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Bnglish historian, oloqucntly says, alludng to the Durwiniaii theory oï' the deseent of in:m : "It may be tena - I, for ony, cure not if it bo - that the descent of ouv mortal bodies may bo traccd througli an ascending sorios to soino glutinoua lly, formed on the rocks of the primeval ooeao. It is nothing to me how the Maker of me has been pleased to construct the orgauized substance whioh I cali ruy body. It is mine, bnt not me] Tlie intcllcctual spirit, bcing an ossence, wc believo to be an imperishable Bomeihing engondcred in us from a Jiigher source. In the United States Circuit Court at 3oston, Saturday, the jury roturned a veidict in favor of E. F. Huyes m. The ihcenix Life Insurance Compauy, which 108 resiated the payment of a policy of 110,000 to the mother of John E. Hays, editor of the Savannah (Georgia) Sapub(■n a, who was assaulted and iniprisoned n that city in 1809, and died from injuries received. The amount included in ho vordict was $11,406. Tlicre is an ico factory in New Orlcans vhieh turns out sixteen tons of ice per lay, running six machines, which cost 20,000 in gold. The water is pumped up from the Mississippi, purified and f rozm into blocks about two foet long, one oot wide, and threo inches tliick. These works were established in 1S6IJ. The Santo Domingo report and aecomjanying documents are at last completed md will be issued next week. As no orler for printing was male by either llousc, only about 1,500 copies will be ssued. The agricultural report for 1870 is already in press, and most of it will be priniod by August. Bound volumes will be ready for distribution in October, at cast a month earlier than usual. In excavating the ground for the now city hall in San Francisco, the body of a 11:111 with four aces and "kings full" up lia sloove was dug up. Which his name is supposed to have been Kye. A magnificant, palaco car made wholy of California and ilexican ornamental wood, left San Franscisco for tho East on Friday. It will probably be taken to Washington and presentod to the President. Senator Schurz is preparing to enter ;he lecture fiild during the coming f all, and has just deolined an oifer of an amnt o arrange for a course of two lmndred eetures on Mormonisin. Sphniz has not yet detènmned what his subject will be. Statistics show that there is about orne times as much coffeo consumed in t!ie United States as in Great Britain, and nearly throe times as much toa consuinod in Great Britain as in tho United States.