The New York Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1871, Page 5

PARIS UNDER FIRE. AN IRON HAIL ON THE DOOMED CAPITAL. The Prussian Bombardment and Where the Shot Falls. The Work of Ruin in Fifty Municipal 8ee- tions—Review of the Consequences. Panis, Jan. 10, 1871. “Nous sommes en plein bombardment.” The fron hailstorm which commenced to fall upon our forts with the dawn of Friday, the 30th of Decem- ber, was extended upon Thorsday, the 5th of Janu- ary, to two of our arrondissements, the Fifth and Fourteenth, and within the last forty-eight hours has descended with unsparing impartiality upon the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Fourteenth, Fifteenth nd Sixteenth arrondissements. Every one who 1s famtliar with the map of Paris cannot fail to be aware that the Fourth arrondissement, which is called that of the Hotel de Ville, is not far from THE CENTRE OF THE FRENCH CAPITAL. But for those to whom this noble city is unknown 4n detatlit may not be uninteresting to !earn that, according to the municipal division of Paris, it 18 distriputed or parcelied out into twenty arrondisse- ments and thirty quarters. BUILDINGS BUBJBCTED TO THE FIRE OF THE GER- MAN GUNS. Confining myself for the present to those upon which the Prussian projectiles have hitherto fallen, I will enumerate the principal buildings which are thie night subjected to the fire of ourenemy. The Fourth arrondiasement, called the Hotel de Ville, Contains the ‘‘quarters” of (1) St. Merri, (2) St. Ger- vais, (8) the Arsenal, (4) Notre Dame. It is the very heart of Paris, and includes the two islands on the Seine, upon one of which stands the splendid edifice of the Cathedral Church of Notre Dame, the precise Gate of whose erection has not been accurately fixed. But it has been abundantly established that upon this very spot a votive altar was raised by the Ro mans to Jove—an altar of which the foundations Were discovered in 1711, and transferred to the Palace des Thermes, one of the residences of the Roman Governor of Gaul, in which they have since been carefully preserved. ‘Thousands of Eng- lish visitors have curiously explored this ancient building and its still more interesting neighbor, the Hotel de Cluny. In the eyes of Parisians the Cathe- ral Church of Notre Dame, the subject of one of Victor Hugo’s earitest and, m my opinion, noblest romances, has always appeared as sacred as West- minster Abbey to the inhabitants of London or their ancient and superb Minster to the inhabitants of York. And this is the building within two handred yards of which Prussian shells were last night falling. IN THE FIFTH ARRONDISSEMENT. Turning now to the Fifth arrondissement let me at once state that it contains some of the most interesting and storied spots within the French Metropolis. Within it are situated the following qQuarcers:—1, St. Victor; 2, Jardin des Plantes; 8, Val de Grice; 4, Sorbonne. The Jardin des Plantes, or Zoolegical Garden of Paris, is Well known to every stranger who ever passed a week in this city, and 1s the one monument which, ‘above all others, seems to keep fresh the memory of Louls XIIIl.—by no means the worst of French Kings—who, yielding to the solicitations of his two Physicians, founded it in 1635. But the greatest glory which attaches to this garden of natural his- tory is that, 1n 1739, the greatest naturalist whom the world has hitherto Known, Buffon, was ap- Pointed to the functions of its superintendent. THE MILITARY HOSPITAL OF VAL DE GRACE, i the rue St. Jacques, established by the Firat Na- poleon, in the buildings of a convent of Benedictine nuns, is perhaps the most important school of mill- tary surgery in the world. In front of it stands the bronze statue of Baron Larrey, the Surgeon-in-Ohief 40 the great Napeloon’s armies, and declared by bim 4n his will to be “the most virtuous man that I have ever known.” At the foot of LARREY’S STATUR stands this extract from Napoleon’s will, and the bequest of 100,090 irancs, or £4,900, which thoge eulogistic words portended, Itis true that witnin these last twenty years, and especially since the Crimean and American wars, the military surgery of France bas not kept pace with that of England or the United States, But as a purely military hospital that of Val de Grace still occupies the feremost rank. Within its enclosure stanas a church founded by Apne of Austria, the Queen of Louls XILII., who, after she had been marrted twenty-two years with- Out issue, gave birth tn 1838 to asou, who after: wards became Louis XIV. This church ts sur- mounted by alotty and conspicuous dome, which, Within the last five days, has been a favorite point of aim for Prussian projectiles. WOUNDED PRUSSIANS PLACED IN THE HOSPITALS UNDER FIRE. Finding that many German shells fell in and about this asylum of wounded Frenchmen, General Tro- chu caused them to be removed two or three days ago, aud has since introduced into it the sick and wounded Prussians who are captives in Paris. Notification has been sent to the Prussians that the Hospital of Val de Grace Is new filled with their own wounded compatriots, and within the last twenty-four hours the loity dome of its church has ceased tobe a potnt de mire for Prussian shells. But perhaps the most interesting building which the Fifth arrondissement contains is the famous Collége de la Sorbonne, which, founded in the thir- teenth century as a school for ecclestastics, became the parent of the University of Paris, and conferred upon the G@allican Church dur- ing the middie ages a reputation for learning which they are far from having since sustained. this school Cardinal Richelieu was educated, and ere, im @ Magnificent church, of which he himself laid the foundation, his remains are intered. No one who has read Carlyle’s ‘History of the French Revolution” can have lorgotten that in 1789 Cardi- mal Richelews tomb was desecrated by the mob, and that his head was paraded through the streets fixed ona pike. Litde more than four years ago this head, which had been cererany preserved by the family of M. Armiz, was restored upon Decem- ber 14, 1886, to the Cardinal's tomb, in the presence of the French Academy and other illustrious per- sonages. IN THE SIXTH ARRONDISSMENT, 1 come next to the Sixth arronissement, that of Luxembourg. It contaius among its quartiers—i, The Odcon; 2, The Monnate; 8, Notre Dame des Champs; 4, St. Germain des Prés. The theatre of the Odéon, situated as it is on the south side of the Seine, and given up in general to the representation of somewhat ponderous tragedies, has never been in favor with sight-seeing strangers, ‘The magniti- cent Mint, or Monnaie, of Paris, which uprears its noble fayade along the left bank of the Seine, in the neighborhood of the Institute of France, cannot fail to have caught the eye of every visitor te Paris. The churches of St. Merrie, in the fourth, and of Notre Dame des Champs and St. Ger- main des Prés, in the Sixth arrondissement, are woo well known to archwologists and students ot ecclesiastical architecture to merit further descrip- uon in this rapid survey. But it 1s impossible to look on the venerabie pile of St. Germain des Pres, which ts the abbey church of the most ancient monastic establishment in Paris—an establishment which