Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 6, 1873, Page 10

10 FRONTIER-ROVINGS. Green Leaves Returning'--- Half-Breed Horses- -Equine Endurance, Big-Tlorn Leaps---Negro-Incarcera- tion-=-June-Weather-- -Goiting into a Diphthong. Badgers---An Indian Dish --- Beaver- Trapping---Laying in Whisky- Money- Ladies Wanted---Vordant Val- loys---Iixploring-Expe~ dition. Iyom Our Own Correspondent, Braven Cuexx, W, T., June 25, 1673, It sooms good to sos groon leavos onca moro. That they have been long enough coming, no onswill deny. Tire bunoh-grass is pulting on a wordant appearance, and apring-flowers look bright and ploasant on tho uplands, Blue, rod, gellow, and pink blossoms, as wild as the hills on which thoy grow, show that Naturo is trying its best to appenr beautiful undor the most ad- werso ciroumstancos. Along the rippling stroams Rho grass in springing up luxuriantly, and tho willow-bushes aro adorning themsclves with Reavos. Vogotation; like humanity, doos not do very well so’ high wup on the wmountains, and we sigh for ths bound- Uess prairics ond magnificont farms of the wldor-gottled Btatos, near tho Misaisaippi snd NMissouri Rivers, whoro there in no dsnger of wiarving, and such o thing as sourvy is nnknown. Tt soems slmost pitiful to think that, in this broad land, there should bo a placo whors it is Rmpossible to got ovon potatoos onongh to eat, 'aud all other vegotablen are entirely out of tho ‘question. Every man who is able OWNB A HORSE dn this country, as it 8 not conaiderod exaotly ‘ha thing to go about on foot. The brood of thorses in common use i8 by no means first-rato, Ahough somo of the horses are good saddlo-ani- Smals, Thoy aro mostly small and ecrawny, ovi- fently of Indian origin, and not particularly ¥ino-looking, Tho fronticr-men protend to like o Indian and California horses beat ; but Lhave discovered thoy alwaystrade such horses off whon Ypossible for those of pure Amorican atock. Amer- Kcan horses need moro feed and bottor care, and Wro as superior to half-breods or Caynse horses B8 Amorican men aro to Indians, The poor Undisn ponles sometimes suffer greatly from #hungor, but always appoar willing to do what fhoy can o serve their ownors. Indians are wroverbially TARD ON HORAES, wnd I onee saw & pony, which had helonged to wn Indion, on which an American was riding, wome upon tho dead body of an Iudian which ad been lylog on the ground for sovoral days. +At the sight of the body, tho pony appeared to #be scized with ungovornable rage, and jumpoed with all its might on it, striking it agaln and again with ol its fect, and endeavoring to tear 3t to pioces, While so doing, his eycs flashed fire, and ho fairly frothed at tho mouth with anger, Tho horsos of the Pacifio 8lope are hardy, «mall, and ocapable of grest endursnce. This «can bo said in their favor without fear of contra~ diction; but that thoy ars OFFTEN FEARFULLY HIBUSED A also truo, When I hear a mau toll how man; miles he has ridden a horss without haliing, aot him down a8 & brute, and a8 ono who oy, ut mot to bo intrusted with the care of so noble en animal. Ihaye evon known of mon who thought it fmnt feat to ride a horse until ho dropped doad from over-exortion, It may seem slmost incredibloe that there nro men who could o capablo of such shameloss cruolty; thoy not only Sld it, but thought they had done somo- hing vory smart. During the early days of Californin, somo of our frontier-men travoled s «distanca of ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY MILES in two dngr but thoy had a drove of looso Horses with thom, and, s soon Ae an animal whowod signa of fatiguo, the seddle waa shifted- %0 another one, and the droye moved on at a gallop oyor hill and dalo, Bk thoto wero times hen colerity of movement was absolutely noces— ;nry in order to accomplieh great objocts, The oraos used by mountalnoers aro easy under tho ;sddlo, and have a gait which is easy enough. Tost of theso riding-horses have beon woll traiged, sud go slong apparently with little of mo cxertion. A doy or two since, a flock of MOUNTAIN-SHEEP, mumbering some goven or eight, mads an inour- sion into ono of the mountain towna about day- roak, spd for a time held possession of t. Theso shoop—which tho mountainosrs call ii-humo—lm ungainly-looking thinga, covered ‘with long bLair instead of wool. 6y gon- «rally ronm about in the highest and moat in- ‘accesaible portions of the mountains, and it re- quires considerable ekidl fo kill them, Mark- ‘breit tells of following one to the edge of a Jprecipico, when, muoh to bia sstonishment, the ‘mountain-sheep pitched ovor, linding on his enge horns, and then want on about his ‘business as if nothing had bappenod. They are, £6 s goneral thing, considerably larger” than %amo shoep, and their flesh makes exoellout, food. An effort hna beon mado to domesticata them, but without much success, though thers do not seem to be'muuxi obstnoles in tho way of 0 doing, It is claimed that thoy ere the wild gnrogenl rd of the whole shoop-family; and it is mewhal romarkable that procisely the sawé Boimals are found in their wild etato in 16 slands of Sardinia and Corsics. Ono bsad of :the Bnako Indians is known as the Mounialn- ©hoop-Eatora; probably on account of this wnimal fornishing thom the food necesesry for their tenco, The fleah is as good 4 mut~ <o, it not botter. ¥ PUTTING A BIAX XN JAIL In a mountain-town amounts to but iiide. Bome ¥imo ngo, it bocawe neceesary to izcarcerate a megro, and, as thero was no_jailer, the negro ‘wad obliged to tako caro of himvelf. Ho kept tho jail cloan, had a good bed, and altogethor bad strnck tho bost thing Lo had seon in & long time. o carried the koy of the jail, went NP. darly to his menls, and “the county paid §4 a day for his board. At tao prgfiu timo, each ovening, ho locked himm up in the ail, sad lopt soundly untl mocuing, During the day-time, he went about doing odd oba for whoever would hire him, Bat this was good to last, Fverybody got tired of tho colored man, and he was dllchugod. As he gave buck the keyn to the Sheriff, he burst into toars romarking:” * Look a sore, boss! Ef you nnl mnoder man to put in jail, you'd better hunt me up. I'se always roady to doasqwn turn fur e, and, of you'll psy me well, I'll eoon make mnodor call." | Tho negro waa disconsolato at the idos of mguin facing tne world, nud unid, A man daé ‘:Tlnl‘!;,git along in do —— fail is gist no man at ' ‘The last that was seen of this scion of Afrlon, Jhe was atill bowailing tho fate that olosed the gnul-dooru upon him, and refused longer to atay this region, | Thorels a fino chance in the high %rounda for aperson to lay in a groat store of health, If tho mnnut&h-to‘m' are ladking In everythin, olue, thoy cortainly maka u[whin Halubrity. * Qoo houlth 1sthe ruls, ill-lealth the oxcoption, As thig is the ' LEAYY MONTI OF JUNE," I met, a fow days ago, some lines which seem fo convoy a good idon of ite poouliar boautios. Thoy are theue ; #@ivo me s month," sald the Summer Domanding of Natura u boon, 49Tt shall make purly Wintor forgolten, And be with all swst things in tuno, "Thio skisd must be bluo,—the pun golden,— Lovo must light tho White Ismp of the moon,” The Grost Mother smfled, aud stio kissed her, Aud the emils and the kiss were—Juno, 8o true ara theso lines that thoy should be troasurod up forover, and kopt bright atall timon. June gives a promise of summer; of gen'nl nights and ploasant daya. The chilly Winds have gono off to tholr hiding-pluces,whers it s to he hopod they will remain a long, long timo, Bummor has beon tardy enough coming, in sl consolonco, and, now that ltlfu hore, wo onght to bo alile to onjoy it. The big bluo-bot~ tlo tlies are hnmming shout in the duy-time, wad, Ry evening approacles, the mokquitoos, who havo beon slceplng all day, come ealling lazily about. Qolng down Beavor Oreok, & Rhort timo sinco, with tho dogs, to soo if wo could not got out a badgor, thero was an old guido along who waa Ioading the way, I was followingi him, and started out alono towards a thicket whoro I aup- odod tho badgor might bave