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cee MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

A HORRIBLE SPECTACLE —HANGING OF TUE 38 SLOUX MURDERERS,

INCIDENTS AND SCENES IN PR'SON—-THE PRE- PARATIONS POR DRATI —~ THE DERATH-SONG AND EXECUTION AWEUL SPECTACLE ON THe QALLOWS — BURIAL AND OTUER INCIDENTS,

Manxato, Wis , Dee. 29, 1869 Tharsday last, the day preeeding the exe- eution, each Indian under sentence of death

was permitted to converse with two or three | met Dr. White, who told him that Dr. Fraser across, within about four feet, when the] Scotia and New Brunswick. “ag contined in the) had been labouring ynder a bilious attack. | audience applauded the daring act, it seem-| delegates, it is understood, object to a sinking

of his relatives or friends,

same {prison. These interviews were very

Srockine Suretpe av a Minrrary Scrcron. | Suoektva Carastropyk at Havana iat At an early hour yesterday morning, Dr.) Deatu or tue Wier or Fartnt rue Rors!

|W. T. Fraser, Staff Surgeon of the Royal Ca-| Watker.—A terrible and heart ronding 'nadian Rifles, committed suigide auliee the catastrophe oecurred in Havana, on the 6th ; most distressing circumstances, by cutting | ult., at the Plaza, Torres—Ball Ring, Mr. his throat with a ragor, in his room at the | Farini, the celebrated tight rope walker, and | Qaeen's Hotel. It appears that deceased | rival of Blondin, advertised, among the many | was stationed during the summer at Port | wonders that he would perform on the tight | Colborne, and from thenee removed to La- jvope, the carrying of his wife across the rope milton. Ue wrote to De. Taylor, Deputy |atretehed from one side af the ring to the | Inspector General of Hospitals, that there |other, at a height of about sixty feet, upon j were sume disagreeable reports afloat about | his back—a feat he had performed in other jhim in &t. Catharines. While Dr. Taylor|places. He started with the lady upon his wastat Hamilton, on the 3d of December, he | back, and had nearly finished his journey

Dr. Taylor alterwards wrote to Surgeon ingly being completed - and the lady, in ack

THE INTERCOLONIAL RATLWAY.

The Halifax Merning Chronicle of the 10th gives the following statement of the present position of matters with regard to the Inter- | colonial Railwa : | «The Hon. Messrs. Sicotte, Howland, and | Howe retarned in the Africa, from England, | yesterday morning. ‘The former went on to | Boston, en route for Canada, From Mr. | }Fowe we learn that the terms, as explained

in our paper of the 27th ult » are substan- tially ian whieh after full discussion, have been yielded by the Imperial Government jand accepted by the delegates from Nova The Canadian

fund altogether, and haye not accepted the

sad and affecting. Ali the condemned sent} Major Brown of the Riflo Brigade, asking | nowledgment for that applause, loosened her| torms, but referred tho whole matter back to

messages to their families aud friends who were absent, and in speaking of thoir wives and childrea, almost every one of them was affected to tears. Good counsel was sent to the children. In many cases they wero ex- horted to adopt Christianity and cultivate a love for the whites. ee confidently of 4 hope of salvation, but

majority were utterly jndifferent to their future welfare. One of them, Ta-di-mj-ma, was sending word ta hie relatives not to

| him to requeet Dr. Fraser to come to Toronto. | hold upon her husband's nock and waved her

of December, and took ap his quarters at the |diseoyered that she bad lost ber balance, ; Queen's Hotel. It was obseryed by Mr. | and called to her hushand to eatch her as | Preston, the hook-keeper, and athers, that she was falling, This he attempted to do, | he was mach depressed in spirits. On Wed- and caught ber by the skirt of her dress,

laine a’clock in the morning, bat he informed !strength to sustain her with the impetus | the parter that he was sick, and Mr. Preston | given to her descent by ber fail, and the | directed his breakfase to be taken up to his dress gave way, leaving a picee in the un- He kept his bed all day, and in the | fortunate man's hand as he hung suspended

Dr. Fraser came to this city on the 15th) bands, and, on that instant of doing 80, she|

| their Government. :

