Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 4, 1873, Page 10

10 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MAY 4, 1873. R HOW TO DIE EASY. Information of Value to Those Con- templating Suicide, A Plessant Substitute for Tauda- aum, Arsenic, the Razor, and the Revolver, a Gelsemin, lhe'Recently-Discovered Pro- ducer of Eternal Sleep. Some Suggestions for Persons About Cross the Styx. No subject is more attractive to the local de- partment of 8 newspaper than suicide. Ifis a ‘theme which is always fresh,charming, and new, though s old as the hills. No matter who is the activo party, young or old, man or girl. A -~woman who drowns herself because she has lost her lover, or # man who hangs himself because hois mad with matrimony, it is a thing eagerly sought after, and carefully written up. Such events stand on'the same footing with adultery, i in that both are entitled to five-line heads, and 1 outrank murder, which is given but thres. This prominence is conceded to suicide, not because ! Teporters have any special fancy for writing up i the cutting of throats or the blowing out of : ‘brains, but since the public have a great hankor- ing after this kind of reading, and feel much ag- grieved if all the particulars are not . give. It is not enough for them to learn i in a brief line that A B took poison. ‘They wish to know who discovered him, how he looked, and,“above all else, why he didit. Itis the same form of curiosity which makes men so frantic to learn why's woman of the town took to- .evil courses. It does not suffice to know what she is, but she muat ba pestered with inquiries 1 - 88 to just how eho camo 80, thio time, the words, i the man. Owing to this insatiable desire for par- 8 ticulars, it has become necessary for newspapers 3 toinvent them. Thus, occasionally, there ap- o pears the story of the blonde young man, poor i but accomplished, who falls in love with the : brunette young lady, rich sod ovable, A cruel father infervemes. They part, with tears and vows of constancy, she to wait and be faithful, e to wait and make money. The party of the first part yields to parental persuasion, and weds 2n old, old mav, as old as Methuselsh, and as Juiceless as the cityeditor of the Journal. The s not yet issued “The Buicide’s Guido; or Hints for Self-Destruction,” giving information 88 to the difforent methods, their cost, etc. Doubtloss it will soon be done. In the mean- time the following suggestions are given for the benefit of tho papers ; No person with any self-respect will kill bim- self in the morning, for then the evening papers haye the firs chance at him, and they do_write thingsup 60 clumeily. The bost time is be- tween 1 and 9 o'clock:in the afternoon. It is not abadides toleave information ail the news- paper offices. They will never betray such & confidence to the police. It is also necassary, if 2 man can write, for him to leave & detailed ac- count of his reagons. He need not bo particular about tho language, for- that will be corrected for him, and the neccs: quotations ingerted. 02 course it should bo in Englisn. Tho timorous, would-bo seuicide must be as- sured of the following things : ‘The article ho takes must bo what he can buy ‘without exciting remark ; it must not bo nause- ous ; it must not cause pain, lilke strychnine or arsenic ; it must bo such that it is not casy to deteot that a person is undorits influonce, a0 as to reduce to & minimum the possibility of being sayed, and, if possible, it mmust be chesp. It js believed that these various conditions are ‘better estisfied by the fluid extrach of gelsemin, or yellow jessamine to use the common name, than by any other accessible agent, and the g:fiblhlhfie! are that, when its effects are a littlo tter known, It will become the stand-by of tho weary and heavy-laden. Up to the prosent timo, it has enjoyed no general reputation, and, though used with stccess by. s fow promi- nent physicians, and by-'a good - many “yarb” doctors, has mot been really familiar to tho profession. The yellow jessa- mine, which in Maryland and e-water Vir- ginia is called woodbine, is one of tho.common- est of Southern plants. Its range oxtonds from tho Atlantio to the Valley of tho Missisgippi. It is found in the Dismal Swamp, on the banks of Floridian rivers, and along the Missisaippi water- courses. Itis one of the most boautiful climb- ing plants of the Southern States, ranning up lofty trees and forming festoons from one to an- other. During the early spring, the rich per- fume of its blossoms scents tho air with an_op- graaui\'e {fragrance, 28 richas the odor of Cape essamine or the azaleas of Now England. The story—and it is not an improbable one—is, that its chief medicinal virtues were discovore thirty-odd years ago, in tho samo wayin which the medicinal qualities of most things are dis- covered, by accidont. A Mississippi planter, suffering from bilious faver, told his slaves to get certain roots and make him o tea, tobe taken for a sudorific. In doing so, they dug up somo jessamine roots, end mado a decoction of them.” Ho drank, and soon_after, to tho great horror of the faithful Africans, an to show every sign of death. The pulse died away, tho limba lay motionless, and the breath seemed to censing. Therofore, they began to consider whother it was better to run away or to stay and be accused of poisoning their owner. While they were medx:afinfi these questions, their master came to himsolf, froo of fover, headache, or nauses, and_feeling well and comfortablo, Then they told the story, and investigation showed what it was that had dono the worlk. Then it became & favorito remedy among negroes and the poor whito trash. Tho ecloc- party of tho second part, on bLearing of this, throngh the Times or some other enterprisin) gnpar, «quits making money and drowns himself. i8.the kind of stuff that the public is fed . upon, and many & man who has killed himself for the simplest reason in_the world would be - ‘vax much taken abeck if he could read the . pathetic accounts given in the papers. All cor- Tespondence, even, is to be distrusted, unless backed !xg the certificate of the Coroner. Not o3 gi.u there a great domand on the part of the public for this suicidal reading, but thera are & great many individusls wko are meditat- +ing suicide who look to it for rolief from in- "tolerable real or fancied ills, and who would seok refuge in oblivion st once if it -wero ‘mot for cortain_detorring ceuses. One of ithess, which is losing_ its once strong hold,’ is tho belicf that it is morally wrong, and that self-murder means eternal damnation. The rocent discussions concerning Euthanasia *show the chznge of -sentiment on fhis subject, and, before Jong, it may be fashionsble for & ¢ mon who imtends ‘‘to make his bow tothe world,” as the Chinese have it, to either send around P. P. C. cards to_ his zcquaintances, or havea fow friends with him when he swallowa ‘what the Journal call the‘* asphyxiating lotion,” anda short-hand reporters o take down his : moral and improving remarks as Xenophon did for Socrates. Theold notions are being sup- tics, tho irregular proctitioners, got hold of it. Tho deckhands on the Mississippi, in Some mys- terions way, learnod of its virtues, and mado of it their panacea for certain ills with which deck- ‘hands, niot beiug & very moral st of men, aro often badly afflicted, Their fashion was to take a couple of ounces of the root, boil it, and then drink ill their jaws dropped down, and their heads were whitling. It was usod by o couplo of Charleston physicians during the yellow-fever season of 1854, but it is believed without much apparent succoss. It has been employed by ono or two leading physicians in this city, who enter- tain great faith in it, not for yellow-fover, but for certain other ailments. It has beon pro- scribed for intormittent and bilions fever, in- flammation of tho lungs and ploura, nouralgis, dysmenorrhes, delirium tremens, ctc. Of late years it has been growing in favor on account of ita remarknble efiicacy as & nervous and arterial sedative, as well ag for its uses in dealing with