Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 21, 1873, Page 6

THE CHICAGO DAILY ] RIBUNE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBR 21, 18 LOZADA. The Famed Chieftain of Tepic, Mexico. Tnoidonts in the Career of “El Jofe do las Alicas,” Lis Connection with Ex-Postmaster Fow. ler, of Now York City---Jir. ¥, Dis. suades Mim from Joining Maximilian, Lozada’s Destruction of the Armics of Santa Ana and Corona. 'How Ho Got Even with a Frenchman ---The Dictator's Mountain. TFortress, Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, MaTAnonAs, Mexico, Sopt, 1, 1873, The Mazatlan (Sinalon) correspondont of the Boston Globe has contributed to thnt paper an articlo on Msmuol Lozada, the long-famed snd colobrated Indisn chioftan of tho Distriet of Tepie, Moxico, That corrospondent, howover, hos nevor seen the Jefo de las Alicas, and, con- scquontly, has to rely rololy upon kinsed Mox- ican minds and rovengful Moxican nowspapors— wrotchod apologics as thoy all are for news- papora—for his information. Imporfoot, and crude, and disconnected as it is, howover, tho pross of my country hos quite genorally repro- duced the aricle. T am nble, I believe, horewith to supply the in- sido life of thie doad chioftain, and particulars of his district—Topio—which no other living writer can glve, for I beliovo that I nm tho ouly nowspaper man who over visited and intorviewed Lozuda., This intorviow and visit, too, wore had with surroundings which will add mtenser intor- est to the ovents recorded. AN EX-NEW YORK CITY POSTMASTER. During the summor of 1870, while crogsing tho Union Pacific Railrond from San Tranclsco to Now York, aud whon nearing Omaha, & goutle- man of striking featurcs, round, large faco, pleasing eye, stout frame, tall, woll-proportioned, waa suddonly takon fll. Aguinst tho advico of follow passengers, ho insisted on re- mwoining on tho train, instead of going to a hotol at Omaba. Crossing Iowa and Illinois, although as carofully nursed as circumstances would pormit, he grow worse ; reachivg Chicago, was carried to the Shorman Houso, and, the socond day thorenftor, died. That man was Toono V, Fowlor, ox-Postmaster of New York City, who, during Buchavan's Administration, unconsciously defaultod by londing lis party large sums of monoy out of Post-Office receipts, and, discovoring it, fled an exile to Moxico. For ten long yonrs this accomplished goutloman was = band-in-hand companion of Manucl Lozada, sand, during that time, was tho wily Indian's countolor,—the only one in whom ho fmplicitly rolied, and tho only msn who could sway the stubborn chieftain from any plan of his ongo formod, 1t was your correspondent’s privilego to pass tho autumn of 1867 under the hospitablo roof of Mr. Fowler. His fino homo was about ouo milo and n quarter from the City ot Topic, on the loft ok of a silvery ro, the wators of which turned tho wheels which ran the cotton manufactory La Jongs, the property of Messra, Barron, Torbes & Co., bankars, of Tople, City of Moxi- co nnd Guadalsjara, sud Mexican connection then of the groat banking-houso in London of Baring Drothors. Mr, Fowler, on leaving New York, took stesmer for Havaus, Thero he awaited correspondoncs, including letiers of recommondation from New York firms to cor- respondents in Mosico, From Havann hosniled for Vera Cruz, and thenco by diligoncia he proceeded to tho City of Mexico, Mr. Dar- ron, then guite a young man, but head of tho great bankiug-houso, at once offered Mr. Fowlor the lucrative position of Buperintondent of La Jonga, in Tepic. Tho generous offer was promptly acceptod, and the sclf-oxpatriated ex- flo procoeded over the intervening States of Moxico—Querotaro, Guanajuoto, and Jalisco— iuto Topic. Au clegant housa was routed for him. 1le was given carte blanche liberties with the factory.” All Lo had- to do was to go ahoad, enlargo, and atherwiso improve it &t will, and prosent nccounts to the firm, o surroubded lis homo with & bigh wall, in- elosiug ton acres of ground. ~ On it were orango- trees, cocon-nut puims, and otlier fruib trees. Flowers of mauy hucs, rank plants snd shrubs, ndorned it ; ‘and in bachelorhood and quiot the ex-Postmastor of tho metropolis of the United Blates lived nway the years in oneof the most beautiful, fortile, ponceful, and prosporous val- Toys 1 ail the world. MANUEL LOZADA'S LIFE, disconnected with that of Isano Vi Fowler, is an putirely different thing, The world cannot un- derstand Liozads tukon sside from hiz Bueno Ausigo Americang,—* mi compadro, Sonor Fow- ler.” Botween theso mou there arose s bond of mutusl interost, Botweoa the people of Tepic and Lozuda Mr. Fowlor stood the only medintor, tho only barner betwoon iron usurpation snd docility and humble servitude ; aud, whonover TLozada could nat be fufluenced or contralled by auother influenco, Mr. Fowlor was interceded with to interfore, and, if tho cause was not trvial, ho would seek Lozadn' at San Luls, bhis fortitied rmountain-fasiness, and by argument or appenl, almost always succeeded in changing tho cbioftain's mind, What first brought these autipodul maon to- other was tho famo of La Yonga factory aftor ir. Fowler hiad improved it by adding woveral thousand spindlos, many looms, and much fino machinory from Americsn mauufuctories, TLo- zada visitod and inspecied the factory in the summer of 1850, and at ouco becamo an ardont adwiror of Mr. Foslor. He ofton-rodo in aud dined with the Americon, whase table always hold tho finest of catablosas woll ay tho choicest of liquors aud wines, By obserying the im- provements made by 3r. Fowler, Lozada began to inquire about other improvements in tilling tie soil, and supplied his Aigq Amoricaus with funds With which to import agricultural imple- ments and muchinery., Ho walled in u farn of nearly 800 acres of land on the mountaiu-slopa adjocent to his osstle or foriress . of San_ Luls, and omployod his now muchinory fnd_jmplements in_oultivating this farm. He toiled daily {n tho fields ; grow tobacs o, cotton, corn, barley, rico, oat, wheat, sud othier products. ' 1o bongh a threskor, mowing and roaping michino, graiu-drills, plows, plant- ors, rakes, & portubio spw-mill, n grist-mill, corneshiollors, foddor-cutlors; sud in 1867, when the — writor visited 'Tepio, thero wore hundreds of fmproved agriculs tural implements and machines scattered throughout that fertilo valloy purchased by thoso_who had spon Lozada's, '1'!:0! Indirectly Mr. Fowlat's exile proved that good may grow outof bad, Btill, bardly can we suy this,—for Mr, Fowler, as Mr, Liucoln pftorward enid whon in 1804 ho pardoned tho oxile, “* committed no crimo; he was rather criminally ndiscreot.” Nevortheless ho waa tho cause dircst of tho madifleation of tho chioftain's life, the cauac of the improvement of the peopla of the Tople Dis- trict, and, from him, whilo undar hin roof, wo Journed very much of the life of Lozads, TUUE AND UNTRUE. That Moxicans huted Loznda, I8 true. That they maligned hiny, is also true, That ho overin- e o upon thoir terntory to_commit qumln- tions, is fulge, 'Ihat he dofled the Gonoral Gov- eroment from youth 41l bowad with old age, and that most stccessfully, iy a fuct ; and that alono iu the cause of the twiverssl hatred by Moxioans of Lozada. ‘This comes from the punigh- ments, severs, awful, nflmllmg, which_ Lo in- Hlictod upon thio armias of the (isnoral Govori- yiont in thoir tripartite uttompt Lo subjugate tho District of Topic. Lozads, in his eftumnpt to Xeop tho authority of Moxico out of his coyntry, qid ik for the good of hia people, as chioftainy bofore him_ did, Iu this attompt ho was flrinly socouded by the entira body of Euro- peant who resided in his _distrjet, B, JYowler uphold him. Barron, Forbes & Co. nustainod himw with funds for arms and nuSpUeu when necessary. Au the Governmount could can- 4rol neither Lozade uor Teply, it could not col- leet dutios on goods hupo;led into it through -| ures, small foot and hands, have beon _tho Port of San Dlas, It could