Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1873, Page 12

- THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1873---SUPPLEMENT 4 ITALY. Lake Maggiore...Isola Madre and Isola Bella. The Cathedral of Mitan ‘and the Tomb of San Carlo Borromeo. ‘The Picture.Galleries of Florenee =-==Santn Croce. Boll’s ““Lincoln? and ¢ Evo »-«-Mead’s * Lincoln® and Eilian Allen ... Grey’s ¢ Ameriean Flag® ===Powers? Studio, Speeial Corresvondence of The Chicago Tribune, Frongnor, Nov. 16, 1673, On the evoning of Oct. 12, at 8 o'clock, our coachman cracked lis whip like a fusilado of muskotry, as ho gallopod his horaes uudor the arched entranco to tho court of tho Hotol Bolle View, nt Bavano, on Luto Maggioro. In five soc- onds, tho mastor and mistross, followed by at lenst n dozen servants, woro holping us from tho carringe, and, soizing tho numberless bundles and boxes of tho ladies, were conducting us to our rooms ; and, with Italan obsequiousncss, the master, with his hand on his heart, assured us that his hotol and overything it contained, in- cluding himself, woro nt our servico, Suuday morning, Oct. 14, wae bright and clonr, and aa Jovoly as our finest Soptembor mornings st homo, LAKE MAGGIORE, with Tsola Belln and the othor BorramennIslands, was sparkling in the morning sunlight, and this beautiful lako, with its bluo waters, looked very lovely in a framework of mountaina covered with the luxuriant foliage of Italy, and formed a picturo realizing one's brightest dreams of this mnd of flowers, Soon nfter breakfast, tho sil- 7or tones of tho bell in tho chapelin tho grounds af o woalthy Eunglish gontloman called us to thureh. Monday we spont on the Lake, visiting 1S0LA MADRE AND 1S0LA BELTA. The formor is well wooded, and Lus somo fino treos, planted in the English stylo ; tho latteris nearly covered with tho palzees and gardens of the Count Borromeo. Tho garden is in tho Fronch style, full of terracos, poor statuary, and grotesquo fountains. The palace itsel? is Inrge, and possesses much antiquo spleador 3 but the many formal terrnces, the very artificial, unnat- ural grottoos, tho dry fountains, and much very old, broken, and grotesquo statunry, are puetile, and leave tho impression of o vast toy-garden, and are intoresling only a8 a specimon of the bod taste in landseapo-gardoning prevailing two or throo centuries ago. ‘U'he Isola Madrois mueli moro natural, and, a8 I bave said, bes some fine trees,~the two finest being nu Amorican homlock-spruice and a Norway fir. On the 17th wo reached Milan, and dovoted the first threo deys most willingly to tho celebrated Cathodral, which the Milanese call tho eighth wonder of tho world. Wedovoted one entiro dny to the various chapels, tombs, aud monu- ments ; and snother to the stnined-glass win- dows, on which, in pictorial ropresentation, you may sludy the history of tho world, from the creation down to tho death of Snu Culo Borro- meo, in the sixtoouth contury. ‘Tho TONB OF THIS SAINT is in the crypt, audsurpasacs ali I have overseen in aplendor and magnificouce. The sarcophagus 8 of rock-cryztal, bound all round with silver. Tho body—or what was onco the body—is dresaod in bis vobes as Cardimnl. A magnificont crown of gold, dizmonds, aud other precious stonos, is on hishead. A cross of omeralds and diamonds blazos on his breast,—a prosent from tho Emprens Marin Toresa; this cross is of immense valuo and great beauty. Jewels and precious atones ve inerusted everywhore about tho narcophagus; there are diumond rings upon tho botes of tha fingers ; and the chapel is #aid to bo solid silver und gold. Altogether it far eurpussed any of tlie collections of crown-jewels I hayo seon, In- deed, it was rather difiicult to seo the skall and fingera of the Saiat for tho nrofusion of jewols, diamonds, and gold. Tradition saye the Saint was an humble, self-denying Christinn, sclling bis vast possessions to feed the Your._ and oxposing Linlifgfrecly in ministering with Lis own Princety Lands to tho sutioring in thoe time of iho plagua. Of the CATIEDRAL OF MILAN it is difficult by words to convey any iden; it is 20 vast, 0 caml)liunbml, s0 magnificent. 'The interior is deeply impressive: five naves, di- vided by fifty-two gigantic columing, from which the majeutic arclies gracefully spring to suppors 1 yoof that looks as though “the clovds might rest upon It; tho vast dome lifting itsolf fav up {owards Heavon.~iu tho dim distonco of wli ia o solitary lamp, 80 placed as to throw il ils tight upon = blood-stained spiko, which tho de- vout Cutholic belioves is one of tho identical nails driven into the bleused hauds of Qur Lord, So great is tho aren, that many scrvices may ho going on at tho sumo time without confusion. Ve actually witnagsed o mnyriago at oue aliar, o haptismat enother, and o funeral might huve taken place at n third, and a_mass been celo- brated at o fourth ; and, in addition, there wag a srowd of wondering aud ndmiring spectators, all with abundaut room and space, The wmaterial of tho edifico is while marble, wd 1t looks like n mountain of stone, eut into & Iabyrinth of spiras, pivuncles, fiying buttresses, and statnary. The roof is o forest of statuary and pinngeles; it scems to mo overcrowdoed. Phinlz of 7,000 statucs in ono hulldhlf! As, in Jookiug at o park of forost-trees, ono is more impressod with n fow majcstic specimens, euch the finest of its kind, so placed that you 3an do it full justico, than' Ly o thicket clozely growing in a dongo forast, 50 hicre, in this thicket 31 pinnaclos and statuary, it is so denee, thero ire g0 many, you cannot_do justico to any. The \overe simplici ty of tho English cathedrala, tho 1bgence of keneational ornamentation, impress ne moro than all tho woudors of this omuitm jatherura, It seems-to me that, whilo its pro- portions are colossal and its interior is grand, :ho oxtorior in overloaded and overerowded ; tho ‘uflucuco of the Eastern architecture, tho Byzan- tine, is apparent, Oct. 21, wo visited THE ROYAL PALACE. 't in especially rich in CGobelin tapestry and Flov- sntino mosaics, with somevory lino pictures und itatuary, and mauy very heautiful froscous, THE PICTURE GALLERIRS OF FLONENCL, 10 celebrated all tho world over, wo visit daily ; but [ will attempt no deseription of thom, I ill say this, however: that, while thoy contain many of the boat })iulurca in tho world, thoy are ansatisfactory : they aro erowded, liko a florist’s garden, who, growing flowers to scll, erawds tho @rculest possible number. into tho amatlast space, rathior thun as Naturo, or tho hand gnided by taste, introduces thom toornament aud beanti- [y tho yeene, L'hero sLiould nover bo more thun ohe great picture in ono room,—certainly not more than one on tho nido of o yoom,—unless, in axcoptional ensios, thoy are introduced for illus- \ration or contrast. A noblo picturo or & grand slatng, o pocm on eanvass or wrought inmarblo, should bo studied by itaolf, its mtory sud tw bosuty, to be fully onjoyed, " must Lo contomplated with tho attention con- contrated; thus we drink in its @pi and realizo ite full moaning and expression, I Luve onjoyed au hour’s quiot reading of o great picture, likko Church's ** loart of the Andes,” with nothing to distract the attention, more than a duy in o crowded gallery, 1low ean ouo enjoy pictives by the mile, or tlio thousund fact ? Oct, 28, wo visited, with the lovely dunghtor of an American artint residing m Florance, BANTA CROCE, Ifore gre tho ashes and the monuments of Michnel Augolo, Altleri, Culiloo, aud Muchia~ ‘i As wo walkod up the nave, sho recited : 1n Binta Crocw's holy preainets lio Avlies which mako i€ bolier, ifere reposo Angelo's, Alflert's bones, tnd hily “I'h cturry Galiloo, with his woen, flers Machiuvellf's earth roturned from whenco it rorw, « But,” sho continued, still usiag the langunge of Dyront Tut whero repoeo the all Etruscon threol Danto i Fetraron, abd woasco Tow Ui thes, "Tho bard of prose, erestivo epivlt | ho OF b uudied tules of love? jinteful