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THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY; DECEMBER 22, 187 PERIODICAL LiTERATURE. The Atlantic, Lippincott’s, - Car Young Foliis, Popular Science Honthly, Cathelic World, ani Chi- cago Magazine. Autobiography of Robert Dale Owen . ==“A Chance Acquaint- ance, " The Cabinet of President Wash~ ington~--Wieniawski, the Violinist. Quinine as a Febrifuge---The Irish Capie, S The King of Auarora,” ATLANTIC MONTHLY. . . “In the Aflantic Monthly for January, 1878, ROBERT DALE OWEN . gives & chapter of autobiography, in which, with many details of family history that are of more interest to 3Mr. Owen than other people, there are given some anecdotes of a very reada- dle character. The Owens and the Dales have always displayed a morked indostrial bent. Robert Dalo Owen's grandfather was one of the Erst in England to form a partnership with Arkvright to establish a cotton manufactory in wwhich the wonderful spinning jenny of the lat- ter, just invented, was to be employed. At the Afirst meeting of the two partners after themanu- factory was built, they foll into a bitter quarrel : Then, for the first time, Ackwright (not yet Sir }) camo to Scotland to 'visit the new manufac- tary. g a post-chaise from Glasgow, M. ; Dale and he reached the summit of o hill which' com- mazded a view of tho village, and on the gentlo slops of which were Iid out small garden epots, separated. by gravel paths, It was s fine summer evening. Gettiog out of the carriage, Mr. Dale led his part Ber to & favorablo point, whenco could be seen not only izhe entire establishment, including the vast factory , the mechnuics’shops, the schookhouse, and the rows of stone dwellings for the work-people, but also the picturesque river winding its way below the nills, between abrupt walls of shrub-covered rocks, the landscepe bounded by & beautifal champaign country stretching out on the other bank, Well do 1 Temember the scene. % “ How does it swt you 77 my grandfatier asked at ArkwTight scanned the whole with s critical bus. Dess ese Lo come time before ho answered : Y Gapi- il That site was selected witn great judgment.” *+You like tho way the streets are Lud outand the mill-b placed 27 % Very well—couldn’ be better.” p%{‘c%\cn;y family in the villago has one of thess garden e, “ 4 very good idea,” We hid to tuazel the rock for & long distance at 2 Keavy expense ; but we gained a fall of twents-six or Tventy-eight feet.n . “Itis & €pot in a thonsand,” cried Arkwright, Might 2ave been made on purpmsed."' “Tm3lad you likeit.” “1 40, very much.” Then, after another long look gver the villige and all its earroundings, he added, 0ng 10 8 wooden cupols within which the factory was hung : “but that uply steeple—or whatever it l:;;nzu: made you put it off at the end of the build- ~ Why, where would you have had it 7 £ Ove the middle of the mill, of course.” _“Idou’tsesany ‘of conrse’ about it. Tight where it ia.? “You think 507" asked Avkwright, 4To ba sure I do, or X wouldn't have put it there,” “Well, ow've » curious idea of ihings. I'd ikeio ear a single good reason for having the thing stuck on 20 the end of that mill, the way you've gotit.s “* If 2 man's o blind be can’ see that vas the proper plzce, it i3 worth while finding him reasons for 3t.” “Biind! A man with half an eye might have seen s just etter. I don’t care toargue with amar that haen't | Tmore common fense.” This =5 t00 wmuch for my grandfather. “Ark- Trighbreaid be 7 dont care 1o lave 3 rian fora Fariner who would get stirred up anent such o trifle, sad telk such nonsense about it £, “Xciher do L. So there’s one thing we doagres abgut. T'm readyto scll out to you to-nigat.” "$Gaod! Tot's get into the carriagesnd Tl show ou ail over the place, Then we'll go_back to theauld Zovn ! (so Lanark wes usually called), * getttin something to eat and a glass of toddy,"—{(my grand- Tother was a strictly temperate man, but no Scoteh- xman in those dsys thousht an oceasional glauss of Highland whiskey toddy an_offence zgainst temper- 2xce),—* and I daresay we can bi it ofl’ atwees us.” ‘That evening Richard Arkvright and David Dale &iszolved partnesship, the lstrer yemaining sole pro- Prewr of the village Znd mills of New Lanark, 2Ir. Owen gives a grest deal of interesting in-- Szrmation about this early stage of the textile Teenufacturers of Great Britaip, in which his :2ncestors were active, but does by no means restrict his pen to economic themes. He gives us . an abrupt and & very grateful variety to'his talk abous factaries, and overseers, and cotton-spin- Ders, by telling us about his father's love-affairs. TWaile walking in the Park at Glasgow one day, e was introduced to a Miss Dale: “pliss Dale and the young cotton-spinner seem to ‘have besn mutually attracted from the first. She of- Fered him ax introduction to her uncle, then manager cf Ler father’s establishment at New Lonark; sug- gesting, at the sume time, that the Falls of Clyde, & Zzile or to beyond the mills, were well worth_seeing. “The offer was esgerly accepted, and the lady then 2dded that, when he had made thie trip, she would be glad to hezt from him how he Liked it. Of conrse he caiicd, on his return to Glasgow, toren- Ger thoaks for her kindpess, Fortvne favored the Soung people. Mr. Dale was_ absent; the mom- 3ng wos fine; & walk in the *Green” (the park of Gissgow) was proposed, and my father accompanied Iiics Dale and her sistérs to the banks of the Clyde. ke young Iady dropped a hint—not quite a5 broad ag Desdemops’e—that they would probably be walking there earls next day. Bat “on this hint ” my father, less adventurous than O.ello, spekenot. Ho joined the party, indeed ; but ihoday aiter he returned to his snug bachelor guar- dcraats country-house cailed Greenbeys, near Man. chester, The standing and reputation of David Dale dismayed him : Dot only his wealth, his eminence 3s & manufac- turer, his prominence 2s 4 popular preacher and bonn- teous philanthropist, his position, 38 chief of the two Directors, in the Glasgow branch of the Rosal Bank of Scotland 3 but, more thag these, his former station aa cne of the magistrates of Glasgow. My father despaired of winning the great man's dnvghter. * Nor is it likely that he would have serious- Jyattempted the citadel, had it not been betrayed by ko eympathetic_imprudence of one of ita fair allies. 1fies Spear, probably taking compassion on my fath. er's Janeiy condition, fold tales out of school. “¥ could let you into a secret worth knowing,” she seid to him oné duy ; I don's think Tought to tellit, ‘but it would make you very happy.” 0f course my futher earnestly begged to me mado Bapps, and_solemnly promised to muks no improper e of what might be Tevealed. Then it came out that, when my father, the firab time he walked with Mizs Spear and her Scoch friend, ‘ad parted from ther, Miss Dale had mado special in” qairy 28 to who and what that Englishman was; and tbat when her curiosiiy was satistied, she had ' con- Fessed to her friend, afters pause: # Well, I don’t XEnow how it is ; but, it seems to me, if'X ever marry, tkat is to be the man.? TThis hreach of confidence by Miss Spear csused a third visit to Glasgow and more walks on the Green. Afier 3 while the younger sisters—discreat girls ol “'You must get my father’s consent,or yOm €an. ‘mever have mine;” adding, however, like s dear, frank ivl 2 she was: ¢ 1 3 he won's agree; and if he oeen’t, T do not intend to marry st 2lL? - T enould be sshamed of my father if hehad not found some way out of this dificulty, But ho wae. pqualtotheoccasion, * % ¢ v e e e The lo;zr! lu):l k{quu;fly (xu mel;:‘m. ‘J;Ala on bng. ness, and 100! s 1o please him ; the youn Eihdred to e “reaclutiob refusing several egibly offers ; and the father was indulgent, calling o mind what faithful Jiitle housekeeper his daughter had been to him. And so i was brought about that, on the S0th of September, 1799, Miss Dals becamo Bira. Bolert Owen. The readers of the Aflantic may felicitate themselves on having said good-by to DeMillo, end may consider themselves fortunate to find in his place Mr. W. D. Howells, who begins hie e serial story, ‘A CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE.” s The first chepter introduces us to some of the peoplo who aro to lead the resder through the story. There is Miss Kitty Ellison sitting on the promenade-deck of the Saguenay boat at Quebee, who had started with & cousin and her husbandtosee Niagara, “whichshehadneverseen befare because it was 80 near ” herhome, but had. been induced by them to lengthen her journey. Aiss Kittyis evidently going to Boston, and in Poston is evidently going to meet some very de- cisive argerienw of & very tender kind; for sight on the threshold of the story appcars Mr. Miles Arbuton, of Boston, on the promenade- deck of the steemer. Miss Eitty, We may be sure, sow him & > ‘She glanced at him from time o fime, outof tender frey escs, with a furtive ploy of feelingupon . senei- tive face. To her he was that divice possibility which every young man is toevery young maiden ; and, be- Eides, he wes invested vith 3 halo of romante ss' tho gentleman with the blcpd moustache, whom sbe bad £cen at Nisgara the wecc before, on the Goat Island Bridge. Our belict, that thisis to be s serious matter, is gzengitioned by these PASSRRSE WAGh will eerve to develop the siory, and show that the same delicate and charming humor that mada “Our Welding-Journey” such a delight will play between the lines of “* A Chance Acquaint- ance” : . “Well, Kitty 2" cried Mrs, Ellison, shutting h inelde 3 yotng 1ady’s statéroom a momen?.ng orsett “ Well, Fanny 2 “Je'nt he handsome ™ “Heis, indeed,” “Swest “Jec-cream,” said HiNY, and placidly let horself be E‘nfi!flm:e:?