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10 The Lnte Chicf-Justice Chase, \AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRIVATE LIFE AND PUD- LI0 BERVIOES OF SALMON PORTLAND CHASE. By Rosrwr B, WARDEN, Bvo,, pp. 83, Oincin< natl: Wilstach, Bakiwin & Co, 1t is not necessary to ancribo potty motives to tho surviving rolativos of Mr. Olinso ag the in- spiration of tholr carnost and active oppoaition to tho choteo of Mr, Wnrden as tho blographor of tho distinguished statesman. An impartinl * oxamination of tho work which llos beforo us quickly rovesls tho fact of his doplorable in- capneity to undertake the groat reaponaibility, 1t i not to bo wondered at, {n viow of tho rosult, that Mrs. Bpraguo, and others who liold tho mom- ory of hor father doar, should ‘bave suffered the deopost rogrot and disatisfactlon at tha un- fortunate chance which left tho valued and voluminous papersof Bfr. Charo 1n such Incom- potent hands, It must have seomed to thom too * muck like o wasto and a profanation to bo in any wise tolarablo. 2 Thore ean bo no acensation urged against Alr, Warden's consoientiousnoss, Indeed, ho has mado so desperate an effort to realize his own fdenl of & blographer'a duty, that his attitudo s actually pathetic, Amazed and displesed astho yondor s with tho contiuued exhibition of his §mbeellity, & feoeling of piby keeps in check tho strong tondoncy to contompt. Tho blographer struggles with shoh couvul- sivo efforts to nccomplish & task for which Lie i totally nnfiitod, that tho spoctacle of his humilintion and dofent fs painful in the ox- treme. A biographer never bad richor matorials with which to build u{l o work that should be n monument of praise to himsclf and to tho sub- Joct 1t commomdrates. Tho dinries and corre- Bpondenco which Mr, Chinse left are so full and rompleto that s connected and really satisfactory history of his entiro carcor could: have beon mada “out by almsly linking theso togothior ac-- rording to their date, without & word of com- ent. mInlh!ld of this, although baving no fitem of dditional matter gathored from other sources 0 contributo, nor & sound and weighty opinion or nxphnn(fan #ovolydd from his own con- mciournoss” to offer, Mr. Wardon has ent both journals and lettors into tatiers; that e might pin them togethor again with the most rivial, irrolevant, and impertinent romarks, It fsan oxtraordinary and lamentabls desecration of the literary romaing of a groat man. No fn- delicacy or improprioty has been committed in iving publicity to the lvrluufii of Mr. Uhnso. E’ot a sentiment has Leon roprodieed that, gon~ oroualy interpreted, does not do credit to tha in- tegrity of his character and tho hanesty of his yurpose. It{s not with this that fault ean be found. It is simply tho miserableinability of tho Dlographer to proparly and worthily manage the nass of matter ho has under his control that ox- cites indignation, ‘Thoro is nothing 1n the world mors irritating than @ blockhead usurping tho place of & wise man, Curiously enough, thore is a peculinrity n the stylo of Alr. Warden that ntrlking}ly recalls “Sartor Resartus,” We noed not ndd that the rosombinnco does not oxtond beyond certnin mannerisms_ of language. Ar. Wardou Lns studied good authors, aud has had praiseworthy aspirations. Tho fatal lack ha¥'been in nntive fooulty. Brushing aside all ho has addod to his biography, a8 one would brush away the cob- webs that deface and obscuro any valuable ob- ot, thero remains an interesting and extensivo locticn of papora from Mr. Chasa's pen, whioh hvey to tho rendor a comprelionsive and ex- od 1dea of his character. If we may put any faith in buman nature, wo must believe that the revelations made by these journals and lettors aro truo reflectiona’of the aan who wrote them. Trusting their candor nnd sincority, they concluaivaly attest that puri- ty and probity ‘wero the mainspringa of Alr. Chase's tgonght and action throughout his pri- vate and public carcer. Though certain of his floeds, while he was ths incumbent of a high pfico under Government, exposed him- for n eriod to distrust and censuro, one "caunot rond he record of his lifo as it is writton hero, with- out foeling thot his errors, his sins, howevor they may look in the oyes of men, were but tho ‘auits, the weaknossos, incident to bumanity ; ;nd that, in considoration of the many and ster- ggvirbuus which ennobled and endeared the 1 n, they should cessa to woigh or be remem- red against him, Victor Hngo’s ¢ Rhine,” ‘CHE RIINE: A TOUR FROM PARIS T0 MAYENCE BY it WAY OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, WITHL AN ACCOUNT oF Its LEQENDS, ANTIQUITIES, AND LMIONTANT IasTonical Evests. By Vicron livoo., Trunslated by D. M, Amp, 12mo,, pp. 276, Chicago: Junsen, McClurg & Co. AL Hugo tells us, in the beginning of his tour, that, on loug cxoursions, he Las & peculiar liking for short stages, » disiike of Iuggago, and a fondness for riding alono in his carriage with the two friendsof his boyhood—Virgil and Taci- tus.” He alvo adds that, in traveling, he does mot seck incidonts, but fresh scenes, ' which exoito and creato ideas,” With these fow, fer- tilo hints, wo may picture tho solitary tourist passing at his lelsure from ono picturesque and storied place to snother, 13 thoy como in his way ; holding discourse with his favorite authors when the scencry along the routo offers no amusemont for the eye; stopping ot his will, as city, homlot, castle, or cathiodral excito his curiosity and invite his inspection; and roaming on foot and alone, with many pausey and much meditation, over every spot that s hallowed by Nature or by historio aesociation, Bo he travols adown the Rbine, slowly, philo- sophicnily, triing notes of all that is secn orsug- geatod, for the boneflt of the reader, who will mentally accompany him, He fails to date his journey, but thero are ovi- donces that it was not recently taken, Thoreis o mention of tho Inte deadly struggle botwoen TFrance and Germany. It is proof that the mo- mentous affair was yet hidden in the womb of the future, 28 he peacofully sauutored through Al- sace, across tho frontier, into Licge on the Meune, There is not much that is particularly noteworthy iu the courso of his travels, He stops at Aix-la-Chapolle long enough to_explore the old church whora the bones of Charlomagno ‘were onco terred, but aro now exhibited in glass cuses, and look upon all the relics of the grent Xmperor. 5 Charlomagne wag colossal i body as well as in mind. 'Cho sizo of bis skull and. arm indi- catos that the son of Pepin-le-Baoul was 1[:hynxl- callya giant. The murblo chair on whiok the monarch sut in his tomb from 852 to 1156, with 2 crown on his head, a globe in one land, a scoptre in the other, o sword by his side, the Imporial mautle ovor his shoulders, the cross of Christ around bis neck, and his -feot in the sarcopliagus of Augustus, is now preserved in a allory of the church, 'To socuro this chair for i coronation, Fraderich Barbarosss profaned the tomb of Charlomagne. 'I'he ukeloton of the Xmperor was given to the church, which sep- arated tho bones, making of each’ n holy rolic, while the chair was converted into a “throne, where thirty-six Emporors were juvested with their crowna, In 1804, whon Napoleon visited Aix-ln-Cha- yollo, Lio took off his hut and stood in sileuce Lo~ foro tho sugust vieion which thiy amfny chair conjured boforo him; but Josephine tlippantly mounted tho steps londing up to it and sat down ou the throno where the desd Emperor had ro- clined in state for 852 years, 'L'ou years after, ‘whon theallied sovoreigns visited the lomb of the reat Charlemugue, Alexander of Rumsis, like apoloon, took off his bat aud surtout, but X'rodorick William of Prussin and Franels of Austria remained covered, ‘I'he King of Prus- gin stood upon tho marblo steps uud listoued to tho rovot of tho chupol while he told of the zoronution of the Emperors of Germany, At Cologne, M. Hugo visited the houso where Dlary de edicis breathed her Just, Tho scaie xeculid to um **tho glorious reigu of Louis the Jrourteouth,” aud excitos the following signiti- cant romarxa: As for me, aa yon alresdy know, I love that which 18 abyolute, Which 1 perfect ; and, thercfore, have *nl- woys bad & profound Yewpoct' for il grave snd _worthy Eriucy, so woll born, B0 much fovod, and mo weil surrounded; s King tn his crald, King o the tombs trus Hovereign fn svery accoptation of the word'; central monsrch of zivilization pivot of Burope: weeing, o 1o speak, rom 4o 'ta tlnie, olght Topes, fivo Bultans, {hrco {imlmmm, two Kings of Bpuin, three Kiugs of Tortu- gl four ‘Kings sud one Queon of England, Ahres figs of Dentnark, one Gnocn aud two Kinge of Bweden, four Kiugs of Puland, sud four Czurs of Mut- sovy, appear, shina forth, and disppear atound bis Hiroho; polat star of tho ontire uge, who, dnring Juventy-two years, saw all tho cousillation ninjewe Heally performs thcic ovolutions ound bim, E Another Reply to Dr. Olario, WOMAN’ EDUOATION AND WOMANY HEALTH ; Curny 1N REPLY 70 YBEX I8 LDUOATION,? 