Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 30, 1873, Page 8

8 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCII 39, 1873. e e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERME OF EUBSCRIPTION (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE). 2,001 = G001 el $2:30 Parts of ayear at the same rate. To present delay and mistakes, be surs and give Port " Qffce rddress in full, inclading Stato and County. Remittances may bo made cither by drait, express, Post Ofca order, or fn registered loiters, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUDSCRIBLTS. . Daily, eelivcrod, Sunday excepted, 2 conts par week. Dully, delivered, Sonday fncludod, 30 cente por week. Address TIE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cerner Mzdison and Desrbora-st., Chicago, Ill. The Chivags Tribune, Sunday Morning, March 30, 1873. THE LATE SNOW-STORM. The gnow-storm that visited Chicago on Taes- day last was alike remarkable for violenco and extent. We domot yetkmow tho limits of the area traversed by it; but we know enough to be sble to stato that that area was unusually wide. The storm was one of thoso genersl atmospheric movements which nearly belt the earth. It probably arose in tne Arctic regions, beyond Aleska, in tho middle of the week precoding; and rushed steadily forward, in a southoasterly di- roction, to Pembins, which place was reached early on Mondsy morning. Thenco it passed southeast to Chicago, after which it gradually ~veered round to the direstion of due ezst, and then to the northeast, pacsing down the Valley of the St. Lawreuce, and into the Atlantic Ocean, in which 1ts path is lost tous. The path of the storm-wave was about 150 miles broad, snd its rate of progress was approximately 19 milos per Lour. The reporte of the Tnited States Sigoal Ser- vice Department enablo us to trace out the path of this grand atmospheric wave with great ex- sctacss ; and to see that the snow-storm. proper was immediately preceded, along tho entire lino, by rain and sleot, and was heralded, several bours in advance, by & low barometer. The last- named fact ehows that the phonompenon of the storm movement was simply & forward rush of & rolume of sir to restore an equilibrium ; becanso sirc low barometer is well known tobe dun to & rednced air pressure, whatever may be the samse. It is easy enough to understand the rational of the movement, and &lso to see that such movements generally deposit moisture; be- 2ause the capacity of air for sustaining vapor increases more repidly than the measuro of tem- pernture, and hence, the moeting of two vol- umes of air of uncqual temperatures reduces the sustaining power of the resulting mixture. Tho liberated moisture falls in the shapoof enow, if the cold is great emough to freczo it before it has had timo to agglutinate into drops in the descent towards the earth. But it is pot £0 easy to understand why tho area of low ba- rometer should thus shift steadily forward over 5 couree of soveral thousand miles. The acience of meteorology has not rt reached that exactness which will enablo us to predict the time end direction of theso atmosphoric movements; though it has informed us of the genersl cansos that produce them, and gives somo insight into tho conditions which indi- cate poriodicity, both of timo and place. But that ecience has been developed go far, " within & few years past, that we now know, sapproximatelj, the rate and direction in which these storms move ; and by the zid of tle electric telegraph we can give or receive warning several hours in advance of the arrival of the atmospheric wave stagivenplace. Thostormwere seldom travels more than forty miles per hour ; while the elec- tric wave flashes along the wires at the rate of @t least 16,000 miles per sccond. Hence tho calus of the system of storm signais which has now been in operation in tho United Stztos nezsly two and a half yoars, and which gave to many of our readers at least twenty-four hours’ ootice of the storm that burst upen them with ¥ach fury on Tuesdaylast. 3 Goodrich had been criminally concerned with the woman who hias teen arrested, and that his denth is in gome way the result of those rela- tions. The probability is that he had tired of the woman, endeavored to ** shako her,” a8 he phrased it, and thus brought about a desire for rovenge which resulted ina Tiolnntz death, and the disgrace which attaches to the gocial crime that frequently bas this eort of termination. The Goodrich casg is by no means exceptional. It is oneof o familiar clags. It is similar in general characteristics and resnlt to that of Col. Crittenden, who met Lis death at the hand of Laura Fair, who assumed the right to kill him upon desertion a8 among those rights which he delogated to her when he deserted his own wife and family to live with her, It belongs to tho same category a8 that of Fisk, whoso doath was directly brought about by his association with s bawd. Its moral is not difforent from that found in the death of George Watson, who was shot by his victim, Fanny Hyde,—a woman whom one jury has failed to convict, and who will prob- ably never be convicted. Tho sudden snd violent death of Goodrich, whether murdered by Lucillo Moyers orat ber instigation, is un- doubtedly the result of the scandalous and crim- inal relations which he Lad with this woman Quring his life. The public excitement incident to a mysterious death, or tho public indignation felt toward the mardorer, is too apt to conceal the most useful lesson contained in cases of the Goodrich kind. Every man who deserts Lis own wife and family, or who eets at defianco the moral restraints which surround tho sexual relation, may, sooner or later, expect some terrible denouement and some frightful punishment. This punishment is not always a violent and sudden death. The crime is not always followed by ehooting. It re- sults sometimes in pecuniary ruin, but oftenest in exposure and disgrace, which aro frequently more bitter than death itsclf. The doctrine of retributive justice nowhere 2asorts itself as for- cibly a8 in cases where purity of lifo is sacrificed to the gratification of lust. Tho very foundation of saciety rests upon the sanctity of the mar- ringe relation. Whon this ssuctity is violated, tho trespassers place themselves over a danger- ous mine which will explode sooner or later. el AN AMERICAN DODGE ABROAD. A year or mor6 ago, a very entertaining book of fiction, called the * Dodge Club Abroad," was published. It professed b give the sayings and doing of tho members iu foreign countrios. Mr. Anson Green Phelps Dodge, a son of William E. Dodge, of Now