&nshggf g:;\hniggt? Befors m’:_m- apt she wished {0 ask her husband. o S e “ Should you want Kitty tomarty s Bostonian 7 They eag Bostonjans are 50 cold.” * What Bostonian has been saking Kiity to marry *0, how apltebal yonarel T did’nt oy apy had. But if thers should 7 . 7 . Z i “'K‘&en it’ll be time to think sbout it. Youw've mar- ried Kitty right and left to everybody who's looked at her sinco we left Nisgara, and I'vo worried mysell to death investigating tho chsracter of hor husbands, ow I'm not going to do it any onger,—tll she has a2 er.” . “Very well, ¥ou cna lepreciate your ovn cousin if you like, But I know what Jghall do. I sball let berwearall my best things, How forfunate it is, Richard, that we're exaclly of o 5lze! O, Iamso glad ee brougkt Kitty slong! I ehe should marry and settle down in Bostoh=no, T hope she conld gét her husband to 1§vé In New York—" - “Go on, o on, my dear 1" cried Colonel El.ison, with agroanof despair. “EKitty bas falked twenty-five mimutes with this young msn about the hotels and steamboats, apd of courseke 'l be round to-morrow ‘morning asking my cousent to marry her assoon as we can get to a Justice of the Peace. My hair is gradually turning grey, snd I shall be bald before my time} but 1 dow’t mind that if you find any pleasure in these little ‘hallucinations of yours, Goonl® Ono disappointment, it is to bo feared, awaits Miss Kitty. Sae goes to Boston believing im- plicily, 23 er uncle hos written to ber, thatin joston— . “Everything that 1s noble, and grand, and liberal, and enlightened in the national life bas originated, asid X cannot doubt that you will find the character of its people marked by every attribute of a magnanimous ‘democracy, If Tcould envy you snything, my dear girl, I sbould envy yon this privilego of seeing s clty wherg ‘man i volued simply sad solely {or what 1 is 1o hime self, and where color, wealth, family, occupstion, and othér vulger and meretricious distinctions sre wholly ost sight'of i the consideration of ndividual excel- ey THE CABINET OF PRESIDENT WASHINGTON is the title of Mr. Parton's chaptor, in which he sketches the characters of that famous Cabinet in which eat Hamilton, and Jefferson, and Knos, and Edmund Randolph,—all young men,—being, in the order shove, 23, 47, 40, and 37 years of age. The chepter 15 Yuninly devoted to describ- ing the orgenizaion of the Treasary by Hemil, ton, and the exciting discussions which preceded tho'sssumption, by tho Freach Gorernment, of the State debis. This was secured fially by-n compromise, by which, Parton tell us, & vast permanent wrong was done in order to tide over a temporary inconvenienca ; nay, two permanent wrongs: log-rolling was invented, ant of Washington was sprawled over the soft banks of the Potomac. POETEY, STOLIES, AND EEVIEWS. 3. T. Trowbridge, Marchal Oliver, Celia Thax- ter, Paul H. Hayme, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and T. B. Aldrich give the poetry of the number. Dr. Holmes' poem, # Affer the Firo,” and Mr. Aldrich’s, “An oly Thought,” we have Untime alresdy published. Thers zre two stories: A Faded Leaf of His- tory” and “ Barbara's Duty;” and instructive pepers on < Tho Siraits of n(ug)fnnn," Dy Mrs, . C. Agassizyand on “The Bethnal Green IMuzenm.” “ Recent Literature " cont»na reviewsof these books: “Historr of new York City, from * the Discovery to fho [Present Dey,” by William L. Stoume; “The Greels of 'To-Day,” by Charles K. Tuckerman; % Joseph Noirel's Bevenge,” by Victor Cherbuc liez ; ““A Summer's Romance,” by Mary Healy ; “ Keel and Spddle,” by Joseph W. Revera; 4 Comedy of Terrors,” by James DeMillo; “ A Chance for Himeelf; or Jack Hazard gnd His Treasure,” by J. T. Trowbridge ; ** Tho Lives of the Novelists,” by Sir Walter Seott; " Biograghia Literaria ; or, Biographical Sketebes of Tite crary Life and Opinions,” by Samiuel Tavlor Coléridgo ; “Letters from High Latitudes,” by the Eaxl of Dufferin. OF r. WIENIAWSEL, who recently delighted the musical people of Chicago, the musical editor of the Aflantic says: In Monsicur Wieniaweki we have the greatest violin- 15t who has yet been heard in America. Of all violinista now living, Joachim alone can claim superiority over him. Of his executivo ability it i needless to speak, His quality of tone, infonation, management of ibe bow and fingers, aro all as absclutely perfect s wo can imagive, His playing is characterized by the mgst ad- mirable grace and refinement of etyle, grandly-broad nd delicately-finiched _phrasing, that power of ex- pression which makes exery note tell upon his hearers, =nd, above all, the perfection of artistic good taste, Of depth of entiment, paselon, and {hat ab- sorption in the mutic which makes his 'hearers forget himin what ho is plsying, we tee little in him, In whatever he is playing, Wicniaweki himself is ever be— forous. In this respect he etands in strong contrast 10 Rubinstein. Wieniawski's playing i as perfect as fanltless techniguz, artistic culture, great msthetic sen- sibility, an perfedt mastery over himeelt and bis 10 stroment can makeit. 1t Teminds w of Goetbo's es: “Ho is crowned with all achieving Who first perceives and then performe,” But, with 21l ils perfection, we cannot but fec! that ihe great, original, heaven-ahd-earth-moving master~ soul is wanting, i B rLIPPINCOTT’S MAGAZINE. Lippincot?s opous with an sxtcle” by Edward tHio“-hnd' on “ Iron Bridges and Their Construc- on.” 2 *‘ Searching for the Quinine Plant in Peru” is continned. Some of the illustrations accompa- nying this article are of o beauty very rare in magazine art. “The following passage gives the history of QUININE AS A FEBBIFUGE ; Tt is doubtful whether the sboriginal inhabitnts of ‘Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador were acquaintedl with the virtues of the cinchona plant ss & febrifuge. It seems ‘probable, nevertheless, that the Indians of Loza, 230 ‘miles sauth of Peru, were awars of the qualities of tho bark, for there its 5o \aa first made known to_Euro- peans. Is was forty years after the pacification Of Pern, owever, “before any communcia- tion ot the remedial secret was made to the Gpaniards, Joseph de Jussien reports that in 1600a Jesuit, who had o fover at Malacotss, was cured by Peruvian bark, In 1638, the Countess Ana, of Chinclion, was suffering from tertian fever and agué at Lima, whitber sho had_sccompunied the Vice- 105, her husband. ~ The Corregidor of Loxs, Don Juan Lopez de Canizares, sent parcel of powdered quin ‘quina bark to her physician, Jusn do Vega, assuring Dim that it wo3 3 sovereign and infalliblo Temedy for “tertiana.” It was administered to the Countess, who ¥s 62 years of oge, and effected a completo cure. ‘This Countess, returning with her husband to Spain in 1640, brought with her 5 quantity of the heal ing bark, Herico it was sometimes called “ Countess’ Bark ” snd “ Countess' Powder.” Her famous curo induced Linnrus, long after, to name the whole genua of quinine bestini trees in her Bonr, Cinchgna, By otern writers the 25 usually beendropped, and the word i8 now almost invariably spelled in that ‘way, instead of the more ctymological Chinchona, Tho Jesuits afterward mnde great and effective uso of it in their missionary expeditions, and