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10 T LITERATURE. Sinyery iy Mavsnchusetts, NOTES ON ik JUSTORY OF SLAVERY 1N MASSACHUSE, By tronu 1L Moous, Li= brurlan of thy ork Historkeal Hoeiuty, ele, 8 You, P, 250, New York: Dy Appleton & Co. Tho ottention of our readers huying boon recontly ealled to two Important and valuable works lately publistied on the subject of Amorl- can Slavory, it bus ocourred to us that it would not be inapproprinta Lo continue our survoy of the interesting Lavmo by o toview of the book which hends this colunm, albeit seversl yours bave elapsed siico it fivat challongod pubhio no= tico. TLo olort of My, Moore to prosont a full and Impartial bistory of Slavory in Massochu- gotts hina boen nobly accomplished, ' collec~ tion of facts which o tin massed togotlier, nud tha frreststibla chalu of ovidonce which ho Ly constructod from them, give proof of an wntie- ing capacity for inquiry, of u keon perception of the meaning aud boating uf ovents, and of & slrowd judgment of Lheir valuo, ‘Lhaxo ura tho fise grews gualities ot hivtorian, and command the coufidence and admirainon of tho eador. With all this stroupth, however, which wo w0 widingly cowuwend, Mr. Moors oxhibits o singlo wonkhesst o ULetrays sn un- mistsuabio bitteness of fealing toward Massa- clusutts, ‘Luils nover loaus him to the siighteat misinterpretation of o tuct. 1o is houesty itwolt 1 lis diposal aud iranslation of testimo- ny; bul, when it touds to overthiow the boase of Massnchusotts that sho bas led the world it Ber vindieations uf the rights of the cuslaved, Lo is openly aud undonisoly glud of it. Tho foellug provoably springs Lrom the rivalvy Lotween Now York and Bostou, aud from tha very humen tondonuy to rejuico over the ortilication ofa couculted vorghbor ; but—ulthougl the londor mercly smilos i amusemony over tho oxbibiivn —ut Lad botter, for the diguity of bistory, bave boen suppresscd, As onrly us 1633,—only thirteon years aftesthe landiug of the Pigruns vn Viynand fRoaeky— tinces are fonnd of Sugro-duvery. i dlassachi- sett, They phunly occur in Uio nanutive by Woud, s wis ** N. £5. Lrospect,” of che fright of cer.aih Indisus, Who, seolug o negro 1 the top 0f u Lo, toukk biim 1ur the Dovil, uid, pusuing to tho Euglish, cutreated them €0 subjure him back Lo s own place ; nid they, * nuding him 10 Lo & pour, Windbniug bintsituor, conuustud Dim (0 dis wuster,” But, prior to taut thae, an cecuslongl taapsgrossion of o luw Lud beon pitistiedd by e soid into slavery, nd the Tuscution of humun vonduge had voe estilisied by the vnsiaviig uf Linduss captined i war, Db the Lequot War of 1637, —winel resulied in the tutal extorminsiton of bab tribo, —it wus the babitual custom of the Colonists, Tounaed upou the pracace uf tho Lrachtes to- wards Lhe conquered Huathen, 40 soud the cay- live T sdan ey, womon, aud eluldron, to i Wast iudios 1o ho nold ns slavos, or to dispose vt thor for tho sauie puipose among tas English towns, or uYoU amwag other Lnuines who woro their deudly onvimos, At the tume of King Vialip's War, the piisoners taken were dis- tributed in tho sawe wauner, and Luudrods were sut 1 Spon aud the Bexmudas, o sold ut hune. Muny of thow, trusting 1 thy Peotnisus of tuir Lieatment whith Lhoy roceived how the Bugheb, voluntorily survendered tucmevives, wnd werg then treaeherously constgued to lifu-long boud- ngor In AuT6,—tho lost year Lut aue ot tha war,—the wito and son of Kiug Puilip fell o the hunds vt the whited, Edward Lverout has selated, in one of s eloqueut orations, their Kubsogtient Distory iU burniug woras, whichh wo Wt avie: Aud what was tho fato of Philip's wifosud bis son 7 1 30 0 s £OF Itsatits anid Wity Tl (aFCU(s wd civlaren, Youug men unid women, you cantiot undor. Sl e Wil s o fuloof Pbs wite und ehild 7 Sue 1% o wom, bo 18 8 lud, Tuoy did uot surey N0, that wonld liave veen ey, Fho s, his mother thy - dunghieriu-law, ssoft, L fivst and Lost friend tho Lngiish ove In New Bugluud, Vorhups—pethups Do Vialip i slain, sl s wastors scutiered to iz fony witkg, ey Wil low his wito aud son o go Biskerth widow siid the orpuuu—io el theit days anl sortows fu their native wilderaess, Tuoy uro Gold dn Shivery,—West Indfun Suvery f=uu Tidian prineess una e chili, Boid from sl ol breazes of Mouut Lope, fiom e wild ircelom of o New £ EAl fotum, 1 gawp ander tho Lish, beneath thy bl ing san of e Yropics | uy deathy? nye, Ditter us Lot? I there anythang—1 do not say Tango of uinicy—m thero auythivg sulmaed it WOULQ BuL i st this 7 After the death of King Philip, 400 Indians who bad taken 1eluga with fnendly tribes word delivored over to the Bnglish, Seven or eight of Lhiem wore condenmed to bo hanged, nud the ro- smunder were sold inta slivary 1 foreign purts, hie conditions whieh suzranadod the Indian i borvitude weto thy samo as hosd from which the the nogro sufored ; tud, 1 4l logal cuactients pertaining Lo Shwvery while 1e extaced in Massus clinetts, 1ndinus, nogroes, and mulatioes Wory Buwied together, 3 e tiust Colonind vessel that ongaged in tho slav {o way tho Sulem ship Desico, wlich, Feb, 26, 1638, sasiod imo Boston Harbor wich s eargo uf cottoy, tobuecd, aud negrosd. Trom this tane unul 1733,—eight yers alier the adop- tion of the Stute Constitution,—the elavestrali enjoyed the lugal sanclion of Massachusotis, uud ber etizews pursued it ot their pleasure, o eurtioet rocoud of un atiemps ub broeding plaves in Amoriea is dated 1639, und is mado of Mr. Muyerick, of Kuddle's Island, vhose negroes wore probubly » portion of the cargo brought by the Blave-ship Desire, Tlo first satule establishlng Slavery i Amerien i embodicd iy tho fawous Cude of Tundamontuls, or Budy of Liberties of the Mas- Lusetty Cotouy iu Now Bngiand,—the st code of laws of that Colony, savpted 10 Docom- Der, 16EL, e eode was originnily published JunhureTIDt, and tio Y1st article reads a8 foilows: i hare shnll wever bo any boud-sluverie, vilia. sge, ov eaplivitie, amongst us, unlesd 1t Lo Jawtull cuptives Gilis 0 just sars, aud sueh slottgors ws willingly sell themnelves or are suld 1o us Aud thess shall have ail 1ho liborties aud Chit un u-uges which the dnw of God o: tabdished du beracll conenruing wuch persowmi ducth morslly reguire. Liiis osempts nono.from servituds who ehull be judged thoreto by Aue thoritie,” ‘Llis effcetually dispuses of tho vanut, 50 olten repeuted Ly bor disingiished writars, Jurpets, and staiesmen, this * No perdson wis Byver born tht legil slavery in Mussachusetts,” Lu the seeond priuted caitivp of this eude, pubbished in 1660, the snmo arueloappoury ngain with o hitlo duterent wording, 1u 1670 the code Wi earalally peruced and oxamined for the kane of waendmen., by n committes appoiied 1o the duty; and the stazute tuehing Sluvery was lett nnaltered, e: i it amutical construg. ton. N allumon whatovor was e (0 ite por- pert thut wonki mdieate uny dissutistaction thus ¢ oty Ly part oF vho Colopists with bao * peeu- i * Hir avscitition ™ which bad beon imposed pon {hiem by the it cited Ly ) Mother Coctiry, Ampio ovidence Muoro, [romm the nreluves of Mus- =how (hat the childien of sluves conmiddored o proporty of Lho' ownors of L weto houd or sold the’ suntuay Ll i ubo o rlaves in Massachusetts way glow, until tuvuius the cluze of th suveutesntl ceury, Lueco i tos'iuony from - soverat Bources that, in 1670, taeie worw uou nbove LU glaves i thy Coluny, and that not more taun tive o1 BIX il Wors o1 there wibunily. | In 1720 the uumsor of shives was ket dows ae 2,000, in- cluding u Tow Ludiany, In 1735 thore were 2,600 Wogrots in the Province, In 1742 thera Wero 1,51 m ton alene. In 1761-'5 the cousus gheo 5,709 5 W 1776, 5,219 3 sud in 1790, 6.001, ‘I'he treatment Lo wluch the Mns-achuseite wlaves woro subjoctod difterva but little from tiul to Which thuy weie lianle everswhoro i sitwler crcumstances, Lhora woro irlons for their prosection in the liwa of tuo Colony but tho eilizens of Mussuchusotis were no more to bo trused witn the vwnersnip of thair follow men (han the citizens of ot Caroling, Mu- wan vature in the sume the world