Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 30, 1873, Page 6

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCI{ 30, 1873 PERIODICAL LITERATURE. Harper’s Magazine and the Chicago Illustrated * Journal. San Domingo---Carr‘ier-Pigeofis--- A Backwoods Story. Joseph Arch---Tyler and Buchanan--- Horace Greeley---The Use of Ornament. HARPER'S MAGAZINE. 54X DONINGO i 15 the subject of a paper (in Harper's Magazine for April) by §. S. Conant, who dravs his mate- rizis from Hazard's recent work. The title of the article, which is profusely and beautifully illnstrated, is ““The Prsident Grant’s Cradle of the New World.” forvent affoction for the island is not its only claim tonotice : Many circumstances render the history of this island peculiasly interesting, Ilere was planded tho frst Eu- Fopean calony in the New World. It was tho first spot ‘cursed by the introduction of African slavery, and the lace where tho great movement for tho extinction of buman eervitude commenced, On this island has been srielded the power of almost overy Europesn govern- sment, the blood of whoso children Las been lavishly yourcd forth upon its eofl. Though fire and sword ceruelty and persccution, have swept over every part o tis glorious jsland, to-day it rests upon tie bosom of the tTopic sess as beautiful, majestic, and fruitful in &1 its natural gifis s» when Coluinbus fzst discovered it, walting onl3 the assistance of lsw and sound gov- cFoment, accompsnied by intelligence, industry, and tnteryiride, to take ita placo as ne of the most favored of Stater, Lying in the Atlantio Occan, at the en- ‘trance to the Gif of Mexico, second of tho Great An- t:lles to Cuba It size only, S3nto Domingo, by its posi- tion snd natural rdvantoges, ranks first of all the ‘eautiful islands in theso waters ; and though to-day smpoverislied and a_beggar, she will set prove, under Tho etata of tho rency is deplorable, FeE cure, A precious Jew nke her under §ta profection. to the power that may Dominicsn finances and cur- a8 may be seen from this an- cedote, which will rocall to the minds of those of Washington's bods-servants who still live tho beavy wages thoy uaed fg:ecelvo whon they wero peid in Continental cufréey = The next morning Mr. Hazard experienced a mew Ecasation. Hisfirst sct on rising tom of the country ang ‘He suddenly found himself o miilionaire. wus to adapt himself to_the cus- d ek for 2 “cocktail™ It was well fubricated and enjoyed with zest. Then ensued tue fellowing dialogue : 7 Lotk “1iow much « Thirty dollars, monsieur.” Y start back horror-struck. Thirty dollars for o drink! Isceit. I am a poor, miserable American, ditowped by his gover roment, in a foreign land, anc tiiese barbariazs know it, aud now they want to swin~ dleme, Bat the old spizit of 76 comes strong upon e, end I got reckless, 1vow 1 will not payit; and drawing from my pocket ilver coin of the reaim of America, vzule ten conts, I declare it is all tho money 3 have, “To my amazement the mild bar-keeper says, ‘T uaven't the chauge, sir!? ~¢ AL 11 begin to &eo it; and with o privesly air T £ax, * Ol keep the chu ange!’ " Tnter ihtho day Mr. Hazard was informed by tho ‘banker towhom he applied to have o draft for a few hundred dollars cashed, that one dollarin gold was worth §400 in the paper currency of the couuiry, cad that if he bad Wis draft cashed ho would necd Lalfa dozen mule-carts to take sway the bills! He left the araft st the bank, and drew only a few thousands for epending meney. 1IN “ PIGEON-VOYAGERS,”" Mra. E. B. Leonzrd gives some anecdotes of tho bes not Fet telegraph. Pigeon cdrrier-pigeon servico, which yicldod entirely to the s aro still, or svero until vory recently, employed in England to announce the resalt of the great races, affording a surer and epeedior meaus of transmitting privato intelli- geneo than the o vercrowded tolegraph, over which mesesges aro frequently delayed for hours by the pressuro of business : The winged messenger in nine cases out of ten would arrive at its destination whilo tho dispatch was till waiting pigeons ita turn on the tolegrapher's desk. Many victims to the guns of dishonest por- ons, who conceal themselves at & distance from tho race-course for the purpose of shooting tho winged ‘meesongers, and appropriating tho {ntelligonco they bear. ho fime for this disgraceful practics is quite Deavy, bot many perons are willing to tako he risk, Before the submarine cabie was laid between France and England Captains of packets used to carry baskets of pigoons to let fly in mid-chennel or on arrival; and the etato of the market on elther side, snd other commercial news, wero communicated by tho same meaus. Great apeculators in the funda lika the Roths- childs, could mot wait f special messengers with rv ho slow courler, Even 8 0f horses at short dis- tances could not travel rapilly enough to suit them. Tn order to get tho n ews in the shoreat possible time, they establishied @ regular servico of carrler-pigeons, with places of reception on both sides of the Channel tnd meessges in cipbier were thus travsmiticd by serisl post with celerity and dispatch equalea only by the Zelegraph st the present day. Mauy curious anecdotes aro told of the mis- Laps gomtimes suffored by the acrial post : It is related of ono messenger who was intrusted with o pair of well-trained and very valuable carrler- pigeons, which he was to take toa certain point, and #end back with a very important dispatch, that on en- tering a botel he gave the birds (o a servant and order- el breakfast. He walted a long time, but wasnt length served with s s 151 he called for. delicions fricassee. After paying his pigeons, when, {o his horror ond dismay, the waiter exclaimed, “Your pigeons? Why, you Lve just caten them [ Carrior-pigcons Freuch during the man army : wero of great service to the late siege of Paris by the Ger- ‘This ind been foreseen by the German commanders ; £od in order to prevent the importation of these in- valusble messcugers from Belgium, where they aro rafsed and traned in almost incredible numbers, they | wer var, yrovideat ; aud long. ory early in U Bat in tds raat o struggle declared contrabend of tter at Teast (he Prench had been Lcfore a German_ soldier crossed b Rhino thie militaty autborities had collected 25,000 iggcons, which were distributed among the command- ¥ ‘ers of tho various cities and fortresses most exposed to 1lic dangers of a ego, {0 be used s umesns of com- munication. A depof was established at Bordeaux for 116 receptlon of new pigeon recruits. Atter tho fatat by the pigeen scope. of {hy were drawn around etz and Paris, and all the ‘graphic communication with the world outside had post. Tho missives had to bo ritian on the suallest seraps of thin peper, in order to impeda the pigeon's tight, aud tho camera and ere calied into reqaisition to erowd tho nt of news into the smallest compars, o London 75mca was on ecvernl arcasions phoicgraphied 90 a thin viece of payer lsa i B inches square, This wicroscopic newspaper, wmbracing news from el yarta of the world, was at et read by means of @ pawerfal microgcope’; after wards it was thrown upon n white wall by mesns of a magic lantern fn a durkened room, where it was read Ly thousands of people. The German commanders tried many cxpedients to reak up the pigcon post, without success. As a Ingt Tesort they brought {0 eamp a large number of traied Lawl enge Tisks was d which made e3d bavoe among the aerial mes- enotnced roundiy by the French vewspapers aud orators, but surely witlont reason, **Porte Crayon,” in the continuati of hig article on “ Tie Nountaius,” which is illusirated iu his peculinr and BAC pleasing etyle, tells this KWOODS BTORY 011 Bill Grey, yon sce, was a-gittin’ ont some Hme ter to fiuat down to the kaw-will at Horseshos Dend, 1o g pine blowed and it roos nes stickin’ to ‘em. out with Flanagin, und finda 3 mi fine down, Wit ite top a-layin' up the 15 Lieaved up in 40 zir, it mought e Bigh o4 this bouse, with several ton of dirt und . 