Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1873, Page 13

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBEK 7, 1873, 13 e CITY AND COUHTY OFFISES. Soraps of Mowa and Rumors---Tho Libvary Board, HMayor Colvin’s * Slate**=--Tho Offi- cers {o Bo Gonfirmed Mon- day Night Tho Cauons of the *“23" Last Evening, and What Oconrred. Polico Commissicnor L, P. Wright lina just mado nrrangomonty with the suthorities of Wasbington by which hola to cloan the stroots of that ity for o number of yeara to come, and will uansfer s stroot-swooping apparatus from Chileago to thnt pomt. It was rumorod yostorday afterncon that 8, O, Alexander, whom the CQovernmout ring have beon supporting for membor of tho Board of Public Works, bas withdrawn, and that Mr. Goldie, the sash and blind manulacturor, way tho chwico of Mayor Colvin. Nothing definito will bo kvown regavding tho nomince for thuy offico until Mouday nlght, Capt. Ll hies not tendared his rosignation to the Mayor, aud eays lie does not intend doing 0. 1t o Bergenntey way ofterod him, hio might be induced (o give his prosent stax to Sam BEilis. Bhould Itehm bo nppointed Superintendent, Lull will certainly Lo oustod, Yor the former does not love him enough lo tolerate his nawe anywhoro ontho rolls of tho polico foree, AMd; Stoul's angor hns possed awsy. 1Mo WAy 8 gentle as o lunb yestorday, and smiled at ovory remnrk made in his heuriag, What brought about this suduon chanzo no ouno_ can toll. lio may bo disgombling and nurelug lis wiath, but it 18 tnoro than Likely that ho hus been prowisad that u resolution shell bo rofurved to hii com- mittoo, aud ho theroby Lo ablo to maet with his aBsocintos at loast once in tho noxt year, Chnrles H. Reed, Fsq., tho Sinte's-Attorney, appenred at the City Hall yesterdny, _ 1o wunts Mr, Hebm to bo Superintendent of Police. - Ilo wnw woveral of the Luw-and-Ovder Aldeimen, and insistod thet they shiould voto for Nohm. His missicn was unsuccessful, ouo Aldermun whom o cornered doclining to do s requested notwithslanding that, bj' #o doing, lio forfeited tho good will of Mr, Reed, When last scon, Mr, Tteed was looking for Dixon. Ho, howovor, ad- horea to Bickey, nud the Stato's-Attorney can~ not move him, s Ald, O'Drion Ia otill discontented. Ho eannot understand why the reprasontative of a waid which polled 4,000 vatos should bo treated as h hus boou by Mugor Colvin, Nothing less than i bipol & connmittoe wil! pucify him, nro no vacancles, and the Mavor ig satitied with the presont Chairmen, tho * ball- toseer " will probably show hls wiath by boltiug some of tha Mayor's vominces [for city oftlcors, 0'Bricn i3 non-committal, howover, desiring per~ sonu who asit him what' ho intouds doing to *“wait o whilo.” Tho varlous Committees of the County Com- misgioners around tho Court-Ilouse were busy yestoragy aftornoon in auditing nccounts. L'ho Committou on Buldings visitod tho new County Jail. Gen. Licb compluius that tho rooms for the county oflicos 1n the building aro alto- gethier too small, while the vaulta are not hal? the siza thoy sbonld bo, o proporly nccom- 1wodazo the juvaluable collection of lognl docus ments of the County Court, a vault 30 160t by 10 is Lavely large onough. Tho now vauits will nuot measure moro than 10 feet by 12, which is aven smallor than those at present in use. Considerablo oxcitemont was caused some timo ago Ly tho announcement thai Mr. Laue, lato County Superintendent of Schools, whowa bond hind been destroyed by the fire, had had on de- posit with the Franklin Savings Bavk, sinco Laukeapt, tho sum of &33,000 belouging to Cook Cuounty, ' Gen, Nilos yestordny succeedod in find- ing o copy of Mr. Lane's_bond, which was for £140,000, aud which boro hig gignature and those of Elisha 8. Lane, Elijah H. Gammer, A, Gran- niy, Albro L. Lishop, and Jomes Ward. Aftsr the five, Gen, Nilea spont a conplo of monthd in socuring copics of the bonds of the various county ofiicers, a forosight which has alresdy been 1iehly rowarded, Tho low allows 21,500 & year to Town Collec- tors, in Cogk County, und confers discrationary power on ‘Pown Boards, to give such additionnl compeusation as in their wirdom they ses fit. Rowving on this dikerctionary power, Mr. Larry O'Br.on, West Bido Collestor, nuks 1o loss than $12,000 n year trom tho Town Board of West Chicngo, and thero i greay danger that it will do 8 ho detiror, That would give lum o sulary of £183.540, whick 18 u nico thing to havo in a family thioeo Lard timos, ulibough the.tnxpayers must pay tho piper. ‘The Inst West Sido Coflector was aliowed ouly 82,620 extra. 1tis stated that Mr, Cleary, South Side Collector demnnay 310,000 in addition to the szlary allowed by tho statute. The people will wateh closely tha nction of thoe Town Boards in thoso cases. No ono can possibly tetl whether or not Juilge MeAlli<ter intonds to sceopt too ofiice of Cor- poration Connsel. Yostorday there were mon at ibe City 1Iull who assorted that they had it from tho “best suthority " that he had declined, and others were equally confldont that ho had not. It was stated that Lo wasin the city 'riday, and ro- remained soveral hours, Hodid not eall oo Mayor Colvin, and as ho has enid nothing to bim about dechuing, Iis Honor_thinks it would be rathor strango 1f ho rofused to accept at tho last hour. There was somo talk of ruising the salary of the Corporation Counscl to 88,000, but this Mr. Tuloy sags, cannot be dono by law ; and if it1s increased, it will live to be done by subscrip- tion. It was nlso asverted that Judgo MeAllistor had agreod Lo submit th:a quastion of his eligi- bility to Judges Gary and Williams. Tho Financo Commitiog of the Common Coun- cil held a meoting in tho Mayor's offico yosturday nfiernoon, and remained in session nearly three Liours. They prssed o reaolution ingtructing the Comptroller to sell all tho tax-cortificatos which romain in his hands aftor tho 21th inal,, at their fuce value. At prosont, 13¢ por cont (costs) aro added. Tho Board of Public Works weve author- ized to expond £1,700 iu the construction of o gowor from the Small-Pox lospttal to tho weat fork of the South Branch, and m laying n wator- pipe from the ariosinn well in the Bridewell grounds o the Pest ITouso. The Commitico struck out o number of itoms in tho lnst appro- priation biil, lestening the wmonuts spproprint= 8d for tho Doard of Polico, Board of Publio Worlks, and Board of Education nearly 600,000, Another meotiag will bo Liold Mouday, Bhortly after the flre, J. Y. Scammon was Krnneuu(ml Dy the Boavd of Ilonlth for burying orse on his promises, ‘Llio evidence waa heard by one of the Polico Justices, aud 3Ir. Beatmmon was flued £25. flo took an uppeal to the Cireuit Court, and, twa or three monthe ago, the ¢ ity Attorney movod that tho uppeal bo dismissed on txmun‘t of tho Court's having no_jurisdiotion, t the yoquost of Mr. Beammon's counsel, postponemont was granted, i order to give thom on opportunity to hunt up anthorities, Yesterday morning tho caso was argued before Judge Gury, and the notion sustainod. 