Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1873, Page 6

RIBUNE: SUNDAY, LONDON. Betrothal of Prince Alfred and the Czar’s Daughter,, Ko Serious Polilical Consequencos Ex- pected from This Matvimonial Allianco. Gosaip About the Prospective Bride and Groom, Improvement in the French Army--=San Coleridge on {lte Unntiractivencss of Intellectunl Women. From Our Own Correspondent . Lovow, July 14, 1873, The Queen’s children ara * soltling ™ in lifo. Somo Linve mndo but & quict mateh, andhavo centored on o carcer of tho mildest intorest in tho national view. I frequontly meot ono daughtor gonted in an opon baroucho with her husbnud, driving along tho quict ronds near Kensington, and tho pair recall in no degrao tho idon of powor orpomp. Indeed, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lorno would searcely convey that notion at nny timo. In tho midat of their Royal and Tm- perinl rolatives, thoy must focl.to bo somewhat in tho background ; but mutual rogard can con- golo thom, The other Princess living iu England, tho young girl who marriod the clderly Princo Ohristinn, bas also an unimportant rolo to fill, and in mot with chiefly at fino-nrt exhibitions, model- scliools, aud flowor-shows. Tho lot of nono of the daughtors named appronchos in significnnco that of their oldor sistor, tho future Empress of Germany. Tha Princo of Wales wna brought near to the Tussinn house when tho Cesarewitch married tho sistor of the DPrincesa Aloxandra; but tho approaching union of tho Duke of Edinburgh to the Czar's only daughier is somcthing epocial and startling. ENOLISRK FEELING TOWARDS RURSTA {a rlways that of suspicion and dintrust. IpAg true [that, sineo tho Crimean war, the great Northorn Power has not interfored activoly in Turopean affairs ; but tho beliof ia goeneral thot Riussla wishos to share with England tho pos- gcssion of Tudia, and to quarter hor regiments in Constantinople. When the Ozar gave notica Intely of bis intontion to break the Black Sen trenty, people folt to tho quick that tho antag- onism was real; and, had France boon what sho was flvo years 0go, England would havo sought to insist with her upon the fulfiliniont of all that tho treaty requirod, ‘The appenrance of the Cesnrowitch just at tho timo of tho Shali of Porsin's arrlyal has not seemed nccidental to o ‘nation in this sort of mood; and the singular woyin which the tall, henvy-looking Princo went about with the Persinn curiosity strength- oned Lhe belicf that the Russian was hiere on o tour of “iuvestigation.” The Cosarowitch does not strilo one ns a manof rofinomont or with the testes of & scholur ; ho i of the puro military typo. Mo Ling been littlo noticed by tho publio ; aud could undor no cirenmstances bo treated ns cpopularfavorite. Allsonsible folkagreo that tho political consoquences of tho new matrimonial alllance aro but ulight. Peaco between the two. nations will not bo kept bocause of this tio. It ‘s pointed out that the sovoroigns of Euaropo aore, in fact, already ono family; aud tlot tho Sultan of Turkey nnd tho Popo are about tho only Princes who havo 10 right to joln Lonuds in the family-cirele. Yot these bonds avail notbing where the interest or tho passion of States is concerned. In the lnst war, the Queen sympathized entiroly with the Gormang; her oldest eon with the French. So far an direct political considorations are inyolved, tho marringo of the Duke of Edinburgh'and the Russian Princess is of hardly greator moment than that of any English nobleman with a for- eign Jady of rauk, though it may perhaps bo as- sumed that tho familinrity or affection of moem- bers of tho ruling families will do something towards tho promotion of national good foeling. TIE DUKE OF CLINDURGIE i tho subject of not 8 fow unpleasant stories whon in the uavy,—most of them turning upon his eupposed love of money. But, in candor, it must bo eaid thet he las oulgrown this gou- eip, and is somowhat of a favorite, I Love sat nmear Lim repentedly at dinuers, and havo found everybody hunrln& testimony to the mildness of his disposition, the absenco of non- eongical profenso in his demennor, and, above all, to nis goodlooks. I bavo obsorved that, in first meoting with o erowd, eithor on eutoring o room, or on standing up to speak, a flush of color pasyos over his face, and ho broathos rapid- 1y, a4 though excessively norvous. T'he emotion soon goes off, but ho is never over-confldent in Lis bearing. Yerhaps the consciousness that he must soon como to Purlinmout for money hay mado him amiublo to the people; cortuinly he s gono the right way to culist thelr good-will, ‘Wa shall bear o deal in favor of & Landsomno set- tloment, from the Leads of political purties, und the importence of tho conncetion will have ampla justico done to it. ‘THE FUTURE BRIDE, nothing, literally, is knowan. Her portrait is In tho shop-windows, and {(hot is,nll, though, in- deed, even in hor own country, 3 Princess not yob out of Lor teens is unknown out of the Court~ cirelo. Depend upon it, tho ancedole-raugers will soon be to tho fore, and any amouut of sto- xiew will bo forthcoming. ‘Tho [lustrated papqrs ave making desperato eiforts to eocuro an fm- pression of hor clisrms, and tho Lussian pross will not show any backwurdness. Ultimately 610 will bo the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Goths, und this is enough 1o intorest the Germun prints, Latoly tho Bt Lctorsburg aud tho Aoscow pu- pers have nbused England roundly, but thoy are subject to nm*nuut chiangges, and “probubly thoy will consider the Quoen's son as practicully a Gorman Prince, TUE BELIGIOUS DIFFIOULTY acomed formidublo when the match was first tnlked of ; but it in now snid that ouch will keoj Lis or bor inhorited faith. Whe High-Churel party horo Lisyo long desired a union with the usso-Groels Church, and have mado a varlety of desporato efforts at intercourse. I'io Greel religlonists, howaever, have limited themselves to silvery ?unchml, and have declined to recognizo «tho validity of Englivh ordors. The Ritunlistu, who luerontio in uumbors, aro delighted with tho mateh, nud thoy hope it muy sorve to mako some of tho 1ites of the young lady's Clureh 100ro popular hore ; and the stricter Irotestants aro contont with tho assuranco that the children, ir uhll«,lrou thore ure, shull bo brought up in the fathor's orood, As to the luter, I funcy tho Lridegroom hins no very strong projudicos. 1o s imbibed not a littio of tha philosopliy or ra- tionalium of th wcle whowa Irincipality bo iy to iuherit, and, ag long us his liberty is uot intor~ tored with, Lio will be nutisfied. TIE FREKCH TROOPS took tho military visitors who crousei the Chan- nel in order Lo 00 the roview, tho other duy, by gurpriso, I have converaod with a distingufshedl ofticor who went over for tho express purposs uf #oving the mon, und of roporting upon their condition, o saw much of them dming tho Wwar with Gnrmnug', and lio iy astouishod ab tho change, Thoy Luve lcarnt of their encwmy, Every military peculinrity which, in German-and Euglish oyon, is o dofeot, hug dlnn\xpnurml; and the officor snw some 70,000 mon drilled upon tho Gornnn systom, aud, so far es conld ho Judged, in u high state of military efticiency, Gon, Man- touffal, in pluin clothen,was prosent, and was ob- uerved to pull his mountaches in vigorous ox- citemont during tho marching f""‘" Ao In sup- pogod to have . writton ~lhome that tho Fronch aro getting formidable, No liviug per- son in Frauce doublu that thoro wfil be another war, I'lio provinces of Alaaco and Torruino will be fought for {ut on many @ bloody fiold, Allowing for wll [t ju enid of tha wonderful Improvemonts in the I'rench army, it is bord to supposoe sucli a thing ay n Fronch victory whero: the Uormans aro concernod; but no ono ean toll. Combinntions may bo mado .which will altor all tho conditions of the ntrug- glo. Yolitical parties in Franco aro as divided as aver, but they vie with esch otlior in promot= ing tho