Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1873, Page 12

12 = e — ITALY, " Loke Maggiore...Isola Madre and Isola Bella. The Cathedral of Milan and tho Tomb : of San Carlo Borromeo. The Plcture-Galleries of Florence =-=-Santa Croce. Boll’s “Lincoln?” and ¢ Eve»-.-Meal’s 4 Linooln” and “ Ethan Allen s Grey’s “ Amorican Flag?? ==-Powers’ Studio, Spectal Corresvondence of The Chicago Tribune. Fronexon, Nov, 16, 1873, On tho avening of Ook 12, at 8 o'clock, our conchman oracked his whip liko a fusilade of wauskotry, as ho galloped his horaes uudor the nrehod entrance to tho court of tho Hotol Bello View, at Bavano, on Lako Maggioro. In flve soc- onds, tho mastor and mistross, -followod by at lonat & dozon sorvants, wore holping us from tho tarringo, and, seizing tho numborless bundlos and boxoa of the Iadies, wore conducting us to pur rooms ; and, with Italisn obsequiousnoss, the mastor, with his hand on s hoeart, assured na that his hotol and everything it contained, in- sluding himeself, woro at our gervice. Sunday morning, Oct. 14, was bright and clonr, and 88 lovely a8 our finest September mornings st home. B LAKE MAGGIORS, with Teola Bella and tho other Borromean Islands, was sparkling in tho morning sunlight, and this beautiful Inko, with its Lluo waters, looked very lovely in a framework of monntains covered with the lusuriant foliago of Italy, and formod o ploturo realizing one's brightest dreams of this 1and of flowera. Soon sftor breakfast, the sil- wor tones of the boll in the chapol in the grounds of nwoalthy English gontloman called usto church. ‘ Monday wo apent on the Lake, visiting T50LA MADRE AND I1SOLA BELLA, The former {s woll wooded, and Liss somo fiue troes, planted in tho English stylo ; the lattor is noarly covered with the palacos and gardens of tho Oount Borromeo. The garden is in tho Fronch stylo, tull of terraces, poor statuary, and grotesquo fountaina. The palaco itselt is large, and poasesses much antique splondor ; but the many formal torraces, the vory artificial, unnat- ural grottoos, the dry fountaivs, and much vory old, brolken, and grotesque statuary, aro puorilo, and leave tho impression of a vast toy-gardon, and sro intoresting only as o spoclmon of the bad tasto in landscape-gardening provailing two or three centuries ago, The Isola Madrois much moro natural, and, R I bave said, has eomo fine trees,—tho two flnest bolng an American homloclk-spruce and a Norway fir. On {he 17th wo renchied Milan, and devoted the Arst threo days most willingly to tho celobrated Cathodral, which the Milancse call the eighth wonder of tho world, We dovoted one entiro day to the varlous chapels, tombs, and monu- ments ; and anothor to the stained-glass win- dows, on which, in pictorial roprescntation, you muny study tho history of tho world, from the erention down to tho death of Ban Carlo Borro- meo, in the sixteonth contury. Tho TOMD OF THIS BAINT is in the erypt, andsurpassos all I havo sver scen in aplendor and magnificonce. The sarcophingus 18 of rock-crystg), bound all round with silver. The body—or what was onco the body—is dressed in his robes as Cardimal. A magnificont crown of gold, diamonds, aud other precious stones, is on his liead. A cross of emeralds and diamonds blazes on hia brenst,—n presont from tho Empross Maria Torosa; this.cross is of immonee valuo ond great beauty. Jowels and precious stonos are incrusted ovorywhore sbout the sayeophagus; there ave dinmond riuge upon the bones of the tingers ; and the chapel is aid to bo solid silver and gold. Altogothor it far surpassed suy of tho collections of crown-jewels I iayo soen, In- deed, it wos rathor difiicult to seo the slull aud fingora of the Hnint for the profusion of jewols, dinmonds, and gold, Tradition-says tha Sain was an humble, solf-denying Christian, elling biis vast posgecsions to faed tho Jaor, and oxposing hislife freely in ministering with his own Princoly hugfi fio tho sufforing in tho timo of tho plague. o OATHEDRAL OF MITAN it is difficult by words to convey any iden; it I8 80 vast, o complicated, so mngnificont. The intervioris deoply impressive: five naves, di- vidod by flfty-two gignntic columns, from which the mnjestic arches gracefully sprivg to support a roof that looks a8 though the clonds might 208t upon it; tho vast dome lifting itself far w towards Heavon,~in the dim distance of whicl i o solitary lamp, 8o placed a8 to throw all its light upon'a blood-stained spike, which the de- wvout Catholic believes ia one of tho identicnl nails driven into the blessed hands of Qur Lord, 8o groat is tho srea, that many services may bo going on at tho same time without confusion. ‘Wo actunlly witnessed a marriage at ouo altar, o baptism at " anothor, and o funeral might have tuken place at a third, and & mass beon cole- brated at » fourth ; and, in addition, thore was o orowd .of wondering and edmiring spectators, all with abundant room and spaco. Tho materint of the edifice is whito marble, and 1t looks like a mountain of atone, cut into o labyrinth of spires, piunacles, fiyiug buttresses, end statuary. The roof is n forost of statua and piunncles; it seems to mo overcrowded. Phinl of 7,000 statues in ono buildlu§l As, in looking at a park of forest-troes, ono is more improssed with a fow majestic specimens, each tho finest of ite kind, o placed that you can do it full justico, than by n thicket cjosely growing in & denso foreut, 80 hioro, in this thicket of pinnacles and statuary, it is so denso, thero aro 8o many, you cannot_do jfimtlcu toany, Tho sovers simpficity of tho English cathedrals, tho absonce of sonsational orusmentation, impress mo more than all the wonders of this omnium gatherum. It scoms to mo that, whilo ita pro- Portions are_colossal snd its intarior I8 grand, tho extorior ia overlonded and ovorcrowded ; tho influence of the Enstorn architecture, the Byzan- tivo, is apparont. 0ct. 21, wo visited TIE ROYAL PALACE. 1t in especially ricl in Gobelin tapestry and Flor- entino mosaics, with Bomo very fine pictures and statuary, and many very beautiful froscoes. TIUE PICTURE GALLERIES OF FLORENOE, 80 celobratod all tho sworld over, wo visit daily; but I will altompt no decription of them. I will say this, however : that, while thoy contain weny of the bost Elcmrus in tho world, thoy aro unsatisfactory ; they aro crowded, like & florisi’s garden, who, growing flowors to scll, crowds tha greatest possiblo numbor into tho smallast enace, rathor than as Nature, or the hand guided by taste, introduces them toornament aud beanti- 1y tho scene, T'hero should nover be moro thun one grent picturo in ono room,—certainly not moro than ono on the #ilo of & room,—unless, in exceptional cagos, thoy aro introduced for illus- tration or contrast. noblo picture or & grand statuo, & poem on canvass or wrought in marblo, should Lo studied by ltaelf. Ils story and its_ beauty, to be fully enjoyed, " must bo” contomplated with _the aitontion con- contrated; thus wo diink in its apivit, and roalizo its full meaniug and oxprosston, 1 lavo un]o?'cd an hour's qmut roading of n grent pleturo, 1o Ohurch’s * Hoart of tho Andos,” With nothing to distract the attention, more than o day in & orowdod gallery. Iow can ono enjoy pictures by the mile, or the thousand feot ? Oct. 28, wo visited, with the lovely daughter ot an Amorican artist rosiding in Ilorenco, BANTA OROCE. Hore are tho ashes and (ho monwments of Michael Angelo, Alfieri, Gnliloo, and Mnchia- velll. As wae walked up the nave, ehe rocited s In Santa Oroce's holy precincty e Ashes which mako it holler, % "' irerevepose Angelo's, Alfieri's bones, and Lis ITlig starty Galiloo, with Lis wooa, lore Macliavolli’s earih returned from whenco it roso. ¢ But,” she continucd, still using tho languago of Byron: But whers ropose th all £truscan threol Dante and Petrarch, and acarce lesa than thoy, The bard of prose, creativa spirit | he Of the hundred taica of love? Ungratefui Floretca, Daite sloops sfar, LA Bolplo, buriod by the upLraIding eore, P e e e And tho orown Which Potrarchn Intironto Tipon far and