Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 23, 1873, Page 12

! i k| PERU. How the Monetary Panic Is Felt in South America., Bomarkable Shifts of Peopls Who . Have Bocome ' Hard-Up.” Tho Goanape Tolands---How Guano Is TLoadod---Grand Brenkfasts on Shipboard. The Colebration of Carnival---Endies Pelted with Perfumed Egg-Shells, and Men Drenohed with - ‘Water, * Noctes Buenos " and Thoir Charac- teristics. Special Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, z o Lnna, Por, October, 1873, While you arc proparing for your wintor, and putting in.your supply of coal, wo in Peru are in our spring, and gotting all roady for our com- {ng summer, which sols in-in anothor month. Ladics aro out in our streots attired in lacos and whito musling, carryiig parasols and fans (more, howorvor, for ornamont thau for use) ; and in our shop-windown are displayed our gayost ombroid- orod robes, and tho thinnost of lndes, gnuzos, ‘aud grenadines, TIE PANIO in New York, which mado itsolf so universally folt all ovor the Enst and Wost, hna reached here, and there novor has boon g0 dull & time in bueinoss, all over Poru, as at prosont, The ship- ‘brokers and chandlers are groaning becauso thero aro o few ships In tho harbor, and 8o fow aro oxpoctod ; tho ship-onptains are growling bocause tho freights on guano aud on all kinda of cargoaro 80 low that it doos not pay thom to carry nload awny ; merchants and businoss-men gonerally complain that they cannot buy exchange for any kind of offor thoy can make; the Prosi- dent has fssucd an order forbidding sny gold or silver-coin to be .sont out of. the country, under pain .of imprisonmont ; snd sli tho leading businéss-houses are’ at thoir wits’ end to know how to raiso monoyto meot their liabilitics, ox to pay for.goods ordercd. And go tho tidel ‘wave of paaic,. that began in Wall stroor, and haa sprend” over the United Bintos, has cbbed and flowed into Poru,'and tho busnoss-interests of this country are cramped nnd troubled as I never- knew thom bofore. It fa rumorod that ‘even ‘Honry Meiggs, the groat Arerican Rail- rond-Kiug, .has lost goveral millions, owing to tho failure of the Pornvian Government to pay “up its Londs; ond many of our leading firms, Buano and banking housos especially, have gono underin that submerging wave that has swopt over two continonts. The poorer classes, and especially tho Poru- vians, Lnvo foit this suddon olicck to business very sovorely, and, being too improvidont and shiftlogs to work vory hard, thoy havo resorted 4o tho MOST REMANKADLE BNIFTS to make both ends moot.. Daily, and almost hourly, there knocks at the door of our house in tho calle-hone, or side eutranco to our baok- courtyard, ‘n litllo Chineso or Cholo boy, with o mysterious bundlo under his arm. This boy iy the “ small sorvant " of some (hithorto) well-to- do native family. Asking tosco tho mistrosy, or the young Indios, or oven addressing Limself totholiond of tho houso (which, I olaim, s, or &hould bo, & man), ho opens his bundlo, tied up Inshawl or tablo-cloth, snd exposes n dress, well worn and soiled ; a whito skirt, befrilled and beflounced, and having beon worn sinco it last saw the laundress ; o pair of child's shoes ; it may bo o diamond ring or pin ; undorolothos of oll kinds; omants, or veil for thohead ; avery . concoivablo article of wearing-opparel, Bven to o sob of falso tooth, and false curls, and liquid- cosmetics ; .and, in a solemn, genteol monner, Lo rolates that Signora or Signorotts Bomebody (fictitions name), his mistress, hns been vory ill, ond has becomo cntiroly out of money for presant nocessitics, and dosires you to purchaso this littlo articlo, that she can oasily disponso with, for the trifling sum of s0 many goles, o will generally, take anything you may offer him In cash. This same programmo i8 en~ acted over aud over sgain daily; and mover, slnce a long residence in Peru, have E soen such: dostitution, euch o lack of monns, suoh oxtrémity and suffering, snd such lioa a8 aro told. The Oholo boy, maybe o woman, sn 0ld Cholo nurse, or servant grown groy and wrinkled in tho servico of hermistross; but thero is always told the saio lio as to illnces and suddon scarcity .of money; and tho family~ namo {8 ul\u{u suppressed or madoup, I have ofton said to those family-sorvants, * Why doyou n\wn{la sny your mistroes is sick? Why not toll the truth, and eay that thoy neod monoy to keep up appoarances?”, But theso little or old gorvants have boon taught tho tricks of tho trade well, and will always cling to tho samo old story, * sicknosa nnd & sudden necessity.” There 1o nothing undor hoaven that thess Poruvian womon will not soll tokeep up the eculiar stylo in which thoy have boen living. They will havo but ono dress and ono manta in all tho world, and not & bed or clir in tho house; but that manta must bo of as fino quality, and tho embroidory and Jaco on it as porfect, as if they wore not drivon” to all these potty mioannesscs and los to keop up appearances.” In this ro- spect thoy offor & groat contrast o our Amori- can lndies, who can .appoar &8 truo ladles in calico ns in silk; and retain n certain diguity and indopendonce nuder all circumstances, Binco my last letler I have boon down to THE GUANAPE ISLANDS, where tho ships load with _gusno. Those ships generally como out to Callao with a eargo, and, after unloading, go to theso islands and load with guano. ‘Thié guano-loading keops tho ehips at tho islands about four months, and then, got- ting cloaring papers at PaYln, thoy are off and away for different ports 2ll over tho wo:ld. . he Chinsmon " aro the workers among tho guauo, 88 they can bettor stand tho strong smell of ammonin, that almost ovorpowers ono in digging smong it and loading it'into the hold of the ship. For sevoral nights tho smoll of this guano wod €0 overpowering and strong that I wos ubllPd to sleep on board another ship, and the family of the Captain could not sit io the eabin ot all. When we ato our meals in the forward cabin the toars ran from our oyes in strenms, and tho offoet was oxnotly a8 if e woro shuffing tho strongest hiartshorn, Insomeships the odor is much more apparont than in others ; and it is oapecially strong in those ships whoso cabius sro all below, Nearly every Captain, whon making these long voyages around Cape Ilorn, out to Oallao and tho "gunno islands, takes his family with him, and wifo and littlo onos_are closely shut up in o small cabin, and become en- tirely ' accustomed to tho mos-life, I usod to pity tho little childron and the wives on board ship, whon the pungent odor o tho atirring-up and_bedding-down of the guano peryaded the wholo ship for wocks at a time, until 1t was sl in, and the hold seeuroly fastonod in,and tho ehip woll out tosos, Thon they slirm that the strong wind and tho ** salt-sen smell " soon drive tho ammouia odor awny; bub Oaptaing’ wivea have told me they could ofton smell s guano-loadod #hip ¢ BILEH AWAY, How I uged to pity the littlo children, limitod to » small, confined cabln for play-room and exor- cige, with tho odor of ammonia #o strong ns to koop thelr eyes rod und inflamad, tho tours run- ning all tho time, and o choking coughing being kept up a8 tho pungont guano J,'uh into throat aud lungs; and thon waa told it was con- eidorod #o very Lioalthy, and 8o good for thera | Tho whole'of tho “islands i ono vant hod of guano | the very soil of which theyaro com- posed s gunno. Long wooden troughs, enllod Ehuitos, aro placed against tho staop sldes of tho islands, and go down lllrl:u!l{ into tha ship, sy slio lied at tho bage of the island. Down theso shutes; all day long, whoolbarrow-Jonds sra boing omptied by the Chinamen on the inland, and plunged, wilh smoll and dirt indoseribable, the” hold of tho ebfp. In this hold :‘li:a nfilp':s crew, Cnolhyu, snd Oholos sro slamping sud shoveling it in place snd packing it down, aud the odor permoates aud THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBIR e —————— ———— e , 1873, porvades overy part of the ship, It ontorainto your clothing, your hontrils, your food and deinley aud, nithough {6 may Do vory honlthy, it i auything but ngroeable, “T'lere fo nothing to go anhoro for, A fow Cholo