burrowed. Boolng mn, ho Lastily callod out, * Don't go that way; you'll get into A HELL OF A DIPRTHORG! ™ * T returnod to my placo bohind him, and direct- 1y Lie turned round, and, aunhxq somothing liko a smilo on my faco, inquired, * What la s diph- thong anyhow Toxplained tho mattor to him aa woll as I was able, and ho appesred much P]unsud. *“Wo mouutalncors,” snid he,” enll a thick growth of busios n diphthong, I knew it wns not right, and dotermined, the flrst chanco I gufi to aak somsebody who know to oxplaln it to mo." In a fow minutos afterwards, wo saw A BADGER « running towards his burrow, and tho dogs wero msoon apon him. The thick costing of hair on the badgor shiolded him greatly, and the doga did not scem to got much ndvlnlnfio. Ho gavo the doga soveral foarful bitos with hia crusl lower ilnw, nud - they howlod with pain, All the timo @ kopt baoking as woll sa ho could towarda his ‘burrow, and finslly Eol himsolf all in except his head, and waa {hen able to loop all the do at bay. Ho. disappoared finally, and we then started for home. e dogs woro greatly disappointed, but he had mado so gallant s l-lfi:xe 1 was glad to seo him make his escapo. The Indians have 3 A BUPEDSTITION in regard to tho badger, which s singular, to nay the loast of It. oy bollavo, if & badger comos out of his hols with hia face towards sun, there will bo good woather and plonty of. chance to catch game; whoroas, if ho comes out slowly, with his beok furnad toward the sus, tha 'woather will soon bocoms gloomy, the sky over- onst, and thore will be no uccoss in thoir bunt for that day at least. Badgers are slecpy ani- mals, and, whon tired, readily roll thomselves up in & ball andgo to sleop, and it is almost im- posaible to wako them, A friond of mine bought one from the Bannack Indians, which bocamo a groat pot. We were traveling at tho timo, and DADGER, o4 he was oalled, used to bs put overy mornin, in a largefiron cage, whero ho would ride an 8leg) Afi y, in groat contont. At nl[ilhc ho ‘wonld play about like a groat, over-grown kitten, —full of lifo and vory happy. Ho know but fow tricks,but these did ‘yooman's servico, snd ho made himsolf as agreoablo and acceptable aa he could to everybody. He waa a funny foliow, and the faces he mado up at the dogs when thoy used to come after him were ludicrous enough. In the fall, ho made a burrw for himself under the houso, and was soon no moro of men, Indiana ara queer pooplo, and I was out with one of them on a soout once, who was a good deal of & charactor. While out, though wo had uno'nghw oat, the dosiro for novelty induced us to EAT ALMOST EVERYTHING, I found a large mud-turtle in tho river, killed it, had it cooked, and then invited the Indian to Join me at dinnor. Ho henitated somowhat, and thon oxpressod astonishmont at socing mo eat turtle’s eggs,—which, to toll the tiuth, aro very ood,—the turtle I had killed boing full of thom, Enwover, he kopt his thoughts protty woll to himeelf, and ate with some apposranco of ap- petite. Aftor wo had finished our meal, ho went off, and towards night returnod with a large turkey-buzzard, which le said he intended to ook and eat, aud, after it was ready, asked me to join him, ' This was a little too much forme, and I declined. He laughed in & :}nlut woy, and then threw the nasty mass as far as e could send it. With this foat endod our efforts 1n the cexporimental cooking line, The Comanchas will ander no circumstances cat wild turkeys, Theo Indisn horo reforred to had BEVERAT, JIOLES DURNT IN 1118 ATOY, ond, on lnqnmng what they' were for, he in- formod me that they wore intunded to furnieh light for him nftor he was dead; for, he eaid, thoso places would then be luminous, and ho would have no difffoulty in secing his, way amid 1he darkneas of tho grave, Tho country thrugh by the old Sweetwater route has been travelod for the last forty or fifty gen.ru, by hunters, trappers, and immigrants. jinco the com&lutfon of tho railrord most of the travel ncross tho Continent GOES THAT WAY, and the old Overland Stage-road ia falling rapld- 1y iuto disuse, Tho_stations are sll, or nonarly all, broken P and tho station-keopora havo ‘been obliged to seok somo other employmont. Latoly the capturo of . boavors has again revived, na tho fur of thoso animals is much ‘wought aftod for mnkh:i capes, cloaks, aud other articlos to be worn in cold woather. Tho streams in tho Rocky Mountains are fillod with them, ss, for many {nm past, it has not pald much monoy te trap hem. Tho Indisns psy but little attention to them, and scarcely doign to go out of thoir way for the purpose of trapping them. Thoy care moro for elk, sutelope, and DEER, 88 tho ekins of the Iattor are slways useful to thom, and can bo turned to account “in a thou- sand difforent ways. Itwould be difficult for tho Indians to get along at all wers it uot for the deer that are found all through the mountain- rogion. The flesh is tho principal meat eaton by the mountain-tribos, and, as everybod. knows, Is tho best in the world. I have noticed, howcvar‘,‘!tlhnl: v;nlmn—ml,c;u numx; at] fat, but aro o nk, wiry , W o or no surplus fal sbout mm‘:fl Recently ¥ mot a tail man, 6 fook and 4 inchea Ligh, who had evident- 1y boen BAIBED ON DEER-MEAT, and hed_that peculiar noisoless shufflo, whon walking, which belonga to huntors, He camo in with several hind-quarters of olk, and scemed to have had a pleasant sojourp in tho gamo-regions. His face was gount sod terned, and pmlzflwv— ered with » beard. Ho vas clothed in buckskin, which, from sge and us, waa protty well covered with Hia' joints were and fo':nr and he stooped considerably. o was simplo in kis s and testes, though fond of a good glass of whisky, © Last vm:;m he wai h{on sick, or was suffer~ ing from sowwo accident, and was obliged to send for & doctor. The dootor visited him, and onrod him up, and, soms time afterward, he came in to aaoortam tho amount of his bill. The doctor asked him how he waa off for funds, and he ro- licd ¢hat he had * only 1aid in money enough to §.,, provisions, and 11§ BEOULAB WHIBRY-MONEZY," Undor the circumstsnces, the doctor wae protty light on him, and tho {all and gangling mountainoer wont on his way ro!olclng. To lay ina supply of “whisky-money™ is cortainly a new Eh“e of social life, and this man doserves oredit for not wishing to drink ali winter long at tho expanse of bis frionds. Buch examples as these are by no moans flattoring to tomperance- Bocletios, TIEDS ARE HUT FEW LADIZS In this soction, and their absence Is much to bo deplored, It {n rough enough {o send & man off horo uuder the best of cironmstances; but, when there are but fow Iadies, and scarooly any uumarried ones, tho caso is bad indeed. Itisno wonder tho land in dreary and forlorn, and that men grow old promature { when separated from oll genial soclety, But if is the fate of somo to be thus thrown out, sud such peoplo may bo classed, in miners’ phrase, as ' out of lack.” Mr. Oharles Lever says, 'Phiere can be no por- footion anywhare, or in auything, it 18 evidant, where lsdios are not.” Any person who hsa lived in this section of tho country will readily agroo with him, and, at the same time, rogister 8 wish that this item toward perfection may bo spoodily supplied, There are plenty of Iadies a8t who would be vnl][msl to sojourn, for n short time at loast, smong the mountains; and, it they were onco here, somo of them might be indnoed to remain, NO PERMANENT G0OD onn bo done in any country where there aro no rogular families, aud no women of tho highor type. They bring eivilization aud coutentment with thom, and, whero they aro, mon are patla- fled to romain and work. But, without them, all succoss {s oa nothing, aa thoro is no molid foundation to auything, and no community can pro-ru ‘whioh is without good soclety. While standing on a knoll ovorlooking a grreen valloy which atrotolies off to the eastwurd, the BEAUTIFUL LINES OF LOXGIELLOW wore brought forolbly to mind : In tho grean and sllent valley, By the plocssut waler-courscy, Bpruad the meadows and ho grass-flalds ; Aud boyond them stands $he forest, Btand the grovea of slnging ploe-troes, Qreen {u Bumimer, white in Wintor, Evor sighing, over singing, And the pleasant water-couracs, You can trace them through tho vallvy, 1y tho rusing n the Hpriug-tiuo, B ik Vi o't B 8 Autum Dy tue black line n tho wmm'.