Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 30, 1873, Page 13

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 40, 1873 e R R S e s S AGMIRAL WINSLOW. _ The Xero of the XKonrsarge and Alne bama Fighte-spme Porsonal Remin- . iscences. LA . On thio 20th dy of, Soptomber, A, D, 1878, Roar-Admiral John A..Winslow deparfed this -lite, at his residonce on’ Koursargo avenuo, i Boston, nged 02 yoara. ' * ' . Thivking that & féw porsonal romniscencen of tho late Admiral, {from one who had tho plossure of serving under him for ‘quite a period of tinre during tha Iato War, might prove of interest, X 4 haye mado bold to jot down auch ovonts aa most readily rocall themsolves to my momory, The ! writer fools tho more compotont to drop a kindly word for tho gallant old officer from $he fact that ho, sorved undor him in s capaoity that brought us for tha timo being into tho moat intl- - mate relstions, . The Admiral (then Oaptain) wasin almoat every rospeot a first-class officor sand gentloman, but so full of eccontricitios, and that, too, of so marked a charaoser, that & wrong 3, Improsslon was apt to be convoyed to thoso who " were not ro fortunato ns the .writer in knowlug bim wall, 5 Oapt. Winalow wag past the primo’ of life when, in the fall of 1802, ho was ordered, by the Navy Dopartmont to the Missisalppl Squadron * and tho command of the gunboat Oincinnat, In 7_sommon with all regular naval oficors who had paagod tliclr lives on the broad s2n8, he found tho groatest dificulty in accustoming himsolf to our narrow. and tortuous Wostorn' rivers; and the climox was capped whon tho Ojucinnati was . ordered up the Whita' River,’:in Arkarisas,— stream in_ many places not over 100 foet wide, while' tho Olncinnati meastired ‘ovory | Inoh of 50 feet boam, and wos, withal, about as olumsy and ubpainly o oraft to handle as could bo woll Imagined. It was with the utmost . difficully that sho.was forced around tho eharp bouda of this river, and tha Captain.well-nigh arovo tho Pilots cragy with his well-meant but - mbpurd ordors a4 to tho manuor {a whioh tho ‘boat should bo handled. Often it was necossary to disobey his instruotions; whon ho would fairly dance with fronzy, and order tho Plots under arrost; but, o moment after, sceiug that thoy _ wore right, o would_thrast- his hands into hus pockota, walk vigorously uI) and down the deck, ordor his Btoward to bring him a-pipe with'a live cosl, and vent his overcharged feclings on ; *‘ tho blastod pipa” beosuso it wouldn't draw.® ' - On oue occasion, during tho return down tho ‘White River feom the trip above alluded to, the wator was falling rapidly, and it was an_inter- estiog a8 well as oxoiting quostion whather wo ‘would be ablo to ronoh tho mouth of tho rivor at all. . The Captaln was in & fovor of anxlely over tho situation, and gave neither himself nor any ono ol resh, On & bright aftérnoon, Lio was seatod in front of. the pilut-houso, whilo the old Ciuncionati was torniog, and twistlog, and fairly groaning, in the offort to get out of tho river be- Toro the water did, when we came to an unusually short, sharp bend. -Now, these bends salwaya stirrod tho Captain from tlho foundation ux and ho immodistoly commonoad ordorlng Mr, Atten- borough, tho - Pilot, to * Starboard the holm | Yort your helm, sir] Now, sjarboard, you ras- oall". while M, A, went right along dofng what bie knew was for the beat, without paying the alightoat rogard to tho énpmln’n orders. arge oypross-tree had fallen into,or rather over, the water, 'just opposita :the sharp angla of tho bend, and wo woro all somewhat . startled when tho boat was hiendod direotly for it with & full hond of stean. The Captain; alwa; Oxcltlhlu‘ was justwild, '*“Back her!” he shouted ' Back hor, you infornal scoundrel! I ordor you under arrest, you black-liverod traltor | Btop her! Btop Lor!" "But on surged tho old Oincinnati, gathering momentum with eve sccond, and finolly atriking the massive m’i , of the tree full on hor starboard bow witha crash that laid our gallant but eccenttlo commander sprawling on the dock, full three feet from his air. Jumping to Lis Teot, in a towering rage, he was about to visit the full oxtent of hissuthority on Mr. Attenborough's dovoted bead, whon, notic~ ing thio pocullar swinging sonsstion of the boat, he observed, in common with the rest of us, that the forco.of the blow againat tho hunvf onk bow of tho stenmor bad shot hor complotely around the'sharp anglo of the bond, and thus had been accomplished, in two minutes, a result that might havo taken us two houra to securo. Turning around to Mr. A., ho vainly ondenv- ored to suppross the genial amile that was rap- 1aly gaining tho mastory over his flushod oheoks, and remarked, I ehall reportyou to the De- artmont, sir;” which ho did,” charactorizing lr:lm worthy Pilot as the most eflicient man that over bandled a whaol on Western waters, It would be hard to toll how Cupt. Wi could have got along. without Cobb, hia Steward, Qobb was a rather undersized, blondo ' Down- * Eastor,” tho very essence of good nature, aud ossossed of a most wondorful stock of Enfinnau. hen anything went wrong_ sbout the boat, tho Captain 1nyariably solooted Cobb &8 o most suitablo and wortby object upon whom to open the vials of hia wrath. - Cobb always approached tho Captain with a kind of doprecsting smile, and, the more tho old gentleman fumod an stormed, tho more Cobb smiled. Cobb would have. died for tho Captain, if necessary, and smiled when ho did it, ~ Noyer were gervant and master mors continually in hot water, and at tho ‘snnfo timo more_dovotod. Cobb, as Stewsrd, ’had charge of all tho Captain's personal propor~ * 4y, and waa probably calléd on twenty times a .day for somo missing artiole, and berated be- cause it was not at hand, But nothing gave the poor follow go much inslow stroublo as the Captain's pipes. There were half-- +a~dozon or moro of these pipes, all alike enve in color; but thero never was moro than one of sthem that emjoyed the Captain's preferouce at itho same time. ' 'Fho yellow pipo would be the “**gine quanon” for a dsy or two, but would goon be called to give way to one of the others Jfor gome roal or fanciod onuse, Ofton the ‘Captain, whila pacing tho ht}unrlor-dmk. wonld #ing out for Cobb to bring him & pipo and a live <oal. Cobb would depart, and soon return with say, the blue pipe, nicoly Alled with killikinigk, and topped off with & 1ive oal, bright red undor tho _vigoruus blowing that he was bestowing upon it. ‘obb was one of the faw (avored mortals that could blow and smile at the aamo time, Drawing. near to the Captain with hith;unlmm burden, ho would be fairly litted off foot with * Yon misorable scoundrel ! What are you doing with that blue pipe? I eaid tho rod oue,—the red pips, you grinning kangaroo! Go back and got it, :;En in Irons, tm 24 you pleaso |” Cobb would smile, atart back, and rolura with the pipo of desirod color, Prnhlbly to find that it wouldn't drayw, and bo obliged to go for a third, ' / Capt, Winglow never mado & companfon or gonfidant of sny of hia oficers, and yet there was probably not & man on tho boat but felt that eomohow or othor tho Oaptain folt & moro than ordinary interest in Lim, His nature waa osseu- uu]u gontal ono; ho lind a kind heart, yot it Lud beon 80 crowded down b{ the severo ‘disel~ pline of & life ‘of naval service that it took a mote than ordinary train of clrcumstances to de- welop its kindnoss. Hia apparently rough man- ner was, moro than anything clso, an attempt at susterity that ho -did mot really fool. Brave to » fault, consciontious in “all his doalinga, & davout Ohristian, the Captain well deserved tho lovoand respect that were boruo him by every man aud officor under bim, It was & boautiful seano that every Sabbath moruin; resonted on tho quarter-deok of the Olpolnnati, BiL"Lianda ‘srrayod in tho boat aud ncatest.of ‘thelr apparel,—ofiicera in full uniform, with :aide-arms burnishod,~forming threo sides of a ibollow square, tha fourth of which was made up «of the veucrablo but well-proserved figure of tha +Osptain, nt-ndln;i‘ with & copy of tho' Bible open in "his Lauds, expounding truths from tho sacred pages before lim, in a woice thnt was eloquont bocause it was earnoat, A favorite theme was tho fu ont of the Old “Testament prophosies. Ho nover tired of Dan- dal, Ysainh, and Jeremisl, though it is to bo feared that some of bis hearers did. He could Dot see how any one could refuse to sccopt the Dible se the inspirod Word of Oodhwhun 50, many of the predictions of theso Prophots wera litorally falfitled. 