Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1872, Page 3

B ——— ... T e _ exampl e PERIGDICAL LITERATURE, e Seribuer’s, the Galaxy, Kansas Magarine, Lizing Age, Eclectie, and Chicago Iostrated Journal, Rew Ways in the Old Dominion---How Stanley Fourd Livingstone. On the Reading of Kew: Transition Period in Peetry. Earl Russell---French Customs and Chare sclers---Languages--The Law of Probabiiity in Mental Eserticn. Seribner’s, Seribner has some very beautiful illustrations | 1n the opening article, Part L., of “NEW WATS IN THE OLD DOMINION,” which will, it is hoped, familiarize Northern peo- ple with the wonderful scenery of the mountain- Tanges, the rivers, nad tho valleys of Virginia, which repay the tourist as richly as those of New England,—even more richly, if he bo of sportsmanlike bent, and seck use for rod and gun. On the route of the Chesapeeke & Ohio Railroad, which this article is mainly written to ‘bring into notice, is ono of the greatest natural curiosities of the Eastern States, the New River Canon: Tteeems tohave been infended by Naturo s 3 passage through the mountains for a railroad, It looks at £irst like a most unpromising passage ; bui did it mot @it it s doubiful if & railroag woulc ever, of ot lotet o many yeors to come, bave been Tun across the two Virginias, tc conmect tho Atlautic Occan with the Obio. The cazon is one of fhe most remarkable mat- el wonders in the Eastern States, i3, in fact—eo geologists afiirm—a_desp. crack in £h0 catth 2 hundred milts long, & Ble. e ot the Eummit, from 09 to 1,500 fect deep, and becring at its otiom a noisy turbulent, stream, daugerous as well as clifilcult o navigate, snd to the 1fst look, useless, ‘To the railroad Luilders this earth-crack was fnval- zatle. It opened them & passage through the movn- 1sins which they could never Bave made Ly art cr foree, end gave them eary grades where, but for its existence, they must either have diverted their road 32 an fnpracticable manuer, or been forced to attempt | @redes which are not commercially practical. 4As the motive draws you through this great eariherack, along 3 eheif blasted out of the perpen- dicular, rocks ido of the canon, and whirls sou eherpls around corners, and past Tapids and rosring ‘waters, vou ebouid remember that you are not travelling &% the general level of the surrounding countrs, but offen hundreds of fect below it. The canon 1 s eads a deop gorge or cut, as {hat more famous and dec ez one of the Colorads River. You approaca it nd enter it on the train, fn such 3 way that you can ‘with didicully realize, that up at the snmmit of the steep declivily, if you stood there, you would seo bes Zore vou = gréat, broad, epacious plain, stretching away ©a both eides, 18 which the canon would sppear what it really is—a mere corthcrack. Tho natural wealih of the country thromgh which this road pasees is wonderful. “Even tho country road cuts through coal-bede; opposite Oharleston, in the Kenawha Valley, you may seo tic little ferry-boat tied up to the river bank, end the deck-hand shovelling coal from the vein i farmbouse bas its conl heap—just ss further ‘weet they have & woodpile near the house; and almost every farmer has somewhero on his land &0 cuteropping coal-vein, from which Lo sup- plies himself.” England is sid to owe ber wonderful dovel- opment to the fortunate presence of coal and iron together. Here both lio on the very sur- Zace of the ground, in profusion that would be- wilder on Exglish iron-master. “It is an un- dcubted fact, established by careful calculations, that the rich irou ores lying so temptingly near the surface and uear the railroad, in Virginia, eatt of the Wkite Sulphur, can be brought by ail to the coal aud limestone in the New River, ard there reduced s0 cheaply that the iron-mas- ter can scil his pig iron for from 18 to §20 per ton.” * All through this region General Washington passed when surveyiog, and ho so well under- stood its natural wealth that to-day, on the old survey mape, tho best lands are found to have been entered by him or in his name. Edward King tells “IGW STANLEY FOUND LIVINGSTONE,"— & not unfamiliar tale: sauley reeolutels refuses to tako to himself the f originating the Livingetons expedition. On contrazy, he has told ¥ 1 called bitm from Madrid to Parix, snd how, whea & reached the Grund Hotel late ot night, encountered Soung Mr. Beanett, who commanded him to completo 3 long and arduons series of travels by penetrating to Cantral Africa 2nd finding Livingstone. Even the an- Tountemeut of Mr. Stanles that Burton and Speke's Zourney into the grea: ucknown Iind cost between 3,000 and £5,000 did not deter Mr. Bennett from his ‘purpose—the only auswer was explicit ; “Well, I well tell ou what sou wil do. Draw & thousand pounds bow, and ¥hen you have goao hrongl thiet druw another thousand, and when that is er e - epent draw crother thousand, and when you have fin. dskied that druw unother thousand, snd 5o on ; but sind ZLivingatone 1 Ar. Stanley did not hesitate. His previous educa- on and traioiog in the schcol of journalism had ac- customod him 1o rigorous obedicnces; aud as ho had done when the elder Bennett gave bim ten minutes in ~hich to coneider whether or not he would accept. the miselon to Abyesinia, €0 now he simply drew o long Yreath, and agreed 16 find Livingstone living, or Liv- ingstone’s bones dead. With the rest of tho story the public is sc- quainted. Auguste Comte used to avold nowspapers a8 & teetotaller cschows hard drink. He avoided the comsereation of ordinary peaplo for tho came zezeon. He thought books to be injurious tothe erfect exercise of his wonderful gifte. But Mr. f’hfl]jp G. Hamerton does not think this a good He writes a lotter, “OX THE RLAD! OF NEWSPATERS,” {08 friend, highly cultivated, who plumed him- self on his neglect of them. Iesays: ‘The time which you have bitherto grven to newspa- cers, ind which may ba roughly estimsted at about ‘hours o year, is benceforth a valuable time-income, 0 be applied to whatever purposes your best wisdom may select. When an intellectual pérson has contrived by the force of one simple resolution to effect go fine. a0 economy as this, it is natural that he should cone gratulate himeelf, Your feelinzs must be like those of an able Finance Minister who has found means of doeh:§ a great lcak in the Treasury—if any economy seible in the finances of & Btate could ever relative- v equal that splendid stroks of time-thrift which your force of will has enabied you to eftect. In those 500 ‘Eours which are now your own, you may acquire & science, or obtain a more perfect command over ono of the lznguagee that you have studicd. Some depart- ment of your intcllectual labors which has hitherto been unsatisfactory to you because it was too imper- fectly cultivated, may henceforth be as orderly and as fruitful as a well-kept garden. In sddition to this, much of {he newapaper matter of thedsy is uscless inour culture. #The newspagers cost us much timo whiok, if employed for great fntelleotusl purposes, would carry us very far. They give disproportionato views of things by