1ty Qrunay ¥, Comront, A, 3., Dean of the Colloge of Fine Arts of Syracure, N, ¥., and Mys, ANNa MaN- Ning Cosvonr, M, D. 130, pp. 165, Byrscuse Thomus W, Durston & Co, There ia n possibility thut wenriness will oveutually ensue upon the unintermiited agi- tation of ihe subject of ¢ woman's educa~ tlon aud woman's Loalth "y bat e yet the in- | vast expouso of toll sud time, Lo givos to othory ) lection was earriod through out holp,—wo might almoat add, without encour- tlus recor . reason to bolieve thnr, had'ho enjoyed tho favor and trust of the Confederate Government, ho would Linve bacn nble to sorve it with au increaso of honor to himselr and with usofulnoss to the cause iv upheld, THE EXPANSE OF 11! reapond at lonst to thio draft mado npon it by an effactive little baok like ths ono under notico. The wrlters, who have folt u call to ‘strlko still anothor blow In dofonso of the highor education of woman, and in doesiruction of Dr. Clarke'a argumonts in favor of ¢ Sox in Education," bavo provod that thore woro still direct and tolling hits to bo administored in order to complote tub overthrow of tholr ndversary and to mottls thelr own position, Tho two pprtios in this joint pro- duotion aro nbla controverainlists, nnd skilltally support onch otlior fn thelr woll-plannocd and successful ossny, {he argumouts 'and hypothesss which Dr. Clarko advancod in his work are subjectoed to o thorough and soarching rovisfon, Thoreis por- fect fairnossin tho treatmont. 'They are quoted vorbntim in order that they mny be corraotly ap- preliended, and aro answored point by point and nasortion by assertion, Tho old g >hoflnm| *“Whon doctora disagreo, who shall decido ?' comes in hero with emphasis ; _ but, it owo who does not wear M. D, al the end of his namo be a compotent judge, tho Tady gots tho decidod advantago of hor opponont whon discussing the physiological boarings of the quostion, Bhe doos mot content herself with Dbaro declarations or undemonstrated supvosi- tions, but fortifles hor atatomonts with testimouy {rom plysiclans and sclontisls that looks very niuch liko proof of thoir authentioity. Of tho three boolts which have now been pube lished in roply to Dr. Olarke, this, by reason of its compact form, its oloso and cohorent roBpONED to his argimout, and 1ts complete revolution of Lis theorios, is the ono we would ehooss to liave rond in conncotion with “Bex in Eduenstion.” Wa would trust it to dissipate from the mind of {hergadoroveryehsdoyw of rlarm that undue brain« labor is tho cause of tho ill-hoslth of Amorican women, Wo would trust it to show, on tho con- trary, that tho invalidism of Amorican men na woll a8 women is ocensionod by a harsh and varie able climato, by social ‘dissipations, and by un- wholesomo habits of onting, drossing, sleoping, —all that {s comprehonded in the term living. Although the main deductions drawn from Dr. QOlarko’s boole nre mislending, it {s mattor of sincero congratulation that the book was writton, It has awakenod profound inquiry, both in Amorlcs and England, upon topics of ' vital con- soquence, - Tho result will lnuvlmbq load, In multitudos of iudividual cases, if not in popular oustom, to improved mothods of cducation, and, what is still more important, to moroe wiue an Lliealthful modes of living. i H, American Periodicnl Literature, THE PERIODICAL LITERATURE OF THE UNITED E;I'A g‘ 01;‘ A\gn‘:l“QA. .“'lul l]n:xhux and Appen- el B, STEIGER. #vo,, olof It A o Now Yorks . Steiger. v 10kt e oyt It will be romembored that & notable featurs of the Intornational Exposition at Vienna was & colleotion of the poriodical litorature of Amer- icn, contributed by Mr. I, Bteigor. 1t consisted of 6,000 specimon copies, done up iu 119 unitorm volumes, Surprising as was tho extent of this collection, it yot did not fully ropresent the pe- riadical press of the Unitod States, Despite Mr. Btolgor's strenuous exortions, ho wns unable to sceiro coples of 2,600 poriodicals known to bo issued by American publishers, It ia a matter of rogrot that the preas of our country conld not Lave adequately realized the value of a complate roprosentation in this uniquo and intoresting display. Notwithetanding the omission, the col- loction was oxceedingly rich and interosting. The enterpsise of bri ngin% ‘{‘ng:ri this p'ol}- y Mr, Btoigor with- agemont. His roward camo to him in the form of tho gratitude of his countrymen, of a Modal of Merit from the jury at Vienna, nnd the Order of tho Orown from the Emporor William. The intorest tha colleotion excited among both for- eignors and Amoricans, and the credit it refloct- ed upon the Americannation, wore sufiicient of themsclyes to ropny a man of the patriotism of Mr. Btoiger for the cnormous troubla and ex- ponto it had ocoasioned him, But tho utility of tho colleotion was not to coneo with the closo of the Exposition. Unwill- ing that the resnlts of tho ventura should bo so circumacribed; Mr, Btoirer has propared a cata- loguo of tha entire collection for goneral distri- bution, In this the various Tariodlcnls Are enumorated and doscribed a8 fully s possible. ‘Ihoir titles, subjoct-mattor, placa of publica- tion, languagoe, ate,, cto., aro noted according to a gimplo and mothodical system, An index of subject-mattors of the periodical litornture of the United Btates, a list of periodicals printed wholly or in pat' in languages other than Ln- glish, nod o partial catnlogue of original Ameri- ean_books, Eh-n furthor comploteness to tho work. Itis useful rdjunct to the library, counting-room, and newspapor-offica, nrdly necossary to commend it as a Judns Escariot. A ROMAN' LAWYER IN JERUSALEM, FINST OENTURY., By W. VW, Story. Reprinted from Dlackwood,” Paper, Boston : Loring. Thia little poom by the sculptor-post attracts attention from the ingenuity of its srgument aud from tho beauty of its dlction, . Marcus, o Roman lafyer sbiding in Jerusalem, writes Lome toa friend tho gossip of the city., It is Just after the Cruclfixion, and sll conversation is busy with the facts of the life and the death of Josus, Tho mind of Marcus is stirred with the rest, and frresistibly moved by the mystory and significanco of the eircumatances. His friond Lycing rolatas to him tho casc of Judas, wnd, with subtle and plausiblo ressonings, malkes ont that he was tho most faithfuland loy- ing of tho Disciples; that he 8o belioved in Clirigt as the Son of God that he went through the not of dolivering tho ‘nccused to the Jews in order that the glory of tho Godhoad might be manifest to all the ‘world in the victory which Christ should win through the dofentof His bloodthirsty cnomics. Tho shock of the sure privo, tho disappointment, and the agony, on geoing Josus pationtly submit to capturo, broke the henrt of Judes, and, throwing down the ery pieces of silvor which in no event would nve paid him for botraying his Mastor, Lie wont out and hanged bimself, Almoxt tho cunning story tempts us to pity Judas and reverze the judgment of Christendom, ‘I'his is our tribute to tho skill of tho poet. But it cannot go quite so