The Sun (New York) Newspaper, February 26, 1869, Page 2

4 } — AMUSEMENTS, —- KIRLO'S GARDEN—Forty Thieves; or. ‘O1" In * Family Jary.” Matinée on Saturday. ROOTH'S THEATRE, 4 #t,, between Si) and 6a ar: Romeo and Juliet. Matinge on Satnrday, WALLACK’S—Maeh Ado About Nc rei, Matinee 09 Satnrcay, WOODS MUSEUM Fre Diavolo and the Feld of the Cloth of Colt, T vive and Woe Animale OLYMPIC THEATRE tempts Dampty, Macinées at ty o'elock, Waenesaars ait Sacuntays rhea ANC Als Geneviore de Brabant Math Preatwar rete ve Matinte om Ne e ‘Terme ot ie San Dent ner ae . wy fa Ye on ’ ow 6 Amending the License Law, s ublican r the measure we advoc: ‘ht, we should regard But it is non sense. If the controlled by Democrats, | t to influence them by | sane man will think dy of Clinamen by an ora- Gon in 3 language. Our desire is fo speak to Republicans in a manner which they will feel and understand, Not that our sympathies are exclusively engaged in their behalf, We hold it to be our duty to set forth the words of truth and soberness to all par ties, sometimes for the interest of the one, sometimes of the other—always, wa hope, for the interest of the public at large, Mr. Greeny, on the othe hand, profersto ADy present modification of the Excine law and the Sunday law the encire overthrow ot the Republican party in this State, and the total abolition of those Inws by the Den erate, “If Sunday is not to be observed as now,” he eays, “let our friends of the con trary part have full swing, and we are conf Gent that their rule will be a short one,” This seems to us equally fanatical and inju dicious with that spirit which will not tol Bte anything but the partisanship of Den We might well for racy. ag fay, in BMance, that rather than sulstituto in prisonment for life in the place of hanging, we woul! let all lawe pun'shing murder go by the board, and give full swing to murderers, confident that their rule would be a short one, The part of wisdom and patriotism is to secure the enactment of the best laws we can, and to eoncede some. thing of our own extreme convictions, if it is necessary, in order to secure the advantage of a good that might otherwise be lost. A few years since there was an outery for the Maine law In this State, and when the Present excise system was proposed, it was Fesisted by some of the more unyieldin champions of that measure. Others, who Were more reasonable, did not go with them, and the statute which we now have was enacted. It has done s groai juod, wien teull aut have beon realized had the coun els of the prohibitioniste been followed. But now it is clear that it cannot long be Maintained, and what is the du of pra @ent and patriotic citizens? Is it to say that we will have this whole law just as it ix, or nothing at ell? Shall w those who will not perceive that half a loaf Ie better than no bread at all? Our German friends who have been heard | at Allany upon thia subject also ask too much when they demand that the enforce. ment of the law shall be taken out of the hands of the police and efi to the ordinary Process of complaint and prosecution, That la virtually asking that the law shall be abolished altogether, Whatever be its pro Visions, there must be a summary means of putting th force, Let the act be 80 ~odified that the thirsty can get a drink of lager or of wine after midnight and on Sun ay afernvvn, aud the people will have no Gifficulty in getting along with the rost of it. : sash BE ass The Copper Tarifl Bull, The recent passage of the little Copper Pariff bill over the Presideut’s veto hae some instructive points. This Lill Is running the “Strtking } one tenement ho insist on imitating: conning and thievery! Wo wonder how they folt the next day, as they appeared once more in their own Christian ehurchos, to commence with the solemn services of Ash Wednesday the peni- tential observances of Lent, Some of our readers may remember a atory, much in vogue @ few years ago, of an Englisl scholar who had quite gone over to the antique Paganism, and who offered sacrifices to Jupiter sage over the veto of the Copper bill, and those of Masanchusetta unanimously in ite favor. Is not this an absurd tangle of politi- calaction? To be sure, Mr. BLaixe of Maine did not vote, but he is a candidate for the | Speakership. But the votes given aro, on the | side of Maine, all one way, and on the ei of Massachusetts, all the other. Yet, as the Intemate of the two States on the question | it hie own house in aome part of London, He at absolutely Movticnl, the members from | was nssisted by hie beautiful daughter, who was both States oupht to have voted together, | as devout a classicist as himself, and appeared, Sich a epectacts ne thie, for such a peneon, | like bint, before the altar, clad in priestly robes, fitable to 1 tive fndeperdence | Petting libations and offering worship to the god. dignity, Is the reproach mnygToes to stand | St 1 Tont her helpon one occasion in th Mt give good, | Merilce ef a white bullock with «grace and cle. ; Rive Bi" | eauce that could scarcely have boon surpaased by entions votes on public | cither of the Mercurial p ra spoken of by as thoir judgment dictates, | ye Qeooop, At Fnglioh tale ape wretched reasons aw | | dation a wofmet he | ta tut) bot tha author URoPona UT otetoalae Tek ty local and | it was pure fiction, The narrative of Dr. Oxcoon and per | # st as ineredible; but we holieve that ca miwents © the time ane of eon wtin thie ared it was belioved to possess prevail netane sa py the coal, sms alta) occurrence whi <w he iron Intorest of Penn. | Nhe recounts really took avivania 1 we reserve ourselves na to | Pltce in this city, and that none of ite features | ‘ snot: he hoe dutieg | ore e ated in his narrative | — — M serve to supply a falling | ‘The wretched condition of the cellar popu | lation of the Fist Ward requires some decided | action on the part of the Board of Health to remedy it, The energy of Dr, Hannis in under. a anitary inspection of this district is amended, and it i¢ to be hoped that ant will fully authorize hin to disinfect, | and, if uecvasary, depoputate it, ——— — t Under the stimulus of ¢ mere! nereased duty vw baw, » in favor « The friends of | # ater views net st *, the whole nid * passage by the are 6 Nis of the ship. | House of Representatives