Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 25, 1874, Page 11

i USRI LT AR H THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. APRIL 925, 1874, — 11 METROPOLITAN MCDES. Spring Toilettes Still Delayed---The Pas- sion for Black Silk Unchocked, Au Flegant Suit-—Bridal Garments in Abmdance. A Pine-Apple Robe of Exquisite Design ---its Romantic History. A Dress Woven of Magic-—Re- ception-Raiment. From Our Own Correspondent. New Yonx, April 22, 1874, The weather at Easter and since then baving feen snything but warm, few new guits are yet geen on the streets. Bome unfortunates, who gtfll cling to the motion that the slmanao isa jo to the soasons, have mado faint efforts to christen fresh garments, and, not seldom, have done g0 in smart April showers. Still, tbe light costumes thus far displayed Jook thin, cold, and pinched; bearing mo slight resemblance to the strawberrics and green poas DOW in market. Natarally, the refuge in this stress of weather is BLACK SILE, and black silk it is from one end of Broadway o tne other. Although dowsgers and many young wives stick with unfailing devotion to the heavy gros-graius, théreisa decided and noticeablo tendency among tho unmarzied nnd gislish Gothamites toward the glossy taffetas 2nd lustrous failles. Partly from love of variety, the change hns no doubf arisen, but it is both gensible and seasonsble, just now. Experience more and mora cloarly indicates that gros-grains era only fitted to in-door wear; for thoy are too heavy snd dust-attrecting for the street. A good ehaking will cleanse & taffeta or faille from 2n ordinary amount of spring or'summer dust; but Hercules conld scarcely beatn gros-grain beck to its origianl blackness, Beside the lighter silks are 8o much easier to carry sbons in warm weather, when one fecls too fnert to carry anything gracefully. And speaking of grace remiuds me that Paris declares walking- slirts sball be short this season,—eshort enough ta distinctly clear the ground ; while New York is equaily positive that they ehall train a little,— just onough to _fringe them round with an un- tidy border ol mud, and. dust, and fraved edges. Tow, which edict ehall obtain in ihe Garden City 2 Bhall French good-scnse carry the day ; or will natiopsl pride (though, looking Washing- tonward, it i a trifle difficult to discern, at this moment, whit we bavo to be proud of) lead you to array yoursclves under the bau- ner of soil znd slovenliness 2 Do von think this o harp of one string, upon which ¥ am endleesly strumming? Don't you know that people with hobbies always ride them in soason snd ont of season, and sometimes accom- plish good thereby ? 5 A PRETIY STIT. One pretty it is made in this wige: A round glirt, with a pouf in the back, is bordered by s flounoce threo-juarters of s yard deep. The bot- tom of the founco it trimmed with fivo inch- and-a-half-wide piped bands, lapping up instead of down. Ths flounco is shirred at the top to the depth of s quarter of 8 yard. (Tn passing, let mo say that s third of tho width of a bias flonnce pives fullners enoagh to shir prei- tily.) The pufl of the ekirt is sus- tapad—or is eupposed to be—by o ewsh of = breadth of eilk folded together, coming out from en unexposed oint on eitber Lip, and tying in alarge, looso inot under the paf. The jacket is cut very long in front, Tenning down in two largo brendths, which resch the head of the flounce, roscmblng the fronts of an old-style mantelet. Tt slopes back from the hups in a short basque, fitting smoothly over the pouf. Tho jacketis Sinished by o double, toft cord, and a finger-wide Chautilly lace, Tho tleoves are cost-shape, with carlousls-shirrod wuffs headed by the Isco; snd the garment is closd from the neck to the extreme edge by daindly-worked buttons. Of course, thero is afraieg for £o waist is completo powadavy without ; in this instance it is morety 2 shirred Tule of silk, baving ineide a ruff of Clantilly, with cnower ruching of tulle intide that, s ‘ERIDE? AND BRIDALS are in the ascendantat present. They inyacia- ble are sfter Lent. It always seems as if the forty days' fasting and praver broke forth into {wioe a8 much feuting and frolicking as thers would have been lad the temptation to draw a sharp coptrast besn wenting. As a majority of the brides nre ex‘romely youthrul, and 28 the weathor ought 1o, be warm,—though it isn't,— most of the weddng-gowns are either ontirely thin, or of mised thin and thick fabrics. AX AIRY EOBE. J One of the airi2st of these is of white pine- 2pple, which, you are well aware, ien'c a pure 'gxiu. The “elip i8 of orange-flower white sill,—so porfect a match for the robe that it seems the eame stuff thickened. The robe itself is & long, fowing skirt of the ine-apple. covered with exquisite band-em- Eroiflerv diap, inevitably ; it would bave cost 8 dozen tines its welght in gold here), in long wresths s1d sprays of flowers. No other trim- ming i8 o» the skirt ; 1o other would bo fitting. Tho low-1ecked and short-cleeved eilk waist is made rcand, and covercd smoothly wilh one thicknes of plain pine-apple. The bare neck is ehiaded by 8 Marie Antoinette fichu, of the em- broidersd pine-apple, crossing. on the bosom ; the encs crossing sgain behind, and fastened by sbunchof real orange-flowers. The arms are bure, oxcept for the Jlong glovos resciing balt-way o the pretty elfows. The veil is _of plaia pine-appls, matching the dress, and not making itlook yellow, as tnile woald RATMENTAL BOMANCE. . Tt is slmost necdless to say that this gown is 20 heirloom, and that its peez caunot be found 13 the conntry. It was gont home from China more than seventy years ago to the grandmother of its present possessor, bv alover who neyer lived to sce his bride arrayed io it. - Sho married lster, but she could mot wear the dress that was more an emblem of woe than of joy toher. So 1t was packed away cnramll%; and I do not know fat it ever eaw the light till it was brought forth to form tho wedding-garment of & brido on whom the gods gaze more SMilingly. “But among the gowns that money can pur- caasg iz ono of ~VNITE TCLLE. It looks like a cloud, and to imagine it formed b7 humap hands is well-nigh to believe in ma- fit:innfi. It it ba the work of srt and not magic,-| is mado after this manuver: The skiriis Gmi-trained and cut of Malines tulle, which is dperer than wash blonde and firmer than silk tile, On this are dombled ruffies—tbatis to 63, gtrips of silk tulle sbout twelvo inches wide doubled, the ratw. edges sathered on oe firead, and then sewed on,.—lapring abont half figir width. liko rufles. Tho skirt is_covered f the belb in this_way, acd garlended with Weaths of real smilax. hawthorn-fowers. snd onnge-blossoms. The waiat is round, fan-shape, 1t covered with lapping folds of silk talle, A wrenth of the flowers and green, fastened by tie corsage-bouquet, passes lightly round the yaist under the left arm, and falls on the skirt bhind. Tho slceves are sill-tulle paffed on Xalines. The dress is eimplest of the aimple, tat so perfect in its plainness that it merits men- ton. For s girkbride nothiug is daintier or nore suitable. : One of these outfits has & charming ‘BECEPTION DRESS, @ tho palest ehade of paney-lavender, gTos: . timmed with paey-purple. The straight il 24 the back of the skirt is covered from it ta hem wiih deep (twonty-fivo inches wido, v lezet) box-plaited flounces. Thero is spaco tio width of the two-inch plaits between, vd the pluts ars laid not ooly at the ‘atreme vprer edge, but a second time wout six_izches from tho lower edgo of tho fnnco. The edges of tho frills thus formed ze facod an inch and & half on the right side vith tha purple velvet; and the flounces are so St an as to force the plaited part to puff onta 1ttle, and the frill of each flouncé to fall over te puff of thonext. (Yon perceive that this is titeaged far & stand-up drees; for to eit in it 10uld ruin tho back breadth.) ° The lower iounce on tho train passos round the eniire uirt; the quur edge of the box-plsits is lined iith {he velvet, and the plsits tarn over. 4 ‘slvet sirup, coming out from the inside of each it is drawn aver (so oS to hold the plait 10wn on the right side), and vasses through s 1nall and delicate pearl buckle, tho unfet- wered end resting ou tha flounco below. 