Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1874, Page 10

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JAl"J JARY 31, 1874---SUPPLEMENT. POLITICAL WOMEN. Their Influence in Various Nations and Ages. Aspasia, Cornelin, and tho DMother of Abdallah. Madame Recmaier, Madame De Stael, and the Princess De Lieven. Alice Yorress, Elennor Cobhaw, Mistress Blount, and ;\l‘ilgx\ll mm, Myom the London Atkenanon, A biographical diotionary of political women would in oxtont equal an ouncyclopwdia, Politi- cal women aro to be found even in pre-historie timos. In Olympus they obstructed tho plauy of tho fathor of tha gods, whether those plans rogarded heavon or earth; and old mythology shows how tho peaco of mind of Pluto, Vulean, and Noptuno could bs disturbed, and thoir realms rendered utolorable, by the sayings and doinga of mischicvous beauty. 'They are numerous in history, sacred or pro- fane, Among the political women of Grecco thero is none who hing loft mora tondor mem- orios than the Aspasia at whoso bonutifal feet Peoricles was content to sit. A far brightor ex- ample is furnishod by tho list of Roman political women, namoly : that CORNELIA, who married 2 Roman citizen when sho might Tinve beon the bride of & King, Cornelin'smerit was woll recoguized by hor grateful country, by tho erootion of hor status in her lifetime, with the inscription, *Cornelis, mothor of the "Gracchi.”" Wo do not soe why wo should disbeliove the oft-rocorded snying of Cornelia that thoso Qracchi woro hor real and only jowels, any moro than tho equally well-known sayiug of anothor political womnn of her day, tho mother of the Invt Arab-Mohammedan King of Qranada. When Abdullah checked his horso to tako a farewoll Took at the city from which he was oxpolied, and burst into tears at the sight, the STRONGEB-MINDED AND STOUTER-IEARTED OLD LADY, who had beon a sort of Minister without port- folio, oxcluimed, “ You do well to weep like o womian for what you could not defend like man!” If there had boen many men in tho Moorieh Kingdom in Spain with the deflant wpirit of Abdaflal’s mother, history would have T othor consequencos to unfold, One caunol but feel indignant ot the wrong that has been done to this political old Indy, She haa boon Yobbed of hor fmmous saying by one of her own countrymen, who chronicled the lator, and those the littls, doods of hor ton. Abdalinh, tho ox-King, foll 'in battlo, in tho sorvicoof an African Princo. *“ An, wrotched man !” eries tho plagiarizing bistorian, * who could loso his lifo i another's cause, though Lo did not daro todio in his own!" This superfluous scorn is modified, however, by the comment that, after all, **Such wns the immutable decrco of dos- tiny 1" And Abdallab could not help himself. "I'he scerot history of every country ADOUNDS WITH TRACES, more or less distinct, of the intluence—for good or for evil—of political womon. Tho fabled potentato who, whothor he hieard of n revolution or a simple_catastrophe, nlweys asked, *Who1y sho?" implied that a woman wasthe prime mover of every event. % When M. "Guizot published his *‘Molangoes Biogaphiques of Litteraires,” the pnges that afforded most pleasuro wore those in which he - pointed various porlraits of womon. Some of them found love in mutringe, like Lady Rua-~ soll; othora neither found nor sought it, like tho widow of the colebrated Lavoisior, whose death, resombling ihat of Lord Willinm Rlus- soll, wns on the seaffold,—n politieal sacrifice. "I'ho widow of Lavolsior did not find solace in writing such a latter as Lady Russoll wrots to Halifax, Sho beesme Madnmo la Comtesso do Ttumfort; and she sopursted from ber second Lusband becanso ho wonld not allow her to con- tinue to bear tho name of her fivat. MADAME RECAMIER, who was one of the political 28 well as cliprm- ingly sooial womon of her day, reigned over Frouch high. life in hor salons, while her husband lived under the same roof as s strangor-gucat in his own houso, But Madame Recumior was only an amatenr diplomate. It hus been boasted by somo Frouch writers that the Revolution whicll began four- score yeara ago, and has not yet come to an eud, stampod out the pulificnl women. ‘‘Women,” says M. Cuvillicr Floury, “ who conld fight, like Joanno d'Arc ; or fomont factious, like Madame do Longueville; or interveno in Cabinet Coun- cils, like Madame do Maintenou; or govern the Stato from tho sido of her bed, like Madamo do YPompadour ; or inllamne a political parly, like AMadame Itoland, are no longer possible, or are earcely possible, in the present epoch.” This conciusgion, hawever, is jumped at a littlo too lstily. MADAME DE STAEL possossed political intlucuce enough Lo induce }\'npolaon to drive her from France; and tho onemics of tho Tipress Eugenio alloge that she had a voice in ena- ures which led to the destruction of an Empire, Tn fact the ex-Empress is tho last of a long line of women who, through roligion, have in- tiuenced the politicsl dostinies of France. The principal agonts in that line have beon enumer- ated in a review of My, Jervig' * History of tho Church of Trance,” ina lato numberof the Quarterly. Thelino bogins with Clotilds, for whose sake, and for victory's eake, Clovis and tho Franks became ** Christinus.”" *‘ There was manifest,” wo are told, * i the femalo influence of Clotilda, the origin of the 1.0NG LINE OF ILLUSTRIOUS WOMEN who, for good or for evil, have swayed the re- ligious passions of Frauca through I'redegonda, through Blanche, through Joan of Are, through Chantal, and Guyou, and Maintenon, down to the Lmpress Eugenie,”. But the namo of another political womau is omitted in thia list, a name which is connected with Franco, and, indood, with Englaud also, ana_the bouror of which was neither Fronch nor Boglish, Such a woman is not to be passed over., 'fhe ladyin question was, by birth, Russian, No country in the world has been more despoti- cally rulat{ by women than Ruesia, They have governed, some within their boudoirs, otliers on the throne. ‘Ihere was one who ruled, or rather surved, ugsis in quite another fashion. Thiy Iudy, i MLLE, DF NENKENDORFF, married, in 1800, the Prince de Lieven. 'Tho Drido wue only 16 yenrs of age. The young conple began married life in tho gayest muuner, and kept the mmumner up for ten yours, in 8t. Petorsburg. Sul.we:}unutly. the Princo wus_ment on & small diplomatlc mission to Berlin, and thero tho brilliant Princoss devoted herself to the study of l}iP\ymnfic prin- ciples and practices, Later still, in London, \\‘Il.mm she I8 well remembered, the Princess gave dovolopment of her political principles, and_ be- came bold, not to say sudacions, in political sractices. She wad sotunlly hore what somo ‘uwu called her jestingly,—the editor-in-chiof of tha dispatehes whioh wore issned from tho Rus- sinn Embussy. The Princo was a dignitied, and necomplished man ; but QUR GENERAL'S WIFE 18 NOW THE GENERAL," and he took circumstances as a mun 50 sensibla was likoly to do. ‘Fhat is to say, he accopted the worvices of his wifo, and, with mucli taet, attrib- wed to himselt tho importance ~ which Lglonged to her. ‘I'he secrot, however, .could mot be kept long. DTeople have wuggosted that the I'wincoss de Liovon did not wish that it should bo, At allovents, the Czur woon know tho share that the Princess had in tho Ambnssndor's dispatehes aud correspond- onco, and, in consequence, sha wps directedeto mpintain an intimato exchnuge of lotters with tho Mindstor, M. Nessolrode, ~ At a later period, ¢ho received instructions from (he Czar which i10 wonld communienta to no other person, Bho Jioeame chief diplomatist, and tho Prinee, her Junnband, was hor faithul soeretuty, 1t would lead us too far to say what tho I'rincosss aubsoquently bocame, and for what