Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 20, 1873, Page 7

- &0 tho President. PRESIDENT JEFFERSON. How He Exercised the Ap., pointing Power. His Seropnlousnoss with Regard to Deriving Porsonal Advantngo from Dis Offico. Jamea Parlon, in the Atlantio Monthly for Auguet. ‘He wonld not appoint mon to office merely bo- aune thoy wero conaplonous partisans, Tho- notorious Oallendor was a cago in polnt. Ho was a sdurrilous, fortile, forcible writor of the day, who had been prosecuted under tho Bodition law, and 8o made odirty martyr of. * Ropublicans had been compolled to give him aid and comfort in his distress, because ho was tho victim of a law they abhorred. Upon. tho tri- :umph of- the- Republican party, ho came to Jof~ forson, askting as & veward for party services the Richmond post-ofilco, worth 81,600 o year. Jof-! yorson rolioved his necessitios with money, but rofused him thoe place, simply because ho was “unfit for it, and thus gained ono of the most <implacable and indecont vituperators & publio sorvant over had. George Rogers Clarke, too, & ‘horo vhom ho rovered, ho often longed to em- “ploy, oa tho most skilifid- managor of all Indian sffairs tho country .possessod. . But he did not. The roagon. was, .Whisky. Ho gave. Gon. -Clarke's brother - & .commission’ and an eppointrient ; but not the man who, -bad © aided. to give his country libs -erty, only to become himself a slavo. Nor did -Thomas Paine realize his eo\m of shooling the ~Bishops and old ladios of {he English Court. by going a8 Beoretary of Logation to London, Jei~ Torson give him a safe pasange Lome {n & _mans, of-war, roceived him with honor st the White' House, with cordiality at Monticollo, and ox- changod philosophic nows with him ; butdid not wond him to do what ho could not do,—represent & clean, sober, orderly peoplo in a forelgn land, 4And when it becamo apparont that Chancellor Livingston's growing denfness ronderod him an’ inoficiont Ministor a the Coust of Napoleon, Jeftorson risked'losing tho lnp%(()rt of tho Btato of New Yorls, first, by sonding Monroe to help bim, and aftorwards by recalling him. DBut “ the mosat remarkable case was that of John Ran- folph, tho sharp-tongued leader of tho Repub: lican party in the Houso of Reprosentatives. Ho was suggested by o friend for tho English mission. Mr. Jefforson ‘wag silont, Mr. Madi son also waived tho subject. Thon the friend ressed his_ claims, ond” othor mombers of the ouso added solicitations. The President with~ . held the appointment. John Randolph srent - Into opposition, in which his single small talont shone like a thin, koon rapler fu the sun. The only objection to his sppointment ‘was, that he was ludicrously unfit for.s post raqu(rin pa- g:ncn. prudence, self-control, industry, snd ad- . dress. Jofferson took great caro to gob the right man Zor the right place. 5 In fact, a ruler of men, whethor he is & public or o private person, has but two dutios to per- form~to seloct tho right nssistants, and to treat thom go a8 to get out of them tho bost servico 4hom have in them. That is the wholo art of govoring, and Jofferson koow it. * Thore ig nothing,” he wrote to u friond in May, 1801, I &m g0 anxious about as malking tho best possi- ble appointments.” DBut how dificul the task m s country 8o extonsivo as tho United States, whore orgonal knowl- edgo iz impossible! s ohiof roli- anco sooms to have been upon the unsolieited rocommendation of men in whom he had con- fidence. Thus, ho wroto to Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina, very early in hia firat yoar: “In sll cagos when su oflico becomes vacant. in your Btato, I shall bo much obhged to you to recom- mond tho heat charactors.” Jefforson was curl- ously happy in his appointmonts, and the reason was that ho never alighted this chief duty, and was, from the first, on his ard agalnet tho recommondations of thoughtless, unprincipled good-nature. He would have mado more successes of this kind even then ho did, but for the inadequate compensation attached to tho most importaut posts ; which limits a Prosi. dent’s choice o & fow individuala excoptionally cirenmatanced. Many of his letters oi!arlnf; ap- yointments show how much be Ismented his in- wbility to offer * duo remuneration,” Ho would not give an appointmont to & reln- ivo. At tho first view, this seems unjust to the honorable and capable familios who wore relatod 3 It has tha i;:ir of cmtuta:xs choap and casy popularity, an is_opon to tho obiastion of pltahing the aote 00 Ligh for the Limited rango of human nature. But his convic- tions on the point wore cloar and strong; and Prof. Tucker rocords that ho acted on this rinciple throghout lifo in the administration of fma Thus, a8 Rector of tho University of Vir, ho opposed tho appointmont of & nophew to a Professorship, though he was well qualified for the place, ,dreadiog lost it should opon a door to tho system which “hns made uni- voraities and _church endownents in other Iands more’ appondagos to the catates of governing amilies, Ho was nobly seconded in hia roso- lution by his own kindred. Imagino his delight on receiving from one of them, George Jeffor- Bon. a fow days aftor his inauguration, » lotter spontangously _declining' to bo »_ candidate for o Foderal office to which his neighbors and frionds do- Bired to reoommeond him. ‘Tho, publio,” wrote tho President, ** will nover bs mado to boliove that an appointment of a rolative is mndo on the ground of morit alono, uninfluenced by family viows; nér can ihe{ evor 5o With ap- rmbafinn ofticeu, the disposal of which they in- rust to their Presidenta for ‘mbhc purposes, vided out as family property.” Ho owned ihup tho rule bore hardly upon & Presidont’s roln- tions; but the public &‘ood, ho thought, required tho sacrifice; for which their share in tho pub- fic esteem might be considered some compen- sation, “I ‘could not bo satisfied,” snid he, “until I assured you of tho inoreascd estcem with which this transnotion fills mo for you.” His two sons-in-law did not suffer irom the rulo, since their neighbors kept them both in tho Housio of Represontatives. Here, lfil\n, the President showod his nicae regard for tho mental integrity of others. In hié intorcourse with theso gontlomen, it was a thing undorstood be- tween them, that messurce peuding in thelr. House wers not to be a topio of conversation ; and if, by chance, conversation took that turn, T carefully avoid,” soya Jofforson, ‘‘oxpressing on opinion on them in their presence, that we may all be at our case”” Tho rule, happlly, did’ not excludo friends, and he 'thus had the ploasuro of uppnint(ni to the piace of Commissioner of Loans st Richmond, the be- loved comrade of his youth, John Page. But he would not exempt frieuds from the op- eration of a good rule. It was an oid_opinion of his, which now be- came a rule of his adminiatration, that a forcign tministor should not remain sbrasd more than seven or eight years, Ho drow this opinion from his own experienco. ‘ When I returned from France,” Lo once explained, ‘* after an ab- nencs of six or soven years, 1 was astonished at the change which® { found had taken lace in ~ the United Biates in that time, o more like the same pooplo; thelr notions, their habits, and mannors, the courso of their commorco, uotohuychnngné that 1, who staod in thoso of 1784, found myself not at all qualified to spoak of thelr gentiments, or forward their views, In 1700." Henco the rule, But it excludod from the {:inbuo service two of his oldest friends, David Humphreys and Will- tam Bhort, both of whom had sorved under him na Booratary of Logation before atiaining the rank of Plenipotentiary which they then held. }Illmphrogn had been absent from "home eloven