owed its origin to the son of Clovis, in tne aixth century—without a pang of regret that, for the first time during its far extended existence, this storicd building, In which Descartes 1s burted, should be @ mark for destructive projectiles and a point de mire at which artillerymea from across the Khine should point their guns, THE SEVENTH ARRONDISSEMENT contains within 18 area the Paiais Bourbon, or Palace of the Legislative body, 80 well known to every English visitor who has gazed on its Grecian Ja,ade as itrears jiself alolt at the end of the Pout dela Concorde. within this same arrondissement stands the famous Hotel des Invalides, under the ‘aed dome of which repose the ashes of the Great, japoleon. It can scarcely be wondered that this conspicuous mark, 80 suggestive to Prussian minds of Jena and Armstadt, and of the days when Berlin was governed by a French murshal, should be a cen- tre of attraction for Prussian sbelis, Nor is the Ecole Militatre, which is also situated within the Seventh arrondissement, less likely to he hateful to German eyes. Originally founded tor the gratu- education of 600 sous fof noblemen who had been killed 1m battle, the Ecole Militaire became subsequently the headquarters in Paris of the Great Napoleon, and was converted by Napoleon TLL. into wn immense barracks for infantry, cavalry and artillery, Every stranger who visited Paris during the Exhibition of 1867 must nave noticed the Jordy length of its facade, as it stretches tor hun- dreds of yards along the southern cdge of the Champ de Mars, which was itself the site of the great Exnibition, ON THE VERGE OF THE CITY. T shall devote but jew words to the Fourteenth, Fiveenth and Sixteenth arrondissements. They lie 0 the yerme or edge of the metropolis, beluud tho NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1871—TRIPLE SHEKT. Forts of Montrouge, Vauves and Iasy, and awaken fewer historical and ive memories than the arrondigsements nearer to the centre of the town, w I have dwelt with greater detatl, the Fourteenth arrondissement is in- the most inte of the many inte cemeteries which is contains—Le Cim¢- iu Mont Parnasse—and if, at a moment when death is riding upon every breeze, It were reason- able to expect men to be easily affected by solemn sights, it would be difficult for any one to haunt the streets which lead to this last resting place of the dead, without nooo appalled by the multitude of coffins, and especially of children’s comings, which are daily carried to thelr last long home, The Fif- teenih and Sixteenth arrendissemeuts lie to the right ana lett of the Seine before it makes ita exit from the enctenté continue of Paris, at the spot which is called Le Point de Jour. It is into these last two arrondissements, and also into the Four- teenth, that the largest numoer of Prussian shelis have hitherto fallen, DESTRUCTION OF THE HISTORICAL MONUMBNTS OF PARIS, It has seemed to me no inappropriate moment to recall to the minds of Englishmen the nature and historical Monuments of the town upon which this fearful scourge of war 1s now falling so heavily. In @ speech which, towerds the end of last year, Mr. Lowe, our present Chancellor of the Exchequer, de- livered in England, he dwelt with much force upon the instability and insincerity of what appears to fallible mortals to be the most solid and firm-set na- . tonal prosperity to which a State can attain, Within 118 long, extended, and ancient history, PARIS HAS NEVER HERETOFORE BEEN 8UBJERCTED TO BUCH A TRIAL wy as she is now enduring. In 1814 she was inhapited wy @ population who Were sick to death of the Great apoleon and his conscriptions, and who welcomed the allies as their saviors and deliverers. Half a dozen sheils which fell into the Chaussée @Antin awakened among Parisians a universal demand for capitalation. But now, after six days and nights of heavy and unintermitted bombarament, which has already sent its shells into seven of our twenty arron- aissements, and which, before another week has flown, may oe improbably rain upon the whole city the flery missiies, there ascends from every man, Wo- man and chud in Paris but one unanimous cry. It sin favor of la guerre a Voutrance, of war to the kuue,”” of unflinching, indomitable, invincible resistance, to be sustained at the cost of the death of mothers and their babes, of weak women and bey sere children. lt has always been my opinion that by bomvardin; Paris the Prussians would rather intensity and ag- gravate than weaken and diminish the spirit of French opposition, But [ confess 1 was uot prepared to see the minglcd insouciance and DEPTH OF THE PARISIAN CHARACTER, which this firey ordeal has now made patent wo every eye. Scarcely & moment eitner of the nightor day now without bringing home te our ears the aeep-voiced thunder of the artillery of our army. The sound of the heavy shells waich the Prussians are now throwing into Paris might well daunt the hearts of a population by which no such sound was ever before heard. But after walking tor many hours to- Se the inhabitants of the Four- teenth and Fifveenth arrondissements, into which durmg the whole of last night the iron projectiles fell like snow flakes, I found NOT 1HB SIGHTEST DISPOSITION TOWARDS TERROR OR SUBMISSION. Iconversed again and in with women who were living in houses over which some hundreds of shells have already passed, and who in some in- stances showed the great craters or holes produced by shells which had failen aud buried themselves in their gardens. From all came the same answer, “We may be killed, but that 18 of Little account. Only let Paris hold firm until la France has come to her res- cue!’ ) had some Soprenennions that towards the end of this present month our provisions would have been exhausted; but in the present temper of our population I believe and expect that Paris will en- dure, and endure cheerfully, such hardships and privations as was never before experienced by acity of this magnitude. We have as our governor, in General ‘trochn, a man who, though personally brave and honest, is unfit for the immense respon- aT In our four months of sustained agony we have hitherto produced no man who can lay any claim to the title of a great soldier, PARISIAN HATE. But, in conclusion, it would ve diMcult for any one to use exaggerated or extravagant expressions while endeavoring adequately to command the atti- tude and bearing of the population of Paris. It 1s impossible, of coarse, for us to divine what is the purpose and meaning of the furious bombardment to wnich Poris is now being subjected. All reason- able and reflecting men believe that behind it the Prussians are engaged In some great military move- ment, directed agatnst General Faldherbe in the north, or against Gencrals Chanzy or Bourbakt in the ion of the Loire. But whatever be its object and alm, of one thing, paradoxical though it may seem to them, the Prussian Generais may rest fully assured. By bombarding Paris the Prussians have taken the step of ail others which was best calculated to Intensify the hate and fire the courage of every living soul that Paris to-night coutains, SEE Se EE EN RUSE. The Best Thing of the War. HAVRE, Jan. 9, 1871, Agentleman from Ronen, whe arrived here to- day, tells a very charming