over, A Tiew of 1706 prolbited the munumission of slaves, Test thes should becamy » burdon upun the tow where thoy lived, Anothor statute of the eame vear forbude Ludinus, negroes, snd mulattoes, ey ubroud nfter 9 o'elack i the evouing, Au act ot 1705 provided ugmnst thy unreusonsblo demal of mstrago to nogross by then' niustuis. hwe and vihor kindeed opuctmonts giva tmora tlonn u bing chot Slavery s Mussuchusetis was nut relioyed of the nuséries which necompanio s tho system elsewtiera, Husbands wore separatsd Trom their waves § ehildien wote sold from tholr purouts ; nud couverty to Chrintinity wero do- niod baptism, bocuuso adimlbdsion to that 1ito - plied equaliey with white churcimenburs, snd the privilego of voting m ceclusinsticnn ilaira, Ono blsyo-uwner 8t Jeust was trivd fur tho mur- dor of hix nogro, wid, of coydo, was Bequitted. A thewo things nre_#o muny withoseea 10 the faor thi Buwvery it Maseachiusctts was—Slavery, o thrat voic which way itted up in bohulf of the alussachuwetts bundiman, was thal of tho Apustle Ehot,—rovered ho hin morial," by whioh ho signally_nnd clorly pro- climed the wickedueas of ° Sinvery Hovoral thinos in the onrly yonrs of tho contury, Judueo Howntl publicly ‘oxorted hiy Influonco in rolinf of the oustaved, aud x:\ vot‘m against tho legise tion whioh opiessod them, i I';:::-h.g' Moty yours followlag tho publiea- Lion of Lis teact, Anti-Slavory demonstrations of one sort or anothor oceasjonally appoared fn dif- fovont. portious of tha Provinco, ut none of them nffectod tho soourity of tho tnatitntion. I'lie snits for freadom amd for sorvies, which the @aves fet bogan 1w 1703 to instituta agaiuet thelr tnaktors, wore nmong tho forelokons of the coming Abolition-sontimont bofora which Sia- very wod at last to fall. The century had waned to 1760, nowever, Loforo tho final docibive con- troversy commenced. In May of that year Bos- ton instructed ity Roproseutatives to *‘movoe for o luw to prohibit the importation lugl tho ptre chuno of slaves for tho futuro.” Tho ivitial movement for tho pnasage of an not ngamst Slavory and the rlave-trade was mado by tho Lowwiature fn 1767, but tho bill was lost. In 1771 und 1774 tho oftort was m[lenlml, with simi- ne lnck of success, Menntimo, Anti-Slavery potitlony wore prosontad to tho Leelslaturo by vitrdous towns aud by the nowros, nud discourses on lberty wora prenchud fn tho palmts sad printed i tha uowspapors. “Tho most hunorablo documant of Massachu- selts Jogislation conestning tha negro wus the Dresyse- i 1776 of & rosotition Lorbidding tho sulo of two blicks who bad buon capturat in the wloop. [annibal on tho high soas, aud brougat into Boston. Sgtapathy for sho slave had noy waxed #o BLrong bisat the congigmmont to bon a0 of tauso two prisonorg-al-war would not bo {oloratarl by tho people. In 1777 anotaor nbor- tive ottompt was wnde by the Legislaturo to enrry o bill for praventing tho peactivo of hold- ing porronk in Slavery. And so porixhed every effort of Mussneltusoita to vid itsolf of Slavery by menns of lagislation, Waon tha tlest draft of a Conrtitution was nindo, fn 1773, an nob was in- corporaterd into It, oxeludug negroos, Indins, lm; mulnttoes from tho cights of eltizonship, But tho Cous ltuton was rojected by o popular vate, wnd thuy M ssachusetts assaped tho iguo- mmy of onroiling this ialuitous act in its code of Inws. Hlhe has vat, hodever, to cstablsh by statute the right of tho colored maa to tug oloct- ive franchiso. 1t in alleed that, by tha Constitution of 17?0, Savory was abodshod in Mussachusetts. Yo fient niticle in the Dociration of Lighte dogs in- deed dectars that **All mon are born freo and equnl,"—language with which Aworicsas nre vary 'fanulinr, bub which they ulso know was wwed wich bat o Pnrzml rogurd Lo its monning by tho framots of State and Fedoral Couatitu- tions. In Mussnchusotts, judging by contempo- rary ovidouce, the wordy und o broader signill- catico tawn i other Commonweuihs, Slaves coutimued to bo heid, their sato way advortised in tho newspapers, aud mastors woro sued for wrongs_ dono o theit nogross, yours after the adoption of the Constitution, * Tho yrutly i, o dotormiuation gradually grew up in thio mints of the people to conridur Sluvery abol- ishod, and. in consequonce, in courso of time it actunily poriched. 'Tlio prohibition of the slive- trado was eiTected by the Muesachusous Logielu- 78. Tho nct in datod March 23, and Murcl 26 o stofuto way_passed forbiading the rosidonco within the Commonwealtis of ' an Alvican or negro, other than a subject of the Ewmpetor of Mujoceo, or o citizen ol somg ono of tho United States!” Such 18, in briof ab. siract, tho bustory of Slavary in Mussaohusotts. ' 1n point of law,” the instilution, uever huving been formally abollshiod by logtslation, continuod to ratbsist untdi the voar 1860, whon tho Gousti- tutional Amendment terminated 1ts existoneo in the Umted Stutes, Ll = op SCROPE; on, TurLost Linnanr; A Nover or New YoRk AND Hanrcronp, 1y FRELERIOK U, l'euu:!s. 8v0., PP 273, DBustou: Ltoborts Brod, Tt is oasy to presage that this will ot boa popular book, yeb itisa decidedly c'ovr ono: “Pho troublo i, it hus not the night soit of clov- erness for a uovel. Indeod, it is almost o mis- nomer to coll it novel ut all. It iy rathora sorios of renlistio piotures of metropolitan Life, linked together by n slender thread of romatico. The pictures nro uot photogiuphy, nithough miuto aud faithlul to the st degreo. They havoe a soul in thom which tho photograph lacks, "Phoy uro mwpired by thought, idealizad by art. Thoy yiold » distinet impression of contours oud colors, and, with that, thoy give up the invor, hidden meaning that informs them. Morcoyer, they refleot perfoctly tho nrtist's feel- ing and charxeler. - It i oven nore casy to divine tho peculiaritios of Mr I’ kina than it is that of nuy ono of lus per- gonuges. Ilis opiuons, and hubits, aud exlture, aro as plaily writtoa out ns thongh ho bud un- dortaken sn antobiography instead of o novel. And this withous egotism ot vanity. Simply be- causo he Lias nat tho facalty to pass out of bis owtt individuality,aud onter into that of avotber. If ho malios s oharactore lifa-like, it is by - vesting them with lns own £ pirit, causing thom to sct and thiuk as ho would net and taink, To the thoughtful reador this esult is not unpleas- ant, for Mr. Perkins is an entortainiug compun- ion. ilo hans cbserved koculy, nnd retlectad tn- telligently, and s idess wro wordh atteation. Hin tllustrations of bibliomsun, his skotehes of a ibliophilist's collestiony, of the varions mystie awsociations of Spiritualists, and of the enter- privg of subseription-book-publisher, aro woll done. Tho simo may b sund of uis duseriptions of tho coneeri-nulovn aud the nilfiard-hall, but tient wre open to the grave objretion of being tus puinly ot tor-h. Uauls of Vico and dumpation do.not furnislt Approprute scency for u drswing- rovm novel, especully if they are nareservedly | poitiayed,” Tue oid bits of erndiza lnformaton plontifully scat- wered throngh tho bodk will bo weldume Lo fho studious, thougl sumewhat ont of phce, Tho pieces’ of musie, tuo, will bo indalgeutly viewed by the suthor's frionds, us thowing tue veruilty of L tustos and acquirements. OF themselves, they will nob utituet much comment, But all this disuraivencss, wo huve noiéd, - Jures the wmty and urtiatic, offoct of the novel, and niso irvicutes the soul ot the genuine novel- reader, A story iy what the latter wunts whou Lo pieks up » volume 50 euutied, aud whintover Jourmng uud motnlizing oucambor its pagos, no mntter how iwia aud procous they wey Le, vex and alllict bink I'hero are two dgreenblo people in the book, Ciritle Vau Branm »ud Aurian Chestor, wud of ouurse they mutually attruce eucl other, aud in tho end rull out together on the Kes of ma.ri- mony. Adrian is & wholesoma youuy follow, nuctal dad consintent thraughout. ‘Chere are undreds Just Jike him among the botter olansws ot New Engiand, Cirid o will pnas as n pleasing voulity too, with hier lovely poraon, as lovely dis- porition, and