foroign sol man geceer ™ O™ . Toceacolo fo bl paront-chett beqiuoathe Doctacol Faront-chrtls bequeattied et anta Groco wants thetr mighty aust! TWhat i8 hor pyramid of preclous ston 8 porphy: abpor, SEato, and mi e Of gom aid miarblo, to wcruat tho honea Of merchant-Dukes? Tha momentary dows Which eparklo to tho (wilight-stats, {nfuso Froshness in tho groen turf that wraps ho dond WhoBo names aro maunolonms of tho Muso, Aro gontly prossed with far moro rovoront {rend Than ov?;] preased tha slab which pavos the Princoly ond, 4 And now," glio continned, “'lot us go to tha Pitt| Qoliory. Lot s goto ' Arno's doine of Art's moat princely shirine, Whoro Soulpturo with lior ralnbow sister vies, And 8o, orosslng the Arno, wo wont to the grent gallory of tho Pitil Palaco, DALL'S LINCOLN. Tho samo dny we callod at tho studio of the sonlptor Ball, to meo his model of- tho colossnl statuo of Lincolu, ordored by the frocdmon of tho Unitod Btatos, to be dxcouted in bronze, and to bo oroctaa ot tho publio grounds at Washing- ton. It will bo altogother ono of the fineat, if not tho finest, statue of Lincoln yob made. It in dosigned to m&)‘ranuut and illustrato the aot of. Emnncipntion. ‘Tho Prosidont is rapresentoed ng Tholding the Proclamation in lis right haud, whleh resta slightly upon a colunn} o negro is just ris- ing from n cronohing atditude at his foot; tho broken chaing, just fallon from his limbs, lio upon the ground; he is looking up, with gratitudo, rovorance, and. affaotlon, 1o M. Lincoln; whilo tho lattor, oxtonding his lof Liand over tho hiond of tho negrd, a8 if blessing Lim while ho frocs him, saya: And upon this act I invole tho considerato judgmont of man- kind and tho gracious favor of Almighty God.” Tho figuro is vory good; the attitudo and faco hiavo grent dignity aud olevation, mingled with liind commiseoration and endnoss, Ho looks tho groat, enrnost, sincore man he was. You rondin bls conntonanco the sincoso conviction that ho is in the act of tho porformance of a bigh duty, and tho profound counsciousnoss of tho gravo rospousibiiity of the act; and hoin- vokos upon it from Lis vui:(y henrt ' the consid- orato judgmont of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.» On the column, in rollof, is the hond of Wash- ington, tho shiold of thie Unitoed States, aud the Stars, I shall bo diunsnnlnhd, if, when this statue is orected at tho Capital, it I8 not regard- od as ono of tho finest in onr conntry. Tho lilkonens, the faco, hond, and figuro, are ol good; tho dross—n frock-coat—fita battor than Mr, Lincoln's coat over did; bis Linuds and foot aro smaller in tho model than in lifo; and T never #aw his cravat sot g0 emooth ; but I snp- roun theso aro Hbertios the artist fools juatifivd n taking. 7 DALL'S EVE. . In tho studio of tho soulptor siands s statuo of Eve boforo tho fall, fully realizing Milton's degeription, 8ho is moro lovely than any of hor daughtors, Coming dircctly from the gallories, from the Venus de Modicl, thoe Vonus of Titian, and that of Canovs, I think this work of Ball will compare favorably with any, and, in Fuflq of oxprossion, it surpasses ~them all. Tho moment roprosontod is when ' sho hns just awakened to lifo. Looking into tho Garden of Eden sho feola tlo Hf;ht, the air, tho perfume, the boauty, tho glory of tho primeyal earth, tho oxhileration of lifo, Tuuocent aud bappy, noithor earo, nor regrot, nor pain, nor pasaion, nor sorrow has marred hor gurfcct benuty. ‘‘She is indeed worthy to havo con our common mother,” said a lady at mdy sido, looking proudly at her own lovely child. How glorious socms tho origin of man, whon looking upon_ such a ropresentation of our first Pnrunt; aud who, in such a prosence, can tolorato ho humiliating fable of Darwin? MFAD'S STATUES OF LINCOLN AKD ETHAN ALLEY. Ock 80. Wa visited tho studio of Larkin Bead, to soo the model of his statuo of Lincoln for the monument st Springflold. I eaw onlv Lhe hend and bust in clay, tho full longth having boon sent for tho figuro to bo east in bronze. I boliove all tho friends of Mr. Lincolu considor it an exeollent likeness, . Mead isnow hard nt work upon » statuo of Tithan Allen, ordered by the State of Vormont for tbo old hall of tho House of Reprosentatives al Washington, The clay-model is vory spiritod and lito-like. Thero was an Italian professionnl model, dressed in thio old rovolutionary costumo of our conntry, nttltndlnlzinfi for tho statuo, when I went into the room; but no Italinn can reprogent Ethan Allen. By the way, i it not timo Illinois sonb her ropresentativos to this hall of statuary? You know, of course, that Congress has invited each Btato to placo tho statuon of two of lior most distinguished citi- zons in this hall. Maseachusetts, Rhodo Island, and many others of tho States hayve takon staps to comply with this invitation. Now York has solocted Gaorge Clinton and Philip Livingston a8 the two historic names which ato to bo thus honorod, and sho has commissioned Ar. Palmer, tho distinguisbed sculptor, of Albany, now in Florenco, to_executo the statuo of Livingston. Thore would nol, I should think, bo any diffor- onco of opinon in regard to the porsons to be solected by Illinois, ~All would agroo that Lin- gfiln and Douglas should be our ropresentatives ore. GREY'S PICTURE ILLUSTRATING DRARE'S ‘‘ ANERI- OAN FLAG.Y The artist Grey, of New York, s man whom many think one of the finest colorists in the world, has noarly finished o picturs illustrating Drake's poom, ‘‘Tho Amorican TFlag.” The words which suggestod tho picture are, as nenr as I can rocollect thom, as follows, Ican't find a copy of the poom hore : #When freedom, from hor mountain helght, ‘Vaturled her banner to tho air, She ora the azura robo of Nigit, And set tho stars of glory thers, ‘Tlien, from his mansjon in the skics, Bl catled ier englo-beater down, And gavo into his mighty hand Tha choson banaer of our land,” Freodom is represonted by the %Fum of o fo- mnle of exceeding boanty, partially draped by tho folds of the flag. Froodom is tho most por- fect Lype of American beauty; hair tho most Tuxuriant, and of tho true golden in color ; eyos of bluo; featuros regulor and full of expres- sion ; form perfect. Above hor is tho eaglo, lolding the flag with its thirteon stars, whioh fails gracefully at hor sido, and is blown parlly across her, The bluo anbove the hend of the figuro is of * the azuro robo of Nnillt." and ig o wonder in color, Tha engle, proudly holdingthe Dbanner, looks “ evory inch tho King " of birds. Tho rocky connt of our country is suggested on {ho loft ; and, in tho left-hand corner a Mnssn~ chusetts church-spire suggests tho Mayflowor, sud all the mighty influcnces which have sprung from New England in shapivg tho destinios of our country. ‘This Goddess of Liborty is in beauty flnor than all tho Venuses, tho Iornarcnas, tho Cleo- patras of tho gallerios, It is wonderful in color and porfect in form, and infusod through all is o diguity and purity worthy of the subjoct TOWERH ETUDIO {a still opon, nlthougl tho groat artlst is doad. His son continues with skilled labor to repro- duco tho works which gave to his father such a high position. Nearly all lis works, either in cluy or marble, aro 6till to bo found here, and can bo furnished o8 porfoot as when Powers him- self was living. Wo ucemod to be_surrounded by our countrymen whilg in bis studio. TFrank- lin, Jefforson, Waahington, Wobstor, Calhoun, Evyorott, Longfellow, Sheridan, and others, looked down upon us, in ono room; aud in anothor, many of my neighbors and friends— the fuces of Gov. Dross, Potter Palmor, his Tovely wife, and koveral otliors—mado mo for & moment almost fancy mysolf in Chicago. —_—— Femalo Candidntes for Office. Tho four womon who woro cnndidates for the offico of Soliool Dircctor in Doaton wore duly olacted, but tho pix woman candidatos for tho samo offico in London woro dofented at tho ro- cent oloction, Ono of the Iatter, Brs. Artbur Arnold, the wife of the editor of the London Echo, entered tho coutest with cousidorablo spirit, urng hor claims in public meotings, aud