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

CHICAGD UNIVERSITY. Correction of Various Alleged Misrepresentations. The Origin of the Institution---Who " TRaised the Monoy that Has Been Used. The Recent Great Movement for Re- lieving the University from Debt. Who Carricd Out ilio Land-Schemo--- Why the University Has Re« mained Almost Stas tlonary. o the Editor of The Chicago Tribuna : Bim : In various papors and perlodicals, recont 1y, what purported to bo o history of Chicago Uunlvorsity bas beon published, and with such CONTANT AND UNIFOUAM VARIATIONS from tho exact facts, in cortain cases, as would lead those who nre acquainted with tho institu- tion from its foundation to beliove that said va- ristions wore tho work 6f a swglo hand for on unworthy purpose. Bomo of these distortions of facts rolate to tho origin of the University, and to the moans whish have rocently beon taken to froo this som- inary of loarning from debt. With regard to tho ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSITY, 1t scoms not to have been generally known un- til lately that the crodit of first proposing to Judgo Douglas tho idoa of & groat Univorsity, {hat might be croditable to himsolf, tho city, and tho country, belongs to Dr. Eddy, of the Prosbyterian Ohwrch., Through him, Judge D. offorad tho Prosbyterinus landa for 8 University, with conditions of time and amount to bo ex- ponded. Through political projudices or for other reasons, Dr. Eddy failed to unite the Prosbyterisns in accopting tho donation. Aftor a yoar's innction, and the failuro of that do- nominstion to accopt tho trust seomed probable, st n mueting of gontlomen on some publo affair at tho Tremont House, among whom wero Judgo Douglas and lis intimato friend, Charles Walker, dusing an interval of businoss, Judge Douglas turnod to Mr. Walker and mado the offer of the 1and to tho Baptists through him. Judge Hop- kins, as roported in the Standard,—tho Baptist organ of this city,—of Juue 13, 1872, described tho offer as follows : During tio discumsion of the subjoct [the land- schomo for tho roliof of the Univoraity from dobt, Lo- ing urgod by Dr. Everts], Judge Hopkius, of Morrls, 1il,, related an incidont whieh croatod miuch intereat, o 'snid that, boing at tho Tremont Houss,—time not given,—on sowe publlo bunincus In coutiootion with dge Douglas, the Jate Charles Walker, and othiors, during a pauso fn tho conversation around tho table, Mr, Douglas turned to Mr. Walker and eald : “ By the Wy, Mr, Walker, T have dotermined fo havoa calloga at Cotuige Grove, I bLuva made the offer of ten acres 10 the Presbyterians, through Dr. Eddy, but they do Dot roem to be dolng much about it, sud ' wiil probably 1all to moot the conditions, AsT am half a Baptist, T will mako the samo offer to you for the Baptints, if Dr. Eddy fails.” Mr, Walker roso, pnced the room a fow minutes, [u his nervous way, aud finally eaid : “Xlr, Douglos, I think we will take that offer, "X will let you kuow in'tho aftornoon.” Iu the afternoon, according to Judge Hopkina® racollcctlon, he reporfod that the offer was accepted. This is the testimony of s disinterested wit- ness before & public aesombly ; and it accords with the romembered claims of Deacon Walkor, and with tho impressions of bis frionds and fam- ily, Ttnlso nccords with Mr, Walker's trioudly politieal rolations with Judgo Douglas. It also further accords with Br. Walker's relations as ono of tho prophotio and truated leadors of tho denomination, This shows that tho offer to Mr. ‘Walkor was * THE FIRST OFFED mede of the land to the Baptists. Follewing this, naturally, the pastor of the church (Dr. Burroughs) whose members and frionds wero to wesume so grent responsibility, was selected to visit Judgo Douglas, in Terre Hsute, and aleo in ‘Washington, to obtain terms of sgreemont upon which titlos would be given, and to obtain the titlos ; and. a8 an acknowledgoment for thoso gorvices, Dr, B, was mado Prorident to sorve tamporafll{l ‘until somo other person could be found to fill the Chair pormnnently. Another point of history neediug to be cloared :115 is tho sgoncy omployed ond tho succoss of 0 5 FIRST GREAT MOVEMENT to endow the University, The vaguonoss of cor~ tain lato statemonta leaves the publio uncertain, and does gront injustico to the chiof workers in the insuguration of the entorprise, From exist- ing records, careful corrospondence, sud tho testimony of liviog witnesses, 1 find that Dr. Burroughs, ssuisted somowhat by the Rov. A, G. Joslyn and the Rev. J. B. Oloott, worked up the first’ subscription in Chicago, amounting to neatly or quite 140,000, But many of theso subkcriptiona are reported to have beon accom- . panied by cortain vorbal understandings, moking them of no value except #s examples to mislead olhers from whom subgcriptions were sought. In one caso, & porson was porsuaded to give bif note for a largo eum, with o distinct stip- ulation that he might retain it in bis own safo,—for tho suke of using the exninplo upon othors. It is such transactions a8 this, au well as tho groat financial failuro, that must be taken into nccouut in estimating the couse of the almost uttor failuro of this great mubscription, Mr. Olcott, to whom theso sub- scriptions were confided for collection, testifies that vorbal undorstandings wero pleadod against giving notes or making any sottlement ; 8o that, of the $140,000, only about $10,000 could bo realizod, In the menntime, chiefly through tho sgency of THE REV, 3, . OLCOTT, gome £80,000 wau subscribed withont any verbal conditions, and nearly all of that amount Las been collectod ; and, though the greater part of the subscribors undorstood it to be given for purposes of ondowment, it bas beon largely consumed to pay the ocurront’ expenses of the Univorsity. At this poriod, &8 g0 little was ob- taihed from so maguificont a subscription, al- most tho entire amount of tho money for tho ercotion of the firat building was_borrowod,— thus laying tho foundation of tho debt that has grown by accumulation of back interost to the tegont formidablo proportions of $130,000, I find the REOENT GREAT MOVEWENT for relioving the University from debt misinter- fu'eled aud wrongly stated, so that great injus- loe iu dono to certain other bonefactors of tho Institution, Aftor the first subecription failod, and a loan was rosorted to for huildluq[pnrpauuu, such _financial ombarrassments followed as brought the University into constant poril. The somi-annual intorest was with difficulcy pald ; tho ourront expenses could not bo prompily met ; the corpa of teachors could not be enlarged, nor thoso employod adoquatoely or punctusily paid, Dincouragemont soemod to bo duapanm% into despair. At this time, tho Rov. J. B, Olcott, through whom, mainly, the flnances had beeu kep. nn. finding that, whilo others recolyod crodit Tor alt successos of administration, ho was hield mfi]mnnlblo for all failwes, at longth re. slgned, leaving the causo almost without hope, oy well an without finaucial direction. Old mom- bera of the Board cannot faul to recall those dark dnys, At this time, tho REY. M. G. CLARK, widely known In the country for hia enterprise and exccutive ability, had takon up his sboda in Chicago, Membora of tho Board moon pressed nipon Lim the Pinancial Bocretaryship, and ho re- luctantly undertool the offico with its formid- able labows, In conmultation with othors he at ounco proposed to awaken now intorest and in- epiro public confidenco by immediatoly under- taking tho orection of tho main building, Reso- Jutions woro, pasaocd, though doemed almost fanstical by somo, to procesd at ance to lay tho foundations, Now H\lbuuri})llflnu were obtained, and old ones cotleoted; and, at s costof 91257, 00D, the buildiug was comploted. : eantime, the project of procitring & telescops, introducud by Prof.” Forey, and oucouraged by’ cortaiu cltizons, wan Lukeri up by . THOV, MIXER, | Mo visitod