Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 29, 1873, Page 10

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1873. 10 _— to the. house, which burst .into fits of | into s duel not of pistols and coffee, bul of pocket~ | amused 'you,’ said Mr. Sidne{ Bmith at parting, | transformed thereto, hath ever geen’s Devil, ex- THE KEATED TERR. Irials of the Housekeeper When Mercury Be- comes Exalted. The Dearness and Uncleanness of Ics -~-Care of the Refrigerator, Tainted Meats---Liquid and lll-Flavered Butter---The Kitchen-Fire-— L Flies. Tke effect of the recent heated torm, now that summer reslly has decided to come and stay awhile, s2oma to have been to raise the key-note of conversation, or general remark, to an alti- tude equivalent to the thermomotric register. ‘Among the masculine portion of the community, Eentences aro terse, monosyllable, and are caused by personal inconvenience resulting ¥rom the inteuseand by no means hidden fire ©f ihe body we used to define as the source of ligh and heat. Locomotion, whether simply by tue means originally provided by Nature, or with theaid of mechanical contrivances, has been nn immense effort, with this redeeming feature to those who like & vapor-bath, and do not cars ko patroize the institutions devoted io that wpecial luxury : it prodoces the same result. This has been the principal cause of the ex- rlamstory remarks made by the male sex ; while the faiter portion, with much more cause to be emphatic in regard to the Wesather, have boen bliged to express their disspprobation in more lengthy, but milder sentences. If oollars have wilted, 50 have Elizabethan ruffs grown limp; §f Adonis has pushed back his hat, and moppod this brow with his mouchoir in a hasty and in- nlegant way, Araminta has been nervously con- scious that the perspiration was spoiling her tnamel. 3 | But,in sddition toall this, come the far greator troubles of the housekeeper. One subject for ‘her special consideration £t the present time is IcE. Bhe may think about it at other seasons; ob- gect to it in winter, upon the ground that it is slippery end provocative of a tendency to un- Wignified and unintentional gymnastics; but, mfter all, it proves but & slight sdditional xvause of ordinsry mental disgnietunde. In sum- mer, it is different, kowever, It thea becomes = serious item in producing general harmony in the family-circls. Without it, dinner—that seri- 'ous consideration to all the masculine members ~—becomes an impossibility,—for nothing will &cop. Ice must, therefore, be purchased, aud, ®t the present geale of prices, it becomes %o small item in the domestic economy. It ‘would seem a8 if Chicago, with her facilities for procuring it, and Ler climate for producing it, night afford to supply it at . DECENTLY-MODERATE RATES. Her advantages mey not be as greai as thoee of some other cities, but her prices aro certainly Droportionably higher. One doliar and seventy- fivo cenis & wesk for ice secns a large amonnt 10 pay for that very necossary commodity; and ot even the emallest household can searcely got elong with less, if its inmates are to have enough for {able-uso, and also keep the rofrigerator properly supplied. - It is a positive 'necessity, 88 the waste without it moro than supplies the difference. Granted, then, that whatever Sgure the prosent monopolists may put their commodity at, we must £, it would be pleasanter not to see the man who brings it pause ontside the door, lay it on (ke ground, and with his pick DIG THEREFROM dead leaves, leeches, lizards, or other objection- sble preservations of & past sesson. It msy not. perhaps, be any of these things; but it de- cidedly is_something that he thinks will not be particala-ly scceptable in the eyes of the house- wife, or ho would nat take 80 much pains to pre- vont her seeing the evidentls-offensive additions to what ehould be pure as crystal. Much of tho ice offered Iooks as if dug from swamps, and is Dot it toueo for, drinking-purposes at all, and really not even nice for mere use in the refrig- erstor. There is some of it that is free, ap- perently, from these objections, but the botfoms of water-pitchers in which it has been placed jpetray the fact that the very best of it is none 00 good. The next trial that follows is the keeping that very necessary portion of the household-furni- o which is used 28 & RECEPTACLE FCR THE ICE AKD FOOD, pureand sweet condition. Unless this is done, 1if the food doesnot become spoiled, it will ‘Bcquire an nnpleasant taste from the place whare itis kept. Todo so effectually, the refrigerator sLould be washed thoroughly every morning, in- Side and ont, including all the shelves and. grat- ings. Thon caro shonld bo taken that mothing wrkich is in the least degree spoiled should be placed therein. It will be rather difficnlt to . teach this to the hired girl, and, in mont cases, tho mistross l!:;me]lwifl 3:\-9 to inspect tho condition of things every day; for, once neg- Yected, it will be found o bo & difficals matter o get it into good condition again. This i, there- fore, an additional cars which warm weather ‘brings. It aleo requires constant vigilance to make eure that all the provisions are perfectly fresh. 11 your purveyors are roliable people, they will atfond to their business properly ; bat, if not, —and unfortunately it sometimes bappens that butchers and Froen-grocors are negligent, ~—then you will find that wholesome food is only to be obtained by constent and untiring vigi- lance. WUEATS that have been ke{;fi on tho ice got 'a rank smell the moment that they sre exposed to the mir. 1f kept very long exposed they spoil; o that, even in the transmiesion from the cooling mppuatus of the butcher to your own refrigera- Yor, they frequently seem Lalf-spoiled. When #uch is the case, if the surface only has been affected by the ntmospheric carrent, it can ba easily removed by placing it in 8 pan and allow- ing cold water toTun over it. But, if tho meat is really affectod, no such Javatory process will help it. It is very easy for a homsekeeper, therefors, fo ascerizin ‘the “sctual condition of her animg] food. Bfany things are recom- mended by ecientists and professional cooks as aeeful for restoring the tainted food to & condi- tion of sweetness; but we do not propose to recommend suy of them. To those who like yank flavor, it would bea work of supererogation. Buch persons George William Curtis” com- pares to GHOULS. . TTo thoso whoaro not of that persuasion, the in- formation would be useless, and they will st once follow our advice, and not use it. No amount of disinfecting or spicing can remova the fact that the meat is. ly in » state of de- cer, and, one would think, unpalatable to sny delicate tasts. That, when it 18 cold enongh to do so_ with desirable results, meat which has been hung s shert time is prefersble to that Zreshly killed, is well known ; but the swmmer- senson is not the timo to try such experiments, Go without it, then, sooner than use that which &2 not perfoctly swee:. Another source of vexation is BUTTER. It i=s such a tendency to become oily, and al- though, iu this state, 1t i8 not & pocially appe- tizing article of diet, in its hard, sweot compact-' ness it is very sttractive. It requires the most care of any variety of hounsehold-siores. It is Eest not to buy it in too largo quaatities, and. 2 soperats compartment ouglit to profifi?’e’d for it in every well-regulated refrigerator. This is not usuzlly done, and so extreme care must be taken with it. Nothing that haa any very pun- gent or excessive flavor should be allowed in the Eame &hoatv_fith“i:, for, while tho ui.:h e may seem to retain all its own peculiar quslities, it will bo found that tha butter has fakén n carfain portion of them. We were once mads aware of this fact by sesing a~ strange gueat taste that article and immedistely lay his lread aside. We prided ourselves upon a{ny' having that neceasary article of home-consump- tion particularly g and at once tested it. Our own grimaces equaled our friend’a. A bunch ?f blnmus !nd?yeen ym in the refrigarator, 0 close proximity to this particuiar damy pro- duct, snd the resuit was butier FLAYOEED WITH ESSENCE OF BANANA, by no means a desirable addition. It was mnex- coptionsbly the worst combination it was ever our misfortune to taste. The whole breakfast ras spoiled by it, for the omelotte and chops, tonst and fri had sYl been cooked o seasoned with it. only alternstive was to bave fresh butter bought and s second meal Rprovided, or mske our morning repest off of {mit, dry bread, and coffce. Most housckeepers - are awaro of this peculiarity to a_ cortain extent, but few really give it tho consideration it deserves. The desst unplensaat odor’ affects it, and servants should bo taught this. It ought mever to be taken off the icein largo quantitice. A few times bringing it into the kitchen, and allowing it to stand until heated in the warm atmosphere, will epoil the best butter that ever was churned. 