Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 29, 1872, Page 3

| ! i 1 i i 1 4 i .tion point shaped bebween the lip . Etences, their farilies. THE CHICAGO DAILY - TRIBUNE: FENDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1872. N ST Ry CE T e PERIGDICAL LITERATURE, |z “hien, Fuse o stranger st blo ereo trom the | festys sublects on one level for uatl s fs dome they | disiaes, Iowsere, pliysicians, &c., of Ciicago. JOHN RANDOLPH of bis log lut, drinking out of o | short spsce, and living men remember him; bubi % of ‘tho conversation on _her partnes an Ameat | mever havo eympathics In common. nor feel and | with a corresponding proportion of bewutiful ® bucket, Wwho gouged _ his clionts, | bohind him goes Genesis; ho was the last of the cn gl takea it up, draws ‘him out perons | fosaonicdde that brotierbood and community of i | women benutifully dressed. Tho refreshieuts 2ad wals vain of his money, and finally left Lis | ine. Tho daily lif of Virginia in bis day was chafls him in a gendal fashion, and expiresses bor optas et umslong glvaforch Aol o this | (ere of the choicest and most elaborate churac- fame o medley of havoc, which Wirt utterly Engiish IIagazines-Corm- i1 and Fraser's. “Some Peculiarities of Society in America.” Need of an Imperial Spirit Through- cut the British Empire, The “Irish Brigade” in the Ser- viec of France. Cornlill. ‘To American readers, no ariiclo in the Decem- ber English magazies will be more attractive thsn the Cornkili's paper on “SOME PECULIADITIES OF SOCIETT IN AMERICA.” Lyebrows ave always raised, and an interroga- s, when one Lears that another Briton has written a book or article on us, and we draw around us the impen- etrable covering of our conceit, o as not to be wounded by the arrows of malice and misinter- pretation. But this writer begins Dy the un- usuzl remark that he does not know why this paper should ba entitled Ly bim, or the editor of Cornhill, as being about the peculiarities of saciety in America. The phrase, be says, scems t0 imply that there is omething odd and singu- lar in Amnerican custo whereas oitig tho fact is merely that thoso customs from our ovm, which, in their turn, appear to otker civilized nations just 38 0dd and unrcasonatle, sr has gaid, “ Custom is king over all;” and rodotus, by way of illustrating the remark, which wus perhaps liss of 3 commonplace then than now, s 8 slory of ¢ certain tribe of Indians who, when ey heerd from a Greek traveller that in Lis country peoplo used to burn the bodies of their deceased rela- tives, cried out with horror,—their own practice being to kil 2nd eat an aged parent, In o manner slightly 1oss marked we do much the ame s theso Indians ; wa uncosciously assume our notions of propriety to bo the natural ones, and require come defence or apology 20 be offezed for any deviations from them, Such uncommon cosmoolitanism on the part of the writer makes us fecl eafer 1 his hands than in thosa of most of his countrymen travel- lers, and he ccriainly gives o fair picture of our - society, allowance being made for the point of v.aw and the nature of the observer. Tho firat point in which the differezce from England strikes a stranger is the liberty allowea to girls and young men of gowg about togethier. They walk out in o countys, or'in the streets of & town, ot merely in groups, ~without attracting sny notice. A girl may do Lhis with 5ome particular friend as ofiin as she pleases. I knew a young gentlaman of Providence, R. I, and an ex- nice fellow he was, who, fora year or more, x for two hours ono afternoon in cvery week with one young lady whose company pleasea him, and Dobods Censured cither of them. Both belonged to the best sociery. Oneor two of his observations lead one to suspect that he has not gained entrance to the really best society. This'is often tho cause of Lie mierepresentations concerning our man- ners and ways. Englishmen who have all their lives studied with. reverential fidelity the man- ders and customs of their lords and ladies, coming to Americe, and getting access to only second orthird rato circles, insist on contrasting theseas the American best with the English Lest. The writer says that young ladies often nvito young men to nccompany them to even- 23 parties fo which tho lattor Liave not been ia- wited : He talios her thereaccordingly, 18 proscnted a8 her { to the lady of the house, 5, sud talfes her Lome afain in the emall_hours, I ali escort i called a walking-stick, and the only to emiploying him fs his_tendency to Lang 1is owner at the dance, where, perhaps, ha scarcely any cne, and bother her by asking’ for dinees and introductions | Tt would be difficult to find a first-class house whero auy such escort was not treated Letter thon that. So far as being left to themsalves, gocd ueage dietates that they be at once placed on the same footing as the other guests, and the bestess, if sheis weli-bred, takes at least as Tiich prins to insure them's pleasant evening as ehe does iu the care of thoso who may be suprosed better able to tako care of themselves: Tn the seme way, if & young lady wishos to go to the e or opers, she may o<k a gentleman to take her Tie can'd well refuse the Botor, though it fs an ive one, for carriage-lifre in New York ia about high as in London ; g0 lio provides a car- ne of his own), calls for her, takes tay, and gives her, vory likely, 8 supper ot erwards, This is obviosly s rather m from English ways than the mere p2rons at parties (in which respect the 1 does not govern all our cities), and ies where it raight be thought to savor . Bat there seoms to be mo doubt that ‘peacliable people do it and permit it, and thata i% not compromised by it, Here, too, thero is a little misepprehension on tha part of our English friend. Young ladics do offer such invitations in New York, but no proper Jonng woman allows her gaest to provids the _ carriago, In such cases, the carriago is always #ent by her to bis door; and, as for the supper at Delmonico's, it is altogether optional, and, if offered, it is gonerally thought a tone or two urder fino breeding for & lady to accept anything beyond slight refreshment. is by Do means o matter of conrse that a girl's friends ehould be also Ler purents’ friends. Just ns here the acquaintances of 3 young man who lives ot ‘home are generally known to the rest of his family, so therea voung lady' will be. But not necessarily o, “You mest her at a party nad dance with her, or inquire ut the Spanfsh soug ehe bas sung g0 prettily; sho seks you to ecall tnd eco ber, ndding, per- Dapr, thut she will sing Spanish’ songs fo_you all thie afternoon. You go to tho house and ask for Ter; ebe comes down and receives you alone, or with her sister, Her mother may or ma not appear, prob- ablydoes mot; and you inay perhaps keep up the acquainzence for long enough, fall in love with her if », without ever being presented to her parents, t'so much s knowing them by sight. It fa well 00d” that ehe s both able and entitled to look Lerzelf 2nd choose lier own friends, Sometimes it will happen that two sislers move in_different sets, 23 brothers emong ourselves, und know very little of one another’s companions. The same idea that o girl does not need tho sort of 170 cction which custom ineists on putting her under in Europe, makes it possible for her fomovo about more frecly than eho can well do here. She may travel alone on tho railroads, perhaps all fle wey from Philadelphia to St. Louis or Cuicag with- out attracting notice, stopping at hotels on the way. She may go on foot or in the horsv-cars through the strests of s city without being exposed to remark, much less to impertinence. Except perhaps in the bukiness quar- ter of New York City, there is scarccly a &pot in the Tnion where it would surprice one to find & young Iady walking clone. Al this is of course much facilitated by the arrangements so carefully made for the comfort of ladics, for whom there is reserved a suparate car on the railroade, usually the last in the trein, 2nd who find in cvery hotel of pretension a spacious Indics’ drawing-roon, often the only aud al- ways the best pullic Toom in the house, to which none bt {hey and the gentlemen in their train are admit- ted. Nevertheless, it is greatly to the credit of tho people that it should b €o casy for ladies to go aloue ererywhere unmolested; and thero aro few points in ‘which Transatlantic was's come out moro elearly supe- Tior o our own. To be un isolated woman ia » much less formidable thing there than in tho old countrics. 