of Mr, Scunsca’s bill, we ¢ 0 both protec: | solemnly pledging the fhith of the United States tion tat fe ns of prac | to the payment of the national debt in coin, and SEER of the almost assured concurresce of the Senate inthe measure, our five twenties advanced yes. terday to 811g in London, The quotation is, being jen the old valuation of @4.44 to the pound ster. | ling, is equal to 691g at the present par of ex- for the Working How few among our working population | change in gold, of nearly 120 in currency, The 1 to be properly, healthfully, and | prospect is that by the Ist of next May our six % y hous.d, or ia a way commensn- | por cent. bonds will all sell in London at par in rate with the h gh rents which they are com | geld, if they do not exceed that limit. When si to pay for lodgings in the tenement | this takes place, the problem of resuming apecie doa of the overcrowded state | Payments will be greatly simplitied, since it will of the working clases fn | Be easy to fund our surplus greenbacks in a long 1 from the statemont | Wan at @ low rate of interest, and payment of the L. Bnact, the Socrotary of tho | Test Will not be demanded, ren’s All Society, that there are at The National Association of Cotton Manu. no fewer than 480,000 persons living | fucturers and Planters has just issued a report 000 tenement houses ; and #0 massed are | which contains some highly interesting informa. A one quarter as to ehow a population | tio, It appears that the number of cotton w 000 to the square mile, We know of | in the Northern States is at present 644, runu Coatiad’ Thowble Atley; spindles, and consuming annually pounds of nto hile the which contains 140 familios, averaging five | Veale hides Mbaeshiat of 1 ore in the Southern States 860 mills, runnin 068 | persons in cach family. epindles, and consuming annudlly 81,416,750 When we consider the wretched etate | pounds of cotton, In the Northern mills e of these Wuildings and their want of dle to spin, on an average, 60 pou propor accommodation, it must be evi- | of cotton a year, while in the Southern mills each | deut that ench overcrowding \s highly detri- #, sho niental net only to comfort and morality, but also to health; and we are not surprised to learn that the annual death rate in the Sixth Ward is 50 in 1,000, whereas in the Fifteenth Ward it is only 17 in 1,000. It is, perhaps, impossible to prevent this overcrowding, but ite evil resulta may be greatly modified, if not entirely got rid of, by the erection of a system of model lodging houses, such as are found to be of such incaleulable benefit to the working classes in London. These model lodging houses, which are bu lt in immense blocks facing the street, are much larger than most of our ordinary tene- ment houses, but they are often free from disease while the surrounding neighborhood is infected, and only show @ death rate af ta in 1,000, ngalnst 27 in 1,000 in the same dis d, but seers t tri This desirable result: i# mainly at- \ ausing ® healthy granulation to, tained by the uso of outside staircases, thus | place and greatly dimtnishing the inflammation, preventing the accumulation of foul air in | If all is true that is claimed of thi« new curs one sping 18% fp ing that a coarser | quality of goods is pufactured at the South, | ‘There are, altogether, nearly 100 fewer mills in ration now than there were The tul consumption of cotton for manufacturing ast year was 450,000,000 pounds, whieh, snate of 400 pounds to a bale, , or nearly one-half the pr ited States, The t in Europe and the Unit H,000 pounds, against 1,97 000 pounds At the present relative prices of raw nand cotton cloth, there is no profit on the nufucture of the latter, —— It has beon found by experiment that dry, pulverized earth makes an excellent dressing for ulcers and purulent wounds, It not o fou abe Gale ATU mn a 1860, purposes at the u uals 1, of the U suinption in 1598, States, was 2,004,101 eott ma ea healin, ve the buildings. ‘The stairensn has a fialeonted | A8emt Ht ism discovery only exevede tn ime landing on each floor, at one end of which | Portance by that of quinine for fever and agne, | ether and chloroform as anesthetics, and bella: are the water plags and other conveniences ; | all yfor ee Among those mysteries of the donna as a rene t fe while the : Dasement tloor is oceupied by sorts of provision stores, rendering mar minine more con nt. This arrangement has | toilette which from time to. tin tract the also the advantage of insuring greater pri- | minds of philosophers, there is none so difficult vacy, for each oceapant has, agit were, alittle | to learn anything about as enomelting, But what house of Lis ow: is enamelling? We answer frankly that we don't rable from the congregation of several fami- | know. It is reported that there is euch an art, lies under one roof is also considerably di- | Sh that by its means a woman with a harsh or Pip even disordered skin, anda These dwellings for the industrial classes, as they are termed, are bring erected in dif ferent parts of London under the auspices of joint stock companics, and, though the rooms are rented at a moderate charge, they return a good rate of interost to their shareholders. They are from time to time inspected by the officers of the company, who make it their while the noise insepa complexion, m perfect skin, > with a smooth ar nd a complexion of dazzling beauty, How is this done? Isit done at all? We know not, Yet ave occasiouully met in society ladies of ex- traordinary charms, and sometimes of social distinction, who were said by others to have been enamelted, and to have passed through such a transformation from ugliness to bi ‘Tho word enamel, in its ordinary use, « be endowe THE SUN, FRIDAY, FEBRUAKY | Pre to apply @ coating of smooth, glassy substance to the surface of glass or metal, and to fx it there by baking, in a heat so intense that the coating and the surface beneath it become fused to- gether, Such baking and melting are clearly not applicable to the human skin; and yet we have been told that those ladies who were p as enamelled were characterized ral smoothness and hardness in the surface of their faces and necks, in appearance not unlike porcelain, The hypothesis then is, that hue nan enamelling consists in the