Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1873, Page 8

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TRIMR OF SUBSCITITION (PAYANLR IN ADVANOL), Jhatlyy by il TLO0 | Suu Tri-Woekly G0 | Weoln, Tartaof yenr t tho mamio rate. To protont dolny and mistakon, bo suco and giro Post 01 conddics in full, tneluding Stato and Connts, Remittances may bo mado cither by dratt, oxpruss, Post Ofiico odor, or n tegisteved lottore, nt TENME 10 CITT BUBA Telly, delivorad, Sunday oscoptedt, 2 conts per wook. Ly, acliverod, Sunday fncluded, 10 aanta por wook, Addross THE TRIBINS COMPANY, Cortier Madtson cud Doartor: Chicago, 1t TOMORNOW S AMUSEMZNTS, GLOBE THEATR G- Desplatnes straot, ptwgen Mad. 1 nd W, b ! fop it Wihington. ugagement of %0, Kio, ACADEMY OF MUSIC~Halated atroot, batwwasn Mad. fson nad Slonro, * Kupueemont, of (o Lydta o B, Hisismeutec o Lydls fiummaud HOOLEY'S THEATRETtandolnt i Plark i LaSailo, Sudkonen LumibhCpara Foungen }.l'\’lcl(ETHSs’rlm‘\'rl:lc--m\dhnn stroot, bofween satborn and” Stata, Lugagomeat of Lotth, +* Old MVERE' ORERA-IIOUSE - Monens stioet, hetweon Deattyori ung Stato, unyte nf e i Works Wan dors. ™ Biinctesiey Gnd Somiondities, DR, KAIN'S MUSEUM OF ANATOMY—Clark ooty batwoon Madism aud Moncoo, "BUSINESS NOTICES. HRADQUARTERS FOI BOYS' OLOTHING. €. O. COLLIN, 181 nuit 13 € The Bunday Morning, Docombar 7, 1873, hichige Cibune, A CRILD LOST, "o President’s mesaage revoals now and glit-, tering wuggots of wisdom every time it i ex- smined. Liko tho works of Sbakspoato, Dauto, | Ailton, and (ho athor clasaical poots, ovory limo no sit down to its porusnl it discloses now beau- Yee aud fresh surprisos. Who man who casually tuns his oyo but onco over this remarkable doo- unont docs uot do it Justice. It must bo ox- amined longthways, sud sidoways, and under tho surface, and bottom upwards, and ghould Lo carefully rovolvod,—in which cas it willshow as wany divorso and beautiful combingtions 18 tho Lkaloidoscope. Wo have already called attoution to o fow of theso ox- tracrdicary disclosures, and, from {lo embar- rassmont of riches, scloct one moro nugget which may havo oscaped tho oy of (ho goneral reador, Wo refor to tho suggostion of tho President that the Secrotary of the Navy sball go up tho Amazon in wearch of our lost com- merce, When our commerco was lost up tho Amazon, or what sort of a lookivg child it was that was iest, or whother the Seeretary of the Navy would know it if he saw it anywhoio zlong tho Amazon, wo haven's tho slightest idew; but wo are willing to holp the secarch elong nccordng to the best of omr abllity ; for, it wo have last suytbing up that river, wo ought to bave it back agnin, if we have to kill ovefy turtlo in its waters and evory joguar on its banks, In tho first placo, wo submit that tho Sccrotary f the Navy shall not be' compellod to go to tes 14 bowl, liko the throe wise mon of Gotliam, wud nevor bo heard of again. All tho South Ameriean explorors—De Bastidas, Pizarro, Do 3olis, Mngaliaons, Cabot, Da Mondoza, eud Joaquin Miller—wero woll provided when they tob out, and oven then Lad great troublo with tho [ncas and Amezons, We protest against send- ‘ng Secrotary Roboson to sea in a tub of a mone \tor, like tho Mavhaltan, for instance, and Lave aim served up as food for tho fishes beforo bo over gots out of the Potomac River, If tho Sce- relary las to oxplore tho Amazon and its tributarics, ns the Presidont Bug- gests, Lie will bavo to be absent a vory long tiwe, The prosent gonerntion, ot loast, will never sco Lim again, and, if ho over Las tho good luck to get back aga, he will recarn, liko lnoch Arden aud Rip Van Winkle, to « land of strangery, and flud that every oue has forgotton him, Iu tho tlrst pluco, there are 4,000 wiles of the Amuzon sloge, and about fifcy tributaries, plling up n guod mauy more thouennds of miles, As noone knows whore tho comme.co was lost, ho will have to search tho Huallaga, tho Uenyala, tho Yavary, tho Putamayo, the Trombclas, the Co- quets, the Xingu, the Yocantius, and tho forty- two othior cuplionious and muddy tributaries ; for it {s just us likoly to bo lost among them as along the Amazon, Wo nuggest, in tho sccond placo, that ho shall e well provisioned, armed, aud oquipped. It would Le folly for us to shut our ¢yes to tha fuct that, in searclhing for. this lost child, tho Sceretary has got to exposo him- sclf to many “ moving accidents by flood and ficld,” and will huve 1o scarch among *antvos vast, and doserts idle, rough quarrics, rocks und hilla whose koads touch hosven,” Liout. Horn- don,"who went up the Annzon a thousund miloy or more, reported & primoval forest the wholo of thio way, nud this stretoh of country is populated by Indiaus, who would prefer o broiled Iioboron *0 o turtle-steak any tisno, At the enmo time, it is just as possible that the commorco was lost vomewhere in this thousaud milos of vicods 88 auywhere clso along the riv- try snd tho Seerotary, if Lo dcos Lis duty thoroughly, wiil bave Lo search thom very caretully, and post up noticos hore and thore ou tho bambuos and pahn crees, describ- ing tho commorce, and offering u roward to any tontleran theraabouts who will return i to ite algtracted guardian, U, 8, Qrant. Bosides tho 1 .adinus, Lio hus got to ook oul for (Lo monlkeys, v:bo ave very mischiovous and may tear (e no- tices down, and for tho tiger-cats, hyenas, sora- tusey, bou-constrictors, aud other careless cren- tares who live thereabouts, 1f Lo oscapes ull theso sylvan dangers satoly, then he L got nsbout 2,000 miles of vampas, full of swamps, bogs, jagums, pumums, c.ndory, and othor animal aud {opographls cal disagreoablonessos, which ho has yot to c:amine, for it may bo poskible that the com- merco {8 hiddon awsy romewhero in tho tall seass and thistles which cover these pluing and fau the equator in tha hot noous, We will sup- 8o, howevor, thut o makes u fuithful search turough theso 2,000 miles of pampns, aud =3eapes all tho dangors which lurk among them, fo hus then gob to oncounter the Amazons, !1080 torriblo advocates of womon's riglity, who straddle o horso, cut off their right breasts vo bab thoy cun shoot bolter, go aboul without auch superiluous clothing, and don't lke mon, Joaquin Miller, wo bolieve, is tho ounly man 7ho over ventured among tham with safoty, and le nover could blave done it if hLo hudu't tukon out u poctio license, I'o chunces are, thon, (hat, as soon as tho Socrotary of tho Navy steps ashoro and coms monces ringing his bell and shouting ** Child lost," theeo women will flock togothor in multi- tudiusous