tho emphasis they givo to novelty, and false views by the unfairness which belongs to party; and newspsper writers give etch o proponderance to politice, not to poliical hilosophs, but to every-day work of politicians, hat intellectual cultare is thrown into tho backs ground.” A But, granting all this, pursues Mr. Hamerton, your resolution is unwise. “ Newspapors are to the whole civilized world what the daily house- telk s to the members of a houschold. They keep up our deily interest in cach other, the; £ave us from tho evils of isolatlon. To live as member of the great whito race of meu—tho Tocs that Laa flled Europe 2td America, and colonizod o: conquered whatever other terri- tories it bas boen pleased to occupy—to sharo from day to day its cares, its thought, its aspira- tions, it is necessary thab every man should read his daily newspaper.” What tho results of doing without nowspapors may be, can bo seen from the condition of _the French pessantry, who are bewildered and at £ca, out of place in the modern world, at fault in tho multiplox rotations of theso days, tho easy prey of plebiscite, and knowing 1o political safety but that of inactivity. Although scattorod over & torritory fourtecn times as largo, tho citizensof tho United States arecapable of & quick appreciation of the shifting problems of such dey, and of a resdy and concerted action on them, vhira is beyond the reach of aninert, unquickened mass like the French peasantry, who read no newspapers. Emerson has sug- gested that we might ** transfer the amount of our reading, day by day, from the nowspapers to 1bo standard suthors.”. Bat, as Mr. Hamerton says : ‘Tho loes woull be ter than the n. The wri- tem of Goen anets me could cd\lrf!‘a‘ an English- Ien of Queen Anne’s time, but they can only partially fducete an Englichman of Queen Victorials tme, Tho apers--The | 2 into the stesmboat's coal-bunker; overy | u all how a sudden tele- | | themselves to the greatest danger, and Jows the iconoclastic -gpirit of THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 187 mind is liko s morchant’s ledger ; 1t requires to bo Continually posted up to the latest date, Eson tho lest {ciegeam raay havo upret some venerablo theory that lm;n ‘;:I'A xocti;\‘cul as m!hllibh for ages, e when great historical events are pa before our eves, thie journalist 18 €0 Taturs. historiny what the African travaller is to the map-makers, Mis work s nat eithor completeor orderly, but it is tho Iresh record of an eve-witness, aud enables ns to bes come ourselves epoctators of tho mighty drama of e et o Rover was this ecrvice B0 woll cred ue it i8 now, by corresponde: achieve licroic feats of ‘oIS ad. Tewiet. prowens. €spasin s to b ting much ud el fo circumstocces (e Tiost unfaomsble. 0 iterary. osition. How vividly the Evglish war cor- Tespondents brought Lefore i th roylty of the great conflict between Germany and France ! ~ What roman- tic achievement, worthy 1o bo sung in herolc verss, Yas the finding of Livingstonoe by. Stauley ! Not less interesting have been the adiatrable scries of lettera by 3L Erdzn in the Teinps, in which, with the cool frmness of & master-hand, he bas painted from the Life, week alter week, year after year, the declino and fall of the _ temporal power °of 'tho Papacy. T csunot think that any poge of Roman history i3 better worth Teading than s letters ; moro interesting, instructive, ivels, or suthentic, Yot with your contempt for news DPaper¥, you would lose all this profitabio entertain. uent, and eeck instead of it the necounts of former eroclis, not haif o int poral power; accounty ¥iritten in most caves by men in libraries, who bud not scen the sovercigns they wrote about, Lo talk:ed with tho peoplo whose condi ticn thoy atfempted to deseribe. ‘You hive a respect fo: thess accounte, because they are prizted in’ books, eud bound in leather, aud entitled *history,” whilsh ou duspice tie direct obeervation of a man like Erdan, causo be is only journalist, and his lotters are pub: lished in a newspaper, Is there not some fouch of prefudice in this, some_ mistake, Somo Darrowness of intelloctual aristocracy 2 AAGAZINE POLTRY will not often bear transplanting, although it is good enough for tho flecting pleasure of the monient, and good cnough for magazino-resdere, But somotimes o protty thought finds its way between the covers of our monthly illustrated nowspapors that is worth ropeating, Such was T. B. Aldrich's “ Untimoly Thought," in the last Aflantic; and this little verse in Scribner's will not displease even o severe faso. It i8 from the musical pen of Christina Rossotti: A pEp-soxa, 1It’s a year almost that I have not econ her ; ORI last summer, green things were greener, ‘Erambles fewer, the blua sky blucr. 1U's well-nigh suramer, for there's o wallow s Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird-race quicken and wheei and thicken. Oh, happy swallow, whose mate will follow Oler height, o'er hollow! 1'd be s swallow To build, this weather, one nest togather! G. C. Stedman, in his ariicle on ““TOE VICTORIAN POETE," expreeses the hope that tho relations between pootry and science, which press for considera- tion at every turn ond_outpost, may lead to o uewand_grander manifestation of the Eternal Muse. Coleridge has defined pootry to bo tho antithesis of seienco; but ecience modarn think- ers find cat to bo the expression of mathematica and formulas slone. It 1s widening its circles to include all human life; its relations, divine snd carthy, its future, Scieaco is found kindred mot slono to fgures, but to the imngination, Poects, who &g y pasturo only along tho byways _their predecessors trod. and know nothing of science, donot yet clearly sco the union between the latter acd their art; but men like Spencer and Tyndall, who have achioved tho grander swoeps of investigation and insight, are uucovering » fleld for & fancy which eliall’ give us & song of now swectness and strange power. It i3 true, a8 Btedman 8oy, that,— In the nineteenth century, science, frecdom of tliought, refincment, and imaterinl progress have ‘moved along togother. The modern student often has been 5o marrowed by his investigatious as o be Liore unjust to the post than the latier was of oid o tho philosopber, Art has scemed mere pestimo xnd amusement, as once it scemed the dovil's frippery and weduction to the ascetic soul of the Puritan aglow with the gloomy or rapturous mysteries of his theology. Alo by the multitude whom the practical resuits of sclenco ot Inst have thoroughly won over, and who now are impelled by more than Roman ambition to girdle tho earth with engincering zud conquer the ele- ments {hemselves—neither the songsters nor tho ineta~ phyeicians, but the physical investigators and_men_of ‘action are held to be tho world's great men, Tho De- Lessepe, Tields, Derings, and Vanderbite, 1o lexs than Lyell, Darwin, and Agaseiz, wear tho Lay-lesves of to-duy.’ Religion and theology, also, are subjected to analy#is and the universal tuste, and At last tho di- vine and the poet, traditionally at’ loggerheads, havo & common boud of ‘suffering— union of tolerstion or bLalf-disguised contempt, Eating togetber at the side- tables, meither is ndequntely consoied by reflocting that the other 1s mo moro to bo envied tham Limself, The poet's hold upon fthe youthful mind and sentimental popular emotion Las also meas- urably relaxed; for Profeseor Huxley, whoTegards po- ctic_expression uy “sensual caterwanlng,” and the gratification of the wsthetic Terccption 18 of liltle worth, grossly underrated his position when he said that, “at prosent, education is almost cntirely devoted to tl:e cultivation of the powor of expression and of tho ecnscs of literary beauty.” The truth is thatonr £rhool-girls and plunters YANGEr duWa tie Taues ni Darvwin, Huxley, and Youmans uuder their arms; or, if they éarry Tennyson, Longfellow, and Morris, read them in the light of spcctrum analysis, or test thom by the economics of Mill and Bain, Tho very ‘“dm:f of on, modern poetry to wreak its thoughts upon cxpress of which Huxley §0 complains, maturally fol- overiirow of its cherish- ed ideals, reducing it to ekillful nvailment of thelaws of form and melody. Ay, even the poets, srith thelr intensely sympathetic natures, have caught the epirit of the age, and pronounce the verdict against themselves, The more intelicctual will confess to you that they weary less of 8 now essay by Proctor or Tyn- dall than of the latest admireble poem; that, over- ‘powered in the brililunt proscnce of scieutifio discov- ery, thelr own conceptions seem less dazzling. A thirst for’ moro facts grows upon thems they throw aside their Jyres and renow the fascincting study, forgeiful that the inspiration of Plato, Shakspeare, snd other poets of old, often foreshadowed tho glory of theso rovelations, and neglecting to chant in turn the trans- cendent possibilitics of cares yet to come, Science, the modern Circe, beguiles them from their voyage to the Hesperides, and transforms them into her voice- 1css devotees, This traneition period may bo trying enongh to the votaries of the Muse. But it is only s transition period, if thoy will accept thelr placo as interproters of the now order. Tacts are not to be disguised. Men are no longer athirst for tho goyety and rolief with which the Elizabeth- sa postry’ bore them away from tho contompls tion of tho long and dark Middle Agos. We still need poetry, as wo still havo imagination, fancy, andmoods ; but it must bo o_poetry rec- ognizing that the imagination of to-day foeds on facts utterly different from classic fables. Chiv- alric romauice, or oven tho spirit of Naturo to which tho school of Wordsworth, Burns, and Cooper gave tharr thonghts. They so thorough- Iy expressod its possibilitics that there is havdly an n.s;!mct of Nature, whether of storm or shino, sunriso = or suneet, the antics of tho winds, tho shimmer of ‘leaves, the diversities of lako, forest, or beath, that is not minutely and beautifully canght and held forever in their vorso. That which stirs tho thought to- day is of anothor kind. A child looks with ter- ror upon the threstening cock that stridos in the barnyard; Lls brain turns hot with storics of Lobgoblins. Tho man sees farther snd cloarer than tho child; he has an imaginstion, but it is an imagination to be stirred only by appropri- ate stimulant. As with the man, &0 with tho nation, English-speaking peoplo 0f the nine- toenth contury cannot be ospocted to fiud thoir intollectual food in the the _thought of tho fourtcenth, the firteonth, tho_sixteenth, not even the last century, nor in the thought of thoso writers of to-dsy who imitate these old schools. Tho fuel that makes our fires must bo cut thie year. Wo cannot burn tho ashos of for- mer timds, Beauty is but truth, and truth is immortal. A refined and cultivated taste will always cherish the beauty of the past, but still i8 it truo that tho present cannot draw its ruling inspiration from antiquity. Its history, its civi- lization, its Iife, its pootry, even its morals, havo differcnt conditions than Beretofore. Even the clergy, who, by educstion and habits of thought, 2 Joast impressiblo to now ideas, recognizo this chango of tho genius of the day. They aro con- forming to it, and so must our poots. But tore- tura to r. Stodman : There aro passages in modern poems which nearly indicats the approaching hmmony of poetry and science § and tho essays of Tyndall and Spencer are, 1he question of form left out, poemsin themselves 3 butup to the present moment the imagination, pars- doxical a8 it may scem, bas been most elevated and sustained by the contemplation of natural objects, rather us they aeem 1o be than os we know they are. For 10 the pure and absorbed epirit it is the ideal only that scems real ; 83 alover adores tho image and eimuls~ crum of bis mistress, reflscted from Lis inner cone sciousness, move than the very self and substance of her being.. Thus Keate, tho English_apprentice, sur- rounded himealf with all Oiympus' hierarcl and ‘breathod the freshness of Thessalian forest-winds, But this transition periodis etill buffeting tho Victorisn poots, who, not yet having grasped the eir day, may be discerned— ‘one co] the refrains ard legonc y feel of illu. mnk%fi\:xgssfl! and hhd(-l(!lkeg lnd,x’ l!.wl".‘llncsr Tecast. ing tho most onchanting and famous romances of Cliristendom in delicious languago and measures m\x‘?:t {from Chaucer himself ; and others adopting the graint religions manner of Herbert and Vaughan ; a host csssying new and conscientious representations of the undying beauty of Greck mythological lore, We seo them dallying with swect sense and sound, until our taste for melody and color is more than surfeited, Conscious of this, a fow, with a spasmodic effort to bo original, break away o disdain of all art, palming off s *‘eaucy roughness " for strength and coarseness for Tigor ; and even this seturn fo chaos wins the favor of many who, from very sickness of over refinement, pass to the other extreme, and welcome the meaner work for a time because it is & change. Another sure sign of tho commonplace char- actor of the era is, that “Tho Victoriau period bas been noteworthy for the multitudes of its tolerable pocts. It has been a time of English minnesingers, hosts of them chanting ‘the old oternal song.”