Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 27, 1873, Page 7

P e et | TIIE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1873. LONDON. A Batch of New Books, Why Lord Stratford de Redoliffe Is o Ohristian, Momolrs and Letters of Sara Colorldge sseller Reminiscences of Dis« tinguished Porsons. Essays by Max Muller---8ir Charles Lyell’s *Antiquity of Man.” TFrom Our Own Correspondent, Loxnox, July 6, 1870, ‘Tho Bhah and tho Claimant havo had so largo o share of publio attention in England that now litorature has, o faras tho daily pross atall ovents {u concorned, passed unnotioed, yob sov- orul eapital books have been publishod within tho last fow days. A DIPLOMATIST IN A NEW CIHARACTER, To-day thoe vonerable Lord Stratford do Red- cliffe, now in Lis 86th yonr, issucs & small bro- churoe ontitled, “*\Why Am I a Christisn?" Itis sddreased to some old friond whooo namo is sup- plied by nsterisks, *‘You must romombor,” writos his Lordship, roferring to his long battlo against Russinn influonco at Constantinople, “now we worked togethor at & most intoresting poriod in that vinoyard, which sometimes, as of lnle, hns yioldod } vory sour grapes, it suy at all.- Wo were thon on Eastern ground, in par- tibus infldelium, so fully ocouplod -with our oflicial dutics, amid tho stirring ovents of & world-wido strugglo, that loisure for anything oleo was almost out of the quostion.” Latoly, ho proceeds to add, their conversation has fallen upon tho skoptical tondency of modern soclety. Lord Btratford's object is admirable, and tho spirit of his book is praiseworthy, but it is vory poorly ~writton, and, ns & cantroversial production, has no merit whatever., Itis below tho averago of the loast scholarly cf our pulpits, and will ox- cite a laugh in the breast of the Duke of Bomer- sot. COLERINOE'S DAUGITER. Of o vory difforont quality is tho theological disouesion which ontors so much into tho ** Mem- oir and Lotters of Sara Caleridgo,” which was published to-day in two volumes. Bara Cole- ridge was the daughtor of tho great poot, and was brought up undor tho influonco of her fathor, of Wordsworth, and of her uncle, Bouthey. Thero aro exquisite descriptions of porsonal feoling, and mauy shirowd aud subtlo reflections, in hor lottors, quite apart from thoso which troat of speculative thought and religious inquiry. Ono wishes, howovor, that it was possiblo to have some of tho replies of the distinguishod people with whom sho correspondod. An admirable article, entitled *“The Daughtor of Coleridge,” appeared in an-Amorican journal eallod tho Literary World, in July, 1852, It was written by o highly-ostoemed correspondent of hors, tho Iate Prof, Houry Roed, of Philadelphia. Boveral letters to tho Profossor appoar in those volumes. A fow of bher criticisms aro worth pluning down. JOANNA DAILLIE T gaw,” ghe writes, ** Mrs. Joanns Daillio boefore dinner. Sho wore a delicato lavondor gatin bonnet; and Mrs. I— says sho is fond of dress, and knows what every ono Lus on, Hor tasto is cortainly exquisite in dress, though (strango to say) not, in my opinion, in poetry. I more than ever admired the harmony of ox- presslon and tint, the silver hair and silvery gray oyo, tho pale skin, mnd the ook which spoaks of o mind that has had much communing with high imagination, though such intorcourso 15 only porceptible now by tho absonce of overy- thing which that lofty epirit would not set his soal upon.” MI8S HEMSONEL. ¢ Mrs, T— says that Miss Herschol, sister of the Isto Dr. Horschol, is a porson of uncommon attainments and abilitics, and is a Follow of tho Toyal Booioty. She is now 84. Hor lotters from Borlin, whore sho resides, are full of vigor and epirit. Shesays: * My brother nnd I have sometimes stood out slar-gazing till 2 o'clock, and have boen told that, the night before, our neighbor’s pigs bad died of tho pest.’ " Y188 MARTINEAU'S *' RETROSPEOT OF WESTERN TRAVEL." ¢ ¢ Miss Martinoon's * lotrospect of Westorn Travol’ I [Sara Coleridgo] biave road aud on- joyed. It takes you through out-door scencs, aud, though the politics are overpoweriug now “md'thon, It froskous you up by wandoriugs simid W00l and rivors, and over mountain-brows, nnd among \umbling watorfalls. Ithink Miss Mar- iineau made mo moro at home with Niagara than any oftar of the Amorican travelors.' Bhe gives ono amost lively walerfallish fooling ; introducos ono not ouly to tho huge muss o rushing wator, butto the dotails of thte onyirons, the wood in which tho stream runs away, &o. Bhe takes you over it and undor it, boforo it and behind it, and Boems ax if she.wore performing o duty sho owod to the gonlau of tho cataract, by making it thoroughly woll-known to thoso ata distance, rather than to display hor own talent by writing a well-rounded poriod in & terso para- graphabout it,” DI PUBEY, ‘* We havo had Puscy and Manning preaching hore lately [sho writos],—the formor threo times. Dusey's middle kermon, proached in tho ovening, was tho porfoction of his style, But 1t is wrong to talk of style in respoct of a preachor wloso vory morit con- siets in his aiming at no style at all. Ho is cor- tainly, to my feolings, more improssive than any ono olse in the puipit, though he has not one of the graces of oratory. His discourso is gontrally & rhepsody, describing, with infinito repetition and accumulativeness, tho wickod noss of 8il, the worthlessness of enrth, and tho blessedness of Honven. Ho is as still as n statuo all tho timo ho is uttoring it, looks as whito 08 o sheot, tad is as monotonous in do- livery as possible. While listening to him, you do not soom to #ee and hear n preacher, but to havo visiblo before you » most oarnesf and do- yout spirit, striving to carry ont in this world a high religious theory.” 'WORDBWORTI IN 1847, # Mrs, Wordsworth [eays Miss Coloridge] is wonderfully aotive, Sho ‘went threo timod to church on the Fast-Day, and would have fasted almost wholly, had not’ Mr, W.‘ in a deop, do- terminod voice, said, ‘Oh! don'’t be 8o foolsh, Mary!" Bho wikoly folt that obedience was bot: tor than this sort of uwrmm, and * gave up what she had sot bor heart upon,’ poor, dear thing! Bhe is vory palo In look and voice, and I think it very posuiblo that o renl fast might Lave pre- cipitated ber downward progress in tho jonrney of lifo,—L will not sy how many steps. Mr. Wordsworth can walk soven or eight miles vory woll, and he talks a good desl tu the course of the t'lny; ‘but his talk is, at thelbest, but the faint- eat possible Image of his pristino mind ag shown in conversstion). 