The New York Herald Newspaper, June 26, 1868, Page 8

8 THE OXYGEN @aAs LIGHT. Progress in the Production of Artificial Light— Mluminative Gasce—Private Experiments on the Density and Intensity in Light Betweea Carburetted Hydrogen, Oxygen in Combina- sion with Street Gas and the English Standard @andie on the Photometer. In the progress and development of sclence there #as been no branch of chemical demonstration which has marked the advance of human knowledge so pointedly as the production of artificial light. Indeed, 20 silently and rapidly hi discoveries of the most profound character been thrown upon the world and made neceasities almost on the moment, that few have stopped to inquire by whom, when or where they were mace objects of commerce, or con- venlences indispensable to the dweiling, the factory, the workshop and the street. ‘There are persons living in this city who have not forgotten when gas was introduced and burned ip the house No. 7 Cherry street, less than half a century go; and there are many living in London and Paris who distinctly remember when the brightest artificial light—preceding the introduction, of the carburetted hydrogen or common street gas—known was ob- tained from oil, or the tallow, the sperm or the wax vandie, A century ago even the candle was a miser- able ‘apology for sunlight, and preceding ite general use was the smoky flambeau, the torch im city and wangsion, while the rush dipped in melted fat was the vest the peasant in his cheerless cot could command. With the invoduetion of carburetted hydrogen as an illuminator—a discovery quite as wonderful in its way as many which have since astonished the workd, not even excepting the electric telegraph or the steam engine—a new start in the unending, ever- opening highway of knowledge, and consequent etvilization, was taken. The discovery of tiluminat- mg gas, surpassing tn brilliancy the choicest light then known many times, astonished the world: “The light of the sun is almost rivalled,” exclaimed an English writer, in his enthusiasm. ‘ig this de- partment, at least, science can no further go, Chem- istry has reached its ultima thule, sn fnestimable boon on mankind, and for this it #hould be reverenced. It has given light; it has wwrned night into day.” - The body of the peopie were doubtless pleased with the introduction of the carburetted hydrogen g23 into their streets, dwellings and stores, but those curious persons who are forever questi oning, torturing and coaxing nature out of her secrets were now They demanded from her something more, They desired a light brilliant as that of day, if 1t were possible, Many brave attempts, it must be confessed, have been made to put the great central! ill uminator of oursystem eut of countenance: but although much was been done toward solving the problem as to whether the sun or chemistry combining and burn- ing certain of its gases can produce the most light: ‘Wue far old Sol yields the cneapest, the m ost desira- bie and the brightest. The calcium or lime ligh t Was a grand discovery, but it could not be safe ly, generally and cheaply used. Next to it, but many, many times more brilliant. is the electric light—a light which almost seems to be illuminative as the sun. The electric light 1s, however, uncertain; it viinks and winks, and at inopportune mo ments puts yiself out, and is very costly. Next to these, and, perhaps, more agreeable, as it certainly is cheaper tan every other kind in use, is the oxygen light. ‘Thie light, the intensity of which was measured on Tuesday evening in the photometric department of We College of the City of New York by Professor Deremue, is the invention of French sa vante, and must of necessity, from its purity, brilliancy, agr ce- ablenese and cheapness, almost immediately supplant every other form of gas light, whether made from oll, coal, tar or any substance known in which ca r- von preponderates. In the course of the professor's experiments it was shown that, while the intensity of a jet of carburetted hydrogen gas manufactured wy the Manhattan Company was only, as tested vy an olied disc placed on the photometer, thirteen and a half times greater than was the iliuminative properties of the English standard candle, b y which all light is measured, the oxygen light, consuming about one-third the number of cubic feet in the hour, was more than six times stronger: or. to make the matter plainer, while a jet of common gas pos- sessed an iluminative property thirteen and a half umes that of the candle the jet of oxygen and car- buretted hydrogen gases, compared with the car- vurette@hydrogen and air, was approximately as pipeteen to one, and with the English standard candie as two hundred and fifty-six times to one. in «iler words, to equal a jet of oxygen with coal gas in ti# light giving property two hundred and Mfty-six English standard would have to be 1, or, in their place, thirteen jets of street gas, consuming each five cubic feet to the jet, for oxygen ag two cubic feet within the hour, is wonderful; aud had we not been present ly followed the professor while conducting 8, it is a question if we could readily 1 statement. ll. The commercial value must be onsideration, It 1s of little use to offer ani brilliant light ifitis not in conso- as of economy. If the oxygen gas, s the intensity of the carburetted » proportionably expensive (the street ) per one thousand cubic feet), it reught into common use; but ag it ed at a comparatively moderate figure, ually at alower rate than the carburetted hydro- » with which in equal parts it is made to combine, jon of general use need not be taken into tion, if must follow of necessity. We may Pj h the cost of the “cy in this wis 1 by burping one-third the amount of street gas we produce six times the quantity of light for the amber of euble feet of street gas, consumed pure oxygen, we should have eighteen times the quantity of light. To produce the same amount tt i require only one-e t Instead, therefore, or one thousand cubi only one-eighteenth, or about h, or fifty-six cubic feet, for the 1 gas an equal volume of plete combustion, hence we t have one-eighteenth of one thousand cubic Suppose oxygen should be sold for $20 per thousand cuble feet, we would only require , OF one-eighteenth of $20 to consume Hence to have light equal to $3 50 gas as ordinarily burned, we would enty ents’ worth of coal ‘we and $i il ‘D, or $1 51 worth of the two r, the light should be only it, W would then r ten juire one-tenth cents’ worth, -tenth of @ thousand, or one ‘This, at $20 a thousand, would cost of street gas, thirty-five cents; total Cost $2 6, for a light f gas as ordinarily consumed, other aavantages of purity of color, liminution of heat and of impurities. Xperiments give an increase in illumi ting power of sixteen and a half tmes that of ndard burner. The ordinary ground giass shade the light one-half in brilliancy, though it ‘« it more voluminous, ¢ every other discovery, there are many things About tof @ mechanical nature that must be im- } ‘The perfect Sarge light is made by urning, in combination, fifty of oxygen with an equa: number of parts of carburetted hydrogen. On ‘hat no improvement can be made; but in tae mode ef burning there ought to be. The crayon, composed oft ignited, require are it 1 nesia, on Which the united gases play, when to be renewed weekly; but this we is about to be still further improved by jon of a composition pencil which is be- ‘urable; and then the pipes and barners are, to say the least, clumsy and complicated. These Jast wii! soon be displaced, and a burner, simpic in form and not liable to get out of repair, the imven- Yon of ap American, substituted. It is curious to trace the progress which has been Thade in developing