completoly rofuting an argumont on ** gon- oral principles” which “was indiscrootly npplied tolier own caso. Some one declined Lo vote for her, and wroto o lotter oxplaining his roasons, In which ho said, **It would bo monifostly to tho interest of My, Arthur Arnold'a hmsband and childron thet she should keop hor allotted placo at homo, ‘Tho chauces nre that Aribur and tho children havo holos in tholr stockings.” Mra, Arthur road this lottor at one of tho mont~ ings, nnd repliod that sho had uo children, and that as for Arthur's stookings (hoy woro all kit by hor own hands, This rofutation of tho “ goneral prinoiples * of hor assuilant should bavo boen suflicient, but the electors votod othorwiso. e o ¥ Turd Viaes, An inoldont of tho hard times Ia roported from Toxington, Mo., and it contalns & hint whiol tho hnrd-up may be grateful for, A thirsty and poor_young man, anxious for o quencher, ini- tiated'n supply by purchasing a slate on crodit, Procooding to the hnunts of the wll(uk* flond, ho bartored tho slate for “a drink.” Tinding ono beaker of tho liguor which ho loved insufil- clent, ho pointed out to the bar-tender how handy the slate would be for the purpose of cliarging any little indebtednoss which might ba inourred. o projoct sucoeeded, The draught on oredit was obtained ; tho bar-man registered it on the now elate, and all was serouo. #0IIE CHICAGO. 'DAILY TRIBUN THE GREAT ATR-LINE T TITE MOON, From Bertbner's for Janunry, - 1t ia quito possiblo that thero aro many-for soa who avo nover hoatd the atory of tho Gun Olub of Daltimoro and lts romarkablo transnos tions. - It so, it ia woll that thoy should bo in< forméd of thore groat -events which, not many yenra ago, onusod auch a sensation in’ tha olvils 1zod wotld, Blonsletir ;Jules Vorno, a Freuch- man, has takon the pains to colloot all the facts in rogard to tho Gun' Olub and its wondorful schome, and it is to his work on tho subjoot thot wo aro indobtod' for the information con- talnod in thigartiolo* , The Gun Olub, which was founded dur~ ing our lIato oivil war, had for ita principal objoct the improvement of ariillery. No ono could bolong to tho Olub who had not invonted, or at losat improved, a cannon or a firoarm of somo kind, Intho words of M. Vorno,. tho esteom in which-tho mombora woro held waa ¢ proportioned to the massivencss of tholr can- non, and in » diroct ratio to tho squaroa of tho distancos ronohod by thoir projoctilos.” It Is impoasiblo in our Ynuen to rolato all the resulta of tho labors of this Olub, and woe will moroly romiark thint, ot tho ond of tho war, thoy_ehowed in tholr own porsons the oarnestnoss with whioh Iho{cnrrled out thielr entorprises. In tho ontire Olub thoro was hardly a wholo man, and, igdoea, thoro was but one arm for every four porsons, and but two logs for overy six of them: No- ‘whoro wns thoro such place for erutchos, wooden logs, patont arms, india-rubber-jaws, ellvor nku]\n, platina noses, and gutta-percha oars, ‘When peaco was doclared, thess poor: follows woro very doloful ; thoro was nothing more for them to do. And so they sat about idly in thoir Olub-houso, where overything rominded them of war, whoro tho mantol-ploco was a fortross, and thio clook tyas sot in an ombrasured tower, whoro bayonots, stuck in & cannon ball, sorved as ceandlosticks, and whoro tho vory frames of the looking-glassos woro fashioned aftor the mannor of lincs of fortifications. Thero thoy would loan Dbnok, and toast their woodon toes, and gosticu- Into with their hooked hands, and mourn tho good old times. Bomo of thom,—J, T. Maslon m particular,—woro oxtromoly anxious for on- otlior war, J. T, Mnston was & miost onthual- astio artilloryman. Ho had invonted a mortar which Lillod 837 porsons the first timo it was fired. To bo sure, it blow itsolf all Into littlo bite, and tho porsona killed woro tho spectatorn arotind it § but, thon, thore aro very mortars, ovon if thoy have boon carofully firod for many yoars, which can show o sum tolal’ of Lillod 80 large a8 this. J. T. Maston's voico was for continual ennnon-firing, aud, gonsoquently, for continual war. * Why should wo sit thus thus with our hands in our pockots ?' cried J. T. Maston, (Ho had lost ono of bis arms in the buglnningol 0 war.) * Thero are plenty of roagons for fighting, and why ehouldn't’ wo fight? For inatance, did belong to tho English ?” * Of eourso,” repliod Col. Bilaby, an armloss and harmless bystandor, “Woll, thon,” sald J. T Maston, “ why then should not England in Ler tura belong to us ?” ‘This provosition was recoived with groat favor by the Gun Olub in genoral, and it is probable somo action would hiave been taken upon it if it Lind not been that the nttontiou of the mombors was unoxpectedly occupied by the anuounce- ment_that a grand moeting had beon callod by tho Prosident of tho Club to considor somo not this conntry once oxtremely important bLusiness, Tho moot- ing was_held ot 8 p. on the - bth of October, eighteon-hundre war. Tho groat hall of tho Club was tightly jammed with mombera and visitors, Corre- spouding aud honordry members, from all parts of tho Union, filled up overy room and pnsengo, and tho stroats aud alloys of tho neighborhoo wora crowdod with poaple who conld not get into the building, When tho great clock in tho hall fired 8, Prosidont Barbicane arose and addrossod the assombly. The substauce of bis addross was as follows: Ho lamontod the idlonoss of tho by the recent peacs. H; desired that 1t ahould undertakosome great work. Ho supposed that the members liad all seen the moon, or had heard it spoken of. Ho scated that although the moon bhed boen lhamugl\ly studied by astronomers,no communi- cation Dotweon it and the earth had been con- sidered possiblo up to that date. Ho proposed, thorefore, that the Gun Olub should open such communication ; and that thoy shoulddo it by making & caunon mufliciontly largo to sond o ball—bang ! to the moon. . 't theso laat words, the groat holl, and tho voyy streots around it, trombled with tho thun- dors of o] plnuse,whfoh broke from that vast orowd, It was many minutos beforo tho Presl- dent could sgain mske bimsolf ° heard, Club causod when he proceeded to state that this thing was eonsy enough to do. It was only necessary to give tho ball an ini- tial volooity of 12,000 yards per second, and it would cortainly reach’ tho moon, provided tho cphnon was pointed properly. Then tho meot- ing adjourned. w It was doterminod, after a vast amount of ad- ditional sciontiflc calculation by the Gun Club, to fire the ball from some point botween the Equator and 28 deg. north or south of the Equotor, to poiut the cannon at the zenith, and to fire it procisoly at 18 minutes and 20 seconds of 11 o'clock &. m., on tho firat day of tho noxt Decomber. . An Exocative Committee of the Gun Olub held a meoting at tho house of Prosident Barbicano, Oot, 8, The matter of tho ball was tho firal thing to bo gotilod, O whatshould thoy mske maloit? How big should it bo? And what ebapo ehould it havo? J. T, Maston was wild ‘witn enthusissm, and, waving in tho air his iron hook, with apen screwed intoif, he madea specch full of eloquont figures, J.' T, Maston was great on figures; not onlyfiguras of spoech, but numorical figuros, Ho liked nothing botter than to lie awahe at night, and calculate with what rapidity s ball weighing throo-quartors of & cortain wolght, and moving with & volocity equal to sevountcon-ninoteouths of some other velocity, would pass ovor & distance 1,300 timos tho square root of somo othor distauce., And, when he mado speoches before the Committeo, he introduced sll these celoulations. But the Presidont was o much more Puctlcu man, He could perccive in an nstant oxactly what ho wanted, and he sottlod tho quastion of the sizo of tho ball without any trouble. ** You will undorstand,” eald ho, **that it will bo of no use for us to firoa ball at tho moon if wo are not ablo to sco whother it gots thero or not. 8o tho ball must bo big enough for ua to see it all tho way. Now, with tho larg- ont teloscope thot ‘wo aro ablo to meke, tho smallest object vieiblo on the moon is sixty foet in diamotor. Well, then, our ball must bo sixty foot in dinmeter! " cried J. T Maston. “No, that will not be necossary,” esid the Prosident, “if wo placo a toloscopo on a ver high mountain, tho atmosphero will bo so mucl raror that wo will bo ablo to soo objects on tho moon only nine feet in dismater,” “Splendid!"” cried J, T. Mnston, ' Then wo will mnko our ball nino feot iu dinmotor. 