Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 20, 1873, Page 10

10 = = — e THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, THE WOMAN-QUESTION, A Woman Who It ““Tired of Hearing Womon Called Mastor-Fioces of Naturo,” Theodore Tilton's Rejoinder in Bohalf of the Fair Sex. The Bearing that Weman-Suf- firago Will Have upon Marriage. A Screed About Women. DY A WOMAX. I'mtired of honring womon called mastor- Pploces of naturo. That is ono of the polite flo- tions that pooplo say bacouso it {s expooted of them. It says itselt mechanically, and I only :uuuw I am lying by tho bitter in my mouth sny~ it. v That humbug about womon being any bottor Yhan thoy aro obliged by law and socicty to bo, betrags itsolf, howovor custom and habit mako the pill glazod and sweet outside. ¥ Iow would it soem to sny tho truth, out from &ho vory heart's core, for onco in a way? Thus tho confeasion would read. § Perhaps you imagino you will got the truth Now. To sponk the truth knowingly and utterly, Is what no croaturo living can do. Truth'is 50mg~ thing awfal as tho faco of the Deity, that no man, Bon seo and love. We got it In side glimpaes and misty forms, wo roveal it ourselves whon half conscions or thinking of something olso, and o havo enough of it to livo by. Like oxygoen, when puro it kills. + You hold n woman's hands, you look straight into her oyos, you magnotize hor with your pres- once, your lips court her and assure her. With ll this forco of attraction you bid her toll you ‘tho whole truth, on her soul, by the strongth of your loyo waiting to absolve hor whether guilty or not. - Bho will hang upon you, hor oyes innao- cont as bluo-bells, a5 it were, the vory moml drawn through them into yours ; hor brealh liko tho warm balm of flowers at noon absorbed by yours, and sho will hear your heart's irrogular boot in its anxioty to kmow the truth, cost what .t may, and with a faco that would rocolvo tho . bon Dieu sans confosslon, she will tell you ono- ‘bl o truth, or o maddening lie, that you only nd out when poaco and life aro wrecked tor< -ever, You put tho question 'to & man. The shad- ows of long, trailing fir branchos are about you, wud the fragranco of balsam sconts ono by the warm dny; overhoad {s tho brilllanco of stara; you two aro slone with the summor night music fainting on the ecar far off. You are vory much a child in oxperienco, your vory ignoranco making you bold—charm- Ing end fatal gift to o womsn, A good angol malkos you atop questioning * Can I trust you?" Ruffions bavo passed by a oroa- turo go forlorn, so harmloss, with pity 1n thoir rough features. Tho strong commanding cyes boar upon you hard as eryatal, with o disdain of subterfugo in them, the band gripe is liko that of o sacramontnl oath, and in men's way ho ewoars short and fiual assurance of his mesning, or ha will tell the litoral truth in worda that lio to tho hoart, and Dlind his porjury more effoc- tunlly than any othor dovice. So, bound to be o excoptiou to your racoe, you wandor on till tho lightniug strikes to show the precipice at your feet, and leaves you so prosirato and scathed thint ono is hardly thankful of being saved, ‘Truth is too much to expect from human na- tare. In truth, speaking to onoself, the old monk was not go far out of the way who wrote & rerios of discourses, calling womon tho groateat ovils in nature. Ho used no gloves in landling his thomo, but called thom woak, vorrupt, giddy, trenchiorous, solfish, wrong-blooded, with a henrty vigor that in rofroshing to read, Bb. Jo- romo and 8t. Authony wors in tho right in de- spising and shunuing women who would fain and forovor got thoir weak and sickly natures bofore @ man ns his objoct of adoration, coming bo- twoen him ond Lis idoal of duty, patriotism, hu- manity, or God. You never saw & thin, dis- torted, fiue-skinnod woman that didn't in her inmost heart propoao to load society in hor cir- clo, stand a8 idol in the minds of hor frionds, and absorb overy enorgy and thought of tho man who was her property. . Belfish | Thore isno sclfishness in tho world liko tho utter spiritual gelfishness of women. There is not ono in ten thousand who would not rathor sco her husband tied to horapron-strings, or hovoring about her gofn, rather than giving Lis genius to the world, or his services to his country, or doing his duty in the sphore where iife placed him, provided' always he could give 5nr o sufficient income to spend st tho samo ime, ‘Fhero is no wealknoss like thet of women, and no awbition like thoira. For Heaven's sake, give them all thoy want; throw open the uni- Yersitios, Iny the cornor-stone of a Sngo building’ in avery collogo of the lond; lot hor turn tin- emith, batber, dootor, lawyor, morchant, thiof ; Ict her como and go, take office, run govern- ments, sot on jurios, omancipate society gener- ally, and worl out the demoustration of her in- compotency to her own satisfaction, and that of the civilized world. The croature can not reach ‘thg standard save by draggiug it about. Lookat lor achicvements in tho arts, You wover 800 & woman'a work in high ort withont wecognizing its incompletonoss of dosign. Her most fatal attompts aro in statuary, whero TPocabontas with thick ankles, Columbua model- od after Androw Johneon, of Tonnossce, and docorativo work without beginning or ond, or unity of design, stand as Lier mastor-picco. 1n pootry, provided sho is sufiiciently disoasod, €0 thog hor brain absorbs tho vitality of hor ‘wholo body, she may produce peculiar and elec- trio offccts, but sho nover can got hor woodon Lorsos bohind tho eurtain, or ohift Lor sconcs without showing tho rollors. Iur rhymes are xhymes by graco, nob by nature, hor monsuros uro unvioldy. Bho is “capablo of riding hor horoines off ‘battloments, which is groat oruelty to the conl-black ateeds, after making them go up Bovoral poirs of stairs for the first timo in thoir livos. She can make women proposo to men, and savo thoir credit, too, but the cannot writo euhdumfinnd self-controllod as Browning's ' Magnetism,” and no woman can over wr?tn ono such lio uy that cry of Ottilo in ' Pippa Pneses,” whon tho lovers dro discovered by ln{:w. “ Not on me, 0God! ou him have morey 1" They aro great in novel writing, where no misiress of the art ever cssumed or presumed un oquality of talent with men. Jano Auston, Dirs, Edwards, Charlotto Bronte wore the most feminino of boings, and most hoarty recognizors of the superiority of men. What does Shirley nay to Caroling Helstone, and Caroline ocho to Bhirley, tho mistreas in the Grange ? Find the ook, and read for yoursolf the honest, hearty, declaration of man's superlority, that alwaya comen from the noblest women. A good man thoy folt to bo their master; they delighted in his rango of power; thoy trusled iu his strength ; they delighted to find him superior. And euporior & good and noble man always will be to any womau ever born, Idon't mean that Bimmins the tailor is the superior in all things to Deborals tho prophet- eew undor tho palm troe of Lachish, or that Mra. Cady Btanton can't outwit s good many puny mon who listen to her lectures; but, taking poo~ plo by avoragos, Dr. Holland with alt Lis piati- tudes aud moral sffectations will write more that is worth considering in_a yoar than Mrs. Livermoro; aud Col, Hay's lectiiros hold one's attontion from beginning toond, whileundor Mies Dickinson’s ono—doos—got—a—Ilittic—aloepy. Ono always feols gorry for & man who gots to saying much about the superiority of women ; hol m“f,: bo so dooply . decolved, or wo easily talcen in. . ‘I'ho dodlcstion of John Btuart Mill's osasys to lils wife 18 & vory noble witness of the ohivairoua und delicato affoction which dwelt in that pro- cise, sleak, critiolsing oxterior ; but it lowers our cotimato of the woman who inspired such con- covsions, Had sho been 8o tml{ great, wo can not hiolp foeling, sho would not have loft g0 pro- found an impression of her greatness on thoso about her. Thero was no tribute to be proud of {n that opinion quoted about, n[nriu-o\ Fullor, by a man who nnl?l e nover left her prosence without feollng his inforiority, Had Lo forgotton hoth Ity ignorance snd her