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Tbe narien Survey.
Report Of Captain SeIfridge, COmnnndant
of the Expedition.

WASHINGTON, July Captain Selfridge, COM
mander of the Darien expedition, who arrived in
New York with bis flag ship Nipsic yesterday, re-
ported in person at the Navy Department to-day.
lie made a long verbal report of the results OF the
exnedition to Secretary Robson and Vlce-Ad-
miral Porter, and subsequently accompanied the
Secretary to the White House, where he explained
IN the President and the members OF the Cabinet
the results of the different surveys, and the pros
meets for the success of the enterprise Ihe Gaze
DOMAIN and the Morti routes, both thoroughly
surveyed by Captain Seifridge and his party, are
pronounced by him as impracticable. The San
Bias route can be made successful. tie had not
got through with his survey OF this latter route
when the heavy rainy season commenced, and he
was compelled to abandon any further progress
for the present. Beside this, the entire supplies
for the expedition were exhausted. over oUO
pairs. of shoes had been worn out by the men,
with other clothing in proportion. ms san
Bias route includes twelve miles OF the Dayano
river, which is eighteen feet deep at low WAFER
and % feet at high tide, with an excellent sur
rounding country, and also 20 miles OF mountains
or yery high hills. There he was engaged III sur
yevinS when he was compelled to give up, or ac-
count of the rainy season, exhaustion Oh suppress
etc. He says that there is no doubt but that the
canal can be cut through this 90 miles IRON ocean
to ocean. and that the only thing to be now con-
sidered is the cost. He says that II this Govern
ment feels too poor to undertake Ihe worA ne
selves. GDoV SUOulu mdhO q
Great Powers of Europe, and make IL an lhterna-
tional enterprise, with guarantees from all the
Powers for its preservation and safety ana each
Government to bear equal portions OF the expense.
Capt. Selfridge's reports and explanations were
highly complimented by the President the Cabl.
net officers, and Admiral Porter. The President
expressed himself much pleased with the results
of the expedition SO far, and stated that he would
recommend to Congress further appropriations ior
the enterprise, and appeared to think that this
country should do all the work itself, and take
all the benefits. Capt. Selfridge was to-day re,
Iieyed from the command of the NipSic and ordered
to Portland. to prepare for the renewal OF the sur
vey next fall. The steamer Guard is on her way
home to Philadelphia. and the steamer Nyack has
gone to Panama. These, with the Nipsic com
prised the feet. Capt. Selfridge states that ne
lost one man by drowning, and three by de-
sertion, and that the general health of the fleet,
officers and men, was excellent, considering the
disagreeable rainy season.
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Wonderful Memories.

Some examples of the marvels of memory would
seem entirely Incredible had they not been given
to us upon the highest authority. Cyrus knew
the name of each soldier in his army. 1t is also
related of Themistocles that he could call by
name every citizen of Athens, although the num-
Der amounted to twenty thousand. Mithridates,
King Of Pontus. knew his eighty thousand sol
diers by their right names. ScipiO knew all the
inhabitants of Rome. Seneca complained of old
age because he could not, as formerly, repeat two
thousand names in the order in which they were
read to him and he stated that on one occasion,
when at his studies, two hundred verses having
been recited by the different pupils of his pre-
ceptor, he repeated them in ii reversed order,
proceeding from the last to the first.
Lord Granville could repeat, from beginning to
end, the New Testament in the original Greek
Cooke, the tragedian, is said to have committed
to memory all the contents of a daily newspaper.
Racine could recite all the tragedies of Euripides.
1t is said that George III. never forgot a face
he had seen nor a name he had heard. Miriam
dola would commit to memory the contents of a
book by reading it three times, and could fire.
quently repeat the words backward as well as
forward. Thomas Cranmer committed to memory,
in three months, an entire translation of the
Bible. Euler, the mathematician, could repeat
the ASneid, and Liebnitz, when an old man, could
recite the whole of Virgil, word for word.
1t is said that Bossuet could repeat, not only
the whole Bible, but all Homer, Virgil and Horace
beside many other works.
Mozart had q wonderful memory of musical
sounds. When only fourteen years of age, he
went to Rome to assist in the solemnities of Holy
Week. Immediately after his arrival, he went
to the Sistine Chapel to hear the famous Miserere
of Allegri. Being aware that it was forbidden
to take or give a copy of this renowned piece of
music, Mozart placed himself in a corner and
gave the strictest attention to the music, and on
leaving the church noted down the entire piece.
A few days afterward he heard it the second
time, and, following the music with his own copy
In his hand. satisfied himself of the fidelity of his
memory. The next day he sang the MiSerere at
a concert, accompanying himself on the harp
sichord, and the perfoI nance produced such a
sensation in Rome that Pope Clement XIV.
requested that this musical prodigy should be
presented to him at once hUer Optics Mag
deine.
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Death of Earl Clarendon.