“ No truer plcturo of wild sconory, with all ita grandour and silonce, was over writton. "o an old mountainaer, * Tho Bong of Hiawatha is o uover-failing well-spring of ollght aud plons: ure. It brings to mind and rocollostion old In. dian scenes and ndventures ; {mnplufl tho prosont with plotursaque objocts ; throws a glamour over wild forays ; and one can see the lodges of tho red-men near the rlllpllng streams, auld the budding bushes, with tho bluo smoke rolliug away lazily amid the groon branclios. AN EXPLORING EXPEDITION isab work in this section of country, finding new roads, asud meking now msps, Tho oxpedi- 1E CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, Y 6, 1873. tlon will move up on tho enat pido of the Wind River Mountains, and exElcm tho lands in thnt direotion, and may poussibly get & road througlh to Yollowstono Lnke. The intentlon s good, and, if progorl_v conductod aud oarried out, can- not fail to bo of groat beneflt Lo tho country. TR INDIANG invo baon in the vicinity of tho mlulnfi towns in the mountaina of Wyoming, and have dono con- sidorable mischiof, " Tho cavalry-soldiors aro ont after thom, and, if thoy can be found, thoy will cortainly bo pusiished. As yot they havo been romnckably successful in covering up their tracks, or, rathor, in loaving no tracks by which tho solalora could follow thom. Thoy travol out in the dry and barron ground, so that tho foot~ [\rlubfl of tho lorsea cannot bo discoverod, and hus mako thoir cseapo. But, if thoy continue in thoir ovil ways, thoy will bo caught somo day whon thoy lonst oxpect it, and thon thore will bo a foarful rockoning. 'Chus far, the savagos who attnoked tho train at the crossing of Twin Oreok havo not boon found, but are hm%nn 810y BOmo- whore in the mountains, whoro thoy:aro” donbt- Jous planning fresh outrages against tho whites. No ono enn eay with cortninty what tribe tho belong to, so it is not worth whilo as yot to c: &any namos. AYGEBDA. — A LOVER'S RUSE. ¥n N——, one of the larger. Fronch provincial cition, during the summer of 1871, a young Gor- man officer waa quartored in tho houso of & rish morchant, M, B— (g0 tho morchant waa call- od) was a Chanvinist of tho purest water. Ab tho beginning of the campaign he was sanguine in the boliof that, within four wocks, all Gor- mauy would be at the foot of the Emperor Napo- loon; and now, despito all tho rovorses tho Fronch arms bad mot with, from Woissenburg to Paris, he was thoroughly convincod that Gam- botts, with his nowly-created army, would soon drive the hated Gorman invadors to & man from the “snorod soll of Franco.” Until this ardently longed-for momont arrived, Uko tho prudont man that ho was, ho paid the tazon and contributions domanded of Lim by tha invadors promptly, and gavo vent to his hatred for les maudils Prussiens b; vfl.ll{hag Bismarok and the King of Prusaia in little family oir- olo, and by avoiding, as faras %ossllvlo, ub, D-——-, who was quartered in his houne, The Iadies of the house, his wifo and daugh- tor, wore good patriots ; but their patriotism did nof provend thelr findin Lieut. D— very amiablo and intorosting, and thelr allowing him to spond a considorable shre of his loi- guro hours in ftheir socloty. Mlademoisells Louison, tho daughter, was 18 yoars old, and vory prstty. Liout. D— was “five or six years oldor, was an accomplished man of socloty, snd thoroughly master of tho Fronch Isnguage. What was moro natural than that, despito na- Lional difforencos, the yo\mg unpfu should bo drawn toward ench other 6 mothor, who was vory kindly disposed toward the ol'ognnt Koung officor, favored his suit, and enoouraged or son-in-Inw, that would be, to formally ask Lonison's father for hor hand. But Papa B— do- clared that ho wonld sooner &eo his daughtor dend than tho wife of a Pruseian, gavo tho Liou- tenant a polite but decided refusal, and forbado bis wito and daughtor from holding any furthor interconrso with him, The ladlos wero requested to occupy ono wing of the house, and the mer- vanta roceivod strict orders to deny the Prussian gm:et all communication whatsoever with tho fortreas. About this time tho railrond accldonts in tho provinces occupiod by the Germans had bocomo 80 uumorous that they, as & means of self- protection, compolled somo prominent Ironch citizon ride on tho locomotive of oach train, in order to provent his_countrymen {from tearing up tho rails of the road, or othor- wise duln{; tsuch injury ms to endanger the snfoty of the train, bocauso now the lifo of ono of thalr follow-citlzons would bo_imporiled by an accident a8 woll a4 thoso of {heir onomies. The monns accomplished tho dosired ond ; .rail- road acoidents becamo raro. But theso compul- gory trips in mid-winter, on an open locomotivo, wero vory far from bolng ploasuro-trips ; and M, B— was not s littlo amazod when, within the short apaco of two weeks, it was his lot to mako tho journey in this mannor to and from 8— no lesa than five timos, His protestations ond romonstrances were of 1o avail ; tho ordor from tho Gorman hendquartors was thore, and had to be oloyod ; for contre la force il n'y a pas de resistance.” When M. B——"was notified for the sixth timo to hold himself in rondiness to malko the journey again to 8—, he cutered o complaint to the Maire, who ropliod, with a shrug : o 1gnm sorry, but I can do nathing for you. It ia cortainly vory strango that you should bo selected 8o much moro froquontly than othors to mako this unpleasant trip. Have you, porhaps aporsonal onemy at the Gorman headquarters ?" ‘I rocently rofused a German officor, who ask- ed tho haud of my daughtor,” said le, after a momont's roflestion, *asd denied him admission to my family circlo, ‘¢ Q'est ca 1" orled tho Mairo, Iaughing. *“That oxplains tho mystery. Tiwo or throo timos, whon you have beon away, Ihavoe seon Lient, D— onter your liouso. Ifo ovidently has sufiiciont influence at headquarters to onablo him to sond you on these accursod journeys whenever i de- sires to visit your danghtor,” & M, B-——'s indignation know no bounds, Ny dear friend,”" continuod the more philo- sophic Mairo, “I ‘would advise you to consont to your daughtor's marriage " rather than, in “this cold = weather, to oontract = pnoumonia by riding to and from B— on aa opon locomotive,” . B— throw himsolf into a obair, ana scom- ed for some minutos lost in rofloction. It was terriblo alternativo—oither to give his daughter to & maudit Prussien, or to endangor his own valuable life, !* How long, think yon," he asked the Maire, ¢ will it bo boforo the Army of tho Loira will dostroy the Germana hefore Paris, aud drive the last ono of thom acrosa the Rhine 7 “ The Army of tho Loiro,” replied the Mairs, + bias, according to nows reccived this morning, beon defoatod, loslng 10,000 prisonors.” ¢ Mensonge | imposaible I'* cried M, B—. But he coucluded that it would be wise, under sl tho circumstancoes, to follow tha sdvice of his friond tho Maire, Immedistely on his ro- turn from his sixth compulsory trlp to 8-——, ho fuva Lis consont to his danghter's betrothal with ho hated Prussian, snd from that time he re- coived no more ordors from tho Gorman head- uartors to rido on anopon locomotive,~— Trans- ted from ** Recollections of the Franco-German War," by Franz Eugen. —_— The First Amorican Flag. From the Trenton (N. J.) Gazetts. *Mies Harabi Bmith Stafford, of this oity, has now in her possession the first star-spangled banvor ever mado. Old, faded, and torn, it in still in s good state of proservation, differing {rom those at tho prosent day only in hayiug twelve instoad of thirtcen stars upon the blus fiold, thero boing but twelve confederato States 0 it was put together, 2 ab tho timo i It was made by tho ladies of the old Bwedlsh Churoh of Phundalfihi assisted by John Brown, E!