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.m?? * ^ - ?? *** _ SCIENTIFIC, Thr MwrrACTWRK op bus t^?en brought almost, to perfect ion. In this ait, as well as in ix>re celain and crockery, there is a return <to old stylos. The eara.V* or water ^ugs, decantors for wines and liquors, jcordial tr.H, go.bjets ami tutnhlei'9 jnost sought for are the oltl-fushioned .cut glass, or crown glass cut in diav onds, hexagons, ami other goomofrie figures, or else they are made of tiio same diamond-clear glass, blown s?> thin as to look as if they would siiiver at the slightest blow, and on the surface are delicate traceries of loaves, flowers, ferns, birds, and but- I terfiics, engraved by the hands of tlie finest arils s, many of whom are foreigners, who buvo f nind refuge in Hi is country, and employment for their talents in this city since tho Into disturbnm-cs in r.urope. Then there a re single pieces of that rare old Venetian j.rlass, the art of making which nas been lately revived by an Italian artist, tralviatti. Tlioy nro made in elegant sj iral colds of spun jplass, or of that prized opaline tint Which was in a davker age tabled to possess mo quality of shivering to atoms when poisons were poured in* to the hi i< a c c....:l veinPi which it was male for treo-eof Kings and flueetis or for those only whooouldaf* fold In" this tifutis tu h.ilih; the poisoner's ait, fi is not so costiy as it was then, nv I n certainly floes not possess taut won* < runs quality, JJut it is beautiful, and a inoro tasteful ornament j? r no enn/e/v?, flower ?Mind or mantel could not bo iin* ' Agincd. ? ?^ Finn v"s--. i,>. ?\! r:v. j, >, writer in the .in ri in thinks that, in the iir-ioss toe* hod of usl g steam locomotives win largo tanks will probably prove u ,re iconoinleul than those wi'.h s i a a 1! tanks that if a tank, three feel ?'i. uncer an 1 ton foot Jong is capable, witu one charge, of propelling u our wish from twenty* live to foity i :n . 'gers n dirt unco of eight or tej> miles, si tank of twice this capacity would probably do considersibly more than t wice the amount of work, owiag to iho greater body of concentrated power and he it in pro* portion to the weight and surface of tank; and the weigat ol' th ?sy tanks may be reduced to a minimum by making tl.eiM willi hemispherical ends. A tank of this form, four feet in diameter and litsoeu L'eoi long, callable of sustaining a pressure of 3G0 pounds per s piure inch safely, would weigh only about one-third as much as an ordinarv locomotive boiler, and such a sized tank, once charged with cold air only, to a pressure of 300 pounds, would propel an ordinary horse ear lo I of passengers about (1 i*r? 111 > i ~ - \ l* i?U i < <?/ I \? it 1. u'jitni' nii.1 Bteani, at fhe same pressure, it would probably propel the same load about twenty miles. Condensed air may, however, bo the m-.st economical and satisfactory of the two, especially In localities where nm, io water power could bo obtained i'or condensing the air into rcservoiis for chunking the tan ks. 1 | | r Nitki: li .?s or I'kuu. M. Guyard, in the MuniU'.itr Xi i. ntijique., writing with reference to the wonderful nitre beds of Peril, which form a plateau of a mean elevation of seven thousand feet, lil'Leon to twenty leagues broad iiud, several hundred in length, proposes the following theory to account fur su?'h a formation, lie supposes that there has been an epoch when nitrogen compounds were disengaged from tno volcanoes, just as there were porphyritie mountains, which have given 1 iso to the beds of kaolin and other clays. In general, the saltpetre exists in the hem of saceharoid soda and eliloiide o sodium, mixed with nitrate and io>.nte of potash, chlorides of magnesium, aluminum and calcium, sulphate of lime, magnesia, and alumina. M. Ciuyard opposes the view, as hold by some, that the nltro beds are derived lrom dooomposod guano and the i?'dates front seawcods; ami lie also regards u as demuustruble that the (''during mattei of the nitre beds is not of vol- .mic origin, tho yellow being enionid ueii, und tho violet manganic. Thompson's Eoj.ipsino Enurr.