The Lecture Of Dr. Douglass

On Fridav ovening of lus! week oiir fel'ow citizen, Dr. Docgla-s, lectuivd to a "'small and seluct audiencc," in Hagsterfer'a Hall, iipon Electricity; illuatratii) his ram&rko by an exhibition of the mngnificent apparnüis of the Univcrsityi inclading the now and poworini "Khiimkorf Ooil" m improved and jiorfectod by Ritchib, of Boston, and a number of Geslor's Tubos. The leelure was interosting and ir.structive, and tlis expfiiments were beautifu!, brilliant and wooderful. Those who did not witncss the eybibition can hava no idea ! of what may be done with elautrioitvi or of the part 't perfortns in tbe economy of mature, It does not tel] well for the taste of our community that the hall was not fillt'd on the occafion. At this seat of loarning and science, leotures upon ■oientifio ubjeota cortainly ought to be better ippreciated and nioro generally patroniped, espeeially wheo it is an nouncod that the procoedn are devoted to the public nstead of the private benefit. JETS" Ralph Fakbbam, the last surviving soldier of the battle of Bunker Bill, died at the residence of hia son in Aeton, Maino, on Thursday morning of last week. ílis age was 104 year, 5 monthi, and 15 days. JCS" Hoii. E O. Grosvenor and W. J. Well, of this State, are namcd in the bilí wbich has passcd the House and is now pending in the Senate, as two of the Corporato;s of the Northern Branch of the Pacific Railroad.