1lois dozy and dull durlug a groat part of tho day, Now and then the dim, waning lamp foobly flaros u‘r), and dla[»luia a temporary, comparativo brightnesa; bul ! quanium mutatus ab illo! He sooms rathber to recontinue his former solf, and xo{:ont by habit what ho usod to think and fool, than to think anythiug new. To mo ko is dooply intoresting ovan in his presont state, for the sake of thepast, The manner in which Lo enters into domostic mattors, tho concorns and charactors of maids, wives, and widows, whother flwy aro frosh wnd Fny, or ¢ withoring on the stalk,’ is ronlly touch- ng in one of #o robuat and manly frame of mind s b is originally was, and, in a certain way, still 8. Tho following ia o sketch of the present LADY EANTLAXE. “'DId you evor moet Miss i—— in London? Bho is, perhiaps, the most brilliant woman of the day,—the most sccomplished and Crichtonian, Bhodraws, takes portraits like an artist, aud writes olovorly on painting: ho playa with power, and writes most. utrndu(;ly on muslo j she speaks dif- ferent langungos. Ilor emsnys and talos hinve both had groat succoss, tho former an gront ns possiblo. "o put the comble to all this, sho is & very flno woman, —large, yot girl- feh, liko & Dorlo ~pillar” motamorphosed [nto o damsel, dark and striking, No, thiy is not tho comble, ‘I'ha top of hor porfections is, thab shio hos well-brad, courtoous, unsssuming man- nors ; doos not take upon her to hold forth to tho company,—a fouli of which many lioucssos of the dny aro gullty, At this moment, no losy than four rlse up boforo mo who show s desire to u& fo tho room at large rathor than quictly to thelr nn‘l{hbom on tho sofn, Miss R— In lionombly I;\tln aishod in this sospoot. lio s oroughly fominine, liko that princess of nov- olists, Jtio Austen.s" z e T.OID MACAULAY. ““I mot Mr, Mucaulay on ‘Luondny, at & vory plonsant party at Bir Robert Inglin', ' o was in gront foreo, and I anwy tho likonoss (amid great uniikonos) to my fathor, as I nover hiad sosn it bofore. It isnotin tho fonturos, which in my fathior woro, na Lauronco says, moro vaguo, but bosides very much in the look and oxprosalon of tho malorial of tho faco, tho mobility, softuosn, ond gousitivenoss of all 'tho flewh,—ihnt wort of look which ia mo woll oxe:rouaw In Bir Thomas Lauronco's benutiful unfinishod Yortrm of Wilborforco. I_moan that (he tind was common to Wilborforco, but the epocios aliko in Macaulay nud B, I 0, Tho oyos oro quite unliko,—ovon opposite in ex- prossion,—my fathor's in-looking and visionary, Macaulsy'a ont-looking aud objostive, Ilin tally. too, m"“fi“ differont a8 to sentimont and mat- oy wae liko o littls, in manner, in ita laby- sinflino multiplicity, and multitudinonsnoss ; nnd tho tonos, 6o floxiblo and sinuous, s it wore, rominded mo of tho doparted ologuenco.” RS, DROWKING. ¢ Mro. Browning is inwaak honlth, and cannot romaiu in tho fopgy olimo, Thoy aro to reside in Paris, *Bho s littlo, hard-foatured, with long, dark ringlots, & palo faco, and_plantive volco,— somothing very Improssive in hor datk oyes and hor brow. 1lor goneral nspect puts ono In mind of Mignon,—what Mignon might be in maturity and matornity. Bho hns more pootio goniny than any woman living,—perhiaps more than any woman evor showod beforo, excopt Bappho.” - BMAX MULLER, Prof. Max Muller collocts togothor lus four Royal Inetitute lectures, ealled ** Introduction to ‘tho Beionco of Religion,” aud prints with thom two ossays, on I'also Analogioa, nnd tho l‘hilonoph}' of ]\l{lhelo%:\". Tho volumo is dedl- cated to Ralph Waldo B'morson, in memory of his vieit to Oxford this yoar, and *in’nc- knowledgment of constant rofreshmont of Lend and hoatt dorived from his writings during tho last twonty-five yoars."” i 1N OHARLYS LYELL. Tho vonerable Bir Charles Lyoll hag issued a fourth edition of hix * Antiquity of Man," the first having beon published just™ton yoars ago. Many im‘)m'lnllt additions aud corroctions lhaye beon mado, Tho evidonco which wo lave ob- tained of tho oxistonco of man at o remoto o poriod that thors Lina sinco boon time for many .conspicuous mammalin {o die out, and this oven beforo tho ora of tho earliest historienl records, sbows also, Sir Oharles Lyoll points out, that, in spito of tho long Iapso of pro-hisforical agos, during which ho must lave flour- ishod on the enrth, thero is no proof of any porcoptiblo c\mugn in_ his Dbodily structuro, If, thoreforo, he over diverged from Bsomo unroasoning brute-ancostor, wo muat sup- poso him to have existod at a far more distant opoch, *possibly on some continonts or islands now submorgod boneath the ocean.” And thore 18 the thoory that a lowor race of mankind in- ovitably disappoars whon in contact with ono highor'in physical and montal capacity. Bir Chiarlos adheros to his long-oxprossud_opinion that Mr. Darwin's thoory of tho * Origin of Bpecios ™ is tho best oxplanation yot offored of tho connoction batwoon man and thoso animals which havo flourished auccossivoly on thae oarth, Ho contends that, so far from hnvinfi a materizl- istio tondonoy, the supposed introduction into tho earth, at successive goological poriods, of lifo, soneation, instinet, the intelligence of the higher mommalia, bordering on reason, and lnstly tho improvable reaton of man himeolf, ¢ presonts us with o picturo of ovor-increasing dominion of mied over matter.” i e R N THE DUNKERS. A Strange Roliglous Scct==Their Genus ine Love«kenst, Fyom the Philadelphia Telegraph, The Dunkoers are a very curious religious sect, originating in tho Old World, and flourish- ing in various parta of our country, especially in Luncaster County, Ia. They aro well-to-do farmers, and, a8 & friond romarked to moe, aro likely to bo found wherevor thero is fortilo lime- stonosoil. 'Their ministors are unoducated and unpaid farmers ; thoir religion is a compound of honesty, hard work, and logal rites; their churches are barns, and their chief mootings concontrato thomeolvos in half-yoarly sorvices bofore aud aftor harvest. Loaving Litiz aftor tea, we woro quickly car- ried behind our landlord's swift and powerful horses through a real garden land to tho placo of Dunkor moeting—the largo white barn of o rich farmer of thoir porsunsion. The lnnes load- ing to the barn wore filled with carringes, and tho grounds wore crowded with spectators, who woro grouped under the apple-troos or around tho wide-opened doors of tho barn. Tho sorvices wore woll under way, and the intorosting coro- mony of foot-washing over when wo arrived. Vith some difficulty wo worked our way over implomonts and bay-piles into one cornor of the barn, from which we conld overlook the whole gcono. Tho building had been cleared for tho rothron and sistors, who snt along narrow ta- bloa rangod ucross the body of the barn. A par- tition-wall separated tho soxos, and over it e could seo tho serions facos of the sistors, with thoir white caps and white crapes, whilo o row of sodate DLrothren sat so near to ns that wo conld linvo Inid our hands on their hair, religious- 1y parted in the middle. As wo came in thoy wore silently partaking of their love-foast, On the narrow tables atood tin bowls of lambs’ broth, with the boilod joint aside of them, broad aud buttor, and water gerved out of watering cans. About 250 were purtakineg of the moal by the light of tallow can- dlon, and nevor a word was spoiton, oxcopt inad- dress, or hymn, or prayer. Aftor tholove-feast wns over, A spoakor signifi- cantly romindod us strangers that, a4 we did not Jkoop the Lord's foast in this divinely-appointed way, wo lind little to expect on the Day of Judg- mont. Thon camo o prayor, the ninotoenth chapter of John, recounting our Lord's crucitix- ion, and tho addross of an old white-bearded man, who, with rudo but deep pathos, told of Christ’s lovo in Ilis redeoming death, Tho loader bade them greet oach othor with a “*holy kiss" oro thoy tasted their Lord's saora- mental supper, and silently and slowly the salu- tation passed down ono side the long tables and up the other, Then the clements Wwero conso- crated, and passed from hand to hand, The scene o striking, Tho barn was dimly lighted by tho eandles, tho faces of all were sober, and some wero thoughtful. Dany of the men wore gray and toil-worn, und soma of the women, it not bonutiful, had o sweot chacm In their