Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 10, 1874, Page 9

" LITERATURE. Dr. Holtaudia Now Poom. RE: 5 MANSE, Iy I, @, Hot- T s ;?15 T AT ol Gttt Avmstrong & Co. Dr. ifolland has givon us horo a pootical roruton of his iden of tho corrospandenco of the roxes. Tho idon I8 pratty noarly tho trua ono, and is vory ploasiingly sot forth in . charming story of domestic lifo, writton in smooth and fowing motro. Philip, tho pastor of 5 villago- Bock, brings to Lis homo, ou Saturdny night, Mildred, his young mnd lovely bride, “Tho Mistross of tho Manso."” Tho following dny, ns s kneels in ohureh, after listening to the moviug oloquence of her nusbaud, who sponka {n eormon nud prayer like cmo inspired, nho humbly besoeches tho All-Father to toach hor whoto to find tho vital churin of hiourt and mind tuat sholl unito hor lifa 1o is in true compan- lonsbip: 1848 ladder lexns upon (ho sun s 1 cannot cliimb 1t 2 giva mo wings! Grank that my doeds, divinely don, 3Muy Lo apprascd divinost thin Though thoy be littlg, overs ouc, Tte strido fa strong; hin ntops ara high s Muy 1ot my deeds Bio litlo stairn That, coutted wwift, shutl keep mo nigh, T4, ut the sammit, unawatos, e utand with equal foot aid oyo? If furthier down toward Naturc’s heart Tis root in siruck, commanding springs I whone deop life I have no pa 8ond 1no, on Tecompetisiiy Wingn, Tlie radu that gathers whero thon art} 0 doarest Father ! may no sloth, Or weakuess of 1y werkor souly Delny bim fn bis Kingly growil, Or hiold bim meanly frow the gost “Ttiat shinea with guordon for ua both{ Mildred's first thought, after her silent prayer aud fnward rosolution, wus to mateh hor Lusbaud ns a man, 11a booke Ehould bo her dally bread 3 8ho would run awiflly whero ho ran, And follow clogely whero be led, But, when she went into tho library, cn Monday oruing, to euter on her plan, the *‘awful host” of monarohs of tho pen, who confronted hor in stately yons upon the shielvos, appalled hor girlish mind and filed her with despair. While “she sat in Phuip's vacaut chair," Enflly debating her doubtful way, hor eye fell onan old tome, ouvoloped in qust, and ovidogtly con- slgned to long neglect, Curiosity moved hor to sean ita pages, aud the read therofrom o Eatte ern talo which gave bier tho key to her ovn dos- tiny. The doub and despsir wero forever bau= isned, To b like Philip was to ba Another Phisp—only less1 Bho might not tint his life st all, By Jearning wisdom he'could teach ; Ba what ulio gave, though 1oor and small, Bhould be of that boyoud bis reach, Whero Phillp fed, abo wonld not feed : Where PLllip walled, ho would not gog Tho books bo rend sliz would not seud ; But live hor scpurats life, and so Tiavo solo uppues o uect bla uced, o held his mission and bis rangs; 1tfa way aud worls werd all bis ow ¢ ‘And she would givo Lim, fu exclango, Wit sho could 1ot win, 'snd shio aloue, Of 1ifo and learnirg, fresh sud struuge, Btraightway she went about her wowsn's du- tics, bearing amply Ler own burdens, sud taking from Philip's shoulders a thousand swall and tensiog caron: . Iu deft and deferential ways Bhe took tho Liouso by uileut slege, And many a sad and rircken matd, ‘Aud muny » lors nud widowed life, Tt carue for connsel dr for aid 7o Phillp, met the pantor's wife, Aud on hur heart thelr burden laid. Bho visited homes of poverty and sin, and witl swoet golicitations gathered tho childron in- to school and church, aud with gentle coarities comfortod thesorrowing, and won from the orror of thale ways the wandering: 5o Ihitlp and Lis Mildred went Info their walks of dally Ufe,— Parling af morn with awect consent; ‘And—irelosa husband, busy wife— TTogether, when tho dsy was spont, ‘Briuging the troastires thoy bnd won From eundeted (racks of enterprive, To leatn from ench what euch Liad douo, And prove eacl otkor grown more wise Thuu Wl the morniuy was bejun. His grave discourse, hin judgment zuro, . Guvbtono sud temar toher roul s Whiflo ber awift thouguts, and vision purs, And sulst that wold pot brook control, ‘And wit thst kopt him fusecura Yithin his dlgnifed ropoee, Refrovhed std quickentd i 1ike wine, + No tendor word or dsiuty glozo Could glve him pleasur Lolf %o fing As that whick tingled to licr blows, e gavo hor food for heart and miud, And ralsed ber toward his higher piane s Bho showed Lim thut his eyes wore blind ; Sho proved his lofty wisdom vain, And huld him bumbly with lifs Lind, Aud Mildred was caraful uot to sute her hus- band’s love, or let his uowago flow morely in ronpons to tho claims of duty. Woll she kuew tha raro acerot: **That thoso TWho £ee us most, nd love ua bost, Find that a true affection grovn Tiw 10T When, 0 3t parted neat, Tt upenda long Lours in lone ropuso | Man Iives on love, ot love's axpense, And woinan, 59 ber love Lo wweet 3 Towt honey falls upoty the Kewso When it in tepted o repest Tao oft ita e expovicnce. And Midred, will instinctive akiil, ‘Aud loviug neilier wuosl nor least, Btood ont from Eniliyh prasyiug will, And gave, where lio desived o feast, The tuste thut lefe bis huugry still, 2nd ro, each duy, They went thelr way, and kopt thielr care, Enmot agutn, their tofl complate, Tiike gugels ou's beavenly ntcit, Or pilgrims In o golden strevt, Grown stronger one, and oue more fair, On Lo other band, Philip gave Mildied frealy her own will, and lett undisturbed ber seli- saoved activities 1 Thut Jovo 18 Weak Which 18 too strong; A 1 may Lo 8 Womul'a grav; The right of love swells vft o wrong; And riiken boud may bind 3 sleve Ax truly 2s & Joather thong, e 1Mtfes hurst, tho roses bloy, Into divinést balw sud bleon When frea above, and free below And lifoand love must Bave large room, Thiut Ufo und love may largest grow, Bo Pullip les: {what Mildred saw) “Chut love was Iike s well profound, From which two souls had right to'draw, ‘Aud n whoro waters would be drawned T one who took the othor's law | Mildred’s liberal mind bad room for no petty joelonsies, Bhe realized that o single humao 1-aturo is 80 mavy-sided and #o manifold ju girts 1o suflice for all tho mental and sociul needs ol any othor human vature. Sbe, therefore, in- ted to hor generous honpitalities tho friends sioso various culture could munistor to hor hus- bund's noble ploasures : Ilo wes her lover; that sufficed § And friondahip hadl o subilo grace Ry which Lis love could Lo caticed, OF all i friende, sho was but oue; e held vith them a common feld, Exclusive night, with Tovo hegun, Ended with love, and utood repealed, ving his Eriendship froe to rim, "Toward man or woman, All unmlssed, o knuw uho had no right to bind 315 friendship {0 ber singlo wrist, Bo long nw love wa truie and kind, And made her its monopolist, “Thoa runa the atory through the first two parts of tho poom, which ‘aro entitled, rewpectivoly: “l.ove's Experiments " und “Lova's Philoio- phiss,” In the third part, *Lovo's Componsa- tioun,” tho yoars pass rapidly on, Clildren athor in the Manse, Mildred's cares accumu- ato, and her wisdom increares to moot thor while Phillp matures in power, and ecarus a nazionsl roputation. The war botween tho North sl South breaks out, and Philip girds on his nword to battle in tho cause of Iresdom. Mil- dred’s hoart is rent in twain, for sho is of South- wrn blood, and her kindred aro in the may of tho Hobellion. Yot she makes uo woin, and utters nos & word to tucn Philip from his purposo. She rocognizos that ho is obeying the veico of conaclence, brotber i8, who points his sward at n ureast, At the battle of Gettysbura, Philip is futally wounded, and roturne to Mildred v die. {mfl 08 her g conntry'a Immedgistely betoro this evont, hor brother has fed from a Northern prison, asd sought the Erlmluu life with tho sister he hLss nea that e may spond the last hanr: d‘g-l‘ mn L g 9ag, robel kud Joyal rw 1id ede by | alde” I siuglo grive, ih tho tuserptidn over tholr hoad s Titey did tho duty that they awy Lol wrought at God's aupreins deatgus; And, under love's etornal law, Faell lifo with oqual beauty aliines, Philip's firnt-born takes up hus Inthor’s mission, and stands overy sacred day in the pulpit of tho old atiwrab ¢ And atill, the Miatreas of ths Manse, Bitw Mildrod, in hor silver age. There are many beantiful thonghts and naoful lesrons in the poom. 