Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 1, 1874, Page 9

—_— e LITERATURE. The Mines of the Roocky-Mountoin Roglon. AMINTNG INDUSTRY OF 1L BSTATES AND TERRI- “TORIES OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS ; INcLum | 1ia DESORIPTIONS OF QUANTZ, PLAOEN, AND 1I¥- DBAVLIO MINING§ AMALOAMATION ; GONCENTR. ¢ 1o SHRLTING, Eto. By Rosafres W Itk ' Mo, £h, D., United States ‘Cotumissioner of Ml ing nd Mape, ot cologleal May SRR S Vo, B . o Sork 3y . B, Ford & Co, Owing to tho co-oporation of a lsrge numbor #f profesmonal men and oitizons in tho propara- #an of this roport, aud tha increased osteom fu which the efforts of tho Goyernment ta difisse orroct Information upon mining nd motallurg- dcnl arts is Liold by tho intolligont population of tho Wost, the presont volume Js moro full and Importaat thou any other of tho sorios to which 1Y bolongs, The work s divided into ibreo parts,—tho first prosenting statigvica of tho mining industry in tho Btates and Terzitoriea of Californls, Novadn, Jdsho, Orogon, Nontans, Utaly, Colorada, Wyomiug, Now Mexico, and Ar- izonaj tha socond, ia history of motaliurgical processcs in voguo in tho minca and mills in thego various districts ; and tbo third, misool- lanoous matter pertainivg to the gonoral sub-~ ject, ' ! In the report of tho coudition of the mining Industry in the BStates aud Torritorles enumor- sted, it is ostimated by Br. Raymond that the total bullion product of 1872 was £68,043,857, sgatnnt 866,603,000 1m 1871, 966,000,000 in 1870, #nd.£61,600,000 in 1860, ‘I'his decline of moro thap 82,000,000 in asoribed, not to the diminu- tiont of ‘th¢ treasures of tho vations mineral rogions, but. to tho indirect offact of the pros- pority of tho moro accossible. distriets upon the devolopmont of .the mines, of Tdaho, Montana, and Oregon, 'The placer-minors of thosa Torri- tories have boen' attracted in largo numbors to b6 quartz-minea of Novada and Utab, or to the, at progent, oxcoptionally-profitabla businoss of stock-rasing. Bub the minoral resources of the northern . aton havo hardly boen . developed. ‘Whon thoy sro mnde accossiblo .by tho comple- tion of au alrendy-projectod systom of r:-llmnua( it will bo found, "according to tho prodiction of Mr. Naymond, thoy arc as vast and varied as thosa of any otber part of the conntry. Tho yield of tho imwloun matals in Callfornia Qurmg tho year 1874 te_vob down at 819,049,093, The annual: product of:xold in this Sintn is at prosont 60 por cont less than tho largest amount at any time ronched, but tho number of minora engagod has diminishod in a still_greater ratio, Cupital and exill are now requisise to commund proits that formurlg accrued to Jabor alone, Lho CaliZornis gold-fiold includen an aven inrger than tho State of Now York, Lvon thes oldest mincs in this Torritory havo neithor boon exhausted 7o workod to oy great oxient, whilo the more romoto scctlons of the feld hnve, many of thom, ‘beon but partially explorod. ‘Thase, with kindred foots, give nn assurance that gold-mming iv Cnle ifornia will contino s porianont aud profitable industry. Cinpabar, tho common oro of quicksilver, is mora widely diseominated Ja_Calitornin then in any otlier portion of tho world, Prior to.its discovory in that State, comnerco deponded for this nseful motal entiroly npon tho old Almaden mino, in Bpain, snd the Idrin mine, in Austrin, Thio 61 Altunden mrno was workad 700 years bo- fore the Christian ora, and is rtill tho Most pro- ductive in existouco, The total yiold of tho quicksilver-mings In California was estimated to Vo 86,000 flasks in 1809 (a tlask coutainy 76}¢ potinds), 20,546 fneks in . 1670, nd 31,881 finsla In 1672, The Now Almadon, in Subta Clara Couuty, is the leading mino in the Stato.. 1tlins boou worked ooustantly smoo 1857, ho rocoss of reductng ~tho oro conmists in ronating &t n furnnocs holding from 50 to 60 tons. Whon raised to a tempora- tare of 80 dog., tho quicksilyor pnsses off in tho form of vapor, and i8_condonscl in_ & serics of brick compartmorits through which it pueses, by conkact with cold air. ‘Fhe men engaged in thesd furnaces aro obligod to woar heavy bandagen over their mouths and noses'to prevent inhain= tion of the meyonrin} fumos; yob, dospito this < preoaution, are froquontly salivaied, . Tho mining_industry of Nevads was moro rofitable in 1872 than in any provious year, ‘Tho gu)llnmpmdnut in entimated nt £95,608,811. It janoted. that tho verioun stamp-nilis in tho Btate snnually use 10,000 tons vf salt in- the re- duction of silver-ores, The total yield of tho gold and - silvor minos of : Idaho was 62,605,870,—a - falling-of :of _upward of $4,000/000 sinco 1869 and_1670, in both of which yoors tho product nmountod to §7,000,000, Whe mines of 'Oregon and Washington wero worth, in 1872, ©2,000,000. The total colu-vaie of the gold-ores mined in Montaun was §6.721,405; of the ilvar-ores, §6,073,380. The products of tho rold, silver, and lend-miues in Utsh aro ostimat~ ed ot above 2,000,000, The gold sud silvor- mines of Colorado yielded §4,601,465,—nesxly tho sano amonnt produced in 1871, In Arizona, aithongh mining iutorests look mora’ hopeful than for ten yesars past, the minersl product amounted in 1872 to but £625,000, B .y * Alr Noymand cuserts shere 18 o constaut advapce in tha importance of miving iuterchty throughbout tho region embraced m Lis roport; altbougl the aggrogate production may fluctu- ate: and o predicts thut, with the niore sys- fematio and pormunont operations which nro beiug gradunily ostnblished in quarts sud hydraulio mines, evory yenr will witncss a sub- stnutinl inerense in their yield, Alcestive LEISURE-IOUR BERIES: ‘Arozs7is, 10mo,, 289 “pp. Now York: Youry Holt & Gv, Good tasto ia oxemplifted in thoe cholce of thig novel for the placeit fills, It is admirably sdapted to bo a travoler's compauion, or an dlsv's rofuge. It -is light, yot not wosk, and zutorinining to the point pleasantiy-short of ox- citement. ¥ In tho firo which, & faw yenrs ago, dostroyed the Dreaden Opera-Ioure, many precious manu- soripts of. old * composess wore consumed. Among these perished tho opera Alcestis, by Jogquin Dorioz, No copy "of tho work remaiua to allest ita Deaudies, which for years wero tho delight of thousands. In it tone-pocme wae written'thd tragedy of twoliven, This hns now beon rescued from ob- livion, aud tranelated iuto proge, 1t 1aa talo of music and romauce, and is_ tinged with the po~ etry, the paszion, tho patbos, of botli. I'ho story opous with s scenc in the choir of tho Hof-Kircho at Dresdon, whore thoe famous Capelimeister, Adolphus ITasso, is drilling a com- pany of singers, ‘The Jeador is oxacting and iragcible, and his pupils happen to e uncom- monly stupid and trying ; benes tho rebioarsnl iy » vozatlous ouo for sil concerned. A young vi- olinist of 1918 called ont for espeeial reproof. His fignre is slight, and his faco dark and thin, but there {s o gleam of genius in his vyes, and an expression of groat sweetness about his mouth, It in Josquin Dorioz, au or- phsn and o waif, who ls struggling for a musical cducation that ho may exalt tho nrt ho, loves, and also gain & Mvelihood. JLs mother was a French opora-singer, and his fathor a youngor gon of & Gorman noblo, Whon death bereft hiim, in childhood, of both parcnts, Lis father's Inmhd{ adopted him; but tho boy's hoart re- belled agaivat the. vigoronn otiquotts whloh o wan roared, and, two or three yea: our story bogink, hie fled $o Drosdon, wother's viotin, and tho talent within him, for bis solo pouncksions, ) On the first night of Lis arrival in the groat sity, hio mot, at tha duor of tho theutrs whither ho had wandered, hoogry and weary, a young gizl, the favorite pnpil of Yasse, the pmlufin »f Nodin,~the ED nlarbuflo-basso,—and, for the toat, & paor, and friendleds orphan, like himself. Elizabotha Voara—for w0 8ho was eallod—wus Jouchad with thae farlorn look of the boy, who sood jeaning against the wall of the theatre in an atifindo of dejeotion, Bho atrractod to Lim iho kind Nodin's attontio, sccurod admission for him bobind tho eceuce, that