strougth of tho army, Ioro is a fino onnortunity for the holiovers in‘arbitration as o 9f Christian Jabor is inoreasing in tuy Duvkiay ¢ provincos, and hnv‘v to mako Gormany give thom u = . ‘Iho supposed UNATTRAGTIVENTSA OF INTELLECTUAT, WOMEN is thus cleverly trontod in n lottor whioh hos just como to light, written by Hara Uoleridgo i Cureten PrAog, Aug, 20, To Awbrey do Vere, Fg.: Thad n'very Intoresting talle Inat night with Mr, X1, T, who 16 Tooking remarkably woll. Ho pub fn o siong light the unattraclivencen of intelloctunl Indles to gontlemon, ovan thoso who ars_thomsolves on tho intollectual afdo of tho world,—mon af gentits, men of Jearntug and lottora, I conld havo antd, in roply, tunt, whilo women aro young, whera thero is a protiy faco, it covers n mmititudo’ of eln, oven intolleatimally § ‘whoro thera fa not that great desideratum to young marrylng nien, o love of ook docs ot mako tha mat- tor mcll worao in ono way, and does nob mak it de- cldedly better in the othor § that, whon youth ‘is past, a corinin number of porsons aro bound to ue, in fhio midst of oll our plalnnesa ond pode antry; theso ol friends and - lovora cloave to tin 'for somothing undornoatl nil thiat,—not only Dolow tho reglan of guod lopls, skin, u{n, and oye, hut ovon for deoper down than tho intalleol,—for our n- dividual, moral, peraonal bolng, which ' shall enduro wlion wa shall Bo whoro all will - 5ea as angols ke, and intalloatual differances nro dono nway 3 thit, 08 for tho world of gentlemen at larye,—that world which a young Indy denires, in nn_ indefinito, infinito way, lo charm ond amilo, o that ava o lohgor soung Yass fnlo o new, old-womanial, tough stato of mind ; to plosso ‘them {8 not 8o mucl tho alm 03 to set thom to rightr, Iny down tho law to them, convict them of tholr orfors, pretenscs, suporficlalittcs, ofc,, oto.; in sliort, toll tho a bit of 'our mind, Tiiis, of courao, ia as fooliel an ambitlon as tho othier, éven mioro” prepostorous ; but it {s 80 far bettor, thaf, evon whers tho end folli thio mosns thiemeolves ro 5 ort of ond, nnd a coulds erablo amusomont and oxcitoment, 8o’ that fntellec- tualiam, if 1t bo not wrong in {lsclf, will not bo abans donod Ly us o pleaso tho gontlomen, God bless you, and prosper you it all your lobors for your country’s sako and your own., But do nok forgot tho, Musos sltogather. Thoso aro infollcctual Indles whio ave attraction for gontlemen worll pleas- ing, and who retain tho blaud. compoaurs of perpote ual'youth ™ bestdo telr rorreshing Iippocronce MR. LINCOLN'S RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. A Roply to tho Rov. Mr. Rocd’s Artis cie in Soribnors Mouthly. From the New York World. Prosuming that tho first of Col. Lamon's libels upon Mr. Lincoln's memory is sufliciontly dis- posod of by his apocryphal cortificate from Dennis Hanks, Mr. Rood proceods to discussa what hio calls Mr. Lincoln's religious sontiments. Ho ig clovor in the use of tho word sentiments, for while it may fairly bo said that Mr. Lincoln ontortained many Christian rontiments, it cannot bo said that ho was himsolf a Christian in faith or practico. o was no disciplo of Jesus of Nazaroth, He didnot bollove in his divinity, and was not a mombor of his church. To prove thin fact, Mr, Lamon citea & round dozen of Mr, Lincoln's noareat frionds, boginning on pago 487, and onding on pago 497. This indiwidual testimony {8 clear and overwholming, without tho documentary and other evidence scat- terod profuscly through tho rest of tho volume. Jlow doos Mr, Reod undortako to rofuteit? In tho first placo, firstly, Lo pronounces it a **libel,” and in the socond place, secondly, ho is ¢ amazed to find "—and ho says he has found— that the principel witnessos tuko oxception to NMr. Lamon's report of their ovidonce. This might have boon trio of many or alt of Mr, Lamon’s witnosses without exciting tho wonder of & rational man, Fow' persons, indeed, are willing to onduro reproach mroly for tho truth's sako, and popular opinlon in the Republican party of Springfield, 111, i probably vory much ogainst Mr. Lamon, It would, theroforo, bo quito in the natural order if some of his wit- norses who find themeelvos unexpectedly in print should succumb to the socinl and political terrorimm of their place aud time, and attempt to ‘modily or oxplain their testimony. They zeulous- 1y nssisted Mr, Horndon in agcortaining tho truth, and whito thoy wanted him to tell it in full they were prudently resolved to keop thoir own names enugly out of sight. DBut M. Reed's olatement is not truo, and his amazoment is on- tiroly simulated. Two only out of tho dozon witnosses havo gratified him Dby inditing, at his request, weak and guardod complaints of unfair trestment. ‘Chese nre John 1. Stuart, a relative of tho Lincolns and Edwardscs, and Jim Mathe- ny, both of Springflold, whom Mr. Lincoln tanught in Lis poculiar doctrines, but who may by this timo bo deacons in Mr, Reed's olurch. Neither of thom helps Mr, Reed's caso & parti- clo. Their opistios open, as if by concert, in form and words almost identical. Theysay thoy did not write the langungo uttributod to thom. T'ho doniul is wholly unnecessary, for nobody af~ firms that thoy did write it. Thoy talked and Mr. Horndon wrote, Iila notos wore made whon tha counvorsations oceurred, aud probably in their presence. At all ovents they are both o con- seious of tho gonernl accuracy of his roporl that thoy do not venturs to deny a single word of it, but’ contont themeolves with lamonting thab somothing clae, which they did nof say, was ox-~ cluded fromjt. ‘I'hey both, howavor, in theso vory lotters Topeat emphatically the 'material art of tho statomonts made by them to Mr, y{urudun, namoly, that Mr, Lincoln way to thoir cortain khowiedgd uatil a vory lato poriod of Lis lifo an ‘‘1nfldel,” and neithor of thom is able to tell when ho consod to bo an infidel and when Lie bogan toboa Christian, And this is all Mr, Roed takes by his re-oxamination of tho two ;nr&ona whom lhols pleased to oxalt as Mr. .amon's ¢ principnl witnesses,” Thoy are but two-out of tho dozen. What of the othoer ton? They have uo doubt been tried mund pliod by Mr. Roed and his friends to no purposoe; thoy stand fast by tho record. But Mr. Reed in to bo shamed neither by their speech mor thoir eilence. *It is unnoccseary,” ho says, * thut I occupy moraspaco with thorest of tho testimony, g there i none of it given over tho signature of anybody, savo that which is given over the sig- naturo of W, IL ITerndon, All asido from thiy bears evidonco of huving beon manipulated to suit the purpose for which it is wanted, or fails to cover tho whole of Mr, Lincoln's lifo, Judge Duviy, for ivstance, ia mado to say: ‘T den't know anything about Lincoln’s religion, nor do 1 thiuk anylaly also Luows augthing about it.' OF what value can the tostimony be that js pro- facod with such doclarations of knowing nothing about the mattor?” This in not more care- losa writing in_Mr, Roed. It is much worse, Ho had the book opon before Lim, aud Imow thut ho was convoying o gmeuly orroneouy impreusion of its contonts, Mr. Ioll's atato- ment was manifestly (I'i\'cu in tho form of alot* tor, nnd g0 was Mr. {ufi'u, Mr, Hannoh's, and tho lnt Dr, Ray's, ~Although thoy aro nol dos- iguntod in tho book, it is vory easy to distin- guish by tho siyle "which of ‘those witnosses wrote and which of thom spoke. If Mr, Roed will apply to Mr, Herndon, wo have faith to be- licve that ho may see tho originals of theso lot- tera, with tho Bignaturos of the writors duly attached. But he will nover do that., Ontho “contrary, ho would shut his eyes in lm{{ th‘i:'mr 0 hin. aud cry sacriloge if thoy wore preseuto t is "bed emough to” hagglo thus over the quostion whother the tostimony of ton wit- nesdos was writton down by themselves or by somobody else, whon both witnossos and re- portor are perfectly eatisfied with tho ro- snlt, Dut {his mutilation of Judge Davis' stntomont and the offor