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irr^T TTUff IT_N?TMRER 1259. CHARLESTON, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1870. SIX DOLLARS A YEAR. COLUMBIA. THE LAST SENSATION.. ' SENATE ANQ HOUSE AT LOGGERHEADS. DECLARATION OF WAR EXPECTED. Probable Death of thc Extension Bill Thc Old Ranks And the New Bonds What Sawyer and IVhittemore think of Extension. [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DAILY NEWS.] COLUMBIA, January 17.. Some of the leaders cf ?he House assert that no bill from lue Senate shall pass the Douse until the Charleston Extension bill passes the Senate. These threats have a reverse effect upon the Sen? ate Oom that expected. The senators arc indig? n?t, and consequently will probably vote almost unanimously against thc bill. Thc bill will prob? ably be kicked out of thc Senate to-morrow. Sawyer aud WUttemorc have telegraphed from Washington to do so by all means. The Senate committee to whom was referred the joint resolution to elect an associate justice to-morrow, have reported in favor of going into the election ou the 25th. Wright, who stood in Whipper's way, has becu, it is reported, promised thc Lieutenant-Governorship if he would retire from the Held, and has done so. Whipper's elec? tion is considered certain. The Committee on Incorporations will report unfavorably on Wednesday on the Pnosphate Mo? nopoly bill. The Senate Judiciary Committee have recom? mended that the bill to repeal thc act to secure advances for agricultural purposes do not pass, and the report has been adopted. A joint resolution to petition Congress to appro? priate twenty thousand dollars to rebuild thc Orphan Asylum of the Sisters of our Lady of Mercy, was adopted. The petition of a number of persons living above Charleston, praying against the extension of the city limits, was read and ordered to bc printed. Jillson introduced a bill to incorporate the Fio lin Creek Railroad Company. Wimbush introduced a bill to provide for a general election or county officers on the third Wednesday or October, 1870, and on thc same day every two years. The Judiciary Committee reported unravorably fc on thc bill to prevent planters and others from issuing checks and scrip. Hie same committee also presented thc follow? ing report on the charges preferred against Judge Carpenter: Thc Judiciary Committee, to whom was refcr red the letter ot Hon. R. B. Carpenter, Judge of the First Circuit, of the 10th of December, 18G9, setting forth that a charge had been made against him by a member of the Senate, in bis place on thc floor ot thc Senate, that he (Carpenter) had, as a judge, been unjust to the colored people or his circuit; that if this was true, he was UD wort hy to retain thc important and responsible position he now occupied; ir false, he was entitled to a vin? dication as public as the accusation; that inas? much as he was unable to meet it in this general and sweepmg form, he respectfully asked of the Senate that the charges be made specific, and for a full and thorough investigation into his official conduct, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report: That uo charges have been made or can bc pre? ferred by your committee against the Hon. H. B. Carpenter. That after walting for some time for charges to be preferred, your committee made special Inquiry or those who, if anybody, were expected to present and sustain by proof any charge of official misconduct, and they expressly disclaimed any purpose of presenting charges, or or having any knowledge or evidence of official misconduct on the part or Judge Carpenter. Your committee, therefore, report that nothing, so far as they can learn, exista to sully the official reputation of the Hon. R. B. Carpenter, and they pray to be discharged from the further considera? tion of this matter. Respectfully submitted. D. T. CORBIN, Chairman. In the House a resolution from the Senate to appoint proxies to.represent the State stock In the South Carolina Railroad was Indefinitely postponed. De Large gave notice of a bill to amend the charter of Charleston and nullify the license law, which received ttB first reading. Notice was given of the following bills : By Jenks, to authorize the Comptroller-General to certify to the removal of the State lien In certain oases; by Whipper, to incorporate the Comet I ?flit Infantry of Charleston ; by Moore to Incor? porate the Town of Anderson; by De Large, to rc quire banking associations doing business under the laws of this State to deposit State bonds as security with the Comptroller-General. This bill provides for thc deposit of an amount of bonds at their par value equal to one-third of the capital stock paid in. EUROPE. Thc Great Connell. ROME, January 17. The Council sat four hours on Saturday. The oldest legate complained that the speeches were too long, and that the obligations of secrecy had been violated by members. The Empress or Austria, arter receiving the communion from the Pope, left the city. Over three hunCrcd fathers rerused to sign the pcUtion in ravor cr infallibility: many others re? turned an evasive answer. Thc opposition pro? pose a counter petition, and assert with cer? tainty of sufficient adherents to defeat infallibil? ity, e Tlie London Tablet, Catholic organ, 6ays: **To favor infallibility would be erronous." The Times thinks that the presence of French troops may encourage the Pope to insist on infallibility, notwithstanding the reluctance of the Council. The Arraignment of Bochefort. PARIS, January 17. The motion to postpone debate on Rochefort's arraignment failed-30 to 19. Olllvicr opposed postponement. Several deputies received menac? ing letters threatening vengeance in case the chamber authorizes Rochefort's prosecution. J/ATRR.-The city ls tranquil, though anxiety is manirestcd regirding the Rocherort decision 'u thc Cori's Leglslatir to-day. C VB A . HAVANA, January 17. A memorial signed by a thousand Spaniards has gone to Spain, requesting the Cortes to post- , pone reforms in Porto Rico, staUng that the peo- | pie or Cuba are unprepared to receive proposed i reforms. They prerer to wait untB Cubu is repre- ! sented in the Cortes. The Cleopatra and France have arri vail from Vera Ciuz. Seward and party arc on board, and will remain a week in Havana. A. WRECK. LiYKKPOOL, January 17. The ship Kenilworth, from New Orleans De oetnber 14th, ls a total wreck Ul Caernarvon Bay. Part of Uer crew were Baved. SPARKS FROM TUE WIRES. . Tnere was a terrific thunder, wind and hall Min In St. Louts, yesterday, and a panic oc? curred in the theatres. Sevetal were huit and much damage done. ^Tbe hteamcr Star, or Plttebarg, with one hun? dred aud forty thousand bethels or coal, collided with a pier of the railroad bridge at Belaire, on tue nth instant, un i sunk with seven barges, ex poding as kliv MT cut down. Ono woman was UL ed. _ ft-The Paraguay d >-|ml< he*, amx.ujjclng the Ufl' ul Lopes, uiid t ie NTH.II aiiou of Hie wur ar? fully cou Di m d. li seems that Lopez did uut re r.