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A9nasy-CleA and pleasant
I1esday-Clear; clear nigh. and moonyh,
WednesdaY-Clear clear night and moonlight
IhnIsdnJ Clear; clear Eight aud n1ooallgh.
Fridsy-Clesr; clear night and moonlight
saturday-Hazy and warm.
The sales OF cotton yesterday embraced about 800 I,
600 bales Closing without quoa0le change in prices DO,
with rather more sea'iaess. Flour again heavy and
lower with moderate sales at unsettled prices for saa
and Western grader Southern brands were in fair re-
quest, but prices irregular. Wheat was unchao
with sales o. red Western at 81 So coored d. a,
81 50, white Kentucky at 7oa rs and Milwaukee club
at 81 10 81 1911 Com advanced abou. two -eps per
bushel Sales Of round yellow made q. eoc a o2,
choice Western mixed at s0c., and small lot OF choice
Southern yellow was made Al s5c Rye firm ut SSc
a s9c. Pork 1rmer with sses Of new mees Mt
SIC lsX SIG IS thin at SIG, clear at SIS IS and
prime at $f2 So Sugars were ,m but ess active. rne
Eaes eme: sesd about 400 hhds chiefly Cubs, $50 do
Moado and $50 boxes at full prices Colee was steady
AMI quiet Fright engagements were moderate and rates
unchAr Eed.
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The News.

The steamship Karnak arrived at this port yes
terday with news from Havana and Jamaica.
From Kingston we learn that the revolutionary
feeling was again excited and spreading widely
over the island. Efforts were about to be made to
30 affect the Legislative Assembly as that mem
beers would vote in favor of the negro agtators.
Our correspondent thinks force must be resorted
to to put them down.
The news from Havana is to the I'd inst. Consul
General Helm intended to request leave Of alb
sence extending over few months. Yellow fever
was slightly prevalent. The sugar market had
not altered since the Quaker City left, and the
transactions were rather limited. Government
was about to establish military school for the
instruction of volunteer and other troops in the
sciences Of war. The Countess of Villanueva, at
tended by a numerous suite, left on the Karnak for
o sojourn on Long Island The venerable lady is
blind, chldless and widowed but enjoys rarely
happy and contented mind. Colonel Thrasher's
modest defence of his translation of Humboldts
essay on Cuba published in the HERALD on the
10th ultmo, was highly appreciated by his many
friends in Cuba, although, to them, not required.
BY the Karnak we have also received files of Ba-
hama papers to the I'd inst but they contain no
news of interest.
The three Collins steamships, the Atlantic, Baltic
and Adriatic, were sold yesterday by Brown
Brothers & Co. They were purchased by the Pa
cifc Mail Steamship Company and the Panama Rail
road Company conformity. The Atlantic will per
haps, be sent round to the Pacific and be placed on
the Panama and San Francisco route, while the
Baltic and Adriatic will run between this port and
Aspinwall.
The steamship Bremen sailed from this port yes.
terday for Southampton and Bremen, with l20 pas
sengers and $685. 43 in specie.
