Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 6, 1873, Page 11

N . tolemnity of nature THE CHICAGO DAILY 'TRIBUNE: SUNDAY; APRIL:6, 1873 1 WASHINGTON. Strolls Out of ‘Doors—-Hints and Reminiscences of the Capital, iy Peeks into Nooks===Threads of Old Lives Taken Up-=-Excursions in the Recess. Frof Our Own Correspondent. ; TWasEINGTON, March 29, 1673, Caldwell has gone up like & bubble without s tint; Patterson gote in no eulogium upon the rocord. Clayton is declared simon-pure ; which makes s think of John O. Rives’ remark on Cameron: *Ho may bo Simon Cameron,” said Rives, “but T'll bo whanged if he 'is simon- o. In this ugly March weather, we Beribes and Pharisecs get on best. We see Congress go witliout protest, and hopo' they may stay away aslong 88 they ean. Wo now biteh up our car-. riage-animal, and go off into the suburbs, look- ing for sights and sweets, for early shad and fresh-broiled herring-roe, for old landmarks and new developments. Thank God for eyesight, to gee things which cool the brain and blow across the mind! In this queer old mnook of hilly Marjland, where tho Capitol got to bo through processes of the pictureeque and inovitable, there is & memory to every old gable-roof and gulfy ravine. Let us get & riding-whip and & parcel of cigars, and go meandering : . AT OAE HILY, CEMETERY, which many think {o bo tho handsomest place of sepulture in the world, I walked last Sunday to soethe old Van Ness Mausoleum, which had boen set up precisely as it used to be. The work had been done with admirable nicety, and the gpot was in a vale far below Georgotown Hoights. While standing there, I looked round and found myself beride Becretary Stanton's tomb, a granite structure, under which are buried the man whom Seward had said ‘‘organ- ized victory better than Carnot,” and his infant dsugbter. The inscription was simple, and the spot eligible ind Lhigh. A fow paces from the tomb, on the same knoll, was the marble shaft fo' Gen. Reno, killed st South Mountain,—the top of the shaft carved like mourningdrapery. Between these two monuments, the eye’ roved down, the steep declivities and terraces of the noble cemetery, - whore every memorial-stone was a shaft,—no £labs or vaults being permitted.. On the highest ground stood the besutiful chapel, luxuriant with ivy, which covered ‘all the buttresses, and barcly left space for the great eculptured win- dowatthe end. Onamound in the dell of the cemetory is the elegant white marble pavilion of the Corcoran family. * * 7 MB. COBCORAN. . is the richest man in Washington City, and th inhabitant of the most extensive and com- plets mansion. It stands opposita Deca- tur's old mansion, and is by many thought to be the proper sito for & new Execu- ‘tive Monsion. Mr. Corcoran is a descendant of an Irishman who lived at Georgotoyn before the Capital City was establishod. He.is said to bavo made his first success as & banker in ad- vances to Government employes. Mr. Riggs, arich Marylander, being desirous of finding & suitable business-partner-for his son, chose Cor- coran. _ Their banking-house -wai for some time_ in the Paymastér’s building, on Fifteenth stroot opposite the Treasury ; but they, took the United States Bank building_at- s later date, where Mr. Riggs still conducts tho business, Mr. Corcoran havings room there. Corcoran ‘was aiways & man of largs idess and worldly observation. At fhe prasent time, when his sands of life seem to g ont, he is in appearance s large, portly, rofined-looking person, with square head 2od: - shoulders, - very : white - hair, and of neat and respectable dress.. Ho made a large portion of his fortune—which is by some esti~ matod a $6,000,000, and by some at £12,000,000. Z¥ taking tho Natlonal loans, particularly dur- ing tho Mexican War. _Ho shared the conserva- tive prejndices of tho old class of Washington< iaus, but hed the good sense tokeap out of the Rebellion, and mot to sntagonize_ the Govern- mont. A} s relatively éarly period, ho bought & large amount of property surrounding his man- sion, and also several of the noblest farm-lands and hill-sites around the city. He haa given to_ Washingion abont $2,000,000 of benefactions in' art snd philanthropy. During_ his life he has been o fair patron. of art, and, having had the misfortune of losing his wife' atan carly pe- riod; ho has been roverent and _devoted to her memory. Such s. tho _richest ,Washing- tonian. His family:toinb sb, Goorgetown is the most symmetrical and elegant object in the cem- etery, which he also bestowed upon the city. Newr Ly it runs Rock Croek, winding through tlio bil's, and, making the soothing’ music of & cascade, 'whoso pleasant plash can be heard all over the cemetery. v ‘WHY BHOULD WE WONDER ~ ~ that peoplo and parvenues seek to push into public life, when & associations are 0 mspir- ing? Horo, in tho cemetery, one might well wish to rest, with tho associations of tho Capital around Lim, Here the poor scribe might take pleasuroin tho anticipation of lyiog down close y the spot where ho has fretted out the years of Lis youth, seeling to tarn aside s foreordain- od natjonality moving nnder irresistible impulse, with the little dam of words—words—words. RIDE TO GREAT FALLS. If this country bod no. Nisgars, the .Great Falls of the Potomac would be one of its most celebrated ornaments. It is astonishing 6 know how fow people of Washington has_ever visited . Tho road to the spot lesds over fho gentle level of the great aquoduct, and is a charming eucceseion of .sights, . prospects, and lonesome strolches ; but the road is unfortunately un- paved, and, therefore, in wet woather; is bardly puseale. A slow bt agroasble way of gottimg 1o the Falls is by o quaint little steamer, whi runs up the canal, carrying mails and passen- ers to Point of. Rocks, every alternate dsy, e locks on this canal are among the most magnificent in the world ; and the entire trip to Harper's Ferry, which . consumes all the hours of daylight, is one of the most agree- sble in our londscapes. It passes the Little and tho Great Falls, the great archover Cabin Jobn Runp, the Seneca quarrics, the bat- tle-fields of Ball's Bluff and Monogacy, aud alon the whole line of that haunted etream whi ecems _to ocho forever those dcepand olden fones = All quiet on tho Potomsc.” The Great Falls itself is'something of a canal- village. ‘Thore is a large and commodious houso for the Canal Company, and n storehouse and £omo shanties put up o accommodate Inborers on the squeduct. The canal and the creck most be crossed to get to the Falls, which are situnted o quarter of & milo from the village. The Fall itself can be beheld from the rocky precipices which inclose it, in_all the and loneliness. A series of strong and heady rapida fleck the wide river as it come narrowing .down toaseries of strewn rocks, somo of them of formidable size. Between soms of the greatest of these, the river tumbles in_elbow-form, and, procesding & fow feet farther, dashes again into 8 aack gorge, surrounded with zisked steops long “whicts tho firs and forest-£rees aro reve in the back-ground, hemming in the lomesomo pool with stern and befitting -foliages. Back of Lo Great Falls, on the Maryland side, ate the villages of OTutt's Cross-Boads and Rockville, 35 woll a3 8 gold-mine which has produced sev- eral fine nuggete. On tho Virginia side ara. the towns of Drainesville and Leesburg, and the beantifal Difficult Creek, which formod a fea- fure in the War of Secession. FIGURES. The Great Falls are 108 feet above tide-water, 10 can be relied upon for a eupply of 96,000,000 fi:flnu per diem. Andrew Ellicott first suggested 0 Great Falls as tho source of the city's wator- pply; and, sixty years' aftorward, Lieut. Meiga confirmed his jadgment. OUR CANAL. The average movementof freight by the Poto- mac Canal is about 850,000 tonnage, bringing & netrevenue of npwards of £200,000. The toll E::hno! coal from Cumberland to Georgetown generally been 4 cents, and on gtain SLE0 Jox fon. The canal has s debt of about §3,500,- . Itcostsin all, to deliver coal to vossel at Georgetown from the coal-field, $2.183¢ per ton, —Wharfage standing at 35 cents. R GEQRGETOWN COLLEGE. Oldish, castellated, with quecr, feudal-looking Found towers, stands Georgetown College on tha belghts above the Potomac, with & deep fu- dereal vale winding below, and the sprawling, :hmm,g. islet-sprinkled river brawling away rigat te, eorgetown College is the largest Jesuit cal- 1789, the main edifice 1791. It was founded by Joln Cagroll, first Archbixhop of Baltimort, who -Flanders. He gathered -together the Catholics | ' rathor than a renounced his interest the Dnfld.ingt;m and otheér estates when he" became a priest in 1771, Hoe was educated at Bohemis, Md., and §t. Omer, of Montgomery Connty and .adjacent parts, while sbil 1n his youth ; procosded fo, Conuge with Dr. Franklin, and Charles Carroll, his rela-- tive, to make an alliance for the Revolutionary Coldnies ; led & devout and besutiful life, and. died Dec. 3, 1815, at Baltimore. ‘In this college Lived, for moro than forty years. after her hus- band's tragio death, the widow of. Btephen Deca. tur, and his portrait hangs in the college, *All the Carrolls of Duddington are buried there. < ! WASHINGTON'S CHURCH. 