artiictal light within the last two hundred years, First, in the country places of Europe we bad the rush, ‘stripped of its outer coat- tog and dipped in meited fat, giving when ignited & feeble and uncertain ray; next, in the towns, the torch and the link charged with resin; then the wick floating in oll, followed by the candle, frat of tallow Crother adipose substance, subsequently improved by the introduction of sperm and wax. Contempo- Faneous with the candle, we had first the vewetabie abd afterwards the animal otis; then camphenes and husgeues of various strengths, Anterior to these jaet Was the carburetted hydrogen or common street gas. Mineral or rock oils have taken the place of the animal and vegetable oils within the past few years, even measurably displacing the street gas. And now all these must give way to the greatest and grandest discovery of wi—the method by. whic oxygen can be obtained and consumed in association with carburetted hydrogen—say at three-fifths less cost, while it offers a light fully nineteen times more powerful than the gas furnished by the Man. a Compeny, ey however, as the experi- nents of Tuesday proved, Was wuch be! | ments of ' iy pi much below the legal That the oxygen gas will speedtiy be brought general use in thie city as an litininator ve nave Feason to believe, The manufacture, or rather its extraction, will be found far from costiy, as the Thanganates from whieh ft ie extracted neither burn ne ar iply resolved by the act of steam passed over them, extracting oxye en by heat are restored to th origin when they again become ar elemeu y—tuken from our most op It has bestowed” tr hg and uateliigent | du Mowy and mareeNgly capitalists hav pany and are about to commence the erection of suit- able works, where the oxygen can be ebtained for nara Lae, The Bae pores it con Se 4 atres, , public ings, we ho} mansions at ‘cost @ud burned in combination with the street the consumption of the former than one-half. In time it will be conducted,.as street gas now is, through the city by mains, and thence to each lam| the cl: - ing with tts rich white hght denahan: cleat Pda bel *ARDtReR pastor whle ould ot be a ection’ with thie nae Te fatrode jon will bd theatres and nantes for it sup; ite oxygen, instead of robbing the eixteenth or teenth part of carbon Ie . Looked at from every side, mends itself to the public. It isc! + healt 4 cooler, more brilliant, softer and whiter than com- mon gas. With ladies it will certainly become a fa- vorite, as, unlike gas, it does not try the complexion. Under ite the eye can readily detect shades of color, select the various blue of green, a thing next to impossible under the com- mon rel it. . organized themselves into a com- thus reduc. nation has ever a im: a square lighted from nineteen gas lam; where one now flames, and some idea may be formed of its value. In the prevention of burglaries and other high erimes ordinarily attempted at might it would im the course of the year save at least half its cost, while no part of the city would be so dark, even on the blackest nights, as to prevent the perusal of the Lares of any one within the distance of twenty feet. It thus has everything to recommend it. For the dwelling and where people congregate in large num- bers it will not only give a splendid light, but assist mm adding to the purity of the air momentarily breathed, whilein the public ways it is certain to give the police @ better view of the avenues they pa- trol, and thus prevent even the most desperate housebreaker from running the hazard of detection, REPORT BY PROFESSOR DOREMUS. The annexed report, detailing Professor Doremus’ investigations into the properties of the new light and the many important uses to which the super- abundance of oxygen (now that it can be readily and cheaply obtained) can be applied, made to Messrs. Stern, Stevens and French, in connection with “the processes of Messrs. 'Tessié du Motay and Maréchal, of France, for producing oxygen and hydrogen gas- es,’? will be read by all who are interested in the de- velopments and discoveries of science as applied to the necessities and luxuries of life:— GENTLEMEN—The isolation of oxen. gas ranks first in importance among chemical veries, This element forms more than oue-half the weight of the known parts of the globe, including the crust, the water and the atmosphere, and the vegetable and the animal ns, demonstrating the func- tions it has performed from the earliest epochs of our earth’s history to the present time. The afinities of this element surpass those of all others. It is untversal in its Sperencn But one substance exists with which it has not been demon- strated that it will combine. The revelation of its marvellous properties over- turned the doctrines of chemistry, and this science dates its rise from oe pa 1774, when Priestley, in Eng!and, first liberated oxygen from the red precipi- tate, or red oxide of mercury by concentrating ‘upon it the heat from the sun. Almost simultaneously Lavoisier, of France, and Scheele, of Sweden, made the same discovery, each ignorant of the other’s tri \. To the chemical affinities of oxygen we are indebt- ed for the artificial production of power, and the im- nderable forces—heat, light, galvanism and elec- ro-magnetism. With the exception of wind and water power it is the source of all motion under man’s control. Our intellectual and physical forces, as well as brute power, are pre-eminently due to the respiration of atmospheric oxygen. ‘The tortoise breathes but little of it and crawls on the earth; the bird much, and flies in the air. All machinery moved ee oe, used in factories, in vessels for ight or travel by land uy. water—depend upon the union of oxygen with The basis of improvements in speed attained by the locomotive or of power in steam engines is in- crease in the supply of oxygen. Electricity as applied to ae or motor pur- poses depends on the oxidation of zinc in the gal- vane or Pepe crpce ie - ye estimate the comparative expense of steam and electricity by counting the cost a carbon versus zinc, both of which elements must be assoctated with oxygen, It is the sudden release of oxygen in gunpowder, gun cotton, the fulminates or in nitro-glycerine that propels the projectile or biasts the rock. Excluding the warmth derived from the sun and the si with trivial exceptions, we can trace all heat to the affinities of oxygen as its source. The lengthened chimneys to our furnaces, the blowers for hot or cold blasts, increase the fervency of the heat By increan ng. the supply of oxygen. Upon this « js ital air,” as it was once called, our own ripatetic furnaces chiefy depend for heat, by the fombustion of our food and of the tiasues” of our ea. The varying warmth of different forms of animal Po insect life is graded by the amount of oxygen spired. As @ general rule all light produced upon the earth, from the pale peaunetercce of the humb.e forms of aquatic life, or that of the glow worm or the fire- fly, to the most brilliant devices designed by man, emanate from the combinations of oxygen. The candle, the oil Jainp and coal gas, in order to evolve light, need oxygen “to support their com- bustion.” The much more brilliant Drummond light is pro- duced by burning hydrogen, or carburetted hydro- gen with pure oxygen, and in contact with ‘lime, magnesia or other solid, which, for the time, is ren- dered incandescent. Metallic magnesium burns with dazzling bright- ness because of its aitinity for oxygen; and the most efulgent of all lights ever made by science and art combined, comparable even with the sunbeam—the electric light—originates from the reactions of oxygen in the galvanic ceil. This condensed statement of the services performed by oxygen in the