Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 6, 1873, Page 7

—_— e . THE CHICAGO . DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1873. “THAT BOY.” " The Spring-Yearning that FPossesses Humanity. Longing for Farm-ZLife---How. Manifested. A Snggestion for Its Early Stage<l~ " A Farm-School - that . Might Be, Life in the Fields, and Among the Kine---Maud Mul. ler & Co. ¥athe epring, a iveller rts changes on th burntahed - dove ; : 3 B tho spring, a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,— . and the cut of his new overcoat, especially the Iatter.” This, however, after he has passed that 2mbryo stage in which he has been known as 3 . THAT BOY. i Tt is with that boy, and his aspirations inearly spring, that we heve now to do, however.- He i8 not 8o anxions about the wherewithal that ho £hall be clothed as his older brother, whose in- cipient monsatache is asnbject of anxiousthought . .end sleapless nights, but i3 quite willing to loave his chances of attire to the same Benoficont FHand that arrays the lilies of the fieid, and isnot ® bit more troubled about the matter than thoy aré. In fact, his principal thought ia to . GETINTO THE COUNTRY, where store-clothes are at s discount, and bare foot ave the fashion for every day but Sunday ; wihere palm-leaf hats, consisting of a crown with- ‘ont & brim, or a brim without & crown,. are in [Bood taste, and there is altogether o general set- Ring-2side of all the prunes and prisms of polite society, and as near an arrival at a natural state of things as has been possible since Adam first employed Eve as a tailoress. Who does not. re- _ member him, iy o . 4... .. THECOUNTRY-BOY, bare-footed,—those same barc feot coversd with ecars of old scratches and stone-bruises ; the _ails, spoiled of apny possible future shepeful- _ .ness by constant: stubbings and eplittings ; the hands hard with labor ; the cotton shirt, with . tho neck unbuttoned, disclosing the bpre, brown' throst and chest; the dust-colored trousers, _ ¥ringed sround the bottom, reaching half-wsy to _the ankle, snd held by one old .suspender ; and the tattered palm-leaf hat, which serves for a° dipper, or & Tecoptacle for country-plunder, as often as for its original purposo ? ‘HOW THE CIY-BOY, . 4isdih English melton and cassimere, envies’ him! How he longs for the same freedom of attire and occupation! What visions of bird- nesting, swimming, boating, and gunning, are sagocintod in his mind with the life of the coun- try farmer's boy ; and how he longs-to got away to that visionary Paradise! Nor will he be- satisfied that it is not all couldeur de rose wntil he has made the experimont, and ascortained for himself that what looks like all plsy has really & substratum of very hard work. . . We do not supposo that there is any such philanthropic individual; but our imagination . xoadily supplies one, who could easily afford to . these enger city-boys a chance to obtain some Ppractical knowledge of country and farm life. Of . what inestimable value might it not be to. them inthe future! How many men - - NEVER OUTGROW THOSE EARLY INSTINCTS, . .and having, through yoars of toil ia their pro- " fessions, - commercial enterprigos, and trados; sccumulated a small fortune,—enough, perhaps, with 2 moderate applicstion -0 -business,-to in- sure them comfort forthe rest of their lives, feel the old cravings return, and, utterly ignor- Ing the fact of the many . Tears of . toil which it ‘required for each to become proficientin his specialty, imagine they are full-fledged farmers; and bury their little, hard-carned, means .in.a soil which they have never learned to cultivato. ¢Why it's nothing to ba a farmer,” they argue. “Any man, with brains and proper mechanical 2ids, can plow, and hoe, and sow, and reap. For s _farmer -to become & busihess man, is, of tourse, very.. different. ' That needs & certain apprenticeship; but the reverse does not require any. Nature as sssistant, snd a little reading-up, are eufficient; so Mr. Merchant, Mechanic, or -Professional buys a farm, stocks ", it, and taxes his city-bred family out. He stays on it from one to three years; see the LAND GEOW LEAY AND BARREN under his uoskiliful ‘management, in_spite_of his attempted trial of new and magnificent the- ories; in spite of all the wonderful fertilizers with which he attempts to enrich it ; in spite of All the new machines that are supposod to bo . ‘tho proper assistants in farming made easy. His boys, who were to bo 8o much help, possibly learn fo catch a pickerel by trolling, and sur- reptitionsly to handle a gun and frighten all the small birds off the place,—to the detriment of .the fruit; but never, by any chance, do the er thing at the proper time, Yhe gentleman himself, of late years unaccus- tomed to early rising, finds, after the.novelty of the undertaking has worn off, that the morn- * inga are chill,-there is no newspaper at hand, I.n%‘ it is cold business going out on an empty . stomsach %o look afler the farm-work, to handle ‘the scythe, perhaps, or drive the mowing-ma- chine, o, it may be, fo use the hoe when the corn and potatqes require it. - -, HIS LADY-WIFE, AND DAUGHTERS, meantime attemgt to look after the chickens, and the first brood is generslly mqueozed to death by little ‘Miss, 2 years old, out of pure love. The others camé o grief in various ways ; and, the firat-year at least,. they buy theireggs. and Thanksgiving. turkey. - By tho second year, the cares to which ehe has never been accustom- ed have nsed up Madame's health, the ohildren’ * ire running wild and practical help has to bo called in to assist. in ~poultry-yard, dairy, and + kitchen. This is not slways obtainable, and, ®even when it 18, Madamo does not like to resign altogether her privilego to commiand ; and, npon one issue or another, there ; . * * COMES A GRAND ECLAINCISSEMEXT, nd, unwilling to try a new, and to her o nseless sxperiment, in making the butter come, or some theoretical remedy for pip in the chickens, which’ Badame (urged - thereto by her book-tanght hasband) isists upon having egssyed, the help goes off 1n o huff, tho butter is in statu quo, the chickens ‘die for' want of proper care, and Madame wishes there had mever been such a thing as & farm thought of." * How much better to live in the city, where youcan buy everything, |- without this confinual fass|” is her montal com- mént; and, broken in health, ruined in temper,. * with ehattered nerves, she hails with joy the ::figesfim} of herhusband, that ** He guesses ho SELL HIS FARM.” st motion is sccandad,withont a moment's Bsitation; and tho.few. dissenting “Voices aro ~those’ of the boys and the younger . girls, who have only sepn tho bright Jide: of i .enjoyed the ° fai t].\mg! L and freedom, and known nothing of the h work.