- What is known as the Thompson eclipsing light is being satisluc'orHy adopted on some parts of tin? English coast This api arafus consists of a train of wheels t;.u rying t tie necessary screens for eclipsing the lights. Three ijcroonU are curried round the light onco iu about eleven seconds, Two of these are narrow, wliao a t.drd has twice tho breadth; the result, of this being to give two short eclipses and one long eelij se the eftcci to an outside observer being two snort intervals of darkness and one long one, or, iu other words, dot, dot, dash, in accordance with tho >)<cso telegraph alphabet. Then follo ws und interval of uninterrupted ,i? , after which tho . eclipse are ropeato 1. Formerly, a xixcu r<-u n/jni was thought Ute boat arrangement, but the objection to thia is its liability to be mistaken for a ship's port light, and tlio comparatively abort <iuvuaco from which it cun be discerned. ? 1 Thk power of (.oippowder is shown bv h reeent wi iter in the Revue Helentiii'jur The velocity of a shell leaving the cannon in l.aoo feet per second, V . The height from which the projectile would have to fall to acquire this h v 6,an0 feet, consequently the power ol ) the powdnr in equal to 219,000 foot \ powud?. The heat evolved by th? \ ?o?nbu*Mos of one and one-quartei poundnof rowderift oqual to 3*9.7 ??alo rlos. The moohanical work of thb p n amount at la ],ogo,Cm) foot ( peuwJ*. wt? ;T" "" J* ^ );hn^ f litro^Vt;w Mm?* now been *5 -a THE H< UOUKY NKWS. ; T. W BIS A TV. Ki uou. bArcTtU \v. i'i; > .Hi. i 4 W AtUUNv, L\>N, l'Yt>. II), l >7o. , [Special Correspondsut to the Uo:ry Sews.] Samiiio's "host, in the *ha|?o >t the I'imkhaek case, made its weekv ;?' nca i atiye in ilic Senate ?>11 Mnnlny, en < oineered us usual by Mr Morton, who bored that hotly wit ii Ins accustomed outrage (oa-*) speech. Morion thinks it the most wonderful tiling on iacor<| 1 tint in a year or two kucIi orcat. changes sl.onl?! have ta.vcn place in tin? vote o| Louisiana, yet can readily miderstami why it should happen in In, <liaua ami Illinois. 1 On the smut* <lay a resolution was offered in the limine hv Mr. Hale, which in a very vajjue. imlelinite man nor, proposed to assist the ic?uinption , o| specie payments. ICvery member ravh it must ho done, and has a a suheno whirl) is platisahlc in Ins j own ill I ii?iy ami ridiculous to those ol ' ??th?r members. I'lii' consequence i?, i hat nothing has yet been prodneed muro feasible ill.in the plan of the hril !i ml tinam icr ol Willi.imsburg, V a , who, having sum a puhical ion thai 111 h public debt amounted l<> exact l\ $2,21 4,4^ll,lhS I .2e, iinmodi 11 ely remit- , led l.o tho Secretaj'y ol I ho Treasury a ' 111m which should cancel the la-t two .igurcs, fc n ark tag that ho thought luling this centennial year ol grace j he men could ea-ily l?e louud t<> wipe out the other figures What a hril h int onee|?t ion! Worthy of a .lay or Hamilton! w itli a slight t race ol Mui urry Sellers. it lias boon inl un ited ; tii.it the gent, in the question was ; iglnly demented. yet it must he adnkted tliat he had "cents' enough to -elect the last two figures. Tins unique idea was doubtless suggested to j ois mind hy reading in a Western paper how a gentleman settled his account at a hat* in a polite and affable nanuer, saying ti.a1, us it was the end ! the year, lie wisned 10 clean <dl hi., -hale. "Oil! is that i'," said tile debtor, **1*1 i lix the slate." And pulling mi a Coil's nav y, he eft' etu.illy ' li.ved" it at a single slml. I My pi hi is to let those eleven natriotio cili/.es who are to sinnd under liiic.li: S.nn, like Alias ol myt I'ologic memory, under the world, gather to geUie*" in a i'oiivciiuu i, pimv up their respective s uhserip*ion?, 'Mix' tin* shiie ! lilt) I'CMIIUC. lint to resume (not specie payments. , ml lilt: ilirt :ol ol my discourse) the heresy ol iidliiiou?that's (lie <>i ho ; dex phrase?see ns to h ive deeply in e? ted Home I weir, y c t zees u| Wisconsin, and should iheir petition, as preI seated to th" Sena e, assume a praetioal shape, I ?lo not. hesitate to a-sure , you thai money mattms are lik.