Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 8, 1873, Page 10

ST e ey HoauZpoccHsrvaame Y e PRy R e T SEEEY..3HR M _poe & 3 . The whole ‘mountain tells of its :oo!m 10 PERU. Life in Spanish South-Amer- ica. i ' The Harbor and Commerce of .Callao -A Destructive Conflagration. - . Llamas—Rlothers-in-Law--A Fam- ily Picnic--Turkey-Buzzards. . Special Correspondenae of The Chicago Tridune. Lou, Pern, 8. A, May, 1673 . Ttis very surprising to me that the poople of ‘the United States, in paming the great commer- sl ports of the world, give due praise to Pana- ‘s, Valparaiso, and Ssn Francisoo, but nttérly ignore E2 p THE HARBOR OF CALLAO, ‘when, in fact, it is the finest open roadstesd in the world, and has & very large commerce. The Pacific Steam Navigation Company sends three lines of steamers from Callzo to Europe, vis the treits of Magellan, a weekly stesmer to Papama and Valparaiso, and up and down the -entire cosst, and woekly lines to intermediate ports; Franco disputes the trade of the coast betwoen Panama snd Valparaiso; Germany has ® new. European line; snd the White Btsr (American) Company hes slso just ‘establiched & new line; while sailing ves- ‘mels of all kinds and nations are contifmally arriving and departing; and, smong ‘thege, the fast-aailing, trim - clipper-ships of American build take precedence, both in beauty of hull and in point of numbers.. In the year 3872, 2,193 vessels entered Callso harbor, and 2,111 vesscls loaded with guano cleared from hers. And, bosides all thess vesscls, 33 ships alone brought 18,885 Coolies to Callzoin a single year. It can be truly said of the 4,000 men who con- stitute THE PERUVIAN ARMY, that two-thirds of the entire number are officers, who ride on spirited chargers, wear & quantity of gold bullion and lace, and are, in speoch, very Grave and heroic. - The 2d of May has been celebrated in Peru annually with great rejoicing, as the dsy.when Pern discomfited the Spaniards, and drove them from the harbor by bombardment. This year he celebration has resulted very disastrously, Javing resulted in A CONFLAGRATION on an immense scale, destroying $800,000 worth of property. Half & square on the principal streebin Callso is in rumns, and.nestly all the \American stores. As very few of the Peruvians have suy fires in their houses (either for cook- ing or other purposss, living almost entirely from eating-houses), it has never seemed a ne- cessity to have suitable fire-engines, and several old, broken-down hand-enginos have done ser- vice for the entire City of Lims, and two equally dilapidated- hand-engines are all they have pro- "vided for Callso, When, therefore, on the 2 of My, some hoodless enthusiast threw his rocket from the roof of the Hotel Comercio, to add to the general glorification of the .day, he little calculated the consequences that would prove so dissstroms. The light sparks, falling upon® the ' matting-thatched “xoof of the hotel, kindled into & blaze, &nd soon the fire epread, and threatened to make a sscond Chicago of Callso. Had there been & good steam engine in the place, the fire could have been instantly snbdued ; but it kept on increasing in THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBU NE 'SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1873. old. island ;' yet, because of the- lovely rids thither, it i .visited daily. -Au immense hotel was -erected upon San Torenzoyears ago by Some nnfurtamua m{or, wt!m axge;:olodmtg 8eo the island a jace Of reso! T ‘summer nmog_paflut, to me, the only attrao- tion -is the ceaseless beat of the waves against the sides of the mountsin; and 1o person could till the soil sufficiently to sustain life, it e lived there and controlled ‘the entire desolate island. We had our own sport, however, ‘watch- ing 8 THE TUBKEY-BUZZARDS, ‘who flodk around us. They would alight and eat every crap thrown to them, of whatover nature. What ridiculous crentures they are, with long, black legs, buge, unwieldy bodics, and little, eiining, béad-like eyes,—as solemn 'and a8 min= isterial, in debate over a paper-collat and arind of cheege, 83 any clergyman over his first ser- Tnon ! ‘What a rasping, hissing noise they make ! How they hop and fy, with the qucerest kind of amovement ! One of our pn.ttilgw 0 had been troubled with plenrisy) had in his pocket an old # Alleock’s Porous Plaster,” ready for an emer- gency, which he threw: to thom. How thes od and tugged at it, the pitch or tar of whid t was composed sticking to their foet and bills ; and what & contest was waged over it! Now, one golemn, old, parson-like fellow has succeed- ed in swallowing the largest part of it, and how he hops off with dignified ‘disgust, walking a8 if it was (as no doubt it mi‘&h: Lave boen) stuck closely to his insides! What quaint crestures they are ! But this ends my trip to Sm‘%fiu:o. AN ILL-FATED FAMILY. From the New York World. A sort of Nemasis seems to attend certain fam- lies, which takes the form of perpotually bring- isg them in unplessant sepects into the couris of Iaw. We lately sdverted to the mew brood of troubles which threstened the race of Noal- Byron, in the shape of s guit brought for divorce by Lord Wentworth against his wife, to whom hohsa been married but three years. Half century sgothe conjugal difficnlties of his grand- father and grandmother were the talk of the town, whilst rather more than & century before the lisison of her collateral ancestross, the beau- tifal Henriotta, Baroness Wentworth in her own right, with the unfortunato Duke of Monmouth was the scandal of the Court of James II. That 1ady succceded, on the'death of her grandfather, in 1667, to his barony of Wont- worth, and superb house of Toddington, in Bed- fordshire: and there is this of extenuation for the beautifn! Baroness’ sitachment to the woman-enthralling darling of Charles the Second, that there is but lListle doubt that they would have married if they conld. Greed of gold, bow- over, spoilt two lives which might have been 8o fair. ager to secure for his favorite son the hand of the richost heiress of her time, Charles the Socond married him, then only 14, to the oung Countess of Buccleuch, then & child of 12. t was scarcely surprising that a marrisge 8o complotely one of convenience provedill-assorted. B0 far a8 1€ involved the living together as man and wife, the Duke would seem almost to have rogarded it as 'of non-effect. i o doserted the Duchess, and took up his abode at Toddington with Lady Wentworth. So matters continued upto the disastrous ovents at Bedgemoor in 1685. Ralph states that just be- fore the execution, when the divines in attend- anco upon the Duks tried in vain to convince him of the iniquity of his attachmont to Lady Went- Worth, he continued to pssert that it was to her s0d. niot to the heiress of Buccleuch that he was mmarried before God, aud fhat rather than admit the guilt of their assoeiation he died without re- ceiving the holy communion. “Bofore many montbs wero over two graves received their occupants by rosson of the exceptionally dresdful exocution on Tower i, on the 15th of July, 1865. If tho Duke cared little for his wife it may be pre- sumed that he was less indifferent to his chil- dren, for.it is stated that his daughter, Lady ‘Anng, died of grief for her father. And'in tho following spring there Was borne to the transopt of tho parish church at Toddington, long the burial place of the Wentworths, the coflin of the oness. *Over her remains her family “proportion, until $800,000 worth of property (all the best stores) were destroyed. Since my last letter, I have been down t0 . . A LARGE EUGAR ESTATE (the largest on the coast) at Cerro Azl Four- teen millions worth of sugar alone is-made at this estate in o single yesr ; and the little const- stesmer not, only bringaback in tow s bark laden swith engar, but carries on her deck 3,000 basketa of oranges, grapes, and pine-apples for Callso. ‘Along the edge