huts, of tho rudest rombln consatrnction, and soveral low drinking- holos, nro all tho island has Lo offer you. Whilo tho ships aro londing, tho Cuplaing mud Matos aro genernlly busy onough iu suporintending tho londlug.of thelr ships, and oftun omploy n don= koy-un‘(lnu or horno power to liolp lond ono sidlo, whilo the crow are loading on tho other side, Thoir wives and childron gonerally take small bontsand go off to othor ships, vieiting and hav- ing a good gosaip nhout somo othor family who may not ho thoro, This scoma to_bo Lheir only divorsion, although I saw somo fino Iadies un Board tho difforont ships. When o ship is all loaded and ready for eoa, A GRAND DIEAKFAST fo° givon on Loard, Cook and stoward oxert thomaelvos to soi a eplondid table, and turkeys, homs, cold meats, eakos, colloo, and llquors nro B0t out in fno array, Then all’ tha othor ships' mastora and thelr wivos oall on board and par- tako of ‘soma rofroshmonts. Ouno Captain among tho compnuy prosont is then so- loctod to talo tho Bhip clenr of the harlor, taking chargo and givlng {ho ordors, whilo i tho others dopart in thoir boata to their own ships, Tho Captain upon whom hns devolved tho honor of taking tho ship woll out to sen, aftor Mcnmtplluhlng thuélu?uao, givos lor over in chiargo of hor proper Captain, and signals his bont, which hiag beon lylng off, to come for him, and, whon tho ship lays to, the boat takes him off, and ho roturns to his own ship, Thon, from the docks of the different ships, wo watoh the whito snils of tho outward-bound ship losson in the distance, until, from a mero spoeck, it van- ishos from our sight entiroly. Tliose broakfasts aro o groat fonturo of thoe Guanape Ilauds, and, 08 1t takos o wook of proparation gonorally, tho Indios aro kopt busy, and excol in fino dis- plage on thoso ogcasions. I was nstonishiod at “tho intelligence and oducation among tho; wivos of Amoricad Captains partiou- lorly. Thoro wero mony who had pisuos on board and woro flne musicinns, and I found thom entortainlog and very plonsant. Indaod, with that love of comfort ond good tasto which oharacterizes nn Amoricnn . roman, many of thom possessod the samo litle Lnick-knacks, convoniences, and tollot-surroundings that can bo found in nny * sparo room” at home smong ]\:ur own Yankeo girls and Now England house- copors. In olt my dosoriptions of the Poravians, Thavo novor yot given yon any particulara about thoir CELEDRATION OF GABNIVAL, which s ontored into hero with the samo relish a8 at Romo. I have pussed through soveral Onr- nivals, and, 08 thoy aro 80 very different from .any custom or obacrvauce that ocoursin our own country, let mo dosenbo one. Tho Carniyal lnsls threo “days, and io gmlclpnhd in with gront spirlt by oo aud all. No lady, bosho foreignor or Poruvian, can show hersolf on her ‘balcony or at her grated-window for a minuto, on Carnival-days, for sho is sure to be pelte with porfamod oggs. Those oggs aro propared, wooks and woeks before Carnival, owing to tho ont domand for thom by mon and boys, who low tho substanco out. by making o httlo holo in ono ond of tho egg-sholl, without bronking any moro of tho eholl, and thon fillup tho um‘pty ogg-sholl with sconted water, olthor Cologno, Ilorida, or bay wator, or the most deli- cate and oxponsive of Rimmell's porfumery. Aftor: tho OFg-Blwll is thus filled, tho holois senled up with a bit of papor pasted over it, or a drop of scaling-wax, and the sholl is put away foruse, AHL tho days of Carnival TRESE PERFUMED EQG-SIELLY are sold from houso to house by men and boys, and; in tho streets, at from fivo for s rial Lo b cents_apioco, and ovon as high ne2 rinls oach (20 conts), according to tho. (1\11\ ty of tho porfumory with which thoy are filled. A youug lover or gallant, or any old marriod man with an oyo to somo lovely young Indy of his acquninfance, will bity dozens of these perfumod ogg-sholls, payiug high pricos for thom ; snd not only do tho boya who eoll thom make a groat deal of monoy during those days, but the Cbinsmen coolts ofton make a good ‘donl of money by sell- ing tholr ewmpty egg-oholls just bofora Carnival 10 theso boys, at 80 much 8~ dozon. Tho Ching- men are 50 fond of making money, and so cal- culating, tuat it hos boon noticed that, for weoks béforo Carnival, thoy will sogyo tho tablo Yoy Dountifully at ovory breukfnst with oxgs cooked in difforout styles, 80 as to break tho sliolls carefully at ono and and sell tho omply sholls to boys for Cornival purposes. As 0on a8 o Indy or young girl apponts on tho bnlcon&r or at Lthe window (and’ tho windows aro opened for Carnival purposes), sho is enluted on oll sides, mayho, by thero ogg-sheils tillod with porfumory ; and an animated - seono it is, Sho retalfates, upon her pact, by TUROWING WATER UTON any of thomalesex sho may oliatca o Boo pass- ing tho street. Dwring Carvival times all mon and boys wear their very worst and oldent gar- monts, and {hoso who venturo out aro ducked from overy bolcony, window, and door, as thoy rush along. Even thoso who goon horseback faro no bottor, for they nre oven o botler mark for tho wator-throwers, for thoy can be tho most ensily dronched from the balconies, All ladics siay clogely shutin atlhome during Oarnival, Goutlemoun who go out not only aro dronched with water from pails and pitchors, but aro often covered with flour, and even paint. The work- ing classos (men ospnulnll_\? go about with lxu?'a pots of blue and red paint and o formidablo Town, snd iing, gontlonsn who. wilk. oot give thom 4 fow pennies (a media, 5 oonts) for a drink of native chicechiea gets his cont TAINTED ALL OVER THE BACK. Bmall, ragged urchins go about in grotesque and hideons masks ; and in evory strect can bo ssen poople mn comical disguiso. At overy public Bquaro, crowds of native Cholo and Zambn poo- lo, dance the natiopal Poruvinn dancoe, tho Zam- Eucnocl, for a small rmnncn; and tho music— being only bones, guitar, their own singing, and the snapping of tho fiugers a8 an saccom- animont—is ~ often _very woird, pa- {)I.mtk:, and poculiar, For a couplo of rials & native man and woman, standing faciug each othor, and waving red sitk handkerchiefs, will - dance this national dance for an hour, and until quite exhisusted. 2 Astho fun and frolic are univorsal, and ns overy ono ontora into it with infinito epirit, all busiuess is susponded, and most Tmtlcmon stay quietly at homo o avoid tho ducking that is in~ ovitablo. Somotimes a horseman, wishing to ap- anr brave, and to show off his wouderful skill n horsomanship, dashes his spurs intohis Lorso, aud rides up the stroots like mad ; Lut, Lefore hio bas ridden far, so complotely is ho drenched, and bis borso hing becoma eo restive undor cold baths and nnoxpected showers, that he rotires from tho fleld in dismay, and, going home to chango hiu clothies, comes out oquippod in dry -garmonts, again roady for the fray, Genilemen who go on foot all CALRY UMDRELLAS on those days ounly ; and, while one willbo hold- ing bis umbrolla woll down ovor the faco aud bead, oud proparing to- run tho gountlet of ono bovy of lndios awaiting hig spproach in tho balcony on tho right, anddonly Lo is sseailed from the bacl by a shower of water, aud tho Indies on both sidos tho narrow atroot dolugo him_os Lo socks “gafety in tho middlo of tho streot, Tt Is raroly that any necidont ocours, and it ia considerod tho vory hoight of bad broodiug to become angry ot auything that may ocour o¢ Carnival. T think tho American officors of our men-of-war, and the Captaius and sea-faring men in genoral, foro tho worst on Carnival duya; for mavy of ‘thom, not knowing of it, or not thinking of its ‘customs, aro obligad fo como ashore, aud no soonor nve they in sight at the pler than thoy aro not pormittod to land from tholr small boals until thoy have stood troat to tho crowd of Cholos who nswomblo on_tho mole, or givon a medin to overy sonl whossks it. If thoy refuso, they mre ducked and drenched, paiuted aug floured, until thoy aro forced to DUY THEMSELVES FREE. Homotlmos ono gots nngey or showa fight, and thon thoy nre tronted with still grontor dronoh- ing, and told that auch is tho custom of the country, and only o * fool " would show rosent- ment. 8 At dusk all eport censos, and plng and frolie ondy; and any ono porsishivg in it aftor that tumo can bo finod and imprisonod. 