7T'ho uqble old eallor is face to face with All Truth. If faith and works, sopa- ratoly or combiued, glve s soul oternal life, Qaptain bas wurely joinod tho immortal Davd, Poaco Lo hin ashios, aud we may woll oy, *‘May our last day bo like hial 0T, i A Yonug Pompeld In Onlifornin, Oalifornia bonsts a Pompelf on & small scale. Itiatho town of Mondow Lako, on the Sierra Novada range, 8,000 feet abovo tho level of tho wsen, The spot on which s is sltuated is full of old, and in 1805 there was a gront rush thitner, £200,000 geot of thio land, oty taken mp n thy summer of that yoar. By spring of tho noxt yoar, tho Onlifornians had become perfectly witd ovor the goldon prospects of the reglon, and during May and June uot less than_ 4,000 poopile found tholr way wup thore, and reml ss- tate went up like & kito, elxiy-bv-olght; fots Dringlng. from 81,800 to 43,000, X stock-board was formed, and the bulls and bears made the wilderuess hideons with bidding for the atock of the various companies., Over 5,000,000 was upent on those rocks, whicl Lov- or yieldod moro than $100,000, though thoy wero full of gold, and a town of 600 hiousda was' built, ¥hie trouble was with the oro, in which thoie wea 80 aubatanos that would not yleld to the " when there unual processes, and, in addition, tho snow wan not unfroquently 35 foet doop on'a loval, terziblo atorms boing common na Iato as Juno, . All at _onca tho pooplo saw that Natura had pinyod an awtul practical Joko on them, and thay abandon- od the town #o pieoipitatoly that a recent visitor tharo,walkivg on anow-shoos through thn stroots on a lovel with tho socond storles, loaking into the windows, saw the furnituro utanding just na tho oooupauta bad lnst used it. - LITERARY APES, Aftor a man has exhinuatod not only his oner- les, but his ingonuity, tn trying to doviee soma way by which he cnu for o momont ploaso an iusatisto publlc, and at tho anmo time, put into Lhia own pockot some of that **fllthy luore ™ 5o so- coptablo, at times, to us all, and whon Lo has at last, through accldont or design, stumblod upon the very thing for which the werld Las boon waiting 8o long, it socma bardly just for anothor man, oqually anxioun, equally impo~ cunfons, but not oqually fortunatoe, to go doliber~ atoly to work and attompt to perpotrato infringo- mouts upon his patont. . Now, the patont isn't in itoelf anything ro- markablo ; it ls simplo, plain, bat right to tho polnt. It flattors tho publio by swsuming that tho publio know what it wanted, and adds to the comfort of the inventor becauss ho has boen ablo to supply tho waut, The complicatad thinga .ara not, wo know, the things calonlatod to give tho 1most ploasure to tho consumors; oud It Is, porhaps, becauee thoy aro so uimplo, sud the ma~ torials of which accontablo articlea are mado ate to bo had at our very doors, that wo all {mngine thoro los within oursclves n latont inventive faoulty far surpassing that of our lucky noigh- bor,—of & naturo to arouso tho whols clvilized world, As it {8 with mechanienl inventions, go it is with literaty novelties, No sooner dots Brobt Harto, out of an oxporlence lu, and obsoryation of, wild Western life, ovolve incldents so full of rough and rugged bosuty, and sweot; tondor, toucking pathas, that wa ull_stop to read, and wonder, aud adiire, than ndozou sapirauly after similar honord assume an imitative attitude, aud roparo to cowpol a division of the *‘claim.” appily, tho public s, in tho maig, ablo to dis- corn betiveen pasto and diswmonds, 'though ocen- sonplly ono of theso litorary monkoys worma lxlmflull into local favor and travals off with the spoils. . psiuuo the Davbury News man came upon the geenc a6 o Lumorist, 500 how many poople thoro are.who lLave just discovered what -an inex- haustiblo fund of genuine -drollory is wrapped within thoir brousts !~ What nslonishingly good hita thoy havo wade in‘timos past! Hoiw atupid of them'not to have preserved thess specimens of wit and entiro! “Why, sir, ‘Mark Tiwain, Brot Harto, Bailoy, John Paul, and dozons of otliers whom the pao- sio ara foolish enough to beliovo posscased of & stinctivo tndividuality, hovo nover ssid any- thing romarkablo afler all,—nothing more than ou and I sny and hoar overy day of our lives. Jut they givo their time to it, sir,—thoy give thoir imo to it,—thmt's whoro tho socrotis. You foster any tendency, you put any plant into a hot-houso, and soo if” you don't got a stupend- ous growth.” That mn¥ bo all_true, my dear sir, and it may not ; I inoline to the negativo of tho quostion bat ' yon, marvolonaly-lionoat ol oritie, havi'h you Bonso onough to oo that tho old cooking Tooelps said to oxist in a book that nobody ever eoes—tho ono about firat catching your hare— npfiflou to doaa ag woll ? obody over protonded to may that theso peo- ¥lu‘s thoughts run in ohannela vory different rom our own; if such wero tho caso they would not bo g0 well appreciated, consequently not 8o popular; but overybody admits that thoy have a deliciously-fuuny way of saying tho commonost things; it's that manner which we all admire, and somo of us try to {mitato. ‘What's tho uso of it all? Eow much better it would beif wo didu't tryl Porhaps thesa poo- plo biavo, aa you say, ouly madon popular * hit,” and, by a fortunato combination of cirvums stances, succoedod in filling niches hithorto va- cant. liasn't each pxight to.Lis niche, a0 long 88 he proves hia ability to hold it by evidenco a3 cone\u\éi?va aa that whiok ho'is furnishing ua at preson It ien't o mattor of donbt that all of us have Jlocos somambiora; but i i, to say tho loast, o ittlo ungracious, 8 Little out of lasto, to attempt to alip into somobody olse’s placo. ' Why con't wo bo content to be one of Prof. Muthow's “fools"? I bayo boen drawn into this fleld without any spocial effort of mg own ; but I sholl always count it as one of tho proofs that the ways of Providonco two inscrutabloe ; for the resson that nTen-Leaf bes done it. Some nights sinco, I ‘was domocratically journoying Lomeward, after my acoustomed fashiou, one was of ' thoso ublquitoua circular-distributors entored the car, and gonorously beatowed uron ug all the advor— tisement of & tco-firm. ‘Threo things being o ‘matter of principle with me,—nover to refuse a tract, or circuler, proffered mo at atroot- corner or suywhero clse ; never to leavo a lec- ture or sermon till it s fluished 3 aud alwags to pay my washorwoman,—I tool what tho child §avn, and, with 8 traly national inatinct to hold Fast what Lgot, olutchod it tenaciously, ta find it in my hand a8 I struggled for my latoh-koy. A cliance look aftorward rovealed to mo that thoro was & solection belonging to_the class whioh T hove boen condomping, and so ludi- orously inconsistent ‘were tho mattor and tho dialact that I could not hold my peace. It woa the customary oulogy of tho engincer. Why on- gineors and “pilots should bo oxalted to the ootical heights which havo been sccorded thom, gn always boon a quory with mo. I can scono ronson, oxeept it bo the fact that the roughnoss to which tho writor itches to give vont, finds froor expresion through one who, a8 all acknowledge, 1a ekilled in the att of giving us condonsod an forclble English, The specimen to whick I al- luda would introduce to ux au engiucor conver~ sant with Tounyson, even to the quoting polnt. ‘Wa cannot give auy valid reason why uugPunurn may not road Tounyson; but our obseryation toachos us that it is not o customary recreation with them, “Littlo Broeches" was vory ovi- dently the modal for this effort. I amled to coutoss my profaranca for tho original, blas- homous a8 it is according to somo authoritics, ufih, i¢ any authority can ahuw mio a batter ractical religion than that containod in the last bour linca of the production, I will confess my indebtedness, It seams uufair in suy aritie to call John Hay on imitator of Dot Harte, s really vory littlo simi- larity eithor in tho .moda of thought or expression ©Of the two writers,—Hay belng much the more oynical of tho two. Woe, moat of us, bitterly ns some censura it, rend this *blagphomous " wrfll:P, sud, bocausa thore 18 in It somothing 80 natural, B0 strong, #o truo, wa 1ika {t, but lack the couraga to asy o3 and hence got a roputation for, not & higher, but a difforent, kind of morality from what wa actual- li‘nnum. The day ought to hava passad for thia Puritanioal atiffnoss, but