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Ctjc PtttsDntgij ComriaL Salurftafl, December 14, 1072. GENERAL AND Att rtCULAR. PSSSONAL. SVH IUU. MM KMBEB 14, 181! rALAMJTY JN REW Fire at ihe Fifih Arctic HoH Much More Serious Than First Reported.

pactal nupnirh i th- r.nmrrrlsl. "WAt-iiiNaTON. I), DeoMnBoTX! 1872. Thr tTr.m will begin with eland bvanJROV. Sfeaker Blaine ha bcien rmmiiwl sn of testifying first the i.rdtr of nesses, if he desired, which he is un'lerstou I to do.

Mr. Oakea Ames will also he present though it is not determined whether hi-testimony will be taken to-morrow. Batftxfea have been issued for Obi. McComb and ex-Representative John il. Alley, of Massachusetts, the latter at the request of Mr.

Ames Mr. J. M. S. Williams, of Jloston, one of the Directors of the Cnion Pacific Kailroad, is also in town, and may appear before tbe Committee before the investigation is over.

The CtrropocdTice "ew A German servant cannot tasgiH to nja.t: up a bai aa beda are country. If you wish to pleep in Gefffi hoiizoctal position, and to nave the aaeet that la over yon reacti beyond yonr feet, ao a to tucfc la beiow, mid the blankets reach over and tuck in behind, so that before the ntghr is half spent the Btieet shall not be a rope about yonr neck ftd the blankets tumbled on ihe floor, yon must learn to make yonr own bed. The writer haa lonr given over vain words upon tnls subject and taken ttte mattor practical ly into his own hards. The chamber servant dor-H the tiling tn the morning his way, and your hamble serv ant does it at night hla way. Breath is not wasted any more, lu the mem rabte words of another, we aay, "Let ns save peace." To appreciate ti mutter luliy, the reader muai.

undertau-l that German bed, constructed on liberal principles, is three reet wide. The war thev get in this country what they call a double bed le the literal one ui placing two aingle beds side ny ie. If there is ai'ch a ttiing in an emperor's dominions aa an Ainerif-in double bed, the writer has not seen it and de.spu rs cf tne sight. It is considered with us the perfect jn ol a bed that, independent of toisters and pillows. It shall be absolutely lev- but in Germany it must slope irom the head downward at an angle of not les than thirty five degreea.

How a wed developed German manages to keep place, and especially how, if he chancea to turn over In his sleep, he manages to keep his blankets, is, with this writer, an unsolved problem. It has occurred tn ntfin that the uanal make up of a bed here is meant for show sn tne daytime, the upper eht et being drawn well upward, an turned broadly orer to serve about the purple of a gentleman's shirt collar, and the blankets drawn forward to hang low in front, as a aort of valance, to hide what is under; and that all good Germans, on retiring at night, are accustomed, for actual service, to "put things to rights' as they like. The case mav be ao. VS hat haa been sain on the subject of beds may very properly come under the genera! heal of German ooiiitbiic habits. Iu regaid to 14 domeatic hit of the Germans, a stranger having only hia eyes, and who has t-carcelv penerrwted into their houses at all, cannot te supposed to kuow much, and if it were nut a fact that very much of their domestic life is lived out of doors and in public places, it would be a most an impertinence for hmi to say anything.

He may teli wbat he has seen, and the littie he haa Been may serve as far as it goe. and may be taken lor what it ia worth. It la quite apparent to te mere looker on that the domestic sentiment ia very strong in ihts conntry, and that rami'lea are tound together very closely and tenderly. Proofs of ibis, In one form or are witnessed every day. Nothine is more common, especially on Sundays, than to a -e entire families walking out in company, witti servants in otti-ndanre ranylng the babies or wheeling rhem In pretty little hand wagoua.

if there la an invalid, a iiano vhob of iarger size la provided for him or her, is pushed by loving hands, and brooded over witn especial care ami tenderness. The Germans thfnk it ia "a pleasant thing to see the and they do greatly love the open air. Iu the country acarcely a house haa been Been which haa not, ao to apeak, lta cut of door apartment some quiet, ahaded spot, piovided with comfortaS'le seats where. If the weaTher allows, the family gatherings are held, where many of their meals are taken, and where, aa often aa there ia leisure to sit, some members of the household may not be aeen sitting. In the city where the writer ts now temporarily siding, with its extensive and beautiful public gardens, it la amusing see how, all the day long, thehe Rardeua are thronged, not simply with people who have come there to walk, or to enjoy a few momenta' recreauon, out with people who have come there to sit, and to stav after for hours; not it fi people either, who nave come to Idle away their time, but who have brought some occupation with them, some tKHk to read, some stocking to knit, or Borne cloth to embrubier.

Tney have 0O0N into the garden bt cause It ia pleasanter to be there than abut up In houses. They like the out door apartment best Here the children play, perhaps the little ouea steep, while the mothers alt aud aew. Great numtra of families here, aa In all German cities, do not. In the American aeuae, "keep house." but either for their principal meals go to restaurants or have their meals at stated hours brought to them from thitfte for the restaurant here is nothing leait than an luatuutlou. At certain houra of me oay you may see any numter of aervauta from these restanranta, which are found in alt the atrenta, going here and mere in evtsry direction, with tnetr neatly covered baajtets or many storied tin ana, distributing to their customers the needful gd things of the table.

In this way families that have occasion to economize live better, at lss expense, tnan if they maintained their own separate cnla'nes. There la a saving In the hire of aervanta, and also in provision, tot nothing la wasted, and there are fewer months to le fed. Nothing may be said or (bought perhaps of co-ope rati on. yet, fact, the method of living here ts very largely co-operative. None but wealthy families occupy whote houses.

1-amUles generally oc npv floors or flats, some having their little kitchens aud cooking their own food, but the greater pan reiyiuff, ai least for all their principal maia, on the restaurants. The rule here la four meals daily 1-ght breakfast of coffee, with bread and batter, at eight o'cl cK in the morning, or tnereabout, a substantial dinner at one or half paat, or tea at lour, and a hearty supper at haif paat seven or eight In the evening. The evening meal, ju igmg from what haa teeu tne one waictt most of ail furnishes heavy work for the stomach, for at that the stock of food is laid in for the long fast. For a people whose stomachs are not equa. 10 the dige tion of water, this Is a very noticeable fart.

It ta said iq our country that the German literature dreamy, and that tt Is characteristic of ail Germans to dream much. If It re so, it ta not wonderiul, and cannot be wonderful if some of their drwama are bad. It abonfd said tltat Instance of street bjrjirjg are v. rare here, Anoiner thing may be mentioned. I'oor o'd women, and often quite small boys and girls, sre seen iea ring heavy burden tn the airei.

when a cart, empty or load art, driven pant, they are very much lo the hatt of pat titg up their t-urdene on the tati of It, and relieving their own at rung hacks and tired limbs This bus been wi'tieaard a hundred times, not never in a inatar.ee haa the cart driver been heard to or-d IB otr. Never haa he been aen to shake his ablpatthem, or even to took suriy or disp eshaad. t'ommonly, if he takes notice of them at all, be looks sjmmI wood naturedly at and with an expreuiun of IsM that seems to aay, ''Very well, pile there, pocr thiugi. I'm gUd I can give you a lift There may be and undoubtedly there are bad Germans -bad Germans that have not emigrated to America- ut Lbe writer wm trstify for tbe German people, that as a people tbey are not bad. To aay that The Germans are convivU; la to repeat what haa ifi said in snhwtance afready, and what all th world knows.

There is no occasion, either, to say that conviviality in thts country, ia aa-soemfed with tta usual cuituuk Literally and truly wavy body drinka wine and omt, and about ev ry man amokra. The writer affirm that except tn two or thr mstarict-s he has not atseu water aeed as a o-vt rage Gertnanv, and that tn thoe lnatances it was done apparently out of courteay to him. or in me aejnae through the influence of his example. He dlnea dany tn puhhc and has opportunities for tm rvstion. Over and ntrr again, ar uve, ne haa s-et mothera ni uia iimk um v.ui.-ir-n wrrh wme and beer, aud he haa seen young children at table without tnir mi-tiw-rs aerved with their own flaaka wine, and freely herpmg themaeive.

rrcana oftngr'W merry over trtttr wine, and ta.k loud, and sometimes uproarious. Tbey wax mhihty in pt-ei h. and words break rrom tbera in torrenta. They leap out of tbetr hairs and strike orations) attitude, with violent gesticulations yet moat be MM in perfect truth that, unless thla is drunkenness, the wnter has not a -en more than three drind en men in Germany Two or three be t-as has teen s-customeit to see at hon-e jsjanwl every dsy, but no more. He haa not aeen "tie young man staggering in tbe streets.

He haa een nothing Hfce rowdyism anywhere. He haa reer- at iaira and at estiva and aeen everybody dilcstng. wme and beer gulng Like water, or as wstcr might be supposed to go where water is In use MM he has seen no drnnsen musses nohrawiings and fightings of drunken men. A drunken wonan he does MM expect to see. The German verb "lo tn its conjugation, "tiinken ft truken," nil, hi suggest tbe idea thai getting druuk la an essential part of 'he very process of drinking in ihie country, but the reaier may assure himself that the fact la not ao.

People here do not drink to drunk; tut they drink for sociality, and tecauae they ready do love wine snd beer. They seem to have a constitutional thirst for these fluida and drink to allay their thirst, with a peculiar knack for leaving off hen that objevt la accomplished. It ta simple fact that with ail onr efforta in America for the promctton of temperance and mir abhorrence or an drnking usages, we have flfty drunkards to their one, and fifty timea more MHH ry on-atoned by drinking, than tn their own country, where wtne and beer are tbe common drinks of the people, can be found among them. It la not donbted that if every flatd, -f whateTer sort, that has the alcoholic ingredients in it were aboi out of Germany, or put where it property oe-longa, with other drugs on the shelves of the apoth-M TIM, and the Germans wouid oniy educate their etoruacha to digest water, and purauaded ror their common beverage to confine themselves to that, cooked or urieook.d. they would oe a happier and wiser, and ru ber, and better people for it.

At the same time, if nnthtng more can be done for our country. It la equally certain that it would be an tn eatfmabte bieseing to ua if we might only exchange our drinka and drinking usages for theirs. DARK AND CRGTA'D. BLOODY Terrible Condition of Kentucky. The State Overrun by Murderers and Outlaws Tlie Labor System Disorganized The Legislature Unwilling to Interfere.

rFrom a letter in tbe Louisville Courier Jtrorna.1.) Instances of organized crime, in several cases av compamVd with arson and murder, atlli ofteoer with shooting with Intent to V11L and much more frequently with brutal lashings of the persons of helpless aud inoffensive citizens of both races, have been matters of almost habitual occurrence In the Jarge portions of several counties for the last two years. Within tnat time, and In the localities referred to. hundreds of families, white ami biack, bot principally black, have been forcibly driven from their homes by lawless and murderous convjjQa tions of masked desperadoes, compelled, for rear of their lives, to at once abandon their employment, crops, persona! effects, and lands to all who saw proper to plunder or destroy them, and In their impoverishment seek shelter where best they could find it among comparatively unsympathimg, if not actually unfriendly, strangers. Kesnltine from the exposure and suffering they have thus been compelled 10 undergo.scores of them, huddled together as tbey have been ln close, uncomfortable and unhealthy quarters, with scant clothing and insufficient; food, have since died of smallpox, Tevers, and other fatal diseases wno otherwise would probanly have twen to-day sound and healihy men, women and children. The truth Is, that resulting from the same cunse, organized crime, unpunished by law, unrestrained by authority, the entire labor system of a considerable portion of the State has been effectually disorganizes, not to say destroyed, entaliing heavy losses upon farmers and other business men, interrupting their legitimate operations, greatly depreciating their property, and.

as a necessary consequence, sensibly diminish. ug tbe usual amount of trade carried on the adjacent rowns; in fact, scatcelv a single branch of business, cither in connrry or town, has tolly escaped its disastrous effects. Nor ta this all. Sadder and mure humiliating la that which yvt remains to be told. A reign ot terror has long usurped chat of law in the localities referred to.

