The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-31 00:00:00

been hitherto unable to procure owing to his entire
ignorance of the French language. He had been
three weeks in Paris, having seen little or nothing,
would I kindly give him the French for milk and
dairy ; could I recommend him an agent of change.;
madame would be obliged by informing her the
name of the street in which Napoleon lived, &c., &c.
I gratified him at once by writing down the various
information in his pocket-book, but, as I found his
continued questions likely to occupy more time than
I could conveniently spare, I " levanted," leaving
him as a general panacea for all his ills and wants
the address of the Franco in Paris, and pondering
as I went, upon the sententious remark of Mr. Wel-
ler, in reference to the charity-boy and the alphabet,
Was it worth while to come so far, and go through
so much, to so little advantage.

PARIS, Aug. 29.

The present fashions are all packed in large
arches hermetically locked by nimble dressmakers'
fingers, and are now being safely conveyed to the
seaside chateaux or the most fashionable watering-
places. Not one glimpse of the treasures thus de-
spatched is to be obtained in Paris by any but the
initiated—the glories of attire are not to strike
friends " all of a heap" until they expand either at
the brilliantly illuminated Casino or by the green
glittering waves under moonlight. The only fact
positively known is, that our supreme elegantes
have voted for the abolition of Empire styles in
favour of Eastern splendour, and that those who
possess more of the piquant beauty attributed to
Madame de Pompadour than of the Hebrew type,
contend for Louis XV. and the style adopted by
his favourites. We are, therefore, in a period of
transition, the top of our heads is all chignon that
is imperial, the end of our attire is all sweeping, a
neutral conclusion. This is a very unsatisfactory
state to ladies who wish to know positively what they
are to wear, and who look to me for reliable infor-
mation. I will therefore give those items which
will be useful all this autumn and next winter, re-
serving those uncertain attempts for a later com-
munication. In the first place, ladies will continue
to show their feet by day and their necks by night,
each thus coming in for a full share of admiration
in turn.

Let no one believe in bonnets called cale'ches by
our ancestors until they are universally adopted. I
think our wreaths and veils, answering the purpose
of bonnets, will prevail against what in English is
called the coal-scuttle shape. A wreath can cer-
tainly not be called warm head gear, but there are
ways and means of turning leaves so as to make
them comfortable, a fact I noticed yesterday at the
Champ de Mars, where a painted old lady, the image
of Jezabel, wore her's bound round her forehead.
Princess Mathilde and the Queen of Portugal
have purchased several of the newest chine silks.
These chines are to be worn until winter, when bro-
cades will be all in full vogue. A white ground with
chine wall-flowers or nasturiums creeping up the
centre of each width, or a pyramid of large carna-
tions decreasing in size towards the waist, on a
grey ground, are the most elegant of the kind.
Applications on silk of velvet flowers will be the
richest toilette for winter receptions. heart's-ease,
for instance, in the natural tints on green, sheaves
of variegated velvet on black, fuschias on brown,
black velvet moss roses on black poult, and others
no less costly. Meanwhile, Sultanes made with
Marie Antoinette, fichus instead of mantles, co-
loured silks under muslins, striped Chamberys, light
goat's hair, much trimmed with coloured cross cuts
or rouleaux of satin, are the order of the day.
Our new sashes are now gathered in as plaited at
the lower ends and terminated by a bow. I can-
not call it graceful, but it is the novel idea. Natnral
flowers are laid flat round loose muslin, alpaca, or
w bite Sultane jackets, the same ornaments in the hair,
ears, and on the neck. Violets or vine are much
worn thus. Jet will prevail -a long time yet, but
the higher kind of trimming will be rich gimp and
lace. Jet is getting too common for either vel-
vet or satin. Browns, nut, maize, and toad
colour are the favourite shades, and the orna-
ments most envied are opals. A prevailing
mania has given a story connected with it. Opal
have their tale, or rather, if the new fashionable
theory is to be credited, they are tell-tales, for-
tune-tellers, or omens themselves. They are sup-
posed to possess a wonderful influence, whether
magnetic, electric, or mesmeric, is not explained ;
but is something mysterious, ending in ic, which,
of course, women do not understand. This new
discovery was made a few weeks ago, a little before
Madame Frigard's trial, when ladies were so much
absorbed by the Fontainebleau murder, so assi-
duous at the sittings of the Court, that the strange
incident was not commented on more than a month.
The facts are as follows :—A Russian princess
had been presented with a set of opals by a
gentle-
dear
absent one, a fervent admirer, and a
man consequently. He suddenly ceased to be a
regular correspondent, and on one melancholy morn
the opals were drawn from their box for private
contemplation. Oh, anguish t the gems were colour-
less—they had no more brilliancy in them than
fishes' eyes, and were just as expressive of tender
feeling. A few hours later a letter was delivered
from the admirer :he was dangerously ill. " The
opals !" exclaimed the princess, and again consulted
them ; they were fainter still than before, and con-
tinued to whiten every hour. In the evening a
second letter announced that the beloved was dead,
and one glance at the opals before a long swoon
showed all the opals fallen into calcinated ashes.
From that day no one will disbelieve that pearls and
opals can die as well as turquoises, that they catch
cold, and even shrink into dust if touched by vinegar
or acid, or damp of any description. All gems are
being exchanged for opals, and thus the feelings of
the absent will soon be known as easily as the time
of day.

