Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1873, Page 8

i CilICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AvGUSY 1874 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERIA OF AUNCRITTION (FATATLS IN ADVANCR), 2,000 § Bunday B1E001 Weokiy Darts of n yonr nt tho mawo rata, o provent delny and mistakos, bo suro and giva Post 0Oco adiiens in full, Meluding Stato and County, Romittancos may ho mada ofther by deatt, oxpross, Post’ Oflico ordor, or In registorod lotters, at our rink, THUMA TO CITY HUDACHIDENS, Dails, dollvored, Bundny oxcoptod, 25 coute por wook. Dalls, dolivered, Sunday fncluded, 80 cents por wook, Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Doarborn-ata., Ghleago, Iil. DUSINESS NOTICES, LOTTERY-WE SOLD 1IN E00 1 Ulroulara MART N1z & 00, f i OV AT HAVANA AT AVAL fhat the aonty tormation glson. . Haukees, 10 Wi The Chicay o TFibune, Sunday Morning, August 3, 1873. SHERIDAN AND WASHBURN. "Iho docision of Mayor Modill onthe complaint of Polico Commissionor Blieridan against Bu- perintondent Washburn will bo roceived with gonoral eatisfaction by tho publie. Tho impwunl statoment of the facts lonves no question s to tho justicoof tho Mayor's strictures upon the con- duct of both oficors, Mr. Bhieridan was ovidently wrong in his assumption that he had power to guspond nny patrolman boforo filing written- charges or upon tho unsworn complaint of & cit- izon, Tho Mayor's statomont of*the law on this point is so cloar, and tho law itsolf so ox- plicit, thnt there is not room for two opinions upon the subject, The Commissioner acted ‘hastily and impulsively, sud excoedod his legal suthority. Tho community, however, will agree with the Mayor, that tho Superintendent was unnecosearily prompt in resenting tho illogal in- torforonco of tho Commisslonor. * Ofticial cour- tosy, ns well ng considorations of good breoding, ought to bnve caused o delay until such time 28 the Commissioner could have romediod the logal defect in his proceedinga. The disgraceful proccedings rftorward in the prosence of the Bonrd are properly condomned and roprobated by the Mayor, Mr. Sheridan’s violont denunointion of tho act of*tho Bupofin- tondent, and Llis injudiclous and reckless attack upon the other members of the Board, receive their propor consuro, ag doos the equally disgracoful language of tho Superintondent. The Muyor treats tho twomon as laboring under a dogreo of *‘emo- tional insanity," enying and doing things of which ho has no doubt both are now heartily ashamed. Tho allegation thay o challengo toa broach of the peace was given, is also roforred to; but the Mayor inclines to tho opinion that nejthor intended to provokoe o fight, and that at ‘most the supposed challengo was an * egotistical porsoncl raforence.” ‘Cho Mayor suggests that .both ofticors spologize to the Lonrd for thoir unscemly behavior, and he dis- misses tho complaint on the assumption that tho . two oflicors actod impulsively and under strong provocation, rather than from intention ; that both ofiicers ave ablo, and could rendor the public great sorvice if they would, and that this, boing tho first offenso sud not likely to be repeated, ho declines to suspend tho Superintendent or to take any action ngainst tho Commissioner. At tho sama timo, hosays that any ropetition of such a scene will be fol- lowod by an oxercise of all the corrective power roposed in him by law. With this judgment of the Mayor wo think tho community genorally will coincide, and ngreo that subatantial justico has beon administered. Better practical results will follow this decision than by the exercise of arbitrary power, and carrying the affaivs of the Police Board into lawsuits, to tho projudice of ordor and to tho domoralization of the forco. THE CEIEF OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. "'lio disclosuros mado at the Board of Lolico and Fire Commissiouers on Friday aftornoon, and which have beon published, precipitated swhat has long boon contomplated: the romoval of the Chiof Engincerof tho Fire Dopartmont. Public opinion has for o long timo demanded this action, and, now that it has beon accompligh- ed, thero will be protty general satisfaction. There ig, howover, far moro difficulty in finding n competont pordon, who will ageopt the offico, than thore is in romoving a quostionable in- cumbent. Who the Mayor will appoint is probably as yot undotermined, Wo know that nearly & year ago, when a chango was contomplated, the difliculty of making such a so- leclion was o gerious one. 'The OChief Enginoor of tho Fire Dopartment holds an importsnt placo in any city, but moro particularly in Chi- eago. The offico {8 not only a responsible one, but ean only bo sntistactorily filled by some por- son baving the ontiro confidence of the public, and able to command the personal respect and impheit obodience of all his subordinatos, To nccomplish this he should bo & man of intelli- gonce, of poculiar and prompt orgavizing abil- ity, of good pergonsl hinbite, and of ripe oxperi- ence in all things portaining to the sorvico in Chicago. Whero to find such a man, willing to ac- eopt tho placo, has boen a porploxing question over sinco tho groat firo of 1871. Binco that timo the rank and file of the Department have baen gront- ly improved by tho dinplacement of unfit per- gons; but tho forco hins lncked the great roquisite of u propor Chicf. ‘When this matterwas considored, somo months ago, the namo of Mr. Bullwinkle, tho presont Chiof of the Five Insurance Patrol, was strongly prosonted. Ho was commenied by tho wholo Underwritors’ intorast with fow oxcoptions; be was urgad by a large body of morchants having immonso interosts at stake, both in buildings and stocks of goods; thero was o strong, but por- baps unexprossed, fecling in his favor in the Fire Departmont. Ieisa youug and vigorous man, of strict personulhabits,whoentoredtho Dopartmont many years ago as a drivor, under Chiof Harris, and has, perhaps, hod greater practical expori- onco than any other person in Chicngo. Ilnda chnnge boen mado then, it {s probable that Dull- winkle would havo been appointed, though wo cannot Bay that the Mayor has not, in the mean- timo, found gomo #till moro suitablo porson to ill the arduous placo, Thero is #0 vast an in- torost depending upon tho Firo Dopartmont, and tho officiency of that servico doponds so much on the Chief, that tho solection of that ofticor bocomos o matier of the doopost publio concorn. st e e Frank Walworth, the murdorer of his fathor, i hardly within tho walls of 8ing Sing, boforo & potition is prosentad to Gov. Dix for his pardon, The nction of the