of o ragged fragmont, torn off oxprossly to chent and dolude hisreador, is about ag near lo the disroputable as even Mr, Tieed could come withont sollinq his ministerial ehnracter. Not boing able to impeach Judgo Duavis' testimony, and feoling that it was too im- portant to be ignored, Mr. ltaod simply manglod 1t, and, coucoaling 211 the pioces but one, pased on in his workof deception. Hero is what Judgoe Davis said in full, and it 18 given not only for its intrinsiv value, but to show how conscien- tiously Alr, Reed denls with rocorded evidonce : “I do not know anything about Mr, Lincoln's roligion, and do not think anybody knew, 'Tho idon that Lincoln talked to o strangor about hiy religion or religious views, or mado nuch sponches, remarks, &o., about it, as aro pablishod, Is to mo absurd. I know tho mnu k0 woll; ho was tho nost reticent, #eeretivo man I evor saw or expoct to sco, 1lo hiad no faith in the Christian senso of tho lorm,— had faith in laws, principles, cansos and offeats, philosophically, * Yon (lerndon) know more about Lis religion than sy man, You ought to know it, of courso,” Whoro, mnow, the Judgo Inow u gront deal, aftor all, 'Ilo know Lincoln, o know Lancoln did not talk to strangors, like Drooks and Bundorlind, about a change of lianrb, o know that sueh roports wero all nbsurd, 1o did not know what Mr, Lincoln's roligion wa, but ho know what it was not, 1Ie know Lincoln hind o Christian faith. 1o knew that Herndon Inow what Lincoln's religion was, and Lo knew thut Horndon ought to know it bottor than any other man, But supposo Judge Davis had known nolhing, Would not tho elrenmstanco that Mr, Lincoln's mout Intimulo friond in lifo aud his administrator altor donth had noyor honrd of hiy Christinnity, cust & doop shiado of doubt ovor the yuostion of ity oxistenco ? Ono omisgnlon on tho part of r, Neod strikes us s vory singular, Dr, Holland printed in hia ook a story which ho sald lie got from ono Mr, Matoman, Tt was {o tho offock that in Ostobor, [N bt AUV aivigy g et - . ho deolared to ba tho rock npon which his party politics wero foundod. Mr. Datoman was sim- ply astounded. Althongh vory intimate, ho had novor honrd that Mr. Lincoln caved anything about tho Now Testament, and le frankly ro- minded him that his frienda gonorally wero ig- norant of hin oxcosnivo ploty, Whoroupou Mr, Lincoln anid ¢ ¢ I'know they are, 1 am obliged to appear different fo them; bLub I think moro theso . upon subjects than upon all olhors, and I lavo dous so for ears; and I am willlng that you should mow it" 1In short, this nccount “mnkes Mr. Liucoln communicato his_Ohristianily to Mr. Datoman ns n dead secret, which ho s elriving to concenl from tho world, and which ho tolls Br. Datoman for somo sml:(ouly acquired nud utlorly ingerutable roason. Now, Mr. Lamon roferrod ab Inrgo to thig atory, and clrcumstantially dig- rovad it. TIo gave's lotler from Mr. Herndon, n whioh that gontlemun snys that, when Ifol- land’s “Lifo " camo out, ho hunted up Br. Bato- man, and lind with him threo soparato conversa- tions on this subject, tho notes of which * hear date Dao, 9, 19, and 28, 1860," “If somo good gontleman will ouly got the seal of secrecy ro- moved,” My, Homdon declores his ability to prove {10 wholo talo an arrant fiction. Horo, now, was & flne opportunity for Mr. Reed. Ilo refora to the story, and makes what ho can out of it, But why did he not got tho soal removed? Mr, Batoman lives in his town, aud s vory zonlous on his sido of tho question. Ho waa cortainly as Hlmlr a subjoct for oxpori- monts na Bluart and Mathony. Moroover, if Mr. Tieod can mako this story good, he can do more towards rellnvh:]g Mr. Lincoln's name from the ropronch of infldelity than it is possible to nc- complisl in any other way. Iu it not verystrango ]tlmlt {lt ?uhnulv.l Lava boou so consplouougly nog- loctor But what is a Ohrislian ? Do wo give the namo to one who is merely upright and moral ? TIu any man ontitled to it who writos and talks against divino seripture during tho great part of his life, but when ho has grown old and becomo tho roprosontative of a party and a nntion, con- sidoratoly holds his tongue, or employa it with such ambiguity as not to offend thoe groat body of pooplo over whom ho rules? Yot that " is just what Mr. Lincoln was and did, Tho koy to his opinions as woll as his ‘ml- icy was given to Mr. Key (Lamon's * Lifo," ? 4!)[())&. “*As to tho Obristian theory that Christ ia Qod, or equal to the Crontor, ho snid that it had batter bo taken for gruutod, for by tho test of rTondon we might bocomo infldels on that subjeet, for evidouces of Christ's divinity camo fousin o somowhat doubtful shape ; but that tho systom of Christinnity wag nu ingenious ono at lenst, aud perhapa was caloulnted to do good.” Thero it is exnctly. Mr. Lincoln was disposed to tolorato Ohristionity, and treat its professors respoctful- 1y, Ho once had a notion to dostroy it, but ho Bad thought belter of it, and como to tho con- clusion that it might do good, Aftor his nomina- tion and during his Presidency ho was stilting it boforo tho world. It bocame bim to bo cnu- tious and politic about #o grave n matter as this. o know that of all eloments in war roll- Finus enthupianm was the most potent. It had heon oxcitod agninst alavery, and was then pour- ing out men sud monoy to crush the adveranry ; hut it might casily bo provoked to turn and ren him, his party, and hig country, If tho churchies bLod grown cold,—if the Chrstians had taken a stand nloof,—that inatant the Republican party would hava gone to pleces, and that instant tho Unlon would bave porished. Mr. Lincoln _regu- Inted bis roligious mrnifestations recordingly. Iodeclared froquently that ho would do any- thing to snyo tho Union, and among tho many things ho did was Lhe partisl concealment of his individual religious = opinions, Is this a blot upon his fame? Or shall wo all agroo fihnt? it was o couscientious aud patviotio sacri- ico Mr, Reed is much puzzled to determine just whon the chango in Dr. Lincoln's views took plueo, 1o gota Alr, Stnart to enythat another man said it was when Eddie died in 1848, and ho gota Mr. Brooks o say that Mr. Lincoln intimatod that it was when Willie died in the White House. Ho succoods in showing by such weak and con- flicting testimony that, na'each succossive donth ocourred in his fumily, Mr, Liucoln was_sorely grioved, and that to the woll-meaning ministers who flocked around to console him, ho repliod with decenoy, and oven with gome genoral ox- prossions of hopo in the morcy of God. But that is all, and it is wordo than uscless, Indood, Mr. Reed's diftieultios aro many and groat, In ordor to mako Mr. Lincoln not ouly & Christian, but a porfect ono, ho thinks it neces- sary to deuy that hie over wont to the theatre bo- causo he liked it. And his oxplanation of tho offouse is really brilliant in its wey. Mr, Lin- coln, ho doclares, wont to the thentro *“ fo escupe tho érowd,”—it being well kown that tho crowd nover gozs there, and that Washington managers Labitunlly exhibit to empty benches, and just koaop tho thing running for ihefr private cnter- taiument. But wo are wasting mpnco on a Rophister's tritles, It is ndmitted. by Mr, Reod and every- body elso that Mr, Lincoln was & working infldel u%to o very late period of his life, that Lie wroto book and Inbored earnostly to make y‘)roflolymfl to his own views, that ho never publicly rocant~ od, and that Lo never joined the church. Upon thosa who, in tho faco of theso tremondous facts, nllege that Lo was novertholess o Christinn, lics the burdon of proof. Let thom produca it or forover * hold their peaco. It i8 n quos- tion ecasily gottled. If Mr. Lincoln's name is borne on tho roll of any Christinn church Mr. - Roed can readily find it. Until then tho public must remain’ incrodulous. Tn the meantimo it is & snd and puorilo subtor- fuge to arguo that ho would have beon a Chris- tion it ho hind lived long enough, nnd to lamont that he was not **spared " for that purposo, He had boen spared fifty-six years and surrounded by every circumstanco that might eoften his Yiont, and overy influenco that might elovato his faith. If hio was ot that loto, thut falal, hour standing thus gloomily without ‘tha palo, what renson liave wo to supposo that he over intonded to outor? 