Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 9, 1873, Page 8

- contain & dozen or two difforent kinds of TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TERMA OF AUNSONIPTION (PAYADLE 1N ok Unste ol a o provont dolay and tnfstakes, Lo auro and givo Post ©ft coaddresa in full, ncluding Btoto and Connty. Remittancos may bo mado ofthor by deatt, oxpross, Post ©fico oxdor, or in roglstored lottors, at our risk, TERMS TO OITY BUBSCRINENS, Datly, dolirorod, Bunday oxcontod, 25 conte por wook. ally, delivorad, Bunday fnoluded, 8 onte por wook. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornor Madison il Dontborn-sts., Ohioazo, Tl TO-MORROW'S AMUSEMENTS. 5 THEATRE Randolph stroot, bot ollulfionlfivx;s-no. ¥ Mary Warnar. weon )VICKER'S THREATRE—Madl stroot, hotweo: Btncn and e, Nogsgoment of s Nolvans #*Tho Hunchbacks" ACADEMY OF MUBIO-Halstod atrest, batwoen Mad- {ton and Moneos, Kngagoment of Mrs. Ohaufrau, VA Woman's Wrongs," 5 THEATRE—Desplatuosstraot, at: a. %ngll': A eaningion, Iiegs oot ot Tremle Thomran: 2ard, " ! Myens Dl‘nnA-noth—M?q;g stroot, botwoon {iuflmm and Stato. Borlor 10 0! finstrelsy snd comioalltios, luy Menouvoring.” ! DR, KATIN'S MUSEUM OF ANATOMY-—Olask e e, VATOMY--Ols] BUSINESS NOTICES. ER§ FOR BOYS' OLOTHING, C. 0. q%'fl‘xfigg."m"? PR T8 STRANGE HOW SOIRNOE BRINGS TO LIGOT hings mon_bava nover agon boforo, Ti's strango hot CITOMEN ORYSTAL SOAP oleans motals, Palute, an itohon floor. The Chicags Tiibune, Sunday -Morning, November 9, 1873, AMERIOAN HEOTEL.LIFE, Wo live in an ora of oxtravaganco aud waste. There aro evidences of it on all sides, Theso evidences aro, in fact, 80 numerous and familiar that we have almost consed to rogard thom in their true light. We accopt thom aa matters of course, Wo havo got used to thom. Wo think v:a cannot live oxcopt 08 wo sco our noighbord livo. We pormit oursolves to bo swopt along in tho greas curront of oxtravaganco without any eort to stop it, .Wo laugh at coonomical persons, and most of us try to koep wp with* the crowd, in oxiravaganoo, ench pushing his . follow on a little niore rapldly in tho headlong course.” We have Loon st the pains to -take up ono of the moat 1:otablo ovidencos of this universal lavishness ta the hopo that, by bringing it faco to face tith the people, it may open the oyes of some of thom to tho mad carcor of which it is but an Index. This is hotel-lifo in Amorica, The chango from ten years ago in tho oharges and Jaxurios of our prominont hotela has been so pradual that wo aro not sstonishod atit. Wo pay $4.50 = day, snd do not stop to think that it ks an enormous amount of money to pay out for mero living, If wo travel en famills, and take bstter accommodations than are given to single travelors, tho rato por poraon is still highor, Wo 1o not complain nor thiuk it unusual, but we do ilemand luxuries injkeeping with tho price, that o would never havo thought of asking for ton yenrs ago. The charges aro, in all probability, relativory lower than they were under the old’ rogimo, 'Tho hotels have morely kept pace with kbe lavish domands of sho age. . Ton yoars ago, tho first-claes hotels kept an mvorago of ono gervant to seven guests ; now they are obliged to keop one sorvant for every threo griests, Tho babit of belng waited upon hns grown upon us in this ratio. A first-class Siotel of tho size of tho Grand Pacificin this city mow employs constantly 820 ‘servants, whoso montbly pay-roll smounts to over $9,000. The wtyle of ornamentation now in voguo requires 4wico a8 many servants to keop it clesn as tho wld style roquired. So much for tho necessary marvico in American hotel-life. Tho amount of xoom furnished gratuitously to tho guost is now +twico us largo #a it was fornierly, In old timos, it was considored lavish if tho offico, corzidors, oxchange, parlors, reading-rooms, smoking- rooms, recoption-rooms, wash-rooms, cte., ocou- pied ono-tonth of the most availablo and costly portion of the house. These departments now tako ono-fifth of the samo space. Tho hotels which furnish loss are rated as sccond class, 7Fho Amorican poople now-s-days require moro yoom to swoll out and show thoir fesfhets The. nN'¥én times as olegant. Tho cost ©f pus slono for furnishing tho brillianoy by aight in which Americans’ are wont to live is ¥3,000 por month in a largo hotel of tho firat class, while the bost hotols in Europe atill burn candles. Whep wo como to tho table, the Jay- ghnesa of our hotel-life 1s still more startling, A botel like the Pacifio raquires the choice parts ©of twonty-fivo cattle for its use every day. The four items of buttor, fruit, milk, and ercam alone amount to $1 per day foreach guost. Tho Zruits of tho meason sro the standard of & first- class hotel-tablo, and. thoy must compriso the carllst of overything In tho market.” No menu is complete which does not muts and fruits, The actual costof the food alono, uncooked, is 82.16 por dey for overy guest, and it roquires, moro carts to carry away the waste than it does to bring the substance in' ita original form. Formorly, hotol-meals wora about as follows : - Bronkfast, from 0:30 to 9; dinner, from 1 to $ ; supper, from 6ta 0, Now theyaro: Brenkfast, from 6 to 1 ; dinnor, from 1to7; suppor, fromGto12, Tho monls are going oll dsy long, and at cortain hours of tho ey there oro Lwo gots ot the same time, As the wesultof this, two full sota of the most export mud high-pricod cooks are required. According “oour present custom, the sverago Amerlcan ravelor must find the following breakfast roady X0 place botoro him : DREAKFAST, Coffee, ‘Engilsh Broakfast Tes, Dolong Tea, Greon Tes, Ohocolate, "sin Bread, Graliam Bread, 2 b T s L Com Bread, ins, 3rolled Freal Salmon, - Tirolled it el led Freah Salmon. Troile 3 n wiiolled Balt Mackor Broll ded Lake Trout, Codfish with Croam, Fish Nalls , =" Hashed Fish, 'resh Mackerel, Bt . 