(‘z Beoratary of the United States Marins Com* mitteo. Tho prosentation of the flag wos made to John Taul Jonos by Missos Mzry and Sarah Austin, the Iattor of whom afterward bocams the wife of Commodore Barry, Paul Jones hoisted it on tho Bon Hommo Rich- axd, and on tho 23d of Soptomber, 1779, the en- gagemont took rlm botween her and the Berapls and Countesa of Bcarborongh., Duriug the fight —ono of tho florcest over known—whon the Bon Homme Richard and Sorapis wore lashod to- §othor, the flag was out down by o British officor. amen B. Biafford (tho fathor of Miss Stafford) caught it up and nailod it to a mast, The officer mado a tremondous swoop with his eabro, cut- ting in two the loft shouldor of Stafford, follin him totho deck, This wound, owing to unakillf, troatmont, rcopened many years ufterward, cousing Licut, Stafford the most intense suf~ foring duriog the lattor part of Lis lifo. When tho on Homme Rich: wea sinking, the flag wad soized by one of tho sailors, and tuu-forrofi Dy Paul Joues to the American ship-of-war Alli- ance, whore it romalned until tho closo of the war, Tho vessel was then sold to Robort Mor- rin, tho financier, and tho Alllanco was refitted o4 8 morchantman for tho Last India trado, Thoe Hecrotary of the United Btates Marine Commit- toe wrote to Liout, Jamoa B, Stafford that tho Comnitteo, with the advice of Commodore John Burrdly. had docidod to prosont him with the flag, modicino-chost, and a ** towor musket” holong- ing to tho Alliauce, in conslderation of his brav~ ory in nailing up tho flag whon it bad been out down by a British oflicer, during tho action be- tween tho Bon Homme Richard and Borapis, Liout. Btafford kept tho relica by him until his death, some thirty odd yeara ago, and thoy aro now in the possosiion of his only daughtor, Mies Barah Stafford. The muskot al lm!ng to weighs ton and a half pounds, bas tho word *tower" ml-ngr;:ed thorecn, and the lottors G, R.—Goor- glun Rox, Dut, of courso, the mort valuablo rolle fa tho baunor, Misa Btaford has rocolvod many offera for its purchaso; Lut sho uniformly doolines thom all. But sko Is growing old, now, and says that aho is more disposod to listen to s propoil- tlou for gelling than heretofore, but no trilling sum will Induco hor to lat it pass from Lor handa, What more appropriato emblemn could ba dia- }\lnymlu the Contonnial Colobration than this irat bannor of our country, made upon tho spot, uonrly u century bofore? LUTHER AND THE TWO STUDENTS, DY ARTIHUR UELTH, Tho following sccount of an ovening spont with Tuther, by two poor studonts, is to o found in n work of Gustave Froyiag's, ono of tho most renowned writers of Gormany, who has mot only wrilten oxcollent mnovals, but has aso glvon to tho world n most valuable historical work callod ' Aus dom Jahrhundert dor Roformation.” In tho courso of his book ho gives an oxtract from & work that was loft in manusoript by s mnn of tho namo of Koasler, 1t is ontitlod Babbatha,” and tho M8, ia to bo found in the lbrary of Bt. Gall. - s John Kosaler was born at 8t, Gall of poor pa~ ronts, in tho yosr 1603. Ilo studled thoology at Baalo, and in tho spring of tho yoar 1522 .¢rav- olod with a companion to Wittenberg, In tho hope of being taught theology by eomo one of the great roformors. In tho autumm of 1523 ho returned to Bt, Gall, Tho Reformation was then but boginning to gain any hold upon the inhab- itants of that town.” Kosalor could not, thore- foro, at that timo, obtain - a livelihood as & toacher of tho reformed dooirines, In order to livo, it was nocessary that he shonld omploy bimsclf in some handiwork. Ho choso that of a saddler. Ho did not, howsvor, nogloct that work for which ho-folt ho had n calling ; and while ho still pursucd his irade, ho gathered sround him » small company of the faithful, taught them, preschod to them, wrote books, and finally boosme'a schioolmaster. Gustave Froytag eays that Kossler waa a man *t of pure, gentlo nature, making no Srolonulou of auy kiud, with » heart full of mild warmth, who fook no aclive part in tho theological con- trovoraios of his timoa.” As Keeslor's narrative hias intorosted me much, I conjeoture that it will Intorost othors : 'and 8s X am not aware of its haviog boen hitherto transiated into English, I vonturo now to do wo. ; As wo_traveled towards Wittonborg to study the Holy Soriptures, wo found ourselves at Jona, in Thuringia, God knows in what & fonr- ful storm we were caught, and aftor making maeny inquines in the town for an inn whare wo might rest for the nlsht, we could not find any ono, Everywhoro lodging waa denled to us, for it was tho ‘ovo bofors Ash-Wodnesday, and no ono had much care for ‘pflgflm and strangers. Bo we were going out of tho town again to con~ tinue our journey in the hopes of reaching some village whero they would take usin for tho night. ‘Then, under the gatoway, a rospeotable man met us, spokoins telendly manner to us, and asked whore we were going sway so fato 3 *(Oould wo not, somewhat nearer, find any houso or inn where we oould bo received boforo dark night ‘shonld como on ? Morcover,” he gaid, “the rosd in ono oasyto miss; therofore ho would counsol us to romain whera wo woro,” ‘Wo ancwored, * Doar father, we have beon at oll the inn that any one has told us of in this laco, but we have been sent away from all of yhom, and havo boen donied admittance, Thus, we aro obliged to procoed further,” . Then he asked us whother we had made an fnquiry_at tho inn with tho eign of tho Black Boar., We roplied, “Doar sir, wo have not met with any such ion, .Tell us whore wo shall find it.” oroupon ho pointed it out to us, a little way from the town. d &8 wocame and Eaw tho Black Bear, behold, though all the other innkeopors had rofuscd us sheltor, on the con- trary, the landlord of the Dlack Boar camo out and recolved us, duohrlnihhnnnlf quite willing to give us uhohor, and ho led us into the inn nrlor, K There we found a man sitting alone ot the table, and before him & book waslying. Ho greeted ua kindly, bado us como nearer, and soat oursclves noar to him at tho tablo, But our shoes wors, if wo may say 0, somuddy and filthy, that from shamo wo _did not liko to onter the room ; and wo seatod ourselves by the door on n littlo beneh. Then he invited us to drink, which o could nof refuso. Indeed, as we racognizod hia friondlinoss and kindliness, wo sat ourselves near him, aa ho had asked us to do, at his tablo. Then we called for a measure of wino, with which we in our turn asked him to honor ux by drinking it withus. Wo had no other idea but that ho was a troopor, who, according to the custom of the country, sat there with & red lonthor cap, ix hose and doublot, without srmor, his swor by his side, his right bhand upon the ommel of his sword, and the othor olding tho handle. Iis oyes woro biuck and deep sot, shining and sparkiing like stars, so that you could not woll look at them, Boon he began to ask us whore wo woro horn. Then ho gave Inmself tho answor. ‘‘You are Bwiss, From what part of Bwitzerland do yon gomo?” Wo answored, * From Bt. Gull.” Thon Lie gaid, “If you go from horo, as I undersiand you ara gotng, to Wittenborg, you will find thore fiood follow-countrymon_ of yours, namely, Dr. Tioronimus Sohurf, and hia brothor, Dr, Augua- tino.' Wo sald, “* Wo havoe lottora to thom," and then we asked him, “Qood sir, crn you inform us whother Martin Luthor is now at Wittauborg, or at what other placo 7" Ho answored, “X bave cortain knowlodgo that Luthor "is mnat now at Witten. lmrg' he will, howavor, soon como there. But Philip Molancthon Is thoro ; ho tenches tho Greok Jangunge, and there aro othors also who teach Hobrew. In truth [ would sdvise you to study both languagos, for thoy are necessary, in order to understand the Holy Scriptures.” Thon we answored, * God be praised! If God should eparo our livas, wo will not desist ti11 wo 860 and hoar tho mun ; for on his account it ia that we have undertaken this journoy. Ior we heard that he would overthrow tho priesthood and thomass as an unwarranted sorvice to God. Now we from our youth have bosn brought up by our