not lovy or col- loct taxos thora, It could not draft “soldiors from tho hardy and indomitable Topicancos, to whom nono in'all Moxico woro equals. ‘Tople novor was .ront by olvil fotds, nas was the ro- maindor of blood-atnined Moxico, Hor pooplo prosporod, nud at mining and nerlculturo grov opulent. ANl were trained soldievs.” Tho boy from childhood was taught to_ bear arms, aud to dospiso tho rulors or mistulors of Mexico propor, Schools woro™ estublishicd throughout tho dise triet aftor Mr. Fowler wont thoro, And horo wo will uny, without fonr of contradiction, that Log Indiow of Toplo’ are not puro-bluodod Indinns, Noithor wau Lozads. As tradition tenches ns, the Bpauigh doscendauts of ‘the orlginal sotilora In Topio wora nmuu;b tho bost-formed and most athlotio raco of all Bpanish Amorica. The branty of the womon ef ‘Foplc, tho loveliness of their countonancos, thoir, lururious hair, suporb fig- amod for threp couturios, Hor mon nro stalwart, broad- ehonldorod, and ara alwayn {aught to feel them- eelvea tho suporlor of all” Moxicans beyond tho cas, ‘Tho Boston Globe's story of tho torture of Loznda's mother, and his amour with the Bpan- isli girl, are puro fabrications,—not necossarily of tho eorrenpondont, but moat INely of hia Mer. lcan {nformants, The fact is, that Moxicaus so raroly entorod Lozada's torrifory that ail manner of inventions floated about tho conatry regarding Lim, with none near well enough inforined to corroct thom. A Mexican proper fearod to go acrosa tho Alicas and outer tho Topio District. Banla Ana, with- 20,000 of his votoraus, under- took it, and, when half-way through tho dopthe of Daranoa Blunca, suddonyy, ns 1¢ by th say of the magicisu's waud, 80,000 of T omnae domitable warriors foll upun and . BLAUGHTERED TIE ENTIRE ARMY, excepting Banta Aus and his body-guard of 600 men, which, boing in tho rear and not yot doscondod into thie barancs, saw the commence- mont of tho slaughtor, turned, and fled. Mus- kots and cannon, swords, pistols, horsos sud accoutrement, by the thousands, foll into Lozn- dw'shonds. 1lis army could then, as gll Moxi- cnng sni' bave marchod into Guadalajara, second cl ly of tho country, and easily havo plun- dored it, This was not Lozada's sim, Triple rows of gigantic mountains formed n nearly comploto amphitbontrical wall around his. dis- trict, broken only by tho G0 lengucs of const on tho Pacfle, Narrow passes mfiy Tod into s torritory. Whou once an nm\{ aitemptod tho diffioult and perilous passnge, tho wily chicftain sllowed it to entor until he could surround it, and thus, outting off retront, hold it in tho hole low of his haud until it waa destroyed. Gather- ing all its unpl(:lluu, Lozada took them to hus fortrosa at Ban Luls, gave bis army a foast, and dismiesed thom to thoir homos. 'I'wo othor at- tompta than Santa Aun's-woro made to subduo Lozada, and _resulted in two othor wholesslo elaughters, In oach cnse, asin tho: firat, tho great chioftain could haye loft his victims to moulder in tho depths and' recesses of tho ba- rancas and cauons, and, hastoning to tho Btatos, Tiave captured State capital aftor capitel, an ovorwhelmed all Mexico. Buch, howover, was nover ‘his awnbition, and these instances conclu- pively eubstantiato what was told mo by the'na- tive nnd foroign citizens of Tepio in 1867, whon Lozada wes at the height of his power, Whop, in Fobruary of thatl yoar, the foroes of Nopoleon III concoutratod at tho capital, and marched out from tho ““Ialls of " tho Mounto- gumns,” undor command of Marshal Dazaine, Mnximilisn and his _adhorenta folt in no way alarmod, for thoy had bad n messengor from Manuel Lozada, telling the young Arohduke and Emporor that Lozada with 50,000 warriors WOULD JOIN TIHE IMFERIAL FORCES. ‘This cheored all fmporial Moxico. Thatarmy under Lozada waa bettor than quadruple Tiazaino's rmy of 95,000 Fronch nnd - Austrisn troops for waging war in Moxico. ‘When this rumor was made kuown to Juarcz and his armios, oven amidst their rojoicings over tho ovacuation of Mexicau torritory by the Franch, 8-shadow foll upon thom all, and gloom, darker, thnn ever, settled in thoir hearts, Howover, this was mot to bo. It was then that tho American apirit of Isao V. Fowlor ngserted itsolf in his oxilo. As goon as lie knew Lozada meant to join hands with Maxi- milinu, he bogan to persuade him to forbeur, showing bim Liow, when succoss crowned the Tmperial banners, it would be incompatible with Moximilians dignity and bonor s an Emporor to allow Lozada or any otnor chieftain to romain independent in or on sny part of Mexican torritory, This nnd other arguments, . duriug the snmo days that Lozada's forcas wore proparing to croas the Alicas and attack Corona at Guadalsjara, cgused El Jefe del Norto to pauso, consider, and flnally to declino, A moa- songar was Rent to Quorotaro to Maximilian, tell- ing him of Lozada's intontions,—his change of mind. 'Then gloom and despair sottled over the Imperial houechold and camps. Thon two long and loud vivas rang throngh the mottled ‘ranks of tho half-clothed bus patriotio Liberals, Lozada's decision, as all the world then knew, . DOOMED THE EMPIRE, and crowned the Republic. For thig, and other reasons too numerous to mention ina lot- tor, the allegation of Lozada's aggrossion i pro- von enormous, Positivoly, his whole lifo dis- proved the statomont about his wanting powor of any kind boyond the amphitheatre of mon« tnina which surrounded his own Tepic, Ho nevor lod his troops boyond theso mountains bub onco ; that was in 18G3, when, at tho head of 5,000 warriors, ho marched northinto Binalon, and joined Gen. Castillion's Fronch forces, Al tho flrst battle agaiust tho Liborals, Castillion left Lozada on tho fleld of battle, nover \\‘m‘un:F him {hat he wonld bo left to fight alone; and, while Lozada was_waiting for oiders, the entiro Liboral army of 25,000 mou foll upon him, snd muaseacred balf his command, Tor this baso act of the Fronea commander, Maximilian and the Ireuch justly lost the most poworful ally in all Mexico, Lozada'roturned to Tepio, oud, while he and his people quictly pursued thelr vocations of peace, tho problem of Iimpiro vor- sus Republio, in tho heart of tho Americun Con- ‘tinont, was being solved in blood on the pinins boyond tho Alicas. 3 UGen, Corons, Commauder-in-Chief of tho Grand Army of tho Repulic of Mexico of tho Northost, ot the hiewd of 12,000 mew, once un- dortook to subdue Topic, 1o Lad beou a clerk in the City of Tepic while a Loy, and 'was a native of thatdistrict. IIa thought he kunew the torri- tory, and Lozado’s .ways well enough to subdue Lin, and the Goneral Govermnont iutrusted him with the mission, Ho marched from Mazntlan in the sprivg of 1854, nt tho hond of his army, Lozada was apprised of it within twouty-four honrs after his doparture. A glaring beacon- light of pitel-piuo kuots was seen on Ban Luis pmu(;l that night, and, by daylight of the follow- ing day, TORTY' THOUBAND MEN Lind assombled on the slopes of San Luis. talf the numbor were mounted. Lach man had o lance, o carbine and rovolver, and kuife, Throo duyn wore passod in fleld-maneuvros. L'ho fourth day, from Muzatlan, Corona ontered the forbiddon district., Lozada’s wily scouty hov- erod noar him, but never allowed Coroun's forces .to eoo them, Hourly® Lozadn was opprised of his enemy's movéments. Ho allowed Corona to nwar Wepio, to look upon tho city of hie birth, ihe Mecen he would - capture. - Lozads placed 10,000 picked meu in tho city ; 20,000 cuvalry and 10,000 infantry ho marched west of Tapic and wost of the trail which Corona wps following into the city, He allowed him to march on, for he folt as conscious of a ocom- plete’ vietory as ho over did whon amios from the Central Mexican Btates en- deavored to cross tho nimost impassublo moun- taln barriors on the east. The infantry in Topic Kopt out of sight, Tho court-yards of churches and all public buildings werp filled with men engor for_the fray, Tho city of 15,000 pooplo wae a8 quict spparantly