thero’s a rom- nant loft, to all appearance; though we some- timos wonder {f it isn’t & morbid hankoring aftor sn eminont respectability—which some paople fanoy is to be acquired iu this aud no othor way- that leads to this assumption of _suporior nega- tive goodness, VAnNEY WEST. * e e, A CHICAQO INSTITUTION. o tha Kditor of The Chicago Tribune : Bmu; Enrly this week, the poatman left a noto addressed to mo, which road thus: . OHIOAGO CHRISTIAN UNION, No, 114 Madizon Street: e, : Thio Tadics of tho Union roquost the casuro of your company, with friends, st a Soclablo o held In'tha Ulon 1, No, 114 Liast Madison street, on Thanksglvivg-Evoning (Tluradsy, Nov. 31), at € ololock p,m, b Miss Youlsa Gracloy, pe Biss Thowas, Miss Anna 5iooth, Miss Modora Welcl, ommitice, Musfo by Gerinania Dand, Well, Iread it over, and wondered what X Liad done that oight respootable women should enter into a conspiraoy to doprivo me, for sn hour, of my inaliengblo right to breathel OCbrigtisn Union, Indeed! Wore not all Obristisns united in tho groat work of depriving poor mortals, for a stated numbor of hours every wook, of their natural right tolive in God's air! DId they not, oua and all, orthodox and hoterodox, build oburches like rir-tight onrs, in which thoy ine close & givon number of cubio’ foot of -air, then gonsoorate it, and ever aftor carefully guard it from sll communication with tho profano nt- monphero on tho outside? No matter whother thoy Lold the doctrino-of open or oloso com- mualon in sacramonts, tho communlon of salnts In the mattor of Drouth wWas s ologe a8 hermotionl soallug could- malo 1t Thoy had, long siuce, dropped tho community of goods, but commugity of disonse wad the ono dootrine on whioh all agreed, Bhould it bo sala tuat Donoon Bmith throw out aceds of oon- sumption, or scrofuls, from his Inuga while dozing in his pew, and that Deacon Jovos shrauk trom glving thew lodemont in bis own? Wara . A. Spear, Waltor bock, fim{ not all brothron P—and, thongh thoy might hosltat nbcu’ using onch othar's tooth-brushos, did not brothorly 1ive roqulco that thoy should Drontlio onoh othor'a cast-ont broath, and thus hold sweot dommunton, bath of body and epirit ? Did not auy and evory Olristian-Association athering mnionn Carbonio-Acld Gas?—and finul I not suffored onough - in the valn offort to tench my lungs to endure, for oonsclonce’ anko, the disgusting compound fur nishod for worahiping nssomblfos? Had I nob ofton onough made mysolf painfully conapicuous and Pnblln!y offonsive by oponing windows, or gottiny {:mtom to opon Hiom?. 1ad T not ofton onougl beea guilty of tho saarilogo of mingling tho proachor’s exposition of faith with my own caloulations aa bo tho practicabllity of outting down tho alr in which ho spoks into sootions with o hay-knife, and throwing' it about with » pitohforic? fad I not oftan enough beon guilty of tho rudonass of leaving the housoe boforo the gerviced woro hialf ovor? I thought I had, and folt bhnt not ovou this nrray of namos afionld tompt moiutos trap to broatho foul air, andboar o 8ot of folka mnke sclf-glorifiontion speechos, reports, and prayors. Bo L sald, **I pray thoo, hnvo mo excused1" But somo friouds wanted ma to go,and promis- od not to bo mortifiod whon I left boforo ontor= ing upon tho work of brasthing that same-old ‘Droath for tho twontioth timoe, 80 we wont ; and, to my groat nstonishmaont, found a froe roadiny room, pleasantly lighted, warmod, and vontilat od ; o ladics’ drossing-room ditlo, and ornamont- od with portraits of the grand, good: hoads of Gracloy nnd Bumnor, with o buat of tho Prosident of the Union, Goorgo M, Pullman, which’ has no nppearance of exhaustion afier all it has con-' tributod to the well-boing of thorace. It is & superl head, Bohind 'tho reading-rfoom vas tho froo lugiure-room on the foor above, o ploaunnt hall, with o platform st ouo end ; andigoon & band on it bogan to dincourdo mont oxcollant musio, whilo plo walked and talked, or sat 00} and on]oyodv ehu 8cone, By and . by gome, ono called out, **COhdose partnors for = quadrlle]” Tho young folls bogan to danco, and overy ON0 WAD a8 mOYTy A8’ if mirth weso not & ain, ,Then there was coffeo, and sandwichoes, and calte, in s room below. Iivory ono was nolite ; and, as only a portion of the company could go to the tablos at oneo; onch eoumod&a profor that othiers should 'procede thom. - Inover, in nny private pmi. 85W & bot~ tor illustration of truo Christlan politonoss thau that which charncterized tho wholo, intercourse of tho evoning ; and thore wns air enongh for all. Wa visitod tho gymnasium, which seems to bo complete inits arraugomonts; and :all this way'n Christian offort to guard tho young from tho tomptations of life,—to lmug their foot from tlo paths of ovil] Ilookted and wondered, and could not'mnke it out, until 'I'mot one'whom I bad known,, long years .ago, .full of gen- orous impulses and goutla courtosics; who, sinca that, had wastod his substanco andy been . down nmong tho huskn: of tho swine. Iioro-ho was Iooking almost Lis old solf, only so ad and sgod. Tt soomiod probnblo that thoro wero othary stiol thero, and I thought that their Father and ours had called us together to rojoica with Him that theso His sons, who bad been dead,, wero, alive again; thob thoy who hiad beon lost: were now found, Ho had continued to ue tho same sym= Yots of rejoicing numod and approved by Divino Wisdom in_tho old, but ever-now, erfi of tho Drodigal, Hero woro the swanderors, horo the sympathizing frionds, horo tho musio and the danging ; and, in my hoart of lioarts, I know that tho Fathior was presont atd blessed His children. 1t is sald that, whoo John Wosloy wasroprovod for_nsing secnfar mugio in church-word i, o roplied that Lo did not mean * to lot the Devil havo all the good tunes ;" and this Christisn Union geema .to act on his idoa ; for, in it con- tost with tho powors of evil for the souls of tho young, it will'not lot the enemy have all tho in- nocent amusomonts, There are n great many young folks in overy oily who are not _altogethier bad, and yot donot onjoy prayer-mootinga ofton- orthan ouco a weok ; Well-monning folks who find intonso plonsuro in light, musle, and rhythmical motion, In fact, the want of amuso- mont is 0 much a human want as that of broad, and mno other is 8o univeranlly * desirc s that of dancivg. As this disposition ia implanted. Ly tho - Creator; o8 its indulgonce Is not odco condomned, but ofton approved, fn Holy Writ,—it ia ‘strange whoncoe otir reljglons paoplo drow tholr projudice sgainyt {t; and sad that, through this projudico, it hns beon mado 8o potentfor evil, Oto cannob but wish the Union suceess in its offorts {o sea- 8on n groat doal of wholesomo instruction with o littlo henlthful amusoment, and thus to supply & restraining and parifying influence which can- not be found in technicnl roligious exercisos alove, The offort which: furnishes chonp les- sona in Franch and Gorman, and English litora- Luro, frao looturos on sclosce, o froo roading- room, o pleasant gymunsium, au oceasional dancing-party uuder wholesomo restraints, cheap lunches disconnoctod with dramshops,—with ad= vico and sympathy in all perplexitios,—ms; well approprinto tho name of ¢ Christian,” an confidently ask tho aid of Christian people, S . JANE Gnry BWIHBMELM, —— Rabelais’ ¢ Maanvais Quart d)fcure.’