'T'ho doctring that wom- an's aphere {8 home Is, in ona or two places, car- riod to oxaggorntion, na whon it In assorted with pasitivencss that woman loses the gracos and channs of fominity when she goes out futo the world and undorinkes komo o-called maseuling avocation. Women nre' often ewlled upon by atorn neconsity to aasmme n man's work, and do ofton porform it ndequatoly, withont throwing off any of their delicnoy, madasty, and pucity. Without any avdont derlro to take! fanno. with the Doctor on this, or any othor puint whors o 16 ot whotly broad and’ fair, mon nnd women will enjoy s idoal portratturo of n blissful homo aud & model married couplo. Piniterton’s Detoctive Storiess ALLAN PINKEI'TON'S DETECTIVIS STORIES, Tne Hinengron, Himor s B inash Mo , .. DD, 218, Ohicago: W. B, Reou, Cooko & Go, Teiee: 41,60, 5 The oxtraordinary nstutenoss, subtlety, ingo- nuity, and conning with which Mr. Piokerton has followed the craft of A doteative, huve cnt- riod his renown not only abroad over our own country, but across tho Atlantic, The man s kuown throughout the world as ono of the most adrolt and successful dotectives that over sot out to track the dovious and ludden wayd of a eriminal, In the course of a long oxparicnce, lio has fathomed tho mystories of untold cases of felony, whoso attendant circamatances, ns they wero ovolved ono out of tho other, woro n8 sirango, and wild, and exciting, as nuy tbat over sprang from a forvid and fruitful imagination. 1t bas long been the purpose of Mr. Pinker- ton, in auswer to his own fmpulse aud to the eolicitntion of friends, o uufold somo of thoso curious and impressivo stortes, for the entortam- ment of the rending publie. Whe convenient time hng at Inet come for tho accomplishment of this purpose, and we bave nvder notien tho ioitisl number of a series of tales that aro well on in the progress of publication. "Tho subject of the present volume is tho his- tory of the robbory of tho Adams Bxpross Com- auy, at\tontgomery, Als., iu 1858, and of Mr. Iukerton’s metbed of procedure in hunting out tha thlef. The snm embazzled was largo, awounting to €40,000, nnd warranted oxtonded aud exponsive mensures in tho detection of the culprit,”and the support of the roputa- tion of the Compauy a8 trusty carricrs of the people’s property. . A number of dotectives from varioun points were omployed iu tho case, but monthe paesed and their of- forte wero without resalt. Fiunlly, the affair was glyen over to Mr. Pinkerton, undar the con- dition that bo sbould act without restriction in regard to money und menns. fle detailed oxpert nen and women from his force to work tho mat- ter up, and, like slouthhounds on the track of lwuman prey, thoy slowly and surely followed ev- ory falnt, sandom clow, until tho various linos pointod with unorring cortaluty to tho guilty man, and he was couvicted of his crimo and the stolon money recovered, ho story is long aud minnte in detail, but is skillrully ummmf and puinfully interesting. Tho syinpathies will tum, howover, from tho detectives to their belpless, nususpecting, and entangled victim. Their vigilant, relontloss, and_unscrupulons endeavors to bring tho felon to the point of solf-conviction scem rovoltingly cold-blooded ond cruel. Ono cannot lhelp the reflection, that it i a brother- mun they ave bunting down, nnd, by deceitful and treachierous wiles aud lines,—which wo wre taught to hold infamona in ordinary practice,— for¢ing him on to o convict's doom. ~ Truo, it is in tho parsuit of justico, ind crime must ba ferroted ont nnd puvished for tho salvation of socioty ; but the tender conscienco obstinately puta tho inquiry, Doos tho oud justify the means? Thoro “are intricate issues to be conaidored in iho seitlement of the question. ut, no watter to which eide our opinion inctlnes, admiration eaunot bo withheld from Mr. Pinkerton aund his men for tho wonder- ful’ abilition thoy bring luto play in the condavt of their business. v view of their proticieney, it would #oom an impossibility for guiltof any kort to remain long concealed,” Thin rovolation of the workings of tho detective systomn shonld act oy warniug upon the crimmnl clawnes, It cor- tanly gives tho innocent man feeling that Lis own footatops masy be domged by somp **shad- dow " or “gpotter” following up a fancied trail, snd that wherover ho turns some wary and wutehful spy in the interasts of the law may bo taking note of every word and nction. Ugh! bow isit that a muan does turn asidon lurebreadth from the straightforward path of rectitudo whilo Pinkerton and his detoctives are abroud in the land? Thoy almoat realizo to us tho iden of omnigcionco and iuexorable fato. Majf. Pinkerton’s hook will bo profusely illne- trated, and published Nov. 1. alupearets KMeroluess THE GIRLHQOOD OF BUAKSPEARE'S HERQINES Ix & SEntes o Tattx, By MANY COWDEM OLATKE, Author of the Concordunro to Shatzapeirs, Fimsl Sarles, Square Duodecimo, pp. 489, Now York: . I, Putnam’s Sons, Tt is now twenty-two years sioce Mrs. Clarko first gave to the public theso studies of the early lifo of the somen of Shakspoura. They have been scarce, if not altogethier out of tho markot, for some time past, nud & new edition wag needed to satisfy the popular demnnd, aud to pay proper vespoct £o work that hns been juetly admirad avdcommended. The form inwhichthoyaronow presented is pleising n ovory way, and doeserodit to tho taste and onterprise of the publishors. We could scarcely point to s writer botter qualified to traco tho story of Bhakaposro's loroinos, from tho hour whon tho great poct cliose to throw the lizht of his genins upon them, back to the day of their birth, than tho ono who Lag hero vewtured to undertake the tagl, The yosrs of searching and prolifie study which 3Mry, Clarko has givon to the dramatist, combined with her 1aste and talont for the wotk, bisve turned her spirit to close sympathy with his, ond perbaps, £3 far as s losser mind may, hoy enablad her to divine tho fundumental chord in the charactor of his most famous and attractive womeu, aud to imagine, with a kecn and fino porception, tho infinences that first ot tho tones vibrating, and finally brought out with n mastor- stroke thoir full aud porfect climax of har- mouy. But it i a hnzardous task for the ~mont imperiel intolleot (o attempt to aupplement ihe portrait which Shak- #ponro has given us with skotches purporting to illustrato any ‘other period iu their history. Surely no human hand has ever had, or evor will have, the fustinct and the cunning to add u touch 1o his work that would not seem redundant and impertinent, Theso tales of the girlhood of Portia, and’ Lady Macboth, and Deademoun, Helens, and the Morry Wives of Windsor, aro cleverly conceived, and elaborated in an urtistic manner; und yot tho mind wota iteelf ngainst them with many aa bbatinate protest, Whoover reads Shakspoaro lovingly and reverently, profors to take his figuros” as ho loft them, sirack off in a moment of divino fronzy, lamivons, porfect, and complsto. No ingenious story of their pravious existence will sulisly or account for iheir croation, Tho mystery thnb surronnds the pre-nntal lifo of bumanmty is not more inscrutablo, moro tnoxplicuble. - Lot no Aupges- tion intrudo botween suy mind and its purn cone tact with Shaliwpeara’s, "1 it cannot provida for itself bottor and truer concoptiony of his mowu- ing and miglst tiut anotiar can supply, it is noy worth while that it should Lavo any,’ Second- hend opintons ure vatuoloss, Thun, while, on some ucconnts, we onjoy thene fancitul stovies of Mre. Clarke, nnd renlizo how delighiful an occupation