deck-hand disorders, Itisnot taken, howaever, in the old-fashioned way, but in that of & fluid extract, the only trouble with it being that its strength {s apt to vary, and it is difficult to say what tho cxact effect of s corfain number of drops will bo. Likq digitalis, it acts by depressing the action of tho heart, and is, thero- fore, specially dangerous when there is any dis- oase of that organ, In many cases of suffering fromfever, its administration results in secaring o planted by the application to_ euicido of that egal maxim, thatno one shall 8o, use his prop- erty as to harm othors, but that, subject to that limitation, he can do with it what he pleases. Tt is obviously wrong for a person who has mar- ried, and has helpless children, to steal from the world, and leave them . burden upon society. He has contracted obligations which ho is bound 1o carry out, and, if he tries to evade them, society may pmyerl serva on him n writ of “ine exeat regno,” and may keep him within its 3 jurisdiction by & stomach-pump, or any other sgency it pleases touse. But if A map, with no incambronces, lesving behind him the money to Pay for his burisl, chooses to ceaso becoming consumer, and decides to return his phosphates to the earth whence they came, why, then, it is snother matter. If & person makes up his that there is no place for him at Nature's board, J, that ho was born too 800n Or too lato, that he is ** ap anachronism, an_error, snd that the best thing for him todo is to get out of the way as o s00n a8 possiblo, why, then, let him slide, and - not poke around, being in everybody’s road. ' Just plant him at the foot of & grape-vine. Another deterring cause 18 the fear of forfeit- ing a life-insurance policy ; but the courts and some physicians are kindly taking tho position that n0 sano man wonld kill himself, thereby indorsing tho good-natured view _ that Coroner's juries ~ had proviously taken. Ignorance oOf . the law hss alone? made this a bugbear for many years, It is & singular feeling which induces s man to hang on to life, not that his heira may have some money, but 7 . ihat an insurance company may not make s0me- ! thing by his departure. This reminds one of the dog in the manger. 'he third thing_ which * ives us pause” isa purely physical fecling, that dread of pain which, with 50mé men, is a8 Intenso as it was represent- ed tobein Louis Grayle. .There are those who endure the agonies of neuralgia rather than sub- it to the pain attending the pulling of a tooth. There are those who shudder at the thought of drawing a razoracross their throats, and properly 80, for the razoris the weapon of the African, and no Caucasian should demean himself by usingit. * Bome dread the ehn&g:in! which attend arsenic, the choking from coal, and tho sensations . which come when the lungs ing with -water instead of air. Itis icult to buy some of the more active poisons without exciting Bus- picion. Few know how much to take, and aro very spt, when desling with Isudanum, to take too much. _Men hate to make inquiries on thess points, for fear of being fonnd out, and then there 'is the formenting thonght thaf they may def-eu(«cdi pumped out, and made ridiculous. To try and fall, and then be written up, pointed 2t on tha street, and laughed ot by the courteous .-gentlemen on 'Change, who never allow such & ng to dis ont. Soms people have s projudice against mmnf their bodies, arid wish that their corpses may look decent when the jurors and Coroner coms to look at them. This is another of the corious weaknesses of poor humanity. It is sometimes the caso that s man is actually oo poor to kill himself decontly. Itis true that he can drown himself, but then not all care abont starting n!m:gdjonmey in damp clothes, Then too, it may be dead winter—a winter of 1872-3, snd the poor man may not be abls to gob 2 hatchet wherewith to cat a_hole in the ice. Poople in such straits have been known to ‘borrow pistols, to stoal knives, to tear sheots into strips and make halters, and to resort to eimilar devices, which are morally indefensible, because they had not & few conts with which t pey for their ferrisge across tho 8tyx. What i wanted is a_cheap relief, na choap aa poor whisky, and more speedy in its effects. Buicide ehould cease to be the luxury of the rich, and should be put within the reach of the poor. It is disagreesblo to resort fo such violent means as a knifo ora pistol, since, if one uses them in his own house or room, he is apt to spatter blood or brains upon_bed, aad floor, and walls, and make amap which displeases eve Fight-minded housekeeper. No person shoul in taking away his life, destroy or damage prop- erty which does not belong to him, and very few wre considerate enough to’imitate that Quaker women who was so neat and thoughtful asto Jean over o slop-pail and cut her throat so daintily that not a drop fell upon the carpet. ggi such thoughifulness has ever been ehown in 0. It is true that conrser rendars_sre fond of the throat-cutting business. They like the gaping the clotted gore. They are the people who ire dramatio murder as executed by DcVicker's stock company. But the information to be given below not diminish the number of Amp}a who will leavo the world in this way, znd who like the eclst of such a departure. . All that it ia songht to do is to put it in the power of goflph_: ‘Wwho want to kill themselves and not, loit easily and chesply. For surelyno one ean blam i e eoeds ing & provision for & ‘good lot of suicidal Items during the dull summer months which are :Epmnd:mu g. It is business sagacity and fore- fimmmunwnemmmpubw a comfortable and natural am;:, and thus facili- tates & Tecovery. In addition to theso internal sos, it is also employed with success onemfllfl. The potent agent in many oya-washes and appli- cations for inflammation of the eyes is gelsemin, &nd o person troubled in that way can often so- cure relief by diluting somo of the fluid extract with distilled water, and bathing the inflamed part with it. All thingg being equl, it is intimatod that from eifiht to twenty drops is n fair dose for an adult, though if tho patient is suffering sovero pain, or is greatly oxcitod, the system will bear o greater quantitywithout showing the workings of it, just precisely as with laudanum or whisky. Tho effects of too large a dose aro Yory curious. The control over the muscles is gradually lost. It becomes impossible to flex the finger joints. The nerveless hands refuse to sustain the elightes:h;?ight, and bu person is ni:;’nhle to h::ld 8 tiny p: except by pressing it against his bosoi it his aris. Tho eyelids alf close, onditis impossible to open them. Speaking becomes dificult, and there is the general foel- ing of *goneness” that is apt to come to one with his tenth tumbler of punch, provided al- ways, the liquor does not make him sick. But one feels these symploms coming over and wants relief, Jet him take a ‘couple of pgood ' drinks of whisky, with or without quinine, and the action of the gelsemin upon the -heart will be counteracted. If one takes a little too much; but not enough to produce death, one sinks into a that it is hard to believe thatlife has not ceased. ‘When the awakening comes there is no head- ache, no nsuses, ione of the sickening sensa- tions that follow Iaudanum. Thero is not even lassitude, And this it is which favorably dis- tinguishes it from 8o many hypnotics, or sleep- producing agents. When one passes beyond all bounds, and takes altogather too much, thedone_ lapses gently into the eternal sleep. The mischief is done, ast all remedy. No stomach-pump is of avail. tidotes aro uscless. He lies there with un- disturbed faco, and relaxed, not stiffened, mus- cles. B lics 53 oo who_claops poscetulls, and no one, gazing on him, could say that ho hed violnted the senctity of his Iifo. Tho branth gives baraly & trace of the poison, and it is excossively diffioult to detect it in the stomach. If the suicide will kindly take the simple-precaution of throwlng the vial out of the window, ho will greatly baifle those who are auxiously sceking to find ont what is ailing him ; and the cause of death will be learned only from the communica~ tion he leaves behind for the papers: 1t is poseible that the extract may mot be of proper strength or too little may bo takon, and tho intonded suicide may recover without asaist- ance. In that case he must remember the story of Robert Bruce and the' spider, and try again. Perseverance conquers all things. 