Floretico, Diita slecps afar, LA b0, Darud by tho vpbraidiog viora, ’ . L . . . . Aud the crown Which Petrareh'a Inurente-brow supremely wore, Upan a far and forelgn soll had rrown, Hoceacelo o hia parent-rarth beq c Dpetaect 1 arth Loquenthed Yot & 3 Croco want thele mighty dunt { What Is her pyramid of precious stones, Of porphyry, Japer, sgato, aud all hues Of gem aiud nineblo, to mernst the bones Or merchunt-Dukes? Tho momentury dews ‘Which eparkie to tho twilight-stars, bifusn Froslioes fu tho groen turf thnt wraps tho dend Whase namea are maurolenms of the Muse, Are gently preased with far more reverent trend . I'han %vor prosaad tho slab which paves tho Princely ead, “ And now," ho continiied, **Iet us go to, tho Pitti Gallory, Lot us go to Aruo's doine of Art's most princely shrine, Wiiero Seulpture with lier ralubow slster vies, And 50, crossing tho Ao, we wont to tho groat gallory of tha Littl Palaco, TALL'S LINCOLY, The samo day wo called at_the studio of tho sculptor Ball, to sce lis modol of tha colossal statuo of Lincoln, erdored by tho frecodmon of tho United Statos, to ba oxecuted in bronze, and to ba oractod on the public grounds nt Washing- ton. 1t will bo altogether one of tho finest, 1f not tho fincat, staluo of Lincola yet made. It is dosigned to represont and llustrato tho nct of Emancipation. Tho Presidont is reprasented ns lolding the Proclamation in his right hand, which rosts alightly upon o column; a negro is just ris- ing fron n crouching attitudo at his foet; the broken chains, just fallon from his limbs, Jlio upon tho ground; ho is looking up, with giatitude, roveronco, and affection, to Mr. Lincoln; whilo Lho latter, extonding his left hand over the head of the negro, as if blessing Lim whilo ha frees him, soys: ** And upon this nct L invoko the conmderato judgment of man- kind and tho gracious fuvor of Almighty God.” Tho figure ia very good; the attitudo and faco havo greac dignity and olevation, mingled with kind commiseeration and sadness, Ho luoks tho grent, earncst, sincore man ho was. You read [n his countenanco the sincera conviction that ho ia in tho act of the porformance of a high duty, and the profound connciousnoss of the grave respousibility of tho act; aud he in- volkes upon it from his very hoeart ** tho consid- ornto judgmont of mankind and the gracious fayor of Almighty God.” On the colummn, in rolief, is the head of Wash- ington, the shiold of the United States, and the Stars, I ghall be disappointed, if, wheu this stntua {5 orected at tho Capital, it is not rogard- ed a8 ono of tho finest in our country. “Tho likenoss, tho face, head, and figure, aro all good; the diess—a frouk-cont—Iiits Lotler than DMr. Lincoln’s coat over did ; his hands and feot aro emallor in tho model than in lifo; and I uever anw his craval sot so smooth ; but I sup- poso theso aro libortios tho artint feols juatified in taking. UALL'S EVE. In tho studio of tho sculptor stands s statie of Evo before the fall, fully realizing Milton's deseription. She is more lovely thau any of her daughters, Coming diroctly fram thoe gulleries, from the Venus do Medicl, the Venus of Titian, and that of Canova, I thiuk this work of Ball will comparo favorably with any, aud, in Furit?' of exprossion, it surpasses thom all, 'Tho moment reprosented i when sho hns just awakened to lifo. Looking into tho Garden of Liden sho fools tha light, the nir, tho perfume, the beauty, the glory of tho primeval enrth, the-exhilaration of lifo. Tnuocent and happy. noither eare, nor regrot, nor pain, nor passion, nor sorrow lies marrod hor perfect benuty, *‘Sho iy mdeed worthy to havo been our common mother,” said o lndy at n'uiv sido, looking proudly at hor own lovely child, How glorious scems tho origin of man, when looking upon such o representation of our first parent; and who, in such s presence, can tolorate the humiliating fable of Darwin ? MEAD'S STATUES OF LINCOLN AND ETHAN ALLEN. Oct 30. Wo visited the studio of Larkin Merd, to seo tho model of his statuo of Lincoln for tha monument at Springfield, I saw ouly the hend and bust in clay, the fall longth having been sent for tho figura to bo cast in bronze. I Lelievo all tho friends of Mr. Lincolu considerit an excallent hkoness, Mend is now hard at work upon a statue of Ethan Allen, ordercd by tho State of Vermont for the old hall of the Houso of llepresontatives at Washington, ‘Uho elay-nodel is very spivited and lifo-liko. ‘Thore was an Italian professional modol, drossed in the ald rovolutionary costume of our country, sititudinizing tor the_stalue, when Iwent into tho room: but no Italian can roprosont Lthan Allen, By tha way, is it not time Illinois sent lier ropresentativen to this hall of statuary? You know, of course, thav Cengress hns Invited euch State to placo the statues of two of her most distinpuiatied citi- zeng in this hall. Massachuaetts, Rhode Inland, and many othiers of the States huvo taken stops ta comply with this iuvitation. New York bas uotecled Georgo Clinton and Philip Livingston an the two historic names which are to be thus honorad, and she has commissioned Mr. Paimer, the distingnished sculptor, of Albany. now in TFloronce, lo_oxcento tho statuo of Livingston. Thero would not, I shiould think, Le any diffor- enco of opinon in regard to the persons to Lo neleoted by Illinois, ~All would ngreo that Ton- n!alu and Douglus should Lo our ropresentatives there, - GREY'S PICTURE ILLUSTRATING DRARE'S ¢ AMERI- OAN FLAG.” The artist Grey, of Now York, aman whom many think ono of tho finest colorists in the au nearly finished o picturo illustrating 's poom, *‘The Amoricau Flag." Tho ‘words which siggested tho picturo nro, as near a8 I ean recollect thom, as follows. Ican't find = copy of the poem lere: “When freedom, from her mountain helght, Unfarled Ler Luauer {0 the air, Shio tara the azuve robo of Night, Aud set the stars of glory tuoro, n fu tho skics, Ler cagle-Learer dow, into Lia mighty hand 1 banuer of onr land,” Freedom is represented by tho figuro of o fe- male of exceeding beauly, partially draped by tho folds of the tlag. Ticedom is the moot por- feet typo of Amorican beauty ; hmir the moat luxuriaut, aud of the true golden in color ; eyos of Dbluo; features rogular and full of oxpres- sion ; form porfact. Above hier is.tho eaglo, lolding tho flag with its thirteen stavs, which falls gracefully at her sido, and is blown partly uerons her, Tho bluo abovo the hoed of the figuro is of ** tho azure robe of Night,” andisa wonder in color. The eagle, promfiy holdizgthe Dbanner, looks “ every inch tho King " of bitdn. Tho rocky coast of our country iy suggested on tho left ; and, in tho left-haud corner_a Massa- chugotts church-spire suggonts tho Mayilower, aud all tho mighty influences which have sprung from New Euglend in shaping tho destinies of our country. ‘This Goddess of Liborty is in beauty finer than all the Venuses, the Fornaronas, tho Cleo- patras of the gellerics, It is wonderful in color and perfeet in forn, and infused through wll is & dignity and purity worthy of tho subjoct TOWERS' HTUDIO is still open, althouyh tho grent artist fs dead. His son eontivuos with skilled labor to ropro- duco tho works which gave to his father such a high position, Neerly ull his works, cither in clay or mmbln, avo still to bo found hore, and can bo furnished as ’mrlncl a8 whon Powers him- self was living, Wo socmed to be surroundod by our countrymen whilo in hin stndio. TFrank- Yin, Jofforson, Waahington, Wobator, Calhoun, Lverott, Longfoliow, Shoridan, aud others, looked ‘down upon us, in ono room; and in auother, many of my noighbors and fricnds— tho faces of~ Gov. Brose, Totter Palmer, his lovoly wife, und goveral olhurs—mado e for a moment almost fancy mysell in L‘mc%goh.