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10 ° CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 3k, 1873. —_— e GERMANY. Some Extracts from Mr. Ful- ton’s Correspondence. Sights ot Munioh, Stuttgardt, and Hoidelborg: 4 Royal Palace---Tho Statno of Ilavnrié. =~=Boor-~-A Sunday in tho Capis tal of Wirtomhorg, Rovisiting the Fatherland--The Mar- riage-Question=--A Noted 0ld Castle, MUNIOIT, L~ Correspondence of the Bultimore Americany THE ROTAL PALAOE. Wo put off to our lnst day in Munich a visit to tho Royal Palaco, which wo found to bo & vory capacious ostablishment, full of rotton, faded, royal gilt and orimaon spleudor. Tho wallg aro ‘roecoed with war scenes and poaco scenes in the history of Bavarin. Wo passod through from forty to fitty apncious halls rnd rooms, consist- ing of ball-rooms, concert-rooms, and ohurchos, tho coilings of which woro fully thirty feet high, ‘panolod, und ornamonted with gilt and froscoos. War sconos figurod evorywhore, most of thom ecoming like n maes of horses, men, banners, enunon, and warlike accontroments, thrown to- gother in Inextricablo confusion, each warrior with eword, battlo-nx, or dagger, just about to plungo 1t into the bowels of his nest-door noighbor. Indecd, in most cases, if tho fight should have gono a8 it was in_ progresa whon thoe paintor caught o glimpes of tho scone, in a vory few momonts thors would have boen no ono left to toll the tale. ‘Thoro woro two large rooms, how- ovor, which contained a collection of paintings ‘of Bavarinn beanties, Old King Ludwig bad o possion for ordering & painting of overy vory bandsomo woman that ho met, and thero aro nbout sixty of as boautiful specimons of human« ity in theso $wo large balls as tho world can pro- duco, Tle two Laudsomest of tho collection ‘woro from tho lower strats, one of them being ‘tho wifo of & circus-ridor, and tho other & cob~ blurtu daughter, The famous Lola Montez, who bewitched the old King, had & placo hero once, but she has boen romoved, Tho throne-room is vory large and olegant, tho coiling being 40 fost high and pancled in gilt, whilst along the walls of the room aro eiationod atatues of tho eixtoen XKings of Bavaria, cast in bronzo and riclly gild~ ed. Tho present King in quito a fino-looking ¥ollow, but Lo keeps Limeolf hut up in his coun- &ry pnlaco, and will soldom Beo any one, Lo 18 Z;u];:v‘ a King by namo, as Bismarck is tho master g Javaria, and Lo is probably disgusted wil *ko omply baublo o holds by 'vxnfr'fgm. b TIE DAVABIA, This wonderfal statno, whick wo Tind only soen from o distanco, is #iill more wondorsilon a loso inspection. Wo drove out in tho cool of ho worning yestorday before tho enn had con~ contratod its rays on the burnished metal amd thoroughly oxplored it. A'winding iron stnir- xcado passes up through tho whito wmarble pedes< dni, nnd continnes on through the body of the statuo, tho whole number of ktepn boiug about 380, one-half of which aro through tho pedeatal sud tho balance through the {ntemnal portion of tho otatuo, Tho stairs aro narrow, ouly Inrgo onough for ono person 10 go wbreant, but until tho wiaint of tho figuro is reached tho banistor on wach sido is fully four feot from tho outer motal. A geutloman and lady had pagsed up bofore us, and when wo reached tho hend they wero scatod mdob{xmdc: ono of tho chooks, jeaving room onough for four more inside of tho capacious ‘hend. Wo lookod out of her eyos on Munich “and {ho monntaius, and also by btanding eroct, through o hole ubout ns Inrzo & a man's hand ‘ab the bmo of ber watorfall, or ¢wist of hair, To do this tho reador will ploaso to undorstand thet wo bad to stand oroct insido of the hend, and riso on tiptoo, It was too -hot at this enrly hour to remnin long, espacially =8 wo hoard gomo moro visitors coming up, and ~concinded to boat a hasty rotrost. Ab tho' foot of Bavaria a lion inuitting, and on tho insidoboth 1ho lion and tho dress of the fgure forms ono cavity. Tho appearanco of this statuo ns it is appronched ncross o broad meadow, with the argo,whito marblocotonnadoin tho rosr and sides ©f it, is that of n magnificently-formed giantoss, wnth her right arm extended ovor her head hold- ing o wreath. Tho idos that the figure ilsolf ia wixty faot bigh, from tho hool to the crown of tho 4hend, soome propostorous, and that it is poesiblo dor eix persous to entor tho cavity of tho honrd at ho eamo timo you fecl disposed to doubt, How- ‘ovan wo thoroughiy tosted t, aud altlough thora wero four of usin it at ono time, wo agsuro tho reader that thero was abundant room for two moro ordinarily-sized inortals to bo comfortably soated. It stands on the summit of the Lill, and wixty broad masblo steps have to bo mounted to xeach tholovel on which the pedestal and tho marblo tomplo stands, ‘Tho wrenth in the haud «of Bavaria i, therofore, nearly Lwo hundred foob abovo thoe level of tho surrounding country. BEER, 1t is difficult to pass & dey in Munioh without striking upon a new phago of tho heer question, and it 18 cqually diflicult to writo o lottor withoul tuking it asa text for ableast ono of the chap- ters, Thoro fs probably not o human boing, from tho infant in tho cradio to the old man or womun tottering to tho Emw' that doos not drink at lesst ono litre of boor per diom, which E o:tun\ to four full glauses, indepondent of tho droth, uch 08 is kold in tho beer-saloons of Bal- timore. Mot men and women drink two litres, end somo four, five, or six, and it must bo uns dorstood that esch lifre, independont of the Troth, roprosonts a full solid quart of beer. A'hiero aro, bosides the saloons and restaurations, Torty-throo Lellers or brewories, in Munich, ~whote tho pooplo assomblo a8 in mass meeting, and drink theso hugo lilres of beer, At theso places there are no waiters, m'ers\mdf being compelled to wash thoir litre and walt upon thomselves, + Lat the render imagluo forty-threo echuetzon- Tosts, similar to thoso wo somotimes have in Baltimore, el in daily progress, and some ides wau be formod of evoryday life in Munich, At thoso ellers oll olasses of peoplo, with their srives, doughicra, and sond, young men with i sweethonrts, and ohildron in arms, aro swong the visitors, It i part of tho daily food of overy one, nnd ia drank at tho brewerios and ardons beeauso itin always cold and frosh thoro, ‘At all of thoso places n barrel is emptied evory Jow minutes from sunriso to unnue? and stalo Yoor is consoquontly zn ImEassiblll‘y. Whon drank at home thoy sond their servants with thoir glagses Lo tho kellers, ond havo it always Frosh and good, Neither whisky, braudy, gin, nor any other in- toxicating liquor is known in Blunicli, DBrandy <o only Do Bad ab the apothacary shops on & physician's pregeription, ¢ brandy or whisky wat called for at nny of tha rostaurauts, thoro would bo 25 much surprise as if laudanum had been demanded, Beor iu part of_the daily food, and it is culled for and drauk with as much in- nocenco of auy iden of intoxicatfon, as if & cup of ton or coffeo was boivg pnrtaken. Bome- 4imes a man who bos drank too much beor will fall saleep, but intoxication i ontirely uuknown. T'he workingmeon drink o lifre of beer at dinner- time, and another at supper, but soldom go boyond this, oxeopt on Suuday, whon they have nothing clse to do, Boing accuslomod to Yt. tho effect on thom may produce drowsiness, but nover drunkonuens, ‘Wa wero callod upon last eveming by Prof. Rothmund, of Munich, who desired usto accom= Pany him toono of tho Zellers in_the wostorn soction of tho city, to soo Munichlifo as it reelly 38, Wo reached thore about 8 o'clock, and, al- though thero woro soats and lables for fully 2,000 porsons, it was with difliculty wo could find room in any part of tho grounds. It was in a Beotion of tho city whera the laboring pooplo ro- eido almont oxclusively, Nothing could be bad hers hut beor, brond, cheese, and radishes, snd all that vast mwss of pooplo were it to- gothor, with their wives and childron, partuking of thig simplo food, fo tho great majority of whom {b was their only supper, Wo remained until noarly 10 o'clock, at ‘hich timo the com- pany had thinned down nioro than one-half, and during tho two hours we heard not a_loud word spoken, nor anything esid at_one table so loud a4 to bo heard “at anothor, Everybody had to wait upon themselves, and wash thoir own mugs, and sometimes tho thirong ot the windows of the tap-roomn was five or six doop. Tho tablos wero olosoly packed together, ench beivg sbout six~ toon fool long, with plain wooden benchos of tho samo length, nniflmlmom Toft botweon thom £0 P in ax Qubs 1 tormixod togothor, and wo obsorvod at somo of tho tablon ruopln who boro nll the outer ovi donco of boing of the vory best clasu fn Munich, Thoro wore o numbor of cartiages waiting to talio homo partles who had como hero to apond tho ovening, Wo got Into conversation with & Gorman Iady at the tablo at which wo woroe st~ ting, who wo found could speale somo English. 