1t is easy to explain to frionds that it was i roduco a slight nap, and then there is tho sati nction of knowing that thorowill be no head: ache, no disgusting resction. Since this invalusblo medicine docs not taste badly, having simply a pungent vegetable flavor, and since it does not nauseate, the best plan is for & persom to take & couple of drachms, or about 200 drops, for it does not drop as finely as laudanum, and make & reasonably sure thing of it. It is poor economy to take too littls, and then have to try it over again. A drachm in time savesnine. It is truo that laudanum is bout a8 cheap at prozent, and that ordinarily a drachm will answer but fhen the increased de- mand for gelsemin will stimulate the manufac- turo and lower the price, 8o that it will come within the reach of every one. It will alsp make it 8 profitablo o gather jessamino us ginseng. Another great advanisge is the ocase with which it can_ be procured. Many persons have _buy lnudanum for aching teoth, or o liniment, and remember how, when they did not happen (o havo & _prescription, the drug. gist wogged his wise hoad, and R scraples, and finally, with much dotbt, gave them what they wanted in s bottle, with “%oimn" in large red letters on it. But the case is far different when it comesto buying gelsemin. Fow, indced, are the apothecaries who caution the purchaser 28 to the natire of the medicine, few who label it o8 poison, except the dozen really good Chica~ £0 d.rnggut.s. A call for it excites no more sur- priso than for an ounce of - paregorio, and the shyest man who ever wanted to make dway with ‘himself could go, without fear, and ask for it. Some druggists do not evon know that it . is poisonous . at- 'all, although & fow cases which have recently occurred might have tought them that its use s not nuattended withi danger. But then the ignorance of many dnlilggist.s as to the qualities of the articles they sell 18 very great, for all that' s necessary to make an spothecary here is the possession of the capital with which to start drug-store. = Tgin information, it is respectfully submitted, will be of much value to those who want to die, nd of some value to those who do not, and it ‘warns the latter to be careful in their dealings dreamless aleep, so closely simulating death * ith this medicive; and it is very probable that the druggists will, during a week or so, be sur- prised at the increased demand upon them for elsemin, to be used invarisbly for sore eyes. on we shall havo fewer instances of ‘delicate women driven to hanging or drowning them- selves, and of nervous and shrinking mon com- pelled to draw a razor across their throats. . "THE NICOTIAN' WEED. - Has Anybody the Right to Narcotizo His Neighbor? To the Editorof The Chicago Tribune: Bm: Recognizing the press as at once the Tribune and the Mentor of the people, I ask your aid in dofense of that sadly-exposed part of the public who ride in omnibuses and streei-cars. Onandinallof these vehicles is placed con- spicuously the positive order, *No smoking allowed.” These notices are about as compli- mentary to the decency of the .populace as no- tices to ‘‘Beware of pickpockets™ are to the honesty of the crowds who frequent fairs and horse-races. Yet, while vulgarity and thieving exist, thoy connot be disponsed with, however _disagreeablo the ideas suggested. While it must be confessed that such warnings - do not fully protect the | public, yot, in this case, they do affirm the right of every man and woman to travel without baing molested by the fumes of tobacco, as well as the intention of the owners of the vehicles to pro- tect them in so doing. ‘When & passenger pays his or her money to these companios, it is under the implied agree- ‘mont that they are to be thus protectsd. Ladies of sensitive nerves, or gentlemen of refined ol- factories, who ses this prohibition painted in large leitors, havo o right.to expect that they shall be allowed to ride on the inside or outside of these carrriages without being obliged to in- haloa second-hand dose of nicotine from the lips of some perfamed dandy or the lungs of a stalwart lsborer. In suffering this indignity, thoy are both cheated, injured, and insulted by that company that does not require its cmployes to faith- fully enforco the order,if need be, by stop- ping the vehicle and ejecting the offonso or the offendor. Ostensibly they do require this, But how this rule is respected by a certain class of Dipeds, is too well known by thoso who have oc- casion to use thoso necessary conveyances. Tho prohibition is’ violated or ovaded with such shamcless effrontery, every day, that, unless public opinion can be brought to & standard that wilbcause 2 more strict observance of its spirit, it might about ns well be abandoned, and tho city conse the show of o civilization it does not really poseess. g A ‘passenger who ridos over on entire routo will encounter from five to fifteon of these ‘‘rude espisers of good manners,” who will entor a car- risge with & lighted cigar or roeking-pipe in nd, with\ an air of stolid innocence or Bwaggering _importance, as if inviting no- tice to ~their clownish behavior. ~ And thoy will, t0o, inyariably resent it a8 an insult when politely pointed to ‘the regulstions. The ontside of cars and 'buses aro absolutely given up to the use of smokers, tho drivers and con- ductors appearing unablo to protect & passenger agninst being obliged to stand’ on a crowded platform under the blusts of a big, black meer- schaum or five-cont cigar. Yot & man pays as ‘much for his ride on the platform or outsido, and is entitled to equal or increased courtesy when obliged to take that position. I am aware that there are largo numbars of “ business-men ™ who would not wish to be sup- posed willing to do an outlandieh- act, but who, unfortunately, are addicted to the habit which loafers and cheap clerksalso love and are fond of exhibiting in publio,who wouldl deem it a bardship £ bo doprives of their hurriod smoko on the plats form while riding to and from business, In the scramble for riches, they soem to to;-g:t the oti- etiquotte of gentlemen, and that the odor of their “Partagas” is unwillingly partaken of by the occupants of the car. Do these gontlemen re- floct that they are giving tone to the manners of their town ; that thoy are encouraging and abet- ting & public eshibition of boorishness on the part of the swoll-mob, from which their cultured souls should shrink with abhorrenco? It is said that an Arab deems it & deadly offense to spit in the proscnce of another. An Arab could bardly endure the ride in one of our strect-cars! It has also passed into an aphorism, that * No gen- tloman over yet smoked in the prosenceof a 1ady.” How many in Chicago would have to Te- lipquish that proud titlo, if tried by this tost ? ur church and pleasure-goers patronize theso strect-conveyances. classea need them. Our suburban dwellers depend mpon them. Village-property to the amount of mill- ionsis affected X their convenience and efficien- cy. They should be made and kept respectable, neat, and wholesome. They are tho coaches of the million. The interest of both proprietors and patrons is to render them popular and agroeable to rich and poor. Ican well endure the poor man’s ¢ piok-axe and & spade,” but a pipe of clay can ne’er be made meet guest for Epugg s plsce. The manners allowed in thess convey- ances aro no mean indications of the social status of our peoplo, and the inferonces are strong sgainst the real refinoment f those who simply endure theso offenses, a8 well as those who practiso them. . But the question recurs, * What are you goiny todo about it? How shall we help ourselves ? 