Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 30, 1873, Page 9

. Uving.-in. hopo that-tho movotary, derango-: " falluro of Jay (“éoke and, his bauke and mil- ¥ !)roduuflun ling boen. THE AMERICAN PANIC. y i Its Causes and Effects, No Loss of Tdugibla Property, but a Loss of Confidence, How an’ Lxcoss of Faith Leads -Dltimately to a Lack of It Eirfopean Troublos Growing Out of the Amerioan Rovulsion. 5 ¥he Currency ‘Problom---That ‘System the, Bost which Novor Lets Monoy De- i como a * Drug.” Bypecial Correspondence of The Olrieago Tridune. ; . Pans, Nov, 10, 1873, - | Tho chiof toplo of conversation among Amori- eans in Europe, B*ace the aunouncemont of the, koads, hias naty fally beon tho financial troubles *at homo.” , “housanda. have hurzied; baok to’ 4tho BStates " who had Intonded to.wintor(in taly aud ramblo about through Switserland aud* Germany noxt summer, Othor thousands will mmake .the . winter-paseago who have | been micnt would shortly blow over, and: easy. timos’| 8ot in., But each succeoding cablo-tologram con- firnis {hio " worst fears and doatroyn the fuintost: prospocts of a speedy change for the betfor. It i now evidont that tho disoaso MUST.RUN. ITS COULOE; that tha pationt muet pass through slcknnss and endure & tedious aud slow convalesonce. Time wlone can offcct & cure, and people must walt with such pattence and fortitude as can be com~ manded. What cannot bo cured must e dured, and the most nseful studios just now are flnancial history and moral philosophy, . i The old mon have witnossed E I THRXE FINANOIAL COLLAPEES k in thelr timo,—that of 1817 being the firat ; mer past the middle ago of lifo can well romembor the mocond *smagh-up,"—that of 1837; whilo tho third onoIs yot. frosh in tho minds of mon still on tho sunny sids of the morldian of- life,— that of 1857, It roquirod about four yoars each timo for tho ‘country: fairly : to recovor from tho effacts of those financial catasttophos. DBut the first 'two. wers -before the days of railroads, ocean-stoamehips, . and lsnd or coblo tolographio . communication; ~ and tho third ono happonod when'the railway systom was comparatively in its infanoy, and mno tele- graph-wira conveyed news undor the ocean from tho Now to tho Old World, The recovery fiom tho presont fall will undoubtedly bo quicker than on-ihe former occasions ; but those who imagine that timos will bocome * good" by nextspring, end.the “wintor of thoir discontent™ be turned Into glorious summer six or eight months henco; are doomed to b g 2 * ORIZVOUS "DIAAPPOINTMENT § for it will take tho * sick man ' longer thau that to racover his former atrength, . The downward movement does notatop with tha collapsa. of tho wild-cat rnilroad-bankors snd Wall atrect stock-gamblors, but oxtonds to the great legitimato industrial intorests, Mauu- factories suspend operations and discharge tens of thousands of workimen on the ove of winter, gay tho cable-tolegrams ; railronds ourtail all operating oxpenacs, shorten up their pay-rolls, nnd suepend now works of oxtension; many merchants, unable 15 meet their maturing obli- gatlons, go into voluntary bankruptey ; prices of produce docline, and the agricultural classen nng thomselves sorely crampod for monoy with Z‘l;x‘ peut, and foarfully brulsed ond wouudéd! R LS which to pay for clothing, grocerivs, and other nocossaries of lifo, and thoir séraitenod circum- stances renct lnjur\muly upon +ALL OTHER CLASSCS, because tho formors aro the bost customers: the rovenues of tho Genoral Govornment full below the oxpendituros, and the monthly reports show an incroaso of the debt, and local taxes are collocted with great difficulty, and are felt to bos heavy burdento boar; défaleations and ‘embezzloments heratoforo concealod aro brought to light and oxposed; railrond and banl divi- denda are *‘passed,” and many roads sro failing to pey the fitorast on thoir ponds, whilo eome of the very strongost are doclarng. serip-divi- denda, Such is the tonor of the provokingly briof cable-telegrams received on this aide of tho ocean, They come like hostilo ahota from n gront guny knooking over solid walls of faith, aud oxplod~ ing ono's fondost hopes until nothing but “ & FRIGHTFUL WIEOK REMAING, Bome of the English' papors state that tho ohrinkage in the markot-value of :Amorican rail- rond ntooks and bonda since the. middlo of Sep- tember—only sevou wesks—aggregatos not far from $1,000,000,0001 'To this vast sum must bo &dded the shrinkego in tho valuo of bank-ntocks and other seourities, and in the market« prico -of “all . morchandise in-. tho hauds ©of - merchants, manufacturers, and' farmers, whioh will probably oqual that of tho rallrond- stocks. Here, then, is au_apparent loss of: two thousand milliona of capital, or-a sum nearly equal to - tho 'oxisting national dobt,—* gono w‘\xcm tho woodbino twineth ; andyot, paradox- ical as it may seom, thore has NOT BEEN A DOLLAR of nctual capital destroyed by the great con- yulsion, Tho tangible property in existence on | tho 18th of Beptember is 1n exiatenca atill, fo' jual to consumption since hon, and tho sum total of goods, chnttels, and ‘monby has suffored no diminution in quantity or quality, And yet thoro haa boon aloss and one go serfous that it Is producing grave effect far off as Eurape. s But, if it doos not consist of tangible property, of what stuff is it made? Itis : .08 OF CONFIDENCE, Baforo the crash thoro was too much eonfl- dence ; thoro is now too littlo, Over-confidonce causod Inflation of railrord-stocks and led to rackless speculation of sll kinds, Over-confi~ donce in railroad property led to building lines in_advanco of industrial noods, and to in- yeigling connties and -villages into’ reck- legsly ~voting mortgeges on their farmo and ~ honses to holp construct them at such coat as (hievish construction-rings had tho impudence to charge. This spirit of over-confidence enabled stock-gamblors to water raflroad-stocks to the amount of hundreds of millions, and to sot tho adventurous classes orazy with the prospect of sudden wealth pnd tho on]u{munt of all animal indulgences. Each act of Inflation without bursting the balloon encouraged another. Gonerous confldenco fur- nished the capital for the most desperate and foolhardy entorprises, and apparent succeas do- stroyed cautfon, pmfienca, economy, and intro- duced carolessnoss, recklessness, and wastoful- ness. > All provions history notified the public that there was & limit evon to Confidenco,—a point beyond which it could not be swollen ; and that po{nb was finally reached. THE NOLRTIERN PACIFIC RATLEOAD was intringieally tho woakest of all the con- fidence operations of the upoculators, and tho most costly of nll the reckless undortakings of the past decado, It was o public work of gigan- i magnitudo, for which there was not even tho momblance of public necessity during this genoration, Tho rosd was locate whore ~ it ‘conld by _no ‘posalbility obtaln enough "business to defray rnuuluf penson, for many long yoars to come, I constructed, after s fashion, 800 or 400 miles, 8t cost_of £30,000,000 qr 10,000,000 of wmomoy, :“ urnished by oredulons people, who were pald gomi-aunual dividends out of tho very money thoy had subneribed. . The shooking Credit- Mobilior revelations in Congross, lust. wintor, arrested the salo of tho fillnerlug, land-geourad, 1-80 gold, thirty-year Londs to' Now Englan gpinetors, . Peuusylvania mochanics, spd Yosteru farmers. And noxt