™ l Mr. Stedman concludes: For, that the years of transition are near an ¢nd, and {lat, {0 England and America, creztive poctic iterz- aspirations of humanity, will speedily grow into form, Tieliov fo bo evident Wherover ot cormon ongue i8 the Janguage of imaginative exprension, The idyllic philosenhy in which Wordswortk: took refuge from the cant and melodrama of his predecessora, Lns fulfilled ity immedisto mission; the art whidh jvss bern with Kcats and found ita perfect work in Tennyson, already veems faultiy fadltlcss nnd over-refned. A craving for moro dramatic, spontancons ulterance is prevalent with the new generation. Thero is sn in- stinct that o interpret tho hearts and souls of men and women is the poet’s highest function ; a disposition to !hrow aside precedents—to study life, dialect, and feel- ing, a8 our paintors study landscape, out of doors and at first Liand. Considered as the Hoating land-dritt_of & now poskession, oven carclesa and faulty work after thia method e vagorly received ; although in England, 20 Aurfoited of the past and filled with vague desire, tho faculty to discriminate between the richer and poorer fabric scems Llunted and sensational ; experi- mental noveltiea are st above the most adinirable com- positions in » manner alrcady famillar ; just as an un- couth carving or picco of foreigh Incker-work in moro prized than 8u cxquisto epesimen of domeatio art, cause it {s etiange and breathes some un- known, spies fragranco of a new-found clime, The trausitton-period, doubtiess, will be prolonged by tho ceaseless progress of the scicntific revolution, occupy= ing men’s imaginations and constsntly readjusting the Dasis of avguugo snd_illustration, Ero long, zome new Lucretius may come to_reinterpret tbe nature of things, confirming many of the ancient prophecies, and substituting for the wonder of the remainder the slill more wondrous testimony of the lens, the labora- tory, and the millennial rocks, The old ten of the Jewish captivity wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundations of the new temple, because its glory iu their eyes, in comparieon of that builded by Solo- mon, was as nothing; but the prophet assured them that the Desire of all nations should come, and that the glory of the latter houso shouldbe greater than of the Tormer. Bat I do not endesvor to anticipato the fatura of English song. It may be lowlier or loftier than now, but certainly it willshow a change, and my faith in ttle Teality of progress is broad caough to include the field of poetic art. A NIGHT IN THE GARDEX OF THE TUILEBIES,” C. D. Warner tells how, falling asleep in that retreat, he was locked in.’An awkward position ; tobo caught would have involved him in the gravest poril. He relates how he endeavored to escapo notice by the sentinels, and what curious sights Lo eaw. He saw tho Emperor in his night-cap, among other things. Ono o'clock ! The lights wero going out in the Tuil- cries, had nealy all gone out: 1 woadered if the sus- piciousand timid and wasteful Emperor would keep tlze gas burning all night in his room, The night-roar of Yaris till Yrent on, sounding alwaya io foreign ears liko tho begiuning of ~a revolution. As I ‘atood there, looking at tho window that interested mo most, tho curtains wero drawn, the window was opencd, tnd a form oppeared in s whits robe, Thave never scen ihe Emperor before in a night- owty, but T should havo known him among a thousaud. 'no Man of Destiny had on & white cotton night-cap, with a peaked top cnd no tassel. It was tho most nat. ural thing in the world ; he was taking a last look over his restless Paris before he turned in, Whatif he should eeome ! I respected that last look, and with- drew into the shadow, Tired and hungry, I sat down 1o reflect upon tho plezsures of the gay Capital, ‘There are some capital stories in this number amon; them, the Eggleston’s * Ghristmas Club,” Saxe Holm's * One-Logged Dancers,” Frank B. Stockton's ** The Pilgrims' Packets.’ The Galaxy. Justin MeCarthy sketches EARL RUSSELL in tho January Gatary. Tivo years ago, that statesman, then 75 years of ago, seemod to have rovived hi youth ; but now, at 80, he is s wreck Lord John Russcll (it was thus he was Imown during theo longer and brighter psct of his caresr) must have been brought into more or less intimaie sssociation ‘with all the mon worth knowing in Europe siuce the early part of the ceniury. He wasa pupil of Dugald Stewart at Edinburgh, and he 8at, a youth, at the feet of Fox. With Canning and Pecl he measured swords enc:essively through years of- Parliamentary warfare. He knew Metternich and Talleyrand ; he knew Ca- Your snd Bismarck, He was mow an_ally of Danicl O'Connell snd_ now of Cobden - snd Bright. Hs was 5 closo friend of Thomas Moore, the poct ; hie lmew Dyron, and was one of the fow allowed to réad tho personsl memolrs of tho latter oct, which were Tather unfortunately destroyed by friends, Lord John Russcll had tastes for litera- ture, for art, for philosophy, for history, for politice— for éverything in fact ; ho Hod tsstes, that is tosay, Lut not “great’ capacity for culture in most of theso fields. His education” at the best was poor indeed ‘when compared with that of his great apostle Fox, and he had always a rather flighty inclination for trying Lhis hand at this, that, and the other experiment in lotters and politics, * But his mstheticism had at all events theadvantage that it mado him seelk the socloty and apprecizte the worth of men of literary genius, and he never became s mero politician Iike Pitt o Pal- amerston, I need bardly say that bo is born of one of tho highest English familics, a house fall of oncestral and Distorical honmors. A cadet, cven 2 cadet, of such & family fn England begins his career with advantages and in a position which it would ta0 8 low-born man of genius half o lifetimo to attain, supposing he ever did attain them. Lord Jobn Russe’l was but s younger son, yet he had only to sig- nify his willingness to enter poiitical lifo in order to havo spoedily placed st his disposal 5 bigher post in government than ever was given to Burke, or than Gver was offered to Cobdcn, iven in our time wo have oD in Luglasd o place in the Cabinst given toa young Lord in order to wean him from tho socioty of Anonymas, and the administration of one of the most dif It part of the Empire confided to another in order togive him something 1o do. A very moderato capac- ity counts fora great deal in the ron of a Duke,and it is obvious tat when Lord Johu Russell was young ho was regarded by some of his young frietids a8 & south of dazzling promiso and marvellous genius, Earl Ruereil, then, entered public Lifo very young. o at ouce identified himself with the politica ‘of the great Whig party. Taat party hus sicee miscrably de- generated, und indeed hos now almost altogether run 1nto the ground, But at that time it represcuted great ‘principles, and waa represented by great men. It was the party of religious Liberty and of s liberal suffrage, as opposed to tho * Venetian oligarchy ” of King sud aristocracy, The whole of tho middie class may Lo said at that timo to have been without the suflrago or any represcntation in Parlioment, Not only thar, but the grest Eng.sh cities, the manufacturing towns which made Eogland what sho wae, had no representa- tionatall, To this question, and 1o the emancipation of the Ruman Catholics from the cruel bondage of thieir disabilities, Lord Sobn Russell devoted himec)f. Ho had so much of advantage over his master, Fox—a man of mcomparably greater gifts—that ko was not tainted by any of tho extravagances and sen- timentalisms of the French revolution. Rnssell made ‘motion after motion in favor of this and that detail of reform ; butit was not until 1831, when he was neurly 40 years of age, that ho bad any chance of propos- ing awdesnd syctomatic measuro. A Minisiry was then formed which was pledged to Feform. The Primo Minister was Charles, Larl