progress of science is made to demonstrate the importance of producing this ele- ment abundantly and at a commercial price. Ever since its discovery chemists, appreciating the vast and varied benefits derived from it, have sought to insulate it from its associates by methods simple and yet capable of furnishing it in quantity and at reasonable rates; but all have as yet failed. To procure it from the chiorate of potassa, the source ordinarily resorted to, is so expensive that pure oxygen gas is a luxury, and, until within a few Se only employed to illustrate scientific lectares, t is now used to a limited extent where intense heat is demanded, as in the fusion of platina, or gto prodace the “Drummond,” or, as it B sometimes: erroneously called, the “calcium light,” for tllumi- nating theatrical scenes and outdoor gatherings for political or other purposes; but to resort to it as a source of light or heat for general uses has been impossible, as its preparation costs between from $150 to $200 a thousand cubic feet. The discovery of a cheap and speedy method of obtaining oxygen will rank as one of the most bril- Mant revelations of the age, and will confer invalua- ble benefits upon the civilized world. T have followed with great interest the claim of Messrs. Tessié du Motay and Maréchal, of Frai ever since their first announcement of having acc lished this long desired result. 1 have studied care- ‘ally the patents, reports and other documents you have put tn iny possession, and bave had frequent interviews on this subject with your accomplished chemist, M. Schwarzweber, who lias been practically familiar with this process since its inception, and has performed the experiments, in behalf of the in- ventors, before the commission appointed to make photometric Investigations in Paris. This process depends on the following facts:—That oxygen gas not only exists inthe atmosphere, but that it is not chemically combined with its assoclated ses, and is, therefore, easily abstracted by certain emicals when they are heated in its presence; that they in turn on being heated with steain yield up this oxygen, which can be collected and conserved in suitable reservoirs. ‘The manj ies and permanganates of potash, soda or baryta; the chromates, ferrates and tn gene- ral all metallic oxides or acids forming with potash, soda or baryta, binary combinations capahle of being superoxidized, possess this property of yielding up @ portion of their oxygen when heated in the presence of the vapor of water. Salts thus deoxidt: will re- absorb oxy, when exposed to a current of air freed from moisture. By ena eam over layers of manganate of soda, Mn Os Na 0, (the com- pound usually employed), heated in suitabie retorts, Water combines with the soda and forms hydrate of soda, and the liberated gy acid ts with @ portion of its oxygen and is redui toa lower oxide. To express it by symbols:—2 (Mn O 2 HO) are equal to 2 (Na O, HO) plus Mn 2 plus 03 From 1 lower state of oxidation the hot oxide of manganese is again con- verted into manuganic. By passing alr over the thie heated mass the s#esquioxide of manganese the oxygen from the atmosphere, is erted into manganic acid, reasserts Its sway over the soda, decomp hydrate, forming once juore the manganate of soda and expelling the vapor of water. Steam is again passed over and through the us Manganate, Coa hy Ferien of ony. fresh invigorating air. alternated each haifhour. As poten el - Pg) the retorts E Into condense @ pure ox: conveyed to the gas holders. Thou ifthe amount of carbone acid gas in the atmosphere is trivial in com- json With the nitrogen and oxygen gases, it is ound desirable to remove it, lest it form the carbo- nate of soda. = Thisis accomplished by forcing the air through @ cylinder containing caustic soda, which not combines with the carbonic acid but also the moisture. An important discovery has also made—that the alternate exposure of these chemical eiitoce to the action of dry air ana steam can be incessantly repeated for months without causing any + vo Seas re ahd isch arg » The alkaline manganates are 'Seoauce ae Jeeming a cuirentof air over a mix- ture the hydrates of potash or soda, and the ere fesse and peroxide of manganese raised toa suitabietyemperature. Therefore the salt émployed is not “Xpemae, moreover the oxide of manganese n be prwcured here as Cheap if not cheaper than In Euro The retor'® and machinery required for the opera- tion are nett. ver bulky Dor Costly, and the tem)era- nich these chemieal | es ensue i¢ a dull, ou 660 degrees Fahrenheit, though, by the last ouut’ from Paris, it 8 now accomplished at trom 500 to 600 degrees, Hence the apparatus em- ployed ia not Hat id destruction. For thewe reasons X believe that the long desired discovery has been agcompushed by Messra, Tessié Viet of producing puro red heat, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY,“JUNE 26, 1868.—TRIPLE» SHEET. oxygen at a price which will enable rete t for heating and for iivuanating p I venture to predict that iis v4 a 0 THE NoTIONAL GAME. Base Ball Notes. ab entire revolntion ip our syst Pret nie sa heise, count ined the ui Pres dent Bevyhton, of the Alantie Club, aves by it fi passes ‘all others with wh to-morrow for the West, and will meet his “boys” at quainted, : olin, Thave frequently witnessed tls light as exb.bie at your office. llave also exainined the rep: the photometric experiments made at the labs ond in the preseuce of M. Le Blane, engineer-in of the office of registratfon for lighting the ei Parts, and before Commandant Caron, director of the laboratory of the Museum of Artiliery, by your ehemist, M. Schwarzweber, at the request ofthe Bu- peror and the Prefect of the Seine. T have repeated these tests in the photometric room game, at Milwaukee, @ throwing match was made for a purse of $25, and’ was won by George Reding- ton, catcher for the Cream City.’ ‘The Tri-Mountains, of Boston, defeated the Kear- earge on Tuesday with a score of 41to 18, Neither of the College of New York and in a few days intend to invite the officers of the gas companies of this city | club was fuily represented and the ground was much and vicinity, or their representatives, to witness the to the atsadvantage of thé Kearsarge nine. Mr. John A. Lowell's umpiring in the Howard and Princeton College game is highly spoken of. 80 it should be, unless Mr. Lowell has ehanged very much lately. Forker, first baseman of the Mohawks, of Brook- lyn, whose fine playing has been so much admired, leaves the Mohawk Club for a position at Washing- ton in the Nationa! Club. Star paper is in much demand at ‘‘gold”’ prices, ‘There ls a report abroad to the effect that the Ath- letics, of Philadelphia, and the Stars, of Brooklyn, will play on July 7 prox. Troy {s becoming brisk. The Star Club has been reorganized, and @ new club, entitled the Mutual, has been started, he Central City Club, of Syracuse, declines play- Ing the return game of thelr match with the Hay- makers within the prescribed fifteen days, and, as is sopariorliy ‘of this mode of illumination. It possesses the following advantages:— Férst—It is more purely white than any of the lights ordinarily used; hence must be @ blending of the various colors in quantity and Piopectae, more nearly spproaching.sse sunbeam. All the more deli- cate shades of whatever hue are seem almost a8 though illuminated by daylight. It is well knowo that this cannot he said of coal gas, as ordinarily Spams for paintings, decorations, colored dresses, ribbons, gloves, &c., present certain tints by natural light and others by the usual artificial lights, ‘Second—It is many times more brilliant than the standard gaslight, with the game consumption of coal gas, According to the French reposts, it excels