8o they 1uck out their croes-cut & t0 cnt it into conveuient lengths, and measuzed off the clean body of the tree into three cighteen-fout logs, Well, Grey ‘lowed roake the upper cut and brosh. So jist it wonld be more couvenicnt to £rat, and git shut of al the Kmbs Delow whiere they begun sawin' a Little branch stuck up convenient, and they hug their coats on it and fetched along to com 2 jug of lcker they had fort 'em. Well, they rawed and they sweated, and every turn or 5o Flanagin wanted to stop and refresh, but Grey Ylowed they'd best-flujsh their cut, and then eet down and have some eatisfnc- tion.” So they exwed away until they got pretty nigh througl, when, to their surprise, tho tree-top begun to crackle and sptit off of iteclf. Both men drapped the saw and etoo:d hack, skeered like, to gee the body of $c tree risia’ of itaelf; and bein’ lightened of ‘the bushy top, and its mountain of roota welghtin'it dowx, it never stopped until it righted entircly, and stood sixty foot straight up in thealr. *+Don't that beat the deuce?' says Grey, ‘There’s thren good saw-log g one up.” 44 Bury the saw-loge !’ eass Flanaging ‘but don't sou sce our couts 2nd “¢To be gure, ? saye Gre jug ore ascended up with %em 7" “That’s about as men 86 stealin’, T lanagin, we've got to fell that tree 10 get thiem things, we hev—and you havex't fetched D aze. Dry Fork in eummer ,” Fays Flanngin, who was about as thirstr os 5 “but I'll run back to the camp snd feteh it middlin’ Guick.? “\hile he was gone Grev eets down on the Toots snd copsiders the job, and while g0 z-doin’ 3 whiff of wind Slows off {he coats, and leaves fhe jug still a-Langin' on high, When Fisnagin got back with the e, all bot aud thirsty and resdy to pitch in, Grey stoppad bim, 77 pay, man, the fall of them coats hias give me a1 1dee, S'pose you cat the jog that tree down, what becomes of “Flanagin's jaw fell 15 the idec struck him. - 444wy, it maehes, of course, I ay, Bill, kin you limb any 2’ “Some, said Grer, lookin® up, wistful, like & dog {hat’s treed a 'coon, *I kin, some; but’s tree like tbat, Afteen foot around the butt, aud rixty foot withe ont & knob or limb, it would tough s fox-:quirrel. “Then they sctabout an bour, lookin’ into each otbiors faces snd not exchanin' s word, Finally an idec etrikes Flanagin, *Bill,' says ke, ‘ef I bad my | meeting he was interrupted by shouts of * Buru down ¥ifle here T could eut that imb off in about threoshotz, could.” “‘Masbe you mought! says Grey, scratehin’nis head ; ‘znd wouldn't thie fug break all the same 2/ ¢ Bo it would," says Flanagin. “ ¢ Well, man,sayn Grey, * we're lost our day’s work. o home.” " Durn the day’s work,’ ssys Flopagin; ¢ hain't troubled about that."” “ Anacorn falling upon tho moddlo of Sir Isaac Newton suggosted thie theory of gravitation,” siglied Maj, Martial, * Grey and Flanagin were evidently | I ‘philosophera of tho Nowtonian {¥pe ; but nothing hias that jug down unbroken.” T Kaoms of » seplod Bog, soroewhat mystle Sed by the philosophy. 55 ; Ono of the shortost sketches is one that will attract the most atfention. It gives a portrait of o McCarthy's in tho last Galaxy. Ar. Conwey BAYB: » at tho namo of Joseph Arch. And any one who hng Jooked into bis eye or hieard bis voice will not wonder that it should be 8o, Tho weary voico of millions who are hopelcss are heard through Lis simple elouence. | © Ages of Tatient suffering, and_generations that have long graaned in tho prixon of Giunt Despair. ind their first mornivg ray n tho fire of bis oye. Amidst sco ing nohlemen and angry landlords, thi through tho length and brendth of England, scekivg to | & theso unions {uto a vast national orgsuization. have sufered wrongs by eviction; and every eveu- [ ing hespeaks 1o tho assembled laborers with a force which pever fails, and s perseveranco which never ws waary. Holss been the means of organizing England info gomo twenty-five districts, each of which includes many different unions—all’ togother representing o kind of Uniled Statesof Labor, Al- readyin thess regions wages have risen; and it is 2 eaying that were Arch goes starvation'flies, The Qur children never had meat untll you came.” * But Joseph Arch s not tho man to_be contented bocause {he Jord's fears lead him to gild his sorfs chain ; he Dbass settled purpose aud plan, with whick he is steadily carrying not the farm-laborers ouls, but tho sympathy of the disinterested inmtelligence of the tion of the land laws of Great Britain. 1 “Ihis poor Methodist preacher and farm-Jaboror | & has proved himself & born Geeral. When the agricultural strikes occurred the men had almost nothing to fall back upon. Tho sight of their hungry wives and childron almost maddenod | them, and it seemed inevitable thatin certain | X laces thero would bo outbreakis of physical vio- cuce. Nay, thero is good reason to believe that | tho great land-ownors ardently desircd that thero | [ should be acts of violenco. Thoy knew oxaetly | { bow to deal with that kind of procceding. But they wore totally unprepared for what actually Joseph Arch, chosen by tho universal suffrage of tho rufferers 10 be their General, posted, night and day, to cvery villsge where tho strikiers wero gatbered, and curbed them with the band of s Wellington, At ono their big houses {" when, with flashing ese, bo thuns | ¥ dered, * In that case, count Jaseph Arch sgainat 50 ond wrath, and inclose it like a potent steam in the ci It gino whicll he meant to build, by whoeo _orderly worl iug millions sere to be uplifted. * I have lived fort; five vears,” ho would ay, * without breaking tho ls and I don’t mean to begin now.” Ho spoke o the peo- plo with a voice and in » mannor in which calm re~ straint was sivgulazly blended with forvor and enthusi~ nsm. Ho ahowed, too, that ho was s plilosopler by tho art with ‘h, having called tho Ligktning to the cye of the crowd béforo Lim, he drew it aside from spewd- ing its forco pon this or that oppressive nobleman or evicting farmer. *Donotnim st them,” he would gay ; * they, lika ourselves, aro the victim of a heredi- tary'cvil aysiem ; it has come down to them and us {from past centurics. Thelr deeds only illustrate tho bad eystem they did not muke. Strike that” “How eball we strike that7? “How? Why, form s union, Join hand to hand, Jeart to heart, penny to-Tenny, and you will be able to command your own future,” ¥ Often, when such hot words hed come leaping from tho heart of the epesker, it would be like s warm dsy | * Tising over a frosty ficld ; bearts would be thawed out, eyes would glistan, and most likely the crowd woald break out in chorus in one of those union hymus to And thefr hymns aro sometimes excollent, Here are some lines which remind ope of the pretty theme of {he ancient Hindoo fable whero the pigeons, caught m tho fowler's net; all resolve to try théir wings together | at the samo momment, snd safl awsy with the net far Deyond (heir enemied reach : 4 Arouse, srouss, yu suna of toll, In one united band; ¥ tillers of the soll, Togother frmly stsnd | United all in heart and hand, o longer youll o ropes of &snd, But formed in one strong cable’ Be niot mirled by those whosay, Your hours of Iabor and your pay Will better If at homo sou atay; But one and all determined eas, ¢ ¥We'll join the Laborers’ Union {7 TYLER AND BUCHANAY. The “ Ol Btager,” in his recollections, tells this enjovable story of how President Tylor was onco baglled by the superior bibulous powars of Seustor Buchanan, afterwards President : 1In looking about for recrnits to sustain his Adminls- tration, President Tylor came in contact with Mr. Bu- canan, then s Democratic Benator of considerable re- pute, Ife was 3 smooth, plausible man, of amiable de- portment, withno sharp edges about him, and who never did'sn unkind thing from impulse, ot without hoping to gain by it. Hotreated tho Prestdent with courtesy and much spperent frankmess, spoke of tho |-+ ‘bank veto with admiration, and trusted that the rela- I ‘vler bad taken the Presidentisl fever, and Dis destro tobuild upa party with reference to the succession was uncontrollable, Ho comminsioned s Teliable friend to wait upon Mr. Buchauan ond sound him with a view to sscertain what there was to hopd from in the Genate, snd also in Penpsylvania, Congress adjourned beforo an opportunity occurred for conference with Mr. Bu- fell iz with the Senator in New York, and being quite Qiligent in the performance of the duty with which he was charged, {nvited him to 3 dinner. Two trusted friends of tlie Administration were tho only other | I, guests, Intent upon approaching Mr. Buchansn Tin- der tho most favoring circumstances, the host mado s bountiful provision of choice wines, and tho repast was a gumptaous one. 1twasa jolly timo, sure enough. | f Tour more honest drinkers uover Liad thelr feet under mahogany. There were no heel-taps, and no passing the Lotlle until the glaes was filied.” Mr, Buchanan took bis liquor Like & 6easoned cask, The result may be casily imagined. The Senator, a lar; phatic temperament, in the prime of life, remained perfectly cool aud eelf-poscessed, although taking