Prof. Potors, nt Ann Arbor, and as-| certained that the Clark lulaucagfi. in procens of; construction at Cambridgo, might be purchased.i Tio, thoroforo, plmnell correupondonce with the cunstruotors with reference to its purchase, and cauvassed the vity thoroughly, Mr, J. Y. Heame mon caterad heartily futo his plans, aud finally Eave the monoy for the: Obrnryatory, which cost Eolno 840000, ko Hom. U% Mawi ¢ ope THE CHICAGO 'DAILY ' 'I'RIBUNE: ‘SUNDAY, SERTEMBER 7, 187, taking of Prof, Mixor's onthusiasm, going, to Now ¥ B on whora he arrived’ just In timo to savathe telos scopo for our.compoting purchasors, Prof. Mizer was _holped by Prof. Low iu tho lnbors and work Of colleotion; butt to Prof. Mixe: cliofly Is Ohieago Indebled for svorking up the enlorrnun and procuring our noble telescope, At this tima also, fully aud onthusiastically co-operating. with the now movomout, - TINE REY. DR. RYERTH undertook to obtain the endowment for n Grook Chnir, in Nuw York, By hls offorta during niore than two months of uncomponsated labor, he succoodod in_obtaining ‘about $39,000 toward that object. Drof. Miser also, during this po- riod, made tho commencomout for an ondow- ment by railrond companios of & Chair of In- flnnurlng; sud many; other pledgoes wore condi- ionally mada during the samo poriod, Thus Mesars, Olark sud “Mixer secured more than $160,000 not nddition to the {uuds of the Uni- vorsity. And thoy wero sanguino of paying oft the wholo dobt ixi & short timo. ' Dut they both allego that .- : DISTRUST AWARENED DY TILE PRESIDENT, and difficultios thrown In the way by bim. in nie offieial pasition, dofested tholr plaus and blasted fioir bopos, and fnally oroated .| the ciroumstances that causod thom to rosign and leavo the work unfinished. Tho debt hos continued stoadily to incroaso until the succoss- ful inpuguration ‘of tho recent land schome. Both Prof. Mixer and Dr. Clark satand high in tho public confidonce, and now hold reapourible and honorable oflicial stations, sud their frionda beliove thoy have beon GREATLY WRONGED DY XX-PANTE STATEMENTS aud futorostad testisiony in regard to the history aud results of their administration. Ought such mon to be dopreciatod in the intorost of one whoeo own affairs havo been o loosely managed that, s is allogod, & balance ngainst him of sone £20,000 coutd not ba accountod for aftor s earo- ful Invastigation by the most export bookkaop- ers, and tho balaaco was finally caucolod by tho Board of Trustees? Thiais roforrod to morely na fliuatroting tho authority upon which mainly tho administration of Mensra, Olark nnd Mixer has boen Bo misinterproted sud disparaged, A highor authority than frequent vorbal statements or vaguo surmiso mado oub by the Drosident, or by his order sud under his suporvision, will bo necessary to_ falsify tho public atatements and roporta of Mo-sra. Ciark aud Mixor, supported by the jwet informed oud most crodible witnossos, 1.0 noblest sworkora in the past should not be allowod to be enarificod bocauso thoy could not bo made sub- sorviont o the peraoual ambition and achomos of others. 5 THE LAND-B0UEME, though so rocently -projocted and carried to n successful isauo, in already variously misintar~ proted. It has boon claimed that- the adminis- tratton of tho University has always chorished an enthusisatic appreciation of tho promise of roal ostato for the ondownient of the University. But, if it bad when lots and even. blocks might have beon obtained from thoso who had no moncy, but had roal gatato, it is now obvious thero might bove beon ondowmonta ranking those of Harvard or Yalo. Indecd, so littlo was tlils mothod of ralsing monoey approciatod that, when ¥R, J. E, DUBORELLE, filled with enxiety at reports of the immodiate and great poril of the University, sought the Presidont to_offor suggestions snd assistauce through tho inauguration of momo real estate schemo, ho was received with indifference, aud even with coldness. This indifferont reception Dr, Burroughs himself kas acknowlodgod in s public mesting. Bouides, it was not until such plan had boon succesefully insugurated for tho Jhmsnt of a large church-debt, aud the succasa ad olicitod notice and commendation of the pross and the public, and evon a_second church, with a larger dobt, had followed up the plan with similar report of succoss, whilo the fluan- ocial ombarrassmenta of the University scemed to Do hastening to a crisis, that Dr. B., through s friond, sought an interview with Mr, Burchelle in rogard to tho possibility of eotiing on foot plau for a roal catate investment for the Univor~ sity. 3[B. B. ¥. JACODE— who ht, from tho first, shared all the tlionghts and plans of hia former partnor—ontorad enthu- slastically into the - project, and becamo, beforo the public, tho loador of tha autorprise, Mossrs. Jacobs and Burchollo, after carcful inguiry, so- locted n plat of ground suitable for tho enter~ priso, and. rropnsud. it to Dr, Burroughs, who, aftor consideration, approved of tho plan, and ngreod to furnish 'tho money.—some $60,000. But, dilnfipnlntud in his plans, Mosars, J and B. uudertook the necossity of turnishing more than half the money for the first paymonts, to save the enterprise from defest t its vory iuception. Farnishing their own capital in such circum- stances, and when 8o groatly necded in ontor- prises much moré promising to thomselves, shows how much higher their motives were than the profits of businoss, This wonld ho deemed a romarkable transaction for ‘‘real-cstato ob- jects.” Moreover, to assure the success, tho yory lands they had bargainad for at somo $1,200 por acre thoy bought for themselves of the Uui- versity at $3,000 per acro. This was a singular “‘roal entate " oporation for them. So complete- 1y was tho onterpriso regardod, notas s meco roal-oatato spoculation, but ae & movement to BELIEVE THUE UNIVERSITY, that the mattor waa brought bofore tho Firat Baptist Church, aud $40,000 worth of the prop- erty was purchased by mombors of hat Church, &ll of whom took it mainly to sesuro the cnter- prise and holp tho University. ‘Thus members of this church furnished from $12,000 to $16.000 of the $50,000 it is reported Dr. 1, Lins givon to the University, Buill farllor, whon iho enterprise soomgd joopardized by the groat fire, leading Baptists and teleuds of the University, approondiug dis- astor to those eugayed in i, a8 well s 1o the University, by its fallure, potitioncd ‘TILE FINST BAPTIST ONURCH of this city to nond their pastor East to promote tho sales of tho landa among tho churches there. The church gave the timo of their pastor for this purposs for several months ; and tho sales East, togethor with thoso to mombors of tho Tirst Baptist Church, were tho oarliost aud most important, and gave sssuranco of tho succoss of tho onterprise, and furnishiod, perbaps, more than Lislf tho $50,000 now roported to have baon given by Dr. Burroughs to tho University of Chncago! And, indeed, much moro was pledged East; but tho rapid appreciacion of renl estate in Chicago enablod the enterpiiso to get along without prosuiug purohasos promisod. Finally, the position of purchnser assumed by Dr. B., 50 suitable to bim an Prosidont, and so adapted to show union of all parties in tho en- torprisc, 1s now urged In & way to MISREPRESENT tho relation of - other parties, and confer oredit, which, a8 an honorablo man, Dr. B, ought not {0 allow. Thero wonld seem to bo but little risk in the purchase of proporty whore tho price is ron- sonable and tha_purchaser is socurad in posacs- sion, and much loss when backed by first-cluss renl-ontato mon, and virtually by tho frionds of the University aud tha Baptist’ donomination ; and partioulatly an snley could be nogotiated ab once at $2,000 por scro for what cost a littla moro than $1,200 per ncro. Aocordingly, when it tranapired that Dr. B, through bis own want of contidonce, or the influence of his frionds, was grestly discourazed one