years, and Short seventeen yoars, Ono of Joffer- son’s firat acts was to recall Iumphroys, which be goon followod by deolining to tiaus- for Bhort to Paris, where ho felt the nced of just such a tried and vigilant Ministor, % Your appointment,” he wroto to Mr. Short, **wag impossiblo- after an absonce of seveuteon yeara. Under any other oircumstances, I should never fail to give to yoursolf and the world srao{a of my friendshif for you, and of my con- denco in you.” He turnod no man out of office bocause he was OPX““ to bim in politics, od {Bt he dld, during tho first two yoars of bis firal term, romave twenty-six Foderalista and appoint Ropublicans in thelr stoud, Aftor that, thera wero soarcely any romovals ; and Repub- licans wero only appointed to vacancies croated by denth or resiguation, And now with regard to thoso twonty-six. The result of the Presl- dential eloction of 1800 was known in Washing- ton ou tho 12th of Docembor, & little leas than three montha beforo thoeud of Br. Adams' term. During that interval, somo valuable life offices fell vacant, hwuty-{our Judgeships woro created,, and sevoral placos held durl ng tho Prealdent’s plensure woro vacated. Mr. Adams hastenod to 01l thero oftices, from thut of Chlef Justice of the Buproma Court to Postmaster, lenfinflznol one of them to_hiu successor. HBuoh was the primitiva condition ol the pohil- cal” mind ‘in 1801, }!u.t Republicaus ro« conolling_his own gardod this conduct aa tho lnst dogreo of indeconoy, and Jofferson shared the fooling, Indeed, for 8o placid and placable a ‘;umlamnu. bo was highly lndlgnnnt,' and two or threo yonrs passad bofora o conld “ hoartily forglvo” hin old friend Adams for ylolding, in so unsworthy & manner, to the “préssura™ of his. partisans, Ho rosolved not to rogard thoso. nppoint- monts; which, ho maid, Mr. Adams know Lo wna not meking for himsolf,” but for n msuccessor. *This outrage _on doconcy,” he wroto to hia old colleague, Gen. Kuox, who had written to congratulate him on hiet oloction, “should not have its offoct oxcopt in tho life-nppolntments, which aro irremovablo; but, a8 ta tho others, I considor the nomainations a8 ntllitlos, and will not vlow the porsons ap- rolutud 10 evon candidates for thoir offico, much logs a8 posucssing it by any titlo moriting re- spoct.” Thoso oflocs wore ixteon {n numbor. olr inoumbonts woro all' romoved during tho {lrnt yoar, and Ropublicans appointed to fill thom, Tho othor ten removals, most of which ocourred in tho socond year, wore for threo cnusos: 1. Official migconduct 3 3. “‘Active and - bitter op- ;mumm\" (to uso the Presidont's own fords) “to ho ordor of things which the publie will hins eatablished:” Thoro was n third ronton for ro- moval, which tho Presidont thus ux})lnlnud: - *¢Tho courts belng so docidedly F'edoral and ir- romovablo, it is believed that Iiepublican Attor- neys end Mnsbals, being tho doors of entrance into tho courts, are in- dispensably pecossary o8 & shield to the Ropublican part of our {fellow-citizens, which, I betove, ia the main body of the paoplo.’ Accordingly, although the oxpiration’ of the Alion and Bodition Lawa rendored tho Federal courta losa dangerous to fraedom than thoy had Izmm,d four or five of thoso officials wero re- movad. ‘The outery caused by this moderato excorefss of the Presidont’s power cannot bo imngined by roaders of tho presont day, Joorsou, indoed, stood botween two firos—tho Fedorallate obricking with most vigorous unanim- ity s each hoad droppod iuto tho baskot; and tho Republican host muttering remonstrance that tho decapitating instrument worked so slowly. Tho donunoiation of tha Foderalists he ould not avold; but be showed much tnct in ro- artisons to this modersto course. To more partisans, he would show how much bottor it was Lo have an nblo Fedoralist Euslvo nnd scquicscont in office, and ol is circle of frionds qoniot for his sako, than, by turning bimout of office, to convo: him nd s fanuly into vigilant, embittorad op- ‘pouents,’” To men who, llke himself, desired to 8oo tho wholo body of citizons restored to good- humor, his appeal was to thelr sense of the just snd the becoming, The Tammany Bocioty of Baltimore doputed o young membar, who was folng'to Monticollo, to make known to tho Pres- {dont the discontont of tho Boclety at seclng 6o many Fodoralists still in offico. Tho following conversation is reported by tho deputy : Prepidont—I should be vory glad to gratify my frionds {n Baltimoro by turning the I'cdernlista out of offico, and filling thelr placos with men of my own rmr{ . But thore is an obstacle in the way which I cannot remove,—a quostion which I have not beon ablo to solve. Porhaps you can do this for mo. > Young. Tammany—I dospair of solving and problem that pnzzies Mr. Jofforson, but I desire to_hear what it is. Presidont—Woll, sir, wo are Ropublicans, and ‘wo aro contending for the right of suffrage. Is it noteo? Young Tammany—Yes, sir. Prosident (who had not read ‘his Plato for nothing)—We would not, therofore, put any ro- mb? upon tho right of suflrage as it alroady 5 2 Yonni Tammany ?mvmruetl by the fate of thoso who eought” wisdom from Bocrates)—By Do moans, sir. * Prosidont—Toll mo, then, what s tho diffor- onco botweon donying the right of suffrago, snd punishing a man for exoroisingit by turning him out of oftico ? Thoe doputy could not answer this question, “Thad toleave bim where I found lum," ho used to eay in tolling tho story. The President held firmly in his courso, unmoved by tho oxecra~ tions of Federalists and the romonstrances of Re- publicans, A¢ o moment in his second year, whon the opposition was vituporative bsyond all provious expericnco, ho wrote fo a member of lus Cabinet: “ I still {hink our original idoa as to oftice is bost ; that is, to de- goud for tho obtainng o just participation on leathe, resignations, and “delinquoncies, This will least affoot _tho hnnqumt{‘:l tho pacple, oand provont their giving in to tho suggestion o our encmies, that ours has boen o contest for office, not for principlo.” I wish ho could have gono ono step furthier, and admitted tho right of overy office-holder to paes his _leisura hours oxactly ‘as ho chose. I wish ho ‘had not ndded : ‘“Ta thoso means of obtaininy *n just share in tho transaction of tho publichusi- ness ehall bo added one another, to wit, romoval for olectioneoring activity, or open snd industri- ous opposition to the prineiples of tho present Govornment, Logislative and Executive. Every ofiicer of the Government may vote ot cloctiona “according to his consclonce'; but wo should bo- tray tho cause committed to our care wero we Lo pormit the influence of oflicial patronngo to be .uged to averthrow that cause,” Thetendonsy o {Governmonta to becomo exces- slve is 5o strong, constant, and insidious, that no head of a government will over resist it un- loas the ambition that controls bhim is somothing nobler than porsoual, Jofferson was one of thoso who gave this best praof of a disinterostod love of nght principles. Every offico in his control that * wns not moccesary was supprossed, snd tho wholo apparatus of Governmont—military, naval, judicial, oxecutive —waa_roduced {n quantity, 'We might sum up his policy 1 this particular iu a sentenco : Tho men you do employ, pay adequately; make it worth the ablest mon's whilo to serve the Gov- ernment ; but employ no two men to do ono ‘man's worl. . Ho doclined to roceive presents while in offico. Bat ho mado one oxception. 