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2 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1872. ——_ - - - s e _ W / e Y ., NEW PUBLISATIONS, witl the Actsof Aipkabetical Table of he Socane Ful e dex, and F % E. DnessER. New Y rper & Dioa. 1872, Harper Bros. iesuo these manuals yearly. They aro compiled with care, and are of great w2e in the counting-room. The preeeat anuuel gives the present tarif end internal taxes as they havo been changed by the act of June 6, 1872, which will reduce tho taxes by shout $53,- 002,000, of which §31,630,030 will be taken from the customs duiies, end about $21,400,000 from the internal texcs. SOCIAL ECONOXY, 1 TuoroLp ROGERS, Beicuce, University of utusm & Soms, Chi- cago : Janser, 3¢ This work, which Las beon ravised for Amer- ican readers, is an altempt to give instruction in the rudiments of social science, in such lan- gunge and form es to make the subject clear to the youngest studenis. 3Ir. Rogers, the acthor, is a patient and faithful student, if not brilliant investigator, and is best Imown for his admirable edition of the works of Adam Smith, and his History of Agriculture and Prices in England. The subject of sosial econ- omy is introduced by contrasting the difference ‘between the lifo of savages aud of civilized man, and elucidating its causes. The subjects dis- cussed aro rent, wages, co-operation, prices, proiits, money, the relations of employer and employed, parent and child, education, govern- ment, taxes, poor laws, 2ad kindred topics. The treatment of them is very elementery; under the head of money, for instince, the difiicult problems of banking and currency zre merely raferred to. IIr. Rogers is & Free-Trader, 2nd, in his chapter cn Restzaints on Buying and Sell- ing, exposes the operation of Protective legls- tion. The American editor offsets this by a note sleting that the questionis ** too complicat- ed to be discussed Lere.” The book is free from technical ergumentsand technical language, and is 2 good guide o socizl ecionce, boih for those who are children in years and children in politieal economy. HOW TO EDUCATE YOURSELF, WITH OR WITH- OGT_MASTERS, By Georgt Cany EGGLESTON. Now York: G. P, Putnzm & Sope, Chicago: Jausen, AlcClurg & Co. Even those who have learned Profeesors, and 2ll the accessories of modern schools and uni- versities, about them, must educate themselves. Alr. Eggleston denies neither this fact, nor the converse, thet self-education is more likely to be complate end symmetrical with these guides than withoat them. But, though it ‘might nob Tio well to send students of Geology to follow Hugh Miller in tle stone-quarries, or to study Divinity with Robert Collrer at the nuvil, there are many who must delvc, and forge, and ham- mer, and who must learn, if st all, without col- Jegiato gowns, and class-rooms, and Faculties. For theee, 3r. Egzleston writes. What such ay do is shown by the fact that Mr. Howells, the presunt cditor of tho Atlantic Monthly.—a scholar, o poct, 2n auther, and a critic, with very fow eoperiors in America in the matter of re- fined and varied culture,—left school tolean a trade st the ago of 10, and hes rever had a mas- ter sincs. Mr. Eggleston shows how tomark out 2 course of study, ard how to avoid_the large proportion of useless work expended in the public schools. He tt;hces especial strees upon the study of English. The ciassical and seientific schools are esch commended. Languages, the higher mathematics, phrsical scicnce, morel and intel- lectual science, are discussed, and valuable sug- gestions given for their acquisition. In the chusatcm on General, Reading, Mr. Eggleston, while not arguing ageinst systematic etudy, ear- nestly recommends that, after a mastery of the elements of education, if a choice between them must beznade, general reu should take the ploce of text-books. 1lo saya: “Extensive gen- erx] reading mey make cultivated, well-informed, well-balanced men, witkont much knowledge of the_text-books; but no amount of text-book study, without exteusive reeding, ever brought zbout such a result.” This chapier is the most instructive of all, but is of more suggestiveness 2nd value to those who bave achievad a funda- mental culture than to untried minde. - TOWN GEOLOGY. By tis Rov. Cuanirs KINGSLEY. xgg York: Appleton & Co, Chicago: W, B, Kwne o. Ir. Kingsley bhes recast the lectures he deliv- ered to the young men of Chester on the geol- ogy of their neighborhood. He has not made it book o hand-book of geological facts, but bas endeavored to render it of value to any townsman in tho manufacturing districts of En%!md and Scotland. Its local application yenders it useful to American students ouly so far as the geological phenomena of this eonti- ment are coincident with those of England, and 50 far as they find incitement to better methods 2nd more eager 6tudyin its enthusiasm. Alr. Kingeley choss to present Geology tohis readers, because it is the simplest and casiest of all phys- jeal sciences. It appeals more than any other to mere common sense. It requires fewer diffi- cult axrienmente, and less expensive appa- ratus. It is specially the poor man’s Ecience. ‘There 2re some reasons which lead him to com- mand Geology as a recreation for leisure hours,* Some branch of naturzl teience he deems indis- pensable; without it one cannot keep pace with the thought of the age. ‘The preface—which is very long, end of great interest—isanimpassioved appealforgreaterat- tention to phbysical science. A characteristic pessago is the followicg : : T say it deliberately, as a student of eoclety and his- tory, Power will psss more and more if, all goes health- ily and well, into the hands of scientific men ; into the hands of those who have made due use of that great heirioom which the philosophars of the seventeenth century left for the nse of future generations, and specially of the Teuicnic race. For the rest, events s2em but too likely to repeat themsclves, again and i, oll over the world, in the fame circle. Aristocracies cf mers birth decay sgair, Bopeless and die, and give place to aristocracies of new ‘weslth, and they again to “‘aristocracies of genius;" * '+ ¥ and, when these have blown off their steam, with mighty roer, but without moving the engine & single yard, then they are but too likely to give place to the worst of ail aristocracies, the aristocracy of mcra “order,” which means_ organized -brato forco snd ‘military despotiem. And, after that, what can come, eave anarchy, sod deca¥, and social death? What else, unless titers bo left in the nation, in -the socicty, es the salt of thio lend, to keep it all from rotting, & eufficient number of wise men to form a true working aristocracy, an_atistocracy of eound and rational science? '1f they be strong ecough,—ard they are growing _stronger day by day, over the civilized orld,—the future of that world will on them msinly depend. They will rule; * * * and they will be sble to Tule, becanse ti:oy havo faken the trouble to learn {he facts 2nd the laws of nature. . The work contains six chapters: The Soil of the Field; The Pebbles in the Street; Tho Stones in the Wall ; The Coal in tho Firo ; The Lime in the Mortar ; The Slates on the Roof. THE PENNSYLVANIA PILGRI, AND OTHER POENS: By Jomx GREENLEAF WHITITER, Boston : Jaes R Osgood & Co. Chicago : Jansen, McClurg & Co. 2fr. Whitticr gives us, in this voluine, poems wliich are full of poetic thought, aud a tender, entle humanity, as anyihiug hewritea must be. 'he one which begins the volmne, and gives it its name, is a quiet and dreamy sketch of 1:.