Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 13, 1873, Page 10

10 THI CHICAGO. DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 13, 1873, > finest oditlona of evorything in_ tho ltorature of all tho world, which a rofined tasto and oul- tivatod Intolloct could dosiro. usted dirootly on tho banks of tho Avon, 1 tho most porfoot specimen of the beautiful in land- ecapo gardoning, as Warwlck is of Lhe grand ; and ench, in all its dotalls, I8 as porfoct us a maator-artist, with unlimited wenlth ot command and conturios of timo to sid ¢an produce. 1 was amused by an illustration of ENOLISH X0OTIBX a8 I passed along tho park with the intelligent and courteous gardonor. We_came to a small speclmon of tho big troo of Callfornis, oarly dis- ENGLAND. A June Landscape---Liverpool ---Prevnlence of Drunk- eaness, Enowsley and FEaton Hallg-—-War-~ ; i J, olassfiod, od namod by American not: wick Castle---Stareleigh rallsts’ as ~tho ' Washinglonia - Rgantion: Abbey. . #\What ta that & aatd T o (b gerdonor. , 1t 3 oy 1 tho thliuglm»fu gigantics,” said ho, sir,"” I roplied ; "thngmm grows in my conn~ try. Iliave scon thom thoro many times as old ad your oldost castle-walls. 1t s tho Washing- tonfa gigantion,” TFrom Lesmington we drovo on Bunday to Eifi-mnrd, and attonded service in the church whare Cedars of Lebanon-=-Kenilworth---An Illustration of English Egotism. BITARSFEANE was buried, Aftor sorvice we strollod along the groen banks of tho Avon; visited the houso whoro Shakspoaro was ‘born; plucked a loaf from the young mulborry whioch grows whoro the Bhakspears mulberry stood; gathered pan- sios and forget-mo-nots from hie gardon; looked over tho relica; and thonce wont fo tho_ootiago whero Aun Hatliaway lived,—still a lovoly placo, —and back by Charlcote Hall. I supposs mora people visit Stratford, as pllgrims to the birth. Pplace of the grea$ poet, than the birth-place of Anx othor man who has ever lived. t Litchfleld Is an extromoly baautital cathe- dral, of the florid Gothic style, Hero was born tho great Toglish moralist, JONNAON: but, although there in n fino marble monument to his Touiory, our sprigltly waiting-mold at the hotol could not direct ns whers fo find it and had never heard of the man, and I could not purchase n copy of any of his works in thotown. Our first Bunday in London was spent in at~ tonding service at WESTMINETER ABDEY It was called ZHospital Sunday, bocause, every- whore throughout Loudon, ssrmons were Shakspeare-~Dr. Johnson--Westminstor Abley---Tuxury of the Rich and Whretchedness of the Poor, Special Correspondence of The Chieago Tridune, Loxpow, June 23, 1873, ‘Thore aro fow things in tho world more boau~ titul and dolightful than sn ENGLISI LANDSCAPE IN JUNB. Tho graes, so thick and luxuriant, of the deop- est greon; the doisica and buttor-cups, with which the carpot of greon is overywhore vario- ‘gatod ; tho brilliant colors of the libwrnum and rhododondrom, . growing ovorywhero in tho groatost profusion ; tho bawthorn, in full bloom, porfuming tho air; tho old ivy, covering overy wal), and hiding evory deformity ; and thon tho pastoral foaturos of fino sheep and oattlo,— mako & landseape of quiot beauty and repose of i . | preached and colloctions takon up in aid of Los- exzofing lovelinonn. itala for tho poos, ‘Tho speaker at Wostminster L] bboy atatod that one-half the people of Lon- LIVERPOOL don attended the hospitals, or roceived ald from tho froe disponasries| Ho mcarcoly soomod to approciate the mstounding fact. But it is tho a0t that strikes the obsorvor everywhore., Tho division betwoen claeses hore is very wide. The xich aro very rich, and tha poor are vory wretch~ od. Tho nobility live in a duqreu of luxury and- afifuence e;\ualing that of the Roman Sonators in the days of the deoline of the Roman Empire. Their ‘cbariticn sare prinoely and magnificent 3 but what shall bo done with tho miliions of Imnpon,'wmtchua, almost hopolosa 2 This is ho groat problom which English stateamen muat meet and solve. u ‘Wo never tire of Westminater Abbsey., Wo visit {t again and sgain, and find it always full of 1n- torost. Hore are tho tombs of England's great mon, her great Kings, and Queens, and poets, wnd hoross. England’s history In “written on its on the 1st day of June, and found a clty very plainly and substsutially built, but with little oleganco. Tho hotels do not compare in etyle or magnificonco with those of tho chiof cilies of the United Btoton; our new hotols in Chicago—tho Paclfic, Bher- man, Tromont, and Palmer Iouscs—are very much finer, Tho wator ia poor, and this is the caso in many places in England, We nevor ap- precistod bofore the inestimable blessing of tho eupply of puro, living, abundant water we hiave in Chicago. No ocity in tho world is 80 blessed. At Liverpool and elsowhere, I Lave beon shooked at THE DRUNRENNESS 3 g blo provailing, and among women. Ove soes much | Walla ; and, with all her faults, {t Isa no Wioro of i thaa i o Usitod Btatos, A Liver- | focord: snd s hstory of whil uey paople mighy pool, I saw, at evoning, many women lying on | men, and g%ltm.hmtur Abboy is thoir magnifi- tho ateps of Bt. Georgo's Hall, dead drunk. On | cent'tomb. LN A saes in the cities of England an extreme of poverty and wrotchodness never witnessod in tho Unitod Btatos. ENOWSLEY WALL, Tho anciint sont of tho Earl of Derby Is Knoweloy Hall, Owing toan accident, I failod to find the proper porson to givo me an order of ad-~ mission. Not willing to be disappointed, I drove to the lodge-gate, and, by the aid of an English ehilling, my card, and porhaps some impudencs, ~was admitted, and drove to tho Hall. I sentmy card to Admiral Hornsboy, who had ohargo of tho placoe, and was troated with tho grontest courtesy. Ilero wo eaw for tho firat timo an English patk, —an inclosure of fiftoon miles, surrounded by & Ligh, old, ivy-covered wall; and, within, thoso venorablo oaks, beochos, olms, for which Eng- 1and is 8o distinguishoed ; well-kept lawns ; long vistas, where the deer reposed in-as much soou- ity a8 tho sheep on a New England hill-side. Trom Liverpool wo went to OUESTER, a quaint, old town, daling its origin away back to the days of the Roman invasion. Here we saw for tho first timo & cathedral,—very ancient and sombre, rich in carved stone and oak, and pic- turesque by its ivy-covered towers, EATON HALL. While staying st Chostor, wa drove out 0 Taton Hall, tho soat of tha Marquin of West- minstor, ono of tho most wealthy aoblemen of Englond. Tho Hall is imscens o size. It fronts tho River Doo, + Which tho approach is in o series of torr~w06, going down to tho bank. It hos o mpsutficont avenue of majestio ayac- morea vim8, and onks, mingled. The gardens pra vory oxtensive, with long ranges of gloes, with overy flower and fruit, native and ex- otic, in tho groatest perfection and profusion. Fruit in every stage, from bloom to ripe perfec~ tion, hung upon tho troes and vines; grapes of evory varioty, peaches, figs, pino-applos, apricots, plums, cherries, melons,—overything, all forcod, and all in the most lavish abundance, to supply + 1ho tablo of the Marquis overy day of the year, "fhe liburnuin is perbaps the most beantifal tlowering troe or shrub In England, and its mass of golden flowors, against a background of dark old ivy, 18 boautiful beyond description. At Eoton Hall, we saw for the first time fine speci- ens of that most picturosque and venerable of all oyorgreeus, the cedar of Lobanon. e bared our hends in reveronce to this old Bible trae, as wo wauld in gormoe old cathedral, At Chester is an ‘* OLD OURIOBITY BHOP,"” wliore you can purchase everything old,—old china, old arws, old relics, old farniture,—every= thing'old. On nsking for Eve's’ spinning-whool and Adam’s spade, I waa