3 ul reah ¥ l')‘;s!uw. itewed Oyaters, Pigs' Feot, s Iy " F Gaiven' Liver, Tanh Moat, - hpple, with Balt T, Eunager, Bisved Kidaoye, L ' Weofsteak, Muiton Chops, Pork Chops, Ol N o, Thacon, - Galvewt Livor morpe, , Quat, Ventson Bloak, Plaln, with Pazaley, . i pont s aim, ey, L ‘Ohagoso, or Jelly. & Fags, oiled, Fried, Berambled, Dropped. Fal Chipped Deof, with Croain, e voTATORN, Baled, Fried, . Lyonnalse, Blewed, 1 rled Indian Pudding, Hominy, Oracked Whe e o Broad Tosst, Dry Tsct, O Dl Tossh ; Buckwhent Oakes. t Boet, T, ¥ Ham, Tongu Mowat Buet, _ Touss Lamb, B o et Betde “Fuskoy, " Ghlckons . ®ithout waiting for all this to digoest, ho do- Boiled "an evont as that, mands, Romo timo bolweon 1 and 7 o'look, tho following menu, or ita countorpart 1 DINNER sour, "MUttos Diut, ¥iaN, i 184 Doited Trout, Airimp Bauce, Bk it g s ) E:.ml Dass, Btuffed, _Yermisai, Roxta, Ham, . Tongis, _Cornod Bieot, Ghicken and Pork, TLog ot Mutton, with Onpors, Turkey ot Oyatars, LD mn.gm\ gnrnrad ]wn!fm s 3 imoked Tongue, Ttonat Lamb, Chicken Balad, Boned Turkey, w‘lih Jelly, Chicken Pot-Plo, i arricot of ‘Mutton, Tork Oliopa, Sainte, Batico Madelsa, Blowed' Tripe, n I Milanalne, Onlves’ Livor, Bauto, SaucoItslien, Tagout of Venison, au Jelly, Balmi of Gamo, 5 Bncaroni au Parmosani, VEGETANLES, Btewed Tomatoes, Boilod Onfons, Bqussh, Frosh Deots, Potatoos, Buccalash, L M - Cabbago, '~ Plekled Beals, Dollod ico Bakod Bwwoot Potatocs, Parnips, Hominy, ROAST, Spring Ohickenn, Doef, Tamb, Mint Sauce, Tixan, Olispego Bica, Young Turkoy, g of Mutton, anm, Prairls Chickon, Legof Vonison, Mallard Duck. 5 ¥, ABTNY. Tide Pudding, Buttor Sauco, Tes, ' Onstard Plon, - Dridal Onke, Posrs,_ Talsios, _Grapor. " Almonds, Appl “Filborle, + English Wolnuta, - Figerl o Tomon Jee Crosm, Ooffoo, Haviog monaged, some way or other, to sate iafy his appotito for a fow hours out of this liat, he can go tlll supper-timo, whon ho may tako bis cholce, a8 follows Potatoes Apple Ples. Madolra Oresm, Bponge: Drope. ' HUPPER, Oclong Tes, Eoglish Dreaklast Tos, Greon Toa Cofleo, Brown Bread, _Ostmeal Pudding, By B Dip Tonst, Graham Dread, Brown Broad, ‘Wheat, Griddle Cakes, Indian Pudding, - © 0OLD MEATS, Ronst Beof, Roast Lamb, Ham. Tongue, Corned Boot, Ohlpped Toof, Burdines, Turke Baked Doans, Hominy, Oracked BRI o llon Ohope. n. ‘Whttofish, Bt Mackersi, Ipo. ' Ventson Stoak, Stowed Oyatars, Sacs: Omaletto, Dropped. roTATORS, . Friod, Lyonuaise, It the guest is fashionable, he will naturally construe tho 1 o'alock dinnor as a lunch, and bo on hand in the special ordinary botweon 6 and 7 o'olock to partake of the following: FIVE 0'0LOOK DINNED. © Qhicken, ™ Gteen Turtte, Botled slimon, Shrimp Baues o A Fkod Frish Mackorel a 1a Maltro a'Hotel, 2 REMOVEE. i ¥ Bolled Leg of Southshoro Mutton, 3 Tofled Turkey and Oystors, Tosat Oilcken. Rosst DisxEs, Fried, Tiosst Youhg Turkey. Roast Birloin of Doef, -~ 0oLD onx D Galentine of Turkoy, en Dellovuo. 2 Pattie of Liver with Truflies, - - Mayoninalso of Chicken, Garnished, BIDE DIBHES, Bweot Breads, Larded, with Groon Peas, ‘Fillet of Doet, aux Ohamplgnona, * Lamb Gutlats, Breaded, Tomato Bauce, Macarohl su Gralin, . . Vention Btoak, Jelly Sauco, . QaxE, o Mallard Ducks, - Blao Winged Teal, BisckDucks, . * " Log of Ventson, Ohsrlotte Ruase, cam O , ZLamb, Spongs Puddiog, Wino Rauco, . )onge. 8) 10 Bauco, P adoira. Johy, Or Gonfectlonery, ‘DesERT, i Apples, Peaches, Pears, Grapes, 3 Ralsins, ' Oautalopos, Watormelons,” Vanilz 162 .+ Roman Panoh, offec, coplea of ono day's bills-of-fara at & leading Ohicago hotol, and that no human stomach could ovor be expected to digest oven an ordls nary seleqtion without & bottlo of Chateau La- fltte and another of Roederer, which add 810 ‘more to the cost, Iu this lavishuoss must bo reckoned the inter- 8t on tho enormoua capital iuvosted In’ our modorn hotels over and above thoso of the old style. Take Mr. Palmer's magnificent palace on Biato strect. Its walls aro wainscoted with marbles of different varioties; its floors eimi- larly toseelatod ; its stairways of white marblo, ornamonted with bronzos ; itsmantelacarved aut of the purest Carrara stone by Italian soulptors, Bome of thom reaching & cost of 81,500 each,— the furniture.of ‘the parlora and somo of tho chambora. positively surpassing in elogance the surronndings .of ‘tho. Quoen of England. Tho hotel, with' its ‘farniture, represents s cost of not legs than $3,600,000. And this is what the American traveling public demand, We have only to add that many families have’ found, upon trial, that thoy can liva more cheaply 1n hotols like thoao, at the prices which thoy are forced 0 charge, than in their own houses, snd kqep up li;o stylo they have boen muxm_n_nid ’sg EAM'AE8"E paio, and that hard times have come at Inst ? 3 i THE LATE ELEOTION. The Governor of Iilinos having broken up the ‘businoss of tho St Louls prize-ightors, the newspapers of that city; doprived of thoir regu- lar business, bave given their united attontion to the Ohileago clection. * One of them expresses dosp condorn Jost tho porsons who have loaned monoy on rcal ostato shall guffer loss by tho general decline of valuos, and loss of trado and’ business in Chicago. “Happily, Obicago Liaa a way of surviving acol- donts and calamities. Even tho destruction of two hundred millions of hér proporty by the fire did not affect Lior prosperous growth, except, porhaps, to stimulato it. A poopls who witnoss- od tho destruction of this vast accumulation of earnings, and who, without an hour's dolsy, be- gan with their own handa and labor to rebuild tho loveled city, will probably ourvive tho olection of one citizon as Mayor over another. Tho onorgy of our poople, and their ability to manago their own affairs, have won for them the confidonco of all parts of tho country. Thero Is not a man who has a dollar invosted in improvod roal estato In this aity who. has sny alarm that the valuo. of his investmont will docline, or that Ho' wilt bo, robbed of i, ‘becsusoe 90,000 voters on . Tues- day last' foted sgainst s Sunday ordinance. ‘Vatues 1n Chicago are uot to bo disturbed by such Ohicago has survived much greator calamitios in National, State, and runic- ipal olootions than tho ono of Tuesdny last: ‘The fact that tho ticket orlginslly supported by the saloon-keopors and tho Gormans eventuslly rocoived a largo voto from tho other classos of oltizens, took from it, in a great mensure, thoodl- um thet justly attsohed to its origin, Tho -'| candidatos personally on tho * Poople's tokot,” with & fow excoptions, were unobjeotionnblo men. Though they in one sensa ropresented offensivo characteristics, thoy aléo reprosented cortain fundamontal principlos of individual Itb- erty that cannot bo infringed without doing vio- lonco to tho judgment of fair-minded men, At