morbidly-dolicato norves, 'Two or tuieo minor chuisutors—such aw Stanloy, Bird, and Yoy Draamenro fairly woll shotehied ; and othiers, includ.ng_tao fawily of Tarbox Lutton, urg quute unsuusiactory, ‘Thie stoiy hinges ou_he discovery of tho loat library ot the Now-Bugland aucestor of the seropy family, It comprisad very 108 volumos, uiti thoy were of excoeding vulie, worth tho sace ritice of & bibliomaning's Lo nnd Nwave. Adrian i tho tucky nudur; bng wuat he discoveied und won fu the courss of his nomich uflor it,—tho benuty, and - warch, aud lovo, of his cousiu Cirillo,—were, utter ull, more hughly prized by Dim thon gl tho ubigquo aud wuety voluwes in tho univeiso, 'A certain prevage from the book, from its po- euliny tunchiucss v the preseny muinont, ia worth transc:ibing, It is & pivee of e wuvive dolv- ored by tuae ndroil deteetive, Bird, upon pri Judgmonts in criminal easo s * Lu suols u cavo, 110 biys, ** 0BG LINE proc v the tacts, 1T sou llow yoursell tu beleve, W hogin with, that anyhody—anyoudy, 1 dun'l eare who—oitaor is Jilly ov i not, you avo prothy sura to binudor. Thuta's only on lwo to follaw : kuep yuur oyes wido opon ; find out everything you cah j 1eason neyul goalongg; bt be rosdy to turow uwiy i yonr wanglusiuns ab Lho vory lust momont if w0 {ucls valunco the othier Wiy, MeCoy, the e 08, 10, . 427, Kansas City ¢ Ruinsoy, Miliot i 1 alsou, he nuthor of this worl iy w afivewd, entor- prising, enthusiastio, aud wo (rust prosporoits, ahipper of Western hveestoow, Ilo bas ex- povdod his outira enorgics and his oazly years iu vwiding up n irafile which, with wmany oot wony, has bocome ouno of the most oxtonsive and lmportanc alfalis of vommercs fu our country, Thoroughly imbuad with an interost in the busit.ess whose growth he has sedulously walchied aud cultivatud, Mr, MoCoy hus fol an tionorablo ambltion to record its hintory, sud Lastily not ouly to its own ghyantis proportions, wmemory! In 1076 ho earnastly petitioned the Governor und Uouneil, sitting ot Tioston, to nave Chyintian morey on the vuptive Tndinng; aud, lator i Lo, o urgod the English 1w dus neghborhoud Lo keid Enoir nogroes onow s weak Lo Lim, thnt he might “eatocting thom and anlighton them.” 'Fhe ocarliost publio ehal- Jonico to Blavery i Mussaohunotts wan mado by samuel Bowall, Jedze ol the Superlor Court, sud atosrwardn Chie ico, who puvlished u tract i1 1700, outitled **'Luo delliog of Joseph u Aue but to the valor, quatition, it. and wbility, und worthy of the mon who Thave ereated 1o modestly ncknowludges that e no literary nogmiromonts with whiol to adorn talej but wa will sy tor him, that ho por- tootly undorstands the “subject ho luw in hand, and tba o trons it fn & simplo, houest, and waoly fushitons is words earry vanviotion with whem; and, it they bo not ehoico nnd clogant, s ato even ut tinics ungrammatlonl, the roader fosls no wore dusive Lo crivicisy, them thau bo would thes plnin, straig! Inboring ;yuan who has voluntoored to give bin unotul Int ormation. Mr. McG.oy's ook will intorost almont any ono who loaky f over with o gonnine desira to be in- etruotad; an it cortaluly will not fail to gratify the prido und’ enrlosity of all who are ougaged In the Westorn cuttle-trade, Latraordinary Logal Itomodios. A 1 ON EXTRADRDINARY LEGAL REME : EMDRAOING DIANDAMUS, QUO WAG- TANTO, AND LH0SBITION, Ly JAMEs L, Il1am, Au- thor of A Creutfes on the Law of Tujunctions, Obi- cago: Callughuu & Co, 1874, This book—n very nmuorrluta goquol to tha well-known worl of tho author on tha law of In- junction—is alike craditablo to . High aud thio Massrg, Cnliaghan & Co. ‘Tho mocnanieal gotting-up of tho work is ju evory respoct oqual o any in thy same hue produced by the ald law- publishing Bouscs of Now York nud Iisston. The book Itself will nadd to Mr High's slrendy large roputation. Tho luilmplm undorlying tho docisions on thls lmvortant branok of the Inw nre stated conefsely and cloar- 1y, nnd oxprogsed fu puro, vigoraus English, The foot-uotos nre very full, and bear ovidonco thue tho euthor mestored lua eubject Lefors bo- to wnte. As A Illigh's is the only trontise on Mandamus, Quo Wairanto, and Prohibition, that includes the result .of all docisions hithorto mudo on any oue of thoso topien, both i England and Aworlea, Lis warl will prove an ulmost indiaponsnblo auxiliary to evory practicing Inwyer, Mr. High has the cor- rost Idea of whoe o law-hook should bo, what whonld go into .it, sud what sbouid bo oxetuded from it Chancery Flending and Practices PUTERBAUGI'S OHANOERY —PLEADING AND PRACTICE: A PeAcuosu Tuesilse ON Tik Fonats 01 OHAROLRY-HULTY, PLEADING, AND PRac~ T1o¥, Now IN USE IN THE STATE o ILLINOIS, AND WiEREVER Tint SaME Systest Phevas, Witk Yorma of Billy, Atswers, Pieas, Demurrers, Ex- coptions, Paitlotis, Ordecs, Decrocs, ote, Dy Lantn D. Purbusavam, Luto One of thie Judges of tho Diroult Court, Losifo Iutorbaugh, Ageut, 35 Nixou Tlack, Qiutoago, Itl, 1875 - Phiy is & volume of 718 pnfion on plending and practico i Chuncery. ~Mr. Puterbaugh s well known through bis Gommeon-Linw Ploading nnd Practico. ‘Ihis laut worl of Lis fully sup- poty tud reputation. RBooks IRvcolved. THE MORMON COUNTRY: A BusEr WiTn TOE LATTEN-DAY BAtTa, Ly Jois CODMAN, 1Imo., pp. 223, Now York: Unfied Btates Publlshing Cowme pany. P - BALLAD. Why fa It 50 with me, falso Tovs, Way i It 40 with me? Mino enomies wlaist g bave doalt; T foar'd it no of thice, “Thon wast tho thought of all my thoughts, Nor otbor lope bad It My Ut was lald upon thy love: T bun how could’st lut lue alo? The flower 1a loyal to tho bua, o greenwoud to o aprif, e moidier 10 his bauner bright “Lue noulo to his King: Tho bao 18 constant to thio hive, o rivgilove 1o tho Lree, Tun warii 10 tho coltagy-caves § Thou only Hot to wo. Yot if ngain, false Lovo, thy fosb ‘Lo tread the pathway burn Thut ouro thoy trod 80 woll wud oft, Toturn, falss Love, return And dtand boslde thy maiden's bier, Aud thou wilt purely svo Tt L have been ua teue (o lova Ap tison wort false to me, i, T, Palgravo in the Cornhill Magazine, e Nostradn Tho author of this, aud & grout many hundrods of stuulne quatrams, Siciel Do Nostrodame, commondy cutled Nosteadauus, was boru ot St. Towy, in tio year 1603, Lwo of his groat-grand- tatiers, voth ounnent pbysicians, bad been con- vortoi Jows ; and the astrologer’ used o boust thit they wore both of tho tribe of lssachar, o tribe watcl ho maintnined, one hardly seos why, to have beew sigually nhd specially endow:d with the gt ot propheey, Nor wab it, ho ssi1d, by suy virtuo ot worit of his own thut ho wiw onabled to reud the future and tho distutib pieasut. i e dild uot, a8 may be expeoted, arrivo Aud- dousy at, nor was bo for & long tino couscious! of possessiugg, this romarkable taoulty of predice tion. Quite the contrary. 110 spent’s laborions und praweworthy youth, studying medicine und seience at Avignon sud Montpellier. Whilo st the lu.tor placo, u postilence of some kind ran thirough the south of Frauce, sud young Nostra- dnmus weot to fuge it with » coursge aud suce coss which gained bim groat credit, Ile thon sowlod at Agen, on the recommendation of his triaud Julws Ciesar Sealigor, whore ho marrica aud bad claidien, but wite and children died. 1o married agnin & fow years lator, und soteied down tor the vest of his lifo to practice medi- c{m:, to wori st astrology, aud to wnte predie- tlons. 