3nt the glory of tho costame is the lace. On :be two’ sides, and the middle of the front readth, are cascades of finest Chantilly, six ‘l:chu wide. The lzce is canght to an inch-wide bazd of tho purple velvet, lined with the laven- o silk, which forms a heading to the lace, as it s curied back and forth in the pyramidalshape. The b“cim has four very long, pointed tabs, which fill in between tha lace cascades in front, and botween the cascades aud the flounced back breadth behind. The basque is corded with the purple velvet. andon the extreme tip of cach tab 15 a butterily-rosette of lace, velvet, and silk. The waist i8 beart-ebape, and cut down nearly to the belr. Inside, an un- derkerchief of Malines tulle 8 covered with beautiful Valenciannes rufiles, leaving no part of the neck_bare. The upper part of the eleeve is composed of a plait- ed-paffed flounce, like the back breadth, with Chantilly and Valeucionnes frills below. This draes is very rich and elegnnt; but ons would imagine it intended for the middle of winter rather than for May. However, whonover mode requires. velvet petticoats in July and pique wrappers in January, it is diffiult to mark the seasons by any use o disuse of fabrics. 0f course, there are plenty of other gowns and other folderols, both protty and new, among these wedding-outfits, but "they must go over till next time, nuless matters more important arise meanwhila, Bat, from one point of view, what can_bo moro important Kfnn & bride's trousseau? FURBELOW. LITERARY NOTES. The Popular Science Monthly for May (D. Ap- pleton & Co., Now York) has articles on *The Grape Phylloxera,” by Charles V. Riley; *The Limits of Our Knowledge of Nature,” by Prof. Emil Du Bois-Reymond; **Universities, Actual and Ideal,” by Prof. T. H. Huxley; * Law and Insanity,” by Dr. Henry Maudsley; ‘‘Evolution and the Doctrine of Design,” by W. Stanloy Jevons ; etc., ete. —In Scribner's Monthly tor May (Scribner & Co., New York), “Tne Mysterious Island,” by Jules Yerno, and.** Katherine Earle,” by Adeline Trafton, are continned ; and the first parts are given of “Adine,” by Henry James, Jr., and *The Victoriau Poets (Alfred Tennuyson),” by Fdmund Clarence Stedman. Edward King hasa chapter on **Mountain-Rambles in Tennessee, Georgis, and South Carolina.” There i & story by Harriet Prescott Spofford, snd poems by Ban- jamin F. Taylor, Mary E. C. Wyoth, and others. —The &t. Nicholas for May (Scribuer & Co, Now York) humbers among its contribntors . Trowbridge, Mry. A. M. Diaz, Frank B. Stoc ton, Olive Thorne, and Mra. Lizzic Champnoy; and there is a paper by the lato N. 5. Dodgo. The illustrations are numerous and excellent. —Other periodicals received: Phrenological Journal for May_(Samuel 1. Wells, New York, Sanitarign for May (A. M. Bell, New York, edical Investigator for April (Chicsgo); Nor western Review for April (R. R, Dearden, Chi- cagoy; National Sunday-Schonl Teacher, and Liitle Folks, for May (Adams, Blackmer & Lyon Publishing’ Company, Chicago); Scientific Farmer for May (American Publishing Com-~ pany, Chicago); African Repository for April {American Colonization Societs, Washington). —The New York Times paid Bret Harto $600 for lus story, ** The Rose of Tuolumne,” which was published in Tue TRIBUNE of yesterdny. —Mr. Henry Taylor, su English writer, is pro- paring a new biography of Lord Byron, bringing fresh and authentic evidence to bear on the sub- ject of 3rs. Beecher’s scandal. —Alr. Juban Hawthorne will soon publish & novel entitled * Idolatry.” —G. P. Marsh says that only 200 of the 6,000 words of the Bible are now in any sense ob- solete. —It is ramored that Bret Harte is in danger of Joss of sight. —The memoirs of the late Paul de Kock have appeared in Paris, It 18 an omusing book and fuil of anecdote, but, unfortunately, the author Liad completed only the tirst volume at his de- cesse. —Tho **Society of Gentlemen” of London has privately prted a volume of the sayings and conversation of President Limcoln, which s beon o eagerly taken np that_copics sold et fifteen guineas each a week after its publication. —The last odition of the London Slang Dic tionary, under the head of * Bummer,” eajs “ In California men who profess to be journal- ists, und o obtain free dipners and , are called literary bummera.” —Robert Dale Owen, when a mere boy, went to see Jeremy Benthan, then neatly 80. “God bless you!” said the venerable thinker, ** if there Do ench s bewg ; and, at all_events, my young {riend, take carc of yourself.” . —The late riots at Bombay were owing to the publication by a Parsee of a Guzerato version of Washizgton Irviug's Lifo of Mabomet,” in which there i# a roference to the propbet’s do- mestic relations. The suthor attempted to stop the eale, but did ot succeed n aliaying the ro- sentmeat of the Mussuluans. —Some unecrupulous trifler lately copied Walt Whitman's * Prayer of Columbus,” and seot it 10 & Western paper for publication. The oditor doclined it, with the remark: “If tho smthor will leaye whisky alone, ho may yet risoto bethe chief deck-band of & canal-boat.”—Brookiyn Argus. 2 "7 Michuel Banim, one of the joint author of the well-known * Tales of the O'Hara Family,” is now 73 years old, oud has retirod from the charge of the Kilkenny Post-Ofico, in Ireland. on a pension of £312 a year. A sub- “cription Las Leeu scarted for his relief. —H. W. Beecher threatons to write another novel. —'Tho Count do Paris has been for some time engaged in writing on acconnt of our civil war. ~“I'ho London Athenaum is severa upon Miss Dickens' novel, * The Mill Wheel,” and recom- mends to the author a course of grammar and Enghsh reacing. 1t says the book abounds in slang, rhapsody, 2nd vulgarity. —§Lr. Sumner has becn buried only & fow days and already two lives of bim are being written— one by G. Edwards Letter sud one by George Alfred Townsend. It i8 also believed in Boston that Mr. Edward L. Peirco, one of Sumner's three literary executors, will edit memoirs of am. —Xoncure D. Conway says of the lato Dr. Strauss, that Stranss toid Lim lis motives in publishing his * Lifg" of Jesus " were chiefly political, fo helieving it necessary to destroy tne opular notion of superxatural zuthority before the oppressive institutiops of society could be overihrosn. " Frederick Seward, who has been spending the winter with Thurlow Weed, is writing a biog- raphy of Lis father, the late William H. Sewar and 18 receiviug material assistance in his task from the venerable statesman. Mr. Weed has nearly completed the autobiography upon which 1o bs for some time been engag —Tho Christian Union calls hato Field “ That vigorous young disturber of the peace, who runs dcavn some six or seven duzen of organized im- becilitiea before breakfast, washes her hands, and says, like Hotspur, * Fie upon quict life! I want workl"" ; The specisl Euglish’fashion of pirating the books of other nations with Anglican *improve- ments,” both omussion and commission, has Vic- timized, it seews, ono Dr. J. G. Holland, and ko foilows Bret Harto and others with an indignant protest in the Atheneum of April 4. His first complaint relates to **Miss Glbert's Cureer,” which was transformed a great deal worse than Bottom was. A Laundon publisher took it in 1867, called it %The Heroes of Crampton,” omitted the tirst chapter entirely, changed Ameri- can for English names, put