nudity oud shock him to death, ar thay Il ellenco bim and his bell v ctarmia, and throw tim into (s river, 1o munt, theroforo, bowell provided for all such contlngoneles, nnd sufliciontly armed with cutlasgon, blundor~ busses, columbinda, howltzers, and mitralls leusen Lo awo thens dangorons females fnto ro- spoct for {ho flagand compel them to lot him hunt for his lost commorco, As he Bty fusthor nud furthor futo the futerior, now dau- gors will threaton and now difilenttios oncompayi Ity Lud 18 i to Lo hoped that ho willnot heaitato 1o mako n thorough scarch of 'Fubatlnga, Cabis- sara, Fontubon, Tarapols, Loplechla, and Al- wellon, o the inlbitants of thees flourluhing towns huve alwnya borno n bad reputation, and are notorfous for taking everything they can Iny their hands on, If Lo fails to find hiy lost com- moree amoug thoso peoplo, and it docy not turn up among tho tributariea in Brazil, the Unitod States of Colombin, Ecuador, Dolivia, and Toru, thero i3 nothing lefb for him to do but to go to tho sourco of tho Amazonm, at tho sumwmits of the Andes, If he dosan’t find it on tho top of thio Andes, it will bo of no uao to lock any furthor, Ilo might as well como down agein and come home. At tho samo time, thet no porsibility muy ko overlooked, ho mighs lenvo one of Liw cireulars describing tho lust child upon the top of Tupungato, tho highost peal: in tho Andes, which would bo a vory cou- consplenous thing for o bilk-sticker. It would Lo o pninful conclusion to the wan- derlugs aud sullorings of the Secrotary to come howo without our lost commorco ; but thon, in tho tonching lnnguags of the Dresidont : * Sucl an explorution will cost but little, aad can do no harm," rmrr—————— THE OARPENTER $CANDAL, ‘Wo havo Lorotofors avoided, us much ag pos- siblo, referenco to tho episode nt Long Branch Inst summer with which Senator Carpenter's uamo has boen associated. But tho affair las noyw reached n phaso in which it can no louger Lo izaored. 'Tho circumstances of {ho caeo aro briefly theso: During the last scason a} Long Braneh, a correspondent of the Now Yorle Z'ib- une telogtaphed to that journal thet Sonator Cavpentor kad boen refused rooms at tho West Eud Ilote! on account of tho seandalons cirenm- stances under which ho had asked for them, Trom o subsoquont editorial article in tho same journal, it was made pleiner that the chargo agatust dr, Carponterwas that ho had spplicd for adjolning rooms for himself and & woman, not his wifo, and that he had Loan refused. 'hi chargo attructed attention und clicited comment throughout tho entive country. Tho fact that r. Carpenter is not only » United States Sena- tor, but the Prosident of tho Sonate pro fen,, and the succeseor of the Vico-President in caso of the Jattor's desth, made the charge o scrious reflection upon the highest oficial circles of tho nation. It was urged that it was the duty of the Senato to drop Ay, Carpontor from his ominent position in that virtuous bedy. Boeveral volun- tary ond uvofiicicl doniuls and explanations wore mudo by friendly newspapors, and it was rumored that Mr. Carponter intended to bring u libel suit ageinit tho New Yoelk Tribune for tho purposo of vindicating bis charactor. To all this tho Tribuna nuswored thatit was prepared to justify all it hod chgrged, and thet, whenover cither Mr. Carponter or the proprictoss of the West End Iotel would make u public donial of the facts a8 alleged, it ehould have something woro to say shout tho mattor. Dut such denial way not wado, and tho scandal bad almost faded out of public rocollection, as such things will, when, a fow days ago, it was 1evived by tho publication of anumber of lotters in the New York 2'mes, which had boeu addressad to Judgo Howe, Sou- ator Carponter's colleaguo in tho Sonate, and which wore intonded to removoe tho unfavorable | Improssion that Lad boen mado against Mr, Car- ponter. Theso lotters wero ovidently procured and published eitber at Mr, Carpenter's instanco or with his kauction. Ho, therefore, bocomea responsible for the resuscitation of the seandal, and for any damnging consoquonces Lo himuelt thereupon. ‘I'lio articlo in tho Times clalmed that tho lady who necompauied Scuator Curpenter to Long Brunch wag in overy way rospactable, and that rooms wero refused simply Lecause the houso wag full. To prove thiy, four letters wero pub- lishod, to-wit: Ono from Presidont Grant, to the effeet that Mr. Carponter was not druuk on tho ovening in questiou ; one from George II. Faerar, clork at tho West End Holel, to tho eifect that Sonator Carpenter was roftwed rooms simply becauso thore was not o vacaut room in the house; onoe from Benator Spencor, of Alsbama, to tho offect that Ramwsdell, tho corrospondent who sent tho teleigram to the New York Zribune, had admitled to him that thero wag no {ruth in the chargo; aud a fourth from D. W. Blie, cerlifying that Rainsdelt Lad bragged to bim tbat bo (Ramudell) had got oven with Carpontor, becauso the lutter bad once cnusod him to bo impiisoned a4 a contumacions witnoss, ‘The only lotter of any 1eal bearing on the caso was that of Farrar, tho hotel-clovk, Gen, Grunt's letter is ultogoliver miperiluony, sinco the Zsibune nover charged that Curpontor was drunk on that oceasion, and it could only Lisve boon produced to shuw, like Grant's letter to Afv, Colfax aftor the Intter's retivemont, or his lettor to ex-Col- lector Toi Murphy, which side he wus on, In answer to the closl's lottor, the New Yoik Lribune says plainly that be fs a lior, and to meintain this postulato it offers a trapsoript of tho Lotel-rogister of that dato, wlich shows that loss then thirty namos appear beforo Mr. Carpenter's on that duy, end that thera woro fifty-four uawes of porsona who arrived aftor Carpontor, and to atlof whow rooms wero duly ossigued, notwithstanding the fact thut thero Lud boen no outwerd tins from Loug Branch during tho day, This cortaluly appems to bo touclusive that tho clerk did lio whon he nssorted that Mr, Carpentor wag yo- fusod “Lecauso thero was nob a vacant room in the bouso,” Tho Zyibune's copy of tho liotel- register nlso shews that the namesof Carpenter sud the woman who acsompanied him appear with the numbers of commuuicating 100ms oppo- eito thom, and that those numbors wore orossed out. Carpontct's name was roglstoredas “ Henry Carpouter,” intoad of Matthow Halo Carpentor, iy reul nome, and the Zribune snys that ho par- ticularly roquested that his res! namo bo not given, ‘'hoelorli’s lettor, therefore, bacomes dumaging to Mr. Carpoator’s case, borause 1t shows that Bonator Carponter was the man whoeo noma waa thus falsoly rogistered ; and it Lus nlko boeu the meaws of bringing out tho tact that udjoining rooms woro firab nssigned, and aftorwatds taken away from, Carponter and tho woman who wag with him, Thun the chargo rgainst Benator Oarpontor beeomes e plausiblo by reason of the later dovelopmonts, for which Lo s hlmuolf respon- siblo, Tlotol-keepors in general, purtionlarly hotel-keopers st summor rosorts, and more por- tinularly the hotc-keopers at Long Dranch, are IIE CHICAGO DAILY DECEMBER 7, 1873 not in tho habit of inquiring into tho porsonnl afafraof thelr guosin, unloss impolled to do no by complunts orby circumstances which on- danger the good name of the howso. 