York, the Bulstrode of the evan- gelical importing businoss, some timo ago went tolive in Canada, and engaged in the lumber trade. In 1872, ho renounced bis allcgianco to the United States, and, upon application, was by epecial statute made a subject of the Quecn. A few months later, he became a candidate for the Canadian Parlisment, aud was clected in the District of North York. Ho was elected as an Opposition member, but, upon the meeting of Parliament, declarod for the Ministry. At en early day aftor the meeting, he ventilated Lis patriotism by declaring that ** It was astonishing to see the unenimity of opiuion in the city of New York in favor of constitutional monarchy and British institutione.” He disclaimed all desire for Canadian independence or snncxation, and expressed the Lopo that “ When any annesation ook place, we of Canada would annex, and not be annoxed to the United States.” This 3Ir. Dodge is a remarks- ble member of & remarkablo family. The founder of the family was ono Anson G. Phelpg, s merchant of New York engaged in the metal trade, and who was renowned for his commercial success and his pioty. He Lad several daugh- ters; one married o man named Jamos, who has resided since in Liverpool, another married W. E. Dodge, and another marricd James Stokes. The firm-namo has boon, in tho United States, Phelps, Dodge & Co., and in Englsnd, Phelps, THE GOODRICH MURDER CASE. New York and Erooklyn are excited over a re- ceat murder in the latter city, the circumstances of which sre scarcely less mysterions than those surrounding the famous Nathan murder. The victim was & man of means, named W. W. Good- rich, who Liad gono to Brooklyn ebout & year be- | fore the time of his death, and erected a row of dwellings. o was a widower, but had o room d up in oue of his untenanted houses, where belived. Last Friday morning, 8 week ago, his brother found him there desd, with two woundson his head, one apparently caused by a sharpinstru- ment end the other by a pistol shot. The brother had czlled at the house the dxy before, according to custom, but had found it securely locked and boreod, and went away., Finding tho same con— dition of things on Friday morning, he forced an entrance. The murdered man had not been seen slive since tio preceding Wednesday, and it was sonciuded that ho met his death cn Wodnesday . evening. The first theory of death wes suicide, bai circamslznces soon showed that this was un- tenable. The position in which the dead man faF, the character of the wounds, and many evi- dences that there had been living people in the room sinco tho doath, afforded copvincing evidence that Goodrich had boen m: d. Thgn came the theory that he had been killod by robbers, which was partially sus- tained by the disrppearsncs of his watch and other valusbles. This was speedily abandoned, however, in favor of tho idea that he was killed s woman or bor friends. In the room were eovidences of the rocent presence of s woman. t was diacoverzd that s woman had been in the bcbit of coming to tho houso. The brotler of the murdered man hsd himself Jngwn & woman to Le there. Others had goen a women gitting on tho steps, and catering the houso with Goodrich. There yera other circumstances showing. that Good- rich hed maiutazined criminal relations with a certain seamstress named Lucille Meyers, a masried women who lived apart from ber has- band. Lucille Meyers was arrested and is now in custody, though she declines to make any ststement except that she had besn on intimate relations with tlie murdered men ; that Lie had ‘been in thoe habit of visiting her house, and that L2 had there had an altercation a day or two be- foro Lis death with a couple of men, from whom she separsted him. There is another version of those relstions which maintains that Goodrick had tired of his mistress, or,as the phrase is, b shook her,” and was soon to be married to & young lady in New York. It is sup- posed that the threatened desertion was the' canse, directly or indirectly, of the murder. This theory is sustained by the testimony of & “friend of Goodrich’s, who says that the murdered man 1224 told bim of bis relations with a woman whom 1o proposed “‘ to shake.” Thatever may be the 'Snal outcome of the somplicated circamstances of the murder, it is siready evident that ¢ there was a woman at the joitom of it.” It is clear that the deceased James & Co. The partuers are the sons-in-law of the elder Phelps, and their sons, This firm has been distinguished in American history for its ability 1o scll imported metals cheaper than any other house, and for tho extrome pioty of all its members. Mr. W. E. Dodge, Sr., is the President of a Young Men’s Christian Association, is & loading member of the Prosbytoricn Church, and ome of the promoters af the Evangolical Alliance. The houso of Phelps, Dodge & Co. bhas lately been accused of defranding the revenue by false invoices, giving false values to its imports. As this house gots its goods through its own firm in England, the false invoices must have been made out by its own members in Eugland ; must have been received hero by its own mem- bers; and must have been presented.at the Cus- tom-House sattested by the onths of its own members. The real invoices, showing the real values, must, of couree, bo in the possession of the firm. The frauds, therefore, if thero were any, involved forgers, tho suppression of the real papers and tho presentation of false ones, the whole attested by perjuryon the part of scmebody. The Custom-Houso officers; not- athstanding the fact that Mr. Dodgo was a loading Republican, were forced to stop this business; they estimated the fraud upon the revenue at £500,000. Phelps, Dodge & Co. were extremely unwilling to have o trial; they, thero- | foro, offered to compromise by paying $270,000. Finally the offer was acgepted, and tho Dodges, Jameses, Stoleses, and all tho uncles, brothers, sons, eons-in-Inw, zephews, &c., of the Phelps- Dodge family were let freé from prosecution. Mr. Dodge, of Canads, is & member of this family. His extraordinary performances as a member of the Canadian Perlisment has drawn unusual attention to him, and he is getling a thorough veatilation, It hrs been developed, and has been charged upon him, that Lo sesorted to the most remarkable devices to get elected Among other things, ho was a loud and vele. ment defender of religion, and appealed to tho religions class, for support. On the ovo of his election hie caused to be printed and circulated o letter, purporting to have been written by 8. A. Clark, D. D.,” brothor of Bishop Clark, £ the Honorary Canon Ramsay, M. A,, of New