suporlority when with hor, fim ovidence of her power would Lave been porfeot. N vey Ho that vrlllliiza greatost among you let him 0 your minister. b ‘,Ho that exalteth himself shall bo abased.” Beliove thess words aa you will, thoy mightas woll bo writter in lottors of _basnit, for thoy ara among tho foundations of thomoral world, and thono Jossons womon nn{mulnll{ roquiro to fonrn, ‘Thoy wora mado, not to writa opica, or doviso Bovernmonts, or flaunt thelr intuitions oyer. tho tlow renson of mon, but to marry, boar children, Em'm tho house, and hinve no occasion for any- ody to sponk roproachfully, Ihbog pardon, Ican’t holp quoting tho Diblo fometimes, though it's not progrossive to boliove In ft—thoro fs such n doal of sonso in it. Bo- sldos, thoy are to dross a8 woll na possiblo, sing, danco, undorstand nursing and hospitality, learn to lwop socrots, hold thoir tonguos, and control thoir tompors, If anything provonta their marrylog thoy are to make an honost uvlnq (i ony wuy thoy chiooso, without making o fuss about it, Thon such thinga aa nro good to know thoy will bo told, aud such righta a4 aro good for thngn t0 have will come to thom. If any woman caw’t holp writing opics, lot hor writo; and_if sho {8 obligad by ciroumatances to nct ns Judgo, fury, or firat-mato of a véasel, lot hor, and bo gl can. But whon slips of girls want to flirt over Jaw-books—Ilot thom., Put thom In an offico, mako them study and pass oxaminations just as hord sa mon bavo to do, and don’t malko “l': mora fusg ovor thom than you do whon Josop! or Auguntus entors, Tako away tho nowfluz{, ond tho assistanco that overy woman finds In l)lnnt on ontering & now profosaion, and you'll ind tho nnxfls! straightway oliminatod, and sho sinks straightway into the prosalo human, very giad to Blip away into the protection and ob- sourlty of some more congonial purauit. 8o, call her anything but the mastor-plece of tha raco, and forswonr tho ignorant homngo that tmokos the wonk oreaturo bo lovo horself a god- doss in your eycs, Thore are men swooter, pur- er, soundor in thelr natures than womon over ‘wero, I hopo, The humility of many fine mon .attcots, not 8o much the quality of what thoy ad- miro as of thoir own spirits, and the beat women simply fool _offended at tho indisorotion which cannot discover anything more lovoly in oreation than tho norvous, uncertain brightness of their own eox. Womon wero mado to put clothes on, tho majority of thom; and if tho; dress woll, open their mouths with a littlo pru-~ donoo, and koop within bounds of tho calondar, it is sll that ought to ba oxpected of them.— Golden Age, A Littlo Yiarping on Our Daughtors. From the Golden Age~—~ditorial, Tho brilliant woman who sonds us * A Screod About Women" (accompanying it with a request that we ‘‘ give no sign of tho nnthumhip"z would bo horself (could wo point to her identity) tho best answor to the gonoral accusation of 1nfari- ority which sho brings against her own sex, Bho is Lired, sho says, of hoarlng woman called tho mnutorflucu of unaturo. Into what roalm of stronge moises sho has onririod bior ears that sho should hiave heard such a sonsologs ding-dong as this, wo caunot imagine. True, according to Burns (who possibly uttored the sontiment aftor 8 ewig of yamaica rum and sy, nature's pron- tico han' was tried on mrn, an on eho mado tho Insses, O Bat, outsido tho uong, thore is nothing in the modern demands which men ara -now making for women, or which women are mmklnfi for thomsolves, that at all countenancos tho claim that cither of tho soxes is higher in the scalo of humanity than the other, and loast of all the superior sox (if there be one) is tho femalo. Todeed, most mon (and womon also) have beon only too contont to fix woman's place, both in nature and gociely, as thatof o semi-sorf at man's sido, In ruder countries, cs for instance those in- babited by savage tribos, the man shoots tho goms, leaves it in tho woods, returns to his wig- wam, nnd sonda his squaw sftor tho carcass to Iug it home. Ono of tho idenl Iadics of the Poot Laureate moots hor lover at the castlo gato, and 88 ao act of minglod hospitality and subsor- vionoy, grooms his horso modern hostlor of a country tavern™ wonld do. In Europo it is & common sight to sco women mowing flolds—doing the work not only of mon, but of strong men, Indeed, looking out of our offico window in Parl Rotr, we have seon & wom- an and a dog yoked togothor dragging a rag-cart through tho stroat. Now, in nono of thess notions concerning wo- mon's truo rank and station do we sharo, Our corrospondont would not condomn her sisterhood to an cquality with tho dog. Not at all. Bho would disdain Buch an affront. But, on tho other hand, we would not condemn our correspondont snd her fellow-countrywomen to sny {nferior rauk to that of man, Womnu {8 not below man, nor above him, but at his slde ; Bho is noithor Lis superior nor ju- forior, but his equal ; sho is not his sovereign nor bis slave, but his mato, s, it nocms to us, is woman's trne position, Tho finttory bestowed on women—and particu- larly the sort of eilly compliment which our cor- rospondont 8o bravely disdaina—usually comen from n class of mon who, evon while thoy oulo- gizo women ag orunmeuls, jeweln, and angols, novertheless deny to the vory women whom the; compliment thoe groatest mdustrial, educationaf, nnlfl civil rights which theso men clain for thom- sclves, Tho demand which Js now making in behalf of womnn I8 not that woman ought to be a man, or bo liko man, ordo the work of man, or bo tho superior of man. Nothing of the sort. On the contrary, it is simply o demand that woman shall be regarded as a man's equalcopartnor in all the privileges and opportunities of lifo, just as sho 11 bold to bo his oqual co-partner in all the obli- gations growing out of social and moral duty. In ono rospect we agroo with our correspond- ent. Bho says that Women are not better than mon, This ‘is true. Neither are they worso. There is a good desl of buman nature both in men and women. Wo sll have our common root, and bloom in tho averago morality of our times. Bocloty boars o little harder on omanly than on manly derelictions, but this morely loads womon to do covertly what mon do openly. Tho two eoxes reflect ench other's morality.” If tho standard for both wore a littlo higher it would do neithor mfi barm ; and if tho standard for both were exactly the same, it would do tho whole raco en equal and stupendous benofit, Our correspondont thinks that women do not toll the truth na fesrlessly ns men do. This, to some dogroo, i8 corroct. "But it resulta not from any greater disposition toward falschood in tho fomale mind than in tho male. It comes rather from woman’s dependent position, making her foar man's frown—ns when ho scowla at Ler for coming to him for monoy to pay tho butchor and grocor. ‘Women aro held accountable to men; men accountable onlg to themsolyos. Put both ol“ an equality aud there will be loss equivoca- tion. Our correspoudent is grievously wrong in hor supposition_that wives cannot® bo unsolfieh enough to give thelr husbanda up to public duty and sorvice when the occasion calls, ~ Bho says’s “Thore i8 not ono in 10,000 who would not rathor seo her husband tiod to her apron-strings, or hovering about hor sofa, rathor than giving bis goniun to the sworld, or his services to his country, or llo(nfiihla duty in tho sphera whore Iifo hise placed him, provided slways ho could ivo her sufliclent income to spend at the samo imo,” It strikes us that thia is grossly unjuat, Wo have known somo wivos, and know of many more, who have freely given their hus- bunda to tho public—aye, to battlofields and bloody deaths, This nation has too latoly passed through a ghastly bistory of perils and graves tonoed any special enforcoment of this argu- ment by illustration. In the art of self-sacri- fico women are snperior to mon. At lonst wo bave 20 loarned this losson of hwmen nature from the women among whom wo havo lived from our childhood’s estate to this prosent, Aund wo hope nevor to unlearn it. Our correspondent thinks that when the unls vorsities are thrown open to women, whon ‘wromongan become * tinamiths, barbors, doeturu, lawyers, morchants, and thieves,” whon women “tako ofl)nu, run government, and sit on jurics,” tho{ will “work out tho demonatration of their incompetency.” Wae ask, ineomrnlmcy for what ? Incompotonoy to bo mon ? T'hat is de- monstrated already, "But will they domonatrate their incompetenoy to be women ?