oy. #ixteen and a half times that produced in the city of Paris. I find it to exceed ours (that of the Man- hattan Gas Company) consumed in the English stan- dard Argand burner, with fifteen holes, and with am. fy mney seven bpd 4 height, oe is and at times to a greater extent. en pit 1s caused to pass ihepugh the hot ascending current of | alleged, without giving any reason. gases from any ordinary flame, the refruction of the ‘The Liberty and Lincoin Clubs, of Spri eld, Iil., light can be seen on a white surface, literally causing | had a rather one-sided game on Saturday last. The these lights to produce their own shadows, Liberty won. Score, $9 to 7. Third—The light is steady and without flicker. The Actives made their first bow this season before Our “bat wing’ and “fish tail’ burners yie an audience of this vicinity at the Capltoline wavy, tremulous flames, very trying to the | grounds on Wednesday afternoon, The Hariems eyes and — espectall, annoying ahd injurious | Were opposed to them for the nonce, and a good to those who are obliged to employ artificial | game was expected, but the expectant ones light for many consecutive hours, Even the | were Sisappointed, The game was a very tame highly esteemed Argand cylinder of light loses | affair, rendered’ much more so by the lenity of the character when placed beside it. This must be so of | umpire in allowing the strikers to stand at the bat necessity, for they are flames, and therefore agitated | and the pitchers to pitch almost as they pleased, by the constant currents of air which they them- | without Aictit the legal punishment. Where selves excite and which may be produced by oiler | judgment Was otherwise called for, however, the causes, while this light (the oxygen gas) emanates | umpire decided yore fairly. The Actives showed at from a solid pencil of compressed maguesia, fixed in | times that good play was in them, but they need @ solid support, and rendered incandescent by jets of | practice. Before the close of the season, however, carbarettod hydrogen (or hydrogen) burning with | they will, no doubt, astonish somebody. They pure oxygen. Not only will’ physicians understand | play well together, deport themselves: in all cases the value of these qualities in relation to diseases of | as gentlemen should, and if, perchance, they the eye, too ofteu produced by the employment of | lose the game they certainly win the opin- poor and unsteady light, but all readers, atudents, | ton of the spectators. The Harlems are artisans and others who are obliged to work in many | ferent looking party from what the old style Har- laces even in the day by artificial light, as weil as | lems were in peel ‘Twomey’s prtme, when Mount ‘hose whose labors at night require such assistance, | Morris and Hamilton squares were the fields of their will keenly appreciate the blessing conferred in this | frequent triumphs. The Harlems are all young, and form of illumination. have some good material in them. Of the Actives, Fou: th—Much less heat is thrown out by this light | the Kelley brothers, Walker, Rogers and Haines than from any of the gas or petroleum fiames, al- | did most of the work, and did it well. Of the though it excels them all in brilliancy; and the dis- | Harlems, Crooker, Comstock, Asten and McEwen crepancy is still greater if the comparison is made | deserve mention. The game was closed at the end with lights of equal illuminating power. The un- | of sixth innings by the rain storm, with the Actives covered hand cannot be held over the ordinary | ahead, the score standing 16 to 8, Argand burner, re it may be placed over this light The Excelsiors defeated the Alert, of Seton Hall with impunity, though it so far exceeds it in bright- | College, yesterday at the cara grounds. The ness, The explanation of this apparent paradox is | score stood 44 to 17. George Fianley, of the Mutuals, sin) oal ; When mixed with air, asin the | officiated as umpire in admirable style. various forms of “Bunsen’s burners,” so well known At Wilmington, N. C., on Tuesday last, the Scup- in chemical laboratories and used in “gas stoves,” ernongs an Harnetts had a fine game, which the may be consumed without proatioung. light, except | latter won with a score of 28 to 14, pale blue color, too feeble to enable one to see A prominent citizen of Wilmington offered to pre- with. Thus, the whole effect of the combustion ts to | sent to the member of the Harnetts who should make generate heat, which is the object aimed at, while | the best score, provided they won the game, one of the same coal gas, not mingled with ait until burned, | the finest and most desirable bats that cduld be pur- will furnish light as well as heat. Hence we may | chased in New York. have the same amount of chemical actionatone | Two new clubs. formed mostly from empl of time resulting in heat alone and under other condi- | the New York Clearing House, played & aly tions Ril Ra as well as caloritic rays, | game at Hoboken on Wednesday The furnishing utiful illustration of the correlation | call themselves respectively the Amateur and Bank- of forces, When oxygen and pure hydrogen | ers’ and Brokers’ Association Clubs. The former unite they produce @ most intense heat, | won with a score of 29 to 6. over 14,000 deg. Fahreinheit, and ranking next Schofield and Hamilton, of the Unions, of Morris- to the galvanic, current, yet the flame ts almost in- | ania, will have a “pie-eating” match on July 4, the visible daylight. If, however, any solid be | occasion of the opening of the Unions’ Base Ball held in it, even though non-combustible, as lime, | Park at Tremont. magnesia, &c., the imponderable force heat is trans- The Champions, of Jersey City, on crepe bY muted into pop finding themselves liable to a bad defeat at the han By this mode of illumination, therefore, one of the | of the gentlemanly Eurekas, of Newark, and perceiv- objectionable features in the use of coal gas—viz., | ingarain storm imminent, resorted to the boyish the oppressive heat, both in private residences, in | practice of STaTOwing the game” into the rain so churches, theatres (e8} in the summer season)— | that five innings could not be concluded—a miser- is in great part removed by this invention. able way to wear title that should be honorably Fifth—This light does not vitiate the air as much)— | won, ag other lights of equal brill , @ sauitary consi- deration tvo often negi artificial lights injure the atmosphere in two its oxygen, which 1s so essential for respiration, by jucing carbonic acid gas. A er oo six feet urner will yield as much of this poisonous gas as eight or nine persons would expire in quietude, while it would abstract more oxygen from the sur- rouading air than they would absorb in the same In this new lamp oxygen is supplied in (cea quantity to consume not taxed to aid the combustion—and as the con- sumption of carburetted hydrogen in this burner 1a from one-sixteenth to one-twentieth for the same illuminating power there will be proportionally less of impurities resulting from its use. + From our gas flames a portion of unconsumed car- bon always arises, which darkens the ceilings, syis the wails and the furniture. No such smoke escapes from this light, for the combustion is complete, MATCHES TO COME OFF. June 26.—Mohawk vs. Ivanhoe, of Sing Sing. Oapisolice graye. une 26.—Eckford vs. Oriental, of New York. Mutual ve. Mohawk. Union grounds, Star vs. Independent. Capitoline grounds. .—Unions vs. Gramercy, Union’s old Melrose. June 27.