8ho was both shoolted and surprised ot ono of tho Indios of our l)nrt{ rofusing to driuk beor, and laughed heartil E na gho eaw hor drinle ing water from a brown beor mug, which was tho only drinking vessel that wo could find, 8ho said thot sho and hor hushand mado & practico of visiting thia Xeller overy clonr ovoning, and that it was preoisoly ns wo found it, and oqually thronged. Tho “only quostion mquired a8 to o Flwu was 08 to tho quality of ila beor. Al woro norved alike and troated aliko, whother prince or peasant, or Iahorer or mondicant, and all were oxpected to ‘bolinvo themsolves nlike. 'I'oro wero no polico oflicara in attondanco, and nono woro roquired. Isoth this Indy snd her husband (ho proved to bo & olorgymnn and sho tho sistor of tho Chief Jua- tico of ‘Bavarin), mado many inquiries s to tho Door quostion it Amorica, both of thom porsiat- ing in regnrdlup boer as an osseutinl and necos- sary articlo of food. Thoyoontonded that it was alao healtby, much moro 8o than coffeo, and al- though thoy admitted that some porsons Injured themselyes by drinking too much of it, thoy per- gisted that thoy should bo classod among tho ‘:lultonn, who wore stfll more numerous, and njured thoir honlth by oating too much. To drink boer to porsons! injury thoy rogardod ap Jong and arduous undertaking, requiring so much timo and go much boor that fow evor suc- cooded in b | MATRIMONIAT, OUSTOME. It mny be an intoresting item of news to somo of your Iady rondors to notico tho faot that on evary ;Monday morning o lst of all the engage- monta for marriago that bave taken placo during the procoding weok are Iubllahed in tho moring E ors, Thoy proceed to stato that ¢ Jobn midt, son of Thomns and Mario Schmidt, has onterod Into o contract for marriago to Kathorino Von Jones, socond daughtor of Josof and Emile Jonos, and that all tho papors havo boon signod and approved by both contracting parties,” fl‘ow would our Indios like this {om:ufiity of procoed- ing, which virtually cuts thom off Trom all gon- tlomen's socloty oxcopt tho afflanced one? Ho is allowed only topond one ovnnlnin weck with her in cum}mny of father and mother until the ceremony i porformed; and how would our youthful Benodictn liko this, ospocially na thoy sro not expotad to give much timo to thoir lady {friouds after the publication of this formal au~ nouncement 2 BTUDYING ENGLIST, This lady, to whom wo havo allnded, assured us that sho liad boon studying English for two yoars, and added that * everybedy in Munich is studying English,” Thero wero 8o many En?- lish and’ Americans constantly visiting Munich, and g0 many students and othors permnnently residing hioro, that all gunplo in businese flud it to their advantage to have some knowledgo of tho langungo, whilst others were picking it up by comibg fn contact With Amorican snd Bnglish families. ~ English was algo boing taught in_tho gchools, A fow cvenings since, whilst taling anpgor at tho gardon of tho Maximilian Restau- rant, nmq?e family of Gormans wero sitting ot tho adjoini nE table, including eight grown per- sons and throo childron, The children woro plnyin‘; around the table, and, although the con- yersation among the olders wna entiroly in Ger- man, tho children played together in “Engliuh, and whenover tho mather addressed thom 1t was always in broken English, 'The childron would ocensionally come up and take o #ip of boor out of the father's or mother's glags, at tho same timo oxchauging kisoos, sud lip off to thoir play again, Frurraarpr, Correspondence of the Rallimore American, BUNDAY 1N BTDTTOARDT. Wo n&ont Sunday in this rejuvenated anciont city, nnd found it quite difforent from Sunday in Austria, This 18 a Protostant country, there boing but 10,000 Catholics in this city fo 90,000 Protestants, As usual, we started ont in soarch of fruit, but found everything closed up, aaif hermetically soaled. The markot-houso was not only empty, but closned and washed, so that yon could searcoly toll whother it was n market-hall or ball-room. Tho bells all ovor the city were announciog the Sabbath day, and tho pooplo ~wero out in their beat nttire for onrly morning worship. ‘I'ho boer-shops wers all closad, and ajl mannor of business suspended. A moresteld observauce of the day could ecarcely bo found in 0ld England, though'in tho_evening tho strict- noss was gomowhnt relaxed so far os all kinds of eating snd drivking wero concorned. Tho Deor of Stuttgardt is not Inviting, nnd tastes vory mnch a8 if it wore the rinsings of the dlunich brewers, 1t i not, theroloro, drank to any great extout, oxcopt by thoso who eannot afford wine, which is 8o cheap nud sbundant hore, In fact, wo aro gratefal to bo ablo to record tho fack that wa are again in a city whoro wator is used for some othor purpose than squirting it through fountains, Thero are plenty of fonutains horo, and tho wator is good and palatable, Wo recor it to tho houor of Btuttgards, that it 1s the only city on_tho Continont whora' drinking-cups aro suspended at the fountains, giving an oppor- tunity for man to lavo his thirst in passiug, without boing compoelled to lap up tho water like bruto. But Sundny in Stuttgardt inso anti-Continontal that we do not wondor thet it 1s becoming a fa- ~orito placo of zosidonco for both English and Americans. A large number of Amorican and English families havo located hero to educato their childron. At tho hotel table this morning, o number of those present wero using tho Xngliah language. On the coruers all over tho city postors were up with a ropresentation of tho American flag, under which wag a notice to Americans to attond tho Fourth of July colobra~ tion. At all tho hiotels tho waitera apeak English, a8 the clerks doin moat of tho atores, which fack please roport to Prosidont Grant, in proof of tho approaching millonnium of lauguage when all tho world will any ita prosers and eall for_its beer in good plain English. “Althongh wo liked tho op- portunity of returning sgainto good wator, and tinding tho English language spolton, wo folt o longing this morning for tho rich and luscious coffeo of Vienua, whore no one lmows how to mako bad coffes. Wo could stand tho bad beor of Stuttgardt by dolng without it, but wo geldom romember to hnve tested worso coffos, even when brewed in o huvin Banto Domiago, than wag placed boforo ug at the moat Mushionablo hotel in Stuttgardt this morning, VISITONS TO THE PATHERVAND. ‘Wo mot to-day in tho cars, on otir way to Btutt- ardf, a Gormai who has for wany yests residod b Californin, and who i8_now rolurning from visit to tho homo of his chiudhood. e had big youthful romembrances of its attractions, and the ioyrnl days when allseomod bright and boan- tiful, " For many yenpt he had longed for tho timo to come whon' L could rovisit tho Xathor- Jand. o oven imapmed that tho froits of Ger- many wore moro Icious and swoet than thosoe of Californin, and hed often bonstod that such was thocaso. Mo bsd flually come to spend afow months amid t10 scenes of s youll, aud_wns now roturning disgusted with nvnryflxln’f. Most of his old acquniutances woro oithor dead or gons to America, Many of thom had beon killod in battlo, Tho fruits which had tasted o sweet were inaipid 88 compared with the fruils of Cali- fornia, Nono of tho