told, “ It you will eall to-morrow, thoy shall be producod ;¥ and I have 10 doubt they would hava beon. WARWIOK OASTLE, Tho most intorauting placo we have yat seen ia* thi old castle of the King-Maker.” It comes fully up to, and I think surpassos, one's ideal. Of courae, a placo about which #o muoh haa boon. MR. LINCOLN. A Reminisconce of Him, A correspondent of tho Boston Zraveler writes s follows of tho lato Presidont : 1 assort that Mr. Lincoln was a fair roprosen= tativo of his soction, as much so as Mr. Douglas or Mr. Benton, We never hoar Mr. Donglas— another unsuccessful Presidential candidatc— doprocated. And yet, if tho intolloctual con~ tost botwoon Douglas and Lincoln did not prove tho suporiority of the latter, tho Ropublican party at the Wost was sbrangoly infatu- ated, andiseo tothis day. Thoro wore fow mon in tho Henato who cared to break a lanco with tho “littlo glant.,” Onthe stump ho was in is element. An obacure country lawyer attacke the chemplon of Demooracy and litor- ally shreds squatter sovereigaty into pulp. This was tho jssuo boforo the country, With all his personal popularity—and you have only to rocall Mr. Wabster's hold on the people of 1ngsachu- eoita to find a parallel—Douglas was nosr losing his election, Mr. Lincoln's fame in this contest, accuma- Isilog as it rollod on, at loast roached us on the banks of the Missouri, Much to our surpries ho accopted an invitation to mako some spoeches in Kansas. On the day ho wae to arrive s gon- tleman sent in quost of him found him tranquilly poated on the bank of the Big Muddy, a carpot- bag in his hand, snd his own genial smilo on bis angular countonanco. Mr. Lincoln wore no gloves, and I bhave forgotton tho colorof his cont, but ho strotched out a big brawny hand, aud appoared, aa ho_maid, right glad to ece ua, Thore was no formality. “Somo of our party had endured imprlsonment and privation in the cause of Froe Kansas, and Mr. Lincoln greeted thom with especisl frioudliness. It was ar- xongod that he should speak at the principal hail in L, the noxt afternoon. We had atill smong’ ue tho old leaven of the Bordor-Ruffian Domocracy. = Thia elemont was in an insignificant minority in the Btate, but ina majority in L. by amalgamation with its old onemies, the Douglas mep. Thoy were Kou-. tuckians and Missourians, with a_fair sprinklin of hiottont blood in the Union, These mon ai Mr, Lincoln should 'not spoesk, and that thoy wonld prevent it. I will dothem the justice to soy that they wera viclous cuough to attempt to perform anything thoy threstenod. As the time for the moeting approsched our friends began to be fovorish, though not dis- ‘mayed. We had alrondy passed through many nimilar experionces, but always with misgiv- inga as to tho final result, I am not suro that Atr, Lincoln was informed of the storm gather- ing sround bim; but I think at & late hour she a6 offored the altornative of withdrawing from his engagement, and declined to do go. The hall was crowdad, both partlas appearing in force. Every man was armed, and thore wero many palo, resalute faces. In the whole resom- biy Mr. Lincoln appeared to be ths only person unconscious of auy unusual agitation, The pro- slavery gang posted themdelvas st the head of writton bas pictured itself in tho ‘mund, | the stairs in a body, thus taking possession of but, when ~ one passes along the.| the entranca, This theywera sllowed to do zpproach, out through the golid | without opposition, but eome of our ‘Ol Guard " watohod théir overy movement, Tho Chairmaw, in & few romarks, introduced {ho dlatinguishod guost, &nd then Mr. Lincola arose, Old Abo wans not graceful, and it was somo momonta bofore e had plaated his tall figure golidly on his foet. Tome the hush waa painful, but we could only walt; it was never ‘our gue to bogin an affray. Lincoln began to spoak with o power I have never hoard equaled oxcept by Mr, Wobator, though I bLave lstonod to many a more eloquent speaker. Ho did not doeclaim, nor geaticu- Inte much, but he made overy point tell, and olinched overy proposition. Ho was very quiat, hia volce raised but littlo above the tono of ordi- nary conversation, but thera was such an air of sincority, of kindnese, and such a downright charm in what e sald, that for my own part, I dealaro ta ou, 3z, Iiditor, T forgot all shout the expeoted outbreak, and thought Mr., Lincoln s handsome mnn—which you know ho was not. ‘What woro tho advorae faction about? At first thoy fldgoted a Little and exchangod glances. Now and then one would intarject an ingolent re- mark or donial of somo statomont mado by tho speaker, But Lincoln met thers attompts to Ty out thoir programme with suoh porfoct bonhommie and Relf-possession, that they gave up the gama and allowad him to procesd without further interruption. Mr. Lincoln was tho first man bafors whom these rufians had quatled, They had laughed at Groeloy, sueerod at Baward, and as for Burlingame, why, with ono of hia csrtrldge-box speechos, ho had 6ot tho whols awarm buzzing about our oars, and lad soen knives drawn, aye, and used, too, ai no great diatauge from his own apartinouts, From bogiuning to end I do not think I ever knew a moro quiot politioal meoting, The mob oloment became attentive, and were respactful, and at lnnffl: withdrew in an’ orderly mannor. I say nothing of Mr, Lincoln's magnotism over his friends, for that was quiokly establishod ; but to have succcsafully exerted it upon his enemlos was equally a source of sstonishmont to them and to us. Lot not the reader suppose thero was any fosr on their part ; they wera, a8 I have eaid, in the majority, anda desporato, Iawlosa gaug. 3 rock, aud, passing under itd hugo, Ivy-cavered gotoway, looks up to its old towers,—' Civsar' Tower' and old * Guy's Tower," and memory rund along back over tho conturlos these walls Lavo stood, and recalls tho history of the pust, und pooplad sgutn thig old struotura with Kaight nnd Noblo, Kby and Quoon, Crusader and Baron Tady and Princous,—the scons fully roalizes all Uiab poot 2u romanc hato over plcturad, More aro found two objocts which always in- npire roveranco, aud each of them in porfoction : AN OLD CASTLE, AND VERY OLD OEDARS OF LEN- NON, 1 wa askod, whilo gazing st thets, which Insplros tho most reverenco, the castle or the codaru ? I'be castle, massivo, grim, rudo, strong, but crumbling with sge, raised high towards heavon, upon whona battloments tho’ storma have boat for n_thousand ?nm. and rich in associations with Kings snd Ring-Makers ; and the codars of Lobauan, grand snd msjostie, planted by o Crusudor, by whoss sword-worn hand thoy wero brought fiom Palostine,—ragged and gnarled, but halo and vigorous, through whose branchos you catch indistinet glimpses of the sky,—and tho treos tosming wilh wssoclations which go ‘back to the duys of the Tairlarchs,—which is the grandest objoct? ‘Powards which do you bow lowent in revereace ? TAKING WARWICK ALTOGETIER, ity walls covored vith ivy, which, of all vinos, hoth by naural aspect and association, suggontd time and antiyuity; and its treos,—old, old oaks, gnarlod and twisted by storms; thom anclaut cedars of Lebanon; elms, tho oiroumforonce of whioh indicate o lifo excooding & thueand yenrs,~—all glve an impression of awiquity fgroator thau auy ofier placo T Lavo ol oo, The iuterlorof tho castle is in kooping ; oil and obeoleta armor, furniture of antlque old onlt carved into antique forms, old Yeritian " mirrors, 0ld tapestry,—all are in imaplnq'. Wo 1 clinbed the towers, lingored under the walls, lay down upon the grass under the old trees, and drank in the scene until the past rose up before uy, living and real, From hore wo drove to KENILWORTH ; and directly came trooping up Teolcester and Eliz- , Uboth, Amy