who had no offices or emoluinents at stake proposed to Mr, Burohello to take the placo of Dr, B, in tho purchase. With such a listory, who would expect to sco tho land-scheme reported through the proes as #'Pho Burroughs Truat,” *the schowe dovised by Dr. Burroughs ;" or tho praceeds declarod to ba *‘virtually & gl)l of §50,000 to the University by Dr. Burroughs" ? Misapprohonsion, which scems to cling to everything about tho Universlty, by some strango fllnlitf hangs over the matter of the financial condition sud _prospority of-tho Univarmty, It boasts the originel endowment of Douglas ; but, ‘while scores of similar institutions all over tho land havo been paying off dobts and laying up endowiments, thiy entorpriso bas ALMOBT REMAINED STATIONATY, snd that, 00, in the most promising feld on the Continout. The most magnificent offors to thia University havo, year aftor yoar, boen allowod to fall through from mismanagemont somowhoro, and those who know of the miscarriage of theso schemes can attributo their failure to but ono sourco. It is alleged by thoso who have been in a po- sition to know, that the Presidont hay, from timo to time, made overtures to yarious ominent mon to nccept the office. It is alko published that ho has, for several years, at difforont times, ?lloml in the hands of the Truatess hin resigna- ion; alio, that a committea of the Trustcos has been nnpolntou to sook for o succossor, Wwith authority to announce hin remguation, It is a littlo eingular that an office of tLis kind should soek, for {ifteon yoars, for a ‘\vurth{ oceupant, But It only illustratos once more_the physical doctrino of impenatrability ; two hodios canuot oceupy the snmoe placo at the samo time;.and mon of exalted charactor aud scholarship, euch s sbould fill the Prosident's chalr of Chicago Univeraity, will never accopt an offico which re-; quires the displacemont of ancther » WISHING ARD INTENDING TO RETAIN IT, This uncortainty wbout the administration of the chief oftlco of tho Uniyersity hiss, nudoubted- 1y, boen & serlous barrier to pm;imnu,—tnr thosa, laving confidouce in the sdininistration are dis- affooted by tho prospect of chauge, whilo thoso doubting 1t are alko disafTectod by the probable continuance of the pranont“ rogimo, It is not A e ‘ork, continued hia journey to Doston,’ -Dr, Diersouo, Hrust Navillo, Dr, that the financial and {ntellociusl prizes have nearly all boon lost ; that & Medical School offor- ing ita allianco and oredit biss boon loat; that nogotiations aro now ponding to port with oxcluslve control of n Law Dopartmont old a8 the Unlvorsity iteolf. —Is it not clear why all sorts of protexts have boon rosorted to to oxplnin failures so marked ? Bus- cosros tho Univorsity has had, {tis true, if you mensura siccons by the growth of an avorago Wontorn Collego; but what is that to what this Sominary MIONT MAVE RERYN, ' situntod, s it fi, In tho mont enterprising olty in tho world, and: urrounded, as it i, by woalthy men who would have been- only too “proud to mnko Chicogo Univorsity an intellectual ropro- pontative of tho city Thoro aro plonty of mout Digh in tha Baptiat ?denomination who know tha thoto things aro 80, OnseRveR, et LITERARY LUXURY. Whon of a winter night T eit besldo my study-fire T loyo 1o rond the products writ in hose, my mind's esiro To quick furgot the dny's rayorse, tolose all thought of pelf, And take, 'for bottor or for worse, my books from off their shelf, "Tls lu‘lldom orso, Tmust oonfoss, for who 80 truoss oo, Tomail: “ron wife's carcss and childron at my e Thoy lift the thoughta to brightor things, wher revel, wit, and miril, Itigh sontn the sotil on eaglo wings to realms afar from carth, It T am draary thero alons, what other Ia so dear An Goldemiti'a Viear? sll my own the iogloside's ‘warmi chuor ; Oltyin besido mo kuitn, flophia lights my pipe, Aud manty Burchell silent alts, of heroos Sucat type, 1f Jovinl Laurence Bterno I scan, and laugh at honest m, And Unclo ‘Toby, brave old man, and Widow Wad- s Wi ; And grop s tour o drawn tho oufh an sugol's pinions o ; Irumor and pathios, sistora both, o'or Tristram's page prasids, Flolding aud Bmollott wile on hour with magle wana away § Tlmull)l naughty Tom falls {n tho power of Dollaston the gay 3 And Rundoy Is a triflo wild, and Olinker rather cold, ‘Aud woot. Hophis wondrous mild, aud Porogrine too . Whst wondor-world from Dickens flows! Young Cop- perficld ut school ; Wilkina Micawher's chfonlo woes, and Heep, mora ¥nave than fool ; James Bleorforth, dashing to tho end; Miw Detsy Trotwoud, too ; And Dick, tho oracle 'and friend, wilh Dora crowd tha viow, Who's that 2 Why, Mr, Plckwick, Miss{ And that? Toor littlo Nell{ And, bless my soul } Hob Cratcht this, with Tiny Tim, grown wolll Hureal 110 Morry Christmas me, with Jolly Ohrlst mn cheer, Hark to {he musio of tha chime | Hownow? Asmilo and tear? Tatup o fre snd trim the light, draw up my casy e For m:n:fnmy 1t 0 to-night, with wicked Docky 070 2 But sco! the dear old Colono! comes, with Clivoand dariing Boy | And Esmond into Flandors roams, os Boatrix boams with joy. He, Irving! with his Dutchmon dight in breoks a Unker's dozon § And Rip, tho rascal ; ailly wight, his shrewian frau to cozon! Katrina's blooming cheeks aro red and ripo with con- scious blushes; At Crane, tho Horacinan hurls his head, sa o'er the ‘bridgo he rushes, Of poets, Pos drops in thomost, and band in hand with cott § Though Byron ofton rules tho rosat, and Robest Durns, Twot; While Moore and Hood, thoso genial barde, knock gayly at the door Witk Tounyuon, and leave tholr cards whero Shuk- spoaro relgned bofora, Welcomo, old comrades of the brain! 'l love you to 0 last, And grect sou oer and oer sgain, til slght and sonso are past: T'll wring the honost, manly hand j I'll kiss the sweet- heart’s brow } V11 bio mo Into fancy-land with all my soul, I trow, Pleaso God! while through the world I tread—thls ‘motloy, chockerud eceno— My orcharda faithful fruft shull shed, my flelds b ale ways green : For on life's fickle, Tiairs grow gray, Tooks are tho fricuds that nover sgo—to them I pon my lay —David G, Adee in the New York Evening Post. —_— . anslont stago, though human LITERATURE, M. Thiors' woik upon ‘“The Arts in Italy" will #oon bo itstied. = : ~—Du Chaillu is busy on his book of travels in Norsay and Swedon. —William Michaol Rosetti s to edit un odition of the paoms of William Blake, tho artist-myatic, for tho Bell's Aldino soriea. —The_firat two volumes of the edition of Fumo's Philosophical Works, long promised by Megsrs. Grooti & Grase, are HOW in pross. —Olive Logan has still another new hoolk in proparation. = Her last novel has rosched ils elghth edition. 2_A Mrs. Hooper, of Philadelphis, lays claim to the plot of the *‘Now Magdalen,” as boing that of hor atory of * Undor Falue Colors,” pub- lishod 1 1870. —Prof. Beoloy (of *Ecco Homo" fame) is atatad Lo be engaged on a Jifo of Btoin, tho groat reformor of Prussis, after its overthrow by tho firat Napolaon, 5 —A roprint in exaot fac-simile is now making of tho firut edition of diilton's * Paradiso Lost.” A fow copics aavo beon imported by Beribnor, Wolford & Armstrong. —Parig’ prosent to the Shoh was & magnificont copy of Alphauds “Promovados de Puris,” on which work no less than 700,000 fraucs have beon expended. —The London Athenaum bownils the pros- poct of & now torrent in tho shapo of & mass of lohammedan controversial litorature. No less than three Apologies for tho lifeof the I’mEhot of Islam hsve beon rocontly published in Iing- Ligh,, v —~2rof, William Swinton, of the University of California, an dovoted soveral yeara to tho pre- paration of his forthcoming *Outhnes of Gono- ral Hiatory," and 1t is said to be his beat work, Ivisou is to publish it this fall, —TThe atory Miss Braddon ia writing for Bovo- ral_Eanglish provincial nowspapors will bo enti- tled “Taken at the Flood." Arrpngements are mado for'its concurrent publication