Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 11, 1874, Page 13

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, < THE DOMESTIC WOMAN, - | foutrast Belween the Ideal and the Actual Beings How Life Is Crushed by Househoid Drudgeries. fbe Utter Disgust of Vicmen at the Unending Routine. vate ibe Kitchen, and Lessen L 1ts Labors. account for the fact—no longor mc,g,":,f.‘:fiemmn, but sn established reuli- {tbst bousevors bes censed to have woy charios for the feminioe 50x; and that the wom- an who, of her ovn mbdm.m’ electa herself to oI mestic iabor, hus 1se office uf d0 i 4, 3putan motiens ud Roman ma- It may be & ssd commontary on the rexenerser of tbe times, and givo dowdy old ek soured widowers a field for specu- ,l:::n ‘;bu:;b‘.. aud rise up like s wal of re- b before e woman of progress: but it is > cruel, ftubbamn fact: the domestic woman o surronfuily a:oue on the threshold of the siong srous? Fust. . ” g Toe Gomestic voman! How sweet and rimple » picrure dawas before usof a {air, pale being, | fevizg, wiih serens and angelic gravo, through | il the vanons snd perplexed duties of life; ' pover sieldin, totears or despondency, and as tar | removed frow anger or excifement ; never seemn- | ipz to wurk, yel always 2ccomclivhing dutiea; ) ity » Boaenuld £0 RiceiT adjusced thet tho bale xnce-wles! mever Bicppad, while the presiding gonius went bere and. there, moving the wholo sciricate ma:s of machinery with the perfoct leverof her will. And, woen sud2enly she ais- spoear fiom tha scene, a movument rises above | ter, weeriozd with all ber virtes,—tke only lit- | arutaze gl sver wiil ges time to sead. i Yuts pieire iy actiste s0d ideal, and usgally | mizae. @ { THE ACTUAL DONESTIC WOMAN sbs who aces ier own wurk, cooks, washes, | and irons, bekes, makes presecves and picales, a0d sads oce 1o her family acouslly for ten years. She keepsail the buttonson her hcs- band’s ehirts, dasus all Ris socks, and does all the chidren’s sewing and the most of Ler oma. Waen her busband buys anew carpet, the makes | it,ard, more than likely, putsit down. She takes care of the baby all night; and, when the little lescia cries, tho considerate tather orders bim to *Shut up!™—uo that he may Lereafter tch people how he raised that baby ; and he is carefal not to dieturb bim in the morning, clie the comestic Wowan gets brokfust. She makos the fire, ond gricds the coffee, sud sets the table, sud fiies the mest, tod bskes the hiscuit, and then takes buby on ber army, and sits ¢ the tray, and. tarns | tLo coffee ont for a freeh, Leurty-looking man, | who i3 reading hie moruing-paper opposite. Then she clears tho table and *‘does™ the dishes, and sete tho bread, and dresses Johnuy and Scsie for scLool, aud peeis the vegetaolea for divrer, and pals lue buby to_sleep, and s6t3 the table, and washes tie @isles agaiv, and nurses Lre baby, aud teits 3 sutch in Johaoy's gents, and baies the bresd, sud fries dough- Tu.s, and irons those sbitts, ana nods to John, iring paet witli Ins rothér, avd wonders why be loused wo croes when gho ssked um 10 take | Lerto the womav's meeting in the evening; and | then, all of a tudden, ber hands fall helpiessly | 2 her side as she tsinks of ‘her school-days, wheo she stood 23 the besd of her class in col- lege, zud learned sv many tos TSELESS TO BE: NOV. Bhe siands transfized by a thought, amid the pois aud pauk. Did she read Hornce with ench iufinite puins for 1ws? Liad sho spen: whole ¥ears in koonly au @ the Subtie tuoughts of master munds, to wipe them all oat at Jasg with a diehelotn ? Was there not muscla enough in the world to do tliy purely mechanical work, with- ouz 2 soul weuriug itseif out in drudgery? But is taat drudgers which is work for Goar oues ? Some instwet tel's tuo domestic drudge il there is o taskmaster 50 selish as luse. Ske tures with loathiog {rom the Lard, grivdiug trexdmill to some other avence of accapation, | for which sbe is bettor fitted by strength and ed- | ncation : bnt sk is in the bonds of convention- shty. The womsn who steps asiie from the beaten path of conservatiem sieps zside 1o bLer truction. **Joln ' haies radical women ! i :nough; eue pats ov the harness, and D2t i icit-trots along,” 8 dmily exempluication of the winm: Man warks from sun to sun Lut wofnau's work 15 nover done. At406bo is old and dejected-locking, with & consplesion like wuddy coffer, Laving given per- mauent employment to a fawly physicicn for Belf that time. . Being n domestic womav, sas dies witkous any fass, the loup wearing-ont pro- oc'wlxsvmg fitted her for it, a:.d Jobhu I8 1neon- § 8clable fur the sear of propriety, when he mar- Ties eoain. His second wife {akes tho Woman's ;’;g:”aii Ilfd bag '3; latchkey ; and “* Where thou #3% will I go,—thy reople si:all be wy peuple and thy God ehall be :nv God,” i8 er creed. E How many beautuul iives UAVE BIEY EXTINGUISHED i beneath an evalanche of Louseworis, it would Le ng!llatsmeucmu te; but there are thousauds of bumes 1 thia cits that are virtually tombs, Ehutting all the warmih aud fight of life out, &nd holdiog only a dead, inanimate tensn, noie hxglzeag it i8 to sit for u fow womenis of 23 afternoon in tae gilded sepuichre of s frout petlor, and listen 10 maddening ' platitudes from 2 simpering callor. If there were any systam to Le woi& wvenicd for womsn,—if the dishes would ever tar done,—if the e:erzal routiuc of ¥eeling sod Eaking led any permanent com- ]dxlu. °hecs ; out the daily tacks 1n a woman’s life plicate themselvea like the imnges ia & broken Juirrer, :od ehe must go on forever, like tho uich panier reproduaaiig pots and pans. How shail I ever do thoss disnes " nsked a volznile achool-girl who was visiting ker married Sigter and trying to givs her a rest. " Torow thear ous of the window !” answerod fhe Leter, who was deep in one of Mrs. Wis- : 18 imoelations, una a little off her hesd from Il hzfi?m ‘uawonted rest, as she quite mieappre- !hu.‘_ai the question. The school-gizl sacg as 5 95 A irit would uot ba kept down Dy ganiid cares. Ao alio wiped a plate with care- precision, the chanted somcthing that had s Jecnywonian snund, abeut 1ts ** being only noble -u;e g00d ;" and then there was & greas . ;fi .20 ewinl puilnesa: she had literally gaibe “e: the fouz corners of the tablecloth togetier, fLdihe dishies wers *doue " by being landed, 28 Wiecked mago, in the ares. Lo Pod not recommend such stringent mens i o dircoursged housekecpers, bus I would iadvite ther 3 fha . NOT TO WASTE - B {o: Terources of mind and soul upon the Linge- 3, Decessity of veing purely dowestic, snd rorso% DY more vatient toil than tio coral- @ eoere. 8 mnumeat of clean dishes. ‘There is as;‘szem of co-operative housekeeping Ising 143t 1o the brain of some thmker, that wil o Supate Woman a3 gurely from tne' shraidom Paeaousemork wh tae policy of Lincoln emanci- e *bo coiured #lave. Tue time may tot have Some for its development; but, when it ingle o hall “look back upon the "_‘E! eugineer of the domeaiic mechinery | which 80me such feeling as that with ek ¥e contemplate witch-barning. The 0 A28 ¢f & mowner who bas had a hard day of nfi":evork would far smipass the visions of an Sou T eater: Leadless babies, animated coffee- e dities ou jegs, and = long series of gro- ‘m:-!:flusmnoua! chaso her sleeping hours, o E30 Iepeats with too faithfal precision the 8 0f theday. The easy machinery for light- P 1ab0r fails to establish_itself in the wom- tzdom. The washiug machine aud Eer co not compensate for the extrs Gouiar of cloflice. - The sewing, machme .Euma flutivg, and tucking, and ruffiing, ;: on‘cu d.