Robesrt, Varuey, andall the ohar- 'S with every modorn comfort and elegance; a | park of fine old trecs; lawna ag greon and soft .. as tho utmoat oaro can produco; gardens and gresn-houses, furnishing the “most ox- quisite fruits and flowers in the greatest ' ebundance evere day of tha year; plotures and | BIBLIALY S Cani . o TV, Woods; - iulald cabe i &l aitern, neters which Soott Lias so vividly drawn, Tho TEARS. powor of Beott i greater thau history; and to : us Kenilworth lives &g he describoy It rather than s it reully w;u. d n’l;tnr:lin a;lutlrnnwvri the seat of Lord Leigh. Horo we found a home, The clouds avo yary bl But just bebind tlism Art thou woary, tender heart ? Be glad of pain, In sorrow sweeteat thinge will grow, As flowers ia rais, God watohes, and thion wit have sun When clouds thelr perfoat work Lava dons, "in true oa the blue, Thia Abboy, sit- | THE ASHANTEES. Some Fnets About an African Nation. Startling Contrasts of Barbarity and Civilization, From the New York World, Of all aavago nations the Ashantoos aro, por- hnps, tho most gorgeous and the most gro- tosquo, Tho couniry inhabiled by thom islit- orally strown with gold and precioua stonos, the glittor of which everywhoro, in various forms of barbario manufdoture, sorves to Loighton tho unbridled forooity and liconso by which the peo- plo, high snd low, aro characterized, Travelors who have succeoded in ponetrating to the homes and hoarths of this romarkable poople have boon astonislied ot tho singular combinatlons of bru- tality and oclvilization dieplayed by thom, The splondors of tho Indian Rajahs Is thelrs without the reficemont, snd to the cruolty of the former they &dd & finosgo that s poculiarly tholr own. Bo far a8 18 known, tho Kingdom of Ashantoo,which inoludon sovoral natlons scatterad along tho coast of New Quinen, South Africs, wag foundoed about tho ologo of the soventoonth contury, Undora sucoesslon of dospotio and tyrannical rulors, it has always kopt its foot down upon tho nolgh- boring tribes, from whom it exocta tribute. The habitablo portion of the country is in tho vieinity of the coast only. Inland, for s distance of ‘moro than 200 miles, it is coverod with a donse, Impenotrablo foreat, tensntod by olophants, lons, loopards, monkeys, and myrinds of parrots and othor birds, Hugo eorpents aro kuown to oxist in the malarions jungles and ewsmps of, this ughm' and thero are traditions among the inhabltants of gigantic and fearful beings ro- sombling men, from which it may be inferred that In tho nnknown recosses of thoso mystorions foreats tho gorills has his homo. Tho Fantecs, of Elmins, which i within a few milos of tho Britlsh military sottiemont of Cosat Castle, havo rofused to pay furthor tribute to the King of the Ashantoos, who has invaded thoir country with anarmy of 40,000 warriors, and at last accounts had driven thom up to the vory walls of the British fortross, It remains to be seon what part Great Britain will take intho mattor. Possibly thero may arlse out of it anothor picturoaquo and barbatic cam- aign liko that of tho Abyssinian war. Thoso shantees aro no despicablo foe to encounter. Thoir equipments and woapons are thoso of civilization, supplomentod by many of thoir own invention, and in tho use of all thoso_thoy aro rofiolont to n romsrkable degree, Like tho odoca and thoir lava-beds, thoy too havo their impenetrable fastnosses, and, taking evo: Lungi into conslderation, n war with thom could not- 1ail to bo a vory disastrous and hnrusin;ilnno, no mattor to what bonoflcial ‘result it might ul+ timatoly lond. ‘When Bowdlch wont on his famous mission to the Ashanteos in 1817 the pooplo were in much {ho sampo condition as, according to Iater travel- ers, thoy still are. On reaching Coomassie, tho capital, ho was rocetved with honors of the most turbulent and startling kind, Reposo is not an olemont of tho Ashantoo charaoter, 48 the Brit- ish envoy soon discovered. Ilis nntr{ into the city was under a sort of triumphal fetish, con- slsting of o shoep wrapped in rod eilk and sus- ponded botwoen two polus, - Oaboceers, or cap- iains, porformed pyrrhic dances round to the ditcordant sounds of horns, drums, rattles, and gong-gongs. As thoy danced about with wild, oxaggorated gestures, such a8 no comis daudor of any of our thentrey could possibly achiovo, they usod to bring thelr epoms Into vo! unrlolmnnt g\‘oxfmlt with tho features of thoir visitors. Bome of them carricd small iron chaing in their mouth, iron being looked upon here as. an emblom of courago and atrongth, Aa Bowdich ‘Pmcund«d on hiaway into the city ho was shocked by o spoctaclo of daily ocourronce jn Coomassio—a man uador- going the procoss of torturo provious to boing #acrificed in some fotish rito, His hands wero inioned bebind him.. Through his choek a nife was thrust, to which Jus lips wora dmggod up and looped in the form of a figuro 8. "One ear bad been out off aud was carried beforo him, whilo the other hung to his hoad by a strip of akin anly. 108 back was gushed all over, and & knifo waa driven up undor each shoulder-blade. Ho was lod with o cord passed through his nose by o man wearing an immenso cap made of shoggy ekins, and drume wore Loiaten before ‘Whon our {ravoler approached the spot where thoe Kivg awaited bis coming, mora than a hun- drod bands burst out at once with wild music that soemed to rond tho hoovy air into shruds. Jmmenso drums, each of them carried upon the hond of one man and boaten by two others, and smallor drums of various sizes, some of thom covered with leopard skins, Drass pans oro somotimes usod as_cymbals, ond, judsod, any- thing that could add to tho gonoral din and up- roar #ieomed to bo pressod into tho musical ger- vico of thoso hullabaleoing blacke—for black an ebony are those Achantees, and woolly and lus- trous withal, To add to_tho noise, a general discharge of musketry took placo, and it wag undor thoso plonsing circumstances that the travoler appronched tho presence of tho King, His ssblo msjosty was Dlack and fat ; fixla porson clad in coatly cloth and silk of nativo manufacture, encrusted with jewols and ornaments of barbaric gold, Ho was seated un- der o groat nmbrolls, Or canopy, ornamentod with gofinn offigios of various quadrupeds and Dirds. Among tho Ashantoes tho umbrellais sn institution, and it madoa very conspiouous fon- ture of the scend horo described, Most of those umbrallas were of large sizo, and some of thom were adornod with the stuffed slins of animals naturally posoed, for taxideimy is one of the ac- compllul{monlfl of theso splondid snvages, who donbtles Dossoss inhorent art, though it bo of tho howling kind, accompanied with the clangor of reeonant gong-gongs. A eervico of massive gliver plato, supposed to be of Portugueso man- ufacture, stood upon a stand near the King. The executioner, » black of gigantic staturo, stood near - by, ready to take imstructions from the mouth of majosty. He woro upon his broast a massivo ‘gold hatchet a8 the cmblom of his office, and before him was held by assistants tho excoution stool, clotted with blood and partly covered with fat. All tho ~whilo fotish men, or prissts, wore whirling round and round in wild mazos amid tho throng. Palm wine cireulsted in abundance, and o holphnu:{, not unminglod with foar lost it might suddenly Iapso into troachory, prevailed throughout, ‘Al the festival of yam, & colebration held whon tho yam oomes into somsom, tho King ordered brasy pans filled with rum to be placed at various oints of tho town, Round these crowds of the owor poople oousreqlntud, uu!mus and fighting ooch other for draughts of tho maddening liquor. As the rum bogan to assort its power over the drinkers, tho scono becamo one_that might well roalizo one's wildest idons of