- Bt ‘our friend found it much easier to buy that farm than to dispose of it. - When ke Invested therein, it seemed 88 if every one wanted - o buy a farm, and now it is all'the other way,— each ‘man . is anxious .to. sell.. His theoretical cultivation. of the land has by no means im- pmvid::, “:} :’l; last he is gl:]d to _tfikn nr?m:ll ercentage o original value, ad a mo; o ErTioa o the haod eaah which ha inveated fn :3: Beturning to his old city-life, ho finds that that he has ot more than s tithe Ift of the hard earriings of Frevious years, and that, in- stead of the comfort which he might bave secured for his old age, he has again to com- Xence, almost at the bottom of the ladder, the mpward | climb_ toward competency,—for- tunate, indeed, = if he . _ever again bas ' & chance fo out of the heavy et bamoas - of the. dem “horse, and assume the lighter one of easy work or mere pleasure. That all this unfortunate experience might bo. avoided seems aimplo enough, if there could be. found 25y {armer sufficiently. large-hearted and . broad-thoughted to try an’ experimont for - the . benefit of his.species. Let- such a'.ome, with -tmeny acres to be cultivated, advertige his willing- Desa t0 take ¥ Te E " TWENTY OR NORE DOTR S " 'gpon his farm in the early spring, and keep them for six months or & year, letting their work pa; for their board. This would be productive o‘; { certain senso of nh].g;nfiun upon both sides, and be' far more beneficial in an educational wa; than if the boy’s father paid his board, and l.\g was loft free to follow his own fancies. That the boy ehould remain the entire year, seoms to ba almost & matter of necessity, 0 orde that b may fully reslizo what the gains and losses are which * he must accept’ it he wishes to become a_practical farmer. Such in-. novation once mads, if at all successful,—and thers is no reason’ why it should not be,— would at last, it may bo, bocomo an estab- lished custom, and all these roatloss, eager boys, who geo in farm-lifo 'such an- easy, happy, ge- :x‘z} avnmy of getting along, have their fancied vo- “VERIFIED OR DISPELLED. that - some of the labor must nec- aril ¢ overscen, if not performed by " men, still, in a8 it was possible, the - whole matter given up to the boys, and it should bo under- stood that they wero posifively to remain tho stated time, no matter how soon they might be- . come disillusionized. Getting up, before light to feod tho stock would be “all very nice for the [ first vree];l or.to, and then Tom, g.ek. and Harry would begin to grumble, and roll over for another nap. tfln flmyg;?uat get, however,—that’ is part of farm life. Down into the barn, to fecd the horses and _cattlo, whare they are properly houscd, look after ‘the pigs; snd then hreakfast by candle-light, in er to take advantage of tho earliest possible moment to be off to the labor of the fields. Supposing the old system of hand-plowing to have become obsolete, and tho horse-plow alone used, he Jearns how to manage this thoroughly. ' THERE MUST BE NO SHIBEING, even if it soon grows monotonous, and he thinks he would almost, if -not. quite, wrefer to go to school. Then, whore it isnocessary, tho picking of stones and roots out of the gronnd is back- brealing work, only exceeded by that of digging and’ picking up potatoes. He learns to p?m: properly, and there is a cortain fascination in this ; but hoeing the corn, or other vegetables that may require it, is by no means poctical, but ery prosaic, hard fabor, Thore comes an ocea- sionel rainy "day, when, perhaps, he may geta chance to go trouting or pickerel-fishing ; but too frequently horses have to be taken to the black- mith’s o . be gatcs need mending; there is o broken rake thatrequires alittle home- dentistry, and all tho numerous small matters that must be attended to will prevent that {‘::- jected excursion. Night-time finds the boy that Was up with the lark, OO WEARY TO CARE FOR ANYTHING - but to tumble into bed, and sleep the heavy, dreamloss slumbor of overtired youth. ‘To look down on & hot snammer’s day from an elevation whero you are shaded from the blazing gun and caressed by the wooing - breeze, upon .tho haymakers in the ficlds, is very delightful. There is music in the swish of their scythes, as they mow down the fragrant 5 “thore is {l!chm:nque beanty n the brawny, carelessly- ad sons of toil who are at work; and it may be that some unracognized Maud Muller rakes after; while & subtls sense of luxuriant idleness takes possession of the lazy dreamer who gazes ;dly ot the scene. Bat to boa co-worke} would o cssarily QUITE ANOTHER TIING. To be sure, mowing-machines bave almost en- tirely altered tho facts of the foregoing skotch, and medo tho haying much less laborions ; bul still it ia by no means play, oven with all the as- sistance’ of improved sgricultural implements. Harvesting in general is, porhaps, the pleasant- est part of -all the work ; but it must be attend- od to, and admits of no delsy for s day’s guaning or fishing. “ Early and always,” must be the farmer's motto until tho last spear of grain is garnered, the last specimen of fruit safe in bin or barrel. B g 5 Supposing, however, that the boys havo borno the trial bravely, have -learned that it is hard and constant work, and not play, but that now g THE WINTER HAS ARKIVED, withi'its season of rest and sport. Htill, where the stock are shelterod in the winter, the farmer. must rise early to supply their wants. - In less- favored districts, there is wood to be cut and- drawn, There have been bucolic corn-huskings and apple-parings during thofall, at which fhat ‘boy may work if_ he. likes, but ho does not got much of the play. That is left for the elder brothers, who will also get the benefit of the singing-achools, and gecing the girls hom, lator in tho season. For this, of courso, the boy doos ‘not care. He would rather snare a rabbit, shoot a partridge, or make & anow honse, fort, or man, Znot having yet reached the susceptible age. This is also his time for GOING TO BCHOOL ; but hore he will find the" chief difference.” In ghcu of & variety of teachers for \ifferent raoches, thero Will be a young man who is_going through ~colloge, and has been obliged fo eke out the necessary means by & year's teaching. Ho meeds to know his businéss thoronghly, and most decidedly, to bes ‘mausoular Christian, or, ten chances to one, he is ignominiously. expelled by his scholars, or, if not, the little boys will expend their time in learning_how_to accurately discharge Zsmall, moist balls st the ceiling, to carve their names on desk and bench, to frofic and fight, and do all but learn their lessons ; while the older ones in- dulgein sly mischief, or uproarions mirth with tho older girls. The little girls do not gonerally connt for muck, nnd are frequently kopt st home by the weathor, gewing patch-work as they sit by Mamma's side. Granted, howover, that the young man does keep order, and teaches both boys and girls to the best of his and thoir ability, the average boy will not et the. education which would bo forced upon incity schools. The student ° WHO REALLY WISHES TO LEARN 3 will do so. The farmer’s boy who has the will and desire to acquire knowledge will overcome, . all hindrances ; 'and our greatest men have been’ thogo who, in the face of all obatacles, including sometimes disheartening, enslaving poverty, have broken every trammel, and, learning the first principles of science or Statosmanship by s farm-house hearth, from books bought with the fruits of many hours of - hard toil, have studied thess during winter nights by the flick- ering firelight, and have