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' MERICAN vac'rxoxs. As lo” ago as lS-SOâ€"four years after its Bdmlifll n as a State into the Unionâ€"the Gonerq Government granted to Iowa 3 large tract Orland, in alternate sections, on the Des Moines river, and shortly afterwards Iowa granted these lands to the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Comp my in pay- ment for improving the river for the purpose of navigation. In latter years these lands, which were nearly unoccupied, were taken up by settlers, many of whom obtained patents from the United States Government, as there was a good deal of doubt as to the ownership of the title to them, Later set- tlers either bought the “rights” of older ones or exercised the immen oria‘ frontier right of squatter sovereignty, hoping that they would ultimately obtain titles from the Government. Some of the settlers were foreignersâ€"chiefly Norwegians or Swedesâ€" others came from the neighboring sections and from Michigan. Indiana, “Virginia, North Carolina, and other States. They were as a rule, men of ordinary intelligence and industry. They have now been settled there from one to 25 years. The river-land cempany has always contested their right to the lands, and years ago the settlers com- bined to defend their claims, and have spent thousands of dollars before the various courts. A short time ago,.the United States Supreme Court decided that the company alone has title to the lands, and United States marshals have lately been busy driv- ing out the settlers. .1 ‘,LLA_,LA__3 LL_!.. Lburing the contest the latter showed their faith in the final outcame by building good houses and burns, fencing their fields, plant- ing hedges, groves and windbreaks, setting out orchards and making other sorts of farm improvements. From all of these they are now being ruthlessly expelled just as the severity of winter has set in. Some of them, it is true, have bought their holdings, pay- ing heavily for the improvements they them- selves have made upon them ; but the great majority are not able to pay the prices de- manded, and must, for the present at any rate, lose all their investments in non mov- able property. They are driven out of their houses, their furniture is piled up on the public. roads, and the doors and windows are barred against them, The sick, the old, and the children are bundled out alike. Ofli- cial carelessness in the Land Office in \Vash- ington is primarily responsible for this sufl'er- ing, and, in so far as it is, the settlers should be fully recompensed, and Iowa should see to it that none should sufier privations. Governor Larrabee shows a very favorable disposition towards the evicted settlers, and Senator Allison expresses hearty sympathy with them, and it is to be hoped that these sentiments will soon develop into material ' dvantages for the sufferers. In many parts of the country farm life is beginning to lose many of the old features, not altogether unavoidable at one time, which made the life of the women on the farm, very much that of drudges. But there is not yet a township where there are not many farms where the same drudgery yet exists ; and, with rare exceptions, the con- dition of things is inexcusable. There is many a farmer who takes care to have his stables and everything that pertains to his own work arranged so as to minimize labor and indirectly to save money, who neglects to have the same economy of time and strength studied in the arrangements of the house, the arrangements which affect the labor of his wife and daughters, and of the female help. Often this neglect is. due to downright selfishness, and will not be cured by merely calling attention to it. More often it is due to a culpable thoughtlessness with a dash of selfishness in it, as thoughtlessness generally has. But all the same the effects are bad and wasteful. Many an extra step might be saved to a tired woman, many a strain of muscle might be avoided by a little thoughtfulness, that would not only make life pleasanter to the housewife or her helpers, but would sometimes save time when time very plainly means money. A shelf here and there, a convenient box or drawer would save wearied limbs fatigue. High steps around the kitchen doors might be removed, or made easier, with advantage in the workers of the household and some- times to the prevention of doctors’ bills. Facilities for getting water might be mad: greater, and there are a hundred and one other things that come into the category of little conveniences that affect comfort and health, but which could he provided at little expense by a little thought on the part of the farmer and his sons and a little time devoted to them in hours that otherwise would be spent idly. AGRICULTURAL NOTES. “ Wheat ohafi with corn meal and bran makes a good mess for the horses." The sides of a pig made into bacon will sell for as much as the whole body.” A little sulphur onceor twice a week in the feed of moulting hens will be beneficial. If you wish to produce milk, no bull should be used whose dam is nova good milker. Scientific farming is simplv farming ac- cording to the best light that is thrown on the subject by what is now known about it. D That the pumpkin seeds are injurious to stock is known to many who do not: suspect the reason. They are strongly diuretic, and cause such flow of urine that: the animal is weakened. They make (owls grow light and stop the production of eggs whenever hens eat them freely. Fed to cows the pumpkin with its seeds does not: do half the good it Will if the seeds are removed. Prof. Morrow stll believes that this is a.