I nder its influence the criminal laws of the State have, as regards this class of crimes aud offenders, been utterly silent and Inoperative, the civil authorities stranaeiy, if not in Bome cases shamefully, paralyzed, and the very rights of free thought and free speech of a whole people, except In a few notable instances, subjugated to any unmanly submission to or else a criminal sympathy with and disgraceful approval of the dastardly acts and bloody crimes or a secret confederation of midmght miscreants and murderers It Is a fact as notorious aa it is shameful and appalling that, an. Id the very large and fearrul uuruneruf organized crimes ahtcb have been committed la the state within the past two years, not a single offender or criminal engaged in any one or them has, to this day, been brought to punishment through the agency of tbe State courts and other civi; authorities. The parties recently arrested and held under baU for the late arson and murder in Shelby county have not et been brought to Onai trial, and none can uow foretell what will be the result when had. In Franklin county several more youths have been subjected to a light fine and incarceration in the county jail for IS days ror participation In a certain act which amounted under tbe Ihwh to nothing more than a simple misdemeanor. Very few peisous at the time bei.eved tnat they had any direct connection with the regular organization which has committed so many ami some such frlgatrul crimes ln the country.

(Vher parties have Since in en arrested and brought to trial tor supposed eompih try in 3 somewhat simitur misdeineinor, but whether innocent or not the ver convenient alibi was at hand to bear tuem triumphantly to their friends, free from the pains and penalties of outraged law. The fact remains, as first Btated, that not a a ngle person engaged in any of these surioas crimes, the punishment of which by law ta imprisonment ln the penitentiary or death, has to this day been convicted or punished in the State courts; or, in truth, with the single exception or the late case In Shelby i i even arrested by the local authorities. Bur the saddest and mot humiliating feature of this whole melancholy and disgraceful business is yet to be mentioned. I have reserved it to the last because my pen hesitates even now to trace to its proper character this lat crowning dishonor to tne State. The rruih.

painful though it tie, must, however, now be told in all its length and breadth. Men occupying respectable positions in society, some of thra high and responsible stations in the State, have not scrupled to make light of, express sympathy with, and, in some instances, openly justify these moat benlons and revolting crimes. Two successive Legislatures of tbe Stare, or at ail events the majorities of the members controlling their proceedings, have substantially placed themselves on record, as if not actually fn ndly to, at least nnwlillng to interfere in the slightest degree with the lawless and bloody operations or this extensive and criminal organization. hatever the motive or final Intention, the tact is undoubted tbat organized crime, under the name of Ko KJnxism, Instead of being discountenanced, sap-pressed and punished by the prompt aud vigorous exercise of all tfe powers of the General Assembly, has been practically tolerated, encoaraged. and protected for the last two yesrs by the most colna-ble, not to aay crimtnsl, non -action or the legislative branch of the State government.

To sum up the whole matter of fact in a rew words, law, right and justice have been emphatically at the bottom, and crime, lawlessness and oppression at the top. within a wide region of Kentucky for the past twentv-fonr Such la tbe truth, plain and simple; such the i undeniable condition of large portions of several counties, immediately contiguous to tbe State capttai, from the fail of 1ST0 to the present NsHKnra FaH Pry For a Day. The winter of l1 bad been intensely cold, and the ice furmed on Lake Erie was very thick. This waa loosened arouad the shores by tbe warm days of early spring. During the day a stiff easterly wind moved the whole field up the lake.

About sundown tfa wind chopped suddenly around and blew a gale from the west. Thts brought the vast tract that it ice dawn again with such tremendous iorce that of filled the neck of the lake, and the outlet, so that the outflow of the water was very greatly Impeded. Of course It only needed a very short space of time for the faPs to dram off the water below Black Rock. The consequence was that, when we arose ta tbe morning at Niagara, we round that cur river was nearly half gone The American channel had dwindled to a respectable creek. The British channel looked as though It bad been smitten with a quick consumption and was fast passing away.

Vmi up from the head of Goat Island, aud oat into the Canadian rapids, the water was gone, as It was aiao from the lower end or Goat Ialand, ont beyoud the tower, ihe ro ka were bare, biack and for-btddlt g. Ine roar of Magara had auuaided almost to a moan. Tbe scene was desolate, and but for its nov ty and ibe certainly that it would change n-nny hours wouid have been fcioomy and Editing Every person wbo haa vtsKed Niagara reus.ii. a beautiful jet or water which shoots up OM Ol the watr about lortv rods south of the outer Msu in tne Krst rapioa, caded, with a singular contradiction of terms, tne mam The writer drove a bucgy rrom near the head of fa Inland out to a point about and near to that jet. Wtth a log cart and four horses be had drawn from Uu ontaide of the outer island a stick of pine timr, hewed twelve inches square and forty feet long.

Fn the top of the middle island was drawn a still iarger suck, hewed on one side and 6ixty feet long There are few places on the globe where a person would be less likely to eo lumbering then in the raptd of Niagara, just above the brink of tbe horseshoe fall. All the people of the neighborhood were abroad exploring recesses and cavities that had mver tefore been exposed to mortal eyes. Tbe writer went some distance up the shore of the river. I.arjre fleids at the muddy bottom lay bare. Tne sn gular syncope of the waters lasted all the day, and night closed over the strange scene.

But in tbe ornlng our river was restored in ail its strength, teeauty aud majesty, and we were glad to welcome its swelling tide once more, HoiUy' Ai- A rUfrrlna Rat. The Sidney Australia Herald ts responsible for the following singular story: The craving for food by the helpless young has In many cases known to prompt kittens and whelps to take milk from a verydlffereni genera the mammalia, but one or the most extraordinary incidents or thts nature ta related to have occurred lately at Sidney. The circumstances have no such features as would render publicity objectionable, and the authenticity of the subjoined atatement ta vouched for by tne husband of ihe woman referred to. Mrs. Byrne is a married woman, reaiding tt Uevonahire street, Sydney, her husband a native of the colony, being well known in the metropolis.

Some montns ago she bore twins, one or whom died, and tbe atirYtvimr infant, now about seven months oid, became ailing. Thla tbe mother attributed to an m-buttidency of milk. For several daya she ooaerved peculiar scratches on her bosom, unlike those that wou'd be produced by tbe child. However, she ascribed them to the efforts or the child when hungry at night to get at the breast, and took the precautions to pare tbe child nails. No rata had been seen about the room until the cat started one.

which had round a hiding place behind a cask. Immediately when the rat found Itself chased ran to Mrs, Byrne, as if for shelter. The scratches on her breast were at once Identified aa those produced bv a rat ciaws, and the impression tbat this creature had roobed her during the night of the milk for which her child was pining, was supported by the fact that, wheu the rat was killed she had a bountiful supply How Ihe French Ruild fanard Uoofs. The French, with whom the Mansard roof originated, construct it in a manner which combines safety ith elegance. Instead or placing wooden or iron frames on the top of substantial brick waits, they carry up the latter to the extreme height required.

From the line where the roof commences ttu- nricks are corbelled inside at each course; rhat ts, the end of each bru slightly projects over the one which is laid. A receding frout thus obtained lor the roor, which, up to lta highest point, is as solid as the wails or the house. The augies of the brick on the ontslde are amootned over, anil tbe slate is laid dlreerlv on the sloping brick wall. A Oosm of plaster ts then laid ou the inside, the finishing touches are rhen given, and the Mansard root is as SOU4 aa any part of the house, of which it ts the most elegant feature. It would be well ror our insurance companies to examine the different meth-Odi of construction tn use here as well as in Barfs.

If the Mansard roof can be constructed In a manner which makes ii as safe as anv other, there certainly seems no reason to abandon so tasteful a feature in our domestic architecture. Pork Packing A Ilrrour.iginj$ Outlook. fl-'rom Ihe St. Louis Demand. The packing outlook is not a very assuring one at the present moment, ilogs are no held at a rate which involves a loss of about a dollar per head to the pacKer at the present prh of product.

There seems to be no export demand for provisions, and the supply is far beyond the wants of home eousurn-mersL The price of hogs has been held up, probably, to the present moment oy the demand for product to fid November and December sales. A good many Of those In this city who ptircnased for the above delivery are "eellmg," Instead of accepting the product. Others are reselling at a loss, and but rew have confidence In present prices. Unless hogs can be forced down or product up. there wiil either be a poor show for profit this year or a very jight business done in packing.

The inventors who have been experimenting with paper for some time past, are now trymsr to make it useful lor window shutters. Tho preparation used Is the ordinary paper pulp brought by pressure to the utmost compactness and solidify, with the lightest possiKe sheet iron or other castlngto Insure stability. This preparation has been brought to a high degree of perfection tn Japan, where they are much more skillful in the uses or paper than we are, adapting tt to all sorts of articles for domestic use, being, as It is claimed, water-proof, weather-proof, and fire-proof, not liable to breakage like crockery from careiess handling, nor in danger of corrosion like most ot the metals from exposure. The material has been used to some extent in this country ror furniture, clothing, car-wheels, and many other things out of the ordinary course of things. As the stuff will not burn, the inventors expect to tarn it to use as a new safeguard against Sre.

The proposition of the Superintendent of the Census, to make up and publish a statistical alias, Is favorably entertained by many members of Congress. The atlas, if it should be authorized, would contain about fifty maps, om trie general pian of those which illustrate the quarto volumes of the Cetisu Hepote. now issuing. These maps will present in graphic form all the results of the census which are adapted to such representation, and would piace the entire information in the census taoles more easny within the reach of the number of educators in the country than it can be by any other meani It would be entirely practicable to place copies lu all libraries of col eges and scientific and literary societies, and so within the reach of every person engaged ln tue practical work of teaching, or in the education o( teachers or In any kind of special and scientific THE THE GREAT DIAMOND How a Monster Swii Worked Up. A Six Hundred Thousand Dollar Robbery.

San Francisco papers of the sfth and arth nlL, contained full offcial reports on the great diamond fraud, with copious additional particulars of the manner lu which it was worked up and Imposed upon the creoulity of pome or the shrewdest fl-ian-ciers on the Pacific coast ft is one of the most re-maikabie swindles ever perpetrated, and was near being one of the most disastrous. In thirty days more, but for the complete and timely ezpo by Clarence King, no 'ess than twelve million dollars of the stock wotud have been put upon the market, a large portion of 11 ou the Atlantic si ie of this continent and in irope, where, It Is reported, the great house of Kothschlld was ready to place some of it So confident were some of ihe leading parties In sac Francisco ol the value of the alleged discoveries, that extraordinary precautions ware used to prevent the locality being known, and the sum of their own expenditures to secure the ground is probably not under In gold. It is most astonishing that leading citizens of recognized shrewdness In all money matters should have teen so uuped, and that the engineer who was employed to Investigate the alleged diamond fields should a'so have fallen Into the trap set for him by most adroit and unconscionable villlans. As yet the public cannot tell who were the deceivers aud who the deceived, hut it is known that a most elaborate swindle has been perpetrated that worth or small rough diamonds were purchased In London and used in sailing the ground selected ror the operations of the claim speculators and that they were working up the diamond fever adroitly with a view to lauuehing their stock on the market when a United States geologist detected the fraud and blew it to atiirug. The following account or their manauvers is from the san Fraucls -o Chronicle of tne '27 th THE RATIFICATION OF THK JOB.

Now that the whole thing has been officially declared a fraud, it is quite Interesting to know the jot was put up and ail about it Janln, perhaps, is not criminally to blame, although his reputation as a geologist and mining engineer will have received a blow by this from which It will be haid lor him to recover. His first co-int-ction with 1 affair seems to have been In New York last spring, where he was approached by TIarpeudiug. General Dodge, and Arnoid. the "discoverer" or the wonderiul Golcouda. They told him that Arnold aud Slack had made two trips to the diamond fields, securing in the first Instance a bag or precious atones valued at II.

i 0.000. which had been sealed and de-p patted 111 ihe Baukt-r Cahrornia: and In the second a bag of gems valued at U60.1100, the latier being deposited in tiie banking-house of VVmiam It. Duncan A New Yoik. WHAT TiltAM TeU.ll Besides all this, Jjnin was taken to the private residence of Tiffany, the great New York jeweler, who told him, in presence of Sam Barlow, Gen. McClellan and other parties, that the estimated value of the gems In Duuceii's bank wss tlW.000.