Another of the passing generation of English
statesmen has departed. Earl Clarendon, one of
the oldest diplomats of Great Britain, who died on
Sunday, June 26th, was born in 1900. He came
of an illustrious family, and early achieved dis
%tinction, as Sir George Villiers, being appointed
Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Madrid
in 1888. He succeeded to the Clarendon title
and estates in 1888, and in 1889 vas recalled
from Spain, and served in the Cabinet at different
intervals during the rest of his life. He was sue
cessively Privy Councillor, Lord Chancellor, Presi-
dent Of the Board of Trade. Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, Chancellor of the University of Ireland,
and Secretary of Foreign Affairs. He was first
appointed to this last-named position in 1853, in
the Aberdeen Ministry, and held the portfolio
through that regime and those of Derby and
Palmerston who succeeded. Clarendon was a
statesman of great astuteness and keenness. He
will always be connected by citizens of the United
States with the famous observation-disclosures treaty,
negotiated by Reyerdy johnson, for the settlement
of the alabama claims, and rejected by the United
States Senate. His eldest son, Edward, about
twenty-four years of age, succeeds to the title.
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One more great ocean route for passenger ships,
and another great channel of general Intelligence,
has been opened across the Pacific by mail steam
es which will run periodically between San
place with another line from sydney, in New
South Wales, and touching at Auckland, in New
Zealand, on the way. In this manner we are
brought into regular communication with the
English world of the Pacific, which will send us
as many items of news as the other more northerly
world OF China and Japan, in the same ocean.
The Australians seem to like this American route
to England, for over two hundred of them came
to San Francisco in the Idaho, which was obliged
to leave over twenty of them at Honolulu for
want of room. The new route will be a great
benefit to San Francisco, and a good help for the
long railroad-at least till that rather battling
canal of the Isthmus is established in good work.
ing order.
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RESULTS OF FREE LABoR.-It now appears that
the sugar and rice crops of Louisiana were much
larger last year than hitherto reported. In the
twenty-seven parishes in the State, 81 900 hogs
heads of sugar were raised, or nearly three thou
sand more than in 1868. The rice crop last year
was the largest ever raised in the State, amount
ing to considerably over one hundred thousand
barrels. With such signal results, so Immediately
following the overthrow of slavery, our Southern
countrymen are able to form some idea of the
great benefits which will accrue to them when the
labor system has been fully established. Never
was a truer remark than that made by Henry A.
Wise, not long since, thai slavery had been the
bane and curse of the Southern States.
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Singing.

Those who sing a good deal will be warm
hearted Christians. There are the Methodists
and the Presbyterians-the one would sing the
people all to heaven, and the other would preach
them all there. Which will bring them up
quicker? They say the one side educates, while
the other excites the people. Why don't you
combine the two? 1t is the law of God to con-
vert an intellectual into an emotional state.
The Hebrew lyrics will stand till the Judgment
day. The most profound in piety will appro-
pirate the expressions of piety of the early ages,
as well as of later days and modern times. The
cream of religious thought is in hymns. Ger
many, England and America are the three coun-
tries most full of hymns, and there is no emotion
Of the soul but is centered in them.
On Sunday morning, when l have been jaded
in despair-sad, at any rate,-before the organ,
was completed, / have been changed as
if taken out of January and pumped down into
all gone, and spring come in it's
place. This Friday-nIght meeting, l don't think
Of what | say-that is least in my thought-or
even of your prayers, but think of the joyful
Many a time the Friday-night meeting
has helped me through to Sunday. | set my foot
down from the first, there should be singing in
this congregation. Every year there was a new
1t was eight or ten years before the
church would lie. nc have my OWN way, and now
you We got your way, 200, because you all like it,
and that is one reason why the church is SO
social, and why you all lore each other so much.
| always think q church that don't sing is like a
sleigh ride with no bells, a garden with no flowers.
church with four singersI Four whole singers
A thousand pair of ears-only four mouths.
When singing is made to open up mems hearts,
a thousand people get four folk to do it for them.
Four singers have to sing for show it is possible
for them to sing devotionally all things are
possible in the Lord. A singing church for me,
and a singing household. 1 don't believe a
family can quarrel much, and if people
ire ugly (and at times, 1 suppose all people are
amy, L don't think they can have a hymn
N the mouth and an ugly feeling in the heart. If
.wo persons have a quarrel, and sit down near
ZACH other and sing, L don't think they can feel a
disposition to quarrel and sing.-[Reecher.
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FILIAL ~LovE.-Filial love, in its purer forms,
is one of the noblest and hottest kinds of human
affection, and is grateful alike to the giver and
receiver. This sentiment was deeply impressed
upon the heart of Henrietta Chew, who lives in
Elmira. Henrietta is seventeen years old, and
the other night, when she desired to go to the
circus, her mother said she shouldn't, whereupon
Henrietta picked up the rolling pin, and after
fracturing her indulgent parents skull, she exc
cuted a war dance over her PROSTATE remains.
Perhaps it is superiuous to mention that the
young man to whom Henrietta is engaged has
disappeared. He was heard to remark that there
was a fine opening for bachelors in Australia,
and it is supposed that he has emigrated. He
was a man who always liked affection in an ardent
form, but he evidently thought Henrietta was al
most too demonstratiye. No cards.
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Nov I Lay me Down to Sleep"