he might Lear tho preat Tosl sfug, aud, whou the opora was over, coaxed Nodin to take the boy hiome aud give Inm uuruer ond sheller, Theroafier the youth's gentle manners’and undonbted talout for tho violiu offectunlly pleaded for him, and ho vias instalicd in » litifo apariment in the samo houso with Rlizabothn aud Nodin, accopted o & E\\pu by Haseo, aud put in the way of onrning is bread by copying musio and playing iuan archentra, On the ovening when Josquln {s firat pre- sented to the reader, he is dostiriod to give mortal offenso to tho capelimolster, aui theroby hupenl bis whole futnre, Returning to his sont after the stern reproof of Hasso for his carelony B}ny\m;. Lo boylshly rovousies himnself by biow- i,""""“h L3 pnq‘er Dorna gwarm of cookehafary Into the faco of the grim direcior, Ths offensa Ig light, bot lerr Ifawse fa spiteful, aud diy- misses tho boy from his enoir oo tho spat. Hadl; e and Elizabiotha wond thoir way livmeward in the gloom of this sudden dark clond obscurtug hiu fute. Bub tho girl aynin provos the Iad’ y her inflnettoe, Jonqun fy b4 ) B‘nllnllcnhtle. Titustratod with Nearly 100 %= | muatoal dllottanto,. and mada tlio tonder of his | clinmbor-musiolans. A now lifo now daywna upon | Josguln, Ho Joavoa the humble-homo whoro Nodlu and ZLlizabotha pursuo thoir art, and | becomos & rosidont of tho Count's splendid palnco. ) N0 Fontimantof Tovo hins a3 yot odusclonaly Wanded with tha feioudahiy which uniton Josguin and Llizabethn, and thofr neparation infliota more- Iy the r.fln that would be folt by & brothor and sigter {n lilro cironmstances, 1tizabotha, with n singlo heart, conutinues to devoto hormolf to musie, for which slie has & noble passlon, and tralng Dior glorfons voloo for servico in tho opora, Josquin, too, romaing faithful Lo Lis vo- catlon, and toily with pon and violin to win tho hi};h place hin ambition covots, But nerous lis Itfo In tho Tnlmo thero flita tho vision of a love- 1y woman, the boantiful niooo of Qonnt Lichton- borg, whose wites ho {8 too simplo and sincors to reslst, The Indy nmuscs hLorsoll with the humblo musicign, ~and wius lis loart’ only to uso it for a Enytblug, Josquin confldes, this groat sorrow to Llinboth, and lig communication for tho firat timo roveals to Lior tha love hitharto hiddon iu hor own hoatt for hor follow-nrtist, Rosclutely controlling tho powerful omotion, sho comforts hor frioud wilth unnclflsls sympathy. Ilo loaves tho sorvice of Oount Liolitonberg, thiat hio may ayold the aight of tho porfidous woman who bas boirayod him, returna to his povorty, sud again takes up Lis residenco near Blizabotha. Tho lattor has monn- timo mnde her debut in opors, and becomo the rolgning but unspolled prima-donun. “Josquin, now mfiug in houlth, dving of consuamption in- hiorited from his mother, sud rapidly developod by Lia dlstresses, dovolon his romaining strongth to tho composition of an opora. Alcostis ia tho thomo, and Elizabotha s to cnact thohoroine,” Unfortunntoly tho Count-Intendant, who rulos tho Hoyal Opora, hna aspirad to the Iiaud of Elizaboths, and beon refusod h{ Lor. Tu rovongo ho provonta tho prosontation of Jos- quin’s opora. f ‘Thon Elizabethn, to procure tho crowning happingea, for bor dylng' friond, of hoaring his opora i Droadon, horoically enoriflcos horself. I socret sho marrios tho Intondnnk, and, ns n roward, s permitted toslug in Alcostis, 'Who kucces of tho ptocald complole. After witnoss- Ing o singlo triwmpbant porformarico, {ho joyous gomposer departy -for Itsly in tlo :hapolesa hope of racovoring haalth in o more gonlal climato, As hobids farewellto Llizaboths, i tho midst of & throng who haye prossed_about botl, to offor gratulations, at the elosa of, tha opern, ho whis- ors, in & quick word, tkelova which too lato Liss Eclm withiraswn from horunworthy rival and be- stowod upon hor, There is not time for an ex- planation, and tho horoio womnn gives no sign of her anguish to sndden tho fow bours which sho well Imows aro all that is 1oft of this lifo for hor friond. The first mail after tho departure of Josquin bringa Elisabotha nows of his suddon death, Ho has pnased nway, happily nnconsci- ot of the - life-Ancrifico sho freely mads to gild his Jast days with the suhshino of succoss. A long life wag Elizabethn’s fate; but, in tho words of -hor annalist, **fTer dosp gricf sha kopt to hiorsolf,-and her hoart was not hardened," - Tho Slave.Power in A I.’Ifll'lcfln HISTORY OF TUE RISE AND FALL OF THE -BLAVE-FOWER IN. AMERIOA. By Hoxnr Wikt so, Vol L 8&vo, pp, 704, Doston: James I . Usgood & Co, . My Wilson rosumes in the curront volume the story of Blavory In the Unitod Btates, with the odmisaion of Florida in the spring of 9845, and carriea it onto tho close of the Presidentinl campeign in 1860, In this poriod of fiffeun yoars, this imporlous power, which ruthlessly trarapled upon overy principle of right and hu- manity, ‘marched with wwift and sweoping strides to its inovitablo doom. Batisfied with no concession or compromino, resolved to command nnlimitod room for growth and oxpansion, bont upen controlling the Governmont of the United States, or elso upon soyering tha Uniom, its oxaclions grow fore and moro absoluto and maacing with ovory complinnco and advantago it wrested from the authority opposed to ik It was o despotism which ‘rulod frieud as woll ns foa ; ‘that enslaved tha white man as wolt as the black., To'be born under its dominion was to bo fated from birth to fight a rolentless spirit to support its cncronchmonts, its opprossions, and Its iviquitios. Like the Old Man of the Sen, it 83t on tuo shoulders of the South; waiphing {hem down with o 1ond of &in and iisery from which thoro seemed no way of roloase,—from whioh at 1ast thore eamo, by an ‘vasy and natural process, no dosire for releise. ‘Whon, In forming the Constitution, our fathers sorillced privelple 1o whut they deomed nocossity; when thoy compromisod with thelr councianco, ' snd agroed. not. to moddle with Hlavery, in order to socuro the fraternity of Georgls and South Carolina,—thoy . insugurated 1hio orios of diro avents™whioh onded in the Re- Dbeltlon of 1801,.” On thom, even moro than upon thoir unlisppy doscendants, rest tho_crimos of Stayory which finally cubminated in the horrors of civil war, Nations, more than individuals, mny not tampoer with prinviple, Tho yiclding of & senliment of right to & prospect of gain will as surely end 1 a barvess of slliction In the ono caso as in the olbor. Outraged Justico will a8 certainly bo avenged of a’ Hiate 83 of .& . citizen, Phuw,:. while wo view with dieapprobation tha cumulats_acts by whioh Southiern statosmon, in tho defonse of their peeuliar institution, finally brought our country Fo the brink of rniu, and caused hor sufforing and loss which for ‘years she will not ontgrow, wo must not forger that tha inspiration of thair wrong-toing was & curso ontailed upon them for gonerations ; and that, if it:grow in enormity il it becaine intolarable, it but oboyed 2 law of Naturo. Yrom boglonitig to ond of the nn hiappy business, North and South were togother the wretehod victims of & wotal inkeritance. - My Wilson's work i profonndly intorosting, Tt is, of necensity, ainiont aa broad inncopesstlio historyof thie United States, Al political events of pationsl jmportance wors inoxbricably intor- woven with the annals of Blavary. Some lasue niTooting its intorests was snre to arige from overy nct of Congross during at lonst a qnarter of o contury bofore the downfall of the Slave- Powor. It would bo almoet fmpossiblo for Mr, Wilson, who was prominently idontified with the Antt-Blavory party of Mansachusotts, not to manifest at times s partisan spirit, The im- portial roader will differ frowa bim in his charao- tovization of the. conduct of Abolitionists who entored the Bonthoru States jn- order to dacoy slaves into freodom, und of the punizhmont which was motad to them when they foil juto the linnds of naturally-irvitatod Southerners, The argumont in Tavor of obedionco to & higher law, whien tho lognl Iow of the Jand countonances injustico and