rison af last superior to the grest wmass, who, with every advantage of culture and education, never got above the dead level of ordinary existence. So it would seem that it is neither the time nor the accessories, but the man, or rather the boy with the spirit of the man, thatis needed to make aventpu.u.lly a diplomatic-or scientific leader. FOR TIE AVERAGE BOY, ‘however, it is evident that the better the educa- tional advantages which he can obtain, the moro probability tirere is of his making a ripple on the sen of life, if he cannot be a hugo, submerging wave; and the majority of boys, Wwhethor in town. or conntry, are only average boys, and make on- Iy averago men. - So it is evidont that the em- bryo farmer must forego certain advantages that are " open to the goms of cug _ ToEi- dents. _ Thereforo - we -hold it desirable that the boy who thinks he would Lke to be a farmer should have & chance to the life thoronghly, 2nd in all its phases. If he really has a vocation for it, then all minor difficulties will be surmonnted, 'and ho will, no doubt, grow up to be & good, trus, practical agriculturist, a At o Bho syiri ot hrpre, aud & prapristor of Dbroad, well-cultivated fields,— THE RIGET MAN IN TAE RIGNT PLACE. T not, however, the work will soon disgust him. Twelve months of it will bes sufficient purgatory Tor the memory of it to_prevent his rushing in after-years into those gloomier depths whence, if he escapes at all, it will be in a scattered and otherwise distressed condition. . .“WHO WILL ACT UPON OUR HINTS? Who will indulge the eager, unsatisfied long- inga in these young hearts for a seagon in the country, confirm the vocation, or. dingnl the illa- sion;—thus doing a world of good in both waya ? Vithall due respect to ngricultural colleges, this wounld make the best primary school at Ieast ; and, if the sdvantages of one can but be secured, why the latter is, of course, the neces- sary institution. Think of it, farmers, and try it. It maymot prove so awkward an undertsking a8 it looks. Let tho boys work the firat year for .their board ; and then, to those who have the iroe yocation, and do not got _disgusted by that timeand wish fo retarn to city-life, give some small wages the second year to encourage them. ‘Who will give the boys a chance'? Effccts of o Dry, Cold Winter. Prof. Shaler hasn communication in one of our scientific periodicsls of the winter of 1871-2—one of the driest and also onme of the coldest on record. ‘The snow-fall was light, and the ground froze to almost an unprecedented depth; bein; sufficient throughout the whole of New Enj Taod to involve theroots of tho vegetation and the forests. The tree which suffered most was tho arbor-vitm, more than half of these having died, and the rest being in a critical condition. The " red .cedar was likewise s grest sufferer, as also the yellow and white ;!ncu inaeed, all the con- _ifor® in New England have been injured to a greater or less degreo. The greatest damsge was experienced in eandy soils. The only change in animal life noticed by Prof. Shaler is the comparative scarcity of enakes, which he considers to be a very dscided feature. Tho Professor contends that s slight addition to the degree of the drouth and the cold might bave made such ravages with our forcats a3 to have modifled the climate and brought abont & series of changes s great aa those which mark tha different geological formations of thoe past.: LONDON. - The Ministerial Crisis—Mr. Giad- stone-—How the Irish Mem- bers Vote, The Atlantic-Cable Monopoly--Evan-_ galical ‘Cyrus and His [ Riflg-” How the Markets Are Worked by the bt “ City, Editors.” . The Works of thie Bronte Sisters and of Lord Brougham, From: Our Oun Correspondent. Loxpox, March 15, 1873, , __ MINISTERS, PARLIAMENT, AND PEOPLE. Mr. Gladstone is once more testing his popu- larity. “Whoover may be Premier, and whother the dissolution of the House of Commons comes Just aftor Esster, or later in tho sutumn, the real sottlement of the confusion bronght about by tho rojection of the Irish University bill lies in’ the docision of the people as to the merits of Mr. Gladstone. 8o strongly marked are his characteristics that you are compellod oither to. adore him or to detest him. Ihave never found anybody who sald * ho rather liked him,” or “he didn't care much sbout him." If he is a man’ of eloquence, he is eminently ‘practical as well. His budgets; his treaties of commerce; his Reform bill; ‘the disestablishment of the Irish Church; the great Irish Land bill ; the encouragement of the King- dom of Italy; the policy of conciliation towards the United States ; these things all testify to his capacity for legislation. It was thd instinctive recognition of his individual prominence which led all the Liboral side of thé House to give him such a cheer as they did when he glided into his seat on the evening on which he announced his Tesigoation. Thero was no little feeling in the ery, and the discontented Radicals who had voted ' against him looked epe- cially humble. Without being uncharitable, I suppose I may eoy that, of the English Radicals, only one of the opposition votes was really on the merits of the question, viz.: The voto of Mr. Fawcett. And really Mr. Fawcott is possessed’ with 50 strong a personal antipathy to Mr. Glad- stone, that even with him the merits of the dis- pute are obscured. Tha Irish Roman Cathotics, who voted en bloc. against the Ministry,« were compelled to do 80 by their Bishops. - The com- munication existing between fifty or sixty mem- bers of tho House of Commons and the Irish Hierarchy is becoming too much for thepatience of quiet Protestant members, who never dream of referring to their Vicar or Rector before they venture upon & vote. Directly an important question is before Parliament, you hear what the Bishop of some Irish Diocese has pronounced sbont it. Irish members catch you by the arm, and insist dipon reading you extracts from private lotters detailing the Episcopal opinion. The reasons for or against never enter into their minds ; the only dispute is as to what the heads of their priesthood have said. That lmown, they are as docile as Bishop Dupanloup was when the Popo's infallibility was declared. If Imperial interests did mot suffor thereby, it- would be a grateful relief to allow these gentle- men a Parliament of their own at Dublin, where théy could be priest-saddled to their hoart's con- tent. 3 AN ELEOTION! It an election really takes place, we shall find Bcotland returningabout the same number of Lib- erals a8 now ; Wales the same. Ireland will not slter “ her representatives in maay instances, save, perhaps, by incressing the number of Home Rulers, who, at all events, would not be Conservatives, but in England, the Conservatives may fiuin forty or fifty seats. This doos not give Mr. Diaraeli & majority, but the new House would no doubt iie]dhim a fair trial, and the Marquis of Salis- ury would again be tormented by seeing & Con- servative Ministry purchasing support by orig- inating Liberal measures, A STORY OF THE CRISIS, known to be authentic, is to the effect that, be- fore the vote on the second reading of the Uni- versity bill was taken, half-a-dozen