This statement, emanating as it did rrom ao reliable a source, ceiul i not rail to disarm whatever suspicion there was In Janln mind, and the consequence was he was mist effectually rope-d In. Harpeadmg and Dodge told janln that Arnoid received f.oo.ioo for bis nrst trip, and by suoury plausible statements they lodacta Janin to visit ihe diamond fields. These geiitlen en Janln that he should have two weeks to examine the ground aud investigate Its ve loateal formation, and when nh 11 il rhu they Kent hull emihoyed in alhiailaai and mg- ing mining laws for a whole week. Soon he began to prospect. Dodge and Harpeudiug hurried turn away, against the promise, and had hltn make his Mist teport tn New York, in which he says: HOW WAS Ilt'KKIKD AWAV.

I had only time to gather samples from those portions or the one hundred acre block of ground which are marked on the accompanying plat. At each one gi ine points numbered diamonds or ru found, as per Inclosed samples. These po over cue-third of a mile distant from th were a were iriglual rg- depth larger diamonds be found. Tne amount 01 prosi-e-cllrig done wa insljo flcant and di es not enable me to form a Judg nent as to the extent or iimlta either of the very rich or only moderately rich grounds. I have already shown that It requires only one-haif acre ol the very rich ground 10 repay the purchase money, and MM that if the whole ISO aire tract win produce gravel of an average value or I percent, or ihe value of the one aud a half tons asted 0MM per ton).

It would rurnlsh aa Immense value In diamonds anil rubies, consider thl a woude rfuily rich discovery, and oun that will prove extremely profitable; that while I did not have time 10 on make investigations which would have answered very important questions, I do not doubt that further prospecting win result iu Hading diamonds over a greater area tnan la aa yet proved to be itlamond bearing; and finally, that I consider aoy Investneat of fio per share, or at the rale ef 1 1 for tne whole proia-rty, a safe and attractive oue. FSN. Im IK TASKS A UAKb. While Jan'n was being Induced to join the enterprise, and to make a professional survey or the ground, the projectors of the scheme were at work in a uew direction, bsa Sam Barlow set baJi 10 motion to secure a I mted states patent to the tract, and also legislation directly looking to the development or the diamond mines. He drew up the celebrated "placer mining bib" and gave it Into tue huhoa of that immaculate Gem Beujamla F.

Butler, of MsssaefiuiiettM, to engineer through ontrcas. Bsafa wonderiul sagacity aud a thousand susres--f Hie diamond at his, to him In Land paid, enabled him to see the great advantage ihls bid wouid be to me country, and he finally resin it passage without difficulty. Gen. Buuers stock is not worth main Just uow, but then that is WHAT taHM OOT FeK BIS SSBVICKS. Before Jaiiin went in the first time he was paid lor his services by the company.

This wa mere profess onsi fee, snd is not tiellev to have been inl tbeti 1 to secure ravoranie re-pon. Besides was given the privilege of purchasing l.eoej shares of tue stock, at $10 a share In currency. wMe he did purchase in Sew York after his return from the fields. This stock he at once sent to Sao FiAti.iBto wsl aula a.t lu tail value $44 a all are, In Uius craring over by the traose tloo. Whatever suspicion of the integrity or lack of cc---de uce lu the proiesuouai ability of' Janln may grow out of this matter, it is evident he has made ihe dune- of others.

His reputation, though, has euner. blow from which he can hardly nope to fhose guilt there Harpeudiug aui.l si there of pittar. Ieviaon A e'o. and Keller, the diamond mem Tiieae facta, witn other ttimgB which bve come to light, have caused a grave suspicion to fali upou both these persous. Geo.

iKaige wss. per naps tgnorsnt of the fraud tn the beginning, but it is now tlist ne knew of the sell long iiefore the expose by clarence King, ant impruvwi tue opportunity to get ail his money back that he put mo 1U He was heard to say here berore he went east that when Gen. oltou came back he would bring iwd news, and soon arter left for the east, aa is tielieved, 10 see Arnold and get his n--y back before the tluug should explode. A photograph of HarpecdiDg was sent a week ago to London to Pitiar Levlacu a for Identification as the man who purchased the brilliants. If they Menufy Mr.

Ha: landing as one or the purchasers, things may be uiaoe warm fag Mm. 11IK HAkil flEAKTSIn OKOLOM131. repute. ti among scientific men, n-t long sluce made an cfilcial Investigation or the belt or country in which the- alleged diamond fields were located, and when the news of the discovery had be-eu thoroughly disseminated and the question was assuming a serious aspect be determlued that he would make an official visit to the fields 00 his own accenat and without the knowledge of any of the interested parties. He eutered the dlamoud fields with oue of his survey mg partles.knowu as the Fort Bridger division, and made a careful estimate of the country.

After satlsi.i mg htmae-if that the whole thing was' a fraud, he hastened to san Francisco to lay his astounding Oi-covery before the director. He knew ih oue of them personally, aud did not kuow where any of them lived. He did kuow i con, and him he hunted up to twelve o'clock tne very night he ar rived here. Jaiilu was lu bad at the time, bat Kiua wake.1 him up and conveyed the dlsagree-abie Information. Jaiiiu would not believe It at first, but the ge-oiogist sat down and convinced him before inom-ng.

Next day ihey went together and saw Mr. lialstnm 1 his geut, eman peio-hoocd the idea tnat there was fraud, but finally consented to permit King to make a rentirt. Then the latter made the report that was printed yesterday, and which, it wll' be seen, bears date November 11. THK BI BBI.I BURST The report was so comprehensive, so convincing, that lite directors' faces turued white wheu tbey heaid 11 read. They at once resolved to rerret the thing out, and for that purpose eioliou expedition was fitted out, and Mr.

Kiug kindly consented to accompany It with Mr. Jautm The whole matter was kept Btrtctly private, not even the principal sharebclders knowing anything of lu The outy persons who knew of the explosion were King, Jauiu, jfalawm. Lent aud coitoa, with tne two who accompanied him eKi his trip, lien, lioat aud M. Fry. 1 tie feeiiugs of Messrs.

Itaistou and Lent during the or Coilon a party may lie better imagined than descilticd. had King's report in their hands, and they knew If that was verified ihey were out togethe nearly Yet tney leo't their owu counsel, aud was even said Leut was quite cheerful. THE U)CAT10N OF TUB FIKI.D. The diamond field Is Uicated near Vermillion creek, lorty five miles from Hiack Butte station, directly on one or the prominent geodetic stations or the ge-oleigical survey. It Is at the north base a pine clad ridge that runs east and west, north or Brown Hole, and la in Colorado Territory, eight miles south or the Wyoming line.

At this polut is a Mesa, about 1 reet high, geutly sloping to the norm, and cut toy canons, five or six hundred feet deep, which carry off the drainage or the pine ridge into Vermillion creek. This nwsa has a comparatively smooth surtace, which ts broken oniy by two masses or sandstone, which rise above Its level, some or the valleys near this spot are charming in appearance and abound in the finest of game, such as des-r, tik. grizzlies, though the climate, save sheltered spots, is not one of the finest In the world. The summers are cool and the wliitere very cold and hurricanes sweep over ttie country about two' thirds of the year. The dlamoud field Is not located In an Indian country, thougn the straggling I'tes occasionally pass over and near it These Indians are nominally at peace, and would not trouble white men uuless a good opportunity offered.

Worth the Parlslien ylnu-dilliner. I think there can tie no credence put In the New York paragraphs In regard to his bankruptcy. One to the effect that he bad bankrupted others would lie much more to the point. His sign in Hue da la I'alx is simple tint striking, black letters, on a bra-s plate "Worth, au Premier," Entering the court vou encounter another, with the request that you ill wipe your reet, "9 you and not smoke on the stairs. His rooms are up two flights, the lloore are waxed, ihe walls neatly tinted and froFcoed.

Theu-eaie counters lined with silks In every conceivable shade of color, aud wisideu cases lor dressess bearing the Worth address Worth hlmseif is a Frenchman, and not Kogltsh, as has i iteu been stated, and his name Ispronouoced much the same as if spelled --Voru" He Is 01 medium stent, well built; has sleepy-looking, half-open. bSu eves. He has a full and regular forehead, with the corner bumps strikingly developed. His nose is sizable, and humpy enough in outline to sausfv Kuskin's demand for curved lines He wears Inure mustache, ami sneaks iu a deep. guttural tone, as If his voice Issued from his boots.

'1 he entile eAtnesBiou and his manner Is In accord with It, lacking entirely to the vivaeitv and quickness that we naturally expect ot the French. He la i-ouoescendliig In his milliner, touching his hat and bowing as ir there was a great peal of dignity on one side or the other to lie preserved. He Is young, not more than thirty-tf, or lorty, and seems to regard his art as of the KOWlmest importance. Ills assistants, with the of two or three stubby Frenchman, tat and baht who pronounce everything to be "ires jolie, are very stylish young women, tall, slender, and haiid-oineiv dressed lu black slik. ItuU Currrtpotul- The Erie Bank, or Pennsylvania, had on deposit lu the Ocean Bank, of New York, the money to 1 loaned by the Ocean Bank as the agent of the Erie Hank.

The luenk loaned the money, receiving it 000 in United States bonds aa collateral security. 1 he ae bonds were stolen from the Ocean Bauk, and uu is now brought by the Erie Bauk to recover from ihe eieeau uank the amount lost, with interest, it being alleged that the bonda were stolen owing to the negligence or the Ocean Bank. No decision has yet been rendered in the case. GUATEMALA DISASTER. i 1 by the Captain.

ventures of the Survivors Rw Vork Werld.i ouglaa, of the Pacific Mail Steaoa-crrfp steamer Guatemala, which was wrecli idcaia Bar, reached hereby the steamer Henry Chaoncev. Tne lost ship was built tn Oreen-point in 186, and insured for $50,000. Captain Douglas made the following statement I lelt Panama in the Guatemala, 1,040 tons, carrying the malls toAcapucio via Central America and Mexican ports. Nothing unusual occurred on the voyage op to San Bonito, which place we left on the lith or October, at half-past one p. bound for Touaia; steered northwest by west, engine making thirty-eight revolutions, the speed oeing a little short of six knots per hour.

On the 13th about a quarter past two we were abreast of Sooconoosco Mountains, and shortiy after three o'clock the second ortlcer reported the steamer t.x least twelve miles from land. At four a. m. the third officer was given charge or the deck, and he was instructed to report if the vessel made the low lanri, ami in case of seeing the breakers, to haul the ship oir the snore at once and send the quartermaster ou the look-out to caii me. At a umiricr past lour o'clock I weut aft, ami Ave minutes later the third omVer walked up very coolly and stated he had seen low land abeam to star board.

I ordered him to keep the ship northwest bv west half west, being at the time on the quarterdeck and not seeing any low lamL I then went Into my room to take tea. At ten minutes past live o'clock the third nicer came to my room, walking 38 usual, and quietly informed me thar the ship was surrounded by breakers. I lramediateiv ran forward, and before reaching the pilot-house saw the breakers close aboard ahead, and some distance off on the starboard beam. I sang out to H. Wilsjn, who was at the wheel, to port his helm hard a--: at board, and on entering the pilot house 1 saw the ship was inside the first outsMe line of breakers on Tonaia liar.

I rang the engine beil and stooped the ship, and looking at the compass found the ship heading northwest by north half west. I then found she had been steered wrong and contrary to mv orders, and ran to the engine room door and told the engineer to back the ship as quick as possible, but there only eleven pounds of steam on at tnat time It was lound irnpossinie to do so. luafew ncnutes alter a heavy sea came down, carrying the chip's stern in shore and bringing her on the bottom with rtrrtble force, aud she then listed heavily to port side, bursting the steam pipes from the bolSers and filling the decks with steam. Seeing no hope of getting the ship of! I ordered the engines to be Morai and the bilge Injections to be opened. In or-dt that the ship rutuhr nil more rapidly and to prevent her iroiug bijvrher up on tne bar, the chance of saving the lives of the passengers and crew would be much less if the snip anould forge into the shallow water, where it was breaking continually.

The third sea lifted the ship very high, and the came dossil with such Immense rofce that r. enslne and bollere went through her. She was not run upon a rock, but on a hard sand bank, (irear confnslou look place at the forward boat on the starboard side. 1 gave orders to the men to clear away the port boat and gig, and at the same time sent men to look for pro visions. had rm-hed to the deck in their night -clothes.