'Tho Qoutt haviog decided thut it can not tuke cog- nisande of tho caco, tho judgment of tho Police Court ia in forco, and & Countablo will woon bo looking for Mr, Scammon it lie doos not settle, Hin counvoel prayed an appeal to the Bupremo Court, and has ninety days in which to filo & bond nud a bill of exceptions. ‘The Board of Directors of the Publie Library baeld & mecting in tho tauk yestorday aftornoon, Presidont Hoyne in the chair. A lotlor was ro trom My, Ttobson, in which ho advised the Bourd of ti:e doustfuu to tho llbrary, by the curator of the Bodloian Libravy, of n fmlulaguu of Hebrow books, Ihe Hocrotury was iustructed to thank the curator, Mr, Bhoroy prosonted a commnuni- oation from Mrs, Doggett, calling attention to n oopy of * Auduboun's Dirds," which sho desired the Board to buy, 'T'ho document was roferrod to tho Commitice on Library, My, Shoroy re- orted that rooms had Leen soleoted in the bulld- rng at tho southeaut corner of Madison. stroot and Wabash avenue, ‘The second story and the north hatf of tho third and fourth tloors had boen arrangoed for, Lut tho conlract had not yot bean written. The Hecrotary submitted his vo- port for Novembor and one ook of Daccrber. Thera have beon roccived during the laiter porlod 530, books and 562 pamplilets, making o grand total In litrary of 14,173 volumes, 'Iho namuer of visitors wau 20,204 ; sverago daily at- tondauco, 833 ; Buuday visitors, 450, The Mayor was borod for soveral houra yestor- day wmorming by ofice-seekers, IMuuy olininad au intarview, but gol no satisfaction, s Honor s fixed upon his appolntents and_will not throw tham overbanrd to pleato tho 420" Tho only real dioulty Letweon the Allormou und Lim, i In refoyence to tho member of thoe Board of Publio \VurLu. Tor this ofilca the 43" want Driscoll, but he will nevor bo nominated by ayor Golvis, 1l last selootion, E. 8, Alazsu- der, it Is enld, has withdrawn, and Ilin lonor will not discloss ths namo of tho gontlomun to_whom ho purposos tondering tho oftico, Subjoinel i3 n 1t of tho pernons whom Lo will recommond for conflimations Corporation Connsel—Jjudgo MoAllistor, Comptrollor—8. 8, llnp i City Clork—J. K. O. Morrest. ‘Che friondn of Iumilton bave abandoned him, aud Forrost will nndoubtedly bo supported by the *23" it 0 Ihifon can bo appeaned. C Cl!ty Sonler—C, 11, Cilllesplo, tho Mayor's on- n-lnsy, City Welghor—Milos Kohoo—tho only porson for whom 3Lr, Iesing nukod anything, City Phynloian—Dy, Puoli, Qait Inepoctor—Dr, Hlegles Dollor Inspoctor—TLom Hamilton, Oul Inspector—Jolin O'Noll. Huporintendont of Police—Talo Nohm, Commisefonor of tho Board of Pulico to su- persody Col, Wright—I3, I, 0. Klokie, Lolico Justicos—Nortly Sidg, Lauk Knufman ; guulllh Side, N, B, Doyden; West Sido, Daniol eully. Clorks of Tolico Conrts—North Side, J. O, Bpoucer; West 8ido, John Amha;}.’. t. John Clevo- o Buoretaiy o tho Mlaor—. atd. Mayor's Dolico—Louls Llzas, Potor Ounning- }nu:l, 'nml lonry Brinkmoyor ; ona yet to bo so- octed., Aember of the Board of Publio Works—Un- detavmined, Last evening the 23" hold n cancus in Room 7 Staals-Zeitung Dailding,at which all thie Peoplo’s Aldermen nnd Mayor Colvin wero prosent. Ald. Oannon presided” and Ald. Hildrath neted as Beerotary, 'Tha Mayor submitted his slate, and It wny accopted without a word axcopt as to the mon sueostod for ]bller-lunpuulnr and Mom- bor of tho Buurd of Public Woris.« His Honor urged for the former position om Humiltow, but ho was objocted to beesuzo ho was nob n botlor-maker. Qouslderablo disenssion ensuned, Bomo anger was shown on tho part of somo of tito *23," nud Mr. Cul- vin finally agreed, if Hamilton could not prove himwelf {o Lo n Loller-makor by teade, to dro him. 1o caro ho ruils to dono, James Kutehford, {hu choigo of the **28," will protably be nom: uate:l, Tho Aldermen strongly urged B, F. Driscoll for Comuissioner of the Bourd of Public Works, but Mayer Colvin told them empbatically that lie wouli not nominate him. A lively debalo en- sued, but no couclusion reached, tho mattor being left undetermined when the canenn ad- Jjourned ut 11 o'clock, nfter a vession of noarly Tour bours, 'Tho “ulato, " a8 givon above, was adopted by twonly-two of 0 Aldarmien, Ald. 0'Brien nlono dl:nnnliu&! and Lhe geatlemen nemed will bo confirmed by .so Council noxt Monday night. Atter tho adjournment, Mayor Colvin told a reportor of Tur 'mtsuxe that lio intonded to Liave ono of tho strongost, most economical, and bost city goverumonts, and that ho had seleotod, aud would continio to select, if vacancics oceur- red, tho most m{)ablu und upsight won ho conld find to 1l the oftives, _——— PIGEON-SHCOTING. List of Entricy for tho State Tournas- moent at Dexter Pavi Bolow will be found tha entries, up to date, for tho pigoon-shooting tournament to bo liold at Doxtor Parle on tho 1Gth, 17th, aud 18th of this month, under tho managemont of tho DPrairio and Kennjcott Clubs und Mr. Willlam Wachtor, ‘o list will oloso on the ovening of the 10th, aud It is unnecessary at this time to say more than that the entry feo is 815, iucluding birdy and admission to the grounds. Oa a future oo- casion wo will deseribo tho tournamert moro {fully. Tho following aro the ontrica, toguthor with the numbar of yards' rise which have boen allotted to each by the Handicapping Committoo : h Trico, % oo, A A Y noy, 235 Tarnswortly, 23% Ba wice, 25 Bates, 23; Hopking, 21§ Perry, 23 achter, 233 W, Thomas, 24 ; Downs, 22 Burton, 53 ; Talley, Furuswortll, Aumer 1 W, T, Jobnson, 25 3 irice, O Shiorman, 21 Coan, 25 Wutting, 43's MeDowall, 33 Beil, u, "1 § Butler, a3t Ay, Asston, 23 Gidaver, T.teh, h, "2 Ginncy, 23 25;" Kennleon, Satupwon, by, Metlormbs 2} Baidwin, 81} ; al; Dow, %5} ‘rcady, 933 ' Croiutiton, Whiie, 21 Jobn, 33} Youug, 21§ B, ding, 247 Msnier, 33 Ortal, 247 Oiliespie, 42 yers, 3 olinson, 233 Brans, 45 § Bilsby, 451 1L, Mhiliyun, 23; Goodmas, 233 Al Bunith, 20 AUHaukibe, 215 G, Felton, 247 Milis, 33 Wil- merth, 24, winpaign, 1—DBritton, 95; Srolt, 25 Conley, 43 ; 1uuter, 24 5 Risk, Jtivbard, 20% Buack, 237 Haleup, 22 xi ! Sorogps, 413 ¥, Doasley, 255 W, Buusi Atendota, 4l 243 Wolf, 23; Grabe, 23} T Dowey, 243 Crooker, H , Rochelte, 11 en, 24§ Wil cox, 10 ; Lall oyes, 245 Tay~ Tor, 131 Belve, Awitin, fil.=Ustes, 24 ¢ ardesty, 24 Cleceland—i1, IX. Browi, ¥ Toledo—Tho Messrs Phieitt, 25 Itelove—Sherma, 95; Taylor, Wiitswater—Vawggieson, 247 Rusuell, 24; Olavert, 23, Snarta—Fronch, 33 LaCrossc—Hagal, Quincy—1laworlh, Genesco—Dazey, 23, Luncoln—Ilunicr, 97, New York—Greeu Suith, 24, —_—— OUR NEED OF A NAVY, To the Editor of The Chicano Pribune : Simn: Permit mo to say o fow words in rogard to tho article in Tuesday’s TurnuNe upon ©In- cransing the Navy.” It would seom that the mis- erable condition of our navy, which overy ono deplored whon thero was danger of war with Bpain, would have taught us tho folly of waiting uutil we seo tho conflagration before building fire-ongines to oxtiuguish it Quick, onergetic action from an enemy, ay well prepared to attack o8 Gormany was In lier war with France, would deatroy overy city on our sea-conat while our mongro navy wes being patched up, eud Congross giving contracts ab war- prices to build o ndw one, Becauso we appear to bo ovor our trouble with Spain, you would Liave us adopt the easy and economical policy of trusting to luck to casry us throngh ail futura diiculties, Knowing Spanisl coutompt for any- thing but phyeical power in tho past, ia it nok likely that tho encrgotio action of Seecrotury Roboson, in using tho mouoy that Congrods up- proprinted to put our fourteenth-class navy into fighting order, und which ‘'ne Tmuse enlls “oxtravagunt exponditurex," had moso to do with Spui's acceptunce of our torma than * g common-gense Bosrotary at ouch cod of the cable #” And, with lher usual troachery, Spain will yet refuso to necede to onr demands, if woarenot in o condition to enforce them, The timo may bo comiug when all men ean dwell in pouce ; but that It is not yot, I clonr to all whesn wa 00 tho teirible crimos committed over duy ; for, ay long as wurder sud all the ovil pusuions aso fu the hoarts of men, they are in the Stato, and nothing but physicel force will protect tho lunosent. Look ut tho lust quarter contury ; thore has boon more bloodshed and avareny than abuny time sinco Nupoleon, It Is not much uso to lock the door whon the borso iy stolen, as wo learned to our cost during the hohallion; the fimt_ two yoars wora wasted In making an army and navy, 'ho robbor keops awny from whoio the watoh- dog is chained ; and tho nation that is ready to figat muy nover bu attacked, Why are American citizens In Bouth Amoriea obliged to olaim that thoy aro * Britiuh subjects " to socuro rospoot- ful trentmont ? Because Lngland has & novy that can protoot hor subjoots In auy part of tho globe, 1¢ wo bud bud unavy to