1t is most clearly in the Western States that the free- dom and destructive swing of American eociety js most prominent, But every whcre over the Union one can't Lelp feeling how considerablc the differeuce from Eng- 1and is—T suy “ England,” because auy one who knows Treland will think the focial contrast to that country far less murked, Socicty in America is altogethor easicr than ourw, simpler, Tioro elustic, more variable, more gay and sparkling, moro tolerant (spite of De Tocquevilles reflections on_demoeratic uniformity) of individual divergences from tho common type, Women hold it in o very conspicuous and inuucntial place. They bave more control over their property than o Englond, and aro in all respects on & much moro completo equality with thel busbands in the oye of the law. They have ‘made their way into niost or all of tho learued profes- sione, They are not thought of a3 necessarily depends ent on man, and are not expected—no, not even by reepoctable, old-fashioned people—to be a mere reflec— tion of his wishes and opinjons, They are not talked down to in America ; you never bear there, as you so often do here, & trivial young whipper-snapper cons descending to a lady intellectually as woll as morally his euperior, but who would {hink it unbecoming to Tet ber superiority appear. On political, social, hter- oIy questions, a wonrn is expected to have her opin- jon like n man ; she s us free to give it ; she fs liste ened to with more external deferencesnd as much sub- etantial respect, She is not in the least afraid of belng thought blu ind though I donot believe that women of high and wide cultur¢sra any commoner in Amer- ica than in England, if €0 common, women sunk in jguorance or préjudice, and wholly devoid of litersry interests, are certainiy more rare, It is diflicult fo express the precise nature of fho erence between American and English ladics, Yon are sensible of = sort of charm [susceptivle Boston ] which is wanting here. “American girls ore certsinly moro independent than ours are; more accustomed 1o fake care of (hemselyes, think for themeelv ido for themselves ; not less really domestic in their hearts, but 1:es ticd to their motlier's apron-strings ; franker in heir epcech, and more ready to tell you shout themselves, their circum- k There is a Lind cf French verte and forco chout them, but thero is also a Teu- tonic trutbfulness. Then there is o nimblencss and versatility of miud, a8 Well as a sel-posseasion of man- 5 couple, all alone, unatcompanied by | 2un?s ot brothers, without asking sy permission, and | ion freely on il tho topics that turn up, English Iadi of tho old schoo would Ve opt, t6 disanpreve of her oa slight acquaintance, But, when they como to know hier better, they would perecive that sho s, in eseeatial matters, decorous as well as refined. American ladics who have tixed in fashionable society in London may often be Leand to oy that they are astonislied at the quantity of ecandal they henr falked there; and it is certatnly true that one hears very Littlo in America, In such plices an New York and Chicago there ard, of course, fast scts, just as there are in London and crpyol. But in point of purity aud real moral elev: tion, the best society in Amezica ia possibly superior, and at any rate equal, to that of our own ujiper classes 3 while the Americyn middle class is certainly more cil. tivated, more infcrested in the *things of the mind,” than tlie commercial class in England, There aro eeveral merits which this English- men, who seems to find an uncommon attraction in the froedom of American ways, attributes to our system, It certainly promotes pleasuro, avd leads to carly and happy marriages, in which individual, 25 well a8 public welfere, find the firmest bagis.” Concerning the first, he fays Youths and maidens in America certainly have, in their ovn_cmphatic languige, “n good time.” They czn 8eons 1nuch of one amother o they pleaso ; they cun do 50 without the eense of being watched and crit- icised; and, what is more than all, they can be fricadly aud mutually interested without fearing to be misun- derstood. When two young people take 2 liking for cno anofher’s society, they may tall: tegethcr of an evening foran hour or more, may walk or drive to- gecher, may perhaps correspond, and yet nobody | will have ' right to suppose there is anything but fciendehip in tho case, They aro ot driven, as they would be in proper England, cither into Tepressing or concealing their fecling, or cise into cars rying it hastily into comcthing ciee, and pledging themselyes foraver to one another by a'formal cngage- ment. Friend1 may laugh and chaff, and tell Charlie or Jane that they seen to Lo fond of Leing together, but Charlie and Jane can take it coolly and go on their way unmoved, for each of them knows that 5o long as mothing is done but what custom and etiquette allow, neither bas any right {0 suppose, and is not likely to euppose, the ‘existence of any tender feelings o the part of the other. To b sure, there may spriug up an affection, and why chould thero not? The same thing Eappens here, whiere people_seo one another less inti- mately, the chief differen.o being that there it is more likely to be reciprocated, and it is based on 3 far better knowledge of churacter and habits, * * * Scandals aro certainly quite os rare there as here; probably rurer, The standard of propricty is extreme- Iy rigid ; and thougha girl may do much which eho could nct well do here, if she onco compromised her- eelf mociety would ba quite as stern and unforgiving in Boston or Chicago as in London. As o fastuees, tkicre are, of course, as there must be, differences of man- ner and ctiquette, but if ono looks at essentinls, o dis- cerning Englishman who goes below the surfuce will find as much true delicacy snd purity among ladies over yonder s smong his own countryw Cases "of blighted affection occur from time under this open-air eystem, a8 they do un- der our band-box system ; mothing short of the abso- Inte separation carried out in Frauce will prevent them; if even that, But they are, if ono may trust the cvidenco given, less common und less crushing in ‘America han here ; and the reason why msy catily be scen, Girls, having scen a great deal more of young men than they would here, are not g0 easily attructed by mere externals, and become altogether less suscep- tible. They know more about the charscter and 5 epu= tation of their companions, and are less likely to bo be- guiled by 3 mere flirt, Intimacy, being commen and legitimate, ccases to have anything dangerously ro- mantic about it. ‘Az to the matrimonial advantages of the plan : ‘There is another merit of the American plan which may gain favor for it {rom persons of even the strict- est views,—its tendency {o produce happy marriages, That marriages are more frequent there than here, and aro contracted carlier, may bo ascribed to the cir- cumstances of {ho country, where it is comparatively easy {6 make 2 living, and Wwhere, luxurious 2s certain €ets of rich people are, it is 3 great deal more sy for ayoung couple to start in a simple way. Still the op- portunities for acquaintance given_muset havo Somes thing to do with it ; and they have "even more to do with a good assortment of the couples, -In England, especially in London, 8 man often knows nest to noth ing of the girl he is enguged to. He has met her at ‘parties, bas taken her down to dinner, and danced with her, has called on foggy afternoonr, and had tea gracefully handed tohim ; buthe has learnt very littlo about her true character, her temper, her principles Ter capacity for affection, for defects in theso respects must be very marked indeed to show beneath the de- corous self-restraint of company manners. The girl, on her part, ia still worso o, inco she has even fower opportunities of judging what s young man is worth, For he, after all, sees her in her own house, and among her family ; he can notice how sho gets on with them, and can often, if he is sharp, interpret her