1is ndmirers havo handed down ninny of those purticulurs which are ulways so intoresting in o scrout man's biography ; how ho only slopt four hours overy might—how cau writers go on making i assertion about their idols 7—how Lo dly and pious lifo—(wo may stlow tis; vus ot small wisturs, wich & large un Thick bsard, with other important dotaiss, which WO PSS over. o lunguishad 1n obscurity, in spito of hispro- digious gifes a¢ reading tho’ luturo, for many yeurs, Hut his fuwe graduslly spread, aud whon iho quatran, wineh - furetold tho denth of King ITeuty, was 'rond, Catherine do Medicis horaoll sent for bitm o Laris, aud gave Lim the title of “ Couugelot Lixtruordiuney and Physicinu to the Kmg." FNostindamus had the good sonso totake waining by tne examplos of Gauge sud Cardan. o soon porcetved thut the air of Parw wns not favorable 1o prophets, Seoffeis weronbroad. ]A wicked unbelisvor wiote a cruol epigram upon i : G . + Nostra damus cum fulss domus, nam fallere nos— tri edt : 15 cum falsa dasmue, Bl nist nostra datus,” T'he nowly-nppointed physician to the King wag one of those who sre eusily dauated by rivicule, 50 be packed up and went south again, whouce ba never romoved, und whither Charles IX. afterwurd visited bim, It i s#ad to resd timt in his owir town ho was alvwuys rogurded, save by ono fuvorite disciplo, 88 an lmpostor of the fhiat, and thersfors most succeestul, sordor. “T'uis disciplo, Jeun Do Chavigny, oo of thoro suuplo uud lovablo creatures, born for the nourishment of tho quack and the humbug, who will baliove anythug, hoverod arousd tho muater like Cadifah round Mobawmmed. o left bis uativo town of - Boaune, where the wino is so good, aud took up ing' residence alogothor an Salon isolf, #o w8 to be always near Nostradumus, abandonlug fam- ily, ostnto, ocenpation, aud ail. Like unother Luswsll, he noted tho things that foll from tho doctor’s tins, and, after his doutl, spent twenty-eight years in editing and commontating the Cenfuries. 1t is deligiatful to learn that iu Lin socioty i prophos woutd unbond from his wystio fororencmugs mto futurity and condos suoud to predict some ot the minor events of Ife. **Wo woro onco,” ho tells us, in an snoe: duto.of touching uimptiowy, * wathing nbrond, I Buw two sucking pige, ono black, the other white. * Whut will be thoir fato# [ aukol Nos- tredame, ¢ We shall eat tho black “one,’ rephed o, *the white wifl bo eaten by a wolf,' In order .to eludo tho prodiction, I Lold the cuval to pre- para tho white pig for dinuer, llo did so; but s v luy npon tho tablo, u tame wolf bolonging 10 tho bouse, Hiling no one thore, devomed it. Upon which tho copls propured thie bluck pig, aud tho propheoy of the miathbly Nostredume wan sccomphshéd.” Woundortul indeed ! 1o lived tnd died in pencs, aiwiya prophsying, alwuys basing his fathful Chaviguy 1o record b trinmphs, Honored a3 he wiy, save by own towngmon, Ju his hfe, s roul glory buging only aftor by death, For the Centuries nro printod and reprinted, commonted, furnished with notod, oxplanutions, nnd iflustrations, aud ovon called invo tho Borvico of history, Nobudy, it it t1110,—which b tho rent dawbnok Lo il pro- dietions, uncisus und modory,—veutured to write Trom Nostrodumus the hisiory of tho futur bt evorybody wus proparod fo observe, whon il things bad hupponed, how waudcn‘u)]y thioy dteed 1 with tho words ol tho prophet. . 'Pha unhwlivyer might el whit woa tho good of prodiotion unlesy you know whas it moins, o ight go fuvulier, tud daellua to Invastigato past Iintury in ordor to mack the magaoity of Nostr demud. And if e had the eouraia o€ his opin- fons, ho might polnt out that the disjointed words, the vugue plirases, the OYull»mumllml thruuts might do for ono aven quite s woll as the atuer, and therafare tho prophet wak not, attor all, of such smnzing whsdoal, — Bug nbo- flovara were nearoo, sud Nostvadsmus Lold own,—Tumple Har. Garibakdl From the New York Tribune, A stafoment whishh was resoutly made that Gapibakln wan in‘wuols utter badily prosteation us 10 bo unabio vyen tu bring food "ta Lis lXYn by Difs own hands lu ontiroly contradictad in s lottor e by addressed from Caprora to his old frlvud, Count Glovio Pulluviows, Tle General ays ho unly wishos hio gould ouly prosorve to his o' andy tho gmno gouid hoalth ns honaw enjoys § aud Lo glualaron himuolf yeady to Join fu campalgn whiould Jialy roguire by sorvicea: itforward spoech of amo fi eacti. HE CHICAGO DAILY TRIB UNE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1874 SPAR r Tthe exqnisitc ohl P, 0o fame maudlnotured ; ho ;purohinsad o lonves vrowning cordod and spt tho pino-appln: affaltsy of cutlo nudt foet ato us ombroidery anw mon, whose dal toso their floxik’ the donind for Ks OF SCIENCE. INE-ATPLE FABRICA. » pine-apple Aearfa and handlor u8 for theie dolicat toxturo, aro In the Philippiuo Ialands, aud ean uly at Maulia, Tho flbro of tho ¢ tho feaitls trippod out, oleanad, n by hand, 'Tho looms on winch (alirles ore woven aro quaint littlo u8 couscruotion, Aud both hands 2 in_opeceting them. The fine irought (nthe fublio fa duno by iento fingers nro never suflered to ility by rough Inbor. 8o great bs tuoso arlioios thut thoy aro us- ually contracte d for three or four yonrsin ade vante of thelr 1 nanufacture. ] IUATAN LONGEVITY. Aninvestigati oumado by & Borlin physician, of tho data rofar :iog to hnman longovity, shows thae avorago ago - ot clergymonu to bo 65 ; of mor- chants, 62; cle rke and formors, 01; military mou, 59 Inwge 1y, 58 ; nrtiste, 57; and modle oal mon, &8. The medium duration of lifo fu Russia {8 nbout 21 yonrs; in Prussla, 20 ; in 8witzorland, 8i; {n Franco, 35 ; in Bolginm, 86 ; in England , 88, Medical mon staud high in the soslo of 1ot iovity, OF twonby-eiggiit physi- cinns who died t horo Ynnl yonr, the youngest wns 80, tho oldent 9 1; two othiors wore U3 mud 89 re- spectivoly 3 thi ‘oo were 87, and four were 86, Tho ida a is stronuously urged by somo thnt, under o1 dinnrlly-favoring creoumsinuces, moi: may lvesi - x or soven times longer than tho yew s—li—ieq' 1ired to attain puberty. AMBOYNA, Amboyna, on o of the Molueen or 8pico Ialands, 18 dovoted to U o culturo of tha olove. The an- ‘nunl produco, . which varies considerably, aver- ages 6,000 pou uds, each tico yiolding from 2 to & po bnds. Tk 10 sngo-palm, on which the iuhabi- tant 8 chiefly r ely for subsistouce, is largely cuiti- vate d, aud & - Jing article ot indigo 18 also raised, Aml joyns I8 noted, too, asa graud depos for shot Is, whick 1 aro shipped o overy quarter of tho wou 1d: Mnns - rare sod exquisito variotics—nmong whi 3h aro thio eur-shell and papor-nautilug—are paer alinr t0 1 bis wland. 'Lho car-sbell in go ealled frot o its ¢lo 4o rosombinute to the lwump oar, pud choiee spocuncus, having a flesh tint, vondi- Iy b wing $2:50' 8 puir, * The Chinedo, who arg tho o 3t tarit' ty portion of the population, deive o ik trad > in shells aud coraly, sud atuusy lurge s in the trallie. RARE AVIARIES. . {n tho-oxtanslvo and interesting botanieal gar- st Mr, Bealo, at Macao, Calna, thero is & les of avintlos of wmagnitlcout proportioms felh are stocked with rare aud ourivus birds m every countiy and climato under tho uun. # of thoso iy 40 tootin longth, 16 feeln wie Ity and of sufiiciont slza to accommodate ful l-grown trocs nud consldorable rock-masses. e ro birda of various Lubits, finding amplo scopo for tneie fuclinatons and nocessitios, ful- Al their destinios_as completely us though the )y hod the freedom of ull Naturo, Unitud in | ono barmowious, huppy fumity, are gold an 1 mivor phoasans, pink nosed Java sparrows, flu Suting_coclataow, pnroquets, ndjutants sad e caws, Euglish nightiogalos, mandurin-ducds, on |y 4 mchos long trom tha point of their crim- sot'1 beaks to the tip of Lheix parti-colored twils, wit il Heores of uthors, all possossiug some pacus lis ¢ bosuty of voico Or plimago, Atarest of all in 1 v spocies of the bird of Laradise (Paradisea ap: 2de) which Mr, Boale has Lind in bis possosion twe ity yeara. It 18 tho only bird of thus remck- abl e fumily which wus ever known to bo tumed or made to survive coutinomont. HEAYONING POWER OF ANDIALS. 