olders to becoms Erlautu; therafore we would willingly hear what kind of jnstruction ho would give us, and how he would provehia prop~ ogitlon.” After this ho asked, * Whore hayo you hither- to studicd ?" (Answer) ' At Basel.” " ‘Then eaid Le, “How goos it at Bascl? Is Erasmms of TRotterdam etill hmself, and what is ho doing?" “gir," wo answered, * wa know nothing more but that ho is woll; Erasmus is thore, but what he is doling is hidden and not known to nnz xian, for he keops himself very quiet and sccrof.” ‘Talk of thia kind seomod to ns vory slnl:fio a8 coming from a troopor, that he should spenk about the two Bchurfs, of Philip Molanc- thon, and Erasmus, Also about tho nocessity of learning the Groek and Hebrew tonguos, Ho had also occaslonally uttered some Latin words, so that wo could not but think that ho muat bo » different porson {rom a common troopor. ** My frionds,” ie said to us, “ what do thoy hold in Bwitzerland sbout Luther " “ Good pir, there aro thers, as evorywhere, ‘various opluiona about him, Many cannot suf- ficlontly exalt him, and thank dod for God's truth made manifest through him, and that ho han caused errors to bo known. But many curso him as a protligate herotio, and especially the clorgy do s0," ‘Then Lo said: * X can well believe it ; those aro the parsons.” In the course of such conversation ho had bo- come quite familiar with us, so_that my com- anfon vontured Lo tako up the boak which waa fore him and open it. It was a Hebrew pesltor. Then he lnid it quickly down, and the trooper drew it to himself. My companion then sald, “I wonld give a finger from this hand to underatand that language,” The trooper an- swered, * You wonld #oon learn it if you would be dulgane ; I, too, desire to bavs moro knowlel go of it, sed I exerclso myself daily therein," Monnwhilo the d:g deolinod, and it became very dork, when the landlord came to tho toble, As ho had heard our desiro and long- ing to ses Martin Luther, he said, ‘' Dosr com- rades, had gnn beon here two days bofore your dosire would have beon gratifiod, for he sat st the tablo aud—here ha pointod with his finger— In that place.” This vexed us greatly, and we weroangry with ourselves that wa had tarriod ; but wawers ohilefly augry with tho miry and wrotched road which had “hindercd us, “Then wo said, #1ill wo aro glad that wo aro in tho houso and nit at the tablo where howat.,” Thoroupon the landlord could not help laughing, and he wont out to the door, Aftor a littlo while the landlord callod ma; I ‘muat como to him outsido the door, I waufright- onod, and thought to myself what I had dono that was impropor, or what innocont cause I had glvon for augor. * Thon the landlord anid to me, * Bocauso I Jmow that you Lavo o strong dosire to hoar and 800 Luthor: ho it is who sits besido you,” ‘Thoso words I took as a joke, and'sald, !'You Lsve plegsuro in turuing iuo luto ridioute, oud would eatiufy my dosiro Ly a countorfelt Lufhor.” His nnswor was, ““Ho it Is indvod; but taka m\ra and do nothing to show that you recoynize m," I agroed to this, but Icould not baliove that 1t was Luthor, I went back into tho room, sat ;fiqmll down agalu ot tho table, and longad to toll my compnuvion what the landlord had dis- olosod to me. At Inst, I turned to him, and whis- rorad socrotly, o landlond has told mo that he 4 thio Lutber,” But my companion also, iiko wyself, would not boliova it, and #aid, “ 1fo per- haps sald it is Hutton, and yon have misunder- atood him." And I, since the guiso and gontures of & troopar rewmindod mo more of Huiton than of Luther, a mank, lot mysolf ba porsundod tha tho Tondlord lind naid, Tt ' Trution. " for the first syllablo of both names sounds very much nlike.* What, thoroforo, I aftorwards mald, 1 eald na If I woro addressing Huldrich Von Hutton, the knight, Moanwhilo, thoro came In two traveling morcliants, who also wishod to stay for tho night st tho Innj and, after thoy hsd unclnnflod thomeolvos, and (nken off their Bpurs, one of thom Inid upon tho table by him an unbound book, Thereupon the troopor nsked ‘what kind of o book that was, Tho merchant answorod, !*It {s Dr, Luther's oxposition of some of thio Qospola and Lplatlos, just Iately printed and publishod ; luv‘:\ you not seon it ?v“ p’l‘lm troopor said, *It will coma to mo.” Then tho landlord eald, ** Now roat yourselyos ot tho table: wo must have our !Il{) or.” But wo boggoed tho Inndlord that ho woul dp have for- bearauco with us, and give us somothing sepa~ rato, Thon the landlord sald, { dear com- panons, sont gonrsalvas ak tho tablo with tho finntlomun. will deal with you very ronsong- Iy, When tho trooper hoard thin, ho said, £+ Tome horo, T will sco to tho pottlomont with tho landlord," During the mesl he spolia many plous friond), words, 80 that tho morchanty sud wo wurg satonishod at him, and paid more attontion to hia words than toall tho good things of tho supper. And, amidst these nnying. Lo bomoaned with a sigh how tho Lorda and Princos wero ssaombled at the Imperial Diot at Nuromborg on account of God's Word, to conalder thoso immi- nent affaira and tho burdons of tho German nation; but were to nothing moro inclined than to wasto the good time in costly tournnments, sladgings, courtly ’lmmp, and wickedness of all kinds, which would bo_mnch bottor dovoted to tho fear of God and Ohristian pm{ur to God. *¢But theso are our Christisn Princeal” Furthor- mora ho sald that he was in hopes that the Evangelical truth would bring forth moro fruit in our childron and descondants who were not. Ipalmmm by Papistical corror, but were al- rendy planted upon puro truth and God's word, than it could do with tho older onesin whom errora wero 8o inrootod that with difficulty they could bo n&)lmoml. Theroupon, the morchants alro gave thoir opinions, and the older ono said, “I am n slmplo, plata Isyman; I undorstan nothing espocially about this business; bat I ‘must ssy, now I look ot tho thing, Luther muat olther bo an angel from hoaven or a dovil from holl. I would wilh&uunum givo him ten gulden if I might confess him, for I boliove he could and would onlighten my conacicnce.” Just thon the landlord camo to us and whispered, ‘¢ Mar- tin has Jm(d for the suppor for you.” That gladdoned ua much, not on account of tho monoy and tho enjoymont, but bocauso this man had made us guost froo, Aftor the nn{mur the morchanis rose up and went into tho stablos to look after their horsos, Boanwhile Martin re- mained with us alone in tho ohamber, and wo thanked him for the honor he had done ns, and the cost bie had beon at for us, and wo eaid that wo had taken bim for Huldrich Von Hutton ; but ho roplied, “Iam not.” Tharougnn came in tho landlord, and Martin said, “I have becoms to-night a nobloman, for thoso Bwiss tako mo for Huldrich Vou Hut- Hutten!” The host said, “Yon are not that, but Martin Luther,” Then ho laughod so merrilyl ¢ They," ho said, * take mo for Hut- ten—you for Luthor, soon I ehall Lo Markolfus," [Markolfus was a comica! figure that dolightod tho common poople, a sort of German Punch.] Aftor talk of this kind, he lifted up a boor glags and suid, according to the custom of the country, Bwiau, drink to mo » friondly drink for n bleesing.” " And s I wns about to tako the glass from bim Lo changed it aud nsked for Inss with wine, saying, ‘“ Boer is not a homo Erink of yours ; you are unnccustomed fo it, drink the wine," Then he stood 1ip, threw his traoper's clonk on his shoulder, and took leave. As ho did so o offored us his lLand and snid, * When yon get to Wittonborg, grect for mo Dr. Mioronimus Bchurf.,” Wo said, “Wo will will- ingly do xo, but wo must give your narhe that he miy know who it is groots Lim." Ho roplied, “8ny nothing_more than ‘Ho who ir coming groots you.' Ilo will at once undersiaud the words.”” Then ho loft us to go to his chamber. Aftorwards tho morchants camo buck into tho room and called tho landlord (o bring them o drink, during which thoy bad much discourse obout the guesl, who indeod ho conld bo. ‘Whoroupon tho landlord let {hom know Lhat ho took him for Luther. Then the morchauts talkod