story of the engagement in front of Arras the other day between Faidnerbe’s army and the Prussians under Manteuffel. He said:—it has been thought throughout the whole Prussian army that the Mobtles know nothing but to Tun, and the French are too well aware of this cur- rent report. Faidlerbe took advantage of the repu- tation of his Mobiles on the second day of the fight in this wise:—He caused the faces, hands and all the exposed flesh of the Mobiles to be painted black and the Mobiies to be babited as Turcos, The regu- lar solaters of the march, on the contrary, were disguised as Mobiles, and the General, after putting this jmesse upon his command, formed his Inne of battle with the Mobiles veritable in tae front, Wich the best and regular soldiers in reserve to sup- port the exigencies of any emergency. ‘The battle proceeded. fhe frussians, always seek- ing the Mebiies, met tie troops of ft dis- uised as such, flnding @ warm reception and care- lly aveiding the spurious Mobiles disguised as Turcos, who are very inhospitable to the invaders. ‘The consequence was that the efilclency of the army was greatly augmented—the torce appeared appalling to the enemy, and a more clever ruse was employed than that ‘known of the {apulous horse in the famous siege of Troy. Faidherve did a miracle, A DISTINGUISHED AUSTRIAN FIELD MARSHAL IN CALIFORNIA, m the San Francisco Alta, Jan. 9.} his Excellency the Baron Augustus von Yocnmus, a distinguished Austrian fleld marstal, arrived from Australia by the Moses Taylor yesterday morning. He has been travelling in the British colonies, &¢., and has everywhere been received with honor and special distinction. The Baron has led an eventful life. He went to Greece in 1827 and served till the end of the war, in 1829. After the accession of King Otho, in 1882, he was appointed captain of the gene- ral staff in the War Department. Later he joined the Britisy auxiliary legion o1 Spain, ana after seve- ral promotions was made heutenant colonel after the storming of the lines of the sebastian. on May 5, 1836, He was afterwards promoted to a coloneicy, and sabsequentiy made a general of brigade after the siege of Irun. He was appointed chief of staff of the Spanish army of Cantabria in 1837. He was sent by the British government on special military service to Constantinople in 1839. In 1840 he was “made chief of stat’ of the combined Anglo-Austrian and Turkish army of the Lebanon, and was created at the same time by the Sultan a general of division and a Pacha. He served with distinction till the end of the campaign, and was alterwards decorated with the Russian Order of St. Anne, and received swords of honor from Queen Victoria and tne Sul- tan. He was attached to the War Department in Constantinople from 1841 to 1848. After this he re- entered the Austrian service, and was created an hereditary Barou of the Empire in 1860. He was appointed Field Marshal Lieurenant in the Austrian army In July, 1866. The above particulars are gleaned from the British Foreign OMce List for 1870. The Baron, now on his way to Earope, will make a brief stay in San Francisco, GENERAL MEWS ITEMS, ‘The execution of Henry Welcome was the ninth that has taken place in tlie State of Vermont. Only two citizens of New Orleans pay tax on over a quarter of a million doilars’ worth of real estate. The deepest excavation in the United States is said to be a copper mine near Lake Superior. It 1s 1,300 feet deep. Judge W. P. Chilton, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Alabama, died at Montgo- mery on the night of the 20th. Aman who claims to have walked eighty miles a day when he was seventy-six years old 13 now living in Maine at the age of 103, ‘The coldest weather reported tn New England in recent times was on February 6 and 7, 1m 1855, January 1i, 1864, February 8, 1861, and January 8, Acivii suit has been bronght py the Yale student, Watson, against police oMicer Kelly, of New Haven, to recover damages for clubbing hun. ‘The question of holding & convention to amend the constitution of Ohio 18 to be submitted to the people of that State in the spring. Lecturing ts not always profitable in the West. In Toledo, Ohio, recentiy, @ eminine orator took Brtecn dollars at the door and the fever and ague in the hati. It is now thought probable that the University boat race next year Will be a siraigut-away race and rowed at some other place than Worcester—very likely at Springfield. Milly Jackson, @ colored girl, sentenced at Wins- boro, &. C., to be hung on the 27th last., has been commuted by Governor Scott to four yeara? hard labor in the Penitentiary. So intense was the frost at Ottawa, Canada, last ay might that the Free Press says the ice and nshow in every part of the city cracked with loud reports like those of heavy artillery, The best coal ol Was frozen and lamps were burst. Kansas leads all the States in the average yield of corn, It being 48.4, followed by Nebraska, with cath and Caltiornia, 4i.4. She also stands third m yield of wheat, barley, potatoes and hay, and seventh in buckwheat Keokuk, Chief of the Sacs and Foxes, numbering 700, Who occupy the Deep Fork country, west of the Arkansas, savs that they are going’ to build a large schoolhouse, and intend to “sive like white peowie.® ; bullets very distinct. BALLOONS AND CARRIER PIGEONS The Part an American Played in Secur- ing Gambetta’s Escape from Paris. COMMUNICATIONS WITH PARIS. Vivid Description of the Aerial Might from the Doomed City. BorDEavx, Dec. 31, 1870. The Postmaster General informs the public that his department has entered into arrangements for the conveyance o! letters to Paris from the previnces. The conveyance, it appears, is about to be accom- plished in seme mysterious manner, the details of which have not transpired, The charge for a single letter is fixed at one franc—twenty cents—one-fifth of which reverts to the Post Office, the remainder to the contractor, This MODE OF CORRESPONDENCE will be maintained indevendent of the facilities afforded by carrier pigeons. In one of my late let- ters from Tours I rally explained the process of that correspondence—viz., that messages are limited, like these of the telegraph, to twenty words, the charge being fifty centimes per word—ten cents—or Say two dollars per message, The service, 1am as- sured, works with wonderful regularity. Asalready Mentioned, the messages are reduced by photo- graphic process and despatched in triplicates, ¢., three pigeons are started separately, each carrying thesame budget of news. If two pigeons are lost there remains hope tor the arrival of the third. Up to the beginning of this month forty-four messages were despatched, that is to say 182 pigeons, and only eight out of that number are missing. BALLOONS AND PIGEONS. Each balloon brings a fresh batch of pigeons from Paris; six, eight, ten and even twenty have been brought at a time. In the letter referred to J alluded to the SUBTERRANEAN TELEGRAPH communications which had been established be- tween Paris and the provinces. From information gathered since then I learn that those communica. tions had remained intact up to the last week in the month of September. Until the morning of the 25th ‘of that month the government at Tours received regular messages from Paris. At that date, how- ever, all communications suddenly ceased, owing to the treasonable acts of an employé; another line had been sacrificea,'when the military au- thorities conceived the necessity of destroying sev- eral bridges leading to the approaches of Paris, Cut of entirely from the outer world, the only means of communication appeared to be that of sailing through te air. BALLOON TRAVEL INITIATED BY AN AMERICAN. It wiil be remembered that M. Gambetta was one of the first to avail of that mede of travel, but it is probably not generally known that the ini- tative was due toan American, ‘The first balloon was ordered by a gentleman who had been entrusted by the provisional Pigane with the purchase of large quantities of rifles and other war materials. 