Show THE PUBLIC DEBT THE SEP MEMBER oember STATE STATEMENT MENT the following lat is is i capitulation i of the public adert debt as appears from the books ot of the treasury returns andre and requisitions in the department on the pi pt september last I 1 M 4 nei dei debt bearing beaning r 4 interest 1 1 in coin coln 80 interest 50 debt bearing interest in calv lawful ful fui mon won anoney 0 44 i I 1 interest debt on which interest has creased 09 debt bedding no interest 84 total amount out outstanding 17 tota interest 23 25 legal tenar tender notes in circulation one and ana swo two 5 ears 5 per cent notes 3 00 I 1 cited states notes old issues SO ar 0 00 notes new issues 00 compound interest notes act oft of i s yc ar e it a X 09 C aund interest notes act of J jane ne A 0 olg 00 r J total k y y 00 As compare compared du with the e statement tor big bli august dt there is a reduction of the public debt abt of nearly and andouin of in terest over aix and also aiso a deduct reduction on of of legal tender notes in circulation cu lation amount in the treasury treasure coin 32 4 0 7 3 13 3 amount tn the treasury curino 13 1 1 total sp so showing showing a nearly of coin coln as compared wit with august statement and an increase of of currency the amount of fractional currency is an increase of there has been an increase of the june 30 1864 five twenty bonds 0 of f and of the july 11 1862 six sis percent per cent temporary emp loan of nearly and of the march 1 1862 certificates of indebtedness a reduction of over secretary of the treasury mcculloch has issued a circular giving notice to holders of certificates ofa osa of indebtedness which mature the firs first t day y of january next nest of compound interest notes and of one and two year treasury notes of the readiness of the tiie department to give in Ia exchange for them to the extent of 50 six pen pec ce cent ut five twenty ivear year bonds at three per cent premium y N Y tribune PLAt PLAGUES lum here is a sad chronicle of plagues at rome borne nearly eight hundred drea years ago A D soi sa a pestilence slew slow t we are told people daily in iii the years and pestilence again ravaged the roman empire in britain A D so many people were swept away that there were hardly enough left to bury their dead at constantinople 9 people perished in england so william of malmesbury tells us the plague was so great in that in and about ohi ohl chester people perished in 1111 holinshed tells tens us of a dreadful pestilence e nee nce in london in which thousands of people cattle fowls and other domestic animals perished and it is said that at paris and in the south of france the same process has just begun by the death of the fowls in ireland in 1204 1264 a prodigious number perished in 1340 the black death raged in italy and in 13 1348 1318 IS the plague described by boccaccio raged over europe causing a fearful mortality we lere herein in england suffered severely in london alone in the year 1348 when the plague at florence described by boccaccio took place people were burled buried buried burled daily at the charterhouse charter house again we were visited by plague in 1367 ireland in 1407 and again in 1478 when people were slain by pestilence in london alone and throughout eng jand land more persons were slain b by disease than by the fifteen preceding years of war in 1485 1495 we were cut down by the Angll Ang licus cus the sweating sickness and this again broke out in 1499 1500 so 0 drea dreadfully again ful fui in london that henry VIL and his court removed to calais and so on we need not follow the quick coming years that brought the trouble in 1611 igil I 1 perished at constantinople in 1664 5 the great plague called so probably because most remembered carried off persons defoe gives the number at infants wrote he in a fiction unequalled unequal led for its its terrible pictures save by the reality passed at once hrom krom from the womb to the grave the yet healthy child hung upon the putrid breast of the dead mother and the nuptial bed was changed into a sepulchre some of the affected ran about staggering like drunken men and fell and expired in the streets while others calmly laid down never to ris nise rise again eaglin save bave at the last trumpet at leg length legal tl in the middle of september more than perished in one week in one night died and in the whole not as has been stated but perished in this plague the appalling cry bring out your dead deau thrilled through every soul family herald VALUABLE LE disc discoveries ovaries two rench french F discoveries of meri merit have been recorded lately one which is authentic enables copper smelters shelters sm elters to utilize their pestiferous smoke so perfectly that mr vivian head of the greatest firm in swansea says he shall be bp able to turn out 1000 tons of sulp sulphuric hurit acid p per ner er week restoring incidentally lm many ny thousands acres of tand land land