Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 27, 1873, Page 10

10 PERU. An Excursion from Lima to Villegas. Dilapidated Maciendas, and Dirty, Lazy Pcople---A Scene for a Pajnter. Miles and Miles of Orange-Troes--- Bella Vista and Its Cemeteries. Climbing Sam Christoval --=The View from the Sunuuit Bpecial Corvespondence of Tha Chicago Fribune. Luata, Toru, June, 1873, Yostordny, in compnny with o party of .gontlo mon and ladies, I took s most delightful horac- back rido out to Villogas, tho largest orango- plantation on tho const. Aftor o residoncoin o wallod oity, with fingged door-yards, and noither grass norfoliago to bo soon, oxcopt as it ia grown in huge pots and tubs; with tho eye weary of the yollow adobo of tho housos, the outlook on o thie blonk, barren hills, the stony stracts, and thio coasoless roll of tho sea,—it wag 1 A NOST DELIGUTFUL OHANGR to got awsy from tho monotony of it all, and look upon forms, aud vordure, and tropicaj folisge ngain. Mounting tho high blnff that overlooks tho gon,we pass throngh an old Moonisk arched gatowsy, fast crumbling to decny, aud dating Uack, not by dozons of yoars, bat by hua~ drods ! Evary successive cartlquako has ornm= bled a Uttlo of its stony top and sides ; and, a8 wo omorgo from its rulps, tho opon pampas, the groon-springing grass, and the the smoll of wild brier and fragrant flowers, form o vory plessing contrast to tho stifling hum of tho busy city, ‘Nowwe come upon amerry pasty of Calleo peoploe encamped in the opon fleld, their horses turned out to grazo, snd their luncheon of fresh figs, orangos, bananas, cold ments, ond clarot, look- i ing vory inviting, spread out in thoir litile can- vas-tont, Tofusing to stop and dlne with thom, 18 woare to dine farther on, wo ride along past OLD, DILATIDATED HACIENDAS, tho walis tumbling down, the gates long since _fallon, and ovon tho very gotowsys nruins, A number of dirty Chinamen, and the Poruvinn owner himself, sit on tho rickeity balcony,— tho men indolontly smoking ; tho women nnd thildren, swinging in hammocks, and smokingal~ 80; while the orangos dropfromtho trocs for want of gothering, and decay on the gronnd, slthongh thoy would yiclda flno revenue if loaded into baskots and s0ld In market. In tho corral in front of tho house, naked, dirty Cholo childron, Tnkompt donkeys, unfed mules, cows, lamns, and fowls, aro mixed up with tho most rosty and Primitivo of farming-utonsils, nnd everything bo- tokens a lazy disorder. In tho ton yoars that hava passed, nothing had chengad, nothing been ropaired, nothing improved. And should you rido by, ton yoars to come, you would sco the xame noglect, tho samo indolont Coolics, and only an accumulation of dirt and childron to do- note any porcoptiblo change for tho ton yenrs' onwsrd march of time. No moro progress or civilization would bo apparont then than now. Yeot, from the balcony of that old, twuble-down vancho, what A BOENE FOR A PAINTER! The Oriontal spires aud domos of old Callao; the long, crooked atroote; tho *distance that fonds onchantmont to tho viow;” the quaint Touses ;- tho tall masts of shipe, thickly dotting tho bonutiful harbor; the blue, rolling oconn, and loncly, ashy-hued mountains, as a back- ground; in the foreground, an old wind- mill, that tosses its rough arms, and the silvery wators of tho Rivor Rimao, its bauks lined with folingo ; and away to tho right, as far s eyo can @eo, groves upon groves of orange, banans, and olive troes, flelds of grain and waving corn, and vintages of grapes, We o obliged frequontly to ford small streams, and weo often arc compelled to diverge from our rond to cross these strooms, as they rush down from the mountsing, snd are used to irrignto the land and tho crops. Wo continually pass small donkoys, ladon with grass, fruits, sugar-cane, fire-wood, and sonled jara of native liquor ; flolds in which col- “ pry, onions, green pess, and othor vegotables are growing. The old adobo walls surrounding thaso plantations are all falling dovn. We pass has ciondas whose immonse stonc-walls, 10 and 15 foot in hoight, will permit ouly an occaslonal gllmmm of wido plantnin-lenves ; and tho tops ©f pineapplo trees, fringing tho vory summit of the wall, tell us of immenso orchards and groves of fruit within, Grapes grow almost wild all along the way,—luscious and fino, espocislly tho large white ‘{fiuco rape ; ond wo paes wholo acres dovoted to mojons, which are dolicious. "At longth, smidst a crowd of yolling dogs, cry~ Ing Glolo babies, und lozy Chinaman, wo' rido through the old stono gatoway, and aro WELCOMED TO VILLEGAS: Alnrseq}nntnunn at our loft :raises only sugar- cane, but Villogos rejoices in ite orangos. Tho house, though vory large, has litorally nothing of comfort in it. lare brick floor, siiff woadon_uettocs, sud a ricketty pisno’ boing the adornments, Immonso halconios, up- orted by pillars of adobe, surround he four sides of the Louse, and, ag it stands on & hill, it ovorlooks Callno and its notwork of shipping, and looks out avon to the fur-raaching blue Cordilleras., At tho foot of thirteen stona staps, 80 looseand tottling as noarly to pitch you down headlong, lio tho immonso garden and rounds. Tho land is out into ridges, intowhoso urrows rushes along the water ubod for irriga- tion. Tho soil looks the color and has tho dead- neus of ashos ; yot not ouly orango-troes extend FOIl MILES AND MILES along thess furrows, but you can walk under the branchas for miles, gathering tho luscious fruit, and seoing tho oranges falling from the ovor- Iadon troos, Janding iu the sironms, and go sail- ing by in yellow splendor, with no ono to stoop sud pick themup, Around tho houso, every vazioty of roso, lily, dahlia, camolia, Leautiful in hu‘f and blossom, are growing without caro or nureing. Old, deeropit Chinamen aro cutting, pruning, and gatheriug dowors, in ol diroctions, »nd arranging them in lovely bouquets for mar- ket. Othors, in hundrads, are picking orauges, working us slowly and as Jazily &s thoy ploase. ‘heir cabins aro simply four posta set in tho ground, and coverod with o conrso; dried gruss Woven into a mat, which gras thoy gathor them- selvos and weave into a watting fhat forms an excollent uhelter, i cloan and froo from insoots, and has' a_peculisrly pleassnt, spicy smell. “Phey alvo aloop upon mats miade of tho EAMG imatorial, and guthored frowm the river-anks, Under a natural arbor, formed by the brauches of the orange-trees, WE RESTED AND LUNONED, An old Chiuaman bronght us &\uusu (nativo sheesp) and chicha (s fermented driuk made from pesuuts, which will luloxlunw} 88 his do- ation to our ropast, but for which he oxpeoted 0o, _ Ho also gathered us bouquots of vorbe- aand other flowers, and expoctod tho rom- onts of our rusnal as o roturn fortheso favors. Lhen we walked for milos undor tha treoy, aud saw tho oranges decaying all_over the ground,— the samo olfi Ooolic spreading a mat for us, when wo wero woary, undor the troes, and brnging us throo - dozon aud more oranges, for which Lo esked us =& Tial—10' conts! = Never wWoro orangos #0 awoot, 80 Juscious and fine, for oranges hero * are s wintor fruit; ond, ag this {8 our first wine ter-month, Juno, they are just in their primo, TLeaviug Villegas, we rode over to the immonso gngar-cstates of BAN AGUATIN, worked by ovor 400 Coolies; and hore wo sce tho same untidy weys and indolonco, neither {progress nor improvemont, although wo fiud tho samo hospitablo welcomo, ~ Tho fortune realized from this sugar-sutato alono is fumonse, Voge- tation grows here without caro, hardly n thought i being expended upou it. This country suggosts ‘ {he primitive duys, and {8 at least halt-s-century behind tho age, As wo loavo tho plantation, wo ride to the lit- tlo villaga of B BELLA VI8TA (Boantiful View), situsted directly npon the 8aa, and having a picturesque set of rocks, & cave, v igh g, gavn whose sioo0 ldes (ko wo | Uyou—bwolvo fn all, THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1873. rivora