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The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-09-30

Il; STOCKTON, HAVING REMOVED from
- BALTIMORE TO PHILADELpHIA, and transferred
the publication of the Billie in Separate Iannes tbe
Btde Tracts, and Bibe Times, to the latter city, now
also issues. Dollar Hoathly Aagazinf, called
STocKToN's Book AND JoURSAiu ~ - -"
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Post once Hours.

p" The Office Is kept open for the delivery Of letters
and papers from q. m. until O'Clock p. m. except
ffum,6 To- p. m. ~ saar
Postage on allletters and transient newspapers TO
PLACES within the United States must be prepaid.
sisolf ggGaJAMES e. BERRET, Postmaster. .
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Watches, Jewelry, &c.
GOLD w A TCH ES,

ca WEIR Y, &c. So
We take this occasion to inform our friends
and all those in search Of superior time
keeper-that we have now in store one OF
the best assortments Of
GOLD WATCHES
ever before offered by us, consisting OF
PLAIN AND FULL JEWELLED GOLD
HUNTING LEVERS,
Do do do do Single Case do.
Do do do do and Enamel
Hunting Ladies' do.
Do do do Silver Hunting and
Single Case Levers,
Gold and Silver Hunting and Single Case
Cylinder Watches,
Do Hunting, REAL 7. f. Cooper Duplex
Watches,
Also, Ladies Fine Enamel and Diamond Set
Watches,
New and splendid assortment of FINE GoLD
Fruit Frosted Ear Rings and Pins,
Chateaine Chain Guards, Fob and Vest
Chains,
Gold, Steel and Silver Spectaces,
Gold Thimbles and Finger Seals,
Seals, KEYS, Medalions and Charms,
Gold, Silver and Pearl Card Gases,
Ship Chronometers for sale and on hire,
Gold and Shell Eye Glasses,
Gold and Silver Pencils with pens, something
new and good,
Plated Cake, Fruit and Card Baskets,
Plated Casters, Spoons, Forks, Asparagus
longs,
Crumb Fish and Pie Knives, Silver Tea Sets,
Forks, Spoons, Cups, Gobets, Cream and Su-
gar Pots, Ladies' &C.,
With an unusual stock of every variety OF
fancy and desirable goods. All of which will
be sold cheap for cash.
oc3 j. NJ. FREEMAN.
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Our Dewitt amt going to be cal
led printers devil any longer, no more,
| amt" exclaimed our imp the other day
in a great pucker Well, What Shall we
call you? "Call me Typographical angel
fallen from grace, if you please"
WHAT IS A GENTLEMENT3-An ex
change says gentleman is lone who
promptly pays for his newspaper. What
truth and simplicity! How brief, yet how
complete.
Charity obliges not to mistrust man;
prudence not to trust him before we know
him.
He who has outlved his friends, feels
that his home is beyond the grave.
A young lady being asked by a poll
tician what party she was mostly in favor
OF, replied that she preferred a wedding
party
There is a shop kept by lady in Bos-
ton, in the window of which appear these
words:
No reasonable offer refused
The lawyer who believes it is wicked to
lie, is spending a week with the Quaker
who INDUCES in marine hornpipes.
| have fresh cold," said gentle
man to his acquaintance.
Why do you have fresh one--why
don't you have it cured?"
Independence is the pillar on which
honest industry erects living statue OF
i itself.
Pride makes some men ridiculous, and
prevents others from becoming So
Death and the sun have this in COM
mon--tew can gaze at them steadily.
Men with few faults are the least al,xi-
GUS to discover those of others.
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of wonder, himself the greatest wonder
of all, whose smallest fibre and taintest
pulsation is as much a mystery as the
blazing glories of Orion's belt,-and does
he still maintain that miracle is contrary
to experience If he has, and if he does,
then let him 60 in the name of Heaven,
and say that it is contrary to experience
that the August Power which turns the
clods of the earth into the daily bread OF
a thousand million souls could feed five
thousand in the wilderness ! Everett.
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WoMANs LAUGH-A woman has no
natural grace more bewitching than a
sweet laugn.-It leaps from her heart in
clear sparkling rill; exhilarating spring.
1t turns the prose of her life into poetry !;
it filings showers of sunshine over the
darksome wood in which we are travel
ling, it touches with light even our sleep,
which is no more the image of death, but
is consumed with dreams that are the
shadows of immortality.
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Clothing.
NEW GOODS, NEW GOODS,
AT THE NORFOLK HALL OF
~ SHI0N No lS MdIN
STREET, NORFOLK,