6, ho ro- coived a prosont of a bust of tho now. ifimpumr of Russla, Aloxandor, with whom he had much friendly intercourse during his second term. Ho thus acknowledged tho recoipt of this work : * I had laid down as & law for my conduct whila in oflico, end hitherto scrupulonsly obterved, to acoopt of no prosent beyond a book, a pamphlot, or other’ curiosity of minor valug; ag woll to nvold imputation on my motives of action a4 tp shut out u practico susceptiblo of euch abuee. But' my ,particulur osteem for tho char- ncier of o Emporor places his image, in’ my mind, sbove tho scops of law. I roceivo it, therofore, and shall cherish it with affection. It nourishes the contum))lluon of all the good placed in his power, and of his disposi- tion todo it,” An instance of hia sorupulousness with rogard to deriving personal advantage from his offico has only lately como to light. A private letter of his to Gen. Muhlenburg, Collector at Phil- adolphis, concorning & purchase of wine, was found, a fow years ago, by a_descendant of that officer, and sont to Mr, Greeloy for publication. ;f I wgr::d C:Heutor, I wnu(l’d hnvcult prlnltml], ramod, ung up in wy Custom-Iouse. 1t is dated Feb, 0, 18( Jap x Dzan 8m: Mons, d'Yrujo, the Spanish Minister here, has beon o kind as to spare mo two hundred Dottles champagno, part of a larger parcel imported for own use, aud_consoquently privilegod from dutys Dut it would'be improper for e fo tako the benet of hat, T must therefore ask the favor of you to tako the er moauros Lor paying o duty, for whiclh purpose I inclose you a bank check for twenty-iwo and a half dollars, the amount of it. If it could be done without mentioning rmy name, it would avold ill- intended obsorvations, a8 in some wuch way o this, o D‘y duty paid on a part of such a parce) of wincs not entitled {0 privilege,” or inany othor way you ploase, The wine was imported into Philadelphin probably sbout midsummer last, Accept assurances of my great esteom and respoct, . JEFFERSON, GEN. MUNLENDERG, s i HELP! Lost in the maelstrom of this sinless world's disdain, Crouchod on & plor that cropt aut from tho eliy, Bbp plotured to liersol( hor mate in grint and pals, And, sell-oblivious, wopt in forvid pity, Thanmosns and dizey thoughte—a shivoring wish to share ‘Phie {rlendly grave's relensn from speatral haunting: Fato holdlng out tho awful ohalico of denpalr, And asp-fangod mem'rios choruaing tholr tauntings, An fll-precursing scono—she mid her dead hopea' ghosts, A youthful type of Karth's most wrotchad daughtors; Oigrhioad, tho uatyal sparkliuge of tlio widniglt husie; Below, tho pulsiugs of tho alooping walers. Joun MoQovEny, —_— WUnintentlonnl Cannibalism, Tho following anecdote ia told of Sir Bartle Frero when at Zanzibar: Sir Bartlo and his son, during an expodition ‘‘up country,” had im- rudently wandored from their eecort, and lost helr way, Aftor some timo thoy porcoived & noaro‘u hut, and, tired and hungry, pro- coaded fo clafm hospitailty, An old negross appeared at the door and gnve thom some eggs, which our envoy at onco converted into” an omelotto, and seelng numbera of littlo round black bally susponded from the raof, and rnuo&ng thom to bo mushrooms, pop- ped them into the pan, utterly disregarding tlio old woman's anxious remonsteances. - A fter thelr meul, in camo the owner of the eabln, who, on loarning what bis visitors had done, broke into & violont rago, “ Miserable straugers,” oried e, “ you have eaten all my war trophies ;" and, in answer to 8ir Bartle's Inquiries, informod him that what he had taken for mushrooms were not loss than the ear of his enomies whom ho hnd kalled in Dattlo. Bir Bartle Frero was {ll with in- digestion for four days,.~—Faris Figaro, g | Thoy are froauently but hal HE CH ICAGO 'DAILY TRIBUNE SUNDAY,‘ J 1873." PERSIA. It's Past and Presont. Tho Ciimate, Productions, Government, People, Eto, Now that tho Bhiah of Torsla is vielting owr Europoan noighbors, and, according to tho let- ter~writors, not oxbibiting an oxcoss of goad manuors, willit not Lo intoresting to look up Poraln briefly, and oxamine tho home of this gorgoous Orlonial, nnd #oo what his maunors and morals aro tharo ? When the countries through which he is now Journoying were totally unkuown, Yorsia was in ita primo. Its carly history is much mized with fablo. Its original namo wag ELAY, #o called from tho son of Shom, who was the gon of Nonh ; and Elam's descendants woro its firab inbabitants. In tho reign of Cyrus the Great, Perstan history becomes movo authontio, oxnug {8 an actunl poreonngo, whose acts aro roal, and to whom tho Bible gives no brief mention. Rot- lin, in his historigs, dovotes many pogos to him “alono. Xenophon's nocount ot Cyrus is not sup- posod to be a faithfal record of facts, o8 much as it is an ideal skotch of a model King govorning® & perfeatly-rogulatod Kingdom, Cyrus conquer- ed Babylon; newly-disciplinod his gront arm; fnrishied them with hand-to-hand weapons, be- sldos thoir bows and orrows; armod his war- ohariots with soythes ; and, in this manner, pro- pared for n poacoful. reign. He restored tho Jawa to their own Iand, sud did many other no bl acts, and, after n quiot;roign ovor his vast do- minions, oxpirod 1n tho yonr 530 boforo the birth of Christ. What young and innocont countries wa must nppear to be to this ssine Bhah! No wouder that le disregards etiquetto, eats with his fingors, throws uninviting mor- sols from his plato upon the carpet or upon tho Empress' dress, or that bo pushes her by the nrm ng though shoe woro a commen mor- tal. She counot trace baok hor ancestry toa di- roct doscoudané of AN INMATE OF THE ARK; hor ancestors did not hoar or aid tho lovely Jow- osacn when they could not sing thoir. nativo songa in caplivity. AL, no! the King and Queon of Prussin are sitogether too young in theirancestral troo to bo objects of great respact {from this doscondant of tho anclent Elamites. Porsin is about as largo 88 Austrin, Franco, and Bwitzerland put togotlier; is noarly 1,000 milos long, and 600" wido ; and is said to have 9,000,000 of inhabitants, 1T8 OLIMATE 1 pingular ; ono can find eithor extreme, groat hoat aud intenso cold. Many of its moantaing are covered with poarpetual snow ; while, on tho shores of the Persion Gulf, woAind the torrid zono. Itis vol conie, and earthquakes aro frequont visi- tors, which show its underground fires; dut, with all theso disndvantages, the atmos- phere, excopting around tho Caspian Bea, is ro- markablo for ts dynosg aua purily, Whoro water can bo procured, artificial irrigation woa | formerly much practiced ; but, owing to the insocurity of proporty, and to oxcossive tax- ation, agrioulture, in all of its branches, is much noglected, aud consoquently famines are fro- quout and foarful, Tho Pereisus, as a State, aro never in dobt, ns oxtra exponscs aro immo- diately met by BXTRA TAXATION. Tho cost of tho exponsive tour that the Shah i now malking will bo wruug ot of his now misorable and half-starved subjects, in emnll sums or in l"g"' Just as his rapacious tax- gathorers sco fit. “Would it not have boen moro like & Princo to bove sparcd o fow of his diamonds and emoralds, of which so much is said, sud-to havo ted his million of sub- jeots who died in oue year of starvation? Tho parado in Englond over this dospot, this Moham- modan sensualist, i sinply dlu(iusfing; but it 18 tho ndoration which the English have fora titlo, and for thouhow and glittor of powor, In Ceraln thovo are many littlo salt inkos, which do notadd to the fertility of the soil, and great beds of hard, dry clay. The whoat ihat is produced thero isthe FINEST IN TUY WORLD ; and zotton, the Persian Ambnssndor told tho English, at tho bresking out of the American Rebellion, could, be raised in sufficient quantities _to aupr{ tho spindlos of all Weatorn Europo. Silk, carpets, flue goods, hair, splondid horses, camals, cattlo, goms, ane marble are among the oxports. Wolves, tigers, ‘buffalocs, and foxos aro some of the wild nni- mals ; oud it is enid thut Hons and leopards aro algo found in somo parts of tho country. Tducation is in & very low staga.” 