us on a Sabbath morn- ing, "he poople know their personal safoty con- slsted in t{:clr remaining in their homos, Co- ronn hed not soen an enomy. —As he hurried his entiro’ command forward, he saw all was quict. Ho lastenod into the opan gatos of Topio aud to the publio Plazs, ‘Then tho signal for an attack on his mon was glvon by Licut, Rafael Mondoza, commanding Lozado's forcos. Tho ‘groat San Juaus of tho churches and publia ‘Eflllfllngu flow opon, and_thousanda of men, ‘asger to slaughtor the invadors of their homes, rushod into the hand-to-huud fight. Corona {.mu:ln for but & fow moments, His mon wore oing LITERALLY RUTONERED, 1H6 _gavod himsolf by flight. All with him who “coutd, flod; but, an thoy sought flight, Lozada's mounted 'men_followed, chopping them fo niocos, Tho old chiof was always st the hosd of his men, In fDllmvinE his enemles, Lozada, this duy, was wounded by a lance in tho back, ‘This wound lajd him up for months, and caused break in his upine, which mado him walk with astoop aud stitfened him for life. Aftor that 1o could peyor essily moung his mustang. Dub n vory fow of Coropa's men escaped with thoir lives, ‘I'hey were followed by Lozuda's warrlora to tho 8tatolino, The road was blazod by doead soldiers of Moxico, No sybsoquout attompt was over made to conquor the objeftaiu of 'Topic. TERSONAL CUABACTERISTICH, Muouol Lozads was 64 yesrs old in 1807,— tay, bowod iu form, eaxried rany wounds, aud le aulgltless left eye, 1lo wns about b fool 7 nelies lugh, weighed 145 pounds, was vor davout pt times, and had nover boen_outuids his torritory but tivieo since isbisth, Oune of thess two occasiond’ wgs tho ono montlonod when lo went wita 5,000 mon into Binuloa, Tho othor occasion was whon, disguisod 48 p varbonoro (cval-burnor), ho cronrod tho Alicns and visited the Biskop of Jalisco at Gundalajara. ITo wad novor rogularly ‘marriad, lot thom weava novor a0 much ramanco about his lovos and marringes as thoy pleaso, Ho hnad bis Indinn mistrengos, whom™ he used moro as sorvanuts than as wives, o hnd n strong prusion for cards, but gowmblod vory seldom,— onco to throa cr four tines o yoar. Whon ho sonted bimself at u tablo to play for monoy, lio would romsin from twonly-four Lo moventy-two Lioura without sleop. By nceidont, at ono timo, o profosgional monln—rluor beeamo engagod ot ontds will him and othorn, Lozada's Ko ove doteetod tho gamblor ¢heating. Calling tha at- tontion of othors to tho fact, lie ordered onoe of hin liontonsnta to take {ho gnmbler out, glvo bim & hoveo, and, if lio looked round whila louy- ing tho district, to shoot him, An Amorie: photogaphor attompted to photograph Loznle through an opou window. Tho old ohieftain dis- covored him, and gave him six hours to gottle his Busincss aud lenva Taplo, or b shot. Whon tho order came from Napoloon to Ba- znino to evnounto Mexican torntory, Con, Cns- tilllon, commnnding the Fronch in Bonora aud Binnlon, with hoadqguarters nt Mazatlan, sont o messengor to Lozada roquesting the privilego of mnrcllh\g his army of 8,000.men from San Blag acrons Tepic, thoneo to Guadalajara. 'Chis would savo 800 milos marching through Binalon and Durango. Tho chioftnin well remembored Cas- tillion's dogertion of Limwolf and commund on tho fleld of battlo, and at iirat decided to rofuso thé roquost. Hecoud thought, howover, sug- gestod, “Now is my time to pagar ¢t Francais" .(TO PAY THE FRENOIMAN). o sont word that his dosive was grantod, Whon Castillion Janded hia mon nt San Blas, Lozadn was thoro, grooted him with all tho sunvity of Sanlsh courtosy, alnrmod the Fronch officers about the dangorn of ol vomito—yellow fover—if they lingorad on tho coast, and, out of his rogard for "tho I'rouch, advised them to bLaston to tho uplands st Tople, nnd oncamp thore muntil his Indisus, with earts and mules, could bring their arms and munitions to them, Castillion too willingly conseuted, and hautily marchod his 8,000 mon to Wopio, and encamped thom on tho hifls that overlook the hoautiful city. Meantime Lozada onteriained tho Ironch offlcors with tho bout in the land. Liquors and wines flowod coplously. When tho traine with 8,000 muskets, 50 piocos of rifled cannon, and vast atoros, gathored from tho military siations of tho Northwaest, woro within a fow miles of Tepio, 5,000 of Lozada's moen mot thom aud cnn!;e nion, carts, teame, munitions, and sll, around Topto and 'to Lozndw's fortrosses ot Ban Luis. There wns Lozada at midnight to meot them. Onoo all the supplies, oto., wero storod in tito citndel, Loznla dictatod & dispatch to Oastil- lion, {To remindod him of Low b doscrtad him threo yoars prior on tho flold of battlo then told him, “I have your arms aud supplics, If you thinkk you can, como and take them, Lozadn &nya you cannob, and ordors you to march your afmy out of Liis torritory at once.” Quides Wero furnished Castillion. Dojactod, chagriunad, and almoat crushed in heart, ho started out via tho pasnes, end renchod tho City of Moxico in January, 1867, At Guadalajara Lo took now arms, 80 that but littlo wsa evor known of his mortify~ ing encountor with tho groat chioftain, LOZADA LOVED HI8 PEOPLE, Sovoral times his wound in tho back took him nenr the grave,—several times be dictaled his farewell to his fmnplo, and thousands of thewm assombled to liear his last words. Tho man really was n physical wrock from Lo time Corous ontored his district. o had the will of & Roman Emperor. iy sim was to keop his people pma{mmua and freo from the ontangle- monts which distressed all tho rest of Mexico. Marquoz, who commanded the City of Mexico Quring tho sioge by Gon. Porfitio Diaz in 1857, not Munuol Lozada, a8 the Globe corrospondont snys,—was tho Mexienn Wigro dol Montanas,— Tigor of the Mountains; Lozada punighod tho theft of o oar of corn, of n dollar, of a horso or mule, or whatever aleo, with death. Ho allowed no civil fouds. 1o sottled all disputes, and that ended them, Thoro wore fow thioves among bis peoplo. All worked: Al mon ha to’ train for the armay. No idle strang- ora woro ollowed ‘in his district. Auy found thero who could not account for thomselves were ordered out at once on pain of denth, Tho mountdin-passos were guardod ater- nally, No surpriso could come upou them, Little drunkennoss was known., Lozsdn bad 80,000 stnnds of arms, in 1867, stored in San Latis fortress, 100 pieces of artiltery, and abund- anca of powder and ammunition of all kinds. Tho most of this he had_captured, ono way and anothor, from his enemies in their attompta to subduo him, When ho sent word to Maximilian, in January, 1867, that hie could noi aid him, o sout him $200,000 in gold as n prosent. Porson- ally ho was an adutror of the young Emporor, sad, but for tho four tlat 1is own pooplo would thereby loso their independence, Lozada would have plauted Maximilian fivmly ou tho throne of DMoxico. R iy But the old, withered Indian chioftain is dead,—hot through and througl, a3 woro Max- imilian, Mejin, Mirsmon, sud otliers. In more civilized countries than Moxico, it would be murdor. 