In connection with the Railway negocia- tion, we are delighted to know that a pro- ject is on foot, to which His Grace the Duke of Neweastle has given the most decided en- couragement, for establishing a line of tele-

Some of the culprits nesday morning he was ogiled as usual, at} but the frail fabric was not af sufficient | graph and a trangit route through the Had-

| yon's Bay Territory, #0 as to enable us to | flash lightning from Halifag to Vancouver's l{sland, and open the noble eountry behind

| Canadss to exploration and settlement. A

would give him a better chance to be saved ;| absent minded, and complained of a dizziness |

therefore he hoped his friends would consider} jn the head. The porter Jeft the room at half hie death bat as a removal from thia to 4/ past cight in the evening Absut half-past

| room

mourn his loss. He said he was old, and | evening Mr. Preston visited hig room, when | from the rope, sustaining himself hy the Company has been formed of the loading eould not hope to live long under any cireum- | deceased expressed a wish to have a cup of stances, and his execution would not eharten| tea and a mutton chop sent gp to him. The hia days a great deal, and dying aw he did, | arter, Wm. Taylor, took it up, and Dr, innocent of any white man’s blood, he hoped | ce although quite rational, seemed to be

‘joint of his knee by means of which he had | Capitalists of London, who agree to raise saved himself, and she went down crashing | £500,000 for these purposes, on a guarantee upoa the seats that ascend from the carb of| of four per cent. from the Governments of the ring to the top of the inclosure. She was) Canada and British Columbia, These guar- taken up for dead, but she showed, after) antees will, it is said, be given, and there is ‘some little time, signa of life, and lingered | every prospect that we shall have besides the from Sunday until Thursday morning, when} [ntercolonial Railway, a new enterprize car-

better world. ‘1 have eyery hope,”’ said

he, ‘‘of going direct to the abode of the Great |

Spirit. where | shall always he happy.” is last remark reached the ears of T'a-zoo, who was also speaking to his friends, and he elaborated u it in this wise; ** Yes, tell our friends t we being remoyed from this world over the same path they must shortly travel. We go first, but many of aur friends will follow in a short time. { expect to go direct to the abode of the Great Spirit, and to be happy when I get there ; but we are told that the road is long and the distance great. Therefore, as | am slow in all my movements, it will probably take me a long time to reach the end of the journey, sud | should not be surprised if some of the young, active men we will deave behind us will pass me on the naad befoee I reach the place af @estinatio.’’ Locks of hair, blankets, coats, and almost ¢ article in the passes- sion of the candem were given away as snementees, aad thus the parting interyiow

Night came, the last which ever shed its darkaces on the 38 Decotahs. We were per- Gridted 49 visit the cel! at midnight, and will mover forget the scene which presented it- eelf. The Indians were faste Sy chains, two by two. Some were asleep, while others laughed and smoked as if yn- conevious of the morrow's fate. Some of ékem adorned themselves with paint, and #eemed quite proud of such 4 preparation for the gallows. The majority of them were young men, while bere and there | descried @ gray-haired man, not too old for crime. I could not notice the appearanee which they all ssaumed. A steguger, or one unacquaint- ed with their deeds of hutchery, would have Leer them ynjustly jadgedand sentenced.

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imine o'clock yesterday morning, Thomas death put an end to hor sufferings. She was Mctjaw, ope of the book-keapers, went up| taken in hand by the ladies in the neigh- to the room occupied by the deceased, on the | bourhood, and everything that could be done second floor. fle knasked at the door, but | was done. The wealthiest ladios of Havana received no answer, and knocked a second | were at her bedside, and soothed her dying time. Thinking it strange that Dr. Fraser | pillow. She wes oubalmed and placed in did not make any noise as if awake, Mr. Me- {one of the niches of the burying ground. It Gaw gota chair, and, standing upon it, look. | is said that from $10,000 to $20,000 will be ed into the roam throngh the fanlight. His | raised by subscription for the child sho has horror may be jmagined when he saw de- lett behind.