in France, Germnuy, Australis, and Amorica. —At tho recont sato of Mr. Macready's library tho late Mr, Lacy purchasod a copy of “ Croni- well," u play by Lord Lytton, of which he stated that ouly four copies had been printod off. —The origin of upocies is a subject that bas already produced almost a library of books, and still they como. M, do Valroga, an ominent Irouch priest, has rocently written a work on the subject to prove that the doctrines of Dar- win hcomnin nothing dungorous to the Christian faith. —It {8 snnounced that Mosars, Adam and Charles Black, London, are about to publish the niuth edition of the ' Encyclopwdia Britannica," which will, it is computad, involve an outlay ot 91,000,000 The editor will bo Br. Spencer Baynes, Profosgor of Logioin the University of 8t. Androw's. = —Mr. Nast's illustrations of ¢ Pickwick "—the long-promised edition by the Harpors—sro not congidered pleasing, **Ho has vulgarized all our old friouds out of all recognition,” says one oritie; ‘*his campaign caricature style cannot bo wafely carried into literature, and it is this which ha has done,” —Dr. Boke has published a pamphlet entitled # Mount Binai & Voloano,” in oxplanution of the Ilnsulge in the book of Exodus relating to a pil- ar of cloud by day snd lgfllllr of firo by night. The anthor argucs that Binai is an extinet vol- oano. —Mr+ Willlam Ellory Cbnnninf In his Mo~ morial of ‘Thorosu,” nfiu that fn\vumma' a8 A writer, ¢ lovos tho morbid and the lame ;" and further, * Hin characters are not drawn from lifo ; bin plota aud thoughts aro often dreary, ns ho_was himself in_some lights. Ilis favorito writors were ‘the English novelists,' and Boo- cacclo, Horace, and Johngon,” —That distinguished student of Ohinese, Dr. B, Wolls Wulliams, hioy coploted the main por- tion of his now Dictionary of tho Chineso Lau- gungo, tho rosult of forty yoars' work. It will comprise 12,600 Chinose oharactors, and will mako a thros-column quarto of about 1,160 pugos. It in utoreotypod fn China. —Drot Harto has moro translators in Germany than ho can numbor on his flngers, Au anony-, mous hand {8 attempling his complote worky prow aud voruo, and two volumos of this serig? havo slready appoarod at Lolpzik, simultanconsly with a tiunelation of solooted Oalfornia tales, LY Wilbelin Iertzbory, who is distingulshed ta® trannlations of Chaucor, Bhakspenro, aud Ton- uyson. —Among th foreign writors coured for tho, now Infernalional Jwoieto, aro Dean Stanloy, J. A. Troudo, Dr. W. B.' Carponter, -Thomns Hughes, M, P,, Prof, Max Mueller, Ndward A. Froomah, the' historian; Edward Laboulayo Doilinger, au Prof. Dorner, of Borlin, —1tho London Athenieuns understands that an important lingulutio work is iu course of propara- tlon, and thata fivst yolumo of it i, In fact, - thereof, vorsal Lawa of tho .Formation and Davelopmant of Languago: a Rational and Inductive Systemn fnundnfi“nn tho Naturnl Bnais of Onomatops.” 'Tho authors are tho Connt.de Lianconrt, s I'rench gontloman long resident in England, and Mr. Fredario Plncott, —A Noy York corrnspondont of the Troy Times thns rocalls Motloy'a llrat litorary effort and fail- wro: “I woll remomber the timo when Motloy came to thia city n poor and ambitious anthor, with a 'cnmh-rmmy novol under hin arm, looking for s publisher, The Harpers gob tho book ont, and tho ‘weitor of thls had the plonsurs of nolling it _bohind the countor of s roadway bookatore. It was callod ! Morton's Hopo,' und, like many othor hopes, yroved a sovors disappolutment, Buch was ol 10y'a bo- sluslog In 1890," . —A lifo of Washington fe lssued by s Yeddo publisher, This litorary novolty, says a corro- apondent, {8 brought out in no loss than forty- four volumes in tha Japanose charncters,. and s {ardmnuly {llustrated in tho highost tyle of art; Washington ia reprosented. in tho clothos and fashion of tho prosont day, and with s mous- tacho, carrging & cane, and accompanied by o 8kyo torrior. Hein gazing at a lady with a train, n Grocian bond, and a hideous waterfall, —Washington Irving_recoivad about $240,000 for hin litorary Inbors. In that respoct no Ameri- can nuthor han equaled him, Bavard Taylor and Longfolloy have mado about $50,000 oach by their books. Taylor, howevor, has a good pro- priotary intoront in the New York Tribunc, which onables him to live iv good style abroad, though heisaman not givon to show, Of the later Amarican authors, ' Mark Twain" has probabl won the most cofn, and Lo is as thrifty witl ponce as with pon. A —It has bosn brought ont in the recont dis- cusalon abrond over tho autlonticity of coriain papors attributod to Do Quincey, that soveral workn ara omitted from tho collected edition, Among these aronamed *' Waladimor," » recast of » Gorman novel purported to bo from tho English of tho author of * Waverly ;". ** Kloatar- hol,” a romance of tho Tadeliffo achool, and tho ' Loglo of Political Eocouomy,” in which it i argued that price is .mdegendont of both wagos and profits, 3 —The Menara, Longmans have in ‘prepnration * A History of Greees;" by tho Rev. G. W. Cox. It will be jusued {n four volumes- during the au- tumn, and fs smd to bo _the moat comploto his- tory of Grooco yet wrivien. It Ia less volum- inoits than Grote's, which, thua far, is nnquen- {tionably the noblest Iolonic history evor pub- hisbed.” The Rev, Dr. Cox bhas produced the most thorough and philosophical work in onur lany g0 upon tie theolagy of the anclents,— his ** Mythology of the Aryan Nations,"—aud, doubtloas, his ¢ IHistory of Greeco " will bo su* porior to Groto's in that direction. —Tho twouty-first roport of tho Boston Public Library bas just beon mado by tho Trusteos, It Lins now 909,548 volumes, including_ those at tho four circulating librarica connacted with it,—~an increnss of 14,644 duriug tho yoar,—bosides 113, 163 pnmphlots. Tho total circulation has beon 407,855, » dally avoragoof 1,610. The total numbor of namen Togintorod b applicants for the library priviloges ara 53,043 ; 177,512 readers frequontad the perlodioal reading-room of tho Contral Library, who road 213,609 magazines. The total number of books loaned and nob ro- turoed Las beon betwoen G0 and 70. . The total oxpouditure from tho city appropriations way 88(;,498,01, and 81,8170 was' paid into the City Tronsury from fings and malos of cateloguos. The Sunday experimont has proved most suc- cessful ; tho Bunday use I8 somothing sbovo s half of that of week-days, but by a very decorous olasy who soldom appear on othor days. sttt il ROB ROY OF THE MISSISSIPPL A Desperate, Thorough, Learned Vile inan. Ex-Sonator Foote, in one of his personal rem- inisconces, gives tho following xccount of an out- Iaw whom o was called upon to defend, sud who wag callod the Rob Roy uFlhB Mississippi : Alonzo Phalps was a nativo of Now England. According to his own auntobiographical confession {drawn up chislly by bimselr, but in my own prosence, & fow days bofore his death, while de- tained'ns aprisonor), hio bad, in a fit of jealousy, alnin a rival lovor in his native vicinago, socrete the body of his victim in & neighboring mill- Punfl. and fled to the Valloy of tho Mississippi, Ho 1nd Horo boon & wandorer for many yoars, soldom ontoring & buman babitation, and subsisting nl- togothor on tho raw mont of ' squirrols and other wild animals, which bo had captured in the chaso. 1o had long infostod the banks of the Migsiseippl, hod committed oight murdors, and moro than sixty robberios, aud had a dozon times broken jail and oscaped the punishmont of the law. Straugo to say, o was o ripo and nc- curato fcholar, and whan taken prisoner, & fow woeks subscquent to tho po;fiunltlcn o' hia last murder, bad, as I personally know, a pocket copy of Horaca in his possossion, which ho read with great facility, and with far moro relish for the 18t0 beaution of the poctic friond and pro~ toge of tho groat Mwmconas than Lord Byron ro- ports himolf to have at any time dono, His appearanco at the trial was vory strik- ing and impressivo. Ilo was a musoular, well- shaped mau, about five foat oleven inchos in height, and ovidontly possossed of great physical wigor and activity, Hohad a particularly fair complozion, & £oyd donl freckled from. conatant exposiia to the air, His hair was blood-red, was much ivclined to_curl, and his crispy, snake-like lacks stood stifly up over and alout his cra- nium with & singularly grizzly and monacing aspect. 