pandemonium, Boon all the town was drunk; men, women, and abildron reoling -hither and thithor and lying bont tho stroots; otbors, not wo far gons, in dulging in pyrrhic dancing, and loud, discordant songs, whilo the sounds of the horns, flutos, and ather {nstrumonts helped to make up a tumul such a8 F"h“’" no othor people could furnish, The funeral rites of the Ashantoos arc of a charactor to spread doubt and dismay smong the fashionable undertakers who manage 8uch things in civilized communitics. Rum, whioh is ono of the rogular importa of this people, ia largoly consumed on funeral occasions—a mat- ter 1 which, howover, the Ashantecs are nob absolutoly unsupported by the usages of far moro olvilized countries. ‘The superstitions of tho Ashanteos are very numerous, giving rieo to much of tho cruolty practiced by thom (n their religlous ritos. To mako an invinoible fotish it s usualto sacrifice elavos ovor large brass pans, into whiok their blood {s allowad to run. In common with many nnvnfio coples, our North American Indians included, the Ashantoos are groat mimios, possossing vondorful facility for imitating sounds, Ono of them listeniny o porson apoaking in & forolgn tongue, will ro- poat, word for word, wholo sentencos correctly. ‘What loas aseimilates them to savages in gon- eral is that thoy ara vory oloanly in their por- wons and houses. Really our Health Commis- sloners should mako an excursion to Ooomassi, thero to tako a leal (a palm leaf, perhaps) from tho sanitary ways of its inhabitants. ‘There aro no garbage-boxos in Coomasule, bocause there ia no necessity for thom. The rubbish and offal from, onoh” houso {s burnt ove: worning in the rear of the siroots, The housss, which aro made of bamboo, thateh with palm leaves, are somotimos | two storios high, Nearly all of them aro fitted with “modern oonveniencos" inside, dug to a groat depth into the ground, and the pipea of those are muronghl‘y Hlushed overy moruing with lmillnF wator. Pul an Ashantee-into a Now York tonemout-houso and ko would immediately execule & P hio dance to tho loud mocking shout of ' ¥hat barbarians!" Bhow Lim a gorbage-box aund he would propare a fetish to neutralizo its noxious oxhalations. Bavagery and civilization sometimen touoh ends, Valllqu (] * Hurew, " mhisn Jgg lis Lorror at nooing déad bodies Intorred within tho walls of tho ohurchos, and thoight thab now, indood, he had fallon among savages. 2 Titty yoars ago and moro the Ashantocs woro using looms oxaotly eimilar in conatruction to those used in Buroposn countrios and here. Tho cloths of varions toxturos and colora manufac- turod by thom on thoso in of romarkablo oxool- lonco, tho dyos used bolng espooially brilliant and durable. 1n poitory thoy grostly excel, somo of tholr dosigns and pattorns showing groat invantion and taste, Whoir goldomithe work Is loes artistio, bolng for tho most parb charaotorizod by massivoncss rather than doli- cavy. Gold is o plentifal throughout the coun- try that peoplo of all classos adorn thomeselves profusoly with it. .When a porson dios, how- over, allhis gold goes to tho King, who makosa rofit by it throngh exportation and otherwiso. 'ho forgas for fron-work are much like onr nwn‘i nnd hers blades tor weapons iniaid with gol aro manufactnred with much ekill, In carpén- tora’ work tho Ashanteos ara also proficlont, as woll a8 in_tho tanning, drossing, and manufac- turlug of loathor, Both soxes among tho Ashantoos aro finoly formed, with lithe limbs, and sapplo, graceful sction, Many of tho womon of tho uq‘par claggos 810 vory handeoma nnd attractive, thoir charms sob off ‘with rich eilkon and othor stuffs, and richly adorned aggry boads, hoavy gold oar-ringa and armlots, and praofous stoncs, ‘Choy Woar a sort of oushion pmieot&n , 88 & travolor aflirme, “from just bolow tho emsll of tho back Think of that, O dressmakera of Paris and Now York, and have tho aundacity to ssy that your “'paniera” aro original and of civilization bornl. 1t s among the Fantecs that this fl!);l,iun is cars rlod to tho greatost oxoces, There the ‘‘antiffoo, 28 1t ia called, in ofton of onormons bulk; bat, unliko the * panler” of our womon, it haa its peonliar significanco, for it donotea both the ranlk of the women woaring it aund the number of thoir childron. THE HUNGARIAN DEPARTMENT. Signs of Oriental Mannerss=National Costumes == Cabinot Worlk =« Plioto= grophic Axte-llnrdwares Vienna Correapondence af the New York Tribune, Going oastward from tho Austrian Depart- ‘mont in the Industdsl Palace, we pass under a gracoful archway of tri~colored flogs, and find ourselvos in Hungary; but tho transition ap- ponra to bo not morely from ono country to snother lytng by itd side, and forming with it o dual nationality, but rathor from one continent to another. Wo seom to bavo passed from Europo to Asis, Lonving asido tho arbi- trary . linos of goographors, Asin bogine sa wo go down tho Danubo fo the Austrian frontior. Tho raco that peoples the groat plaln of Hungary and its encircling moun- tains ia descended from ancostors that oamo out of tho hive of Central Asia in the pro-historle times, and brought with thom the spooch and customs of their Tartar kindred. Conturios of Europoan influenco have made of thom an intelligont, polite, and cuitured peoplo, and have smoothed their onco barbarous sposch with agroeable forms, and given it a grammar and » ltorature. But thero isetill o marked flavor of tho Esat in their mannors and charac- tor, and sbova all in their lovo of bright colors and striking decoration of dresa. The porsonal adornments aro as Orental in shspe and hue ss if thoy kad besn brought straight from tho tablo-lands of Tartary, whero tholr countorparts are no doubt to bo found at this dsy. While o groat part of tho Exhibition which Hungary makos is nocossarily of nrticles whose invention was originally European, and whoso uso camo in with tho wants of modem civilization, these articles aro so modified by changes In form and peculiarity of organization that they harmonizo porfeotly with the objocts whose originis obviously purely Oriental. In the arrangement of tho Y:MMB Hungary snd Rusaia_nro, 8o to 8poak, tho vestibules of tho East. In passing through their gollerics tho visitor finds s region whers Europo and Asia are, It would seom, in joint nccupanng, and whore the pecullar iraits of the two continents most, mingle, aud modify each othor. Boyond aro Turkoyand Egypt, Porsln and * far Cathay," The most strickingly cbaracterlstio thing In the Hungarian ;Dopartment {5, by all odds, tho display of national costumos. The sheop- okin conts," jsckets, and cloaks for men and women ear are wondors of ingenious work- manship. The wool is cleancd and carded until it is 08 soft as fur, and the pkin is made as white 18 a new kid glove, and iabonutifully ornamontod with ombrotdery of colored silk ‘thread, gold lace, and with little Jvhscul of loathor of differont bright shades sowod wpon tho skin in mosaics mg arabosques. ‘Tho profusion and gorgeous- his adornment, a8 well as tho form am- e % i tho oryamontation, are pirely Orion. £ o aamo kind of orpsmont sliowa itaelf in tho boots and shops, Soms of the former, mado for the nobles to wear on sialo occasions, are loaded with gold lnco and cord, and all of tho rest have more or loss of peouliar aud striking deco- ration, The volvet mantles, embroidered with eilver and gold, sre very rich and ourious, and the rugs made of mosaio of difforent furs are unique and tastoful. A noticonblo objeor at tho entrance of the ninth transept is o tall column of candlos and other stearin work, resting on a ‘base of glycerine soap, and cappod by a statuo of Flora, At the end of this transopéis agroup of wax figures of lifo-size, arranged to displa; the uniforms and arms of the Jungarian Land- webr—& mlmnrg orgapization under tho oxclu- sivo control of the Hungarisn Government, and not attached to the army of the Empire. Tho figuros stand upon an artifcial bill in lito-like attitudes~tho cavalrymen mounted, tho artil- lerymon by their guns and mitrailleuses, and the infatry are on the alert saif on pioket duty Waiting the enemy. The furniture makers cf Pesth show many haudeome specimena of cabinot-work and up- holatery, and their wood earving and inlaying fully equsl in sriistic merib those in the Aus- trian Department. A noyolty in this line is o largo table whose elegant'y-carved top ls covered with & plato of glass, o fhat its nse will not in- Juro the carving. Tho Hungarlsng Lave suc- ceedod in producing that unattainable thlni in ‘Amorica, a thoroughly confortabls loungo, whic supports- tho head and back, snd the body, lmgly or portially, 23 ons may wigh.