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From the Rochester Democrat.
SUSPENSION BRIDGE AT NIAGARA FAI

SUSPENSION BRIDGE AT NIAGARA FALLS.
This Suspension Bridge is the most sublime
work of art on the continent. 1t makes the
head dizzy to look at it, and yet it is traversed
with as much security as any other bridge of
the same width. We were present while the
Norkmen were engaged in hanging the planks
over the chasm. 1t looked like work of per-
il but it was prosecuted with entire safety
Not an accident has happened since the first
cord was carried across the river at the tail
of a kite
it is impossible to give the reader a clear
idea of the grandeur of the work. Imagine
foot-bridge of eight hundred feet in length,
hung in the air, at the height of two hundred
and thirty feet over a vast body of water,
rushing through narrow gorge, at the rate
of thirty miles an hour II you are below it,
it looks like strip of paper, suspended by a
cobweb. When the wind is strong, the frail
oossamcr.looking structure sways to ard fro
as if ready to start from its fastenings, and ii
shakes from extremity to centre under the
firm tread of the pedestrian. But there is no
danger. Men pass over it with safety, while
the head of the timid looker-on swims with
apprehension.
We saw the first person pass over it-Mr.
Ellet, the builder His courageous wife soon
followed him, and for two days, hundreds, at
tractcd by the novelty of the thing, under
took the fearful journey.
1t is worth trip to the Falls, to see tins
great work, although it is not probable that
one in twenty will have the nerve to cross
upon it. For, strange as it may seem, there
were those who had no hesitation to slide
e,,o,, tho awful chasm in basket, upon a sin
,ylo wire cable, who could not be induced to
walk wa over the bridge, And this aerial excur-
SION is thriIlngly exciting. A seat on a loco
motive, travelling at the rate of sixty miles
m hour, is nothing to it When you find
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1HE EXPECTED CoMET.-Public attention
has been recently drawn to the anticipated
return OF the great comet of 1864, 1856, af-
ter an absence from our system of 292 years.
This great comet made its first appearance
on the 9th day Of March, 1856. passed its
perlhelion on the 2lst Of April, and was lost
to sight two days afterward. 1t was first seen
in the sign of Libra; whence rushing with
immense velocity, Git completed 10 deg. W.,
and 80 deg. N. of its course within four days,1
it touched the wing of Virgo, passed below
the knee of Bostes, whence it assembled to
Andromeda, there to linger awhile, and re-
cede towards the northern Fish and vanish.
At first its heliocentric motion was retrograde
at last direct In the intermediate course
it was most swift, dispatching Is degrees dali
ly. The nucleus Cor body) presented the as
pect Of bright globe of flame equivalent to
half moon, but the rays and coors varied
and interchanged like the Pickering of flame
agtated by the wind. The tail was mode
rately long and much attenuated; at first
presenting a martial aspect, but subsequent
ly dissolving into pale and livid complex
ion; the stream Of rays was denser near
the head, and more rarefed towards the ex-
tremity of the tail, which at first pointed
eastward, but as the comet mounted to the
north, the train took southerly direction.
This comet has been conjectured to be iden-
teal with that mighty one which startled
Europe in the year 1864, so particularly des-
cribed by Paleologus, Zuinger, Calvisius,
Matthew Paris and other chroniclers of that
period, and should the approach of this comet
crown the other wonderful occurrences of
this eventful year, it will afford another as
Economical triumph; as the comet will then
have completed its twentieth revolution
round the sun since the creation of the world
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"Sir Walter Scott told me the story of a
placed minister near Dundee, who in preach
ing on Jonah said: Ken ye, brethren, what
fish it was that swallowed him? Aiblins, we
may think it was shark; nae, nae, my breth-
rem, it was nae shark; or aiblins, we may
think it was a saumon nae, nae, my brethren,
it was nae saumon; or aiblins, we may think
it was dolphin; nae, nae my brethren, it
was nae dolphin
Here an old woman, thinking to help her
pastor out of dead lift, cried out, 'Aiblins,
Sir, it was a dunter.' (The vulgar name of
species of whale common to the Scotch coast. }
Aiblins, madam, ye're an auld witch for
taking the Word O. God out of my mouth,
was the reply of the disappointed rhetorician.' y
Memoir IF Rec. Richard Harris Barnam,
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INGENUITY OF SCIENCE.--Who would have
imagined, when gun cotton was produced by
Mr.. Screboin, and the world was threatened
with destruction by being blown up by this
terrible explosive material, that within few
months it should be discovered to be an ex-
celent styptic for dressing cuts and wounds?