1 & recout voluwie of obsorvations in Natural enco, Mr. Giant Borkely gives soveral in- sta oees of strong roasonivg powerin animals, Tho fire £ case noted 18 thut of a moukey, which ano day watehed its wastor go through tho operation ol Iriviug nails. Ou baing left alone, tho mon- koy tmutedintely scizod tho bammer and nails, anci prooceded to mail evorything on tho table ancl about the room togother. ilerowore memo- ry and oxnerionce brought into plav, and not the s tiuotive faculey which i comnanly swd to bo the only guide of bruto intolligence. Another vemaarkuble instunce of - rcusoung - power wis oxiubited by & wild duck. The buu wis in the Labit of building its nost in u diteh, but oue year the domieil ¢ was flooded by a suddon riso of the water. I'or the nost throos weasons the wagacious bird sdopted the moor- Lon's plan of blding & nest of: light matorials, sixch 08 grass und loathor-twig &, &0 that 1t could rise und fall with the wator, Chcdmarily, duckn Iy the foundation of thotr nissts Ly deraping o slight Lbollow 1u the ground, and then till it in with s covormg of suft substincos, Bat this individual, with that atteclinent to locality which is a well-kuown clinract oristio of Lirds, moditled its style of arciitocitire, adaptng s habitation to unusual ciroumssunoes, in prefor- euee to loaviug the pluce where shie bad been accustomod to deposit hor egy . CREATING ‘AN INLAND 8t A IN AFRIOA. Tho French Guographical Saciety favors the project of creating ab inland sea to the south of tho French Colony of Algoria, 'hia colony, whieh was captured frow the Turkish Empiro in 1839, lies on tho north coust. of Airics, botwcon Tunig on tho enst, Sahara o' the south, and Mo- rocco ou the wost. Tho Atlas Mountinus lio porallel to tho const-line, and belund thom st.rotohes a vast oxprnse ol heatby plaius, called the Sebkhos, intersporsed with salt-lukes, and bounded on the south by a second chain of mountame. Theije dosa:t-tracts are destituto of fresh wator, and produce only herbs and brush- wood, oxcepy Whiyro an oceasionnl oasis intorrupts their sterility. ‘Lo plains and vatloys which open out to thie £ ea aro oxtromoly fertile, and once forned tho gian arivs of Linly. Thoro are no rivors amporta aco in the colony, but tho #eries called chotts, oxtending through the Sebkhog, reucly o8 fur as Diskra, to the south of Coutanune, In suuimor bheso lnkes run dry; bub it it shongihit possiblo, by cutting & _channel botwoou the rust ot the cnam and the Aoediter- ranesn, to :ill their basms with sale water mrongbnut tuo year, The crention of sea-ports along their entirs length, and a bonelicout chango of edimato, Aro amony tho advantaues hopud for from tho realization of thia bold soliome. Tuo Loy of Luviy has alrerdy boen roquested by the Socioty to allow a survey of the country to 'pe mado, prolimivury to tho sccom- phshment «of the projoct. MOAY AN EAGLE WAS PRESERVED, One morning in the summer of 1834, an im- menso blowk engle was descriod sifttng on the topmost bough of a dry troo thut crowned the lafiy, preci pitous hill which overlaoks tho Villago of Plymoutis, Conu, A cunaing hunter hving in tho village quickly lorded bus rifle, and, walking by tho smdo of his borse, which ha led by the mane, aud xopt as s screen botween himselt aud tho bird, cautiously stole up the declivity until o had appronctiod within shootwg distanco, The ongle was feeding upon some tlesh which it bad in its talons, and,.ae iv #tooped over Lo bens olf & prece, tho buuter broughs bis rille to buse and fized, Wne bird slowly sproad oul its srond wings, waverod s moment, and foll. On woas- wremout it was found thab L spanned ovver foot from tip to tip of s wings, Lt way tho lurgost vird of iis kind that had ever been secn in tho region, Tho art of taxidermy vy ot that duy nuknown; but tho buntor, being ansious Lo prosorvo his trophy, bothought wimselt of a curious oxpodiont. Must of the teathurs of the bird woro plucked, wad it was thon carofully propped up on its frot, in & ustural positton, diveetfy ovor an nnt- hill. Immodiately the auts poured up one sot of wh fro On I Sei the proa)u pud down ®uotber, i an wmnter- rapted, liviug stream. i four days’ timo thoy hiad cleared évery particlo of ilesh ol the boues of tho bird, and fert them sy pure sud white ay o pioge of pupor. ‘Tho ligatures holding tho framowork togethar wore untouched, and thus tho rkeleton stood firm, elesu, and dry, with nut 8 bone nussing, V'hs curions incident Was noised sbout in the papers, and, coming to the knowl- edge of the nuturalists of Yula Colloge, ono of them wont up to Plymouth to scoure uo inter- osting o speoimen, It was rundily mudo over to it by the Luater, nud for yeuvs was one of tho prominent objoots' in the Yale Museum, THE GREDE. Qrobea aro aquatic blrds, strongly rosombling loons in structure sud economy. ‘'I'hoy nro cos- mopolitan in habit, froquonting Jukos and rivors in ull partsof tho world, The water is their elomont, and thoy swim with oxtreme agility, diving with tho raplility of lightuig at any alavim, and traveling considorablo distances bo- fore roturning to tho surfaco, On luud thew lucomotion s slow, dilioult, and awlkward, Phoir legy aro attuchod so Iur back that, whon they utaud, they sssumo an upright position lika the pongulns ; and, whou they attetpt to wallk, thoy ulieflo aud widdlo as if sulfering tho misory and inconvenionoe of & woman in high-heolod slooy, Lhe nosts of the birds ave mado of mattod vogetatlon, and losated vory near thio wator, It oven sawd that thoy ufton tloat upon 1% swong Aquatio planty, 'YL6 youug take (0 the water sy soon a8 hatohed, and, boing *to tha mannor born," swim ns woll as thoir mothers, Dut tho chiel Yolnt of Intorost in tho grobo is tho oxquisita sllky, slivory-whito plumage on the under parts of [he hody, Its pooulinr nlook- ness and benuty have proourod for tho gront arestad grabs tho name of eatin-grobo, It hay ulro attracted tho atlontion of thoso whoso bus- Inese it 1 to provide fur aud Ieathors foe tho gnronicuro of ladics’ drouses, and s in groat ro- quost by them. ' wkin Is used to make wufls, oront futo strips for trimming hats niyd garmonte, At n sitting of the Intornationnl Congress for tho Lrovontion of Cruolty to Animals, Cauon Coopor stated that the grebo has to bo skinned wlive fn order to presorvo in porfeelion the sutiny sheon of tho feathors, Ir gourmands will on- eourage the fuhuman praotico of cramming gecse in order tnt thoy may feast ou the bird's en- gorgad liver, it cunuot ho specially wondored nb {1206 Indtos prchins tho Rranes plamnge (o sl isfy tlmlrxlfnmtlte tor ndornmont, Btill, in jus- tico to tho Intter, it ahould he suid that thoy are gonerally unnware of tho torment i which tho grobo yiolds up te lito and its plwnago to one hunce "tha luxury and ologunco of tholr attlre. It was n oynio who sald, in commenting on the barbarity practiced townrd tho grebos “Un- foruunntoly, womnn ontirely fgnores ngony in tho mattor of dress, and, considering her on- durnneo under tho torture vlio inflicts on Lorsulr in ehis rospoct, 1t 18 poriaps lurdly to Lo ex- pectod that sho will feol for the grobo.” BYRIAN BPONGE-FISHERILR, The best sponges aro brought from tho Le- vant, An inforior specion fy gatirered in the Do hama Islanids and on tho coast of Florida ; but, for the finest qualitics, commerco relies upon the fishicriea on tho shotes of Candis, Barbary, and Syrin. T'ho coutres of production in Syrin are Tripoll, Ruad, Lottakin, and Batroum. Tho fingat. spaliges'aro found in tho viewity of Tri- poliand_ Bartroam but the wholo coast, from Monut Carmel to Alexandrettn, is humted over. ‘o total anunal valuo of the Syiinn tisheriey is from §100,000 to $15,000; but the product iy conslantly lesscusng, on account of ox- cosntvo flshing, Trom 260 to 00 bonts, mavued by 1,500 mon, no ongaged during tho sonson, whish oxtonds from Juno to tho middlo of Octobor. he boats usod aro of the ordinnry build, their ports docked over, and tigzed with o lag-swl, They ara from 18 1eat to 30°feat in longih, and arg mauned by s crow of faur oc five mun,—ona of whom ig cmploved in huuling, whila the rost aro divers, No wages aro lnud. tho crow sharig equnlly in tho prolits of o fisbing, The ctrnings of s good divor amount to ubout 3200 & soason. The practice of diving dues notscem to bo in- Jurious to howith or to sbbroviate life, though yours of age. The bust Syrian divors rawmain tuder waser 60 soconds, I'hers are instances of men who are ablo to stay balow 80 scconds, buk thoso are rare, Tho Syrian diver never usos Lo diving-dress: but, with an open not arouud his waist, for. tho reception of his sponges, bo erasps au oblong stone attached ta tha bat vy & ropo, and plungen overboard, Areiving at the bottom, be deposita tho tono nb his feot, aud, vetaining hold of tho ropo with one hand, tears ofl' the sponges within ropeh, and thruszs them into Lis not. When ready to aecend, ho gives the sigaul to thoso nhove by @ sories of jorks on the ropo, and 15 drawn up, Each souson s marked by soveral fatsl accidents, which aro generally fho vesnlt of too great during. 