'Tho fact, 1€ it Lo & fact, that Senntor Carponter and tho Indy in his company woro flrst nssignod to ndjoining rooms, shows that thoro wasadiapo- nitlon to treat them Junt as If they wore Mr, Jolin Bmith and Mra, Jane Thompaon, whom the prapriotors hind nover neon or heard of beloro, Tho subsequont dispossession would indicato that womothing had oceurred which mado the proprictors and pornons in charge fonrful of n seandal whioh would bo injurious to the reputa- tion of tho hotol, Altogothor, the aftair now Jooks vrorso for Alr, Carpentor than it s at auy timo proviously, Ifo has gono into {t too far and too deep to go baok, or oven to ptay whoro The Now York Tribune iuvites n libol sult, and this fu tho ouly remedy to which M. Curpuntor can now resort to vindicatohimself. M. Carpontor's deforenco to the feelings of the lady in question can baidly bo ploaded any longer, siuco overy porson of her acquaintanco must ba swaro by this tmo of tho name of Mr., Carpenter's travoling companion. It is, of coureo, idlo to cxpect the Benato to tako any notico of this matter ofiiclally. Tho averago Sonatorial opinion will be that Carpen- tor's mistalkto consisted in his boivg eaught, A vote of that body deposing bim from tho posi- tion of Yreafdont pro fem. wouldbo raally o voto of counuro upon Lho publicity of the act, and not upon tho act itsalt, THE OFERA SEASON, Soma fouror five years since, Tur TrinoNe sdvised Miss Kellogg to ombark bor fortunes in Lnglish opora, and quit tho Iialian slago, which had alveady commonced to show signe of decad- once. Wo bolioved then, aud believe now, that thoro {s n prosporous future iu store for Knglish opern, Italian opors, at {ho best, is an expon- sive luxury. Asat prosent managod (and wo see no {ndications of a changoe in tho atylo of man- agemont), it is impossible to organizo s troups with moro than two or throo first-ruto artists in it. Thorest must bo moro makowoights, Tho result is that tho oporas must bo porformed very imperfectly, with excellonco in two or throoroloa, and medioerity, or ovon worso than that, in the remainder ; and, oven under thesa discourag- ing conditions, tho priccs must nocessari- ly bo very high to loavo any mar- gin of profits. English opora, on tho other hand, is inexpensive as compared with tho Ital- fun, and can be put upon the stago with more oven excellouco ; and the day I8 not far distant whon it will be so handled that oven tho oporas of tho Italian stago may bo produced in & very creditablo way, This las already beon nccom- plished with “Mariha,” *Lraviate,” * Faust,” #Trovatoro," * Lucia,” * Rigolotto,” ** Norma," and oven with an opera a8 massive ns thoe ** Hu- guenots,” The graud schemo which Theodoro Tnowmns is engaged upon will still further dovelop this faot, and show thab it 18 pou- sible to pivo oven tho works of Wober, Wagner, Gluck, Mozart, sud Beothoven succesefully in English. Miss Kellogg, there- fore, in adopting the English stage, has o bright outlook boforo hor, and sho has idontified heraelf with it none,too soon to gata firm foothold snd oscape tho wrock of Italian opora, which must come inthis country whon BIr. Thomas' great schemo is fully developed, as it willbo two orihree yoara from now. Miss Kellogg's vonture this season, we aro informed, has been madoe with special referonco to the or- gonization of a layzor and stronger troupe next season, if tho prosent season holds out tho proper inducements, Wo noro inclinod to think that Miss Kollogg will regard the oxperiment 8s a eatisfactory one alreudy, although the season has but just commenced. 'The largo und dolighted audionces which bavo thronged tho theatro, notwithstand- ing the woist possiblo weather and the financial stringouey of the times, must convinco hor that, 10 o moroe auspicious season, sho will have noth- ing to feer. Thoro is nothing in tho presont seasou, and thoro hay boen notbing i the past, to discourago her, Pareps made a great deal of mouoy in her Euglish scasons, aud, if Mrs. Ricaingu-Bornard lost, it was Dbecauso thero wos no business manngomont at tho herd of hor ftroupe, and the wholo euterprise wes left to run itwelf. Mr. Do, tho prosont maneger of this troupo, althuugh horetofors his business hins boen main- Iy of n dramatic ature, has shown good judg~ mont and tacb in hia direction, and has succeoded in giving opera with at lenst no absolutely bad apotsinit. Tho works whichhave beou produced havo Loon enjoyablo becauso the troupe is not mado up of two artists .and twonty sticke, as is tooofienthe case, and becausethere is nn ovident dotormination upon tho part of evory one on tho stago to lend thoir best offorts to the perform- anco of {hoir dutiss, 'The business of tho woek shows that tho peoplo are appreeiating the offorts of the nan- agors to give English opera in good style, and Bling Kollogg bos overy reason to feol compli- mented at tho recoption,—a complimont, alao, of which 3Mius. Van Zundt may take a handsomo share tohorselr. o reportolro for the present wealr, which is publishod elsowhora, is a vory at- tractive one, and thoro iu overy rosson to bolieve that tho troupo, thoroforo, will not go away ompty-handed. The encouragement for Miss Kellogg is ample, and she Llas overy reason to beliove that the public will suslein Lo in her present eeason, aud wolcomo her noxt seeson at thohoed of o troupe oven larger and bottor than the presont ona. MRY, SWISIHELI'S LETTER, Wo mint elsowhero o lotter from Mru, Jano Groy Bwissholm on the Beochor-Bowen matter, which I romartablo rathor for what it suggests thun for what ic actually says. It is not easy to toll whathor it was wiitéon in tho wayof irony or with sorious intent, If intonded to bo ironi- cal, it is an insidlous attack on all tho persony whose uamos Lave hown sssocinted with the affair, and espocintly upon Mr, Docohior aud the Indy whoso uamo wau flrs: couplod with his when the gossip was made publio,—u Indy who has always beon rospocted as o virtious woman, and chorished as & gontlo, doli- cato, and slfeotionate wife, I thoro wers mo othor construction to bo put upon Mus, Bwiss- Lielm's leltor, wo should deoline to publish it, a3 it would merely contribute to tho stock of scau- dal, which {s alrendy oxconsive, withont in any tannnor enggosting an oxplauation of the mysto- ry in which tho whole cuso s fuvolved. But thelottor suggeats u *“now departure ™ in (ho selioal of publio moraly, which, If not alto- gotner oilgmal wlth Mre, Bwissholm, s yot sullelonily navel uud startling to atiract attontion. 