}!0 is- Quaker Pilgrims of Penasylvaniz. Poets, torians, and orators have done full jus: 0 faith, courage, and sacrifice_of the Pi Plymouth ; but ibe stcadfast hwm:: Lieroic common-place of tho lives of the who settled Pennsylvania is au unwritten story. Ar. Whittier, himeclf braced with all the tonic personality of tho Puritans, and yet, a8 a Quak- er, gentle and beuign, was the filtest of all men to write the siory of the Penusylvania Pilgrhn. "fhe central figure is Frances Doniel P: 1, <who was the leader of the German-tour Yricads, and, among other noteworthy acta, drew up in 3686 the first protest mede by a rcligious body Bgainst negro-slavery. Howas such 2 men as thi = W nsiglihars silting down, The homespm frack besude tho schioiar’s govm, FPastoriug, 1o hiw manners of the Lown, ‘Auded the freedom of the wosds. Glad even to trars, e heard the robin ing 1is soug of welcowne to the Western springg, ‘And blue-bird Lorrowivg from thie sky hus wing. Whatever legal maze he wandlered through, o kept the Sermon on the Mount in view, ‘And justice always into mercy grew. ‘His soclal ife wore no ascetic form Tio loved all heavty without foat of harm, ‘And in his veins his Teuton blood was warm. Through a sad neglect, no stono or record merks the place of his burial, which is uukuowa. ‘The poem cloges: € " " Andlo! the fulness of {ho time has come, Aud, over ol the exile’s Western hote, From sea to gea, the fowers of Freedom bloom ! And Joy-bells ring, and silver trumpeis bow, But not for thee, Pastorius! Ever 5o The world forgets, LTt the wiso angels know. The other poems in the volumo are cccasiozal pieces publiebed in periodicals, aud are familiar to the public. 4 Histenr or FLANTS, CeaUuE A%w Droriian Puorsurizs: Adapted from tho Work of Lowis Figuies, With 5 Glorsary of Botanical Terms, New and Kevised Edition, with 473 Iilustrations. . New York : D. Appleton & Co, Chicago: W. B. Eeeno & Co. This is a tronslation and abridgment of the sabliched in Paris, some timo ago, by 1L The works of this author have been hem. **'the Vegeteblo World,” like * The Insech World," by the samo author, is & clever attempt to populavize natwrzl science. There are in “The Vegetable Worid"” no new discoveries bruited, aud little novelty of srrangemend or nomeeelatura ; but there is a very valueble and readable statement of the present nd theorics of botasical kcience. Ibis, in shuci, a worls, not of investigation and discovery, like that of Linnwus, buy it is one of presencation,— izution. Its vaiue for this purpose is d by the labitual avoidance other than French authorities. s divection at by 3I. Figuict of glish2nd Germen studies in il 3 of lute, beon active aund fruitful, bub are hardly voticed by theauthor. Tho work s prop- erly illustrated by engravings and cuts, explain- ing every process of vegetable development, from the growth of 2 beau to that of a banyan- treo. 'Che style is varied and singulwly inter- esting. Nearly every pege records some curious fact; and a vory agreeable relicf is given by nu- merous anecdotes and biographical allugions to ihe mere distinguished botanists. A COMMENTARY ON THE HOLY SCRIPTURES; Cri31cAL, DOCTEINAL, AND HOMILECIICAL; With Special Refereuco to Ministers and Students. By Jony: VETER Lace, D, D, Translated by Priue Bol New York : Scribner, Armstrong & Co. This is the ninth volume of Lange's Com- ‘mentarics on the Hebrew Scriptures, and con- tains Dr. Moll's Commentary on the Psalter, with a new version of the Psalms and Plulolo%- cal Notes by the Rev. Thomas J. Conant, D. D. This has aliways been regarded as one of the best parts of Dr. Lange's work ; 2nd our theo- logians have cause to thank Dr, Schaff and his publishers for bringieg the work within Ameri- can reach. THE ROMANCE OF AMERICAN HISTORY. Eariy ANzALS, By M, Scmuik DE VEme, New York: S Fiian s Sons, Chicago: Jansen, McClurg 0. Professor Schele de Voro makes a half-dozen very readsble papers out of tho romantic and afilient matenal of the early annals of America. The first paper, entitled: *‘Lo, the Poor In- dian,” begins with a discussion of the origin of our eavage brothers, whom Cotton Mather be- lioved the Devil had decoyed to America to pre- vent .their being saved by the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ; skotches the character of these incorrigible nomeds; and relates some curious stories of early Indian times. ¢ The Hidden River” is the story of the vicissitudes which befel the ndventurers who sought to discover and explore the Mississippi. A fact mentioned in the story of the settlement of New Orleans, shows that the experiment, not long ago broached with such diffidence, and re-* ceived with such surprise, of sending wives west by the car-lond and ship-load, is no novelty in the histary of this Continent. In 1722, the colonists of New Orleans wero overjoyed to learn that a cargo of damsels was in the ofting. They were the third Josd of girls sent out to supply the urgent wants of tho scttlers, and, os they wore all of good character, and each endowed with & small chest to hold their property, these Filles de Casselle, a8 they were called, * had no time to be tired, for they wore married instant- Iy,” puys the quaint old chronicler. * Our First Romauce” is the old, old story,—John Kolfe and Pocahontas being perticipants. The other pa- pers ave : A Fow own Nomes; Kaisers, Kings, and Knights ; Lost Towns ; and Lost Lauds. MEMOIRS OF A HUGUENOT FAMILY: Translated aud Compiled from the Original Autobiogruphy of the R ES FONTAINE, by ANN Mannz. New Yo P, Pumam & Sons. Chicago: Jansen, MeClurg & Co. Not only ihe thousands of Ameriean families who boest a Huguenot origin, but all Christians, and indeed all who are tusceptible to the allure- ments of narstive, which to the highest ro- majce adds the unusual charm of truth, will find pleasure in the revital of the adventures that befel the Rev, James Fontaine, of Hugue- Dot fame, and his ancestors before him. ' The main incidents of Fontaina’s tiwilling life turned upon the persecuiions to whieh ho, with the other Huguenots of France, was subjected. From his personal expericuces, and those of his {friends, the evenis of those cruel times may be learned as thorouglly o8 from deliberate histories, and fur more vividly. In the appendix there are several documents of great lustorical value; amoag them, a trausla- tion of the Edict of Nantes, of which, bofore its appearance in this book, there was no copy to be found in any library in this country. Lhere are copies of the revocation of the Edict,and of proclamations, like those forbi 1wore than twelve persons to be present at Protestant bap- tisms or weddings, forbidding Protestant women to 8t as nurses, and forbidding auy persoas from receiving the Protestant sick wuto thewr houses. M:A::%'L other valuable historical documents are adde . PERIODICALS. ¢ The Ecleclic for Novembrr gives a portrait of Froude, accompadied by a eketch of his life by the editor. There is en article from Blackwood's JMagazine on Japsy, in the nervous and rather slangy style affected nowadays by English writers; . ono of the tinest pieces of recent criticism, from the Contemporary Review, on George Eliot, by FProfessor Dowden; a discriminating essay on Prose and Yerse, from St Paul's; and an article on Liv- ingstone's discoverios, from. Chambers’ Journal. Thore aro half-a-dozen other articles, selected with diserimination from the best foreign pe- riodicals, end good reviews of recent works, with areprint of the New York Tribune's careful ar- ticle on William H. Seward. ‘The Sunday Magazine, pablished by Lippin- cott, preeents its usual list of articles for Sun- day reading. Among them are: The Farmer of Baal-Shalisha ; God's Husbaudry ; Footateps of the Colporteur ; In Reformation Times. Good Words, aleo by Lippincott, gives a page of improvisings. There isa well-wntten arti- clo on Oxford in the Seventeonth Century, and another of the sermons preached by tho Rev. Doneld McLeod, beforo ihe Queen, at Balmoral. Dr. Carpenter tells all o knows about 2 Piece of Chalk; 3r. Hare continues his Wanderings in Bpain; and Willian Helps gives us four pagesof a Conversation of Certuin Friends in Council. BOOKS RECEIVED, INCIDENTS IN MY LIFE. ByD. D, Hoxe. New A Novel, By Mrs. HESRY York : Holt & Witliams, WITHIN THE MAZE. Woob. THE OUTCAST, and Orozs Popxs. By J, W, WAT- 0%, Autlior of # Beautifal Snow.” ~Phiiadelphia : T. B, Peterson & Bros. HANDEOOR OF PERFUMES AND COSMETICS. By AuNorp J. CoorEY. Philadelphia: J. B. Lip- pincott & Co. A MANUAL OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. By Joux S. Hamr, LL.D, Philadelphia : Eldredge & Bro, THE LAWRENCE SPEAKER. By Pumrr Law- nENCE. Philadelphia : T, B, Peterson & Bros. ISOLENA ; THE ACTOR’S DAUGNTER, By E. D, 8. Philadelphia ; J, B, Lippincott & Co. ADVENTURES OF A MARQUIS., By ALEXANDRE Dusias, Philadelphis : T. B, Peterson & Bros, A GOLDEN SORROW. By Mrs, Casuen Hory. New York: Harper & Bros. THE LIFE OF HONRY WILSON. By J. B. AIaxy, ‘Boston : James R. Osgood & C HANDBOOE OF THE TOL . By Amsoup J. ‘Philxdelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co, JUVENAL, By EDWARD WAZFORD, M. A. Philadel- phia : J. B, Tippincott & HARRY DELAWARE; OR, AN ANERICAN IN GEB- Maxy. By MATEILDE ESTVAN, New York : S, P. Tu asm k Sons, LIFE OF A. B. WHITING. By His Sister, R. ‘Aucusta WurriNg, Boston: William White & Co. TUE BRYANT & STRATTON ARITIMETIC. By iL L. B vr, E. E, WHITE, and C. G, STOWELL. Rew Yorl : Muson, Baker & Pratt. e A New ¢ Domesday RBook” in Enga land. After an interval of eight centuries, England is to have a new * Domesday Book.” The Gov- ernment has just called upon the Local Goyern- ment Board to undertake the work, and clerks are busy in all parts of the kingdom, gathering up the old records and putting them into new shepe. 