'Fho divor will sowetimes quit bis Lold of thie rops tud venture some discance in search of o prizo; then, attompting to regnin the rope, he will mins the spot, and bo unublo to find it. By thiy wisfortune forced to rise unsnistod, ho ofton strikes ont diagonully, and ia drownod boforo reaching the surface. Somotimons tho diver is wounded by contuct, in hius descont, with pointed und juggsed rooas, or his rops bocomes entangled wunoiyg thom, aud lio iy thus exposcd, in great depthis, to the peril of drowning. I'io hest spongua nre found st a depth of § or 10 fathoms,—that is, 43 or G0 feets bul divers descend to a depth rangiyf'from 30 feou to 180 foot, ‘Luc sponges gathered in the Syrian flsh- cricd yary much in wize oud qual- ity, and aro clsified o follows: 1, Tho fine, white, napod spongo, known aa tho *tuilot-sponge;” 2, The large, Teddish variety, known as * spongo do Voniso," or * bath-spongou;” 3. The coarse red spongo, used for lousoliold purposes and cleaniig. Franco takes tho bulk of the finest qualitios, whilo the reddish aud common sponued are sont to Germany and England. Government derives areveuno from this inaustry amountivg to s touth of tho valua of the prodaco. s vt e FATE. Why atiould man struggle easly, lato, Whicu all e 3 15 tixed by Fato 7 For everythiing that comes and goes, Gous, cotaes, ut its appoluted date, The wind is measured 38 it Llows, Tho graius of sand havo each theik weight, Qnly the faol can ay ho chose Tug woman that 18 how hix wate] And 50 with feienda and s with foes, ‘o rising and the falling sato, *Tis fdle to support, oppos o bpen of 10 baun e guter What {8 wo see ; but no one knows What was or will be, small or great, Nothing ia certain but the close, ‘Aud that fu bid from e by Fato | —R. i1, Stoddard in the Indeveitent, ———————— A Romance of the Rond, A lottor fiom Uolimter, Ual., dated July 12, gives the following account of o curious au- veuture oncountered by o stage-drivor: * Ou Saturday, July 10, as tho Now idrin stago was ou its way to tho minos from Iollicter, two 1nusked persony stepped out of tho bustes i 4 uarrow place in the road and presouted shiot-gun a¢ dr, Biuvott, tho driver, demand- ing that he wbould hult und haud over the express bag. Ou being informed thut he did not carry cho oxpress, thoy demanded of him wlat money thers was on the stuge. Mr. Buruett told thom thoro was_none, cxeopb what change hhe biud 1 his packet and thoy could bavo that; but they swia they did wot waut bis moncy, und oidured hum Lo throw off the bug. Ho roe fusod o do this, but got duwn from the scat, walked up to oue of them, und oponed the big 1o show thero wus no mousy in it— sehilo doiug this tetling the fellow to powt Lis pistol in aunother directien. All thin time the othor one was coveriug e, Burnett with a shot® gun. After being satistied that thers way Rothing i the bag, the ona with s pistol climbed up on the sent to usamine for hmsolf, but wa osdored down by Burnett, aud, strango to say, obeyed the ordur, Thoere were flvo jussougers on tho singo, but they wore not molosted, snd did not wso & move, although some of them were otmed, Tho musky of tue robbers con- sisted of u pieco ot cloth hunging looss over Lhie fuce, with two holos cut for the vyes, Mr. Burnett, whilo ou the ground, recoguized botl of them, as he was closs onough to seo through tho Lolesin the mwasks, Burnett was nob mrmed going-up, but ou his way baok ho procured u six-snooter, ny Lo thought he might luve u cbunco to uso fc; nud nesr tho samo placo ho met a_man and woman both riding hore- buck, To stopped tha stage, hauded iy hunes to a pugsenger, and got down, and ordersd both man nud womun to throw up their hauds., The order was very promptly oboyed, as Alr. Burnott hold in his and o six-shooter, 1o theu called on o pasienger to searoh them, and tale thub Doriuger from the man's pockot; which way dono sud proved to bo tho saae oue that had been bold Ho eluso £ him the duy bofore. Mr, Barnott thuuls ho would kuow that pitol auy. whore, Burnett told thow to dismouut aud gob intothestaxe, a4 ho wanted their company to Hollistor, The womnn wauted to know what ho wanted with Loy, wud wus informed by My, DLurnott that, notwithstwnding sho was deessed uy u woman now, ho could not ensily forget thut fuvo under tho cwrcumstances, Tho drivor oulled on ouo of the passengers to gunrd tho captives whilo on the stage, und arrived horo With bis prigoners holt un hour g —_——e ford of Camoly in Novadan. On & rauch on tho Carson River, 8 milos bolow tho mouth of Six-Aile Cauon, i to bo soun a hord of tweury-six camols, all but two of which wara hoyn and raised in Novadn. But two of the but few uro uble to purauo it after attaming 40 . FAMILIAR TALK. AY IMITATOR OF MILTON, The world haa expondad o good doal of sympa- thy upon the daughters of Milton and oxecration upon thelr father, heenuso hio henrtlessly taught them merely to pronounce Latin and Groel, that thoy might read thoss lunguzgos sloud for his gratification, while bo loft thom fu total ignor- nuco of £ho meanlug of tho words thoy uttored. A slmilar instanco of gross injustico is rolated of n worthy Englishman, named Riclinrd Dolton, Inq. ITo was su ardont . adwirer of the Grock clussles, but, sullering Irom woal oyos, ho taught s negro-boy, Gienar, to read to him curicotly and flucutly any Grock writor, without uudet- standing n syllublo. \WIIL thesomon bo rowarded with good oyes and plenty of Greek aua Latin authors tn tho next world ¥ Or will they slill bo worved by womon and negro-sinvos? FEATO OF PEDESTIIANISM. Mias Richurds, tho Bnglsk ghl who rocantly concluded, at Stapleton, neor Brislgl, tho ns- toanding feat of walking 1,000 milos in 1,000 Loury, {8 tho first ono of her sex to oxbibit so oxiraordinury su oxamplo of physleal neclvity. Qoo cannot venturo to surmiso, in thoso days of fomulo entorprise, how soon bor explolt will be rivaled by somo equally ambitious and strong- limbed woman, Moantime, thoro staud on the page of hustory two records of similar doods of pedestrianinm ° accomplibed by masculine athlotes. ‘I'ho flrat wad put down in 1809, whon Capt, Barclay walked 1,000 miles in 1,000 con- wocutlve houts, winuing theroby £16,000, Tho wajzors utaked on this matel amountod to £100,+ 000, 'Plio socond event ot the kind was noted in 1811, whou 'lhomus Standen, of Bolchurst, near Silver Barracks, sccomplishiod s wtroll of 1,100 wiles fu as muuy successivo hours. Mr Standen wag 00 years old at tho timo ho indulged in this prolongad constitutional, ASUENTS OF MONT BLANG. The firat aucent of Mont Blanc was nconm- plishod by Jacques Belmoot in 1780, Ho was an Alpime guide, and mado the attempt to securo the reward which Do Laussuro offored for the discovery of a practicablo route to tho summit. De Loussure bimsol? ssconded the moun- tain tho following summor; but, for somo yoars aftor, no one ventuted to ropoat the haz- ardous outorprise, Indoed, thore wero no ns- cents botweon 1783 and 1803, and botwoon 1803 and 1800, It i only singo 1850 that they have been rognlarly made. In 1854 thera wore 20 as- conty, and in 71855 24, From 1861 to 1865 tho numbers rose to 89, 2, 51, 63, 60, and fell in 1870 to 14, Twenty-two nscents took place in 1871, 67 72, and 68 iu1873, Thus yoar the nscénts bo- gun the Bd of June, & month earhior thnn usual ; i it in mapposed thoro will bo moro than over beforo in » singlo suwmer. Tho total numbor of potnons whio Luvo thus far roached the sume mit Iy 724, The' performance of tho feat has consed Lo bo an oxtraordinury distinetion, i HOW OUR FOREFATHERS LIVED. A writer in the Galaxy hag collected & quanti- ty of curious