\dh without. We bave it n, tod, where we opce had plsin ixu:“’".“ We cook a great many fliaheapthnl ’&?n and unneceseary: and we live in & more 5] n‘;fi_encq age, that deman-s the highest men- Caltivation. ' We are expected to develop in- | ezcept in 3 gestionomic sease; sad the whole i now is. M. comolete system, that would ouly require one Kitchen—that mieclatrom (hat swallows up d0- neste peave and comfort—to every ten fami- lies, “-kicchens, with - their patent dish- cloths, and smmonia-washed disacs, and vink-draped Tebes, are trapsparent de- lusions. *Servant girls are domestic tyrants, A wiid species of polygamy, by waich one man is waited on by six or eight ‘women, obtiing in some famikies, where there is a0 sunt, o sister. o duughter. a wife, a mother-in-law, and a poor retation to 1ua the domestic. nystem safely aud thoroughly. In Mra, Henrs Ward Beecher's motherly talas with roung Lourekacpers, this very rrafty se: tence occurs m the prefuce: * Youns ladies would soon discovor the reher life thero is in one's own liome, if tbey were early initiated into an intimate knowledgs of the whole routine of home dutics and bousehold mysteries, so that, when they snall be esalied to the dig- nity of tho mistress of u house, they czn with good judgment aud iutclligence dircet their servants,” or iudepeudently perform the labor of & family, easily and methodically, with their own bands. With such knowledge, aud the ability to execaze, they can greatly augment dom:stic happiness, and add vew lusire to their charms as compauion and f:iend." Now, thie “richor life " DOES NOT EXIST in one's home TEE EMICREN, youtns of home dutics inciudes a regnlar dsily friction that is neither good for soul nor body and the womau, young or old, who undertakes be mistress of a home, cook, Scaniwivess, Durge, | companion, and fricud, will Lrc Lopelesa muddie at the beginoi be just as judicious to advise *vomnw gentiemen™ to learn the whole routine of batchering, wood-suwing, boot-ticckiug, diteh- meking, aud tailaing. The reason why women are floching into profestious, filling up avenues of employment sacred to manhood feow custom and- oxpediency, is beceuse thoy are tired of throwing themselves before the Dragon of bouse- wark, Tli3 is why thousands Gf women gn an- pually down the broad, steep road to pes on. Tho remedy s pluiu: Drop the old. plaivtive c1y abour dorsestic wowas,—who ia oiten 3 jeevisi, discontonted domentic machine, admin- 1stering only 10 tho gresser corporeal wanls,— and perfect a plsn to elevate tuo kitchen and | lessen its lebors. The women of muscle and the woman cf brain alke iofuse its honora as it L. Ragxe, e SGLIE QUEENS CF SONG. To the Editor of The Chicugo Tridune: Bm: TWhen we {rko up tue anoels of the lyric atage sud read what as been 1ecorded there concerning - the grest names who Lave passed away, we find difficulty bota in dstermining their relative values s artiets and iu identifving those yeculiar avd individual excelioncies which dis- tingmehed vt frumi anoiier. Thereisan ap- parent gimilarity in the biographies of them all. The main featurcs, such as obgcare Dbirh, wenlthy patron, severe musiesl iraining, the debat under vicissitudes, avd the ‘frinmph with its consequent reward of posidsn end mones, gemerally appear in each case, | and what €seme strange, sitnough many of them wore conteraporary, of each one it is said tha ebo was the greatest singer of bes time, and that her fame was cosmopolitin. The aioger’s art, Like the actor's, is ephemeral, and the-product of their gifis, €0 1ar an postor- ity is concerned, io sit butied ih the same tomb which holds the artist's dust. Itis only by pa- tiently s:fticg the written and oral evidenca of theae who heard them wkan shs voice was mu- sical and the blood still puisiag, that we come at last to tho knowledge that Pasta was famous for dramatic fire, Xalibran for a wonderfully ! flexitleand sympathatic voice, Noveilo for success | in the direction of bravura, Pereps for volume, purity, and simplicity of toue, ur Sontag for the tropical aplendor 2nd magnificence of her roa- lades. Batween allsuch it i3 a question of tusle, not degree. S0 ia our own dzy, 1f we woald se- lect 2 favorile from among sach vsmes ad Patti, Tietjens, Hensk, Luces, or Nil:on, it becomes Lot a matter of prioniy, but of i erenca for certain artstic qual either ons may have, because these repose aiike in tiie delicious sbade of the Plant of Keuown. Opera is the clast. of the musical with toe his- trioaic art. I.csa néver be tue highest form of zong. In proportion as the singer £ains in Ara- mutic ‘intensity the melody suffers, snd those persons buviug exquisite vocul organizations seidom, 1f ever, possess the acting power in equal degreo. = The vrima donos’s carzer is & fong strifa for supremacy between the terrestrial and the celestial. Within thesa limits of earth nd air come all the great voices, seme haviug more of one element. Roite more Ot the other. Hero every ehading of character will be found, but into eévery esnmate or selection which wo make there will uncomsciouly creep = coloring of dramatio abil And it is & well-known and long-established fact that those singers who take strongest hold of tho popular heart are the opes who can act well in their ong., uarlotts Patti 1s an oxample of purs vocaliza- tion. Her voice Las no sympatay with human aflairs, and therefors leavea no memories. It responds 10 her will like a tine instiumeut to the tonch of amaster. Hor trillaand stacesti are marvelos. Inthe finale ofien. after ghe has suetainad & tope and plaved witn it in erescendo and diminuendo, and tie cadence scems diwmg toan eclio, suddenly, withunt catebing breath, she will burst forth iuto a full-blown and glorious flower of malody, and retire in thunders of applanse. She trive as bghily, pracefuliy, and accurately through the 1aazes of Benedici’s ** Ouruival of Venio™ with vanations 82 ever did Camillo Unso. with her viclin. But, while oue listeus entranced by her urt, tno song is ended. Then ve perceive that the dosers lia withered and the gorredus pelace which sba wuilt on a foundation of Band :s dispeiled, wnd that the recollection even of the fragrance and the architectural beauty is faded, aund we are able o carry awdy n.thing thsl i veicalle w our homes. . Taa wonderful © Langhing Ssng™ is representativeof Purti’s exceileice,—sonnd, ‘merrimeut, iroth, an efervescing juy whica iy soon forgotten. B The dead Parega was en oratorio siager. Her voico dombined wonderful purity with massive strength. “Her notes were not trilled, but came iu ewelling undulaiions. 