Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 11, 1874, Page 10

10 # THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JANUARY 11, 1874 R T S S Y e oo s i === MONTHLY PAYMENTS. How Everything Can Now Be Bought, Dangers Attending the Sys- tem. Partly-Paid-For Furniture Carried Off by Ruthless Creditors. Mortgagc(l. Molars and Incisu‘rs. One of the manifestations of the times, but which, of course, must have been induced by some demand on the part of the peopis, is the great vaziety of articles which can be bought on TARTIAL FAYMENTS, , principally monthly or weekly installments of currency. Years ego, in our juvenile days,when wo owned a big elate, and could cover both sides of it with a series of figures upon which prinei- pal and interest were calculated, and at iast, after much work, achioved 8 cor- rect result according to Greenleaf,—who was then the arithmetical prophet,—we felt a proper prido in our work, and looked rather supercilionsly upon those of our school-mates who quoted with pathetic emotion that charm- ing lttle stanza beginming *‘The Rule of Three,” and ending with * Fractions drive me mad.” Thoee were days in which large sums were supposed to be at stake (investments in real estale, probably), and when the payments extended over a series of months, and even years. Now we eigh *“ Rome, Rome, thou art oo amore 28 thou hast been,” meaning, of course, that all those hours in which we puzzled over intricate problems were a delusion and a snare, and not of the lesst spplicability to the real state of things. Now you buy eversthing on partial payments, and the sellor gets all be can for them, without charging inter- est, save inexceptiona csses. Not that you don't pay it; don't be in the least alarmed about that ; the seller never cheats himself. Dut that is aside from the matter as wo wish tolook at it First, then, you may buy ALY, YOUR HOUSEHOLD FURNITCRE upon monthly payments, from the toasting-fork in your kitchen to the Turkish lounge 1 your parlor. If you are a provident person, you have bought according to the amount of your income and the probable chance of paying for tha arti- cles. They are mortgaged; you don’t roally own them; and while, ordinarily, we believe most of these people are willingto bo lenient if any unforescen causo prevents a perfectly-prompt payment, suppose there should be & possible Shylock among them. At all cvents, thig person would feel privileged 1o claim a portion of Lis bond. The parlor-fur- niture, at least, he might reclim. You bave ‘been over-sanguine ; you have been tempted be- yond your means; snd suddenly the glory has departed. You rise some morning 8§ an im- portunate party raps at the door, and rapidly as men's. arma can tear down, pull up, and carry ont, OFT GOES : that appérently luxurious lontge upon which you have stretched your weary limbs at night, and read the psper until you dozed off, wondering wby your wife sat thore derning stockings or Eewing buttous on your shirt, and looking g0 sulky. Sweet Ari- mantke ! Bhe did not look eo in the comting @ays. No! of course not! but then, you see, there was a glight difference. She dido’t have your mending to do then, and you dido't smolic nd read yourself to sleep. You hung over her st the piano. whispered French-bonbon sort of sweet sentimentality in ber ear, and begged ber to sing ** Ever of ‘[hee ™ just once more. Ce: tainly that eort of thing conldn't last foreve: she didn't expect it. Her ideal was a fond, ten- Zer husband, not & spooay one.—a man who would take Ler to art-palleries, the theatre occa- sionally, and Star-lectures ; and, when af home, would read to her, while, under such circum- gtances, the buttons would becoms an apotheo- si8 of mother-of-pear], like the radiant transfor- mation sceue in the *‘Black Crook,” and those enormous holes in your pedal coverings would seem, 88 her ncedle glanced quickly to and fio, as if she were Alling them with threads of gold, while ber whole heart would be in her work; for were they not the foot-coverings of the NOBLEST, EBAVEST, BEST OF MEY, 2nd was she not blessed to te the chosen woman out of all the world to bave that glorioua privilege? ~ Bhe quite forgot thar little matter of propin%mly in which you met by chance, the usual way, when phe had goue into the cadntry to Tecuperate after s winter's danciog snd firting, snd you had -gone o _tho same place for your fortnight's eummer outing, because it was cheap and the fiching was good. It happeaed so, that was all ; and, 1if Anman:ba Lad Leen Soplronia or even Phebe Jane, it is quito possible the sane result would have followed. ~Very chilling to young romance, no doubt, but the very probable cousequence. You did not read to her atter the first few weeks ; you forgot that life was mono- tonous, snd that, while you strolled down town and looked in at Mac's or THooley's, she bad not the prvilege of 8o deing. #As for singing “Lver of Thee,” now, why, that was all emphasized nonsense, you know ! and you did wish she would do lLier macticing in tde day-time, if she must sing. How encouraging for the youug wife! vou did chauce to histen, why, 0u soon dozed off, and she came back to her meud- ing. Howstiange that tho ewect, round, merry face grows long and’ care-worw, and the ‘mouth drops at the corners, until at last it gets abso- lutely sour. She reaily is glad to tce that lounge go, and you remark that **You don't much care, IT WASN'T SO VERY EASY, AFTER ALL; sod, g for the Turkish chais, why they were three iuches too high, at least. And so good-bye te table, etagere, lounge, curtsine, chuirs, carpets, cornices, and evers- thing but the pictwes. They still remain. Chromos bought on weekly payments. That wae_your wife's suggestion, and she has man- aged until now to keep them paid for. She means to try bard to do so still, for they bave ocen great’ company for her when you have been making unpleasant discords through that rather exsgorated pasal featuro which graces your face. She lias looked at the Queen of the Vine- ard, and wished sbe might goto n Harvest- ome, or _help in gatbering 1hé sunny, spicy clusters of porple or amber grapes. She has mede & pest in her heart for the ‘‘ Cherubr,” and played many games with the * Loves." She hss rested in imagination in the * Yosemite,” and reveled in the ** Heart of the Andes ;" and, if eho can help it, the pictures will not go back. ‘Times are bard, however, and you begin to feel a little gueer about the COOE-STOVE AXD THE EEDS. Buppose you can’t pay for those, and the man claims them. Yourecall an incident in your early life, before yon came to this Western coun- try, when you were a young man sud boarded in New Youk. 1t was aa elegant .house on 2 fash- jonabie cross-street,—a brown-stono mansion, uewly faroished, and very enticingly clean. The carpets were the brightest of tapestry, the up- Rolsters the groznest of rop. and the bedstead- hends zoared toward the ceiling with 5 munifi- cence of black-waluut that was almost sppalling. You had a ky-parior, about 6 by 9; but vou were o curled dsrling, conld dance the Gerfaan 1 thoso days, and were invited to all Mrs. Dach- awey's euchre-parties, in the front suite on the gecond floor, and were & favorite .with delicate . Mrs. Milleflenrs, who _occupied the back suite of the same level. You liked fle Intter little lady, and took Ler violets when you won at billiards, which was not as frequent- ivas you wished ; but still sho wes grateful. Sour Iandiady you uenally #poke of 8s 4 & STUNNER.” - —nove of your wesk, patient, worn-out little bodies, who struggle to make Lotk ends meet, and who have a chionic look of always being in difficulties ; but & fine. handsome person, who 1oft all the household-cares to her mulatto help. She, too, however, was 3 vielim to monthly paz- ments. Like the Assyrian whocame duwn lixe the wolf on the fold, came down those monthly- syment .men. Their cohorts did pot exact- y gleam - in - purple aad gold. In fact, there was cnly cne presumable cohort, snd he was an ndividual mmnnni_é