81 hEEI, NOHfCLh
Opened this day most superb stock Of
SPRING andSUMMER CLOTHING, manutactur-
ed of the very best materials and in the la
test and most fashionable styles. The public
are respectfully invited to call and satisfy
themselves that they are the finest and best
assorted stock Of
Ready Made Clothing
ever offered in this city. | am determined
to sell on the most reasonable terms, and no
pains shall be spared to please all who may
favor me with their patronage
rs Gentemen's Furnishing Goods Of
every variety and description, both of quail
ity and price. My stock of CLOTHS, CAssI-
MEREs AND VEsrINGs, are also large and well
selected.
All orders punctually attt nded to, and sat
istaction guaranteed in all cases.
N. B.-A good stock of BOYS CLorHiNG
always on hand, which | will sell very low.
oc3 Il. d. CLIFTON.
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From the Sunday Delta. ]
Crossing the River.

Over the murky tide
My friend is crossing over;
The river is not wide,
see the waving clover;
In space, it hath no margent-
In time, it doth not glide
But all the world is argent
Upon the other side.
God reins the Hours, like steeds
That champ with over-buraen;
Unladen Of his needs,
He crosseth to his guerdon;
My friend is in the tide
You, over ears in folly;
To see the other side,
Would shake your melancholy.
This room is curtained dark,
While sunshine gilds the panes-
Thus gloweth he, while stark
His body here remains;
| saw him face to face
With angels in the river
What need ofyour grimace?
God saves, who is the Oliver.
Here lies the corpse-O, thou
Tenantless habitation
He hath his palace now,
And kingly coronation;
Worms shall new structures raise
Out of thy poor remaining
Thy master chanteth praise,
Thy mourners here, complainings.
Death shall no more be king
The angels have uncrowned him ;
The world shall no more ring
With dirges chanted round him
The Shadow stalks away
The earth hat. timely warning.
Shout, welcome to the Day,
Cry, hail unto the Morning.
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r aides Shanghai Morocco Boots,
Il LADIES MOROCCO BOOTS,

LADIES KID BOOTS.
We have large assortment of the above
goods, just arrived, per Adams 4 Cos Elk
press, and made in Philadelphia. Also, a
large stock of goat Bootees. All the above
goods will be sold at the lowest Cash prices.
These are fresh and seasenable goods La
dies will please call at No. 8, East Side, Mar
ket Square.
oc IL l.. l.. BRlCKHOUSE.
A SMALL lot of choice Hams, retailing
IA at 20 cts. b
ocl2 JAS. E. JONES.
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M ORELAND & JAK EMAN,
lXl HOUSE, SHIP AND SIGN