that surronnd Lima tumblo into the sen. Dolln Vistn diffors only from Callno in that it hag widor stroots and n still moro dirly Cholo popu- Intion, Tho ohildron roll out of the way of your horso'a foet inta the eand, sna scom {0 ounjoy it immousoly, As TUY EXGLINT OEMETERY Ia horo, wo tako & mtroll down its finoly-kopt walks, anud look at the graves, covorod with flow- ors in bloom tho wholo yoar round. =~ This givos donth o roliof from tha dusolato look it nusunlly wenrs, Ono cannot but feel sad as ho stauds by the many, many graves of forognors, fillad up fo Linatily during tho yollow-fovor, and thinks of thig denth in o sirango land, away from lomo and kindrod, or oven friends, ‘Tho Pantheon (uative comotory) s nlso at Dolla Viala, but no foroignor, unless & Ontholio, iy ovor pormitted to 'stop on tho cousocratod round, excopt oneo & year, on All Bainty’ and 11 Souls' Dy, whon it fs opou all day to for- olghors, THE YELLOW-FEVEN {s not native to Poru, Fourtcon yonrs ago, it was brought thoro on Caollo vhips, the sanio o8 in 1870; and, now that ohnost 2,000 foreignory slone have dled in Callno, tha authoritios have takon monsures to havo ail Ooolio ships quaran- tined at San Loronzo, sud oxaminod, Bomo of tho Iadios of our party uvxprossing a dosiro to climb the atecp mountain, SAN OIRISTOVAL, which bordors the town, we Joaye our horsos a¥ our oxeollant inn, kopt by an_ Lnglish woman, and I.mgin tho nscont. 1is sides soom almost in- accessible; but wo find a well-worn path among it stongs, up which wo slowly toil. "On and up wo go, over the ashy, ealtpetre sand, with not a green blado of grass to bo seon. Tha voleanio, Carthquako natiire of the soil becomes moro and more gpporont as wo procoed, Shells, bones, pobblics, lio all about usj birds whool in frightoned oirclos; nnd whonm, at last, wa roach the vory summit and sit down to rest, wo are quite gvefcome, On tho very poal, wo 800 n largo wooden crogs, under which an Arch- Dishop's bones reposs, do not know why these priosts alwaya profor such lonoly and almost in- accessible burial-placos. Dot wo are under tho vory clouds, and swing our hats oxultingly to thogo of our party who romained bolow, and who soom liko gnats in the far distance. ‘WIAT A PANORAMA L ‘We thought Cerro Azul was fing, but thiy bog- gors doseription. Btreams leap down tha stouy mountain-sides, lite silvor throads. The sun gilds domo and splro of tha city for away. All around ug are_toworing hills, and the alr in cool and keon. Wo walk aronnd tho summit to tho othor eido, What s chonge of seoneryi— almost as sudden os the slufting of o fairy epec- taclain thoplay. A doop ravine outs through tho mountain on this side, and noross the gorgo aro groen forosts, vorduro in all its tropical pro- fusion, tho vast oconn,dotted with whito sails, sud large estatos of coffcs, sugar, cotton, rico, and o, ‘Thon, ngain, wo catch tho gleam of rivors, whilo Jovel plains and pampas_oxtend onand on wuntil lostinthoe vory clond-cappod Andes thomaclves. JUST BUOK A BIGTT must Obristian havo bohold whon tliore burst xPon his onraptured gazo the Dolcotable ountains and tho Land of Beulsli! Droves of llamas are upon tho_beach, looking like mero spocks upon the sand, and we look far up and down_tho ontiro comst, over iho ruins of tho buriod citios, and the stnken silvor-minos, aod almost {nto anotber continont. And so ended our trip to Villogas. ‘WALDA. —_—— THE DIVISIONS OF ISLAM. The Sunnis and Shin’ahs. From the Pall Mall Gazelle, In ordor to form o correot opinion of the pro~ vailing religious creed of tho Perslans, and moro especially of tho tonets which distinguieh it from tho maas of Muslime in other parts of tho world, it 18 nocossnry to understand tho thoory which undorlios Islam, or what is usually called Mubammadanism. Muhammad, its author and foundor, aspired to bo, sud by all truo Maslims is rocognized a5 tho apostio of God, tho seal of tho prophots, whose misslon Was to bring all men back to the one truo roligion. To this npostloship or primacy wns conjoined tho ofice and dignity of sovercign logielator, whoso laws aro lold to ba tho inspired dicta of tho Almighty. Liko Moscs and Christ, ho olaimod to bo prophet aud King; like some of the Roman Erporors, Imperator et Pontifer Mazimus ; and liko the Popo, soveroign pontiff, barring, however, any protension to sncordotalism, which 8 utterly ropugnant to the terchiug of the Koran. Tho death of Muhammad leaving theso officos and dignitios vacant, n Khalifah—that is, a suc- cessor or vicar (*‘Caliph” was formerly tho in- correct way of spolling the titlo)—was electod to succeed him as the hoad of Islam in religion and politica throughout the world. The first four Khalifohs wero: Abu-Bolr, 'Omar, ‘Othman, oud 'Alay, tho latter the son-in-law of tho prophot. Tho Khalif- ato, after boing held for & fow months,by Ifssan, tho son of *Aly, who was murdored, passed nto tho hands of the Benu-Omeyyah, and from thom to the Bonu-Ablas, or Abbasidos, who hold it till tho capturo of Baghdad, its capital, and the ovorthrow of the dynasty by the Mogluls under Tiulpku-Chan, A. D, 1258. But tho spiriiual dignity was kopt up for about threo centurica lator by certsin members of tho family who found an sazlum with tho Mamlnk Sultins of Tigypt, watil tho conquest of that country by tho Otfomans, A, D, 1648, when the thon Khalifal, ol-Mutawalkil, is snid to Liave dologatod hia of- fico to Solim I. Hence tho claim of tho Sultans of Constantinoplo tobo tholegitimato sucoossors of Muhammad and commanders of tho faith- ful, Now thia quostion of the Kbalifato, which in pousibly destined to_exorcise & powerful influ- once on tho futuro of Muslim Btates, was ono of tho principal causos of echism amoug tho adhe- reuts of Telam whils yot fn its iufagoy, somo holding that, in order to logitimaoy, tho oflico should bo conferred by olection ; othors that it ‘might bo horeditary; somo that it was restrictod to tho doscendants of the Prophat; and othors aguin, that it is not absolutoly necessary thaf thoro should a Klalifah. Tho latter belief i that of tho Ibadhiyysh of 'Oman und Zanzibar. Passing over mior schisms—Muslims pride themuelves on tho nesumption that their rocog- nized divisions surpass by ono thoso of any other orced—it will suflico for our purposa to point out tho fundamontal differoncos betwoen tho Bunuis and Bhia'ubs, the Lwo principal cotions iuto which the followors of Talam axo divided ot tho progent dsy. % : Tho Sunnis sgroe in deriving thoir code of laws from the Koran, tho, traditions of tho prophot, tho concordance of esrly discipline, and Dnalogy, Mhoy are divided into four ortliodox socts or sohools, the Hanafy, Shafa'iy, Maliky, and Hanbaly, 0 catlod from tho names of the ro- speotivo doctors whoso opinions thoy have adopt- od. With rogard to_the succossion tho anthority of the first four Khalifahs, includ~ ing *Aly, and genorally nocept tho necessity of a vicar, of living reprosontativo of Tslam, and tho Jogitimato transmission of the offico through the Bonu-Omoyynh and the Bonu-'Abbos, Itis un- cortain to what oxtont thoy recognize the pro- tonsions of the Ottoman Sultaus 1o the suprem- oy formorly sttachod to the Khalifata, As with other creads, 80 alsowith Islam. Ite thoolo- gy Iu prosumably capablo of Leing mado subsor- vient to worldiy wishes, Tho Turks aro all Bunnis, a8 aro alwo mast of tho Muslims beyond thio Oxhs, in Chilus, Indis, tho islauds of the In- dian Archivelago and Afrlea, Mo word Shia'ah wignifics n soomariwn or achismatio, and it appliod by Sunnis to all whom thoy regard as hotarodox ; but in a more rostriot- od sonso it is Intendod to desigunto the grent body of thio Porsian Muslims, Kafdhy, or Do- sortor, a_anathor gpprabrions opithet’ usod in that samo sense. 