it was a Indicrous Tesult of thelr patronage that iis uso should have been for along time opposed by Protestants and favored Dy Catholica. In 167, Louis SIV, boughtiho secret of preparing quinquina from Sir Robert Talbor, an English doctor, for 2,000 louis-dor, » large pension, anda title, Under {he Grand fonarch it was used at dessert, mingled with Sponish wine, The delay of its discovery util the seventeenth century hoa probsbly lost to the world numbers of valuable live Had Alexander the Great, who died of the common ro- mittent fever of Babjlon, been acquainied with cinchona bark, hia death would have been averted and tho pertition of the Macedonisn Empire indeSnitely postponed, Oliver Cromwell was carried off by an ague, which the administration of quinine would easily Bave cured. The bigotry of medical science, even stter its efficacy was mown and proved, for o Jong time retarded its dissemination, In 172 La Fone taing; at the instance of a lady who owed her life to it, thie Countess of Boillon, composed & poem in twg cantos to celebrato its virtuea: but the remarkablo ‘Deauty of the leaves of the cinchiona and the delicious frogrance of its flowers, with allusions to which he ‘might have ndormed his Yerses, were etil unknown {n ‘Europe. Caroline Cheeseboro begins & story entitled “Probationer Leonbard; or, Three Nights in the Happy Valley.” Reginald Wynired takes us to e ‘“THE JRISE CAPITAL," phich, ho saye, is mow quite desdrted by tho no- sse: Besides tho Lord Chancellor, there is probably not o singles Peer oceupying & bouse there to-day, Houses are excellent and very chesp. An immense maneion in the best ituation can be had for 1,000 a sear, Tho ‘markets are copitally supplied, and 1he prices aro gen- ezally about cne-third of those of New York, Not a single item of living is dear. :(\]lim of the finest palaces in Dublin was Moira Hall: Tho celebrated John Wesley vieited Lady Mofra at Boira House in 1775, # and was surpriced to observe, though not a more grand, a far more elegant room than ho had ever scen in England, It was an octagon, about 20 feet squure, and 15 or 16 feet high, having ong window (tho eides of it inlaid throughout ‘with moth- er-of-pearl) reaching from the top of the rootm to ihe Dottom ; the ceiling, eides, and Larniture of the room were equally elegant.” 1t was here ihat two of the greatest members of thelr respective Legislatures— Charles Fox and Henry Graltan—first met in 1777; and Moim House continued to Le tha scena of splendid entertainments up fo the desth of the first Lord Moira, in 1793, Wesley concludes his letter about Moira Honee Dy asking, “Must this too, pacs away like o dremn 77 Whether like 5 dream or no, it certsinly has been eignally the fato of this whilom proud mansion to pass from the highest fo the very humblest almost at o bound. " For some years after ludy Moira’s death (in 1808) the house wad Lept up by the family, but in 1628 it was lot to an Anti-Mendicity Society. 'The upper story was removed, the mansion was stripped of ita splendid decorations,—somo of the furniture is now at Castle Forbes, tho eest of the Earl of Granard, Lady foira’s pmfihndsmfi a worthy descendant,—and. the ealopa wh{ch Wese Wom to bo throvaed Wiid to the City | = most brilliant and splendid society ot the irish ‘metropolis in itx hoyday are Dow the abods of perkaps the very. poblest outeasts who ato £0 be found in the wholoWideworld: . o, ... . 1 The greatest pioprioto of resl estaté in Bublin, 1 the young Earl of Peribtoke, on of the Inte, Right Hom: Sidney Herbirt, sowell known in_connection it ¢ Oeifnea wa, who v crexted, shorlly before his Qoxih, Tord Herbert of Les, His estate, which is the most valuzble in Ireland, comprises Merrion Square, nd all tho most fashionable part of the Irish metropolis, and extends for several miles along the Tailway line Tmning from Kingstonn, the landing-place {from_ Englsng, fo the c:puaf' "The properts also in- ount' Merrion, a neglected seat about four miles from the city, 'This maasion, which might easily be made delightful, commands a charming view over thelovely bay, and ls surrounded by o small but picturesque park_containing deer. It was, with the restof Lord Pembroke's éstate, formerly the property of Viscount Fitzyilliam, who founded the Fitzwillizm University of Cambridge, Tord Fitzwilliam was a somewhat eccentrio person, His mesrest relation had displeased him by some very trivial offence, such as coming down late' for dinner, &0 he deterroined to Jeave his estate to his distant cousin, Tord Pembroke, Falling ill, Lord Fitzwillism desized that Lotd Pembroke might besummoned from Tondon, Word camo back that it was unfortunately impossible for him fo leavo England immediately, Presently nows arrived from Dublin that Lord Fitz- william was dead, and bad bequeathed all—the prop- erty is now $350,000 0 year—to Lord Pombroke, with remainger to hia second eon, By the death of the late Lord Pembroko the English and Irish properties Dave become united, and aro_to-dsy worth not less than 600,000 8 year! It is this young_nobleman who Tias lately written * The Earl and The Doctory? « THE EING U]e‘ AUHORA " is Dr. Keil, s kindred spirit to Briggham Young, and leader of & Communist seitlement 28 miles from Portland, Oregon. Theodors Kirschoft hes visited the scttlement, and, despite the ru- mors that Dr. Keil was a vory Corberus, suc- cceded in finding out all about this curions colony In the year 1856 he camo with forty followers to Ore- gon, 0s a delegate from the paront sssocistion of Bothel in Micaour, in order to found in the fr West,” then so little Imown, o branch colony. At present the Doctor s President both of Aurora snd of the original setilement ot Bethel ; tho latter consists of about 400 ‘members, tho former of 410, When ho first came into this region hofound the whole, district now owned ourishing cotony covered with marsh and forest, _Instead; howevex, of establishing himself on the prairiés lying farther south, in tho midst of foreign settlers, ho preferred s ‘home shared only with his German brethren in the primitive woods; and here, having at that time very emall means, o obtained from the Government, gratie, land enongh to provide homes for his coloniats, and found in the timber a sourco of capital, which he st onca made productive, He next pro- ceeded to build s block-louss as a defenco ogainst the Indisns, who ot that timo were nostile in Oregon ; then he _erected a saw-mill and cleared off the timber, part of which be used to build Totises for his colonisis, and with part opened an zdv vantsgeous trade with his American meighbors, who, living on the prairic, were soon catirely dependent on him for all their timber, The land, once cleared, was so0n cultivated and planted with orchards ; the 'Sner varioties of frult he shipped for ‘ssle to Portland_sna San Frencisco, und from tho Eour apples ho either ‘made vinegar or sold them to the older settlers, who very soon mado themselves sick on them. He then atténded them in the character of physician, and cured them of th¥ir silments at o good round _charge, joke tho good Doctor related with especial satisfac- tion, By degrecs, tho Doctor continued to say, the number of coloniats thcreased ; and his means and strength Deing thus enlarged, be establishod 5 tannery, a fac- fory, 1ooms, Sonring-mills, built more housés for lus colohists, cleared more land and_drained the marshes, increased his orchards, lnid out new farms, gave some attention to adornment, crected a church and school- houses, and purchased from the American settlers in the nelghborood their best lands for s song, . He did eversthing systematically. He always assigied his colonist the gort of labor that they appeared to him Dest fitted for, and cach ono found the place best suited to his copabilities. If any one objected to doin, Bis will and obesing his orders, he was driven out of ibe colony, for e would endure no opposition. Ho made the best Jeatficr, the best bams, and gathered tho Dest crops in o)l Oregon. The possessions of the col- ony, which he added to s he was able, extended al- ready over 20 sections (a sectioncontoins 640 acres, or on English square mile), and the most perfect order 2nd industry esisted evérywhere, ‘Should any ono wish o become & member of the colony, Le must, in the first place, put all his ready ‘money into the hands of Doctor Keil ; ho will then be taken on triz the candidato satisfies the Doctar, ho can remsin snd becamo ons of the communily; should