by them, for good or forevil. But be ia probably quite isolatod inthe town; she sees notbing nd knows noth hiis relations ; he is merely a prozentabie young person of eufficiently plcasant manners and adequate income whom ebo meets in respectable company. Sho docs not guess what the sisters whom he neglceted, or tho schoolfellows swhom be cheated, or the clerks whom e Dullies, could tell about him,’and has to learn for hersolf, when it ia too lafe, that ke is mean, hard, and esifish. In emaller towns and couairy places peopio hava better chances, but in London ond our ofher great cities, ‘it i8 Lard to Eee how things “aro_ over ' to e better whils tho present restrictions exist, In the Siatcs, on tho othier band, it is generally & man’s or a giri's own fault if hio or she does not succeed in making out pretty well what the other is good for. Meeting oftener, and in a lesa formal way, able to carry on even a gomewhat exciu- efve and engrossing scquaintance without beiug nec- essarily supposed 1o have “ intentions,” an Amcrican youth bas the amplest means of finding out what_aro tho tastes, and notions, and_habits of the girl wiom e thinks'of making Lifs wife, and can use thoso means swithout exciting any suspicion. Nor can Le himself kecp 8 mask always on in her presence; even if ho tries it, ehe is probably intimate with otber young men of the tame rc?, and can make out from them what i3 all cas thouglit of him' bz persons of his own rex—; the beat guide and cluo ta the trutb. The that peopio do, a8 & rule’ know much more of « another before they marry than (hey do in Exgland, and (hat unhappy marrisges are more rux Fraser’s. Thero aro two articles in Fraser’s Mogazine which bear upon_ the Controversics in which ite editor, Mr. Froude, is cngaged. The frst, **EMPIRE OR NO EMPIRE,” thinke that it is more than ever_nocessary that British subjects, tho world ronnd, should culti- ~ate & comprehensive Imperial £pirit. . Wo must learn to take an equal interest fn all onr fellow-subjects, no matter whether tliey dwell on the banks of the Thames or tho Hoogly, tho St. Lawrenco or the Yarra-Yarrn, We must be ready to rovcut au sult tothe national flog whenover it 3 offered. Wo must admit no prior cleim to our regard on the part of Englishmen, Irishmen, or Scochmen, Canadians or ‘Australians, Capo Colonists or East and West Indians. Still, English institutions could not have been more cunningly devired had they been especially intended to foster a spirit of provincial narrowness and sclf~ seeking. Tt is time tho in'portant internal affnirs of Great. Britain and Ireland commanded tho entiro ate fention of o local Executivonnd a local Legislaturo, Tmperial matters must bo withdrawn from tho catrol of the English Parlisment, Recnt ovents in connection with the Canadian Do- ‘minton eannot fail o force on colouists and the people of the mother country alike, the necossity for some al- teration in the relations existing Letween them, The former have becn told over_and over again, that if thoy are deprived of any participation in the Tmperial Government, they contributed nolbing towards it, whilo England stood committed to defend bher o= slioots *to her last man and her last shilling.” I bee lievo it was Lord Kimberley or EarlGranville who re- cently gave this comforting assurance, which was in- dorsed by _Mr. Knatchbull-Hugesses, tho Under. Seeretary. ~ No doubt the declaration sounds well, and the nentiment thercof is cverything that could bo de- sired. Ithas a fino hearly Fing about it, which, in theso cold_calculating times, in poculiarly Tefres I cannot truly gay that wo colonists received 1 anything like the unquestioned belief we should havo done at one time. However, after a while we came to Took on it 06 a tolerably eincere recantation of an fn- ciplent Leresy in favor of ecparation, with which ‘meny members of Mr, Gladstouc's Government were kaid to bo affected. But, looking at the way in which Canada’s just claime ave becn acrificed by the ‘Treaty of Washington, what can wo think? Her terri- tory hiad heen violted by an armed band_deliborately orgenized within the jurisdiction of the United States Government, her valuablo fishing grounds encroached on in defiance of treatice, and her Fight for compensa- tion denied, contrary to cvery principlo of Justice, Here was a casc, one would think, if ever a case could arise, whero the assurance about'the “last man and last fhilling” would. havo been called 0 mind and acted on, Short of permanent ocenpation, it is ditli- cult to know what further insults a professedly friendly power could havo heaped on tho Cabadian Dominion. Then or never was tho time for tho Eng- lish Government (o show tho sineerity of its declara- tions by ineisting on_both an amplo apology and im- mediate rearess, Notonly, Lowever, wero the of- fences of the United States Goverument coudoned without any reparation being made, but Canada was forced agaiust her will to surreader somo valuablo fishing grounds which had becn eccured to her by treaty in 1813, So averso to {he arrangement are tho Canadians, tst 2 member of (heir Government as- eurod Lord Kimberley that kad it been known that it ‘was iu contemplation, no represcntatives would have beex: sent to Washingfon. Annexation to this country, tho writer thinks, would Le an extremely profiisblo trausaction for Cannds; as & pecuniary matter. Besides rusing tho valuo of proporty 15 or 20 per cent by the bottor markets it would givo thom,— it would relievo the Dominion of tho endless care and expense connected with tho defence of its fron- tier. If anyone wirhico to know how much Canada would gain pecuniarily by throwing in her fortunes with thicse of the United States, let him consult Lord Elgin's letter during tho figio Lo was Governor Geiieral of that province: Kot only is sho put to cxpense in consequenco of Lier proximity to a country swarming with men who execrate the very name of England, but bor social affairs are disarranged also. She has had, before now, to embody her militia and suspend the Habeas Corpus act, owing to {he Fenion incursions, Tho mitiiod ‘hich Eogland has adopted for Ler defenceis certainly Vers siugular. Sho has left her to repel invasion at Lier own cost, fhien waived her right to compensation, and, by woy of rewarding her injurer, aud cncourag: ing bitn to further eucroachments, Lins given away her fishieries for an old song. 1 wonder if tuis is tho way that the Gladstone Government would defend any “partof the United Kingdom!” Annexation is not the remedy tho writer favors, His scheme is the establishment of au Imperial Governmont, which shall leavo to each colony and province the right of Liberal Seli-Govern- | ment, giving the Contral Government a Federal supervision : No time. than, shauld be lost in tlacing all her Ma- vast but seattercd empire, Every doy which goes by without finding scmething dond which might have Deen dono towards the attainment of this consumma- tlon 18 an frreparablc loss, A strong centrifugal forceis at work upon tke atoms which ccmpoee tho Queen's dominions, and there is next to nothing to oppose its influence.’ For want of tome body, whoso delegates from the extremities and centre alike might meet and confer together on what is best adapted to sccure the true intercats of the whole, each correcting and modi- {ying his ideas in accordance with the representations of others, and in his turn {nfluencing their minds in favor of bis own views, the public m4n of the various colonies are left to follow any couree which may seem good in their own eyes or likely to secure them o lengtliened term of oflice, without any_consideration 85 to what may be the eficct of their schemes on the welfar of their neighbors, o Liow far they aro compat- ible with Imperial unity, Although the prospect of achieving this great work of confederation does not_scem very encouraging at T nevertbeless look forward to the time when ream of g0 mony will resolve itself into a substantial reality. Of our present rulers I have but littls hope, but I cannot bring myzelf to think that the nation at large will remain much longer indifferent to tize glorious future which might be the heritage of our race, if we only had the energy to take occazion by tho hznd,” instead of wastig our mighty opportuni- ties throtgh ignorance or loth. A Consolidated British Empire is still possible ; but will not be possible much longer. IRISH SOLDIERS IN FRIENCI SERVICE. A very striking fact, though one not generally known, is that, for nearly o century, there was ir. the service of Franco s brigadd of soldiers cruited exclusively from among the British subjects who inhabit Iroland. A3 early as tiro year 1671, Charles IT. had per- mitted the Comie de Hamilton to levy a body of over 1.500° men in Ircland for the service of tho King of Frarco. Later. when James was hard pressed in his strugglo for the Luglish Throne, be implored bis French ally, Louis XIV, to send him_troops, which ho did_ on condition of recieving Irish soldiers for his own wars on the Continent. Theso were swelled by the mi- gration, after the Treaty of Limerick, of large Dumbers of Irishmen fo France. Theso wore formed into =2 brigade in 1692, the first service performod by waich was aa Sspedition agaiust England : This proposed inyasion was planned in the interest both of James and Louis ; the former aimed at recover- ing his lost throne, the latter at. deiiveriug » home. thrust at the able and intrepid chicf of the League of Augsburg. But Englaud ws raved fiom invasion in 1693, as +hic had been in 155, and &s ehe was 80 Gften Dy the intervention of the clements. y Proveated tho French from embarking their troops on beard the tremaports, while they enubled the Duatch equadron of Van Allemonde to offect a junction with the British fleet under Admiral Russell, The concequent naval engagement off Capo La Hogue bets n the allied flects and the Freuch, under the gallant Admiral de Tourville, and the bril sant and decisive victory of the English and Dutch, eutirely dustroyed the French navy, and effectually put aslop o any attempisat an invision of England for some time afterwards. During tho campaigns of 1632 and 1693 the Trieh had abundaut opportunitics of wreaking theit vergeance wpon_tho Engiish King and his armics, and were especially couspicuous by their_bravery at ihe bloody lattle of Neerwinden, whers William was completely defeated, and compelfed to retire before the superior force of his great military rival, the Marshal Duke of Luxemburg. Throughout the war, indeed, the Irish Brigude was present at almost every battle or ekirmish of importance, end woa Zor ft<clf a reputation without which it would bave hardly survived thepeace of Ryswick. They woro subsequently engaged, still in the servics of France, in tho wars of tho Spanish Succession, and distiuguished themselves at Blenheim. ' They took part in all the struggies ‘which devastated Europe in tho eighteonth con- tury, snd always with honor. In fact, says the writer, who is plaiuly no other than Mr. Froude bimself: Out of Trelana tne Irish have always proved them- selves admirable soldicrs, and the peculiar circum- stances of the formation and position of the brigudo in Franco rendercd its rersices cepecially valuable to that country. A large proportion of it members, as ve have already shown, must have been of a superior o that from whick the ordinary soldier i usuaily drawn, and the honorable rivalry which existed be- tween {hem and the French troops, combined with their intense national batred of the English, to whom they wero 60 often opposed, to Tender tho Irish dariug and resolute soldiers. The greatest and noblest houses of Treland had their representatives in the Drigade; the Butlers, the Rurkes or Burghe, the Fitzgeralds, the O'Neills, the O'Briens, the Talbots, the Nugeuts, 'the Plunketts, and the Dillons sent mauy a stoul heart ard strong afm to Qo the Lidding of Irénch commanders, and o fight against thelr conntrynien and their zlicgianco on tho Dblood-stained Gulds of Flanders and Castille. Tho last service in which the Irish Brigade was engaged on the side of France, was the_cxpedition against the British West Iudia Isfands in 1770 and 1 o Irish Drigade was finally broken up by a decreo of tho Nationel Aveambly, in 1791, andtho last remwant of the brigade was taken into the service of England, from whose lerritory tho Brigade had Leen originally ruised and constant- Iy recruited, and againet whoso nrmics it had fought for & hundred years. England received back again into her allegianco theso erring sub- jects, who had been for threo generations among tho bravest, {ho most coustant, and tho most implacable of her foes. M. D. Convay continues his curious re- scarches into thic origin of the supernatural ¢ Monsters and Demons,” which were created by the darkened fancios of primitive men. Genoral Ciuscret, who was fortunato cnough to save himself from the bullets of Satory, gives us 2 glizapse, “ Behind tho Scencs, at the Com- mame.” “ Without s Guide;" Con- Otker articles aro: “ Six Weeke in North and South Tyrol,” (%ith a map)—by Williamm Longman, T G. 8.; ‘Bram- r1¢ School for Architects ;" 2 Teligions Thought in Scotlaud ;" ** Concerning tho Dieadvaniages of Living in a Sma!l Community,” by A. K. I, B.; “Domestic Sanita: BArmugomomu,‘ by Robert . C. B Rawlinson, C. THE CITY IN BRIEF. Tho New Year's party of * Onr Club" takes lace on Tucsday cveuing noxt, st Snow’s Danc- ing Academy. Tho Mullignn_Zouaves are _to ho!d a meeting to-morroyw cvening, at their hall, corner of Ad- ams and Halsted streets. The ““Blue Danubo Club” give s New Year's party on Tuesday evening, at Bonmique's West Side Hall. Tho ofiicers of the Club aro A.D. Turner, M. E. Morrison, aud H. B. Brooks. Tho Coroner inquested the remaing of Eliza- ‘both Guenasse, who died at No. 225 Van Buren streot on Friday. The canse of her death was found to be congestivo chills. Officers and mombers of the Cosmopolitan Club are_requested to meet st Dr.John D, M. Carr's office, No. 327 Wost Madison street, on Now Year's Day, at 3 p. m. The Chicago Christian Union will keep opon house on New Year's Day, from 10 a. m. to_& p. m., at tue West Sido rooms, No, 205 West Madi- son streot, and furnish coffec and cakes to nowsboys, bootblacks, and all who are needsy. Mayor Medill yesterday rovoked tho liconse of ono Wigging, proprictor of an anction shop No. 22 West Madison street, for carrying on his bus- iness contrary to law, or in other words, for Qofrauding s greenhorn. Tho gambling den of William Mack, corner of Stato and_Thirty-first streets, was pulled by Sergeant Barrett last ovening. Fivo inmates wero captured and taken to tho Armory, where they got bail and were released. Tho following books have been donated to tho Chicago Public Library within & day or_two past by tho citizens of Chicago: Nzs. O. &, Toge, 2 volumeg; C. F. Jilson, Exq., 8 volumes ; Geo. Howland, Esq., 7 volumes; Hon. Julius Rosenthal, 5 volumes. “Death from oxposuro” was the verdict of the Corouer's jury on tho body of John Jame- son, who was found on the comer of Egan and Aehiland avenucs, frozen to death. Ho was om- ploved a3 ngent for & doaler in chromos at No. 73 Blue Island avenue, and had been missing o weel beforo found. The last timo ho was scen Do was sufTering from delirium tremens. “Shall the Sundsy Liquor Law 1o Repealod " and What are the Liberty League Mon Doing for tho City ?” aro the questions to bo discussed at 1 temperanco meoting to bo held noxt Thurs- day ovening in the church corner of Clinton and Wilson strects. General O. L. Mann and othiers will spea One of tho most charming affairs of the sea- son was the entertainmont given on Friday oven- ing last by the Cricket Licerary Society at the residence of E. B. Phillips, Eeq., No. 100 Calu- met avenue. Peculiar features of the occasion wero iho cards of iuvitation and tho dancing programmes, tho latter being marvols of rich- ness, elegance, and tasto. Tho series of concerts so long in courso of preparation by the Chicago Oratorio Society, and which have been looked forward to with peculiar interest Ly our music-lovers, will conmmenco on tho 16th of January. These uniquo eutertain. ments aro to combino both literary and musical features of notablo excellence. Htev. Laird Col- lier will deliver the first locture at the inaugura tory concort. Tho Oratorio Socioty's next re- Rearsal will oeeur on Thursdey cvenitg next at the First Congregational Church. Among tho many brilliant social parties fash- ing likie = shower of moteors athwart the holiday horizon, ono of. tl:e most notably brilliant was that given on Friday evening last by Hon. J. B. Waller, at his residence in Lake View, where were assombled a largo number of wall-knawn ter, and tho entiro affair was an emincut succesa. An astronomical gentleman rushed breathless- 1y into the city department of THE TRIBUNE yestorday morning, smokiug a cigar of question- able merit, and wished it to be stated in the col- nmns of this paper that to cure chilled fect, soak them in alum sud water. Ho adds that tho alum might be omitted; sd alcohol substituted, with sugar, and that the mixture thus formed should bo f{aken internelly. Everybody knowa who he is now. At 9:30 o'clock last_evening, the two-story Drick building, No. 14 Union street, took fire, and an alarm vwas sounded from Box 275. The building is owned by the city and occupied a8 & lodging-houe for the destitute and benighted. The Superintendent happened to Lo ouf, and the inmates. anzious to bo warm, heated tho furnaco until it ignited the building. The loss was about $200.