sood officos M, Gulzot himself wau Indobted to Tor. Wo have but seant space loft to notice & Zuw samples of tho political womon in our own cuuntry. ‘Lhoy come to the front at a yory euxly periad, nud with very strong qualifications, Ax ror the Suxon maid, BOWENA, who camo ovor with Hougist and 1orsa, quiotly dealt out polsons to tharo who wers divagrooablo to hor, und succeoded in making Vortigers tako herto wilo, wa fear thut her siory holougs to yones, yob b iiusteatos u type of womm il {ho reulitios sho dealt with, ‘In anclent chron- iclos tho Quoons are most hi Wiy prained who turped their_palacos inte family nnnvunlui and who spent whole yonrs in church, But tho strong Lomnalo politioian onstantsy assortod hockolf, T deed, sho accasfonally ovordd the patt, and not withont political consiequonces, as was' the cnsg with Quoen Eadburga, whovo political, moral, and lmrnonnl ncly wero, it s said, so lttlo to the eBLo of the Haxons, that thoy (the West Snxons) rnmmfl o law which prohibited feninlo succession 0 tho Crown, aud decrond that, henceforward, o distinetive honors should over be renderad to the consorts of Kings, Although wo often come upon lmlmcnl women in suceeet mJI- |'(-I{:nm itisnot till the reign of Edward tho Third’ that o woman of this clnss alops into voluntary and audncious prominence, Tho auducity of ALICE PERERS surpassed auything of a similar mature by which English people lind hitherto boon senu- dalized, Tlor condinct in publio tostified to the }nlvnlu influonco she oxorcised aver the Royal horo in his dotage, Bho ovon dared to seat herself by thesido of the Judges In both tho civil and ccclesinationl courts, aud whisper in tho earn of tho ndminiatration of justico to give judg- ment, {f need bo, agnfust thoir conrcienco, Iarliamont, however, lind power enongh to sop- arnto his vommn from the King. ANl civilized Turope spoke i scorn of such a fair pleco of in stand u‘; botween the Lnglish Government, Crawn, and forolgn Envoys, I'arliament ohecked tho scandal; but Alico wna rathor bonght off than banislied, She bound hereelf, indeed, by an oatl, never agaln even to soo the King; but, at Lhe holding up of Edward's trembling finger, Tuviting her to roturn, she was, in a fow months, lsi:nh\ in the roynl chambor, more Queen in"Xn- gland than Phillippa ever hiad been ; porhaps as much King as Edward had ever shown himself, at least In hia Iator years, A That Alico Perors BAT IN TIE KING'S COUNCIL is clenr, from what hofel that model of Spenk- ors in Parlinment, Peter dola Mare. Poter bad shoken with honoat boldness against Alice and lior confederatos, A charge was, consaquently, brought against him tor having sfanderad * Alico Perers and somo othors of tho Council of our Tord, the King Edward,” AL this woman's sug- gestion, the Bpoaker was condemned to perpot- ual imprisonment in Notungham Castle. = Aftor tho King's death and Alico’ fall, Detor de In Mare wau lborated in 1377, having sulored two yoars' rigorous confinoment, THAT ‘' INFANDA MERETRIX,"” a8 Walsingham calls hor, sat in the death-chiam- ber of King Edward nt Shone, liko s ovil i, doluding hira with promf{scs of renewed icalth and strength and all accompanying joys, and keol‘)lng {from him all who camo on businoss of tho kingdoms of this world or of the noxt, Slio had got from him, living, ovorything hor grocd urged hor to ask ; aund when she, alono in that chamber, saw the old ox-hero spocchloss and dying, the ¢ invorecunds pollex ™ stripped tho rings from the Royal fingers, aud quictly do- parted with this ber lnst booty. ' A 8ho glided out, in slipped o watchiul prieat, m timo to ab- solve tho Ritg from all the sing he had commit- ted during his long lifa and reign, Alice well understood that sho hergelf and lior affars would cortainly bo discussed m Purlin- ment. To obviate unploasant consequonces she bribed many of the Pecrs, and, it is said, all the Judges. Ifthis be true tho money was thrown away, PARLIAMENT DENOUNCED MER a8 one wio hnd corrupted tho old King for her own ndvantage. They ordored the confiscation of all ier property, “movable or immovable,” and sontonced lior to porpotual banishment. Potor do In Mare was present when judgmont was given ; and that Spoaker of the * Good Par- Jiamant " felt compensated for all he had_en- dured through Alice in the Littlo Tase of Not- tingham Castlo. Eleanor Cobhiam, the mald of honor to Jaenque- lino of ITolland, and whom Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (youngest son of Honry the Fourth), married whilo his first wife, Jacqueline, was still alivo, is o fair samplo of the political women of her timo. Shakspeare has not overlooked her, nor Elizaboth Wood- villo, nor Jano Bhore. Tho roferonces to tho Inst two mischicyous women, tho Queen and the concubine (in Richard 1IL), roflect their charac- geru‘nn t‘huy wore estimated by n large portion of ngland, < Somo day, porhaps, wo shall know more than wo do at present of the influence exorcised over Honry tho Eighth by MISTRESS BLOUNT- Sho Liad the good fortune, if it bo not wicked Lo 8y 80, to bo Henry's mistross and not his wifo, Houry Titzroy, Houry's illogitimate son, was the pride of his paternal leart. Tho King mado the boy Duke of Richmond and Somergot, Admiral ~of England, Normandy, Gasgany, and Aquiteina ; aud Mistrass Blonnt’s sou is ranked pmong the * Lioutenouts of Ire- land." He wonld have beon chronicled nmong the Princes of Walea had he lived, perhaps among the wearers of the Crown, for Henry, of his own impulses, lesa than through tho moth- er's influence, was eagerly inclined to recognize their son for his lawful heir. But the son died while yet & boy, and his mother—in all things tho opposite of Alico Perors—is best known to us, In family hlnmr{; a8 Lady Taillebols, and Iaatly ns wifo of Robert, Baron do Clinton, who beeamo Barl of Lancoln in 1572 Tudor and Stuart pussed away, not without feminine influonce bemg pretty constantly brought to boar on both political and religious affairs- There is, howaver, but the name of ono English woman handed down to us, that of ABIGAIL HILL,— one of the cloverest womon of Quaoon Aune’s tite,—ns beini: esgontially a nolitical womut, when sho Wag ronlly loss that than anything else a woman could ba, Much nonsonsebas been written about Mrs, Hill (aftorwards, by marringo with one of Qusen Anne's pogos, Mrs., aud at last Lady, Masham), She was a “poor rolation ™ of the Duchega of Marlborough, Miss Strickland upenke with unpardonablo contempt of Abigail’s father being in trade, at a time when gontlomon’s youngor sons were often ‘‘put approntices.” Bho ludy says, tao, with a lofly scorn, not atall warrauted by the circumstences, that Abigail Hill had once * sunk to the last wrotchodness to which a virtuous porson can full,—that of common servitude.” TIlowaver, servitude is not now, nor was it thon, a condition of wrotchedness at all, In Abigail Hill's days, morcover, it was tho commotest thing in t‘\q world fora # gontle woman” to be a lady's maid, as Abigail was to Lady Rivors., Mre. Hill owed Ler appointment as Bed- obpmber Woman to Queen Anng, to the Duclioss of Marlborough's recommandation ; and 1t was bocause she sorved hor mistross with simple zeul, and with rare good sonse, and prudence, uud success, that the jealous Dichoss WOULD IAVE RUINED HER IF BNE COULD, Wo kuow Low her Grace calnmniated hor, Mrs, Hill, or Masham, was bettor educated than any womau, and than mauy meu, about the Conrt,— & fact that-proves she wos not below her posi- tion. She served tho Queen, not the State in- triguers. Whon it was proposod to mnke hor a Peeross by the olovation of hor husband to a Peerage, Auno expressed a roluctance to rake suything like “n polilical parsonsge of hor. 