A correspondent of the New York Tribune tells
tho story of tho recent disaster on the Union Pacific Rail-
road, six miles from Plum Creek station, where the Indians
succeeded in throwing a train from the line, and murder-
ing seven of the employes. Conductor Kinney saw the
dark forms rising from the ground, and conjectured that
the accident was the work of Indians. Another train was
but 10 minutes behind, so, securing a red flag, he ran with
all speed to meet the train, whose reflector shone in the
dark like a star above the horizon. The Indians pursued,
but Kinney succeeded in placing himself in front of the
rushing train, so that the light fell full on him and his
flag, which the engineers seeing, whistled do ,vn breaks,
and, after a short consultation, returned at full speed to
Plum Creek. As they left they saw the Indians dancing
around the cars in flames, and beard their voices as they
chanted the war saga of the tribe.
If you have a screw rusted into wood, or a nut or
bolt that will not readily turn, pour ou a little kerosene
and let it remain. In a little while it will penetrate the
interstices, so that the screw may bo easily started.—

Builder.
The conversion of bone dust, ivory filings, &c.,
into solid ivory is a new business soon to be started at
Florence, Western Massachusetts. Tho process by which
the change is made is the invention of the Baldwin Brothers
of that place.
The old Pennsylvania Bank building at Phila-
delphia is to be removed piecemeal to Portland. The
marble has been marked, lettered and numbered, stone by
stone, and will reappear at the latter city as a custom-
house.

The Superintendent of Education in the
Southern States estimates that 25,000 nogroes have
learned to read and write in the last two years.
Mr. John Lusk, of the Pacific Fruit Market of
San Francisco, has now under cultivation in Oakland a
lot of 90 acres, all in raspberries. The average yield will
be about tons to the acre, or 150 tons for the entire
ranch. This, at 15 ceuts a pound, the usual wholesale
price, would amount to the very comfortable sum of
$45,000. As many as 180 Chinamen are sometimes
engaged in picking at one time. Every day's surplus is
saved, and converted into wine.

The steamer Wilson Small came into collision
with a vessel in Chesapeake Bay, and sank with three of

her passengers.

Fires during the week, ending August 17,
destroyed the conference seminary at Charlottesville,
New York.—loss, $30,000 ; George Stratford and Co.'s
Oakum Factory at Jersey City—loss, $35,000 ; Krauss
and Co.'s planing mill at Cleveland, Ohio—loss, $15,000 ;
about 40 buildings in the business portion of Benecia,
California; and a large number of houses, stores, &c., at
Quebec, Canada—loss not stated.
A hard-fought battle between the Indiana and
the whites occurred near Fort Phil iiearney, August 2.
Early in the morning an ox train of thirty waggons,
guarded by fifty citizens and as many soldiers, under the
command of Major Powell and Lieut. Jump, left the fort
for the purpose of gathering fuel. Wail° thus engaged,