? It wns probably on the ocoasion af his rotura from Romo the Broond time that the incidont ocenrred which has givon rnse to tho proverbial Elmwn, tho **mauvais quurt-d’houro do Iinbo- is,” in " allusion to tho disagrecablo interval of timo Dotweon the tormination of an entertain- ment and tho settlomont with one's host, Rabe- lais was on hia way to Paris, and stoppod at Lyons, his poouninry rosources quite cxhnustod, when tho critical quarter of an hour arrived. Many o man bas boon in euch a dilomma betore and since ; certainly no one ever extricated him- Bolf by such an oxpodiont as Rabelnis employed. When_tho hourof rcokoning was at hand, Lo cauged on futimation to bo ‘made to the princi- pal phynicians of tho city that a distinguished man of scieuce, on his roturn from foreign trav- el, was waiting' to give thom sn audionco: , They camo, the sitory goos, in numbora ; . and Rdbolais roceivod them in an eccontrie costume, and har- anguod them on tho most abstruse profossional oints, Thoy listonod to the profoundly seientifio allc of thoir visitor with respoct, which was convorted .into horror whon .. the unlknown physician _ bogen to iuveigh .agninst tho crimes and tyranny of tho royal family of France. “ My arls onn_ horo avail,” said tho learned stranger, and ho produced s flaak, “This,” snid ho, *is n subtlo poison brought by mo from Italy, and I intond it for tho King him- golt.” Ho proceoded to-hold forth upon its dondly qualitios ; but tho rne-nl doctors, looking ot erch other with consternation, retired sllontly from tho room, and Rebelais was loft alone. In o few minutos they had told the talo of intonded trenson' to tho Oity Mngistrates. ~Tho inn was surrounded, tho Intending prisonor ar- roatod, ’Plncud ina littor, and carriod, guarded, by soldiors, with all dispatoh snd care, as o prisoner of distinotion, to Paris, ‘I'hore arrived, and the nows convnfad to lfing Trancis, Hig Maj- eaty was moved with a curiosity to seo “Bo singu- larand so bold a criminal, aud ordered him to bo Drought into tho royal prosengo. Tho King rac ognized the humorist st a glance, and at onco 0ssed hig roason for wishiug to bo brought to Jourt {roe of t:}muse. Turning to the lLyons dootors, who _had followed tho prigoner to give evidenco on his prosecution, Lo thanked thom for tholr loyal zoal, but assured them that Lo was too woll satisflod of the fidelity of his sub~ jeot, Rabolais, to care io listen to & oharge of {froason sgainst him.—7The New Quarterly Magazine. £ —_— Opposition to Rishop Cummins’ Moves ment in Philedelphin. Tho Philadolphia Telegraph publishes the sub- Joined card in reforence o tho action of Assiat- ant-Bishop Cummins sinco his withdrawal from activo connoction with the Protestunt Episcopal Church, ‘The signora aro smong the loadlu olorgymen of the donomination in that city, an aro recognized as belonging to tho ** Evaugoli- cal" branch-o! the Ohurch ) Tho undaraigued, baving heard with profound sor} Tow of tho Diovoment uow mklig by Bishop Cum= mins for the organization of A new * Church on the busls of (ho Prayor-Book of 1785, dostro to say thiat {hiey havo no sympatly with this measure, aud that 1t dolm 0ot ropresont the views and foslings of Evangoll- cal men, Wililam Snddards, Tichard Newlon, Bejuinin Watson, 0. Georgo Gurrid, William I, Alunroe, Jamen Pratt, Richard N, ‘Thomas, Buyder 1. Slmes, Danlol 8, Millor, Ohiexles L. Fiechor, Willlam W, Bpear, Oharlos 1, Caoper, William Nowton, “Chowmas A, Juggar, Wilitam ¥, Taddock, Johu B, Falkwer, - . Jobin A, Chille, 3, 1, Boclaston, Tobort A, Idwirds, Yermon L, Dubring, Qoorge Liriughurat, A Itoston Colored Man. | | Smith, the colored caterer snd politiclan of Doston, s a vory fine specimen of tha bottor type of Lis raco, with Moorish rathor than negro foatures—astraight hair, whioh wae blug-Dlack until age whitened it 115 Is s4{ll really ahand- #omo man, oven in comparison with his Ceu- casian aasociateg, IIld face aud figureare auioug the most familiar in Dostow, whore ho lns oatered for two genorations of distingpluhod pecule in publis sud, in privato. Tlo as nover nd his equal hero for exacollenco in thia line, and, in view of tho very large business that he lias done, bo should ha a rich man, aud!I pro-. sume Ju vory cowfortably off in wor)dly mntters, Ilo has always beos rospooled. I havp soon him Invitod by s company of. cultlvated gontlo- mon {0 lonve lids kitchon, wheio he was cooking in person (as lio iy fu tho habit of dolng on ex- traordinary veoasions), (o take a glass of wine and uit ut tha basrd with them, Oit a1 goosslon of thla oharactor, T onco honrd him relato an in- oldont of his enrly lifo. Bome thirty yoars ago, rhan » apruce young fallow, 1o drarscd himsclf in “immaoulnto white” from top to too, ous Fourth of July morning, nover feoling proudor in his lito, aa he snid, and started to go toward tha contro of the olty. On the way, ho had oo~ onsion to I"m. a whito man washing off the sido- walk with a long-handled brush, Tho fellow could not boar to seo n '*darky " so _smartly at- tirod, and, moved by tho moan malovolonce of raco 80 common in-thono days among s oortaln clnes, ho took Lis brash, souscd it thoroughly in tho dirty water, and thon struck Mr, Bmith square on the breast with it, berpattoring him completely in ovory portion of his front. A, Bmith said ho thonght he must whlr him or dia; but ho waa unoxpeotedly eparod thiat hazardous gratifiea~ tion, Anothor white man, of s difforont typo, had boon passing and Liad sgen the whole trans netion, }lonlu[:ped instavtly betwoon tho partics, “8iop!" snid he to Mr. Bmith; “I want {o fight that follow ! You can't do it on falr tormo. Ifa black man undertakos to whip a white ono, thero will be & crowd around in fiva minutos that will porhinps tako Lis lifo. But thoy won't intor- foro with me, and I want to lick that scamp. dreadfully, too.” Bo Mr. Bmith atood nside, an the strangor took off lus coat and wont in, He thrashod tho acoundrol £l ho roared for meroy, and nobody molested Lim in ths act, Mr. Bunith did nob toll ua who tho man wos, but ho concluded his romarks h{ saying .that he had nover soen a day sinco that ho'would not have ‘gled for Lim, nud fow who realize tho rorvice Tondorad will bo inclinod to doub it.—t Templo- ton's" Boston Letler to Iartford Courant, FRENCH AUTHORS. ... Xlow They Arc Patd, | . £rom the London Orchestra, Thers is no country on tho continont, i? in'the world, in which literary labor Is more remunera- tivo,:and which has more woalthy authora than Franco. While Gormnany, to her ehame bo it snid, has boon nh]lfi:d to eatablish asort of Hotel des fnyalidos (the Sohillor Btiftung at Woimar), which keepa hor eminont roticed authors from starving, whilo in .Bpain, Italy, and the Boan- dinayian countries, ovon tho most brill iant. pon_vory raroly lends to poouni euccoss, Franco can boast-of hundrads of suthorg, who, by tholr litorary labors, have accu- mulatod handsomo- and, In nisuy fustancts, vory largo fortunes. The Parisian Bocloto dos Gens de ' Lottres has 760 membors, of whom dt loaat ouo-third are in vory comfortablo cirsumstanacy, Of, the, * Forty Immortala™ of tho. Fronch ‘Acadomy, nino-tentha hiavo risen, through thofr literary efforts, from Eovm‘ly to aflucuco.! Had Adolpiie Thiers, all his 1ifo long, beon nothing but a historinn, he would now probably bo tho richost literary mau on earth, but his public- life hos pwopt away a largo portion of his litorary onringa; but oven now-he i & small millions aire, uod Dis * History of tho Consulate snd impiro " alone yiolds him an annual copyright. of 6,000 francs. ~ Victor Hugo, during lis lon nod eventful lifo, hns mado with his pon sovera! forlunes, and lost them. Ho is, porhaps, not a8 rich as Thiers, but ho owns, besides his valuable Fru;uny in Qermany, five or six large liousos in Paris, and 8 tho principal stockholdor in tho vory lucrativo Rappel nowspapor, bosides 1ho hoavy copyrighta which he still receivos on sovoral of his'oldor works. Goorge Snnd is. the ‘wonlthiest autboress in the world. . Torty yoars ngo,almost on the brink of.starvation,” she has npow an nooual incomo of over 100,000° frapes from hoer copyrighta and 1ifo contracts with ¥rench - publishing houses, and_her magnificont country soat nt Nahant could not bo™ bought for- 500,000 frauce. BSiill bottor off is Aloxandor Dumas, whose overy work has boen a poouniary success, sud who, bogidos being a brallisnt nuthor, i ono of the boldest and most judicious stock-spoculators in Paria, - Emilo do_Girardin_has likowise wiclded » plume d'or, and being, besides, an oxcollont financier and shrowd real estato oporator, ho has now & fortuno of several million francs. Id- mond About, too, is rich. It wna only tho othor day that ho refused 500,000 francs for his jour- nal, Lo Boir, of which he is sole propriotor. Victorien Sardou, twonca—’flvo‘ years ngo, had ofton not monoy cnough to buy 6 warm meal, and now bis chatoan at Marly oxcites the ouvy nnd admiration of tho magnates of tho oarth, Beribo's widow lives in princoly stylo at Pasoy, on tho proceods of hor Iate husband’s genius, Alphoneo Karr lont_ono fortune by bad land Apoculations near Nice, buk has almost acoumu- lated anothor sinco his return to Poris, Julos Janin poys as heavy taxes ag many a rich bank- or. Theophilo Gautior loft nlao o iarge fortnno. Guboriau, tho novelist, although not yet 80 yesra of ago, roceives from Michnel Lovy, the great Parigion publishior, 16,000 francs a year on hig copyrights, Ponson 'du Terrail, the author of . *Rocambole,” loft to bhis widow 1,000,000 francs, al) onrned with hia pon.in less