8ka wang seemingly hecause glio could not Lielp 1t, becanse that was the way Heaven intendsd ehe siouid translate for otber ears hor impressions of beaaly apd govoness. She appearedto live in 5 world wkit h was beyond and abovo tbis obs of sorrows. It wag the purity snd simpliciy of her teves which mede them sudible at tbe Peace Jubilec in Bos- ton alove the chorus of 20,000 voices acd the combined volume of tho grest organ snd a tbousand ipstrumeuta. In the coo- certed portions of Norms and other operas, whero the chorus and orchestra unite in swelling the harmony to & limit where the sound, almost crashes, sho used to riso liko o latk and carol hor [ura notes a distincily as though pot another voice was singivg in the room. Her uurivated ! sopiano, vine-like, threaded the lattico of sornd a moving, hiving tuwe. Pareps’ music was | gecmngly free trom the dust of earth. It dropped down on us frox Clondland, or camae streaming from the stars. e tho lark, Pazera, Patti ia & moclung-bird chattering near soms fonntam. Lacea, tho singer of Germeuy, is & rare ex- smple of the existence in the szme person of the highiea: order of musical sud drametic talents. If she had not one of the grandest voices. she would still bo oue of _the greatesi sctresses. When ehe sings we lose sight of bLer acting, aud when she acts we forget Ler singiug. Datitis ; ber veice with which we heve to a0 at this time. It is falless of the physical elements, Itintor- prets buman sentiment, which is one of the highest and holiest 2ins of music. It gathers iuto its vast compass ewmotion, und pathos, and trageds. Sue is in tura ihe begear. the peasat, the page, the Countess, and the Queen. Sho does not aswnme these patts; she becomos them for tha tume, and zpjarcntly ainga them with a difierent voice aCapied to the requirements of each station of Lfe. lo this retpect she differs from every otner artist with whom Amesica bos been familiar iy this goveration. Her song searches out every thought, and epenks every innguage. It visits overy clime. and -en- thralls alt the patious of men. It smiles aud 8obs ; it sins sud repente, and i8 full of tears. It warbles in tho sunhght and croaks beaesth the night-shede. I shocks and [reezes you; it enters your blood and fires you. It is languor and passion. Itis delirium. It panetrates the cav- ernsaud fills the valleys. It runs aloug dewy aplands and leaps on the giecn hills, It plumes, wspreads, 1t flies upward even to the wkite crown of earth's highest mountain, but not be- youd, for it is a buman thing. Novw it frequenti bappens that an artist of cf." 0d ieep ap with tne march of improve- Toesif,StLierwise it will roll over ug, and leave us ed on the strand. Theu, if girls must Le ation, m‘; and cook, respect sex in edu- T drfln TEX BOYS THE BANXE ADVANTAGES. & fidmm, poysical etrength: and characteris- fsg it them espectally for such trying mork ; their fayeutivo gonius wonld 8030 avolvo a the second or third grade is accorded the posi- tiou and honor _due exclusively to one of the first degree. This may como from the ignorsace of the public, or from it pecoiiar preference. or its incomplete or liased education. It ofteu does result from patriotism. or per=onzl friond- ship for the singer, or from consummate buai- zess tact on her part, or from other subtle and equally powerful infinencca. But Wo may bo s~ | operas where sk2 assumes for the time tho g j colers ready mixed for his pulctte, surad of this : that it is not the legitimats work- ing out of the unirammeled philosophy of art or its laws, 010 of Lhe fortuncée or unfortunate members of this class is our countrywoman, Miss Kellosg. For two or three years past, but notably this present season, ehe is frequently spoken of in the same Lreath with artists of eaperior ability. Heltory is an artist. Thero is no denying that fact. Heus is the meat cultivated soprano this couatry has yet contributed to the musicul wotld.” She has even held her own in a Lonaon season. ‘Tremeadons honses are grooting her this very week ac McVicker's, and she deserves it all, Buc it most bo remembered that sbe iy singing in_ier own trouna. Whea Bhe came biere with Liucea and 100 the ** oif pighis,” this same pablic in muking their velection sometimes put 800 or 21,590 into tho theatre for Kellogg, against $5.000 or $6,000 for the German. "Il river of Kellogy's song is just as pollucid 28 those of her sister a:tists. It ripples, and dunces, and flashee, and spurkles as mazoificent~ ly us8 any of them. Bt who will say thas itscar- rent of mutody is o8 doep as Lucea’s or &S broad aud powe:ful as was Parepa's? And, as thero is but Lstle warm bloed in ber voies, it does not impress us morials as stzongly a8 othor and more sympathetic ones. 1t ig Kellogg’s low rating s an actress which, entering 1010 che general average of the com- lotu prima donas, brings her grade lower thaa ir otherwise would tall. “Not that she cannot act uod sct finely, but the style of characters in which she shines are all iu the lower walks of life and goctety. They ere the sonhrating or coquetust girls, Feutalion by 1 o thois Lives. 1114 noticeablo of the grand lady or Qaean, she is dall so long a3 the unaccustomed dress or domino or title re- ma:mns, but the memean: they are cast asidd and ehe rosesames ber prover roles in tho lustriunic art, she is succesful,and the houso sl- wags reanondd to her. In the dramatic register he1s an accomplirued “singing chambernmd.” Her ways are saucy and petite, and_onwva, sud her scting is full every where of delicious’ bits of Lueiness. Duu when toe serious i overwixelming ssrrows of fifs begic to ic hor direction, ana the vadt Larizou of homanity ojpous tu her, thea sho 15 Lelnlass. She cua smuss us and mako us laugh, bas she cannot Qiaw taars frow the wolls of paiiuos, 1f it were possible that 3 glorivs@company of operatic artists could be found out uf the sord’s freat singera, and that due aitention could be givea tovoico and acton regerding ouly the Iawe and criterions of art if snca @ co.ipany could be hept tozathor and run without 1eas, or favor, or jealousy; if they cowd be put into & 1ol housc and orgavized on tho famly plan, —then the duecior of euch a troupe could pot find a fittor person to pot into hig operatic kitchen thua oar Miss Kullygz. Iu tho preparation aud eervice of masical macarcni sheis suilime. Noris this a small cstimate of ber powers, fr of all hor pifted sistarhood who wonld take social stations on tus upper floors, ® i3 not oue, pothaps, who could take up the xTace, or, in the absenco of the miistress of the Bouse, coquette ns beautifully with the coch man, auless it is the manifold and Shakspesran Lueea. In assigning this particular music to Mius Kellogz, we meau 00 disre: ect. an_artist; avd Do one better undersiznds the | full sud true meaniug of this word than she does herself. But, 1a makivg up our estimate of the ideal primz. donna, we must bring i corapa- titwn sll tha grast ones of the whole vorld, Befors the sacred and imiautable decroes of arc, moncy and induerce ma.i 5o dowy, all socizl dis. tinctions must go down. Even nationuliy wish its,patriotism, aud tie closest ties of human friendship, muat go dewn, and we would 2ot te true to theee pricciples or their philosopby as we undenstand iz, nor houest 1o the prezent ex- pression of our views, if wa did not ia the proseuco of Adeline Patti, and Luces, and Nilsaon, placs 3es Kellogg in sho position I have given her. JonN MCLANDBTRGIH. Homance of the Stavers Wouse, Ports. mouth,. A record of tho scenee, Lragic and humorous, that bava been:eusctad within this cld 1 stlow boase on tie cormer, wmould fll & volume. TA vivid picture of the =o3ial and public Yife of tho old nme migut be puicled by a skillful haod, using the fwo Esa:l of Halifux inns for a back- grouad. Tae painter would find gay and sombre d 8 hun- dred romantic 1uciderts, waitiog for his canvas, Oneof theee romantic episodes hias baen turned to a very pretty account by Longfellow 1a tho Isst series of Tne Tules of a 1Wayside Inn—the marrisge of Governor Leuning Wentworth witis Startha Hilton, o sort of second edition of