within five miles of the fort, a band of savages, supposed to
number at least 250, rode up and immediately made an
attack. The whites made a desperate resistance, but the
Indians, after killing Lieut. Jump and others, and wound-
ing two privates, succeeded in stampeding the cattle from
the train corral. The whites then took position behind a
breastwork formed of waggons, boxes, ox yokes, &c., and
the savages encircled them with wild yells, contin-
uing the fight with fiendish desperation. The whites
fought the Indians for three hours, killing and
wounding a great many, who were immediately carried
off the field by their comrades. The battle continued
with unabated vigour until Major Smith, with two com-
panies of United States regulars and two howitzers came
to the rescue from Fort Phil Kearney, when the Red Men
retreated, going north-east, leaving five dead bodies on
the field. Major Powell reports the total loss of the
savages at sixty killed outright, and a large number
wounded.
The suspension bridge to connect New York with
Brooklyn has been commenced. Its total length is to be
5,862 feet., and it will stretch from the City Hall Park to
the intersection of Fulton and Sands Streets, in Brooklyn.
The width for the first five hundred feet on either side
will be one hundred feet, and the middle section of the
bridge will have a uniform width of ninety feet. It is to
have two roadways, each fifteen feet wide, for carriages
and carts ; two additional roadways, each thirty feet in
width, for railway trains, and an elevated promenade for
foot passengers. Trains of cars, drawn by a stationary
engine at the end of the line, will cross the bridge at in-
tervals of every five minutes, and one thousand passengers
will find room in each train. The estimated cost of this
great work is six millions of dollars, and it is to be com-
pleted in five or six years.
On the 16th the famous yacht Henrietta, victor
in the recent ocean race to the Isle of Wight, was sold by
Mr. James Gordon Bennett, jun., for the sum of $50,000.
It is understood that her new owners have not purchased
her for private use, hut hope to make a large speculative
profit from the celebrity of her maritime name and deeds.
AMERICAN DESERTERS IN MALTA.—We are sorry
to hear that American ships of war coming into this har-
bour are much exposed to desertions from the crew, and that
the American authorities here haven° power to arrest them.
This is evidently a drawback to American ships of war
visiting this port, where much good feeling exists between
the two countries, and where the expenditure would cer-
tainly be of some importance to the people, especially in
times like these of drought and scarcity. When deser-
tions from the crews of ships of war take place in large
commercial ports there is never any difficulty in filling the
vacancies; but here, in this small place, such desertions
are a serious loss, there being no sailors to ship in their
place. It appears to us if an international treaty existed
between Great Britain and the United States tho
evil
would be remedied, and any soroness arising from these.
occurrences would be altogether prevented.—Malta Tunes.
The " easy divorce " business is being brought
every day nearer and nearer perfection in the West. In
Cincinnati, the other day, a man got a divorce without his
wife's knowledge, upon a simple statement in his petition
that she represented herself to be thirty-two years of age
at the time of her marriage, when she was in reality over
,aancdontlhnolonneesecossladry."
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was published in a "Price Current," or other paper of
that class which no woman ever sees. Her character, too,
was faultless, and she had a child fourteen months old,
and the sole apparent motive of the husband was a
desire to marry another woman. In this case the
attorney, in person, supplied whatever proof was
needed to make out the case, and appears to belong
to a class of "divorce lawyers," who absolutely live by
perjury and fraud. We have not as yet begun to see the
effect on society of our present divorce laws, or of the
moral condition of the legal profession in some of our large
cities ; but if something be not speedily done by way of
reform, the next generation will both see them and feel
them. It may not be expedient to make men live with
women they do not like, but no society can with impunity
suffer men to change their wives as often as they please,
and leave their children unprovided for in the arms of
those whom they abandon. Any community which, by
its legislation, offers scoundrels facilities of this kind
for their scoundrelism, deserves to suffer, and all
friends of pure manners have the consolation of
knowing that it will suffer. No good breed of men or
women ever yet grew up in a country in which marriage
was lightly dissolved. Men who shine in either war or
pzaco have to be produced in homes, and homes rapidly
disappear in regions where husbands can get rid of their
wives by paying fifty dollars to a knavish attorney. First
the scamps do it, and then the honest men, being used to
seeing it done by the scamps, lose their horror of it, and
laugh over it, and finally they do it themselves, and the
public ceases to look on it as a wrong, and then the chil-
dren grow up to regard marriage as a simple mode of
gratifying a temporary passion, and their mothers as
simply the instruments of their physical procreation, or--
,o speak plainly—their dams.— The Nation.
The American Watch Company, of Waltham,
losed their shops the week before last for a month's