1t should only be taken out in quantities suffi- cient to meet Immediate needs. A little care in this way, and we should hear fewer complainta about that very necessary product. There is no excuse at this season for not having FRESH VEGETADLES, - and keeping them on the ice by no means im- proves the greon varieties. Thoy should bo cooked 88 soon as possiblo sfter being picked, before they got wilted and flavorless. Where it is possible, it is & good thing to let the kitchen-fire G0 EXTIRELY OUT in summer. If Bridget or Gretchen can be taught only to make sufficient fire to get break- fast by, and then to rake it ont, and rebuild Inter in the day, when dinner is to be cooked, both they and the mistrese sould find one cause which is productive of " ill-temper very much abated. k would not remasin in o state sim- ilar to that of her favorito bootsteak throughout the entire dsy, and Madame conld find o per- ceptive difference in the heat of the entire house. A large fire, kept up sll day in the kitchen, by the time night arrives has, through the agency of the fiues which beat the walls, and by the open stairways, pretty well pene- trated every room. Where there is & 6 o'clock dinner, it is raroly necossary to rolight a fire befcre 8 or 4 o'wlock ; for tho quick, sharp heat of freshly-lighted coal facilitatos cooking immensely. The saving in fuel will not bo ver, great, if any, unless wood i oxclusively used, Which it rarely iain cities; but tho saving in temper, arising from en overheated atmoephere, will be incalculable. Insects generally, but FLIES in particular, are another of the housekos annoysnces. They annoy Monsicur, wo admit, because they will crawl leisurely down his nose when he is busy in some abstrnse calculation, or buza in his ears whou he is trying to read his paper. But to Madame, they not ouly bring these objectionable festures, but they get iuto everything. They have a propensity for trying every article of food, from sugar to olives, from soup to confectionery. Then theyarrivo sorapidlr. To-day one ** fly buzzes i'the window-pane ;" to- morrow, several of his relatives have arrived ; and, before the week is out, there is & colony of thom settled in your house. It {s not of the least use to dispute possession. They WILL NOT EVACUATE. - You cannof put them on & reservation, for they refuse to remain ; and they are 2s hard to ex- terminate as were the Modocs. They fresce the plate-glass windews, and Mary rebels at the con-~ tinual spplication of water aod hand-power which it requires to keep that vitreons material in s transparent state. Last winter, the noat housckeeper, no doubt, thought tuat, when the thermometer registered s cipher, £he would much prefor seeing the mercarial index resting at that point which is designated by two ciphers and a unit. She forgot the flies. The recollec- tion would bave instantly made her profer to ‘“bear the illa” e hed. Sho has forgotten how, with broom and towel, she bas pursued them from one corner to another, in a vain atterapt toinduce them to go out of doors. They are a curious insect, evidently ABTIFICIAL IN THEIB TASTES AXD HABITS,— for they prefer the inside of any dwelling, re- pecially that portion of it devoted to inary &m&, to all the glorions beauty of Nature. 0 rushes around furionsly with her towel. She drives three flios toward the window, and five return. Bhe gets thom dislodged frem oue corner, and they flee to another. Her collar comes unpinned ; her hair falls down ; the_ per- spiration trickles in streams from her forehead, which is variegated with dusi from that samo towel that has been o ineffoctual s weapon sgainst the flica. Tho hest scems to have reach- 2003degrees st least, and she at last gives up in despair, devoutly wishing it Was winter again. gThcsa are & few of the additional trials which the heated term bringa to the housekeoper. They might be stretched out to amuch greater length, and then B NoT THE HALF OF THEXM TOLD ; but we are sure that we have said emough to prove that, if the trials of housekeeping are Onerous at any season, they cortainly increase in number with the rising of the mercury in the thermometer. TEMPTED. 1 have looked on a face that was cold and still,— Op esea that were closed as if in slosp, On lips that were mute,—on the folded hxads; And T envied the rest, znbroken and desp. o quick pain fisshed through those temples wan ; 0 hope deferr owy form, Will sicken thaf pulseless hoart sgain, No work lies waiting the coming years ; No wesry round for thoso feet to troad No cruel words, no tsunting sneers, Can rouse to anger the sleeping desd ; No tiresome nights, when tho tardy morn Crept at last with blushes to mect the day, Mocking the palid face upturned, % And the whitenod lips that but dumbly pray, ‘There sre hours when I turn with 8 wild despai: From the life that {s mine to the life I ceave, When I worship the eyren that bears me on, And kneel to Ambition, s shackled slave; Shackled, yet loving the Yery power, ‘That holds me in fetters T cannot break; When, maddened, T lsy with s recklees biad, ‘Though my hopes & Heaven aro the priceless atake, Brdst T10s6? O, God? has lifo pothing to give Of all T have asked with such paesionate tears? Mast T kneel with my empty hands outstratched, And plead in vain throngh the dragging years 2 Must I 'stand alone when Death’s shadowa fall, In my grave in peace, with my work undone. But it cannot be, for T have the pawer, And T have the will, snd I gain spact And T'll stand rome day on the topmost helght, ‘Though others may pass mo in the raco, With patient impatience I hold my soul With ateadfast purpose I work and walt ; And T'll shout with victor's foy at last, And wearhis crows, though I win it late, Ganxer B, Fzoas, A Parisian Scnsation. The Paris correspondent of the Philadelphia a'ek};rap). relates this : é +t1t appears that, for s length of timo, & veiled Iady of most elegant appearance has been seen almost nightly to visit A house situated in the Champs Elysees ; her entire bearing indicated caution, and even the most curious were unablo to catchl a glimpise of her face or discover aught res%actlng her. Curiogity had reached tlie highest point, when, & few mg?zu g0, » hand- some, well-drossed 'man, of distinguished ap- pearance, descended from a carrisge, and sta- tioned himself in an aigle of a wall adjacent tHe house, and _there, sheltered from ° view, si- lently watched for the coming. of some one, who roved in the end to bo_ the lady_ in question. ut few minates had slspsed when the illne trious fair one made her appearance, cantionaly ntered the house, and shut the door quickly, e husband, for such he was, rushed forward and vainly -pounded and rang for. admittanco, -but all was a3 quiet and a8 unresponsive as the grave. At ]engfl:, wing_impationt, ho_drew arevolver and fired, at which o window= in the Jower story was openéd, and two lackeys aprang ont, pinioned his arms, and then beat him ~most unmercifully and placed him in_his carrisge, which, b{]m direction, conveyed him to his home. The deceived husband is no other than the Connt