opprossion, will ®lko not commond itsoll to'the judicial mind, Tawas 2w must boheld sacred, or wo have anarchy at once.. ‘To right tho wrong Iaw, nevor to break it, 3u tuo duty of eyory upright citizon, and the only trne way of lacufinF justice to every indie wvitital and to avery principio. But the carnestnesy and. fdolity with which Mr, Wilson writea are most agreeablo, Whey pro in hannony -with tho momen- fous facls ho norrafen,. and double tho intensity of their interost. Another voi- ume will conelude Mr. Wilton's Jabora sm the bistorian of the Slave-Fowor in:Ametica. It Will bo awaited with ngreeablo anticipations by those who have followed_tho stitring nurrative thus for. Notwithstanding thu fact that Mr. Yilgon's fioon abborrenco of Stavery, impels him at timon to ono-nided jndgments, ke {a producing o great and ablo work, which cannot fail to bo approciated at its just valuo, he Amorican Sclentlic Aswocintion, PROCCEDINGE OF THI: AMERICAN ASSOOT- ATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOIENOR; QweNTY-sr00ND MERTING, HELD AT PONTLAND, M, Auatst, 1670, Evo,, 'pp, 635, Balans Pube 1isheq by the Pormunont Secretary, The Partlend meatiug was one of tho Iargest and most intorouting ever hold by tho Associa~ tlon, Upward of 200 mombers wera in attond- ance, and noarly 150 pavors wore road beforo thom, The prococdivgy of tho wociely wero througliout of anunusually-interosting chnractor, "Phe fact that the Assaciation had this yoar com~ ploted the twonty-firal of itu oxislenco~Lad, In othior words, attslned ita mojority—waa a plensaut ons to noto, and offerod aoccasion for much ocongratulation ou its nast onveer, and hopeful~ ness for its fature, fho donation of $1,000 to tho' socloty—the firsk considerablo gift it Lad ever rocoived—was also au inoideut whiok added to tho goneral cheariucss of tha atmouphore, In addition to theve circumstances, the very genor- ons hospltality extonded totho Awsociation by the citizens of Yortland, tho numorons and ox- tendod sxeursions that woro planued for its ban- ofit, in which soclulity and sclanca waota dalight. fally ningled, ronderod this twenty-second mooting momorablo to sl those who wers so fortunato as to join in it Tho volumio which confains tho bistory of these provoedings 18 tho bulliest thay haa'yot Boon Issued by the goclety, Twonty-oight of the paperi 1t containg are fucluded i tha depart- mentsof Mathomatics, Physica, and Chemuatey, and sixty-twe fn tha various dopartmenta of Natural History, They range aver a groat di- voruity of topic, and make o falr oxhibit of the - ailigunce, laarnfng, snd geuiud Incarporated in the instiution, 'I'be volumo ls oxcollantly privi- 00d !fnnluu, and, by fuken nto the servico of Count Ll'oh:ouhorg, & | od snd fully {llustratod, In &Il roupcold It re- THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1874, floctw oredit upon tho Assobiation whick It repre- souta, -Inlen Vorno's Storfes, DOOTOR OX, AND OTIIER BTORILS, 'Translated ‘from tho Froucli of JULES VERNE, by Gzonoz M. Tows. Authorized Edition, Square 10mo,, pp. 203, Theao stories, .latoly published by a rival honso, liave alrondy recolvod favorablo notico in our colwmne,. Thoy aro vory roadable, aud tho :rururnbl form In whiel theyappoaris oxueadingly: nstoful, TOM TURNER. .. AN'EPIO pALEAD, A fishorman was Tom by teados . Tie slopt on Lritty placks 3 And, (hough not rioh, ho often msda A Tun ujion o baulk, ©On finls Lio Rved from day to day— Tish canghit by bis own hand 1 Aud, whou bo did nat Tand his pecy, 1te did 3ot prades tho land, ‘Whon Lib hiad sean n shonl of shad, “Lheir sirugglos wero in valu § o fiah might bop arownd ke mad, © ‘Aud goon thioy Wore 1a-8oino, 1o Tod & bappy lifo ; contont, 1o novor tiouglt'to roam § Autl every day Lo fishing went, And lirouglit his nob galns Lome, Tom loved a giel, w0 tall and alim, Y ‘Tlio tafrest in (ha town § But dal would nat tako upl with him, Ko io Was taken dowa, By passion's powor now rackod and worn, o called on Sal, & swain forlorn, Led ou by lovi's smggeation, o found that sho was popping corn, Aud wo o popped tho question, Bho was to swoetent girl i town, © Aad playtul as kition § ¥or her Tom throw tho gauntlot down—~ And sl gavo liim tho mitton, Thon Tom was mad § Mo kicked alad§ 11is hieart wos sou [ ZHis hicad was bad 111 lauguago wad alill badder I And Do wito onco liad lived on shiad Soon faded to a shadder, To bo s man ko swors to try; 1lo Jeft'that town of woo} o went out West Lo do or o} 1o mct an Tndian alx feot high— Of courso it wa 1ok Lol Thio Indlan saw tho Yankea small; “Iio Yankeo sa tho Sloux + Atouce thoy kucw tiut one must fall, | At ouca tiiey Loth fell to, h Tio Indian struok s mighty blow; iy "Tom's good luck it missed the fos; “Tho Tudian was forlory, Tom triod the Indinn o Ty lows om dropped & rock upon Wi toe, And eriished his Indian corn, Do Judian pausnd ¢ (e blow s0 rude 1Tud eaneed him great solfeltude 1fo thought ho would no more iutrude; 2o thought ho'd fly, If nono pursucd ; Lo whito plan oxt Lo lyly viowed, :And tion began to bollor, Tom deomed all Indfus copper-luod, But this ono proved » yellez, “Pom sofzed a 16 to mnke & o Iny the Tudiun fu the du Tho Tudlau ran awsy—. 8o ewit o out his etick, 1o mush “Ttava beew & Ollp-aads And thus waa fought aud won the fight, In which Torm tool great prids “hen Lioms lio wout {0 Sally bright, And won Jier for s brid But on.tbat night his hoir And ifsidl a0 i he died, —Eifitor's Drawer in Iarper's Mugazing for August, e —— The Syrian Sponge=rasheries, Soms intorésling. information, says tho Pall Mall (uzelte, reapooting she Byrion spouge-fish- orica i given by Vico-ConsulJngo (Boyrout) in his commercial report for 1878, just igsued. The totnl value of tho sponges fished on tho coast of Byrio in from £20,000 to £25,000. Tha produe- tion is, howover, falling off ihrough excossive fishing, and the consoguont oxbtmustion of tho fishery-groundy. About 230 to 300 boats ava At present employed in this indusiry on tho coast of Syria, mnned by abont 1,500 men, The con- treg of Proaumqn aro Tripoli, Ruad, Lattakin, and Batroun ou the codst of Mouht Lebanon. 'I'ho best qualitizs aro Tound in the nelghborkood of Tripotl and Batroun; bub the bonts visit all patis: of the coast, from Mount Oarmel in the Aouth to. Atoxandroten in the portd. The ma- Joiity ot the boats used aro ordiuary flahing- oats, throo parts decked over. and_onttying one maat with_an ordinary lug-sail, Thoy aro from 18 ek to 30 foot in loygtly, and are mapned by o crew of ‘four or! flyo mon, .one of whom 18 specially ongaged for the purpose for hauling, ‘while tho rest avadivers, Insome cases the mon owa tliolr own boats, but goncrally they aro hired for the season, which extends from Juno to the middle of Qotober. No wages aro paid; there~ munoration cousists in au oqual share of the rodice of the fishing, Tho profits of » good Bivor ronch: ae bigh ae. 440 & seasow. Diving ¢ cruczlccu from a very carly age up to 40 ycars, esyond which fow aio able to continue the i~ suit. It doos not appoar, howevor, that the practice hias any tendenoy to shortow liYe, although as the diver approuches 40 he 18 lost able to competa with hiy youngerand 1ore vig- orous brotuer. -Tho time during which a Syrian diver onn remain undor water dopends,’of course, on his ago and trmnhx‘;. Sisty secondy 15 rookoned good “work, buv thore are-rare in- stances of men who are ablo to siay Lolow eighty secouds. ‘T'ho men ou the const, however, maka extraordioary statoments as to tho langth of time thoir best hiauda aro ablo to remmin undor wator, and gravoly assert thut eight and ten minutos are not tmpossibilitios, The manuer of diving 8 as follows: The diver,—naked of course,—with an open not around his waist for {ho recoptacle of his prizes, solzes with both Irands an oblong white stono, to whiol {s attach- od n ropo, and piunges overbonrd. On arriviug at the bottom tho atona' is deposited b his feet, and, keeping hold of the rope with one hand, $ho diver gruaps aud forva o tho sponges with- in reach, which he deposits in his not. Ife then, Dby » sories