this, however, not b the case, he receives again the capilal ho paid in, but withous interest. How long he mest remain * on probation ” in tho col- oly, axd work there, depends entirely on_the Docior’a pleasure, I{ o member leaves the community volun- tarily-—a thing almost unheard of—he receives back Lis capital without interest, together with »_pro rata share of the carnings of the community during his Iaembership, a8 appraised by, the Doctor, All fhe ordinary mecessaries of life are supplied gratuitously to the members of the cgmmunity, The Doctor holds the common purse, out of which all pur- chases are paid for, and into which go the profits fro 1ibe agricultural and industrial praducts of the colony. If any member needs a cont or olher article of cloth- ing, flour, sugar, or tobaceo, be can get whatever ho waiits, without paying for it, at the “storo;” in the same way ho procures meat from the butcher and Dread from the bsker; spirits are forbidden, except in case of sickness, Tho Doctor also appolnts’ the occa- Dation of each member, 80 38 to contribute to the best ‘Welfare of the colony—whether ho shall be » farmer, o ‘mechanic, 3 common laborer, or whatever he can be ‘most usefully employed in; and the time and talents of esch are regarded sa_belonging to the whole com- ‘munity, subject only to the Doctor's judgment. If a member marries, a separate dwelling-house and a. cer- tain amounteof land are ed 50 that tho fomilies of tho settlement are scattered about on farma, The Elders of tho colony support the Doctor in the Quties of his office by counsel and assistance, The lands uf the colony are collectively recorded in Dr, Reil's pame, n arder, as he ea3s, to avold intricato and complicated law-papers, It would, however, be for the interest of the colonists to make a speedy change in this respect, 0 that the members of the community, in case of the Doctor’s death, might obtain each his share of the land without litigation. Should the Doctor's decease occur soon, befora this alteration, is made, his Datural heirs could claim the whole property of the colony, and the members would be left in the lurch. He does not appear, however, fo be in great haste to ‘offect this change, though it ought to have been done long sgo. It is always £aid among the colonists, nat urally enough, that all the ground 18 the common'pro; erty of the community. Whether the Doctor fully sul scribes to this opinion in his secrot heart, might be a question. Dr. Keil is st the same time the religlous hesd and thie unlimited secular ruler of the colony_of Aurora, and con ordain, with the consent of the Elders (who very naturally uphold his authority), what Le plesses. Alife freo from careand responsibility, such as the ‘members of the community (who, for ‘the most part, Delong to the lower and uncultivated elass) lead—s lifo in regard to which no one but the Dactor has the trouble of thinking—is the main ground of tho undis- turbed continuance of the colony, The pre-eminent talent for organtzation, combined with the unlimited ‘powers of command, which the Doctor~justly named “ Ring of Aurora "—possesses, fogether Jith the in ‘born industry pecullar to_Germans, is thé cause of the prosperity of the eettlement, which calls itself .com- munistic, put is certainly nothing moro than a vaat farm belonging to its talented founder. ‘Meria Howland, in her REMINISCENCES OF FLORENCE, tells how she saw Powers vindicate American goad-breeding under trying circumstances : While 3r. Powers was conversing with me about the Venus of Afilo, thers_entered two Englishwomen, dressed very richly in brocades and velvots, They seemed very anxious to eso eversthing in the stadio, talked in loud fones of tho various objects of art, pussed us, and occupled themsclves for_some time be: fore the statue called California., I heard ono of them #ay, I wonder if there’s anybody ere that talks Hin- glish 77 and in the same breath she called out to 3z, Powers, Come’ere!” He was at work that day, and. ‘wore bls studio costume, I was somewhat surprised {0 8ee him immediately obey therudo command, and the following conversation occurred 3 : “ Do you speak Hinglish 7% “ Yes, maam.” “ Whut fs this statno? “14 js called California, madam,” “ What has she got in %er ’and 7% oo Zhorn, madum, i the hand held bebind fhe ack ; n tho other alie presents the quartz containin the tempting melal” v 9 & “Oh1 We next entered a-room whers there was another work of the sculptor in process of formation. Mr, Powers and myself were engaged in an unimated and, 10 me, very sgrecabls conversstion, which was con- stantly intérrupted by thess ll-bred women, who kept all the time mistaking the ploster for the marble, and nslted the artist tho most estering questions o the modus operand? of sculpturing. Iwas astonished at the marvellous temper of Mr. Powers, who politely and ‘patiently answered all their queries. By some fucky chance these Women got out of tho way during our slow progrest Lack o' {he outer Yooms, and enjosed Mr, Power's conversa tion uninterruptedly. He showed me the beautiful ‘baby hand in marble, & copy of bis daughter's hand ‘when an infant, ond had just returned it to_its shrino when tho two Women reappeared, and wo all proceed- ed fogetber. In the,outer zoom thero were several ad- ‘mirable busts, upon'which these women passed com- ment freely, " One ,of theso busts was that of alady, and they attacked it spitefully. *Whatan ugly facers “What 5 mean expression abont the mouth 7 “ Ian't it"orriblo 77 #Who i 162" aeked ome of them, addressing M. 5 Powers. “That {8 s portraif of my wife,” eaid the artist modestly. 5 “ Your wife {” repeated one of the women, and then, nothing sbashed, added, “ Who are you 27 430y name is Powers, madam,” he answered very politely. This discovery evidently disconcerted the smpudence even of these visitors, and they immediate- Iy lefs tho atudio. The other contents are: “The Maestro's Con- feasion,"—by Margaret F. Preston; Mosieur Fourniér's Experiment,”—by Cornelins Deweos “ Gray Eyes,"—by Ella Williams Thompson; “The Southern P\'xmter,“gby Will Wallace Har- ney; ‘“Babesin the Wood,”—by Edgar Fawcett ; . %Ay Cherge on the Life-Guerds,”—by Charlag L. Norton; “Painting snd a Painter,” “Our Monthly Gossip,” “ Literaturo of the Day."” OUR YOUNG FOLKS. In Our Young Folks for Jenuacy, J. T. Trow- bridge begins o now stary, entitle < Doing iy Best,” in which Descon Chatford, and Jack, and ‘Phigeas, and tho other charactézs with whom our young folk became €0 _pleasantly acquainted in “’A Chance for Himself,” begin a new round of pleasant adventures, . A. Stephons, who s editfng that delighttl vachfiog gorice Which Rogan With ! Camping Out;" tellsabont The Motherof All the Foxes;"” —n pestiferns creiturs that deficd all traps and snares, and was brought to terms onlyafter a regular military siege, which ended in blowing her out of her hole by the explosion of a mine. “The Adventures of Little Martin XKlover” are illustrated with Lalf-a-dozen comical, little cuts, and are fanny enongh: “‘ Patgey, Flash & Co."ftells of & famous busi~ ness-concern in the —th Michigan Cavalry. Patsey, the senior hiember of the firf, was “ Irigh, an or%bl.‘n, and 11 years old.” His two artners were Flash,. who was black-and-tan- log, and a barrel which beld the lemonade, z).\éch was the stock-in-trade of Patsey, Flash 5 Co. These light articles .serve to lure the unsus- pecting iufant into an sstronomical treatise * About Constellations.” < “ After this, there is more story-telling, in which appears “A Sooty Thunderbolt,” one of tho unpnbliehed * Camping-Out™ sketches. A novet feature of Our !'mmg Folks is the de- partment in which aro published _stories, Sketches, and poems by young-contributors, whose ages yary from 11 to 16, and who furnish —perhaps with & little surreptitions help from mamma and their big brothers—some wonder~ fully good things. Here, for one, is A POEM BY ALICE MAUDE, AGE 143 0 3ou grown folks with yout wisdom; on don't Inow what Baby knows § You have never seen the fairies In the lily and the rose : You have never besrd their whispers; As they hover in the air ; i ORly Baby boars thoin exet,— for him their stories rare, 0 you grown folks with your riches, Jewels, silver, precious gold, You ore not 50 rich 28 Baby,~ Treasurea great bis small hands hold; For the buttercups are golden, And the dajsies silver-white, And the dewdrop, in the morning, Is a jewel diamond-bright, 0, you grown folks with sour wisdom, "Do not spoll these visions bright | Soon the world will closo around him, Shutting out the glorious light § Soon he'll mingle in its pleasures, *_ Ana forget the fairies’ words 3 But till theu, T pray yoy, leave him With the flowers and the birds. We have seen, within & month, some verses written on the same thoughl by a much mora retentions. writer, who did nob produce any- Eh.mg balf as good as Maude’s simple lines. POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. The Popular Science Monthly has a portrait of David Livingstone, and artioles as follows: “The Study of Sociology—Subjective Difficnl- ties,"—by ~Herbert Spencer; * Spontaneous Movementa in Plants,"—by Alfred W. Bennett, M. A. B. Se., F. L. 8. (llustrated): “Light and Life,"~by Fernand Papillon; * A New Phass of Germsan Thought—The Philnsogly of the Un- conscious,” from the French of Leon Dumont; “Evolution and the Spectroscope,”—by F. W. Gistke; “Dr. Living:tone,"—by 1. 