ceased lying in bed in a pool of blood, and 2 ae

his right hand gutstretched over 9 chair also! Tar Mextcan Concress.—The House meets covered with gare. He immediately went | on Sundays as on other days, and on the ve down stairs and reported what he had seen. casion of Mr. Lempriere’s visit the session Mr. Preston and Mr. Withers, tobacco manu-| was brought to a close by a speech from facturer, asconded with him to the room and | Juarez. The chamber is an immense semi- the doar was foreed open. Tho bed-clothes circle of about 200 feet in diameter, and a were drawn up to the neck of deceased, and prominent object near the President's chair on turning them down a fearful gash in his | was the sword of Augustine [turbide ; the throat met their eyes. The body was quite, Washington of Mexico. There were three guid, and it appeared that death must have rows of comfortable arm-chairs, and the occurred several hours weer The bed- | members were talking in groups and almost clothes were covered with blood. A couple! all without exception smoking. ** The gal- of chairs, on which were several books and |leries were filled with riff-raff, both men and a lamp, were standing in front of the bed, ‘women; but there was no interruption or and the watch belonging to the deceased was sound except from the members, who made hung or. the bell rope, and it aqoeres that noise enough for all." Juarez made his en- after committing the rash act, he had made \ trance at three o'clock, amid a din of tram- an effort to pull the bel], far the purpose of | pets and cannon ; and he is described as * a | giving the alarm. {dark small man, quiet, and self-passessed."’ | At the Coroner's Inquest, Dr. Taylor, His speech, delivered in a clear pleasant | Deputy laspector General of Hospitals, said: | voice, was calm and dignified, looking for- The deceased, Pr. Fraser was stateoued under | ward to the re-establishment af peace, and /me at Port Colborne, in August last. Ife the consolidation of indopendence, liberty, | wrote a pote to me, stating that there were |and reform.

i seghle reports about him current in St, —_— -+ee--—__—_

|Catheviee's, mene he had previonsly been | A New Casat Prosecr.— The Dateh have ‘staying. He bad left without any stain ou set on foot 9 gigantic work of canal improvement.

: : iIt is proposed to ponstruct a ship ganal from > essed h proy b PONSTPHE Pp ¢ ri eemnine gee So Come | Amsterdam through Nerth Holland towards the 3 we

| Sea;

| ried out before Jong, from which the British | portion of this continent will be further l elevated and strengthened.’’

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A Mirace in New Brunswick.—In the aretic regions, we are told, it is no uncom- mon thing for a person to abserve places, situate thousands of miles distant, reflected upon the sky over his head, or on tho mar- gin of the horizon, as though a mirror had been placed ina certain position and brought the ** scene ’’ within the focus of his vision. ‘This mirage is said to bo the result of a pecu- liar state of the atmosphere, and quite com- mon to the cold regions, as in the case of sound which travels faster and may be heard farther thar in more temperate latitudes But we never heard until now of any such phenomenon as that of a mirage being ob- served in the comparitively mild climate of New Brunswick. We have beside us a letter from a reverend gentleman residiag in Buc- touch, Kent County, dated January 9th, 1863, from which we make the following extract in reference to this moat remarkable oceurrence :—

** We witnessed a few days ago a phenom- enon which arctic voyagers call ioe mirage. Tho portion of P.E. Island which lies op- posite to this harbor is about 14 miles dis- tant. and very near, so that the clearings and buildings could be distinctly seen ; and witha moderately powerful spy-glass, cattle and vehicles could be distinguished moving about. { never saw anything like it before, and when the sun's beams fell upon the vapour rising from the open Strait, and brought out all the tints of the rainbow, it was a most beautiful scene.’’— News.

It seemed to be suspended in the air|

Se rg Phink- |, to be thirteen miles long, two hundred feet ing it was some love @iuir, [ took no trouble