it was' for her to weave them, and how mneh bright faney and dolicato nrt vho hing pnt into themw, wo cannot hely fool- ing that ezch 1dividunl who cares to understand Suakspearo should go throuek the effort of e torpreting him unaided. Especially wonld wo put oothing between him and tho chillish and tha inuuature reasoen, dreading lest wo substitute a wenkor and profano imaga for ouo which the native intuition would of ifsoell caltup, Lot the simple toxt of Hhukapeare, without note or com- ment, be placed undor tho oyo of the youthful veador ; and not until thoro 1a tolerable. tanie tiarity with it, and, in s general way, with the great thoughts that Noin if, let it'be accome panied with the helps whicl srsryists and auno- tora buve furnishod towards ‘its comploto olucidation, © Dogmntics. CHRISTIAN DOGMATICS: A ‘T A DKatCsL INATIWCTION AND Puivars Bruny. Ly, J, VAN Quwsinzre, D, D; Trauslded fom the Duteh by Jou WAtson WaTKON, B, A., Vivar of Nowhurg, Lanebive, und, Mtantod. B 1, oW Au Stratford-upon-Avon, Tio Volumed, 8o, York: Seribner, Armuttong & Ca, Dr. Van Ousterzeo is not a stranger to Engleh readors, His Commentories in Lauge's * Diblo- work," and hls ¥ Thoology of the New Testa- mant,” have brought to and the Unlied Statod nmmw)mgonfm-’mxmnu %' writor hin nttatumonts In scholarsbip, In Ifolland be in reparded ny tho firat pulpit-orator of the Evangol- fonl Churck. Dorn In Rottordam, in 1807, and for elghtoon yenrs pastor of the principal Reformed Chureh in that olty, ho hns, since 1862, ocoupted the chalr of Bystomatio and Practieal Theology in the University of Utrecht, When a vacanoy ocourred tn tho samo dopartment in the Nomi- unry of tho Reformod Cburch at Now Brung- wiclr, N. J., a fow yonrs ago, an attorpt was mado to induce Dr. Van Oostorzeo to como to this conntry, but in vain, Tho tios of duty and love holid hilm fast in his native land, and only through hin books and his frionds will ho proj- ably ever bo roprosouted in America. In addl- tion to the works alraady mentioved, Dr, Van Oostorzeo has publislied sevora] volumes of sor- mouns, & Lifo of Christ, and & Christology, or Mnnual for Chiatians, ‘LTio present bouk,racently published in Holland, had hoou clason, by the aditors of the *Thilo- sophieal and Thoologienl Librarg,” from the va- riond foroign systews of (lnmfogv, as tho ono , beat snitad Lo tho wanis of Auglo-Amerlean sti- douts, 1ts marked ability, compnet artangomont, lucid motliod, fresh utyle, and Evangelicnl sonti- ment, haro givon it ensinonce ovor overy woik of the kind produced within late yeara in Enrape, The chinracter ofthio work in apologetie rather than denominational, and its object i to strengthon tho faith of men In Christinuity ns o far more neccsgary ond than to attach them cloder to any particular Chureh, The author be- Noves that tho great question of the hour i3, whother n man cau find rossous for romaining aGhristinn—whother he ia right In notjeontivulug u Urotestant, o Roman Cathollo, or o sootarisn of any eort, ' “If there is ono causo to which, at 1ho presont time, nll nro called who are really concerned for nothing elso than the triumph of tho Kingdom of God, it Is the ndvancing, in tho domaiu of Dogmatics also, of a truoe, hearty, Fm"““n Evangelical Alliance of all who in real- ty buiid upou the same foundation, a8 agaiunt an enomy whose wholo nim is agnines, not mere- lv n particular Church lifo, but against tho Chrintian_life, the Religious lifo, tho wholo Sufritual lifo of onrselven mnd our chiliren.” Tho sngacity and liberality of tho wiitor will commend his work to cullghtoned mombers of uli religious douomiuntions, and propare them to nocept it as an authority and a guida, Iistory of Engtish Liferatnre. STAW'Y NEW HMISTORY OF ENOLISH LITERA- TURE, Trepared on the Tnals of * Shaw's Banu. 0l Dy Tauaan J, BACKUS, A. M., Professor of ioglisl Literatiiro in Vosear Coliego, 12mo., pp, 404, N York : Sholdon & Co, Tho progross of tho ngo is nowhero nioro do- cided thun in the improvoments makiug i our school-hooks. Awmendmeuts in tho methods of education nnaturally employ tho trained and ver- eatile facuitics of cultivatel minds, and there s, 1n consequence, an unendiug soriod of now man- unls 1n ovory branch of Belenco trooping forth from the press. Fresh haudbooks of literature appear, fiom timo to time, among tho rost, chal- louging oxamination, und perhaps winvivg an acknowledgmont of their morits. In spito of tho claims of these Inior armivaly, - * Blaw's Tlstory of English Litoratnre™ lay held & high place m the csteem of Amor- lean tonchers for tho last ten years. It had its defeets, Thove was too mmch of it to crowd mlo tho ordinary school-course, aud ity style was olevatod above the heads of averaso students. Yet nothing cnme forward 8o eou- feunadly superior a4 rightlully to supersede it. As lnnt Prof. Backus bas it upon u wino plan in undertaking to roviso the old work, and cor- vect the imporfections that restrictod ite_usefal- uess, Mo has, first of ail, condonsed it Within s reanonnble compns, oxcluding wuch portions as were of minor. consdqisico, and by their pres- onca diatractod tho sel olars’ attention from tho most importaut authors, He haw also rawritton many of the cliapterd, snd effocted s completo change 1n thelt arrangement. Fionliy, ho hna simplitlod the stylo, and added notes, reforences, quotations, dingrams, otc., whicl aro a valuublo awwistanee 1o & just uuderstanding and devolop- mout of English litorature, With thego words of explanation, we introduce it to the school-room, where it muat meke its own roputation among tenchera aud pupils. introduction to Algebra. INTRODUCTION TO AIGEBRA. By Epwanp OLNEY, Profcazor of Mathematics fn the Univarsity of dlichigan, 12mo,, pp. 216, New York: Sheldon & Co, Prof. Olney's oxtendod series of mathematical works bas gafued him a roputation amoug edu- cators, second to none in this conntry, for learn- ingin his science, and o capacity to teach it. The presont manual, which is intended for pupils lacking sufliciont matunity to enter upou the suthor's * Complate School Algebra,” is ad- mirably adapted to its purposs. Itis easy, plain, and gradua! iu its progress from tho elomontary defluitions to the more complicated prob- lems of Algobra, Truveling aloug its courso, tho' pupil - fuds his way 8o clearcd of obatacles s to delight in” tho advanco that is made undeviatingly suro and succsssful, Ho i continully interestod s ho goes on, .for his miud 8 never overburdoned or discouraged. o 8008 whero ho 8 Botting his foot ovry timo, and feols that tho bausis is firm bonoatl his steps. ‘Tho hilt of Seiouce caunot bo cut away, but the path up its sleep incline can bo, as we ses horo, #0 smoothed for {ender foet that they shall not #liv or got wived before the heights aro reached. ‘The ma{m of this buok incindes the olements of Liternl Arithmetio, Stmplo Eqnatious with oo, two, and threo unknown quantities; Quad- ratic Bquations with a fow cases of Simuilancous Quadratics, and Ratio and Proportion. Wo havo spokon of its aimplicity, but we must add thas it by no meas oxeutes tho pupil from axcroising bin renson. 