8o this mattor was gottled, There was now a discussion upon the woight of tho ball. Somo of tho Committeo thought a Dol nine feot in diameter would Lo very heavy. The Prosidont conoedod this fact, capooially if tho ball wero solid, *'but,” &nid ho, * it will ba hollow.” “Hurrah 1" eried J. T, Maston. * Wo willput dlspatchies in it, and samplos of the exports of the United Btatos, with tho price-list for tho onrrout month.” But oven this ball, with comparatively thin sidon, if mado of caat-iron, would bo too heavy for tho initial voloclty infondod to glvait. Bo tho Committee wont fo worl to caleulato what somo other metals would woigh, After sponding some timo in oxtracting cubo-roots, and olovat- infi 8 aud ng to tho recond powor, they came to o triumphant conclusion. . Thoy would make tho bell of aluminum} - Thoy caloulsted that o ball of that metal would only cost $178,250. W Iurral 1" eried J, T. Maston, ‘I didn't think we could get a ball 80 chenp a8 that." At the noxt sossion of the Committoo tho quastion of tho caunon was considered, It was unauiniously agreed that it would roquire a large cannon to carry & ball 9 foot iv dismoter ; and, a8 tho cannon of the Gun Olub must throw its ball 257,642 imilos, so it was evidont it would lave to bo protty long. “ Yo, indood," eriod J. T. Maston, ¢ Qur oanuon must Do balf-u-milo long nt the vory nab * Half-a-mila]" oxclaimed tho Committeo, in nastonishment, ‘¢ Yes," cried J, T, Maston, *and thon it will ba too short by at loast onc-lalf.” . * Come, como, J. ‘I', Maston," said ors of the Committee, ** you aro going too far.” - Y 8ir,"” roplied J, ‘I, Maston, prnudly, atrlkin ing his broast with his jron hook, **you musl know that on artillorymau is like @ caunon-ball —ha can never go too farl” The matter was now gotting a little personal, and tho President intorfored. *‘Bo ocalm, gen- tlomen, and lot us ronson this matter gravely. The ar&lnnry longth of & cannon s from twenty to twonty-five times thoe diameter of the ball, snd SFROM THE EARTI TO THH MOON, AND A JOURNEY AROUND - THE MOON, By Jurss Vzane, Soribuor, Armatrong & Co,, Now York, SUNDAY. DECEMBER - 28, 1575) from two hundrod and thirty to two hundrod and forty timos ita wolght," 4 That won't do," oried J. T Maston, “X know it," sald tho Prosidont; * for, if wo oonstructed onr cannon according to thoso pro« ortfons, [t would only bo 226 foot long.” ' Perfoctly ridionlous!” criod J,T. Maston. You might as wall take o platol " ¥ Juat ao,"” answerod tho Prosidont, “'and for }lm: {oun,:‘n 1 proposs to mako our cannon 000 feot long,' o A Thia wgu agrood to, and tho length of tho can- non waa sottled, It was thon dotorminod that the sidoa shiould bo alx foot thiok. “Yon will probably not mountit ona car- rlngu? " aald ono of tho Committeo. 0b, that would bo grand,” said J. T. Mot “x on, But impraoticablo,” anld the Preaident, ghall coat L[’m gun (u the ground, and it will thus Taye all tho roslstanco of tho carth around it." 1t was, subsoquontly, detorminod to mako tho onnnon of cast-iron, and it was bolloved thot Buch & gun, porpnnzllculnrly and solidly sebin tho earth, would not ho likoly to burs. * The Committos then wont to work to calonlate tho woight of 5 cast-iron oaunon, nine hundred foot long, witha bora nine foot In dismotor, and witls eidos six feat thick ; and soon nscortainod that tho ¢annon would weigh 08,040 tous, and would cost, ot two conts o pound, $3,731,600. So'this littls mnttor waa also soltlod. The uext day tho powder question was boforo the Committeo. One of the mombors, Major Elohistono, wiio had had charge of Govornmant gunpowder during tho war, snd who was thorofors supposod to know all tho matter, ~mado o short nbout nddroes, ' Now," “mald he, “a twonty-four pound. ballig fired by sixtoen pounds of powdor. The Armstrong canoon requires seventy-fiva_pounds of powdor for an 800 pound ball, and the Rodman Ooflxmhimi sonda a half ton ball 5 miles with 160 pounds of powder. Bo, you sco, tho necossary &mpflxtlnn of powder dluiinishos s tho sizo of 0 ball inoreasos.” + 14T goo that,” eaid J. T. Matson, ““and if you only mako your ball big enough wo won't want any powder at all,” “The Committeo smiled, and the Major thon statod that ho had caloulsted that the woight of powdor nocossary in their canmon would be oqual to ono-tonth the woight of the ball, and it will thorofore require 500,000 pounds of owder. 4 “Botter have 800,000 pounds,” orled J, T. Maaton. Tho idea of this enormous mass of powder was 80 improgsive and awful, that the Com- mittes, for o few momenta, gal i sllenca, But thoy woro atill moro astonished when tho Prosi~ dont directly snnounced that in bis opinion 800,000 pounds would not be enough. “Wo will want tho forco of twicoas much powder,” said ho. 3 “That will nevor dol" cricd J. T. Maston, ' ngver do! 1,600,000 pounds of powdor witl acoupy & 8puco of 43,000 oublo feot and, as tho connon Wil nnlr- Twld 54,000 cuble fdot, your powdor will nearly hal? fll it, and there won't bo room: onough loft to givo, the ball a decent start.”- . 41 gnow all that," said tho Prosident, *and I do not intend to use that much powder—I ounly ‘want tho forco of that quantity, and so I pro- poso that, instoad of powder, wo use gun-cotton, ‘of which 400,000 }mundu- will - bo equal to 1,600,000 pounds of powdor, aud it will occnpy 80 littlo spaco that tha ball will have more than 700 foot to run hofore tnkh:g ita grand flight towatds tho Quoen of Night." . And so the powder quostion was sottlod. - Among the 40,000,000 inhabitants of tho TUnited Htates {hore was but one man who doubted tho succoss of the groat schomo of tho Gua Club. This man was Capt. Nicbol, and he lived in Philadolphia., It wag natural for him to bo an enemy to Gun Olub, for ho was n manufacturer of armor-plates.. During the whole war, whenever tho artilleriats invented n now_projectilo, or an unusunlly powerful cannon, Nicho! invented n new armor-plate. - "Wheunover Nichol drenmod, Pregidont Barblicano, of the Gun Club, appoated to him in tho form of s confeal ball, which ploreod bim through and through. And whon- over Barbicane dreamed, he eaw Nichol in tho ehapo of an immenso iron-clad, against tho jm- enetrablo sidea of which ho was obliged to Euunr s unfortunats hond. Nichol was on par- ticularly bad torms with Barbicaue, becnuse, on the vory day ou which peaco was deelared, tho former bad finishod o plate of an entirely new kind of stocl symor, nud, though lie dared tho Prosidont of the Gun Club to fire at it his beat cnnnon and_his most perfect ball, tho proposi- tion was declined. ichol waxed extremoly angey at this, and offored_Barbicato tho most natoundiog “advantagos, 1lo proposod to sct up his plato 200 yards from tho caunon, but this was rofusod, as well as subsoquont offera of 100 yards, 70 yards, and 50 yardy, At last tho Cap- ain, perfectly furious, offored to place his plate 25 yarde from tho eaunon, and to stand behind it1” But Barbicano answored Lhat ho would not make tho experiment,—uot oven if Capt. Nichol stood before his plato. Then Capt. Nichol attackod Barbicane through tho newspapers, _Ha nesartod that the plan wag all nonsenee, and proposed o series of wagors, ay follows : ‘First—That the money would nover boraised for the hl;!l o vseeseses .ol Second—That 'ihey would aftor they got the monoy, Third—That they could not 01, that the gun-cotton would go off of jts own sc~ cord before they Were readYeeesrases es. .. Fourth—That the cannon would burst at the st 150, o ve easensenanees S evusibats ey —rin o Dail" SO "go” digud s e, and would como tumbling back fn o fow sec- On the 19th of Octobor, Nichol received