'The Parsians, of courso, ro- sont the implicd Insult, and en recanche stylo thomeolvas_ el-Adiliyyal, or tho Upright. It noed scarcoly bo said that the followers of both Boctions acousa each other of damuable horeslea and soul-destroying dolusions, and tho antagon- ism on tho port of the Bhia'alis culminatos oncoa yosr at tho Muuharram fostival, com- momorative of tho doath of 'Aly's sons, Iasan and Husain, whon_they publicly Invole ondloss cursos on the hioads of their opnononts, Parallel comminations aro, unfortunately, nob un- known to tho Ohristian Church, Which has its fulminativg bulls and anathoma fostivals, In fact, the violonce and rancor which have nl\vt?u oxiuted and_which atill subeist botweon the Sunnis and tho Shia'als boar o atriking anslogy osimilar ohsractarlatics displayod by Paplsta towardy Protostants, and vico vorsn, Novertho- Jaks, apart from tho elight difforancos rospecting tho 'suthorlty of tradition, divorco, snd tho mannor of porforming 1o froseribod dlutlons, thoonly fundamontal dogms whioh soparatos tho two parties in thab of tho sucosssion and bollovers in oud oppononts of tho so-callod Apostolie Bucoonsion will ‘bo ablo to approclate the Importance attachod to tho accoptanco or doniul of this dogms among Muslim, In opposition to the Sunnis, tlo Bhin ‘ahy dony tho logitimaoy of tho flrst threo Khall- fabis, oflirming tho prior divino right of *Aly, ns Dolngs tho kinsman aud son-in-law of the prophot, to succoed to that dignity, and tho transmission of the same through his two sons, Hasan and Husain, to ninosubsoquont itsm of ropsesonta- ‘kho tivelfth—nawoly, Mu- thoy admit. liammad, surnamed Mahdy, or the dircctor— tlioy boliovo to bo ntill nliv’ but an it fs not noc- cssary, necording o thois tanots, thn tho fn should bo visiblo, lio fr atill racognizad as such, and s adlioronth lool forward Lo iy ro-sppoar: anco, nccompauiod by tho Drophot Iijab, ab tho tecond coming of Christ., TTho Shin'al doctrinos, which, in common with othor phnses of Islam, had proviously no fixad forritorinl houndars, "Boontno o staio rollgion of Dorsin about A, D. 074, during tho khal(fato of Autl-ITlialy, whon thio Toruians, with n polit- foal objoct, sidod with tho Buyh Sultas, tho Yicogorant of tho Kiliful, In opposition (3 Lo Buniif, who confodornted ‘with the Moghuls— an ailianco which oventunlly lod to tho all of Baghdad aud tho ovorlhirow of tho Abun- sido dynasty. Binco thab thoo, notwithe studing th ” offort, undo. Ly Nadir-Shah, A. D._ 1790, to lioal thid great schism in Telam by indnelng bis subjocts Lo ombraco tho or- thodoxy of the Bunuis, tho Bhia'ah dooctrines hevo continuod to ‘vanll in the country, 1t mooms nocdless to add that, under theso civeam- slnm:uvl tho rulors of Porsin, sinco tho fall of the Abbesidoy, havo nover Inid claim to n spiritual supremacy or nssumed tho ‘chiof occlosiastionl powor, ‘I'int powor, nccording to the Shin'ahs, holongs of righit o tlioImam Malidy. During Lis invisibility ic is oxorcised by the Mushtahids, who appoar to exorciso in Dersia the functiona of tho Shalkh-ul-Tslam in T“rkn{. "Thoy aro gon~ orally roforred to by tho tribuuals of justico in poiots of lnwin any way conncctod with eo- clonlagticnl mattors, and havo considerablo iu- fluonco, owing to thair ront or affoctod pioty and Jenrning. Thoir conduct, says Bir John Malcom, i oxpocted to bo oxomplary, nnd to show no worldly bins ; noither must thoy commit thom- golves” with the King or tho officors of tho Governmont.” If this rostriction moans that tho mushtehids are not to moddlo with politics, it nmounts to what wo look for in Archbishops and Bishops, Tho Shin'ala, like tho Bunnis, are divided into sovernl schools or sects, holding peonliar doc- trlues, varying in their divergonce from tho Stato Toligion quito as much s tho Nonconform- ists on tho one hand and Mormous on tho other 08 by law ostablizhed in this ronlm. —_—— COINCIDENCES AND ACCIDENTS. Carl Jienson in the Galazy for August, Ono of tho English magnziues rocontly con- {ained an article on extraordinary coincidonces. Tho writor appesred to bo struck with their number, and to bo rathor surprised at the possi- Dbility of tho occurrence at all. To me it rather socms surprising, whon wo considor tho porpotu- al movoment of tho world's kaleidoscopo, that the enmo figurc doos not ropeat itseif moro fro- quontly. Coincidonces striko ua bocauso they aro uoticed, while the almost innumersblo op- portunitics of coincidouces which yiold nothing naturally attract no sttention, To take a vory familiar {linstration : wo aro tallking of & porson} wnddouly ho npposrs; tho circumstanco i8 ro- marked; probably somo ono of tho company «quotes the old sying, *Talk of the dovil,” oto, But uo ono thinks of remarking the hundrods nnd thousands of times whon wo speak of o porson and ko does not come, Tho greater number of oxamples, tha groater tho likelihood of coincidonces, according to the ordinary rules of chanco. Many of tho hits of tho soi-disant phrenologists—or, as they should proporly bo called, craniologists—may bo ac- counted for in this way. Tho occasional vorifl- cation of tho erald's politieal prophecies in former days comes futo the samo catogory. The coincidenca ig ono of tho common improb- abilitios of the sonsational romanco—improba. blo, howavor, not on acoount of its oceurronco but onnecount of its ropetition. Probably fow porsous, whoso lifo experionce has not been of iho narrowost, aro unable to rocall Bomo ono re- markablo coincidenco affeoting themselves, or coming within thoir obsorvation. ‘e improba- Dility consists in roprosonting & number of such coinoidauces a8 occurring within the limited ox« porionca of a fow individuals duting o portion of their lives. A lndy whom I knew was in the labit, whon school-gir), of prodicting the futuro of Lior play~ matos, especiatly in roforenco to thoir marrisgos, Sho hada fixed idon that one of thom would marry “an old man who coughed all night,” and sho woa nccustomed to imitato the poouliar cough of tho destined bridegroom, Long after, when this friond had lived to bocome o mature woman, she married o man older than horself, who subsoquently to their mar- risgo was abtacked with Dbronchitis, ond realized tho prediction to the letter. Tho reador is of courso prepared to licar that all tho othor prodictions of tho sehool-girl about hor othor friends went wido of thio mark. If soversl of them had proved truo, it would hiave boen thought, oven In this skop: tical ngo, thet thero was eomothing uncanuy ubout the woman, And if we found n charnctor in & novel represonted as habitunlly uttering truo predictions of the future, wo should at onco cry out ngainst tho improbability. When I lived in Paris, I once recoived, the day ‘boforo Chrlstmas, somo canvas-back ducks from a Now York corrospondent. As thore wero moro of them thau I could dispose of while thoy wero fit to ont, I sent ono pair to & frioud who was cortain to appreciato thom. Thoopiouro was Bit- ting in gravo counsol with his sister, maling out tho menu of their Christmns diuner, They bad reached the roast. “Ohl" ho oxclaimed, *if Wo only bind 5 pair of canvas-backs!” Tho siords wore hardly out of his mouth whon the door oponed, snd my servent uppesred with the ducks, Often in his lifo bas * Jorry” dovoutly wished for this or that desirabie but ab- sont, articlo of provender ; never bofore or since lins his prayer boen so_ patly answored. Herein Tios thoimprobnbility of the sonsational romance, 1inglish or Fronch in origin, work of Dumns or Hugo, of Reado or Braddon, that its heroes and horoinoes ato nlways finding what thoy want just when thoy need it. Indood, may wo nok sey thet all tho fmproby- Dilitios of tho sonsational sehool aro reducible to nh\mld&nsn 1 then that tho superintendent should bo walking by just at that timo nn]l{ thint tho onrvo doscribed by the projectile should diroct it oxactly to his oyo, Tho chinnco agalnst any ono of thoso ovents waa grontj bgainet ;lrln :‘l thom togother it must hiave boon vory Tho othor Incldont happonod to mysolf, T liovo nover found nny ono who would belloye it, aud therofore do not oxpoot the reador