I got the port quarter boat lowered aud placed five mm and the steward In charge, and Mrs. Lewis, the loniy lady passenger, was sent off with them. The boat was polled clear of the breakers and then waited for further ordera. The elder otllcer, along with the second and third officer, were lowered in the two forward boats, with four seamen in each. The purser took charge of the gig.

At this time I found that neither water nor provitdona could be procured, the pipes of the tier being all broken, and the atoreroom a complete wrecK, the deck being forced up and the beams broken. The chief officer and Mr. Baxter, a passenger, at the risk of their lives, succeeded In launching the rnetal lifeboat from the hurricane deck. With krear danger the passengers in the other boats were transferred to the lifeboat, as the sea waa rolling mountains high. At six oVlock all the passengers and crew were safely In the boats, and the ahip rapidly going to pieces.

I found tt Impracticable to land eastward of Tonaia Bar, as the aurf was running very high, and we went weatward, with the intention of reaching Salinas Cmz. We had no provisions, and many or us bad no clothing, with the exception or our night clothes; everything. Including a great mny valuables, a as left in tho ship. The chief officer was placed in charge of the port forward boat, containing lu all fourteen persona the parser in charge cd the gig, with seven persona the second ortlcer tn chaige or the lire-boat, with thirteen persons, and the ihird officer lu charge or the atarooard forward boat, with eight men. und I retained the port quarter boat, with eleven in all.

The chief engineer at this time waa ln the second mate's boat, he and Vicente Echeglnaen, a pasaenger, changing at the same time into the boat of the chief officer. Instructions were given the officers in charge of the to keep cloae In ahore snd together, and not to land unless compelled to do so. We were at thts time two miles rrom land, but the surf being so rough it was dangerous to attempt to land. About nine hours after leaving the ship the purser lauded, and all tn the boat were nearly drowned In the attempt. I went In shore, but seeing two men stretched on the teach concluded tbey hail been drowned, and did not land, but kept to the weatward.

That afternoon and night the wind blew frean, and the boats were all In sigbt at sundown. On the Utu, at six a. a strong northwest gaJe blew, and we fonnd It ncesaary to land, as it was Impossible to keep v. sight of the land any longer and remain at sea. At nine a.

h. we landed, but lu the effort we were all thrown Into the water, yet got to shore safely. The sailors went tn search of a raache, MMfl then tbe purser came up, and we were agree -abi? surprised to bear that his party had landed Mlwy. and were In a hooe a abort distance from as. After a good deal of difficulty, and by first capturing tfe.

cmef of the Indian tribe who occupied the place arid threatening him with death, we succeeded inob-taining wagons and oxen, and made ror the village 01 tn Krancisco del Mar. The purser and myarir got horses and went along the heacn tn search of th ether boat, aud we found two MMMSk Seaor Pudt.ia and his son, who had come ashore tn the second mate's boar, and he informed us tht the whole party bad landed. We passed, as before seated, Sooconooaa Mountains, at tllteen minute pitst two, theae mountains twenty-eight miles from Tenala Bar, and tbe amp going short knots, I had reason to suppose thai I was within leas tbau ten miles of Tonaia Bar at the time the ship struck. Ilad the course given northwest by wnat half west beu steered from rtttren minutes paat four a. tt wouid have been imposattde for the ship to have struck where she d.

After the helm was put starboard and the 1 ip stopped, I found that the compass showed toe shi pa bead northwest by north naif north, l-pto iesvtDg Salinas cms nothing had been beard of the chief officer's boat, all the parties sent in search of (hem hartog returned without tiding in'erning ibeni. 1 have no doubt tftey were toat on the 14th of (H-tober, tn a strong northwest gaie mowing at MM time. Tbe captain gave it as his opinion that it was by the miscalculating of Mr. Parker, tbe third officer, that the ship was lost lie waa not rally experienced, and un the night of the larh tbere wm an undercurrent that canned the ship to run ax a speed of otr eight kncld per hour. A Miracle ttb Hlod.

In isy Hose Tamnder, a peasant girt wbo had been un inmate of a convent A Salon Bouches-da Khone, MMMMH rh. neighborhood by the prf rrance of stnpeudocs miraciea. Her reputation ext0t'ed, and crowd gazed with astonishment at what e-ey saw with their own eyea. Bsidea many other unaccountable demonstrations of ber direct intercourse with the spiritual world, a picture of the Saviour actually bied through the represented wounds. The Archbtah-ip of Avignon summoned the clergy of his dheee to line a the greateet of rolraciea.

A vast congregation of civil and redgioua dignitaries in their offi robes were awe-atruck. Blol actually ooied O'it of the canvas wounde' Altaough wiped away, On made Ka appearance. Je weia. dtsmmida and costly presents flowed in upon the gifted favorite or samta in profuaslon. BM waa ou the hlgbway to great wea th.

Kven the good and sincere of Pana caunht the miraculous infection met as a monstrous cheat came to iignt. hh 0 put an abrupt tp to th flow of any more bhnd rom a picture, alonatetir Kugene t'o ignon, achera-lat. weli persuaded the girl was an impostor, set to work to find out the cheat. Hla researches were speedily crowned with snceeas. He ascertained that blood drawn by lewhea, when disgorged or forced from tbetn, had lost Its finnne, and when on th back of a picture on canvas, would pass directly through and reappear on tne print.

Such blood not t. artng. bv capillary attraction, readily iravCTwa the web and the print," and tf rubbed ou freeeiv, nrmuts to ooze through even If wiped off repeat-ediJ- lKeas of ib I1pM Why are the affectlona of the two aide or the heart eisenttally different in their nature Why do those or the left aide of the heart point to an inflammatory origin those of the right aide of tbe heart, but rew exceptions, to a noo inflammatory origin There must be some cause for this diiference. What ts It The reason Is found in tbe difference wblci exists between the constitution of the blood which reaches the left side or the heart from the lungs, and that which reaches the right aide of the he-art fron the geneial aystm. The blood reachlug the left aide or the heart trom the lungs has tn replenlah-ed with all the elements uecesnry for the growth or theilasufa: tt haa been purified, renovated, and tvinedby lta oxygenation in tne tumra.

and It ts thos rendered in the highest degree stimulating to tne left heart. The blood reacbtna the right side or the heart from the general system has been deprived, by the requirements or growth, of the chief portion or the nutrient materials; it has iieen fouled by the tUb of tissue waste It haa been further poisoned ny its impregnation with carnonfc acid gas: tt ia, therefore, a depreasant. rather ihan a healthy excitant, to ihe rignt heart. True, tt brlmrs with It to the cbambt ra of the right heart the products of the digestion of fiMMi but what are they, either as nutrienraor excitants, when they reach that point Tat are no more than inert, unusable, passive elements. Not until they have passed to tbe lungs and have there received the vlvtrylng Influence of oxygen, can thev enter into the re-ai composition of the I i.

and thns become active, exciting, disposable constituents of it, Cine of the WooiIKuIi'm Rrpudlarea From Ifa hptinalieht. Mm Repub lean Mrs. Paulina Wright Davis, of Providence, was given as a chief witness in Mm. W'oodhuU's scandalous BeecherTiiton libel. Bnt ln a note ast received from her in Europe, Mrs.

Davis thus utterly repudiates, tn gross and in detail, the statements concerning her relation to the case, and gives the most damaging direct blow to the whole libel that has yet been rendered "ln relation to the Tilton versus Iteecher affair, I have oniy this to say: 1 was never on any terms of Intimacy with the ramiiiesof either party; I never visited at Mrs. Tilton "a but once in my life, aud that waa ten years ago, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. A year or two ago I called at Mr.

Tdtun's house Tor some nooks which I bad lent to Mr. T. I then saw Mrs. Tiiton ror ten or fifteen minutes I nave met Mrs. Tuton two or three times at the houses ol muiua! at no time has there ever been the ightest approa- to a confidential conversation ietween us, nor have 1 ever insinuated that there had been.

Ii Mrs. T. has ever in my presence spoKe of Mr. it has been terms of respect, as a man ot honor and her pastor. I did believe that Mrs.

Woodnui! was going to do a great worn for woman: 1 am grieved tnat she has failed in what she gave promise of doing." Blhiiinrrk and the Junker Party Name Hine of ihe New Peers. The Brussels correspondent of the London writes: Borne interesting details have come to light here connected with the present crisis iu Prussia. Ills imperial Majesty, although he has completely given in his adherence to Prince Bismarck, could not be persuaded to open the Landtag ln person and deliver the speech. The whole Court party and the Junker party are strongly irritated at Prince Bismarck's attitude throughout the reccut negotiations, and it is a common assertion that his aeuon nas oeen in a nsarkei way ua tne troa Prince's interest. Many declare that there is a latent intention to institute an Upper Cnatnter of the Keiebstag, or National Parliament, and altogether swamp the political entity or tne meta.

Tuts would comnlflMtT ratify 1'russtanism, because it wouid catch aud extinguish the legislatures of the nonmediatlzed states, and completely fuse Bavana, Wurtenburg, into tne i'russo-ierman The Crown Prince in the future would thus be Em peror of Germany, and not werruan Emperor. To achieve that end particularism would have to be annihilated throughout tne enipire. I have heard here the names oi some of the new Peers: amongst them arc lBinaemanu, Bleichroder. Krupp, Borsig. the maker ol locomotives, and several oilier geneimratne, steauy supporters oi uie govern mcnt.

A Well Kept Brattleboro, Vermont, tells a story of a well-kept secret. The story goes that a boy way ha in 1 Si made a kite and attached a paper lantern to It. in which he put. a candle, and arranged it so that when the randle had burned out It would explode some powaer hich waa in the bottom of the 1 intern. He pt the secret entirelv to himself, and waited for a suitable night in which to raise his kite.

The boy got his kite into the sir without being discovered, lor it waa so dark that nothing but the colored lantern waa visible. It went dancing about In the air wildly, attracting much notice, and was looked upon by ignoutut people as some supernatural omen. The evil spirit, as many supposed tt, went bobbiag around for about twenty minutes and then expoided, bioHingthe lantern to pieces. Next morning ail was wonder and excitement, and this lad, who had cart fully taken his Kite in and hidden it after the explosion without being found out, had his own fun out or the matter. Tne people ofBrattleboro never had any explanation of toe mystery uatb nearly sixty years afterward, when the oov.

who had become tjuiteau oid gentleman, published the story in a brftU-ec-ojo news-aper. Judge Thomas Settle has been appointed as Associate Justice or the Supreme Court of his native State or North Carolina, by Governor Caldwell It was this poattlon which Judge Settle resigned to accept the mission to Peru. Ralph Waldo Emerson recently made his appearance among his old friends In nd on. To ail but a very rew intimate trie: .3 he was incognito, but the pleasant little room in Down street where he remained during his brier stay suddenly became a shrine to his friends of earlier days. The nearest thing to an appearance which he made was a Sunday evening visit Ui the Cosmopolitan Club, where he was Intro ducal by Thos.

Hughes, ar was for an hour or wo surrounded by a reverent circle of eminent scholars. He tins iow gone to Egvpt, but promises to return in the spring and pass two moiths with his friends in London. He viu have In thai eiise to see a iroad many people, for no Englishman has more, ir sj many, enthusiastic Mends. Louis Napoleon, w-th his wife and son. Intends to make a visit to this country in the spring, and to travel here the greater pan or the year.

Miss Sarah E. Fuller, one or the best qualified or the lady wood engravers in the country, and the author or a manual upon the subject, has opened a studio in New York ror the reception of pupils, as she believes there Is an unoccupied field ror the labor or women In this business. Mrs. Dust, wire or the bandmaster or a British regiment, recently presented her lord with roar mt'e specs or dust, boys or equal age. Dust to dust." Senator Schurz said or Henry Ward Beecher's address at Mr.

Greeley's runeral: "ir tula is art, then it is that perfect art In which every trace or art Is concealed, aud every thought concerning the speaker nanished by his power to engage all Hearts with Me thought by whloh his own heart is The other day Cornelius Vanderbilt offered to lay a wager or 10,000 that he would be still active aud abundantly able to manage his multirarlous affairs fltteen years from the first of the coming January. This will make htm ninetythree, and there is no perceptible reason why he Bhuuid not then be able to dance a hornpipe before breakfast, A New Jersey paper publishes a letter written by a rriend of Mr. Thomas Nast, the artist, in which he pitches Into "Eli Perkins" ror having invaded the private circle or Mr. Nast's ramily aud then publishing in an exaggerated form all he had u-aroed about the artist's domestic lire. The writer of the ieuer naturally objects to the whole business or "interviewing," and tersely says that Mr.