fastening of a thin and delicate paste or poreclain covering upon the exterior of the face and neck, How this is done is not known; otherwise it would be easy to cell what is enamelling, ‘Vhat the process is not inexpensive would ap pear from @ recent aflidavit of the notorious Madame Racuet, the enameller in London, who states that when in May, 1868, she was called upon to enamel Mrs, Bornoparue, her feo was a thousand guineas, besides a gift of fifty pounds Which she always requires her customers to give or—and that such are still her charges— ,000 of cur money, “For the thous sand guineas Mrs, Tonronaia gave au accept ance, and the fifly pounds in charity she under- took to dispense for herself, and the work was done accordingly. When she eame into hi hands, Madame Racuet affirms that Mrs, Borno- business to eject habitually disorderly ten- ants, and tosee that all necessary repairs, euch as whitewashing and painting, aro im. mediately and effectually completed. This alone is a great boon to the respectable labor- ing man’s wife, who often finds it impossible to keep her place clean and tidy, in conse- quence of the niggardly parsimony of her landlord, who cares little what the state of the rooms in his lodging housy may be, 8o long as he gets his rents regularly, There is nothing: more conducive to the moral elevation of the working classe thing more destructive to the insinuatin fluences of the liquor shop, than a comforta. » cheerful home, Under such cireum. stances the workingman looks forward with pleasure to his evening's rest after his day's tuil, and his lodging becomes a real home to him, and not merely the place in which ho sleeps, The construction of such model lodying houses would be no experiment, for wherever they have been tried they have been found emlucntly successful, Lot us hope, then, that we may soon seo aome of them in this city, and that our working classes may have hones to live in such as they desice and aNiaeye. paite had only # fow patches of rusty gray hair, —-— and her head and face were disfigured by an erup- The Rey, SaMveEL Oscoon, D. D,, states, | tion; now her skin ts beautiful, and she has a in this week's Liberal Christian, that at the re- cent exercises in houor of the Roman god Mer- cury in the FiNh avenue, the pageant was both rich and rae, As the reverend divine ent head of beautiful, soft, curly, blonde hair, It isso manifestly for the interest of a charlae tan like Madame Racmen to make the eredulous Dolieve that there is some secret artificial method protective system Into the ground, What is | the apartments set apart for the rites of the even- | by which @ fright of a woman can be converted more, Congress kuows it, What is worse, | iM & young usher, robed in some style which | into w fairy, that her testimony is of no value in joa will not vote its conwictions, It | the Rev. Dr. Osuoon does not mention, asked him | solving the great question, What is enamelling ? votes what it knows it ought not to - ste, | “dip bis band in a vase of water, and to be | Itis very probable that it is nothing but a delu- For example, here isall Massachusetts voting for a further tax on copper, thus putting an additional weight on @ branch of industry iready prostrated, vital to her people as well ag to the nation, Why is such a yote given? Simply because Massachusetts men tay they will not be taunted as free traders, They vote to resist the appellation, lest here- After some possible interest of the State may be assailed by a revengoful yote of a disap- pointed interest, Massachusetts is just as uch interested in having the burdens re- moved from the great maritime interests of the country as Maine. Yot the Maine Repre- sentatives vote unanimously against the vas- crowned with a wreath of flowers, and to wear a golden barp upon the breast, Such was the order of the evening, and the rooms were nearly fall of guests thus adorned, There were genorals, adwirals, pocts, editors, lawyers, merchants, di- vines, all in that strange rig.” The rites consist- ed in “ the singing procession of priests, the lus- tration, sacrifice, unv: of the statue, speccb- es, pocms, banquet, libations, sentiments, recita- tions, &c.” Two of our preachers,” adds Dr, Osavon, “were there, and both spoke a good word for Mercury ;" but it must have scemed | wipe off with a soft cloth, but slightly moistened, curious to them, wo should say, to stand up there, | the surface of the enamelled parts, Also, that they on Shrove Tuesday, with a singing procession of | have to be very careful how they arrange their heathen priests, all in that strange rig, and, amid | faces when they go to sleep, W hata horrible idea! libations and lustrations, to preach in favor of a } And how little is such artilivial and precarious vaya divinity whose mythological merits were t beauty to be envied! sion practised upon fools, and that there is really no such thing. But, on the other hand, we have the very general belief in its reality, founded upon the alleged fact that some ladies have sud- denly gained a kind of delicately tinted, smooth, metallic, though apparently not infleaible skin, very unlike that which they had previously pos- sessed. How did they obtain it? And how do they keep it? We ought to add that one of the prevailing superstitions about these ladies is, that they cannot wash their faces, but have to A WONDERFUL MYSTERY. GHOSTS SITTING FOR THEIR PORTRAITS. DEPARTED FRIENDS PHOTOGRAPHED. — a) * Perfect—Remarkatte Fx ne CR ncts Ititade—Some= Sotentiata to Ponder. Reeders of Tae Sux may perhaps have noticed In yerterday morning's paper a telegraphte item from Poughkeepste staring that the spiritnalists of that city the former he of Andrew J. Ds rently excited over some remarkabl What is called spiritual photographing ; that ts, the Photographing of I of departed spirits, not embodiments, Rrapha were taken at way, in this city, Tie Sex, ever on the alert for now and Interesting Inteliigence, lost no time fo fording a reporter to find out whether there wus anything in the matter worth publisiing. Ho camo Dack with suel a remarkable story that we havo de» cided to print it in fuil, though we wish to have it distinetly understood that w ply asa mate terot news, and without « the spirituaiiet, DISTORT OF THE WONDER, Avont