of this cosst, which we closely g, we saw immense droves of LLAMAS (the native eheep of Parn), bearing goods far into the interior. These llamas have a soft, beautiful wool, which is wrought into the finest Incos, lace-shawls, and sacques; and they are 150 tsed a5 beasts of burden, each one carrying pounds and no more. If they are over- oaded, even one pound, they knoi it at_once, and, by somo strange instinct, lio down, an cannof bo induced, by persuasion, blow, kick, or g, to arise, until the overweight is removed. ese little 1lamas (pronounced as if epelled yammas) go 100 and more miles from the coast into the interior, bearing. goods and merchan- dise, in exchangs for sugar, collee, and native pisco (brendy) ; and thersis not a drop of water, Tior any apparent sign of vegetation, on these arid_ plains, the entire way. But a3 wonderful provision of Nature has placed about every 20 miles, = little, bitter, green plant, whose leaves these llamas gather on their lonely way, and chew, keeping their mouths constantly ‘moist, and acting as s stimulant. Theseleaves they carry under their topgues for dsys, and it serves a donble purpose,—as & substitute for drink and for food. 5 . 1t bas been my good fortune to be an invited guest_to family (Peruvian) picnic.. I think that-in no country, except Pern, csn there be found such entire harmony sa exists here among solatives. It hias passed into & proverb almost, in the United States, that a man caunot live ‘with his in peace and quict, and T Know in and quiet, an ow there are nu- merons jokes mdt'aly hints dropped before the unfortunate man who has one of thess append- oges to his houschold. Indeed, when we were gomg out_to Peru, on the steamer, tho first time, & most ladicrons incident occurred on board, having for its theme this same subject, ® mother-in-law. At Guayaquil, where the steamer ped for _coals, and to take on and dis ge freight, among the queer native cariosities that were brought off in boata tous, to sell, by the native boatmen, was an armadillo, or Spanish ant-eater. An American gentleman an board, while others meg{)liad them- gelyes with parrots, monkeys, tzopical birds, and frujts of various kinds, purchased this ant-eater, and carried him carefully to his cabin. In vain he fed the creature with flies, spiders, fruits, and werious kinds of luxuries; thé ant-eater pined sway, and died tho second dayhe had bought him.. Qur friend seemed to feel its losa keenly. snd, being joked sbout it, said that Ho felt 7 at losing the creaturs, not that he had any sunt that it u:mld fig‘ve eaten, lmhc, ‘becauso if it s 80 ab eating aunts, Be hoped it might ve had an m_climhgtm to mnkeapx;?:sl of iu mother-in-law insf ; and that was the reason_ e purchzed the snimal.” F gh:&mfima have nunshor_u:m ‘poculiar sntipathies ; and, in & large hot not only. do father, mother, and children, Tat married aunie uncles, and their children, as well a8 grand- parents on both aides, alf live under one roof, and in perfect harmony and quietude. I was in- vited to one of their ' FAMILY PICNICS, where the entire family numbered thirty-four. members, We went by sail and row-boat o San TLorenzo, the island and mountain-resart of Pe- Tuvians, on a picnio excursion. The sail by ses’ was fine, being seven miles Opposite Callao; &nd the refreshments, music, and entertainment of guests wore all that c be desired. But what = placo fora picnic. As soon would I think of “having a picnic in the unfinished cellar of some open uildis in course of erection in Chicago as at San Lorenzo. c, earthquake nature. It rises an. immense height, bleak and bare. The soil is covered with & gray, sehy sand; and there aro 10 signs of vegetation visible,—no blade of grass, no green foliage, to e moncto- ny. Band-fiies and mosquitoes swarm around on the low, ssndy beach. An old, tumble-down adobe building, once large and imposing, stands Eolil and alone. Crows, turke; qgnmxda, and. 58 wheol in frightened circles over your and scream in ghrill alarm. On the very sammit of the monntain is erected a huge wood- an cross, and s light-house stands beside it, 85 & Fuide tovosseln entering the harbar. Away- ack from the besch, aud on one side the ‘monn- {ain, you come upon numerons graves, the bod- isa of pobr, unknown ssilors and_others, who fell victima'to the yellow fever. Thesa graves lio huddled closa to?:thar and are so drearyand deserted! A more , forbidding. place - . rendezvous mm;ontnlg'e Tmsgined ; yot the a1l others, sven to 8 grot you. A quaint place for a pleasure party is this Foared i Teared a sumptuous mansoleam (long since gone to ruin), but s less costly memorial of her was Tong contemplated with far deeper interest. Hor nome, carved by the hand of him whom sho Tovod so woll, was a fow yours sgo stil discorn- ible on a tres in the sdjoining park.” Poerages which descend to fomale heirs do not ensily die out, and the barony of Wentworth nssed, Bome time after, Baroness Heoriotta's eath, to the Noele, and thenco to tho wife (a Noel)'of Sir Ralph Milbanke, father of Byron's e, The history of that lady is, thanks to Brs. Stowe especially, too well known. It might have been hoped that with her the chapter of marital misfortune would have terminated, but unfortunately the complications seem, on the contrary, rather to incresse. A few days sgo ihe London Times contained the announcement, iThe Lady Wentworth of m gon,” a_circum: stance that carries with it Lhegcusibilifi!a, it ot probabilities, of s disputed Peerage succes- gion case. When the notorious Mordaunt cause came on all the world eaid, *What & morcy that the child last born to Lady Mordaunt was 8 daughter! ” 4 A difficulty similar to that now threatening the Wentworths being thus dissipated by the sex of the child, but in the Wentworth case even this would . not’ svert the trouble, as & fomale could succeed. ‘Another notable circumstance i Lord Went- worth's Euit has been the withdrawal of pro- ceedings against one of the *co-respondents ™ on the of hia being & member of the Diplomatic Corps, thus establishing a great fact in favor of the *‘ gay Lutherians” of di- plomacy, who may, it appears, pursue their per- nicions propensities with impunity 8o ‘far ab Jenst ns legal redress”is concerned. There are some in England who will doubtless recall anent this ‘proceeding the line sdopted in 1653 by that groat Governor, the Lord Proteotor. A %uf.s having arigen between Don Pantal- con 8a, brother of the Portuguese Ambassador, and _an Eoglish gentleman named Gerard, & uc:?&‘s ensued, but the combatants were sepa~ Tat Onthe 22dthe Don returned with twenty companions and assaulted and killed & gentle- man whom he mistook for Gerard. His pur- pose, as he believed, being effected, he took ref- nge ith his brother, the Ambassador, who, am- ‘bassadorial privileges vigoronsly urged notwith- standing, was_compelled to surrender him and he was committed to Newgate. This occurred in November, and in the following July he and his accomplices were pat to death. “ To render the circumstances the more memorable it was 80 cotrived 'that the Ambassador signed a de- finitive pending treaty of peace with Poxf.:fal in the morning and his brother was beheaded in the afternoon.” Certainly it must be con- fessed a piquanto and emphatio incident, show- ing that Cromwell was not to be trified with. e DYING. Call me pet names, 58 you used to do; ‘Pillow my head on your breast, .moyes hour. Thus he e: And sing me the songe we used to sing, For soon 1 shall sleep and rest. Let me look up in your dear, dear eyes, With mine that. are glazing {as And hold in your own my tr¢ Band, Till the valley and shadow are past. And do_bot ook back with ane thought of reprosch To yourself, whon my life is done; Only remember that Heaven is mine,~ ‘That the pearly gates are won. Only remember the broken fower i ._ That drooped in the northern biast ; ‘Rejolce that the journey is over now,— ‘That the haven fs