firat, partios wore reprouented by two oxtremos, —tho Committeo of Boventy on the one hand, aud & largo portion of tho Germans and the saloon-keepora on tho othor, Unfortunately, tho subroquent atiempt at'compromiso could nob remove tho prejudices engondored by those who mixod thelr theology with thelr politics, and somo twelve to fiftoen thousand of as good law-and- order men of German birth as over lived in any qonuuunity voted divootly and squarely for tho _and not moroly for tho henofit of brewors and -patronago sltogothor more liboral than could tokot whioh deolared for tho ‘porsonal liberty of tho oftizon in Lls aoofal and roliglous opiniona and tastos, Tho party, hadeiud w:iple Lusat grow to roprosont the, wvusnge judgmont of tho community on tho queation of govornmontal lu- terforonco with privato rights, Tho nowly-oloct- ed officors are justly surprisod at thelr own suo- coss, aud wo bollove thoy rocognizo tho fact that tho ponoe and ordor of the clty are no moro to bo disrogardod by thom than by thoir predeces- sors, and that thoy have boou closted to govern Oioago for tho welfaro of tho whole peoplo, naloon-kaopors, Tho people of Bt. Louls may go to bed overy uight witbout any foar that whilo thoy are slooping tho Olty of Ohlosgo will bo overrun with eriminals, or that its population will fles to othor climes, or that mortgagoos will loso thelr investments, Thore is reslly no dangor of any suoh calamity, so distrossing to 8t. Louls, . — CHARITY-BENEFIT AT THE EXFOSITION. Tho regular scason of tho Inter-State Expo- siton otosod last night, with outward signa of & hava been oxpootad, since it apencd at the very outbroak of tho financial orisis, and has had tho hard timos to contond with all slong, Iia suc- cess hns boon groat enough fn all respocts to warrant it8 rogular ropetition evory yoar, and we moy confidontly prodiet that the day is not far distant whon tho Ohicago Annual Exposition will attract moro attontion than any similar institution in tho country. A final opportunity of visiting tho building and inspooting its contents will be afforded to- morrow, during tho dsy and ovoning, whew the entire recatpts will bo divided among the differ- ont charitable institutions of the city. The publie charitios which are to receive the heneflt aro a8 follows : i 1—Newsboya" Iome, 2—Waslingtoninn Horae, 5t, Luko's Hospltal, 4—Womnn's Hospital of Iilinots, S—Women's and Childron’s Mospital, G—Erring Woman's Refugo. A 7—Young Men's Ohristian Association, §—Chicago Obristian Unlon, 9—Homo of tho Fricndlcss, 10—Foundlings' Home, 11—Orphan Asylum, 12—Half-Orphan Asylum, 13—01d People's Home, 14—Woman'a Ald_ Assootation, 16—Alexls Hospital. 16--8t, Josoph’s n«nglhl. 1781, Joseph's Orphan Asyium, * 18—Honso of Good Bhopherd, 19—Hobrew Rellef, All tho exhibltors have signified their inten- tion of leaviog tho attractions justws thoy aro and as thoy have boen since the oponing. The rogular managers have volunterved thoir sor- vices, and the owners have donatpd the building. The Exposition will, therofors, boin overy re spect all that it haa beon herstofore. Tho band will be in attendanoce, and give a promonade con- cert, afternoon and ovaning, and lunch will be servod from 12 o'olock on. Tho circumstanco that itis the Inst chance to sco tho Exposition, along with. tho charitable purposo to which tho entira receipts of the doy and evening are to bo dovoted, ought to insure an immenso attendance: e THE SPRAGUE: FAILURE; The embarrassmont and oventual assignment of tho great firm of Spragues in: Rhodo Island has attracted considorablo attontion in all parts of tho country. ThoA. & W. Sprague Manu= faoturing Company is composed of Mrs. Fanny' Bprague, Mrs, Mary Bprague, Amasa Bprague, William Sprague (United States Senator), and two Bons asud dangbters of Mr, Edwin Hoyt. This fim s o distinct corpara- tion, and owns and controls, through its members, s number of other corporriions and husiness Intarests, besides resl eatao and porsons] proporty,—bolng, in fact, & tort of + Credit Mobiller” in the Frouch fenep, Fach of tho membors of tho Company is/ mlso tho owner of a large separale estato. & In tho enumeration of tho property conveyed to tho trustoos for tho benefit of the eroddtors, wo find evidenao of tho wonderful varjelyof invostment sought by this family. The firm. has been for many yoars making largo profits, and these ‘profits have boen re-invested in other business, and in all’ parts of tho country., The original buslness of tho Gompany - was In cot- ton’ and woolen mills, but it hes boon oxtonded to many othor and . very divorse pursuits, The indobtedness of the corporation 2monets oI a0E Sh'Thalr sccoptances of Hoyt, Sprague & Co.’s paper. The rost is on call-loans and dobts duc on account of somo of , their other companies. Tho firm of A. & W. Bpraguo ofves §2,693,000,in addition to_tho dobt of tho A. & W. Bprague Manufacturing Com- pany. There are gome otHor items of indebted- ness which awell the aggrogate to $11,475,448. The nssote are put down at $19,495,247; sur- Pplus, 88,049,804, 5 Tho dotails of this sccount aro interesting. Tho A. & W. Spraguo. Manufacturing Company owns tho Baltio and Natiok Mills, 118,000 spin- dlos ; one-tenth of tho Quidnick Mils Company, 8,000 epindles ; ihoi United Btates Flax-Manu- facturing Gompany,, 83,000 spindlos ; tho Cran- ston Print-Works ; ‘Augusts (Mo,) Mills, 40,000 spindles, with real;ostato. It also owns roal os- tato in various prirts of Rhodo Island amounting 40 8,000 acroa ; #llao, lots and buildings in Provi- dence worth 118/3,000, The firm of A. &1V, Bpraguo owes the Company $1,876,000. The land owned in Kenens, Sowth Caroling, and other placos, is not considored’of any value as assots, The firm of A & W. Bpraguo hos assots of §2,961,000, con- slsting of shares in tho First and Bocond Na- tional Bantks of Providonco, sharos in tho Kone nobeo (Mo.) Lumbor Company; shares .iu the Bhodo Teland Toreo-Shoo Compsny; otberlands and water-powers, and an intorost in four sohoonors, . This firm has also & oloar intorost 10 the firm- of Hoyt, Sprague & COo. smounting to $850,000. Ars, Fanny 8praguo owns largoly of shares in tho Quidnick Company, real cstate, and bank ntoo'k—-tho _tuln! being §510,000. Mra. Mary Bprague owns liares and stooks in various com- _panios smounting to §150,000, Amaea Spraguo