eight years ago a y, who waa what the spiritualists exit a kept a hop for the sale of Jewelry in B One important part of her business was the weaving of Lair into brace nentos of both living and deceased. Usually there was 1 to these objects some provision for a photo Kraphie likeness of the person to be remembered, and at the solicitation of her customers she under: took the taking of these likenesses in the Fize and form required, and learned enough of the art to do {Ltolerably well, One day, however, the chemicals falled to work a8 usual, the 4 comlny blurred and confused, and e figures I stars and comets showing th wi of the {mage of the sitter, Tn etudylog inte the eanse of the difficulty, the lady mate talntance of Mr W.H. Mamiler, then a gtaverin a ng silver rw pishinent in Bh who do it # tug the theorles of ton, had some chemical knowledge, thongh he was inex. perienced in photographing. Mr, Mumler, being entirely alone one day in th {ng room, engaged in experlin t he would try taking a pleture, have ing got a chatr into the rehht mpted to photograph it, To Lissurprise, on developing the plate, he found the chair repr ad as filled by 9 human being dimly outlined, whom iw recognized om a deceased cousin. How to account for this phenom non he knew not; but on showing the pictuce ty the young lady for whom ho was prosecuting his inqul- ries, she, being, as we paid, w mediam, Instantly p nounced {t the portrait of a spirit who had tiken thie method of communicating witli mortals on earth, Following ap the discovery, Mr. Muwiler expert: nied further, and from that zed in taking these ghostly pletures, kable success, For the present he has estate lished himself at the gallery of Mr. W. iver, 6) viway, where our reporter, In company withan cuinent photographerjof this eity, whom we etoll call Brown, and a gentleman who was formerly a Jeading banker and stock broker in Wall street, Vielted him yesterday morning, WHAT THK PIOTERES ANE LI Mr. Mumler has preserved a hu with re- tred or so of the me markable photographs taken, and our raw examined them y all present es of living persons, which look exactly as photographie do, being, indeed, taken the ular Woy. Hut behind, or at one sble of the Hiving mes only a head, sometimes a head and shoulders, and sometimes the full length of another pers rather incistinet and shadowy, but still in mony ens ly enough defined for a likes ness to bo recognized, ‘There are, our reporter was told, eases In whieh the epirit likenesses have been taken without any living sitter others taken by the \p of a photograph of a living person, which bas been sent for the purpose; and others in the night time, EMA 1 ‘ UNE OF Kae aime re «Strange pieces of work i¢ a pletnre taken for the ex-banker above tioned, Several years ago he lost a wite to ui he was tenderly attached, and who, ax he bes lioves, has never ceased to be present In her spiritual form with him, A day or two ago he aat to Mr, Mumer, and on the plate me along with bis image ofa lady, which he and bis friends ail de feet likeness of biw deceased wite e free I periectly distinct, ono arm t thrown round her bushand’s nvek, t her hand, holding a branch of what seems te nes in front of his breast, Another pl s taken, the arr i peared ina diferent attitude, polnting wi one band upward. On a third tiv, however, this Agure disappeared, and the head of an unknown child came instead, Another pieture shown our wellknown real 6 whom appears a lov Raphn Mr. My ever, ot whom it wax a likene One particularly touching picture was taken for a mother who, not loug ago, lowt w darling boy, Ag she wat before the exmera she mentally sald, * Wile lie, F wish you would come and place yourself as you used to when you said your prayers to me,” and in response to ber silent wh sa chili tig bis he she avers is exer mare there ¢ abe ae reporter is that of a te broker down town, near Ad's face, ht for one of nler could nok tell, howe there appe J upon her bosom, whic eas of her boy. r a perfect Ii At a spiritual *érnce that evening. a message was Feceived, purporting to be from the child just men- to the cftect that Ithis futher would sit to Mr, pletare of him still would be ob- accordingly came and at, and ta the pleture obtained thore appears within the father's arm a charming bey of appareutly ten years of age, Which is maid by both father wud mother to be their child beyond a doubt An elderly genticuian, having sat for hia likeness, found it accompanied by that ofa lady to whom he had been engaged twenty years ago, and of whose re+ lation with him his own funily had not been aware, Sitting @ second time, be got the likeness of @ son Who was killed several years ago tn Arkansas, A distinguished miniature artist of this city, hav. ing tried the experiment, was rewarded with a por trait of his aged mother A lady's portrait was also shown, accompanied by that of a clergymen to whom she was once engaged, bat who bas since died, and whom she had not seen for twenty years, Many other equally wonderful things were exhibited, but the general facts in all are the & OF sowe pictures, of which Mr. Mumler had not retained copies, he gives the following ac count! fest ie portratt'of Mr. Mumler himself, with Won Achar, the oth 1 the black th covering just m the camera, In the chair site a half about twelve or f ve, lady spirit sitting on a 4 mass of something The features ond ud her, like two or ree pillow quite siuken, witha seriou This ie id to be alikenoss of the spiri Mr. J.J, wer, wa she looked when wasted by consumpth ‘The father of the deceased fuily recognized the like ness, ar do the reet of the fumily, "hue next 1 |y lady, leaning on a chatr, in whieh site a facntly defloed form of a young man laying upon ® guitar, ‘This Azure shows more iy than the last, og being visible to below the knee, the other no Visible at all—looks as -if moved, leaving onlya blur. ‘This Was at once recor: nized asadeccased brother who made guitars, and ‘was fond of playing upon them, * Another isa female Sgure leaning upon a chatr, the hauds placed together, and eyes elevated to rayer., The spirit appears of Hoe aud bust only visible, oid ie * Another is @ gentieman sittin with the edge of a white marble table near him, “he spirit is belinda him, and a little emaller—a