de Rieatain, and the lover the Mar- quisde Courvenn. The -following day & chal- lenge was sent by the Count. The affair, how- ever, culminsted in the flight of the guilty pair. Could you but see tho young and beautiful Countess, you wounld wnmiar at such a climax, But a very {ow weeks ago she was the raigning. belle of the Camps Elysees, thought to be one of the most ‘immacnlate of women, and accorded the most distingnished respect.” Bathing. ., Concerning bathing of the body, T think our san- itarians are vory extravagant, sud they havo dono 2 great (Fnblxum:mchzef by setting the great towns $0 plunder the rivers of their supplios from the head streams. Even the prophet Mohammed, a fanatic of cleanliness, regarded friction with sand 03 compensatory for washing. If any one supposes that the limbs and_trunk of the body -eannot bo kept as pertectly clean by dry rubbing as by any amount of wasking, I eay he hassome- thing to learn. Undoubtedly, ina hot climate, or hot weather, there is nothing so plefaant and so rapidly effectnal as bathing, if the tem- pperature of the water be not tuo low, sa it is apt 1o be with us, even in our hottest westher. I have always enjoyed swimming ; but reluctantly giva itup, because thecold makes my hands lead, which cannot be healthfal. I once gnmght on & severe attack of illness by using a sitz bath. All the hardy barbarians of the north have, at all times, been reproached by _southern le for their meglect in ‘washing. The old Romans did not—aa a nation —betake themselves to baths till the era of effem- ipacy sebin. Tacitus says of the Germans: “In the midst of this dirt they grow up into thoso Lmbs which we sdmire.” ~The chtgmnz of Horodotus, wore reported. not to wash; but in cold woather, at distant intervals, to cover thoir bodics withl a hot, spicy paste. It dried on thom, and dropped off when cold, leaving the flesh clean. Northern races kunow that cold water takes strength ontof them, and they do not volunteer to touchit. Their practice has more weight with mo than _recont theories, No doubt where hot baths, warm dressing-room and ous towols can be_ commsanded, warm bathing tends to human besuty. Perhaps it mekes & moro delicate_animal, more susceptiblo to cold. ink it does. A hot-air bathiaa very different thini, and more skin to the Boythiau practice. But, granting that wealth may advantageously avail itself of warm water, with a cold Sxower bath after it, that does nof justify s universal command to men and women, rich and poor, to wash their wholo bodies every day in cold water, as many of our sanitarians do. -, —T. W. Newman in Herald of Health. A FIRST NIGHT. From London Society for June. Tho first night of & new play. There are somo people who never miss it. One goes ont of cu- ricsity, another professionally. The regular play-goer likes to bo present bocause his attend- ance on these occasions has become o habit to nim, just as the Derby is with snother man. One goes becanse he is a friend of the drama- tist ; another bocause heis nov; a third is thers on account of his intarest in the management; 8 fourth simply in the hope that the mahagement has mado a mistake. The critics gv in folfil- ment of their calling. Of course they are bored whother the play is good or bad. It is the thing to bebored. Sometimes they are indeed to be pitied; but they take ont their torture tenfold when they sit down to scarify the piece. The most nstonishing thing is, whon you think thoy Dbave been dresdfully bored, and when you are glad thoy have gall at home for ink, to find by their papers that thoy have been delighted. At other times, when you think they have an op- portunity of honestly praising & piece, you en- countor flarce condemnation. Truly, critics and criticism are inscrutable. I give them mp. Thank goodnoss I sm mot pro- fessionally ongaged _except once in a way. Now and then I sit amidst the critics with my bristles up, look bored, foel bored, aud go out envying tho peoplo who' ars not called upon to write their opinions of what thoy have seen aud heard. Bat ve all like a firs! night; it is so unlike any othor night. You see people whom you wish to see. There is a sort of suppressed ex- citement in tho house which an outside interest to the play. Then there is always the chance of arow. Pioces have been killed a first night. It ia true the custom of ‘*taking cara” of the house has grown of late into such a habit that a sort of check has boen established. Something is indeed required to neutralize the coldness of the general habitues of theatres on first nights ; but a croxd of ;pxfihudara scattored through the house rather overdoes the business. Let us look ronnd a firut night's house and 80 who tho people are in the stalls and boxes. They are the actors who interest one moro than the people on the stage. We will ses the play tselt when we have rend _the notices. In tho stege-box is Mr. John Oxenford, » white-headed, genial-looking geu- tlemen and critic of tke Times. It 18 not necessary to mentior. the sstellite who alwsys accompanioa him, But in the same box we ng- tice Miss Neilson (Mrs. Lee) and her husband. Dir, Lee was the subject of a great practical joke in America, arranged by Mr. Sothern, and men- tion2d in the papers a short time ago. The Now York Herald dovoted a couple of columns to the story. Miss Neilson is quite as pretty as her photographs. Sho wears a low dress, very much aftor the fashion of the portrait of Neli Gwynna in “Pepy's Diary.” Mr. Oxonford will talk during the performance, but whon you read his criticism in the Times you find that he knows all about the Qgl.e.y. In an adjscent box are the Levys, of the Telegraph. Their chief critic is ‘nuraing his log in the stalls. He iz a young man, with a brown beard and moustache, and a well-* formed, intellectual heaa. His name was men- tioned {n the action brought by Clarles Reade agaiost the Morning Advertiser, and it is likely tocrop up in & libel swt pending, I believe, against tho defunct Zig-Zag. . Clemont Scott has mado himself known by his well- written _ond pungept criticisms. ~ He was “ Almaviva” in the London Figaro, and hLe writes_for tho Obscroer and tho Telegraph. Close by Mr. Scott sits, silent and muffled up to his chin, Mr. Heraud, who used to write for the Athencum, and is theé hero of that story of Jer- rold in which Mr. Heraud's poem about “* Hell™ is mentioned. The clearly-shaven face, some- what cynical in its exprossion, and ornsmented for the time with & pair of glasses, looking out of a box on the other side of the honso, 1s the well-known countenance of Charles Dickens, son of the famons suthor of ¢ Pickwick.” Mr. Dickens writes those axca!.tl?]nt dramatic notices which appear in 8 Queen, The Dright-oyoq. young man by his' side, intently watching the piece, in Albery, whom Dickens will presently chaff on account of the fulafb of “ Orizns,” but the proprietor of All the Year Round w'flfi;et & shot back quite a8 wounding as his own. Albery is clever at ropartee, but apt to be personal. Not mord so, eflnfis. than the gendemln whois just entoring the box, Mr. tophen Fiske, the husbana of Mrs. John Wood, for whom Albery is engaged upon s new pla; Mr. Fiske rubs his eyes, and fires off a quist sally about the piece, at which Dickens turns round to shrug his shoulders and laugh: Mr. Fiske camo over to England, some years ago, with the winning yzcht in the famous interna- tional race, & graphio description of which he wrote for the Zimes and AZ . the Year Round. He was for many yoars the dra- matic critic of the New York Herald, and is now credited with the stings of the Horne!, of which paperhois the proprictor. It is not generall: gmo\m that Fiske was the suthor of “English Photographs, by an Amarican,” and the ‘magazine papers which caused asensation under the nom de plume of * An American Fenian.” 