comforts of lifo wero known horo escopt to the titlod sud wenlthy, Ilotel life, m comparod with tho lotels of San Fran- ciico, was worse than living in a hovol at tho mizes. o had found it & constant struggle to rat anything fit to oat sinco he had lnudod af §ivornool. “Tho fablo Phofe bo rogacdod o burlesquo on good living. Ifa had found every- body Le camo in contact with planning some modo to awindlo him, or begging for monoy for sorvices that had not beoen rendorod, or for which ho had already paid. A moro thoroughly disgusted individual we bad nevor mot with, un- losd it wag Mr. Rastor, oditor of tho Chicaygo Blaats Zeitung, who is nlso on a visit to tho Fothorland, Whon wo lust mot him Lo was more in loyo with his adopted country thau evor, and longed for the comforts of his home. ‘This {a tho case with nearly nll the American Gor- mans whom we Liave met with. Thoy Lave beon thoroughly cured of thelr louging for home, and will roturn botter Amoricaus than 'ovor, Moy can no longor eo any pléasuro in tho glitt or ndmire tho or of m{nhy costly palacos aud mouments to the memory of dead” tyrants, whose whole glory comsiuted in loading to slaughter hocatombs of their country- mon to malntain kingly prorogatives or avengo porsonal griovancos. Tho young men of Lu- Topo, coopod up in barrpoks, and being marchod and drilled in tho scorching sun, that thoy may bo raady to Iny down thoir liven at tho bidding of their masters, aro to thom a sad sight, when thoy romember tho froedom of thelrown childron from military sorvico, It would do good tou gaod many of our naturalizod oitizons to pn{ a visit to tho Fatherland, Many of thom aro like tho grumbling husband who jungines that noth- ing tostes as 5{901! ay that which his mother coolkad, forgetting that hao then hed a youthiful appotito that swootouod Lis food and Lelped 4 digostion, TITE MADRIAGE QUESTION, Whilst driving around aud viowing the sighta of Btuttgardt yostorday altoruoon, s conversntion with the carriago-drivor wag thoroughly corrob- orative of o etafoment wado in o former lotter a8 to the diffieulty s poor man had to oncountor bofore ho could ges marrled in any of those Gor~ moun countries. 1t will be romotubored that as one of Lthe roasous for the grout disregard of the ‘olagaon of Rooplo hoxe = | WAIKiREe selation fu Austria, wo alated that mou and women woro drivon to livos of shamo by tho ohstructions of tho law to marringo. 'Uhat un- lesn n man conld provo to tho Mayor and Gouncil of {hio town in which ho was Dorn that ho was ablo to anj qorl n family, aud that his childron, it ho should liave any, would mob becomo n chargo on tho {own, no knrhml or clergyman wos allowed to marry him. It neoms that” this Imw provails throughout nll Germnn-sponking countrios, nnd is rigldly onforced, for tho pro- teotion of each othor from Ilmulmrlnm. Tho oarringe-driver inquired whothor “thoro was any Inw to provent a man from marrying in Amorics, and, on belng adsurod {hero wais not, procoodad to tato bis own cnse, 1lo wae & man but little under 40 yenrs of ago, of moro than ordinary in- telliganco, having all the appoarance of n sober, industrious, and honest man, o sald ho had been driving a carringo for o grent numher qf years horo in Btuttgardt, and had anyod sufliciont monoy to ounble him on tho doath of his omploy- er poven months sinco to purchago from his widow not ounly the earringe and horses which he waa driving, but the liconso and number, which it sooms is also o markolablo commodity. Boing now fully convinced in his own mind of boin ablo to support o wifo and family ho had applict to tho nauthoritics of Lis mativo town for s pormit, forwarding thom nlso proof of his "prosont '})rom(nlmf condition ; sov- oral montha had olapsed and no pormit had yot boon given, thongh Lo was not with- out. huno thiat rocont offorts which Lo had mado wonld be snccessful in procuring it. Dut unloss it was_given ho could not be Inwfully married. Ho might go on, ns wo rather oxpoct was tho cane, oud have s family without marringo, bub thoy would not, if llegitimnto, in caso of hia leaviug thom dentitute, becomo a chargo on lus pative town. Ie it auy wonder thnt the poor aro fleoing from puch n’ country, whero n mnnis born & slayo to milliary sorvice in tho prime of b lifo, end forbidden all the rights of manhood in his mnlurit’y ? This earriage-drivor hadispent the best portion of his lifo in militury servico. Thus it i8 that o man and woman living together without marringo in Austrin does not lower thom in tho ostimation of their noighbora, oven if they should chango thoir * mon” annually. We wero not prepared to find such_obstncles to marringe in this moro staid and solid portion of Gormany. Human nature revolts at such Inws, which aro unworthy of a civilized commuuity in auy part of tho world. NEIDELBERG, Correspondence of the Haltimore American. Looking up at tho castlo from tho east ond of Hoeidolberg, it appoars to haug directly over the town. From this point no concoption can ho formed of its oxtont, aa only tho front walls of tho maiu building and the towers are visible, but on reaching tho summit it fs found to oxtond ovor at least ton acros of Jand, fncluding o largo gorden without tho walls, which has boon ro- stored to Lho condition 1t was in when tho castlo was in all its glory and the homo of the rulors of tho Toman hmgh-u. On ontering the gardon, immodiatoly fo tho loft is scon tho Eliznbothan gale, built’ by Eleotor Fredorick tho Fifth, in 615, 08 tho insoription says, * 'l'o his donrly-be- lovad wife, Elizabeth of Iingland.” DBoth sides of tho gatewny represent four {runks of trocs, entwined with ivy, and above tho archway aro two fomalo figures holding cornucopiag, whilst the froizes of the arch ava docorated with tho lions of England and tho Palatino. This gote ia the ontranco to the Common Gardon, which et one timo was part of tho raraparts, but isnowa bonutiful grova of lime-treos, from which » splendid view of the town and tho for~ tilo valloy of tho Thine i8 obteined. Onthe north side of tho Common Garden are the wells of tho Thick Tower, n colossal Dbailding, which clogos iho north sid of the castle. It i8 90 feob in digmotor, in which was tho banquoting-hall, sufliclontly enpaciona to contaln 100 tables sud dino 400 guosts In the niches of the wall, | partly concealed by ivy, aro tho statuos of two of tho Electors, and n Lutin inscription giving tho history of the building. At tho destruction of tho castlo by the Frouch, in 1683, tho towor was blown \l[:, and ball of it fell in tho town, Tho English building, likowlso blown up st the gamo timo, adjoius the Thick Tower. Beyoud tho castle ditch 'is ~Ruport's Hall, Ru- dolpl's Duilding, and Rupert's Building, underneath all of which, ss woll ag tho gar- deus, are subterranean Ynusngea exiending to tho Jargo wateh-towor, and_ conmuuicating with other parts of tho fortifientions. Ineido of the gardons staud tho bridge-houso aud tho largo watch-tower, Over the gato to tho bridgestand tho atatues of two clumsy-looking squires. Ovor tho Gothice doorway to Ruport's Building are twe nngels bearing a wroath of roses, in the midst of which ia o ‘pniv: of hulf-open _compassoy, which aro supposed to bavo bad o Masonic siguifica- tlon, Iorther to tha lalt of ihwo entranco is o Btono tablot with the following Inscription ¢ +Ono thousand and four hundred years were conated whon Pulsgrave Ruportwas clected King of tho Roman Empire, and governed and inbab- ited this castle, which Palsgravo Louis rostored. o was over goy, aud in hig 44th year, tho year 1600, Yo departed thin life. May Jesus Christ koop themboth i hig blessed caro. Amon.” In this hall, which is in a tolorable state of preser- vution, n museum of antiquities found in tho vi- clnity of the castlaia exhibited. Under an ofigy of Ohristinn IL of Denmark, oxhibited horo, 18 tlie following inscription : “ Hiy ppouso of royal gncestry, Damo Doro- thon is hor nomo, born Priucess of Donmarl, Norway, und Swedon, throe miguty kingdoms.” Trom theso inscriptions it would soem that thoso old-fogy Kiugs thought mara of their wives than somo