1 had become {mperative that, to effectually carry out instruetions, he should leave Paris so soon as racticable. Orders for the manufacture of a bal- loon were issued at once, and on October 7 Mr. May, of New York, the gentleman referred to, was enabled to leave Paris, accompanied by his irtend Mr. Reynolas and wwo French gentlemen. Anether balloon was in hand for the use of M. Gainbetta, but the same was not in # suiticient state of forwardness at the date when the machine ordered by Mr. May was nearly finished, MAY CBDES A FAVOR TO GAMBETTA. Disappointed at the untoward delay, he sent for Mr. May, eaplalnes the urgency attacning to his de- parture, and, with that peculiar courtesy forming a prominent feature of M. Gambetta’s character, he desired M~. May to cede 1n his favor the right of using the first balloon that could be got ready, leav- ing the second for Mr. May, provided the change met his Soproval, and, moreover, with the distinct understanding that the government did not mean to usurp authority or precedence, THE AMERICAN BALLOON PLACED AT THE MINISTER'S: DISPOSAL. ‘The American balloon, reaay for use on the Sth of October, was placed at the disposal of M. Gambetta, buitie state of the weather inhibited his departure; hence the coincidence that both balloons left on the same day. THE DEPARTURE FROM PLACE ST. PIERRE. The starting point was from the Place St. Pierre, QUICK TRANSIT. A Novel Road=—Unre Without Wheels Gliding Over a Revolving Track. ‘The problem of rapid and safe transportation of People from one end of this island to the other has not yet been soived, and is attended with many alf- ficulties, A pian that would use the present streets without obstruction or danger has at least the ad- vantage of economy over many schemes tnat have been proposed. General Imboden, of Richmond, Va,, claims to have invented and has taken steps to patent A SUSPENDED CITY PASSENGER ROAD, which tm several important features is certainly novel. A model of his invention is now in the office of De Leon & Imboden, 90 Broadway, Where the cu- rious in such matters can see tts mode of construc- tion and operation. Without the ald of illustrations it 1s diMecult to deseribe accurately the mechanism of this street road, The structure or carryingway is to be a wire suspension bridge, running the whole length of the city, supported by tron columns 100 feet apart, twenty-five feet high, resting upon granite pedestals on the line of the curbstones on both sides of the street. A light ornamental iron arch springs from the top of these columns, and, spanning the street, supports the iron piers over which the wire cables are stretched. One of these cables 1s over the axis of the street, the other two are halfway between this and the supporting columns, Immediately under these cables and at- tached to them are the girders to which the tracks are suspended—one for the down trains and the other for those goimg up town. The track or roadway 1s the most strikin; novelty of the invention, It is composed of pairs of rollers similar to car-wheels, secured upon a suitable axle, which pes upon ordinary friction rollers, This rotary track has {ts wheels ten feet apart and under tu the cars are suspended by rails thirty-two feet long that glide over the rollers with perfect freedom and safety. Six strong elliptic springs connect these rails with the cars and will Insure & motion almost as sott as the undulations of @ boat. The motive power 1s supplied by stationary engines located in buildings or under the streets. These engines are one mile apart and propel an endless wire cable or chain around light horizontal drums, six- teen feet in diameter. The attachment to the car is 0 sIMple that a boy ten years old can work it, and the cable 1s so constructed as not to be Itable to get out of order or break; but if such an accident should occur, a new cable being ready, can be put in in a few minutes, tons ee THE CARS are intended to be thirty feet long and ten feet wide, divided into three compartments, and seating coin- fortably forty-two passengers each. They may be run singly or in trains, and safely at the rate o' miles an hou. The stations it is proposed to 1ocate at about equal dis- tances of half a mile rt; and, spanning cross streets, they will obstruct no business place. The bottom of the cars will swing sixteen feet above the surface of the street, thus clearing all the stages aud Wagons passing under them. General Imboden claims that the operation of the road will be almost noiseless and not likely to frighten horses, The whole structure 1s light, graceful and ornamental, and does not obstruct the street any more than tele- @faph poles, which, by the way, as well as lamp posts, may all be dispensed with along the line and this structure be used instead. The invention claims advant over other pians proposed im these im- portant particulars:— First— THE ABSOLUTE SAFETY of the passengers—the carrying capacity of the track being calculated to bear twelve times the weight of the passengers that can be placea tnto the cars. Second—That his cars, hanging under the road, are brought several feet nearer the ground than 1s possible where the car is run upon its own wheels and over its track; sixteen feet being as high as people need go up stairs to get on the train, Third—Thit by the use of a revolving track and friction rollers he has reduced friction to its mini- mum, and requires no more power to operate the trains than is necessary to overcome the resistance of the atmosphére and the vis inertice of the car or, train. . Fourth—That a speed of ene mile In two minute ‘will require moderate power and be perfectly sale. FU—That as the same cable works trains in opposite directions at the same time Do more power is required to operate a road up hill and down than on & dead level. Stxth—That the structure occupying the middle of @ street, CAN NEVER BE A NUISANCE to foot passengers nor to the occupants of houses along Its line. Seventh—That its working capacity is greater than any road yet suggested, and may be increased or diminished at pleasure as readily as a horse ratl- road can increase or reduce the number of its cars. Eightn—That its cost will not be one-fifth of that of an underground way, and it can be constructed from one end of the city to the other in a single year. Mayor Hail, John Foley and William R, Martin and others have been invited to investigate the merits of this scheme, and their conclusions elther way will have great weight witn the people of this city. Montmartre. The first to leave was M. Gambetia, accompamed by M. Spuiler, his private secre- lary, and an experienced aeronaut, whose name I do not remember. Five minutes later the Americans gave the signal of “Let go” to a body of sturay tars holding on the ropes. The car con- tained:—Charles W. May, Esq.; W. W. Reynolds, Esy.; M. Cazon, @ young Frenchinan, appointed to & sub-prefecture, and M. de Revellod, the aeronaut. They carried with them several hundred letters, despatcn bags from the Legation of the United States and of the Netherlands Legation; also three baskets, containing twenty carrier pigeons, and thirty bags of ballast. A large concourse of people witnessed the departure. The American inister and many other American friends, res!