London for New York, substituted the Queen’s birthday for the Yourth of July, turued his American ntver into up Thames, made the railyay conductor a guard, and otherwise lnbored to make an English book of it. And the Doctor remarks: '*Considering the ly American stmosphere of the book, and its trathfulness to American neages and modes of life and thought, you csn imagine hat & medley it made, and will not wonder that, 24 3 publelung venture, it was a failuro. It was, lin this guise that I was compolled to make my bow to the Butsh public—s bow puch as a man makes when his breath is Lnocked out of lum by being hit ‘whers he lives.! Tho publicher never had the courtesy to ask my leave to do this, orto publish the book st all, and nover gent me o copy. ThisIim- ported st my own expense, as a carlosit.” Now, ard, Lock & Tyler, of Paternoster Row, have taken '*Arthur Bonnicastle,” which its author Liss arranged with Georgo Roatledge & Sons to publigh, aud ieswed it minus atout a hundred Pages, for which it subsiitutes *'two mudadled Pagea" designated as “a concluding chaptor by anogher hond ;" this addition of 1osult to injury being made because the closing chapters were Sirst published in Eogland, and tho Rontledges DLeld » copyright on them. e TENNIE MAY. #l'was at nooning, in the meadow, "MId the new-mown bay, Besting 'peath a1 old tree’s shado 1 mei pretty Tennio oy, Gaily sKippivg, Lightly tripping, Looking bright ss Summer's day Glancug elyly, Came she by me, Btealing wy poor heart aWsY. * Polsed she well the fatal arrow,— 1t was Cupid’s quiver dart § Never sinco bas 't fziled to harrow Fondest fecliogs in my beart, Figmng eter '8 Tiver § through years, thizt wound will smart e A o il il ay g Q00 depist. €] €] Cmrcaco. i Jaurs LAYALLIN, A NOBLE IMSTITUTION. Something About the Found- lings’ Home. The Baby Inmates, and Their Mothers. How the Establishment Receives Kfs Support. The New Home--Its Need of Furniture-- An Opportanity for the Benevolent. In my travels through this great city, I acci- dentally met, at 8 house whare I was visiting, a washerwoman who appeared so cheerful and contented at her work that I made some remarks upon her happy disposition to the lady who em- ployed her. “You will be surprised to learn,” said thelady, “that she has passed through heavy troubles. She is a widow, and the mother of five children; the youngest was born after her husband's death. It was a sweet, healthy-looking chitd,— such 8 one as any mother would be praud of; but this one, fearing that, if she kept her baby, sha could no longer provide for her other chil- dren, carried it to THE FOUNDLINGS' HOME when it was a fow woeks old. She has so much confidence in that institution that she thinks her child will have better care than she could give it, while its absence will ensble hor to support her other four children. At the eame time, the says that nothing but the fear of not being able to provids for her family would bave induced her to part with her babe.” T'his aroused my curiosity, and prompted a desiro to visit the Homo; but & multiplicity of duties intertered to provent my visit to that in- atitution, until my sttention was again called to it by another circumstance, and I determined to make the long-deferred call. ‘Accordingly I started out on a tour of inspec- tion on Monday morning,—a morning when 1o honse is expected to be in apple-pie order, espocially if the Sabbnth is strictly observed ac- cording to the commandment which forbids all hinds of work on that day. I am well aware it was hardly fair to visit any public institution, and more especially an_insti- tution dovoted to young children, on Monday morning ; but I had my ressons for so doing, andI went. I was cordislly received and chcer- fully conducted throngh the Home, my guide eaying that she hoped I would make allowances for Monday morping; which I assured her I certainly would. But, in looking over the house, I thought she might have spared all excuses, for e\‘erytgmg appeared to be IN PEBFECT ORDER and, a8 it was abont the time that children take their morning-nap, the most of them were sweetly sleeping. They bad all been washed and dressed, and they looked very lovely in their little cribs, excopt when too crowded, as in some instances, for want of room. Four sweet litile faces peeping ont from under the cover in ono crib is not an uncommon sight, as the present Home is too small for its inmatea. Some of the littlo ones are fine, henlthy-look- ing babies ; while some are Lttle, diminutive, pickly children, My attendant informed me that many were sick when they were faken there, Some past, recovery, while others, with good pursing, grew into healthy boys and girls. She pointed out to me ous which was vers eick whon taken in, but was now a fine, healthy child. When persons camo thers for s child which they wished to adopt, they invariably made choice of the healthiest-looking ono, which left the sick ones conetantly on their hands. Very few chil- dren remain in tho Home OVER NINE MONTHS, as they are usually taken into families beforo they reach that age. The oldest child is now 2 yonrs old; but he 13 an exception, being the only dno of thet age; all the others are under 9 months. The girls are all taken into families beforo the boys. The majority of peoplo who dosirs to adopt a child profer a girl-baby, and a flealthy fomato infant does not remain long in the 1nstitution. The Homo receives all little ones brought to its doors. Theyare all made welcome, uo matter how or from what gource they come. One was shown to me that was left on tho door-step that very morning, only a fow bours old. Somo are brought in with the mossage, ‘ The parents are dead, and there is po one to care for it.” A mother comes and £ays, 28 did ihe one who firat attracted my attention to this inatitution, “I bave other little children and no husband. I cannot take care of my baby.” Too often the applicant NEEDS TO MAKE KO EXPLANATION. Ter pitiful manner, her broken-hearted, appeal- ing looks, and the infant in her arms, tell this story. 'To this clags the hospital affords a shelter for & very ehort time. She is dirmissed, with hor helpless littlo one, homeless and friendless, befors sho bns fully gnined her strength. Whither does sbe go? Who will give her work with & baby in her arms? 1f she woro skilled in any one departmenttof lsbor, her work might be in domand, and she might perchance obtain work ot prices sufficient to support horself and childi if her mother-lovs was strong enough to promp her to lcep it; but the Bupposition is, that women of this class are ignorant af any way by which they conld earn an honest livolihood when they have the care of infants. If she resolve to abandon her iufant, the doors of the Home are open o receive it, to meke it welcome, and to provide for ita future. By an act passed by the Legislature in 1871, children left at the Home become the legal prop- orty of the institution, and they aro kept thero until good homos aro provided for them. When a child is given away, it i8 to a family who is ablo pecuniarily to provide forit, sud can give it a Christisn education; and the Home reservesa claim to the extent thatitcan atany time re- claim the child, if not properly treated. Dat this institution’ has a feature of its own which must commend itself to every Christian man and woman : 1T PROVIDES FOR THE MOTHER 28 well a8 the child. A woman bowed down with poverty and shame, one of suciecy's outcasts, 2p- Plies for admission, and 16 recoived with a wan Helcome. The mother-loveis eo strong in her heart that sho cannot abandon her dear little one, but, with & broken heart and sorrowful face, shé brings with her the evidence of her fall, ‘asking that she msy be xmma to minis- ter to the wants of her child. For nine months ghe remains in the