-at toward? B< livia, li? was Jan heard fruin mtndeniig with a few taltowera about the debris ?if Hi? Br&xllhm province*. WASHINGTON. GEORGIA AND VIRGINIA. Alee Restrictions to bc Imposed. [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE SEWS.] WASHINGTON, January 17. Advices herc indicate that General Terry will throw out several members of the Georgia L?gislature, thus giving the Radicals full con? trol. The a;tion of thc Senate to-day has dishearten? ed Virginians. Butler A Co. are working hard to secure additional conditions from that State. Thc House bill has so fur ont one majority in thc Senate. [FROM THE ASSOCIATED TRESS.] WASHINGTON, January IT. Nothing from committees. Ju thc Senate many petitions were presented. The House refused the use of the hall to thc president of the National Labor Union to expound their views. . Revenue to-day eight hundred ind forty-three thousand do?'ars. The ministe, from Honolulu, who was present? ed to the President on Saturday, is a Maine Yan? kee. Albert Speyer and Jno Bonner, prominent actors tn the gold panic, testified to-day. Other witness? es will tie examined to-morrow. , Terry's dispatches indicate that three senators and ten representatives are clearly disqualified and will bc expelled by military order; still, how ever, leaving thc Legislature in the hands of thc Conservatives. - Prince Arthur arrives Saturday. Thc festivities in bis honor, as far as the programme announces, are exclusive dinners, one of which wiU be by Fish and one by Grant, Among the nominations is D. H. Starbuck as district attorney of North Carolina. In the Senate a petition was presented nrging a reduced rate tor licenses to maimed soldiers. Sumner, from thc Committee on Foreign Rela? tions, presented a bill regulating ocean cables; also providing for the payment of French claims prior to 1801. Tba consideration of the Virginia admission bill was resumed. Stewart desired that thc House bill bc pnt on its passage. Sumner re? fused io allow the bid to be read more than once. Conkling suggested that the House bill be offered at the proper time as a substituto. Morrel, of Vermont, declared that Virginia was unlit to be admitted cither with or without conditions. He would, however, rather trust the rebels of the South than the Democrats of the North. Governor Walker was not n flt repre? sentative or loyal men. Morton proposed that the restrictions or the Fourteenth amend? ment should rorever apply to Virginia, and making thc acceptance or ofhec conflicting therewith penal. Finally Stewart's motion pre? vailed, thc Senate bill was laid aside, and thc House bill considered. Edwards then moved his amendment exacting the restrictions or the Fourteenth amendment. The discussion was continued quite tamely, Thayer closing with an hour's speech, when he was interrupted by a mo? tion to go into executive session. In the House, under the regular call, thc Chow? ing resolutions were presented: Directing a sur? vey and examination or thc west bank or the Potomac, from Georgetown to Harpers' Ferry; to report on thc practicability or constructing a railroad along the said bank; a joint resolution by Butler, ot Tennessee, that acts or legislation, Judicial or executive, by persons disqualified by the Fourteenth amendment, ls noll, was referred to the Ju-iciary Committee. The balance or the day was devoted to the discussion of the appor? tionment ror the Forty-second Congress. Sherman has telegraphed his approval or Rey? nold's action, approving thc Installation or Davis and Flanagan as Governor and Lieutenant-Gov? ernor or Texas, and convening the Legislature. Butler has arrived and spent most or the day in the Senate. The rriends ol Virginia's admission, pure and simple, have been discouraged to-day. The speeches showed no changes, and were mostly or a spread-eagle character TUE COMING CANVASS. (From the Lanrcnsville ncrald.] It ls an old maxim, In which there ls much of sound philosophy, "In time of peace pre? pare for war." The political campaign for ?8T0 is soon to open, and the destinies ot' a com? monwealth are again to be put up as thc prize. When we contemplate the results at stake, is It not high time thut the leaders of the Democ? racy were planning for the battle, and prepar? ing lo marshal their fosees with energy and judgment? Let the plans be broad and un? mistakable; let them be free from mongrel ism, for late offerts in other States show that such can* only eud in division and defeat. There ls no common ground upon which De? mocrats and Radicals can meet-lhere is noth- , lng of sympathy between such opposing ele- , monts-their principles areas dissimilar as thc features and luces that compose their ranks. Let us then avoid anything like hybridism; lut us boldly proclaim the good old principles of our luthers thal held sway In the early days of tile Republic, aud make a fair, square and ; manly straggle for the victory. ? In this county tho victory ls our own, if we ^ really wish it. Wo have only to make a long i pull, usuoug pull, and a pull altogether, und ? we win beyond a doubt. If, however, we have , any discord in our ranks, we are just as cer- , tain to meet with failure and disgrace. We J must move forward shoulder to shoulder, and , as one man Strike for the mastery. The ene- i my is n solid phalanx, and we in wt be tito : same in opposition. The old idea that wc . all formerly cherished, that this or that Iriend , must be nominated for office, or that the . claims of this or that section of conn ry must . prevail, must give way to tho necessities of . the times. Wo now straggle for principles, not for men; and private preference must yield j to the public good. It is only by regular '. nomination that we can hope tor unanimity, ! and iu combined action alone can we . hope for victory. The Romans learned some of their most valuable arts of war from their \ enemies. Let us do tho sume. The oneness . ol'our political foe, cemented by ignorance, , lias been thc surprise of the while man. 'J o- , [Tether Radicals stand or fall-they allow no j division in their ranks, and here is the secret ? of their success. Cannot the intelligence and j interest of the while man form as strong n cement as thc ignorance of tho negro ? Let, , then, private wishes and local Influences bo ( forgotten in the common good, for there roust , not be auy division if we would avoid delea'. iud consequent disgrace. As one mun, then, ( let us conduct the coming canvass. The enc- , my are beginning to show sigus of animation j -Radicalism ls again preparing for tho Btriio. , Let Democracy carefully gather all its energies, , and crush the hydra, Concert of action is all . we need. DrrFcui.Tiies OP LKARNINO CIIINBSU. - A I writer, giving "Notes of a Tour in China," I dwells ou I he great difficulty of learning tho I Chinese language, from its hieroglyphic char- ! acters and legion ot dialects and tones. The I speaker may have the right word, but nnless ] ho gives tho right tone lie either says nothing or probably tho opposite ol what he intended. ! A missionary on one occasion, when preach- i lng, wished lo say "God is angry with Kia." i To his utter astonishment thc whole congre- i galion jumped to their teet. He had got the ' right word, but, minus the tone, the word meant "otaud up." on another occasion thc 1 preacher wished to 6ay "Idols shall be utterly | abolished;"' but. not giving the right tone, he I fouud to his consternation that he had actually i declared, "idols aro absolutely necessary." In india, where lhere is no such difficulty, ab? surd blanden arc made. Who has not heard of tho Bengal missionary who meant to preach from the text, "1 um the Light of thc World, but substituted aloo (petalu) for alo (light ?) The writer once heard a missionary by error ol' aspirate declare that 151. Paul made a monkey." A G Jil!AT MECHANICAL FEAT. Thc Removal of Hotel Pelham, in Boston. Thc Boston Advertiser gives an Interesting description of the great mechanical feat per formed lately in Boston in the removal o( Hotel Pelham, a building weighing 5000 tons, some fourteen