Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 7, 1873, Page 6

TIE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, I874. 3 LONG BRANCH, Talk «ith ‘d-Man Who' Oarried 'tho .. News of Not Turner's In- Burreotion, Tho Great Racors of Our Conntry : Sir [ Arclyy, American Eelipse, Fashion, Loxington, Kentucky, Ete. The Great Trotters : Dutchman, Trusteo, Lady Suffolk, Tacony, Ethan Allen, Flora Tomple, Dexter; Gold~ smith Maid, Etc, From Our Own Corresnondent, ' Lowa Dnaxan, Ang, 20, 1873, Thero {8 alittlo knot of them-—all horse-folks— sitting outside tho stablea at Movmouth Park. Thoro §u McDanlel, quiot and observant, eaying littlo. Theroe is MeGrath, thick-set, offish, po- culiar, an if ho wonld rather not, but might, if allowod to have bis own way. Thero is T'racy, tall, blooded-looking, ss it ho had horse-blood n him, and could taik only with a stammor, and would much rathor neigh., ‘There aro a good many more, from all parta: Mobilo, Oharloston, the Jorsoys, and all tho stock-farms. DBut Ihear &n old man with a rod noro sy : I rode from Richmond to Washington in lit- tlo above ton hours, with the nows of NAT TUBNER'® REDELLION " “Why, how old mny yoube ?" - #Well, that was in 1831, and I was no chicken thon." We expross & desire to hear all about it. It aooma o long whilo ago, - Thoy any his namo la Allison Nailor.” “Well,” he sald, *Nat Turner broke out in August, 1881, away down in Soutbampton Coun- by, The wholo black population was supposod to bo ready for o risc-up. The Governor and folks wanted & man to go to Washington City with dispatces, and X made the contract. I waa to got §300, and forfoit it if I didn’t make it in tho required time. Nobody would ride with mo. The scarewan univorsal, and Ihad a littlo of iton mo, too. I had authority to make use of horsos— private property—on the way, and had only two colts myself, I loft Richmond about 8 o'clock in tho ovoning, aud changed six timos on the road. That night my stablo was sot on fito by somcbody in Richmond, but Iwent along, gullop and fast trot, and changoed first at Hano- vor, _Fifty-five peoplo had boon ‘murdorad; how muny more wo did not know. It grow black as pitels after that, and I seomed to meot more no- groos than T over saw bofore. At Judge —'s, on the streams of tho Matiapony, I broke in his olublo-doors, hnrdly ablo to seo, and took out his Lot colt. Then it was gailop aud splash, and tho roads and the woods worso than each other, till I touchod atBowling Green, There, you sep, T was with tho nows of Nat Turner's rising, thirty-four yoars before Wilkes Dooth wes esenping to” tho samo_ town. Short of Trodoricksburg I ohanged again, and took a horyo as I crossed tho bridge at Fal- mouth. Peoplo wondered & little, but we had a good doal of wild pouting in those days, and it was the dend of night, You probably know what the Northarn Neck is,—mud to’ devour man and beast ; but, crooping elonfiin tho flolds and wood-patehos, rally and spar all tha while, T wea thrown nigh Dumfrics, and thought I-had lout my colt and Lroken my back. Wo wera up aguin in o minute, fording the streams ; and at Colchester I took my last horso, nbout 3 o'clock. Thon it was into Lohick Orook and over tho Accotink, and I bogan to feel I was oo~ ing my money when I passed the woods and fires at Mt, Yernon. Light struck mo at Alexandria, and Xsawtbat I wassafe. I forgot to eay that ot oue place I met o los of negroos in tho rond, who haollooed, and I thought my time had come 3 but I wout down a high bank, and gropod along in tho thicket like & Lear, soldom losing my pace. It was o good 9300 to mo, oqual to $1,600 in thowe times. “And now, sir, do you want to know whnt Ithink of this yer freein' of all tueso niggors?" OLD-IACKTETS, “ No, Wo'd razher hoar you on the horse- question 1" = “Oll I run opposition hacks’ and stages long nfter that. I've driven from Washington to Baltimore many a time over slush roads, 86 wiles in two hours. We trotted the hills and galloped the lovels, Six Lorsos, and & man Foudy with every Liorse iu each relay to_pull uut in & jiffy. Wo chonged at Bladensburg, at Rossbing, at Vanville, and ot Patuxont. and three times more, It was cues and ciacs tho whip all tho whilo, Yes, sir; and, afler thoy started tho steam-cars, I ran my hacks in oppo-~ sition to 'em for several wooks, Wo made tho old stoam-horso sweat, Btaging made the best Lhorses for rond-usca in this country,” ON AMERICAN STOOK, It is queor Low accidental causes make com- merce. Concord stages and Vermout stago- horses ate, in part, tho outgrowth of the great stago ond courier system of Bixty yoars ago. The trotting horse in America {8 of no dis- tinctive breed or family, or mode of getting, though the blood engraftod upon our composita stoclk often appears in signal victorios of strongth and onduranco, Tho roads, tho supo- rior trotting-traivers, the good driving on all sides, tho docility aud bottom of. our ‘stock, and tho omployment of the best partially-bred Lorsea ag trottors, have given us the hest driving ani- mmals in the world. The Vermont borse s said 10 be n combination of the Yorkshiro Clevelsnd bay, the Londun dray-horeo, which is of Flom- jsli origin, and the Buffolk Punch, whioch in of Norman stollion aund Suffolk . cart-horso origin,—tho whole touched with ‘Cauadian aud o littlo thoroughbred, ~ Aud the go-callod Morgan stock .owos its uame to Justin Morgan, who was a horso of somo bloud aud a good deal of obscurity, raisad by & siuging-mastor aud school-teacher,—a sort of Ichabod Crane of Vermont, Ho has desconded to fame in o controversy betweon Lord Pedigreo and Buily Boltom, and “in_tho trottor Lthau Al- Ion, winch maue o mile in 2:86 at 4 yoars old, and got down to 3:328¢, "Tlio Coneatog horse is thought to b of Han- ovoriun or Flomish cart-hore stock mixed wih Tondon drzy, and intonod by ome of tho Liaif- brod country sires which stood ne long ngo s 1776 in the villago betweon tue Busquehanua and Behuylkill, : ‘Tho Canadian borso is traced to o oross of tho Bpaniard with tho Norman war-lorse, aud tho Indiau pony to tho Southorn Mustang,'and the ¥mallost typo of tho Canadian. On the Bpanish aud French blood mixzed, our frontier cavalry lag generally mounted,—the bout slock in the world for long, dry marchies. &Tho firnt stock In the Wast was tht of Ohio, iich took ita blood from Maryland and Virginia, and its framo from Penusylvania, The best Lorses In the Btata wera long found in the Jorsoy soltloment of Warron County, while tho Connoc- ticut Rosorvo had the poorest. In 1825 the firat imported horse and tho firat track woro brought into the Btato, In 1840 the tallion Boll Foundor enlivened the breed thers, and Morgan Tiger, in 1847, furthor rofreshed it. About 1844 the Logia- “1ature intorfored with raeiug, aud tho tracks wont down, But in 1870 Ohio had alroady $00,000 Joruos, and they wora valued nt 283,000,000, DITORTEL BLOOD. We go in ignorauco of much that s tho source of our public wealth, How fow are awara of tho oxtont of tho dircot imporiations of bloodedliorses into Amepjen Thoia have heon upwards of 460 imported thoroughbrad stallions branght from England to Amniics, beforo andsince_iho Ravor Jutiouary War, up to the year 1872, Even more mares have beon imported, and, in one case, 34 out of 30 diod upon cho stoamslp. I may pick up from these old patrons of tho turf some noten on this aud kindred gubjects which will bo of running intorest. BI% ANCHY waa tho first groat racor and parent of blooded ‘stock in America, our veritable Godolphin Ara- bian, the son of imported Dismond. Ho way fonled in 1806 on Jumes River,—u rich bay, 16 hauds bigh, who beat all the best horses of his day, and then raived a munerous and nrmucmts«: fainily, including the best of John Randolph's horscs, o both Virginia and tho Carolinas, 44 1o lins dona as much for the turf atock of this conntry as the (odolphin Arabun, King Herod, or Highlyer for thut of Grent Dritain.’ f MEBSENGEN was imported to New York in 1780 ; racors and wereproduced by him of equalsuperior- ;‘g‘?’hgzuw-n l[:!l'fly homoylnd 8 years old when Lo cama to America, and Y10 lived to be 28 years i, Hin pire wau Mambrino, and bis dams ran baek to a barb mare, Mcasougor's grundson was tho great Amorioan Eolipse, LEAMINGTON, TThis celebrated fsher 0f Longfeliow and Lite tloton was foalod In 185, tha son of Fanglen- llnlln;ih, nnd‘ aftor racing in Lugland, way im- ortad to Lhiladelphin, o brought noarly 4,000 -in--gold whion gold wan up in a balloon, sud hnd then won &15,000 in gold on tho turf, RYADYK'A MAMILETONIAN, This notablo brooder, the reat-grandson of imported Meesenger, wan lmqud In Now York Hinto in 1840, and lins boon the progenitor of tho Deat -trotting -horaes In the-world.: Ho hing liad gmn) 1,700 wivon and 1,240 ehildron,—smanpnt he latter are Dextor aud Goorga Wilkos,—and he {8 the giandfather of Goldwnnth Maid, 1lo nottod his owner £200,000, aud was bought for 8125 whon & colt. AMERIOAN EOLIPSE ron-the first groat nationsl, wo might say sec- tions! raco, in this couitry; for (¢ Intenmified tho upirit of pocket and horne-talk rivalry bo- twoon tho Bouth aud the North, s father was Durog, the half-brothor of 8ir Archy, and ho was, therofore, out of the beet imported wtock of both noctions—Diomed and Mossongor. Aftor racing from 1818 to 1822, whon sbout to be withdrawn from tho ‘turf,—bolng now 8 years old and full of family,—he was oliallouged, for his unrivalod Northern roputation, by the ownor of Bir Charlos, for 10,000, four-milo Loata, Thoy mot at Washington, Nov. 40, 1822, and Bir Charlos paid forfoit, and then raun a single milo hont for 1,600, and was boaten. Tho ovening of thin raeo, which collootod tho Inrgost srowd over soon in tho country previously, tho Virgin- joun challenged Eclipse again, to name their g; T¢0 on tho duy of tho race, and to run for 0,000, ~Thoy appearal with ‘Honry, o 4-year old Sir Archy colt, May 37, 1628, ou tho Union Courso, Long Island. ~ Bixty thousand persous woro prosont, The winning of tho first heat by (cnr{ lod the rash Southorners to give odds, and thoy lost $200,000 in oash, for which many & nogro was gold off to tho wugar-flclds. Honry wau & dark sorrol, pony-built, raised at Halifax, N. G. Eclipso was olso dark sorrel, heavior and moro i;nwnrlu] carr ‘"f]' 120 ponnda to Honry's 108, Boye rodo both horaew In tho first hont, Eclipao at tho pole, and tho Inttor was cut ¢l the blood ran. At tho socond heat, o man mounted Eolipso, nnd passed Honry on tho fourth milo, —tho track filled with peoplo, and tho excite- mout* of disbolism in thoir fear and yella. Al tho roprosentativo - part of the country was preseut, Congross includ- ed. Ienry won the - first ‘hoat of four milon b{ » lougth, in 7:373¢ ; Eclipae the second Dy two longths, in 7:49. And, although Arthur ‘l'aylor, n grest trainor, monnted Heury for tho third heat, Lo morely ‘trailod, and Eclipto was whipped through in 8:24. Total, twelvo milos in 23:501¢. Tho Virgininus_challonged again, in thoir rago, for 820,000 to £50,000, but the owhors of Eclipua rapliod that thioy would " nover again, on any consideration, risk the life and reputation of tho ncblo animal who had gained for tho North such a signal victory.” Eclipao lived like & lord ‘of the harem ss lato a0 1847, and died in Kentuoky, sgod 83 yenrs, Hin renown i8 as_imporishablo as nuy political Administration wo have had. Tho noxt horse of famo In this country waa ANEL daughter of Amorican Eclipgo aforesaid, foaled in 1842 on Loug lslaud, She 1un fifty-suvon racos, or 845 miles, aud won fifty-two of them, as woll ay 26,000, oxclusive of-bets, Lnor- mous sums of mmm[: wero wagored for aud ngainst hor in tho South, aud sho was purchased thore iu 1825, Ariol's raco with Betsy Runsom, in 1829, at Poughkeopsio, way nearly as oxeiting: as tho.match between Iiclipse. and Houry. I'wico bonten alcondy by Ransum, sho lost the first hieat, won the secoud by n neok; and ensily won tho third, To gotto this race, the ciano gray maro traveled byland 400 miles, Time, 763, 7:62, B:01. - * “The noxt gront raco was BLACK MARIA, also daughter of American’ Eolipso, out of ir Archy, dam Lady Lightfoot, whoso progeny probably yiclded more monoy than auy Ameri-. can mare's. Black Maria was born in 1826, Bho ran five fonr-mils beats in 1832 in 8:06, 7:05, 8:13, 8:39, 8:47, All tho horsea wero used up for months, In 1833 sho ran a third three-mile heat in'6:48, and & fivat beat in 5:42, Blio alsorau o third milo in the courso of & heat in 1:50. 8he won in "all tlurtcon out of twonty-tive 1acos, all throo and four-mile hoats, and was the most enduring maro on our turf,. Her colt hoad- od tue lint 11 18560 for o Produce Stako of $145,000,—twonty-mne ontrios, the largest purso ovor put on a race. i WAGNER AND GREY EAGLE wore noxt notable 1 point of tiywe,—the former & graudsou of Sir Archy.” Dercribing their races ot Louigyille, William T, Porter is ssid to have written ‘“the flucst specimen of turf-writing in the English langunge.” Wagnor, o Louisiaua. horso, won tho_1aco of two fonr-mile heats in T:48 and T:44. In. o fov days thoy ran again for $10,000, four-mile heats, Grey Eaglo broke down and died ; Wagnor won by hatd running in T:51 and 7: BOSTON, Sir Archy's grandaon, trained by Arthur Taylor, aud ridden by Gilpatrick,—a chestuut horse with white stockings,—wns foaled at Richmoud in 1833, and brouglit 812,000in 1839. He won forty out of forty-five races, thirty of which were four~ mile Leats, and won 51,200, In 1843, at the sge of 9, Boston rau Fashion, a Jor- soy G-yoar-old, who had distanced . him tho rovious yoar, for 820,000 a side, four-milo heats, 'Ifty to seventy thuusnudugeonlu 8aw the race on Long Island, and such a sight had nover boen wituessed since Eclipse beat Henry,—nor over sinco in America. Tho resson was the enmo: . Boston ropresented tho Houth and Fashion the North, and the Soutnern horse had boan poked at tho North for somo time. Ton dollars was the fllicn of admission to the privil- ogod spaco, ‘Thonsauds of ruffana carried the fences, and had to bo driven out by Yankee Sul- livan and otuor omployed prizo-fightors. Bus- ton was tho favorite, woun the izuside pluce, aud lost the first heaton the fourth mile, Fashion winning in 7:32¢. Tho noxt heat Fashion won also jo 7:46, - Tuecy nover mot again, and Boston bocamo a great stallion. Wo now comoe to the groatest horse America hos probably had, both as racor and sire, LEXINGTON, born at Loxington, Ky., 1849, died In 1878,—tho son of Buston, a biood bay, blind in litor yoars, Ho ran from 1858 to 1836, and, for the rost of bis days, marriod and was glven in marriago, s great adversary was Lecomto, o Louisiaua horse, aleo by Doston out of a Gloncoo mato Lecowmte won the second race in tho thon un- equalea timo of 7:26, 7:38%. Lexiugton then beat Locomta's tima for a $20,000 stako in 7:198¢, and beat Locomte in o raco us well, in 7:2887, by four lougths, Lecomlo waa taken to ZEngland by Mr, Ten Brocck, and died of colic in 1857, Ho ran a milo in 1:47{, Lexington wonin ol six races out of toven, Aud £56,000 in money. ARROW, PRYOR, GLENCOE, AND ASTEROID, We may skip Arrow, also & son of Bustan, who bont Lecomto, and was alio used to prompt Loxingtou to his spoed to boat Lecomte's timo ; and Pryor we shall skip also, who beat Lecomta and challenged tho English turf; and we shall morely touch at Asteroid, a Loxington colt out of a Gloncoo mare, Glohcoo waw an importod racing stallion, who had won six races out of cightin England in 1834, and sired thoro tho pacer Pocoliontas, whose Cimo of 2:17 to wagon, carrying 266 pounde, and beating Horo, is unex- ampled, Gloucoo was used on tho stock-farm {rom 1887 to 1857, aud died at the ago, of 27. ‘Tho most invaluablo brocder wo have had, As- torold, the ‘graudson of Glencoe, tho eon of Lexington, never lost a_raco