fost 11 inches according to zctusl gauge, and his purple was blue, and kis _gold was a ziiver siar, the badge of - bis order. - He was not at all exer- elsed sbout his Lorse cither, for ho did not bg- Jong to that particular kind of cavalry known as +*mounted.” He looked quietly on while the i leaders dismantled the sumptuous dwelling. In less than two hours, all that remained was not more tangible than the airy fabric of & dream. ‘The landlady left the houee at onco—stood not upon the order of ber going, but went. The bonuders followed, equally witbout Lesiiation; 3 EXCEPT POOR LITTLE MRS. MILLEFLEURS. Sbe was 1ll, confined to her bed; but what was that to the ruthless jovader? They dumped her fiuery on the floor, and vamosed with the burean. Bhe wept, she’ implored, and the sole response was, “It's a case of monthly payments, Marm, and our boss won't wait no louger." Away went the chairs; the lounge followed, s if some epirit-rapping prestidigita- teur was twiddling his fipeers at them, and their wooden sould were scting in sccord’ with Lis peychological intention, The Goths and Van- dale at lost ndvanced towaid ber, and she was not a Roman matron to defy them, only & weak, nervous little American, to shriek aud plead. They lifted her mattress, and deposited it on the floor, and-down camo the neaven-soaring bod- stead : and there lay the little woman, trembling, wondering what would be the mext move. But oveu these hired men were willing to take a certain amount of responsibuli- ty. They would leave the mattress, at least for 2 dav or two, until the Lttle iavalid conld bo moved. YOU REMNEMDERED THIS; vou wondered if such would be your fate a8 you saw the most luxurious of your half-paid-tor movables going back, You felt live saying, “ Backwaid, turn.backward, O Time, in your flight;” but it was too much for you: o yoa wipad sway a tesr, thought of Silas Wegg, and wundered how he wowd bave illustrated that event in your life for the benefit of the Golden Dustman. You sat down to your dinmer that night, possibly the last which it wight be yours to purcake of from off that monthly-pay- ment tablo, and seated on that monthly-paymeut chair. Thank the good goddes~, Fortune, the delf was your own, and the plated spoons, aud the worated table-cover ; but, bitterest thought of all, THE TEETH WERE KOT. Led on by your irresistible maaia to got all you could by paying tho smallest amoaut of imme- dinte cash, you had moticed an sdvertiscment by which teeth were furmshed on monthly pay- ments. Tosce was to resolve! All thoso do- cayed molara and incisors sbould forthwith, by the aid of rorceps and chloroform, be torn from those aching jaws, and you would dazzle the world with the brilliancy of your purchased— no, lwed—pearls. Nov = yours, mort- geod motil paid for, Nevdr md. ope alwags sprang _cternal in your very humsu breast, aod it was pot at all sur- priting that it shonld even gt up into your moutls, and thus become the canse of your pur- chas—"biting those with. Storm filed your eye, despair your soul, when vou thought that for just three months had sou grown young and beautiful with those pearly artindes gleamiug as vou langhcd—yes, genuinoly laughed. without the necsasity of Lolding your handkerchiof be- fora your moutl. Tise ezt paymont was da, an YOUR POCKETBOOE WAS EMPTY. What was to ba done? Would the dentist claim his owvn? And, if so, what would become of those beloved masticators? Whose mouth would they next grace, while you went on your way, one of the order Edentata, upcl you could commence on anoiher s Arother set!—pghastly thought! Perhaps they, too, might bave belonged to a monthly-payment man who tad failed to meet his obligations whon due. Who was he? What was he¢ His uame, Lis age. his pationality all became s matter of intense {nterest to you ; in fact, a slight feeling of disgust crept over you at the thought that possibly those very teeth whose loss.you feared might bs second-hand. Who should say? If not, what does become of the teeth that are mot paid for? It becomes an INTENSE, EXCITING SUBJECT s we thiak of it, whether ‘'twers better in this life to suffer the pangs and torture of an ulcered tooth, or to secure a on_monthly dues, and then at Jast to lose them! e lesve tho subject Lere. We think thata climax basnow been reacted when the b-; and teeth may be fora Lrief season ours, 1 3% then, perhaps, anothor's. ANGELS KISS THIKE EYELIDS DOWN.* The sun lit steeple, arch, and span, And at its toucls & sweet thrill ran, O'er chiapel-beis. of sunect soug, Rest here, warm heart ! Al wus it wrong? 1 beld theo close—and swect—and lobg,— T4il, tmding there thy life's lost crown, Thou bud’st me kisa thine eyelids down. Then told me, fn thoee shadows dim, The pain that'dulled thy heart within; Aod sought no scene to falsify, Of misused hours in Spring gove by, And baunting thoughts that never die, 1 bushed thes—hough mine eyes would weap— ‘Aud softly kissed thee down to sleep. 1In thy last sleep may God's sweet Test Still every tumuit of thy breast, 3y life { my lovel may Heaven’s best light Weuve golden gateways o'er Dezths night, And tip, with * sunsetarrows ” brigut, Thy wasted ields, all dull and brows, And Augels kiss thine eyelids down, Mes, COBSIE Laws ST, JORN. Lesutiful litile poem entitied *In answer to the “Going to Sleep.” i g e The Colorado Mountain-Peaks. * Mr. James T. Garduer,, the goographer of the Hayden scientific expedition, in Colurado, the past season, has contributed s brief arucle to the American Journal of Science, in which sev- erul intercsting facts are grouped in regard to the rpumher and elevation of the mountain- peaks of all that region. He states that, from Alt. Lincoln, 200 peaks ean be counted, of 13,000 feet aud over. Of the three great ranges which lie between latitude 33 degrees 30 min- utes and 40 dogrees 30 minutes, the most east- ern was named the Front tange, in which sro Long’s Peuk, Mt. Torry, Gray's Peak, Mt. Rosa, Mt. Evaus. Pike's Peak, a'taining an eleva- tion of from 14,000 to 14,200 feet above tle level of the sea. West of the Front range lie the great parks, separated from each other by comparatively low cr broken cross ridges. DPar- allel with 1t and about forty miles further west, is a graud line of mountains, forming the west- ern boundary of the South, Middle, snd North Parks. We named this the Park Range. Its bhighest points are near the junction of the cross range that divides South from Middle Park. They a10 tho Mount Lincoln grons, which in- cinde twenty peaks that exceed 13,000 feet in height ; and its culminatine poruts, Lincoln and Quandary, riee above 14,000. Twenty miles fur- ther north, the range becomes s very sharply crested wall, with mapy 18.000-foot peaks, and with it its culmibating points ris. ing to 13,300 feet. This wo call tho Blue River group. To its. northern most and highest summit belougs the name of 3it. Powall, from the gallant explorer by whom it wag first ascended iu 1863. From Mt. Powell northward there are no high peals until opposite the North Park, where the range riges again into summits of 12,000 feet and over. West of tho sonthern part of tae Park range is the Arkantas valley; and beyond this valiey is another grand fine of lughts, heretofore unuamed, and which we call the National range. The highest part of the Natiooal range commences mbout twenty miles sonth of the Holy Cross, in Grand Moun— tain, opposta the town of 0o, in the Arkansns valley. Grand Mountain ir about 14,200 feet high, and from here to 50 miles farther soutl the whole range is elevated to 18,000 fect while there aro ten peaks that rise above 14,000 feet, sume of them doubtless reaching 14.400. These culminating points rise at intervals of five to eight miles along the croat of the range. The one next sonth of Graod Mountain is Mt. El- bert ; tae next is La Plata Mountain ; then como the peaks named by Prof. J. D. Whituey in 1869, Mt. Harvard and Xt. Yale, aud g0 on. The National range is one of the grandest on the Continent. Throuvh nearly its wholo extent it forms thedivide between the waters of the Atlan- tic und Pacific Oceans. West of this range, avd connected with it, isa great group of mouutains, Iying in a triangle between the Grand River on toe north and the Guanison R ou the south, and known as the Elk mountains. 