- Tho form Is pretty and unique, and appoara to be of no rocont invention, for half-a-dozen makers ex- hibit the ssme thing, varying only in tho up- nolstery. The photograrhsexhibitodbythe Pesth artists aro remorkably fine, and 1 do “not think that thoir tableaux vivants of peasant groups will be equsled in the Exhibition. The artistio skill shown in the grouping snd in the exprossions, combined withthe excellont photo- -aphlo work, makes the pictures perfeot gems. 'he poagants do not appear to be posing for Yh" tures, 1n theirlove-makings, marriages, clus- torings, family dintiors, beor-houso gossip, quar-~ roly, holidsy “merry-makings, aud ont andin~ door wark, the artist scony to hayvo brought them unasrares within the range of Lis camora. Of course ho has not dona 0, snd this makes his work the more praissworthy. Next to those loturcs of peasant life, tho most witractive hing in a pictorial way is a Damonkrans, or col- lection of photographs of beautiful Hungarian women, I thinlf there aro about fifty in ali, and thore is mot s face mmong them that is not positively beautiful. If thay wore falth- fully pat. on osnvaa LS good artists, the fy. mous collsction in Hampdeu Coutt Palace of the sirend who captivated tho susceptible heart of Chierloa IT, might aa well bo turnod with their faces to the walls, and the collootion of Bavarian boauties made by young King Louls would do- gorve no botter by comparison, A bacholor friend who eaw these photographs wanted to atart for Hungary at onco. There is an aftrac- tive display of opsls 1 the rough rook, in cut and undot stonos, and in tho usual forma of ]n\velr{. Tho opal is found nowhero olso in such Perfection ne in ungary, and its tasteful setting and combination with ofuer stoues is a sposialt; of tho bost jowelors. Bosides the with lively orimeon lights flickering in ity Leart, and rainbow oolors playing upon its sur- face, thero {s a rare Dblack stono with groon opalescent tints, which I8 called the roon opal, and which Jooks not uulike those Erazllllu beetlos that were usod for jowelry & fow yoars ago, There is aleo another etouo, lows lustrous, of similar appearance, which they called :(mmmucr (mothnr-or-ap-?, and which, it is eald, will produco the opal, if left long clmnu h‘in the ourth—n pretly utory, but fabu- ons, 1 foar, 0f tlse produots of tho moro subatantlal indus- trios, Hungary makes an_Intoresting show, though of limited oxtont, THor cloths are good, but most of hor wool gacs to Morsvia lo Lo manufactured, Bheoxhibits hernoss nud saddlos of poculiar Eastorn devicos, highly oruamented with Drass and colored leathier’; ay woll aa copper-ware, outlory, iron In meuy forms, Lhompon ocordags, porcelaln, and’ potlery fo unique and lssteful ehapos, and sn Interoating “colloction of articloy of droms, liousehiold use, farm tools, &o., mado by the com- mon people in their own hiomes, and gatherod from different parts of the kingdom by Govorn- ment sgents, Four salt-mining companies, whose mines arein the Carpathian Mountains, arly opal, of working and tho appearanco of tho sall ars 60on, and also A monument, 48 foot hlfih, mado of four blocke of rock ealt. Tho united annual production of thesominon ia 181,000 tone. A shaft of conl of oqunl hoight atands noar by, built up ot blooks soveral foot squaro, takon from n vein 75 foot in thickness; therae is n shaft of bricka of coal duat, o fuel muchusod ontho Danube stoam- ors and onlocomotives. It solls at about@4 » tonin Amorican ourrency. Among many noticenble objoats which I onn_baroly montion, is a model of Fiurn (tho only Hungsrisn uea{mrl), modols of war-sbips, collactions of schiool books and maps used In tho public achools, drawings mado by high-school pupils, a library of tho Hungarian cfnasics and of standard foroign works that have boen tranelatod into the Mngyar languago, s fow excollont ?nmd planos, and s case of entomolog- fenl ppocimons, containing as iis masterpicco 400 spooios of apiders. THE SIAMESE KING. ¥Xis IRecoption of the Eunglish Gove orness. A flood of light swooping throngh tho spacious Hall of Audionco displayed s throng of noble- men in waiting, None turnod a glance, or scom- ingly » thought, on us, and, my child being tired and hungry, I urged Capt. B—— to prescut us without delay. At onco wo mountod the marblo steps, and ontorod tho brilliant hall unannounced. Rongod'on the carpot woro many prostrate, muto, and motionless forms, over whose hoeads to stop waa a temptation as drolly natural as it waa dangorous. Hia Majesty splod us quickly, and advancod sbruptly, potulantly screaming, “Who? who? who?” Capt, B—— (who, by tho by, is & titled no- bleman of Biam) introduced mo as tho English govornoss, ongsged for the Royal family. Tho King shook hands with ns, and immodiately pro~ cooded to maroh up snd down in quick stop, puts ting one foot boforo tho other with mathemat- Ical procision, as if under drill, ‘¢ Forowarned, forearmod|” my friend whispored that I should prepare mysclf for a sharp orose-quidstioning as to my ago, my husband, children, and othor strictly personal concorns, Snddonly Iis Mnjes- ty, having cogitated sufficiontly in his pooulinr manner, with ono long final atride halted in front of us, and, pointing straight atme witl s forefingor. asked, ** How old shall you bo " Bearcoly able to suppress o smilo at a procoed- ing 8o abaurd, and with my sex's distaste for so sorfous a anostion, X demurely roplicd, * Ono hundrod and fifty-nino yoars old.” Had I made mysolf much youngor, ho might havo ridiculed or assalled mo; but now he stoad surprisod and embarrassed for a fow momonts, then rosumod his quoor march ; and at last, bo- ginning to porcoive the jost, coughed, h\:g\md, coughod again, and in o high, sharp koy, asked, “ In what year wora you borned 2" Instantly I struck’'s mental balanco, and an- Bwored, s gravely as Loould, In 1788." At this polnt tho exprossion of His Majeaty's face was indescribably comical. Capt, B——v slipped bebind » pillar to laugh ; but the King only coughed, with o significant’emphasia that startled me, and addressed s fow words to his prostrate courtiors, who smiled ot the carpet,— all_oxcopt the Primo Ministor, who turniod to look at me. But Hia Majosty was not to bo bafiled 80 ; ngain ho marched with vigor, and thon re- turned fo the attack with slan. *¢ How many yoars shall you bo married ?" * For sovoral years, your Majesty.” Ho fell into & brown study ; thon, laughing, rushed at me, and demanded friumphantly : “Ha! How many grandchildren: shall you now have? Ha, ha! " Howmany? How many? Ha, ha, ha 1" Of courss wo all Jaughed with him; but the goneral hilarity admittod of a varioty of con- structions. Then suddonly ho seized my hand, nnd dragged mo, nolons volons, my little Lonis Lold- ing fast by my skirt, through scveral sombro passoges, along which crouched