1tseams to me a very childish and foollsh cus- tom, that o gentleman’ should stand hours in front of o certaln window, or ride_his Lorso up to & balcony, over, and over, and over again, watching Lis chanco o throw an ogg-sholl_filled with porfumery ot a lady, from s litilo basket ho carrios onhis arm, and, whilo B0 waiting, should bo deluged time aud sgain from tho win- dows ovorhead, from tho overhanging baloonies, and evon from tubs of water carrled up by sor- vants on to the vory roofa of tho housos, by tho womon of nll the Liouses on each eide of thoe streot, Dut perhaps sowo of our natlonal holi- d?yn ay look quite uy ridiculous to tho Poru- viane, Aftor the throo days of Carnival, all tho Poru« vians go down, on manno, young and old, to the “Point™ and to tho difforent bathing-places at tho sen, and havo an immonuo plonio, called NURYING THF, OARNIVAL, ond, aftor all goiting full of lquors and bocom- ing uproarioun gonorally, the Uaranlval is buried and Lont boging, I onco asked a Peruvian lady- friend of mino, ** What was tho use of all this nonsenso? What partlonlar good doos it do you ?" #ald I ' Your husbands sud sons take & govere cold from such sn unmorcitul dronche ing, to say nothing of spoiling suits of good clothes, Your carpeta aro powdered with oug- shiolls, and tho color s taken out with porfumory, and what is tho object of it all? Cul bono? " Baid sho, l-unmnfi #oftly, and pntting my shoul dor-in hor peaullarly Doruyian-liks, motliorly way, “What is tho wso of any frolio? What Is ho good of any smusomont 7. And what 1A the n8o of any divoraion In our solomn, stondy, hard daily Ttvon ? BDocauao it Is Peruvian, and's na- tionnl cuatom, dating bnok to tho daysof our old Yicoroys, and coming to us from old Hpnin, Bocauao, of our old Onstilian bload, wo. love and onjoy it. And your cool, enloulating Amorican diuposition eatnot onjo; ib. beeaugo fimrn {3 no moncy to bo mado in it" And I felt that I was anawored, ' NooTES NUENOB." ‘Wo hnvo just had one of our usual “nactos buchos," or ** happy nights,” as they oo _enllod, whioh happoned at tho close of somo faat-day of unusunl gevority, A nlvooinl national fast ‘and prayor-day gonoratly closos witn ono of those avoiings, called * uoctos buenos,” as if to mnko up for alf tho rigors of tho raligiotn obaorvancon, As soon aa dusk gethors ovor tho sircotn and housoy, littlo booths and bazaars, of striped oan- vas stuff, are haatilyercoted on P‘nlua. ali around and in tho publio squares, and, by tho light of torchos, all thie nalive catablos, drinkablos, and waroo aro oxposod for salo, surrounded by ad- mlrlni:I orowds. Horo squats o nallvo woman, swarthy of faco and limb, and with n bright- colored turban surmounting her black halr. On » firo of stickes and ombora of charcoal, glowing- rod inan old coppor nao, and bubbling Ina qugr little black pot sitting over the coals, is the sirangost conglomeration of mosyos, —{lnppnm and potatoos, chooso, milk, and fish, butter and ogre, ond_ bread-crumbs ; 'which 18 sold to tho natives who crowd around hor, sorved on tin- platos Q)nlup flnhod out of the pot with a hollow shell) at 80 much a platoful. And here ara the nativo liquor-stands, * chicha,” and * aquis,” nand * pico,” and * {tatio,"—nil standing in red brick calabashos, and having & . tasto similar to pennuts, and corn, and pine-applos, and grapos, and rhubarb, And thon tho toys,—snch quaint littlo dishes, and of such onrious conatruction,— 1ittlo rod vason, and kottlea and oups; ll of the somo_red brick matorial, and hardy.fit for su Tudian baby to play with ; hugo rattles, that Whir, and wiiiz, and sing with a rasping, buzzin sound, that sots your oar-druma to aching, an cnusos ona to hold his hoad and escapo from that locality as a?undfly a8 possiblo. And overy child haa n red calabash and o rattlo ; and tho noiso and orying of childron, tho barking of dogs, and crying of tho differont waros by their vonders, aro! ! POSITIVELY DEAFENING. Notw comes along an ico-cronmn dealor, bearing his freczor of oroam, surroundod with 'loo, in n hugo groon tub on hia hond, and balaneing it with the most orfoct oago. How ha fairly bollows hig ware : * Holados Jocho pinoa !"—which means * Pinc-applo {co- croam,” Having found & oustomor (thoy aro ?lcmya), ho sets tho hoavy tub from his hoad to ho sidowall, and, taking the saucors from ono pantaloons pocket, nud tin spoons from tho othor pocket, ho doxtrously wipes them on an old rag tiod around his waist, aud sorves up his crosm in true Indian stylo. Tho way of pro- nounolng ¢ Holndos,” ico-cronm, is with n silont H, thua: * A-louse s snd ‘it ia not only vory amusing to & foroignor thus to hear theso ico crosmmon go.through tho strects shouting ** A lonso! o louge;” but also vory suggostivo, - And tho; to closo this *uoctos buonos” ovening, o adre nddresses tho pooplo, ot tho closo of the ovening, in the public ' square, admonishing thom aghinat tho sins of drunkonness ond game Dling, sto., while not ono of all tho vast nativo orowd is sufficiontly sobor to understand bis lan- fim\gu. and, all gbout his very rosiram, gam- ling-tablos, and dico, and_roulotte, *tronto- un,” and faro abounds. amplo. ¢ MEMORY-BELLS, Such is tho forco of ox- WaLDA. Bomory-Dolln aro ringing—ringing— Tn tlio distanco, far mway s Do sou hoar thewh singing-"singisig? Will you toll mo wnt ¢ Do you hear thoir silvor chitning 7 Do you hiear thele mullow rhymiug 2 D you henr tho dear, swoct atory Of: your childliood's far-oif glory 2 Do thy tako yon bnck to yenrs Olonded by 1o hunting foars 7 o they apoak of sunny houra Whon your way waa strown with flowors, Witc o rainbow arched your uky, Aud when ¥aith stood smiling by 7 Thoy ara tolling—tolling slowly § Tear tho oclidea dio nway,— Totuler, lowly, oad, and holy 3 Wil you tolf mo Whnt thoy say? Do hioy toll of manhiood's dreaming? Do they toll of bright oyes beaming 2 Do thoy toll of foud words spoken ¢ Do oy toll of young harls rokon? Do thoy toll of Liopos you cliozlahot 7 Do thiey toll how faith has porishod ? Do thoy toll haw, night and day, Gruol Fato has tracked Lor proy'? Do thay toll of proud hopea blastad, ‘Aud of 1ifo's weet trozaurcs wasted? Momory-Della aro poaling—pealing— O'or tho ruing by the woy,— Tliyough tho mind’s dim chamber stealing; Will you ell mo what they say ? o your hoart loat all ita liphtriess ? Tfas your 1ifo lost all i(a brighlncss? 1loa Your dny-star set in gloon' Do you hear tho voics of Doomn Mocking every groan that burats From thio aching hoart that thirata For tho lovo it n'or may share, Aud tho foys it no'or may wear, Tou tho light by clouds o'ercast, or tho glorlea of the past ? Momory-Dolls, Momors-Bolls, softly you'ro i Throvgl seara of long alleiico, I Lear yot to- Bootling 1o reat with the notes You aro winging ; Ob, Memory-Bolls, shall T tell what you say ? Over long years you 'sro boaring mn bick,— Over oach stop of tho desalato track ; Over teraptation, and yiolding, ond Aln; Over tho hurry, and whirl, snd din O a lifo that waa darc; and I kneol once more At my mothor's knoo na I knolt of soro, Whilo sbo talls mo the story, awcet and brief, Of tho “ Man of Sorrow, acauainted with grlof,” Aud 1 hear tholips that bava loug beon olay Troy for hior boy as £ho prayed that oy, Ob| Momory-Bolls, with yonr wolrd, strange power, You have brouglit backmy mothor tomo thiu hour, And braught what you Loardod with fuithtul care— 1fer fervont love nud hor carneat prayer, Yon havo atliled in my Losom tho lempeat wid, And mado mo again * as a littlo child,” GARNET B, FoEsMaN, ing; 9= A St. Louls Strcot Scencs ZI'rom the St, Louia Republican., Ho was tho lifting-machine mau, and his in- strumont was uear_the cornerof athronged, busy main thoroughfare. It sat in tho gutter with o flare of Irzrd-oll light beating full on its round faco in tho oyes of all mon, and yot thoy hoedod it not. It was not much of s night for Jifting-machinos. The men_ stood ina door- way, stamping hia foot to keop thom warm, with his hands deop down in his pockoets, and keoping keen watch and ward over tho lifting-machine. ~ Ho lookod HE tho