MI ok ELAND d j "A N ELM AN,
Nl HOUSE, SHIP AND SIGN
PAINTERS.
No. 1, Roanoke Square.
NORFOLK, VA.
TO THE PUBLIC.
Hail honored ages of grand progression,
While each one clings to his profession,
And science moves with onward motion,
To suit each hayward thought and notion,
Bringing to light, some new invention,
More strange than modern wit can mention,
Or genius paint with true endcavor,
Though making graphic strides forever,
While reason urges proud ambition,
To strive for wondrous competition;
Yet in this age of glorious Art,
We can the need Of praise impart,
When meritorious efforts claim
A modest puff to gid the name,
And thus we call with honest pride,
Attention to the Painters Side,
Two men who bravely know their calling,
Whose works are worthy of extolling,
Two model artists of the day,
And most obliging in their way,
MOreland u Jakeman-mark the name,
In Roanoke street you'll find the same,
Call at their shop number one,
You'll get the best of Painting done,
And whether Foe, Friend, or neighbor,
They'll charge but moderate for their labor,
So now invite each one and all,
So walk around, and give them call
oc 25-6m
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EFMIxED GRAMAR.-A great many PEG
pie find great difficulty in saying what they
mean---as much perhaps as some editors
find in meaning what they say.-A GER
tain witness in an assault and battery suit,
we once heard, mixed up things con-
siderably, in giving his account of the
affair. After relating how Dennis came
up to him and struck him he proceeded. "
" So. yer honor, just hauled off and
wiped his Jaw. Just then his dog came
along, and hit him again and dropped
him.
Hit the dog?"
"No. yer honor, Dennis. And then |
up with a stun and throwed it at him,
and it rolled him over and over"
Throwed stone at Dennis7'
{" At the dog, yer honor. And he got
up and hit me again?
" The dog?'
ono. Dennis. And wild that he struck
his tail between his legs and run of.
Dennis?"
No the dog. And when he come
back at me, he got me down and poun-
ded me. yer honor
"The dog came back at you?"
No Dennis, yer honor, and that is
all did to him. yer honor, and he isn't
hurt any at all. y
Who isn't hurtl'
"The dog yer homer"
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Rates of Advertising.

square of 10 lines or less, one insertion, so c.
Each subsequent insertion, rs C.
I souare | week, S LIS
| square ! month, o.0 oo
| q 2 months, 500
| j." 8 months, lO.O0
All advertisements ordered twice or
thrice week, for each insertion
after the first per square, 3712 C.
Contra citing Rates.
l square, renewable at pleasure, per
annum, payable monthly, $1,000
Each additional square, per annum, loco
Professional Cards, not exceeding five
lines, per annum, in advance, l5.OO
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Power OF Work IN WOMEN AND
MEN-Nothing is so hard to women
(says Charles Reader,) as a long, steady
struggle In matters physical, this is
the thing the muscles of the fair cannot
stand. In matters intellectual and mo-
raj, the long strain it is that beats them
dead. Do not look for Bacnna. New
tona, Handella, Victoria Huga. Some
American ladies tells us education has
stopped the growth of these, No mes
DANES These are not in nature. They
can bubble letters in ten minutes that you
could no more deliver in order in ten days
than river can play like fountaln.-
They can sparkle gems Of stories; they
can fash like diamonds of poems. The
entire troupe has never produced one
opera. nor one epic that rhan could toler
ate minute; and why ?-these comes by
long, high strung labor. But weak as they
are in the long run of everything but the
affections land there they are giants,) they
are all overpowering while their gallod
lasts. Fragella shall dance any two Of
you flat on the floor before four o'clock,
and then dance on till peep of day. You
trundle off to your business as usual, and
could dance again till the next night,
and so on through countless ages
She who danced you into nothing is
in bed, human jelly crowned with the
headache.
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Jordan's Vegetable Cough
G A n d Y