female figure, with the hair’ dressed quite plain and Quakerist, 2 small White collar abous the neck, ted with a dark Tib- Don, @ close-fitting dress, visible ouly to the waist, “Agentieman from ‘Tlinols sat for his portrult, ‘raised the righthand as M holding something Je was told that was @ very uncouth att tude, but he id, * No matter; take ito." When the plate was Sloped, behold there sat upon the raised arm ® id, feaning tte on the altter's shoulder. ‘This child is not very clearly defned; Wt appears w Hittle larger thon in nature, as if nearer the camera ‘than the At sits upon, ‘The dress is transpare with the aud and arm of the sitter seen through 1 OMB REPORTHR SEES WHAT CAN BE DONR FOR HIM, curloaity being excited by all these marvels, oF reporter thought he would like. to see what spirit would eit along with bim, But first he re. quested bis photographic friend, whom we bave called Brown, to go through the process himself, and Watch the various stevrefit, Mr. Brown ccording- e to this hasbeen | THE RACE FOR THE COLLECTORSIUP. cation Be-Governor Gardner FE lect Grant's Dinners From the World, Feb. 2%. ly went up stairs to the skylight Lrpeabone! ) Mumler, and prepared the sensitive plate bi from the naked glass, Sitting dow. before the camera, he walted the usual time, and then with lie own hands “developed” the negative, At the side | During Gen. Grant's last visit to this city it fell of his face there came that of @ middle-aged many | qit that ka geri If, ef Maseachusetts, inn f 0 town, foun ‘Tien came our reporter's turn, Ie, too, eaw the Watjated herself, or clinker. had clogced. the clean gives robbed and polished, the collodion poared 2 impaired the usefainess of the famiy President+ “uteher, the baker, and the candio- on, the plate pat into the aftrate of ailver bath, and | range, or the “uteher, ihe baler, and the cate taken out and pat tuto the groove. Bat on sitting, | Sek maker, had wine te win whilets there came out In the negative the same face that newspaper muse wed thes;Mic to whom she had appeared in Mr, Brown's pleture, To deters are not concerned, the mine who this * mutual friend” could be, the party niet and clouded 1 happiness. the Boustvot Gardner, “ta. feets Wate 'tas no. din: concluded to wait and get sun proof from Voth the | Her ready, and no prospect of any. Wat the hegatives, epirit.of te Governor rose superior to fortune. A NhWW SITTER. wiped the brine from the eyes of his weeping wo- ' mankind, and ba he ccunfor ted; hie wend White waiting for there proofs, an elderly gentle. | Mankind, ant bate Uney ehould ‘not want. man went my, and succeeded In getting the portraits fof which, hovever, he could tive, ant liad to wait for the of two apirlis, neith recognize from the ne pre AN ACCIDENT=TU BXPERIMENT TRIED AGATY, of of the grent to be sent t the supply of the ftheirown the bor ton with a Tn drying the negative taken for our reporter over | the lamp, the glass was abivered to pieces, and he was requested to sit once more, This time, too, he watched the process from beginning to end, Whtle in the chalr, however, he thought he would try the Muct of to his mind the appear f nts fat ae he looked just ro he died, some ven years ogo. This timo the negative gaven fnee tn profile rather dim, but in general outing, he mast confess, very like bis father as thought of him, tnd family, bat w cur; for hi ms of doubt, wn ite erenter than faunly who Howes ll was to give V n. Grant ond @ very fow friends, | Mr candidate for the Collector York, and he knew, as the road to the heart of man He of than, OF conree, to & } te hated heart on Grant, the 5 . | net's. private kitchen Were quite Inadequat ip. of the p did Delonte thronen the er whieh str» HOW 18 TUR THING HONK? Of course, everybody will i this qu secording to his own notions, Be aay Wes ria oder tay fi Wan hat Delmontes could doit Oa this dinner thes will insist that thero ia some trick, and th Hinged the hopes of Mr. Grinnell for the coveted ghost pletures are obtained by using lay figure collectorship, and by this dinuer must he stand oF atives, or by expedicnt | ft, ‘ Old photograph negatives, or by some other expedicnt | fT 1.0 eam the Governor's order mechanteally of that kind, and seut it to be flied, The diMenity in the way of thie explanation is At tie appol 1 time, 9 procession of servants be- that the photorrapher whom we have ealiod Brown, | Rat to belenguer the mnanston of the Guvernor e M They yathered in the ur din solemn silence the and who, if we gave hie real name, woatd be ine | foremost was ushere 5 Gising room, where etantly tle grena wi Jeet, #9. tra e site to strictly stud! yinizod ag excellent authority on the #u) that there ie no process known to the which the could be done by any peweave that the grout artist had misunderstood Tuneh, thongh the absurdity of ty was obvious to But though thi it wae “abundant, and t be used within the nitrate of sil © minut r hath, 6 A prepared pl after it com: tht it ti that an Image could be clearly ime fora, Bat the oysters were not ball ‘ ff wen the attendant genie whisked th prewsedon it, umd yet teave it so that the living altter | kone When the aberdaal gente w could be taken we clearly ashe te, Besides, he went w! he proceeded hrongh the process of preparing the plate himself, | watery eoup of Gaul, To him au bee ly randy 3 yaad ton ber bi pie ferous. And to him a whole proce n edb hte paged ss Keys, still and apectral, and bearing every man i ame, W this than bis own welng any persom rons vial aritions at first stertled near him Anotier phe pher of the oame of Gnay, | ve thn teu whom oar reporter tact at Mr. Mumlerta room, | Jor etepielon of ft 1 wt i ed nt the bunqurt tat ny be had wnt the weeks In wa! a a | a ‘ keh br ri! peteney of his a eto iteand | Mr. Mumter through the pr alu and Mor weaitrrs with avctul pecan! | again with f 1) and fad not succeeded in tie the power ofa Uchnon ean detecting avy impoature acu) ‘ to utter a remonstrance, oF even weirs THRony. Wiul prevonce, on a dint Mr. Mumler thot he really believes the ples | his an ead, and the end of this tures a tuced by departed splrita who are ate f gormeous #s6¢s nee was aR dark as thy utuf which tho cost wa tached to the eliters ty allcetion or relationsinp oF afinity. By s na they have the