Grey, who yesrs before had ‘been associsted with Burka and’ Sherjlun in the im- peachment of Warren Hastings. It included, among othermen of mark, Lord Drongham, Lord Palmer— ston, thio Lord Darby (then o firy teformer, after- wards the leader of Toryiem), and Lord John_ Ttussell, The latter was commissioned'to prepare a Reform bill, and to propose it in the Housc of Commons. The in- troduction of that bisl was the grand triumph of his life. Honddrossed a House crowded almost to suffocation, and had the eyes of all England fized upon him, The succoss of the bill prevented & revelution, and made Lord John Russell a hero, Earl Russcll bas never been popular; ho has nono of thoe elements in him for the people's darling : His manner was singularly cold and ropolling. Peoplo said that his arstocratic Aautcur was indomit- Bble. The joyous bonhomis with which Palmerston coulll make bimself ot home amid a group of rural voters was utterly foreign to Russell's frigid manner. Lord Jobn was g3id to be miscrably parsimonious, He scemed only o formal, bloodlcss, and fishy sort of Lit- tloman. Ho{s a very liftle mos, ond hehas or bad s way of folding bis aris and expanding his chest and deepening his voice, and, In fact, tring to swell Lim- solf into pliysical i) which' oddly but inevitably inded one of the frog irying to rival the ox. His epecking _greatly improved, but it ws only epealiug which suited the Houso of Commons. Rus- sell’s voiceis at once weak and husky; he is hardly taller than Louis Blanc, and he hae not the bright cyes and the wonderfully mobile and expressive features of tho French orator. - But he studied the ways of tho Touco of Commons, resolved to become o good de Later there, and ho succceded. He always watched wath keen eyes, for oay flaw in the reasoning o incon- sistency in thostatement of an sdversary, and he made cruel work with anything of the kind, He was flucut and ready—a Lind of slow fluency, a sor. of forced Teadinesa; but howevor achieved, the result was there in a capaclty to reply on the spur of the moment, and to epeak for 1 long & time 53 was necossary. Hiis' Jan- gungo waa clear, precise, and expreasivo; “thore was & cold emphasis about it which impressed it on tho lis- toner's attention like the steady dropping of chilly water. Ruusoll had & broad and general knowledge of Distory, aud was suro to remember something which his antagonist had forgotten or did not kmow, ond which bamo in with uncxpected and damaging effcct an an argument or illustration. Ho ‘brought overything to the test of a cold, sharp intelli- gence, and bad no pity for tho enthusiasm or the crotchiets of anybody., Ho kad the great sdvantage over many of his coatemporaries, that bo undersiood the spirit of politics o be priuciple, and their guid- anco a_science, Thus he alwaye ‘secmed to speak from a higher intellectual platform than Palmerston ox thaz Dixby, and eves & crotchet expouuded by bim h3d an appozrance of calm dignity and wisdom, Ho often said shsrp and bitter things in dovate. He bad not a gleam of Lamer, but he had a sort of glittenng and frozen sarcasm, that scemed like pointed fclclo, Nothing s more difficult than to convey to % forcign reader any idea of the efect of & happy hit in & politi- cal debate, But I think one or two of Russcll's clever touches may bo easily appreciated, Ho w3s once ac- cused in the House of Commons of falllug back on tho “cant of patriotism.” Tho accuser waa s man who, having orzinally been & Lib- eral, had deserted Lis yorty and turned Tory, Russell, in tke course of his roply, coldiy safd: “I quite agree with tie bonorable Baronet that the cant of Jatriotizm is 8 bed thing, But Ineed hardly remind im that there is something worsc—the recant of pa- triotism.” More lafely, when Earl Russell was intro. ducingone of lis unsuceessful Reform bills, tho then momer for Edinburgh very warmly opposod it, on tho grouud that by lowering the suilrage the vofce of in~ telligent and educated constituancies liko that which be represented would be drowned by tho volces of mere numbers and jguorance. Now it must be borne iu mind that Lord Macaulsy had not very long before been unseated by a majorify of votes in Edinbusgh, When Russel came to reply to the arguments of the S:ottish member, Lie looked that personage composedly in the face and £aid in his slow und freezing way: {The honorable meniber hes spoken of tho peculiar intclligenc of the constituency of T linburgh. I question wheibur it s wall to say foo much about ' the intclligenco of & city which vefecled Lord | Macaulay snd eubéequently ectod the honoradlo geatlemsn.” It wowld be hard ture, adapted to tho new order of thought and tho now ] to convey an idea of the chill disduin, ot once aristo- cratle Acutettr and intelloctun] pride, with which Rus- sell could deliver such retort e this. I remember secing 50 soarp and reckless a delater ag Ar, Roebuck almost literaliy frozen into defeit by the manuer in which Tord John Ruseell treaedone of his splenctic attacks, Itsecmed to eny ¢ *Irtween us thero can e no contest. You are poor ant obscuro adventurer: I am of tho house of Russell. You change your opinions wheneser you like; I an tho representative of the priniciples of Foxand' Earl Grey, With you I can have no controversy.” “ FRENCH BCENES, CUSTOMS, AND CHARACTERS,” by J. Durand, dissipates manj of tho Yxmjudiccs which are entertsined agaimst French society. The illusions arise because France ia known to Americans_ only through French plays and novels, and by the American trayellers, who seo only what falls in their wayin Paris, and nota- blyits ploasures, * They attznd only the thea- tres in which the voluptuousspeotacular drama is produced, becsuse they caniot underatand any other; they abandon themsclres almost wholly to the dissipatioa of the strects, day and pight they are ignorant of tho nchle side of French litorature, ~ past aud precnt; they do not speak the guago of mn essentinlly talking raco well enough to maintain ‘a conversation. 18 it sny wonder thet travellors with such qmilifications and ex- perience confirm misrepresentations, and never entor the domestic circles by vhich they ought to judgo the highest and lowest charactar of any country 2 X In talking with s Parisian sbout the profligate side of Paris and French life, of which strangers Imow most, and perhaps too much, Mr. Durand was told that its profligicy was mainly sup- ported by foreigners. Ths Fronce are too economical, too selfish, to spend money extray- sgantly on iheir pleastiros. The profligate side of Irench life is the most accessible by all, “and that which people generslly, malo_sn fomalo, take the most pains to see. I have Inown ressectable American young ladies to ‘viait Mebille, the Szlle Valentino, and even the Clogerie; it is needless to tay that no French young Iady of equal social standing woulddo the Bame thing. One resson why strangers are 8o familiar with tho profligate sida of Paris is the safoty with which thoy can view it. ' The laiw regulates it, and protects thoso interested in it. Legal moasures are based on the