The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-10-09

right property In both, each upon a different
basis. Mrs. Stoves rests upon the fact of her
residence at the time of publication, she having
written the last hundred pages in London and
Miss Warmers upon the international copyright
treaty between France and England, Messrs.
Sampson Low, Son. & Co., having obtained her
book through French house. Should this
effort to establish the right of the American
author be successful, literary men and publish
ers will be under great obligations to the Lon
don firm; in any event, they deserve much
praise. We have learned since the above was
in type, that the books mentioned will be re-
printed by Routledge, of London, who will &C.
cept the responsibility, and abide the result.
A PALACE on WHEELs.-If floating palaces
are the invention of Republican America, I'M
perial France has the credit of originating a
palace on wheels. The train in which the
French Emperor recently journeyed consisted
OF SIX saloon cars, connected by means of
bridges. The first car contained the officers of
the Imperial household; the second served as
dining-room; this WAS followed by platform
decorated with flowers, and furnished with set
tees, to resemble terrace-the artificial gar
den surrounded by fancifu light iron railing;
surmounting this terrace was a tent, made of
light material, whose folds were ample enough
to enclose the entire platform. Following this,
came the car of the Emperor and Empress,
built In the style Of a vaulted room, gilt crown
covering the peak of the roof The next car
was the Imperial sleeping apartment, which
was followed by the car of the Imperial Prince,
his cradle being a continuance fashioned like
hammock. The fifth car contained the ladies
attached to the person of the Empress and the
Prince, and the last contained the servants of
the Imperial household.
INCREASE OF WEALTH IN OHIo-In the year
1850, before the completion of its railway sys-
TEN, the State of Ohio had an aggregate amount
of taxable property rated at $439, $40, $40, and
in the year 1850, after the completion of the
system, the value of the same description of
property is set down at 1863, 877, 1854, very
nearly double. Nothing can more forcibly H.
lustrate the wonderful effects of railway i'm
provements upon the prosperity of State.
Ohio has entered more largely than any other
member of the Confederacy upon the develop
ment of the system of railways.-N. American.
Religious liberation in Turkey, notwith.
standing the violent opposition of the fauatical
Turks, is proving reality. Since it was estab-
lished, LOG Christian churches haze been re.
paired or constructed. The Sultan alone con-
tributed $4,000 for one building in the island
of Gambia, and in fact everything is done by his
Government and himself to conciliate his sub
jects and improve the condition of the empire.
Such liberation as this might advantageously
be initiated in most of the Christian countries
of Europe.
HIAwATHA IN EURoPE.-A Leipsic edition of
Hid'odtha is issued at half a thaler, by Alphonse
Durr. The publisher notes on his title page
that Hta'oatha is now supplied in Rome, Wen
ma, Paris, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Brussels,
Basic, Turin, Trieste, and Verona. Two Ger
man translations are now being read far and
wide on the continent, one Of them having had
the genius of Freilligrath to turn the authors
English into the language of Goethe and Schil-
Ter.
HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS. -"Thomas,
have always placed the greatest confidence in
you. Now, tell me, Thomas how is it my
butchers bills are so remarkably large, and yet
we have such bad dinners?" "Really, sir, /
don't know, for Pm sure we never have any
thing nice in the kitchen, that we don't send
some of it up in the parlor"
A Coon SWIMMER. A lady living at the
Minot House, in Cohasset, Connecticut, recent
ly swan mile to rock IN that vicinity, took q
brief rest, and then swan back to the shore
She was not much fatigued the narrator tells us,
and he says she can perform the feat again and
again without any difficulty or Distress
ARREST OF FUGITIvE SLAvEs.-A few DAYS
ago. eight runaway slaves from Fauquier coun-
tv, Va, were arrested in Hampshire county,
Va, after stout resistance by one of them,
who had gun and butchers knife.