Market. The following is tho remarkable letter : Evtzapers, July 22, 1872, Rxv. AxD DA Stn: Hearing that one of my dear- est friends, A. G. P. Dodge, 13 a candidate for Parlia- mentary honoss jp your country, I cannot deny myself the -pleasure of urging upon you the important csims be his mupon your personal friendship and the entire confidence of your people, Hois as uni- | versally beloved by all classes, especially the poor, as oy man who haa lived smong us. Before going finit to Canads, be Was s vestrymsn in St, John's for be- tween six nd seven years, and did more for our par- iah thap any manin it, He was s princely €iver to all good objects, and zided the churclies of all denomina- tions in the place with thatbroad iberality which so distipguishes him. The ophan ssylum in this place, to which ho contributed over $20,000, will ever be & monument to his gemerous Christian char acter. Mr. Dodge wm for years President of our Young Men's Assriation, and w th his own means established the largs library and reading-rooms of the Association, and %o §0od work in this town was with- out bis helping 1and. One of the important theolog- fcal seminaries of (ho country was largely sustained by his 2id, and he assisted {0 the formation and was a liberal patron of several of the noblest charities and sclentific societies of our neighboring great City of New York. Hisnamo is in sll tho churches, and his acts of kindness and philanthropy were entended to ‘many places and people all uver the Uritod States. He 18 certaluly worthily folloving the footsteps of lis father, the Hor . William E, D.dge, whois known as the most prominent layman inthe great Presbstorisn Church of America; arecond Peabody ; Fresident of the Chamber of Corzmerco of New York, tho highest ‘pusition 2 mezchant here can AL, It was a source of sorrow for v to loso Mr. Dodge, 20d your community may well be proud of him as s ropresentative of your people in Parliament. A man of moro liberal, broad, Chrfstian views cannct bo found. Ho was the fricud of all denominations, and none can speak {ll of him. An cnergetic, earnest lifo for the good of others, and nobleaud high aims zxo his 1ife’s record. Wo ean hardly eay coough in his pralse. The great business of the firm, Lis wonderful success, and the patriotic devotion he feels for Canada, often exprossed to mo, all his friends here nppreciate. You could not fiud a better candidate for bringing and press- ing forwai @ svers good mensure, I Lope he will b valued as he should be by his now fellow-countrymen, Trusting that you will aid him as Lo descrves, with great respact, very truly yours, 8. A. Crang, D, D. To this lotter was appended one from Canon Ramsay, acknowledging its roceipt from “my friend, the Rev. 8. A. Clark, D. D.” and advising Dodgo to publish it. This was signed “ Septimus J. Ramsay, 3. A" It is now showa that Mr. Dodge wrote tho Clark letter himeelf, signing that geptleman's name to it; thav C'=non Ramsay never receivod any such lettor; never heard of Dr. Clark ; and his first knowledga of tho use of his namo by Dodge was sover 2 wiontls afterward. Both let- tors, therefore, wero forgeries, and Dodge has been denounced with having published them, of courso knowing the fact. Mr. Dodge has, in Parlisment, explained that he had writ- ton suthority from Dr. Clark to writo what he pleased, and to sttach Clsrk's name to it, and that tho letter purporting to heve been written by Canon Ramsay, was in fact written by some other Remsay. This explana- tion has hardly elevated Mr. Dodgo in the esti- mation of his now countrymen, and Dodge's picture of Dodgo, 88 tho *universally-Ueloved of all clasacs™ ; & princely giver to ll good ob- Jects”; *his geaerous Christian character”; his Presidency of “ihc Young Men's Association”; his support of tho “ Theological Seminary,” and liberal’ patronage of the ‘“noblest clarities; that *“Lis namo is in all the churches”; that he is following in the footsteps of his father, tLe “most prominent layman in the great Presby- terian Church of America; a second Poabody,” is regarded as a cool picco of impuderce. But Mr. Dodge is recciving some delicato home thrusts, which tos moro sensilive man would bo uncomforiable. A report of a recent debate on railroad monopolics is thus reported: sfr, Dodgo then reforred to tho specch of & Liberal member who bad preceded him, and declared that he could almost have bolioved that that gentluman be- Jouged to the Leglelaturo of the Stata of lllinofs, which was worse thn all clse ; and mot to 80 honorablo and noble 3 body as the Houso of Commons of tha Do- minion of Canads. 3Lr. Dodge took his scat smid gen- eral spplause from tho Tory enckes. Ho was followed by 3r. Charlton, who is 2nother of {he threo members of Parliament who are Americaus by birth, 2Mr. Charlton declared that Canads was {n- debted to the United States for many things,—among othiers, for freedom from Imperial tszation, for tke possession of numerous iuventlons, for the nu- merous aud valusble productions of her lifer- ary men, aud for vast sums of money invested In Consdisn enterprises; but the last end t.4 gifts we had received from the United States was = Dodge, and for this we never could ‘e too thanklul. Mr, Dodge had brought to his recol- laction some lines of Sir Welter Scctt : ** Breathos there a man with soul so dead, T'oat to himself bas naver eald, This is my own, my native land " " 1t reems,” says Ar. Charlion, “that such s sou ant:aates the body of man who breathes at this mo- mout on the foor of the Houso of Commons, sud I for ono do not feel ko trusting him. Hia couversion fs too sudden and his zesl is too great.” Mr. Charlton then defended the Legislature and the State of Illinofs, and proceeded to detail some of tho admirabls festures of the Iliinois Constitution, among which wera the provision for minority re;resentaticn, the ebolitior. of the functions of the lobby through the prubibition of legislation upon private bills, and tho admirable pro- vision for preventing the formation of railway monopo- fes, 5 This Mr. Anson Green Phelps Dodge, the de- nationalized American, will probably have s lively time serving as **a loyal subject of my Queen,” in tho Dominion Parliament. THE RIGHTS CF MARRIED MEN. Thore ia no question that the woman's-rights movoment has extorted very important conces- sions from law and socioty. Tho Supreme Court of this State has recently givon a decision which recognizes the progress that kas becn mado as fully as Mies Emily Feithfull herself could ask, though it is not a8 radical as Miss Susan B. An- thony or Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton would probably have demanded. Judge Thornton Les distinctly defined tho right of a married woman to bo sued for her, . own elan- ders. Such = conclusion comprohends & full recognition of separate property and jndividual recponsibility, of which it is tho natural sequence. Tho case was one in which Janet Ralson had sued John Martin for damages on account of slanderous words that had been used against Ler by Margarot Martin, his wife. At common law, the husband would have been liablo; the Supremo Court has now decided that, under the Illinois statute of 1369, the husband's linbility bas cezsed. . The action must be againat the wife, and t' o dsmages, if any, must bo col- lected out of her separate estatc. E Marriage, under the common law, geve the husband the undispated contiol of his wife and her possossions. Any property which she might have at the time of marriage becamo his in law ; he was entitled totho fruits of her Iabor, the rents and profits of hor real estate, and absoluto dominton over her pu.sonal property. Undera statuto of this Btece, passed in 1861, a marriod woman became entitled to the sepurate owner- ehip of any property which she possossed at the time of contracting the marriage, aad of all property which she should acquire in good faith aftor marrisge from 2ny person other than her husbend. In 1369, o law was passed by theIllinois Logislature providing that a married womanshall be entitled to receive, use, and possess her own earnings and sue for the same in her own name, free from tue interference of her husband or his creditors. Jurtice Thornton holds, and with him the majority of the Supreme Bonch, that theee statutes materially change the temporal relations of husbsid and wife, and that the former can no Tonger be held linble for the debts whicl: Lis wife may contract, nor for the damages which shomay intlict with p slanderous tongue. The principle of common !a% which determined the hustand's liability was that the wife brought him all her worldly posessions, scquired eithor before or sfter marriaye; that the husband was entitled to all ber earnings; and that, if sho kad no property aud earned no money, she- still bronght him tha woalth of affection, and the matesisl assistauce of rearing & family, and tho comforts and joa of domestic life. It was con- seqaently held tuat the husband assumed an important debt to his wife, and that he became liable for the necessaries of life, the rezsonsble debts she migat contract, and the responsibilities sho might incur while under his coatrol. A hus- band could, under theso circumstzances, bo sued for damages on acceunt of slanders uttered by his wifo, and the victim could get judgment against Lim. JusticoThorntonholds that theancient land- ‘marks of the conjugal relation havo been effaced by tho statutes mentioued, and that manand wifo are now distinct ontities in law. Thoy may have separate legal estates, contracts, debts, and in- juriea. Itia simply tho duty of the courts to protect the eanctity of tho marriage relation, so that the statutes cannot be construed as & prac- tical divorcemont. Otherwise, tho husband and ‘wife must appear soparztely, must sue and be eued apart, and that neither of them can be beld liable for the torts of the other. Thoy remain bound by s solemn contrect to mutual respect, to the gamo house- hold, and to the same affection, forbearance, and intimacy as heretofore. But as tho wife may now own her own farniture, her own books, her own paintings, and her own coupon bonds; as she may acquire her own real estate, and disposo of her own earnings ; as she maygo into busi- ness on ber own account, onter into partnership with athird party, and, in all legal matters, as- sume an independent attitude ; as she may enter upon any Wvocation in life in rivalry with ber husband, it is held that tho husband csn no longer bo accountablo for her actions, or re- spongible for injuries sbe may commit. She must pay her own debts out of her own proper- ty, and she must suffer the consequences of her own slanders, ker own assaults, and ber own batterios. H No one will undertake to question the reason- ebloness and justice of this decision. The law was provided as a protection for innocent and bhard-working women against tho sbusea of worthless Lusbande, that were possible nnder the old order of things. It turns out that it also acts a8 a protection for innocent and hard-work- ing husbands against the acts of rockless wives, given to extravagance and slander. The pro- tection in ono casois quite as just as in tho other. There aro those who believe that it would have Loon bettor to preserve the identity of hueband and wifoe in the close wnity-of mar- riage according to common law, but they will be partially satisfiod at findinsest to be judicially de- clared that what is sauco for tho gooze is likewise eauce for the gander. A law similar to that prevziling in this Stato for the protection of married women bas been proposed in the Britigh Parlia- ment, but has been received with doubt and mis- giviog. The English journsls speak of it o8 an effort to incorporate marriage under tho firm namo 2nd title of Man and Wife (Limited). English notions are conservative, and in no other relation more so than in that of marrizge. They have been accustomed to regard tho hus- band in ihe light of general sponsor for tho good bebevior of his wife. Ho bas been Leld accountable in law to this oxtent. The conserv- ative English husbands may fecl more reconciled to the new departure, however, when they learn that the proposed chango in tho marital rela- tions will likewiso relieve them from their old reapohsibilities for the gossip of tka sewing 30~ cioties. It may still bo felt that the construction which the Illinois Supreme Court has pat upon the law may be productive of numerous aud casy frauds in the way of rapid transfers of prop- erty and dobta between husband and wife. The marrisge relation affords special facilities for fixing the ownership of property whero it may be most convenient for the time being. * The law, however, must take cognizance of these slong with other frauds, sud their possibility cannot affect the clearly logical conclusion that the husband is not held responsible for the debts or injurios of his wife when ho has ceased to control her property, earnings, and business speculations. COOKERY. An important want of tho American peaplo is good cookery. The American restaurants set tables losded with indigestible fare. In tho American hotels, all dishes are apparentlycooked intho same ntensil. Tho Amorican boarding- housa hoa achieved a national, if not s world- wide, reputation, for