° At 11 o'clack another alarm was given, the fire having again broken out. It wes s0on subdued, however. The Peopls's Omnibus and Baggage Company, in other worls the **Z. I. P. Co.” have put up a notice in their busses requesting the holders of their red tickets toreturn aud exchange them for their new issue at their office, corner of Wabash avenue and Twenty-first street. Tho old red tickets have becen counterfeited, and were coming in at the rato of a dozen or two & day. As the drivers could not distinguish the genuine from the bogus tickets when in the box, the Company aro obliged to adopt this course to protect themselves from a very small though comtemptible swindls. A gorrespondent inquires what has become of the Newsboys' Home which wo had before the fire, and 1o what is being done with the 212,000 given to the Home by tho Relief and Aid So- ciety. Ho mentions a rendezyous for abandoned characters on Adams street, near the bridge, and it i8 evident that ho does not allude to the Times offlce, for ho says that two-thirds of the fumates ara newsboya, bootblacks, street ped- dlers, and the liks. “Prevention is better than cure, he meintains; and if we oxpect to pravent the rising genoration of boys from becoming thieves, some place must be provided where they can eaf an.i elecp withont being brought in con- taet with the scum of bnma in other words, tlie Newsboys' and Booiblacks’ Home should bs re-established. he Huchberger insuranco caso, which bas argged its slow length along in the Chicago Cours for several years, bas at Iast come to &n end. Oneby one the’ recalcitrant companies were forced to pay the policies after the law had wrung the money from them. Tho litigation had ith origin in_a firo which occurred in_the spring of 1867, wher the storo of Mr. Huch- berger, on Linke stroot, was destroyed. He held policios in Eastorn snd Western companics, bus it 8 chanced that an_insurance agent gob into tho burning store beforo iho, proprictor arrived and secured the books, €0 that the concerted refusal to psy the losses, amountiog to over 350,000, was greaily nssisted. Suit was brought in the United States and State Courls, to compel the payment of Mr. Huchborgers rightful ciaims, and he was successful in every case, though tho delsy and exponse sttending the proceedinge were something fearful. The Home, of New York, being beaten in the Foderal Court’ in Chicago, carriod the case to the Su- preme Court in Washington. The latter tribunt through Chief Justico Chase, has just_afirma the decision of the Court below, awarding 6 per cent interest and 10 per cont damages on the amount of the policy, 85,000, which bas now Tcached the sum of $3,000. —_— A TALE OF TWO CITIES. A Citizen of Chicago Accused of Robbing an Eastern Lady of $25,000 Worth of Bonds, The Allcged Thiel Arrested and Put Under Bail ot $75,000: Mysterious Justico Banyon yesterZsy disposed of & case of greater importance than ho has the good for- tune to decide upon every day in the year,—one which bears upon moro then mero local inter- ests. The prisoner who appearod bofore him was & man whose name was given a8 Edward A. Everett, roeiding at Fo. 110 Twenty-second street, in this city. Thi prisoner was chargoed with robbory, and the details of tho affair as they were given in tho testimony before Justice Bau- yon rondor tho case an uUnusually interesting ono, The complaining witness is o Mies Shortswell, alady of extremely prepossessing appearsnco, with black hair and eyos, and an air of self-pos- session as rare ns it is intercstingin theso days of women'arights. Sho is 2id to be woll known in Washington, aud regarded s a lady of excel- lent business qualifications. She claima sho was commissionc. some time ago to deliver to Gen- oral P. D. Roddy, of Alsbsma, bonds of tho Selma & Gulf Railroad amounting to $100,000, worth about 25 per cent of their faco. While stopping at the Grand Central Hotel, in New York, she was introduced by tho chief clork of tho hotel, J. Styles Armour by namo, to the prisoncr, and to him she stated tha objct of her journoy. Everett told hor that if she would go by way of Chicago, ho would obtain passes for her over the road, giving as a roason for his being able to do 8o, Lis influenco in railroad cir- cles here. She sgreed to his proposition, and consented to travel with him o8 far as Chicago, not think- ing for & moment that any one s well-recom- mended as the prisoner waa would tako advan- tago of hor. Everott, sho asserts, advised hor to bo very careful as to what was done with her apers, and recommended hor to place them in cr enichol for enfe-keeping. Miss Shortwell thought ofhioryice, and put them into her trunk, ou _tho top of _hor clothing. She 'locked the trunk horself, and & torter _ strapped it in hor presenco. t was placed on a carriago provided by Everott toconvoy them from the Lotel to tho dopot. There was another gentleman in tho carriago. On arriving at the dopot, Everett voluntoorod to Lavo Miss. Shortwell's trunk checked to Chicago, and, on receiving her permission, did 8o bandiy her a check which it was subsequontly found di not correspond with that on the trunk, During tho journey the prisoner Was very attentive to Der. Tho next thing ecen by Miss Shortwell of hor trunk was at the Tremont House, Chicago. Whilo on the train the conductor, Mr. Dunn, warned her that Everett had beon making remarks about her to him, the nature of which “ho modestly declined to' communicato. Sho asked bim if sho wes riding on » pass. Tho conductor roplied that she was not. Hor ticket was regular in overy way,and had been pur- chaged by tho prisoner. Hor confidenco in tho mon was not shaken, however, by this informa- tion, for, shortly sfter broakfast on the day after her ‘arrival, Everett camo to_the hotel in & car- riago with his wifo and family, and pressed her totake & drive through tho city. She wasre- luctant to do 80, but Everett was g0 urgent that eho consented. On her re- turn ehe ordered her trunk taken to her room, snd found the lock broken and her papers gone. Besides the bonds ware some papors of value to ber, but to nobody else. On Thureday morning she’ used overy offort to find Everott, but failing. &pplicd to_s dotective, who succeedod in arresting him, After ho was ar- Tested, it is alleged, Le told the dotoctive that he knew the parties in Now York who had the bonds, buf denied any complicity in tho robbery. Justico Banyon, having heard tho testimony, liold tho prisoner in bail of $75,000 for trial in the Criminal Court. - —_——— The Following Will Interest the Ladies. Cimcaao, Dec, 11, 1672.—1 bought a Wheeler & Wil- son Scwing MacLine fifteen yearaago, have used it every day (save Sundaye) on all kinds of .work, both heavy and Jight, from the finest Swiss muslin to the heaviest roadeloth. Tho identical needle with which the_first stitch was taken §s still in the machine and_does good service, I consider tho Wheeler & Wilson the best sew= ing machine in use, Mzs. R, A. Huares, No. 153 South Despiaines streot, Afain office and salesroom of the New Wheeler & Wil- son Sewing Machine, No. 338 West Madison street ; ‘branch, No. 960 Wabash avenue, Burnham & Flann- ory, City Agents. 