1t is a capital night for celebrities, this first night of our pketch. Bhirloy Brooks, the editor of Punch, isin the stalls, and in the next seat one of his principal contributors, Mr. F. C. Bur- nand, who gets up somothing like Mario, though there is no resemblance botween the two. lgr Burnand is & handsome man, for all that, and one of the most industrious of our public writers. Looking over the stalls from the dress-circle, into which they have been forced by their Iato arrival and a pressure below, are Leopold Lewis, of Bells fame, who is industriously stroking his whiskers; and Mr. Tom Purnoll, who is ovidently expressing his opinion of the pieco in tones sufficiently loud to attract geooral attention. Mr. Lowis was oditor of the AMask, whick had a short but brilliant career ; Mr. Pur- nell wrote thoso Athenaum criticisms, signed Q., which Charles Reade sacrificed in an article in which he called Purnell ““a cipher, signed with an initial.” Turning sgain to the etalls, our glass falls Yon the puckered but genial faco of E. L. anchard, whose knowledge of the drama snd perhiaps, une- 1 Bl its history, past_snd present, is, qualed, A tound-faced, Kindly-Iooking 1ady in black (whom few people teem to know, and those few the more cldcrly men of the time), sitting at the back of the stalls and talking to apother lady, evidently hor sister, is Mrs, Charles Dick- ens. Her gister is Mrs. Romer, & widow. They are neighbors in the Regent’s Park district, and evidently enjoy firat nights. Ono of Mra, Dickens’ younger, sons, s bright, intelligent young fellow, has recently been reading, for charitable ipstitutions, somo of his father's works, and has acquitted himself with credit. Mre. Dickons is a noble woman nover to have obtruded her story upon society. They say she bas a box fall of anid Copperfield’s ’ love- letters. Dickens, whose correspondence was always studiod, must have written charming love-lettors ; how ing, we may never 0. Mr. Frith, the artist, ie sitting near tho orches- tra with one of his sons, and farther on is Mr. Moy Thomas, of the Daily News. Close by aits Mr. Fiides, » young, earnest toiler in tho fields of art, who is destined for fame and fortune. The dark gentleman to whom he is talking is Joseph Hatton, editor of the Genlleman's Afa azine, and, what is porhaps more, suthor of # The Yl loy of Poppies,” an edition de luze of which is to bo published by and by, with illustrations by TFildes, who drew the pictures that illnstrated Dickens' last thoughts in * Edwin Drood.” Mr. Herseo, & well-known, musical critic, finds himself yonder in the midst of & bovy of ladies, whom he would not disturb, as Lo g?ea out, for the world. Mr. Dunphy, of the orning Post, calm &nd solf-possessed, with the living imago of o pretty girl whose portrait 0. 1 on the Academy walls two years ago byhisside; and Mr. E. C. Bames, tho artist, vhose “Scarlot Letter " has, strange to say, been crowded out of this year's Academy, make up our rapid skotch of £ho front of the house. On the occasion in question the piece was & success. We called the author, and cheered him loudly. It is seldom that a piece is dsmned nowadaya. A notable excaption ocourred the other night at the Aflelpha ‘when & new piece wag hissed off the stage, and tho management L to announce that it would not be performed agnin. ¢ :s ” and something else, how- ever, would take its place, said the gentle- man who had the happiness of speaking h\ightor at this announcoment of *‘ Up a Treo.” there are any readers of London Society in search of s new theatrical sensation, and who know nothing of firat nights, .in the professional gense, let them book stalls for the next notable occasion, and compare notes with this. brief skotch, and the articles that aro to follow it from the pen of * RoBIN GOIDFELLOW. O s HUMORS OF THE TICHBORNE TRIAL. Charactcrs from Wapping == Positive Schoolmates nna Indignant Damcs =Amusing Wiincsscs and Youthful Tales. 5 London (June3) Correspondence of tis Boston Post. Long drawn out and tedious as the trial of the Claimant must scem to Judges, lawysrs, jury, witnesses, and the prisoner himself, it is a never- ending source of amusement to the publio. It is a porpetual .comedy; with ever-varying heroes and heroines, constantly verging on and sometimes descending to side-splitting farce. The other day, just as the session was begin- ning, the Claimant, who takes a by no means unimportant active part in the proceedings, roso and addressed the Lord Chiof Justice. He took the liberty of ssking whether it would be con- sidored o contempt of court if he should appear at theatres or music halls, ¢ where thoy aro will- ing to pay me.” Bir A. Cockburn expressed a distrust of what might take place there if he went; on which the Olaimant, in his husky voice, said that ho had no money With which to conduct his dofense, and wanted to raise some by exhibiting himself, but the Court refused to express an opinion on the subject. n the same day a new sensation was created by the appearance on tho stand of Mies M Ann Loder. This 1ady, as it had been lntlmat;z was the early love of Arthur Orton, Wapping butcher. Miss. Loder appeared to be & lady of somo 95 yoars, with & ploasant, open counte- nonco, and did credit to Arthur’ Orton's tasto. Bho testifiodguietl; bmposifivelg that the Olaim- ant was hor old beau, with whom she nsed to * Keep company " and " walk out " fn the quiet purlious of Wapping, only he had grown * & lit- tlestonter.” Aftor Miss Loder came & Wapping © charac- ter,” & Mr. Chow, a lighterman, who was 60 en- thusiastic in his evidence that he started by say- ing that he visited old Orton’s house ‘‘oftener than my own.”” On being asked if Arthur Orton ever sold mest, ho replied, I think ho was too 1azy to scli meat;” and declared that he had como forward to testify because ho wisked to “yindicate Ledy Radcliffe’s honor.” A farmer named Whitbread, who had known: tho Ortons, wos asked if he had made any bots on the case, to which he replied, * Yes, I dare 8oy twonty or thirty new hats.” More Wappin, witnesses wero forthcoming the text dny, sovo: of whom gaye the Claimant’s counsel 88 good a8 they got. One of those wasa Mr. Allam, who had known the claimant, he said, 83 *‘ fatty,” or ** bullocky” Orton. On being saked by defend- ant's counsel about Detective :er,he ropliod promptly, ** He is & professional, Like yourself.” T suppose you and Whicher bad a little drop fo drink over the case ?”” ‘ Then,” replied the imperturbable _ Allam, “ you suppose wrong.” Well, then, I have put you right, hey?” “Beg’ your pardon,” roturned tho Wit~ noss; it is I who have put you right” A Mr. Cronin, who seemed to be an authority on nicknames, testified that, while Arthur Orion was callod * Bullocky,” one of his brothers was known as ** Gentieman Orton,” and another ss **Prince Chbarles.” On being asked what color Arthur'’s hair was, be replied, **It’s abont the Golor of your wig, sir."” A witness whose- singnlar manner of testify- ing attracted considerable attention was John James Qollins, who, on being sworn, declared that ho had once been o carvor and gilder, but was now “s Beripture-resdor.” On being asked if Clsimant was the Orton whom ho nsed to know, he said, I am as sure of hum as I am of my own life. I knmelt down this morning and prayed that' God might give me graco to tell tho trgth. Ho ia Arthur Orton.” “You saw & photograph of him?” *Yes, in a window in the Poultry, and Tcould not resist writing a lotter to those who conduct the case to say that I knew him to be Orton.” On cross-examination be was asked, “ You had an irresistible impulse to write this 7" “1 was determined to writo to serve the inter- ests of justice.” “And yon prayed for graco this morning to tell the truth?" “I did.” “ Have you prased ovory day on_this subject “No, sir.” ““But often ??" * Yes, sir.” The Lord Chief Justice asked, * About this case?” “My Lord,” replicd the witnoss, “I have weakness for making all things of mylifo & mat- ter of prayer to God for help.” % “ Georgo Winn, on being asked about Arthur Orton's teudency to St. Vitus' dance, and wheth- er it was a 'nervons affoction,” replied, ‘I don't remember it a8 a nervous aflliction. I took it as s family movement. Old Mr. Orton bad a cer- tain movement in tho oye.' This witness was very nervous, and produced much amusement by his confused and flurried way of giving his’ evidence. He had been taken to see Claimant at 8 lawyer's office previous to, the lsst trial, and now gave a piquant accouns of the interview. +Ho sat st first,’ said Winn, ‘with his back to me, facing the fire. As I was talking to the lawyer I looked at the Claimant and kuew him, but dido' tell bim so. He said, ‘Ob, you think I am Arthur Orton.’ I said, ‘I donot think at all aboutit. Arthur Orton is sitting there. You are Arthur Orton.’ I then rose and £aid to the Iawyer, ¢ Yon are wrong, eir; this msan will be non-saited.’ - The Claimant said, * I will bring two hundred witnesses.'! I uaid, ‘ Two thousand, if you like. Arthur Orton is sitting there. You are Arthur Orton.’” Another uncomfortable witness for the obese defondant was o sail-maker nsmed Lawrence, who testified that whils ill in bed he was waited upon by Mr. Guilford Onslow and the Claimant, * ‘Do you know me?’ asked the Claimant. *Yes,'Isnid, ‘Ido. You are Arthur Orton.’ *Yon maks a mistske,’ gays he. *No,' says I, ‘Idon't. Iwish I did. You are myold sehool-fellow, and I nm sorry that I do't: Fhon Mr. Onslow asked me if Orton wasn't a thin boy. ¢Ifhe were,’ eays I, ‘it were after I left Wa ing, Take him back to Wapping,” says I, “take gimblck. They'll all know .'” SBomebody having asked the honest Lowrenceto take an oath, ho_waxed indignant, and said, * Look here’; this is & privileged interview, and you ‘mistake the man you.are talking to. This house is my castle, and tho door is down-stairs.” Tho sppearance of Mre. Haonah Johnson, & comely widow in the prime of life, in the wit- ness-box, was anothor interesting incidont. Mrs. Johnison had been, in early lifo, ono of Wap- ping’s blooming béllea; and Arfhur Orton had attempted to pay her attentions, but in vain. Boing asked how ehe remembered "his going to ses, she replied, promptly, * His wanting me to go out with him. He asked me sevoral times to take a walk with him.” * And did vou con- eent?” ' No.” * Did ho write to you at all?" 4 Yean v Did yon keeptho lattor?” 4 Of no, I bumnt it aftor I read it. He gaveme the latter oue evening when I was speaking to him, After I read it I told him L.was engagod, but that was only in order to get rid of him; I never spoke to him after.” . An smusing fellow wns William Sirett, horse- dealer, who had no sooner got into the box, and been asked if he knew Orton, than he began bob~ biog his head - till he was vmle, saying, 41 should think I did; I have good . roason to re- ‘member him, for many o cot of his whip have I had.” The Lord Chief Justice, always alive to a Tittlo fun, naked: What for ?" ** It was through that gentloman thore” (pointing to the Claim- ant, who laugbed heartily). “Iid you know the Bons ?” “ Yes, and he (pointing to the defend- ant) knows it,t00.” “Did you associate with him very much?” “Yes, we had some funny games togetner.” *What sort of fanny game 7 “ We used to wait for Arthur coming round the corner, then wo put him into s bamper and tied him down.” ** Did that bring old Mr. Orton to you?” * Yes;and sometimes his brother Charles came with s pig whip rather sharp around the corner, before- wo ~kuew where he waa." Did yon ever seo him after he went to ses 7" Yes;abont twoyesrsago. My wife and I had a little conversation. 8he was a-read- ing a paper, when ehe said, ¢ Lor’ bless me, Bill, wlg, at’s Arthor.' " jor was Mrs, her husband in the and upconsciously facetions. opinions as to who tbe Claimant was, she put her arms akimbo, and said stoutly, ‘' He's Ar- thur Orton. I have no doubt about it.” Then, turning sharply on the Claimant, she burst out with, ** How can you &it there, before me and my husband, and say you are noi, when you know you are!” ‘\What was Artaur's expres- sion when he laughed?” ¢ He laughed all over his face.” “Had tho family any peculiarity ?" “Yes; they were always called an awkward- made lot.” **Waa his voice unusually rough for Wappi g 2" I don't know about Wapping,” rejoined Mrs. 8., with some ssperity. * Now, that won't do. rett, when che succeeded less sitive Asked her A Queer Case. From_the £l Paso (IlL) Journal. fl'owe‘}‘!‘;nlh“ had s dnal_fl%“i, Trro I{nllnw! m Bloomington, accompanied by a policeman and » lady came un;'a to that town, and s long confab, one day last week. From the conversa- tion that passed between the quartetto, it a) peared that both of the men wanted the lady, and ihat they bad brought the policoman along to arbitrate the matter, Fipally theyturned the thing books, with the policeman acting as s kind of an anctioneor. The two worthies began to bid, “raigipg " each other at the rate of $50 a time, They nnfli g0t up to 91,100, and here they paused, looked each otkor in the eyes acrosa the eidomalk, while the policeman sfood balancing his cano on Lis finger, and tha lady played wit! hor parnsol and looked as if it was nothing to ber in the lesst. Then one of the men —he wss a blond—that 18 he bhad a red head—paid, “Ill give cleven hun- dred and forty-fivo dollars.” The other, a dark satarnine fellow, waa cool ; $1,245, said he, making a jump of 8100 at onco, _ Tho bystarid- ers, of whom there was a dozon more or less, ail Lm%hed, and the blondo hesitated. e looked ai the woman, &t tho crowd, at the policeman, and ot his Iady; she smiled sweetly upon him, and his mind was made up. *“81,500,” said he determinedly. The othor may have loved Venus much, but he ovidently loved Mammon more. He said, “‘Til do it.” He cast no lingering looks behind, nor did le weep upon the hosom of her he had worshipped. He went before a notary public and made affi- davit that the State of Illinois should know him no more forever. Tho four then adjourned toan *inner room,” and shortly thereafter the aforesaid sonl took the cars and hied himself westward. The blonde, the lady, and the police- man wont south as happy as two clams at high tide. Just what it all moans the good people of Wenona don't quite understand, but they are satisfed that it is the proper way to fight duels. — . THE THEOLOGICAL BIAS. Eerbert Spencer in ths Popular Seience Monthly. Under its special forms, as well as under its genoral form, the theological bias brings errors into the estimates men make of societies and in- stitutions. Sectarian antipathies, growing out of différences of doctrino, disable the members of each religious community from fairly judging other religious communities. It is always difficult, and often impossible, for thezealot to conceive that his own religious system and his own zoal on its behalf may have but a rela- tive truth and s relative value; or to conceive that thore msy be relative truthsand relative valiies in alien beliefs and the fanataciams which maintain them. Though the adherent of each creed has continually thrust on his attention the fact that adherents of othercreeds are no less confldant than he is—though he can scarcely fail sometimes to reflect that these ad- herents of other creeds bave, in nearly eli cases, simply sccopted the dogmas ocurrent in the places and families they wore born in, and that he has done the like—yet the special theological bias which his education and surroundings have givén him, makes it almost beyond imagination that theee other creeds may, some of them, have justifications as good as, if not better, than his own, and that the rest, zlong with certaln amounts of absolute worth, may have their special fitnces to the people Lolding them. ‘We cannot doubt, for instance, that the feel- ing with which MMr. Whalley or Mr. Newdegate regards Roman Catholicism must cause extremo reluctance to admit the services which Roman Catholicism rendered to Eurcpoan civilization in the past; and must make 08t impoesible & pationt hearing of any ono who thinka that it Tenders some services now. Whether great ben- efit did not ariso in early times from the tendency toward unification produced with each congeriea of swmall socicties Dy a common creed author- itativoly imposed ?