° We deny the ehnrfi; wo repel the insinuation. A woman who knows enough to bo her son's critio, not only in his conduct, but likowise in his studios, 18 o bottor women and imother than if she had fod on buttorflics and fashion-plates, and neyer seon o book, A woman who knows something of modicine is all tho more of & woman becsuse elio can bo both physician and nurso to her own family, A woman who could take an ofllca—for inatauce o post-ofilcs worth $8,000 a yoar (a8 wo know of somo women doing, and doing woll)— would theroby be tho botter ablo_to suppor$ the children of eomo dond soldier who gave his lifo for his country, A woman on a jury would bo just as appropriate a specta~ cle a¥ & Woman In tiio same court cithorns plain- tiff or defondant. Wodonot boliove that women will outshino mon in thoso pursuits for which men are most sdapted, but wo do botiove that a liberal education and large industrial and civil advantagos will conduce to tho honor and glory of all women who receive thom, * Look at woman's achiovementa in art [" saya our correspondent, belittling her artistio geniuy, Wall, there hays beon very rospectablo achiove- ments {n art by women ;'if not In tho art of ainting (though Itosa Bonheur ranks high), lflt in the art of acling ; for tho chief gonluy of fho stage in our gouoration was Rachel—nothing but s woman., Perhapa woman's artistio goniuy hiaa not yet been fully developoed. But oven eup- posing she can never oqual Raphael or Angoln, why should she be asked todoso? Woman's function in art, as in everything else, isuot to do over again what mon have done already ; but 8la | for him, just as the. °| sale it Is to do somothing differont, and that can be done only by womon, Ia thoro any man who ovor livod who oould havo writtou Jano Eyre? No, not Bhakspoaro himgelf. It took a woman to doit. Inliko mnnuor, thoro Is iu literaturo, art, and sclonco a roalm for woman s for man— o nood of woman an of man. And wo want womon to bo edncated not to fulfill the functions of mon, since thoy can nevor do this xo woll ng mon 3 but to fulflil tho fanotions of ‘womon, swhich they can alwayn do botter than mon, Buch is our domand for woron which we urga to-day evon ngeinst n woman, It is & common- eoneg domand for equal educntion, equal wages, oqual opportunitios, oqual privileges—in o word, an oqual chonco in lifo, < . If our correspondont, who is not only a wom- an, but s known and rospected by women, would join uy in making this demand for wom- on, her wholo sox would be tho gainor by the sorvico which her pon could rondor. Tho Greok who was tirod of hosring Aristidos callod the just, condomned not Aristides, but himeelt. nd our cBrrusEundun! whoao 8onsl- $ivo oars have boon somowhat rudoly boaton por- hiaps by tho elamor of cortain reformors who aro pleading woman's causo, ouiht not to got so casily tirod of the itorations of juatice, partion- Tarly” justioo to hor own sox. WomansSuffroge nnd Marringe==Zho. Huearing tho First Will Mavoupon the Socond. From the Cincinnaté Gazelle. 1t Is imposaiblo to soparate the question of woman suffrago from tho marriage quostion, for the simplo renson that if marriago bo antate of subjcotion for tho wifo, shoe is incapable of freo suflrage; but it it is claimed upon tho nesump- tion thint marringo is not n state of snblj‘uutlon, that ought to bo plainly declared; or, it ia thnnghf that nuflmfo will ronult in tho emanci- ation of tho wife from subjection to tho hus- and, tho considoration of a chango so moment- ous cannot Lo soparated from a considoration of tho not which 18 to cauno it. Therofore, thoso of tho woman's righta agitators who try to shovo by tho lasuo, by sasing that ono roform lsonougly al a timo, and ihat thoy will push first the naked quostion of woman suffrago, are moro artful than condid. It is likoly that thoy It)umulvu, tho samo aa thoir moro coursgeous sistors, that woman anffrago monas o rovolution in all the rolations of woman; but thoy try to suppresa tho natural oconsoquonces lost tho prosontation of all would shook the genoral sonsibilitlos. ‘Wo must not bo misunderstood as opposing woman's complota_emancipation. Wo sro iu- clined to lot Ler havo her own way In every- thing, dosiring only that sho shall roalize and stato what she wants, In tho law of naturo, which tho common law only followed, tho wifo was complotoly subjoct to the husband's con- trol, Madorn atatutes havo made somo invasions into tho natural relation, yot tho state of the wife. i still cssentially a stato of subjection, although the naturo of tho malp besst is so chivalrous and kindly that most wivos are un- conacious of their legal bondage. Thoso in- vaglons have becn mflntl{‘ln the miattor of pro) erty, in the offort to give hor hxda{ondont rights. 8, howover, has sorved but littlo good pur- pose; for the good wife will hardly roceive hor own proporty whon the husbandid in_distress, and ho must bo & vur{hmnmpcmnt Lhusband who oannot oithor cajolo, bully, or torment his wifo out of her soparato ostatc, whon ho wants to. It is truo, En}icu administration ossumes to inter- foro with tho huaband’s rights to whip. Lis wifo, and it hos encouragod-wives in insnbordination by tho idon that their persons are to bo sacrod from thelr bushand's’ disciplinary procosses. But this amounts to nothing ; for, ssido from the fact that but fow of the whipped wives toll their grlef, & husband must bo oxcessively stupld who cannot find woyas enough to punish his wite, without making & tangiblo case for tho police. If tho wifo have a soparate proporty, it isa provision for both and for their children, and is, therafore, in a Inrgo dogroo & common intorost. It, however, sho s to Lavo a voto, then sho must either cant it in accord with her husband'a political partizauship or againgt it. Tho con- tliots of political parties run to intonso animosi- ty. 'Fhoy divido neighhors and blood rolations. 'hey mako n kind,of chronio civil war, anda perpotual eeries of bloodlnss * revolutions, which give outlot totho bolligerent and rostless propen= sities of mankind, 'Thoy soparate communitios and churohos into clagscs, Con the state of marriago stand such a bone of contention? Can tho wifo in hor presont_subjoct stale uso this right inflnpnndnntl{? 0f courso it will bo an- swered {hat thero 18 nothing in all this, for the wife will naturally tnko the samo view as her husband, and wnly voto as ho does, aud thus all will go on as musical a8 marriage bolls. Bat it gho takos hor husband's views, and votes as ho docg, sho doos not vote indopendently, and thero- foro is incompotent to boa votor. To givo tho wifo a voto, 8o that sho moy vote a8 her husbaud doos, ia simply to givon tho mar- ried man two votes. It maybe right to do this, 84 a0 oncouragoment to marriage, sinco it s Aaid thiat men are growing disinclined ; but it ehonld bo done squarely. Others will anawer that the wife may voto against her husband, and yet, such is the chivalry and magnanimity of “tho malo benst, that it will not disturb their conju-~ &zul Llnrmony ; and that, anyhow, sho will have hio right to vote as sho pleases, and he will have to make the best of it. But can he not prevent her? Isthoartof hunbnudrzlsu rudo that thore areno ways of unnlxollini, fluencing, or re- straining wives but by bolts and bars, or by whipping 7 T it true that, with n larga olass of our pupulut((mf tho word or nod of command, ‘with tho disciplinary blow behind it, will be tho Fondy aud sufllont means of seouring this vot- 80 mucl ing unit{? This will be tho case no! awong tho Amoericans as among tho adopted cit- izens, who come from countrios whoro the au- thority of tho husband stands much bigher than among the Amoricans, aud where marital sub- Joction izs not boon demoralized by radical the- orios, But how infinite are the ways in which the husband