-ly to j o; come extremely "easy," and that ?> ?r | people may expect a good unie j^vii?*rally. Ihey pray Congress to pass a law requiring the '! lea-nr.-r ol i he United Stales to pay to every m in, woman, and child residing wiihiu I he United i States, wiihout tli-t ine.t ion ot ruee, ! color, or previous s'ale ot servitude, the sum ol *10 per Week to he paid j every Saturday uiuht at Hie post oilier ; nearest or most convenient lo the r<*si j dene.e ol each person; that the said J t reasurer l>e authorized to issue IV: as. | ury notes Irom time to limn as iln y may Da required tor *.n it j? 111provided, hottcvi.T, til it lli>* \\ I???1 * amount of Treasury notes issued tor th at nnr pose in any one year siiall n ?l exe.eed : t lie sum <>i ti ve 11 urns ir. il million oi <! >1 ; I Hi's, Just think ol u! 111'lur/s millions in it." It will certainly pass, ; and then onr foreign imiiiigr u ion s. >I cielics will timl their hands lull; for Ivirope, Asia, and Africa will :iI> he down on us like a thousand oi bucks, every mother's son of iheui wain mo ! his $10 a week. Some people will he sure to become dissatisfied with the arrangement and want the Govtrn- j incut to pat their monogram on every nolo. At last we have something authentic on the third term question. ('oh ' Fred. Grant sai I to t wo gentlemen at : the White House same days ago, "I. wny body thinks there's any third te^m , j here, lies mis'.akui, Faliiei does not desire the nomination, and will not aeeept it i? tendered by the Cincinnati ' convention.' Fred, expressed himsell | warmly in favor ut Cookliog. * I This is reliable; though n is barely possible that bis lather "did no! wun? thiid term any more than lie did tin first which puts quit" a I ill", rent appearance upon the matter, and leaves room for the usual ''emergency.' TIKI irIIfH III 1 ^ it il.L* inI'Hviiii'iiinn Committee i* |?roo?*tr? 1 i?.slowly, nm ' : surely. The results ol their lab -rs are not given to the public, but will in !<> an interesesting and use nil cum paign document when compiled. ; One ol the most intelligent, and respectable colored men ol iIiik city came into your correspondent's idlice, :? il.iy or two ago, and asked 1read Senator Brace's speech, to which relerence wu* > 1 made in a former letter a-* having produced so much excitement in Ii tdieal i circles. Alter iiidshiug, lie somcvvh.il i surprised me I?y saying, "that with the f exception ol Bruce s icmnks ^jboni i making $15,000 a year on his plantu* I lion, and small value he set upon the _ ?enatortthip, he considered the speech ^ well-limed, sensible and just in every t particular," closing with this dc duration, which he assured me expressed I the views ol a large majority of the ; colored race b to he:e and in the I South; 'Toople,'raid he, "dou'f seem DRRY WEEKLY IS J i?> umierstuml the change in the voic ! ot Misftjseippi ami Loijisiaija at tlu* Ja-t ileeiimi; mi i can icll litem that ihe nau'i perpetruled liy the kreeduiah'm Rank w:n tiie piitieipke factor in that ifMili, ami has* in a large iiiotsure, eomplelely * I'joctl the colore.I vole I ?)in 11s UiimJ athguuje.e to tile I{ej>*?l#. J licau parly." Tlii* was a remarkable I utterance, coming 11?mii an observant : iu<i m'U-oMi' c??h?m'?| man, ami impressed iu?* /ieeply. The *'boi loin.lacls," ln?\vevca*# when rebelled ami |*n *?lished to i In win Id, w ill inn. he ol socli a diameter as to change the opinion* nl himself. | Kunna Mine Seltenvk has, it is re- j ported, resigned, ami will anon return . |o I he United Slate*, where Iiih shining I abilities will lin<i a I irgor tiehi tor e.\eie.isc? Kugli>liiueii heing such poor poker player* as no longer to uilbiil him either amusement or re wan I. Mr. ChK ha- been sideeled |o till the speaker'* Chair dining liie ab?mce ol Mr. lverr, who i?* eo:np* 11?*? 