King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid. Martaa Hilton was & poor girl, whose bare feet and ankles and ecant crapsry whon she wae a child, and even sfter she was woll in the Lioom ber teens, uced to scaudnlize good Deme Stavers, tho inakeeper's wife. Stauding one afternoon in the door-way of tue Earl of Hali- 1ax, Dame Stavers ook occasion to remoustrato with the sleck-limbed and lightly draped Martha, who chanced to be psssing tho tavorn, carrving a pail of water, iu which, as the poet neatly ays, *‘the rh:fting snubsam dancod.” *Yeu Tatl you Pat]” cried Mis. Stavers se- verely; * way do rou zo looking so? You chould be ashamed to be s2en i the street.” ** Never mind how I look,” eays Miss Macthe, with & merry laugh, letting slip & snucy Liowa shoulder ott of her drews; I shall rids in my charot yet, ma'ata.” Torteaues yiopuecy ! Martha went do Live ae ervans with Gov. Wentworth at bis mansion at loveliest of woren, with 3 lip Lka & cherry and a cheek like o rose—z Iz dy by instinct, ouo of NeLure's own ias TiLs Governor, & lonely widower, and not too young, fo!l 1n fove with Lis hendmaid. Without stacg his purpose to any one, Gov. Wentworth iuvited s nomber of frionds (amone otliora thu_Ker. Arthur Brown) to diae with iz at o Harbor on-&is birth- day.” After the diurer, whith was o vory elaba- ot one, wha ut an ond, aud thy guests wera inzussing their tobacco-pipes, Maortha Hiltun glided into the room, aud stood blushing in front of the clumaey-plece. She woro ber hair throo stories high. Theymests stared et each othar, and_particalarly st ber, and wondered, T ‘Governor, rising from Lis seat. ed giightly with his rutiles, then ;noked down, And raid unto th Rev. Arthur Bown : “ This 13 oy Uirthday ; it shall Hzewise be My weddizu-day; snd Fou shall marry mot” The Rector was dumfoanded, knowing the humble footing Martha had beld in bis house, and could think of ncthing cleverer to eay toan, *To whom, Your Excelleucy?” o this laay,” rephied the Governor, taking Martha Huton by the hand. The Rev. Arthur Brown heetated.” * As the Chief-Magistrate of Now Hampsbire, I command you to mazry mol " cried the firm old Governor. And #o it was done; and so tha pretty kitchen- maid becaro Lady Weutworih, and did ride in her own cheriot, after all. She wasn't 8 womsazn. if she didn't drivajhly Stavers’ Hotel!—7. B. Al- drich in Harper's Magaizne for October. Depreciation of Property in Lonisla ana. Trom the New Fork Sun. . A correspondent sends us two oxamples show- iug the encrmous depreciation in the value of property in Louisiaua eluce the War. The firnt 10 what is knovn as _tie Hopoe estate plantation, ownel by Merylandore, it consists of 4,50 weres of land; 1,500 claared and ander cultiva- tiop in 1861. Thera wera about 150 slaves on {hig place in thav yesr. The land, with stcck snd farming implements, exciusive of the slaves, woald have sold for $39 per eere, ineking the value of the land $144.000. ‘Thiy plentation bas Dbaen for sule inres years, the owaers askirs for it §20,000—omne-seventh of its forme no bidde The otber plantation is Tiger Bayou, situated on Teueis Riverin Cata- houla Parish. It contains 1,500 acrex of as ting alluvial land 28 can be_found in the Missiesippi Valley. It waa worth $60 per acre in 1860, mak- ing its value 250,000, ite oyner owed tho ovar seer oo it $T00. Afcer tue War cloved the latter sued for ks monav, rot judgmen:, rod recontiy bad the pince sold for the debt, when he Loaght it in for .59, 20 plantation sold Zor ouly §2.20, leaviag the ovwner still owing to the ovescer §697.59 on a 700 debt. Carrier-Pigeons. “Apropos of the mcressing use of carrier- eons for prese purposes in Europe, an Eu, paper records o case of interest. Anocean bom- 1iug-bird, of gres: decility, intallizence, and spir- it, has been found iu Iceland, which flies at the metcor-like spaed of 150 miles an hour. A pair of these birds, whosa prceent liome is in EKeut, within 10 mul#s of Londo, recently carried dis- pateliea frow Paris to their home in one heur and s quarier. They do the distance from that to London in a quarter of an hour, including deliv- ery of their dispatches. s Decorating an American. The Emperor of Germaoy hay conferred the Zder of the Crown of Prassis, &ccompaznied by a decoracion, upon Col. M. Richards Muckle, of tne Philndelphia Ledger, for meritorions servicea in the interests of Germany in connection with the trangmivrion of funds for the relief of the widows and orphans ceused by the Franco-Ger- man war, and the restoration” of tho University Library st Btrasburg, ddatroyed ducing mx Ricge, ez aud dish-pan,or raitle tho tove with wucis | | masher,” ANCIENT SHCPPING. What Great - Great - Grandmamma Used to Buy. Dry-Goods *Openings” a Hun- dred Years Ago. How our great-grandmothers and great-great- grandmothers WENT SHOPTING, and what they bought, a3 century ago, bas no doubt puzzlad the brainsof many s fairaod fasbivuabla maid or dame of tlie present day, if 8he has ever tuken the troublo to thick about the matter et all. The progenitors of many among us hiad not yet reachod thoss shores, but there are ~~mo of us who can trace oar American sucestry -ack for five, six, and even seven generations, beforo we need go beyoud the ses to follow it o its origioni sonrce. Even the most mm- bitions searcher after heraldic emblems must stop a long way this side of the “grand old gardener,” with some barborsur- Reon, or soinsiing of twe Lind, and lamp all { those who preceded him together as the connect- ing links between that kame barber-surgeon, or chiof-butler, and Noah, Adem, or the moukey. Very proud are we whoss great-great-grand- Icotiers. & century or more ago, bought their dry-goods in this country. I don't know why we ghould be, but we are. Havon't we glorious rec- oliestions of an ocean of tea, that waa wmoro ex- citing in its resalts than riach stronger brew- ings might bavo bezn? The time of which we wish to epeak was when theso combined kettlo-drams and macqaerade parties for gentlomea ouly were yuite the fashion. ments in the Weatern country ; but, as IMwois ‘waa pot sdmutted to the Univn until 1818, icinay gafely bs iafcited that ths shopping carricd oa at thal time 10 ¢kis place did not truable the faix sox much. In fact, buffalo-robes, beads, and caou-skins, probably formed the utaple . acticien of womaa's dress. lu the Eastern citina, how- over, opportunity was offa:cll for the sex to in~ dulge themselves iu what mer are pleased to call their favorite pastime. tiid, ia looking over the records of that day, it is a gquestion whetiter the men DIDN'T HAVE TRE BEST OF IT, as we propose to show by and by. Ia snswor to their present calumnies, we sball ouly rematk, ! that having, through vaviety, dopted o dress which is suitable for both 18 and 60,—so that 16 cau fancy ho is & man, and G0 can believe him- gelf, in the very elegant slang cf tha day, “a they bave so litle {0 be proud of in i, their costume, and so littla to occupy that, at the dry-goods openings for ladiee, would fancy they regretted the “ white chain sillk veot-patterns e.abroidered with goldI and the coloured d:ito, with gold aud eilver;" the “ very bandsome goid-and-silver-spangled bands, buttone, snd loops; * the * very handsome gold~ apnd-silver bat-bucklus to matsh; the *gold- and-eilvar-smbroidered buttouson cloth to match the fiue clothea; ” the ** balf-winte-and-bluck silk breeches-pleces,” which Enuis Grabam, Mercbant-Tavior, t his Cloth-Soro, the