1t appears that the Jandholders are the objects of the returns, and tho Pall Mall Gazel'e Baya the questions to be ultimatcly auswered are, “Who and how many are the ‘owners in Eng- leud and Wales that tho 530,000 occupiers of 12nd hold under ?” “¢ What is the share of cach individual and corporate body in the 26,600,000 of cltivated acres on this side of the Tieed 2" What is cacl owners's portion of the £43,000- 000 thiere or therezhouts, the gross annual valuo of lands in England and Wales assessed uvder Schedulo A of the properly tax 7" ' But from & paper of insirnetions which accompanies the let- ter to tho clerks, n somewhat wider scope i8 indicated. Land, whether * built upon or not,” and however limited in extend, is to be repre- gented by the retumns. Owners having one acro and upward arc to form one class. Owners of less thau ono acre are to form another. Itis not much rent-yielding land, wo conceive, that wili be found oufside of tlis comprehensive definition. The ground landlord of ‘& row of cottages covering less than a quarter of an acre would spparently fall within it. Qwners of smell ots acquirod through a freehold land so- - cioty, whero ten acres of Jand may lave been divided between two hundrod members, would not escape. The permanont woy of a railroad compzny i3 land buiit nupon or land not built upon; the parcchial sections of every ling must be acccunied for. So far as rezarde the surface .ing ground down to the dust. The publio offices of tho soil, the definition‘ sppoars to bas ex- houstive. According to a sta:ement laid before Parliament by Mr., Goschen, there were, tvo or tlireo years ego, zbont 4,500,000 separatd assess~ ments on tho Ehglish rate bocks. - COLORED VOTERS. Adérezs of the Niational Liberzl Ees pubiican Commiitec of Colored Citi= zenzewklorace Greeley theTrue Friend of the BIack Man--The Issies oi the Carman: iZTe FEADQUARYERS NATIONAL LISERAL REPUBLIOAN COMMITIEE OF COLORED Crrizess, New Yous, October, 1872 To the Colored Citizens of the United States: In the abeenco of our Cheirman, W. U. Saun~ dexs, I take the liberty of addressing you on the political issues presented us in this Presi- dential campaizn. We are, for the first timo as ahody, about to cast our ballots for the chicf officer in the Government, and all will edmit the importance that attnches to_our action st this timo, Never before in the history of our country hag there been presented such momon- tous questions, because they involva the very existence of free and honest government. Un- til this time we, as a Eeoplc, ave hed class in- terests to look after, because wo have hitherto been deprived of the most sacred rights of citi- zons—the ballot. Dut to-day we stand freo and disenthralled, clothed in the glorious habili- ments of frecdom, and are the oquals of every citizen of the Republic. . ‘We have no class interests now, our interests being identical with those of othor citizens, and the unity, peace, sud prosperity of the country should bo our aim henceforward. We have pre- sented us for our suffrages that grand old cham- pion of liberty, Horace Greeley, on a platform guaranteeing us forever in the enjoyment of all those rights which have acerued to us asthe direct rezult of the rebellion. Basides this, we have the assurance of our distinguished and faitliful friend, Charles Sumner, that our best interest ond the good of the whole country de- end on the election of Horace Greeley to the residency. Who, then, can doubt, in view of the past history of both these patriots, and their dovotion to our_people, which way we should cest our ballots? b, & Tho campaign thus far has been carried on in the most bitter partisan epirit, aud men whoa few months ago looked upon Mr. Greeley as a model of virtus and honcsty, now publicly de- nounce him, for gelfish reasons alone, a8 ononot to be trusted. Even men of color, men from whom much better was to be expected, enter the lists against him, and proclaim him an uncertain man, and of a wayering disposition. Whatever may be said of Mr. Greeley, woall well know that on those cardinal points which so much in- terest our people—civil rights, free labor, free soil, and free men—Mr. Greeley has ever been steadfast and immovable, holding exactly the same position to-dsy that he has during his whole public career, being as true as tho necdle to the pole, Wae aro always enabled to distin- guish him foremost in that noble band of heroes who dared to incur tho odium and obloquy of the nation by esserting our right to enjoy the precious boon of liberty. 1n those days when, by the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, ‘‘we had no rights tlat white men were bound to respect;” in tho duys of the Fugitive Slave law, when our people were hunted like beasts, to return them to bond- age; when the grosuns of the captive were as- cending to Leaven, crying, - How, long, O Lord! hovw long shall these® things be endured? "—it was then that this noble man raised his voico and ablo pen in our behalf, and all will admit there was not then the remotest possibility of our ever being able to make the least return for his devotion. He advocated our righis fo enter ihe scademios of learning, our equality on the public highways, in public houses and places of amusement, in fact, our perfect equality before thelaw. His journal was the vehiclo by which all our cowplaints were. made known to the people, aud many were the times that we re- coived substantial'aid from the same source. * Other reasons than these, however, shonld gain him our support &t this time. Honest Gov- ernment, freedom of opinion, free speech in the public offices are things of the past, and s cen- tralization of power in Lhe Lxccutive menaces the very existence of froe Government. The purity of the ballot is nob preserved, thereby making & mockery of our republican form of Government. The State Governments at the South, shisided under the bLrosd wings of tho Administration, are ruining tho land-holders by croating & public debt in each State, which will soon exceed the actual value of the whole real estate. A species of cormoranis, commonly known as carpet-baggers, have ingratiated them- selves into the good graces of tho ignorant pec- ple, and being raised to Ligh station in the Gov- ernment, have fastened their fangs upon the public pirse, and nre filehing therefrom without the slightest return by way of Fum.ic improve- ment. . No railway or public works, no school-houses, in refurn for the vast millions of public dobt. Backed by the immente influenco of tho present Administration, by United States Marshals and the President’s relatives, these cormorants are fecding and the’ people are be- arc only 8o many perquisites for the’ friends of the President, 10yalty to Grant being = rather better qualification for office than ability to dis- charge the duties of the same. The Legislative Branch of our Government has becomo 80 sub- gervient to the will of the Exccutive as to en- dapger the liberties of the whola people. In view of these facts, Iet us not mistake up- on which side to cast our influence. Let us not be spell-bound end held in position by a name only. Much good has been wrought under the pame Republican, but that name represented principles as well as men, and when the party chiefs violated their plighted faith and made the party a mere machine for the aggrandizement and elevation of a family, it becamo tho duty of good citizens to unite in_eclecting other men to office. Vith that view 25,000 good Republicans, among whom were men of our own_race, 8sscm- bled at Cincinnati and. nominated Horace Gree- ley and B. Gratz Brown for Presidont and Vice- President of the United States.’ In.so doing they undoubtedly had in view the best interests of the whole people, and, in view of 3r. Grocloy's past lifo, thoy andoubtedly ex- ected Iargo support from ‘the colored people. Bttt o otill brighter day was in store for us. On the 9th of July following, the Democratic perty, that party which had hitherto battled against our rights, buricd forever the old battle-axe, and onrolled themselves on the side of liberty, and, in token of their sincerity, nominated the black man's staunchest friends, Greeley and Brown, But that act, sulliciontly great and im- portant to our people, and’to the nation, to mark a dietinct era in our history, and to be hencefor- ward commemorated by annual rejoicing and thanksgiving, fell flat upon the majority of: our eople, because the leadors of the opposition fmmediately raised the cry of insincerity. The Democratic party can havo no interest in going back ugun the record of that dn.z, for the great body of the American people have long since shown decisively that any party which opposes the freedom of & single citizen cannot succeed. The best intereat of the colored people lics in identifying themselves with every great party and not in accepting as a fact that our liberties depend upon the success of any one party. We well remember the past achievements of the Re- Eublic:m party in our behalf, but we also remem- er that Charles Sumner and Horaco Greeley were with the party when they mado their great record. We also know that it was the efforts of Charles Sumner in: the Senate and Horace Gree- leyin the Tribuneoffice that spurred the party on, and that it was they who created that public entiment in favor of liberty and sgainst slevery oxtension that made it possiblo to form = the Republicen party. Colored citizens, let us throw our weight on ihe side of universal amaesty, for we canuot afford to build up our rights on the ashes of any other citizens of the Republic, only asking for ourselves an equal chance with others in the raco of life, be- ing eatiefied to abide by whateyer record we may Loreafter make with equality before the law. Remember the advice of our devoted {friend Sumner, and keep in view the watchword he gives us: 4 The unity of the Republic, with equel rights to all, and reconciliation.” BAuGEL R. SCOTTRON. P. 8.—Liberel Republican Committees and Clubs in every town are requested to print this in circular form, and distribute among colored voteis before and on tho day of elcction. _——— An [Nllinois Hlorrors=IZobdery and Probable MMuvder in the American Bottom. From ths St. Louis Times, Oct. 29, On laat Sunday night an attempt was made to rob axd murder Mr. John Bobtist Mozer, an old men living a few miles north of French_Villago, in the American Bottom. Mr. Hozer is a rich farmer, who for somo time past has been living with his son Victor Mozer, aseisting him occa- sionally in tho light work about the farm. The son had occasion last Sunday fo visit some friends residing ot 2 distanco, and, accompavied by the remainder of the family, went sway early in the morning, leaving his fathor and a_hired man in charge of the place. Icturning in the evening, about 9 or 10 o'clock, the family were horror-stricken on finding tho old man lying senseless on the floor of the houso, with several deep gashes in his head, snd s pool of blood aroand him. Their suspicions vere immedi- ately directed to the hired man, who had been in their employ only a skort time. On making gearch for him he was nowhere to be found, | His room was deserted and_his_clothing_gone. | Further investigation rovealed the fact that he had robbed and attempted to murder Mr. Mozer, who was kmown to have had $40 on his person. TLis money was taken from his pocket, and a trunk which contained $90 in tho morning, when the other inmates left the house, had been Lroken c&.\cn end plundered. Immediate- ecarch was mads for the perpetrator in all di- rections, but without avail,-and it is ‘supposed that he 18 now secreted in this city. A reward has been offered for his capture. Mr. Mozer now Lies in a critical condition, his ggnif&n& age rendering his recovery exceedingly ubtful. » ELOODED STOCK. Great Auction Sale of Short=Elorned Cattles Jacksonzille, Ill., (Oct, 25) Correspondence of the Mis- & souri_Demozrat. 3r. J. H. Pickrell, of Hairistown, Macon County, 1IL., one of the prominent breeders of blooded stock, sold at public auction, on Thurs- day lest, forty-ono head of short-horn_ cattle (twenty-nine cows and heifers and twelve bulls), {orty-seven Berkshiro hogs, and twenty-eight Southdown shecp. Colonel J. W. Judy, of Menard County, 111, officiated as auctioneer. The wide- spread reputation of Mr. Pickrell as an eminent- ly successful breeder of blooded stoclk, brought together a large number of stockmen of Illinois and other States, among whom were Kessenger, Bridgeford, Garrard, and Black, of Missouri Burress, Duncan, Spears, Letton, Humphreys, Hamilton, Tles, Brown, Sendusky, aud Sebert, of Ilinois ; i’nge, of California; Vanmeter, of Ken- tucky, and Earl, of Indiana.’ The 41 short-horns sold brought in the sggrogate $24,185, making an average of 8599 per head for tho lot. The 47 Berkshire hogs sold-brought an average of 823 per head, and the 28 Southdown sheep realized an average of $18.50 per head. The total amount realized for the cattle, hogs and sheep, was $26,408. As tho herd of caltlosold was one of the finest 1n the Mississippi Valley, and as the prices obtained were extraordinarily high, we think it will be of great intorest to give the sales in. de- ail. They were ss follows: Baron Lewis, 2 rears old, sold to W. & H. Sandusky, Indianola, ., for '©3,000; Bride_ Fifteenth, 4 years old, sold to T. W. Garrard, Martinsburg, Mo., for 1,700; Lady Fairy A, 2 years old, sold to 1. W. Garrard, Martinsburg, Mo., for 81,100 ; Daisy Booth, 3 years old, sold to M. J. Earle, of La- fayette, Ind., for £1,310; Aristocrat, 4 years old, sold t6 L. B. Wing, Boment, 1L, for 300 ; Baron DBlossom, 4 months old, sold to Arthur Pickrell, Harristown, Ill., for $170 ; Lewis Hill, 5 months old, sold to J. &. J. F. Halden, Ellison, 1IL, for $475; Baron Kirk, 9 months old, sold to’ John Turmer, Cods Point, Iil., for $980; Prince Noyal Second, 9 months old, sold to James Kirkpatrick, Lafayette, Ind., for 3360 ; Manfredo, ten months old, sold to J. Johnson, Poolsville, Ind., for £600; Daron Luange %3, ten months_old, sold to James Orat, Winona, Ill., for $275: Zéb. Dun, eleven montha old, sold to Wm. Briggs, Washington, Iows, for $430; Daisy Bunll, one year old, sold to I TLatimer, Abingdon, Indiana, for $130; Standard Bearer, three years old, sold to W. . Reynolds, of Shipman, Illinoie, for $1,050; Conscript, four cars old, 80l to Oliver Hell, of !\ler_hnmcs‘mr{; Tik, for §150; Prizo Flower, two years old, soid to E. W. Mills, Sullivan, il for $550; Amolia Third, threo yosra old, sold to T. W. Garrard, of Martinsburg, 3Mo., for £460; Amelia, four ycars old, sold £0 G. L. Burruss, of Carollton, T, for ©530; Btatesman Daughter Second, §ix' years old, sold to Ed. Iles, of Sangam: mon County, 11L., for 2625; Florentia Tvwenty- first, 3 years old, sold fo T. W. Garrard, of Mar- tinsburg, Mo., for £420; Princess Royal Sev- enth, 8 years old, sold to James Gray, of Sum- merhill; Ill., for £350 ; Princess Royal Fifth, 9 years old, sold to T, Humphrey, Elmwood, I, Tor £360 ; Prairie Blossom, 4 years old, sold to Edward Tes, of Springfield, for $600; Lady TFair Twelfth, 4 years old, sold to G- L. Burris, of Carrollton, Iil., for 3900 ; Caroline_ Third, 6 | years .old, sold to J. W. Shotwell, Frankfort, 3o, for $700 ; Mary Fourth, 4 years old, sold to V. Pago, San Francisco, Cal., for $300; Wood- Jand Lady,4 years old, gold to T. Humphrey, Elmwood, Iil, for §200; Laura A, 1 year old, sold to M. J. Eatl, Lofayotte, Ind., for $i00; Loura Fourteenth, months old, sold to William Knowl, Paxton, Iil, for 8410; Laura Thirieenth, 3 years old, gold to W. Pago, San’ Francisco, for $100: Laura Eleventh, four years old, sold fo Ieracl Pierco, ‘Assumption, Tiors, for £500; Daisy Sweep: Btakes, three yeara old, sold to MIr, Holden, El- Tison, fllinois, for $330; Louan of Macon, throa months old, sold to Mr. Feather, of Sunbeam, Tilinois, for $855; Lighth Louan’ of Woodlawn, sold to sume for £435; Lounan