of the “rebels” on the Tory side—Legitimist Tories, who hate Disraeli—communicated with Mr. G. Hardy, in whom they. beliove, and said.they ‘would vote against the Government if he wonld promiso them that, under no circumstances, would- the Conservative leaders form & Government with the present House of Commons, Mr. Hardy promised for himself, and id he believed ho could Prmniae for hig distinguished friends. So the “ rebels ” voted, and to-day they are indignantly asking how Mr. Disraeli could dare to think, oven for two or three hours, of forming an Ad- ministration bofore an appeal to tho country. THE ATLANTIO-CABLE MONOPOLY. Mr. Cyrus Field is over here, working heaven and earth to fasten together & hard monopoly of telegraph companies against the interests of the gub ic. There has been another Westminster alace Hotel dinner, and fresh_burats of langh- ter at the joke that some people might still con- sider that cowmbination to ‘securs exorbitant charges was nmot what was looked for when special opportunities werc ~afforded to the evangelical Cyros and his friends. Never, certainly, was there s “Ring"” g0 sudacious. They have flung off disguise. They openly say they are establishing tho Globo Com- pany in order to dress up prices, and bring their power to bear down competition, whorever it may arise. I have seen Mr. Field, with tears fn his eyes, describe, in days past, to sympathetic -oups, his mghtly prayers to ‘! Almighty God” or the success of the cable ; and I remember reading a metaphor of his in & speech delivered on your side of the Atlantic, in which he poke of ‘the “still small voice™ of the Deity bein heardinit. Mr. Field has not quite dropped that sort of thing, even now, for he put on hia ticket of invitation the words *‘Sans Dieu, rien ;" but his colloagues roar with mirth at his rofessions. The one idea now is, to make the “ Globe " conduce to the sole advantage of Field & Co., let who will go to the wall. WOBKING THE MARKET. ‘Wonderfully has the market been managed during the lat fow days. ‘There aro the golden promises.ss to the new “International,” aliss the * Globo” Company, sbove mentioned, snd then the breakage in the '65 cable. The shares have varied as much a8 10 per cent in a couple of honrs. The news of the accident was pub- lishod on the morning of the appearance of the new Company. The Directors of the Globe in- clude men who are masters in the art of com- peny-nursing. And then there are THE CITY ARTICLES. Since the development of joint-stock enter- priso in England, T observe thet distrust has arigen in the minds of city people 2a to the entire impartiality of tho personages who are known as *‘city editors.” - Each daily paper has an_office in-the Citg of London, in the close neighborhood of the Stock Exchange, to which a ontleman, named * the city editor," goes every Lx ,and in ‘which ha eces people, and where, 1ato in the evening, ho writes his “‘city articlo” for the next morning's issue. - It is impossible, T am afraid, to believe in the independence of everybody. ~If you listen to stock-brokers, purity exists only hero and there. Not that the Borvicos rendored are ostentationsly displayed. There is s deal of ingonnity. It is not sfter the German fashion. Not long since, I heard a # city editor " of Berlin declare he bad msde £90,000 sterling within the previons two montha, simply by exzounding the sdvantages of partica- Jar joint-stock schemes. ‘Do you mean,” eaid 1, that thoy havo peid you that money down 2" Ho smiled in pity of my iguorance. * No, no he obeerved; ‘‘thoy don't give us money, bat they allot 18 shares, and _then, as tho iarcs como out at a-promium_through our eloquence, we eoll and et the difterence.” He thonght it was Quixotic,” ho ndded, to objoct to such armagements. & ondon, things are not so unblushingly done. But it is, nevertheless, s fact, that un- binsed criticism I8 rare, Agsinst the now Cable Company, a dead et has beon made. Even be- fore it appeared, the public were warned; sad now the Times (whoso city articlo is the least to be deponded upon of eny journal in Englsud), day after day, incerts lotters, or offers remarks, which: are as much in the interest of Messrs. Field & Co. 28 were thoso in-the last number of the Observer, a paper which is owned by one of the Directors of the Globe Amalgamation Com- a0y, . - A'favorite policy with the uncertain city writer is in suppression. Not often does he come ont, as this week towards the new Cable Company, with direct denunciation. Buppression; lngn?u. dicions thrusting to the front, are his favorite means, Thus you will usually see, in cartain journals, cular stocks named first, when there has n sny favorable movement, as though all the interest of the day's. procesdings was in the fate of that one description of invest- ment. When a fall has occurred, no mentign is ‘mede of the stock. You will ges this kind of thing continually, for example, with the Atlantic & Great Western stock. People’ behind the -{ scenes laugh at the fact, but the public are often 80 misled by it as to feel in the end much more ‘| inclined to Weep than to feel amused. S NEW DOOES. An illustratod edition, in seven- volumes, of #The Lifo and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters,” is being brought out by BSmith & Elder. The fourth volume contains *‘ The Pro- fessor,” which was written before either “Jane Eyre” or “Bhirley,” but was not pub- lished until. after- the . authoress’ death. . The pleasant preface will not be forgotten by thoso of your readers whoso memories £o back as far 08 '56,—the date at which the Rev. A. B. Nich- olls consented to the publication. In it, * Currer Bell” get out how she bad determined hor hero should work his way through life as she had secn. real living men work theirs, but that the publish- ers wanted something more imaginative, © In- deed,” sho wrote, ‘‘ until'an author has tried to i of & manuscript of this kind, he can never know what stories of romance and socia- ‘bility lic hidden in brensts he would not haye suspected of casketing such treasures. - Men in Dusiness aro usually thought £o prefer the real. On trial, thoiden will be often found fallacions. A passionate preference for the wild, wonderful, and thrilling, the strange, startling, and har- rowing, ngitates divers souls that ehow s calm -and sober surface.” - The publishers smiled, but they did not contradict, and, to thia day, would profer a Miss Braddon to a Miss Ansten.. Mesers, Black, of Edinburgh, have just com- pleted a series of eleven volumes, containing the |, works of Lord Brooghom. The last volume has o chronological list of Lord Brougham's publi- cations, and a-general index: In connection with the - index, it may be interesting fo notice hero Lord Brougham's own ideas as to the plan npon which such a work should be con- structed. " This is gathered from & note of in- structions forwarded to the publishers several years ago, in connection with his spceches, as Tollows: ‘‘ A bookand an index are to be made on opposite principles. A good book cannot be t00 concise ; » good index can haraly be t0o pro- lix. Repetitions are to be avoided in the former; in the latter they should abound. For, as