than’ ton yours, Ilonry do Villomessant, tho dlover skotch-writer and groat journalistio spec- ulator; refuzed, fome -montha ngo, 2,000,000 franca for the’ Parid Figaro, whoso sole pro- riotor bo is. The .unfortunate Rochefort, too, s #ald to have o gooddeat of money loft.” Littrd. would bo wealthy but for tho hoavy sums which Lo spent in his rescarches and propa- rationg for hLis great dictionncy, Ootave Fouils lot's *Romanco of a Poor Young Man" proved g0 profitablo that 1t. enablod its author to build himsel? one of tho mont charming villns in Tontaineblesu, where he, who started in lifo ‘without o' penny, now livea in ologant rotire- ment, Erchmann-Chatrian have lunfhonvny by the bombardmont of their Alsaclan homo durivfi tho war, but it is well known that they aro stil worth govoral hundred thousaud francs botwaon them, Jonn Lomoineg, who storted twenty-ive yoors ago ae a roporteron tho Journal des Debats at n morely nominal salary, is now ous of the Iargost stookholdera in that wealthy nowspaper cutablishment, Maxime Ducamp, ono of the most brilliant Fronch mogazine writers, rocelves 20,000 frauce o year for life from M. Buloz, tha publisher of the Revue des Deux Aondes. What country can show a similar rocord ? —_— Origin of Some 0ld Choruscs. A vwriter in o late number of .All the Year Round has discovored that tho sceming nonsenso chornaes of many old English ballads aro in re- ality tho romnanta of the songs sung by tho an- clont Britons in the celobration of thoir sun- wamlfl:. Ho says: “Fal, 1n, Ia," i8 written in Wolsh, *‘fall,” fal ‘meaning & olrclo or sun, and Ian day, and both words expressing the complotion of & day. As tho Druids marched round thelr stono oircles, liko thoso still discornible at Stonghengo and on tho Bussox Downs, thoy chantad thelr meaning= ful chorus, * Fal-la-fal-1a,” as the god they wor- shiped sank bohind the westorn hills. 8o “Down, down, dorry down” in tho orginal is “Dun, dun, dearagan dun,” and it means *To tho Lill, to the oaks, to the hill," and waa thoro- foro & call to worship, Thoold Puritsn poot, Goorge Withors, usod anothor of those Druidi~ cal choruses in ono of his plens ant ditlios: ‘There was a lass, Was acon, b was, indood, & rare one, Aunotlier Bheba Quocn ; But fool, 8 then T was, I thought sho loved me trae, But now, nlaal she's left mo, ] Fal, loro, lero, loot s Tho original of this rofrain waa ¢ Fal, loar, lundh db,” nud it hailed tho sun rising sbove the sea, “Tooral, looral,” * High trolollio,” and many othor of fhose apparontly moaningless Dur h\:na to old songe, Lave o similax:curious origln, —_—_— A Now Qomplication in the Acheonese War. L Tle Sultan of Acheon having Intimatéd an in- tontion of calling upon Englaud for aid In his war of roaistanco againat tho Dutch, the British authorities have oxaminod fnto his olaims upon their materinl support, and have boen rather startled to find_that otreaty is in oxistonco botweon Great DBritain and Acheen which roally Justifios tho viows of tho Eastorn potontate, Thia forgotton tronty bonra tho dato of 1819, and was mads by tho Xast India Company with formor Bultan of Achoon, It inoludos & dofons~ {vo alllanco. Tho Bultan on his part grants to tho Company freo trado with all ports, promlacs tn exclude all Europoans and Amorleans from {ixed habitation in his dominions, and agrees to refraln. from ontoring into any troaty.or nnp\?- tiation with any other powor unloss with the knowledge and’ consont of tho British Govern- ment. For all thoso concosnionn Great Dritain s to extond ita protgction to Achoon, getting in sotutn 8 prootical monopoly of frade’ with that couutry. "Whis tronty has nevor boen annulled, and If ho Bultan of Acheon should claim.-its onforoe- ...ont, and 'demand the protection of Great Britain oy ugnhmz Holland, "unpleasant complicationy might onsuo, unless, as is most likely, some Iogal quibblo would reliove thel "iah - flo]ustlgf thoe obligations contrectuu vy il8 ngonts s | Paintors’ Vongoances ' In the Princoss Liohtonstoin's Iato work, © Holland Jouse,” & ourlous snoodote is fold of one of Hogartl's plotures, A nobleman refused I.ofl,ny fora Fortrllt te had ordercd, :aud the artlat bomg fn want of monay, tnformod hili that i¢ ho did not do ug u throo days ho would add to it 8 tall, and * pthor appondages, and sell it to Ar, Horo, tho famous wild-bruto pxlhibitor. A siwilar threat wag oxaoutad, sixty yoaru ago, by a paintor zmed Du Jout, who, failing to ex- tract an enormous dpmw for n pioture of ud Ary, Lopo, ehowed it in Pall Mall as ** Beauty and the MBonst,” which so enragod tho lady's brotbor that he out in piccss. The case wad triod bofora Lord Ellonborouph, who declded that tho plotura holnF a libel, the plaintiff could only rocover for tho loss of tho paint_snd 'onn- vas, Homethiog of this kind is related by Sonor Castolar in ' Old Romo xnd Now Italy." “Biaglo, Maator of the Coremonler to Paul 1L, offonde Michaol Angolo by imploring him to_drapo Lis fignren, An n puniohiuont for his want cf tasto, tho artist painted him with the ears of an ass-in tho depths of hell, Tho Maator of tho Coromo- nles ran to complnin to Paul IIL of the inault E\II on his respeotable porson, _* Ibescooh Your ollnoss to tako mo out of that," he oricd. “ But whoro has ho plncod thoo 7" demandad the Pontiff, “In hell, Your Holinoss, in holl1” ra~ plied Binglo, sobbing, * If thou hadatboon in ‘purgatory,” sald tho Pope, *L:would have re- moved thee ; but I have no authority whatover In hell,” LOST DOGS. Food, Lodging, and Ioligious Editcae tion Furnishod Thom. A lndy corrospondont of the Providence pross writes from London: Tho iden of a dog's llomo 1msrouw.\ 'mo 88 being thoe lvellest of charitios; and having interestod mysolf somewhat in the variona largor eleomoeynary institutions of (his grent city, I determined toinvestigato this one for dogs. I'acoordiugly set to work to gain sufictont information to enablowmo to find this inatitation, .Now, this mntter of finding out thinga in England, ecspoofally in London, is s vory curlous’ process, and ' {8 quite worthy of ntudy. I havo found the ourrent reputation of & XLondon policoman, for accuracy: and Inowledge, and willingness to impart that knowl- odgo, as far a8 personal exporionce goos, s myth, & dolision, aud & susro; if I gotan nnswer from ono of thom that is intelligible, I make & note of 4t, but I rroro frequently am none the. wiser for tho ourt, short direotion hie attempta to ferk out. T hinve boon moro interostod 'in this’ subject than I usunlly am in the poculisritios of our ZEnglieh cousing, for the roason that gontlomon aimost univoraally givo vordict in thoir favor for extroms . politoness aund civility, whilo Iadios unanimously tell the othor story.. Tho only satisfactory solution that I havo boon ablo ta get at ia thls: Among tho rules laid down for obsorvance by tho polico, force m_London,- is one that is vory rigid on tho subjoct of conversation with fomales on the streot, from which they aro striotly prohibitod. Policemen are changod ‘once a month from their boats, ‘that they may ‘not bocomo too familiar with {ho housemaids of the neighborbiood, Thoy aro forbidden from boing ecen talking with them upon pain of instant dismissal. A womanis s woman in ho eyes of tho law, thoy think, mot through fear of dismiseal, thoy'rofuse to be drawn into convorsntion ; thoy are top stupid to kuow tho difference betwoon gossipl:fi with Lionsemaids'and giving information to ladics. 