical ticket or they would leave him in a body.

erection of a statute.to Queen Victoria in the Place D'Armes, Montreal, is strongly opposed by the Reman Catholic Bishop's organ, Le Nouveau Monde, on tho ground that she is the head of the Anglican Church. It says: "It is quite to have disfigured Jacques Cartier Square, another historical spot, with the Nelson column. We -will, not liave our feelings as Catholics and first set- by fruits and pretty flowers. Nothia, of the kind. The viands are coarse and ill- assorted; the cookery is abominable.

Kaw fish, raw ham, mushrooms in oil, strong cheese, fermented sour cream, boiled Ste. M.irio's. St. Detroit Niagara. StLawrerfee Mrs.

Maiimnm velocity. Ft. per I Miles second. Jper h. 1.921 4.541 4.800 3.370 1.462 1.30 3.09 2.T1 2.32 1.00 velocity.

Ft. per I Miles second-lperh. 0,907 3,511 3,000 2.258 0.66 2.39 2.04' 1.54 0.65 Dig. cubic ft. per aoc.

90,783 233,724 235,000 242,494 319,943 Mrs. cabbage, eaten with corn, boiled suckintr- deciding by lot when there is a tie vote on I tiers in this country wounded by the demand the person voted for to fill such vacancies. Dele van Eepublican says: A larga bed of iron ore, covering at least forty acres, has recently been discovered on land owned by J. W. Peck, in the town of Lafayette.

Parties whoare posted have examined this ore and pronounce it worth at least $20 per ton. It is in the bluffs of Sugar Crqek, near Harkness' Mills. Parties in Fond dn Lao are so confident of success that they have purchased half interest in the'land where it is discovered, and the matter will soon be thoroughly tested, and the owners will immediately commence shipping to Milwaukee. private watchman on the Louisville Bailroad, was run over near the depot in Memphis Monday morning by a tram, and was horribly mutilated, his head being almost severod from his body. of our co-citizens of other origins or creeds.

remnant of Seminole Indians remaining in Florida say they wish to remain iu the slate, but that it has become so sickly in the Big Cypress, where they are now living, that they can live there no longer, and that numbers of them will, in a short time. leave the Cypress and go to Lake Okeecbo- bee, where will have better health, and where they willhave good land to cultivate. They say "good land on corn, cane and potatoes there plenty." artiats in Europe occasionally desert the stage for the seclusion of tlio convent. Lasi, year two were added.to the list. Mile.

Moursvieff, the Russian dancer, of tha Grand Opera, became a Carmelite nun, and the outer world hears-no more of her. After her, MUe 4 Thuillier, the pretty and' clever actress of the Odeon, overwhelmed by a tender domestic affliction, withdrew from the stage, preparatory to entering the Charmelite convent at Blois. But the young lady hoa pig, small beer, soup, with cold fish, salt cucumbers, ice aud fennel in it, this, with baked fowls, is the staple food among opulent gentry; and it is washed down with raw spirits and a beverage called quoss, more nauseous thanany known in the west. How GOLD PESJ ABE every one who. writes with a gold pen knows hou- they are made.

Those which are commonly known as "diamond points" are tipped with iridium. This ia found in small grains in platinum, slightly alloyed with this latter metaL In this form it ia exceedingly hard, and well adapted to the purpose of the gold pen maker. The gold for pens is alloyed with silver to about sixteen carats fineness, rolled into thin strips, from which the blanks are struck. The under side of the point is notched by a small circnkii saw, to receive the iridium point, which is selected by the aidof a microscope. A flux of borax and a How-pipe secure it to its place.

The point is then ground on a copper wheel with emsry. The pen blank is next rolled to the requisite thinness by means of rollers especially adapted to the purpose, and tempered by blows from a hammer. It is then trimmed.round the edges, stamped, and formed in a powerful press. The slit is next cut through the solid iridium point by means of a thin copper wheel, fed with the emery, and a Major Williams, formerly Stephen A. Douglas.

A Washington correspondent of the Missouri Democrat writes as follows: On Sunday I was walking in the neighborhood of Gen. Grant's house, when I saw Mrs. Major Williams, late Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas, exchange greetings with Gen.

Grant, and descended at her Kate, accompanied by her husband. The house that Mr. Douglas presented to his wife before ber marriage stood upon a high hill, close by Gen. Grant's subsequent and present residence, and in the grading of the streets thereabout this house, with its extensive walled garden and lawn, was left suspended in the air, so that it is now one of the most imposing dwellings in the city, and is named, Major Williams, since his marriage to the Widow Douglas, has nearly doubled the. size of his house, raised a French roof upon if, and capped its flight of si one stairs with a pair of colossal carved liuus.

The terraces around the ho.use are pinnted with shrubs and box bush, and ixunit.uiQ- rial trees contribute to give- the plnce the air of a venerable patrimony. Within the mansion two fine children counb the march of time, neither of them heirs of Mr. Douglas, whose little contribution shares his sleep. The exquisite peacefulness and. privacy of Mrs.

Williams' life show the difference between what are called Marriages (k Soclalc, and what we name so familiarly, In tho time of her first husband no party was complete without her. Her picture was purchasable at every print-shop, and we beheld her in Washington every day. Now, wedded to a private gentleman and soldier, of years not uneoii- to her own, she is the ornament of a leantiful home, ami her children ore her kingdom. She is still pious at church, and fond of riding out, but her journeys are saw the itself. aperture along the pen lady while trading in a.

store at St. Paul asked permission to look at a silver- mounted pistol in the show-case. While- she was holding and commenting upon it, she cocked it and pulled the trigger. To the great terror of herself and a clerk who stood nearly in range with the muzzle, it went off, and the ball passed through the show-case into the wall. No one store knew that there was a cartridge iu commonly made out of town and not within it.

I felt in her proximity to the home of Mrs. Grant how mutable and yet how merciful are the dispensations of Providence. Eight years ago Mrs. Douglas might have been the mistress of the White House. Now she is a good man's happy wife.

THE EXTENT OF THE UNITED Including Alaska, our territory extends over square miles. Our public lands, excluding Alaska, ara acres in extent, the Alaskan purchase, including ice fields, add 369,529,600. Our population ia nearly 39,000,000, If it increases in the name ratio as it has in preceding periods it will 1870, and 47,000,000 in 1900. There are now thirty-eight states, with the material for the manufacture of several others in the radical interest iKiNa. There is on the statute book of Ohio an important foct which it would be well to have enforced in state of the Union.

It is levelled against that odious class who sell or distribute drugs aud nostrums to prevent conception or procure abortion. The act is very explicit iu its provisions, and if en. forced cannot fall to lessen the diggrace we are snbjected to now by the number of the pistol, and it is thought that it must beings who moke a living by the slaughter changed her mM and returned to the have coine from the manufactory loaded. of thair race..