bas private proporty-worth $76,000, sud William Bprague owne sharos In the Quidniok Mills, ronl ostato, oto,, amouuting to $680,000. A. & W. Spraguo aro largo owners in tho Porkins Shoot-Iron Company, the Bpragno Mow- ing-Maolune Company,” the Wilcox = Oa- loo aud Stoam-Engino Company, tho Blode Yslawd Horso-SBhoo Company, and tho Qomstock Foundry Company, somo of which are not productive, and of which tho debts oxcoed tho assots, Hore, then, wolave {ho Spraguo family owning the largo corporation known as the A, & W, Spraguo Mauufacturing Company. Two stock- holders of this Company, Mossrs, A, and W, Bprague, do an {ndopendont businesa ; .thoy own largo imtorents in various othor mille, in real es- tato, in' plno Jands, in farms, and wator-powers. They own largoly in banks and various kinds of mannfscturing establiehmonts, As & firm, they bavo a Jugo lutorost fn the Om. of Bosb, Bpraguo & Co, Tho nssots of tho Sprague Manu- facturing Company oxceod $18,000,000 § of A, & e WP aeais @RV, , Ll b i Ioyt, Bpraguo & Co,,” 85,700,000 of -tho two ladlos, and the privata proporty of *ho brothers Bprague, sbout $1,700,000,—or an sggregate of property valed by the trustocs atover £22,000,- 000, Doduoling specinl lons, tho not vulue is In oxcosa of 910,000,000 Tho nggregato of dobts 1s $11,000,000, and tho surplus assots ovor £8,000,000. The magnitudo of this concorn maybe judged by thono figuros, Baaldas tha print-works, and tho varlous manufaoturing, banking, sud real eatate ‘businese,the milla workoed by thoso praguos count up 246,000 spinalos,” giving employment to an srmy of operativos of all agos. The susponsion of such an establishmont, or sorics of ecatablish~ mouts, for tho moro want of ordlnary commor- olal acoommodations, tolls not only how sovere is tho atringonoy of the moncy markot, but also, how tremondously thoy wors eproad omt.” ‘The placing of tho wholo buslness.and proporty in the handa of trustecs has beon dono to gain timo. Thoir proporty {s notual sxd visiblo, but for tho timo has oossed to bo productive. Thoy havo immonso atocks of goods on hand for ‘whioh thore {8 no eale, To go on muking goods it is nocossary to koep the operatives at work; but, in tho absenco of sales, and ‘the failuro to gob tho requimto bank sccommodatios, it hss boon impossible for thom'to find the cash nocessary ‘to moot tho exponditures. In tho time gained, there may bo a recovery, thoiigh the outloox ia "not promising, If matters do nob improvo then tho mills must closo, and ‘tho proporty bo ap- pliod in somo fashion to meot tho dobts. Tho tighiness of the markot is, however, strikingly lustratod by the fact that a firm _with a surplus of $8,000,000 is unablo to Borrow & dollarto moeot its current oxpenditures THE HOUGH. ELEVATOR, Col. R. M. Hough thinks 'wo Lave done him injustico in .tho following paragraph in our oditorial of Baturday, in which wo gave a synopsis of tho report of ‘tho Board of Trado Committeo on worehousa irrogularitios, with s0mo commonts thoraon, viz: : What does thia declaration of tho Committes mesn? It is that Messrs, Hough have persistently fsucd grain-recelpts for gratn novek -Tacolved in storo; and that whon grain wie shipped they bave rolmmodtho reccipts, instoad of having thom cancalod, and Zopt thom aflost for wooks. : As we hiave 1o desiro to‘do Mr. Hough, or any. body clse, Injustice, wo havo ro-axsmined the - port of ‘the Committce, and e find the faots as: thorein stated tobo as follows s That, botweon the 9th and 12th of Soptempor, the Mossra. Hough issued recelpts for the-cargous of six ca~ nal-boats of corn, which woko never received in their warehouse, but woro unloaded into vessols by moaus of o floating elovator, agreoing with tho Btato Rogistrar to purthase and candol & cor- responding amount of thoir thon ouistand- ing recolpts; that = dolay of movoral doys ocourred in_ ‘tho return of such outstending receiptaf; ‘and “that, when the Rogistrar pressed thom upon the agreement, thoy turned in tho eceipts for two cargaos of corn that had boen shipped out on the 18th and 20th of Boptomber, and which ought to havo beon canceled at the tune, Furthor, that whon ‘this delinquenqy was “discovered, they manufac- tared o 1ot of racolptd ¥ out of wholo cloth,” and had them rogistored; thet thoy ontored theso zecoipts for cancallation to cover their indobtoed- noss ; and that, when this dooeption was dis- covored, thoy mads good thelr shortages by pur- chasing and canceling gonuino roceipts. ‘We wore probably mistaken in saying that tho Mossra, Hough have persistently issued re~ .coipts for grain nmover received instore. That, thoy did 8o in the casoe mentioned ia tho solemn declaration of the Committeo, reitorated by Mr. Stephon Olary In & communication published olgowhoro, in' which He says that certain receipts from tho Hough elevator were tonderod to him for rogstration, which wore paro myths. + Asrogards the statoment that roceipts woro rolssued by tho Houghs after the grain had beon shippod ont, it appoars that tho roceipts for-two cargoos that had been shippod out wero not csn- coled at the timo they should have boon; that thoso rocoipta woro not reiesitod to, tho publio, ‘but wure hups 10 the safo bolopgiug to tiwe firm, auu woro tendored to the Rogistrar for cancella~ tion in tho placo of - receipts which thoy had sgreed to purchaso aud canoal in order to bale anco thouo {ssuad for the corn' tratisforrad from canal-boats to vessels without going into the elevator at all. The rooeipts wore not reissved to tho publio, but woro Tolssued to tho Regietrar, and, if tho Committeo have roported tho faots «orreotly, tho'act was, toallintents and purposes,. all ono Inko, and theso nccounts woro 8o olr- oumstantial that thoy seccurod his confldonco, o limy LORMGDADIY De110V0 thnt Htonloy tolln tho truth, aud tbat Bir 8amacl was misinformed, notwithstanding the geographers aro all anxfous to malo tho two Inkea ono. Accopting Btaoldy's statoments ne tho truth, thon wo lave the vory oxooptional aund oxtrnordinary fact of n grout lake of swoet and wholesomo wator, having no out- let, abounding in & groat varioty of fsh. In othor words, it is n sinque, recolving tributarios on all sldes, which wash {nto it tho ealts of the earth, whilo {ta surplus waters aro discharged by ovaporation and porcolation, mocessarily lonv- ing thoso