facos, Bometimes o Gorman or an English hymn pealed upward among the rafters of the barn, and then thore *: ~eep silonco ngain, broken only by slight rugie..._ . in the hay and low whispors among the stfangors, watching to seo what now coremony would next bo started from the cross- table at whioh the Dunker proacher sat, —Hero was a strange mixture of the truo and falso; a ritual rude and yet rofined, and as closoly ob- sorved by these farmors ns are tho forms of Bt. Alban's Dy its fashionable devotees. ————e PASSED AWAY. oop no mors ; atrivo no mare ; lot tho dream go, No soft sumner showoers muke plucked roses blow, The fair vase Js brokon; {ho soft acent iu lost ; Lot the crnahod fragmunts lio; count not tho cost, Tha bond that s sovored no charra can unito s No magio can muke again noon-day’s spentiiight Weop 10 moro; hopo no moro; pray not, nor trust § Ol 1 fair was our idol; wo framed I8 of dust, It crumbled before ua ; the gay colors fled ; The radianco bus vanished ; the glory is dead, Yoarn no more ; look no more mourntully back; . Lat tho Joug grasscs wave over the track, Tat the soft sunsbino slecp quiot ond calm ; Lot tho Jow wind broatho it musical bala, Tl the pang ts forgotten, forgotten the tomb,— ill o'sr the crushiod leafluts frosh violots bloom, TWhat 1 they will not leavo fragrancoliko thoso woliavo nown, Husb [ think no mOr0; Weop N0 MOFS, Bummor {4 fownl TAvL Vase, ey An Anecdote of Nelnone T remembor having road somewkore an anec- dote of tho hiero of ‘Lrafalgar, which, I thiuk, is ‘a good illustration of the difforence botwoou tho naval customs of his day and the presont, On ono occasion, whon engagod in nn exciting stoin chaso of somo I'ronchinun, ho roared out to hin Quartormaster, who had tho holm, *Thivel™ (put tho helm hard up.) *Thico it is, my Lovd,” d ho, ‘*No, it isn't," said Nolson nothing' of tho sort,” *Yos, it {s, my Lord,” *Thon, L suppoxe I lie," said Nolwon,” *¢ Yos, you do, my Lord," said tho mattor-of-fact man,~ Now, if [t weto posyiblo that such o thlufi should happon to s Post-Captain of the provont day, he would have Lliad the Quartermaster iu ivons at onco, Not so Nolson, Ho held on until he had enught up with the Frenchmun, whon he gave him—nas he always did ovory onemy—the most tromendons bealing the 1oind of man onn conceive; aud ju the excite« mont of victory forgot all about the Quarter- masien—0ncoa Week, NEW YORK. The Ictest Dofalontion---The [l Story CUonstantly Repeated, Tho Prohablo Facts of the Qoodrich Tragedy=-~Tho Precarious leatth of the Bry-Goods Crasus. Thurlow Weed Dying===An Incom= pleto Record of Literature. TFrom Our Own Correspondent, New Yonr, July 24,1673, Tho defaleation of tho lato Ethelbort 8. Mills, Prosidont of the Brooklyn Trust Company, has causod great unomsinoss in fluancial circles of that and this city. The thing itsolf Is altogothor too common to bo in auy woy remarkable; but tho reputation which (ho man enjoyed wnd o ontiroly above susploion that his wrong-doing has given o shock to the community. THE TATEST DEFALOATION. No man in all Brooklyn stood higher, commor- clally or nocinlly. o was supposed to Lo not only very wealthy, but a pattern of roctitudo and honor. Ilis death by drowning at Conoy Island startlod and distrossed his muny friends, who woro still moro startled aud distressed by the deficioncy in his nccounts. The opinion that 1o committed suicido is not well based, bocauso, It i hiad continued to live, his dishonesty would have romainod concenled. A man {8 not likely to dostroy himsolf whon ho knows that his dls- solution must lead to an oxaminntion of hia af- fnirs and tho tarnishing of his memory. It was tho intorest of Mr. Mills to live, at lonat untilho had made good the amount he had talen from tho Trust Company. Thon nobody would have boon awaro that Lo had over yielded to tompta- tion, and his falr fame would liave beon pre- sorvod to tho end. Now tho mombers of his tamily and all Lis intimates are in doublo afflic- tion,—mourping loss for his domiso than for his diskionor. Mr, Mills' onse is one of many. Ho did what hundroda of others are trying to do. Ilo wag mnking over-haste to got rich. Ho ontored into Iargo real-cstate and building oporations, and, 08 they did not tarn out ns ho hnd anticipated, Llie nooded money to save him from ruin, and he borrowed it of tho Company, without informing any of his fellow-officers of tho transnction, Of courso, ho took o littlo at first, and then a little moro, and so on, until ho lad rondered tho amount of his dobt formidable. Ho was always loping to bo able to put back what he had bor- rowed; but his oxpected gain came not, though his donth and blasted namo did come, and most inopportuncly. If ho hod liveda fow years longor, ko would, doubtless, have gotton out of his troublo, and the rocord of his misdeods Lavo boen obliterated. DETRAYED TRUSTA. Many officers of bauls, insurance-companios, and other corporations, who stand unblomished to-day, aro dolng or have done oxactly a8 the do- ceasod Prosident of tho Brooklyn Trust Compa- ny. Thoy go boyond their moans. A littlo monoy, they think, will oxtricate them from thoir difficulty. Thoy can take it whero it will not be missod, and soon mako overything right. Thoy sink deoper and deoper in, and thoy despair of gotting out. Sometimes thoy got out; oftoner thoy do not. Much moro than the avorage strongth seoms to bo required not to use fundy with which ona s intrustod, whon ono is soroly iu noed of thom. It is said that this sort of un- warrantod drawing s rosorted fo overy day in Wall strect, and I have no reason to dis- believe it. Tho fover of spoculation rendors men dolirious. Thoy rush upon coursos they would shrink from in their rational hours, Like coufidont swimmers, thoy revel in the surf, and are unconsciously carried out to sen, from which no strongth of theirs can redcom thom. 1t in a singular phase of human_naturo that it should bo amazed and slarmed atovery new manifoatation of itsell. Jonos Ymvus to bo o defaultor this wock, aud wa aro lost in purprise, for Jones was thought to ba wholly upright ; wo would liave trusted him with anythivg ; ho was ouo of our most valued friends. Joukins does the snmo thing, under thoe samo circumstances, noxt week, aud wo ure ouce more startled from our propriety. We cannot compr houd how ho could have boon guilty of such mis- domeanors, for wo had entire faith in him, and Inow him !’nnmnm?. Within o month, Juckson, who is our neighbor, wwindlos his croditors shamofully, and confouuds our confidonco, We should as” soon have sus- pected our brothor, and wo deeply doploro tho Wonkneas of our kind. So it continues from wock to weok, from month to month, from year to yoar. In spito of our proclaimed skepticism, “our oxpressed cynicism, we must bevery trustful croatures ; for, wheunevor one of our follows dovintes from the othical perpondicular, wo boat our breasts in wondor, and deseant upon the evil of the time, THE GOODRIOH TRAGEDY is still talked of, and the public seom to be tond- ing moro and more to the beliof that Kate Stod- dard did not commit the murder, though sho was probably anaccomplice. Thero is very littlo doubt of her mental dorangement, which hag boon much incressod by the exciting oxporiences sho hay hud for somo montha past, The proba- bility is, that sho becumo Goodrich's mistress less from passion than from poverty,~—having tho desire, common to lher sox, to bo