Home; food and clathmglnra furnished for herself and infant; and sho is as happy a8 she could be anywhere, under the cir- cumstances. Bho is grateful for tho kind shel- Lor aforded her, and 18 glad to have the care of another baby beaides her own, as some lituJe ra- turn for the sympathy and kindness extonded to her. Her mother-love meanwhilo growing with the growth of herchild, and being nnder Christian infizences, sho realizes her position in socicty, 2nd from the sorrow for her_fall is born s pur- pose to redeem the past and live a_better life, to render herself worthy of her child. How shall sho do it ? Socioty will smile upon the unnatural fathor who forsakes his child, and sonds both it 2nd the mother, outcasts, into s cold and pitiless world ; while it will frown upon the woman who has proved herself the better of the two, inas- oo Ba she has clang to her offepring, dared to avow ita origin, and resolved to brave the world's censure, if she'may but be enabled to provide for her infant. Will society Eivs her s chance ? Will it not, rather, drive her down to lower depihs of infamy ? The founder of the Home has faith to belioye that many of theso poor creatitres, to whom the motber-lovo is holy and sacred, would, if they hsd the opportunity, de- Yolop into noble women, who would be first and foremost in every good cause. And already AN INDUSTRIAL HOME is projected, whera theso women can go when tbey leavo the Foundlings' Home, whero they cau romain, with their children, until they havo erfected themselves in some depariment of la- Bor by which they can earn 8 comfortable sup- port for themselves and the litlo ones depend- 2at apon them, when they will then be strong enaugh and wise enough to stand alaze, to rasist fempration, and to live good and upright lives. Dr. Shinman, the founder of this institution, commenced its work with but little funas, but Vith great faith, believing that God would, by some mesns, send all that was ncedful for its sapport. Neither ho nor aoy one at tho Home soliclts aid. They depend solely upon tho right- consness of the csuse, and the love and sympa~ thy of true Christian people. Whenever belp ia asked, it is by ontside friends, and without the Jmowledge of its founder, as he prefors to trust the Lord alone, believing Ho will raise up frieads \ihen they are needed. ‘Tha reward of his faith is substantially shown in A HANDSOME BRICK BUILDING on Wood street, between Madison and Aonroe, { i which is almost completed, and will be ready for occopancy on the 1st of May. “After viewing the old building, I directed my steps towards the new gae, snd made o thorough esamination of it. A description here wonld out of place and tedious to tho readers ; suflice it to ey, that nothing has bean forgotten which could add to the comforts of its inmates. In the habies’ parlor is an apparatus Leated by ' steam, againet which the ends of the cribscan bs place in cold weather, for the better security of keep- ing the littlo oncs’ feet warm. That onse little item will give an idea of the cire and supervision used in constructing the building. Its complete- ness will well repay a visit. An additional feature of the new Home is a Iying-in chamber, and & parlor for the convales- cents, Women' without meens and withont friends, who need such accommodations, will find hore sympathy and liud attentions, and will be provided with eversthing necessary to their comfort. Surely, such an inatirution must ap- peal to every woman's heart, aud call forth s prompt response. . ; Tho building is ready, waiting for its furni~ uro. TOW SHALL THAT IE PROVIDED? Will the founder's faith bo great euough to sup- plyit? One worthy Kcntlemnna who lives upon tua weelly earmings, has ordered a supply of iron bedsteads to be piaced in the Home on the 1st of May, and to be paid for on the lst of August. Ho has faith to beliove that the God whom he serves will not fail him, but thst, in 8ome way, the necessary funds will’ be forthcoming by that time. Shall he be disappointed ? What will the churches do in the matter? Christ said to His followers, *‘ Inasmuch a8 ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye bave Gone it woto me." Tho. Christisns of ' Chicago have never been backward in the observance of this rule. Again and again they Lave shown themselvesto be large-hearted, generous people ; and we have faich to believe they will do 8o in this instznco, oy furnishing tho Foundlinga' Home with all its necessary requirementa. Muis. . D. WyNgoon A SUMMER-STORAL It is & suitry acene, 'neath middsy sun, Garced in simplicity. with rural mien : A'wheat and corn fed epread themséives beslda A rolling aeretch of clover pastuage, And at the meeting of these telds a pond Lics half-concealed by foating lils-leaves, Beyond the pasturage a second-growth Of osks group round a tree whose amplituds In evideiice thet siuce, in youth, it sucked Tta sappy sustenance, the greedy Past Has clatched and feasted on wholo centuries, ‘Around this grove the quick cattle stand, Content to wait the wane of solar sway, 4nd watch the circle of tha outer aky, Whers cloud-flocks graze upon the sidcs of heaven, The thirsty mouth Las lowered the water's face Tl some pond Ararat has stayed & piauk And raisod it well selant ; upon this perch Lrow of turties bask thelr checkered backs, And view with stolid look tho overtures Of nodding reeds and fawning marsh-grass nigh, Tha wheat-atems stoop with weight of amber weaith, While alien rye-stalks rear their empty beads To oflicer the logions massed us closo As Versians wero on Marathon. The corn (Just o'er » groy worm-fenco Whore chipmunks o mp)— A groen, cockaded host, in phalanx drown, Eacl soldier armed with many cutlasses,— ‘Bospeaks the pride of discpliued arruy, ‘Nor doprecates the fervor of the sun. O'or all, storm-portonding hasc ; from all, A heated perfume—clover, wheat, and corn. Tho myriad pufe of buoyant eider-down That, but & half-bour back, disported freo Above the forest iu the distant west, Have taken hostilo attitude, and, now, Advance in closo battalions, wide and desp, As if Apollyon’s coboris black deployed ‘Across the airy vest in Lodeful strength Toofler acowling battle with the enn. Behind the cload-van looms, in pitcky state, A mountain aggregation of the mist, ‘As grand as solemn Chimborazo's front: ‘And {rom its scething sides still lightning spears ‘Are quiward thrust with fiexce rapidity. The Liack hordes upward clamber, and the mount Autaing new heights, til now, as Titans mad File other mountains on too recklessly, The upper fabric topyles,—yet, indeed, Some nightmare compromise with gravity Betnins for it a dix e ‘Aucp, the cloud-sight tukes new shape, and ssems A mighty vampire, come to suck the world, Polsed far sloft, with balanced lift, Each wing o'er opposie horizon spread.. With esger hatred, from the foreclouds steep A creacent moves, half-circumambient, Upon the splendid cltadel of day 5 Tuen, as the quickly-vanquished sun goes out, Aczoss the ripened wheat, with dark approach, A shadow comes, deati-angel-like and deet; ‘And, 5 it passes in ita checrieas swoep, Tuotartles scramble down In clumsy haste, Aud loyal corn-stalks, on the far-off hil, Wave good-byes sunward with bright orifiammes, Now thirough an atmosphers umbued with gloom, Forth from the turmoil of inverted scas, ‘A flashing force with speeding Athwart the reaches of coneavity, Thrilling oll things as though the startled earth Hocked 1 seismic violence, This signal mado, Thie freightod nimbun yieids its pilfered load, And giznt drops in «ift disgonals Tound on the roof-like lils-leaves With maddencd effort (0 accompany The boom of frenzled evergics above, The storm, unbridled, fast intensifies: Froah winds epring up, and breed chaotic swisla; Electric fires surcharge the hnmid air, ‘And writo thair raney befor the glumoured eye jrx]h::? the sulpl'rous frescolugs The storm i spent, T'p past a hold of bastioned cioud Wihy iflva;{nlum and goldun Counterscarp, Tiag sun shines in triumphant dignits, And floods with shicen empyrean righi-named, The muio of the herd comes to tha ear In homely cowbell-tones, as rude to-day Asin Pan’s time, O'er pastureand near pond, iaraed aftermuth and prim resds fiaunt A lavish blaze of squeous dismondrs ; snd pompous rustics fll the sisles of torm, Asif the wives of molern Pharisecs, In cunningly-grained silks aud veivet-pile, Fansed to thelr public praying-place. _Above, V¥ith sun-ray warp and vagrant-raindrop woof, Calmed Natare uits and weaves, at uuseen loom, Arching ber irin web upon the black ! That curtaips all th east, where crowds the storm, Joux MoGovErx. —_———— DECORATION-DAY. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribunc: Si It scems to me as though more ehonld bo said in rogard to the matter of ** Decoration- Day” than thero is, and I eravo space inyour journal to do so. And, in doing so, I will bogin by sagiog that I am not one of the fierce «Home-Guard " warriors, bat can point to an honorable record of three years' service in field and prison, and have felt the **iron enter my soul " in the latter, so that what I may say can- not be attributed to say lack of experience in the matter whercof Ispeak. It geems to mo tist this decoration of the graves, both in the North and South, ehould ceasoaltogether, for two—if not more—reasons : First—It should cease on a social view. We all know that, when any member of our family has been guiity of & wrong, bas ackuowledged the orror, and endeavored to lezd a correct and moral life, we do not continually or so- nually remind him of his musbehavior by gome more or less public ceremony, especially if wo desire to livein harmony and peece in tho same family with the erring brother. And 8o it secms to me that it is not necessary for North and South to be continually reminding each other of the * lato unpleasantncss ™ by this searly ceremony of decoration, if we aro to live in tho same political family with ezch other. If it must bo dons, let it be done by private and Joving bhands. Tt does scom to me that the money might bo pat to better uzo by appropriating it to the wid- o and orphans of doceased goldiers, who fill our land, apd to the maimed and crippled soldiers, of whom we have & fow left. Nono honor the memory of tho gallant dead whose lives went out amid the terrible carnage of field and trench, snd the not less sad and mouroful hospital and prison, more than the writer ; but should wonot ghow our admirationin a practical, ioyal, and Joving way, by consecrating the amount we would Bpoud each year in traing, and flowers, and music, tothe Teliof of the widows and orphana of the gallant dead, and to the ** Soldiers’ Homes ™ which we bave in_our midst? I for one—and I think » majority who breast- ed the storm_of battle would agree with me— would be glad to sce all records of our strife en- tirely obliterated, and this sutasonism of the 4 Bloe and Gray " cease. Respoct!, uny,sC OTT.. Cmcago, April 20, 1674 Victor iugo and Hochefort. Paris Correspondence of the New York Graphic. Victor Hugo was very fond of Henri Rochefort, Ho called him his “third son:” be said that he adopted him ; and now tbat both of Hugo's ovn gons are dead, it might be supposed that the adopted one would bestill dearer. The other day when Roclefort, escaped from New Calodonis, tel- graphed to Paris for moncy, every onesaid: *‘Ob, Yictor Hugo will send him ail he wauts,” and it was aonounced, indeed, that Victor Hugo had geont him 6,000 francs. But. in bruth, when the old poet was applied to, be refused to give s farthing. M. Adam, who went to him, expressed surprise at this refusal. *‘You have =aid that Rochefort was your son,” he remarked. “Tt is true,” said old Hngo, but that wss in amo- l meat of effusion.” UNDER THE SEAT. * Bmoking-carriage, sir 7" asked the tip- expecting porter, s he bore my rugs aud minor packages along the platform. I said yes, and he made me comfortable, and received his six- pence. Then the guard camo to look after my well-being, but got nothing more than innocent gratitude, which was perhaps all he desired. I have o donbt that I did him injustice in at- tributing his efforts to introduce a fatold gentlo~ man with a cough, 5 lean old gentleman wha was snuffy, and a middle-aged gentlernan who was enveloped in wraps, the lower part of whoso face was covered up liko a female Turk's, sn evident window-shutter, to entar my carriage, in order to spite me. Duty to his employers alone made him en- deavor to fill up, but the British anxiety to get asmuch room 88 possible for my monoy was strong within me, and’ stirred uncharitable sus~ picions. You may load a horse to the water, or an anti- nlcotinian old gentleman to a amoking-carriage, but you can't make him getin; and when each _intarn put hishead into my compartment, he jibbed, for some Iate occupants of it had been cigar, not pipe, smokers, and it was rather etrong. Bo Iwas _ APPARENTLY LEFT ALOXE,— alone with the ZTimes, and all tho comic week- lies, and a modern poem. “The doors were banged, the engine whistled, the train began to move. It would nos siop sgain till we got to Peterborougl, so that I was safe to bo undistarbed 8o far. There wero eix seats, and I could occupy as many of them as a limited number of mem! permitted. I almost withed myself an Octopus, to take full advan- tage of the sitvation. Calming dows, I iy up my hat, put on s gandy pieco of nesdlewor] won in & bazaar rafe, lit my pipe, cut my pa-. pers, and began to enjoy myself. 1 sat in the left-hand “corner, with my back to tho engine, absorbed in o big lawsuit. It is great fun to read a crogs-sxamination, and watch Bow a_clever awyer will make clever man per- juro himself. * It reads almost like acrime,” L remarked aloud ; * but then it is a lawful and beneficial_crimo, Soldiers kill people’s bodi Iawyers kill people’s repatations, il for the goot of 8ociety in the long run.” While I was uttering the word *run,” my ankles wero grasped suddenly and firmly, then, before I conld recover from the shock, they were jerked backward nnder thé Beat with such’ forco that I was .. THROWN FOKWARD, SPRAWLING. 1 tried to rise, but my right wrist was seized, and tho arm twisted till I was belpless, and pres- ently I found myself on the floor of the carriage faco dormward, » sharp knee being scientufically pressed into tho small of my back, and botharms tixed behind me. My elbows woro tied togother, and then the knee was romoved, and my aukles were secared. During this latter operation I Xicked and sbruggled. “ Hom ! smd o doliberate voice, * that will be awkward. Let's see s ah, theso will do."” “Theso " wero my sticks and umbrelia, which eomo one praceeded to apply as splints to the back of my legs, using the strape which had kept them in a bundle to fix them at the ankle and above tho knee. When he had done, I was as helpless as a aressed turkey. Then I was turned over carefully and tenderly, ang for tho first time saw MY ASSATLANT. He was a gentlemanly-looking man, dressed in » black coas und waistooat, gray trowsers, end neck-cloth. His bair and whiskers were just turning grizzly, bis chin snd upger lip were clean sbaved. His forehead was high, his oyes prominent and fixed in their exprossion, his nose aquiline, bis mouth a elit. He was of middla height, tpare, but wiry; indeed, his muscles must bave beon excoptionally elastic and felino, for you would have never thought, to look at liim, that he could stow himeclf sway under tho reas of a railroad-caniage 80 compactly. He contemplated me, with his clim in his right hand, and his right elbow on hus loft hand, he said, thoughtfully: “Just so. Andfor the good of society in the long run,—an rable senti- ment, my dear ¢ir; et it be & consolation to you, if I shou!d cause you auy littlo annoyance.” He took o shagreen Bpectacle-caso from his pocket, wiped the glasees carcfally with a silk handkerchief, aud adjusted them on his nose. ‘Then he produced AN OBLONG BOX, which he unlocked, and placed on one of the seats. After which be ssé down quistly in the place I Lad occupied five minutes before,—s po- sition which brought him close over my head and Chest, a8 1 oy supine and helploss at his feet. *“Do you Lnow an' suatomy ?