feet, in order to -widen Tre? mont street. Thc removal was done by the Boston -city authorities, as bel?g cheaper ;han cutting off a portion of the building, and thc owner gave his consent to the work. As it is of great interest to mechanics, and, indeed, al! classes of readers, wc condense thc follow? ing from thc account given of thc work: Thc Hotel Pelham is situated ou the south? west corner of Tremont and Boylston streets, Boston, and is what is commonly called a free? stone building; that is, the two principal fronts arc laced with Connecticut freestone, backed up with brickwork from twelve to sixteen inches Ihlck, aud the other wails arc of brick. There are two brick partition walls running from north to south, but none of the partitions from east to west (Hie direction in which it 'was to bc moved) go through, though there were three extcidlng from Tremont street to the first division wall. The sid? of the build? ing is not at tt right angle with the Iront, but tho cross partitions are at right angles with thc side, and are, therefore, not parallel with thc front wall, thus increasing thc ditliculty ol' moving. The hotel was somewhat irregular in its ex? terior, covering about uTty-ciglit hundred square feet of land, having a frontage on Boyl? ston street of sixty-nine feet, on Tremontstreet ol ninety-six feet, on its soutiiern line of sixty two feet, and on the western linc of eighty eight feet, with a break ou the southern side ol lour and one-half feet, and on the western side of three feet. Thc front wall on Boylston street was supported on eight massive granite posts twelve feet high, four of them four feet squaw.*, thc others three feet square. Thc Tre? mont street front had, in addition to the cor? ner post, two similar piers, and the remainder was built up with rough block granite lilied in with chip stone, and so poorly con6lmeted thal it was thought best to tlc lt thoroughly together with ?ron rods and timbers. The Tre? mont street face and the south ' wall were ' cracked lu several places owing to careless? ness in its original construction. Paper was carefully {lasted over these cracks to see If they increased, but no chango could be dis? covered after the removal. Thc basement is occupied for storage, heat? ing apparatus, fuel, ic. The ground floor lor shops, offices and entrances to the apartments over, and the six floors above arc arranged in suites of rooms for the occupation of families, there being seven 6torlcr above thc sidewalk. The total height, from the level of thc tram? ways on which it was moved, is ninety-six feet, and the weight of the whole structure was es? timated by ii careful calculation nt live thous? and tons, without thc furniture or other arti? cles which remained in lt during the removal. All Hie stores, offices, and several of tho suites of apartments were occupied, and the occu? pants were not disturbed in thc process, ns the waler, gas and oilier pipes wore kept in working order by moans ol' flexible tubes. To prepare thc building was an undertaking requiring to bo well considered and thoroughly understood before thc work was commenced. ModelR were made showing how each part could be securely loaded, and then a full model of tho whole basement. Work was commenced on June 1,1SC9, by clearing thc basement of ail Hie wooden partitions, and ex? cavating to thc level of the foundations. After this was done, heavy block granite levellers were laid westerly from the front, rear and partition walls to a distance of four? teen feet from each, and similar levellers every four feet between, to receive Hie walls nianing north and south as the building progressed', making four rows of eighteen traverses each, i all Iniil solid in cement thoroughly rammed ] down to avoid any duager of settlement, as i they bore the immense weight passing over i them. Those und? the front piers were six feet wide, and the others three feet, all being three feet below thc surface. On the top of | thc granite, (except those under the posts,) a brick wall was laid in cement twenty Inches wide. Those under posts were levelled up with North River flagging and slate. On the top of each of these traverses, four iron rails, three and one-half Inches wide under the piers, j I and three inches wide under the walls, and one-hall' of an inch thick, were bedded In ? cement, and made perfectly level, and eight l similar rails under tho front piers. Between i these iron tramways, under thu Tremont street I wall, greased ways were laid to assist llic i moving of the rough granite wall before men- i Honed. I Tuc process of loading thc several piers nod j 2alls on Hie iron rollers by which it was to I ove, was as follows: Hollers an Inch and a 1 half in diameter were laidone inch apart under I each brick wall on tho Iron rails at right an- I gles with thc front wall on Boylston street, i This was very Important, as thc building was 1 to be kept lu ita new posilion on a straight t linc with this wall, and any variation from a 1 right angle would change the direction. A 1 square piece of hard wood was put between t each roller to act as a guide, and also to aid in *. replacing tho same when tlioy came out from t behind as thc building went forward, all hav- ( insr to bc constantly watched, to keep thc roll- t crs In position. Over tho rollers similar iron t mils were placed, and on these rails North \ River flagging stone, tho latter being thorough- c ly wedged with ?lute, pointed willi cement, to t take tho bearing of the wall above. Tiiis pro- i cess was repealed under all Hie brick and i stone walls on the Hued of Hie several trav- s erses. t The most difficult part of Hie undertaking t was the loading ol' the heavy stone posts on Lhe front and a portion ol' the side, to acconi- I [dish which it became necessary to lower Ute t levellers about eight indies to get siii'Je'.cnt t space to put thc rails and rollers under them. ?-1 To ?.lo this these posts were Clamped by beams, i screwed together with Inch and tbreo-qnarler j iron bolts, six to each post, and under these tl beams were placed white oak timbera Of suffi- t ?ient length to reach outside the levellers, <. restiug on from twelve to twenty-two bed I screws, which were turned just enough to hold ti Hie weight above, but not to raise' it in the r least. This was ascertained by cementing be- I tween the post and the levellers and also be- ti tween the latter and the ground, us sometimes t Lhe leveller went with the post, and at others r separated from it, and when the smallest crack ( was discovered in either place, no more loree j was used. ti The leveller was then lowered ami bedded l In cement, screws being applied between lt s und the post ovcrhcfl to press it down. afLer t which thc raiia and rollers were put lu place a ?is before dcscrioccL, aud between thc upper g rails and the bottom of thc Klone posts strips 6 ot North Uiver flagging, four by six inches. I were placed, thc centre one being eel lirst, und v wedged sufficiently to take the bear ng, then t lue others put in one by one till the whole sur- t face was covered, each being carefully wedged, ii flic screws were then, removed, and this pro- t tess wus continued under eacii post without u the least damage to the bi?lolng. This opera? c lion required more skill, and, l:i fact, was ?nore li litfield-* and dangerous than the removal ol' c thc building itself. I In order to Ur '.ha lower pr.rl of thc building s together as firmly os possible, 60 ilinitnc t ?tower, when applied to the exterior, should a tiperate equally on thc interior walls, timbers JJ L'lght iuches square were placed on each side fc ?Ithe walla ruunlug north and south, and over L each of thc tramways, limbers of thu same c sise, running in the direction ol' lim line ol v motion, wedged iu between thc others. That t these might bo wedged up without spreading v ihe walls, ?six one and one-quarter hieb iron I rods were mu through betweeu these braces 1 ?nd screwed up tightly on tho outside. This ll tmuigument made tho lower part ol' tho hotel fl perfectly steady. 