the total depravity of its culinary character. Even in onr swealthy homos, where thers is & commendatle pride in the menu, there are painful deficiencies and short- comings. American housekeepers socem to take it for granted that, if & cook is high priced, ho must boa good cook, and that if his cookery is only expensive, it must bo excollont, when the reverse is nearly always tho caso, 88 Prof. Blotin his lecturing tour con- clusively showed. Americans have very little idea of the hiddon propoerties of bones, and the resources which are concealed in the wasta of the table. How many Amer- jcan cocis can take the rozst of to-day and place it upon tho tablo to-morraw, mo that it shall give no sign of ever having been on the table before, and, perhaps, oven placo it on tho table for & third time, without it being recognized? To do thus requires genius. The succeseful cook must be an artist ; for cooking is one of the arts. If painting, which gratifies tho eye, and music, which pleases the car, aro dig- nified with places smong the arts, certainly any- thing which tickles the palate belongs there also. But our cooks, instead of being artists, aro ploddérs, They move within alittlo circlo of traditions and routine, and cook from rocipes. Thoy cando s fo things pretty woll, but failinan emergency. They lesrn only what has beon tought them. Thisis not art. Art is progros- sive, It is always reaching out for pew combi- nations and effects. In the hands of & cook who ia truly great, very slight and spparently unim- portant materials are capablo of being worked into the most novel and delightful effects, Tho real ortist of the skillet is continually devising now forms and making now combinations. In two dishes alone, beef @ la mode and beef ala flammande, it is eatonishing Low, with meat, a fow vegotables and spices, a great cook will make dihes fit to serve & King, for it is not nec- eseary that these two dishes ehoald always bo the same ; on the other hand, they ara capable of almost endless variety. With soups and galads end eggs, thero is no limit to the com- binations which an artist can make. Wo aro gtill in the very infancy of soups and salads, and bave as yet no idea of the possmbilities lorking in them which future genits will develop. Awork on German National Cookery has re- cently been published, which is creating consid- erablo excitement in Europe. In England, an effort is being made to adaptit to the national kitchen, and the experiment-is worth trial in this country. Americans have an nnworthy pro- judice against German cookery, which is founded .npon the fact that two or three of their dishes bave @ peculisr embarrasement of riches,— liko caviar, esuer kragt, Limberger, hand choese, and some varieties of ssusage. There is no danger, however, that these dishes will ever become naturalized, and it is a8 absurd to object to German cookery becauso it includes theso dishes, as it would bo to object to French cookery becanse somo Frenchmen eat horse- flesh, frogs, and snails. Every national menu Das its monstrosities. The American has boiled sult codfish, hash, and greasy paatry.” Thoro is grest richness and variety, however, in Ger- man cookery, and mauy of théir dishes com- bino both excellence and economy. The work in question gives directions cot only for making soups,—which may bo called cosmopolitan,—but also for soups to bo caten in Lent, and milk, wine, and fruit soups, which are unknown hera. We bLardly need mention that- delicious com- pound of eggs and beof-tea, the bouillon of the French, which the Germans have fairly appro- pristed to themselves. Tho lover of fish will find in this volume how to dress trout and eels in jelly as well as tho sccrets of fish ragout, cut- lets, and beignots,—combinations which would strike an American cook dumb with astonish- ment,—as well as tho eaucesmade from mussels, cray-fish, oysters, and sardincs. In the cooking of game, German genius is tranacoudent. In the stufting of game, there is uothing which can sup- ply tho placo of the chestnut, which is in vory common use. In stufling a turkey, for instance, the cook is recommended to boil, peel, and pound two pounds of chestnuts, and to mix them with & force-mast of call’s liver, onion, cggs, spices, &c. Roast goose is also stuffed with chostnuts and prunes, half-stewed and mixed with apples. There is something fairly Horatian and delightfully fresh and breezy in pigeons cooked in vine lcaves, partridges covered with vins leaves and rashersof bacon, poultry in jolly, and chickens slumbering in asparagus. Who that has evor eaton an artis- tic German gamo pastry,—that concentration of all delightfal flavors,—garnished with vegetablo arabesquo and mosaic, washed down with & bottle of Sauterne snd succoeded by & Berlin pancske =znd fromage do Dris, can ever forget his sensations ? In ealads, the German uses every known vegetabla and almost every known fish, and yot, in our crude culinary endeavors, wo havo not got beyond lobster, chickon, lettuce, and celery ealads, although ealads are slmost indispensable in this climate, in the spring months. The American lovars of beer would undoubtedly find much eajoyment in beef stewed in it and sgrecably flavored, and it certainly wonld need no education to learn to eat the Kloeao, thoso Littlo balls of eggs, bread, coarsely-ground corn, meat, and fish, which are somotimes dropped into soups, and impart such delightful flavors tothem. In puddings, pasties, and farinaceons dishes, no cooks in the world, not even the French, czn surpass the Germans. Their number is legion, and from the plain coffe-cako up to the cighteen-egged Buster cako, there is not one on the list which is not perfact in its way and delightful to tho taste. - Americans have taken kindly to German beer, German wines, German literalure, Germza music, German art, and German Gemuetlichkeit, and we believe that with the exception of & few of the more pronounced dishes, which grow out of the necessities of German climate, that they will find little difficulty in taking the best purt of German cookery and adapting it to their kitchens. We Lave no distinctive cookery of our own except a distiuctively bad one, snd itis time that the peculiarly Amorican maladies of dyspopsia and indigestion wera checked by the adoption of better dishes. We bave already transplanted many English and French dishes. Give the Germans a chance. — e VILLAGE SCANDAL. 