Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1866, Page 1

“THE EVENING STAR_ B® PUBLISHED DaILY, (EXCEPT SUNDAY,) AT THE sTAR BUILDINGS i euthewest corner of Pew’ avenue end 111) street ar W. D. WALLAOCH. ‘The STAR i served by the carriers to their wabscribers m the City and Distric _— Corner Lovisiana avenue and Seventh street, DEALERS '' GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, @OLD AND SILVER yy ot AND LAND WABBARTS. L?2= JOHNSON & CO., BANKSEBS, and DEALEBS IN FOREIGN EXCHANGE, GOVEBNMENT SECURITIES, STOCKS. BONDS, GOLD AND SILVEB, BOUGHT AND SOLD. wb 6-tf yY COOKE & CO., BANEKEES, BPifiectch siveti, opposvie Treasury, Buy and se?! st current rates, and keepalways © band, a fall supply of ay) GOVEBNMENT BONDS, 7-30 TREASURY NOTES, CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS, &c., And pay the highest prices fer QUARTEBMASTERS’ CHECKS aND VOUCHERS. and att First National Bank of Washington. B.D. COOK of Jay Cooke &Co.,) President. W&M. 8. HUNTINGTON, Cashier. GOVERNMENT DEPOSITORY AND FINANCIAL AGENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1G6A serces, OpPesus Treasury Department, Government Securities with Treasurer United Btates. “ar ONE MILLION DOLLARS gg We buy and sell all classes of GOVERNMENT SECURITIES at current market rates. FURNISH EXCHANGE and mais Cotlectrons on ALL THE*PRINCIPAL CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES, We purchase Government ae on the MOST FAVORABLE TERMS, ve carefal ané prompt attention to ACCOUNTS of BUSINESS MEN aad FIRMS, and to any other business entrusted to us. FULL INFORMATION in regard t: GOVERE- MERT LOANS at ali times cheerfully farnished WH. 8. HUNTINGTON, Cashier. Washington, March 20, 1865, m 21-tf CLOTHING, é. g, 472 at NEwes FROM OAK HALL, BEADQUARTERS CLOTHING DEPABT MENT. SMITH BROTHERS & CO., Nos. 460 and 464 SEVENTH STEEBT TWENTY PER CENT. SAVED BY BUYING YOUR FALL AND WINTEB CLOTHES NOW. We offer an immense stock of SUMMER, FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING AT TWENTY PER CENT. LESS the same goods can be manufactured for to- can seve greatly by buying now for next and Winte: '» use. CLOTHING to order fer pes iFull oud Wistert much less than they will Jour immediate attention to this advertisement ‘Willpsy you. ITH BROS &CO., Me. Wood 464 Seventh street, sty Opposite Post Ofice, x HELM3ES H™ bg Cn: AN from 394 D street, Feutuvress eoener of Louisiana avenne and eth street. an l0-lm J. HEIBERGE t . Leadon & Co.,. FIZEN'S AND MILITARY TENS EN MERCHANT TAILOR, Metropolitan Hote!. late Brown's, P Ivania avenue my 1-tf 563 Fenereecinster D.C. DENTISTRY. Ristremoces trom 214 Teh strase 10 Ble lores = re a No. 18 Market between ana ets. 2 permanent OPERATIONS entngn 5 duced rates, enough to do justice b panne “He fi at eu im" 5 MBE. ITIST, No 249 oth street, Js tarraken ogre mine jneer * o Bubber Piatc,at most moderate prices ‘material ‘au 2-Im* B. Rock veo, Saree ee 344 Penn's avenue. eoth i T ‘de! a at! gold —s neert 4 0} Sauber a oy out pein. dy 16 im* ‘eeth. we inceé of the fact, and see for your- vee. Ales call tnd eee the bew and improved fio. 260 Penn's avenue; between 12th and 18th 8. B. LEWIE, M. D., Dentist, Tt ; we ee Jn ML. L Tk TEETH, stterds perronaliy at Bis office in thie city. Mas? perens wear these teeth who wear others, and no person can wear others who eannct wear Persons calling at my office can be accommoda- ted with eny + J ad price of Teeth they may de- aire, bu: os ‘he are particular,and wish the INERAL TRETH to] ee EXPRESS COMPANIES. Apu: EXPRESS COMPANY, OFFICE 314 PENNA AVENUE. ERR PASS P 219 ENNSYLVAN. VED . 'POSI PE ANA AVENUE, oP TE GREAT EASTERN. 4 TREN. AND SOUTHEEN Ladies sto 3 FORWARDERS. ane Merchandise, Maney. an) Valoables of afi kinds Jorwarced with dispatch to all accesible sections et the cu . COLLECTION OF NOTES, BBAFTS, ayp BILLS Mode iu accessible parts of the United States. C, ©. DUNN, Agent. wh wtf Washingion’ D: ©. W "Fate AAW: b cucnente Made to order on reasbusble terms aAR caeere MNATON'S, EUEMERTS Oy iNFausae TIOBAL LAW new editte si, w be ‘PEANCK TAYLOR. vw a ou XXVIM. NUIGHT BARITAN DIVI- FIER, of GUD. Bo, 1 Bens OF Te ‘an- to the public hey’ red the fc . OOM. August 2th. 13%. ‘The boat will — foot Grbares fine ouenioals abe mont Pot vafier hich i} Boat wit arming to the city at 10% o'clock. “The character jee aioe WT Shut oh sacee quiet ga Cy ‘Tom of the Father of his dou . -& lim number of tickets have been joued to inst ® crewd. Music on tho the progede. - a secubuinea er ery A 2, ir. 2 Bile 306 Pa. avenue, of the mem: re of the Division, and if say remeia Sasete, at scursion. LEED WOOD, Chairman of Committee. the Bost on the afternoon au 21-3t* ¥ BEQUEST, BX BRSPEST, cre pio RIC FOR THE BEXKPIT OF SOUTHERN ORPHAN ASYLUMS, Will be repeated MONDAY, Avorst 2717 AT ANALOSTAN [Si AVD. Ferry free. Fir-t boat leaves foot of high street at2o clock p.m , and every ten minutes thereafter, Tickets $1, sdmitting a: entleman and laiiew tee —M W. Shekell, Walter Drew, Dr. ice, Scott Braddock, A.I. Mudd, Joseph au 20-5" STEAMER LEAVES FOR MOUNT VERNON f “ THURSDAY, AT 110A. M. BETUBNS ‘AT 43, PM. FARE FOR ROUND TBIP, $1.60. One-third of this amount for use of Mount Vernon Association. Ce Wasbington and Alexandria is leave each place every hour from 7 a. m. to6 p. m. Sr The oi: teamer Wawaset can be chartered J.V RIR WICK for Excursio: ang le Sot