‘ good time in which to buy foundstions for herds of well bred cattle, as it will be con- trary to all precedent if they long remain at prffienp Remarkab‘lg 10w grices. There is great advantage to the farmer in having something to sell all the year round. Most farmers keep a retail account at the country store, and many of them, doubtless, are often surprised how rapidly a bill will run up, especially if it is all buy and no sell on their part. The way to keep the store bill down is to have something to sell about every time you go to the shop. A gentleman named Allen not llong since called a convention for the purpose of establishing a farmers’ trust, which should protect farmers from the extortions of other trusts. In other words, he thinks trusts are a wrong to the people at large, a wicked- ness ; and he proposes, not to abolish chem, but: to add another to the number. The harness shouldbe kept well oiled and clean. It should never be hung in elm AGRICULTURAL. FARM LIFE. proximity to the stalls. The smmoniscal gases use up leather more rapidly than hard work with decent care. The short over- check is s harbarism which no humane per- son will inflict on his horse. it keeps the head and neck in & tiresome and constrained position, until it becomes absolute torture for the long-suffering horse. Dr. William Home, in 3 recent issue of Hoard's Dairyman, says: “In travelling over lnrge portions of the country I have noticed an exceedingly large quantity of smut upon the corn stalks. In fact, I do not remember ever seeing so much. Smut is a deadly poison. Many of our best cattle die every autumn and winter from the smut taken into thn stomach by eating com stalks. Before feeding corn stalks to cat- tle they should be carefully examined always. But especially this season of its prevalence.” The Mirror and Farmer says : “ No farmer need sit down and expect some one to furnish him a ready made system or plan or conducting his farm; he must make it himselfâ€"is the opinion of an acute agricul- turist." That is rightto the point and good ‘ sound sense. There is no one that under. tands the requirements ofa soil like him who has the care of it ; and so of the general management, the one who has it in charge is presumed to know more about it than any one else, and yet it is always proper to counsel with others, get their views and reasons for special modes, but then one should make his own plans. The “ Farm, Field and Stookman ” says ; Now that the “long days ” of work are about over for a season, the farmer besides reading for his own benefit, and planning for his next year’s work in the field, should i give his attention to the teaching of his boys. This is the most important work for all con- cerned, and should be entered upon Without fail. When fully occupied with the active duties of the busy season on the farm, the family was more or less neglected, but from now until spring, around the cheerful fire, or comfortable stove, the family circle should nightly gather, and an hour or two be pro- fitably spent in social conversation, study and reading. There is something very at- tractive about winter evenings thus spent, and every farmer should look forward to the coming of such occasions with pleasure, and a determination that they shall be made profitable to himself and each member of his family circle. ‘ A simple and efficient device has been in use for several years in France which re- lieves a horse from the severe strain that accompanies the starting of a heavy load. In cities especially such contrivances are needed, and most of all by the usually over- driven street-car horse. The device consists in a spiral spring, of power in proportion to the average load carried, and which is at- tached to the end of the trace. The horses at the Eastern Railway depot in Paris, where the springs have been used for six years in shifting cars. show an improvement since that time in general soundness of condition, While the number of sore and strained necks has greatly diminished. There has also been a large saving in the way of broken harness. The same idea has been applied to plowing harness, and was, we believe. among the exhibits of farming implements at the State Fair of New Jersey this year. It doesn’t cost so very much to kill men in the west. Of course you cannot cut or shoot a man down with impunity, and murder is sometimes as severely punished there as it is anywhere else; but what I mean to say is that it doesn’t cost much to kill a man by accident. You frequent- ly hear of cave ins in mines or fractured skulls by falling down winzes or shafts, and the filought that comes to you natur- ally is that the mine owners have to pay $5,000 or $170,000 damages, That isn't so. 010,va v. vnv’vvv an"... .... uuuuu 5-.., .. . -v. A short while