1t is & commod remark that Chicago was set forward ten yenrs by the fire. The mingled town and Tillage aspects £re gone, with the build- inga of the early day that held the latter character in tho centre of tho city. The tendency is to the metropolitan in every thing,—buildings and their uses, stores and their occupants. And vil- lage notions aro passing away with them. Even advertisers cease to insist on locations ““ at easy distance from the Post-Ofiice,” and a mile of our present arca eeems lees than four or five blocks a few seasons ego. We are getting to be a com- ‘munity of strangera. Noonoexpects to know and ‘nod to half the audience 2t church or theatre, and, as to knowing ono's meighbors, that has become a lost art. Ono of the few lingering traces of the old transparent town life, whero everybody know everybody clse, is presented in the raids on local neighborhoods and church congregations that Lave become s staplo with the Chicago Times. Imagine the possibility of such journalism in any of the older citics. What New York or Philadelphis journal would give space to the gossip of sewing-socicties, mite- societies, church-choirs, socizbles, prayer-meot- ings, baptivms, Sunday-schools, and vestry- rooms, rehashed into printed scandal and'spiced with malice? Who would think of making & newspaper topic of deacons, dorcases, sopranos, class-leaders, soxtons, trustees, organiats, and the boys andgixls of tho congregation ? Ttbelongs to the worst class of newspaperenterprise of small towns, whero everybody knows everybody else, and tho stranger that is within Lis gates. Al though wholly contemptible, it is not very karm- fa], because Chicago is now of &0 large a growth that, were the caricatured ‘presentments more life-like than they are, tho descriptions could not be fitted with names by oze inten of tho regular sitendants in any of the con- gregations thus eseailed. It would have been different a fews years ago, when an activo reporter could have ascertained in a ten- minutos’ research what our leading citizens had for dinner, who ate with his knife, wko chews tobacco, and who lends money at 2 per cent & month. But such entelpriso was not then dreamed of. Tho affliction cannot last long. Chicago has outgrown neighborhood’ gossip. Wo trust the church congregations will take thia view of tho matter, and sit for their pictures calmly. Mr. Casaubon, the learned punditof “3Mfid- dlemarch,” spent most of his life in collecting tho matorials for 8 work to be entitled * The Key to All Mythologies.” Unfortunately, he died before all his memoranda were finished, and the amiablo Dorothea, his literary executrix, after vainly striving to master the index to his vast accumnulations, gavo up in despair. 8o the Keyto All Mythologicawaa lost. The Amsrican geulptor, Story, has supplemented the work of the lamented Casaubon, to some extent, ina paper which he has contributed to tho Fortnight- ly Review, which is just now making eomething of o sensation in England. It is entitled “A Conversation with Marcus Aarelius.” Mr. Story falls asleop over tho editations of the dead Emperor, and has a vizion and aconversation on the religions beliefs of the sncient world. We ‘givo place to this rather remarkable pagerin to-day's TrisoNe. There are some passages in it which will, perbaps, give offence to some resders , but it is altogether a high-toned and reverent production. The Meditations of Mar- cus Aurelius were once tr=nslated into It2lan by & Roman Catholic Cardinal, who dedicated it, on the titla-page, to his own soul, “that it might blush redder than his purple at sight of the vir- tues of this heathen.” A PEEP INTO LITERARY WORKSHOPS. DY PROF. WILLIAM MATHEWS, OF THE USIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. How shall we write? Shall we, who earn our living with tho pen, jot down our first thoughts in the first order that occurs to us, or shall we, before wreaking them upoun expressicy, brood over them liko o hen over her eggs, and, when we have put them on paper, blot, prune, touch, and retouch our sentences, with tho utmost caro? That literature, though it requices pecu- lizr talents for its succesaful prosocution, is aleo to be rogarded as an arf, which exacts a cortala degree of acquired skill, will be admitted Ly all. Unliko the other arts, however, it kas no appren- ticeghips, no recognized schools of instruction, no grades of teachers or scholars, but is lerrned and practised by every man in his own way, witl: no hints or helps but such 2s his own brain or chancs observations may afford him; aud hence 8 peep into the workshops of those whom tho world has honored as masters of the art,—a glance at their methods of producing tneir mag- ical effocts,—may be both pleasant and profit- able. Thero are some literary advisers, of high repute, who denonrce sll blots, eras- ures, cod alterations. “Writa a3 you talk,” says John Nesl Unfortunstels, his success does not commend his counsel. No writer has shown more conclusive- 1y by his failures that a merciless pruning of the vine is necessary to ite fruitfulness. Neal has abundant telents, even geniua; but Washington Irving would make more of a Scotch pebbie by its brilliant sotting than Neal by Lis method of the crown jewel of the Emperor of all tho Rus- sias. “Nover think of mending what you wnite,” says Cobbett ; “lot it go; no patching.” “Endeavor,” says Nicbuhr, *never to strike out anything of what you have once written down. Punish yoursclf by allowing once or twice something to pass, though you see you might givo it better.” ‘Trite, write, by all means,” says another. * Take, if yoa will, the first subject that comes to your band; but be sure to treat it in the first mode that comes into your hend. By pursuing this process, yo wili Boonest arrive at the art of thinking with your own thoughts. Celerity bost disporses tho velor” of the brain, and rallics ideas into shape and service. * * * As to the modes of explaining your subject, lay aaide your pen, drop the deeign of authorship altogother, go back to your ordinary walking and talking, and endesavor to content yourself therewith, if you feclwithin you the stirrings of & moment’s hesi- tation on this head. ‘Seccnd thoughts are best," is s beggarly adage, the invention of tho timid, the refuge of the weak, the parentof univereal scopticiem. How can that claim to be the birth of your mind, which is the production of deliberate seleotion, and of which you may never dotermine whether it shall be born at all? And what right have you to offer to the world wiadom which hasnecd to be criticised and sifted beforehand? Ganganelli saya truly that a man might often find at the nib of his pen wkat ha goas & great way in search of,—and I main- tain that nDo man who writes from pure love of wriling, sheuld be sallow- od to hold a pen, if he require to travel for