one man's memory fakes hold of one fag of 3 sub- ject, and another man’s of another, 80 you mnst avé all the fags posaible in your index, that all may Iay hold of it. Nay, the same man will re- ‘member & thing differently, according to the va- rious .views with which he consults the index st different times.” A fac-simile of the note containing these remarks ia ap- pended to this volume. The handwriting 18 much more distinct than in some notes which I bave of his, written at a later date. Lord Brougham, it may not be remembered, lies at Conncs. A monument has been raised above his grave, conaisting of a plain cross of of tho country, 22 feet high, exclusive of the base, It is placed upon the grave, the for hich, with a large space around, has been given to thefamily of Brougham in perpetuity by the town of Cannes. The epitaph consists of the Zfollowing single record : i 3 MENLICUS BROUGHAM, Natas, MDCCLXXVIIY, Decesalt, MDCCCLXVIIE, EVOLUTION. A Discovery by Dr. Euechner. Bratowoop, 1L, April2, 1873, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Brm : The intelligent foreigner is again among us, notebook and pencil in hand. This time it is the learned German scientist, Dr. Buechner, who communicates to the Gartenlaube the re~ resulta of his observation upon American pe- culiarities st an_evening party. Theso, accord- ing to & late numbor of the Nation, are, that # The ladies, in the round dances, moved with a more gliding step thax do thelr sisters in Ger-" mahy. Andthis fact he explains by thoss laws of race which gave the Indian his cratty, silen footfall a8 he approached the slumbering village in order to murder the innocent inhabitants.” Not only America, but the whole civilized world,” is indebted to the thoroughness of German scholars for the solution of many problems, that, in all probability, would otherwise have remain- ed in mystery unto this day. As a people, we have hospitably welcomed to our shores foreigners of every raok and degree, except, perhaps, His Serene Highness of Mech~ lenburg’s ex-convicts, and have got our reward in various ways and degrees, from ‘ American Notes” to *Spiritual Wives,” but one such “find” as Dr. Buechner atones for many pre- vious dissppointments, and will, for & time, cause us to infuse a beartiness into the welcome which will be extended to the gentlemen who arrive from foreign parts with eye-glass on the alert, and note-book convenient; which after- events may show to have been hasty and ill-ad- vised. A ‘We are cortainly indebted to Dr. Buechner for o ‘discovery which native scholars would have overlooked to.the end of tims, perhaps. Itis true that the learned Doctor ignores the beer, and kraut, and Gemuethlichkeit, whi the un- scientific mind, would have ‘some Weight in'ac- counting for the fact that- the belle of the Doctor’s native land is usually a creature of less ethereal mold than her frans-Atlantic sisters, who, asa_school-girl, is, of the writer's own knowledge, given to the consumption of the succulent slate-pencil and the promiscuous pickle, and whose step would naturally have some relation to her pounds avoirdupois. It is also, of course, just possible that some of the ladies who came- within the range of Dr. Buechner's spectacles were descendants of the old Knickerbockers, who camo over in ships as brosd-bottomed and unwieldy as themselves ; but I do not wish to esy anything that wonld have s tendency to detract from the value of the learned Doctor's deductions, for I am firml persunded of the value of the theory whicl be advances, and beg humble leave to offer ono or two illustrations in its support, which have hitherto been a source of considorable mental anxiety to me, before the key was offered for their unraveling, by the opportune arrival of the intelligent foreigner. v i & ~Why do American fadics exhibit such an in- satinble craving to obtain hair which has be- longed tb some one else; and why do a great many of them bedsub their features with hide- ous pigmenta? There is not s mother’s daugh- fer of them that is contented with the quantum of hair Nature gave her. How shall we explain this startling fact? Evidently not otherwise than by those subtle laws of deacent which make her inherit, in a modified form, the passion which posséssed her ancestor. o require the bair of his foes, Nor is this all. The descend- ants of chieftains, who wero usually promoted to their elevated station by reason of their suc- cer:zu x:lnd diligence in ducnmuimn the mnpc!h-- ‘prized cranial coverings other people, Ty prasably o thced by Theleex- ceptionally full assortment of switches, frizzes, otc. The intelligent studentof Evolution w not need to be told that, s the fierce warrior hideously begrimed himself with inharmonious pigments when he went forth to conquerand de- stroy, so the intangible, but inexorable, laws of inheritance and descent lesd tho fair one of our day to seek the adventitious aid of liquid rouge and Bloom of Youth, era she sallics forth to ball or party, with intent to commit havoc in the sus- ceptible’ material nsually fonnd wearing broad-. cloth at such ‘places. ) Serioualy, the theory of Evolution.commands the respectfal attention of those even who do not. with its conclusions ; but the laugha- - ble blunder of 8o learned a man as Dr. Buechner suggests to the cautious student the inquiry : It Ll%e!e gentlemen mako such sad work whon they venture upon ground with which we, the unscientific, are acquainted, with how many grains of salt shall we receive their conclusions when. thoy wander among the plesiosauri and inthodom, where theyhave usata disad- vaatage, and then invite us to upset some of our most cherished convictions, wt!:éb?, hIowel:'a; mis- retty strongly roof am, yours pretiy strongly rooted & Tooms : taken, are NELL. faithfully, UNATTAINED. If I could only know— 1, sitting here this “winter morning, Ana sestehing stmicasly the fakes of mow That wander through the alr in vague forewarning— 1 wero only surs That you would weep with any real sorrow, 1f in thelr gathiered whiteneas cold and pare “These flakes should lis Tpan IY grave to-MOFTOW- T wonld not count it sad T%mzlnm‘ bold z:&m you )’l”fl;e. dying what I ever had, And what, alas! you have not for the giving. —.Iln-ryx.flvadky(_n!MAmflW_ o THE LAW OF STORMS. The Whirling Movement, and ; ~Its Causes. How to Tell the Direction of & Storm- ¥ Centre, - ‘Obnervations of the weather during the past few years have established our knowledge of the important meteorological fact that all our storms are accompanied by the phenomenon of - | A CIRCULAR WIND. . The fact is now much more.widely kmown than its cause. Tho accompanying diagram will ena- ble our readers to understand the latter. As stated in TrE TRIBUNE of Sunday last, the secondary cause of & storm is ‘a reduced air- pressure over any particnlar part of the earth’s surface; which is indicated by s depression of the mercury in the baromater within that region. Honce the central district of & storm is tech- mically called ‘¢ AX AREA OF LOW BAROMETER.” Towards this region, the surrounding air rush- ea in to restore an equilibrium ; and that rush of airis known as wind. The resulting circular ‘motion, around