1n this ingtanco I found one of the officers whoso - heart - was tondor, wpon tho doj uostion, - and ho told .mo if I woul t&u o poony bast to Battorsoa Park Lake—followlng thio strect_londlng diract from the landing a few rods, sud then torn to tho right, I would bo_on the spot. This, Lo as- sured mo, was_the shortost route, and the trip conld bo mado'in nbout fiftcon minutes, - I ucwrdlnglfialutod and,aftor some difficnlty, aud s long walk of a mile instesd of o few rods, I found myself within the gato leading to the “ Homo," I was fully rowarded for my porso- ~erauca in going ovor this intoresting place. Thia iustitution was foundoed by Mrs. Tralty, of Lon- don, who was tho unwearied bonofactress of it. during her life. It now numbera among its pa- {rons many honorablo and titlod names. The Marquis of Townsend is its President, The Hon, 'W. Frodorick Byng aud Mr. James Johnson ita T'rustess, Tho affairs are managed by s commit teo, who roport upon ita_condition at atated po- rioda—to the friends of the {nstitution, and it fa supported entirely by private contributions, This is not » permancnt home for old worn-out favor- ites or for nny description of dog whatever, nor any hasplénl to which sick doga may ba sent to be cured ; but simply a rofugo to which humano porsons may sond ouly thoso lust dogs Bo cou- stantly to bo soon on the strect. Those doga are boro kept and kindly troated for throo -days, or longor it deomed adsieabls, or until claime by their owners, Aoy dog found and brought to the Homo, if appied for by the owner, will }l‘u given up on.paymont of tho oxpensea of its S . =y 3 -In consoquonce of tha groat-and constantly~ fnoreasing uumber of lost and starving dogs, it {8 imposauilla to keop them as long an humanity might dictato, aud all portics having lost dogs ara urged to make inquirics s soou ag possiblo, that the Home may bo relioved of their caro a1 oxponse, Eho gite of tho ITome is in South Lambeth, near Batterses Pork, and is caslly reached fyom tho city in a vory- few momonta: by.the under- round railway, ouo of the greatest wondoers of locomotion df tho nge. The doge nre kept in compartmonts, or dog-houses, mada ' socura by wives ruvning ncross the sides. . Thore afe sovon of tloso housos, ono for esch day of’tho wook, Thoso taken on - Monday aro dn’ tho first, Tucsdny in tho Gocond, and ko on, Thoro ard also yards nttached to theso houses, whera thé_poor animals aro sllowed to air thomsolves. Tho. confinoment is vory irk- gomo (o them, aud 'tho yard ia foundtobesn gront xellof. - Hore I saw moro than 200 dogs, of nll sizos, colors, snd shapes. There was the littla whito poodle, mourning for its lost mistrods, its cont nndly discolored from ita threo doys’ nogleot, tho raceful groyhound and the heavy-jawed buil- log; little apauicls ns graceful and’ basuliful as any to be seen-in the carrisgen of ILydo Parl, blaol-and-tan torriors worth thoir woight In gold for somolocalitios, In fine, all the stylos and fash- ions of dog-flosh aro hore ropresonted. Passing through the incloaures woro ownars in search of thoir lost trensures, and it wss really quito touching to witnoss the delight of both master and dog on meoting for tho firat timo' aftern fow days of soparation. As soon a8 a visitor is admitted tho most denfening noise is sont up by the poor_ctoatures barking nnd whining for noiico and attention, Thoy will ‘come oloso up to the wires of their cages and try to lick the hond that is strotohed toward “thom. If a strangor speaks kindly to them thoy: geom trantio with joy, and tho wires aro-somotimes not strong enough to hold thom back. They gomatimos die of grief if not claimed, and their sufforings aro often intouso. Tt theso dogs are not called for within three daya, by tho rogulntion {lioy mey bo disposed of at 8 Bum to bo named by the Buporintondent. This is meroly nominal, 6o far 88 price is con- corucd, A valusblo dog can be obiainod hero for a mero song, the object being exclusively a humane one, o fow shillings covering the ox- enso of its laop, and it 1s all thoy are_requived {‘u]shnrgo for tho unfortunate lost dog when sold. The inatitution ia recognized by the police au- thoritios as the place to which all dogs taken in chargo are conaigned, and being much frequont- ad by tho publio, it is rapidly becoming kuown and " growing in E:puhrity. More than' 2,000 dogs were eaved through 1t efforts during the yoar 1872; 795 of thom wero restored to their former ownors, The dog ia ono of the acknowledged ‘inatitu- tiona of London, and it ia not surprising that caro and attention should bo bostowed upon him, Ieaw them in carringos with ladios of high do- greo. Thefi are led by gold chains on the siregts, Thoy are overywhera to bo geen—in rallway carriagos, on stoamships aa passengors, in the patlta and gardens, with maids and nuraes, olaiming attention with the children, whose xi- vals and companions thoy are. oy aro mourned for whon lost, touching epitaphs written upon their doath, and o “‘llome™ now been established for tho unfortunate once when lost upon the stroot ; last, but not lenst, in the novelty of tho conception, & chaplain has ‘boon appointed to superintend it. —_— Becthoven and Plnno-Ploying, Tho echoes of Mozart were still vlbvntlnfi in tho drawing-rooms of Vienna ; and the grandeos who had boen hie patrons waore glad to wolcomo an artist whoso playlng, i it did not agroe with ontablishod canons of tste, was so masterly and nrllilnnl a8 to leave no placo for a rival, Voglor could not reach him io expression, nor Hummel in oxooution, Ozorny, Cramer, Wolli—it waa a groat timo for pianoforts-players—wore obliged, oup after tho other, to yleld to his 4 gigantio” playing. The Abbo Qolinelr, who bod gono down as to an ecasy viotory to moasuro himeolfagainstthe presurmptuous young man, camo away saviug, ¢ Ho {a not a man ; he ia the dovil himself. Ho plays us all doad ; and how o improviscal " Thero was, indeed, but one opiuion about his playing. 1o attempted and achieved diffoultios whioh had nover boen concefved before. . His short, broad fingers seomed littlo adapted for brilliant _execution, and contrastod ludioronaly with Wollll, whoso splder hinnda conld apan twolvo notes wilh caso ; yot his dexterity rapld passagoes, doubls ghnkos, Hcales, efo,, 18 spoken of a8 un- rivaled. Ho ' would fmvont and | ex- oouto unpromeditated bravura passages of ator dificy .y than an that aro mnd in bis published works." If ho was too Im- pationt to porfoct lus exocution of dolicato pas- sages, the tompostuous euurgy of his playing nlppl[ud by 'inspiration the dofaoct of practico. But |t was his oxocution of slow and pathotio movements which sot him far above all his con- tomporarios, 'Thoro was a largencas and dopth of tacling which wo who Lnow the slow moyo- monts of tho D mafor and ¥ minor sonatas can wall bollevo to havo baon in tholr companor, but which appeared mirsouloun to thoro who lioard bim for tho firab timo—for wo must remem- bor that ho wna_not Inown 88 n compouer nt this timo, 1o had porfected bis muetory over tho instrument by improvicing—an art too much nogleoted now, if too highly iized then, *Ilis lm{»mvlnlng," aaynhiln {m?ll few, ““waathomost oxtraordinary thing that conld’ Lo honrd, oupa- olally whon ho was In gond humor or oxoited. No othor artists approanhed him ju tho hoight on which ho stood.. "Tho richnoss of tho fdoas whioh orowded on him, the caprices to which o lent himself, the varlaty of haudling, the dit- floultics whioch offered themeolves, or wers intro- ducod by him, woro ungurpassed, . . . In a erescondo pageago ho ofton held the tompo back into & ritardando. This gave & vory fino and siriking offect. o would give, now with the right band, now with tho loft, a beantiful and wholly inimitablo oxpresslon,” The srtiat Mah- lor montiona his improvising for two hours to- gother, during tho wholo_of wlich time. thore Was not a ain fio bnr which was faulty or wanted originality.—Edinburqgh Reviow. ——— FACETIOUS MiCHIGANDERS, The Vilingers of Kawkawlin Plny o Mlenvy Joko on a Love=Siclk Visitor by Marrying Iiim to o Man. From the Ruy City (Alfoh.) Tiribune. Tho usnally quict village of Kawkawlin, 'on the Jackson, Loansing & Boyinaw Rallrond, fivomiles north of Wonons, has been in & docldodly “Ytondouu stato of lato, tho cause of, which wlll bo givon ne rolatod to us. It scoms that somo timo since a man whom wo will call Jones 1made his sppearance in Eawkawia, and in 8 fow 'wooks had proposed to all tho young Iadies in tho vil- lago, and by all had bgon rojocted, ho being blossed with' = very small amount of common- gonso. At longth, howdver, the “sports " in the village resolved to play a gamo upon Jonos, and nccoxdtn%ly ons of thuir number, n board- loss youth of 23 or 23 summors, agrood ‘to dross in femalo attire snd porsonate a woman who was_smitten by Jones' charms (7). The keeper- of the bnnrdingfl-houu where Jones boarded was lot into the sccret, and tho first scono in tho dramn wns inanguvated by tho boarding-houso keoper handing Jones a note from the young lady, who, Lo sald, was hia gousin, wae In_love with him, was coming up from Wononn to pass a fow days at his houso. To pass over intarvening incldents, the young Indy camg, and Jonod made lovoe to her on 'walks through tho snow, when visiting with Lior to all tho housos in tho villags Fiually, whilo ro- turning home ono evening, the lady was in- gulted - by man, whose noma might bo Smith, but fan't, and who preteuded to bo dronic. Jones noxt day made complnint against Smith befora a man whom ho suppossd ta bo a Justico, but who waen’t. A mock warrant wag issued, Bmith was arrested, and on a mocle trinl Lo was fined $15 and costs, It might bo stated horo that nearly overy porson in Kawlkaw- lin was awaro of the gamo that wns being playod on the uua\xafiant&ng Jones, .oxcept the victim himself. 