far s to restors Judas to the catato of tho angels, T'here romains one traitor in history which tho art and sophistry of i’"“m and futuro writers can never froo from his crime and roclotho in robes of imnocence. The namo of Judas must continue till tho end of time o synonym of tho vilost treuchery and dofaction, . Gon, Jo Johmston’s NMilitary Nare rutives N;fl]\RATSIE OF MILITARY OPERATIONS DI. ECTE DURING HE LATE WAR BETWEEN I BTATES, Dy Joweri K. Jounston, Generul G, . A "vo, pp. 602, Now York: D, Apploion & 0. ‘Tho above forms an important contribution to thoe history of the late Civil War, and will bo read with great intorest by the partisans of both North and South. It was propared by tho author 88 o dofense of bis militury carcer in tha South- em Oonfodoracy. Mo was subject, during the entire poriod of his sorvico undor Mr, Jeff, Davis, to sunoying and disabling criticiem from Lis civil suporiors, and fluslly to & privation of bis command, IntheUnited States Army, priorto the Rebellion, the genius and courage ho had dis- Eiu.yod in the tent und on the fleld had wou for im a high place iu thoe country’s estosm, From ap of his bravery and sakill, thoreis His nurrativo is dignified and condld, and hoars on tho fuco of it conviction of ftu fidelity. Weo must regrob tho defeotion of so worthy an oflicer from logulty to bis country, yot wo cannob withbold from’him the justico of bolieving that ho followed the cnuso that soemed most consounut with the dictates of his consclence. T'ho time has fully como whou wo can road thoe history of the War of 1861-'0 without oxcitomont or projudice, Horrow over ita oceurrence must bo denthless s but, as wo hopofor & rightcous judgment upon our motives, and for a morcitul oxtonuation-of our errors i tho mauagement of the terrible strifo, wo must scrupulously award the same to thoso who opposcd us with s confle donce of right s firm a8 our own, ways by Lroctor, VEN: A Bunies or Essave oN TR WONDENS OF THE FOOUANENT, By . A, Tuovton, B, A,, Author of ¢ Othor Worldd Thau Ours,” #'Tuo Muon uto, 12mo, pp. 05, New York't D, Apploton & Go, I'wonty-nina popular oseays on tho sidorial Astroneinical universe mako up the provont volumo, Thoy linvo tho merit of brevity, and the chinrm of thoe lueid, simplo, finent style for which the writor is noted. Mr. Prootor hag the Lappy art of invest- ing lifa thowe with that fascination for tho vopm- mon mind which it proseuts to his own. The knowledge of astronomy which ho acquired witha for tho smusomont of tholr idle hours, Mo doarven to bo called the historlan of tho hewv- on8, tho narrative of thoir wondor and their eplondor {8 60 oloquontly snd o attractivoly writton by him, Tho history of the oarth and the biograply of tho race have not beon dotailed with groator alikrm and Improssivenoss, -Thore in no exonsa for ignorancs of dircovories whioh Blones lias rovoalod n_the world abont us, now thint thoy aro rolated In language adapted to tho simplost undorstanding, and in a mannor snitod 6 eaptivate ovory lmngi'nm.lon. 3 Mr. Prootor is one of tho dovout satronomers who sao in tho works of croation the hand of tho Almighty, and who hnmbly bow down in rovers onco and worship before His infinite majosty. Ethnlent Scriptures, THE BACRED ANTHOLOGY : A Baok or EIMNIOAL Honterunes, Collgotod and Tdited by Monoune: ANIEL CoNwAY, Author of “‘Tho Earthward il image," 8 vo,, pp, 480, Now Yorks Lenry Holt . ' Tho eollectlon of cholco pnssages from the encrod writings of anclent racos, whick, as the fruit of studious rosenrch, Mr, Conwny has s- somblod togethor in thosa pages, is to bo prized for varlous roasons. It places within the roach of tho European rendor sclect portions of doecply-iutoresting, but widely-separnted and almost-inaccensible © volumos. Consid- ored in themsolvos, . without roforouce to tholr sourcos, the solactions aro roplots with bosuty and wisdom; but, rogarded In connotion with thoir origin, they show In a: vivid light the aympatby of roligions, which, oxistiug at diffor- ant agos and among difforont pooplos, bar- monlously tostify to univorsal and abi ding prin- ciples. their own witnoss, they prove that much of tho pure_and lofty dootrino which has been ascribod by Jows and Christians to the in- erl;mun of thoir Bible, in reality had boan pro- cinimod, centuries hut'nru, ‘by men who claimed no ?Mnlty, boyond that ol’ truth, for thoir oracles, It i difMoult for ono who has boon trained from ohildhood to regard the Hobrow and Chriatian Seriptures as fim diroct Word of God to bring upon them, in & cool and impartial manuor, the canons of eriticism. Thoro must romsin a distrust of tho {udgmnnt, & foar of projudice,—which, ospocially in matters of roligious faitl, ara sublile and undyimg,—how- ovor cautious may be onc's decisions. But, sotting aside, 03 for as possiblo, ll bins of orthodox or heterodox boliof, and comparing, from = puroly litorary. lnolm of viow, the passages from tho Obristisn "Lible as thoy aro hore col- latod with pnesages from othor ancient Soriptures, thoro I8 n atatolinoss, a sublimity, an improssivences, a divinity,—if you ywill,—in tho former, which e do not find in 'tho lattor, Thus, whilo this compilatioh will sorvo & valu- able purpose In agunulng a knowlodge of tha roflned and oxalted doctrine taught by othor ro~ ligions, thereby brondoning clhrity and extond- ing liberality, it will also tond to doopon the con- viction that'in no other sncrod books is such pure truth conveyed in such simple, majestio, and lmeain language, a8 is to be found within the Old and New Tostamonts. ' The Aldine. Cortalnly the Aldine is‘a supurb publication. The Iatost number contains threo full-pagq and savoral minor illustrations. All aro beautiful in donign and artistic in exocntion., As a meana of esthotic qualification and culturo, they rre worth tho price of tha journal. Of the litoratura that accompauien thom, nothing noed bo said. As it Iy apuro gratuity, tho ploasuro it affords is so much clear gain to tho subscribers of the Aldine. KEooks (Xeceived. LEISURE-TIOUR BERIES, Ivax ‘Tunornmerr's BrmNa Froops, Translate! from tho Russlan by Mrs, Sormy. MicneLt Durrs, A LEAP FROM THE STEPPE, Tronslated from the Fronch by Witiuax HaNp Dnowss, 10mo,, pp. 219, Now York: Henry Holt & Co, PAPA'S OWN GIRL; A NovrL. By Mamm How- LAXD.. 12mo, pp. S47. New ¥ork: John R, Jewott, JUSTIN' WARLET; A ROMANOE oF OLp Vimamiia, By Jonn EstER CoOKE, Author of 'he Virginin Comedlians,” * Survey of Eagle's Nesl te. 12mo,, PP 201, ¥ To-Day "Printiug and Publishing Come pany, Chiengo, OUT OF THE FURLY-BURLY; on, Lire Iv Ax Opp Connen, By Bax ApErenm. With Nearly 400 Iliustrations by AnTiun I, Frost, Fuzp B, HOHELL, WILLIA L, SKEPPARD, ndl Eb, B, BENARLL, 12100, Db, 398, To-Pay” Publisiing Company, Phila delphin, New York, Doston, and Chlcago, Y ATALANTA. _. When Spring grows old, and sleapy winde Sot fromn the Soutb with odors siest, X sce my lovo, In greon, cool groves, « Bpoed dows dusk aisios on shining foet, 86 throws n kiss, and bids mo run In whispers sweot ns roses’ broath ; T kiiow I cannot win tho raco, ‘And_at tho end, I know, is death, But joyfully T bare my limba, Aupint ms with s trople breere, And feol through every sinew run =~ Tho vigor of Hippomenes, ° x’:\lfs !lz‘( love! we nl;ll}'mvl ll;lm 2 Bpdh 'Ly hitppy courso through groves of ng, " Al Saral wnty hoD ok et e il ¥orifo or doath, or anything | X —_—— ‘ThoDuich Tnking Kolland, From the New York Evening Posl, The Iatest foreign mails bring us full particu- Inrs of the interesting colebration in Holland of the twenty-fifth _anniversary of tho accession of Kiug Willinm. That staid nation seoms to bave boou in quite a forver of unwonted excitemont. The slow, sloepy oitics which lio roflectad their own canals were the scemes of municipal festivity and popular hilarity. The good feel- ingof the Eoepln for their King could only be expressod by procossions, illuminations, beil- ringing, fire-works, speeches, and dinnors, The foaturcs of our Fourth of July celebration soemed to havo beon suddenly imported