AMUSEMENTS. RO}S. J. W. 2B. P, KEEIS DANCING ACADEMY, Opposite Metropolitan Hotel. Our Classes will be continued during the Sum- mer, commencing TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1566, Dov: and Hours of Tuition: For Ladies, Misses and Masters Friday afternoons, from 4 to 6 0 'cloc Gen sntlemen's Gla-ses, same evenings, from 8 to 10 ° Ns } or farther information, apply during the hours of bey igs or address a note to the Acade my. my $17 SS EDUCATIONAL. M RS. VEBNON DORSEY’S SELECT for YOUNG LADIES, No. 45 Bas’ street, corner of 2d stree! peed on MONDAY, 4d mpber. aR eferences J posrrell Br ea SA Flot, "a 08. . ns. Esq., John Oranc! ” General Thomas Ewing"? an 2l-eolm*" ME: J.4.KE8LKY WILL OPEN A SCHOOL for onng lomee and misses on the FIRST MONDAY in September, (3d,) at No. 117, south side Penn’a avenue, between 19th and 20th streets. An opportunity will be afforded for a thorough and full course in Eoglish, Freach, Music, D ing and Painting, by experienced and «| Professors. Im M's MAGRUDEB'S DAY SOHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES will reopen on MONDAY, September 3. pupils will be received for tuition 5 Freach only, if desired French teachers, ‘ons. and Madam MALLARD, frem Paris. No. 111 West street, Georgetown. au l4-tseps* BOF. G. W. WOOLLEY’S COMMERCIAL P OOLLEGE, 4™1 9th st., is again open for the reception of pupils. The most thorough scientific iostruction is given in Writing, Bookkeeping, Smeets aa Terms the most moderate au l4-Im* Jpo4BP ING AND Day scuoon For YOUNG ra. ANNE J. MITCHELL will o: Board ing «nd Day Schoel for Young Ladies at her resi de 122 Gay «treet, Georgetown, D. C., on Monday. September 10 Soran d Th Mat 3 SEMINABY, F K MD., Possessing fuli collegiate powers, will commence ite 24th scholastic year on the First MONDAY in Reptember. For catalocues, &c., sidress Bev. THOS. M. CABM, A. M., President. jy 24-ecteepti* i 8T. TIMOTHY'S HALL. HE duties of this institution will be resnmed on Sept. 13.188 | For terms, &c.. see catatogne and circular at the principal bookstores of this city, or address the princips: au 3) E. PARSONS, Catonville, Md. SCHOOL PERSONAL. IBREMIANS. BLACK. WARD N.LAMON, C.F. BLACK. LAW OFFICE. BLACK, LAMON &CO., Qoansellors and Attorneys at-Law in the Supreme rt of the Untied States, the Court of Oleims, the Courts of the District, the Executive Depart ments. and Committees of Congress. : Office, 465 lgth street, (directly opposite Wil- lards’ Hotel ) de 18-tf Cc INGLE. . ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, No. 36 Louisiana avenue. shove sth street, oe 34 ly AsHiNGTON, D CO. poe OLD PORT WINE | Ihave received from the private stock of a well- known and honored citizen a short supply of par. first quality PORT WINE, “sito Douro apie wine ben been nown forieg en rears: a teeflects upon persons Suffering w ail- —_ incident to the season have been very bene- 8 YMé ordered und recommended by physicians, end be relied on iu every particula eee eee NW BURCHELL, corner ith and F streets, Ne iy 30 under Ebbitt House. RTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DPNMED Stites PATENT OFFICE, st 3, 185s, KS, of Bos- ASHINGTON, A’ On the petition of LEMUEL 6, JE ton. Mas« s raving r the extension of a patent granted to him onthe 3d day ef November, 1852, a improvement in “‘ Machines for Drilling nes,” for seven years from the expiration of said patent, which takes place on the 2d day of No- r. : itis ora thet Petition be heard at the Patcue Ofice on MONDAY ibe Leth da at pa Be yt at 2 ogeek m ; and Pp —— er a ar fl ow cause, any e fave. why sal Petition it to be ad. ns ing the @: file inthe Pateht Office their set yrs i oa least went; aoe hearing; all testi ei ni ate hd nS em and tranem! nace ru ot the office, which will be farnished on applica- ‘positions and other papers, retied testimony. must be filed in th office fier wet dey of + arguments, within ten dave aiter Sling the tertimony? < alse that this notice be publisted in the Republican and the Inrellicencer, Washington, DB. is and inthe lommnat, Reston, Mass ~53 r three ive Weeks, Ts! Sobiications tobe at least sixt a revious to the day of bearing. M4 Ly . $ —Editors of the iy * ind send therr tille te the Patent joe, with a paper containing this notice, @u 4-law3w [DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, UNITED ST. STATES PATENT OFEICE, Wasit SoTox, Anenst 7, 18%. yor Poiadeubiay Pa now of Beta RTT or yr a, 2 Be’ 2, . . J ing for ‘the extengion of @ pateot granted to im on the 2% dav of November. 1892, tor an im provement in Macbines for Driliing’ stone, for ears from the expiration of paieat, ice es place op the 252 day of Nosember, Ttis ordered that the sai‘ petition be Acard at Office Monday, the day of No- Ra Rtg get a notified to « gud ehow cause, ff any they have, why Petition ought not to bo granted Persons the extrusion are 1@:nirerd to fle in the Patent Ufice their ohzactinns, spectaily set forth & the day writing, af eee Fg e if hearing; ail testimony nied i, efther part: tobe used at the said hesring must be take bad fraps itted in secordan: be ts eth Ll 1 other poritions and other pagers thmony must imthe office twe fore ibe day ne; the crguments, if any, ‘er filing the testimeny. Within ten de notice be wabtiched inh % that ee ee a a once ave tha to the day be st least Sixty days pre- Thetie. 