control, and not the suppression, of licentiousness ; the civil responsibility of each individual is determined by the use, and not the abuse, of passion, Ro- sorts of profligacy are indicated by boundaries, and carofully watched; one may, inspect them consecutively without fear and without shame.” Teculaticn in office i8 rare in France. * Ofi- cors in tho Civil Service hold their placos for a given number of years, and then rotire on a pen- sion ; they are consequently not tempted to mal- versation” by cucront or future contingencios, and, moreover, watch each other with'a view to ingure promotion. ‘Our dominant weakness,’ he continued, ‘i no¢ gain in any of its Protesn £Liapes, but rather ono which grows out of a mis- concaption of the relation aud status of the ro- Epoctive sexes; tho broken thread of our social and national life is very much due to our peculiar attitade toward women.'” > One of tho mos romarkable factsin French history is the superiority of French women over the men. Women in Frauce strike all observers es superior to the other eex. Every English critic admits this superiority, but none seem able to account for it. As far es Mr. Durand’s obser- ~vation goes, it growa out of tho different modes of bringing up bogs and girls. A French girl 1s the dependsnt and companion of her mother. She §s Lrouglit up uuder her eye at hom or, if abroad, under female supervision similar o thal of' her own'mother, Itmaxbo at & convent orina nefon, Wherever the pluce, 1.0 mother is practically ified in stating that her daughter has always re- mained under her own ee. ‘The enjoyments of the French girl, tho occupations of her lelsure moments, the induigance of her tastes and emotions, are those of Ler mother. She promenades with her, accompanica Ber to amusomonts, und, to 8 certain extent, partici- pates in the entortalnment of her friends, The French girl is the pot of tho faaily circle, interested in its cer- emonies, familiar with the joys snd sorrows of all its connections, and cognizant of all its interests accord. ing o the station of its several members. Sho is not allowed to sco what French parents call objectionable playe, to read licentious novels, or to converse with men haphazard in general society. The main thing in Ber education is o development of the sympathics, agrocable manners, and physical and montal purity. “This system is cntirely due to the mother; tho father sanctions it by not meddling with it. Like all systems it has objectional features; but tho good pre- ponderates, It produces a certain degreo of manner- isins at which mep laugh ; but it maintains feminine integrity, which men regard a s point of honor and of influite 1mportance when the girl becomes a wor and the mother of children, ~ French education in France, leaving out the element of instruction, may be Bun~ied up in 8 lady’s exclamation to me in dafence of tho custom of her country: * What can a mother bet- ter say of her daughter on her wedding day, than that &ho has nover left her sidol™ Let us suppose her ready for ihonuptial unfon, Provided the man chosen to be her husband hias leasing appearunce, the girl 18 satisfied, being inxen- sible to every other qualification: o outh Of flial obedlence makes er defer in this as in’all othier mat- tors to parental degrecs, Apart from the natural in- dilference of woman fo tho moral state of the man who pleates them, they have no intelligent experienco by which to fudge the qualities {ndispensabls to a truo busband, Matrimony opens the door of soclety to a French girl, 8 world at which she has only gazed from tho impassablo threshold of her parental home, and which she is more than ready to reach at any sacrifico, What concerns her most s the bright prospect of freo- dom, tho delight of wedding preparations, and tho an- ticipation of tho half-dreaded but fascivating ceremony atthe altar, Ste gladly embraces 3 position in which €bo 18 a recognized heroine, supported by her conju- gal and parental protectors and exciting universal symyathy and admiration, It stands o reason that two beings thus brought up | and thus brought together must entertain diiterent sentiments and views of life’s responsibilities and du- ties, There is 1o cement in their mutual oxpericnces. The husband, as we romarked above, is blase: thero is for him no myatery or novelty in female compsnion- ship, no ckarin in possession, no roverence for femi- nine sensibility and uffection other than that which in- flates his vanity, Ho caunot build new ideals on the Tepetition of 0ld experiences; Lo feels none of that dife-giving inspiration which his ta source in past pu- rity and unsullied fecliug. He marries only for worldly or moterial sdvatages, and not through affection ; the girl to whom Lo {s Tespected by tum ‘mechanically because of her legal mfchood, and not ‘because of hier moral superiority and her angelic con dition of nature; having eacrificed the integrity of her lifo's spring to the winter of his, he exchangea holy ond unimpalred sentimonts for’ worn-out, ex- haiisted, snd_denth-stricken oncs, This moy nof pro- vent puéh a man from proving conventionally s good husband and fatber, & thiug duo very often to tem- ‘perament, to culture, and public opinion, a0d to which Frenchwen sre by no moans desd ; butit does not clevato a busband 10 a delicate consclousness of moral companionship and conjugal duty. A man of thin stamp is not awaro of tho important springs from ‘which sentiment and duty originate. If a Frenchman of this class does not yleld to poiygamic habits and end like Hulot fn Balzac's “Cousine Bette,” ho livea more or less_an unconsclous or passive spectator of family growth snd discipline, content 1o bo the creator of souls withiout the capacity to shape them, Richard Grant White, in * LANGUAGE ACCORDING TO SAMFLE," denies that the usage which controls langusgeis that of great writors and cultivatod speakers. Changes in the construction of the languago, tho introduction of new wards, the disuso of old ones, aronot the work of the groat writers, but 2n insenelblo, unconsoloua procsss, working in the whole mass of thoso who speak the len- guoge. Writing only fixes that which hoa al- roady takon place in speech. If wo wero o fol- low the pilotago of eminent usage, wo should have to eay, with Pope, bequn for began, sprung for sprang, thrived for throve, Shined for Tshowd, and. tho Tiker Similar mistakes are made by Tennyson. Thoro is scarcely auy confiion or mutilation of tho preterito or the perfect participlo thatisnot sup- Rorted by the * authority ® of Switt, +Bacauso ibbon produces such s passage ns this: ¢ Either o pestilence or a famino, a victory or a defeat, an oracle of the gods or the eloquence of & dar- ing lender, were sufiicient to impel the Gothic arms ;' and Junius such & one as this: ‘Neither Charles nor his brother were qualified to support. such & system,'—aro wo to take this authority as » justification’ for the uso of either and neither with were?” Tt is chiefly to thoso debsuchers of thought and de- filers of langaago, the nowspapers, that wo owe the verbal abonunations that afe creeping—nay, rather rushing—into common use ; use unhapglly not always confiued to thoso who inaugurate sample-rooms or as- hist at those solemn Tites, Nor aro these hidcous ex- crescences upan our mother tongue confined to the re- ‘porters’ columns. 