‘ N Fewanle Candidaites ior Office. The four women who were eandidsius for tho ofiico of School Director in Bostom wero duly olected, bul the six woman candidatea for tho #amo oliice in London wora defeatod nt tho vo- cent election, One of the Ilniter, Mm. Arthur Arnold, {no wifo of the editor of the London ZEcho, entered tho contest with conideiable #pirit, urgmg her cluiws in public meotings, and complelely vofating au argimont ou * gan- oral principles” which wan judizereatly npplicd to her own cuse. Home ona deelined to vate foe hior, and wroto u Ietter explainiug his vossons, in which ho eaid, * Tt wonld be manifoatly to tho interost of Mrs, Arthur Arnold’s husband and childron that sho should keop hev allottod place nt home. 'Lho chanees nro that Avthur und tho children bave howes in their etockingi,” Mis, Avthur rond this latter at one of the mest- inge, aud replicd that sho had no childyon, and ihat as for Arthucs stockings they wern oll t by her own bauds, ‘U'liu refutation of tho » goneral prineipios " of her aesailant shonld havo heen subcient, but the clectors votod othorwiso, “Tlien, from his ma Bhu v Itavd Tiwon, Au incident of the hard tiuies is roported from Lexington, Mo., und it contniny u hint which the hinrd-np way be gratotul for, A tineaby and poor young man, anxious for o quencher, ini- tinted n supply by purenasing u slute on ered Prococding_to tho haunts of tho whmk{_flau A ha bartered tho slate tor “u diinln” Tinding ono ueaker of the ligiuor which he loved insuii- ciont, ho pomted oub to tho bnr-tender how handy tho slate wounld ho for the purpose of clingy 'ml( nnIv little indebtednosu whicls might bo ipemred, 'Tho project suceeaded, Tho ursught on credit wns obtained ; tho bar-man rogistored it on the new slate, and all was keveno, T8 GREAT AIR-LINE T9 THE NOON. From Seribner's for Janvuary, It s quito posuiblo that thoro are minny por- gona who linve nover hoard the story of the Gun Club of Baltimoro mud ity romnikablo transae- tions. It go, it In well that they shounld he in- formod of those grent events which, not many yoars ngo, eannod such o sonsation in tho eivil- izod world. Mousiour Jules Vorno, n Ironch- man, lan takon tho paing to collect all tho facts in rogard to the Gun Clab and ity wonderful scheme, and it i8 to his work on the subject that wo aro indebted for thoe information con- tained in this articlo.* The Gun Club, which was founded dur- g our lato civil war, bad for its principal object tho improvomont of nrtillery, No ono could belong to tho Club who had not invented, or at least improved, n cannon or & firearm of somo kind, Intho words of M. Yorne, tho cateem in which tlio membera were lhold was ¢ proportioned Lo the massiveness of thelr ean- non, and in a diroet ratio to tho squares of tho dintancen renchod by thoir projectilos.” Tt is impossiblo in our pages to rolato all the rosults of tha Inbors of this Club, and wo will moroly remark that, at tho oud of tho war, thu?' showed in thoir own persons tho carnestness with which they carried out thoir onterprises. In the entire Club thero was Linrdly a wholo man, and, indosa, thovo was but ono arin for overy four porsons, and but two logs for every six” of them. No- whoro was thore such place for crutches, wooden logs, patent arms, indis-rubbor-jaws, silver gkulle, platina noses, and gutta-percha cars. When peaco was declared, theso poor follows waro vory dolefal ; thero was nothing mors for them to do. And so they sat about idly in their Club-house, where svorything rominded thom of war, whoro tho mantel-pieco was _fortross, and tho clock was sot in an embrasured tower, whoro bayonots, sluck in n cannon ball, served as candlesticks, aud whoroe tho vory frames of the looking-glasses woro fashioned after the mauner of lines of fortifications. 'hovo thoy would lean Dack, and tonst thoir woodon toon, and gosticn- Into with thoir hooled hands, and mourn the good old times. Some of them,—J, . Masion n particular,—wore oxtremoly anxious for an- vthor war, Maston wos & most enthusi- astlo artilleryman, 1o had invented & mortar which killed 887 persons tho first time it wag fired, To bo suro, it blow itself all into little bits, and tho porsons killed were iho speotators avound it ; but, theu, thero are very mortary, oven if they havo beon cavefully fired for mauy yoars, which ean show n suun total of killod s0 largo as this J. T\ Maston's voico was for continunl eannon-fiving, and, consequontly, for continual war. * Why should we sit thus thus with our hands in our pockotu " criod J. ‘. Maston. (1lo hud lost onc of hig arms in tho beogining of tho war.) “Thero are plenty of ronwons for fightiug, and why shonldn't wo fight? Tor instance, did not this country once bolong to tho English ¢ *OI courae,” replied Col, Bilaby, an armloss and harmloss bystaunder, **Woll, then,” said J. L' Maston, ©'why then should not England in her turn belong to us ?" “I'his provosition was roceived with groat favor by the Gun Club_in general, and it is probable somo nction wauld have beon taken upon it if it had not boen that the attention of the members wae unoxpeetedly occupied by the snuounco- mout_that a grand meoting had beon called by the President of tho Club to considor womo oxtromoly important business. Tho mect- ing was held ot 8 p, m., on tho Gth of Qctober, ocighteon-nundrod-and-after-the- war. 'Tho great hall of the Club wan tightly jammed with mombers and visitors, Coire- sponding aud honorary members, from all pavts of the Union, filled up every room and passago, and tho streots and alloys of tho neighborhiood wero erowded with pooplo who could not gut into the buildng. ‘Whon tho great clock in the hall fired 8, Presidont Darbicanc nrose and addressed tho assembly, The substauce of his address was as follows: Ile lamented tho idlonoss of the Club caused by tho recent peace, llE desired thut 1t should undertako some great work, o supposed that the members had all scon tho moou, or had hentd it spoken of. Mo erated thas although tho moon had been thoroughly studied by astronomers,uo communi- cation butweon it and tho earth had been cou- sidered posaible up to that date. Tle propoeed, therefore, that the Gud Olub shonld opon such communication ; sud that thoy shoulddo it by making o cannon sufijeiontly largo to sond o ball—bnng! to the moon. t thoso last words, tho great holl, and the very streots around it, trombted with the thun- ders off n’}uduuuu which Lroke from that vast crowd, It was many minutes bofore the Presi- dont could again munke when ho proceeded to thing was ensy cnough to do. 1t was ouly” necosaary to give the ball an ini- tial velocity of 12,000 yards per sccond, and it would cerlainly reach the moon, provided the canuon wus pointed proporly. Then tho moct- ing adjourned, It waas dotermined, after o vast amount of ad- ditional seiontific caleulution by the Gun Clab, to firo the ball from wome point between the Lquator and 28 dog. nortl or south of the iquntor, to point the cannon at the zenith, and to fire it precisoly ac 13 mmutes nud 20 weconds of 11 o'clock @, m., on tho first day of tho noxt December. ' An Exceutive Committeo of the Gun Club held a mcnliug' at thie house of Presidont Burbicaue, Oct. 8. "Tho matter of the bull wes tho first thing to bo tottled. Of whatshould thoy malie makeity IHow big should itbe? Aud what shapo should it have? J. W\ Maston way wild with entbusiasm, sud, waving in the nir his ivon hoolk, withh nypen scrowed intoit, ho mndesn speech full of cloquent figures. J. 1. Muuton way great ou figures; not onlyfigures of apeeeh, but numerieal tigures. Hu liked nothing bettor than to lie awaho at night, and caleulnto with what rapidity o ball weighing three-quurters of acortnin woight, and moying with & volacity oqual to sevenleou-ninetocuths of some other velocity, wonld pass over u distanco 1,300 times tho equare root of some othor dmstance. Aud, whou ho made epeeclics beforo the Committee, he introduced all theso calculatious. Lut {he Prosident was u mueh more practical wan, 1o could percoivo in nn instant cxactly what he wantod, nad Lo sottled tho question of the size of tho ball without any troublo. * You will underntand,” snid lio, *“thut it will Lo of no use forus to tirea ball ut tha moou if wo are not nbla to seo whotlier it gets thoro or not. o tho ball must Lo big onougls for ug to wso it ull tho way, Now, withi tho layy- ont teloscope that wo aro avle to make, the smallest objeet visible on the moon is gixty fool in dinmotor.” S Well, then, our ball must bo sixty feet in diameter! " cried J. 