'The lady only partinlly beenma so when sho was acting for her Roysl mistress, or was deawn into oconversation by politicians, Mosnnger, the Pronch Ambassador, says of hor, in reforence to iutorviews ho hud withhor by the Queen's sanction, Lhat he left her ** wondering mueh within mysolf that such & mean charactor should bo attributed to this lady as_some have boon made public, but I must add that she seemed to mo ag worthy of the favor of a Quoen a4 any woman 1 have ovor convorsed with in my lifo,” Swilt attributed to hor wmore political power than sho ever nimed at, becauso he recog- nizod her ability and prudonce; and, when Queon Aune was in sickness and distress, Abi- il consulted Swift, because she recognized, in fior turn, hig energy and docision of character, A goneration hins passed away since a chunge of Ministry, in 1839, put TIE LADIES OF TIE REDCHAMBER on a level with politicul womon, 1n May of that year the Whig Caubinet resigned, but they loft ubout the Sovereign lndics of their familios, who waore, rightly or wrougly, supposed to pos- sy both porsonul and political inllnence, and wera likely to exorcise both for the advantage of the ox-Ministers. Tho Queen sent for the Duke of Wollington, who advised her to sond for Hir Robort LPeel, The usnal arraugements and understandings wero soon accomplisiiod. I'ho Boveroign added an assurance of hior unro- served support of the now Ministry, but the gratification caused by this assurance wis Home= what tempered by an_expression of rogreb for the Ministers who had just resigned, The fomalo friends of thoso Ministors still held imporlaut places fn the Royal housoliold, and thoso places conferred, it was thought, im- portant powers, DLorhups the ladies talked 2 littlo too wmuch of tho power they, at loast, pos- sossod, and might exorciso, It was the Duke of Wolllngton who prompted Bir Robert Peol to de- mand the right of uomimulnf the holders of the various posts in the househiold ; in other words, of turning out tho Whig ladios, They cried ont ugninkt the nrrogunce and injustics of the de- mamd, To yield ta it would bo tho concossion of an oxorbitant triumph to su enomy ; and tho al- legad fact was made the most of,” namely s that Counnorvative lndies had bonsted thut, it thoy aversuccendod to tho posts, tho right of appoint- ing to which was alaimed” by Bir Hobert, they would, as M, Guizot has shortly put it, be bot- tor ubla to rostrnin Ior Majosty within constitu- Lionnl limits than the Whigs ind boon.” Then came the famnous Royal note: *“T'he Queen, hinv- ing considored the proposal mado to her yoster- day by 8ir Robort L'oel, to remove the Ladies of courso which sho concolvos to bo contrary to usngo, aud which In NEPUGNANT TO NER FEELINGS, Bir Robert was, porhaps, constifmioRly right ;- but the nutlonal sympathy wans not with him. Ono eot of ladics “wna na'Gharming and mischiovous as tho othor ; bul thero was an un- chivalrous appearance of constraming the youuyg mislress of tho Ladios of tho Bedchamber, Thero was oxcitemont out of doors, much strong speaking in tho Legislature, The Whigs tool upon themsolves the respongibility of the lloe'nl rofuual; Peol was driven baek to the cold shades of opposition,—and his_advorgaries again got into power by diut of holding on'to the ukirts of tho Indics, After all, the English political women whose stories, al Tonst tho alorion of thelr snyings and doings, would causo most amusement, are the women who, . 1IN THE OLD ELECTION TINES, oanvassed, intrigued, and went minrvelous lengths, in order to seoure the return of thelr favorites, sud nlso tho advantnges that might result to thom, in thoir porsons or in their family circlos, if thelr favoritos had volces in the Legisinture, A book about politi- enl womon might, a8 we have enid, grow to tho #izo of an cncyolopedin, but it would bear com- prossion, and every page wonld bo brilliaut and atarlling, ‘Tho days are bappily gone by when Countessos snt at lavern windows and enjoled mobg, In thosa days Duchesses droppoed jewolis like honovolent, fairies in the presonco of “eleot~ ors, and nnughtily disowned them when the wives picked themup, Thoe iden of a Duchess offering to give or take a kisa (or both)in ro- turn for a vote seoms now to belong to the snmo order of history as Gullivor does, Gallant butchera and dustmen,—Cymons subdued by the Iphigenins of the minnio,—will never again fluttor thoir Gracos and betray their country by asking permission to light their pipes at the firo of thono lovoly oyesy ‘Cho history of potticont Influenco nt oloctions has yot to bo writton. piliohinaiess e bt *THYSELF, Baily through Fancy'a mystieal chambers, Memory'a Iticonna s wafted along § “Though wo have mot, and parted forover, . Lovod one, bo merciful ; faint heart, be airong. 131 the drear shadows of hopes that aro blighted, Wioro life's swectet plenstires, love-lnru, tiow lie, Far in tho depth of thoso foroats of heart-wrecks, None yot havo wandered 80 loucly as . Though our two paths with thut *Good-bye” must cn, Tlopo's stara grow dim iu the gloom-depths of woo, 8tlll all tho love of a life-time I give thee,— A love whose deop yearning thou nover shalt know. So onils the romanco, "Tis pago in 1ifo's hist'ry; A record whoso ev'ry word whispera of thee A story that Mem'ey, ki aplrit, will cherial ‘Chrough tho durk present and tho far 4 Yet to De." Cizcado. OWEN M. WiLsox, Ji, PSR~ ot b vivion. 3 FASHION. From the New York Muil, Artificinl or noatural flowers fastened to the mull carried by the farhionnble domoisclle of tho period in q‘x‘mo tho correct thing, providing, howover, that the muffis of cloth and velvet— nol fur. -~ Candle parties are ono of the dissipations of tho senson, and, althongh by no moans novol entertainments, espeeially among married poople, appear to have lost none of their Popularity among fashionablos, —Cut-glasy chandoliors 1 the pyramid form aro all the rnFu in the drawing-rooms of the would-bo fashionables. No globes are used, but instend whito china tinted sticks, in oxcellent imitation of the gonuinw wax light so universally used abrond. —Camol's biair cloth is not a8 much worn or ag fashionable as it was & month ngo. The material was sold too chonp to constituto an olegant cos-* tume, honce its rapid docline, The new Fronch Tafla cloth” will Pm\mbly bo the next ** rage.” —\Worth's nowess freal is embroidery on stroet cobtumes of . the most olaborato aud exquisito pattorns. Tho black silk euits, rocontly im- orted from his_establislunont, are the porfec- ion of taste. The embroidery is all dono by hiand, and is mixed with fine black jot beads in reckless profusion. ~American Jadies who have recontly returned from Paris wonr in thoir bounets o long feathor of four or five different and distinct colors, They say that this feather is all tho rage in tho French capital, and it is to be presumed it is. intho hands of tho housemaid, fastened with similnc ones on a atick to dnst with it, —As a rule, wine is not served at tho fashion- able receptions this somson, Whather this is duo to hard times, or i the initistion of an ova of roform, i8 not known, but it is novertholoss o fact. Some of tho hosts, howevor, consider- ately provide mild punch for the guutinmnn, ihe chiof ingrediont of which is a_huge lump of fea | —The nowest Parlalun handkerchiof has a eafo au lait centro of linen, and is nbout twelve mches square. In the four corners is & simple tulip embroldered in white, and the brown square is odged with tho finesf round poiut Inco. The combination {8 very curious, but excoedingly handsome and offective. Of courso no ono will be foolish enough to apply these handkerchiofs to the nasal organ under any circumstances., ~—Tashion-books for dolls can now'be had, all the intricate pattexns and ofteutimes unin- telligible daunriptions contained in books intend- e for adults. 