0.T. B, —_—— WHAT IS PRAVER? ! 8tio smiled ns Aoft rhe aald, Yo read 1t everswliero; Tho orehid’s bud hus bloomed— To not that prayer 7 “The bird rocked on thie bough, Whoso'trill inado glnd the air, Shighug, roso up to Heaven— 19 1ot that prayor 2 * Tho hroalk that showered for glea Tho timid mafden’s bair, Kises hor now with tears— 1u not that prayer ? #Giod’s touch: thrills nll fho earih, And niakes it wondrons falr, And oarth responds with love Ts not that prayor.? “ And when the shining years Their final barvests benr, ‘Will not God send us Heaven Ag auswor to Earth's prayer 7" —Kansas Magazine, = 52 The Adoration of Woman, By George Tliat, That adoration which a young man given to o woman whom he feels to bio groator and botter thau himuelf, is hardly distinguishable from re- ligious fooling. What deop and worthy lovo is 807 wheothor of woman or child, or art or music? Our caresnos, our tendor words, our still rapture under the influenco of autumn minsots, or {)Il— lnrod vistas, or ealm majentic statues, or Boctho- vou symphonios, all bring with them tho con- selousncss that thu{ are mere wavod and ripples in an unfathomablo ocoun of love and hoauty ; our emotion in ity keenest moment passos from oxprossion into silonce, ourrlovo nt its highest {lood rushos boyond its object, and loses itwelf in tho sonso of divine myatory. In it any wenk- ness, pray, to bo wrought on by exquisite mu- nio P—to Teol its woudronns harmonios searoling tho nubtlest windings of your soul, the [dolicaie fibres of' lifo whora no momory can ponatrato, and bindlng togother your wholo beiug, prstand presont, i one unspenkablo vibration, meltin you fn ono momont with all the tendorness, nl the love that bes been scattorod thraugh the toilsomo yoars, concentraling in ono emotion of horole courago or rempgnation all the havd- onrned leasons of sclf-ronounoing sympathy, ;:luvn:l;l gg ya;lr present sorrow with all your pant oy ¢ Tt not, uoywrou(:hb upon by thoe oxquisite ourves of n wotnan’s chaek and neck and avms, by the lquid dopthis of her boseaching eyes, or tho swoob childiuh pout of hor lips, r the benuty of a lovoly woman i like musio ; what can one sny niore ? Boauty hinu an oxpression boyond and far ahovo tho one woman's woul that {t clotlios, na tho wordas of gonlus havo n wider meaning thun tho thonght that promplod them ; it i1 moro than o woman's love thub amoves us ‘in o womnn's oyos—it sooms {o bo n far-off mighty lovo that hns como near to us, and made .qm,fl. for itsolf thora; tho roundod neck, the dimpled srm, move us by uomuthlut: movo than thelr protti- noss—Dby thofr close kiuship with ull wa have known of tondernoss and peaco. 'ho noblest nature socs tho most of ting imporsonal oxpres~ sion In benuty (it is nooilloss to sny that thoro ara gentlomou with whiskers dyed” and undyed who' see nono of it whatovor), ‘sud for this rea- son, the noblout nature is ofton tho most blinded to tho ohiaractor of ‘tho wommn's oul that tho boauly clothes, Whence, Ifoar, tho tragedy of bavmen Tita du likoly fo soutime for a lonir time hen neither is it n wonkness to o, NEW YORK. Ovor Throo Mundred Thousand Golhamites Hissing---Whero Havo Thoy Gono ? A TUniqueIsland---Yankee Sav- apges Bix Miles Away. Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Humors-=- Walt ‘Whitman’s Preca- rious Condition, JTrom Our Own Correspondent. New Yonr, July 91, 1873, Aa tho season advancos, tho city grows emp- tlor and emptler. Golng out of town every wool, I onnuot fail, at ench roturn, to notice tho continued shrinkago of commorco and oltizons. It is now ostimatad that thero aro over 800,000 absonteos among the entire population ; and, as thoy aro among tho most-promincnt and best- known residonts, you can, imagino that they loave o groat Liolo in tho wholo. WIEREADOUTS OF TIE ADSENTEFS. ‘The doparted aro not, aa I havo eaid, at tho leading watering-places to any oxtont, nor aro thoy abroad in any extraordinary proportion. ‘Whoro aro they, then ? Ilave they dissolved in the provalling heat? Ilavo they taken unto thomsolves wings, snd flown away, no ono kunowa whither 7 The groat majority of thom have moroly gono to the country,—to quict and unprotending places, whore thoy can have ontire chango of scone and froedom from conventional restraint, Whilo tho great hotels have boon neglected, tho small boarding snd farm houses ore full almosat overywhore, All along the lines of railway running into the interior of the Stato, through Connecticut, Long Island, and Now Jorsoy, amaong Lho Calskills, Adirondacks, and ‘White Mountains, on tho Pasenic, Thames, Hud- #on, and Oounocticut, may bo found tho host of miesing Now-Yorkers, A groat many of our citizens have purchased country-seata within two or three yoars,—not olaborate houses, with expensivo grounds, but plain though comfortable dwollings, within tho menns of mon of modorato iucome. New Jersey ispartioularly favorod of these. Many of tho new towns and hamlots over thoro—like Summit, Borkeley Heights, Plainfiold, Madison, Eliza- both, and others—are composed almoat entirely of motropolitans, The domand for summor-ro- troats hay beon 8o active recontly that ronl cstato hins ndvanced rapldly for 60 milea nbout this islnnd, and continues to advance. In anothor half-century, thora will be, I opine, fow private roidoncos in Manhattan, which will bo surron- dored to busincss and businoss-houses. Land hero will bo too valuable for other purposes, and Now-Yorkers will live anywhere excopt in Now York. THE DRAWBACKS OF STATLN ISLAND, Binco the war, real eatato in tho neighborhood of the city—say within a radtus of 60 miles—has gone up from G0 to 100 per cent, and is vory far from its moximum. An oxcaption to this is Staten Ialand, one of tho most delightful in sltu- ation of any of our suburbs, Except in cortain varts, land is not any higher there than it was twenty years sgo; and, in many instances, it bns positively declined. The main causes of this aro mosquitoes and fever-and-aguo, tho con- sequenco of o Inck of drainage. The island is chiofly owned by Cornelius® Vanderbilt and his family ; aud, for some inoxplicablo reason, they are unwilling to make the rogion habitable. It i ofton called tho Campagna of Manhattan, and, g0 'far as unheslthiness goos, it desorves the namo. The Vandorbilts have, of courso, un- limited resources. By n liboral outlay thoy conld enhnnes tho value of their proporty five-fold; but they prefer to lot tho ground be coverod half tho timo with water, breeding mosquitoos and aguo st tho rate of a thousand indocts and fivo discasoes to overy square foot of soil, COMBMODORE VANDERBILT is not usnally » man Lo noglect his own palpnable interest ; but in this instance ho cortainly doos. Ho hiaa boon urged again and again to do some- thing for tho Island, and, the more ho is urged, the moro o won't do anything. Ie isan ex- tromoly stubborn old fellow, and the probability i, ho has been Lored iuto supreme contumncy. 