* Dhe ! askod. I was completoly in”his power a8 a wit- ness iv the crouu—examminfi counsel’s, and pra- derce dictated that I shonld be equally ready to answer the most frivolous and imperticent qaes- tions with politeness, 1 eaid that I did not. “Anl" be smd; ‘“well, periaps you may bave beard of the eplesn? Exactly. Now, eci- ence has never 88 yet been able to find out the use of that organ ; and the man who bequeathed thet knowledge to posterity would rank with the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, and confer an_inestimable benefit on humanity for the remainder of tha world's lease. I PROPOSE TO DISSECT YOU.” 2 #Yon will not get much glory for that,” said 1, forcing mysefl to soem to take this out- rageous practical joke in good part. *An un- gratcful generation may or may mot profit by Jour discovery, but it will infallibly hang you.” 4 Not g0,” Lo _blandly replied. *“*Iama sur- geon. who once had a very considerable practice, ut I hadto stand my trial for an experiment, which proved fatal to one of my patients. Tho jury, unable to understand the sacrifices which an oarcest inquirer is ready to offer at the shrine of science, declared me mad, snd I was placed in confinement. You eee thatd can act with im- punity." ) ‘And he opened the box. I broke out in a cold gweat. Wasitall real? Could the man bs in earnest? **But,” eaid I, * surely you can get dead bodies to dissect without having recourse tocrime? And, again, if generations of anato- ‘mists have failed in twenty thousand investiga- tions to discover the use of the spleen,—if you yourself bave always failed hitherto, why ehould Fon suppose that this one attempt ehould be ‘more successful than the others. i 4 Because, my dear gir,” eaid the mav, with tho smile of one who has caught o bright ides, il former investigations, including my own, bave been made on dead subjects, while I pro- Ppose to examine your vital orgaus with a power- ful magnifsiog glasa, while they are EXERCISING THEIR NORMAL FUNCTIONS. “What!” L gnspcdv #You will never have the barbarity—-,” snd here my voice choked. Ob, yes; I havo conquered that prejudico against inglicting suftering which is nataral to thio mind enfeebled by civilization. For many yesrs I gocretly practiced vivisection-upon ani- Toals, Ioucehads cat,—an animal very tena- cious of life, —under my scaipel for a weok. But e have no time to waste in conversation. You will not be put to any needless suffering, Theso instruments ere Dot my own, blanted for waut of use; I took the precaution of bormwing the cazo of the gontlemen under whose care Bave been placed before making my escape.” While speaking thus, he took out the hideous little glittering instruments and examined them ono by one, They were of various sppalling ehapee, and I gazed upan them with the borrible fascination of & bird under the power of a enake, 0f only one conld Ltell the nso,—s thi, trenchant blade, which cut you almost to look stit. Ho Enolt 'scross me, arranged his implements on the seat to his right ; laid & note-book, pencil, and Lis watch on thal to bis loft, snd took off his neck-cloth and collar, murmaring, ** Tho clothes are VERY MUCH IN MY WAT; 1 wish that you wero properly prepared for the operation.” p i It tlashed across me, in my despair, that I had beard of madmen being foiled by on apparent scquiescence in iheir murderous intentions. “ After all,” I forced myself to say, *‘ what is one life to the human race 7 Since mineis de- manded by sciozce, let me aid you. Remove theso bonds, and allow me to take off my coat and waistcoat.” e emiled and shook his head. . “ Life is sweet; I will not cruzh you,” he said, unfastening my waistcoat, and turning back the Tapels as far as ho could. Then, taking a pair of ecissors, he proceeded to cat my shirt-front away, so that presently my chest was bared to bhis experiments. Whether I closed my eyes or waa seized with vertigo, L do not know, bas for » moment or two I lcst sight of everything, and had visions; & sort of grotesque nightmare it was, the figures in which I recall bat very indis- tinchly, but I remember that the most prominent of them was & pig, or & park, hanging up out- side & butcher’s shop, the nv&unmw of which bore » mysterious ' resemblance to ~myself. Theso delirious fantasies were dispelled by a sharp pang; the anatomist had made 'A TIRST BLIGHT INCISION, T eaw his caim face leaning over ma; the cruel bisde with which he was about to make aother and a deeper cut ; his fingers, already crimson iwith blood ; and I struggled f_nnhcde‘lly. Ay Sperator immediately withdrew his armed band and stood erect. Then, watching his oppor- tunity, ho placed his n’&l;t foot on the lower part of my ‘breast-bone, o that by pressure hs could suffocate me. i ; “OI?alen, my {friend,” be said, “Iwill en- deavor not to injare_any vital organ, but, if you wriggle about, I shall not be sble to -vm% doing 80, Another thing : if you—" He was interrupted by three sharp whistles from the engine, £o shrill and piercing s to drown his voice. ) +¢Impede me by these sharp, convulsive mave- ments, [ ehall be compelled to sever those ‘musclés, whi » Ho never completed his sentence. & mighty ehock, & orssh a8 if all the world had rushed together. I was shoi underthe sest, where I1ay uninjured and in safety, amid tha most horrible din ; breaking, tearing, - shricking, cnes for help, and the roar of emncing steam. Ihad strained the bonds which secured my elbows in my struggle, and tho jerk of the col- lision anapped them ; 5o that when I began to §et my wits together, I found my hands free. o liberate my legs was then a vory oasy matter, bat.not to extriosio myself,—the next thing I set sbout. The whole top of the carriage from whera tho staffed cushion part ends, was carried sheer away ; and amid the debris which encam- bered my movemonts lay the MANGLED AND DECATITATED BODY of the madman, who intending to assail my life, had, by keeping me down at the bottom of the carriage, saved it. MopaL.—When alone in a railway-cacringe, it may ba worth while to tsko 8 look below the seats.