1 answer, the patrons of these lines must first move in the matter, They are the parties pri- ‘marily inborested. Of course, every true gen- tleman wishes to travel a3 unobtrusively as pos- sible. But I will go 80 far a5 to say, that it is ono of the obligations of true politeness to pro- tect one's self and follow-passengers from un- warranted annoyances on all Gooasions,—es- cially where they are liable 6 be repeated ly and almost hourly. Pasgengers owe it to themselves to remonstrate against being nac- cotized without their consent. Thoy should re- quire the conductor to abate the nuisance the moment it appears. This they will do if prop- erly requested, for the fear of their employers is bofore their oyos. Pablic sentiment, after all, is the arbiter in the case. The proprietors have done their duty in post- ing up their prohibition. ‘There is no evidence that thoy connive at, or wish to evade tho rule. It is for the publia to make their wishes known. The owners hava no interest in opposing thom, Tho non-narcotizers would ind plénty of moral support in every case, would they guictly, but flm‘l_ ly, speak out. Officials, who ride free on 2ll lings, should set tho example. Instead of that, I fear, they sometimes dim their bright uniforms and reputations by transgrossing ¢ very rule. An instance of this occurred on last Sundny. A whole car-load of worshipers, re- turning from the refining and solemn ceremonies of dedicating & church to ‘the culture of the goul, and of faith in the possibilities of life,” conld not-but be shocked by the entrance of a tipsy swell, puffing like o chimney at & vile stub ; nor less 80 to see | a trim policeman stalk fn with & freshly-lighted and still-smoking cigar. _Nor were they-more edified by hi almost equally-rude defiance of a polite remonstrance. Chicagoans are justly proud of oxhibiting to strapgers their marvelons material prosperity ; ‘but how long will it bo ere wo achieve the esthet- ic prosperity onr brethren of the “ Hub" can ‘boast,—of having rol:§.uled tippling to- private precincts, and banishs i cotic weed from her thoroughfares forever ? It may seem utopian to suticipate such an advance for Chicago. But, while she sspiros to take the load, even' of Boston, in_architectural beanty; to rival New York in commercial actirity ; keeping pace with evory other ‘city in publio institutions of art and " education,—why should sho despsir of at~ mmn%n socisl eondition as superior to others a8 aro her opportunitios, her enterprise, and hor commanding position ? . To the Sm“ we look for the power to promote this consummation which the sges have surely in store for us. Lot it Jose not a line, lotter, or point designed to elevate the tone of public mind and morals. Lot it cease not to stir 1p the pure minds of our public-spirited capital- ists, our urbano business men, cultured citizens, and progressive pugnhwa of all grades, who would see our city take tho lead in public man- nera and privato virtue, as well as in outward magnificonce. EN. ,;‘hu Sight of Decp-Sea Crustacen. he English surveying ehip Challenger appears o bo picking up very curious oreatures rom the bottom of the Atlantic. It has dredged up crea- tures almost entirely composed of eyes, in which the body is o mere appendago to the eyes, and snother, a crustaces, in which the eyes— it thero ever wers any—have taken leave of the body, snd the body s totally blind, but furnished with the delicate -claws by which the animal feels its way sbout. It seems not rising that in the desp ses depths thore shonld either ba a very highly- eroloped wppacatun of vison, o aon aF il Tho light must be excecdingly small in smouni and thereforo, if the creature is to useit, it mt have the finest possible sense of vision. There would be no natural advantsge in common eyes Bgesaa 171 mouhe B oy 2 patura! deadras ), hik Iways getting injured in them, And tha{ maybo the reason why these extremes of eyelssaness and eyefullnoss moeef. _ CHRISTIANITY. Earl Russell’s ¢ Rise and Progross of the Christian Religion.?»”* . From the London Daily News. For more than a year past, it has been under- stood that Lord Russell was occupied in the com- position of & work in whichhe would eet forth his views on gome of, the most important sub- fectsthat can occupy the human mind. The contents of the volume now published mustnot, Lowever, b inforred too bastily from its title. A history of Christianity is no doubt to be found in it, but that history serves principally to intro- dace {pat survoy of Christendom and estimate of its condition, which filla tho chief placein the anthor's design. The work is, in fact, a series of cesays, a form which has no doubt been chosen a8 agreeing best with tlio literary genins of the anthor and the discursive liberty he was likely to require. Lord Bussell writes less as a scholar than as a well-read Englishman. Forhis ecclesinstical facts he is content to‘adduce tho authority of Milman and Jortin, Writers perhaps too much inclined to rest in the ontward aspect of events, but favorable to liberty and impartial in their judgment of churches and schools. His point of view is that of & Broad Church- man, or perhaps we chould. mather ssy of a broad Christian. He “rests,” he tells in his preface, ‘in the faith of Jeremy Taylor, of Barrow, of Middlaton, of War- burton,” and not to minco the matter, * of Hoad- loy, of Bamuel Olarke, and of Arnold,” without, however, attempting to reconcile points of dif- ference among these great mon. ; In the conduct of his narrative, Earl Russellis sgolicitous to vindicate nnsectarian Christianity against the pretensions of Churches, and to main- tain the authority of Beripturoin matters per- taining to rovealed roligion, while ssserting the independenca of science on its own ground. He quotes approvingly the dictum of Father Psul, that *if it were not for Aristotlo, the Church of Romo would be wanting in many articles of faith.” Tho earlier egsays axo dovoted to on ex- hibition of the tenching of Jesus Christ, in tho ni.mfipllcity of its doctrine, and tho purity and ele- yation of its Emticnl precopts. According to Lord Russell, *the religion of Christ has thres foundations. God is aspirit, the maker of heaven and earih; Christ was sent from God, snd ro- voaled to men the message of God; and Christ died for mankind.” From an examination of 8t. Panl'a doctrine he doducts the conclusion that an apostle who dwelt so frequently on the duties of morality must have believed that his ‘hearera were able to porform them, and thus were not banished before their birth from all hopo of soeing God. But St. Paul's wordshave boen wrested, and faith and righteousness, which he nlways kopt united, have been soparatod, **They havo erocted an idol of faith without its_fruits, and have disjoined righteousness ‘and ever- lasting life.” After 1 progress of Christianity in the post-Apostolia ages, Earl Russel arrives at tho Council of Nico, ‘where man was taught to hate his neighbor, and 6xalt himself.” Athanasius become great by explaining relations to the Godhead which Onrist had left to the conclusiona of private judgment. “The nnhn;.»fy decision of the Coun- cil of Nico was tho signal for conturies of blood- shed. Thousands of human beings died to con- firm a doctrine which none of them understood.” We - pass over the- essay which treats of the rise and consolidation of the and those In which the ByE schoolmen i5 examined, to notice the author's observations upon the Re- formers and their work. Luther rendored inos- timable gervice to tho world by opening.tho Bible. His fault was, that in the very beginning of his mighty contest with Rome_ho attempted to erect a now church, to cover it with somo- thing like infallibility, and to dofend it by per- secution. Goathe, Macaulay, and some_other omincat men, havo wished that tho condact of tho Reformation had been in the hunds of Erasmus, who, blaming freely the abuses of the Church of me, Wwas content to leave their amendment to peoplo formed by reason, by the progress of knowledge, and by the general humanity which might be expected to follow tho revival of letters. They would have been glsd if the German eruption of