'ho most elevated veaks of this group form a ridge about thirty miles Jong, nearly parsilel with tho Na~ tional racge. and some thirty-five miles west of 1t. At the northern cnd of chis line of elevation, in latitude 39 deg. 15 min. north, is Sopris moun~ tain, & long, dome-shaped ridge, sbout 13,000 feet high. Ten miles to the south of it is a sharp cone, overtoping all Its peighbors, and rising to sbout 14,000 feet; this we have pamed the Capitol. Threo miles further south is another great peak, only about fifty feet lower, which we call the White House, fiom the conspicuous snow tield, about a mile in lorizontal Liesdth and bhaving s slope of half a mile. which covers its eastorn front. This enow-mass is by far the larges: we bave found ia the mountains of Colorado, znd dis- tinctiy macks and coaracterizes the peak, even 24 seen from the Front range, eighty miles away. Yet farther son:h, five 2nd ten miles respective- Iy. ate two 14,000-foot pesks, of dstk red eand- stone, which we call Maroon mountain aud Cas- tle peak. We expect to publish sccurate panoca- mic drawings of each of theso tour ranges ; noth- ing but tbesc and plotographs can give an idea of their grand forms and infeesting structure. 1t seems veryremarkable that, in a region, where there are 8o many high peaks, the culminating points should all range between 14,000and 14,500 feet. S3 faras I Luow, there are twenty-two summits of this class in our district. EPISCOPALIANISM. The Two Extremes---Ritualistic and Reformed. Services in Two New York Churches. The Reformed Church. From the New York Sun, Jan. 5. It 18 snnounced that a congregation bas been organized In,this city, to ba under tho, pastoral caro of Bishop Cummins, of which the ser- vice in Steinwny Iall yesterday morning was the first public gatbering. Tho ball was well filled by respectable, intelligent, and dovout persons. Tho officiating clergvmen entered from & eide door and took seats on the platform. Tho first was the Rev. William V. Feltwell, of West Farms, whose church was closed against him a fow days ago because of his avowed sdherence to the new movement. Then followed the Rev. B. B. Leacock, assistant minister of the Church of the Holy Trinity (the Rev. S. H. Tyng, Jr.'s). The procession was ended by the Bishop of the new dispensation, tho Right Rev. Dr. Cummins. They wore pluin black gowns. Aftor thoy had knelt 1a silent prayer, the Bishop announced the firat hymn of the collection, and requestod tho cougregation to join. At the con- ‘clusion of the hvmd the Reu. Ar, Feltwell pro- nousced the following openiug Sevteuce Irom the new Prayer-Book : When the wicked man turneth away from his wick- eduoes (hut he hath committed, and Gooth that Which is lawful and right, he abuli save his soul alive. Also the sentenco boginning: “Read your hearts aud not your garmonts,” &c. & Hu also read the invitation t6 prayer, as in the regutar Book of Common Pisyer. Then followed tho geueral coufession, also unaltered. Tha Declaration of Absolution, as priuted in tke Protestant Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, is unchanged in B.shop Whita's book, which in announced as the standard of tve Roformed Clurey, aud is prececded by this rubic: A declaration concerning the forgiveness of sins ; to be made by the minister ulone, stunding, the peoplo still kneeling. 5 But in this initiatory service a maiked freodom was indulged, tho declaration being trasposed iuto a prayer said by tho minister, knecling, tho words **given power and commandment to bis ministers to declare and prozounce " being omit- ted, the scntonco Leing rendored, “snd lath promisod to his peuple, being penitent,” &c. Tho Lord's Praver was then raid, followed by the antiphoual praer of the Prayer Book : 0 Lord! open Thou our lips, Ans.—And our mouth shall how forth Thy praise. Followed by the words sct forth by the mow Prayer 800k 3 0 God ! make speed to s3ve us. Ans.—O Lord ! muke baste to help us. Then, atl standing, was said the ““ Glory be to the Fatber,” &e. The suthems, * Venite, exultimus Domino,” a3 appointed in the old Prayer Book, follows in tho new book, except thut the wholo of the pealm (tbo xcv.) is appoirted fo be read. “he psalter for tho fourth day of tho month +wag resd, the same a3 in the Protestant Episco- pal service, followed by tho “Gloria in Excelsis,” sung to the old chant. I'le lessons were read by the Rov. Mr. Lea- cock. After the first lesson tha “*Te Deuwmn Laudamus ” was aatd, the ouly change from’the ‘commonly acceptod version being in the inter- polation of the word “*pure” in the sentence, “Thou didst humble thysell to be bormn of & pure virgi : 1he second leeson was the thirteenth chapter of I. Corinthians. The now Prayer Book re- %_Illil‘éfl one of the same antuems to be suid after the second lesson, as appointed in the Book of Common Prayer, only that_the selections a1e fuller in the new version. But Bishop Cummins assumed the right to ignoio the rubric in this regard, and iustead announced the twenty-fourth byma, “I'ie Dishop then took his place at the desk and lea in the pronouncement of the Apostles Creed as it is piven m all modern prayer-books, - Tue prayers and litany following were read by the Bishiop. 7They differed from the common version in theee respeets: In the antiphoual supplications following the creod, after the an- swer Ly tho people, **And giant us thy salva- tion,” the following occurs : ; o inlster—0 Lord,”Lless and proservo theso Unitcd ates. Answer—Aud mercifally hear us whea we call upon hee. Ainister—Endue T ministers with righteousness, Answer—And make Ty people joyful. The collect for peace and the collect for prace were read witi:out chauge. ihen followed tac litsuy, inclading what is now generally termed the lesser litany, all of which is appotnzed to be 1ead wichout the omission permitied by the or- dinary Prager-Book. In the petition, ** Fromall ivordinate and sinful affections,” &c., tho lan- guage is changed 8o a3 to read : ** From fornica- nion and all other doadly siu,” &c. After the pe- izl *We siuners do beeocclr Lhee to hicar &c., occurs tlus interpolation : Thas 1t may ylease Thee to eudue the Congress of these United States, and all othurs in suthority, legis- Iative, judicial, eudl executive, with grace, wisdom, and ubderstandiz te justice and to main- tain truth, A And in the supplication’ for “All Bissops, Priesis, and Deacons,” the new version reads: * All BisLops and otuer Pastora.” There ars one or two other m'nor changes of a single word which do uot materially alter the seuco. The final supplication: 0 Lamb of God, Who takest awsy the sins of the world : Lave merey upon us. is omitted in the new varsion. The lesser litany Degins as follow O Clrist bear us. 0O Clirast hear us. Lord, Liave wercy upon us, and desl not with us ac- cording to our sins, Neitiier reward ua according to our iniquities. And then omits all that follows in the ook of Common Lrayer down to the prayer, 0 God, mercifal Father,” &e. The “Giory be to the Father;" befora tho prayer ‘‘From our ene- mies defend us,” is omittel in tho new version. The rest of this part of the service is the same a8 that given in the Protestant Lniscopal Prayer Book; but on this occasiou Bishup Cummins took the liberty of omitting tho praver, “We bumbly beseech Thee,” and also tho general Thauksgiving, After the litany the eighth hymn was an- noanced, The ante-communion rervice, the reading of which stands apon the same requirement in tho new Prayer Book 2s in the old, was wholly omitted yesterday, the Bishop J:mceedin;: with bis sermon immedistely on the closo of the hymn. [An abstract of the sermon was given in our isguo of last Monday.