2y SN Y Delays are Dangerous. Those who have delsyed purchasing their Fresents. tion gifls should not fail to inepect the besutiful and Iargely-ascorted stock of diamonds, jewelrs, gold watches and chains, at McElwains, corner of Siatesnd Randolph streets, selected with a apecial view for the holidsys, Weddingand visiting-card_engraving exe- cated in'the finest style. Reasonable prices and court- o8y to buyers aro the charpeteristics of this establish- maat. A Visit to the Home of the Virginia Statesman. His Home 'Repuialiun--~Cum;;arison With Public Life Nowadays. Patrick Henry---Plain Sketches of Past Roanoke. Fron: Our Owen Correspondent. WASHINGTOX, Dec. 24, 1672, THE HOME OF JOEN 1:ANDOLPR OF ROANOKE. Passing recently from Richmond, Va., to the Gulf, ovor the Danville Railroad, I entered & country new to me. Eight old counties of the 0ld Dominion wero threaded by this road, and it was one of the great inner lines of communi- cation of the late Confederacy, occupying the enmo relation foit on the east of the Alleghenies that the East Virginia & Tennessee Road did on the west. By tlre Danville Road, Davis and the Confederato Government fled, barely escaping by four houra Stoneman’s raiders from over the mountains. I passed Amelis Court House, where Lee's army rendezvoused, and wero de- taived to forage for supplies, while Sheridan and Meade cut them off shead af Jetersvillo, and, near by, Ewell's corps surrendered. The country was very besutiful in the late fall, with the trees nearly leafless, 80 that the landscapes wore exposed; and, where wo enter- ed tho valleys of the Steunton and the Danm, I saw a richer country than upon the clayhillsides of tidal Virginia.—long bottoms, funnel-shaped, widening around the woody hills, and & juicy look, a8 of marsh-fowl and rank vogetation, in the strong soil-like air. The houses sat upon lofty capes and points of hills, sometimes old Drick mansions surrounded by negro quarters, &nd again merely large log structures, and all in more or less decay. The woods would have seemed dense at any other time of the yoar, but inthe plains were some cattlo and wild pigs, and tobacco-houses wero set up in close proxim~ ity, giving & look of populonsness to the region to which it was not entitled. This is the great tobacco-Iand of the seaboard still, for a hundred miles along the second terraco of Virginia and the Carolinas, NEIGHEORHOOD TALK ABOUT RANDOLTE. “Yonder is the house of John Randolph, of Roanoke,” said an engineer of the railroad, who sat at my side. ‘“Wood Bouldin, of the Vir- ginia Court of Appeals, lives therenow. e is no kin to Randolph thatT Know of. Bouldin's father Tom succeeded Randolph in Congress, and died of paralysis in his seat, as ho rose to announco Randolph's death, in 1534, Yes, sir, this is Randolph's country, end Patrick Henry died here also. The land is worth about $15 an gere.” I looked up and saw on a high hill-top, amongst large forest-trees, and backed by dense and extensive woods, the hermit-like home of this celebrated oddity and human riddle. Tho place had been altered by its later proprietors, but there still remained the small clump of negro quartyrs, and the two wooden houses separated from each other,—one of logs, tho other clapboarded,—where, in s sort of savage lawm, the great slaveholder had passed 80 many yoars. It was hardly more than Indian comfort as it scemed,—low build- ings, only one-story and a garret high, with few and small windows, and on one a low log porch. How differont are tho ideas of comfort in differ- ent ages! What American ststesman now would live like Randolph for hia ldind? And yethe merited thé respect of widely different types of men. Tho Quaker poet of New England eang of him with mistaken ideas of the geography: There, whoro with living ear and eye 1o heard Potomac's flowing, And through his tall, ancestral treea Baw Autumn's suuset glawing, He sleeps, still Tooking o the West, Beneath the dark wood shadow, As i he still would seo the sun Sink down on wave and meadow. The second line ought to be: “He heard the Staunton's flowing,” 1f it is moant to denote his rosting-place; for Randolph’s ashes still rest hore, in tho midst of thoj forest near his log cabins, o treo by the grave, and formerly also an unmarked stone. He was the last of his race. THE MAN REVIVED. As T looked upon this lonesome sutnmn Vir- ginia rcene, and tho doliberate nd warning poom of Whittier came to my mind, Wwith its too truthful ending, 0, more than all thy dead renown, Were naw one hero living, I endeavored to believo what meanner of man might this havo boen who in our day would be 2n impossibility in public life. For nearly thirty yeors ho was in Congress. Like Thaddete St Tons, who possessed somo of his powor of scorn, he was a bachelor; for years he was Chairman of the Committeo of Ways and Means, and Jef- forson habitually consulted him. Benton—a cold, dignified critic—says that for thirty yoars ho was tho political meteor of Congress, and often tho planotary plague, and, as the scourg- or of pretension, mesnness, vico, and doma- gogery, the benefactor of the House. ‘Euayon "+ Lll-top ho lics, like the Indions of whose blood he boasted, amongst tho naked troos, —s men without & monument, as Lo never creat- ed any institution or public measure. Might he ariso and look around his country now, it would seem to deserve less of his terrible excoristion forty yoars ago: * Povertystalking through the Jand, while we are engaged in political motaphys- ics, and, amidst our filth and vermin, like the Spanieh'and Portuguese, look down with contompt on other nations. We hug our lousy cloaks around us, take another chaw of tubbacker, float the room +ith nastiness, or ruin the grate and fire-irons, where thoy happen not to be nasty, and try conclusions upon constitutional points. Poor old Virginia! Poor old Virginis!" RANDOLPH'S NEIGHBOR, EENRY. ¢ How is this called Roanoke,” said I to the affablo engineer, *being on the Staunton ?” *“Well, there 18 a little creek, I beliove, called Roanoke, winding through Randolph’s old es- tate. Afany rato, thisis in tho general Valley of the Roanoke, and Roanoks is the name of the railroad station, two miles from the old fellow's abode. He was born at Cawsons, an estate near City Point, just before the Rovolutionary War. His youth was spent at Matosx, snother estate, this"side of Petersburg, and ho also lived at Bizarre, a third estaie,—all of which wore de- stroyed by firo. Ho often came here to shoob and stop a whilo, but_he moved hore ofter 1810, when Bizarre burned up. He never built any thing extensive down here.” 4 Was he rich ?" «Oh, yes! ono of the largest slaveholders in Virginia. He left 818 slaves and 180 horses, and he had some of the best racing stock in shis country.” “ Have any more rocent great men come from about here 7 “Yes, sir. Tom Bocock and General Joe Jobnston.” ) “ Are you much acquainted around here ?” i “Putty tol'bul well!” 4 What do the people at this day think of Randolph?" him 28 haughty, “Tho ol people remembor ‘honest, and, although never mixing much with the voters, suro to get their support. Thoy novey understood him ; nobody did ; but he had two or three acvuaintances, and one of thom was the tavern-keeper at Charlotte Court-House, who knew from contact that he was a great man. Ho was a bravo fellow, 00, and good hunter part of his life. Ono ides is, that he got in love, and was afraid to marry on good grounds, and that it soured him all his life, But his memory is gotting very indistinct, and is kept up most altogethor by ancedotes.” g 5 “\Whereabouts in this county did Patrick Henry live ?" “ Ho lived at Red Hill, 80 miles from here, and his descendants, I think, occupy the placo yet. That was said to be little better for com- Tort than Randolph's placo, though Henry had some mountain views from his yard. They ware competitors, eir. Henry only lived in t county five years, and he died in '99, making’his last speech just as Randolph mado his first, at our old Court-House town. Neither has got any mark get up on his grave " ‘OUR DEMOSTHENES AND OUR CATO. To each other wo are marvels after tho lapso of time. Who can think of those old farms in townless counties s tho proper abodes of men of fame, who fought at the building of our_ iu- stitutions! That old Scotch-descended