tho following note : Bavrrvone, Oct, 18, Taken, Dinproaxe, One question now remained to bo decidod, and that_wag—Whoro should tho exporiment bo triod? Tho Gun Club held a moeting to con- sidor this subjoct, and it was agrood that tho southern portions of Toxas and of Florida loy boyond tho twenty-oighth parallol of Intituds, andl that any place in those soctions would sn- swer the purposo. The question was sottled on this basis, snd tho consequonce was that thoro aroso snunparaliod rivalry between the citios of South- ern Toxns and Florida, Tho whole country was agitated by tho controvorsy. The newspapers and poriodicals took it up ; uch publications a8 the New York Herald, the Philadolphin Post, and tho Riverside Magazine susinined Toxas, while the Washiugton Chronicle, the Now York Tribune, and tho Nowark Jegisler stood up boldly for Florida. Tho matter bocamo embarrassing. A war bo- twoon Florida and 'Toxas was throatonod. At luat Barbicane sottlod the mattor. * Toxas,” said hio, * hn, at loast, oloven citios which will answer onr purposo vory well, ' Now, if wo de- cide in favor of Toxas, those oleven citios will bo fighting for tho honor of tho ontorprise. Thero i but ono town in_Florida suitably situ- atod ; 8o, leb ua go for Xlorida and tho town of Tampa |" Tho Toxas party was disgusted. * A littlo placo like Floride,” smd their g)rinn'mnl orgau, + almost an island, squoozod botweon two seas, will novor be ablo {o rosiat tho tremondous cou” oussion, and will be blown away tho instant the cannon is fired] 1“[}“ nght!” enid the Floridans, “lot hor blow!” Tt now beonmo necossary to raise tho mpney for this gront work, and subscriplion-books wore apened in sl tho principel citics of tho Union, and aléo in various forelgn countrios. The total eubsoriptions from oll parts of the world, counting nothing from England, —whoro not & forthing was subscribod, a8, tho Englluh pooplo oxpected to have to ny the Alabama claims,—amountod to §5,440,~ 75, Captain Nichol now paid his first wagor, one thougaud dollars, On tho 20th of Octobor & contract was made with tho Cold Bpring Iron Works, near Now Youl, for the transportation of tho matorials to ‘Campa, Fla,, and for casting thore tho great un, It was stipnlated that the cannon stould o finished, and In porfect order for firiug, on the 14tk of the folloiwiug Octobor, undor forfcit- ura of $100 por day until tho Moon should pro- gout horself in the samo favorsblo conditions, which would be in eightcon years snd elovon daya. f‘rnshlunt Darbicano placod at fhoe disposal of tho Obrorvatory of Cambridge tho noc- essary funds for ‘tho construction of an onormons teloscops, snd contracted with tho house of Breadwill & Co., of Albany, for tho manufacture of tho hollow Tall of aluminum ; and, then, neccompanied by J. T, Maston, Maj, Elphistono, of tho Gun Olub, and J. Murphison, Divector of tho Cold Bpring Iron Works, ho startod for Florids, and arrived at Pampa on tho 92d of Octobor, - But tho Prosident of tha Gun Olub pnd his unmpnnluns did not romain long in thiy little town. 'They explored the surround- Ing country, and soon golocted a suitablo loca~ tion for thiolr oporations. ‘This placo waa called Btone's IIHI, and was situsted 1,020 foat shava tha lovel of tha oy, in latitude 27 dogroos 7 minutos, and 6 dogroes 7 minutos west longitude. ‘It fs from horo,” #ald_ Barbicane, stamping upon the summit of the bill, * that the projectile of the Qun Olub :]hl.tl tn‘('a its flight into tho dopth of tho Bolar yatem,” This was putting the matter rather strongly, because tho ball was on;ilntondod to go to tlie Moon~but it sounded w tho E{Fhl ‘hlu aftor this & floot of atoamors ar- LIRS ivo ‘ampa laden with tho matoerial for tho lxrant guy and with 1,600 workmon, 'I'ho liltlo town boosme populous, uot only with thoso, but with thonesnds of Inquisitive porsons who. gathorod from nll parts of tho country to watoh this gront undnrtnlrhle. A railrond wad built from Tampa to Btowe's 11ill, and, {n a short timo, o villago of workmen's liouses aroso at the Inttor place, Barbleano was overywhoro, and J. ‘I', Maston was with him, On tho 4th’'of Novembor the works wero com- mouncod. 8 By tho light of the sun during the day, and undor a gront olootric light at night, tho plok . toloscono in the position solootod 08 {t h Tho next quostion that arose was thatof situa- tion, and it was nenoss to ohoose a high mountain. So the requisitomaterials wore takon’ to ono of tho higheat panks of the Rooky Moun- talns, 16 was almost aa difloult to sot | bthlu oon to mako {t. It was neoessary to {ransport enor- mous stonos, woighty ploocs of forged motal, heavy cornor stonos, tho vast soctions of the cylindor, ond tho objoct glese, which wolghed itsclf moarly 80,000 pounds, into tho roglon of oternnl snow. DBut all difficultics woro surmonnted, aud, in losa than & year from the commenvomont of tho work, the groat tolo- soopo Bat proudly on the summit of tho rooky nud shovel and tho stoam-cuginos nover consed |, pon) to work; and on tho 10th of inaide of the dato fixad upon, tho well with its lming of mesonry had renchod tho desired dopth of 900 foot, the stone-work rosliug ona rook bottom, 80 foot doop. ¥ ‘While tho great woll had been in course of construation proparations had beon making for casting tho cannon, y In » wide circlo sround tho open top of the woll had boen built 1,200 reverboratory tunaces. Thetio furnacos charmed our old friend J, T.' ' Mnston, He hnd nover scon anything more: beautifu), he eald, not oven in Qrocce, whore, Liowover, as ko romarked, he had aoyer boon. When tho vast pit wes finishod, Prosident Barbicane and his mon - went to work to build tho gront contral coro, This waa to bo a solid . cylinder, 000 fot high, and 9 feet in dinmotor, I othor'words, oxactly tho sizo of tho boro of tho groat caunon. Wheon this cylindor was finishod, o spaco of about 6 foet was loft around it, bo- tween it and tho sides of tho wall. ~This space would bo filled with the-melted iron which twas to form tho eaunon, Tho 9th of July was tho day appointed for cnating, and tho evoning boford each furnaco hiad boon oharged with 114,000 pounds of metal, and tho fires lighted. . -'Tho black smolse covered tho sky, and tho ronr of tho furnacos rosemblod thundor, Burbicano ond the Committes of the Gun Club stood on o Lill noar by, with a smail caunon bofore thom, ‘which was to bo fired whon tho engincer should signal that all was 1oady, ml’x)m{unly ¢ noon the cunnon sounded from 0 hill, At this momont 1,200 valvos wero opened, and 1,200 flery sorpounts crawlod towards tho EMM woll, hissing, and glistening, and ywrithing, Then thoy plunged, with s dreadful noise, 900 feot down. It was an awful speotaclo. Tho earth shoolk, and clouds of steam osoaping une, twonty doys from tho vents in tho walls of tho well rono up- in o vast column 3,000 or 4,000 foot high. At laat all tho molted motal had run into the mould. Tho Niagara of iron had coased to flow. ‘Whother tho castiug had succoeded or not was a quoestion that could not bo detormined immedi- atoly. Fiftcon days after the casting tho great cannon was 8till coverod by n vast olond of smolto, and tho ground was so hot, 300 or 400 feot. from the mouth of the well, that no one cauld troad wupon it. It was ot August before tho ground had oooled sufliciontly to allow snybody to approach the casting, and then tho workmen, finding that the interior core wss sufliciontly cool, pro- coeded to dig it out, and It was entirely removod by the 3d of Soptombor. The boro ‘was than drilled smooth, and everylhing was roady. If tho Moon only camo along in timo, and it whaa gouorally belleved that shocould bo depend- ed upon, there wag no rosson to oxpect suything but Buccess, As tho cannon was now cast, Oapt. Nichol paid his socond wagor—32,000. ‘Tho great ovent of the casting attracted peo- lo from all patis of tho country, and tho popus ation of Taupn increased to 160,000, Excur- sions wore organized to the bottom of the can- non, and a steam olavator was kopt gofog night and day. Tho procecds from tho salo of