out of twolve, was ratod n4 40,000, challenged Kentucky, and broke down before the race in 1866, XENTUCKY, for whom August Bolmant gave §40,000 in ‘1808, would noy bo 12 years old, tho #on of Lexing- ton by & Gloucoe maro, 1le won 36,000, aud twonty-two out of twonty-four races, in four seasoifs. o alao ran tho fastost two-and-n- quarter milos on record, in 4:013, TROTTING IN ANERICA was first colebrated by & prize of £1,000 in 1818, Tn 1826, logal and authorized trotting first bogan at Jamnios, L, I, Trotting-parks then sproad abrond, and our first gront trottor was Topgalfant who mado bis two milos in 5:19 in 1631, and wonk three miles to snddlo in 8:06, Scrowdrivor was his compotitor, and Lo made three miles in 8:03 to anddle, enrlyas 1832, ‘Tlho noxt notablq trotter was Dutchman, who brought time down to 282, went two miles in 5:09, und s socond milein 2:28, Ho trotted thico ml]ofla in T:923¢,—the bost ever done,—as oarly &y 1890, - 1n 1848, Ripton trotted 20 miles in 50:35%4. In 1850, & rond-mare, Kate, made 100 miles ons track in 9 hours 4957 mtutes, 2 Latly Butrolk, bred on Long Island, first rid- den by IJirpm Woodruff, brought milo-time down to 2:2634, and the third milo to 2:27; wade two miles to naddlo In 4:69, threo miles in 7:1034, and four miles in 11:15. Flourlshed betwoon 1841-'48, . Noxt, Tacony, an ugly roan, won olgm{-elght racos out of 101, and $45,000. Broughi mile- time down to 2:26%6. Yoar, 1853, In 1848 Trustos trottod-20 miles in 60:353¢, Ethau Allan won 47,700, and twouty out of thirty-ix races, beginning about 1853, In 1851 Pocaliontas out-puced Cbristendom, Flora Tomple—toalod jn 1816 in Central New York, went at livery, and sald as u flve-yoars- old for &176—brought time on the third trotting milo down to 3118%¢ Iu 1860, and made a last balf-milo in 1;113g at New York, Bhe had nine, foals, won - nluety-three racon out of 111, and won $118,000, Noxt Doxter, the winnor of 1ifty-ouo out of vixty-ulx zacos, winu $07,000, solla for $5,000, and makes s milo in 2; tho year 1807, --\ v .. Lo Qoldumitls Mald wins 200,000 and ‘thir gutof BfLy-ouo racas, up Lo.1871, - BUll wins for ‘Wall stroot. 173, in PEDDY-—WIOA . Buch fan un]lnr ovor. tho past contury-and-a~ nartor of Amoriean improved stock, Results ; tho faxtest trolting in the listory of tho hovse ; tho fantest paciug ; running not nforior to Ing- Inud the best blood of Earope in our Atook 3 aid closo to 8,000,000 of Lorkos in tho country, worth, probably, one billion of ollars, And stlll our omancipated evlorod brothar in heard to oxelaim s * WVhat {s oll dls Frendom woith without a mulo? " Gatn, RATS AND RAT-CATCHING. A Rnt in ¢ Tenrs,’ Xrom the Balttinors American, Ina small two-story frame honso on Cross stroot, near Johuron, thero lives a man named Jnmes Reody, a professionnl rat-catchor, and tho only ono in the city. Mr. Roedy I & bright- looking Englishman, about 45 yoars of age, aud he hna pursuod his prosont ealling for twentiy- oight yoars—tho laet nino years being spent in this clty, whero ho says ho has mot with groat fuccoss in his busincss, On boing quostionod 88 to tho manuor in which ho destroyed raty, Lo statod somo very curlous faots. Aftor showing the roportor a varied colleotion of Inglish birds, noticoablo among which was o tame jackdasy, who kopt up an incessnnt croakiug during the whole intorviow, as if anxious to relato somo very intoresting story, Mr. Roedy stopped into tho Iarge yard that surrounds tho dwolling, for tho purpose of oxhibiting his principal auxille- rios {1} tho aunililation of rats, namely, tho for- rots, Theso animals are from twolva to fiftoon inchies in longth, with bright, sparkling oyos, with & slondor body that can pass wherever & rat can, Thoir bodios are coverad with dark fur, in color noarly approaching s brindle, Thoy aro vorfeotly dooile, but "thoir quick, wiry mova- ment remind one vory much of the common Amorican wongol. Mr. Reedy has twelve for~ Tota, all of which hio has imported from England, ot & cost of 225 to €50, according to their training. Tho oldest sud best cost $50, and was bought on tho Epsom Downs, last summer, b Mr. Reedy. This ferrot Iy tha ouly ono that wifl obey the call of its owner, the otliors not being propetly trained. It takes six mouths or ovor to tra a young forret o it can bo used in tho busi- ness, Tho forrois ave lmrl in close, warm hutch- en, and fod twice cnch day with raw ment and milk, oxcept when thoir ownor intouds using them, then thoy are not allowed food for twolve hours bofora thoy are put to work hunting rats, After louving tho forrot-hutches and oxamining a coop containing & number of beautiful Alé’ino rate, wilh fur g white ox suow, and bright plak eyes, Wo arnived at a long row dog-kengols, tho inhabitants of which all rushed out to the full longth of their chains, and grected us with a perfectly deafoning chorus of Lowle, thero boing seventoen of thoso avimals in and about tho kennols. With tho exaeption of - fine pair of surly-looking bull-torriors, the whole colleation conmistod of Scotch eud EnFHuh black and ton torriors, Theso doga are all fed throe times-a doy, and havo comfortablo. bodding placed in Lennols every ovening. Bir.. Roody snys that whon ho receives an order from somo on to 1id their plncos of rats, Lo charges thom from 95 to 810, according to the maguituda of tho undortaking, aud then binds bimself to not only mako tho placo perfectly rat-proof, but also to keep it In that condition” for ono year. He thon takes two of his beat black-aud-tan toriiers, -aud an old sky torrier named * Blop.” *Blop's " personal appearanco is most misorablo, as, in nd- dition to_boing minus ono eys, aud the largor portion of his caudal appendage, his whole hoad and body i covered with huudreds of sears and ‘wounds, recefvod in Dbattle with the -fierce ro- dents that be tales such a delight in slaying. Yot, notwithatanding **Blop's™ wrotchod por- sonnl apperance, his romaiiing oyo sparklos with viny, his bead is_cocked knowingly on ono #ido, and his diminutive remnant of a_tail vi« bratos with joy whouover the magic word * rat " is mentioned.” With thoso three dogs, six for- roly, aud & boy_armod ‘with a-long-pieco of fine flshing-not, Ready ropaira to tho vormine ofilictod Louso. ‘Phe principal holos aro fifst stopped up with Drick sud tin, ouly two being lefc open; into ouo of theso tho forrats nra put, and they at onco bogin their search, Roody thon leaves the boy and two_dogs to watch tho holes, whilo himsolf and *Blop " axplore ove room in tho building, On entoring a room, Biop emells carefully over the floor, and- around the wainycotiug, and if thero is no mts thero, the roum is loit, and men and dog pass on to ane othior; but if thore shonld bo rats secroted bo- tween the floors or in the walls, “Blop™ makes their rroflmmo known by whining and shaking hin dilap:dated tail in o fearfully agitated mun< nor. Reedy immediately knocks on the floor, and gives o peculiur whistlo, and a forrot ia tlore in & moment, and the rat has decamped almost a8 soon. Thoy aro in_this way driven from ouo room to auotber, and finally come ont of tho bololeft ufiun. aud bocomelng entangled in tho meshos of the net that bas beon placed aoross tho miadlo of the' room, they are speedly killed by tho boy and the dogs. - Tho ferrote aro then taken out and fed, whilo the old holes are covered securely with tin, Reedy claims that although thero may bo dozens of rut holos in & bouso, thero i nlways ono holo the rats use in going out for water, and this holo 'in elwaya tho ono beforo which tho net i Hiram Woodruff rode in Amorics ns,| plscad, Ho aluo statos that thore aro nevor as auy Jate in a houno as paoplo supposo, and that it 16 vory seldom ho fiuds moro than twonty-five in ono dwalling. Alter moking his first visit, and killing all tho rate, Le roturus onco evory month and oxamincs tho premises, in case othors may huvo eertlod during Lis