2 4 } : iat eel 0 ts Cy Ne to the Patent ( wit TOF Se SET SRE Vy Th TAG 7.uea + 2 Ub i i i on oo eo ee ee WASHINGTON. D:-C fey or: ‘WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22: 1866. N°. 4,200. TELEGR Ams. & / The cotton is reported’ knee-high ‘in the @a:tera partof Warren ang Claiborne coun- tes, Mississippi, and devastated by the worm Reportstrom Hinds, Madisen, Catrol, Clai- borne, and Scot: connties give & basis for an estimate that tbe of i806 wonld be 400,000 bales iu Mississippi, and 1,700,000 bales in the United States. In consequence of the abatement of the cbolera in New York, the quarantine of ves. sels arriving from that port at Charleston, S. C., has been modified so as to admit them im- mediately on their arrival if there is no sick- ness en board. A convention of colored Baptist preachers from ail parts of the United Statesis in session at Richmond, Va. Meetings are heldin Ebe- nezer Charcb, and are attended by crowds of colored people who manitest great interest in the proceedings. The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury arrived at Milwankee, Sunday evening, on board the revenue cuttter Andy Juhneon. He is making atour of Lake Michigan, and has now gone to Grand Haven. The President bas ordered that Wm. Smith recommended by the delegates from Indiana to the Philadelphia convention, be appointed pension agent at Fort Wayne, Indiana, vice S. 1). Baylis, a strong radical, removed. EXPLOSION OF A LocomoTive.—A terrible dent occurred at Oakhill station, opposite Catskill, on the Hadson river railroad, about noon Monday. The New York express train which lett New York at 7.45 that morning reached the above station shortly after eleven o'clock, and was standing still waiting for the Albany down train, when a terrific expjosion took place, the cars and locomotive being in- stantly enveloped in steam and smoke. When the vapor cleared away it was fonnd that the boiler of the locomotive Baltic, attached to the train, had exploded, the steam rushing ont the furnace door, badly scalding the engineer, Mr. George Smith, and the fireman, Mr. James Brooksby. The furnance-door of the engine was blown off and the locomotive thrown from the track. A shaniy near by was set on fire and a woman ip it slightly scalded. The flames were soon extinguished. On pick- ing up the injured men it was ascertained that they were both injured internally. When the next up-train arrived both were placed in a car, their friends intending to convey them to East Albany, where they resided. fore reaching Hudson, however, Brooksby, the fireman, breathed his last. Smith, the engi- neer, is very badly injured. and his recovery is considered doubtful. No one can explain the cause of the explosion. It is said that when the train reached a station this side of Oakhill itwas five minutes behind the time. Mr. Smith, the engineer, was always looked upon asa careful man, and had been in the employ of the company for a number of yeare. Both men have families at East Albany, the fireman being a brother-in-law of the engi- neer. ——> Svicipy ty HaRTrorD, Conn—Family Troub- les the Cause.—We learn from the Hartford ‘Limes that the body of an unknown man was found in the woods sonth of Sharp's rifle factory, about 9 o’clock on Saturday morning. It was found lying face upward, and the countenance was covered with blood. In- formation was conveyed to Coroner Holmes, who summoned an inquest. It was found that the deceased had shot himself through the roof of the mouth, with a small single barreled pistol, the ball lodging in his brain. The body was identified as that ofa German, George Grassel, by name, a married man, about 55 years of age, anda gardener by occupation. The pistol lay by his side, and around his Waist was a leather money beltin which was found $6 in bills. In his pocket was, among other articles, a blank book in which was = in pencil the following note to his wife: Mrs. Grassel- Thisisto let you know that 1 be gone from you forever this day, the ifth of August, 1566. You will find my body in the wood behind the Rifle Shop. ‘The farm be- longs to you now, Mrs. Grassel—you can can do with itas you like. Grorcr Grasset, Retreat avenue, opposite the Hospigal, Itappears he had not lived happily “with his wife oud family of late—be induiging too much in drink, ana refusing money to his wile. The Coroner’s Jury rendered a verdict in Accordance with the above facts. PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS.—A foreign paper states that the Jewsare suffering se vere trialsin the Danubian principalities, and all the power of the authorities barely suffices to save their lives from the infuriated Ppopuiaco A letter from Bucharest says that the whole Jewish community bave been kept ina state of alarm by the threats of a general massacre. On the 20th of June their barely finished temple which cost about 23,000 ducats, was destroyed. the wall and rofing alonestanding. All the interior furniture of a small synagogue was also destroyed, ana the scrolls of the law trampled under foot and torn. But for the interference of the national guards matters would have proceeded to greater extremities, At Jassy, toc, the Jews suffer severely. The cholera prevails there intensely, and they lose ten to one of the other population by it. They are in danger of pillage and massacre by the rest of the inhabitants, and are preserved only by the energetic efforts of the govern- ment. Ravip TRAVELLING.