its illustrations much beyond its nib. Ishonldlike to know whero originality i3 to be found, if it be notina mau's first thoughts, or truth, save in the spontsneous tes- timony of his faculties for discerning it " Thero is forco in theso suggestions; no doubt there aro persons with intellectual idiosyncrasies, for whom this is tho best advica tbat could be given. Somo writers cannot correct. They exhaust their ardor in the first creative act, and every addition is a weakness. Thero are others, again, who by long practice scquire st last s facility by which they can dash off sentences and chapters with marvelous ease and rapidity. Sir Walter Bcott was a writer of thisclass. He never knew what itis to bite the nails fors thought or an expression, nor did he ever waste 2 moment with the filo. Ho wrote iz o whirl- wind of inspiration, and was so hurrisd slong, that his brain resembled a high-pressuve engine, tho steam of which is perpetually up, overy time he ' entered his study and lifted exercleing his own meture judgment i should first be sure of the nrijginfrsu::glz!nxnl;g duration of tho work; otherwise, on withe drwwing it from the crypt, ho may find that, like some emall wine, it has lost what flavor it oncq bad, and, whon opened, is only tasteless. Again it meat bo admittod that oven to bo unpiesssatly hurried is not always and purely sn ovil in writing for the press. Hundreds of persons can testify that hurry and eovere compression from an instant summous that brooks no delay have tendency to furnish tho flint and steel fox ul{ iting sudden scintillations of originality,— originality displased =t ono timo in the pio tarosauo felicity of the phrase, at another in the thought or its illustrations. Who does ool know that to improviso is, sometimes, in effect, to lm_ forced into a consciousress of creative energies that would else have slumbored through life? Buch was tho case with the “Wizard of the North," Sir Walter Scott. I cannof pull well in long traces,” he used to aay, “ when the draught is far bohind mo. I love to hest the press thumping, clattering, and banging in my ear; it creates tho mocossity wWhick almost always makea me work bost.” Do Quine coy remarks thattho same stimulation to the creative faculty occurs aven more notoriously in masical improvizations ; and all graat executants on the organ have had reason to bemoan their ability to arrest those sudden felicitios of im- pessioned combinations, and those flying ara- besques of loveliest melody, which tho magnetio inspiration of the moment has availed to excite. Bat, while somo wiiters dash off thoir best thinga at a heat, aud othors, like Campbell, the poet, dawdle too much over their compositions, and only weaken them by the excessive usoof tha file, Zor most men the rule is absolate, that great 1abor is the prico of excellence. The prompt- nesa of conceptionand quick master-touch of tha fino writer aro acquired only aftor years of toil; it is the experience of the veteran, ac~ complishing with esso what seomed impossibla to the raw recruit. By years of incessant prace tico and painstaking, tho delicate instruments of the mind become at last so lubricated, and so fitted to their work, that, whon the steam is up, it parforms its taek with the promptnessand pro- cision of a machino. As Pope saya: ‘True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As they movo easfest who hisva learned to dasce. Shenstone has finely eaid that fino writing is the result of spontaneous thoughts and lzbored composition. If we look at the firat draughts of the great works that have immortalized their authors, we shall find that they are often com- paratively elight and imperfect, like the ruds chalking for = maaterly picture. Ten long yeare elapsed between the first sketch of Goldemith's Traveler and its final completion. Tiwenty lines in day he thought = brilliant feat, and P'shop Percy tells us that not aline in all hia poems stands as ke first wrots it. Youag, ridicaling haaty composition, counsels authors to ‘writa and rewrito, blot out, and write again,” adding: Tire only can mature the lab'ring brain. Time is the father, zud the midwife rain: The eame good sense that makes s man excel, Btill makes him doubt be ne'er bas written well, Downright impossibilities they rack : What man can be fmmortal in s weok? Cowper, & vigorous but moat painstaking poet, declares that ‘% touch and retouch is the secret of almost all zood writing, especially in verns.” Burns as another hard worker with the brain. Easily as bis verso seoms to Live dropped from his pen, it was really the product of much toil. He was fastidious to & fault in perfecting his phraseand thythm. * Exsycomposition, bt la- borions correction,” is his own characterization of his mode of writing. Even the poe: Xfoore, whose verse is so singularly mellifiuons, liquid, and facile, has remarked that * labor is tho parent of all the lasting wonders of the world, whether in vorse or stoue, whether poetry or pyramids.” Of Sheliey, Medwin, his biographer, tells ns that he practised tho severest self-criticism, and that his manuscripts, like those of Tasso at Fer- rara, wore 0 full of blots and interlineations as to be scarcely decipherable. Campbell was so scrupzlously fastidious as to nicoty of expres- sion, that, in ridicule of tho rareness and diffi« ~ulty of his literary parturition, especially when the offspring of his throes was poetical, one of his waggish friends used gravely to assert that, on passing his residence when he was writing Theodoric, he observed that the knocker was % pen. Gifted with a prodigious meraory,— & memory that held everything with & vise-like grasp—a vivid imagination, s flucut pen, and & epirit thatcourted difficulties instead of quailing beforo them; he needed only an incident or = tradition o sfart with in any of his novels; and when ho had laid down “ the keel of a story,” it grew under his hands hike & ship under thoe hands of & thousand carpenters. The gecond and third volumes cf Waterly he dashed off in three weeks, and a balf dozén weeks sufficed to produce the whols of Guy Xfannering. *I have often been amused,” he says, ‘‘with the critics distinguish- ing some passages as particularly labored, when tho pen passed over the wholo as fast as it could move, and the 6ye nover again saw them, axcept in proof.” A wondrous talent this; yet it must be admitted that Scott was an incorrect writer Scotticisms and awkward peculiarities of phraso abound in his writings, and his pootry is often s slovonly a3 Lis prose. He wrote with & wonderful concentration of mind ; but this taxed his brain foarfully, and at last