—Hariem vs. Star, of Pleasantville. To-morrow the Atlantics play with the Blooming Club, and Saturday wita the Unions, at TROTTING AT TBE FASHION COURSE. A trotting match for $1,000, mile heats, best three in five, in harness, came off yesterday afternoon at ” Pea iitaninatien' te han we aannenst the Fashion Course between the black mare Black ‘or out of door illuminatic uM al advantage that by no possibility can 4t be “blown Bess and Mr. Chambers’ bay mare Atlanta. Black out.” ‘The chemical action is so intense that it can- | Bess won the race, taking the first, second and fourth not OT eaten a ee poner a Rabo Mino — heats, the third being won by Atlanta in consequence even e two gases: ut oif for a minute or two the glowing pencil of will relight them of Black Bess cuffing her knee and breaking up when they are again turned on. The pt on of | repeatedly. A boot, however, was put on which this oxygen aitfers markedly froma fate — - covered the wounded place, and the black mare coal gas; ere is no odor attend, Hi hydrewen should be employed, as propesed by the | WoO the fourth heat cleverly. ‘These mares are both same ingenious French chemists, their method of | daughters of Ethan Allen, and inherit the worst of erga 4 it ee _ tei ary fry his pecularities—the incapacity to carry weight or peat or other carbonaceous substance mingl Wi hydrate of ime, would furnish us with means for | €° ® distance. Both of them have @ fair turn of illuminating and heating, without contaminating the | speed; but the last quarter of a mile is always too atmosphere of our crowded cities with the nauseat- | much the longest for this breed of horses, unless out Po eer leer gases with which we are NOW | of nigh pred mares, as is exemplified on nearly every In point of economy by the use of oxygen and | occasion where they are brought on the trotting turf. Ethan Allen, himseif a remarkably speedy horse, is very deficient in the requisite spoken of above. The winner of the match, Black Bess, is a very carburetted hydrogen combined, with the same amount of light the public may save from thirty to forty per cent in money, allowing large proiits to the manulacturers, or for the same price may have beautifully proportioned little creature, as “pretty asa picture,” with a stylish way of going, and her movements are as perfect as those of her sire; and although her action seems quite easy a mile is rather many times more brilliant, perfect and wholesome more than she is capable of going at her best gait. light than 1s offered them at present. Atlanta 18 also a small bay mare, delicately con- Inthe Drammond light the piece of lime usually employed crumbles in a few hours. These pencils of structed, of a very nervous temperament, and needs agreat deal of nursing to get her to do anything. compressed magnesia last a week, and by recent im- provements in Paris crayons have been patented She has trotted in several purses this season, but has not yet scored a victory. which have thus far proved to be indestructible, as “they have been employed for thirty consecutive The attendance was very slim yesterday, although the weather was more inviting than it had been for days without any alteration, being like new."” some days past. The absence of many turfmen was ‘This styie of lamp requires @ duplicate tabe—one for the oxygen and the other for the common tilumi- nating or pure hydrogen gas. Prior to the employment of this most bulky illuminating agent we can readily imagine the stout arguments wieided to demonstrate how dangerons and impracticable, to say nothing | probably, in @ great measure, owing to the of the expense, to lay metallic pipes for con- | trotting now ing on in Boston, and to veying @ combustible agent through every street | the fact that horses of the calibre of those ina great city—aye, and in every house and into | matched on this occasion seldom — draw. In fact, nothing but trots by first class horses now bring an attendance to the course worth speaking of, as people will not pay bi rates of admission for second class sport. This high rate of admission is matnly owing to the proprietors of our courses being compelled by trainers ana drivers to give as much as eighty and sometimes ninety per cent of the entire proceeds of the track to that class of men to tuduce them to trot their horses in public. The public have an abhorrence of gate money trots, and will never patronize them when they are aware of their true character; hence the absence of gentlemen, except on special occasions, This system must be reformed here, and the sooner the better, or other localities will take precedence where a diferent practice pre- vaila. Let there be no more gate money trots. Ifa proprietor is unable to give purses let him devote his grounds to other purposes than trotting. First Heat.—Biack Bess was the favorite at ten to three previous to the start. Atianta won the pole and got away with the best of the lead, which she increased from haif a length at the score to three at the quarter pole, passing that point in thirty-nine and a half seconds, down the backstretch Atlanta opened the gt and was half a dozen lengths in front when she broke ali to pit and be- fore she recovered the black mare was fifty yards ahead of her. e rallied, however, on the lower turn and trotted rapidly, but she was too far behind to overtake the black, who led home @ winner by thirty yards in 2:3834. Second Heat.—There were few, if any, offers to het on the resuit. Black Bess was on the lead when the start was given, but she soon afterward broke up and Atlanta took a commanding lead, going to the quarter pole eight I in front in 38% seconds. On the backstretch the black mare trotted very fast and shut ~ considerable of the daylight, Atlanta %! the half-mile pole four ogee, in advance in 116. On the Flushing end the black kept up a lively every rvoin of every public or private residence. If the advantages to be secured by this method are as above warranted, how weak the argument against an addditional pipe for conveying this pure and Wholesome gas! It has long been a favorite belief with many that the time would come when gases might be com- monly employed for heating as well as for tlluminat- ing purposes. im our chemical laboratories it is constantly em- ployed, and to some extent gas stoves and from their great Convenience, are resorted t reduction of the cost of procuring heat-yielding gases renders the idea less problematical, and I con- dently believe it is within the power of these new processes to at Jeast enable us to perform all culipary operations by their aid alone, At Ee almost every Kitchen in our city has from half a bushel to a bushel or more of coal burn- ing from morning till night for those purposes, partly because of the trouble and expense of relighting the fires. By this method the scratching of a match and turning of 4 stopcock would be all the labor requisite to ignite the fires for preparing our meals and neat- ing our dwellings. or {nrnaces and factories where the oxygen would be prepared on the spot I learn that it can be gene- rated at a cost of from g2 to $5 a thousand cubic feet! Any chemist can foresee what @ revolution this is destined to bpm in metallurgic and other operations Where this agent 18 demanded. Its relation to iron and steel involves millions of dollars. So speedily has this been appreciated abroad that the large steel wowks in Bradford, Eng- land, have already made arrangements for the im- mediate adoption of this process. I learn also that the proprietors of one of the largest iron works in France nm tating for its erect jor rat- ing Se by this. system, to be employed in on e ry of neh glass factories at Lyons. In lieu of long | gait, and at the three-quarter pole was at the bay chimueys and blasts of diluted oxygen, that pure | mare's wheel and came into the homestretch head oxygen is to be used for blowing fires, and head with her, ‘The black soon afterwards went the economical ction of hyd: gas, | in front and came in @ winner by four lengths, to be used as a substitute for coal gas, these chemists | Time 2:35. employ the hydrates of oe. in, ntia, baryta, Third Heot.