But so it is Dissolved in ether and applied
to the severest cut, it forms an adhesive COW
ering of singular closeness and adhesveness,
protects the wound and excludes atmospheric
air or any irritating matter, so that the pro-
cess of healing, is carried on speedily and eff
tectually; and when all is well, the "pro-
tectionist," having done its duty, is removed.
So also has DR.. Simpson, of Edinburgh. we
are informed, similarly applied chloroform
and gutta percha This mixture, in a liquid
condition, at about the consistence of fine
honey, is kept in a phal or bottle, and when
an accident OF the kind to which we have re-
terred occurs it is simply poured upon the
wound; the chlOrotorm instantly evaporates,
and the gutta percha remains a perfectly
flexible second skin, over the injured part
preserving it for weeks if necessary, without
the need of dressing, bandages, Or any other
appliance, till there is no more occasion for
this admirable agent When we call 10 mind
the much human pain that will thus be allie
waited, how many cures effected where hith-
erto there have been danger and uncertainty,
and how a number of surgical operations will
be simplihed, it may not be considered too
much to rank such inventions among the
most valuable that could be discovered and
applied for the benefit of mankind-London
Literary Gazette
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For the Voice of Freedom.
THE SOLILOQU IST.
No. II
"Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor''-- LoNGFELLo

"Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor LoNGFELLow.
1t is sore evil 1--WE are apt to murmur) that the
labor of man is for his mouth. That toll, by day
and night should only ensure for the perishabe body
which enshrines an undying God-like SOUL bare
often an insufficient subsistence; while that "un-
touched part within, must look on, and in its lofty
ignorance, with its sublime and uninstructed pow
ers, labor for the "meat which perisheth" ITO
think of MMt
Yes,-I for one, sometimes feel a shade of discon-
tent couding over my heart, when would willing
ly turn away from the cares of toSome avocation,
but am forbidden. When think of studious leis-
nre-of golden hours of intercourse with noble minds
of the wonders of Nature, capable of filing and
improving the heart-of such opportunities as seem
adapted to assmilate a man to his Maker-of things
intellectual, mental spirtua-I confess to feeling
of sadness.
These fardes seem heavy, then-this merchandise,
proftless-this ledger, waste paper-and all kindred
Governments quite trining, and unworthy. And
so, doubtless, in and for themselves, as ends, they
are. But certainly not in their uses and purposes,
as means TO ends.
We are unphilosophcal, short-sighted, and unwise,
if we suffer such thoughts to burden us. For they
are deceivers.
1t was, doubtless, the greatest blessing which, in
the nature of the case was left for God to give us,
that having sinned, we should hereafter eat bread
ain the sweat of the brow" Many considerations
teach that this is and especially experience
1t is easy to prove by argument, but, what is better
or what is better for the conviction of an utilitarian
and faithless age, the experience of all times has
shown, that those who from necessity lead indus
trous lives, those who are purest in morals, firm
est in principle, kindest with their fellow men, and
happiest in life and death. tOf course am aware
that degraded laboring classes form exception to
this rule, because they not in any wise, of that
number of whom speak, being the victims Of a
perverted and unnatural state Of things)
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ANEcDorE OF JOHN JACOB AsroR.-"D

ANECDoTE OF JOHN JACOB AsroR.-"Do
you ever trust, Mr.. AStor ?" inquired Mr. X.
81 do not trust strangers, sir" was the reply,
unless they furnish satisfactory city refer
ence." "Then," quoth Mr.. X. " the skins l
have selected must suffice this time, and pay
ing for the same, he departed. In the after
noon Of the same day, just before the sailing
of the New Bedford packet, the young trader
returned for his lot of furs. Throwing the
whole pack on his back, he left the store, but
had not proceeded dozen yards from the
store when Mr.. A. called his name, bidding
him come back, Sir" said Mr.. A., you
can have credit for any amount of goods you
require, provided they are to be found in my
store" "But,'' stammercd Mr.. X, " but my
dear sir, l can give you no city references
am stranger here" 81 ask no other re-
commentator" responded the rich merchant
than that already furnished by YOURSELF
Tile man acho is not above has business need
never hesitate to apply to John Jacob Astor
for credit" Thus commenced a trade be-
tween the two merchants, which was contin-
ucd to the mutual satisfaction and advantage
of both for long term of years. Mr.. X. is
now one of the most eminent capitalists in
New Bedford,
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NIAGARA OUTDoNE.-Among the cliffs
of the Eastern Chats, about midway between
Bombay and Cape Comorin, rises the river
Shirawati, which falls into the Arabian Sea.
