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A Drunken Man Sent Up In Balloon.

IRON the HOcf Island Ardus
The balloon ascension last evening caused q
the open lot adjoining the Baptist Church. IL was
TO have transpired at half past O'Clock In the
afternoon, but owing TO the high wind was deferred
Que OF the poles that sustained the balloon broke
before the performance began, and a new pole had
TO be substituted This delayed the ascension until
loon had been built, and a great wood Are roar
Ing underneath The balloon began to I'LL, and soon
rounded Itself into an immense oval.
dish OF alcohol was placed underneath, md the
smoke burnt out, and everything was ready TO lot
CO." The balloon was apatched up affair or hemp
linen, and the basket little larger than market
hand basket, was fastened to II by small ropes.
When everything was at last In readiness, busting
tall, thin man, with a blonde mOustache, VINO was
the PROPRIETOR OF the balloon, AZ we learnod ana VINO
was supervising the anair walked TO tho lot anu
said, Come on Bill" aud q wrelched, bleareyed,
drunken man came staggering up, his HAIR ana gar
ments dripping with the water that had Oeen dhhsd
upon him TO awaken him from ms drunken torpOr,
IDEAS were greatly confused, aud staggering up to
the basket, put one foot In IT, The word was given
the ropes were oosenod tho poles dropped, and the
balloon shot into the air, and the drunken man
standing no and clinging to the ropes, waved his
LAndk erchief to the lesscnng world below
As il was hot air balloon OF small dimensions.
Il took lite own course, and came down any where
as soon as the hot air that upheld II was cool and
exhausted Everybody expected him to drop In tho
river but IL sailed and beyond II, and when II
quite fast, aud Just grazod the roof OF Otto Kings
house. When over Mr.. Cnussons premises West
ern avenue and Seventh street, near Sir. Kings the
balloOhrl, who was hanging 10 the netting, let 90
and fell distance OF thirty feet in his fa breaking
through the roof Of Mr. r. Clausson's summer
house, and very badly njuring himself. No bones
were broken, but he was hurl internally snd may
POSSIBLY die OF the injuries received.
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Justice TO Cuba.

Tom orrow, II the members of the House
OF Representatives really represent the pres
ant feeling of the American people on the
mbject OF Cuba, belligerent rights will be
accorded to the patriots by one branch of
BUR National Legislature
This Cuban matter has disgraccd us as
nation as no foreign question ever disgraced
ns or any other nation In the world. The
.eatizens oil this country, who atter all know
pest what becomes the national power, nave
m mass meetings all over the country in
nicated tneir unrnistaRaple desire that
neighDoring people hghtng Tor liberty
snouid nave NJ ieast u iair hedd' All these
nulcations nave peen supercinously ignored
ny our executive ana "hen tne american
Peopie "isnea ouoa W We Assis'eu' 'ne poiicy
u the huniihiS'ra''oh mas oeen 10 pro'lde
ner enemy WIN every means 70 extermnate
ner.
Inns recogniuon Oh peineerency a. Inns
'Aae ua'e 's y. Des' Du' piece Oh 'ards Jus
"ce' Will Oe In reaiity only an inJunctioh
On americans 10 remain neutral But the
oiheiai ucoi"ia'ioh Vi Incl 10 patent 70 I'll
'ho "or'u 40 una' oPanihrus anu Oupahs are
"ag'ng war IN ouDa, IL issued when IL should
nave peen, "ouiu nave saved thousands
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be seen at once. In reality Tn pointOf o
cambria needle lie larger than tie circle upon
which those fifteen half globes exist, and yet
that circle appears like dessertplate covered
with lady apples.
These wonders we have scen but how
they are produced only men of science can
fully explain and understand. The honor of
the invention belongs to Mr.. EDWARD N.
DrcKENsos, the distinguished lawyer and
engineer Of this city. AS a nbicroscopical
expert, however, ho is but an amateur, and
not professional devotee of the instrument
and he has arrived at this miraculous dis
covery by profound study Of the laws Of
optics, and by elaborate and exhaustive
mathematical calculations We should add
that he IL member Of the Bailey Microsco.
pical Club, an association composed Of the
most skilful microscopists of the country,
which is doing much to advance this depart
ment of science, so interesting and 30 useful
to humanity.
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an US EM EMS.