of thoir successors of the present day do. The Ruport building Dhas boon roofed, aud is now used for fastivitics of various kinda. The wmost richly decorated of theso old pala- cos within tho wulls of the castlo ia Froderick's Building, built in 1601. Itis of three stories, On the front, facing the court yard, uro fourrows of alatuce, sixtoon in all, soma of thow pactially dilapidnted during the various ware, and from tho conflagration of the costle, Ovor the door- wayis the following Inscription : * Frodoriclk, Count_Palatine of tho Rbine, Elector of the Holy Roman Ewpire, and Duko of Bavaria, cauted this_palaco to bo constructed for divino gorvico and commodious habitation, and orna- mentad it with utatues of his anceators, in the yoar of our Lord 1669.” ‘I'his building has beon also roofed, and in the second story if o picture-gallory and colleotion of antiquitics which particularly refor to tho his- tory of tha castlo, Connectod with this build- ing is tho balony of tho caatle, from which a fino view Is to be kad of the eurraunding couutry, Tho decorated vestibule lending to the balcony, with doric pillars aud vaulted roof, is very im- posiug. Wo next viewed tho mincs of the ar- seunl, which has becn partly restorod, and passed on to tho building which holds the groat fun or wino barrel of tho caatle, built in 1751, to ro- placo tho old ono which was built in 1694, but ad becomo decayod, 1t is 92 feot long, and from the middle of the barrol 23 feot high. It i bound with eightcon woodon boops, B8 inchios thicl and 15 inchos brond, In 1762 it was filled for tho first timo, holding oqual to 283,000 bot- tlos, but it is now ompty and unnsed, Near tho tunisa littlo statuo of Clemens Perko, iho court-fool, who, liko other fools, drank from fifteon to eighteen bottlen of slrong wino daily. Tho Oclagon Towors and Otbo Lonry's buildiug, the latlzr of which was the palace ~ of tho castlo, aro espocinlly intoroating. Tho court facade im decorated with mastorpiocos of statuary and sculp- ture, roprosontiug the figuros of men struggling with lions. Tho statucs on the front ars Joshus, Bamson, Hercules, David, Btrongth, Faith, Hope, Charity, Justice, Saturn, Mars, Yonus, Moratiry, Diana, Sol, and Juplfor. Oa tho gable-onds ‘ara elght modallion honds, ropro- senting distinguished Romans, Thoro is nothing spocinl about tho Lowin Duilding, tho Towoers, or tho Fountalus worthy of desciiption except to shiow tho oztont and porfection of this yast mouninin yuin, Ovor the door of the Fountain-house iy thiy curious in- seription ¢ “ New and vory wholesomo epring of Oharlos ‘Thoodore, tho father of his conutry, and of ILlizabeth' Augusts, tho mother of hor country, in alkio rooommondcd ag & now sourco of henltl.t As wo passod through the old ohiapel tho sound of a piang was distinctly heard, sud on inguir) ot our guide wo were informed thut au Euglisl family hind rontod a auito of rooms in that part of tha antlo for throo years, nnd wore oducnti tholr childron in lloidelborg. Wo also pusso high up on the mountain, fully 500 foot abuve tho eastle, a beautiful littlo villy, which, wo woro informed, was owned and ocoupiod by Dr, Bprague, an Amorican gontloman, Not Reanay to Dlos Tho followlng ls no fabrication of an frrovere ront seoular jourual, but from tho orthodox Momphis Presbylerian: *Trayoling in his bug- gy alone, not long ago, In golng toono of his uppointnicuts, ona of our good brothron in Lhe Proubytory of Memplis overtool o *foot-pad,’ with his carpot-bag iu Lia hand, ‘Cho rouds wore muddy, and ho was just ot tha time nbout entor- ing o miry bottom, With the politencss for which he is noted, ho nsked the pedestrisn (an entiro stranger) if Lo would not tako s soat in tho buggy until, at leant, thoy had crossed the mud and tho mire, Tho invitation was readily accepted, and the conversation for a timo wus 100 and oasy, sbout things ordinary and general, Prosontly, howover, the good brother, witha viow to make the conversation profitablo, asked tho stranger 1f hewas ready to dio? Not know- ing tho charagtor vt tho pordon who had invited 1im to n seat with him, nnd misapprohondin, s meaning and suspecting foul play, ho waito not to roply, but aprang from tho biggy immeo- dintoly, and ran for lifo throngh slush and wator. Tho eclorfcal brothor, wishing to_nssuro tho strangor that he meant no hnrm, caliod to him at tho 105:| of his voico to stop! But this only Dastoned bin spood, and, liko o soared hitro, ho ran until boyond hearing snd sight. In'his sty flight ho loft his oarpol-snck, which onr brothor now lna in" his possession, boing tho richor for his falthfulness by tho addition of o conrso Bhirl, o pair of throadbara trousors, and & 1ittlo * backer,'” HAWAIIAN FOLK-LORE. The Legeni of the Mortnl Wifo of ths Shark God—The Birth of tho Merman -—W:ly the Brooklets of Waimen RRun IReds Honolulu Correspondence of the San Francisco Alta, Your Honolulut correspondont haa boen mak- ing n tour of tho difforont lslands of tho Iawa- ilan group. Tho following i tho firat rosult of his nonrchings into Lhio Hawailan Foll-Lors : Iu the district of Waimen, Hawali, thero aro a | number of boautitnl brooklots that, having thoir Bources far up tho deoply-wooded glons, flow down over tho moro opon plaiug, and fnnlly, an thoy wandor omidst tho rocky ravines that scam tho slopes of tho mountains, loso thomselyos long ere thoy rosch the level of the son. Butwhon storm-clouds soitlo thickly on tho mountain's summit, thoe volumo of water in tho bods of thoso stronma {s swollen suddonly, and then, whoro ordinraly o cloarrill is scon winding through the rich mondows, & rapid stroam of & dnrk-rod tint, colored by tho decomposed vage- tablo matter with which it is charged, rushos noisily long, ovorflowing tho baunks whore it rung over tho plaing, and filling the rocky chasms down which it pours, until it at last rashes out upon tho sands of tho ron-shore, and minglos its turbid curront with tho salb waves. Far up on tho eide of the Kohals Rango thera lica o narrow gorgo whero stacp Bidos incloss n deop-sunk pool, into whosobluck dopthsnstream from tho wooded oliffs above finds its way. The walls of this opon eavo are hung with hoavy fos- toons of climbing plants, and tufted with groupa of forns and mossos of Boft moss, It is but eol- dom that tho mnllfiht finds ita way into the cool, deep rocous, and whore it doos fall it glenmes oo bright folingo, or dark fimy racks, with s shifting radiunce that adds much to tho Dbeauty of tho scene, Down the rough faco of tho precipitous crags that wall tho sides, thore trickle tiny stroaws, and dripping from o\umfis of mosn, or cozing thirough the crovices in tho rocks, aro thronds of cloar wator, _When tho rain follu hoavily thoso aro tinged with color from tho red, ochre-liko corth tfine compones the goil, and 'in sosking through thick bads of fallon leavos the moisture conrriod with it an ovsanguined lwe. Tho slen- dor rills that pour over the crag’s boobling odfia arolost in n fosming torrent, sud from tho dopths of tho pool into which it B\uny;cn Tiso clouds of mist that hang above the brink of tho chnem in o shadowy shnapo. Round this spot lingera tho following legond : figou ago, thoro dwell in this distriot n maiden who, when omongst the many lovely meidens of tho iale, was known ua *Tho Bosutiful” Mauy & young man sighed ns ho gazad upon hor, and gooretly wishod that sho would choose him asher loved one, But to all sho soemed indifferont, and looked gcornfully upon them all. In vain did hor frionds urge ber to choose whom she would bave o8 hor husband j lhier answor ever was : “Not amongst the yonng mon whor I soo around me can I find hint who will bo & filting mate formo! Nol_Ilooktoonoof our gody 1o tnlte mo to him. I would not wed o mortal ; I would bo tho mother of n now poople,” Ofton would sho wander forth whon tha Loavens glowod brightly over Mueuna Loz, and watch tho Jivid glare of light on tho derk clouds that ovorhung its lofty summit-crater, from which ascended the tall column of mingled flamo and molten lnva that told that Pole, tlo goddess of voleanoes, was holding