97 On Washington's birth-day I weat to Alexan- driz, and paid & visit to the church where Wash- ington worshiped after Pohick was abandoned. It s a brick structuro, with s steeplo, surround- ‘ed by very:aged tombes. Within it is &n old-fashioned pulpit, which used to- have & sounding-bourd over lt, snd'side-gallorie ‘The pew of Washington is on tho rector's right hand, and is’a donble and commodious pew. Onthe saamo aisle, behind Washington's paw, is Robart E. Lee's. The Vestry have ‘recently erccted, on each sido of the pulpit, momorial : tablets to Washingtonand Lee. .~ . ' . - On one side of _ that pulpit, the founder of s crude, ill-educated, half-aronsed. nation of-men ives charactor even to the religion of which e was & dovotee.” On the other side, scooped, into combination with Washing: ton's femo, is » men who..did ‘ot Imow tho distinction betwoen his locility and his country.” A very weak man with all the respec- tabilities, Loo hnd soldlerly capacities” natural and inberited. The talents, the eloguence, the affection, and tho manhood' thrown. away dpon. the idol of Slavery were sufficient to. have made 5 great empiro insome other quarter” of the world,, Tho, corporation of Alexaudria does, not possess the powar, if it had the population of the Alexandria of old, to' maka'the weak and grace- £ul oo tho poer of tho stern-and sublimo Wash- gton. Human nsture has probebly nover been _ ornamonted . - with the ' equal of Washington. Calm, ' sedate, : sclf- respecting, soul-consulting, noble in' bearing, formidsble in arms and patience, tho na founder of a mighty Stato, & great son, and Dlessed by Nature without heirs to tarnish bis es- cutcheon; roasoning, worshiping, ruling like the greatest of citizans, his charactor is -but half- |- comprehensible to our. weaker: flesh. He is al- ready a great, -diffused,’ unportrayed essence, o porsonality. i . There ¢an be much said in: Led's. favor; but it will all be apology. And who over uso\ogx;uq for Washington? Thst wonld indeed bo the' hoight of snobbery. ST GaTH. .- LITIZ, AND MORAVIAN: CUSTOMS. Litin!' At that name flxevcitg, with its hurry-| and bustle; its tall buildings and crowds of gaily- dressed people, fades away ; .and in it stéad I see ‘again- the - quaint-Moravian village‘whers pedestrians are fow, and-vehioles -yet fower. I troad once moro its silent, moss-grown streets ; seeing, on either- hand, the low, rough-stone honses whose emall, square windows are all draped alike in simplo white. Atthe endof -the principal street stands the seminary, Peaceful cnough it looks in its cool, white robe, of which (for the timeis June) X caich stray -glimpsos through ' tho hesvy greencry of the lindens from: which the. building tskes _its name. . One- would ~ think it just the placo for s quiet, uneventful life; but it has at lesst ods, bitter heart-history. = Beveral. -'years -ago the Principal.of Linden Hall fnarried" eyed, queenly-looking woman, who shared his -tome justthrea months, and thén left him “forever. The sudden trouble darkéned heartand mind,: and, resighing his position; he left the'place to | shut~himself up alike. from éympathy snd Adjoining the seminary stands the church,—a ‘handsome building, which wonld do credit to a ‘much largor place. 'The Moraviss services have » pleasint ‘flavoring ‘0f "those ~extrsmes of' Protestantism; the Methodist and : Episeopal de- nomination,—uniting the severe simplicity of the ' firsk to some of the forms of the second. The Moravian manner of ‘celébrating ' Christ-] mas if very peculiar, and at the same time “vory sdmirable. : Chrigtmas Eve, avery -house: ig thrown open, and you are free to enter, though the himates. ba ‘perfect s ;, nnd 'viow-the Christmas tree.- They do-mot content_them- ot an than bg " ety 1B dokorting the Iatter. - (o, T xomomaber, sap. reeented an-elegant country-estate.The - was misde.of soft, green moss, through which ran & glass canal, holding running.. water ; the ‘wholé thé effect of .a clear brook wanderin; through verdaiit meadow-Iands. ~ Trees .dotk the mimic landscape, - -in -whoso -branches lodged ' -the -tiniest of -ty ~birds. You wero. .supposed.. to reach ~ tho hand- some’ - mansion” by -roads:-of --Bnowy gravol. There were summer-houses, azd glass deer, and Srooden cotvs, and tin horses, and wooly sheep, and everything that one can imagineto complete the charming idea. _Early in the evening, evety- necessary, destructive of the very harvest the mers seek. Threo weeks later the babies would be independent of their mothers, and their king, if they were to be killed, worth more than the ehilling which those of thepoor, starved baby soals now fotch. The lLorrible indifference of man to the sufferings of the lower animals is one of the vilest ot hia vices. - 5 —_— LITERARY NOTES. - ‘Thero is some prospect of & revised edition of the Encyclopedia Britanmica. P —Mrs. Grote has completed the memoir of her late husband. - S —The ‘Germans have been trying to recover. Max Mauller, but he declines to leave Oxford for the University of Strasburg. * - —The Cobden Club are about to ‘publish Mr. Cobden's letters. Mr. Henry Richards, M. P., will edit them. G - —Tho Tai Sei Shembun is s Japanese paper published in London. It contains s lead- er, written Dby ‘the Japanese editor, on -the characteristics of the English press. Thero are, besides these, n doscription of Windsor Castle, and an illustrated article on Napoleon. In Japan, the Japaneso are taking to journalism with great zest. Newspapers are epringing up on every hand. This new element of civilization will enlarge their vocabulary and thoir experienco. The Government haa sum- marily suspended some: of the_ papers, and the “libertyof the press " must ere long be a slogan of Niphonian politi —Tho Early. English Text Society has made arrangements to roprint gradually all of its texts that are out of print.- It will dovote to this pur- posoall the money received for saloof past yoars’ books, a8 well as the #pecial subscriptions for the reprints. Dr. Richard Morris’ second and revis edition of *“The Story of Genesis and Exodus” isnearly out of the printer's handa, = 5 —A Dickens’ Concordanco, by W. F. Peacock, of Manchestor, England, is now in press. Five “years havo been given to its preparation. —A fine copy of Capt. John Smith’s * History of Virginia,” folio, 1627 (the dedication copy to the *Duchess of Richmond and Lennox ), was 801d for £146, at & recent auction in London. —An edition of Momes%xuun‘a works, on which . Mr. Louis Vian has beon busy for ten years, is soon to.ba issmed. Ono of jts features. will ba ‘the restitution from the MSS. of g]flfi!l gzes cut out by the State Censor, who, when Montes- quiou wrote, did his work in o' very intolerant snd elashing style. . . . S5 . —A series of the literary productions of the ‘most d.\ahfigmflhfld Irishmen is about to be pub-- lished by Mosers. Smyth, of Dublin. . - . ) —The latest piecd of litarary handwork by Mr, Carlyle is. now-in the hands of the public. It consists of an appendix to the people's edition of his * Lifo of Schiller,” the publication of which was put back for several months in order to ena- ble the venarable man of letters to make this ad- dition to the volumo.