Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1864-12-14 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CHRISTMAS EVE IN A NIGHT TRAIN.  Some few years ago we met casually a clever friend, who was manager of a certain railway, and fottld after the usual greetings, that be were both suffering from a common annoyance, usually known as "depression of spirits," although neither of ua was able to assign any substantial reason for our condition at the moment.  " Came with me," said our friend. " Whenever lam in ' the blues,' I adopt a simple but efficacious remedy, and you shill try it." "And onnst thou minister to a mind diseased r' wee of course the natural and time-honourerl rejrinder. "Yes I ean ; and I'll tell you what I do. I wait until the line is clear, and then jump on a pilot engine, run fifty or sixty milee dawn, and return again under , the hour. The excitement of the journey always puts ' the demons to flight." I The absurdity of his propneilion had the effect of I divelling our own megrims as we kelhed heartily at thc , notion of consigning our invalusthe body to a pilot , engine, steaming along at the rate of a hundred and I twenty miles an hour. I We did not accept our friend's invitation, but subsequently, acting upon his discovery, have mote than once sought the excitement of Thames Street when btrsiness was at its height, and have found that a walk doven that river-side thoroughfare has dispelled every other feeling but one of thankfulness for a safe deliverance front danger and death, Let any nada* insuginaire try it. The bags, barrels, and bales swinging over-head from every gradation of height, the jamming of carts and cabs, the unparliamentary "cheeking" (we believe that is the word) of cabinen, carters, sad truck-haulers the bawling of grimy coal eorn-porters (who certainly ask," By y' leave," but require suckan immediate compliance that if you, hesitate a mowent you are pirouetting in ale gatteil, the roaring which somes from the opened windows of enemy taprooms, filled with halftipsy fellows, emitting clouds of most villianous tobacco, are a combination of extitingcanses sufficient to stimulate the'most desponding. Malts Lamow.—ln the Christ's's, Ni,mber of" London Sosnelje  Judge Taney was so feeble in 1,10 that a gentleman who bad a lawsuit refused to give it to him, for fear that he would die before the ewer was tried. This was 54 years before the great jurist died. —New York //Ver. MURDERS AT Sea—Two of the crew of the .4 (slope suddenly attacked the chief officer and carpenter, and killed them both on the 2nd of November, during the passage from Demerara. One of the murierera afkrwards jumped overboard; the other was at severely handled by the crew that he died before very' long. THE SWISS POISONING Cs.—The Italian journals contain full particulars of the suicide of Dr. Demme and Miss Flora Trampy. After leaving Milan they went to an English hotel, or boarding-house, called the Casa Gropello, in the little town of Nervi, near Genoa. At noon on November 30, tho landlord finding they did not leave their bed-room, and having knocked several times without getting an answer, broke open the door in the presence of a magistrate. Dr. Demme was found dead on the bed, and Miss Flora was dead, stretched on the floor. Some accounts state they were bathed in blood, but the Swiss Consul at Genoa telegraph:: that they committed suicide by poison. Their bodies were publicly exposed in the Nervi market-place, under the guard of two earbineers. A letter from Berne says that M. Demme, Ben., received a letter from his son, dated Milan, in which the writer announced that he intended to drown himself in the Gulf of Genoa, instead of the Lake of Geneva. This resolution, it would seem, however, gave way, and poison was resorted to at last. atveral letters in pencil were in the room. One, ad. dressed to the landlord, assured him that the small debt due by the travellers would be paid by their family. Another, written in German, was directed "To my poor Father, Demme," and requested pardon for the sorrow the writer had brought upon his family. A third, in the handwriting of the young lady, contained only a single line.—" Hermann has killed himself, and I will follow." Other papers proved the idertity of the parties. The Swiss government has claimed the bodies, which will be removed' for interment to Berne.