absonco. Ho aiatos that no rat can hido from s forret, and at tho appronch of thot animal_they will immo- diatoly hunt other quaricrs. Bovoral wooks aro Do visited a houso on Mudigon aveno, and while at work the forrot startod u largo rat, which ran the wholo length of tho houso, between tho floors, and on coming out of the apan holo it got fast, ' oud could hot escapo, and that ho watchod [ts fruitless - attompts to get through tho holo in which it was oaught, aud floally whon the ferret camo dushing along in its pursult, aud tho rac realizod tho hopeless condition, Reedy asnerts that soveral largo tears atartod out'of tho rat's eyen, and ran down over its checkel Thiu story i corrob- orated by the boy who accompauiod him on his rnt-unv:hiuli expeditions, and vouches for tho ral lears, 3r, Rocdy statos that bo Ands abun- dauce of work in_Lis line, botli in tho city aud in tho country, whera ho 'doos graat earvice by ridding the farmers’ barna and gruin-sheds of vernun, He also romoves rats from shipa and othor vossels, but bo statos that in the lattor cusos tho rata will tako refugo in tho bilgo-water in tho hold, and tho forrots having au avorsion to wator, canuot bo mado to follaw them, and In consoquonce of this fact, it is rathorup-hill work, Ho s, howover, nt work on new patent trap, which he thinks will bo gaporior to nuylhiuf: of thokind hovotofore invoutod, and, whon this s comploted, ho bopes to bo sble to cleanso a phip of its vermin iu a night, and with this trap, aud bis strong relnforcoment of for- rols mud ogy, hin power ovor vais will bo fully 88 gront as tho fabled “Plod Piper, of Hamlin,” — 5 American Drinks at the Vienna Ex« habition, Tho special correspondent of the London Daily Teiegraph ab. Vionus, writing on Au R aftor & weok of vory hot weather, says : (Lo American bars, throo in number, drove o roaring trado. ‘Cho Austrinus have taken. to cobblors gud juleps with & heartinoss bordering on enthu- siswm, although theso noctarion compowads being somowbat sxpensive, the native consumer soldom goos 1n_for & whols drink all to himolf ; aud thoro aro fow quaintor eights in tho big | building, crowdod nw it I8 with cxtraordinary ob- octs, lhnn throe Leavily-beardod and spectaclod lennoup gitting round s emall marble-topped table, on which stands one ambor-colored sher- ry-cnbblot, thelr three straws plunged into its cool dopthis, thelr threo heads in closo proximity, thoir powars of suction utrainod to top prausura, lost any oue of tho throo should get the botier of his co-investors in tho beverage Lo the oxtont of half a teaspoouful, Under the influence of thin virtuous emulation, tho cobblor vanishes lko the card of o conjurer's - trick, aftor whicl cach compotitor imbibes s Luge drauglt of cold water, for which there 1 no charge, and pockota his wtraw, Tho straws are Immonsely populur hero. I have soon porsons of both sexos suck- ing up beer, coffoo, and *plain soda’ through them with an ovident sonse of oxquisite and ro- fned enaoymhn!. I'ho burkeopors toll mo that tho Ausfrian aud Gorwan ladiow generally carry thom away In thelr hair, through the frizzy magaoa of which thoy stick tham in {he manner of pins, Tho bar in” the Rotundn started with o slock of 300,000, but has beou obliged to re- new its supply twico since commencing businoss, About a hundred different deacriptions of artful drinke are made at this bar ; but the only one that sooms to bave laid hold of the Anstrinn publio is thoe cobblor, Ten cobblors are drunk or overy julop, cooktail, aling, smauh, 8%, or champarollo, The drinking kiosques outside tho building—English and Qerman—haye found 1t Lo their Interost to provido cobblers for thelr {ugatiable oustomers,’ y-throe - . .NEW YORK. 'I.‘-hev;ACity Crow&ed-—-‘fl;e Au- it “tumn Trade, . Mmiey-Kings’ Idea of meo--.-Jny Gould and His Financial Operations. Dollarous Marriages==~Discounting Great Fortunes. Sad Fate of an Evil Prompter. From Our Own Correspondent. New You, Sopt. 4, 1872, Btl1, tho roturning tido of nbscuteos ewells, and the flow of strangers to the city inoronses, Cauntry-morchants ‘aro boro in full force, and mnoerly all of tho hotelu aro crowdod, Tho pros- pects of the nutumn trade are unusually good, aud the commercial community would be in ox- collout spirits but for tno uncertainty of tho gold-markot, which sadly dorangen caloulations, and excitos - tho indiguation of importers, - In many of the leading hostolrios thers Are not ac- commoilntions cnough for travolors and eo- Journers, who have to slecp from ten to twenty in » room, nnd sacuro cots in tho corridors. Lnudlords sny thoy have not lad for yeavas auch o rush #0 carly in tho soason, and. from it thoy sugur favorably for the future, THE PASBION ¥OB. NOTORIETY. Tho receit Bull movemont in gold in, natural- 1y enough, reported to have beon conducted by Jay Gould, who Is invaziably put forward as tho {atber of all.the financial mischief in Wall stroot, Hosald, somo daya ago, that ho naver drow chieck for £100 for current oxponses withont bo- iug charged with locking up greonbacks, Thero ‘{s soma baais for this statement, though thors is little doubt that Gonld managesto havo & band in noarly all tho big operations of an illogitimato kind thot aro going on, Ho relishos tho roputn- tion ho las acquirod, and Is rathor anxious to sugmont than to diminish it. In common with most of tho mon who havo aspired to be finan- cial magnates ond controllors of the Stock Ex- cbiango, he onjoys boing talked about ; prefors misioprosontation and elaudor to neglect and silonco. Wall stroot chiefs regard famo.ns Morace did,—to bo pointed ot with tho fngor, and to havo it said, ** That ig he,” * Jacob Littlo hind that vanity; so Lad Leonard Jorome, and Aldon B.,Btookwoll, who, though living, aro \quite a8 déad in Brond streot a8 Little limaelf, buried these soven ycars. Corneliug Vandorbilt, who s oredited: with caring for nobody, has s similar wonknoss, sliared by Danfol Drow, Honry N, Smith, Rufus Hatoh, Ruesoll Pago, Jobn Tracey, and numor~ .ous othior spoculators on = large scals, GoULD ON aoLD. . To roturn to Gould: Thoso protending to know avor thatho now- hulds $20,000,000 of -gold, which cost him moro than the provalling prico, and which hio is making gigautic offorts to got rid of at sufficient advanco to save Limself; They add, if he does not succood, that ho will be ruinod, and tint he cannot_sucéeed. Many op- ;orators aro violont in donunciation of Gould, calling him * highwayman,” * pirate,” * com- ,morcial aseassin ;" and yot thoy are moved moro by envy than by sento of justice. Thoy would do without hesitation what ho hus dono, and is doing, if thoy could. Becatisa thoy canuof, thoy grow orally . virtuous, and prato of the good of ithe community, for which thuy havo really no concorn. I have yot tosoo in Wall stréot n speculator who won't tell unblusbing falsohoods ; lock up gold or greenbacks; dermnge public credib 3 burt private roputation, ruin individu- als, of anything elre, if ho ¢an turn such cou- duct to his pordunal advantage, Gould duos uot appear to have any appro- beusious of boing ruiied, and, ofsourse, ho will uob ndmit bolding suy large mmount of coin. Oporators never admit nn{‘thiuu; it is pact of thoir tactics; but, though they rofuso to admit, they aro_not_obligod to toll doliberato ¢ whoppers,” If Drow, Vanderbilt, Gould, Smith, or suy of tho rpat, bo‘ougaged i a hugo spoculation, sud bo walted upon by an iutor- viewer, thoy inform bim they have no uterost in stocka; that they bave not been in Wall streot for sovoral mouths (that may bo litorally true, for thoy buy aud sell through thelr I.vrokuu{; ‘and that thoy confino themsolves strictly to thelr lo- gitimate businesa, - Nobody belloves—nobady is oxpected to beliovo—a word of this; but tho spoculutors 1nsist on its absolute vority, . Per- Liaps they aro justificd, attar all, It may bo that the interviowed, whatover their stauding, aro warranted in tolling intorviewers ovorything and nugchlng but the truth. 