taken caro of, sentimentally and practicslly, Ho treatod hor very badly, converting any affoc- tion sha might bave had into hatrod. ~About that timo sho was thrown Into contact with Ros- ©oe, who appears to have awakonoed a deep in- torest In Ler. Sho soon follin love with him, and, whilo still on intimato terms with Goodrich, was 80 abusod by tho lnitor that sho expresso hor detostation of hor firat to hor second lover. Roscoo dislilked lis rival on his own account, and was wrought ere long to such a pitch of fronzy that hie determined to murder him. The oppor= tunity was found,—perhaps by Kate's aid,—and Goodrich wos shot. Lloscoe fled, and sho ro- mained, continuing her usual coursoe of lifo. ‘Whon arrested, sho said she had committed tho crimo, in ordor, 8 {8 supposoed, to shiold hor lover, who ia probably in Europe now, under another namo. It is thought he was in ornoar this cltfi at tho timo of hor arrost, and that she mada tho confession to distract the attontion of tho police from him, nnd give him leisuroto crous the sea. Whon tho trial takos place, facta mny bo rovealed that will put the tragedy in auothor light; but the version I havo given sooms to accord with what i already known. BAILING FOR UNKNOWN BUORES, Though Aloxander T, Btewart has gone abrond ostonsibly on business, tho real Eu.rpuua of hig voyago i8 said to bo his hoalth, which continues vory procarious, o hag by no means recovered from his lato attack, and thero is doubt it ho over will, o has boon o vigorous in the past that ho doos not quite comprohend the change in his system, 1o was averse to going to Eu- ropo thig summoer, and would not have gone it his physiclang had not told him tho Jjourncy was sbsolutely essontial to his health. "Bofore sail- ing, ho put nll his worldly nffairs into shapo, oxactly as it ho had no idon of roturnlug, s wifo (she doos not usually go with him), his legal adviser, ox-Judge Hilton, and his private physiciau, accompanied tho millionairo. Mauy porsons horo think the merchant will not live to roturn to theso shorou. 1o i8 now 70 ; ho hay physical troublos that gen- orally provo fatal to men much younger, and he has ovorworked for the last half-contury, Hia prospects cortaiuly ore not brillinnt for many more yoars. Yorsons of his tomperament and oconstitution, whon thoy bogin to broak, gencrally go fust, and thoro {s no roason to boliove Btew- art will prove an excoption. THURLOW WEED, Bpouking of old men who are not long for this world, I umn reminded of Churlow Woed, who enn hardly Lnrrg' on this planct much beyond the sumumer. 1o was rocontly, and ia still, I {hink, ot Richfield Bprings, and’ ko wonk that he could' linrdly got nbout’ on crutchos, Ho hns heen goriously ailing for over a year {mat. and Lina boon o often at denth's door, only to got up wid wallc out of anothor door, that few porsuns can beliove him #o near the grave. Hels almost tho last of tho politicians who were so prominent twenty-five yours ago. All tho friouds of his youth and niaturo manhood hayo gonoe, and the orld ean havo littlo charm for him now, 1lo in still hard at work dictating Lis ** Rominiscences," and has noarly completed thom. 1o is dnuply intorostod In” hin work (his daughter Harriob nets g bis amanuonsis—shiould I gny a-womnn- u-ongls ?), and says thet whon he has finished it ho will be ready to dopart. The papors that lave appoared ovor his namo in thoe Galaxy are, I hollove, parts of hia * Rominlnconces,” Whon published In book-form, thoy eaunot fail to havo largo snlo; for thoy embraco a porlod of ro- merkablo intorest in the nation's history, and are connootod with many of tho most prominout charaotors of tho lnst fifly yours. ALLIDONE'S DIOTIONARY OF AUTIIONS, in ita nulnr‘md and rovised odition,—throo Iarge volumen,—lins hoen ont. for a gaoil whilo, bt T nover lookod into it until tho othor dny. " I lind heard so much of its complotonoss that I had supposed it must bo all that 1t nsenmed, It cor- tainly o msitor onough Lo includo everybody of note, and I was surprised to find to wihat an oxtont it is dofootivo, Wrltors who are hardly known at all are given helf o pago, while moen ke Ifornco Grooloy havo lows inn a querter. Brob Harto is not montioned b sll, nor iy Willinm D, ITowells, thongh the formor i tho most originnl of Amore Ican atory-tollors, and tho Inttor ono of the moot eloquont” and gracoful authors of tho timo. Allibone must hoavo roesorved himsolf for his prayerful and evangolical romarks at tho oloso of his work. Itisploneant to know that ho is meml for the presorvation of his lifo, and that 10 §8 ominontly pious. But ho makos such a dis- Iny of his foith and roligion that it savors of Pharigaiam, Lot nobody acouse mo of finding fanlt with Allibone becauso ho haa failed to in- sort my namo in his Dictionary, o has not failod In this trltling partionlar, although, it ho lind failed in many similar instances, and not in thoso of yomo consoquence, his work would be much bettor than it is. BALMAGUNDI, Richard Honry Stoddard has resigned his po- nition a8 editor of the Aldine,~having stayed tuero govoral months longor than had boon pro- dicted, The Aldine is famous for changing its oduom,—-hnvluinn an avorage o dilferent ono ovory goason, And, whon the summer or wintor i protraclod, the journal averagea two editors to tho season, Privato lottors from Vienna spenk in high torma of Gon, P. Siduoy Post, our Consul-Gon- oral, who has bocomo o groat favorito with tho Austrinns as woll ag with his own countrymen, Ho has had _many dificultios to contond with during the Exposition, but has managed to koop out of qunarrels, and to socuro tho good will of all partics. Gon. Post is nn Illinoisan,— boing, I think, a citizon of Galesburg, Ono of thostorles of Wall streot is, that Honry N, Bmith, tho well-known spoculator, has lot m,fion,om! in tho last throo months, but expeots 10 1malte it up in ‘the next threo. Soveral Potor-Funk ostublishmonta have boon rocontly opened in Brondway, with a viow, no doubt, to swindling tho strangers who visit the Motropolis at this season. ey aro shrowdly condnoted. Aodel-artist exhibitors, which wero the rage ‘boforo the War, until thoy wore supprossed, have been revived lately in some unploasant localitios up town, and meot with pecuniary oucourayo- mont. It is said that nearly 260,000 of our population- tivo in hoarding-Louses, which accounts for tho unpopularity of hash as an article of daily diot. Coreroux, THE LAW OF DEATH. Tho nong of Ellvany, Fairost sho Io all tho land of Bavatibl. Bhie lind ono child, a8 sweet and gy And dear to her 53 tho light of day, Bhe waa 60 young, sud bo o fair, Tho samo bright oyos and tho same dark hatr, To sos them by the blossoiny way They soemed toro childron ak thoir play, Thoro came a death-dart from tho sky, Kilvany saw Lor dasling dio Tho glimmering shado his oyes invades; Out of his cheok tho rod bloom fades ; Hin warm hieart fools tho icy cbill, Tho round limba shudder and axo still, And yot Kflvany beld him fast Long after lifo's laat pulso was past “Au if hor kisses coulil restoro The smilo gone out for evermoro, But when ahe saw her clild was doad Bho acattered ashies on hor hoad, And selzed the smiall corpae, paioand swoot, ‘And rushing wildiy through tho irect, Bho sobbing fall at Buddha's foot, “Mastor | all-holptul! help me now | Hero at thy foot T humbly bow ; Havo morey, Buddha! help me now 1 8hio grovelad on tho marblo floor, And