or course the great event OF the week-the
one that will at least seem so to the minds OF
all pleasureseekers-is the Musical Festival, which
commences this week at the late Skating Rink and
present Coliseum. The advertisements are so vo-
luminous and so specific that It is unnecessary to
repeat the details OF the programme. They are pub
hshed at large in another column. The festival
nuy commences witt the greatest OF Beethoven's
symphonies-the 9th Those who have never
listened to really large chorus and orchestra may
anticipate new and pleasant sensation.
The artillery will be used this evening IN tile
closing pieoetbe frequently suded-to Star spsnglod
Banner The effect Of artillery with music was found
at Boston TO be very good 1t not loud or stun.
ming as most persons expected, but really made the
patriotic ehoruses very martial and inspiritns 1t
not Q new idea-Handel himself made use oft
One dineulty that we anticipate in regard to This
festival IL that Of getting back and forth. The
Third avenue are overcrowded at the best OF
times, and how will the ten thousand sItra nnd
room on themf Some special vehicles to run-say
between Fourteenth street and the Colse Tor this
week, would be q special blessing.
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The managers of the Tammnny Ring ex.
pect to buy on some Of their Democratic oppo-
nents by nominations to Congress at the next
election. Their plan is TO offer to RoBERr D.
Roosevelt, the wise and witty editor Of the citizen,
the nomination for Congress in the First District,
in the place Of the Hon. JouN Fox the present
member, whom the Tammany braves intend to
scalp. For the Seventh District, now repre-
scented by the Hon. II. c. CALkIs, the Tammany
slate bears the respectable name Of SsIrH ELY,
Jr., Of The expiring Board Of Supervisors. In
the Eighth District, where our distinguished
friend the Hon. JAMES BRooKs has for so many
years received the sufffagcs Of Tammany, they
now propose 10 nominate no less a parsonage
than Sheriff JAMES o'BHuS These little ar
Engagements will, It is hoped, satisfy the most for
midable opponents Of Tammany, and dispose
peacefully Of men whom IL would not be safe to
undertake to slaughter. These three gentlemen
would no doubt, make valuable members Of the
House Of Representatives. Mr.. RoosKvELr espe-
cialy would be sure 10 shine there as
orator, while on all legislation affecting the FISH
lug interests his opinion would be Of the highest
importance. But whether Mr. ELY and the redoubt-
able 0'BRIEN can be thus induced TO make peace
with the Tammany Indians is doubtful. They will
probably be inclined TO fight it out on that line
as independent men, rather than TO resign all
power in the city, as they would do by taking
nomination at the hands Of the willy o'HALL and
his associates. In the Fifth District, now repre-
sented by the Hon. JouS MoRRrssrr, Tammany
proposes to run Maj Gen. WILLIAM NJ. TwEEp, Jr.
Whether Mr. MoRRissKY desires TO stand again
for this district we do not know but ifhe should
determine to enter the ring, Gen. TWEED will
find him no triaing antagonist. In the Sixth
District and the Ninth, now represented by the
Hon. SUNSET Cox and the Hon. FERNANDO wooD,
Tammany does not contemplate making any
change.
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Corruption In tho Republican Party.