—Ep, TRIDUNE.] v The Ritualistic Church From the Sew York Sun, Jan, 5, To Forty-fifth strect, between Seventh and Eighth ayenues, is the Chureh of St. Mary tho Vurgin. It 1 a pretty Lttle chapel of brown wandstone, built in the simple, early medievat style of Gothic architecture. On the duor with- in tho vestibule is posted a notice that the chrpel is freo. Neiselessly the httle green door swinys open to the touch, and the visitop is in a | plain Gothic chapel, with bigh, arched ceiting, d lancet windows et deep in tho hin tho niched sanctuary, at the upper end of the chapel, is_a tall and imposing Gothic_sltar of -marble, witk a status of the Bleased Virgin in o niche on the gospel side, and one of st.Joln in the one on the epistlo sido of the altar. The candles on the altar, tho tabernacle, the laces, the chalice and its ew- rordered cover, are all precisely like those of the altars of Rowan Catbolic churches. There is & cross, mot a crucifix, above the tabernacle, and the form and adornments of the candles, and the addition of two immense candles and candlesticks on each side of the boly inclosme, formed by the altar rail, matk the difference be- tween this and a Roman Catholic altar. The prevailing colors within Lhe ssnctuary aro maroon and dark blue. The whole efect is cheerful and pleasing. This pretty chapel of freo worship is an En- glish Cathiolic or Ritualistic church. Its Rector and ofliciating priest is the Rey. Father T. McKee Brown. His associate ie the Rev. Father Noyes, These pricsts Lold their oftice and exercise their functions as,clergymen witkin the communion of the Proteetait Episcopal Church of America, and uader the ecclesiaatical direction of {he Bisbops of tha: Church. The Baok of Common Prayer is used by tho gieater part of the cougre- gation, but to follow the tervices intelligently it 18 necessary to have & manual of devotions com- piled especislly for the use of the Ritualistic brauch of the English Casiolic or Epucopal Church. 0 Yesterday morning the long, dark, walnut ‘benches (thoy Lave no pews) wera about half filled with u congregation evidently of the bes} classes of our metropolitan society. Not & fasbionable congregation in tho usaal sense, but » well-bred, elegant. sssemblage of ladios and gontlomen in that tastoful demi-toileb which is ‘always_worn in church in England or Conti- ventul Buropo. They wero not dressed in tho loud style of many of our Fifth svenueand Murray Hiil churches, - Every ono that entered made tho sign of the croes on taking o scat, then knelt in prager, just 18 Roman Catholics do, except that the head was bowed longer and the worshipper's attention was not fixed ou the altar in 80 sbsorbed & man- ner as in the Roman Catholic churches. Two prieats, ton or twelve choristers, and four altar boys formed_the procession which entered from tho sacristy door {n the manner and order ob- served in Roman Catholic churches. They were very similarly dressed. Tho colebrant wore a white alb over & black_cassock, s maniple and girdlo precisely like » Roman Catholic priest's. 1lis white chasuble is a little different in form, hacging like a cloak eround lus person, but or- namented with an embroidered cross on.the back. The priest who preached the scrmon of the day wore a plain whito surplice and an em- broidered stole. The alter boys bad on red cas- socks and whits muslin_surplices. The service at tho altar wes almost Wentical with the Latin mass of the Roman Church, but that it was 10ass in English. The priest intouea the whole ger- vice, and the choir responded in,the music of the masy, The music was excellent. and oue voice, a pure bigh soprano, gave tho solos ia the credo, ganctus, Agpus Dei and Dencdictus with taste, fervor, and tine elfect. Tuo’ termon preachied by the Rector, Father Brown, was read with great rapidity froin o read- ing-detk in tho mudale aisle. The subject was the vativity and manifeatations of Jesus Clrist, aud tho lessons of 1aith and humility taught by his birth in o lowly manger. Tho preacher warned lus copgregation of . the want of faith Qisplayed iu this age, in which, whenever Jesus Chriet stirs us up to groater strictness, tempta- tious come to draw Chriszians from their duty in approaching the escraments and coming to con- fession. At tho conclusion of bis sormon, he Llessed his congregation with tho sign of tho cross, aud tho caton of the musa was begun. ‘Che_etements of the Communion wero not divided i tho administration of tho Eucharist. Taose who presented thomselves at the altar- 1ail_partook first of the wafer, then of the chalice. [I'he servico was closed witl a proces- son of clergy, choristers, and altar-boys, slowly filing outof the sanctuary to the musicof o bosutiful processional hymd, sung in English. After the sorvice, the re;zlurtar was presented to the Rov. Futler Noyes by & lady in the con- gregation. Ropo ter—Your eervice closely resembles that of the Ruman Church. Futhor Noyes—Yes ; but there aresoma funda- mental diferences. We administer the Com- munion in both kinds, and there are no progers for the Infallible Head of the Church. The prasors for tho dead are not like theurs, and all the sorvice is in English. Revorter—Do you teach the doctrine of the real presence in the Dlessod Sacrament ? Tather Noyes—Certawly. Reporter—In what do you differ most from the Roman Church ? Father Noyes—Iu the docirine of papal infal- libility. If & general couacil of the whole Cath- olic Church should be called, including the Greek, the English, and the Roman, we would givo the Bishop of Rowe bis seal as the Primate of the Koman Catholic Church. You must come again on some festival day whoen our servicesare more imposing aud our music more elaborate. It was cxtremely simple to-day. The lady furnizked the reporter with the little prayor-book in use among the ritualists. 1t 18 entitled, **The Disine Liturgy and Daily Sacri- tice: & Manual of Devotions for the Sncrament of the Altar from Ancieot Sources. Edited by the Rev. Orby Shipley, M. A. London ed.tion.” 1n 1t are found several acts of devotion and cer- tain prayers {rom the * Paradiso of the Clristian Soul.” ‘The firsc prayer for the priest aud one or two other short prayers and selections are from the ** Priest to the Altar™ and ** Hours of the Pussion.” The prayers for tho deatt are taken from the “ Liturgy of St. Mark"” and from the Elizabethan Primer” (Moultrie's edition), from St. Autelm’s Dovotions ™ fnd the first ** Liturgy of Edward VL." Dr. Littledale’s ** Otlices of the Eastern Church,” Bright's * Anciont Collacts,” the ** Sarum Use,” tho *‘Mozarbie Offices,” and various Greek, Latin, and English sources sup- ply a large portion of the complication. It is & singular aad interesting mixture of the pravers of tne * Book of Common Prayers” aud devo- tjons wlich are familiar to any one who js accus- tomed to the prayer-bouks of the Romau Catbo- lic Churck. 1u the canon the celebrane nses the following words at the consecration of the Paten : * Hail to all ages! Bost holy flesh of Christ that art to me the chiefest of all good things!” At the consectation of the chalice he eays: * Hail to all ages! "Heavenlycup of the blood of Christ, that art to me the chiefest of all good tbings.” Tho words for the admiuistration of the Paten are: ** The body of our Lord Jesus Christ which was given for thee, presetva_thy soul unto ever- lasting hfe, Take and eat this, in remembrance that Christ died for theo; and feed on Him in thy heart by fuith, with thanksgiving.” ¥or the clialice i said: “The blood of our Lord Jesus Clrist, which was shed for thee, preserve thy soul unto everasting life. Drink this, in remembiance that Christ's blood was shed for thee, and bethankful.” In thecongrogation werc scen six nuns or Sis- ters of Mary, & relizious order fosiergd in this church.. They wear a eimilar gach tothat of 2 Sister of Mercy. 