The bed of the river is one fourth of mile
in direct breadth but the edge of the fall is
elliptical, with a sweep of half a mile. This
body Of water rushes at first, for three hun
dred feet, over slope at an angle of forty
five degrees, in a sheet of white foam, and is
then precipitated to the depth of eight hun
bred and fifty feet more, into black abyss,
with laundering noise. I. has, therefore, a
depth of eleven hundred and fifty feet In
the rainy season, the river appears to be
about thirty feet in depth at the fall in the
dry season it is lower, and is divided into
three cascades of varied beauty and astonish-
ing grandeur. Join our Fall of the Genesee
to that of the Niagara and then treble the
two united, and we have the distance of the
Shirawati cataract While we allow to Ma
CARA a vast superiority in bulk yet in respect
to distance of descent, it is but mountain
rill, compared with its Indian rival,--Roches-
ter Democrat.
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had q drean-a strange, wild dream
Said dear voice at early light;
And even yet its shadows seem
To linger on my waking sight.
Earth, green with spring, and fresh with dew,
And bright with morn, before me stood;
And airs just Weakened softly blew
On the young blossoms of the wood.
Birds sang within the sprouting shade,
Bees hummed amid the whispering grass,
And children prattcd as they played
Beside the rvulets dimpling glass.
Fast climbed the sun-the flowers were flown;
There played no children in the glen;
For some were gonc and some were grown
TO blooming danes and bearded men.
II was noon, It was SUMNER behed
Woods darkening in the flush of Day,
And that bright rivulet spread and sweed,
A mighty stream-wth creek and BAY.
And here was love, and there was strife,
And mirthful shouts, and wrathful cries,
Aud strong men struggling as for life
With kuotted limbs and angry eyes.
Now stopped the sun-the shades grew thin;
The rustling paths were piled with leaves;
And sun-burnt groups were gathering in,
From the shorn field its fruits and sheaves.
The river heaved with sullen sounds;
The chilly wind was sad with moans
Black hearses passed, and bural-grounds
Grew thick with monumental stones.
Still waned the day; the wind that chased
The jagged clouds blew chiller yet;
The woods were stripped, the fields were waste
The wintry sun was near its set.
And Of the young and strong, and fair,
A lonely remnant gray and weak,
fingered, and shvered to the air
Of that bleak shore and water bleak.
All! Age is drear, and Death is cold
turned to thee, for thou vert near,
And saw thee withered, bowed, and old,
And woke, all faint with sudden fear
It was thus l heard the dreamer say,
And babe her clear her clouded brow:
"For thou and I, since childhood's day,
Have walked in such dream till now.
Watch we its shadows as they fly,
And wait the morn that soon must break,
And mark with calm, undertaking eye,
The visions meaning, till we wake"
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yourself suspended in the air, with the roar
ing, rushing, boiling Niagara two hundred
and fifty feet below you, if your heart don't
futter, you will have nerve enough to swing
over Vesuvius.
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A Coon DEAL OF TRuTH-A poor man
who had been i'll, on being asked by gentle
man whether he had taken any remedy, he
replied, "No, amt taken any remedy, but
| have taken lots Of physic."
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have recovered from my wounds. Bravo
is lying at my feet. Who does not love Bra
vo? / am sure do and the rascal knows it
don't you, Bravo? Come here, sir-Knich-
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Psreign Markets.
Corrssgoudsnee Of Ths rubuns.
TrvsRpoof Mar

Iorret nCff s1ce OF - iflo1ue
LivEsPooL, Marsh II, 1913.