high revel in Moku-n~ woo-woo, ©tho burning bill." Aud at such times sho would pray : “ Ol Polo! send mo a son of thino, in whogo fiory ombrace I can be en- folded. Lot taa ho liko thae, tho motbor of fire- oda!” " Or whon, at times, sho wandored tosomo lofty penk, and looked down on the emooth waters of tho Tay of Ku-wai-he, sho would oxclaim : Oll that tho groat shark-god would but take mo to Tivo with him in the bluo waters 1" Tinally, tho goddess Pole, hearing her wild wish, snd scoing with what scorn sho looked upon tho young men, rorolved that she would graut hor desire, and to thig end sho visited the groat slark-god. # f'q warn himn of her comiug, sho lit up flercoly tho gloomy dopths of Kilmucs, and, gathoring there tho flory torrout whoso' wild Waves woro hor couraers, she burst hor way through the rugged side of Huala-lai, and on tho DLlood-red molten atrenm she rodo Londlong to tho sca, and, plungingin, the rolling billows of liquid Java mot tho angry surf of tho ocean, aud, midst the wild turmail, she spolke thus to tho grent ghark-god: * I come, oh Akua Mano, to speak to you of her, who, d\volhnfi on the plaivs of Waiames, bocause the gods of births have medo Ler fairer than hor follow-mortal sisters, daros to pray that sho may bo o mother of o god. ghu cries to me, and usksmo fora gon of mine to bo her husband, not thinking 1f 1 gave bor evon tho smallest and youngest of thom all, Piholo Ike, Lo would ornsl hor iu his deop bogom. To you, thon, do I give this maiden, As sho comes to bathioin theeo waters, ou can 8eizo upon her, and do what you will, {ul do not take hor life. Lot hor bo & mother of a god, and lot her be immortal. Wo will grant her prayer, but we will punish her prosump- tion." ‘Bo'spake Pelo, and then, amidst tho clouds of steam and lurid smoko, and tho wild vaav of tho raging eend, sho fled back to her home in Kilauea. Not many duys pasded by before * Tho Deau~ tiful ® saw, while sho snt upon a bootling cliff {hat ovorhung the ses, n strange and boautiful form—clad, 8 it soomed to Lior, in a robo of sil- vory whitanoss, round which gloamed o sappliro liglilrise frow the dopths into wbich sho gazod, end as 1t roso it ssomoed to beckon to ner, Ea- gorly sho looked, and thon a voice ravg in_her cars: ¢ Ol Boautiful, come down tomo. Iam tho Alkun Mano, and bavo Loard thy prayor. Bpring down, thon, into thoss cove dopths, and tlion shalt bo tho mother of & god. ‘Lhou wilt nat dio, for thosa whom the gods tako to their homes livo on forovor, Come, maiden, ‘tis tho gront eharkegod who calls thoo!" Tho mnidon henrd the voico, and, in & whirl of flerco oxcitemont, with tho uilvnxz' gleam of tho Whito shark's glistoning skin duzzling hor oyos, sho spravg from off the rock and disippoared benonth tho waved, Tiorce- 1y tho sbark-god seized her, and, dragging her down to the deop caverns where io mndo his homo, laid her on o mau of soawooed, und, by s power, kopt back er _olbing lifo that etrove to strugglo back to the uppor world, Thera Lo watched bor mnany hours ; thero ho toyod with hor innnimate form, and then, summoning to him tho horrid cullle-fish, bade him, with bis long sinowy arma, crowded with rows of suckets, carry her buolt to the surfuco und loayo Lor on 1ho Warm sands, Tho maidan, boneath tho raysof tho tropic sun, soon recovorod consclousness, and in w short timo sho opened her oyos again upon tho familiar world. With returning lifo, thero cumo s drendful Luowlodgo of the sconca through which sho hiad so lately passod. Bhio know her wish had beon fulblled, and ib was with o heart flllcd with tremor that she again sought hor 010, Timo passed on, and tho maldons who were hor companious bogan to polnt with Jaughtor at her, “Iio youug mon, tao, nekod cach other, “Who u it that ‘Tho, Bnblll'lhll' hns loved?™ and nono could say **Uis L At lnut abo iled, aud, sook- {ng out an ancient orone, who lived n norceross, in o gloomy cave, alono and shuunod by al, sho gavo birth to a child, half vharlk, half man, ‘Tho old hag gazed in terror on the hidcona thing and fled, eorcaming. o mothor, shud- doriug, lay Lel {)luus, whilo the foarful oroatuve, im’S: ke, oruwlod ovor Lior weak hody, aud olung with its vongh jaws to ber breast, filuuy days elupsed, and then the molher °found lor way to the beotling cif from which the shark-gad had allured hor, and onst into tho Doiling surt bolow her ehild, Wildly tho eren- turo_dashed about amidat tho foaw, aud {hen, guining tho shoro, rxn Bwiftly on and sprung again upoun its niofhor's breast aa sho fled, "fhen sho know sho could not kil tho horrid hing, sud, whon she would lave died heruclf, sho found sho was fmmortal. Hurrying back inta thoe deep foros, sho found tho dark glon we have epolten of, and initsubmost depthysho ovor aftor hid her offapring. Binoo that Lime sho wandors to and fro around {the mountain's top, hidin the vaporous massoy that cling around tha sumuit. And still, whon storms lowor, she hears the babbling cry of her ohild, and tiion the mothor, inher strongly-stirred owmotion, floats down tho mountain's sldes in hor mist, and, sliding {nto tho doop gorge, nursaa bor foul offapring. And ovon as ho boizos on her breast, his sharp tosth wound hor, and her blood, mingling with the wator, tingos it doop red, Aud 6o wo hoar the nativos asy, sbtho whito wreath banga above thp gxotto. and tho swollen torront ruslios darkly Whioa birili, uwol : “Al! mow ‘Tho Bonutiful® in nurainj hor shark-ohikl, and Lo toars hor with lis cruol tooth and malos tho wator bloody.” SARATOGA. EN Porking’ Tulo of Lovoe nnd Xope. Ta the Kditor af the New York Graphie: I writo & porsonal lottor to-day. This morning, I mot tho most disconsolato young man I over saw. Lig namo is Mason, He i from Now York. Io lina boon in Baratoga all summor. o Lian soomed to know overy young Indy at tho 8pn, oud Lins beon an immonse {avor- ito with all of them. ITohas also stood & good chanco with the dashing young ladies from Chi~ ongo, tho flpsy-flopsy girls from Ol Clty. e hne danced moro, sat on the bnel balcony longor, and in closor proximity to beautiful young ladies, and walked ovor to tho Gravoyard with moro rich and aristocratio girla from tho Clarondon, tuao any boau in Saratoga, And still this young man camo to mo yostordny al- :,nasz ii.mnfl»ln'olmn. Hia eyo bad tho look of onpair. “DI an discouraged and pick of lifo,” ho sald ; #1 want to dle.” ““Whet—you / you want to leave this festive acono, Robort 2" I snid, taking off my glasyos and looking Lim sixaight in the faco. “*Yea, Uncle Eli, I am tirod of lifo," hio sighed, in o hoarse whisper, I cnamo.to Baratoge with atheory. I belioved in that theory ns I belioved in my lifo. I worked for it day and night. I chorisbed it, practiced it, and worshiped it, only to soo its uttor failure—only to work ouk my own ruination by ir." . “What was your thoory, Robort ?” I seked. *“Waa it to bot” continunlly on the aco—to wager lorgo sumas on tho snmo card, hoping and be- lioving it would eomo tima win oud make you rich 2 Wag it—" ‘“0, no: nothing of the kind, It waa a social thoory, Eli. _You know I have blood and family and good looks, My pet thoory was to como to Boratoga and marry e rich girl ‘with o bad cough —with tho consumption.” *¢ And you bavo finally hecomo engaged to tho objoct of your affeotion, then, Robert " I asked, ‘becoming deoply intorostod in this good young man, “ No, alr, aleal Ok, nol My thoory has failad. 1 have been unfortunato, Tho first young ludy I mot was from Chicsgo—Miss Johnson, = Blie was swoot, and O | so affactionato, and bad just tbo cough to suit mo. A low, hacking cough, Tt was fairly molodions; snd I know it would Pprove fatal to tho objoct of my affection in a ant; but, alaa!” and thon Lo buricd his faco in is hand, ““What, Robort ?" I asked. **Alas! inn fatal motnent I learnod that sho bad no money to go with it Sho was poor, but &uch o Jovely cough. Just tho ono I had 86 long and vajoly soarcliad for.” © What thon ?” *Why, thon I mot tho rich Miss Lilly Thomps son, of Hadieon syenvo, lio Was very rich, Bho woro laces aud dismonds and s now dress atovery hop. Sho just suiled me, Bhe wag just tho girl I had been looking for, with just ‘ona excoption.” *0\7hnt was that, Robert " * €10 doar, thoro was no cough to go with it. Bhe was all hoalth and monoy. Thore had novor boon any consumption in tho family—just my Iuck!"