—The odds on Black Bess were now one lime, &c., intimately mixed with charcoal, coke, | hundred to six. ‘The start was even, but before they anthracite or peat, and raise them to @ red heat | made the turn Black broke up and lost Lo in retorts. Jengths, Atlanta ng quarter pole about that The reaction between hydrate of lime and fine an- } distance ahead of her tn forty seconds.’ On the back- thracite coal would be, that the water of the hydrate ! stretch Bess broke up in, faving Socee her knee, would be deoxidized by the carbon, forming car- | and she was eight le behind when the bay mare be the half-mile pole in 1:20, ‘The black mare bonic acid, and hydrogen would be liberated :— 2(Ca 0, HO) +C= Ca 0+002+H2, ept up a succession of breaks to the end, Atlante Oh remoistening the lime, it again becomes a | winning the heat by four pengthe in 2:44%. hydrate, and the process be repeated. By ab- Fourth Heat. —' to five on Black Bess, not- sorbing the carbonic hydr may thus be | withstanding her accident in the previous heat. , She isolate the same facliity and at a much lower got away with the lead, bat broke up on the turn, and price than Cw id with the fae aa Hiuded to of | Atl Jed to the qi pole two length in forty avoiding thi neration of the {ll red gases, at | and a half seconds, the backstretch the poe the same tine utilizing coal dust refuse. m broke again, it, trotting Ma a er ‘The lose in delivering gas through lengthened | recovering, she was within a length of bay tubes, owing to its diffusive power, tay be overcome | mare at the haif-mtle pole in by simply coating the interior of said pipes with | Flushing end they were head some cheap and impervious lining, at the same time | distan ‘Then the black mare began to show in carefully a ‘ing tue joints, front, she led on the homestretch one len ‘Tre Ove lengths in FASHION Covnsy $1,000, matle heats, John Murphy n John While l admire the courage you exhibit in under- taking to introduce these capital ?discoveries in this couatry, where they will noe doubt meet with opposi- tion because they alta to revolutionize our ays.em of lighting and heating. 1 am happy fo congratulate | You, that gentie:Ngn of tnduence and ¢ already associat themee! The following is a summary:— L. 1, Thoisday, June 25—: eat turec in five, in harness. i bik. 1. Black Bess. 1 2 7 named bm. Avanta ai apital have eg for the purpose of erecting works in ths city for producing oxygen gas Mite for industrial applica tions. 2:38% Wishing yoo att aah an promoters of acientifie 3333 advancement, 1 have (We honor to remain, yours, Ve ag Pe ‘uly, Be VGDEN DOKRENUS, Geueral Dix expresses {he views of the former on . Raltroad. Mx something that may that it has been tmpossible to write anything wort! Icould that would imply an indiiference to the work, which no American feeis, . service, as a Senator tical measure, looking to the construction of @ Pacijic Railroad, which received the sanction of Congress, was amendiment to the Arm, at the disposal of the be expended in surveys and éxplorations of routes for the road, It was ado} printed by order of Congress. honor in March, 1850, of presenting and commending to the Senate they memorial of Dr. Pulte, an inteill- gent physician of Cincinnati, praying that measures might be taken for the connection of New York with London, by extending the existing lines oMelegraph to the Pacific, b, maze the coast across Behring’s Straits through Nort! Pacific by the indomitable energy of a private citizen of New York, aided by the simple promise of employment and compensation by ihe structed by tl it has not alre; enterprise is en! accomplished, of completing the -wondiul works teen years ago. P than that of the telegraph. implied, to stand by their offers, Nothing was heard from the highest anxious to obtain a8 a8 the vessels, it notified the next highest he could have them at his bid ; but he, too, failed to respond, formed that if they desired t! pears by the published courespondence, that Goin slong the d_ head Tor the # steadily np the stretch she won the heat by 44. atch FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, MR. CHASE AND THE PACIFIC RAILROAD. ‘The fotfowing letter from Chief Justtce Chase to It froze in Paris dunng the nights of the loth and 21th inat The Nice Journal reports that the King of Hanover bas received authority to dwell in France and has chosen that city for his demiciie, Au equestrian statue has been erected in Copen- hagen to Frederick VII., the popular king, who gave Devmark its constitutional freedom and who was always hostile to the Germanic infuence. Count Bismarek, on account of his health, will pass the ensuing winter at Cannes, France, and instruc- tions have already been received to prepare a villa for himself and family. thai great work ef American enterprise, the Pacific TASHINOTON, Noy, 25, 1963. DEaR SiR:— Kind invitation’ “to write | ysel at the breaking of round on the Unio Paaide found me in the mi Ra:lroad” in Nebraska, engagements $0 exacting i not, however, omit writing altogether, for dt is among my most pleasin mn Onio, recollections of The family of the man who was pacpntiy baled at iat the first prac- Antwerp by a tiger has had a pension settled upon it by the Zool ‘al Society of that animal Deoriged, - sag took pci The English papers state that the Viceroy of has decided that Ris second son, aged ‘fifteen Fant and who is destined to fill some military corner, shall finish his education in England. Lord’Stanley at the Viceroy’s request, las desired the Co. moved tg me, That measure was an Appropriation bill, placing cretary of War $150,000, to ypted by the Senate in ‘ 1853, and was subsequentl, February, concurred in | Mander-in-Chief to appoint @ colonel under whose by the ii use, Its results are embodied in the | charge the young prince will be piaced during his volumes known as the Pacific Railroad Reports, | sojourn im. id. recollection that I had the Seven thousand dol! " It ie another -pleasin, cae orcihger ey cits Ang 10 to the Baroness Rothsoarild was lost in he street in Paris, and were found by a@ sergeant de ville, who deposited them at the police headquarters, in oe snes , are Ki allowed to recerve aby recompense for such acis, but Lady Rothechild has ‘written the Prefect, begging to be allowed to sive the lucky Und ward. rm Asia to St. Petersburg, and sa pepe ineshiemyaees there forming connections with the lines to the cities | wrne,#ult brought against Messrs. Brlanger, Arman, of Western Europe. by y nment, Tris great, WOR has since been completed to the | MAS, Resed on the 111 inst. but was deferred fot tram Sibley. | fence, ‘The United States government fs defended bi MM. Moreau, Cavon and Berryer. The suit 4 brought to recover the sum of $560,000, being the balance on vessels not delivered but paid for by the Southern States during the late rebeillon, ‘The walls of achina manufactory in Harley, Staf- fordshire, having become cracked and fall of creve ices, it was found on examination that it arose from the fact that the bed of coal under the soil had taken fire. Immense quantities of water were on it but without avail, A similar coincidence existe in Sarrebruck, where the fre underground extends several thousand fect square, and on the surface there reigns a continual spring. Even in the winter the trees remain green and flowers are frequently m the other side of the Pacific the ph line from St. Petersburg, con- imperial government, souvenses if reached the Pacific, aud American ted in the task, now certain to be overnment, ussian tele; which the Cincinnati physician