1lo insnid to bo decidedly hostile to yome of the proporty-lolders down thore, and ho knows if ho should benofit his own land Lo could not help Lonefiting theirs. Thoroforo he folds his hands and givos them full permission to grumblo and to frot to thoir minds’ fullost discontent. Ho in awaro that hie can get along comfortably without improving his _portion of the Island, aud ho thinka thoy can’t. So ho enjoys a selfish sntia- faction in his deliborato iunctivity, Whon his persecutors aud enomion dio, and "lio roachos & mature ago, ho will, porhaps, obey the prompt- ings of his own advantago, MEATIEN NEAR THOME. TFow persons have nny idea of the wildnoss of somo portions of Btaten Island. OnlyGor7 milos from tho Mnkogolin, it is moro in & atato of naturo than the most unsettlod parta of Now Lngland. Many people living thero cannot write or read; have no porception of what is going on about them; have naver oven beon to thin city. A friend that mado an excursion into that region racontly says he anked a pumber of mon who was Prosident of tho Unitod Btates, and thoy did not know, Bome of them lad novor heard of Abrabam Lincoln or Horace Qreeley ; Woro. unconscious that thoro had beon o war botweon Frauco and Gormany; were un- dor tho impression that Feruando Wood was still Mnyor, and that *Bill” Beward was Gov- ernor of tho Stato, 4 Buch compact ignorance so near the groat commorcial contre scarcoly appears possible, Tho intelligenco s surprlsing ; and I shiould not beliove it Shad it not boen vouched for. It would be wige for tho well-meaning pooplo interested in foroign missions todireck thoir efforts to points nearer homeo. A number of ‘minsionarios, armed with soap, towols, quinino, and nowspapors, would find amplo fiold for om- ploymont on the Campagna of Manhattan, BUMMERING IN YAOHTS. Beveral gentlomen owning yachts are living on board of thom, with their familics, this summer, and say thoy ke it grently. Thoy come £ town avery day or two, to attond to such burincss as thoy deem important; go avoard in the after- noon ; suil up the river to tho Sound, and return to port when thoy chooso. Sometimen they lio out in tho barborall day and night, finding it doliciously cool and refroshing aftor o fow hours spout in tho oily. Ouo yacht-ownor bhas ten or twolve children, "of agos from 8 to 20 ; and ho has them all—wifo and aistor in- cluded—in his floating homo, Nouo of thom got sou-siak, fortunatoly, and hio says thoy have nevor enjoyed bottor lioalth. o shut up his houso sbout.the middlo of Juno, and is actually lending a lifo on tho oconn-wave. I'ho ynehts have full crows, are oxcollently furnishod (hroughont, and woll supplied with overy nocossity and luxury. They who like marine oxlstonco_conld hardly enjoy thomsalyes Detter. This mode of sponding the summor is not lilkoly to bocome common, sinco to keep & fivat-class ynoht in first-cluss aryle roquires from $20,000 to $40,000 per annum, . TIlEZ OOD GNAY POET, » ‘Walt Whitman's condition is, I grieve tolearn, steadily growing worse, and his frionds fonr ho cunnot survivo tho summor, 1o ia still at Cam~ don, N. J., and will probably dio thero, as he is too feoblo to bo removed. Ile is sutforing from Knmlynls (it is gradually extending all ovor hig ody), the result of sovero malarious fever con- tractad during the War, whilo gratuitously and solf-gaoritlcingly unrsing tho sick and wouinded ruldlom iu the military hospituls at Washing- on. ‘The mnjority of persons who liave read White man's remurkable productions are unwilling to ad- mit they aro poatry ; but they who know his lifo cunnot fail to weo that ho has livod somo ofthe noblest pootry, Ife{s a human philoso- plier, an indepondont, vigorous thinker, an un- compramising fos to shams of every sort, o bo- liever in tho otornity of good and tho funda- mental oxoellonoe of the race, Ho is, aud always s boon, gonoroun to @ fault, A clork In ouo of the Dopartmonts at Washington during tho Tiobollion, aud in mcolY& of n enlury of 1,200 a your, ho spont all of his lelaure time, and mout of hia monoey, In administering to tho wants and comforty of the poor soldiers, e made no die- tinotion botwoon Unlonist and Confederato, T'hoy waro Loth mon, both brothora to his large and impartisl soul; and he nursed and cared for thom us tendorly as tha tonderest woman, llo talkod to thom, road to thom, bought them nows- impurm books, pipos, fruits, tobsoco,—whatever ittlo Tuxuriod worg within his narrow moans,— LRy Fentiry -AUGUST 3, 1673, for his kindnonss ; kissod him boforo thoy dled. Whitman {4 n genuine man, s noble spfl-lt an intonne Amorican, full of gonfloncss, sympathy, and lovo for his kind, Tho world ennnot nife to loso even one natnro liko bLis, Aon of hin his stamp aro always neoded ; alwaya have work to do; nre always missod. It {8 aingular that his * Tonven of Crasa™ should bo so differontly regardod. ITo eally thom poatrys but most oritics think them the plainest prose. Bomo of the wisost scholars and ablest oritlen laud his writings to tho highost, You remembor Rialph Waldo Emorson's grootin to him: I welcomo you upon tho throshold of o grent earcor!” Lincoln dolighted to read and ropoat his inos, Tennyson, who is almost fini- enl in his love of beauiy and passion for form, rlncuu a high estimnto upon the author of * Lonves of Grass,” Swinburne, & singor of the rarost goniug, and Matthew Arnold, saturated with-tho classic spirit, put him in the vory firat rank of Amorioan bards, Much as I admira him a8 o man, I cannot seo roo‘ry in hia oatnlogue- liko vorses, though they ofton conlain fino thonghts and noblo sontimonts, DBut, in tho faco of such high authoritios, no unbiased mind ean afford to ridiculo his claims, In my poor Ludgmom., wo have had faw woree poots and fow ottor men than Walt Whitman, who, 1f ho has sung wonkly, hag wrought grmfily m tho Inter- ©out of his raco. BALMAGUNDI, The novel Theodors Tilton is roported to bo writing will bo, I undorstand, of a somi-putobi- ographical sort, half sontimental and Lnlf philo- sophio. It will givo tho author's ideas of lovo and humanity, and bo on what is known as the radical and advanced plano of thought, Oliyer M. Bradford, for many years connected with tho Now York Associatod Press, and for somo time the agont hero of the Westorn Press, has rosigned his position to bo publisher of Domas Barnes' now evening papor in Drook- Iyn, to bo issucd oarly the coming autumn, Tho sporting men are boginning to bet on tho @raphic balloon-enterprisa, Wagers aro Iald of two to ono that Wisa will start, and oven that, if ho start, howill ronch tho othor side. Among mauy other applicauts, five women have ex- prossed thelr desire to_make tho aorinl voyago, A private lettor from Vienna says it is belleved thoro that tha worst offocts of tho luto finaucial troublo are yot to come. Thousands of peraons who hod been rich wors nctually boggarad. 'T'wo or throo suiciden aro still committod daily in that city by mon who had lost tholr last florin. SBuch commorcial dignster kns not beon known in the Auntrian Capital for at toast half a contury. Two now clubs aro to bo formed Lore,—both of thom soclal. Thoy are to be limited to 500 mombors, moro than half of whom are said to Llinvo been alceady socured. ‘Vandorbilt is roported from Baratogn as chuck- ling oyor an nnknown horso ho has just pur- chased, which lio knows can beat Doxtor's best time by at least two scconds. A cord from Robert Bonner is now in order. CoLSTOUN. e e ‘ ANTIPATHY TO CATS. The Rov. Dr. Prime, inthe Now York Observer, gives gomo curious facta in rogard to the natural antipetby of o distinguishoed divine to cats, Weo knew o mon who Lnd the samo singular an- tipathy to choose, and another to butter. Tho feoling scems to bo ontirely boyond the control of the individual who hos it : Within twonty-fivo miles of Cambridge, N. Y., the homo of my youth, thoRov. Dr, —— rosidod, lis namo I withhold reluctantly, and morely bo- causo what Iam golug tosay of him will bo rogard- ed by somo a8 o foible, though I do not so con- sidor it. It wae infirmity of constitution, for which ho was not responsible. IIo was by birth an Englishman ; camo to this country with his {oung family, and was finally sottled as o pastor n tho Btato of New York, Ife was tho father of soventeon childron, two of whom are clorgymon, one n Prosidont of & college, one n distinguished lawyer, and all who grow up_ocoupied places of Tionor and usefulnoss, Dr, Bprague says of him that ho was “ono of tho loading mon of hiy day.” Ho wns & man of largo framo, stout En&;ush build," strong constitution, full habit, aud corpulent, the very last men to be suspocte of