3. Procter (portzalt); “Art in the Stone Age (illustrated) * Cultivating Wild Flowers,"—by Prof, Ssmuel Lockwaod; *The Velocity of the Will,"—by R. Radan; * Astronomical and Physical Obsérva~ tories;” “ Editor's Table: Observation in Edn- cation~Death of Mr. Greeley—Tyndall and Froude;” “ Literary Notices: Tyndall'a Faradsy 88 & Discoverer—Gladatone's Michael Faraday— Feuchtwanger's Popular Treatise on Gems, eic., ete.;” * Miscallany: Experiments on Soun —A New Bpecies of Rhinoceros—The Sun as & Borer of Mountains—Antiseptic Properties of Borax—Bulb Culture in Holland—Cinchona in Bengal—Disintegration of Tin—Opium-Poppy in France—Test for Silk Goods—Ihe Osage Or- ange—Phosphorio Acid, .etc.;” * Notes.” THE CATHOLIC WORLD. The Catholic World, in ‘A Son of the Crusad- ers,” gives the chief points in the story of MMontalembert. ¥ Mr. Adolphe de Champ's article on *Princo von Bismarck, and tho Interview of the Three Emperors,” i8 translated from La Revue Gen- erale de Bruzelles for the Catholic World. The remaining articles are: ** At the Shrine;" #A Christmas Recognition;” ¢ Flenrsnge;" “ Sayings;” ‘A Christmas Memory;” “The House that Jack Builé;” *“ A Retrospect ;” The Cross through Love, and Love through the Cross;” “FEarope's Angel's ;" ¢ The Nativity of Christ;” The Progressionists;” * Hypnos;” A Legena of Saint Ottilia;” ** The Year of Our Lorg, 1872;” “ New Publications,” . CHICAGO MAGAZINE. The Chicago Magazine for Decemnber is well filled, a8 usual, Wwith fashion-plates,—one of these bemg given to the latest styles of hair- dreesing,—and with reading matter of intereat to the ladies. ¢ The Church Clock's Secret” is a ntxnga Christmas story, well told; and is followed by other tales and poerms, intérspersed with information of great use in the manage- ment of household affairs. The fashion-plates are accompanied with descriptions of the ma- terials, and the manner of making them up; and, in the correspondence, the editor anawers | & groat variety of questions on the subject of the toilet, addressed to her by subscribars. rakiantiag zals i BRIDGEPORT VS. STOCK-YARDS. ‘Which Is the Best Locality for the Slaughter- Houscs ¢ o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Sme: The above caption was the subject of & lengthy article in your issue of Monday. the 16th inst.; and, after arguing the subject pro and con., you close by using the following langusge, towit: “It docs seem questionable whether the bealth and comfort of the people will bo advanced by concentrating this business at o point which apparently cannot be drained.” Iam quite surprised at thia remark that it cannot be drained. What is to pre- vent the digging of & emall channel from the head of the Bouth Fork of the South Branch in a westerly direction until the same shall intersect the Illinois & Michigan Canal, a distanco of about two miles, and thereby se- curing a constant flow of water from the lake through the South Fork, just 8s it now flows through the SBouth Branch., To securo the right of way for such & chennel would probably nok cost one cont, fo it conld ultimately ba dug out by the brick-making process to the full capacity of a ship-canal, and at right angles from this main canal, and on both sides, conld be made any quantity of elips by the same brick-making process. ~And the land-owners, see- would no doubt be very gled to givo the right of way for a channel. The 8 Emfld be kept perfectly cloan by arte- sian wells. Such an enterprise can thers be carried out, fres of cost o the land owners, as will give & three-fold greater valne to their lands than n:gwnuld ot any time otherwise possess, If such an enterprise were completed thers to-day, it wonld be the most advantageous ‘point for the entire lnmber trade and everything of & kindred nature, because the Btock-Yards efford the only common centre for all the tail. road tracks in the city. To otherpoints the cars may go; but there they must sad do go daily and hourly; and, when there, have convenienca to gather up the lumber in their imme- diste’ resr, in place of winding, t!‘“!hn% and “backing all over the city. The nearer all parties engaged in heavy freightage can get to the Stock-Yards,—this common centre of all the rosds,—the more ad- vantageous it will be for all parties concerned. Now, these things being true, I suggest that the city take the necessary action to securs this right of way for s ship canal; and then, through the contre of eaid sight of oy, dif small channel, sufficient to cleange the South Fork of the South Branch. This being done, all else that I haue mentioned will naturally fol- low, and in due time. And because they will follow, the land-owners will doubtiess nnder- stand their own interest sufficiently to induce them to donafe the right of way. It is only necessary that the city give them the opportu- Dity. PRoaness. ——— ~—*Philadelphia is & city of half & million of gouls, of whom twenty-fve, on an sverage, ate assassinated dsily.” Such sre the sccrate statistics given by a Vienna peper. That is %u way tuey interpret American ¢ Brotherly ove.” —Dr. Lenkester, s London Coroner, lately stated at thoe inquest of an infant smothered in Ded by its mother, who fell aslecp whilo nursing it, that 8,000 innocents are thus killed yearly in England. As emigration has 30 thinped tho population of the British Ielands that human- ity has value, the Coroner, therefore, suggested the propriety of having the rudiments of phyei- ology taught in the public &chools, 8o that the risiig generation might avoid thosp errors and fibnses which unnecessarily destroy so many ives. _—Charles Dickens lived and worked always at high pressure, and died-at last of overstrain, A8 Mr. Forster says of him, * Ho did even bis nothings in & streuuous way. One day he was wet through thrice, and dressed four times; another, he walked eighteen miles_in four and & half hours in & broiliog sun. Living at Genoa ona winter, he dsshed over to Loudon in the ‘most iuclement weather (riding night and day), and back to Genos again for no earthly reason but to t:y tho effect of reading “The Chimes " ona few intimate friends. His dash into tho editorialship of the Daily News and out of it egain within three wegks was highly character- istia of the man. PARIS. Political Excitement---A Juve- nile Knaves-Married Actresses. i Sometling About Champagrie-— Theatres in Europe-—The Statne of “Peace.” Things Destroyed by the Communists ---Charfemagne’s *‘ Book of Hours.” Benevolence of the Rothschilds «The Failure of Bowles & Co: From Our Own Correspondent, Pamis, Nov, 30, 1672, POLITICAL EXCITENENT The intensest excitement prevails here; and yet to write you & minute account of it is like tell~ ing you the fricks of & gume of cards, for the players are unknown to you, and that villanous telegraph (the newspapor-correspondent’s great enemy) is always announcing the honors and stakes won beforo a correspondent can begin to tell the coureo of the game: I am confirmed in this opinion by the bungling way in which the actors’ names are told you by the tolegram. Duke Q’Audiffret Pasquier is turned by the telegraph into Duke Doldfrybaskets, Duke de Broglie be~ comes Duke Debroguey, and Mone, Saint Marc Girardin 8 Mons. Grandmasgridion. Algebraio gigns would be quite as intelligible. Ihave therefore thought the only way to give interest to these political crises is to treat them historic: ally,—to wait until their end bofore tracing them from their beginning to their sequences. Meantime the telegraph will givé odt their anatomy even befors this page reaches