vacation.
Bierstadt's great painting, the Domes of the
Yo Semite, which has been exhibited at Boston, has been
visited and admired by 3,000 people. It will soon be re-
moved to the gallery of its owner, Le Grand Lockwood,
Norwalk, the New York banker.
General Grant being pretty universally conceded
the Presidency, two things are settled : First, that the
Vice-President must be taken from civil life; and, second,
that some son of the State of New York is to be the man.
We further hear it said, upon pretty good authority, that
an understanding has been arrived at between the friends
of Governor Fenton and ex-Governor Morgan, by which
the latter will be made Vice-President—Governor Fenton
succeeding to Morgan's place in the Senate. Senator
Roscoe Conkling is said to be strongly in favour of
Morgan for the Vice-Presidency, and to have been active
in bringing about this harmonious result. Funny,
wouldn't it bo, if the two candidates for the Vice-Presidency
should be taken from New York City ? Mayor John T.
Hoffman on the Democratic side, and Eiwin D. Morgan
as the Republican.—New York Citizen.
The arrivals and departures by sea from San
Francisco for the six months ending July Ist wore as
follows :—Arrived, 16,488 ; departed, B,3oo—showing an
increase of 8,188 ; nearly one-half of the arrivals being a
permanent addition to the population. Of this increase
about 2,000 were from China.
Immigration from the United States into the
West Indies continues to occupy attention.
A case of poisoning occurred in Martin township,
M`Lean county, Illinois, on Friday, the 9th instant, re-
sulting in the death of three children of Mr. Hurt, and
probably the death of four other children who were living
at the last accounts. Suspicion rests upon a married
daughter of Mr. Hurt and the brother of her husband, who
are under arrest.
Mr. Paul F. Nicholson, of the World, is about
to start a new programme journal, called the Season. The
first number will appear in about a week.
The Round Table gives the following items :
"Mame. Octavia Le Vert, the accomplished Southern
authoress, is now at Niagara Falls preparing a work for
the press, which is likely to command much attention both
North and South.—Colonel James F. Moline (now in
Georgia with General Pope), in a volume entitled "Two
Thousand Miles on Horseback," which is to be published by
Messrs. Hurd and Houghton, describes a tour by way of the
Western States and territories to Santa Fe and back.—
Mr. John P. Brown, Secretary of the United States Lega-
tion at Constantinople, has written a volume on "The
Dervishes; or, Oriental Spiritualism." The Rev. Dr. M.
L. Scudder, of Hartford, has wriiten a history of Method-
ism, forming ono largo volume, which is soon to be pub-
lished by a Hartford house. Mr. Walt Whitman has
written a long and characteristic "Carol of the Harvest of
1867," which is to appear in the next issue of the Galaxy.
Mr. E. M. Tullidge, a Mormon elder of some literary ex-
perience, has written for the same magazine a paper on
"Brigham Young and Mormonism."
7 insley's Magazine for September continues the
two admirable tales of the "Adventures of Dr. Brady"
by Russell, and " The Rock Ahead" by Edmund Yates.
We think the publishers right in their notice to the public
contained in this number, that they will issue their maga-
zine henceforth on the 16th instead of at the end of each
month, when the country is deluged by the simultaneous
of mee v ems.,
publication of all the monthlies. We
tfeNeiltheothnefidsuent a
such sterling merit will
magazine
it deserves. As an aid to its literary merit, it is beauti-
fully illustrated, and altogether well got up.
Professor Faraday died last Sunday, near
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nffeacmtipontonwiCthouerlet.ctriTehitenEaxnpdresitsgrermelaartkiosnis‘ tl‘h,aitthitail
physical, chemical, and.physiological phenomena, that his
fame will principally depend. His investigations on this
subject led him to the presumption that electricity, mag-
netism, and light are but one and the same force, varying
in effect according to circumstances, but obedient to laws
which will one day be discovered."
A correspondent of the New York, Times has col-
lected some curious extracts from early numbers of the
New York Gazette, the first newspaper over published in
that city. It began its career on Monday, October
16, 1723, a weekly paper, presenting on one side of the
title a rude cut representing the city arras, and on the
other a picture of a postboy on horseback. The paper,
though dingy, and the print, though coarse, are described
as good for the time. It was printed and published by
William Bradford, an English Quaker, whin ratemigd to
the New World in 1682, and who was appoted oyal
printer" for New York in 1693. One of the early numbers
of his paper shows us Irish emigration to New York nearly
a century and a half ago, for the following advertisement
may bo seen in the Gazette of Midsummer-day in the year
1728 :—" On Wednesday last arrived here the ship George
John, Anthony Adamson commander, from Ireland, who
has on board several Irishmen, women, and boys, servants,
among whom there are several tradesmen, as carpenters,
weavers, tailors, blacksmiths, &c. Whoever inclines to pur-
chase the times of any of them may apply to the captain
on board of said ship, or to Samuel Moore, supercargo, at
Mr. John Danks', at the sign of the Jamaica Pilot, upon