reached at laat. Forgice you? Dear love, when my struggling soul i fettors baa almont Hvem, ¥ Do you think I could fly to my Father's arms, “Laaving you unforgiven 7 Now preas down my eyelids with kisses once more. Teara? Nay, but you must not weep. Tho day has been long, but the night ia near, +” When He giveth his loved ones sleep. Thers's a sound as of waters; death’s tido ereops up; Fold me again to your breas And eing mp the songs we usod to sing, “For now 1 shall aloep and rest. Gazxer B, FRERMAN, A ' ' ARBalloon Trip to Europe. Prof. John Wise and W.H. Donaldson, two rienced and well kmown acronauts, propose expe .to take the balloon yoyags of which s0 auch hog been said and so little done. The Boston Board of Aldermen have responded to a petition from th and made sn appropriation .of $3,000 to sid them in_fitting out their aerial ghip, in ‘which they will etart from the common in that city on the 4th of July.. The gentlemen intend taking two other persons with them, and through the co-operation” of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphis, expect to secure the services of two scientific men. Prof. Wise bases his reason for undertaking this perilous yoyage on the fol- lowing theoriés: At & certain height above the earth there is a continuous sir current, or tide mainfy by the ‘setting from west to east, caused cent force generated by the revolution of the _e: on its axis, and that current m the rate of from -60° to 100 miles per THE PIASA BlRD. G A Legend of the Tlinois. - Dy MABTIN BEEM.- . ¢ . On tho banks of tho Mississippi, 25 miles northesst from St. Louis, and about 5 miles from the mouth of -the Missouri, stretched over 8 hundred hills, lios the quiot, half-gocular, half- Puritanical old City of Alton. : Just below it begins the Grent American Bu_b- tom. . Back to the cast, and northward, rise hill and bloff gradually, some abruptly, from the water’s. odge, and, rolling backward, blend im- perceptibly into the grest prairies of the State; while, on the -west, flows the M.iminugpa,-Do— Soto's magnificent mausoleum, fianked 'in turn by Mariposa-like cottonwoods, and an almost tropical luxuriance of hazel, willow, snd vine. There, smid the doubtful sspirations of the present and the cherished traditions of the past, he good people tell this Indian legend : The Ottow-wahs. and tho Illinois were allics, and Lin-cah-tello, “the Firm Osk,” was their Chief. Together they. had guiet possession of that country, and were at peace with all the sur- rounding tribes. They were all happy, except ‘L in-cah-tello, saddened at tho mysterious loss of his only dsughter, and the deathof herlover, who flang himself over tho cliffs, in & moment of dospair, into the water below; but the great Chief, nevertheless, lived for his people, and their ingenuons sympathy buoyed him up. As the years of prosperity-ralled by, suddenly the Piasa-bird came among them, and took up its home in & cave in the cliffs, scarce & league to tho northward of the present site of the city. Whence it came, how it received its name, or what that name meant, is unknown. Its coming was as sudden s its shape was mysterious. Pos- sessing an eagle’s head and wingfl,—-the former crested with stesl,—it had the ' tongue of an ad- dor, and the tail of s dragon, fig}md with tho sting of & scorpion, It had four legs, human to fho knees, and cagle the rest, pointed by tho Tongest and sharpest of talons,—making _alto- E:ther ' monstor the peer of Which was nover own before or since, and which, fortunately, left no progeny. % With tho swiftness of an arrow it would light down upon an Indian, uink ite boak into him, and carry him away to its cave, Often a half-dozen Svorotaken in one day to eate its voracions ap- potite, No one was safe in venturing out alone ; &nd_ froquently when s group wore bathing or fishing, it would sweep_dowa like winged light- ning, 20d carry one off toits eyrie in the cliffs. Nothing in the shape of bird, man, or beast was free from its all-devouring nature, The bald- englo, primoval lord of the castles in the crags along_the river's edge, fook fright, sud soared sway into the thunder's home, snd never return- ed sgain; and tho smaller birds, that once made the air joyous with their lays, caught the alarm, and ,Ei and caroled mo more. The browsing herds of game disappeared: the wail of the panther, the howl of the wolf, snd the fierca growl of the bear, no moro re-echoed in the dense solitude; nothing, seve the per- tual lashing of the river, broke the almost eath-like stiliness. - Anxioty, starvation, and despair now suc- ceodad the ponce, bappincss, and plenty of this Arcadis. What had they done that the Great Bpirit_should send this terrible ourse upon {hem? War was the only shaft in tho quiver of God's wrath they Lnd seen or felt, Pestilence snd famine, principally creatnres of civilization, swero to them unknown. Of all the tercors they had ever experionced, this dreadful bird brought tho greatest; and how could they es- cape them ? % he medicine-men had invoked the interpo- sition of Mee-sak-knm-ne-go, tho granddother of mankind, who had in charge all the poisons, with which she could help hor children when she wished; but sho listened not to thoir tearful supplications. Bhe didn’t care for them; and tho demon-bird kept on inits fearful work of dostruction. Thea thoy sought tho sssistance of Kla-po-chee-sek, tho North Wind;j but all their earnest sppeals and weird incantations failed to move it from its wintry home. It was indifferont to their fate. And now thoir solo hopo lay un a1 appeal to Afmin mee-o-goo-chce, “Tho Bpirit of Thunder ;" andall tho groat medi- cino-men in the surrounding tribos wero ssked %0 como together and help them to urge that spirit to drive the sconrge awsy. Their faith was great in the power of Thunder, and in the effect of tho great hunting medicine song they sang in their appeal. Fow conld sing it,—not more than four in all the surrounding tribes,—and nothing could resist it. As the rocks and trees danced and reoled before the mellow symphonies of the lute of Orphous, so ware deer, besr, elk, and _antelops imown to come tromblingly around snd submit to sacri- fice under ita potent spell. Thay met ; and, amid a chorus of shrieks and groans, of yolls and cries, there was one lo contingous, earost appe to he Enasen spir living in tlie clouds, whose voice was londer and strongor than anything carth had seen or ear had heard, to_give them' some lond-sounding ‘medicine, o wind, OF rain. or sleet, or snow,— sugthing nooedful 4o insure the destruction 'of this bird ; and then they sank to the earth ox- bausted, and waited for response. ~ Fax above them, s fow fleocy clouds were flost- ing like angel-banners from Heaven's battlo- ments ;. but no sound came from them, or rever- beratod in the unfathomable depths of blue be- yond. Bat they knew that the spirit of Thunder Would como; 80 they patiently waited. The wind, rustling the leaves for & moment, was thought to bo- the_fororunner of an impending storm; but, climbing the almost vertical cliffs it lingored swhile in tho gnarled cedars, and then, lmm%finpw died_away in the rock- ribbed hills beyond. But still they hoped and waited. Blovly the hours dragged along; but yob thers wea neither doubt Zor a response. Then suddenly they were_startled by aroar and shock from above. Highup the binff a huge by lightning and beaten rock, cloft onco by & thousand storms, broko from its base, and, lesping like live thunder down the rattling crags, cansed their hearts to well high with hope,—sinking low with disap- pointment a few momonts atter. Then sanguina expectation yielded to mervous apprehension. Conld it be possible that the spirit of Thunder would not come to their aid?