Nast, though a comic artist, has his reelings, and would preier, nil the whole, that the public should regard him asa ratloual being, with the average amount of common sense and sell-respect, instead of as a bia-tent Idiot and bumptt-us egotist. Without questioning, as he migiit very properly do, the propriety and good taste of this practice of -'Interviewing," the gentlcmau very sensibly objects to the interviewer because lie coi-iLuouly presents himself under raise colois-that of a slight acquilntance, soliciting a pcaBQott favor, an admiring stranger; somebody eahing 0:1 quite other than reportonai business, and distinct oisciniiuiug any intention or -'making an article" out ct his visit. Referring to the great diimond ft an it, Mr. cinr- ell. Kirur received toe following lotudsome compliment rrom Bar.

Horatio or San Francisco, in that gentleman's Thanksgiving sermon: "One scientific man, whose nntarnlshed name ts worth all the diamonds in the world, has founil occasion to prove to the world the value of science aud his own grear moral worth, anil that result aloue compensates Pr all the aaasia ot tins great lraud. This man, lit response to the promptings of duty aud responsibility, as the geologist In charge or the territory where the diamond field was alleged to be loon fed, sought out the scene of the fraud, in the service of seieuce aloue, anil hastened with his erools to those engaged in forwarding the scln me, and put an end untie projected robbery of he people. To have learned that we have one such man i enough to make us iook upon this whole stupendous wrong and its retuiis as a cause of thank-luineBS." A Miss Apple California. lately libs Apple wanii ied to commit sulc bacaaaa she was id to be one of a p. de at Mariposa, neglected fruit.

A liteiary and musical entertainment was given at Baltimore, the other day. for the benefit of Miss ffwllr M. I'oe, sister to Pue. the poet. Geneial ude's character aud services were apparently as well understood in Europe as at home.

One of the most discriminating, intelligent aud appreciative obituaty notices of the many published, is from the Swim meg. printed at Geneva, Switzerland, Novemlier 13th. Tn the opening of the article is this anecdote, connected with the meeting of Gnn. Meade with Le-e, at the time of the Apporuatlox surrender: When they met Lee said. '-Why, Meade, what are you doing with all that gray In your To which'Meade replied, have "had a great deal to do with It" thus referring to the anxiety or the long and severe campaign ironi Gettyaourg to Appomattox.

Guvernor Warmouth, of Louisiana, whose brilliant political xploita are about to come to a B-idden termination, was dishonorably dismissed from the United states army. The order is dated War i)e-paitment, July 25, 1S63. and, "bv direction or the l-re-Bioent," entenant Colonel H. C. Warmouth Is dismissed the service tor "absence wiihout leave and ror circulating fatse report in reference to the aimy wltn which he has been The Washing' Chr ansible for the imoneri A few ne admirer lu-1 there was no as Its leader, -ord "Leader:" loilowing new story of the Ol days before Thad.

Stevens di tlmated that in tne event of one then In the House to take The cynical old man repeated saving: "Ioefl anybody think that I am such a fool as" to think that I have ever been a leader! Mem-tiers that have wanted mean and dangerous work done, and were too decent or cowardly to do it themselves, have approached me, trying to make me believe that I was a leader I have ten rool enough to take the bait many times, asd, on a vote, the cowards have alwsyB to a man abandoned the leader, oh, I've been a great leader." In the life of Colonel Seaton the fol.owlng is told or that "grandiose warrior," Gen.ral Scott: on oae occasion Sex.tt Sad used a faudit-ir quotation from lope, when one of bis aids had the misfortune to ask. "Is that from Shakspeare. Scott turned msjcBtlcally, and transfixing the unfortunate querist by his seveijty of toot and tone, replied, Sir, I am deep humiliated that a inemoer of my persiAi.il staff should be eo ignorant as to confound Pope with Shakspeare. Be good enough to leave the room, sir Gnstave Dore has completed three new works of art which are said to be superb. Though so young aoiI tills wonderful rtltl3 sutrct ot fearful spel a of melancholy.

He is sometimes so de-Bp inieiit and so weary of life that his friends he Ml J. Ce 1. Warren, of the Boston Museum. Mr yesight Is greatly improved since last he is in the enjoyment of better ill wem leave lor his place la I.0111-; be iutctidH to spend ttie winter. Bv it year he expects to go upon the stage 'h at th-i invitation of numerous ilway officials, Mr.

Pullman wi'u sati for May 1 r.un pe Kurope in the Abyssinian, with a view of lutro-g ids rolllug palaces ou the rai. roads of the aaajti org the patients admitted to the Betlevae, New Hospital a fe days ago was a whee name has previously Dg ired in print in lime connection) wboae brain has been turned for the rair Lydla. He is aa mad on this ct us wss the unfortnoate Dutchman, who tor at months annoyed NUsson with insane freaks, rho finally brought up on Blackwetl's Island. The KevrniifH of Ibe I ttu Universities ot Lying Idle. The London correspondent of the Cincinnati Cmini-reial furnish- that paper with the fooowing interesting piece or inrormatloo: "It will be remembered that, some time ago, Mr.

Gladstone's government, very much to the disgust of tho comp ilable proresaors, appointed a comti.iss examine into the amount of the revenues great universities, and what was being doni those revenues. It was feared by and with the public that the commlasion would hardly dare to make their investigation thorough. However, I am able, rrom authentic private Information, to state that the commission Is goiug to the very bottom of things, and they have already reached results which will make the country not only amazed but indignant, it will be shown that some ml lions of pounds have been accumulated from these old endow menta, and that they are doing nothing whatever for the enlightenment of tola mentally famished population. The old university funds amount to mountains of guano standing la the center of a bsrreu field. Some intimations of the coming revelation, as yet only whispered, nve led to a private meeting of the most eminent scholars and men of science, who have agreed to make an urgent demand that a substantia! porti of this unused money shall be devoted to the aid of mature scholars and men engaged in spei lai researches.

They maintain that it should be all us and some of it should go to teach oar tea bejs. There are many instances of the complete cessation of researches through lack of means; and the demand which will be made for an appropriation to prevent this will be backed by the eminent men in England. That the friends or remale education have arranged to press a similar demand is wed known. The prospect, therefore, is that lilts country will som Bad liaeif in jsseanloa of a surplus educational fand from the unused aadowoMata -if oxford, Cambridge, and those schools where the big boys hold the little ones la a slavery that would grieve the heart of Zanzibar, wnlch will be sufficient, If wisely distributed, to put a good education within reach or every human being in England. IMlMernJ Klche of VI laai The Mi-souri rn.

crat says, speaking or Its own Slate: The discoveries which have been made, even during the post mouth, are of the most astounding character, and any one of the twelve or thirteen of them. If located In one of the Eastern or Middle States, would set the community in a JwKXaaoM commotion. The detection of rich deposits of lead are announced from Greene, Washington, Cole snd Jasper counties As a lair example or the abundance or the mineral, It may be stated that whuo some boys were playing a tortnight ago under the bluffs or the Pontine de Terre liver, at Hermitage, they accidentally discovered seme mineral protruding from the earth, and going to work with their pocket knives, soon unearthed sixteen pounds of pure lead ore. The next day two men with pick and spade took out 140 pounds of pure galena. The records or discoveries In Jasper county read like the most marvelous stories from tne Arabian Tales.

A local paper announces and other inform itlon corroborates the report that at Black Range, lie ir Jopllm where Lorenzo Dow Cox, a colored man, first discovered lead in 1S52 two colored men the other day suuk a shaft and fonnd a solid block of mineral covering the whole size or the shaft. They have blasted aoout two feet into It, and find It solid as far as tney have gone. Thev have taken out about 5,000 pounds, and from present appearances there will be no end to it. The Ideal Kuifroad Passenser. From the Bildgeport (Conn Standard.

December 3 Fourteen years ago a regularly-checked trunk arrived by one of the trains at the Bridgeport depot, and. no one calling for ft, It wss placed in the baggage room. No person called to claim the trunk for eleven years. At the expiration of that time, a gentler, an appeared at the baggage room and Inquired of the baggage master If he had in his possession a trunk that came to Bridgeport by rail some eleven years ago. Upon being answered in the affirmative, he presented a duplicate check, and inquned how much he would have to pay for storage.

The baggage master examined the check, found it was all tight, and told the stranger tne storage ould be about two dollars for the eleven years. The gentleman said the price was satisfactory, and lie would call the next day, pay up the cost of storage, and take the trunk away. He then left. Three more years have now passed, but the gentleman has not returned for the trunk, and It still awaits an owner at the baj-'gage storerooms of the New York, New Haven anil Hartford Railroad lu this city. Compound Eyes.

It is common to see persons with spectacles on the upper hair being for distant vision and the lower haif, in the same how, for a abort vlsua axis, as in reading a book. Having lunets con strueted in that manner saves the trouble of carry-lug the pocket giassesa or different focus po-vers. Siow that plan of giving a very humble creature a flh too the advantage or microscopic and telegraphic vision In the same eye 13 round in the aua-bieps, a flsh round in Surinam. The cornea presents a sharp angle lu front, like the edge or a mree square file, lastead of being a gentle segment of a circle as in all other orgaus. While rooting in mud at low tide in pursuit of rood, a vigilant outlook wi-fi the upper half of the eye warus them 01 any annoyance beyoud or apprehended danger, white with the under hair they are guided lu tiieir researches for something to eat.

If the mind or theanableps can be occupied by two iu-aluot functions at the same instant, which 1 indebted by watching lu two directions with totally different Banoaea then physiogisis nave a problem ror soiu-ttOB that would puzzie a Philadelphia lawyer. t- prcventert frn vast amounts of i anm, i uese are tae present foreman of the paper, Thomas Hooker, ann the publisher. Banket was at the time referred to a or printer just arrived from Albany, where he had learned the trade. A rumor lias beta current for some time that Mr. A.

T. Mewart has purchased the ground lately occupied hj the New Haven Railroad Company, for the purpose of erecting thereon some tmildmg for the accommodation of young men, similar to that which he has just built for the working women. BostoQ papers say that every day brings to light new cases of suffering arising from the are. Many who have been too promt to take or request assist-RLce nntli literally driven to do so by hunger, now make their appearance at the charity bureau and police stations for relief. A decision has recently been made by the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, that an assignment of wages not jet due is invalid, however good the con.

sKierauoD of the Instrument may lie. and even although it had been accepted by the employees of the assignor In writing. This decision is of considerable importance, inasmuch as tradesmen have long been In the habit of such assignments of wages as security for goods furnished. A large insurance company in Now York is reported to have obtained ludubitable evidence that a prominent merchant tired his establishment during the war, and obtained thereby some $zr. of the nnderwiiters.

Finding that he could be convicted, he recently paid over the whole sum; and so the matter was settled to the satisfaction of all parties. The Journal or the Episcopal Convention of Pennsylvania for 1S72 reports communicants, chnrches, OJM sittings 15 chapels, with sittings; 113 parishes, 176 resident clergy, 2,503 Sunday school ttaea rs, 52,779 scholars, 7i pansn school teachers, and 1,494 scholars. An event of some Importance to sc ientidc explorers, to thL- appointment of Mr. B. S.

Lyman, an eminent mining eugineer of Philadelphia, by the Japanese government, to make a three years' survey of the is laid of Jesso. abounding miaeral wealth, where very few men of science have ever landed, and those few for no great length of time. He wil1 have Japanese assistants, whom he will train to the work of surveying, but no Americaa or Karopean assistants. The Superintendent of the Syracuse and Ping hsmton Railroad hns been compelled to resign in consequence of the popular indignation against h.s mismanagement of the road, which resulted In the recent fatal catastrophe. At a number of the second rate theaters and variety entertainments In New Vorfc, MM Parisian plan of admitting fret- all ladies accompanied by gentlemen has been adopted, with a marked increase in the regular attendance.

fit. Louis has a "salt corner," caused by low water and running Ice in the river. thousand bushels are grounded on a down the river and cannot be maue available. We thought we had exhausted the available means 01 social revenge, but the London Kra tells us of a new pian. It consists in writing a biography of yoor enemy.