Luther and the French progrees of Calvin had not dis- turbed the peaceful trinmph of reform, and if the sixteenth century had come to its close'amid the undisputed predominance of the Church of Rome. But Lord Russell thinks that these com- Placent suthors consulted their own prefer- ences e men of letters rather than their tho burning_ of the par- sagacity ea interpreters of events. The Church of .Romo had remained up to the appearance of Luther as intolerant and san- guinary as ever. He holds that if Luther, Cal- vin, Zuinglius, and Xnox had qlnletly submitted to the paternal admonitiona of their spiritual chiefs they would have been burnt. But claim- ing much religious liborty for themsalves, they wero not its apostles. Among the great Reform- ers Calvin was the one who beyond all others taught the spirit of persecution.” He denonnced ‘’his opponent Bervetus to the Inquisition, gave up confidential papers, prosecuted the heratic to con- ‘viction, and then burnt bim. Could Dominican domore? In a concluding survey of the Re- formation, Lord Ruesell oxpresses the opinion that, while we may well rejoice over ita victorics, we must not supposo that the Roman Church can be extinguished by anything loss than & rev- olution that would destroy Christianity, or such 8 chango in the nature of man as wonld' deprive him of .imagination and feeling. In his remarks on the position of the Church of England, Lord Russell ngu!u 8 might bo ex- ected of thefriendof Archbishop Taitand Bishop pden, for whose early promotion he claims coredit in his proface. According tohim, the sta- bility of the Church of.Enghng depends on the Iaw which requires that all controversies of faith shall be decided by judges appointed by the Eing, and ho even goos 60 far as to quote the Gorbam and Bennett judgments, with that on * Essays snd Reviews,” as having ¢ preserved the harmony of -contonding_ eccle- siastical parties.” The Church of England is doscribed a8 in ss flourishing o state as it has overresched. After somo brief remarks upon the general position of tho Church of Rome in Europe, Lord Russell procaods to speak of its relations to the Constitution of the United Kingdom. Tho veteran statesman clings some- what tenacionsly to the sentiment of the Dur- ham Letter, and tho legislative principlos of the Eccleaiastical Titles act. He resents on all oc- casions the protensiona of the Roman Church to extend its jurisdiction over the department of civil life as being not only an offense to reason, but a social sud political dsuger. On the ques- tion of education, he perceives that- ** a contest is imponding.” The question whether Eng- land ehall Jay down by her own Par- liamentary suthoritythe conditions on which the | education of the young shall whether the Pope and his :fienfis, the Yrish Roman Catholic Biehops, shall assume the su- preme direction of education, is described as “burning.” The case of Father O'Keoffe is mentioned with warmth, and the action of the National Board severely consured. Of the £300 & yoar of which that priest has been deprived it is g;hz!: “ upon ah of the. cotbe The has Iost, the image and superscription of Victoris, that is, of Cmsar, were inscribed.” After moting’ from Sir Robert ‘Poel's speoch in ?lvor of the admission of Romsan Catholics to Parliament, Lord Russcll adds, *‘The mombers for England, for Scotland, and for Ulster, in the Honso of Commons, will not be forgiven if_they fransfer the sovereignty of Ireland from Queen Victoria to Pope Piua IZ.” Ina paragraph far toobriof for tho discassion of 8o important mat- tor, Lord Russell calls in_question the recent olicy of England towards tho Irish Roman Catho- fie Charch, Pitt, Lord Gronyills, Lord Spencer, TLord Melvillo, and Ar. Windham were agreed to grant money to the Roman Catholic Church, but $£ot to adopt any part of the Roman Catholic re- ligion. Now, he says, we refuso the monoy, but propose to givo tho sanction of Parliament to tho teaching of tho Popo's Byllabus to young mon by Papal professors. L The Iast eseay in Earl Rusgell’s volume is de- voted to a1 inquiry 88 to the probable direction in which the future developmont of Christianity will take place. The result mnz be inferred from what has already been said of the author's special Yiows. Itisnot, he holds, to bo oxpec the Protestants of Enm%u and America will their heads to the Church of Rome, and wo must have recourse to the Protestant communities of tho world with the hope of finding in them somo fair ground npon which the future religion of Christians may tako the shape of a permanent, but progressive, institution. It cannot, how- over, bo ndmilted that either Lutler or Calvin arrived at conclusions which mankind, or even the educatod part of Christendom, can be contented to rest. Here, however, when we ox- pect Lord Russell to advancs to a positive state- ment, he fails, snd can only point to the great ‘variely of the eligious lifo of Protestantism, and say, * The great matter ‘is, that the people of England ehowld do as Dr. Newman_ ssys they do —namely, read their Bibles, and be sensibly plive to the ‘superintending providence of God. I such is the gion of the bo carriod on, or v u on tho Rise and Progress of the Christian Beligion ta the West of Europe; from the Belgn of wummcwg%l)nfm By John Earl Rus- tracing rapidly the | people of England' and Scotland, we need not be very uneasy as to the result.” Lord Ruszell writes more from & direct knowledge of the world than from books, and he frequently becomes anecdotical. Thus, having mentioned that in the Peninsula the Inquisition was main- tained until vory recently, he adds, ¢ A Portu- g:wun gentleman with whom I was acquainted 1d me that, having let fall some unguarded ex-. pressions at dinner, in the presonce of his uncle, who was an Inquisitor, he was much alarmed next morning at seeing some of the oficers of the Holy Tribunal enter hi edroom. Ho was carried off to the prisons of tho Inqui- sition, but, being s relation of tho Judgo, was lot off with an admonition and & short confinoment.” As & record of the mature convictiona of a states- man who has guided the affairs of his country in reat _crises this volume will be welcomed Lord Russell's countrymen.. Poli- cies have been modified snd methods changed since the school of which Lord Russoll is the most eminent surviving member flourished, but the principles of. liborty which Lo has consist- ently maintained aro imperishable. We will con- clude our notico with the last words of Lord Rus- Bell’s preface : It s the duty of the Etate to provide for the educs- ton of every. undor its control. Itis alsothe duty of the tate to grant to its adult population the utmost liberty to think what it pleases, and to utter what it thinks. Of course, in speaking thus gencrally, Xdonot intendto condemn measures necesssry for safety. “No quid dotriment! iblica capiat ™ 18 5 maxim which all Blates must observe. The Presi- dent and Congress of tho United States of ' America observe it nolcasthan the Emperor and Benste of Rusais, To Christianity for their religion, to liberty for their political institntions, the nationa of the Eilorunes i thes o Mot hohemtig, e ce on ; injustice, ity, ‘potiam in thelr political {nstituions, el Gone GUILD'S SIGNAL. [William Guild was tho engineer of the train which, on the 10th of April, plunged into Meadow Brook, on the line of the Stm[ng(vn & Providence Railroad. It ‘was lis custom,as often ss he paesed his home, to whistle an *All well 7 to his wite, He was found, after the disaster, dead, with his hand on the throttle- valve of his engine.] Two low whistles, quaint and clear, ‘Thatwas the signal the engincer— That vas the signal that Guild, 'tis said— = Gave to his wifo at Providence, B As through tho elecping town, and thence, Out in the night, g On to the light, Down past the farma, lying white, be sped 1 v As 8 husband's groeting, scant no donbt, et to ths woman looking out, Watching and walting, no serénado, Lovo song, or midnight roundelny Bald what that whistlo scemed to say 470 my trust true, 8o love toyou! ‘Working or waiting, Good night 17 it is