- dents of Paris, had come to say goodby. SCENES FROM ABOVE, Both balloons rose immediately to a height of about 800 yards. Bearing in a northwestern direc- tion, the Metropolis disappeared soon under their feet, and the travellers were immediately brought into unpleasant proximity of the Prussian camp. ‘They distinctly observed signs of great commotion, and the Prussians lost no time opening fire on them, ‘The drill of artillery, the evolutions of tnfantry—all could be distinguished very plainly, and without the aid of glasses. Unians followed the track in hopes of making a capture whenever the bullets of their comrades should take etfect. The clattering ot horses hurrying over hard roads grated on the ears of the travellers; the flashes of fire from the can- non’s mouth became vivid; the whiz of One of the passengers of M. Gambetta’s car, evidently considering the po- sition critical, cheered lustily the ‘Atnericans to hurry up. So up they went still further out of range of King William’s fire-eaters, While the excitement in the Prussian camp was evidently very eat it formed a strange contrast to the serenity and purity which surrounded the aeronauts, Martial law had not been promulated in the regions which they had then reached. fhe traveliers could afford to look down upon the vain attempts of the soldiers below them. If the Prussian King can ever be induced to. Venture on an aerial trip it would serve to teach his Majesty a wholesome lesson. It would afford him an opportunity more adequately to measure the powers of Providence. TAKING OBSERVATIONS. ~ The sons of Mars continued to fire, and kept up the pursuit for the space of forty minutes. In tne meantime beth balloons kept eauhee and grad- ually ascended nearly 2,000 yards. About one o'clock endeavors were made to effect a descent. Having neared, as they lnagined, a viliage, the trav- ellers resolved to ascertain first their whereabouts, At a distance of about 200 to 300 yards they were informed by the assembied crowd that the place before them was the city of Senlis. in the de- partment of the Oise. They were enabled to speak to people on the riverside, and in reply to inquiries whether Prussians had been seen tn the neignbor- hood the aeronauts learned that the enemy had left that very morning, marcning in an easterly direc- tloa. They thanked the people and presented them with a copy of that day’s issue of the Gauiots. A descent was of course deemed unsafe, and after a brief consultation the travellers couunued their course. All went on well. The balloons glided noiselessly along. Perfectly unconscious of the rapid motion, the travellers agree that the sensation at that moment was perfectly nnique. LUNCHEON IN THE AIR—A BIRU’S-EYE VIRW. It was then time to provide for the inner man, and while partaking of luncheon the Americans were | unaware of having parted company with Mr. Gam- betta, A sharp lookout was had, but not a vestige could be seen of the other bal- loon. Gliding along till near three o’ciock it Was resolved to veniure on a final descent. But it was suddenly discovered that they | were becalmed. The balloon poised, as it were, for | nearly Ubree-quarters of an hour, and that time seems to have been spent most agreeably. Tre scenery below Was spread before them with an inde- scribable charm. The autumnal tinge produced a | strange contrast with the orange-colored leaves, and the chalky roads, winding along the sttll green fields, while numerous villages loomed up in the dis- tance. All this seemed more than could be realized. The travellers were speli-bound, and filled with » gratitude towards Him who bad watched over their safety through the clouds. A few minutes more and they would land on terra firma, A SAFE LANDING EFFECTED, , Seeing a large open field before them there was no apprehension of not reaching the ground unhurt. Having previously ascertained irom the tahabitants of & neighboring Village that their landing could be effected without risk of seeing the enemy, they learned that the uext railroad station was at the small city of Roye, in the Department Of the Somae. The Mayor aud the innabitants were prodigious in atten- tion upon the travellers, and they took rest ior the night under the hospitable roois of the notables of | that city. ‘The descent was eitectea at exactly four o'clock. They proceeded the next morning by rail to the city of Amiens, which they reached at an early hour, and where they had the satisfaction to meet Mr. Gambetta. His bailoon had descended about half an hour earlie afew miles distant only, but under less happy circumstances, Mr. May has been engaged in business at Paris since 1862, but subseanently was engaged in bust- ness in New York. ‘too much tmpertance cannot be attached to the happy idea which Induced Mr, May to undertake the aerial trip. It has turmshed France the means of receiving from America that material aid to which allusion was made in the HERALD of November 30, aud to which I shall have opvasion to reler iu my Jetter of next Week. The engineering problems mvolved in it are of easy and simple solution. The questions of its utility, cost and Jocation most interest the public, amd as these bring it in competition with ali other planes Ubey will doubtless be fully discussed. It is proper to add that with the singie exception that it is above ground, it has not the slightest resemblance to the Greenwich street, and Ninth Avenue Elevated Rail- way in construction or operation. BROOKLYN ASS ESSORS. Meeting of the Supervisors and Their Ap- pointments for Assessors—A Slight Muddle— Impartiality of Mr. McLaughlin’s Soper- visors. A meeting of the city members of the Kings county Board of Supervisors was held at noon yesterday in the Common Council chamber, City Hail, Brooklyn, to fill the vacancy in the Board of Assessors created by the death of the late Assessor John Dougherty, who died in the month of September, 1869. Also for the purpose of filling the position held by Assessor Mar- tin Breen, whose term of office has expired. The salary attached to the office of Assessor 16 $3,500. ‘The terms of Office are respectively seven years, in the place of Mr. Breen, and three years unexpired lease of the late Mr. Dougherty. Super /1sor OSBORN, Sixth: ward, took the chair, A communication was received trom Mayor Kalb- fieisch, nominating Martin Breen for reappointment. Supervisor HOWELL moved the appointment of two tellers to take the vote by ballot. Supervisor JOHNSON moved