power of afleeting the evemivals used dn the procesmy and lmpressing on the sensitive flim their hnage, GHOSTS VISIULE TO THR NAKED BYR. Mrs, Muwiler, who is the laty by whom Mr, Mum- nto tle business, having since married avy inetonees ae hax seen be= cer the Identical apirita whose likes nesses have afterwards appeared in the photograph, She says, when the living person pits down, there # near hii, at first, what looks like a elond then It coadenses tnty something Niko a buman form ; and finally iteomés out clear ant brighter toan we eunlight, to her, in a dist tly diftned taage, While the portraits are being talcen, ale and ner hu bund both place their hands up. © > erners to uw the spirits by heir personal animal win + EPFECT OF THE WEATIER ON THis PROCESS, When the weather {8 damp, the obtaining of spirit photographs ts very didicult: and sa imposmble. When, however, Mr. and Mrs can get the avistauee of another steouge medium, ary for example, Mis Fox, even the dampness will not interfere with it; and the portraits of Use ban wile, already deserthed, were got on just such a With Miss Foa's help, Clear bright days, on the oF to pa Alter ths thy watters dei -ned diape t forved family were left to wondering med. ation and wo iro) sleep, Mcantiwe in the Louse of Mr. Grinnell were gat ng di com, any to meek the 1 jes, As the shades of twilight tela wacrntable m atin hen the roup, whieh wus ned, aud in ite A, Fare switiners in tle howling waste y t down platicrod of whit w neommouly comuon viends for Deli were also ft Aisa@esont in course tt vanished utterly and. pinced with things even lees sufte dink w were they leas the geste oven in that th so ech of thems ec tray ? Don noment were a4 not to ntti ite hunger. ie Hrow oft host, ax he * elute, and all the fuitle as thie politi ed the story rele ‘Ting accusation rime sardiy the maligoity of De hi Cartisthad been born, re Was Ho Lime to engage had been, there was no very one who had ‘0 be eaitn and his at the elas stmony wl xecrated | ursed the What could he dd ther dinner, and 110 | there Ok to for it but th y betrayed him, hosplabie, But the pangs of hunger dispel cowtrary are favorable, but even on these Mr. Mum | Fe recente Res tap hacuee of. ko beret ity tg SE SARIS SEN? dRebM de” Cshausted ty the eer | Menre tates alone the Lose of wast required. WHAT OLN REPORTER THINKS AWOUT IT ho declines to say. It there ie any trick weed, he does not brow what it is. He gives us the fuets, nd we give them to our readers to think about as y plone, The whole thing 8 a marvel any way, A deserves to be Investigated by scientific men THIS 18 THR DINNER THAT GRANT ATH. “MM Fish Rails. Mush, Givens. Baked Leans, Nard Rolled Eggs. Kee and Cana, Pea Nu Crutiors, nthe doseription given us, Mr. ond Mrs, Mum- nd got the ler are pericetly frank, Ingenuous persons, with no | Auuiniuns cue Was earls and Indienan’ at Delian a) f imposture nt them, They comet ¢ plain one had and more apak faorcios ia teaticalicks aw el cake heimonteo was under the or inquiry bo persons coming properly ‘he exclaimed fit met I Gnant's DINN first baten mniments, the name of Mr. Moses i, appear us Collector of the Port of cow York, the public may know the reason why, cies Wonders of Spirttuy From the Lond Herm tin Correspondence i =i His mome ext to the f at am Inehued to voli. (ust U FPXTENSIVE RELIGIOUS REVIVALS, aden A Great Work- Twelve Thonwand Converts. From the Indevendent, During the last week we have collated accounts of revives, uot hitherto reported, which give uso totel of LAI aevessions and hopelul conversions, ebresenee | OF these, 6468 are among the Methodista, 0% by a buns | among the Baptists, 1,20) amoung the United Brethren, and Selencitlo | io among the Wesleyans, 634 among the Presbyte pa dy rans, WSiamong te Freewill Baptists, 4 among the Congregauoualista, and 247 among the Latherans Of the synod A line proportion of the reported revivals among both Prccbateriaus and Coagregationaliste give esihinate ‘of cunversions. | Among the Revivals We Partioutariae tint i Piste ty Maas,“ menti Jast week, Where some hundreds hi F distinet mar ony to which is very diffien!t to ant isa man every Way reliuble ed z Grea oe | kore in Chest incining: seventy oF eighty in Dr, pstonctl a trong s chure te Z Polite ahd socinty, but are men cuslucntiy capable | Circ: mus mote intue stethonsey int Dover HN 0 © diement, hese, then, are the here ‘4 ho 0 . sare @ t facts rel Iu several tustances the pody of Mr, | White HOF, Durant, who stood a few years ago at the head of the Boston bar, has been preaching, a8 well ay at Brimtieli, Mt Royalston, Mas New hosion, Litticion, Farmington, Seabrook, nish, Lebanon, ed by measurement ujon te Noor, to the eatent of © 4 shortened as ny at Cor: ns Plain ah UI are(uily measured diderence of ‘a foot and vale. | N°H. in Wariteboron Wiese eouea® id Manoxet, fle has been ab dillerent tines rained inte the alt | in’ Lowell, Mats., waere one. hundred converts ate rom tue Leight of four feet to that of a higher cet wih Spit Aen a iy ing, and carried round the room in the clear view of | © ck: ned in the Baptist Churches under Mr, Barie's all present, who have bad the means of @ F. P. Hammond has been laboring hester, N.Y. He fs a more effective er than ever belore, On a single occasion 150 risen for prayers bat the most remarkable Js the work fn the House of Retug believed seveyly are converts, and pr ings are held in their piay-hours by th miited there, Us ves that nm ‘pion Was p four carried hovizuntaily out of a wiud story of the house of Lord —, and brought tn the Window of another room, une M0 feet distant, having been earried througu the alr 40 (eet or mors | fe irom the ground, Finally, he has on severl occa sions taken a large live coal from a eal tire, hold te in lis hand, and faid it in the hands of other perses Without even the smell of fire or th» Kensatio heat being perceived by them, My informant showed ine where hit own finger had been burned in (es ing the reality of this manifortation, He as sured me that he had seen Mr. Hone go to a lar; coal fire and lay his fice unon the while bot coals Without even singing bis hair or beard, As this ls pretty strong story, 1 beg to. append the follow Which I find in the Sptréfuat Magazine for this mouth Mr. Hall is