cald. Brisk young bagmen, tourists fine, 0ld commauters along tho Line, Brakencn and portors glznced ahead, Bmiled as the afgnal sharp, intenso, Pierced through the shadows of Providenco— Nothing nmiss Nothing I—it 13 Only Guild calling his wife,” they sid. B e Lo of spestod grein, Rang o'er tho billows ng Pierced {urough tho budding boughs o'eshead, Flow down the track when the red leaes burnod Like living coals from the engine spurned; Bang as it flow e 4T our trust true, - ‘First of all Duty—Good night,” it said. And then, one night, it was heard no ware, Trom Stonington over Ruodo Islaad shore, And tho folk in Providence emiled and said, "As they turncd in their bods, * Tha engizioer Tias once forgotten his midnight chcer.” Onc only knew, . ‘To his trust true, Guild Iny undor bis engine, dead. —ret Harte in the New York Tribune. LITERARY NOTES. There is some prospect that the first volumo of the revi*‘on of tho A&:plefmm’ # American Cyclopmdia ” will be issued iu May. —A manuscript in the handwriting of Goperni- cus, containing 84 poges, has been discovered at orn. —Mr. Lewis, author of **The Life of Goothe,” if about to finieh a work of general phflosgyhy that ho has long had in hand, to be entitled * Problems of Lifo and Mlind.” - —*Rh; ic Algebra” is the title of anew English treatiso on thyme, in which the sttempt is t0 bomada to put the art of rhyming uponn strictly scientifio basis. . —Sampson, Low, ‘Marston & Co., in London, announce their long-expected _catalogue of "Engfiah Books Published in the Years 1863 to 1871,” which contains the titles of 32,000 books. —TThe Eco d'Italia quotes from & Genoa news- aper an account of & now epic poem, by B. G. ga Ferrari, a Genoese poet, ing another Zneid of the career of the discoverer of Amer- ica. —Mr. Swinburne begins & recent poem, ad- dressed to a dead kiug, with rather an abrupt line, as follows : - * S o @odown tohell. This end is goodtosee, —Judge Robert B. Warden, late of Ohio, and now of Washington, is engaged in preparing s work on “ The Life and Times of Chief Justice Chase,” which may appear tho close of the pres- ent year. ; . —A New England novel is called * Willing to Die,” and is recommended to persons sbout to undergo capital panishment. . “ Tho title,” says an Eastern sheet, ‘ expresscs the precise state of mind of the reader after its perusal” —The preface of the * Cyclopmdis of Cook- eory," by the Iate Alexandre Dumas, declares that M. Dumas *conceived, in a happy moment, the ‘purposo of concluding his series of 500 volumes wx“l{gn comprehensive treatise on eating, which should leave no room for another work on the samo lofty subject.” o ET —Drookhans, of Leipsic, is to publish now con- tributions from Goetho's manuscript remains. Two yolumes will contain the scientific corre- spondenco of the poet from 1812 to 1832. The third volume_will give his correspondence with the brothors Humboldt during the years 1795— 1832, —Tho Atlanta Herald welcomes a new Georgis ot, from whorm it has receited ‘s handsome ittle volume of pocms, sent flirting on the great waves_of literature from pon. The demerits of tho book,” it says, ¢ though glaring, are somewhat nullified by a tender vein df talent that runs through its pages.” - : —Prof. Jevons' new work, upon which he has been engaged for many years, entitled “The Principles of Science,” conteins a complete ex- lanstion of the author's system of deductive logic, which has hitherto been_described only in brief essays and papors, together with a° now analysis of the methods of inductive investiga- o1 tion, as illustrated by the physical sciences.. D nglieh novelists profess to find something extromely funny in Amoricsn names. Whenever &n American figures in their storlgsi he always appoars undor some such impossiblo namo as “¥ull-of-Love,” or * Jefferson Brick.” Ina re- cent Pall Gazette, ~ Mcssrs Bent- loy & Bons publish s list of new books, among tho authors of which we find A, ‘Eubule-Evans,” “Lord Ormathwaite,” “Wrottes ley,” and Timbs.” A Frenchman writing abont England would find it difficult to burlesque such. nsmes. —The “Rig-Veds,” in the Samhita and Pada lex;-fl, ng.iwfl P{%&Mu Muléar, on lllm eve odb ublication, % es, demy octavo, ana B boliovod.” to bo thio. st Sanakirt work ‘ovor stereotyped. The difficulties of this process are said to have been very groat, on account of the fino sccent and vowel-signs, which constantly got broken. —Some timo ago it was resolyed to delay the ublication of the people’s edition of Ar. Car- lyle's * Lifo of Schiller,” for the purpose of al- lowing him to make » fow additions to it. The volume is now ready-for the public. The addi- tions are, for the most part, embodied in o sup- lemont, and consists of matter translated from Toe Gorsaan, iving on account of the Schiller family, uvufi as of mauch in the life of Schiller bimself, which has not hitherto been known to English renders, —In Great Britain, at_preeent, 1,636 journals sppear, of which 1,1t (London 363) aro in Eng- land, 59 in Wales, 144 in Scotland, 140 in Ireland, and 19 in the Islands. Among thoso there are 80 daily_journals in England, 2 in Wales, 12 in Beotland, 2¢ in Ireland, 2in_the Islands—in all 126, The number of periodical magazinos, in- cluding quarterlies, amounts to 640, of which 258 have = religious tendency. % 2 ihe New York Triune says: “The work upon which Mark Twain and Alr. Charles Dudle; ‘Warner have been engnged for tho past year -likely to g{ove the chief litorary event of the 8 Eenson. first mention in the Tribune has ox- citod grest attention and interest, and we arg able now to_announce its name. It is:called ¢ The Gilded Age”—a name which gives the best promise of theweslth of gatire and observation ‘which it is easy to expect from two suchauthors. It is an unusnal and & courageous enterpriso for two gentlomen who haye nlready won honorable- distinction in other walks of literaturo to venture upon untrodden paths with a work so ambitious and so important as this is likely to be.” Mark Twain writes a letter to the New York Graphic, of which that paper prints a fac sinile copy, in which he thus alludes io the forthcom- ing Hartfordwork: ‘ During tho last two months my next-door yei[glzor, Charles Dudley Wamer, has dropped his * Back-Log Studies,’ and he and Thave written a bulky novel in partnership. - He hias worked up the production snd I bave hurled in the facts. I consider it onoof the most as- tonishing novels that ever was written. "Night ofter night I eit up reading it over and over ain and orying. It will be published early in the fall, with plenty of pictures.” ) —Among the books that perished durisg thie burning of tho Tuileries was s famous copy of the seventy-volumo edition of Voltaire, pub- lished in Kehl in 1781. This copy,whichhad been destined for the Empress of Russis,-was on large paper, with proof-improssions 0f:108 en- vings, from dnwinsu by Morean ; in addition which, it hod bound up with it the original drawings from which the engravings wero taken ; altogether s very choice work, sud cently bound in red morocco. Why it mever reached the hands of the Empress Catharine, for whom it was destined, has not been explained. After puain?, Towever, from one possessor to another, at Jength it came into the bands of a M. Double, for the sum of 13,500 francs. By that gentleman it was put up to auction, and bought for the Emperor Napoleon for only 9,025 francs. The Empress. E!:Eem‘e, upon ueamglxk was 8o much atruck with the work, its beaut Vul‘ designs and handsome binding, that she st orico ‘Dbesonght thie Emporar to present it to her for her private library. With some little difficulty she obtained her roquest, and the rare Voltaira found » placo among the 6,000 volumes which constituted the Empre vate library. . But, alaa! all these pafiahpod a8 conflagration which signalized the close of the reign of the Commune in Paris. This was not, however, tha only illus- trated copy of Voltairs in exisfence. A Paris bookseller now announces _one, profusely illus- trated, Beuchot's edition, Paris, 1834, 72 lomes, Bound in_77, which may be hsd for the modest sum of 