Governor, howevor, in the TFostor case, If It is of any valuo us a procedent, affords grounds for beliof that_ho rogards mur- dor as n erimo which ought to be punished, and that he soos nothing moritorious in parricido. It in to bo hopod ab least that ho will tho rontence which waa passed. If tho doors of 8ing Bing nro openod and young Walworth s al- lowed to wall out & froe man, thore ia no reason Wwhy ovory othor conviot sliould not bo allowod the samo priviloge. As tho Now York Times well saya: *'Ionest people might thon ask to bo taken in as tho ouly available placo of sholtor agninat tho {ll-used clngs to which Wal- worlli belongs." A COUNTY BOARDING-HOUSE, The County Comiissioners havo boforo thern a roport rccommonding an appropriation of $20,000 to fit up nsorios of dormitorios and n kitchon for tho nccommodation of the students attonding tho Normal 8chool at Englewood, Of course, this is but a proliminary outlay; noxt yonr a liko sum will bo' agkoed. to enlarge it, and in the courso of & fow yoars tho county will find itself running a hotel or boarding- house of tho largost proportions. The duty of the County Commissionors in this| mattor is a plain ono. Whatever obligation may ‘o supposad to rest upon tho county to provide school for the fres education of tenchors, thero ia cortainly nono to find the pupils boarding and lodging. The Village of Englowood containg a Inrgo numbor of houses, occupled by familics. Porsons attending the school ean find board and lodging in sbundance if thoy will pay for thom. Thero sro sixty thousand men aud women in Obicngo who aro boarding, and they have to put up with such accommodations as thoy can gob for thoir money. 'Thoro is no more reason why thoe County Commissionors should go into tho lodging-houso busincss at Englowood than thoro is for doing so in Obicago, and the expondituro of this $20,000 for providing the mon and women attonding that school with sloeptog-rooms, and & kitchion whore they can cook thelr own monly, is no more justifiable than tho expendituro of & like sum for furnishng liko accommodations for any other clasd of porsons, This expendituro is but a proliminary one. The echome involves the eatablishmont of & bosrding-houss or hotol at tho oxponsc of tho county, and, the bost way to put an ond to it, is to refuse this first appropria- tion, Tho Normal School iteolf is froo to all residonta of Illinois, and the chinrgo for tuition to non-residents is only $30. Tho county sup- ports this achool at great expense. It certninly acts liborally enough, without now demanding that the county shall farnish lodging-rooms and boarding-houses in addition. Cook County has plenty of usos for its monoy withont going into compatition with the people of Englowood in the boarding-house or lodgiug-room business. HOT WEATHER, AND IT8 EFFECTS, Dr. William J. Youmans discusaes, “in the cur- ront number of tho Popular Science Monthly, the timoly toplc of the Morhid Effects of Ieat. The subject hos loss importance in Chiengo, porhaps, thau in auy city in tho country, for tha ronson that onr heatod term is shorter, and, thoreforo, less oxhmusting than that of any crowded community in the Northern States, But in n cholorn senson, and with the anticipa- tion of warm weather during tho present month and o part of Soptember, it is woll that peoplo should give somo attention to tho influonces of heat and tho bost mensures to counteract thom. Wo are told that the natural.temporature of the human body is 99° ¥alr., and, ina healthy condition, this tomporaturo varies but little cithor way. ‘Thio body is desctibod as o furnace; the food is the fuol, and the air taken into the lungs is the draught which aseists combustion, In bealth the oxcoss of heat Ia thrown off partly through the lungs, kidnoys, and skin, with the wasto matter, and partly by conduction and ra- diation, Itisou essential condition of henlth, thon, to maintain the even and natural tempora- ture of tho body. Neither the cold nor tho heat of the atmoaphoro can bring disense if tho tomperaturo of the body can bo proserved in its natural condition. Thus, men have oxposed thomsolves in an oven to a hoat of 260 degrecs Fabrenboit without any serious rosults, under favorablo cirenmstances for evolving tho oxcess- ive supply from within. 8o long as the nir was kept dry, and the othor conditions wore ‘fuvora- blo, tho Liont of tho body way kopt down by por- spiration; but, whon moisture was admitted, evaporation was retarded and the temporature of tho body arose. The most dangerous effect of hont inits direct influence on the body is the production of thermic fover, or sunstroke. Un- der this gonoral hoad may be included various forms of disearo that partake of tho same nature and aro brought on by tho smme eauso. It will Do now to most readors to loarn that sunstroke and its modifications do not roquire a direct ne- tion of tho sun’srays on tho head or body. Ex- porienco has proved this tobo truo, It has been found in India that mon have beon attacked dur- ing tho night aftor going to bed in an apparoutly healthy condition. Artificial heat, such ns thet of & hotol-laundry or & sugar-rofinery, has beon known to produce the diseaso. The overhoating of the body, whethior it como from the sun’s rays or any highly-hoated temperaturo, is the oxciting ceauso of sunstroke and similar affections, Tight- fitting clothing, impeding the circulntion, is an assistant to the disease, and tho stiff uniform of the British soldiers was abandened in Indis on this account, Ovorerowded rooms aud poor vons tilation have also been found to promoto the attack, Tn geners), all conditlons which aro cal- culated to retard tho rojoction of tho oxcessive calorio from the body aro oxcitants to tho disoasos peculiar to heated torms, The indirect influenco of heat is moro delo- torlous thau the direct influonce on tho human body, High temperatura is au aid to decomposi- tion. Decaying organic mattor produces foul dnd poisonous gasea, which, oscaping into tho stmosphore, make their way into tho human systom. Honco tho groater sproad and fatality of cholers, yellow fover, and malarial diseases gonorally in the hoatod torms, . he most fruit- ful sourco of diarrhea and summor complaints gonorally is said to be the putrefying organio matter hold in suspension in water—a condition which is mueh more fraquont in summer than in wintor. One would eonclude from this that tho practice of drinking ico-wator, which is apt to bo condemned, {s Lottor than to drink the water as it comea from tho hydrant or the woll in summer time. Tho rofuse of citios has long boon known as & proliflasource of