kinsod the dead child o'er aud o'er. ‘And suddonly npon thio nir “Thoro foll tho answer {0 Lot prayar § # Bring ma to-night » Lotus tiod With thread from o houso where nono has diod.” 8o rose, and Inughed with thankful Joy, Bure that tho god would save the Loy, 8ho found a Lotus by tho stream ; Bbo plucked it from its noonday dream, And then from daor to door she farcd, To nsk what house by death was spared, Hor heart grow cold to aco tho oyca Of all dilsto with slow snrpriso : “ Kilvany, thou hast lost thy head 3. Nothing can holp s child that's dead. There stands not by tho Gangos' sido A houso whore none Liath aver diod.” Thus through tho long and weary day, From ovory door she baro away Within her heart, aud on her arm, A eavlor load, a'dooper harm, By gotes of gold and ivory, By wattled huts of poverty, iLhio samo rofruin, hieard poor Kilvany, The living are few—the dead ure many, Tho ovening eame, 8o still and ficst, And overlook Ler hurrying feot, ‘And, hoart-sick, by the sacred fine 81 foll, and prayed the god ugaln, 8ho sabbed and beat lier bursting bresst : $AN] thou host mocked mol Mighticst 1 To! I have wandered far and wide— ‘Thore stands no house vhero none hoth died,” And Buddha anowered, in a tono Boft s n ficto st twilight blown, But grand g8 heaven und strong oa death To him who hcara with ears of fafth : #0hild, thou art answored | Murmur not ! Bow, atid aceept the common lot, Rilyany heard with ravorence meot, ‘And lald her child at Buddhu's feot. —Jolin Lay in Scribher’s for Auguet. e et Feminine Fignres. Tho Pall-Mall Qazette's discussion of o lady's ability to dross horself on @75 a year, makes proper a rovival of the following estimates, pub- lished & fow yoars ago: 5 FASHIONADLE DILL, PXB ANNUM, 2silk dressos—common, . 2uilk dresses—uncommon. ... 3 walking -uits, 382838 Sspe 288538388 AR 2588 88 1 st every-day Jowolry.... Lat for yartivs, &0, . Glavea for a soar, Totlot articles fo Hote-ping and oiicr hile-rigging: Morafug-dreases, slippors, watcr-proofs, silk ‘umbrollas (on Tost sach montl), and valri o coteran Proyor-book LOWERT EATIMATE, 1 silk dress (mado by horsols). ... 1 ufco walking suit (Irish popliny, 1 common walking suit..... 2 house dresss 15,00 10,00 7.60 5.00 1.00 2,50 1 ovening wrup, 400 2 Uight poplins for apring and fall,, 0,00 1 winter onuat, e 10,00 1 sprivg bat.... 5.00 1 awmmor bonnat, 10.00 1 fall hat., 5.00 Fulso balr, & 15,00 1 volvot cloak 80,00 1 #et of fura, 25,00 1 shawl,.. 10,00 1 laco shiawl 80,00 L vty 50.00 ot ovory-day jowelry (doilar siore). . 1,00 1 fino Kot y.(' ) 45,00 Gloves for a 'year. 20,00 oilat articlas 5.00 80,00 20,00 Thoe Popo nnd Ratazzi. ‘The Pope has publicly rebuked vertain of the Catholio nlerlfi I\vlm attended the funoral of ol Rnttazzl, the Iialian statesman, In that aot," #ald he, spenking on tho subject, ‘“ tho priests showed thomsolyoy grenter courtlore than min- istors of God.” OCEAH STEAM NAVIGATION, Foots and Incidents Connect- ed Therewith. Tho Perils of the Deop. To tie Eilitor af The Chieago T'ribune : it Tho rocent lons of the noble steamahip City of Wushiugton, of the Inwman lino, so soon after that of Lhio Atlantlo, of tho Whito Star lin, ealls to mind racts and incidonts conneeted with ocenn stoam navigntion, which may possibly bo of intorost to somo of tho many readors of ‘I'ite Trivure, Itis now just thirky-five yoars sinco tho notunl commencement of oconn stonm navi- gation ; and whilo, on tho wholo, It may ba ro- garded ay o great auccoss, still tho loss of stenm- ships and tho snerifico of luman lives connceted therowith lave boon far grentor, probably, {han most peoplo suppose, Of stonmships, the nverago loss has boen ono for avory ton months ; of human lives, tho oatiunto is at loast 100 for onch ship lost,—for forty-threo ghips meking o grand total of 4,900, ‘Tho lollowing, although made wholly from miemory, is a nearly correct list of . BTEAMBILIPS LOST: On tho route to Quebee and Montreal—Tho Ttusgin, Arablan, Anglo-Saxon, Connaught, Can« ada, and North Britain. To Now York—Tho Prosident, ity of Thiladelphin, Glas- gow, City of Glasgow, Argo, City of Now York, Columbin, Ilumboldt, Frauklin, Chicago, Seotland, England, Pacifio, Arotio, City of Doston, Colorndo, Cambrin, At- lantio, and City of Washington, From Now York to Californis,—this side tho Isthmus,—Tho Empiro City, Crescont Clty, Oity of Pittaburgh, Ban Francleco, and Chorokeo, DBotween Pannma and San Francisco—The Sea Bird, Monumentsl City, Columbia, Indepondence, Tonnosseo, Win- flold Bcott, John L. Stovons, 8. 8. Lowis, Golden Gate, Washington, and Continental. Wohavo said that oconn stoam navigation commencod THINTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. It waos in 1808 that tho Atlautio Ocean was crossod for tho first timo by vessols propelled oxclugively by stoam powor; and pretty much all tho crodit wo as n nation can claim at this day is tho honor connected with tho fact that the project was first concoived, and finally carriod into successful oporation, by an American citi- zen. In1834 wo find thia gontloman (Junius 8mith) in London, engaged in tho projoot of ondeavoring to meccure the navigation of the Atlantio Ocean with stoamships, At first ho mot with not only oppasition, but even abuso and derigion. In spite of all, however, ha succeeded, in 1836, in ostablishing & company undor tho titlo of tho DBritish & Amorican Steam Naviga- tion Uompany. This boing dono, & contract was at onco made for building two steamships of large dimonslons, which, being comploted, wore intondod to bo the finest spocimens of marino architocture over comstructed, During tho dolay in building theso vesscls, in order to givo agsuranco to the public mind, this Company, in the spring of 1838, sont out tho small stenmer Sivius. Thia vessel made but ono trip, and was succoeded by their aftorward famous ateamship, the Great Wostorn. Iwasat the dock in Now York, with moro than 10,000 othors, to graet hor first arrival. As soon as the Compauy's first stonmship, tho DBritish Quoen, was complated sho commonced hor trips to New York. Then cawe hor consort, the President, which, aftor crosging tho ocean a fow times, was lost, with all on board,—no one lnows how or where,—on lier roturn trip to Liverpool. Among hor passcngors was tho famous come- dian, Powers, who delighted immonse audiences st tho old Park Theatre, Now York, forly years ago. After tho loes of tho President, the Dritish Queon mado but fow trips to New York, whon sho wad old to tho Belgian Government, On *| her last trip home, tho writer, ouo of a large fim‘y, on board of ‘a small atoamer, convoyed er far out to sea, Tho Great Western, hows ever, continued on tho route to Now York for many yeurs, running with wonderful regularity. Next camo what has become the celobrated CUNARD LINE, consiating of four splendid steamships, called the Brituunis, Hibornin, Caledonin, and Colum- bis., _Theso ships, havitig run_with astonishing regularity for soveral yoars, with only one great ‘misfortune,—the loss of the Columbia (no lives), ~—wero (the romaindor of thom) sold to othor partios, and their places supplied by othors, much largor and moto magificont in_their gont struction,—the line now cousisting of nino ships, viz.: tho Acadin, Europs, Awocrica, Cannda, Asip, Africa, Arabla (slde-whael), and' tho Alps and Audes (stern-propellors),—running both to Now York and Boston. On the route to Now York, theso ships