ago four men were killed in a mine near Leadville. They were Ital- ians, and the wid1wa or families of the men were more than delighted to receive $1,000 and the funeral expenses. In the same mine more than ten men have been killed, and never more than 31000 has been paid. The plan in the west, when a man is killed in a mine and the company is somewhat to blame, is to go right to the heirs and make a settlement. Most of the laborers are Italians, and their people take $1,000 as quickly as it is of- fared. Two coppersmiths out of employment in Hankow privately formeda little company to make copper cash, and began theiroperations for some reason by melting down about eight pounds of imperial copper coins. The band had made but little progress in their secret trade, having only manufactured altogether some 10~000 coins, equivalent to little more than £3, when they were capâ€" tured, tried and condemned. According to report, the ringleader was sentenced to immediate decapitation for melting down coin of the realm; the next, who hans assisted in the work of coinin, was sen- tenced to decapitation after imprisonment ; while two others, who had polished the spurious coins, and the last, who acted as bookkeeper, were treated not as principals, but as acCessories, liable totransportatlon to Turkestan and employment as slaves to the troops thereâ€"a fate believed to be worse than immediate decapitation. Some other men, who seem to have had nothing to do with the coining itself, but acted as domestic servants to the principals, received sentences of three years' banishment and a hundred l blows each.-[Pekin Gazette. “ Grovelling Before the Yankess" \Vhenever a Canadian paper discusses an international question with a little more breadth of View than usual, its esteemed contemporaries jump on it with the cry that it is “ yroveliing before the Yankees." There is nothing that the average Canadian hates more in his paper than broad and comprehensive views on any subject. Probably the most fortunate of all popular song-writers from a financial point of view in Frank Howard, whose income from his first song hit, “ Only & PWY Blossom.” is said to have been more thin! 53.000 in a single 3 year. Before his death recently a ChicagoGer-man confessed that be and another man fired a Prussian village over forty years ago. His partner in crime is a prosperous Prussian merchant, and the dying confession has been forwarded to the German consul in Cincin- Counterfeiters’ Fate in China. Cost of Killing a Man. Its oddllles Have No Counter-part In West- ern Architecture. How to describe a Japanese house. where nothing is like anything corresponding to it at home? From the outside it is an unin- vlting big black barn ; inside it is alspotless doll’s house magnified a thousand diameters, all wood and wicker and white paper. The entrance hall is a platform raised a couple of feet above the ground, where you take off your boots if you are a foreigner, or leave your sandals if you are a Japanese. A screen door slides back and you are inâ€"but that depends on circumstances. bometimes you are in one room and sometimes in another. It may be a general sittiug‘room, fifty feet square; it may be a bedroom (if you call early in the morning); or you may find yourself in an impoverished sanctum and intruding upon somebody writing la- bored descriptions for a faraway press. For here walls have not only ears, hut they have legs, and when you wish to make a new room you simply “form square" by sliding enough panel in their grooves to enclose the space, or at your plea- sure all the rooms can be thrown into one, lnclosed, in our case, by forty-six panels. Those forming the sides of the house consist each of sixty little paper panes. To wet one’s finger, stick it silently into the window, and peep through,â€"-this is the natural Japa- nese counterpart of accidental surreptitious inspection by the keyhole. The floor fs of mats; not mats strewed about a at home, but solid structures 0t delicate stuffed wicker 3 an inch thick. of conventional and regular size, ‘ let into the floorâ€"elastic. spotless. immova ble, never profaned by even the dainti est of slippers. Chairs and tables are, of course, unknown, and the posture of repose is to seat oneself on one’s heels. This squatting, by the way. is very painful at first, and, like the “blameless dances" in "Ruddigore," “takes a deal of training." At meal times squat anywhere and your food is placed before you. When you are tired you throw yourself anywhere on the floor, with no fear of soiling your white linen suit. When evening comes you do not seek your bed chamber ; you simply make it, by sliding the walls around the spot you have chosen for your slumbers. The rough and ready way according to my American friend. is to tread around on the floor till you find a specially soft mat. and then lay a few walls upon it for a couch. Amore luxurious one is to haves futon or thick quilt spread out, and roll yourself in a rug or blanket upon it. The chief drawback for a foreigner is that his hip bone, which is more prominent than that of a Japanese, is terribly in the way, and my journalism not having yet advanced to graduation upon the plank bed, I have not learned the trick of obliterating the natural projections of the body. But you sleep comfortably in spite of the marauding rat, whose immunity from attack has rendered him equally inquisitive and harmless, and in the morning when you return from the bath,bed and bedroom have alike disap- peared. It is the story of Aladdin domesti- cated. 