'Tho plates aro vory handsomely drawn and colored, and direclions for making Miss Dollie's wardrobo n la_mode aro given in dotuil. Theso books afford the owners of dolls vory inany Lappy hours, aud have boon tho means of quicting muny & nursery in terrible up- roar and confusion. —Parisian bonneta are now shown in very odd forma and shapes, of velvet, and trimmed on- tirely with ostrioh feathors and tips, in shade corresponding with the materinl color of the bonnet iteelf, Thus a brown velvet bonnet is trimmed with four shades of " brown feathors, ono feather &olng over tho top of the head in front instoad of the ordinary face-trimming; other colored bonnets in the samo stylo, Tho shape of this now bonnet is dificult to describo, Bome peopla say it looks like & conl-scuttle with tho sides kicked out. et Rt e OBLATION. 0 heart 1 dear hoart ! If you oould know The powern of lovo my soul doth reach, Tho wlght ubove, the depths below, lio realins beyond tho realms of speceh; 1 you could know what tenderuiesa With overy Nbro I8 ciwrought, Tow purc, Liow true, how passlonful, Ty every pulso, I8 every thought s 1t you could know, T any—what then ? Your aoul would'drink its happy I, And great thanksylving woul Glving God prafbe that 11 ad erowned you with auch 0O hieart ] such purplo wino drink deep, Such royal gnrments proudly wear, Minsing sucls love, wight angels ‘woep, . ScorT OANPBRLL, WasizazoN, D, C, el B R Anchoring o Steamor Eight Days in Mid=Ocean. A pasenger by the Pacifle Mail steamship China, which arnived at 8an Francisco on the 15th inst., after u delny which eaused a grent deal of anxioty, has Inrnished the following narrative of tho voyuge to the Moraing Call of that city: o stoamship loft Hong Kong on the 47th of November lust. Hhe touchied at Yokohnma, Japan, und loft thore on the 8thof December, at noon,” 8ho was very deoply ladun, and praceeded on safely until Dee, 19, At G0 minutos past 4 tho eugine broke down, and was stopped, in Intitude 80 degrees 14 minutes north, longitude 175 degraos 60 minutes wost; the woathor being noarly calm, the ship was for a while kopt bo- foro tho wind and finally laid to, Tho whoels woro lashed, the fires banked, stoam was blown off, and the machinery allowed time to oool, after which the cylinder-head was raised, and a thorough examination was madoe by Mr., Ojeda, the chiof engineor, who reportod that the thrend of the scrow by which the piston-rod was scrowed vertically into tho rlnton had beon torn away, aud tho Injury conld ouly be ropaired by drilling o hole through tho piston-rad aud that portion of tho nut next above the eylinder, and by mnk- ing and insorling through it a largo wron key at right angles, thus firmly socuring the rod to tho iston, ‘Fho true condition of tho damago having been fully ascertained, the chiof engineer drow s working plans and figured tho amount of timo and Iabor necessary, ilo reported that cight days and nights would be required to fully offoct the repairs, us many of the tools nocessnr would have to be manufuotured on board, Witl these, and the upare tools nsually furnished to stonmers for use atloat, 270 cuble inohos of iron wero to bo drillod out, and the gigantio sizo of the machinory rondered the tusk a formidable one to uccomplinh at sea. Theo fires In the main bollors were extinguished, and the vessol anchorad to a patont drag, with a couple of hundred fathoms of cuble attuched, in which condition she lay-to uoarly ulsfht days, drifling about nearly In o oircle “with varlablo winds, which at one time DLlew quite frosh from the onstward, and forced the stoamer within 120 wmilos of Brools' Midway Tsland, whore the Pacl- fito Mail Bteamship Conpany hinve erectod build- Ings and keop a supply of coal and providions, placed thore as o port of rofuge, for weo in casy of necousity, O tho 27th of 'Docembor, just soven dnys and twonty-threo hours, or one hour before promised, the giaut boam bowed towsrds tho onst, the whoels turned over, and the China, thon 73 milos northward of the position in which her Hodohnmber, canuot consent to adopt o | she broke down, moved on towards Oaliforuia, UNITED STATES ENGLISH, What a Briton Thinks of tho Dinleet Used in This ““Blavsted” Country, Ridienlons Orthographys=-Slang-=-Bar« hovous and Uncoulh Effectse--. Wanton and Resultlosy Innovations, People Who Aro Vory Nico in Thelr Language, but Scarcely in Thoir ldeas, From Chambers' Journal. Somotines we have thought that tho froo pirroy of Lnglish works in the United Btates might at lonst servo one good purpose, namoly : that of preserving the purity of our common tongue. Expectations in this respect do not soom likely to Do renlized, Thoro hns grown, and is still growing up, & process of adulteration of the langunge among our Amorican frionds, against which no protest is apparoutly uttored. Withont going inte nuything like a rogular In- mentation on the subject, wo bog to offor a fow specimenstof United Btates Luglish. TO BEGIN WITIT SPELLINGS ! Tho second {n tho middle of & word is gonor- ally loft ont; “levelad, lovoling, traveled, travel- ing," will serve as oxamples. An influence due, 1 fancy, to the Spanish Jeaven in.tho noople, for tho Spuniards always malo singlo lottors sorva instend of double, whore the sound of one would bo lost, It is mot done on priuciplo, because “akiliful” and *inastallment” aro so spolf, by oxactly rovorsing tho procoss. ‘Then, again, comes tho g for tho e in ‘*‘offense, do- fonse,” and Bo on; this latter s the mode of epolling overywhere, oven in Iarpor's editions, which are othorwise admirably * gotten up,” In the popular novel, tho *“ Maid of Skor,” montion is mnde of the Dattlo of the Nilo, and, in the United Siates’ edition, tho Defence linc-of-battlo ship s mndo to apposr tha Jefense, which is ridicnlons, and altogether bad, for o proper name should suroly bo spolt as it was givon, without respeck to any improvemonts or phonetio principles. I exprect to see Wolington and Nollson soon, “pen’ von “rnE" is anolhor prominent examplo; overy little pa- por tulliof *thentors " and' conters,” a8 if it was dotermined to do its “lovel best™ to improvo tho Ianguage of the Britishars. 8o, also, in the gront cities, whore it is a& lenst curious to seo the notices in tho papers invariubly roferring to the performances at such and such a * theater,” whilo the posters aud billa of the same eatab- lishmont will a8 regularly call it & * theatre,” ‘Cho readiness with which SLANG is adopted Ly tho highest and gravest offi- cials I8 roally astounding. My readors know thero is a misorable joko extant about one who wishod to ssy that an account was * all cor- ract,” but o spelt it ** ol kroct ;" this was seized upon a8 wit, and now, to my cortain knowlodge, 0, K."” is used in largo cum‘mulns, agan Audit- or's or Buperintendent’s voucher to the accounts o passes. All through tha Statos, too, it i con- gidered a vory gmart thing to open a shop, and cnll it tho and universally accepted ns o really clover and uent idea, to use thesa letters. Again, the conrse exprossion, ¢ yogs,” carries with it no disrespect in the States; I liave soen well-printed forms, nicely machine- ruled, and so forth, which woro usod na a ached- ule of expenses incurred in bonrding the om- ployes of a cortnin Company; at the bottom was nline for tho signature, as was indicated the words, “Doarding-house Doss™ heing printed ot tho commencomont. Thore- foro, “Sayl Boss,” Thowaver much it may jar upon a straugor's ear at first, is soon discovered to bo meent for a proper mode of ad- dress, and is quite a8 rcslwclm ag any ho is likoly to get. So, too. thoy avoid saying or writing “addition, * added up,” *total,” and the like; but