of jorks to tho rops, gives the signal to those above, nud fa drmwn up, No knifo, sponr, or insbrumont of any kind i used, The Byrian diver, unliko his Grook compbtitor, never ibo# tho diviop-droen, having an sty to it an tho neora of ita nileged fendenoy to producs paralysis of the limbs, Two or thred fatal acei dents annuplly oconr, mainly amony: -the-ekiliful and daring. T'ho diver wili quit his bold of the rope and wandor somo distance to secure a prizo, and'on roturning to rerain the ropo will njss the 8pot and bo unablo to find it, - e then attompts to ' riso wunawpisted, - and, being ignorant of the exact_direction, ofton strikes- out dingonnlly, and is drowned beforo ho can yeach the murface. Othor accidonts: apain -lxnwnn from jagged or = pointed rocky, ‘which, besido Homotimes fiunmflnk: tho diver, orten entangle bis rope, and thus in grest flaphm ox- pose him to tho-risk of drowning. Qe depth 10 which the diver deacends varics from five to thirty “brasses,” each squalio an ordinary man's height, Bolow the extreme limit montioned no g\md sponges aro found. In fornier yonrs the yrian const was much froguentod by Greek divers from the fslandu of ‘tho Archipelago, Their number is now restricted to five or six ‘boata aununlly, tho skill of tha Byrisn, combined with his suporiot lmowledgo of the fishing- grounds, cunbling him 40 compote suecossful with lis foroign opponent. Although they sty o0 trnod white, vary much in rlm\m - and slze, sponpes may bo gonorally claseifled as—1, Tho fino white ~ bel-shimped sponge, lmown na tho “ toilot-sponge;” A Tho Iargo roddish vari- oty known as “ sponge do Venius,” or* ¢ bath- sponge.” 8, The conarso, red spongn uned for Tiousohold }mmoam and cloamng. Awo-thirds of tho produce of the Byrian const is purchased by the natlve meschants, who sond it to Burops for eale, wiille tho romaindor is purchased on tbo spot by Fronch ngents, who annually ‘visit 8yria for tho pnrposo. Franeo fakos the imik' of the finoat qualitios, while tho reddish and common spongos - are gent to’ Germany and lin- gland, ‘Phe rovenue derived by Government from thig industry i a tenth of the valuo of tho produce, caleulsted upon the rrlcen Paid to she findors by the traders, and whioh s paid in cnsh bly the former to the tax-farmer on the conofn. sfon of his ealo. —_— A New Kind of Drug, The Dsnnlu*}lan (Vt,) corrospondont of the Troy Presn tells tho followiug Joka on an apoth- ouary there, who is sald to eoll It wuder the name of laudanum: * A sork of simple fellow from Woodterd waa sitliug in the druy ulore the athor day whon & man cawo iu and waid ho did not feel well, and would like some prepared laudanum, The epothiocary wout futa tho buek room aud ‘mspm\d s good-sizad glass, aud the man drank . Woodlord romarked thuk tho fotlow wonldn't hiva long altor tuking so muok laudanum, Pros- ently auothor man cawe in and gob a drink of lundanun. ‘Tho Woodford chnp fotlowed hun to tha door and watohod biw tor & loug'time ns bo wont dowu the steeot, aud remarked, as he canie. inand mat down “Theé follow wlauds it woll 3 Lo murt ba usnd to tuking 1’ Dy and by & third wau camo it aud took & largo dosa of lawdauum aud want out, This rubbed up the dull intallect of tha Waadford man, aud, stepplug_up ta the counter, ho sald : *Hoa hicre, boas, Il take a dowa of that lodlum ; it don’t weem to kill anye body, and folks weew to lika it.' " ¢ SPARKS OF SCIENCE, * A NEW ILANT.. i A now plant, n apecics of tho rmva»f.mily.‘bén _heott dincovarad in Chiua, 'and Introduced tito | Tronoo, Dotanieal mon pronounced it » binck- Berry, which, in follsge and hiabit, it closely re- sembled, Xven whon tho plaut blossomad, s mistako In ita clarsificatioh was neb suspected ;. ‘but, when it camo to frult, it revealed ilio fact. hat it wne really & roso, and not & blackborry. ‘From its nenr sftinities to both this roso aud the binckborry, it lina boon named Rosa wfermedia, and adstgnod a placo betwaan tha dwo, It s clulthed by the advocates of natural salectlon as one of the linke which glva so much forcs to the' {don bf continuous progrossidn, o THE LYDIAN DESERT. An acoount of tho socont: explorations of the Lyblan Dosert wag prosontod 1o tho Lgyptian Instituto ‘nt Calro, Apiil 17, by tlie Director, Gorard Rohifs. . Tho oxpoedition was disappoint- od of its mnin oljoott rosching the Oasla of Kufarah, owing: to an'inlorminablo chain of asnd-hills enclreling ik, which the high winds Lkept shifting, to tho peril of tha dxplorors’ lives. As {6 wns, sixty camols woro lost, . Unsuccessful hiero, the parly turned towards fho north, and, after touclilng ot the groat . Ofisls of Dachol, passcd to that of Slwab, farthor west, A Inrgo mumbor of photographs waro obtalued, among’ which wore vlows of ' tho boautiful Tomple of Ducliel, with its wonderfully-prossryed bioro~ glyphice, f WARTE OF AR, ' QGne-consumors are gonorally ;ignorant of, or indifforont to, tho fact that, whon thore is high prossuro on'the fluid, indicated by s hissing noige, or by the omission of o bine flathe, thore {6 o wasto of matorial with no corresponding in- oreags of lght. Undor thess conditions much of tho oarbon which forms a lnrgo constituout of tho streot-gas, and upon which it doponds for its IMuminating power, passes off bofore it haa iime to obtain from tho atmosphare tho 'oxygen necessory to support combustion, 1lonce thero is & considerablo disproportion between the amount of tho gus-bill and ths light scoured... By nolicing the pressurs on tho gas tha_conatmar may avold any ‘great dogreo efwasto. But a Now- York invontor bas contrived ‘a rogulator ‘whicl, attnched to'the gasometor, precludes all wasto of gns, and thus reduces gas-bills to equitable fig- tires, ' . BEET-ROOT MOLASSEH, Tho Fronch depend chiofly for_ their sugar on tho boot-ragt. * In mauufacturing the product, thore lins bitherto beon a large residuum, In tho form of molassos, which could not bo recoverod, and it was B0 nruscous, in contoquoico of ' ita vilo smoll; as to Do usoless. ' AL Dubrarfant has Intely discovored o process by which this molns- 808 mny be mado to yledd up all' ke saccharine maiter. By sdding hydrato'o? baryta to tho mo- 1asaos, o combination is formed botiween it sud tho sweet principle, and an insolublo substance, called gnccharate or suorafe of baryta is pro- diced. This {a clonnaed of all oxtraicons mat- tors, and i loft porfeetly calorloss, ~ Upou than belng treatod with carbonie aold tho baryta lcaves tho gugar ontirely free. ‘This ia now.subjeoted to claritication, whereby it bocomes parfectly white, oxtremely swoot, and ontlraly froo from baryta. By this process thore is o recovery of {rom 35 to 45 por cout of pure sugar from tho originally-fotid molusses, v 3 © . TIE VELGCIPEDE, The velocipedo, which suddesly buist out with violonco all over our country & few years ago, and thou as stiddenly totally subsided, hag beon oultivaled in Paris, recontly, with n pros- pect that it will bo rendered pesmadontly and ‘practically nseful. Messongors employed in oon- ‘yoylng dispatchos from thoBonrso to tho Contral Telograph Buroau haye monnted ho bicyelo and recelved tho sobriquet of *veloco-men,” A company i forming to placo a Jarge number of volocipedes on the strects. for tho -uso of moa- songera traveling to nil pars of tho city. - Tho Tarisian immmlu are also emplosing tho vohicla in oblaining quick reports, Duriog tho trial of Marshal Bazulvo, tho AMoniteur daily kopb & larzo number of volocipedes ruuping bobween Parig aud Versaillos, Lho_ distuogo;, aboub 12 milos, wan nccomplished f: 45 minutes,—loss time than tho ordimnry twmins coneumo. ‘“The] cavripr-pigeons, - whick |, the - papers: alaso uzad, maka the distance, on clear days, in 13 minulew. A OUNIOUS CONRLSPONDLNOE, Tor fourteen Foars, s Spauish anvant hns been studying the subjeot of the flow af sap in graw- ing vogotation,™ As-the tesult of his investiga- tions, hio puts forth tho thoory that thore is tho samo obb aud flow -in the oiroulation of ‘sap ns in the movemont of tho tides, and that tha action of the two corresponds perfectly in ypoiut of timo, In