camo tho Grangor organization, in which tho Patrons of Hus- baudry put on tholr war-paint, drow tholr tomp- hawks, aud took to the war-path, sworn to have gm seulps of the railrond-follows, Not auoiher 'aciflo Mtailrond bond “aftor that was subsoribed ox« a8 for, at homo or ubrond. Confldouco—tho thing which had supplicd, the ways and means—wan ono. Juy Cooke, in his dosporation, and Lop- ; agawst hopo that Confidonco, which had taken ight, would roturn, lald Wi hands upon ' tho moneys ot “tho doposltors’ of his tliroe or Tfour banks, and paid out eeven or eight mlllions of it in the oxtension of his “lothermal” road from tho swamps of Northern Minnesots to the ' lad Lands" of the Bloux in Dakotas, When their monoy wes thus squandared and sunk, the Na~ \ THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE.IRUNDAY, ' NOVEMBER ‘30, '1873) 3 9 tional-doht-n-national-blossing man wan at the eud of his tothor, ‘The 7-30 ‘subseriptions wera [gone, tho bank-deposits wore gono, and iy b CODKE WAS GOXR, ) : Tho deposttors bogan to ohack for tholrmonoy, 'to movo the cropa™ at tho uwunl poriod of the yoar,—Soptomber; but ft was bk enlling_eplrily from the vasly doop, ’1']:3 empty vaults gave back nothing bat vminon achoer. Cooka had naspendo, and the next ine | stant tho tolograph informal Ametica and Lus xope of the unpleanant fnel, 'W'hon conidence began to tako wingn ta itnolf and fly beyohd the clonds. Faith "gavo way in eversbody ;- A wild pania ot in, Tho weshor' mombers of {hé stoolk-apeculating fratornity wern y‘wodllr rui} pver and Linnpled to death, aud the stionger ones woro np-tkipped it the wild rush of sailvh ' loss of faith was m8 ' groat ‘ns thie provious excons of it,—notlon and’ renctlon :boing oqual in fluancos as well ag in physics, Whon a pando takes posacasion of tho minds of h}en, thoy bocomo an unressoning and unmank agdabio an a frightened hord of buftaloas, * The ‘failure of the wild-cat railway-hanks alarmod i$lio wholo class of dopoailors, and then com- monced tho . ; 3 P o) : RUSH ON.TIIE DANFS, <o vrondl;m from cenire to circumfcrenco of the “Unlon, with results ot onco daplorablo and dls> ’astroun, Tho tersible blows- recoived by thi banks bavo, by the recoil,infiicted scrions inu on overy clase and occapation, and produced tho proacnt doprosnion of trade and cossation of .manufacturing production, > * Oonfidenco i values in now &3 much below -whera ¢ should bo ns, two months_ ago, It woa abovo it. “Whon things toach thelr worst, any further.movomont is in the dircction of im- Fmvomnnt 3 but Confidenco, in its enrllor stagoy, 8 » plaut of slow growth, and it will requiro thino and patienco to restora satisfuotory prospoerity. * . For n month after tho newa of the American fingnoial panio reached England, Jittle npparcut effect was produced on the values of stocks or’ commoditios. Ten or fiftcan miltivus of coin woro withdrawn from the Bank of England and rhipped to Now York, ‘Fho wistraction conbinu- ing,itho Bank began | : .ADVANOING IT8 RATES OF INTEREST,— ' from 8 por cent to 4; thon to G, 6, 7, 8; andnow to 0, with the prospeot of going to 10 bufora thiy Iottor reaches Chicago, and poriaps highor, All tho other’ banks of Great Drtain; snd all money-lendors, havo wimilerly advanced thoir ratos of intoreat. ‘I'bo other bankera of Lurope have aleo, increascd their torms . for discounts, Tho G por cent advanco in Groat Britain iy costs ing the borrowing classes millions: of pounds storling por month, But this is by nomenus tho extent or the worat of tho troublo growing out of tho American rovolution. ~ Capitalists aro bo- coming. 4 ;- AFRAID TO LEXD THEIR MONEY at any rate of intorest, except upon such sccantios a3 few merchants and mnnufacturers can offer. Notes falling duo at batks aro ronoy- od with tho utmost difliculty, Tho bauks sro efraid to discount fracly, but ars trying to honrd in nelf-protection. A gradunl loss of confldence *in home railroad-stocks, as woll as in neavly all doscriptiona of foreign seoutities, iy beginuing to bo manifost, Slooks aro falling daily ; somo havo sbrunk 25 per cent within 2 month, Iail- uros aro growing mdro frognent ; distruet 1y sproading, and fi: becoming iufectious on the ontinent, ‘What is adding to the gravity of tho sitnation 18 tho groat falling off m i | OLDEDS FOL GOODS FROM AMERICA. Merchants find thoir warohonses full of unanln- Dble goods, with thoir papor falling duo in tho banks, and the rates of interast advanced to thréo’or four times what thoy wero in Septom- Vor. The manufacturers arc hoginning fo re- duco production, dischargs workmen, and forco down tho prico of wages, The pamo thingis taking placo in France, Gormany, Dolginm, and Ttaly. Austrin 1s ot tho vory bottom of ber fluancial prostration, Sho was' just boginning ‘to show symptoms of recovory from .the July stock panic, when the wavo of tho American panic reachod Turopo and throw her back, How much worse things will become in Groat Britain and on tho Continent beforo noxt spring 10 one con - fortell, ‘the fallin the prico of cotton is not ealculated to improva matters, as it menns o roducod powwer of purchase on the parb of the cotton-growers of tho United States end othoer countries, What increases tho ombarrasemont in Groat Britain 16 the alarming apprehoneion of A TERRIDLE FAMINE in the great Bengal diatrict of Iudia, whero, from ‘want of rain, thore is throatened tobo nu almost total loss of tho rico crop. Rico in thut coun- {ry iu tho staple food, 1t is a morn importans roduct to India than coru to Illinois and Ken- Tmy. Bongal is about zp large asT'oxas aud Lou- isiana, and coptaing, by the lats centus, tho onor- mous population of 70,000,000 . "the inhabitunts aro 28 dependent ou tho rico crop as tho poo- plo of Ircland woro on tho potato at tho timo of the famine of 1846, It may poverely tax the resources of tho DBritish Govorument in India to furnish food for those stafying millions of docile, dusky subjecta ; end thologs of trado with Iudin, ns woll as with Amorica, will nocessarily cause a loss of roveniio and produce a dofleit in tho budgat. Theoso things contributo to the grevity of thy qutiool:. Tntolligent Englishwmon with whom I have con= veriod, oxpress tho opinion that {ho Bank of England will be forced beforo spring to SUSPLND SPLCIE-PAYMENTS, in consequence of tho Amorican mone- tary troublea. If tho DBunk of England {8 thus driven to tho wall by the moro robonuad of the Amorican crisig, how would it Lo possible for American banks to maintain specie-pryments. in case of resumption, when s fiuancial vonvul- sion ocewrred in the United Biates ¥ Ho far fram doing it in 1837 and 1857, they all suspended ol- ‘most a8 suddonly as if struck by lightning, aud hundreds of them novor agaiu reoponed their doors, If the Amorican banks had boen redeom= ing thoir notes when Jay Cooko broke, tharo would have been a rush of tho note-holdors for ‘gold, 28 woll as of dopositors for_their money ; and not one banls ¢onld hava resisted the doublo assanlt, | The loading American papers found in the reading-rooms of London and Pavia attribute tho fluaucial disastor to tho #INFLEXIDILITY" OF TRE CURRENCY,— - arguing that, if it would oxpand in responso to businesg-requiroments, tnd contract whon' tho demand abatad, tho Info panio could mnot have oceurred ; that tho country banks, for several ‘months, or half the year, havo moro deposita than they can profitably employ at home, and, rathor than