1o died, iowevor, os ho lived, FLUCK TO ‘THE LAST. ‘He loft the moat prosperous pooplo in Moxico. Tlo uover was o Mozo, as auys the Globe trans- lator, His fathor bofore him was a chioftain, Lozada died in bis 58th yoar, and in tho 30th of his dictatorshlp. Tho Imporial garrison of Acapulco, State of Quorrero, when hearing thet Maximilian hed beon takon and shot, and that the Lwmpire wha dead, ombarked, to tho number of 450 men, and sailed for San Blas, Thoy wero Mexicaug. ' Thoy scab a_mossongor to Lozada telling him of thoir condition, Io sont for them, gave oach of them $260 in mounoy, and mado'them bis body-guard aud polico, they re- taining tho uniform of the Empire. Thoy gar- risoned Topic in times of poace, nud becume devotedly attached to Lozadn. THE OIIEFTAIN'S MOUNTAIN-FOLTRESS. Sic loguas, or sbout sovontoon nnd & half miles, northwest of the clty of Tepic, tho capital of the district and matropolis of tho valloy, 18 Ban Luiy, Horo for twenty years was the homo of Lozada. It is a small table land on the lovol, or nearly so, siimmit of Sau Luis Moune tain,” On tho north it L snabrupt, precipitous border, down wnich one muy look upon wwiftly- flawiug river, rolioved by cuscados and folls. It is nearly 3,000 foct into the abyss. Mortal man can mnke noithor tho ascent nor descent and live. Itisanatoral barrier against all ‘oxit or entrance to the fortreus, and no_man lives that gldo of tho chieftain’s home. From this abrupt tormiuation the mountain elightly slopes sonth- ward and eastward, Uutil after Mr. Fowlor's arrival in Topic, Lozada had above 40 scres in- closod by a brond, bigh wall, mado of adobo. ‘Ihe wall'is nbove 12 foet in width and 25 high. Tha outor edgo s o supplemontary wall, 6 foot bigh and 8 feel in thickuoss, mado of rock, and containing loop-lioles. On tho east, wost,. aud south wides, ot _overy 100 yards, s & port-holo for cannon. Whoro theso oceur, the wall oxtouds back about 40 feet, giv- ing smple working room for the artillorist, Azter Lozndn loarned tho uso of agricultural implemonts_aud machinory, he inclosed tho tyact of land ndjacent by au adobo (mud) founco, 214 feot thick oud 10 foct high. T'his inclosuro comprised bis farm, which had his most minute personnl superintendonce, Eoro ho_cultivated all the coreals natural to the soil, Ho also had an orcliard of apple, par, plum, peach, orange, and other fruit troes, in a flourishing cond.tion, Insido tho main fortross was au armenal, & ma- chino-shop, blacksmith-shop, grist-mill, gun- smith, and' oarpentor-shiop, all woll-uppointed ; and fu them I found g gorps of compotont artists nnd ortisons, under tho -superintondence of Amorican mojor-domos or bossos, whom Mr. Fowlor hnd brought from 8an Franeise and Now York, loro wero stored the 80,000 stunds of arma, oll kopt in order. Ilera woro bis cannon, the foundry whore shot, and sbell, and cauvister woro cpot, and old-stylo arme ronovated and chunged into improved guns, Ilero lancos and machelas wero manufacturod, and spurs made, It was the chioftaln’s workelop, which ho was enpeoially dehighted to attond, and which kopt Lis mind omployed in lator yonrs, Thors was his howne, and -where Lis confidential tonientos ro- pided. A bright fire on this platenu could bo .seon by noarly all the inhabitanta of the moro lhiuhly-]im&u)nlod portions of the dietrict, and, whon ¥indled, it waa o signal for Lin mon to qnit all other affairs aud Lusten to tho bidding of their chiof. Onono occasion tho inkinbitautd of Ban Jacinto—a villago four leaguos south of "Topio—rtefusod to respoud to the wignal, This \was in 1808, whon Lozada wished 8 forca to go with him inte Sinalon. Lenrning this, Lozadw diroctod thut on the following night, 1,000 trusty 1jen should ontor tho viltage and KILL EVERY MALE, old and young, in it. One of his Licutenants, howaver, who bad & brother v the village, warned tho people to floe and remein out of tho town until he divectod to come at once to Ban Luis. 'Lhig wus dong, uud the monarch, whon his soldiors camo and mfml‘lcd tho situatlon, roleuted. A band of Colimn horao-thieves onco wore chased into bis district. ‘They confossad their crimen. Lozads, lustesd of hyrboring thom, took thelr liorses and sent them to the Governor of Colima, sud bad tho men shot and thrown ovor (i.hnpwcl- pleo of Ban Lule, ' Mr, Fowlor ane m‘fluol froquently rodo out to this fortross zud dined thore, I hud boor egytioned neyor to be_sean using o Smnoll while there, and did not, In Lozu- e’y bitting-room he had'a town-clook, As bo haud soon tho piclure of & chiuroh with o clock fn tho tower, Lo wanted such s time-picco, Ono waa ordered from Huy Freucisco, and put up .in that room, Au ho desired always b9 soo tho -onca n mouth assomblod’ for practice. ozade could be appeasod. Tho men- wholo mnohinery, ho would not lnve it alao- whore, but kopt & mozo (servant) who hnd to wind that clock up ovory throo hours, or when tho welghts reachod tho floor, 'Ihis demon- atrated one of tho. eccontricitios of tho man, On theso gronnds wora targots whoro !llunl;llmrn ore wora atorad com and provisious snfilcient for n two years' slogo ; and hero, uninolested, refgnod 1 hin own posmllar way the strongent ud mont aosoluto monnrch of onr Contineut. A PICTURE, 8hia wanders alono by tin foyous ool ; Along o'or tho cloyered len 3 Alone thirough the ways of thio ringing wood § Aloue by the Hiting sea, 8ho {n bright s tho tnted light In tho morning-mulst nt piny 3 Ao I fulr as thy soul of & proyer In tho azuro docpn away. Hor Hps aro Itk rones of morn, And her oyes o iko atnrs of the night e volca s tho volco of n lute, And Jior apirit fa full of dolight. Tho brook bnbbles mystical lore : ho droams on tho elovered les Blie inga with thid acunding wood Bhio weeps by tho lifting'sca, uEo, CANPENTER, OimoAdo, Bopt, 16, 1870, | © — e BROKEN TOPS. A succosslon of torrible, prolonged shrioks onmo from our, two-year-old. I rushod to tho door just Intimo to hoar n voice from up-stain cail out: “Will you plonso toll mo what that child i8 orying about now 7" ¢ Only brokon his top 80 it canuot be monded,"” was the answorin n «caal voics from Lilow, 3 Only & broken plaything, T muttored, shutting tho door aud golug back to my comfortrble chair in the library, How is it big folka and littlo folls will breal their tops, and thon big folks and littlo folks will cry 2+ If any ono conldmnko & colloction of tho broken playthinga in this world, what = hoterogeneous masa of things thoro would bo. Moro of ashow than Barnum ovar got togother, T will wartant, and making moro of s sonsation by far. How pooplo would flock to thia Vanity-Fair; for thoy would bo vanitics, and broken at that. How fow would recognize tha partionisr pioco of broken waro thoy biad kindly though unconsciously, do~ natod to the museum. Ilow $hey would look with opon-oyod astonishment at thoe quoor thinge displayed. And you would hear from all sides tho exclamatory, Oh's and Ah's, You don'’t sy 80’8, and I told you po's. How you could go pushing and jostling through the orowd, smiling and chuekling to yoursolf over thess people who did not rocognizo their own littlo pot proporty, uow it was sot upon o pudestsl, or covered with a glags caso, Labelod, porhaps ; but thon wo wauld expock to grow noar-sightod for porsonal things at ouch an_oxbibition, or convenientl Joavo at homo our spoataolon for privato uso, 1t is such fun to wmuscd . by othiers, when thero ia fortunatoly nothing .of, _our own on oxhibition ; ouo steplthy look takon around wonld first sottle that point. Aud 80 cach ono would walk ou smiling and_chnickling, complacont with mell- satisfaction, Would it not bo & ploassnt affair, this exposition of the world's foibles,—all the broken playthings ? Look around hore in our own town. Thera is Hugh Grohoam; a littlo too much dealing in atocks, his top brokon, and Hugh orying. Thoro is Square Dobson's daughter ;& litHe too much solf-will ; would marry that' Green; Iuow ho was 8 seamp, aud nover could bo anytaing olse ; but sho would have the top, and have it sho did, and now sho is orying because b is past mond- msz, Tho Browns idolized their won; bright follow ho was, too; still ho was not tho Apollo or Bliokspearo of tho ninoteontl: confury, or nny wonders of tho world rosurrected. But Pa and Ma Brown found thelr_top, ono day, lyiug on its sido in n vory he.pless manuor, and thoy looked into ench othor's faces with a strange look of consterna- tion, and then bogan to cry, It soems young Brown had Lad hiu top, & protty fast ono; ho kept it going all tho tinlo, and it soou wore out. Whon it rofused to malo anothor spin for him, o joined in aud cried with Pa and Ma. ‘hore in Mrs. West ; hor's is a vory protty little top. I do not wondor sho was tompted into owning it. Bho knew it was frail, that tho loast mar would spuil it, and sho ouglit to have handled it daint- ily, and, even with tho greatest cars, expected to have'it broak in hor fingers. When pooplo got gold in oxchnnga