According to the City Inspectors report there
were 457 deaths in the city during the past week
an increase of II as compared with the mortality
Of the week previous, and Is more than occurred
in the corresponding week of last year. OF the
whole number Sc were men, 81 women, l69 boys,
and al girls. There 81 deaths of diseases of
the brain and nerves., 5 of the generative organs,
10 of the heart and blood vessels 100 of the lungs
and throat, of old age, SO of eruptive fevers and
skin diseases, 43 stillborn and premature births,
l34 Of diseases Of the stomach and other digestive
organs, % of uncertain complaints, of the urinary
organs, and "a from violent causes. The nativity
table shows that 362 were natives of the United
States, &C of Ireland, IL Of Germany, and the ba-
lance of various foreign countries
The annexed table shows the temperature of the
atmosphere in this city during the past week, the
range of the barometer and thermometer, the
variation of wind currents and the state of the
weather at three periods during each day, viz at
A. M and and o'clock p. NJ
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HORACE GREELEY AND HIS PIXIES PEAE
HUApuGcERY.-we apprebend that Greeley ha
been egregiously bumbugged by the spectators
at Pixies Peak. They have shown him gold in
small quantities taken from those diggiugs under
his own eyes; but we know that Massa Greeley is
vain and credulous, and can be made to believe
almost anything by designing sharpers Thus IL
we are not mistaken, be has from time TO tin q,
been taken in and done for by New Jersey zinc
mining sbarpers, by Lake Superior copper opera
tors, and by Fourierite phalanx associations, to
say nothing of vegetarians, spirituallsts,
Slievegammon revolutionists, women's rights
reformers, and bogus fugitive slaves The
Pixies Peak spectators seem to have had very
good time with Greeley. They have been making
a great man of him, and, as one good turn de-
serves another, he will very apt 10 be convinced
before he leaves them that the mines Of Pixies
Peak ore richer t,sn those Of California Bat
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IIIE SCENE OF THE LATE BATrLE.-There
is circumstance in connection with the scene
Of the late battle Of Solferino which would
seem to prove that the Austriens selected that
ground for the engagement with an admira-
bic strategic object. The fight came off, it will
be remembered, on the line running from Sol
ferino, which Is only a few miles southwest from
Peschiera, down to San Martina, village lying
q little south of the common road from Cremona
to Mantua. Within this space of about sixteen
miles in length are situated eight or nine towns
and villages some of which are very available
points In battle field, and, it appears, occu-
pied conspicuous positions in the recent action.
This location bas for many years been the grea.
review ground Of the Austrian army in Italy, aud
it has assembled there once or twice year Cor
review sometimes In numbers as large as seventy
or eighty thousand men, The whole ground
then, was familiar to both officers aud men.
They had fought many sham battle on the field
of the late bloody contest; had probably taken
and retaken in mock combat every one of the
positions which they were compelled to attack
and defend on the Gath Of June in the face Of
hostile hata,liors THIS &c. 20 d9gb. e wa ~
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anywhers,. and to any extent Of rresponslpnIty
John McKe,.Y ought to be too sound lawyer
to be the sptbo>~ Of this report, and his position
as the private On, unset Of the Mayor is too
delicate to allow him to compromise II In inc
tax Office controversy on Z. ''ner sac.
1t may be held that the Co. sptroher can ap-
point assessors to levy the taxes, '"'e anu local
in this county, or 1t may be betttr SHOWN 'aas
the vital privilege should be vested in the super
visors; but neither shall alter our c,Snviot'on
that to constitute an assessor it is as essent l that
ne should be elected by ballot from among tne
denizens Of his assessment district as that juror
should be drawn by lot from among his peers Il
the county. The appointment of assessors
by the Comptroller is as preposterous as II
would be for the public prosecutor or the
Sheriff to pack and appoint the juries of the
county. The function of an assessor is judicial,
or of the nature of jury verdict. The artificial
manipulation of such an officer by the will Of
the interested agent or minister of corpora-
ton initiates against that idea Of justice
and conscience which is the essential basis Of
equity in Judicial act. Ever since the tithing
men organized by King Alfred, it has been the
common Law usage for every such ''tithiug man."
"borsholder," marlborough" "borough's elder"
or "assessor," under every sort Of county, whe-
ther palatine, corporate or other, to be elected
in theit districts at the convenience of the peo-
pie of the county, and to he chosen out Of the
electors Of such limits, to have jurisdiction with
in the same.
1t remained for the lobby in the legisla-
tive session of 1857 to procure the abroga-
ton Of the election of assessors in this county.
1t was contaminated then as preliminary step
and portion of the conspiracy for public robbery
which the Conover uproar has since rendered "a
notorious as the gunpowder plot. Ali the rob-
ten contracts, frauds and defalcations Of that
memorable Corporation explosion were examin-
ed, computed aud apportioned under the pre-
sent assessors in the tax Office. 1t was by these
.een''cai pal.ies 'uS' VIC ao" Jaw extending
INCL W. " --se five years was smuggled
through the routine of legislation last winter.