wine enough 1o lay s Seustor of theso degenerato days un- | % der thc tabie; pumped the Presideit’s sgent and bi £w0 assoclutes a3 dry us the remaining biecuit afier a long voyage, without committing bimeelf on o single point; aud returned to Lancaster fully apprired of Mr. “Iyler’s schieme, and laughing at the Loga who hnd tn- dertaken to seduco him from kis alleziatice to the Deme ocratic party. ¥ TORACE GREELLT is tho subject of one of ‘Junius Menri Browna's composite articles, full of information oud reada~ Dlo ancedotes. On the subject of Mr. Greeley's dress, bo saya: " E Oddly enongh, he belfeved himself a very well ata tired person, ai ter clad, Sartorfal comments were wont to draw from the reformation of his neck-tie, Mr, partment. I you have any improvements 1o m: Dleaso begin at home.” i James Wataon Webb, while editor of the Courier and | Enguirer, w3s fond of criticlsing the costumo of his Diad been'sentenced 1o the State Prison, and pardoned, for fighting a ducl wi{b-Thomas F. Marshall,made this ostinguishing rejoinder: ¢ As which the editor_of the Trit would creato ruch a ecnsaon in Broadway as that | & James Wateon Webh would Lave worn but for tho clemency of Gov. Seward.” hts ridicule of r. Grecey, the latter Tesponded, our friend of the —, who Wears mourning for Li departed veraclt surprifo Lis kystem with a Usth, we fay atte clean discusefon with Lim.” ks If it was Mr. Greeley's fate to L misappre- hended, much of this misappreliension arose from Lis own waywardness, moodiness, aud de- termination not to set himself right. Assured of tho rectitude of Lis conduct, lio Was care- Tess of the impression formed of it, excopt in instauces where tember sbout trifies got tho ettir of bis judgment. He would bo patieut and reticent under 5 kerious aceusation, when n pelty paragraph in an ob- scure journal Would drive Wim to exagperation. o would declare Lis supresis unconcern a to the opinfons. cxpreseed of come policy e had chosen, and an hoar later would writo a card, Litterly persorial, upon & niate ter oo trivial to be noticed, friexds could not bo certaln of hiut, for he could not bo certain of himself, His growing up wild, 10 o kpsak, luft & cer- tain ‘traco of soctal’ savigery in his mature fhat could mot Do eradicated subsequent Iy, even had ho made au cffort to that end, After every attempt to explain Lis eccentricitios aud reconcile his Inconaistencios, Aomething of the unine telligible will adhero to his chazacter, Which was un. questionably unique, He was not only nalike other men—be wis unlike Limeelf often. General rules faiied 10 £pply to him 0D AcCOUDL Of BLIETOUR excep, tions, which, in Lis csse, mighit almost bave been ‘bound into & Tale. Occasionally Mr. Greeley evinced irritability in {ho presence of visitors, especially when thoy were politicisns : Some years ago, half s dozen Republicans from the interior of the tate came to the city, and, under the guidauce of » well-known member of the party, went fo the Tribuneofiice to give its chief alittleof the wholesome ndvice of which editors are presumed fo Le in a chronic condition of need. The moment they entered the sametum, 3r. Greeler, who, though Dbuslly writing ot his desk, his head g3 msual throst fnto his ideographs, observed them through his occiput, and divined their obiect, continued his scraiching—seidom has tho cleatest and try po influential politician: talk fo you abont certain matters of much {niportance to the party." A e i thot xcited.tho susioty of tho enlire o i mundy, viz. L e 36 B ooy, | from o mining districts, dosifous to put hin- ana Liis paper is not less intoresting than Justin | Ecif right on the record on this topic, aroso in his placo 2ad thus addossod tho. ssiombled gan journosed | ,u( this Lill will pasa this Houso ; understand it, Scores of times ho liad to gather up this wild energy | jooy recite somo rather tall narrativ: with 2 number of smaller cats. Boy " ia o pretty rustic sketch of s tavny, fuzzy Little Scoteh child, sitting on tho fonce, and play- ing indefatigably on hia pipe, with no other audience than his crook end his shepherd-log. escape, leaving tho buboons dinnerless. inge from tho pencils of R bacl, Bierstadt, o th redly uo costume in | more comely and cheerful by vaii ne las ever appeared | productions in chromo-lithography, which is denounc- «prung into "To another journallst, noted for hin untidiness, and | o o Eluri(ug eample of what ornament, common <nouh terliaps in itn fadividusl applicatiohs, cau ac- = « complish iu the aggregate. under his finger-nai's, will agres to %uu]; upon the rebuilt pertion of Chicego that it will tecturnl ene ¥nown as Migh street, in Oxford, laud, in wwhich thero are n6 two housea alike. tlits” diversified sspoet that will constitute ita chiel charm sud beaaty Berlin, and even’ Pais, which are bul upon the mame mm i ve | hionse like every othier hous Chicagn, where almost overy builiing presents eome- |1 thing ndvel or etriking, Deighbar, Kome eye to ornamient. doscribied, fmprewing cver checrful Louge where tho defe hand of woman has foft everywie liticians with the words, * Hero aro a number of M. Grecloy, who would like to cratch, scratch, eeratch ; and atlll Do repls. Once mora: “3r, Grecoy, theso gentlemen have great influenco in tho State; they are of the highcst standing; they aro — “A pet of confonnded aswea; Timow that,” broke in he editor, witbout ever lookiug up. “ They aro waat- ing their {ime, and trying to waste mine, by coming ‘over struck their heads hard _enough to suggest s plan | bere.” ‘Discomfited very maturally by such on emphatic ro- buff, tho politiciana departed, and the editor weat on withi his work, “ TNE DRAWER " is indebted to an oflicial of tho State of Oregon foran extract from a dobate that rocently oc- urred in the Legislature of that State on a sub- the * Dog bill." Areprosentative visdom : “Mr. Speaker, I hopo that thia bill will pass ; but, ‘To-day tho wealthiest Peer of the realm grows palo | ypy Sriaker, before 1 tnake o spoech before the mons bors of this Liousc, who are Lero to-dsy as represenia- tives of the Stato of Urogon, I would condition of the bill before this Mouse,” ke to know the “Tlio Speaker—* Tho queation iv, Shall the bill pass ? —thi vote by which tho Lill was' lost having Leen re- considered.” Gentleman from Baker—* Yes, Mr, Spoaker, T hopo and I arrogate to ayself, Mr. Speaker, us o represcntative of the State of form ““unions ™ of furm-laLorers, aad to mmhllg:v Oregon before the members of this House, by virtus of which we aru hers to-da s that tho dog clement does jouruess, even in tlis limited arca, havo been much as rs e e labors of _ Catiolic, miestonaries seEpcunlls . [Enphter) in carlier times, During each day ho T, Downing—* Mr, Speaker, I rise to a pint of visits the homes of the laborers, and learns thelr g{l'ifif:wT'::"mmnfltm bLas already spoken on tho : 3 fon beforo.” exact condition; be takes care to vt all who | iy Gpanker—e Tuts 1a another consfderation of tho Wl Tio gentleman from Baker hus the floor.” Genileun from Buker— This is a new Lill, as T Speaker, and I—" [Loughter ) ‘Thia i u0t o now bill; it In the same Tho Speaker- bill on which the gentleman sddressed ihe Houss ‘efore, hut which ins come up for reconsideration.” Gentleman from Baker— T thank you, Mr, Speaker. 1hsvo s higher senee o bellf of tho mowixrs of this “ onge, by virtue of whiel arrogato 1o In) poor women cry outss he pasees, - God blesayoul lieve that there is no rude elumnutg that underlizs the intellects of this House aud represcntatives of the Stato of Oregon, by virtue of which I to-day occupy thin floor, in order to sustain the bill before this Louse, [Laughter, and cries of “ Go on.”] 1 wiah to say this, ;\uln S)\cnl:er, H:hfi:nlmdcmbem of this House, that this 2 & question that1 dv not supposo the membera of gountry, though that plan surcly containa & 1evolu- | yigjiouge ek particularly to occupy auy degree of f to be- ime with ; novertheless, 1t being & question that bould receive (h careful coneiderstion of the mem- bers of fhis House, In my opinion, Mr, Speaker, flaughter]), based upon the sentiments of tho mombers of this House, I arrogate to myself to believo [lavgh- er) that woolly elements, whoso interests sre coox- cusive with tho latitudo and longitude, by virtue of whicl: wo are hiere {o-day as reproseutatives of the peo- 1le of the Stato of Oregor, shonld not be subsidfary fo ho dog-clements, which I hope will not prevail. Great Taughter.)’ Thereforo I hope, M. Speaker, bat e will not Iook on tho proposition aa it comes, by virtue of legislation, before this ouse, with contempt, but that we will give it that degreo of coneideration Soeiirods which it should reccive iu behalf of the menibers of ¥ this Honse, br virtne of which 1 arrozate—" The Speaker—* The genticman's time bas expired, and be will yield the floor. “Tho editor snys he belioves this story, for it comos from » rospectublo man in Paducab, Ky., who knows thie party : Ben Watson, having heard s stranger in Colt’s ea- ives of exploits with o ridle, told the following siuguir instance of a gun Banging Bre: Ho Lad suopped bis gun ot a groy quirrel, and the cap had exploded ; but, the piece Dot going off, he took it from his shoulder, Jooked down into the barrol, ond eaw tho charge just starting, when, bringing i to his shoulder again, it Went off and killed' the squirrel. Doubtless tho progress cf the woman move- mont in this country sbd in England will prevent # return to the choery old custom that used to prevail it England of solling ono's wife, whero one bad one that he was willing to part with, at s great discount, for cash. quotes from Groat Britain “Tho Drawer " book on “Tho Antiquitics of “The superstition that a wifo {8 n markatabie com- modity was entertained, to uis misfortuue, by one Parson Cheken, in_the relgn of Queen Mary: for, in his diary, Heury Machyn uotes, under tho year 135 Tho xxiiij of November dyd ryd in » cart Cheken, urson of Sant Necolas Coldabbay, round about Lon- om, for bo Sold ¥a Wy to 3 bowclier.’” ‘The superstition would soon die out if the turn of whoso music the lsborers' cause goea * marching on.” | tho market was always in the dircetion indicated fu the old balad below: A Jolly shoemaker, John Hobbe, John Hobbs, A jolly shoemsker, John Hobbs {6 married Jane Carter, no damsel was smarter, But she was 3 Tartar, Jane Hobbs, Jauo Hobba, But she wus 8 Tartar, Jano Hobbs Fie tied 8 70pe to her, Jane Hobbs, Jane Hobbs, He tied a rope to her, Jane Hobbs} Like » lamb o the slaughter, to Smithfield he brovght her, But nobody bought her, Jane Mobbs, Jane Holbe, But nobody bought her, June Hobba' Singlo you're an easy prey, 4 0Oh, who wants 8 wife 7" cried Hobbs, cricd Hcbbs, 440b, who wnnts 8 wifo 77 cried Hobbs} But fomehow they tell u those wifo-draling fellows Were all of them sellers, like Hobbs, like Hobbs, Were all of them sellers, ke Hobbs ! CHICAGO ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL. Tho Chicago Ilustrated Journal for April containg FOUR FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS, “T'ho Herd~ “Fair Play, Thou Son 'of Jacob,” ropro- tiomsof o Democretic pacty na tho Execiive would | 6¢0t8 @ scouo in tho troublous times soon becomo moro cloce aad confidential. Thiswas [of tho twelfth cemtury, when the Jord el snd promised better thiugs in tofuture, | sawg wero the moncy~changsrs of Europo, and et wero robbed and parsccuted withont pity. A frecbootor is represented as offering to scll some ‘of his ill-gotten fgains,—plato from some ransacked cathedral, or *ho rich servico of some neighboring abbey. The cunning Hebres chanan. A short timo afterward Mr. Tyler's emissary | i8 weighing thoe silver to judge its velue, and his disengaged band may bo seen steelthily tilting up the ecalo in which, the silver lics, 50 28 to ussen its welght. The frocbocter sees tho trick, aud exclaimis, “Fair play, thon von of Jacob!"™ * An Tnincky Spill” is a picture of a pretty wait~ ng-taeid in great distross at having dropped s tray of costly china. “The Disappointed Lpicures ™ Topresents a_simiian family. who bLave gathered ronnd & box which one of their number has stolen from some noighbonng. storchouse. In- stead of tho treat they bad enticipated, the box, when opened, uncovera two rats, who hastily Among the srlicles in the letter-prees is one on the “ USE OF ORNADENT,” by T.B. Runuion, Mr. Runnion dispates the views of a roceat writer in tho Atlantic Monthly, who approved tho general fonducss for orun- mentation becauso it botrays 6o many paople into an oxhibition of falso taato. Says M. R.: Aga people, the Americans are alrcads glven too quuch to the practical workings of ubilitarianism, thas cenmolssetta sLowd epin fo suppress whaicvel evod himse grawing disposition there may be to-wuggest the dis that few meu in his atation went bote {ractius of oruament sv e L 5 o straction of unremitting devotie him eharp and stinging replies, b 53 A ad Wihen a city oditor of tho Trtnne once suggested | jow oy osorPamaent ¥ han o epocial mistion fn Anwce inst the to businces, It is not expected hat it ehould posseas the evi- the. natic recley apswered, | dence of enlturo that may characteriza it in older conn- You don’t liko my dress, snd 1 don't Liko your de | trics, whore citics are ornamented o puldie eineses, s | and tho people ara _forced Sto ntribute thelr funds in tho way of tazation to produce effe: s which must b0 provided amonz us by individuals, if atall. Itis neiglibor, who, referring to tho fact that e, Webb | The s thut wonl be Graie I oo S2e it 1 be des e if it waited for peint- rome, Meissonier, Auer- Tinrt brothers, many vt bo zmnda ng itself of the Lest ed among the rest of “common ornament.™ The new City of Chiieagn, wLich has 80 marvelously ence within the Tast cighteen months, 1t is agreed by oll who Chicago sure, to the famous are! {ho most beautiful city on the continent. ! correrpond, in Bomo It is tics litio Philadelplia, St. Louls, throughout -« materit, and cvery e g0 well a8 o 5t least different from it Nobody Lk built. enew i Clicago without “The result is such 4a we have ono yleasantly, us docs 3 traces of it delicate cunning. In both 8 sre the betler for ornament and its in- ¢ Chief Robinson of the . L. Dunlap; “A Leaf from Racent Canadian Hi iory ;" ‘‘ Repentance” (Posm); A (eer Coincidence,” by o Chicago Editor; “ Lost Townships,” by Frank Gilbert; ‘' Appearnnces™ " (Pocn); “ Celaluation of & Memorable Event,” b Anson S. Miller ing Trash, Clismberiia 5 Mathews; ‘- Paper-Ma Vest Hothon? rpperdntacture {4 tho Wost **How Type i¢ Mado " bered Kisses™ (Poem), ton; “An Austrian ¥ Erain the Prevention of Fires” (Ilustrated). “Read- " by Everett by William by “ Ceresco, Tho At of Writing, “Joaquin Miller" (Poem); Lllustrated); **Remem- ¥ Nettio Yower Hous- Tid's Fair:" ¢ A New —The men who ore improving tho streets of Boston propose tocut off twenty {sct of'the Po:('s building, which would necessitato the demokiticn of the wholo structure, He | the comments of the P are not whelly iu favor of thy measure, If we rglcly interprot st upon this topic, they SPRING. | A Suggestion Concerning Floz- iculture. Flowers for the House---House- Plaxts, Beds, and Borders. Practical Hints as to Choice and Care a of Plants. It scems almost untimely to speak of Spring- flowers whon Wintor has just been reminding us that he has not auito yet taken his departuro ; but lot us at least hope that, folded down -some- where upon the spotless missive ho has left at cach door, may be written, in bis own poculiar, mystical charnctors, those lotteraot social eti- quotte, the * P. P. C." of polite socicty. Whoth- or that is 80 or not, wo are sure that somowhere Auster is wooing, from boneath the sheltering bed provided for them by tho spicy pines, those FIRST FAIR, BWEET BLOSSOMS of early Spring, tho dainty bells of the Trailing Arbutus. In sunny spots, tho blue Hepatrin and wild Anemone will also make their appear- ance, Iughing and nodding to the vagrant wind, paying no heed to the cool, but protracted, do- parture of their bitter encmy. Ho mnay threat- en; he may oven grow emotionally insane, and attempt to murdor them, wrapping them in 8 snowy winding-sheet ; but o will be in too much hesto to do his work properly; and, with the first warm day, the first wooing invitation of that vagrant wind, they will throw aside tho shroud, and again take up tho old, old story which Winter, with his frozenleart and fcy veins, strove to crush out foreser. It is quito in keeping with the temper of the time to rail at May; tosay there are no blossoms to bo found ; and that, if one gocs in search of them, shoonly gots wet feot, draggled skirts, and, for a foriniglit after, shows & decided preferonce for 'a and d's over tho othor consonants, when speaking. Very probably this may be the case with those sontimental young creatures who go forth in whito robes, soarching for prematuro Juno roses ; but, for TIE TRUE LOVER OF NATURE, content to take her in any mood, but to whom the first faint tint of returning green upon the lades of grass is welcome, tho odor of tho pino- +wooda