cor- ner of Wall-strest, facing Mr. Rivington's new Printing-Ofiice, advertitcd in October, 1778. Or perhsgs they ace haukoring after (Lo bats manu- facture by Nwsbit Dean, of Now York, aud war- ranted to ““exceed iu fneness, cui, coiour, and cock:" wlso, “io turn rain, and prevent the sweat of the head f:om damaging tho crown.” Is wan SIGWING POR KIS LOAT GORGEOUBNESS, aod i3 1t envy that bringw him to taodern * peri- wigs”# We cannot tell now long it takes him to buy his own d.ry?oods: but any womnsa kuows that he is twice as fidgetty about the set of hig con: 23 nho is about the fit of her dress, and that tho exect fit cof his trowsers takea twico 88 lovg. to determiue, beforo the pier-mirror, s the sweap of her train. How- ver, we wiil leave Lim to his vauities, and sea what was offered to our graadmothers s hundred searszgo. When John Graham, John Woodward, or Franeis Lewis & Son, snnonnced the arrival of a new cargo just imported, if it was rainy, Grand- ma put on probzbly mot a modern repeliant.or an aquascutam, but lier * Jrab fear-nothiog,” and, thus_equipped. with Chloe to bring home the ‘bundles, she started off. She had not very far to walk,—only up or over to Wall strest, or to the vicinity of tho Fiy-Market. Hero, spraxd 2t for ker iuspection, were the dry gocds; first among them, the velvets. The sbopkeeper did not say mauch to Lor ubout friike ¢-asse or Jie de Bo~ heme wben he brought theiz out, but he expa~ tiated on TAE DEAUTIFDL CLi 127 COLOR. Ins‘zad of calling: her atteation to the noix,” the marou, the acajon, or ¢l cedre, he pointed’ cui to her how ricLly the sunnhine wroczht out ihe golden or reddieh ‘tisie in thoss browns ; and ankod bow meay cils he should send her. Or, would Madame be maguifcent in black, there it —z good. honest color, and & good, Lonest . - And 60 Great-grest-grandmamma boaght v dlvet Lo wear to Madarae Clinton’s, Living~ tou's, or Schuyler's grand reception. Then she iooked at the spoticd swansking, and the black, blus, green, drab, brown, rod. and scarlet Laix 4nd worn| plushes. But thero sho did pot need; nor the shalioons,— not uniike our de-bege traveling suits; the du-~ runts, tammies, serge-denims, and many other goods ; and went over to where the Indiz goods, with their strange, foroign smell, were dieplayed. The shop is dark, sud, 24 she asks for pink lnte- string inatead of rose-tlotri faille, the raerchant tuk.8 it totho door, thut she may kuow how it wiil look iu_tbe light. It could not becalled a gaslight color, aad it might essily bs deeper in Hinda toan the one her fifth goneration will bay, for it will be sbject to no_such glare. Still the ancestress was suxions. Waa not Charlotte Car- oline to be presented that night; and was not the Governor and his lady to be present ? An enterprising man was FBANCIS LEWIS' 6ON. Heo was tho dri-gooda mea_of tho faturs ; and, | while bin fmilc: etared wilh oren-cyed astomsh- ment, he tou% (reat-great-grandmamms into the back parlor off the anop, ligbted the waz eandles m the two silver candlesticks, and unrollad tho silk, and, before ehe loft, our ancestreas had bonght Charlotte Caroline the pink lato-string. Aud, not onlv Lhat, but Louisa Mary was to bo married, and her troursesn must be purchased. Aadsme Mzalas was aleady ongaged ; £o the proper number of ells of white satin were cut off for the bridal dress, snd Padusoy booght for & cloak 1 piace of a matelasse. The amozeens, modes, pealongs, dowlas, garlix, tendems, pisttitadrozal, sad foncts Weis priced, wud puch - as were uesded pur- cbased. Printed Indis calicoes, that rivaled the lute-striog in price, and which were to bo made up ia tie latest faslion, were called for. Then our uucestress looked at India cambrics and lnwns, wmoro particnlarly pistol-lawn, snd seven elis of the latter were sent tc ira. Cole, from London, worker in tcmbouar and embreidery,who had taken apartments st Mr, Matthew Erneats,’ almost opposite to Mr. Andrew Hammersly's, nesr Coenties 3arizot. GAUZE TANDRERCHIEFS AND APRONS were sdded to tho list for Louisa Mary to wear when gbo was 0ot *¢ eu grands tenne,” but stitl wisbed to. don gome wof the little ecoguetries of tho toiletta. Thay were nob spiead oat in sach tempting array as zare those dainty little affairs of Swiss and Vaten- ciennes which ors offered to ker granddaughte; bué thay were eyualle charming; and Great- at-grandn.a knew very woll what time Edward inueton would be geicg for a promenada on the Bastery, aad that he would paes by the house on g way, and, of courae, it was by mers chance sho denned ono of shese aprops, and atood, bLalf-corcesled by the damask curtains, in_tho drawing-room wiodow. How reprosche folly ebe would look et you now—you, the fourth or fifth genemation, perbeps— if sbo shonld see you dou:ng the same thing. As it Eve wasn'l vain of her fig-leaf robe, aod dido’t sand in fuisttittdes, in the hope that that brilliant scamp of a Lucifer wonld happen along again 2nd potico bow be- coming it was. Then there were China taffeties and Perzizos to be selected [rom. Lonisa Mary most Lave lininza from each, and & skr-blue damask snd & crimson Persian are addad to the liss. Such a costomer doas not come every day, and Chioa will hardly be sble to_take all these pur- cbases home. But Lewa Jr., is equsl to the tesk. Iso't there John Simmons, who sweeps out the shop, and fills the iamps with the best epexl-';n-ofl? He can holp, or, if nesd be, he eoul TAKE THEM OX THE DRAY. Lew:s Sr., is aghast, His son must be crazy. A aray to take home the ancestress’ goods! Bt George ! who'd bave thoughtit> Ah! Fran- ¢is nngIt-ltta go aad learn the Introduchion to Polits Learning, Physico and Astro-Thealogy, and the Econnmy of Euman Life, a2 Thomas Dyecly's. ** Buascould e, Bystly sven suggest OCTOBER 11, 1874, Thero were some forta and :e:t!&‘ i3 anything more prodigions than a dray?” Wes it not oaly Young Independence stepping into Old Colony’s ehoas ? There was black, blue, and scarlet hairbine to be discussed. This was a sp.cice of cloth, g0 the prinfer will plosse nol ..ake it hairpins. Had Grest-grest-grandmamms been tclé, ~That was the kind of hairpin she wag,” 1t is doubtful what she wonld have answered. Greok would have been quite as comprehonsible to ber ; but 8he would bave looked diguifed. Bevide thelawn handkerchiefs, there were also Barcalona India silk and Scotch chocked liaer to ba purchssed. Lhon a camblet cloak had to be gotten ; whio kacathies, duroys, double allo- poen, everlasting, burdet, starret, damascus, aud loretta clotus had to be priced, that Great- groat grandmamma might know how they were selling, Faocy a cloth callea * everlasting ” G. G. G's time. There must be some pieces of it floating—no. it coulda’t foat, but lying— aronud somewbere now, for it certainly could notwear out. White India demity, instead uf percale, went to the composition of the under- clothing; while of white jannet and white salinet otber garments were inade. Gloves wero bought,—not Alexandre’s nor Jouvin's, but the beat thread, silk, and dog-skin. Hoga were pur- chasied, both sill and thread. There were honsekeeping goods also to be ‘bouzht for Louisa Mary; for, although sho bad s fult sapply of home-mads wearing, yet, as hers was to be 05 ordiuary troussean, her Mam- ma bad to add the superiine articles.” So Russia sheeting was added, Irish liven, and pillow- fustian, some -thick-set cotton cantoon and Russia huckaback. She looked also at the Byrian, barry, laylock, aurora. pearl, and garnet ingrain clotha : at frize and buize, ratteens and penistons. Striped dufile was bought for the younger children, and Aarseilles quilting for the houselold stock. Those elegaot chintzes aod faruiture ; so much Laodsomer than silk, 2ad withont which no atately four-post bed could bo considorcd complete, were al«> iavestad in. A5 cold weathor was app:oscbing, PTT3 were also to be Iooked after, and Gr gravdmamma weat £ Mr. i : £z Dock atree LuG auother of oleck menen, Hors aluo t th riding-drees was sent to ke Limmcd, au alsy Gresi-great-gezadpaps’ far colla: and 2u:fs. tippewd were bouz!. read uotbing abou S n icsdl. Ile, howe ighest price for squrrel, mols, and from which wo ay wa loox upon noN 84 ly those “gunire geus,” yiu ko were cunei higaly demralic by ons ancersdrs. Hc had for- Lincd va; sves to wall, unl Le also faced sud fapellad geuntlemen's 'wristcoets with fur. One thing 1'ad been torrol o Ederdowu for winter coverlids.