say * footings,” ‘‘foots up,” and “total footings;" and these will appoar in printed ofticial documentsa. The commonest mode of all for Afilter- ing tho puro woll of English undofiled is, to use a word which has some aflinity to that which we at home should employ, hut ‘which, when twisted out of ita place and moau- ing, lins & most DARBAROUS AND UNCOUTH EFLECT. “The moon raises ;late,” L guoss Le would raisa before 10,” may bo taken ns fair illustra- tions, *“Quit” isused in all sorts of places whero *dismiss,” ¢ cense,” *discontinue,” or ‘quitted” would Lo omployed. “I wag obliged to quit him, as he got drunk,” is the speech of an omployer when ox- plaining why bo dischargod a man; although the words, without explanation, would nevor convoy this moaning to an Englishman, “ Quito ™ is employed in overy sonse whero grontness or quantity has to Le exprossed, and saema to mo to bo more injurious to the offect of literary compogition than the misuso of an othor singlo word. “‘Tho enomy was quito in foreo,” ** Wounded quito sovercly,” *‘ Quite somo oxcitomont " (!) sud 80 on ad influitum, Somewhat akin to this is tho word “pieco™ to expross distanco ; wa sy “a picco of land,” or ‘‘a picco of wator;” butit is nothing lesa than a distortion of the word’s use to say that *'you should not slioot at o rattlesnake, wnless you were off o pleco,” or, *We are traveling quito a pieco;™ whicli Iattor 1 henrd snid by aJudye to a momber of Congrags, when wo wora crossing tho Missis- sippi, and, owing to tho lloating ice, wero com- pelled torun a littlo way up the river, “prox,” again, 18 & word which' is ofton employed nt homo Lo oxpress boing ill, and the sorvico for tho Visitation of the Bick shows what a goucral application it has; but in tho States this word is exclusively inuse. Imnover hoard any perton speak of be- ing ill or unwoll ; thoy were always ‘ eicls,” ana this when the word was uspnuinll‘{iunppmprinm. “Iamsick; have hurt my hand;” ““My horse iu sicle; Lio hos got a_soro bacl,” ‘a0 oxamplea of what I mean; while, if the illness or injury waa likoly to bo dangerous or fatal, you would o told that so-and-so was * badly off," ANOTIER PECULIARITY which strikes un Englishman is, that ho does not bear the weather praisod in the various terms omployed at homo. IHere wo ring the changos ou lovely, delightful, charming, and boautiful 3 but in the Great XNepublic praio is exhuustod when they sy : This i o protty day," or ** What' a pretty morning.” The word "“elegant” has to do strango duty, being applied ns I nover thought to lear it; tho joint at your dinner, thoe rolish at tea-time (alwavs “suppor " by-tha-bya), boing usually deseribad 28 *“elogant. ) TIIE TEA IN URE is nearly always wiolly greon, the consumption of grecn loa being fur in ndvance of thut of blaclk ; dircetly opposite to the practice in Bn- gland; indeed, it you require nnylhinF differont at the hotels, you should order **“English bronk- fast-tou,” which is commonly onu of the items in tho bill of faro, My own lLouso was prob- ably the only one, for a vast distanco, whoro mixed toa way drunk, and was the only ono whore, also, to my London taste, a'cup of good tea was ever tobo obtained at all; the whole of my acquaintance, native and foroign, confirmed this, yot no one would imitate ns, I rocolloct dyacating, at s cortain house where I boarded before my family joinod mo, the use of mixed ten in licu of ‘tho docoction, simont corrosive in its strongth, which thoey ive you of groon tea; und aslso the orision with which the ides was xeceivod, It wus pronounced to bo utterly impos: Dlo, boeause you only sonked graon tos, whilo black teu you were obliged to stow," Bume of the variations introduced in spooch are #0 ODD AND BO MEANINGLESS, that one is completely sl o loss to guoss why they wero Introducod at all, or who introduced them, If you spoak ton United Stutens man, and he doo iot cateh your words, he will usk % 1Tow #" or “Which#" If ho says somo ono in “yory clover,” ho monns to convoy thut be or sho s “very bonevolent;" while he capriciously gives mow tormunn- tions to words, or iuvonts new words altogetlior, and prosents ns with * danglst, sing- itt, walkist, orohardist” (1) and the like, liy the same rule of thumb wo have *‘burglar- ized," * puiclded,” und u host of others; and by tho samo rule, aguin, or by the same want of a rale, all children uro tanght to cull the Just lottor in the alphabot “%co” in plice of #%0d;" surely a mont WANTON AND RESULTLLSS INNOVATION, Thoro is somowhat more-exenso for ealling n deal mun *deol ;" the words solecced for veforn aro, liowevor, chosen In w most arbitrury mauner ; for, aithough ‘' deo! ™ huy boeu forcad futo lino\ yobt no ono hes tho courage to onll *hoard” . K." storo: it is quite understood, * ** hoerd,” as Dr, Jolinson polntod out long ago should bo done. “I'uss,” too, Is used in a morn genoral manner than ono oxpects to find ; it menny to qumrel, or . quarrel itaell, A man who was shot on onving o Dball- room told mo that he could not guess who woy his nasallant, *“as ho had had no fues with any one;" adding that ihe remainder of il party woro just In front, or, 8 hio dosoribed them, aud na they wonld commonly be describod, “tho bolnnce of the boys.” The word aulwo moana ** to bo nolsy." I won't fuss aroand,” ways Lo horoine of a noval; and, by tho wny, “around” 1s dragged in continually. Wasting timo s ** fooling nround;" waitlng 18 * laying around—standing around,” 4 ¥ung " AND “ Muss apppenr to Lo noarly identienl. DMuss is n word whicl, a4 the gentlomnn in'* Marlin Chuzztewlt " averred of *start,” wo do not use {n the old country, I presumoitis a fanciful change of tho word * mess.” “ Won't thore bo n muxs!” alludes to confusion and quarreling; and so, to the best of iny undorstanding, Mra. Bocchor Blowo ugoes it in hor books, aud so it scoms to bo used colloguially,. Even standard school- books recognize and tonch tho nsing ¢ lhmut-‘h" for “ finighod " or *“complated,” "*Wait Hll I am through with my play.” People who call & cook-fight & * chicken con~ test,” and deseribo the birds as ** rooaters”—a ridienlous word, which is universslly employed in tho United Btates, 8 if hons did not roost!— who talk of n * gontloman cow,” call trousers # ponts,” and the like, mny be vory nice in their Innguage, but BOAROFLY IN THEIR IDEAS, 1 do not dispute the fact, that sometimos a roally usoful word may be coined, or thaf, on vare occasions, we may flud n ohengo Denoflolal; for if » mnan_ were to shut his eycs, and Lkeep ou firing, he could not help but to hit the target onco in n way; but it may safoly bo said that theso fu- stancos are liko Gratinuo's reasons, which, * aro a8 two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seck all day ere you find them, and when you have thom, they aro not worth the senrch.,” If you wish to say n man is brave, you will bo bottor understood if you aver, with tho utmost gravity, that ho hng * PLENTY OF BAND," 1t you sponk of roceiving auything, you must callit **lifting.” Lho Postmnstor at Washing- ton, in a printed form, advisod mo tlnt the por- Bon to whoin they woro dirccted would not “Lifg" my nowspapors ; and o pass oVer the Donver & Iio Grando Ruilway being lost, a natico of the samo wns 1ssued to sl conductors, with iustructions that, if it wero offored by nuy one, they wore to ‘lift it."” Noither should you say: ‘It is o stormy doy," There is o dtorm in tho moun- in such cases you must sny, It is storming,” il you wish to couform to accopted usngea. g The editor of the *DBiglow Papers”—if Iam not mistaken—sponka of the invariablo accuracy with which THE U is used m the States, nud tho reluctance the poo- ple there have oven {o joke upon mistakos with that often misplaced lofter, Itmay bo go ; and, at any rate, I have often been taken to taskas an judividual, and 88 a reprosentative English- minn, for my shiortcomings and excosses in that way. As & Pennsylvanian once said to mo: “*Somo of you British poople don’t usono A's, How is that? Now, you sty ‘og’ and we al- woys sny ‘org.’ How do_you account for the dilforonce ?” Why, I could not account forit; Ihad intended to say *“hog,” and eo, I sup- oso, nd ho. Tho nowspapors advertise ‘‘a Entul * for salo, which 18 & little trying, even to & Londonor. And, in sposking of ‘my Ponnsyl- yanion friond, I am reminded of what is cer- tainly THE PAVORITE ERROR on the westorn side of tho water—that is, ifany- thing is in error there, Chis orror, I am inclined t think, 18 partly duo, at any rato, to the Span- {41 Ieaven spoken of ; In that tougue, two nega~ tivos do not make an afirmativo ; thoy strongth- en each other, *‘ Not %ob nathing™ is quite cor- rect ; and su it would Lo, I fancy, “‘out West.” “ Ain't got no,” * Didn’t soo no’" and kindred plrases are the rule. To-wit, *'sliow” menng chanco or opportumty ; * He didu't give me no shiow 3" # I ain't got no show to do it 3" any one who did not 80 spoak would depart from the standard. As to whothor they aro mare particu~ Inr in the use of & in the States than in England Ican hardly say; I cortaiuly neyer heard the native-borng there talk of their huncles and haunts ns I have often honrd English do ; but, thon, when tho Now York papors, ns I have jus| enid, regularly ndvertise “ a hotol to lot," ono no?u that we caunot both be working by the same rulos. "I'he introduction of n MULTITUDE OF URRMAN WORDS, or worda which are iu imitation of German, is hardly to be discussed here ; it will ba sufficient to sny that one is often puzzled by their appear- enee in reading or conversation. Here is one: ** A house withi a stoop;” which means, I think, n houso the frout door of which is approached by ateps, with a very broad one, or landing- lace, nt tho top. Thia last is frognently found in ndvertisements ; while a threat, very common in England, is invariably changed, so far as my experience goes, to giving “a punch on tho suoot;" ond this shows that the influence les sonked a long way down. Nearly all my examples confirm what I have alrendy enid as to the use of words in tho States in meaning RESEMDLING, BUT NOT IDENTICAL with those m which they ave employed at home, I nover honrd any spenk of “pulling down" £ liouse ; tho operation 18 always called *‘taring down.” Tearing down is, of courso, meant, but is always pronounced, and, as often as I have seen it, written ag above. Stoncs aro ¢ rocks ;" and even pobbles are so called. * They began rocking him;" I got somo rocks, and throw at thom," do not read quite 80 well, it sccms to me, as the English modo of expression, The poople in the United States never speak of their groatest annual holidny—greatost after Iunde- pondonce Day—as Now Yoar's Duy, but always a8 “ Now Yenr's,” ‘‘Wo'll have a dancoat Now Year’s;” * Was up there about last Now Yoar's ;" **Was born on New Year's ;" theso things give o vory odd.and foreign sound to tho convorsa- tion to Eoglish ears, “arm," which is U. 8. for ** got,” 18 much in voguo, and tho drivers from Last to Weat say to thoir Tiorses *Git!" in lien of ““Geo up,” and so forth; but the word is in nso also among “humnos,” * You've got to git,” meaus ‘¢ You must go from lore,” and generally includes making haste. * Right away,” too, i used for hastily or immediately, and thero is o dogreo of proprioty in Lho oxpression, but it is twisted and stretetied beyond its logitimate meaning, Thoy seom to lave 1o other word or phirase to oxpross “diractly” but this: and I have read in the chief ovangolical paper of the States, the New York Obseri of an awakened sinner who i wanted salvation right away." In the beginning of the present yoar, a girl died, presumably from starvation, atw town in Minnesotn; she bad lodged for soma woeks at louso nnmed, and aftor hor decense hor body was opened to discover the causo of doath, This i# all steaightforward enough, and docs not seom to louve much room for nhscm‘n‘y, IIM the chances are that an ordivary rondor would havo beon puz- zlod if he had come upon the account of it in the Amorican langnnge. ‘Tho atatoment ran that “gho hud been rooming for throe woeks at Mr, ——'t," and that, *when hor trunk waa opened,” nothing was fonnd thorein. 1 confoss that Lat firnt thought this trunk meant an ordinary chost, aud not that of o human being. _—— LOVE'S LAND. In the South fs Love's land, Wiicro tho rosws blow, Where tho Summer lingors, Foarless of tho BnOW, Thoro no Winter chilly it, Ho its life I8 long— Goutls breozes fun i, Age but makes It sirong, Nay; frosh roses withor Whiore Lin s i liot— Not iu torzhl vegions Blooms furgut-me-not, Lova's o tender blossom, Which the Winter chills, But Loo euer Summer With §ts Jefsecs kills, —Louise Chanaler Moulton in N ibner's for February, Steals, New York Sun I'lorida Letter, Whilo the boys wore eating the Capiain espiod an enormons alligator, Theore was a rush to the pilot-house. 'The Colonol was ahead with his Ohicngo shot-gun, 1le implored the Captain to stop tho bont while he poppered the old fellow with No, 6 shot. ‘Tho slligntor shed the shot as & duck sheds water, 1le did nob even wink. Ancthor monstor was sighted, T'ho thres rifle- men sprinkled his sido with bullets, and he crawlod from tho bank into tho water. As ho wmade his way slong tho bottom of the river he sont to the surfaco a row of bubbles as large as soup-plutos, Ninoteon nlligntors were shot bofore night. One was skinnoed, sid 1ts oil used for greasing the machmery of {he Loat, At my requost tho caok cut some nico stouls from its body, and they woro sorved for dinnor, The moat wus as white as chicken, Iho Chicngo Colanel ute somo undor the supposition that it was blnck baus, Hlo took but one mouthtul, and said there way samothing wrong sbout that fish, 'Tho steak tasted liko halibut, but, though the alligator was young, it was very tougl, BLONDES. The Fair Ones with Golden i Locks. Sunny Tresses in Times Ancient and Modern. Prospeet that Brunettes Will Again Regain the Ascondenoy. John K, Russell {n the Springfield (Mass) Republican, The eauses of vast changes are often trivial, A word or touch muy sway tho destiny of thousands yot unborn, In 1858, the world had ‘Loon for more than a contury firmly govorned Dby tho spoll of *!DARIC WonEN.” The most philosophical and critical observer would have failod to detect any symptom of ro- volt from tho established authority. But tho lour of chaunge was marked on the disl of timo, and the rulors of the world were about to resign their powoer, in obedience to the irresistiblo de- cree of ovorruling Fashlon, Tho late Louts Napoleon,—the saltimbanque who throw a lucky summersault fnto the Imperi- al ehalr of Gallio siato, and rolgned a charlatan Iimporor until the rough Gorman hand scized liim by tho tawdry collar and tossed him into broken oxile,—had, in {this year, married the ambitious Spanish COUNTESS DE TEDA. Tho fair Bpanlard had uot tho unmixed blood of the Paninsuls. A cold atrain of the Northern raco had mingled in hor veins, Tho Scotland of thoe lnst contury was miserably poor, hor gloomy hills asenilad by wintry temposts, and hor cold and lonoly hearths, though they mado hor ‘‘mect nurao” for poosy and legend, afforded but seanty support for her sturdy sons. It was natural that thoy should have beon found fortunc-hunting whorever_*‘sillor " was to bo bad, the jest of tho bettor ondowed, in avery part of tha world, red-baired claneman found his opportunity in the romantic land of Bpnin, marrying above lis atatlon, and becoming tho progenitor of tho B~ press of