'ou hiear many porsons oy it will be o bloss- ing whon Gould is *‘broke,” na ho must be be- fore agroat whilo, Idonot thinkso. His fail- ure will bavo no permancut offoot. Speculators of tho unscm&uloun ond deaporato kind aro like tho heads of tho fubled bydra. When one is cut off, anothor springs up in its place. Gould gotio, somobody elso will uccood bhim, no bottor than he, Tho things Lo hos done will romsin to bo doms, and ) will bo dono, if not by Gould, by Hateh, ‘Bmith, Bnge, or 500 man who has fot yot comio to tho surfaco. Thoruleis, that those who ocan make money, whother legitimatoly or illogitimately, makoit, Outeiders denounce tho iusidors bit~ terly, a8 if from consciontions wcruplos; and, whon they have opportunity, thoy swallow’ thoir seruples,” and do tho samd thing thomsolvos, Bince tho world began, the kmlainu been call- ing tho pot blsck. The priucipal varition is whou the pot retorta on tho kattlo, MONETARY MATRIMONY. 2 st winter o yonng wan well known in cor- tain circlos of socioty married a young woman in - bun sot, Noithor of thom was oatwardly nttrac- tive, nor did thoy appear to bo very fond of ona auothor, Iis frionds were surprised ho should huve wodded her, aud her frionds wore amazed sho should have weddod Lim, The suporinduc- ing causo bas boon roveslod, Mo thought sho wag au boiress, and she was confident ho was rich. Thoy aro both disappointed, and their mutual diliko is suticiont to base & tragedy on, The facts ave thoso: His fathor hied leff him §25,000, which roport mado, $200.000, and ho ran through with it in two or threo yenms, eud, at tho timo of Lis union, was® livitg on' tho interost of "his debts. An unolo in Californin died, snd bequeathed her somo real entato in San Frauciseo, rumored to bo worth from $250,000 to §400,000, Tho land had. u valuo of oniy §60,000, and ' wak divided amonig five persons, 'Pho 'mohoy tant camo from hoe portion sho lent to bor father, who lost it in spoculation before slie was marriod. ¢ “Tho Lusband and wifs both feol deoply ag- griovad, although thay hnd mot intimaied: that sithior ind tho lonst isitorcutod_molivo, and jar and quarrol, accusing oach othor of deliberato dupllcity. Bho bulks, sud_ncolds, aud flirts s ho swears, and gobs drunk, and makos love to othioe- women, Under such belligerent conditions, taoy aro wlso o go apart; aud thoy havo oach nyplied. for divorco on tho solo grounds that it ean bo granted in this Btato, Whon they aro connubially Folonsod; thiey should rofrain from maling an.’ othier attompt to marry a fortune, Suoh flnn{lwlu—mutrhuoninl Llundera aro com- mon enough overywhero, particularly hore, A Iawyor told suo latoly that a considerablo propors tion of tho applioatlons . for* divorco proceedod from Lhils causo, It I8 bad enough for o nan to ospouse o woman (I do not wonder tho opponite uox do it) from purely morconary motivan; but 1t i wordo to carry out the iden, and fnil of the oxpoctod roward, OVERRATED FORTUNES, Bonoy Is moro mized with hyporbolo than alinost anylhing olse, A maw's forluno in nl- most nevor .utated: correotly: It 18 doubled, trobled, quadruplod. Occasionally a man diss who was supposod to havo. boon modestly indo- pondont, and proves to ‘be mearly rich, But funnrnlly it in quita the other way, Tho Into foraca I, Clark way.considorod -Worth 910,- 000,000, at lonst, aud he was nat worth over $3,600,000. , Sarmuol N, Pike, who bullt the Grand’ Opora. Houso, .wan, thonght to have cloarad 10,000,000 to $12,000,000 {n whisky and ron! eutato. oporations; and yot, an sattling hiu affairs, thoy showod ' only * 81,600,000, Filing Howe, the HB\"!I?-mlflmml man, did not loave ono-fifth of what hio wan crodited with, The fortunes of Cornelius Vandorbilt, Aloxan- dor 1%, Btowart, and William B. Astor aro now Toprosouted al $100,000,000 oach, alboit it iy doubtful if any ouo of. them has half ws much, Astor may turn out, with all his laud and leass, to bo worth #10,000,000 ; bnt Blowart will not bo dikely to foot up: ovar 36,000,000, aud Yauderbilt will bs lucky to loavo $3v,000,000, QoorgoLinw enjoys thoreputationof having 810, 040,000, though hnlf tho sum wonld, probably, ba nicarar.tho¥acts Potor Cooper oughit to bo jmt dawn for $2,500,000, inatéed of £5,000,000; 1or- aco B, Clafilh at £6,000,000, Inotoad of 15,000, 000 to £20,000,000:' E. B, Jaftray at £2,000,000, ustoad of 26,000,000 s Augnst Bolmontat 3,100, 00, Intond of §6,000,000: Robort L, Btunrt at £2,600,000, Inutead of £4,000,000; ~nd James Brown ab' €3,000,000, fustend’ of ‘8,000,000 to 10,000,000.” Ho, It Moseh Taylor's €20,i00,000, day Qoila's 10,000,000, Jamen Lonox's'<6.000,: 0ii, Amos 1t," Eno's’ §7,000,000, - Roval Pliolpn’ £6,010,000, . D. Morgan's' 84,000,000, Marxhipll 0. Robortw' €20,000,000, and oflier Invgo. eutates rore divided bytwo, thiros, aud oven_ four, tho uotiont would bo far more trustworthy than the gonoral roport aud bolief, UEMINISOENCE OF A TNAGEDY, Michnol MoFarlaud (tho brothor of Danfel MeL'arland, the murdorar of Albert D. Richard- sun), who died destitute nt tho Bellovuo Hospi- tal, tho othor day, wan formorly n, poriodioal- donlor and utationer noar tho Fifth Avenue Ho- Lo oDy tho niriotest trugality lio Lnd mado ovor §30,000, overy ponny of which bo clung to with tioreonary tonacity., Two yenrs boforo the mur- dor, lio was on tlio worst possiblo’ torms with, oud bittorly denounced, his brothor. DBut, after tho Intter hiad drivon away hiu wifo, and ashumod that Richardson was thocnuso of hor losving, tho stationer took sidos with bis relative, and urged him to Xill tho journalist ; declaring; again and again, that lio bimaolf would Kill the o d—ed viilain,” if bin brothor did not, Daniol hed no monoy,—indood, ho had been dopondent on his wifo for yonra,—and Michaol told biin o hould havo Lie nocessary meana to omploy. counol, it hio would only shoot Richardson, With g0 eon- stant prompting and proseing, tle docd ws done, and MoFarlaud, holped by hin brothar'a mioney and tho influerico of the Tammany Ring, was aoquittod. _Tho tril cost Michacl averye thing ho had.” Having beon driven {nlo bank- ruptey, ho quarreled again with the mwmdoror, and for months past has been spenking of Dans lol 06 o fool, acoundral, assessin, and 1 kuow not what, o loss of his mouey proyed upon him worely; for Lo had lLeen olmost m miser. He doclared he could not live, and wod anxions, he enid, to, make komo roparation to the lady who had beon his brothor's wife, Ho nover saw lher, Lowever, and, aftor wandering about thostrosty, poaniless, wrotchod, bitter, aud conacieuco-strickon, he foll In the stroot in an opiloptis fit, .was ecarried to tho Lioapital, nud burted in Pottor'sfield.. Truly timo douw bring about it ravongos, and in ways thiat nono of us may anticipato, ~ COLSTOUN. —_— e HORACE’S SPECIMENS. YWhat thoe Philosepher Had to Show for Kis 820,000, From the New York Sun, T'other day, whilo scrambling out of the groat hole in the ground noar the Sun oftico, which tho Tribune pooplo aro ‘filling up with costly brick and granite, ag o monumont to tho foundor of that paper, wo pickod up a pioca of coppor ore. Tho bit of greon rock recalled to mind nn amus- Ing Incident {n tha lifo of tho late Mr. Groeloy. It accurred many yoars ago, long boforo tho great war bogan, and bofore even tho Philosophier of 8prico atreot had dreamed of boing the Domo- cratic candidate for President. . The interior third-story editorial room on Nas- #au stroot, 8o long occupied by Mr. Groeley, had become oxceodingly dingy. Its furnituro was in tho lnst atages of dilapidation. Various propo- sitions 6 improve it had boen vetood by tho oc- cupant, who foarod that any attompt at change would derangoe the order of his papers and books of roforonce. But ono Baturday, whila tho sago waa chopping wood at Ohnppaqus, the burly on- gincor, Patrick