that they vote viva voce. It was seconded, but lost by @ vote of 14 in the negative against 7 in the affirmative. The ques- tion then occurred on the original motion, which was carried. The CHAIR appointed Messrs, Howell and Koll- Meyer as tellers, and the Clerk called the names of the members, each of whom voted, as his name was called, yea or nay. Supervisor HOWELL announced the total voteto be 21—yeas 13 and nays 8. Supervisor JOHNSON thought a two-third vote was necessary to confirm a nomination of the Mayor in @ vacancy in the Buard of Assessors. The CHAIR read an opinion of the Corporation Counsel to the effect that under the amended statutes A MAJORITY OF THR VOTES ONLY WAS NECESSARY to confirm the nomination of Assessor. Supervisor JOHNSON ‘said that he had voted for Mr. Breen, although that gentleman had been of opposite politics to him, because he believed and knew Mr. Breen to be an honest and trustworthy omctal, in whom the interests of the taxpayers would be safe; bnt he thought that it was under- stood that the Mayor would have exercised tne same magnanimity by nominating for the short term equally a8 honest a republican as Mr. Breen, who 1s a democrat. A committee was then by arate to wait on the Mayor and ascertain If he bad any other communi- cation to submit. Pending the return of said committee an adjourn. ment of the meeting was haa and the democratic members met in caucus in the Corporation Counsel's office. On reassembling the CLERK read a communication from the Mayor nominating R. M, Whiting, Jr., re- publican, Assessor in place of Mr. Dougherty, de- ceased. The Board proceeded to ballot with the following result:—)eas, 8; nays, 14. Lost, The name of Willam Bryan, democrat, was next received in nomination, The result of the ballot was:—Yeas, 17; nays, 4. Carried. Mr. Bryan’s nomination was confirmed. Supervisor NEwMaN moved that the nomination of Mr. Bryan date from January 1, 1871. Objec- tions were raised and he withdrew his motion. The same gentleman said that there seemed to be some doubt as to THE LEGALITY OF THE VOTE in the nomination of Mr. Breen, therefore he moved ® reconsideration of the same, in order that the Mayor may be requested to send in thatname. This motion was rescinded subsequently at the request of Mr. Newman, and Mr. Breen’s nomination was made unanimous. Among the city officials present in the City Hall were Register Hugh McLaughlin, street Commis- | sioner Fury, Auditor O'Brien, Levi Faron, Assistant | District Attorney; Corporation Counsel De Witt, Justices Delmar, Rielv, Waish and Buckley; Super- itendents of the Poor Foran and Corr, Aldermen Dunne, Clancy, Coftee, Boggs, Burrows: Fire Com- missioners Tyburn ana Corboy, and other equally interested gentlemen connected with the manage- ment and running of the municipal machine of Brooklyn. BLOWING ST. ANTHONY'S Nosk.—St. Anthony's Nose, that picturesque blu! ou the Hudson river, 18 being sacrificed to the genius of the age. Its rook abounds in sulphuious pyrites, and the oll of vitriol manufacturers are blowing St. Anthony’s Nose in a way no nose can stand. Extensive sulphuric acid works occupy @n isiaud near to roast the ore on the spot PRIM’S FUNERAL. The Murdered Marshal Borne from His Home to the Church. How the Body Looked as It Laid in State—Or- ganization and Route of the Procession—The Carriage in Which He Was Shot—His War Chargers and Sword-—Social Disor- ganization and Sad Reminiscences. MADRID, Jap. 1, 1871. Madrid begins the new year with a funeral. The oc- casion was solemn, the concourse large, and all to pay & tribute to the Gead Prime Minister, General Prim, | one in every way worthy of his high station. The procession was long and brilliant, with uniforms; but it was not what had been set down on the cards for the opening day of the year. Instead of a “live king” the public was treated to a dead lion, LYING IN STATE. ‘The body lay in state in the Ministry of War. ‘The office occuptes a grand and showy building on a high ground which dominates the paseos and the Prado. It is called the Palace of Buenavista and was ballt and given by the city of Madrid to the profligate Godoy, the King’s favorite—the Spanish | Buckingham, in short—surnamed the Prince of the Peace, the nau who signed the treaty of 1796 with the United States. WAITING FOR THE REMAINS. The crowd assembled at an early hour tn the street of Alcali that fronts the terraced grounds of the War Office and in the grounds themselves. There were troops drawn up in close rows all the way from the Puerta del Sol to the Gate of Alcalé. ‘There were double rows of the orphans under the charge of each parish; there were priests in plenty, and here and there a pair of ecclesiastical functlon- aries polsing over their bared and tonsured heaas some kind of a big black velvet extinguisher, em- broidered with gold and mounted on a pole, I don’t know what it is, or what tt is for; but it seems to be considered the right thing for a funeral. ‘The orplrans all bore great candles as tall as them- selves, and stood ready to light them when the time came for the procession to move. \N THE HALL OF DEATH, Within, the saloons of the Palace were crowded with the invited, all anxious to look on the still face of the man who but @ week ago held a)! Spain in his grasp. THE CORPSE. The corpse looked natural, It had been em- balmed by the modern method of injecting the jugu- lar veln, and with skill enough to avold the ghastli- ness that so often follows the operation, THE COFFIN. It lay in a handsome bronzed and gold casket, resting on massive golden feet. I was glad to see that 1t was not blue, or scariet or white, like most Spanish coffins, whi a8 a general rule, remind the untutored observer ef an exaggerated bonbonni¢re. It stood on a raised platform, with candles burning about it. On top lay the General’s hat and whe sword he wore at the Moorish victory of Los Vastil- lejos, which gave him his title of Marquis, THE FAMILY. The hour of the ceremony was fixed for twelve, noon, but, as usual, it was much behind time. ‘The Invited mourners crowded more and more. The family were not visible; the continental system, Kinder than our own, allows them the comfort of privacy and rest at the last moments, Madame Prim insisted on breaking through this custom ana taking a farewell look at her husband’s body. Her request was unwisely acceded to, but before she could reach the coffin she fainted and was taken back to her room Insensible. ITALIAN HONOR. There were some Italian officers present, among them General Crespo, sent by the new king from Carthagena in advance of his commg to represent him in the last tributes to the grave, earnest man tu whom he owes his crown, lock when the procession formed and started. An order of the War Depart- ment fixed the line of procession. The Civil Guard, dismounted (the gendarmerie of Spain), led the way. ‘the orphans came next, with lighted tapers; the smaller ones, who came last, often breaking into a run as fast as them little legs would carry them, to fill up the gaps that widenea between them and their precursors. ‘The priests, with larger candies, and the incense bearers came next and after them whe hearse, a showy structure of black, resplendent with gold and plumes, drawn by six black