'L\ Maston. ©No, that will not bo necossary,” said tho Progident, ““if wo placo n teloscope on o very high monnti tho utmosphere will Lo 1o mucl ravor that 11 be ublo to see objecls on tho moon only nius feel n dinwmetor,” VeSplondid! ™ criod J. 1% Muston. **'Then wo will mako our ball nine feot in dinmelor, So this matter was sottled. Thors was now a diseussion upon the weight of the ball. Sowo of the Commitee thought » Lall nine foot in ciamoter wonld Lo vory hoavy, g Prosident concoded this fact, ospecially 1€ tho ball woro solid, *' but," suid he, **it will be hollow.” W wili put o himuelf hieard, stale that this “Llurral: ! cviod 1. 1, hlaston, dispeteiies m 1L, wud wmplen of Lho exporls of the United Stutew, witk tho prico-list for the curront month,” : Bat oven tiy ball, with comparatively thin aiddos, if made of enst-iron, would bo too henvy for the initinl volocity infoudod to giveit. 4o thie Comuuttce wont to w to calealato what oo othor metals wonld wely " wom Ll in oxtrasting cabe-roots, nud cleva ingg e und 7 Lo the necond pawor, they eamo to fumpient eonclunion, They wonldmnlke tho I whuniu ! t oo Lall of Uit motal Thoy cal would anly ? “ Murrah idn't hinic wo eoul; that" At tho nost” session of tho Commitloo the quention of the eannon was cousidered, It wes unaunimously agroed that it would require n large canuon Lo carry a bull ) foot {v dinmeter ; and, s the eannon of the Gua Clab wmust throw ity Lall 257,612 milos, 5o it was ovident it would liwva ta bo prnll{ Lol #Yos, hudoed,” eried J. ', Maston, * Our cannon must bo hadf-a-mile lony at tho vory lewi 1" 3 “* flalf-a-milo!" exclaimod the Committeo, in agtonivhinont, 4 Yo" eried T, bo too short by at 1 fnstan, **and then it will ano-hall, y atelkang yOn must ing Ins broark with 4 fron Lok, iow that an srtillerymau 10 like o ecannon-vall y —lio can never go oo far ™ - Tho matier Wk now gotting u little Yummm], and {ho Presidont interfored, * Lo ealm, i tlonen, nnd lob up rouson this muattor gravel Tlo ordinnry longth of a caanon is from tweuly to twenty-tivo thnes thodinweter of the Lall, undt ROM THE EARTIL TO TIE 3MOON, AND A JUURNEY AROUND TIIE 3MOON, By Juraw Yuung, Horivaer, Avastrong & Co,, New York, from Lwo hundred and thirly to two bundred and forly timos its wolgh!.” “'That won't do." eried J. ‘I Maston, “1 know it," pald the Presidont; “for, if we conalriieted onr eannon nocording 1o those pro- vortiou, it would anly bo 295 feel fonsn,” “Porfectly ridlenlous! " evlod . “Yon inight uu woll tatio o pistol ! " ‘¢ Junt no," unswored the eaident, “and for that roason I propose to miake our caunon 100 foob long." T'his was agrend to, and tho longth of tho ean- non was peltied, It was then dotermined that tha aidos should bo wix faot thick, Y You will probably not mount it onu emr- vingo? * nid ono of tho Committeo, 1o Oy that would bo grand,” suld J, T, Mug- ou, *But impracticable,” enid the Presidont. “1 shall cast the gun in the ground, and it will thas havo all tho resiatance ot the enrth around it It was, subsequontly, determined to mate tho cannon of cast-iron, and it was bolleved that such & gun, porpendicularly nud solidly sot in thio eartls, would not be likoly to burst. ‘Pho Committee then wont to work to caleulato the weight of n east-ivon cannon, nino hundred foet loug, with u bore nine foot in dinmoler, aud with eides six feet thick ; and soon uscortuinod that tho caunon would weigh 03,40 tons, and would cost, nt two conts n poutid, 32,721,600, Ho this litlle mattor waa nlso sottled. 'Tho uext dny the powder question was bofore tho Committco, Ono of the mombors, Major Elvhistone, who bad had chargo of Govornmiont Mnaton, gunpowder during_ the way, aud who wag thorcfore supposed to know all -about tho mattor, made o shorl address, *Now,” said ho, ‘o twenty-four pound bnll is fived by sixteen pounds of powder. The Armstrong eainon requives seventy-iive pounds of powder for an 800 pound ball, and tho Rodman Columbind sonds a half ton ball 6 miles with 160 pounds of powder, Ho, you seo, tho necessary proportion of powder diminivhes a8 the siza,of iho bull incronses, P + T ueo that,” vaid J. T. Mateon, “and if vou only mnko ycur ball big cnough wo wou't want any powder at ull.” ‘The Comwittoe smiled, and tho Major then stated thut ho had enleulated hat tho waight of powder necessury in their cannon would be equal to ouo-tonth the weight of tho ball, and it will thorefora raquiro 500,000 pounds of poswder, o “ Botter bhave 800,000 pounds,” eried J. T. Mavton. 'ho idea of (his enormous muss of powder ‘wos #0 improssive and awful, that tho Com- mitteo, for a few moments, st in silence, Lut they were still moro ustonished whon tho Preni- dont divectly onnouncod that in his opinien 800,000 pounds wonldnot Lo enough, “Wo will want tho forco of twice as much powd iy " snid ho. at will never dol" eried J. T. Maston, “nover do! 1,600,000 pounds of powdor will oceupy o spaco of 22,000 cubie feot and, oy tho cannoa will only hold G4,000°cubic fect, your povder will neurly lialf Al it, and thoro won' bo room enough lofe fo give lho ball o decent slart.” “1 know all that,” enid tho Presidont, “and I do ot intend to ueo that mmeh powder—I only want tho forc of that quantity, and uo I pro- pose that, instead of powdor, wo 180 gun-cotton, of which 400,000 pounds’ will_bo cqual to 1,600,000 pounds of powder, and it will ocenpy #o little spaco thai the ball will hinve move than 700 feob to rea beforo taking its grand flight townrds the (ueon of Night.” Aud so tho powder question was sottled. Among the 40,000,000 inbnbitants of tho United HBlates there wus but one mun who doubted tho success of the grest sehemo of the Gun Club. This mau was Capt. Nichol, and ho lived in Philadelpbin, It was natural for him {o Do an enemy to tho Gun Club, for ho was a manufaclurer of armor-platess During the wholo war, whenover tho artilleriste invented a new_projectile, or an unusunlly poworful_cannon, Nichal invouted & new armor-plate, Whenover Nichol dronwmed, Prosident Barbicane, of tho Gun Club, appeared o him in the form of & conieal ball, which piorced Lim through and through. And whon- over Barbicano dreamed, he saw Nichol in (ke shape of an immonse ivun-¢lad, against tho im- penctrabl sidos of which ho wos obliged to Dbatter b unfortunats head. Nichol wus on par- tienlarly bad terms with Larbicauo, beesume, on tho vory day on which peaco was declared, tho former had finished o plate of an entively now Lind of steel armoz, aud, thongh be dared the President of the Guu Club to firo ab it his best canuon and_his most porfect ball, the proposi- tion was deelinod. Nichol waxed oxiremely angry at this, aud offerod Barbicano the most ustounding ndvantagos. . 