1n the Streets of St. Petersburg. All the main streets are alive with droschkies. Their horses are, as a rule, small ; but they go fairly well, and they are surprisingly cheap. Fares are always settled by bargain. Absolute free trade prevails in this despotic land. There is no tariff. Fares are fixed by the higgl'mg of the market, so beloved by the political economist, and a lively higgling it is, es: pecially when you do not know a word of Russian, and the isvostchik is equal- ly innocent of any language but his own. I never found any difliculty. _ You make a. signal, and down swoop upon you all the isvostchiks within sight, each eager for your custom. Holding up the coin of the realm which you are willing to give fcr the ride, you mention your é estinacion. A chorus of protests bursts out, which pre- sumably throw scorn upon your ofi‘er, but to you it is as the chattering of 'crows. You then walk ofl‘, followed by one or more isvoetchiks, to whom you renew your offer. Seeing you are obdurate. one of them will cry “ pojalooyte,” you jump in, and the bar- gain is complete. The driver sits on a porch in front of you ; you sit behind, on a seal: which will hold two. As there is no rest for the back the lady is supported by the arm of her fellow traveller‘ a custom which has a very pretty efl'ect, and is apparently very popular. A Curious Broadway Lunch Boom. One of the most curious varieties of lunch room is down town in Broadway. No chairs are provided, both sides of the room being lined with shelves loaded with viands, all clearly marked with their different prices. In here rush bankers, lawyers, brokers and clerks, Each grabs a plate, knife, spoon, fork and cup, seizes what he likes from the shelves, bolts it standing, reckons up his own bill, draws a check from a pile near the door for an equal amount, presents it at the desk, pays and departs, unquestioned wheâ€" ther he has eaten a dime or a dollar’s worth. This method of trusting to customers’ hon- esty is found to pay better with the class of men who eat there than hiring waiters. Undoubtedly a certain quantity is eaten that is not paid for, but a dozen practiced detectives are on the floor during the rush hours at noon, watching people who are suspected, and the amazing rapidity with l which a man can help himself, swallow and be gone, makes the place highly popular lvith men who only eat to live, and live only to hurry.â€"[New York Tribune. The paper on which bank notes are print- ed is called “distinctve paper," being used exclusiver by the government: for the printing of bonds and current notes. The mills where it is manufactured are at Glen Falls, West Chester county, Penn. An agent of the treasury departments receives the paper direct from the hands of the manufacturer, and every precaution is ob- served in order to prevent any loss. Short scraps of red silk are mixed with the liquid pulp in_en engine. {â€"1. ... _ __ The finishecd material is conduct to a wire cloth without passing through any screens, which might retain the silken threads. An arrangement above the wire cloth scatters a. shower of the fine scraps of blue silk thread, which falls upon the paper while it is being formed. The side on which the blue silk is deposited is used for the back of notes. and the threads are so deeply imbedded as to remain permanently fixed. Each sheet is registered as soonxss it is made.â€"-[Rshoboth Sunday Hesrld. Silk Threads in Bank Notes. A JAPANESE HOUSE. An All-Rail Route Around the World. A few weeks ago an editorial appeared in the "Oregonian" discussing the feasiblity of constructing a railroad from the United States along the Alaskan shore to Behring’s Straits to connect with a Russian railroad through Siberia to St. Petersburg, thus giving an all»rail route practically around the world. The despatches of last Sunday from San Francisco, tell of a traveller, trader, and minor, John W. Webber, at nrescnt in San Francisco, whose residence is Kodiak, Alaska, who confidently predicts the construction within the next ten years of just such a road, and declares it perfectly feasible. He says snow is never an obstacle along the Alaska coast, owing to the influ- ence of the Japan currant, and as for Behr- ing‘s Straits, they are only thirty miles wide and so dotted with islands that bridg- ing would be made practicable. He speaks of Minneapolis people who are projecting the enterprise under consideration, and says that he has been down the Himalaya mountains through which the lines propose- ed will extend to Pekin.China, and Irkutsk, Siberia, and declares that the products of the country will abundantly justify the cost of building the road. He concludes by say- ing 2 “0f the resources to be developed the the world is sceptical, but just as sure as the world moves that road will be built, and it will carry thousands of passengers and millions