Show how iome JOME E LIVE committees of ladles ladies are being formed in england and in france to make clothes forthe slaves The their theirly irga irla appeal eal eai says amerl americanos Ameri callas canas done much ais ani ans and will do all she can but with her sacrifices and the great demands upon her resources it vill will be impossible to provide immediately for these two millions of helpless people a great portion of whom are old men women and children entirely incapable of taking care of themselves this is vers verp proper but they will accomplish very little they did less for their own laborers in the cotton crises than we in the midst of our war anul and their poor aro arc summering suffering quite as much as the slaves and need emancipating to almost the same extent we lve doubt even now that they are no lonter longer to be sold nor wl whipped whether thero there is any sueh auch dread dreadful misery among the black population of the south as among the manufacturing population of trance france the hove hovels I 1 s 1 in which aich thoy they t they ha are mere dells dens where men women and children are huddled together like pigs pig s and live the same life at lille is spun the gossamer thread of which are mader made the beautiful stockings and clovea no so well known and admired the laborers work fifteen hours a day and sleep in cellars dark damp and filthy without bed or even straw father and children together the most revolting of vices being common and not considered by them dis disgraceful race ua in one ones room there are five c children ildren lidren and still a corner is converted into a kind of cage cago and rented to a woman with a child who leaves it all day aloneo alone except to come a few moments at noon to give it food i reims is 14 celebrated fox foi its splendid catlie cathedral dral drai and its galleries of paintings the hill sides are covered with vines and the fields are rich in autumn with glowing glowin harvests the shops are fine and th the tho factories impo imposing Ang but look at the dungeons in which dwell uil ill the e poor in a room three yards ba by two an and dv llero it is impossible to stand upright alan ahlin and woman have lived nifty fifty seven years I 1 in 11 others a little larger are huddled men women and children where there is 19 no egress for smoke and the water trickles off the walls during buring tile the da dav y they they are empty as all are in the factories e except ce t the thip aged and children here are produced ro the mountains of flannel nd ind ava avalanches anches of lineal linen and fine thread go forth into all the world iii IA factories where flax is spun girls stand all day on brick brick brlek floors uno uro their ankles in water covered with rags and go home to cold rooms and meg mea ineader in eager g er miserable food woolen cloths claths are generally woodil oven by men but women dress them mend the broken places and cut knots and those who make what is called the scotch dressing spend twelve hours in in rooms warmed to seventy degrees centigrade k N to give a picture of one is to describe all with two or three esq exceptions potions the drunkenness among 0 nearly nearby all is frightful at rouen men so habitually spend their nights at inns and women so habitually went to weep before the doors that they constructed tents to shelter them dans daris pans paris letter in sac union POTATOES we have seen boiled potatoes from an untaught cook coming upon the table like lumps of yellow wax and the same article the day after under the directions of askill ful mistress appearing I 1 ill in snowy balls of f powdery hight fight lightness fightner nes J in n the one case giey gley they were thrown kil iii in their skins into water and summered suffered or boil boll as the case might be at the cooks leisure and after they were boiled to stand in the water till she was ready to peel them in the other case the potatoes loin bein being g first peeled were boiled as quickly a as possible in salted water which the moment they were done was drain adot edoff and then they gently shaken for a minute or two over oyer the fire to dry them still more thoroughly we have never yet seen he hc potatoe potatoes so depraved and given over to evil that could not be reclaimed by this molie molle mode of treatment As to fried potatoes who that remembers the crisp golden slices of the french restaurant thin as wafers and light as snow flakes does not speak speak respectfully fully of them what cousinship with these have those coarse greasy masses of sliced potatoes wholly so soggy coyt and partly burned to which we wib are created treated under the name of fried potatoes a la amer america ca mrs S stoic tre THE PUBLIC DIRT the tile secretary of the treasury has published a correct statement of the public debt as appears from the books