streot nnd down tho street, and over tho way at the Dack-stand, and up ot the Court-Iouss, and thon rofroshod his‘soul by inspeoting the as- sortmont of fall and wintor latsin an nd{oin— ing window, and still nobody camo to test thoir musculnr powers on the lifting-machino. The moro the machine-mou stamped his foot and feoi fooling nothing but_deferrod hiopo at tho bottom of Lls pookots, aud the moro ho tried to dotermine what sott of & bat ho wonld buy if ho hind thio necossary ducats, and_tho mora ho look- ed up and down and all around, tho more uobody seoniod to como aud tost the hidden mysterios of tho lifting-machine, At last a Lrilliant thought annnmd to strike in_ wpon the liftig-machino men. Mo dollborately walked t0 tha corner and lav- ishly Bx%flflbfl 6 conts on o paper of pon- nuls. ion o roturnod luhil; stand in” tho doorwny, munching Lis purchase, there was & nibblo at the liftin; -mnch‘l’no. It wos only o nibble ; it waan't a bite, It was nsmall boy of tho boot-black porsunsion, who had watohed the mncline-man go for Lis poanuts, and thon walkod coolly and deliborately nup nnd gncakod o gt * Ono touch of nature makes tho wholo world kin." The lifting-machine man took in the situntion at a glance, and ho lot the small bo{ of tho boot-blnck porsuasion go on sneaking o litt until ho grow purplo in the faco. Ono oronture in tho world was mado happy for the moment, and that was tho \mot-blncfi boy. And whlo ths lifting-nuohino. muan was indulging in tho luxury of pennuts, why shonld he intorfore with o momentary ploasure, spatched from a world of groat wanta by poverty nkin to bis own? —_— 'The Snall Boy, From the New York Tribune, It lawell knowu that the !i(unllthl! for which tho Bmall Dn( is most romarknblo are a sort of pleturcsquo Ingonuity aud s devoted considorn~ tion for tho prejudicos of othor pooplo, In o 1ittlo Boaton ol co-bv wo find an unusual devel- opmont of thom., While mourning, not long ngo, his omployor's absonca in & distant town, o delightful iden camo to him. Why should tho Lours ulip by so drourily all unlighted by genial and innocont amusement 2 'hat invontive and orlginal Bmall Boy determined to grievo no moro. From tho gas-burner in front of ihe ofiice-door ho huug o droadful offigy, with a black cap over ita face, its throat gashod and crimsoned, & #word [n one lisud and in the othor a small Juy markad * P'oison" In lnrgo lettars, Then hoad- vortised for fominine cooks and housomalds to apply at tho offico, npon the door of which thoy road tbis Inseripfion: “ Walk in; ok in fiva minutos,” Then hidden nonv, this Amall Loy laughod with the caroloss, punny gloa of child- hood asacrowd of oxcollent and industrious womon sorecohod and faluted. | THE MODESTY OF GEMIUS. From the London Saturday Review, Thoro nro somo little cut-nnd-dried tannta whioh lio rondy to the lisnds of controvorsinlists, o8 eannon-balls aro piled npon tho rampnrts of nfort, to-bo used irrospoctivoly of tholr pro- pridty In any givon cnso, Such, for oxnmplo, is tha dootrina that all bullios are cowardu, Thoro 18 110 ronson for bollaving thia to bo Leuo; somo vory brave mon hnve bragged Intolerably of thoir prowoss, and beon tyrannical on tho strongth of thelr honsts. Bt thon it is very plensaut whon bullylng doos turn out io bo nanoolatod with cowardico; and porhaps man- kind havo n-right to suppross Ao offonsivo o oustom by nesumling, without too rigld an in- quiry Into tho facts, that tho nssoclation in invarlablo. A similar dostrine s tho plausiblo commonplace about tho crodulity of skopties. It i of course trus that dlishollof of Bomo of our favoritu temols will vory froquontly nccompnny tho accopt- anco of some which wo doolino to nocopt ; and if ovorybody Is skoptical who Lositatos to swallow our dogmas wholo, and overybody crodulons whoeo dogmas wo caunot swallow, oredulity and skopticism will constantly go togethor. But wo fear that it cannot bo doniod that thoro aron good many poople into whoso minds any bolicf on any subject oan only bo forced by downright violonco; and whoso rounded and comploto skopticlsm affords no laverage for thia comfort- ablotaunt. Anothar thcory of the kamo olans 18 tho sinppoaad modeaty of gonius., The convon- ionco of this dootring, it it woro woll founded, would bo undoniable, There {8 nothing so plonsant to somo peoplo as dashing the vamty of thoir noighbora, It is comfortabls to assume that tho vory fact thataman thinks himsclf a gonins amounts to a domonsirstive proof that "ho {8 notj for if that doctrino woro onco woll ostablished, our drawing-rooms sud platforms would bo swopt cloar of ono of tho most sunoying variotios of clyilizod human be- fug. It would indeod bo satisfactory to havo a couclusive reply to the domand for social black- wail Incuannull{ put_forward by porsons hun- goring nnd thiraling aftor adulation. Morcovor, o have a more amiablo motive for wishing tho doctrine to.bo truo, Thoro can bo no doubt that modosty, if not's condition of gonius, ab Toast adds to it an inimitablo graco. A man who is roally n first-rate suthority gains our henrts mioat my!dly by gonuine unwillingnoss to stand upon’ his_dignily. Fow men aro free enough from snobbisliness to rosiat tho flattory of o XKing who_condosconds to meet thom on oqual torma ; nud it ia an ovon moro delicato ploco of flattery whon a thinker, honorod throughout Europo, condesconds to tako your opluion as worthy of comparison with "his own, Tho chann, indood, {8 so groat that wo mnnt- urally attributo it to tho groat men of old. Wa contrive to givo ourselvos n kind of hy- ]}uthollm_\l flattory by (nm:yin{g Shakepearo in- [l ulFing in tho giye-and-tako of ordinary conver~ sntion with mon in no degree botter than our- solyes, nnd porfoctly uuconsclons of his own right{ul snpromacy, . Itraises us in our own opinion to think that, if we had lived two or 0 hundrod years ago, we might havo boon {reoly ndmittod to go high n nrlvflngo. Now, a8 tho blographora and critics of men of firat-rato gonius have beon gonerally givon to "oxcossivo admiration, this grace which ought to have been charagtoristio, Las thorefore been ropresonted ns netunlly clinvacteristic, of all the grontost mon in thoworld. 'Tho portraita Laving really boon colared by this bolief, thoy aro, nccording to our ordinary ogio adduced 28 o conclusivo proof that tha bellof must bo & sound ouo; and moral- fata love vouturad to lay down 5o a gonoral prin- cigln tho doctrino that true gonlus'is freo from self-connoiousness, . 2 1¢ wo oudenvor to tost tho dootrine by fnota, liowover, wo aro vory soon brought into dflnuuny. Wo may sny that modesty, #o faras it rofors to au intellectual condition, means that a man's catimato of his own talents is not oxcessive, In this respoct tho man of gonius cortainly diffars widely from his inforiors, ‘I'hore aro, wo should suy & o random guosn, ab Ioast a dozon nystoms of universal philosophy propounded overy yoar with tho utmost gravity by men who hevo réally learnt nothing but tho art of using long words, The nuthors aro just a8 protontious nu logel or Comte, and fancy that they hmve found {hoouo koy to tho ovarleting onigmn. In nonrly all thoso cases wo should bo inclinod to sny Liint & man's vavity was porposterous, excopt in'so for s Lis utter ignoranco,might concenl from him tho true naturo of his pretonsions. In one easo, however, in & conlury, the philosoplor, though ho Liay not solved overything, has revo- lutionized the whole systom of thought, If eo, wo do not call him vaiu; wo simply adnmire his Jjustifiable solf-confidonco. 