pr Cptp I&s:.I.E
G 0 NJ p OSED O T FIR I Z E n
DURELY VEGETABLE ingredients, a safe
L and pleasant remedy for Coughs, Colds,
influenza, Hoarseness, Whooping Cough,
Consumption, Pain and Soreness of the breast
Difficulty Of Breathing, and all diseases of
the lungs and breast.
JORDAN'S VEGETABLE COUGH
CANDY OR COLD KILLER.
Is preparation endowed with the highest
curative properties. Numerous cases OF
Coughs, Colds, Influenza and lloarseness have
been cured by its use. 1t will however, take
more or less time to effect cure whore the
cough, &C., is Of long. standing, but perse-
verencc will secure the desired effect, and
restore the diseased organs to their former
tone and vigor 1t is composed entirely of
products of the vegetable kingdom, prepared
by skilful chemist, so as to possess in 4
concentrated degree the active principles of
the vegetables employed to the rejection OF
their useless and inert constituents
Manufactured by G. Jordan Il Son, and for
sale by }. r. HATHAWAY,
G. w. DEFY q co.
l.. w. WEBB,
j. X. LUDLOW Il CO.,
mo- THOS. NASH, Jr.,
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A SeasOnable AdmOnitiOn-Tim
IA past can never be restored, nor can an
opportunity wasted be fully compensated for,
go then ere it is too late and secure at great
ly reduced prices handsome suit Of clothing
at the Norfolk Hall of Fashions. No. IL,
Main Street. Oc 30
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q media business Goats from SIS to $40,
Dress Focks from So to $40, Raglan, Talmas
and Surtout Over Coats 81 to $40, black and
Fancy Pants So to SO, Velvet and other Vests
So to $40. Also new lot of boys Raglan
Over Goats, Frock and business Coats, Jack
cts and Pants. Reader, if you want anything
in the line of Clothing ready made or made
to order, call at the Norfolk Hall of FASH
ions, No. 16 Main street, where you can rea-
Oily suit yourself both in quality and price.
no 10 r. ID. CLIFTON.
ELOUR STORE NO. I, UNION ST
L Just received, 40 bbs City Block Mills
Family and Extra Flour. The best in Nor
folk, for sale by
nor Il. A. ABBOTT.
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SERVANTS shoes.

. u ' n . FSFtVNS'
XKTE have superior lot OF these rr ,$ep
w Goods this fall, which were I'm
made to our orGer. Some Of them are "a
Womens wear. We feel confident that we
Can giyea good article to all who viii try
our goods, butas the styles are varied being
adapted to the various occupations of Ser-
wants, we would be glad if our customers
would always specify what Kind and style
they may wish to have furnished their ser
wants So dat they get the article best adapt
&C, Zach ones wear.
nc +. W SEABuRY d son.
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n. B.-All kinds of Gentleman's furnishing
Goods proportionably low--aso, good lot
of Superior Cloths, Cassimeres and Vestin9s
which he will make at reduced prices and
warrant good trimming and lit or you
need not take them. Remember at
F. A. KARN'S, No. 10 Main Street.
Oc3
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r ARGE ASSORTMENT TRUN KS
IL Just received. Trunks Trunks,
From manufactures of Trunks
Trunks will and must be sold,
Every one in want of Trunks should call
at No. 9, Market Square.
VALISES.
Sole Leather Valises, Sole Leather Valises.
Valises, Bellows Tap Valises and various
other styles, every possible style of valise
that is now in use, just from the largest manu-
facturer. We are very anxious to sell. Please
call at No. 8, East Side Market Square.
l.. L. BRICKHOUSE,
oct Norfolk, Va.
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Business Cards.

ID HI. EDMONDS,
IL, PLASTERER AND SLATER
Respectfully solicts shere of public patro-,
naoe Architectural Plaster Ornaments of
the latest style, and at the lowest prices.
Particular attention paid to Slate roof re
pairing. a. Oh,
MsS Residence, No. 80, North Cunber-
land Street.
oct ely
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NEW BUTTER AND PROVISION
STORE

TTNHE SO BSCRIB EN- has CaktIl lIIe
Il Store No. IL, Roanoke Square. For
the purpose of Conducting general Provi-
large supply of Butter, Cheese, Lard, Ba-
con &c. which will be sold as low as it can be
bought in the city.
A share of the public patronage is solicited.
nos j. j. WOODBRIDGE.
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Rates of Advertising
&neCial Notices.
Medical.