chap, Henry, who used to whitile in the yard failed to unravel, was still the wearer .of & dia- mond ring, and lives in the verse of Byron as “the forest Demosthenes. But then, how_did Demostheues live? Jefferson remembered Pat- rick Henry 23 serving liquor at a bar, coarso and fiddle-playing, nud still the greatest 'of all ora- tors. Ha was named 1 demagogue by thousands after he contended against the adoption of the Coustitntion, and then supported tie Alien and and Sedition Jaws. THE SAME OLD COON. Aro we_not_dragging to light in our news- popers whet has always been, and which has not hitherto been hideous, becauso there was no ress to show it? Patrick Honrys personal lography Lints of the modorn_politicisn prc- tising his clarion oratory upon an unsuspecting timo, Ormay one's convictions and_positions change, both from growth of experiencs and pecuniary tomptation, about at the samo fortui- tous moment ? ‘THE PERISHED TYPE OF PUBLIO MAN. Tho growth of personal vanity and individu- alism, which was duo both to irresponsiblo mas- tership and o country life, mey account for the peculiar vice of Virginia public men, who Live 1o our momory as patriots, but in our Judgment hardly hold their ravk. Yonder is the lesson, in those old log or clapboarded. Louses, low and Dalf-warmed, whore the publio man’ who had ome back from the affectation of scorning all Congress indulged in the real scorn of his con- stituency, his elaves, and his own mods_of life. 1t was reserved for Rendolph only—snd in that he 18 of use to postority—to be unable to keep the dolusion to himself, and his letters are brimful of the accvsation that Virginia had al- ready paazed her prime. Much land, much negro, slatteruly management, and thovices of the coun~ try-gentry, had ruined tho State, well nigh, be- fore the Revolutionary War. The change in the 1872 is, if anything, for the better, as any ono can read from Rondolph's letters: As to State politics, e does not wish to speak of them; the country was ruined, past redemption, in the spirit and charactor of the people, as long ago a8 1829. Tho samo yoar, ho wrote that the whole impression sonth of the Patapsco was the line gering agony of an exhausted country, Virginia ‘was all jobbery, £ ho said; aund, with all his elaves, ho wanted money on morigage. What Lotel in Virginia is now any worse than this in the best conntry, whore he stopped 42years sgo ? ¢ Walls black aud filtby, bed and furniture sor- did, furniture scanty and_mean, generally bro- ken,—in short, dirt and discomfort universally provail; and, in most private houses, the motter ianot mended. No mitk, biscuit hali-cooked, eversthing animal and’ vegetable smeared with melted botter or lard” To read, also of all thot State-coach riding from the great estato to Congress, over *del- uged roads that ran like rivers and drowned the over stimulation ™ of the gervants, over jolting fence-rails, “eponging ™ upon other gentry for entertsinmont, and Hardly distinguishing tho road from the country-side. Even 3s long ago us 1814, Randolph wroto: ‘ What a spectacio does our lower country prosent? Doserted_snd dismantled country-houses, temples of the Most High ruinous and desolate, tho very mansions of the dead violated, enl armorial bearings cnd epitapb-stones sbatterod to fragments.” TUE CURSH OF DROAD ACRES. = 1t this was tho condition of much of Virginia nearly sixty years sgo, we may well conclude that the Yankacs’ invond, 88 it was calied, took nothing else away oxcept that which had msde all go poor: Blavery. The country, indeed, from Aloxandria to Charlotto, North Csrolina, —a distance of above 400 miles,—is, if anything, improved; tobacco s . raised in'_smaller patches, and with ' more thrift. What is needed is for some potent spell, like a cruellaw, totax tho broad estates, an break them them to frsgments, like the armorial tombstones, which wero useloss to the dead and ‘made a lesner posterity presuming. Randolph's ‘mother gave the bad examplo 2ll the seductive- ness of Ler young face and maternal smils when sho 8aid to him as ho rode in boyhood over tho acres of Roanoke : ** When you get to be a msn, Johnny, you must not sell your land ; it is the first step to rmin for a boyio part with his fathor'a homo. ~ Koep your Jand, and it will keop ou 1” Ho did keop it, selling his nogroes instoad. It kept him, but withont roads, towns, inms, schiools, neighbors, or improvements,—s lonely bachelor, seeking, in books, introspection, lone- liness, and the morbid vanity of & life lived hore, but acted beforo_the pnblic, to harmonize the condition of & high intelloct’and a mock aristo~ orat and mock Democrat. THE LONG FRAUD. Ko life csn reveal itself at tno highe.t which is falso in el its conditions, nor be_intolligible which strives to keop soveral inbarmonious things oqually devaloping. Horo was & peison in poor healeh from childliood, trying to plsy the Iinir of Pocahontas, and be o Yorkshire Baronet; a fearloss investigator and disdainer of shams, aud yot » donouncer of froo insiincts and sym- pathios; & race-horse man end a recluso; an aristocrat and a Democrat; o lover of his native soil, snd yet the complacent toady of foréign sovoreigns. Utterly provincial in his bringing up, boundloss in his self-love, with facultios wido by noture and acute by disease, John Ran- dolpl's biography hints of good desires seldom or never carriod out ; affections fiercoand instablo; prejudicos which gave way like a child's with travel, and were yot asserted with all tho satis- faction of scionce; and a capacity for public lifo which possessed none of the pationco of tho builder, nor the modesty of the citizen. In many respects, ho deserved \hittiors stanza: 0, never bore his ancient State ‘A truer son or braver! ‘None trampling with s calmer scorn On foreign hate or favor. ‘e kuew her faults, yet never atooped His proud and manly feeling To poor excuses of the wroug, Or meanness of concealiug. TIE HERO IS WORST. BHll, wo would not apologize for & public maa nowadays who roge in his stirrups, in the height of bis famo, on & Long Island raco-course, aftor Daving botted all his monoy, to shout thus vul- arly: Tl bet acrop of niggers on Sir Henry!” Wo slionld not sssociate Southorn hospitality with o public man who replied to s constitnent’s leasant address: *“Mr Randolph, I passed your ouso to-day,” “Please continue £0 do 8o, 8ir!” Wo should still consider him & very mean Con- essman who _nccused s door-keeper falsely of istening ot o koy-hole to n secrat session, in order to havo him turned off, and then breuifed the man without explanation, as John Randolph did Vanzandt, merely becsusohio was an enemy's protege. And wo read of his canseless_chostigo~ ‘ment of his negroes and wounding their felings with no moro Tepugnance then of his sonding his books £ England to. bo bound becavso his Northern _countrymen might otherwiso_get tho job, He showed, in this lnstrespoct, equal want of nationality and ‘sngacity, because’ to spite the Yankeo by incurring o greater cost was only to incrense tho relative povorty of the South in the job'sratio. He did manumit his slaves, but the Teeling he had proviously made on the subject helped to envolop tho manumission with litiga- tion, and probably the best act in its consequen- ces ho over did was to rofuse Indiana Territory some of tho “blessings of Slavery” for which o poitioned aaa “‘temporary dispensation,” ia There were mognaminous times sbout the man, end he did recognize s low and little naturo, and picrce it throngh and through; but hewould also turn like an Algerino upon great associate, to gratily » moment's piquoorconceit, Certain® Iy not legs creditablo than his fitful generosity wis the long and uniform allowance of his con- tomporarics and his country for his admitted genius and disense. UNDERSEATE ALL. Noture sppears to havo gifted him with the melancholy talent of perceiving tho wrong that Do himself did, and of generslizing the tortures which he folt ‘wpon his fellow-sinners. I the victim,” e wrote, ““of my own uncontrolled and uncontrollable sensations.” _ ‘Flo was tho inheritor of o decimated and arti- cial gentility, whichhad run along in Tidewator YVirginia, liko the frinble soil, stcedily toward barrenness, for nearly two centurios; and ho could not Qistingnish