There is much in the manner in which religious
exercises are conducted in the family. The wor-
ship is none the less solemn because familiar.
All the surroundings should therefore be in keep
ing with the hour when the family comes into
the presence of the Great God. Let father and
mother sit side by side, let the children not be
scattered in lounging attitudes round the room
and at a distance, but placed near enough to
each other to make a group, SO that the unity of
the worship shall appear as well as exist.
Parents are not as careful as they ought to be
of these outward things in a child's religious
education. The little one is taught to say his
prayers but how? Perhaps with noise of
conversation or play about him, he kneels after
he has clambered on his bed, and rattles over the
set words while he gazes round the room, ready
with the :" Amen P" to burst into a laugh with
those that laugh around. 1t is not at all wonder
iul that he grows to consider the whole affair as
very useless and unmeaning.
Give your children different thoughts. You
are doing what the disciples asked tie Lord to do
when they said, "Teach us to pray" You are
teaching your children to pray, and to pray
Alright is, as Coleridge said, 1.-The greatest
achievement of the Christians warfare on EARTH
AT this hour of his childish prayer your boy
comes into communion with the Most High, and
you should breathe softly, while angels listen.
They see a deeper meaning in the act than you
can recognize. That infant petition has in it
what will touch your heart, if you will think:
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and Recording Secretary. The gallantry OF the
typos could not long withstand female influence.
Charles Dickens-Funeral in Westminster
Abbey.

LONDON, June I4.-At 6 o'clock this morning
the remains of Charles Dickens were conveyed
from his residence at Gad's Hill, by train to the
Charing Cross Station. There waited at the
station a plain hearse, without the usual English
trappings, and three plain coaches. To the first
coach were placed the children of the deceased,
Charles and Henry Dickens, Miss Dickens, and
Mrs. Charles Collins. In the second were Miss
Hogarth, the sister-in-law, and Mrs. Austin, tho
sister of Dickens, Mrs. Charles Dickens, Jr.. and
John Foster. In the third coach were Frank
Beard, Charles Collins, Mr.. OSery, Wilkie Col
Inns, and Edmund Dickens. The entire party
were attired in deep mourning, without bands or
scarfs. There was no crowd at the Charing Cross
Station, and the procession was driven at once to
Westminster Abbey, where the remains were re-
ceiVed by Dean Stanley and other officials, and
placed in the Poets Corner, at the foot of Handel,
and at the head of Sheridan, with Macaulay and
Cumberland on either side. The usual flowers
were strewn upon the bier. Dean Stanley read
the burial service, the coffin was deposited in its
final resting place, and the funeral of Dickens
was ended.
Upon the cofin-plate were inscribed the words ::
CHARLES DICKENS.
Born February eth, 1912.
Died June 18th, 1870.
Thousands of citizens have crowded to the
Abbey during the day, to look upon the spot
where the great novelist rests.
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! Iay NE down 70 sleep,
pray the Lord my soul TO keep
If ! should die before l wake,
1 pray the Lord my soul TO take.n

Who can keep his soul but God? What a
possibility is in that little word elf; a posi-
Dllity winch darts a thrill of anguish through
your breast? Into what arms could his soul
nestle if not Christ's, if it should go forth from
that fair body tonight? Will you not, then,
hush the room, and have father and children
stand silently by, as with clasped hands and
bowed head your child kneels reyereutly at your
your face will rest upon his head while your fun
heart joins in the petition.
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Grains of Lead IN one Euid Ounce.