—whother pspal power, sup~ posed to be divinely doputed, snd therefore tending to subordinate the political suthorities during the turbulent foud: whother tho strong tendehcy shown by early Clrisianity to Inpus into separate local pagan- isms, was not venoficially checked by an ec- clesiastical system having s singlo head sup- posed to be infalliblo ?>—whother morals wore not improved, manners softenod, slasol ameliorated, and the condition of women raise by tho influénce of tho Church, not:ithstanding all its superstitions and_bigotries 7—are ques- tions to which Dr. Cumming, or other vehement opponent of Popery, could not bring s mind opon to conviction. ~ Similarly, it is beyond the power of tho Homco Catholic to see tho meaning of _Protestantism, and recognize its valie. To the Ultramontaino, hold- ing that the tomporal _ welfaro ' mno less then the cternal salvation of men depends on submission to the Church, it is incrdible that Church-suthority has but a transitory velue, and that the denials of authority which™ have come along with sccumulation of knowledge and chisnge of scntiment, mark steps from 8 lower gozial rogime to a higher. Naturally, to tho siccoro Papist, echism s & crime, sad books that w doubt . on tho estab- lished beliefs are accursed. Nor need we wonder when from sach a one there comes s saying like that of the Mayor of Bor- desux, so much applsuded by the Comte de Chambord, that “the Dovil was tho first Protest- ant ;" or when, along with this, there goes a vil- ification of Protestants too repulsive to be ro- ated. Clearly, with such & theological bias, ostering such idoas respacting Protestant mo- rality, thero must bo oxtremely falso estimates of Protestant institutions, and of all the institu- tions goirg along with thom. Inless Striking ways, but still in ways sufi- ciently markod, the special theological bias werps the judgments of Conformists and Non- conformists among oursolves. A fair estimate of the advantages which our State-Church bas iolded is not to be expected from the zealous issenter; ho sees only the dissdvantages. Whother = voluntaryism could have done centurics ago nll that it can do now?— whether n State-supported Protestantism was pot once the best thing practicable? —are questions which he is byt ely to discuss withont prejudice. Contrariwise, the church- man is roluctant to beliovo that the union of Church and State is boneficial only during s cer- tain phase of progress. He knows that within the Establishmont divisions are daily incressing, while voluntary sgency is daly doing & Iarger sharo of the = work originally un- dertaken by the Stato; but he does not join this with the fact that outside the Estab- Tishment the power of Dissent is growing; he Tesista the inference that these changos aroparts of a general change by which the political and religions agencics, which have been differentiat- ing from the beginning, are being separatod and specialized. Ho is averse to the conception that just as Protestantism at large was a rebellion against an ecclesiasticism which dominated over Europe, so _dissont amopg ourselyes is & robellion = against an _ ecclesiasticism which dominates over England; and ihat the two are bub successive stages of the same boneficial development. That is to &8y, his bias prevents him from contemplating the facts in a way favorable to scientific inter- pretations of them. Evorywhero, indeed, the spacial thoological bias sccompanying a apecial set of doctrines in- eritably afu'vi‘;gn many sociological questions. One who bolds a creed as_absolutely true, and who by implication holds the muititudinous other creeds to be sbeolutely false in so far a3 they diffet from his own, cannot entertain the supposition that the value of a creed is rel- ative, That a particular religions system is, in & .general sense. & natural part of the particular Bocloty in which it is found, is an_entirely alien conception ; and, indeed, & repugnant one. The dogmatic theology which he holds unquestion- ably trae, ho thinks good for all placcs snd all times. Ho does not doubt that, when trans- plantod to s horde of _savages, it will be duly understood by thom, duly appreciated by them, and work on them rosults such as those he experiencos from it. Thus prepossessed, he asses over the proofs which recur everywhere, ¥5at & people 16 no'mors capable of suddenty ro ceiving a higlier form of religion than it is capa~ blo of suddenly receiving a highor form of Gov- ernment ; and that inevitably with such religion, 28 with such Government, there will go on 5 do; gradation that presently redaces it to one diffor® ing but nominally from that which imfio“ly existed. In other words, bis special theological ‘bise blinds him to an important class of sociologi- cal truths. —_— SILENT INFLUENSE. 1t may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened ficld ; Norours to hear on summer e The reaper’s song among the sheaves Ye.when our duty's task is wrought 1n uninon with God's great thought, The near and fature biend in oge, And whataoe'er i willed s done | —Whittier. S TR Sidmey Smith. . In the nuwly-gublia.hod volume of Mono%rnphs by Lord Houghton, thero is, in one of Bidney Shuith, the foliowing story of his clerical fup in Yorkshire: *He willingly assistod his noigh- bors in their clerical duties, and an_snecdote of one of these occasions is still current in the dis- trict, for the suthenticity of which I will not vouch, but_which seems to me good_enough to be true. He dined with the incumbent on the preceding Saturday, and the evening passed in great hilarity, the squire, by name Eershaw, be- ing conspicious for his loud enjoyment of the straoger's jokes. ‘Iam veryglad thatIhave ‘but you must not l&ufi at_my sermon to-morrow.’ ‘I shomld hope I know tho difference between ~ boing ‘here or s, church,’ remarked the gontleman, with some sharpness. ‘I am not so0 sure of that,™ replied tho visitor. “I'll bet you a guinea on it,’ enid tho squire. Take you,’ replicd the divine. The preacher ascended ‘the steps of the pulpit ap- gnenfly suffering from a eevcro vold, with his andkerchief to his f2ce, and at once sneezed out the nawa ‘ Ker-shaw’ several times in various in- tonations. This ingenious mssumption of the readiness with which a man would recognize hig own name in gounds imperceptible to the ears of others, proved accurate. The poor gentleman burst into a 4w, to the scandal of the con- gregation; and the micister, after looking at bim with stern reproach, proceeded with his dis- course and won the bet.” THE FIRST CAMPAIGN-LIAR. From an drticls by James Parton in the Atlantic for July. That product of the human intellect which wo de_nominu&e the Campaign-Lie, though it did not originate in the United States, has Lore attained a dovelopment unknown in-other lands, It is the destiny of America to try all experimenta and exhaust all follies. In the shortepaceof geventy- Beven years we have exhausted the eficiency of falsehood uttered to keep a man out of office. Tha fact is mot to our credit, indeed; for we muss havo lied to an immeasurable extent before tha printed word of man, during six whole months of every fourth year, could have lost so much of its natural power to affect human belief. Still leas is it for our good; since Campaign Truths, however important they msy be, are equally in- effectual. Boon after the publication of & cer- tain ponderons work, called the Life of Andraw Jackson, ono of the original Jackson men of Pennsylvania met the author in the street, and snid in substance, “I am asfon- ished to filnd how little I knew of & man whose battles I fought for twelve years. I heard all those stories of his quarrels and vio- lence ;ub"yl supposed,of course, they were cam- paign liea | Thomas Jofferson, who began so many things in the early careor of the United States, was tho first object upon-whom tho Campaign Liar tried his unpractised talents. Tho art, indeed, may be said to havo been introduced in 1796 to vent_his election to the Presidency; -but it