| wide, aud twenty-four feet deep. This canal will

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As tered the room these miscreants not about it, from, the fact that I had heard some- | only greeted we with smiles, but even held thing shout it before. When at Hamilton, | forth their hands to be shaken, which yet on the 2nd December, [ met Mr. White, who seem to be gory with the blood of babes and) told me Dr. Fraser had been laboring under innocents. Disgusted with such an illustra-|g bilious attack. I afterwards received a tion of fallen humanity, I retired, leaving | jeter from Mr. White, enclosing a note from them with Father Xavoux, their spiritual Eusiga Harness, of the Reyal Canadian Rifles, adviser, who labored for their repentance | stating that deceased had an idea that people | during the semaindyr of the night. He met| were writing in the newspapers about him. | with some success, and several were baptized | | enclosed the letters to Surgeon Major Brown, | and received the comunion. | of the Rifle Brigade, Hamilton, and requested | i , past seven cn the following morn-| him to ask Dr. Fraser, then in Eamilton, to ag doom. Their irons were knocked off, and) to me. Dr. Fraser came to Turento a couple | their elbows were pinioned behind and tho of days afterwards and saw me. ‘This was, wrists in front, but about six inches apart. | about the 7th or 8th of December. There | ‘The seene was much enlivened by their songs| appeared to be nothing on his mind at the and conversation. As they were being pin- tine. I saw a good deal of him, he dined joned they went round the room shaking| with me on Christmas, and appeared per-| hands with the soldiers and reporters, bidd-| fectly rational. Me was with me on Monday |

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shorten the distance from Amsterdam to Londen,| Tur Rusa ror Goin In New ZeaLanp.— and all ports south of the Texel, by about eighty | We have experienced a pertect parexysm of ex- miles, 8a that vessels will now be enabled to reach | cjtement since my last, About the middle of last the sea in a om hours, whereas the present jour-| njonth two men sudden}) mad thejr apprermnce ney over the Simlugen and the North Holland | in town laden with a bag cnutaining no less than canal now occupies several days, and er “7b. of fine gold. As soon as this fact became va ‘ ‘ , rie! known, the place was ina hubbub of excitement ; n order to form a safe entrance to the canal it) and when, as a result ef a negotiation with the will be necessary to construct enormous aoe Provincial Government, by which the discoverers and an artificial harbor on the unprotected coast) were to receive £2,000, provided 16,006 ounces of of Holland, the piers of whieh will extend more) gold were produced in three months, the locality than a mile inte oe _ ‘This wil] be the chief) was made known, a rush commenced, and con- engineering difficulty to be overcome. jlundreds of ill provided, inex- Y, containing fifteen thousand acres of rich allu- | perienced men started off, with little or no ac- vial clay, aud when reelained is estimated to be | quaintance of the route most easy and practicable, worth one million sterling. The total capital required is estimated at 4/ most appalling kind. Lucrative employments million and a half sterlmg, upon which the Dutch) were rasuly abandoned, situations thrown up, and

| Government guarantee an interest of four and a! the most reckless determination manifested to seek | Union.

half per cent. The concessionaires are Me. J. G.! at atl ha7ardsan early claim at the new El Dorado

Jager, of Amsterdam, and the English engineers,| Por a season setious appreheusions were enter

, n With the tinued for several days unparalleled in the annals | soners were prepared for their) yisit him, and report the result of the visit | undertaking is connected the reclamation of the! of Dunedin.

ing them good-bye, &e. White Dog request-| evening tili ten, and took no liquor but one | Messrs. B. W. Croker and Charles Burn.

ed not to be tied, and suid that he could keep

hie bands down ; but, of course, his request

could not be complied with.

brother got them into this war, and now he | and others are to die for it. After all were) properly fastened, they stood up in a row | round song was sung. They then eat down very) uietly and commenced smoking again. Fa- | r Kavoux came in, and, after addressing |

ing from a prayer book in the guage, whieh a portion of the condemned re-| peated after him. During this ceremony | nearly ail paid the most strict attention, and | several were affected to tears. The caps were | then of white muslin taken from the Indians when ir camps were captured, and which had | formed part of the spoils taken from the) murdered traders. They reooived those evi-| dences of their near approach to death with evident dislike. When they had been ad- j ou one or two, they looked around on the others who had not received it without appearance of shame. There was no more singing, and but little conversation and @moking now. All sat round the room ; most of them in a crouched position awaiting their doom in silence, or listening to the re- raarks of Father Kavoux, who stil] addressed them. Once in a while py Mh ny eam their small looking-glasses before their fac es, to see that their countenances yet pri served the pro- per modicum of paint. The threo half-breeds were the most fall affected, and their dejection of countenance waa truly pitiful to behold. At ten o'clock the mned were mar- ehalled in procession and marched through files of soldiers to the gallows, which had | been so vonstructed that all the culprits could