—that it, too, would remain indifferent to their fate, after all their esrnest appeals? Ob,no! the thonght was too harrowing to cntertdin, and tho groat medicine-men_dismissed it, and still patiently ho) 4 d l.n(:hwsi;ed. d.m owly tho dying sun ed down the sky, gilding tho blailops With: almont cobentd splendor, and flinging a golden zone around the snowy clouds in the firmamont above. It left the world, and with it perished every ray of me-o-gee-chee was afraid | Now what conld they do? That congesling pang that seizes the bosom when all the world is unable, and Hoaven seems unwilling, to give the desired relief, seized upon all. To T tollo their e{ea involuntarily turned ; but what could to reach England in two days, at the most, from the time of starting. De do, buman_ss nz?, toward felieving them from this accursed destroyer? Lin-cah-tello was a groat Chief, wige in council, strong inarm, and brave in battle. He had often ied with death, and laughed it to .scorn. He. had gonoe fifty days withont food ; had cutthe tongue abear, torn the fangs from an adder ; and had made the bravest Chief of his foes swallow an arrow,—the crowning glory of all achievements of wn:’i but now (how crushing the thought!), with all of his lom and valor, he was as pow- Tess as a palsied arm to help them. Gathering his Chiefe and Head-men about him, he proposed the last and only remaining plen t0 relieve themselves of this bloodthiraty sprite. Some one must be_sacrificed, placed in a con- spicuous position, and twenty-five warriors, with oisoned arrows, were to be secretod mear, and o at the bird when it came for its prey. ~And tohim was to be left the right to select the victim for the sacrifice. - . Silently this proposition was roceived; but who would be the chosen victim ? All wondered. but instantly concluded that it would be some worthless brave or squaw, useless longer to the tribe. Of course, none other would be sacrificed, XlDlE‘I; oél:er a8 DEeCessary. i e day appointed came. Evi reparation had been made ; but the viotim wal?yul: sty The livers of three sutelopes had” been thrown into s rattlesnake’s den until thoroughly per- meated with poison, and into theso their arrows were soaked. The hour had come. The war- riors,—twenty-five of the bravest, quickest, and truest,—with -their bows, were placed in posi- tion by Lin-cab-tello ; and all was i readiness but the sacrifico. Whom counld it be ? Stepping out befors them, all robed and paint- ed for the war-path, Lin-cah-tello told his anx- ious clans he carefully thought over who should save them by sao- rificing. life, and he ‘chosen one whom he thought all lov but at whom the Groat Bpirit must caxuin!g’be angry, or why thue aflict his &flpla? He' hoj would calmly submit to his choice when e gave ‘his name. And then, pausing. & moment, and Jooking around at those_ before him, with his eyes beaming with love, whilst their hearts beat high with mingled sorrow ‘and he told them that he ild chosen——none other than elf ! Loud were the cries that went up against his decision! Beores yarriors - sprang forward and bogged to take ' his place; women throw their arms sbout his neck, and implored him to deaist ; and . chils iekod - their appeals to _stay, and live .with them,—for how could they do withont him?. Bnt- Lin-cah-tello was inflexible, With a silent wave of his hand -he bade them depart to their lodges, while he quiet- 1y took his position- near the mar—:;d;fe, ona projecting arcund which his warriors wers Becrated, and ‘calinly resigned himself to.his fate, —n willing sacrifice on the altar of his people.. Tho suspense was not long. As if scenting its Kmfil the )Piul-'bird soon mede_its appearance igh' in the clouds above, soaring around and sround, sud graduslly closing down to the earth, until it poised for s moment, straight, yet hi sbove® him:- It seemed surveying the field; and then,- when satisfied, it came down with a foarful swoop and biss upon the moble Chieftaisi ; but, ere it struck its fatal talons, twe::z-flva poisoned messongers of death were buried in its , ‘and, with an ‘unearthly shriek, chilling the blood of the bravestof the brave, it fell & harmless, quivering mass at Lin- cah-tello's feet. 3 Wild was the delight and great ths’reaaminas then! All shouted, 'and sang, and danc 2ro the dreadfunl scourge, now filled with ar- rows, and dreaded-no_longer, until the great valley rang and echoed with their shouts, aud those of sympathizing friends on the shore be- itlwlnd_ Lin-cab-tello orly was cslm; his eyes, od with tears, told of his heartfelt joy. ‘All night their festivities continued; and the next day they painted tho picture of the mon- ster on the wall of the bluffs, in a beautiful field and frame moulded by Nature, a short dis- tance abovo the epot whero the distracted lover made his fatal lel&; Many moons afterwasd Lin-cah-tello was gath- erod tohis fathers, - Wrapping the robes around him he wore the day he succored his people, and decorating_ him with his paints and foathers, they placed him beneath the rock oncechosen as the shrine of his sacrifice, now & perennial mon- ‘ument to his offering. - Bodied Lin-cab-tello,—pleased with his knowl- edgo of the past and present, and happy in his ignorance of the future. Time rolled on,— ecade following swiftly -after decads. ‘Then, far to the Eastward, arose another scourge, deadlier and more fearful yet to the red man of America. .He met it, fought it valisntly, but in vain. Bofore him, Kings, Emperors, and priests had opposed it with powerful -armies and subtle casuistries, but stayed it nok. On it came! Mountainy, rivers, oceans, forests,—all the bar- riers and battlements of Nature could not stop its steady progress, nor bind its rushing pin- ions, Biill onward it pressed,—swiftly, silontly, and incessantly! With the resistless march of “ the Scourge of God " on Rome from the North, 80 came this mighty March of Mind from the Enat, and swopt before it the -doomed races of the soil; as the dow io swept by the hot- breath of the morning sun. At Thus died the Ottow-wahs and tho Illinois, and then only was the memory of Lin-cab-toll fory ‘:rmn.dn . a 2 is en e legend,—vague, mysterious, and indistinct, a8 gufinineg?egend? are. A A short distance above the old conyict and mili- tary prison a rock, looming high above the water's edge, ia yet shown to tho stranger us t the lover's leap.” Near this spot, lovers now froquently gather; and, 58 the grand old river runs and sings its ceaseless song far beneath them, the dolefal story of the Indian lovers is forgotten inothers too supérnal for such an alloy. Racos change and generations pass away, like the current below; yet tho stream: and their story are eyer the same. * Many arg now living who remember traces of the_ painting of the bird on the cliffe, which' Time, the iconoclast, hss now wholly destroyed. Piles of Indian bones, years sgone, were found in the cave which, together with & stroam and a stroet, s township.and & tavern, yot bears ita name. On tho walls of some of the older citizens, pictures of its death can yet be seen ; and a short account of this mystery has found its way into Livingston's ephemeral history of Illinois ; but what the real nature, objact, or arigin of tho Piasa-bird was, if it had ay at all, is covered in the dust of ob- livion, snd, like the Mystory of Edwin Drood, must remain forever untold. GREAT FORTUNES. From Chamber’s Journal. The richest subject in England in 1685 had es- tates which little exceeded £20,000 & year. The Duke of Ormond had £23,000 a year ; His Grace the Duke of Buckingham, £19,600 ; and Monk, Duke of Albemarle, left property which would yield a like sum. Macaulay, quoting King's Natural and Political Conclusions, szys the aver- 8ge income of & temporal Poer was aboat £3,000 ayear; of a baromet, £300; momber of the House of Gommons, £800 (History of England I 809). Bir William Templo observes ; *The rev- enues of & House of Commons have seldom ex- coeded £400,000 (Memoirs, p. 9). Passing up to the eighteenth century, it has been said, no doubt with trath, that bardly any Englishman could have produced half a