1 Ou the exterior or the Tremont stroet side a t hard pine timber, fourteen inches square, was c svt ubout a loot above the rollers, ru nu i ng the *. entire length of tho building, aud extending ? under the granite sldewulk on Boylston street, r Hie inner part ol' thia was supported ou a 'J brick wall, and the outer on a framework ol' * timber, both of which were slipped along on i greased ways. Against the bauk wall ol the ' street three-inch plank were set vertically: 1 outside ol' these another heavy timber, und t between these Umbers seventy-two screws, e which were required to start the building (af- t terwards reduced to fifty-six,) each two tuches l diameter, and one-half Inch pilch, were act, t this being tile power by which the building i wa? to be moved. lu preparing for thc removal, over four hun dred perches of block graulte, three thousand ? feet ol' North Uiver Sagging, forty-six Uiousand x four*hundred and thirty-two pounds of iron, which include nine hundred and four rollers, and forty-nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-two feet of lumber were used. The work of preparation was completed on Friday afternoon, August 20, bel?g two months and twenty days from the commencement. Everything being In readiness, on Saturday morning, August 21, a man was stationed at every four screws, and twenty men along the lines of the several walls to watch the rollers as they carno out and replace them In front, they having to be changed every two Inches the building moved. At a signal given by tho superintendent, every man at the screws made ono quarter turn, which carried the hotel west? ward about one-eighth of an inch. The rate of moving was about an inch in five minutes; thc greatest speed was two inches In four minutes. lt took about an hour and three-quarters to move the length of the screws, which was twenty-one Inches, and when this distance was accomplished the work was suspended each time to arrange the screws and blocking. Thc distance accomplished the first day was thirty-Six Inches, tho second day five feet, third' day forty-six inches, and the fourth day two feet; the whole distance, thirteen feel and ten inches, being completed on Wednesday morning, August 25, at twelve minutes before ten o'clock. Thc actual time of moving was thirteen hours and fori y minutes. After the building was in l's destined place, thc interior braces and ties \v ere cleared awn}', thc iron tramways taken up, and such ol' tft'j rollers as were loose taken out; the others were lott in their places, the wooden guides being removed, and the spaces belwcen'being filled in solid with Portland cement. Four thousand three hundred and fifty-one days' labor were spent in perlorining the work, and the whole cost was about thirty thousand dol? lars in currency. Larger buildings have been raised, but none of eqiial size removed. Mov? ing a bnilding ls an entirely different operation from raising one; in thc former you go from an old on to a new and untried foundation; In the latter you have the old constantly to work upon. Thousands of people visited the place during thc progress ol the work, and the com? plete success reflects great credit upon those who had it In charge. TILE GREAT SAINT BEl'NARD, The Perils of Alpine Travel-Thc Pions Work of thc Monks of St. Bernard-The Corpses of the Lost Preserved. (From the London Telegraph.] Three travellers, lt ls stated, have just lost their lives on the Great .Bernard Mountain. They had been travelling from Martinny to? ward the Italian frontier, with the intention of resting for the night, in the famous Hospice that stands almost on the boundary linc be? tween Switzerland and Italy. By 7 o'cloc! the evening they had reached a little inn on thc way to the Monastery; they had still lo Journey for seven toilsome miles before reach? ing the monkish place of welcome; and, since the night was dark and stormy, thc innkeeper besought them to walt until thc morning. Being poor they refused. They belonged to that class of poverty-stricken pilgrims wno are constantly passing* between Switzerland and 11 lal j', anil who carry all their worldly goods In a knapsack of untanned deer's hide. A few minutes will suffice lo lake such travellers from any part of the great Cantou Valais to Aosta. They shun inns with horror, as places of unscrupulous extortion, und their aim is to break the journey at the Hospice, where they get food and lodging Tor the night free of charge, and In the morning ure provided with Hie necessaries of travel on thc same benevo? lent terms. Hence, although the night was pitchy dark, and thc wind was coming down with hnrricanc-llke gusts from the great moun? tains that shut in the valley, thc three travel? lers resolved that they would push on to thc Hospice. Soon after leaving they began to as? cend a winding, rocky and sleep path, which overhangs a howling torrent and leads to the Monastery. The road ls perhaps one of the roughest In Europe. So many rocks Jut out, so sharp are thc turns round the course of tho c-rook, and so steep are some of the ascents, mat even a mule might bc pardoned for slip? ping. When thc night is dark and the mists come down, the path could hardly be kept, even by a man who had daily traversed it for years; and the only 6afe guido would be :he roaring of the torrent. Thc as? cent ls so steep that, after a couple of iiours' climbing, the traveller finds hlmsell several thousand feet above the level of the sea; and nt that elevation, even after the hot :est day In August, the cold ls at night Tali often utense. On the night of thc fatal accident all .bose perils were combined. So black was the sky that the wayfarers had slowly to grope xlong by means ot thc precipice which hems n the Ride of the path farthest from the tor .cnt. Had the moon been up, they might have jeen guided by the poles which the monks lave planted in a direct linc from the Hospice ,o tho vallcv, to iudieute the direction when .he path ls burled under thc snow, and the tor .ent ls frozen. But, in the pitchy darkness, thc riendly beacons were obscured. Hence the .ravellers seem to have again and again been )rought to a stand still, before l eaching that bi d of thc brook at which the road dips, and .hen goes up with one swift spring to tho spot vhere Hie great barrack-like Hospice guides ind cheers the benighted traveller by hs bea :on-Jight. The poor pilgrims were so near to he blaze, that, had tiley been able to exert iieinselrcs for a few minutes longer, they vouid have boen safe. Hut the loll and thc : .ld had so paralyzed their faculties, that they coiiltl not proceed ono step further; they were irercouic by that craving for sleep, for rest, vhlch ls the effect of intense cold; and, within light of the friendly gleam that beckoned to hem overhead, ull three travellers laid down ind died. On the Great St. Bernard thc winter Ecason ?egitid soon und ends late. Already it is win? er beside tho mountain dwelling: and during he long months when tho snow covers thu ?round, or thu cold makes travelling