'I'hiu Indy vontonds substantially {hat Mr. Bocehor's privato conduct I8 nobody's busi- uotd, und intinamten that it would do more barm to oxposo it and dethrone BMr, Decoker from tho rollgious prominouco ho now holds than to per- mit him to woar tho livery of Ilenven to sorve tho davitin, *'No ono can dony," cays Mras, Bywiseholm, *that tho Lord has ondowed him with a spoclal gift of tonching,” oto. Bho Jikons bim toacup, and his eloquonce and roligious forvor to breclons draughts with which ho ie overflowing, “8hall wo brenk tho oup beenuso thero fs o flav in 17" gho noke, If all ibls fs spokon fn carnent, 1t mennn that, #o long s Mr. Doecher's pulpit utterances nro of bonelit to tho community, it should make no differoncs what his porsonal mornlynto, It menns that Mr. Baecher may Lo a lbertino In privato, aud still bo of such great ood Lo mankiud by means of his publie toach- ings that hls vices should not be oxposed nad punishod. It means that Mr. Beocher as n hypo- orito is too much of & blossing to tho world to bo sncrificod on the altar of truth, All this sounds vory strange. It rainos tho question whothor lypoorisy ia a virtuo, or tho opposite. Wao cannot limlt tho application of this now law of morals to Mr. Beechor. Othier mon nvo oloquent in publie. Other mon glow with rellgious fervor in tho pulpit, Other mon are uhiniuyg lights ln socsaty, Lright- oniug, cheoring, and purifying in all their out- ward seeming. Othor men are permitted, under tha cover of their clorieal robor, to entor 1roely into tho domostic circlos of thelr congroga- tions, Iusbands trust thelr wives, brothors thoir mistors, and faihors thelr daughicrs moro confldingly in the companionship of men who preach religion, cxtol virtuo, and axaito holy thonglits in publie. Aro wo nukod to sdmit, thon, that all men, in proportion to their intel- lectual power and porsonal magnotian, shall bo granted immunity from all inquiry into (heir privato morals? 1s it contonded that moen whose position las idontiflod them to wome oxtont with tho good name of the Church shall Lo fros from tho moral restraints which the Church itecl? has imposod upon all por- sons? Bhall Ionry Ward Beechier's olo- quonce, influenco, mnd fame outitle him to a goneral abeolution for all privalo sins, 80 lony; as they aro not opon aud bavefacod ? It we huvo nob groatly misintorprosod Mry, Bywiss- holm's philosophy, she bints an ablrmative answer to all those quostions, and thereby sots up a code of morals that would produco chaos, in very short order, if gonerally accoptod. It would boa work of superorogation to point out that such & sysiem would bo subvorsive, not only of the safoguards of society, Lut of the foundation of religiou. ‘Wo havo said this much in answor to the sin- gular theory that Mry, Swisshelm's lottor scoms to suggest, and without any referonce to tho merita of tho Beocher-Bowon controversy as it vow slands. In spito of the wide discussion which this matior bas olicited, thero lias boon nothing dofinite onough Lo warrant an unfavora- ble judgmont of Mr. Deecher, but much to authoriza the suspicioa that ho has been foully slunderod by Ilowry C. Dowan. Indeod, Mr. Bowen seoms inclined to admit that much. At tho samo time, wo have an opinion that tho troatment of tho matter Ly all the partics con- cerned, including tho congregation of Plymouth Churels, has beon of the charsctor 1o creato tho bolicf in meny quarters that somothiug is with- held. Wobellove, also, that an honest, strnight- forward investigation, which shall nscertnin tho character of tho chargo and clear the atmos- phern of the hiaze that now onvelopa tho wholo aflair, is the proper course to adopt. CULTIVATING THE FINE ARTS, The latest devolopment of tasto for the fino arts has occurred within & fow weeks in Chicago. Madison atreet has boen sofected ns the fleld, though the wonderful success that has so far been obtainod will probebly carry the businoss into all parts of thocity. Sovoral large storos hitherto tennntless have within ton days Leon ronted ; and conspicuously displayed in the win- dows by day are vast pilos of silver col bright and frosh from tho mint, Inside theso stores, the cultivation of taste in fino arts 1s progress- ing from early morn until midnight. Tho pro- ccodings in tho stores—at loast in tho one wo vigited—may bo thus deseribod: On ono side of the building is ercctod & platform, about four feot above tho floor, Oa thiu pletform are soated ot convenicnt distancos thras or four cashiors, ench bnving bofors him 4 pilo of silvor half-dol- lars. Inaddition to theso are six or oight stal- wart young mou, oach holding a long stick, like abillinrd-cuc; bohind thia platform and againet tho wall are large racks contnining o great variety of prints from photographs, or cards of tho ordinary carte visite size, ‘Thoso picturos reprosent evory thing known to painting, sculpture, engraving, and photography. They embrace tho portraita of allthe groat, good, bad, aud notorious people, men and women, from Cain and Abol, down to Lydia ‘Thompson and Wilbur F. Storoy; thoy furnish pictures of landseapos, from the frosty Caucasus nud the Yosemito Valley to tho Plains of Abra- ham and the Pyramids of Egypt. Whoso cards can bo bought at any of tho sirect-ntands at tho rate of (hreo for a dime, and by wholesalo can bo bought for £5 a thousand. T'hoso cards nro ar- ranged aloug the side of {io building. In frout of the platform,aud fouced off from it by a stout rail, 8 & largo spaco for the visitors, Tho prico of theso cards is 50 conts oach, and the purchaser, upon depositing his currency to that amount, is handed ouc of tho long rtioks, with whioh ho dosiguates un the wall tho partioular pioturo Lo dosives. Thls pic- ture is then handed to him, faco downward, and ho is entitled to demaud and recoive in silver coin whatover sum may bo dealgueted on tho bacle of the eard. When woworoin tho