havo the money {dlo in their vaults whilo thoy are paying intoreat on'much of it soud it to tho New York banks, who pay thom or b per cent for its use, and who, in turn, loan it toltha ntock-gnmblors for purposon of specu- lation, and to builders of wild-cat rallronds and promotors of other hpzardous snd unnecosurry onterprises. ‘Whilo all this ig truo, they aro not egrocd, by any mcans, on a currcncy-system that wiil possesy the roquieito cxpsusibilily und contrac~ tibility, and which will ‘Ym\'uut tlio payment of iuterost on doposits _end tho loauing of them to stock-speculators. It is not easyto dovieo & systom tbat will save mon liko Juy Cooko and Honry Clows from the consequences of rock~ lonuly investing tho mouey of {leir doposilors in wild-cat stocks and socurities, or to provent Wall-street operators from watoring railway- stocks, andflooding tho cunntry with spoculn- tive trash, and {flocoing covotous fools. Peoplo will ont forbidden fruit, aud not profit by tho exporienco of those who fouud it nothing but IBEDI in their mouths. | THE REAT PRODLEXN in American finauco is, how to got rid of this antual plethors of bankablo funds without baving to loon it to Wall-streot stock-spoculn- tors, DBacausg it {s a notorious fact that an casy money-markot—an abundauce of loanabla funds in the banks at particular scasons of the year— invariably leada to reckloss stock-gambling and oreatlon of fictitions valucs by every illegitimato mothod, becauss it furnishes the moeans and op- portunity for indulging tho gambling propeulty; and men aro as generally foud of gambling In' some shapo as thoy aro of alcoholio stimulnnts, aud oxocsses in the formor indulgence are ag froquent and injurious as in tho latter, But, so long as Now York baulora find hun- dreda of millions of idlo nionoy in their vaulls, on which they aro paying interest to doposilors, po long will they riak londing it to stook-opora- tora, Mon with unemployed monoy loan. it at tho bost rates and tormy thoy cau got, and stook- speculators aro always willing to tompb them with high ratos of intorost. Tho proposition to provent by logal enactmont tho paymont of interost on doporits by tho banlkuy, pounds easy in talk ; butin practice I WILL FAIL, as it ononot bo provonted DLy ntatuts, The Bank of = England, the "Bauk of Fronce, all the banks of Turope, ny intoront to dopositors, and on bank-hnlances {:nlwmn onch other, It han always beon doue In Amerlen, and alyayg will bo. Home banlis may rofuso to do it, bub othory will not. Tho romedy againnt the aunual glut in tho menoy-murkeb and carnival of stock-epeculntion must bo vought for olsowhere than in au futerdict on tho Lanks to_pay ‘each othior intorest on halanoes, 1n wy huthbioe opinion, thal systom of cwrrency which nevor lots monoy hocoms a 4 diug,” Lub alweys koeps tho market modorstaly or ovon 3 UNGOMFORTANLY _T1ANT, 1n tho boat for the country. When tho supply of ourroney u in oxcesn of the wants of legitimate businoss, an fnflation of prices i sure Lo tako i place, and tho trading clnsues are Lomptod Lo apooulato on what' thoy oall & vislng markol § oredit In expanded, dahta croated, obligations glv- en, &l men imngino thoy are suddonly grow- ing rich, when they are simply fll!ln? thelr hel- len with Eant wind ; though, fora timo, tho -il- lusion may bo as complote &o- with that largo clnug of Christians who think thomaclven very prona when, in frot, thoy sre only very bilions, Tho fient thing to guard againat in AN.OVLI-SUNILY OT UURRENCY for luglflmule noedn, called an easy monay-mars kat whon bankers coax their eustomers to bors raw freoly, auddo nob cenn tho choractor of collatoraly vory clozoly ; which has boon exaotly | tho condition 0f thinga for four to six montha of each yenr sinco tho closo of tho Rtebellion, with tho inevitalls cuiminasion latoly witnassod, aud with consoquoncos now oxperioneed, The mont daugorous condition in which the cotntty can bo ia whon tho monoy-londers have more funds on band'than lo;rvlumnto borrowors require for theiy businoss. lio groater part of tho doplornble -lors of natlonal charncter, of tho snamefnl prof- ligacy of our public men, of tho corruptions’in offleo, of the broaches of trust Ironically ealled #rrogularitios,"—meaning embozzlemonts and dofalcations,—all roonlt from the samo cause,— flow from one fountaiu, viz,: CIEAD 3ONEY FABILY ODTAINED. " | This; too, ongonders personal and family habits of oxtrayagauce, and mukes poople forget'or dinregnrd tho los=ona of sconomy taught them in Mxrlg life, Just as'too mioh heat and_molstura in the natural world broed all kiuds of hideous vormin aud ropttles, and noxious and hurtful woeds and briorg, ¥o too much ourrency and too casy cradit engonder every species of speoulative ratcality, tomptmon to do dishonest actione, xondor obtuno tho mornl porcoplions, and intrg- duce demornlization iuto all bunineas affairs,— tho wholo, by tho procoss of fermentation or ovolution, culminnting periodieally in panic, collapdo, and prog{ration of industry, 19 IT FOSSIDLE 4 to devies any monotary. afiutum not lizble to such consequonces, . and which will protoct the coun- try agaiust nuch huriful exporionces in the fu- ture? Ormusttho couniry foraver bo pawsing through a foyor o gpeculation, oy the collapse thot inevilably succoeds the mania ? 'Tho avil f8 not incurable or remodiless, pa will be whown in & pubscquont communication. L AL —_— y A Sad’? Oxporionco ns an Editor.' o the Editor of the Cincinnats Commercial : You compinin that thiero is o class of porsons who do not scem to comproliond some of your jokew, 'Chis, ng you might expresa it, is sad. If thore Is anything in this lifo caloulatod to en- volopo a mdn in the blacknoss of despuir, and to make him pray that doath moy come and ro- liovo him ot his sufforing, it is for him to pull tho triggor on a right good joko, and thon havo some noodle sk it what ho is aiming ot. Bat there never was an oditor of & buoyancy of mind who did not have occasionally an” oxcellent hit hang firo, owing to tho muggy intelioctual atmosphero by which he is surrounded. ! 1 dovated somo of the best ondeavors of m young maunbood to a newepaper at Peoris, I t wad not ono of those princoly concorns, whero the wholo machinery fs run by ono pondorous engine, ns it wero ; whero every article, beforo it goee into tho paper, s submitted to OId In- follibility, who rondn it over peveral times scru- tinizingly, then maditatos, thon rends it back- ward, thon upside down, {hon cxamines it with 2 microscope, thon Loldait off and looks at it through n tlold-glnss, 80 aa to got all ita benr- inga ; but it was a sort of a one-horse, free-and-~ enyy, democratio apparstus, and everybody around wont inon ki own ook, When tho mailing-clork got an original idea of publio evonls, ho wrote out s views and published thom a8 a loador, When tho orrand-boy wont in swimming in daytimo, and way chaned by a policeman, ho dido’t go blubbering off liome, but straightway attaocked tho Mzyor and s police forco through tho pa- por. I'rom the “ganctum,” {n which wo wroto hion wo could find room fhere, londing up two stories to the composition room, was an elovator by which lieavy' oditorials and other matters waoro hoiatod. It consisted of a pulloy-whoel at the top, and over it o cord, to cithor ond of which was ticd nn oyster-can. Whatovor got into thoso ayster-cans wont Into the papar, for, as Boon 13 the foreman of the composing rooin heard