The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-27

A CURIOUS DISCOVERY. "A man at Con-
stantinople, having left in charge of
friend of his purse without seam or
joint, in which he had placed consider.
able number of diamonds, complained, on
his return from distant travel that his
number of jewels were not correct. The
friend maintained the integrity of his
trust, and adduced as proof the entire
woof of the purse, in which neither seam
nor joint appeared, and the seal of the
owner still remained untouched at the
mouth of the purse. The owner of the
jewels was forced to admit both facts, but
still persisted that the amount of dia-
monds was no longer what he had left.
The case was brought before more than
one magistrate, but nothing could be
elected upon the subject, and the unaI-
tered corditlon of the purse, which the
owner could not deny, was considered
conclusive evidence against his claim. In
despair he applied to the Sultan himself,
and the strange persistency of this de-
Dland impressed the latter so much that,
though compelled, upon the face of the
facts, to dismiss his claim as untenable,
the subject remained impressed singular
~ on his mind, and induced him to try
the following experiment: At morning
prayer the next day, when the slave who
usually brought the carpet, upon which
he knelt, had Withdrawn, he made long
slit in it, and left it to be again with
drawn by the slave. When the latter
came to fulfill his duty of rolling up and
removing the precious carpet, he remain
ed aghast at the injury it had received,
and Immediately apprehending the dread.
full effects of the Sultan's displeasure,
fastened with the rug to the quarter of
the city where the Jews resided, and
seeking out one particularly renowned
tor his skill, committed it to his best ex-
ercise of it, and carried it back so restor-
ed that the next morning it laid spread
for the Suitan's use without the trace of
either damage or reputation. Tie Sultan
no sooner perceived what had been done
than he called the slave, who trembling
ly confessed what he had done. He i'm
mediately dispatched in search of the
preeminent cobbler, and when the Jew
appeared before the Sultan, the
latter, sending for the sealed purse,
about which the controversy had heen
held, charged him with having in like
manner repaired slit in the wool of the
apparently uninjured bag The Jew
instantly admitted the fact, and thus the
reclamation of the poor defrauded friend
and diamond owner was substantiated.
What was formerly known as the Brit
ISL possessions in America will shortly
be united in an empire of vast preten-
sions-in the number of its square miles
of land and water. The confederation
between British Columbia and the
Dominion of Canada is now fixed fact,
or will be when the event is proclaimed
at Victoria, British Columbia, and at
Ottawa, on the first of July, 1871 The
terms of confederation have been prepar-
ed and accepted, and it now only remains
for the official announcement of the fact
to bring the whole of that immense ter.
ritory from the Atlantic to the Pacific
under one government BY the terms Of
agreement British Columbia will be
greatly benefited. A railway from
Canada to the Pacific coast is to be com.
menced in the spring of 1872, and dry
dock is to be constructed at Esqulmalt
and a marine hospital at Victoria. In
addition to this, the parental care of the
Government of the Dominion has not
overlooked the present officials OF British
Columbia or its dangerous classes, the
former are to be pensioned, and the latter
will be provided with penitentiary at
New Westminster. The authorities of
the new province have already been Sc.
lected by the Dominion, and the present
Governor of British Columbia, Mr.. Mus
grove is talked of generally as the
+" coming F" Lord Lieutenant of Ireland or
Governor of Malta or Australia. On the
whole the prospect is cheerful for British
Columbia, and thaS boreal region is now
in the peculiar position of ON expectant
brides all flutter and anxious expectancy.