1t meroly tonchen him how to da 8o, by rolos so lucid that the effort is counted a pleasure Tathior then sotual labor, A Hevolt Agninst Pies, THE SCHOLLMA! Coxtatza Pavens ox IlourLire v Twksin, Ly Mrs, A, M. Draz. Iiustraiod, Boston: James K. Usgood & Co, This little book shonld eircalute among fariners’ srives, and anong women in ecity and country who do their own work, It is weant to stir thom up to a revolt against the tyrauny of pies,—or, in othor words, aguinst the tyrauny of tho rolling-pin, and the scrub-brush, snd the sowiug-mnchine. The gist of its advico to mothors and houscleepers is, to simplify lifo; to have plainor food, sud plaincr dress, aud fowor coromonialy, and more leisuro, and more pletares, and books, sud things of bosuty that are tho roal eseentinls to buman existonco. Tho papers gsro written in 8 pud- gout mtylo. Every sotonco bas o sart sud piquant” saver. Mrs. Diaz Ling that shrewd iutelligouco that scems to be - haled with the air of New England. Sho tukoy o quick moasure of things, and ostimates 8t & glance thoir intrineio valiey, Then who has that sharp, incisivo modoof oxprassion that cuts its way right to tho hoart of the uudumlnmflnf. Sho has nat said anything new in theso racy little papers, but she hag upid meny old and good tuings in & strong, strikivg manner, that renews their forco, und mukes them wortia heaving again, A Valnablie Atlaw TRufus Blauelard, No. 182 Clerk slreet, has Just issued the Commercial Atias of tho United Scates, It connists of ciglit lurgo maps, ombrac- ing wll the Staton, laid off in countics aud town- ships, with railways, citios, towns, &c., &e,—the whole forming amost valuable work for tha oftice, the conuting-room, and the tibrary, Wo notie aluo & fine colored map of this city and its sur- roundings. Che mep of tae Unlted States tns w geries of tables of the pop- uiations of the prncipal citics and villages in sll the Statos, g well as tho pop- ulation of tho States themsclves, talion from the lust consus, Our morehants and_shippers will flud this work very convoniout in dirccting packs ages all ovor the Northwest, Iv ig, infact, o veluablo contributien to the facilities of tho Luginoss public, HBooks Ieccived, INPANT DIET, Ly A, dacour, M. D, Oliulcsl Pro- fewsor of Dineasoy of Ohildren, Collegn of Physlefana aud Burgeous, Now York, Rovised, knlurged, and Auapied 1o Vopular Uue_'by Sfany Purnas dacot, 3. Dy 2o, "pp. 119, Nuwr Yorks O, 2, Putsiain’s ona, . —TLast weok n band of uoble women called up- on tho uditor of Lhie paper published at Salisbury, Md,, aud plended cloquently and teatfully with iifin'that ho should mot in° sny way encourage the cirens people who wore then glving their exhibition n tho town. Circnses were wicked things, tuey said, 'Thoy led 0 immorality nud coat money, and kept people out inte ut night, aud wore altozothor things {0 bo ahunned, T'hera was s matmee thatatternoon, eud tho editor was prospecting avound the teut in soarch of itame, when, to hiy uurlmsn, bappen- ing to glanco up at an uld ice-lionso hard by, whom stiuld ho 5py en tho roof theveof but the #iama noblo womei who bad wrostlad with bim in the mornlug? Thoy were peeping over the walla of tho tent and watehiug tho celobratod oquenttienne, Mlle, Hosalinds, in hor dariug bareback act, and listoutng to tho wide-aplisting Joliow 8¢ thio Bhaksspolirean clywit, il ““SPARKS OF ScIENGE. ™ TROU-ONDITIER, In South Amorica thoro liven s Inrge frog (Crentophrys cornutin) which feods not ouly upon smatlor frogs, but npon little birda and animals of vayious kinds, It fo othorwiso siotoworthy oun necount of tho singulrr long platos which aro inclosed in tho nkin of its Mack, A bull-frog from North Amorlca, which is kept among the curiosltics in tho Gardens of the Zoologleal So- cloty, London, i fed on small birds,—n sparrow boing cnstly ongulfed in ita capnolous jaws. Theros & frog (Pelobates fiscus) common in Tranco, which, 1t pinchod on tho thigh, uttors s cry like the mow of acat. At the samo {timo It emits watrong odor, as of garlio. Thisemisslon not only affocts the souso of smoll, but it makes the oycs wator, as docs muatard or horseradlsh. A wmall frog (Alytos obstotricans), bolonging to France and Qermany, is distingnished for the paculiar disposition it inakes of ita oggs, 'Tho fomale deposita thom, to tho numbor of ahout #ixty, inn long chain,—cnch ogg adhering to tho twonoxt it by its tensclous fuvestmont. Tho malo frog twines this clwin around his Ehighy, and thon retires to somosecluded rotront, wliare ho rematus until the young aro roady to lintch, At this momont ho socks the wator and plungoa in. Tmmodiately the young tndpolos omergo from tho ogzs, and awim away, whilo thoie uiro, relloved of lis burden, comas np out of the water, " aud Richard 18 himsol( again,” Tho femnle of tho American troe-frog (No- totroma margupintim) hes o pouch oxtending avor the wholo of tius'back, snd opening pos- teriorly, In thin it carcios Ttk ogga wntll thoy are hatehed, to fnsuve their snfoty. Tho spoclen of another American gouus (Opiathodelphys) in slso furnished with & dorsal pouch. An Ameri- cnn spocieu of tho Iylndos Ings ite egga singly in tho axils of tho loaves of trocs, But the strangest modo of disnosing of tho egga is prac- ticed by tho Snrinan: toad (Pipa Americanay, In the Inying searon, tho skin'of the back of the fomaly frog thickous ana srows loowe and spongy. As soon a8 hor epgs are lald, the molo lifts thomn up and imbeds thom fn this soft, spongy skin, which cloves uver them, Madam Toad fixyun im- mersos herself in mud and wator, not to reap- ponr until Ler progony bave left the ogyy, which thor do n an advancod stago of formation. Thoy continue to remain in the doreal colls until thoy bave passcd the tadpole state, and finally leap down from tholr mother's back, perfoct minia- turcs of #he adult. In some cases, 120 dorsnl cells bavo beon counted in the back of » Ringlo toad. In histravelsin Boroeo, r, Allred Wallaco oucounterod a troo-frog ?lhz_moplmruu) whicl he thonght might, from ite habit of locomotim, bo fairly termed * the fiying-frog." Tho following is hin account of it : : Ono of tho most curfous snd foteresting creatnren whiich I mot with {n Doruco was n lurge treo-from, which was brought mo by one of tha Chineeo work- men. Iio assnred mo that he had scen it come down in o slanting dircotion, from & high treo, as if it flew. On exnmining it, I found the ted vory long and fully wobbed to thelr oxtremity, ro that, when expanded, they offcred a surtac mch Inrgur than the body, The fore-logn were algo bordored by u membrane, ond tho body was ecapablo of ° considerable. infin- tion, The back and Hmbs wero of & very desp shining-green color, the under mnr- fnco and the mner toes yellow, while the webs were binck rayed with yelow,” Tho body was about 4 inchies long, whila {lis weha of pacli Lind-foot, when fnlly expanded, ovolved & surfaco of 4 aquare inches, au: fho sweba af all tho feet fogother, whout 12 aquarn tuchen, Ax tho oxtremitics of the toon have dilated discs for ndlieelon, shiowlug ho craatura o bo s trte Lo frog, itin dificult to imngine that this immeneo mem- Lratie of the toca can be for the nurpose of swimming only s and the account of the Clinaman, that it flow down from the trve, becomes more credible, Pennert, the zoologist, once made n pet of a toad that took refupo under the siaircase of house. 1t came out overy night into a dining- room near its retrest, and, when it eaw the light, allowed itself to bo placed upon a tahls, where it ate worms and insects furnished by its mastor. It showed no sigms of irritation when it way tonchod, and by its gentleness beeamo an object of genoral intorest. 