tho rattlo of tho clovator, ho wont to the box, clenned it out, and hung the contents on the copy hooks for the printors, This be did without closo inspeation, for lie was slio proof- roader, and got to see tho nows in tho porform- anco of hig duties in that respoot. Ho hadn't much of a literary appetite, anyhow. ‘s rrraugoment gavo tono to tho paver. Everybady enid thoro was not njournal in tho country that could be compared with ours. Tha ropristor wroto occasiunnily, but' the bont of i mind was rather in tho line of job work, As a jouranlist, ko was devotedly attnched to job work—uo much 80, wo sonotimes thought, a8 to bias his mind—bocausa alla man had to do to Beeurs prees indoreoment was to get a little printing done. I am not sure but this roei- procity policy is carried out in cthor newspapor oftices t{:mughuut the longth and brondth of thia fruitful land. To tho credit of this journal- ist be it aid, howovor, ho nover read his paper. Au Iwus saying, the oystor-can dammy was tho edites-in-chiet, Whonever anything offon- slvo was printed and & fuss made about if, wo umauthm{1 it oyer by saying gomo outside rooster Liad been fooling with that duramy. 'Fhoso do- testablo fowls wore continunlly coming aronnd to mako suggestions aud writo somothing. And so ihoy would write poolry and politics and finaucial atticlcs, and, cat ont tablos of figuros from the big duilios and sparkling goms from the conntry weeklics, sud 1t nobudy was fn, seaot them up tho elovator. Thus an old fellow once brought to tho offico & papor containing An- drow Juckson's first inaugural addross, and, in his hurry to slico it out nnd sond it up before any ono camo in, missed tho cut_and gouged out & column tronties —on Dr. Henry's great pile remody, which -duly appoared next morning, with tho ecditorial cominents; which tho old Enoozor had pasted on top. In liko mannor wo onco publishod a complote sot of rules for the successful playiug of whlsky-poker, which a boy placod in the box, and tecked on to the monual was an extract from the published sermon of one of our local preachers. I remom- bor.thic mado some of tho puoplo mad. They could not sce tho point of the joko, and wo lost & number of subacribors. It is possiblo that you are beginning to suspect that I am lyingz.aboub this, or if not, giving an unhoalthy awolliug of tho truth, but smong my old frionds ot Pooris an accompanying afidavit from o Justice of thoPeaco wouldnot barequired to confirin tho historical corrcetuess of my simplo narrative, Among tho marchants of Peoria it is tho cas- tom to pilo up emply boxes on Lthe sidewalks and to hang out pantaloons, hoopakirts, hams, oultry, codtisl, eig,, to lure trade. Ono morn- ng o foportor (with ‘an eyo to réform) got off tho squib that tho merchant who, whenever he got in o little bill of goode, would advertise tho eamo by bunting up all the old ompty boxoes in tho back yard and piling thom in tho stroot, carried on his shoulders somo excoliont mntoriul for making boxes, Tho joko was an agonizing one, and tho porpotrator sbould have boen takon immediatoly into tho woods aud shot ; but it waa neithor malicions nor daugerous, -and thore was no occasion for tho goneral indigna- tion which enaned in mereantilo circles, Com- plaints wero mado during (the day to every man employed on tho paper, couplod with throats of o withdrawal of patronage. 8o wo all tried onr hand at a mollifier, and tho puper bloomed the noxt morning with variously-huod explanations, Fho reporter entd & man was o fool to got mad at & joko; tho bookkeoper oxplainad that tho re- porter was drunk when ho wroto it; tho prosse man laid it on tho © dummy;" tho heavy man wroto a loader on the subject, giving the moral aspects of tho cuso; and thero wore seven moro artioles from as many difforont standpoints, Tho *oxplnnation” wan satisfactory to ull but ono, & cortain Mr. Pimple, who otill thought thar, somehow or othor, ko hiad beon outraged. ‘Whon ho came around in tho ovoning, for the sovonteonth timo that day, demanding that ho be sot right bofore the people, our proprictor called his wholo forco into tho odico to sco that thoro was fair play, got out kls rovolver, and called Pimplo an unmitigatod galoot, and shot ok him ; end Plwplo seid it wag all right, and went BWAY. Axpy BaRLow. —_——— Vandorbilt on Religlon, ‘While Lam on this matter I will relate s little Incidont told mo by n woll-known' stoamboat Cnptaln, Iossids ~* I am auclder in the Proa. Dbyteriau Church, Imado & profossion of rolig- fon when I was vory yonug. Vandorbilt: em- ployod mo to run ous” one of his boats, considered o grront thing for a porson of my agoe to have such o position. I wau very proud of it end tried to do my best, One Baturdny the lfiznt camo to me aud said 1 ‘ You must X your Lost up to-day, for to-morrow wa nro golug to send you ulp the Novth Iliver on an exoursion.' I thought tho matior ovor. I was & young man, I did not wish to lose my position, and yet I could not run {ho hoat on Bundsy, I mald uo to tho agont in n lottoy, tendorad him 1y rosignation, aud prepared to go home, I mok tho Commos doro on tha Dattory, 1o eaid:_ ‘Uome doyn and dine with me to-morrow ; mny wife wants to moo you.' ‘I eannut,’ was tha roply, *for Lmusy o homo. I have got through on your line. Whnt dees that mown ?* eald the Oomimodore, Ithen told him the clory, ‘That follow {s m fual, We havo got men enough to run that bout whoso principles won't ba hurt. ' You go'alout your business, I auyhody iutorferos with your Toligion vend thewa to wo.'"—Burligh, in Bos- fon Jouraal, It wag, LITERATURE. ! Rccont Musle and Musiclane, s Pos seribod in the ¢ Diarlos and Cors rospondencs of Xgnnz Monchela To the lovors of musio, tho friends of munloal poople, and the dovoteos of musieal gonlus, this worlk is a genial guido through an attractive realm of art, for n porlud of yonrs included bobweon 1704 and 1870, Tn doseribing 1t thus, & dlstinotion Is made bo- tween a guide-book and n guide, 'I'ha firet oan bo, at Lest,” hardly mora than a dry dstall and stallntical rocord. DBut a goninl gmido prosap- poses & living conductor’ aud companion, who onlors a roglon woll known to himaolf of which wo nro ignorant, and taken us with him, intelll- gouily and enjoyably, until in ‘tho strangost” moenas wo fool oursolves at liomo, It {s imposai- blo to rond 'this -momorial of Monchelos, com-. plled by hia wife from his dlaties and corrb- #pondonco, and {ranslated from tho Gormen by "A. D, Coleridge, - without being sonsibly drawn into the life-long art-cirolo it deseribon, | Tosily, naturelly, and in Intimatd rolations, wo are introduced to tho friondn of Mnsu\mlmg 3 and theus frionds are cither musical artisty famed throughont tho world, or composers. who dwoll in the vory oanctuary of muaio. We moot thom upon grand occasions and in triimph, aud in evory-day companionehip and in toil, | Qayety, brillianoy, success,—as in the happy enreor of Aondeltsolin, whoso ample record is ono of tho most dolightful passngoes of the books —altornate with oadness, golitery glory, and pn- thotic tragady, such s silla tho pagesthat poriray with - painful nomplo!pnusy tho last days of Beothoyen, when, **ith & rgflntct for stringad inntrunionts, and the Tonth Bymphony in hand,” he sank futo those shadows tiint olosod in {in. penotrable gloom upon his Inst words, 3 Plaudite amics, comedia, finita cat, i TIgnaz Mosoheles, a celebrated toaclior of tha Pl.