1Ie proposcd to sot up Lis plato 200 yexds from the cannon, but this wai refused, ad well ag subsequent offers of 100 yard, 75 yaids, and 50 yads. At Jast tho Cap- tain, perfectly furious, 6fferad to placo kiis plato 25 yovds from the cannon, aud to stand behind it!” But Darbicane auswered thet he would not make tho experimout,—~uot oven if Capt, Nichol stood beforo his plate, ( ‘T'hen Capt, Nichol attecked Barbicano through tho nowspapers, 1o usserted that the plun was 2l nonsense, aud proposed o series of wagers, s follows : HFiyst—That the money would never be ralecd for tho hige grun, Seeonil—Ti after thoy got 1o mouo, It Third--"Thal thoy coull not load the canuon, und hat tho gun-cotton would go off of ils owi uc- cord befora they were ready vesvisasion Fourthi—That tho caunon would burst ot the fitot 18, een aens 52 f Figth—"That the Lall would go aud would eome tumbling bag onds, On the 19tk o following note: 2,000 sbout six iles, m U few secn Bazznsons, Oct. 18, Tuken, Damprcazt, One question now romained to be decided, and that w ‘hore should the oxperiment bo tried? ie Gun Club held » mecling to con- sider this subject, and it was ngveed that tho soutbern portions of Toxas and of 1lorida luy boyond the Lwenty-oighth porallol of lutitud, amd it aoy pinco in thoso sections would ane swor the purpose. ho question wag sobtled on this Dasis, and the cousoquence was thal there urose anunparalicd rivalry bebweon the eitios of South- ern "oxns and 1'orl Tho wholo country way ngitated by the controversy. The newspapers and periodic: s%o it up ; such publications ng tho Now Yo lerald, tho Vhiindolphin Post, and the Riverside Magazine sastnined Texas, whilo the Washington Chroniele, the Now York Lribune, and the Nowark tiegister stood up boldly for Florida, ‘Il matter boeamne emburraseing, A war bo- sween Florids and. Loxas was threatonod, At Inst Barbieaue nottled the matter. * Texas,” aid be, * has, at loasl, olaven ceiting which wilt answer onr purposs vory well. Now, if wo de- cido In favor of Texns, thoso cloven’ cities. will bo fighting for tho Honor of (ho enterprise. ‘Phere in bub ono town in Floride suitably situe ated ; g, let us go for- Mlorids and tho town of “Lampal” i Tho Texus parly was disgustod, A little sud their principal organ, placo like Florida," * almost an island, squeozed botweon two sens, wilt nevar bo ublo to reaist tho (romendons cou- enssion, and will bo blown away the inetant tho eapnon in fired ! AL pght!” said the Tlovidans, **lot her Dblow ! It now beeamo necossury Lo raiso ihe monoy for thie greab work, and subreription-books wore oponed i all the principul citios of tho Union, and nlyo in yarions foroign countriez, I'ho totnd evbseripiions. from all the world, counting nothing from L —whero not & favthi way b as tho Engllsh people oxpectod to have to Py tha Alabmm eltimg,—smountod Lo &5,446,~ 475 5, Captain Nichol now paid bio fivat wager, ono thomsiand dothare, On Lho 20U of October o contracl was mudo with the Cold Bprimy Tron Works, near How Yok, for the trausportetion ol the malouals Lo Camn, Flu,, for easting thoro tho yront i, 1t was tipulated thid the cannon gliould ho flulshed, sud in perfoct ordevr fov fiiime, on e b of tho following October, under forfoit- wes of ka0 por day wutil the Moon sbould pra- sont horeelf in tho rame fuvorable condltions, whizlt would bo in aighizen yemy and elovon Prosident Dashicawe pla: of the Obsovvatory of ossavy Funds for tho coustenstion of an onormous telaccope, et contructod - with the house of Breadwill & Co,, of Albany, for tho manufacture ot tho hollow ball of aluiminum ; and, tha, accompanied by T, ', Maston, Muj. Liphistone, ol the Gan Cab, and J, Murohison, Divector of the Coid Sprivg Iron Works, ho stnrted for Flovida, and arvived at Tampa on tho 221 of Qetohor, Bub tho Miesidlent of tuo Gun Cluh wad lil sompasvions il ot rumutn long in thin lirtlo town, Thoy vxplored tho, nutrouid- iug country, nud sonn weloeled & wuitablo laea- taon for thiolr oparatinus, ‘Uhin placo wna cailod Stone's 1Tl and was wituated 1,920 voob nbove tho lavel of tho son, in Iatitudo 47 dogroos 7 minutes, mul b dugtoes { winutes wost longituda, “IL 0 fron hore,” euid Tarbieano, sinmplng upon tho summit of tho hisl, ** that the projeutily of tha CGtan Club shnll tako its flight inta tho dapth of tho Solw Byatem,” P'his was putting the matter rathor strongly, Docanso tho bail waa onlv inteuded to go to the Moou—but it vounded woll, 4 ul tho dlnposal ‘ambindge tho neo- Eight days after this o flcot of sleamors ar- rivod ut Tampa Luden with the muaterlal for tho groat gun ond with 1,600 workmon. "o ittls town becamo populoms, not ouly with heeo, but with thousauds of inguisitive persony who gathored from all purts of tho country to wateh” thi_gront nndortaking, A railrond was bt from Tampn to Btone's HHll, and, in o short timo, o village of woriitnon's houroes aroue at tho Inttor place, HBarbicano wan ovorywliers, and J, I Maston,was with b, Oun tho 4th of Novembor tho works wora com- monced. By tho light of the sun during tho day, and undor w grews oleelvio Night nb uht, the pick and shovol and the stonm-engines nover conuedl to worky and on the 1th of Juno, twonty days ngido ot tho duto lixed npon, the well with iis lming of wagonry had renolied Lho- desired dopth of 00 foct, tho stonc-work rosting on n rogte bottom, 30 foct deop. Whilo the great well had been in courno of congtruction proparntions ind been making for cagting tho eannou, Ina wide eircla around the opon top of tho woll had heon built 1,200 reverboratory furnnces, 'Paese furnaces charmed onr old miend J. 1% Muaston, 1io had never wsosn auything moro Dbenutiful, ho gald, not evonin Greeco, whoro, however, as bo remarked, hio hind novor been, When tho vast pit was thushed, Drosidout Barbicano and hig meu went to work to bwld tho gren pontral core. Whis was to bo u nolid eylinder, 900 toat high, and 9 feel in dinmeter, i othor words, oxuctly the size of tho bora of tho great eaunon. When thiy cylindor wus flnished, a spaco of about G feot was loft wround it, he- tween it and the sides of tho wall. " This spaco would bo filled , with the melted 1on which was to form tho eannon, ''no Oth of July was tho dry appointed for canting, and the eveuims boforo each furnneo had beeu eharged with 114,000 pounds of metal, and the fives highted. I'lio bluek mnoiio covered the sky, and the roar of tho turnaces 1esomblod thuuder, Larbicato and the Committes of tho Gun Club stood on s Lill near by, with o small eannon batoro them, which was to b fivad whon the engieer should etgrnud thub wll was 1oudy, Pracisely at noon the cunnon soundod from tha hill, At this momont 1,200 valves were oponod, aud 1,200 tiery nerponts erawled lownrds tio great yoll, binsing, and - glistoning, wnd - writhing, ‘Tiaci thoy plungod, with n dreadrul noise, YU leot dowi. It was au nwial wpeetaclo. Iho earth shook, and clouds of steam escapivg from the ventsin the walls of tho well roso up in n vast column 3,000 or 4,000 feot bigl, Ac lugt all the melled motel had ran into the mould, ‘I'ho Niagura of iron liad ceased to tlow. Whothier the castinghnd suecseded or nob wis a quostion that could not be determined immedi~ atcly, ififteen days after tho casting tho great eanton was still covered by n vust cloud of smoko, and the gronnd was so hot, 800 or 40U feet from tho mouth of the well, that no onu could troad wupon {6, Tt was tho 2 of August bofora tho ground bad cooled suiciently to wlow nnybody to mpproach tho ecasting, and then tho W men, linding thnt tho interior coro was sufticiontly cool, pro- ceeded to dig it out, and it was entircly yomoved by the #d of Seplomber, Y'ho bore way than drilled smooth, nad oversthing wus ready, 1t the Moon only eamé wlong in tune, and it was goneraliy belicved that she could bo depend- ed upon, there Was NO Yeaol £o oxpact anyching but suceess. . As the euunon was now cast, Capt. Nichol paid his socond vingor—s32 ‘I'ho gront ovent vf the castivg attracted peo- plo trom il parts of tho country, and the popu- Intion of Lamps ineressod to 160,000, Ixeur- sions woro organized Lo tho bottom of the can- non, oud o steam olovator was kept going night und’ duy. Tho procoeds from tho salo of tiekets " for this trip amounted during the senson to nearly 500,000, On the 30t of September, at thirty-sovon minutes past 8 in the afternoon, a telogiam, by oceau eable, camo to Prosidont Darbicune. This was the dispaleh : TrAxCE, DAy, 20th September—4 a, m, Barbicane, Tunipa, forid, Unial states: Suvstiute cyiindro-sonical projectile for spherical shent, Shall o lusdde, Sbull “arvive by slesnier At- luuta, JHICHEL AUDAN, Of courso this proposition cronted the graatost excitement in the Gua Club, sud througuout the Vnited Statos. At first everybody troatod tho proposition with ridicule. 