perilous, i ls (he dally custom ol thc good monks to onrney as fur as the bottom of the pass, in or Icr that llicy may lend assistance to any trav? eler who may have dropped by tho way. Mad In their long, black Forge gowns and iroad-brimmcd hats, accompanied by alieu iiits. who carry wine and provisions for the eslora! ion of the wearied or fainting travel? ers, and guided by thc famous St. Bernard logs, whicii do the work of pointers, two or bree monks daily make thc seven miles' jottr icy to thu valley below. Until tnu occurrence >f tho late accident, l hey had not for some ears found auy traveller dead or beyond the id of restoratives. Gradually, Indeed, thc icrlhj of the terrible pass have become o fully appreciated that even thc poorest ravener shrinks from attempting the scent to the monastery ofter nightfall, if thu ;round ls covered willi snow, or if the great lorin gusts blow dowu from the h?ls; thu bree who have last fallen victims, however, keru less discreet, and next morning when he searching party of monks had proceeded 0 a short distance from thc Hospice, they i>uud thu bodies still' mid cold. They were akeu to the little "morgue,'' which is situated 1 a Bhort distance Jrom tho principal building t thu monastery, and in that naked mauso cum thu remains will nbido wlih other relics f mortality, unless claimed by thu kinsfolk ol' hu lost, ll ia u glim resting place, in tha? mall hut perched among thu wintry moun ains dwell thc skeletons of thu men and wo auu und children who, in tho course of many ?encraUons, have perished In the fatal pass, io intense Ia tho cold, that thc nncmboimed todies resist lor long years tho hand ol' de ay. DncolBned, and dressed In thu dollies Yhlch they wore when found dead among ho Bnow, they stand perched ugulnst tho rall, and, while thc visitor looks through he Iron grating of their tomb, they peer grimly urt.lt. as if soliciting recognition and au un lesecruted place of rest. An old mun leans gaiuet the wall, his head bare, his staff in hl3 l?nd, und his utlilude stiffened forever by the loath that smoto him years ago. A woman dutches in her arms thu babe that perished villi hur In the suow. From thu other grim I gurus thu dollies have rotted away by trag DOUtfl, leaving bluached protruding bones. L'IIU floor of thu dungeon-like lomb is strewn villi the memorials of the dead; and going rom the blazing fire of tho monastery tu tho .morgue," the traveller can pass in a slngiu nstani from ibu hum of myrihful conversation ir thu joyous Bouud of music, to what might ?um a place of thu living dead. Europe con aius no moro weird or gloomy n'.glit than thal trisoii house of clothed skeletons, perched in he Alpine wilderness, and aeon through tho nisty and wintry gloom. -The elevated railway from the Battery to ?th street, Kew York, will be In operation next nouih. tl tl o j c tl t a d a tl c ti a r! t< tl 0 a ? Si e v o P tl h n f< ri i< vv n A tl h tl bi ci tl lu w C( hi tc w si Ul ??< ki Ul h< Sil rc Ol si: di ol m in 01 hi tu Ol Si IT] CC Ol Tl to th vi 60 BJ W lu ar ci ni m lo tn th sh SI wi wi lui di di Et 1st re it al tel bc Ita pr an wi ec pe it: pr du mi tri CO; ott fai lt ve Un sa1 pe fin wi ab uv ho re.? ha ?ii; ed fut th? ria mi flu bc an ca1 nc ev bli ch wi Wi till ab pr no be co foi he th sk li mi wi tu lg an lie au ab au "UTE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN." Lix Women Physically on an Equal . Footlnz with Men? - From tho Edinburgh Review's article OH Mr. [ill's ^'Subjection of* Women'' wc extract the allowing points indicating physiological ob jctlons to the doctrine of the equality of wo? den with men : But let us turn for one moment to thc other lew ot the question. It ls that a woman is a vornan, and not a lesser edition of man. Thc ompetition in which we are forever laboring 0 involve them has no existence in nature, 'hey are not rivals, nor antagonists. They arc wo halves of a complete being. The offices hey hold in thc world are essentially differ nt There ls scarcely any natural standing round which we can realize on which these wo creatures appear as rivals. Thc very bought is preposterous. Shall thc woman hallengc the man to a trial of strength? Shall lie man put himself against the woman for lelicacy of eye and taste ? Shall she plough lie heavy fields with him, wading through the iew-turned mould, or shall bc watch thc chll reu with her, patient through the weary igll ? An exchange of place and toil, the ian taking the indoor work and the woman lie outdoor, in order to prove the futilityof heir mutual discontent, was a favorite subject f the old ballad-makers; and thc witty min jsel is generally very great on the domestic ontusion that follows and gives the wife lie bust o? it. But the fact is that such a ?valry can be nothing but a jest. The two rc not rivals, they are not alike. They are 1 fi?rent creatures. They are one. To illustrate this theory we have but to look t the life which they lead together. Civiliza ion has- a wonderful- faculty for altering and onfoundlng (he natural conditions ol'exist snce. But In primitive circumstances lt ls lways the man who is the bestower of mate ial advantages; lt is his to give, to provide for, ) labor, to protect. He is the bread-winner lie strength is lils. It ls he alone, who, with ut intermission, eau face the outside world, nd force a subsistence out of thc reluctant oil or the barren seas. When the typical pair at out together who are to found all human couomles, all domestic relations, and from hom the new life is to proceed-and every | j cw pair is bul a repetition of the first-nature laces them at once with a certainty beyond icory in their traditional places. The woman xs an office to perform which renders unre-1 j titting labor impossible to her. She is the '1 mntain of life, bound by all the laws of ncr ature to guard the .sacred seed and bring it trth to crush thc serpent's head, and fill the . orld with increase and gladness. The man J tay shirk his work, but hers she cannot shirk. I nd in the pride and joy of her special office ' 1?re mingles a sacred shame which compels cr to Intervals of seclusion and avoidance of 1 io world's gaze. Her life ls interrupted, \ rokcu up into morsels; now she can go forth, J in work if it bc needful, can use in any way ' lat may be necessary the faculties that God J is given her; and auon there comes a time In } hicli all such labors must bc suspended In 1 mslderation of something else which God ' is given her to do. But the man has no in- 1 xruptions to lils Ufo; his strength ls steady ' ithout breach or variation. What partner- f dp is there that cnn have any analogy with '? ils ? Let us suppose that they labored to- 1 ;ther lu their Eden a little while, scarcely r nowing which was which In the first sweet c illy of being. And then thc time came when r j went out alone to labor, and she in her 1 inctity or weakness stayed at home. When he 0 ?lurued how could it bc otherwise than that 1 ie foi\whom he had been tolling all day 0 lonld meet him with offices of service, with n nncstic ministrations, with grateful lessening ' herself and magnlfyiug ol' him '! From tuet ornent must nut equality have lied to the p iuds like all other foolish pretences ? The | au was out all day tolling, struggling, meet- ii gthewind8and the storm, thc sun beating " i his head, the powers of nature resisting a m; what could he be but king when here- \? irned to that first hut or hovel and stretched i it h is weary limbs by the new-lighted fire ? r ;rvice was his due. The food ho had earned, t ust lt not be offered to him, with observances 0 ipiedafar off from those with which the gifts p His giving were ofl'ered buck again to God ? ? ie imagination refuses to believe in, refuses j, frame, any other conception. His Inferior- a at mhiht or might not bc-but his servant, L rs-his minister, the natural Second, the born c lace and consolation. When wc cast our f? 