—zud 4 szore of tais bed to be. laid in, with many thipgs for Papa's weer, which we shall have to mention u¢ .sowa futuce time. —_——— CITY CRIMINAL MATTERS. CRIMINAL COCRT. Justice Moore—Samuel Wilron, areault with intent tckill, was admitted to bail in tnosum of 2700.~Joka McBride, assault on Oficer Cowdry with intent to kill, wna admitted to bail in the _sum of ¥4,000, witk Jehu T. McCarty and Beary Titds a8 sureties.—Georgo Harvey, charged with malicious conduct, was admitted to bail in tho sum of 3300.—Erwin Fritz, charged with lar- ceny, was admitted to bail in tue sum of £20. JUSTICE. COGRTS. Justice Boyden—O. J. Banyon, arrested for forgery ; sent to the Housa of Cocrecinn for forty deys.—Meggie Morris, assault with a dead- Iy weapon with intent to do bodily injury to i b ; iseld to the Criminal Courtin bail of $400.—Andrew Robbius, escaped from tho Bridewell, re-arrcsted and fined 325.—Joscph Miller, arrested for harburing Andrew Robbine, an vscuped convict; hela t tha Criminal Court m . bail of $300.—John V. Collivs, ns- sault on George Brown with iateat to do bedity injury; held 1o the Criminal Court in bail of £30J,—S. L.7Bartlatt, lazceny; continusi { Ul the I7th inst in Lail of #300.—M. Levy, disorderly condwct; continued till the 13th sz, in bail of $200.—Hermsn Bhultz, larcony of property vaiued at $203 belonging to A. Wells; beld to tho Crimiaal Court in beil of $800.—Henry Jackson, swariling; continued till the 14th inst in bal of §700. Juatics Scu!ly—Josoph Camp aad Ecnico Auer, arrested for the larceny of goods valued at $1,500, from the store of Adolpa Fuerstunberg, 04 Milwaukee avenue ; contivued cill the lith inst, in bail of $1500 each. — Freuk Norman, of ~ property belongiug to Puter Ap continued tili the 17tn inst., of 2300.—Richard Baxter, zrrested for violating 12 o'cluck ordiuance ; con- tinned till the 14th inst.—John Griifin, v: ncy ; continued till to-morrow in bail of $200. Hlizm Clambers and D. Quick, disorderly conduct; comtinuel iiii the Lia inst., ia buil of $200 each. —John McBride, uissult on Oficer Cowdry; disposed of by the Graud Jury.—Poter 3lullen, disorderly ; eoiziinaed till to-n: v i wall uf 200.~Geoivs Batus, touis valued w850 in bail of & Justice Kaufmann—Thotns Doran o saph Connolly, arrested for i and resisting an officer ; coutinu.d ; row, in bait of 8300 each.—Wulam Fitsyerald and Annie Ruse, arrested on & warrant charging them with adulterv: continzed VG0l the 13 ipsh in_ bal of &500 each.—Michael Conpors, disorderly conduct ; fined 825.—J. B. McDoouald, ~rrested oo 8 war- rant charging him with perjury; continued till the 16th inst. in bail of £1,000.—A. G. Obrber orresied on & varmani awera out by Anba i Bertil, charging him with basterdy ; beld to the County Court 12 bsil of 2300. Jusiice Hinsdale.—Louia P'. H. Davis has vccu- pied the rolation of Lusband for the past four yoars to Melvins Massil, withous going :hroagh the formahty of s marriage, and to ihem bas beon born vae c'ill, now-near 4 years of age. ‘The woman is 8ig0 6d0n to become the mother of another child. Davis being about to do-crt his common-lswy wifa and wed another woman, Melvina yesterday swore oul a warane for his arrest, charging bim with bastardy. The warrant waa placed in the haads of Conatabie O'Briea, and Davis was brought bsfure the Justica and vlaced under bonds of 3600 for his appaarance or the 19th mst. E. C. Cleaver becaws his susety.—David Zimansky and Charles Burnstein wero srrested by Special Constable E. T. Jones, on compiaind of E. A. Todd, on the chargo of aseanit and bat- terywith intent to dobodily injury, and placed nn- der bonds of £800 each for their appearnece on the 15th inst.—The Weiss perjury casa hLas been on trial for the past two davs. znd adjourned till Batarday next; for particalars sso another column. MISCELLANEOUS. Arrests—James Rourke was arrested by Officer Topping yesterday afternoon ca the complaint of Nellis ‘Clancey, who alleges thas the prisoner robbed herof trunk full of wearing-apparel.— Clarence Thomrson, slias ¢ Cash,” waos arested st Hyde Park yesterdny morning by Sergt. Ryap, on tho charge of burglary, in ebtering the avartmenis of Mrs. Nat Johnson, st tue 8t. Jalien Res.aurant, on Grand Boulevard, on Thursday night, and stealing a velvet cloak and a dress valued at about $IJU. Mention was made in yestorday's iesns of the Tobl i meoner war exzmined by the Mugis E!yda Pack uad held for Au obatrapernna £nd elderly | DUl charity—Aadie# Guuarl- and deadly asssilt upon tho sten: 1 tha Couniy Hospital yesterday afiernuca az L o'clock. flo had been ranitnene f affection 0f the cyes, the attending physicn wmoval {o the Counts overty rendering. b 5, the ambulance-drivar, reyu zeady to go with Lim, when tobare refusod to leave tho hospital. Ou Fry snd the doiriceper ingisting on_his lesviog, ia_sccordance with orders, ha still wtoutly retnsed, aud. wioa altetapted totazo huld of bim, he ecizols h pair of shears at hand and. attacted Fiv. stabbed hua iu the rizht breast, beiwesa the fifth and sicth = rits, tha wound iuflicted being a serious acd exceedingly pamfal oue. He alzocut she doorkezpoerin the arm, chasing & slight wouad. Gubart was Gnally secured and teroed ever o Oficer Dan O'Briea, who tnox lm:to the Twonty-sccond Sirect Sea- tion-House. Fry was astandod vy the phyeiciens st the hospiral, aad sutsequently removed to bis resideuce, No. 857 State atreet. He will be con~ fiued to his hunse for some time. The miions of the law ponoced down yekter- day afternoon on the arirtocratic African cosch- man of Gen. Logan, Louis P. H. Davis, and at the very moment wiren Louis was arrayed in his bes:, regardless of expense. preparatory to driv- 1ng Mrs. Logan to the opers. Louis kss bean bobaving himeclf, snd a wariast e takon outbefore Justice Hinsdal for his arrest. Ho was bailed ous, nod &t a late bour be mhu-n:d to the G:A;m‘am wg:,;.:; bumble suprlicans for meray at her han buing the a’fm of bar disagpointment, togethar with thet of = lady frieud who- had received Dotice from Mra. Logan that she would drive by for her. Davis was not 80 mnch to blzme, how- evar, 28 was Constable O'Brien, who arrested on complaintof Melvina[Massie. An outrageons case, involving the rmin of & young French girl who recently came to this city, was reported last cvenmng. Tha victim, whose nams, unfortanasely, conld not bo ob- tained, on arTiving b r> 1 week ago applied to = notorious woman namad Moon:. ng Clark stzest, near Polk,” With