'Fho ninety-nine hum- bugs grossly over-cstimated Lhioir powars, whoro- as lio was ronlly a8 greab a_man, or nearly ag great a man, ad ho supposed. The fact is undo- ulnhloi but the argunont is not really conclus- ivo, Coucoit doos not naturally depond on the relntion botweon o man's truo valuo and his cati- 1ato of bis value. If so, it would bo scarcely possible for some gront mon to bo couceitod nt ull, If Bhakspoaro, for example, had guessed only one-half of tho truth about himsolf, if ho had kuown that the minutost dotailn of his lifo and wiitiogs wore lo bo discussed in oll civilized Janguoges, ihat his in- fluenco would ~ rovolutionizo foroign Titoraturos conturios after his doath, and thist Bon Jonson and Flotchor would appesr to his ostority as mevo pigmioa by bis sido, hio would K\wn beon throwa off his balanco by shoor aston- ishmont., Such incouso would bave beon too strong for any mortal brain. Aud in this senso it In almont impossible for any man of geniua to bo concoited, ~ Nobody, Lowover brilllant his promige, can bo confidont that he will draw ono of tho stupondous prizes in tho vaet lottery of lifo, A young man who should say, I will rIvm a Slinksposre or o Dantoor lomer, would oithor Do, or bo in the way of bocoming, fool, Gonius must 8o far bo unconsclous that it ca scarcely daro to recognizo its own !usnrlnflvn morit, and iut & man may concoivably Le overpowered ovon .o rovolation of anly a part of his own glory, Tu auothor souso, gonius must be nocossarily moro or logs uncontoious. Newtou 18 supposol tohavo eaid that his mathemalical oxcollenco was due to nothing but to his having Iaborod ‘moro porsovoringly than othors, And thio thoory Lins beon Elwkcl\ intoa formula that genius is nothing but an inlivito capacity for talking troublo. In spite of the groat nawos which may Lo adduced in behalf of this doctring, wo von- turo to think that tho sowrce of the fallaoy iy traneparent. Wo will not dwell upon the fact, which.is sufficiently obvious, that n capnoity for onduranco i8 just 08 rare and valuable on en- dowment as u capacity for immodinte insight; ond that n mnu, for example, who ean Leop Lis mind fixed upon a mathematical prob- lom for many hours togother, as Newton is snid to havo dono, Lias one of tho rarest of powors, Dub tho argumont is moro vitally dox foctivo, Newton saw that, by allowing his mind to dwoll upon certain probloms,.thoy gradually Dbecamo cloar to him, aud that“tha longor hio could attend to them the clearor his mind be- come. In othor words, sinco hia success in mathomatical oporations varied na tho smonnt of Inbor bestowod on them, Lo assumed that the Inbor was tho ono cesoutin oloment of euccons, Dut obviously it daoos nut follow thnt the sumo amount of lubor from & feobls brain woutd pro- duco aqual offecls. Tho length of timo during ‘which o problem was nxpnsnfliu the action of biy intolloctual digestion was one condition of his guccces; but B0 was tho vigor of tho digostion for o given time. In ahort, Nowton could compare his own monial oporations, and pronounce tloso to bave boon ‘most fraitful which woro most Inborlous; Luk o could not look into tho mind of auothor man, aud soo by comparison how slow and blunderin, was his repsoning mwaohinory in comparison with Lis own. Wo aroall linblo to make mistakos of this kind, in ono way or the othor, We fanoy that o man of gonins has accomplishod succoss Dy o lucky Lit, bocouso wo canuot at ol roalizo the facilily with which Le can at o given mowmont command all the resonrces of his mind. And, iu revongo, the man of lénulus attributes to ob- stiunoy or idlonoss what is Lho rosmtof good, lain, honest stupidity, Lach of ug can only avo diroct oxperionco of the working of ono mind; and wo naturally aesumo, tili the contrary hns beon forcod upon us, that all othor minds aro cast iu tho samo mowld, Porhaps it would bo na woll if, for & brief poriod of hin life, ovorybody was condomned to bo a schionlmastor or n crammor, in ordor that ho might moro or lens fathom the slupondous abyeses of human stupldity, Moanwlile it is ensy to undorstand bow o Nowton or a Paecnl, to whom propositiony ordinanly reuched by long procossos of calens 1ation appoar to bo kolf-evidont truths, muy bo uucongcious of the difference botweon himsolf and his follows, It docs not ocour to thom that mon cau bo 80 blind 18 not Lo see n broad day light, and it 1 ousy to imagino that thoy aro wilfully losing tholx oyos, Misconceptions, howovor, of this kind, though porinps fovorable fo humanity, aro cortainly compatible oven with oxtravagant vanity, * The eotimate which we form of our own talont has but an indiroot relation to what s really o question of character, A mau may bo intolorably conceited on the atrongth of s quality whioh, evon on his own showing, Is toa triflo.” Wo have known a otorgyman, other- wigo'of apostolic humility, who could not con- conl hiy snproointion of & faa adinivably adapted for oplacopal contumo, Of eoursa Lio would not hnva sorlously maintained the proposition that gaod logs givo n man n clrim Lo unununl rospect, or ovon to oceleslnaticnl profermont ; but yet Lin congclonsnoss of thelr falr proportions euablod him to onter suolety aud aven Lo oxproais opin- lonn ou facts, nay of dogmatis thoology, Lo which logs havo no distinct rolation, Porbaps his logm woro ovon moro howuilful than ho supposed ; that did not justify tho extromo complacency which thoir confemplation impnrted Lo his roflac- tiona upon difforont topios. If o man's liead may bo turnod by such a triflo, it is not. surprining that even n modorato ostimate of his Intollectuat oxcollenco mn{ hinyo o similar offect, A man's pootry may bo hottor than he thinks it ; and yot his opinlon of it may nnke him moro presumpluous than a knowlodge of tho truth would ‘]unmy. A mitlionairo who only knows.of half his owni fortune may still bo prosumptuous, "'int men of gonlus nre In fact froquontly golts conncions doos not roquiro proof so much an it would requiro to bo proved that 'somo such men can ntill eseapo self-consclousnoss; and tho ox- cuso that thoy donot uxng?ornto thoir own merlt I8 ronlly frrolovant. It would bemoro judlcious to rolnt out in such cases that vanlty within cortain imits is ronlly an almoat ossontinlquality. A dis- osition at lonat which for all prn(‘:lucul purposos 8 undistinguishablo from vanity is n nocossnry stimulus to a youth who will do anything sront, No young man, for oxaraple, however romark- ablo his talont, could avor have hoon jnatifiad,in cold bload, ‘I taking 1l knowladga to bo his provinca.” Tho chances of o comploto failiro wero 80 much groater than the chances of oven modifled euccoss, that » vory oxuborant con- fldonco in his owh powers was impliod {n the undortaking, A mon must bo vain onough, ac- cording to the old motaphor, to aim at the moon in order to gotat the lfl&\ of tho treo. In tho ,moro active walks of lifo, it is truo, most peoplo, havo thelr vanity protty woll kunocked out of thom, Thoy loarn in & few yoars, and at tho price of n good many failuros,whnt itis that thoy can roally do, nnd then, unleas thoy aro fools, Lhoy plan thoir undortakings upon a roasonsblo oatimato of thoir own abilitios. But thore aro othor sphieves of activity in which tho comfortini Influenco of o good chicorful vanity is requiroe: almost to the ond of lifo. A poot, for oxamplo, of original talant mey fail to obtaln rocognition from tho_oldor gonoration brought up undor difforont traditions. Tho test of his succoss muet bo an inward conacionsnoss of merit ; and in ordor to keop up hio spirits, it {8 highly de- sirablo that tho consciousnoss sliould ho some- what in'oxcoss, T'ho procoss of piping to poople who obatinatoly refuso to danco is 60 dllcmlmg ing that vanity in as necomsary a provision keop up the internal wormth as a supply of oil in tho Arctlo_regions to keep up warmth of a difforont kind. “I'he oil is not o very nico thing in itsolf, nor i an unctnous self-eatisfaction § but it would bo ungrateful to deny that It has it uses. ‘I'ho dogma, indead, which wo Lnve boen con- sidoring may bo iuforpreted into a yery sonnd moaning. Lvery man's oyos should bo fixed xather upon bis work than “on tho roflox rosulta to himsolf. Lo tako a good aim you should loolk ab tho targot, instoad of boing absorbod in tho contomplation of yoor riflo ; and n poot or phil- osophor should rather think of moving his sudionoo than of tho verbal apparatus by which ho brings Limsolf into communication ~with thom. Yot ovou so_thoro ara intorvoning mo- ments at which all but tho vory strongest of ‘mon will inovitably think of " thoir own morits, and of the oxtornal testimonios to their succoss. In such moments thoy will bloas the invontor of yaulty, as- Sambo blossed tho inventor of sloop. Whatever bo tho truo ‘moral, tho fact can hardly bo doubted. Without producing instances, nuybody