wonkucss, or foolish notious, or affoctations of any kind. Ilis only poculiarity, of which I lavo any knowledge, was inability to exist in tho same immediate noighiborhood with a cat, That the disability was real, and not imaginary, I bhavo the most painful and sabundant testimony, and the facty are worll recording, as they estab- Tinh o physiological point of groat interost, and it may bo of valuo. My futhor aud thio Doctor wore membors of the Prosbytery of Troy, and of tha Synod of Albany, and a8 those ecclosinstical bodies fitty yonrs ago extonded ovor o large territory, rttondance upon tho moetings required long journeys. On these oxcursions, a8 the Doctor nnd my fathor waro warm porsonal friends,'my fathor, boing much tho younger, acted tho part of fidus Achales, to pro- vent any collision botweon the Doctor and his natural enemy tho cat. Tofore ho was ndmitted inton hotel or privato houso, my fathor would inform tho family of the Doctors peculiarity of tomporameut, and ovory ono of the foliuo folk would bo removed or carofully closotod. Tutling up together for the night nt a rural inn fu Now Humpshire, my father had tukon tho precaution to consult tho lundlord on tho sub- Ject, and received tho assuranco that no cat way on the premises, tho landlord having long since learned that cats woro more of & nuisance than the mice thoy wero fabled to dostroy., In this I am very much of tho eamo opinion with tho Now Hampshire landlord, never yot having scon 6 Tiouso less infosted by mico for the prosencoof a cat, Batisfled with tho ausurance Lhio two clorgy- men took lod§i|ngn, and, aftor an oarly suppory boing woaried with their_journey, rotired to bod in adjoining rooms. In the dond of night my fathor awoke to Lear the poculine iry of tho cat, and evidently in the hall by the door of tho Doector's bedohamber. Leaping from his bod ““nccoutred ag ho was,” he rushed out into the hall, and the noiso of the animal coasod ; but, returning to his room and lighting his can- dle, ho pursuod tho cat down staira into a lower room, whero he made hor a prisonor. o hoped that the Doctor had not hoard the cat, but, think- ing it pradent to look in upon him, ho oponcd his door and fonnd him lying with his hoad over the sido of tho bod, the sweat in big drops stand- ing upon his forchend, and in a faint voico ho said, "' I'm botter now.” Ho was greatly ox- haeusted, but was rocovering as from & swoon, ‘At anothor time tho Doctor eame to onr house, in Cambridge, N. Y., and aa his visit waa antici- ated, tho usual preparations had heon made, {hnt of eundil:{; tho cat away toonoof tho neighbors, And, o8 it lmp{:lmmd ‘at this timo that tho cat family was somowhat enlarged, the kit tons wero carofully convoyad, with tha' eat, to & safo rotroat, Dr.-——ontorod tho room from tho hall, and instantly rotired to the piazza, and thero ©at down, [y mother went out, and, greeting him, lod him into tho parlor. Again e rotirod, soying with his nsunl urbanity, ¢ My dear Madam, you have not considored my inflrm- ity.” Bho assurcd him that ho was for onco at lonst mistaken, aud, at hor urgount requost, ho roturnod, but ‘on the throshold again pausod, and soid ho could not enter. Ilo rosumed his sont on tho porch, and a eoarch was mado. Undor a bad in s room oponing out of the par~ lor was found n kitton nsleop. Tho ntmog- phere of tho wholo apartment must have beon so_impregnated that his systom revolted, aud, to haye romainod in it, would in all probability have boou followed by the most sorions conse- quences, Thiy infirmity, aa ho himsolf always used to oall it, when itwrs necessary for him to allude to it, beenmo well known in tho community whoro lio lived, and it Is said that at one timo some mischiovous boys put a cat into tho box- sont of his chaiso, in whioh ho wee gulng out to rido, and although the animnl- mndoe no nolse, tho Doctor soon bocame aick, and with those pe- culinr sensations ihat made known to him the noarnces of hig cnemy. Ilo was obliged to voturn home, and & sparch revoalod tho caudg of his troublo. I have heard many snecdotes of tho samo kind rospecting tho Dootor's luflrm“i', all going to show womo- thing in his physical condition so suscoptiblo to the cnb powor, that it foltits presonce withont iho intorvention of sight or sound. Itwasa subtlo but vory afliclont influence flowing from tho cab and pervading the atmosphera vory widely. 1low fur tho uufriondly offcct extonded, or how long it romalned in the room after tho oat had rotired,I cannot protend losay, Nor what catastropho would have followoed if the Doctor Lindd hoon contluod in a room with_his foo, soon or unseen, I do nob know, but I g)roaumu that ho would havo died in 5 vory shiort timo, It I8 an unquestionnble fact that the infirmity was wholly physical, aud uttoerly boyond tho con- trol of tho will, It way nos to any of his frlends o gront an ocerslon of rogrot ns to him, the vie- tim and sufforor, and ho would Lave submitted to any treatmont, modical or wmoral, that prom- isod to give him dollvorance from this afiffotivo bondago, Ile brouglt tho forcos of n vigorous intollect and sound reason to_bear upon It, but in vain, aud it continued to be his misforiune uutil tho closa of his honored and useful life. “lio books furnish simitar justonces, and gen- orally thoy aro attributed to the mmi;hm on, Wo think that a man might got ovor it, if ho would, and that {t is very foolish to Lo a slave to wuch notions. But In thiy cage, and doubt- loss in many othors, thero is no room for the play of fanoy, and we are compelled to the ad- migsion that somo undefined ropughanco in the annaHtutinn mada tha inviaiblo vrosouce of a ANTIQUITY OF MAN. . —_— Sir Charles Eyoll's “Geological Evidencos of the Antiquity of Man.” Viows of tho Prohistorio Schaol, and the Latost Evidoncos Brought Forward in Thelr Support. From the New York Tribune, The first edition of this work was published Just ton years ngo,«and contained tho earliost oxpreeaion of the author'a viowa concorning tho prolilstoria ngo of man, and of his nccoptanco of tho Darwinian thoory of the origin of speoies. Two successivo cditions followed boforo tho clogo of 1803, and the fourth odition, which is now igsucd, ombodies tho proofs of man's antig- uityj which havoe acoumulated since that timo, introducing such now matter a8 was neceasary fo bring the sub- Joct mp to tho prosont statc of our knowledgo. Tho position of Bir -Charles Lyolt in tho flold of natural sclonco gives moro than ordinary authority to his statements, and mnkes tho presont volumo tho moat important, as well 28 tho most rocont, exponent of tho theory whioh snsigny to tho oxistonco of mnn upon earth & dato far antorior to the recelved historical roc- ords. A sucoinct Bummary of its contonta will place our readors in-possession of tho viows of tho prehistorio echool, with tho latost ovidonces that havo boon brought forward in their sup- port. Tor tho lnat half-contury, the oconsional dis- covory in many parts of Europe of the bonos of man in connection with tho romaing of the ox- tinot hyonn, boar, elophnnt, or rhinocoros, has givon riso to tho suapicion that the origin of tho raco must bo carriod back to an onrlier period than had beon bitherlo supposed. DBut tho ovi- denco was roceived with oxtromo caution, Bel~ entifio mon wora roluctant to admit its validity. DBut in the yoar 1858, now facts woro brought to light in oxploring a cave In Doyon- shiro, which gave a frosh Impulgo to the cnriosi- t{ of tho British public, and led to the boliof that tho provailing skepticism on the aubjoct had boon pushod to_an oxtromo. Binco that timo, wunoxpectod ovidonce has boon furnished both in England and on the Continent, Bobwoon tho yoars 1860 and 1873, tho author himeolf haa taken an active part in tho resonrchos to which this volume {u devoted, and hero describes thoir progrons and results with unprotonding frank- ness and simplicity. Tho first discovery of fogsil anfmaln bolonging to oxtinct