maintain tho priuciples for which the War of 1812 was fought, 10 uption would have dared to overhuul a ship boaring onr flag, and tho Virginius outrugo might havo boon provented. But out of every ovil thoro comos o little good, and” it fs to bo hoped that this last insult to our flag will aronse Cougresd to glvo us u navy that will command respeet, and place ug upon an equality with other nations, Not ane cent wasted on corrupt ringi In Wash- Ington, but millions for honest work in tho nuvy-yands wonld givo emnploymcat to Lundrodu of workmen, snd porhaps suvo us millions in the tubure, A — ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING, About 11 o'clook last evoning s colored boy named Henry endorson acoidontally shot him- self in tho houso of Johu Bluhinns, No. 200 Bush- noll stroot, It appears that tho boy, whilo play- ing o grme of ocards with s youug mean named Louiu loluhatdt, obuarsed & rovolver in tho lute tar's pockat, und anked to sco it. Tolnburdt at first rofused, but finslly placed it in tho boy's hznds, ab tho samo tine cautionlng him to hsudie it with oare, a It was loadoed. ‘W'lo boy auswerod oh, that ho was not ufraid of the weapon, and, while u the aob of ralslog the hammoer, tho revalyer went oft, ‘Iho ball atruck him in tho mouth and ponotrated hils brain, killing nim instantly, L'ho Bhooking tragod ¢ brought & groat mauy porsous into tho room, soma of whom woro loth to leliovo Roinbardt's acconnt of it, nnd lie was acoowdingly arrosted and lockad up in tha ‘Phird Vroulnot Biation, It is sald that thero i not tha loast vrobability that Reinhardt's recount of the way in which tho boy was shot is falso, oy ho i3 o young man of oxaallont eharnc- tor and mild dispositlon, aud was holding tho Loy In i armg whon the porsong entorod tho room. A DREAM-PICTURE. Iamonold man. Thesnows and sunshine of sovonty yenrs haye passod over mo, with all their varying intorplay of light and shadow. Tho sunaliine of the past iy vauished, but tho snowa romain, and thelr welght is hoavy ou tny hoad. T uco tho world—tho dreary world, that hasboen to bright and so dark {o mo—with misty and feoblo oyos, 8 though I looked through a vell of falling tesrs. My footstep 18 not steady, and T movo as ono in o dim, uncortain droam. Tho gontle summer alr, even ag I writo, comos softly in ot my window, touching my faco os tondorly an {n other daya ; but it doos not bring the fairy visions that It used, whon it wafted my spirit into dronmland, It Lias boon writton of the ngod that thoy live only in retrospection; that with them tho pros- ont takes all its coloring from tho past, Ido not kuow if this be always truo; but I know that it is strangoly truo of my own life, Ilive again, onch day, the dear life whoso only logney was blessod, blessod memory. What wonder il Iwiito st down? What wonder if Tshare it with the world? Tho young iu yoara may par~ don the garrulity of nge; tho aged many fiud in it yomething alkin to thoir own oxporionco. Tiow shall I pioturoit? I haveno falvy pon- cil; Ihavouo *‘sapphire pen,” no ‘“ralubow dow." I shrink fiom making tangible, to alion oyon, tho impalpnbilitis which orowd tay mom- ory, knowing how coarse must bo the outlino, Thow gross the detail, how inndequate tho whole, But no buinan work fa porfoct; and the tonder- cat manter-touches of Lhe artist are often gross besido his miud's ideal. As T closo my oyes, I sgo n picturo that is holy: o visfon a3 sacred Lo mo as the Wravsfigucation to the loved disciplo of Christ. It secmy too distinet for fuuay, too glorious for reality, too boautiful to last; and yot it is always with me, whon I clogo my oyes upon oulward things, It i8 o ploturo painted by the band of God for me alono. No humsn eyo, savo mine, bas over lookad uponit, It is a ploturo of tho alr, yob deathless 08 the universe. It was venrs ago—n hundred yoars it scems to mo now, glancing back —when_lrst I closed my oyes and saw this Dream-Picture ; yot it is brightor to mo now than thon—if perfect things can ovor gain in lovali~ noss, Mino i8 no stolid picturo of tho dull canvas, It is paintodd on a ground of darkness, in_dazzling light, and lines of stainless purity. It movew and breathos, and smiles &3 ouly angsls smilo. It bends over me, in robes too pure for carth, and kisses my cheok with a long-remoembored tenderness. 1t points a fluger upward, aud calls itscll my ehild beatifled, Ok, Eva, my child! my child! God gave you, 18 & pricoloss treasuro, into my caro, I cherished ony Ldidelin father's duly tobischild; I oved you with a fervor beyond all loves of earth, s o knows who knowoth nll. And, whon 1Io choso to recall 1is gift, Ho gave in ‘meroy what I have named & Droam-Picture, to mako i dosolnte yoars loss desolato, It i well He did not take you wholly, else I had defied and cursed 1lim, nnd closed my heart to oll of good nnd beantifil on oarth. As It I, I boliove my lifo hay not boon entiroly selfish, nor dostitule of good. Lot me recatl the past, as I have o ofton dono bofora. Lot me vvoke, once more, th) phantom rcanes whoso real oxistenco porished long ngo 3 and, sy tho over-chauging panorama swoops along, lot mo photograph tho vutlines on theso prg liowever dimly thoy may bo shadowed forth, howover imparfect tho copy. “'ho upell i3 ou ¢ I knoal boalde a grayo—alas, alas! the grava s mated, now—aad look to Lienven throtgh strosning toars, and pray. [ ray thet God will guard tho silent sfeopor be- fore me, aud give her wpirit room in heaven. I pray that 1logive mo strength to guids my moth- orless ohild through tho dovious ways of her coming lifa s I pray till the solemu maon craepn up to Liear, and all God's stars como out aud whisper ** Poace.” 2 Tho seeno chengos : Ibis o tranquil summer aftarnoon, and I am sitting in my s:udio, whoso wallg ara vovercd with the crentions of my fancy —tho incarnations of iy spirit's secrot droawms : for men aro pleased to say I have the gift of AMickinel Augalo, I am elitting hara, in w holl- drcam, watching the white clouds floating indolently ncrous their dark background of uu- fathomablo blua, I it thue, somatimes, for mauy houts, ovlivious to what i passing uronnd me, pagsive in mind and Lody, until some power, whase uature I kuow uot, briugs to mo tho ideal dreatms whoso cmbodiuent they who look upon eall beautiful, T hear tho full of littio fest along the passage, The sound awakens mo from my rovorie ; and ihen tho latch is gontly drawn, and u litlle girl comes softly in{o the room. Blie ruws to ms quickly, aud throws lior baby arms sbout my neck, aud kisses o and calls ine hor “ doar okl Eam," until ny oyes sre full of tears, and my oart too big for its prison. A tear falls on, her arm, Sho glances quickly up, and wonders, with her round, 4woet oyes, why it has fullen. She burien her face in my bosom and beging to sob, My oyes are fiooded now ; drop follows drop, and folls upou hor lustrous hair, Presontly sho raisos hor dowy, over-oaruest oves to mino, aud asin, with o face of childisk Innoconce ¢ “Papa, will you paiat me av angol 7 “\What u strange requost, my culld! Why do you wish me to paint you an angol ?” % Becauro I hope, somo timoe, to bo an angol, papa deay 1” Dy child's faco, as sho apeals, bocomes traas- figured—eanintlika. I turn away my head, for hor oarnost eyon aro painful to my slght, “ Papa, will you paiut mo an angel " *Yos, darling, I 1will l)niut you an angol [ My child goos out. 1 kit swhilo, movaloss ho- causo o spell is ox me, An inspiration scizos mo. I pluce my easel and my canvay, and pr pnre my colors in a kind of drozm. I paint my child an sngal. I etudy uo effocts; 1 meke no labored comparisons, no caroful analysis. Evory stroke of my brush Is the work of soma mysto- 1ious, unerring intuition. Tho paiuting is_comploted, By friends droj in to view it. I have named it “'Iho Child- Angel.” 