thecentral point, is due to the ro- tation of the earth upon her axis, from west to east. 1t is easy to calculate that ' THE VELOCITY OF BOTATION at the equator, 24,900 miles in 24 hours, is 17.8 ‘miles per minute, while at the pole it is nothing. In the latitude of 40 degreas it is 18}¢ miles; in thelatitado of 45 degrees it is 125 miles,per min- ute. The earth carries the atmosphere along with it, and the velocity of the atmosphere at any point is the velocity of that point, which do- creases with an increase in the Iatitude. Itis evident that, if a mass of air atany point be ‘moved northward or southward, from any cause, it will preserve for a time the eastward velocity of the point from which it started ; just as a stone thrown from the window of & moving rail- road caris carricd forward by the impetus of the train. Hence, a mass of air moving south- ward, in this hemisphere, will lag behind 1 the rotation, while the relative motion will be faster becanse 5f the change in velocity of the surface dus to the latitude. > Now _euppose the top line of our disgram to ropresent the parallel of 45 degrees of latitude, and tho length of the horizontal arrow indicate the motion per minute on that parallel Let the lower line represent the parallel o 40 degrees ; then the length of the arrow near it will indicate the velocity of the air there per minute. Ineach case the surface, and its superincumbent air, moves in the direction of the arrow. If an ares ‘of low barometer be at C, nearly midway be- tween these two parallels, the air will move to- wards that area from every point of the com- pass; and the result is indicated in the diagram, where the dotted linesshow the tendency, and tho full Lnes show the direction, of the actual movement. A mass of air coming from the north at N, moves eastward with a velocity 123 miles per minute, while the storm-centre moves 125 miles per minute. ‘Hence, » THE MOVING AIR DRAGS BENIND at the rate of 34 mile per minute, or 30 miles per hour, and takes the direction of the ar- 1ow, towards the circumference of the small circle, instead of -its centre, at 0. Simi- larly & massof air moving northward, from 8, has an initial velocity of 13} miles per minute, or 30 miles per hour greater than thetof the centre of thestorm ; and movea n the direction of thearrow from 8, instead of thedotted line. Simi- larly, we may show that the same deviation oc- curs in the case of the air coming from every di- rection towards C ; and the coneequence is that' the air moves round the centre of the area of Iow barometer, in a direction contrary to that of the hands of a watch that is I&id with its face upward: THE VORTICAL MOTION resulting from this rush from all directions to- wards a storm-centre is even more decided than indicated by the diagram, which only rep- resents the secondary tendency. The central rush is opposed, or counteracted, .by the elasticity of the several volimes of air as they approsch each other; and their impetus carries them around in the direction of the movement already established, so that the whirl extends nearly as far from the centre as the distance from which the winds blow. Al the air that tends towards the storm-centro moves round it, in an approximate circle; in just the same way that water courses round s fannel, for 5 similar resson, and in the same di- rection, tho only difference peing that the cen- tral column of air moves upward, while the cen- n:lflc.olumn of water in the funnel moves down- w A knowledge of these facts enables us not only to tell the direction of the storm-centre, b OFTEXN TO KXOW WHETIER it 18 approaching towards us, or receding, or is passing us at & harmless distance. If we face the wind the storm-cenitre will alwsys be on the right hand; or if we turn so that the wind blows from loft to right:we shall face the storm-centre. I, at the same time, the mercury in the barom- eter continues to fall, we may be sure that the vortex is approaching us ; while, if the barome- ter rises, we may count on its having passed by. The genera! direction of the movement of the centre is from west toeast ; but it may depart geveral points from the cardinal line. The preceding generalizations of position ap- ply to the Northern Temperate Zone. A little consideration will help us to understand that, in the Southern Temperate Zone, the dircction of the rotary movement _is the opposite to that of storms in this region ; the winds blow ronnd the vortex the same way that the hands of a watch move. In the Torrid Zone, within what are technically known as _ | THE “ DOLDRTMS " (the limits of true cyclons action), the difference between the lengths of the snccessive parallels of latitudo is mo small that the conditions of rotary motfon are present but feebly, and not at .all on the equator. than that of the surface if it move northward, ° | told Arthurian legends tx It is ovident that this knowedge is of much greater practical valuo OX THE WATER § than on the land ; added to which, s*orms move with more regularity on the ocean thaz onshore, the motion not being interfered with by irregu- Iarity of surfaco. On land our theoretical circle often becoms s an irregular ellipse, but on the ocean the circular form is very nearly preserved. _Tho mariner may avoid serious damage, and " perhaps total loss, by a knowledge of these facts of storm motion, by steering a8 nesrly 88 msy be away from the vortex. Thismay be accom- ‘plished by keeping the starboard side to wind- ward, and getting out of the track if the storm- centro be moving towards the first noted place of the vossel. Some of cur ocean-going seamen - are already educated up to a knowledge of these faots, and an appreciation of their value; ands there can be no doubt-that n more thorongh dissemination of the principles of storm science will result in a material diminution in the an- nual percentage of loss by shipwreck. it s abeamc i . TENNYSON'S LAST ODE. Translation of the ‘Same for the Millon. Tennyson's recent address to the Queen has been carefully translated for the Golden Age from the original tongue, and 88 its corps of tranalators have had the sssistance of several eminent scholars and clergymen, together with two public libraries, and seven biographical and other dictionaries, thoy believe that the follow- ing rendering faitbfully deciphers the stupen- dous rebus. ~ But, in the interest of - hieroglyph- ics and other antiquarian learning, the editor of that journal respectfully announces that he will not close hiscolumns against any other proposed solution. Further communications on the sub- | ject should be written in & plain hand, and ad- dressed in simple Greek to Box 2348, New York: ALFRED TENNYSON'S SPEECH. il Your Royal Highness, I have addreased to you & poem whichmy stupid and bewildered friends (including perhaps yourself) think I ought to explain in prose. It begins by calling you loyal and royal; by which I mean, clearly eaough, tkat you are every inch a woman and & Queen. Then, as proot of the loyalty of your people, T make s touching allusion to the sickness which the Prince of Wales canght in playing billiards* in bis snirt-sleeves at Sandringham, and to the stunning way in which