1 by siekii"ss to lake a week's rest. Mr. C<>x, it is neeiilews to add, tills I hi' position wi'h aliiliiy ami success?to ihe saiis? lact ion oi his part y. The t .'nuiuiillec on appropi ialioiis con;innes tin* mo le ot culling down bolii the iinuihri ol employees ami the salaries ol oll'mials, lor example, the a I'propri a i ion lor lorl i lie-.il ions w as reduced Ir-on 3.'J,Ob<i,00<>, a modest sum in eniu] arixou. Then I in* estimates relating lo i he liileinal lb-venue ib ? p.iiMinei.l have been cut down Ironi fiijIMK) IIDO to u'mut $1 ,0tM),0U?l, beside* dispensing willi an army nl llselessl olliei tls. 1 in se ex nnplts arc given I lull the cnUni ry may umlerstami that t he pledges made l?y the democracy, win ii elected, were not merely "souinl:.. _ i i . . i .!. - i ^ * I 11 IT IMMSK :i 11 I IIIIKIIII'' C\ Ml till, 1? II I I I . wl.l Ik* carried ?> UI 111 ya?od I at; It I o *J|o UtlflMIOtft. I W mil the country leelu, as loel it must i/: a very >11? ft time, the relict which 1 iiik l eilue ioti ol ex j'etiilil ore will brimjj with it, when tin presold, economy, hoi h at lioiue ami abroad, hears it* hints and ik compared with i lie hlvt-li extravagance and criminal Waste ol itemey indulged in hy llie republic Conoiess, tin; people will be ci-itaiu to n-i'ooih/a' in I lie present m ijorilv ol the lower Moose, llicir tr test b m ho tors, who, hy an unlalierim_i ad In rmice to duty, m the laeeol elanu oiMin opposit ion, have relieved tin in ol burdens \vI i?*h had become beyond heirs iviio|Ii to hear, and igiveii tiiein prosperity, happiness in plica* ol dis? tr- *s and anxmiy. In llie election contest of Uromberij v. 11 11 iclson, the laMor, who is a col oiad in in and the siiiino member, was declared culilleh to the. scat. In the arranoeMteiit ol contested elcctciion cases lor trial bclorc coin? in it tee tile case ol l'lutl v. Ciuode, comes last one on the li>t. The rcpi.n* lican pipers of this city, no sooner Ilea I'd ol .his, than, wilii their usual disregard o| lacls, they clatnicd that this was done in order tint the trial iiit^hl not take plaoj during the session, ami accused the eoinnnttc of in? ju-tic". Ii sccnis, however, thai they merely a 1 o| i ted tlii' mm hi c ruin which Wiia iil VOglte diinno t lit' j?ii'Vi?H|M 0?m? - ics-, iiiiuii'ly: to take in-ill tlio various si :i i i's, ii) 1 licit' uhdiabel ieal oril.'l' ami thus t)i| i m; ut i In-ill. Virginia being l ist in 111is order, ilie c.is?j in |n i111 niii-l necessarily Ik? I:iIc? 11' 11}* las'. Ii i'M ii 11111 s bi- si'i-n li'iiv 111 l In |i?ron I lii'iv is in tliis outcry, 11??w ileal? i\ our radical friends have been 4,l^i)i>t sviili liii-ir ow 11 petard." K KNO. ji;rn:usoN da vis si* t: a us. r lilttbie's Charges Pn ii uiucoil I'alsu iiml Malii-iuus. Ji UVrson Davis lias ivriiien the lollowing le'ler lo Judge Lyons, llicliiiioinl, Virginia: N i;\v Oiji.kaxs, I,i., Jan. 27, I w70 J/y Dv.ar /''<lend: Your very knnl r oi i In- I I ii iiiv* . was iorwurdc'i :n?ui .Meiii|ilns ami has been reoei\vd ill iliis place. I have linen so long ihc object o( Mini :mini slander and tint subject nl uiceriijrnl<mi * Iain-hood by pariis.-iiis i >1 I lie class o I Mr llluiiu* -.hat ili.n./li I eillMlot K i V it icis lit COIIIC to MM* il lllitltT of iuiliH'i'iclk-r, 1! has ceast d t'? i i*xi*iif iny Mtrprisc, i*vi'M in this iu oauee, wit* ii it reaches I'm* i?\: i'c*m ' v mI aeeusi if tin* ol erilt 11 y Id prisoners. Willi .natters it. to one w hose ol joct is t |'i*rs ?oal ami party ail \ aula ge t li.it the | records, howh federal anil (. oiiMm1i*i';iu*, its prove I In* charge; that the country is tali ol witnesses who hear oral ten' imoiTy against it, ami thai the cifori to re vi \ e l he hitter ai.i/ir>siti? k ol the war ohst rtieis the progress toward the j reeone.iiiat ion ol t he sections i it is ! enough lor him it his sell Krckio^piii j pose he promoted. It would, how* ; ever, set in probable thai such ex puctut ion * 111 ost be disappointed, lor only '.h<'So who are wiliinly hlind ran fail to sue in the cirenm-lanee# ol the ease thelallaey ol Mr. Blaine's statements. Tho published laet oi a*i attempt t< suborn NVirz, when under sentence ol death, by promising him a pardon il ho would eliminate me in regard if | Anderson*il'e prisoners, is coiielustvi : as to the wish il the government t< make such a charge against me, ami the tail tire to do so shows that nothing could he loitml to sustain it. May wt not say tho evidence ol my innocence was such that Holt and Co novel*, will their trained hand ol suborned wit uesses, dared not make against na litis charge?the same w hich Wins loi i Ills lite would not make, but whiei \ ijiainc for ihu Pfo.?iileuiiul iioiuiiiaiioi <?. .. \ BWS: rivlMU AllY 2 liu* made ? JJJIC LKADINU FACT8. Now lei us review the leading f-iets of ihe case. The report of tlie (Jonf't-derate Commissioner tor lije Kxehange ol prisoners .shows how persistent ami liberal were ottr ellorts to secure the reliel ol captives. Failing in those, attempts, 1 iustiueleil (lenerul 11. 