'Lhen they begau to think about it, and President Barbicaue netually wrote to the Now York iron-founders todofor the castiug of tho projectilountil further orders. On tho 20th of ‘Uetobor the Allunta arvived at Tampn, aud in it was Michel Avdan, Ho was about 42 yeurs old, tull, vigorous, nervous, coms betive, cirnest, ominently bold nnd auducious, and, above all, ho was the flrst man in the solar systom who had detormined to walo o trip from one planet to nuother, 1lis réception wus most enthusiastie, and, urter ho had sheken havda L nbout 6,000 pooplo, Lo wos obliged to retroa’ to tho cabin of tho steamor. And there Barbieano had au interview with him, he President of the Gun Club found thup tho Fronchman was fully determined upon his projeet. 1To Liad oceagion to go to thaBdloon, Do suid, aud hore was u oxcollent opportunity, Tle might havo to wait & long time bofore anoti- or conveynuco would offor itself, Finchgs tho Frenchman so fully in earnest, Buarbicano reepectad him, Nothing so thar- oughly comunnds respeet in this world as oar- nestuess, What it connmands in the Moon re- i to be seou, 1u the menntime a quarrel Liad arison between Capt. Nichol and Barvieane, und a duol was ugroed upon. But on the fiold Ardon made o proposition, * Friond Barbicane,” ho said, * bolioves that his projectilo will go stiaighl o Llie Moon." * Cortaiuly I do,” rophed the President of the Gun Club. . “ And friend Nichol beliovos it will fall baek on tho eurth ¥ *1 am suro of that (" eried the Captain. “\Woll, then,” suid Michel Avdun, ** thig is the way we will settlo it. Both of you take tho trip with me, and then you will know certainly whether ornot the ball will go to the Moon.” ‘Lise two rivals looked ub cack othor, nnd then they shook hands, aud agreed to tie proposition, J. T, Aaston groancd. Nobody had asked hini to go. On tho 10th of Novembey, the groat passen- ger projectilo arrived from Now York. The great shall camo by rathway, and was received with de- light and onthusinsm., p T'ino inneyr walla uf the projoectilo were covered with a thick hning of slecl springa aud leathor padding. Sovera! small windows of enormously thicl 55 wero conylruceted in the sides of tho cone, &n ingeniony water-spring was construeted to-counieruct Lho initinl shock at the moment of i vorything necesaary for the comfort vas provided. Thero wera re- coplacles for wuier and food, and. thero was & Lok of gas suflicions to light and waria thom for six daye. Bubihore was ono litile dificuliy ihoy must: broutho during tho trip, which it way ealeulated would lnat aboub four duyas, Tho oxyiren inside U cell would cortainly uot last tirem very long, and tho carbonio neid gaw which they would oxpire would soon ba sui- tivient Lo Bill themw, The yuastion, then, umount- ed to thio: tho oxygeu destroyed must bo re- stored ; the-earbonic acid gas produced must bo destroyod. All thin is casy cnough Lo o by means of chlurate of polash and caustic potnsh, Tho firat of thoso, under & very high tompora- ure, gives out oxygon ; the sovond nbuorba car- bunie seid; thus tho valuabla oxygen wonld bo producad, and tho destrue cacbonie ncid gas destroved, Tho' groat chemists, Mensrs, fteizot & Regoault, hud demounstrated tial thia oporatioh. was ocasy cnough. lub as tholr oxporiments had ouly beon tried apon the fuwor aulmals, J. 1 " Maston offurad to prove thal it would bo suceossful in 1ht 40 of man. S s | cawniot ke tho teip,” ho mo up iu tho sholl for cight duy, W diceover whather or nol “ntmospherio aiy can bo producad by artiticiul moans,” Pho ofter was accopted, and » suBlivient quan- lity: of tho noccwsary ohomicals, with food envugh to lust cight days, wero pliced Inside of the ui‘m\l s and on the 13th of Novetber, at 8 o'eluek in the avening, J. 1% Mastou took loave of his_[riondy, munnted tho ladder, and disap- peared thrawgh tho aporeture in tho top of the coua. Tho caver wes thon serowod dowu tight. 1faw e liked 1t insido it wanimposnible to know, Tho walls ware go thick that nothing could bo Lieurd from him, On the Wik of Novemler, 6 o'elock i the ovoulug. tha hnto in the sholl wid oponod, Muston's dvicnds wore muu\'nllf' & Iitble nomsy 5 bub Eaoy wota suan snommnged by a shout that eamo from the fusido of the whell, und n & womont J. L, Alnston wppanred on tho top ut tho cono in u trimplnnt setituda, ii‘: Lud seiually grown tac! o mubt now go baek a little in ourstory, On tho 20tk of Uelobor of thy procoding yent wuf- ficiont mouoy hnd boon panl ovor to the Univ sy of Cambiidgo ta conntrnet w tolescopo layge onoush to obsorve tho conrsu of the projestilo viiivls was (o bo rent to the Moon. ‘Lhiora way no on why such o taolos seopu shonld not Do coustinoted, . Thore wan monay ouoagh, ihero was iron enough, uud brassonsugh, and gless cnough, And tho Gun Club had fwith onough and ouergy onctigh to do almust unythuyg, And o, wftor grent lubous, uud the most unhieard-of victovies over mochanicat dinlualtios, the telescopo way finishud, 1t was 230 200t longg, sud 16 foot in dismoters Sl precinely at ‘ Tho next question that arose was that of situn- tion, nnd 1L wns nocesanry to chioose a ligh monntait, 8o the requisitomatorlals woro tnkon to ono of the highent peaks of tho ltocky Moun- tuine, Tt wan almost as difieult to sot np this tolescono in the position neloctod ng it hind hoon tomnko it. 1t wns necessary to transporl enor- mouy stones, welghty places of forged metal, hoavy cornor slones, the vani sectionn of tho eylinder, and the object glass, which wolghod " itself nearly 80,000 pounds, into the region of aternnl stiow, Tt all difieultics woro sirmounted, and, in lesa than o year from tho conmencement of the work, the jorout tele- lmu)l)(o gt proudly on tho summit of the rucky penk. P s o thio 224 of Novouber. T ten doys tho groat oyent would take place, 'Ihero was only uno thing now to ba done, and that was to lond the canmon, and it was rather o dolleate opevation to stow away 400,000 pounds of gun- cotton, Dut Barbicane was equal to moat difll- culties, and ho had this cannon loaded under his own oyen. 'Tho gun-cotton wna_brought from Pourncoln by rail, Lon grent cartridzos ot o timo, and thoso wora eatried to tho mouth of tho ean- non by workinen in their bare feot, ‘They wero then Towered to then position Ly menns of windlagses worked by hand. No sleam ongine waa allowod to bo used, and firos wore forbidden within n distanco of two miles, Tt way oven necesunry Lo guard nggalnst tho hoat of tho avn, nnd go nil the work was done at night by the light of un oleotrle Inmp. Tho eariridges woro plucad in order in the botlom of tho cannon, and were all connceled by wires in such n way ' that thoy could be oxploded by means of an olectria batiery, All tho wires were united in n single conduator. which ran through o holo in the sido of tho casting, und_thon through oo of tho vents in the stone linfug, to tho surfaco of Lho oarth., Thera this wito was supported on telegraph poats for a distanco of two miles, wliere it was connected with o powerful battery, All that was necckunry, thon, when everything wag in order, was to pross a littlo button, and the 400,000 pounda of gun-catton would bo in- stautly ignitod. . On tho 23th of Novomber the work of charg- ing tho caunon with gun-cotton was completod. Nothing now romained to be done but to lowor tho conienl shell to ity placo in tho groat caunon. But, boluro this waa done, tho pnusenger pro- joctilo was furnished for tho Journoy; o num- berof thermometors and barometers woro plrced in o suitablo case, -nnd, to facilitate their obsor- vations on ariiving at tho Moon, tho travelors tool with them Beor and Moedler's solenograph- ie map, & most admirable publication which no travolor {o Liso Moon shonld bo without, The trayolara nlso provided pistols, ritles, powdor, aud shot, for thero was no knowing what ane- mios thoy might meet; and spndes, shovels, sawy, hammers, and gimlets; for how conld thoy bo cortain that thoy wonld not have to Duild themselves a funar habitetion ? Michiol Ardan would have hiied to Liave carried nomo animaly, He did notdesire to take snalkos, or tigery, or alligators, for thore mignt Lo noth- ing of tho kind in the Moon, and'he would not cara Lo bo the menns of introducing thom thore. All he wanted to take with him was o horse, or an ox, or & cow or two, Lut Barbicane objected. 