The funniest thing about this is that the Jii a should call tt neir. Even Job was np to the possibilities or this thing. A device has been invented for giving to a photo. Braphic lmsge Buch as a head or other fltrnre the spptarar.ee of being separated from any back ground, isolated from neighboring objects and entirely Burrounrted by the atmosphere. The effect is obtained by surrounding the photograph with a mirror, to that the apparent depth of the space arouud the image appears almost unlimited.

The orthodox world has ast been shocked by the announcement that a child In Loudon was lately baptized without water. But why should we be scandalized at seeing a chi'd begin life without water when we complacently regard so many of them around us going through life without bread? There should be no more sneers at Mexico as a barbarous country. The Mayor and severat Aldermen of the City of Mexico, having been charged with only an attempt to commit fraud at the recent municipal election, were promptly suspended from theextrclse of their functioas by order of the tiov-ernor Mr. E. L.

(iodkin, editor of the n. purposes to establish a daily newspaper In New York with a capital of tioo.ooo, or which $30,000 was said to be I raised two weeks ago. Recent heavy rains in England caused a large por- I tlon of the chalk forming Shakespeare's iff, at Dover, to fall away. The clirt overhangs the sea, presenting an almost perpendicular wall several hundred feet height, the top being covered, to within a few feet of the edge, with wtieat fields. The pauperism of England and Wales represents a proportion of 42.6 per one thousand, while the pau perism or the United states amounts to but 1.9 per one thousand.

The State of New York leads the I'klon In the volume of its pauperism, but even New York supports through its system of poor relief but six tn one thousand or Its population, while the city of London maintains about forty paupers In every thousand inhabitants. The Berlin postoirlce is about to introduce an 1m provement npon the original postal card system. A card Is to be provided, on which a message may be sent aid a re; ly returned st once. The original seeder, by raying the tnflitig postage botti wavs, may thus secure au answer at once, the person addressed only having to write a lice or so on the card when he rece'ves it, and return it to the postman. Thla is a great convenience worth considering in the Issue cf postal cards in this country.

a Cinrfnuatian has nresented to the WIsMsilssI Society Ue manuscript copj of JeUeraon Davtaris veto of the joint resolution adopted by the Confederate CODgiess exempting newspaper men rrom active ml Itary duty. The Ktuiuirer says "It was this Ill-timed and act upon the part of President lfavls which caused the ultimate downfall and ruin of the Confederacy." Somebody or other down in Kentucky pretends to have found some live pigs in a nohow tree without apparent opening for them to get in. of course we do not doobt the truth of his story. If toads can crawl into the center of a boulder and patiently nail till they are hammered out, why should not pigs get into trees; The famous forest of Eontlnbieau is to be desecrated fcr the benefit of the German indemnity fund-An order has been issued to cut down and sen oaks, one hundred and forty to three hundred years old 4.22s beeches of ninety to two hundred years, and 1,720 hectares of coppice. Protests from artists have poarf dupon the Administration des Forets.

but to no avail. A wooden pnenmatic tube is being laid from the Congressional printing office, in Washington, to the CapltoL The Senators and Representatives will take turns In supplying the blowing power. A curious case of hydrocephalus exists In Lancaster, Massachusetts, tn a colored girl eighteen months old. Its head measures thirty Inches around the frontal lobe and "base or the brain, being seven inches larger than the very largest adult beads From ear to ear, over the top or the head. It measures twenty Inches, and its weight has been esti-nared at twenty pounds.

The child's body has been decreasing In size for some time, and Is uow so much emaciated that It is doubtful if it will outweigh the head. The people of West Virginia complain that then-capital, Charlestown, cannot be reached or heard trom once in six months. It takes lour full days to reacn it rrom Wheeling, traveling by the most direct and speedy route. The chier engineer or the Erie Railroad estimates that the contemplated reduction of the grade to the standard gauge and the new rolling stock that must be obtalred, will cost $21, 000,000. But the expenses of operating will be reduced twenty per cent.

He proposes to lay a third rail tor any new engines aud i-ars that may be constructed, desiring the old rails to wear oat the present rolling stock. Iron, oP and salt water have been discovered on the lands of the Wooster Mining Association, near Wocster, In Ohio. People excited. John Knox and Queen Mary or SV-otland are now gooa friends. The former has made his appearance berore a circle of pltltuillsts (so we are assured by one or their organs), and he cwn for Uxe purpose or making a public apology and recantation.

Speaking rorcibly, bat with the tone and expression or a man under acute mental suffering, he stgnailzed his first return to the material place" sluce his departure from it by acknowledging that his lire had been a mistake. The aspirant for the title of "meanest man," this time, is a Boston merchant. He invited a neighbor whose goods were in peril at the late Ore, to store them in tils establishment. The offer was accepted, and now the good Samaritan presents his neighbor a bill of one hundred dollars for Btorage. One of the largest and oldest life insurance companies of New York proposes to reduce its rates about twenty per cent, on the alleged ground that the business for some years past has been so profit able as to justify such reduct on.

The indlcailonB are that the social gaieties in Washington will commence this winter much earlier than lias usually been the practice. Heretofore the custom has ten not to Inaugurate the social season until after toe President's New Year's reception. Misfortune has happened to some of the Japanese silk worm egg merchants. No less than twenty seven of them have been arrested In Yeddo, and are now In prison, for fraudulently selling spurious cards. It is said that more than 300,000 of the cards have been sold In the market, the necessary government stamps having been obtained through the connivance of two corrupt officials.

A Panama paper gives a striking illustration of the vigor and rapidity or vegetation In the tropics, by reiernng to the bushes and trees growing In the ruiDs or the burned Aspiuwall Hotel at Panama. It is scarcely mote than two years since this conflagration took p'aee, and yet there are now growing within the walls trees at least thirty reet in height. They belong to what are called trumpet trees (gwMaf Cecro via', and the branches are said to tie crowding ont of the highest doors and windows, so as to render It probable that in their rurther growth they will throw down tne wails with which they are Interlaced. Br. Simmons, an American, has been Intrusted by the native omeiaia or Yokohama with the establishment and organization or a hospital ror the accommodation 01 sick natives.

Dr. Simmons is doing good work among the Japs, and anvtuing that he lakes hold off win he successrul. The government has under consideration the establishment of numerous hospitals and medical schools, and there 13 no reason why these should, not be controlle 1 by American M. An interesting case, involving tlje responsibilities of transjwttation companies, was decided at Nor wich. last week, in the suit brought by William L.

Brown to recover $500 froiu Thomas I'itt, for property destroyed by a gang of roughs landed by him on Mystic Island in March. U3T9, to witness the Edwards and Collyer fight. The court decided that aa he had reasonable ground for apprehending that the landmg of these men on the island would leBint in the destruction of property, he was therefore liable for 450 damages. The Orst cast-iron facade in the United States or the world was erected at the corner of Duane and Centre streets. New York, In lsl.

Within the last ten years cast-iron fr- nta have sprung up In that city with increasing rapidity, and now they are so numerous that, it arranged in one line, they would reach as far as from the City Halt to Union square, a distance or aiout two miles. Philadelphia contains, we are told, about one-third aa many as New York. No iron rrotit has ever been destroyed Lj Ore except at Chicago. who, re tBe 'jtieutly, on th of bribery. i nns South which riaources ronMilerable tJiotigh In" has never be Tur.

statement which we print on our first pnge concerning the reign of terror existing in certain parts of Kentucky, and the culpable non-action of the State legislature with regan' thereto, shows a condition of things as disgraceful as it is deplorable. It is to be hoped that the opposition papers of that Commonwealth, including, particularly, the journal from which the account is reproduced, will, in the light of this revelation, cease their captious assaults on the administration, and address themselves to the discharge of the pressing duties which lie close at their own doors. The colored people of Georgia are organizing a State I'migration Society, for the purpose of aidinp members of their race in emigrating to the West. The movement is significant as showing the gloomy and unpromising condition of atlairs in that State. The necessity for this step is deeply to be deplored.

Some of the Southern States are already beginning to ignore their unnatural party lines and to rise-to the level of thsir new opiortunity. Only let (itorgia turn her back on the dead past, and prove the sincerity of her professed desire for reconciliation, and not only will this important element of her labor not expatriate itself, but thousands of stout arms and hearts from other jarts of the country and of the world will pour into her waste places and convert them into granaries of prosperity and wealth. As it i-, tdie is simply injuring her own best interests. TIIF, tTHERM BUSY. Though, according to an impression widely prevalent in the Vnited States just now.

the Jesuits in Kurop.e arc nadera heavy cloud, it is perhaps true that is at present playing nearly as important a part as ever in Kuropian jiolities. In Germany the struggle which the government is maintaining with the Catholic Church is a content with the Jesuits. It was their influence, under the direction of their General, Father lirax, called in Rome f'ii -r, or the Black Pope, which inaugurated and carried out the policy against which the imperial government has set itself as being incompatible with its own dignity and authority. And, whatever American Protestants may hope or fancy to the contrary, the conflict is not between parties utterly unequal in power and resources. The struggle is after all a moral one.

to be decided not with material tut with spiritual weapons. While the machinery of law and administrative justice may be, and is on one side put into operation, the combatants both make their appeal to the people, and the question will be finally decided as they, the arbitrators in the case, shall determine. While tho present Emperor lives and Prince Bismarck continues, as Chancellor, to manage atlairs, one may reasonably feel pretty sure that they will repel, as heretofore, the ex- orbitant pretensions of the Bishops, and uphold the absolute supremacy of the civil power. But in the meantime, their policy is anil will remain a subject of intensely earnest controversy among a considerable portion of the people, who are really more concerned than their rulers in the ultimate issue of the contest. Now of the Catholic portion of the German people, it is certain that a large majority sympathize fully with the Bishops, and, still faithful to the Pope as the head of the Church and the centre of Catholic unity, they with more or less heartiness refuse to question or doubt about his entire right to their spiritual allegiance in all points pertaining to their ecclesiastical relations.

Respecting the Jesuits for their zeal and courage in the service of the Church, they respect them more as objects of alleged prosecution on the part of its enemies, and hence the Jesuits may be said already to exert the influence of victors upon the hearts of their devout disciples. Then while among the educated Protestant subjects of the empire a respectable numher, on the grounds of Liberalism, disapprove Lui rerial policy towards the Church, a greater number regard the dispute as a mere outgrowth of superstition. Though they may. and no doubt do sanction the policy of resistance to dangerous ecclesiastical arrogance, they regard the question as one of merely temporary significance, and look to the progress of culture among the leople as destined before long to divest it of whatever hmwirtance it may possess. The prevalence of these views is frankly recognized by the Jesuits as It-ssening the number and the force of their earnest opponents, and is one reason which warrants them to anticipate a victory at last over their political and religious enemies in the empire.

About the zeal, energy and cunning with which they are toiling for success there can be no doubt. And it is one of thebest grounded boasts of the order, that they have alwav known how to convert even defeat and seeming ruin into victory and splendid prosperity. There have been few better illustrations of this Jesuit claim than is presented by their losition in Belgium at the present time. In the establishment of religions freedom a few years ago in that country, Protestants foresaw, as Ihey thought, the almost certain downfall of the Papa! Church there, and not only Belgian but French and English Liberals felt assured that Jesuitism at least had received a fatal blow in the separation of the Church from the State. Repeating the somewhat venerable saying that error is never daneerous when the truth is left free to combat it, they anticipated the most delightful results for religious as well as political liberty from the free conflict of modern ideas with the traditions of Rome.

Vnbappily for the realization of these pleasing hopes, the Liberals failed to take due account either of sacerdotal zeal and ingenuity, or of the circumstance that the Belgians had been Catholics for many centuries. As a matter of fact, Belgium, with its free church in a state essentially free, became the very stronghold of Jesuitism, and it is fast becoming the stronghold of V'Urumontanism in the exaggerated form which it has recently received under Jesuit leadership. A clerical ministry is now in power in the kingdom, and by the late elections the clerical majority in the Chamber of Deputies has been enlarged and as he Jesuits seem to be completely masters of the -ituation, the prospect is that they will be able permanently to retain Belgium as the center of the various important operations which they have on hand in neighboring countries. The noteworthy tact in connection with their Belgian ascendancy is that they are enjoying only what they have schemed and labored for. Every pulpit in the country has been converted into what we call a "stump" for the deliv-erv of political speeches.