horses, led by luckeys of the Pal The six cords of the pall were borne by two officers of the army, lieutenant generals, two ex- ministers, 0 whom On» was Selvela, and two of the deputies to the Sovereign Cortes. A crowd of porters of the government buildings and the servants of the deceased came after, two of these latter leading two magnificent gray horses, the battle chargers of the general. The animals were in complete war-varness, but with black crape bound over the saddies, The general’s ceach followed next, were drawn up to conceal its emptine more interest centred on what follo any one feature of the procession. THE VEHICLE IN WHICH HE WAS SHOT. It was the general's coupé ‘carriage, the one he’ used every day, and In which he received his death wounds, The glasses were shivered, there were stains of powder-smoke on the door panels, and the upright framework of the door and window on the right side were riddled with a dozen bullet- holes. The lining was pierced and spotted in many places, and on the sides and back there were a few ji ged holes where tho balls ad made thelr exit. Ni the glasses were shattered. The front ones, Which are of a circular shape, must have been broken by the concusston, otherwise the escape with his life of the Adjutant Moya, who sat on the nar- row supplementary front seat, Was simply an inter- position of Providence. At every halt, and the line came to a@ stop every minute or two, there wasarush of people to peer in at the broken door and finger the splintered holes. ‘The carriage in its mute eloquence told the whole story of the crime of the Calle del Turco. THE OFFICIAL DISPLAY. After the carriage there came a crowd of ofMcials, city and provinctal. The programme grouped them after a fashion, but practically they were sadly mixed up, and they went past in a straggling trail, their overcoats buttoned up to their throats to hide their dress coats and keep out the mipping winter air. About one-fourth, I should think, were smoking, while the frosty breath of the rest gave them the appearance of doing the same thing. The deputies to the Cortes brought up the rear of this section, and they were succeeded by the Regent and his Cabinet, on toot, followed by the members of the diplomatic body, also walking. I missed the face of the American Minister at first, but when near the Church of Atocha I learn that he slipped through the file of soldiers that lined the latter part of the way and joined the rest, THE ROUTE. the thnds Perhaps than on ‘The line of maren lay for a short distance down the street of Alcala, and then turned to the right into the Saloon of the Prado, as the shady summer promenade of Muarid is called, past this, past the great museum where the won ul Murillos are hung, and down the walk of the Kotanical Gardens and the bare and houseless road of Atocha to the church of the same name. THE CHURCH OF ATOCHA. ‘The church and the hospital of. the invalids form a.clump of buildings lying ona bluff far out from the town, and flanked on one side by the Southern Railway station, and on the north by the observa- tory on a higher hill. Here the more aged arty | a are kept and fed while alive and buried when jead. THE GUARD OF HONOR. A guarl of these decrepit and maimed ve'erans met the body and received ii at the entrance to the chureh, IN THE CLOISTER. Only a few of those in the line of procession were able to squeeze into the cramped editice. ‘The coflin was carried m and placed on its state ner. A ceremonial mass was sung, the Regent leading the fuuctions on behalf of the nation. There were some fine voices in the choir, and the music rolled oat from the grated loft that walled them 1p, and filled the chureh with a volume of melod: ‘There was the usual ceremonial ritual of the Ca- tholic Church—the robes, the altar, the tapers, the imcense and the solemn tinkling of the little beli that | told of the elevation of the host. | BENEDICITR. At length it was over, and the procession dis- Hedoe: leaving the body in charge of a guard of honor compose of the invalids of the hospital. ADIBUS. The face of the deceased remained exposed, and a throng bas passed imo the church all the aiternoon to look their last on Don Juan Prim. The body re- mains in state until Tuesday, two days hence, when it will be Interred in the vault prepared for i. There will be no special ceremonial for ths, the foneral services and the burial being two distinct matters ‘on the peninsula. MOURNFUL ANTRCEDENTS—SAD SEQUENCES. So ends the HERALD’s record of an assassination which will serve a8 a pendant to those of Henri Quatre, the Due de Berri and — President Lincoln, and rank among the few suc- cessiul deadly works of tne knife or buiiet. Ove wight almost count those of the Christian era on biadugers, Bul, nalike Jagues Clement. Ravaitas | be shot bejore hi 5 gn@ Booth, the assassins of the President of the Connell are as yet untracked. They may be still found out. but { doubt it. ‘The tailure of the gov- | ernment to bring tie criminals to justice amd the garote, following on the inpunished assassinations of the Governor of B’rgos and ung Manuel AZ- cirraga, make up a dainvlag record for the spanish pollce system. It can read your letters, bribe your servants, “dog” the steps of your wile, your reputed mistress or yourself, but if 18 powerless to hunt down (he murderer, ‘That the assassins of Prim were bold is proved by the success of their deed. That tuey were numeroug 18 proved by the machinery they employed and the bullet holes they made in the wood of the coach or the flesh of the viet That they were shrewd 1g proved by their escape. ‘That they were defant and determined tn their @ uuion of @ plan deeply lad | and well carried out may be inferred from an anony- | mous letter said t been to-day recetved by the aillicted Duchess de Prim, which siiuply says:—"We | are well satisfied with tie success so lar of our work, | and will continue it without lugging.” “HIS MEMORY.” The death of the Prime Minister has not made much impression on the public mind, atleast not } outwardly, ‘There was no froth of mourning on the | house fronts, ‘There was no suspension of theatri- cal or operatic performances, A decree of the Kegent's orders that mourning be worn by the army on the Ist, sd and 4th days o: January, The arches and decorations begun for the King’s advent have | been discontinued. The English’ and American | Ministers have postponed their pro.ected entertains | ments for a week or x0, | Heyond this, nothing. I have talked with many, ; and can find but little genuine sympathy for the | victiin. Assassination 1s so legitimate a part of the social machinery of Spain that it loses much of its | criminality in native eyes. The club loang@s shrug | thetr shoulders and wonder whose turn will come next. I have heard bets that the Duke of Aosta will ches the Cortes, offered and taken by the saine nien who waged that Prim would dic of bis wounds, while the morning's Ofietad Gazette had it.in black and white that he was but slightly wounded, Apropos of this, it ts now ae omcially confessed that General Prim knew himself to be mortally injured from the first, and took all his measures accordingly, but that policy required @ course of concealment of his real coudition, ROME AFTER