85,000 francs. This copy, it sppears, is enriched with as many &s 8,000 portraits and vig- nettes, all of the choicest kind, which were brought togsther under the directionof an American gentloman residing in Paris, whoisa great admirer of tho philosopher of Ferney. —The last number of Trubner's American and Oriental Literary Record, published by that enterprising London publisher, contains notices of the literary doings in the East, which aro most suggestivo of the new era now openin; there as well aa here. From it we learn thal there are sixty different Hindustani jour- nals published in the Punjab, the North- west ~ Provinces, Oude, snd the Central Provinces, ¢ These journals,” we are told by Prof. Garcia de Tassy, “contain discuasions on oducation and other social questions, and freely expose tho griovances of the native populs~ tion.” Prof. Garcis do Tassy spenks, also, in his Annual Review of the Hindustani Language and Literature, for 187, of the-progress of education among the Mohammedans, and states that in the Northwest Provinces, tho -yesr before, thero were 8,118 schools and thres col- leges, containiig together 204,103 pupils, of whom 11,243 were girls. A list of the various native literary and scientific *societies, together with those for social reform, is also given. A Hindoo translation of German nnd French Rhing gongs is also mentioned. Further, we learn that 5 Japaneso newspsper is published in' Lon- don with thoe title Tai Sci Shimbun, or -Great Western News, Announced, aro s Japanese- English and English-Tapanese Dictionary, a grammar of the Sinahi languago, the Christmas Dumber of Mookerjee’s Magazine, s Bungml pub- lication, with a Bengal Christmas sketch by the Iato Grish Chunder Ghose, and other articles by similarly-named suthors ; Persian treatises on the Rubai, on Persian metres, and Persian rhyme, together with various Sanskrit, Russi ‘Tartar, Arabic, Afghanistan, and other worka.. A Literary Marvel. In the year 1855 thore was published in Paris & phrase-book called “The Guide to ths Conver~ sation in Portuguese and English.” It is a work on conversation which deserves to_rank consid- orably above some of the aids to discourse that have boen more popular. This book fell under tho disapproval of the Portuguese Government, and was finally suppressed, 80_that copies of it are quite rare.” B, :lthonfi its main object of facilitating communication between Portuguese and Englieh strangers may not have been success- ful, thero is a great deal in it that should be pro- served. From time to time it has been noticed in yarious journals, and now, st the riek of reviy- ing old memories with Some who have already seen it, we venture to make o few quotatigns from if for the benefit of those Who, not having Been tho book, are groping in ignorance of some of the most surprising things in the English Iangusge. The introduction closes as follows, and is 1tself a key to the nature and-object of the entire work. It says: W expeot then, who tho little book (for the care that we wrote him and for her typographical correction) that may be worth the acceptation of the studious persons and especially of the Youth, at which we dedicate him particularly.” ‘Each page s arranged with. double columns and one is in Portugucse while the other is the same thing roodered into English. An effort is ‘made to have the contents st all emergencies of ordinary life, and g0, in case the Portuguesa gentloman traveling in England should suffer from that scourge of humanity, the toothache he ig furnished with this dizlogue, which he is to cln'{ on with & dentist :» “7 have a teethtache; please you to examine my mouth? = ~ “Dentist—you have & bad tooth. Will yon pull ont thistooth? 1 cant to decide me it; that me many great deal pain, “fim tooth is absolutely roted; if you leave it, shallt spoil the others. » *In such case draw it. ® t1 ghall you neat also your mouth, and you could care entortain it clean, for to preserve the mamel of the teeth; Icould give you aopiate to strengthen the gums. & ! T thank yon; I prefer the only means, which is to rinse my mouth with some water ora little brandy.” 2 Among & number of anecdotes which are g;:n to enliven the book, and successfully, is ‘¢ Cesar uuin&onadsy to Roma some strangers very riches which bore between her arms little dogs and little monlkies and who was carressing themtoo unamg, was salting with 5o many great deal roasons ; whether the woman of her country don’t had some children ?” - There are 80 many others equally entertaining that it is irresistible to publish them by the column, but it will probably suffice for the youth “at which " it is dedicated to close with a few selections from, several pages of Engliey diot- isms and proverbs.” Most of them are intelligi- blo, but some require careful study. Thoy are ‘He is armed at foot at up”—*Come weal, arrive what he muy be"—¢ Ho is boggar as & church rat"—* There is not better eauce who the appetite”—'“To come back at their muttons "—* Spoken of the wolf one sees the tail"—*“Which not tell a word, consont"— “Which m':; xisjk n?fl:ing hlflthlnythi:: "?“ So many go the jar to spring than at last rest i.hom"g—"’ro make from s stone two blows™ g\:: bites of & chen'y?—" A thing to tell another ing ismake™ (one thing to say, snother to do) —* Take the occasion for the hairs "gpmvionaly rendered “ time by the forolock ")—* Necessity don't know the law."” ‘These are some of the **idiotism ™ with which the volume abounds. It is a pity that it is out of circulation,. for it contains some valuable euggostions for the makers of a now. language, 28 it has been proposed to do for the Japanese. a8 follows » London Society Gossip by an Amers ican Lady. i From the New York Tribune. < The receat defeat and re-appointment of the English Premier have given local prominence to Mr. Gladstone; but how fow know_anythin about the brilliant stateeman’s wife. Mrs, Glad- stone is zn_estimable church woman, but sadly lacks the social tact necessary to a person of her position. Distrait at all times, sho is" the cause of greater offenses against etiquetto than any one in London. Mrs. Grundy is fond of telling Thow on one occasion, in order to rofrosh her hus- band’s memory, Mis. .Gladstone wrote on a card ‘which ehe placed in the framo of o conspicuons mirror, ‘*Don’t forget to invite " thosé horrid Bmiths,” and how the “horrid Smiths,” as well 88 Mr. Gladstone, had the_ exquisite delight of reading the endearing epithet- of the frank ‘Thostess. One of the leaders of the London fon is tha. Countess of Waldegrave, who now owns Horaco ‘Walpole’s villa, ** Strawberry Hill.” The Count- ©s3818 the dmghber of Braham, the English sing- er, and though for some time snubl becausq of her plobian birth, she has lived down enub- bing, and now snubs in her turn. She kas been married three times: ‘first,” according to her own_story, * *for money ; second, for position ; third, for love.” Tha Hon. Chicheater Fortescuo is Countess Waldegrave's present husband. Bno retains her former titlo because it gives her Mgmr rank than wonld the Hon. Mrs. = . H. Lewes is tho ugliest man in London, and the most brilliant. Mercurial;as a thoroughly continental in thonght and oxprea: sion, ho makes you Torget i fuco in fifteen min- ates, and, at the end of an hour, you pronounce him one of the most interesting ‘men you ever met. When he and his wife, ' Georgo Eliot,” load convereation, their drswing-room becomes the most attractivein London. Mr. and Afrs. Lewes have s protty house near Regont's Park, &nd, recciving every Sunday, collect around them the clevarest of men and women. . Nothing can exceed the retiring manuer of ¢ George Eliot,” whose voice is soft and low. Bhe cannot bear any referonce to her own writings, and, thongh her friends long to express their gratitude, they never dare outwardly to hint at inward emotion, Composition is no easy taek to *‘ George Eliot.” Bhe uncessingly to nraducs her results. Herds of cattle and sheep wers there - Ox-carts, laden wit Frenchinan, | SAN JACINTO.