can make it uncomfortable for the wifo who puts hersolf in conflict with himl Oply the clumeiost have toresort to corporal violonce, Bo loug as sho remeing in his house, everything that makos life tolorablo is in his power. Bho cannot have the firat clemont of that froedom which is the ocasental quan of the right of suffrago without entiro omancipation from his control ; and sho cannot havo thia withont the right to dissolve the marriage partnorship snd to divido tho offects at her pleasuro. With that bohind hor, she may vonturo to cast hor vote in- dopondontly. Not until sho can afford to dofy her husband can sho afford to voto against him, Notetill sho bo medo free of the bondago of mar- ringo can she have that froodom which is tho essontial qualifioation for the suflrage. In this we do not oppose woman suffrage ; wo simply :fiow its proroquisites without oi:jnoung to om, But iy the care comploto when it is declared that tho wifo will not voto with her hueband, or if sho volos agniust him ho will standit? Wil the wifo stand it if the husband votes against hor? While vindicatlng tho capacities of hus- bands, wo mean nd disparagement of the ability of wives to mako it uncomfortablo for husbands, when they put their minds to it. By her naturo tho feelings of woman aro intonse.” Sho has n eingloness of viow that males hier intolorant, ‘Whion hor feolings become onlisted in the strife of parties and of personal ambition in politics- wo shall reslizo sn lntumlt{ of feeling and a Bharpnosa of controveray which tho most heated and calumnious political contosts hitherto have givon no monsure of. Cau it be that the wife will return from tho hot canflicts of tho caucus, the rostrum, or tho polls, to keop silenco, or to smilo over tho same divigion in the family cirolo ! Completo omaucipation is the first condition of ‘woman suffrage. Bhe must ba freed from sub- Joction to tho Tiueband by giving Lor tho right to orminato tho contrack at hor pleasure, or the grant of the ballot to hor will Lo an evil gitt, multiplying hor woes., But will tho right to ter- micate the marriage contraot make her freo ? s thero not something in her nature which malkos hor inoapeblo of indopondonce? Boolal reform- cors are 80 {rroveront toward suthority that it is of no uso to cite thom to tho groat flat—' And th{ desire shnll bo to thy husband, and ho shall rulo ovor theo;"” thoroforo, wo paes by this dorminant part of the fomale nature. Bat the differenco of eox seems to have made & division of duties or Jabors, aud those of tho wife ac- cumulato dlabilitica upon hor, Tho keeping of tho houee, the boaring of childron and the fak- iu[f caro of thom, and all these witely duties dis- ablo her from carning Ler living in ‘othor ways, and gathor ties upon hor which it {8 bard "to throw off. Troedom to throw off the contract is ‘but a mockery to hor; atill worso whon for this ahn s to allow to tho husband the samo froo- lom, ‘Iho difforonco of sox is aftor all an insur- mountablo differonco. 'Iho abolition of the dis- tinction In clothos doos not begin to romove it. It makos woman look to marriage as tho oud of hor existonce, and marriage disablos her for in- dependonce, and leaves in mau's hands tho monus of curning the subsistenco for all. Tho ocontrol of tho monns of subsistence in the con- trolin all things, Not till woman ceasos to look to marriage for ocoupation, and fits horself to fight tho Lattle of lifo alone, and thus makesand keopa herselt independent of man, can she bo to havo that freedom which is fho firat quale itication for the suifrage. Whon wo state t] ‘womnn must abollsh mnnlng:!, and all domestlo rolations with man, if she would have tho froo- dom which Is requisito to the right of suffrago, we must not be misunderstood as opposifug woman-suffrago; we aro merely stating tho couditions aud consequonces. We aro inclined " Nover foar Yot to lot womon linve thoir own way in this mattor, it thoy know what that way s, o Dut they cannot bo wivos and mothers and yot bo froo votors, Thoy cannot noglect the traln- ing whick {s roquisito to solf-support, and do- pend on marringo 8 o provislon,and yot bo indo- poudont votors, Matringo and its dutles snd gonsoquoncoes aro incompatiblo with woman suf- frago. Thoss must bo aboliehed, Woman' natiro {8 incompodible with that indopondonco which is casontisl to her enfrauchisomont. It must bo changod. If it bo pald that this implics {ho oxtinguishmont of tho raco, we roply thnt n Frlnolpln doon not stop for cousoquoncos, Tho omnlo mind which has advanced 6o far na to do- mand tho voto, o thrown off the notlon that hor paramount dut{ i to roplonish tho carth, Anacharsis Oloots sald n tho Fronch Assembly, that ‘“‘democxptio liberty would be purchaso olionply at the cost of {Lo destruction of the whole humsn raco;” and Thomas Jeffarson, whom that romarkablo historlan, James Parton, | finds tho only irio_republican in his timo, wroto {o Mr. Bhort, our Minfster at tho. Haguo, that | tho only fault of the Jacoblna as to thelr magsn- cros was that they did not kill onough, and that it wonld bo better 1 every Nation were killod off ton su:‘ila pair, and thoy freo, than tolot thom live s thoy are, " If tho truth bo found sa to tho rights of woman, wo shall not roject it becauso it loads to tho oxtlnotion of tho human raco. But lob us denl honostly in this affair, and oontomdplnto tho inevitablo consequonces of our acts, and not pro- tond to doludo ourselves with tho ides that ‘womsan-guffrage moans no visiblo chango in the social relations, aud that all the tonder tles of Linabsnd and wife will romin 3 boforo, ud that tho only consoquonce will bo that pleasing plo- turo which tho soft Theodoro Tilton drow, wi ho told how tho wifo would go to the polls loan- ing on tho husband's arm, w%th tho ballot in ons hand and tho wodding-ring on the other, and to- gother thoy would awnqlf{ doposit _tholr votos with o sympathotio palpitation, Woman-suf- frage, with any such mhfnonon or influonca as thio, 18 only an insult to woman. They who are :slming this cause do not moan that woman th the ballot is to continuo a political ciphor a8 boforo. Nor could it be if thoy did moan it. Tho onfronchisemont of woman monns hor omancipation and her complote independence of mun. Xt moana a social rovolution. s eschenntatyens sty SCENES IN OMNIBUSIA. DY TRIX. You put your foot on tho stop, and the horaes mako & start ; whoronpon you cling desperatoly to the treachorous door. ‘Then tho driver concludos to stop for the six- toonth part of » minute ; during which timo you manago to stop on the hem of your dress, and abstract o pieco two inchen in dopth. Thon tho man who sits in tho corner gets mad at tho dolay, puts his arm through the window, and givos you an old-fashionsd *boost,” which quickens your progress considorably. Once insido, & glance around assures you that you hovo to stoudy and & peep in the glass, that your hat hasa peculiarly jolly way of gracing tho side of your head. Just o5 you moditato retreat, the driver oracks his whip with an “I'vo-got-you" air; tho horses Jump; and you impulsively sent yoursolf in the lap of the fat old gentleman who doos nof ho- . lieye in sudden deposits, unloss made in cesh, Arising, with dignity in your mien and s flush on your brow, to sod e goparato faco woar tho “smilo which Is ohildlike and bland,"” you inyoluntarily traco tho size of your nails .on the palms of your hands, and snap your tecth on what you meant to bo an anathoma on all grin- ning “idiots,” but roally on.the tip of your tonguo. At this the water trickles from your partod lips, and Teara from the dopth of some divina deapair Rise n the hioart, and gather to the oyea, Thou that malignant drivor rings for your &f;o you) forgotton faro, and you dive to tho deptha of your pockot to produce what you suppose to bo anickel, but what lios boldly on the out-~ stretchod masculine palm—a penny. O yo gods and little fishes! How does tho sar- castlo care with which he hands it back cut your smne soul to tho quick! Andhow indignantly o you glaro at your fellow-passengers] Aund how lmmnnglg do your follow-passengeas look at oach other! Thon your whole faco