and the fresh swell of tho moist carth ia full of promise, there will bo no difiicalty. On the first warm day, it may bo in April, while tho enow still lics in patchos, she will find hidden away in tho sheltered spots the first fair, frall, sweot-scented blosgoms, the arant-coureirs of that glowing, odorous, many-hued procession that will soon follow. Even now, in Georgis, tho Yellow Jasmine is making tho woods fragrant; whilo, farther South, Magnolis, Orange-bloseom, and Crapo Myrtlo are delighting with their beauty the fortunato sojourners in that genial clime. But, to tho donizens of cities, theso carly wild-flowors aro meraly myths, of which thoy cou have nio just ides or appreciation; and, to those children of culturo, we must speak of TIE FLOWERS OF CULTCRL. e will Lopo that overy one hus had ono or more tenderly-cherished Liouse-plauts to bright- en and mako cheerful the home ho rejoicos in all through the past uncomfortable season ; but these must soom be turned out of doors, to gathor sufficiont life and strength that they may Doar auvther winter's imprisoument, and others must tako their place. Inthe Garden City of America, thero is no onie 50 poor that ho LiAs not a few fest of ground rhich ho can beautify, aud, witl Nature holp. ‘make more glorious than all the glories of Sol- omon, But, oven to thoso unfortunates who look down from their npper-room windows apon stone or wooden walks, there is a way provided Dy which they, too, can enjoy some of the pleas- ures which the landed propriotor can indulge in more oxtensively. OUTSIDE OF TIE WINDOWS, and fastened to tho adges fecurely, €0 28 to avoid any danger to the passer-by, bLavo somo wooden boxes, lined, if possible, with zine, and perforated at the bottom. Bceuro suflciont nage and sweotnces by abundant bits of stone, broken flower-pots, cocon-hus:, and char- coal, ind then obtain from some nurseryman & quantity of light, friablo earth. Now you can plant in theso Liardy, running vines, or any plants that will bear constant exposure, and per- aps s littlo negloct. There is the ordinary Con- volvalua ; the Nasturtium, for whose phospho— rescont tongues of flame you may watch when tho night is too warm for &leop; the delicate Cy- press, with its tiny pink, whito, and scarlet stars ; or possibly a climbing Rose might Le in- duced to lend its perfame to swecten vour life. Theso may bo planted in the ends of your boxcs, leaving tho open space in the contro for other hardy plants. Among these we may cultivate, with every probability of success, Fuschias of tho hardior variotics, Pelargoniums, Ageratums, Dalsams, Petuniss, Salvias, and many oth- ©ors, of which ony nursorymen can give you alist. To thososwho ara doomed to pasa tho summer-months within the walls of a city, and who havo no other meaus of getting a glimpso of Naturo's radiant beanty, THE WINDOW-GAUDES 13 INVALUADLE, snd, i properly adjusted and placed outsido of tho glass, will offer no hindrance to the closing of Winds aud drawing of ehades when nocossary t0 exclude the o0 intense rays of a summer-buz. Wo would suggest to any ono who cares to ‘make a practical use of our hints, that in or= window thoy could plant at each end of the box & climbing Rose, and plnce next them Salvias for sutumn-blooming; in the centre, o Faschsia; whilo the onter edge conld havo a fringeof Sv.eet Alyssum and Forgot-Me-Nots, tho inner and ‘maro ehaded sido might bo edged with Pansies. Another window-box could Lave at cach end Conyolvuli and Tropeolums, finuked by Pelar- gonjums, tho sweot-leaved, or flowering varietics; iin the centre, a Roso or Heliotrope, with Portu- lacas_and Mignonotte on tho outside, and Eng- lish Violets on the inner edgo. Tho variationn might b continued ad infinitum, but_these aro eutlicient to give_any ono who ‘really cares for flowers s idon Low o commenco; ‘and, tho delightful occupation ouce entered upon, knowl- edgo will come by experience, and be sought for in books end from practical atthority ; wiale tho fascination of tho employment will, 18 the poct says of the tondorest passion, “ grow with what it feeds upon.” If possibilities like these aro open to thoso who merely own s little box of dirt outsido of & window, what may Dot be derived FROX MORE AMPLE OPPORTUNITY ? Tako the court-yard in frout of n houso, for in- stance—we ehiould not caro to rent a house of a ‘man who uied pavéd the whole of that entrance- Way with stone. He would bo of tho kind who | would fave his pound of flosh st mny bozard. Only worse than this is n space of neglected earth overgrown with wecds., 1f ono can do nothing more. Lie can sow clover-seed and lawn-gress, and place in the cen- fr0 o standard Roso_or fomte flowering shrub. But, if ono would give more care to it, be can Tiavo a raised pin-cusiion bed, filled with a mass of color, such 83 is produced by Scarfot-Gerani- ums, or & blending of shades mado with & variety of Verbenns, tho edgo planted with Miznonotts, if sou like, These beds, nicely turfed on tho side, and rising from o well-kept gragey pl are inozproseibly pleasing to the eye. - 1F NORE DOOM 1S AT HAND, and ono is_fortunate enough to Lave o largo lawn, then beds all around tho sides may filled with blossoming plants, and o fargo one be laced in its midst. Tere the fancy for ribbon- rders may be_indniged in, and " the result 18 very beautiful. If your beds have a wall or fence at the back, cover them with some running vine, and then select your stripes. They should bo flowers that blossom attho same time, and eitber all of tho same height, or graduzlly de- creasing in size. 1f of the samo leigbt, then & ariety of colors of the samo_ kind of plant i ro- quisite, such as different-hucd Asters, Stocks, or Zuivine, If it has a wall for a background, then, after covering it with vines, have & row of Purplo Phlos, then Whito Stocks, Scarlet Gera- niums (tho_dwarf vatiety), Sweet Alrvsum, and Forgot-Me-Nots. If the fibbon-bed is intended to wind through a lawn, then the tallest-growing plants should bo in the centre, and gradually de- Ccreascin sizo each way. The lover of flowers will soon_ arrange these readuly in s varioty of . color to suit_herself. Those who have sbundant xoom should grow fowers in quantity for house- adornment. Lo him of small moans, THEY NEED NOT DE COSTLY or delicato varioties. Did you ever group to- : getber the flowers of the common Nastartinm In jts various shades of crimson and yellow, with 1lhe sweet-scented White Petuni Cheap ' flow- crs, both of them, growing almost snywhers s freely s Daisics or Dandelions, bat, with o few common Fernleaves, gethered by the wayside, making & most charming bou- u Tiors ia nothing 8o charming to use for foliage 24 this samo Fern that grows ,a common weed, in tho woods and by the road. Some of the variotics aro beautiful, aud any one who hay a damp, shaded place would find it to their intar- est Lo grow theso pretty fronds, it only for tho Dbeauty of their folinge. For other beds, thero is the common white Day Lily, the Hemerocallis or Funkia of the florist; nd this reminds us to_sugzest to the novice, who is not sequainted with flie botanical names of flowars, not to bo taken in LY JUOH-SOUNDING TITLLS, for they somotimes, like o:hier now-made patents of nobility, attempt to dignify very comunoa weeds. Theso Lilies aro hardy, and, oaco plant- ed, will come up year after vearin their virgin Deauty and sweefnoss. Ther is elso the Jepsn Lily, which will repay cultivation, and a great many differont membors of the same family. Gladioli are more oxpensive, but will repsy both cere and cost, when they can be lavished upou them. Poonies, Dahlias, and Pinks may be named in addition; but it wonld require mors space thun wo bave for the enumoration of those plants which any one may Lave if they wish. We must plead, however, for the fragrant Lily-of-the- Y alley, tho Sweet Violet, and Miguonette, among the smaller blossoms. Thus far %o lave been conflnin;i— ourselses to such flowers as may bo -grown within the limits of alarge city. Scarcely apy houre but husa fow feet in tho frout and rea;, that cen bo devot- ed to floriculture, and few but will find tha com- mon Morning Glory, with its delicate irumnpots of blne, pink, and white, more gratifying to tho eyo than an uosightly Dboard-fence. Gourds, flowering Beans, Wild Cucumbers, aro all availa- blo for this purpose, wisere ono las Lttlo tasto, and no time to bestow upon tho proper outside adorning of her home pro tem. Xor those, howover, who, living just outside of the city proper, JIAVE ABUNDANT ROOY, thero is no excuse