THE FLOOD. Repairing Damages in the. Holy City. American Aid and Generous Yankee Donations Street Scenes and Metropolitan Confusion— Britons to the Rescue—His Holiness in Luck, and Restitution by I aly. . Rome, Jan, 3, 1871. At length we have got rid of the yellow waters of the Tiber, but not of the yellow mud which accom. panied them; and as to getting dry again, 1 do now know when that will be accomplished, it itever « 1s, for it continues raining mercilessly, and éventf it were to be as bright overhead as during a Roman summer, the continuous outpouring of water from the underground cellars and magazines, now going on by means of pumps and hydraulic inventions of all sorts, will make extemporized canals of the Corso and other recently fooded streets for some time to come, SERIOUS DAMAGES. The damage done during thts s ave of watry siege 1s truly enormous, and many a.erchants, especially In the Corso, have been so utterly ruined that it will be 1mpossible for them to continue business. ‘The subscriptions whitch have already been generously inittated here, and wil! be contributed to in all the great citles of Italy, will suffice Yo re-vstablish the minor saierers of ‘Traste- vere or Borgo in their petty housenold stuffs, and perhaps -start them anew on a better fouting than they possessed before the calamity; but for the class of tradesmen like ©: tor Massoni, in the Corso, Whose losses may be valued at trom $20,000 to $100,000 each, there 1s no hope of a total, or even partial, recovery of damages. « LOSS OF LIRR. Fortunately the ascertained loss of life is as yee moderate, but disastrous accounts are expected trom the surrounding campagne as soon as the retiring waters shall have revealed now many victuns the mundation has made among the shepherds and agricultural laborers on the broad banks of the Tiver and Anto. SCENES ON “HE CORSO. The Corso has become a sort of fair ground for broken furniture aud wrecked property of all sorts, all the occupants of shops bayins been busy for the last two or three days in getting the mud out of their premises and separating such goods as are, still worth preserving from these which are hope- lessly destroyed. Heterogeneous ma ot soiled property are thus heaped up before every store, and, as land wreck- ers, alias pilferers and plunderers, have not been wantlug to profit by the general disaster, cords are now drawn across the Vorso quarter at each end to prevent public cireulatton, and National Guards mount guard, with thelr muskets, before each shop or two, to protect what miserable remnants the water las spared. Jewellers and goldsmiths are anxiously straining the mud en their floors turough linen sheets and hair sieves to detect wandering fraginents of their stock in trade, and haberdashers are wringing the water out of packets of linen and parcels of gtoves; but such articles as silks, velvets, millinery, clocks and watches, fancy articles of all descriptions exposed for sale for Christmas and New Year's presents, and tne mass of playthings prepared fer children on the Betana, or Tweifth Night, besides pictures, photo- graphs and stationery, have been hopelessly dam- aged and gre thrown out in dirty heaps into the muddle of the street. What are these poor shopkeepers to do to meet their bts? The Chamber of Commerce has pub- lished a prorogauion of Liabilities, but this Is only a palliative measure. AMERICAN CHARITY AND PRACTICAL AID. ‘The American residents and visitors 12 Rome took the inttiative in a liberal coliecuon tor the sufferers, amounting, I am told, to about 12,000 lire, and @ committee was appointed, under the direction of the Rey. Mr. Nevin and the United States Consul, Mr. Armstrong, for the administration of the funds. THE CHILDREN OF ST. AUGUSTIN, On thé 30th the British colony made @ similar de« monstraticn, and a meeting for the purpose took place at the residence of tue British Chargé a AL faires, Mr. Clarke Jervoise, who subsequently paid nearly 8,000 francs to Measrs. Plowden, bankers, for the use of the committee of aid. NATIVE ARISTOCRACY. The Roman nobility have already opened theit purses, headed by Prince Torlonia with a sum of 2,000 francs. A WINDFALL FOR THE POPE. It 1s not yet known what Pius IX. means to do for his quondam subjects in their urgent distress, but it js satisfactory to reflect that if his Hotness is dis- posed to be generous hie will not be without the mean: 4s on Christmas day the Italian government ordered the restitution of tue 5,000,000 lire, stated to be the Pope’s private property derived trom the Catno- lic contributions, or Peter's pence, which were found in the Pontifical treasury when the Italians took pos- session of Kome. Pio Nono 1s, therefore, In funds, Hitherto be has devoted 20,000 lire to the reltet of the sufferers, through the agency of the parish curates, who are going from house to house to ascer- lain Lie tose sustained ti ch inmate, THE ITALIAN TROOPS AT WORK. The courageous and energetic conduct of the Italian soldiers 18 recognized on all sides and by ail po.itical parties, ana It is acknowledged that, with the very insumiclent means appliances at the command of the ecciesiasti government, the calamity would have been much more formidable if it had occurred before the change of régime. But a3 a similar meteorological combination in the atmosphere may at any moment produce a repeti- tion of the inundation which has just desoiated Kome, it behoves the Italian government, now that it has assumed the command jiere, to mitiate a sys- tem of Works o@ @ Vast seate by which the city nay bee protected in futuce from such destructive irrap- Ons. MILK MANUFACTORY IN WORCESTER, MASS. [From the Worcester Gazette, Jan. 24.} Worcester people have generally had cause to congratulate themselves that, although living in & large city, its “rich and rural? surroundings were Such that the milk suppiled to their tables was above suspicion, and that their milkmen were above reproach, or, at most, that a faint infusion of pump: water was the extent of its adulteration. But a case was developed in the Muntetpal Court this morning the recital of which will set many peopie to think- ing, and produce, in one man’s customers at least. sensations far from pleasant. Lyman BH. Whipple sud he belonged tn Surewsbury, was ar- rested for keeping adulterated muk and for seil- ing the same. He has had a place of business on Front street, and employed two or three hands in his “milk faciory."" who appeared as witnesses against him. They state tbat he has a room fitted up with a great tank or can, holding 180 galions, into which the good mix ta pot, but that every time it is filled forty gallons of # mixture of burned mo- lasses, chalk, sait and water fy put in and the whole is mixed together and sold as genuine country milk. The business has been thus conducted for some time, a.l the customers recelving their share of the “muk,” except a few who furnished small cans to be filled with the miik of one cow, for children. The doors of the establishment Were Kept locked and the business Was conducted in as private @ manner ag ossibie. The exaraination resulted in fndin, Whipple guilty on both charges—of Lg an couts OF selling—and he was fined fifiy dollars an each complaint, which he and departed,