glows with colestial, rosy, but rather uncomfortablo, red, while yon mako frantic efforts to discover that diabolical fivo-cont pioce, which proves to be non ost. Aftor an interval, in which tho flendish driver rings again for your fare, and tho “grinning idiots™ look still more knowlogly nt oach other, ou find another picce of currancy, - and drop it to the samo officions grl!? which has but just roturned that penny, while a)au montally ro- Bolve to sew your pocket-book fo your pocket. Then some ons gots out and you sit down, ‘wheroupon the officions gentleman strokes the fourtoon lomon-colored holra which are his ““monstachios, you know,” and throws youn sweotly-killing glanco from the fathomless dopths of orbs which wear the matchless tint scon only in ekimmod millk. Then ko gracefully lifts his hat to the most ologantly-drosecd lady whom ho secs on the pave- ment, but who doos 20l sce Lim. By this ho aims tosecuro two euds: first, to show you that his protty, curling looks are parted oxactly in tho middle; socond, to impress you with the fact that ho numbors very aristocratio ladies among his acquaintancos, o you are mildly wondering what will bo tho color of the young man's nogo by the time ho gots through scrubbing it so diligently, he discovers that he hasn't room enough, stretches out ono highly-polished boot, and drops it, with precision upon yowr tenderest corn. Tho last straw broke the camel's baok; you now conclude that w g is pmfenbin to riding, any timo. Accordingly, you finish tho remainder of your Journey on foot; while you rellove yourself by spioy, if silont, comments on_the ¢ re-al follahs, you know,” who haunt Omnibusia. And you romembor that officious young man In your prayers! — e HUMOR, ~—Lahor in vein—tho work of minara. . dx—A gay Spiritualist maybo callod & happy me- jum, « ~—A clergymon Iately said that modern youn Indies are not tho daughtors'of Shem and Hm‘f but of hem and sham, —The New York Mafl msks: *\What moro procious thing can a man havathan the first love of an innocent girl—with an undivided interost in fourtoen boulevard lots. e ~Now Jorsey poople don't eay * Har” right ont, but romark; “8ir, you romind me of my lamentod brother, who could pervert truth with the groatost enso,” p —A frontier-correapondent who saw Capt. Jack sftor bis_capture, writos that, in Eln opinion, the Modoo Chief's appearance would linve beon vastly improved if he had boon wash- ed before ho wan ironed. —'What's tho dato of your bustlo?” was what an anxious papa askod his woll-dressed daugh- ter, after searching for the latost copy of hia papor. . —Tho Loulavillo Courier-Journal vouchea for tho fot that a Kentucky widow was hauled to her husband’s funeral the other day by thoe same mulp that kicked tho breath out of his body, —~Why is it that a cat i8 80 quiot over a eaucar ot milk, when the commoneat symbol of nolsi- noss is & mill-clappor (milk-lapper) ? —A Bioux Chlof, aftor following a surveying party on the Northorn Paciflc for somo days, mildly remarkod that thoy might go on, for ho'd be d—-d if he'd freeze to denth for what hair thero was in that orowd, —An Towa wifa Iately came into possession of a loRnuy of 8500, and bought a divorce with it. —\hon a Pbilsdolphis husband comes honio Into his wife makes him say “Olaxton, Remgon & Hattlfingor,” whiob s a book-publishing firm n that clty. - —A housewifo in England, in filling up Lor schedule for_tho consus paper, deacribod Liorsolf a8 tho ““ hoad of the family ;" whilo In respoct to the trado of hor husband slio wrote, *“Ie turng my manglo,” —"*You aro a littlo bear, madamo,” snid a brato to a fashionable bello at an uvm\lnq arty, 48ir]" exclaimod tho dismaved one. ‘Khnut tho shouldors, I mean," smilingly replied he. —What are you catohing my trout for?" oried an iragolble old Fonnemun to a young man whom ho found fishing on hia place, aud who utterly ellenced him by coolly eaying, * Who wants to oatoh your trout? I'm only trylng to drown this worm,” —An Illinols widow who fainted away at the grave of hor husband and remafued In ‘a fit all night was maxrlod four weok after. —Woll-informed old Iady (to palite youn, tourist): ‘‘Ho you've como to ee tho boaulies of tho noighborhood, have you? Wall, thon, thero hain't nouo to koo, for thoy're fust all on 'em tho plnlnost-rwa:f. commonplacd wenchen about thoso parts thoro {8 tobo fouud in all the wido world, and eo I toll 'vo.” —rho_ hoad waiter of tho Oliness Im orin} houseniold {s degraded and Punished for * Liand- ling the dishos carclessly.”” Under any other govornmont the offense might scom a trivial ong for stato cognizauce, but {n the Flowery King- dom it i tho gravest sortof orime to Lnzard tlis downfall of China, —Biddy (to Pat, in chiarge sbout s dlmunltfj—- 1 Bure ya've got an upright JULY 20, 1873. — e e Judgo to thry yo." Tat—*Ah, Biddy darlin’, tho divilan v rlr“’h Judge T want.' "Tis ono. flat] lane a littlo,"— Punch, =A philosophical Kentuckian who had but one shirt, and was lylng in bed whilo the garment wan drying on tho clothos-lino in tho yard, wag startlod by an exclamation from his wife to the offoot that Tho calf hod eaten it *¢ Woll," oald tho Kontuoklan, with n splrit worth{o EY bottor eouse—** woll, thom who has must fose.” —A Woslorn oditor's statemont, *Wo are living at this momont undor absoluio despot~ ism,” is attributod by his contomporaries to tho fact that hio hina just boon murrlorj. —" It {8 vory sickly horo,” sald ono of the sons of the Emerald Inlo tho othor day to anoth- or. “Yoa," rt:ivllud hik companion,” ““a groat Emlny le'nvn died this year thot havo nover died eforo. —Whon norowd of jayhawkera startod a dis- turbanco ina Toxas church tho other day, tho Frnuhur rafsod up n shot-gun and said: < Wile iam Dollo, sit down, or T'll maka it painful for ou William ent down and waa s quiet ng o —Theodore Hook onco said to a man at whoso tablo o publishor got vory tipsy, “You appoar to hnfio wnpuml your wine-collar inio your book- sollor. —A boarding-houso flond tells tho atory that in nrocont thunder storm the warring of tho olomonts was 80 awo-inspiring that tho halr in adish of butter In the pantry-houso turncd complatoly white dufinfi tho night, iploor suggosls that tho Michigan Stato Prison should "bo located at Lansing, on tho ground that lancing is tho only curoe for folons. —DBoston Gommercial. . —A Boaton high-school girl, just graduated, 8aid in hor essay : ** Lot us avoid thoe frivolities of life and pursue the noblest onda only.” Tho noxt day sho was moved to tears in an nfionlzing attompt to decido the proper shado of blue for her comploxion. —Modoat Assurance.—Lady of the houso: “Woll, Mfll(cnnel how do you like your new horso, ‘Roland ?*** Millicont: ‘'O, immonsoly | But lio wants a firm hand, you know. Ho'd vory foon run_away with mo, if I %:Ava him a chanco; womldn't ho, Robort?" TRobert (frat cousin to Millicont): “Run away with you, if ou gove him a olisnco? By Georgo, if” I can udgo of *Roland’s' feolings by my own, Ishould just think Le would,” —For tho poor boggar-gixl whom we handed G0 cants yostorday, and who eaid sho would ‘bring us baok 40 conts in change as soon a8 she oould step around the cornor and got it, wo arc growingupninmlly anxious, We foar sho has met with foul play. If sho hasn't, then we havo. —Louisvills Courier-Journal. —Justico Bartholomew Lynoh, of Now Or- loans, is ono of the Judicial notabilitica of that oity. Aftor listening to a two-hour argumont by lawyor Hagan, tho othor day, ho raised himaelf slowly in his chair, and inquired vm; mildly| £ Are yo through, Mistor Hagan " - +* Yes, sir." ' Aro"yo pure you're through?” * Yes, sir, q‘IIRu suro.” “WWell, sir," romarked Lynch, *!your argument Las had no moro offoot upon tho Court than o spoonful of water on the back of a duck, Thero's bocn judg:mnnt ontered up against yo for an hour or more,” —An Qil City exchange says: * Onoof our policomen i8 in & quandary. He has lovied on a, torpedo magazino, containing sovoral casos of lycerino, and tho party dofondant, who has tho oy, rofuses to open tho door to ot tho Com- monwoalthin. “The policoman could take a aledge-hammor and * bust ' things, but as ho has o family aud lives happily, e does not like to go fooling round the magazine in that way." ~—A New York party, who woars spoctaclos and white linon clotlios “and boarda at oue of our hotels, wont out into tho woods to hunt for wild atrawborries. T'wo doctors Lave since beon em- ployed huoting for ono of his cars, Thoy have got tho swelling down so he can blow Lis noso with s pair of pincors, aud think thoy have found all of his mouth, but thoy can't fiud that onr. 