for not giving time and at- tention to this all-important matter. Flowers aro humnuiziug; their beauty is free to all, and, like *the quality of mercy, i8 not strained.” but ives to tho poor, os well a8 tho ricly au idea of igher, purer things than aré to be found in tho common, etony soil, ungraced by e single flower. Again, #Tt blésseth him that gives, and him that tukes,"—tho man of means aud cultnre, who makes s gardon of color and perfume abont Lis Liouse, and gives its beauty to the passer-by, and the poor onteast, who, toilworn and wears, baving no foot of carth ho can call his owh, pruses o bia tramp fo rafrosi s epos with the oveliness which Nature sided by man bas so lasishly bestowed. JIERE THERE SEED FE N0 LIIT to the culture of flowers and tho adorning of grounds. Each uneightly wall and onthouse +hould bo covered witl: vines, and Nature should Do followed as closely a4 possible. Don't dis- figuro tho lawn proper with too many beds, but, above all, don't cut it upin o series of goometrical figures only outlined by graveled welks. They , and inexprosxibly ngly. On a hot summer's day, with the sun pouring down upon such a tidy garden, with 2 profusion of gandy flowers in rampant bloom, one faucies the Desert of, Sahars might ho rest to tho eyes blinded by &0 much color and hardue: E GROW BOSES IN ATUNDANCE, both the standard dnd climbing varieties.: They aro always welcome, and he who has space and wealth enough to devots n portion of his grounds ton Ltosc-garden proper will find in it & source of great pleasure. The Queen of Flow- ers will dolight to homor her loving subject. Rustic Roses judiciously placed add to tho beauty of well-kept grounds; or an old tree that is in £he way may be cut down, leaving a portion of the truuk, which may bo hollowed out and used for this purpese. XO CITY Iy 50 TATORANLY SITTATE: 28 Chicago for a_full development of tlis spe- cialty. Surrounded ns sho is with towns that must eventually become the places where her in- habilants will build their homes, while the great cantre will be given up to commerco and mauu- factures; girdled by ber numerous parks,—ger- doning in all its aspects ehould ba mado a yocu- liar study. Thero is no reason why eho should not deserve her titlo of the Garden City of the world: and it only remains with her inhabitants to make her such. Landscape-gardening, rock- work, ferneries, miniature Liot-houses,—all offer su endless varicty of subjeets for thought and practical elncidation, To our lady-readers wo especially commend it. This you shonld make ONE OF YOU™ PECCLIAR RIGHTS, Yon need not, perforce, lot all tho artificial fashions go, but pray cultivate a fow notursl ones. Go out and dig, and let the children do the same. Give them one littleconer for their own, in which they can plant sceds scveral inches t00 deep for any possible resurrection, or, if not, can deatroy all life by frequent investigations of Dprogrens ; and one or two plants already grow- 1ng, tbat tho little spot may not be entirely barren ; and pass all the leisure you can sparo from other occupations out of doors. Leave the ombroidered chair, the unfinished slippers, the needlework bands, for some more opportune time, the rainy day or the winter-hour, but now make friends with the flowers. To these- who live in cities, and havo no time to look further, the wagons filled with plants, stauding in the strect, offer an opporturity to obtain a ferw, at least, to brighten up their homen. ‘Thoro is another branch of industry, however, connected with this matter, which we would lika to 6co becomo s general in this city a8 it is in some of the Eastern onea ; that is tho SALE OF SNALL DOUTONSIERES ) at all seasons of the year. The peripatetic flowor-girls of New York find ready buyers for their fragrant wares, and, at-all eeasczs +f tho vear, may be found plying their trado, & that for 5 or 10 conts, winter or summer, tho flowor- Iover may have & Rose or Carnation to wear in Dix buttouholo or at her throat. In Boston, at tho rallway-stations, when the greet tide of humanity comes surging into tho cily in the ‘morning, similar stands for the salo of lowers ara to bo found ; and even tho ** rather near " Bostonian exchanges o nickel for tho fleoting boauty of summer-blossoms. Itis tmo that in Chicago most people can gather their own flowers; but wo think that, in the dusty business streets,n few of thesa peripitetic Arabs might not be nmiss, It is a want felt by strangors, if not realized by the more favored rosidents, Aguin. at closing, let us urge upon Chicago tho acceptanco of het manifest destiny. Grow all the lowers possible in the city. and lot park and suburb biossom like the Rose. Decome whab you profess, reallytho Garden City. WAITING. O, gricve not for Ler that lifo's journey is ended, Tta scrrowa and burdens vo early lafd down ; Be giad that 40 800n tho froed spiri g tho eross and receiving the erv Not dez,—bat still living, till loving aud t She 15 walting for you, Mother, Waiting for you. 0, call her not dead; rhe has entered tho portal ‘Where life reigus supreme, and earth's triala are oer; Thougl the eawket is broken, the jewel immortal, ‘Like a ster in Heaven's firmament, shiues evermore. In tho besutiful notne of tho loving and true, She is waiting for you, Father, waiting for you. ‘You will miss her mweet presence, and, desolste-hearted, Will wateh for the footstepa that coine not again; But love is immortal, and gouis are not partcd Whea closely united by Love's golden cLiain. And there Is 10 death for the loving and true'; Bocomforted, Brothers, sbe still lives for you. Though gone from sour sight, sho may yet linger near eh : you; God's ministering angels watch over earil still, And she may be one eat to comfort and cheer you, With swees conkolation your sl hearts to 811, Sho'll not Loave you comfertles, faithul znd tru Your darling is Waiting nd wazching for 5o L. Saveen. g e Curions Ktiquerte. It is announced that the Countess Montijo, mother of tho ex-Empress Eugenie, hns suddenty Tost her oyesight. -This is not strictly true, s sbo has Ueon almost wholly blind for mung years, though it hea been a point of etiquettcin her palaco never o refer this infirmity, but to ad- dress her as if her eves were as bright and good as they wero a half century ago, when thoy enared sho wandering soul of the young aud dissolate Connt of Tebn. Tho samo curions ati- uctteprevails in tho titalar court of the exiled Ring of Hanover at Hictzing. 1o bas been atono blind_for years, et the subject is never ‘mentioned in his Court, and His JMujcsty koeps up the dreary comecy by complimenting the Iadies who are presented to lim on tho freshuces of their comploxions, and the taste of thoir toilets. st The Fever~Tree, In a late number of the Gaztia Medica de Bahia is an interesting rcconnt of the Encalyp- tus Globulus, an immense tree introduced into various provinces of Brazil from Australia, and called, as in Spain, the fover-tree, from its * marvelous results in the treatment of inter- mittent fovers.” The tree is colossal, some- times attaining & height of 300 feet, and 4 diame- ter of 30 feet. ~Ail parts are aromatic, less o in the trank and bark. more 0 in the small roote, flowers, and Jeaves. It is & comparatively new medicine, and is given internally for intermit- tent fever, in doses of from ore to four drachms of the powdered leases,—twice during the inter- miegion,~or in infusions (two drachma in four ounces of boiling water), morning and evening. Aqueous and alcholic extracts, in doses of from :i:’:n to eight grains, are also used for the same ease . Glimpses of the Queen of the Antilles. Life in the Spanish West Indies -~-The Future of That . Region. The recout lecture of IL. G. Spofford, I fore the Ravenswood Literary Association, waa an excellont examplo of what onr first-class lec- turo associations should provide for the enter- tainment and instruction of thoir patrons. It ia because lecturo committees too frequently squandor their money on moraly flash writers that thoy have disgusted tho intellectual closses, and hundreds of lecture associstions, once flour- ishing, havo ceased to exist. Tho vivid impreasions of Havanaand Cubs which were loft on the minds of SMr. Spofford's audienco will repass before their memories for years, like & charming azd instructive panorama. . mavaNa, R with its delicions _climiato, never tonchod with frost, yot seldom heated to moro than 90 dagrees Fahronheit; in the midst of a Jandscepo the most sunny snd luxuriantly beaatiful that can be imagined ; with its distant