Thirty-seventh, five months old, sold to S. 8. Lockbridge, of Greencastle, Indiana, for $830; Efic Dun, five yeare old, scld fo Mz. Humphroy, of Elmood, Tllinois, for $310; Ophie Picrce, one year old, sold to W. Pago, of San T co, for $300 Nettie Pierce; four yoars old, sold to ‘. W. Gar- rard, of Martinsburg, Misgouri, for 2030; Ot- tilia, aleven years old, sold to T. H. Humphrey, of wood, Illinois, for $150; Rose, seven years old, sold to Wm. Knowl, -Paxton, Tilinois, for 2450; Retta, twelve yeara old, sold to L. B. Wing, Dement, 1llincis, for S400. TYNDALL. The Great Savant on the Lecture Stage. Loston Correspondence of the New York Tribune, by Mre. Louisa’ Chandler Mouiton. Presently enters a solid, stalwart, resolute, quiot, kindly-looking man, 'Whom one and n- other recognizes, and then the house bursts into & frenzy of applause. It is Agassiz, and the au- dience seem to eay tohim, * Don't think we are going back on you. We don't love Rome—that 18 to say, Tyndall—more. Youare the pride of our American Learts, Hurrah!” The quiet, resolute, steady-going man docs not look round, though they cheer never so loudly. Then the nssistants of Professor Tyndall—two students whom ho brought over with him—appear on tha scene and begin to arrange the apparatus. Half the epaco back of the platform is occupied by & ‘blackboard, or a slate, as Tyndall celis it, and tho other helf by a great white screen, on which the experiments are to be shown. A sort of bridge runs out over the audience to & small platform, whercon stands a mysterious instru- ment, which suggosts tho_ torture-chumbers of photography—a wonderfal sort of scientific ‘magic lantern, which is to project on the screen all sorts of miracles. Acrogs this bridge, to the gmall platform aforesaid, and_back to the stage, Asgistant No. 1 meanders, with golemn face an attent air, making ready for the performance. Now anothor guest comes in, and Agassiz rises to spoak to him and to move his seat. This is thosignal for renowed applause—muchof it. Now the long-enduring Swiss turns round, at 1ast, as who would spare them further expense of canes and shoe-leather, and bows—one little, gratefal, scientific bow, with a smile it is good to seo ronnd the Lind, trong mouth, end a real twinkle of appreciation in the pleasant cyes. A fow more passages of Assistant No. 1 across the bridge—a little gratified contemplation, on the Enfl. of Assistant No. 2, of the diagrams on the lackboard, which I think he had himself drawn, since ho hovered near them all the evening, with an air of pleased proprietorship. Atlnst the conguering Tyndall comes. You scoa man of somewhat more than medinm height, lithe, quick motioned, musculer, but slight Tather than stout, with a face Of Some- what clerical t{po ‘brown hair, brushed acrossa broad but not high forehead ; keen, bright plea~ sant eyes, over which he has & trick of now and then dropping the lids complotely for a sentence or twoj; straight, ratherlargenose ; clean shaven lips, not curved at all, but large and flexible; a chin glightly retreating, but by no means weak. This faca is surrounded by a thick fringeof gray- ish beard—a most agreeablo face it i8, but not handsome. Some onc said of women, *Thoy don’t make ’em pious and pretty both ;" 8o I sup- | pose scientific ‘and handsome would be .too much. The lecturer wears evening dress, white craval and all—they have good tatlors in Lon- don. He commenced to speak with what almost seems abruptness, because he goes right on from the place where ho left off in the preceding lecture. ‘He folds his arms, o favorite gesture, and says; “Tho soap bubblo excitedin the mind of Newton all manner of _reflections. Why should it bo colored? Why should the colors vary? Why, in order to possess color, must it bo blown out’ thin?” With arms still folded, he panses a breathless second after the Newtonian conundrum. I didn’t know the whercfore, 80 under my breath I said, Why?” in italics, liko Miss Jainio Straightmere, and waited. The lecturer remarked that ho wanted us to “get into the brain of Newton,” to use an expresaion of Emerson’s, from whom, by the way, he quotes quito frequently. - So, with fino l‘nd clear analysis he followed the thought of Nowton, which resulted in the famons Newton's rings. ' Then this wonder-meker, superb scicn- titic conjurer that ho is, disp:aye] to us the im- age of tiiese famons rings upon the ecreen, the lights in tho house having been turned low. Weo saw them in wi i hues, Lrilliant and bowitching and elusive. a3 Elmn of prismaticfire in en opal, Then in red ight, when the rings consistod alternately of h'-'hfi and darkness; then in blue Jight. The solution of theso rings was o dificulty which Newton did not conquer. Ho con- structed an ingenious scheme to account for them, but it lacked the prophetic vision of o truo theory. “géraen, Tiien, on jarring tho plate, _grace, ite lighs, with wonderfui-iris | Young’s theory of undulation supplied this Incks, Tt hnd its Yoot ia-the world of experiendo, Tt was suggested by the waves of the sea and of tho air. In illastration of this theory, Professor. dall introduced experiments of wonderfal beauly.~He explained- waves by means of the diagrams on the Llackboard, remarking that he envied the Lowell Institute that slate, for he had none 80 good &t home. He claimed that the waves'of light poesessed the™ sarme ~characteris- tics a8 thoso of water; so that tho woll known became tho easy explanation of the almost un- known. He performed some exceedingly pre‘ty experiments with magnates, flinging iron filings onapieca of glass, underneath which wes a magnet, and throwing the image aupon the the iron filings were seen to arrange themselves in beau- tiful magnetic curves sround the poles of the magnet. Thoy moved with 2 slow, rhythmical ag if to the law of some unheard music; and one hardly wondered to hear that Faraday might ba said to liave spent -his life ‘in the con- templation of these effects. You had got by this time some idea of nsulan;y. aud of the defi- nite structure produced by its action on perti- cles. r By this molecule on molecule the form of a crystal is built up. . A solution of sal-ammoniac was poured upon the gless plate, and made to evaporate, the faithful screen roproducing, like some_magic mirror, the. whole performance, Jack Frost himself neyer wrought deviees more exquisite on any window-pane. ' Soft, feathery crystals shot out in_every direction, and s half- subdued clamor of delight filled tho hall. This was followed byan experiment_with acetate of” lead, decomposed by a currentof eloctricity, On the screen you saw reflected the images of the poles of the battery, immersed in the liquid. tantly, from one of the wires, shot out won- derful frond-like branches of most exquisite shapes, . only to fall away when the current was rovorsed, while new shapes of beauty flowered about the other pole. These were the most fascinating of the numerons experiments of the evening. They were received by the phflono%h- ical with true scientific enthusiasm; with de- light eppreciative s well as_admiring. The ‘uninstructed portion of the audience liked them no lessfimd watched every shadow on the screen with the wide-eyed rapture of” children at o n}u&m-lmlnm show. There wera various funn: little contrelemps, 28, when the Professor cried, like Ajax, for light to his assistant, and the mis- taken youth who mannged tho hall gas turned on a wholo flood of if, and spoiled an experi- ment, “I didu't.mean- you,” the Professor 8aid, with & fanny twinkle in Lis eyes, ond in- stantly we werein tho dark again. Thers is o’ such thing es doing justice by description to Prof. Tyndall's manner. It is o pleasant, 6o colloquial, so free from arrogance, £0 full of per- sonal enthusiasm, asif the wondors he display- ed were as new to him as the rest of us. He makies science easy, coaxing his audience over bard places by promises of untold beauty to come. In short, he is the very beau-ideal of a scientific lecturer, The old men who go, year after year, tothe Lowell -Institute lectures, ap- puauflyhhg?apm the hall seems to them a good, quiet in which to take a nap, all keep awake to hear the _lively Irish-Englishman, an behold the beanties with which he feasts atten- tive eges. Nightlythe througs increase, and critical and uncritical say, of every last lecture: #This is the best, so far.” THE LASH. Flogging of o Prisoner in Belleville (Can.) Jail. Trom the Belleville (Canada) Intelligencer, Oct. 24. The first flogging of = prisoner under the act Intely passed, ‘which renders the perpetrators of & certain class of offenscs liable to ccgmml pun- ishment, took flnce in the Hastings County jail this morning (Thureday, Oct. 24). The namo of tho man who incurred. this disgraceful and pain- ful panishment _is Andrew Townley, who, in June last, pleaded -guilty before the Count; Judge to-an attempted commission of a vfl{ offence upon the person of 2 little girl only 8 years of age, and was sentenced to Imprison- ent in jeil for four months, and to roceive twenty lashes bofore the expiration of his term of imprisonment. B At 9 o'clock this morning Townley was brought .