bi‘mu worthy burghors of Amstordam, Rottordam, Lu‘ldon, Haarlom and tho Hague, corraspoudant of the Independance Belge ag- sures his renders that tho world has always mis- taken the natural character of the Dutch. * You have ofton lieard it said,” ho writes, * that the “poople of Holland aro cold, calm, grave, and reticent, and you have belioved it. DBut it is all a dolusion, Ior the last Lwenty-four hours I liave lived amid a foverish_populace, witd with, onthusinsm, turbulont and domonstrativo, A whirlwind—a fiory furnace—such to-day is Am- stordam.” « Tho devotion towards tho Royal family is manifested, among other ways, by s coptous uruEfinn of portraita in lithography, ‘phntog- raphy, or printed on textilo fabrica. A gen- tloman passing you pulls out his handkereliof ; to bo sure ho has g oold in his bend, but beis above all patriotio, and on that orange-colored landkorciiof you discover printed medaliions containing portraits of the King and Quoen.” ‘I'hon honsos have been decornted with yellow drapery, aud it is the fashion to wenr orange cravats, orange hats, and orange umbrellas, Lvorybody, from the rich Iady in her carringe to {he poor boggar by tho wayside, wours an orauge ribbon.on the bresst, . The King's recoption at Amsterdam was, as Muster Pepys would say, “a mighty protty sight.” Tho narrow streetg of tho Venice of tha North (though, by the way, it was to Rotterdam that Tom Hood" alluded whon ho coined the folicitous phrase, “a sort of valgar Venice™) were orowdod with o joyous assemblage. On tho masts of the hoats” lying in the canals were clustered curious groupa of loyal Lumanity.’ Whon Willinm 111, appoared tho cries of ** Loug live tho King " actually made the pilo-supported houses quiver with rosponsive enthusiasm—at lonyt g0 soys the Bolginn chronicler of L'Inde- pendance. Ladies loaned from tho windowe, waving their handkorohiofs, and the hoartiness of the welcomo was beyoud all doubt, The King was much moved, as well he might Do, 'I'he Queen, who sat by his side, wo are told, bonmed with loppiness, o boe sure, it rained all tho timo while those (festivitios wore f‘l]xmghn"' but nobody socmed to care for a trifle ike that. 7 At Amsterdam the King had to look at a long trade procossion, the most striking (eatura of which was the reproduction of antique costumes, including every kind of dress ever usad in Hol- land, Among the individuals ropresoented wero Willism the Silout, Maurico of Orango, and John of Barnoveldt. All the trade corporations dis- pleyed the tmplomonts used in their respective avocations, and tho entire parade was ay Buc- ocssful 28 oould bo dosired. —— A Cool Fishorman, “I mot, tho other day,” writes a forelgn sportsman, * with an Englishman who travals some hundreds of miles overy year to indulgo in his favorite sport of trout-fishing. I beliovo that, provided his favorite stroam was undis- turbed, this enthusiastio fishermsn would be but little aoncerncd if tho whole world was anb- merged in a secoud deluge, nu may be judged by the following ancodoto: Ono day lio wus ox- ploring the banks of his favorite stream, nocom- punied by tho landlord of tho lun at which ho Wed stopping, The latter happening to come tuo closo fust at the moment whon his guest was throwing” hin fly, tho Look ewught tho poor wrotol's eyelld, cauwing him iutonse pain,. 'The aportsman_coolly took out tho hook, rendjusted tho fly, aud, s the jun-kesper coutinuned howl- {ug at the top of kfa voico, * You oun,’ said hs, in s whispor; ‘put your eye dowa In your bill but Il troublo you (o wtop that nolyo, o &g ot to frighten my fuh.' " FAMILIAR TALK. AUICIDE IN PARIA, By sulolde ia the popular moio of bidding adien to Parls. On tho avarage, throe persons o day, 4he yoar round, voluntarity ont off their vesidonca In that onchanting paradise by violsnt mesauras, Ago, oulture, condition, notbing, limitn the Darisian mania for taling leave of 1ifo in & man- ner that will insure an aftor-sonsation, In 1784 o writor romarked that “* ANl Franco had folt a sort of stnpor, mingled with consternation and shame, on learning thnt, in tho short space of eightoon months, fonr porsons Lad com- mitted felo da se, nnd one of thom au anclent Minlster,” Mais nous avous change tout 'ccla. An anclont Ministor lias just committod suicide,— for It is now acknowlodged that M. Boule killed himsolf,—and about four suicides have occurred daily through tho past wintor.,. Public sentimont is arouscd in viow of thig doadly stato of things, Rocoguizing the motive whicli provalls in nino casos out of ten, it is aug- csted a8 & romody that publicity be refused to tho suicldoy that the fact of his doath, with ita conourront ' emotionnl circumstances, bo aup- pressod, and all montion of the affair bo omitted inthe journals, This cpurso would hoslthily mor- tify the amour propre of tho would-bo auicide, 1 An oxcitoment consequent upon the orime bo im- possiblo; if all Parls may not ring with the doed ; if the nnno of the sulolde and the inci~ donls of hia welf-murdor are notto fall from evory lip In acconts of wonder and horror,—balf tho entiafaction of death by charooal, hanging, nlmatlnl;, stabbing, drowning, will bs hauhfimd. One might as well continuo quict®y abont his logitimate business, and walt for Death to af pear with lis skuill aud crossbones whon it Ploages him, Octavo Tasanert, & painter of formor coluhm{, 18 ona of the Inst to rovive notoristy by resozt to suicide. Ho won fame a8 & portrait-painter, two of his pioturcs having boon admitiod to tho Art Exbibition of 1831. "Ho thon entored upon hig tortcal composition, and oxeouted sovoral paint~ inga for the gallory of Vorsaillos, Tho Btate gave him orders, Bvery year from 1801 to 1858 he had 028 or more pictarcs ndmitted to the salon. 1o took Y’flns for his paintings in 1888, 1849, and at tho Univeraal Exposition in 1855, s}nAca‘thuu hio bns hoon missed from the world of Art. It is not told how hio lived; by what careless- ness and prodigality he squandersd time and monoy, until ho was finally roduced to abject poverty, and, aftor yoars of misery, was found dond in his garrot.” But it is known thaf, in the daya of Lis prospority, Lo abjurnd sacioty, tlint 1io ropulsed hia frionds, and shamefully fil- tronted his brother-nrtiste. His eud was pitiful, Yot ho wrought it himaolf, Moat that mon court waa ot his command : fame, riches, companion- ship. It ho died unfriondod and alone, i want an nm‘tnrlng‘ it wae bocause ho Ao ordnined it. The final a0t of suleide was not, saddor thau what had fionu bofore it. It was' merely tho crowning deed of & misguidofl and misanthropic life, which, rich with poesibility and promiee, yiclded, at tho closo, poverty, wrotohodnoss, an misorablo orime, % ‘The story of Octave Tuasnert is reported 'by tho pross with emphasis upon overy partioulnr incidont. Human sympnthy fortho morrows of the man is appropriate. but thoe moral of hig uu- Liappy career should not be negleoted. WEDDINGS AT NEW YORK. Boclal Now York ia delighttully agitated over & trio of interesting evonts that furnish more than ordinary food for conversation. Thay aro wad- dings, all threo, and among parties whoss dis- tiuguished position invites the attention of all clnsses of socloty. The marriago botweon Gon, Raphael Benavides, the Moxican Minister to Borlin, and 3ins Pred- orics Ido ‘Howland, daughtor of Mr, Frederick Howlaud, of E. Romington & Sons, rifle-mauu- facturors, took placo at Trinity Chapel, on the aftornoon of May 27. Thoe bride, a gir] of 20, is an accomplished linguist,” spoak- ing Fronch, German,and Italian fluontly, aud ‘oxcels both 23 a pianist and vocalist, The groom is a yotoran officer in the Moxican army, and hias faced flro on twonty-two_difforent battle-flelds. He has attained considorablo reputo ns the author of sevoral volumes upon military strategy oud tactics, His last, *The Manusal of Arms," Lis beon highly commended by tho chiof officera of tho United States srmy, ‘Lho Lridal dress of Miss Howland was of white satin, decollote, and orange-blossoms were wrenthed in hor