1o nover had traveled witk @ cow on lis lap, and Lo did not want to try it ot his age. Aund 80, nithough Ardan thought it would Lo a vory nito thing to have fresh milk on tha trip, 1t was agreod to take no animals but & couple of dogs, overnl bngs of grain of dierent kinds wore packed away in the shell, aud Michel Avdan was very anxious lo ecarry along gome carth to sow them in. Thig was notal- Towed, but ko took o bundls of young fruit troes of the most approved varistics, which waro cave~ fully wrapped i slraw, for traneplanting inlu- nar soil. Diesides all this, food enough for o year wan packed in tho projectile. ‘I'licre wore also about iifty gallons of brandy, and water enough to last for two monthe. Tho trayelors had no doubt thoy would find water ou tlio Moon, and food too, for that maitor, 'Iicy were not so certain, howaver, about brandy. Bverything wad now propared. Tho groat cono was brought to tho cannon’s mouth, and clovated by onormous windlasses, Hero was delieney and dangor. If those chains had bro- fion, tho fall of such an immonso masy would suraly bave exploded tho gun-cotton, and the sholi” would havo travoled Moon-ward willont waiting for its_passengers. Bub nothius unto- ward hnlmnnud; and, uftor several hours’ work, tho shell was safoly lowered to its proper posic tion on tho mass of gun-cotton, As soon as this operation was satisfactorily completed, Capt. Nichol pnid to President Barbicane 23,000, the amount of tho third wagor. Barbieano was not willing to roceive tuo money under the cireumstanced, but Nichol insisted, e ;slzlishad to pny all his dobts before he left this world. : The first day of Decomber now arrived— avory important day. For, if the passenger projectilo wero not started on its way to tho Moon at oxasctly forty-six minutes and forty sccouds after 10 o'clock that evening, more than cightoen years would olapro befora the Moon would sgain bo found in tha propor positions of zonith and perigeo. A porfoetly enormous crowd_aurzoundod Stone's Iill. ~ From every portion of the United States, and from various parts of the 0ld World, spectators wero assombled. Abont 7 o'clock tho Moon arose above the liorizon. Grandly and brightly she mountod the slies, punctual to a minuto to hor appointmont, Never did the Moon receive so muguilicont n welcomo, Cheor aftor chicer arose from fivo willion throats, Lvery ono was now wild with excile- ment, = Betore the applause which greeted tho Moaon had died nway, the three lunar travelers appoared, ready for their' voyage. On their n?))enl‘nxlca tha applause burst forth with redoubled forco ; and thon, impolled by national enthusiasm, tho whoto erowd began to sing, in thundering chorus, tho national air of *Yankeo Doodle.” At last the alnging ceased ; ull sound died nway, nnd everybody looksd and listenod. The threo travelers uow approacued the mouth of tho cannon, Thoy shook lands with thoeir frionds, 1t was a touching scene. J. ' Maston wopt ; and, at this last mouwont, implored to bo allowed to go nlong. But Barbicane shook his head. It was imposible, . ho threo companions descended to the shell, They entorod it, and scrowed tue plute over tho orillco in the top. ‘Then the windirsses and lad- ders wero removed from the mouth of the can- Bvorsthing was ready. wo wiles away, the civil engineor, Murchison, stood. with Lis flugoruver tho button of the cleetric battory. The silence beeame awful ; people scarcoly daved to broathe, Lvery eye was centored on tho gaping mouth of the great gun, How thore wero but forty scconds romaining. Lach of these scomed an nge. At tho twontioth wecond tho erowd fairly tromblod with nervous oxcitenient. Home peoplo sobbed, somo fainted, Then _through tho silence came the sound of counting : ** thirty-ivo | —thivty-six | — thirty- soven ! — thirty-cight | — thirty-uine | — foruy ! rREiee” ‘I'ien Murchison toucliod tho button. Tmmedtatoly the most awful and unhesrd- of explosion took place, Nothing liko it wng ovor imngined, If a mighty voleano had buyst into atoms the dotonation could not. havo been movo foarful, A struight job of flro sprang into tho air, and seemod o pierco tho very oky, and tho wholo country, for hundreds of miles, was lighted up. Tho ground shook as if an oarthquuke hud rumbled beneath it. Not one of that vast nssemblagoe romunined upright; mon, women, and chitdren wore hurled upon the ground togother, ‘Iho honted gow that avosa from the month of the caunon in such vast quantitios created u partinl vaommm, whieh was followod Ly an awiul hurricaio, which swept down ovary hut and tent in the viciuty, and v troo within twonty nules: snd burst upon tho town of Tampa, dostroying hun- dieds of houses, and_nmong othors Bt. Mury's Church and tho new Excbunigo building. Great dmuogo was ulvo dono to the shippiug in the port, muny vousels being torn from thoir anchor- ago and dashed upon thio whore, Ships, oven ut u grent distance upon tho ocoun, folt the eflovts of this artificial storm, and the wrock of the Childo Hurold, of Liverpool, whieh ocentred in consequoncy of the hurricane, was made tho subjeet of diplomatio romonstrances on the part of Bugland, which camo near producing war bo- twoon that sountry and the United Stutos, Whou all was ugain quist, aud the poople could onco movy stand arest, soveral millions of telo~ seopes und opora-glussos weve pomted townrds thao Moou, But thoy could not seo the pusson- Blm.\ projectifo ; it Iind pussod oulively ont of sight, Nothing was now to bo dono but to wait for telogzrams from tho obuorvatory on the Rocky Mouutuis, y The tpmjm:Lilu was duo ut tho Moon ab wid- night of tho 4th of Docombor ; and, from 8 o'clock wntil midulght of that duy, it might Lnvo boon possiblo, under favorable cir- cumstances, to have watchod the oourdu of the sholl, which would love appoar- od like & black point moviug over & porion of tho bright tuzo of the soou, Lul from the Ume of firlug watil the night of the 12th of Dacom- Vor tho #ly had boen overeast ; nothing could bo soon, On that night n growt wind-storm wwose, and the clouds wore mwapt away ; und, sailing lllmugh tho hieavons, appuarad the glori- ous Moon, 'tlhen came uews from tho observa- tory of tho ltocky .’lounu\hn, whioh was tole~ graphod all over tho wrld, tho projeolilo had boou percoived through (ho grent telescope of tho Gun Club 1 The following is tho wubatance of the dispateh ¢ projectllo fired from the grost gun at Slonw's o, 1, hoe been percelved nt fortyesover minuten o'clock p. m, D ‘The projectlle has not d the Moon, It hias passud to one ide ; but it s aonnuggh, howaver, to bo relntnod by the uuar ate ractlon, In this position ith movement hos Luen ehanfied to o cireular motfon of groat velocity, nud It desertben an olliptical orbit nrouid tho Moon, of whiel 1L hus become o satetille, The lnwa which govern this new alar have not yet Loen enloulated 3 but it is dilant from the surface of the Moon shiout 285 milos, Eithor the attraction of the Moon will grarlually dry the profortllo to its surfuce, fu which easo 1ho travelers mur atlaln the object of thelr voyage, or the ‘lffl]!l‘“lfl il contluio to vevolsa armud i doon il Ui e of Hme, ‘This question will bo sottlel some day; hut, ot the present, the oexporiment of (he Gun Club haa only renlted dn giving u now star o our solar ayetern, (signed) 3. T, BELEAST. Tho i, | Thora was nothing moro for anybody to do in this busineas. No aswistanco could ba rondorod ho unforlunate travelors. . Ono man alono would not admit that tho situn- ion wns hopeless; this was the bravo, fudomitu- blo T, I, Matson. ~1ia did not entirely loso sight of lis frionds. ITo took up his rosidauce at the observatory on tho Rocky Mouutaing, by tha grent telescope. Tvery night whenethe Moon was visiblo he gzod ot 1t through Ll nstrmont and walchod tho panssge of tho passengor