the whole nation cele- brated his recovery. I say, for instance, that ‘London roll'd oze tide of joy thro’all Her trebled millions. This is not a misprint for *troubled millions.” I 'meant to astonish the world by the announce- ‘ment that nine millions of people (ta’r three Lon- dons in one) cheered Your Majesty on that oc- casion ; which it was easy for them to do, of course, by poetic license. Nor was thia all. There was another feature of that celebration, namely : what I finely style ‘Thunderous lightnings under sea From sunset and sunrise of all thy realm, That 18, there came by submarine telegraph (at £1 per word) congratulatory dispatches from India and Aunstralia in the East, and from Can- ada and Nova Scotia in the West. Perhaps you will be puzzled by the allusion to ‘That true North whereof we lately heard A strain to shame us, * Keep you t0 yourselves; Bo loyal is too costly! friendé—your love 1In but a burthen : 10ose the bond and go.” The *true North” is Caunads, and the “ strain we lately heard to shame us” ia the doctrine of the London Times that Canada costs too much to the British Government, and ought to be an amgi:a by itself. Your Highness,ihat sentiment is lknhl’ The Times, in uttering it, does not Her volca And meaning whom the rear of Hougoumont, ‘Left mightiest of all peoples under heaven; | or, in other words, does not represent the con- victions of that Britannia who, since the battle of Waterloo, flatters herself she has been mistress of the world. & ‘With subtile irony, I then proceed to ask if England is really Some third-rate ials half lost among her seas 7 This question sroso inmy mind on seading & Bpee ‘Wendell Phillips, who said that Eng- 1and sunk to a third-rate power. Letnot your Majesty be daceived by that fanatic, Womld the trebled (or the troubled) milliona of London shout, *God save the Queenof a third-rate power ?" The question is its own to answer, and is enough to quench Father Burke nimself. My next point is sgainst those Who aay that, whila Englishmen at home are loyal to the mon- archy, yet, when they live in the distant colo- nies, thoy desire indapendence,—just as the un- gratefal Americans did under George IIL. I met this accusation by showing that we who were born and brought up in England, but who bave sent our sons and daughters to Calcutts, and Melbonrne, and Montreal, have sent them thith- ernot to ba part of a new nation, but only to make world-wide the glory of the ‘* tight litthe isle ;" or, as I poetically state it, 3 The loyal to their crown Are Toyal to their own far sons, who love Our ocean-empire with her boundless homes For ever-broadening England, and her throne In ono vast orient, and one isle, ona islo, That knows not her own grestness. 1 then change the key-note of my harp, and say (or in words to that effect), your Highness o me the honor to sccept this book of oems—not on its own account, but because your Fito husband, the Priace Consort, was very fond of these legendary tales, particularly King Ar- thar, to whom I once did myself the honor to compare him. This compels me to explain that the King Arthur whom I have hercin described is very" different from the mythical personage whom wo ‘have heretofora associated with tha.t name—yes, far higher in intellect and monmals than the Round-Table hero of whom you hae read in the ‘history by Geoffrey, of Monmouth, or in the re- from the Nor- ‘man-French by Sir Thomas Malory, whose Wolsh name I prefer tp spell in the old ! atyle, 't Alal- leor,” &0 that people may be puz- zled with my learned allusions. The early and rude traditions of King :Arthur and ‘’his knighte—stories which were often lewd. and Jow—I bave invested with a pure and high mean- ing, using them to ilustrate the struggles be- “tween the carnal aud the nglnmdlmm of .men, or, as the poem itself pl t, Shadowing Sense at war with Soul. Finally, a8 a peroration, Take my blessing—in blaak vore. Heavan grant your Alsjesty a good government under Mr. Gladstone. True, the 8igns of the times ate portentous—to a consorva- - tive like myself. I have nothing but denuncia~ tion for what I call : wordy tracklings to the transient hour, by which I mean the subserviency of tho press, 22 when it panders to Canadian independence ; 1 despise * Fierce and careless looseners of the faith, and if Huxlej, and Darwin, and Tyndail, and other revolutionists against religion, think 'Lh;i: Vel thia shoe fits them, let them putifon ; L v Art with poisonous honey stolen from France. in which I include the wholecatalogue of French abominations, from new adaptations of stage- plays to new fashions of ladies’ dresses: I grieve that the Iaboring classes present to us a fhreat~ ening problem, uttering A grosn aud not & voice, ; 88 witness the portentous strike in South Wales ; 1 animadvert on the unhappy fact that the eda- cated classes are selfishly devoted to their own interests, and that the ignorant multitude are thus left in unchecked poesession of the govern- ment ; or, as X more delicately expre: it in the accompanying copy of verses, That which knows, but carefal for itaelf, And that which knows not, ruling that which knows Toits own barm. - But, notwithstanding_all these drawbacks on our Conservative prospérity, the prophets who- ition—and predict the final triumph of the O; Radicals as Elrficuhrly the trinmph of su iir Charles Dilke, Mr. ugh, and the rest— are simply scared at their own shadows. 8o, although the tale of Kiog Arthur keeps conatantly pointing to some great and final “dis- aster which shall happen Intho West ‘Where all of high and holy dies swsy, nevertheless your Roynl Highness ma is threatensd calamity if you will simp) to your F Crowning common-sense, snd refect tho vagaries of all who tell “Go West.” - = ” h{CheEfi and spplause, doring which the bard s his seat.] g —Proprietor of Store gryw-y of a lecture after bestowing gratuity)—'* Now, my man, one-half of mankind’s misery is cat by rum ; steer clear ~ it, and you'li be all right. Think of the number of people it has thrown from affiuence into the most abject poverty!” Incorrigible Wretch—* Yes, erty is a dre'fal thing, be- cause when & fellow's monay’s all gone, what's you to he goin’ to do for a drink 2" GERMANY. . How President Grant’s Tnaugural Is Recsived by the Ger- " man Press, The American Executive the Most Ad- vanced [dzalist of the Age. Shall We Have Eternal Peace, a Unie versal Republic, and a Uni- versal Language? Special Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. DrespeN, March 11, 18573 The German papers publish a synopsis of President Grant’s inaugural address, with rather unfavorable comments. They seem to ridicule the President’s ideal and progressive political philosophy ; and it is quite evident, from the general tone of the articles, that these German writers are envious of the good fortune which gave to our country a PROFOUND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER when we least expected him. It seems Germany has Inbored under the impression that the habit- ual silence of our National Executive was an indication of barrenness of ideas. What & mis- take! All at once, tho silent man spesks, mot to his own country alone, but to the