million of money in 1750. We presume Alderman Beck- ford could have dane 80, 88 in. 1770 he left nis son Fonthill, which had-cost £240,000, £100,000 a year, and & million of yeady money. How rapidly that fortune waa dissipated! Thesuthor of Vathek, st the sge of thirty-six, in 179, came to reside at Fonthill, and began to build a new house in the Gothic style. The following de- scription of- the house, by s visitor, is given in the prefacs to s recent edition of Vathek : “To give you an ides of the place, you must think of York Minster placed on s commanding elevation in tho midst of & woodland paradiso of many miles fnextent. . . . . . . . . Although at this spot ke interior of Fonthill ‘has not the vastness of York Minster, yet I think the whole building stands on more ground. The dazzling effect of the stained glass in the lofty windows, when the sun throws their colors on the orimson carpets, contrasted with the vivid Fman Iawn seenin the distance throngh the ofty entrance doors, themselves as highasa lerato sized house ; the galleries a hundred feot above you ; the magnificent mirror at the end of the room reflecting the prospect of ‘the grounds for miles, present a scene I shall nover ses equafled. Looking right snd loft, you have & clear view of thres hundred snd thirty feet, mot baro stone walls, but“a magnificent spariment, farnis hed with the most valuable books, cabinets, paint- ings, mirrors, crimson silk hangings, and s thon- sand things besides; you wall the whole dis- tance on'euperb carpets, and, at ‘every atep your attention is ed by some beautiful work of art or natural curiosity.” In 1823, the whole, in oonsoquonce of the -depreciation’ of his West Tndia property combined with reckless expendi- ture, was sold .to Mr. Jobn Farquhar for £330,000 ; and its foriner owner went to Bath, and there built sn immenso tower, from the Summit of which he could see Fonthill, though seventy miles distant. 4 Tho rise of the great House of Rothachild be- longs to the eighteenth century. Meyer Anselm, & Jow, was born in 1743, and_was established as a money-lender, etc., in ort, in 1773. From his poor shop bearing the sign of the Bed Bhield, he acquired the name Rothachild. He found'a good friond in_William, Landgravé of Hengo ; and when tlie Landgrave, in 1806, had to flee from Nngoleon, he intrusted the banker with abont £250,000 to take caro of. The care- ful’ Jow traded with this; 8o that, in 1812, when he died, he left about a million sterling to his six sons, Anselm, Bolomon, - Nathan, Meyer, Charles, and James. Enoiwing the truth of the old motto, “Union is strength,” he charged his sons that they should conduct their financial. operations together. The "third son, Nathan, was the cleverest of the family, sud had Bottled n_England, coming. to Manchester in 1797, and London I 1803, Twelve years aftar, e #ee him at Watarloo, watching " tho battle, and posting %o England 85 8oon aa ho knew the isane, and sprending everywhere tho defeat of tho English. 0 clever but unscrupulous specula- ‘tor thus depressed the funds, and his agents were ensbled to buy ata cheap Tato; and it is snid that he made & million by this transaction. He died in 1836 ; but the real amount. of his wealth never transpired. It has been said: * Nothing seemed too gigantic for his grasp, nothing {00 minate for his notica. His mind was as capable_ of contracting & loan for millions as of calculat- ing the lowest possible amount on which a clerk could exist.” (Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange.) Wiliiam Strahiun the_printer made a large fortune in tho latter half of fhe eighteenth contury. His ~ third _son, w, Wwho hacceedod him in the business, left more than & million . when he _died - in 1831. Thirty vears altor, the Duke of Buckingham died, who, Jike his father, squandered a_vast fortuno at Stowe, and had fo sell the contents of the mansion. * This sale occupied forty days, and realized £75,562 42 6d. (Rumley Forsier's Priced “and Annolated Catalogue.) What a pity euch & dispersion seemed | His Grace was, says Sir Bernard Burke, sfter the present reignin 1y, the senior representative of the royal Houses of Tudor and Plantagenet. S James Morison, ““the hygeist,” who died in 1840, 'made £500,000 by the sale of his vegetable pills. According o Mr. Grant (History of the Newspaper Press), Holloway, the inventor of the celebrated pills and ointment which bear his name, has -amaaned a fortune of from 31,500,000 to $2,000,- 000, and. inienda following in tho steps of. 7. “Peibody. - Pisnoforte-making would also scem tobe_a profitable_business, Kince" Mr. Thomos Broadwood, who'diod in 1863, left £350,000 per- sonalty. William Joseph Denison, the banker, lett one of the greatest fortunes of modern times—namely, $2,500,000, in 1849, When Coutts,; the baoker, died, in 1821, -he left his wife (formerly Harriet Mellon; ‘the actress) £600,000, 3s well as ostates to a large smount. One l.nstmca, out of many, will sufhce to show the good mso hia grand-daughtor, the present Baroness Burdett Couits, has” made of this woalth: ata coet of 250,000 sho endowed the -Colonis] ‘Bishoprics: of Adelaide and British Columbia. The Earlof Bridgemater, who died in 1823, left prope: amounting to about £2,000,000't0 tho then Lord Alford, on condition thatif' e should die without having attained the rank of Marquis or Duke, the property was to go- to his_brother. ‘But the question was raisod, when Lord Alford died withont -having assumed theso dignitics, whethor his son was not_entitlod to_the property; and the Houso of Lords decided that tho condition was contrary to the principles of the English Constatution, and Lord Alford's son was confirmed in the titlo. Another will, which was the subject of much litigation, was that of Mr. Peter Thelusson, who died in London, in July, 1797. _Aftor leaving his wifo £100,000, 'the residuo (about £600,000) ho committed to the care of trusices, to acoumu- Iato during the lives of his sons and their sons, to bo divided, when thoy were ail dead, smong their survivors. 1t was belived that the prop- erty would thon amount to £18,000,000 or £19,- 000,000. But logal and other exponses prevantcd this, and whon divided in 1856, little moro than tho original sum was divided smong the three survivors (Book of Days, ii. 97). But wealth has gone on accumulating in England to an enor- mous extont, and tho proving of the personality of wills allows us to realize this pretty accu- rately. Mr. Gladstono was no doubt right when e said at Liverpool Coilege, Dec. 22, 1872: ““Moro wealth has, in this littlo island of ours, been accumulated since the commencement of the present century—that is, within the lifetime of many who are still smong us—than inall the proceding ages, from the time, ssy, of Juhus Crmsar ; and agdin at least s much’ of wealth within the lask twanty yeara as within the pre- ceding fifty.” Tho Spectator, Nov. 16, 1872, publiehed a list containing_an acconnt of tho fortunes ex- ceeding a quarter of a million personalty during tho last ten years. From this list it appears that during tho decado ten persons left moro than a million, fifty-three more than half a million, and 161 moro than & quartor of o million sterling. It must bo remembered that thesd fortunos do not include landed investments. There are_fow examples of great fortunes made by misers, who ofien denied themselvos the necossaries of life in order that they might Ieave & large sum belind them. Such a magwas Jumea Wood, of Gloucester, who died in 1836, Possessed of property sworn under £900,000. A will was found in which he left all his property to Alderman Wood, of London, his attorney, and two clorks. Bat a short time after & codicil to the will was sent in anonymously, bequething various large sums to differont individuals. 