to cultivation the other which is less authentic is a new mode of tanning in turpentine said to be bo so rapid that 12 hours will tan a skin at half the former cost i A VALUABLE RECEIPT tho the mien klen scientific emerlean Ameri fm erlean gan ean says the unpleasant odor produced by perspiration is frequently qu a source of vexation to persons who are subject to it nothing f ism sim than to remove this odor much more effectually than by the applina tiou tion of such and perfumes as are in use it is only necessary to pro cure some of the eom com compound ua spirits of ammonia and place I 1 e about about i two ax 0 table spoonfuls in a ga basin sin of water ash washing the face haugsand haud hands sand and arms leaves the skin as clean sweet and freh froh a as one could wish the wash is perfectly harmless and very cheap it is recommended on the authority of an experienced physician THE MALE AND FEMALE VOICE nature alone has given the human being two distinct kinds of voice t that at 1 are again divided and subdivided sub divided 11 in n order to make the causes of this clear let us cast a glance at one of the simplest laws of tonal vibration for example we take a string of a certain length and strength and give it a certain tension if with a bow or simply with the finger we set it in motion we shall perceive a tone which we shall call C here is another str string I 1 of the same strength and tension b but u only half the length of the last if we set itin it in motion it also gives out the tone C but not t ane e same it is finer higher more penetrating tra ting if we now strike both stil strings 1 we p perceive ercelle this difference more distinctly tin otly otis ly and recognize that peculiar unison which musicians term octaves in order to give forth the high C the short string is obliged to give forth twice as many vibrations as the long but in the same time without knowing in I 1 or willing willin it we obey the same laws 0 of vibration ask a young girl to sing an air that has just been sung by a man and in the same key she will sing it an octave higher the finer and more delicate voice volee of a woman makes mare more vibrations in the same time than thant that of a man and is higher from that cause the woman is the octave the tho half of the man the good citizens who call their wives their hetten better h halves alvet are right speaking T the e octave exists through the might cf the right divine in the male maie and female voice there are a again pin two principal subdivisions sub divisions man sings tenor or bass D esq tsy woman contralto co n gralto or soprano so the contral contralto tois is the octave of the baiss baess ss the soprano the octave of the tenor each of those voices has its own peculiar character that does not depend merely on coin eoin compass ass or on full fullness fiess but rather on tone cor cof coloring dorng ba musical review THE UNDER RAILWAY in I 1 london is is found to be a great convenience veni ence A correspondent of the new york jom jow journal nal of commerce writes as follows a it is ip the best heist means of relieving the over 0 var crowded streets as thousands of people avail themselves of this great institution ution to reach any end or place of london bohdon in a very comfortable and cheap way and in a comparan com comparatively ively short space of time the trains leave every ave nive five or ten tell minutes according to circumstances and stop at the intermediate stations just long enough 0 to set down and take up passengers making a distance tan ce say for instance the battery to union square in about ten minutes they run 2 ad ad and ad class carria carriages es well fitted up and lit with gas thus knablin enabling passengers to read newspapers ac they tiey use fine strong locomotives consuming their own smoke thus thug keeping the air in the long tunnels perfectly clear and healthy the speed between the stations is very fast the trade traffic is enormously great and makes me thinly thinh how well such a 1 toad road would answer in new now york under broadway from battery to central park VICE PRESIDENT HAMLIN HAM IX TAKES CARE cane OF ms his FAMILY the bangor je jeffersonian erso nian in in two wo 0 erthree or t three ree consecutive issues has anfor d the public that maj charles ham hamlin ienir has been promoted for meritorious services during the war it has not deigned to advise the public what these services weid weld were but so far as we are informed they consist in having lived luxuriously in washington durin duning during about the entire war in what the se soldiers Idlers term a soft place 11 securely beyond the reach of bullets and drawing a comfortable stipend end of three thousand thousand three hundred collars dollars per annum from uncle sam J the other conof son of the ex vlee vice preal grebl dent has had about as hard a the major down dowa about new orleans where with the rank and pay liay adier adler beneral