of tons of freight, and it will pay. Ten years will see it completed." â€"[Portland Oregonian. Don't put R. S. V. P. on your present your ricn uncle. Don't misspell the word “ presence " the invitations to your Christmas party. Don't hang up rmore than three pairs of stockings if you are visiting friends in the country. Don't out two mince pies, a. plum pud- ding, lobater Salad, and ice-cream, and then complain that the climate does not agree with you. Don't impersonate Santa Claus in a. seal- akin sacque, rubber boots, and auburn aide whiskers. Don't give your guest who has oval-staid his welcome a. travelling bag. Don't send the unreceipted bill for her present to your fiancee in mistake for a Christmas card. Don't decline a. present simply because the expresaage or postage has not been prepaid. 7 Don't attribute your bonbon headache to the drum your enemy sent your son. Don't borrow money from your friend to pay for his present. Don't present your wife with a handsome mahogany cigar-box ; and Don't expect your husband to be pleased if you give him an ivory backed hand-mirror. â€" [Harper’s Magazine. France has enjoyed the reputation of a much-drinking, but little-drunken country. Pure wines were plenty and cheap, and there was no swilling of strong spirits and drug- concocted liquors. Consequently the evils of intoxication were less prevalent than in many other lands. With the advent of the phylloxera and the wholesale failure of vine- yards all this has changed until France has become a hopeful competitor for the palm of drunkenness. Recent Government reports show a startling increase in the number of crimes and cases of insanity due to alcohol- ism, and now a detailed statement by M.‘ Laborde, of the Academy of Medicine, -re- veals the root of the evil. According to M. Laborde the manufacture of spurious liquors is conducted on an enormous scale, both in Paris and in provincial towns, and no at- tempt is made to conceal it. A very large proportion of tie wines and spirits used are ‘ of this sort. And not only are these liquors great in quantity, but their quality is vile almost beyond description. Besides the familiar Indian hemp, nitro-benzol, and other products of the laboratory, poisonous in the extreme, such loathsome ingredients as hippuric acid, made from the drainings of stables, are freely used. The effect of such stuff upon the bodies and minds of the drinkers is of course ruinous. The Govern- ment is now about to order the classification ofwines under the heads “natural,” “ manu- factured,” and “ raisin," but shows no dis- position to interfere with the manufacture and sale of these liquid poisons. Bells 0! Christmas. Speak to my heart. ya desthless, merry chimes ! Ever rejuvenate voices. outward sent Across the lanes and streets, whereby are rent The walls, which hold within them virtues, crimes, In medley vast. Speak, bells! in these bleak times, And bind, as it were by tuneful sacrament, My heart and others’ hearts, until are blenu All discards ’neath your mirth-re-echoing Ring out, 0 jubilant, 0 silvery clear! Bell-children of the churches’ soaring tow- ers 1 Fill sky. flood earth, and thrill the ocean’s drear, Dread deeps! Wake song more sweet than June rose showers 0n violets, until no soul shall fear That Love is not supremeâ€"the Power of See how in a living swarm they come From thei1 chambers beyond that misty ve Some hover ’a.while in air, and some Rush prone from the sky like the summer hail. Here delicate snow stars, out of the cloud, Come floating downward in airy play, Like apt-angles dropped from the glistening crowd, The sage hath watched its court-1e afar, And pondered it apart, Till 10 l the stow of that star Beams in upon his heart, And brightly rises on his soul The legend of its burning scroll ! That whiten'by night the Milky “'ay. rhymes .! powers 1 Yule-Tide Dont's Star in the East. French Wines. Snow-Flakes. Canadian lewbreakers will now have to think twice before mLing refuge in Mexico, as an extradition treaty, between the: coun- try and (Heat Britain, in which our Ottawa authorities have heartily concurred, is all but definitely concluded. It is very sweep- ina in its embraces, and includes no fewer that 73 offences, from threats to extort mon- ey up no dynamitnrdism and murder. One must not yet give up all hope that Stanley is safe aui sound after all, accord, ing to some recent despatchee which assert that the explorer is proceeding at the beak of the great oil rivers under the protection of the British Flag, and that the natives are friendly. Oi course everyone will hope that this is true, and will be delighted to believe that the plucky little man is getting through. \Ve hear so cmstantiy that the “relations” between this. that ani the other powers are becoming so “struxued’ the: as a rule we pay no great attention to any new announcement in that line. The latest "strain" is said to be between Russia and Persia, consequent upon Muscovibe jealousy of British ascendancy of influence in the country of the Shah. 0f the 1‘28 young men who have graduated from the Canadian Royal Military College, and the 33 who obtained their discharge be- fore graduation, about 45 per cent. are in the British