From a Speech BY me hon. IOhn ~ SchNnGt ter ~
brooklyn, IN ne House OF Represen,diipes. NAYS
Why, Mr. Speaker the leaders of the K, pub
lican party In the State Of New York ARE hongh I'd
sold like sheep In the SHAMELESS make honorah!
exceptions OF course. In prOof OF my assert ]
OFFER the files OF the NeU York Tribune fJr the last
two years Over and over again Mr.. Greeley
charges the leaders OF that party In our state Lees'
lature with selling out IT. principles inr money hlr
teen Senators ont Of fourteen we're pnrchasud
But Mr. Speaker, In speaking OF the influence OF
money mon officials We have a bright and shining
examine near us Look Mt the other gnd OF Penn
syiyania avenue tho President Of the United States,
the head II the RcpuhCar party. Look At the first
CHOSEN cabinet officers Of Gen Grant; almost every
man appointed had given money to Gen. Grant, d.
rectly or indirectly,
A. T. Stewart, Secretary or the Treasury. gave
stOOn; Mashburne, Secretary OF State, had been
instrumental in raising money u purchase 0rn
Grant a house in Halena; Borie, Secretary OF Navy
had given $4,000 toward buying houses for Gen
Grant; lloar. the Attorney General, gave him
library; eX Gov. Fish, OF New York, the present
Secretary of State, had contributed 5000 toward
Gen Grants houses Moses II Grlnnell, the Col
hector Of the port ~ New York, the most lucrative
position In tho Tinted States, large contribu
Tor toward Gen Grants houses. These facts are all
well known and are part of the pc tlcal history OF
this Administration and II III becomes It's support.
ers 10 charge fraud and corruption upon the DE.
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The city of Meriden, in Connecticut, is
represented in the Legislature of that State by
the Rev. joins PARKER, a Clergyman of the Meth
odist persuasion; but we are sorry to say that
this reverend lawgiyer does not appear to give
satisfaction TO his constituents. 1t Is alleged
that before his election he solemnly promised to
secure the appointment as Chy Judge of Meriden
Of any person whom majority of the lawyers of
the place might recommend Accordingly, petit
tons were prepared and signed by the prin-
cpal lawyers of the city, by all the Aldermen,
by all but one of the Assemblymen, and by up
ward Of two hundred Of the first citizens and
leading business men. These petitions were
Land before the Hon. and Rev. Parker by II
special committee; and yet Notwithstanding
his pledge, and in the face of the petitions, and
in scorn of public opinion, the Rev Mr.. PARKER
il is affirmed, " out of pure and unsdulterated
cussedness," deliberately defed the will Of the
people of Meriden, and procured the appoint
ment of the most Objectionable lawyer and poll
tican in the place! Such being the facts, VIC
advise the citizens of heriden TO bear patiently
the unpleasant City Judge whom the Rev. Mr..
PARKER has inflicted upon them, and to take II out
by voting unanimously against PARKER at the
next election. Let MS also state that the meanest
Yankees in the world live in Connecticut, and
some Of them are in the Legislature.
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ing Discovery.
The microscope has been called mans
LIth sense. After exhaust.ug all the natu.
ral powers, unailcd by science there yet r..
mains an unknown world of nature to which
the senses have no access. The microscope
opens this amazing creation to our vision
and we find it te ming with organized life
and beautiful forms, in comparison with
which the grosser structures seem quite
imperfect.
The earth on which we tread is in many
places simply the remains Of living things
which once NOV ed, and felt the suniph and
d.ed to build up world of variety and use
fulness for man in his turn to live and die
upon. The city of Richmond is built upon
such graveyard. The chalk cliffs of England
are made of dead infusoria. The rotten stone
with which we polish metals is only the shells
OF minute creatures whose day Of existence
was millions ofyears ago. The dirt-caters Of
Lapland, Of North Carolina, and of California
devour the remains Of organized life, and de-
rive nourishment from the animal matter
which has survived countless ages for these
wretched beings TO feed upon.
All these things come to US through the IT.
tic tube upon which science has conferred
these marvellous powers and science is yet
ceaselcssy working on to results still more sur
prising. The last advance, which has lust been
made in this city, is a very large one. Until
now the best microscope magniied an object
not more than two hundred million times its
actual size and very few microscopists ever
saw such power. The President of the
Royal Svviu.y OF England last Summer
showed a shell magnied one hundred and
forty-four million times, and this excited the
astonishment Of micro5copsts throughout
the world But the new optical combination
Just completed in this city exhibits the samo
object under an enlargement Of nine thousand
million times its natural magnitude, If all
ordinary domestic fly could be seen entire
under such magnGcation, il would seem to
cover space as large as the whole city Of
New York below Wall street. man would
appear more than hundred miles high and
. lady's hair would reach half way from
New York TO New Haven.
This wonderful instrument is 50 sensitive
that loud word spoken near it destroys al
distnctness of vision, from the trcmor i'm
parted to it by the motion of the air, and I
footstep on the floor shakes it out Of adjust
ment. The field Of vIew-that is, the are,
which can he seen at once-is a circle oul,
the ono twelve thousandth of an inch il
diameter, but 1t appears to the eye to b.
eight inches in diameter. A microscopic
shell called an an9latum, Of which abou
one hundred and forty placed end to end vii
reach an inch, md which is simply mark O.
with lines Of tho most exquisite dclicac
when examined under ordinarily powerful
microscopes. exhibits under tho new il
strument half globes of white sile,
whose diameters appear TO be an inch M
'h~"@ """r''''s and OF which only fifteen ca
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1t is reported that the GRANT and CAME
RON fishing party took on Thursday and Friday
as many Us l, 600 trout The number Of persons
engaged in this feat is not mentioned; but NO
learn that the operations Of the company were
extended to four different streams. 1t is not sur
prisng Il al when this useless wholesale destruc-
ton Of fsh had been accomplished, President
GRANT turned his back upon the scene Of such
bNrbarism and hastened home to Washington, by
attaching his to a chance freight train that was
going by, 1t is evident that the Gne enthusiasm
for fishing by which il is elevated from brutal
pursuit into fine art, with which philosophy and
poetry have for centuries been connected, was
unknown to these fellows. For this reason tie
public will be more anxious respecting the politi-
cal results of the excursion. No good can come
Of two days among the trout streams when sin
gle party kills 900 fish
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Mr.. II. N Squire, of o. Fulton street. is
searching high and low for little stone which is
worth many hundred dollars Last Thursday a
week he took q small paper from his safe and
opened It, In IL were two diamonds which he
showed customer. The examination over. Mr.
Squire again wrapped the precious stones in the
paper and returned them to his safe. The next
morning he had occasion TO look at them again. but
on opening the dminutive paper he found to his dis
may thai one diamond, perfect stone OF two and
one si1tyfourth carats, had disappeared.
II was certain that no one had had access 10 the
SAFE since the time when he had last seen tie miss
ing stone. Mr.. Squire cannot imagine how he lost
u. The supposition Ia that lie dropped H. aud that
II was swept out unnoticed. although Il giistcurd
and glimmered like Ere Mr.. Squire Is not willing
70 say how much the stone In worth, but will give
$500 for its recovery.
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The Funeral Of GEN. sccbach.