opplying this theory o- practice, tho oxperimanter claime thab tréos Talled at Jow tide resist tho decaying inlluences of thmo .and weather for a much greator time than do thoso ent during the flow "of the lide. -In pranlng treck ab. tio’ cbb of tho tido and'of the gap, ai equal ndvantage iy claimed. In applying the principlo to ‘orchiards of the olive, orango, limo, and othor fruits, whiol Iind fallon int dooay, it wne found. that, by pruning them whilo the tide was out, their health and fortility woro restored. Tt i also ascorted that treey wo troated are ran- dered exempt’ from the ravages of insocts and diseaso. Exportments mado with dilferont gets of nilh—uwnm,'ronimeuvuiy o on leavos of Lreos treated by the ordinary aud by the new aystem,— {hie losves, under the now system, being gath erod exclusively ab_tho' houra corresponding to the obb tido,—resulted ‘most docidedly in favor of tue latter. i OHEAP ARTIFICIAL ICE. B Tho Columbus (Gn.) Stin ‘teports that the iron- worlks of that oity have porfected. machives by which a supgrior quality of ico, in quantities lim- ited only by the capacity of itho sppavatus, can bo manufactured at a-coat ranging from 75 conty to §2 per ton,—the Jntter being the maximum, #The Columbus :process™ claima to bo an im- ‘provowent upon every other, in point of ctonomy sud Qurability of its apparatus, and in tho juox- povsivences, rapidity,. and simplicity, of tho oporation, . ' Distilled wator ‘is usied, and thio lce is, thereforo, purer thau that cub from standing pondu, ‘Phe wiabhinos are boing . built with a ca- paclty of from .1,000 to 2,000 pouuds per dny, aud at prices: ranging from §06,000. to' $20,000. They can be used in tho wintor at less oxpenss than the cost of cutilng and atoring ico by the ordinary progess, andaro as advantagoous in Northern as Soutbern Iatitudes, Whon artitioial ico was firat producad, in France, it cost 8110 per ion, or B}¢ cents por pound. 'The process pat- onted in Hurape, in 1850, by Prof. 'Fwining, of Oliio, manufactired 6,000 pounds of ics per day, at n cost of 10 por ton, or 3¢ cont por pound. MITIGATIVE TREATMEST OF IYDIOPHONIA. Au encouraging case of mitigative treatmont of hydrophobis is repovted by Prof. Yolli, of Milan, The exporimont was tried on A man who hiad Beon bitten by a mad dog about & month ho- fore, and alraady botrayed fully-doveloped symp- tomu of rables. The romedy employed was hachish, fn 8-frain doscs of the solid oxtract evary four or five hours, The' offoot was immo- diate and favorablo, Comvulsivo roadnoss and fury gave placo to calmnoss aud comfort, and tho patlont Iay on bis bod tranquil “until death, The awful symptoms of tho disoase were ontira- Iy removed,—an offect accomplighiod noither by oplum, morphine, nor daturine. *‘Haohish,” concludos D'rof. Polli, “is, therafars, the bout palliativo and sodative fn hydrophobia, It chiangos & raving, unmanagenble, susplolous, or Bggrensiva manine, who bites and enrdes, into & poor juvalid, coutont apd trw?ull. who' blesses you," Another case of reliof from the agouies of tho disease iu thnt of Dr, Francls Butlor, of Tirooklyn, who rezontly wont mad from the bito of & kick dog ho wan croaling. vory effort mude by the wost skiliru) thluinnu {ulled to mitignto his suflermgs, _Fiiwlly, in his Jnst homrs, Dr. Lorgtie succeedod in forming a blis- tor on hiy broast by meuns of musturd, and, on tho ubraded surfae of the skin, sulphate of morphine was dusted. Tn ten minuten the drug nuted on tho pationt's system, Lhe opiun-doliri- um canie on, and he died poncofully, oxclaiming, toward the last, “ 0! Iam in Hoavon |" ORIUIN OF PLANTH. Tho common garden-pon and the field-poa are natives of the sonth of Europoe and of the lias, Colory grows wild ia most parts of Lurops, The potato camo from South Amorics. Cabbnga faa native of Enropo, growlvg on the rocky shores of Britaln and on thi coast of the Mediterranean, “The onion orixinated either in Inais or in Egypt, in both of which cotntrien it hiag boon cultivated trom time imucinoral, The turuip Is anative of Luropo and Asis, Bpinach was introduced into Burope Ly tha drabs, I'he cusumbor from the middle wmd sonth of Asla, - he tomsto is n naturd produotion of ‘“Tropieal Amorios, Tho worldis indebtod to Asia for the sudish, ‘The beet is hdigouous in the tamporato parts of (e Ol World, “T'he pimpkin and the squask, wupposed to be yariotien of one orig- fusl aneclos, ars natibs of Tropieal Aufa, The boan hins bean in_culfyation from 80 remote a veviod (hat it iu dittiails o dotormine whengo It orlglanted, but it 18 doubifally refarred to the aliores'of the Caspian Hos for itn pelmitiva lo- cnlity.” Maizo ia - supposed to ho o untiva of Amorion, Melona havo nover heon discoverad -in & wild atato, but aro presumed to havo spring yrlmnrlly'-fmm'thc aoil of Hub-Tropleal Asih, Tho srmna donbt obscuron _the origin of lottnes, but lt48'donsidetod wnative of Lho Eost Indles, I'ha paranip firat drow, bronth In England, Tho carrot ji found witd'in mont parts of Eunrono, The homo of the egg-plant in in tho Knat Indies, Bnlsify, of osstor-plant, Iy found in mentlowa ¢hmughonl'lfuropu, l’:\ralo; grows on old walls and wolld in the mouth of Iiuropo. Caulllowor and kalo aro vatiéilon of tho cabbago. r D0 BNAKES BWALLOW, TIEIR YOUNG ? " Ono of the most Iuterosting papera rasd bhe- foro tho Portland maoting of the -American Afe - sookntion for the Advancemont of ‘Belonce ‘was -In answor to tho quostion, *Do Bnaked Swallow Thélr Young " nud waa propared by Mr. G. Mrown Goode,. In order to cliait testimouy're- Inting to tho disputed subjoct. from all available quartors, Mr. Brown _insorted o lottor fn tho * Amherican Agriculturist seking for o rocital of tho faots from any porson who' liad over wit- ,neased the pliengmenon of o gnake awallowing its young. In rosponso to his vaquest L recelv- ‘ed'ovor” oighty lotters f¥om ‘corrdspondonts in twonty-four Stnfes and Provinces, containlng .valunble ovidonco in tho cass. A farmer in Mo-. | olianicaburg, ' O., wrotor *In 1836 I saw, on .the bank of Deor Orook, o large wator-snnge. I procured a pole for tho purposo of kllung’hur. *Ono utrgrm sl:‘(;huv wounded hor, and sho fmme- dintely mnda for the water; aftor slio had swam about hor longts, sho. wheeled, placing hor un- " dor-jaw just out of tlio edge of the wator; then, oponing hot mouth to the fullest oxlent, somo " dozon young snalos, 8 to 4 inches long, séomed toinn, or ratlior Bwim, down hor tbroat; after which elio clumsily turnod in search of a Liding- laco. I opened her, and found about twonty l(vlnq"young snakos,~two or threo 7 or 8 iuches ong U 2 Ag lottor from Chestorflold, N. IL., contalned the followihg : “Xsawa strxrud snake on_tho Millsldo, an@ motlecd_ something moving about for head, and countod twonty littlo snakes, fromn llg to2 mchen long. I maden move, and the _of ono;opencd ber niouth, and thoy wont in out of- night. "I'stopped back and walted, and'in a fow ‘momonts thoy began to como out, Then I made for tha old sndlkic-and killed ber, snd forcod dut. Boyoral" . A gontleman in Goorgotown, 8. 