heir, = A diamond necklaco, oost- ing $6,000, wan tho gift of thebridegroom. Tho 4 Gonoral and his wife will sailin the Scotia on tho 10th of Juue. On the 80th of June, Dr. Dollows, of All Souls' Church, will lend to tho ' altar the daughtor of his friond, Dr. E. Posbody. ‘When Dr. Bollows was ordained to the ministry, thirty-ive yoara ago, Dr. Peabotly prenched the ordination-sormon. At the close of the services, the happy tidings wero conveyed to Dr. Ponbody thnt & daughter had been born tohim. It is this child, born at tho bour of his ordination, snd nows talontod and accomplished lady of 85, whom Dr. Bollows will mnke his wifo. Tho ac- quaintauce, which bas ripened futo an attach- ment and an ougagoment, was commoncod dur~ ing Dr. Bellowa’ ropent sojourn of six mouths in ¥lotidn, Tho parish of AU Bouls' proposo to celabrate the event of hia marringe with appro- priato fostivition, -1y 2 The Rev. Dr,* Dix, Rector of Trinity Church, wne marriocd on Wednesday last {0 Miss Emily Soultor. Dr. Dix is widely .known as s High-Churchman of the strictest gort, wearlng o coat of canonioal cut, the clerical collar oponing bebind, hair cut ehort, and the {cmoml air of & Catholio priest. He rigidly EB% the fasts and fostivals of the Church, marking the differont dnya by the calor of the pulpit draperies, and In all things conforming to the latter of the laws and corcmonies of Lpigco--| palianism, It has boon thought that hia ex- cossive Rituslism included tho practice of celi- baay ; but his marriage contradicts the erroncous opinion, s =, DRAMATIO GONTRIDUTIONS 7O CRATITY. No class of people have contributed more Jargely toward the rolief of tho sulfering aud distross that have prevailed in New York City since the financial revulsion of 1ast autumn than the mombera of the dramatio profossion. Dur- ing the early woeks of spring, several notablo histrlonio performancos wore given in tho npme of Charity, which yiclded many thousands of dollars in md of her kind officn, At the Academy of Musaio, the 19th of March, tho corps of Wal- Inclt’a and the Fifth Avenuo Thoatres united in a charitablo entertainmont that was a brillisut Buccoss in every pointof view. **The School for Beandal " was tho play ohosen for representa- tion, and the caat included such talentod artists 28 Mr, John Broughnm, Mr, Lester Wallack, Mr. Harry Bookett, Miss Madelino Heuriques, Mad- amo Ponisi, and Mies Fauny Mordaunt. 'I'le en- tortaiumont nettod above $6,000. On tho 26th of March, five charitable perform- auves took place at a8 niony differont theatres in the city, yiclding in the ageregatenearly$80,000, At thao Union , Bquare Thoeatre, * The Genevn Cross” wus rondered by the original cast, and ovor 2,000 people applied for admission after the Liouse was crowded to its utmost capacity. At tho Lycoum "heatre, every soat was takon in ad- vanco by those esger to witness the debut of Miss Clara Morzis in ** Camille,” 8ho was sup- ported in the play by Mr. Frank Mayo, At DBootl's Theatre, Mr, Bouaicault puzfd in ** Kerry," and Mrs, J.'B, Booth in **The Lady of Lions," to noarly 4,000 peoplo. Mr, Goorge L. Tox and a varfety troupe entortainod, at Niblo's Garden, an audiolce estimated at E,dnfl. Mmo. Aimeo sang * La Fillo do Madamo Angot " at the Academy of Blusio, which liko the other placos, was fllled ‘o overflowing, The audiences which *paginted " ot those entertninments moy ba considorod {n the light of bonefloiaries, for ench received full and entire compeusation for tho tickotu that woro ‘purchased. The actors who genorously gave their services on the cocasion wero the only truly benavolent partien engagod in the nmumu{nnan of this magnitient fund for charity, ATARBIAL DAZAINE, . A correspondent of the London Dally Tele- grapl has lately pald & visiz to Marshal Bazaine, who is confined in tho Isle St. Marguerito, sit- unted in the daditerranean, 8 miles from Caunes, Tho fortross, bullt upon a ravk and overhanging tho sos, is appronched by fllght of some 200 siope, and Is garrisoned by 125 wion, Bazaine's apartmeont j¢ small but comfortable, and is noatly though plainly furnished. iis door opens outb upon & paved promenado, 80 feet in Jength and 30 Tost 1n wideh, and boundod by & parapat, Tho view s magulflcnnt, inoluding ‘villagos and chatoaux intorspersod wich ‘ groves' aloug tho x'nuluhuu].l promontories Jutting into the ses, and an elevatod umphitheatro of hilla in tho baok- ground, The height of tho promouade Is about 100 faet from tho lavel of tho sea. ILucapo from 1t Roems easlly practicable, as the descunt out- sido tho battlemonts is not diflicult, and could bo made with slight exertion. A boat atationod undarneath ocould eusily convey -an esoaping prinoer to safoty. ‘The Marshal {s denied tho privilege of news- papors, but ho onjoys the socloty of his wife, » Jovely Mexioon Iady, aud their three ohuldron,— & bright boy of 8, " handsome glrl of 5, nnd a auubby youugeter B years of age. Baxslue Ly THE CHICAGO DAILY fJ‘RIBU E: SATURDAY, JUNE ¢, 1874." - LlTERATURE. toroat has not boon so fatigued that It will not undorgomo no change {o appoarance during his confinoment, but is s oasy, unaffeotod, and com- ed as In the daya of his freodom And power, fadame Dazalne assured his friend. that ha wan cheorful And nover sad ; that tho troachery and Iugtatituds of his frisnds woro sl that oxisted to cloud his mind, his conacionce boing oloar from any stain of disloyalty, Badame Bazaine suffera conflnoment under ox« actly the samo rogulations as hor husband, o for &8 nnmmunle-fion with tho ontor world is concsrned, On being comracnded for hot dovo~ tion to hor husband, she replicd: **In Moxico tho womon an well as thé men aro brave, They do not dosert friends fn oxtremity. Whon I marriod the Marshal, I was 17, o waa at tho snmmit of power, with fortuns and friends to aupport his futiro, and not a shadow to ovoronat it. He gave me that bright and enviablo posi- tion, and, when power, and fortuno, and friends hnyo vanished, my piace is by hin sldo, to share tho orust of ‘broad and all tho privations with tho samo dovotion and affeotion that wore due to lim in tho zonith of his prosperity.” UNTIMELY MIRTHL Evorybody knowa tho irreaistible infatuation of a laugh, and tho distroselng lability to catoh tho contagion whenever & ludicrous ciroum- stanco ocours amid espocially sorious and solemn aurronndings, ‘Tho attempt at composuro in such casea only incranecs the tondenoy to cach- inoatfon, and the .unfortunate viotim, with puckered mounth, writhing foatures, roddencd compléxion, and sidos convulaively sbmking, vainly strives to roprons thebubblos of mirth that boil up from tho fountain of bis bolug, and threaton to broak in riotous peals on Lis lips, or burst him, Ono of the most Pllnflll rosults of this pro- voking proncness of human_ naturs to untinioly morriment ia'rovontly doseribed by an _eye-wit- nees, It occurrod in an_English church, at the wedding of his friend, While tho bridal party woro kuoeling at the ctinncol, dinbollcal grooms- man gave tho bridogroom & geries of pokos in tho ribs. Tha Amnr follow, thus tormonted, np- vlied the bit and the ourb to his lips; but it was no uso, - Ho langlicd aloud. Tho bride could not roslst the fuclination to do the mame. Tlo bridosmaids, thon, of couras, wors soized with tho epidemio; and the whole party, just bocauso it was the most unbecoming and outrageous thing for thom to do under tho circumstances, gavo vont to their oxcitoment in audible titters, Tho clorgyman roso ins huff, disgusted with the unseemly frivolity dispinyed at tho most solomn of momonts, No explanation eould ap- ponso his wrath, and ho loft the church and the young couglu with the coremony of marringo un- finished. Xt was too near tho stroke of 12 for anothor minister to be summoned in hia place, and ns, by an absurd English Inw, no marriago is logal aftor that Lot the unhappy poir wera nbllfiml tolonvo tho Hanctuery s distinctly two ad thoy ontered it, Whon thoy stood the follow- ing day befora the chancol, we may presume thoy wore caroful to make their