ovor tho matter, and voxed thomsclves grently that they had spolen in 50 uneoemly n mannor before him. Aud they snid they woild fint up early in the morning bofore ho took his oparturo, and would bug him not to bo angry witls them, and not to tako it ill that thoy hnd not rocognized hig person. This they did, and thoy fownd him in the morning in tho atuble; but Martin aneworod thom, Linst night, at sup or, you sid that you would give ton gulden to aflier to confoss him. When you da confess bim, you will see and know whother I am Almtin Luthor,” TFurther ho did not allow himself to gu recognized ; but rose up and went to Witten- org. On the game day wa gct off for Naumburg, and wo camo to & villago (it s situaled on o hill, and I think the hill 18 called Orlamundo, and tie villago Nasshausen), and through it thore ran a flood, whick had broko forth by reason of the great faing, aud it hnd partly carried away o part of the bridgo, 6o that no ond could pass oyer it on Lorseback. We returned to the yillrge, and chancod to find the two merchants in the inn, who aldo, for Luthor’s sake, paid our reckoning, On tho noxt Snturduy, the day beforo tho first Sunday in Leut, wo paid a visit to Dr. Hicronis mus Sehurf, to delivor vur letter of recommen- dation. As wo wore called into the room, be- hold, wo find tho trooper Martin, just 18 ho waa at Jona, With him woro Philip Molancthon, Justus Jodochus, Jonss Nicholas, Armedorf, and Dr. Augustine Schurf, They woro telling Lim what had happened at Wittonborg during Lis absenco, Io gracts us, and laughs, points with bis finger, and vays, ‘*‘This is the Vhilip Melancthon of whom 1 spoke to you.” ; Thus ends this intoreoting narrative, The ro- mark of Gustave Froylag upon it is: *“In the truc-hearted roprosentation of Kosslor nothing is moro worthy of notico then tho serone peaca- fulnoss of tho strong man, who is riding through Thuringia under the bann of tho Fmpiro, with passionate care at his henrt in respect of the gront dangor which throatonod his teaching from the fanaticism of his own partissus,” T would vonture to add that nothing is moro romarkable in this trus-hearted unarrative thah tho oxcoeding Iinduess, aud oven politenoss, whioh the groat man showed to those poor stu- donts, ovon manifestod in such s little thing as providing for them their accustomed beverage, wino, whon thoy drank togother the cup of bon- ediction on parting for the ovening.—Applelon's Journal. . — e The Giant Intcllects at o Quecr Dine nor. Olivia's Fashington Corr;fpondcnet af the PMiadetvhia 8 88, Another anecdote” has unfortunatoly been loft out of Col, Forney's delightful book. Once upon a timo one of those giant intellocts of a past generation gavo a large dinnor party at ono of the fashionablo hotols at tho capital.” A pri- vato tablo had boon eet in one of the parlors, the hour of the foast had arrived, the gueats wero sssembled, tho dinnor was perfeot, but astonishe ment roigned ouprome, for tho host himacl! wes nowhere o be fonnd. Among the guosts might have beon soon the majostic forms of Cass and Bonton, Massachusotts was x:}muontml by the immortal Webstor, whilst the great "com- monwealth of Ponnsylvanin Lad - contrib- uted hor moot distinguished son in the orson of James Buchanan. Forrost waa rhern, enveloped in tho rosy rays of his dawn- ing famo, whilst the suthor of ** Anocdotos of Public Mon ™ might have been mistakon fora outhful Apollo, or some other equally faultless i\enhun god. £ vossel with crowded gails at sea without & eommaudor; balloon in tho upper stratum without Prof. Wise in tho'basket ; the olitical ring in Ponnuylvama without Bimon ameron, could only ropresent tho situation but James Buchanan, wilh his superb graco and inimitablo tact, managed the. social ship whilst it was in the midet of tho bronkors. * Gontlo- wen,” eald tho lordly Buchauan, “ we ./ore bid- den horo to partake of this fino dinnor. o wine is cool—all things aro roady. Itis truo tho host is absont, but that {8 no resson why 80 good a fonst should epoil. De soatod, friondal Lifo is briof] Let us onjoy ourselves!" Tho hours flew away on nimble wibgs; course aftor courso greaned upon tho tuble, The honosu winos of thoso Apician days bubbled, eparkled and disappeared, The air wos honvily ulmrgm‘ with the cleotrioity of genius, yet in tlie absenco of tho host all was soreno, At last the hour of doparture camo, It was 11 o'clock, Tho door openod, and there stood tho host, Angols and miniatora of grace dofond usl 1lis battorod hnt #nt fauntily on ono side of his handsomo hond, Ifiw sharp, whito tooth utill clung to tho frag- monts of a fast-disappearing oigar, "' Gontlo- mnn"' ho bogan, *I'vo been to Goorgetown, hio!" Hald " Mr, Buchanan to soma of the more youthful of the compauy: * Taka this man to his room; ho might my nnnmlluiyi; lio would rogrot,” and to tho koot Was led without opposition away, Noxt day, whou explanations woro duly sont forth, they wore received In tho Lindont spirlt, bocauro Mr, Buchanan had paved tho way for Lhem_the night bafore by enying to tho company : Our bost has beon unfortunuto. ‘o pume milsfortuna might lava ovortakun us, Wo havo boen spavod. . Lol us ho morciful to oursolvos end avoid Goorgotown,” In thovo daya tho duola wore fought in Dladensburg, but tho ““Jarks” woro cay, h,t!in Goorgotown, How fortunato for tho meu%n thono days that tho tel- oimph wad btill unborn, end the New York aud Philadolphin dalios woro uncrentod nothings, —_——— LITERARY NOTES., Micholet ia to finily, In Bwitzorland, this sum- mor, his * Ilistoire du Dix-nonviomo Biocle.” —Mr. Frothingnm's “Lifo of Thoodoro Parkor" is oxpeoted in tho fall. —Prof, Jamos Orton, of Vassar Collogo, hag n book in ‘pross on *'The_ Liboral Tiducation of Womon; the Demand and tho Mothod; Cwront Thoughly in America snd England.” —MIa. Bon, Perloy Pooro lina his ¢ Nominis- conces of Wnehington City and Inslde History of Politics™ in an advanced atage of proparation. ~—THurd & Houghton havo noarly roady a book from the pen of Mrs. Mary Clommor Amos, tho rropoud titla of which is “Outlinen of i[un, Women, and Things." —Nnst's !/ Piokwick,"” to whichi thoro Lias beon much looking forward, will bo issucd immedi- ately by tho Horpors, {n tholr Housohold Diok- ~Drof, Honry Morloy's *Flrst Bkotch ‘of En&llflh Litoraturo” has juat appeared in Eng- land. Tho work i 912 pmfu lnriongun 80 thinb skotch is a vory modost titlo, «Mr. Waltor Bagohot's now book, called “ Lombard Stroot, a Doscription of tho Monoy Markot,” is full of tho most intorosting fnonclal history. It gives an account of tho London panica and blundors in managomont of the Bank of England. —A. posthumons volumo of pootry, by Lamar- tino, hns just appoared, It contains some of bis enrly pioces, which ho in all probability thon’th unworthy to sos the light, —Tho letters of tho Countoes of Bunderland (noar 1680) havo recontly boon publishod. Thoy sro charmingly vivacious and pointed,- full of oraonal ang lgolmusl gonsip, nud throw impor- mt;{ ht on d° times of Ohnl-loa‘ ‘%&r —Miss Braddon's new novel angors and Pilgrims,* will appear in July. ' b —The Appletons hiave noarly rondy *The Go- nova Arbisration,” the offici report, including st s torl —A serlos of Japanosa storios, chisfly humor- oun, illustrated by Japsnoss artiss b Proy ration by Mr, Edward Greoy, suthorof “The Queen's Sailors,” eto., and is expootad to appear soon in London, —The London Atheneum says that a combina- tion of oight provincial nowspapers in that conn- try has Ijuut arrangod for the publication sim: tanoously of a talo by the author of * Lady Aud- loy's Bocret," ¥ —It Ia rumored that Prof. Roth, one of tho od- itors of tho Banscrit Dictionary published ot 8t, Potersburg, and for many yosrs Professor of Banserit at Tubingon, 18 to bo appoiuted to the chair of Banscrit and Comparativo Philology in the German University at Btrasburg, vacstod by Prof. Max Muller, —NMr, B, O, Hall haa written a temporance Fuem which will bo published in London under ho tltlo of “Tho fArial of Sir Jaspor.” Tho work will be illustrated by Mensrs. Poole, El- moro, Faod, Dobson, E. M. Ward, John Tonnlel, Gustave Doro, Georgo Oruikshank, and other woll-known artists, —Houghton's * Mnnoqm hs" has this now story of Bydney Bmith: ¥ He was good-natured snd tolorant ; but when Lord Molbourne, whom ho ""d&""““ to soe upon some business, in- torlarded his convorsation with much cursing and swoaring, ho rfinlotly romarked, ‘Lot us aa- sumo that overybody and overythingare damned, and proceed for the subject.’ — AlntnmnunE oxhiblt of the comparative populerity of Dickens’ works in this country is shown by the ssles. ¢ David .Copporfiold #lands ot the head of tho list, “ Christmns Btorios " second, “Pickwick Papors” third, and thon “ Nicholas Nickloby," * Olivor Twiat," and #*Domboy and Son.” ' “Tale of Two Citles " is at tho foot. —Nathan Sargent, of Washington, who was Commissionor of Cuatoms under Mr. Lincolu, andis & voteran politiolan, liaa in pross Lis +* Rominiscencos of Mon and Publio Evonts from the Commoncemont of Mr. Monroo's Adminis- tration to tho Closo of Mr, Fillmoro's » (1817~ 1858), It will bo econ that the Intest recollec~ tions of Ar. Sargont are twenty yoars old, —A writor in tho Farlnig)nrli{ Review for Juno ms up M. Fitzjames Stophen's theology in thinlittlo story : * Tho mastor of wo:kfinu in Lesox was once called in to aot a8 chaplain to o dyiug pauper. Tho poor soul faintly murmur- od somo hopes of heaven ; but this the master abruptly cut short, and warned him to turn Tiis thoughts towards Liell, *And thankful you :axxk,'l'x‘l to'bo,” suid hio, * that you have a holl togo 0. —An economjcal EnFlIsh woman has publish- od & boolk entitled ‘"How to Dress on £156 o Yoor." Tho chief obatncles to so doing, she 6nys, aro mon, who objoot to any but * pratty " drestos, and Hko to 800 women set off by decora- tivo arf, The ingenious suthor makos out Lor case, and roelly shows a good supply of drosses for £16 n yonr in London, —Tauir Erlcuu wero obtained for tho books and antographs of the late John R, Thompson, in Now York, Inst wook. Tho copy of Dayard Tay- lov'a Gootha's “ Faust,” with NS, dedioation and roface, brought 323 ; f)ruuantnfion copics from Tonnyson of his soveral longoer poems, 87 to 832 cnch ¢ tho autograph lettor of Waahington, 9100, —A. L. Daucroft & Co., Ban Trancisco, Jomino, by subscription, «Ala Callfornin; or, Sketchies of Lifo in tho Golden Btate,” by Col. Albert 8. Evans, suthor of “Our Bister Repub- lic,” which makes a large and intoresting octavo. —A now Bagster issuo is the “Blank-Paged Biblo,” which has tho peculiar foature that each lenf is printed on but ono sido, tho other sido bolnfi loft blank and ruled with delieate lines. Dy this arrangemont ooch page of the taxt has tul’:g it o pago of blank papor for manuseriph notog. —The first number of the now quarterly, of which rumor has been i the alr for some months, will bo issucd by the g,rojecto‘m. Blessrs. A, 8, Darnes & Co., in October. Tho materiala for thin initial isaue of the Inlernational Reviets are elready gathered, and include anm by Dr, Mo~ Coul and othor Toading scholara. A paper by Charles Francia Adams oa tho Genova Arbitra- tion is oxructod for o future number. The JLeview will stand to ita name, and its editor, the Rov. Dr. J. M. Leavitt, is now abroad, making arangomenta for foreign oontributions, —Tho Opinions raya tbat Manzoni has left hobind him a great number of mmuacri[:l somo of which rolsto to his alrendy published works. Among the most intoresting of thoae &ro the mnnnmrlplu of the *Cinquo Magglo™ and “Toni Ssori,” which ho pmon‘ied to his son Pietro a yoar ago, and wore loft by the lattor to his daughter after his death. Hia notos for tho ‘“Hiatory of the Frenoh Revolution,” which was full of mivute details, show that he spared no trouble to colloct matoriala when he had any fl‘oll work in hend. A portion only of this his. ory has boon comploted, for while he waa en-' gaged upon it the Italian revolution broko ont, and Manzoni thon concoived tho profocl of writ- ing a parallel botwoon the two revolutions. Of tho latter work tho introduoction only in complete. Manroni was very Sm{onhr about his style, and ho ofton passed whole days in secking & word or form of expression which wonld best render his meaning. "His collection of lsttors ia vory abundant and intoresting. He ocarre- sponded with many of tho most ominent men of his time, and ho kopt gopies of all his own lot- ters to which he attached any importance; the collection thua affords much’ valuable material for tho litorary and political history for the last fifty yeara, —Ono Bylvestor Frankiln Wilaon, who appenda to his signaturo a photographio stamp and the titlo of ‘*Chief of the American Desert in De- fonso of Free Speoch,” ote., olo., praposes to publish a work which is sure to scll £00,000 coplos, lio thinks, within four months, and hns issued o ciroular advortising Publisher wanted fmmodiately.” Ho observes furthar : ‘Iho follawing startling plctures are prosonted TO THIE AMERIOAN PEOPLE inthe contonts of tho herein-mentioned THRILLING AND STARTLING BOOK, REFOSMATION—or~REVOLUTIOR! REFORM—or—~REBELLION | REPUDIATION—or—BTARVATION! BREAD—~or—-BLOOD | LIBERTY—or—DEATIH | FREEDOM—or—TIE ORAVE! EMANCIPATION—or—DAMNATION | £ Which wilt the Amoricana bave 1t ?_gry Tho book is to bo all about Mr, Train aud the Oredit Mobilier and evorything else, and is to Do ** the most thrilling, startling, and extraordi- nary book of modorn t{mos." _—— Xlen and Cat. The story copled below, from the Bt, Albans Meassenger, comes from North Ioro, Vi.: ** A hon bolonging to Mrs, Mayo, of thia placo, lstcliod o brood of ohlokenu. oy took tho chickons away, but tho hen porsisted in vo- turning to hor nost. Bolow tho nest, in o gnvxlu honso, & cat produced o littor of kittons. Tie ent Jenving hor chargo o fow miuutes, biddy sot horself very composedly npon tho kittons, Puss roturning, s fight onsuocd, in which puss was victorious, Afraid of what might happon, purs romuined I ohargo (11 compotied by hun- ser to go nfter food, whorenpon biddy rosumed ho curoof the kittons, Iiss roturning, and Inving & vivid romembrance of whit sho sut- fered ut tho first encounter, conclnded to allaw biddy to rowain, This rho did GIL it was dis- covered (hut sho had smothored sowne of tho Littons, whon the lattor wero removed and given over to their rightful guardisy," UNCONSIDERED MURDERERS. Trom the Pall Mall Gazetle, Tho man who cuts his noighbor's thraat rana a good chanco of boing hanged ; the man who murdors him by scoondary causes s nolthor con- domned nor suspootod. Yet thero aro crowds of theso murdorers abrond, ngonts and effects of our bonated civilization ; and wo decorato somo of thom, honor othors, and pay ail, just ns wo pay tho undertakor for the coneiderate hurisl of our donrost. Tho ordinary architoct 14 one of theso murderors ; and wo question whothor we shall get rid of his Led broed until ono of them hind boon hangod pour encourager les autres. ‘Tho ordinary architoct builds a handsome-look- ing house, paying gront attention to the orns- montation of the iron-work, tho right curves of tho mouldinge, ‘and tho- genoral offect of tho facado. Tho stairs aro wido and what bo calls noble, tho drawing-rooms perfeotly proportion- od, and tho principsl bedrooms aro arranged with tasto and nccording to superior fdons, But tho draing go iuto a stagnunt cosspool, and tho woste-pipo of the cistorn loads diroct into tho dralna—that is to mny, tho archi- toot lwa bullt s houso which fs o nost for porenninl hus and diphthoris, and has thua constitutod himsolf tho prospootive mur- doror of any numbor of funocont lives, Damp througl all'the basemont, and imporfect ventile~ tion in tho slecping-rooms, aro extra flourishos of tho woapon emPona inhis trade, Pooplo take thoso fino artistio housos, and thoir friends congratulato thom on thoir good fortune in have ing such & firat-rate architect, and make all sorts of ndmiring commonts on tho porfoct taste with whioh their dwolling is arranged. But, somohow, all sorts of troubles and illnessos follow. Childs ron dio of scarlot-foyer, and oldor poople