-.unrur!o, o porformor whose bravura atyle wes ho nlnllghb’u}1 his day, and a composer * fortils sud felicitous for his own instrument, enjoyéd a lifo of what sooms, in curaory viow, & succossidn orlylnsmnmo trlumplis ; yot hd oxpressly says, Nothing is dono without drudgery sad running abiout," Tho catalogua of his works, nccompany- ing this volumo, nttests bis induntry. fi‘he amiobility of hia tompor sllowed him to !néoy the sooioty of Lisrivals and superiors without nnr{ or disparagoment ; and the rich- noss of his life and the richnoss ot the book aon- gint -in wide-spread snd rare aseoolation. .An index, giving roforenco to colobritios mors or loss familintly met, covers, in fino print and donblo columns, five pages of the octavo volume, It iucludes men of lottors and of rank, savaus of England, Franco, «nd Gormany, queons of song, llltf patzons of tho orts, bosdes such mastors musio a3 Beothoven, Webor, Roseini, Meyorboor, Mondolgsohn, Ohorubini, dlomnntl, Boliumann, Bpolwr, Wagner, Liszt, Chopin. . % ‘The lvoly dotail and discriminating character- Lzation of {hous. biographiont glimpscs may bo surmised from tho following skaetch of the “daz- elingly-gifted Malibran : . ; That vernatilo artist, equally at homs n the English, Italian, French, and Ypanish “lauguages, was engnge 2o Koglish prims-donua at Drury Lano Theatro. + + . . Did Balfo intend hor to do battlo with thous incredibly-Qifilcult passagos at the Legluning, or woro they improvised by her on tho spur of the moment 7 X can't say ; somehiow or other tho enchantress con- Jurod them forth, I don’t like hier 50 well in Fidelio, and prefor our own unrivaled Bebrooder-Dovriont in. thio part, Afatibrau’s forto lics in passionate acting, which contrasta foo vialntly with the enduring, womauly love of Fidel{o; and, why sho brings two pintols into tho undorstend, % Alalibran's protractod stay in London led to a closo intimacy with-tho Moachelos, st whose house sho was a constant visitor, Sho was mar- ried to Do Boriot. Hor sparkling goniug, surny cheerfulnoss, and nover-failiug apirit and humor contrasted forcibly with his apathy, not to say coldnoss, moro ospacislly 83 tho two artlsts wera coustantly scon and judgod together. Othor siogors may captivate b{ tholr art, and aud amiablo woron by thoir manners and cdn- ‘versation, but Malibran had magio power to lend captivo body and soul, In Moscheles' houso she had every one af her foot. Tno childron' looked on her_au'thoir own proporty; shealono know tho right wey, to play with tho doll's hoaso, and none other but Malibran had o certain black silk bag of irrosistiblo altraction fo tho littlo oneu. Tho contents of this bag wore 1ok, howeyer, tho commouplaco things,—toys or sugar-plums,— but o paint-box, paner, and brushes. She would come into the room, and tho minute atterwards sha would ‘bo down on the carpot with tho chit- dron, lotting them pull out overything; and then tho picture-making began, zud sho would throw Lier wholo energies into the work, and ehare the childron’s intense delight. o quote from the diary of tho 12th of Juna: I bogan iny day with sctling Goothe's “ Mucreatille nnd Glucklicho Mahrt” uy o song for Malibran, We bad great fun tho other day, when sha and Do Veriot Joined our esrly dinner, ‘Fhie convorsation turped Tpon Gueeco’s comie duot,.whioh Malibzan sang 1o fre- quantly and charmingly with Lablacke. Man aud:wife ridicalo and abute ond_anothor, carienturing alter- mately cach tho other's defocts, Wheu sho camo {0 {he asenge, “La tus bocea e falta spposts pel serbizes lla posts,” * Juet liko my mouth,” enid Malibran, as Broad e you ploasc, *and Il fuaé put this orangd n toprove {t." One must Liave Lnawn Do Derfot to ap- precinto bis amazeinent. and _agony ot seoing hiu wifo opex hor mouth wide, and discover twa benutitnl rows of taeth, boblud which tho orauge dissppears. Thon sho rosred with laughter st her succossful per~ formance, (Heory Holt & Co,, Now York.) ‘prison, noither'T nor suy ono olso can 4 Reptiles and IBirde?: From the Fronch of Louls Figunior. A popular xccount of the various orders of Reptiles and Bivda ia accompauied, in this earo- fully-rovieed volume, by o doscription of the Liebits of tho most intoreating animals in the two classos, 8o nnlike in outward roscmblance, and yot in their internal cconomy allied, snd al- liod moro clogoly than birds with memmals, or roptiles with amphibians, % % Thedoscription of Roptiles ocoupies about one- fourth of the volume. Itincludes o gonoral in- troduction and four chaptors: Firat, Amphibin or Batrachians; second,” Ophidian Reptiles, or Truo Spakes ; third, the order of Lizards—Sau-~ riana; fourth, Cheloniang, or Bhiclded Roptilea. It is copiously illustrated, and, in addition to tho minor prints, has threo full-page illustrations: # Bnake-Churmors, * Chinacd by an Alligalor,” and *Capturing Turtles,” 5 The sccond purt—Dirds—hes eight chaptars, bosides an introduction, very lucidly {llustrated, explaining the anatomy of the feathered tribes, their plumage, feet, beaks, digostive organs, powers of sight, vocal organs, noats, roproduc. tion, longovity, and ulility, Distributed among tho chapters aro 265 engravings and 18 fall~ paged,—amplifylng tho toxt to cleareat compro- houslon, snd emphasizing tho classifications, which aro discussed in the following order: Firat, the Natatores, or Swimming Birds; second, Ducks, Goese, Bwans, nnd Policuns ; third, 'tho Laridw; fourth, ' Grattatores, or Wading Birds ; fifth, Gallinacoous Birds G, Beandores, or Climbors : sevonth, Pnssorines ; eighith, Raptoros, or Birda of Proy. n the conslderation of thosiructural resem- blances of ono olags of tho animal creation to others extornnlly difforout, .the Darwin thepry ia not upheld; but the chauges produced by * ciroumstence’’ ere notod ; and deseriptions pra given of tho tio nearcat approximations to the missing link betweon birds aud roptiles,—tho Archapteryr lithographicus, ~digcovered , by Horman Von Mayer in 1861, in tho calearoous mud of tho ancient sea-bottom, whivh hed hardoned into the fomous lithographio stato of Bolenhofen ; and tho roptilo nmmed by the Iato drong Wagner. Compsognathus Longipes, found algo among tho Bolenhofon ulates, whiol till furthor narrowu the gap, ‘I'o give an iden of tho ¥flpl\ll’\l‘ gtyle In which this solentifio book is writton, and the familiari:- ing ense of its desoriptions, wo crnnot do botter than trunsoribe tha closing portrait of the book, artionlarly as it fluishos with a sort of * pootic ustico” tho bistory of the two olasses, mote- rially sliled, but spiritualiy ab onmity : The Serpent-Iaters ((lymogeranus),—1L'his family come prebouds but ono siugla spe ho Hocrelsry-Dird, which, in ita organlzation, s lod to tho waders, ‘Llie Bacretavy-tiird (Serpentarius Scercturius) hasa widely-opening bill, very crooked and very powerful ¢ & profeating supcreiliary oreh; taral yory Jong, and cowsrad, Ly well un tho tocs, with'lurgo and hiard scitloa ; tho tal {a taporiug, and_tho two middlo feathor ard longer than tho others ; tho wings, which oro short aud provided with bony protubernnces, form most do- structivo weapons, \fll\l{l the Lird wuses with much 8kl to dissblo tho varlous euslica of which its food yrincipally conalsts, It has ou #fs head n tuft of loug feathiors, which can bo rased at will, This hus Leen tho ovglu of ts name, fu allusion to tho custom that clorkw bind of plaing’ thele pon bebind tholr car, in tho days when [\mso-llnlllu