RrcFf 100 tcs 4 Carons sold from l5s I'd lss Sd,
ana 600 b.zs Of Bsnga IL for yellow cargo IN bond
and q. 81 los Sd '0r low 10 coed white duty pale
CoTrsS-The LiArket has cuufiuucd daiet hryosnou.
the week ant TIE middinE and better descriptions OF
Au.ricsu have again essasd 10. al o'her softs are
difficult Of q q; Il per reduction There -as ouiy
thin attendance the pgbe sale u Sea and sst ~
dsy out cf 90 offered. cnly 80 were sole 81 decine
for yr.vou. Of per y The lower qualities sHd
Il per in the fair 70 goos fair Spectators have AA'n
$50 American snd Exporters 10 American.
TUsrESrfSE-No transactions have tsken qlscs u Iar-
rsutne OF American Tar. but OF Stockhon, liv9 DOS
hsve been sold q; the gsot.t,ons. ,
RosIS-Ameriesn in sss demand but some lew parcels
Of common qushty have brought ,. o per cwt
AsHEs-A though th9 business IN Aontresl Asnes -
quite trfng the anvsfeed rates OF last week are '
m.intsined
sTrps-The .ls,ofrei Clover Seed have been confined
20 retail Parcels "a fis for French, and Sss 70 ", or
American 9TH .hogt 60 Germ.n and treuch white
s6s 70 u, per swt. deity paid the market continues
dali.
ed ~ IS per ton. -.
HlNP-Sothius has been done in Baltic about l2'
bale, a. American dew-Tottsd, brought ~ ana 80 oae'
Juie : o Z rs per ton
TaLLow The market hssrs,her improved Petersburg
c. being ssdy 51s about 500 casks OF strsuc
sold rs aGetion very full prices priaei psS
90. Cd IN casks North American realized 4ssto 'ls
per c~t, according - quality. -,
LAsD-Ccnsiiersble parcels q American nave oeeh
brouxht 70 pubic sale during the week ana met win
fair demand, although a. little reduction upon former
prices hue 10 hbs brought iss 70 os aud lower
qualities 46s "a 70 43s
GEuS We have hsi less business doing in our Corr
market this ard Wheat has deene ID TO q per 20
JEE, BROTHERS co.
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SPAIN.
state Of FEELING In Madrid.

On the 9th of March, the Queen threw open her
saloons for a grand reception. She expressed the
stess satisfaction at the arrival of the Duke and
/. Duchess OF Montpensisr in England. The armed
brce were kept in readiness 10 prevent any at
tempt at disturbance. In Ssrsgosss, where rot
was expected, the strong precautions prevented 1t
A letter, dated the 18th, says:
Maria Christina and Narvasz, upwsrned by the fate
~ Louis Philippe aod Quiet, seem determined 70 cor,
distributed among the troops on the tth oy
sryasz, but this system cannot long continue There
DO NJ Gaizot with large secret service fund, TO apply
! now, TO uphold dynsstic interests
>rhe Madrid journals do not contain any intelli
nce Of interest; bat we learn that a strong spirit
pSsviolence was getting up against the government
rae coffee houses were crowded with politicians.
talking very freely and numerous groups were in
The streets There is no republican feeling mani
tested, but the government is quite odious to the
people, and in spite oftbe troops, General Narvsez
will fad it difficult to hold his ground.
The London Times, Of the Goth ult. says
Oar accounts from Madrid Of the 18th inst.
The Chamber of Deputies was still discussing the
Penal Code BILL and in the Senate the discussions
on the project OF law for investing Government with
extraordinary powers had not yet been brought 70
closs. The Duke d'Aumale and the Prince de
Ioinvile landed at Malaga on the 9th after re-
naming three hours in the harbor the Prices left
~ Gibraltar The Infant Don Enrique had been
struck of the list of halfpay naval officers In con-
Seouepce of his letter Of adhesion to the French
fReuublic.
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Correspondence Of nae rrIsane.

LIVERPOOL. March ", ls-c.