'Thoy praiso my work, asd suy 1o ntkist over mado & lovolier picturo, ~They sdmiro the concaption, Ltha perspeotivo, the form, tho pose, tho _oxprogsivn, tho coloring. Thoy toll me I have reproduced, in absolute perfoction, the fuce of my little Eva, I hoar iv all, but kuow no mtit save God eau ovor pioture hoy as 8lio is; uo human ponoil evor vatch tho nutio- ll;:ua charm of her divinoly-simple childiuh santy. Ay ‘y‘Cl\de-Angul" cantinues to win admiration, oud bacomes popular, Peoplo como far to view it, and I sin oifered princely sums to part with it, "o nll such offers I make roply: *Tho ploture ig my ouild's ; sha will do with 1t ns sho ploasos,” But Lva would not part with & for myrinds of gold mountains ; and every woeslthy purchasor goes diunll)pnlutud 0BY. Tho days ure passing swittly by mo, now, and oach isflushod nuddyed with rose-tinte, Andwhat wondor ? for they ara filled with joy, und hopo, and promise, 1 worls, and dresm, aud pray, a1 thoy call me great, Tho demand for wmy pice turos {u far in oxceus of the supply, tax myselt as Imay, Itheems as if men pour thoir wealth at wmy fook with rockloss mod[gnm{. Thoy lnud my works, and wouder ue the skill whick pro- ducen them, Al ff thoy kuow the fountaiu of my inspiration, would they wonder ? Onward, avor unward, too suroly aud too awiftly, spead tho goldon days. Wonlth aud fnne aro mine—not ming, but Eva's : for all Ihave or am ls hors alouo, §hayono soorot thought of which she bas not n portion, no dremn of which shols not a part, Bhe Iy no mero child, now ; nnd yot she has not wholly lost her likenoss to “!Ihe Qhild-Augel,” Bho ia not all & woman, yob uhe {a tranucondently womanly. Iseo her uow, moying throagh the dim old Liouse, with tho infinite goutleucss of hoaven in all hor actlous, Itis evening. Bho pausesata woatern windosw, to watoh the gorgeaus sunse, and baneath it the placld wators of the lako, fmbued nud suporobnrged with orlmson, Bhe litis hor eyeu hosvenward in a tranaport; hor fave takea on tha u(flu\vln hues of thasupset, and forms asoono which ronohos beyond tho benutitnl iuto tho sublime, Aud now tho twillght falls ; the purple-lighted olouds aro dylny with the day 4 the vrimgon dyea fudo from tho darkoning waters ; the dim room whero she ktauds bocomes moro dim ; uhoe turny aud sosls horsell t the piano ; her llunuu play over tho keys for a momsnt, thon sha broaks 1= to o divinely straugs and wwaot old Garman inel- ody,—softly, at lyst—now cloaver—fullor—high- or—and her faco bovowes rupt—ocstatio—glory- lighted. gl‘hn song I8 dono ; the muslo dlos away, and tho air seows durkoer for ita going, Bho rises from hor sont, nnd comos into my studio with the old childish quictnoss, She throws hor nrma about me, just as sho usod, kisses mo on elthor cheols and on Lho forehend, and is gono boforo I can detain hor. v Oh! ¥val my lofty, pootic, piritual ohila! God holp thoo it over thy Intotiso soul i crousod and divappointed in ity affections, God forgivo mo I I love thea mora than I love my Makor, Hovonteon bright summoers have passed ovor thy goldon head, my davilug; nud among thom olf thou canst not name a singlo day which gavo theo lnsting vatn, I eannob name a day whleh ald not b""'é mo lmpvlnoss. Buch joys con navor lnat; thoy could, wo ou ecarih would huyo no nead for honvon. ‘Pho gcono i8 shifting onca again; tha colors ara taking on a doeper lino—Lhe roso-tinty dark- “i““z iuto purple, the purplo changivg into ek, 1t ia two hours from sunsot, on a bosutiral day in Juno. Hofter, deopor, bluer wkies nover bondod over lovely TIraly. A [rairor lalte, & greonor landscapo, nover sprond boueath the sun, Jivn comes tripping into my studio: Papn dear, you worle too hard: come, take mo for & boat-rido, cau you hot? ‘Lho oir’ Is so soft nud cool, tho wator so olear, and tranquil, and beautifall” Ohuorl'u!li; 1 loave nvuryl.hln;i to plonso my fdolizod chiid and minfstor to hor onjoyment. Blowly we go out, snd leisurely wo wallc down to the boneh, whoro tho quiot wators senvcoly lave tho shore, 1 am & skilltul oarsmay, and Fva has implicit, childlile conll~ donce in oll I sny or do, Bhe eprlvgs lighlly into tho bost—a fragile, falry thing that rides tho water, scarcoly touching it, built for my child, und boaring her name. ho tukon tho earved and gilded seat In tho stern. I loose the inoor- inges, givo tho duimY thlug o push, spring in myuelf, sud wo nro ailoat, gliding along in gentio wndulations—the cadonces of tho pootry of wmotion, I row on for a fow moments, Bva holding tho tiller and guiding us whero sho will. The water {1 80 vory siill that tho moveuieut of tho boat sonds ripples on cither sido, far out ns the oyo can l‘onc\u Presontly Idrop the onrs, and loan back, iueusy abandon, wpon a brocaded half- couch, made fu the prow of tho boat, I watch my child, reclining in hor soat, n faultless picturo of gruco and benuty, her swoot eyes fixed upon tho sunsot, and fillod with tho old drosmn-ligght, lier fuca transported and glowing with rotlested radinace, and wondor 1f hawvon contsins o soono bo beautiful. Sho turns towards me, at longth ¢ 1 way thinking, pepa dear, how swoet it would be to dio, gazing upon such o darling suu- sot,” “Why do you talk of denth, my child? Douth always hes o monrnfal sound, tome, Ido not thiuk it swoot to dio ut nuy tina," “1ut wo all must o sonietimo, you know, pape ; nod I only hopo that, when 1 take my kst ll(lmk b earth, 1t niay be whon carth is love- est.” “ ook at thoso long sun-paths of ciimson in tho water, darling !” 1 say, to change tho topic. Bho shudde “Iho sky, the clouds, are vary, vory beauti- fal 1" gho nays, suddenly. © Whonee do you thiuk those clonds come, papa doar ? 'The sky wos deep nud bine an hour ago.” T think they cama from heaven, Eva,” “hey look us if they did. Do you know, I liave ofton wondorod if the utmosplerein Heavon in colorad like Lhom,”" Bhie glauces from tho clouds to whore tho low suu mukos long blades of lire in the still wator. ‘A slight tromor runs through hor frame, and hor faco becomes palor. . 4 0n," sho cries, *I cannot lools at tho wator, to-duy! It looks—it looks—it makos me think of—blood!"” I foel o deep, vague fear in my heart, hor tono and manner arw so unliko her reul salf, We both sit silont, alsorbed in thought, for siomo momants, A hush lizo tho mutchoss of the gravo s all about vy, 'Fle groen shoro lies o hundred yurds away, but gives uno sounl to mar tho stillnoss. Fhe brouding air, tho move- loss waters, maintaiu the unlverzal silenco, Buddenly Eva crios— “ 5o, what u beautiful flowor!” I lpolk in the direction suo Indicntes, and Le- 1old, u fow feos away, o lrgo fresh lily, Soating on the water, wish its face turned towards tho sly. As Eva wishes, [ slowly pull the boas along- pide. A fow moro dips of the oar, and sho can rouch it, searcoly stirring from the scat ; but sbo i chiwfishly impatient. 8ho raises from tho soat, aud leans vits over the watey, resting hor woight upou a slendor rail which rans aloug the boaf's side, - Do caratul, ohil “ Yen, pupn, dei = And now slio roaches for tholily, She has just graspod it, whon, witht the uddennoss of lizit- piug, hor (ragils yupport gives vy, #ho Ioson Lior balunce, uud fatls, wita o wild ory, into the deop water, o Fot po instant my oyes are blind, my senses swim, o sharp pang suites across my beaw, and hourt and soul forsule mo, An mstant wmore, aud I fling mysslf madly after Lor, capsizing tho bont iu oy insane excitemont, Ad sbe comon to tho surface, shio clutehios ny outstratched haud with o convulsive grasp. am no expurt swimmer, but I siriko out frantically in the direction of the shore, Eva wooms to think I am fomaking ler; she srugglos wildly, and wd hor arms abous my mnocle” with all t., iloreo onergy of mortal terror, I can do nothing, now: lier gorments outangle my limbs, wud wo pgo down togathor in tuc huangry waler, As wo e | come again to tho surface, I atfompt to partially froo wyself trom hor ombraco, The task 1 hopeless, and we sivk again, ‘Flis timo, as wo c0 dowt, her struggles ceuso. I uncligp hor In:\ufl‘ throw su arm about her wawmt, ond, with my remnaunng strength, struggle upward tirough the wator. 