information rogarding the manner in which our forefathers lived prior o the Rov~ olntion. Wo shall help ourselvos frankly to a fow of his details, merely thanking him for the tronblo which we know he wes at in amassing tbem, In Boston, 130 years ngo, butchor’s ment avoraged 2 peucs per pound. A 12.pound cod could be bought for the samo sum, A salmon, woeighing from 12 to 14 pounds, was sold for a shilling. Lobsters, poultry, and venikon wore ploniy and cheap. Pigeons brought 18 pence por dozan. In Now York, twenty yoars later, the price of beel wns fixed by lnw at 41 “penco per pouud: that of pork and veal at i ponny more, Bubter waa 15 pence per pound, and oroad 4 coppers per loal of 1 pound 12 ounces, Milk, which was corriod in cans sus- pendod by o yoko frow men's eboulders, was 6 cents por quart. In 1734 Frauklin lived In Philadelpels, on vegetable diot, for 18 pence steiling o wook Fruit woy abundsut evorywhero, I'he bost of ponchies wero 3 penco & peck in New Tngland 3 aud pigs wero fed on tho poorer ualities, North and South, Thore were eook- shopr in Philudelphia, a8 carly o8 1697, whora meats, pics, tarts, and eakes, woro to be had, "Tho dalef@ms to tho Congress of 1774, which convened in the Quaker City, wera often treated Lo wumntuous diuiiors by 1o woalthy cuizens. Enumerated in one of tho bills-of-faro still ox- inting to attest the luxury of those early days, wo find curds and creams, jollios, sweet- meats of varfous gorts, twenty kinds of tnits, fools, tritlos, lonting-1elands, whippod syl- Iububs, Parmesun chcese, punch, | wine, portor, hoer, ata., ete. No menn varioly’ for tho lightor courses. The substantials of these banquots in- cluded tustte, ducks, chickens, *ham, beef, and pork, Chocolute was moro commonly usod thon coffos, Cider was 3 shilliugs storling in Mnssachusetts, and wo may infer tha peoplo drank it in proforcnce to Adam's alo, 1lip and toddy wero- also popnlar bevaragos, The beer mnnufactured in Philadelphia was of wuch primo quality that it wae proferred in Barbadoes, whither it was exported, to tho boor of Enulang, Madeira was tho favorite wino all over tho country, and rum-punch was univeraal- 1y relished, The teototuller wns an unkuown hoing only 100 yours ago; nud thio Grand Jury in Dhiladelphis, in 1841, declurad that liguor was old in ovory tenth house in the city. The samo story might have beon_told with oqual truth of every otlior city In tho Provincos, A PRENCH ACTOR, An old habitue of the Thentre du Palais Royal, Paris, babbling, in tho columms of London Suci- ely, of the scones bo bns wituessod in this colo- brated tomple of Thespis, tella a couplo, of amusing incidonts of Cravsot, the inimitablo comedion and practical jokor. Thestage-manager of the thoatro wus n perfect mortinet, and, al- though kind at honrt, his rulo was minutoly and rolentlessly rigid. IIe was ospecinlly sern- pulous in the matterof fines, which were inflict- ed upon the poeiats of the uctors as punishmont for overy offense. Iy n cortsin regulation of tho theairo, any porson guilty of uupyrliamont- ary Inngunge, wns subjected to a pecuninry mulet, This rule was the sourco of perpetunl amusemont a8 well as of unuoyanca to tho com- puby, from the clustio intorprotation of which it was suscoptible. Ono evoniug, whon tho stago- monagor wau busily engaged in bis littla don_adjoining {ho stage, ho henrd somo ono calling hum at’ tho head of the stairs londing up to the drexsing-raoms, and urging lim to como quickly, Rushing ouf of his don ho exeluimed, “What's wanting 7 Looling up ho snw Grassot bending down ovor tho bauiistors. * Coupest, my friend," enid the jolor, in his blandost tono, 30 1 shonld enll you un idiot,—1 do not call yort m.?hut. it I slould, how much would it cost mo #" “Girasgot dwelt n long way from the Palais oyal, and, fu order to abridgo tho wall botweon his home and tho theatre, ho it upou the oxpo- dient of joining one of the funeral-procassions which wound their lugubrious way, in_ almost ondloss succession, nlong tho patl e for con- venionco clioso to take. Stopping ono of the conchea and quiokly taking his placo nmony tho mouinors, he wag cagly mistnken, in hin dress of sobor Llack, for afriond of the defuuct; moro ospecially s ho made freo uso of tho fne eambric-huudkorehief ho nlm?m carried. One day, howovor lio ovorshot bis marlk. 'Lho couch n which ho coolly seated himself way alrondy oceupied by three persons, who soemod buc modostly uflicted over tho busingen thoy wore prosocuting. Gragsot, sootg this frow & feeling of opposition, or pussibly flnxglonm: thoir inseasibility, appliod the haudokerchlof to his oyos with unnsusl assuidity, and, sovbing violoutly, murmured in s low tono, * How sud 1 how sad! poor thing, haw I pity ber ! * What do you mesu by her ?" asked the man aliting noxt Lim, * llow sad " continued Grassot, ronowing his aoby, ™ #o vory young " “Young I" rotorted tho othorj *Ie was 08 Ingt birthdny," : “Itisnot for him Iam wooping," saldtho actor, who was_groping for a clue to his error, *14 8 not for him,—it {8 for hin childron 1" “Ifo nover uud any,” cvolly rejoined bis nelghbar, ol herd of uine or ton brought hero soma years ngo are now . hving, 1t would ssom thut the ariglual ot foll into the hunda of Mexioaus, who trented thom vory budly, overloading and ibi- ing them. 1o “mon “who now have them nra Lrenohmon, who had formerly some oxpurionos with cumold In Buvopo, Thoy find no dinieuley in rearing thom, uud eannow show twenty-tour fino hienlshy cnmols, ull of Wushoo growth, W camel may not Lo mnid to be theroughly ncell- wmnted i the Kuate. The owners of the hord find 1t no moro diiltontt to brood sud ronr them than would o exporicnced with the sume nuni- hor of gosts or donkeys. 'Lhu ranoh upon which they nra ki~ ot is sandy und sterilo in thy extromo ; yob tho unimuls feust md grow fat on sueh prickly shrubs uwd Ditter weods ud no othor nuiny would toneh, Whan left to themdolves thoir great dehght, aftor filling thomuolvos with tho conrao horvngo of the dosort, iy to lie and roll tho hot sand, ‘Phuy ave used in pacliug salt to tho mulis on the viver, from the murebon lyin, lu the dosorls sooio G0 milos to the castward, Lhoy Linve autmaly thing ousily paok 1,100 pouuds, Luckily, jusl horo tho conch stapped, and Granot fi'uun,- mido his eseapo, vesolved nost time, as hio pithily oxprossed it, */to o fowor worda and moro handkerehiet.” TRAINING-HOHOOLS YOI NURSES, At thio closo of the Crimean War, 8 gubsorip- tlou of .£60,000 was raisod fn England as o trib- ute of gratitudo to Florenco Nightingalo for hor Horvicos pmong the Britlsh soldlors, This sum wass intanded for the ostablishmont of a traju~ ing-sohool for nurses, wid of & home for their comtart aud sboltor, In 1860 tho sohool wa opened in the old buildings of 8t. Thomaa’ ITos- pital, Tondon, with 16 pupils, or *probation- o™ au thoy ara callod, ‘Tho oourko of training i conoludod at tho end of twolvo months, tho pupils thon boing rogistorad as graduates, Dur- Tng the frst two yenrs 39 puplls woro rocoived and 22 werogrudiatad, Tho cost of traming thoso nnrson wis abont 2200 cack. In 1878 tho sohool was romoved to the new hoapital-building, and tho * probationovs " took up thoir rosidouco fu # now imuun galied ¥he Nightingale Homo," .ara_sluglo privilogos, 'Tho e e e e e shich ban rooma for 86 pupils, Tho Bt. Thomea Houpitu! hine 600 voda, mn.flul in above 30 wards ol vul'}mln #lzon, Horon sansidernble number of the graditated nuruen hayo found rogulnrompioy= “fm‘fi‘ Foratlonst o yoar ie {8 oonmdored do- sltablo that they should inve tho bonoile of thus H: I:!u‘ucu, Lofore thoy go out to do goneral nurse A tralning-school for nurses was openod ak Liverpool two yours aftor th thuu(ml':x schuol, 1t had from tho Don\nnin‘; the advantago of tho ndvico of Miss Nightiugulo, and of tho sorvioes at throo or four gradustes of hov mchool, Itis cunmgoted with the Liverpuol hospital ealiod tho Royal Infirmary. Attho ond of the first Lo and o hnlf yeurs the school had graduated thitky- ofght nurses. Lharopott of January, 1872, stales that ofghty