establishmont thero woro porhinps sonio mxty persous, boside thuse on- engaged in kelllug the pletures, o nalo was brigk, Tho half-dollors went over the countor iuto the bank quito biiskly, and occaslon- olly it was proclulmed that A lhwd drawn 3, or that B had got £5, and Wwe naw one man who got twonty linif-dollars,— 10 being tho bighost promium paid by the ba uk, The boua fide oharactor of this §10-priza wus strongly questioned by the majority of tho crowd, though sovorsl who inslsted that tho lucky purchuser wus one of tho wansgors promptly invested thoir own monsy in vaiu of forls to win a liko sum, Ta tho fiftoen minutos duariug which we wero present at thio sale, thoro were porhaps fifty pictnres sold, and, oxcluding tho 810 oporation mentioued, tho cash pald out in prizos amounted to €8, Al day long tho busi- uoas goos o, sud far into the night orowds of mon and boya woro thoro pnylng their mouay, wotting ploturow, and oceaslonnlly o dollar or two mcoln, Woliave doseribed only tho procoed- ings which wo witnessed, Wo understand there aro hialf-a-dozen othor catablishmonts In which the samo business, more or loss modified iy form, i in fall blast, Noxt week, tho nmubor will probably ba fiity, If thiv business were done in Buffalo or M- waukea, we mlzht ho avt to oall it rambling, and rambling in its worst form, But we underatand that, when tho polico intorfered with ono of thees concorus, on tho ground thes {v was gambling, the Mayor prompily orderad tho discharge of the nceousod, and forbado any further intorforoncn with the businoss or soolal amusements of Lho publie, Somo yoars ago, thoro wan n largenatoaf contly ongravings in this cily, each purahnsor having o supposod chanco of boing tho Incky recipiont ot 0 deod In fos of tho grand Opora-llouso on Washington ntreet, The taite for fino artn Was, it wan supponed, largely cultivatod by that pro- coodling, Thoro aro n kcoro of places iu this city whore, up-stalry, behind barred doors und Dlindod windows, mon can go, nud by putting down o dollar, or ton dollurs, tako tho chances of winning or lostng & like sum upon the turning of a card, This is called gambling, and thoso who practico it aro hunted and punishod ns oucmios of socioty, The difforonce hotwean thelr proceedings and those of the pletura snle wa havo deseribod are, however, 8o obvions, tlat, oven omitting tho conaidoratlon of art-culturo, 10 ono cad quostion tho justizo of tho Mayor's decislon! Tho picturo trado having boon thus judiclally dolermined to Lo honest and logitimate, it s worth while to considor its profily, Estimating tho daily sales of o singlo ostablishment at 1,200 picturey, tho account of a picture-merchant for o week will stand thus : T'rom 7,300 pictures nt 60 Lusa cobt of pletures, Not profits par week, 2,111 Coneidering that $100 fs amplo capital, and that the bustness in purely ecash and profits immodiato, wo quaytion whother there is any othor busiucay just now that makoes such hand- gomo roturnd. No ono can vislt oue of thoso os- tablighments without boing struck wilh tho numboer of porgons, of all trades, professions, and omployments, who bave, dospite the hard times, 60 conts, or five timen G0 cents, to bob against the picturcs on tho wall. When tho ro- ccipta of ono of thoso establishments aro multi- plied by the wholo numbor of thom, the public can catimato the profits of the now trade which has tho ofilcial sanction of the Governmont of thio City of Chicago. G —— Thero are half-a-dozon insurance companics in this city whose affaira aro in tho Lnnds of Receivers, ‘These Recaivers report from timo to time that thioy Liavo on hand $20,000, 340,000, or §70,000; that sinco tho last report they havo received 8400 to £600, nnd paid out from §700 to £1,000 for exponees. Why is this money kept in this way? Al tho claims that aro entitled to s division of the aesots havo long sinco beon proved wup; and tho omission to distribute tho assels among tho policy- boldors worves no other purposs than to benofit whoever 18 drawing tho Interest thoroon. In somo of the cases, the divi- dends sro but s fow conts on tho dollar of the clatms ; novortholoss, in tho aggrogate, thoy nmount to large eums, and tho unfortunnto bLoldars of the policies are ontitlod to what is duo them, bo tho same more or lens. It looks as if thoso insurance funda wers managed for tho benefit of tho Recoivers, and of thoso who enjoy tho uso of tho monoy, S —— HERBERT SPENCER’S LAST WORK. THE STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY, By HEnnent SPER- otr, Now York : D, Appleton & Co, 1874, This work, roprinted from the Contemporary Rcview, whero it appeaved originally, is probas bly tho most important one of tho ¢ 1ntorna- tionul Sorios,” projected by Prof, Youmaus, that hns yol appearod. As may ba gathered from tho titlo, it is not a troatiso on Sociology itself,—not au exposition of the principleswud laws to which society conforms, It is o treatise on the study of the scienco, snd cnly incidentally touchos on sociologicnl quentions or ndverts to sociological lawa, Noither is it & part of tho author's ** Sys- tom of Philosophy,” which, if completod on tho plan proposed, will bo perteet without this vol- wme. 1t may bo read, howover, with advantago by thoso intevested in Bpencor's speeulation: and would bo n good introduction to the Pri; ciples of So.io'sgy, the first part of which i8, wo understond, shortly to appear. It may, in fact, bo considored as o vindieation of tho plun of the nuthor’s systom, and of his own fit- 1083 to writo & work on the subjeot of Soclology. Although past of a popular woiontific serics, and- not so techuical or abstruse ns the Prin- ciples of Biology or {he Principles of Psychology from the same pon, it is none tho lesss no food for babes. The recder will find very important and vory difficult quostions dis- cussod in its pages, such as tho MEANING OF $00I0L0QY, —tho =sclenco -of human socioty ; whother wo Lavoanynced of iv; whether it is possible, and, if pussiblo, in what sons aud to what oxtont; whet ave the difitculties in ita'way ; the qualitics roquisito for thoso who would build it up; what is tho charactor of tho sociological mind, and tho propuratory disciplino necdod to Insure suc- cou in its cultivation, Wo tule it that Alr, Sponcor means by Sociolo~ gy ueither moro nor fess than is meant by what Vico called tho Scienze Nwove, nud what hLas since recoived tl o appollation Hoionco of His- tory, or Philosopisy of Ilistory, By this we do not mean to iusinuate that Spencer would ac- copt Vico's dofinition of