1 reach, once mwre, the surfaco, My stronyzl is aimost wasted, but £ wako reobly for tho shore, lolding the faco of my motivalusy child above tho wutor ns bost I can, L'to stiuz- glo is but briof, My strength is failiug fast, A boag is coming to the roscus, Throe minutes more, and we oro saved! I mako renowed ef- forty, but in vain, My strougtu is going—gono | Tum’ Just consoious that we ary siuking, and that ull 18 lost. Aund uow iny mind I8 in n stato of siranga, in- credible otivity, 1 feel no physioal puiv, nttor tho firat gasp of strangulation, Begiuning far baclt, wita tho eatliost improssion whick my souses Linvo aver recoived, tho various svones of my life come up botoro moe with o vividness and 8 velocity which ure inconceivable. No sesne I have witnassed, vo deod I huvo done, no word 1 have spoken or hoard spokun, 10 nonsa~ tion I have oxporionced, no secrot tiwugut or chcam or vagus wind-siidow L lave ever liad, iy omittad, Iiseh improssion my brain has over veceived 16 roproduced, jn all the vivid coloring of roulity, in all the LOld distmctuus of trath, No shado or ouiliuo is omitted, nothing i3 bur- ied, nothing dosiciont, liere 1 a peruol micro- cusml—n lifotimo compressed 1utv u single mu- mont! "I'ho micragosmic vision ends withmy last faing strugslo for breuth, winle nmliing, and il bos cowes blauk, utter, impouetinile darknosy, A vest, impaipablo, iuduseribable, savonipro- hennble Bonehinyg, hovering over moe, bived- ity arvund mo, ever ovolving, yut novor evotyo cunsinusily ohanging, yob nlways tho suw, ris- ing, expauding, volling, moving; o dull pain b my heart; a droary, acuing void at my bain, wiiioh fg, aud Is aot, cousciousness; nu endions motion to and feo-—-oh ! will it nover, never congo 7—n uenso of deathly nauseation; o gusp for brenth, whieh torturos me bLegond eoxpros- wion ; unother und anothor gasp, with inercasod pain; nod now come momencs which ara conti- ries of iufornal n|,'uny 3 Ldio teu thousanddeatis in rogaining tho hitlo life s0 nearly extinguish- od; my heart throbs; T1eel thom chaflug wo from hond to feot; oby, if thoy would but Toave mo! With uli tho strength L "can command, I oponmy oyos: facod, unbtimniliay and yot Laif- romembered, avo over sud around e, “Lval Eva! Fval” Sowmo turn nway tholr faces, sadly, as I sponk, T compeolioud it all with justautaucous, cortuin intuition s sho is doad] T Luyo uo more ol catth to live forl My eyos drop toguthor with thoir own weight, aud’ tho blessod .darkness comos again, 1 am lying upon & bed, in & dim room, 80 \wenk thiat to wove lingar oxhuusts mo, A #nd-faced woman sits boside tho bed, Bho tells me, iua low voica, that * ‘I'he oriuiu iy past,” und thay I must not talks, I closs my eyos; and sometuing brings éhg wordis o my lips, whilo my Lieart goos up to God— “ Wather, will you paint mo an angel ?** "ho words aro sourcoly uttored, woou I 800 & ploture that is holy, “U'bore slw is, hoverlng over me, clothed in tho trauscondout purity of Lliouveu—Eva, my augel-obild—God's angel I Bho novor lonves ey sho tloats nbuve and around me, and hor prosoucs glves me ustrongth wad lite, bringiug mo slowly baels to tho world of mon and action, &~ ‘I'hoy toll :no how & brave mian saw uo strug- gliug in tho water, aud risiced hiv lifo to saveu 0w bo found 1ay ohild olasped ficmly in my arm, holding In ber hund & toru nuid halt-deuabod hly. Ihoy toll me that sho novor upako, or guvou sigu of tifo; and I am thuuklal thut, ot lonat, shio did nob sutbor, us I dld, tho torsibla ao- ntes of rasusoilation, Yhoy toll mo how xhuy burfed hor, like tho *‘Lily Mall of Astolas," with tho poor crualied Uy n hee hand, basido ti0 cluy of tho wifo of my sarlier yoar, Thoy toll me how, for many days, ILiave beon lying be- tweon lifo and donth, delirlous, and talking incoa- uantly of my child. 1 beoomo strongor, aad o, lone, to vislt the tiny oot of_carth whioh alinosé brolo my hoart in onrly manhood, aud which did it qiito in latoe yenrs, Lo wight of Lho uow gravo, tho sense of fiitor, frrotriovnblo loww, briugs s Ditternows to my hoart. I closo my oyos; nad God's sweot Droam-Picturo comos {u mo, lifting half tho bur- den from my heavt, “Ihy Child-Angal" f4 yot upon the wail of my ntudio, in tho dear old houso, whoso svery raom is nanotifled by linllowa: momotios, No day 004 by ma which dogs nab bring its goldon fralts of ratrospection nd of intronpection, I havo, on oarth, butone bright, changoloss consolutfon : God hag painted mo an angal | l1tz0, CAnrENTER, ABD-EL-KADER: A Sicoich of Iy Carcors The following lnteresting skoteh of tho lnto Abd-ol-Kudor appears in the London Zimes of Nov. 12: “Tho shadow of a great namo lhas possod awny. I'or moro than n quarler of a con- taury 1t ling boen 1o mozo than n shedow, and the presout genoration finds somo diMoully i rontiz- ing tho fact thet Abd-cl-Kader disquioted arin and challgpgod all the might of Franco in the rolgn of Louis Thilippo, One-and- twonly yoars eogo, howovor, tlio stalo of things was nlready so changed {hat tho Driuco Pregidont, o fow wooks before his assumption of tho Imperinl Grown, was able to perform a dlg~ nifled act of graca whihout nuy practical risk, by deereoing the releaso of tho once droadoed Emir. Bluco that tume Abd-ol-Knder ling lived a rotived and peacaful 1ifa i his Eautorn oxile. During his later yents Abd-ol-Kador enjoyed u coumiderable pension from tho French Goverumont, aud his eympathies wero understood to lave turned nltogethor nsido from Din enrly nspirations for indepondence. Io lad, indeed, been so tharoughly convertod ns to feel n Loen interogt In the fortunes of tho notlon which had canguered hin. When ho was recoivod us a guost in Paris o taok npparont delight in tho socioly of his conquorers, and ho s said to havo been deoply moved by tho ealamitics which overtoolt, threa years ngo, tho dynnsty that had given him freodom and princaly wolcomo, Tho ngony of Trauce in 1871 wis complicatad by su tnsnrrec. tion of the ~ Kabyles, and if this movemont had grown more formida- ablo, the ntion, on tho side of Frauce, of 1-iuder, whose name wou utill a power witis hin country, would have baen probauly solieitnl, and wouid huvo boon oheor- ully usod. “*Ilio history of the Fronch conquest of Algorin iy iu substanco tho resord or tho coutlict which Abdt-ol-Knder wagod aimost singlo-hand- ed agaiunt tho foromost mulilary uvation of Burope. Born of & family colobralod for sunetity., ordition, nud illustrious descent, Abd-cl-Kader wag brod in all the wisdom of the ¢ Marabouts,’ and inherhed o potent iutluonco, partly politieal sud partly veligions, over tha hot-bloodul tribos of hig kindred, While ho wag yob n culld Jio mady tho' pilgrimago to the City of the Prophot, wniclt gave him welaim to the title of *Hadji' Afterwurd Le stwdlied ali which Awb phifusophy rockous to bo worth f"“ g of Wtman wisdam in. the schooly of 25ypt and Moroceo, aud ho had already won o higu roputatioa wien the tuvasion of Algiors by the Feench Linally broko tho powsr of tha Turic- ish Doys and the wuulitary oligarchy waicl up- eld thom. The expuleioit_of the Dev and hiy Jauissavies was not 1egretted by the Arab popu- lation, whom thoy Imzs cruetly oppromsad ; but, unforiunately, *tio soldiers of eivilization, n3 an eminont Frencit writer desiguared Marshal Bourinont's coniquering foree, wiolded *the holy bayonots of Mrauce' with very little ro- putd for justico or morcy. The Kabyles and Buedouing wers iritatod beyond bearing by tho espiovago sl the w pliad formalities of tio ounitral:zel system of admmisteation introduced aftor the Bevolution of July. e cry wrose that tho foroignerd Word aiming ab the dostruc- tion of the taith, aad, afsor wonths of spramodio stragglos, Abd-ol-Kader put himself openly b tho ead of the * Woly War' in the Proviuco of 1o way then uvniy 21 yeats of u P ferocity and violoneo to which the Duko