be hang at once. They marched eagerly and cheerfully to the fatal spot. As they as. eended seaffuld they chaanted a death

song, which was truly hideous, although it seemed to inspire them with fresh courage. One young fellow, who had been given a eigar by one of the reporters, just before marching from their quarters, was smoking it on the stand, puffing — very coolly dur- ing the intervals of the ‘Hi-yi-yi-hi-yi-yi,”’ and, even after the cap was drawn over his face, arena to get it up over his mouth and smoke. Another was smoking his pipe. The noose having been promptly adjusted over the neck of each, all was ready for the fatal si . The scene at this juncture was ene of awful interest. A painful and breath- leas —— held the vast crowd which aad assembled from all quarters to witness the execution. ‘Three slow, measured, and dis- tinct beats on the drum, and the rope was cut, and the scaffold fell, and thirty-eight lifeless bodies were left dangling between heaven and earth. Ove of the ropes was broken, and the body of Rattling Runder fell to the ground. The neck had probably been broken, and but little signs of life were ob- served, but he was immodiately hung up again. While the si beat was given, numbers were seon to the hands of tieir neighbors, which, in several instances, con- tinued to be clasped until the bodies were cut down. As the platform fell, there was one, not loud, bat prolonged cheer from the and citizens who were spectators,

and then all were quiet and earnest witness. es of the scone. For so many, there was but little suffering ; the necks of all, or nearly ali were evidently dislocated by the fall; and the after struggiing was slight. The scaffold fell at a quarter past ten o'clock, and in twenty minutes the bodies had all been ex- amined, and life pronounced extinct. The bodies ware then cut down, placed in four army waggons, and taken to the grave pre- i for them among the willows on the sand bar nearly in front of the town. They were all deposited ia one ve, thirty feet in length by twelve in width, and four feet deep, being laid on the bottom in two rows, with their feet together and their heads on the outside. They were simply eowered with 6 \cir blankets, and Lhe earth thrownover them The other condemned Indians were kept close in their quarters, where they were ehaimed and not itted to see the execu- tiens. Turivg the awful moments, when they heard the death song of their late gom- pnions in guilt, they crouched themselves

down with their blankets over their heads

Ile said that) with me to the office. Little Crow, Young Six, and Young Eagle's [ said, ** Did

glass of water. opposite the He said he was unwell. oar glass of water disagree

with you?’’ Ile said no, and added that he

in 1858.

| Soctan Lire at tue Sourn. — Two lovely

: These | tained lest numbers who had started without due | ’ Next morning he met me | gentlemen have been tea years maturing this! preparation should actually dic ef starvation. It | Government House, and went) project, the concessions have been originally asked) was knows that supplies could not be obtained | Within anything like a reasonabis distance of the |

field, and that the read te it was all bat iu.;ract!¢- | able for loaded drays. And the first tidings that

had Grank one or two more before he went to | ##@ accomplished young ladies, says the Metphis | reached Dunedin trom the spot went far towards

bed. He said he wanted to speak to me about

room, and another exciting death~| some maiters, and then went on to say that)

a Mr. Millera lawyerin St. Catherine’s, had been writing aboat him in the papers. 1 neyer heard from him that he had been dis-

motion. Ie then went away, promising to come to my office next day. From a review of the history of his case from (he commence- ment, I am under the conviction that the

put on their heads. These were made | whole story about Mr. Miller was a more | ‘ts the family altar.

phantasm of the brain, and that he must have committed suicide while laboring under tem- porary insanity.

The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony.

The body was) paper, ever gladdens the eye.

| correspondent of the New York Herald, have just and are new speeding to their long Jost home in Albany, New York. Sowe dear frieuds had led them South long ago where the blockade caught them.

jot success and disaster to our arms. The story ) of Southern indoor life, as we heard it from their jlips, is touching to the heart. Every Southern |home has been invaded. No social sanctity pro- The young men, the adults, land sometimes even the youths and aged have } been mercilessly torn from their families. The negroes are a charge upon the fermales, who stand jin e¢onstant dread of outrage and violence from them. No book or picture, no magazine or news- ‘The stores are

removed to the Military Hospital immediately | empty—the poor in rags. Sugar is hoarded in

after the inquest.

of Dublin, where his parents reside.— Teronto | ; se — . leven those who were maddest in the outset | ffoidebrook Grange, in the county of Warwick, | Education, religion, art, all neglected.