"...ssever may be their fate in the hands of the
lawyers we have entered this case upon the calen-
dar Of higher court, and mean to have a YER
dict before we get through with it. Meantime,
the faithful of the republican fold must make
the most out of the present dispensation for
| relieving their burdens.
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much as any other, which induced the Austrian
Generals to meet the enemy at that spot rather
u an on the other side Of the Minco; and it must
ave given the Austrian troops great advan-
tage over their sdversaries, a circumstance
which renders their defeat worse one, and the
victory for the enemy still more glorious.
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AN AIR VOYAGE OF TWELVE HUNDRED MILES
EXCITING NARRATIvEs-We print elsewhere in
cur columns to day the narratives prepared for
the press by Three of the gentlemen-Mes
Hyde, Wise and La Mountain-who made the re.
matksble balloon voyage from the Mississippi
10 Lake Catario Oh the LIST and I'd inst. They
left St. Louis on the evening Of the LIST, and de.
scended near Sackett's Harbor in the northwest
ern part of this State, next day, having travel
led the Intervening twelve hundred miles within
twenty hours, being at the rate of mile
minute. Even by the side Of those thrilling de-
scriptions OF desperate daring that come to us
from the battle plains Of Italy, these narratives
of that remarkable aerial voyage have an attrac-
ton all their own and cannot fail to stir up ez
element anG awaken admiration in the hearts
of all who read them. Intrepidity and daring
are not restricted to the battle field, and these
qualities appeal as much to our recognition end
applause when exhibited In any other field OF
huma0 action. Ard 30, while the impetxous
Zouaves and the dashing Chasseurs of the Alps
make the world ring with the fame Of their mar
tial deeds, that same world cannot withhold an
equal measure Of admiration and praise from
tboee dauntless men who, Ia navigating tAe air,
have Get an example Of skin and daring, and
achieved result, before which all similar exhi.
billions in the past sink into insignifcaree.
What though it may he said that this was
foolhardy experiment, looking to 10 practical
good to mankind, and nc. calculated to confer
any benefit upon the world, are there not "a
many to assert the same thing Of shat grand and
sanguinaIy tournament now beiDg fought oat be.
tween the Celtic and the Teutonic races Aud
ia not the distinction rather In favor Of those ex
PLOTS which call fer no becatombs of brave men?
But these aeronauts will by 10 means consent to
taYc ittit tccis rccordee 81 og ne use,ess
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tracted by my breath, it had notapproached
the upper part of my throat. 1t became
quite still, and its weighty pressure-its
first clammy chilliness becoming gradual.
ly ESQ it seemed to me) of burning heat
and the odious, indescribable odor which
exhaled from its body and pervaded the
whole air, so overwhelmed me that it was
only by severe struggle that preserved
myself from shrieking
AS it was, cold sweat burst from every
pore. / could hear the beating of my
heart, and | felt, to my increased dismay,
that the palsy of terror had begun to agi-
tate my limbs. AT that juncture, some
thing-it might have been wall lizard or
a large beetle-fell from the ceiling upon
my left arm, which lay stretched at my
side. The snake, uncoiling its head
raised itself with low hiss, and then for
the first time | saw it-saw the hood, the
terrible crest glittering in the moonbeams
1t was cobra de capella Shading my
eyes to exclude the dreadful spectacle, ]
lay almost fainting until all was again
quiet. Had its fiery glance encountered
mine, all would have been over but ap-
parently it was once more asleep, and pres
emily | heard the Lascar moving about un-
doing the fastenings of the tent, and strik-
ing light. A thought suddenly struck
me, and with an impulse / could hardly
ascribe to anything short of desperation
though its effects were so providential /
uttered in loud but sepulchral tone,
" Kulassi Lascarp "Sahib 7! was the
instantaneous response, and my heart beat
quicker at the success of my attempt.
l lay still again, for the reptile, evident
ly reused, made movement, and its head
as | suppose, fell upon my naked arm.