discaso, It all con- tains moro or less organic mattor, which, though it moy bo innoonons In itselt, is decomposod under the action of tha heat, and exhales gnses which Interfore with the proper oxygenation and purification of the blood, Understanding tho roagon why tho filth of citios is the main exei- tant of disonso In summor, it Is & mero mattor of solf-proteetion for evory porson to usie diligence in disposing of it, aud tho duly of tha poople uy a wholo to co-operate in the worke of provid- ing a thorough eystom of soworago, Whilo adoquate mowerago 18 tho chiof moans for oarrying off tho rofuso mmttor, proper caro in overy family, every lodging-houso, every D e R which peoplo ent and sleep, may necomplish n grent doal in warding off tho dangors of opldemio disonsos, Asido from the part which hent playas in in- fluonclug the oxtornal agoncioa that affoot Lonlth, overy poraon owos it to himself to guard ngalnut all oxcitants to oxcoseive haat in the body, Dr. Edward Bmith's introductory chaplor of n forthcoming book on *“‘Iho Nature and In- fluonco of Foods" has just boon published, and containg somo valuablo suggostions in tho way of diet. Prof. TLiobig long ago di- vided foods into flesh-formors and hoat- gonerators, Though nll food is the fuel of the body, corlain kinds are hottor matorial for com- Dbuation than others, Tho amount of food that’ is nocousory to sustain tho internal fires dopeuds largely on tho amount of oxortion which is taken. Tho condition of tho atmosphere hins also au important influcuco on the vital actions, which aro greater in cold than in warm tempora- tures. Reducod to 4 practicsl basis, overy por- son possocases certain woll-defined menus of solf- protection in a heatod torm, and wo should sum thom up hastily as follows : (1) To avoid all ox- ortion in excoss of what tho body has been acous- tomod to ; (2) oatless than usual and, without radically changing the whole systom of diet, avoid tho hent-genorating food; (3) abstain from hoating drinks, which naturally inorease internal combuslion; (4) avoid dampnoss, which retards porspiration, and, consaquently, prevents the body from throwing off its oxcess- ivo beat in ono of its most natural ways; (5) disposo of all garbage and rofuse mattor in the spocdiest and most offective mouner; and (6) above all, keop cool by every availablo process, ¢ — - A BAD AUCTION BALE, Wo have evidently fallon into iconoclastic timos. Ono after the other, tho domi-gods of antiquity, the heroes of mythology, the oxalted typos of history, go tumbling from thoir podes- tals and lio prono in the dust at our feot, and wo atumblo over thom without ovon stopping to inquire who they wore. Mousing antiquarica.go about pricking tho stately loges of ginnts, and, bo- hold, they are filled with sawdust, Wosotup o bronze image in the market-place to commomo- rato tho sturdy virtuos and tho gollant doods of some old-timo hero, and straightway comes your encoring antiquary and informs you your hero is a myth, and takes » flondish dolight in toaring off tho pleasant associations which you have twined around him, and tho wroaths and chaplets with which you have erowned him, and shows you only o wrotched stump, inatead of astatoly onk, It is now dofinitoly sottled that William Tell did not cleave the apple in twain and reservo his other arrow for tho tyrant Qoslor, beeause there was no such man as Will- jam Toll. Pocahontas, that dusky meidon of tho foront, it is shown, did not save the lifo of Captain John Smith by interposing Lier beautiful head befora the uplifted tomnahawk of her venge- ful father. On the other hand, Pocahontas wae a very ordinavy young squaw, who earned o pro- carious living by turning summersaults down hill, and, thorefore, presents only a rotatory claim to the remembrance of posteriiy, dubious in otiquotto, and by no means desirablo as o pattern for other young ladios. Even tho groat ond good Georgo Washington, Fathor of lis Country, has lind Lis littlo hatchot takon awny from him, and wo are now left in a distrossing stato of doubt whether ho might not have hacked ovory pear-treo in the old gentlomnn’s orchard snd lied about them all to escapo tho Washing- tonian birch. What hopo is there for thoe verac- ity of tho rising gonoration, now that this story must bo expunged from overy Sunday-school book ? What pear-troe will bo safo? Those iconaclasts caunot oven lot tho great gods alonoe, and Jupiter and Juno, Mars and Morcury, Voous and Vulean, and all tho rost of tho shining divinitics of Olympus, aro but now shadowy types of cloud, and wind, and rain, All beautiful logends and fireside stories, the songs wo sing, tho games we play, and the proverbs with which we moralizo, aro all roforred to Confucius, Buddha, or somo othor Oriental deified philosopher, The primary result of this iconoclasm is an ut- tor Inck of roveronce. If all tho gods are but smoalo and idlo "breozes; i our heroes aro bub bubbles of the imagivation, and our heroines but myths in potticoats, whorein is ono man better than another? Why is not Bmith as good as Jupiter, and Mrs, Brown as lovely as Yonus ? If wo bave no standards of measuromeut, then ono man measures 88 much ag snother, and Smith may wrap himself in tho mantlo of tho Cloud-Bearer, or stalk the onrth in Wellington's boots. 'Thus all the dead and gone woithies whose braing lave been prossed and dried in tho horbariums of great libraries reprosont only a market valuo of so much per pound in old paper. It was only the othor day that the Tabard Inn, whoroe Chaucer's Conterbury Pllgrima woro wont to assemblo; where thoe jolly friars told their unctuous storics and eang thelr songs; whero the merry wifo of Bath cut up such frolicsomo pranks, was sold under tho auctioncor's lammer. Tho most touching inslanco, howover, of this latter-day lack of roveronce is sfforded in the rocout ealo of tho houschold offccts of the Iato Josse I. Gront, tho fathor of tho President. Tho bod upon which the Tresident was born, says tho tolograph, brought only £5.50! Whoro is tho reverence of the great Amorican peoplo ? Tivo dollars and a hialf for the bed upon which Nrst reposed tho little limbs of the hero of tho Wilderness aund the Prosidont of the United Btates! Tive dollars and & half for the spot whoro Lo first drosmod his youthful dreams, whoroe hie writhed in colio aud had tho whooping- cough! Tivo dollavs and a half for the bed whero once reposed the gorm of grontuoss, whore this full-blown flower of war budded in poaco- ful unconscionenosa! Going, tho bod of the Yresidont! Going, tho cradlo wherein waa rocked tho horo and tho stalosman! Goiug, tho nost