0., teroto that, “while trying to cn‘)hnu & Inrgo moceasin, ‘*sho gove o shrill, whistling noiso, and five yotmng #nalios ran from under o log, and ran dbwn tho throat of tho old one, Wo ecut off hor head, and fonnd tho fivo young ones, which mado ofrortd to gob piny.” - o ' A formor in osondale, N. Y:, wroto: “I was ono dny.mowing, and, coming’ cloge to a - smooth, flat rock, I thonght I naw ns many ns o @ozon, snakos on it. . X ran for a fork which was “standing within a fow yavds, and, whon I cama ‘baolz, thoro was only- ono suako ot tho roek, I strmek it bn tho back, whd sovoh snekos ran out of tho moitth,” . A farmor-in Nowburyport, Masi, wrote that ho“sawv o largo striped” suske sunning itscl? “on o vock. n making & movement, ¢‘Tho old -snilio opened hor moiuth_ldo, tho 1ittlo snnkes ' town hor throat, and thon she disappenred §n the shelving rock. I ropgated tho experimont & number of days, to tho aama offect.” ' _ Bnch is tho tenor of the testimony which Mr. Brown ‘secnred from uutrainod obadrvers, Mo -oonfhrm this evidgnco, Lo recoivod conemrront ‘dtntomontn 'from a numbor of naturalists and mon of acienco; ~ Prof. Bydney L, Bmith, of the Bhefiold Sclentifio Sohoo), “saw n ribbon-sunke, about 2 foet long, nccompaniod by two yonug onos, of $ or 4 inches. paront, they fliu‘nY onred down its throat. The parent 'was C kdlled, ‘and two ran out of - tho ‘mouth, - while . & third was found alive in tho body." Dr. Edward Palmor, -when in Paraguny with the * Wator-witeh * ox- ‘pedition, v some soven yuun?' ratticsunkos run -into thofr psront's month, Aftor it wns lullod, thoy alt ran out. Theso suakes, parent’ snd brood, ars proserved in the Unitad Statol Nation- a1 Musoum, Washington, Amuliitnde of strong ovidonco -Jiie this whs accummlated . by Mr, Brown, and consitered by him covelvsivs proof -ihat cortain apecton of aunkos are in the habit of swatlowing their_yonng for their protection in cano of danger. Dr. Jeifrics Wyman, Praf, Gill, and othor phyaiologlsta, declare thoro iy no roa~ ‘won’ wiy the meg sunked may not live for o “timo +within tho. stomach of the perent, It iy diftioult tosmother » reptilo, and it is well known t{llt ho ‘gastrio ‘tissue acts. feebly upon living B8u08, 3 —— HARVEST. Broet, aweol, sweet, -~ 18 the wiud's soug, Astfr in tho rippled wheat ' Al da; g loun. It hath the brook's wild gayety, . 'The sorrowful cry of thesca, ., Ob, hush and Duar| Srcot, aweet, aud cledr, Above tho Jocust’a whirr,, ‘And hum of bee, isos that sott, pathetio barmony, Iu the meadaw-prary o funocontvhito dalsies blow'; The dandelion-plunie doth pass Vaguely to sud fro— ‘Thio tiqult spirl of o lowor ' That hatl t00 brfef an bouz. **Kaw datt a little cloud, all whits .. & Or golden-brighty Drist down the warm-blus sky ; .Aud ziow on the hiorlzou-line, Whoro dusky woodlands g, - A sunuy wist dolh shido, - Tiko to'a voll before u holy shrins, . Conveallug, : > * Thalfreveniing g <. Things divine, . . - . . Bweet, aveat, sweot, . .- “Ta ihe wind's song, © - Aatir i, the rippled whead, deylowy, . That exquisite rausta calls ‘e Feapor evecywhorc— Lifo und death must vbare, Tha goldan Larveat falls, o doth a1l end— Houored Philvsophy, “Béiece und Art, 1 The Lloom of tila heatt i Aaster, Cousoler, Friend,” . 3ulso Thou e inrvest of our days o fall within Thy ways, —Nelly 3, Hulehinson n Seribner's for, August, e L Lo & The Rich Men of Britain, . ° Amillion of British pensants are roported jlt ot onzo, and {ho reador will not wondor that it is 80 in tho fuce of surrounding facts, lor exnam- ploy the Euglish -County of- Bast Sugsex hag 800 squaro wiles, and s almost oxalusively the roperty of the Duke of Richmond and tho nvon of Lechflold, ''he young Mavqunis of DBute Las an income of £300,000 a yesr, and not long sgo bis agent spont nearly £3,000,000 in re- paiving and sitering his magnilicont manor and ostuto’ of Crichton Mount. Btuart, tho Marquis’ rosidonos near Cavdill. Afr. Bright once instancod; the case of a nobloman with an mcome’ of - £120,000, who annually spent 1£40,000, snd lnld down the remaining £80,000 in ¥ rounding " his proporty, by buying -up’ eve arcol of gropnd contiguuns to Lis ostate whicl Eu could ‘induco tho owners to soll. Au artigle Iu Zarper's gives about & score of names with tha following invomoss = .Ono-quartor of Svotland .ia ownod by eight noblenicn, of whom the chief are tho Dukes of. . Hamilton, Bucolouch, snd - Buthorland, {he, Marquis of . Bulo, snd the Iurl of Dreadalbane, The . Duke of Westmiustor, bosidos. Bolgrave and Jaton Bquaros, and o large part of tho fashionsblo quarter of Wesimfunter, owng the magniticent manor of Laton ilall, near Chestor, Mnlkin Houss in Tlintshire, and Motcombe Houne in Dorsetahire, onub gurrounded Dy thousauds of ncres, The Duke of Bedford owna the group of aquures in that coutral part of London callod . * Blooms- ‘bury; " wlso Covent Garden Thoalze and Covont Gordon Alarkot, mauy strosts leading from the Hirand on eithor wilo, snd blocka of housos at tho West End,.and ouo of the most apjoudid of Tinglioh varpl estatos ab. Woburn® Abboy, ‘The Earl of Derby owna almost aquare miles of blocks in Liverpool and Knowlsley, his anoou- sral couniry-sent in largor than most Now Lngiant townships, The Dulte of Suthorland is ablo to ride by rail from sunsluo to nundown on his Beottish catatos, and hau five notablo castlos,— Duurobts, Houso of Tougue, Trontham, Lilles- hally and Chifdon, - The Duliejof Devoushira is tho Jord of ofght oastles, all of which aro rural palaces it for royally, awmong thewn peerlous Uhutawortls aud Hardwicke 1Iall . In Loudon he hag & residence on Picadilly, whero land can bo worth Woarcely lems than L1D » . square foof, _ surronnded by ' gat- done, Ahe Earl of Dudley, Eavl “Brown- low, tho illiterato ‘Duko of "Portland, Daron Portman, the Duke of Northumberland, tha Earl of Aborgavony, the Marquis of Ballsbury, tiis Doke .of Iutland, nud Marquis Camndon knyo jmmonse rural proporties, ouly exceaded in valuo by the gnarters thg own in contial pavés, Fha Dulio of Bucolouch liss ton castlos, - pavh of whivh # liberal domestio establish- movt iy kept up all (ho year. ‘Tho Seottish Tinrls or Manefleld, Stair, and Glasgow posses oach fiye uastles, vast nud spacious edificos, 4ho centren of splendid esiated, which sra o & considorablo degree shut off from cultivation, aud weod an doer-pake aud hunting-grounds, On a hiss from tho' FAMILIAR TALK., "~ i 'A TATHETIO INOmENT, - Mintwood,” tho Patls . dorrupondont of tho, ‘Now Yorl Graphic, relates a patlivie incldont of ‘thd actroes Blancha"@'Autigny, whidy hos boon Tovived sluco lior rocont doath. Lils tho ma- Jority of Fronch notresses, Diancho lod-an ime. - moral iifo, and yot shie was not destilute of kina- neey and dolleacy, a8 tho present anocdoto cettifien. Whon Luco, nn netor, and her ol leaguo at tho Folio Dramatigue, bocamo il and died, Blanche ordered lor earriago, and, waiting upon tho Onshior of tho thentre, nsked for an advanco of 100 fiancs on hor snlary. Tho Cashlor at firat troated her raquost na o joko, hall his paglant, or porto, which paginnies wosre gl neattold Wit 5 rowmen, & BIGHOT i B Towory wupon 4 wheoles, I {hio lowor thoy poparseliod ther welves, and {u tho Lighor rownue thay played, Letog oit opon on Liig tope, that nll belioldors sulghio hearo and sco thom, Thy pinces wiiore they played them wa cyory airaste, Wiiey Dogan st at (i vy gates, and wheti the Deale naglanto won played, it was wheeled ta the Liglie crosso lefors tho 1Anyor, and 8o to overy streatos aud #0o overy stroet hiad n paglant plove ino biforo thom st otie timo, 41l all {he pagtantes for Wio dsyo appoynted woro played: sud when plo pogiuite ‘wwn meero emdsil, ‘wordo wia hrouglite from " sircclo to nirccte, tiat mow thu mizhts como jn piaco thercof, oxecdlngo orderlyo, and all (ho strentes, liavo thelro Pagianien nforo thon t anatme rsélugs fomeatlier ; 1o w0 whioh plasra s preets esorle, and also seafoliies and atagen made intha ulrectca n (hoss places whore thoy determined to yiayo tlieiro pagianics, Tlio plays woro divided among tho bivonty-four kunowing Lor abundant resourcos, “But I was uaver more sfucers in my kifo" sho urged, ‘* Int this 18 o Alraugo raquest,” roplied the Cashior ;. " you have only to eclfona of thoso,” ‘pointing to tho dismonids in hor ears, *to ro- oltze 10,000 francs.” “ Oh{ X know thnt," aho gried, loivoring hior voil to bide hor toars ; * but ivant tho money to Wity flowora for poor Tace’s grave, aud for thoso I can only pay manoy bons astly carnod.” KNIONTS TEMPLAT. Tho mhitary aud roligious Order of Kulghts Templar was founded in Jorusalom early in tho twoltth ‘contury, by the vonorablo IMngh do Dagavis and Gaoflroy do S8t. Omar. Baldwin 1L, Kiug of Jerusalom, gave them o habitation on Mo south side of tho church angd convont of Bolomon's Tomplo, snd the Cdnons of tho Tomplo ndded sufieiont land on which to erect ofilces. Tho first {nlont of tho Order was to procuro the romisslon of sins by protecting tho Holy Sopulchre, and kooping socuro from rob- Liors tho ronds tlirough whick pilgrims paaned to Jerusalom. Nino