wore uewd for writing, 1ts toes ara sliort, nud its claws Llunt and woll adapted for walllng, {0 conxcqnently rono very rapidiy; henco 1t sowmotlined’ ublsiny tho namo of Moskengire v, 3 A Canfest between u Sccratary-Dird and 6 rerent Ia mout Surloua aght, Wy rovila,whua nifacked, wuds danly atops ud rears ftaclt up, wwelling its nock hnd showlng unger by uhrill Tisviug: AL lhis atant, says Lovaillint, © the Lird of proy, sproading ous of Lls wingé, loldu it fu feont” of W, wud covers Loth Ly lopa, o woll 86 tho lowor purt of bis body with it, o8 lhongh Ewore & buckler, Tho repillo” makea syslug &b blu sacauy ; the Lirg wuakae~e bound, and, iftod: apurring the rerpent with hix wing, relroals again, Jumping shout tn svery irection, f & mods whicly thio apsctator, appenrs higly grrotesque, Ho fiaon xoturns to the combnt, aver prercnting to the venom. ©ous tooth of -bis adversary nothing but tho end of ‘hin well-proteciod wing, At last tho roptilo. stunned and wasoring, rollaat fullelougth fn the dvst: ilio ‘bird then oloverly entelies hold uf ¢ and throws It nov- eral timea up Into (he ir, untll, the . viotim _bec exhapnlod and poworless, the bird cruy with hin aharpepolnted Ui, Tho nerpont fa then sl lowed wholo by fta conquieror, unlons It 1n too big, in whicl ease it In firat forn in plecos,” .- 'Thio Beerclary-Bird doen not feud exclnsively on aers rtn(l; it nlso consumen lizatdy, tortofsus, and oven nrcetis 3 it voracily 13 extremio, and it ponscsscs a anor of digestion which fo roally surprising, Lo- vatllant killod one, tho atomach of which containod towonty-ono amall tortolnca (sUill wiiole) ; oldven Hzardn, ench Bor U incliea Jong; threo serponte, of a lomgth varying from 210 93¢ feit; & perfoct Licap of gram- hopporu and other fnsects; and, lastly, & great pollet ‘Theao birds aro natives of tho arld plaine of Bouth Alftlcs, They pair about the month of July,—the malo blxds having firat ongnged In sanguiuary gita fox £ho oholce of tofr mntes, Tho nest, which Is fiat, snd Hined on the fnsido wiils down ond feathers, ia ‘con- Structed in tho thiokest bushies, or on the loftiest troos; in which two or thirca eggs of & whita huo spoltod will red aro laid, The youny nnea ato vory lato i quitiing thio paroutal home for thoy do not Teave uniil they havo nequired full developinent, Nenrly four montua el befora thoy aro rblo (o mtand firmiy And run sbont with completo freadom, Tho Hocralary-Dird fo much appreniated at the Cape of Good Hope, on account of tha sorvicos it ronders In dentroying venomous ropliles, Ax it is ensily tared if enpturod when.voung, {bo_coloniate havo inalo & tlo- mentic bird of 4, and use # ta protect tholr ponliry sgajust the ircurslons of serponts and ratn. With the inhiabitants of the Enm ~yord it is always on good torms, ovan Lo guoling tho quarrals which spring up smong the aliinaco around it. Dut it mmat bo fold tt I 4n nocersary to soo that it'1a suiclontly fed, for otherwlse it will not hesltato to holp itself occasionally to a chickon, In- 1831 tho Secretary-Bird was futroduced into ihe. Fronch Wost Indics, patiteularly Guadaloupe and Mar- tnlque, on " purpos to - mnke War upon tho Z'rigoiio- cephalus, or tho Rattlesnnke, a dsugordus roptile awarnung in thono conntrien, T'he {ntroduction of tho Eflcrt‘:ll?ry-l!lrd Into tho Autllics provod tobe a real oneflt, : % (D. Apploton & Co., Now York.) The nfiznnr Book of Glcalth, With the tutelary proverb, that ¢ An ounce of prevontion is worth » pound of cure,” this book, writton by .a physioian,” refntes many popular fallnoics concorning the bost meana of prosery- ing health ; denouncos that daugorous epomy, #insidlounly introduced under tho guiso of friendship,” tho family medicino-chest; and furnishes simplo rulos and ‘suggestiona for pro- imoting that blessing which I the key to tho en- Joyment of lifo, T *“This work,” saya the proface, *whioh has no other purposo than to indicate thoso causes of disenso, and tho meana of prevonting or Temoy- ing then, which are within tho control of every- one, does not in any manner encroach upon-tho meédical profossion, of which tho writer, who'ig & mombor of it, has naturally all proper respect, Tho volumo is uniform with tho *Bazaar Bopk of Decorum ;" nnd consists of a sories of sen- sible easays mpon tho proper ordering updn hoealthful principles of the Dwolling, tho Nur- nory, the Parlor, the Bod-Room, the Library, %\o Dining-Room, tho Kitchon, and the Bicke oom. \ Btarting with tho assertion that Moro peopla have diod in Immuring thomsolves in badly-bullt and ill-kept houses than have .boen killed in battle," tho writor arguos thie necossity, and ex-, plaing tho modo, upon the prmcl{rlns of Lealth, comfort, and cconomy, of combining, in the dwolling, puro air, proper temperature, perfect cleunlingss, ronovating sunshino, and esthetio charm. Cheerfalnoss is_the crowning grace ; and, in exalting this moral glmvoentivn of good-health, ho quotes the maying of Luther: *'Tha Devi hates nothing 80 much z8 o good laugh.” " Tho virtue of moderation is also emphasized, and ita application to goneral hospitality is illus- trated by an ancedoto o A good story fa told of an English Ambassador at the Court of Naples. o gave on evening parly, tho oxcollent taste and dolights of which wero appreciatod Dy overy guest prosent, It becamo known, however, that tho entortatninent, tho charms of which no ono rofused to acknowledge, had been gotupata vory amaliexpendituro of monoy, Thouce the gorsips, fors Eotling tho grent pleanuro ft had givon, ond ouly mmd- ful of tho mnall sitm it had cost, busily talkod of the cheapnoss of the eutertatnmeut and’ tho parsimony of thegivor, This renching tho Ambussador's cars, hie sent out invitations to the saino_poopla who hud Loen present at s first charmiog i R neneiYe party, o como to a second at his lotel, ‘Tho evening mi- rived, and the guosts, in full autlcipitation of a brill- 1ant display, gatliorod; but, lo1 thoro waa no propara- tion mado for tho expocted ontertainment, 'Tho host, Lowover, prosented binisolf, aud wia soon follored by B sorvant bearing s lghted alcoollo lamp, The A bassador, without more ado, took from Lis pockot a handfull'of bank-notes, and, throwing them into fho Dlaze, Andd to s asaomibled guests, * There, are you salisficd 77’ and dismissod themn to :‘mlr homea, (Harper & Brothors, New York.) ¢ Imgos? ¢ Ingrabnu.?? By Gustay Treytng. 'Transtated from (he Gere maan by Flrs. Malcolm. Those Lwo remarkable novels, dostined to add lustro to tho famo of the already-renowned author, form the iuitiative volumes—each com- plote in itsolf—of o series of romances illuatrat- ing the fates of an individual raco. ‘This race, nativo of the foroits of Thuringia, and whoso Iast descendaut is—to uso Freytag'n own' langungo—‘‘a vigorous fellow, who still wendora sbout under the Germsn sun, withoub caring much about the deods and eufferings of his ancestors,” finds its firat romantio exompli- flention in Ingo, as far back in time ns A. D, 867. The story is 2 dramatio and vivid roslization of tho carcer in war and in love of a barbarian Princo,—a {)rluculy barbarian, With such lifo- liko distinctnens is it writton, the reading of it sffecta imaginatlon a8 an episodo in actual ex- orienco ; like the effect Pmrluead by an excol- ont rondoring, with .well-modulaled cast and nnfrorb soonory, of au acted tragedy. . 