wherein ho flrst chirped nnd cooed ! Qone, for five dollars and n hielfl Why, Bmith's ‘bed, Jones' bed, or any othor man's bed, wonld bring fivo dollars and o half, with no assocla~ tions thrown in, and a poorly-made bodstead, porhaps, at that, although it nover held o here or pillowed an Olympian head. Aftor such a lamo and impotent concluaion as this, tho rost follows as a matler of courso, ‘Whatmight not bo expectod aftor the Prosident’s bed bnd beon Luocked down for five dollars and ahalf? In the languago of Ians Broitmann : *What n raco! What a beeples!” T'la old gon- tlemau's library came next under the hammor, and was sold for tho valuo of waste-paper, not- withstanding tho fact that {t wae composod of valuable Tatont-Ofiice Teports! All thoso volumes cf thrilling adventure, exciling utory, Dizarre humor, and pootle and dldactio strain, sold for waste pupor! Who osn roplaco them, now that tho frauking privilogo is romoved, and % ' lovoand gratitudo thoy bonr their conatituonts by nonding thom theso touching souvenirs from tho Patont-Ofico? Apart from tho associations connected with thom, s it roveront thus to tront the literary labors of tho Patont-Offico ; thus to aquandor tho frufts of tho hours which haye boon dovoted to tho proparation of these numer- ons volumos bubbling over with wit and wis- dom; tbus to nllow the hnrvest of gonius to rob in attics or bo converted iuto rags? But “'ts truo, ‘'ls plty, and pity 'tis, ' true” Tho closo of tho salo way in keoping with its beginning, Tho old gontloman’s docantor, which contalned his favor- ite applo-jack, was knocked down to some irrov- oront blddor for 50 conta ! Wrotchedly chenp for thodocantor itself—dirt cheap, 1 it had any applo- jackinit!' What kind of » man waa this pur- chaser ? Evonif tho docantor wore omply, it had rominisconcos n it. . Itisn painful thomo to follow. Is nothing sacrod in our Amorican Walkinlla ? Is thoro no Unolo Olivor to roscuo our ancostors whom tho Oharlen Burfacos aro solling off for & song ? Whoro is tho patriotism of the Amor- fean peoplo? -fs it for this that our fathiors fought, blod, and died ; that the Amor- {oan onglo soars to tho sun, and scrosms as ha soara ; that wo rallied round tho flag, boys, and shouted the Battlo-Ory of Freedom? And the Prosidont's bod sells for #6601 Is it for this that we camo up shoulder to shoulder for tho dofonao of the country ? And the Palont-Offico Reports go for wasto-papor | Is it for this that wo woro born under the egis of liborty, aud onjoy the proteotion of the palladium of froe- dom? And tho apple-jack decantor sold for 50 conta | It is pointed out that tho Paris libol auit agaiost Mr. Bonnett, tho proprietor of the Now York Herald, which rosulted in a vordiot of sov- eoral thousand francs againat him, was somowhat similar inits intornational bearings to tho suit which tho Gorman ° Government instituted ogainst Edmund About somo time ago. M. About had printed s serios of articlos in his pa- per, Lo Soir, published in Paris, in which ho in- citod tho pooplo of Alsace to arlse and retake thelr torritory from 'the German conquerors, Bubsoquently, M. About .took his family to their country home in Alsace to spond & month before the country should have finally passed into German dominion, While thoro ho ‘was arrosted by Gorman police officers, assiated by a company of cavalry. Tho pretext for his orrest was found in the article of tho German penal code authorizing tho prosecution of ** any foroigner who slall in a foreign country commit Liigh tronson agaiust the German Empiro.” M. Thiors' Government volunteerod to intorceds in M, About's cnse, but the lattér proforred to obide tho issue of tho trial, Ho was triod beforo o military commisgion, which decided that the articlos wore not treasonablo. M. About subse- quently held 1 Lis paper that this was an altempt to ovorturn tho principlo of intorna- tonal lnw which hoids that “crimes aud of- fenyos committed in n foreign country aro not, a8 n rulo, mado tho subject of any prosccution; aud tho Pariy journals joined with him in de- nouncing tho arrestas a precedont for proso- cuting the author of any articlo or book, eriti- cising the German Governmont, which may bo introduced to German territory. But the verdict which tho Fronch Court hos given against Mr, Bonunett is practically the samo thing. 1lo pub- lishod an article in Now Yorl criticising a Fronch dend-boat who had brought suit against his American fathor-in-law for his support after his wifo's docenso. It wasfor tho publication of this articlo in Now York that the Paris Qourt en- tortaived a prosccution and rendored o verdict for damagos. Asyot the Frouch papers have failed to point out that tho verdict was a viola- tion of tho samo prineiple of intornational low, aud just as much of an attack on tho liberty of tho pross, s the Gorman caso againat M. About, with the difforenco that, while tho German caso was practically abandoned, the Frouch caso os- tablished tho unjust precedent. Tho lapse from tho romantic to the ridiculous is well illustratod in s rocont breach-of-promiee sult brought in England, The dofondant was & rotirod draper, a widower of 69, with two mar- ried childron, and tho plaintiff a lady of 46. Tho two met by chance, tho naual way, and fora time overythiug was rosy, and the pair weroboth fond and foolish. DBut the clouds soon began to gathor, and the widowor tired of his bargain, In tho firat lottor showing symptoms of estrange- mont, the dofendant wrote ¢ I have had a good desl of unplesontness sinco T Baw you in the famley aircles, and it is n dayloy dish from the publick, until T am hartloy sick of it, Thoy know overy steps wo havo talto sinco wo commonced, and n good way nto tho futare, And now, dear Aggle, do not let nugry tempor ariso nor aninosity provutl ngainst mo for this, for I shsll nlways entorfain a frendly fouling towsrds you nud all famloy, and whon wo meet each other may it bo with a frondly fesling until we meet In hoaven, whero parting sball be no mor, amen, God bless you. Tho savagoe plaintiff wroto in reply : 1 fecl I cannot paint you in colours too black, o . . You ald byypocriie, could you look your Maker in the faco and eay that {bero was no ongagoment. . . You ranting hiypocrite, has thoso well-figured lips of yours no regard for tho tiuth, How daro you wrile such stufl to me about us mooting n heaven. It is neodloss to add that tho onco fond pair havo not been rounited, aud that the widower's fieklo conduct hiay cost him $2,500, —— "Tho terrible disonse of loprosy has become alarmingly provalent in the Sandwich Islanda. The Hawailan Evangolical