New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-06-21
GENERAL NOTES.

The first sale of coffee in bond made in Gin
cnna since that city became port of entry took place
day or two since.
Horn Lake, Miss, rejOices in an infant
prodigy-a colored girl three years old who has gray
and prodigous memory without the ieaSt eau ba
ever heard spelled and those she has not heard she
masters phonetically.
A large collection of letters written by John
Adams the second President to the late Judge f. A. Van
der Kcmp has been presented TO the Historical Society
OF PENNSYLVANIA by Mrs. Pauline Henry, the judge :
GRANDDAUGHTER The correspondence covered space OF
nearly forty years, beginning IN l'Sl'
James Johnson, colored clergyman in
sumter s. c. was ordered by the KuKlux to leave the
town in Is DAYS or prepare his funeral Five or six
hundred his sable brethren, having held meeting,
aSd Rs course made the Rev. Johnson condition e
cure Even the kuKlux are more discreet than val
orous % = LIZ. >. -
The annual Convention of the Newly ork
State Editorial Association will be held at Saratoga
springs On Thursday and Friday next when address
will be delivered by Mr. Tnsley OF The Lyons Republican,
and poem read By Mr. Hopkins OF The A'Ieriean Rural
Association by the citizens of Saratoga ON the first
named evening.
A CORRESPONDENT inflicts the following upon
u.s. In Tuesdays TRIBUNE you ask. What, in the name
OF common sense is the why Frenchmen who, in
other matters do not lack for logic, should become in
yarably aud Theoretically absurd whenever discussing
poiticsP that 1t is necessity or, OF their Ian,
Without making Joules of themselves"
An amateur fruit raiser has become so dis
Oused with his that he thus gives vent to
his dsappointment and indignation: " have no more
admiration TO waste the father OF George Washington
for fOrgving the destruction OF his cherry tree ener
tree Is only curculio nursery and the day my george
Washington Is six years old I'll give him Ratchet and
tell him to down with every cherry tree on the place.
The report of Capt. c. w. Raymonds re-
copnolssance Of the Yukon River, Alaska, is published
Although this is the largest river emptying on the coast
of America journey of 600 miles toward Its source does
not seem to have developed anything OF Importance
e country on both sides Is low and sandy the Vegeta
finn il principally chaparra OF willow ana poplar the
back country seems to be fiat, swampy ana nlied WIN
standing poos The reconnaissance established the Iact
that Fort Yukon belongs to the United States the eclipse
of tine being taken advantage of to make the heces
sary observations 80,
The Rev. President Peabody of Harvard Col
eoe nreached the Baccaaureate to the gradual
ing class last Sunday He spoke wisely OF the choice OF
n profession and among other things, he said; good
physican is an unspeakabe blessing to community
but not few enter that calling with the best purposes
whose most appropriate record o da of grimm truth S about
this and vet there profession assumed so careesy
by young that OF an IL seems 10 De aker
and worse still, that one doctor Is as 6Ood as hhV
We can fancy the intelligent undertakerS grinnng a' nS
mistake.
II 10 q remarkable circumstance, and strongly
srggestive OF the ise character OF Austrian nation
atty that on board the Austrian rigate NoSara, now
Waiting our waters with Of $40 men, not less than
seven different languages spoken. The tongue OF the
onarterdeek is OF course German but the orders are
~an nv subordinate officers in the different tongues
noken NV the poly A visit 10 TINS craft might
I've one a lively idea OF the row whlch occurred wien
&c construction OF the Babel Tower was suddenly en-
harrassed by pathological difficulties IHe lact that ne
Noya here shows that 4 Is POSSIBLE b 70 s
ship under circumstances when Wouiu iiy uis'o'so
the skipper Of a small one
PENNSYLVANIA, which, in the coal-bearing
region ia a network OF railways has her industry en-
,ohad and accelerated by the Danville Hazleton and
ukesbarre Road which penetrating more than 90 miles
the richest coal region OF the State just had
rail laid The road is very important one OPEN
inc reat coal REGION and aording new route West
,ror1 nv its connections With the Lehigh Valley and
tho susouehanna Railroad 1t forms trunk connection
u connects with Philadelphia and Erie and with
re pannsylyania and Northern Central Roads al sun
hurry both OF which roads are In the conroi OF he great
pannsylyania Railroad, and which make IL most au
bia an outlet for Erie Road TO and from the New
Yort market and the Northern Central IN local az wen
iiad he Middle Creek Railroad which runs from Dan.
VILE 70 the Pennsylvania Railroad at Hunthguon ana
Nv there ioning with the Huntington ana broad Top
pauroad which also connects with n Dranch iOau III
course OF construction southwark rom % 10,
MARYLAND state line, through and very direct line OF
r,ilyav inland win be formed, extending from the
cumberland coal-nelds to New-York CITY at a material
deduction OF distance any OF the existing routes bu
Work is not the contemplated Eastern terminus VI
what will be O very long line on road wheh the proposeu
nan,ile and Haxleton branch road directly on from
a1ieon crossing the three great coal roads ht tary
right angles and striking the hudson haNer at reeASA
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