salts bolind thom, and im- progunting * tho wators + with their im- puritios, Of these wo find notablo iustancos In tho Dend Boa and our own Groat Balt Lalko. ‘Tho sinque of tho Humboit snd Pyramid Loke, whioh i the sinque of tho Truckeo River, aro other inatancos, although the latter is sweotor wator than any other known singusin the world, and 8o pure that several varioties of flsh are found In jt. Bl s wators are mot pure, although its prinelpal tributary, the -Truckoo, is the outlot of the oolebrated Lako Biglor, and {8 among tho purest waters in tho world, That Stanley makes Tanganjikt a sinque is unquestionsblo, for in his account of Living- ntone’s journoy ho says ho passed entiroly around the south ond of tho lske and up its western side as far s opposito Tjijl, ‘and found no outlot, all tho strenms running into the lake. Hore we see the actual oxplora- tions ontirely surround the lake. All - explorars who have visited the lnke bear testimony that tho wators are oweot aud abound in flsh, Alto- gothor the subject is a very intorosting one, snd tho sclontifio world will anxiously swalt further developmenta, THE LAST HOPE FOR WIDOWERS, Thero is an Arabian proverly which likens mar- riago to o boslegod fortress: those who aro out- slde wieh to got in, and those who aro insido wish to got out. Montaigno adopéed this view of tho case, snd Emerdon bas followed him. Tho late Mayor Kalbflelsch, of Braoklya, was o lving, though now dond, vorifitation of Arabian wisdom., Ho bad been miarried once, and raised » family of children, who gratefully endeavored 1o sayo him from gotting locked up in tho fortress again. But he encounterod in bis lono condition the blooming widow- hood, of Mrs, Mary Wado, wio roswalonod his dormant affoctioms and rojuvenated his forgotton passions. Ho pald court to the tageinating widow, carzied her countorfolt pro- mntmont in his locket to show to his frionds, orod into a formal agrooment of marrisge, aud proclaimod his new happiness to the world. Butho had no sooner got thus far than he wanted togoback. His dulldren made life uncomforta- ble. \is friends pastostod. He rooeived anony- ‘mous communieations that roflooted upon the folr widow, and intinttod that hor fasclnations werowiles tocatclr theinwary. Mayor Kalbflolsch regolsed, thoroforo, to mako a sortie boforo Lo conld ho go hopolessly beloagucred that thore should Yo ne chanco of dscape. Heo broke the gold- en chain of Jovo that bound him to the charming Mrs. Walo, and lott bor disconsolato ab tho lossot hor prosjocta for preaidiug at the Mayor's tablo. Mrs, Wadtwas not the woman to bear in meek- mess tho Hlattoking.of hor fondest hopes, . the blighting of hor ambition, and the withoring of hor ardout @octions. Bho instituted o sult in assumpsit aginet Mayor Kalbfleisoh, aotting up & contract of ‘marrlage snd it violation, and saking for suchiampges as mere dross con give for broken honr\? and dissppointod loves. BSho wanted the Coury o apply a greenbnck plastor to her wounds. ‘s ¥ 8o far, the story ¥ Mayor Eslbflelsch's love docs not diffar mabeially from that of ofhor ol dorly gomtlomon who re caught in the toils of youthful dosires, Dufifayor Ealbfleisch was no common widowor: - Ho,did not proposo that Mrs. Wado should have \or way in all thinge, Ho procacded dolibaratelyo complicato mattors. Ho died. Thia Jeft Shoalrenly disconsolate Mrs, Wade with tho singlo legacy\t a laweuit. Thore $iad been & brench of promiso,but tho promiser was no more. Ho had gono to a lond whero thera aro no wily widows, since tlero is naithor ‘marrylog nor giving in marrisge in Heaven. Bat Mrs, Wadd¥s soxrows were of the earth, enrthy, sod of tho world, worldly. Her heart-strings bad boen -ruthlessly snapped in twaln, Her widowly affcetions had beon triflod with, Maro- over, it sho had boon tho widow of the In Mayor Kalbfloisol, Insterd of tho Iato Mr, Wad eho might have had sowne solaoo for her b 0 trying to got out. All susceptiblo widowors may now kiavo tho ratlafaction of knowing that desth at Inab con doliver thom from the typleal fury of »-woman #cornod, snd that the psvally of tholr wosknossos aliall not bo visitad upon their " obildron, oven of tho noxt goneraton. This i good nows for widowars und widowers' shildron. Dut how about rojeoted widows? Thay, it seoms, ean claim no dnmagos for thoir injured foolings, 1f tho mon who promlso to marry them and brenk their promises Liappon to dlo. They aro not oven tohiave any sllowanco for the snorifica of tho inalienablo privilego of woaring tho widow's voil and a full sult of mouming. Thoy mast nurgo tholr sorrows in old clothes. Thoir dls- sappolnted hopos-and woundod pride are deniod tho sweot congolation of boing chief mournor, to aay nothiug of the widow's dower, and man's baso deception lonves Lis violim holpless, Is not this another encroachmont upon the rights o womon and widowhood ? SMALL WORDS. DY IROF, WILLIAM MATHEWS, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF Glt10A0, Among tho vartous forms of ingratitude, one of tho commonest 1s that of kicking down the laddor by which one has climbed the steops of oolebrity ; and & good illustration of this la the conduct of tho author of tho following lines, who, though indobted in no small degroo for his fame to tho small words, the monosyllable music, of our tonguo, sncors at thom aglow : Wiilo fogblo oxpletives tholr aid do foin, And ten Tow words oft eroop in one dull line. How ingonious! how folleltous! tho roader ox- olaims; and, troly, Pope has shown himsolf wonderfully adroit in ridioulng the Baxon part of the langumago with words bor- rowed from its own vocabulary, But let Do man despise little words, even thongh ho coho tho littls waap of Twickenham, Alox- sndor Topo Is s high authority In Eoglish litora- ture; but t is long since Lo was regarded na having tho infallibility of & Popo Alexandor. The multitude of paesages in hia works, in which tho small worda farm not only the Lolts, pins, and hingos, but the chief material in the struc- turo of lils vorso, show that he knew well enough thoir valuo; but it was hard to avold thoe tomp- totion of such o line as thot quoted. *‘Bumall words," Lo elsewhere saye, ¢ aro_genorally slift and longulshing, but they may be beautiful to expross molancholy." Itis tho old story of ——{bo ladder Wheroto tho climber upward