have now given placo to still Inrgor vossols, called tha Cubn, Malta, Palmyra, Ching,_ Abyssinis, Tripoli, Bcotis, DBata vis, Jovs, and Samaria. It is a noin- ble fact ~that mot a singlo life has boon lost on this lino by accident up to tho progent time, By reading tho printed rog- ulations and instructions posted in all of thoso nz:lum]id stonmers, s person wonld hardly oxpect tho loss of ono of theto steamships from such causos 08 led to tho destruction of the Atlantic and Oty of Washington. On a recent occasion, one of tho Cunard Gaptaing married a wifo, and asked pormission to take her to Now York and back. ‘I'ho requost was roadily grantod ; but, as tho vossel was about to sail, ho found itin chargs of auother commandor for that trip, In this connection, I should not fail to notico tho greatest ship of all at thoe time of hor con- struction, THE GREAT DRITAIN, different in two rospects from all othors built in oarly yoars,—firat, in being constructed wholly of iron, and secondly, with stern-pro~ pollor instead of sido paddle-wheels. Tho Great Britain—aftor making a fow successful trips to this country snd back, to tho astonish- mont of nll—ql\l:lat.ly ran aground on the coaab of Iroland, whero sho romained during the winter, She was finnlly got off, taken Lo Liver- pool, and repaired, whon sho was egain scen in Amarionn wators. The last I know of hor, eho was running to Australin, Up to the time of building the Great Dritain, about 1845, such a thing s an American-built Transatioutio steamer was unknown. This state of things gave riso to the question whothor Amoricans woro goln(g’ to bo outdone in this now flold of enterprise, ur pride, our capltalists, suid No. England, it was dotormined, was nof to romain mistross of tho sea. Saon tho BTEAMSHIP WABHINGTON,— In that day o large and noblo vessol,—was com- ploted, tho flrst Amerloan-built stoamer that ovor showed itsolf in Dritish wators, She ran with groat regularity for many yoars, and was slways regarded as an oxcollont son-bout, Esrly in tho war sho was sont to California with Gov- ornmout stores, aud was aftorwards lost on the Paoific const, I hfipponnd on ono occasion, to Lo on the dock in Now York whon this stoamor, Ler courso nearly rnn, camo into port, As sho camo up, ono ragged urchin inquirod of another what steamer it was, Ho roplicd, ** It {s tho old tub Washington.” The Washington, however, was but the precursor of much groaterand moro splendid vossols. Bho was soou followed by the first of tho famous GOLLINB LINE, which, at tho timo of thelr construction, for sizs, [wwur. and ologauce, wore wholly unrivaled. By Lo advont of theso noblo steamors, it was gon- orally admitted that tho upell of British invinci- bility was soon to bo broken, and that tho Star- Bpangled Banner was to flont u'ium?)mnt. on the ocoan. 'This line cousisted of the Atluntic, Baltie, I'acifio, and Aretio, to which was added tho ‘Adriatio, ‘Thosoships woro of 4,000 tons burden, built of live-oak. ‘Lhe Atlantio, the pioncor-ship of tho line, loft Now Yorls on her first trip in tho epring of 1850, Bho was koon followod by the DBaltic, Paoclfio, and Arotio, It was o lino of stoamera for a nation to bo proud of, and, had it rocolved thut aid from the Government which it was ontitled to, it would no doubt havo rivaled tho great Cunard lino, on which Xngland lins lovishod so much, Dut, owing to tho want of duo encourngemont, and tho anrlyloss of two whips, tho Pacifio and Arotio, tho Collins line of stoamuhips way o dond failuro, Whilo the Arotle was building, hor frame thon just up, I pussed through it, and, #ooing workmen engagod in ralting the timbors with brine, exprossed tho hopo that the ulll}) would mnever bo subjected to any other procoss of multing, Just st that momont, Mr. 1B, K, Collius, her owner, o by, rouniiini Lo voio gontlomen willi im, thut, whon tho Arotio was comploted us o {ntended to have her, ho wonld foel quito sy #afo on board of her, at #os, s on dry lund, Hor fato is probubly well romembored. On hor trip from Liverpool to New York, she collided with o much smallor vossol, sprung _aleak, and wont down with nll on honrd,—a proclous freiyzht of _noma 40 wouls, among tho number tho wifa nnd daughter of Mr. Colling himself, Inrogard to the BTEAMAIID BAK FRANOIECO, notod nbove, the following incldent may bomen« tioned: Whilo building, I went on board of her, and, just 0a T wag lenving her dack, a gon- tloman camo ou deck whom I took for hor bulldor. Ilo inquired liow I llked the sbip, I roplied, in most respeots vory woll; but, from hor peculiar construction in one particular (bay~ ing guards lilto a rivor-stonmer), I should not bo swrprined to henr of hor total foss on hor vory firut voyngo. 'Tho vossol was soon complotod and gout on hor first trip to Californin, with Qovornmont troops. About 800 miles out of Now York, slio oncounterad a terriblo gale; her decks wero torn off, whon sho wont down with nearly overy soul on board, ‘L'ho first stonmship builton this sido of the wator, to ply in Amorican wators, was oalled TUE ROUTHERNEI Blio was built about tho yenr 1845, and ran from Now York to Charleston,” Sho ran rogularly till about ton yoars ago, whon eho was displacod by tho now stoamer C‘mrlu»!on, now_ running it command of Capt, James Derry, the firat and only commander of tho Southernor, and prob- l‘\\l.g‘yl :\mw tho oldest steamship-Captain in tho TNE LANGEST BTEAMSIUIPS over built in ibiu country ara tho America and Japan, forming aline from San Francisco to Obing and Japan, ‘Thoso ships wero built in Now York, and aro 5,000 tons burden cach, Tho lnrgest stoamship in tho world, it is woll known, is tho GREAT EASTENN, ‘Tnis monstor vossol, bullt wholly of fron, is nenrly 800 foot loug, 80 foot wide, and Zfl,bfll) tons "burdon, 8ho 8 four times as largo ns any othor vessol in oxistonco, Sbo has BixX smoke-siacks and slx masts, sldo-wheols and storn-propollor, and, without eargo or conls, draws twonty-four feet of wator, Itismoro than o good doy's work, as I know, to inspect every part of the grout &hip. Thoro are now BEVENTEEN LINER - of slonmships to this country, consisting of over 160 vesuels, noarly all, if not every ons, built of iron, on tho other sidoof the water. Nok a singlo line or vennol is owned exclusively on this sido. §o far an occan stonm _navigation i concorned, England still remaing Mistross of tho Soa. J. M, W. Lzvz Pank, July 18, 1673, —— YOUTH AND AGE. ‘*AT] BI TRUNEERE BAYAIT, 81 VIELLESSE FOVAITIM Tiow alow, how sitte, iow mwift, The sands within each gloss, T bricf, illusive moments, pass | Half unniwares wo mark thofr drift TiHl the awakened hoart eriea out—Alas 1 Alns, the foir occaston fled, ‘The preclons chance to action all unwed | And murmurs fu ita dopthia the old refrain— Had wo val ‘When tho vell from tha eye is lifted The peor's liead i gray; ‘When tho sallor to shora has drifted "Tho kirens aro far away, Wity muat the cloarer vislon, “Tho wisdom of Life's lato hour, Como, as in Fate’s aerislon, Whon tho Linnd lins lost ils power 7 Tn thore a raror heing, Is thors a foiror sphiore Whera the strong aro not unseelng, And the harvouta aro not sora ; Whero, oro tho seasons dwindle, Thoy yleld thoir duo roturn ; ‘Whero the lamps of knowledge kindle htlo the flames of youth still burn ¥ 0, for the young man's chances | 0, for tho old man's will | ‘Theso fleo while this advances, And the strong years cheat us still, —Edmund C. Stedman in Scribner's for August, —_— HUMOR, A gontloman with & good falsetfo voico wishos to oxchongo with anypody possossing & good Jalse sct o' teoth, —A Cincinnoti man who is going to get mar- ried noxt month sits around the boilor-shops to got his ear trained to it, —It i proposed to call a little island, near the Tslo of Man, tho Islo of Woman, Bo' tho good causo progresses, ~—Thoro aro two reasons why poople ot wator- ing places nover mind their own business. One ig that thoy lhave no business, tho other that they have no mind. —Daniel Wobstor is not tho only bright boy born in Now Hompuhiro. 