apecies, with which human_ remaing woro found associatod, ns_dosoribod by Bir Charles Lyell, was made by Dr. Schmorling in 1831, in ‘tho Valloy of tho Meuse noar Liogo. Mnny of the cavorns which ho oxplored lind navor boon entored by sciontific observers, Their floora woro incrusted with unbroken etalagmito. "Tho bonos of man woro 50 rolled and scattered a8 to precludo tho idoa of intentional burial. They wero of the samoe color and with the same amount of animnal mattor as those of the ac- companylng snimals. The human romaina of most fraquont occurrenco wore testh dotachied from tho juw, and bonos of the hand and foob detached from tho rest of tho skoloton, Thero were no gnnwad bones, nor coprolites, Hoence, Dr. Schmerling inforrod that tho coverns had not beon the dens of wild beasts, but that their contonts had boen swept into thom by Btroams communieating with tho surfaco of the country. The oceunrronco hore and thore of bones in o very perfect atato, or of soveral bones belonging to the samo skaleton in natural order, while many of the accompauying bones wero rallod, brokon, or decayed, was accounted for by supposing that portions of carcsnses wore somo- times flonted in during floods while still clothed with their flesh, o oxamplo_ was dis- covered of an entiro eleleton. In ono cav~ ern tho romains of at least throe human beings were disintorred. Tho skull of ono of theso was imboddod by the sido of a mammoth’s tooth, It was ontire, but so fragilo, that noarly all of it foll to pieces during its oxtraction, = Anothor skull was ino sufliciont stato of Intogrty to enablo the anatomist to speculate on the race to which it belonged. Tho human bones occurred ot all dopths in the mud and grnvel, somotimos above and sometimes elow those of the bear, elophant, rhingceros, hiyonn, and othor nuimals, Rudg tlint instruments woro found genorally disporsed through tho cavo mud. Nono of thoso could haye boon introduced at & later poriod, a8 they woro.| in tha same position as the animal romaing. “I thoroforo,” snya Dr. Bchmorling, “attach great importance to their presence, forevenifI hnd not found tho human bones undor conditions entirely fuvorable to lhbil'hninfi considored as bolonging to tho antediluvian epoch, proofs of man's exist- onco would still bave boon supplied by the cut bones and worked flints.” IIe thoreéforo con- cludes from tho various faots ascortainod by him ihat man once lived in the Xiogo district con- ‘temporanoously with the cave-bonr and several othor extinct species of quadrupods. On o visit to Dr. Schmorling in 1838, the author, who at that timo was iucredulons as (o the supposed antiquity of tho fossil human bones; on the ground that man was a_epecies of more ro- cont dato, expressed his doubts on the subject, whon tho formor remarked that one might jus a8 well doubt tho coexistouce of all tho aothor liv- ing species, such ns tho red doer, ros, wild eat, wild boar, wolf, fox, weasel, beaver, haro, rab- bit, hodge-hog, mole, dormouso, water-rat, and others, ~tho bonos of which wero indis- oriminately scattored throngh the samoe mud with the oxtinct quadrupeds, Siuce then, Bir Charles Lyell has found causo to change his opinion. o now considers that the accumu- Inted ovidenco produced by Dr. Behmerling is entitled to groat weight, as o proof that man bad lived upon tho earth at an earlior poriod than goologiats wore thon willing to beliovo. As an oxcuso for his slownesa of faith, ho pleadstho natural hositation to rocoive s discovory which contradicts tho gencral tenor of provious roscarchos, It would havo boen mo easy task oven for one woll skilled in goology and ontoology to follow tho Uolgian philoaoplior through” ovory stago of his obsorvations and proofs, *To bo lot down, as Bchmerling was, dny atter dag, by a ropo tied to s, treo, ro n8 to shdoe to the foot of the first opening of the Kngis cnvo, where tho best proserved human skulls wore found; and, aftor thus gaining nccees to tho first subtorranoan gullur&, to creep on +all-fours through = contractes Jmsnngo to Inrgor chambors, thon t6 suporintend by torch- light, wook after weok and year after gaur, the workmon who woro brouking through tho stalag- mitio crust na bard ns marble, in ordor to romove piece by pioco the undorlying bone-breccia noarly as hnrd § to stand for hours with ono's foot in the mud, and with water dripping from tho roof on ouc's head, in order to mark tha posi- tion and guard againat the losa of enoh Biu&:]u Lone of a skeloton, and, at length, after finding leisure, strength, and courage for all these oporations, to look forward, ns tho fruits of one's labor, to tho publication of unwelcomo intelligenco, opposed to tho proposscssions of the sciontifio as well as of the unscientifle pub- lie,—~when thoso circumstauces aro takon into occount, wo noed scarcely wonder, not only that a passing travoler Iailod to stop and serutinizo tho evidenco, but_that a quarter of o contury should havo olupsod boforo even tho noighlioring profossors_of tho University of Liogo camo forth to vindicate the truthtuinoss of thair indotatigablo and clour-sighted country- man."” Whon Sir Charles Lyoll revisited 'Liogo in 1860, twonly-six yonrs nftor his intorview with Behmerling, he found that soveral of tho cav- orns lind "beou aunibilated in the iutorval. Tho limestone, in tho heart of which the cay tlon onco oxisted, had beon quarried away, and romoved for building, A groat park of ono cavern, howevor, fortunatoly re- mainod in the samo stato sy when, in 1831, Behmorling «drow from it the bones of throo humnn skeletons, Dr, Lyoll, nocord- fugly, dotormined to oxamine it (n y.erson. . Ac- companiod by Drof. Malaiso, & zoalous natural- it of Liogo, ho visitod the'spot, and ongagod workmen to Drenle through tho orust. Bonos and tooth of thoe eave-bear, and moveral” othor extinet quadrupoeds enumerated by Bchmerling, wore soon found, Aftor Dr, Lyoll's doparturo, his com- panion pursued the soarch for soveral wooke, l(n succooded ut length in oxtraoting threo frag~ monts of human ekull, and two porfoct lowor Jaws with teoth, all ussociated in suoh o manner with tho bopos of boars, largo pachydorms, aud ruminants,’and so procivoly like thom In color and stato of })rnuurvntlun. as to leayo no doubt in hin mind thet man wag cotemporary with tho oxtinct animaly, In mnuomng upon the probable antiquity of fosuil human bones found in such sltuations g the caverus nonr Lh)gio, two things aro to bo tukon iuto account. Wo must considor, flrst, tho timo roquirod for so many specles of carnty- orous and borbivorous auimnls to bocome so ontiroly oxtinet as thoy wore boforo the era of the Danuh peat m«yl 8wlss ll_lgg-d)mlllngn. Liogo dlstrlet from 1its anclont toits pronont form,—s0_many old undurground chaunels through which brooka and rivors flowed in the eave porlod, boing now dry and choked up, Al though wo may bo unablo'to ostimato {ha minie mum of time roquired for thero changes in plya: {eal goography, wo enmmot fail to porcoive tiat the poriod muat have boon ono of very protrnot- od d‘uruuon. and that othier agoes of comparativa inaotion may havo followed hefore thio historis ngle, ct(mnlituung an intorval of 1o less indofnita oxtont, Boveral remarkablo caves havo boon discovered in tho South of ¥rance, confirming_tho rosulta prosonted by thoso in Belgium. In 18:8, M, Tournal announcod tho dlscovory of humnu Lbones and teoth in tho eavorn of Bizo, togothor with fragmonts of rudo pottary, gud tho re- maing of mammnlis, somo of oxtinct, othera of rocout apacies, ‘The human bonos wore in tho samo chomical condition as thoso of tho nccflnpnnyhlfi padrupods, In tho opinion of M. Tournal, 16? could not bo roforrod to any diinvial catastropho; thoy had ovidontly not beon suddonly washed in by nny transiont flood ; but muet have been ~graduslly intro- ducod, with tho onvoloping mud and obblos, ot sucoessive poriods. Bimilar discovorles woro mado about tho eame time by AL Ohristal in snother part of Languedoo, Ife found human bongs in the ssmo mud with the mud of an ox- tinct hyena and rhinocoros. Tho conclusions of thoso oxplorors did not pnss without challengo. It wos maintained that tho human bones might bo roferred to a later poriod than tho prohistorio agos, Bir Olrles ’i?