For q fuller account of these delectable COM
pounds. as well as of sundry lotions for the skin,
90 enamels,' and kindred cosmetics, see Prof.
Chandeliers Report, which is given in full in the
American Supplement of The Chemical Ne1os for
May, 1870, published by W. A. Townsend and
Adams, New York.
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HANDSOMELY DoNE.-The international Typo
graphical Union, in session at Cincinnati, has
the right of women to belong to these Associations
by unanimously eleeting a woman Corresponding
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Poisonous HAIR DYES AND CosMETIcs.-We
have just received Prof. G. F. Chandler's Report
on these and kindred nostrums. to the Board of
Health of New York City. Of sixteen prepare
tions for the hair which he analysed, fifteen
contained lead in the varying proportions shown
in the following table -
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CHARLES DICKENS.
Born February eth, 1912.
Died June 9TH, 1870.

Thousands of citizens have crowded to the
Abbey during the day, to look upon the spot
where the great novelist rests.
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CROSSE &

PURvEYORs TO THE QUEEN, THE EMPEROR OF THE
FRENCH, mi THE KING OF THE BELGIANs,
soho Square, 6OndOn.
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OFFICIAL EXAMINATION OF THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS CoNTINUED.-TheN Ninth-Street
Grammar School was visited on Monday.
After careful examination in grammar,
history, arithmetic, reading, and geogra-
ply, the following boys were promoted to
the high-school grade /: Abraham Bernstein,
Edward P. Colin, Willie II. Crutchield,
Benjamin K. Pecor, Joseph j. Traylor,
w. Il. Goodwin, George j. Hooper, Willie
NJ. Manly, Bennie Sibley, J. Waddy Wilde,
Frank B. Street. The proficiency of the
pupils was very creditable, and the teacher
(Miss E.. Fl. New merits the thanks Of the
Board of Education and of the public gene
rally for her patient training and careful
supervision of the young gentlemen under
her care.
The Grammar School on Navy Hill was
also visited on Monday by the Board of
Education. The teacher, Miss Annis Net
teton, was not present, on account Of severe
illness. Nevertheless, the pupils were
found in perfect order, and passed an excel
lent examination. The progress of the
pupils has been in some respects remarka-
bic, and all the exercises evinced thorough
training. The grade of this school
Is advanced to the full grammar standard,
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MAYORS CoURT-Mayor Eglyson presi.
dtng.-The following cases were disposed of
yesterday - ...-.~.-... -
Edward Kline and James IIollins, charged
with trespassing on. the premises of and
threatening Tazewell Carr. Hollins was
discharged, and Kline bound over in $500 to
keep the peace.
Sam Robinson (coIoreO was sent to the
grand jury to be indicted for assauting q
son of David Wilson. Bailed in $500 for his
appearance.
Albert Turner (colored), stealing S. in
currency from Lee Asher. Discharged.
Bob Oliver (colored), charged with steal
ing flowers from the Shockoe Hill Cemetery
Discharged.
Rosa hickman (colored), was sent to the
grand jury for indictment for stealing a
small sum Of money and other articles from
Mrs. Jane Atkins. Bailed in $500 for her
appearance.
Lucy Melton, charged with trespassine
OH the premises of Mile Wilson, assaultine
her, and breaking door. Discharged.
The continued case of Jim johnson Eco.
lored), charged with picking John Beeden's
pocket, was discharged.
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MASONIC ELECT1oN.-At stated meeting
of Richmond Randolph Lodge, No. 10, held
last night, the following officers were cho-
sen for the ensuing twelve months:
j. Il. Dowell, master;
N. X. Savage, senior warden;
w. II. Crew, Junior warden
w. +. Richardson, treasurer
John Lester, secretary;
William j. Riddck, assistant secretary ;
NJ. 2. Handy, senior deacon;
George F. Keesee, junior deacon;
Thomas Angel, tiler;
Rev. j. E. Edwards, d. D., Rev. Henry
Wall, d. D., Rev. Jacob Manning, Rev.
William E. Hill, chaplains;
William F. White, w. G. Tyler, William
E. johnson, stewards;
j. r. Dowell, John Dove, John Latouche,
educational committee.
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RICHMOND DIREcToRY.-This book sup
plies need long felt in this city. Since the
old one of 1863, which had many imperfec-
tions, there have been great many changes
riy makes directory more or r. less ssura impfpr- p
Dudley y Co., Boston, Mass, 12 heo eonIahs aIan
map of the city, including the new addi-
tions. 1t has, besides, the information
usually contained in work Of this kind.
West il Johnston, publishers. Price, W,