'The Boston GHobe has honrd of anothor—a youth residing in Dover, who refusod to take o pill. Ilis crafty mother thoroupon socrdtly placed the pill in a preserved poar, aud gave it to him, l’rouonug sho askod, *Tom, hnvo yon oatou the pear?” Ho said, G ln‘a“ mnth:rl.dnl{‘ b;n tho sood.” —Wo are told that n young man in Virginin sliot L brothor dond boosuse tho Iattor was. o- customod t& gotting intoxicated. If all brothora would act thus promptly in the matter, it would do mora to break down tho disgusting habit of indulgivg in tho fluwln§ bowl than all the tomperance lecturos that John B. Gough will doliver in & lifo-timo.~—Louistille Courier- Journal. —P].u-unulo%)icul View of Bocial Rank—* Who 18 that vonerablo party the two Miss Bottibols uro talking to 7" I Doliovo his name is Bir Rigby Dngny ?" ¢ Er—Daronet, of course ; not Lnight 7™ * Daronot, I think. ~But why of courae ?" ¢ Woll—or—the shapo of his cranium induced mo to boliove—er—that the distinction is _moro likely to have beon inherited than ac- quired " —A Now Game—Mamma (finding the childron unnaturally quiot) — ¢ Algy!" Al ty —** Yos, mu!" Mamma—*What are you and firixy play~ ing at?" Algy (roadily)—* Oh, it's o now game, ma. I'm a cabinet-malier, and I'm driving o nail into Bigera's hoad.” (Rush of fond mammn to tho roscue—just in timo.) —A Danbury man's ordor for his wife's hat is nnovolty in its way. Sho was sick, and couldn’t Eo for the hat, 8o hodrove in himself. Ho told ho milliner to put on a dollar's worth of parsley, 60 conts’ worth of slring boans, 10 conts' worth of chorrios, & fow fiwm currants, a boot or two, o liktle cabbago, and about threo slicos of turt nips,—or, if it was too cnrl‘i' for turnips, make it two naw potatoos instaad. ~—Usoful Information—Toachor (who has boon commenting on the visit of tho Bheh to Eng- Land)—** Axd wow, cau you toll mo of suyihivg wa linyo from Porsia ?" Hirst boy—'* Bherbet! ‘Tenchor—Yos—yeos—to be suro. 'That ia to sny Fnogw;mag. N?‘xfi buyTiWhnt s it wo Efl“k from orsia?” Socond boy (after a pause)—" 1 know, sir—Qutta Poraba 1" ¢ Lo : —An oxperienced husband in Lafayotto sont two switches homo to his wifo from which sho was to mako s soloction, but before doing it he chianged the tags, putting the 25 ono on the £10 switeh, and vico vorsa. Aftor a critical oxamina- tion by horsolf and lady friends, the olioico foll upon that labolod 36, and sbo dacided to keop it notwithstanding hor husband's plaintive pro- tost that he could not afford to pay out moro thau 310 for such an artiolo. —Wives, n4 5 rulo, don’s caro about wearing tho brooohos if you will lob thom wear tho brooches. —Roady Answor--Uncle—*' Now, how did the mothor of Moses hide him ?” Nicce—** With a stick, Unclo,” ~—lrarper's Weekly tolla two Tudalstio jocular- itios, Tho first is of Bir Mosecs Montofiore, When nogotiating a loan on the Bourss, on Whioh he was yvory ‘ keon,” a small kuot of cap- italists approached him. ' Ob, doar,” *says ono, “he iy Foing to swallow us all.” “No, my doar sir," uald Sir Moo, with & cnustio smilo, my roligion forbids mo that.” The second is of & Gorman Jow, who was eating a pork-chop in o thundor-storm. On loaring an_uvnusually loud clap, ho Iaid down bis knife and fork, and ob- sorvod: ““Vell, did auy poty ofor hear sucha fues npout a liddle pld o hork 1" —A man in Portland married 8 widow. Bhe had a fashion, which is too common among ladios who lisve buried o man, of giving him glowing accounts of tho augelio virtues of the departed. As u prohibition law is in forco down in Maine, Lo could not drown his sorrows iu liquor, o ho nerved hiy goul to a torrible rovenge. One night whon his wifo was sleeping soundly, porhaps droaming of tho ‘“first” victim of her charms, Lo _aroso from his bed, took o slodge-hummer, and daliborutely ralsing it to Lis shouldors, ho marched to the grayoyard, aud smashed the totib of hiy dead rival iuto littlo bits, Now, when Dis wifo snys uuything sbout tho virtuos of the doad man, ho replios, It may be ull very true, old gal; but ho cau't smash my tombstone, ‘Ihore’s whoro I'm ahead.” —T'he wifo of & Loudon attornoy lost o favorite poodle-doy, and in hor distress invoked the ald of her hoge lord to recover the pot, Ilo knew tho lioad of the dog-stoallng fratornity of Lon- don professionully, 8o he sont for him aud told Lim of his loss.” * Well, Mr, Q, O, (was tho ro- Ely) I knows your dorg well, aud I thinks L nows how to gob it, But it's a vory waluavle dorg—will coat u lot of money," ** 1ow much?" “Well, £30," *Rubbish!" “But after a doal of altoreation Q. 0. agreed to give .£26, wheraon hig !*friond" enid, *You'ro s gon'olnan,” and the barguin was struck, ¢ But (was the addendum’ yor ean't hov hiw for a fow days,” Wby not?” sald Q. O, *Why, yor woos, Mister Q. C., yor dorg was only sold lust -Mouday to o hold gont for 20 guinoak, and, as ho's got to bo darned foud of him, wo fools bound tolot him have him a few days aforo wo take him back n{;ln; Lo must have sumthing for hig monoy." Tho dog oame back in duo course.” blllt known betimes what now wo know in n ABBY FOLSOM. Trinl of the Noted Female Agitntor ‘whirty Yenrs Ago—A Verdict Which Surprised Ior. Fyom the New York Sunday News, Moat porsons who havo livod in Boston for the Insb thirty yonrs will recolleot wlhiat was formorly tormed tho " Municipal Court.,” While the old Cotirt of Common Pleas oxeroised jurisdiction in certain particulars over both elvil and criminal casoa in othor parts of tho Stato, in Boaton the crlminal jurisdiction wasinvested in said Munic- ipal Court, a tribunal indopendent of nny court of the sume grado, sud prosided ovor by s singlo Judge. Tt waa during the administration of the von- erablo Judgo hatcher that Abby Foluom, in tho oxorciso of hor wayward dispasition, disturbed, and, to some extout, disrupted, o mooting do- voted to roliglous worship, and whoro sho cor- tainly had no right to intorforo, For this offonna gho was arrested, indicted, aud nrraigned for triol in tho aforosnid Municipal Court, Thig condition of things was not oxeetly n novolty to Abby. Indoed, sho rathor courled the siluation, a8 it gave a splondid opportunity to display her poculiar talonts. Abby was sccordingly arraignod, and at onco confronted with the question, *“ Aro you gulity or not guilty?" Bho Yrom tly pleaded ¢ Nob ullty,” and “declared herself “rondy for trial. udgo Thatohor, in his blandest tonoe, inquired it Mrs. Iolsom liad auy counsel to mauago hor cade. 'Tho snewor was roady and prompt, “If your Ionor pleases, I shall manago tho caso mynlt. ) "'ho trinl thon wont on. Tho wilnesses woro fow, the teatimany to tho point, the cross-oxam- inntion by the defondant amounted to nothiug, and in o remarkably short timo tho Governmont rested ity cnso. The Court informoed Mrs, Fol- som that sho was at liborty to put any person on tho atand to tostify in Lior favor, or sho mnight address tho Jury in hor own bohnlf. 