O'Rourko, eamo up with a. host of Liolpiers, and protty soon bad overything top- sy-turvoy. Tho carpot wa torn up by the roota and’ tlie subeoil shoveled out from undor it. The furniture was hustled aside, tho walls were seraped and_papered, the waodwork rnimcd. a new carpet Inid, and Dy nightfall Patrick, as ho survoyed tho wholesomo chauge, congratulatad himeelf on tho wondrous achieyement. "Noxt day Mr. Greeloy, coming in frosh from the serone influeuce of Dr, chnluu'u sormon, wau struck with dumb wondor at the motaumor- liogie, Without & word, ho* slumped down into hig eusy choir and thrust his fosb nudor tho desk, apparently in fine mood to do justica to bloodiug Kansny or_ castigate the rascully froo traders. Hnrdly had o touched his seat, how- evor, when ho sgrnlm_\lp a8 _though stung, and, pointiug undor his dodk, shrioked in bis sijuonk: iont tone: . Whal thief has stolen my specimons ; weh-oer-6-'s my spocimons 2" Tho people from the outer-office rushed in at tho rtow, and protty noon Mr. Girecloy was ap- prised that Patrick O'Rourke wns the loader of the vandals who had despoiled his sanctum. “Send Bim up hore,” yollod Hornco; * sond him uii At 8o Patrick was summoned from tho vaults of the oatablishment, where ho was ongaged, liko the go,d Doncon' Smith's wwicked partiors, in gotting up stoum on Bundsy for Monday's prper, "Rourke camio in, expecting to be complimentod for his thorough work. Blowly W(Eing the por- spiration from Lis forolioad on hin baro, brawny arm, be drow up to thoe editor, his taco wroathod in’smiling anticipation. But the sight of Hor~ nce's engry countensnce warned poor Patrick that & storm was imminent, “What is It, Mr. Greeloy?” bo mildly queriod, “Pat, whore's my specimons?” Berosmod Toraco, poiuting o' tho vacant spot undor bia ok, “*Bpecimons! Mr. Greeley? meckly responded Patrick, “Yey; the specimens I kopt undor thoro,” Boid Horace. “Woll, Mr. Greeley,” blurted out Patrick, “I don't know nuyzhmfi ‘about yer specimens ; ' but if yo mane that oul fype-box tull of racks yo Xep thore, why they only httorod up tho place, and I throw 'em into the streot.” #You damned fooll”. scronmed Horaco. “ Didu't yon know thnt box of specimous was all 1 had fo whow for twenty thousand dollars’ worth of copper stocks?” aud tho good man eank hysterically back in his seat to poudor on hin_misfortune, while poor Pat, thoronghly humbled, hurried out to recover what he could of tho lost trensures. Ilo wuccesded in finding somo of thom, and put thom in the collar for Bpocimens!* | eafa-keoping, ‘Thin was long, long l§c, and hero now isa solitary fragmont of thint timo turuing up under tho Iaborar’s mnttock, and testifying to the gen- orous nature of ono who might bave boen a Crasus hind ho been levs credufous ; who might, had bo been more worldly-minded, have built in hin own lifo-timoe, out of Lis own hard-carned wealth, tho atataly structure it was the dream of his lifo to found,” but whoss orection ho was nover designed to witvess, The dreamer is now dust ; tho busy lifo but e recollection, Of that great fortune which ha won thoro romains to his childron bitt & cruabling fragment, compara- tivoly as inoonsidorablo as this bit of copper oro | — e Tichborne’s Counsc! Not Afraid e the o X Judzes. # From the London Yelegraph, A necossarily dry.summary can givo no notion of tho torrout of invective which Dr. Kenoaly poured fourth, Utterly regardioss of tho prou- once of tho Botich, ho ‘addressed himsolf to tho Jusy and st Mr. Bowker, who sat unmoved be- ow him. 1o mado uo attempt to concesl his moang. Lo openly aduitted that conspicacy aud porjury wore ‘“tho logical effect™ of his chargos ; and once again roferring to Lord Bol- low's privato life, ho bogged the jury to declara that tho man who had banely seduced his friend’s wifo was unwortly to ho bolleved upon Lis onth, A storm was ovidently imponding, In s fow minutes it burst, A roference to Chatillon— who scoms to hnvo boon Roger Tich- borne's paidagogos rathor than striotly his tutor —as * avalet,” drow from the Lord Chiof Jus- tico tho indigunnt romonstrance, *'Ihatlsa most improper remark.,” “I say 1t i n prepor romarl,” said Dr, Konealy. *Xeny it is not, sir & With all submission o your Lordship, 1. sny It I8, T donot wish for a discussion with' your Lordship.,” * Nor will I lave & diroussion with you, sir,” was the retort, I Lave had onough of them."” ‘It wasn proper remark,” pereited Dy, Kenonly ; * it was my duty to makae ‘it 1t Is your duty,” movercly interposod Mr, «Justico Mollor, *' tofollow thoso rules which guide a simltlemnu iu the performance of his duty.” “T know a gontloman's conduct as woll a8 you, my Lord," criod_ Dr, Konoaly, awinging round toward Mr, Justice Mellor; I bog Y(l\l will not ropeat that observation.” * I ropoat it," #ald Mr, Justizo Mellor, *f You shall not ropeat 1t to mo, my Lord," caliod out Dr, Konealy. **T will not_ allow you, sir," Interrupted thoe Lord Chiof Justice, “‘to address & mombor of the DBouch in that tono”” “If & momborof the Beuel,” arled Dr. Konoaly, * forgets his duty, lio must be openly rebuked,” To tho surpriso of all the Court, tho Lord Ohiof Justice, instead of ordoring - Dr. Kouealy's commiltal, ropeated, “* You nhall'not spenk fo tho Lonch in that way, gir;" and, as if ho was trying to drlvo hiw Lord~ ship to commit him, Dr. “Kencaly agaln rotorted that bis romarks woro *eallod for."" * Yeay you shnll not sddrend thiom to mo, bir,” was tho roply, 1 addrass thom to you, %un lomon of the jury,” sald the loarned nnuunef, urving rouud toward the * shicop-pon ;" ‘and 80 ended this extraor- dinary altercation, BEDS AND BEDDING.* fiistpricrfl and Anecdotal Notes. Rossini's Two D;xc_isjfThe Question of Eariy Rising--Horse-Hair and Ita- Mixiures. 5 e L D : From the London Athenum, N Tho firat bodstend on record was an {ron ono. It was not s lnrgo as the famous bed of Waro, but ho for whom It was designed roquirad somo- thing oxtonsivo for hialapao of gigantic manii- noes, . Nothing loas than nine oubits- long and four cubits broad would allow of comfortabla sloop to Og, King of Bashau. . o most uncom- fortablo bod for travelers that wocan remombor was 3 1 TRAT OF PROCRUATXS, who sulted his guosts to their bed in the most uupleasant way. If they wera too long for it, Lo choppod oft auch portions of tho guests na ox- coodod; i thoy were too short, he stralchod tholr limbs till tho muaclos and sluows relaxed eufliciontly to mnke body and bod exactly corre- spond in extonsion, It was & bed from which nobody ovor arose. Buch, in anothor senso, fs tho grave, the old Dritish ramo for which is this familinc ona of * bed.” ‘What is luxury in & cold olimato Is bardship or ponalty in a Lot ono,' Tho Oriontals could have used fenthor-bods, but thoy knew better. Tho uso would havo brought abont that conjunction of circumatances which ‘prosent themsolvos to the mind in the inscriptions of our humblar lodging and enting housos, whereln wo road, ‘“Beds," * Hot Jomty,” - JAcon's PILLOW was a hard ono, but it probably had a cloak be- twoon it and the hoad of tho- slesper. Tho Egyptian pillow, whick held tho head and neck in on instrument like that omployed hy photo- graphers, doos not scom & likoly thing to go to slecp upon, but “export Roborts" pronounce it sloop-compelling, The question of luxury must bo solved by comparison. Wo should nt, for cholce, take o huge snow-ball whiercon to rost tho head ; yot, whon this was once dono” by o MHighland chioftain'a son, in & night on the motine tainn, it was kicked asido by i angry siro, who used a strong oxplotive with rogard to his son’s soul, and asked bim, dorieively, if ho was a gir], that ho could not go to sloop without a cushion undor Lis hoad, > ‘Wo tako all our ideas of XASTERN DEDDING from what is told us of their public rooms, their’ divans, and houso-tops. Wo 'know very littlo of tho private roums, iuto which the mastor of the