- The appendix consiats of- matter translated .from the German, giving an account of the Schiller family, as well a8 of much of the early life. of Schiller himself, which has not hutharto been known to English readers. —Another monument to Robert Burua is tobs erectod at Glasgow by shilling subscriptions, which alrezdy amount to $6,000. B —Harpor’s Library of Select Novels {s just rounding out its four hundreth yvolume. Oddly eonough No. 1is ““Pelham,” and No. 390 ia *Go- dolphin,” both by Bualwer, and’ the list extends over a period of forty years. -~ —Garibaldi ‘is eaid to be .writing a novel entitled *‘The Hyens of .Paris.”” .It1s believed that thia title refers to the ex-Empress Eugenie. Robert Browning has ready for the pross & new poem. The_gcene is afm 1aid in France, and the subject, like that'of the * Ring and the Book,” is judic e —§ir John Binclair, . P., is preparing for the greualbnnk on_the late Franco-German. war. | % is to be published simnltaneously in English, —The work which AL .Victor .-Hugo is now completing at Guernsey is said to be » novel callod Quatrovingt-treize,” the scene of which ;n laid in the second period of the French Revo- -lation. ) —LXarl Russell's book on Christianity, to ap- +pear..goon, s, ** The Rise and 088 of the Christian Religion in the West of Europe, fram the Raign of Tiberius-to.the Council of Trent.” —Since Touise Colet died, in 1871, at Nice, | Goorge Sand is the oly living” feminine writer in France whose pen_has proved a plume d'or. Mmé. Colet, a very voluminous writer, was once poor governess, and lefé s fortune of 700,000 or 800,000 francs. George Sand is still richer. . —The curions romance of the * Holy Grail,” fall of chivalry and the Catholio faith, 18 about to be fully translated for the first time into mod- ern Fretich by M. E. Hucher. ' The text will be & manuscript of the thirteenth century, the ear- liost_known, in the dialect of Picardy, and the work will form three volumes. * ~The Camden socioty will publish a chronicle written by Grogory Skinner, who was Mayor of.. TLondon in the year 1452. The -work, which ap- pears to have escaped tho notice of ‘John Stow and of all Eugsoquent_inquirers, contains much new and interesting information concerning the body that can possibly do g0. goos to church ;. -and I asgure you they lose nothing by it,;even in s temporal sense. e *= After. a ‘short servico, the Sisters, wearing drab-dressos; whito aprong, and small, dainty white caps, enter with wax' tapers; which, they light, giving ono to each child present; this represente'the star or light which the “ shep-. Tords, keeping watch' by. night,” saw and fo) Jowed. - Going ont again,. the- Sisters reappear with'trays and baskets ; thoformer bearing cups of 'fragrant coffee, tho latter: hnldingmmout de- Yicious coffee-cakes, These being distributed, one ‘cup’ and cake to each’ person, whether members or strangers, . the.. choir (which is gorved later), chants - the.. words which, uttered nearly two thousand years ago, and re- uttered 50 many myriads of ‘times eince, have yot lost nothing of their divine_joy and swoet~ Doss: * Glory to God in the highest, and on ‘earth peace, good will towards mep.” - Just behind the church lies the Moravian 4 God's Acre.” All the stones are 1aid flat npon the graves; each one boars the. nama, the usual datos, and agmo gimpls epitsoh, No' display or distinction is allowed ; and the' stone which marks the last resting-place of one who Was & wealthy land-owner 18 just the same ss that which charitable hands have placed over what was onco & beggar at his door.. s For down the street is & long; white fence reaching it, and psalini through tho gato, Lenter whai s called ‘Ths Bpring." Horo, a: the farther end, is the original spring walled in, but allowed to flow out through the grounds in a clenr, brond stream. Spanning it at intervals “aro two moss-covered, stone bridges; -and rustio seats are. scattered here and there under the lofty trecs. T & ] Standing on the soft, velvety grass, watching . the mischieyons sunbeamms’ stenl . through™the dense branches to hold riotons .carnival on the green-sward. I feel the influence of the intenso stillness which broods over. all the place, until, it recms to me that Lo lesve the struggling, ‘noisy; -outmde - world, to dwell in this serenely sncient village, would' insiire one perfect peace and happiness. R e But euddeniy I oatch- tho faint, swoet strains_ of far-off music. Up in the. steeple th?‘ are playing the oustomary three airs for the death of some one. Ah! even here they have death! Even here, remembering the sad drama enacted at Linden Hall, sorrow goes hand in hand with o, And 8o, a8 the Iast mournful notes die out on the summer-hir, I turn my faco sgain to the busy, outside world. Behind me lies the quaint Moravian vil.hga, silent asa cityof the dead, ‘under the cloudless June sky. - Béfore me stretch long vistes of dull, gray, working-days, wherein shall bo many battles, many defeats, but also rome victories, Better fifty years of Europe than a cyclé of Cathay1 reigns of Henry VI. and'Edward IV. New light is cast apon the rebellion of Jack Cade, and novel and highly characteristic anecdotes of Margaret of Anjon and King Edward IV.are among the points of interost. ; —“Song in.Fable for the Nineteonth Cen" “tury” is the titlo of Owen Merodith’s. new volume. " 5 —A now _translation of the * Pargatorio " of _Danto, by Thomas W. Parsons, will be published in thefall. Dr. Parsons has already publishod his tranelation of the ‘ Inferno.” —Some London publishers have séized bodily onDr. J. G. Holland’s new story of ‘‘Arthur Bonnicastle,” before its completion in Scrib- mer, and reproduced it for tho benefit of Eng- Lsh novel-readers. The “ Lietters” of Mr., Tim- othy Titcomb are also to bo republished in Samp- son Low's che;fradition of American books, + —Tho Rev. Mr. Alger’s *“ Life of Edwin For- rest” will soon be completed. The reverond gen- tleman is also writing & discourso on insanity. —Joaquin Miller is stated to be writing a poem, entitled ** By the Bundown Seas,” which will be publishéd in London next fall. —Messrs, J. R. Osgood & Co. announce Mat- thew Arnold’s’ *“ Essay Toward & Botter Under- standing of tho Biblo,” just published in Eng- 1and, under tho title . Literature and Dogma. —A cnrious forthcoming book on early Ameri- cax history and customs is Mr. John B. Dillon’s “Historical Compendium of Early ‘Remarkablo Laws Enacted in tho English Colonies on the Bubjects of Religion, Morals, Education, Lands, Blavery, Indisns,” &¢. i —Gén. Trochu has a ‘¢ History of My Life” nearly ready, - —ir. Froude will rfily, in a" preface to tho second volume of “ The English in Ireland,” to tho critics of tho first volume. . “—Afr, Mortimer Collins has in praparation a freatiseon “Rhythmic Algebrs,” in which a sclen- tific riotation is applied to the scionco of rhythm. —Mr, Justin McCarthy's new novel, ‘A Fair Saxon,” deals o s large oxtent with the Feninn question in Ireland itsclf, his scenes being Iaid in that country and in England. His herois an M. P. for Ireland, who doprecates the rising and, Jik'e most reconcilers, i suspected by both sides. —The Marquis de Chambrun, who has resided in Washington for nearly fifteen yoars, hag writ- ten o book ontitled ‘ Le Pouvoir Executif sux Etats-Unis; Etudoe do Droit Constutionnel.” (Ex- ecutive Powexi an tho United States; a Study of Constitptional Law., —The veteran ).u)storisn, Le:gold Ranke, of -Berlin, announces as nearly rei for publica~ tion a selection of the corrcspondence between Bunsen and the late King of lerick o easintan illiam IV., from thoir earliest acq: ce in e s tho end of tho lifo of the King. ‘Another work by the same_suthor, “ The Gene- sia of the Prussian Btate,” is advertised as in the press. —_— Seal-Skin Munting, *The London Spectator contsina the following description of the cruel mothod of taking the peala: The seal-hunters rendezvous near Jan Meyen (72 or .78 degrees north Iatitude), the earest place