1t fhus lived thirty-vix vears, when it was attacked by a crow, which put. ont ono of its eyos, inflicting a fatal iojury. Had it not beon for this accident, it would probably have lived yoarn longer, No Datrachian possesses venomons properties; but tho tond secrotes in the follicles of the skin, chicfly about the bend and shonlders, an acrid liquid, which Dr. Davy conjoctures i tho ani- mul's defouse against earnivorous mammsalin, A dog urged ou to attack one, will drop it from hia mouth os though the tas:o of this socretion wero particularly disagreeablo, It is cstimated that tho froga (Iana) number fifty-ono spocies: the troe-frog (Hyla) sixty-four, and the loads (Bufa) thirty-five. They aro found in all parts of the tho smallest varioties juhabiting Furope, and the largost, America. In South America but & singlo spocies of frog ia known lo exist. In Austtalia thero arenono. Now Zealand has ono specios of the treo-frog. THE DRIGUTON AQUARIUA. Ono of the largeat aquarin in the world is situated in Drighton, England. Tho bLuilding stands on the sea-besch in front of the Marine Parado, It is 715 fect in lougth and 109 foot in breadth, and was completed in 1872, three years baving beon ocenpied in its construction. The Interior is divided into two corridora, with tanks, to the number of forts-one, ranged on nithor sido. The fronts of tho tanks aro of inch-thick plato-glass, divided into shouts 3 feot wide and 6 fent high, nnd suoported Ly upright iron mullions. The smallest tank monsurcs 11 by 1) foot, and_contains sbout 4,000 gatlons of water ; winle the lnrgest monsures 330 bv 80 feot, and holds 110,000 gallons, The latter issuf- flejontly lurge to nccommnodate & respectallo- sizod whale, 1t does not nccommoduty u whalo, howaver, but s appropristed at pregent by por- poise, 8 few dog-fish, a ray, and sevoral turtlcs. Bix tanks aro oceupied by Tresh-weter animala, and the romainder by mirrino fanna, Tho Water for tho latter is pumped from the soa by stowm but the tanks are never changed, unless they becomo turhid, or somo nceidont, liko the crack- ing of a front, ccoms to them. To securo abundant asration, each tank is supplied with vuleanito tubes, through which a strenm of air it foreed by wn air-pump worked by steam. Tho uir convoved by them into the tank keops up o oonstant bubbling in the water. Tho aquarium wan built by a stock compauy having a eapital of ), 000, NYGIENE FOR THE AGED. In a recont clinical locture at Guy's Hospital, London, Dr, Habershon discussed the hygienic ‘meunsures by which the livos of the aged may bo prolonged. Hourged that, in preseribing for old people, a uniform warm towmperatare should bo advisod,—supporting bis connsol by allusion to the cano of hiw own mothor, who survived to the grent age of 102, During the winter-months of tho lust vears of hor lite, sho refused to loave Ler bed, alleging that only there coult sho keap warm. Lo this habit_the Doctor ascribed nor unugual longevity, Hoaluo cited, in proof of his positioy, au_instance in which an old man, goiug oub Into the cold and fog, dicd simply from tho ehock of the ehill upon his system. A degreo of cold which would praduce moroly uupleasant songations in uunal cases would often lend to fatal vosulis in one whose virculation was en- feobled, und whoso vital forco was diwini-hed by age, Dr. ubershon alyo recommended thnt agod peraohn shonld cat more frequently thon others, as their meals wero gonoratly sparng, Those who wako at about 3 or 4 iu the morning shiould Liuve some nourishment ot hand, und vov wait untll the ordiuary brenkfast-hour to take their first menl of the day. 'Thointorvel be- tween suppor at night and brenkiowt in the nmrnin% ia too long for persons in declining strongth, SUNLIGNT FOR TUE B10K, Dr, W. 1, Hamuwond declares that the.prac- tice of oxcluding the light from hospital wards and wick chambera is, oxcopt in easos of disor- dered bratn and diseases of tho nervons system, highly injurious, The perpivious effects upon tho sick of Jylug in rooms kept in u condition of somi-darkness Lins beon frequently noticed by thii engacious obgerver. During tho fato war, lie was called o n camp und Yonpitel in_ Wous Virgii, to iuvostigato tha ofrcamstanees which were producing an unusual degreo of mortality among the nien, Ho found the kick erowded iuto a emall room, from which all light van oxcluded by blind of rubber-cloth, Tha utienty wero as offcetuslly blanclied as colery is ¥ tho binulot of earth wrappod about it Pulo, bloadlos, andeolorless, the ghastly forms of the vicl looked geareely mortul, “Convileucence wus, nunder theso cireumetances, in tho opinion of Dr, Hanunond, well-nigh imposkible, 1T the mon boen subjected to tho enlivoning and honling in- fluences of the light, it Is the Dootor'a boliof that wany of those who died might huve rocovored, — A 'Tent of Hnman Nature, From the Soringfield (0.) Republican, Oue day two men In Xonin wero engugzed in a disonunion ns to liecohor's guils or " iunosence. Yrom thiw our debaters branched off npon tho nubject of humuu natura in gencrsl, its foiblos, wanknesses, snd_ instability undor ornclal tests : aud, growing carncst, ono offorsd to bot that there woro not a dozen men In tho city who would stund u cartain test which he speoillod, Tho wagar was sccaptod, twolvo representative wale vltizons dosiguated, and to each & deinty nota, wristen in & fomlnino haud, coushod in soductive, bub yéd pollshed term, wis s4nt as | comlng froi writer had seon tlie ady, “I'he midsive atated LORYLNG otitloman addrossed, baen hapresind by bis beating and lpltwnnncc, nnd wns mont anxioun, &o., according to the nmual style. Tho writor would bo glad to moot Mr. ‘Vanity at snok and such a powt at such a timo, The notes woro duly sont, and tho conspirators anxfously awaited the roanlt of tho affair, Much to the clisgrin of the gontleman twho sccapted tha wagor and tho trinmiph of tho other, evers one of ths men to whom notos wero son!, matried and aingle, old and young, appeasod at ia propor point at the oxact time named. B THE NEW GUIDES TO FAITI AD BELIEF. From tha Pall Mall Gazefte, Ourn 18 n wino niid oarnoat. 350, ot ago of thought and refonce, Sir To error, fgnorance, and bliss wo falrly bla dofsnce, v, # professora ¥ everywhers abound, both In and ont of collagon ologles, Aud nll yoyg to cram onr nobs with * fsma ¥ and with RS Bow, wor, wovr, Tol du ridile, tol do riddle, 4 Bow, wow, Wot. Phllosophs, a8 you'ro aware, matorisl nud mental, 8ir, Ataone cxtrems {4 ¢ Positive,” at tother * Traus- condental,” Bir, And each n!“ul who it theso daya woulil npeculato ¢ on regle,” ¢ 16 1o Cuit Fun tho vig with Comte, must take the tip from Hegol. Tiow, wor, wo, &a. ‘The fundamental problem whicl, dobated mow for ages, Bir, 1a atill numgd and atill unsolved by ail our modern sayes, Bir, Is, if fcx’:nn‘ofl I may make a fimplo form to throw in, Juat whnt 'wo know, and why we kuow, and what's tho way we kuow it 1a, Tow,"wow, wow, &c, Wo cant asumo (50 Comto afiroe) frst or vl cause, Bir, ‘Phonomena are all o kiow, thelr ordor st thoir Iaws, o Hirs Whilo Hegel's modest formuia n singlo lino to aum in, Is “potbing is aud nothiug's not, but overything's be- comin’,” Bow, WOW, WOy, &e, “Development 1 all £ho go, of course, with erhiort Hpencer, Whio carce 1 tlo more_than Comto nbout tho *why " ‘nd ¢ whonee,” 8 Appoarances, ho soeins to think, do not exhaust totality, . Baat Indicute that underneath there's some ¢ Unkuown Roulity." Bow, wow, wow, &c, And Darwin, too, who Jends the throns “ In vulgum voces spargere,” Maintaine umunity 1a nought except n big menacerle, ‘Tho progeny uf tallioss spucs, alsry-tared bt pugsy- nowml, Sie, “Who nizitly eilmbed thele * family tree,"and ou tho top copoued, Sir, Bow, wow, wow, &e, "There's Carlyle, on thootbier Laud, whoso first and last coneort it fs . To presch up tho “Iimmensitiea” aud mueo on tho “eternities " But if_onw credits what he hears, tho glat of ail Lis g That A Erlrwi-ers, dentul * Haggls, inhily understaod, fs tranacen- Sing, Tigw, wow, wow, Smagugative spark, you know, elctsio curreata Hndle, I, On Alpdtie helglts or at Dolfast, wilhin tho brain of Eyndall, Sir; ome peoplo Lold, fu flowery, vaguo, And reprogents tho * clesio nude” when atripped of allits “ Drapervay, Tow, wow, wow, &c. Professor Huxley has essayed to bridge across tho whiasm, Bir, *Twixt atter desd and wmatter quick by mesus of «* protoplagm.” Sir, And to Lifs doctrine now ‘subjofua the further * grund sttraction ¥ That # consiclousness fn mun aud fo brute fa simply “ roflex action,” Bow, waw, wow, ke, Then Btanloy Jovons will contend, fn words stout and smphatieal, ‘The proper mode {o treat all thinys is purely mothe- ‘nutleal 3 Since wo as individual men, communities, and na- ous, Sir Ao clearly anglos, linvs, aud aquarcs, enbes, eireles, und equatious, iz, Bow, wow, wow, &, George Henry Lewes, I'm informed, had “ gone off quite hiyaterical ” Abom‘nm foeblo, toolish