to do #o § yot, often ny I hiave thought over all tho olroum- stancen of it, I havo nover boon able to find any ronson for Buspeeting orror or scli-decoption, Whon n_youth of 15, nnd etill wonring round im:kola, I way snuntoring ono_ {lno summer day o garden. I noticed s Jargo beo hovaring ovor o flower, ITalf nmolmmcnll{, I took outmy pockot-lisndkorehiof, tied n looko kuot in one corner, and ullipped 1t ot the bes. o inoct disappoared, Bupx[mahlg that it had fallon into tho “flowoer-bed, reniacod my handkorchiof, without uubylng tho Lo, in {ho pocket of my looso jackot and snunter- od on, Bomo twonty minutes nftor L hed oceasion to tako out the handkerchiof ; noticing tho knot, I untied it, snd to my no emall anr~ prito found tho boo insido, rathor tha worso for wonr, but still showing signs of lifo. Now, na I havo eald, I do not oxpect anyone to beliove this; yot tho rationnle of tho procoss ls tolor- ably cloar to mo, Tho knot, origiuslly loose, was oponod still moro by tho not of strlking, so that ita folds could admit tho body of the beo, it violently thrust jnto thom. And what happenod waa just tho converso of this; tho handkorchiof lighted so that tho knot was thrust violantly around tho beg, took it “Il:' and carried it off. But the ablost Jugglor might try for a long whilo unsuccossfully to imitato this acctdontal and in+ ‘voluntary porformnuce. Literary coincidonces which nppear to bo plaginrisme aro very common. One vory ordi~ nary form of thom—probably {homost ordinary— 1 the pun, Some ovonts, some namos, uu:’ggnnt puns by their moro mention, Hundrods of people may make such puns independeutly of one another. But serious popular toples nlso will often suggoat tho same ideas simultaneously to men of tho samo hobits of thought and genorally concordant opinions. Evon more numerous sro whnt wo may call illitorato coincidonces, Plausiblo mistranalations 0. g, mistalkiug tho dative of solus for tho ativo of qu‘) uro roponted by gonoration after fiunumtlou of schoolboys and freshmen. Tho ull about the two-legged bird that ato the fruit 1a8 boon mudo over and_over ngain by porsons upowaro of its clussicality s & Joe. It will probably bo less frequont in futuro, since tho two-loggod cnt, on which it was founded, is rapidly consing, i it hns not ontirely coasod, to bo & common household animal. I will conclude with a singular instanco, showing how & ooincidonce in ronding— or misrending—mny throw light on the com~ position of & work and tho working of the author's mind. At lonst I boliove it to boa co- incidonco ; but it is possible that I liave onl: found o hugo maro's most. Thoe roador slal suflsgo for himaalf, Flauborts oxtraordinary book ** Salammbo” is a classic-historical novel, lvinqj for its subject tho quasi oivil conflict botwoen tho Onrthaginiong and their merconarios aftor tho firat Punic war. Among its poculisritios fs its minuto Adality to historical truth, in which it differs from all booka of ita clags with which I am acquainted. Thero is, howover, ono remarkable excoption to this historio accuracy, s fearful cpisodo of tho au- thor’s invention, We are told that Hamilear dostroyed tho main body of tho merconaries in o mountain pass catled the Baw. The details are nob'flvan by tho historiau; but Flaubort has filled thom in after his own nightmaro fashion. ‘Ho ropresents Iamiloar as making s grand bt~ tuo of the lions snd othor wild boasts, which, always abundant in that country even ta tho prosent duy, had multipliod_boyond thoir ususl numbers during the war, Ho ‘drives thom all into the defilo; nnd they dovour the mercenarics to tho Inst man. ‘Haw camo tho novolist, olsowhoro 8o sernpu- lous, to mako this ghastly nddition to the facts of his history ? An occident suggested to mo what I beliove to Lo tho answer., Aftor reading **Balammbo,” T was moved by curlousity to 1ook at tho original account of the ‘morcounries’ war in Polybius. Polybius is not oxactly a clagsical nuthor’; ho doos not entor into any curriculum or_acadomio courso, and thoso Ilm‘lionfl of him which n studont is most likely 0 read (tho only onos which I hadread provious- Iy) are the polifical disquisitions alluded or ro- farred to by Heeren, Arnold, and othor historians, 801 turned to the cheptor or saction of Poly- bius which treats of this war. A man docs not l\l\\'l{u begin to read a book or subject at tho be- ginning ; any more thon Lo always bogina to Trito o ook’ or cesmy at tho boginning ; and T happened to dip iuta Polybins just at this incl- dent of tho Saw dofilo. d thoro I road to thiy offect: that Hamilear, having blockadod the mercenarios in tho dofllo with all his army and tho wild benata (thersidative of theres) destroyed thom all. Here thon was evidontly tho nuclous of Flaubort's terriblo tableau, and” I could not but admiro tho skill with which ho had worked up tho Listorjan's briof montion of this strango and hidoous modoe of warfaro. But when I came to read up the history in order, T soon found that wild boasts (thercs) was tho term regularly ermployed by Polybius for the Carthaginian war olephants, Only in one place (s for as I can recolloct) does ho use the word f!vplAarllu, and then ho immodiatoly explaina it )y theres. Tt now atruck mo that when Finubert conocived the ides of writing this book (suggested in all probability by the Bepo{, mutiny), aud began to road up lis subject, ho had first oganmlhiu Poly- bius just in tho same place as I did, and had concoived at onco his terrible vision of Hamil- car's grent man-hunt and more than gladiatorial show; and thab aftorwards, whon Lo came to find out what Polybius reelly mosnt by wild Dbonsts, ho atill thought the tabloan too good to bo lost, too valuablo for literary purposcs, and thoroforo rotainedit. Of courso, a8 I nid, this may bo only s maro’s nest, but ploase to obsorve that the hypotliesis accourits oxaatly for tho fact, sud that no other Liypothesis will explain the fact €0 well. ; *Solo for soli occurs in tho old statutes of tho Univor- ity of Cambridge, FRAGMENTS. Somebody thought littls thought, ‘Aud wroto somo 1L ) the head of too froquent occurrence? The aduge that * trath is strangor than fiction’ meots with startling verification ovory now and then, Both physical accidonts and_moral phenomens ocour which wring from us tho involuntary exolama- tion, * 1low lmpmlmbla this wonld seom in & work of fiction 1" Probably thare 15 no buo in- gle ndventuro in the most sensational yomance to which & parallel might naot bo fonnd in real life. Tho Improbability consiats in bringing & numbor of theso excop- tional accidonts within tho Lifolime, or a portion of thelifotimo, of one porson, It i tho sham- sample swindle” in a rather different seuso from Obnrles Rtoade’s. Middloton sall of tho legonds about tho early fathors and eaiuts, that ‘miraculous ovonts were moro frequent in thom than non-miraculous ovents; sud, similarly, somo of our modern schools of fiction adopt the oxtraordinary na a rulo, and_only admit tho or- dinary as un oxcoption. And porhiaps thoy aro Tight, for aftor all who shall say that the arete, thio diffierentia, the cssonco of tho romanco, uf dintinguished from the novel, is not its sbnormal atmoxphoro, and_dramatio oxposition of thinga exceptiounl? (Something that has boou paid abovo roquires cxplanation. We fiad i romauces many single things which, in ono senso, are mors {hon improbablo; they are impossible, But ithis impossibility is of & qualifiod naturo It consists in their boing con- trary to fact; growing aut of the author's ignorance of goma rocondito, or at least not aftogothor obvious, fact—phyeieal, logal, Listori- cal, Of any clnsy you plonso. A# when certain soporifics which act only after sovoral Lours aro reprosentod e acting fustantaucously, or whon cortain ovents which would bo illegal in the country whore tho sceno s laid are deseribed oy Dopponing by duo procoss of law, If you look at thowo incidents a prior], without l(unw]ndgfl) of the spocinl facts, you would not sec snything ovon strango about thom. Thus, in_ tho caso of soporifivs, wo know that thoro ste somo which do not immodintoly. And, to take an instance from tho most orratlo of Viotor Hugo'a books, thoro i nothing vory startling or incrediblo iu the aupposition thatns Iato as Quoon Anne's timo ono olaus of Bnglish Shorifls or Constables wore callod wonpontakes—that thoy carriod an iron wsword as tho sign of their ofiico, and excouted thelr arresis by o touch of the sword, Theanly abjoetion to it i that it {1 not a fact, but o pure inyontion of the author.) 