tickots " for thia trip smounted during the senson to noarly $600,000. On tho 30th of Soptomber, at thirty-soven minutes past 8 in the afternoon, o telegram, aconu cablo, camo to Prosident Burbicano. This way tho dispatel s FraNcg, PAnts, 20th Soptember—4 a, m. Barbicane, Tumpa, Floridd, United Stutes: Substituto oylindre-conical projectilo for aphorical Alicll, Shull go inside, Bbull srrive by stoamer At- lanta. MIOHEL AUDAN, Of course this proposition created the grontcat oxcitoment in the Gun Club, and througlout tho United Statos. At firsl overyhody treatod the proposition with ridiculo. Thon thoy began to think about it, and Prosident Barbicano nctually wraoto to the New York iron-founders to dofer the casting of tho projectilountil further orders, On tho 20tk of ‘October tho Atlanta arrived ab Tampa, and in it was dichel Ardan, He was about 42 yoars old, tall, vigorous, nervous, com~ bative, carnost, ominontly bold and audacious, and, abovo all, e was the first man in tho solar system who had dotormined to make a trip from ono planet to snothoy, lis recoption was most enthusinstic, and, aftor ho had sbnken havds with about’ 6,000 people, ho was obliged to rotroat to tho cabin of tho steamor. And thera Barbicano had au intoryviow with him, The Presidont of the Gun Olub found that the Frenchmau was fully doterminod upon his projoct, Ho had occasion to go to the Moun, ho said, and hora was an oxcollont opportunity, Ho might have to wait a long time before anoth- er conveyance would offer itsolf. = Findiug the Fronchman 8o fully in earnost, Barbicane respected him, Nothing so thor- ‘ougbly commands respect in this world ag osr- nestness. What it commands in the Mooa re- mains to bo socu. In tho monntime a quarrel had arison between Capt. Nichol and Barbicano, and o ducl was ngroed upon. Bub on thoe ficld’Ardon made o proposition, “PI"A‘lond Darbleane,” ho snid, *“ bolioves that his projoctile will go straight to the doon,” # Certainly I do," ropliod tho President of tho Gun Olub, . “ And frisnd Nichol bolioves it will fall back on the oarth " ‘T am suro of that 1" cried the Captain. #Woll, thon,” sald Micliel Ardau, ** this is the way wo will gettlo it, Doth of you tako the trip with moe, and then lyou will "know _cortainly whether ornos the ball will go to the Moon,” 'Fhe two rivals looked at each othior, and then thoy ehook hands, and agroed to tho proposition. J. ‘D', Maoston groaued. Nobody hed asked bim to go. gu the 10th of Novembor, the great passon- gor projectilo arrived from Now York. The groat shell came by railway, aud was receivead with de- light nnd onthusinsm. 'ho inner wnlls of the projectile wero covored with & thick lining of stocl springs and lenthor padding. Boveral emall windows of onormously thick glass woro constructed in the sides of tho cone, an ingonious wator-spring was constructed to counteract the initinl ghock at the moment of firing, and everything noaessary for tho comfort of the travolors was provided. " Thoro were ro- coptaclos for wator and food, and thero was a touk of gas suiliclont to light and warm thom for six days, But thoro was ono Jittle difioulty —thoy must broathe during tho trip, which it was calcnlatod would last about four days. The oxygon inside the coll would cortainly not Inst thom vory long, and the carbouio acid as which they would oxpiro would goon be suf- §ulont to kill thom. ‘The guo!tlon. thon, amount- ed to this: the oxygen destroyod must be ro- stored ; the carbouic acid gas produced must bo dostroyod. All this is oasy cnough to do by meane of chlorate of potash and caustic-potash. Tho first of theso, undor & very high tompora- tura, gives out oxygon ; tho second nbsorb car- bonio ucid ; thus tho valuablo oxygen would bo produced, and tho destructive carbonio noid gas dostroyed. _Tho groat chomists, Mossra. Teisot & Rognnult, had domonstrated thnt thia oporation wns enough, DBub as _ thoir experimenis hnd only been tried upon the lowor animals, J. T. Maston offerad to l;zmvu that it would bo successful in tho cazo of man, #dince I caunot tuke tho trip,” lie said, “shut mo up in tho sholl for oight days. Iwill thus discover_ whothor or not atmosplioric air can bo produced by artiflcial monna.” Tho offor was accopted, nud a sufliclent quan- tity of tho noceseary chomicals, with food onough to last cight days, were pinesd insido of tho shell ; and on the "14th of Novombor, ot 8 o'olock in the evoning, J, ‘I’ Maatoun toole loavo of Liis_frionds, mounted tho laddor, and disap- pearod through the aporatura in the top of tho cono, 'Pho cover wan thon scrowed down tight. How ho lked it ingide it was impoasiblo to know. fIho walls wera 80 thick that nothing could bo lieard frow him, Ou tho 20th of Novombor, preclsely “ab 0 o'clock in tho ovening. tho holo in tho hell was oponed, Maston's friends woro nnluml:{ [ littlo uuenu{ 3 but thoy woro soon oncouraged by & shout that eamo from tho fuslao of tho sholl, and in o momont J, 'I'. Maston appearod on tho top of tho cono in u triumphant attitude, F[o liad actuslly grown fat ! We must now go back a litllo in ourstory, On the 20th of Ovtobor of the pucudin(i yonr suf- ficient mwonoy hind bosn prid over to the Univer- sty of Cambridgo to construct o telesenpo lagjo onough to obsorve tho courss of tho projeotile whiol wus to bo sent to the Moon, Thoro was no rosson why such a telo- goops should nob bo coustruoted. Thoro way money enough, thoro was fron onough, gud brass euough, sud glass enough. An the Gun Olub had faith onough and enorgy onough to do almost anything. “And so, after great labora, and tho most unheard-of viotories cosy ovor mochaniesl difoultios, the telescopo was finishod, Xt was 280 foet long, aud 16 foob in diamoter- 3 the 22d° ko I It was now thio 224 of Novombor. In ten daya tho groat event would take plaoo. Thore was oulg ouo thing now to be dono, and that wae to lond tho cannon, and it was rathor a dolioato operation to stow away 400,000 pounds of gun- cotton. But Barbloano was equal to most difi- oulties, and Lo had this cannon losded undor his own eyos. Tho gun-cotton was brought from Ponsacola by rall, ton groat unrtrld{(‘t:n at a timo, and thoso woro carrled to tho mouth of tho cau- non by workmen in their bare foot. They were then lowored to their position 'by meana of: windinagos worlkoed by hand. No sleam engino waa allowod to bo uscd, and fires wore Yorbidden within a distanco of two miles. It was even nocossary to guard againat the hoat of tho sun, and 80 all tho Work was donaat night by the light of an oleotrio lamp. Tho cartridges woro pfiwed in ordor in the bottom of tho cannon, and wero all conueoted by wires in such a way that thoy could be oxplodod by monns of an electria battery. All the wires wero united In a singlo conductor, which ran through a hole in the side of the casting, and thon through ono of the vonta in tho stono linin , to tho surfaco of tho ourth, Thoro this wire was suppurted on tolograph posts for a distanco of two miles, whoro it waa connocted with a powertul battery. All that was nocessary, thon, when evorythin) was in ordor, was to pross little button, an tho 400,000 pounds of gun-cotton would bs in- stantly Ignited. On tho 28th of Novomber the work of chiarg- ing the cannon with gun-cotton was comploted. Nothing now remained to be dono but to lowor the conical shell to its place In tho gront cannon, Dut, boforo this was dono, the pnssonger pro- octilo was furnished for tho journey; anum- orof thormometars and barometers woro placed in & suitablo onso, and, to facilitato their obsor- rvations on arriving at tho Moon, the travelers took with them Boor and Moedler's aclonograph- io map, » most admirable publication whfch no trayoler to tho Moon should bo without. Tho travelors ‘slso providod pistols, rifles, powder, ond shot, for there was no knowing what one- mios thoy might moot; and epades, shovels, saws, hammors, nnd glmlots ; for how could they bo certain that thoy would not have to build thomsolves a lunar habitation ? Michel Ardan would have liked to hayve carried somo animals, He did not desire to take enakes, or tigors, or ulll§n!am, for thore might bo noth~ ing of tho kind In the Moon, and he would not caro to bo the meaus of introduoing thom there. Allho wanted to tako with him was a horso, or an ox, or & cow or {wo. But Barbicane objectod. -He never had traveled with = cow. on his lap, ‘nnd ho did not want to try it at his age. An ‘80, although Ardan thought it would bo a vory nico thing to have fresh milk on tho trip, 1t_was ngrood to tako no animals but o couplo of dogs, Bovoral bags of grain of differont kinds woro packed away in tho phell, and Michol Ardon was very anxious to carry along somo oarth to sow them in. This was nat al- Jowed, but bo took a bundle of young fruit trocs of tho most approvad varietics, which wore cayo- fully wrapped in straw, for traneplanting in lu- nar soil. Boaides all this, food -enough for a yoar waa |« packed in the Frn]uc:ilo. ‘Thore wero also about fifty gallons of brandy, and water enough to Inst for two months, Tha fravelers_had no doubt thoy would find water on tho Moon, and food too, for that mattor, They were not 8o cortain, however, about brandy. 