—ond thon he buried his face in his handa agaio, and wapt fong snd bittarly, “A;fi; n, EL,"” ho bogan, drawing oloser, “ono npfiy day I'met tho vory abject of my af- fection—tho patagon I had Doen searching for for years. Slie was rich aud dolionto. 8ho had {‘uat tho congh, tho fatal consumptive cough, I nd fanciod in my dreams and eighod for in my wn!duf; hours, Two lhuudreld thousaud in hor own right, aud yet 8o frail and dolicato—so near death’s welcome door "—aud Robert's faca shone with o joyous light as lo detcried tho frail, rich object of his affcctions. ** And still you aro not happy, mydenr friond,” I romurkod as ho brushed the ashiéa of hik cigar ;pxl;"my boot. “#Can itho that sho refused o *0, no! alng, sho accoptod mo. L took hor §"‘°’ jowelod hand in mive, I pinced upon it & 1,000 eolitaire, Sho wna too frail to speak loud. 8o coughed aud only whisperod her love, while, overcome with emotion, hor languid oyes suffused with tears. 1 was too happy to lve. But, O dear! Bli, Iwasborn to bo (lisn - pointed. Fato ruthlessly plucked the lovoly Prize from out my grasp, I'nto —" ‘¢ But bow, Robert 2" L agked. Woll, in an evil momeunt my Lily began to arink tho wator hore, Not the mineral, but tho ure water from the villago bydrant. If eho ad stuck to Comgress wator I would be happy 10 ; but ono fatal dny sho drank some hydrant water. 8ho felt bottor. Tlhen she dranl moro —then moro, till at Inst sho usod to driuk ten gluuuen syory morning. Thon her appotite camo ack, Bho bogan to grow stout. Hor cough wont away, hor_cheokn grow red, and _my bosu- tiful, frail Lily became & Imnlthhll, ruddy holy- hock., 8ho took to bowlivg, then riding on horeeback, and this moming— O denr! X can- not tell you.” “ Go phend, Robort, {ell mo all,” I urged, con- fidontially, * Woell, this morning, Mr. Perkins, sho—my frail .Ldy—nurlml her Snratogs trunk down two fllfihw of utairs just foran excuse. Then she nsked mo to walk threo miles over to tho lako, and whon we got there, Oh, doar! sho ato ham, and woodcock, and potatoos, and almost an ontire biack bass, weighing threo pounds, snd whon Mrs. Myers ssked lor if sho wouldn't have another, sho #aid no, who ‘ was afraid it would tako away hor ufipuuto for dinner,” Aud hore I am engaged fo bLer, with no prospeot_shoad but just (o wpond my wholo lifo marketing and epending that $200,000 for hor, and I to get only my victuals and clothos.” ‘And then Robort Mason leaned heavily forward on his bands, whilo the tears trickled through Dis fingors and patfered down on his white duck p&ntnlgonn—fl wrotchod, heart-brokon, and ruin- od 11y —_— RETRGSPECTION. I noto this morning how the sunshine falleth, Just as it fell ono morning l"’"f B30, A white dove walka tho window-ledge, soft coolng Tho waters murmur {u their obb und flow, ‘Tho aspen whispera to tho autumn-breozeay 1 seo tho goldon-rod on slopiug Lills ; T catch th odor of (o brawn ouven d5ing, And hoar tho babblo of the shrunken rillv, Tilslon o sama notos of cllldeen's lauglter, Similing to thinks how Into T wat o chfld,— ALinppy €1f, with choels of atin-Klssed crimson, Aud eurls of tawny gold, wind-tossed nnd wild, The very winds stir momories with thoir waills “Wlio very clowls that dot 1l azuro wky § The helforropu within my window blouming Even the awallows swittly skimming by, On o doad oal that lifls ita Joafless branchos, A ravon sifa and crouks with frotful tono, Litke some old Prophuet who with mystis lore forescos T'ho evil that Lo coes with eob and moan, A eendc of pain, half-hidden, half-defined, Stira In my Leart, an unborn babe of sorrow, fcotnw and wnssked, with wall hinlt ushiek in u darker, sadder mortow, Ana T slinll meot it ns T met tho day flurnrlcd, With pride nnbending and an iron will That Lolds woe steadfanst n tho path T clm!cI but hated, Yo, Lating, lovo, and, loving, loathe it atfil, 1 6eo and hoar ; Tlmow T am not droamiing ; ‘And stitl, somohow, T eannot mulko it scor Bu that T sleop, and beo wnd hear things dinly, As one docs often 1 u troubled dreati, Ah, woll 1 what matter, stnco 50 60on ot all Gur struggles and onr dreziuw will have un ending, Aud our trod bearls and bradus ahall rest for aye In that blewt Land to wiieh our feot are tending. GanNET B, FRLENAN, —_— @ho Smaii Boy ok tho Period, L'rom the Stockten (Cal) Gazette, Whero thio rond butweon Morood and’ Snelling crosnos the Morcad River that stronm iy about two hundrod yards in width, and ovon st this sonason of tho yoar, whon tho wator is quito low, it looks like n dangerous and deop ntroam to cross, Last Thursday, u patont-medicino ngont, trayoling on Lorscback through thatb wootion, cawo to the rivor and hesitated aboub attompt- ing to ford itas ho saw tho wide oxpanso of rushing wators, Thoro is no bridgo anywhere along thero, #o aftor somo indocision hio conelu~ dod fo nwlui his horwo acrons, Bpying a boy, fln]bhlg ina smwll punt- tiod to the bank, he Bald: *¢11ntlo, bub!™ + Mollo, yournolt, " “Can 1 got you to tako my olotlics across the ivor in your bont 2" + 1 rokin you kin, if you've got any soap.” + Al zighit, 1 glve yon o qunrtor to tako avor my nluE!JoH and this oarpet-gack to tho opposite shore, ‘I'o thiy the boy nodded nesent, tho strangor disrobed, turned over tho carpot-ssck aud hun- bilimonts to the juvenile, who paddied out into tho strown, and mounted his horso, proparad to wwim tho rjvorand onjoy tho lnxury of & bath. With o_splash at overy movement, tho horse stopped into tho stream, and walliod aoross— tho water was nowhore more than eightven inchus doop | To way that that medicino msn, rumhm\ on the buok of his horse, was a man of niquity for tho spaca of half an lour wonld hardly do justico to the ocension, Thore weroe onough * dams " along the Morood that R{tor- noou to supply & hundred mill-altes, CELEBRATED HOAXES. How Antiquaries Have Been Vies timized, Tho Bornors Stroct Hoax, and Others of Thog. dora Hook’s Practlcal Jokes, From Clanibera’ Journal, Thore ling at all times boen a prouencss, mora or lesa doveloped, for indulgonce in tho practieal Jokes or deccptions called honxes; sometimos through self-Interested motives, but more usual- 1y epringing from o love of fun with n bitof malico init, Antiquarios have froquently boen victimized in this way, by tho fabrication of artl cles purporting to bo intorosting ne TELICH OF TPAST TIMES. Tho roaders of Sir Walter Beott's ¢ Antiquary" will romombor tho motal yossel inseribed with tho lettors A*D*L-Le,which Monkbarns intorprot- od tomean ¥ Agricola dicavitlthens lubens ;"' but which Edio Ochiltreo boldly pronounced to be, 4 Alkin Drom's lang ladle.” This wae o sup- posed instanco of honest misconstruction by s loarncd man, whoso zenl traveled n littlo too fast, duo to Scott's imagination; but thero was & roal instanco in tho ease of Vallancoy, an Irish antiquary, who found n sculptured stono on tho hill of Tars, and engraved tho six lottors of ita inacription in a costly worl which ho published ; ho made out theso to mean, * To Belus, God of Firo;" but thoy proved to bo simply somo of the Iottors in tho nowmo of sn Irlsbman, who, lying down lazily on tho atone, incisod them witha knifo or clivol In 1736, & wit, aided by oo ongraver, cut on o flst stone poveral words which woro really an epitaph ¢ ¢ Denonth this stono roposoth Cland Closter, tripe-scllor of Impington, as doth his consort Jano;” but the soventy-sevon letters woro so skillfully divided into spparont words, syllables, and abbroviations, ay to look oxnctly liko » Latin inscriptiou relating to the Emperor Claudius. For a long timo the stono deceivod antiquaries, Gough, tho celobrated archrologist, saw ata curiosily-shop a slab of atono juscribed in n ouri- ous way, bought if, bnd it doscribed boforo tho Bocioty of Antiquaries, aud engraved for tho @entleman's Magazine, It purported to bo: # fToro Hardcnut drank o wine-horn dry, stared