1 shall now rolate two aceldents—ono sorlous, tho otlior trivial—which Plustrato in a marko munnor tho oeensional improbability of vealitios. One Lofoll a connection of mine, tho kon of an minont profossor, and himsolf ' ssioutific man of somo uoto. 1o was suporintondent of & min- Ing osteblishment, ‘Tho masses of oro tukon from tho mino were broken up with sledge-ham- mers I bonrd shuntios and log huts, Ono duy a4 ho was wn\hhxs; among theus huts, o fragmont of ora flow out through a knot-holo and struck Lim diroctly in ono oyo, which it dostroyed, and Jio camo nonr towing tho othar oyo, but witimnte- 1y, nftor a loug illnoss, rogained tho partial uso of it. Now soo how many ohancos there wore againet every clemont of this ncoldont, Fimt, fl‘l‘ll thora should bo & knot-hole at tho roquisite hoight; thon that s fragment should bo small onough to paus through’ tho hiolo; thon thal it tie laye ; ‘His nolghbora kind, with friendly mind, Awarded him sowe pralse, Then b began to 1dly muse ‘And dream his lifo swuy, And think that ke would daubtloss b A Bhokepearo somo fne day, Somehody earved, of masblo white, “Ababy's dimplod haud Alittlo praiso tho flickering blazo Of Lis ambition fsnned, 1t burat futo s roaring firo ‘Aud burst Lis very lioart ; Hj» hopoa ull flad, nd then, half-doad Ho curead tho doulptor's art, Somobody drew a Ittlo faco, With all its shadows true ; But far away, that very day, TPratso with'lis sonsea fow, And from that day Lo {dly dreamed Of Ttaly and Rome, And tried to shirk tho housat work ‘About his humblo home, Somebody mado o Uttlo sposch Wit did a littlo good ; A nclghbor oard the kiidly word, And {hiankod bim, o8 Lo should. Then he who spoke the word began o think himsolf 5 salnt, And did not caro to breathie a prayer “T'o blot out sin or taint, Each # gomelody " was I & boat, "And floating at hin will, While solf-concelt, his broad and mest, Tho uxtra space did All, Anil when Lo oarned a littlo gem 1i{a littlo work to crown, Not ono more balr the boat could bear, ‘And 5o it driftod dowa, LRI Ontoaao, July 31, 1673, Y Gront Fronch Surgeons, 1 hiave soon Velpoau in Lis olass,—Velpoau, that intolloctual giant ; a mochanic untit Lo wau 20, but riglng thereafter to tho highest pitch of uolentilio ominonce, the suthor of works which & contury of progress will not suporsede ; one of tho vory fow who havo boen equally groat in ex- poriment and in theory. A ¢ plain, blunt man, but his pupils adorpd him. Ilave scen lhim como upon them whon convulsed with laughter ovor s omicaturo of his own quaint porson, soizo tho _papor, np{flnud the resemblance, join in the mirth with the utmost zest, snd guyly eritiolso tho drawiug ; thon turning to his clasy again he identitied ‘tho culprit ut glance, and Enspod bin by tho enr. ¢ Aud it was you, yon fog who dlajt| I know your Land |’ Tlinvo ween tho same man nccosted when on his hos- Dital rounds by anothor, gront in plac snd wawar, who bogan pomponsly to congratulato B on the suceoss of o difficult operation just performad on & momber of his own family, And tho man of scionce wayad the man of station anldo silontly, but not discourteously, aud con- tinued his own exposition. Wist not the dlgu’lv {ary that {his worker must be about his Maator's businoss 7 Ab, that was a man ! “1{ow well I remomber," ho continued, ¢ fizm l Ing ono Bundsy mornjug—an autumn day lko lieard of such n theatrical porformance ? this—with o friend to one of the prinelpal hoa- itals, It was tho vaoation term :& the Modical chool, and there wero but few sludonts or viaf- tors abiout. Ag wo passed into the hall, wo honrd qronhn, ovidontly of o cbild in great pain. The door Joading to tho sick-ward was ofar, ‘ond ng wo appronched wo henrd tha volco Of o man talking earnostly with tho littlo sufforor, ‘Tliore was gomothing vory nffecting in the tonos of the child’s voleo and tho tondor and sym- pothizing replies of tho physician, and it soomod to us no broach of otiquotto to witnoss ungeon through tho orack of the half-open door tho scono that was passing within, On's narrow pallot noar tho windosw Iy & fine boy, 0 or 10 yours old, dying of cancoy dovoloping itaelf bo- twaoen tho oyen and bohind tho noso, It bad not yobshown ituelf oxtornally, but had dostroyed tho sight, and wan attonded by oxcruciating suf- foring. By hiu sldo sat n slatoly, whito-linired man, holdl hfi with one hand tho {wo of tho littlo potiout, whilo with tho other ho cnrossingly smoothod big halr, Tho child tho story of Lik pain, ' A, jo soyfre fant!' to which tho old mon listonod Pluonfly, promising to doviso somo roliof. Thon ho rose to go, buk firat bent ovor iho boy, and_ with tears droppivg from his cyos ldasod Lis forchond lovings ly a8 o mothor, Tho whito-haired man was tho world-ronowned Nolaton, —Nolaton, Jatoly sammoned to attond the fallon Emperor. *‘Another reminlscence of another SBundsy morning in Paris, I saw brought iuto tho hos- pltal o young working-gitl, whoso lnfi) lad boon Ccrughed by o beavily-loaded omuibus, and so Dbudly as to roquire instan€ amputation, Tho surgaon on duty was tho famous M. Richard. Wo wore asked to nssist that timo. I gave the anmsthotie, and I romomber %o charged mo to keep tho ‘poor child) as ke called her, unconscious nat only dur- ing tho oporation, bub unlil ovory traco of it had boon romoved, IIo iutorcopted o blun~ doring nttondant who would hinyo brought the trnl of instruments within sight boforojsho slopt; and anything equal to his pationt soothing of hor_pain and torror, tho dolicate caro which banished all that was uonocossarily ngitating from the gceno, the doliborate and exquisito pit; which eoftoned his every look and movemont, Bardly hopo to s00 ngain, Thot plao was o man,” — Love in tho Nincleenth Century,” by Harrict W. Preston. AN ECCENTRIC KING. Thoe Piay of the King of Bavarin, From the Vienna Prease. 'Tha cccontricities of the young King Lonis 1., of Bavarin, have of late becomo such that tho question whothor or not tho prosent ropro- sontativo of tho ITouso of Wittolabach is insane, is moro anxiously agitated at Munich, and eapoo- 10lly at tho Imporial Court at Dorlip, than evor bofore, 'The former curious froaks of tho King have all beon forgotten; Lis oxponditure of 6,000,000 for imitating at his castlo of Hohon- sehwaugon the hanging-gardens of Quoon Semir- amin; his attompt to;build o pyramid like that of King Cheops on tho famous Lechfleld; and his numerous flirtations with royal Princessos, whom he jilted mosb uncoremoniously, when thoy had moat reasion to look for an offor of his heart aud hand. But theb which engrosacs at tho presont timo tho attontion of tho good burghors of Muuich is tho singular manis of tho young King in regard to theatricol affnivs, It is a woll-known fact that King Louis IL looks upon tho theatronstho prime gourco of popular education ; that he con- sidera Frederich von Schillex and Aloliore tho two dramatists without whom the stago could never kavo acquired its prosent eminencej and that ho, the Wittolsbach rulor himeolf, has writ~ ton n‘l)lny. which hie not only, ns might bo ox- pectod, values vory highly, but which, in Lis opivion, is o combination of all that ia raigoworthy both in Schiller and Molioro. 