for - seals, sbout- the third week in March, when the baby seals are just born, The harpooner chooses 3 place where 8 number of Young seals are lying, and harpoons the moth- ers directly they come tosce after them ; -this makes the mothers ghy, and induces them to keep b o distance, snd the baby seals aro sbandoned. It is horrible to see the young ones trying to euck the carcasses of their mothers, thoir 6yes starting out of their sockets, looking the very picture_ of femine. They crawl over and over them until quite red with blood, poking them with their noses, no doubt yondering why they aro mot getbing their usual food, Sttering painful cries the whild, The noite they made is something dreadfal . If one could imag- ine himself surrounded ‘;{l Afour or five hundred thousand human babios all cryisg at the pitch of their voices, howonld have someidea of it. Their | cry is very like an infant’s. These motherless seals collect into lots of five or sir, and crawl aboat the ice, their heads fast becoming the big- lege in the country. ~ The oldest part was buils | gest part of their bodies, sesrching to find the nourishment they stand so much in want of. Buch cruclty is gruesome, and worse than un —Spielhagen’s latest movel is entitled * Tl- time, gthnngh it will probably not be his last. °A literary curiosity, * The Poems of Mary, Quoen of Scots,” is in preparation. Tho varsea of this Queen, collected from original and ob- scure m“c“"u‘x"m gcimpralmd with an introduc- ion by Mr. Julian Sharman. hu—A{:nvd by the Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, entitled ““La. {!lme ala Rubine,” will shortly Lo ublished. This novel, it is said, was Iaid be- oro M. Prosper Merimoo_ some time before his docense, and was corrected by him. —It is apnounped in the Paris papers that 3L Henri Rochefort has® wrx;tl:n ln: navel, ezhct[l';r: # Les Despraves,” during bis imprisonmont. Mibséor of fho im%,_ however, forbidden the publication of the worlk in France. . —Three new books from the feminine side of the Beecher house ara in preparation. Besides Alrs. Beecher Stowe's ** Palmetto Leaves,” Mrs. H. W. Beecher is to print a series of ** Motherly Talks with Young Houncheopers,” fall of com- mon sense, and supplemented by redq?ua; and Miss Catherine Bsecher proposes & ouse- ‘something of the same order, also with recipes. i —Lord Lytton was fond of publishing works anonymously; but Lie usualiy avowed the author- ship 2fter a shiort while. It is aid the reason ho x0 strictly concealed the fact that he wrote the * Coming Race” is, that it contsins a pmfcfllmlfi of his feith,—s profession he slways ghrank from making openly. His ideal race believe, it may b recollected, in & Subreme being, the Ali- kcoper and Henltbkeoper,” Good, but hald no other dogmes, and use no re- ligioudrites. —We are now told that the Earlof Aberdeen had the that the lstter knew who the snthor -of “Junius " was, and that Bir Philip Francis was Dot the man. s negative assurance would be more: satisfactory if Pitt- had completed it by confiding to Lord Aberdeon the réal name of the aathor. - As it is, the controversy has : scarcely any new ground to start afresh. ~_The ‘memorial of Horace Gresloy which Whitelaw Beid, of the New York Tyibune, is en- mufl upon, and which will. soon appear; con- 8 the poems of Edmund Stedman and Bayard Taylor, and the funeral addresses of Dr. Chapin- and Henry Ward Boocher. A volume of the late Mr. Greeley's loters will contain numerong let~ ters written by him daring the campaign and im- ‘mediately prior to his desth. Thesoletters have boen sent_to Miss Ida Greeley by their recipi- ents, in order to give assurance that ha was in possessionof Lis reason at the time they ware itten. £ e —The Hon. E. G. Bquier, of Frank Lestie’s; Is understood to be engaged on a work about Bo- via. A —Onatelar, tho great Spanish Republican, has issued a. “ Life atg}fuesfi;m "'a volume of 150 pages, which is said to be one of the most re- | marksblo works in Spsnish literature. - —Santa Anna has been writing s book, this winter, on “ Mexican Affairs,"” sad & Boston firm is to publish it, - —'ho New York Daily Graphio is. the first illustrated daily newspsper ever published, and seems to be a success. It was started s month ago, and from the first has taken the popular fonty. o print every day a pictorial paer hult as large as Harper's Weekly, secms aun im- ])oui'hln feat; but the Graphic.doesit. Iis il- lustrations are produced by s secret process of chemical engraving, which in two hours converta a_drawing into an electroplato. Some of the pictures are also evidently prepared by one of the numerous heliotype processes, Which con- sist-in_photographing the drawing upon the plate that ia o bo used o tho printing-pross 0 pliotograph is esten out by acids, withont theintervention of a graver. -Bosides its econo- my, this process has the merit of fidelity to the original._Every lino_and touch of the’ artlst is roproduced in fac-simile, and they are delivered from tho murderous botching of the engraver, Who 18 their worst enemy. - By those pro- cesses, B snga of. pictures ' can be prepared and .printed ss quickly ‘a3 reading-matter, and st loast as cheaply. The numbers of the Graphic before usshow clearly what an immense. field this new journal- ism has. One page presents the spring fash- ions; another sketches the burning of the Erio Railroad forry-houses and freight depots, the night before; on another is s portrait of the Bank of England forger, McDonnell, just ar- rested. Tho Langing of Foster. gave a fine op- portunity to show what could be done in the way. of pictorial reporting. - Foster was hanged at 9:27 in the morning, and before noon the first edition of the Graphic was on the street. It contained, besides s full letter-press account of the affair, » series of illustrations telling the story of tlie' murder and trial, from the al- mn_{lon :in the street~car down dh the ging,—giving every scens, - -and por- traita of ol the phsscpgers of tho tragedy. Those who have watched the progress of chem- ical m:fi’nfi':g for the last year or two, have nover doubted tho success of such s paper, if well managed, as the Graphiohas cortainly been. 1t opens » new era of journalism, in which To- porters aro to be artists, and newspapers, like illustrated moral handkerchiefs, will combine pictorial entertainment and utility in happy pro- ortions. There can be no doubt but artand journalism areto be powerfully affected by the innovation, Iti effect upon art cannot be' much less marked than the effect of journalism upon literature,” To the Graphic bélongs the creditof beginning this movement, but it will probably ba but afew years before the multiplication of processes for chemical engraving, and the owth of the publio appetits for this pictorial f;mxliam, ill make illustration & matter of iaumewixhevary daily newspaper in - the coun- Iy. At tho spring of an arch n the great north tower, High uy, on the wall s an angels head; * And bencath it ia carven lily flower, - ‘With delicate wings at the side uxtspread. 5 They eay that the sculptor wrought from the face *0f his youth’s lost love, of hig promised bride; And when he hsd added the last sad grace To the features, ho droppsd hts chisel and ded. And the worshipers throng to the ahrine below, And the sightacers come with thelr curious eyes; But deopin the shadow, yliers nono may know Iis besuty, tho gem of his carving Hos, ‘Yet at early morn on & midsummer’'s day, When (he sun is far o tho ncrth, for tlie spssa Of & fow short minutes, thero fals'a 3y, * Through an amber pane, on an angel’s face, It was wrought for the eye of God; nnd it seems That he bleases the work of the desd man's hand Wilh a vy of thé golden lglt it sircams On the lost that are found in the deathless land. * Two Anecdotes from Brantome. “Hero is little trait of the great -Covstable do Montmorenci, which gives.s completing touch to the many tors historians have - drawn of Fim, bat which assuredly. might bo sought in vain in any other pages than thoso of our gos- siping suthor. . Brantome is_remarking that he was such an excellent Christian, and- “nover failed to maintain Christianity in himself as long as he lasted, nover derogating from it." Hetells ‘many stories of his unbridled Violence, tyrann) and injustice with unqualified sdmiratio but “ho never failed'to say and kesp up (éntre- tenir) his paternosters every morning, whether o rémained in- tho_house, or went out to the fiold, to the army. Bo it Wasa common esying smong the soldiers that one must beware of the. paternosters of the Constable. For as disorders ‘ero very fraquent, howould say, while mumbling and muttering his paternostors all the time, ‘ Go and fotch the fellow, and hang me him up to this tree!’ ‘Out with a file of harquebusiers horo before me this inatant for the execution of thisman!" ‘Burn me this villego instant- Iy!l' ‘Cut me to these ieces_at onco -all villain peasants, who ive dared to hold - this church against the King!’ . And all this. without ever ceasing from his paternosters till he had finished them, thinking that he.would have done very wrong to put them off to another time ; so conecientions was hel” - Thereis a little anec- dote of Bayard, the ¢ Chovalier sans pour et sans reproche,” which, despite the sbundance of record we have of Bayard, the resder .will thank Brantome for having preserved. It was at the rotreat of Rebee, 80 disastrous for France, .that Bayard was killed, shot by an- harquebusque. in _ the back while protecting: the retreat... He had been helped to dismount, and was lying undor a tent, which dm‘conrtes%‘ol Percaro, tho General on the Spanish kido, 1iad ordered” to be placed over him whil hé died. And as he thus 1ay, the rene- gado Constable . Bourbon, who. was fighting in the ranks of. the. enomy, passed . by snd eaid, “Ah‘ M. do- B:gln‘l, in -troth- Ism sorry for you!” To whi thuii(vlng heroreplied: * the love of Heaven, ‘Monsieur, do not be gorry for me._I am dying for my King spd for my faith. Be sorry for yoursel(; you are nfima 2gainst your faith ‘and. against your %l Bourbon hung his head, anc J0n withéut pasBe another word.—The Cornhill,- -~ i e e O RAILROAD MISHAPS, ' Herback was all I saw of her ; To ueo her faco I tried in vain, Until her fellow-paasenger * Got up and left tho train. T changed my seat and looked sgain; 80 sweet a faco I never saw | An eye with depths of soul within, 7 Aface without s flaw, Dat 281 gazed T asiv » tear Roll down her opal-tintéd cheek ; And casting off all thoughts of fesf, 1 courage found to speak— ‘4 Why are you weeping, fairest maid, 8ay, why should so much besuty cry " 1 40 not woep,” she tartly mid, “I've got 8 cinder in my eye ¥ [ —— A, . The Calcutta Cranes One distinguished visitor which honors Cal- catta with it8 presence only during the rains is far too remarkable to be forgotten. This s the adjutant, a gigantic crane, standing about four feet high, with s large, heavy body, s small bead, s huge bill, and wings which are said sometimes to measure twelve feet from tip to “tip. A more ungainly and caricature-like bi probably does not exiat, butjit is usefal, like the jackal and the crow, a5 a great devourer of Totuse, and in eald alko to qestroy rats and snakes. It certainly swallows iumps of eolid bone larger than » man's fist, and aomes_frealy about the houses and compounds, and is per- fectly quiet and harmless, but the most quaintly ugly creature lLiving. -Its body is gray and black, ita neck red and bare, with acurious fleshy pouch dangling in front, and its huge besk the same color, while its long lezshave exactly the sp- srance of being covered with white stackings. Whether standing with ite head buried betwe ita shonlders, sitting on the sxmmd with its long whits legs stretched forward in the most swk- ward and unbirdlike attitude, fiying, pemhx:gé or hanging itself out to dry when ita great bl wwings are saturated with rain, na words can ron- der justice to its extravsgant uncouthness.— Orerland, Inland, and Upland. nent and positive assurance of Pitt- - when he consented to mention m; DIAMOND- CUT " DIAMOND. " - Ool. Nathaniel J. Qooling—better -known. as Cool Rat—of Coolington, Ban Joaguin County, in the Stato of Californis, was s fellow-peasenger of mine on that well-known trans-Atlantio steain- , tho Magnolia, famous alike for the rapidity- ot ber osean voyages, the abeance of mapkins st meal'times, and_the bluft ‘heartiness of her ex- collent commander. As is, or rather was, inva-- riably the case, the Magnolin bad re- ceived. &~ very good ‘‘end - off,” -.the friends - of the. passengers mustering in grest strength, and accompanying their earty wishes for & swift passago,- quick return, and & “ good time " generally, with-a - brisk con- sumption of the sparkling fluid which flows with such unfailing liberality on the athereide of the Atlantio. Busy 28 I was in pledging my numer- ous friends, I yet found 2 moment to steal s glance - at .my room-mate—the traveler who occupled the one other berth in my atate-room—and, exchanging cards' with him over & glass of ?:&;mmm, was charmed to find - domicilisry partner _for the next the ~ celebrated, or notorious, erson’, . whose name I have montioned. im rumors of = daring deeds, dome, : OF 88 80me mmwidcll purists would.rather say, Earpsm . during the ear]y days of the Golden States, had reached my ears from time to time, and with m::nicl these the name of Nat Cooling waa associat Of the origin of *this great man ‘but little was kmown. . Those who loved him best and obeyed that excellont law, * Speak well of the rich,” declared that his youth had been Y::B- ed in the Iucrative business of importing ** black- ‘birds,”—in . other words, in the slave-trade,— while those who were actuated by higher nilrind- ples, that is, hated or envied thesuccessful spec- ulator, declared that a short but brilliant career of piracy bad laid the foundsation of his great fortune. All that waa certainly known was that the Colonel turned up in California during the flm;:fmptumfl of the gold fever, and that his epecnlations in mining and other operations had been attonded: with solid success.: Where he was ‘‘rained” remained a mystery, for tho Colo- 1el, althopgh very communicative on all subjects relating fo Lis . residonce in Califor- nis, maintained & sovere - reticenco " as to his = happy _boyhood and ~ probably stormy youth. ~ Neithor. his sppearance nor his speech betrayed his supposed naatical snte- codents, nor did his outline betray the numerous angles that the American physique is often cred- ited withal. He wasa plump, broad-shouldered ‘man, tho said broad shoulders being surmounted by a'large bullot-head covered with a close-cat crop of etiff, black hair, His face, with the ex- ception of the upper lip, was clean-shaven, and his goneral expression waa one.of frank bon- homiee. - There were mowents, however, when a singular exprossion flashed from his fino dark d on.these rure occaslons it was conjure 2& s scend in the summer seas of the Indian Archipel- ago with a ecuttled ship_slowly settling down in the dark blue water, and a rakish-looking craft almogt hull down upon the horizon. Col. Cooling rejoiced in a velvet coat and s loose necktie of sanguino hue, but it Was impos- sible to enjoy Lis gociety for any length of time without observing the immense diamond soli- taire which adorned his lsrge but well-shaped hand. This wasnot merely a large diamond, but a brilliant such as is rarcly secn. It threw out flashes like a lime-light, and blazed with al- most intolerable radiance. One splendid sum- mer_afternoon, 88 the Magnolia was doing ber best to make short work of the Atlantic, the Oolonel canght my eye fixed in admiration on his ificent jewel, and launched at once into the following story : < T guess, neighbor, you air takin' advantige of the fine ‘weather fo kinder photogrsph my diamond. - It's worthi the troubls, yes, sirrr! Not only for the valley of the stone, bt for the high old time I had in gettin” it. -You see I ain’t a New Yorker, and nover set eycs on the Empiro City til. & fow weeks ago, when I kim around from 'Frisco to. make s Europisn tower. In Californy we air hang on gold, that's & fact, but we don't pan out much on diamonds, though they air mighty usefal goods when & citizen finds