—English magazine. “A NIGGER LOOSE.” To the Editor of The Chicago Tridune: 818 The ‘articlea of Mr. Eastman have called t0 mind an incident that occurred within my own obsarvation. Asit illustrates public sentiment in one section of our Stato only eightoen years 850, I bog to present it as o mark of the history of the times 1n which we have lived. It seems searcely crodibls that they should have changed 80 radically in 8o short a period,—moro, indecd, than many s century in the world's aonals can exhibit. But to my story : In 1856, during the Freemont campaizm, I mademy first * stumping " tour, through SOUTHERN AND CENTBAL ILLINOIS. That part of the Statowas hopelessly Demoeratio; but I preferred to labor where the hardest work was to bo done, and g0, without the fear of tar and feathers and ancieat eggs before my eyes, as warned by many, I even made o spoech in Cairo to & small crowd, and, in most cases, was heard patiently and respectfully. An ardent young Republican by the name of Stores mado the appointments and put up the bills, which were, in most cases, torn down loog beforo the moeting. Trees and bar-rooms were not per- mitted to be adorned with information in regard to Fromont ** Abolition " movementa. Onoof theys meetings was held ac ¢ MAKANDA,” ‘Thers was. *in Union County, 12 miles north of Jonesboro. There were not half-a-dozen houses there, but perhnps a hundred persons from the surround- ing hills gathered under the wood-shed &t the depot, in_the afternoon, to hear what * the Chi- ongo Abolitionist " had to soy for himself. The point in _that mmplifin was chiefly that Slavery should be let alone in the States where it existed. This question had been regarded as settled, and the repeal of ino M- soari Compromise, ‘agsin renowing the excite- ment, and prepariog the way for the extensico of Slavery into the ‘Lerritories, wasseverely con - demned. On this point I and others quoted Douglas' speech in enate 1n 1848, with tel- ling effect. Admitting that Slavery, under the compromises of the Constitution, had a right to exist whore it was, the people were willing to listen to the arguments agalust its extension; and my sudience st Makands seemed to think that I"was not so TERRIBLE AN ABOLITIONIST as the Democracy hiad represented. One man, who had a discriminating mind, and sharp, sohd sense, came up to talk with me aftor the meoting, and was iovited by Mr. McConnell, the station-agent, whoso ~ guest was, to take tea with me. Of course o bad & long talk on the general subject of politics. As he waa a type of the people thon by far the largest majority in Southern Ilinois,— rather above the average, it is true,— S WISTORY greatly interested mo. Ho lived on the farm on which his father—=a North Carolinian—settled, seven miles southeast of Makanda, when he (the son) was only 8 years old. Ha was then nearly 60, but looked at least ten to fifteen years yonnger than he really was. Thero bad pever been a_public road,—only tridle-paths in different directions from tha farm. Ho pald ko would, oven ac his sgo, travel six months to find another section of country gimilar to what his home was for nearly fifty years after Lo sottled upon it. His father buiit 8 log-house, and for two or three ycars they were quite busy clearing off spots whers they conld ruise kome garden-truck, corn, potatoes, tobaceo, and cotton. Their Horscs, mules, csttlo, mnd hogs neceded not the least cars tho year round. In the winter they betook themselves to thoe sheltored valleys, and took good care of themsolves. Game Of all kinds was most abundant. Geese, ducks, wild turkeys, aud emall game, in their season, could be killed in the greatest profusion; and, wheuever they wanted a deer or & bear, they knew right where to go and get it. Wolves, coons, and foxes gave them more active sport. These poople had noth- ing whatever to do bat to LIVE AND ENJOT THEMSPLYES. Their wanta wero fow, and with two or thres ex- ceptions, were_all supplied wichin thomselves. Of the latter, liviog some thirty milos or loss from both the Missiseippi aud the Ohio, when- over they wanted powder and lead they packed & mule with sxins, and, going to either river, road- ily procured a monti's or a hall-year's supply. A railway-car was the slowest and the only pub-~ lic couveyance for land-travel this man of nearly 60 had ever secn. Living below the east and west lines, betiween Shawneetown and Kas- koskin, St. Louis and Circinnati, he and his neighbors, till the Illinois Central Railway plowed a furrow Lhmnfb the ignorance and the seclusion of Southern lllinois, had been a5 com- plotely isolated as if they bad lived at themonth of the Yellowstone. Bince then, nothing is more cheering and wonderfal than the marked progreus of thie people ia that part of our noblo State. "Atier this preface, already much too long, lot us hasten to our subject, ** A NIGGER T.00SE.” Daring the evening, McConnell, 8 trne, ganer- ous-hearted Scotchman, and the only man who dared to own himself a Fremont man—and that in a very quiet way, however—in or sbout Maksndu, gave moa grentdealof information in ref to the state of public opinion in South- ern nois. Abolitiouists were everywhere dospised and carsed, and no man ostensibly 2n Abolitionist would bave been permitted to address the people. Handbills offering rewands for runaway Degroes wero often scen posted on trecs, and in stores, bar-rooms, and other public places. Trwo or three bundred dollars for catch- ing & “nigger” and banding him back to hia ‘master would be a nice thing, and farnish **the baser sort” who did it with bad whisky for mavny a week to come. This class was slways on the alert —n nigger loose" must bo nablied —and woe bo to the man who dared to help tho poor fugitive to escapo. Some three weeks beforo I was tho guest of McConnell, very early ono morning bis bog, who bad gono into the out-kitchen to kindle & firo, came running to bis room in the wildest ¢x- citcment, eaving, “THERE'S A NIGGER AT THE BACK WINDOW!" “1¥ell, what does he wont ?” asked McConnell. “Ho pays, ‘For de luv of the Good Lord, would Ilf“v him gomething to eat?’” ‘ Tell him T be there In & minute,” gaid McConnell; and the tears stood in his great, bonest eses a8 he gaw tha poor, quivering, crouching wretch ; and in those tears that poar eoul read his safely. McConnell fixed him up a package of cold victuals, found that he waa hid 1o the bushea on » rocky point overlooking tho valley near the houge; told him on no account to make a fire, for the smoke would betray him; and, in the course of the morning, he would come up and see him. The sam of THE FUGITIVE'S STOBY was this: With the North Star for his guide, no ran away from Alsbama two months previous. The means he had adopted to escape his pur- Euers—and he way pursued most persistantly— wonld eclipse most tales of romaoce. He hid in ewamge, wading at times for miles in the water, to throw the blood-hounds off the scent,—how he managed o live on berries and roots, and an occasional corn- pone from & brother-darkey, was a mystory,— and, in fie, by suffering and enmergy which a raco for liberty can slone prompt humanity to endare, he had made his way some 50 miles into & nominsliy-free State. Lut here be was gurrounded by ‘““nigger-catchors” . if ossible more vigilant than those from whom Bohad escapod. - Por weeks, Mr. McConnell had geen posters wherever he wont, sccurately Qescribing bis man ; and, when asked about it, the negro’ replied that he knew all abomt it; and gaid he: * Massa, I'se mout desd. -1t's no use! You'vebeen kind to me, I don’t want them fellows to catch me. YOD TAKE M2 a0d git @ money. ** No,® said McConnell, **I don't; get my lving in that wey.” The poor feliow had ecarcoly rags enough to_cover him. ‘Hia legs had been all scratched up by briers, .nd wero full of festering sores, His feet Wero all gashed up, with boil on one of them ; and, withal, he was emaciated with disrrhoes,—da pitiable object, indeed. This Good Sammsitan got-somo medicine for him: carried him food aod bottles of water; gave him some oOld clothes, and things to cover him at might ; sod put shoes on his {eet. In some fen days the darkey was a new man. McCongell gave him ap ax-handle ; told him to tie up a'bundle,— most. of it was food for his journey, —and from the ax-hsodle to swing it on_ his shoulder. He pointed up the track ; told bim, if questioned, o inquire for & job of cutting cordwood for the raway; and just at evenizg, bis blossing and a few g8, McConnell BADE LI GOOD-BYE FOREVER. Had these things been known by his neighbors, he would have been forced to leave snd noct stand o tho order of his going; but who mow can doubt that the Recording Xn"el bas marked this act ps the noblest of his 1ifo 3 Inced hardly add tbat the incident mado a deep impression on my mind, and intensified my efforts to do what I'could to keep the carse of Slavery out of our mew Torritories. In a week ar to I finished my appointmeats aud came home. 