'es back to the primeval husband and wife- " hen wc turu to any subsequent pair who c ive ever set out upon the world like Adam ] id Eve, we find the same-course ol' events re- d Irring in infallible sequence. This is fact and c tture, let theory say what it will. The wo- v an in such a union Is in no way called upon a be thc man's inferior. She may be Intellec- jj ally his superior eveu, and it will not change h e course, of nature. She will serve him h mild all the world interfere to prevent her. r ie will spread his table, and watch his " ishes, and give him of his own, with rites of p alitnde, with flowers and Incense, and a \? hole liturgy of miuistratlon. Eve would |? ive done it had Mr. Mill been lhere ever so c stluctly, shaking hld head at her, aud bid- B ng her remember the mles of equality. n inality I what does lt mean '! Has lt any ex- j, euee as between any two people lu Intimate ? lations on the face of the earth ? And were * established over and over, were lt meosur- a le by line and weight like any tangible ma- c rial, what place ls lhere for Us consideration n tween the two thus linked and bound to- 0 ther, the one thc supplement of the other ? v tn goes out to bis work and labor lill the n cuing. Woman prepares for him, wails for c rn, serves him at home. So natural is this, t? at when, as the case may be, lt ls woman e' 10 is the bread-winner tor a household of JJ uncu, thc worker is turned into an im- t, ompiii superior on the spot, and served aud 0 died on as thc mon In other ci re i instances Ci walled on and served. It is the hire of the \{ jorcr, the reward ol' the provider; an In- \? uctivo law which antedates all legislation, u 11 lies at the very root aud beginning ol al! c'j mau affairs. WAN TUE SUPERIOR. Thus, though wo have declared without hes .tion our belief that the law which takes all operty and all right lrom married women ls insult and injustice, equally cruel aud uu SC, wc are ready to grant as frankly that thc onomlcul position of man is that of the su rior, thc first in the natural hierarchy. He ls whose office is to maintain, support and otect. He may not always be equal to the ties of this o?lice. He may by nature be no jre powerful, no more steadfast, no more istworthy, In fact, than the wife who is re? alized as depeudent on him. But in his Iciul position he stands first, and has in his rorall the instiuctsaiid prejudices of nature, is vain lo assert of n rule which is 60 unl rsal that lt originates lu the arbitrary will of i stronger half ol' the species. We might y, on the contrary, with much greater ap aroncc ol' Justice, that it ls women who have med this infallible law. Every observer, lose eyes are. open to the common facts nutjdui, will see lt re enacted every day by cry bride who crosses the threshold ol a new nsehold. Mr. Mill will tell us that this ls tho ?ult of a defective education, and of tho\ow? bit of slavery; but let him take the UIOBI dl-splritcd young womau he can find, train in his own school, and roused to full de? ice of the theoretical rights of her sex by .'enthusiasm of youth and vehementsccta ,n education, and let her but murry a m she loves, and the philosopher will d thc code re-established, it may bo secretly, it may be with a 9enso ol' guilt d confusion, and even treachery io her own use, ere she has well taken her place In her w kingdom. She may rule her husband en, yet she will serve him;she may lead him ndtoldby right, of love or wit, or superior arador; and yet she will minister tu him, lit upon him, offer bim sacridces as if sbo re the commonest daughter of Eve. For were _ e confusing conditions ol our civilization tj olished, along with dowers and laws ol' " operty, and marriage settlement*, would it ft t be his office to work for her ? Ula it must K lo prolect her, whatever external dangers R me In their way; his to toil when Providence j .bids her lrom toillug; his to stand between h r and the world, and screen off lrom her, at t? ose moments when nature demands soclu- C( rn, the offunsive gaze of the crowd. Fur be f. from us to dwell with prurient eentl- ? L'nt upon the details of that grand function deli is the distinguishing work ot? woman lu c world. But any theory of her bel?g which Hores lt, or gives lt a secondary place, or in h y way whatever leave? lt ont ot ihe caleula- tl >n, ls'Inevitably a futile theory. Let us itu- fi ?ino even that at other times she may be cap- a le o.' maintaining her own Independence I ,d securing ber livelihood apart (rom Uie help v of man-yet at these times she I3 not so caps ble. It Is then that his strength, which is Iii bio to no interruption, asserts its superiority He hos nothing to do which calls him off hi day's work, prompts him to seek the coven puts him aside from ordinary*employmcni? Such a fact makes rivalry utterly impossiblt It would bc as reasonable to expect that a sol dler engaged in a dangerous campaign, an with the necessity upon him of periodical^ confronting death, and running all thc risks 0 a battle, should at thc same time compel with a civilian in some art or handicraft Thc comparison is weak, for there ls ni reason why the soldier should not be ii robust health up to thc moment 0 marching, and it is his own life only which ii concerned. But thc women who are men'i wives are bound in most ciiscs to uuderg periodically a risk which is us great as tha which any individual soldier encounters in 1 battle. And they have not only to brace thel nerves to encounter this danger for theil selves, but ills their grand moment of respou sibility, when they must vindicate thc trust re posed in them by God and the world. Cai there bc any doubt that this essential elcmen of her life at once and forever disables a womat from all trial of strength and rude equality with man? Nobody but a fool, we believe will assert that the burden of this great trus ?tamps her as inferior. It would be just a; reasonable to say that it gave herasupcrioi place in the economy of nature as the pos i?ssor of a faculty more utterly essential to thc continuance of the race. Bnt there can bc nc doubt about thc fact that it separates her and der work and her office from the office and work of man. The two are not made to con? tend and compete and run races for the same prize. There is no natural opposition, hue or the contrary harmony unbounded in theil differences of nature-harmony which can never be attained by two creatures framed or the self-same plan. * * * * TBE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION OP OIRLS. But when wc turn to thc consideration ol professional education for girls, we feel that ive have relumed to the general fundamental conditions oi women, and can only argue the ine question by an appeal to the other. Pro? fessional education In man occupies all the sea ion of youth. He has reached his majority at least before he is qualified to put his powers to :he test and exercise lhe knowledge he has gained. Unless he steps into an exceptional position, reaping the benefit of some one else's alors, the first ten or fifteen years of mau jood are spent In a struggle for position, more )r less bard in proportion to his talents and ils character, and his