'his wonderful play is entitled ¢ Tho Fan of the Marchioness,” and thero exists Lut a singlo ‘manucript copy of it. Itcoutains throo acis, nd it was writton in Alexandrino versos, Thaé is all that is kuown about it. No profano critio Lins yot cast eyes upon it, but ono porson has geen it porformed on the stage, and yob tho whole company of tho Royal Theatre of 3unich knovws it by hoart ; and the plny has, moreovor, boen porformed alrondy upward of o dozen timos, with sconory and decorntions sucli as havo rarely boen bostowed upon ihe tragedios of tho groatost masters. The explanation of nll this i8 a vory simpto ono. King Louis IT is o man of the most Tetir~ ing character. Most of the timo be lives in utter seclusion. The pomp and splendor of roy- alty are most distastoful to hini; oud, rathor than appear at a gula roview of his army, he will lond sicknoss, or, without causs, bury himsel 1 tho Alpine rotreats of tho Iungarian High- lands, 'Tho stago ia his favorite pastime, but to witnoss publio porformances when everybody rises from his soat aud bows {o him ns soon as ho makes his appearanco is 60 distasteful to him that for years ho Lag not sot foot in his own thontro at Dlunich, except on tho occasions whick we aro about to speaify, About four months ago tho actors of tho Royal Theatro, in tho abovo mentioned city, ro- Goived from the managoment of tho stago tho castof nplayentitlod © Tho Fan of the Marchion- ous,” whoso suthor, ho eaid, wishod to romain unkoown, but whicl was to bo_rohcarsod imme- distoly. A wock afterward tho first rehoarsnl took placo, and & few duya later tho actors and rotrosscs who wero to appear in it wore startlod b{ tho notification that they woro to plsy tho pieco aftor miduight on tho $0° of March, Tho most rigorous socre- oy _wes enjoined upon them, and im- mediate dismisgal was threatoued to those who should tslk about tho affair. Who had C‘Sl\'ll:r o ‘actors wero all there, and whon the curtain went up thoy vainly looked for on audionco, No ono was prosont o witnoss thoir porformanco but n Jous mnn drossed in o looss suit of gray, his andsomo faco adorned with a small” well- trimmod moustacho. The youug man was sonted in the loft proscenium box, and he seemed to follow the performance with rapt attention, The oxporiciiced actors did their best to play thoir parts well, Nono of them hnd over per- formed under more singular, nov to sny discour- aging, circumstanges. Applauso thoro Was nono, The ourtain went down, and it went up again, boforo a dark and owmpty house. Tho only spect tator present was, to sll appenrances, highly intorestod, but not ovon once did bo clup his and., Finally, as tho noighboring clock of Bt. Cath- arino's Clurch struck 4, tho play was ovor, sud tho nctors went homo. This singular perform- auce has boon repeated sinoe then & dozen times. ‘Tho actora are almost in a state of revolt, for it sooms unuatural for thom to play to no audienco without marks of spplause or disapproval ; sim- ply boforo ono young man, who, if ho Woars a orown, profits by his royal prerogatives in a vory ourious manner. —_— The Coroner’s Trinmph. az Adeler 1n the Philalelphia Saturday Eoening Post Butcher, when wo know him, was Coronor up in Willinmsport, Bueiness that winter was dreadfully dull. Nobody died suddenly or was drowned or murderad, snd Butcher not ouly had nothing to do,sbut o mado 1o foos, aud Was.as poor a8 Walt " Whitnn’s pootry. 'Suddenly o mania for committing suleldo by poison seoued to branic out among tho pooplo. Mra. Drown fod horsolf with strychnine ; both tho Bmith irls stuffod thomsolves with arsenio; Aleck fioncs took a doso of Isudanum ; Johnson's col- ored girl swallowed omo bug polson, and Mrs, Murphy's little son ate four bioxcs of phosphorus matchos, Theso tragio avonts oceurrod at Intor- vals of o fow days, aud in cach case no soonor wero tho facts discovered than Dr, Bumm was at ouco on hand with his stomach-pump, Ho omptiod Mrs, Brows all of & suddon ; ho pumped out tho Bmith girls ; ho toro the lsudanum out of Jonc ; Lio sepurated tho poison from the col- ored girl, and he nearly turnod Mrs, Murphy's boy wrong sido out. “All of them recovered. Tho Coronor viewoed thoso, procoedings with rogrot. Ho wont to Bumm and suggested that bo would give @100 if ° tho dactor would closo out his pump, and $50 more if o would go out of town for throd or four wooks, The Coronor snid ho did not wish to woom importuno or obtrusivo, but was tired of having doctors meddlo with Lis business, ‘Uhon Dr. Bumm afirmed that ho would not only not soll und not leave town, but whon the noxt poigoning case oceurred ho would buy a stoam ongino, ttach it to tho mackino, and pump the pationt throughout tho mmm“"li agon of all atornity if ho wanted to. 'Fhat unight Intchor bribed tho dootor's boy to bring him the pump for o fow moments, Thon ho rubbod somo nitro-glycarine around the ond of tha piston snd sont it back, Tho next day Mary Juno Me- Guiro took oxalic acid, The "doclor came ; ho interted the aparatus down hor throat and l)lungml tho plston down, A snap, o whriok, & oud explosion, and Mary Juno, ohil whore was she? Iorty-sovon plocos of hor woro found, and they {nlulmd up twelve fragmonts of Lo doator, #0 tho Coronor had o ohance for fAfty- nino Iuquesty, tho foos of which onablod him to buy & barrel of flour, got Liw wagon fixed, and give his wifo & pink silk dress, Ha was the moat onterprislog Corouer thoy ovor had In Wilkiamsport. . numorala somathing to tho hoight - of PILGRIMAGES IN FRANGE. The Sacred Heart at Paray- 3 le-Monial. Numerous Atftendance---The Parisians’ Day---Description of the Cercmonios. Paris (July3) Carrespondenceaf the New York Tribune, Among ail Fronel phonomena thoe Rollglous Tiovival now in ovor-nccolorating progross Is, to tako tho lowost viowof it, ono of tho most curious, I was about to write, astonishing, To opltomize s rocord of its meroly outwsrd and: visiblo signs, 80 numerous aro thoy, would outgo tho linuts of & singlo lottor. In this Iwill only protond to sponk of ono olnssof thom, the pilgrimages, sud, indood, malnly of but ono pllgrimago or sotios of pligrimagos, whoro thou- snnds daily journoy from all parts of Franco throughout the just past month of June, to Parsy-lo-Monial. Bo far as somo roading and othor inquiry 0s thoso limits ousblo, I try to stato, not discuss, facts. Lot mo bog readors to koop iu mind that this Frenoh roligious movo- monb is, in itsolf, a vory important ovont. ‘Whether a hopeful or dangorouu timo for Franco, & dawning roal vitality or tho disturbod ghost of tho dosd past, foroboding doath, or idlo tran- slont product of disoased norves. aud political intriguo—thoso aro quostions that ua many oclassea of minds and parties hora have roady- mado anawers to, with which for tho momnnt I Dinvo vothing to do, Thoy do not affoct tho pa- tont prosont existonco of the fact. Talroady spoko in the autumn of last yosr more than once of thess numorons pligrimagos to difforont Frooch shirines of Our Lady. Theso aro continued tbis year, moro numerous, moro thoroughly systomatized, moro fashionalo, 80 to aposk—by which I do not mean loss sincoro, Yot wo aro not at tho ‘‘hoight of tho senson,” which does not come till aftor harvest. It isn roturn, a8 moro than ono cuthusiastlo roportor writos, to the good old times, with modern im- provements—tho railway ticket substituted for staff and scollop-sholl, and reduced faros with eramped kucoa in crowded cars for parched poas and locomotion with genuflexions. But what distinguishes tho pilgrimago to Paray Is tho frosh impulso it received from sud gives to tho worship of (or dovotion to) tho Sncrod Heart of Josus, Faray, o small town of Burgundy in tho Bishoprio of Autun, {8 tho seat of that Convent af tho Visitation made illustrious two bundred years 8go by the holy life, mirnculous convereation, and doath within its walls, of the since momi- canonizod Mario Alncoque. Hithorto ignorant ‘poraons, ourious to know partioulars of the mar- volous worth and works of that saintly lady, aro roforred to hor Lifo by Languot, to the quaintly sincoro Momoiro of hier by tho'two * Contem- porary " slutors, to her published lotters, and then if thoy will (but bettor not) to Grasset and encering Voltaire. Enough now to say that, owing to repoated interviews granted hior in per- sonal prosence by Jesus, and to our Lord’s con~ ulaut prosauro, Mario Alncocque, made partakor in a sort of His Sacred Hoart, did obtain st lug® tho publio institution of tho worship of the Bncrad Loart about 1689, almost tho oxuot pro- contonnial annivereary of the Great Rovolution and transient Satanic triumph of 1789, Tho pilgrimago to Paray ran throtgh all tho days of Inut month, Bosido the gonoral throng- ing frow nonrand far, almost ovory day was par- tioularly marked by the arrival of ong or moro worshipful bands ropresonting tho faithful of this and that groat town or remoter dioceso. In Inrgo part, theso cama with rod crossos or figures of n heart visiblo on their drosses. Of tho pro- coodings on twoof thoss gront days I havo taken soma pains to obtnin tho liest ortliodox accounte. Of tho first of thoso two, Juno 20, which was par excollonco the Parisian day, tho Abbo Rou- quotto, giving himeolf tho scanticst naeodful hours o rest from tho fatigues of tho railway journoys (each of half a day or wholo nignt), and of tho intormediate wholo day of procaodings, praying and singing in loco, sat Mimuolf stralght- woy to write out an account, quickly pub- lished in o pamphlot of nearly 100 pages, whick for graphie, racy, roadablo quality nood put tho comuion laid run of * our own corrospondent” to tho blush, Tho Abbe is human, though, for our consolation, With all tho romarkablo clevernoss aud highor morits of hia sccount, it has its trade-mark, its “our ownnoss.” To take a figure from our eldor political timo, it is a Jnck- son man's report of o Jackson Domooratic moot- ijug. Itis trutnful and sincerc in its way, bub not ntterly g0 from tho cool Adamy Whig polnk of view, Ioweyer, if the Abbo may havo raised his own oxaltation, and colorod other facts with some- thing of his own warmth of fooling, theso vory nxl.\x"f;erntionu. though not strictly’ matorially trutl ml, bocomo truthfully charactorietio in the oneral. The Abbo estimatoa the wholo numboer of par- ticipants in tho coremonies of tho 20th at 20,000, I should say to the croditing of this eighnr, ‘that other well-sccoptod suthorities rato tho throng that duy at 90,000, of whom 1,200 were pricsts, and 5,000, pricsts and lsymen, wero Parisiaug. 'All tho patishos of tho capital woro roprosontod, each by s dologation with its distinctive banner ‘borne in advauco. T'he othors came from widely- eoPnnted parts of Franco and of Alsace-Lor- ralne, Thoro were 150 banners, somo of coatly materinl and very cunning handiwork, ropresent- ing porishes, cauflogulinuu, and other plous audociations, ~ guilds, _ citios, bishoprics. _Tho one from Orlaaua bore tho Bacred Hoart on one gide and Jeanno d'Arc on the other ; that of our daop sinning, ropontant Bollovillo, thoso words : “ Mon Dieu, Pardon!” Tho sonse, with slight yariation in pliruso, of numorous mottocs was: *Baerod Uoart! Bave France, Freo the Popo!” One from Alsace was in blaok and gold, having the cross in crape, a sword piercing & dragon, & cross ond anchor, with tho motto “WIn Loo signo vinces," and bolow, " Sacrod Honrt of Josus, Bave Frauce. Restore to ug our Country!”, From Metz, black and gold, oraped, oamo tho words: “Baored Heart of Josus,’ Bayo usl” Two bsunora oame from Bpain, ono with this insoription ; * Corazon e Jesu. Liberta a Pio 1X.y Salvada a Espana.” Ono othor bannor morits’ oxcoptional notico, ono not made for this occasion—its pristine ele- ganco somothing frayod and fadod with wintor wind and woutfinr, snd glorlously discolored, # for,” as our Abbe writes in his figurative way, ¢4 it has boon inuudatod with emoke aud dust, and evan blood ;” was tho standard under which ex-Pontifical Zonave Con, Oharcite and lis Bretons fought in the war of 1870-"71, and whioh now ho and a dologation of 160 of his followera deposo as au_cxpression of gratiiude on the shrine of tho boatified Mario Alacoque—* Por- B to resumo and boar it high ggain ono day inbattlow bottor propared for, but ot moro glo- rious.” ‘The long June day, till after ovening foll, was, greapt a brlo vagwtion for o frugal moal of two, busily devoted to religious ceremonios. Mass bogioniug at midnight, was colobrated at moro than twonty altars, in the parish_chureh, within tho monnstory and without. Each of thoso altars was surrounded by n dozon priests, count~ ing tho minutos whilo avulting their turn of oftico. At 3 o'clock in tho aftoruoon massos wore utill goiogan. Tho Bishop of Autun had authorizod all priosts prosent (1,200) to ndmin- istor tho Sacrauont of Ponltoncs ; 80 that overy horo and thoro, by a column of tho chureh or bo- hind o door, might boscon tho odifying spectacle of & priost giviug absolution to pilgrims, Thora wereprocossions defiling through tho monastory and its grounds, past tho varions placos mado holy by §hio works unil ecatutlo visions thoro of tho Doatifiod Mario Alacoque or tho personal ap~ pouranco to hor thero, 200 yeats ngo, of the Lord Josus, Amoung theso placos was ** tho little plot wheore sho was charged to keep tho she nes aud its fonl that, whilo our Lord was talking to big Hpouso, stragglod away Lo browsoln tho rsorvod nrdon’; this constrained this child of exack obo- Henio b quit tho Divino Master and 1lis hoavon- 1y convorso to rn and attend to thoso animals 88 fho had boon ordored. Lut tho Bavior of men withhold hor, and told Lor that they would do no barm, as indood it proved, for thoro was found no oxpuotml traco of tho havoo thoy had made,” [Heo ¥ Univers for Juna 8 of this year.] Thoro nro sormony and othor plous dls- ooursos, full of unction, listened to in uymlm- thotio, dovout sllonce, pausos somotimen” fillod with groat murmurs and ovon loud applausive shouts. Ono of thoso wus an eloquent improvi= unticn by tho ominont pulplt orator, Mather Folix, s toxt way tho rofrain of tho grest Hymn of tho Sacred eart, tho Marselllaivo of thiy roliglous campnign ¢ Diou do Clamonco 0 Diou Vainquour, Bauyex Romo et Ia Franco Au uom du Baoro Casur, Abe, ' oppooially ab that Bflumon of tho dlae courso whoro tho spoaker addrossed himuolt di- rootly Lo the Zouavos, Aud, as always whon ono meots that chosen battallon, tho lho\lshb of tho Pontiff for whom thoy wero first ralsod up pro- penta iteolf to tho mind and hoart, I confoss with prido to hnvo taken horo tho initiativo of triplo shout, ¢ Vive I'Eglise] Vive PEranco Vive Pie IX.I' ‘Ob, bravo survivors,' ox- olaimod tho orator, * guard woll this flag, ' for o somothing tolla that you will have ono day to bear it agaln on tho flold of battlo, which then will bo tho flold of victory, You wil} pavo Franeo by your flag.’” "Farihor on Alsnco nnd orrolno -~ worn oxborted to wait In trustfal hopo of rostoration. At tlio closo of each of tha fivo or alx divisions of this nddrosu; o, thourand voioos broke out in ohorus, “Dieu do Qlemence,” ote. oro, tronslatod into rudo ,proso, aro the firab two_stanzas of this hyinn, whoso notoa from myriad yolcos uncoss- ingly rore hoavenward through tho Juno air. #Dity, my God[ It {8 for our country thatwo pray at tho foot of this altar, Iler srme bound and hor fngo brulsod, she has rafsod hor eyos to Heavon, Pity, my Godl On s now Calyary gronns tho Hoad of your Olurch in tears, Mako glorious tho Buccossor of Petor by & triumph oqual to his sufferinga.” The formal ceromonlos woro closed by en addross from tho Blahop of Autun, tho groat flfll‘llffllzntlon. [ five difforont pausos, all responding, ‘* Lord Thon art our “Father ; Thou shalt forever bo our lflxag;" ond st tho_ closo: “ Vive Josus Christ, Bavior of the world ! Vivo His adorable hoart { Vivo tho Tmmuoulato Virgln, Quoen of Franco! Vive our Holy Fathor tho Pops, Piug IX.1 _Vivo Cathiolio Franco, oldest daughtor of tho_Obiuroh 1 Dut singing, procosding b torohlights, wont on tl night, whon, attor