things pretty well petered out in his old diggins, and wants to vamoose the ranch,’ and make tracks for & new er. But no soonerhad I landed, and got wi fixed at the New York Hotel, than, making a bee-line for the Dar, Ifound all the folks ron dismond mad. In most settlements I am acquainted with, the tallk Tuns mostly on dollars, but in the big city I heard ‘of nothing but diamonds. It seems that some old don' married a pretty young . gal. some little time ago, and that the show. of jewels.at the dismond weddin’ had set everybody stark starin’ madon brilliants, Every boy was braggin’ on’ his dismonds, and some of 'em seemed to hold a full hand. Wal, after my third cock Lk a fresh cigar, and began to foét that the diamond fovar was kinder ketchin’, and ssid I. fo myself, “ Nat Cooling, you never was & one-horse person nor a cuss as Would take s back seat_anywheres. If you ajr goin’ to pan out on dismonds yonmust do’it heavy.' by LA ke “Dein' on such .oncommon. good: terms with myself, I took . another drink, and then fell talkin--diamonds with a very elegantly-dreseed gentleman, who gave ‘mo 10t of points on the subject. After a few more cocktails I told my new friend that I must get 5 diamond, but 'that it must be. the biggest in New York. - The gentleman wore .2 handsome stono himself, which he said was as good as he could pay for, but remarked that he thought he knew whero to find an A 1 brilliant, in fact, the aye- srunnest stone in tho world. T laugh, I do,when I think how anxious I.was to gee.if, and how much I felt indebted to.the yom'zf gentleman lesire for the bi? est diamond in New York to his friend. He told me that he did not think hia friend would soll. In fact, ho was prelty sure he wouldn’t, but that I might havo a sight of the stoneif I would breakfast with him at Delmonico’s at 12 o'clock next d:x . “This looked all right; and the next morning I'was punctoosl to my appointment, was intro- duced to my friend's friend—nlso an elogant gentlemln—nnd sat down to the very best break- fast I had over seen. I didn't, however, eat much more than a_three-year-old b'ar, my mind waa 80 took up with tho dismond. Nothin' that T had ever secn in tho sparkling way was a cir- cumstance to it. Long before we got to the cof- fee and cigars I made - resolution to have that diamond, But when I led up to the subject the owner gaid that no money would induce him to art with a gem which had been given to him b dncesded mother on her deathibed, I fels kinder streaked at this, and wondered why boys who naver care .what' their parents say when livin’ should pay so much attention to their wishes when dead. However, the party broke up,'snd I invited my now friends to dine with mo onthe morrow. But I had dismond on the brain, eonld neither sleep nor drink, and sctooal- iylosts bifii]e of dollsrs at poker throngh try- ing for & straight flush in diamonds. -At our Boxt meoting L noticed that tho propristor of the diamond looked discouraged about somethin', and told him what a bad time Thad had at poker. - 4+ Ahl’ gaid he, ‘Iam the moat unlucky man in the worldl. Last night I lost ten thousand dollars at faro, coppering_ the jack. He won nineteen times running, and left me desd broke with nary red in my pocket.” * A “‘Now, thought I, is my opportunity, s, alter sympathisin’ with him, I raked up. the dia- mond subject agin, He did not like the idoo at all at first, and kicked and cavorted like s viclous mustang, but at_ last, refloctin’ that his debts of honour must bo met, he caved in and parted with the diamond, after kissin' ft sgin and sgin, with tears in_ his eyes, for ten thousand dollars cash, on my promising that it ever Tahould want to part .with the .stono, I would give him the option of repurchasing it at the same price, addin' 7per cent'interest for thetime I 1aid out of my money. I must own that I folt pretty hunky over my. bargain, and promising myself great pleasura.in New York and in Europa ont of my big diamond, got pretty high, and proposed a game of euchro to Iy companions, just to-while away the time. T have played alf Gorts of games in my time inall sorts of company, but the game of enchre was a. caution. 1t seemed square enough even.to me, but the cards ly ran. me in the queer- est way. Bo, after losing quite a pile, I thought it time to give over, and went to bed, thinkin’ that, aftor all, my dismond was some consols- tion.. But when, Dext morning, my friends did mot drop in to bxslkfl::l{ 88 they ‘grommsd, I began to feel myaelf weakenin’ on. the business altogether, and made tracks for a great lapi down town. After examinin’ the gem, ha tol e coolly that it was about the best bogus dia- moxd hs bd ever seen, bub thst a sham. it was,- and no ‘mistake. Yon, sir, may o my feelin's, not 6o much at losing ten thonsand dollara on the dismond, and a heap at play, as at the thought that I Cool Nat, of Ban_ Joiquin, had been gobhled by » couple of New York dead: beats. I guess my language was pratty heavy when, just as I had cusded all the wool off of my new overcoat, an ides kmiocked up agin my brain and struck in at once. I inquired where the greatest joweler and diamond merchant in'the -city kept, sad after showing him my bogus gam, and swearing him to secrecy, asked if he couk fin s real dixmond like it. A ‘Ho told me_that he would do_his level bast to match it, and did 60 within thres hours, charg- ing me twelve thousand dollars for the stone. 1 then had it set in the ring in the place of my bogus one, and, putting Col. Bogus in my pocket, walked into the bar of myhotel. As I people said to her : had judged, these was more than two in the lit- 1a sn2cuistion § bed cuffered from. My friend and his friend had cleared out, ‘but I smelt pow- der when X heard the talk run’ upon .*Yes, sir,! enid one yonng blood, dressed up like a barber’s block ; * them "véry big stones is mostl; bogus,” casting at the samo timo s look af my ring. I went on taking* my bitters guite si- lont, and seemed kinder wrapped in my ring. But they wouldn't let me alone, and presently got up & bet smong themselves about their rings, and pitched upon me s umpire, for said one of ‘em, ‘Guess that strange gentleman as wears the Kohinoor ought to understand the subject.’ ry z “Town Ifelt verylike drawing my six-shoot- er, and clearing out_the crowd, but I kept my teinper, and said, ¢ Gentlemen, I don't under- stand small potatoes. - Them Littlo bits o things may ornot be genuine; butif you want to brag on diamonds I guess I'll take the pool’ At this they kinder eniggerod, and asked to logk at myring, Iletthem look as long aa they liked, but kept the ring on my finger. At last one of them said, ** That stone must have come pretty high, I judge.’ ¢ Yes, sir,-eaid I; ‘ten thousand dolfars. cash.’ At these words tney sniggered agin. Bo I, puttia’ on that I was riled, rounded on ’em eharp: ‘I don't know,. gentlemen, what you sce to izugh at.’ ‘Then the gracefullost ‘and politest cuss in the party eay8, quito solemn-like, ‘I fear i isnolaughin’ matfer for you, sir. I guess youair 5 stranger, and I suspect éome rascals in the ity here have stuck you with s imitation stone.” At this I prelendad to sile right up, and svore that T ought the ring of a perlect geatleman, and hud 1ad no end of Erouble to buy it at all. The polite man stiffencd up his back af that, mado some re- marks on gentility in genéral, and wound up by offering to bet £1,000 that my diamond was bo- oS, to put up the money right avay, sud lesve o maltor to be decided by any joweler named Dy the proprietor of the hotel. . = “Tnen I folt that I had strnck s lodo, and turning round sharply, ‘eays, * Lookes bero, smir; bets of 21,000 is good enough for a emall gamo, but when my word 18 questioned, and my property is Tun down, I put down my wholo pile, and I will back my diamond with my bottom dollar.' They kept their faces very well, but I could geo their eyes gliston, and I kmnew 'that -I had 'em safe. One B8id * hie couldn’t put up much juut then, but be could find eight thousand in half an hour, and would stako it with plessuro agiu mino.” Then another struck in, and thonght ss * I didn’t look satisficd with such a