power of awaiting a slow -esu.lt. Under favorable circumstances, of loursc, this struggle is not mortal: but lt al? ways requires the man's full force, his clearest udgment, and most careful labor. If he is pros? perously established in thc exercise of his pro essio n at 35, with a clear prospect of gain and locial honor, he has done as well as he could losslbly hope, and can look iorward with olerablc confidence on the career before him. buring this early struggle he has to exert all lis powers; if nc pauses for a moment he ; no ws that lt is at the hazard, not of losing hat moment alone, but of sacrificing ten times ts value. The road is so up-hill that he slides lown one step for every ? three he makes, and s aware that to stop short or to turn aside on lie way Is destruction. A temporary illness ometlines neutralizes years of labor; he must ic always at his post, pushing on with speed inbrokon. Should ho fall, some ono else ls cady lo Jostle him out of the already too xowded way. Such is a very ordinary statc neiu of thc usual difficulties which beset the lath, say, of thc young physician; and the ither professions aro not less toilsome. Let is see what effect these obstacles would have m thc career of the candidate were lt a woman .nd not a man. M ARRIAOS AGAIN. Thc first thing wc have to imagine ls that the rirl's entire youih, its bloom, and softest years hould bo passed like thal of the young'man ? the steady pursuit of knowledge. At one ,nd-twouty, by tho devotion of all her youth, he is qualified ty enter upon the practice of 1er profession; when lo I there appears at thc hrcshold of life the most natural of all lnter uplions to a young woman's curcer, a young lusband ready to take upon himself the cbargo f her fortunes. She is married, let us sup? pose, her education being no bar to the exer lse of thc primitive duties of her sex; and ct us also Imagine that she is loth to sacrifice t a stroke the labors of so many years, and hat she attempts to combine professional ex rtlons with the duties of a wife. She works or a year, let us say, with inter? missions, finding it more and more diffi ult to maintain her place against the ively competition of men who have no dlvi ed duty. Then she ls stopped short by the in vltable discharge of the primary function of -?oman. This business over, she resumes gain with a heart and attention sorely divided et ween the claims ot thc infant she leaves at ome and thc duties she finds outside. Dar? ug the interval of her seclusion, however estrlctod In point of time, every one of her talc competitors has made a stride before her. 'altering and discouraged, she resumes her iboriotts way, and if she nos the energy of alf a dozen men in her single person, if her oiiragc ls indomitable and her determination ublimc, she perhaps manages, by a train of lind and body which lt would bc impossible 3 continue long, ta make up half of thc round she has lost, when lo ! another inter uption comes, and she hos to step aside again nd bear her feminine burden, and see her ompelllnrs, light and unladen, stride past once lore. This is the inevitable courbe, known nly too well to every woman who hos endea ored to combine professional exertions with ie ordinary duties of a man's wife. Other ompllcatlons, such as wc shrink from mcn onlng, probably come in to take all the lastlctty out of a mind so burdened, [er children born amid these cares, and la? ired before their birth by the undue activity f brain which weakens their mother's physi al powers, come imo the world feeble or'dic I her anus, quenching out her courage In tho Itlerest waves of personal suffering. This i no laney picture. At every step in her trecrlt becomes less possible lo maintain Hie aequul conlllct. Her competitors have mtirch J far before her, while she toils and strives < lidway on thc steep ascent. They have gone ; II without intermission; she has had to , .op short again and again in lier course. nih what sickness of heart, with what a ' cary, hopeless sense of thc unattainable, I nd desperate consciousness of the mistake, 1 ic maintaius the struggle, only they can tell ( bo have done it, and happily the number is ot great. Such is all that a woman has to ex- 1 set who attempts to combine the work of a ' ian tu .Vilich shu has buen trained with the < minnon duties of female lill*. 1 ANOTHER VIEW. , I On thc ntr.er hand. let us suppose that she 1 nts aside thu profession shu has acquired and t Ives herself up to domesticity and w?'ehood \ ntl! the period of child-bearing ls over, and j er special resposlbititles . so far accomplished. ., his period canuol be estimated- at less than venty years, lt maybe considerably shorter; 3 ls sometimes longer; but we are not under- li anding the possibilities If we grant that at tl iriy she may consider herself emancipated _ om womau's natural disabilities, and may reich ont her hands towards thu tools which ie put from her, all now and shining at one- 11 ad-twenty. Will these tools have Improved fi r will they have deteriorated in thu muan- u mu ! Wi?l her training of IwonLy years ago me back all fresh lo her memory as If lt :\d buen but twenty days ? Will the world -y 3 so good os to stand still In thu muan- D mu. and kee]) everything just as lt ?as b i ibo days of her apprenticeship Thai ? ic may begin again with some chance p ['success? Alas, no ! this is precisely what n ie world will not do. Shu will lind her fellow- v ndents u hundred miles ahead of her, and c_ ?eir Bons ready to tread on her heels and gibo w t her old-world principles. She will be of the T d school, before shu hos even begun to put |t i praclicu her rusty knowledge. She will fuel t< i herself thu painful consciousness of fucul- ci es blunted by want ol' use, and powers a nmbed by long inaction. If shu ls a wondur- Jj il woman, willi thu energy of half a dozen * ten, she will, perhaps, make a desperate cf ?rt and force her way alongside of some plod- J lug bungler whose indolence and stupidity ir ave left him out of tho race. This Is the best n mt can befall her If shu adopts this second li jurau and waits until shu can give to her pro- tl .ssion the matured and steady powers of mid- J lu age. *j AN ALTERNATIVE. tl There ls, however, an alternative open to n cr. She can take a vow of celibacy. Site can ? Urow off altogether thc yoke ol'nature, and Jj t herself lo compete with man by consciously p nd voluntarily rejecting the life of woman. fi 'lila ls ft poHslbilitv which ls not to be rejected ri nth diatiain as out of the question. Lt" all la [ t trne that wc continually read about the num? ber of women who cannot marry, lt ls no unlit ptestlon for the more resolute souls among them, whether they should not make up their minds that they will not marry, and thus" quali? fy themselves by one severe yet effectual ?ffort for an existence resembling that of nan. By this means alone can they procure br themselves fair play In the world, or a reas mable chance of success In any profession. Jut thia is a penalty which perhaps not one )f all their male fellow-students would ind?rtake to pay; and lt ls tile most cruel 'enunciation which can be exacted from a inman creature. Thus success is a profession -nay, the mere initiatory possibility of success -requires from a woman not equality with man, mt an amount of intellectual and moral supe .iority over him, which can only be found in .he rarest and most Isolated cases. To him :he prospect of marriage ls the strongest In :entive to Industry and exertion. To her lt is (imple ruin, so far asher work ls