vows in o grave and decorous frame of mind. A DUEL DETWEEN NODLES, “? The eecentric Princoss of Motternioh, who is tho homeliest, the most exquisitely-drassed, and the moat faucinating Indy in Paris, rofuscs to ro- turn tho salute of the Duke of Montebello. No ronson.is given, Thoro probably is none, Tho Princesa is nothing if not odd, and frenkish, and waywerdin her mannors. It is her dofiance of tho ordinary customa and conventionnlities that rule Bociety, which gives hor a piquant charm in the oyes of thoso wfio would, but dara not, he {reo thomsolves, With all her frank, unstudied, and oasy ways, which ofton border perilously upon improprioty, but naver quite fall into it sl‘xxn presorves hor solf-respect and tha respect ol othors, But her porslstent rudenecss to the Duke of Moutebollo as precipitatad s duet botween that party and the Prince of detternich. The Paris dispnatchos dalicately state that the Prince was placed during the affair #in the impossibility of continuing the combat,” It ia the second affaire o honneur in which the Prince hna been ene gagod, and in both he hos,been unfortunate. In the first, which occurred & fow years xgo, and graw out of tho Bosumont scandal, he was dan- erously wounded in the arm, But he has shown Elu chivalry, which {a the main thing. It is fenred that ducling will agein bocome ths rage among people of rank and fashion, now that it lias once more racoivod the sanction of such sx- nlted noblomen as the son of the Prince of Mot- ternioh and the grandson of the Duke of Lanhes, LONG BRANOIL, An Long Branch has boop chosch as the sum- ‘mor-resort of the President, porhaps it may Iay claim to being the most aristocratic of the many fashlonable aud fraquonted places along our soa- shoro. But other citizons of the United Btates, occupylng a8 oxalted a position in tho world of fame as Gon. Grant, also help to give eclat to a residencs at Long Branch, Among tho dramatic atars who own cottages—or rather mansions— st this favorite sen-side retroat, are Lidwin Booth, Ldwin Adams, Lester Wallack, 8. F.Chanfrau, J. H. MoVicker, and Maggie Mitclioll. Of tho journalists, politicians, mon of lattors and of wealth, who have sought homes in the noigh- borhood within the last five years, sre Becrotary Robeson, Gen, Stockton, Gen, Van Vliet; Mr, Childs, of the Philadelphis Ledger; Mr, Kinney, of the Newark Journgl, E. Dolafield Smith, Judgo Cardozo, Judge McKecn, Alr. Bradford, Mr. White, the artist, Dr. Von Buren, Gou. Boons, the Rev, Dr, Parkman, and David Adams, of New York; Oharles Muns,of Buffalo; Web- ster Wright, of Poughkeepsie ; Mayor Perry, of Newark; the Rev. K. A. Yoole, and a hoat of athers, too numerous to mention, . —_— * THE LONG DAYS, Yo, they are licre again, tholong, long dnys, 'After the days of Wintor, pinclied and white ; Soon, With a thousand mintrels, comes the lights Tate the swoot, robln-hsunted dusk delaya, But the long days that bring us back the flowers, The sunshinp, and the quiet-dripping rain, And all the things we kuew of Bpring, aguin,— “The long daya briyg Dot the long-lost long hours, Tho hours that now seemm te hava been, each oe, A SBumuer in itaolf, & whole lif's bound, Filled full of dosthless joy,—whero, {n bis round, favo theso foravor faded from the Sun 7 The fret, the fover, the unrest endurce, ‘s Butina timo nles—0b, try, my littla ag, % Coming 80 hot and play-worn, to bo gln And pationt of the long hourw that are yours | —W. D, Howells in the June Atantic, —_— el Chris Gilson’s Expedition to the Black 2110k, From the Blomarck (Dakota) Tribune, May 67, Who Las not heard of the Black Hllls and' the rich tronsures of iold and other precious motaly supposed to exist there? Yonr after yoar ox- peditions have been formed or talked of to ex- Elorc this roglon, but no rolinble Information na boon obtained concerning it, The oxpo- ditions formod lave been checked by Govern- mont Intorference or driven off by tho Indians. Ouly a month ago the Bozeman expedition re- turned, disorganized and to some extont dis- henrtened, aftsr a month's continued fighting with the Indinns, reporting barren rosults, To-dny thore is forming on the banks of the Missourl an expedition consisting of from seven- ty-fivo to one hundred as brive boys a8 ever aw o bead on a redskin, to be load by the re- doubtable Chrin Gilson, rnd sworn to visit the Black Hills and report. They come in sguads to Yankton, from Moorehead, from Jamostown —trom the East, the far West, and from the south, and enrly In June thoy will moet whore provision has beon made for ctoaalnli tho river, and with pack-mules londed with flour, badon, ammunitfon, etg,, take up their line of march for the Eldorado of tha North, ‘Who ig tho brave leader of this band of hardy plongors? wa are askod, and roply, Chrin Gilson, who will liva in history and song” ns ono of ‘the bravest mon of his timo, ‘Thoso splrits who can- not help admiring tho valor of Daniel Boono, or the pluck and persfutence of Kit Carson, will de- light to revera tho namo of Olris Gllson, For twonty-olght years Clrls has oporatod on tho Westorn plaing, now n guido or intorproter, then occupying positions of kighor trust, Tor yesra ho has boen an sattache of the Beventh Cavalry—a sort of nephow of the refii- mont, but of late, Chris kns choseu to take his awn course, and {n this caso Lo not only proposes to go indopondont of tho Soventh Cavalry, but in splto of it, Gllgon will bo romombored as tho man who, in a single-hauded combat with & party of seven dosporadoen, at Snrgont City, Kan,, i February, 1873, liliod Bnm Wright, Thomus MeLoland, und Jack Btutzman, shooting aleo an arm off of an- othar, whon the mmnlnin_q‘lhreu abondonod tha content, ‘Tho cltizons of Hargent, for this mct, votod Chris, thoir thanks and prosented him with a 8150 shotgun, and tho radlivay menagers gave him o pasa for a yonr avor tirelr lue of road, In November before Chrls had tillod = companion of thedo roughs namod Olayburn, as in this casa In solf-defenso. g ¥ Those who wish to go with Jaim should apply to him at once ot Blumarck, 1horo {s no foo, but partles joining will nesd a mule, gun, ra- tlons, ete, ~M. Courbot, who swas os'racised at the’ Tronoh Balon-becauro of Liw potitienl apiuions, hine Just hed two plotures of surpasulng powor doollnod at the Royal Acudeiny, London, It s satd that thla s ln inaitation,of tho action of arls, i SPARKS OF SCIENCE. The potato (Solanum {nburosum) is s native of Amoriea, nnd fs probably indigenous from Chill to Moxico, Tho wild plant diffors little from the cultivated, oxcopt that ita tubors aro smallor. It was first dntroduced into Europo oarly in the sixtoanth contury, by tho ‘Spaniands, who discovered it in tho vielnity of Quito. From Bpnin it sproad into the Nothorlnnds, Burgundy, and Italy ; but was for many yoara cultivated ag o curlosity, and not as an articlo of dict, In 1600 1t was onrried from Spaln to Ireland by Capt. Hawkins, » slayo-trades takou to England by Bir attractod littlo notico until 1t waa o third timo imported from Amorics, by Bir Waltor Tialolgh, in 1028 Thomas Horlot, & mathomatician, an ono of tho advonturors who 8lr Walter Taleigh in his voyngo of discovery ives tho following *Tho roots of this plant are round,—~50mo a5 Iarge as o walnut, others much larger; thoy grow in” damp gronnd,—many hanging togothor, as if fixed on ropes. They aro good food, eithor bofled or roasted,” The Iant to which Bhakspeare slludos in “The orry Wives of Windsor,” whore Falstaff snyfi s Lot it ratn potatoes aud bt kissing comforta 1 latug edulis), which was and in 1680 it was to this country, of the plant: was tho sweoh potnto ront dainty in tha tl n his " Herball," published in 1597, Gerardo montions tho potato, and recommends the root to bo enton as a dell dny food. In tho timo of wore furnishad for the Royal 2s, por pound. Through the succeeding rolgn and the Commonwonlth ~thoy romained extremel aearco, nor woro thoy govorally cultivated untl mora than s contury after thoir tion from Virginla, plant esteemed that London not mention and not