'io time of Ingraban is nearly 400 years later ; and its sceno, tha same hilly country of Fran- conia and Thuringias, whero Ingo and his boloved Irmgard met thoir deatiny. ‘Tho era is tran- sitiounl; tho oncient gods are boing driven from thoir Launts in wood and cavorn, and dwning Ohrh;unnl!yln the. historic .background of . the novol. A Ingrabau, the descendant of Ingo, Hero of Thuringis, and the vory personation of transition- ol loyalty, is not more truly the horoof tho romance than Winfred, .tho ploneor Christian Bishop ; or the youngand inspired Gottfried, whio guvo hia life for one who was not his friend, and proved to the vory heart of the forest-horo, with a rovelation that’ bronght tho ** new faith” in ity wake, *I am a warrlor; only though dost nol. percolyo it." ; In the * Loisure-Tlour Serios,” which neemn to havo. taken “ infinito variety " for ity rulo of choico, thess novols of Troytag hold o con- spicuous and uniqne place. Honry Holt & Co., Now Yorl, % The Two YWidowai? A Novel, by Annie Thomas (Mru. Pender Cudiip)e An enterinining lovo-story, founded upon & spiritod contest botwoon two clovor ‘widows for o cortain proporty, to which & third and still moro romarkeblo widow holds tho jnst claim, Tho mosculine auxilizries In this content aro not only mon of ability, but mon of susceptibili- t{; and tho complications of Love accompany tho complications of Law. 'Whe interest of tho plot ls well sustained, and the styio it sprightly, (Harpor & Brothers, Now York,) i The Fair Gad. 'THE FAIR GOD; on, Tug Last or Tne Tzivs, A “LALK OF TItk COKQUELT OF MX100, By LEW Wal~ Lack, Boston : Jumee R, Osgood & Co, Chicago : V7. B, Keen, Gooke & Uo, This work of Gen. Wellaco has produced & da- sidod sonsation in Amorlcan literary clroles, T'ha Incidents aro taken from the mosb surlking facts in tho conquost of Moxico by the Spaniards, £nd they are doscribed with such graphio'peiyor that one knows not how fo Iny by tho book till the battom of tho lash pago is roached, TFact ond flotion are so mingled, and the figures are so vividly drawn, that tho wholo seoms o préoent, and bt times a terrible, roal- ity. Tho baitle at tho taking of the Templo s one of tho most perfect picturos of suporbuman onorgy on both sides wo remom= ber to have read for a long timo, - But, of conrso, disclplino, and & conclousnoss that oxtormings natlon must follow defent, gave the s,mnm'xd.i tho viotory, and the * Last of tho 'zins " pasbed awny forever, i I With all ta merits, howaever, tho bool con- toing mnny eurlons, not Lossy melogant, oxpross wions, nud not a little that o ologe critiv can_find abundant roason to condemn ; but its oxeallens ces furovarbaluuco all those, and perheps tho ma- Jority of rondors may net notloa thow, from the nbuorbing intorost with which tho progresy of tho story qonstantly keops up, . ... Siatosman's Yoar=I3ook, ., , .. THE STATESMAN'S YEAR-BOOK, STATISTICAT AND 1LISTONIOAL ANNUAL OF TUE BTATES OF THik UWVILe 1zep Wont, Ly UREDEBIOK MABTIN, Now York 3 Macmlllan & Co, Chivagas Jansen, MeOlurg & Co, This is & work thaf scarcely auy intolligent man can afford to bo without, Lo tho statess man, the editor, sand nll who minglo in public affalrs, 1t in roslly inyatuablo, It opens with “chrovicle” of all tha lending evonts that have " oceurred In tho ofvilized world duiiug tho past yesr. It contaivs tho names of the Tmporors, Kings, Presidents, &o., &o., of all clvilizod nn- tions, with thelr Cabinot-oflicors and their sala- rion; stalsties of thoir armles and navies, rovonues and oxports, and principal produetions “\n)'nopncn of ‘thelr_constitutions ; royiows of Lheir roligions and oducational fusti- . tullons ; in fact, ono ¢nn find'ab » glance nimost any gensrai fact ho may wixh o kuow about wny of tho nntions in tho world, It is ronlly aniu-~ vahiable book, aud ehould always Lo at hand for convenient reforonco. Erances T MEN OF TIHE TIIRD REPUDLIC: on, Tne Presenr LEankss oF France. Reprinted from the London Daily News, Thilndelphis: Lorler & Coates, Obicago: dansen, McOlurg & Co. ' To understond tho ever-changing affairs of Fraueo ono needs to know somothing of thomen ‘who shaped Ita politics and gave direction to the national mind, Tho book boforo us gives this information in & conciso and convoulent farm, | It gives un o short sketchof tho lives of twenty- six pf the lording mon of Franco, . Among thom are Thiors, MacMakon, Gambotts, Dnflnnlnup, Girardin, About, Shmon, ugo, and othors.: A. valuable wotk for all who wish to bo well informed of tho men and tho effairs of Frauce, Sl ) Germnan Literaturcs OUTLINES OF GLRMAN LITERATURE, By Josrrm Gonrwicg and Houene HanntioN, Now York: Holt & Willlams, Chicago: Junsen, McClurg & Co, This is & very comprehonsive and valua- blo work. “Not only aro tho diffcrent depart- monts of Gorman literaturo, ay it has grown up from A. D, 830 to 1§70, duly noticed, but the suthors who havo given chiaractor to onoh rgoare mentioned, and roforence mado to their lives and most important works, Tho study of the Ger- ‘man languega is now regarded 8 ono of tho po- lito acoomplishmonts, and this worl will bo found amoal important guide to o knowladgo of tho litorature it contains, ¢ Edmund Dawne EDMUND DAWN ; ont, Even Fonaive, Dy RuEvys- woop, New York: G. W, Ustlcion, Chicago: W, B, Kecn, Cooke & Co, A very readable and, on the whols, rather in- toresting book. * Tho world will readily forgive Eduniund for his intemperance ; but why did not tho author so conduct his hero as to miake us equally lonfont for bisother lapscs from the pathis of striot propriety? Tho incidents of tho atory follow ench othior rapidly, and thoro aro slmost’ too mauy of them to romomber and fimnp well togothor in passing. -The book will serve to whilo away a couplo of Lours of an evening, or upon a railway-train, Y Stories., i A STOREHOUSE OF STORIES, Edited by Omin- LoTTe M, Youvax, New York: Macmilian & Co. Ohicago: Janscn, McOlurg & Co. Mothora who wish to intorost thoir children can find abundnnt matorial in this storchouss of storles, It will lnst thom for weoks; and enroly thoy can_do mnothing better than to read tliem theno storios. Tho child will neyor tire of them, Get tho book and try them, It will be found worth ten-tunos its coat. Pocms. POEMS: By W. D. HowsLus, Boston: James P, Ougood & Co,” Obicago: W, B, Keen, Qooko & Co. The litorary public will give this little volumes of poems by the gonial and accomplishod editor of tho Atlantic & most cordisl welcomo. We prosume thoy hayve goen many of them boforo, and they will'be glad to have thom now in o per- manent form. ° Scientific Experiments, ELEMENTS OF PIIYSIOAL MANIPULATION, By Prot, L, O, PIoRERING. Now York : Hurd & Houghi- tou, Ohicago: W, B, Ecen, Cooke & Co, « This work is designed for tho laboratory,: It is based on the oxporienco of the author for four years in the Technological Behool of Boston, To sciontific studenta it will bo found a highly prac- tical and yoluablo work. Nina‘s Atonement. NINA'S ATONEMENT: A Noviu. Dy Christian Ncld, With XiluateationntNow York : D, Adpleton & Chicaga : W, B, Keen, Cooke & Co, This {s o reprint in book form of n vory plens- ant story whioh originally appeared in Apple- tons' Journal, Itisncheap odition, gonerously snd bosutifully illustrated, It will bo sought for by those who want ** Nina's Atonemont™ in & pormanont form. Spain, FERDINAND AND ISABELLA. Vol.2, By Witr. 1A I, PnescorT. Pitladelphia: J, B, Lippiucott & Co. Obhlcsgo: W. 