mid- ocesn. The excitement here is intense, Belle~ ville and Montmartre are filled with troops, All sy long, foot and mounted regiments, with bonds continually playing, traverso Paris from end to end. The weather is unpropitions to in: surrection. A microscopic, penetrating rain falla continuously, and the winds blows it up sleeves and down collars, till patriotiam shivers and Bepublicanism freezes. A YOUNG RASCAL. Dr. Seymour, & well-known English dentist here, was walking on the boulavards some time since, when his attention was attracted by a boy sbout 8'years old, pale, wan, ill-clad, bat with an extremely interesting face. The boy was not begging, but evidently he was hungry. Dr. Seymour questioned him, and obtained these ins gwors: “My mother died during the siege, Father was a Communard; he was arrested; I do not know what has become of him. I am all alone, without family, withont friends.” Dr. Seymour carried the boy home with him, and his wife, touched by the pitiable story insisted upon keeping the houseless, friendless orphan. Dr. Beymour informea the police of the sdventure, and of hisintentions. He dressed the boy nicely, and the boy sobbed in gratitude: ‘Mrs, Beymour teught tho child to pray, and night 20d morning be prayed for his dead mother in 2 most edifying manner. Tho boy had been in Mra. Seymour’s house about six weeks when she one dsy said to him: “Do you much regret your mother?” He sobbed a8 if his heart was breaking, and answered: “Oh, indeed I do!” She gave him money and said: ** Well, go burn o taper for her.” "The boy went to St. Roch Chbarch, and bought and burnt a taper for his ‘mother with the money Mss. Seymonr had given him. The following day, the womsn who gells tapers in church told Mrs. Seymour how piously the child had said his prayers, and how the tears had trickled down his cheeks. Dr. and Mra. Boymonr became more and more at- tached to the boy. Judge their surprisea when yesterday they were informed by the police that the child’s father and mother wers both alive, both respectablo, never even suspected of ad- hering to La Commaune, and were janitors of & parsonage in the Ninth Ward. Tha little knave was at once sént home. N THE PARIS JOCEEY CLUB (whose club-house is the first story of the build- ing at the corner of Rue Scribe and the Boule- vard) has 730 gnmmenf. ‘members, 98 honorary members, and 2 temporary members, Its whole annual expenscs are only $72,600. House-rent and taxes are the heaviest burdens, £35,400 ; servants come next, £10,200: lights hext, £5,000; dining-room, £4,800 ; fnel, $2,400. The Iato war annually mulets the Club 310,620 in one tax alone (20 per cont on all subscriptions). Subscriptions yield$53,100; the card-tables yield o profit of 35,000 ; and cigars $1,400 more ; and there are other sourcos of profit. . . MARRIED ACTRESSES. A married woman on the stage exercises less magnetism over sn audience than & single wo- man does, even in our American theatres, where actresees generally aro respectable, and whero ho mere presenca of & woman behind the foot- lights is not sufficient to warrant the loosest thmz‘ihu. But the fact that she belongs to anoth- er; that her brightest glancos, her sweetest dim~ ples, her most musical voice are not for me, and that I1night eigh for them in vein,—do uncon- eciously gum ish the influence she exerts. A funll:m;n refuses to allow his imagination to cap over nwedfling-ringg The effect of mar- riage on actresses has been oddly illustrated here this week. There wera matches called Christine Nilsson matches, end which had s great sale; since sho took s husband, their Yogo has £o sensibly declined that their maker hes changed their mame to Northern Star mtnhea. ‘There is something in a name after THE STUDY OF MYTHOLOGY. ‘The head-mistress of a girls’ achool at Pesth announces in her advertisemenis: ‘‘In thig school, Bo much mythology is tnndghtumy enable'our pupils to_understand modern farce- operas from beginning to end.” Accomplished wives! Buitably-educated mothers! CHAMPAGNE. . Y In Champsgne, new-born babes are washed in Chsmpagno_wine, and, after baptism, the firat thing the little slrmgher tastes, a8 it enters home onreturn from church, is a glsss of the oldest Chlmpngns wine which the family can procure. In Champagne, still, not sperkling, ine is the Zavorite drink; and really the ordi- nary still Champagne win is not to be despised. I bave living near me a vininer who &¢ the ordinary st Chamfm e wine for twelve cents the quart hottle. 1 Go mot protend it is equal to ‘iced - Moeb andon; but = it is an excellont wine, full of delicions Champagne flavor. How littlo foreigners know of French wines, and where to got them! %‘orgisnm th&n;: that ghan the; }:znra “hm:l:w ordeanx, and Bury ,.and Champagne, the; hivo roached tho 65 of Aelicions Fronch wines. How many other delicious wines there are in France, many of which aretoo delicate tobe brought even to Paris; the least jolting of a Tailway-car destroys them. Maybe, one of thess days, I shall tear ~leaves from ~my note-book of edestrian-oxcursions in the loss-Jmown wing istricts, snd tell what liquid rubies, and topazes, and opalaI have quaffed under peasants’ thatched roofs. What wealth those poor folks posgess in vineyard, silk-house, orchard, dairy, poultry-yard! 1 know many weslthy pecple in the United Btates who are fiot half " so well off, To return to my muttons,—by the way, lot me mention an odd French proverh: ‘ Ninety-nine sheep end one native of Champagne are one hundred atupid animals.” Cham- pagne, you are never offered sparklin Finee. J8un " wines, -somettoes 50 ol it is really nectar, is the only wine eerved,—tho only wine drank by the inhabitants, who con- sider it pure wine; while the' sparkling wine they consider an artificial, a_manufactured, & doctored beverage. Marshal d'Artaignan wrote, in 1730: “ do not cars for sparkling wio | what I want is a clear, fine wice, witls a great deal of the Champagne perfume.” President Bertin der Rocheret, who sent his Epernay wines %0 tho great at Versaillcs, replied 10 their com- ploints that his Champagno did not sparkle a3 other Champsgne wine did: “ Foam destroys, in the beat wines, that which they have, best in them; it gives some merit only to wines of infe- rior quality; fosm is the charactsristic - of beer, chocolate, and whipped cream, but not of wine.” I confess, nevertheless, that I think the foam the best part of Champagne wine. A good bottle from Moet & Chasdon’s cellar, iced till it is of sherbet-consistency, helps a gocd dinver on to ‘merit the superlativo adjective, and ofton gives hout icéd, sparkling Champagne is 3 house withont windows:” v TREATRES I EGHOFE. Italy has niore theatrea thstt apy counh{ 3 o it hes 849, Franeo comea it : B P scoma strango that Germany, wiilch bas tmch love for opers and drama, and so many Sealtby towhs, shonld hate only 18¢; s ter- ardens and_becr-hells, which usually supp.y Shusic with beveragds, probably exphain ih Gifforenco, Spain lizs 168 Ausiria, 152; Eng- fand, 150 ; Russia, 44; Belgium, 34; = 35} Eitzerland, 20; Portogal, 16; Sveden, 10 Dehuiark, 105 Norway, 8; Gresce, 4; Tuskey, 4; Roumanis, 8; Sorvia, 1. ' THE FAMOUS SILY STATUE, *‘ PEAC 3L thé ratifation ot nresonted 1o Napoleoh TR atatue atood in the Treaty of Amiens, —WErH gavo its namp to aco of the Tuileries, e B i which it yas plssed; Salls 35 1n, Paix,—has been placed 5n Bario do Modicde bed-chamber in the Lodvre: It w;:fl at nn;on o) belioved to have perished iil tho conflagratio ot Bt v T tist, id it. ain) 4 e oren from tho Tuileries, and ho indicsted ite hiding-place to the Government. THE HOTEL CARNAYV. N Mme. do Sevignes' homein Paris was the Hotel Carnavalet. It had for the last fifty years ‘een used as & bosrding-school, and was in this way saved from dostruction, and even mutila~ Hoki, Tho fast master died in 1869 or there- abouts, and thé property came into msrket. Pub~ lic opinion préssed the rmanicipal atthorities to buy it and sava it from destruction. The Hotel do Vills_(City Hall) was daily bocoming inads« quato to the esigencies o wrban business, and th§ zooms occupied by tha Library were dosired for offices. The Hotel - Carnavalet W33 therefore boughs, and it was determined to placs in it the Munici- al Library, and o great many historicat relica {;elnnging to the city, and hid in_closeis and other recesses of the City Hall. The war cama and adjourned theso schemes to happier daye. The Library and meny s treasure pemsmd in the Hotel de Villa. A good