concerned, if then she has the magnanimity and self-de? votion to cut herself off from all that ls popu arly considered happiness fa life-from all that routh most dreams of, and the heart most ?ares for-she is free to enter Into and pursue, ind very likely will succeed In a profession, vhich men, with all solaces of love and help of 'ompanionshlp, pursue by her side ' at not half he cost. Perhaps, even then, after she has nade this sacrifice, she will find that she ie the lot of earth making her way among their pots if iron* and that their Bupei lor physical pow ?rs and bolder temperament will carry them icyond her, notwithstanding the superior de? motion she has shown, and the price she has laid. But this is the best we can promise her vhen all ls done-to (perhaps) succeed as veil, at thc cost of everything, as her competi? ?te who go into it with the commonest of mo Ivcs, and at no cost at all. FOREIGN y OTES. -The last and most remarkable "doctoring" if wines ls one recently discovered* by a member of he French Academy of Sciences. It appears that ie was first awakened to the eminent services trhlch may be rendered to wine by the voltaic pile ty having his own cellar broken open by a nash if lightning, which converted his Inferior wines uto valuable llqnor. Electricity applied to a: :ask of bad Moselle entirely changed Its charac er, and experiments with other wines, at least so )r. Scoutetten assured the Academy, had a siml-' ar result. The doctor explains, for the benefit of ie: sons anxious to try tbe operation, that the vires of the voltaic pile should be tipped with ilatinum, to which must be attached electrodes' >f tho same metal. Dip both Into the liquid and ou wiu precipitate lt, and produce premature ige. -Quite a romantic incident recently occurred, it the court of the ex-Queen Isabella. One of he maids of honor, a young girl of great beauty, sst a portemonnale containing eight hundred ran cs, which was brought to. the Queen a few ays afterwards by a young and handsome pea ant. Nothing was missing, and the Queen asked he lad what reward ho wanted for his honesty, 'he yonng fellow had observed the fair owner of he Portemonnaie, and her great Joy at his re overy, and made bold to Bay, "I want no reward ut one kiss from that young lady." Her Ma jsty smiled, and turning to thc yoong girl, said: 'Will you grant his request. Carmenr" Carmen lesltated for a moment, but finally she resolutely rent up to thc young lad, and, throwing her rms around his neck, kissed him three times, midst the general laughter and applause of the sserabled company. -The Paris Gaulois gives a statistical table, ompiled from official returns, of the average gea attained by members of different protes? tons. Thc results are thus given: Priests, 67.3 ears; judges, 66.4; lawyers, 66.1; doctors, 66.0; rofessors, 66.0; bankers, 64.7; librarians, 50.5. 'he Gaulois is naturally sarprlsed that the care nd perusal of books should tend to shorten ba ian life, and suggests that the cause must be mnd in the unwholesome nature of their con m ts. The Fall Mall Gazette says: "In England ne average duration of life ls higher than in rance. Judges probably take precedence In inge vi ty, but the clergy follow them very closely, he Irish incumbents, lt will be remembered, ob dned an addition of seven per cent, to their life ommutatlons, on tho ground that as a class icy were more long-lived than the laity. We an? reitend, however, that bankers in England gen rally attain a considerable age, but that, on the ther hand, medical men are, absolutely as well s relatively, shorter-lived than in France." -A recent utterance of the celebrated French urgeon, M. Nelaton, has caused a great sensation i thc medical world, and ls Ukely to prodaee a ?markabie schism In the profession. Some lonths ago wc had occasion to notice a state lent of M. Claude Bernard, who prefaced one of is lectures by declaring that la medectni seien flque did not exist, and that we most look to ex Brlmental physiology (as he euphemistically inns vivisection) to famish us with a foundation >r all future science. M. Nelaton now goes even irthcr than his colleague, and, while fully agree ig with him that la m?decine sclenVflQue does ot exist, denies the necessity of its existence, e condemns as false and delusive all systems ased on experimental physiology and mlcrc :opical Investigations, and, In fact, every source r information not derived from direct obscrva on of thc patient. So bold an assertion has not asscd unchallenged. M. Verneull, In the Gazette ebdomadaire de la M?decine, inquires whether, lier denying thc medical profession the aid of ic microscope, ll. Nelaton will not call on astron uers to renounce the use of thc telescope. -A new convenience to American social life at omc is the establishment ef a club by the resL int American artists. The correspondent of the cw Y^ork Times pronounces lt a success, both as i its funds and management. It ls located in ic ancient Gregorl Palace, near the Propaganda*. ii accessible and convenient position, and the venty or more rooms give sufficient space for ,'csy need. For a ball or similar occasion of mera! entertainment, the lofty salosns are ell suited, and on nore than ene night : festivity their adaptor has already been roved. The rooms are furnished with Buff ent elegance, and are had at a rental 00 scudl, or dollars, a year, a price ex. emery reasonable for Rome, and, Indeed, any herc .for such accommodations. As for the incrican Club, it ls a temptation to bachelors, ipclessly advanced in celibacy, to come and tile in Rome. For heads of families, lt has not ss attractions. Journals, a buffet, billiards, coal cs, rooms for whist playing and whatever else ics to make up a similar establishment here are * ovlded, und the annual payments are fixed at e moderate sum of thirty dollars, or ten dollars r entrance by the mouth, with liberty to Intro ice no w ami then a friend. -Thc "La Coterie" ?elect masquerade in New >rk, on Thursday evening, ls pronounced the ist of thc season. What with good music, a g anil fashionable crowd, nocoufuslon. pretty omen, plenty to eat and lots of dancing, the incant was rendered truly majrniflcent. The usqaeradc was opened by a grand tableaux van t, produced by the two hundred grotesque iiiracters situated at thc stage end of the room solving themselves Into all sorts of shapes hilo the band played the opening overture. ion came the grand march m which over two ind red costumes were exhibited. Thecharac rs were ns comical as anything that could be incclved by a Parisian costumer's bram, and I moved in regular order, and the spec cle was one of picturesque beauty. As e evening progressed, new couples arrived, ld at 12 o'cloek the floor was thronged with the iv dancers, In many colored costumes and tin? ned pendants. In and out, like shuttles weav g Iri-"?*i poplin-i. Coventry ribbon and Kldder ?nstei carpet, went the threads of color, mak g pictures as bright and beautiful as ever?dld ie best ten-dollar kaleidoscope. Lovely JeweUed omen sat buried In the crimion-colored seats of ic parquet circle, and through their golden, m m ed lorgnettes, watched with delighted eyes, ie panorama on the floor. In addition to the innv notables of Gotham who attended, fifty imples were present from "La Cot rle," of Phlla hia. and thirty from "A La Comare." "The Cir? io Francais de L'Harmonie" was also represent il On the whole, "La Coterie" have th* grntlfl on of being assured that the7 have pleased nil iclr friends who did them the honor to attend lie ball.