| from his cell into the jail yard, where a wooden frame had been erected for the purpose, to which his bands were strepped above lus head, and his legs lashed at the knees and at the es. -His back bared tothe waist, did not look like that of o man in the best of health, small epots being vigible over nearly the whole of its surface. His look, on spproaching - the place of punishment, 'was noither defiant nor indifferent, but rather apprehonsive, he having apparently nerved him- self to bear the stripes as well 23 possible. The other male prisoners in jail were bromght out into the yard to_witness the flugging, and, be- sides the jail officials, the constabulary aud the reporters, and a few other spectators wers pras- ent in the jail yard, whilst the windows or:the court room, -and of the offices, from which a view of the ecene could be obtained, were well tenant- ed. One quick apprehensive glance at the exe- cutioner, &s he was being bound, and Townley was ready for punishment. Affer his subject had been triced up for a few minutes, the man ‘who was to carry out the sentence of the law— and old eoldier—advanced, lash in hand, and measured off his distance, prepared to be- in hig work. As ho poised his -*cat” ready or action, it seemed a formidable instrument of torture, having attached to-a short handle, the orthodox number of tails of heavy cord, Imotted in two or throe places. As the sign: was given the “cat” was flvan a professional sweep, the keen thongs whistling through {he air and falling upon the prisoner's defeuceless back with a sharp sound. A red mark was at once observable, and the culprit’s hands began to twitch mervously. After several blows had fallen on or about, tho same spot, the skin be- came very much discolored, assuming & deco red, almost purple hue, and Townley squirmed about as much as possible in his confined posi- tion, though not & groan escaped him, having stated before he left the cell that no groans would ariee from him. As siroke after stroke fell, until the law was eatisfied, there was no perceptible chango in his demeanor, and though apparently the blood swelled .within the skin almost to bursting it, yet none escaped. As his lashings were being unloosed, Townley, who was much paler than befors the flogging, said his punishment was deserved, and that all had ‘come_of-his love for whiskey, which he Imew would get him into trouble.” He also said to the doctor as he was being marched back to his cell, with coat thrown over his lacerated and dis- colored shonlders, that.he deserved twice as much 2s he had got. —_—— COOKING A DINNER. Xlow n Tennessee Girl Created nSen= sation. Memphia Correspondence of tha Louisville Courler-Tournal, I heard of & young lady the other dayupin iddle Tennessee who, a8 river men say, ‘taken another chute. The story told about her did my soul good, and for the comfort of other half-starved dyspeptics like myself, whose tardy sustenation is effected by means of fried chicken, soggy biscuits, greasy hash and sole-leather fritters, I'll relateit. For years past, as o mere mattor of form—something handed down from remote antiquity—the officers of the county fair held in the neighborhood where this young lady lived bave heen in habit of offering a pre- mium to- the lady (unmarried) cooking the bost dipner. It was s dead letter. Nobody had contested for the premium within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, This year, however, the young lady of whom I am speaking determined to compete for the prize. or name—T wish I could immortalize it—was Kate Janaway. - The fair men set vp a stove for her, stretched a canvas to shield her from the sun, and about 11 o'clock of the last day she went to work. The matter had been talked about by every one in the neighborhood, and curiosity was on tip-toe. A crowd collected around the place where the siove was setup early in the morning, and kept increasing, but when Miss Kate herself, a buxom, handsome girl of nincteen, daughter of the ex-Mayor of the town, appcared on the ground, aud, puttig on & white apron and rolling up her sleeves, commenced operations, all other attrac- tions were nothing. Lvery one was eager to see 80 novel a sight. Thore was a tree near by which soon became black- with spectators who had climbed up to got a botter view. The branches were, tinally, 5o burdened that one by one they broke. precipitatiug those upon them to the ground, until only ome meu was left in the tree. He eat in o lofty fork, with eyes riveted on the sceno bolow. No amount of persuasion by those beneath, envious of his better view, could induce him to come down,— even s bribo of $10 failed. Hesaid ho was bound to seo or die. Meanwhilo the dinner preparations went on apace. The savory smell of tho cooling food seemed to intoxicate the crowd, which pressed nearer ond mearer. It took all the police forco on the grounds to keep order. The time arrived for the trotticg mateh, announcod a8 the sport of tho day, but the am- phitheatre was ompty. The judges (with the exception of one crabbed old widower), the timers, all wero missing, and £0_nothing " could be done, At half-past 2 tho dinmer was zu- nounced ready, snd the judges, happy men, reated themselves at the table,—tho crowd re- garding them with ill-disguised envy. A roast of beef, daticately done, was put steaming kot upon the table, then followed corn pudding, w’l‘wae delicate aroma foll upon the olfaciories of the excited crowd, ‘like breezes of Araby the blest ; ” & profusion-of vegetables, cooled ! to perfection, followea next. The judges ate and ate, praising the flavor of tho f6od and the skill of the cook at every mouthful. But when, at laat, a dessert of piping hot apple dumplings mado its appearance the forbearance of the | Cromd was ot wm end. They broke through {le | ropes into tho ring with one accord, and the dumplings disappeared i a trice.” sl e Oue old fellow, proprietor of a store and owner of a big saw-mill, proposed to the young lady on the spot, but he wes quickly collared and led off the grounds by two younger aspirants, who made common cause egeinst the aged suitor, saw-mill and all. That young lsdy was tho centre of attraction in her town after the cooking feat. She reccived twenty-five offers of mar- riege the first week, and her fame spread through allthe countryround. Anold backelor fellow down in Grundy County, with a farm o big that it takes him gll day to ride around it, and cattlo on a hundred hills, heard of her, and made a pil- grimago all the wey to that town to learn the truth.” He got the girl, too, although some of the young men of the place sued out a writ of habeas corpus to prevent her being carried out of the county. They were too late. This is, I am aware, » rather sad ending for g0 £00d & story, but devotion to_the truth compela mof ?f give nothing but the simple, nnvarnished reality. She ought o have married that fellow who seb up there in the crotch of the tree, 80 long 2nd at such fearful discomfort. He wanted her, and he was & poor, bilions dyspeptic whom her splendid caoking would have scon restored to usefulness and society, bat he was poor. Ah! —_— SCOTLAND. The Desolate Bominion of the Scottish Pulies—Painful Picturesqueness, Justin McCarthy writes from near Ben Nevis, Scotland, to the New York Erening Mail: “To pass from England into Scotlaud is to go from prose into postry. Bat the poetical in real life is not nsually the comfortable. In the build- ing of cities, Charles. Dickens observes that chiolera and the picturesque