al roady one rido of twolve or more houra sincy yostorday, and all ¢ho doingsof thia day, througls tho glad fatiguos of which thoy woro apborne by tho joy of tholr hoarts, tho Darisian pllgrima took cars for theirlong return rido, 1f, o tho good Abbo pointodly insists, tha tous foto of tho 20th of Juno had o distinctlvol Parlsinn and popular charactor, thoso of tho 20t woro otherwise as marked by » peouliarly sol- omn, solect, national zosl. On that day, fifty members of tho National Assombly, with tha rallying badgo of the Pligrims of tho Bacred ‘Hoart on thoir doputod brosts, and boaring thelx proper bannor, camo, for thoir own pact ond i tho nomo of 160 dotained subscribing colleagues, ond, by a sort of solf-doputation, in {ho name of tho Assombly and of Franco, to conser crato themselves at iho sbrino of Mara Alncoquo tho worship of tho Saorod Honrt, Thero is room loft to montion but tho two distinguishing fonturcs of tho coro- monics that day. Aftor mass, and communion in tho Conyent Chapel, in which all the Deputios ook part, . do Dolcdatlo (s forward chiof in tho ranks of tho Logitimist Right at Vorsaillos) rouo and uttored “with visiblo omotion, but in firm tonos,” tho followiug declaration: “In the namo of tho Fathor, of tho Bon, and of tha Holy Ghost. Amen. Most Bacred Hoarb of Jesus, wo come to consecrato ourselves to you, ourselves and our collongues who aro joined in sentimont with us. Wo nsk you $o pardon us all tho evil wo bave dowo, snd lo pardon nlso .all thoso who live ostranged from inu. For 'such part ns we can fake n it, and in tho monsuro that bo longa to us, we also cousscrate to you by all the strongth of our desiro, Franco, our woll-boloved conntry, with all its J)rovhmun. with ity works of faith and charity. Wo ask you to roigu over hor Dy tho omnipotonce of your graco and your holy lovo, Aud wo, pilgrims of tho Sacred Meart, ndorors and copartakers of your groat Sacrament, most faithtul disciplo of “tho Infalliblo Hoo of Baint Potor, whoso fote wo are glad to celebrate to-dny, we consocrate ourselvos to_your servico, O Lord and Savior Josua Ohriat, humbly asking of youthe %rncn to be entiroly yours in tlid world and tho world to como. on. In tha namo of tho Father, and of tho Bou, aud of the Holy Spirit. Amen." From tho address of the Bishop of Autun, re~ eponsive to ihis remarliable declaration, I will uote but briefly: * Yes, you represent horo tho National Assembly; our Catholic Deputios aro the hond aud the hestt of it, and it 50 is, dospito of all our social spostacios, of all our rovolations, of all our misfortuncs, that aftor all, tho truly Fronch Assombly can but bo Chris~ tinn ond Catholic. Blessed bs yo for thus rajsing up again the old faith of our fathoers, Many timos sinco you aro asscmblod atb Vorsnilles you hava asked pardon of God for the crimes of Franco. DMany times iw have made amends honorabla to tho Bacred Ieart of Jeaus for ourlong in- gratitudes hoaped up above all in tho last ofghty yoars, Ono of my madern prodooessors [Xalloy- Tand] in this glorious seo fot Autun] had the mistortuno to botray the Church and bocomo the man of tho Rovolution, Divine Heart of Josus, pardon, pardon for that guilty Biskop.” It may or may not seem 6trango Lo J'ml that, in accord with the Abbo Rouquetto and othor reporters of tho Paray and other pilgrimages, tho returnod Deputios ropel with impatient warmth, with an winiont suspiciously poppory Liost, tho charga sometimes brought” up Ey tho worldly-mindod, that tho porformances have in thom & notablo political party. A RHYME OF NEW ENGLAND: Now England, I lovo theo, aud oft, {n my drefias, Return to thy valleys, and hill-sidcs, and streams'y Though yoars have swopt by mo, and I have grown ray, Since § 167 thoo, ouo morning, aud wandered awsy, Tho liome of my boyhood, Just under tho bill, 1a the Liollost place in my niemory sl 1 sm talking, doar mother, n fancy with theo, ‘Deneaths the old rodf, which so loug sheltored e Tho songs of tho birds, and tho murmering rill, Iy senses again with their melody thrill Again X am soarching eacl orann and nook In tho moss-vordured cof on tho bank of thie brook, My father, and brothers, and elsters aro there ; The old-fashioned clock, and tho anglent srm-chalr, The wary old watch-dog, aslep on tha floor, Growis snd barks, {n his dream, at somo thiet at tha door, And thocat sings its song of content and roposs, As it baska in tho sun, in 8 bagkot of clothed, Tho weather-stanod school-houdo In etill to boseen Tn the shado of tha alme, at tho Licad of th * green 3 Tho “master’ s thoro, will the well-sezsouiod #* beoch,” Tite adjunct, Kopt slways within exsy ronchy— Bo aure and conclusive, whon brought 1o his aid, To ouforco ‘or deter, to convinco or porsuady, T 6o tho old * master,” go hirsute and tall, B0 oarneat and snxious, and just to us all ; 1iis gaunt form comes back (0 my memory now-— “Au Y watehod for a mmila or o frown vn his brov § But alas | Lo da dead, and tho grass-ccvered sod Tu all ho ncods now of tho manor of Gad, I awake from my dream to tho desdlato trutts, Thot little In loft of tho homo of my youtl Thio birds sing thoir song, aud the, murmuring ril ot tho hearts thiat onco Hiatoned ara silent and sttll § For doath has been thero sinco I wanaered away From the howmo of my elildhood, ons moraing in May GRaNT P, BOBLNEON. —_— Chinese Philosophy, In anclent timos thero lived a man Bhien. During a traveling tour ho had oceasion to rest the night at o road-house, Tho weather was insufersbly bot, ond withi tho room mosquiiooa swarmod by thousands, Bhion fortuuately had pravided himsolf with curtains, but unfortunate. 15 tho ourtaiun woro insuclont to rosist tho euemy. 1lis efforts to keop them out wore in vain, sounda of buzzing in unploasant proximity etill contiuued, and writhing undor tho intolor- ablo torment of thoir stings, his thoughta trans. plantod thomsolyos to s own peacoful home, 1o roflcoted on tho apacious balls, cool conchos, and the crowd of bandmaids to fan and wait on their lord ; and, continued ho to himsolf, how fa it that I ehould have suffored one moment of ennui in such & paradise ? Why leavo to seok pleasure and find misery abrond ? During these moditations ho ob- sorvod tho keepor of tho post, who had na aqurtaiue, pacing the room with tho mosquitoes awarming around him, But what scowed to him inoxplicable was that tho man still appenred ta bo in perfoct goad humor, Shion, still writhing in misery, exolafinod : My good fellow, you ara ono hundrad times worse off than mysolf, but how i it that, while I smin tormont of mind, ou on the controry seom happy?' The eopor ropliads Bir, T have just boon recalling to mind the position I'was onco placed in ; whon & prisonor, bound Land aud foot, I wag & lwl!k loga proy to those murderous ingocts, unablo to move a mutolo, they preyed on mo with fmpuni- 1y, and tho ngony Was uubonrablo. It waa tha contrast of that horrible Fux‘m‘l with my prosent condition that produced that fooling of contont= edness within mo." Bhicu was_startled by tho mine of philosophy horsln unfolded, Would, ha thouglt, that the world in ordinary lifo would but daily koop in mind, snd carry out such a arinelplo of analogy. iow vast tion would ba 1o Yobult to ‘man -North Ohina Lierald. —_——— Timo and Mades of Sulckdo. A writor in 8 Fronoh medical journal, who had oxamined nbout 900 judioial acoounts of suicklos in Parls, thinka himsolf warranted in sésumind tho following conolusions: Philonophica) OF Iwmmol\lhtud suioido tolkos place nsnall: d-" b Lo night and o littlo bofore daybronp )00 dontal or unpromeditatod suicide taf b dlurln this day, bocatieo i is thon sional oausos arise, suoh as qu Tonmer, irompobscn, oto. ¢ a8, too men ohoose partioular modoes,y resouras ta euloide, Thus in youth BSpg' for firoarms { hauging, which he 8oon 8b%ies, or old ago ade in proportion as vigor d9 tho mode, 0 bocar B%0d nows, #Wo spplauded aud wo wopt,” wiltea tho | vauoes, ‘hanging is xouo”