Letween the affoctations of this social inheritanco and tho simple sympa- thies of the new Republic. Without a slave to own, ho might hiavo rison to the radicalism of & fanstic, and boen tlio monster of that conserva- tivo sgo, instead of its curiosity ; for the fow mosn things that ho did wero not the emana~ tions of a mean nature, but the fruit of provin- cialism and fury. With all his toadying for O1d Eagland, the Throne, otc., he could writo, when tho prints burlesqued his mission to Russia: “The yearnings of my heart after home bhave been etificd by the monstrous snd malignant calumniea which have been heaped upon my un- offending ead.” Thusit is with the archer, when an arrow whichi might fit his quiver strikes himaelf, a5 we saw but_yosterdsy with another great figure in public events. Randolph's pri- ato and public life vulgarized and heightoned .each other, and tho meauness of anecdots often ‘reduces hia public staturc, whilo the man cm- balms the anecdote, mean a8 it moy bo. TIME MAKES ALL THINGS UNEVEN. Much of human differences is to bo balenced by chronology. - Soven lusty genorations of Eng- lish planters in America were' behind Randolpk, and bio was the product of all that man-holding liceneo, leisure, and refining. Behind his mora stalwart predecessor, Patrick Henry. was ono genoration of Scottish fatherhood, tho beginning of aling. Liom Randolph's timo t9 ourg 8 s [Hor diag of tho sehomor from beriauin {0 oa wholly domestic, and ho had not even the ds- lights of that, for ho wrote: “‘ The necessity of loving snd of “being beloved was mever felk by the imaginary beings of Roussecu and Eyron’s crestion moro imperiously than by myself. . . . I have become an object of utter indifference. My apathy is not natural, but superinduced. There was & volcano, it is burnt out, and s face of desolation. has come on, not to b rectified in_ages, conld my Lifo ra prolonged to a patriarchal longevity.” This,. BRa alf tho mental Vigor of man, sad vaniry, mightiest of all, shut aside from bealthy ways Randolph to Roanoke. HIS_SOLITUDE. . None can imegine the solitude of the life who" has not seen the country where he lived as it must then have been, full of trackless woods and rushing, targid rivers, withont o railroad im contemplation; and so crudo was Randolph om the subject of ortation that he saye, i ono of his lotters: No steamboat can, I am-per— suaded, approach within 50 milea of fuis plice™ (Washihgton City). ' I3 RANK. ) The events of his life were a conple of duels one defeat for the House by Jeffersonian iniin< once, and non-re-election to the Senate ; collega days at Princeton, Williamsburg, and New Yor: and visits to the Bermudas, the Carolinas, rmi the North, and_thrico, for shorb spells, to' Eu~ rope. His political Life began with following Jefferson ; next, in following anybody else ; nexs, by opposing Clay ; and. after Jackson move with force against the!Nuilifiers, in calling clamor< ously upon Clay as ** the only man who can save this Union.” His Inst homage, 83 some of his earliest ecorn, was paid to Henry Cluy. Tho extreme State Rights people’ claim that his political work was to revive and defend tle doctrines of George Mason; but this is not {3 say the whole. for George Mason proposed fud suggested, as woll as_deplored and denounced, and, smongst other things, he demanded the slave trade tobe stopped before 1803; he de- manded a Congress by popular election,one termx for the President, of seven yeers, with ineligi= bility sfterward, and no property qualifications. And'he said a vast truth with more breadth of uttersnce than Randolph ever did: * Slavery discorirages the arts snd manufactures. The slaves produce the most pernicious effects ox msnners. Every master of slaves is born & petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of Heavem upon & country. As nations cannot be remandad or punished in the next world, they must be i this, By an inevitable chain of causes and ef- fects, Providence punishes national sins bg nstional calamities.” THE NEXT LOOKOUT. ' With sll the force of the words of God walk- ing in the garden do theso long testimonies rol{ down the wasted felds and woodlands of Vir~ giniz. But not ours the self-righteous_satisfac~ tion that only our meighbor merits the blamo. Every national instinct rallied about the ruin of that institution for seventy years after Masom spoke, us it i now rallying around the source of some ' futurd calamity, which Patrick Henrys standing by tho installation of the new Constis tution, predicted. . *The President of the United States,” said Henry, “will_alweys come in at the head of =& party. You do not now think much of tha patronage of tho Prosident; but tho day is cota= ing when it will be tremondous; and from thig power the country may sooner or later !fl 4 ATH. e ©Ocean Steamship Newss . New York, Dec. 28.—Arrived—The Thurin< gia trom Himburg, and Oceanlo from Li ool. P ivenroor, Dec. 28.—The stoamship Scandi navian has_arrived. 2 TLoxpox, Dec. 23.—Tho stonmships Mosclla. and Calabris have arrived out. MARRIED. SMITH-SMITH-In Chic on the 26th of Decerad ‘ber, 1873, at the residence of [ward Goodmaa, qu.‘ Simith, daughter of 'tho oficlating minister. \ ROGERS_STAHL—Op tho %th inst., at tho rusldeacy bride's ts, Mr. Henry H. gers, Ne Fork v ::xé;‘:ém’. . Stahd, only diughter of Jr. By LB *Row York, Baltimoro, sad Philadelphla papert Py Wl’# AVERELL—At th idence of tho bride, ! & o residenc 1 D e b Mosloy and Allss’ Elizaboth £ Averell, both of this city. £2-Michigan papors ploaso cops. +SEWELL—BROOKINGS—In tbis city, atthorestdcncd’ of tho bride's mothor, No. 29 West WWashinton st../ . S5, 1873, the Rev. W. L. Noyes, Mr. Barton S DS Misa Jodia T Brookiags. DRSNS PR OUD At Windsor, Outarlo, D ERSON—~STR( lsor, tario, De: 2T uy oy e, irob, Rastor of All Satats' Cho Windsor, ‘Samuel Af. Hoddorson, of Chicago, to ‘Esther Stroud, of Windsor. No cards. N betd PRATT-FLAGG—A tho rosidenc of _the bride Bro. Abbott B, Kittredgo, O, Hatey 10 Anals Al., Gaughtorof tng Tato Hoosy o Iagg, all of this city. ‘Boston and Basgor papers pleaso copy. BULKLKY-WOODS In: hin iz . fhe rctdann of Dy the Bors O, Ho W, Sibokiny. Ttaclsr o %:fl‘l’l:‘g; Ch’nmh, on Christmas Eve, Chazles S. Bulke Jey to Miss Ella M. Woods. DIED. R A Aot A RS P e D T e T e By kA o fnto 8. B Fomérog, Sigh dr'.fnéf:}: at ?tn'glnck, Bunday,” from tha Alethodish OB - Woar Aitona, Kooz County, TIL,, Dec, 13, 3irs. Eliz Ward, wifo of Asmos Ward, aged & yoars and 10 ot tiout lease cf EXRNEY S A R, Doo. 21, 3 8Ll yoar of his ago. Gsoph Carmey, 1o the Buberl w6 piscy from St Columbliie Church ? motary, by carn. O B kiaky, Dec. 37 at Evensto, Hizs. Haria O il wifo of Mr. J.'Myers Hill, and sistor'of H. B. Huzd, Es : 1 a'clock, Sundar, from Methodist Churct TTRTAN L Betrge, Br Wiitam, V. O of St. Joid e ot fis s ar0 requosted to met at tho Gz Smbors of tho ordo s a (10 FHalbe T4 Souts Olaek-st.s s day (Sundayd, the 2w inst., to attond tho funcral at10a. m. RUSHER—AL Brooklyn, N. Y., oo 2ith inst., Goorzs Rushor. ! SIMS-_On Dec. %, st 91 Langleyat., Jecob Simsy soungest son of John ims. LEN—At Riverside, Friday morning. Dec. 27, ¥, 1 Gt eldent son 'of Wiilamm T. and Sarab 0.0 Allen.. ‘Fanoral st bouso on Monday, 20th, at 11 a. m. Bpectal ear will bo attached to 9:15 8. m. trafa. FIELD—In Paw Paw, Mioh., Dec. 21, of congestion c& tho lungs, Mr. Fred. N. Feld. ot Chicago, ' Mis romuins wore romoved to Detrott for infermeat. o CORLIES—On Thursdas, Dec. 26, aitor. a lingering it “Alfred W. Corlics, son of tho lata Joseph W. Gore tho fth fost., from the Edwin Moynard, Nu. 73 neral at 11 o'clock, Monday, sidenco of his brothor-in-law, GIFT ENTERPRISE. Grandest Scheme of the Age. $500,000 CASEL GIT'TS. $100,000 FOR ONLY §10, Under aathority of special legislativo act 1871, the Trastecs now aanouncs the T hird G Concert, for tho bonatit of the Publie Librar: Kentucky, to como off {n Library Hall, ai Louis¥ Ky., on Tuesday, April 8, 1873, t tho best musical talent that canbe pre AL thls COnSOMN pavtssf ho conntry will nad picr &5 antoriaimmebt, sod Ten Thonsnnd Crai: < Teat"toral of it Millicn 5 BTN il 'be distribted by lot to the tickot-boice: s follows : LIST OF GIFTS: Ohe Grand Cash Gitt rand Cash GIft. 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