are commonly found to be associated. Scotland pays for her beauty by having to tnrn herself into a show-place, 28 I set out in a former letter, and for her poetry by a great deal of feudalism, giscomfort, znd pov- erty. Iknow nocountry where the distinction " of caste is more sternly and even conrsely mark- ed out. The local Duke or Marquis seems every- where to be regarded almost exactly as hie might bave been in teudal times, a sort of heaven-ap- pointed ruler and King. In England, after ail, nobody cares much about a Lord, except peoplo who have a chance of beiug invited to dine with him. The aversge middle-cless Briton, who never dreams of such &, privilege, concerns himself little about Peers,and has no more nataral reverence for o Dake than he has for a Lord Mayor. Bat in Scotland you live always under the shadow of the Duke—this, that and the other Duke. Gointo a little Highland inn, and yousee the Duke's portrait, the Duch- ess’ portrait, a volume containing an account of all the Duke's ancestors and family; the telkis of what the Duke will not allow, whathe hes done, what he has promised, whether he willnot permit the road to be made here or the hotel to be built there, when he is coming from London or returning thither, who has seen him at church, and so forth. The Duke's country house, where you pay & shilling and see some of the rooms, is called * Tho Palace.” Iconfess I et weary of the Duke as Hippolyta did of the oor, and wish he would chAnfiz, and even find it & relief topass from the ‘dominion of one Duke into the domain of another. In the meanvhile the country seems to & mere traveller to be all but depopulated. There are the cities, of course, and in the picturesque places ~there are the hotels, and there are the places of the Dukes, and the { sooting-lodzes of tho English gentry wlio come in the season toshoot grouse. Besides this there is—nothing, onme might ray. You travel for hours and see nobody. Some of the Highland villages, when you do sec them, are as miserable 2 collection of hovels 2s could be found even in the west of Ireland. Dirt, squalor and naked- ness are everywhere. You will scarcely seo any- where a woman who wears shoes and_stockings. The children are all but naked. We saw the other day a_ big, raw-boned girl, fully 14 :eamg}l&I should s3y, amusing hersclf with other children in the open air. The rain was pouring heavlly. The girl had apparently no fgarments but a ragged frock with a very short gkirt, Herlegs and feot were bafe, - of courss ; but in that condition. she .was. only liko everybody else. Her poor litile froclk, _however, was all torn from the ncck to tho waist ; could hardly be said to havea body | left to it, and her whole chest was as baro as her forehead to the pelting rain. Wa hereare accus- ‘tomed, of courss, to regard Scotland s & highl; prosperous country, & model of energy and in- telligence, an example and & shame to poor Ire- Isnd, Well, Glasgow is a great and foarishing | is alive | city, and Greenock is busy, and the Cly« 1] with ship-building ; but outside the-cities I'see & country whaich 18 fast becoming depopulated. Prosperity. What isprosperity ? Do a big city, a Duke’s castle, ond a hotel in the Highlends constituto National prosperity ? Is this place which I look npon from my window prosperous ? If it is, then so is the Atlantic prosperous as you gaze over it from the deck of one of the Cunard steamers. There you hdve a steamer, and a good dinner, and well-dressed guests on board, and _the ‘ocean outside. Here you have 2 hotel well filled with tourists, and outside a wilderness, All around this one big hotel there is absolutely no population.” THE LIQUOR LAW. Liguor Accounts Against a Bankrapt hrovwn Oui—Decision of Judge Longyears. R From the Detroit (3Mich.) Post, Oct. 29, In the United States Diatrict Court, ycsterday, the case of Richard 8. Town & Co., of East Sagi- naw, was passed upon by Judge Longyear. Tue Towns ara b: pts, and their estate is in pro- cess of adjustment between creditors. George W. Torrey & Co., of Boston, Mass., proved and filed with the Register their acconnt, claiming as due to them frem the estate of said bankrupts a balance of about $449, a_portion of which was founded upon o note for $171.62, and the balance upon an open account,in part for spirituous liquors. A note was given in settlement of a ‘balance due upon a previous account for spirit- wous and intoxicating lignors, s portion of which wes s0ld and delivered in the original imported packages. But nothing was made to appear as the manner and place of sale of the balance of the liquors for which the note was given. Judge Longyear held that go far as the con- sideration of the note was based upon the ssle of liguors in original gfickages, it waenot in vio- lation of the laws of Michigan and was valid; but as to the balance of the consideration of the note there was nothing to take it out of the stabutes of Michigan prohibiting the sale of pir- ituous and intoxicating liquors, and it was, therefore, illogal. The note having been given in Michigan, where. the said statutes prevail, and the consideration being in part in violation thereof, the said note, according to the terms of tho said statute, was void in lolo. As to the open account it appeared that, as far 28 it was based upon a sulo of spirituous and in- toxicating liguors, the samo was sold at Boston, Mass., upon the written note of the bankrupts duly stamped. The note was mede and signed in Michigan, and sent by mail to G. W.Torroy & Co., at Boston, their placo of business. Judgo Longycar held further that because the gale was completed in Massachusetts it was a Massachusetts contract, and was not affected by the Michigan statute, and that the sale boin valid in M=ssachusotts must be held to be valic here. It was consequently orderedrthatso much of the claims of Torrey & Co. 8a was based on the note of $171.62 must be disallowed and ex- punged, and that tue bulance of their elaim must be sllowed to stand as a debt against the estete of said bankrupt. —_— CHARLES DICKENS AND HIS WIFE. Young Dickens Will Not Permit ¥is Faiizer’s Biographer to Ilur the Name of ¥His Mothere From the Licerpool Daily Post. A story reaches us from London which will ha rerd vith eagerness by all who are interosted—as who i8 not?—in the life of the late Charles Dickens. TUnder ordinary circumstances it would be rightly deemed beyoud the ken of a public journal, but Mr. Dickens’ own deliberate choice mado his sa&mrafion from His wife a public topic, 2nd it would be affectation to keep out of print gosip which, though at present that of an inner circle, is suro to become very soon the common talk of literary society. The rumoris that ** Forster’s Life of Dickens,” vol. 2, which the world is_snxiously expecticg, hangs fire. The biographer thinks that Le ought to tell tho story of the separation of Dickens and bis wife, sud, of course, i dis- pored to throw all the blame of the seraration upon Mrs. Dickens. Bat young Dickens, who, it 18 said, always sided with Lis mother in that matter, and thinks that but scaut justico was done to her by his father when tho matter was mado public; seys thatif amends benob made K Iir, Forster, a * plain uovarnished fo10" " bo published in Al the Year Round. How the matter will end it i8- impossible to forctell. Perhaps the best Way would be to leave the tale untold, if young Dickens would consent to that course. At all events, one caa- | no: but admire this young man's affection for his mother, and his chivalrous determination that, at all cost to the reputation of his father, her good name shall not be blurred. It will be remombered that Walter Savage Laudor sud- denly geparated from his wife, and never saw Ler again. Alr, Forster, in his biograpby of Landor, hurries over the business swiftly, like s skater over dangerous ice,” but he_manages tc throw the blame rather upon bMrs, Leador upon Lis hero. Bat, havingread this biograp aud got & pretty correct noiion of this her Lis extrems irritability, his lofty notionof L self, his craving ambition for homaro from erybody—wo can easily imagine that the ofem which his wife, who £eems to have been & vary quict, amizble lady, committed was very slight Mr. Forster so tells tho story as to mrke e world believe that certainly Mrs. Landor wat ‘most to blame, but it is_questionable whethe: Mr. Forater,in dealing with contemporary heroes does not carry his worship to the verge of tlunkeyism. 