Franco, who, by grace of position, is also arbiter of the world” of fashion, Tho raw earrot styla of the Tweed blonded well with tho olive of Seville, and produced THE DLONDE COMPLEXION, to which all beauty for twenty vears has boon torced to_approximato. Upon the accession of the new Empress, long-timoe neglected blondes awolke to find thomuolves beautics, and their va- rious grades of tawny, yellow, gotden, and red at onco commanded the homago of mankind, Tho aleposed brunettes, hurled from power, though acquicacent outwardly, could not bo contont to suffor mnoglect, and, finding their opportunity in~ the fact that the blonde market = wns unprepared for tho audden demand and the article mearco, took oxtraordinary measuros and produced nn artificinl supply by drawing blonde wiga over dark hair, or by blanching dark hair to the de- sired shade, This mothod of obtnining blondes, and the vulgaritios of the English * burlesquo traupos,” had cansed a rapid roaction in taste on this side of tho Atlantic, ovenhofora the exile of the Empross had made her suthority doubiful, and thero is & prospoct that bruncttes will, in spito of thelr groater abundance, DEGAIN TIE SUPREMACY ) for n timo, again to bo disposscased by a whim of fashion ; for tho fashion of comploxion, like all other human vagarics, is subject to change. The passion for blondes, among the dark-haired race, obbs and flows ; itis a fover that inter- mits, a fantasy that burns and cools again, Among the Grocks and Romans light com- loxions wore vory raro, and for that reason filghly prized ; blondes wero considerad to bo tho real beauties, tho true types of lovoliness. These opinions powerfully swayed the soul of art, aud wove golden throads into all the warp and woof of anciont song and story. To meet the eapricious taste of tho time, the fomale pagans mede up their doficioncy in part by the art, recontly rovived, of changlig DLAGK AU} TO YELLOW OR RED, This custom is ropoatedly roforred to by the poots and satirists.” In Ovid's fourtoenth clogy ho roproaches his mistress with her folly in pouring caustic poisons on her hiead to blanch wearing wigs madoe of the yellow hair of Go: #laves was very common. The modern witticl which regularly makes its a[{)ncm-nnnu at stated intorvals among the venerable “Joes,” in the varioty column of the country nowspapor, upon the girl that wore hier own bair, beenuso she paid for it, is from Martinl's epigram on Galla's goldon hair, = Sacred hinlnr% contains littlo notico of fomnlo complexion having to do with Ifebrows, Egyp- tians, and othor brown racos, although wo know from Isninh that there was o strong inclination to tho color. The practica of shaving the bcut’nnd Ho! INPROVE UPON NATURE among the Jewish damos. The Egyptians were exceedingly olean, and among the muny advan- tagos of tho captivity of tho Jows among them was the acquiring of scrupulously clonnly hiabits, though, like all Bastorn poople, thoy made great uso of porfumes and unguonts, They wero fond also of “‘changeablo suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping ping;” tho “round tires like tho maon,” thoy got from tho Babylonian \mruhl]) of Astarte, who bad the croscont moon upon her head, but it is not ro- corded that they dyed their biack hair yellow. Josophus, whose dainty volumes made the Now England light_rending in tho time of the eldor Boecher, rocords that King Solomon, when they had hi;:\) jinks at Jerusalom, was preceded by forty pages, woaring their hair TOWDERED WITIl GOLD-DUST glittering in the sun., The late Empress of Trance, no doubt, imagined she wns tho first to invent this delicate method of sdornment ; but, 28 Solomon himself informs us that there is nothing now under tho sun, he probably took it from tho examplo of somo precading monnrch, and played it off on the Qucon of Shoba as anow thing in hair. Moses doos not condescend to give us a description of Evo's style of beauty. It would lmve added transcondent intorest to his narrative if ho had done so, and bean an ad- vantage in giving it a circumstantial air. No doubt: EVE WAS ILL-LOOKING, a8 nothing was ereated in vam, and beauty in her case, 8he being the only woman hor husband ever snw, would have been a wasteful superflui- (tly. We only know that tho woman was created uring Adam's first sloop, which, in consequonce, became his last repose, and that she immedinte- Iy began to instruct Lim 88 to wht ho had bet- ter do, Milton, conscious of tho deficlency in tho sacrod narrative, undortakes to givo us’ the facts, Hoeaya: 8ho, a8 a voll, down to her slender walst ler unadorned golden tresses wore Disbioveld, but in wanton ringlets waved As the vine curls her tendrils, Bishop Nowton thinks Milton was influenced in his doscription by his subdorvionce to the tustos of tho ancionts, but it waa no doubt owing tathe prosenco of his third wife, who was yollow- haired, and who possibly described horself to tho blind poot_in langungo lie has made poatic. 1f the sacrod poota wore quiet na to their prof- oronces, the profanc anes woro ot ; they wore WILD ABOUT DLONDES, Tosiod and Homer, who hau the facts rolating to the pngan divinitles, are brilliant with bright bair, Not finding them on carth, they spurned the bounds of existenco mnd Imagincd new worlds radiant with fair women, Tho rosy- fingored Aurors, lenping from the arms of ‘Lithonus to acatter the blossoms of tho dawn, showod eyes of azuro sud locks of waving sun- beams, Tho sea-born Goddess of Love and the #fire-oyod Maid of War” had golden hair, and tho Virgin Huutross, sho who kissed the sleop- ing Endymion on Mount Latmos, covorad his face with gleaming trosses, Konts says of this goddess : Spoak, stubborn Eartls, and tell me where, O whero st thou a symbol of hor goliden halr? Not oat sheaves drooping in the western sun, The nymphs born of Dorls and Norous, the at- tondants of old sholl-winding Uriton, anl all tho merry rout that around florid young Bacohns, wreathod with vine-loaves, hold ‘etarnal revel, WERE ALL BRIGHT-NAIRED, 8o also were Almlln and love-sought Adonis. But the eternal fitness of things demanded con- trusts, mo the ox-oyed Juno was a brunette, Bho would have boon a good woman, like many othors, £ sho had been married to an uxeml)lnry man; but thoro is no denying that Jupitor *' oar- ried on awfnl," and sot her & bad exumple. Bho naturally became cousorious and illiboral, The faithtul sisters who apin and out the throad of mortal oxistonce aro dark and sombre, being the daughtors of Night. Thoso oxcoodingly un- ploasunt fomales, the Furies, who, having no oo onpation, such nd lecturing and gaing to ¥ con- vontious,” hectored peoplo indisoriminately, wore decided brunettes, Among mortals, the tairout sho of all the broathing world, gift of the grate- ful goddess to Parls, was ¢ Ilolon, whose beauty summoned Gresoce te arian Aud drew & thousandl shiys (o Tenudos, At Athons, fardown Into tho tima of authontio hiatory, FATR IATR IAD THE OALL § brunottos mado n virtue of nccossity ; Mo othor untompted pooplo, they died poor izut Tioneat, though Lals was ono that did not. e list of Athenlan blondes is too long to recount ; it strolchios Lo the orack of Grocinn doom. ‘Thon they tnvade tho pootry of Romo and haunt her stairy, fair-haired pagan ghosts, In Virgil's BONE Dido n auburn, and Vetus woars hor im- mortal colors. Iorace makos no secrot of bis proferanco, and Ovid lilos his malds rathor une derdone, the redder the julcior. | After the fall of thoe Roman Empire the Cyn- ! thins and Lesbins, tho Obloes and Lydins, that cnanarod the hoarts of Latin poots, wont out with art and literaturo, but thoy cams troop- ing bock ngnin in tho rovival of tasto andg lottors, first ilmidly pooping from the page of illumninaled ~missals, then in tho