o8 every- tho adition of their “Qomplete Gprdener,” published in 17105 and Bradley, an extonslve writor npon bLorticnltural subjects, statos, nbout the samo time, that * The potato is of less noto_than hol oots, aud skirret.' . tho ocightoonth contury otato cama to bo a in Essox County, in 1796, 1,700 lanted with the tabor for the supply In Beotland the impor- tanco of tho potnto as an article of diet was dis- In 1728 the cottngors and Amall farmers began to cultivate it gonerally, Tho severity of tho yoar of 1742 stimulated its culturo, and it soon thoreaftor was relied upon as & gervicenble crop. Some of tho Bcotch wore at first hostilo to tho use of tho plant on froligions grounda; for, snid they, ** Potntoesare not montioned in the Biblo.” The potato came into cultivation in Gormany and Franco about tho samo time as In Grest rts of Gormany the Gov- its culture by compulsory raoradish, Tadivh tho value of tha in England ; an covered much oarlior. DBritain. In soma ernment ‘promotes Tho potato ia clogely allied to the wholosome egg-plant and tomato, aud also to tho nnwhole- Bomo tobaceo, and to the dondly nightshade and lenbane, and to stromonium, and belladonua, aud tho mandrake (mandragora oficinalis) of Thoso plants are all ranged to- gother in the ordor Solanacem; and, though somo of them ars used as food sagrocabla stimulant, all possess, or loss degroe, the same. pol An oxtraoct of the leaves of the.po- tatois & powerful narcotis, ranking botweon Dbellndonna sud conjum. Honbaue (£yoseyamus niger) is s dangerous navcotic at the timoits soods ara forming, although cmparatively inort at an eorllor perfod. In somo countrles its loavos aro dried and smoked in lieu of tobacco. The doadly qualition of belladonns are well part of the plant is poisonous. It is supposod that Shakepeare refers to this borb in the line, * The insanc root that takes tho reason;prisonor” (** Macboth,” 1, 8). Oil of tobaceo is one of tho most violont of known poisons. The ground berriea of capsioum form tho pungont condimont known s Cayonne pop- The potato in a state of putrefaction is 8aid to gtve out a vivid light, sufticiont to read An oflicer on guard a} Strasburg, some yoars ago, thought the barracks wore on fire in conse- quenae of the light omitted by a collar of decay- 'lie family Solonacem includes upwards of 900 ocios, which ara scattered ovet most parts of e world, within the Arctio and Antarctio Cir- THE ST, GOTIARD TUSNEL, The Swiss Governmont {8 publishing monthly reports of the progross mado in tho accomplish- The report for March shows toat the boring was advanced 500 foot lneal,— the proportion on the Biwiss side being groater than that made from Airolo by noarly a third. The total length gained since the firat trinls wore made, sixteen months ago, {s soven-eighths of a ‘mile, of which nearly 1,200 yards are cloared out to the completo section of the tunnol. average, 1,80 workmen sre employed daily, in- aged tu the extonsive workshops ho two openinga. from the Swius ond_atill continues through soli At the southorn end, the mica- schist through which the boring is carried, is groving softer as tho work advances,—the quartz which at first poryaded it having disap< Tho quantity of water which leaks into the tunnol from spritiga that aro tapped is quite insignificant, The Belglan borin, Dubois aud Francole are worki foct euccons, eix boing used at either end,—those of Messiourss Somnelier, Mokean, and which have lately been ordered, boing employed solely on what may be termod supplomentary portions of the work. No estimate is mado of the time it will probably take to complota the It is notod that tho tomperatire within aquable, varying little mont of this work, cluding those en| outsido each of the tunnel is romearkab during the month from the aversge was 41 dogreos. RUSSIAN SOIENTIFIO OPERATIONS, The Russian Sciontifio Expedition to Amu Daria was to lenve St. Potersburg Bunday, April 26, It is to be commanded by the Grand Duke Nicholns Constantinovitch, assisted by Col. Stoletoff, and Dr. Moreff as Secrotary. It comprises twanty- five persons, whogo work will bedivided into four scations, the Trigonometrical and Topographical; the Motcorological; the Ethnographical and Statisticnl ; and tho dopartment of Natural Hig~ tory. The explorations will extend Leyond the aonfinos of the Russian Territory, in the Khanate of Bokhara, up the course of tho Amu Dari, if the political aspout of alfairs in Cantral Asia will Apropos to Russixn scionce, wa romark the in- toresting fnot that to Poter the Great belongs tho honor of muking the first attompt at dosp- gon dredging. The experiment was tried Iu the ‘Caspian Son with nn apparatus construoted by that romarkable mnn and illustrious monarch, 1t was shapod somowhat liko & pair of ice-hooks, guoh a8 aro eyery day soen in It ‘wns Bo contrived that, when it touched the bottom, the plummat would bacome dotached, aud the hook would bring imeus of the material which layin the be: THE SOUTIH AFRICAN DIAMOND-BEDS, In a paper on the mode of occurrence” of ths South African dinmonds, rond bofore the Geo- jogical Soclaty of London by M. X. B, Dunn, the author statos that the gems ocour in pecu- liarclroular nreas, whioh he regards as * pipes™ that formerly conetituted the connoction be- tweon molten mattor bolow and surface volca- noos. The surrounding country consista of hori- zontal shales, through which those pipes nscond nearly vortically, bonding upwards tho edges of tho slinles at the contuot. these pipes I8 regardod by the author as prob- ably gabbio, although in & very altored condltion, *Intorslated botwoon tho shalo-bods are shoets of dolerite, ato., and dykes of tho same rock also intoraeot tho shales at froquentintorvals. Within the pipes there aro uualtered nodulos of the With rogard to tho relation of tho diamonds to tho rock of the pipos fu which they aro found, the suthor thivks it that the lntter wos only the agont in them to the surfaco, & large proportion of them conslsting of fragmonts, nished by each pipo differ diatinctly in charaoter from those found in avery othor pipe, BENDING BATH DY TELEGRADIT, A novel application of the tolegraph lLos beon dovised in France,—the transmitting copies of A numorally-graduatoed, womi-clroular plato of glassis lald by the tolo- graphor over tho map to bo tranemitted, and a poncll of mica attachiod to a plvoted nlip of motal, also divided fnto_numbors, is allowed to move over the plate. Looking through a fixed oye-plooe, tha oparator traoos out his map on the glags with the adjustable mica. ponol), and, noticlng the numbars sucocssively touched on the nlate aud on the moving metal: arm, telography homn to Lils correspondont, who, by means of au exactly pimilar apparatus, {8 enabled to traco out au oxaotly similar map, A BINFLE PANTAGRAPIL. Holinans suggests the conatruotion of n simplo pautagraph according to the following plan: Uso & flug rubbor cord about 16 fuchesin longth, suppliod with a loop at oach ond, and baying on ho hands of the Tho rock ocoupylng T'ho dismonds fur- maps and disgrams. it » small white boad, slinping efther way with gontlo fricton, By securing ono ond to the table by a pln, passing = poncil through the other ond, and dmflnf ita point over the papel with tho right hand, ke ‘ot #0 a8 to causs the cord to describo tho ontlin of a simple drawing placed boneath it, a tole; ably good copy of the drawing will ho produced . baving any deairad proportion to tho origiual ncoording to the position givon to the Lond o tho striug ix thus, if the band i in the centre o tho cord, ¢ the original. Tho only after some praotice, and by usiug & Ane point than n boad, oping the atring stroto! 