turns his fac But whon li onoa attajas tho uthiost round, Ho thon unto the ladder turns i back, Lookn in tho clouds, scorning the base degroes Ty whioh Lio did atend. ‘Tho truth is, tho words most potent inlifo and litersture—in the mart, in tho Benate, in the forum, and at tho fireside—aro emall words, the ‘monosyliables which tho' half-eduéated spealker and writer despises. All passlonato ‘oxprossion —tho outpouring of tho soul whon moved to its dopthe—Is, for tho most part, in monosyl- lablos. They are tho heart-beats, tho very throbs of tho brain, made visible by uttoranco. The will malkes its giant viotory-strokes in littlo monosyllablos; deolding for the right and against the wrong. In the hour of florcs tomptation, at tho ballot-box, in thoe court-room, in all the crises of life, how potont - for good or evil sro tha littlo monosyllables; Yos and No! Again, thero 18 & wholo olass of words, and thoso among the most exprossive in the languago, of which tho groat majority aro mono- syllables. We refer to the interjestions. Wo aro awaro that some philologists dony that in- torjeotions aro language. Horne Tooko sneors” at this whole class of words ag * bratish and In- articulato,” as * tho misorablo refuge of tho speechloss,” nud complalns that, ** because bonutiful snd gaudy,” thoy have boen suffored to ysurp aplaco among words. * Whore wil yon look for it,” (thc intorjeotion), the triumph- sutly aske; “ will you find it améngat Inws, or in books of civil institutions, in history, or in ooy trotlao of .usefdl arts or gcioncos ? No: you must seck for it in rhotor- {o and pootry, in novels, plays, snd romances. " This nouto writer has forgotten ono book in which futerjeotions abound, and awaken in tha mind-omotions of tho highoat -grandour and pathos,—namely, the Bible, But tho uso of this part of spocoh {8 not conflned to books. It is honrd whorever men intorchange thought. and fecling, whothor on tho gravest or the most trivial thomes; in tones of tho tendorest love and of tho deadliost bate; in a rolsaue, sinco it ensbled tho Houghs to borrow | FeRVementiin an.oquitablo division of tho Iargo from the publio tho amount of grain which thos | ©0i8te: As Mrs. Kalbloiscl, shomight havo rocoipts oallod for. It tho report of the Com- | %riven totho funoral ‘in bor own carringo and mittos Is ot justifiod by tho tostimony,—a yot | 8 chiof-mourner, As Mra. Wado, slio Ladu't unpublished,—we-shall Lo glad to bo pulh\mdm evon ihe gooial right to appear in a new soselon of ovidonco Which will anablo s to | S Of deop mburning. What womau could chango our opinion on tho subjoct of thiy al- { P oxpected to quictly rosign this right, aud loged folssuo, ° £ espocially whon weeds aro 50 becoming ? If any- i thing; horo was » mow ground for damages, aud, THE GREAT LAKE IN AFRICA, ' &0 far from dropping the breach-of-promiso sult, Bir Samuol Baker hag now roturned, and his { sho might raasonabiy add $20,000 to her olaim, dotailod roport will bo looked for with intgest, § bocauso Mayor Kalbiflelsch doliberately pro- o8 giving more information than has yot joon | coeded to dio fn tho fall consclousness Lhay Lo furnished. Whatever relatos to Contral Alrien | was dopriving her of tho singlo consolation of gooma to oxcite more and moro Intorast, as‘dif- | now widowhood—uew clothes, Mrs, Wadd coud foront explorors make us moro familiar with|hat | not ressonsbly o oxpooted . to enduro this land,_which has been tbe subject of inqiiry | now afiront, aud #bo ordered ber luwyors for thousands of yoars, aud yot hns remahed | to continue tho wuit for damages agalnst profoundly unknown, at loast till very recodly. [ tho lato' Mayor -albfleisch's eatato, - Bo- Omitting tho accounta of older oxplorers, Liv- | foro ig death he hall como fnto ¢otist, and ad- ingstouo startled tho world by his account of o | mitted the cugagemeny to marry Mrs, Wado, bit dincovory of tho Zamboze' and bis wanderhg | sobup justification far broaking it. .On this nerosa the ontiro Coutinont, from Loando on o | ground, Mra, Wede's counsel hold that tho ac- weat to tho mouth of the groat mivor wheriit | tion shonld survive tho deatl, and tho -contract throws ifeclf into tho Indian Ocoan, Then M ought to bo enforced, dead or allve, unless the explorations north on tho Bhoro -Riy- | justification:for bronking it could be proved to or and Lako N'Yasfa, Durton and Bpniu ho suflieignt/in tho oyas of the law. Thelswyera told -us, of tho. roato - from Zanzibar to tio | on the ;othor gido throw themeolyes baok gront Lake Tanganjlid and Viotoris N'¥Yanza, [.on tho; axiom y of tho Common' Law, Thon came Balor's discovory of the great Lako | oxpréssodi in the ' oustomary bnd Latin, Albort - N'Yonza Thoso . discovorion oreated | to-wit : f“AclIo pérsonalis moritur oum per- ‘groat Intorost among geograpliors, and ‘much | sona.”. Foltunatoly:for the hoira of deconsed spooulation as /o the posaibility of a councotion | widowors.who have boon indisoroot in thelr botween ' Tavgaujlki and the Albort N'Yauza, |'otd days, :tho Court decided thnt an action for Bianloy, in “How I Found Livingtsone,” tolls | breach of#promise eannot survive fhe defendant, us that ho fouud kim ‘at’ Ui, on tho )'Actions sgaivst ostatos hold for damages,to Lake Tanganfily, ond thal, in company with k proporty, or damsgoes for physical injury, for Livingatono, thoy ooasted entirely around the § tho notiod.of property ia included in the Iatter, north end of the It and found nonorthorn | But the Cotxs hold that an engagoment to matry outlot, but all tho Blr%wmg running into that'| Is to bo distinguished from othor contracts, It Iatio, aud thot thoy Passed o tho principal trib- | gsya: *Tho promise of mariage is more- utary, ontorlng L0 OXIXGI\ yoxh ond of| Iy pormonal; the aotion for tho broach of tho lske sa far 83 they noug go gn |t gocks redrbss for disappointed hopos, the canco, Now, If Bisuloy 4oy thg | whunded pride, Bumilistion, sud mental suffer- truth, that lako can Dhave N0 e | ding, for tho losawf coveted socloty and protec- outlef, aud no conncotlon with the Aiyy | ggon,—it may be, for tho loss of happinoss.” This N'Yanzs, Baker reports that thoso two lakesaw. | gegnition of & contraot to marry, and the deols- ono, True, ho did nok actually oxplora them yioq of ¢no Court that an action for breach of himsolf, but tho Arab tradera