01d, ox- ploded systems aro tsught. Astronomy is so mixed with nstrology that the sclence is lost, while the superstition remaing, The buildings in the citios oré mean, oven among the ricl ; but nearly all have lovely gardens attaclhed ; ang the intorior of the housgea 1 much moro attrac- tivo than the exterior. Tho 8héhis & PURE OBIENTAL, DESFOT, . holding the lives of his subjects nnrestricted in bis handa; ordering them Lo bo beheaded, tortured, or flogged ; conflecating thew property, or directing thom to' bring him coul‘lz Prosents, ot his own pleasure. Woman is held in the esti- mation that sho always is whero the Mohamme- dan roligion provails,—simply as an instramont of pleastro to hor lord and waster. t is to bo hopod that this Europcan vist may be the monus of enlightening tho Shah and his snito ; but the eilly adulation by which hofs fol- lowed will doubtless pufl bhie "already-inflated Majosty to a still greatorextent. Yo should come to the United Btatos, and especially to Chicago, which aided his starving subjects while bo dulfied in his harom, with jewols upon his Yarunn largo onough insize andprico tohave fed, f aold, his starviug and dying peoplo. We would tunch him bettor things. Mps. D. F. Groves. Tho Persin of To-Dny. The Magazine of Foreign Literature contains & brief desoription of Pervis, of which the fol- Iowing is an oxtract, drawn from the roporta of tho Bocretary of the British Legation in Vieuna, ‘who traveled in Porsia in 1872 *The Yms\mt cn&(tal. Tohoran, unites in itselt noarly all possiblo dogrecs of hoat and cold, In mid-winter missionaries skate, to the amusement of the Shah and his Ministers, on long shoets of ico, which are protocted by high walle against tho rays of the sunm, which are alsoin wintor Poworlul in order that tho ice may last the ongor. huring the summer every one who can f“ away goos to the slope of tho Elboorz Moun- aing ; thoso who must remain live in the hoat of the day1n subterrancan rooms, and at night on tho roofs of the houses, in an atmosphere so dry that ono cannot catoh cold, Good roads aro found hut rarely, or not at all, and traveling ia dono on horaebadk; but tho Shah, for his own convenionce, hos had built to Lis country resi- ilancfh a nhwny about one Germau milo in ength, “!El‘ruvaling ia not evorywhore without danger, for thore sro wild, nomadic hordes, who atfack and glnm]er single travelers as woll an caravans, ‘The Bhah has too many soldiers for the revenues of the country, but too fow for its securities. Theso soldiors drain the country, but look, nover- theless, starved, shabby, and raggediy-uniformed. t-armed, and soem rather like robbers or beggars than protoctors of tho country. Thoy also rarely recelve their pay rogularly, " ‘Chey drill in the Europoan manner, bub vory negligently; in faot, thoy show thoir docay on their faces just na the eonnlfiy dooes, “Yorsia is in many Flacus covered with tho decayod ruins of vory old, old, snd new capitals. Pasagardn, the oldest capital and rosidonce of Poruia, in Parsis, noar the frontier of Karmanin, conteined in & fine parc the tomb of Oyrus, ity founder, who built {he town as a monument of tho viu[nr.v ho had gained here over tho Modlan Astyages, To the mnorthwest of it waa Perscpolis, founded by Cnambyses, en- lorged and besutified by Darius I. and Xorxos, LKebatauln, at prodent called. Hama- dan, was, on nccount of {ts ngraouhln climate, tho summer rosidenco of tho Porsian aud Par- thian Kings; & most magnificont clty, with a splondid royal palaco, 'loheran, the' prosent onpital of Porsia and residence of the Shah smceo tho last contury, can hardly show a dacont Luilding besides the palacos of tho Bhal and somo of his favorites. ‘Iho streets are narraw, ourved, and ill-paved, the rooms of the houses low and poorly turnished, 10 genuino Porsians,males and femalos, aro etill good-looking nnd well-grown, with su al- mont Glorman expression of faco, but lean and foeble, Tho only things in tho country that havo consorved thomselvea beautiful and puwor- ful are tho hordes, Dut ability and taste, wit and Lumor, cannot Liave attogathor diod out, for in tho bazars are found many articles for uvo and luxury, ‘The obiof blessing of Porsla, tho "Thoy have no Esquires at tasty fruitn of all kinds, and the light winos of Ecbatann or Hamadan, still deserve all the prajse given thom by tho poot Hnfiz.” il o S EPISTOLARY COURTESIES. Tho courtosloa of lottor-writing in tho varions countries of Europo diffor almost as much ag tholr languagos. Buffon it was who firet snid that tho siyle is tho man, Ko might havo added that tho stylo proclaimed the natlon. Derbaps of nll tho nations of Buropo tho English aro the stiffost and moat formel in tholr correspondenco, moro espocially with thoso to whom they aro porsonally unknown, and who.nre thoir inforiors in rauk or social position. If & gentloman or lady, whon absont from home, has occasion to writo o Iottor of instructions to & malo or fomnle sorvant, tho atyle is studiously dry and lnconio 8a n’tologram, and contalns no word of compii~ mont or courtesy. Whon Jonos writes to Brown,' whom Lo hss nover scon, ho nddrosses him ny ¢¢8ir," and subsoribos himaclf, ** Your obedient, humblo sorvant ;" though ho ia neithor obodiont, nor humblo, and would bo offonded if you really considered him to bo 8. When Brown writes to Robinson, with whom ho is on moro or less friendly terms, tho word *Bir" is too st for intimacy, and ho addrossos him as ¢Doar sir,” or * My doar sir,” or * Doar Robinson,” or ¥ My @oar Robinson ;" and subscribos hitsolf * Yours vory truly,” or *Yours very sincorely,” ot +*Youra faithfully,” ox “Yonra vory faithfully.") Whon love-lottors sie in quostion the satyle, warms, and tho *dosrs,” and tho * dnrlings,": and the * devotedlics,”. andtho “affectionato- les,” como Into play. With theso I shsll not presume to moddle. Thoy aro of tho tonder, foilics of tho bost period of human lifo, snd not to be turned Into ridicuto either by the bard ‘head or tho hard honrt, unless in & law court in n cage of breach of promise, Itis with the ordinary style of ad- dress only that I prasame to treat, than which nothing more formal or unmeaning can woll be fmogined. Tako, for instanco, tho title of Lu- quire, which moans a shield-bearer. Thore are no shiolds in ourdays oxcopt in tho thoatres, consequontly thore arono shield-bearers. The titlo, ovon whon it was a reality, and signified n truo thing, moant no more than & neophyte in tho profesaion of arms, and & sorvant to a supe- rior, who was called n chovalior, a knight,n rider, or o horsoman, Everybody with a decent ooat upon his back among the Anglo-8sxon, or, moro proporly, tho Colto-Saxon races in Gron Britain aud Xmurlcn. considers himaolf entitied to bo callod g shicld-bearer, aud should the high- 2; vospeotable John Brown (Esquire) be ad- oused a8 Mr. John Brown, ho comes to the conclusion before ho opens tho peceant opistle that it was oithor dispatclied by somebody who monnt to insult him, or by a plaguey atfornoy dunning him for a dobt. i In this rospoct the French aro moro gonsible. ond Monsiour is ag high a title na thoy usually bestow. The oldest gon of tho old Kings of tho Bourbou line was Monsiour par oxcollenco—tho Monsicur who took precedenco over all tho Monsieura whatso- ever. They have, howsver, a far groater varioty of epistolary phraseology than the English, and subscribo their lotters after a fashion which to an Englishman scoms :Bm\n’lmb]z roundabout, cumbrous, and affeoted, If they begin with the 4 Dear sir,” thoyend with the lumburinfiphmsm “Receivo, sir, tho assurance of the high consid- eration