oh, God the agony of that moment, when
suppressed tremor almost gave way to
madness. debated with myself whether
l should again endeavor to attract the at
tention of the Kulassi, or remain perfectly
quiet, or whether it would not be better
than either to start up at once, and shake
the disgustful burden from me- But the
latter suggestion was at once abandoned
because of the assurance felt that il
would prove fatal. Impeded by the hea
Wy COILS OF the creature, weak and nervous
from excitement, l could not escape its
fangs. Again, therefore, spoke with the
hollow but distinct accents which arise
from the throat when the speaker is afrait
to move a muscle Kurassi chiragh,'
Lascar, a lanthorn "Latah own, sahib !!
i am bringing it, sir. There was thel
a sound of clanking metal light, advanc
ing, flashed across the roof of the veran
dah, and at the noise of coming steps, 10
one after one of its terrible coils unwind
ing, and the grizzly monster glided away
from my body I; and the last sounds which
struck my sense of hearing were the "Y;
illahi samp !"-Oh, God snake l--of tn,
Lascar, for had tainted away for the frs
time in my life.
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are pleasant and good, and the gutturals
true tones, and as pleasant as such tones
can be. We are not sufficiently versed in
musical terms to tell what his lowest note
is, but it is the lowest note in the piano,
arranged upon the musical scale, or triple
G, as he calls it. His chest tones are excel
lent, and although Carl Formes may have
more power, his quality is no better, while
in lower notes hesgoes down out of sight"
of Carl Formes altogether We can give
no idea of his voice by any comparison,
for we have never heard voice with
which to compare it.
Of courses with such voice as this, the
owner is tempted to try tricks. The most
interesting of these was the application of
it to several purposes He began by sing
ing in delicate soprano the first lines of
+" Oft in the Silly night )" then, as he pro-
ceeded, he slid into alto, then into tenor,
then into base and then into the double
base," an octave below This finished the
tune, when he arose, and turning his back
to the audience, executed some excellent
feats of ventriloquism, and wound off by
initiating an old-fashioned spinning g-wheel
so perfectly that the assembly was thrown
into roars of laughter. He usually accom-
panies himself with melodeon, to which
he has added swell Of his own invention
that produces all the effects of the swell in
the organ. One of the most delightful of
his performances was solo on the cornet,
he playing it with one hand and accompa-
nying himself on the piano with the other.
Upon this instrument, and in this way, he
played few airs with great sweetness and
taste, and executed some very difficult va
riations The instrument itself has been
the subject of his improving hand, but in
what respect do not know Added to
all this, he plays the guitar and other in
struments, and is leader and teacher of
bands He seemed to take great deal
of interest in explaining his steam engine
to the company, and to be thoroughly
versed in mechanical matters.
This mans name is w. A. earns. He
was born, we think, in one of the Western
States, and has lived where he could get
chance He is of medium height, thick
set, modest in demeanor, interesting in
conversation, and has received an educa-
ton in some asylum for the blind, for
which he appears unboundedly grateful
He is now engaged in the invention of
some means by which the blind may be
enabled to have their regular newspapers,
and if anybody can accomplish SO benevo-
| lent result, he will do it.
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WHAT A BLIND MAN CAN DO.

The "Springfeld Republican gives the
annexed interesting account of the remark
able achievements of blind genius now
living in Ludlow:
He is young man, twenty-four years
of age, who has been blind since he was
two years old, and who does not remem-
Der that he ever saw. The circumstances
which attended the loss of his vision are
almost too horrible for belief, yet we have
no reason to doubt them as they have been
related to us. His widowed mother mar
ried drunkard, and his step-father, con-
ceiving dislike against the child, under
took, when intoxicated, to put his eyes out.
Going farther in his diabolical purpose, he
was about to thrust a red-hot poker down
his throat, when the frightened but despe-
rate mother interfered and prevented it,
The child was then thrown down cellar,
where he lay all night, taking cold, which
so far aggravated the succeeding infam-
nation of the eyes, that the sclerotic coat
of each was burnt. OF all this he has no
memory, and blessed thing it is for him.