and natives atated | Pamigg canuot survive or bo sssigned, aro of that thoy had passad from tho Albert N'Yanze:] Imposancy to that largo community which is to Ujijl on the Tonganjld; and st thoy woro,| -0003kARNy (iyipe fo gob In aad then oonstautly \ \ shouts of joy and ccstaslos of . rapturo, and in tho oxpresslon of deop anguish, romorso, and despair ; in short, in the outburat of ovory human fecling. ‘Moro than. this, not only is-it heard in daily lifo, but we are told by the highest authority that it ia heard in the Hal- lolujabs of angels, and in the continual Holy-/ Holy ! Holy! ot the chorubim. What word .in tho English languago is fullor of significance, has o greator varioty of moanings, than tho' die minutive Oh? Tttored by tho infant to express surpriso or dolight, 1t is used by tho men to in- dicato four, nspiration, or appeal, and, indoed, according to tho tona in which it Is uttercd, may voico almost any one of the emotions of which ho la capablo. What & volumo of meaning is condensed in tho derisive “Ohl oh!" which groots o silly utteranco in the House of Com- mons| ‘It has boen truly 8aid that when a large assombly {a animatod by s common sentimont which demands instantancous utterance, it can find that utterance only through interjootions. Anain, what depth of mosning in this little word, a8 an expression of grief, in the following tinos by Wordaworth: » Blio tvoy unknown, and fow could know ‘Whien Lucy ceasall {0 bo; Nowsloa in lior grave,—and ohl , Tito differenco to mo, ) What possible combination of words could bo more eignificant than tho roply, ¢ Pdoh—pooh 1" tos controversialist's theory, or tho contomptu- ous **Fudgo!” with which Mr. Oburchill, in the Vicor of Wakefiold, sumis up tho protonsiors of the languishing Miss Carolina Vilhelmina Ame- lin Skegrs: ) . *“Virtne, my dear Lady ‘Dlarney, virtue is worth any prico; but where is that to bo found 7" V' Fudge I $ Tho truth s that, so far is this clase of words from boing, a8 Max Buller contonds, the mero outskirts of language, thoy aro more truly words than any olhora in the language. Thoy .are not 80 ‘much “parts of speech” as ontiro expres- sions of fosling or thought. They “aro pro- ominently pictorial. If I pronouncs the words Touse, strike, black, begutifully, without othor worda or oxplanatory gestures, 1 say uotling distinelly; Trmay monn any one of s hundred things; but if T utter an intorjectional exclama- tion, donoting Joy or sorrow, surpriso. or fear,. every person who Loars mo knows at once by what affeotion 1am moved. I communicats a fact by a singlo gyllablo. ax Muilor adwits that intorjoctions, . togothor with gostures, tho movements .of tho muscles of the mouth snd the oye,,~would bo quito sufiolent for il the purposes which language ‘nuswors with ‘the mnjority of mankind. Comink from tho lipa of o roat orator, thase 1ittls words, o de- spigod by grammariane, msy be more poworful, wmoro fo tho point, moro cloquent than n long spoech, | Tholr inhorent expressivoneas entitles them to bo rogarded as tho appropriato languago, tho mothor-tonguo of pasalon ; and honce the offact of good acting dopenda largely on the proper introduction and just artioulation of this class of words, Shakspearo’s, Intorjeotions oxact & raro command of modulation, and can- not bo ronderod with auy irath excopt by one who has mastored tho whole play. It is eaid of Whitflold that his jutorjoctions —hia ALl of pity for the uuropontant sluner, and his Oh | of encouragemont for tho almost convorted lunor, iero among the most poworful engines in his pulpit-artillery. Gar- rick used to say that he would givo a hundred gulneas if ho could say * OL 1" as Whitflold did, Tho English langusge {s pre-eminently a Jane guago of gmall worda, It outs down all its words to tho narzowest poselble limite,~lovping and v condenalng, nevor oxpanding, Bomotimes it cute off an initial azliahin, nain “'gin " for ' ougino," #igan ™ for U carryvan,” “'bus ¥ far * emule bus,"-*"wig " for *periwig;" somotimen it cuta oft & final ayllablo, o ayllablos, s (o * aid " for *ald-de-camp,” * prim " for “ primitivo,’ *pants " for ** pantaloone,” © tiok " for (pawn.’ broker's) * tickot ;" somotimen It strikes out a later, or lottory, fiom tho middlo of o word ; s, et for “lalost,” **lavk” for * laverost,' % gince" for “ sithence.” Who Anglo-$axon, thq aubntratumn of our modern English, is emphatia. ally monosyllabic ; yot many of . the grandest pasaagos In our litorsture aro mado up almost exclualvely of 8axon words. Tho English Bible: sbounds in grand, sublime, aud tondor pas. sagos, couchod almost entirely 1n words of ona syllablo, Tho passsgo in Eroklol, which Oole- ridgo ia said to have consldered the eublimest {n the wholo Bible: * And ho ssid unto mo, son. of man, can thoso bones live ? And Isnswored,. 0 Lord God, thou knowost,"~—contains seventeon: ‘monosylables to threo othors, What passago in. ‘HolyWritsurpasscs in anargatiobravity that which. desoribos tho doath of Slsors,—'* At her feot' he bowod, he foll ; at hier feat he bowail, ho foll, he lay down ; whore he bowed, thero ho fell down doad ?" Horo aro twonty-two monosyllables, to one diesyliablo thrico ropeated, and that s word which s uenally pronounced as monosyllablo, Tho early writors, the * puro wells of English nndofiled,” abound in small words. Bhakspeara employs thom in his finest pnseages, eapecially whon ho would paiut a scene with & fow masterly touches, Ienr Mncboth s Horo Iny Dunean, Bl attyor akin Icad wih El golion stont, And bis gash’d otabs looked ko o brooch 'tn. Nature For ruiu'a wastetul entranco, Thero tho murderars, Btoopod {n the oolora uf thelr trado, tholr daggers ‘Bnmannerly breechiod with gore, Aro monosyllablos passionloss? Liston, again, to tho ' Thono of Cawdor:" Thot & a stop On which T must fall down, of elso O'crleap, For n my way itlles, Btars, hide your tires, Lot not light weo my black uud deep desires, Zhe aye winka at the hand, Yet, lot that Le Wiilol tho ey fears, whon it 4 dono, to seo. Two dissyllables ouly smong fifty-two words | Bishop Hall,-in ono of his most powerfuk satiros, spenkiug of the vanity of * adding house to houso and lold to fleld,” hins theso besutiful linoa: Fond fo0l 1 six foot shall servo for all thy store, + Aund ho thiat eaves for most shall Sind no more, « #What harmontous monosyllables