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A ‘Tho Scrvies Monthly for Novembor. A maga~ zino dovated to metevrology, military tolograph, aud Uho Bigual Servico. - (Vo I Noy 1) Wash' ngton, . Literary Notes. M. Michelet is writing a history of tho yoma 1815 and the Henlonumsl. 2 ch . —A ¢ Ohild’s History of Jerusalom,” with ar{ illustretions, is n now English vonture, —Thercsa Yelverton, who atyles horself tha Countees of Avonmore,is about o publish & bbok of her travels around the world. —(ail Hamilton’s new hoolt of soclal and do- mestic sketchios will havo the ourious title of o T\xlvo lllllilcl from a L%nmn." I —A posthumous poem;by Ada Teancs Menken will appear in the fifi\‘tmbur number of Town and Counfry (London). ~—Lwing, the British eoulptor,is to makoa classical statuo of Burns for tho Cily of Glas- ow, which will cost mors than the author of *Tam O'Shanter! over gob for his poems, —The Turke aro great lovers of flction, nnd tho beat worka of our Innguage are lmmml'nlnly ut into shape for Turkish delectation.- Tho Intest thing appropriated was Julion Hawthorne's * Brossant." S S ., —Confederato Gen, Josoph E, Johnaton's +*Nawrativo of AMililary Oporationn Directed by Him During the Liate War Betwaen the Statos " ia in progs at Applotons', . ~—DMr, Nnssau Mologworll's '* History of Eng- Iend Sinco 1830 is o work in threo volumes, ‘the' Inst, volamo, juat out, Lrivging the history of modern England down fo 1870, v —Xir, Janiea Parton has just put the finishing touches on his ** Life of Jefferson” for publica- tion in book form, i —A now story of Tnecan life by T. Adolphus “Trollope, * Dinmond Cut Diamond,” is in prosa at tho Harper's., —Dr, W. H. Ruesell has ropublished his diary kopt during tho last war botweon Gormany and France from the columns of tho drmy and Navy Gazelle, i —A mania ap‘pem tobs seizing membors of tho Dritish Purliamont for writing fairy talog. Mr. Xnatehbull Hugessen has been such s suc- cessful offender in this reapect that his oxamplo is now being followed by Mr. Francis Maguiro, —Tho authior of * John Halifax, Gontleman,” who has not for somo time appoared before the public as a novelist, hos ?ust completed o now domestic fove utory, entitled * My Mother and L" which will appear immedisioly in Good Words. —A movemont is on foot in London to orect & monument to Qliver Goldemith, the centensry ’u: \\']lloi): dema %cc\m!] nn?t yfnll;'b At pre):;m he 5 only honored by's simple slab beariug his pro- filo in Westminuter Ahbn)y. Lo —Teland'i {wo now books aro nearly rendy at Turd & Hou‘:hmn'u. ““The E[;ymimyl Skez:h- Book " is & rollicking travel-journal, while *'Lha Lnglieh Gypsics " is Tull of curious and valuable maditer, —John Panlannouncea that * notwithatanding tho Luffets, the contumely, and the ecorn, which, from youtli up, T huva endured at the bLands o au wiappreciativo and unsympathizing publle, T Liavo yot no presont iutontion of lecturing, no dark future design of writing an almanac.” —3mo. Tattazzi writos from Paris to the Gazelte di Mitano that she has kopt her hus- band's papers, and will follow the examplo of Mus. Groto, by publishing, when Lor grief shall %m\‘ D Bonlml‘lrh“.: nuhslll,!nd, i{v\;'m'k ontitled ** Rat- 222i and Ifis Timo, by & Witness of tho Lasf Ton Yoars of Itia Lito" i ; —Lisx-Minister Potro, of South Caroling, who nsod to reprosout the United Stntes at tha Hague, has written a volume lamenting tho con- dition of his native State under negro rulo, un- der tho title of ¢ Tho Prostrate State,” It will ba published by the Appletons. —Mr, Iepworth Dixon 18 still busily at work upon his ' History of Two Qucuua.“y Ho will complete it in two moro volnmos, mnking four in all, before Lo comes to Amorica. 0 hng mado'a lucrative arranzemant to deliver twonly- fivo lecturos in the United States, and should hio Alnd ‘t-‘hmm succesaful ho will probably extend the number, —George Augustus Sala has published " The Btory of tho Count of Chambord,” 'The Lon. don Tlegraph, belioving that the Pretondor y cortain to be King, capoused hia causo, and Sala begen & momoir of him in the paper. Thinga have taken = turn, and tho book coming out now hus & shiecpish look, It is not 8o long ago, and Enh it is a5 If o decade had passed since it could o #aid, 08 Bals anys, “‘France waits for the coming of the Poluntnh to whom I have dedi- catod this boole.” [ —A pootess and essaylst, who conld not road, diod rocently near Coatbridgo, N.'B. It was Mra, Javot Hamilton, a Scatohwoman, and a wall-kmown writer of verso. Bho dictated her compositions to her husband, who was & ahos= maker. Nro, Hamilton was bora in 1795, —The workingmon of London huve a Shake speare Olub, whero they mest, with thoir wivea and sisters, to read and diseuss Shakspenre. ‘Tho mon say that the women undorstand Shak~ gpnm better, and kuow moro of him, thau they 0. ~Mr, Cranch has baon rending a ‘‘librotto™ on Satan to the Boston Radical Olub, Tho poom in called = Hbratto “beoanso the words may ac- compauy or siand for and suggest a muaio whicly thoy aro far from claiming to owmbody.” The drainatis porsons of the poom aro a cliorus of world-spicits, who discuss tho problom and meaning of evil and *‘ tho Devil himself,” who appoars as ““ 3 vast ehado covering earth and sou and “risen to explain.” Tho mutunl rela~ tions and usgs of good and ovil, seon from the two points of view, form tho entiro thome, —Afr, Hale's *‘Brick Moon" is quite outdona hy Julea Verno'a * From the Earth to tho Moon Direct in Ninety-seven Ilours Twoaty Minutos, and & Trip Round It,” which tho Enr!{nerfl will issuo phortly in brilliant binding, and with oight full-page Tronch illustrations, The earthly port of tho narrative in laid in the UnitedStatos, whouco tho travolers procced to the mooninn hollow sbiell of 20,000 pounds weight, nhot out from n cannon Y00 feot long by a charge of 400,000 pounds of gun-cotton, . T'ho proface to *"I'he Gilded Age": This book was not written for private ciroulation among fricndo ; it was not written to cheor ana fne. struct & deconaedd rolativo of the authora; §t wes uot thrown off during tho intovala of woearlng labor to amuso an idlo hour, It was not written for any of thoso rossons, and ihercfora it fa submitied withous tho ugual apologics, . . 'This fg—whnt it pretends by Le~n joint production, in flie conception of tho stury, the oxposition of ila characters, und {n its lteral com poaition, Lhere Is not s chupter fn it that dosu nci year tho marks of tho two writers of tho book, 8. L. C, 0. D, W, London ‘Temperance Movement. Somna of the Landon temporance soclotics are getting up o petition, to bo presonted’ on tha poning of Parliamoul. It wota forth tho prayor that Parlinment will compol sll keopera of ' li connod hansos to anp‘\l,v {hety customors with toa and coffeo wheu roquired, 'The argumoent is that ton and coffeo Ja so dliflenlt to obtatn that many a man takes intoxicants when ho would profer leus banoful baverages, Judging by the groat num- ber of coftec-shops distributed over London, ona would think it was not diflienlt to obtain tho ro- freshmont thoy woll, The voply iy that the tea andcoffoo of tliacoffec-houscs nroalmost uniform= ly bad, Would tho liquid sold In public housos Lo boptfor? 'Tho tempuerence sovioties auswor that many Tondon publicans do now sell tea and cuffoo, wud that bath aro of batter quality, Howe oyer, {noso do it from chiolco, not from necessity, At tho same time it is true thet coffeo-houses aro not to be found out of the maln stroots af Loudon,