'They have aschool and cban- table hospital in the upper part of the city near the cburch, They taks vows of celibacy, obe- dience, and poverty, and devote (hemselves to wouks of charity or educatiou, just as the orders for women do iu the Church of Rome. —_— CRADLE-SONG. Sleep, my baby ! sleep and dresm Ou thy pillow, soft and white, Lulled to rest while white wings glenm O'er thy couch till morning-dgbt. Sleep ou, dreawn on, while you sy *- Troablea come at dswn of ‘day. Little eyelids, pure and white ; Rosy lips and dimled feet ; Eyes witl ope on Life's rude light, Cares and 6orrows you will meat, Sieep o, dream on, till the day. Futbier | keep ber safe, I pray | Sleep then, darling! Mother's near), Bending o'er thy place of rest, Whule the sun is siukiug clear Tu bis glory in the West, Sleap on, dream on, till the light, . Dariing Liutle ono ! good nigit 1 Drraunr., Something About ¢ Stowaways.?? In the melancholy eatalogue of the poor peo- ple engulted in tie Villa du avre, we read (says the London Telegraph) that there were twenty-seven third-class Lagseugers and Six ©utowawnys.” The last-named torm is sufli- ciently curious to call for cxplunation, and in tendering it wo touch upon one of the most wreiched featutes of omigrant life. A * stow- away " is au individual who, at the last moment, just before tho vessel leaves the dock for her deatination, slinks on board, creepa below, aud couceals bimsslf as securely as be is able in re- mote ncoks and corners of the lower deck or forepeak. Sometimes Le gels into the hold ; Lut thero, if the batches ate battened down, ho 1iua the immunent risk-of being smothered. At all ovents. he c awlsinto Lis coign of vantage and crouches there like'a rat belind the wain- scot, quaking for fear of discovery. And dotec- tion mfibt sooner or later be the doom of the stowaway. 8o well is the practice of smuggling human baggage known to seagoing folks, that prior to 8 lurge emigrat ship sailiug thers is genesally orgauizea a picket of sailors, headed by one of the mates, and furnisied with lanterns and rat- tans, who make a tour of exploration among the ' packing-cases and tho provision-casks, “ Hunting for stovaways” isa most exciting sport; the wretched defaulters aro * started from their holes, rouudiy abused, hustled on dock, “slanged” by the Captain,—happy they, in an American clipper, whoescape being *‘shang- haied ” by tho boatswain, or *booted" by tho fisst mate,—and aro then contumaciously kicked over the gide. Somo stowaways, howaver, gen. erally contrive to pass uunoticed in the searc and six—tho number found on board the Ville du Havre—may be considered a3 s fair aver- sge among 150 passengers. The slup, in any case, cannot be many days at sea beforethey aro discovered. Kvery {resh hoge- Lead of beef or biscuit that is unheaded dimin- ighes their chauces of immunity; still tbere have been known instances of tho unforlnnate creatures being inadvertently ‘jammed up bo- twaen aud bebind bioavy piles of merchandize, and so sufesing o Living entombment rivaling that of Coustance de Beverley in harror. Stowaways dragged from their biding places when the ¢hip is 1 blue water have to take their chanez ; aud & vorycalamitous chance it is. be a woman she has not mach to fear. Juck is proverbiolly gallant, aud an artive woman may make herself very useful in the cabiu and tho cook-house. But when the of- fendor happens to bo & raw lad—ywhich be gen- erally is, and Irish to boot—Le has emphatically a ' bad time™ of it. He may consider Limseif fortauate if he is allowed to eatn the worth of Lis bed sud board by verforming the most menial drudgery, and 2t the end of the voyage the Captain can, if_be chooses, teke the stowa- way before a Magistrate ‘and have him punished for fraud. 1t usually happens, how- ever, that the skipper, Shen the ruu-is over, is as glad to get rid of his unprofitable passeogor a6 that passengeris to bo wall ous of the ahip, The former says nothing sbout the pecuniary loss bis owners have sutfered, aud the luttor quite content to be silent with regard to the pumerous sattentions couveyed throngh the instramentality of marlinspikos ud ropes’ ends with which he has been fuvored by the bontu- wain and his assistants, What the I'rench suthorities would have #aid to these wails and straya-on the arrival at Havre is uucertuin ; but the poor fellows need feur no frown of Lumun Jjustice now. They werc drowned. e e NEW STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS. The Spottsylvania Doge ryom the Columbus (Ga.) Sun, There are few observant ones who havo been longin Columbas who bave not moticed the Iarge, intelligent, and splendid dogs belonging to Mesers. Charles Haymao, Honry Averett, and W. R. Brown, Their progemtor bas a history. A the battle of Spottsylvania Court-House, Ma~ hone’s Division of Confederates, in which was Gen. A. R. Wright's Brigade of Georgiaus, was charged by tremeudous lines of Federals, The attacking perty was ropnlsed with terribla loss. In front of the advancing columns was 8 large dog, who advanced forociously and barking to our lines. Not & gun was pointed st Lim Ot all the the terrible odds advancivg, cleven to one, only this dog got over tho Confederate bregstworks, and Lo was captured by somo mem- bers of she Cicy Light Guard, of the Second Goorgis Batealion. e was brouzht to Colum- bus—Iluved his Southorn master petter than hife. His prugculy embraco the smarrest dogs m the country. The Yankee-Southery dog died hero some months ago at & good old ago. A Gratelul ITorse. From the Lexington (Ky.) Press. A cnrious incident occurred at Messrs. Will- fams & Cassidy's coal-yard at the Covington depot a faw days ago. An old black horse had just been driven into the yard hitched to a watering cart. The Lelly-band, an antiquated concern, gave way in an attempt to back the cait to its place, and, as the water was heavier than the horse, the cart dropped and tha shafts rose, tho horse going with them, aod, hang- ing by his neck, lus hwmd feet two or threo feet from tho ground. The animal strug- gled and kicked in terror. Ilis eye-balls be- came distended in the cxcess of his fear, sud froth stood upon his lips.* He was rescued from is dsogerous sitnation after much tronble. When he touched tho gronnd, the poor beast stood for a moment appareatly bewildered, and then, recovering bimgelf, be looked round among bis rescuers, aud, approaching them quietly, rubbed his nose azatust the shoulder of one of them. A Very Obcedient Doz. From the New Orlcans Lepubiican. Late Tuesdsy night, s stracger, just for amusement, gave scveral bystauders’ specimens of his dog's acquirements, at the corncr of Per- dido aud St. Charles strects. The master quiet- I5, without gesturo of any kind, told lus dog to walk across the street, find a little wagon and get intoit. Doggy oboyed, though reluctantly, as tho wagon was a cart, but he finally complied. He was then told to hunt up a fire-plag snd mount it. His kosn eyes earched 3 moment, and _on the. ingtant poor Ty ay pleased his owner. He was then commaud- ed to hunt a lamp-post and pat bis foro feet on it. Tlus done, he was told to gointo the Pelican saloon, find{a chair, and xit in it; thea to lookup a beer-barrel snd’ stand on it; tuen to Lo dowu and act like a poisoned dog.’ These orders were given in tho most common-place tone of voice, and most of the timo the beast could not see Lis master, yet he obeyed quite as readily as a wiling servant, apparently understanding the English language very well. A fRorse-Car & Spotter? Dog. From tue Cincinnats Gazelle. Among the attaches of the Fifth Streot Rail- way Lin is ono who has exhibited most remark- able Adelity in his atteation o tho interests of tho Company. Tho plieuomenon reterred to is a medium-sized dog that Las been lor & loug time_Lept. abont the car-stables, nud bLas of lale become a kind of iuspector or overscor of the line. Every morning be goes out on a car and rides aloog, for some distance, when he jumps dowa and waits at s crossiug for the next coach. This bie oads a3 it passes. aud aftera thorouzh scruting of conductor, driver, borsey, and all’ tho sppoiutments of tho outlit, be visits some ‘otber in liko mannér. In this way Lio passes tho eatire day, nsually going over the whole Liuo sud itspecting & grest mauy cars. Sometimes Le stops at ono end of the road sud sometimes at the otber. Ho is well acquanted with every conductor and duver in the omploy of the Company, aud is 8 genoral favorite. A few days siuce tloy all clubbed together and con- tribated a nickel each, for the purpose of buying the sagacious canine s licenso and a collar. Ho certainly ought to woar the popclar “ brass collar,” for he is ahead of all Lis tribe ko for as heard from. At night Le keeps vigilant watch atthe stables, and_ scema to have devoted hia wholo existence to tae service of the corporation. 