with which X have the honor to bo, your yory obedient, humble sorvant,” The term of buman lifo ought to extend to at loast 150 years, it poople who write many letters aro to appond such pororations us this, or othors equally wire- drawn, which the French delight toemploy. The Gormnns aro oven more punctilious, and it roquires long sludy of their language and lonz(' aoquaintance with tho poopla to be ablo to decide whother a man_is xsim&)ly to be called-| eir, or high-born sir, or high and well-born, 5is or nobly-bora sir, or high, well, and nobly-born sir, or, worst or best of n‘l, most serens, Aud 83 in English parlanco tho striolly grammatical and poatical “thou,” the propor pronoun to be omployed when addressing n singlo individual, hins beon supersoded by tho plural you," which means sovorsl individualy, so in the German the “thou” and the “‘you” have both been super- sodod, and & singlo porson is dosignated * thoy,” as in the phrase, “Wio befindon sie sich?" “Jow do they find themsolyas#" instond of “How do you do?" Tho courteous Italinns desigunto nvn? oqual and B\I?uxior a8 ** Your graco,” or *‘Your oxcellonoy,” and speak to every ono as ‘“‘she” or “‘her.” I will visit you,” is rendered “ I will visit her,” the fomi- nine pronoun doing dntfil‘ot the feminino nouns grace aud oxcellonoy, which are always undor- stood, though not always oxprossed. In busiuess lettors tlio Itallans novor use tho words ¢aro_aignoro, or dear sir, as tho English do, but addrees their correspondont s * Most osteemed sir,” varying the stylo of address by such opithets as ‘¢ Honorable,” ** 1llustrious,” * Most gentle,” * Most noble.”" If you address- od your tailor or. boot-maker by letter, neither would bo surprised, or offonded, or sun[;llciaus of a joke, if you wrote on tho en- volopo, Most illustrious eir, and signed ourgolf, Your most dovolod. These - aro he usual forms cmpioyed by tho bulk of the pooplo, Ly tradosmen, artisans, olerks, milllnors, sorvants, aud others, and a sorvant- girl would not think woll of suy lover who did not addross hor as “Illustrissima signora.” The Zfollowing lotter, translated vorbatim, was ad- drossed, after o quarrol at a_drinkiug bout, by one angry disputant to another, whom he chal- lengod to o duel: MosT EsTreaeD 8in: Permit me {o inform you that yousro apig. Yes, my beloved one, It s my loten— tion in a short timo to spoil your besuty nfihlr by sword or pistol, Tho choice shall be loft to you, ns Doth weapons are { mo quite indifferent, Hoplug ag0u {0 lisve the pleaurs of & chorlshed answor, 1 de. clare mysolf to be, honorablo elr, yours most Jevol- odly, (CARLAVEDO, ‘Tho statoly Spaniards, in addressing a lotter of business to.a commercial firm, instend of the * Bir " or ** Gentlomen” of the English, or tha * Monsisur” or * Messiours " of the Krench, write My very sir, or Our very sits, nud subscribe themeelves Your very attentive, or Your very obodient sorvants, It eooms to mo that in this busy age the lot- tor-writors of the world would do woll to smend their stylo of address, and revert to tho simple luxlulsuulogy employod by the ancient Romans. w truly sourtoous was the Roman mothod, T¢ Lucius Verus wished to writo to Scipio Africa- nus, he did not l;:i;ln My dear Scipio, and ond with Yours vo ly, but went stralpht to the point, and said, Luoius Verus to Scipio Africa- nus, grecting: aftor which, without further pa- laver, he would;proceed to businoss. Would it not bo o saving of timo if we wore to imitato this excellont old fashion? And why should not. Bmith minimize trouble h{ addroasing Brown af- tor the classical mothod : “Smith to Brown, groot- ing, Bend me ton tons of your bestcoals,— lowest price ;" or “Jones to Robinson, groeting. ‘Will you dino with me, noxt Thuredsy, ot the Mogathorium, at 6 precisely ? The one word, “ greoting,” inoludes all that is nocessary in tho way oither of friendship or politeness, and would Answer every }mrpoun in the ordinary intercourso of life. DBut it would never do for love-lattora, Theso always did, and always will, stand apart a8 & literaturo by ihnmealvua, governod by their own laws, by their own impulses, Had a Roman lover simply sent n ** fir:atlng " tohis Loabis or his Aspasina, Lesbia or Aspasia, it ablo to read, which in alf probability sho was not, would haye had fair cause to complain of his coldness. So T oxcopt tho love-lottora.—All the Year Round. FINAL. **80~—n0 moro vain words be eald 1" Abovo the wretched yearn, B0 deoply scorod with tears, Your eager voico rings out, ihat nonw who hicar my doubt, Boneath a Bouthorn sun, Onca a great wrong waa done, aw cauld a child’s eyes sce Into lite's mystery ? Dut knowledge, dearly bought, This necdful lgsson faught : Who, lovalean, love's vow takes, Bomp day atoncment ms Alwaya the broken reed Faila in tho tinie of need, Al when did faith or trusé Glve lifo to lifelosa dust? Others may oyous he 3 Nover conic joy to me, Olliers droam in tho aun, sut my brief dream is done, 1t gold bo in my hair, Bhadows uro alio thofo. 12 youtli Lo i ny fuce, Hadl linoa azo thers apace, “2ily " I iavo, in aooth,— Tao trus to bida tho trulli,— That T can never say Aught but this dnsl * Nay,” Hush, friond! Apari—afar— Qur livos muat be, and are, Darkneas In mino'; for you, Bunlight and song, Adiou’t Mty KIBTLAND, KISSING. The Curiositics of Osculation. Serfous and Facotions Views of the Subjeot, Lrom the Galazy for August, #Well kissed ! an oxcellent conrfeny.” —Othello, 1., 1, Alkiss! Canyoudofincit? . Bhakspenro calls kissos * goals of love.” Gor- ald Massoy lilous n Iiws to tho *“goldon sune shino.” Misy Nollio Marshall thought ft * the fragravt breath of summer tlowors,” Coloridge onlls thom *noctar-breathing.” Blduoy eays thoy *iio togothor rouls.” Saxo says: Az for klsslug—kisges live Only when wo take and givo! Bome anonymous poet hos loft us this definl- tlon: Spenking silence, dnmb confossion. Tanslon's birll and infent's play, : Dove-liko fondnoas, chakto fujprossion, Open dawn of brightest day, Akisa] Can you deacribo it? Blakapeara calls kissos loly, lovely, loving, gontlo, jealous, soft, sovercign, warm, and right- cous. Ho has ovor 260 allusions to kisses nnd kisulng in his plays, and in the socond part of “Houry VL" he speaka of *twouty thousand kisgos,” In tho *Midsummor Night's Dream” ho calls lips ¥ thoso Ligsing tronsures,”. But il oll his writings wo find no full description of Iise. It was o subject too vaat ovon for Bhake- penre's mighty mind, -He was apparently ad much puzzled as is Mr.. Obarles Godfrey Lelaud in his poem, IN TUE OLDEN TIME, ' 'What s kiss 2 pray Loll 't to mee, A during, dninty fantasio ; ’ A brace of birdes whych chirpe, *Weo would,” ! * Aud pypiug anawor, “IfT weo could " What 18 4 kisa? Alackol nt worst, A singls dropp to quenclio a thirst, Tho' oft it prooves i happio our’ f The firat swote dropp of ouo long showre, On taking the nocossary stop from tho sub- lino, wo have tho description by nlady of hor feolings on being lissod for tho first time, Bho felt like a tub of buttor swimming in honoy, cologne, nutmogh, and cranberrios, and as thongh somothing was running through her norves on foet of diamonds, escortod by soveral littlo Cu- Eldn in charlots drawn by sngols, shaded with oneysucliles, and tho wholo aproad with melted rainbowal Another Iady, a Fronch author, enid that o kiss gives more “pleasurc than anything oleo in the world; to which an irrovorent scoffor, & far-westorn editor, respouded, * That writer bad ovidontly nover experionced the childish rapture of descending the stairs by eliding down |- tho baisters.” Many yoars agone, that jovial divine, Robert Herriok, had asked the snmo quostion as' did Mr, Leland, and had also ossayod to answer it : 1t s & croature born aid brod Botween tho lips, all cherry red, 1¢'1a an activo fiame thnt filea Firat to tho bables of tho eyes, Then to the check, tho chin, tho ear, It frisks and flice—now here, now thers; *Tis now {ur off, and then 's near, And horo and there and overywhero, An nnonymous poet of Herrick's day thus philosophizos on & kiss : Thilosophors protend to tall How like a hermit in his cell I'ho soul within the Lrain does dweil, But T, who am not half so wise, ‘Think I havo soon 't in Chloe's oyea; Down to her lips from thenco it atolo And thero I ldsa'd her very soul, I supposo all of us who have boon children re- membor the classical ballad describing the wed. g;ng of our simian ancostor, Tho epio poet do- ares : Thoe monkoy married thebaboon’s sister, Bimacked bfa lips, and then ko kiesed hor— Kiesed 60 hard ho ralsed o biistor— after which tho veracious chronicler assorta that Bhe set up a yell. As wo grow oldor, and wont to collego, we sang “Lauriger,” with the dear old chorus : Tl ennt, o pocula | Dulciora melle, Rix ct pax, et ascula Rubentis puelle, Later in lifo wo may apostrophize the kies ns does Sir Philip Sidney in ** Astrophol and Stelln” : O kius 1 which dost thoso ruddy gems impart, Or geme, or {ruits, of now-found paradie Breathingall blissand swect'ning to theheart' ‘Teoching dumb blisa n nobler cxerclse, Later still, whon the privilogo of osculation hes been acquired by tho solemn botrothal, we may ory with Eayton: - Tlhieso poor half kisses Lill moquite, Wua over mun 80 served ? Amidst en ocoan of delight v For pleasuro to bo atarved, : And if, some day, whon our raco i8 nearly run, wo can, liko Leigh Hunt, bo tho benrer of good uews to & charming womun, may we like him be ablo to sing ¢ Jenny kissed me when wo met, Juinping from the chair shio sat in ; Tiwme, you thief { who Iova to got Bweoly into your list, put that in, 8ay I'm weary, say I'n sad, Hay that Loalth and wealth have missod me ; Bay I'm growing old ; but add, Jenny kissed me. Finally, wo mny say with Bon Jonson : 1t sliould bo my wishing . ‘That 1 might dle kissing ! Tho writers of comio songs have devoted their onergy to the “production of osculatory lyrics, We bavo ‘“Comin’ thro’ the Rye,” *Come and Kisw mo!" “Kissing oo tho #ly!” and besidos othiors, the excruciating London ** serio-comic " song, tho chorus of which is: 1 enw Esau kissing Kato; Tl fuct Is wa oll threo caw : For I saw Esau, Lo saw mie, And phio saw I eaw Esaul Thero iy, of course, a facotious way of looking ot lisges and kissing andkissors. Meesrs. Deory and Dion and Ubassy might think that kissing goos by favor excopt in billards. A Wustorn Kupnr rocently snid 8 young lady in Oshkosh had rokon Lier ongagomont for m weel in ordor to eat onions! And another Wostorn journal spenks of enother youug lady who has been so well broui}.}t up_that slie knogks down every man who kisges her, and sho is go pretty that half tho married and all the single men in town have black eyes, ‘I'wo old conundrums informed us thot & muff is a thing that Lolds o lady’s hand without u?unezlng it, and a spoon a thing that touchos a Iady’s lipg withont kissing them. Al- though nowadays that would scarcely do for & definition of spooning. During the lato unploasantness somebody zrm up the following systom of osoulatory otacs : TO K188, IN THREE MOTIONS. Ttocruit s placed 1n front of the piece, First motion: Bond the right kuce, atraighton the loft, bring tho head on sline with the face of the feco ; ut the same timo extend tho arms aud clasp 6 chioeks of thie plece firmly {x both hands. Sccoud motion: Bond tho body allghtly forward, mlcku‘ the mouth alightly, and spply tho lips smartly {he muzzle-mouldings, Third motion: Break on'lfirnmplly 1in both le escapo the Jarring or injury sliould thio plece recoll, ‘The London Fun, under the heading, *Mind Your Own Buss-iness,” gaye this oxtract from the dictionary of osculation ; B, o kiss, » Rebus, Lo kisa again, Pluribus, to kiss irreapeotive of sox. ; Syllalnu to kiss the hand instead of the lip, Hlunderbuas, to kina tho wrong porson, Omnibus, to kiss all promiscuously, Ereb Xiss in tho dark, 0 huyo to kies some ono you don't Iika, Tlarguebus, to kiss with & loud smack, Engfoatod probably by the whimsical defini- tion of *‘syltabus.” "Some one seeing two ladies kiss sald i€ was o wasto of raw matorial, And similar in purport to this is the anonymous qua- traing Men acorn to king among thomuclves, And yoarce will kisa a brotler ; Women often want to kiss s0 much, They smack aud kiss each othar, But although mon may scorn to kivs each oth- or, some of thom like to kiss oach other's wives. Only a fow days 8g0 & mAn was brought into tho court of Oyer and Lerminer ohargod with an as~ sault. But the Distriot Attorney did nob pross a conviotion when he learned that the plaintify had kissed the dofondant's wife {ngnlnnt hor will), and Judgo Brady told the jury that the dofendant was justified in using & woapon to Prou;ct his wifo at howo, An E“F 8] nfilalm 0 rocontly fined a man 10 shillings for kissing another man's wifo, I'he defondnut thought this more than tho kiss was .worth, _Not go tho husband of the injurod g?) lady, Ho did not think that punishmont subi- clent, aud, consequently, thyashod the vffender aftor his dlsoharge, Wheroupon the kisver caudod tho arrest of the usband of tho kisues on nchargo of assault and battery. 'Fhoro the mattor rosts. Dut a fow days ago & grass widow and a gay young bachelor wero_finod 85 each for kissing ‘ench other while ridiug through the stroots of Prairio du Chion on Sunday. 8o a kiss lnguru to cost 10 shillings in Groat Dritain and 10 in rentor Britain, The ** History of Kisses and Kissing,” a work ns yot unwritten, would be both amusing and Inutruotive. It wonld be linkod awootness lon; drawn out, for k(uulnfi is undoubtedly of ancloni origin, Adam and Lyo probably kissed, Tho Dattinrahy cortainly did, In Ohatles Readoa's * Clofator and the Honrth,” that wonderful re- szlnuuon of modimval mon and maunora, thero 8 n short dissortation on some curlous kisving cuatoms. Fra Colonna, ounmorod of tho Pagau days, ovorwhelms Brothar Joromo with coplous quotations, showing the sntiquity nnd Pagen origin of many modern occlosinstical ouse tome, “Xiesing of Imagos aud the Popo's too is Eastorn Poganism," enid Fra Co- lounn, “Tho Egyplinna Lnd it of the Assyrinns, tho rocks of tho E; tions, and wo of tho Romnns, whose Pontifex Moximus had his too kissed undor the. Empire, 'Fhe Drulds kissed their High Priest's too a thousand yoars B.. 0. ‘Tho Mussulmans, who, liko you, profoos to abhor hoethenfsm, kiss tho stono of tho Oaabn—a pagan practice. Tho Pricats of Baal Jissnd tholr idols so. “Tully tolls us of a fair image of Horoules at AF\-I ontum whoso chin was worn b{,kluning. Tho Tower parts of tho statucs wao call Potor are Jupiter. 1ho toois soro worn,but not all by Christian mouths, Tho hLoathen vulgar laid their !lpn thero firat for many n yoar, aud ours have followed thom ns monkeya their mne- tors, And that s why, down with the poor henthon! Pereant qxd anle nos nosira fecerint.” ? 