0 was convicted and sent to jail to await his exccution. Mr. Foote eays he was ** summoned to tno prison to aid this man in the preparation of his confession, a document afterward pub- lizsod us is stobiography. - Boforo o wrting of it was completed I bad to leavo Vicksburg for ono of tho courts in the intorior of the Btata, loft on tho tablo whero I had beon writing s lorden inkatand for Pholpy’ use, out of which I Lad beon mysolf writing.. Aftor ecribbling sumo twouty or thirty pagea of manuscript in addition, e closed by tho declaration that he did not in- tood to bohung; that ho had once been a soldier, and ho intonded to die the death of a soldior, Aftor this he asked that a proacher of the Gospel should be sont for to minister to him the Inst mpiritual cousolation, The Rov. Mr. Marshall, then, a8 now, a residont of Vicksburg, was_sont for and camo, In tho meantime, Phelps had pro- pared himsolf for tho performance of an oxtraor- diuary foat, Ho had contrived in soma way to saw tho manacles which bound his hands, almost in two, 5o that, with & strong effort, he could burat thom asundor. Lo had enveloped the loadon Inketaad in n stocking, and stood with it grasped in both hands behied tho door when Mr. Anding, tle Jailor, opened it, and couducted iv Mr. Marshall.” With & single 'blow Lie knocked down tho jailer. Alr, Marshall bad time tofly into another room which he saw opon, and hed sufficiont presence of mind to lock himeolf up theroin sccurely. By this timo Phelps, having made an unsuccessiul effort to disoncumber his hands, snatchod a large knifo from the holt of Mr. Anding, walked ot of tho door of Lis own cell, closing the door behind bitn, and sdvanced to tho outer door of tho jail. By this time the alarm had been given, and Mr. Howard, the Bhoriff, rushed to tho jail-yard with & number of attendants, many of whom wero armed. Tho outor door was forced open, by order of ths Bleriff, by use of axes. ".I‘I:c rat man that entered saw blaziog before his faco the uplified knifo of = Mr. Auding, which Phelpa held firmly in both ‘of his fottored Lands, The door-oponer recoiled, and Pholps marched forth, The_ crowd inconti- nently gave way bofore him. o strode s faw stops toward the gato of tho prison-yard. Tho Bhoriff struck bim s savera blow over tho head with a heavy gun which bo held in his hands, which slightly stunned him; He still strode forward, got without the gate, snd was rapidly dosconding the Lill toward tho rivor when Drickbats, sticks, aud othor missiles were hurlod at bim in great number, .One of the brickbats struck him in the small of tho back, and serious- ly disabled lim, Upon this, he turned sudden!, round to the Bheriff, who was purauing him wit! & loaded gun, and demandoed death at his hauds, He firod, aud thero was an ond of tho oarthly career of #Tno Rob Roy of the Misslsslppl.” - —_— LIFE, Forenoon and afternoon and night—forenoon ‘Aud afternoon and aight—foreuoon, and—what The oty soug ropeata ituolf, Noiora? Yes, that (s Lifa; maka thts forencon wublime, ‘Thilafternoon a pralm, this night a prayor, * u 18 conquered) and thy crown I won. —E, It Silly —_— 4 No Seat, No Iay ”? & In the Cincinnatl Board of Aldermen artreot- ourordinsuco has boouintroduced which contaius, suwongst othor provislons, this clauso : * Jivory pausenger shall be provided by the conduotor with a seat inside tho car, and.in no cuvo shall faro bo collected or demanded from & passongor unloss such A soal i furnisbod upon hig or har outoring the car. The rulo of _‘no saat, no.pay’ shall Lo strlotly adhered to by all conduotors, Any conducfor gullty af a violution of this provision shall, on conviction, bo lisble to n flue of 810 and couts of proscontion,” In England card gre only| liceusod to corry & cértaln number’ of anpln, and sny infrivgement of the law would bring sbout & rovoeation of the llcense, Overcrowd- ing cars in this country is a sourco of great Incovenlonca to passorigers, aud oruel to the PERU. How Henry Meiggs Brought On a Torrible Rain-Storm. Cnnslern_ation of the People at the Phenomenon---Loss Over a Million Dollars. Thoe Canonization of Sister Morcedesss Lotteries in Lima-~A Wash= crwoman’s Bad Luck. h Speeial Correspondence of The Chicago Tributie, T, Porn, Ang, 1873, ' 1 bolleve thatI wrote fn ono of my ldttors that it nevor ralus in Peru, and tho native-born Po- ruvian, as woll as many foreign childron born horo, have no correct iden of otthe rrain or snow, and have «fian asked me ** how tho rain and snow looked coming down ;” how largo the rain- drops were ; and if & drop of snow or rain would burt yau if it foll on your bave hoad.” I have had them asl mo if o snow-flake was ns Iarge a8 a dinnor-plate, and many other quoor questions, that showed their innocence, a8 woll as ignorance of “the eubjoct under disoussion., DBut I can mno longer writo that it nover rains in Porn. Sinco my last Jotter, the vry flood-gatos of Hoaven have boen opened, aud it has not ouly rained, but it 1S FAIRLY POURED, tothe, at first, surpriso; thon, delight ; thon, dismay ; thon, constornation ; thow, horror ; and, -t last, fright, of tho Poruvians, aud forolgncrs ‘aa well. Ofton havo I said to my family, ** I am tired of this monotony, this uncoasing, universal subshine aud shadow. If enly wo could expori- _enco o genuluo Now York raiu-storm,”—littlo thinking that we should have a realization of my worda. It isattributed to the wonderful achiove- ments of Honry Meiggs, the American Raile way-King and millionaire, and probably with truth and ronson, Henry Moiggs, and his army of ongincors nnd survoyors, bave beeu cnening up tho veory heart of tho country, and ponotrat- inginto the interior, whero tho ove of mun Las beforo nover been, Ho has tunncled and dug, loveled treos and mountsius, clearod forost, and built up, until ho hes enveloped the whole country in . mot-work of railronds, aud brought its hidden troasurcs to light. From tho Andes to the Pucific bhas ho ostab- lished rail-communication; and, in thus bringing to uso tho vast rosonrces of the country, it is asserted that ho has altored the very faco of tho soil, and DROUGHT RAIN-CLOUDS, by opening up tho foroats aud the impenotrabla wastos. Itisa very lmportant quostion just now, among the Lima and Callao paople, what thoy aro to do if the country is to be thus changed, *Wo ehall havo chills and fever and miasmas; we shall need our housos all rebuilt in differont style of architocturo; wo shall have to put roofs to our court-yards and kitchons, and ohango our plans of build- ing, thoy ecry; and, as a Poruvisn hales any chango, evon although it may be an improvement. I do not know whethor thoy aro not porry that they were not loft undevoloped na to railroad advantages. But to roturn to our rain-storm. It wasahout 10 in tho morning, sud one of tho usual lovely sunny mornings for which Peruvisus are always prepared. Many of tho dark-syed belles of Li- Tum wore out shopping, accompanied by the little Cholo sorvants. Gradually tho sky darkened, and tho clonds gathored, just as it always doas befora an earthyuslke-shock. And then suddon- ly, without suy futhior premonition, camo down » perfoot delugo of raiu, lasting for three hours, and producing overywhero TUE GREATEST CONSTERNATION, Elogant mansions on tho Calle de Lima wore almost complateiy ruined Intornally by the furi- ous torrent that camo with such force and in such vast volumes of water, Tho houses here are nearly all built to form o hollow-square, and have 8 Euvud court-yard, with marvle tloors around the corridors, augd’ glass-doors oponing from the foursides of the house on tothis Lollow- aquaro. Tho court-yard genorally hns all kinds of lovely flowors in bloom, in hugo boxos, in tho: centre, and banapa-trecs; and & fountain is ot play; and roses - and vines climb and cover the -four wsides of tho "house. At firat the rain wa8 & delight and novelty. Children, aud lovely young Indigs, and sober matrons, rau out into the coust- yards or the stroet, aud, baro of hoad, held up tapor fingers to cafch tho gontly-dropping rain, But, as it inoreasod In_Bevority, one by one van- jshod into the houss, slthough' the children of tho pooror Cholo clasaes, who aro never burden- od with_clothing, and who wesr ouo_garment gonerally, rolled in the guttors and tumbled over ©n the pavements, In ecstasics of delight, and only came into thoir cabina wet and dripping, to Do drivon out again by tho flood_that poured through tho mat-roof and deluged everything. Gradually the forco of tho storm destroyed shrub, end blossom, and plant ; troos broke down under the unexpected torrent; and, as tho court-yants bogsn to fill up, the rain POUIED IN UNOUECKED TORRENTS through tho mkylights and hght cane roofs, running in stronte on _to elegait pianos, wash® ing out the colors in rick volvot carpets, soak- ing into lght satin-covered chirs and sofas, wilting lace curtains and pouring ou to beds and other furniture with a porfect forocity. As tho houes aro 1ot often covered with ceiliugs, on account of oarthquakes, the high rooms are fin- fuhied up to rafters, painted in frenco, exactlyliko the interior of our churches ; and ofton the roofs of tho bost houses ara only smooth boards, covor- od with o litsle adobe plastoring. Many of tho houaos have & fine flower-garden on tho top of the house, the plants, of course, set out in bozen; and nearly every ono who keaps fowls, parroty, and other birds, keops them up on the Toofs, Among the shrubbery. Such a cackling of hons, and soreaming of parrots, whon tho rain-drops upuot thoir domaine and deluged thom with It fury! Buch o shrieking of women and children, s they ran from ono room to an- other, vainly scoking sholter| Buch n lively rinning among sliop-keopers and clorks, as they rushed with delicate miks, Inces, and ribbons, seoking ome shelf or hiding placo that the flood would not soek out, RIVERS BAN THROUGH TUE BTREETS and ovor the pavements and swept irreslatably into houso, store, shop, and basomout. - The ooror olasos build an adobe (mud) house, and or a roof, cover it with & mat of cauo. Many of tho kitchena have mot oven a cane-mat laid on top of tho sides, Imagine the dilomma of the Chinese cooks proflmrlufi dinner, as the storm nat only put out thoir fires. and flooded their kitchous “and quarters, but actuslly came in such torrents that beof, soup, fish, vegotablen, and dossort all wont sailing away from the tablos, sod diabos, knives, cooking-utensils, and every kind of light portable ware, swept away by the rain, was hopolessly lost. No one can fitly de- soribe tho soone, and, unless we remembor that overy housp fs built with the lightest possible roofing, 88 it nover had ralned hioro, we csu bardly roalizo it. The Indies wosr slippers al- most univorsally, and think of tho wet fest and ruinad dresses of those caught out fu the storm! Evonthestoresofferod little protoction; for,whero thoy are built overhoad with glass altos, or bal- conles, which familles occupy, the roofs offorod hardly moy hindrance, and the rain poured through from sooond story to first With- out any perceptiblo roatraint. A MILLION OF DOLLADS will not cover the loss; while every house, of rioh aud poor alike, hins rulued walls, furuiture, and olothing, The Poruvians ssom to fecl moro fright over thoe rain thap If thoy had been visited by violont earthquake shooke, Looauso, #ny they, wo aro used to thowo; but fo bo dienohed, ohl that we cannol bear as welll Luna baa a grand foast-day to-day, over TUE OANONIZATION OF A BAINT, » Blator Morcedos, who died here nearly thirty yours ago. Sbe was a Bister Buperior bolonging to & convont hero, and noted for hos good works and doeds of charlty. Bhedied of some lingeriug. diseaso, wherein the bluod. all turus to wator; and thay toll fabulous stories of tho perfect. trausparonoy of hor skin ; of its belug of such an alabaster clearnoss that oue cunld luuk: through tho ontoer surfaco of the body and aco' the shiapo and form of brain, heart, aud lungs! LAt her burial; tho Archbishop out the form: of & crops In bor, forehead aud nido, ‘sud, sirango to folate, tners issuod’ from the cut blood and water, as fiom the oruci- fied body of the Bavior. Thero was b great celo« bration at tho time of her death, aud, ou account of this miracle, she was mado o Patron-Saint, Lady.of Morolon” (avery family.in. Poru has a Morcnden among its fomale. mombert) nad to- Qay, as hor romainaare to bo romoved to tho now Panthoon, is made o grand gala-day, Tho tomb in openad, and tho Lvudz oxpoeod (aftor first ho- ing anoinfod in socrot by tho attonding priosts), and, wondorful to toll, the aame drops of blooc are #och to tricklo from the croms in tha foro- liead, and tho pooplo are n & porfeot ceatacy of roliglous forvor, \Thia avoniug thoro will bo fire- Worke, muio, siow, and danceny and, i day, oxourslon-traing run to tho ** Point” and differ- ont plenic-grounds, and Lima oud Caflao unite in nuniversal Jubllco. hl -boliove I have meontionod in formor lottors that THE LOTTERY BUAINESS boro §s & porfeotly logalized one, condnoted on & perfoctly fair batis, and undor tho uspices of the priests, who dorivo an’ immonso revouuo from it. Xvery day, old man go along tho stroots, book, and penell Iu hend, orying the “uworton,” or lotteries, Iach tiokot costs & rial (10 conts), and you omn buy an many tickets sa yon plaano,—thio old man taking your nama and numb.or, aud tolling you on what day tho drawing talien placo, 'This always occura just as ho snys, aud any one can ottond, Every Wedneaday tha year round, the drawing comes off for *"quatro millo soloa (4,000 wolos, or £6,000 nearly of our mmlof); and - froquontly folcigners—Caplains_of slips lying hore - Cnllno, and othors—draw the lucky prizo. In my own family, ono momber of it arew the 3100 prizo on Monday from a 10-cont ticket, Thesg people, old and young, rich aud poor, all luveat In swortos’; and el kinds of games of chanco, rafMos, throwing of dico, otc., - aro univorsnlly tha custom koro, There ato days in oach week, at Lima and Cnllao, for amallor lottories; but the " quatre millo foles” is tho most patronized aud popuiar, My old black washerwoman, Dolores_(Grief) by namo and mouinful by nature, an old, docropit Cholo, lving in poverty, dirt, fleas, in & niisora- _ble room in our calla-hono (or sliey), to-dny drow the lucky number, 1,774, or $1,0001 Tlio agont camo to notify her and got Ler tickot; but tho old body hag eithor LOST ON MIBLAID HER TIOKET, and it conld not bo found! he, lilie all the rost of hor clarg, had hought at loast ouo tickot weok- 1y, and, novor having drawn anything, sho grow caroless, and lnid "her rial tickel awny wso carcloselossly ns to loso it. Invain wo intercodo for her, and mon -of known verscity tostify to her honesty ; sho cannot claim tho money unleas she produces the ticket, and the'law of tho swortos is unchangeable, I am told that thin samo accident has occurred before with different poople, sud tho lottory to-dny in 4,000 solos bot- or off for tha old washorwoman'd carelessnoss. Moanwhilo, overy donkey-boy, boggar, China- man, cook, and washerwoman in the slloy, ara loud'in their oxpressions of sorrow for hor- loss, and, joining bands, haye all bought ouo or moro tickots, promising hor that should any of them draw o prize, sho should bo prosonted with it, a8 a roturn for hor disnppointment, And o kind- hoearted aro theuo posple that_ they would really male their words good should they be_to fortu- nate a8 to got the prize, ‘Warpa, BLUE-JACKETS’ PETS. Darkey=Roys, Senlw, Cockronches, Mongooscs, and Lizords, From Chambers® Journal, Bluo-jackets, as Hor Majesty's eallora are sometimes styled, are passionatoly fond of pots. They must bave somothing to love, if it bo but & woolly-headed nigger-boy or o cockroach in & ‘baccy-box. Little nig- gor-boys, indead, may atton: bo found on board a man-o™-war tho reigning pets. Young niggets aro vory prococious. You csn tench thom all they will evor learo in tho short space of pix months. Of this kiud was one I romem- ber, littl Freozing-powders, ne black s mid- Digut, and sbining all over liko & billird-ball, with his round, curly hoad snd pleasant, diwply faco. Froozing-powders soon bocame s general favorite both fore and afi, His master, our marine-officer, picked him up somowhera on the wout const; avd, although only 9 yoars of sgo, beforo he was four montha in the ship, ko could spenk good English, was o porfect little gymvast, and knew as many tricks and capors a8 tho cook and tho moukey. Snowball was another I know, _but 8nowball took to rum at an early ago, lost casto, becamo dissipated, and a gambler, and finally fled to bis native junglo, Jock, of ours, was a seal of tendar years, who for many mouthi rotained the affoctions of all Dands, until washed overboard in a xalo of wind. This ereaturo's time on board was fully occupiod in n daily round of duty, ploasure, and labor. His duty consisted in cating wovon mools a doy, aud batbing in a tub after each ; his ploasure, to licon_his sido oun the quarter-deck,aud bo soratchod and pottod ; while his labor cousistod of coanolessly ondeavoring to cnlsrge a cortain scuppor-holo_ sufliciently to pormit Lis escape, to his mnative ocoan. How indofutigably lo used to work, day by day, and hour after hour, #craping on the iron, first with one Uip- por, then auother, then poking’ hia nose in to measuro the result with his whiskered facol Ho kept tho Lolo bright aud cloar, but did not_son- sibly enlarge it, at loast to human ken. Jock's succossor on that ahip was a youthful bear ‘of arctic natiyity. He wasn't s nice pot. Ho took all you gave lum, and wanted to et your haud 28 woll, but e nover #aid,” * Thavk you,” and pormitted no familiarity, When ho” took his wwalks abroad, which he did_every moruing, al- though he never went out of his road for a row, be walkod straight abead, with his nose down- ward, growiing, aud gnawed aud toro overy.bing that touched him—not 8¢ all & pot worth being troubled with, Did the reader ever besr of the sailor who tamod a cockroach? Well, this man I was ship- mato with. Ho built a little cage, with a little kennol in the coruer of it, exprossly for his un- gnvory pot, aud ho called 'tho creature ldzky— ¢ ywhich he npmed himself, sir," ho explained to me, Idzky was a gisnt of bis race. Iis length was fally four incliok, is breadth one inch, wiile onch of his wayving feelers moasured ‘six. Thiy moustor know his nao and lus mastor's voics, Lurrying out from his keunel whon called upon, and emitting the strauge sound which gained for him tho cognomen ldzky. The boatywain, his master, was a8 proud of him as he might hiave beon of 8 prize pug, and never tired of 0x- hibitiog bis eccentrigitios. 1 mot the boatswain tho othor day at the Cape, and wquired for his pet. +Qb, sir,” ho eaid, with genuine feoling, he's gous, sir. Shortly after you left the ship, poor Iuzky took to taking rather much liquor, and that don't do for any of us, you know, sir ; 1 think 1t was thss, for I nover had the hoart to ut him on allowauco; aud he went raving mad, End rogular fits of delirium tromons, and did nothing but run round his cago aud bark, and wouldu't look at suything in the way af food. Woll oue day I wai coming of thi foranoon vtch, when what did I seo but & doublo lin of them ‘P’ ants working in and out of the littlo lace ; twenty Or 80 Wero carrying s wing, sud o St:zcu a log, and balf a Bcoro ruuning on with a feelor, just like mou carrying o stowed mainsail; ‘and that,’ says I ‘s poor Idzky's funoral; and g0 it s, aud I didu't disturb thom, Poor Tdzky 1" Peter was a pet mongoose of mine, a kindly, cozy little fellow, who slept sround my neck &b night, and kopt me oloar of cockroaches, ns woll a8 my implucable enemies the rats, I was good to Petor, and fed him well, and usod to tako him on shore at the Oape smohg tho snokes, The snakes were for Potor to fignt; and thoe way my yary, woo friond dodged aud closed with, and flnu{]y throttlod and killed a cobra, was acaution to that subtlost of all the boasts of the flold, The presiding Malay used to cln‘p his brown hands with Joy as he exclaimed: * Ah, ssuvo, good mangoose, BAr j proper ‘mongooue to Py tho snako," “ You don't object, do you,” I modeatly asked my Captain_one dav, whilo etrolling on tho quarter-deck aftor tiflin,— you don't “object, I Lliopo, to the somewhat curious pets I at timos bring on board " @ Objoct#" b ropied. “Well, no; not as o rulo, Of courso, you koowI don'tlike your snakes to get gliding all ovor tho ehip, as thoy were tho other day. But, Doctor, what's the 0od of my objocting? If any ono wore to let EIM unkioly beast fn the box yondor loose—" #Don't thivk of it, Captain,” T interrupted; " ’!m‘d l'm tho death of somobody, to & dead aer- taiuty.” YNol I'm notsuch a fool,” he continued. * Bat, it I ghot him, why, iu & few days yon'd bo blllnl‘nfi a boa-constrictor or an alifgator on mo, and tolling me it was for tho good of soloncoand tho service." The unholy beast in tho box was the most aplondid and graceful spoouuen of tho monitor lizard I have ever wool, Fll"!{ five feot long from tip to tail, he swelled sud tapoied in the most portect liboy of boauty, Bmooth, though sealy, and inky black, tartanod all over with trausversorows of bright-yellow spots, with eyos thut shouo liko wild-tire, and teeth ke quartz, with s forked tongue coutinually flashing vut from his bright-red mouth, he had a_wild, welrd lovoliness that was most uucanny. elos, 88 the Captain not luaptiy called hin, know e, howevor, and took his cuckrouchos from wy band, although porfootly fiantio when an ono olso wont near him, ‘It & ;)(nnn of wood, howaver hard, were dronped into Diiwe = it wag \ 7 ond of a rope, he might quit parincrehip with his hord, but nevor with the ropo, Ono day, groatly to my horror, the steward en« torod the wardroom, palo with fear, and re« ported: ' Mephistopholes eseaped, sir, and yafiling” (ronc lng] “tho men.” I rushod om dook, ‘Tho animal had indeed oscaped. Ha Lad torn hia nnf;u into splinters, and doclared war against all’ hands, “Making for the fore batchway, ho had sclzed & man by the jacket~ skirts, going down tho Inddor, The man got out of the garmont wilhout delay, and fled fastor than any Liliish. enilor Susid fo bave done, On tho lowor deck ho chasod tho cook from tho coppers, and Lho carponter from his benoh. | A circlo of Kroomen wero sitting mend- ing n_foromnil; Mophistopholes suddenly n pearad in their midat, ‘I'ho niggers unanimously throw up their tous, individually turned somer- saults buolward, and sought the four winds of licavon. ‘Pheso routed, my pot turned his atten- tion to Poaple. Poepie was a littlo Arab slave- Inss, Bho wam squaiting by a calabash, sioging low to hersolf and eating ‘rice, He solzod lior cummorbund ; it was lier only garment. But Peopio mqgiou cloar—natural—gnd ron on decl¢, tho funocont, like the ‘“funny little maidon” in Hans Broltmann that * liad got -nodmga on,” On the cummerbund Moplisto~ pholors apont tho remaindor of lus fury aud the rest of lila lifa; for, not knowing what might happon noxt, I sont for a fowling-picco, and the plucky fellow succumbod to the foreo of circum- slances and a pipoful of buckshot, I have him yondor on tho sidobonrd, in body aud in spirit E in), bottle-matos with a saudsnako, thres cen- Frodos, aud » tarantuls. % SAVAGE LIFE IN AFRICA. Xiumnn Sacrifices and the Amnazons in Buhomey. An Englishman, Mr. J. A. Blotclly, has just roturned from Dahomoy, on tho west const of Africs, nud is tow furnishing somo intoreuting filluntrationn from Jus sketch-book to tlo Illustrated London News.: For six montha Mr. Blotchly wae the guost of tho King, by whom he tras vory unmu.fin{ \ronted. Ho tue only white mau that Las beon admitted into the pri- vato apartmonts of the King, ‘Tbere is no town of Dalwmoy, The capital i moraly oue ot tho royal palacos, with oflicial reridencos for tho Digh olticors and the sorvants ; whilo tho Ama- zous roside withiu tho pulaco in loug, bain-liko buildings immodiatelv outsldo and sirroundini the King's privato aparumonts, At ench of his Dine palacos thoro are 4,000 of theso Amazond. Boforo Mr. Rkotehly was admittod to the pal- aco he went through coromoniuls lnsting tiros doys, during which ho was crostod o Prince of tho royal blood, a Dulo, and a Gionetal of the srmy, but not of the Awnzous. o was then pormittod to see tho various custons, He was an eyo-witnoss to the grand sumual ceremo- nial whon tho principal human sociifices take laco. P For tho sacrifice called tha Mon-hoo-who, the King roclives on a_wiokor-work louuge w nie palaco. Hao weara only a bluo cotton rooe, us ho Fousiders his dignity 8o groat that ho can nfford to drassin ordinary elotbmy. Nottber tho King nor the membors ‘of the royal family ever dress iu gaudy attire. anvz tho King's head an umbrells is ox- tended, and this 18 gorgeous with scarlot, blue, and yollow igures, cut. out with o kuife fiom velvot, silk, and damank, ‘Tho Amnzous sow 1ho piecos together so as to form emblematic de- vices, Tho bird is indicativa of mylll?‘. None but the Princes of Dahomoy are sllowed to adoptit. ‘The top of the umbrelis is surmowitt- od by & woodon ornament, reprosonting a man with o bird in his hand, A Tho Amazons aro seated round the King. Bo- tweon thom and the people a number of bamboo rods are placed in a line upon the ground. ~ Any man who erossos ouo of theso rods suffors imma- Qiote doath. Boldiers bring in the victims,— plaves taken in war, and goucrally old mon. Thoy are gaggéd by mioaus of o stick with grase Topo wrapped around (¢, which fills up the whola mouth, and is tied st the backk of tho head. Thoir hands aro fastoncd togother, sud thoy are firmly bound to baskots which ace carried on tho noldiers’ heads. Thoir bodiea aro entirely nokoed, savo & singlo cloth nround the loins. Conical bats nio kopt on their Leads until jusi before decapitaton. ‘The Prime Ministor lics prostrato, and receives in that poeition a mes- Bugo from tho King to tho victims, This mes- eago ia to ba carried Lo the fathor of tho preseut King, who diod about nino yoars ago, TFur their subuistence on tho way ha pivos thom each a Lottlo of rum and a licad of cowrics. The mon aro then taken to & platform twouty foot bLigh fo sn adjscont court-yard ; there thoy aro cast headlong still bound to tho baskets. “Tho oxe- cutionor# thon cut off their heads and oxhibif tuom to tho peoplo; after which thoy aro placad on woodon sltars o ornsmont the palaco gaa. Threo days afiorward ths Lioads arg taken Wi~ in the palaco whero thoy are cleancd by tho Am- szons, and ore then used for etate dunking- cups, ornaments for drums, agstalls, and otber putposes. The Lodies of tho viotims nre drag- god by tho arowd through tho markot-place, aud sro finally thrown into o ditch outsidd Abumoy, whore tha byouas goou muka short worl of e, T'housands of ukelstons are in this ditel, but noi weingle skull. Lhe men appoar to huve no fear of death, Mr. Shetchly statos that ho has fro- quently looked into a man's fuce just at tho mo- mont when ho was about to have his lesd cut off, aud uot & musclo toomad to indicata aither omotion or foar. % The prosent ‘King is more merciful than hia predacessors waro. ~ Ho 16 endswsuring to re- duce the fearful sacrifices of humau life ontailed upon bim on his accession to tho throue by the customs of tho country. e gonarously sparca tha livas of half the number of victims intonded for saorifica. Nc women are over killed for uncrifice, although they, like the mon, aro brought vut o the Liea e of (‘}m Asmnzons, to ba carried uround the courte yard, Foreign Amcricanisms. A writor under the siguaturo of ** An Ameri- cau” in the Londou Speclalor, says that the word * Briishor ™ was uever made use of by an American unless derived from English sources, “Thore are, tho writer says, cortain Lnglish nov- alists, who, kuowing uothing whatover about us, croato ideal Amoricuus of o stamp such as nevor osisted oven among the roughost buokwaods: men. Thoao charactors talk of *Britishors," but no Englishnian on this sido of the Atlantic evor hemrd thie word used by any but his own countrymen. It is puroly au Englisli Amoricanism, It wau probably fliat used by somo novalist, and btruck tho publio fancy, avd has_boen in vogua ever sinco—in Eugland. ' I buve heard the word uved_bore, but ouly, aa 1 have ssid, by those who had it suggosted by English books or nows- popors. .Heaven Luows, Wo bLava cnough peculiatities of maunors and languogo with- out_having slang phrases mnde for us, Wo of New York " guoss,” aud in tho south’ thoy @ rogkon.” We * go right off,”" mosning to * ga immediatoly.” The vulgar American *ddarns " overything and evorybody; nnd, although T nover heard it, 1am told that the abandoned Mausa- chusotts Yaukeo sometimos * csloulatos,” a8 they aro mado to do in English novels. In Mary- land sud_further Boutli oyorything (8 mighty nico,” but is that worse than “ awfully jolly 7" Auother essontinily English Amoricaniem is ta speak of the States," I bave noticed Amori- cans using (his phraso aftor having beon in England, ~but nover bofore. Thoy eay tha «uitod States ™and * Amorica,” but * tho Mojhistoph- | ¢ States " nevor. 1 use tho presont opportunity of correcting theso falso improssions, not bo- cause your use af the word ** Britishor ' partious larly offonded my patriotism, but becsuso I haye long wished to protost sguinut the way in which our national pocullarities have been™ ox- sggerated, and 1n many cased maliciously mus- reprosonted by such writers aa Mr. Dickeus, and host of others, When pooplo dorive thelr idoas of ©country from such unfair ace counts, 1t is not surprising that thewo idoas ara somowhat vague and inaccurato, Sumo of thow improssions are indeed romarkablo, A relation of miuo tiaveling in Wales lnet sumwmer beard it contidently ausortod that **all American wouwon wmoke and chew tobacco.” Another, some yoary sgo, whilo sitting st the dinnor-tuble of au Bug- lish'gontloman, overheard a lady romark to her nelghbor, *There is au American, and_he boy hiavos vory welll” This well-lnformed English- woman probably was surprisod not to sco the “novel " American, who hiaw lanky jaws, a beard like & goat, aud who eats his dinuor with abowlo knife, Blhio may have bulou§nd to the olasy that {magino tho stroots of Now York lufoated with Indians i war-paint and foathors; or porhapa sho was liko that I'ronch lady, the sister of o woll-kuown novalist, wha rearked iucidentaily to friond of ming,—who, by the wny, was ¥ blonda s any Engllshwornan,—* Y.u soo I Lavo blaek biood in my veins, like all you Awmoticuus, s et o sl An opinion by Boecher, Do you approve,” asks oue of Mr, Boschor's correspondents, ‘‘of tho ‘mmem. fashion of Wives lesving thoir husbanda to the moioy of sorvaut givls durlug tho summor munthy, und aponding thoir time gowiping nt iho various watoring-placos ¢ Mr, Boachor ronponded that, “1¢ a wifo's hoslth roquiro that sho go to tha oountry, no husbaud uot & curmudgeon will com- plun ; but }t 1w » moxt unwifoly aud demorsliz. Ing habit that fashionsblo women have, of ploas uro-socking at watoring-placos wailo vhe L. band wisitors like x lout spirit through desertod rooms, No woman w}l,n \"uh!nn )u,:r domostie