can sntisfy him- golf that o very large number of eminent .mon hiavo boon vain, in’ spito of all aplioriams to'the eszirary; and It wo sxompt tho groatest naraor, it iunot s0_much that they aro frco from tho charge ns that our hyporbolos surpass anyihin which the most brazonfacod of mankind could uttor about himgelf, whatovor miglit have boon Lig privato opinion of his own morits. Lady SZoliand and Iler Capricon, Lord Lolland was all kindnoss and cnltivated intelligonco, whilo Lady Iolland undoubtedly minglod with hior many kind and charming qual- ities n good doal of that tyranny which olfi-raeh- joned ponts wora fond of_colebrating as among tho prerogativos and gracas of tho ladics whosa praise thoy sang. 1t must liayo been ourious,” eayn the author of theso volumes, *to sco her coolly ordor about tho clover men of theday who wero accastomed to boiufi courted by othorn.” It must accasionally havo beon somothing rathor'mora than curious. In the midst of Macanlny’s most ovorwhelmivg flow of talic and anccdoto she would tap on tha tablo with her fan, and say, “Now, Macaulay, wo bava had cnouigh of this. Giveua somothing olse.” Onco sho. was o littlo too imperalive in touo when isgning hor commands to Sydnoy Smill. She snid, rathor poromptorily, *'Sydnoy, ring tho boll (ON, yos,” ho auwwered, “nnd’shall I sweep tho room#” While Mooro wes ongaged in proparing his “Lifo of Shoridan,” ho way dining onco at Helland House, and sat noxb the lostess, Sho kimllvromnrked tohim, “Thiswill Lo a dull book of yours, this ‘Shoridan,’ X fanr.” 'T'o Lord Yorchostor sho enid once, **T am rorry to hoar that you aro $uxu¥ to“pbhsh & poom. Can’t sou supprosa it?" Ilor friondly factotum, Allon, who usually sat at tho bottom of tho $ablo aud cavved for her, sho was “apt to fidget” by giving him directions until ho sometimos tost ntionco and *‘would nssort his independonco ylnfllng down the knife and fork and tolling hor sho hind botterdo it hersolf.” Mr, Chorloy's recently publishod momoirs contain an smusing slory of thomannor in which the late Comte D'Orsny, then o young man, resontod wlnt ho cousidered n vexatious caprico of Lady Iolland. o #at noxt her at dioner, snd she dropped lier napkin, whick ko stooped for and restored to ber. Thon sho lot full her haudkerchiof, thon Dor kuifo,'thon hor fork, and goon. At Inst D'Orsny lost putioncw, and, calling to ono of the footmen, ho requested in an audible tone that his plate might bo Inid upon the foor, T shall flnish my dinnor thero, as it moro convoniont to Lady Hollaud,” adding, will 65 ©Owl RRussel From the New York Tribune, Not long sinco died tho Col. Itussell known in the Southwest as *‘Owl Russcll,” who was once Honry Olay's privato sccrotary, IIo wasa man of infengo ogotism, whose chief objeot in lifo was to bo admired and notorions. ' Years and yoars ago, whilo in the Missouri Logislaturo, ko ot tho soubriquel which clung to him ull the roat of hia lifo, and actunlly carried him out of his political carcor, Tt was during n violont de- Dato in which ho had shown auabsurd pomposity that' one of his political comrades rose and quiotly told littlo story. He eaid that one night Russell, whilo traveling through tho waods, loat Lig way, and boing & steanger in thab part of tho country, bocamo rather ner- yous, Whilo in this eorry plight ho suddenly Theard n voico not far away calling out: ** Who, who, who are you?” Tho aunawor was lond ans prompt : “Iam Col. William IL TRussoll, for many yoars n-prominent mombor of the Kon- tncly Logislaturo, was School Commissionor for tho Bouthorn District of Kentucky, am now the Toprosontativo of Calloway County in the Mis- sourl Logislaturo, am spoken of ns tho Whig condidnte for noxt Congress, snd am lost. Who aro yon?”? Of courno, the quostion was ropent- od, oud the anewer was ngain returned with all its linked dignity until the audionco screamed with laughtor and groctad poor Rusaell whon- ovor o gnred to rigo with *Wio, who, who ara yoh\ ’?"' Aud o hio got Lis namoof ¢ Owl Rus- Eoll. A Methodist Minister Polishos O o i Son of BGelinls i Kyom the 8t, Cloud (Alinn.) Journal, Tho followiny particnlara of a lively encounter Dotween tho Xov, William Copp, & Mothodlst Eplscopal ministor, and Anthony Garoy, which toak placo at Snuk Rapids on Sniurday ovoning, Lliavo boen futnished ue: It scoms that Covoy Dbad & grudgo ngainust Mr. Gopp for some tompor- anco'romarks, supposed fo bo porsanal, mado in an oitdoor rollgi‘mlu gatlioriug in Baule Rapids lagt * summer, Mooting in the Post-Offico on Baturdny ovening, Caroy atlacked tho ministor, aftor wome words,” striking him a violent blow, and ropeating it, whilo Mr, Copp remonstrated with him, = Othor partios iu- torfored, and Mr. Copp startod for homo, und was walldug along tho stroob reading o papor, when Caroy, running up bohind hiny, struol him n hoavy blow, which ataggored but dld not folt him. This was too muoh for Chrisiian endur- anco, snd the oxpoundor of tho gospel, gotting his cano well in hand, bocamo an onergatio poundor of man, and lald on mont vigorously, Curoy did not seam Lo onjoy this practical illuy- tration of tho roverond gentloman's boliof in nn's froo moral agoncy, and_closod n on him, Toing the stronger of tho two, ho wrostod thecane away, and tho tido of battle seemed to havo turn. od ngainat tho man of poneo, Duta fortunato brick sy within reach, and #oizing tha Mr. Copp gavo Liis ausnilaut a sockidologor on tho forolioad which laid him out rs cold ag a codfieh, and for tho apaca of sovoral seconds ‘* furthor procood- ings intorested him no moro.” Other partios hiad roached the scone of confliot by thia timo, nnd when Uaroy collectod his scattored sonuos and roso to bis feot thoro was too big a crowd for him to fight. But fwltlu night of Mr, Copp's stova-pipe, which had rolled "aff, ho ran le Jumped up snd down on t, ag though tho ministerial caput wero inside i, Doth partics flually got homo withont nny furthor troublo, Thoro {8 no doubt but that Mr. Conp was grosge 1y abused, and 'defonded himnolf by forco only whon loft no othor romedy, It {su'L alwnya #nto hl’: pliln onto n man just bacauso ho weara o whito ohokor, JOSEPH_ARCH. By Tamea Parton, n the New York Ledaer. Nonrly all the Iand in Great ritain fs ownod by Lords and Bquires, who lot it ont In farms, yarying from 160 to 1,000 noros, 'I'io tonants of thetio farma aro usually thomaclven mon of eapi- tal, who moldom work with {holr houds, Fro- quountly thoy nro rich mon, of luxnrious habita, who go out with tho howida on thorotigh-brod horgou of thoir own, sond thoir danghters to foshionable bonrding-shools, and bringup thoir sons to profosaional Jifo. Tholand is tilled by luborors, of whom thoro avo In Gront Dritain something load than 2,000,000, Sometimos thoso ‘mon aro ohgagod by tho yoar, and live in tho farmor'a house, whoro thoy oven sit at-his tablo, and have as good fare as himsolf, DBat the gront ‘majorily, including almost ll tho marriod mon, occupy Bmall coltoges, and aro paid weokly WagcH, ‘Ilioao Iaborors aro at tho bottom of the soalal aAcnlo in England, Not bolf of thom can road or writo. Nomo of thom hnve a vote. Thoir wagos rango from eight nhillings to fourteon ahillings o wool 3 tho avorago, until racontly, boing about oloven.’ Efovon English shillings 16 oquivalont {u our presont curroncy, to about out of whioh & ront has usually to bo paid of two shil- tinga n wook. In many inatances, aleo, tho farm- or doos mot,_omploy tho laboror fnbad woather ond during pacts of the wintor. It thus froquont~ 1y hay H‘unl lint o man has to nu{) ort o wifo and six childron, to provide thom with food, cloth- ing, firo, and modicine, upon & wunklg aum of money oquivalont to whout two of our dollars, In England, it 1a truo, many artiolos of tho flrst noocasity aro very much olionper than with us, Olothos’ do not cost moro than a third ns much ns they do horo, whila provisions of the coarsor Iinds aro about the samo prico o8 in our owu rural distriots. Dut it thoso mon could gof their ' clothes for nothing, how deplorable tho condition of a family obligod to supply all thoir other wante u{um loss than 80 conte a'day ! Tho ‘man must go to bis work woon attor suntiso, and work all day, with much less nourishment in the woay of mont than an American boy of 12 gonorally onts at his broakfast. In short, tho agrienltural lnborors of England havo boon, for many yonrs past, nmong tho most wrotched nnd hopoloss of tho human race, ’flhln I know from porsonal observation, I havo scen them in their two-roomed cottages, pinchod snd anzious, Ihavoscon thom turno out of thoir cottnges ina_timo of sgricultural distress, when thoy would build hovels of sod in tho high-rond for tho shelter of ' thoir familics. Invo wogn thom gntborod into Tugo poor- lLouses. Nor are thoy, as many suppose, 80 very stupid or incapablo. Some of them aro; but many have very good minds of their own, though uncultivated ; and nimost all of thom aro ponconble and friondly in tholr disposition. If any ono wora to offor mo tho ownorship, in foo slmplo, of tho wholo island of Groat Britain, upon conditioy of my living in_n porish int ‘habited chiefly by theso ?jp rossod and gnu - strickon Inborors, I would not nccopt tha gitt. ho mero spoctacle of thoir dun{mlring povorty, tholrignorance, thoir moan abodo, their horsid tap-rooms whoro thoy drown thoir senscs in stupofying boer, would spoil tho possossion of Daradise itsolf. " "horo ia & movement now on foot in England for tho elevation of tho agricultural lnborers. It bogan ihna: About lhroo years ago, in Charleoto, n villago not far from tho placo of Bhaksponre's birth, two or throo farm-laborors eaw in o local nowapapor n lottor purporting to bo writton by laborers, sotting forth their griov- ances, nnd asking whothora day's work upon & farm wos not fairly worth hnlf. n crown—nbout 05 conts, Thepo mon of Charlcoto, when they had, road tho lottor, bogan - to talk tho mattor over. - Ono, boldor than tho rost, said at length: “Wo onght to,do lilo tho trados, and -havo o Union. I will give somothing, and sign a papor, if you other ohpo will." 1in tho courso of that evoning clovon mon form- od themselves into o club, signed thoir namos, %mid an_ontranco feo, and olocted o tronsuror, ows of this aclion spread from villago to vil- Jago, for iu_that reglon thero is a villago overy Dilt'mile. But having got so far, thoso poor mon know not what to do noxt. All the laborers in tho vicinity were excitod nnd oxpoctant, but the club é_\nd 1o idea how to turn this intoroat to nc- count. *¥ Lot s talk to Joo Arch about it,"said ono of tho original eloven, 5 'Tho howne of Josoph Arch was not far distant, and he was known to all that country round as a loeal Mothodist pronchor, Ho, too, Liad onco Doen n form laboror, with o family to support upon nine shillings o waele. o aud hia wife, both 1utelligont above their class (slie had boon n sorvant in & rich man's houso, and ho hind Joarnod to road nud write), found it hord and bitter work, Ono night sho spoko out. Joo, my man,”oaid she, I am tired of this, I can't koop your childron ou niue shillings o woek. It's mmgory and starvatiou. 1 dow’s blamo you ; you he. n stoady, vight §ood man, and do nswell as tho rest ; but -you must turn ant and uonle moro; nnd if you ean't got it, Tl go back to orvice and oarn what I can for you and tho childron, Zhere 1" At this point she_brole down, Josoph broko down, too. Ho Lnd beon long meditating tho courso s wifo had suggested.” A fow days nf- ter holeft his place, took his tools upon his shouldor and rosmed ' tho country in search of ‘moro profitablo work. He undortool little jobs on his ownnccount of digging gravel, outting wood draining swamps ; extonding his tramps far and wido, In this way he contrived to oarn about halfl as much in a weok a4 o lnboror onrns in New York by&_llggiug cellars. Bomio- tinos hio wonld ot soo his homa for months at a timo ; but ho did not ropino, beestise ho was ablo to keep it much bottor suppliod than ho could have hopod to do in the old way. o had beon from oarly lifo an ardont Moth- odist, and ho wan nccustomod for mauny yosrs, whorevor he found himself on Bunday, to pronch to tho Inborora of his own porsuasion, ofton in tho opon nir ; aud thas Lo obtained groat facili- ty in oxtompora spoaking, and acquired tho con- fidenco of thousauds of his own elnss, 1lenco it was that when theso eloven mon of Charlcote woro puzzled how to prococd, itoceurred (o thom' to consult him. Ono Monday morning in Fobrnary, 1871, ara) was hoard ot the door of his cattogo. 1fo h como home tho night Doforo, afior preaching twico, and his wife was not_disposod at first to Tt anyono in to seo him, aithough ho was up nud at worle makiug o box for his_son, who it & Ber- onnt du the Dritish army. Mre, * Arch wont to ho door. ‘L'wo labarers stood bofore her, 8 i 1 \V;) want Jao,” said ono of them, * Is hoat omo 7" “Whint do you want with him ?" snid she, *“Why," thoy answored, ““wo want to talk to him about forming a Union. Other trades have & Uniou, and we don’t gco why wa shouldn’t have ono,. It timo wadid summat.” “You form o Unlon,” eaid Mre. Arch. Why, you nin't got eplrit onougl: forno such thing " *Yos, we bave,” #aid the mau, “if Joe will only lond us, [f ho won't, wo can't ; but if ho will, wo'ro roady,” Thon Mra, Avch brought her husband, who listened attoutively to theiv story, For yoara be Dad broaded over the snffurings of hia order, and Do was rondy for the movoment. *¢ 'ngs rotnd the word," ha sald, in substance, to tho men, “*and I wiil come to tho meeting.” Tho.word wag pesgod, and whou the night came, instoad of & scoro or two of mon, a8 W nxl)ucm(l, tho village swarmed with 1,200 or 1,400, and tho mooting was obliged to o hald on the village green under o ohostunt tree, n pig- killiog bonrd sorving 8 o plotform. Josoph Arch mounted it and addrossad the throng, 1o rocountod tholr wrongs, nnd told thom that thoir only chanco was to keep - the poavo and staud to- gother as ono mnn, For soveral Wadnosday avenings similar meatings woro held, and at last tho Inborars folt rendy to Login to nact, They addiossod the followlng cireular lotter to thely omployors Y8im: We joiutly and sevorally roquest your attontion to-tho following roquiromonts, namelys 24 8d per day for our labor, hours from 0 to 5, and to oloso at 8 on Saturdey, and 4d e ot for ovor-timo, Hoping you will give this your fuir and houest considoration, “Wo avo, sir, “Your huumblo sorvants.” No ‘nnfwor having boon vouchsafed to this stralghtforward lottor, tho mon waited a weel, and thon struck work, Acting upon Arch’s nd- vico, rome of them migratod to othor connties, and tho rost accoptod an offor of tho farmors to resumo work nt 15 shillings o weol, which was dn advanco of 2 shillinga. ‘This speady succoss fgavo now vigor (o tho movament, 'Who wholo county of Warwiokshire enmo into tho Union, and Josoph Arch, goiug from connty to county, jun fow months found himnolf atthe hoad of an organization which had branchos throughout QOront Britain, Tach Iaboror paid an ontrunce- feo of Gd, and & wookly contribution of 24, As the mombors now_enrollod oxscod 200,000 mon, the National Laborors' Unfon hay bocome a for- midabla powor in Bngland, Alronay wages hinve baon rainod, at lenst two ehillinga” n waol, on an avorngze throughout tha country, and tho Unjon i in a fair way to rorch Ut e objoct, which i, that the wages of ng- rloultural laborers in filnnll should bo L1 a woel, oquivalont to a littio more than &5, Tho Union hus o nowspapar publishod ix ita ine torost, and Mr, Arch has crousod the occan in ordor Lo aacortaln whothor a systomatio and con- certed omigration may nol” bo added to tho ‘monun alrandy possoased of rolioviug tho Inb Tarkot n nghand, . Lord. Daftotin: Goyormam Gonoral of Unuwdn, nvited bim to dunor ou Lis arrlyal In tho Dominion, nnd hois overywlera rocolvol In tho Unitad Biates with honor and cordlality. MURILLO'S LOVE STORY, Tho Benutiful Face Which X« Teopro- duced In All the Grent Paluter’s Moe donnas, . Turning ovor tho pages of thoe “ Art Treasurea o dormany,” ano iluds sviong othor good thinga o vory romautic and roadablo account of Murillo's cotirtabip, It will bo remomborod that Murilto hoa hoon callod ¢ the palutor of concep- tlonn," Wo aro Lold (s much by tho numboer of roprosontations lio hns loft a3 by anything olso) that ho was vory fond of palnting tho Immao- ulato