of Lovigo ranorted for tho suppreswon nob ouiy of upen rebollion, but of suapectod disuatit factton und disorder, drove tho Arabs and I byles to waduos, Abd-el-Kador, in his strongiold ub Maseara, grew strougor overy day, and oven cutored intv u reerot ultinuco with the Saltan of Moroeeo, haviug uy its wm the complots expul- sion of the French from Afvica. In 1831, lm’l\ud grown 80 strong tat, after two pitched ba.tles, in which tho Fieuch suffored soveraly, the latter thowght it cxpadiout to recognize tho Emir as apn aimost indepondont rulor mn Oran, Me, howaever, ad no 1urention of keap- ing the puaco, aud in 1335, whon lus power nad beet sernowlodged by the whola of Westorn Algeriu, bo runin cuconutored the forigners tha fleld, and compellod Gen, Trazgol to retreat. "Pho Freneh, domoralized nad Lewilderad, wora swrrounded’ by Abd-cl-Kador in the plain of Makte with o whirlwind of 20,000 Arab Liorso- men, and suffored o shamaful doteat, Iumeasa sl instant efforts fo vopair iho disastor v undertukon by Iy Mursbal Cla au overwheluung 1. sed ngainst Masears, the Wmn's stronghold, which be buent to tho ground. But ho iuflicled vo real loss on Abd- ol-Krder, whosa light-armed troopers seemad to Do ovorywhora to sirike, nud yot thewselves to ovado overy blow. Clausol wus sueceeded in tho comnmand by o mch greator woldior, Murshal DBuyonud, who was soou comaalled to udmit tho futhizy of the Prench tacties, A uew treaty was concluded in 3luy, 1887, by which tho Emir eeknow ledged formally the suzeranty of France, but was, en recanche, recogized ny ruler of ad Wostern Algeris, excopt hatt-n-dozon aties aud tho fruitful plain of the Metrlia. “For maore than two yoa 0 was peaca bo- tweon Franca nnd Ab: awder, Whe former ywero engaged n the conquess of Constautine; tho latter m tho sugmentation sud consolidation of lis multiay foree. War broxe ous again in Octobar, 1833, und Abd-cl-Knalor swept upou tha French power with a terceiony resolution and rosistloss encvygy puralloled only by Hydor Ali's famons descang upon tho Carnativ or the rovols of the Bapoy army in Bangal. 'W'ho whole fabric of I'rencit suthority was sunitered in an hour, and tho Buropean popalazion tound no snfoty, no contra of streuuch, rave in tho walled cition and the iutrencited ipn. Tho valor of (e Iuropean troaps w. v displayed s bt the Arabs were ot deivon < to their monn- trinous denerts tiH in 141 Dugeaud roturnel to tha noas ol W 1 tail powors, lurgo rainforce- mont 1 doapel parpase, ‘Thon bogs that terriblo wariso whicli has won [for the Al gennn velorans of Fraues n btiul fame, army of 100,000 men, Liained in tho newost rehool of elvilizod war, and nrmed with all the resources of ‘modern seienco, tuug thomselves tho brave but undicephued Arabs. 1 pdes of worcy und tenderness wore anergorionlly cast niddo, and tha determination to irilo torror into tho robela at whatover cost to humonity was prociained by Generals aud eagerly noeeptod by solliers, Ovor tho darler dzeds of that fuvious e history wonld wilhogly thwow u veil ; but Justico may o douo to tise gellautry of Bagaarad’s army and to tho vigor of 1ts commandor, Abd-ol-Kador fouzht obstinatoly nud bravely for ompire aad fuds- pendence, but hig power wiy xteadily boaton down, Ono by ono his strongholds woro wrested from bim: his_nrmy weltod, or yather was worn nway, and bofore Bugeaud haid boon a twelvemouth in Algerin ho had driven tho Lmir over tho frontier into Movocso, The Mooriuh Sultan wus joulous of the Fronecl vower, and aided Abd-ol-Kador to raino snother aviny, with which he twico invadad the Algerian torritory, Ho was defoated, however, both by Gen, Nodesu and tno Due D'Aumale, and, though for some yours ho carriod on s sort of guorviila war on the bordars, his hopos rapidly sanle. Bugeand resolved to put an oud Lo tho Moorlsh intorvention, and his invading avmy ducisivoly defoatod tho Bultan oa the Isly, in Auguat, 1814, A troaty was the rosult, tho torms including che axpulsion ot Abid- nl~l{uflm~ from Moroeco. Throe yenrs Jator, in #plte of dauutloss uud dosperato “struggiss, the troops of Gan, Lamoriciero sucsesded 1 hunt- ing down tho rallon Chisf, who suryoudered on tho condition that he was to bo allowod to retire futo oxlio I Bgypt or Byrla., 'he Do d'Ananlo was Governor-Gienoral of Algorin whon this capturo was mndo, It la paintal to be obliged to rcoord thal tho von- ditlous _concodail Gon, Lmorleioro whon Abd-ol-Kalor wurrondored wero bro- kou by tho Iwench Governmont for ‘rea- ous of Stato.’ ‘ho Kmie wus removed willi vx- traodinary precausions flet to ‘I'oulon, thenco to Farl Laimuguo, from that to Pau, znd lastly to tho beautitul Castlo uf Ambolse, ou the Loire, 1n tho luat-montioned fortrosuy e remainad until his relonso by tho Meince Droaldont in 1852, Having bound luwaelt by outh upon tuo Xoran nat to vouspire against the Kronch dominlon fu Afviea, Abd-sl-Kador wus pormittod to roside ut Jronsa in Anatolis, amd sincw tho dostrastion of that eity by an eathquuko ho lived qutlotly nt Coustentinoplo nod amssons, [fs omployod 1 fatluonco with wsatul itact i mit- igatlug Lo outbrask ot Mohammadan fanatizim Iu the Lobuanon whon the Diviea buwit wpon thelr Mavoulte noighbora, Indead, in his exile | An | ha nhowod nona of tho rostlossness and enthu~ winsny which distinguishiod his oarly carsor, and that might, i more favorablo ufi-omnflrmmm, havo mudo him o canqueror, arulor, and tho foundor of o dynusty. THE VILLE DU HAVAE. Arrival of Copt. Surtnont nnd Ifis Orew in France—What They Say Apovuat the Disastor, lavre (Dec, 4) Diapateh to the New York Herall, Cant, Burmont, commander ol tho lost slosms- ship.Villo du Hrvro, nrived horo ut 10 v'elack this morning on bonrd the stonmship Alice, from Southamplon, and was accompaniad by o lmiu, survivors of the crow of tho ill-tatod venrel. As soon a8 the party had landed {hey pro- ceaded to thio ofticos of tho stenmehip company, whoto the Captain way closaly tutorrogatod in relation to the clrenmstances aftending tho dis« aster which had bofullen his vessol. Your notre- spondont was not accordsd pormisslon to Lo prosont to report tho facts ponding an oflelal in- ‘quiry which I3 to bo instituted. During tho interrogation of tho Captain I mado fuquiry concerning tho collislon of somo twonly ot tho survivors, ombracing ofilcers and noamon ; but this invostigation proved n somo- what difoult one, as the ot d'ordre had ovi- doutly beon siven by the ohlcialy of tho Com- pany, imposing upon all tho most rigid restric- tiung concerning (uostious put to thew until the ollcind invostigation has boon mado. Bubsoquently your corrospondont ndlressed oninquiry to Uapt. Snrmout himself, who stated that hio was unablo to rn‘vly b prosont, Loiug greatly oxbrusied, mentally s woll au physieally. Ono of thae ofileors, liowever, inforaed mo, whon quastionod, that in his judgment thin eol- lision was unummlwlml in tho mauner of its oc- currenco. 