10. Lee to go, under a f 1 iuj ol trin e, and i Heels an interview with liviteral (iraut; to represent to him the Huilering and death of federal prisoners held hy us; lo explain the emote whieh were lie- i yonti our control, and in urge in the name ol humaiutv the observance ol llhecartal lor the exchange ol priMoii' i ers. To this, as to all previous up- ! i peals, a ileal ear was turned. 1 will j I not attempt irom memory to write the I reporl made to'me ol the incidciitti of I this mission. Lee no longer 'ivcn to I defend the eanse and country he loved mi well and served so ellieielit IV, hill | tieneral (Irani cannot tail lo ilmientj her so extr.(ordinary a visit, and his | I objections lo executing the eartal are ! I well shown lo the public. Ilut, who- ' I ever else may cnoose lo 11>ijjf t my ? ll'orlH in litis regard, the prisoners at ; Anderson villi' and the delegates I | ermilled them to send to l'iesid? ill Lineolu to plead h>r the resumption of ex- | change ot pi isoeers cannot I ill lo le- j llii iiiIii'I IiiiH wdlllnr I vv-iiw t.i r. > 1111 * * 11 lo liu'ir homes ami to tin* com* t buis < l \v11i;:|| 111? y wort' in iiim <1, | tii'ov bled tlic i in | ii ihonct 1 soldiers *>1 ilit! Coutederaey should In* in like 111111111 r lelcased miiI returned to nk, 1 iii.s rt-ll, accusation, llioijoli directed specially against me, [ was no tltiiilii iiiieieled ami naturally j must lie tin* air.lion on nt ol i lie South, i by whose authority ami in whose hehall my deeds we;e ?)oim. It. niav hu | 111 i-sii uit'tl UmL i he leelimjs uml t fie j liahilK ol i Im Soli'hern sohiieis were iiinlel'slooil hy llie, ami in thai ConnerI lion any h'ir unml woiihl perceive in ! my eon-jinlulaio'y orders to the army | alter a vielory in wlneh the troops j I were most cumm micd for their len- ! J leimess ami gcnemsiiv t?? t In* \voiimle?l j ami oilier e.l|>li\es, as well I he inslinels ol the person who isSiieil the order as tin* kieilIv temper ol the | ko|<tiers to whom it. was addressed. 11 is ml mil I cd that the prisoner* in our 1 hi mis were not as well provided lor as we would, luil il is claimed we did as well lor lliein as we eouitl, Cai. I lite other fide say as much ? To the hohl allegations ol til-ireatmeni. ol { | prisoners bv rill' sitle ami humane I ;I'eitmvnt ami adetjualn supplies by j our opponents, it is only necessary lo j oiler I wo lac s I First - It appears from the reports 1 lot the I'niud Si ilis War 1 h i art incut thai, ihoiioli we had Oh,<>00 more j lederal piisoners than tiny had <>l (hnilederates, U.OOO more ol C'oiilcd- | erates < 11?*?I in Northern prisons. Second?Tim want and sutbuinir ol j moll in Northern prisons caused me lo ask loi permission to send out cot- j j ton and buy supplies b?r them. The | .. . 1 i - i i reipiesi was grinieu, iii11 diiiy mi eon?t i?i > 11 ; hat tin* rui ion f-!???u 1 < 1 be sent to New Voik and tin* supplies In j j bought. 11?ore. (ietieral 1 >?*'iI, now o! !S?. Louts. was aut Inn i/a'd to pun-hoe j j Mini ills', ribute the needlui kiij?|?l!?