I exclaims tho critic, Giltord; yot they mey be paralicled by othors in tho same writdr, equally musical aud oqually oxprossive. ‘Was Milton tame? He know. when to use polyayllables of © learnod longth and thunder- ing sound ;" but he know ulso when to produco tho grandest effocts by tho small words despised by inforior artists. Read his account of the journey of the fallen angals : Through many o dark sud dreary valo They passed, and many a rogion dolorous, O'er many a'frozen, many o flery Alp, Rockt, cavet lakes feus, Uagi, dend; and shadea o Aunivorso of doath, " " In what othor Janguago shall wo find in the #amo numbor of words a more vivid picture of desolation than this? Iear, ngain, tho losk sychangel calting upon heil to raceive its nor possgBsor ¢ i Ouo who brings A mind not 8 be chianged by placa or time, "The mind fu its own plico, and In itself Oin make » Licaven of holl, o hell of heaven, Whiat matter whero, if I bo still tho eamo, -And what T honld bo ; all but fess than lio Whown thundor kath wdads groater 7 - Horo, at losat, - " Wo ahall bo freo; the Almighty hathi not ballt Hera for Iis envy ; will not drive ue henco ; Hors we may yeljin socure, and, inmy choics, o rofgn 18 Wortls ambition, though in hell ; Botter relgn in hell, than serve In hoaven, . Did Byron lack force or fira? . Liaten to thy words in.whioh ho describos the dostruction of Bounacherib 3 s For the Angol of Death wproad his wis th And broatlied n tho I]uc:%l i foo JL: E;n ;x:l‘l]esd‘;’m" nd tho eye of tho slccpors wax'd de: ‘A0 WLelr ioartn bost Dt ouce, sad “Xx‘de':’i.,“l‘fi'x’r. Hore, out of forty-threo worda,. all but threg are monosyllablos ; and yot how oxquisitely are all theso monosyllables linked into the majestis and onimated movement of .tho anapaestio moasure! Again, what can be more musical and moro malancholy than the opening vorse of the lines in whfch tho samo post bids edieu to hi¢ native land? 5o * Adiou! adieul my nativa shore Fadon oler tho waters blue, . Tihe night-inds sigh, the bieézes roar, : And abirloks tho wild ses-mow, Tha third and fourth linga paiut the scane & tho lifo; yot all tho words butono are mono- syllablos. N Goldsmith said of Dr. Johnson, that if ho wert towrito & fablo about littlo flahes, ho would mako thom talk like whales. There are many writora fn our own'day who have, 42 equal con- tompt for small words, and never use ono when thoy can find s pompous polgsyllablo to take its .placo. Tt is ovidont, howover, from the passages wo have cited, tlat theso Lliputisns—these Tom ‘Thumba of tho dictionars—play as important a part in our literature na thoir bigger and more magoiloquent brothron.- Iu some’ kinda of writing thelr almost oxolusive uso fs ine. dispeusablo, What would have beon tha: fato of . Bunyan's immertal .book had; ho told tho atory of .the Pilgrim's journoy, in tho ponderous, clephantine ‘*—osities ? and “—ationa " of Johnson, or thio gorgeons Latin. ity of Taylor? Itwould havo boon Jike build Ing o boat out of timbors cut.out for a ship. | Whon we remombor that tho Baxon langusge, the soul of the English, is essentially monosylia. bio ; that our languago contains, of monosylla. blos formod.by tho vowel a alons, more than 500,—by the vowol ¢, soma 450 ; by tha voel 1, about 400; by the vowal o, .over -400; and by -tho vowol w, moro ' than 200; wo must, admit that theso’ moomingly petly and ifusignificant words, oven the-microscopie particlos, 80 far from moriting to bo treated ns *crospars,” ato of high Importanca, and that tc know ‘when and how to use them is oven of greater momont to the speaker or writer than o knoiv whon to use the grandiloguent oxpres- sions which wo hnve borrowed from-the language of Grocce and Rome. To overy man who has oceagion to teach or move his fellow-men by tongué or pon, wo wouldeay, in tho words of the accomplished Dr. Addison Alexander,—them-~ selves o most lLappy example of tho thing he commends: - Think not that strengil: lies in the big round word, Or that tho brfef and plain must needs be weak, "To whom can this bo truo who ouco has heard "Tha cry for holp, the tonguo that all men speak, ‘When wint or woe or fear ia in the throat, Bo that eacks word gasped out is 1iko a shrick Prossed fram tho sors lieart, or & atrange wild nota Sung by some fuy or fond, Thero is a strongth ‘Whiloh diea 1€ atrotohed (oo fur or apun toa fine, ‘Wisléh line moro height than . Lreadih,’ more . depth than length, ¥ Lt but thin foreo of (hought and epeoch to mine, And botuat will may tako the elcck, fat, phrate, Which fows and burss not, though it cleawa and shine— - : . t) bub no heat—s flash, but not a blaze | Noris if more etrength that {lo short word boasta 3 It gorven of moro than fght or utorm q tol, e rour of waven that clagn on rock-hound coas .The arash of Lall (ross when tho wild winda nwln'fl. Tho roar of guns, thogroans of men that dlo On blood-ttained fleila, Tt Ling voicolas well. For thom that far off on thelr lck-beds 1o ; s For them thint woop, for them thot mourn Uho dead?(, Tor them that atgl, nad dovice and clap Lo band 3 To oy’s quick stop, os well as gricf’s slow tread, Tho weet, plan words wo learntat firat keep time, nd, though tas theine be sad, or g5, or grand, o c! With €ach, with ll, these mey bs made o chime, . Xa thought, or ayoceh 4n prose or rhyime, SOUP-4OUSES FOR THE POGR, To the Editor of Ths Chicugo Tribune: - Sir 1, Tho comlug wintor is likely £ be & very trying one for the poor. In ordinary wiutors fho number of suffering poor is large enough, but the {u-osaul. panlo Los thrown thousands more cut of omployment, who will surcly come to wont befors busincss ngain rovives, Whilo Chicago may preseut loss actual dostitution and sufforing than other citivs, It is tho part of wis- dom to provide for any casea which may occur, No oharity does more good in proportion to the moansomployed thon o well-managed souphouse, Lot tho Rolief aud Ald Boclety covelder this matter and employ a part of its ample moana to eatablish o soup-ostablishment aftor the Clncin« uatl plan, * Placo the maiu honeo and the man~ ufactory on tho Wost Bide, with bisuchos or dig- tributhig stations at the accessible pointa on the North and Bouth Bides. Buch an institution,. kept opon and .woll managed during the next. three months, would acoownplish an incalonlable, smouat of good. - a8