New-York daily tribune., 1859-09-30

Of The vsses. AtteS the HSUei WAe hosshed, ~
R,up.l pls,nsd tie Gras Western Railway OF
+. el.Id and supern,erded it, ccGsTuc.ion tie also
bui the Grea. Western steamer, whca 81 one une
created sueb sspsstor, .hoagh in every resoecf II
was far surpassed by subss qasnty os steamers,
a. they are by the builders last work-:ne Great
Eastern. Later Mr. Brvp-l csoJ scted the w"ks OF
toe Tuscsn portion Of the Sardinian rsil~ays ana
other hr~isn rsilssys, and daring the C''~saa war
he bad the entire charge Of the establishing sni
c,cau zir ,be Renkio hospitals on the Dsrdsocl-s.
He was at the time Of his death, Wee President OF
The Institution of Engineers snd OF the Society of Art
f.now ard member ef the Council cf the RoyI
Society, and member of many other learned societies.
He also received the Cross of the Legion of Honor
from Louis Philippe.
A eouespondept of a Baltimore paper, writing
from Lake LmaD, Switzerland, Sept. :, says:
Anops he Bos; And other American, who have fitted
BY ih, psee ourred for on.er .h rer time in this
reshbcrhood tie following: Amasa Walker, Tae"io'e
Paksr Mr. Jo.sph Lymin Mrs w Wsis~osth ard spns, M
ard MIS- T. Cuits a,d .ou, Henry Aiams. Mr. soren
son Of F. B. Cownr.h.h, Joseph J. Hitginpn. w w da
Of Pioyisuoe q b. Bradlee, Hon "nthNp soa
fuiy Mr. John T. Tbsyer Mr. Aphop and family, Mr. Go
B,uis of the Sufolk Bsr. Mrs Wairow CT sTinns'' "a
dau,ter Of the late William suivsn e B0'on with Ase
family chdren,nd doubtless many moFc no, renemotei
A. Chsmourix. the ether day met whole '@a'a 81
Sony each others faces, and IN the hiid''o'
rass h. SUNNI, Of TIE te,e no Mr. Warner sio OF inc
Boston Ssr."
Tie Canada papers record the particulars OF the
rnslsuoboly death by drowning Of John Roche, Pro-
y,rcal Lsnd Surveyor Of Port Hope. Mr. Roche
was euployed by Government to survey scd lay of
CO NTH ua;ion OF the Colonization Road the Boscageon
X 1ad), commencing at Bells Line, between tue Coun
nd pafe soI LAX is<iDv
thus TO open up tie Ottawa Valley through that
route. Mr.. Roche has been with his party on this
work srce the middle of July last and on his re-
turn TO report progress to the Commissioner of Crown
Lsrds. when on Tuesday the 18th inst, while cros'-
ing Balsam Lake 10 bark canoe during gale OF
wind, the canoe was upset, and he was unfortunately
drowned, bis two csnoemen being only able 10 ssve
themselves by swimming. He leaves wife snd
family to deplore his meIancf oily end.
Some two weeks since, at Louisville, Ky, an
elderly German fell during the night down steep
fight of steps and struck the side of bis head s.lnst
the wall at TIE landing. He was taken up insens'be
and carried 70 his II found on examination,
when he became conscious, that he was psrayzed IN
oil those parts of his body below the neck and chat
his neck was broken. He remained in this condition
something over FIVE days, converting freely with his
attendants, and describing to them all the sensat ons
which he Rad. His attending surgeons made au at
tempt 10 set the neek, but obliged to desis on
account Of uifccaton coming on whenever the head
was brought into its natural position. Between the
fifth and sixth days the nurse undertoo to move him
fer the purpose of changing his linen, aud in doing so
the head urwittrgly turned so that the neck was
straight. Death took place nhantly.
Old Prof. S. was one of the instructors at Dart
mouth College years ago, and was, witbal, about as
blunt ard Straightforward specimen of humanity "a
wake being considered iecrsbbed by init
mates. One day 10 the early Summer he was taking
his usua stroll around the village, keeping his "eye
OUT fer sDy fast student who might be of duty,
when be chsrced to meet Mr. Page, sturdy farmer
from Ea,t Hanover, with load Of wood, trudgiDg
alorg the dusty street barefooted and cosess but he
was a fine representative Of natures noblemen.'
Hullo Mr.. Page growled the Professor, 81
should like to know if all the people at ,st Hanover
go bare foot :"
Part on em do, and the rest on EN- mind their
own business was the rather settling reply.
--NIessrs. Ty ndal and Frankland have just made
successful ascent Of Mount Blanc. On August 81,
these two Eng lish savens reached the summit where
they placed their tert of India-rubber on the south
sde AID prepared psss the night with the intention
ofretuIntg at 10 o'clock the following morning. which
they a.cordlr ely did, Thus these two gentlemen
jourLed on the summit Of Mont Blanc for the space
of twenty hours, with their three guides and seven
porters. Thus this bazardou, enterprise, which was
the first attempt Of the kind which has been made,
wss happily crowned with success. The party suf-
ftred from violent attacks of headache exactly
senbng ses.sickness in their effects and from which
none Of them were exempt.
DR.. Z. H. Barton of Louisiana died recently at
Columbis, South Carolina. In the decease Of DR..
Barton TIE medical profession is deprived of of
its most useful members His reports on cholera aud
yellow fever have been regarded among the most in.
portart cobtr ribuors of medical science while his
port on the epidemics Of louisiana Mississippi,
Arkansas, aud Texas is work Of great value, as
ilusIstirg the local and occult of disease the
Influence Of preven,abe conditions and the control of
scerce ard civilization.
The Rev. A. Wright, pastor of q Methodist
church in Cleveland, Ohio, has been expelled from
his Conference bys vote Of 81 TO 40 his oenses being
ron aItic walks by moonlight with young sisters in
the Church, kisses TO the same that were too warm
for kisses Of charity, and, than ALL hint given
to ctdless married lady Of his congregation that it
was rot too late yet TO have boy" The affection
ate pssor is 80 years DID, and has wife. He appeals
to the General Copftiepce, declares the kissing per
fecty harmless, aud says the lint to the married els
ter wss physiological merely.
Mrs. (. j. Tracy, writing to The Memphis hp-
peal from Holly Springs, Mise, having seen some
groes goirg to meeting on Sunday, says: Gas with
the rspidity of thought glance from such scene 70
benighted Africs, subk in moral degradation, over
whose millions of human souls the darkness Of he's
therism folds her sombre wings in reyless night, my
heart s.els with gratitude to the Great Father Of all
FOX the institution Of American Slavery