—The Lancaster (Pa,) Express says: A gentleman last Wednesday despatched a message from this city to San Francisco. California, over the lines of the ‘Western Union Telegraph Company, at about nine o*clock in the forenoon, and received an Answer at abont three o'clock on the afternoon ofthe same day. Allowing an bour anda half to elapse between the time of the receipt of the message in San Francisco at which the mes- sage was started, the nature of the business requiring at least that long to attend to it— four and a half hours will be lettas the time in which it was transmitted both ways. The distauce between this city and San Francisco, on the route of the telegraph line, is from three thousand two hundred to three thousand five hundred miles. The difference of time be- tween this city and San Francisco is about three hours, consequently a despatch sent from bere at 9 o'clock in tae morning will reach that city at about 7 the same morning— or, in other words, about two hours before it ‘Was started.” ExiGRATION YRoM ENGLAND —According to tables of emigration published by the Eng- lish Emigration Commissioners, ‘it appears tpat during the fifty-one years from 1514 to 1863, there have left the United Kingdom 5,001,513 emigrants, of whom 3,597,700 have come to the United States. This isan annual average emigration of 110,000, of whom 65,000 is the proportion that came to (he United States. 1u 1+65, however, the emigration from Engiand Was 209,001, of whom 17,211 came to British America and 147,258 to the United States. Since I-45 the emigrants to the United States have sent back to their friends in Great Britain money amounting in the aggregate to the enormous sum of $65,592,685 in gold. —_———————_—__ THE apa op cticile of food the tomato is not only nutritions, bat it possesses many vaiuable qualities. It isone of the most powerful aperients of the liverand other or- gans,and can be substitated for calomel. It isalso stated that, before jong, experiments now being made, wil! result in procaring a chemical extract from the tomato that will uitimately supercede calomel in tue care ot divease, Diarrhea Bas been snecessfally treated with the tomato alone, and it is said to be ap excellent remedy for dyspepsia and in- dige@tion. Cooked or raw, tomato as a caify food, 1s one of the most wholesome ar- ticles im use. —— Easity Dvrev.—Mr. Shaw, @ delegate from Georgia to the ’hiladelphia Convention. while taking « walk, lang A im that city, met an individual who yomed him, teHing bim that he, too, was a Georgian. They walked together conyersing on the affairs of the country, and soon after another individual, meeting them “by accident.’ presented & bill to Mr, Shaw's new friend. The latter bad not that amount of ready money, about him, pothing but stocks and bonds. Gn these Mr. Shaw was kind enovgs to ad van ce £900,2nd s@on afterbe parv d with his fellow Georgian”? Hehas not seen the féllow siuce—and probably never will see him again. ’ A Narrow Escare.—One of the female operatives at a cork inane in Norwich,Conn., met with Peete tk ~ which came very n } ‘tke tbe ane Khe ” ~ t md. Ae as he mach nery was ped, and it was found that the girl, thongh very much frightewed, was very hitic ‘hurt. ‘ JOTTINGS OF TRAVEL. Sengca Lake— Model Village —Wine Culture—The Glens—Sublime Scenery—GCiantt Gorg:—Rain- tow Fails—Ang’ Watkins, SchvyLeR Co, N. Y¥., Ang. 5, le 66.—Hditor Star -—1n my letter from Ralston I promised to give you some accowat of this piace, with its wonderful giens, lake fishing, &en Leaving Ralston in the 9 8. m train, we ‘were rapidly whirled overa very mountalnous and wild country, fifty-four miles, arriving in Elmira, N. Y., at i! o'clock. As s€en from the cars, the traveller can form beta poor estimate of this place, but I was informed that it is one of great beauty, andeof much business importance. Crossin the “Chemung River” at this point, ther runs immediately on the banks of the Chemung Canal, the balance of the distance to this twenty-one miles. As we approach the town ot Havana, which is the county seat, this canal descends @ distance of four mies down the mountain side, by forty-two locks, affording a water power unsurpassed, and which has been the means of erecting here some of the largest flouring mills in the State. From El- mira to this point we have come rapidly over fearful chasms and bridges, at dizzy heights and over precipices, but now by heavily de- scending graues, we are in the Chemung Val- ley, and in view of Watkins, where we ar- Tived in time for a good dinner, at the «Jeffer- son House,” which approximates a good old fashioned Virginia Hotel, where the solid com- fortsare not few, ud I believe it is also gen- erally understood that the Fluid ones can be obtained. The town is situated in the valley at the southern extremity or head of Seneca Lake, * and contains about 4,000 inhabitants, and is Steadily increasing; the streets are of width, and are laid out at right angles, with here and there a public square that woulda be a ager blessing to some of our older cities. The streets are beautifully fringed with the elm, mapie, and walnut, aud in several piaces some gigantic walnuts, of original growth, have been suffered to remain in very center of the streets, and are justly prized by the people for their great age and beauty. The style of building generally adopted is that of the