songs of jonglour and troubadour, Tho poots, a8 they cnmo on unufht up tho old strain ; Potrarch, ‘Passo, and Arfosto, and all tho smallor kingors coood it _‘Tho patntors had tho eame faney, and nearly all tho Madonnas and Magdalens of Italian and Spanisk art uro DRILLIANT BLONDES, Tho tasto of Franco was for “irosses blondo- lottes” and *' blondes chovenx,” and the famons wotnon who lod statosmen about and wasted tho rovonnos of Jingdoms or sot armios in motion, | until tho doath of Louis Quatorzo, curled gloam- ing tresses, Among theso, and best known ofy all; was tho beantiful, infamous Lucrotin Borgis, | tho rarest beauty, an Iialian blondo, This is no, poot’s assortion, no palntor’s whim, but & _mate| tor of proof. Iu the Ambrasian library nt Milan thoro I8 a loclk of tho Borgia's Loir. _Dyron had Aumfiln lalr from it; Leigh Ifunt deseribes it;i aud Landor writes ot it: *“ Calm baly, moandor- lng with pollucld gold.” £ Tho dnwn of English literature renews allo- glance to fair womon. Chaucer's Liorotues hiave “ GoLDEN nHEERES,” and Bponsor will bave no other, Ife callg it ‘*benuty's lovely bait,” when Britomart roveals Losel f. About hier backe and all her bodie round § Liko us tho shining skye in sommer’s night 1a creasted with sll tinea of flerio light, The Elizabothan poots made it not only the goldon ngo of litoraturo, but of Linir also. ~Thaey wore of ono mind about it. Doeaumont and Tlotchor, Marlow, Middleton, and espocially Tobort Clraen, tho oniginal type of tho Bohemiuy woro all blonde worshiperd, Creene eays of Sitvestro's Lindio ¢ HHer hair of golden hue doth dim the beams That proud Apollo giveth from lis coach, And in the Penitent Palmor odo : 1 thought my miatrees’ hair wore gold, And in their locks my heart I fold'; 1ior amber treases wero tha alght That wrapped mo in vain delight, Shakspeare thinks less of the color of hair than other poets ; tho master doals rathor with ohar- acter, DUT OF PORTIA HE SAYS ! Her ll;lnny locks hang on her temples ko a golden 2 -3 And in his 03th sonnot ho aludes to the custom of robbing tho skulls of the dond of ““golden trossos " to adorn the hoads of the living, a prac- tico the thought of which ** must !;lvu us pauso.” Rtare Bon Jouson prefors *‘crisp curls,” and likes ** chestnut color, or gold upon blac! No doubt that was his tonst at the Mormald, drauk inoups of wnck and canario. Tho fashion was unaltored in England through the soventeonth century, Tho dissolute court of tho Rostora- tion wns alive with aprawling women with WINE-DRIGHTENED EYES AND YELLOW MAIR, Charles himself kopt o tén weight of thom. Poter Lely paintod their poruraits. Thero was no chiango until Louis the Four- toonth, the Grando Monarque, condescended to die, after whom was tho genoral doluge. At his court overy woman who respectod herself waa either o natural or an artificial blonde ; no com= promige was possible, In fact, the rule was too strict, and, liko all tyranny, produced revolution. Aftor Fontanges, Sevigno, Maintouon, and the reat monarel hnd gouo to_enliven the shades with thoir wit, and fo_captivato tho ghosts with thelr mnnuers, tho reign of blondo bonuty was ovor, Ideallsm gave placo to materinlism. The brunettes eamo storming into power and took bitter feminine rovenge. Thoy MADE IT HOT FOR BLONDES, They avon got them into contompt, The do- eoriptivo terms of beauty were changed. 'I'hero was no more (nlk of auburn nund gold—* red- heads™ was the common phrase. Ienuty had raveu trosses, and women woro beautiful not as the golden dawn, but like the warm sunymor miduight. The brunottes had o long and uidi utod reign, until, ns I hnve re i ‘'rench Empress commenced & re-arrangemont nl\ tho world of fashion and sontiment. With th> docline of hor ppwer, tho worship of tho blddes will probably subsido, and we shall soon st of yollow-jute, and ahall_sponk as of tow-heads " and ** carrots.” Sir e THE OLD-FOGY MAN. - 1fo wae a queor, old-fogy And loved old-fogy way; And railed againat tho rockl Of theso fust modern duye o once could travel loisuraly, And stop hia friouds to hnil } Butt now thoy rushed ki through by steam, And rodo im o & rail. That good olil conchs was fast enotgh For pradent folk to go Impationt men now Intigl nf Aud say 'twas rather slow And go thoy rush upon the train, And speed liko thought nway, Untll 0 smasheup breaks thelr bones: 1o thinks It docan’t pay, ‘He loved old housewlyes' spinning-wheels 3 ‘The music of thelr hum ‘Was far more dear to Lis old ear Than graud-plano thrum, But ab 1 Lo sighs, thoso wheols are gone Since Whitney Jndo bis gin: No more wo hear thelr thrifty hum,— No moro tho slstrs spl 1 Tho rosy girla of olden Hm Sunhurat, wera firmer mado ‘Than theso, tho luto and tender sheots That grow up fu tho shado : Thoey did their mother's heavy work, And cased hor weary hands; And somotimes, tao, if brothers fallod, Could help to'do & man's, Tholr dresses, mado with casy fit, Gavo not & pain boneath Thoir hearta had amplo room fo beat, “Fhcir lungs had room o breatho,— Unllko onr presout girls, with walsts Top mueh compreasod and slight, Who, If thoy do not disalpate, Are very ofton tlt, ‘They lot not Fashion dwarf thelr forms, But grow to comcly size, And hicatth shoro over on thelr brows And sparkled from thelr oyce ; They thanked kind Heaven for all its gifls, Aud thought, with secrct pride, That thoy wore beautiful enongh, And thoy wero satisted, Buze now, our modorn glrls, alas | “Thfuk Providonco unkind TFor putting too much in th midst, And 1ot cnough beling ; And 50 thoy bustlo round, and lace, o mend sucls clumsy waya, And think thoy far outshine tho girls 0f good old-fogy daye. Ifo wished, ho ald, for thelr sweot aakos, "Thnt Faehlow's torturing vico Would easo them up a little, and Tess plnching would sufiico ; it they might feel tho bounding health Around tho hieart (hat plays, When ull unfottered s it was Tu good old-fogy days, —_— A Wicked Brazilinn Priosts New York Horald Letter, In Coura, the pricst of the parish of Riacha ds Sanguo (Rivalet of Blood) hus boen arrcated upon the charge of ordering and cansing murder to bo committed upon four persons. L'ho motivos pro- ducing thoso murdors wore peculiar, The pricst had fallon deoply in love with one of his parish. ioners, and for more than a yoar had tried to so- duco her and to got ber to livo with him as lréu concubine, IHo even had the art to geb hor fath- or's warm support of his protensions ; but the young girl rasistod flrmly both the priestly solic~ itations and the potornal pressure, At last, by tho advice of o missionary, tho girl fled to the Liousie of a rolation, and, aftor a time, botrothed horuelf to a consin. Some time later, a Judge ot Tligh position oamo to the lmrluh, and, on hoaving the state of things, H, of wrote fo the Bishop of Comra about thom. The Bishop st onco sont a liconse o murry without bands and by any clergyman, but the priest openly deolarad ‘that tho girl should nover marry hor cousin or nnr other. In fact, n fow days bofore tho marriage-day twa men—ona » slaveof the priest—uoized the young man in day-lime and barbaronsly murdored him In the opon atreot of tho villago. An old mun, who accidontally camo to the spot, and & rola- tivo of thoe girl, who ran up to the young man's rasoue, woro noxt_slain, and the bloody scens of tho day was closed by the murder of a young givl, who, on soeing tho assassinations in porve. tration, ran botwoon tho murderors and_thoit victims, with an image of Christ Lold before hor, mhnplum them to deslt, The Lwo assas. sing wore arrostod and confossed that the pricst had employed thom to murdor the cousiy and othor persons, but had charged them alriotly to do no hurt to the girl who had in mlurm\ him with g0 uubridied sud deadly a puys slou,