The transaction o. business a1c tue settlement, OF money
require cuietness and eounfencei ard u 10
quite impossible therefore thar our position At his time
commercial community can Be otherwise fh'n
unsssstory Sir the outbreak 10 France, every
week and every day have added political aud social
until this tie time aud talents that
.hond be devoted business Affairs smost entirely
occupied by III usnt aud preparation for the eeenee snd
protection OF persons and property Under such lament
able state Of hioss panied By much actual prvson
sad distress among the lAborinE eaues the result OF the
last three years Of European famine quite In
svitsbe that branch Of ustry well 40 mauuisc-
turesin general escape from state OF extreme suffer
ing Such IS the With the Cotton Trade from the
porter who attends the dschArse OF the raw msietia upon
III. qusys Of tho Liverpool Docks 70 the person who puts
the last hsnd 10 The flashed .abrie.
The purchases o. Cotton 10 this market cooseqae
confined 10 the smallest quantity that will keep the mills
going their reduced consumption; and Of course night
tire stock - aud likely 70 be for some time prices
still giving way. We have 20 report this week re-
duction Of Id "a all kinds Of American sures but
slightly changed. Long stsPled also very heavy OF sale
and lover In price.
the mean time tn. stocks q Manufactured Goods and
Yarns becoming completely exhausted In every quar-
ter and therefore, sta0t day we may probably De
oysrtaken by demand and stream Of business sctive
and continued in proportion 70 our long depression such
az least frequently the sort Of turn that ate nds these
cases OF extreme revul.ion and backward movements
so American have been taken on speculation and 'uo
American for export
GEORGE HOLT co.
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D,RI,a HIeHwAr RosRERY.-On Monday night

DARING HIGHWAY RoBBERY-On Monday night
last about clock Mr. solomon Jacobs. driver on the
stage rous from Ssco to Limngon, was robbed OF sIo
He h,d set out on bis way up alone. In one horse
having put hs stsgs by as'oun OF the heay'
mes. Of tho roads When about three miles from Lining
ton whis passing through long range Of thick woods
ne overlook who requested 10 ride MI seeeded.
soon ser they hove in sight OF another wagon when the
man began whistle quite loud u wishing TO be beard
by tbs person in The other vehicle This excited Mr.
aud IN order 10 get rid Of the stranger he let
the sig from his hsuds into the mud and requested
him q Jump and H. The man rose a' u - OBJ
bot suddenly turned upon Mr. j. and him blow on
the head hich knocked him from the wagon, aud the
stranger following up tho advantage thus gained Jumped
upon him sessrsy msltre,ted him as - leave him
.enseess in the mud. 5000 Of tbs money belongs % Mr.
Richard Cole wh being able to sccount for ths non.
arrival Of JACOBS early Tuesday morning sent several
persons along tie ro.d TO maks inquiry concerning him
THY soon found the horse and and proceeding
hsf uie farther found Mr Jacobs, yi0g In the mui
till sensee. lie severely bruised In his head and
stomach aud first n supposed he would not eur.
vive his hurts bat he has since Ia measure recovered
his reason and has II our Information be correct giyen
the particulars Of the robbery as above specified.
Portland Advertiser.
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Worhinsmen OF Paris-Repubiic NJ Vienna
Financial Difficulties Failures, &c.
rrespondence Of The Tribune.


STEAMER WASHINGTON, I
SOUTHAMPTON, MAJ. -, 1875.
DEAR SIR have just seen on board Hon 8. G.
Goodrich, who goes out in the Warrington as
bearer OF dispatches from Mr.. Rash, our Minister
at Pans. he left on the eve OF the 10Th inst. at
which period every thing was tranquil there. The
great demonstration of the workmen on Friday the
10th giving in their adhesion TO the Provisional
Government had operated as a seda,ive upon the
public mind, and strong confidence was enter.
tanned that everything would proceed quietly
see by La Patrie Of Sunday evening the 10Th
that the agitation at Berlin wore threatening
aspect at the last advices
Ii is there stated that the Provisional Govern
men had received telegraphic dispatch, snnounc.
ing that Republic had been proclaimed a, Vienna
The financial difficulties at Paris still continued
Many Of the prominent bankers had failed. 1t
was rumored that Rothschild had closed bis b.
reau, and left for London, renquishing claim on
the French Government for 900 900 francs.
The Bank of France had just issued 100 franc
notes, and were paying portion OF their bills IN
specie, thus giving some relief
At Havre there had been numerous failures and
q large amount of American bills had been pro-
tested.
The general opinion throug hout France seemsto be
that a Republic must be tried, and many eminent
individuals, hitherto of different political shades
are announced as Republican candidates
Yours truly, +.