““ waa at firgt inclined to tho snmo opinion, But ho bas beon eonvinced by subsoquont rosearches that tho ‘mammoth, and many othior extinot mammalisn speoies vory common in caves, occnr In undlaturhes alluvium, imbodded in such & mannor aa to leave no doubl that man and the mammoth have cooxiatod, Ono of tho most colebratod cavorns containing both human remains nnd the bones of extinet }undmpuds 18 that of Aurignao, which has boon ully described by M. Lartet. In 1802, Sir Charloa Lyoll oxamined tho fossil bonos and worke of ort discovored in thia grotto by M. Lartof ond in tho spring of 1873 ho visito tho cavo itsolf. Tho first discovery was made by o laboror in 1862. Whilo digging stono for ropairing the roads, ho obsorved a rabbit-hole among the rubbish, and, on renching into it tho longth of his arm, Lo drow out, to hia surprisg, one of the long bonos of » human skola- ton, His curlosity was oxcitod, and suspocting that tho hole communicated with a subtorrancan cavity ho commenced digging o tronch, and in o fow hours camo to o largo slab of rock placod yertically against tho entrance. Removing this, ho diecoverod on the othor side of it an arched cavity almost filled with bonos, Among thom were iwo entiro skulls, which ho at once rocognized a8 human. Tho poople of Aurignac, astonished to hoar of so many human rolics in g0 lonely a spot, flocked to tho cave. 'Tho Meyor, who was n modieal man, ordered them to be interred in tho parish comotory. Monntime Ius knowledgo of auate omy lod him .to concludo that the Dones muot have formed parts of goven- teou skolotons, of hoth goxes, and all_ages. Aftorn lapso of oight yoars, in 1960, M. Lartet visited Auriguno, but the vlllago soxton could not toll tho oxact spot whard the bones had boon buried, and of courso thoy could no longer ba identiflod. Ho dotermined, howovar, to explora the cave for bimsolf. Noar tho entrance was a fimnt varicly of bones aud implements, but na uman remaing. On a subsequent visit, in 1863, hie founa inside the grotto & mass of bones, among which woro eevoral of tho human foot, with fragments of other animals, An ox- amination of tho rubbish thrown up during the first diggings brought to light moro than_sixty liyman bonas, principally of tho linds nd foot, with bonoes of tho reindeer, ox, and rhinocoros. Many circumstances led to the conclusion that tho grotto was an anciont placo of sopulture, but, after visit to tho spot dur- ing tho lnst yoar (1872), Sir Charles Lyoll found that tho earth had been eo much dis- turbed by froquont soarchoes that it would be hopoloss to ondeavor to agcertain at prosent tha ago of the intermeuts. . The inatances to which wo have roforred form but small proportion of the discoveries of human relics at o poriod far remote from thoe ordinary dates of chronology. Buflicient, how-~ ever, havo boon prosonted to furnish an idea of ‘tho mnaturo of tho srgumont. With regard to tho oxnok goological ago, it i not oasy to form a positive.ostimato. It haa been inferrod that the remaine of the * age of stone,” in certain localities ovinco an antiquity of at lonst 7,000 yonrs, though that iu boliovod to ‘be long posterior to tho tima when tho mammoth and other extinct mommalia flourished togethe” with man in Europe, Buch computations can bo.rogarded only as tentative in tho prosent stato of our koowledge, and demand much collatoral evidenco for their confirmation, At all ovonta, tho flrst appearauce of man, according to tho rosultu thus far afforded by goological in- quiry, must have been extremely modern, in re- lation to the ago of the exiating fauna and flora, or oven to tho time when modt of the lving spocies of animals and plants attnined their ace tual goograplical distribution. Btill the ocour~ onco 18 holieved to Lo so romoto 08 to couso the historleal poriod to apponr quito insignificant in duration, when compared to the antiquity of the Luman race. —_— LAGER BEER. LAftsr Longfellow's * Catawda Wine,") Tho song you have hore Inasong of beor, To Lo aung on somo evening choery Ata Gorman bar, Or, bottor by far, Iu'n garden whoo all smolla beory, "Dis not & talo Of Bawa’ alo,” Which wo heat a0 ofton Iauded, Nor thio “ Triplo-X," With {ta namo complox And ita virtues much applaudod, Dlout cold and clear s the Ingorebceer, A it alands in fosm-capped glasaes, And it crest of snow, Oler the amber below, Tho sparkle of wing'surpasses, Let volaries twine For tho god of wine Garlauds rich onough for Venus, But in muga of baer, Withn luaty cheor, __We will drink to great Gambrinus, ’ —XNew York Graphie, o R — . Mesmeric Sleep. - Ia thoro, wo may ask, any such special form o1 modo of aleep as that deuotod under this name ! —produced by o cortain subtlo influence omanat.* ing from one porson, and affcoting, oven with out actunl contnct, the body of anothor? Wi mny eay ab onco that nolthor in tho slecp 0 pro: 1 duced, nor in tho collatoral offecta nssigner , toit, do wo find anything that hos not kin . dred with tho natural phenomona of sloo] ond dreams, and which is not oxplicable by thec anomalous forms those 8o ofton assumo withou ; any oxtornal influonces. As regards tho simpl. ¢ offeat in quostion, we bollave wo might na w.* sponk of sormon sleop, of rocking-cradl.s sloop, of tho sloop of an oasy arm-cha y or of n dull book, as of mosmoric sloog | The oxperimonts of Nr. Braid, embodie undor the - namo of Hypnotism, show th offocts ovon of posturo or fixed directio of vision in bringing on this stato. So multiplie and various, indeod, are the conditions, bodil ¥ and montal, tending to it, that the marvol of be. * ing awake is almost as great as that of alos produced by tho mauipulations and othor appiiy ances which the mesmorizer brings to his ajc @ Among theso appliances wo must ospeciall ? rockon tho age, sex, nnd personn! tomperamer & of thoso who are usually tho subjects of thes oxhibitions, Any ono” who cares to examir P tho records of thom will eeo how important "" tho part those conditions p!n[vl in tho drama mesmorism, (irantod that the facta are strany and difloult of explanation, Dut so, and fro i tho samo causcs, aro_all the ordinary phenon ens gf sloop and droams. Their familiari-'® disgnises what is equally wonderful in them. i well worthy of note in this, ns in many oth.# nestions of the kind, how much sulo flhmtu objects usurp tho place of tlnuw.,l: of higher lmport, In tho so-called mesmo: * phonomens, us proffered to our boliof, the me " morizer plays a far more imporlant part the tho porson acted upon. The facts prosented pr: into uttor insignificanco, unloss it can bo shoy. & thiat thoy dopend upon esome diroot omuna!(.‘u of powor from tho former, Prove th such {ufluence sotually fssues from o living boiug, thus chavging the ¢ dition of nnother in ita proximity, T wo have & now and wondorful olomot matorlal or epiritual, bronght at_once iuto t “r' arona of. life. It s admitted, indeed, that 173 mystorious power iy possessod by fow Individus 4] oniy—a limitation, it tho facts bo real, almont strango ag the powor itsolf, Dut we mayat or') stnto our boliof that no such peculiar powor +'° 1sts, The oporator himsolf cannot furnish o doncoof it, ha offocts ho producos by ) munipulations and othor dovicos are clon.’, analogous, ofton identical, with thoso to whi; individuals of o cortsin norvous tompe mont sro linblo from othor and vory differ: oxciting eausos, 'Chie, thon, we approhoud ) Lo the erucial quostion in all that apportaing mosmorio sloop, under ita varions aspoets, 'l o simplo fact of uleop thus produced wps kno® long u&o; but it was resorved for out time oreot: 1k into & mystorious principle, Yaltori: movn (¢ vaal o)l anr viawa of montal phfnome’