auffer from incurablo mmmlgfa and dyspopain; there are obacuro cascs of typhold fover springing no ono knows why or whence; and tho fino houso, with ita dofective ventilation, its polsoned water, and ita contaminated air, i slmply s doath-trap constmoto«irl'?mmlmuot at gront pains, abun- dantly rewardod by applausa. Tho English aro notorions for tho publis reo- tlon of the sanctity of home, ‘Iho houss of an Englishman is his castlo, a3 wo all woll know ; and gach houssholdor who poys his rent and taxes isking of his castlo, and oan dofy tho world from the vautage-point of his chimney staoks, Ho con harbor disense insido his walla, sad spread it broadoast ovor the faco of society st will. Bmall-poz, ecarlet fevar, cholera, what- over ho may have most desdly and most in- feotious, ho haa Uiborty to disponso, like convent alms, to all comers, It doos not signify of what calling ho may be, From a private gontleman mending infocted linon to & gonoral laundry to tho washorwomon of that laundry who huddle it into tho esmo tub with an innocont noigh- bor's, the charter todlssominate discaseis free to oll. Cow-keepers, with scarlot fover raging on thoir promisos, moasuro out tho child- ron's milk into cans that arc practi- cally coffins; drossmakors, with small-pox smong thoir outlying “bands,” sond homo disfiguromout or death neatly wrapped in tivsuo papor and stitchod on with tgo flowors and lacos of a court train; and many anather trade occa- sioually gorves' out disondo in_tho same parcol with its waros, bocauso of that law touching tho Englishman's castlo, and becauso {llnoss is con- sidorad a misfortuno only—is not possibly a crimo according to tho manner in which it is troatod. But we do not know why tho pooplo of whom wo havo boen spesking ‘should not bo called murderors. During tho iato outbroak of small-pox wo got to recognize in & purblind way tho law of duty concorning the transmission of disenso, so far as cabs and public veliclos aro coucorned, Boforo that law waa passed cabmen drove a thriving trade in unconsidered murder. Ono caso wos porsonally known to ua where a lady died of small-pox and tho cabman honestly confessed how sho got it—as his noxt fare, nut fivo miuutos after he had takon a smull-pox pa- tiont to the hospital. Hora o valuablo life was lost for 18 pence. Matornal murders are numberless. Women, tho light of whoso lifo Lins gono out with their dead child, nevertheless have killod the croaturo lhafi wero told by Nuturo fo protect, as offoc- tually, if less consciously, than if thoy had stranglod it with their own hands, Impropor food end too much of it—wo will not sponk of thoso poor mothers who give thoir children too littlo; that is gonorally o mattor of necossity, not choico—murder by circumstanco no sotion ; insuticiont clothing, beoause of tho vanity which must have thom fashionable and *nice;” lata hours, theatres, crowded balls, wino, and strong soups at an ngo whon thoy should bavo ~ only milk and farinacoous food ; sometimes the hardoning systom carried out with such Bpartan soyerity that the tondor lifo droops under it, nnd dios out liko a flower in tho forost; somotimes tho careful sys- tem oxnggarated ton pointthatsaps tho strongth and wenkens tho fibro like wax beforo the firo; sometimes education bogun 80 early and pushed 60 far that tho ovor-strained brain gives way, and the youtliful prodigy drones through life as o mature dunce, maybo an idiot, or maybo flashos out altogethor in brain fever. All thosc are tho mothods employed #o unconsciously, yot socrim- inally, by doling mothers, whero y to murdor thelr youug and make their own livos desolato. But who can intorfers ? Childron are born into tho world for the ploasuro of thoir paronts, not for tho gFood of socioty, nor for thoir own woll~ being, Fathers and mothers are absolute; and, {rnv dod thoro is no malice and no direct notion, hey aro ablo to Lill their children indirectly and by ignorance, without prevention or rebuko. If this is 60 of paronts, it is equally 80 of schoolmasters and schoolmistrassos, 'I'ne marvel in hers, not how many children dio, but how many escapo, Workhouses ave undor (assumed) competont supervision, 80 aro madhousos, 50 aro ax‘-'l;onlg but schioals, where the yonng recdiva ix lifo's pormanont imprees, axa lott out ns boyond the rango of inquiry altogether, savo in the quoer jumbio of inconsistent balf-truths wo call education; and the mastor and mistrcss may Lill tho ohlldren ntrusted to their caro with untroubled consciences, Dormitorics crowded from end to end and utterly nnventilated ; Egor food and & meagre supply of it for growing boya snd girls whoso vital energica are taxed at all pointd ; long hours of 8ad tho smallost posaiblo amount of time for freedom; rough play not efficiontly superintendod ; that kind of innidious foreshadowing of death called “doli- cacy of copstitution” utterly ignored and unpro- vidod for—theso, and more than thase, are S’fmfi 80 many actsa and means of murder which the world smiles st and sufforn to oxist unrestrained, and even £:n handsomely those who will thus make if thelr trade to destroy. All thoso things aro romediable, Wo want only common sonse to perceive and detarmination to discourage theso mothods of unoonsidored murders. When wo hava decided on thelr destruction we shall have fulfilled our on. Meanwhilo, Caleraft avengessocioty on the lesat guilty—measuring ex- tont of guilk by gravity of reaulta; and while tho man who kills only one individual by dircot means is punishod, he who slayn his tons and his twen- ties by indirect means goca soot fres, and is often only known as sn honor to his profesaion. A Flower Nexmon, Every yoar at B¢, Kathorino Oreo, In London, there i8 preachod a flower sermon by the Rov. Dr. Moynell Whittemore to the lads and lasscs of tho grest city who may choose to come and listen to ths unique disoourso. It is nineteen {em nince the first flowor sormon was proached y this clergyman, who origiuatod the heantiful caremony, and on each succoeding twelvemonth ho hies oftlolated anew, taking tho artistio huos and grateful fragranco of nature which sur- rounded him and his congrogation for his texts. ‘This place of meoting is in the thickest of tho city, whero the rush of business is tho maddost ; aud going into the cool ochuroh crowded with flnnfhluum in like smiting tho mountains with a magician's wand, and stopping from earth o fairy land, Tobe a participatorin this ploas- autost of all roligious fostivals a condition is at- tachod. Ench ono must bring an offering, not coslly or elaborate, but such a8 nature offora in abundance, the flowors from her flolds. Bome humble flolk buy s pouny buuch of- the flower- girls a¢ tho doors; many are propared with n protty nosegay artfully srnmgod: the old folka mix up thoir wallifowers and May-bloom with tho prayer-book iu thoir hands, and the youngor genoration contont thomsolves with some roscs or parclssus in thoir coats. Tho beadlo and tho churoh-wardons aro docorated, and on the pulpit {s ploced & nlurmlng nossgay for tho parson, Of courao all theso folks do not come from the Par- iuh of Bt. Katharino Oroe, AU London has by this time honrd of tho flowoer sormon, and_overy dlstriet sends a flowor offering to Dr. Whitte- moro, Tho charity girls, with clean gowns und whito caps, ornamentod with flowors, stand up, followod by the blue-coatod hoys with sprigs of goranium and lhos of the valloy, and tho har- wmony of sound unitea with the harmony of colors ag somo of the melodious old hymns oro sung, This yoar tho Doctor proached from the appropriato ‘toxt, “Instond ‘of the briar shall come up tho myrtle tree,” snd f‘“n ploanant lon- sous througloul his disvourse in moral botany and arhoricultaro, In his laat discourse ho mentioned that ninetoen yoars ago a littlo ehild gave him his first {lulplt uunogn{, and she had continuad hor proty gift over sino, though sho lind beon for soma tine & yuung lady. Flowor aro uatural missionarios, and tho Doctor hng Lieon shrowdly laying nature under coutribution to bulp bim in his work duriug all thoso yoars,