houschold aloue has tho right to enter bosides its destinod occupnnts. Ono thing ia cortsiu, that & movablo bed-framo is as common now a4 it was in tho mioss anciont times. We aro told that the bed of Holofornes bad o cauopy to it which that rather quostionable Iady, Judith, car~ riod off with hor; and thore are pictures of housohold matters of the old days, in which tho bods aro odifices which would put the old four~ poster to shamo., Four! thoy woro *flitan mille colonnes,” and ]?uun o4 largo os the old YPalain Royal cafe, so called, e The classieal bed is well known to most road- ara ; tho modiuval bod'is oqually famlinr ; and the SODERN FOUR-POST, for tho wholosomeness of which nasty’ edifics Mr. Biyth has o word of advocacy, Lns only so Tocently commonced disappeariug that nothing in to bomnid of it. Bomething, however, may bo said of those who have occupied thouo aids to forgotfulnoss, 1f & convalescont may bo monarch of all he survoys au Lo lies in bed, thore are’casosin which a man may be the alave rather thnn tho sover- cign in that Kingdom of Sleopy Hollow. ROSSINT furnishos o caso in point. Juat sixty years ago, in 1813, be lodged in 8 worst inn's worst room in Vonico, Ho was then one-and-twenty; unknown and anibitivus, alao poor.. Ho was composing an opors, 1o bo called “* 11 Figlio per Azzardo,” in wintor weathar; nud to mave tho cost of firo, Rossini Iny in bed. * Ho had just fluished notiny & duot, whon tho leaves slid off tho sheots, aud, gontly waviug to tho floor, wera wafted uudor tho couch. Hossini looked aftor thiom, strotoh- od out bis arm to reach thom, and, finding them Dboyoud his ranch, ho flung himuolf baok, with an ‘Al diavolo col duelto! I will noto it over again]” Tho voin, howover, was exhausted ; his momory failed him, and again he luoked bo- noath the "bed ab_tho paper boyond his rencl. “Ttwould bo unlucky to piok it up,” ho said, ** sinco it bas fallen. I will compose another. If Tever grow rich, I will writo my music ag othior composers do in such woather as thial" In brief, Rossini g NOTED ANOTHER DUET, and had just finished it, when a friond entered the room. ‘‘Amico!” cried Rossini, **cast your eyo on this ; try itat tho piano, 'and tell e what you think of it.” Tho amico did as ho was told, and oxpressod himeelf delightod. **Now,"” said the composer, "put your arm undor’my bod, pull out thio paper "that Jios thoro,—anothor duot is noted on it,—and try that also.” The friond obeyed, and ho pratestod that tho second duot was much to bo proforred to tho firat. Rossinl rojoined, that what his frioud callod tho * second” was in rnnlitjy tho firgt, aud hio told tho story of how it had slipped off the bod out of his reach, Tho two friouds, one in, the othor seated at tho cdge of the bed, sang tho two duots, and they wora of ono opin ion, that tho duot from bolow tho bod iwas tho bottor of the two. After o little while, tho friend inquired what Rousini moennt to do with thae other., “Itis done," roplied tho young composor; 1 have, by holp of o fow altorations, turned it into o ferzetto,” ‘Iligs, by being too lazy to slip out of bad, o took the industrious paing to write two ducts instead of one, and to chango oue of tho two into a terzelto. Tho pbilosophy which urges the excollence of EABLY RINING has boen very rudely and succossfully shaken, Cuarles Lamb hiny shown that there i8 ns much axcons in rising with tho lark and lying down with the lamb s i the practice reforred to in Moore's songs, which xceommiguds o lougthoning " of our days by tuking “a fow hows from' night, my doar!™" That plul uuo{)hy way shalon in the onrly duys of the world by two sleepy childron who eamo_ under tho rebuke of vigilant fothors. “ My sou!” romarked ono sire, ** I onco found n pleca of gold by risiug oarly 1" “ Ayol” roi]ninml young ho})o{ul, “but the man who lout it was up before you” My wou," enid the other worlhy parent, ** obseryo thal it's the early bird that catchos tho worm!| I do, ob my fathor,” roplied tho excellent hoy ;. *alao that the worm was caught by gottin up edrler thau the bird.,"” It has been consid- ered not boneath the dignity of T, M. the Duko of Wellington to hold runk among tho philoso- Inhol:a of tho bed; and, us nobody knew that he had ‘over delivered himsclf of an axiom or max- im innntrntlnfibud doctrine, ono Las houn stolen for him, and Hig Grace lias been made to wear it muif it wero his own: “When & man turns in bed, itis timo for him to turn out!"—ns tho Duke of Wollington used to say!” So wo .are_told, as if the Ficld-Marshal were always saying it. Now, the phrase was a favorita one with our early Archbishops, and it was probably not original,avon on the lips of the vory earliont of tho prolates to whom it ban beon assignod by the Doan of Chichestar, ‘The lutent illustration of tho evils of lying lato in bed, which sumno of our oldor poople ussd to ;ncsivu whon they woro childron, cuwo to thom rowm. DI WATTH, ‘Who has not honrd of tho famous lines, wilh their halting philosoply— Tin tho oice of tho sluggard: I heard hlm _complaln, “You bllwl 'Wnlu\l we too woon] I must slumber again 1" g As tho door on its hinges, 80 hoon his bed, ‘Tiirua Liu ides, auid binghouldens, aud uie hoavy head ? Thio door that turn on ity hingos is doing ity duty na a door, lot Solomon_and Dr. Watta say what thoy will'; aud the wild brior, tho thorn, and the t{flnt]n which grow broador and: lighor in his gardon, wore at least acting busily nc- cording to the nature implanted in thom.: "And, aftor all, tho ‘so-canilod nluggard sooms to hnye been more harmloss in bod than his consurer who loft him, after an finportinont missionary vinit, with such au outburst of pharisaical pride as this; . Hald I then to my heart, Ilero's lesaon for o ‘That nan's but & pletiro of what Tnoght b ; But thanks to my frlends for their caro in my breed- g, - Who Liugo tanglt mo, by timos, to love working sud ruading ¥ Porhapy, it the sh:ffir}rd had had such frionds, and thoy bad found him “work to do,” he would havye rigon to do it. i ] TUERE WAB BOME REASON in tho young follow who, on being asked why he *NOTES ON LEDS AND DEDDING : Histomiasr ANv Aneoporat, By Jaugs N, Buyrs, London : Buupkin, Mazshall & Co, did not g€t up, rapiied that hio had nothing to ok up for | Wo aro not avon suro that Quin i 0 bo sovoroly conaurod in the part be took in tho morning_ dialogo with his_valot, #olm, what's o'clock ?” ““Nine o'elook, sir." ~Ta thara any mullot in tke markot to-day, John 7" +Noy 8lr,” *Thon. call. me at. 9 tosmdrrow, John |" Moreover, it docs not follow that hocauko s man 13 in borl his miud is idlo,-or that he in caroless of tho wolfaro of his fellow-creaturos who are up aud abrond, - . L E ¥ | Horod fus wrote maet in hed + And Richerand, o Jéarned physlelan, Dovlares tho clockaworlk of the lieaid Goua bost In that recliued position, Thon, thoro {a bod, —~and bed,—with a differenco, Thiore in no morit fo n man riklng betimos from n bed in whicl, an Mr, Keeloy, uvod £o #ny in the forco, tho maker who hind putin tha foatfors had FOUGOTTEN TO TAKE OUT THE FOWLS | Tho most contonted of philoyophers waa tho Irishman who, inan overcrowdod inm, biad to sloap uudor a table in the coffoo-room, and who congratulated himsclf in the fadt that it wad, aftor oll, a four-postor| Tho desire to reconcilo duty with enjoymont is to be soch in thoso who lio o, aa weli ag buy, tho alarum-hed which Iy 80 mada that tho Jowor balf of it will fall to the ground at any fimn Hour, tho fall, of courro, being Ho arrangod as_to awake, withe qut hurting,’ the sleopor.. It is & quostion whathor . Nnturo, howovor, i not burt by bolng aroused boforo tho natural sloop i6 out—-sloop; which is Natura's swoot restorer ; sleap which, ;S’Bnuuho Panza says, covoroth o man s s cloak, 3 ! i NATURAT, TO ENJOY IT, and to lovo the bod, which is tho truo shrine of Somuus, The philosophor in tho old I'ronch ronance, who had boon all day