The Second Brigade Of the National Guard will
parade to-day as funeral escort to the remains Of
the late Brig Gen. VIM. seebach, Commissary Gen.
erai OF Subsistence on the stan Of the Commander
In Chief, Gov. Holman. The line will be. formed
at ~ o'clock p. NJ. in Lafayette place, and the
command win move 70 the City Hall, where the
body viii lie In state until o'clock and will then
De removed TO Greenwood Cemetery.
Inc orders for the parade having been issued at
700 ate an hour 70 admit OF the usual notice being
siven By the rcgimental commanders to the rank
and nle. we cheerfully comply with the request Of
the omcers OF the Fith, Sixth. Eleventh. Eighty
fourth, and Ninety sixth regiments TO say that the
members OF these battalions exoected to report
for duty their respective armories not later than
I o'clock r. NJ.
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The recent confagration in Constantine
pie, though terrible in its ravages, has not been
more destructive than many with which the city
has been aficted before. In the ten years end
ing 1852, the quarter known as Pera TO which
and Galata this last conGagration was confned)
was ravnged by five dreadful fires. In 1929,
FIRE that originated in one Of the rooms Of
private house spread to such an extent that
1000 houses were destroyed by IT, For three
whole miles the Dosporus reflected one un.
broken hGme The next fire destroyed 5000
houses and AN she ships in the Arsenal. On this
occasion onsi,ntinople proper barely escaped.
But the most terrible connagration of all wa.
that Of 1881. There was a strong northeast
wind nj the tinieA ~nIch spread the flames with
fIightfnl rapidity. In short time the
residences of the Sandman, Dutch, Prus-
sian, Russian, and French Ambas sailors
were laid in ashes. The English palace,
it was thought, would escape, because
Of its isolation, and thither many persons
bore their most valuable combustible property.
Tho air, however, was full of sparks that set fire
to the trees and everything combustible about
the building. The flames dar,ed up furiously,
and, driven against the palace by the strong wind
laid 1t IN ashes in quarter Of an hour. Stone
buildings Jared no better than those Of wood, and
not even what were called fre-p proof vaults built
below the foundations of the houses could resist
the fury of the flames. The iron doors were
melted, and all within the vaults was consumed
Men who had left the city for a short time and
returned after the fire, lost their way amid the
deSolaton. Whole streets had been destroyed
and no traces left Of their lines. The fremen Of
Constantinope were at that time among the
most efficient in all Europe, but were subject to
no authority, and would seek to stay the flames
only when large rewards were offered them for
their labor. They were naked to the waist, with
inverted copper basins on their heads, and were
rccklessy brave. The chief difference between
the fires of that time and this recent calamity
lies in the loss of life In the conaagration of
1881, though 10000 persons were rendered home
less, only twelve were killed. while in that with
which Constantinople has just been afflicted we
learn tina; probably as many as q thousand per-
islCd,
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Yesterday the Christian Church celebrated the
fundamental dogma Of the Christian faith, the mys.
tory OF three Persons In one God The day was
observed with unusual pomp In the Episcopal and
Roman Catholic churches; and In the Cathedral, ST.
stephen's 81. Francis xavier's and other churches
OF the latter sect there special musical services
In st. Adams. the principal place OF worship OF the
Ritualists, solemn vesper were sung In the af,e.-
noon. collection was taken up yesterday in all
the Roman Catholic churches OF the diocese for the
Pope, to enable linn to meet the extraordinary de-
mands on lis purse attending the present Ecumenl
cal Council, there being many bishops in Rome from
different parts OF the world who too poor to do
fray theta own expenses.
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Honor TO an American Philosopher.
IN