modern cottage or villa, and there are to be found here some of the most elegant homesteads I have ever seen, almost creating within you & desire to “possess other men’s goods.” The wipe culture has, in the jast three years, become an important item of trade, and some of the very finest wines, rivalling the best Ual- ifornia brands, are produced, and at a mueh lesscost. Luxuriousand thrifty vineyards now beautify the formerly barren sides of the hills and mountains around, and yield to the pos- sessor a better income, ucre for acre, than the best wheat lands in the country, and yet it is in its infancy. Years to come will find the banks of Seneca Lake the greatest wine-grow- ing district in the country, if all that is claimed for it be true. But ot the wonderful giens what shall i say, after exploring them im all their length! 1 feel how utterly powerless 1 am to impress upon the minds of your readers their sublime and awful grandeur. Entering Glen No. | through an immense amphitheater of rock, 270 feet high by actual measurement, you ascend a series of rough stairways, or more properly speaking, ladders, about 60 feet tothe first ledge, which is abont 20 inches wide. As you tremblingly grope your way you dareto look up as you enter the chasm; 200 feet of solid rock Lowering above you, its two sides nearly kissing each other at the top, meets your gaze, and you feel that you are m the jaws of some terrible mon- ster. But as yon proceed along the narrow ledge, which here ory, terminates against the face of the rocky hali, yon gain confidence, and cross boldly the yawning chasm on arude bridge, that seems like a mere reed. Once over, our pathway leads up the crevices of the rocks to a narrow ledge 20 feet xbove, which we fol- sow for 50 yards, until we are at the entrance of the “Giant's Gorge.’ 1t is indeed fearfally gigantic, and it requires a steady nerve and clear head to pass successfully around its fearful precipices, to look down into its dark depths, to contemplate its Beetling Rocks, which seem to swing im mid- air over your beads, and listen tothe awful roar and thunders of its cataract. The bigh- est point frem the w r below in this gorge, and which you pa nm aledge nine inches Wide, is 120 feet, and above vou the rock as- cends to a greater distance: here we again cross the chasm by @ stairway 75 feet high, and as the width at this point is only ten teet you can from some idea of its steepness. When you are balf way this staircase, to look down or u y shakes thenerves and the heart’s throbbings a most cease with a pop 8 intense awe. God is manifest here and to the sceptic no greater evidence of the Creator's hands need be given, and thus through & distance of two miles the great architect bas reared and builded these wonders that amaze, while they delight. There is through the remaining four glens, which are numbered from one to five as they ascend the mountain, a succession of awful preei- pices, yawning chasms, beetling crags, foam- ing cuscades and watertalls, sylvan grottoes and shady poolg: some of the latter run in the solid rock 40 SO feet deep. No. 4 is consid- ered the wildest and most dangerous, and in my first attempt to pass through I utterly failed, but im the second, with the assistance of a gaiae, successfuily to the end of the 5th ard Jast glen, fully repaid, by its mild beauties, for aj the risk. 1 have been under Niagara, but it is tame as compared to the sub- lime grandeur of the Giant's Gorge. On the return throngh the third glen, we paseed under the Rainbow Falls. These are formed by the water falling in a narrow screen like form, over @ ledge about forty feet above you, and barely passing the narrow ledge upon whicb you stand. shuts you in between itand the rocks and plunges into the gorge below. Ere it is half way down itis lost in spray: and a6 the afternoon sun struggles throngh the gorge. there spans the chasm a small but lovely rainbow, perfect in form and colo! Descending rapidly to the upper end of the first glen, we again ascend the side of the gorge, by bridges and stairways, until we Teach the “Glen Mountain House,” where, iter rest and refreshment, we ascend a few feet more, and emerge on Cemetery Hill. Here &@ view meets the eye unsprpassed on eartb. To the north «Seneca Lake,” like a sheet of glass, stretches away as far as the eye can see, bordered with farms and vineyaras. forest and fleid, palace and humble cot; and as you gaze, the hilison either side seem in the bine distance to go down and kiss the waters and rejoice together, Beneath you. in a +wil- derness ‘of green,” rests the town of Watkins, sweet in its repose, with tts white spires pointing to that land where the rest the world refuses can be founc. To the south we turn, and slong the bina A the canal and iron rail lay close together like two mighty serpents, and are Josi ten miles away in the bills of Havana, where the « Peoples College” looms up in the evening sun like some mighty for- tress. The “Enchanting Hills” on either side are clothed in.thin verdure, and seem to look down in smiling admiration ef the beauteous Te has here done a noble work for man. ‘kindly soil and lovely cgpone with the riches of the forest, the laie. and the mine, all around him—what more couid he desire t “‘Seneea Lake” is the largest of this chain of inland seas in Western New York, aud is peculiar in some respects. For instance, its waters never freeze, are never warm enough for bathing, and when the south wind blows is several degrees colderthan when the wind is trom the north. Some portions of its mysterious Waters are unfathomable, and no one who has been drowned in it has ever risen to the surface. There is excellent fishing here, and the angler is liberally rewarded for bis pauence “ lake tront, white fish, pickerel, sun fish, ys i ‘will give yon rome account of er in section, and of the towns snd country in their vicinity. LowLanp. Oo eee ————— Cororrp American Bartist Coxv —The {Colored Conveaion, witah convened dn bean, ‘Va.,.on Friday last bas been numerously attended, and their pro- roms bereng he ers akpeacenn but very . are the perm colored: — eRe Phelan: « Pi EUROPEAN NEWS—BY THE CABLE. FRANCE, Paris, Aug. 20.