Globe, Jan. 2.

Deceased was a native | Vicksburg, but flour is twenty-two dollars and a

half a hundred. The women are sick of war,

The whole

nent | South is ane vast callection ef want, barbarisin,

Nineteen Necrores une in CHar Eston | —Tau Necroes Secretinc Arus.—A Nor- folk letter contains the following :

spoliation, and the worst forms of vice. The Pede- ral advent will be hailed with unbounded delight. Ee

EXTRAVAGANCE IN Dress.—The men of every

‘A British subject who came here from | generation have had their laugh at the fashions of Charleston South Carolina, withina few days, the ladies; but the ladies have had their oppertu-

brings the information that nineteen negrocs | were hung in the streets just prior to bis de- parture. This occurred in consequence of a discovery made in a rather singular manner. The whites there for some time past have been closely watching the movement of the blacks, and thinking they observed an un- usual namber of funerals among them, a white man disguised himself, and following in one of the processions, on arriving at the burying ground he discovered that the coffin contained arms, which were taken and buried in @ yault in which a number had already been deposited. The consequence of this dis- covery was the execution of nineteen of the mcst intelligent of the conspirators.”

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PREPARATIONS FOR THE MARRIAGE OF THE Paisce or Wates.—Her Majesty having com- manded that the nuptiala of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alexandra of Denmark shall be celebrated with great mag- nificence, preparations have been commenced this week by the employes of the Lord Chamberlain's department at Windsor Castle with that view. A number of extra hands have been engaged, and the work both in the state apartment aud other parts of the Castle is making rapid progress. ‘The state apartments are being furnished with the su- per hangings which were used during the visit of the Emperor aad the Empress of the French in 1855, and the Zucearelli ryow is undergoing a complete change. The whole of the turuiture, picture frames, mouldings, and panel frames, are being richly regilt, while the walls are being hung with costly Italian silk, six feet in width, bearing the initials “ V R,” encircled with a wreath and eruamented with a crown. In ether parts of the Castle suites of apartments are being fitted up with much care and taste, especially those which will be occupied by their Royal Highnesses the Prineess and Prince Christian of Denmark, and other membeas of the same royal family, whe will be present at the celebration of the royal wedding. In St. George’s Chapel workmen are engaged in erecting nine rews of temporary seats between the pillars on each side of the aisles, for the accomodation of those fortaaate enough to ob- tain tickets for the church. A large space of ground at the west eud of the chapel will also be enclosed and fitted up for the accommodation of the visitors attending the ceremony. The Arch- duke and Archduchess Maximillian are to be pre- sent, Prince Augustus of Coburg and his wife are also going to London to assist at the wedding.

Accment TO THE Princess Louis or Hes- se.—An accident occurred to her Royal Highness the Princess Alice on Wednesday. Her Royal Highness was proceeding in a waggonette from Osborne by the Cowes Road, and round the ueighboriood of Newport, for a morning drive, when the postillion attempted to drive between two other vehicles, and came into collision. The waggonette was overturned, and the Princess and her companion were thrown out with consider- able violence. Oue of the Princess’s ankles was epraimed, and she was severely shaken, but sus- tgined po further injury. Her attendant was also very much shaken, and the muscles of her hand were covusiderably lacerated. The untortu- pate jadieas were regnoved to the residence of Mr. Steen, close by, Her Royal Highness and Miss Bruce were subsequently removed to Osborne,

and remained in — silenes. They were mueh dejected all day. Some few squaws Witnessed the scene.