army, or servin as civil engin- eers elsewhere than in Cans a. while some 31 per cent. are engaged in various occups- tions, more or less of a military or civil en- gineering nature, in this country. Twenty- fcur of them are civil engineers, 12 are in the civil service, 4 in the Regiment of (Isn- sdinn Artillery, 2 in the Infantry School Corps, 6 In the Mounted Police, 2 are in- structors in the Military College, and the rest are engaged in miscellaneous employ- } ments. General Harrison is to be inaugurated as President of the United States with a splen- dour thet is expected to outshine the radiance of any similar event in the history of the Republic. His party are so gleeful at getting back to power that they intend to spare neither time, pains nor money to impress both friends and foes with the fact that it is a. Republican President who is being en- throned. Already every hotel and boarding house in Washington is over-run with appli- cations from those who wish to see the pa.- geant, bu b, strange to say, with aself-restraint that does them credit, the hotel keepers it is said have agreed to stick to the ordinary transient rates, instead of making the hay which so much sunshine might naturally be expected to ripen very rapidly. The military display will be the most imposing thing of its kind since that immortal arade after the close of the civil war, and hat with illum- inations and other grandeurs. the expense is not likely to be less than $75,000, and it may be a great deal more. For reasons which appeared to him to justify such a course King Milan of Servia has secured a divorce from his wife Natalie. He is not done With her 'yet, however, and is likely to learn by bitter personal exper- ience the truth of the saying that “ hell has no fury like a woman scorned." The way in which this particular woman who has been sccrned is likely to show herself a fury. is by publishing a. number of letters in which she says the real reasons are revealed why the king was so anxions for the divorce. Milan professes to be under no alarm at this threat because he says he knows Natalie well enough to rest assured that she would never condescend to such a way of taking revenge. His confidence is likely to prove illrfounded, however, for the ex-Queen has entrusted her original documents to her banker, and given copies of them to an in- timate lady friend with instructions to pub- lish them at once upon certain eventualities. Just what these eventualitics are is not cer- tain, but the likelihood seems to be that a certain class of high-spiced, popular litera- ture will be enriched by additions from the hands of their Servian majesties. The wholesale evictions of Ireland have found a parallel in those which occurred a few days ago in Iowa. It appears that a number of farmers bought their lands from a corporation, the title of which proved to be invalid. Some of the farmers had occu- pied their lands for thirty years. It is said that when the decision of the court of last resort confirmed the title of the claimant he acted in a curiously harsh and oppressive way by turning out some of the occupants without notice at the beginning of Winter, and by refusing to others the opportunity to buy their farms at any price. In one cast a family was turned out and left to sleep on the road by the side of their furniture, a half-mile distant from their old home; in another case a man and h's wife, with four children, one of them a. six mouths’ old baby. and another a little boy with the croup, were unceremoniously ejected from their house. The evicted persons obeyed the law without murmur, but it is reported that there is a strong public sentiment against the action of the UnitedDStates marshals. The New York “Times” thinks that “ if the winter should pass without the destruc- tion of all the buildings put up by the men who have been thus driven from them it would be very wonderful. Opinions will probably difi'er upon the question whether or not it would be creditable to the evicted farmers and their neighbours.” The French papers have been narrating the adventures of a body of French soldiers, 250 in number, invalide without exception, who left Saigon on the 25th of last April on their return to France. The troop-ship in which they sailed ran aground at Colombo, and, as she wnaunable to continue the voy. age,fhe men were put on board aRusaien steamer, which, however. were on her way, not to France, but to Saigon, where they were duly landed. After some days of mis- eryâ€"for the men had nothing to wear, hav- ing lost all their baggage. and next to noth- ing to eatâ€"they started on their return journey once more. They got as for an Suez this time; but their the ship broke down and they were sent ashore. After a weary wait of twelve days a French tran- sport have in eight and took them on bonrd. But she, too, sajt turned out.. was bound, no: for Toulon, but: for Tonquin, and thitfi’. er the poor fellows were transported a, second time. Finally, they sailed for home again onthe 9th of July, and reached,Toulon on the 13th of August, having taken four months to accomplish a journey which new. y occupies four weeks.â€"Ez. They Got There at Last. )llSl‘ELL \NEOI’S.