1n the correspondence of a poperof high position—correspondence not without evidence of fine apprecintion and of some literary taste—that is tho sworst of it—I met with this sentenca about Pompell : “Even now, when the city Lus been dead, baried eightecn bundred years, and resurrectionized, one ia startled by an air of gayety that clings to it,” This is bad cnough, worse, it poselble, than its forerupner, resurrected ; but what ball be enid of the sin of thg _writer of the following passage in a leading article in & journal of the very highest position of the country : “And what are tho misnoniered Ropublicans dolag ‘but seeking to perpetuate in the Southern Siates the social nuisauco of cluss distinctions!” TWhat social ‘Duisance could be greater than a nowspaper which de- liberately sots before ffty thoussud readers—unens- ‘pecting, Tecepiive, and confiding—the printed exam- Ple of the use of such an execrable compound s mis Tomered| By what process did a man who has attained the right to use a pen in the leading columns of & first- Tato journal, reach that depth of degradation in lan. guoge, compared to which cant i classical and slang €legant? Ho mesnt misnemed; nothing mors or les. But because ho must have finer Lresd than is made of wheat, uad because there is 3 noun miis nomer, he malkes from it that hideous verb, Now, aguin, it s to e observed that resurrectionized and ‘misnomercd are mot outcasts because they lack the Banction of usage or the authority of eminent writers, ‘They aro no newer, no less sanctionod by use, good or bad, rude or cultured, than wuadisprivacied, or strected, or enliunqgered ; DO strat jer to the common ear than weapaned, But the latter are sound and healthy growths; the former are fungi, monstrous and pestilent.” Afler showing that the expressions, I had Better, ¥ou had Getter, sre illogical, and will yield in time to toould ratlier, might betfer, and point- ing out that right away can by no possibility be ‘properiy vised in place of straightiay, Mr. Whito males onslsughi on thiat hideons word lengthy. Tt is, he ays— ) Tllogiesl, at yarianco with snslogy, and it fs entirely needless, 08 it hag usurped—who knows how or why 7—the rightful placo of & good and well-con- nected Engllsii word, which does properly express that which lengthy cxpresses cnly on sufferance,and by reasou of genéral but upjuasfifable usage. And yet oven Mr. Lowell ot only uscs it, but epeaks well of it ng a word “civilly compromising between fong ard fedious," which we havo “given back to England.” It is truo that Eoglish does not nced such a word, and Sherefore had it beforo there could huve been Ameri- canlems. For &id not Puritan sermons precede President’s messagos? Adjectives cxpressing like- Dess fn_quality are formed i Ecglich from fmnis- terial nouna, by a sufix which tould have at once oc- curred to r. Lowell, if he had used, iustead of ftho Romamce word fedious, tho Auglo- Saxon wearisome or tircsoms, The famlly is Bu- merous, lonesome, wholesome, irksome, hand- some, loathsome, Jrolicsome, burdénsome, and the like. And 8o frowm Anglo-Saxon fimes to very modern days e have had the enalogous vord longeone, meaning 5o long as to be almost wearisome or tedious, It is com- mon with tho Elizabetban writers, so well known to Mr. Lowell, and Prior is cited forita nso by Webster, ‘Bishop Hall in his # Defence of the Humble Remon- Btrance,” writes, “ They have had so little mercy on Lim 28 to put him to the penance of their longsoms volume,” " It is manifest that writers who use wecari- some, irksome, snd burdensume can havo 1o conslstent objoction to fongsome, which hus long and eminent usago in its favor, aid which Mr, Lowell might well ‘bring up again 09 Tennyson has brought up ratke, In the scientific miscellany there is a curious caleulation on the LAW OF PROBABILITY IN MENTAL EXERTION. 1f o collego were to announce in its prospectus that 1t would snnually insureto its patrous such and such 3 percontage of first horor men, auch and such of second, and so on (ot to speak of the dunces), perhaps most ‘persons would receive tho assurance with 3 smilo of in- Credulity. And yet no problem iu simple arithmetic is easier 10 work out than this of Getermiuing in advance the number of those among €ay a hundred students who will occupy the various grades of standiug. At least, one would so conclude after rexding Pro- fessor Meinrich's eseay on the * Law of Proba- bilty ‘cs Applied to the Determination of Mentd Exertion,” resd at the last meeting of the American Associstion. Adopting Quetelet's ‘method of calculating probubilities; the author, befora the annual examination, made an estimate of {hs per- centago of the pupils in the University of Jowa who should stand in the various grades of proficlency: The data for calculation came, not from sny knowledgs of the students in question, but from the phenomens of averages as observed in numberless cases, ond in various felds ; and it will bo seen that the results of the calculstion and those of the actusl examination sgreed very closely, In the following table the first column gives the standing, the number 100 marking the highest grade attainable ; the sccond column gives the percentage of students reaching the various grades, s shown from the examination, and tho thirdgives the same a3 calculated beforehan Standing. Dy exaniination; By calculation. 100 3.9 3.0 98 4 5 9% 5 X 91 0.5 10.0 8 10 118 8 s s 83 5 3 8 85 118 aT 75 9.0 7% 5 5 7 6.0 50 63 3.0 3.0 65 5.0 18 The other conteats sre: “Tho Wotheral Affair," Chapters V. to VIIL,—by J.W. Do For- st ; **Song,"—by Charles Carroll ; * Tho Veiled Muso,"—by Willism Winter; “The Growth of “Giagt Popo,’ "—by J. W.Do Forest ; ** De Mor- tuis, h,PEégnr Tawcott; “A Vagabond Iero- in,” Chapters I. to IIT,—by Mis. Edwards; “Wanderings, Part 1., From Maderia to Lome,” | —by Lady Blenche Murphy: * The Eustace Diamonds,” Chapters LXXVI. to End,—by ‘Authony Trollope ; * Old and New " ; “In_the Back Street,”—by Ieabella Grant Meredith ; “ Off tho Coast,”—by Nettie M. Arnold ; * Drift ‘Wood,"—by Philip 5nilib0b; * Current Litera- % 'file Galaxy Club-Room ;" ** Nebul," —by the Editor. Xansas Magazine, The Xansas Magazine has articles on Newe- papery” by Daaiel . Wilder © Toppy,” Chape ter L, by Deane Monahan; “ Prince buyil of Dyvel,” by Dog Lioyd Wymaa ; & Befoisa of on American Princess,” by Enriquo Parmer ; “Strikes and their Remedy,” by James M. Northt “Bubsoil,” by P. Flunnigan ; **About s Bureau,” by Margaret Vendegrift; * Gems of Christidn Missions,” by James H. Defouri ; % Germany,” by Henry Ames Blood; ‘ Reminiscences of 1856,” by John L. Rastall’; “Rotrorsum,” by T. Donelly ; * Monsieur Rousselot,” by Faunio E. Cole; “ Shungsnungians,” by Kennoth Mon- trose; “ Army Poetry ;" Edifor's Quarton Mr. Horace Greeley—Edwin Forrest—Our Lot- tora—The Leoture Business—Westera