1t a8 accompanied with this extraordinary memo- randum: * The inclosed is » paper saved out of many burned by partics I could hang. The protend it is not J. Wood’s hand; many wi &wear toit. They want to swindlo me. Letthe rest know.” The writer was nover discovered, snd now came kitigation, which lasted four years. Sir Herbort Jonner_gave his judgment in 1840, rojecting the codocil 8o mysteriously sent. But 20 the glorions uncertinty of the law!—Lord Tyndhurs, in & higher court, reversed the judg- Tment, and the money was divided acording to the termu of the will, V/ANTED. ‘Wanted, a band to hold my own, As down Lifo's valo I glide ; ‘Wanted, an arm to lezn upon, Forover by my side. Waated, » firm snd steady foot, With dtep secura and fzee, To take its straight and onward pace Over Life's path with me. Wanted, & form crect and high ; A Bead above my own, 80 1nuch that I might walk beneath 1t's shadow o'er me thrown. Wanted, an eye within whose depth. Mine own might ook and eco What springs from a guilcless heatt, Orerflowug with love for me. Wanted, » lip whose kindest smile ‘Would speak for mo plone A voico whoso richest melody Would breatho Affection’s tone. ‘Wanted, true religions soul, To pious purpose given, With whom mine own might pass along. The road that Jeads to Heaven. PraEr. Prince Alfred’s Engagement. From the NSew York Sun. The Duke of Ldinburgh has always been con- sidered by many pereons as the best specimen of Queen Victorna's sons. Tho Prince of Wales has never done anything particalarly creditable, nur anything to endeer him to the English people, Hit caroer 25 a young man, snd his subsequont 1ifo s & husband, have not’ added lustre to his name; and with the radical advances which are now being made every year in Great Britain, his inchoate Fight to the British thrane is of rather uncertain ter. ‘One look _at the Duko of Edinburgh's photo- graph wonld convince any physiognomist that he ‘was more of aman than all bis brothers put to- gother, Ho s a eailor, and commanded his shipy the Galatea, very creditably in s long cruisa. It iatruo that he excited the indignation of the Colonial nowspapers while his veesel was in Australia, by the cavalior manner in which he troated tho civic authoritios, bus then it is to be presumed thero were extonuating circumstances. The public attention in England is now called to Prince Alfred by bis engagemont to the Grand Dachess Marie, the dsughter of the Emperr of Rusein, which is freely rported. They met at ‘Hesse Darmstadt a yoar or two since, from which timo an understanding has existed between them. The Grand Duchess hss been passing the spring st Sorrento with her mother st the Im- perial Villa. Princo Alfred has been staying at the Tasso Hotel, in the ssme romsutic Itali villago ; but has been constantly from morning {0 night at the villa of his betrothed. He ro- turned to London eatly in Msy, but will soon re- join the Grand Duchoes a¢ Jugonheim, in Hesso armstadt. The Emperor of Russis will be there 1ator, when official publicity will bo given to the future marnage. It was proposed as o condition that Princo Alfred should bind himself to reside n cortain period of time every i i this ho . refused dbwry of the bride will bo 8100000 8 yoor, besides SLUN0 to fal ‘back upon. js is fortunate, for there will robably be no necessity of forcing tho British Paliament to vote anew sum of monoy for the support of the Duke and his bride. Tho strug- lo witnessed in the caseof the Marquis of §.omme will not be re-enacted, it is to be hoped. The Grand Duchess Marie is not beautifal, nor even pretty; but she is 83id o have an amia~ blo dispomtion. Sho is shortof atature, with Jittlo color, and not at all & queenly presence but her eyés are hundsome and expressive. Sha Das o groat deal of German blood in her veins. Hor mother, the present Empress, was 8 Prin- cess of Hosbe Darmatadt, and her grandmother, tho wifo of Nicholas, was the sister of the pres- ent Emperor of Germang. Curious Facts Concerning the Great Ghizeh Pyramid The recently discovercd corner-stone of the grent Ghizeh pyramid, the first and largost of the Egyptisn pyramids, was found Dy the digcoverer, an English clergyman, to have the samo remarkable relations to geometry that had been ascertsinod, by the Astronomer Royal of Scotland and other mathematicians, %o exist in the pyramid as a wholeand in varions of its parts. The corner-stone, which had escaped, by being covered, the gencral stripping of the stono facing of the pyramid, was fonnd fn situ, to measurc multiplos of tho pyramidal cubit g:nliiflo ‘more then twenty-five inches) on allits lines, and the angle of 1ts outer slope to exprees, with mathematical sccuracy, tho ratio of the diameter to_ the perimeter of a circle. The pyramidal cubit is exsctly 0.000,000,01 of tho shortest radius of tho earth, and the height of tho estared pyramid, 232 cubits, the 0.000,~ 000,000,10f the distance of the 'sun from the earth, nceording to_the lately corrected value of this distance. Similarly the & . sarcophagus insido the pyramid has been found to be an accurato measure of contents, based on fhe pyramidal cubit. A relation to the mean density of the earth is also found to exist, and it is » curious fact that the unit of measure adopted by the builders of the zynmid, wup- oscd to be at least 8,000 years old, and to Lave Boen erected by a raco anterior to_the historical Egyptians, possesees s geometrical sccuracy which doos not exiat in the French ome, which 28 is known, 8 not, what its designers intended it to be, in_exact decimal relation with the meridian, owing to errors in the arc. Whoever the builders of the Ghizeh egynmid, astronomy must have been far advanced among them to enable them to calculate the distance of the sun at the amanded figure to which it bas been reduced only within the lsst threa or fonr yeara. ‘A FAMOUS BANK. L Coutts & Co’ss . . ' * From the Boaton Commercial Bulletin. ‘Everybody has heard of Lady Burdett Coutts, the wealthy English woman whose munificence and hospitality have given her a world-wide rep- utation; but few people know anything about the family to which she was indebted, both for her name and her property. Sho was the daugh- terof Bir Francis Burdett, the eminent Whig statesman, who left a large family’ and a small -estate. He had married the daughter of Thomas Coutts, the founder of the” forfune now pos- sessed by his granddaughter, and of ‘the famous ‘banking honsa that bears his name; but, as'the old banker left his property to his widow, who married again, his granddsughter’s chances of Deing & rich woman were by no .means flat- tering. Fortunately for her, Mra. Coutts, ‘whose second husband was the Duko of Bt. Al- ‘bans, secured her vast inheritance in her own hands, and, at her death, showed her respect for the memory of old Thomas by leaving it to his favorite granddaughter on condition that she assumed the name of Coutts. Down in the Strand, near Temple Bar, ia the great banking housc of Coutts & Co., a8 solid and strong s in the lifetime of its founder, and retaining and increasing the aristocratic patron- |. age which ho first secured for it. The building occupied by the firm is massive and gloomy* looking, and the smoke which has blackened its walls for more than a contury has deopened the substantial aspect of tho old pile. Tnside and out. everything about it is heavy and solid. Gilding and fila- gree work may do for the bankers of the nou- veaux riches, but the aristocracy of something besides wealth prefers substance to show. Bo thought Thomas Coutts when he built this structure. The strong room where the safes are kept cost him £10,000. The walls, floors, and roofs are made of solid blocks of stone, carefully dovetailed together, and the doors and panels are of wrought iron. Here are safes within safes containing the title-deeds, rent- olls, and priccless valuables of the higheat no- bility in Bngland. More coronetted carrisges drive up to smoky old building than all the other banking-houses in London. You may el- bow o Duke in these quarters, and