Association, in June 1ast, published a statomont which eays: The numbers already known to bo viciima to loprosy, tho atill lnvger numbors who are undoubtedly infectod, tho niendy, remorseloas activity with which It is ox- tonding, ali {oll us with- ghastly sesurance that, unless romedinl tmeasures are usod moro offective than havo hitherto boon applied, our Hawailan people will bo- como in avory fow years a nation of lepers, Do we consider what this meuns ? It mosns the disorganiza- tion and total destruction of civilization, proporty vulues, and industrios of our chiurches, our contribu- tlons, our Hnwalian Board and ita work of missions, Tt moans shame and dofent, and disgraceful overthrow to ull that I8 promising and falr in tho natlon, Wo are on the riuk of & horrible pit, full of loathosomencss, fnto which our foot aro rapldly allding, In view of this horrible dovolopment, and tho fact that tho disonso is not only incurablo but Infoctious also, it is only the part ot ordinary prudonco to oo that It doea not bocomo natural- izod onour Westorn const, Tho malady, it is well known, was brought to the Sandwich Irluuds by the Chinose, and it is by no moans uncertain that the Chinoso may bring it to Ban Franclsco, Onoo soated, its cradication bocomos almost impossiblo, ————— ‘I'ho recent movement of No, 17 to obtain o divorco from her husbaud Brigham has evi- dontly both disturbed and disgusted tho old gentloman, Inonoof his recont sermons, ho prosentod his ultimatum to iy wives in the tol- lowing wordss . My wives havo got to do ono of two (hings, elther round up thoir shouldors to endure the afilictions of il world, and liva tholr xellgfou:u:n_t s, 1'?1,-“.::;;'-‘ . st mo, T will go into licaven nlone rathor than to have seratehing and fighting abont mo, I will eot all at lborty, What, firat wifo, too? Yo, lherato you all, 1 want to go somowhero or do Romothing to get rid of tho whiners, I donotwant thom fo recetve part of tho truth and spurn tho reat out of doors, Tt evory man thua troat Lis wivos§ kooping ralment enongh to cover his body, aud say to your wlves, toko ait tht T Tinve and bo mot at Hborty ; but If yon stay with me you ahall comply with thio Iaw of God In every reapent, and that, too, without any surmuring or whining. You ‘must fulili the Inw of God in overy respoct, and rourmit up your shoulders to walk up to the murk without sny grunting, & This s tho first official annonueomont whioh bas yot boon made that all ia not lovely in Brig- ham Young's houschold, I'ho demon of discon- tont s ovidontly making and inronds among tho Taithful Forty-six to havoe caused such an out- burst of indignation. Aftor laving lived in olover 80 many years, it will now bo onlya atroke of pootical justico if the Forty-six, instoad of going away, koop on with their whining and grunting. They Lave tho means of revengo in their own hands, and thoy must bo o little loss than womon if thoy do not use them freely. THE RUSSIANS AT HOME. NARRATIVE OF THE MISSION TO RUSSIA IN 1800 OF TILS HON, GUSTAVUS VASA ¥OX, Ane IRTANT BEORRTANY OF TITE: NAVZ, From tho Jour- nal and Notes of J, I, Lounar, Edited by Joun D, Citapra, Jit, D, Apploton & Go,, Now York, 8vo: P, 444, 187, Mr. Fox's mission to Russia, of which tuls vol- umo {8 & rathor fulsomo Avabnsis, was altogothor unique. It was well caleulated to dovelop tho ‘most protuso display of Russian hospitality, and it ia chiofly on this account that tho Narrativo is valuablo. Tho oceasion of the mission was the mnarrow oscape of the Emporor of Russla from denth at tho hands of an as- sassid on tho 1Gth of April, 1806. Ilis rescuo waa tho result of a moro nccidont. A former gorf, namod Ossip Ivanovitch Xomissarofl, had just recovered from illness and was making his way to roturn thanks in a littlo chapol ostabe lished in a log-housa that Potor tho Groat hnd built for his own use. o had to cross a bridge ovor the Nova to an island on which the chapol was eituatod, bat, arriving at tho river's bank, ho found tho bridgo displaced, It was thia cir- cnmatanco that induced him to turn in tho divec- tion‘of the Bummor Garden, whoroe ho found o orowd of poople - waiting - for tho Emperor to pnss. As * Xomissaroff had movor soon his liberator, . he : prossed forward, following closely & lorgo man who was forcing his way to tho front. Whon Ilis Majesty appeared, the man whom Komissaroff Lad fol- lowed drow a pistol and aimed it at the Emporor, Komissaroff promptly realized the intention and, by sjriking tho fellow's arm, caused tho wonpon to bo discharged in the air, The would-bo as- sassin was then quickly seized by the poople about him, who wouldhave torn bim to ploces had not the Emporor interfered personally and told them to let him alone. Ho proved to be & mem- bor of tho Nihilists, s secrot body of social disorganizors in Tussia that stlil has an existonco with the purposo of overturning tho Govornment and insti- tuting o now ordor of things politically nnd so- clally. Tho agsassination of the Emporor at this timo waa to have beon the signal for a gen- oral uprising, Tho man who attompted it wag labgod, and Komissaroff, who averted it, wns enriched and onnobled, The Emporor's escape brought out congratulations from all parts of tho world, Among tho most hearty was that of the Amorican Governmont, formally oxpressod in n resolution of Cougress. It was decided to forward this rosolution to Russiz by a spevinl ouvoy in a national veasel, and Mr. G. V. Fox, thon Assistant Bocrotary of the Navy, was so- locted for tho sorvico. Additional iutorest at- tached to the mission becauso it was decided that Mr. Fox should cross the ocoan in a monitor. ‘Pho Miantonomal, & two-turrat monitor, was so- lected, and, nccompanied by the Augusts, a wooden man-of-war, it mado tho passago success- fully, despite many misgivings in certain quar- tors, with but thirty-ono inches above water on tho hull. ‘Tho testimony of Mr., Fox is, that he novor had so comfortablo an ocean voyago as in this submarino casemont. ‘Tho vessel was found to bo unusually stoady in o rough sca, and the accommodations, artificial ventilation, and light ovorhead, mndg it moro dosirablo than naval vesaels that float on the water instead of plow- ing along underneath it. The monitor onturally atiracted gront attoution at all tho Englieh, Fronch, and Northern ports which woro visited on tho way to Russia, and an Ad- miral of tho British navy, after carofully look- ing it over through his tolescope, said that he wouldu’t care to cross tho Atlantic “in that thing.” Novertheless, tho ‘choose-box on o raft " brought the mission safoly to Cronstadt, whoro it wes conducted