yonrs after tho cstablishmant of the Ordor, it recoived n codo of laws from tho Council of Troyes, and was invested with o white bablt by Topo Iloworlus, Aftor- wards, in tho ‘thme of Pape Rugenius, o rol cross wes sowed on tho mantles ‘a8 & furthor badge of distinction, Tho Kuights, who ot firat were but nino, vapidly inorengad i numbars aud in wealth, Immeounse do- nations were made Uiem in all tho provinces of Cliristondow, and mon of the highost xank wore Pm\u! fo boar thair titls, According to tho orig- nal rulo‘of tho Ordor, its membors were bound to live in go[mtunl chastity and_sbslinonco from luxury, After the c&e:bnm of Jerusslem by the Bavacons, tho Knights spread over all Buropo, and fu ovory country wore under tho control of & Govornor, called “tho Master of iho Tomple, As thoy incrensod in poyer -and prospority, thoy decroasod in virtuo, until at Inub thoir arrogance, oxtravagancs, and vico, renderod (hem univor- sally obnoxious, The Ovdar was fnnlly sup- pressed {hroughout Buropo in 1812, by a deoros of'tho Council of Vionna, aud its proporty Lo “atowed on tlie Kulghta of 8¢, John. MTBTRIILS AND MIRAOLE-PLAYS, Ono of tho oarliest alluxionn to o seonieal vep- resontation in England is found in the Chroniclo of Matthow Parla, Thiu suthor was o membor of the old Bonediotino monastery of 8t. Albans, which was founded in 796, by Offa, King of Morcin, in honor of the martyred St. Allian. Parls becamo a monk in 1217, aud in 1235 succoeded Roger of Wondover as anualist of tho monaslery., Hia duty in this offico was to record tho notablo events of . tho day, and, being o man of learning, observation, and veracity, Lis history 'of the pericd in which Lo wroto is rogarded as tha bost that has como downu to us. Tho origlual -manuccript was {n Tiatin, and coples and sbridgmonts, which Paris mado with his own hand, avepreerved in tho libratles of tho Dritlsh Mugoum axd Corpus Clristl Col- logo at Cambridgo. . Sovoral translations of his bistory hiava boon publinied ; in ona of which, tho edition of 1684, oconrs the casual statowont that, whilo Geofiroy do Goshen was foaching ‘| on'the patienco and resolution of tho student school In Dunstable,—n littlo town, since noted 88 the principal soat of atraw-pliling i In- gland,—~ho produced the miracle-play of t. Cutherino, borrowing capos from the monantory of Bt. Albavs in which to drews tho characters, I'ho buiiding in which ths play wes perferned tool fiea during the xupresontation, aud thus, at the very dawn of the linglish stago, o conflagra- :i«m am& tho thoatra ore jvauspleiously associsted -together, n 1110, tho ohroniolor informs wus that Geoifroy, -being thon Yrior of. Bt Albang, was mndo Abbob of the mouastory. 'Fhis position was ona of considerablo oleva- tion, “as Abbots st that day had seats in .the Houso of English Peers, and the Abbot ol 8t. Albany took precedence of ull others in tho Tingdom. AgGeoflroy was still o scoular at the timo he ncquited iminortality by introducing theatrical exinbitious injo Evgland, e must fix iho dato of tho representation of Bt. Cathorine -noar the beginning of the twollth contury. 'The preciveyear, howaver, eannot now be detexmined, a8 no writor of tho poriod seems to have loft it on rocord. Geoflroy was anative of Franco, and tho play of *8t. Catheriue™ was porformed jn Tronch; houca it has boen conjoetured that ho Gilher fmportad the pieco from lits own country, or borrowed the ides from somo earlior models exiating thero. Dut this is pure hypothosis. No faols are exinut fo establioh itw truth, A play onlitled Tl Wiso and Foolinh Virgine,” wrilten 10 a mixture of Latin and Provencal, and roferred to tlis oloveuth contury, is tho oldest spocimen we lnvo- of the Fronch druma, bub theyo i no positive evidonca that it, or any othor piny, was' ropresented in Frauco prior to the production of **5t. Catherine” in Dun- stablo, Althongh thess rchgious drames had heconio common in England before the closo of tho twolfth conlury, it is sappused that nons were composed or performed in Lnglish prior to the fourtconth century., Much obecuriby rests upon the history of the English atugo in’ its infancy, and thero is & gosd deal of confusion, if not positive conflict, in' tho statements of differcnt writors who havo at- tompted to throw light upon it. Meavy drafta aro needod to reduco tho puzzling aud dofectivo ‘chroniclea to anything liko a olear aud coumstont narrativo. In the diny doybreak: of tho drama, & simple sort of dinloguo in Latin appears aniong tho scholnstic oxorcisos in convonts. Thess woro enacted by the youngor monks in ‘tha courso of church-servicos on partioular fos- tivals, and wore witnessed by mixed andionces; made up of sccnlars and ‘ecolesiostics, 'Che earliest examples of tleso primitive compo- sitions mow kuown are threo plays wril- ton in I'rance, in the beginning of tho twolfth century Dby Milariug, an En- lishman, apd a pupil of the famous Abolard, o subjocts of tho plays are tha raising of Lazarus, o mirecle of Bt. Nickolas, and tho his- tory of Danicl, From such rude dramatlo piotures wore de- voloped tho raliglous spectaclos clistacterizod #s miracle-pluys and mystoriea. Tho subjeols of tho formor ‘were the legonds of the Buints ; those of the latter, which woro intended to ex- emplify the mystories of tho Cliristian roliglon, woro tho prominent episodes ol Bible-history, Tho miracle-pleys enjoyeid the greator favor with the peopls,—pouslbly beeattso the per- sonages represontod appronched mora_olodoly in their lives to Luman experience, Tit:-Ste- phou, in his life of Thomas a-Boclet, 1183, de- weribos the roprogontation in London of tho suf~ Jorings and _martyrdom of tho Confessors and Baiuta; and Piors Plonghman, Chaucer, and lute writors, allude to tho trequent ouourrouce of sacred plays in the fourtoenth contury, Tho original n\!’jut of theso specbicicn waa to communicate religious instruction to- the igno- rant populace, and to increngo and extend tho influenco of the Church. On all high relizions fostivals, ‘pinys wero prosontod i illustra- tion of _tho. personsge or event come momorated, On the day of a particular Baiul,—s8, for :iustance, Ht. Catherino,— tho scenienl story of his or lior Iifo was en- aoted, and by thls wmenns ita incidonts and mornt wore deoply improssed on tho minds of tho anudi- tors, On tlic instiution of the featival of Uorpus Christi, by Pope Urhan 1V, in 1204, mlmlo.{ pluys uad tnyslories formed & rogutar part of_its colobration in eyery considorable town in Xin- glaud. Yor somo timo those pinys woro oxclu- sively performod by olorks of the parish nnd monks; but, n the flfteonth cantury, if not onr- lier, their ropresonintion was, hu pars or whole, sonduoed by Jaymon, in the open air, The spec. tators, who assomblod in grent crowds, oithor purchaued ihoir soats, or paid for the entortain- want by way at a callootion which way takon up for the purpose, ‘'hree cowplote colloctions of the En. giish juystories hinve desconded to the present doy, Theee aro known as the Cheator, Coven- try, and Tawnley plays, The fleat tiwa wora publishod by the Bhaksnears Sociaty, of Loudon, wnd the ihind by the Surta Bociety, Tho Chester traden of tho city, a3 stated in tho Banos (prace Inmation), which woroe * roads beofore tho ha- glmingo of tha playonof Chestor, 4 Juno, 10007 ‘Tl order foke, na doclaro to you I hall, That by twoniy-foyor ocoupatious, asics oraties o mif#torle, p Theso pagentea shouldo Lo Played, after breefo ro hoarall For everye yagonto s eariags to bo provyited withall, Tho firast play, “Tho Fall of Lucifor," wag performed Ly the tanners; the rocond, “'I'hy Creation and Fall,” by the drapers; the thizd, Noali's lood,” by tho wator-carriors; and sg on througls tho list. This custom of aesigning tho difforont parts of o pluy—for these twonty-four Oliostor pinys wera roally but parls of ono wholo—is por- potuated by Blikspeare {n * Midsummer- Night's Droam," whoro, in tho play within the piny, Quinco tho carpentor, Snug tho joinor, :23?:“ tho weavor, otc., sseumo tho soparata The stapo-dirootions seattored throngh tha