Not only political clubs, pamphlets, newspapers and other ordinary agencies for moulding public opinion were employed by them, but the good Fathers kindly concerned themselves in the amusements of the people, and provided them with -clubs for singing, playing at bowls, skittles, archery," not forgetting "to bait for members with cheap beer and tobacco." And as the Belgian mechanics had been greatly fascinated with socialism in different forms, the Fathers, becoming all things to all men, took care to humor their fancies in that direction, and have lately established conventual workshops. The cafes, restaurants and taverns art also closely watched and used in maintaining their influence. We need hardly add that schools are an important agency in their hands. But in order to understand the grounds of their -rncceaa, one must know that while tbey have Wn thus busy, their opponents, the Liberals, have heen comparatively idle. In Italy, also the Fathers, from the latest accounts, appear to be really gaining ground in fighting the battle of the Church against the government.

Forsome reason, probably their devotion to what they profess to pursue, they have more influence than other sacerdotal orders with the people, and in consequence there is said to be a decided reaction in their favor against the severe mea-ures adopted or threatened by the government for the restriction of their labors in education. Then in France there is a decided tendency to take the side of the Jesuits in oppositiowto their antagonists not only in Germany, but in Italy. Kven Laboi lave has lately published a letter for circulation in the latter country, in which he protests against the tyranny of prohibiting them from teaching, and advocates the right of priests to enjoy the same liberty aslajmen. That the Fathers are busy in French politics there can be no doubt, and Uinir efforts are as little likely to be wholly abortive there as among any other Catholic seriii-Cathohc population unprovided with really g'xxl schools. In the genuine hbttaUnu of the age they find a suo-port which they enlight- Eleven Servant Girls Per Nicw YmrK, DecMTiber IT.

Te flrs at tHe rjfrn 'noe Hotel lim night broke out short' Alter en o'clock, on Rte second fHor the botch 1 he n-Mf. upon which fire started, wm uu at the hack of tbe house, leader from tfc-; -in-dry ln the bwnjpnt to the servants irjoma oa Ute attic floor. The tt-mwn irt! nn ttr r- It was aa a chimney mere nAnlnrkirj hot at the top and bottom. Vi and charred its space Into which the room ot 3P Uie wtmotsam rbUqr te rpeo when It burst into its fullest sitreth L. In tfcelr passage did Utile or no reac ed th com dor at tho top, yJ1 driving them through the narrow pass rsr? the names quicker and making them more Iy tive.

As tney went on they spread over th- extent of tne wear wing. The wood work or tn roon where the servant slept knu.diatlv caught the flames and soob the entire wing waa a land mass. The flames spread so rapid it that tneaer-vsnls, asleep ia the rooms at the top of ta stairway, were overtaken before aftststaoce could rech thea. and completely shut utf from toe main handing. The Bremen, wo had the meantime arrived, were too late for aa-ustanret as uy thts time the apartments oi tire poor creatures were enveloped witn tire.

BJHT PERIW IN THK FI 4X2.4, Shortly after one o'clock, wen It .1 tat a nnrcber of persons ivere mlfisrng, the police officers and a Chief of the Fire Department effected an entrance by neans of aa iron ladder, to tbe room where the people were supposed 3o be. Tfty mere found the cfwrred burned bodies of thirteen Bedding and frnitnre were strewn about the -rxjrns, confused wtii remains. Toe hoo.ps 1 nt arent pjaces, from which the poor 10 Hud means of egress. Some had dea ored to others, in their otwVeJi, ape through the windows, and jors ro flnd air; pad fallen at the head of the sam-aa, where the had i otner fiom ihe blindrng, suffocatti, eJ2' rjnaeirca scattering flame. When the niSJf a police got Id to the wlag the this room were fouad to be aoood, but the ror beis were bnrned arwl had fallen upon the floors in a confused massed upon the bodies.

The water thrown from tne boss- waa several inches deep on the ttoors and was filtering through to the ground. The heavy beams of the roof bad frt'len upon the hurned bodies, severing the limbs and mutilating the regains horriWy. The oodles were speedily removed to Bfllevue. from whence -day they will be sent to ttie Mtreue. Owing to the confusion and excite-meat the names of the victims could not (op to twenty minutes past two o'clock thts mornin; oe ascertained.

Twtnty-two dead bodies have been recovered, sixteen in one room and six tn another, wblca ts probably alL PRLAT IX GIVIKG THE AI.AKV. Th alarm was first given by one of the female servants, wbo shrieked "Are" ugh thehaliway awakening the gueets, of whom there were about Ave hundred In the hotel. Many of tbe guests went to the office and Inquired as to the excitement, bat were Informed by the clerks that it was only a Ilrtle Ore ln the laundry. This ntiemnt to keep tbe tire quiet so as to avoid a panic helped to onua aoout a terrible rsuX hen the guests became cgnvaaal of their dsnper scenes of confusion ensued, people moving sbcut in apparent distraction. Baggage filled tbe hallways, tbe smoke was sutfbcatmg, and water drenched th floors-It was nearly tweive o'clock before any one gave the alarm, and passing policemen, tbey learning ol the Are inside, caused the Are engines to come to tbe spot.

The Ore by this time had made considerable headway, and the ladlea were In a wild state of excitement. A poor servant girl was found on the third floor writhing ln agonies of pain, her body frightfully burned. The shrieks of the servants ra the nnper stories were heartrending as tbe firemen were making their way to rescue them. Large crowds had, ln the meantime, gathered in the streets, and the excitement outside was kept up till about two o'clock, wben the Are was about extinguished. Jnst before the alarm a guest was assigned a room, which, on belnc reached, be discovered to be on fire.

Returning to tbe clerk, he was informed was no other room vacant. The fire waa not known at this time In tbe office. Among tbe most prominent guests were General Barn side, Genera Horace Porter and Mr. G. M.

Pullman, of Chicago. Several of the ladv guests were accommodated neighboring natels and houses. Miss Netlsoo. the actress, was a lady guest. Tbe tmtidmg waa so slightly eonstmrted that water went throogb the floors as though It were a sieve.

The losses are estimated at from one hundred and thirty to one hundred and srry thousand dollars. Tbe hoiel furniture was worth about four hundred thousand dollars, fully one-fourth of which ta utterly ruined. The bouse la owned by a. Reno, oat leased to Darling, urlswold eo. at tub y.

Large crowds of rich and poor gathered at tbe Morgue Mi morning to ascertain tbe names of the persons taken there from tbe Filth avenue fire Eleven bodies are already at the Morgue, only two of which so far are recognizance. Use others being burned aim. to a crisp. ONLT KKETKK PERSONS BraXBT. There is great confusion tbe Fifth Avenue Hotel to -day.

One of tbe proprietors denies that there was any delay in giving the arm. The waUs of tbe laundry are completely borned- Ictcies bang from tbe ceiling. Tne damage cannot be ascertained. Ac oums of tbe number burned are conflicting. It la learned at tbe hotel tbat oniy eieren persons were burned these were all female servants.

THE OliTflEGIONS. Aixangement Between tho Jgztx-dueers and Refiners To Believe the "Dead Lock." Special rifpnteh to tbe ommerrl-il. Oil City, December IL 1371. At ten a. m.

tbe Producers Conned again met, thirty-four members being present. A resolution was passed '-that in consummating any arrangement ith the Refiners Association tbe Committee of the Producers' Council are hereby directed to request as a positive condition from the Reanera' Aa-sociatiop, tbat so much of contract dated March 5, 1S72, between the various truni line of railroads and a joint committee of producers and refiners, as is now contained in tne erst and thirtieth sections, and which definitely settles tbe question ot rebates, drawbacks and discriminations, either in rates of freights or distribution of cars, shall be and rema tn lull force." MessTa. Parker, rand In, Cu'ver. Brown. Bronsoa and farcpbeil a ere appointed aa an Executive Committee to carry out the provisions of tae agreement with the refiners.

1 be producers propose to allow I producers to betome members of the Producers' Aaaoeia-ilon, the refiners to do the same for all refiners. The present arrangements are to hold good for sixty days and as long thereafter aa they choose, either Association being allowed to withdraw upon ten days notice: reSners to take barrels daily for sixty daya Following are some ot the articles of tbe plan: The Petroleum Producers' Agency to sell crude on exclusively to tbe Reflaers' Association, and tbe Refiners' Association to buy crude ot; exciuaivosy of the rroaQera' s--' The refiners to bu uie Agency, daily, for the next a.ys, fifteen thousand barrels of oil rrty-two gallons each, or such quantity as the markets of the world mav require, to be determined from time to time by a joint committee of reanera and producers, to be appointed by the Refiners' and Producers' Association respective? y. Tbe price of nil so purchased to be five dollars per barrel at common points," psjmenta to be made as follows: Four dollars ln cash, to be paid unconditionally opfi the deiiverv of tbe oil: and the 'remainder to be paid conditionally, as fol ows: Wheu refined oil tn New York la twenty-six cents or less per galjon no additional amount to be paid, and for every one cent ner gallon of advance in the average price ot refined oil twenty-five cents per barrel shall be added to the price of crude, until tbe price reaches thirty cents for refined oil and five dollars per narre! for crude: and a proportionate addition to the price of crude shall be ma- it- for each fraction of one cent per gallon increase in (38 price of refined olU The price of refined oil in New Vork aud of erode ar com-mon points' to be adjusted by the coruaiirtee herein provided to be appointed. Ibe Refiners Association may discontinue this arrangement at any time by giving to the President of lroducers" Agency ten davs' notice tn writing of their wish to do so: and tbe Producers' Association may discontinue at any time after tne expiration of sixty days by giving tea day 's nou e. After sixty days tne express amount of oil to be taken by the refiners, to be determined bp the joint committee.

1 have only given a portion of tbe several items of agreement, which it is presumed will undoubtedly be carried out, as something has got to be done to relieve both refiners and producers. Thla wiM afford temporary if not permanent relief to both, and it is to le hoped a permanent basis wiil be reached aatlsfac-torv to both associations The present "dead lock" has been very disastrous to the interests of tne oil re-Trie oemmittee appointed by the producers wll! proceed to New Vork to meet refiners in a few dar- MB. GREELEY'S WILLS. The Last Made Presented for Probate Executors Under the First WiU Contest, New Yobs, December 10. At White Plains terday, the daughters of the late Horace Qn with a few friends, accompanied by counsel appea before the Surrogate to offer for probate the wi of their father.

Thla will was executed Novembe 29. 1S72. It had been written by Mr. Greeley son? time ago. but was only presented to bUn for exec tion a few hours before his death.

It gave all property equally to his two daughters. This insti mem nao teeii piaceu away aniang nis pnrate per a by Sir. Greeley, and waa only taken from amo them at the tint of his last attack, and at the fi lucid interval thereafter waa offered to for kiiowledgment. At the same time counsel apa- before the Surrogate to contest this wtll, and oiT ing its stead one dated January. IS7L The tcstants are Samuel Sinclair, Richard 11.

Mail ning and riiiirlea Storrs, the two latter beiir named as executors. The counsel for contestant then said that be hoped the proponents of the wil' wouid acquiesce ln the will of IpTL, He thought the will executed by Mr. Greeley before his deatn did grest injustice, inasmuch as It gave all tbe property to Miss Ida, with the qualification tbat one-half of it was to be used by her, at ber own discretion, for the support and education of her sister, GaorieUe, and that Mime of tbe relatives would be deprived of property Intended ror them. The counsel for the daughters thought these remarks uncalled for, and snnounced that Miss Ida bad offered to assign to her sister one-half of the property, and also to grant suitable annuities to the relatives. The Misses Greeley then declined to consider any proposals for a compromise, and regular proceedings for contest will be Issued, ou the around or tne incapacity of the testator to execute the will of 19.

Tbe first witness was Miss Sampson, wbo testified that she became a witness to tbe will on the day Mr. Greeley died. Mr. Greeley was then, a few hours before his death, ooasninna aasl rational. After some further examination of sgj witness, an sdjournment followed.