4 Evorything was now propared. Tho great cone was_brought to tho cannon's mouth, and elovated by ouormous windlasses, Hore was dolicacy and danger. If thosa chains had bro- ken, tho fall of such on immenso mass would suroly havo oxploded tho gun-cotton, and the sholl would havo traveled Moon-ward wilhout waiting for its_passongora. But nothing unto- ward happonod ; and, afior several Lours’ work, tho sholl was eafoly Jowered to its propor posic tion on the mass of gun-cotton. # Assoon as this operation was satisfactorily coroploted, Capt. Nichol paid fo President Barbicane £8,000, the amount of tho third wager, Barbicano was not willing to roceiva the moue; undor tho circumstances, but Nichol Insisted. 1o ;&ishml to pay all Lia dobts beforo hie left this world, The firat day of Docomboer mnow arrived— avery important dny, Xor, if the passevger projectilo wero not startod on its way to tho Moon nt oxactly forty-six minutes and forty scconds aftor 10 o'olock that "m‘ni' moro than eighteon yonrs would clapso botora tho Moon would again be found in the propor pogitions of zonith and perigee. A ‘mrlnc ly onormous crowd surrounded Btone's IIill, " From every portion of the United States, and from various parts of tho Old World, spactators wero assomblod. . About 7 o'clock tho Moon arcse sbove tho horizon. Grandly and brightly sho mounted the skied, punctual to & minate to hor appointmont. Navor did tho Moon reccive so mugnificont a walcomo, Choor aftor choor arose from flve million thronts. Evory ono was now wild with excite- ment. = Bofore the applause which greeted tho Moon had died away, tho throo lunar travolors appeared, ready for their voyage, On thoir sppoutance the applause burat forth with rodonbled force ; and thon, impolled by national enthusiasm, tho wholo crowd began to sing, in %Inn‘hlnfl'ng chorus, the national air of ‘“Yaukoe agdlo.” At last the ainsing coased ; all sound died away, and overybody looked and listoned, Tho throe travelors now approached the mouth of the osonon. Thoy shook hands with thbeir friouds, It was o touching soone. J. T. Maston wopt; and, ab this last moment, implored to be allowed to go along. But Barbicano shool his hoad. It was imposible. T'he threo companions desconded to tho shell, Thoy enterod {t, aud serowed the plate over tho orifice in tho top. Then the windlasses and lad- dors wore removed from the mouth of the can- non. Tverything was ready. T'wo miles away, the civil engineocr, Murchison, stood, with his flugor ovor the button of tho eleciric batlory. Tho silonco becamo awful; people ecarcely dared to Lrenthe, Evory oys was contored on the gaping month of tho graat gun. Now thera were but forty seconds remaining. Enols of thoso seemed aa sge. Al tho twontlotl second tho crowd falrly tromblod with nervous oxcitomont, Some peoplo sobbed, some fainted, Thon _through tho “silenca camo the sound of counting : ‘¢ thirty-five | —thirty-six | — thirty- sovon | — thixty-eight | — thirby-nine | — forty | FIRBIIL™ % Then Murchison touched the button. Immodintely tho most awful and unheard- of explosion took place. Nothing liko it was over imsgined. If & mighty volcano had burst into atoms the detonalion comld not have ~ boon moro foarful, straight jot of fliro sprang into tho air, snd seemed fo pierce tho very sky, and_the wholo country, for hundreds of miloy, was lighted up. Tho ?\‘flund shook a8 If an earthquake lnd rumblod bonoath it. Not ono of that vash nssomblege romained upright; mon, women, and children were hurlod upon the ground togothor, Tho hented ‘;nu that arons from tho mouth of the caunon in such vast quantitios creatod & partinl vaouum, which was followed by an awful huwricano, which swept down ovory hut nund tont in tho vicimity, and ovory treo within twenty mules; aud burst upont tho town of Tampa, dostroying -Lun- dreds of houses, and among others Bt. Mary's Chureh aud the now Exchange building. Groat damago was also dono to the shipping in tho port, many vessols boing torn from their anchor- ago and dushed upon tlio shore, Bhips, even b o groat distanco upon the ocean, felt the offocts of this nrtifioial storm, and the wreck of tho Ohilde Harold, of Livorpool, which occurred in couscquonce of the hurricnne, was mado tho subjoct of diplomatio remonstrances on the park of England, which came uoar producing war bo- twoon that sountry and tho United Blatos, ‘When all was again quiot, aud the people could onco moro stand ercot, soveral millions of telo- soopes nnd opora-glassos wero powmtod towards the Moon. But thoy could not seo tho pnssons goxi projectilo; it had pussod ontirely out of slght. gNomlng was now to ba done but to walt for tolograms' from the obgervatory ou tho Rocky Mountans, 'Tho }u-ujeuulu was duo at tho Moon ot mid- night of tho 4thof Docombor; sud, from 8 o'dlock until miduight of that doy, it might havoe beon possiblo, undor favorablo cli- oumstancos, to havo watched the course of the shell, which would havo ®ppoar- od 1iko a black polnt moving over & portian of tho bright faco of tho Moon, But from tho lime of firing until the night of the 13tk ot Decom- bor tho sky had beon overcast ; nothing could bo soen, On that night a gront wind-atorm erose, and the clouds woro Bwopt sway i and, sniling through the hoavens, appearad thie glori- ous Moon. ‘Lhon came nows from the obsorya- tory of tho Rooky Mountaius, ‘which was tele- graphod all ovvr{ho world, do projectilo had ' boon porooivod throngh the groat telescopa of tho Gun Club | of the dispatoh ¢ The projoctils fired from the groat gun at X 1) Doog 1 lisn bacn perasivad ot Forte savon miamtes. past 8 o'clock p, m, Dec, 12, The projectila has not reached tho Moon, It lisa passed to ono aldo; bul it is. near enougls, however, to be rotained by the Junar ate traction. In tuis position lta movemont hus*boon changod {o n circular motfon of groat velocity, and it deacribos an olliptieal orbit around the Aoon, o” whicls 14 ias bocomo n satollito, Tho laws which govern this now atar Linve not yot heon onloulated ; but it Is distany from the sirface of tho Moon sbout 2,833 milas, Either the attraction of {ho Moon will graduslly draw tho projootils to its surfaco, in which case the travelers. may altain tho object of tusir voyage, or tha profectile will continue Lo rovolva araund tho Hoan untll the end of timo, ‘This quostion will ho sottled somoe day; but, 8t the Presont, o oxporiment of tho Gun Olub bk only resnlted In giving & new star to our nolar ayatom, (T;fnnd) it J.