treasurers Treasur ers returns return and requisitions in the tiie department on the of may 1865 the re recapitulation tu lation shows the amount outstanding ing bearing interest in coin to be 1108 the interest being 50 the debt bearing interest in lawful money is the interest being 60 00 52 the debt on which interest has ceased is the thip debt bearing no interest is 0 57 the total indebtedness is 50 the interest both in gold and paper being the amount of legal tender notes in circulation is 65 these include gog of the mlle new issue and EO of i the compound interest notes under the act of june jime 30 1854 the uncalled for te pay ay requisitions is wd and the amount in treasury notes oyer over the amount of fractional currency is the former official statement oagle public debt on march as a contrael cont raed ted ked with that ending with the month mont of may shows an increase in in tile the two months of two hundred and sixty eight millions and a quarter in the principal princ rapal pai pal and of nearly twenty two milli millions oils in nhi terest ii HE CO CONDITION of ur nie TILE HIE khuu ean EAL L OF AN ali EX fredel frebel A clergy man manof manbo bof the episcopal church in the somali writes to the the journal in ill an appeal for magnanimity tas foi follows 1 no logic though it reason with the irresistible resistible ir force of multitudinous executions and confiscations can convince the southern people that they have baen been guilty of any crime in poverty and ruin and universal mourning they know that they have failed You have llave successfully displayed your material mastery it is yet to be seen whether you are as generous in victory as you are irresistible in arms we accept our destiny whether right or wro wron ngwe gwo owe are powerless to resist our agriculture is 13 utterly broken brouen up aures our estates are ruined many hun hundreds dreas of our oldest and proudest mansions are in ashes our people arg are homeless in the land of their birth hundreds of our rural churches have been burn burned ed the same has been the fate of a great number of school houses and court houses there is no description that can fully convey to you an idea of the destruction to our mills foundries railroads and canals our forests have been levelled bevelled level led antl anti consumed our fields are without laborers gur pur towns and cities are without trado trae our people are without employment or the means of support our children are growing up wi without ith edri edil cation catlon our wives and maidens are sick with wa watching telling by the bedside dying and with mourning bythe by the graves of the dead and thousands of our young men pre are arc either elther in exile or prison r AN ESY sy Y exis 1 it t is f not always easy to hit upon a remunerative career which shall neither require education nor abilities neither skill capacity nor even industry and such is is our present desideratum we want an employment suitable for a gentleman all these creatures I 1 speak kfare of are so called gentlemen which shall not demand anything above the first rudiments of knowledge which shall neither exact early rising nor late retiring which can be fulfilled in any easy morning hour or if left lefi undone will entail no ev evil if results and above all which shall be well paid I 1 ask proudly is it not a triumph to our age that such a career exists and that hundreds I 1 might s say sax a thousands are now deriving from om rt ft means of ease case and enjoyment who but for it would have been in hop hopeless alesi indigence and want in tela teis age too of pestilent examination and inquiry in which tile the hAm humblest blest biest occupation must be approached through a fellowship fellow ship course what A blessing to thank there is a career that asks no test for which there is neither fitness nor unfitness and whose followers standen stand Sn gil an equality that tha teven toven even oven angels might anvyl you are impatient to know know what I 1 allude to and I 1 will not torture your eagerness if then there be of your family one too ignorant for a profession too indolent for commerce too old for the army or navy h hopelessly let lel Iet essly essiy incapable of ever evor every y effort fo for r I 1 himself 11 and drearily disposed to lie down on outliers ot others liers with a va vague ue idea that he has a vested right to smoke lie abed a bed wear lac lackeyed lack ered hered boots and have his hair dressed daily by a barber if I 1 say it be your privilege to include a creature of this order in the sus return make him a director director of what you ask Dir director of a company a joint stock coln coin company pany with a capital of raid paid up whatever everyou you like it shall beine belne slates sardinian bonds a discount bank baul at timbuctoo or refrigerators for lancas ter sound und