0 drnwing will bo doublo tho siza o Eusz rosults aro obtainabll CGHEOKING COUQNING, BNEEZING, ETO. In ono of lis Boston lootures, Dr. Brown| Bequard gave tho following simplo monns fof chocking coughing, encozing, ato.: * Coughin, can be atopped by prossing on tho norves of th 1ip in tho neighborhood of the noso, A presaur| thera mny provent a cough when it is begiuning, Bnoozing maybo ntupgmlhymu snmo mochauism| Drossing, also, in tl may Btop caughln? It ia 80, alno, of hiccough, but muclu tha Dropsing very hard on tho top of tho mouth, in} sldo, is nlao a monns of stopping coughing, An I may say that tho will has immonso powor thero; ‘Thero was a Fronch surgoon who used to soy, whonovor ho antared tho warde of his hospitalj 0 noighvorhood of thio on less ro than for anoozing or coughing, ‘Tho flrab patient who coughs hero will be dod prived of food to-day.’ It was oxocedingly rare that & patlent coughed then.” A PIBOINE TADIT, It has been recently noticed by Surgeon T Day, that thomale fishes of various species o Arius and Ostoogeniosus ara in tho babit of oarrying the eggs doposited by tho females, in thelr mouths, until the young aro hatched. The diacovory wasmade whilo Burgeon Day was flsh<! Ing at Cassogode. On eatching n number of spocimons of thaso flah, ho observed tholr oggs, mensuring » hall-inoh {n dinmoter, in tho bont aud fish-bnskets. On examination, he found thoy had fallen from the mouths of the males, whioh hold from fiftaon to twonty, Thoy filled tho month, oxtending as far back ns the bran| chim. The faithful guardians take no food while earrylng tho oggs. ‘Cha alimontary causl wns, in overy caso, ompty, though, In the femules, 1t was full of nutrimont, . CUDAN MAMMALIA. Dr. Qundlach, in a rocont catalogue of the native mammnls of Cubn, notea but twenty- four spocie. Of theso, ninoteen aro bats, All the spocies, with the excoption of tha manateo, or sen-cow, are oxtremely diminutive, Itlsnot | uu;:posnd that thore has been auy decronse in tho numbors or diminution In the size of the mommals inhabiting this island, sinca tha dise covaery by the Spantards. It s probablo, how- over, that, at & former goological pufloé, tho : Wost Indios woro connectod with the continont, | and cortain paloontological indicatious show that at ono "timo tho faunn was moro varied. Quite & number of Iarge spooies of fousil mam- malie have boon doscribed by Prof. Cope, and doubtless others yot remain to bo discoyerod. DINDS OF THE AUEUTIAN ISLANDS, A paper on tho birds of the Aleutian Islands, published by Mr, Dall, enumorates forty-fiva speciod. Of thoao, only twelve sre land-birds, viz.: two bawks, ono owl, one awallow, one wron, five finches, the raven, and ptormigan, Tho majority of tho wator-birds belong to the family Alcido, or Auks. Mr. Dall was able to throw much light upon the natural hlum:( of thesa birds, from his opportunity for studylng their habita during the nesting sonson. Ho waa the first to gathor the oggs of sevoral of the spacies, His obsorvations waro conducted while on board fi‘isvn“m Btatos Const-Survey vessel Yukon, 2. TNE ANDERSON SOTMOOL. No chargo is made for tuition at the Anderson School on Peniloss Teland; but an assessmont of $10 is charged to each individual to liquidate the exponse of attendnnce upon the rooms, and of incidentala. Board is furnished ns choaplyaa possible; but, 08 the school is situsted on an island In Buzzard's Bay, out of the way of tha usual routes of travel, tho cost of living is nec- esynrily hlgll. 1t is ostimatod that it will amount to 8 or §0 per weok, Many more pupils hava alrendy applied for admission than the school can by any menus accommodate, ' INTERNATIONAL GEOGRATHICAL CONGRESS. The Geographical Soclety of Paris anmounce tho convention of an Internationsl Geographical Congross, in that city, in the spring of 1875. The “objoct of the moeting fs to disouss the gront problema which arss from the study of the earth. Tho Fronch Govornment will support the moyemont, and tho nid of other Governmonts ig expoctod. In connection with the moetin thore will ba an exhibition of maps, charts, an instrumonts. Tho date of oponing, aud the gon- oral programme, will be published horeafter, B —— Colorado. Mr. Chaffee's roport aocompanying the bill for the admission of Colorado as & Sialo in the Union contains the following statoments: Oolorada hos it miles of completo railway within hor bordars, six ronds centering in the City of Donver. * Immigration, which always follows railronds, hns beon greator during the last thros yenrs thore than in the sottlement of any Tarritory except Californin. "The product of 1873 is estimatod at $20,174,100, dlvi(lfl{]nn follows: Gold and silver, 35,000,000 ; coroals, $6,750,000; sals of live stack, £2,000,000 3 sale of wool, £600,000; sale of lumber, & 100,000; snlo of flour, 51,235,000 sale of dairy, 050,000, Mannfacturos in tha Cily of Deuver alono, 8,249,100, "lhoro aro 1,017 miles of tolograph, valuod ad 208,400, Irrigating cannls, 850 miles; valuation, $400,« 000. Cliurches, 125 ; valuation, £450,000. ° Value of reduction and smelting works, $3, 000,000, flnnu(nc!arles—vn\uo, 725,000, Vulue of cattls, por Asscssor's roturns, $4, 205,148 ; horses, 31,405,238 ; shoop, $404,621, Numbor of School Districta, 248 ; school pop- ulation, 15,600; valus of school property, $260,- 185; echool fund, §187,657. Tho inoresse m tha last two years hasboen 216 per cent. Assessed valuo of proporty in tho Territory, about £50,000,000; real valuo, $100,000,000. Tharo are about 7,000,000 nores of fand sus- ceptible of cultivation, which would be grostly uufmzed by a systom of irrigation, which the State would adopt, Thoro aro_about 1,500,000 acrea of inglrovml lond roturnod by Assessors; valuation, $8,209,044. One hundred and sixty-seven post-offices, 9 of the Postmastors being snlaried at over $1,000, 2 a8 high as Ohlcnxio or Philadelphia, 18 salaried at from 8600 to $900. ' The nggregato buwinass of tho Denver Post-Oflico was about §500,000 last year. Tn!;: National Danks, 27 privato bankers, and savings banks. The three banks in Denver last year sold £32,500,000 of exohango. The vote polled Insk yenr was 20,544, and the reglistored voto was over 25,000, ‘mmigration estimnted by tho Poard of Tmmie gration to avarago 8,000 por month. Population about 150,000 will bo over 500,00 wheu admitted undor this bill, The Telograph Sys s of Europe and Americn. Grosvenor P, Lowory, in hia argument laa{ Wednesday bofore the House Committee on Appropristions against the constitutionnlity of the Hubbnrd bill, introduced statistics showing that tho Westorn Union Company operates more wmiles of telograph line than all Bwitzerland, 8woden, Holland, Bolglum, Hnng-r{. Bpainy Bavaria, Donmarl, Norway, Portuga), Greeos, Wurtemburg, and Groat -Bri oporates moro miles of telograph and annually tranemitg more messagos than all . Germany, Spain, Hungary, aud lussia, notwithstanding thut these countrics have mnenrly the same ares of territory, and nearly four times the populae tion of tho United Btates. Europe Liag a popula- tion of 800,000,000, and sends annually 50,000,000 of mossngos, belng one muusnfic to six persons. The United Kiates bhavo 40,000,000 iuhabitants, aud tho Westorn Union Company alone sends 16,000,000 measages, being ono message to two and o Latf porsons. In 1806 England had 80,406 miles of tolograph wire, and in 1873, 99,018 miles, being su lucreaso of 10,008, or 24 por cent., In 1806 the Wentorn Union Company had 76,680 milos of telograph wire, and in 1i 78, 154,471, bolm‘:m {noreaso of 78,785, or 104 por cont, In 1800 Englond had 2,161 tolegrapls ofllocs, and 1873, 5,474, being au inereaso of 8,829, or 164 l}at cent. Tn 1866 the Westorn Unlon Company ad 2,200 oflicen, and in 1878, 5,740, boing an ju- oroase of 8,540 or 100 por cont, ' Ini807 Logland transmittod 7,500,000 mossages, wnd in 1672, 14,858,000, being an increase of 7,868,000, or 08 bor cont.: In 1808 the Weutorn Union Compan; Hent 5,789,304 messagos, and in 1879, 18,862,887, Dolug an increaso of 7,620,498 messages, or 133 or cent. In 1868 tho average toll upon the inglinh liney was 38 conts per mesinge, In 1874 tho averaga toll iu 28, boiug & reduction of 10 oceuts por mesknge, or 20 per cent, Iu 1848 the avorngo toll upon the Woatorn Uufon linos was B1.10 per mosvngo, and in 1874, 55 centy, being & roduction of 66 couts per T 1) P n?uuungu, or 50 pex tain comblued, It .