robuking luxus durmg o patty of plonsuro (whoro ho b quitc au much a8 camo to his shara), pulied tho sheots up to his chun at night with the chuokiing romark: ' Apres tout, lo luxe out une jolio chose [ Luxury in this direction was novor earriod o far Mzm‘"l roquiremont as in_tho Im- porinl bod-chambor at Fontainobleau. The vory coiliug is covored with glnss; and tho fllustrious occupants could not move about, nor indood le, without seoming in a crowd of a scoro or two of rotlectiona, Wo sdd a sample of the information turnishod by this liutlo book. This is whot wo aro told with rospeot to TORSE-HAID, Fhich, for bods or spring mattresscs, s taking the placo of foathors: ¢ 8o greatly hus this chango of fashion inereascd the domand for horsc-lialr during tho Inat ton yeard, thaty although the mupply Las grently sugmented, it liag beon 5o far beneath tho requireiaents tuat tho price Lisn rison full 60 per cent. Wo. dopond on South Amors dca chiofly for thinarticls, For It are sacrificod the talla sud mancn, i£ not tho lives, of sn cnormous nume Ler of thoso wilil Lorecs which fonm fn stich countioss Bordes over tho far-atrotching plaina, which are the groat pliysical featura of that Contivent, Wo oblaig alaono small quantity from Russia, tho product of tho many horica which nbound in tho Tartar-Autiabe ited stopnes of Stberia, To this i to bo sdded what in gatliored from our liorsea ot home, which, though suporior {n quality, bulks vory small when comprod With ~ what comes from - abroad, During tho Iast . fow yoars our imports of horfo-hsir liavo smountad to sbout 720 tons.. A Jarga amount, no doubt, yet nothing as comperad with the quantity of manufucturcd hair gold, mich of it too ot & for Towor pricothan the raw Lotsc-halr had cast, Horso-halc [s MIXED WITIT OTHER MATERTAL aud it soems Lhat ox-tail holpy to make ot only our soups but our bods. Tho hairy tults at the ud of tho tails are much used : Even' with thia atd manufacturad hair, dear ag it now in, would be such a price that only tho Fich could obe talu 1t as » Juxury, weio it not that snothor articlo in mixed with it, which, whilo comparatively cheap, renw vailablo for uso much of tho softer toxtured hir, which otherwiso would bo almost valio. loss. We refor to hogs briatlos. Theso, 85 evory ouo knows, have all thoms propor. tios In a1 ominent degres which bolong to tho best Liotae-bair, savo lengtli, ‘This shortnoss forbids thom Delug wo manipulatod by themsolyos aa 4o mako the clautic material needed, When, however, thoy ara mixed with the inferfor kinds of liorao-bai, this difli- culty fa_avercomo, Whilo tho longor material binds them togather, they, with their stifinoss and fenscity of curl, form in union with it s substance which js woil suited for mattross-nisking, It fs tho meoof theso Dristies which makes soveral sorts of manufactured alr cost losa than raw horse-hafr in the bulk, - That {ho connumption of thia article is vory great, our im. porta tell un. Thckr averago for soma yesrs haat, lsa con about 900 tons por annum, If wo deduct percentago for beusiimnkors and otbors, thora 1y kil a argo reuiuinder for the halr mannfacturor, e A FRAGMENT. Wo havo parted from cach other, Wo who lov'd in daya of old, And our dream of drosma In over, Liko s atory that ia told, Our two paths have met and widened, And thy smiles are nauglit to mo* 80 ot ov’ry Joy and sorrow Elor wo know, bo unto theo, Wo havo parted from cach other, Sadly driftod fur apart ; Lt tho dark cloud of estrangomont Shiadow o'ar oach hopo-wrockod heart, Otuer lipa may strivo to banish “Lhy prond spirit's lurking caro ; Btill their tones, tho' low aud tender, Find no suswerlug echo there, Bo, porchance, wo no'or ahall fondly Iteot as we Liavo 1ot of old ; For tho goldou dreatn ia over, Like o story that {s told, OwzN M. Wizsox, Im, QorTA0z Tox,” Chicago, —_——— 7 The Toy-Land. In Amelia B, Edwards' new book, # Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valloys," she describea the toy-land which she finds at St. Ulrich: * Wa bind never even heard of Bt. Ulnich till a few days ago, snd then but .vaguoly ns a villago where wooden toys and wayside Carists wora mado ; aud now wo find that wo Lave, 50 to ny, boen on intimato torms with tho place from our. liost infaucy. That remarkable animal on the littlo-whooled platforms, which wo foudly took ta reprosent a Lorso black with an eruption of scarlet dikease upon his body, ana & mano and tail derived from suippings of ancient fur tip- pots, Liois of tho purost Grodnor: Chal bread. Those woodon-jointed dolls of all sizes, from tho babios of half an inch in length to mothors of families two feot bigh, whose comploxion all ‘ways camo off when wo washod their faces, thoy aro the aborigines of the koil,” On the manu- facture of toys at 8t. Ulrich tho author hay a good doal to eay, and sho rolatus how sho was taken through ono ware- houso in tho village containing more than thirty largo bloro-rooms, - iwelve of which wore full of dolle— millionsof them, Inrgo and small, paintod and unpaiuted, in bius, in canos, on sholves, in parcols ready pnckad fo transportation.” Oue room contained horwos, auothor was full of carts, another pilod with dolle' hoads, A ** smart™ doll-makor, it ia eaid, oo turn ot bventy dozon small-jointoddolln, ono inch and a halfIn lougth, per diom. And other ostablishmont wan devoted to what may Lo tormed high art, eud theoro Miss Fdwards saw, rooms of beautiful Saiute and Cluists of all sizes in lyory, in obony, aud in wood. * In the attics,” &ho Writes, “Wo saw bing aftor bins of crowna of thorna only.” The villagors in tho toy cauntry aro, ol actively ongaged i tho man- ufacture of Christs for churches, and othor ob- Jocts roquired by Roman Catholics, ns woll as of toys for childron. Io ono houso the travelors found & wholo family carving skulls and eroya~ bones, in another a dozon girls woro painting gray horwos with black points; in o third they only paintod rod Lorsos willt whito points. A good hinnd will paint twelve dozon horaés a day. A Modern St Simon Stylites. The Athous Northeast Georgian notes the provalonco of a report In that city that, on Sunday boforo last, s man living noar Scull's Shols, about twenly-milos bolow Athons, woub fishing, soating himnsolf on & rock. Not roturn- fug homo ot night, soaroh was mada for hin, and ho was found sented upon the rock, and upe on tho party requesting him to get up andac- company thom honio, ho told thom that tho -Al- mighty had sout o judgmont upon him sud ho l"“li become & part of tho rock and could not movo. His frionds, fllinklmi that ho was only Leutlng‘ took hiold of himn aud attompted to move im, when he commenced soreamung ut tho top of his voico, aud asked thom, for God's eake. not to attompt fo lift hin up, as it would murder him., Ho furthor informed them that he had beon informed, by an undcen prosonce, that, as & judgment for hin profanity aud Sabbath-broake iug, ho would novor bo soverad fram his prosont seat, but would romaiu fastoned to it all hin days, and that ho woull be mude to proach his own funeral, It is emd ho tulks quito frooly, and Is visitod by lmmonso cxowda, IMippophagy in France, According t0 Les Mondes, there nre as muny a# forty siops or atalls inthe City of Paria alone dovoted to tho sala of horso mont as an nrticle of food, and during 1872 thero woro, In round numbors, 10,000 horeos, 00 ases, aud 50 uinlos oonkumod by tha mbabitants, The animals ara propared for the market in the ususl Wl{ and | tho moat solls for about half tho prico wi ol ia comumonly askod for beof, ‘Tho horaos are in all .casos wubjooted to caroful oxamination by ofticlal inspoctors, It i nlro stated as an intorosting “fact, that, go far from lippoj any doolining, it Is deoidodly on tho iucrease, tho figures show- ‘Ing that noarly two and a half nultion pounda of equine meat woro sold in 1474, a8 agaiuac losy thisn halt that quentity in 1860,