little bet, e would back his friond’s opinion for five thousand,’ and as T still képt on sayin' L was not goin’ to ‘ show my diamond: except for & bet of twenty thousand _ dollers, they scraped up sbout eighteen thoussnd smong them.. I covered the ‘money, and handed it over, with the ring and & written memorandum, to the propriotor..: A lap-- idary was named, called in, and decided at once that the dismond was gentiine. Quite & consid- erable scone fook place, aud the swindlors in- sisted on callin’ in anotlier witness, and I nearly busted ryself with lsughin’ when they iamed the very man I bought the stone of. When he. saw the stone, his face was astudy ; but he never let- on that he had seen it before, and said only. that it was perhaps * tho finest dismond be hed ever scen -in ‘s-ring,’ bowed to -the company, and walked off. To do my rascals justice, they showed .grit, drank the champagno I treated them to, and walked off coolly enongh. _ But the best part of tho joko is to come. ‘Tl story of my big betsomehow gotaround, | and all sorts of versions got into the papers. was interviewed protty heavily by reporters, and Col. Nathaniel J. Cooling, of San Joaquin, was credited_with owning the - biggest - diamond ring in New York, when who shonld walk into the hotel but my original friend e&nd his friend. The cusses, evidently-believed. that by some unheard-of chance they hmdpumhn!ed a1enl instead of 8 bogus diamond, and that they- 'ware no doubt raging in their innards to thin! that they hadn’t sold me.in the first instance, and had put the-gang in the hole for 218,000 But the stone was ‘now celcbrated, snd -they began tryin’ to work on me to lot 'em.have it back for 210,000, as I had mada ‘such a-.good speculation in bets. The original proprietor saidhe was infunds agin, and 't sleep for thinkin’ of his, mother's: ring. .Of:course he wanted itback to_ sell atabig profit,snd Tecoup the gang & bit. > I declined to soll,- £nd kept him off and on till T waa ready to start, and told um I must wear the ring tillIwas sboard ship, when, if he would pay down the ‘money in gold, he could have his ring again. You guess what X did ? No ?. Why the day before we sailed T had the real dinmond set in the ringyou sce on my hand, and Col. Bogus- put back into the old satting. My friends came on board, paid the money in_gold, stranger—nary shin-plasters =k od the ring and the same oldsham diamond they gold me, hoppy 88 coyotes round, a- desd :mule. I wonder how. they- like the' deal now! As far as I can figure it, I take about eighteen thousand by the spec—two-thirds in diamond, and the rest in gold. Our glorious Golden State is, I guess, the place to cut eyo-testh: in, and f‘jzndge the deadbeats of Now.York City wil not scon forget Nat Cooling, of San Joaquin. All the Year Round, A BUDBHIST LEGEND. In‘the village of Sarvathi there lived a young wifo named Reesah, who, at the age of 14, gave birth to ason ; aad sho loved bim withall the love and joy of the posseasor of a newly-fonnd treasure, for his faco was like & golden cloud, his eyes fair and tender as s blue lotus, and his smile bright and beaming like the morning light npon” the dewy flowers. But when the boy was abla to walk, and could run about the house, thore camoe a day when ho suddenly fell eick and died. And Keesah, "not undenstanding what had happened to her fair, Inms-uzed boy, ¢lasped him to her bosom, and went about the village from hozze to house, praying, weeping, and boseeching’ tho o0d people to givo Ler Some ‘medicin to” curo er baby. But the villagors and neighbors, on: sceing her, said:_ R $ . “Is the gitl mad, thatshe bears about on her. breast the dead body of Lor child?” Atlongth s holy man, pitying tie gitl's eor- row, 8aid to bimself: “‘Alns! this Keesah does not understand the Jaw of death ; I will tiy to, gamiort . * And bo snsiarad her, and aaid, Iy good girl, 1 caunot mysolf give you am mediding t cure your boy, Lot Chauna l.m1§ and wiso physician who can.” “ Oh!" eaid the young mother, ““do tell me who it is, that I may go at once to Lim ! And tho holy man replied, *He is called the Buddha ; he alono can cure thy child.” : Then Keessh, on hearing this, was comforted, and get out to find the Buddhe, atill clasping i her heart the lifeless body of her chil d when she found him, ehe bowed down before him and eaid : f “0 my lord and master! do- you know of any medicine that will cure my baby 2" ) And the Buddha replied, and said: “Yes, I know of one, but you must get it for me.” And she asked : ** What medicine do you want? | Tell me, that I may hasten in search of it.” And the Buddha eaid : “T want only a fow grains of mustard-seed. Leave here the boy, &nd go you and bring them to me.” The girl refused to part with her ‘blbg, but promised to get the seed for Lim. As she was abont to set ont, tho pitiful Buddhs, recalling her, said : : /)y elster, the mustard-sced that I re ‘must bo taken from a housa where o child, pa- églns:'sxubm\i, wife, relative, or slave has over o . The young mother replied, *‘Very good, my lord ;" and went her way,-teking hor boy with Der, ind setting him sstride on hor hip, with his lifoless head resting on her bosom. Thus she ::ne tro;n house to an.se,f h’untz“ '-h:a to I’Rt, ing for some grains of mustard-se 0 Hiad “Here ate the soods ; take them, and go thy way.” Bat she firat asked 1 “ is, my friend’s house, has there ever died child, a husband, & purent, or a slave 7" And they one and all repliod :**¢ Lady, what is this that thou hast said ?- Enowost thou not that the living are few, but that the deadare meny? There is mo & bouse as thon seekost.” Then ehe went to other houses and begged the ‘grain of mustard-soed, which they glody gave her, but to her questionings one aid, “I have lost & son;’ another, “I have lost a parent;” and. yet an- other, *Ihavo lost & slave;” and every one and all of them made gome such reply. At last. not being able to discover s ginj fi{mm freo from the dead, whenca she could obtain thg mubtard-seed, and feeling utterly faint and weary, uhe sat herself down npon & stone, with her boby in her lap, and, thinking sadly, said to olf, “Alas! this is a heavy tasl T8I I have undoriskes. Iam ot the only oas wholta lost hor baby. Everywhero children era dying, parents sro dying, loved ones are dying, and Srerywhers thoy 151l mo tna tho dead ara oo and went: off a8’ numergus than the living. Bhall T thon think only of my own sorraw?" Thinking thus, she suddenly summonad cour- age to put sway her sorrow for her dead baby, and sho carried him to the forest and Izid him down to rest under trso; zud having covered. him over with tender leaves, and taken her last Jook of hia Joved face, she betook berself once more to the Buddha, and bowed before him. And e said to.her: ¢ Sister, haat thon found the mustard-seed 7" 1 have not, my lord,” ehe replied; * for the peenle in the villago toll me there is no house in Shich some ono has not died; for the living are few, but the dead are many.” “And whare is your baby 2" . “Ihave lsid himunder s treein'the forest, ‘my Lord,” eaid Keesah gently. E en sald the Buddha to her: “You have found the grains of mustard-seod ;. you thought that you alone had lost son, but now you have | learned that the law of death and of suffering is among all living creatures, and that there is no permanence.” On_hearing this, Keesah was comforted, and established mtl\a&llh of virtue, and was thence- forth called Keesah Godami, the disciple of the Buddha.