nursos and nutso-puplly’ ‘wara thon undor poy at the Infivmiary on bLohalf of the {raining-school. In connection with the Liver- o) gohool Lliere has grown tp a vory oxtonsive system of district nursing among tho poor at thoir own homes, 'Thy eity Is divided into novon- toen districts, oach of which employs one or moro nursos, In 1873 4,00 podr pationts wore enrad for by thosg district-nursos, ot a cost of littlo moro thau $1 por cnso, Of thoso pationts, 2480 woro oured, 810 woro romoved to tho hoepital or to thio eountry, 580 died, 262 wero droppod from the list, and 422 wore under trente mout at tho closing of the roport. In 1863 tha number of giok poor refioved at thoir own Lomos wan 1,776 in 1871 it oxcooded 6,000, In the United Statos, tho first tralning-achool for nurses wns oponed in Now York in MMay, 1873, It oporates in conneotion with Bollovug llbn.p“n\, onud s undor tho chargo of an Luglish Indy-Suporintondont, Tho sclool bas now twon- ty-#ix pupils, who do duty in fivo wards of tho h.mgrni\n\. Lias also binnch schools in Boston, Dhiladelphin, aud Now Haven. In Novomber of 1ot yonr, a training-sclool was oponod ot tha Massachusotts Genecal Hospital, Boston, with oight pup!lu’, The number las since incroased to fifteen, “The papils hore liave & Lomo uear tho hospital-gate, and rocoive instruction in wookly lecturos from physiclans and_ surgeons, whilo their dally duties i1 tho hospital givo them tho roquisito practical experionco in’ bursing. The mauagors ot the Nightingala schiool in Lon- don havo kindly offerad to pivo the firat vacant pluce which ocems in their institution to somo Amerlean lndy who may desira to enter as n pu- Bl' nd who 18 np}:vovn by the managers of the oston kobool. As tho advantagos for a come loto training nro moro cortalnly siforded at tho Nightlugalo achool than at any yot established i our eaw‘: couatry, 1‘1‘! is mllhlf no(ind that soma compotont woman will avall horselt of tho privie logo which 1s here oxtondod. Bl WITH' A WATER-LILY. B0, my dnrling, what I bring,— A white-wingod blossom of thio springs On the sllent stroam it Ly, Deop fu dreatus the live-fong day, Now, If thou wilt Tot It rest, Lyhig on thy lovely breast, Agahn ita ppreading leaves will hide Juist us deop und still a tida., Dangerotts, dangerous, 'tls to dream. 1y tho dvop luko sllont atreama] Nixica bido within 1ts bod, With lilles floatiug overhead, Doar, thine hieart, t0o, In a atream Whoro 'ty dangerous to drosu : Nixien bikdo witiin §ts bed, With lifes flouting overhoads —Saturday Journal. ———— An Anecdote 0f Dejazots In 1820, Milo, Dojazot, then in hor 238 year, was ougaged at the CTheatro Francais at "Bore dosux. - Boing naturally fond of musio, she froquently proiited by thio froe adinission accort cd to the actors of tho minor theatre by tho man- ugomont of the opern, and ons aveniug occupied hor usunl post behind the seones during the ver- formauco of Krentzor's ** Puncesse Do Babylono,* All of a suddon, eloctrified by an air charmungly wung by the Princess, aud utforly uuconscions of what sho was l)tflll&, #he darted from tho coulisse on totho atage, und, soizing hold of the hand of tho astopishod cautatrico, embraced hor waraly, oxelniming ; o avol Madaumo, bravo! that fs ndood sing. g 1" A momontary pause onsued, aftor which tha naudionco, many of whom bLad recoguized the young sctress, burst into & storm of applauso; aud_Dejazet, coming to ler souses, and ovore wholmed with confusion, rotreatod rapldly inta tup couliseo, Noxt day sho recolved n summons to appear th » certain bour bofore the Comuiseary of Polics, On her arrival sho found that functiouary, ate tited in solomn_black, writing at iy buroaw, *“What js it?" said he, without even turning b eud. +hat {8 oxactly what X was about to ask you, Monsiour," repliod sho. Siruck by her voico, he 1nid down his pen, and for the tirst time looked at the new-comer. *“ Who are you, Mudomoisollo " was his noxt question. ++ Ma foi, Mongiour, you ought to know, since Iom hero by your ordérs,” ausworod Dojazot, handing bim a6 tho same timo thio notice she bad received. “Ah!" enld tho Commissary, glancing at tho papor, " you sra Mlile, Vieginio Dojizet F" ' At your sorvico, Monsiour.” * You are doubtiess owarc of tho penalty in« curred by you yesterdey ovouwng—twonty-four hours’ imprisonment.” “ Imprivonment § what for 2" “Reud tho thirteeuth article of the Polica Rogulations,” auswered tho Cuinmissary, point- iny to a document allixed to the wall, *aund you will seo,” Dojazet rend as followa: * Any actor or ac- tross uppenring in sight of tho audience trom tho coulisses of his or ber theatro, during the porformancs of a pluce, is ligble toa fino of 25 Franes and bwenty-tour hours' imprisoamoat,” “w:Lts doos 1ot cvncorn mo, Monsiour,” #1How so " ‘*Altow me to oxplain, I was at tho opora Iast oight to hoar—" * Ln, Princesso do Babylone! ™ interrupted tho Commissary, with a sigh, *I tnow—uvtor- tunately, business of importancy provented mo from being thore myself.” © Alil Monsieur, you missed a splondid per- formanco.” * Iudoed ! how did Cocilo sing ? 4 Cecilo! Ah! you mean tho Lrincess, Liko s angel, Monsiour, Whut a voico, what & syl yho Lns " 4 1Ius sho not? But pray sit down, Alademol- sello,” ndded the Commissary, chauging his tono nud banding bor a chuir with tho utmost cour- tony. Bfl]nzu#, who saw how ths land lay, did as she ‘was roquested, “You adwire hier singlog, thon, iademoi- sollo,” continued tho functiouary, his oyes beaning with dollght; *ought shonot to be at tho Laris opora “Not a doubt of 1t, Monsiour." #plademolsalle, your good taste docs youw honor. You have n brilliant caroor before you,” “ Tiogluning with twenty-four hours’ imprivon: mout," repiicd Dojnzet, slily. ** But whon I toll you,” coutinued she, *‘that after the air sho Blngs—" W Doliclonsly 1" interruptod tho Commissary. o Lnimitably, Monsisur,” rejomod the uctross. # Wueu I toll you that, transportod with eutl winsm, 1 coud ‘not refruin from rushing on tha stuso wnd ombracivg hor " WAL cried the othor, *bravel X would bave done thosame in your place!” “But you would not have boon imprisoned for it noxt day. Wherons I—" + Maudemoleollo,” repliod tho Commissnry, do~ Ing i best to look acrious, * let us vxamine tho article togothor. Any actor or actress appoar~ ing in mght of tho dudiouco from tho ocoulis- oH—— “ But T was not in the coulisses,” ssid Dojazot. was an the stago.” _ “Truo, Tho artivlo enys from tho coulissos of hig or hor theatrg—-o" ¢ Biut my theutro is the Thoatre Francals, aud this was at tho Opora [ ) “'rug again, Mademofaollo ; so the prison quostion falls to the ground, ButI maintain tho fino—with o slight moditloation. You will do mo tho honor of allowing me to nay you a visit, ‘aud we will talk a littlo nbout musiv.” “ \Vith plonsuro, Monaiour,” ropliod Dojazot ; adding archly, as sho Joft the room, * and good doul ubout * La Princosso do Babylono " '—Lon- don Sociely. Stoclk Gumblers? PArascs. Tho uninitiatod rendor of stock oparatlons, wnys tho DPhilndolpbin Ledger, i8 ofton much puzzlod ut the teclinical or slnug phruses used i the daily roports, o explains Your differont forms of contracts are kuown under tho genorul torm of stoclc privilogos. Tho **put™ and ©call'® Hutraddlo™ and aproad * aro donblo privilogea, A “‘put'ju a vontract giving tho holdor tho right of doliver~ ing a certatn amount of stock within a definito timo at n stipulatod prico. A oull” 14 exactly tho revorso of o [mt " boing a contract glving tho holder thoright of calling'.for tho stoolk - stoad of dolivariug it. A double privilege isa Spat " and *catl” on the sama stook combinod inono contract, Whon o double privilege ia drawn ab tho market prico of the stock it s called a “ straddlo,” and costs from 934 to b por aont promiut, Bub when drawn ot & distance’ of from 1 to 3¢ percont ubove wnd below the market price it is called » *sproud,” for which & fixed promium of 2 por cout 1 paid, ‘Uhe_ dig« tanco from the wmarket at which o “eproad” iy drawn dopouds on tha clisy of ktosk Aud the A tyity of the merket. ——