'Thoy beliovo it is thore, Liowever. People who con't tell meroury vines from strawberry lants should keop out of the woods.—Danbury ews, —A man who is known os s bruto in his fam- flg, and o grumblor and mischiof-makor in ohurch, and whon the sight of a contribution- box fills with wrath, dolights to rohearso i prayor-mooting tho story of his Christian ex- rurinucn, and the wondorful ohanges wrought horeby. On a recent oceasion he told “the old, old nmrfi" winding up, a8 usual, with tho quota- tion, “Bytho grace of God, I am what I am.” As ho was lonving thoe placo, onc of the unre~ generate, swho bad beon a listonor, saluted him with tho romark, ‘I ssy, old fellow, you must hiave boon a terrible wicked man ab tho firat, it ou havo improved as much as you represont.” hio falling from grace that followed waa painful to bohold. s {JOHN JANKIN'S SERMON. The miniater gnid last night, says hio, ““ Don't he atraid of givin’; If_your lifo ain’t nothin’ o ofher folks, Nlap, phats tho use o ivin'? » And that's what I say to wife, aays T, Thero's Brown, {he mismblo sinnor, Ho'd sooner a beggar would starve than give A cent toward buyin’a dinner. T tall you our ministor's primo, ho is, But T couldn’t quito dotermine, When I heard him a-givin’ it right and left, Juat who was hit by his sernon, > ©Of courso there couldn't bonomistake S¥ton bo tatked of long-winded pravia’, For Polors snd Johinaon {hoy sot aad scowled At ovary word lio was sayin’, And tho minister he wont on to eay, “ Thero's varfous kinds o cbeatia’, And religlon's as good or evory day’ As it s 10 bring to meatin', . X don’t think much of a man that gives The Lord Amens at my preachin’, And sponds Lis time the followin’ week Iu chestin' and overreachin’,”” X gueas that doso was bltter cnough For a man liks Jones to swaller'; But I noticed ho didn't open his month, Not onco, after that, to hollor, Hurrah, says T, for tho minister l— Of courso I aaid 1t quict— Give us somo mora of thia open talk; i It's vory rofroahin' diof, . Tho ministor bit e ovory time; And when e ok of fasblon, And a-riggin’ out n bows and things, As woman's rulin’ passion, And s-comin’ {o church to Pt S 1, “Thats you,” s-nudgin’ my wife, and, says I, at's you,' And X guess it ot hor hinkia’, ,éa tho stsles, Sags 140 myself, That sormon's pat ; ut men 18 o iicor ereation ¢ And T'm much afrafd that most o’ tho folks ‘Won't tako tho nqpl.!uuon. Now, if b hiad said s word about Ny porsonal modo o siouln', 1'd liavo gono o work to right mysel, And 1ot set hero a-grinuin’, Just then tho minlater ssya, sava he, 1 And now I'vo como to tho fcllers Who've lost thia shower by usin' thelr frienda As gort o’ moral umbrelins, Gg liome "saya Loy + and 0 your faults, Inatead of huntin’ your brothers'; Go homo,” ho says, * and wear the coats You'vo triod tG At for othors.” My wifo she nudged, and Brown ho winkol, ‘And thore wan lota'o’ smilln’, And Iota o lookia’ at our pow; It sot my blood a-bilin’, Haya 1 to myself, Qur miniator 1 gittin’ o Lktlo bitter ; . T'U tell him, when meotin'a out, that 3 Al ot afl tht kind of a crittor, —Harper's Lazar, S —————— Digger Indians Ontching Grasshops= pera. Riding through the foot-hills, noar Rocklin, I eaw a curious and unexpected sight, Thoro ore still & few wretched Dlfigor Indians in this part of Callfornia; and what I eaw was a party of thesio ongaged in eatoling grasshoppars, which they boil aud eat, 'Iho{ dig & number of funnel- shapod holes, wido ot tho top, and oightoon {uches deep, on & clenred space, and thou, with rags and brush, drlve tho grasshoppers toward theso holos, forming, for that purposo, a wide clrcle, It is slow work, but thoy soom to do- -| bape, t! light in it; and their oxcitomont was voat ns thoy neared the circle of holos and fho {nsocts began to bopand fall into them. At 1nat thore was & closo and rapid rally, and Lalf &, dozen bushels of grasshoppers were driven into the boles; whoreupon hats, aprons, bags, ani rage were atuffed in, to provent tho mu itudos from disporsing; and thon bogen tho work of ploking thom out by bandfuls, crushing them roughly in tho hand to keop them quliet, and orowding thom into tho bags in whioh thoy wore to bo earried to the rancheria. * Bwest, all samo pudding,” cried an old woman to me, as I stood looking on, It is nota good year for grasshop- pora this {onr; 0, thoy liko tho year of which an inhabitant of Rouoville npoke to me later in the doy, when, he said, “They ato up evory bit of his gardon truck, and then sat on tho fenco and asked Lim for a chow of tobacco."—Charies Nordhaff in the New York Iribune, — e Mr. Blerstadt’s Plotures, Ar. Albort Bieratadt sont two pictures to the Viouna I3xhibition—"* Donner Lake" aud * Tho TEmerald Pool,” Tor along time theso paintings could nat be found in the exhibition, and it was supposed that they had falled to arrive. It now appoars that, by komo unaccountablo mistako, l)‘:oy wore hung in the Belglan instead of the American dopartmont, and there they romain u to the prosout timo, The urtist's naine probably misled the managors of tho exhibition as to tho source whonoe tho plolures came. ] NAPOLEONISM. Soclal Anatomy of tho Sccond Empire, Tho Inherent Bohemlanism of tho Bona. partist Tone and Manners, From the London Saturday Eetew, Inite tino tho Daily Telegraph has cortolnly bad some very wondorful correspondonts, and porhaps nono of them Liavo been moro wondor- ful in their way than the gentloman who was un-~ til lately its roprosentativoin Daris. Originalily has not always boeu the strong point of corro- apondonts of that journal, but at lonst this ono waa original. Thoro nover was anything like him bofore, and there nover lLaa boen snything liko him mince. His succoruor or aucoessors have boon only a weak imitation of thoe original arti~ clo, and the recont spasmodio offort of ono of thom to distingulsh himscl? by tolegraph- ing in breathless baste o long and dotailed nar- rativo of o partioularly confidential interview with a too colobratod lady who had just beon roquested to rollovo Paris from her presenco waa almoat a confossion of despair. It hao boen thought worth while to reprint a col- lectlon of tho groat correspondent's lottors, under tho titlo of *Court and focinl Life in Frauco undor Napoleon the Third" (Tinsley Brothors), and it must bo sald of them that thoy constitute a worthy monument both of the Daily Telegraph and of the Second Empire. From the preface wo loarn that the correspond- ont had had some personal acquaintanco with tho Emporor i the dovions bypaths of his shady oxilo, and this won for bim * peculiar 8o~ olal advantages” at Paria. Wo are also assured that his “*atyle™ was pooulintly bis own. It would cortalnly appear that, by o rare combina- tion of remarkablo qualitios, ho was poculiarly fitted not only to reprosent the Zelegraph, but to bo tho chronicler of the Empire, Tho friend of royalty, tho confidant of chamborlains and statosmon, tho chorished darling of aristocratie cotorios, dosconded to common oarth when ho sat down to describo the doings of Olympus. Ho had s hiappy way of writing history in tho racy lan- 0go of the turf and tho !moking—mom. Hia F;:lcn had all the charm of that froo and onsy convorsation which is nesocisted with the un- buttoned waiatconts, seltzer and brandy, and short black pipos; and an unbuttoned correspond ent was obviously an appropriato historian of debraille Empire, ~ The writor of the prefaco as- suresus that, although tho lettors may seom at first sight scattered and_incohorent, thero will bo found running through thom * adiatinct idos, stondily gathering consistonoy and strongth,” and this is cortainly true. Tho volumes have roally s historical valuo, for thoy illustrato in a very striking way tho peoulinr sooial charactorlstics of the Becond Empiro, and onablo us to understand tho sort of loathing and contempt with which the Bonapartis!, Court was regarded by sall decont people in Franco. 