—Romancs of the Harem. ROMANCE OF STREET-BEGGING. Suit Between a Father and Paughter. From the St. Louis Democrat. In 1843 an Italian, named Domingo Cadamar- tori, camo to St. Louis, bringivg with him his wife, Paula, his daughtor Mary, the latter about 8 yoars of age, and two younger female children. The father appears to have been & profossional - street-beggar, and employed & nmnber of persons to go through the streets soliciting alms of tle charitably Sinposcd, Ho initiated Lis daughter mrfi into the art aud mystery of begging. teach ing her how to make appeals in tho most pitiful sccents, and teaching her.what sort of personsto ) pl£ to. He did not confiue Lis oporations ta St. Louis, but took his troupe of beggars ta Cincinnst!, Chicago, Nashville, and othor cities, and accumulatod & hapdsome fortune in a few: * YORtha o ‘Having 1aid up cuongh to mak$' him a prince inhis native Italy, Domingo, in 1861, left his family in straifened circumstancos, and returned to bask in the sunshine of fortune in the land of blue skies and balmy breezes. - and remained there for ten years. His family supposed he would never return, and his daughter, who had grom u to womanhood, undertook to support ier mother and sisters by following the profes- gion of har"fu(bur, Sho traveled from_city: to city, gathering . fractional currency, and would sometimoes remain away for sixmonths at a time, . playing a star_engagement 9s'a stroet-begzar. ing an adopt in ‘the art, she was quite succesafol, and always came back with Ler cor- sota well stuifed with stumps. She was in the habit of dopositing her fands for eafe keep- ing with the - Tressurer of the St. Louis Univer- sity, and, liko a dutifal child, made her doposita in the name of her mother. 'Thia continued un- til she had on deposit the handsome sum of £10,562.20. In the meantime she took unta Berself a husband—one Honry Capelle—whc atill lives with her. % When Domingo Csdamartori returnad to the city he sought his wife, and was rejoiced to hear that she wes in prosporons circumstancos, and Dad over 810,500 on_deposit. Ho went with lus wife to the University and demanded the money, and, a5 it had boen deposited in_her name, the Troasurer considered it hers. He gave s nota for the amount payablo ou the 39th of Jay, 1572, o tho order of Domingo Cadamarior, tha hus" band, at thé request of tho wife. Beforo the nota became due, Mary Capollo and her husband clsimed tho toncy,. nsuerting thai it was the property of Mary, ind that ehe Liad doposited it in the name of hier mother as trastea for hersolf. Suit was brought by tho Capelles, but by agree- mont was dismiaged without prejudice, on_con- dition that the University would fils an inter- ploader, and havo all the claiments braught inta court and the matter adjudicated.. Tho University accordingly filed s suit against Cadamartori’and wifé and Henry Capelle and wife, sotting forth the facts of the case, and saking leavo to pay the money into_court, and and that the ownenship bo_ detormiied by the court. = 4 ya 4 Domingo' Cadamantori ~ filed an _snswer, stating that ho went to Italy with tha inténtion of rémaining but s short time, but that circumstances kept Lim away for ten yoars; that he left his family in~ comfortable ' cirgumstances, and in the pos- .sesston of Bome real estate.” Ho denies that the ‘money was depdeited in the name of his wife sa trustee, and claims the whole sum as his. The anawer of the Capellea avera that Domin- g0 Cudamartori compelled his daughter Mary ta gofrom place to place as a. profesional beggar, and that whon he left the family in destitution, she, being expert and skillfal in the art of.beg- g, followed that occupation and accumulated 3 whole sum in dispute by her own exertions ; that she depositdd it iri the nime of her. mother a8 hertrustee, intending to claim it, and now du~ ‘mauds it as her Iswlal property. * The caso is rather & sinj ons, snd tho statement of the parties show that begging. ia one of the most lucrative of the fine arta. s —_—— . What grows bigger the more yon contract it ? Debt., = .. 4 *. Because Bo. Ca. stands for South - Carolina it doean’t' follow .that the inhabitants are all old socas (soakers). £ el B —An epicurean has discoverod that the pleas. antest ‘way to’ take cod-liver-oil is_to fatten pigeons with it, and then est the pigeons. 4 prudent’ clorgyman, nnwilling to accuse 3 citizen of lying, suid ha,used. the truth with penurions frigality. g8 . —The ovils of “*hairpin’ on my dsughter” ars illustrated by the Boston girl who foll down and drove oo half an inch into hez skull tho other —A French doctor has annoanced tke discov- fi'gflof & safeguard against hydrophiobis. It's o AR : : A Tennossce exchango impertinently . says that when one young womau asks. suother “What are your politics ?” elie only means to 5k what nevapapar sl profors for a buslo, —We always get -mad when we walk along a "street abont 9 o'clock at night, and passing a shadod porch where & young’ man is bidding his beloved a good night, Eaur tho girl 'oxch'ungin a Joud whisper: “ Ob, stop, Georgo; you haven't shaved!”: —The difference between- an”apt quotation and shut-up lancet is this: one is a case in point, and the other is & point in.case. _—What is the difference beiween a Jew and a lawyer ?—The one gets Lis law from the proph- ets, the other his profits from tho law. —A gentleman took the following telegram to & telograph office: ‘‘I announce with grief the death of Uncle James. Como quick.to read will.: T'believe we aro his Loirs.—John Black.” ‘The clerk, having counted the words, eaid “There are two words too many, sir” ‘All right, “cat out ¢ with grief.’™. —The President of a rosponded to o domand for faro by saying, “ L own most of thig road,” and getting this reply . “Well, you won't own it long if you don't pay 1':;.9 your fare; that's-all I've got to say abort e _—An old bachelqr said, “ Thero's a darned sight more jewelry worn now-a-days than when 1 was young. ~ But therc's oue pieco that I al-, wnva admired that I don’t often sce now.” ** What is that?” asked e young lady. “A thimble,” was the mplg. He way regarded witk A contempt and scorn by evary lady in the roors for the rest of the evening. “—A celobratod singér, Madame Lo Rochois, was giving to & youny: cotapanion in art some in- _struction In tue tragic character of ledea, which 8ho Wwas about to sustain. * Inspire yourseli with the situation,” said she, “fancy yoarself in the poor woman’s’ placo. It sou were doderted by a lover whom you adored, what would you do2” The reply was as unexpeotod a3 it was in- genicus : *“1 would look out for another.” —Daring a protracted roligions - revival at Clu!tananfio, N. Y., ono of tha preachers im- provited Lymua for familiar secular airs, such a8 “The Flying Trapeze,” * Walking Dowa Broadway,” “On_ tho Beachat Loug Diraocis,” and tho like, while © refrosiments woro served to converts gratin.” If this thing of offering n {*{ree lunch " as an indontive to religion shonld be persistod in, tho world may besaved yet.— “Louisville Courier-Journal, - —Little Jenoy T——is 5.years old. Her uncle, gave hera doll. Jenny cherishied hor doll with alla mother's caro. ‘The .other dayshe wae nurelng it on her kuees; she started “suddonly, the dall fell, and the head was broken off Jenny was overcome with grief at this misfor- tune, and looked aghastat the poor hesdlees doll; then raising her oyes, she said, with a ggh of resignation, * Anothor little abgel in eaven ! s an ill wind,” ete. — Brown — “ Hello’ Jones! What's the maticri” Joues (amateur tanor)—* Ob, dreadfal chronic_inflarmation of the larynx ! : Lost my voica entiroly I" Brown— “Dearme! you don’t mean. that?” Jones— “Yes ; been compelled to give np singing alto- other 1" Brown (with aisenty)—" By Gaorgo, fook here, old fellow ! Come aud ding with ua to-night, and spend the ovenin 54 2% clork in the Indianapalis bost-Officels now in the lnst stages of droath, occasioned by his own iry in volanteerivg to lick and adjust postego iamps for tha uung ladies who cama o his window. Ho is very charing, and Indiac- spolis is full of good-looking girls, who love dearly to sea him run out his tongue and maisten a stamp. The doctor eays thst anloss lie starta the'sap in bis aystem ho is a gonar. — Kitty's goinz to join onr Babbath-school 5 dguecfimng with me next-Bunday, ain't you, Kitty?” “Oh, I don’t know—I'va nover Leon to Be,bb__‘.-‘-’ School yet—what do you Lave to do?” “Why, you get saved, of courss ; and books and alburis and—" I mean what do you. have to do—have to study anything?” * Oh, it isn't like that. It's like church, you inow. When you first go in you hava to pat dowa your bead and pray.” “But [ can't prav,” says heathen Eitty. “I don't know how." * Cu, \&e‘ll.‘dn as I'do. Bhut your oyes zad coung 3" : ashville streot railway | | i §