*! ?. ; On r >y in | *: t iiy rose with the oeeasiou Mm) responded in its demands, not | wait tng ior Inn years, then to vaunt j j iisell when it vimlil starve n> good pur jui"?i' I o I lie sullen-is. Under ilie un llowing intluenee of time and oee.asional deinonsi ralnnis at i i tin* North nl a desire for tlie lvstoru ! ' tion oI peace and good will tin* South j j i*rn people have forgotten much, have ! t i gt\ en inuelijol the wrong* they bote. i ll it he less so among their invaders j ; it is hn< another example of the rule j that i he wrongdoer is h**sable to lor1 give than he who has sulk-led causeless w rung. It is not, however, generally among those who braved the j liax nils o| battle that unrelenting vindiitiveness is to he found. Tno brave are generous and gentle. It IK T11K SKULK Kit* OF THIS FIO.IIT, i ho Blaine*, who display their 11 ag on an iintentcd field. They made no j sacrifice lo prevent 11 u* separation ot i | llio Si tic*. Why should lin y ho ex- I peeled lo promote I he eonli It-nee ami good will essential to iheir union? I \Yln*n closely confined til. h'oi". res* ! Monroe 1 was solicited to add my l n iiiic to those ol many esteemed gentlemen who luul signed a petition lot* my pardon, and an assurance was gi ven llial on my doing so the IVei sideiil woiini order mv liheration. ! Confident ol the just ice ol our cause i i and tin* reel it tide ol my own conuiiet 1 1 dcclimd to sign the petition and re inaiiicd suhjeci. to the lncXcusahlw prii val.ioic* and tortures which Ur. Craven has but til i nt I y dcseiihed. When, alter two years ol close confinement, | I was admitted to had, as often as i tquired 1 appeafd lor trial under the I i indictment found against me, hut in ! which Mr. Blaine's fictions do not appear. 'l'lio indictment was finally > quashed, on no application of mine, I nor have I ever evaded or avo'nh d :i I J trial upon any charge the general i government might choose io bring % 1 , against me, and I nave no view ol the > I u in re which make* it desirable to me I j to be included in an amnesty hill. ; Viewi d in the abet ract or an a general s ; question, I would he glad to nee tlie j repeal ol all lawn indicting the penalty i ol political disabilities on classed ot the people, that it might, as prescribed by the constitution, be le?t to the r courts to bear and decide causes and ? | to ailix penalties according to pro-exi luting legislation. The dibcrimmution . I . /' i A . - G, 1?7G. made against our people is jnjuat ami impolitic. ll llie tact be equality am' the purpose '>e haleruity aimnig the citizens ol the United Stales, coiivic. lion ami sentence without a hearing, ! without a jurisdiction, ami allixiug ' penalties by tx post facto legislation i arc part 01' the proceeding whieh ha I ; its appropriate end in the assumption , b\* t'ongress oi the executive iuuctioil I ot i"i 1?1?11 ?jf pardons. To remove political disabilities, which there was not legal power to impose, was not an act ol s > intu'h grace a* to lortn a plausible pretext lor the reckless dialriho ol Mr. Jilaine. The papers preserved by Dr. Stevenson happily lurnish lull I proof o| the causes ot disease and , death at Andeisonx illc.- I hey are now, I believe, in Uicbmoiul, and it is to be hoped their publication will not be much homer delayed, I have no ? "> J 7 taste lor recrimination, though the sad recitals made by our soldiers returned Iroui Northern prisons can fever be lorgotten; ami yon will remeinber the excitement llicy produced and tin;! eensoiioiis publications which were! u 11 ci'ci 1 against me t urea use I would , 11 <?I visit <111 ill.- 11?-1 piess prisoners l "i j Mir hands such barbarities as, accord* i?i?^ l<? rcpcns, had Wren inflicted upon | niii' mi ll. Imprisonment is a hard lot ^ at the hest, and prisoners air pi out! to ! < x 10L^i-ratr llirii siiHerinos, and Hindi | was prohahlv the ease on both sides} | Imt we did not seek by reports ol eoiuiii11 lees w it h lMiorooitArifit: iti.i .-ia: atio.xs to iitt!ucitce I lie pis.oous <d our people. 1low was it with cur eneiuv i J>?*1 one example selliee. \ >.ii may re ineniher a puhlished report <d a com* mi t tee ol I he I'uitcd Stales Congress, whitdi was sent .o Annapolis to visit smiie exchanged piisoncrs, and which had oll'ered lo it the photographs til smut! emaciated subjects, whieh were nllfi't-d as samples ?d prisoners rcturmcl Iro'U the South. W lien a ; i-opv ol that report was received J i sent it. to Colonel Ouhl, Commissioner lor the lilxcha.ioe o1 I'risonrrs, ami learned, as 1 anticipated, that the photograph*, as lar as tin y could he imh lit ili.