many treasures were, hotrever, saved, for fi% 1"??'1‘; :; ts: nfl\:flg«aflg had been bégin, dnd they ha O the Hotel Comavalet: All the objects which be- longed to Napoleon vere it tho Musenm of Sov- ereigns, and they likewiss werd saved: They have been removed to the Hotel Carnsvalet: DESTRUCTION BY THE COMMUNISTS: Four thousand adherents of Ls Commtne have been sent to New Caledonia, at s cost to France of §1,000,000, aud_everybody is egreed it is 4 cheap Fiddsnto, - What milliona they have coat, and they have destroyed objects of price- less value: 'The Tuilerics was full of works of art; the Hotel de Vills wes even richer in 1! Wealth: money is powerless to restore the valus able manuscripts and recordd which ‘perished in the flames of the Library of the Louvwre, tha Library of the Cours Honge, the récords of the Prefecture of Police, and of the Archives £ the Paris Hospitals, A ,Eaud ‘many books be~ fn‘i:giug to the Louvre Library were ssved,— Charlemagne's Book of Hours, by being in the Museum of Soverdigns. All of them have been removed to the Library of tha Arsenal. CHARLEMAGNE'S BOOK OF HOURS i second in value and historieal interest to 10 manuscript in the world. It is eleven hundred years old (that sheets of vellum should ontlast 50 many generations of men! ), and has always been considered & most precions example of the arts of those distsnt ages. The leavesare of urple_vellum; the charscters are gilt. It abounds with miniatures, whose colors are as fresh as if lnid on yesterday. and whose delicacy is still thevwonder of artists. THREZ BCOUNDRELS. Daring Lis Commune, the Prefecture of Po- lice and the Courk House were in possession of three unmitigated scoundrels, oruel ss they were ignobly vicioys: The leader was Raoul Bigmlst? who was shot down like s dogin Buo Gay Lussac, Next to him was Theophile Ferre, who, perhaps, revelled in blood with even mare delight than Raoul Rigault himself. Ferre was shoton Satory Plain. Did I tell you that his grave was, on All Saints’ Day, literally concealed gy crowms of | red flowers and by bd 1:0 m; 3, reathing eager vengeance, snd p! 163 Th third of the trintiviratd was dograd: ed wretch, named Dacosta, who, from the age of 17, had wallowed in the foulest debauchery. This fellow long contrived to evade all the searches made by the police, but he was at last discovered, tried, convicted, and sentenced to be shot. This sentenco has been commuted. Hi new doom is imprisoament, with hard lsber, in the hulks for lite. ‘BENEVOLENCE OF THE BOTHCHILDS. Wessra. de Rotbachild Brothers have sent £10,600 to be applied to pay the winter's rent of poor persons not sctuslly paupers. They do this (aud will hereafter_annuslly make a similar donation for the same object) in_conformity to the wishes of their late father. What immense sums of money this family annually distributes ! They mpdgort a Jews' Hospital, a free dispensary and_medical office (the two last opento all creeds), a boys' school, & _girls’ school, 5 retreat for aged and infirm Hebrews. Nowomanin child~ Ded appeals to them without receiving pecuniary assistance; no person in distress spplies to them who (if his story prove true, and they keep two Rabbis constantly engaged in investi- ating thege applications) is not relieved; the gemsi ecclesiastical authorities are authorized to draw npon them to relieve any distress among their Hebrew brethren. If any genersal calamity fall upon a Hebrew community (for instance, the expulsion of tho Jews from Tangiors during. the Spanish invasion of Morocco, or the il treatment of Hebrews in Danubian Princ rnlties), they instantly d?u.h agents, with argo E}:fplieu of money, to ihe scens of suer- ing. They support & eynagogue, with charitable insiitutions alached to i o Jerusalem. In- deed, there is no end to their liberality. fHE BOWLES FAILURE. “"Deaths” come after '‘Marrisges” in the newspapers, 8o I dare ssy I may speak of Mesars. Bowles & Co. next immedintely after Messrs, de Rothschild. Their fsilure surprised nobody here who was at all familiar with life be- hind the scenes. It was notorious_that they had re}:entalfly escaped bu.nkmfiacy only by the gkin of their testh, during the last two or ihree years. Stories of the shifts to which they had Tesorted to raise the wind were for months_cur~ Tent, sad lighted many a tace with smiles. Now- comers who had friends here were wamed to ke:rdldeu of Bowles’, Everybody who could do so_(official people conld not) fonght sby of their invitations. To 'be sure, there =are people who would eat truf~ fled chicken and drink iced champague it the Cholora di:.aflalt goresd ko iablo an Ly o8t ; an lespit eqna.lmuh eople, Bowles' Togtivels wera sivare fall asd gery merry ; nothing Tollsgo easily awayas other j ople’s money. Soms peoplo dealt with Messrs. owles & Co., knowing insolvency might come at any moment. They did not put.in any more ‘money than was enough Lo have them looked on 838 “customer.” Ope of them—a well-known §ant.lemm from Chicago—nsed to say, when his riendsfexpressed that he (sharp as arazor) shonld deal with Mesars. Rowles & Co.: “ Why, Charley Bowles takes my heart; it does me good to hear him talk and see him act; his extraordinary im- ‘pudence aatonishes and amusea me,” This fu - tleman and Mesars Bowles & Co. fell out at Iast, in consequence of the trickery of the firm. He lost nothing by them. They were furions at his leaving them, and a duel with other parties, who were unjustly suspected of persusding this'gen- tleman to break with them, neazly grew out of the mstter. There nover was & commercial credit asked from Bowles; they never stood high enongh to meke a commercial credit from them worth anything. The heaviest losers are those simple people who deposited with them,for safe- keapl.ng, bonds and other public securities ¢ to bearer.” It bas been ascertained that £100,000 of these securities have been pledged to a Lon- don bank to cover advances made to Bowles & Co., who have been kept sbove water these last cighteen montha golely by money procured in this way. The brilliant banquet given to W, H. Seward was paid for with ihis mopey. Tho princely entertainment given General Sherman was paid for with this money. Tho sumptaons festival, glittering with Chinese lanterns and fireworks, given the Arbitrators of Geneva, camo ont of this money. Miss Mansfield, made noto- rious by the staing of Fick's blood which cover her, deposited $30,000 with Bowles & Co., of New York upon tho eve of sailing for Europs (she 13 now in Paris). She bas lost them, and ’tia eaid they were, if not all, the best part of her fortune. Friar Hyacinthé, whomarried Mrs. Merrimen, is said to have lost his wife's all by the bunkruptoy. Idoubtthis. There is great embarrassment among creditors who hold tha Bovles' letters of credit. Everybody who can show they have means at home receive enough to keep them conifortable for six or eight weeks, until they hear from friends, from Messrs. Drexe), Harjes & Co.; but there are timid peo- ple who hise lost their senses, and peoplo in out-of-the-way places who must bo most pain fully embarrassed. Thers srg, even in Paris alone, hundredls of people'who came abrosd to zemsin ons or two years, v‘rho hed for 3 Tong ime been laying up money fo gratify ‘the long- chorishad wigh of their heatt, gt thale gl dren French and German, and are now obliged to turn their sorrowful faces homeward, all their savings having gone for Chinese Janterns at Go- neva, or for trufled chickens and iced cham- pagne here. Evergbody feels sorry for Mr. Ap- pleton, of Boston, Who will probatly 1080 overs- thing he owns in the world (3150,000 or $160,00C; by this bankruptey. Ifr. Appleton was wheedle into the concern, wkich he wonld long sinca have H fools epme semblance of sense. A dipmer | Ief{if he cowld bave eeitew Qubof it With hin The creditors hers have ascertained, ot only that all securities lodged for safe-keep- ing with the Bowleres bave been pledged, but that the Bowleses had bought 350,000 worth of property st Genevs, and $180,090 worth of prop- orty in Nice in the name of & kinswoman. ~Tho creditors are attempting to get this property. Foscozo. money. N i Nl THE CITY IN BRIEF. . McVicker has made admirable arrange- ngs by%r:fia.ing a special entrance for parties visiting the theatre in carriages. e will be & meeting of the Chicago Bocie- ey“é‘}"i»?, aiciang and s\fgaon. to-morrow even- ing, in the parlor of the Orphan Asylum, on anh.igm svenue near Trenty-second street. Christmas Festival