into port by a flot of Russlan ships. TUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES. There wag somothing moroe in this Amori- can mission to Russin than the usunl formal cougratulation on the Emperor'a oscape. It was tho oxprossion of =& sympathy that has long oxistod botweon a great nation in the Old World and tho groat nation of the New World, ‘Though tho one is an absolute monarchy, and the other & popular Republie, this bond of sympathy is not nocessarily anomalous. The very con- trasts botwoon the two Governmonts, which are found in geographical romotoness and in radical distinctions of people, customs, and institutions, are calenlatod to promote an oxcoptional intor- national harmony, while tho common aim of ‘peaco, progress, and omancipation which char- ncterizos both nations loads both Russin and Amorica to worlk out thoir destinies with mutual moral support. Thero is nothing unnatural in extonding the congratulations of a Republic to an Emperor who nchioved the great work of lib- orating twonty millions of eorfs poncefully wheu it cost & Ropublicsix yenrs of war, rivors of blood, and thousands of milliona of dollars to do tho snmo work. If wo regard tho starting- point of the prosont Emporor of Russia, he must bo crodited with the accomplishmont of roforms s radienl as any that our Republican form of governmont has ever achioved. Bosides oman- cipating the serfs, ho las abolished the uso of the kuout; Lo hag ocstablished locsl eolf- governmont, and sorfs havo taken on mnnfoipal rosponsibilitios without tho tor- riblo corruption that hos attonded o similar chango in the Bouthorn States of Amorica ; ho has assured his peoplo of the right of trial by jury, and thus caught up tho spirit of the Magna Chartn ; and ho has conforred a greator liberty of the press than is to bo found to-duy in Re- publican Frauco, All theso roforms heve hoon attained porcofully in & nation of oighty millions of people, comprising half of il Europo and tho wholo of Northern Asia, It would have beon somothing more than & nntionel disastor if such » rulor had been assussinatod in the name of lib- orty; nnd tho Unitod States did woll to at- tout in tho most pronounced way that tho intoreats of progross aud good govornment wero sorved in his prosorvation. Mr, Fox's mission wod prompted by gratitude as woll ag sympathy, In tho sovorost trinl that tho Ameri-, can Republic hna ovor hind, Russia stood firmly a8 'our friond, Whon Napoloon IIL proposod to Russia, in 1861, an Intervention in tho American olvil war, in tho intorests of the Robellion, aud with tho purposo of disrupting the Amorienn. Unlon, she stornly rejectod tho overture, and took occnsion to glve our Governmont tangiblo ovidence of ita good-will and mornl support, A Tussian floot was sont ovor ta our consis, and Princo Cortchakoff sont n spoclnl dis- pateh to Baron Stoockl, tho Russian Miuistor at Washington, to exproas tho friondly fooling and hopoful enconragemont that Russin folt for tho succoss of our arms againat the He- belllon, Thiy was comfort at n timo whon it was soroly noeded, and it was woll to give it a com- monsurato recognition at the first opportunity. RUSSIAN MAGNIFIOENCE, It the prosont Narzative, which ia tedionsly elnborato and full of unnecossary padding, has o valuo beyond tho ohronicle of Amorica's nym- pothy aud Russin’s hospitality, it {a chiofly in tho glimpss 1t given of Russinn grontness. Wo know losn of Ttuesln and tho Nussinos than of othor European natlons. As thoyare seen in travol on tho Continont, tho Runsiansare oducatod and aceomplishod pooplo. Thoy havo tho appoar- nucoof bolng fabulously rich, ''hey oxeood tho provorbinl oxtravaganco of the Euglish Milords and the Amorlean shoddyltes in Continontal diu- play. Thoy rido in tho first-olnes railroad conches, travel on tho rondin thoir own car- ringes, do not complain of tho chnrges for bougfes at the hotals, spoll tho porvants with their mu- nificont pour-boires, stoleally brenk the banks at {ho Qorman spas, speak all languagoes correctly and fluontly, and gonornlly manngo to croale n sonbation with the utmost indioronce sud com- plaisance on their port. It hos alweys boen & wondor that so much culturo and politonces should .be found among tho reprosontatives of a people who aro very widoly, though ignorantly, regarded ag somi-bar~ barous, Tho fact is that the Russians at homo, dospito thelr goographical obatacles, encourago all the olomonts of culturo and progress in thoir Qovornmont, social institntions, religion, art, and commerco. . TALAGES AND PUBLIO DUTLDINGS. Evorything in Russin is modeled on & grand scalo, Thoro sooms to bo o disposition, among tho woalthy clnsses, to koop alwaya in view tho iden of magnitude involved in 8,000,000 squoro milos of torritory. Thero is tho Imperinl roal- donco af Petorhof, originally cstablishod by Potor tho Great, which comprises scveral palaces— Marly, Monplaisir, tho Ilormitage, and the Btraw Palaco—rich in tapestries, and finished in tazzos of marble, porcolaln, and malachite. Thore are fountnins and water- falls, roaching from the main palace to tho son shiore, equal in overy way to thoso at Vorsailles, which have bocome world-famous. 8t. Potors- burg has its Wintor Palaco, tho Admiralty and the Hormitago forming & group of imposing ar- chitocturo, Tho Admnlralty has a depth of 650 foot, and its front oxtends half o milo to the Wintor Palaco, where tho royal family live during tho cold season, This palaco, facing the Nova, 1 o structure of four stories, with frontago of 400 foot. 1t containg soveral stato halls, somo of them of huge dimension, and it is filled with eymbols of Russian groatnoss, Tho crown jowels aro kept in ono of tho rooms, whoro tho Orloft diamond of 19437 carats, prosented to Cathorino IT, by Count Orloff, shines resplendent from tho top of the Imporial sceptro. Ioro is found the gorgeous drawing-room of the Em- pross, with its gilded walls aud coiling that geintillato at night in tho lightof a thousand wax tapers; and lioro too tho littlo baro chambor in which Potor the Great died, where his military clonk is still folded over tho ivon camp-bedstead, and his helmot ond sword lying whore ho loft .them. The HMormitage, which adjoins the Winter Palaco, is n groat Groek parallclogram of 515 fook one way and 400 feet the other, Catherine II. built it for an art gallery, and it contains about 1,700 picturos of ali the famous schools; 200,000 choico specimens in the numismatic colloction, including the famous cabinet of the Duko of Orloans; the gallory of Potor the Grent, in which are presorved lis mathematical instrumonts, books, tools, aud