Ohoster pinyn ivdiento that complicated mncling- ry wns omployed in those rudo pagoauts, In the olay of *“Tho Aecension” wo road: “ Thon Josus asconds and dsconding sings, *God Al mighty ahove. " Mr, Bhovp, in hin * Dissortn. tion on: Pagonnts,” quolus pnssnpes from old purish and town-rogistorn, which roveat tho earo taken in such performancos to produco propoer stage-affects, Among theso records aro tho fol- lowing accounts of expendituro s * Ttom, payd for mendyng holl monglt, {Jd,"—* Tiow, payd for halpyg of fyor ot hofl mothe, Hifd,"—and Jayd for settyng the werld of fyor, vd." Tho sacred plags weys, from the fmg:lnnlng, o favarlto specles of rolig{ohs amusomont with tha highar a8 well as lower classos, and Royalty itsolt wan ofton In attoudance upon thom, Queen Lloanor, tho consort of Honry IT., wad especiale lyfond of these primitive entortainmonts, Wills iam of Dlois, an_Abbot, wos Mnstor of Revels at tho Court of King HMonry, and compased sll tho mystorics and miracles shich woro performed beofora thefr Malostiea by elubs and stue dents of divinily, at Westmiunater aud Winches ter palacoa. In 146G, Queon Marqares, the un~ fortunala wifa of Ifoury VL., visited Coventry, whero gho saw _“allo tho pagentos ploydo save domesday, which might not bo pleyda for lak of day." Duriug tho colabrated entorlaiumont of Queon Jlizaboth at:Kenilworth in 1576, # coc- tain good harted won of Coventras® cnacted thoir playa in tho serigs which wero performed in hor honor. Ao thogo pageanta becoma popularized, an elo~ mont of buffaonory was introduced into thom to Heeuro the grontor amusement of tho peoplo, aud ihoy gradunlly Jost thelr puroly ratigiaus tone. Tho ‘Cownley mystorios ara especially noted for thefr burlesque character, and ara full of dull hits at tho follicy of tlia timo, and of seonen ealoulated to oxclto mirth. Despite the gradual dogeneracy of theso oxhibitlons, aud the oftsn-sovero opposition which they mab with from rigid Churchmon, they continued fn full forco till the boginning of the sevontosnth con- tury. Tho followors of Wycliffo cried loudly ngainst thom, at tho end of (hie fourtconth con- tury, and Lo Puritans strovo to put them down in tho sixtconth cuulu{y; and alill thoy hald thotr own baroly. The Chestor plays wero pare tinlly proseribed after tho Iloformmtion; bul, in spito of iuterdicts, thoy contimued to bs acted atb intervaly, k: in momo of tho remoto disirlets” of England, whoro tho stories of 8t. Georgo, the Dragon, ang Heolzebub, aro rudely roprosonted by tho peamantry, In the Alpiho vart of Germaony, passion-plays nre still porformod nearly overy spmmor, in the primitlve stylo of purity and nlmghcuty. Tho fawous myatory of ' Kn Passion of Qur Suvlor, which is ropresentod overy tenth ianr Ly the \'llln;a)ru of Oboramworgan, in the uvavian Lighlands, i a notable examplo of the anclent roligious drama brought dowin to our ewnday. LOVE'S CHOICE. Do you remember, dear my love, Our parling (o the twiliglit-lare, ‘When boghter than tho slsrs above Youe oyes uhono through thlr dowy rata, And niade mo ray gooid-byo again, And lield e, that I could not move 2 Tgo fond to grieve, too sad fo amtlo, T yiclded {o thelr shont powor j— And was {8 but » breathing-whilo, “Qr was it trough & spell-bound hour, 1 kinged your face, un upturned flower, Wiioso Bweetnosd didl my soul begulla? And then T gald, * Farowell, my sweet “Fhe o hias como and wo hiust part ¢ Bty throngh (ho long yeary ora wo mef, Whafeh will you beut Within your hieaxt To camfott you when T deyiartem Remembranes, or oblivion eet? #—A memory of ol the bliss ‘That mao tho Nlying tours so bright, From tho fivst 1mid, trembiing kiss T dared (o givo you ono dear night, Loat i viriow of delight Dow Lo the pesfect Joy of ts 7 “~Forgetfulness of all tho pain “what liuppiest lovors lourn to know— Tho doubis thuk como xnd come sgala, The hisunting fears that will not go, The vagrue. falnt hill prossgivr Woey Unconquerod by lovu's proud dfsdain § #=Wiicl would yon have, sweot ? Now decids, Forgottea pain, rowentored joy 7 Al dearest 17 then you sald, nnd sghed, “ Love's puin i3 hut o brlel annoy, But rleh delights that novey cloy Aro to his weizories allied, # Then bid my eart love Joy retotn, Aud gum feiicity in By, ‘That all s Lroaaiires eUL romatn ; aall £ 16D piatShg I A Tl retvombes a¥ (s Fich 17 —Eata Hiltard (s Leypssotta agazne for August, e Relizioun Fronzy Amowngy the Lapps. A writor in anDinginsh magasine asys, In speake Ing of sorvice in & Luapland ohprch: “It secms tlat within the Jasb few yosrs n ¥ind of fanuti- cism has orapt in mmong theso Logps, and the Waord of God, instead of *parring oil upon a ‘ruised splrit,’ a3 every ovs i tauyht Lo believe who will rend ‘tho Seriptuvon uright, only fills them with Imagiuary terros ; and, far_difforent from tho orcod of the real Chrisvian, thoy sewm 0 hink the best ntonemont they can mnke for their niny hes in outward show. I have seon littlo of this in othor churchen m Bwedon, whero »b certaln parts of tho servies the women sll commonto gronning and sobbing 0 loud that you can senrcoly hear ho olergy- man, ‘This, howevor, soon paeses off, and 18 nonroely worth noticd, Theus Lnpps, howorer, must bavo boen far wmore suscopuibls, or far ord wioked, for all at once, whon the commun- ion gorvice bogan, two or throo women wprang up in difforont parts of ths chureh, and com- moneod froutically jumping, howling, shiiok- jug, and elnpping their hands. I observod ono midite-nged” fomuln partienlarly energotiv, and sank down in a kind of it aftor about five_mins utes’ exortion, ‘I'he infection noon spread, and in o fow winuten tivo-thivds of _the congregation ¢ Joined In tho ery,’ and all onlor was ot an ond, Tivo or six would cluster round one ndividual hugging, kissing, wooping, sud shrieking, til I mnl("n\n\mmwmw ono would bo smothered Ono old patrinroh in partioular, who sat closo bes liind e, soomold an” objsel of pooulinr vonsra~ tion, and tho Lapps crowded from all perts of the churoh to hug him, 1Tow o stood it T can- nob imagino: but ho sat meokly onough, and at one timo I counted o less thau soven misorable siunors hangivg about tho old raan, all shrisking andl_wooping. Tho veligions orgies of tiso wil aborlgines i Australia round thoir campilre are are nob balf so frightful as $his scoue, for thoy at loast do not desoeraio a placo of worship with tholr mad caronsnls.” St M A Iforso Attnciied with Hydrophobin, Tho Livorpool Daily Albion says: A re. markable case of hydmrhobln lins"oconrred at Ttobert Town, Liverpoo, nesr Dowsbury, On tho 10th of iast May » mare, the property of Y.dward Wnlkor, farmor, wad bitten by & sinall Dlack-and-tan torsior dog, which was soon to run {uta tha stable in which the maro was Tocuted. Blr. Walkor drove it away, and, slthough ho fols lowed it, lost _sight of it {n ono of the Iauos of collootion compriven twenty-four plnys, which wore, for sovoral conturies, annuaily performed by tho trading-companies of the city st White suntids,—the first nine being roprosouted ou the Moudax, {ha second nina on tho ‘uesday, :nfl tha romaluing soven ou tho Wednosday, Po Archdoacon logors, who witnessed the playa in 1694, wo aro indobtod for au intorosting descrip- {1on 0f the manner in whio they were soprosont= od, 'Fhe following extract from hia account will ba enjoyed, not only for the curions informalion it givew, bub also for tho quaintnes of ita ntylo s Pho wanes ¢f Hike RIeH WEATS, SYSX combauy the yillage, Half ap houe afterwards the dog rotarnod o the stabla aud again enapped nb thi mare, wheraupon sho Lkicked, On the 24 insk the hovso's lower lip beannta vory much swollen, and Mr, Buniner, veterinary surgeon, having boon oallod in, ho treatod for a disoass known aa thq ‘straggies”’ On Mondey night, however, the aulmal becamo vory violent, and snappod und big at evorything within her renolt, Ulllmn:nly Ahe oxhibitod 21l the symptoms of bydropliobia, n‘:.l? vfrux;’nlrysu'r en:\nl prnualllul.'lml that she war sullering from thia disoage, aud conyoquent! who way shot { Eal A xolio of tho miraclo-play mny yot ba foung