destroyed it. Byron wrote with equal rapidity. Ho had s voleauic braiu, and threw off The Corsair in ten daye, and The Bride of Abydos in four deys. While hin poems were printed, he added to and corrected them, but nover recast them. “I told you before,” he writes, *that I can never recast anything. I am like the tiger. If I miss the first spring, I go grumbling back to my jungle again ; but if I do it, it is crushing.” It was his custom to write out his first idens as they camo, and continuo till the afllatus was over, when, finding his blood cooling in reaction, he would got himsolf crifically to work, and rotrench, and pare, and mbdify o8 liberally as he bad written. When writog bis Don Juan in Italy, he used to sit up far into tho might, with his brandy and water, —his later substitute for the glorions Hippocrene of his first efforts,—and write away till the cock-shout of light summoned him to bed. The next day was usually spent in cutting down the produc- tion of the night to one-half tho Aumber of stan- zas, polishiog;, and othorwiso improving tho work. Byron's writing, though swift, was not easy; it was hard snd harassing, and, aided by brandy, it bowed him, * gray and ghastly,” into the grave at the carly sge of 37. Syd- noy Smith was another, rapid writer. Writing as he talked, with tho dash of & man of keen wit and bigh intelligence, he never stopped to romnd off or polish his periods,—never altered or cor- rected. Indeod, hie was 80 impaticnt of this, that he could hardly bear tho trouble aven of looking over what he had written; bet would froquently throw down the manuscript on the tablo 28 soon as finished, and say, stari- ing up and addressing his wife: ‘‘Tkere it is done; now, Eate, do look it over, and putin dota to the i's and strokes to the t's.” It is said that Fenclon wrots his Telemague'in threo months, and there were notten erasares in tho original menuscript. Gibbon, who was 8o lorg in bitting the keynote in the firat chapters of Lis immorte] history, sent the Isst three quarto volumes uncopied to the press; and the same copious readiness attended Adam Bmith, who dictated to hia amanuensia while he walked about his studs. Dr. Johnson, in counselling young writers, ad- vises them to train their minds tostart promptly, for it is essior to improve in accuracy thar in spced. Robert Hall used to lament that he wrote 8o slowly and laboriously that he conld write but little, while that had a stiffness from which hia spoken stylo was free. - Whatever the sdvantages of deliberate composition, no man of sense will pretond that the Horatian rule, Nomum prematur in annum, is of universal application. Thackeray has shrewdly suggested that 3 man who thinks of patting awsy & composition for tied up, and the street in front of the house covered with straw. Alarmed at these appears ances, he gently rang the bell, and inquired anxiously after the poet's health. *“Thank yon, 8ir,” was the servant's reply, mister is doing &g well 28 can ba expected.” ‘Good heavens! 25 well as can be expected! What has happened tohim?” * Why, sir, he was thia morning de« tivered of & couplet!” Burse bad all his principal works printed once or twice at a private press before hauding them to his publisher. Sheridan not only watched long and anxionsly for a fine ides, but turned it over and over on the literary anvil, and rewarded himself for the toil by a glass of generous port. Gray wrote slowiyand fastidiously ; so did Pope, and Akinside, and Addison. Clarles Lamb's most sportive essays were the result of intenso brain-labor; be used to spend a week at times jn elaborating a single humorous letter to @ friend. Itis curious, considering the mercurial tharacter of the French, with what wear« some care aud slowness msany of théif authors Lave written. Malherbe, the father of Fronch postry, composed with prodiglous carp and tardiness; and racked his brain unceasingly to correct what he had produced. Moliore passed whole days in fixing wpon & proper epithot for rhyme. Rousseau's works, which so charm us by their simplicity and ease, were witten with almost incrodible pains. Ha gat in fall dress always, like Handol at the organ, and wrote on the finest gilt-sdged paper, with extreme fastidiousncss and care. On the other band, Dr.Johnson's Rambler papers, the stylo of which is g0 elephantine, cumbrons, and Iabored, were thrown off with the utmost rapidi« ty, and. sent in hot haste to the press. Buffon swa< another sprace and trim author, who, from title-page to colophon, wrote in bag-wig and ruffles, and has left the well-known saying that “genius is patienco.” Even Beranger's light, chirping verse, which seems s spontaneous as the twittering of & sparrow, was the resnlt of intenso labor, the anthor bostowing weeka and ‘months upon s single song, to give to it that ap- pearance of exse and simplicity which aidod go much in witching the reader. On the whole, the result of our pesp into the workehops of literary men is not to preposses us in favor of rapid writing. The bost writers do not time themselves like race-horses, and the boast of facility which we sometimes bear from young writers, instead of being creditable, only _ showa ““a pitifal ambition in the fool who makes it.” Tho veins of golden thought do not lioupon the surface of the mind; timo and patience are required to work the shatts, and bring out the glittering ore. “‘Le femps n'epargne pas cd qu'on fait sans lui,—Tima spares nothing pro- duced without his aid,” sazs Boiloau. It isa Literary as well as & physiological law, that longevity damands a long period of gestation. An elophant is not prolidc, but ita offspring oate lives whole gencrations of the inferior animsii whoso incubation is of more frequent occurrence. Half the failures that occur in literatare are due, s thay are due in art, in business, in every kind of pursuit, to self-conceit in the aspirant, leading him to despiso Iabor, and to fancy that his slightest effort is sufficient to win snccess. It is 2n4go of improvisation that we live in,—of im= prompta roform, impromptu legislation, im- prompta in-ention, literature, philosophy. Tha volability and vehemence of extempore elo- quence in the pulpit, the cut-and-thrust style of criticism 'in magazines and reviews, tho lsbors eeving, hot-houis schemes of education, €0 1auch in vogue, indicate, by their popularity, tha spirito? the ape. Allis steam, electricity, rails rvad rush. ““Who ehall deliver me from the Grenks and Romans ?” cried in agony the classice ridden Frenchman. *Who will deliver us from ten years before giving it to the world, or | theso annihilators of time and space " CFY W