tho instinet - of her eli:n, woman ook the youug girl into har ho.: represented it a8 & respectable stopping pleor strangers. Sho then plotted with an aid nu- | scrapulous Hetrew to sell the victim's sou! fur a consideration of £100. But the girl, althongh unable to speak s word of English, discovered tae plot, and frustrated it, not, however, until she hisd been alternately coaxed sud almost forced to ield to the brutal demands msde upon her. The matzer leaked ont_in the uneighborhood, in spite of the woman Moors's precautions, and sbe waa compelled to release her intend- ed victim from the house, where she beld her a close prisomer, and threatened to visit vengeance mupon her ~)if she eauiht to leave it and divalge the plot to rob her of hor virtue. The girl found friends, and escaped toa place of safety aud respectability. Burglars entored the house of Charles Bar- ton, No. 195 West Lake street, Friday night, and were discovored aud fired at by that gentleman. The thieves escaped. i ALLEGED PERJURY. Justice Hinsdala has been occupied in tryny & case af perjory for the past two days, whic] arines out of evenis connected with tho fira of July 14. Tho case has received ro little atten- tion from jnsnrance men, &8 the decision of Jus- tice Hinedale will, to s certain extent, bear di- rocudy wpon evidence in a caso cow pending in the United States District Court, wherein tae patties wh5 aro complinanis in the porjury case have brought suit for the pavment of a $2,000 rolicy ou & stock of gooda claimad i irayed by lire. It L. Troulich wers it the auloes burinoss 2t No. 222 Scuth ured ther stock sud Mariae In- on eucsuce Company of Nowport, Kv. Tbs fGro of Jaly 14 dentroyed thcic aud ¥ sefernards domanded i Cumpanz, The ou ths yrounis that tas drm bod saved ehsir gaods and camied them off to some place of concealmant. Upon this declination Messrs. Veisa & Proclich beran an action before Judza Wiodgott fo recovar tho wnount of their issuracce. Darinyg tho p ency of this . aui, soveral depesi- tions were taken by the - insurince company before James Springer, a nolary public. “Amurg them wss thatof a lnl mamed Samnel Weiss, who was in the employ of the frm at the time of *he fire, thoush i no wise relsied £ Mr. Inaac Weiss, of tno firm. The boy in his denorition ssserted that the stock of ligaors aud cigaps, together with tho grester portion of she fixturcs were saved. Weiaw & Fren- lich allego thet their stock was entire- ly destroyed, and that tho lad has been tampered 'withi by the azent of the insur- ance compeny, and induced to make this state- ‘man?, which is fal-e, therefors, on the 26:h day of Isst wonth they caused his arrest on tho above charge. Up to last evoning fourtesn witneeses had been examined, and tho examinativa betwesn tho opposing actorneys was quitespinted. Jra- tice Hinudalo, 14 2 lato hour, sdjonrned the case sill aturday noxt, tlie accused Leing placed un- der boads of THE IELEEZRS AGAIN. Lar® Mondzy & wirrant was swora oat bafore Justive Bovden f3r'the arrest of a man named Forman Skuitz, charging Eir witl larcony. He was arrested, and the following dsv broczht be- fore the Justica and guve bail in £600 for Lis ap- pearanco vesterday. Tke evidence implicated a feilow named Louis E. Swaegles, wito was tried only s few weeks ago on the charge of horse-stealing, and _al 88. will bs ssen the Felker brothens—W. D. and tLo * Doctor” —are somewhat mized up in the affair. It sppears that doring the past summer Sbultz calied at the farm of Mr. A Wells, at Daowner’s Grove, about 2) miles from the aty, and inquired if he was not manafacturing cherry wine for tho Chicago market, On boing aa- i swored in the aftirmstiva, he then informed Mr. Wells that he knew of a purchaser for his sive, and secured tha promise of 114 gallons at $1.75 per galion, tho bill amountiog in all to £203. Aboat two weeks ago Shrllz icformed Walls by letter that he had sold the wine and to send it in. 3 Wells came to the city on the reception of the letter for the nurpose of looking after the busi- ness. He waa presented to Louis C. Sweeples, a5 the purchaser of the wine. The folowing day Shultz secured the services of an cxpressman with his wagon, and went out to Downer's Grove acd received the liguor. Mr. Wells drove into towa with them, and they went to a house on West Lako street, where they were to sea Sweegles, who was to settle the bill. On arriving thare, Sweegles msado his ap- pearance, and requested the expressman to wait whers he was whiie they went around to the © Jist Sam—ain' oftice of W. D. I'¢ an attoruey. MMr. Wells accerpaniad 138 to Folker's offica. Altar ing th 7t time, Wells returned to whoro he kel leit tha cxrrossman, and found that i with the w.ae, hsd/ 2 off lis thea weut iato -the which is No. ¢ Wese L. streat, and ‘hir dis, nd Lhzco ab L aion'n ssloon, on 5oz, a0 there he 30010 i ibe our of thasaloon. Ho waited auti! e negt Diozuing, and, not re- ceiving his money, he csfled on Al Felker, and desired to kuoow from bhim if thore was pot soma procedura known to the law whereby he could recover his property, snd wes informed by that Inminary of the legal profession there was only one way, and that was to arrest the party who I:? taken the property. Mr. Wells know nothiug uf the Jaw, and believed [ i Bobert Scott's b, f. Yady Greenfield. Felker had spoken the trath. Mr. Wells retirn- od to Eaton’s, and there discorarad the wine had beow. taken to some other place ov conce:lmant, =ad Lo hins not seen it since. % Yesterdsy morning before the cose was called = Doctor” Felker intersiewed Mr. Woells, and in tones that were *childlike and bland ¥ invited him to a walk, thus thinking to get him frow the Court-room at the time tho caso was called, he not being there to appear agaioet Shultz it would be dismissed for the waut of prosecation. Mr. Weils, howarer, saw through the intentions of the wily * Dcctor,” end declined the invitation. Tha evi- dence ngainst the prisoner was binding, and he was icld over to the Criwinal Cour: in bail of 280U, A warrant was then issued for the arrost of Sweegles and pinoed in the hands of tho authoritiea who are now on the look-ont for him. = Perbaps the Felkers will rise and ex- plain their conduct in the marter. P Erench * Fragality.” A Paris correspondent. saya: “I have heard n very odd, yet apparently correct, rezsou given for the non-success of sode-water a3 s beverage in thi city. One of the leading Boglish_drug- gists here was recontly asked why he did not establish o soda-water fountain in his store. ‘It would not take with the Parisians,’ was his an- swer; ‘if & Frenchman spends 10 cents for a drink ke wants e soat, a Lttle table, and 5 @ight oi tha daily papors with i3, 2ud he pssses two hours in sipping it. A beversgo, therefare, which must be quatfed at once will not suit their Lizbits or their tastes ; they wonld consider them- eelves robbedif thar paid heif s fmaoc for the diiak alonc.” Avother smusing exampification 4 saw verliarly shrifey hobite of the Freuch was ofa0 made ko An American o xnd catablighed ad Hotel, cunnect- 4 American_institation, anch. To was oo oblized to do away with that gortizn of programme. however, for. Bnding = place whara gaod f007 conld bo L largs numbess of Freachmen of the Leiier ciasses, insluding 1107 Gf tho membo of ko f2shionable jocksy clab, came thera 3 enjoy the eatables, but nevar ordared ors son'a wourth of d:iok therevith. They consideredl it parfactly * tha taing’ o tuke iire proprierar’s lancl without compensatiog i in any manner, direct or O i i ey Ali There Was of Sam. Fram the Bujulo Commercial Adcertiser, A contraband came into the Federal lines in North Carolins, and was mached up $o the offi- | cor of the day to givo an accouut of himself, wherenpon the following collogay ensaed : ‘ Wuat is rour name # " *+ My narus's Sam." Sam what?” No, sah, ot Sam Wat!. Tae jist Sam.” What's your other nsme? I 'Hnan‘t zot o oder name, sah. I'se Bam— *¢ What's your master’s name: " ¢ I'se got no master now ; mases runned sWay ay! T'se free nigger now.” I, what's your fatber sod mother's mampe?” - * I'se got pone, sah—nebber had none, I'se in's anybedy else.” Haven't you aoy brothers or sisters? " + No, sah,—nabber had nons. No brudder, no sister, no fader, no moder, Do mass.