—1t is denied on authority that the Empress of Mexico, who is here, bas threatened that Maximilian will abdicate bata the French troops are withdrawn from exico. It is alse stated by authority that her mis- sion to France isto ask the assistance of the French troops in Mexico, prior to their evac- uation of the country, to quell the Insurgents. Panis, Avg. 21,p. m—Thbe statement that France bas demanded territorial concessions from Beigium is untrue. The Moniteur of to-day gives an official de- nial to the report that Napoleon has written to the King of Belgium, and at the same time confirms the report that France will not de- mand of Belgium the cession of any part of her dominions. PRUSSIA. Paria, Ang. 2), p. m.—There are rumors that peace has been made between tria and Bavaria. A that the Czar of Russia has taken formal steps toward the negotiation of atreaty of alliance between Russia, Franee and Austria. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Lowpow, Aug. 21, p. m.—Official quotations . At the close of business :—Consols tor money, S€\; U.S. five-twenties, 70. {By Steamsbip.} TRE PRELIMINARIES OF PEACE. The Gazette of Vienna, of the 3d of August. publishes the text of the preliminaries of ‘ace: Their Majesties, the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia, agree on the following fundamental acts, as basis of the peace, to be concluded without agp 3 ‘With the exception of the Lombardo-Vene- tian Kingdom, the territory of the Austrian monarchy remains intact. His Majesty the King of Prussia engages ta withdraw his tu 8 trom the Austrian territories occupied by them, after peace is concluded, under re- serve of the arrangements to be made at the time of the definite conclusion of peace for the guarantee of the payment of the war indem- nity. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria recog- nizes the dissolution of the Germanic Confed- eration such as ithas hitherto existed, and gives his assent to a new organization of (er- many, without the participation of the Em- ire of Austria. His Majesty promises equal- = torecognize the closer union which will be founded by his Majesty the King of Prussia to the north of the line of the Main, and de- clares bis censent to the German States south ofthat contracting a union, whose national bonds with the Confederation of North Ger- many will be the object of an ulterior under. standing between the two es. His greys A the Emperor of Austria trans- fers to his Majesty the King of Prussia all the rights which the peace of Vienna of October ‘20, 1564. had recognized in him over the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, with this reserve, that the population of the northern districts of Schleswig will be anew united to Denmark, if they express the desire of a freely given vote. His Majesty the ryt of Austria engages to pay to Majesty the King of Prussia the sum of 40,000,000 of thalers, to cover a portion of the expense which the war bas occasioned to Prussia; but from this sum is to be deducted the amount of the indemnity for war expenses which his Majesty the = of Austria has still the right of exacting the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, in virtue of article 12 of the treaty of peace of October 20, 1864, before cited, say 15,000,000 of thalere, beside 5,000,000, as theequivalent of theexpense of maintaining the Prussian army borne by the countries of Austria occupied by that army until the con- clusion of peace. Contormably to the desire ee by his is y subsisting, at the time of the m: ca tions which must take place in Germany, the territorial cendition of the kingdom of Saxony in its actual extent, reserving to himself, on the other hand, to regulate in detail, by a *) ial treaty of peace with his Majesty the ing of Saxony, the questions relative to the share of Saxony in the expenses of the war, as well as the future position of the kingdom of Saxony in the Confederation of the north of Germany. On the other hand, his Majesty the Emperor ot Austria promises to recognize the new organization which the King of Prussia will establish in the north of Germany, including the territorial modifications which will be the consequence of it. His Majesty the King of Prussia engages to decide his Majesty the King of Italy, his ally to give his approbation to thé preliminaries of ie and to the armistice based on these pre- iminaries, from the time that, by a declaration ot his Majesty the E: Venetian kingdom disposal of his Ms the King of Italy. As soon as thé ratification of the present con- vention shall have been effected, and