Concaption—tho strango mystery of tha woman clothed with-tho oun, with the moon un« der hor foot and npon her hoad & orown of siars, Almost invariably one face appears in thoso con- ooptiona—tlio faco of a virgin wonderfully swoot wlhore ono studios it; tho eyos csst down and flnz rovesling their lovolinesa ; tho faco oval; the pit small aud tondor in tholr oxprousion, and yet ovor nll nlook of suporiority—of divino re- Borve that forbida too familiar an intorost in hor lovely being, In ordor to undorstand to whom this fllcnblfion 8 aud tho renson of ity froquoent ropotition, it will bo necossary to clip a pago from Murillo's lifo, About tho timo that Muriilo began to paint in his own atudio thoro lived in his native town of Bovillo an_Andalusian lady of high rauk and wonlth. Thia lady was not ovor 18 yoara of ago, was o oultivatod and ardent admirer of art, an had takon o docided fanoy to Murillo and his picturcs, Tho artist himeol? was poor, timid, comparatively unknown, and yot fecling oven thon tho power that lay undovelopod in bim. That ho loved the Dounn Bostrix do Cabrora Botamayor ardontly ia not to bo wondered at whon wo considor that her figuro was fing and slonder, and that hor oyes were largo, dark bluoe, almost violot, with that Spanieh fire in them that can flaslh out- condonsod sunshino or on- tranco by the lovoliness of fathomless dopths with long dark lnshes, s cloar whito forohon and chooks Iissod to & lovely bloom by tha soft Eopliyrs of Spain; a rich flow of light brown hatr—is it to bo wondered at that Murllo abjeot- 1y surrondored hia timid hoatt to this Andnlualan besuly? Bho was his patron. Bho alded his studios; sho sat for his Mndonnas ; sho loved bim, tov, but sho nover lot this conflict with hia sdvancoment. Ho was young; ho had no re- lianco in himeelf ; ho must go out into tho world beyond the narrow limits of Beville and study highor art, until ho conld command all his gon- ius; and 8o, when tho time came, sho insisted thal ho etould go, notwithstanding that ho plonded with toars in his ayos that he might uta; Bour for, Musilia reliigtunce 10 g0 to Bbglun was moro than hnlf occaslonod by tho fact that an _old ncquaintanco of his, Podro do Moya, an artist of ronown, had recontly returnod from Yan Eyko's studio to Soville ; had taken up his aboda thero in one of the palaces, and kad fallen desporately in lovo with the boautiful Beatrix de Onbrova. But Murillo wont and studied hord, and be- came. famous, aud roturned with honors and commisgions, aud marriod his lovely patron, the Indy do Osbrera. And now doos it appear strango that tho face appoars in many of his vir- gins ; thattho faco is & .lovoly faco, n Bpanish faco, the-faco of a ewost girl, whoso overy fea- ture, whothor it bo cold or repelling, or tonder and winning, is kaown to him by an actual ex~ perionce ? — e ONLY A LETTER.' " Only a yollow old letter, I p womat'a delloats hand, With Just 3 faint tint of porfime ; Why I keop it you don't understund, Wa woka lovors once, but wo parted,— - Abenceand time, 'you know: - - Xt 45 aimply tho samb old story, ‘And {t liupponod yoars ago. Tt ia quito o thing of the past; Sho iy somobody clso's wife 't Whilo I—T can smllo st tho passion ‘Whoso raptura onco thrilled my ltfe, Quiton thing of thopast, And yet, As with drowm-troubled oyes T stand, Taly scanulug this long-proscrvd latter, In a womau's dolicato hond, Drifta from mo tho loveless presenty * Aud I almont think I can trace Intho furled lines of & lsttor My old lovo's familiar face, Aud T kuow inmy hieart of hoarts, Joat o6 lightly s I may, Thnt [ifo hau notbing to give mo 1Inlf a9 dosr as that long-ngo day Onoaco. Osaan, —_——— A OLld-Bride. From the Chamots (Mmg Leader, ‘While wo were in tho Court-Houso in Linn lagt woal listoning to the testimony in tho caso of the Btate v. Lade, for abandoning his wifo and, children, a littlo girl was introduced as a witnoes, In mannor and goneral appearanco sho ras simply & child, and wo roally thought ought, on_account of hor -youth, have boen spared the ordeal to which witnossos in a court of justice are . gonorally subjoctod. Tho tivst question asled by the attornoy was : ¥ Are you a marriod lady ?" ‘Our imngination can be better imagined tnan ddacribod, whon slio promptly ropliod : * Yos, sir.” ** How long inve you boen married?” asked the lawyor. ¢ About two years," “'And low old aro you ?" £ 1 #ill bo 18 in Docombor." Inreply to othor questions, she statod that sho and her Lusband had not lived together sinoo thoir marringo, and that sho was induced to morry through tho thronta of bor father, who Lad somo merconary object in viow. Aftor the adjournment of the court wo sought aud obtained an_interviow with the young lady and hor mothor to ascortan the particulnrs of this oxtraordinary morringo. The maidon nama of this child-brido wns Christina Lnde. Blo was born in this county Doc. 8, 1860, and was mar- .ried to Michaol Irnnkewich (aged 19), Jan. 1, 1872, being ot the time of her mnrringo only & Tow dnys ovor eleven years of age ! Shio atafod to us that her father, by threats of panishment in cago of rofusal, compolled her toconsent to this untimely union, bidding her under severs ‘ponnities to state to the Justice that sho was over 14 years old. v — v A Hlistorical Precedent. Tho Vieunn papors, roforring to the racent Jot= ters of tho Emporor of Germany and_tho Popo, romark that o correepondonco on & slmilar sub- juck ocearred a century ago betweon tho Emporor Jonoph IL of Austriaand Piua VI, The corre- spondonco bogan by a protest addressed to the mporor, undor instructions from Romo, by tho ‘Archbishop of Troves against tho abolition by imporial decron of certein roligious ordors, The Lmporor mfillnd that hio hoped both himself and tho Archbishop would *“talo tho shortest road to malvation by fulflling tho duties of their_ rospactivo callings and doing honor to the brond which they eat.” ‘You," ho con- tinued, “eat the bread ‘of tho Church, and pro- teat againat all novoltios ; I oat tho bread of tho Btato, and defond and ronew its original rights,” Piua "VI. then interfored porsonally with a brove," which ho sout to tho nuncio Garampk ot Yionnn, Princo Kaunitz answoered his dis- patah by the Emperor's divection in o vory oner- cotio tono, warmly protesting nguinst tho ate ompt of the curin to Intorforo in the nffairs of tho Btato, Tho nuncio rejeinad in n convilintory dispatoh, but Prince Kiunilz roplio that ““tho Lmporor would ueithor write nor xond anything about lhe mate tor.” Notwithstanding thi, tho Popo agaln wrote to tho Emporor ropeating tho complainty ho. had mnde, ’l‘hu Iattor thon ordorod tha Tope's socond lotlor to be returned Lo bim, with the following facotious indorsemont: *'This professo to be a lottor from Ifis Holinoss, but it ovidently vrocoeds from o _porson who scolis to disturb the harmony which oxists betweon tha Limporor and the Pope, and which is advautng- cous to both partics, ‘Tho Emperor, theroforo, oxpocta that the Popo's souso of justioo will in- duca him to take stops to discovor the author ot thin offenslye documont, and to punish him ac- cordingly." : —_— Bonutiful Incident, From the Oberlin (0.) Times, ‘White in Oborlin, the Rov, Newman Hall was the guost of Prosidont Fairchild, In tho morne iug tho olouent divine oboyed tha comfortablo English custom, und gont his boots bolow for an obvious purpuso, - Luter, the reverend gentlo- maw upposrad in the breakMust-room in his slip- pora, Bomohow tho Presidont noticed this, aud at tho same time noticed a pair of London ooty wonring & dim countenanco atanding in a wait- ing aud expootunt atiitude in suother place, ‘o mattor was kopt as quiot as an on- gagemont, but aftor breakfnat aud morning do- yotions, our dignifiod Prosident might have heon seon bending anxiously ovor some London loathor and applying elbow logio, whilo tho lonrned proachor pondered over loss aeoular mnttors, all unconscious of the hospitablo ontor rise of hin hwst, T'his was only anothor eiroumn« stanco coufleming tho trul{\ that no mav, whothor Lig station ba_ high or low, ever comes to Oborliu but that in doparting he carrics with him; in somo form or other, more or loss of the native vallsh of the place,