tho implemonts of industry and samplea of art illug- trating his lifo and times. Besidos all theso poescseions, thore are valuable collections of an- tiquos from Siborin, Seythia, and the Cimerian Bosphorus, with weapons and utensils from tho pro-historic Bronze ago. The oquestrian status of Potor the Creat s in front of the Admiralty. The block of granite forming the pedestal woeighs 1,600 tous, and wag brought from a place sovoral miles from tho city, whero it lay imbedded fiftoen foot in & swamp. nising it aud carrying it to St. Potors- burg was & great work in engineoring, Count Marino Carburis, s Greok enginaor, inventod o machino to do it, which i3 now presorved s s curiosity in the Consorvatoire dos Arts ot Motlors, in Paris, The palaco at Czarskoo-Selo (Czar's Village), begun by tho Empross Elizabeth in 1744, but greatly improved by the later rulors, is & favorito residence of tho royal family. Thoso estates, which aro situnted about fiftoen miles from Bt. Petorsburg, aro oighteon miles in cireumferonco, sud includo sovoral pal- acos and accessory buildings, Tho prin- cipal palaco s 780 feet in longth, and hns an imposing front of columns. All its halls aro finished in tho most oluborate dosigns, onch ono differing from all the others. Thero is an Ambor-Room, in which all the walls are pan- eled with this precions stufl, worked into mono- grams, conts-of-nrms, and bag-roliefs of artistio design. In another room the walls aro of lapfs- Inzuli, and tho floor of obony inlaid with mothor- of-pear], worked up into flowers. Tho walls of the dining-room are covored with gold, and the floors throughout tho building aro of malachito, Inpis-lazuli, costly marbles, and fnlaid woods. In tho grounds are s Turkish kiosk, an aorial garden, - Swisa ohalot, a marble bridgo, o miviature fleet and n miniaturo dock-yard, and many monuments and statues, There aronot a fow privato catntos noar Bt, Potersburg which almost rival this royal gorgeousness, All tho public buildings of the capital aro on the samo magnificont sealo, Tho Admiralty Palace, with its huge building, is a mile in circumferenco. Tho building containe the civil departments of tho navy, tho school for naval cndots, and the naval museum, Tho columnu of Alexandor L ornaments one sido of it, and is tho largost monolith in the world. 1tian granito shaft, 80 foet in height, 16 foot in diameter, and situated on a podestal enst from tho motal of captured ecannon, with elabe orato bronze ornamentation. The naval museum containe models of all the vessels that tho Russinn navy has ever had, from tho crude attompts at ship-building uundor the Czar Alexis and Potor tho Great to the latest iron-clads of Aloxander IT., including monttors of the Amori- can model, which tho Ruselons adopted during our War. Tho Inperial Public Library Is situ- ated on the Novsky DProspoct, and containg 800,000 volumes of printod books and 25,000 menuseripts in alt languages. Of these, 90,000 booksare in the Russian languago, and 30,000 books in othor langisges rolatos to Russia, Tho library i particulatly rich in early and raro manuseripts, and has o mass of literary ourl- ositics in tho shapo of autographs, prints, sud speclmons of chirography. Tho churchos are equally remarkablo for their rich. ness and grondour. St. Tsnac's i probably the finest cathedral in Northern Turope., It is in the form of n Greok cross, surmounted with & cupola of copper overlaid with gold and supported by columus of polishod granito, ‘Thero aro four grand ontrancos, ench of throo flights of granito stops, nnd onch flight chinoled from a single block. The four porticos are supportod by granite columns sixty foot in hoight, and have Corinthisn columns in bronza, Its ercetion was begun in 1819, aud it was conso- cratod in 1858, Its fonndation alono, which counista of piloy drivon into tho swampy ground, cost over a million dollars. Many of the churchos in othor Russlun citios are grand affuirs, partioularly thoso forming a part of THE KREMLIN, . or fortross, nround which modorn Moscow, the third city that s boon orcsted on this sito aftor aa many dostructions, {s built, Within the walls of the Kromlin ave churches, palaces, and ocon- vonts, towors and steoplos, cupolay sud domes, Thoe tower of Lvau Voliky is octagonal in’ shapo and five storioa high. o lowor story is used nn n chapol ; In tho noxt threa storien are hnng thirty-fonr bolls, tho largest welghing sixty-four tons; but this lavgost beil Is only about one- fourth tho sizo of tho Ozar Kolokol (tho Czar of Tolls), which stands on a podostal pt the foot of tho towor, mensuros twonty feot in hoight and twonty-one foot in dlamotor, and weighs 440,000 pounds. Its matalalone fs valued at 300,000, Thio churchos within the Kremlin walls are tho Cathedral of tho Assumplion, of tho Archangel Miohbel, of the Annunciation, and of the He- doomor in tho Wood, Al of thom aro elaborato- 1v decoratod. and sich in procloud stones, The Annuuelntfon is paved with faspor aud ngato, eot with gold. Tho Templo of tho Bavior, in tonded to commomorato Ruasin's triumph ovot Napoleon, is also located in Moszow, on the river-bonl pbove the romlin, It was founded tho year of tho Invasion, but s not yot com. ploted. Tt hins & mosalo pavoment of porphyry and Inbrodorito, whioh aro also used in finishing tho walls aud columns. Tho Cathodral of Kayan, in Moscow, is romarkablo obiefly ns a specimen of old Russian architocture. It was built in 1564, and, though now prosonting o most grotesquo appearauco, was regarded s yo gront n work nt that timo that Ivan tho Torrible, who built it to commemorato oue of his victorlos, caueod the eyed of tho architoct to bo put out, for fosr he should onrich anothor land with o similar archi- tootnral wondor. Thoro ovidencos of Russin'a woalth and gront- noss hava beon Lstlly grouped togothor for tho purposs of improssing the reader with the fact that munificonce and eulture go Land in hand in Russin. Amoricans, with an oxalted idon of tho *“biguoss” of all things in their own counntry, can searcely fail to wondor at tho “bigness” of all things in Russla. A nation which colobrated tho 1,000tk annivoranry of its Govornment, at Novgorod, in 1803, must havo a peonliar interost for & paople that arc making proparations to colebrata thoir firat Contonnial at Philadelphia in 1870, T ANKUAL FAIIL OF EUROPE AND AHIA. Ono of the most charactoristio and intorosting fonturcs of Russlan fifo {4 to bo found in the annual fairs hold during two months of tha yonr at Nijny-Novgorod, or T.ower Novgorod, This is a city which ordinarily has about 40, 00¢ inhabitants, but ita population fo incronsed