duennas, shrivollea and grotesquo, and mnn{ youthful women, covering their faces, as if blinded b{ the splondor of the passing Majosty, At longt] ho stopped bofore ono of tho many-curtsinod To- cosgon, and, drawing aside the hangings, dis- losed lovaly, clitdiiko form, o stoopod and took her hand (she naively hiding hor face), and lacing it in mino, s8id, # Fhis is my wifo, tho ndy Talap, BShe dosiros to bo educated in Inglish, She isas rluning for hor talents as Tor hor beauty, snid” it 18 our {llunuum 0 mako hor a good English scholar. ou shall educate hor for me," Ireplied that the office would give me much ‘plossure ; for nothing could be more eloquontly winning than tho ‘moifost, timid bearing of thab tondor young creature in tho prosence of hor lord. gbo laughed low and plessantly as ho translatod my sympathotio words to Lor, and sosmod g0 entaptured With the gracionsness of hiis aot that I teok my leave of hor with a senti~ ‘ment ot profound nity. Ho led me back b{l the way wo had come ; snd now we met many children, who put my pationt boy to much childish torture for tho gratifica~ tion of tholr startlod curiosity, “I bave sixty-soven children,” eald His Majosty, when we had roturned to the Audi- enco Hall, *You sholl educato them, and ag many of my wives, likowise, ag may wish to loarn English, And I have much cortespond- enco in which you must assist mo, And, more- ever, I have much difficulty for reading and tranelating Fronch lottera; for Fronch ero fond of using gloomily decelving terms, You must undortako ; and you shall make all their murky sentences and gloomily docolying propositions cloar tomo. And, furthormore, 1 have by ovory mail foreign lottors whose Writing i8 not easily road by me. You shall copy on round hand, for my roadily perusal thoreof.”—A3frs, Leonowens' 1¢ English’ Governess at the Siamese Courl." —_—— The Natural Limit of llumaon Life, ‘What says Buffon ? **The man whosa life I8 not cut ubort by mccidont or diseaso, roaches evorywhoro tho ago of 90 or 100 years ;" and ho goos on to romark, which Is vorylmportant : W1t we consider that tho Buropoan, tho negro, the Oliinoso, tho Amorican, tho man highly civilized, the mavago, tho rich, tho poor, tho inhabe itants of 'tho city, aud ‘the dwellor in the country, so different one from snothor in evory other respect, agroe in this one point, and have the samo duration, the samo intorval of time to run through 'twixt tho eradle and the rave ; that the differonce of race, of climato, of 'ood, of comforts, makes no difforonce in the duration of life, . . it will at once Do scen that the duration of lifo deponds uelther upon baubits, nor customs, nor the quality of food; that nothing can_changa the fixed lawa which rogulate the number of our yoars.” 'ho fixod law which Buffon recognized was that in the animal aconomy, not in man only, the duration of life is rogulated by tho duration of growth, ‘‘Man,” lie ays, grome in hoight until ho is elxteon or olghleon, but his sizo is not fully dovoloped until lie'is thirty. Dogs attain their full length during tbeir first year, but it is only in the socond they roach tholr™ ful bulk, Man, which is fourteon yesrs in grawing, lives six or sovon times that period, that is to sny, tilt ninety or » hundrod ; whila the horse, of which tho growth is unm{flutod in four years, ives gix or sevon times thal period, thriis to any, from zwumi-nvo to thirty yoors.” {lenuunmugt e goncral acowracy of the prin- ciplo Iaid down by Buffon, his distinguished countryman, M. Flourous, Lias sought to give groalor procision to the law by sottling tho im- portant question, what is tho term or limit of rowth. The groat physiological problem had goun solved by Buffou's discovory that the dura- tion of life dopended on the duration of growth ; all that remnined was to ascortain of how many times the duration of growth the duration of life consisted. Tho ono thing which had escaped Buffon—namely, the one cortaln _gign of owth being com- I:luml—-M. Flourous claima to have found n tho union of the bones with thelr ol»lnhyseu. As long as the boues are not united to their opi- physos the animsl continues to grow; but ag #o0n aa such unjon talkes placo the animal coason togrow. Thia union takes place in man at 20, in the camel at 7, in the Lorso at 5, tho ox at 4, tho lion ot 4, aud tho dog at 3; and ho thon proceods to show hiow noarly accurate Buffon Fad beon whon ho snid that avary aimal Hivas noarly six or savon timoa tho poriod of ita growth —tha truth being that it livoa nbout five. Thus, msy, belog twonty yeara growing, lives five timen twonty—that is, l(w‘ynru. It I havo yot ono, and that & still highor au- thoiity to produce, Just ag thoso shects aro ut fnto the haudu of the printer, fortunntoly Peforo thioy wero composed thore appoarad i Frawr's Magazing an srtlolo *On Longoylty," from tito pon ot the most eminont_physiologint of the prosent day, Prof. Owen. From the o« 6y I oxtraot the following pasuage: "Tho conclusion of I'rof, Flourcns, that in the absonce of all causos of disease, and undor all conditions favorable to health und life, man might survive ag long afler the Emcrnntlva po- riod—ending, say at evonty in tho male—as he had lived to acquire iaturity and complotion of ossification—say thirty flumfl—-u« 1ot unphysio- logical, ~ Only, under the elroumstancos undor which the battle of life is fought, the possible torm of 100 years, inforred by Tlourens s by Buffon, in the raro excoption."—Avom Humait k&5 Loomgs GROTTO-DAY AND OYSTERS. A Ioliday Among the Urchins of London, Towa Madonna by Murillo Was Brought to Light. The urchins of London have two traditional .Lolidays, Guy Fawkes’ day and Grotto-Day. About the former, which ocourson iho 5th of November, mauy accounts lave boen written; about tho lattor T have soen none. I will thore- foro endeavor to supply tho doflolonoy. On tho 1st doy of August, no gooner does one walk out in tho momiug, in whatever direction, than ono's onrs sro ealuted with the cry, * Plonso to romember tho Grotto!” You turn T0 cornor, cross no square, alight from no cab, but somo unwashod walf s caporing at your hoels, clutching an oyator-sholl like a seallop in ‘his dirty ingers, and crying with whining volco, 4 Plaaso to romombar tho Grotto!” All boydom isin_couspiracy to wheodlo you out of your coppBrs. And Bo it goos on all through the day, bohind and bofore, on right hand and loft, tha pitoous cry for largesse, * Ploaso to remombor tho Grotto.” The grotto, it you turn to soo it, is no sholter in some umbrageous nook overhung by moss- clad rocke, but & rudo shrine of four and twenty oystor-shells, at which tho girlaslt and beg, while tho boys are irooplng aftor gonerous way- farors. Dut when night comes, the rudo hoap grows into likeness of some church or castle, Bomo gront mousion or Bwiss cottago, and, lightod by links or candlos within, they dot tho London stroots with a welrd sork of basuty. The oustom comes from vory romotoe timos, and tho Grotto-Day was observed in London agos boforo tho gunpowder plot was thought of. 8t. James, patron saint of Spain, founded bis prin- cipal sbrine at Compostills, which, during tho moiddle ages, becamo the frvorite resort of Eng- lsh pilgrims, Ass proof that tho pllgrimage had beon performed, each woary wandoror ro- sortod to tho adjacent soa-shore in pursuit of a acallop-sholl. This, worn in the oap, indicatod— not e is usually B\\pgo!m\ that the devotee had visited tho Holy Land, but that he had knelt bo- foro the ebring of the good 8t James of Com postilla. Now, in old times in London, oyaters came in, or wore supposed to be oatablo, on 8t. James' dsy, and thore oxiats a ouri- ous old adago in tho rural districts, that who- over oats oyaters on Bt. Jamos' day shall