1o takes Lis beef with good rolish, as though ho bad earned it, and_ has apparently scttled down for lifa in bis position. Another Sagacicus Doz. From the Newark (¥, J.) Journal. Who bas not soeu tive-developed, raven-col- tanding by the side of James K. Mar.in, the voterinary surgeon? On Friday night last, avout the hour of 11 o'clock, the animal referred to becumo slarmingly un- eusy, pitifally supplicating bis master to allow hius 0 go iuto the stable-yurd. Twice he was gratified. Each time he ran to tue irout gate. The do.tor compelled Lim to return to the oltice, when the dog became quite unmanageable, specially plesding that the oflice-door be opencd. Obtaiping lus wish, agamn he speedily rushed to the frout gate'snd commeuced & most moninful howl that tins gate might be opened. It was un- locked with speed, und the noble animal rushed out of thé gate to No. 169 Orauge street, occupied by Mr. Yeloubet. Tho doctor fol- lowed bhis ¢ heir-at-law,” 2s he styles him, when to his astovishment he found the premises on fire, and Mr. Pelonbet's fanuly absent. As the flames were makiug 1apid bead- way, the doctor aroused the ucighbors. Help came. and after an how’s hard work the fire was extinguished. Thirty minutes’ later discovery would, no doubt, have caused a serious contla~ gration, as the tenement ou fire was frame, a8 were also the adjoining buildings. The duty of this four-footed fricnd is to guard and protect the doctor's ottice, A orse with a Long femory. From the Lowe:d (Mass.) Courier. Many years ago, Mr. Abram Dodge, of the town of Ipswich, Mass, owwed o beautiful Liotge which was the pet of the famrly. He was admired by all who knew -his playfulness and good qualifications. In the summer it was COL. TOM EWING. Klow an Abolitionist Came Near Pure E chasinz o Siave. Correspondence Lowatille (Ky.) Courier~Journal. During the troubles of bleeding Kansas, iu the year 1853, 1 moved 1o Leavenworth, taking with me a negro boy and ‘girl, the latiér = sprishtly nurse aboat 15 years of age. Thero I formed the acquaintance of Col. Tom Ewing, then o young lawyer like myself, and fired with & patri~ otie ardor to make Kansas o free Stato, as I was bent on eccomplishing a contiary resuit. The line botween the pro-slavery men and the aboli- tionists was closely drawn as respected both our social and political reiations. Tom at that time took a lively and active interest in behalf of the Free State cause; he has changed since then, and maybe it is wroug to visit the sins of bhis younger manhood on bhis masurer yoars, bat tho anoccdoto {4 too good to Leep. Col. Ewing had two or three littlo children, ome an infant at the breast ; his wife was in very delicato health, and the servant-girl question drove him almost to despair. He approached me ono ‘morning with & wosn-out, woe-begone 100k : * Mr. Y——," he begal “lamin adeal of trouble. My wifois confined to Lier bed, the baby has lungs like a young jackase, and I can't fnd & Dunso worth 4 cent. I've tried the Yankee, tho Duteh, and the Iiish girls, sod I wouldu't give 10 cents for every dovil of ’em put together. I was up all last night, the night bofors, and the night beforo that, walking that baby ‘ot mino over tho house, giving it paregoric and putting cold cloths to its head, and . I cau’s stand it auy longor. My doar fellotw. tell me where I can get a nursg that will do to trust, d I'll remcmuer you to tho day of my deuth.” have tha very girl you want,” I replied. * My wifo is off ou s visit to Kentucky for a month or two. and mean- whule I will lend you my negrogitl. You will fied ber the best you ever saw, aud I have uo need of Lier at present.” He aceepted the proposition gratefully, and I went Lome and ordered Botty to goat ouce as a nurso for ueighbor Tom. Next day he scemed o different man outirely, and bis gratitudo was boundiess. ** I wouldu’s give thas mgger,” lio romarked, ** for all the white trash inthe world as auurse. Last night was the first night's sleep I bave Lad fuor & month.” During this time I scarcely mot him without hearing him-repeat his piaiscs’ of his negro nurse. I ibink ho fattened 10°pounds under tho sound slesp her watchfuluoss guaranteed bim; aud even the baby grew strong. both in its at- tachment to the nuiwe and in its puysical pro- portions. At the appointed time Mrs, X— re- turned to Leaveaworth; my *‘Lachelorbood” was suspended, k0 ® e roturned, to bousckeeping, and sent over for Betty. In three daye’ timo Evwjog was a changed men. He sworo by ml tnat was good and dad lio would go completely mad unless I would let him have my girl again. Ho kopt ber just long enough to epoil him, ho suid, and was relupsiLg into bypochondria and desair. o thouglt it most baraarous treat- ment to takesher from him, and proposed to v any sum I might ask a8 hire. He woalon't B put off, but time and again pleaded aud bo- seeched mo to let him have her for a fow weels louger on any terms. Finally I deckoned bim to ong side and faid down my oltimatum: ** Tom," suid I, I sm sorry not to Le ablo to accommo- dato you, but you can_have my girl only on ona condition, and that is, I will sall ber to you as your slave for l.te.” 'Troidea.of a prominent Free- woiler **dealing in Luman flesk " But the tempta- tion was a sevore ose. He dropped hus eyes quickly to the ground and blushed to the roots *Chat is too bad,” be at length re- ipow as well as I"do that I can't vy do you wish to annoyme? For God's sake let me have her for tires months ! longoer aad I'll—"_*TI'll be flabberzasted if 1 do," I putin. * Youcaagether by purchase not otherwise, if you have to keop awake tho balance of the year. You ara.willing enough, no doubt. for me to own her, aud vou ‘get the use of her; butif it's a Sin in you it's.a sin inme. ldont propose to lift the burden of the pro-slavery crime off your shouldens and put it on mine. If you sbare her services you must also bear tho stigma, and un:il you get ready o make the purchase you mixht a8 well say noth- g more ou the subject. For 8500 I witl give you a clean bill of sale ; o more, no lew.” But that failed to satisfy him. We Dever met Lt ke camo at me again imploring that I sbould cither lend or bire, but buy—he couldu’t think of such o thing. The pro-siavery mon aud freo- soilers were at daggers’ points, and for the leader of tne latter party to esurrender their glorious principles thus carly in the fight, and | to furuish the bornble institution this sort of indorsement—why, it wus simply treason to en- tertamn tho thought for amomont. ** All pight,” Iwould say, * you may ,ust go alead then, and do your own pursiog!” Owe morning, however, “he came into my offico looking, 1f postible, more lmmp sud_baggard thaa ever be- fore. +It's devilish mean i you, Y—, bus I can't sacrifice my own and my wife's heaith any longer, Here it is,” he uddod, exiending his haud, in which was irmly clutcbed a small pieco of wanuscript. * Hors 13 what #” I asked, draw- ing back in well-fexgned igrorance of his mean- iug. *\Why,” he went on, w a suppressed whise per. and manfestivg thedeepest embarrassment, *Lere's a check for that $900,—soud the mgger along.” As 8oon as I coald suppress my laughier (wiuch, by the way, the Golonal was very far Irom enjoying) I a'most tooi bis breath by my raply: Tom Ewing, cosfound your Abolition Li.c, you shouldv’t have my girl at any price. Alr. Dodge's babit occasiouslly to have s frolic with lis horse in bis barn-yard, then let bim out aloue, and