0 O Datter-leave the story of Dickens and his wifa untold, if the son would consent to it. Bat per- haps he will not; perhapshe bas long felt - the injustice to his mother ranking-in-his breast, and is now determined to bove the bruth Bih, lished. If so there will afleast ba one advant age—the revelation will put & welcome end t the vexations disputations and improbabls ex clusive esplanetions which are alweys forthcom ing at dirnerfables and elsewhere when th name of Dickens is mentioned. : ——————— . GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. London’s recent water improvement wil cos’ $15,000,000. —There were no carrisges in front of Bostor churches, Inst Sanday. —A young woman in Plattsburg, Va., hed he shoc-strings untied by ligktning. —The Intercolonial Railroad, between: Halifa) &4 St. John, will be opened on the 4th of No vember. < —It now takes from twenty-four to thirty-si kours for telegraphic. communication betweer Mzdrid and Paris. —An cight-acre vineyard, mear Galens, IIl. has produced 83 barrels of wine, worth 83,500, . —The Northern Pacific Company is prapazing to get ont 1,400,000 tics along the line of .the road this winter. - —Ann Campbell, a Canada dairy-maid, hasdied at the age of 151 years. She had worn oat fiftesr ganerations of ‘cows. 0 ':e removal of the Capital of Nebsska from Lincoln to soms point farthar West(probahly Kearney Junction) 13 being agitated. —Alany of the mostfashionatle wonsn of New,, York dispose of thoir society dreses to the Cheap Johns forthe best figare theyill fetch. —Squirrels in Ballard_Couaty, Ky, are immi. grating to Ilinoia in large ni as. The woods gg both sides of the Ohio Riverswarm with em. —1t is estimated that 520 whis men hava been scalped by the Arizons Indiss in the las$ ten years,—an average of one a wee:. —The elevator of Barrick & s, at Blus Mound, near Decatur, Ill., was bumed on tia morning of the 23d ult. Loss, 38,60, —The etables of Joln X. Davidon, at Laks Como, near St Panl, Minr., were burmed the other day; cause, 2 child plajing wth fireins tia can. —The demand for- horse-blankets at Bostor has been 80 great the past week that the agents for the manufacturers have sold ow their en- S:{? stock and taken orders for hmdreds of o5, —X youngladyin the town of Bantan, Lake County, Il., horsewhipped 2 young man whe bad circulated slanderous reports - concerning her, the cther day. . o & —A water-power wheel at Elgin, I, wa2s : fow days ago stopped by reason of an immens number of eels getting lodged 'in the wate wheels, Some of them weigied seven -pound exc —The London journals are much discassin at this moment the question of suicide,—w. er it be a discase ; and if 8o, whether or noi will be & contagious ona. It s well kuows tha suicides, like misfortunecs, naver ccme alone. —Corn planted as late 25 June 20, in the bot~ tom-lands of Gresne, Seatt, aud Caltoua | ties, 1ll., fully metured befora the recent kilin frosts, aud ‘made a fell crop. . - —The Ronsselasr & Saratoga Railroad sub gerited £25,000 toward the rabuilding of tk Snited States Hotel at Sacatoga. Only 525,00 of the 550,000 required remaics to be sat i seribed. R o —Appropos of the American lady, dentist & Berlin, who has been supposed to -be her sex’ pioneer in that. lino of business, tho Britis Jowrnal of Denlal Science asserts that, as lon i eco g8 1850, there were no_lees “than- seventee femele practitioners of dentistry in Englan end Wales. - . | —Tbe old Court Housa at Danville, T burned last week, was_erected in 1832, under coatract with Gurdon 8. ubberd, now of Ch c250; and, upon its completion, it was believe to be the best Court Hoase in Iilinois. —At some of - the English mines, steam ger eratad in'boilers located on the surface of th i gronnd is conveyed to the cngines-within tk nine. In one place.-the steam is conveyed distance of 2,333 feet; in pipes four inches'in d amoter, and the loss of pressure is' gaid to t only Lalf a pound to the square inch. _ ° — At Grand Prairio, near Contralis, TIL, Ale: Henry, who had $7,000in" gold, left his hout unoccupied, the other evening, and returned t find his treasure gone; and AleXanderwas t have been married next day. : —Princa Alfred’s waltz, “The Gelatea,” Liax ing been performed at the Albert Hall, Londo! by five military bands, under the direction ¢ Mr. Mepleson, the royal composer was in suc delight that he took.the director iome to dir rer, and the next day sent him a haunch of ven son from one of the stags which he himself ha gtelked in the highlands of Scotland. - — Two wine-growers named Rousses wer employed in throwing grapes into & vat, at Gev vey, France, recently, and s man was sent dow totread them, but was suffocated by the gasc arising from fermentation. One of tle prc prietors went down to help. him, and shared th same fate. The survivor followed, and was like wise prosirated. -Their- mother then-went dow and was overpowered, and, hen taken out, sl was the only one that could-be brought back t conscioueness. - —Tho Bloomington Pantagraph does_not be lieve the Indisnspolis, Bloomington & Wester Railroad has purchased the Springfield & Nortl Westorn, bat says that the Indianspolis, Bloom ington & Western Company will bave runuin by Jan.1 abont 500 miles of road. It now hc the road from Indianspolis to Peoris, fror Peoria to Rock Island, from Davenport to St Taul (building), from Champaign to Monticell gad Decatur, and from Champaign to Clintos Lincoln, and Havana. —A eort of insurance company was stattes in Austria, & year or two 230, to_pay policy holders a cortain sum of money when' they go married. The premiums were arranged oD regulaxly graduated ecale, according to aga au: tho temptationa likely to beset the insured. Th- compzany did a flourishing business for som time, when s matrimonial episode broke ou among the directors, each of whom was heavil: insured, and these, all femng married at once absorbed the assets and swamped the concern. —One of the most melancholy effects.of th opidemic among horaes in Boston results fron e dificulty which undertakers experience it obtaining horses for funerals. A burial toq place on Saturday, wken it was found impossibl to procure a single carriage to follow the hearse the backmen being unwilling to go outto one o the rural cemeteries. At another funeral onl eix carriages could be found, though fourtee were ordered. In ono instance & coflin contain ing a corpeo was conveyed through the streets i a hand-cart. One csse in particular ieemo: verysad. A young ludy died on West Newtor stréct, and on Saturday afterncon the famil: were obliged to have the funeral take place. Bu carriages could not be obtzined for any consid eration, and the only mounrner who went witl the remains to the grave was a brother, and hr waa obliged to take & seat by the driver of th hearse. (=} S o Cuarions Case of Lunacye A curions case of lunacy ig_attracting atten tion in Hillsdale County, Mich. A couple o weeks since some friends invited 3rs. Thoma: Ferris, living in the town of Litchficld. to ac company them to the neighboring town of Allen Shortly after their arrival there 3Mrs. Ferris was induced to drink s mixture of ale and gin, sh snpposing she was drinking ale ; which had the effect of stnpofyinfjhur. 'he party sooz after ward returned to Litchfield. After her armrive home Jrs. Ferris was given medicine to new tralizo the effect of the mixture, and soon after she exhibited symptoms of delirium, and grow- ing rapidly worse, in the conrse of a day or twc 816 became & raving manisc, and was taken tc the County Asylum in araving condition, from which state she has not recovefed. She wore af the time & quantity of valuable jewelry, whict is alleged to Lavo been stolen whilo ho was in- toxicated, and it is now thought that the mix- ture was drogged by her companions to enablc them to rob her. The husband of Mrs. Ferris was at work in Adrian at the the timo, and from her delirious condition it could not be learned by whom she was accompanied. BSuspected par- ties in Litchfield heve been arrested, however, who have been held for appearance in the nex tcmfiof,fl:}: Cim;.il CO&R‘L o and Mrs, Ferris are English people, and are held in high esteem by their neighbors in Litchfeld. o ~