never waut monoy,” Bt. James' day occurs on the 23d of July, and, duo allowance being mado for tho eloyen days difforonca botweon tho old and now stylo of rockoning the year, tho 23d of July coinciden with the 1st of August, when oyaters now como in. Putting thoso facts together, ono cosily hoea how in_courso of tima it camo sbout that the_ holy scallop-shell of Bt. Jamos and tho shell of tho first oystor of thoe acason wero nsuociated, and how templos of oystor ghells camo to e built conjointly in Liouorof both saint and sonson. All over provincinl England oysters are mot fmmrnl)y oaton till September. With poople living in the country, as with us everywhere in tho United States, the old couplet sotties tho gastronomic law : In months which have no B, From oyuters keep afar, But, for _somo unexplained roason, tho Y.on- doner, disrogarding orthographical’ authority, choosos to commenco oyslor-oating in August. He i in orror, howoeyer, ' Oysters spawn 1 May and June on both sides of the Atlantio, aud dur- ing that important period thoir organization i changed for the good of their progony, and thoir flosh becomes unwholesome. For two months after us)lnwnlng timo tho flesh is unpale atablo, 80 that tho old notion is founded on cor- ract obsoryation, The oyator roproduces when it is throe yoars old. The number of its young is supposed to vary from 600,000 to 4,000,000 each oyater. Thsse, at first more mist, when two weoks old attain the sizé of mustard-seed, and when threo months old have gidwn-ic the sizo of peas, They continue growing for mors than two YOAis. In oyator culfira $nArrost ¢he deittiug opat 1y tho chief objeot, hence walls of stono and hurdles of brush, linos of posts, and bundles of faggota, ara resorted to, fi‘in oxhaustion of tho oystor-beds of England and Franco had bocome 80 groat a fow yonrs ago as toexcito genoral alarm. In tha lattor country the bods ~had boon 80 overdredged that thoro was mot & H-ying one from Bayonne along tho wholo Biscsy const, M, Costo, under Governmont authority, visited tho famous Lake Fusaro, whore, to_enjoy-oystor-eating and bathing, luxurions Italiaus for conturios built their villas, In the noighboring Luorine Luks, that princely oystormsu, Borgius Orata, innugu- ratod bivalve culture, and by means of mounds, faggots, and stonca catablishod a systom thab sooms almost incapablo of improvement, Fol- lowing this modo in Franco, tho old oyator-beds in the Day of Bt. Briong woro ronowed by laying down about 3,000,000 of mstura o{utem, sinking foggots, sud constructing parallol banks, In less than six months the old shells on the beds, the faggots, and tho stakos were covered with minute oystors. The same plan, with 1like succoss, has been puraued on tho Island of Reo, on Jorsoy, and in various_othor placos in Franco, Ireland, and England, 8o that tho quostion of probablo ex- haustion of the oyater beds of theso countries no longer presonts iteolf, Tho Commissionera appointed by tho British Parlinmont to_investis ate this subject show cloarly in their report fiat oystor raibiug ia within evory man's ability \rlx:; can command a portion of sbora on galt water, Amorican cultivation of oysters, though car- zlod on to somo extont, Lias nover boen forcod forward by necossity. To be sure, some of the Long Islend Sound bods have beon exhausted, but when it is romemborod thab thore is an aren of oyetor-boaring boda in Virginia alono of 1,688,000 ‘acres, containing ot least 800,000,000 bushols of molluses, aud that this is not ouos twontisth of what must bo tho total produce of all our 8tates bordoring on the Atlantioc and Qulf of Moxico, wo may as woll dismiss all Qoubts on tho subject of future oystor supply. Of the compaiative flayor of Europesn and American oysters thero will always probably bo adifference of opinion, Wo chargo the former with being iusipid, cn})pnry and 80 small that 1t takes eix to n mouthtul, whilo Englishmen ro- tort that to mako swny with alargo Amorican oystor is like ewallowing a baby. That the Eyugllnh “ native,” bred in tho quict waters and rich feudh:l%l qronndn of tho 'hames estunry, whore tho sholls becomo thin, translucent, and within of pearly iridescence, 18, despite what is tormod & coppory tasto, the vory princo of Divalves, no ono ‘who has once gob rid of hLis provincial palato will deny, To bs convincod of what oystor culture is ca- pablo of accomplishing, one needs but to visit tho grand old town of Roohello and soo the oyuter farms which aro the pride of its harbor. A small boat, doftly paddled by skilled hands, takos tho visitor out to largo massosof rook. Lenning over the taffrail, andgoanning thedepths Tighted up by a southorn sun, o slght not oasily doscribed nud never forgotten, moeta the oyo. There are hundreds of acres, along rock-steps aud crooked masonry, on Lurdies and tiles, ovor facines and faggots, around huge bosma and Jnot-covered piles, divided into parke and claires, covored wito myrinds of oysters of evory sbape and size, and furnishiug omploymont to more than 8,000 peoplo, Quaint Rob Burns—not the pool—once said ho envied two beings ouly in the world—a wild horso roaming oyer the pampas and an oyator on & rock in the ocenn ; ¢ tho ono hayin, no wish it could not gratify, the other no fear i could not dispol.” DBut to roturn to our grotto, About thirty yonrs ago, the childron of a poor widow, living on the survoy sido of London, raisod their aven- ing shirino of oystor-shells, aud, to make it moro atfiactive, placod sn old pioturs, which thoy hiad lu_xl{vol{ takon from™ homo, opposite tho link which illuminated thoir handiwork, When all was propared thoy issued forth, appoaling to ovory pasgor-by, ¢ Ploase to romomber tho Qrotto I A Jow, dealorin old plotures, journey- jug that way, caught sight of tho painting, ** Plonso to romombor the Crotto,” oried tho ohildren, I shan't qh‘o nuylhlnx o the grot- to auswored the an, “ but L'l givo you o shil- ling for tho pleture," Tho ohildren consulted to- gother, and in the end, wnmindful of thoir mother, sold the pnmnmg aud spout tho shilling, ‘T'ho poor women, working enrly and lato for dally broad, nevor missed the pictaro, and the boys kept tho socrot to thomsolves, In the meanwhilo the buyor bud the painting cleanged from its ~acoumulation of Alth, aud auepoollng it to ba of valus, set cautlously about asoertainivg what that value might bo, Aw i4 tho oustom with hie Heobrew doalors in Moumouth stroet In all sorts of old trinkets, eabiuots and artiolos of verlu, bie wont for noblomon and conuolsseurs to R R R i . Houno, snd porhaps the bost judge of art I Engfund. Suruck with tho morli of (e nork Lo {nquired tho price that wassot upon ik, ¥ Iva of groat valuo,' answoraed the doalor, “ and cost. mo a groat doal of monish I think 8 thousaud fiulucnu would not shiet mo clear of its damagsh,” 'lio Count, convinced that tho man had coma mxlnwmlliv‘lfiI tho pleturo, made no reply and uhorur loft tho shop, ‘Taking occnslon noxt day toseo Six Richard Mayno, Chiof of the Polico-Forco of Englaud, he montioned tho ciroumstance, and added that It Lo woro cortaln the plcture had Loon hnnuu!(l‘y- como bylho would '{adly pay tho price askod, Bir Tlichard bostirred himeolf in the mattor at once. By dint of ulfnlorlas and threats the deal- er was inducad fo tell tho storyof bis purchssa of tho painting, The poor woman waa at lenglh discovorod. - Bho doscribod the picture sho had lost, and, upon boing brought into » large gal- lery of Hn{m\ngn whore It had beon hung, in- stantly idontifiod it, The Count purchased and paid for tho ‘work, and the procoads of the salo voro dividod equally botweon the widow and the In that part of thoe national gallory at Trafal- gor_square, London, which contains Spanish works of act, the visitor will obsorve a Murillo's Madonna, remorkablo for purity of conception and brillisncy of coloring, It is a small paints ing, not moro than eighteen inchos by twelve, but' noticeable for tho full fgure snd jubllant countonancoe of the Virgin Mother as sho exhib. its tho Infant Josus to Elizabeth. It was purs chased st the ealo of tho Countess of Blessing- ton's offocts, in 1850, for sho eum of 5050 guinoss. 