te 800,000 souls during fair time, & number that can always bo accurately computed by the amount of bread which the bakers soll. . This temporary and transtont population is gathored from all parts of tho world. Tho fairis spread over the trisugular plain whoro the Volga and tho Oka Rivors meot, ‘which aro tho Misslssippi and Missouri of Rus- sin. *It has ondless rows of shops, and countlesg monsts and stenmbont-chimnoys line tho rivers. ‘Tho craft prosent a motloy sight,—barges from Biborin nud the Ural, steamors from Astrakhan and tho Caspian Sea, boats from Moscow and 8t. Potorsburg, and picturesquo Asiatic 'vossols,— which anoually find their way to Novgorod through the notwork of Russian rivers. Sida by sido aro exposed tho goods of London, Paris, and Berlin, and tho products of ol the Asiatio countrios. All nations, costumes, and lavgunges aro roprosented, and tho trade from July 1 to August 81 ovory year amounts to more than a hundred millions of ru- bles, tho articles being in overy case dolivered on tho ground. Tho bazaar, whoro a portion of this vagt trade is dono, containg over 3,000 atalls, and 18 swrrounded by o canal as & protection ngatnst fire. Thero is o porfect systom of drainage, tha gowors (built of cut stone) being flooded with ‘wator goveral times a day., The necessitics of tho fair have long siuce exceeded the nccommo- dations of the bazaar, and the trafiie now oxtonds ton miles alorg the banks of tho two rivers. Tho sheda in which the Siberlan iron, in all forms, is piled up, aro thomselves a milo in length on the Oka.. Along tho Volga aro waro- hiousos of cotton, tes, hides, dried fish, rags, mitl- stones, and other morchandise, Tho Volga is navigablo for 2,000 miles and tho Oka for 1,000 miles, and thero Linvo their tributaries. Local fairs nro held along the borders of Siberia and China, which aro moroly. sccossory to this great gathering. THE OREER OXURCI. Tho religion of Ruesia is that of tho Grook Olwrch, It was introduced by Viadimer the Gront, who studled all the rotigions of the day ‘boforo ho ordered the dostruction of the idols, Ho rojected the voluptuonsness of Mohamme~ danism on account of his repugnance to circum- cision and thoe interdiction of wine ; Judaism, be- cause he thought it irrational to imitate wondors in the dosort of Binai; and Roman Catholicism, becauso tho Popo appeared tohim to be an carthe ly deity. But ho acceptoed tho rites of the Groek Ohureh, with which he was much impressed, and introducod that fuith in tho year 989. Tho Gov- ornment of the Churchis vosted in the Ioly 8ynod, which is dependout on tho Buperior, who is roally tho hoad of the Church. Thero are two clagsos of ecclosipstics,—the Bluck Clergy, who take monastic vows, and tho Whito Clorgy, who aro secular. The Black Clorgy are colibates, but the Whito Clergy aro allowed to marry. The various coromonios of the Church are boautiful aud imposing. RUSSIAN BANQUETS. Wo have already intimated that the Nar- rative, prepared from the diary of Mr. Loubat, who acted sa Secrotary to M. Fox, {a unnocessarily prohx, ofton to ous, and always fulsome, Tho visit of the mission was o constaut succession of banquots, which did not diffor matorially ono from the othor, whother they woro at Cronstadt, St. Po- torsburg, Moscow, or Novgorod, or whether thoy wore official or privato. All of them wore lavish in character, but a full description of one would Liave angwered evory purpoao aa woll as full do- seriptions of all of thom, At loast twenty bills- of-fare are given in dotail, and the speechos aro roported 8o fully that thoy would scom to have been taken down in short-hand, it thoy did not rond ag though Mr, Loubat bad written them out at his clegant leisure, Somae of thom abound in the most startling flights of oratory. At ovory bonquet woro exhibited portraits of Washington, Lincoln, and Johnson with such uniformity ns to induce tho heliof that, whon they had done sorvico at ono banquet, they wore duly gont off to tho noxt. DBands of music were presont at all the banquets. Tho musical pro- grammos showed a povorty of nativo composi- tion, but they mado up by an unusual supply of Amorican nationnl nirs. Itis snafo to eny thot ¢¢ Iail, Columbia | " was nover played as ofton in Americs, in tho samo leugth of time, nsit was in Russia during Mr. Fox's visit. There aro two romarkable foatures nbout a Russian banquot. Ouo is the zalusks,” or sort of pro- puratory appotizer, whick consists of vari- ous relishes, such as caviar, herring, olives, pickles, etc., and ag many kinds of strong drinks, brandy, kummoel, anisetto, and others, served boforo divner. Tho othor featuro is that of taking 1p the post-prandial orators bodily and tossing thom in tho air whon thoy makea particular happy hit in responso to a tonst. As Mr. Curtin, tho Secrotary.of the Amorican Loga- tion at 8t. Petersburg, mado his speeches in the Tuesian languagoe, ho mado & decided scnsation and recoived moro than his sharo of the tossing. This was, porhaps, tho ponalty for talking Rua- sian among o clnss of Russions who nlmost always talk Fronch, Wo judgo that Mr, Loubat hay ot ono timo beon connectod with a Court-journal, o stops to give all titlos at longth, and tracos out gonoalo- gics with such fastidious dotail that ho must bave hed the Almanach do Gotha or a ‘book of horsldry constantly at his side. Mo tells us too much about Mr. Fox and Mr. Fox's dolngs, and discouraea of thom in tho most un- ropublican style. It is now of Mr. Fox's gra. ciousnoss in distributing his photographs ; now of Mr, Fox's gullantry in dividing his bouquota among young ladios docked out in the Ameriean colors ; now of tho sensation which Mr., Fox cronted whorover lio wont ; now of the pensanta throwing down thoir coats for Mr, Fox to walk over ; and so on, Mr, Fox is pre-eminently a man of business with no nonsonso about him, and theso things,must bo distastoful to him, Much more valusblo and entortaining in. formation could haye been given in 100 pages than is to be found in these 450 pages, if the cbsequious padding had beon loft out, As it i5, tho volume still has genuino worth ag tho momorial of an excoptional mission, which both Russlans and Amoricons ought always tu* romember, apd tha publishiers havp presonted it Inan ologant and appropriate form, "o stool nugrn\‘ll;;(s of tho Emperor Aloxan- der, ths Hon. . V. Tox, the Miantonomah, Ohirlstion 1X, King of Doumark, Princess Dag- mar, Admiral Lossoysky, Admiral Crabhe, Drin- cous Olgn, the Tmpress Mario, tho Czaveviteh, the Grand Duko Constantine, Prince Gortcha koff, and the King of Swoden aro in tho highos atvla of odorn axt. I