thlug thio ** theory Metemplr- eal And ouly found rellof, *Ha sa1d, from nervous throcs and pprstn ir, By bauging straight at Husloy’s head o brace of brand-new ¢ plasus," Sir. Baw, wow, wow, Lo, 8uch are the philosophic views I've ventured mnow to versify, Aud.ifz u;n): invent tho term, lu some degres to * ter- i Among them sll, I'm bold to ssy, falr room for cholco youll find, sir, And if you don't, why then you wou't, and I, for one, shinn't mind, Sir, ow, wow, wow, Tol de riddc, tol'de riddlo, Tow, wow, wow, ———r A Veritable Zcile Lamars The Mobile fegister publishes tho adventures of = voritablo Balle Lamar in tio Souch during tin War. It appours that Mrw. 1. H. Douner, botter known as Laeut. Nurry L. Buford, was, Iike all other Bouthorn wamet, unwilling to e thoso whom sho held most denr wareh to the frout, and B0 sho mado proparations, notwith. standivg_nor sex, to participato neiively in the strifo. During the mouth of June, 1861, sho feft New Orleans in full uniform of a recruiting oflicer, and went dircct to Arkansas, whore she soon suceoeded in raising a company of vetorans. As First Lieutenaut, under Capt. Weathortord, she left Arkausas wilh the compauy and wont to Koy West, Ikvosho wae reluctantly compellod to leave the commsnd which she bad orgauized, und to which she bocnno so much attached, on the ground of incompeteucy, s slloged by tho cownander of that post. Deturmined to wlow 1o fwpedimus o moke her bw Iino of dut§ marked out by Lioraol proceeded Lo Viiginia, und juined tulion of Now Orloans, the v fivut Lattlo of. Munabsuy, and participated 1 thal mumoreble siraggle, Aslortiie aiter this nto Jjoived the ‘Eighth Louisians, and fur tho fivst 1ima hor sox was quostioned, and sho was or- tested and ordered to assume femwle aftive. Amoug burddrods of amusing adventures, por- hops tho best with which she was conuected took place sduriug tho time of hor imprisonmont after this a rost. A commitics of Indies waited upon her, by order of the conunander, for the purposa of vettling the vexed quostion, but aftor seciuy tho daubing-looking young officor they concluded uot 1o perforta thuir miesiow, Sho was trlsan before tho Mayor, reloased, al- lowod to refuin ber uniform, and 8t onco com- jssoned 3o perfoym apy sorvieo fox the Con- foderncy w1t cbo might be culled upou Lo por- form, As iber 10x had beon questioned, i€ not kuuwn, sho. zesulved to leavo Iichimoud, and rojorced whon Gon. Winship ordered hoz to the Wostorn arimy for the purpose of scouting in tho vicinity’ of Okolona, Miss. Th reliubility of tho dar)ig youmy regynit Was soon vecognized and approcinted, snd Gou. Quantioll sout Lior with dispafrhes as n gpy into Miesouri, Aftor rondeviug incstimable nervico in this capacity #lio wont to: Massiesippi, und from there back to Now Orlourts, whero sho joined tha Twontys firab Reginent, then being organized, sud ve ported to G kn. Villipiguo, Recelving hor come mission ns Firet Lieutenant, sho went to Mem- {;hiu, and from there tu Shiloh, where she was ndly wounded in the right shoulder on the tivst day of {hie battle, April 7, 1862, While re~ covaring frcou tho offecls of ner Wound hor nex. s aguin d bcovered, to her wortitication, and Gen, Beaur pgurd and others woro natonished to find out thas the gallant i-uung olticor was uot of the wironger sex. Uusble to dissuado her Irom jarticipating in actunl warfaro, she s comuit pional to go to Atlanta, pass through the lincs npal ack as 4 spy. Upou reaching At lauta wbo wad cqtupolled” to wuit soveral duys for furthon orders, and, instead of minying i thnt city. atio ran ap to Dalton and Chattenooga, aud partivtpated ad tigely in_both fights, roturn- ing to Atlantr a d.": or two boforo the povossary orders arri ved, 14+om this sectron of the coun- try slio wargordored aboard of blockaders from ditferons 8 outhern ‘ports to tho Indicy, nnd oflen wits the lmarer of important glispatchos to foi- eign porty, for tho Florids and Shenaudosh, Sho soized avery u pportumty, whetner in the Soutly, in tha Kortla, orin a foveigu laud, to 1ou- dor neslatanea to \ho Southern Confederacy, Bho bas a_necoipt fov 3780, which wan colleetod from the United 8tatos goldicrs of Commodars Brigsel's flect, when ab Lridzoport, Barbadoey, and seut to Southein hospitale, althouph the monoy was snpposod to have been given for the banelt of Foderal xoldisrd, Sho was sent to 3an Diego and Havaua ror tho purposo of buy- Ing colveo and sugar .for the Confoderacy, and fram thore, after mxlting tho necossary pure candes, vhe went to Bouth Amwrics, in the juter- st of the Cuuledorato \lovorument, with Lrico's expodition, From South Amorica sho proceaded 0 the West Tndios, el zod with somo tuporitnt wnisaion for the country which nho loved eo well und sorved' so Iaithfufy. ‘Iho deods-of thia noble waman ars walt .known throughont the Sontl and Liave boon recit ed on many & hearth- stous by oll-searred veterana ondl jnmatos of Pegeral oungeous, Thd prisoners of Camp Chae Laye every remgon ito remembar her who ursod them, fod them, hnd: furnished them very vent i dould upare,dsy atier duys va from tha I, slie ut oo Brous’s b VIO 10 1 ROSNEY, v . A racont oolobration of au anclent fostival, the “ rugli-boarlng wake," in Manchontor, Lugland, Lins rovived rocolleclions of tho inporfant posi- tion which rushes used to oneupy in the decora- tion nud furnishing of English housos. As early a8 the timo of Willlam the Conqneror, thero way sot down In tho statute-buoks an act providing ihat monurch's favarites with ntraw for the fluors of their bod-chawbers in wintes, and with Atraw and ruelios for their Hoors in swnmor. Crrpots wero, for centuries aftcr, an uwnknown Iuxury ; and, in thoir placo, tho floors of Royal palacos, o churches, of houses and dwollings of evory mort, woro strown with rushos and atraw, ocensionally minglod with swaot Lerbs. Au entry in " the housohold roll of Edward IL informs us that a cortain sim wag poid for straw brought from York to Nowcastlo for tho Km‘;'s ohambor, Frolssart rolatos that tho room in which Gaston, Conné do Folx, diod, was atrowed with rushes and roen loaves, and hiad tho wally hung with fresh JouRL, for tuo snke of thelr coolucss and por- mo, Even Quocn Elizaboth, {n all her grandenr, awopt her gorgooud 10be8 over o earpot of rusticn a8 Alio moved about hor palscos, Ouo of the old bistoriany incidentally remarks that, aftor Llize- both bind dinod, the ownina of tho fenst wera bobitually cast from the tablo ou to the rushes undorneath, and the dogs camo in and ate what thoy would of tho rotuse. As tho rushes were not olton ronowed, tho flith that nceumuluted and fosterod among them may bo easier fmagivoed than described, In the early ]mxt. of tho kixtegath coutury, Krasmus wroto n, otter to his friond, Dr. Francis, phyelcian to Cardinal Woolaey, in ‘which o condomnod tho wse of rushes ns :most unclean, aud o prolifie souitco of disouso, According to his statomont, the lowest lnyer of rusbod often lay undisturbed on o floor for twenty yoars, and the dirt and foul matters concealod therein (beor, groaso, and frag- monts of victuals) sont up vowerfully-unsavory odors, that offended tho nostrils and engenderod pestilonce, Erasmus recommouded the banishe went of rushes, and = botter ventilation in hiouses, a8 eanitury measures domauded for tho hesith of the fuopln. Tho fimt Iuglish thoatrer were carpeted on tho siage with rushos, 'Tho Globe Thentro was thatched with tho same light, combustiblo ma- terial; and, during tho performanes of oury VIIL, in 1613, tho wadling frown o cannon fired in salute lodged among _tiie layers, and directly the building wes in flames nnd bucnod dows, Tunshes were aluo strawn in the way along which wngenuts aud processious pasced. Thus, ab the cotnacion of enry Y., #8 tho cevalendo ap- prouciics, tho altendnats cry : NIRRT REIG = Y s eain More Tustien, wore rulied | Centy IV, det by, Scenes.) Ont of the enstom of strewing