7S Tho truth ig, that down to its Iast hours tho Empiro could not shake off the ovil taint of its origin, Tho political crimo of the coup d'etat most Fronchmon would have been ready to for- givo, and probably had forgivon, It was tho so- olnl surroundings of thio Court which ruined it, All &t onco a littie knot of men who until a short timo boforo had boen living from hand to mouth a8 moro advonturors, swindling tradesmon, bilking Iandladies, punting in Iow, hells, an otherwiso oxorcieing thoir wits in tho purauit of a pracarious livolihood, suddenly found thom- selvos tho musters of ono of the richest coun- trios of tho world. The transition might have been too much evon for a moro austero virtue than was repreronted in & circlo to which the creator of Vautrin could alone havo dono fwaliu. As it was, tho result was inevitablo, Tho flloutage of Mazarin and Fouquot was rovived by the con- spirators of Docember. Never porbaps boforo in the history of the world was 8o much hungry scoundroliem suddouly put in the way of helping itselt to what it wanted. Tho lendor of tho sat had to tolorato his comEnnlonB, rud found when too late that thoy would not submit to the pru- dent restrainty which, for their own sako, as well o8 his own, he would haye Jiked to im- poso, If bo hind boon n very great man ke would possibly have got rid of troublesomo as- sociates by banlsbing or sliooting thom; but then he waa nat n very great mon, but onsy, and kindly, and gonerous in his private friondships, And, basides, unloss he had dono it very boldly, it might havo been dangorous for him to bronk «| with his former confederates. 1t is the ponalty of all conspiracios that, howover excellent may bo tho motives with which thoy are undertakon, they cannot be nccomplished excopt by the aid of persond whom it 1s difficult afterwards to shako off, and with whom contact ia pollution. T'ho plandor of the State, suspocted rathor than known, did less harm to tho now Empire, per- han tho inheront Bohomianiem of ita tone and manners. Tho Emperor himsolf nover emancipated himsolf from tho looso, free and easy habits of tho confirmed man about tawnJ but his position imposed on him a cortain regar for .appearancos which was dierogarded by tho Fleurys and Mornys. There was a taint in the atmosphiere of the Court which corrupted all who were brought within its influence, ond repolled both virtuo and honor. Wo are not speaking now so much of actual vico, but rather o& that good-humored, ensy tolerance of vice, and disposition to smile ut it and make light of it, whfi‘y’f is destructive to the moral sense. Very ‘scandalous porgons came and wons at the Im- porisl Court, and loft a bad whiff in the air, This 18 the soclety into the midst of which the sfl!ll corrospondent introduces us. Tho Daily Tele~ ram went in strong for tho Empire in thoso nys, though it hag had its little kick at tho doad lion since, and it was tha correspondent’s businoss to glorify it and sing its raiges, And his prafses aro full of his- orical significance. What thoy come to is roity much this—that tho Bonapartes know ow to keop agood houdo, that they gavo no end of partios, with floods of champagno aud fields of truflles, and did all thoy could to_mako their guosts foel very much at homo. Eyery- body knows the eort of house in privato life which corrosponds to this, whero tho “family an- tocodonta are shady and will not boar looking into, and guests are_ baitod for by lavish foasts ond freedom from the restraints of rigid eli- quetto with somothing .moro than o touch of 1nstnoss in the fresdom. Thore can be no doubt that the Tuilleries in tho Emperor's time was a yory jolly sort of houso to go to, and tho popu- larity of tho Empire with & cortain section of Engfinh gocioty and with lrnvnllng Americans had its root in this freo and casy hospitality. The bur- lesque of the ** Grand Duchess of Gerolstein,"” which is said to have driven tho Queon of Bpnln from her thromo, also mupplied o bitter com- moutary on tho social aspocts of tho Empire, which,rflku tho Grand Duchess, had all the vul« gar loosoncse of & common grisetie, and every now and thon kicled out its fino clothes with a sudden fling, The correspondent’s letters begin at tho end of 1864 and ond in sho summey of 1870, Allat onco wa ara plungod into & whitl of dunoinF and late suppors, ' Wo are at n_ball at the Foreign Offico, and tho Emperor and Empross aro pointed ou to us undor their maske aud domiuoes. Princosa Motternich gives n masked ball in Lont, the gront fonture of which is a party of ponitonts from a convent, who glide in two and two in spoctral robes and hoods, and, by way of o prac- thal Jolto, a8 it is & fasting sonson, tho company are Bont off without supper, to seck refroshmout in adjoining taverns. The Emporor and Tm- ress are here too, but disguised so that no!.md,v nows thom, The Union'and Jockoy Club'givo aball ot the Trol Frores, at which all tho ladies aro dresgod a8 grisclfes, . Dupin delivers hiy great spocoh against tho unbridled extravaganco of women, but 1t haa litile offcct, 'Tho joko of tho day is the butler coming up to toll a lady who hss just taken Lor seat in the drawing- room, that her dross is shut in tho carriagodoor, “You can't handlcap Parls and London,"” we are told, ** a8 to vico; London hiag boen pulling for yours to got woll In, but Paris can still give two Btone of iniquity,” Wo go to a party in the Ilno do Ia Viotoire—* no_crinoljne, long "drossos out vory low, snd made on’ what is ‘onllod the tir oz 1o cordon ot perloz an_concierge modol, and thoe hair arrangod in wonderful orus; add poiut and patchos to tasto, and you have a Iady of the First Empiro, a8 eho roproduces hersolf in tho Becond." 'g\s daucing is somewhat occon trio. *“I confess that » middlo-aged gontleman with spectaoles turning heols oyor load whilo hio {8 doing cavallor soul, his partner the while sitting on tho floor aud gestioulating, —nay, even tho vis-a-vis, when his turn comos, advaucing liko o cray-flsh,—are noveltics in the gracoful art of quadrille dnnulu? What thon? Wo must ohange somotimes,” Herais a paragraph that rosds strangely by tho lght of subsequent eroulas # MoND.AY, Out, 50, # To-day the Prussinns marched on 8t, Cloud and offected a lodgment., Fortunatoly it was only to play muslo to_the Cowrt, The Thirty- fourth Itogiment of Horr Von Bismarck's Line ia como to dalight tho musical ear of Paris, and it played laat night at the Olrque do 1'Imporatrice, ‘Why Priissia ehould favor Franco with ‘s fow frionda and 4 littlo muaio’ I cannot imagino.? - At tho fanoy ball at the Tuilorlos tho lmperor doos tho honors in & mantlo of whito molre, *“apparently in tho higheat possiblo nl\h:l 6, tho Princo Imporinl appoars ad Masaniollo, tho Emproens in o gorgoous Louls XVI, costumo of ruby velvoet {rimmed with fur, the halr ralsed to nvast powdored tower, profusoly decorated with diamonds, and tho Marquis de G—— ns the Angol Gabriol with a flaming sword, At ono of tho Ministors’ parties, tho Ewmplro, * pure and simplo," waa roproscuted by & lady whoso ‘‘ head wan liko s goldon glory, no walat to spoak of, ond as for crinoline, not » hoop, nota hair, nol o sparo potticont ; hor olothes clung to hor liko— what hnll T aay ? Well, liko o tight fit.” A tasto- fal articlo ln‘jewulry Ia noxt progonted to our notico—n nocklnco with twelve lookets hnngms from it of oxquisito workmanship, emblazone with tho dovicon of tlio bost and ofdost families 1n I'ranco, and containing portraits of the /* woll: wishors of tho goldon-baired daghtar of dioe sipation,” who woro tho ornamont. ,Thon we hnvon fattoring account of the appéarance of Mtlo. Corn Ponrl as Cupld ot tho Bouffes, At & maskod ball at tho Forolj night thoro sooms to bo a ball, masked or lain, ot ono of tho Minatries, or the Hotel do Ville, or the Tullerios—Crsar {8 dofootod coming onf ot o privato suppor-raom, intrigiiing ono of his fair subjects, and thon