};“. Brrrasr, ore was nothing mors for anybody to do In this bustnosa, _No swsistanco conld bo ronderod: tho unfortunate travolers. ‘ Ono man alone would not admit that tha situa- ' tlon was hopoloss; this was the brave, indomite-" blo J, T. Matson, Ho did not ontirely lose sight’ of bis friends, o took up Liin rosidonco at tho observatory on the Tocky Mountains, by the groat toloscopo. Every nlght when the Moon was visible ha hzod at it hmu%h thia lnstramont and watchod ho passngo of tho passonger projectila over ita filittmng + faca, And * thus ho romained, as it wero, in perpotual communication with hia thrao frionds, who Krobnbly folt bappy, in’ tho ocoriainty thoy must nvo felt that tho worthy J, T., Maston “would keop hia eyo upon thom’ as long ag ho lived snd the teleacape Lold togothor. E Ho did not despair of mooting them some day. *Wo will corrospond with thom," ho would say, to thoso who wishod to hear, * when cirnm- stanoos pormit. I know them. Thoy aro in- Ronious men ; and thoy orrry through space all tho rosourcos of art, ecloncs, and industry. With thoso they can do what they wish; snd ylmi1 ‘vg‘lu soe that thoy will yot come out alk Tight. The following is tho substance THE POOR. ** Give me neither poverly nor riches,"'~PROVERDSE, Tall not tho poor that poverty knows A blisa that woalth will nevor dlsoloso1 That thelr sleop (s sound, snd thetr broad (s awesh, Becatiss of thlr toil through cold aud heat ; For povarty robs, as woll s waalth Tho cliack of its bloom, and tho pulss of its health s Thoy both aza ovila for man to bear, But povorty has tho greator sharo, With the comforts wealth may now obtain, Tho wintor-tempent may beat {n valn; ut liow doc it tell on tho balf-clad forms Exposed to the chilling winter-storms, Or crowdod togathor chosrlsse and cold, 1n & rudo dwolling, open snd old, ‘That rattles and a8 tho cold winds blow, And witt through the chinka the drifting snow? 030 who foast, till your sonscs pall O the blessings Keaven designed fos all, To be happy, learn, of your hoatded store, Fou neod much /eas, and the poor noed more. ¥o brood o'or the wealth, oppressed and asd, That pliould mako your hoarts and thoussnds glad, Aud forget that you cannot bo happy alonos; Tis the bliss of othiors that mnkes our own, ~David Dates, HUMOR. 0'Brion, In., boasts of weathor *' cold enoughe to make o Polar ‘bear wear Arctlo overshoos.” —A Brooklyn man, who never bad o ‘swoote heart, says ho takes solitary satisfaction im standing around the railroad dopots and seclng tho women hug. —** Do try and talk a Uttle common sonse ! oxclaimod o sarcastic young lady to o visitor. Ok 1" waa tho reply'; * but wouldn't that bo ‘taking on unfair advantage of you ?” —An old lady of Juckson, Tonn., las asled the city authoritics to exompt her from city taxes 28 ** sho Boldom walks over their sidowalks or pavements,” v —An advertisement in an Irish paper, eotting forth the many convenionces and advantages to be derlved from metal window-sashes, smong other particuiors observed “tha those sashes would last forever—nnd aftorwards, if the ownor {md no ugo for thom, they could be sold for old ron.” —In formor times tho Govornment allowanco given to the widows of Scotch clerfymun was noarly equal to tho clergymon's stiponds. A minister of Cranshaws, & parish among tho Lammormoors, having wooed & lags in humblo circumstances, the father of the damaol, whom consulted on tho subjeot, sald, ¢Tak’ 'im, Jome ny, tak’ im, ho'n as guid doad s livin'," —** Come, mother, flva me somo medicine,* sald on ailing boy, * T don't want to die yat, for I've no acquaintanco in honven.” ‘¢ Why, yes, my boy,” said his mother, * there's your dear old grandfather, and little Lainy, the gardener’s daughtor, and Harry Stone, too, who died only lnst week.” ¢ Well,” waid tho littlo follow, “Harry and I always did quarrel, and the gat- doneor's ohlld sponks nothing but Dutch, and ¥ have grown so sinoe grandpa died he would not know me when I got thero.” —Tirst Visitor—'* What fino n{ns littlo Victor has{" Hocond ditto (fond of quoting)—* Yes, he hns ¢ an eyo Jiko Mors.'" Hostoss (young, rioh, beautiful, and ignorant)—* Do you think so roally? Now, I have always thought that he has Lis fathor's eyos.” —4 Pauno here, my friend, #s you pass by; AB you 10 078, 40 oRes WS 1§ An I now am, 0 you must be ; Therefors propate to follow me.” It is snid that once sn irreverent wog ape onded to this inzoription the follomng re- oinder : 10 follow you I'm not content, Until T know which way you went."” ~—Mastor Covillo roceived a prize Friday after- noon for o compasition on Reverance, and fur- ther distinguishod himself in tho evening, on the occasion of the pastors visit, by shutting the tails of the dominie's coab in the parlor door and impolling him to lonve thom thera by introducing & pin wn_his cbair. The pastor returned homo with a cloud on his brow, and ono of Coville's conts on his back, leaving Mastor Covillo cxocuting & horn- ipe in tho woodshed, under tho auspices of his fnther.——Datwun/ News. —The other day, at o concert, & gentleman having put his hat upon a chair to koep o placo, returned to claim it after a'short absence, Tho bat he found, aura enough, where it had been loft, only thero was a stout lady hitting on it, ¢t Madam,” said he, *you aro sitting on my hat."” Tho lady blushed o little, turnod round, and ssid in the blandest manner: **Oh, I beg I'm suro I thought it was my husband's.’ —_— e E. 0. Porrin as o Cat-Exterminutor. From the Scloharis (V. Y.) Republican, Tho General Clork of tho Court of Apflnn.l! when * at homo " regides at Jamaica, on Long Island, Loug Island had alweys been famous for its immonao crop of cats. Iiach yoar's cro) beataits lnmediate predecossor, and the multi- plicity of cats is fenrtul to bohold; almost ae foarful, in faot, a8 the foarful concorts to which the people aro nightlysubjocted. For some rea- aon or other Mr. Porrin was favored with more than his sharo of thoso froe concorts, muoh tg hig dolight, of course, and to tho_ disgust (of courso) of his loss fortunato noighbors. At longth this favoritism bocamo unondurable, and Perrin hit upon a happy expedient ta rotura tha compliment_with intorost. ~ Homo suow re- mained on tho roof, and Perrin protonded to wash it off by sluicing throo or four tubfuls of hot water over the shiuglos. The canso- quonco was that in an hour the on- tivo roof was as alippery asanything in this world can be. 'That night, while Porrin was slt- ting at bis bedroom window gazing out into the moonlight, ha saw a cat suddenly dash downward lhroflnfi tho afr with a paw strotohed toward each oint of tho compass, its fur olevatod, and its ungs omitting & terriblo yoll. In aminutodown camo anothor. 'Chon n third went sousing past, and_ bofore it ronched tho ground a fourth came polting down, and then a fifth, doubled up and clawiug at tho othor and the moonlight for & hold, and so until abont 160 had desconded. Thon Porrin_ thought it about time to inveatigato tho honomenon. He ascendod to tito garrot and kacd out through the trap-door, Thero Lo aaw o procession of G600 or 700 cn.ts\ roach- ing in nlm&u filo from tho yard up ovor the shed and the back bullding to tho crown of tho roof of the houso, Thoy woro all moving; and, au the cat at the head of the Jmcuau on renched tho penk of tho roof, it would look_around for & minuto and wonder whoro its predocessors had gono, ‘Thon its foot would slip. It would Shuteh and otaw and grab at thoe eo ; but atill it would go Bn(llu¥ down with iucronsing spoed ‘nntil it roached tha edgo, when it would shy oub into spaco and dash off “toward tho payomont. Tt was iutoresting to Porrin to observe the pro- cession. He nover bofore ronllzad the beauty of tho Inw of naturo which attrnots bodles to the earth. ‘Thoso cats novor climbed his yoof again. Tiighty-four diod ou the spot, and it {s belioved that 400 of theru Lroke their loga and abandoned tho nooturnal serenading business poermanoutly. Porrin, boing a gmnt humanitarian, desirea publioity mado of this sad untnstrnlflw. to tho aud that in futuro thoso musioal innoconts, when thiey go nbrond, muy uvold alippory places. ol g D pardon! —John A, Patis, living tlroo milos south of Homonaulk, had four hogs killod by tho wolves Iast Bunday night, Tho hogy wore confined inw on, but ton rods from the louse. William Bumnoy, living in the nofghborhood, saw throo Wwolves running over the prairio not ‘uug aince, and tho brutes ave gotting numorous in fih«’ time bor about somom.ug.—Saudwioh(!ll.)Eml 1 et