werld; and he unmasks himself as the g MOST ADVANCED IDEALIST OF THE AGE. That portion of his message in which he pro- claims his faith that *“The Great Maker is pre- paring the world to becomo one nztion, aad taat armies and navies will be no longer necessacy,” is intensely intoresting. He is far ahead of such men 28 Tmmanuel Eaat, as regards his hope for » speedy realization of the two great desiderats for the complete happiness of men. He already Baes, with tho ey of his ideal mind, the grand consummation of political and sceial perfco- tion : ETERNAL PEACE AND A UNIVEBSAL REPUBLIC. Eant believes this consummation possible oaly ‘when all strife and discord coase within tLo sov- eral States; when men become, not only equally “free, but also equally wise ; and when all nations are of equal influence and power. But these considerations are too inmgnificant to figure in the calculations of one Philosopher-President. Ho believes that “‘com- merce, oducation, and the rapid transit of thought and matier by telograph and stcam, have- changed everything ;” and that, conso- quently, the world is almost: ripe for the grand experiment, Of course, the immaterial fact that corruption, fraud, egotism, bribery, and all manner of social and political immoralit have never been so rampant, barefaced, an: shameless, a8 at the timo of the inditing of that memorabls megsage, 3 CUTS NO FIGURE in thecase. The American Republic, * as guid- ing star to all other countries,” is in 1tself quite sufficient to accomplieh the magnificent purpose. 3 —— Oh great delight, 5 To understand the spirit of the age, To mark how, ere our time, a eage has thought, And what improvement on his work we wrought. Now, for the firat time, men of all parties will begin to understand and appreciats THE BENEVOLENT SPIRIT which caused the sale of arms to France, and the ersistency of the present sdministration in the EL Domingo policy. The sale of arms was ener- otically carried out in the face of all opposi- Hom, marely bocanse our progressive Adminis- tration thought it expediont to insugurato the world's disarmament by & hasty sale of most of our deadly weapons,—these instruments of of- fense and defense not being needed on the eve of et peaca, The policy with reference to 8t. Domingo is another ontgrowth of the same advasced political, philosophy, ea that favored country is selected aa the first link in the great chain of annexation, which, out of the Republic of tha United Btates of North Americs, will pres- ently create the *‘ Respublica Universalis.” It 15 not by any means strange that most of the writers on the science of moral and politics’ philosophy differ from President Grant.” = NOT EVERY CENTUBY gives birth to a superlative statesmsn. One noted writer on the scionce of politica says -4 Not until every people and eve‘lvv State have lost their peculiarities, will a World-Stats ba pcm’bdl‘e' and then—the world's history will be at a0 end.” 5 Another argues that, According to the laws of Nature, it is impossible, that tho soveral na- tions on the globe should not be radically dif- ferent; and that it would be an unnataral con- dition of things if esch peoplo did not form a separate Stata. As tho wolf and tho lamb can- not le peacenbly togather, so it is impossible that brotherly love can always reign between all the States.” B Feunerbach believes that s universal Stata would be THE GRAVE OP MANKIND. Bcheleiemacher is of a similar opinion. R. V. Mohl (‘History and Literatare of Po- litical Science ”) writes : “Every sensible man must at once perceive tha & wniversal World- . Btate is a ridiculous fancy. H. B. Oppenheim (* System of the Law of Nations ") thinks thac *¢ The rights_of men can- ot be anteexed or_developed by removin national fandmarks ; but that the plarality of Btates, and the competing efforts of each nation- ality, are necessary conditions to the dovelop- ment of progreasive ideas.” e Grant’s master-mind will upeedfldy dispose of these, and all similar doubts and objections, though theymay seeminsurmonntable to ordinary statesmen. Ancient and modern writers have always balieved a universal language. < A PSYCHOLOGICAL, IMPOSSIBILITY. They have even claimed that the mental peca- liazity of each mople‘ as displayed in its mother- tongue, would be one of the greatest obstacles to a universal State, and that overy people fears no misfortune more than the ruin and lose of its language. The Presidont settles tho whole question by simply asserting that *‘Tha Grost Maker is proparing the world to becomo one nation, speaking one language.” Perhaps bis {aith i8 80 strong, and his hope 86 sanguine, that he expects a universal langusge will be created in the same sudden and miraculons manner in which originally the tongues were confused at the beilding of the Tower of Babel. The fact that theroare millions upon millions of men whbom the civilizing influence of Christianity hay 28 yot not affected, and that several heathen nations may refuse to be annexed aud merged in } the Universal Republic, will, of course, not * change the views and policy of the Washington Philosopher. EE OFFERS A COMPLETE REMEDY. {for these seeming difficulties in that passags of his inavgursl which, in touching upon_Indisa affairs, simply recommends that, i the Indians néndzewbecivflu' lized, they should be extermin- ated. In whatever direction we turn, from whate ever standpoint wo may argug the’ question,. we the President lesgues upon leaguos TN ADVANCE OF ALL COMPETITORS. Even Prof. Bluntschli, ong of the most pro~ gressive expounders of political science, does not begin to come ?hl: the advanced positiom of Preaident Grant. great American philos- opher stands alone in his glory, an!.ihl'[vx and one upon the verypicket post of ideal political philosophy. No man, alive or dead, csn hold a candle to him in progressive ideas. Heis de~ termined that the Jamb and the wolf shall lis down together ; and, if Congress will only obey the recommendations of his message, and pass the necessary laws, * tending towards the ends indicated,” the President, 2s-he assures the i3 country, will encourage and support those meas- and the . MIRACULOUS THING WILL B¥ DOXE. The invaluable bleasing thus hestowed may at firat only fall upon San Domingo, but the reat of the world will speedily follow. = E.Jussex. C ——————— The Natural Duration of Life. According to Prof. Faraday, the crime of sui- cide is very common 1n this age of the world, for he intimates that all who die nnder 100 years of ith_self-murder ; that man to y would allow him to arrive at period if he did not Jill himself by eating unwholesome food, allowing himself to by trifles, giving license to passion, g to accident. Flourin ad- vanced the theory that the duration of lifo is measured by the time of growth. Vhen once the bones and ag!pl_am are united the body BTOWE o more, and it i8 at 20 years this apion i offected in man. The natural termination of life is five removes fromi the several points. Man, being 20 years in growing,-lives, or should, { times 20 years; the camel ia 8 years in growing, 1ud ives 5 tmos 8 yeara ; tbo borso s 0 yoara 13 al ives 2 H il it T Jears; and so'on with e, o5 St SRR T e T S T ST