Wit—Tho Dime-Novel Idea—Edward A. Pollard.” Littell’s Living Age. No. 1489 of the Living Age, for tho week end- ing Deo. 21,containa the following noteworthy ar- ticles: ¢ Térrostrial Mognotism,” Edinburgh Ke- wiew ; “A Memorablo Popo,” Templa Bar ; “Dutch Art,” Pall Mall Gazelte ; * Montalem- bert,” Blackwood’s Magazine ; *“A Remarkablo Man,” by J. G. Whittier; *Prussia and Ger- many,” Saturday Review'; en_ installment of 01 tho Skalligs," by Jean Ingelow,and a Christ- mes story, translated for the Living Age from tho Plat-Deutsch of Fritz Router. Eclectic, Tho Januery Eclectic contains two portraits, one of Dr. Livingstone, the other of Beatrica Di Couci,—a very beuutiful stecl engraving. Its selections are made with core, and cover tuo fol- lowing wido rango of topics: '*A Remaikablo Carcer,” Edinburgh Review; *Tho Genius of Sophocles,” by R. C. Jebb, Aacmillan's Maga- zine; *“Tho First Chapter of the Geological Jec- ord,” by David Forbes, F.R.S., otc., " Popular Sciénce Review; “The Two Marys” by Mra. Oliphant, Chapters 1. to V., Aacmitlan’s Maga- zing; “Tho Legend of 8. Vitalis,” London Spec- tator; *“‘The Vicissitudes of the Xscorial,” Corn- hill Aagazine; *-Cowper as a Satirist,” Templo “1'ho Strange Adventures of s Phac- by William Black, concluded, Macmitlan’s Magazine; ‘“-Tho Dresent Phase of Prehis- tonie Archwology,” British Quarterly Review; “Tho Song of tho Shenling, St Paul's; “Dr. Livingstono and his Work,” Fraser's Mag- azine; ‘A Naw Theory of Volcenoes,” London Speclator;. *'The Odd Ven Minutes," by Matthew Browne, St. P.wl’s ; * Poesis Humam,” Fraser's Magazine ; #Horzce Greeley,” Now York World ; “ Litorary Nusices: Joseph Noirel's Rovenge— Lifoof Daniel Boono, tho Pioneer of Kentucky: Outlings of History—Tales at Toa-Timo—Whit- tier's Poem's—Dodd & Mead’s New Books;” “ Foroign Literary Notes;” ** Scionco sud Art : Tho Solar Corona—AMagnetism and Earthquakes —Aerial Navigation—Tho Monster Telescopo— Chineso Medicimes;” ““Varicties: Egyptian Lux- ury—Phosphorescenco—Marringes 1n Eastern Hangary—Historic Tree—In Decp Sorrow—r. Greeley's Last Hours—Gigantio Trees—The Farowell Banquet—DBanyan Treo—Burial Vaga- rics—On a Resurrectioniat.” Chicago Iiustrated Journal. The second number of Messrs. Horton & Leonard's handsome magazine, tho Chicago Jilus- trated Journal, is just ont. Ithas coutributions from Anson 8. Miller, William Matthews, Andrew Shuman, the Rov. H. N. Powers, Georgs P. Upton, and other Chicago writers ; and is, i nddition, very handsomely illustrated. _'Tho magazine is & credit to the publishers, and de- serves well of the public as s first-clase local Literary enterprise. S TR e Postal Cards in England—The Use and Abuse of the System. From the London Era. When tho Postmaster General informed us of the new privilere by which we could communi- cato with our friends at a cost of ono half-penny instead of o ponny, we wero not indisposed to rej wo conld get aasthing at Lialf-prico, The rejoicings -were considerably moderated when we wero told that our communications ‘must bo writcen on an open card, the observed of ell observers. It did mot requiro a conjurer to tell us that Lialf-penny post-cards would be Liablo to scandalous abuse, and that the now method of conveying messages would bo s means for dis- seminating abomnablo libels. Wo ventured to point this out at tho very commoncoment, and our words haye been more than verificd. TFrom that day to this we have heard of noth- ing but libels.” Impertineni shop-girls in tho Burlington Artcado have gratuitously insulted Indies of titlo; and irritablo gentlemen like 3Ir. John Hompden, with * o fad” concerning tho rotundity of the earth, havo used post-cards for the worst purposes.’ Every misorable littlo tradesman who owes a grudgo, and every scoun- drel who dare not ssy opecly what ho' thinks, flics to tho helf-penny post-card to gratify & mean feeling of paltzy revenge. Post-cards hay- ing been tried, therefore, for some_considerable time, and having been proved to bo extremely dangerous weapons, 1t becomes o ques- tion’ for the Postmaster General to do- cide how long he will retain thom as an authorized means of communication. For pri- vato purposes they aro useless, Courtosy and decency alike prohibit their use byall well vered in the ordinary decencies of socicty. For what urpose, therofors, are post-cards retained? Rhmfty housckeopers uso. them for ordering Conls and candles, Secretarics of charitable £o- cietios'aro not above employing them for the ‘purposes of importunity. For kimoning meot- inga and collecting councils they may bs heody cnough, but they are a perpetual annoyance to editors of newspagers, would clhicer_the hour whon they were abolished. Their condem- Lady Constance Titzgorald and Professor Wal- Izce. S ATFamily of Ginnts—One of Tizem Has an Encounter Withi & Buck, From the Bedford (Pa) Inqairer. Benjumin snd Catharine Froutman, of Lon- dondery tovnship, this county, had sons and dughters eighteen. Tho father and eight of tho children havo gone to that bourns whence no traveller returns. The motker, who is aboub 75 yenrs of age and eichs upwerds of 200 pounds avoirdupois, still lives with her son George, in Londouderry township. The_ ten ciifldren now living tip tlie heam of & ¢ Fair- Danks ” & 2,215 pounds, Tho respective forco of gravity of eack, according to their last consus, is 88 follows : » Georgo, who lives in Londonderry township, 245 pounds ; Joseph, who holds forth at Fair Tope, Somerset county, 220 pounds ; John, who Tesides in the State of Indiana, 265 pounds inhis shixt-gloeves : Daniel, who Jivesin Kansas, 225 pounds; Adam, who is o resident of the “Smoky City,” Tittsburgh, 240 pounds: Sarah and Polly, who resido_iu this county, 240 and 200 pourids Tespectivoly; Nancy, who lives in Maryland, 200potinds ; Betsoy, who Las followed tho advics of the lameated Grecley and * gono West.” 200 pounds. Tho father weighed 150 pounds, 2nd tho deccased children renged in weight from 180 t0 25 pounds eech. If any- Dody can beat this lef bim riso snd speak. Peter Troutman, son of Josoph, weighs sbont 200 pounds. Some time sinco he and his father wers out hunting, and shot » largo buck. Af the erack of the riflo the_busk fell to tho grouud, and Poter ran up to it, supposing it dead, gob astride of it end was in tho act of cutting its throat when it sprang up and attzcked him,” He rabbed it by tue horus and held on to them, Hion enstied a desperate strugzlo. Tho father, who was not at tlils timo near enough to nssist bis son, could not shoot the buck for fear of ehooting Liis ton t00. He hurried to the scene, loveled his gun across his son's breast and fircd Killing the buck instantly. ¥o then found that the buck lad gored Pefer through the thigh, cansing s vory eevero and ugly wound, which hos caused bim to keep his bed over since. SPECIAL NOTICES. The Centsur Liniment—Hus curad—doos cure, and will cure moro «cases of rheumatism—stiff jolats, swell. ings and lamencss upon man snd boast in one day th.n all other ecticles have ina hundred years. 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