for their froodom, thoy must 6xpuot to puy full prico for the costly'top. But, whot Mrs. Wost’s broke, ns it didpastany nionding Dy o little carelosaness on her part, sho began to ¢y, Thon dudge —; woll, ho bada Flm, aubstantinl, sensiblo top,—one that would lust as long as ho would live 0 want it. Ile was quito loasod. with it 3 1t would spin well, and it might nve been ap nuing to-day but ' for one littlo thing, that led to othor littlo things, in the mg— ular rule of prograssion. A friond told the Judgo that & gold baud around _the top: would maka it spin faster in & cortain direction, said direction being much moro for his interost than where it was spinning now. This friend would give him the gold for the baud if hie would go in that direction. The Judgo was, of course, ovoer- como by such sincore dislntorostodnoss, and was willing” to try tho exporiment at tho oth- er's oxpenso. Boon n socond band was put on at nuother friend's oxpeuso; and in time tho top was gll gold bands, aud somehow then it would not go right in any divaction. Aftor & fow hiard strugglos to got 1t Into tho old _spot, tho Judge gnve it upas n bnd caso, watchod it wob- Dla a littlo, then roll ovor on its eldo, nover to spin any moro. _ Protty Mabol, sho bought hor top of Cupid, aud the mischiovona littls mor- chaut taught hor bow to make it apin _equal to himsolf beforo ho gave jt into her hands, Mabol waa an apt scholar; '*or whito Gngors palled the gold thrend vory doftly. Shohad many fasci- natod beholders; and those most charmed could not have told whothor the enchentmeunt lay in the little gold-frosted top, tho taporing fingors that set it gowng, or .tho dreaming oyes that, from following its movings, turned so tmidly to theirs. It was mere pluy for Mabol. She dolighted to have others watch ler. Bhe Dlushed and smiled vory swoctly when thoy said no one could do it so prettily'as she, Bha would look up with & vory innocont half-disbe- liet, toy with tho plaything in horhand a mo- ‘mont, thou sob it in motion again_ewifter than over, It was notplay for ‘all who stopped to watch the spinner or grow intorestod in the spin- ning. And one dny the littlo fiue gold thread ot badly twistod, and a young' man stooped to olp Mabel untwist tha kinks, Thoy- woro-n long time on tha work, for tho string had mnn{, muny knots; but togethor thoy sucosceded in straightoning it out. Mabel smiled.and mur- murod hor thanks | tho young man smiled and murmured in return, Bhe was welcome; and then——he went away. “Mabel spun her top & littlo longer, but it was no more play,—it was work. Anud onco, when ahio was tired nnd cross, she pullod too hard on tho throad ; snap it went, ond her top foll down broken, and Mabel begau to cry. [ lgnn't you hear thom erying, oh, my broth- org?" I doall tho time. Hometimes I jump up and get to tho door, but it is only to hioar, * Ho lins broken his top 80 it cannot’bg mend- od,” and an evil that 1§, phst remody mibut e woll o loft alone for ali'the good L cando; so 1 roturn to my enasy chair, thaukful that I have ot any pet folly on oxhibition, or have not any broken tops lying around for some kind friend to stumblo ovor and Lold up in my face, or any- body elsa’s faco, for that mattor, Thero is ' n doal u? satisfactiou In this, it voun only ara sure. Our prococious two-year-old—the startor of this soliloquy upon broken playthings—criod for tho red-hoc pokor the othor day, and his mothor thought pori m{m tho quickest way to curo him of crying for it again was to give to him. Iin- terforod with the )ittlo exporimont; but wha Jnowe but & good smart burn from tho pokor in the boginning would put & littlo wisdom futo o fingors that aro to spin the top by aul by ? New Yons, © Jzax GovLp, P e i Qossnck Capacitles, This ia the way Wurquisians take tholr moals ; ¢ First thoy mado away witha gallon kettle of hot tea, Thon they proparod & four-quart pailfull of boiled flsh and soup. Just as this was dis- patobod, thelr comrado roturned, and tho pail wwas tivico (llod with botlod bosf, all of whieh wag dovourod by the throe, tho bopes being cracked for tho marrow, They thon rinsed oun tho pall, and cooked 1t full of ‘erups,’ a kind of mush, which went the way of tho fish and beef. Then thoy fell uwpow ‘ukale,’ or driod galmon, dovourng ovon tho skin, after broiling it over the fire, Thon thoy built their own camp-fire, aud bogan to ook unother moal, We did not koop any account of tho dishos, but tho last thiug wo heard after rotiring was the eracking of beof bones to' got at the marrow, Byrartz told us that a fov months bofore a num- ber of horses had boon sont to Ajan, undor chinrgo of holf a dozon Ogssacks, Ono of tho Lorscs broko hid leg, and had to bo killed, At avening the nlx Cussacks pat down to tho car- casg, and fn the morning thero wes nothing loft of it but the hide and bongs, Even iho hosd sud entrally had been eaton, " ROCKY MOUNTAIN SKETGHES. The Crazy Woman, DY GEN. JAMES A, DRISDIN, Running my finger over the map of RNed Cloud's conutry, onecvening, L obrorved a stream Inid down nn Ciazy Womnu's Fovk, and nskod tho Boonts if any of thom auew how & river m tho Tudinn country cawo to huur such n eingular umno, T ean toll you, sir,” {mmodin.ely vopliod Mr. Balden, nud hw procesded to rolato tho fullowing Jogond s Many yonrs ago, whon tho Crow Indinns lived on that slionm (it was provious to 1841, and beo- fora Col. Bonnovillo or any ono also had visited tho conniry), thore eame & white man to trade with tho Crows, Theso Indlans hnd novor seen & whito mau bofore, and they woro groatly aston~ . ished that Lin skin should diffor in color from their own. Tho trador brought with him govornl ponfos packed with bLeads, ribbons, ealico, and gay-colored oloths, which, ho told thom by signs, ho wislied to oxchaugo for furs, aud skins of buffalo, olk, aud doer. The lu- dians wore doliglhted, aud made haata to buy all bio had, giving him fu roturn whatevor ho askod of them. Whon all his trivkots wore sold, tho trader packed his furs on tho ponfos, and started cnut, saying ho would goon roturn with many more articies for sile, aud tho Chiof and all tho tribe urged him to do so. n nbout four monthe the ccuta roportad to thoit Chitof a straugoe machine coming iuto their country, which they could not understand, and 1o hike of which thoy had nover scon boforo. Tuo villago was greatly slarmod, and the Ouiof, with sll his worriors, wont out Lo goo what it was, Lo their delight, thoy found it wes tho irador with two ox-toams and wagons londod with goods, Tho Judiaus thought tho oxen wero tamo buffaloea, and the wagons thoy could make notaing ot all of. Tho trador bad his wife with him, nud tho squawsworo astonmbod to neo hor wonr dronses down to her feet, nud Ince hor waist with strong cords. But what astonished thom mont of all was an Amorican horao on which tho trador rode; they never scemed firad of com- paring s immonso size with their own little ‘poutios, I'ne rivor_wns not thon cnllod Crazy Woman, but Beard River, from a curious striped gross that grows alongite banks, aud whici the In~ diuns gathor aud burn to mako & porfumo whon performing tloir ceromonles, “Iuo teador builk o ptrong honge of logs, and in it placed all his goods. 