-ti, had heen taken tfoni men who were in our hosini a Is when they were lih-'iati'd for exchange, end ; whom i he hospital suroeou regarded ;?>. tamvah'sc nt, hut too weak to j he rmiiot ed with salety to themselves. J l lie anxiety ui the prisoners to be | sent fo their homes had prevailed over ! t In- object i<>iis o! the surgeon. Hut! this is not. all. Cor 1 have recently j learned troin a priest, who was then j at Annapolis, that the wretchedest looking ol these photographs was tak<-n tioin a iiian v\ ho had never been a pii^otn r, hut who had hecti h it on the J "sick li-i" at Annapolis when the eotmuaud to whieh lie was attached r I had passed thai place on lis south-! ward march. Whatever may bo said , in extenuation ot Btieii lMi'osrrnK because ot I lie exigencies of war there i can In* no such excuse now lor the at tempt ot .Mr. Maine, Viy gross misrepresentation ami slanderous accusation, to renew the worst pulsions ot the war, ami it is to be liopetl that, much as the event is to be regretted, it will have the good ell.-el of evoking truthlul statements in regard to this little understood subject trout men who) would luive preferred to leave their Horrowtul story untold it the subject emibl have been allowed peacefully to j sink into oldivion, 31 utnil respect is needful, lor the common interest is essential to a friendly union, and when slander is promulgated lrom high places the public, well a re demands that truth shall strip falsehood ol its power tor evil. I am, respectfully and truly, your frl"i;d, Jkffkuson Davis. A wk ansas. ? The Judge of the United States Court at Fort Smith, Ark, on the 5ih instant, sentenced six men to lie h inged on the 21st April One was white, one black, ami tour were Indians They Were convicted c,t separate murders in the Indian Terri. VII 4 I * * I . 1 1 A t iory. /\ii uiu criminals sun wen me most stolid i11?1 itl\*rr11! <?. In speaking ot 11?t- ?ppronehiug campaign, 11?i* Ibitesvillc Ilepublijan says thai the light lor ollice in Arkansas will I?c mainly one sidrdf.tnH only in Minn1 hall dozen counties can Kepuhlieans hope to win. The field being lei t no entirely to the Democracy there will be a n?>h tor nomination, as nomination will mc^n election, lion, \V. K. Miller has been nominated lor next Governor Mr. Miller is State auditor, and the bare mention o 1 bis name has brought out favorable responses from all sections of the i State. . Sleep prod need l?y narcotics or so cailed sedatives, says the London ban! I 'Hi -i I (H'l, IS pOIHOIJeU. 1 l?ell' USC glVl'S 11)0 persons emplyi'ig them an attack <?1 j cerebral Congestion, only ditV nng in amount, not in kiiul, Iroin tbe cotuli! lion wipcli naturally issues in death. ; There is graxc reason to lear that the i leal nature ol the operation l?y which ' theRe deleterious drills, one ami all, i bring about the unconsciousness that i hurles<jues natural sleep, is lost sight | oi, or wholly misunderstood, by those i who have tree recourse to poisons on the most frivolous pretences, or with none save the exigency ot morbid habit. Great responsibility rests on medical practitioners, and nothing can ! atone lor the neglect ol obvious 'Jnty# Kitty years ago leinulo colleges would io?i have been sanctioned by | the lords ol creation, but now are no novelty among civilised nations. t' * I .1" Tho bill to destroy the judical system of the state, and to subject the circuit judges hereafter to the will ol the general assembly was knocked yu the head yesterday >?y the sen. ate. The motives ot those who voted for it and against it we do not consider as of importance in arriving at the conclusion that the hill was properly dealt with. It should not he resurrected. It was a pieue of political trickery, and was elevated into serious consideration only hy the object which it apparently had in view, and hy the wide influence which its passage might have h id on the- future relations ol the judicial and legislative departments of the government. When a simple majority in the general assembly can get l id of an obnoxious ju IgT hy tearing his circuit to pieces, the independence of judges becomes a thing ot the