8ho had no witnesses; and it at once beeamo apparont that #ho intendod Lo roly, not on avidouco, but on argumont. This was lor strong battle-ground. On this flold sho has passod through many o dosporato strugglo, nod, at Jeast in hor own opinion, had novor wuffored dofent. Tho Courk thorofore dirocted her to proceed. But tho pro- liminaries must first bo settled, and Abby, in hor, most winning toue, inquired, “It I do not finish my argumont to-dny, may 1 go on with it to-morrow 7 This was u stunner. Tho Court way prepared for almoot anything elso. Hore it was, about 10 o'clock in the morning, and the 3uory was, whethor she might have the remain- lor of tho day and ‘o on to-morrow,"” Judge Thatcher was docidedly startled, and ox- claimed, ¢ ‘Po-morrow! why cortainly not! you can't bo nllowed all of to-day I Baid Abby, i How long may I have ?* Tho Judge roplicd with some vehemenco, * Not more than an bLour,” Abby very innocently inquired, # Doos Your Honor confine all lawyers to that time 2" ‘This question was another dosporate ono for the Court, o porfoct euag. At that timo, thoro way not, cortainly in this court, nor, sccording to the best of my information, in any other, sy rulo limiting counsel to auy given time for muk- ing n plen. Abh¥‘ TFoldom, and_every othor porson in the room know it, and Judge Thatchier was com- pletely confounded. A few words passed in an undortone betwoen the Judge and the Govorn- ment Attornoy, and, without having the ques- tion anwwered, Mre. Folsom was directod to go on, Abby then commenced ber plea, Tho argu- meut a8 in hor peculiar atyle. " Bhe quoted tha Constitution, tho Bill of Rights, Bhakspoare, tha Bible, and whatovor elso cute it her way. 8ho went on, rolling in hor cloquondo, and rounding out lier periods for a full hour, to the ront samusomont of the audience, and the evi- §ont porploxity of tho Conrt. At this polnt, how- ever, the Court docided to stop hor. Butsho docided othorwise and concluded to go on. The Court snid, *No, wo will have no moro of it," ‘and ordered Babbitt, tho Constablo, to takenway her papors. Accordingly, Babbitt seized lor papers, and bore thom off in_apparont triumph. For {hfs now turn of affairs, Abby wns bottor propared than the Court or any ouo olse antici- patod. Sho mado no strugglo, uttored not a word of remonstranco, snd made _not n motion till the deed was accomplishod, 8ho then delib~ eratoly drew from lier pocket & copy of tho Con- stitution of Massachusotts, and from tho Pro- amblo thereof rend, ** Evory subject has a right to bo seenro from afl unrensonablo senrches and seizures of his person, his house, his papors, and all his possossions,” s Sho thon commenced to cry, ‘‘ Givo mo my papers. _Give mo my papers. _Give mo my pa- ors.” This cry sho continucd, graduaily rais- ing her voice, till it becamo a scream. Still tho ory went on, ‘‘Give me my papers. Givo mo my papora,” She sald nothing olso, uttored no other sound, but in one stendy stroam at tho top of her voico, continued to cry “ Givo me my popors.” The Court was evidontly in faulf, though acting under extreme provocation. Mra, Tolsom evidontly saw Lior advantago, and dotor- mined to make the most of it The Court winced, fldgoted, consulted, and succumbed, Babbitt wns ordered to g"]n'u up the papors, and Mrs, Folsom was_direcled to go on as long as sho ploased. Tho Judgo, in dospair, * throw himaolf back in his chair and his feat uipon tho bench, This last movomont was ono which didnot bolong strietly to judicial proceedings, ond was nover indulged in_ by any other Court, and here only whon overridden by porfeotly un- manageablo cireumstancos. Abby now bad the floor to horself, and onjoy- od her triumph immonsoly. = Bhe went on in hor ‘mogt oloquont style. Sho dealt hor blows thick and heavy on socloty, on_ religions donomina- tions, on fanatics, on " the clergy, on the courts, on oversbody. But the ordeslshe had passed through, and was now passing, Liad produced aa - effect not dogcribed in her programmo, The ox- citement had so wrought on hor pliysical systom, that her scrongth began to fail, aud sho wes compelled to adopt o ohango of bado, & now ma~ nouvre. Bhie thoreforo stopped, complained of fatigue, and asked tho Court that tho case bo adjourned, and sho bo ullowed to go on * to-morrow." Judge Thatoher was altogethor too shrowd n man not to see his_advantago in this turn of the caso, 1lo smid, *No. Go on Mrs. Folsom; ga right on. o dosire to henr you through. Nao bottor time than tho present. We aro anxious to hear you,” At this time Abby's shrowdness socmed to desert hor. Her cunning wag in dircct antagonism to her spirit of opposition. Partly from fatigue, but mainly from will, tho last named force pre- vailod. Bno rofused to comply, and tool hor seat. Tho Court seized this advantage, and ai once dirocted the attorney to proceed. Ho ad- drosged tho jury briefly, the Judge charged with 08 fow words o4 posaiblo, snd tho jury o- irod. ‘Whilo tho jury was ont, wo, the spoctators, bad oceasion to onjoy a most singular and amus- ing scone. As 8oon as Mrs. Folsom felt rolieved from tho prossure aud excitement of her trul, it soomed ag if hor wholo mental force began to droop, end her facultics gonerally to fail ber. Yet tho forco of habit was such that her tongue rofusod to stop, N The Judge evidently approciatoed tho difficulty, and mado no effort to proceed with nuy other buelness. Abby theroforo took out her Bibla, and read about throo vorses, Bhe then com- moncod an oration, which immediately ran into thohistoryof her family, the good qualities of hor fathor, oto. Bho ther mm_l,dgurhnpfl, a8 much moro, and roforred to horchildhood, showed kow sho was tratued, and tho like, Thus the wholo timo was spont whilo tho jury deliberated. 1y When tho jury returnod, overy face in that broad court-rooin looked anxious, Whether the fosling which porvaded the audience aroso from sympathy with DMry, Folsom, and from n dosire to soa her nwlessnoss restrained, or from shoeor ourlosity, it mattors not, Tho feoling wos u strong oue, aud uo spectator was froe from its influenco, s Evon Mra. Folsom showed a dogroo of solici. tude whichhad not before nppoared {n lhor countenance during the wholo day. But the & keouost obsorvor, with il his” powor of \B ponotration, could 'read nothing in tha oyo of a singlo juror. Every look waa stolid, blanl, un- intelligible. ‘The clerk mechanically propounded the question : ¢ Mr, Yoroman, have you agrood upon & ver- ot 2" “Wo liave.” © What sny you, Mr, Foroman, is tho prisonoa at tho bar guilty or not guilty #" # Not ptlty, by ronson of partial insanity."” A donthliko’ silonco for o moment ousued, witon Abby with a strong effort criod out: i l\l'r. Foreman, will you suswer mo une quos- tion #" "I'he Foroman roplied, “Cortainly, If T can." “ Do you, from lLO very bottom of your woul, boliovo that I am partinlly invane ? Tho Foreman, in a tirn aud docided tons, ro- pliod: “1do," ‘Chis was the moat oruol cut of all, If tho vor- dict bad boen * not guilty " eho would havo tri- umphed, 1t % guilty,” sho would havo proclaimed hiox- golf o martyr, and have gone to juil & horvino, But to hear n jury of her Enum declaro her in- sane ! Waell, for once Abby Lolsom was pros- trato, and for a fow woeks, by order of tha Court, onjoyod tho kind protection of wu lussue suyluia,