1n No. 67 ot tha Spectator, disparaging re- morke aro made agaiust the lissing dance, whilch appoars to havo boon somerort of country danae, rather too frolicromo nnd looso in charag- tor to bo encourngod. Porhups, Lowever, in theso modern days o kissing fl%um could bo in- troduced to ndvantage into tho Gorman. Should this evor bo dono, tho musio for it is rondy, for has nob Arditi composed Il Bacio?" and is thoro not o kiss waltz in Herr Offenbsch’s 4 Barbo Bloue?” ; Olrislmas and kisses go hand in hand with holly and mlstlotoe, Not that wo may not kiss in othor sonsons, but Chrisimas and its oustoms oncournge thohome manufacture, **\When gorso 18 out of blossom, kissing {s out of favor," says tho quaint old provorb ; and gorse blossoms always, year in and yesr out. F‘Ybnfi saya tho poet ? If of thofr duo my lips you chizzle, Then on hor oo Aiss Mislotoo may mizzlo | Eight kinda of kisses are montioned in Holy Writ: Affcotion, Adoration, Approbation, Balu~ tation, Bubjoction, Roconciliation, - Valediction, and Troachery. The gaets. mounting to Parnasgus on Pe(,'nuuu. havo absolutely roveled in kisson and kissing, Evon miserable rhymestors know thet kiss and blies will jln&ln a8 offoctunlly a8 part and heart orlave and dove. Bhelloy,fn “ Love's Philoso- phy,” says: Beo the mountains kiss high heaven And tho waves clasp ono another ; No sister flower would bo forgiven It it disdained its brother; And tho sunlight clsaps the osril, And the moonboams kiss the ses, ‘What aro all theso kissings worth . 1f thou kiss not rie? £ Algernon Oharles Swinburno, in a lovely little Iyrio” called “A Match,” has this deliolous stanza: If T woro what the words ave, And lovo woro ltko the tu With doublo sound and single Delight our lips would mingle, With kissca glad ea birda are That got aweot roin at noon; If T wore what the words are, And love wore like the tunc, Mr, Mortimor Collins, the gestronomic novelist, has this dainty litito song i one of his works o Droop, droop, sott littlo eyolids | Droop over eyes of woird wild bluo} Undor tho fringoe of those tromulous shy lids Glances of fun and of lovo peop throiigh, Btug; sing, aweetet of maldons | Carol away with thy white Httle throat | Echo awakes 10 the oxquisito cadenca oro on tho msgieal mera afloat, Dresm, droam, heart of my own love! Bweet 18 the wind from the odorons South— Bweot s the lsland wo eail to alone, love— Bweot is 0 kiss from thy ruddy young mouth., . Voltaire quoted and extolled this little epi- gramwatic gom by Dufresny : Phylils, greodier far than kind, ‘When Syivandor pray'd for (his, Required of ber fajthful hind rty shoop for ons short, kiss, The morrow, and tho shophord thought ‘Phylis kind—tho bargain choap ; For from tho hopherdota ho bought Thirty kissoa for one sheop, The morrow, Phyllle, far mora tonder, Trombling sho would loso the bliss, ‘Waa very happy to surrendor: ‘Thirty sheep for one short kiss, Tho morrow, l’hg‘llls nearly mad, Tound her flock a bribe {oo small To buy tho kiss the ficklo lad Gave Lizotto for nanght at all, Mr, Charles Sibloy's ‘¢ Kiss,” ono of tho neat. ent of all osculatory pooms, afzpunrnd & short time ago in the @alazy, but it is cortainly worth roproduction now : Upon ane stormy Bunday, Coming adoon tho lano, ‘Woro a scare of bonnio 1aesios— Aud tho aweotest, I maintain, ‘Waa Caddi e, That I took unneath my pladdie, i To shield her from the rain. 810 ald that tho datates blushed, For tho kiss that I had ta'en, X wadnaa hao thought the lassie ‘Wad saeof a kiss complain, * Now, laddle, 1 winna stay undor your pladdio, If I gang homo in the rain.” But on an after Bunday, When cloud thero was'not ane, Thia solf-aamo winsome lassie— Wo clanced to meot in the Isne— Bald : ¥ Lad, 0, Why diuua yo wear your pladdie? Whia kons but it may rain 2" An nnacrconitic, anonymous but very pretty, wont the rounds of the press a Yanr or two ago. 1t was probably from some English paper: Oh, if my lovo offonded mo And wo had words togather, TTa show her T wauld master be, T'd whip her with a feathor . If thqu she, liko 8 naughty girl, Would tyranny declaro it, 1'd give my lovoa cross of pearl And make hor always bear {t1 X sl ehio tried to sulk and sigh And throw away my posice; 14 cateh ray darllng on the u‘{ ‘Andsmother her with roscsl., And 1f sho dared hor lips £o pout,- :Like many pert young misaes, T'd wind my arm her wulst about, ‘And punish her with kisges | . Mr. Charles Godfrey Lelaud's ;r:rltod oom, * Manuola,” quisition on osculation : Red the lips of Manaela— How the lady lovea to kiss | Ab, when Manuola Idasos, Firut aho kisses with her glances | Thon hor red Upu kis cacli atlior, Tractising for warm encounters, “Thon she kisees with hor eyellds, Kinsen with hor rching eyebrows, With her soft choek softly rubbing, With Ler chin and hands and 8ngore, All tho frame of Mapuola, All her blood and all her epirit, All melt down to burning kisses— All glio foods on ia thoir sugar, by tou sun wbovo us dying | Droeza from land fo land still roeming, Baw yo ever yot a lady Half 60 falr or foud of kissing 7 short and cantains & poetic Red the lipa of Manucla— How the lady loves to kisa ! Mr. Waltor Horrles Pollock recently published tho following suggestive vorsos : Juat one kise—two faces mot, But Ihio brows were kuit nud the chesks were wet ; Just ono kiss—thon up sud away ; Dut its mark will last for many a day, Just ono kiss and Just ono word, Hoftly spokon and hardly Lioard § Just, ono word that was said through tears, And told tho story of all tho yoars, Juat one look from the deep, dark oyes, Juat ouo graup at s glorlow Drizo; Just ono kiss—then up and away But ah | such a heavy debt to pay, William Btrode, » minor post of the oarlier part of tho soventeonth century, worked out.n pretty concelt in thoe following lines ¢ My love avd ¥ for kisses play'd, o would koop stakes, I was' content ; But when I won she would bo pald ; ‘This made mq ask her what sho meant. ‘Nay, sinco I see (quoth slio) you wrangle in vain, Tuko your own klsses, givo nie mine sgain, The same {doa has boen froquently used since then, but, as quoted Fra Colouun, * Poresut qui auto nos nostra facerint," Jolin Wolcot also dovised & l?jl\nl.ut conoelt, and addrossed theso Linoy **'fo A'Kiss: " Boft child of Love, thou balmy bliss, Inform mo, O delicious Kisy | 'hy thou so suddeuly st gono, T.out §us the moment thou are won? Yot, go—for wherefors should T aigh? On Dolla's blushing lip T soo A thougand full as ewoeot o4 thoe! I shiall conclude thia already too long-drawn papor by quoting the oft-quoted lnes of rare Bon Jonon, tho first quatraln of his famous 4 0do to Colin: " Driok to mo only with thy oyes, ‘And T will pledio with mino;’ Or teavo but a kiss in tho cup, And Uil not ank for wine. CLEANLINESS VERSUS' GODLINESS. Thohistorfan Enachius hns rocorded a tradi- Hon that tho Apostlo James novor usod n bath, "The nssortion is most improbablo, for not only woro all the Apostlos striot Jows, but St. Jamos, tho Bishop of Jorunalom, could loast of all have affordod fo dospiso 8o sncrod n Jowish hnbit as oloantinoes, and ho was the very Apostlo whose namo was hold in highost cstoom by the Judaiz- ing party iu the Chiwrel. Tho rolgu of dirt in tho Church sprond by dogroos. Bt. Pachomiua and his brothor, Bt, Jon (who wera convorted about tho yoar 812), must have had soma amount of cloanlinous, for wo aroe told that thoy nover changed thoir clothgs oxcopt whon thoy woro undor tho nocossity of washing thom. Thoir contomporary, S8t. Ammon of Nitris, re- fusod to wash himsolf ; but it seema that it was rathor from n modost dread of socing himeelf without his clothes than from a positive passion fordirt, 8t Hlilavion, howover, who lived in tho samo ago, doveloped tho culturo of dirt, for honovoer changed any coat until it was worn out, and nover washod tho sackeloth which ho had once put on. The grost St. Antony, as Bt. Athnnnslus tolls us in hig life of him, had nover wasfiod his foof up to oxtromo old age ; ho says that o was healthior than thoso who batho thomgolves and ofton chango thelr clothes, is disciplo followed tho oxamplo of tholr groat idonl patriarch, Bt, Abrahiem of Edoses, anothor bormit of the fourth century, whoso lifo was written by tho famous Ephrom, *Ioft Lis woalth and Lis wifo on the day of Lis marrioge, and lived for fitty years, mostly in n coll two milos from the city, “without onco washing