8, however, L\m_\'lfi b overything was corroct, and was highly oluted at tho result of the trial, Jonos wag noxt ‘advised to marry tho young lady, and finally it was arranged that the nuptinls should be per- formed. 'Ihe sorvices of one of tho ring wore proourod, and in o short timo Jones and tho ymmglmiy wera pronounced *‘man snd man,” About this timo Smith ap{mnlad his caso, ® jury was empaneled for soconil trial, and ho wad ac- quitted. Just at tho closo of tho eocond trinl another oue of the ring, disguised, of course, on- torod tho room and claimed that Jounos' newly- wedded spouse was his'logal wifo. Bho was no- cordingly urrested on o hiarge of bigomy, tried, canviotod, and sontencod to Biate-Prison for a term of yoars. Jones was frantio; ho cried, ho yellod, ho kissed Ler, and swore oternal fdlity. As the offlcer was starting from the court-room with bis prisoner, however, ono of tho porsons prosont !E:w at tho woman, tore off her bonnet, clonk, and dreys, and as they foll to the fium'( and a8 tho loud crics of * Aman!” * A man I* went up from thosa aggemblod, thon Jonea saw how badly bo bad beon sold. Toar afior roar of laughtor wont up from that *‘court- room,"” and u8 Jonos saw tho crucl joke that bad beon porpetrated upon him, his wrath knew no ‘bounds, and Lis cont-tails suddenly flow out of tho door preceded by a man who will nevor know a0y more poaco in Kawkswiin, [ Lonis XXV, and the Pross, It the nationnl prees, euch as it is, weighs so heavily ou the ofiivial mind in France, one mny udge how it oporated on Lonis XIV. Thin {ing was gracious to the rhymster, Loret, be~ caugo Loret was a prudent man, who nover lot bis pon sny all hie thought ; but there woro othior nowsmon _less cautious, and, though no pains wero sperod_to hunt theso out of tfin(r clandos- tino printing-sbops, tho ocdicta os to un- licensod publications woro ropostedly in- fogod, © unkl, o 1065, , threo years ofter Mazarin's death, the King took sharp mensures, which sbowod he was not to bo triflod with, That year an unluolty man with ono eyo, and who professed Limself unsblo to rond, was oaught at tho very door.of-the Ga- zelle” de France offico solling printed coples of that papor. Tho pirasy was ominently in- gonlous. The frout psgo. offercd -the oxuat ro- rint of tho ourront number of the' Gazelle, but n tho other columns woro interspersod violont lampoons againgk omo . Iudios of tho court, omong olhers, tho Dol oss of Bonillon, whote husbend in furious wrath sent four of his footmen with stioks to drag Isaso Renaudot, the oditor, into the sirect and givo him o thrashing, Iena¢ protosted, . his olorks took part for him, and there cnsued o pitohed battlo, in tho midst of whioh tho B~ cmpts (policomen) of the Cbateleb avrived, and 1aid hands on tho'man with one oye,—by usmo Collet, —who had profited Dy the disturbancs to goll his counterfeits at » premium. Isaso Re- naudot ensily proved that he was not responsi- Yl for the Iampoons, eo Collot was romoved to prison, and tho noxt day, by tho King's spocial orders, subjocted to torture to make him roveal hig nccomplices, Under tho pressure of hot irons npr]hnll to his arms and (ho calves of his legn, Collot roarod that ho had been em]flo ed by onoe Josoph Lebiun i the Ruo do U'Arbro Beo, and by-and-by this Lobrun, being also ques- tioned with Lot irons, swore that tho anthor of tho lampoons wasa nobloman, who had boon sup- plying him with dofamatory squibs in prosa and vorgo, aud also with capital to print tho samo, for tho past two yenrs. 'Thio namo of this noble- man_was nover made public, for tho Xing decided to hush up tho matter, but Collet and Lebrun wora flogged ab tho cart's tall and sont to the galloys, aftor which a consus of all tho printing-prognes in Parls was taken, snd it was roported that thers wore 12 of them; that is, ‘more than were liconsed. All those supor- 1fluous presses were at ouce confiscated, and tho owners of them finod and imprisousd, A raid was furthor made on the manuscript newsmon, who continuod to haunt the T'nilerics, and oune of those perscouted boings, Louis De Roderay, hns loft a burleeque poom, doscribing how ho slipped out of the hands of the Ewempls, and was_ohovied as 'far as tho Ruo des Juifs, tho nblic oharitably t.rlp)fln§l up tho Erempls as Ehey ran, in order to glvo Rodoray every chance. Howover, the mattor had ceasod to bo a jolro. Louis X1V, contemplated nothing loas than con- Btituting tho traflic in nows-lottors, manusoript or otherwise, into & Government monopoly, to bo managod by tho Licutenant-Gonoral of Po- lice. Ho was etimulated to this courso by the Josuits, who woro beginning to be all-powerful at that time, and who, of courso, would have ta- kon caro that tho lotters were edited conform- ably with their viewa. Dut the sohomo—which wad only the prototype of tho \tholcaale ofilcial iuumnuam whioh Napoloon I. and Napoleon 11, since tried to establish—fell through for want of adefinito plan ond & master-hand to exporimont it, and tho nows-lotters soon rovived 28 beforo, until finally suporsedod by printed popors, As to tho prosses, it is mot likely that tho census inoluded all those which really oxfsted in Paris, for the wooden hand-prosgos of that time woro onsy to hido; besidoy yrhich, many noblemon had private prosses, an1 thie polico had no right to pry into noblo man- sions. Bub Louls XIV.'s soverity inspired a wholesome torror to tho ontire tribo of news- folks, nud if unlicensod gazettes cropped up now and again, vondors of them woro oxiremely wary in plying thoir trado, and contrived to lin- or abont tho prooiucts of tho Tample and the \bbaye, whioh, belug sanctuarios, afforded thom & harbor of refugo {n cago of pursuit., It fsto boe noted, too, that the clandostine papera of Touis XTV.'s timo, though ofton Hagrantly sub- wvorsive, woro almost always igsued undor the patronsga of somo courtler nobloman, who wishod to wreak his ppito on a brother courtlor ; but those gontlomen shiclded themselvos ver) craftily hohind subordinatos 6o that their of! fonsos could never bo brnug(fl clearly Liome to thom, and thoy obivalrouuly allowed thelr hire- linga to bear tho full res: “ibility of the anon- ymous lampoons—~tho reapounibility com- slsting obiolly of stripos, Louis XIV,, hoyye hiad no wish * to hinder journaliwn s n puic. Hitorary institution, o abjeotad to tho flyiu shoots which poled tun at court AHpo)n!montu, deslt maliciously with tho privato lives. of his favorito gropt ladies, and of his racy young Blsh- ops, and ho dotested tho nowa-lottors, bacauss thoir reports of Vorsailles' doings wore more grnyhlo than complimentary, and sorved to in- ouulate the provinoal nubi]xl{ with a poor opin- fon of royal morals, Dut o loved jokesat amall pouplo, juat ag be loyed pastry; and epigrams t egainat tin cnomlen, good vorses, and, smar® wviilleiama on dull’ , books, wore ns ‘agrose ablo to him as tho chnmpagne, which waa hie usnal delnle. Thorofore, whou laava was! aslked him to found a Journal which should doal with lterary evonts as the Gazelle do France did with political, and aftorwarde anothor jowrnal/ whichh should bo tho organ of sooial toplcs,—lively, bu loyal and disoreot,—~ho roadily consonted, and thus woro ostablished tho Journal des Savants and Aercire, which remained household words in Fronchimon's mouths until the Revolution,— Cornhitl Magazine. v* —_— Cobloigh nnd the Water~-Board. From the Danbury News. The members of tho Danbury Water-Roar& lhaye ununoocssarily imposcd upon thomsalvea the most dreadful socreoy aa to their officlal: move menta, Whore thaora is a bronk to repnir or am Improvemont to mako which ‘is to Jlulurh the pipes, thoy cut off tho wator without any no~ tico, and "tho firat intimation the house~ wifo of tho rmisfortuno {s when she turns 1o faucat -and roceives In reaponse the dublous grorning of escaplug air, Thon the hosdl of tho liorso takea the pail and " ehins " out fon 8 noighborind well, and, it tho romarks he makos woro put in o book,' it would takela prote' Ly smart man to hoid the ‘book, Dut this shut~ ting off tha wator is a griovous - matter, and ous, Eunplu hsve becomo vory