1la uald furthor that it would nover’ Tave hupponed if Capt. Stmont bad boen olicor of the duck, Tho only ocensations tands nva sgainat him and tho Sceond Lioutouaut, Auiu- vand, who commitied suicida, Pl officer informed mo that ho was In bad at tho momons of collision, nnd vy nwaitenod sud- donly by a _tremendous crash, which staggered tho shin, Ho immodintely rished on dewis, and #aw that four of tho hoats had boon dlinbled, and the musts woro alrewdy falling overboard, Homio of tha sailors ntato that the **lookout™ forwnrd guve warning thut lights woio approach- ing throngh tho fog, and tuat tho ofilcor in com- mand, Lieut, Auiluvand, gave orders based upon ;mlnh warpings, Lut thaot his compand was too ato. Otaors of tho craw aagort that ho gavo no or- dors, Thov afllvm that ho trasted to the chuncos of being ablo to pass clear across the bow of the Louh Ea aua that tho first order was given by Cnpt, Surmont, who sprang; to tho docit,— jusl too lnte, howover, to bosvlo toavert the catnatroplio, It ts tho gonoral belief of the crow that Aulu- vand gave ordors on baing warnod, but that they wara too lalo, and that seveuteen socorids of timo would have cuabled the Villo du Havro to pass athwart the Loch Earn's conrso, ‘I'ho Lioutenaut took tho dasperato chance of running clear, but had miscalonlated, nud, see- ingg thio nstounding calamity which had resulted from his error of judgment, iu bis despair he necapted suicide g thia solution of lis owa em- barrgssmeont, ‘I'bore is no reasonablo doube but Lhat he could have unved himsolf, Fivo or six of tho sailors who were on duty ab thotime informed mo that thoy suw tho lights of tie Loch Barn fully five minutes bofore the ! atonmor wau siruck. Col. Montague’s daughter was the first one Killod by tho fuliing of o mast. 3 All thoe pagsengois unitad in prayer during the fow momants of terrible suspouse. Gonoral admiration is oxprossed at tha conr- age of the Amovican lndios, who doported thom- nelves with groat calmuess aud mado no con- fusion. Sooing tacir almost inevitablo fate, thoy knelt end prayed iu tLoso soletun moment. No ano thought that tho ond was coming so uickly as 16 did coma, Capt. Surmont hiumsoll thonght the ship wonld remain atloat for at loust Lialr sa hour. 'Thera were, however, two reasons why snfot; was not possiblo. Tho fulhwg mana killo, twonty or thirty persous, and mauy others wers drownad in taeir cabiny in the eadonvor to save valuablos, Of o total muster of eighé life-boats, five woro disabled, auid thres only remainal in con- dition for sorviee, nud these muved Ono of them, fiflad with passeuge stroyad by n falling mast. It'is beliovod that Burmont charged the dis- nster to tho negligoneo of Lieut. Auduvand. All aro united, howaver, 12 the belisf that tio Cap- tain did his duty uudler tho circumstances, Capt. Savmont informs we, lator, that ho hied been on deck until 10 o'clok, awl tuat when bo rolired bie gavo orders to be aroused al 2 o'clock promptly. 1l was eallod, and saw tho Loch Earn almost instantly in collision, but believed there would be timo to savoull, e at onco gave ordors Lo auch ofiicor to take command of o boat, but saw that two bonts wero disabled by the collision, sud two minutes lator otbors were destroyad by tho [alling masts. o utates that the best order possibla pro- vailed among the crew, who placed thomusives uader porfout control. . Il wunt tho fiveb officer aboinrd the Loch Earn to appriso them of the steamers dangor and sk the ngsistzuce of thoir Loats, bont's erow romained on the Loch Laru. T'he Captain of the Loch Enrn seut out thros bouty from lis vessol to &luk up passongers, Tho Caplain remained ut Lis post alwo, und en- deavorod to avo passenyord, but Lefore the bonts bud returnod to tho Loch Earn tho steanor wont down, Capt. Surmont and his officors blawme those of the Loch Earn, who wero said to bo us dusp in causo for bluma, tut, artor tho oxamination of Capt. Surmont, 1t is the gonal opivion among thuceow of the Villo du flivra that, had ho (Surmout) Loon on deck, the dlsaster would nover hava happenod, as the Loch Enin was roen gxls: ?lr woven winutes heforo the Ville du Iavro od. With omotion Capt. Surmont told your cor- respoudont hio was unablo to suaver bis ques- tions lx'xltoulgaul.ly. a8 b0 still prostrated in slrongth, On Saturday will bo colebratod high maes for tho reposo of the souls of toose lost. Also, on that day, o colloction will bo taken up, after a thoatrical porformance, for thoe beueir of tho orow of the lost vessol. 14, Pants, Dee, 4,—The goneral opinion contres | to tho belief of mismanagzemont sud wunt of dsgipline on tho Yillo du jTavro. VERSATLLES, .—1In tho National Assem- bly to-day the blinister of S:ate unswerod thant thio bast means of invesligatiou rolstivo to the Villo dit Havro ealamity would bo the sppoiut- mont of an International Commission, (=3 Curionities of Lunacy. Thero nra easey whers blows ou tho hoad bavo benatitod the brain, and producad oxsrsordinury chengos for the battor, Slabillon was almost an idiot” .}, ac tho ugo of 20, hio foll down n siono stairense, fracturad his sicull, and was tre- pannad. Irom that momont he buenmo w geuius. Dritetiard montions » cass of throo brothers who wero all nearly idiots. Oua of Lhom was in- Jjured on tho hood, and from that Lime he byj onod up, and is now & succossiul barzister, Wols lonntoin, too, they say, was & moro fool, till ha foll out of n window and pwoke with onlayged eapabils itios, A pationt in wn asyluni was the vietha of many delusions, Ho was paying oif the national dubt, poiug Into partneralup with Bavon Roths- child, and forming a lodye of female Froo ha- wom, One day nn opileptio putiont, irritated at Loing perpotually asued to buy imaginary shuros, gave him a tremondous blow on the brilgo of thanogo, From that time ho lmfwnvml rapidly, and noknowlodgod that tho blow lind had u so- boring effoct, sud had quite knocked the nou- sonse ont of him. ‘I'hore 18 no doubt that this wan the sacrot of that ernel old romedy for mngnoss, tho ciroulst- ing swing, montioned favorably by physicians of tho last contury. 'Fhis horrlble swing was o suull box fixed upon & pivot and wotkon by u windlas, The **lInfloxiblo® mauino, or ‘the manine _oxpectivg & paroxysm, wis fhaly strapped in a aitting or rocumbent poature, Tho box was thon whirlod round “at tho average veloolty of & lundrad revolu- tions & miunte, and ita Donoticial eitoot way supposed to bo heightoned by ro- vorsing tho motion avery ~mix or ‘elghi mlantos, and by stopping It occasiomally with & audden jerk, The results of this swin, %\Vhlnh occnsionally broughit on con- ousslon of the braln) wore profounlaid pro- traoted sloop, {ntonso “perspiration, moutal ox- haunstion, und 4 not ununlural hovror of uny re- curvoncn to tho sumo remedy, whivh loft u moral Improssion that sctod a8 n pormanent restzaint. ‘hat tho ronults were often banetiotsl wo linye indisputable evidonco, ‘I'ho vasos of suspeuded oconnolousnoss aftor braln lujury aro well worthy of attention, A man who wakes ous of n sleo) i3 conscious of a lapso of time, aud oni gouorally ovou guess it duration, but the mon ~ struoi on tho brain is often unconsclous of any lapse. A mon was seruok in the street, and wid attorward dolirious. o wua nuconeslous aftor tho blow or fourtean days. Ilo was thon dolwious and maniavul for ton wooks, Whsn he becamo niho tranquil they brought bim to tho asylum In u straight-coat, Ilo soon rocoverad, but whon ho hopume cousclons he Lind olean for- gotton the fourteon days’ trancy nud the tsn woos' dollrium sud manis, At thebattle of tho Fus | tt- | Nils nn Tnglieh Captain wea struck on the head by n shot, and bocamys nnconaclois, Tlo was takon homo with the woumded, aud romained in (freouwich 1fospital for fifteon mnonths, do- prived of hin wousio nnd upeech, At the ond ot thut period an oparation wuy pot lormed, and the brein rolioved frowm the pressuro. )Ie lu- wtnutly rose from his bod, and continuad the orderd to tho sailors which lud heon so_nbeptly intorraptod fifteon montha hofora. Dr, Aber- orombio gives an analogous cnse. A lndly wii wbruck with apoploxy whiilo nitting nt tho Whiute table, Tt wag Thuraday eveninmg whon she Toll, und she lay in nstupor sll Feiday and Sutarday, On Sunday sha suddenly recovored Linr con- uzlousnesy, and hor first words wers, ** Wit are trumps " o clock-work had siopped at the point, nod now the pondulitm again commentc to swing. A QUEER OLD MaN. ing Whings Lively for o Time— ‘Bhen Livimg Bwenty Years in f3eds Lrom the Detrose Free dresn, At Lo lnst meoting of the Lioncor Sockaty,Mr. 7.