roturning to the room Inughing, At 4:95 n. m. thoro are stll pilos upon piles of trufMes, and waltors are coming in with frosh asparagus, and this is tho 8d oP Maroh, There s » ball at tho hotel of the War Minlator, whore you stop out of o hot and crowded balis room into a cool and shady_grot, with n osscade falling ovor rooks into o valloy of oxotic planta; and & fow nights aftor, anothor ball at tha Ministry of Marino, flowera growing overywhere, and paflors with drawn outlnses standing aé nttoution in a lino from tho carringes to the ro coptlon-room, In the summer of 1867 the King of Prussis, with Moltko and Blsmarok, pays hia momorablo visit to Paris, and a party of military stadents from Bt, Oyr, at a dinner party, drinl to their mecting nox{ yoar at Dorlin. Some of the invitation cards of the poriod aro charaotor- istie, Mndamo do A. recoives on_such's night, aud on saulera sans ceremonde. Madomo do B, ivos o bal intime, ladios going to which must be cssod a8 nurses, and tho mon 68 conacripts, ‘The correspondont I3 obliged to admit that very 0dd sort of peoplo got admission to tho Btats balls, Atonehio hoard a countryman of his ox. claim, T Bny, this is d—d bad wine, not 80 good a5 Pinard's,” which chocked bim vory much; “for ronlly," hio says, ¢ the Tuilories s the only placo where tho champagno is not as swoet as sugar, and iced to death.”” At thoso grand fosti- vala gallant warriors atruggle at the buffota for hot punch and coffea ico, champagne flows in rivers, and o littlo phonsant au Bois, » fow truf- 1floa en servicile, o littlo salnd @ la paradis, some pinoapplo, & fow swoet cales, and an ico ara rockoned a light supper. It 18 montioned inei~ dontally that an Imporial salad wes an actistio compound of potatoes, asparagus, poas, boans, and trufiles, dressod with oil, vinegar, and salad, It is protty clear that tho Emporor, who Lad in the first instance won ovor the army with cham- Pagno and sausages, baited for society in protty much tho samo way, Enterininments of this kind wero constantly boing given, and the chiof duty of tho Army of Parls was to serve as doc- orations for balls and supper parties. Lifo in tho Cent Gardes musat have been rathor exhaust- ing nbout this timo; and what went on in the capital wan ropeated in various degrees through. out tho country. Profects and sub-profecta kopt open housos at the oxpenso of the Bptntu; and tfle Lmpiro, in short, was & grand system of whole. salo freating. The gay and hospitable Prafoct of Rouen, who was pulled up by M. Thiors for his.dofalcations, was only a type of the systom. This aspect of the Empire ia sympathotically do- Kicted by the correspondent of the Telegraph. t tho Tullerics thoro is open houso for all comors ; balls, ronts, supper-partios follow each otbor in rapid succossion, aud thore is always somothing going on, _Aristooracy and cocollerie aro oddly confounded; fino Court ladies copy $ho drossios of the denii-monde,, and somotimoi import, a5 an oxcollent jost, tho slang and man- nors of tho original wonters, 1t must have boon ovident to many of tho revelers that this Bohe. mian paradise could hardiy last ; snd the closing chaptors of the correspondence are full of the shadows of coming events, although tho writer trlos o oxplaln thom awny ss ouly passin olouds. There i stroct-riofing in Paris, an the correspondent, liko & good Bonapartiat, from tho snug window of his rostaurant, longs for “one good volloy, and ono good chargo of cave alry,” Tho general discontont is shown'in the disposition to turn tho shooting of Viotor Noir sgainst tho Emperor, who of courae had nothin, whotovor to’ do with it; in tho clovation o Rochefort into the hero of the hour; and the po- litieal emphasis _given to Dpassages in Vietor Hugo's play of # Lucrozis Borgin.” Reapectfor, and confidence in, tho Emporor had fallen so low thot in his own palaco ho was mobbed by doputies, each anxious to put him up to Lis only chanco of safoty. Looking back, wo can ses now how the failure of the pleblscite and the Ollivior Ministry to restore confidence drove the Em- poror into tho gulf of a disnatrons war. But the ‘correspondont breaks off before that sunnd, and wo tako leavo of tho Emperor and Empross “*aupping benoath tho shadow of tho most gor- cous platonu ever scen—a emrfeut villago ot load silver, rupruaunflng Victory, Triumph, and Bucceas,” that has happened since imparts 2 somowhat ghastly effect to this rotrospect of the jrmkuunis end morrymakings of a defunct Empure, bubit has a historical mesning which should not bo missed. - QUESTION. Dear snd blessed dead ones, can you look and listen To the sighing and tho moaning down here below 2 Docs It mngn a discord in the hymns of Heaven— The fi-:o;fl that jangles in tho life you used to 0w 0 Offica—evory othor When we proy our prayers to tho great God sbove you, Does ths ocho of our praying over glance asido your ‘way ? Doyou légw {he thing voask for, and vish thet you Coutd give You wiots hansis achod with wishing, Ia your own Httlo day 7 Are your osrs deaf with pralaes, you hlessod doad of And your eyon blind with glory, that you cannok sce n’a“n;;rwl):}n’:“ hoard, you would weep smong the Aad tlo praises and the glory would bo for you n Yot o istens to our praying, the great God of pity, As Ho fills with pain tho mossura of our Lfe's liitle day; Qould Mo bear to st snd shine thers on His white throne in Heaven, But that Ho seca the ond, whilo we only soe the way 7 —Louiss Chandler Moulton, in the Atlantic for July. — e The Lntest Snnke Story. On Saturday, June 28, Josoph Hulso, a wood- chopper, of Cornwall, N. Y., was biften by a rattlosnake, Whilo on Btorm-King Mountain, five miles up, he encountored & sorpent, aud wantiug one for a friond who had rhenmatism— the Loliof of many heroabouts boing that snake groaso is a cure for it—ho ohased the snako, which took rofugo in & woodpile, and Hulsg goizod him by the back of (he neck, but so far {from the hoad that it contrived to turn and plant ono of its fangs in tho {ndox finger of his right hand, Hulso held fast to his snake, neverthe- logs, stampod his hoad off, and then spont half an hour in looking for whito-ash lenves, which are bolioved to be an antidoto for the poison, He found none to sult him, however, and started for Comnwall. He was bitton at 7, and it waa 11 o'clock when ho reached the village, and Dr, Beattio was summoned. At this time the arm and fiogor woro very much swollon and vo: gangrenots, tho gotion of tho heart almos! censod, and the man sgemed liko one in & state of intoxication. Dr, Beattlo hastily cut the fin- or opon, and administerod Lwo quarts of whis- fiy!n twonty minutes ; lsudanum -and quinine wero also administered in large quantities, nnd, notwithstanding tho loss of throo and a half pintas of blun§ from the finger, tho pulse in- cremsod, and Hulso bocame perfectly consoious, o is, aftor elevon days,in* AEpnrenH{ fioufl hoalth, with oxcellent appetito, but ns black as any African in New York, Tho black {8 ocea~ sionally stronked with bluo, purple, and green, which appoar and disappear nltornatoly. e S S A Waman in a Bnlloon. Mr, Jobn Bhooror mado an ascension from Toadiug, Pa,, in o balloon, acoompaniad by his wife, E‘hu n’mdlng_fiingwx’ausx i s *The balloon shot straight to zonith until b struck an u})xznr ourront of air, when it voored away beautitully to the east-by-south, At ona timo tho balloon was over two millos high. Mrs, Bueeror ologed hor eyos until thoy had roachod an_ altitude of 500 foot, = whon she looked out and ' viewed thé hoau- tiful peanorama strotched ont in beau- titul magnificonco bolow, Instond of bocomin) frightencd, tho was ontirely the rovorso, an axprossed horuolf ay boing highly delighted with ballooning, Under the direetion of hor husband, shio rogulated the ballest, and mado heraolf quita userul, Iufact, the lady was so much pleased with acrial uavigstion, that sho insisted upon making an uumu‘ion alono, The landing was somewhat rough, though attended by no inju- ries, Thoy camodown in a flold, and wore bumped soveral timea againat the ground ; but as the balloon noared a fonoe, the anchor was omat out and tho air-ship aTod."