Seciology, but ouly that the moaning coverod by all thess oxprousions iy substantially the ramo. It has beou mado u question whother such a sclonco is possiblo, Minds of sclentifio mold susure us that it is, Minds of unsciontillo mold assuro us thut it dsnot, Of theologio minds, some ato ranged on ono eido of tho question, aud somo on tho other, Vico, who wag tho first to write on tho scionco of hustory, introduced in- to it tho eloment of TROVIDENTIAL GUIDANCE ; and Bossuet, in his Disoours sur I'listoric Universelle, did tho same, Sponcer would reject this elomont, aud this is tho only poiut of differ- once in this mattor botween tho purely soiou- tific and tho thoologivo scieutific mind; that charactor of mind found ia those whom Spencor olractorizos a8 men who, whou thoy open tho oor of their oratory, closa the door. of their Iuboratary, sud closo the door of thoir oratory whon they enter thew laboratosy, ‘Thore aro other minds yot,~minds favorably Inclined to seionco ; minds which work by tho inductivo mothod,—to whom uothing or little not roachod by thab mothod i truth; miudy whiok ncknowlodga tho desirabloness of suoh w aclenco, but avo skoplieal sy to fta possibility, Such porsons aro cithor inconulstent or Lavo a miscouception of the moaning of the {orm wsi- once. Loy do mob dony that much may bo kmown of history, much of man, nuch of soocloty. They are perfectly willing to grant (ha: nations hove a diutinet charaoter; that at loast thoir proximuto future mdy, in Dbroad outlino, be predioted ; that A GIVEN 0AUBE producos a dafinito ofoot on sooloty ; bus speak to thom of selonco and you aro et onco at fusuo with them, They forgot thel wkoro kuowludgo 18 possivlo saience I8 poasiblo ; that soionco ls ouly knowledgo clussifiod und arcangod, and Jiffars from the Iuformation of the wucultured only In not being chuotio, Whoraver fuets can vo acounmlated wnd oritically compared, right vonolusions way bo diuwn from thom ; and tho aggrognto of those couclusions coustiluto sci- euce, If, theroloro, historicl data can by ob- tainad, and subjeotod to tho crucibloof eriticisw, n seionco of history {8 possiblo. Tho oxlatonco of froo wilt has boon cousid. orad an fnsuperablo baveler to o ssionco of wo- olety. Yot, au Bponcar romarks, it munt bo admitted that oven volitlon may be forcseen. Undor tho vamo elrcumstancay, all gront bodios of men AOT IN TILD AAME WAY, In great masses of mon, othor things boing tho rame, liko cnnsou produce like offcots. ITonce, of humav netlon thera may bo some pro- vision, aud, whare thoro iy sowo provision, somo seioneo b posuiblo. Ko Lar as thora oan ho gon- oralization nud knterprozation baged upen it, no far thoro can bo ecionce, Thin fy Boicor'n own vindiention. To dony tho possibility of n soclnl gefenco 1 to nssort that hovo ean bo no defluito knowledgoe of ton a4 social helnga, and, &4 & oontoquance, that rational loglulation is o chlmern, and statésmanulip werely empiricizm, Hponcor fu no enthusiust ovor Saclology, 1le sy infinilo connnon souns. Unliko Buoklo, he mukod no vash satemonds conorrning (he chur- actor of the uclenco, 1o nees that thoro aro LIMITH TO MUMAY PREVISION, and almost insinuntes that, porhaps, all wo can learn from the ecionco is faith in tho vis medi- catriz naturee, and tat **Tho ono thing nosdiul is to malntain the conditions under which the nntural actions havo Pair play.” Noithor docs ho uuderrate tho difieultios fu tho way of the sociologlut. Ilo hay a full consciousness of tho complesity of tho phonomona, of the number of the unknown quantities, and tho fowness of the oqualions. Not oiily is Lo uwaro of tho obslaclos to bo surmounnted, he points thom out ; and, wore he argning the seienco to bo the idlo droar of idlo bramm, ha eould not utale what they aro moro forcibly. Indeod, the uunbeliever in Buciology will find Sponcor's own hook tho best- enpplied arsonul for mgaments against it, Tho srray of dififcultios in tho path of the cultivator of this, thoe highost and mout complex of the eciencey, nceording to (ho nuthor's own showing, s indood appalling, Ko much 6o that ho confosses that *Wore it tho alm of rocinl mcienco to draw up quite special and dofinite conclusious, which must dopend for their truth on oxact dsin nee curatoly co-ordinated, it woull hiave to bo aban- doned ;" andt he does no: abandon it only be- couse, aftes all error in dotail has booa allowed for, thore nro cortain classas of gonoral facts which remain for thoscionco to build itsolf upon, More yot, thoauthor doos not disgniso from his readors that a porson fit Lo bo o sociologist in AY ALMOSY 1MPOSSIDLE INDIVIDUAL, 5o many and 8o great aro tho qualities ho noods; 40 oxtonsivo and varied his indispensable sc- (uiremonts ; go froo nust bo his mind from in- tolloctual aud omotional rafracting melia, from ovory bins, whothier odacational, patriotie, po- litical, or thoological ; Bo rave the discipline to which ho must Lave proviously subjocted hime welf. A very unamisblo creasurs, o, our sociologist must be, without nny concroto roligion or feith; with no country but tho uuivorse; nlike ludifferont or alilto intorested in Hoatlheun- iem and Christianity, democracy and monarchy, in tho land of hia birth and tho land of ita tradi- tional ouemy,—a judicial, cool-headed spoctator of tho trivmphs and disappointments of hu- manity. Sporeer inslsts especially on preparation in Biology beforo entering on the sc.anco of Soci- ology. Tho renson of this ia evidont enough, for maun is an avimal, whatever elso ho may bo, and tho . 'LAWS OF I8 ANINAL LIFR cannot bo ignored in any systom which contem- plates him in bis soctal relations. Comte was the firat to enunciato the proposition that **The {foots presouted by masses of associated mon aro facts of tho samo order as those presentod by groups of' gregarious crestures of inferior kinds ;" and bLerein Sponcor fully agross with bima, It 18 nocossary of romarks, however, that thoro aro somo facts presonted by massos of associatod mon which have no aualogy in tho movements of inforior beings. The fact that sociul action is tho rosultant of the actions of individuals, ond that tho actions of individuals aro vital actions, makes it ovident that to understand social nction wo must understand the laws of lifo. Our philosopher claims that soclety, or aggro- gato humanity, is an organism In moro than an allegorical senso, aud, we beliave, strange as it mey scom, that tho domonatration is conclusive. ‘We lid thoaght of giving an extract or two from the work, but space will not permit. Tho book is ono which caunot