for the Home of the Fgeh:dlcss ‘:ill ‘be held in the Home on the after- noon and evening of Fridnn{, the 27th inst. Con- tributions for the tsble will be very acceptable. A concert and exhibition is to be given by the students of the Christian Brothers’ Academy to- morrow evening, in St. Patrick’s Church, carner of Desplaines and Adama streats. The members of “ Our Club” will wish them- gelves and friends a Morry Christmas and s Hap- py New Year on the occasion of two parties, the first on Tuesday evening next, and the second one week later,—both at Snow’s Dancing Acade- wy. The gambling tables confiscated in the gen- G s wesk ot 30 ago, which were distrib- uted smong the ofiices tn the City Hall, were converted into kindling wood, yesterdsy, by order of the General Superintendent of Police. The object of this was to anticipate further writa of reptevin by destroying the property. In the newcharge sgainst Rainforth & Fuller a Tmotion to quasls tho ndictment will be argued to-morrow before Judge Rogers. The Imogers leaded guilty. They were sentenced {o sixty s&ys n the House of Correction sand fo pay a fine of $50 for the former charge. Mrs. Scott-Siddons will read in the Oskland Star Lecture Course at the Ninth Presbyterian Church, on Ellis avenue, near Thirty-seventh strost, on the evening of Dec. 80, The man- agors of the course deserye much credit in se- chring Mrs. Siddons, who has consented fo re- turn tothe city, after much solicitation. It is hoped that sho will be greeted by & large endi- ence. A correspondent who signs himself #‘Sales- ‘man,” m‘gga the following pertinent point: “Will you pledss aak your readers, through the columns of yout paper, if it ever occurred to them, when they occupy the timeaf 5 sales- mon, though they have no idea of buying, that the galesman’s salary is sometimes contingent on the amount of goods sold by him.” ¥ Tast evening Samuel Lamm, residing at No 251 Blue Island avenue, undertook to remove an impediment in his gas pipe by pouring in alco- hol. The gas roshed outof the pipe, ignited from the flame of_the candle which he held in his hand, and set him on fire. He was extin- ished f:y an opportune policeman before he Was gerionsly burned. Every house of_prostitution in_South Clark smeer{!u vigited bpyrthe olice at abaut 4 o’alack Jesterdsy morning, 20 all of the mslo inmates Weré arrested. They numbered forty, and rep- resented every occupation from laborer to mer- chant. A fine of 10 was imposed upon esach at the Police Conrt yestordsy. The West Bide ‘’houses were simihrlz raided wpon, Kix prisoners being the result, The same fines were imposed. Dr. Boone's barn, st the rear of No. 665 Michi- ‘avenue, was destroyed by fire at 8 o'clock st ovoping, Involving losa of $500, upon ‘which thera was no insurance. The alarm was from Box 48, The alarm from Box $6, st the sama hour, wes for & fire in the frame cof - No. 87 Langley avenue, owned and occupied by Herman Fefunihd. Damage $500; fully in- stire A tracklayer namod Patrick Muldooney was run over and kil]l;ld by s :;gbnh hg:g'm;‘,: & .aol:zteer; day morning, while purs VO tha Chic e,gBmlin on & Quincy Railroad, be- tween Halsted strect snd Newberry avenue. His body was conveyed tohis sisters Tesi on the latter thoroughfare. The inquest has nod yot been held. The Kingsbury Music Hall, which 14 o ocoupy tho ite of Wood's Maseus 'befors the 16, is being rapidly pushed forward, The basemons is already completed, andthe house will be ready for occupancy’ y 1, 1878, The sudienco room is £o be 80 feet wide by 100 feet de;;, and will seat R,ODDdyeople. Itistobe finished very elegantly, sud, judging from ths plans in the office of B\ul.m%.0 Adler & Co., the architects, the exterior will be very rich and imposing. In the case of Rees et al. v. Otto Peltzer et al, to show cause why the defendants should not be attached for contempt of Court, in alleged vicla- tions of the injunction restraining farther pro- ceedings in connection with *Peltzar's Atlas of Chicago,” Judge Farwell yesterdsy heard argn- ‘ments on both sides, and decided that there was not sufficient avidence to jnstify him in ordering the parties to be attached; and the rule was dis- charged. Everybody kmenw it wasn't warm, tbut they will shiver by their warm stoves this mnmmdg ‘When they know how very cold it was yesterday, ac- cording to the half-hourly observations of Mr. T. Manassee, optician, under the Sherman House. This is the record : At 8a. m., 7degraes below zero; 8:30, 5 below; 9, 5 below: 9:30, 5 below; 10, & below ; 10:30, 4 below; 11, 5 below 3 11:30, 5 below ; 4 below; 12:30, p. m., 4 be lows 1 p. m., 8 below; 1:30, 8 below; 2, S below; 2:30, 4 below; 3, 6 below 3:30,4 below; 4, 8 be= low} 4:30, 8 belows 5, 9 below. Among the other sdornments of Mr. Foley's new billiard h:l:l! fil:ld.?e‘ l&rg:d frasco mmé.f resentin; eo ladies engaged in a game iiRiacda st home, Tho fresco will e am en- larged copyof o hesutifal sicel engraving en- titled ¢ Es Conp Difficile.” One of the ladies is attempting a airoke with the cue behind her ‘back, get fair opponents Iookiffi on with intenge interest, while a child, too small to ses the top of the table, is attempting & little game on her own account, by imitating _tho curions position of tho lady sbont to play. It i ane of the, rot- tiest of conceits, and when worked up in oil will be a decided feature of the room. Judge G esterdny entered his decree in the Bhkusdiv;gar case, T bich comd only be pra pared after the decision of all issues, the last matter in question, namely, counsel fees, haying ‘been but recently dacided, as reported in theea colurons at the time. The different points, a3 they have been presented, piecemeal, have been duly given in TaE T2IBUNE, and it only remeins %0 any that the decree simply directs ip suitable Janguage the orders already fully xepotted to bo carried out, nemely, finding for the defendans Mrs. Blake), motion for appeal by the com- plainant, sppeal bond for 5,000 0 be filed in- twenty days, and bill of exceptions in sisty days. The record of crime for the past three desys . oxhibits & gratifying improvement. Thera wero but $wo robberies roported at tho Polica Headquarters on Thursdsy, three on Fridsy. and two yesterdsy. The majority of the thieves and the greater portion of the stolen proporty in these cases have beon secured by the author ties, besides several thieves connected with rob- Deries in the early part of theweek. Among the more important arrests were those of John Fredericks, John Tierney, and Frank Broedner, Who committed a$500 burglary on rs. Holland's avwnshop, State street, Friday ovening. Sergeans Fitzoatrick found them at & ball, n the Twalfth street Turner Hall. esrly yesterdsy morning. Justice Banyon held them for trialin bail of 91,500 each, A meeting washeld last evening in the Com- mon Councit Chamber for the purpose of per- manently organizing * the proposed new regi- ment.” The Committee consists of thirteen of our most distingnished citizens, but not one of them was present. In their place were several gentlemen who sat outside the charmed circle wherein the Aldermen do prate at length, and ‘watched the staid hands of the clock move round till they pointed to 8:45. Mr. Barclay, the Secre- tary, watched anxiousiy, and the other meu watched him. At ~ that hour, 3Ir. Maynard concluded that _the _ weather was againgt t hem, and decided to adjourn un- til Jan. 8, when the faithfal will gather- Lippincott’s Battery determined to do honor to the occasion last evening with a salute of ten guns, but before they had got throngh half that number, fractured windows, shrieking women, and truculent policemen wamed them to bs gone, and they went, having left for the glaziars 8 fortnight's work of repairing. 4 —_— —A polite person in Portland hospitably re- golved not to let an nnexpected attack of smsll- ox interfore with an evening party for which ]‘;e had issued invitations. Real good brecding isBo littlo appreciated in Portland, however, that the guests whom he]received treated him with the rudest ingratitude, and have not even left their cards atthe house since. —A letter from Dallas, Texas, to the Housion Age, says that twelve “Indian" cattle thieves were lately caughtin one of a western coun- tiesand hung to 2 limb of the tree, because there was no **limb_of the law” to plead for hem. Bofore hanging them, their faces wers scrubbed, and elsven of the twelve did not pan out a3 Tndinns—they being unprotected orphana .. rom Bannad mosilv. ;