1t 1o tho etmo painting for which in 1840 tho Hobrow peddlor paid one ehilling. Of courso thera {8 Is no quostion of {ts suthonticity and no prosont moasnre of its valuo. But be- hind ite firt exhibition in tho oyster-shell grot= to—how it came inthe coursoof gonuuml from tho mansion of somo Oastilian nobleman to tho baro apartments of an English charwo- man, will probably never bo known.—N. 8. Dodge in the Qolden Age. TRYING AN EXPERIMENT, Following tho Advice of n Newspapex Xzragraphe-Tho Effect of Pouring Cold Water Down & Drunkon Man’e Spine. From the Utica Herald, Ho camo in with an intorrogation point in ona oye and a stick in ono hand. Ons oye was cov- ored with a handkorchiof andone srm in a sling, Hie bearing was that of a man with a settled purposo in view. , ¢ I want to seo," mays ho, ** the man that pute; {hings into this paper.” ; Wo intimsted that eoveral of us earned a frue= gal livelihood in that way, " Woll, I want to sco the man which ¢riba things out of other papers, Tho follow who writes mostly with ghears, you understand.” Wo oxplained to him that there were seasons when the most gifted among us, driven to {ronzy by the scaroity of, idess and ovents, and by tho olamorous demand of an insatisble pube lio, in momonts of emotional insanity plunged. tho glittoring shears into our exchanges, He went off calmly, but in a volco tremulous with suppressed fooling and indistinot through tho rocont loss of half-a-dozen or #o of his front teoth— * Just mo, I presumo o, I don't know much about this busincss, but I wantto seo a man,. the man that printed that littlo’piace about pour-, ing cold water down & drunkon man's spive of Lit back, and making him instantly sober, Xf you ploaso, I want to seo that man. I wouldlika. %o talk with bim."” & Thon Le Jeaned his stick againat our desk and moistened his sorvicoable Laud, aud resumed his hold on tho utick as though be was wolghing it. Aftor studying tho atick & minuto, he sdded, In & somowhnt louder tono : 5 “ Miatar, I camo here to gea that 'era man, I want to see bim bod.” Wo told bim that particular msn was not in. ©Juntso, I prosumo so. Thoy told-mo bo- foro I como that the man I wanted to zes come and §60 his ;miullnfi by an old mastor, Among those who rasponded”to this invitation wouldu’t be anywhora, I'll wait tor him, 1 live up north, and I'vo walked soven miles to con- vur_l:o‘ with that man, Igucss I'll sit down and wait.” % Heo sat down by the door and reflectivoly pound- ed the floor withi bis stick, but his feclinga would not allow him to keep till. ; I suppose nons of you didn’t ever pour much éold wasor down any dranken man's back ta mako him instantly eobor, porhaps.’” Nono of ue in the ofice had ever tried the ex- poriment, " *Just #o. I thonght juat aa like’ ns not you had not. Woll, mister, I bave, I tried it yes- torday, and I havo come seven milea on foot to 8oo tho man that printed that pioco, It wan't much of & ploce, I don't think, but I want £o eoa tho man that d’flnw} 1t, just s fow minutes., You soe, Johu Bmith, ho lives noxt door to my house, whon I'm to homo, snd ho gots howe cnmu-{‘ml-so every little poriod. Now when he' sobor he's all right, if you keop-out of his wa but whon ho's drunk he goes home and bro: dishes, and tips over the stove, and throws tho hardware around, and makes it inconvenlent for his wifo, and @omotimes ho gots his and g{mn nu: calling on _his neighbors, aud it ain't pleagant. ‘“ Not that I want to may anythiug sbout Bmith ; but mo and my wife don't think he ought to do s0o. Ho camo homo drunk yesterdsy, and broko all the kitchen windows outof his house, and followed his wife around with the earving-knife, h.lklngbnbunt herlivor, and afior e while he laydown by my fonce and went ia sleep. 1had beon roading that little pieco ; it wan't muoh of & piece, and I thought if I could pour some water down his spine, on hia back, and make him sobor, it would be more comfort- ablo for his wifo, and a_squaro thing to do al} around. 8o Ipoured & bucket of pring wator down Jobn Smith's epine of his back.” . \ #Woll,” snid wo, as our visitor paused, *¢ did it mako lim gobor ?" Our visitor took a frmor bold of his stick, and roplicd with iucreased emotion: " *Just 8o. X suppose it did make him sn sobor as a judge 1n less timo than you could ssy Jaclk Robineon, but, mister, it made. him mad. It made him tho maddest man I over saw; and, Mr., John Bmith i8 & bigger man than mo s stouter. Ho ia a good doal stouter. Bla—bless him, I pavor knew ho was half 80 stout till yes. turd;ly and he's handy with his fists, too. should supposo ho'a tho handiest man with hig fista I evor saw,” £ “Then he want for you, did he 7" we askod ins nagcontly, “ Justmo. Exsotly, I augpoau he went for mae sbout the best he knew, but 1 don’t hold no grudge against Johu 8mith, Isuppose Lo ain'h & good man to hold a grudge againat, only I wank to poo that man what printed that piece, - I wany to soe him bad. I fool as thongh it would soothe mo {o soe that man, I want toshow him how o drunkon man acts when you pour wator down {lbe ,Ivlnn of his back. That's what I comq or.” ' Qur visitor, who had poured water down the spino of & drunkon man's back, remained unti] about 6 o'clock in tho evening, and then wend up tho atroot to find the man that printed that licslo pisge, ‘I'he man he is looking for atarted for Alaska last evening for s summor vacation, and will not be back beforo Soptember, 1878, —_— UP IN THE TREES. Would we wore iu the woods togothor— Two littls birds in the mideumuier weather ! Out of the wintor, away from sorroy, With—think of it {—nover a thought of the morrow § Up in tho irees, whoso branches ars ewinging, They it in tho soft airs, singing, A doug in which youth ind preslon are lended, That {4 always boginning, and never ended | Look st them thero now, aitiog, siting, ‘Where owls are hooting aud bais are flitting :— One 1a slooping, the other is sleaping, Whiilo th Lady oo through tho leaves is peoping e And now look at us,—whoso yeara ate doubled, Wo have mised #o much, nnd Lava beon 80 troubledes Would wo were thers in the woads together— Two happyUbirds in the midutmmer woathor [ —John Sylieg. Wills in Great Britain, Wil you pormit mo,"” writes a corrospondeny of tho Philadelphia Press, ¢“to give your readera the camoof all this blundering American nawspaers about Napoloon. The amount sworn to in all wills in the Unitod Kingdom is the valua of the personal property, not one cont of roal ontato boivg inoluded in the sum, For instance, thio Into Fliomas Drasoy, Eaq., M. P,, the grea roilrond contractor, had 'persounlties” swom to a0-worth £0,000,000, whilo the Marquis of Wost= minstor, wlth Tosl étatos in tho West Znd of London aloue worth many millions of poundd Blm‘lll‘lfi hiad “porsonaltics’ amounting only to £200,000 Just look at s imilar blundor niado in thls rest wook about the will of Macready, the tragediny, Ilis ‘porsonaltics were sworn under £20,000." American papors aro astonlshed ab how littlo L had accumulated, But Maoready left an annuity to his slater of £700, and soveral other latge boquosts, If editors would just aak themeolves whore theso boquests were ta oome from with only £30,000 entiroly—worth iny Ehu%nnd 8 por cent per annum—they would see i ihak the aunulty alous could not be pald, an Y--WL&.WUW‘P!.“NLWDW REORACHY AR YNSS,