brush royalty itself, if you are not caref: ‘The first article deposited in these safes was a, magnificent sigrette of diamonds which the Sultan of Turkey took from his tirban to place in the hat of Nelson. Lady Burdett Coutts, ‘whose vast fortune is mainly investoed in the ‘bank, keops here all her valuables. Tom ‘Moore writes in his diary, that, on calling one day on the heiress, whom he had seen in all her eplendors the night before, he found her pre- paring to send it all back to the bank. Skte asked him whether he would like to see-it by daylight, and, on his assenting, took him to room np-stairs where the troasuro was deposited. ‘Among it was the famous tiara of Maria Antoi- Dette. On the poet’s inquiry ss to the total value of her dress, she answered in her quiet way, “I think about s bundred thousand pounds.” It is curious to know how Thomas Coutts first secured for his banking-house the patron- 2ge of the aristocracy. - Not long after his estab- lishment in business he determined to increase his own influepce with moncyed men, and, a3 one means of socomplishing his object, gave regular dinners to the leading bankers and other financial magnates. At one of these dinners, a city man, gossipping abont his business, sad a nobleman had applied to him that very day for 5 loan of £30,000, which he refused to make, because the security offered was not sufficient. Coutts said nothing, but after his guests had gone, sent & messige to the nobleman, re- guesting the favor of his Lordship’s attend- ance at his banking-house in the Birand on the following morning. The next dasy the banker wos gratified by receiviog a call from the Peer, who was himsel{ equally pleased by thetonder of aloan for the £30,000. As the notes wore handed tohim, ho asked : “ Bt what security am I to give yon?" «T ghall be satisfied,” answered Coutts, twith your Lordship’s note-of-hand.” Tho astonished nobleman gave thenots, and eaid that at present he should require only £10,000, and wishod the banker to open an ac- count with him for the remaining £20,000. - Coutts consanted to this arrangement, and had the satisfaction, not long after, of recciving, in - aadition to tho amount borrowed, a deposit of £200,000, the procceds of the sale of some {ami- 1y estates, which the loan had enabled the noble- man to effect. At his recommendation, other mombers of the aristocracy transferred their ac- connts to Coutts, who now became the favorite benker of fashionable London. George the Third banked with him till he found that Coutis had lent £100,000 to his son-in-law, Sir Francis Burdett, to pay tho expenses of his election to Parliament. Elzaboth, or Botty Starkey, ‘as_she was called, was tho danghter of & emall Lanca~ ghire. farmer, and to good looks. added the more valuable attractions of good sense and good humor. A few days before her mar- riago, ehe was scrubbing the stairs, when one of ‘her master's clorks was about going up to change his clothes. It wasa rainy, dirty day, and, be- ing anxious to have the work look well, Bettie told the young man to take off his shoes 80 a3 not to soil the stairs. Instead of doing so, how- ever, the clerk took especial pains to stamp and scrape at every step in order to dirty them as much as possible. This was too much for Beity, who shouted after him: 3 “ Tl make you pull off your shoes, ana your your stockings, too, whenover I choose it.” On hearing of the approaching marriage, the young man expected to be dismissed or made in Some way to suffer the consequences of his in- discretion. The young Mrs. Coutts, however, 80 far from showing her displeasure, was particu- larly ious and friendly to him. ‘Stuch was her tact and capacity that, notwith- standing her deficiency in culture and refine- ment, sho. soon becamo tho equslin manners and intelligence of the ladies to whom her for- tunate marringe introduced her. Her daughters were 80 well brought up that they became the ornaments of tho aristocratio circles into which their liberal dowries helped to gain them ad- mission. Sophia, the oldest, married Sir Francis Burdott ; Susan, the second, became Countess of Guilford ; and Frances, the third, was made wife of the first Marquis of Bute. There was great excitement in the banking- ‘house one day, causod by the sbsence of one of the clerks whose duty it was to attend to the out-door or bill-collecting busidess. The sum with which he was intrusted excecded £17,000 ; and, a5 he did not return at the msual hou¥, messengers wero sent to all the settling houses, and to his private lodgings, to ascer- tain what had become of him. These inquiries ‘proving fruitless, sdvertisemonts were gent to all the newspapers ; and next morning placar gvingnlnll oscription of the defaulter with, is booty, and a reward for his apprehension, wore posted all over the town. That day woro on withogt soy nows of the missing person_or property; but early the following morning & banker from Southsmp- ton arrived post, bring with him the mote- case and bag contsining the whole of the valuables. He said that the landlord of the inn whero the cosch stopped ssked him to come and see stranger supposed to be dying, and who wished to make some communica~ tion about n large sum of money he had in his possession. On arriving st the inn, the erson told his name and business, and said that o had boen suddenly seized with a stupor while out collecting. As the fit was coming on, he hailed n coach, which he supposed -was a hack- ney ono, in ordar to secure his money, and knew nothing more till he rocovered his_senses at the Southsmpton Inn. Nolwilhaund.ing his eager- ness to have the money scnt on. to- Coutts, the old banker half suspected that he had gone to Southampton to take asteamer to the Continent, but, missing it, invented the story of the_stupor to conceal his evil intent. But though he was dismissed from the bank on_the ground that his liability to such attacks would impair his useful- ness, & present was given to him, large enough to secure a comforteblo annuity. Contte’ ‘]lirl!.ing Inrhlgight 28 well ag aristocratic company drew to his dinners many wits; espe- cially ténse of the theatrical profession, of which he was very fond. In this way he became acquainted with Harriot Mellon, the well-known actress, whom he married on_tho death of bis first wife, in 1815. She proved an excellent wife to him, and, st his desth, seven years after their marriage, at the age of 91, was left in unrestraincd posscssion of all his person- aland landed property, including a very large chare in the immense snnual profits of the banking-house. Though she afterward married the Duko of St. Albans, LIrs. Coutts did mot part_with the control of her vast property, Uhich she left, in supposcd sccordance with her first husband’s wisbes, to hus favorite grand- daughter. & i Lady Burdett Coutts still retaing ‘her interest inthe banking-house, and her . valuables are stored in the strong boxes built by her eccentrio grandfather. Some 10 years ago it was esti- mated that her wealth, in the form of =overaigns, would weigh thirteen tons and fill a hundred an geven flour sacks. The old firm of Coutts & Co., in which she is the principal propri Hall thoost acistooratio f Tondon. Basser snd has just sdmitted s a partner Lord. Walter Campbell, thé brother of the Marquis of Lorne. -~ SEPARATE.