1o was n vory gonorons man, and made wany bandsomo prosents to tho Chief and tho womon ; &0 evory one loved hiw, and thought him tho best aud richost porson in the world, Ono asy, whon all his goods were sold, tho trader cnlled tho Chief into lis wtore, aud told hitm ho would show bim something wondorful. To thon took from uudor bis bod & small kog, and pouring somathing out of it into o tumbler, mado tho Cnief promise ho would never teil suy one whoro ho got ' tho firo-wator,” which way what tho trador called the liguid in the glass, ‘The Chief promised, drank what was in the glnus, aud went to bls lodgo, Lrasontly ho felt lo mostoxhilarating offects,and eame out beforo his lodgo, sung, dencod, sod bohaved in the most unusual maunor, ‘Iho warriors gathored around hin, and wondered what could “ail their Chiof ; for thoy nevor had seon him act &0 bo- foro. ' Whon finally Lo fell down in a doop sleap, thoy thought ho wne dead, aud begon to mwourn for lim; bubtnoxt dav ho was alive again, and thoy conld mako nothing of it. Tir & day ortwo, tho Chiof wenttotho trador, said 1o had Lind groat droums, slain all his oncuies, and askod fur somo wore fire-water, Tho truder ave it bim, und ngam ho dancod, sang, and foll Hown liko aue dead, 'The warciora daestioned the Ghief nbout his strauge condact, but he would give tbom no entisiuction ; nud at Jast they callod a soeret council to considor the mat- ter. Bome anid the Chief wns crazy; othors ihat tho trader had bowitched himj; ‘while one war- rior deolaved that ho was gomgs on n groat war expedition prosently, and was siging aud dane- ing to propare himsell for bultle, Aftor all hnd spolen, & young warrior arose and said ho had obsorved that tho Chie! Lolmved #o strangoly only whon ho camo from visiting tho trader, i ho was sure the ‘trader b something to with his dancing and singing. tho couneil wonli anthorize him, he womld sift the matter to the bottom, and roport to them, Thiy proposition way rordily egreod to, und the couu- cil adjowned, first cojoining seerecy on all its members, for thoy had ho right thuy to meet and inquire into the uffuirs of their Chief, und, if found out, he would cortainly punish thom, Tho young warrlor woat to tho trader's atove Iy tho night, and, quietly romoving somo of tho mud and_ stleks 'betweon tho Iogs, 8o bo coutd poop insido, waited nutil La saw the Chicf go to tho store, nud then hastoned to hus plice of ob- sorvation. flo suw tho trader bring out his kog from undor the bed, pour someting in & glass, which ho gavo the Chiof to drink, aud tho Chief immodiately hastoned to his lodge. As soon’ nu tho Chief was gono, tho warrior wonb into the store, and demanded to know what it wes lind boon giveu to tho Chief. At fiast tho trador douiod ho had giveu him auy- thing ; but, on the warrior’s telling him of wunt e had seo, tho trader *¢Itis truo that 1 have n most woadorful water ; it will make ouo glnd when they are ead, warm when they are cold, and thona who havo itavs wlways invulacra- Dble in battle.” This statoment 8o excited the warrior that he beggod to bo allowed to tuste,if onlyn fow drops, of the water, The trader swors him not to teli what it was fie gavo_ bim, aud, on the warrior's promising ho would Leop sitont, gavo hita a s1ass of tho fire-water. No soouor hau ha awal- fowed it than ho_bogau Lo danco, yan through tho village hallooing and turning somorsaults, and finnlly foll down in n daep slcop. The warriors Lad no right to question the con- duet of their Chiof, but thoy hudpowar ovor tiat of tho warriora, and the wiko mon of the tribo now demanded that a council sit on tho young warrier, The Chiof assombled thoe council, rnd tho warrior was brouzht beforo it, Whon akod what it was tho trader Lad given him that made Lim bohave so scandalonsly, ho roplied, “ Noth- ing,” and that ho could not account for his con- dutk, Tho council was perploxed, and was about to adjourn without coming to any conclusion, when “a_young warrior arose and said: “ Our Drothur 1. T any Lim sratoh tho Uhiof, nud, when tho Chiof went nway, bo went into tho {rader's storo,and thon I watched Lim, and I saw tho trador give him somothing to drink in n gluas.” At ibin gravo clargey ull_tho couneil Yoso ond domanded to kuow of the young wartior what ho bhod fo eny. lamom- Loring thet tho _trador hnd - fold bim tho Jiquor ho hod drank would rondor kim invulnerable in battlo, ho denied alf, and challengod tho warrior who liad accused lim to como out beforo the village and fight hiza with javelins, Tho council, however, dotermined to Eoud for tho trador; aud, when bronght bafore tha conncil and questioued, Lo r«Y)icdg “Lho water ot niy stovo s lika that you all drinl; in proof of which I invito you all to como up and drink as much as you like.” Tho council rose sud wont to tho storo, aud, whon they wero seatod i o circlo on the grass boforo the daor, tho trader brought out his pail, and gave ench ono a Indloful of water to drink, Thon thoy set still and walted to seo if it would nffect thom as it had dono’ tho Chiof and warrior; Lut, although thoy watted wntil high noon, thoy per- coived no effects whatover, aud nrouo aud do- parted to tholr fodges. Tu tho afternoon tho battlo cnmo off bafore Lho villnge botween the two warriors, and nll tho wise mon and thoir familics asscwbled to witnoss it, It wgs obsorvod that he who hiad drank the fire-watortrambled violontly, and that, when ho took Lis sponr, Dis hand shook so that ho could Liardly hold it. It was not fear, how- avor, that caused the warrior's liang to Ltremble, for it had been shuking o for some days, an ovon bofora tho battlo wns talked of. "ho battlo bogan, and, whilo ho of the shaky and yot hold tho spuar aloft, tho signal was ivon, and the othor young watrior, hurling hia im'alln with unerring alm, plorced the drunkard Lrough tho Leart, 1o foll down on the sod_ta make n dio of it, and, boforo ho oxplred, called the_Chiof and the warrfors around bim and said: ** Oh! my broth- ors, sud_you, ohl my OChlof, it is trne tho trader hns o curlous flrcewator, that nmkes us glad whon wo ave sad, warm when wo are cold ; but he has liod to mo, for ho said It would muko mo fuvulnorablo in battle, and ‘beliold] 1 umi slain, and thint, too, by & moro 0y, T'ho wise mon ankod tha Chiof if all this wan true, and ho said it was. ‘Thon they rose and wont to tho trador sud repoatod it, and askod bim what ho had to say, Io r&\pllud, “I have no more fira-water, and” bothi the Clicf and tho warrlor have lied to injure mo.," ‘I'iis oXpros- sion was unfortunato for tho trader, for no uoonor did tho Chiof hoay what hud hoon enid thun ho camo to tho stoto Ina groat rage, aud eujd to the biadors * You nvcusod ma of lying, but I never led in my lifo; itis you who sro tho liar; and uow ‘im, dog that you arol” with which ho plunged iuto tho tradern breant lin great Junting- knifo, and il the wartiors st upon tho unfortu- nate man with their elubn to bont hitm to dosth. Tho whito womnn, noolug her husband abont to bo mundored, rav to save him, nud, in the moles, sho recoived o strolto on tho head from o toma~ hawl and foll down unconscious, ‘When tho tralor was dead, tho Chief brovght out the fire-wates, and poured it on tho ground, “Thon ho divided tho trader's ponton, goods, and fars nmong tho wartiors, and seb firo to tho Bfote, Souing tho whils man's Agnaw Iying on the floot, they wapposed hor Lo hie doad, nid or- dored hor body to bo burned with that of her husband; but, sflor the warriors hud gone off to tho villngo, womo squnaws to whom “the whits womnn lad heon kind, noticiyg she was still alive, took hor out and carricd her to tholr lodgos, whoro they botuud up hor wounds and gavo liov food fo ent. Tho oor woman recoye ered, hut slio way r. hopeless mauaic. 8Bl could nat bear tho slght of & warrior, and was con- stantly afraid thoy woro goiug Lo kill Lor, Ono day sio wna missing, and thoy hunted evory- wheroe for her, but could not find hor. Some warrlors out hununi: n fow wooks aflorwards found a littlo cave by the river in whick sho livod, but sho was nowboero to bo seon. Whon tho wintor csmo on and tho borries_ dried up, thoy know shio must starvo, and_ogain they at- temipled to capturo her; but, on tho approach of tho wartlors, sho flod to tho mountains, and, al- though they pursued Lor all day, tho ewiftest of thom could not ovortako her.” Blhe wna nover scon aftorwards. What beeamo of hor fs not Inow, but it in likely sho died of tarvation, or tho wild boasts destroyed hor. Ever nfterwards, when tho Indinns came to cunp on tho atream, thoy callod it ** Crazy Womau ;" aud that Is the way its namo got changed from * Big Boord " to ity prosent deslgnation. e THE OLD FORTY-NiNER. 