ofthor. hiy faco or Lis feot, Tho fourth century wes un- doubtodly tho ern of tho raligions apotheosis of dirf.” Wo sholl not so quickly condoma tho dirty mon who had so great sn futlucnce on tho dovnluxiumnh of tho Ohurch and of society, if wo look at thom in the light of thoir own day, instead of the lightof ours. ‘They tricd honestly to scparate themselvos in\vnrdl{ a8 woll as outwardly from an {mmoral and pestiferous socioty, which lived in solf-indulgenco, snd sought its pleasuro in all sorts of iutorior filth, Dathing was rejected by thom at ‘ho firat, Locauso the sonsuous delight aud pleasuro it gave in a hot Egyptian or Syrian sir medo it the perfection of bodily solf-indul- geneo. The hormits had no quarrel with it bo- causo it mado the outward flesh clean, but bo- causo it was thoro and then, quito as muich as eating and drinkiog, one of tho luxuries in which tho slesh, which thoy had renounced at baptism, took tho greatost dolight. Attendanco at tho publio bathe—iwhich, togothor with the circuses, wore tho contros of wordly d.lanlsnuon in tho TRomanized citics of East snd Wost, was pro- hibited to all Christians by ropeated canonicnl logislation. ~ It is certain that at firat thoe publio bathe woro freoly used by tho Christisns. Wo bave awitness fn the vory ecarly logend which toll us that tho Apostie John fled from a certain ‘bath bocause the horesiarch Corinthus was thore, and he would not romnin undor tho same roof. The story, indeed, is self-contradictory ; it ia not unliko the John who wanted to call .down flra from heaven to burn tho Bamaritans, but totally- unlike the John who was at the same time writing a Gospol and Epiatles breathing charity to overy orenture. Tho so-callod Apostolical Constilutions (book I. chap. 9) not only forbid women to bathe with men, {'m!. they further mdvise Chriatian women * not to bathe without occasion, nor of- ten, nor in tho middle of tho day, nor, if possi- ble, every day.” Tho Councii of Laodicom (whoso dato is vncertain), in its thirticth canon, probibita all clorics, ascotics, and every male Christion from washing in tho esmo bath a8 women. Tho synod adds that this habit is con- sidored repronchful oven by tho pagous. Tho best Toman Emperors, indoed, hnd made laws agunst it, and it may bo recollocted that Cicero spoals warmly against its ovils in his “ Do Ofilcile.” The Council *in ‘Frullo” rencwed this canon as ita own seventy-ninth canon, in the year 602, ordering the dogradation of evory cleric and the excommunicntion of overy layman, who dared to violate it. 1t is cortain, from many inforonces throughout tho termona of the groat doctors and lives of tho saiuts, bo- twoen tho fourth and soveuth conturics, thut tho public baths wore used by the Christians genorally, although tha greatest number of tho rofossod ascotic rufimmly abstained, ag Bt. Epiphanius snys in Lis Panarion, from oithor public or privato bathing. Theodoret givos a story of tho Arian Bishop Eunomius, which be- longs to the samo epoch ug the Panarion. Euno= mius was go unpopular with tho Christian ma- fority at Samosata, who wore noarly all Catho- ics, that senrcoly nny Christion of repute or 8o- cial standing would go to church. "Ono day, when ho was in tho baths, ho suw that many ersons stood waiting without. Ho sooms to Fave fanclad that thoy rofrained from bathing &t tho same time out of respact to his august of- fice, for Lo kindly told his sorvants to bid them entor frocly and batho with him. They still con- tinued to stand silontly ut tho odgo, as if wait- ing; and ho, out of consideration—atill think- ing thoir respect withliold them—Lastily loft tho water. The Clristians, howevor, rofused to eotor until all tho water had been withdrawn, and the bath retlled, fonrinfi that their bodies might bo polluted with his heresy if they used the wator in which he had bathgd himuelf. century later, 8t. Gaudentius, of Brescia, in ono of his sormons, advising Christious to sanctify all thelr actions with the sign of tho croes, tolls them to use it algo *“ at the bath whon you comio in and when you go out.” Whon the monks, in later times, studied tho lives of the early solitniros of tlie fourth contury, they wore shocked at the discovary of theirown doclonsion from priitive dirt and parity. ¢ Our fathers,” says the Abbot Aloxandor, *‘never washod their facos ; but, we froquant tho public baths, Mr. Leoky quotes from the Spiritual Meadow the significant story of Abbot L'hoodosious. At his urgent prayer, God onge suddeuly opened a stream ; as soon 08 hismonks bogan to use it, not for drinking ouly, but for washing, tho stream miraculonsly dried up. Thoy had dug s pitin which to bathe them= selves. soon a8 they had filled up this idcen- tive to luxury, tho wator again flowed, It was tho luxury of tho act which thoy fesred. Could any one have convinced theso simplo -mon that washing is a4 nocessary to bodily sounduess as drinkin{; is, the logend would not have recorded the drying u{:}:l tho water tho moment they be- gan to dig o bath.—Chambers’ Journal. NMynhoor Groof. From the New York Post, Mynheor Groof, a sanguine Flemish gontleman, belioving that ho had ponetrated tho socret of a new locomotive, announced the other day to the denizons of Brussols, Bolgium, that he proposed tofly. The day annouaced for tho fot was Bun~ day. Mynheer Groof hnd invented o now and very ingenious pair of wings, with what dovico of Bpriugs and balauce the world will probabl nover know, The only practical difficulty witl them waa that they could not raiso him from the round, and this task was allottod to a balloon, u othor phrase, Mynheer Groof, having been alevated, proposed to continuc clovated, and not -only that, but to use his wonderfully ingenious wings with locomotive intout, Tho day came, and the man, Take tho crowd for granted, as it i no froat troublo o gathor o mob in any citprundor the sun—you have mxli'I to gazo fixedly at & weather vano ‘or into a shop ‘window, to find yourself in five minutes the cen- ter of amob intont on gazing also, and geziug longer and the more intontly the lesa they eco. nvlnfillrmon lifted to tho vq% humble clova~ tion of throe foot, Mynheor Groof, called bis wings into requisition. Thoy flapped wildly. Thore was a olick of springs and tug of fibor ; but this Plemish Ikaros, unliko him of the IL‘P- end (who was borne sunward ¢l the wax molt- od, and then had further to drop than his Flemn- ish 1mitator), did not riso. ‘Ihat ho might bave remained pofsed threo feet in air until this day, had not the principlo of gravitation interfored to apoil & beautiful experiment, is an obvious con- olusion ; but just at this atago, that well-known stumbling blook of acrostatists nssorted its su- premaoy, and Mynhoor Groof droppod face down and prono on the ground. Norwus this failuro of an ambition for Ligh olovation tho worst of tho onse, Tho mob, a8 mobs will sometimes, re- garded itsolf as swindlod and Mynhodr Groof a4 having obtained attontion undor falso protena- o4, Tho poor Floming was stoned for his pains, and \voulx havo boon slain but for tho opportune intorferonce of the polico. Nowspapers in Indin, Trom returms lntulby quh)iuhu\, we lonrn that thera aro in India 816 difforont newspapers, of which 08 aro Luglish, 36 in the dislect which passes a8 English among tho natlves, und 911 aro in the native languagos. Ono pimong them, sold at n pise, or farthiug, i fiurhnpfl the lowesl priced nawapaper in tho world, The muubor of roaders in ludia is very small, and it is the prac- tloo for orowds to asucmble and listen to ona reador, aud in this way nows in dispersed willy remarkablo rapidity, At tho hoginuing of tho presont contury thero woro not moro than five newspapors in Indis.—Chambers’ Journal,