was in.1800 that it was clearly developed into a distinct species of falsehood. And, it must be confessed. that, even amud the heat of tho election of 1800, the Campaign Liar was hard put to it, and did not succeed in originating that variety aud reckless extravaganco cf cal- umny which bas crowned his efforts since. Jef- ferson’s life presented to his view & most dis- coursging monotony of innocent and beneficial actions,—twenty-ive years of Inborious and un- recompensed public sorvice, relieved by the vio- lin, science, invention, l;i'xicn.lture. the education of his nepbiews, and the love of his dsughtors, A life 60 exceptionally blameless did not give fair scope to talent; sinco a falsehood, to have its fwl and lssting effect, must contain a fraction of o grain of truth. Still, tho Champaign Liar of 1800 did well enough for a beginner. Ho was able, of courso, to prove that Mr. Jof- ferson * hated the Constitution,” had hated it from the boginning, and was ‘“pledged to sub- vort it.” ‘Tne noble Marcellus of New York (Hamilton, spparently) writing in Noah Wob- ster's new paper, the Commercial Adter- tiser, soared into prophecy, and was thus onabled to describe with precis- ion the methods which Mr. Jefferson would employ in_effecting his fell purpose. He would begin by turning every Federalist out of office, down to the remotest Postmaster. Thbn he would “tumblo the financial system of the country into ruin_ at one stroke”; which would of neceseity stop all payments of interest on the public debt, and bring oo * nniversal bankruptcs. and beggary.” Next, he would dismantle tho navy, and thus give such fras course to rivateering, that *every vossel which floated rom our shores would be plundered or cap- tured.” And, sinco overy source of revenue would bo dried up, the Govornment would no longer be able to pay tha peasions of the scarred vetorans of tho Revolation, who would bo soen “tarving in the strcots, or living on the cold. and precarions supplics of charity.” Soon, the unpaid officers of the Government would rekign, and “counterfeiting would be practiced witl impunity.” In short, good peopls, the election of Jefferson will be tho signal for Pandora to open her box, and empty it upon your heads. The Campaign Liar mounted the pulpit. In the guiso of the Rov. Cotton Mather Smith, of Conzecticut, ho stated that Mr. Jefferson had gained his estato by robbery and fraud; yes, even by robbing & widow and fatherless children of ten thourand pounds, intrusted to him by the dead father's will. * All this can_be proved,” £aid tha Roverend Campaigner. Some of tho Talsehoods wore curiously remote from tho truth. “Heo despises mechanics,” eaid a_Philadelphis paragraphist of 8 man who doted on_a well-killed, conscientions workman. _*He dospises mechanics, and owns 250 of them,” re- marked this writer. That ~onticello swarmed with yellow Jeffersons was the nataral conjoc- ture of a party who_recognized as their chief tho paramour of 8 Reynolda. *Mr. Jefferson's Gongo Harem"” was a party cry. Thero wero al- Iusions to s certain * Dueky Sally,” otherwise Sally Henings, whose childron were said to re- semble the master of Monticello in _their foatures and the color of their hair. Inthis par- ticular Campaign Lis thoro mas jost that - frac- tional portion of truth which wes nec- to presorvo it fresh and vigorous cept in dreams. visions, and vagaries transitory and delusive appearances. I sthng o yot assured. Morcover, theeo sigats are ot ;Técorded as being evident to reliable indi duali- ‘ties. * As Antiborus saith, “‘These parsons wers of most disrepatable chiaracter ;* which is isc maintainod 7 Boxy, = Articmalus,” ard many ‘moro. That Satsn ehculd haye special need of & tail, is by no memn evident; indeed, common observation and inveg- tigation teach us the coutrary. -For if, 28 we supposo,—and thero is no authority to tho op- posito opinion,—the Devil is bat o fallon angel, OF man transposed from this sublunary sphers of mortality to s red-hot perpetnality, thers cor. tsinly could be no more use for such an annexa- tion then previons to his matation, As Monter. orini well observeth, * A tail wonld be a 8sarious €aus0 of canctation to ono who is thought ta move with 80 much celerity.” Neither is it pos- sible so unnal an ovent should happen, Damely: that the posteriorand diminutive ex. tremity of the vertebral column, which we call the coccyx, shonld be extended to such a degreo 23 {0 become s noticeable part of the anatomy. Bome affirm,also, that histallis barbed at the 8pex; 8 most aberrant form. There is noAnimal now ex- isting to whose adjunct is fixed a fleshy hook, thereby toking or rather usurping, the placa of the capi piflaturo noticed in the lion and the bull That this is the most common opinion entertained, in attested by numerous paintings, engravings, and._ especially wood-cuts. These latter have been circalated smong the vast bodies of the lower orders of society, much to the det- rimant, rather than elevation, of religion. To sccept the idea therein contained, however, most of all as regards the formation of the end of tha tail, were repngnant to reason, to impate the ez~ traordinary power to Satan, and to encoursge superstition, For that any use could be made of this anchor-like concomitant ia not possible, ex- capt we ascribe to him second sight, and 8 mns- culsr organization concentrated to but one point, and that the most remote from the nervous cans tre of his entity. Two Persian Fables. L A herd of cows, blown off the summit of the Himalayas, were sailing some miles above the v&lleés, ‘when one said to another : *: Got apything to say about this 2" * Not much,” was the anawer—* it's airy." ‘I wasn's thinking of that,” continued the first: “I am troubled about our course. If we could leave the Pleiades s little more to the right, striking a middle course betweer Boots and the ecliptic, we shall find it all plsin eailin aa far as the solstitial colure. But once we g into the zodiac upon our present bearing, we are certain to meet with shipwreck before reaching our aphelion.” They escaped this melancholy fate, howaver, {for some Chaldean shepherds, seeing a nebulous cloud drifting athwart the heavens and obscur- ing. & favorite planet they had just invent brought out their most powerful telescopes an resolved it into independent cowe—whom they proceeded to slsughter in detail by discharging . at them the instruments of smaller calibre, - Thers_have been occasional ‘*‘neat showars”™ . ' ares ince. These are probably nothing more e . [Our author can be depended upon in mattérs - of fact ; his scientific theories are not worth printing.—Translator.] 13 o. A hen whohad hatched out a guantity of ducklings, was somewhat surprised one day fo see them tike to the water and - eail. away out of her jurisdiction. The more she thought of this the more unreasonable such con- duct appearcd, and the moro indigsnt &he be- camo, She resolved that it must cessc forth- with." 80 sho soon sfterward convened ber brood and conducted them to the marginof & hot pool having & business connection with the boiling spring of Doo-8no-swsir. They straight- way lsunched themselves for s _craise—return- ing immedintely to the land, aa if they had for- gatten tho ship's papers. When cellow Youth oxhibits an eccentric ten- dency, give it . him hot. Last Slave Sale in New Jerscya The JWest Jersey Fress has this bit of local hus- tory with reference to Gloucester County : A fow days ngo we listened to the recital of the circumstances attending probably the last sale of slaves that took place in Gloucestar County, nearly 60 years ago. _A free colored man® became ensmared of a colored girl, a slsve, be- longing to s family in that county, ead desired to marry her, but 28 the lsw would not permit the marriago, b detormined to buy her. e ap~ plied to the owner, who agreed to aell her to him for half s crown. 