it shall have its offices in cannon street and a great city capitalist its banker two guineas a day five when the board meets cab cabi hire lire 1 luncheon and morning papers 1 a roaring fire and a rather jocular sayle style style of conversation over the shareholders share holders and their aspirations are the rewards of office can you picture to your mind an easier existence than this laca Prag magazine azilie azille NEW NL nv 4 POWERFUL it is not many months since one of the most eminent of living expressed his bis conviction that in the production of object glasses with one twenty fifth of an an inch focus the microscope had rea reached elfed its utmost attainable limit of perfection it appeared impossible to separate or define lenses more numerous than ninety thousand in III an inch on account of the becom decomposition of light ot or some other cause and yet the one thing which are arc now lion N talking about is an object glass gims wil wll with one fiftieth of an inch focus recently made by powell lealand which was described to the royal society by dr lionel beald beale the other day tiny and was w as exhibited at the annual conversazione conversa of that society a short time since this object glass possesses double the power of the one above referred berred to and defines with wonderful distinctness particles which the other can ean cannot not render visible at all it magnifies three thousand diameters with the low eyepiece eye piece or with a number nive five eyepiece eye e ye piece fifteen thousand diameters i that is cosay one thousand five huni hun 1 dred and seventy five millions of times it must immensely imm ensly increase our knowledge of the lower or organisms anisis and may eten even aid our re researches yes in ultimate constitution of the matter tre THE THE VALUE af pp BRAINS working 1 I 1 as an ordinary hand in a philadelphia shipyard ship yard until very recently i vas was yas 4 nian man name named john dJohn L knowlton his peculiarity was that while whilo other others sot of his class were at ale houses or indulging in jollification lie he was incessantly eli ell engaged in studying upon mechanical combinations one of his companions secured a poodle dog and spent six months mon nhsin in teaching the quadruped to execute a jig upon ills his hind legs knowlton spent the same period in ili dish disc discovering some bome method by which he could saw out ship timber in a beveled forni form the first man luan taught his dog to dance knowlton in the same time I 1 discovered a mechanical combination that enabled him to do in two hours the work that would occupy a dozen doz an men leil n by slow and laborious 1 abor lous ious process to n entire day i I 1 that saw is now in use in all the shipyards of the country it cuts ae abeam ani to a curved shape as quickly as ail an ordinary sawmill saw mill saw rips up a s straight tra loht ight plank Knowlt knowlton hn continued ills liis experiments peri ments he ile took no pa part rt in ili parades or target shootings and in a short time afterwards af ter wards he secured a patent for a machine that turns any material whatever into a perfectly spherical form he ile sold a portion of his patent for fon fora forn a sum that is equivalent to a fortune the machine is now in operation in this city cleaning off cannon balls for the tho Govern government mem med when the balls come from the mould the surface is in crusted and the ordinary process of smoothing it was slow and wearisome this machine almost in an instant and with mathematical accuracy peel peels sit it to the surface of the metal at the same time smoothing out any devia devla deviations tiong from the perfect form within a few days the same plain unassuming man has invented a boring 0 machine that was tested in the presence of a number of scientific gentlemen a few days ago it bored at the rate of twenty tl two o inches an hour through a block of granite with a pressure of but three hundred pounds upon the drill A gentleman present offered him ten thousand dollars lars upon the spot for a part interest in the invention ill in europe and the onder offer was accepted on the spot I 1 the moral of all this is that people who keep on studying are sure to achieve something mr nir bowl knowlton n consider himself by any means brilliant but if once inspired with an idea he pursues it until he forces it into inton a tangible shape if everybody would follow copy the world would be less filled with idlers miers and the streets with grumblers grumbl ers and malcontents THE manufactory of st gobbin aisne aasne france has been employed six years in fabricating a lens two feet in thickness which it has now gaivenas gi given venas as a present to the observatory of paris for the large telescope in course of manufacture the power of which will exceed that of any instruments known |