view of that grand, old-time fortress, tho Moro, which, with threaton- ing brows of heavy cannon, looks down from tho rocky heights at the entranco of the magnificent liarbor, keeping watch and guerd over city and son ; Havens, with its glorious outlying hills and valleys dotted with villas and groves of orange and palms; with ite dark, investing wall around the old town; its sinister-looking sentinels on the parapets and at tho gateways; ita par- row stroets within the wall drals, and long lines of low brick or stoue shops andhouscs, stuccoed and painted yellow, and pink, and blue; and, intermingled with these, its anciant palaces, aud prisons, aud courts, and gates, aud arches, and fountains,—all in tho style of the govouteonth century; Havana, with its broad, smooth avenues (or passoos) outside theold town, stretching far away into tho rich tropical fiolds, end lined with luxurious dwellings of tho nobles and the wealthy, rising in the milst of grovos ita quaint eathe- and gardens of fruits and richly-colored flawers, ~vocal almost every night in tho year with the mirth and music of these pleasure-loving chil- dren of the South, dancing on their broad piaz a3, or around tho cool fountains in the moonlit courts ; Tiavana, the richost jowel in tho realm of Spaiu,—as we listened Lo tho lecturor, how wo longed to rovel for & sesson in ita joyous light! Tardon o long a sentence, but all Havana and its surroundings aro but one grand pictura to us sinco Mr. Spoford's description; yeb the lec- turer drow parts of it in separate sketches. Ono was of THE GRAND PLAZA (where, it ia 8aid, was cclebrated ho first mass 2 tho New World), with its surrounding palaces of tho Captain-General and the Government Dopartments ; with its broad marble pavements, covering two-thirds of tho square; with its gorgoonsintervening flower-beds aud shrubbery ; with its colossal statue of Ferdinand and marblo figuros of sainta; with its military and operatic minsic and evening crowds of promonaders, the elito of thecity. ¢ “Thon there were tho animated ecenes along TIE GRAXD PASSEQ, in the afternoons, when the ladies and gentle- mien, in splendid court equipages, or gay palan- quing or swiftly-flsing volantes, enjoy them- selves in riding. and the proud young Cubans exhibit their reckless horsomanship in the most exciting manner, ] There, too, wad the description of the wonder- ful, deserted BISHOP’S GARDEN, i with its astonishing tropical productions, and weird, romantic legends,—~where, tho negroes are mado to believe, imps of Satan hold orgiea every night. snd may bo reen banging by their taily from thotrecs, and luminous as Chinoselan- terns, shedding disastrous twilight on all aronnd. A short extract from Mr. Spofford’s descrip- tion of this garden, we are very eure, will prove intercating hero ; the sights, and the’ sounds of the winds, 1n that strange wood, aro so different from the sights and souuds of our own farests : The place is mossy, and crowded with luxuriant fo. liage, but 1l wild and_unrestrained, Evers tree, and shrub, and flower a tropical climate can produce i mingled in confusion. Groves of orange and cocoanut troes, with leaves, dense as roofs, overhead, festouned with rupning vinee, secm like temples for the worship of Oberon or TFan; and, in other places, long lines of palms, their trunks completels Lung with parasites, und thefr tops spreading out like Corin~ thian capitals—scom the first pillars of some cathedral et 10 rise, There are hedges of thorn a century old, and almost a8 impenotrable as the walls of the 3oro. The hot-house piants of the North, and others that can bear no removal, grow all about, in uncared-for perfec~ tion; ara the aif is filled with the perfume of orange und time blossoms. Tho sounds of the place srestrango, Instead of the low rustle of a Northern forest, there s Tieard tho sharp tapping of the lcaves of the India-rub- ‘ber tree, the rattlo of canes, and the loud clatter of cocon-uuts ; and, when the wind §s Ligh, the palms throw about their arms with the whizzing sound of a great falling bou;_; end the brakes of bamboo grateand ehriek like some Briarean giatit in agony. Jr. Spofford described THE TRAGIC 6POT, in the guburks of the, city, whero the fifty-two misguided Amr-erican foilowera of Lopez, the fili: busfor chief, met their barbaroms fate so bravely, cheering the Amerncan flag, that wos sct obovo them o mockery, till the last man foll. cums, which still retains its 1ndian name, was discov- ored by Columbus himself, on tho night of Oct. 23, 1467, It lies just within tho tropics, 130 rhiles scuth of the most fouthorn point of Flor- idd. Its areais equal to thatof tho State of New York. Its surfaco is diversified with plaing and mountaius, some of the latter being 8,000 feet in height. The climato is most delightful. In tho interior, it is healthful throughont the yoar ; and, asido from unusual periods of epi- domic, it i8 sickly near the const during the rainy ecason only. Tihe soil is most fertile,—being o rich vegetablo | loam, covering whola districta to a depth ‘of ‘from G to 12 feet, In the interior oxie. vast forests of valuabla trees, — mahogany, ebony, lgnum- vitm, cocoa, dse-woods, aud ship-timber. Desides tho porous coral formation on which tho island is bused, thero are beds of grenito snd marblo; and, in the mountains, mines of_copper and cosl. Tho island js free: from wild sni- mals and nosious reptiles, and bus fewer poi- sonousinsects than most other tropical coun- tries. THE POPULATION of Cuba_is now abont 1,500,000, ‘nesrly one-halt of whom are white. Ouly ono-seventcenth of the whites, or abont one-thirty-fifth yart of tho population, ste pure-blooded Spaniards. Tue rest of fhozo callod whites aro Creoles {or thoso tinged with the blood of the natives). Tro hundred thousand of tho blacks are free, and thero are about 100,000 Chinese Coolies 20d 500,000 slaves. The Spanish srmy required to govern theso 1,500,600 varics from 29,000 to 60,000 meu, or from ono to three timea the standing army of the Unitod States. 3r. Spofford saya that *To describe the con- dition of Cubs it but to pass from one abomina- tion to anoilier.” The Creoles aro kept under the hool of (b Spauiards. THE SLAVES follow generally tho Pagan worship of Africa, bosiag to idols and gerpents, and sometimos to tho whip of the overseer, as the most potent demon powar with which thoy are ncquaiuted. “The morv intelligent ones minglo & spirit of Tevenge with thoir devotions, and belicvo in tho promise of their conjurers, that fdr the apirited and bravo there is reserved s _future of eternal happincss, whera rica and tobaceo grow spon- tancously, and they shall enjog » Paradise of im- mortal drunkenuces fcom etrong water served in the skulls of their Spanish masters.” In Havans, slavery is somewbat modified; but the slave that enters a plantation is lost. “ Ho that enters the gate of a Cuban plantation leaves hope behind.” For the first five yoars, the elava ia taxed all that he can bear; b, after that, the published maxim of plantation political economy declares that it is most profitable to doubla tha tasks, and Lill off the slavo as soon &8 possiblo, to mako place for fresh importations. Popular education in Cuba receives no en- couragement from Government. Bat one in eixty of tho population can read and write, Alr. Spofford dwelt cloquently upon o THE WEONGS OF CUBA; but it is no disparagement of the speaker to say that the most eloquent appeal to tho sympathics of, his audience, in this part of the lecture, was contained in the_bare strong facts which ho pre- sented. When Republican Spain grants Cuba Republican liberty, snd bids her start forward again iz the 8wift raco of progress she was pur- suing when her revresentation in the Cortes wag 6 . : _—_ Al 10t with which to grace the breakfast-tablo. HAVANA AND CUBA. arbitrarily torn from Ler, in 1320, then shall we | purest Saxon besn velled fn such Bieroglypha—until {he spokeaman had several times introduced tho coun- bobold the same God-favored i<le, and sky, and 503, ~but (let us Lope), far happier people. NOTES BY THE WAYSIDE. Old XNewport. Special Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. Newront, March, 157, . The summer Newport ia cosmopolitan. Every- body has a personal interest in its cool broezes,' its rolling surf, and its plecsant drives. Itsvery name has a fresh ocoan flavar, that somehow tompers tho Lot breath of Juiy, and calls to- gother tho gay crowds that flit for little hour through the villa-lined streets, and disappear,— & bricf summer-pageant