but bo read with prot- it. Unpietonding as it is, thero are hundrods of PLACTICAL LEOISLATORS who might leurn wisdom from its pages. Mon aro, as & general rulo, vory ready and ' off-hand " with opinions of what i best for socioty. Tho nocial organism has been o badly-abused croo- ture. QGroat utatesmon havo been very froquont- ly groat blunderers, Think of tho upholding of the “ morcantile ystem * (tho syatom which ro- gards all trado ag worthless aud 1njurious unloss i it leads to tho importazion of gold) by the best . minds of Luropo for so long! Lconomio phenomena wore onco the same in- cohorent mazo, regulated by no law, which socio- logical phenomonn have been hitherto, and still ere. Witnossing what has boon effected sinco tuo mighty spirit of Adam Smith Lreathed ovor tho world of facts in one groat dopartment of thelife of socioty, may wo not reagonably hopo that something of tho samo Lind may bo done for soclal action in goneral; {hat Luman thought, braoding patiently and long over the facls of luman socioty, may reach a knowledge of tho laws that underlie it, aud to which it muat conform ? How much ovil resnits to individuals from viewing ouly PROXINATE CAUSES AND PROXINMATE EFFECTS ; and yet how seldom, in dealing with the nation, do atatesmon contemplato any other,—iguorant that proximate good muy outail, and ofton does ontail, a whole chain of more remoto evils, If logislutors would loarn thet thoy cannot elithi- uato evil, but only rodistribute it, thas ot most it can bo gotien rid of on- Iy slowly, wo would bo spared the apeotnclo too often witnensed of the best-inten- tionod and most philanthropio of thoir kind bo- coming the originatoia of a thousand illa to so- cioly. And it thoso who creato publio apinion, and especially clorgyman and journalists, would gathier from it how complox is the problom they deal with, and how modost it Leconies thom to Da in thoir advocacy or eritiolsm of politica! in- atitutions aud moasuros ; if, in o word, it taught meroly THE LESSON OF CAUTION in denling with political, econumic, and socio- logical quostions, 1t would bo dolug a much- ncoded good, aud ehodding light in places ocea- eionally vory darls, il gl z CAPT. FRY AND MOTHER ANGELA, To tho Eitor of T'he Chicaye Tribune: Sm: Mother Angeln, Suporior of 8, Mary'a Academy, at Notro Dame, Ind, rolates & very in- torosting circurmstanco concorning the lata Qapt. Try, whoso lifo uho saved. Aftortho fight at St. Chorles, tho buvsting of tho stesm-cliest of the gunboat Mound City, aud tho firing of the-Reb- ols npon tho injurad men struggling in tho wator, tho wounded survivors of the dey beforo waro takay to tho hospital where Mothar Augela aud hor Slsters wero in chargo, Dol Capt, Iy and Cupt. Kilty, of tho Mound City, woro wounda and talion to tho kawo howpitat, fn' thatr gratui oua worl of charity, the Sistors mado to dlstin tion betweon Robels and Unfonists. Tho nation- ul soldies woro very iauch tnconeed ab By, whom_they acousoed of ordoring hls mon Lo fiio alter tho oxnloulon ou tho boat, l{llly\mu not X« peotod to live many more miuntes, ''he Untonisty zathored undor thao windoy of I'ry's ruow, rasoly. gz Lhat,tho minute Lroath left tholr comnumtsr's body, that minuto would they firo inte Fry's window, Tho hoad-plycleian, knowing tho dangor, locked Frv's door, giving tho Loy (o n porter called **Duteh Johnny,"—who, it ap- {mnrud. had made a vaw Lo do away withy overy Rolel that vamo in biy way, Mothor Augola, hemiog of tho oxcliement fn thot patt of th houpitul, camo forward, and, aftor havluyg uscer- tulued tho situation, told the Dootor of the disnosition of "Juhnur-." and askod him to give Lor tuo ke, Upon hetng rofuscd, on neconnt of tho dangor aecompanying the trust, Mcther Angoln throntoned toTorvo niext day, taking ot Loe Biators with hor, The Burgaon, fearing +1o would go, wavo hor the koy. Allthin tirre, through' tho opon window, Cipt. Fry heard (e {hreats of the men outnide,” Mothor Angela tool tho koy wnd wont -fnlo the room. At soon as thoy saw a vell pags tho window, a dozen volecs sald, " 4iitor, you had bottor loavo tbat room s your life Iy in denger.”” Nulelie remainod, gey ho hoat care to Killy, and lold the ciowd o1 te eido thss Capt Kilty was gotting bolter; tnd the hantilo asomblagio diuporscd. For woels tho Bistern walchied Capt. Fry through a tuvling madness eaused by his vourdd, uatil hio ontirely resovored, L — "BIANCA CAPPELLO.” A Eragedy by firs, e Co ELiunoy. Tloston (Nov, 20) L‘or;'ul.wulzuc: of the New York Lrivuns, ‘The publication of au actusl tragedy, in five acty, Iy somothing of & novelty in thewo duyr; bat flurd & Ifoughton ura aboitt to try the exs perinent, ** Biatiea Cappolle™ i4 its titlo; and 1 author 3 Mrs, Llwaboth C. Kinney, Lo mother of 13, O, Bledman, tho poot, Mra, Kine noy wrote thsin tragody in Iloronce, and sho cone sulted, as suchoritlon fo. (Lo facts of hor drama, tho bewt Ltalian und Froneh euthors concorning that apoch 3 in pari a2 Licuzzt's ** Mcinotio di Binuca Cappollo.” The story s too snd aud strango not Lo bo trie, Tho Cliavacter of Bianca hornelt in & porfact mastornicee of inconeistoney ¢ such a4 poet would hardly date ovelye from his faucy, unaided by fncts; lost all tho world whould ery out upon its unuaturalnoss, 1n tho llst act of the tragady, Dianes, o beau- trul Venetian yirl of nobla tumily, ha it mur- ried Pictro, tho son of a humble eltizon of Tlor- anco, 8ho' is drondiug, and with reavon, tho ro- vonygo of hor fushior widt her uncle ; for hoy tamie Iy wro griovously fucensed at her wmisallizneo, 1o and Diotro, hor hiusband, go to the Drince Legent, Trancenco, who iu atterwnrd to Lo Grand Duko of Flotonco, to basooeh i protecs tion. Tmmodiately Francoseo falls in love with Biunca, Ilo promises her lis nasistanco, and nrtor sae has left hus presence he deelaroa Lo hig coulidonulal Ministor, Sorguidi, the wild prasion with which shio hny Inspirod him, end entroats Hergudi's aid in his purswit of hor, Nor- guidi assures him that he cannot fail to win ler, and thon Franconco painig Ler bLeauty to lis brother, tho Cardinal, cuiarm by charm, in such glowiig words a3 only o lovr can uke. ' 1er buif is the goldan flecco’; her oyes are bluerand deopor than tho heavous; lier oiin n whito roso's loaf ; aud Bo ho goon on thapsodizing about her. Nor has she, on ler pavt, failod 10 oot tun ardent glanco and note Lo toyal grace of hiy mien, He.o is tho first incousiutency of her charactor—an fuconsistency ivly consistent, however, with hersubsoquent pulousnoss, Sho lind only just marvied Diotro for love—a love ntrong onoigi to luro hut ., from Lho palaco of her fathers to tho bare, Lum- ble liomo of her husband, Who would' thivl that uch o lovo could fatl—or that, having givon up for it her aubition, mmbition could uftorward oteal away ber woul? But soon the love of tlio Prineo Irancesca began to goom to hor & bettor thing than tho de- Yyotion of Lietro, grown commonpiuce, norhaps, iu tho freedom and familiarity of matfimony. 