'The morning atter my arrival, I went to my office sbout 10 o'clock, and, whila talki with some friends, my clerk whispered to mo a ““niggor ” af the door was _anxious to see me. Was it spiritual correspondence, magnetism, clairvoyance, or what was1t >—but the coaviction flashea accross my mind in an instant. . TIIS IS X'CONNEZLL'S NIGGER, and be is atill “locse.” Excusing myself fora momont, I put him bekind the door in s little @ljoiniu; oom, 30d told bim to keep eill and wait till f could attend to him. In due timol questioned him csrefully, snd found my convic- tion verified. With tears streaming from his oyes, he told me all sbout McConnell's kindneaa 0 him, acd gave me an acoount of his journey through Ilinois. He walked, in tho night, near- Iy the entire digtance, to Bloomington; nding, iying prone, on the top of a freight-car, most Of the way, thence to Chicago. At Bloomington some one gave bim my pams on & bit of paper; with the sireet and number of my office. Not knowing how mach tromble the ground- lings might even then ba _ disposed to make over a fugitive slave, I told him to keop still, locked the door, and went around to 1SABELL'S BARBEL-SHOP,— acolered mau in whose hands I was sure he would be perfectly safe. He went with me, and chargo of tho darkey: and, as he left, I slippod a coin into Lis hand; and, with an ex- pression, and = *thank you, Massa,” I shall noverforget, bo loft to retarn no more. Ifitbe - money to help & poor fagitive thus much on his way to liberty, then am { guilcy. W. B, WiLL THE SHADOWS BE LIFTED 7 WIll the ehadows be lifted to-morrow? Does the sun ever shinein vain? And the clonds that are loud Ln their sorraw, ‘Wil they ever ceate weeping ogain 2 Will the fields e'er put on thelr grecruess, And the flowers bloom sweet 23 before 7 Will the sky, in it bluest serencaesy, Look on us onco more? Will the shadows bs lifted to-morrow From my beart, in ita grief-storm renk T Will Hope, the kind sootlicr of Witk her bow of promise be sent? Will the waves of my lifo's tronbled fonntatng ‘Ever coase In their ebb and flow Will the shadows that darken my psthway B scattered Like phantums of woe? sarrow, Al yes, will the shadows be lifted From hill-top, and valley, and plain; And life-givivg sunshine and gladness Repleuish tho drear Earth agaia. And then will the weaping of Nature Bo hushed by a joy-giving ray, And the basuty of sumict as ever ‘Be loveliest hour of the day. AD? yes, will the shadow be lifted From my pathway, 60 drcary and lone, And the dark, dun clouda will be ntted, ‘And the winds cease thelr pitiless moan, Though I walk amidat darknees and shadows, Ome promise unfoiling is mive 1 know in a futuce to-morrosw “About me one love will entwize. Jaow Maxn, o HUMOR. Questions for florista—Is not & rich mandaria a China Astor? —A Colquitt (Georgis) ministar bawng be- comen father tho thirty-second time a local %ager suggests that the boy be named “Call uit,” —An exchange announces a death in high lifa in this fashion: *'The Dowager Duchess of Richmond is dead. Sheled an uneventiful life, and was passionately fond of boiled salmon. —Anuncle left eleven silver spoons ta his nephe in his will, adding, ** Ho knows the rea- son I have nou left him the whole dozen.” Tho nephew had stolen oue. —Lyuch law is probably based on the spirit of an old saying. When desperadoes abound, bon- est people surrender to their leaders au * yach, * and then they take an “ L™ nnd make & cods called * Lynch Law.” —The editor of the Leavenworth Daily Argus remarks in the obitmary of bis_psper * Wo went into the business determined to run it or bust. We have busted.” —* And 80 e go,” eaid & member of a Boston Sctoal Committes; “ our great men sse fast do- parting,—firat Grecloy. then Chase and now Sumper,—aud I don't feel very well wyself.” —A land agent in Colorado remarked to an in- quinng emrfunt, that all that was uceded to make the place s parsdise was a comfortablo climate, water, and good society. *‘'Thas is ail that 18 Jacking in h—1l," waa e reply. —A colored Minsiesippi logislator lately pro- posed a bill to make each member of tha Legis- ture, prescat and future, s bona-fide attornoy and counsellor-at-law. His reasoning was di- rect : * For,” said ke, ‘if we know enough to make de laws, why don’t we practice um " Buie enough, why not? —Hi! whore did yez got them tronsers 2" askod an Irisbman of 3 man who appeaicd 50 20 passing with & pair of remarkably short troasers au, I got them where they grow,” was the in- dignaat reply. *Then by my couscieuce,” eaid Paddy, ““yon've pulled them a year too sopn."” —Joaquin Miller fonud Geneva full of his countrymen, and asked 1o bo taken to some place where there were no Americaus. The boatinan looked at him for o moment, then hopelca:ly ap and down the lake and away across toward Monnt Blanc, and at last shook his besd; bus suddenly a new ides soemod to strike Lim, and he lifted his oyea toward Heaven. —Mr _Coblcigh loft off his flannels on.Thars- day, axd on Friduy morning be quietly said to his_v;:fla, +id Coblaid, ged by uddergloads dsb gwick!™ —Horse-dealer to wavering customer : ** 1ell, of coutse, we all_know he's_ got 'is bad _points, and 'is gooa points, bat what I say is, thete is uo deception about 'ia bad points—we can see "om. But woean't none of us tell 'ow many good ints ha may 'asotil wecomo to knosw 'em.” T'ne party took time to consider. —A lady of Washington County, New York, is a mother 01 & largo family of chiidren, and thoy aro all rather diminative. A few days after tha birth of the youngest o littlo nieco of the lady callod to see the baby. After looking at the tiny specimen for few minutes, the litlo_grl said = *Aunt Maris, don’t you think it would be better to have lcss of "em, And have 'em bigger 2” —Quiz Lelieves in cremation, for the benofit of the soap trude, He knows lots of peopls whose ashes would rake good lye. i —If sremation is undertsken to any consider- able extent, it’s rather curious to reflect that its principal uppanents will bo the undertakers. —Heo was & quaint old fishermas. One day, along toward dusk, bhe was fishingin & trout stream. and, 88 he threw his fly out over the water, it was suddenly ensoped by o huge bat, The strange looking thing Jangled and fapged its wings at tho end of the lro. The fisher- man's companion called out: “Say, Sam, got anything?® * Yes-ns,” lookinz a the bat on Lis hook. “What is it?" ‘'Gosh! I dunno, unless it's a cherubim !" —1In reviewing Dt FitzEdward Hall's work on Abraham,” Mr. Richard Graut White says: * His trestmont of every one who has under- taken to Lelp others in the study of our common mother-tonguo reminds us of the conduct of tke ehipmaster who came on Jeck to find that, in hiz absence, his mato had undertaken to read the burial service over the body of a departed fore- topman, and hsd actually begun the solemn task—'I am,’ etc. ‘¥on the resurrection snd the life!” broke in the affronted skipper. *Give {ff the book—J/ am ths resurrection and the 0. ¥ —A Massachusetis farmer eays: ** Afy cattlo will follow me until I leave the lot, and on the way up to the barn-yard in the evening stop snd call for s lock of hay." Smithson says there is nothing at a1l remarkable about that. He went into & barn-yard in the country ong day lsat wealk, where ha had not the slightest scquaintance with the cattle, and an old ball pot only followed him until he left the lot, but took the gate off the hinges snd raced with, him to the house In the most familiar way possible. Sutheon says he has no doubt that the old fel- Jow would havo called for something if he had waited a little while, but he dida't want to keep the folks waiting for dinner, &0 he hung ove tail of his coat and & plece of his pantaon the bull's borus and went into the house. ettt e s o i b e e LTS i & ¥