At nine years of age, he lost his mother,
and in that loss became perfectly friend
less. From that day to this, he has main
ly taken care of himself, and now, although
cheated by rascally agents, and laboring
under every possible disadvantage, has
money at interest
Now let us see what this man has
done. He is mechanic, and knows every
part of a steam engine as well as if he
could see. He is an engineer, and has not
only had charge of stationary engines, but
has run as an engineer on the Mad River
Railroad, in Ohio. OF course he ran with
a lookout, and between this lookout and
himself he had arranged series of abbre-
viations of language, SO that he could learn
from him the position of any object on the
track instantaneously. He was engineer,
let it be remembered, of passenger train
What is more remarkable than all is that
he has made beautiful little steam engine
with his own hands, so small that he can
carry the whole of it in his pocket, and get
up steam at pleasure. This might well
be considered accomplishment enough for
one blind man, but this is but begin
ming
He has a great genius for music, and
possesses voice which, in many charac-
teristics, is without doubt the most wonder
full voice in the world. On Tuesday eve
ming of the present week, he was invited
to aprivate house in this city to give an
exhibition Of his musical abilities, and a
few musical men and women were invited
in to hear him, all of whom will bear testi
mony to their astonishment and delight
We suppose that all musical people will
shrug their shoulders with incredulity
when we tell them that his voice has the
compass of FIVE octaves, yet such is the
fact that he demonstrated to this company
Of course the lowest notes are cultural, anc
the highest falsetto but the falsetto notes
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IN BED WITH A SERPENT.

l might have slept some four or five
hours, and dreamless, unsatisfying sleep
it was but certain it is, let socialists say
what they will, and skeptics throw doubts
by handfuls on the assertions of metaphy-
sicians, that before l awoke, in my dream
less slumber, | had visible perception of
peril-a consciousness of the lowering
presence of death How to describe nv
feeling, know not but as we have all
read and heard that if the eyes of a watch
er be steadily fixed on the countenance of
a sleeper a certain length of time, the
slumberer will be sure to start up, weak
ened by the mysterious magnetism of re-
condite principle of lclairvoyance, so it
was that, with shut eyes and drowsed-up
senses, an inward ability was conferred
upon me to detect the living presence of
danger near me-to see through sleep
blind the formless shape of mysterious
horror crouching beside me and, as if the
peril that was my nightmare was of ma
ture to be quickened into fatal activity by
any motion on my part, felt in my very
stupor the critical necessity of lying quite
oeIAI- 30 IHdI Wucu l. dL ldSL dWOKe, ana
felt that, as lay with my face towards the
roof, a thick, heavy, cold, creeping thing
on my chest, stirred not, nor uttered a
word of panic.
Danger and fear may occasionally dull
the senses and paralyse the faculties, but
they more frequently sharpen both and
ere l could twice wink my eyes, I was
broad awake, and aware that, coiling itself
in circle of twists, an enormous serpent
was on my breast. When / tell you that
the whole of my chest and even the pit Of
my stomach was covered with the cold
scaly proportions of the reptile, you will
own that it must have been one of consid.
erable size. What my thoughts were, SC
much made up of adherence, dread and
speedy expectation may, assurance Of
speedy death that must follow any move
ment on my part-I can never hope to tel
in language sufficiently distinct and vivid
to convey full force. 1t was evident thai
the loathsome creature had at last settled
itself to sleep, and I felt thankful that, at
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HE'S NONE THE WORSE FOR THAT

What though the homespun suit he wears
Best suit to the sons of toll
What though no coarser food he fares,
And tends the loom, or tills the soil;
What though no gold-leaf gilds the tongue,
Devoted to congenial chat
fright prevails, and not the wrong
The man is none the worse for that.
What though within the humble cot,
No costly ornament is seen;
What though the wife possesses not
Her satin gowns of black and green;
What though the merry household band
Half naked fly to ball and bat
If conscience guide the head and heart,
The man is none the worse for that.
Truth is not a thing of dress
OF splendor, wealth, or classic lore;
Would that these trappings were loved less,
And honest worth was clung to more
Though pride may spurn the toiling crowd,
The tattered garb, the crownless hat,
Yet God and Nature cry aloud,
The man is none the worse for that.