aud were both quite well the uext day

nity of triumph in return. If the women once wore horned head-dresses that made them look hke human cows, did not the men till very lately wear huge periwigs and long tails or queues that made them look like lious?) If the women, with their hoops ar farthingales or crinolines, have oc¢- cupied a space in the world disproportioned to their real sze, have not the men, with their bags

like mammoth bolsters with horse-hair or cotton, and doublets puckered and distended, looked four times their natural size, and searcely like human beings? In Henry the Eighth’s reign, a scaffold was erected round the Parliament house for the accommodation of such members as carried the fashion of magnitude in dress to an extreme. Even in point of cost, the dresses of the gentle- men have often been more extravagant than those of the fairer sex. Sir Walter Raleigh's doublet was embroidered with pearls. His buff shoes were covered with precious stones of the value of £6,600. His armour blazed with diamonds, ru- bies, and pearls. The Duke of Buckingham, King James’s favourite, sometimes had his dia- monds so loosely put on his garments that when he pleased he could with a sudden shake sprinkle the ground with them, that the Dames de la Cour might pick them up. He had a suit of white velvet, embroidered with diamonds, the value of £20,000. Some of the English nobles at the Field of the Cloth of Gold carried their fortunes on their backs.

Mrs. Joseph Spencer, of Clinton, Ind., is very properly mentioned in the papers as an “uncommon woman,"’ she having presented her liege lord, on the 29th ult, with four living infantile specimens of humanity. We learn of a New Work lady who takes the palm from the *‘ uncommon woman of Indiana,’’ as the following well authenticated statistics will corroborate :—During a period of three years, 7 months, and nineteen days, Mrs. Magee, wife of a partner in the firm of Wm. Tappin & Co., New York city, gave birth to twelve children, a// of whom are alive and well, the births occurred us follows: June 24, 1858, one child ; June 30th, 1859, two chil- dren ; May 29th, 1860, two children; March 2¥th, 1861, three children; February 13th, 1862, four children. This is a remarkable

case. —_—-.< oe

Usriess Lawentations.—The Albany Ar- gus thus bewails the present condition of af- fairs in the North —** Three times we have pushed a noble army on to disaster and de- feat, How nobly suffering and how grandly patient have been the people! Army after army, tribute after tribute, they have raised and given. They have poured forth men and money with exhaustless generosity. But the lavish stream of popular bounty has disap- peared, as if in the sieve of the Danaides ; only it is blood and not water that has been ey out to be absorbed forever. Hew ong! oh people! how long is this to endure !”’

Vatuaste Epicrs.—In view of the success of President Lincoln's proclamation, the New York Worid advises him to issue a procla- mation abolishing the Alabama, as the read- iewt way of getting rid of that troublesome cruiser.

‘ r i Daily and nightly have they watched and | them a few moments, knelt in prayer, read- appointed in love. I told bim to be careful | prayed for the adveut of the glorious flag, their | acotah lan-| what he did, as he was on the eve of pro- | hearts alternately sinking and rising at the rumour

and queues and evormous trousers, stuffed oui) was on board unti! some days afterwards.

| Confirming these fears.

The following, which we take frem the 'Roston Courier, is startling, althongh it ishould have been expected :—

| ‘The accounts from the Army of the Poto- imac are avowedly of the most unfavorable We observe that movements are

| character. thi |making which seem preliminary to a re turn is nor do we believe,

\towards Washington ; _ mee | from all we hear, that it would be possible ‘to lead the men forward, even if the officers | judged an undertaking practicable now, whieh it seems from the testimony before the pub- \lie, the best of them thought was not so, be- fore the fatal day of Fredericksburg. With }an army in the frame of mind which it 1s | well known prevails at Falmouth, certainly

i

nothing is to be expected of it; and the

(question now arises, to what means 1s Mr.

Lincoln to resort, in order to carry out his

newly adopted policy. - > +30 oe -

The Richmond Enguirer still contends that the battles of Murfreesboro” were victo- ries for the South. It says—‘‘ The victory is hy far the most complete one for our arms in the Southwest. We do not regard the falling back by Bragg as taking in the least from the glory of our arms or the importance of our victory. All the boastful despatches

hat Gen. Rosecrans may write can never re- capture the prisoners’ arms and artillery car- |ried off by Bragg, nor rebuild the waggons burned by Morgan and W heeler.