sensitive abont it. fonday _afterooon, whilo Mr. -Coblolgte was © clphering out' -some calculstions lin his storo, ho overhoard somo onb Eay that tle wator was to bo shut off for two daye, As tho noarcat well to Mr. Oobgleih's ‘houso 18 & quartor of a mile away, that gontleman avo uttorance to an oxprossion of earnest grati= udo, couplod with an obsorvation intendod to enlivon tha Wator Bonrd, 'procipitaled himscld {nto his_cont, and atartod 'for homo at's a) id spood. ~Arriving thoro sll out. o rutg,-! and in a hont that made hia flosh q‘a‘“ i throw his oxcollent wife into undue tro) dlllna by soreaming for tho tubs, pails, and barrels. But whon sho losrned, ! which sho graduslly did, that tho water was to be shud oft at once, sho ontorod heartily into the ox= cltemont and earncatness, First the tubs wors snntohod out of tho cellar, and snatched up stairs with oqual celerity, and whils My. Cob- loigh tended to thoir ng, snd glared foro~ clously at tho running stream, Ars. Cobloigh ransncked the house for - the .available tine ware. The good lsdy waa scarcely loas unnervod than_hor man, and under the in- spiration of hln;aunahnuy roowring * Hurry, hurry, Matitda1" it did sgom, a8 sho nftorwards notually confossed, s it her hoad would spin oft and loso itsolf, Once or twice she stopped ta coxplain, “Good Lord, Moses, I oan't bo every~ whero at—" but the “flun-y hurry, Matil- da," rofontlessly out hor ehort, and sont hor inta the soarch again moro distracted thau ever. Ailk pails, paus, and basing were brought. Ghon ‘mho’ gob down tho bowls, and Mr; Cobloigh, was golng to call for the ,goblotd when ho waa divorfed by thinkiog ?! the iron kottles, and thoy wero brought forthiand all of thom fllled, Ono of them tippod ovdr, but Mr. Qobleigh caught the contonts in his shooa and thus saved thio carpet. *Then ho filled the toa-kottlo, and aftorwards the dipper, ang, flnde ing no fresh fields to conquer, shut oft the wa« aud, beiog in o heavy perspiration and exhausta od ‘a3 to broath,” eat down and restod. Aftor his rest ho got off his-wet clothos and pat on some dry ones, and, exchanging tho wot shoes for & palr of dry.boots which hur hia_hool, be llmsaxl back to tho atore.; Onca there, ho propored to renow hia struggle with tho problem ho wos ongagod on when eleotrifie with tho intelligonca that the water was ta bo cut off, but the duplicity of tho Wator Board filled hia mind to the oxclusion of all othor topics, and, finally, laying aeido his pencll, he atarted with the sorohool forthio offico. Commissioner Btar- buck was prosent. ** Oh, yon sre horo, are you?" inquired Mr. Cobleigh, contomptuously. ** Cen tainly," said Mr, Starbuek, * Well, you ars & nict ono, alnt you?"” he observed, a8 if in continuance of hus intorost in tho Commissionor's welfaro, # Why, what's thomatter, Mr, Coblolgh "' '* Mat. tor? aslkod the gontloman, suddenly raiging hit yolce, and losing all the color about his mouth, “Mabtor, i it7” Lo cricd, his voine tromblin with passion, and the strain put upon ft. * Whaf do you moan, I want to know, by shutfing oft tho \mler-suprly of this people without one word of warning, without tho faintest notificn. tion of your baso, sneaking designs? What da you mean by putting the entiro town into’a stata of copfusion and sufforing by :the grossest pieco of carcloss—-" */ Ny dear sir," intorrupt- ‘od Mr. Btarbuck, “what can you mean by this charga? The wator is not shut oft.” # What?" gosped Mr. Cobloigh. *¢ The water has not boon shut off,” repoated Mr, Btarbuck, “But—ain't it to bo shut off this afternoon, and kept'of for two doya?” asked Mr. Coblelgh, with ;s viei- blo_faltoring in his tone. * Cortainly not,” aaid Mr, Btarbuck. Mr, Cobloigh atared at tho speakor with dreadful intensity. :*‘Who told you this?" asked the Commissionor. I don't lknow who it was,” smald the unfortunate man, suddenly recaliing himself toa nmllzln{,' sense of tho horrid . mistakd, **It ‘wns somo all-fired fool in tho atoro, and I'was in such a hurry to got home that I nover stopped to look or think, Hero I have boen up to Nelson nireot ona doadrun, turnod ovor the ontirahouso, fillod overy vessol in it with wator, litted tnbs that ‘wolghod & ton apisco, wat ovory thread of clothing on my body, aud almogt made & lunatio of my wifo, &nd thon liad to got back to tho store with n boot that ground the gkin rlzivbt off my hoel. And all," gaapod tho misorablo man, ¥ bocauss of a darned bleok-hoarted, lying idiot.” Then ss he hmged away, and thonght on the appeurance of Lis homo, and tho array of amatour lakes and Ponds within it, be “incidontally mentionod : * Confound tho lying seslawog; if Tean got hold of him beforo the thunderbolts of hoaven over~ tako Lim, I will smash every bone in his yillain« ous carcass.” e ——— N Arnrotlll .[,1‘ ‘Woman-Killers. rs, Fonoy Kelly, n rospootable woman in ‘Washington - City, hilred & gugro boy, Samuol Agre; to maw some wood for her, agrosing ta givo him 20 conty for thio Job. The boy asked for tho money boforo he lind completpd the work, and Mrs., Kelly promised him he :showld havo it whon hp had finished. He demandod tho monoy then and there, and the woman ox« quea to him that sho had not the change al ho timo, Ho forcod a sottlement by drawing 3 {natul and fiting at Mra. Kolly,” The bnfi entorod nenr the oyo and lodged in the brain. The doctors snid it could not bo extracted,; and that the womau could not possibly. recovor. She waa put in bed, and hor throo: children—8, 6, and 7 yenrt old—wont to bed’ with hor, sud could not ba torn away from tholr dying mother, The murderer was 17 yoara old.. Ho was traced to bis mother's house, Bha states that 8am ran past Ler door, and flung a pistol in, saying, “I've dono somothing ‘mow that wilk sond ‘mo to hell or somo othor seaport,” Ie hurried off, and, it is supposed, went to Virglnia. Mia mothor &n\\!asttunfo story, Bho says sho was vory much afraid of Ssm-—particularly, of ull Lior twenty-ono childron. He wad no more, however, than some of tho ‘othors, Hor = oldest boy, William Honry; had Lilled & woman in "Virginia by knocking out her ‘Drains with n olub, Hor children belong to a raco of woman-killers, and she thinks tho ought to bo oxterminatod. Bhe hopos Bam wil ‘o caught and put out of her way, s he is very cruol to his younger brothors and slstors, ofton grasplng tham by the throat till thoy are noarly stranglod, 8ho don't want him about Lior Fouss sny moro, The mother further says that hor family of childron is n bad raco on tho fathor's side, Thoy got thelr_murdorous_disposition from tho “old man. They are all yory much sliko~nono worth the room thoy take up: in tha world, but some worsa than othors, and fwenty- ono of thom, If Sam is cnfl}zht, thore will doubte leas Boon bo but twonty vipors inold Martha Aggo's nost. 4 » g ‘ A Corner in Monkeys, It Is & vast pity that so many excellont stories are ‘““‘almost too good to be true. Buch a talo ecoma to be tho one which oxplaina tho origin of that prodigious collootion of monkeys that forms B0 lnr['ze B lvurl of the population of theJardin d'Acclitnation in Parls; and yot, sa this curious account has not boon quontionad, sofar as wo are nwaro, by those Who ought to. know tho faots, it is hardly graclous in; uas to bogin the rolation of it by gratnitoua skoptioism. . A Bordeaux ship-owner, who is notod for inslsting on & atrict obedience to in- etructions on thoe parc of his captains, somi timo ngo gove writton orders to ono of the lattor to briug back from Brazil, whitherho was going, ono or two monkoya—* Rapporiez-moi 1 ould ginges.” Tho ou was 8o badly written that the captain read *“1003 singes;" ond the! rosult was that the ownor, threo months! sftor, found hia sbip roturning, to uttor stnpofaction, “wvorrun with mnnhu{i from keol (o mast-head. owoever, infloxibly guat ovon in s surprise, he recognizad the to bo that-of bis ewn haaty handwrititig, sud praieed {he sorsrutoas Oapiain. who had oxe- cutod his apparent order oven to tho odd pair of monkeys over the thouaaud, For o wadk apes were a'drug iu thoBordeaux market, anjl, adds tho atory, fim Jardin, loaring the, nawa, took ©oaro not toloso g0 good an oppertunity of laying in & large stook, . i SRR R i 113 Dr, Honrtloy, Margaret Profesaor'of Divin- ity at _Oxford, rocontly withdrow from - ho Ox« ford Unlon Dnurfl ot~ Locause precadenco waas glven thero tg Arcl ls).my Manning aver Bishops, of tho Luglish Churoh. o hag fisuod-aclroulay giving tho roagons for the ooureg hoe sdapted,