—nothin’ but Sam. TFhen you sée Sam you ses all there is of us!™ SPORTING NEWS. The Philadelphias Defeated by the White Stockings Yesterday. Races at Nashvills and Qalesburg, BASE BALYL. ‘WHITES AND PUILADELFNIAS. ‘The White Stockings and Philadelphias plaved wnother championship game yesterday afternoon, which resulted in the defeat of the foreign club by the snnoxed score. The game was finely played on both sides, A lively bail was used, and benca tie batting was rather heavy: SEicio. (KB FAIE] UK _REFAE 5 e 83 3384 I{ 3 ni 3 34 IR o0 1l 1 o il 2 01 1515 iz 0 R T —— SRR RN = una aurned “WHiT Sinckings, 8; Phitadelphiss, Unpire—Joseph Slamous, "0 3+ Fotiadelphias, 6. Time o game~Tws huare five miastes, TEE ATHLETICS. The managers of the White Stockings yester~ day received the futlowing telegram from tha olicers of tbu Athletic Club, of Philadelphia: Our games in Chicago next week 0t be ‘We chanot go to Ci:ifigv. Chufll): onu::n@uw_ in the hands of the doctor, Batin disabled, and Sute £90% wif- 12 3¢ the polnt of death, and 28 canot laave town. Weare very sorry. A the Athlotics aru not coming, the Zollowing arzcrgements have bm\f pade: Wodneaday, tha i tleld ; ‘Ibutrsday, the Red Sockiugs, at St. Lo Friday, the Westarna, at Keoku':; and Saturdsy, the Empires, atSt. Louis. . THE CILNPIONSHIE. 'rzu fofl‘nw:ug &}.xs givcls :i:l;e positions of the contesiants to e, including gaaes pla; yesterday ¢ e 7ol oIt avwojys) 1y 10N paun, 0k 1,7 6 8 4y 1 4] 5] 7 gjss 8] 5] 4f ol 39 21304 4l 028 i T..[6 4 ¢ 25 Atlantio 1| 3} 0, 3y 3315 Tartford 2991 31 Dultimore 31l afqf {9 Al e Bt o Gamos lost 9h517'ar 22,31 30f35 200 e THE TURF. NASTIVILLE BLOOD-HORSE ASSOCIATION BACES. Nasavris, Teon., Oct. 10.—Op the sixth and Inst dey of the fall meeting of the Nashville Plood-Horse Aescciation, the aitendamce was very large. The first race, for tha Maxwell THouse stake, for 3-year-olds, mile heals, £25 en- teance, play or pay, $400 added, closed with twen- ty entriea. The following started : R. B, Cheatbam’s black c. Yanderbilt..... J. B. Malone's chestnut g. The Modoe. Bobert Bott’s chestout c. King Pynu Time—L:d53 ; 143K, Tha paols gold on this race before the firat heat averaged: Orphan Gir), 150; Boroman, 125; Vauderbilt, 85; the field, 20. After the firet heat: Vanderbil, 130; the fleld, 76; Orphaan Girl, 71; Boroman, 43. The sacond race was a mijo and a half daeh for the Aszcciation parse of 3200: © Capt. James Frankiln's b. m. Arizona. Swigeri's ch, c. Ekhorn.. A. Reene Richads’ b f, Toc Netae, Mzj. B. G. Thowas' . f. Hazem. Tome—2:42%. Toe pools sold on this race averaged: Flk- zgm, 200; Arizona, 160 ; The Nuzse, 75 ; Hazem, Third race, consolation purse, §250, mila hesls, for beaten horses : Ger. J. F, Robinson’s b. c. Astral, A Tarucr's b. ¢, Veloeipede.. Gen, A. Buford's ch. ¢, Kilburn...... -D. W. Anderson’s ch. ¢, Red Jackeon., Lime—1:A4TX: 1:49; The pecls sold on this race previons to the Grat hoat: Red Jackson, 156; Velocipede, 1353 Astral, 100 ; Lady Greenfield, 465 Kilbourn, 80. Afier the first heat, Velocipeds 340, the fleld 155. After the second heat, Astral 400, Veloci- pede 140, the field 82. THE GALESBURG RACES. Sxecial Dispaich to .z Chicaso Tribune, Gavressung, IL, Oct. 10.—The best races of the week have taken vlace to-day, attracting a largs attondance. The races and score sra_as First, 2-mile dash for S-year-olds, £takes, $50, half forfeit, $150 added by the As- suciation: @uorge Rice's b. s Cluquita, b. ¢. Reyzotds' b. f. Amades b, Wral's b. c. Becond race, purso $500 ¢ Emms M, b.om. ella, b. 2 3 4 3 T ¢ The next race was a free-for-all trot, purse 50 ¢ F. N. Pancher's, Quincy, b, g. Fancher..dr.. 3. Jacobs’, Earvalle, ch. g, Observer... 4 I F. Rreeb's, Omalia, b. g. Brown Jack..2 . B. Fock’s ch. g. Randall... ... E. W. Mattocks pr. g. Tom Wonder, D. H, Moshier's, Bushnell, ch. g, Chi The fair has been a success financially, and 25,000 pecple have attended upon the different daya. BILLIARDS. BLOBSOX ACCEPTS DION'S PROPOSITION. George Sloseon authorizes Tre TRIBUNE to an- nounce that he will accept Joseph . Dion’s propo- sition to play a match game of French billiards for £500 2 side,—the game tobo played here, and Dion to be allowed hie traveling expenses. Slos- son allows every claim medo by Dion. Thomatch, if accepted in New York, will probably be played within a month at farthest. Rurning lron. The combustibility of iron is a chemical fact well known, bat a Berlin experimentor has dem- costrated the phesumenon in 3 manner pocnlisr- Iy his own, Ho takes a straight bar magnst of 2ome power. and sp:inklee 1rou flliogs on ons of its pol>s. Theee filiuga arrange themselves in sccordancs with the lines of magneticforce, and, hosaver closely they may appsar to ba pealed, of coures no two of the metelic 4lamenis ara parallel, and consequantly = certain portion_of air is enclosed, an in a metaltic sponze. The flamie of 2 ordinary spitit-lamp or gas-turper readily ignites the dnelv-divided iro, and it coa- tinues to butn moet brilliznily for a eausiderabls leugtl of tize, the combustion being, apuarent- ly, 3 natural and easy as that of zay ordiaary sabatance. 1f the experimantor with this opara~ tion stands on o slight_clevalion, and waves the magnet to 21 fro whijs burning, & most magaifi- cea rain o2 fire ia 8ail to b produced. P o it il Tho New York Tribune says: -*Itia rather a curious question whicu is the zroater nuisance, a thestre or & zoano maaufictory? The Wash- fugton Boerd of Hasltbwkioh should be fumiliar ot lesat with morai nuisances, has been strug- gling with iho case of Dirt va. Drama. Close to the Opera-House of Ferd, one Kinsolviog has et up a fertilizinz eataolishrient, not with & view o tho multiplicazion of tkat rure plant, 3 good America.. comedy, but for the produc- tion of poudretie dsar to the enterpriving bucolic heart. Hr. Ford protesta to the Aldermen that the Kiusolving odofs are fatal to the enjoymsnt of the Isric drama. Quearly enozgh, Lawyer Marbury, of connset 70 the ill-sinelliug delacdasts, pleaded ju set-off hat ‘ theztres ars immoral,” and protested that lawfol businesa cugh not to ba destroyed * for the encouragement of immoral perforruaaced. ‘The Bonrd of Health appezred to be of taiy mind ; st any rate, thay laid the poor manager's prozest on the table. We would saggea: that & diversica which is licensed oy tha autborities caunot be stgmatized oe im7oral witaout in- ealting the authoritics themselves ; and furcher, thut nobody hn; a ri & to unbdamld mz: u‘?" promd- on of virtue by creating a “ “fr, James E. ’nurdcc:a‘iu in poor health, and will gaobably ach sgpear in puble winter,