‘ illicitly

A Persian Bripe.—Dickens} in All the Year Round, thus deseribesa bride in Persia; ‘ A Per- sian bride when first bought is a queer little body, fattened up with rice and sweetmeats for the oe- casion, and sadly besmeared with cosmetics. Collyriam has been put into her eyes to make them dark and languishing, and they are also elongated by some means 80 that they way have the shape of almonds, Her hair is dyed ot a coal- black by indigo, or of a reddish brown by indige and henna mixed with it, according to her own fancy or that of the broker, Her eye-brows are plasteggd aud painted so thickly that they look like a large piece of court-plaster cut into arches and stuck upon her face, [ say a large piece be- oause they are joined artificially by a thick line across the nose. Her checks are painted in ex- cessively bright colors, and twa shiny locks of hair, gummed together, are stuck flat on each side of them in the shape of number sixes placed the wrong way. Her hands and feet, finger-nails and toe-nails, are dyed a light mahogany color with henna, She has no more shape or figure than a bolster. Poor little thing! she plays such tricks with herself generally, that at twenty she is an old woman, with her skia all skrivelled and burnt up by caustics and poisoned pricks ot needles. ‘This odd, under-sized creature waddles about the apartinent ef her new Jord in tie finest and largest trousers possible. She puts or a great many pairs of them, and is a8 proud of the sizewf her Jegs as a British damsel is of the size of her crinoline. She wears a smart embroidered jacket with short sleeves, and a pretty chemisette of some light white silk material embroidered with gold threads; but ber arms, and legs, and neck are bare. She hangs upon ber little person as many | jewels, gold coin, and trinkets as she can probably |getat. She is especially fond of pearls and dia- |} mounds, but 1s not particular as to their beauty or | value; a diamond is a diamond, for her, whatever flaw it may have; a pearl is a pearl, whatever its shape or color may be. She is very fine, but /never elegant. Her mind is entirely uncultivated. | She has neither education nor accomplishments ; but she has a good deal of flowery talk about roses and nightingales, with an under-current of strange roundabout wit and drollery. ‘want of delicacy and modesty in her conversation.

She knows a great many things which she oughi | not to do, and child as she is in years, she would j outwit the wisest men wha ever wore a grey

beard.”

There is an utter

ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT DAVIS.

| DELIVERED BEFORETHE MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

| President Davis addressed the Mississippi Legislature, at Jackson, on the 20th ult. The galleries were filled with ladies, and 'when the President appeared the whole hall

rang with applause. We give the chief

| ouly to meet with sujferings and privations of the | points from a report in one of the Southern | foreign nations as an evidence that the Con-

| newspapers :

| ‘The President spoke of his love for the old

Ile alluded to it, however, as a mat- ter of regret, that the best affections of his

|heart should have been bestowed upon an

object so unworthy — that he should have loved so long a Government whica was rotten

| to its very core.

| le had yredicted a fierce war, though it bed assumed more gigantic proportions than

| be had ¢slculated upon. He had predicted

| battles looked for their kindred at home

| supply the places which had been made leant by the death of their comrades. A gade which mustered only 1,200 men ‘have to bleed as much as if it had i | quota of 4,000. ee must be Humanity demanded it. patriots oy throw off the shackles of private interest, fly to the reseue of heroes whom the ravages of war had yet mens and consecrete themselves to the most

cause on earth.

THE REAL DANGER.

The President remarked that when be ar- rived he thought the enemy were pw ng down upon us from the northern be; 19 of our State, but when he went to Gren >a he there learned that nothing eould be seen of them bat theirbacks. They were going back perhaps with the intention of re-enforcing the heavy colamn that was now being thrown down the Mississippi River. The real points of attack were at Vicksburgand Port Hudson; and to all who desired to lend a helping hand to the country in her present exigency, he would say, ** Go to Port Hadson and 4 icks- burg without delay !’”

NECESSITY OF HARMONY—PERFECT MILITARY STATES.

Ile spoke of the salutary effects of har- monious action between the several States and the Government at Richmond, and urged apon legislators, both State and Confederate, the necessity of establishing a permanent military system ; for even after the present | war was ended we might expect trouble from our enemies unless our military establish- ment was of such a character as to give them a wholesome fear of precipitating 4 war upon us. The true theory was to adopta military system which would be permancnt and ope- | rative in times of peace.

THE QUESTION AT ISSUE.

The issue involved in this war was no or- dinary one. The question is, will you be free, or will you be the slaves of the most de- praved and intolerant and tyrannical and hated people upon earth ? This was the real