he would go to the river, which was sbout one-tbird of a mile distant, whero he wounld bathe. then go to a common and roll on tho grass, then with the freedom of sir start for hishome. Hus stablo was ronovated for Lim while he was gone, and his breakfast putin his crib. If he met ns master be would show some coltish prauks, bound for’ the stable, pull out tho wooden pin that fastened the door with bis teeth, and rush to the manger whete he expected to tind bhis food. One night the Liorse wus stolon from tho g able. After the expiration of sixteen years Alr. Dodge was at the tavern when a man’ drove a horse up to the door. Alr. Dodge at ouce recognized his horse, and he told the driver his reason for believing it to bo his; the man told of whom kLe bought the hoise, and said thut he had owned him for seveinl years. Mr. Dodge claimed his horse, and it was finally sgreed that if the horso would, on being taken to Lis old stabie, go through the habit of bathing, rolling on the grasy, and pulling the pin from ths stable-door as above described, thac Mr. Dodge shounld have lum. When the horse was let out into bis old yard he reviewed tho premises . for s momont, | then started for huis old bath-tub, then for his green towel on tho common, then to his old stable, pulled the wooden pin, won for himself 8 good meal, and his old master his favorite hoise. Tha facts are vouchsafed for by reliable old residents of tho beantiful, picturesque old town, and show conclusively the long memory of our noble animal. ‘The Most Remarkable of All. From the Buston Trareller, 1t simply amounted to a necessity with us, on sccount of the wonderful stories our exchauges aro telling about tho 1atellizence of animals; and we have engaged a man to coms in ooce & week and tell us a veritable history of some bird or beast, which shall enableus to keep up with our contemporaries. Walker is his name. His first story is the following : Alre. Wilkics, who lives four miles from Poiut Shirley, bas a tsma catamount. Until last week it never displayed any extraordinary inteligenoe, but it seems that last Wednesday, hating noticed that once a week the windows were cleaned, what did this cata- mount do but go ot in the back yard and ge:a ladder ; then into the Litchen and get & pail, turn on the rancet, fill the pail, goup on the lad- der, and wash all the front windows, il:s them with its own fur, a portion bf which it b stripped off for the purpose. Mr. Walker con- siders this & most wonderful caze of intalli~ gence, but Liopes to beat it noxt week. Five huodred dollars, indeed! Anybody elso might havo Ler for that sum, but you shouldu's bave her for ton times the amount. Do vou supposs 1 would sell a likely gul liko thot to a cussed Abolitionist? Get out. “om, get out, and go home to your baby!" 1 bad béfore that timo often enough seon mon who were * plagued,” but until then I never kuew the full meaning of the term. Il was tho sorst confoanded man I ever saw inmy lire. 1le felt from thd bottom of his heart, no doubt, that I bad treated him ** devilish mean,” and in viow of that fact I agreed not to tell the joke on him. and Lave to tlus day kept it out of priut. Ewiog modifizd his views cousidorably oo the slavery question after that time, Lut whether ho was uflucnced by his experionco with the negro nurze I am unable to state posi- tively. Mo 1s now as good s Democrat as Olio cau. Boast, and I hopo one duy to sea bim Gov- ernor of tho State. 1 am willing to yenture, however, that ho has never forgotten how near be came' to being the ownor of **humen flesh™ in the free Stato of blesding Kansas. Iam gometimes almost sorry I dida’s let lum have ner, but I couldn’s Tesist the temptation to malie bim feel as badiy over it as possidle. Er it AR Social Xnstitutions in- Ashantee. The social institutions of- Ashantee bear a stroug resemblance to those which exist in other puits of Afica. Slavery, therefors, bolds a piominent position amoug them. Slaves aro made in o variety of ways. Prisoners of war, if votexecated, becomeslaves. Misconductand debt are fruitful sources of slavory. Uut from these causes many are slaves only for s time. A man may purge himsell from his misconduct, or {ree bimsell from debt, and then 'he i8 no longer s slave. But with the Ashantees thoro 18 3 Bystem of pawning of liberty. Yor money, or for an ad- Vance of merchandise, & man may pawn his wife and children, or himself. And these pawns aro virtually slives until they are redcomed. Bat tue greater numuor of laves have been brought from the interior by tho slave-merchants, who are mostly Mobammedans. Taey are procured in the first instance in the usual way. Tiibe wars with tribe, and the captives are sold to the merchants; or the merchants themselves make war on their own account, for the sole purposo of getting slaves. At Ashanteo, whero gold is plentiful, where the very strecis of Coomassie aro said 10 be impreguated with tho precious metal, a ready market 18 found for elaves. It has become the fashion with the great men of the tribe to muitiply elaves, 80 that it is not un- common for one man to own more than a thou- sand. But slavery with them is not so dograding 28 with moro civilized people. Sometimes it is merely nominal; and for the most part the slaves are simply regarded as desendants, who on state occasious constitate thoir master’s retinue and follow him to war, In Do caso docs alavery bear the opprobrium in Africa — that 19, among the Africans—that it does in otber parts of the world. The distinction between master and ulave is not o broad. Of couree, there arn African masters who are cruel ; but the instances are rare, and, where they eust, cruelty in re- strained by tho same superstitious dread of witcheraft which Leeps the King in check. Polygamy is another popular institation with the Asnautees. As A man is raised in the scale of Ashantee society, 5o does the number of his wives increage. The gulf which separates tho least from the greatest may be estimated by the fact that, where one wife is permitted to a slave, the King may- bave 3,333, Deyond that number tho custom of the country, which is another prase for popular opinion, doea not permit um to go. This limitation, wido thongh it be, is an improvement upon the custom of some other tribes that are more in favor with ms. Among tho Makololo, for iostance, the people whom Livingstone has made popular, every woman of the tribe, ba she married or single, must be the wife of the Chief, if80 the Cbief wills; and when tne daugliter of Bebitusno succeedod her father aa ‘m supreme personsgo of tho tribo, ghs nai- urally concludel that she waa entitled to claim every man for her husbaul. The diiiculiies thot were creaked by this cliim ultimatelr led Ler to resign tle chieftamship to her brother, Polyeamy being populsr, the femala population of Achanteo is o excess of the male ; ard the demand for women by this one Rin;:dam alone has led o widespread misery. ‘Inibe wiges war with tribe, and the victors carry off the wowen md female children for tha | Ashantee, market. T have,in onotber part of Alrica, seen wholedistricts deropalated by wara instigated by tao slave-dealers for the sole par- pose of getting women for the inland trade. The regulations which cxist with referenca to the wives of the King of Asbanteo aro as strict as those which telate to tho wives of the Saitan of Tarkoy. - Like the King of Dohomi, tho Ashag. teo monarch is, 10 a certain senee, a sacred per- souage, and this s10¢lity mvests tho women who are united to bim in marriage. Thowe is 3 so razlio at Coomasssie 33 well as at Constantinos plo. Ao entire locality is devoted zo tha wives of the King, who are sirictly sccluded from all intercourse with the rest of tha population. Sometimes they are pemnitted to vimit the other parts of tho town ; bat.on such oceastons the Fnupla are warned to abiont_themselves. for to look upon the.wives of tie King is considered to be an offense which canzot be pardoned. Should there bo any who Liave nit bzen able 1o profit