- " Wa sat In a Todga on the Gruat Salt Plainf Ty it hoads Souret dleat and rat, 9 o sleet and "Xad tho hurricane Gwept tho iy, 3y comrado thero was » Dorderer gray, Tho it God i e good ol iy ; 0 many s year had ranged : Rifle and Bible in either hand. His eye was fixed and very bright; "Ana bla yoleo was atern, and low, And he talked of San Jacinto's fight, And tho fall of the Alsmo, 1t 18 now som seven and thirty years Since Bowie, Fannin, and Crockett dieds ‘We were the Texan pionoers, “The first faint wato of the Saxon tida. Into the wildern2ss wo had come, Westo and empty, but broad snd fair, . And fitted to be 8 freeman’s home, And'resred our humble tenements theze, Thers Mother Earth {s a bounteous nurse, Who can well her children’s toil ropay, But wo tired of the brutal Greaser's curse, And the lordly Don’s anarchic sway ; And wo raised tho flag of an infant nation, Weal, but born of # glorious kin, ‘Enowing what mightier Constallatfon P aited to welcome thio stranger ing Assured that If crime and baso smrTender Failed o tear our banner down, 1t star at last would bloom in splendor, htgat gem in the Northern Crown, Esstword over a blood-stained track ; 0id mep—infants—the weak and dying— Our fair young nation a Wrackh len with honaehold ware; g Fleelng from outrage, and firo Bick mon, enatahed iom tertible graves, Tended 18 wagons by trembling slsves ; . Children, bearing a weary welght, And tho Taat debris of a fuined sthte ; % Whilo the burning homesteads, ever nighar, Towered in columns of smoke and fire. ‘We were the rear-guard, scowling back At the foe that swarmed on our sullen track 3 & eruol, foul, and swarthy throng Of Greasers, twenty thousand strong. And wo wer fow ; our alltold, - ere scarce six hundred, young and ald, Weary, hungry, athirst for blood, Cursing with bitter hatethe foo, On we stalked throngh the shorelsss mnd, And talked of the Alamo. The Alamo! Tie Alamol 3 W felt the hot blood secthe, < As e hissed that ward of wrath and woe' Through clenched and grinding teeth t We talked of the brave two hundred man Piled in that horrible elaughter-pen 3 Faunin, our darling, strong and lesi; Bowle, true as his own bright steel; Crockett, heaping his gory bed With a hecatomb of Greaser dead. tramped the slimy 3 sadslow, - of eyes, and lips prezsed pole, A8 w talked.of the Alsmo. And we vowed, if God our lives should epare, Till the hour arrived to face the fos, A hundred corses should rot in the air ‘For each that died at tho Alamo ! Bo for weeks—day in, day out— Ever eastward swept the rout, From the Rio Grande’s forests grosn ‘To the sandy ehores of the broad Sabine, By tho American Esgle flew, 3 And there was Gaines, with his ranks of blue, There the terrible flight conld cesse - ‘Behind the Frontier's guarded bars, And our wives and clildren rest in peace ‘Under the Bazon Stripes and Stara, And then we turned; n every eye The fires of wrath biirned hot and high, Sllent, sullen, stern, and alow, 'Wo again went marching toward tho foe, ‘Till we reached a littlo wooded ridge Qlerlooking the 8an Jacinto bridge. There two rivers, deep and wide, ‘Poured southwestward aluggish tide, Whero a mazi-of-war might at anchor ride, Each was sombre, turbid flood— Inky water and soundleas mud: * There Houston paused—0, prince of mez, Bhall w ever ook on his Iike sgain, As ho stood by tho river-bank tht hour, ° - with a godlike sense of power, Ready to enter the caming strife, - His strong heart bearing a natfon's life? He stood and gazed, o in & dreams, Toward the bridge that epanned the further sireats, Tl over the woods we sas appear A emoky pillar, shoottng high, And he drew his sword with 1wflnb§in| cheer, And a terrible light in his stern blue eye. “ Texans, ho cried, * the hour is hore ‘We have burned the bridge in the enemy’ Now forward, march I we win or dis 1 'sTeard Grant no quarter to yonder foo; And this shall be our battle-cry— Bemember the Alamo 1 Just six hundred men, and four, ‘We marched acroes the stream once mare, And all around the bridge, aud undsr, A crowd of slavo ot Work we ssw— A ight whereat we could but wonder— Heaping pitch-pine wood and straw. 80 wo filed along the roadway; Ah1 %was a ragged, motley crew One in tattered black rom Broadway, et ey o ik, e, esca o felon's prison, Btood by the man of God,ywri.o hed coms Preaching the gospel of Christ arisex, To roar an altar and butld s homer Bat each heart burned with o senso of Wrong; In each tha Saxon blood pulsed strong: ‘Tha Over our heads our baner flew, A Lons White Btar {n field of Blue. Then Houston turned as wa reached the land; ‘He struck a match with his own stern hand, ‘And it the pile; no word ho spoks, But well each man his purposo saw, And a murmared cheer from the Tezans broke, Which rose and swelled to s lond hurrab. ‘We would win that dsy the victor's Or die with Sampeon’s deathfal power ; When the English mastiff hares bis teeth, Xet the basa coyote shrink and cower ! £nd every nerve was iron-strong, Though each heart beat with hammer-blowy, A5 wo took our way toward the mighty throng TLying in careless, calm repase. The Dons were all uncémmonly gay 1In the camps by the river-side that day. e gy Slites of grsen and gold asa itter of green snd gold : . e Asteo Esglo mas Bosting fres On the silken banner’s gorgeous fold, And the Generals sat a¢ thels noonday meal With the high-born grace of ol Castile. Bmiles wers beaming on every face; "I'was the triumph-hour of tho Latin Race, At the Alamo by the Gaudaloupe ‘They had broken the northern bull-dog’s jaw Thoy bad marked his fiylng banners droop, Torn by tho Mexican Esgie's claw 3 'His fugitive army the scouta had seon Fording the shoals of the broad Sabine, - ‘And though it had cost them blood and tofl, Not a Yankeo was left on their sscred sofl. And tho Grest Republicof the North Of her own dark dealings may well boware; She sent thess oursed bandits forth ; Lot her sustain them, if now sbe darel Let her but raise 3 hostile han 'And tho Missisaippi ahall se0 3gain Tho van of our victorious band, And the conquering flag of the sons of Spainl ~But harx | what mexns that thunderous shout? . Ze Northern rifl's deadly m:‘.’\:, 6 ANSW g volleys pealing oul Tell of 8 sudden, ferto ettesk. Mexicans, up! T your posts away 1 Tho Yonkee dovils bave turned at bay 1 Butsh! what leader’s word or might Coull check that crazed and maddened Hight1 On fesntle front and fiying flanks Ot 3 rifle clubbed on o shattering skull; - .We heard the quivering flbrea part’ As tho bowie cut through the Greaser’s hestd; But our spirits felt not ruth or pain, And every eyo was fierce and co * And nought but corpees strowed the pl lain, : As southward the terrible Norther rolled, And tho air seemed fall of warlike ghosta3. ‘Hawkins, Dreke, snd the glozious crew ‘Who sent the Great Armada's hoats Down to death in the bottomiess blue. And 3 horrible, hoarse, blood-hungry yell Came with every deatbly blow, 5 ‘Ever seeming to rise and swoll— “ REMPMIFD THE ALAYO ™ 1 havo said enough s why further tell The bloody tals of that horrible fray 2 How the lust of vengeance, the fire of Hell, Burned in our hearts and hands that day2? ‘When night closed over the scene once mors Five thoussnd Greasers Ioy in gore. A remnant had cwam tho stream and fld, And the river was choked with the foating dead. As it aften haps on the mimic stago That a comedy follows the tragic plsy, B0 a farce here ended the battlo's rag Lsughter closed the day. For, ‘just at sunset, o Texsn spied. Tp in live-0ak’s Ieafago wide, Iashed whero branches cross, And wound liko s in§ moss, (Though not, liko the chief of later tale, n petticoats and 3 woman’s veil ) wraj {W5o have Blood cnongh ) b o eoacht mosk To lay &t our glorious Houston's feet ! On the morrow morn once moro began The Saxou march o the Western Sea, Well our terrible task was done ; “That dsy’s battlo mado Texsa freal It opened the path of a glorioua fate - From the Rocky Rango to tha Golden Gate, ‘And though for time it seemod t0 win New lease of life for tho Crowning iz, ot it struck a spark from Plymouth Rock, read abroad to a mignty And in commotion and bat Kindled Slavery's funeral pyrol =—H, D, Norton. in ths Eanscs Haqazine