°8. Tibintta rend tuo following skotoh, giving tho iucidouts in the lifo of Michigan mu who, although in porfoct healtl, kept his bed foir nontly tventy yenrs : Mr. Bamuol Dunn emigratod fram tho Statoe of New York to Michigan in 1392, and =otiled in the Wownehip of Flymoutn, Wayno Couuly, thres miled wout of the Villago of Plymonth, wlioie ko rosidod until his deutts, whiclt occurred in the month of May, 1878, 1fo was born_in tho year 1793, and wns, therefore, 81 years of ugont the timo of his doath. ITe servad in tho war of 1612, wag honorably diseharged, und o ponsion wus grunted him by the Uenoral Govorvment about 4 year bhofora his death, not o cont of which, howevar, did he or any of liy family-rovcive, Kothing very unusual in bis life oceurrod dur- inm the s twouty yeass of lis rosidonco hove. o was o man of_intemporate habite, wil nearly overy week would 1o to o village i | ave n #prod. As such tumos ho wis vory uutsy, bub oot quarrolsome, Tho writer of this ki.ch hay fraquontly heard him eall out ot tho night for somo ono to *como und bl wheol " whilo L was ssconding n stcop un hin way home. On golng uit, Alr. Dunn would bo foand stasding mitway up the hill, siamping and treuding liks o bulky Lorae, endling out loudly for somo ong tv **eomo and bloclk tho wheel.” Aftor muking two or taveo nttompts to ascond tho -hill ha would back dowa tu the oot of it nud tnke auothor utart, Aftor two cx threo offorts of this kind ho would f 1 tha ton, whoen ho would wand to beb ' twe six thas hecoullyell Joader and jump higher than anyother man In the community.” 115 had iu his woods w vory lu.gte Liollow troo, and hera o way fo tho habit of going wien ho had bis sproes, nud hold whot ho eallad hiy “epmp-mectings.” At such timos tae woods would resound with his dovotions, which wero charazierizod mote for zoal than for piety. Aftor an ¢ unusial nwalening in shis hollow Lrew one day, hie went to the house, took down the bottle from the suolf, took a *horh,” aud then made a solumu vow that Lo would nover Louch nnothor drap of nrdent spirits while ha t lived, or utter anothor onth. And ho raligious- Ly kkept bis vow, tor ho nmmediately went to bed snd lny there for ninetocn yearsand nine montld, During ol this long timo ho was never known to linve liis clothes on or to wul o slep, A {irat, for a namber of years, ho was vory ta tun, sud would not convorse with any sne, nad whenever persous approached hus bed Lo would tury big head away rrom tuem. During the lut- tov poriod of Lis 1tfo ho would coaverss wish weinbers of the family sufliciontly to 1anke hiv \\-nanlu kuoown, which wete fow and ousily sup- plied. Ho seemingly enjoyed tho best of health dur- iy uil thin (o, Hover tous uny modicino but ongo, ail then only somo simplo remedy. I appotite was good, nid 1o ulo two Leacty meuls w day, brenufast and dinner, but no supper. e proforred hourty food, aud Tolished porie, potas toes, and greows, baked betus and ment. Ha Aeanle ton gucd cotfoa reguiarly, bt unothing wtrongor. Mo slept somily from ten to twelve housu out of tie twouty-lour. ‘Nevor but oneo (id ko express o wizh Lo have his clothes on and go out. One duy tho fuwmily were all absent exeept n lictle geandson, 1o ex- presded u wish to this Ltslo oy thut ho wight Liuve his clochos on and go down to the kolow troo whers 1o held his wsab dovolivns ; ouy the little Tellow could not tind bis jauty, and 0 an oppurtuuity wad Just of testiug bis wbility tc Wakit. 11is momory was remarkable, aud his {utellect romamed unimpaired o th fast. Ho muni- festod sowe luterost in passing ovents, aud would vecagionally ask intorinalon respecung thom. Uearing the clutior of o mow chive ono day, lo Wag very auxiond to Kuow vhat ic was, 1o bud uever hiesrd & yword avout such o m ue, s0 he got hus duuglizer-iu-fuw i s put bim i o chair and wheel Luw to the duor 80_that ho could 30 iz work. z 1is food wos carrzed Ly bim, placed on a stand noar his bod, nud thoe: ko was Lort to nuasell, ae b nover woutld partako ot lug food whila uny vue way prosent, Altora short timo the tuod woulé Lo gono, and ho would bo found suagly m bud o nover missed fis two meaks w day it Just Lofore ho diod, sud he could not bu persusded te ont o third, His daugiter-is-law toos tho wole caro of him during the last eixteen years of his life, shuving biw, wasbing bim, and preparing Lis food for lim, a rare instance, indeed, of ifection uud dovotion. No disense altuziicd lhim lo terminate bLis mortel eareer, 1o simply lived on, the wuup of lifo growing dimmer and cimuer, nutil fiaally it waus out ultoyether. Ilo wuad nut very much emnetated, but rolatiod to the last lus usual bodily proportions, witlch wore lways vory spare, 1o was twico married, aul survived lua last consort samo twalve or 1iftosn yoars, g A Wedding Tour that ks Worth While. From the st. Luwis Demgerat. Me. Newbuzy, of Lasenporc, la., lite Burng, of Gottysburg, 18 u praotical mun, under wiich guiso lio won tho uowrt of Mis Znmuis Sover- gyee, & brillinnt lady aud desorvedly pupular achool-tencher, and ubout five wooks agu they wore made o and wife. 1t has beou the custom of Xr. Nawbury to take au_ anans! bargo tiip to New Orleans, und lio conooived the movel aud romantic ides ol making & wedding tour in tho sume way. 'Mha subjedt was bionched Lo his fricuds, snd also ta tha riends of the brido, nud sy it met with much [ Favor on ull sides ho dewidod to carry the plan out. A barge was uecordingly ftted up i sump- tuous stvie, und everything made in suipsbape order for tho recoption of the newly-muarriad couplo. In adduwion to tho luxuries of hfe n cargo of onious aud potatocs wore stowed wway in tue hold, to bo dwspused of on arrtval at Now Orfeans, 1a this manuer was profls comianed with plensure snd connnon senzo with row, In sddition to Mr. aued iy, Newbury, the cr carijed fourtoen pussougors, thraoe of whom wors Inlies. Mr. {Iall, an experienced Missisnipoi wavigator, piioted the barge, uud commanded n erow of four mon, alt told, The balnucs of the composed of wmbitivns tulloweis of who bad pladged thunmolves Lo goop tho cuising woll kupplied With wild game. TImmediately atter the wodding cercmony had boeu perturmed, the Lridal party end tuaw 1e- tainess weve exscoriod to the barge, which way pusliod oul into the stream, aud alowly iloated past the city on its way to tho Guld. The valy stemss on baard way that which issued from cha wouth of tho toakeitlo, aud honco draawns of boilor explosions did ot liaunt the #lumbors of tho voyagor Aftor n nighly cnjoysble trip of four wepss' i o bargo, with its novel cargo of onfons snd bride, venched 8t, Lounis on Suturday night. A8 the Journey was only cons tinuod by daylight, tho leigth of timo cousnmod wus longer than anticipated, but it passed only too quickly for the happy pussengers. When gume was bighted a landing was effected, aud Tho hunters of the purty were given & chuance to minusa themyolvew, ‘I'no animated flonters spent three or four dnys m tho oity, calling ou their friends ud vis- iting places of amugewent, On \\'mh\esdur they continued tholr voyago, nud oxpoet to rench Now Ovlenns in about two montl, ‘Chey proposo to yomaiu in Cairo o wook, and alko a weok in Mawmphis, The vesgel's log will be nu intareat- ing document to peruyo whon tho trip is come plotad, snd Mr, and flra, Nowbury will doubt. ess carry it back to Davenport with them on thoir yoturn uoxt sprivg. ‘Laking all clicumstancen into cousideration, (hia woddiug-tour can ho safely clussod ae tho most pructically romauntis one ou recurd, Sl i Tweodty Mope. From the New Yorx derald, A roporter wont the rounds yuste vouLignto tho rumor thas the * Bose," ui-Souator ‘Pwoud, biud shufilod oif this mortal goil. A visit to tho lsliud aad au futorviow witl Comminsions or Jowen uud Buperiutomlont Kollowg disclosod b faot that * Big Six " suill lves, wd the yury frst exprossion ho mado on lmu'lu? Ins esll yoi- iy day to n- tevday mosntug was, * I shult you live to vutrido Wils oppouition,” A smart Womin « dtram the I 3 Mra, Banyls, who lu unty, wend ont ono day lust spring to dig ginseng. Sl i itk £0 Ly GnE of tha FIOSE lndiLsLrios Woren 1 Wl Lor woction, Duving tha day wie dug nevon pounds of ginseng, Killod fivo youuy foxos wnd two rattlosnakos, ‘slaw two fawng, and wount back hotao and gaye birth {o swins,