- ... **And,1f thou wilt, remember - AR SR i mRen Acroes the awfal gulf which yawns, 1 learn to say, ** Good-bye, foraver!” Through noons, or nights, or dev:y dawns, Our palms shall touch—ob, Devar—nevez, -, iy My words, indead, ars * calm and cold; Ty W el e 10 feeling : But sching bearts there are, which hold Wounds deeper for theproud I have in much contempt tha pain ~ © Which flaunts itself for public viewing And ‘moan when moans are vain ‘Tells all the world of Love's undoing. T Sigh the palss with Joy wese thrlbings 0ugh the i Only the honuw'g eyes Mjayovam B The tears which fall in aeczet sobbing. Too late—too late—your outstraiched hand! The gift you scorn’d is past your reaching. Go {—may your lifeon sea or lan e Bo nobler for this lesson's g. g EmmTra¥D, An African General. The Zulus who live north of Natal aro para- mount smong the tribes of Sonth Africs, and they .E:lmd pre-eminence through the com- manding energy and ability of one man, Chaka, who, had pe been s Euro would surely have been called “the great,” but being only s African arian, is simply surnamed Previous to his reign, his people wers their brethren. They occupied & tract of land of not more than ten or twelve square miles in extent. Chakn was a son of the Chief of this commu- nity. From eome peculiar circumstances l.ttand.ini upon his_ birth, he was re- garded by the eople as the possessor of euperhuman gifts. Probably his mother, in her ambition for her child, suborned the medi- cine-men to fabricate a lying wonder on his be- half. Butas he grew in years ho did not disap- Bfin:t the expectations that were thus f: ot . Howas tall i stature, great in strength, andinall deeds of daring and energy he out- stripped those of his own age. The reputstion which these qualities obtamed for him excited the jealousy of his father, snd Chaka, to save his life, fled to the Amatetwe, & neighboring tribe, whose Chief gave him protection. Witk these people he remained until he was 80 yeara of age, when his father died, and by which time he was distinguil abovo all men a8 the possessor: of ts that are in high esteem with the Zulus. By the sid of some of the Amatetwe he made himself Chief of his_own people ; and the first act that signal- ized hia roign was the putting to death of all ‘whom he suspected of being hostils to himself. This was sanguinary, but from his point of view 00 worse, and fully as_necesssry, sa the coup detat which more civilized %fl:flnfiteu have obtained the supreme porwer. next explolt “was to make war upon snd subdue the tribe that had protected bim when he was an exile. This ‘was ungrateful, bt men of & ombition nearer home have contemplated ingratitude as great. Then he sbolished the old laws, and enacted the Code Chaks, by which, as Chief, he was invested with absolute personal authority, and, as in more enlightenedlands, tho entire nation was made subservient to the production and main- tenance of an army. Then he introduced a new system of warfare. He his troops into regiments, which wera formed into throe divisions, o portion of each being incorporated with every force that took the field. Instesd of the ordinary bush-fighting, he made his men fight at closo quarters ; and for the slender jave- ‘hich waa thrown from a distance, he uted a single stabbing spear of stouter mate- rials, the loss of which was punished with death. For defensive oses he gave to each man & large shield made out of buffalo hi His discipline was severe. His soldiers had no alternative but to conquer or to die, for retreat, oven when compelled thereto by su- erior mumbers, was visited by him with th, t such a p ent was rarely necessary ; Tor Chaks was a consummate General, and had the art of inspiring his followers his own irresistible spirit. He made war upon all around him, and tribe after tribe wrs con- auared. until he had been proclaimed victorious om the Mapoota to the Umzimvabu. Hnfins thus satisfied his warlike ambition, he his energies to the consolidation of his empire. And in the doing of this he seems to have earn- ed his terrible surname as much by the merc- less exercise of his despotic power upon those who had become © his people,” 3 by bis warfare upon his_enemies. As he grow old his natural force abated, his servants con- ired against him, and he was murdered on the dof September, 1828. Many rejoiced at his Jeath; but the Zulas cherish the memory of his -grentniess, swear by tho terror of bis name, and ave mado his war-song their national anthem. And, judging him by the standard of bis posaibili- ties, he was worthy of this honor. Out of anum- ber of petty and conflicting kingdoms.he an empire which did not disappear at his death. -Out of an undisciplined rabble he organized an army of 100,000 men, which hss been fonad ta Dbe irresistible by every native force againai which it has been hurl And the influence of his life has extended far beyond the boundavies of his own dominions.—The Cornhill Magazine. Dental Art Among the Japanese. Dr. W. 8t. George Elliott, formerly of Troy, N. Y., now at Yokohams, Japan, sends to the Dentdl Cosmos an_interesting account of Jap- anese habits in regard to teeth, and of state of dentistry in that empire. He says that the teeth of the dsughters of Japan are ob- jects of envy, and it is remarkable that a peo- ple who piace so much value ugon eir $ shotid keep up tho custom of blacking them after marriage. As a race the Japaness have, got good teoth, and it is rare to find an old person with any at all. Their tooth-brushes consist of tough wood, 'fi:mndad at one end to loosen the fibres. ey resemble paint- brushes, and owing to their shape it is impos- sible to gat one behind the teeth. As might be expected, there is an sccomulstion of tartar which frequently draws the teeth of old pmlne. The greatést accumulation of tartar is a the Yower orals, and these are froguently cemented together by a denee, dark-brown deposit & quarter of an inch in thickness. Their process of manufacturing false teeth is very crude. The plates are Tado of wood, snd the teeth consist of tacks driven up from. ander the side. A plece of wax is hested and pressed foto the roof of the mouth. It is then taken out and hardened by putling it into cold water. Another pieco of heated wax is applied to the impression, and, atter being pressed into shape, ie hardened. A pioc of wood is then ronghly cut into the de- Eired form, and the model, having been smeared with red paint, is applied to it. Where they touch each other a mark is left by the paint. This is cut away till they touch evenly all over. Shark’s teeth, bits of ivory, or stone, for teeth, are set into the wood and retained in poeition by being strung on &_thread which. is secured on each end by a peg driven into the hole where the thread males its exit from thebase. Iron orcop- per tacks are driven into the ridge for masticating urposes,the unegual wearof the wood and me! feeping ap the desired roughness. Their full sets answer asdmirably for tho msstication of food, but, 88 t.bfl; ‘do not improve the looks, they are worn but little for ornament. ordinary gervice of asot of teeth is sbout five years,but they frequently last much longer. All full upper seta are retained by atmospheric pressure. This principlo is coequal with art. In Japan, dentist- exists only 88 & mechanical trade, aod the status of those who practice it is not very high. Tt is, in fact, graded with carpenters—their word hadyikfsan meaning tooth-carpenter. —_——————— . 'The Skull of Shakspearcs. A cartain French Baron, whose scientific tastes led him to collect the skulls of celebrated per- gons, one day received a visit from aman with whor he was accustomod to deal. “What do you bring me here?” ssked the Baron, as the man slowly uwrapped a carefully envalo) ackago. 3t Thmfl of Bhakspeare.” ¢ Impossible!” - “1 ny the truth, Monsieur le Baron. Here is proot of what I say,” . eaid the dealer, prodas- ing some papers. B ¥ But,” replied the Baron, dzawing aside the dra) t’whill:h concealed his own singular collsc- already possess that skuil.” o st have been 8 rogue who sold you e honest dn‘n’. 0 was it, Monsisur . ¢ Your father,” said the Baron, in s mild tons, it he sold it to me about twenty-njne, years sgo. The brek:rd' was for & ‘momant diaconcerted, then explained, with vivacity: - ] comprehend. B goog enough to obserts the small dimensions of the skall on your shelf. Bemark_the narrow occiput, the ‘andevelo) forehead, where intelligence is gtill mat of S| urtau:g P England s so The Buson bought the second head: