Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 14, 1873, Page 7

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1873. ——————— SPIRITUALISM. Talk With Joseph Gales Fors. ter, a Noted Spirit- ualist. The Origin, Literature, Exponents, and Tnfluence of the Faith, vlaim That It Has Nino IMillion Be= lievers in the United States, Trom Our Own Correspondent. OarLAND, Md,, Sopt, 4, 1873, A mon anywhoro, who knows anything or thinks Lo knows it, Is food for tho woodpscker, At our mountain hotel, » sufforer from the hay-fovor and othor illg, is JOSEIIT GALES FORSTER, one of the ploucer champlons of modern Bpirit- walism, 1leisa vorytall and imposing old man,— old to the cyo, elthough but 57 yonrs old, his head being nearly bald, and his board, which is heavy and fino, boing vory white, e is affable, woll- droesed, and, Ihave no doubt, wholly honest and carnost in his work, 1lis early lifo was advent~ urous and romsntio. Born in South Carolina and reared at Raloigh, N. 0., ho joined Honston's army in Toxas, and formed no high catimate of that victor of San Jaciuto, who, ho says, wns noither decont nor sober, of bad example to tha young men of the Bouthwest, profano, and of doubtful courage, I inquired especiallyinto the reusons for . MOUSTON leaving his young wifo in Tennessos 80 soon aftor lus maminge, Torstor eaid that it waa bo- lioved by those best informed to be tho rosult of a savago jenlousy. Tho youug lady had beon engaged to a man nearly of her own ngs, who had gone to Europe, and, unconscloua of hor marringe to Houston, addrossed hor o lottor. 8ho placed it undor her pillow, with tho inton- tion of showing it to hor husband; but he acarched for it on suspiocion, found i, and by his abuse ndded to tho ‘reproach and abhorrenco shio folt for o man whom she novor would have marriod except undor family-prossure. Ious- ton's lifa immediately succeeding the sparation, ndded Mr. Forster, showod that ho had not the dignity of o fine spirit wounded. Ho bocame o Cherokea aquaw's partuner, and went in the Nation by tho namo of ** Heap-Drunk.” o BIOGRAPLY, Tu 1851, Joroph Galon Forstor, who is & noplow of Josoph Gales, of tho old National In- telligencer, snw the celobrated Fox Bisters, from Rochestor, N. Y., and bocame a convert to the religious beliof then forming around the Knock- ings. o was at tho timo a nowspaper-man, as ho bad been for several years. Proviously ho hind not been a public speaker ; but, under the now influonco, recoivod the gift of spooch, or, in othior words, becawo ‘* & philogophical medium," ag contrasted with a physical or tolographing medium. I heard him speak fourtoen years ago, oud ho was then a fluent, forcible, diotionary- hurling orator, eithor possessed with a great faculty or a groat spirit. Rocontly he hns married Carrie A, Gnmes, of Baltimoro, who is & pleasing writer on apiritual topics, and a convert from the Episcopal Church. I juforrad that Mr. Forster was a rogular Spirit ualist preacor by avocation, called to congrega- tiouy, sud paid o sslary like other pulpiteers, Ho is sbout to go to Florenco, Italy, to rooruit bis hoalth. Tho Tollowing paragraphs from a converention held with him will give you all that you probably cure to know about tho most mys- tic of our sécts. I asked Mr. Forster to give mo TRE AGE of modern Spiritualism. 41t bogan March 31, 1848, at the Fox dwolling, Hydeville, near Rocbostor, N. Y., and is, thera- Tore, in iis 20th yenr, Tho Fox dwolling has beon made the subjoct of a painting by ono of our Bpiritunlistic attists, and chromos of it oro common in the households of our faith. This dwelling wns what is called a haunted house, ~Ths inmates were Methodist people, and the daughters partionlar- Iy women of fortitude suffioient to lold their §rnund nfiflm&t superstition, The youngoat gir], ute, said ono day: ‘If you are a spirit, ans know auyshing, rap as many times as I do,’ ' Bho thon olosed hor hands togother without sound & number of times; the spirits knocked respon- sivoly ovory timo, ‘Gooducss| mother,' ox- claimed tho girl, ¢ they can see na woll as hear.' It was then intimated to tho epirita that all com- ‘munications should bo by raps, thus: threo raps for Yes, one for No, and two for 1 don't knoio. "'his cuntinues to be the clomontary alphabet of our people.” 4 Cau you toll mo WIAT HAY BECOME OF THE FOX GIBLS ? Aro thoy all doad?" “No, "They arc all alive. Kate, tho youngest, tas recontly married o distingwished barrister of London ; anoiher is Mrs. Kano, the authonti~ rated widow of Elisha Kont Kano, the Arotic- explorer ; the oldest, Mrs, Uurderwood, has retired [rom public life, and is the wife of & business- mau of New York City.” + And now, toll me, Mr. Forator, LW NANY BPIRITUALISTS ARE THELE in America * Weli, tho Cathollo Church had s Council at Baltimore three yoars ago or more, aud the Council reported that_thoro were 11,000,000 of Bpiritualists in the United Btates. Judge Ed- munds thivks this figure not overstated. I think that 9,000,000 would bo the prudent state- ment,"” 4 Pshow ! AMr, Forstor ; that would be noarly all the adults in the United Btates. And the Catholio Council meroly designod to braud sl Protestants with Bpiritunlism, in order to drive timid people to their own spider’s nest.” * Woll,” said Mr. Forstor, *all who beliove that epirits can communicate with the world are ducluded in wmy ostimate. Thero nre probably 8,000,000 of people who are earnest Bpiritualists, congrogated in tho faith; for almoat overy vil: lago han its littlo coterio of cormunicants,” *Woll, Mr. Torster, as there is no ceusus or tally-list of such, lot mo ask how much roal entate, church-proporty, journalism, and litera~ ture, oxist as expononis of your mombera " “Wo luve soveral publio bhalls,—sight or ten; but we gonorally rent our g]nunu ©of nssomblage. Massachusotts and fichigan aro tho BStutos where we are rolatively stropgest ; but it is & mistake to suppose that the Northern Btates alony aro moved by our modiums, Louis- iana, Texas, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tonneasoo oro full of Bpiritualista. And, of courss, New York Stato ranks very prominently smongat our carnest peoplo, Boston s the chiof seat of Hpiritualistic light, conference, and litorature.” ' NOW FOR YOUR PAPERS ?" ¢ The Banner of Light, edited by Luthor Col- by, formerly of the Buston Post &Dummmtlo), 16 our lending weokly organ, with 25,000 circula~ tion, The Reliyio-Philosophical Journal, of Ohi~ cago, odited by 8. B. Joncs, isthe main journal of our fu'th in the Wost, with editorial correspond- euco 1n difforent cities. Our principal raview is Prot, 8 8, Britton's New York Monthly Journal, edited by a rotited Univorsaliut clergyman, who is tho author of a notablo book called ** Man and bis Itciutiona,” **Well, what in the way of Mr. Farster? " e *' Our principal writers ara: Judge Ediwards, of New York City; his danghtor, reared asa Catholie, iy his modium, Robert Dale Owen you kuow ag a man of extremo integrity of char- actor and dotermined, Bcotchy purpose. The 1ou, Warron Chase, of Bt. Louis, ox-momber of Congress, like Mr, Owon, and formerly of Wis- consin, iu Lboth an author aud orator in our work, The late poot, John Plerropoint, was an onthusi- astio flplr‘tulfinl. Jamen Peobles, ox-Universalist clorgymen, ix alao an authior on piritual mattorn, Ho lives at Hammoudton, N. J., but is now mak- Ing a tour around tho world. Our notable |fl0nkeru oo Chaso, Susle Johnson, of Massn~ : uumn,‘ Emwma fardinge Britton, of Bos- on—: ** Aud yourself, You have omitted, however, Anargw acknon Dovin," ‘' No. I'wascoming to him, o ls not & man of much forco in himself, but is & wonderful phenomenon, Ifo goos Into the supornatural state, cntors Into the wplrit-lifo, and his flrst bool was dictatod out of that condition,” % s wuxious to know, Mr, Forster, which of TOUR MEDIUMB sro most colebratod and relisble 2 # You have hoard,” snswored my suthority, # o D, D, 1lomo ; bitt bo is now in Europo and roaldos thero, In' this_couptry our groat me- diums aro thewo : Dr. J, V. Mansflid, of Bixth avenue, Now York, formerly a merchant., He wiritos (ho most Loautiful aud satisfactory an- swor from the spirit-world yet produced. Dr. Blado, of Fourth ayenuo, Now York, is a slato- medium ; that is, one whose elate-pencil writos, undornoath-n alate, suswors to questions atactod tospirits, And Oharlos Foster, of Lnst Nino- teonth stroot, Now York, who used to boa poor Loy at Salom, tho witch-ridden place, ia & man ‘whoso bare arm will spoll out communications, and whoso enmora {a amazing in giving portrais tures of tho departed. Mra. Androws, of Cancado, N, Y., notablo for making spirils’ matorialize thomaolves 8o ns to bo scen by the sittor's oyo. Not all theso modiums aro marally affeoted by that of which they aro tho vohiclo, "Some of our groateat mediums aro oaraless peoplo, fond of Bigh life." A TOSEM. * What {nfluonco have you had in twenty-alx flclrs upon human kind?" What compenaation ave you given, provided all your phenomona bo nadmitted, for oxeiting tho sensibllitles, turnlng tho hoads, and redtcing the credulity of mon aod women? " “¢ Bpiritunlism,” pald Mr. Forster, * haa dona no more hah 10 tho wits than any form of Or- thodoxy, Coniing out of blindness into tho light of n. marvelous bellof, the convert may boin a stato of mind which i8 crazinesa; but the pheno- menon o not, thorefore, crazy. Spirituslism ling profonudly moved many of tho strongest {utolloots kuown to tho raco, ond affectod litoraturo whioh is not exsentilly Spiritualintio. Thoro was Dulwer, who gave its developmonts the dignity of lis anthorlty as a claswical writor, Blias Poelps, In hor two storics of “Dawn" and “Tlho Qates Ajar," bas brought it, plensant atory-form, over thresholds where it could not ottiorwiso go. I have bLiad buth Tolmes and Tougtollow at my leoturea in Boston, and have seen it atatod that Brynnt was interestod in our work, Epos Bargent_ hns writlon a book upon Planchotte. Mr, and Mrs. Howltt, ns youkuow, are oncyclopodinsts on Spiritualism. ~ And Lhe pnflcuap{wr Arago qnvu us our (rat encourago- ment and toatimonials," *Mr, Forstor,” enid I, '‘you make nomon- tion of Dr. Haro, tho luveutor of the hydro- oxygou Dblowpipo and n chemist of do- sorvod colobrity, He dlod in the ssylum, did ha not, from corcbral excitomont - gonsequent upon tho revolations of Bpintualism? I wish -lo way that I wont to school with hia medium, Ru yley & red-hended, blue-oyed, frackled boy, and ad not rogard him favorably,” “ Ruggles,” raid Mr. Forstor, *‘is now a phy- sleinn in Brooklyn. It is gencrally atatod thut m?.“i“d tho old man, aud played tricks with “\Yell, thon, if & solontifia man could be duped in that way, aud with suoh molancholy offncts upon his 1{fo aud fame, what 1s the uso of roly- ing upon ruch mediuma 2" + Have had othor mediums besides Ruggles,” #nid Mr, Forster. **There aroe black shoep amongat us, no doubt; but wo also hnve had our eufforings, and tried our faith by trials. I havo mysolf, though of good origin aund respectful to all, boen drfilnn out of towna aud throatoned with tar and feathors. Spiritnalim wes for somo timo a sham, and mountebanks cropt into it. Of lata youra its commuuicants are quiet and progressive, and a marked chango has come over the press in considoring us. I may also say that Spintuslism hes given to music aud to mechanics twe well-known contribations. Kirby's reapors ond mowers woro mado in “accordanco with instructions {rom spirits to their inventor. And it was through tho influonco of the mother of Clara Louiso Kellogg, who was a spiritual modium, upon H, G, Stebbins, that the prima donna wae educated for opors.” “Now toll mo WHAT SPIRITUALISM 182" # Bpirituslizm ignores all fixed croads, and conaists in all that may be kuown of God, tho Qrent Father of Bpirits, of tho spiritual world and its inbabitants, of tho epiritual nature of man, and of tho ocenlt forces of the univorse which aro desmed spiritual in their nature, It bas no entablished creod and no acknowledged lendors, becanso tho soul of mau foraver proposes, and cannot bo confined by any dogma, or limite: Dy any ono or two experionces, All the above is dedueible from the woll-accrodited phenomona ‘wa hava already obsorved. Bpiritualism ignores a peraonal God, o porsonal Dovil, a vicarious atonomsnt, and Holl, Wo think that a good life foara neither death nor Hell; for death is moroly an incident of lifo, the spirit being the man, and the material body tho mero suit of clothing.” “What do you do with maiter, thon? Iguore that, too?" +No; matter is ne otornnl as spirit; for wo cannot concoive of force, or powar, or God, with- out also supposing & world upon which thoy are oxortod.” “\Woll, Is epirit, them, mattor; or are they co-olornal 2" “Spirits," eaid Mr. Foster, *' have substanco, bat not matter!” € \Vhat ig tho distinction " “Yoll, » mare's o horso, but a horse is ndt a maro, Substance includes matter. Bpirity aro entition with forme. We know that by the fact that a modium has the power to rend off par- tic%e" to materialize a spirit and make it appar- ont. Yt doos not seom to mo, Mr, Forster, that your 9,000.000 of Spirituslists havo gob any further than ordinary mankind. You only gob rid of matter by making two dofinitions of it, and adding ong-balf to spirituality. You vacato tho fleld of battlo, loaving your doad in the hands of the enomy. #¢When Berkoloy said there was no matter, Thers was no mattor in what ho said.!” GaATH. — ABOU BEN BUTLER. Abou Den Butler—~may his tribe decreass !- ‘Awoke, ona night, from deep dream of foes ‘And sa'w within the dim light of hiu room, Makiog it dull and very like a tomb, A domon writing in a book of brass, Excooding bad luck had made Hen green as grass, And to the presence in the room he eaid : ““YWhat writo you, naw The dowon raised its head, , ook o cast a man Ll rest, Answered : * The namen of those whn acrve me boat.” 1 Aud Is mine one?" asked Ahoi. * Nay, not 8o, Roplied the demon, Abuvu spoke moro law, But pluckily still, nnd aatd : * Well, thon, T pray, ‘Writn ma thie one who firat conceived liack-P'ay.” The doman wrole and vanished, but the next night Appeared agzin with a grest lurid light, And showed tho manics of those who'd served him best, When, lo!' Ben Butlor's name lod sll tho rest. Porils of Ballooning. A largo Lalloon was started some daya ago {rom & ploasnre gerdon in 8an Francisco, an sorobat named Buislay performing various feats on a trapeze suspended whero tho car ususlly laogs. A4 the bal- loon ross, and was quin‘: away from tho garden, n gust of wind drove it on o tall pole, tho sharp point of which tore out & large strip of the silk, making an_oponing throe fost across, Tho rest is thus described by the local rnpnmx “‘Notwithstanding this huge opening he ballion continued to = ascend, and must have remalued up at lenst ten minutes, The soromaut, nothing daunted by the diuaster, went through all his Enrilnnu performancos on the light trapezo, Tha alloon now haan to drift rapidly toward the bay, slowly falling as it waa drivon on by the wind, Bulslay's position thon becamo porilous in tho extreme, Tha wind was protty strong, and the large inflated mass was wholly unicontrolublo, swaying In evory direction and swinging the gym- nnat about in a manner that was fearful to_wit- ness, Lver fn\lm? lowor and lowar, the balloon rapldly approached the extromity of Long Bridge. Hore tho situation of tho man bocame felrluqu dosperate; the balloon would evidently dash tho trapoze and its human froight against the high poles or tho telegraph wires that were strung to them, Thoro was but one chance of escape. Taking ono glance at his position, Buislsy flung himeelf trom the thort bar of the tmfiazu into tho wataors of tho bay, a distance but littlo loss than forty feet. Accoutred #s ho was, in his gymunstiodross, his movements were unimpedad, and after a short atruggle ho reachod the mud- flats, and at Inst succoeded in roaching the shore, though in an exhausted condition. The ballaon moanwhile had struck, tesring down several polen and twisting up the telegraph wires gon- eratly, It finally caught on somo looso piles = short distance off, aud anchored on tho mud- lats,” —_——— Fishy, From the RNocheater Unfon, The Penn Yan Democrat tells a flsh story which wo are inolinod to troat as such and pass 1t by, but for the fact that we havosoen & privato lettor from a rellable sourco fully coufirming ail that was atatod in tho paper, T'ho story is sub- stantially as follows: Blrs, Myron Morso, of Peun Yan, lor mon, 7 years old, and hor sister wero'flshing in & boat on Xenka Lako on ‘Wednesday last, The boy leausd over tho side of thie boat, whon a large trout jumped from tho water and caught hold of the child’s nose, Tho boy ugrnug bacli, and in a0 doing pulled the fish into the boat, Iho trout thus caught welghed eight pounds, The Tenn Yan Domocrat offers to wager$10,000 that it will vorify this statoment, strango us {t may ueem. The lottor rocoived in thin clty atates that the ohild's nose was consid- erably inutilated, end Its mother has causod ita pholograpls to bd taken, that it may be sliown {9 rieuds, Expert anglers are compelled to rosort to ngenioun dovices to allura tho salmon trout to their hooks, avd that one of those wary flsh should loave the water to reach for tho noso of & juvenile nugler i indaed remarkubln, and quite beyond the understanding of thoso ko= quainted with the habity of flubliea. ENGLAND. Its Government o Ridioulous Anom- aly ---Mon Without o Language. Westminster Abbey---St. Paul's---The Tower---Art-Gallerics. English Dinner-Partics---Immor- ality of London Papers. Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, Lowno¥, Aug, 19,1673, Having spont tho past six weeks in London undor tho most dolightful suspices, and with favorablo opportunitics for seoing.n groat doal of our Englinh couning in n comparativoly ahort timo, I proposa to toll you somo of the things I thiuk sbout London, Londoners, and TIMITED HONARCIHY. Ibadro often beon assured by intelligent frionds just roturned from ** nbroad " . that the English Government was the bost in tho world, and Himited monarchy far suporior to tho mob- rulo wo eall ropublicanism, that I roally camo to Tngtand with fear and trombling. I oxpected to bo forced, even against my will, to become n convert to monarchy, aod to have the humilia« tlon of socing all my grand ropublican prinoiples and theorios * vanish like a bonutiful dream,” Amorieans who leave their Baratoga trunks at tho Langham Totol just long enough to ride ovor London Bridge and through Hyde Park, visit Wentmiustor Abboy, and pass an evening at the Haymarket, or the gorgoous liltlo theatrs built by ths Princo of Walos for the handsomo Manie Wilton, and named by lier, with becoming modesty, the Prince of Walea Thoeatre, should not concoitedly prate sbout the superiority of limited monarchy ovor republicanism. I con- sidor this limited monarchy the MEANEST GOVERNMENT IN EXISTENCE, laving all tho disadvantages of an absolute monarchy, witbout any of the advantages, Un- dor absolnto monarchies, the Kings are the patrons of ort, sciouco, and literature. The Queon of England, who onch yenr gots fabuloua suma ont of the starving working-peoplo, patron- izon nothiug, but storcs awsy those enormous sums like an old mivor. The Kinga and Emporors of Franco collocted works of art from oll parts of the world, and presented them to the galleries of France. The finest and choicest goms of art in London aro owned by Her Majesty, and lent to the museums and gallorios for exposition, In France and Gormany, oduoation and books aro 50 cheap as to be within the rench of tho poor. In England, ONLY THE WEALTIY may learn or read. In Italy, France, and Gor- mony, the most Loautiful gardens and parks, wite music, fountains, aud flowers, are open at all times to rich and poor alike, without monay and without price, In London, tho only gar- dens at sll attractivo must be paid for; which of course oxcludes the poor. When one in- quiros why it is that England does not provide pleasare and amusemonts for her paor, as these other countries do, you are toid, "&u our lower olanses ara #o coatse and dogradod, thoy ouly on- Joy drink.” Franco and Germany havo tochnical schoola for devatoping tho intolligonce of thsir worling- mon ; Drumsia Lonsts that evory Prussian is a soholar; whilo free Eugland is only now focbly discussing the quention of free schools. Tho Educational bill was violontly opposed in Parlia- mont; (ho majority of tho mombers arguing that froe schools ESCOURAGED PAUPERISM, and that it was much better to compol the peoplo to pay for their education than to place them in tho attitudo of bogyars by giving it to thom. fhe next day I heard ‘these samo mom- bors oloquoutly advocating tho giving of $50,000 a _year additional income to tho Duke of Edinburgh, and an anoulty to bhio wifo (that is to be). Doubtless tha gracions- ness of the Queon to the Shah will resuls in the marringo of the Princess Boatrico and tha only son of the Bhah ; and the Commons will havo anothor opportunity to encourage pauporism— with the people’s monoy. Tho poor of Tugland are so hard-worlked, so poorly paid, and go illitorate, as to have actually FORGOTTEN THEIR MOTHER-TONGUE. 1 think it would be more becoming in the Safur- day Retiew to uss its yaluablo space and time in asking for education for tho ignorant wiotchos of Eogland, who are 50 poor they can’toven afford a languago, than to wasto themin wishing that Americans would romain al home, as their nasal utterancs is so distrossing to cultured English enrs, I em quite suro tho shibboleth com- Hlnincd‘ui is heavenly musio compared with the linlect that all but a fow oultured English spoak. *‘'Tie man without s country " is & end sight, but sadder still this unique production of England, the man without a language. ‘The limited monarchy of England is A DIDIOULOUS ANOMALY, The people are griovously taxed to mupport s monarch that has not sufficient power to protect them; and they Lave not sufliciont power to pro- toct themselves against the aristocratio clique who limit the Orown, oppress the paople, and legislate in their own iutcrosts. Constantly one {s reminded of Bhelley’s besutiful lines : Thongllda:l Bies that, basking in the sunshine of a ourl Fatten on ita corruption : What are they 2 Tho drones of a comiunity, thoy faed ©On the mechanic’s labor ; the starvad hind For thent compels tho stubborn glebeto yield It unshared harvest ; and yon squalid form, Leaner thun fleshless minery, that wastos Aaunlesn life n tho unwholesome miue, Drags out {n labor a protracted doath To glut thelr grandeur, Aany faint with tofl That fow may know thie cares and woe of sloth, America is the hope of the world, and to be an Amorican citizen is greater glory than to be King ovor all Europo, England included, even thougls, to bo an American, one must have a vulgar nasal tono, and an unoultured babit of pronouncing tho r at the end of a word. Loandon in in many rospects a charming oity. England is a most intoresting illustrated edition n(x istory, and London the most enteriaining volume. WESTMINSTER ABDEY is England’s chiolcost possession. Tho firat ob- joot that mests tho aye 23 ono entors the * Poots® Corner” ia a tablet with theno well-known words from Boswell: ‘‘Rare Bon Johnson;" and one can but exclsim: ‘ Rare spot of esrth, containing 50 much grentness and immortafity! " After the ‘ Poets' Corner,” a woman finds her intorest olinging about {he statua of the Queon of the English stage, Mre. Biddons ; tho superb tombe of Lingland’s last great monarch, Eliza- beth, the boautiful and unfortunate Queen of Bcots, and the brilliant Major Andre, whose sad, romantio doath caused many a Puritan maiden t0 woep aud many an American matron to sigh, B8T. PAUL'S OATHEDRAL is filled with statues of tho mighty dead., War- riors, historiaus, paintors, poets, statesmen, philosophors, and philanthoplats, ail look upon ou with their cold maiblo eyes ; and itis a de- ightful church, for, whon ono woarios of the soryico, art and history come, like good augels, to rallevo. "Tho mout intoresting spot in THE TOWEIS fathe little, low, dark cell where tho gallant Taloigh endurad soven yeard of miscry. As one passos from room to Toow, one acems to feol the presence of the noble and beantiful women, the groatmen, and the innocent children murdersd within its walls, and oxperfenco a feeling of re- liof whon the Loavy iron diors shut one outside its gloowy, blood-stalued walls, aud iuto the liv~ Ln'j world again, 'ho Nationat Gallery sud the Konsington Musoum contain a largs colleation of THE FINDST PAINTINGS thin nido tho wator, In addition to the superh goms from the old wmastors are the exquisito uintings of Lurner, Landsoer, Lawrence, Gulns- orough, Roynolds, Mulready, West, and Io- gartl, to bo seun powhero out of Euglund, and 80 boautiful that the lovor of art ean come agaln and agaiu, and look, and look forover. An aristvoratio Euglish party, or soiros, whoro 1t 18 not, stiquotto to tntroduay, and not ofiquotto to spoak till yon are introduced, is somotLing vory solemn. But AN ENGLISI DINNEN-PARTY 18 jolly,—danidedly the boat inatitution they bnve, oxcopting Hpurgoon's church, An qllebman = i ar _ wore agreoablo tho dinner-table than elsowhore. At break- fast ho is croms,—sullon at luncheon ; but, at dinuor, gonial, jolly, and aven witty, Nowhore oléo is tho mutfon "and beof so deliclous, the fimxa 80 ulun‘l‘{ cooked. As the chamnpague ows and wparkles, tho wit, tun, anecdote, toasts, and rocitations sparklo and flow till ono almost wishen that life was made, up of n sorlos of such dinner-partios, If the host or any of the gnents have visited America you aro sure to henr & Hardsholl Baptist sermoun, . ** Botsoy and I Aro Out,” or soma othor American production fulors minglod with the English litoraturo, Whilo the gentlemen lingor over coffec and clgars, tho ndlos nip delicious toa, aud gossip—aud, it our English sisters are not quite sa’ port and forward ng we, thoy ora just “as fond of & mice littlo ~ confidential gossip; and, although thoir advantages for medical odu- cation are not as good aa ours, thoy disscol charnctor most cloverly. Londoners aro horrifiad at_thoe tmmorality of tho Amorican prass ; at tho drondful things that flud thoir way into our nowspapors, But, I as- suro you, there has beon s atory of aoasein court, this past woek, in the London papors, that oxcoodn IN NAGTINESS AND IMMORALITY anything I'have cyer aoon in an Amerioan papor. Thie Times and all the journals have it, Verily, thoy aro worse than the Amorican papors, for thoy have crimes over here that Amorica, in her youth and fnnocencd, nover drosmod of. I'he respectable papors here think it wicked to print a literary Sunday paper, a8 wo do; and, the fleld Leolng open, the dovil himaclt publishes Bunday papors, and the pooplo, who have no time to read the news on working- days, rond theso vile ' Bunda papera, In Now York, tho editors of such sheots would be arrested for publisling obscone literature, A for evonings sinco I chanced to heat & couple of ' Bughnkmon discnnsing Amorica and Americaus, One had just returnod from what our Ministor to Franco calla @oD's COUNTRY § the othor. was a Consorvativo who had novor travelod. The roturucd man said, * Amorica is groat country, and tho lmupll.nllty of the Amer- feans somothinng wonderful,” ** Ob, yea; I sup- poRe the Americans Kasuuun tho apirit of howpi- tality In common with all savage nations ; hos- pitality inhercs in barbarianism, but dizappeara whon cajture und civilization enter the hiouse- hold." Igotism, thy uamna 18 English, JANE GRAIAME JONES. _————— HOMES FOR HOMELESS GIRLS. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bin: Tho commuuication from Mr. Billings, in Tme Tnoxe of Tuesday, oxplaining tho kind of a * Homo " it Is proposod to calablish in this city, carries groat joy to hundreds ot hearts, This announcomont, with the heliof that it will be carried into effect, is to homeless gitle the dawning of & brightor day. It.is to thom *‘glad tidings of groat joy.” It is tho glimmoring of the Btar of Hopoe that {a soon to buret upon their vislon in its full benuty, in the roalization of n cheorful, pleasant home, and that, too, whore the oxpenae of living will cor- respond with thoir earnings, and allow thom the vory gratifying fecling that, when their woek of toil is over, it will not take all they have enrncd to pay their board-bill ; and, though small tho amount thoy may be able to Iny aside, the ox- perionce to them will be moat eatisfactory; and tho blessed thought that will accompany thom, as thoy wend thoir way at early morn to their places of omploymont, and will linger with them through tho hours of tho day, that, whon the night comes, thoy have a cheerful home to go to, wiil tond much to lighten thor burden, And now lot all who can give something ta for~ ward this noble work ; forit isa duty, but one we should with pleasure perform; and it is ospeially a duty of those who aro reaping the harvest of profit resulting from the industry of thona working girls, and, through the great for- tuncs thus accumulated, are able to build for thomeclves palaces with ovory imaginable con- venienco in tho interior, and whoes exterior aboundsin all that is magniicout in architectural divplay. And, whilo rightfully onjoying such homes, thoy shauld not forget the condition and nocesaition of tho toiling ones whoao ceasolosa industry pours in upon tliem such great fortunes. In roturn, lot this class of citizous show by thoir generous donations, that they foal kindly towards and appreciato the importance of thia work, for it is indeed fmportant, ‘Whilo chorishing the highost ro[ilrd for, and approciation of, tho blossings that flow ont upon o community {rom an edifico dodicated tothe worship of {ho prent and good God, were the priviloge mins of deviding whothor to add an- other to the many olegant. churchos which now adorn this city, or to exect & Homo for Homeloss Girls, I should moat assurodiy dacide in favor of the mur,—[eunu;f that, in 80 doing, & pathway was buing mado, ploasant and agreoablo thom, towards Heaven sud God; while withont it, thowe same feot might trend anothor path, whose ending is uight, dark and drear. ‘l':crefore, Gud speed the good worlk | ‘Eboaupus. Ouicado, Bopt, 10, 1870, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bin: A correspondent in thia morning's Trin- UNE writes as follows : 8m: T was dolighted to ace in Tie TRISUNE of this morning * Edgardus'® lottor, Ihope bis work will e carried out sll right, L am one of the many sewlng @girls hie apeaks fu bobalf of, T tofl from 7a. m, to 6 p, m., and rocaivo $1.25 per day, Out of that I pay $2 o Wk for a sleeping-room, $1.50 for washing, and $3.50 for board without raom. ' B0 you see what I havo loft, From her statemont, which I do not by any ‘means question, her weokly account would stand s follows ¢ Woekly CATIIDEW.ceirussssuresatorranernse Expenses— Toom-rent Washing... Boat $1.60 Net income.... Bmall enougl, in all conscient ocearred to the mind of this * sewing: an improvement of hor ciroumstances is possi- blo 7 If not, I would suggest that if, instend of sowing, she could gain her own consent to cook dinnots, of which she would eat hor chare ; wash and iron hor own clothes, and at the same time womo for othor peoplo ; take care of hor own room, snd tho rooms of a fow othor geoplu 3 8ot thio table for a fow other lYlaoplu bosides hersolf, etc., her waokly balance-ahoet might stand abont a5 follows : Earnings, per week, $8.50 to $5,00 Board .00 0,00 0,00 ——$0.00 to £0.00 veasneeessss 83,60 L0 $5.00 Net Income....veeeaee, I presumo there aro ssveral hundred families in this city boarding at the presont time, not from choice, but bocause c.Elble and competont household servico is not ol and who would be glad to enable ** Bowing- Girl" to make the change in her circumstances indicated by the foregoiug figures. 3 Cni0ao, Sopt. 11, 1878, ~ PATERPAMILIAS, pi i nkisjop i Concerning George Washington’s Nose. Fyom the New York Evening Post, It is our plessant duty to inform our readers that, thanka to the indefatigable efforts of Bec- rotary Bolknap, a mysterious problom is about $o be Bolved, n vexing question to b docided. In common with others, onr thoughtful Bacrotary of War has for some time been of the opinion that Gen. Washington's noss was not so flabby as it s reprosonted to have beon in Btuart's por- trait of the I'ather of His Country. Ho has vin- dicated the prominent and important fuature of a liero, and Americans can now face tho world In the proud belief that Mr, Btuert, in ducod probably by British gold—for coin was vory acarce in those days—did obliterate from the hero's nose that sharpness of outline which is naturally sssociatod with the noses of tho great, Bo says the Philadelphia ZTelegraph, which {s authority for the story. Mr. Bolkuap !»rnvnn this very easily. While on & visit to Mount Veruon a short time ago ho dis- covorod, it ia said, & plaster model of Vnuhlufi- ton's face, in which the nose is sharp and boal liko, aud exprosses the great elomouts, moral and intelleotual, which togother made our Wash- ington. It would Le assuring to know somo- thing of the origin of this cast ; but, of courss, irie proparl{ prosents tho nose, the question is unimportant. tainablo at any price, —_——— Wanted to Be Struck by Lightning. Robort Dale Owen, iu his autobiographicsl parraiics in the Atlantio Monthly for September, relulsy the following anecdote of Mr. Green- wooi, ono of the Harmony colonistss Wo bad, duclng the sammer . of 1836, moveral torrific thundor-storms, such as I had never boforo wit- nossod. ‘'lie nteeplo of our church was shat- tered, and ono of ‘our boarding-houses struck, 1t wak duriug one of these storms, whon the wholo hoavony seemod illuminated, and the rain wa falling in torrents, that I saw old Groon- wood, thoroughly drenohod, and oarrylug up- right, o8 & soldior doew his musket, & slendor Iron tad, ton or twelvo foot Joug. e was walk- ing in thio middle of tho streot, pesed with slow atep tho house {n which I was, and, sa I after- ward lourned, paraded every stroot o the villago in tho samo doliberato mannor, Next day [ met him, and asked an explanation; * Ah, well, my yunngl friond," eaid he, “*I am very old, I'm no} wwell, T auffor much, sud I thought it might bo & g’ou chanca Lo nllp off, and ‘ba laid quletly in the corner of the pouch orchard " (tho tomporary cumotory of (o yottioment). WAUKESHA. The Saratoga of the West--e Tho Pool of Bethesdd. Ioflin & Bryan's New Hotel and Fountain Spring Orchard and White-Rock Springs other *‘Sweet Vale of Avoca.” An- Correspondence of The Clicago Tribuna, Waunzaita, Wis,, Sept, 8, 1873, One hundrod miles or thoreabouts from Chi- cago, on the Prairio du Chion Divislon of the Milwaukeo & Bt Paul Railway lios the Village of Waukosha, always quist and. inviting in its sim- plo beauty, and, until threa yeara past, “to famo oud fortuno quite unkuown,” It is ine 'decd a fair and boautiful land, situated ou the banks of the Pish-ta-kn, which {s the Indian fof Fox, River. Iin climatois temporato and delie- jous, eoll fruitful and nbuudant, and it is surs rounded by a ncouery that **risds horo ih mag: nificont glory, and agaln swoops low in & teuder nnd mastorly beauty.” Those boauties alono, howover, would nover bove brought so many staugers to its threshold, 1had mnot the start- ling fact occurred that here, right in thoir midet, *‘right undor our noses,” if you pleago, Nature, with prodigal bounty, has placod remedios and apecifios for all tho ills that belong to flosh. BETTESDA was discovorad firat, and sent forth the clarion note, ““Come all yo to Waukeshs, and ba hoalod.” That it possessos tho same miraculous healing powor as did the pool of Bothosda that stood by the shoep-market in Jorusalem, and into which the Angel went down at * cortain sorsons and troubled tho fvators,” so that all might stop in and bo healed, is boyond question ; nor in thero tho elightost doubt but tho Angel left ite Thealing touch inn tho watets of this Bethosds, in order to hoal tho multitudes that seek it ; but the location and surroundings aro a trific mord 8privg. Iostead of tho sheop-market, wo have » broad, oxpausive lawn, sturided hore and thore with handsomo forest-oaks ; a clear, cool spring trickling from its natural basin into s broad, glaasy pool, which runs away Into a tiny brook, embroidoerod on oach side with a fringe of wator- cressos; pleasant walks, intorosting drives, and rustio seals, exprossivo of oawo and Inzincss, This iv tho modern Bothosds, and, to aur way of thinking, & groat improvemout on the old oae. That all or most of the springs about horo _possess wonderful specific qualities has boon establishod beyond = doubt. Now and romarkabls discoverien are of froguent occurrenco, and excitoment runa high, as in tho days whon a man in the Golden Btate would accidontally stumble over a rock, and, in picking it up to_cnst nside, would, in nine casos ont of ton, discover ho had s nugget of gold, Of course it was needful to engage & handful or 80 of CITI0AGO ENTERPRISE in order to givo eclat to the gonoral Interest al- roady exclted abroad. Thomaa B. Bryan, for- morly Prosident of the Fidolity Bavinga Bank, was compellod to resign on account of ill-health, and found lus way to Waukesha in search of ro- cuporation. Becoming st once enamored of the placo, he, in company with Matthesw Laflin, an- othor of Chicago's millionairos, mado s purchase of 155 acros of d at the mouthern oud of town,—a magnificent location, affording a pano- ramio view of tho country for miles around. Last spring they subdivided this into handsome ayonues and genorous lots ; and hero it is de- cidad to erect ouo of tho fincst and most capa- cious hotel in the country. The lack of propor accommodntions has heretofore boen a groat drawback to tho comfort of strangurs; but, an- othier season, visitors will be accommodated in crowds to this modern palaco. A telo- gram was receivod to-day from Mr. DBoyington, the architect, “who promiscs to bo on hand without delay, to supply the designs, not ouly to the new ‘hotel, but for {lio surrounding cottages, and Lhus prefty Wau- .keaka i destiued undoubtedly to be the BARATOQA OF THE WEST, ontrivaliug ita namosako n ity healing, and lifo- iving waters; and oven casting in the sbade Loty Branch, with its ologaut suburban re- treats, Wo heard an old farmer discussing Ohi- cai0 onterpriso u fow days since, nud he deolared that, *Go whoro you will in tho Wost, if any unuaual improvements were going on, and you a3k who's a-doin’ this, the answor wonid be, ‘Oh! it’a gomo Chicvgo follows that camo out here to fish or “bunt, and diccovered a good chance.’” After declding upon the loca- tiou of tho Lotol, Messrs. Bryan and Laflin cast about for A BUITADLE BUPPLY OF WATER, ‘There way no lake to tunnel, but thoro was a littlo u[n'ing located on a lower section of their property, which had for years sont forth s tiny, unawbitious stream. Becuring laborers, Messrs. B. and L. set to work to exocavato, in order to ‘Ppropara for laying the pipen, to supply the hotel with tho ¢ pura and sparkling.” Thoy dug down s few feot, and the wator bogan to forco its way a&o coplously that it be- camo impossillo to bail it out fast enough to pormit tho Iaying of the stone-wall, Man- power_noon proved insufficient for the task, Accordingly » stesm-pump was seoured mnd placed in position, continning to bora and pump. The water pouring into tho excavation Was variously estimated, nor minuto, an gal- Iong, then barrely, until finally such a fiorce and suddon torrent rushed in upon them that even the mon abandoned their posts, and sprang to torra-firma, with a firm conyiction that the TOTTOM WAS OUT OF TIAT SPRING, at any rato, Night was upon them. A tromen- dous excitoment Eravlflfid. The throng of bystanders visibly decrensed as huge ioces of earth av0 Way, Suggost- ng ideas of an underground exploration, In fact, it was rathor & * springy ”_time, tnking it all around. Messra. B, and L, know it woul be fatal to leave the work over-night inits presont unfinishod siate; snd, although tho men bogged off, pleading 'suppor, fatigus, oto., and promised to come by day-break to-morrow, —“That's not tho way wo'do things in Chi- cago,” oxolaimed Mr. Bryan; and, after con- sidorablo arguing and dallging, and promises of additional ** back pay,” thoy concluded to ro- main, and, at the present \vritlnfi (late at night). thoy ‘are ‘prosecuting the work by tho aid of Iantorns and the light of the moon. Thisis named THE FOUNTAIN BPRING. Its wators nreclear as crystal, possessing, no doubt, in » groat degreo, the same properties that have rendored Waukeshs waters famoun tho world over. A Chicago lady of means dotermined to try her hand" at au investmont ; and, some weeks since, purohased 80 acres of ‘beautiful land lying near tho “ L, & B, Bubdivision,” and intends erecting a handsome cottage thers noxt soason. ‘T'here arc many springs, with their own pecul- {ar claimuas specilic remedies, and emch also with numorous worshipers at their shrino, that deserve montion here; but must pass them until wnother Ono of them, howevor, for beauty of location and rare qualities, is destined to bo a distin- uishod favorite. It iu owned by a geutloman formerly a resident of New York, who, after flvo yoars of sufforing from s disoase that bafiled the wkill of tho best physicians, was persuaded to come here, His recovery was like a miracls, and, after a fow months' sojourn, ho decided that this was tho place to *pitch his tont.” On his grounds is an apple-orchiard, and undorneath the, old troes {s the ONOIARD BPRING, which, since the time of the * Modoo maid- en" reigned l‘s‘lflflh hereabouts, has furnished the pureat and sweotoat liquid from its glusay (thpthl. Just above, on the same farm, 15 the Amous WHITE ROCK SPRING, Tt in rolated upon authority that this, in early days, was the colsbrated healing apring usod by tho Indlang, Uhey located on tlo east sido of tho river, just above tho head of the pond, in a heavy grove of timber, about a mile north of the rosent business coutro of the village. It was cre, thirty-seven years ago, that whito men found tho main Indian trall feading down from Waukoslia to Powankee Linke, crossing the river in front of this idontical spring, Here, even of lato, “while *opoing & mound, wera found relics, consistlng of arrow-honds and tomabawks, showing that it waa » favorite abidiug-place with tho natives, Tho water In doliciously soft, and the location orfectly (asoinatiig. Its aualysia proves it to Eo all that is alaimod for it. 'Lho cool, clear water boils up incessantly from betwoen the fissuren of it white-rook bottom and sldes, “Toro It in,—natural, frosh from the haud of Qod,” wore the enthusiastic words of Brw, interost.ng In thoir character than the Jorusalom, 7 Mitehali (tho wifo of Prof, B, O, Mitchall, who bas bosn ' for tho past fow d amang the noted visitors hers), A hugo stratum of the #ame ‘white rosk 11 sproad out sbove and sround the spring, forming au amphithentra of natural wesis and steps, Horo wo obtain & lovely viow of the village beyond, with tho jrontly-winding rivor in tho foroground, and feel the nelt, Invigorating mountain-alr, ancd an W (ke i tho numorons and picturcaqua Luilding-sites, wo ave Jod Lo exclaim with rap- turo: oI ! BWERT VALE OF AVOOA | Thera ia not {n the wida world & vr.llc{ o wvect Au that vala in whoas hasom the bright waters mast. Oh | the Inat rays of feclingand lifo must depart Ero the bloom of this valley shall fade from my hoeart, t Valo of Avoos, iow calm could 1 roat Ifil‘;’my l»:mnm of shade witis 1hie friends [ Jova best § Whorg the storms that we feol in thia cold world should Ana ffig'flm'u, liko thy waters, bo mingled with ac0, Evenxu, —_— THRILLING ADYZNTURE. Tho First Accident on tho fountain RRulway. The Whito Hountain Railway, which is about threo milos long, witl grades es utoap ns 2,000 foot to tha miile, would bo just the placo for & frightful nécident, but until Jast wook nono of auy consequencs s Lin ppeied upon it, As » party was ascending tho mountaln during s storm last Tucsday night, in ordér to witnexs tho sun rise from the top noxtmornlisg, s nccls dent occurréd; which is thus rolated in the Bpringfleld Jtepublican by one who was therd ¢ “And uow wo begin tho foarful ascent of Jacob's Ladder, The litlle car, bronght nearor to a perpendicular position by tho acuto inchina- tion of tho rond, soems roady to_fall baclewarda upon tho_onglno aud hurl {taclf into the abyus below. Poised in mid-air, {housands of feot from tho bottom of the mountain, in the vory clouds themsolves, o storn raging, without cover; with o’ perfect soa of darkuoss, our only ubioltor a frail bark, which, for all we kuaw, tho wlightest mishap muy couso to bo dahed into atoms on ‘tho rook below, aad who will won- dor that. tho atoutest hoarts faeol just a littlo - of foar? But onward wo woat, stoadily onward asud upwud, when, just a8 we word congratulnting outrsolvea that- the worst of the jonrney must be over, thore came, without warning or prémoition, s loud orash like a thundorbolt shot ‘from a cloudlesa sky, so sudden and unoxpected was it. Thon there was an inatantancouy atumngu of mnchin- ory, a palpablo and torrifying bLftivg, or upward movemout of tho car, accompanied by & violont surge down hill; as though atrlving to break and loap away from the track into the dopths Lolow, thion & sudden ettling to placo ngain, snd then —all waa stilll Wan thero & panic? No. Did anybody scroam, or faint, or try to jump over- board #* No ; far from it. It all wasBo euddon, 80 appalling, 80 overpowering, that tho effect was quite the reverse. “ Phe main cecontrio ahaft of the engino was broken short off, dersuglng all tho maghinory, sud rendering further pm(iuan by rail, either up or down the mountain, uttorly impodalble, Of course thoro was a hurried aud aunxious consult- ation as to what had bottor bo done, bue thore waa ono thing settied on tho instant, and that wus to lenve tho car, whataoover m‘glu come next. Nothing on_carlh ocould have kept us thoro auy longer. It waa ralningin torrents, blowing 'a gale, and blacker than Egyptian darkness, but that was nothing to tho dread un certaiuty of what posalbly might happen it wo romained whero we wero ; and 8o, gathering up such light bngfiugn a8 was at hand, out we went into the rain, juto the gale, into the night, and clung to the timbors, to the car, and whataver elo could be Iaid hold of, as bout we could, like no many drowniog rats, * When l![ihtn wore brouEht and our position dotormined, it was found that the accident had oconrred within & faw feet of the upper ond, of the first sagtion of the ‘Ladder,’ where the groat trestio-work h}mn away, and rests upou a rort of abutment formed by the projecting ledgo, veory much as s bridgo rests upon its embank- monte at elther end. The road was just as stoop hore as elsewhere, but our hoight above the rooks was much less, being, 8o to speak, noaror the shore, which rondorod landing possible ; wherass, had the disaster oc- curred a fow rods olther below or sbove, wo must havo remained all night in the car or clinging to tho trestle-work. As it was, we xuufim the E'mmd with no little dificulty and danger. Oace landed, it was one of three things: 'To remain where Wo were, or go down the mountain to the atation, or to go up the mountain to the Bummit House, The first proposition mosnt being chiilod through and through, and perisbing without exertion; and of tho other two we chose the last. And 8o we started, Meantimo the brakeman dosconded to tho station at Marshfield on a ‘slide-board,’ at the riek of his 1ifo, and tolographod to the Sum- mit House for guidos and lattoras to be sont to condnot us up the mountain, But who shall de- seribo the narrow escapes from pit-falls and procipices, the hoights scalad, tho depths ex- plorod, s, chilled tnd blinded by the driving storm, wo clambered, torn sud bleeding, over the jaggod rocks, up tho steop sides of the blesk mouatain? Or, bow strong men broke Qown and gavo ont in ‘utter despair; how weak and sickly women had to be almost carried along by main atrength ; how others repoatedly faint- of and foll, overcamo by the tertiblo oiposura and exortion, until life itself seomed gone out forovor ? “ All wo could do was to kao}l a8 nearly aa pos- siblo to the general bearing of the raliroad, and ush forward over rocks pited lLiterally moun- aing high., Having boen lost for some time, wo finally struck the rallroad, and followed it up to & small shanty near the top of the mountain, oc- oupiod by tho workmen on the road, whore wo arrived entirely exhausted and worn ont. The guides sont down to find us, after having hunted sovoral hours in vain, had taken shelfer here from the storm to await ovents. Wo wero then conducted in safety to the Summit House, whore _wo had & momorable recoption. + An hour sgo our little company were gath- ered togethor for the last timo ; and, as we atood around tho ;Inno in_tho great parlor, and sang, *Praise (fod, from whom all blessings flow,’ tho words had a deoper significance than ever be- foro,” —_——— A Painter. Antwerp Correspondence o, the Cincinnati Commer- ea In looking at somo of the pictures in this ex~ hibition X can imagine that they were painted by an artist of whom I hoard the following story in Druasols the othior dey. His indulgent frionds had praised his l"ellu‘;!u at drawing and puintlug tosuch an oxtent that the tho youth roolly imaginod himself an artist. His wenithy friends even bought his pictures for considor- nblo eums, #to encourage him." The youth was thus the viotim of his friends—as s0 many others are. _Recently in walking along the main atroet in Brussela "ho was mnch dolighted at sooing ono of his pictures fincly franied in a doxler's window—especiolly as Le was with & Iady before whom be wished to appear “in tho Dbost light possiblo, Calling tho attontion of tha Iady to tho picture he eald, “Pardon me, but I bave Eome curiosity to know how my pictures stand commercially,”—and with that the two en- tered the shop. ‘‘My good woman,” said ho to the keeper of the nle, “how much_is tho pic- ture in the window thore?" *That?” Yon.”" #Thres francs and & halt.” # AMfon Dieu!" cried the artiat, recoiling, The shop-woman, thinking the exclamation to be suypriso at her high price, #aid, * Bless mo, sir, it ia with the frame!” s Longevity in England, The report rocently issued by the Registrar- General, says the London Times of the 2Gih ult., relatiug to the Jour 1871 contained further tostimouy on thie subjoot of long life. In 1871 tho following deaths wore registered in Eng- Iand, the agos (like other puctionlars) being taken on the atatoment of tho relatives or other persons supplying information of thodeath. There ‘were 27 perdons reglstored as dying at the ago of 100 yoars, 17 at 101, 10 at 103, 5at 103, 8 at 104, 2 at 106, 2 at 100, 1 at 107, 1 at 108, 1 &t 109 eara, Tho Inat tres should have spocial mon- ion, A manin tho Distriot of Sovonoaks was rogiaterad as dying 107 yoars old ; a man in the Distriot of Ladbury 108 a woman In the District of Oheator 100 years old, Boven contenariana died in the motrapolis, and seven in Lancashire. ¢ tho"wholo 6b, 23 wora mon and 4% wero womon, Trom 1801 to 1871 the death of peopla roglstered as boing 100 yesru old or more av~ eraged 78 & year—21 men and 67 women, The Registrar-Gonoral montions, as the ‘""Ka known inatance of an insured lifo ronching 100 yoars, that of Jacob Willinm Luning, who dind in’ 1870, at the -5« of 103 yoars, Illa age was clearly oe- tablished by documentary ovidonce submit.ed 10 the Registrar-Goueral and published by luasm his weokly return, 3 e ‘The Siaves of Barbary, Tho number of tho Olristian slaves was im- moure, Vor inntance, in tho oarly patt of tho pixtosnth nclll\ll‘{, Hayraddin employed no foss than 80,000 Christian’ slaves, for two yuats In constructing a pler for the pmlouuuu of lilu whips at Al da century Inter, in Alglory aid g district alone, thora wero bo- twaon 25,000 and 80,000 Christion nlaves, Fro. ol, Spauish," Engliah, Ttalisnw, Stycans, and oven Rueslans, Thera wore three denominations of alavos—those of the Btate In tho sorvice of tho Kiug or Dey, thoso of tho galloysougagod in the roaporta and the oxpoditions of the piratos, and thoso belonging to individuala, oither umpfo od in domestio, farm, and othor Inbors, or doatf in 86 an article of commorce, belng rold and rosold in tho samo way as horsos or cattlo. The rocords of tho sufforings of the unfortunato captives are truly honrt-nickening. Immediately on their landing, thoy wero atripped of their clothes and snld; and then, covered with a fow rags and chained, thoy wore ot to work,' sumo it the galleys, but tho grester part in the country, undor a scorching sun—somo in tilling. the 4oil, somo In cutting wood and moking chars conl, omno In quarrying, somo in sawing marblo, some {n the port, up to the middle In water, for nino hours & day; and all this under tho whip of & brutal ovorsecor. In mony an iustauce, ng described by tho missionarion, thelr akin pocled off under the broiliug sun, and thelr tongnos lolled out from oxcemsive thirst, which they could not leave their work to quanch, But thoir physienl unflerlugn wore tully oquaied, or rathor surpassed, by tho pangs of tholr mental pain andmoral dog-alation. While many on dlured this protracted mnrtyrdom rather ‘than abandon the faith of Christ, othors, in their ut- torly subdued and broken-down state, ombraced Islamnism, which {mmedistely procurod them somo allovintion of tho crucl troatmont under which thoy groanod. Driven to dosporation, govoral committed wuicide, and numbers dio from hardship.—~Murphy's Terra Incognila. TO MAMMA, Aaminn, which way sra thie gates of pear, e how looi In 1ho mnonching |un;nn'aued 137 Do the stare aver weap for your little giel, ks you do at (fmen when you knael to Tray? ‘Mamms, don't mourn for tho sunlit past, len "round thy neck weo armu were clinging § But drom of the lovo-light that comes at Inut, ‘When parting knolls sholl ceuse hoir ringiug. For thow'st sweoter and desrar with thy saddened oyes, And thy awcet-dlmpled chin, and mouth s-quiver ; And wo walt but the sund’ring of xome dear earth-ties, To claim you, our Matnnia, hero, over the river, Omioaao, Bopt, s, 1873, oA e g Economy the Roand to Wenlith, From the New Orleana Picayune, A lady down on Sinith strest rend somowhors that economy was tho sure road to wenlth, and, hoaring that the gas bill was onormous, folt tho gos might be cconomized by turning it oft at the 1meter overy morning, o thiat it would not wasto through tho brackets. Thia she did, intonding to rogulato It iu the avoning. 8he went to soe Lot mothor, Lowaver, and Biggina, having roturned about 8o'clock p.m,, turned up the jet and struck a match. Nnreing it carofully with” his hand he placed it to the braclket: pshaw! it went out; snothor, and still 1t would not light. Ho, thoughbt tho fufornal thing must be broken, and, going into the next room, foll over o chair and smashed Lis faco. Ha irled it until his matches woro all gone, and thon, Toelwg on the mantol for more, turned over bis wife's oll porfumo bottle, and kuew it was running on his coat. He awore and ntarted down staire, and just in_ the hall mot Maria returning with tho children. + Biggins, why ia thero no light in tho houso #" o endeavored to explain; but no use, He vwas foolish. Tho gas would light If ho had only tried ; and sho marched into the patlor, bor drens catching in the eabinet of Chineso curiosi- ties, aud it falling with a_crash. ~Sho triod, aud in valn, for, besidos spoiling hor boat silk, ehe trod on tho child with boils, and mashed ber best bonnet, whoen, lo! she romembered what was the matter. She would sooner have stopped into ber coffin than to that metor, and she tried to doit quiotly, but Biggine saw hér; and from that day to thig when sho talks economy ho quietly sniggers, “ Snvo from the gas bill.” % Her silk dress, her best bonnet, and hor Chi- nese relics were nothing, she whispered to her bosom friend ; but to have nigFilll onco know bie was right, it “ig too much,” and sho alwayt butrats into tears, —— A Slnve Auction in San ¥Francisco. An offort s made in 8an Franciaco to stop the importation of prostitutes from Ohina. On tho arrival of a steamer from Hong Kong Inat month, the women were takon in charge by tho police, and conveyed to the City Hall, and thoro ques- tiouod, but alt had roady suswors. Thoy had come over to flad their husbands, or wero in search of omployment. Nouo would confoss the real object of hor importation, 'Lhay wora thoreupon cautioned and released, making their way to the Ohineso quartor. A correspondent of the Now York Horid, howover, followed them up, and, waiting till nightfall, wns,conducted by a friendly Chinamsn to the quarter, and socroted whero ho could see but not bo soon. What ha did sae Le shall himself describe : “I have otlon seot nogro slaves eold in tha Bouthern States, have soon Turks ot o slava mart in Constantinople, Arabs in Alexandria at an atction of eunuchs, and Enatern jockoys st a horsasala, but never in my oxporionce as a jour- nalist bas it boon my lot to witnoss such a sceud 84 I did 1ast night. "Each woman was brought in by heraelf ina stato of abaolute nudity, aud, altor passing in reviow bofore the ontiro multi- tude, was put up for sale to the lligihflul. bidder. The 'pricos opencd low, and gradually incronscd 1until the hammer dropoed. 1ho pricos realized rnn§d from 9230 to 3425, Sick and disgusted I loft with my comprador, aad found _out, still furthor, that just aftor tho womon had been housed in the mart or elave corral two leading mombors of tho Hip Yeo Tong rocoived $i0 apiace for them, making 8760, and that “‘“K.‘“’ coivad 10 porcont of the purchase-monoy, which, with the head-money, roachod nearly $1,500.” e i/ Gl Gen. Lee’s Dinner=Tahle, Gen. Leo, grave man as ho was, greatly eu- joyed the “'uell ™ which a wag on hisstall palmed off upon aw&ortor, who promptly insorted it in the pupers. ‘Tho roportor wanod to know Gen, Loo's hour for dining. **Six o'clock—exactly at 6," was tho rufiny. “T infor, thon, thet 1t is rather a formal meal?” *‘Docidedly formal—in fact, I may sny itis a rigidly military dinner." “3litary! how military ?” ** Wall, you see, Gon, Lea sits at tho hoad of the lablo, and Col. Chilton at the foot, and everything is dono in red-tape stylo.,” ** Rod tape af table! I don't underatand you. Please explain.” *‘Cortuinly; Qon, Leo nevor carves,and novor holps,—all thak is loft to Col. Chilton,—but Geu. Loo nsks the eata what thoy will have; thoy toll him; then e {ssuces his ordors, aud Col. Chilton exacuter thom, That's all.” '* Go ou, go on!" oponing bis note-book. *@ive me an example—toll me exactly how itis done.” *Buppuse, thou, thal we invo boof—wo gonorally havo beof. Grace it #nid by the Chaplain, thon Gen. Loo raps ou the table with tho haudlo of his kuife and says, ‘At tontion!" Everybody is silont, Dvory eyo it turned toward Gou, Loo. Ho looks ab ono of us—me, for example—and I tino aud make s military salute, ‘Capt, C. what will you ba holpod to ' esys Gon, Loo. 1 say, * Buch, make another saluto, and sit down. Gen. Leo, fixing his eyo on Col. Chilton, says, *Boof, for Cupt. O—.' My plate is passed, helped, and then Col. Chilton, handing it to tho worvaunt, says, Boof, for Capt. C—. Dy ordor of Geu, Lao. H. II, Chilton, A. A.G. And this absurd story went the round of the Southern papers. b iy Metcorlc Stone. The Maysville (Cal.) dppeal reports that Mr. H. Anderson, whoso ranch ls about 10 miles from that town, racently fonnd upon his laud a curious apecimon_of rack, which 18 supposad to bo of metoorio origin, It says: “On Bundsy ovening, Aug. 34, Mr. Andorson's oldext boy was riding noar the edge of tho farm wlen a flash of light passed over hus head,and thero was a rattling lonus in tho traos noar by aud a leavy thud in tho ground. Noxt mornlug thoy Prncuudud to the spot and found a place whore tho uphoaval of frewh dirt whowed flat some hosvy body had fallon, The leaves and branchos of & troo nearby wero singed and spliu tored, showing tho path of some heated object, On dfgging about eight foot thoy came npon a stono about twelve pounds in weight which still retained an intonso hout, and tho groand was hot around it. Wator was poured upon it and it ap- arontly cooled off and was put in a cart to lage o tho liouss, whon the latout heat was appar- ently libarated and it set fira to tho cart, Placed ina'tank of water it caused it to boil, and did not loso its hoat until It in tho aftornoon. The slona s npasontly composed of amuus of hoavy u:n:nlh\vh ch has at ono time exiatod iu a fused stato, — e Deathe Dr. Bailie sald that in his vast oxporionco ho had never known more thau ono ont of every fifly dymng men quit lifo one whit woro conecious thun when theyentered it. * Light, mora light 1" crios Qoetho with his parting broath. Dr, Cul- len, when dylng, faintly intimates to s friond: “E'wish I conld writes I would describo how ploasant & thiug it i to dio.” Bacon, ab tho Point of doath, writos with incapuble flugeis ot the #uow-stufted fowl which co:t him life. Dr, Binzk; while eating bread snd mlk, dies ko tran- wiily that bis stilfenod fingers grasp tho spoou with'ita contents unspilt, Coffco-cup in hand, the spivit of Bir Obarlea Dlagdow ‘passes uway while Guy Lussao notes the cup of untasted gofieo in tho doad man's hand, not a drop having falion to the ground, ‘‘Ihat wo live in the shudow of doath s truo, but the shadow i no terviblo darkuess that need ncaro or torrify us, and whou it complotely envelopos us wo shall be oul Xr.u;a ono who wraps the drapery of his cotch About him, aud Hes down to ploskant droams,’*