the well-known editor of the Art Journal is wife, Mrs, S.C: Hall, is and has late,y received a pens boys com labored at fat Washingtonville, wher Otlsville, where are 40 Con At Clifton, Ashku Kienaiias Feport atthe two fo ts in the Chica — Assnssination by Air G From the Chicago Kepudlican The numerous instances of findin, ppon the most public streets of by a bullet, although ne hier person had heard the n from the Queen, Victoria street, 8. W. men prone astern cities, ne oflies left tho tiny oF fd pla tie sucgestion to be made that air guns have been brought into requisition, According to the authori- (Wis 19 @ Weapon "resembling & muskel, lor the +e of discharging missiles by means of com- sed air. It consisi# of lock, stock, barrel, and ramrod, ‘The stock 18 made hollow, abd provided With proper cocks for filling It with compressed alr by ui ans of a force pump, Buch lock 18 nothing but a valve which lets into the barrel a portion of The he’ root nt would depose VALt, 8.0. HALL, The editor adds the following note: At the m were barning F persons pre Your obedicnt s tue Lo these facts, Conterence at Lawacn's Kooms, Jan. 14, Mr. HD, | the air compressed in the stock, when the trleger {i Jenkin, who was present on this occasion. pud- | pulled. The gua is loaded with wadding and tall in Hiely stated the facts here given by Mr. Mall, and | tio ordinary Wayy and dhe suddenly added several. in of the kind which ie bad | introduced from ‘the stock propels it. with witnessed, ‘The iro test, he said, had now been | a seen recently, at dillerent ‘times, by more than tity persons in the metropolls and its neighborhood.” TV may add that L know Mr. Jenekin, and that be 19 a gendeman of high scientific acquiremonts as we ‘as social position, and, I should say, every wa be trusted, Ii there ib any Value in human test ny, In proof of any fact whatever, there can be doubt of the verity aud genuineness of tie facts Selocily provortional to the square, root of the degree of the compression of the air. By this Weapon a person may be killed at a distance of siaty of vighty yards. Later improvements give it « pro- pelling fofce almoat t ual to the old-lashioned mus- et, is chief advantage to criminals ts tts noise: less discharge, ‘The victim may be singled out ius crowd by @ person standing concealed at an upper window, and, if the alm in accurate, perforated oy above stated, and you may judge a bullet, without any ebances of detection, excepting 4nd consternation of men of +eie those tudicated by angles and direction. Indeed, Royal. Society, and otuer fellow: the body mi conditions en! veut, bt fall In Such a manner ax to indicate ely different from those whieh are Whether or not this theory is corres their duty to understand erythidg, to explain wh they do not under nd to have a theory ready ths for every fuct you enn bring them, For « long | evident that the ingenuity of crime keeps pice with time they scornfully, and ‘Won ‘sturdily, de- | the ingenuity of tue most approved detvctive me. nied the fects, but when man te’ con- | thuds, fronted Ja every’ company by. men of seleuce posed ale add, istinguishe iimaeliy and worse st! ' ¥ nobie Lorde, who declare that they have secu |, Untom Ferry Ald Assoctat ed the very facts he denies, it becomes ag- ‘She employees of the Union Ferry \y gravating., Itnagine Prof, ‘Tyndale d efected an organization on Tuesday under the title the Ore test is an impos: by op abenralty, of * The Union Ferrymen's Mutaal Benevolent As- ception ; calmly walks up Lord’ Adare, Lord ciauion."” ‘Phe object of the arsuciation is the re- lief off members in cuse of sickness, They adopted by. and elected the following genitemen. as oft President, L. B. Smito; Recording Becre: Lord Dunraven. or any one of a aor and ures re live coat of fire Ht th a jaced in his own eld it for two minutes jut there was no | tary. Lewis; Binwnes mistake about tt; his friends | Stringbam; Treasurer, Wr. around him; that'so and so burnt his finger tryto . Carson, Wm, White, A. fo touch, ie coal, and, that It, wo MN rh id Win. je. ‘The initiation fee was fixed a it we . twenty names wi SUNIEAMS. ‘anemone The farmers are ploughing in New Jersey, Florida fs about to embark in the cork tree culture, =There is a school for teaching Indies the vee locipede in this city, but it Is kept very private. =The “Grande Dachesse has been translated, into Arabic for the edification of the Vicerey of Bgypt. —Mississippi planters are boginning to protect the sparrows, with a view of stopping the ravages; the cotton wort, aJigigham Young hes fixed the legal length off Mormon 1strh Aagsett, Tho uas, easend, onthe op of thelr she =The Revolution states that Mra, Fanny Kente Die tong aco set the example to the women of Mae sachusetts of riding astriac on horseback. Lady Henry Paget has been fined for riding fon horseback on Rotton Row, Hyde Park, London, at a faster rate than fourteen miles an hour, =It is thought that there will be w large overs Production of hops in Wisconsin this year, notwitu« ing the severe experience of last season, A lady advertises herself in an Towa papet a8 an “attornevessatlaw." Why not say bare maid? It is @ more euphoulous term, and one im familar use, —One of the West Mm popors reports a certain clererman as Waving “taken a contract for revival prene in Davenport, Iowa, It atatos that the centleman has just * coacluded successful engages ment” at Roek Istand, —The Boston Jonrnal save: “Among the chim allowed by an aceltental death insurnned company was the ‘ollowing: ‘No, 918008 ‘Tule gentleman was blown up by an explosion as @ paraMen oil works, and receives €15 a aay extil hi comes down.’ * An asytam for cats has heon established sqnare near Regent's Park, London, It le 9 small house of two stories, with a large garden attarned, where the numerone cate lave their sports and pase times, ‘Tho asylum is conducted by @ metros, an nt, and a cook Awriter inthe Chriotion Beamtner, speaking of the absard custom of giving foreign names to ous towns, says that ona board in front of a stage office In Budato be once read ax follow Stages start from this honse for Chiva, Sardinia, Holland, Home burg. Java, Sweden, Cuba, Havre, Italy, and Peng Y —Tho poet of a Chicago paper was recently hore rifled to find one of lis choicest couplets printed a@ follows + Little pimples, #0 sweet and soft, Love the check of my love.” Tt is to be presumed that the unhappy man intended to epenk of dimples. —The authoritios of Cornell University, New York, have inaugurated the custom of having dane: ing at college receptions, The pastors of several churehes in thnea were not a little surprised, on ate tending a reception to waieh they were invited, te find this, to them, offensive recreation introduced, Five of them have aoited tn aletter tothe Presiden ily, stating thet objections and the reason which has been publis susamaun, the great rebuilter of Paris, is bee J to have amawed an enormous fortune by iNes Fitimate and corropt speentations. His operations have, for a number of years past, been exceedingly slinple, Whenever a now street was to be opened, he selected the hoases: which were to be torn down for that purpose, bought thom up, and appraised hime self the damages which the city was to pay him fur their demolition, =A novel manwuvre fs practiced by the French troops tn garrison at Lyons, At the sound of the bugle, the soltiers spread themselves out ia the plain in two lines, Throwing off thetr knape sacks, the men of tLe second line pass them to those of the first, who, placing them on their own, form @ rampart, behind which both lines He down, The men of the first tine begin ring, while those of the #econd line supply them with cartridges, and confug themselves to that occupation, —There is no shock more positively disagreens We than one’s fret view of Lonis Napoleon on footy and near enoah for accurate criticism, He sits tall, lignace ane ne om horaelack wppeare at hie t Gest. But on foot, his short, thin lege and long body make up an awkward fizure, below the medium hoigith, and one looks in vain at the retreating forehead, weak chin, narrow, drooping #houldersy and broad lips for any of the well-known and dis tinctive marks of the Bonaparte family, One gazeq hopelessly into the duil, glazed eye, thut have an ane pleasant resembls those of a deceased macke cre}, at his red bottlenose, and retreating chin t Gnd evidences of intellect and character, ~—A man in New Orleans took out an accident Insurance policy before starting on a journey, and happened to be killed by a railroad accident, TI widow, armed with a newspaper report In whieh bie hame was mentioned among the killed, presented herself at the office of the Company, but was ine formed that more definite proof would be necessary. , of course he's dead,” said the bereaved hat is possible,” said the polite official, my dear madam, Iam very sorry for it’? “ Ye'raorry, are you, sorry!" “Of course Lam; & sincerely sympathize with you In your bereaves ment.” “ Yes," excluiined the excited and bereaved lady, * that’s always the way with you men, you ar€ mighty polite about everything else, but whenever @ poor Woman gets a chance to make a little money you're only sorry!’ And the indignant lady left the room ia search of additional proof. —A subject of town talk in Paris fs an elopes ment which caused great excitement in fashionable circles, ‘There are two versions current, Accord- ing to the first, the son of Count d’Aqnila, (tne exe King of Naple's uncle), has been so deeply impressed with the charms of a fair American beauty, yet in her teens, that he has run away with her, Another version is that the young Indy and her mamma, whos@ pecuniary position Is said not to be brilliant, hate run away with this youthful and amorous Bourbon, On dit, that a marriage has been hastily eclebrated, and that the fugitives, under the wing of this am Ditious mamma, are now ploughing thelr way acrosd the Atlantie—love-sick aud seasick, Count d’Aquil@ has put am embargo on the fugitives as regarda Frenehtrans-Atiantic packets, and is anderstood, moreover, to have telegraphed to Seutland-yard for Advice, assistance, and a detective, —An English oficer, who has recently visited Easter island Inthe Puctic, relates that he found there Uiree Roman Catholic priests, who had exerts cised a most wholesome influence on the man-cating Inhabitants, ‘The dret priest came alone, about three years ago, As soon as he landed he was robbed, and was to have been killed ond eaten, but the ehiel interfered, and chose to have him for his slave, ‘The bext who came was a Frenchman, and ® most reso lnte-looking man, with a very powerful and doter inined cast of physiognomy, The moment he laude ed they crowded down and endeavored to stone him, but he got near them and struck the frst fellow he came across euch a blow with his walking staff as to stun Lim on the spot, then walked anmolested through the crowd of swarming savages, now thore oroughily cowed, and since that he has never bat ouce been molested, but has them well in hand ow the whole. Of course the first ting he did was ta Procure the liberation of tie other priest, and the two have impressed on the minds of the people tl idea that if they kill and eat either one or the other & ship will come and destroy them, —A convent case is about to come before the Belgian courts, the {ucts of which are thus stated by the Chronigve of Louvain; “A nun belonging te ‘one of the best famiiles of the neighvorhood was Placed by the lady superior ina damp underground cell. She had been several days in confinement whem, froin the narrow opening by which her prison re colved a little light from the garden, she succeeded In attracting the attention of a man working there, who consented to procure for her writing muterials, and to convey a letter to her brother-in-law. latter, on receiving the communication, went to the Vent and asked to sce his sister-in-law, but was informed that she waa in religious retirement and could notbe seen, He returned three houre inter accompanied by ® commissary of police, whom he left outside and then repeated his demand ; he re ceived a similar reply, but he insisted, and the eune rlor at length became evidently embarrasned. He then opened the door to the police officer, who come pelled the direetress to accompany them to the cele lars under ground, where they found not only the lady In question, but also five other nuns con! ned tn the same manner, ali of whom took advantece of me commissery's presence to quit ‘Ne esteblishmes{ aud retura to their friends,”