& u "
WIN TTPE YSPEPSJA.
Uamptou's Tiucture
Will cure Couoh.
Uarpton's Tincture
VIII cure Rheumatism.
Hamnton's Tincture
Will cure Nervous Headache.
Uannton,s Tinctnre
Will cure Neuralgia.
Homnton,s Tinoture
VIII cure Sn;nal Disease.
Hampton's Tincture
VIII Tnvioorate
Uampton's Tincture
''i WI . '''V' VIII cure low Shirts.
HAMpTON,S TINCTURE
Wherever used has bee successful in curing
disease after other remedies have failed.
For DISEASES or WOMEN and chill
be usad in every family
WR WI HyGH.
No. 95 SorrH PAc, STREET. BA1T1moRE.
Cured of rheumatism. Dvsnensia and Ner.
yous Disease.
UR. ED WIN H. SpRAKLIN
No. 27 REGGsTrR STREET, RA1TlMoHr.
o5 ton nfaT os case o, 9erol9,a ca years
hone rnstornd to health
MISS W1BY SG0FTEL d, Teocber
M Gao baltimore st
Her case after years IF srflar;n~ hoe aston.
ished her friends LET the affiictad
call to see her
HEREDITARY SCROEuJA
A boy in the family of the Hon. w
Tborasson once a ,nemher of Conuress fron,
Kentucky. was a mass Of sores from head tn
foot, His eyelids turned inside ont nrotrv-
dino over tbe pycbails 50 as 70 nroducs hind
ness. He was cured by Hampton's Veoeta-
bic Tincture.
DYSPEPSIA. NERVOITS DISEASE &c
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BARGAINS BARGAlNS!!
Id AT F. KARN'S enc THING STORE


Look to your own interests and save at
least Is per cent by buying your clothing at
F. A. kARN'S he Is now selling off the
balance of his Winter Stock at Cost. for
Cash only and at the following low nricAs.
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pUTTER-Orange County of best quail
ID ty, for sale by ...
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DAYMORE & STONE,
ID PROD UCE AND GENERAL
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
SHIP BROKERS &c.
ENB OF CAMPBELL WHARF.
oc Sly

VIZ HI. BUCK,
w No. 1O3 d los Church street, Norfolk.
Dealer in Porter, Ale, Cider, and Superior
Mineral Waters. Fine Draft Ale always on
hand.
Oc
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DROWN and refined sugar of all grades,
I'D which we are selling very low.
GEO. X. GGODRlDGE,
oc IA No. 6, CampbelFs wharf

I EECH ES-Just received fresh sup
n ply of recently imported and healthy
Swedish Leeches, for sale by
oc3 NJ. A. SANTOS.
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VIM. A. GRAVES,
SHIPWRIGHT, SPAR MAKER AND
CAITLKER
SECTIONAL MARINE RAIL WA T.
STEAM SAW MILL AND TIMBER
MA NUFA GLORY,
No. &C, Wide Water street, Nor
folk, Va.
M8- ~ B. BUILDING VA TERlALS
FURNISHED AT SHORT NOTICE..
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ri For sale by j. h. HATHAWAY, Nor
folk; \. j WILLIAMS Il co, Portsmouth,
and ARMSTEAD a CO., Mathews Court
House, and Druggists generally.
MORTIMER 4 NOW BRAY,
oc 3 No. 2l0 Baltimore street, Bait
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Il. A. ABBOTT,
&C 26 No. I, Union street.
Mariposa Democrat., 1857-10-29
Perils of the Piains-The Mormons and the
late Massacre.