past.? Union ]fer<dil,\vm Virginia has a disagreeable sensation. A judge taught a member of the legislature how to play draw poker, made him drunk, and then,wit It the assistance ol a professional, relieved him ol $14,000 while attempting to teach him the cask value ol'4 two pair." The money was trust money, and the result a disgrace to both judge slid legislator?the wounded reputation ol the former, however, being salved by the captured fourteen thousand. .Moral ? Don't play poker with judges. A W est 11111 boy,Hays lii! Burlington llawkeyo, cuinw iu to his mother the other day with two yawning n-nu in hia trousers. His patient mother sal down, alter administering the necessary counter-irritant, lo repair the garment, and was shocked to hear her darling tell his sister thai "Mother was an old devil." "Harry,'Vim cried, "what did yon say?" "i did't t-ay nothing, mother." "Yes you did, Harry. You said lhaf I was a devil. What did you mean hy thai?" "Well it's so, inoihcr; 'cause my Sunday School teacher told me that nodody hut the ?levil sewed tares." .V Toast.?Two Important Discoveries: The discovery of America I>y Dolumbus, and Dr l'ieree's (ioldcn Medical Discovery, the one opening up to mankind a new continentthe other a fountain of health, which is in, dispMiHahle t<> the full enjoyment of iiAs and i's blessings. iu response to the above sentiment eotue the unsolicited attestations of tens of thousands of grateful patients, who have been relieved of chronic aliments through its instrumentality. Those voices are limited to no one locality, but from every city, village, and hamlet, in our broad domain, as well as from other climes, and in the strange utterances of foreign tongues, like tlits confused murmur of many waters, come unfeigned and hearty commendations, it is, in comhinution witli the i'leasaiit Purgative IVIiels, the great depuiator of the age. Undci its benign action eruptions disappear, excessive waste is checked, the nerves are strengthened, ami health, long banished from the system, resumes Iht reign and re-jstabiishes her roseate throne upon the cheek. All who have thoroughly tested its virtues in the diseases for which it is recommended unite in pronouncing it the greatest Medical Discovery of the aye. (24) Killed hy a Mouse. An extraordiny occurrence was i brought to light, at an inquest held re| oently on the body ol a tnan in South | London. It appears that m a work room where many young girls were at ?t? . k I L' O lltiillun trilil.L.ti I t? I1%I..L. I I .. il w n , < III 1/ lliivi nuimvill I III I'll; 11 appearance on a table, causing, ot course, considerable comtno'ion ami a general stampede. Tiie intruder was seized, however, by a young man who happened to be present, but tlio j mouse slipped out ol his hand, and, i running up his sleeve, came out be- ' twceu his waist coal and shirt, at the neck. The untortunuie man had his mouth op.iit, and the mouse, on the lookout tor some convenient place of concealment, entered the man's mouth, and he, in his night and surprise, swallowed it. That a mouse can cxl isl for a considerable time without , much air has long been a popular bei liif, and was, unfortunately, pioved ; to be a tact in the present instance, ! tor the mouse began to tear and bite inside the man's throat and cheat, and the result was that the unfortunate lellovv died, alter a little time, in horrible agony Several witnesses hav- ^, ing corroborated the above lac's, ami Y' medical testimony as to the cause ot death having been given a verdict ol accidental death was returned. Poverty is a great inconvenience especially when it deprives one ol his home piper. A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY EARNED. $10,000 GIVEN. AWAY We will send the HOKRY NEWS usual prlc" , $'J and the I.ocmvi i.li Wmi r COURIER-JOURNAL nsu ?l price 8-i postage prepaid un hotu papers, fur ohm year, lor $;< 00. Tlui Weekly Oourier-Journal Is the (treat NATION KAL1LY NEWSPAPER. 11 will, on December 3ist, 18 70 ?liai ri h i in Ira partially $10,003 iu valuaoie press.its anion* lis ?ubs. 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