n, Emil Olivier, Chief of the French Cabinet,
and Minister OF Justice In his annual report uu the
administration OF penal justice, 10 the Emperor.
adopts the division of all criminal trials into the
accusatoria and inquisitorill, which division the
non frames Lieber hrst made and for which he
anu Self Government" work hrst published some
twenty years ago In this city, and since used as a
textbook IN Yale and other colleges II " pleas ng
proof OF advancing Interchange mental and nalerla
among nations. anu must be considered as an nc.
eeptable acknowledgment o. the merits OF thut
great work. N Olivier adopts In his report near y
the whole passage OF Leber's "Civil Liberty" on
Penal Trial u Labouayo IL In the habit OF refer
ring In his lectures to our American work on Civil
Liberty" aud Olivier PROBABLY became thus NC
QuAiuted WITH II early Ia his student years.
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INC npnointment Of Pnfyosr.PAnApoL as

The appointment of PREvosT. PARADoL as
French Minister at Washington may perhaps in
duce other foreign Governments to send able
men, and not their most insignificant men to the
United States.i However much our ENJOYS at
Paris, London Berlin, and Vienna may be open
to criticism, they nevertheless represent very
fairly the culture and intellectual power of the
country. The Austrian Government, however
aud several others that might be mentioned, have
a fashion Of inaicting upon us their greatest null
lties as their diplomatic representatives.
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In the year 1867 the so-called Peace Com
mission, OF which Gen. SHERMAN, Gen. AU0UR,
and Gen, TERRr were members, made treaty
with the Sioux, by which the Indians agreed to
the passage Of the Union Pacific Railroad through
their country but when this treaty was explain.
cd to REp CLoCD and his companions by the Sec.
rotary of the Interior at Washington on Friday
last they declared that they never heard Of any
such stipulation. When they signed the treaty
they had supposed they were merely agreeing to
keep peace and friendship with the white people (;
and the clauses ceding their land for the use of
the railroad we're not known TO them, and they
had never before been made aware that they had
signed any such agreement If this be true, II is
clear tho Indians have been deceived and de-
frsuded, and it is the duty Of the Government 10
inquire into the vliainy. Certainly none Of the
dAtn9uasLed officers who took part in the peRo-
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Americas Greatest Statesman for President.

huHO OF INd buN-
Sir; You do well TO commend the course of
the Democrats Of Washington CITY in tile recent
election To the favorable attention OF their brethren
throughout the country 1t points the road to vic
tory In the next Presidential election.
You say that the hour is at hand, but ask. W here
Is the mani
answer, at Auburn.
Let the Republicans who desplse the present i'm
beetle Administration nominate Mr.. s eward, and let
the Democrats support him, and the country will be
taken out OF the hands OF the contemplate Hunkeys
who now disgrace Il at homo and abroad.
We will then have at the head OF the Government
a great statesman, ono who elevate the national
character in the eyes OF the world without sacri.
ncinR It's Interests, and vino can do justice to all
men without regard TO cline, creed, OF color.
MT heWard u not too old for that yet
REFORM REPUBLICAN.
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A Sensible Hebrew weda,no.

AT one o'clock yesterday afternoon, in the
house OF the brides parents, 17b Fast Houston
street, Mr.. Julius Hrsch, cigar merchant, OF Hud.
son street, was married to his first cousin, Miss
Fanny Hirsch. Tho ceremony Was performed by
the Rev. DR.. Mielzincr OF the Norfolk street syna
gogue. Nobody was invited but the relatives and
the most intimate friends OF the family. Tie bride
was tastefuly dressed In pearl-colored nlOtrS an.
hQue trimmed with selfcolored satin. The BRIDE
groom Vas attired In the con ventonal black