Three emigrant families arrived, last week,
in Sacramento, by the Carson Valley route
They report, says the Union, many sad evil
dcnces of outrage and murder at different
points along the route, particularly in the Vi
cinity Of Goose Creek Near this creek, their
attention was attracted by the appearance of
human foot protruding from the ground, and
on examining the spot, the remains of three
murdered men were found buried only three
or four inches below the surface. Upon
another grave there lay two dogs, alive but
much emaciated, and so pertinacious in retain
ing their lonely resting place, that no effort
could entice or drive them from the spot
Their master was, most probably, the occu-
pant of that grave, and their presence there,
under such circumstances, was touching ex-
hibition Of canine instinct and devotion. A
few miles further on, they came upon another
scene of murder, where, upon the ground,
were strewn few bones, and also knots of
long glossy hair, torn from the head of some
i-fated woman. Near by were the remains
of three head of cattle, with the arrows still
sticking in them.
Reports brought by these families tend
strongly to corroborate the suspicion already
existing against the Mormons as the insiga.
tors, if not the perpetrators, of the recent
wholesale massacre of emigrants at Santa Clara
canon. Mr.. Pierce, who came by way Of Salt
Lake, and joined the other two families at the
Sink of the Humboldt reports some five hun
dred Indians encamped near Salt Lake, who
as he learned from the Mormons, were retain
ed as allies to operate against the troops sent
out by the Government He was also assured
that these Indians had been instructed not to
moest the emigration this year, as prepara-
tons were not sufficiently complete to enable
the Mormons to make a stand against the
United States. In the city itself, large crowds
of Mormons were nightly practicing military
drill, and there was every evidence of energet-
ic preparations for some great event. Before
bis family left Salt Lake, vague declarations of
threatening character were made, to the
effect that, next year, the overland emigrants
must look out; :" and it was even insinuated
that the last trains this year might be destroy
ed. From the Mormon train which recently
left Carson Valley, and which these families
met on the way, similar statements were
vaguely communicated, one Mormon woman
even going so far as to congratulate an old
lady in one of these families upon her safe ar
rival so near her destination, and assuring her
that " the last trains of this year would not
get through so well, for they were to be cut
off," We give these statements as we recev-
ed them from members of these families, and,
admitting their correctness, which we have no
reason to doubt, they certainly go far to con-
firm terrible suspicion.
Mariposa Democrat., 1857-10-29

ENGLISH RoYALTY.-Queen Victoria is the
mother of five girls and four boys, all healthy
and robust children, and yet she and her hus-
band are less than thrty.eight years old. The
immediate royal family of Great Britain con-
sists as follows: Alexandria Victoria, born
May "a, 1919, married February 10, 1910 to
Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emanuel,
born August 26, 1919. Chidren-Victoria
Adelaide Maria Louisa, Princess Royal born
November 81, 1910; Albert Edward, Prince
of Wales, born November o, 1871; Alice
Maud Mary, born April %, 1s43; Alfred Ernst
Albert, born August 6, 1874; Helena Augusta
Victoria, born May %, 1916; Louisa Carolina
Alberta, born March IS, 1s4s; Arthur William
Patrick Albert, born May |, 1885, Leopold
George Duncan Albert, born April Z, 1853
princess. born April, 1857.
Mariposa Democrat., 1857-10-29

ARTEsIAN WELL IN THE AFRICAN DESERT
A correspondent of the Moniteur de y Armee
French military journal, gives an account of
the finding Of water in boring an artesian well
in the desert, by French engineers, in Algeria
The place was the oasis Of Sid Rached, which
had already burnt up from want of water, and
threatened entirely to disappear; and water
was found and rose to the surface from the
depth of "a metres, or 157 feet. As soon as
the hard pan or bed was pierced, the water
instantly rose in the pipes, pouring out thou
sand gallons minute, at temperature Of 24o
Reamer, { or $50 of Fahrenheit.) The engi-
neer estimated that as soon as it had reached
its level of ascension fairly, the quantity would
average about ,250 gallons minute. AT the
moment of the waters bursting forth, no Arab
was present. but the news quickly spread, and
in few minutes the whole population of the
village rushed to the spot and threw themselves
upon the works with such frenzy that force was
necessary to remove them. Women and chill
dren lay down in the stream, as il they had
never seen water before The old sheik of
Sidi Rached threw himself on his knees and
wept for joy. The next day the inhabitants
of the neighboring Arab villages came to thank
the engineer and to bless the fountain, while
in the evening there was dance and grand
merry making, and this festival was kept up
for six days. In the meantime, the people
went to work and constructed a sluice to con-
vey the vivifying stream to that portion of the
oasis which was dead for the want Of the re-
freshing influence of moisture.