that fades with the Teaves and flowers, . But the winter Newport i quite s different affair. Tho birds of gay plumage bavo taken their flight. The vivid tropical coloring is gone,” and only the quaint, old, sombro reelity s lett, with its curious freight of relics and reminis= cences. The broad streets are lonely and de~ ecrted. You drivo past long lines of villas with shutters closed and gates burred. It might be a city of tho dend for all the lifo yon keo among the stately mansions, and ghosts might hold high carnival there, undisturbed by intrusivo mortals. Tke, cool breezes are a triflo oo cool, and you long: for & breath from the tropice, a8 you look, past tho dark rocks that frown solemnly upon you out of their gray or whito settings, into the wide ocean that ifes its palo crests angrily, and min- gles its voice, in no gentlo tono, with the rush of the March wind. Modern Newport is not at- tractive in its winter undress, and you are glad to come back to OId Newport, with its wealth of story and tradition, that the wintry winds cannot put to flight. Old Newport sits quietly by its firesides, among the foot-printa of pact generatious. Each old family mapeion hes & story of its own ; and the low ceilings, wainscoted walls, and small squaro panes, seem to talk to you out of tho last contury. Tho peoplo, too, bave such & clear backwerd view that there is no especial necessity for looking forward at all. Eve: body kuows nll about Lis neighlor, and Lis, neighbor's father, and grandfalier, and great- grandfather, and S0 on, to the fortunate ancestor Wwho came over in that capacious ship, the May- slower. Strange family histories are woven and” interwoven with dark threads of tragedy, that make you wonder why everybudy docsn't tum movelist. Tt wowld not requiro a great fund of cither imagine invention to draw from life, with ono's noighbor for a central figure ; and, verily, fact is strzngor than fiction. Inever fully uiderstood befors why good novelists are necessarily the_product of ‘an old soil. Ono must have lived among histories in order to construct them well, aud put lifo into them. A now ol has no Listorios,— ouly poseibilities ; and ono cannot build withous a foundation. .Here one stumbles upon a rem- inicenco at overy step; and yet the place is not* 80 very old, a8 the world counts.age,—only old relativoly to placos that have not outlived & si- glo_genoration. You tako up a copy of tho “ Oldest Newspaper. in America.” It tells yon that it was “ Estalished, by Frauklin in 1758."” You naturally suppose it was the Frankiin, and wonder why you never heard that Bonjamiu Frauklin started that yen- erablo sheor. But your faith in nowspspers gen~ arally suffers & sliglit shock—perbups not tho firsk one—upon being told that it was not the Frank- Lin, but his nephos. Therois s ely little orthos dox deception Jurking in that perfectly truthfal line; but, of course, one is not resposiblo for unwarranted conclusions. Nobody eaid it waa Dr. Franklin, Onoof the first objects that strike you, in your morning walk, is a_moss-grown pile Which they call the Old Stone Mill. It stands in & conspicuous spot, and looks ancieut; but you cannot gee any possiblo resson for calling it & mill. It looks more like a dismantled fortress, or a subsiantial summer-house, such as tho Titana might hevo built for their children to play in. But tradition says it was s mill; so yon Test content that tradition kuows more abont it than you do, and that peopla uscd to havo pe~ culiar sort of mills. But, when tradition tells you tkat it was built by tho Norsemen, in tho tonth century, or thercabouts, the spirit of skopticism quiotly demurs, and asks for proofs. The honor of Columbus is invaded, 8 well 88 that of the othor man with a lovg name, who lett_us the heritago of a part of it. Varions hieroglyphics and architectural points are brought to boar upon the question; and, as you cannot_prove to tho contrary, you concluda that it was built by tho Norsemen, and that this isthe Vinland of Danish tradition. By way of mental reservation, you also apeculato as to tho extent to which faith might ba cultivated by ox~ ercise, snd romember the story of the Greek athleto who_scquired tho power to carry an o3 by commencing in its infancy. Just s you Liave settled this point satiafactorh Iy, some one of emaller_antiquarian proclivities tolls vou that it was probably built by Gov. Beno~ dict Arnold, tho first Chartor Governor of the Colony. You immediately recall the famous traitor, and wonder at what period of his lifo he held that position, when your curiosity is satise fied by the intelligence thiat there were fizo Benoe dict Arnolds, Vith a momentary fcoling of sympathy for the one who was not tho traitor, yoo! ‘pass by the Norsomen's foot-prints, —which,onthe whole, you rather prefer to believe in, whether' they are genuino or not, Lecauso they suggest such o ploasant little fiction,—and_wandor intg the old Redwood Library. There is a solid look abous the low building, With its four Doric cold umns in front, that prepares you for somethiny very substantial within. The courteous Libraris sits meditatively zmong tho worn and venersblo volumes, —now and then exchanging a word witht 8 solitary visitor who drops in, lingers for & lit< tle while, and “silently steals ‘away.” There iy a solemn, reverential air sbout tho plsca thet doesu't favor 1ealking in and out. Teople scem to glide throngh in hushed sort of way, as they do at funerels, In< deed, there is smething rather funereal in tha long rows of solemn faces looking down fromd tho walls upon theso hugo piles of dead men's: thoughts. ~ You wonder hos many of them hava Liung thero to be gazed at, all of the 125 yeara since tho Library was built, and if they are al< weys goingto hang there. You linger before some vaiuablo works of art, glanco hopelesaly at thq shelves of buried wisdom tlat nobody can ever ungarth, aad “steal amay silently,” liko al tha Tost. 1f you happen thero on Sunday, you wander into “Trinity Church, in tho shadow of whick dead men Lave slept more than 150 years. You stop among the decaying tombstones, perhaps, to read a fow of the quaint inscriptions ; then enter and take your seat in one of tho -old-fasha ioned pews, which a0 as high and squaro 2s tha creeds which hemmed in men's souls. Beforo you, and a little back of thecentre of tho church, is the high pulpit; whilo over it hanga tha ponderous sounding-board, looking like = stem fate that stands reads to crush the unlucky vic- tim who utters & thought of beresy.’ Here ond there, n marble tablet in the wall tells yon of some one who lived,’ died, and is £leeping there,—perhaps is listening now to knows? Belind yon is the organ presented by Bishop, Beckeley, in 1733, History has it that it was firat s2nt to & church in Berkeloy, Mass,, whero it was voted “ an instrumont of the devil for tha entrapping of men's sonls.” Tlo devout people of that primitive town refusing to bavo soything to do with such a swicked thing, it was subses quently given to Trinity Church, where, it is ta be Lioped, it has changed masters, and * esped cosls of fira" upon its over-zealous slendorers. Like the tall spire, it is till surmontod vy the Toyal crown. You forget to listen to tie sers mon. The place, with its_traditions, and suge gestions, and associations, is & sermon in itselfy snd fills you with a curious senseof conisch with intangible things. You aro rather glad, o the whole, for & breath of tha outer air, thab brings you back to thia late hour of the bines teenth century. Bat, whichever way you turn, you find yure gelf face to face with a history. There i3 the house iz which Channing was born, vencrabls with its weight of 150 years. There sro othe? mansions connected with names of Resulutions ary fame, and pames woll kmown ia the local annals, long beforo bosuty snd fashion bad chosen the pot for & summer pageant. Here lived _Allston, and Diaivone, end Staarty and King, bresthing inspiration from thd fresh breczes, and the music of the dsshing waves. Here, among the rocky cliffs, Barkels E}nduednyon tho grave problems of humsd Thavo scarcoly touched upon tithe of tha well-known spots consecrated by age or Btorgy sud upon the charms of ocean scenery, Dot 88 all. But the quiet city has_sn old-timo favor that the summer-visitor would scarcoly discover, —something quite_apart from tho sttractions o Tock uad cave, of dushing equipsge: and iant crowds. ‘Another time, whon Nature putd ill come again. on a summer face, perhapa we will ;a; c‘f i short-sighted mortal words. Who ~w