ex- changed, their Majesties the Emperor of Aus- tria and the King of Prussia will name Pleni- potentiaries who will meet in a place to be afterward agreed on to conclude peace upon the basis of the present preliminary treaty, and agree upon the conditions of detaii. To this effect the contracting States, after baving settled these preliminaries, will con- clude for the Austrian and Saxon armies on the one part, aud the Prussian army on the other part, an armistice whose detailed condi- tions in a military point of view will be iname- diately fixed. T armistice will date from the 2d of August, the day to which the Present Suspension of arms witl be prolonged. PRUSSIA’S REPLY TO THE DEMAND OF RUSSIA POR A CONGRESS. The Berlin correspondent of the Times, in a letter dated the 4th instant,says: «Prussia, in reply to the Russian demand that the re- division of Germany should be made the sub- ject of common deliberation at a European congress, has declined to entertain any pro- poral ofthe kind If she is to attend a congress at all, it gael pace peo yp the avowed purpose of ing note of and s2nctioning, as it were, whatever changes she may have pre- viously worked out on her own Tesponsibility. The Caciqnes, as the fugitive princes have been contemptuously dubbed since beginning to clamor for foreign interference. may des- oe letters and ambassadors to all points of he compass, but will not change deter- mization of their victorious and confident foe. it could be only im case of a new war and a series of signal reverses in the field that Pras- sia would abate her claims on this head.” ELorenRgxt EXTRAORDINARY—A Son Runs away with His Step Mother and 850 in Green- vecks.—Mr. Sessamah, who has been engaged in the business of brewing lager beer for his customers In Dowaglae, has been experiencing & great den] of domestic infelicity tor some and strange to say, the disturber of his peace and bappinees being his own son, about eigh' Sahin eae eat Sees 07 bis S56 “with, ers been progressing unsatisfac- torily to the senior for a period of time, Indeed he bad several times detected his unworthy son apd unfaithfal 7 in flagrante delictu, but bad noi thought it of sufficient importance to make any serions disturbance about it. day afternoon last, however, the matter culminated in the nt of Fe oh ond ingratitade of his boy, the unfaithfulness of bis wedded wife, but the additional joss of his greenbacks drove Bim nearly frantic. Upon his discovery of the tripie of his wife, son and green! he started in hot baste in pursait of an officer to back bis erring ones, and last, but not Jeast, greenbacks, Officer tr berg was and it was ascertained the bad taken the afternoon train cheekin: Mi THE NATIONAL LABOR CONGRESS. ®ROOND Day. The met at Front street Theater, Baitimore, yesterday morning, at 9 o'clock, ursnantto adjournment, John Hinchcliffe, bas , im the chair. x . J. B. Cameron, chairman of committee on permanent Organization, reported the fol- Jowiug officers Fer President—Jobi Hinchcliffe, of Mo. Vice President at -O.C. Whaley, of Washington Vice Presidents—Wm. Cather, of Ma. R. Emmons. of D. U. John Reed, of N.Y. A.W. Pbelpe, of Conn; Wm B. lies, of Ga: RL. Mastin, of Del., Wm. H. Les. of Va; Alexan- der Tronpe, of ey 2. Sa rt Thomas M. Dolan, of Mich., Andrew . ot Mo; Marshall Roberts, of Pa; Jacob J. Alicrd. of Ind, W. L. McCaniey, of Iowa. Secretariee—J. D. Ware, of Pa: ©. W. Gid- of Conn.; John B. Overton, of Md enid the report in committee w mously adopted. The committee were be opinion that the officers recom- menced would exercise their functions for the Present session of the Congress only. After considerable discussion the report of tbe comnittee was adopted, with but two ne- gal ive votes. Mr. Hincheliffe expressed his thanks for the covfidence mapitested towards bim and the boror conferred upon bim. Mr. James H. Reid, of D. C.. offered a reso- jution tbat the parhamentary rules as laid down in Cushing * Manual be adopted for the goverpment of this Congress; which was adopted. Acdisional delegates were reported by we commitiee on credentials. A resolution was offered that the speeches be limited to 15 minutes, and thatpo be permitied to speak more than once, until be allowed the privilege, and but twice on the same cubject, without the consent of the Con- Tees . After nome discussion the resolouon ted. and one from the District of Co! bia, to be mamed by the re- spective delegations Discussion ensued, and the resolution was 3 8 27. appointed under the res- olution; G. W. Fraunces being appeinied from the District of Columbia. it was moved that ai! resolutions offered be referred to the committee on resolutions with- out Gebate, which, after discussion, was adop- ted. Mr. J. J. Mitchell, of the Stonecutters’ So- ciety, Wasbington, the following: is of the opin- Resolved, That this jon that strikes for the “eight-hour system” are unwise and impracticable at the present time, and sbould not be encouraged until a ‘borough organization of the worgingmen tbrougbvut the country is secured. Referred to the committee on resolutions. Mr. Wm. C. Clark, of the District of Colum- bia, offered the following: Fesolred, That the delegates from the trict of Columbia be appointed a com: from this convention to wait upon the dent of the United States and solicit hi ess ages to von peg in vais “a message the passage of a law “ t nouse™ & @ay’s work for all mechanics and laborers in the employ of the United States government. Referred to the committee on resolutions. Mr. J.C. C. aley, of Washington, pre- sented & copy of & resolution passed by the Traces’ Union Convention, assembled in Washington, as follows: from this “54 Resolved, That the deiegates vention to the National Trades’ Congress imstructed fo urge npon that body the = hon of measures looking to a thorough en: ~ ment of the members of each trade in local as- SOCIAODS, £0 8s to iInsUTe concert of Action by the workingmen throughout the country on the eight-hour movement. Referred to the committee on reselutions. Mr. T.M. Dolan presented the resolutions Ppsassed by the EKight-Hour League of Michi- gan. The Congress, in order to afford time to the committee on resolutions to report, adjourned until two o'clock. At the afternoon session, the committee on Tesolutions made a prefatory report, recom- mending the appointment of sub.committess to consider the various questions suggested in the resolutions ge Mr. a The report was adopted, & moon the President said commuttees was adopied. Chair sppointed Committees on the Eight-Hour a. —— the Politiest View, (Geo. W. Fi . G., being a mem- ber;) on Trades’ Ons, s, and Strikes: on © ration Prison Labor, J. H. Reid, D. C., being Pose) on Public Yands and the National Debt, (W. C. Clarke, D.C. being a wi member) on tbe President of the United States on the Eigbt-Hour System; on a Natuenal Organ: and on Permanent National Orgamzation A number of resolutions were referred. The Convention adjourned until to-day ac ten o’clock.— Baltimore Sun. HorninLe—Mr.and Mrs. Wm. Lavery, re- siding at 41 Lydius street, Albany, retired on Thursday night, leaving an mfant boy in his cradle near their bed. During the night night the motber was awakened by a feeble cry trom the little one in the crib, and en taking him up felt that his night clothes were soaking wet. She struck a light, when to ber horror she discovered that the clothes were covered with biood, and on further examina- tion found that one ef the arms of the child had been gnawed to the bone by 8 rat, and that & bole was eaten thro one of its hands. THE Barrroo Dominx.—There is a bare- tooted Methodist preacher in Titusvilie, Pa —8h eccentric genius—who declares that be bas fasted forty days and forty nights comsec- utively, and lesser periods at umes. as from but that being i ted by pirit Heaven he never felt any ill effects from this great abstinence. He also says he bas hac He promises to preach marvellous dreams. regularly in Titusville. REMARKABLE CURE OF CHOLERA—A negro at St. Louis was seized with cholera when the bysicians bled him and prescribed bi-car- ate of potasen to be used im the form of an opguent. The negro misunderstood the direc- tions, swallowed the preparation, and in an hour or two was perfectly cured, although he was in _— of collapse when the physician was called. wa quartette club recently sere- baded a c beauty employed at the house ofa gentleman in S'. Lovis. Their si was superb, and the young ladies believing the singers to be their beaux, bo- quets and love missives. The error was not discovered until pa went below to ask them in to retresb. is city, Lake, while out sailing ae) Beach — before ti e upset would to k enough to say his — . ne S87" Atan assemblage of a few friends, one evening, the absence of a Iady was notuced, which was logised for by an acquaintance, who stated that she was detained by an inter- esting litde incident. “Ah, ” exclaimed ~" — Smith, “and a beantifal little inci- ent it was, too—weighing just nine nd: ‘and 2 half” 2 hits S27” A better bull than the following from the Louisville Journal, we never saw credited to ee Rocbe: “Our campaign documents . 87 High among the proud Bistoric annals of our time-honored city be written the history of tbe first National Political Convention that Met in the Urited States, after the triumphant Close of the war, for the maintenance of the Union — Philadelphia Inquirer. &7 A fisherman of Dartmonth, Mass., reports baving caught on the bank of Peru an eigh- teen pounds cod in whore stomach was found thirty cents worth of scrip. Grave doubts are he came by the money hon - < of faster than we can get them estly, but there is good reason to believe got it at the dank. x 87 Descon Stickwell, of - Milted suicide on account of doubts. 87” isaac Wooster, of New Haven, Ot, bas and three children, within the last week, from dysentery, and another child is notexpected to recover. €7 Amenities of journalism—one New York paper ealls the editor of another a a the latier responds with “am antiquated lid with a wooden leg and a weakness for and water.” 2 3 i ty geod for a man Garner.” Syuabt te: rejoins, “Goodenough fora wenn, G7 An Atlanta (G4.) thief, who attempted steal 8 bundle of greenbacks ~ ‘banks inopen day, was sentenced nine lasbes on the bare back 4 te. prisonmen' 87 Mr. Jenkins that the turkey she bad eaten did not set we’ P ” seid Jenkins. “it was pota hen-turkey.” jie #% 8 glass of as E § i D ‘water in bis face. a7 “My yoke is and | tight,” ohjhan ‘nilow vain Whew ee was sitting in his with ber arms bis neck. &7 A negro child died in Richmond ® Aco from the effects of aapiger bite, Coes ara: negro “sorcerers” tbe tocure “be child, and while iF Tespective “systema,” ated itself tbroneb tbe cystem of Viclim and terulted in death,