abont him, and died.” The shopkeopor stated that the stone hnd beon discovered in Kenning- ton Lune, whero the Palaco of Mardenut or Hardleanuto in puppened to have been eitunted. I'he whole affair proved to Lo s hoax. Goorgo Bleovens, having o grudgo against Gough, pro- cured a fragment of a chimnoy slab, seratched on inscription on it in radely-formed lotters, and got o curiosity-deslor so to mausge that Gough slionld see and buy tho stoue, Italy is wonderfully fortile in £ "' MODERN ANTIQUES,” articles made to imitate anciont productions, and sold ut o high prico to unwary art-counoissours, i, in Lis costly worlc on Vases (* Vasi , Biag o most absurd engraving of & vaso, on which is dopicted au_nrchivologist, running after I'amo; the Iady hos her thumb to hor-uono, exactly in tho way Inown to boys as ** takiog o sight,” whilo threo ongrnved Greok words repras sont her as seying : ¢ Be off, my fino follow 1" No such vago oxisted; s loax had beon porpe- trated by o rival counojesour, which Inghicami did not discover voon enougl to cancol hiy en- groving. "I'horo {8 no searcity of instances, at the pres- ont day, and in our 0wl couniry, of tho manu- facturc of antiquos,—moro for profitablo decop- tion than mero waggory. Romon vessels and coins nro every yoar coming to light which the Romans nover snw, and flint instruments which corlainly wore not fabriceted iu Lho Stono Poriod. Numismntiats and coin-collectors know, to their ‘cost somotimes, what rogues can do in ono par- ticular part of fraudulont Losxing. A vory old silyer cuin is worll, in tho nntiquarian mayket, many (imes its woight in puro silver, or even puro gold; and honco thoro is & strong’ tompla- tion to manufacturo MODERN ANTIQUE COINS, yrqflucqu; at tho cost of n fow shillings that which will bring many pounds. Ilhiora ia ronson to supeet tuat ovon in old timos; Buch sophis- tications woro practived ; for;Roman_ coins bave ocensionally beon dug up, in which tho good spocimons are found to be mixed with athors ovidently plated, aud others, again, as ovidently wushed “with silver. The Greok islands aro known at tho prescnt day to sboltor meu who mnke falso dios of ancient coiny, 08 proliminary to tho manufacturo of now specimens 80 dootor ed »9 to paes for old. Tho trade i a lucrative ono. A corlain ongrayer of thess surroptitious dies i8 aaid to hiave nottod two or three thousand pounds from tho pockets of English tourists alono, who bought tho countorfeits at high pricos, under tho botiof in thoir gonuino antiqio character. The dios were roally woll ongraved, and tho coing put out of hand in clover style. That England oxorcisos this art as well a8 Greoco, i quite certuin, LITEBARY HOAXER bhave boen 8o numoroud, that oven o mero list of them would bo out of tho question, There have been many like that which Madamo do Geulis spoke of, Tho Duc do Linn- court was on intimute torms with tho Abbo De- lille; both wero at Spa; and on ono partioular morning the Abbo was dcquy chagrined ot o hoax whiol (unknown to him) his friond had rnrpelutml. "I'he Dus wroto some couplets on ho foto-day of Madame In Duchesse d'Orleans, rogular in structuro, but most insane aud in- sipid; Lo placed the nkmo of the Abbo Dolillo beneath them, caused tha verses to be printed in a few copies of n newspapor printed in another town, and contrived that ono of thoso copica shiould ronch tho Abbo, whoso voxation was in- touso. Newrly porallel to this is the nchiovo- ment of an Anorican NOWApAPOE & fOW YEArs 6go, in which somo wretohed veracs werc printed, and ageribed to tho pon of tho eminont poct William Cullen Dryaut; theso woro copiad in many other papors, aud canie to tho astonished oyos of Bryant himeelf, When tho oditor was somo timo aftorwards agked for an oxplanation, e boldly avowed that his purposo was to estub- lish tho fact that, no matter how atrocious an of- Tusion might bo, thonamo of & poet who bad es- tublishod & roputation would mako 1t truo poctry in tho oyes of & largo majority of pootry readers. "' hoaxes whicl have no connection oilhor with antiquitica or with litoraturo aro not casily grouped into classes ; nor, in fact, 8 it worth whilo to do so, Lot us tuke A TEW AT RANDOM, At Liverpool, in 1807, bills wore placarded all rbout the town, mlumumhlfiflml, at1o'clock upon & particular doy, a splondid model of a_ ninoty- oiglit-guy man-of-war, built on Lord Stanlope’s plun, ind magnificontly docorated, would ronch Chisonhall Btreot Bridge by csual 'from Wison 3 with 6 band on dook to play *' Rulo Britaunia,” which was to 1o sung by the colebrated Madanio Catulani 3 am(n\muumu\lg sdorued burge was to precedo the modet, contaiuing I'olito's Liippo- polamus (one of the' show-sighls of that dey). I'ho peoplo attanded in tong of thousands nlong the banks and on the bridges of tho canal nent- Iy all tho way to Wigan, Tho dally paswengors bargo arviveid at tiie ennlomary honr ; cnd not unlil then wa it known that (he publie Lad beon honxed, SLortly boforo this date, whon tho dreaded- Bonaparta wan balf oxpeeted Lo invado England, tho guict dwellers on the south const 0 in conatant terros, imagining all sorts of dreadful things consequent on the arrivad of the French. Tlora livod at Chichostor, nut fur from tho const, u family connlsting of un cldorly gontioman, bis wife, aind daughtor, Somo Cuntebs gob up & lioax to the effcet that ho ouly really #nfo pinco in Lngland was at Cambridgo 3 tho family re- moved thithor, end kottled down unear Lrinity Collogo s un improguable etation, In 1812, n report was extensivoly sprend nbonb that u grand military roview wonld ba held on Wimbledon Commoi, As muny ay twonby thous snnd pooplo assemblud, who nourod fn from ull quarters on foot, on horsebacl, and in eavriages, ‘Tho lueal nuthioritios, sceing this throng of oople, aud knowlng at once that it donoted o 1onx, eaused porsous Lo bo pinced on the yondy of approsoh to disabuso tho minds of tho sight= hoorn s bub this whs of no availi the ruior won bolioved, not the contyndiction. Whon, liowover, the dsy wow on without (ko appearance of auy military l)ngom\t, tha pop- uliwe grow augry, thon mischiovous § mivbups ocenrred, and tho Cowmon was #ob on five, 1lerenpon messengors wore sonl quiskly ta Lon- don, und & detuchmont of fuot-gusrds” marched down to remain o whilo on tho” Commcn until the doluded peopla nd departed. Ono of tho most anuoying hoaxes ovor record- od wan that whish, sbout sixty years ago, wad kuown in London ad TiLls UERNEDA BTREET MOAX, It drow tho attontion of Lho newspnpers % the timo; thon of tho magazines aud tho Aanual Regiter ; many yoars aftorwards (in counciion Svith a blograpliicul notico of tho houxer), ol the Quarterly Review ; and moro rocontly, if wo ro- mowbor rightly, of tho * Ingoldsb; Logondy," Boruora stroot s a aulet elroot of Lotels, wid shops with private-looking windowa; in A T W sl moro. gtk Inbabied e oty familios living in n gonteol way, Ono morning, goon after brewkfast, n wagon-lond of conls drow up boforo_ tho door of n widow Indy in that streot, and soon aflorwards o van-lond of furnituro 3 thon camo a hiearso witha coflin, and o train of mourning-conches, Prosontly ar- rived two fashionable physicians, o dontist, and an aecouchour, driving up a8 nosr an thoy could to the door, and wondering wh{ 80 many limber- ing veblolon wero so nonr at hand., Bixmon brought n groat chinmbor-organ ; o conch-maker, o clocl-maker, o cnrpnt-mnmfnamror and o wing-merchant gent spocimens of thofr goods ; o brewer brought soveral barrols of alo; curiosi ty-donlors brought sundry kuickinacks, A pianoe forto, linon, jowelry, wigh and hoaddrossos, acacte ond of potaioes, Liooks, prints, conjuring tricks, fonthors, fcas, jollios, wore smong tho things Lrought to (or at lonst uonrg tho houso; whila mantun-maliers eame with haskots of mhllnory‘ aud fancy articlos, and opticinng with tolercopes. "I'hen, afler o timo, troopod fn from all quartore, conchimen, foatmon, cooks, honso-malds, nurso- ry-maids, and othor sorvauts, como in. quost of sltuations, 'To crown all, porsous of distinction came in tholr_carriagoi—iho Commondor-ine Chiat, tho A.