the earthen or paved tloors of chuirehes with rushes, grew a ro- ligiunw festival called the Tush-Boarmg, or tho Rush-Loating Wake. In romoio parts of Tn- ghwnd {e isstill perpetuatod. Ontho top of o cart Indon with ovenly-cut rushes, and drawn by ayly-caparisoned horses, sit & nwnber of men, fiuldlug garlands of artifictal Hlowaers, and surrounded with bennera, Preceding thio cart 1gs company of morrls-duncers, fantastically drossod, ouo of them having a bell attached to 2 bele around his waist, sud carying a box in which to colleet monoy from the spectators, Tho procer- eion parades’ tho principnl streets on ita way to the parieh-charch, stopping to dance nt the promiucat places on the route, especially befora e public houses, Arrivedat tho church, the ru=hes aro depositod and the garlands hung up, to tomain untal they aro roplaced by others. an the next recurrenco of the annual fostival. PUSISHING ANDIALS FOR MURDER. The Tondon Athenawn publishos some curi- ous particalars rolating to tho custom which provailed in Prance during seversl centuries, of meting to avimals tho szmo punishwent as to men, for the crime of murder. For instanco : On the 4th of June, 1094, s pig fonnd guilty of devonring the baba of oue Johan Lonfont, & cowhiord, was publicly hauged from o gibbot near Laon. No sccountis prosorved of n gallows- confession having been elicited from tho swinish folon, On the 10th of January, 1457, a chargo of howicide on the porson of one Johun Marlity, of Savigny, was bronght ngainst o whole family of pigs, including tho mother and her Lslf-dozen oftspring. Afler a grave and pro- tractad triul, tho matron was adjudged guilty, sud condemued to be bauged by her hind heels from the brauch of & iree, until hife should bo extinct. Tho sentence vas swmmorily carried out, 'Pho six piglings, in constderation of their ex- tromo youth and consequent icresponsibility bo- fora the law, wero mercifullv spzred their Iives. "o presence of blood, smaaritg feot and snout, was convincing evidenco that they had gharcd the spoil god assisted in mangling tho deconsed ; but they wern not rognrded as aceesroricd Lo the. murder, They wero, thevefore, restored to their owuer, on condition thut, should further testi mony turn up convicting them of full complici in their motber’s borrible crime, thoy should b dolivered over to suffer such ponaity ay the Iy wiight decroe, 'Their owuer, howover, declined to resmmo chargo of the six littlo perverted brutes who so carly in lifo hod thu tuin of blood on their sonls. ‘Lhereapon thoy wors derlared forfeited, and passed iuto tho pos gession of tho noblo damsol, Katherlne do Ber- nault, Lody of Savigny. Of thoir further carcer Dbistory fzils to make any montion. Agaiv: On tho 2d of Marely, 1552, the Chapter of Churtes wan callod upon to Ly o painful case, in which o pig s necused of havitg lallod ® yonug girl. The cireamstances piroved the eal- pro guilty, and 1t was banged on a gallowa erect- o, 53 W Tul wariing, on ehe sory spot whoee the murdor wus conuitted. B0 lad as 1612, iz other vitlsinens pdg was convicted of huvil Wortind tu death aud partially dovoured o ¢ 1L or 1o meanhe old, the vou of a o roiding ab Sloliochart, wathin tho jurisdic- Lot of Lawn, ') uo luchicnts cotmec: ed with this cags wero of sueh pecitliae strocity shit the nule- nctor wan eondemved o be Iwd fo the gallows by tho public excontiancr, and. after ulfariag deatl, Lis ody was to be burned to ushes, Norwas this ull: _During thess ogen of occen- trio legislation in Frauce, avimals were subject to spisitual consurcs aw well s to ponal won- tences. In 1120, the Bishop of Lnon excom- municated a swarm of troublesome catorpiilara, —ewmploying the sume terms in the performanco of thooilles that the Couucil of Rheimd bad used, in the preceding year, .to denounce prissts who Indulged In tho 'sin of matri- mony. In 1616, in respouse to tho on- tronfica of tho inhabitants of Villanoxe, the Courts of Proyes admonished the tolly- depruved coterpillars which 1-fected thnt dis- trict, vavaging the flelds and imuoyorshing the poople, thut, if they did not take themsolves off vithin eix days, they would bo declared *ne- curaed und ~ excommunicated.” Provokingly onough, we are left without & hint as to how the catorpillara demenned themselvos under the throat of the curae of tho Church, —_————— A Story of Two Boys. From the Burtiaton (1) Huwkeye, There i & man living down on Fifth streot who is o good muu, endoavaring to traiv ap hiv chil- dron in the way thay should go, and as lusflock is numerons, and two of them aro boys, ho has anything but o siuceuro in bis trainiug Litmincs. Onlya day or two ago tho elder of theso mul oliva brauches, who haes lived shout fourteon wicked yoara, onticed his younger brothor, who hns had ouly ten years' experionce in boyish trickory, to go out on tha river in nbont, n spe- cien of pastimo which their fathor had many & timo forbiddon. Hut tha boys wont this timo, truyting to luck to canceat thoir dopravity from tho knowledge of their pa, aud ia duo timo they ruturned, antl waiked nround the honss, the two most iunocent-lnoking hogs in Lurlington. Thoy sopayated for s few momonts, audat tho ox- piration of that tima tho eldor was kuddenly tronted by tho futher, whoroquosted & pri mtorview in the usunl place, and = the pair ed- journed to the wood-ohad, whora, aftern bricf but liighly-spiritod pordormauce, in whiol tho bu,\;’ appearod most succossinily as ‘howy, villain,” and hig father toolk Lis favorite rolo of ‘st old man,” the boy, considerully mystifled, sought hin brother. wwJohu," lie koid,* whodo you suppose told dad? Havo you boon heked 3 John’s taca will not lools more peacolul and ro- signed when fit is in bis coflin than it did au ke repliad s % No, have you £ viifave 17 Como down to the cow-shed and 100k nt my back.” John déolined, but soid: * Well, Bill, I'li tolt vou how fathor found us ont, I am tired of act- ngin thie way, and T sin't going to ran awny and come hack houw and ile about it any more, 1'm golug 1o do botter after {his, and no when I saw fathor I conldn't help It, and went yight to him and confessed.” Bill was touched at thia mnnly action on the part of his younger brothor, It found a tondor plare in the bad boy's hewit, and ho_was vary yiubly affeoted by it. Dot he asked: “Ilow aig it happen tho oldmay idu't liek you 2" “Woll," said tho penitont young reformer, “you #en I didu't confoss on ‘mysalf, T only confessed on you, That was the way of It,” A strangs, cold Jight glittered fu Dili's ayes, “QOnly donlesssd on me," Lo waid, *Well ot s ahied and Inok at my bnok," g o Aud when they got there , . e SIXTEEN ACES, An 01a-Timo Story of a Gnme of 4 pDraw M in Alabama. Communieation i Tuzf, Field, and_Farm, Sam Oglivio wad o gamblor by 'profonsion’ and practico; but amoug the planters who froquonted lin Faro bank (and all of thoko of nuy woulth ur standing within 100 miles of Solma taak s turw ot it whon they could) thero was not one who would cutortain nquastion as o Sun's lionekty. In that littlo vhito cottago, almost hidden by the surrounding grovo, nono but tho fairest of faro was doslt, nono but the squatest of pokor way bot on. Whon the chips woro bought snd tho.enrds cut, onch ono folt that what fortuue mennt the pack to bring Liim would not bo iutere fered with by any mauipaiation of tho carda, Bu, alns I "whon was humanity boyond templas tion ? Adam foll, Csnr foll, Warren foll (ab Bunkor 111, and oven Leeclior i muspested. Ono duy Bam was toptod and ho—. But lot nio glvo Lha detalls, et Judge Tumphroy, Col. Swain, old Androws (whose plantation “wis measured by the thou= sond acros), and Sol Lovott, from St Louis, wero siteing in Oglivie'a (ront ‘mrlur playing o suug Jittio game. of dvaw. Al woro Nouvy hote ters whon they hold the cards ; but just then the cards woro running light, sudso wore the bots. Ham, who cared vary littla for poker, had sat