1¢ may Lo becauso the nccessitios of tho drama hurry the action, but it scems to coat the Prince vory slight cfort to win bor. As a lile inter- ludo, ito marrios tho Archduchesa Joanno of Aus- tria, for his oatato wust not luclk o legitimata belr; but ut tho Loginuing of tho thitd act we find Buucs at home in o ntately palace, of which tho Princo Francoeoo lin the freedom aud Piolro—a Lusband whom the worst of women would bavo o right to despise—is quito satistiod to have purchasod case and lusury and wocial cousiderstion at such a cost, With Bianca, thare seens to bo something moro for motive thau the cratification of hor prids aud ambition. She fi:\d never beon so wooed boforo as Irancesca wooad lor; 8o loved as he loved hor, Indeed, tho deop, ‘strong, unfailing love of thiu guilty pair is tho one kole thing that pleads thoir cause, “Thoy woro weali, aud mad, aud wicked—but, at loost, thoy loved, o wild flame, ivdled in Francesco's beart by his firat sight of Biauca, burued bis wholo lifo through; and sho—her aftor-crimes made her & oreaturo for angels ta woop ovor, and mou to shuddor at—but through iv all she loved L'rancesco, In tho fourth sct Piotro, Bianca’s husband, it killed in o quarrel, and tho Archduchess Jeanne ontreats of her husband Bianca's banishment. o struggles sgainst hor urgoncy for a long time. Mo eaya: Could the hicart bunish, os tha word can do, Iier banishnient miglt leavo thos its golu queen 3 But is that banishied which, seut from our sight, Stays ever with the unreuouncing heart? At last, howevor, Jeanno wrings from him s promisgo; aud Biauca is sontaway. Iler absonee proves tobo but brief. Francesco finds life 1 blanlk without hor, and sends for her to the con: vent whero she lad takon refugo; and, on hat roturn, more mad® with love than over, Lo in stnlls lier in his own palaca, Thero sho Las op- portunities of which, like an Italiau of hor race and time, sho makos the most. Sho poisons the Archduchess Josnue, and now Francesco is, al lnat, froe. 3 In tho fifth act, Franceaco hns married Bianca; has fallon Loir to tho Grand Dukodom, and hit fornior inistrens and proseut wifo sharen the rogul honors of lus coronation, Lianca's father aud all her family como from Youigo to do hot Lomago. She is crowned with lovo as with royuity, and she thiuks her joy would bo com: plato but for the Cardinal, the brother of Fran. cesco. What is a little poisou, moro or less? “T'he Cardinal will only go to eaven tho sooner for tho subtlo powder sho drops in his wine. Ie dotects the Fmscncu of tho polson, however, by mesns of & touchstono in his ring, and accuses Bianca, To provo bis own faith in his wifo, Francesco teizos tho cup and drinks it, whila Bisuca rusties wildly in, exclaiming that the wina ia poisoncd. But it is oo Iato, ho throws hor- solf izto Francosco's arms, and crios : ©God 1 Ididit—I, who loved thoo so1 YRANORACO, "Twaa Fate who did {t—accuso not thyself] [Growing <1k, But what fs this X fei an Jt be death | No, s not death—it {s my heart-strings toaring] Lifo' tica may all be ssverod, {hrouo and state Reut from me, yet give;no such mortal pang As this—this siolent parting of our loves ! DLANOA, Alas] alas! and he hes loved ma thus ] FRANCES00, Kiss mo, Blanca, Ol that kins runs through Lifo'n shattered chirde, o8 heaven'a oloctria shou hrough tho torn Guors of a trea uprooted | Iisa ma again, it mocks mo with new life, Doad thing se mow Lam| Dut must we part? DI, Woe stays with mo—thou goust to meat thy joy, FRANCESCO, In thers exlatenoe, then, where thou art not? Nol nol for mo thero is uo life to come ; ‘Thou art my life—I teavo my heaven jn thee, {Blanca goes frons kim and pours out svine of the wine, Biaxea, [Iolding up the cup, Our loves shall not x;.nr:—aee, Francesco, noa | 1 drink whero thou hast druik—I dlo with tlce, FRANOEHCO. [rying to reach fier, bt in the attempt, Drink not; my love shall never klll theo—live | (Biauca drinka Ok, God, aho drinks] now lionrt and soul hug close Yo shiall uot bo asunder torn—foar not 1 [30ke draing tha cup and rina to ker husband, supports tuy s liead on ier Logomy, BLANCA, *Tis dono | now sleep thy lust wicep on this bresst, Which batl Joug piliowsd, Jove, thy fondust drostas, O lcaven | I auk 10 erey for wyeelt— T liuvo to athory boen unmzrelty Bt lot thls truo, wweol apirit pasy ancled Froni overy coutact foul witli mine, blood-stafned : Morey, forgivences, pence, kind Huaven for bl | FIANCERCO, Grant mo no morey, Haiven, which b shares not 3 Eius patdon to my pirit woto uot yesce § Nor werey uughty eave mort unmercitul, If any atodu of it bo founl on her, “Chut stafu T own—its punishuient be mine § Or, pardoning that, suvo hotl souls frow itd onres | T1AtiCA Amen ! alag, "ta all criuiy i ¥RANCESCO, Ny Hps qrow fey—warsi oz with' thy breathes "Ll gales of Paradiso uro uot vo aweot | Oa, Joz ! for love thero $s u 1ifo to eomo § “Lhero wo minall grow, In loving, yowug ngain, “Ciers wil I givo theo an unfaing orowi § Cling cloesrt do not lot 1o go ulvue, Como—T an galbg—oue vre kiss—ona more, Ana vo thoy die,~thoy who have loved so madly, and siniell so torribly,—who linvo braved hell and detied lionven, Tho posm, you por en*ve, iy thoroughly » tragody—n tulo of sin # d otribution, * Tho intercat [s well sustainod, e shore ara many passages of powor as woll as of beauty, A Patnl "he Inko of the Yawr s {s hocoming riony for tho elnintor ovents that hinvo fately d there, Very rocently two young girls #ing 3t i & hons rovad by W man who Alter o Olebtful puaago thoy sucswded In golting aslioro nt Feoib, dulsviuined fo 5o no farthos With thelr mad boatman, Boon afierwa:d ho Wik soen to piteh bimwelf uto the tuke, and attemoty to find hin body woro Cenitloss. A fow wore was utisekad by dehriuw tromons, i duys altor (his ocomranes, n wan vomnmittod Huicido l){npis(ul whot upon the swnumtof & roek which rizes from tha odgo of the water on the rond to Axon, The wamo spot way tho £cone of tho suiowlo of a Cape, Founigor, of Lale, soma few vours back; and, before that, was matked by tho doath of o young Euglishuan, who It plantod himyolf and’apparatus upon the rook to ekoteh tho luko, N