\'chb]n].\oE of Cantorbury, o Cabinot~ Ministor, the Lord Chiof-Justico, the Qoyornor of tho Bank of Eng’lqnlld. the Clairman of Dircctors of iho Lost Indla Compony, an_ emineut Parlinmentary ‘fluhuthm- pist, 1ltuul " the Lord ]\Inyo{‘. Tho Inste naoned functionary—ono amoug those who - {ly saw that all \m{l beun & spou VIOTISNZED BY A GIGANTIO HOAX— drovo to Munrlborough Straet Polico Offico, and told tho sitting magistrato that Lo had roceived o Jotter from & lady in Bornora streot, to tho effcot that sho had boon summoned to attend at tho Mansion-Tiouso, that sho wae wxtremely ill, {hat sho wished to make u deposition upon onth, and thet ehe would deem it » grent favor f his Lordship would call upon her. All tho othor orgons of eminence Liod had their commisorne ion appenled to in o somowhat similar way. Polico-ofticers (thero were no policemon in thosg dnyu? were sout to keep order in Bornors streot, witich was noarly cholcod with volilolos, jammod and Interlocked one with anothor; the’ drivers were irritated, the disnppointed tradesmen were oxagperated, and o large crowd enjoyed tho muolicjous fun, Somo of the vans and goods were ovorturned aud broken ; while a fow easks of olo becomo a proy to ‘tho fo]mlm:n. All through the day, wntll Inle ot night, did this exiraordiunry stato of thiugs = cou- tinue, to tho forror and dismay of the poor Indy and tho other inmates of the ouso, Evory ono found directly that it was & hoax ; but tho namoof tho honxer wasnot known till long afterwards. This, it appearcd, wag TIEODONE HOOK, ono of tho most inyotorate puustors and jokers of the dny. Ho had noticed the vory quiot char- actor of Bornors streot, and the namo of Mrs, ——on n brass plate onono of tho doors ; ho laid o wager with - brothor-wag who sccompn- niod him, that ho would make that particular houso tho tallk of tho whole town. And he as- suredly did it. ITo devotedithreo or four days to writing lotters in tho namo of Mry, — to tradosmen of all kindu, professional men, distine guished pnrsounfios, and sorvants out of placo ; all conched ina Iady-like stylo, and requestiug tho porsons addrossed Lo come to Bornors stroet on the appointed dny, for reasons specially stat- ol Hook took a_furnithed lodging just oppo- sito tho hiouso, aud thers posted himsolf with two or thrao compnnions on the day in question, to oujoy tho sceno. it deomod it expediont, how- ovor, to go off quicklyinto tho country, and thoro to romain incog. for atimo; if Lo bad boon ublicly known a8 the author of the onx, it 18 probable (hat Lo would Lavo fared badly. 3 ‘Tho_ moidonts in the lifo of ook cnm|pnsu mauy in which that unserupulous man played tho part of hoaxer, Ono of his vieliws wue ROMED COATLS, n man about town in tho days of the Rogency— & beau, su amatour actor, who delighted in riding through tho atreots in tho West tind fua bodizoned piuk cont of oxtraordinary shupo. Ouo doy this individual recoived an inyitation to s magnificont enterteinmont given by the Princa Rogent at Carlton House. Ilo was almost crazy witl %0}' at the lionor; drogsed and adorned bimsel( to tho highest atfuinablo piteh, and drovo in his fancirul chariot to Oarlion Ilouso. Mo card of invitation passod him safoly through 21l tho onter portals and corridors; but whon o privato necrotary or chamnborlain at longth seru- | tinized it, ho pronounced it to bo n forgery. In vain gid poor Romco Contes protest that he know nothing of any forgery or hoax; he was turned back; and as his oquipage Lad driven awsy, he had to pick his way to tho mear~ ot~ hocknoy-coach stand. It turnod ouk that Thoodoro Hoole hnd clovorly imi- tated tho iuvitation card, ono vritably specimon _of which ho ' had contrived to ohtain the loun of for a few howrs. On another occasion, ho associatod as o companion in s honx THE ELDER MATHEWS, tho comodian, a man full of wit and frolio, but withal much more kindly and cousidorato than Hoolk. One day Hook sud Dathews Look arow up tho river to Richmond, Pussing & woll-trim= mod lnwn ot Barnos, they noticed an inseriptions board storuly forbidding avy straugers to land on the lawn.” This was enough for Hook, Tying tho boat fo o treo, ho avd Mathews landed, tok- ing with them fishing-rods and lines. Ilook acied ns & land-surveyor, Mathews as Lis clork. Thoy pacod slowly to sud fro along the lawn, protonding to messure with tho fshing-rods ag measuring snd leveling-stafls, and the flshing- lines ag yard snd rood-moasures. Prosontly, a parlor-window opencd, and out walked tho océu- punt of tho villa,—a well-to-do slderaan. In ;;nmt wrath, ho demanded what tho two intor- lopors wera about. Ilook coolly but courteously told him that a now canal was to bo cut directly across the lawn, sud that accurate measure- ments were nocessary to detormine tho oxsch direction which it should teke. Partly in rago, portly in_dospair, tho aldorman invited them in to *talk it over”; & sumptuous dinpor ond tho best of wines wero just romlfi; and the aldorman endeavored to porsuade tho survoyor thut another lino for tho canal might Do oaily obtined_without touching his law at all. Mool nnd Mathows revealed tho hoax be- foro taking thoir doparture, and monagad to talk lim into o hearty laugh about il—rondered all tho mora easy by tho fact that the dreaded canal was only amyth, and that Lo had ontortaived two such ominent men us Mr. Hook sud Nr. Mathows. Many of our distinguished actors havo boony groat lovers of practicnl horxes—not ouly come- dians aud farceurs, but tragio actors, who aro popularly supposed to bo always iu o passion of rago, jenlousy, rovengo, and so forth. YOUNG, THE THAGEDIAN, for instanco, wus once driving inugig witha friond in tho outnkirts of London ; b pulled up at u turnpike-gate, noticad the uamo of the toil- colleolor writion up over the door, and politely {old tho gate-woma that bo particularly wished to sco M on & mattor of importance. Feol- ing improissed with tho emphatic statoment, shio sont lnstily for her imsband iho toll-collector, Who was working in a noighboring field. o bustlod on o clean coat, nud prosouted himsolf. Young suid: “I paid for a tickat at tho last guto, o hg 451 thiak it would freo mo through this] s T wish to bo scrupulously oxnot, wili Tou Lind= 1y toll mo whethor such is the caso ?" Why, of Courgo {tial” **Can I thon pnss through with= out paying ?” Tho toll-colloctor's furthor ropty, and his vituperation whon the travelers complie contly passed on, need not Lo hero transcribod. s S WOMAN'S WORK. fho venrlk of wornan {8 peaco, i8 poscss 8ha lias no nublor vork (0'lo= Mut'u woes 0 500tho, nan’s wenl 1noroaes) Lt ler that nublest work pursuo, Thio work of womnan Ia peaco, {8 peacol At home, abroad, and everywhers Where bllss sbotuds, whors discords coige, “ho place of wowan 18 thore, i there I Tho path 1a stony, tho taskis hard Tht al worth gaining by toll 4 gitned, Thae wark {uelf 15 {ts own roward, And well begun is half attalued, ‘Phied onward, woman | your missfon's grast, Our raes fvom boudaga to Foleasu— From bouds of envy, spite, snd hato; Tho work of womis ia peace, {4 peace | —uir John Jiowring. Dublous Gratitudo, Thero is nothing like porspicuity when one wiahes to thank peoplo, Au instanco of this we fiud [n the Dallas (‘Tox.) Jlerald of Juno 21,1874, inthe form of **A Cnrd," which reads as fols lows ¢ I wish to roturn my thanks to the mouy cltizons of Dallnsg for the noble and offcctive oftorts to anve my houso, sud all I had left to mo from the Inta fire, from the bnrnini( flames on Friday "lfmx for nothing but thoir timolyup- pearance and manly enorgy snved my homo from ashon § and I do ask and liope that all good citl~ zena will assist mo lo forret out thy hearlless scoundrels, Jour OwEeNH,' A Now Loy, A new toy has just boen introdnced and wiill surely bucomo yory popular, It is & wai doll In & erib, the doll” boing dressed in nighl clothios and & duluty lace cap. Ly somo maokiaue fsm tho doll baby at cortain intorvals, after bos lu;i wound up, 11[(3 ihso(llr up lumfile“::m 'E:ofl ont jts amus, sud distinotly ¢ 3 Yo invoutor {hiaks “no taully sliould bo wite quf ouo,"