The gives the property to his daughters, out in Jt gives twqucsts to his relatives and a f1'? inj the value cf one share of the Tribute, miu" reu Aid Society of New fofffc rt Ho: en laaar- Rrnmrbnblf Mie l. a prominent business man in following statement before a Massachusetts Legislature a few Mr. Nathan Boston, saa coniuiirtee Of fays ago I anl state, without fear of contradiction, that a single company Iloslon has earned six per em-pro nt per annum on the average from its lasataaoa business alone since ita orgtuizatiou, but many of these companies invested tueir capital years ago in railrcad aud bauk stocks, real estate and government bonds, which have advanced greativ on the cost, and from tne irgtf dtvideuoa have arten, as It is only paid on the amount of the original If many of these compan sea bai Closed their offices ten years ago aud sav ed the expenses, they could hav Si? fiom their inv stmeuia. fourths of ail Ilea compan -f ggW ized in ihts tate th' last fifty years baying "JSR capital. Mr.

rroweU Ked thai lo cl and town were required insuro the propert, within itatmu previa'1, no 1 aed for tae orasntaanon ot imutui e. com pau town a exacted to maure the incrvaaut mrU4 of Massachusetts- Committee intend to make the investigation as sptedy and complete as possible, and to prosecute it to an early report. Considerable comment and criticism is already elicited 03' the decision of the Committee to make the inTesriation secret, a precaution which the French arms. New York Custom House, Robeson and other numerous investi-tions Inst year showed was entirely useless ami 'inntt'CiSsary- Some of those charged with beii.j; are Tery anxious to have the df-ont open. Tbe Im, -minliiicirsMp.

Secretary Delano -imparts for Coba to-morrow, and Commissioner Walker probable retirement before his return next month has stimulated the contest for the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Oeneiti Cowan, Assistant Secretary of tile Interior, is thfc prominent though somewhat an willing eamr. date for the position, the salary being ls; by five hundred dollars annually than that of the office lie now holds. It is understood lo be the wish of both Secretary Delano and President Grant that Cowan accept the charge of Indian Atlairs, and these considerations may prevail. Among the other candidates are Judge Aldis.

of the Claims Commission, and N. J. Turney of Cireleville-, Ohio, member of the Indian 1'eaceCommission. The ap(ointnient, whenever determined, will be submitted to the Indian Teace-Com mission for consideration and approval. of Colorado.

The House Committee on Territories will tomorrow take up the proposition to admit Colorado as a State, or that failing, to enlarge the Territory hy the consolidation with it of the most populous and important part of Wyoming. Tbe project contemplates ultimately the distribution of the latter Territory among its neighbors and the end of distinct territorial organization. The Chairman of the Committee 011 Territories is warmly in favor or the- plan, and proW.ly it has much better prospect of success than that for the admission of Colorado to the Union. Il is urged in its support that the present actual population of Wj'oming is not over ten thousand, al' of which is along the extreme southern border and line of the Pacific Kailroad. Tbe Nontk Carolina Senator, ratterson, the newly elected and imprisoned Senator from South Carolina, is a I'ennsylva-nian, and a few years since was editor of the Harrisburg Jrlegrnph.

Subsequently he was defeated for Congress in the Juniata district and afterward entered South Carolina politics, though he has never been prominent un il the recent Senatorial contest. A member of the South Carolina delegation in the House said yesterday that he expected I'atterson would be elected, since he had It is believed by well informed observers here that the whole proceeding thus far is part of a deliberate arrangement among corrupt colored representatives to obtain Patterson's rewards and subsequently elect Elliott, now Representative, as Senator. Tbe Homestead Bill IVnusj hmata Politics. There was a lively time and loud and boisterous charges ol lying in the lloviae to-day during the debate on the Soldiers' Homestead bill. Mr.

Townsend, of Pennsylvania, said the soldiers did not want it passed, and read a protest against it signed by Governor Hartranft aud others in the Grand Army some months since. Mr. Speer said that for stating during the canvass that Hartranft had signed such a paper a Republican newspaper in his district had charged him fourteen times with lying. He went on to charge tbat the members of the Grand Army were all scheming politicians. Mr.

Townsend retorted that it was because all soldiers were Republicans and all Democrats rebels. At this Mr. Morgan, of Ohio, Mr. Manson, of la" diana, and other Democratic soldiers, advanced down the aisles shouting, "You lie," "you lie." Sam. liandall pushed himself through the crowd and asked Mr.

Townsend where he was during the war. Mr. Townsend replied, in very subdued voice, ir is at horn at which the Democrats all shouted. After a little Mr. Townsend recovered and inquired of Mr.

Randall where he was, and at the reply of the latter that he was a private soldier, both sides laughed heartily, and order and good feeling wt ie restored. II rpreseolntion at thr Vienna Kxpositton. General Thomas Van ffuiwi, of New York, s-ecretary Robeson and Giayton McMichael, of Philadelphia, appeared before the jreign Affairs Committees of both Houses this morn- liig. in reference to American representation in the Vienna Exposition next May. An appro priation of $300,000 is asked, which the Senate Committee has decided to recommend.

Secretary Robeson stated that two sailing vessels of the navy guard and supply were available for transportation of goods to Vienna, and that no additional appropriation beyond that of the regular naval bill would be necessary to defray" expenses. It is understood that part of the appropriation asked for will be expended in the salaries of Commissioners, though the law under which tbey were appointed expressly proviCes they are to serve without compensation. KeslgnalloD of Mamba Parsons. Representative elect Parsons resigned position as Marshal of the Court today. His suoeei will be elected by the Judges 011 Saturday.

There are over twenty applicants for the office. Changes In the Fevrnue Consolidation Bill. The only important change by the Senate Finance Committee in the revenue consolidation bill is the increase of special treasury agents from twenty-five to fifty, a provision which will probably send the bill to a conference committee and delay its passage several days. The Indian Appropriation. The Indian appropriation bill which passed tbe House this afternoon is the first of the regular series.

It covers about one million dollars less than a similar bill last year. Colfax and the Tribune' Kdttorsfaip. Tlirre are various reports in circulation tonight in regard to Mr. Colfax and the Ti ibutir, some fixing the figures of his acceptance of the offer to take Mr. Greeley's place, and declaring that he will resign before January to enter the new field.

Xo change whatever has taken place in the situation. The place has been offered, but no decision has yet been reached by Mr. Colfax. His friends feel confident that he will accept the offer, and say it has been made in a very liberal form. Kansas ena.tornhip.

Senator Harlan has the following in the Chrwtieh: this morning in regard to Senator Pomeroy 'We trust that Kansas will do herself the honor and the country tbe benefit tbat must result from retaining the services of one who has been so intimately identified with her history. He has accomplished great good for his Western constituency. The history of Kansas is so closely interwoven with that of her Senator that the two ought not to be separated now. We know that calumnious re-IHirts have been raised against him, but we know equally well that they are not credited here among those wbo know him best. His reputation in the Senate is not second to tbat of any member of the body.

His generosity and earnestness in every Christian enterprise has made him a host of friends. Slander and suspicion are so frequently used as instruments to strike down the most faithful and deserving public servauts that it ought not to be a matter of surprise that they have been used against Mr. Ponieroy. Kansas may have many worthy aspirants, but she cannot afford to dismiss her old Senator." IVentera Mai Retained. The Western mails have been terribly deranged for a number of days.

The Cincinnati mails have arrived on time but very few days since the fall schedule took effect. The same delays are generally noticed in matter sent West from here. Mate Claims. It is believed that the two per cent, claims of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois on the five per cent, land fund will pam the House next week. The Alabama Binnbble.

It is understood that the Attorney General sees no soundness in the position of the Spencer party 111 Alabama, and tbat the compromise suggested by him. while leaving the Legislature Republican, will not allow the success of the Spencer faction, which is udmitted to be a minority of the Republicans. The Louisiana Iatter ia the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will hear to-morrow the application of the Warmouth party lor au injunction restraining KelloKg and Ws a3501-1 from taking possession of the State govern- not tie repre-: is generally be dismissed the court. sented in the expected that after a very brh This ts an epizootic advertisement from Jolletr IiMpois: Wanted A good iamliy man, suitable for a buggy must be gentle and quiet, and easily maa-aged bv a lady driver.

Any person having such ani-ojal will od a ready purchaser by addresiiug Lady baa s. toilet postoffice," fifttinh Beer. It is interesting to learn something of tbe national leverage of Great Britain. The English town of Kurton-on Trent la almost wholly given up to the manufacture of tetr. In fact the breweries are the town, and the interstices between the breweries simply contain some dwelling houaea.

The Immense breweriea of itasa, Aiisopp, Inde, Co pe, Worthing-tort. Salt, Nunneiey. Kvershed and Uobtnaon, are all there, bMM)M of ieaaer note, Bass aiue Mai three breweriea there, covert nrf altogether a little over MB acres of ground. Baa used, last year, qnsrif or man for brewmjr purposes; tf it be reckoned mat au acre grows four quarters of liariey, acres were occupied to growing the malt which Bass used, or hops, his consumption was k. which engrossed about a res of bow MXHSlMJ country.

In mait tax and EtoHUW duty, Baas paid, last year, The total brew of Bass, during the past year, amounted to barrels each barrel conraiuing thiny-Bix gallons; so that Bass could have served more than half tne estimated uumber of ihe human race witn a glass of neer per In ad from hia brewing of one year. TnrouKhont his Burton premises Bass owns over dve miles of private rati wav. runs five private locomotives, and ufies twenty six sfeam engines, wtcn a coiic'ive horse power of 436. Baas employs over persona, and pays more than In weetiy wagea. Bass used last year toua of ooaa, Bass has In use Mi.

MS butts. hogsheads. 113. iHXi barrcia, aud kilderkins, a stock of caska all, in store and scattered over the couutry, exceeding haif a million. The Public School of lialy.

Our Bureau of Education lias just received the last report on public institutions from Italy, the Netherlands and Mexico. That of the first named government Is one of the beat arranged and fullest reports of the kino received from abroaL The fig-urea evince a most gratifying advance, as the thoroughness of the document shows how great au interest felt by the royal government. The Italian boots arc under the direction of the Minister ol PabttC Instruction, who is assisted by an advisory council of scientific persons. The superior schools and institutions report directly to this department. The secondary schools are under direction of provincial administration, and the primary schools under nhe municipalities.

The department or instruction employs over oue hundred clerks. The total expenditures were, for last fiscal year, This is exclusive of local expenditures. Each province has its own school administration, consisting or the prefect, school superintendent and six counselors, two chosen by the minister, two by the provincial chamber and two by the leading municipality. There are thirty-three superior institutions, twenty-one being universities, two schools of engineering, academy of science and lire ra uirc, superior normal and teehnica', and astronomical schools, the whole thirty-three having M3S, The royal secondary schools are '245, with 19,61 3 pupils. A Preventive of Small-Pox The Atlantic Medical and Surgical Jnurna' of last April published the following: Dr.

D. Norris, at a recent meeting of the Alabama State Mertlca! Association, stated that during the prevalence of small-pox ln Huntsvilie certain families, at the instance of some one unknown, had resorted to tl.e free use of the tea ftf the Cimic fwja Itacema. or black snake root of the Vnited States Phamacop'jeta, (black cohtth) as a prtventive of Small-pox. In the families using the cimicifuga there occurred no case of the small pox, though some were exnosed to the disease, iu the same families. Or.

Xorrn vaccinated the members, but without eiiect ao long as thev continued the use of the cohosh; after ceasing" to use the tea aa a prophylactic, he again vaccinated them, when the specific effects of the vaccine virus were produced. lie submitted the results In these caseg as new, and not without interest to the profession. The Renourcen of Mexico. The great mineral and vegetable productions of Mexico are now receiving considerable attention. Tamaultpas promises to be one of the wealthiest Stales, not only on account of the petroleum wuicd abounds, but also in consequence of its mines of quicksilver, iron, lead, Ac.

in one of the mountain ranges, the Tautnna, ore has been found containing from lorty to forty -Ave per cent, of pure metal. Boads are projected from the famous mines of "San Joan'' to "Cuoharas," or "San Gerontmo," thence by "Lsgima" to the harbor of Tuxparu, which will become, in a short time, a piace of more tuiporttuoe than Vera Cruz, not only on account of it superiority as a harbor, but also from its greater fertility, atid, above all, tta healthier cUiaate..