4 Anothier pioncer 1a gone,” The Han Fruucinco paper say: And gl tho heodicas worlil w Anorst ft id fu othor daya, But X rocall hin wondroun atoro Of tales anslgncd to early years 3 Burprising o maglciaw's lore, And long as his bollover's eara, At night 1o'd sit hostda the stove And pun atrong and nlosdy blaat, “Tho whilo each yurn his mem'ry wove Was atill mioro foggy than tho last. om, And o would gather round to hoar ‘il old mon toll of bygono times, Of minor's camp and rugged choer, Aud early comor's jolccs and criuios, Immenso was ha in argumont— Of logic navglit ho understood, But fncia be conld with cass invent, Aud pour thom in an endless flood, 1Mo armued with untiring zeat, Dofying all to put him oit ; And falked, upon tho wholo, tho bost OF whiat Hio know the loast about, When ono & atubborn truth would bring, He'd meet §t with : ¢ Young frfond of inine, You cannot cach mo nuything, For I'vo been horo since foriy-ninet” . 118 chofcest talo was of & rido, When red mon tracked him throngl the grasa And Low, whien all ssomod safs, thero died, By random shot, bis Tudan lass, 1 rafaed her up—but abo whe dead I— My own doar wifol—acoursod tho fates 1—" Wo kohlod with him—uutil he said, 40Dy ather wifa wae in the Slates.” —Virguua (Sev.) Enterprise. WOMAN AND BUSINESS. Why ia it that, whilo mon have their place and duties i lifo uo cloarly dofined, there is so muek divorsity of opinion in regard to somon ? Oue cannot look at & paper without sesing some artiole upon the subject, Borne peoplo think that marriage i tho only proper sphoro for women, and the result iy most girls aro brought up to Lo marriod, whilo boys aro trainod up to somo usefnl occupation, Why marriage should bo s mattor of moro importance to a woman than to & man, would bo dificult to puswer, if wo did not know that it i the only business ngront many women have any thought about, Sho thinks she is in the would to bo talken care of by sowo ono. Tuncy a young man stayiug idly around home, waiting for gome pirl to marry bim ; yot this is what most girls, who aro not ‘culiged to support thomselves, aro doing. It is rathor & huwiliat- ing thought, that u woman should have no other ‘l]xlfimt in life than to wait for wowo ono to taie . “Uho working-girls bavo & great advantnge in this respcet, foi thoy aro indopendont, and haye thoir future in their own hunds, I li women woro trained for some useful oc- cupation, kuited to their {nstes and circum- stances, and looked upon marnuge as sometniy thut may or muy not como, then, if the husbau fuils Lo wako his appearance, as he sometinios does, gho i able to supputt betwolf ; and au in- depondoat,busy old maid is a fur more choerful wight than' s moping ono. A woman is far foss likoly to take the first good chance when whe finds sho cau tako caro of herself ; sha waits for some ono who will suit hor,—not some one to suppors her, “Thoue who do not beliove that women aro in- forior to men are upk to go Lo tho othor extrome, and think they are ulike, and that they must comyote with mon for thoir rights, To 4 think- ing mind, thoro is nothing ciearer than that thero ean bo no compurison” bolwoon what is to- tally unliko, and, therefore, no euporiority, or inforiority, when each takes the proper place, Mer and women are a8 unlko a8 the sun and moon; they lhave not one tralt in common. A man is more logical; he reasons- about everything, and is slow to form conclu~ sious. A woman porceiven, and i quicker to act; whon sho has docided what she wants to do, ehio is flrmt in carrylug out Ler purposo; that sho Lins a strong will, o man will dony, it experionce _tenchios_snylhing. A man can ju- vout and originate, Womeu have nevor invonted anything; thoy can finieh and utilizo, and hays s Ieen insight into charactor, ‘They e eallod nurrow-mindod, because thoy soe all the little triflos that o man will novor uotico; yet it is tritlos that mako up he mum of oxist- onco. But wowhere i3 tho difforonce so apuaront as in tho family. A man oan't Loop houss, or take cara of ochildron, without & womau's holp; and it takes both to Dave & woll rogulated hiome, € thoy wero alike, oach would do a4 woll alono; but it appoars thnt each hins somo especinl cupacity the othor lacks, aud that ouly togethor can tlio grenlost porfeo tion b renclied. How absued to place in autug- onism_those who, but for each other, would bo imporfect, 1o dogrado ono is ta degrada both, ocanse tho male aud fomalo minds uro unliko, it does not follow that the woman's i inferior, Her influonce v felt in the world as much as his, Goorgo Lliot is noknowledged the grentest Enpr- lih novolist, tho only snczamor of Thaakoray and Dickens; and Min. Btuwe's faithtul picture of slave lifo, which is without im- ngination ar romance, did more towards emancipation than el the logical arguionts that wore written, As womon are moro sympathotio, their writings are more nr!‘. to affect tho heart; whilo man's aro more clonr and cold, and apponl to the brain. There nre a great many things women can do oven battor than men, and some thoy canuot do. But, if o woman hah o great dosiro to learn somo business or profossion, ho wmuy be suro she will succaed, if nhs I8 willing to worlk as hard ssa wan doca to learn it, Whon tho time comes that it is ns disgracetul for & young woman to be idlo as it is for » young man, ‘'we shull hoar loss rbout the * Woman Quostion,” M. Quioago, Bopt, 17, 1874, — . MY SUMMER, <D you think: tho summer wiil ovor come, ‘With white of llly and flusks of rose— With her warm, bright duya of Joy aud Juno, . Balong you dreant thoy will uover closs? WIIl tho birds, atilt on tho Lending houghs, 5ing out thelr liosrts in o ad delight, Aud the galden buttorflies, sun-sutured, Fluttor und float from niorn Ul night? Do pou tifule my summer wil ever conuc, With brow of llly and chieck of roso? Bhall I hold her fast—ny joy, my June— And drenm that my day wifl never closo? ‘Wil slio mock the birds ou the bending bonghs, Tor hor voleo §s muslc—iny heart's delighit— Or bo content, liko the butterflics, . In tho wun of y Jove, from morn Hil nignt? - —Louise Chandler Moulton i the Gulazy Jor Qetover, -t s OBl i A Ohiclken Forogones A Motliodist preschor, baving a obarge In the southern portion of Giles County, wont to call upon one of his members not long sinco, and way vory cordislly grooted, and ecarnestly eue treatod to make himself perfeotly at home, Tho ludf' then mupIml out to *“ wrlng " tho chiolken, und, when sho camo baok, found the parson in the nct of fuing and putting thom tho ashes from the fira-placo n the souttlo, proparatory to eurrying tiem out, M Lor-zgmdy Trothor —, what aro you doiug that for 1 You told mo to make mysolf at homo, mudamo, aund if 1'd beeu at home, aud found all those ashen in thoe fize-placo, I would certauly hava Iboth live, takon thom up.” Wilted, did wha? Don'tyou bot on & Gilen County Inty belng i onsily outwitted, Bho wont straight to the kitchon, stuck oyery feather baolc i tht ohickon, rowed its o on, and the smart proachor dldu't gt o t of it. NETTIZE MILSOM. 