projectilo over its glittoring face. And © thua ho romained, as it wore, in perpotual communication with his throo friends, who robobly folt happy, in the cortainty they must have fell that tho worthy J, T. Maston "would Leop his oyo upon thom' ag long as ho lived and the telascopo held togother. - o did not donpair of meoting thom sormo day. ‘We will correspond with thom,” ho wonld sny, tothoso who wishod to hoar, * whon cirum. atances por I know thom, Thoy nro in= ronious men ; and they erery through spaco all tho rosoureos of mrt, mcloneo, and induatry. With theso thoy can do what they wish; nnd yon will seb that thoy will yot como out all ) i right." —_— THE POOR. ** @ive me nelther porerty nor riches,"—~PROVERDS, Tell uot the poor that !wvnrl] Jnows A blins that wealth will never discloao; ‘Thal their !lbc? 8 sound, and (helr bread i3 sweot, l!m:mlfle of their toil thirough cold and leat ; For povorty robs, ns well as wealth, *Ilio eheak of ita blonm, and tho pulse of its boalth & ‘Thoy both ara evils for mau to bear, But povorty has tho greator slare, With the comforls wealth may now obtain, ‘Lo winter-tempeat may beat In vain 3 But how docs it tall on tho balf—clad forma Tzposed to the chiliing winter-storm, Or crowded fogethor, cheerless and cald, 1n a rude dwelling, open and old, “Thint ruttles and erexks ne th cold winds blow, And sift through tho chinkn the drifting snow? O ya who fenst, 41l your sonses pall, Oit (1o blessinga Heaven designed for all, "To bo happy, Jearn, of your hoarded slore, You need misch fese, and e poor need miore, Yo braod o’er tho wealth, oppressed and sad, ‘Chiat should make your h d forgot that you cannol bo happy alouo;, I the bifss of othora that makes our owa, —Duvid Dates, HUMOR. O'Brien, Ta., boasts of woather * cold enough to mako n Polar bear wear Arctic overshioes,” —A DBrookiyn man, who nover bad o swoot- heart, says he talos solitary salisfaction in stunding aronnd tho railroad depots sud seeing thie women hug, —** Lo try mid talka littlo common sense I* axclnimed o sareastic young lady to o visilor, Ob 1" wag tho reply's “ but wouwldn't that ba taking an nnfair udvantago of you ¢ —An old Indy of Juckuon, Tenn,, s asked the city authoritics lo exempt hier from city taxens as * glio seldom walks over their sidewalks or ‘pavements,” —An advertisemont inan Irish popor, setting forth the mauy convonionces_and advantages to bo derived from wmotal window-gashes, nmong othor particulars observed ¢ that those sushen would last forever—und aftorsards, if tho owner had 10 uso for them, thoy could ba sold for old iron,” —In former timos tho Govornment allowanco given to tho widows of Scotch clergymen was Rearly oqunl to tho clergyman's stijonds, A, ministor of Crenshaws, u parish smong the Lammormoors, having wooed & lnss in humble cirewmstauces, the father of tho damsol, whon consulted on tho subject, said, * Tak' ‘i, Jon-~ ny, tak' 'im, he's 28 guid dead as livin'," —*¢ Como, mother, fi\'o ma some medicing,'” #nid au ailing Loy, ** T don’t want to die yet, for T'vo no nequaintanco in_heavon.” ny boy,” waid his mother, * there's your donr old grandfathor, and littlo Lainy, tho gardener's daughtor, and Harry Stono, too, who died ouly last weok.” ‘¢ Wall," paid the little fellow, * Harry and 1 always did quarrel, and the gor- doner's child speaks nothiug but Duteh, and 1 have grown so since grandpa died ho would not know mo when I got thero.” —TFirst Visitor—* What iine eyes little Victor hna!" Second ditto (fond of quoting)—** Yes, hic has ¢ an eye like Mars,'” Hostess (young, rich, beantiful, and iguorant)—* Do you think ac really ? Now, I havo always thought that ho has his father's eyes.” Yiere, 1oy friend, as you pass by ; OW TIOW are, 50 onee was § 3 1OW am, A0 you must be ; . "Flisrefore prepara to follow mu. It is said that once nw irrevoront wag np< ponded to this ingeription the following re- Joluder «ro follow you I'm not content, Until T knuw whick way yon went,'” —Master Coville received u prizo Friday after+ noon for o composition on Reverence, und fur~ thor distinguished himself in tho eovening, ou the occusion of the pastor's sit, by *Why, yes, shutting the tals of the dominie’s cost in tho parlor door and impelling him w Toave thom thoro by introducing & pin m_biy chair, 'T'ho pastor returned home with & cloud on his brow, aud ono of Coville's coxts on hiy baek, leaving Mastor Covilte execating o horn- Fipo in tho woodshed, under tho auspices of biu fathor,—Danbuwry News. “T'he other day, at & concert, & gentlemau having put bis hat upon o chair to kesp o place, roturned to claim it after a short absence. = Ihu hat bo found, sure onough, where it had becu left, only thore was a stout lady witting on it. ++ Mndam,” said lic, * you aro sitting on my hist," o Indy blushed o littlo, turned round, and uaid in tho blandest manner: **Oh, I Dbeg '\:nx'doul I'm suro I thought it was my Lusband’s. ——— el E.©, Perrin as n G-, crminators From the Schoharie (N, Y.) Bepublican. ‘Tho General Clork of the Court of Appoals when #at homo " rosides ut Jamuics, ou Loug Tsland, Loug Island has alwuys beeu famoud for its immonse crop of cats, Each yoar's ciop beats its immodinte predecossor, and tho wulii- plicity of eats is foarful to behold; ulmost a3 fearful, in fact, as the fonrful concerts to which tho people are nightly subjected. Ior some rea #on or othor Mr. Porrin was favored with mord than his shave of thoso froe concerts, much ta his delight, of courso, and to tho_diugust (vl conrse) of his less fortunnte noighbors. At leugtiy this favoritism bacame unendurablo, aud Porrin hit npon n happy expedient to retarn tha complimont_with intorest. Somo snow ree muined on tho roof, snd Porrin_ protonded tu wash it off by sluicing threo or four tubfuls of hot water over tho shinglos. The conse« quenco was that in oun hour the e tire_roof was as slippery as suyihing in thig world can be, _That night, while Perrin was sit« ting at his bodraam window gnzing out into tho moonlight, be saw u cat suddenly dash downward through tlio air with n paw strotched toward oach point of tha compasy, its fur clevated, and its lungs omitting a torriblo yoll.. Inamwmntedown camy nnother. Thon u third wont sousing past, aud_before it reachod the ground o fourth came polting down, tnd then o fifth, doubled up and olawing at the other aud tho moonlight for hold, aud so until about 130 had desconded. Then Porrin thought it about time to invostigata tha phenomenon. Ho _ascendod to tho garsol aud Jouked out throngh the trap-dour, ‘Ihera Lo saw o procession of 600 or 700seats, rouch- ing in siuglo fils from the yard up over the shed and tho buck building to thd crown of tho roof of tho house, ‘Thoy wero all moving ; and, ay the cat at tho bond of the procossion reached tho pealk of tho fuof, it would look around for u minuto and wonder where its prodocessors had gono, Thon its foot would “slip. It would Hiteh aud claw and grab at tho 1co 3 but still if wonld go nailing down with inercasing speed until It roached tho edge, when it would shy out into spaco and dash off toward tho peycment. 1t was interosting to Perrin to obsorve thoe pro- cousion, 1o nover before roalized the besuty ot | tho lnw of nature whioh atiracts bodles to the eurth., 'Thoso caty nover climbed his roof again. | Tighty-fonr dled on tho spot, and it is_bolicved that 400 of thom broke thoir legs aud sbandoned tho nocturnal serounding business permanontly. Dorrin, being o grest humanitanun, desitos publielty made of this end catasirophe, to tha ond that in fature theso musical innoconts, when they go abroad, may avoid slippory placaos. —John A, Paxis, living threo milea south of " Bomenuilk, bad four hogy killed by {he \\’o!\'esr Tast Sunduy night. Tho hogs wore confinod in 1 pou, but ten rods from the houso, Wiblinm tumuoy, living i tho nolghborlioad, saw throo Wolves ruuning over tho praiio not long sinco, and tho brutos are gotting numeroua in tho time bor about Bomouauky—Sandwich(Lil)FrePress \ ‘ )