general about ier per annum lie he has managed to live very elegantly leisurely ana and securely the ex vice presidents brother r has been kept since march in a mere sinecure at per annum paid in gold and his son has been foisted to the medical staff of the regular army with the rank and pay of a lieutenant colonel per annum in jn addition to nir nil these positions of the family the gentleman who a few months sin since e became mr hamlins hamkins Ham lins son inlaw in law was at once made a paymaster per annum and if today to day the ex vlee vice dent has a brother son son in ln lawior law or nephew who is not quartered tired an on the government at a very vary fat salary we should be glad to know it and this 1 4 only one of the instances of nepotism one of the many instances of whole famil lekin office th vice president is now in washington endeavoring to save his family from arm the effects of the general muster out chichas ehas coils return returning ing so man many y really gallant men from the service fex tex t ex er NEW artificial LIGHT james wilkinson of chelsea is endeavoring to rival the magnesium light for photographic purposes by means of a mixture of phosphorous and nitrate of potash he recently burnt a quarter of a pound of this mixture in his garden at night with a view to obtain a photograph heing eln of a wind engine which was being ein g erected in an adjo adjoining inin garden arden and he states that the lengthy length of time from when it was first lit until it was finally burnt out was nearly six minutes the utmost cost was a fraction over the reflection of the light might ht be seen for two miles round so bright was it that the fire file engine authorities ties mistook it for an ordinary conflagration and hurried their engines to the spot upon finding no trace of fire they returned rather chagrined not however without first satisfying themselves by a thorough examination of the premises all around aund appeared one blaze of light the sky looked like a mass of fire the picture taken during this startling illumination came out we are told with great sharpness a and n d vividness the houses near being brought out prominently it in fact equaled any picture taken on a bright day Mechanics 1 magazine 1 RAILROAD ACCIDENTS the tribune gives the running history of rail rall railroad roid accidents the past year with the following recapitulation and remarks disasters due to collision 23 rotten kotten cross ties broken rails ralis i ac jis dis jis J is turning curves curtes 4 badly built and rotten bridges ta bursting of engines 3 defective locomotives 2 absence of double track raised drawbridges landslide broken culvert absence or defect of lights and si signals n t is ia 21 onto horses cows and de fricks derricks 4 trifling with brakes bi akes 1 l torawo misplaced switches R es i culpability of companies or employees about 45 LOSSES AND MORTALITY passengers killed or mortally wounded WO passengers burned to death about 35 cases of injury in every form goo trains more or less demolished V 67 the value of the property destroyed esti oyed or hopelessly damaged including baggage freight mails malls personal effects ruined trains bridges and machinery it would be vain to attempt computing adding the cost of inquest claimed damages doctors and undertakers bills 1 we would not dare to reckon it shor short of in barren figures but moral loss must be far greater A who had attended a meeting of the anthropological society was asked by a friend what wha the learned gentlemen had been sa saying i n welli well weil I 1 dont donst exactly know 71 he s said sald i therefore were many things f I 1 could not hot ot understand but there was one thing I 1 I 1 made out they believe that we have come from monkeys and I 1 as S how they were fast getting back at again ain aln to where they came from I 1 when henry VIII sent an offer of his hand to the princess of parma she he replied that she was greatly obliged to his majesty for his compliment and that if she had two heads one of them should be at his service but as she had only one she could not spare eliat 1 I 1 mourn for my bleeding country IP said sald a certain army contractor to general sheridan so you ought you scoundrel 1 I 1 replied sheridan for nobody has bled her more than you have EGYPT has this year been obliged to have recourse to odessa oddessa for lar large ejup supplies of wheat the export tj trade ne from odessa to alexandria lids has accordingly been unusually animated AN anti butter league was ford form ed in boston last week the member tot of which determined to purchase burone pound of butter per week for fbi their families i fj AT the recent cheese fair i inlew iclef blew york a cheese chees 0 was exhibited wh which 1 eh weighed 4 ibs lbs and measured five deec feet in diameter and two feet four inches in thickness it was said to have been sold at 17 cents per ib in utica for shipment to Eu england gland giand |