by watohing the gamo rather than going init. e * beld a dand, of courds; bub his thoughts wara yuther on the lay-out in tho next room than on the cards iu his hend, Soveral times ho had wted at abaudonfug tho game, but each tima tho others had insisted on going on, 80 Sam bad politely stitled his impstiouce and bad kept bls sout at tho tabie, As Lho clock was tolling 10, Sam waa enllod from the table, and, excusing himaelf for tho momont, left the room, His way was through tho back parlor whero lay tho sloeping tiger. Tho table with its lay-out, tho case, pilos of checks, docks of cardy, sll wore ready for tho plavars, As lie glanced cavalosly over them, & suddon thought Kcomed to flneh through Sam'a brain, A sardonie smilo cropt ovor his thin cub lips, aod hislong fingors playad with hia mus~ tache, a8 if to hido the twitching lips from somo unyeon obiorver, Advancing to tho card-box,, whara cards by tho dozen packs, in anbioken packages, Iny pilnd up, ho busied himself for & .. tneatent in oponing packs, breaking wrappers and agsorting cards, thien, With nn oxpression of guileloss innocenco upon’ bis faca, but with o “*cold deck " up hig sloave, Lo roturnod to tho potior-table, In o fow minutes it was Sam's turp to deal. Ifis band faltorod as he lifted the cards; a deuce spot fluttored into his lap, aud, in picking it up, o rapid movernont of the long, lithe fingors had oxchunged the table pack for the “ cold deck.” A genin of remorss seemed 1o touch his hosrt whien hio camo to gorve tao cards, **Lean't tako a Land thik deal, gontlomon, I L\n'»;:!‘ 20t Lo atop around to the koot for a wmo- ment. ‘Tha others acquicsced and the carda wera doalt. A ‘good hand, oto would say, by the actions of the piayors, Thero wns & thouwand In tho pot und a very ohatiuate cxpression on Lhz faces of the players boforo the drawing be- gan. Then n singular clrcumstance was noticed. Tho Judge only wintad one card; ouse curd eatinfled the Colouel, and one card ench took Toyett and Anterson. Odd, thought eachh one, aad wondored whothor they were frying to bita = fuil or & tlush, or wore hiding fonrs. But each glanced at his own hand, and calmfy waited the 1sue, coufident of hiy own and pitying tho othors’ hand, . ‘Tho cards served, Sam lit his ciger and started for the liotel, 1f Lie hiad waited Lie would have ween the tatlest botting that wos ever douo in- sidoof that cottage, A thonsand dollary tho firse bot, $1,500 the second, 2,000 tho third, and 2,500 from the **ago " on the first round. Lvery~ body in and willing to lap lus pile. Oul cama cheek-books and poneils, and cach one rapidly cast up in his own mind how much his credit was good for nmouy the commission merchantg of New Orloans, Chock after chock wag written, torn out, and pinced on the table, untilthiore waa enough stoked to cripplo the ricliest wan thero, if bo lost. "Tho Judge stopped it. Why, I dou't know, wulens it wai that o hnd roachod tho lust_cleck in his boolk. As ho filled that out ho romarked, with judicial gravity : *“’Fhore 18 but ons hand ot tlw tablo that can win that pot, gentlomen; ain't it about big onough? I will see you, Colonel.” Thiy cheeliod the game. Tho pot was big cnoneh in el consciones, and somo of them tromblod a littfo ag thoy thought of the thou- sauds piled thero aud how puor tho call was to make throo of their comendos, 0 more sights and a call brought the gamo to b focus. Vorspiration stood oub ubon mvso thay ono forehond, nud the Ougers that griped the cords tightened porceptibly ss the erucial moment approachod. And heads had o ba turued to pravent tho hungry eyes from feastiug too intenzely upon tho pile on tha table, ‘Tho veneraole Colonsl herdly lockod up a8 ha gently Iaid down Lis baud: “Foums, Acer, gontlemon 2 ‘Thion Anilrows, with: distonded oyos and puraede up lips: Four acos for mei” and the cards waro Iaidapon the table to verify the claim. Roproucbfully Lovett glnnced at his cowrades as at inhospitable barbaricus from whom tho title of stranger wes no protacti nd blandly romarked: * Excuse me, but 6 are uced. Fours!" und again tho curds proved the claim, Dashing hig spectacles from Lis Roman nose to It porspuring foreliead, the Judge rank bnek in his et aud gazed dospuiringly from lace to faco around tho bourd. A his eyo met_Lovett's hio vartially straightened himself and snid: ** Six~ teon uces, as I am a sinner,” andagajn four aces 1ay upon the board. U'hey walted for Sam that night, but he did wot raturn to tho cottugo. Homeo by Another Name in Pennayle vanhi. From the lieaver (Pu.) Argus. Two farmors’ | ou adjoiving farme in Girsrd Township, e Couuty, Luve for yoars been uniriendly o account of the disxgrecment about tho Jine fouce whick separated thuiv lauds, both claiming tho 10 toet which was formerly the laud ruunivg between tho two places, Their children have grown up isheriting their paronts® aunnosity, sud thoir eldest sons have soverak times beon subpamacd ad witnosses in lawsui:g which have grown oub of this dillienity. Tuo cnuo had boen a sort of suit iu chancery, havig run on from yoar ta yesr, both ton spending their money in lawyers’ focs without any legal conclusion. N About s yoar ago the two farmors awoko onn Monday torning to find that each bud lost » child,—one his youugost son, and thw otler his ouly daughter, "Liko the houses of Montaguo and Capulet, in * Rtomeo and Jubet,” the eious of Lhe two rival houncs bud eocretly cherished & fondness forono austher, and, knowing the foud botwoen - the famities, without divulging their possions or intention, they mot claudestinelyand earried into offoct au elopomont. A week passod, at the end of which tho father of tho ruunway daughter was called o to go to Eric and attaud ugein ta tho overlasting lawsuit, He wont in early to the oflico of tho luwyer, sud; taking up ono of his weekly " papors, voud " the wmerringe uotico of Erama. 1t waa torrible blow, aud ho went out into tho yard ta try and walk off his excitoment. All that passod through tho old gentlemau's mind is not known, bub there seemed to be u deeperata atrugglo witliin which resultod in his returning to the lawyer's oflico and postponing the buss inese. Phon_he drovo directly to his furm and had o loup private ntorview with his wiles then 1io did what be hd not douo for twonty years,— wont_ovor aud called on Lis encmy. “He wad ound sick, having boen contined to bs room sluco the abandonmont of his favorite ron, But tha two furmers mot, aud both for a few minules stood faco to faco in profound silonce At longth the father of Emma spok “I hmve come tosoftio the dispute; lot the childron havo the lot on aithor eide of tho Iane, and T will bwld thoi » house," S And I will furninb it." s 5 So tha recroant children wore sent for and fors Eh'«n, and came howe to racaive their parauta’ lessing, Aud now there are uo mora lawyers for the Lwo farmors, but each has faithfulty ‘Tule filled his contract in rogayd to hig honso and fure niture, AR S Tho Mastui Ferrotts, Among its nbundant_sen-bathing gorsl) the London Esho, Fanfulla receatly pe! the followlnp frotn Sinigaglin, In tho Chnrel of tho Maddolona thoro is the family chapol of the Muntui, with theso agtonnding dntes. Tho firsk in_promaturo in cowparinon with the athors’s Giovaunt Meris, Plus LX.'s bisavole, 73§ Lircoto, his nonno, 03: Giroluma, his Inther, 883 Lia mother, 63; Quisoppe, lue brothor, 76: CGo- brisly, another brother, 88 ; and Gaotino, a8 the Holy Fathor oftou suva, * kuouked at tho door ot 110 yeurs,” Tho Pojio's_paternal bous iy No, 43 Breuda dol Monte di Piota, 1t lookn oxactly Jike the hundrads of provinciul palazzi ono saes all ovor dtaly, Thore sro three storivs of five Nindows oach. It now belougs to Count Luigl Algatal, Pius IX, was born iu the second story, now suhubited by his wistor-in-law, Countess Vitiorie, who lu within a fart mouths of his own sge, The uulted agea ou tuo tombatonsaaf svven hastals antount Lo 890 yeass