8o much basbeon sald, beaulifal in thanry, but defictent in practico, about tho Womnn of the Future, that we have hecome mpationt with tha idon of the Coming Woman. B0 haa tiean pletured oub ns a boing too swoet, too toudor, too good, for this weary work-s-dny woild ; gha has beon presentod to nsas ono who, with hor roftved and purified nalure, could nover har- monizo with tho groat mass of mankind, but could only livo, and move, and have lior belng in the home of o miltionnirs, where slie would bo wure roundod by the iufluences of culture and rofluo- ment. Aftor lintoning to the colebrated divine's lee- turs, somo timo since, o *Tho Coming ‘Womnn,” wo returned Lo our honaa discouraged and completoly dishenrtenod, knowing full woll that, according to tho lecturer's sentiments, our daughtors, for whom wo bad anticipated so much, would, sftor all our fond lopos, bo obliged to take tholr p\acos with the downward toiling maseca. Inasmuch as thoir patornal 1o« Iations could not furnish thom with homos of culture and refinement, and givo them caso and lcisure, they could novor bo the Coming Women of socioly. With o long-drawn sigh of farowell to our chorished hopes, wo cons cludod that our daughtorsa would have to i:lml on throngh lifo rough-shod, often joking ogainst tho briata and thorns In tholr patbway, with no bright-blooming flowers to #ofton gomowhat tho todiousness of tha journoy, Buch wero the feelings with which wo rotnrned | home aftor listening to that locturo, and it left such o 8ad impression upou our hearts that wo long rogratted hoving henrd it. . A short time sinco, it was my good fortuna to moot with & Coming’ Woman. Bho Is a8 yot on her way, belng only 18 years old ; but sho1a rap- 1dly comiug, and bor comiug will causo more senention than o hundred of tho Iloverend's Coming Womon. Immedintely aftor tha firo, whon so many wora rouderod homoloss, the good poople of Clileago who had not boon scorched throw open their houses to the sufforers, and kindly sheltored thom until provision was mudo by the city au- thoritios for their protection. Among those Xind-hearled pooplo ‘was Mrs, Milsom,~I use the real name by pormission, so that, it any ono doubt the untheuticity of thia artiolo, thoy can | Batiufy thomselves Ly roforonce to the porsons | bere represonted. ‘This lady, with gencrous uympathy, took into her homs soveral of the Homolous ones, and sholterad and fod thorn from her own scanty means. or daughtal, Nottio Milsom, & bright young fix, thou ouly L1 yonta of o, Lt oldor tha or'yonra eaid, to "hor mother: ™ You aro not ablo to food theso noopla; the burdon of their support in too gront for you to bour alone, and I must Lo pormitted to help you.” My ehild.” gaid Mra, Mileom, '*how can you holp 7 What do you supposo you can do 27 *1 could go ot just as the Loya do, and soll papory,” replied Notlie. *¢Ican uover consent to lot yon go with those rudo boys, and be subject to their iuaults, Bo- sidos, my child, you would suffer_with tho eold in sovoro wintor-wonther,” eaid AMrs, Milaom, I won't spealt to tho boys at all, T shall jush soll my papers and then come howo. Do leé ma go, Mothior. _ Tcan help you somuct, Idon't mind the cold, and I shali got into uo harm." After a good doal af pleading, Mra. Milsom cone sonted, and little Nuttio sturled on bor mission as nows-girl with an armfal of papers. DBofore she lott her homo sho suid, * Now, Mothor, don's frot & bit about me. 1 can tako caro of myself it I am a Jittlo girl," W Why do you woar that old bat ?" inquired hier mother, Nottie's auswer was charactoristic, and gave ovidencaof ntact for buriness, *‘Ihoso who aro acquainted with me," sho said, * koow I havon botter ono; and strangers will often buy of mo becauss of my old hat. Dou’t dospise if, Botlior ....c; it will voll many a papa Aftor tho sufferers from the fire woro all pros vided with nocoseary comforts, and the nocossity for Nettis's Inbors woro mnot o prossing, she wanted, or imaginod eho wavted, a piano, and formed & dotormiuation ' to hava ow. ‘To sccomplish ler objoct, slis’ slill porsisted in solling mrpors, rising o:\rly in tho morning, and bravely facing tho winter's cold. Lo all lier mother's objeo~ tions slie anawerad, **T can take caro of myself, Yon neod not feel #o voncorned about mo, and you need uot wateh me go clasely, I lave noth- ing to sey to tho boys, and Loy havo uotbing to suy 1o mo.” * Little gir], vour mothor deserves to bo puns ished for sendiig you ont on sush a cold morns 1ug,” suid o Jady to ber, in tho dopth of winter. +* Ay mother dou't send ma, thuuk you, Mad- am, U'mmnotcold. I'm no frozen turnip,” said Nottic. : : “\Viiat ara you selling pavors for, if you aro not obliged £o do 167" inquited tho fady. 1 guess I want a piauo as well a3 rich folks, and 1'in going to hiave oo o plenso buy & pas por and bolp mo gat It," repliod Nettio. Tho lady was 80 plaased with what sho called Nottio's spunk that sho insisted on puying 60 cents for a papor. On another ovsasion, sho was pitied by a lady, who inquived if whe woul not liko n i00: homs, where sbo could bave s mother's cave, and ba suvor the necenaity of suel work, “Phank you, Badam,” voplied Nettie, do- muraly ; “but I presume [ Luvo a8 good & Jiomo n8 you could vrovide, aud I'm suro I have s Detter othor than you coukl furnish."” Buk tell me, child, if you ura pot hers in tho cold from uccwusity, waat induces you to take up this worl ? Nottie gavo Lor reasons for taking that posi- tion, aud this lady, to- encottrage bba yicl, pur- chased a puper, iusting upoa paying live timoes its valuo, 4 Thiw bittle girl porsovored nt hor business througl el and storm, until she had enough to purchisio a pinuo, when sho relinquishod. tho rolo of nows-girl, having accomplisbed the pur- sos0 sho had i view: A fow weoks since, wo ad the pleasico of hieaving hor play upon hor havd-earned justtument ; and her perfurmance wag ereditable for the short iima she had been tuksing lestons, 2 Having accompliehed hor object in obtaining hor musical fostrnmont, this nmbitious porss- vering girl now coucoived tho ides of oclipsing all tae bright stars which huvoe bithorte shone in tho bistriouic nrt, +dothor,” she somotinies says, *if you and 1 will throw Chaclotte Cushwan eutiroly into tho shade.” Wit a_thoughtfulnoss boyond her yoats, sha says, If you live, Mother, to protect me' and shiiold mo Trom tha touguo of slander, T will bo- como the grentest nctress thut has over lived bug, if you should die, I shall rotire to a con« vent, for, young as I aw, I oo how hard it 18 for & wonlai Lo staud alono Defora tho world aud rotain ber roputation for purity and gooduoss,” Will ahio succsed ? Just as suroly 04 shio pro- cured her pisno will sha reach tha point at whioh sho is aiming. Tho kame qualities which carriod Tor forwurd to tho atiainment of her objoct will lead hor ou to success in hor chosen vocation ; 80 truo it is thut the gody holp thoso who help thomselvos. IHor visits to the theatre ure fro- quent, always nccompaniod by hor mothaer; and her favovite author is Shakspears, whom sla diligently studics. Shiois ns yot only 13, and, therofore, hus all of Jifo beforo her. Why should she not bo o t)".]m of tho Coming Woman, as well ns one who Los a father's purse to smooth the rough places in hor pathway aud facilitate hor comiug? And wo aro tho mora vleased at the appronch of a womun of Nottie's type, innsmuch ns wo son in hor hopes forour own beloved daughters who lhave not the bene ofits of & paront’s bank-ncconut to holp them fu thair journay, but who must come, 1t thoy coma at ofl, with “slrong haudy, cloar heads, larga hearts, firin resolucions, and Loncst, carnos: eils deavors, Thoy must nece wurily bo atrong aud enrnost for, whatover puth in lifo thoy may chiooso, they will gain strenyth uud powor of one durauco from the obstucles thoy will meot in thoir way, and which they will Lo compolled ta romove thomsclves, “8hall wo honor Nottio lous bocauso she haa choson the profession of actrows than 1f eha Lind chioson some Jodas publio aud less romuner- alive position 7 'Tho more H‘:“’““ 2wl the morg remunorativo the position, the moro dangors and tomptations Wil surrowid hor, sud tio morg sirength who will noed Lo carry hor ovor the pit- Talia hat lio i hor patis, Wo sball wateh hor caroor with considerahla intorest, and, if 8ho reach the pasition for which she fu btrivi u;:, commands the homago of tha publio, and etill Tomning pure and unsullied, wo Bshiall trlumph in her trivmph and glory in her victory, inuxmuch sy sha will proach loudly tq our daughtors, and by her own lifo show thom that “rxmhiug hindors”; that, whatever coursa in life thoy pursue, howevey dilioult it may ho, iotoes Wl Grourh thelr sifarts it Uisy pelsie oprnost endeavor and unshukien purposs to the task, As such an examplo, we louk to Nettia Milsom, und shull expoct her to show that o girl who hus not beon Lum of wonlthy parents, In homaa of culture, may yob bo hailod a3 tha Coms ing Wowan, Mug, M, D, Wynsoor,