'Tho money waw nevor paid however, but this fact was not developed until - yoars after, when, by an ccident which befell & daughter by this marraige, sae became s chargs npon the county. This took place within » fow months aiter the death of the owner of the girl'a mother, and the executors of the estate sough. counsef in the premiaes, and were told, in adrer- tising the porsonal effects of the deceased, to conclude with these words: _* Together with all the personal property of said decessed.” This +was done, and at the sale, which took place in the yoar 1815, the father of the girl bought his wifs ad four children for forty conts, The descend- ants of this familyare now living in Salem Couz~ b S Ny The Emperorand Empress of Austria. Fienna Correspondence of the Baltimore American. Public gossip in Vienna represents the Em- peror and Empress as by R0 means very happy in their conjugal relations, Her photographs in the windows show her tobe & very handsoms woman, about 85 yoars of age. She is said o be of remarkable intelligence and sprightliness cas S this Asy. Thersia aven & tspeciabie ATagts son Henings now living in _Ohio, who supposes that Thomas Jefferson was his father. Mr. Hen- ings has been misinformed. The record of Mr. Jef- ferson's every dlmdhom’,cofltflined in bis pock- et memorandum books, compared with the record of his slave's birth, proves the impossibility of his having been the father of Madison Henings. 8o 1am informed by Mr. Randall, who examined the records in the possession of the family. Tho father of those children was & near relative of the Jefforsons, who cecd not bo named. Anecdote of Macready. From ths London Times, The following snecdots of the late distin- ished tragedian Ma mot bitherto been pub- Fl:fed : ‘At the time the atrocities of Burke and Haro had excited tho most 'intense horror throngh tho width and length of the land, it may be remembered the guilt of Burke could only be proved by admitting Hare ss evidence for the Crown. After the execution of Burke, Hare was liberated, and rumor stated that he bad gone, or was going, to his friends in Ireland. Just at that time Mr. Macready had completed a succossful engagement st Glasgow, and em- barked in the steamer for Belfast to delight the inhabitants of that wealthy city witha dwplsy of his tragic powers. The passago was, unfortunately, delsyed by a storm of the most violent nature, the wind blowing 8 hurricane, and the dense darkness being only broken by vivid fiashes of bf;hming. The oo gl nigh- unmenagesble, and all the passengers had qone below for_safety, 5ave one, tho, wrapped closely in a cloak, with solemn footstops ptcel the deck, and ever and anon mattered sowe incoherent words to the warring olements. The attention and astonishment of the crew were excited, and at length. it was sug- gostad that the muflled figure, whose procoed- ings .were so remarkable, was the escaped murderer Haro, and that the fearful storm they encountered was tho Divine vengeance pursuing the guilty wretch. Actuated by this feeling, they determined to cast the wrotched Jonas from the vessel, and approached him tumaltuously for the purpose, when the oficers of the watch came to the rescne. The wrath of the eailors, however, was not appeased_till Mr. Macready told them who he was, and displayed his theatrical dresscs a8 & proof of his identify. —_——— A Black and White Boy Combination. From the Louisville Ledger. 3 A romarkablo boy was to be seen at the Nash- ville depo?, yesterday, in fact, ono of the great- est curiosities of theage: Heis half whito and half black, not in the mulatto and miecegenation sense, but the lower half of his body is whiter than white folks usually aro, while the upper portion is a8 black as midnight. His mother, n coal black negress, was with him, and they feft on the Nashville train at 7 o'clock last evening. He is but 3 years old, and has already learnod to make money out of his pecaliarities. Ho made several nickles seelotdnr in & vory fow minutes. There is 8 round patch, sbout throe inchea in di- smeter, of perfectly beautiful hair on the top of his head, which i8 surrounded by littls kinky negro wool. —_—— Scientific Doubts, Tho Williama College Videlte, with grea origi- nality and force of reasoning, discoursoth thus- 1y of the Deyil: ‘¢ That the Devil bath a long tail barbed at the extremity, arcustile horns, and emits fire, con- sisting of salphurous and favillous particles, from his mouth and nose, is averred by many ancient writers. Some there be now, and that, too, in considorable numbers, who declare the existence of caudal appendages, and the neces- sity thereof to the Evil One; which, neverthe- less, cannot presont itself to any but the most credulous. For that any irortal, without being -of manuer. 15 The Royal Palace is in the heart of tho ¢ity, and the Emperor resides m one wing of it and she in another, living entirely apart ex- copt when they meet on_Btate occasions. He lives a very loose life, and like the Kings of the olden times, has an abundance of royal femals favorites.. Corruption and lack of virtue is the redominaat érait of the court of the Empire. s, at lesst, ia the general conviction of the people, and judging from the fuct that there are annually born in the general hospital from 5,000 £0 6,000 illegitimate children, Vienna may fairly be 56t down as & city of very loose virtue in ail grades of life. They are quite &_different ciass of pcople from the staid and solid population of Frussis and Northern Germany, more resémbling the French and Italians in their habits and mcdes of 1ife and ways of living. fir. SchuftzSums Up the American De= Partment at Vienna. ‘W have been shown, nz: the New Shoe and ZLeather Journal, » lotter, dated May 30, just re~ cieved by & gentleman in the swamp, from Mr. Bchultz, i hich the latter in a fow words on of our part of the wor‘d'a 7T can sum up the Exposition in the Amer- ican Department in o very few words. The Sew= ing Machine Department, Agricaltnral Machine Department, and Machine Department proper are respectablo. - The main hall and General dustrial Department is a failure, and one that _ mortifies us very much. I feel confident that I could inone day collect articles in New York which would, it sdded to our present display, ‘make us appear respectable. But it is now t0o lateto attempt to get sny more goods from home, :nd we muat make the best display in our power. From, the Memphis Ledger, June19, A great deal has beon written, and still more | eaid, abont tho nses and abuses of the postak card system. In order to guard against one of | the abuses to which they might be put, Congress passed a law making it an indictable and punish- ablo offente for any person to write or send by. this means any obscene language. The first case that we have heard of under the Iaw cams up yesterday at Little Rock, befors zn United States Commissioner. The post-office clerks, in asgorting the mails, came scross a posts addressed to ‘ Mr. Alf. Halleman, Peabody Ho-- tel, Momphis, Tenn.,” which' card containedd communication most objectionable. The United Btates District Attorney had an ex-Alemphisd, pomed Michacl Quinn, arrested, and the Com* ‘missioner, efter examination, bound him over 0 answer an indictment in the sum of $500- Why Charles Reade Don’t Comc %0 America. 3 London Correspondence Loutavills Courier-Journah The average Blue-Grass farmer would stife in London. I waa talking to Chatles Reads, ¢ novelist, the other day, abont going ‘o Ametich and he said, “I dare not think of it.” o *¢ The denice you can't,” I said;** why not? % “Well,” said ho, *“in the first place I a0’ drink nor smoke, and I shonld not ges OB well with the natives. Next, Ihave a for high hrinl;, and you Americans have spially ol bk of good thnga o o 0 afraid T should cram mysel lea! What do you think of him for a blarsted Bt~ isher with & level head? gl MR AT : —At s place in Rhodammd;wwfifi‘: ‘ her offspring of 5 summers were_obsaIT other day industriously mglgedmu on i . 38 Im The boy was athirs: and_desirsd hia :f’x;awa mother exclaimed, "Loo‘l;d-nhf:l’ : T've paid for & clam dinner for you, vl W ain't sgoing to have you filling up with water-