suggested over thir- Steam moves more ae Seno lightning. The rogress of the railroad has been necessarily slower When the surveys and explorations for a.route had been partially reported the subject of the railroad was again brought before Con; and 1 again had some cun- | found. nection with it; now, however, ef a less A Mrs. Blackmore was lately brought before the cern: though still significant character. | Criminal Court in London on a charge of ‘A licitous for the progress of the work, 1] having married four husbands, who are all living. submitted a resolution in January, 1854, int voting the Committee on Roads and Canals to inquire into and report upon the construction of a railroad irom some point on the western lines of the Western States to some point on the eastern line of California. On the motion of Mr. Gwin the reference to the Committee on Roads and Canals was stricken out and the whole subject referred to a select committee of nine Senators, from which I was excluded because I then held about the same relation to the democratic party on the subject of parery 98 the war democrats now hold on the question of the rebellion. ‘Mr. Gwin’s committee reported a bill which, after much discussion and sundry amendments, passed the Senate in 1855, but failing to receive the sanction of the House did'not become law. Nothing further of importance was done in relation to the Pacific Railroad during the next seven years. ‘The attention of the country was absorbed by other juestions; and it remained for the Thirty-sevénth cna to give a grand proof of the stability of the Tepublic and the worth of democratic institutions by ne up this great’ measure, in the midst of our terrible civil war, framing it into alaw. The ‘Thirty-seventh Congress will be forever memoratfie Her father, called upon as witness, was asked by the magistrate what his aughter’s name was, to which he wiry replied, “I believe, your Worship, that her name {s Blackmore, being that of her last husband— that is, if it is not Mills, who was her third, itis not likely that she bears the name of Rickaby or Reeve; Dut nevertheless it is not impossible.’ She fortu- nately escaped from this complication with one month’s imprisonment. A SOUTHERN CLASSICAL REUNION. Speech of Wade Hampton at Washington College. The Richmond Enquirer gives a correspondent’s account of the commencement proceedings at Wash- ington College, Va., a8 follows:— © The certificates of distinction and the diplomas having been awarded, and the orations on the part of the young men having been concluded, General Lee arose and said:—‘‘I introduce to you, ladies and gentlemen, General Wade ee South Qaro- lina, who has consented to address Bock in history as the author of many acts of iegislation of | eties.”. The General still looks young a@ he transcendent importance and far-reaching conse- | rode in the van of the battle. theme of quences. Among these great acts the Pacific Rall- | the address was, “Duty as the best mo yoad bill will remain as one of the most illustrious | tive to animate us in all things.” He said, monapienty of the wisdom and courage of its mem- | « 8, T shall not attempt any discussion of its importance to our industry, our commerce or our Union, I have elsewhere said something on these themes; but now the road ie its own most eloquent advocate. I rejoice in the belief that under your charge and that of the eminent citizens associated with you it will go stead- ly forward to completion, and vindicate by perfect success the most sanguine predictions and hopes of its advocates and promoters. Very truly, yours. H 8S. P. CHASE, General JonN A. Dix, President Union Pacific Katl- you assume the duties of citizenship let this order of the great repebuie be the wo vern you in all your relations to mine that whatever de your future position, whether in a public or private station, by no word or thought or feed to work detriment to our State, Be true to her, come weal, come woe; rue to her material interests, her spot fame, her unsullted honor, her grand traditions. You owe this duty to those immortal men who made Virginia what ghe was; you owe it to them who are to come ou; you owe it to yourselves; you owe it to your pe 7§ ae pe! fo A a her sons in bre road Company. rou ol ughty Rome, them paral ae to it that the ‘Kepubiic suffers no detriment,’ for her voice, that of old so potent is stifled; but in mute agony she points to the heroic sons PUBLIC PLUNDER IN THE SALE OF THE IRON-CLADS. has borne, to teach her yout born how to live for Letter from Mr. William Faxon, Assistant | hoy, and, if need be, owes) efor her. Asshe,calls Secretary of the Navy. up her mighty dead to stand before pon, ot {From the Hartford Courant, June 25.) see coming at her summons an illustrious host of from Mr. Faxon, Assistant the editor of the Courant, ablish, though it was not The following letter Secretary of the Navy, to ‘100 to. we have written expressly for heroes, sages and patriots. I see assembled the sons of the Old Dominion—men of heroic mould—and from midst I hear the voice of the ‘forest-born es,’ as he exclaims, in tones that roused the heart of every Dear SiR-—The Courant erase ipver of freed om, feive a me | erty or give me death {* MY 8 of aid not or reach me until this morning, and I aes the | [see Jefferaon, ob with impressive ity he pre- earliest opportunity to thank you for promptly ex- | sents to the poeple of "76 what was aaa our Magna pressing your disbelief in the statements growing | Charta—the immortal Declaration “4 bat of the sale of the iron-clads Catawba and Oneota, | I see Madison framing that constitution which fondly hoped, but, alas! in vain, was to secure the blessings of liberty to his count For your own satisfaction let me briefly explain to ny. his State her noble you the other side of the story, stating, however, B 4 of Rights, that there ig no charge of “stealing” against either | @ivini all of 5 the Secretary, the eth Sopermrier ve a - = png oe ms - er to coat worms ye — ms the bureau who consummat e sale—it only ol ding lustre arranging matters as to prevent other bidders by*his virtue. ‘Along with them I see a countless throng of her noble sons whose names the world will not willingly let die, and towering above all [ see es in awful majesty, the man who was “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.’ ”” 80 than those who purchased the vessels from obtain- ing them—in other words, of favoritism or want of administration of executive duties, These vessels, with six others exactly like them tn every respect, were appraised and advertised accord- ing to aw. When the Bids ‘were opened - was found pears te! Pagar Sige vane ste ~—. that for these two vessels there were six bidders, and | fil” “ally principle:—“Should. such tela of course the highest offer was Bier tly acorn and the vidder notified to makea epost, as required by the advertisement. This, of course, released all the other bidders from any obligation, expressed or tions, should you be disposed for the sake of expe- diency tosacrifice duty, go to yonder quiet ceme- tery, and as you look upon the grave of Jackson think of that great soldier, pure patriot and humble bidder, and as the deparement was Lomas =4 iSite paesia much much 7 Ow — poorer youu, price, who taught us how te “ale Should any further incentive to confirm your waver- ing faith be then needed, turn from the eave of the dead hero and Christian to contemplate the living ones an learn to live like him, whose inspiration has been patriotism and whose pole star is duty !”” THE RING. A Novel Prize Fight in Richmond, Va. {From the Richmond Enquirer, June 24.) jer that All the remaining bidders were then in- vessels at the prices named by them, they must make a deposit of the re- quired percentage within the time specified in the advertisement, and were distinctly informed. _ ots ou! more one party make the deposit the bouts will be awarded to the highest bidder, and the amounts deposited by the others returned.” The only “arran; nt”? necessary to secure the vessels ante pot up the money; but not a doliar was de- A pagilietic encounter took mince yesterday Leno wed by any one. The bidder representing the | tWo well wean te fight, it seers, originated parties who ultimately took the vessels knew that tt | Lee and Jack Wrenn. | The wang 7 Was no object for him to put np the money, ashe was | st the York river depot the evening previous, Swing the lowest bidder, and he knew also that there | t© some words which we tes pe ae were six other vessels as near lke these two as the | Very wnpleassnt nature. One og? idecing: himself aggrieved, sent it & chi wi ike each othor, | Was promptly accepted, with the understanding that a ttled in accordance buttons upon your coat are that could be purchased at the appraisal. Messrs. Swift & Co. then came forward as purchasers at the e matter should be oa —_ a on long al ar make them come up to .the bid of J can their associates, but the: would not give | ll the preliminary hay ents, ving chosen @ spot on the south side of Cane thi ‘ary beyomd the reach of the city authorities—Pat $5,000 more for the Cata Oneota than for two others of the same cl: in every way as perfect vessels, which could be nd’at av hues made, in | being accompanied by William ea John pursuance of an act of Congress, by a board of which Finn, and Jack Wrenn by his brother, fn oa Commodore Winslow, of Kearsarge fame, was chair- id Robert H. Alien, A! eee a man, assisted by four other officers, including two | lected for the combat they were, pres e engineers of experience. The department had no | Sight by their respective 8, ‘ume being th called by Mr. William Holmes, who acted as referee, In'Good earrest, andwought fora considerable length earnest, ans 8 of time. At the close of the seventeenth round Wrenn’s second threw <. the ge, and Lee was declared the victor, All hands then returned to the city, apparently on the most friendly terms. Very little dainage was done to the “mug?” of either party. Lee won the fight by giving his opponent a¢ series of heavy blows in the a A CURIOUS ELOPEMENT. [From the Auburn (N. Y.) Advertiser.) We have recently been informed Of a most singular affair occurring during the last winter, and which has only just now been made public. It seems that some time in January last a couple of married men, residing not a hundred miles from this city, ba | each unsuspected by the other, enamored of sai other's better (or worser) half, and the matter was carried on so far that each of the fair (or false) ones to elope with her neighbor’s husband. An especially dark ht seemed to favor the de- sign, and was chosen by each as the favorable Big aN ata ear ot odours, aoe city conve! e voyagers " the rear and the other on ‘the for- choice as to the particular vessels to be taken. The eight were exac' alike, and it would as soon sell the Catawba and Oneota as any other two, or any other two as the Catawba and Oneota; and it made the gale, and put in the Treasury over three quarters ofa million of dollars, The remaining six vesseis have not been applied for to this day by any of the parties who think that they have been unfairly treated. Messrs. Swift & Co. had gone out of the country and sold two vessels, as it now appears, under an in- timation given them by the department they might have those built by them upon the same terms that Congress, winter before last, gave to the builders of two other vessels; and certain parties had got hold of this fact, and gress authorized the sale in another way, a “cornering” operation was attempted, and had there not been more vessels of the me kind then in market, possibly it might have been successful, and the government thereby*have more money. It did, however, receive the full value of the vessels, and can to-day contract to build new ones exactly like those it has sold for the money It has placed in the Treasury, and have them hip upee’ be Fei anna’ = = expense, without exposing those rge them to death by yellow fever. ED If the Fire | are successful in deli ‘the | couple getting on vessels, Ihave no doubt but that they will ¢ a | Ward car, unseen and unsuspected, it having been handsome sum of ee they ought to, Any arranged that the wife in each case should go to the one who will go into this “ex! ie? busl- | tram anaccor ied, and only be joined on board heas, without the prospect of vefy large returus, | Sy her “aMinity” just at the moment of departure. sbould have a conservator over i eee Pom = on teers pairs me pon ™ detzined for some tine while awaiting the train by whieh to continue the journey, and Prpsoeges to digencunber themselves of the assumed for the occasion, when, to the able horrer of each coupie, it was discov the sffair had fa‘led, for husband number one re- cognized before him, in the now anvetled : his recent Sravelling companion, the lineam: hie own devoted yife, wi excited nerves ee pe nted @ Ney! tion of her dear hus- ban farm th the aim Sosearity of the rallread car. M ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE, Another Enoch Arden—Captivity Long and Cruel. ‘From the New Albany (Ind.) Commerctal, June 22.) f Some years Pare Shiitey married @ Miss Tate p-daughter of Richard Houston)y neat Biooming- {ont in this State. Some time after the marriage Shirley removed to Illinois, where, in the course of di , he bought a drove of cattle, and after sendi Io a similar ing mane? was the stern his wife and. two or “tee ‘cldfen ‘back to ‘loom: | forced upon te other thunast «tioken comple, an ea atk Jolande until his return, brought to this city two thencetertnly. faithafl ‘and pentarted ‘with his cattle to California, A short dis- tance beyond Salt Lake City he was captured by tne Flathead Indians, and his cattle confiscated. He constant couples, Whose night journes edst, 60 #ad- denly executed without apparent canse, ovcasionc@ ‘no simall wonderment amon; somo their nearest ypighbors, eel thio ane his frien “The Mistake of a Lifetime" was not @ to the ae hein atee aT tele oF ws ie gs ant who gave the above particulars, that nom faithful partners can be fovnd in town than are mow the sorrowful part of the story. ‘Thursday of last | the members of these two matrimonial firms, ‘week, says the Mitchell Commiercidi, Shirley returned — to his father’s (John Shiriey’s), near Bloomington, in Tae MARe@uRTTE CONFLAGRATION—INSURANCB bright anticipation of a ‘with his be- | Losses.—A correspondent of the Chicago happy meetin, loved wife and children, ond when told that his wite was married he wept like achild, We learn that he has written his late wile @ ietter, alleging that he has the oldest claim; but the courts can afford no Mr, Shir- of the re- Republican qidotoon, NOY this it J siogular to‘note that the 18 $1,250, hi fosntance losses are only $150,000. These are divided as follows:— Alena, $19, 1, cannon and Live ae ce Phanmix of Hartiora, #6000; ome, Now. York, '¢16,000; Lo re 5 t reilef, So closely did the “redskins’’ kee) jey confined that be never heard a wor bellion until he made his escape only a short time vorce, and was married about @ year ago and re- moved with her husband to Illinois, And now comes ork, $1! 3 Lori $10, ayo. He bears upon his person uniniatakable evi- | Hartford, $6,000; Boatmen’s, of Otnclnnad, ! | dence of hard treatment; but he considera this @ keh erage $5,000; Detroit Mutual, niall matter when compared to the loss of the } Milwaukee Mutual, $6,000; Aatna sof Oxford, y dmuther 0} bie cluidvem $22,500; Home, of aL, $20,00 wer —