by this wamning, if tuey would avoid baving their throats’ cut, 83 tae queenly procession approaches they must fill Hat on tue grournd and bury tbeir faces in the earth until the ladies have pissed by, At sone state cercmonials, Lowever, a coriain numbot of the King's wivea are permitted to-attend. When the B:iush Ex- baswy visited Coomassie in 1520, 300- of them were prosonted to tao Ambissidors on the day when the treaty was made. Dat, though the King'y wives ara held to be tacred, this sanctity i8 not extenled to married women goueraliy, With the exception of thesa belonging to tie bhighes: maznatos of tho lard. all wonien, mar- ried or single, have much latitade iven to them, aud th state of morality in Asbauteo is no purer than is found elsewhero ia Africa,—Corne hill Magazine. - SUSPENSE. "Mid the drear, soul-burd'ning shadovs that to-night _sround mie cliug, ‘Witlia achiug hart ' wondring Wit the morrows dawn will bring Whether hope for soe who ling'reth just thia side Daathi's open door, Or if Tircs the uttering spirit will have reached the other shore, % In son silent chamber, curtained from the ‘amp-light * Hickering gleam, With thy white hunds ‘meekly folded, lies sto lks one iu a dream; On the face no palo-marks linger; calm in sleep the patfent brow ; Tet, O God!I know the Angels softly beckoa to her now. "Cmesco, Jan. 7, 1674, —_— Frazer’s Chimney oa Fires : From the Danbury News. Quite an excitement was created on Nelson street Sunday noou by the cLimuvey in Mr. Fra- zer's house taking tre. Alr. Frazer and & young man, a boaider, wete the ouly occupais of the Liouse at the time the accident was diecovered. Mrs. Frazer aud. her father, who is in Danbury on a visit, were at church. Mr. Frazer waa very much excited, but tue boarder retaived Lis pres- onco of mind. Tho tirst move suggested to tho latter was"to get a pail of wal chmb out on the roof, aud cash the water down the chimney, Mr. Frazer's was to shiout fire i one of tna clos- cts, executs o Lorupipo acruss the room, and shout fire agaia in tho opposita closet. ‘This he procecded to do with commendable dispateh, wiule tho boarder struck out for the roof. It was in this sjage of the affmr when Mrs Frazor aud ber father .urned into the strcet aud saw the troubla, “iey both started fur the house on 'a rua, and jast as they reached it a young man in the op- posite house fortunately rushed out with a basket of salt. Mirs. Frazer's futher seizea this, and, wot having aunys well-detined idea of the fire, started down the alley-way ad- joining the house. iwhich communieates with the back yard by nalf = dozen stepa. Thinking he wonld not have time to descend these, he impetuousty jumpel down from the bank, and was promptly caught across the neck by an unobserved clothes-lue. The awful re- coil jerked the basiet from hLis grasp, distrib- uting its contents in every direction, and throw Lim violen:ly on his back, where he lav with & red mark on’ Lis neck, his tonguo protruding, and gl -ing other infallible indications of chok- ing to deuth. Upon witaessing thia accident to her father, Mrs, Frazer went mte a Lystericsl fit, and kicked the heols from an &8 pair of Freuch- guiters. ln_tue meauntime, Ar. Prazer bad tipped away the fire-board aud crawied wto the fire-place 10 the chimney, aud it was wlile be'was straining Lis eyes up the tubo of Hamo that the industrions aud sclf-posseseed boarder appeared at tho otaer extremity with tho fail, ani straightway dashed its contents down the cluanoy.” To fay tbat Mr. Frazer was astons ished at this unexpected twin in tie affair is to sgs!.\k very feetly indeed. Thathe was mad there can be no doubt, and when be crawled out iuto the room, with the liyuid ecot m a myriad of nvulets danciug down Lis face and shirt frout, aud confronted ns resuscitated faticr-in- law, who appeared at the same time withouts Lt, with ono bard grasping an empty basket, which be had mechauically recovered, und with the bther rubbing the top of Lis hicad, and star- ivg about the room in hopeless cmazement,~ the spectacle was about as complicated and co- satisiacio.y a8 anything could ve. The eutry of the revived Mrs. Frazer, accompanied by tho calm and confident boarder, diverted the mindg of tuo two sulleers, and order Was 00D Fe- stored. Dut it taught Mr. Frazer a lesson. He will nover again ttay Lome from chuarch. —_— Mow' n Woman “Outwitted? Calek Cushing and Ken Butler. Correspondence of the Louistille Courder-Journal. Tor the past twenty y2ars, there has been a claim before Congress known as tha ** Atoche Claiin.” Gen. Atcche, who presented tae clum in pereon, was a Luadsome )Mexican ofiicer who suifered in sume way during the Mexican war, aad was compelled by Santa Anna to leavo the country. Dy losees wero securcd to him when Mexico paid our Goverument inderanity. I say it with rogret that, when money oncd passes iuto the possessio of tho Goverument, it 18 very bard to get it baci aguin, for the Lolicy appears to bo touvoid the payment of every just debt 1f possible. Thus wa seo persons swith in- disputable claims spending ® lifetime in tho vain offoit of obtaimng justico, aud bequesthing the clim s 8 legacy to tucir children. Gen. Atoche hos beén desd for years, but his widow aud two daughters eus- vivoe. 'Tue eldest is the wife of Capt. Ammon, tho_most intimate friend of the President, Madame Atocke lives with Mrs. Ammon. Defore Congress adjoarned. last Merch, the Atoche claim was allowed, Lut whea Mr. Jaoain, ber lawyer, went to the Tressury to draw the money, Alr. Cashing and Gen. Butler were on hund with an attachment for their client, a wealthy Mexis cap, named Raodero. Randero'c claim covered tho entiro amount, near $2J0,000. After sitach- ing the money, it was necogsary to allow a cer tain length of time io elapse bofure either party conld draw tho mouey. That especisl day oc cured about two weeks agn. Jhe ~firt persous who entered tho Treasury upon that important day wero Madame Atoche and ber law. yor, who nroceedsd to the Auditor’ 's ofice, where all tho papers wero xeady o be sigued. Tlis was_quickly douc, aud proceeding io tha Cashier's oftice, tho money was daly ccunted, receipted, and delivered. The parties left 1o~ joicing. Two hoars afterwards, Mr. Cushing 30d Gen. Batler entered expectwg to _carry off great piles of greenbacks. Imagio tleir con Eternation when told that the muncy waa pa: I have heard that Gen. Batler made things lively, for when had he over belore been out- witted ? He said they did not come befors 1 o'clock because be thought that, evea if Madamo Owex M. Wizsos, Ja. Atoche got therp at 9, 1t would take bLours to malkio ous tho papers, ~fhie quostion is, who FH ®o fricnd that hinted to tne Auditor that it would bo well to be prepared to receive Madame Atochie 38 soon 24 the offico opened for busi: nesa? Mr. Jungin gets & fae of $30,000, an Mr. Cushing and Geu. Batler are minus abont that sum. e Burninz Well in fowa, 0! a burning well in Boono Couuty, Ia., the Boonsboro Lepublican says: ** About Fnrxu Weeks ago a well waa bored on the farm of ‘l; Jobin Loug, o farmer, living 6 or 8 miles soutt of Boono, The auger went dowa 65 feet withoft finding water ; but it was noticed that the wol 15 inches in diameter, emitted some sort OF light fluid, baving a peculiar gaseuds sDET Last Fndsy, at 10 o'clock . m., a lizhted maled was applicd to the oritico and the escaping £ immediately ignited, makivg s brilusol By flame, varying io boight from 5 to 15 feot b bas now bean burning for scveral dsss ¥ lozing suthing in tue sizo or Lrilliancf 0f /0 flame, and our informant belioves it SUPP’ ‘1} e eaough, if the same conld bo stilized; “7“ 'fm quite s city. Ho zlso gives it ag Lis opinio e the resources of these subterrsnean S“m:nha aro equal to almost any emargency, and e supply will not run out. De this a3 it may, D barning well {5 quite » cuniosity, and msny PET ple are visiting 1t daily. The flame was fl(m' gushed oncs, last Sunday, but shortly & wardrelighted. It burns antirely aboye g« and not Lu the well™ . e