Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 18, 1874, Page 13

i i 4 H 1 | PR TR M tojgy o0 for instance, oy THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, OCTO' SER 18, 1874—SIXTEEN PAGES. o BER 18 ISM4-SIXTEEN PAGES. . @ - 13 \[LROAD ACCIDENT. [RERE celons Escap? of Two Hundred ufldfi Passengers: - o ittsherg, Fort Wayno & Afi;;gi:r{ad Thrown from the Track at Pierceton by a Cow. JAN— gers Injured--None Fatally. AT d, of the In- samin F. Boward, ng.occ:m, Badly Hurt. g el jgnt which - came near proving jsastrous O buman lgln occarred on e Warmo & Chicsgo Railvay, tio PRSDUE B fage atternoon, at Pierce- syt $050E 3 103 miles east of Chi- e Wayuo. Eight persons o0 3”“314_ foarct them seriously, sud the 'g;;‘“;‘:‘ml,_m. satally, g0 far s hos been o ascertaed. fret recaived information rier ¢ m”";‘;’ffi from a passenges ou tlie train, of the OB iy Actormev of Ft. Wayne, L Senbuich e Graud Pecific Hutel. Tis e prtiog the accileut i sulsinutially Etal - oot ronning at the rate of fally 40 Ihe O o, snid consisted of 80 engiue, one mm:n car, Ono emigrant cer filled to its full h:g?\— uw' passeuger COBCDEE, aud the P\_)ll« w.Tmnle Just as the traip was cearing Prerceton, the engine struck 8 cow_:md ran over per, the bagreg® car also passing over ber. o emirans ear struck the saimal and kmocked yor against a fence, but the carcass {ebuuudafl Lo track and throw the nm:grgn;‘rc:z r-coaches off tle rais, The e e stauck b cow, whistled e ies and applied tho ) steut sir-brake. er Lsa tle effec: {0 ch.ci s 1 very suddeuly, or ;:herms‘gulrh(i . Lave Cau:e: a l ) ;21:;1 e, T.’dn. was, the three cers which ran b B rack wera checkod greatly, und caieenod over 80 embanasmens aboat 20 or 80 fit ligh, Tuere weio abouc persons piled in 8 promisceous besp as fo cosches went down the steep desceut, tot, marvelous to relate, only eight wero iu- jured. ‘be engine and baggagoe car kept the tnék, sud yRU silead some d.scauce from t}w ek, Tue Puliman car also reuived on tae {%, aud the Lassenyers were not injured at m‘flenjmm F. Howard, commercial editor of the Juer-Gean, Sutfered the mUSE serious injurs. He wae returning from Harrisbarg, He re- coived s dangerous wouud in the beud, close to therght car, sud when tsken irom thie vreck was insensible. He nas rem ved 10 3 neiy| Lbor- g bouga aud Kindly cared for. B Sirs, Shay aud two chisdren were severely, but 26: dangerously, burt, The lady received a kad t over the left eye. mC:zh‘e’rine Bc\m?a wasstruckon the forehead sad Ladiy wounded, bus now dsugetousiy. Bhe is now at the County Hospitai iu this city. 0. A Drown, the couductor, had hid left arm fight Passen -gontused. The colored porter on the Pallman car jumped from the piatform ac the time the other cans ran off the track, and reeeived & severs wound on the foreliead, a Several other passengers were bruised and scratched, but none of them severely. =~ Judge Willam W. Farwell, Chief-Justice of te Cook County Cucuit Courts, and ks wife wero passengers on the uu- fotunate train. They were in the rear pt of the Puliman car, and wero not injured. udge Farwell guve the wuiter a statetaent sub- santialiy similar to that above, and did allin hus pover to assist fr. Howard, whom Le recog: nizea 6t the Louse where the Ia.ter wus taken, sod telegraphed to Mrs. Howara the condition of her husband. The Judgo states that the escape of the pas- sengers was very marvelous, aud at.ributes it to the quick action of the atmospheric brake, which wes prompily applied. He also states that an _tldlady whoee vawe ba did not learn, was se- ut uot daugerously, mjured. She is & ident o1 this cuty. ‘Ihe ecene is ‘deccribed by saveral paseengers whoarnived vere last night at 10:30 o'clock, 88 w0l the g.aicst excitement and confusion at tes tme ibe <ars raz off, and rumomns vee ofiat thot 8 heavy lces of ifo bsd occurred. The railway officisls Eere geut forwasd sid at once, aud kept the mat- terzs quiet as possible. Alifhe infurments agree in saying that the peed of the train was very great,—not iess than {0miles an hour, 8 Tate conurary to the laws of THE SOUTH. The Louisiana Returning Board— Proposed Resiznation. Xew Opieass, La., Oct. 1r.—Longstreet, | Ceaanaye, Kenner, and Auderson, four members of the Returning Board, bave, it is nndenstood, declared to Gov. Kellogg their willinguess to re- :1&1‘\‘ lfi:“d‘::n Wellz, President of the Board, nd in bis Tesignation, Wells had been rlegr.\phud' to by Keliogg. This action, if ad~ n:ed to, %ill enable the Goveruor to carry out the conference agreement regarding the Rrturn- ailhml, Biving the Conseivauves two mem- Carefal inquiry fails to confirm the report that four members of the Returoing Board Bave re. m;n . Nooneas vetis appointed to succeed 02410 28 umpira of the Advisory Board. Bowthe Federni Officials Run Things o in Georgin, m;kmomr, _Ala,, Oct. 17.—Col. Thomas B. b more, Chairman of the Executive Commit- the Democratic-Conservative party, Sam~ :‘;l('aunty, wes arrested at Livingston to- bo @ 8 chwge of conspring o fue Detective Hoster. A Democratic Deeting advertised was about to assemble_whe: &m:: made. Tins was the first, Demo- e g the citizens of Sumter County m-e:;w} tohold since Detective Hester e a0 oo county, threa weeks ago. Bepupps o United States Commissioners, both o u:g:e:,lnhvu{xmn but Whittemore is nlatgamed to Mobile fo be ried before Com- &mr.x illette. Detective Hester has had o wellyy fifi:« r:‘ about fifty men arrested for llbey m‘% &mtm Bumter, and arrests are S ot CASUALTIES, Explosion of An 0il-stinl, ) 0., Oct. 17.—A atil i B 0, .—A still belonging to 5 hflflnd 0il C?mplny exgploded at 1 o'clock myming’ burning 1,400 barrels of oil aud oy injuring Thomas Doolau. The causo tragg E?.xgolomngfiefip%%‘kmm The loss is be- - :A Funeral tngteaq of a Wedding. Am;?nuni Luavatch to The Chicaao Trvune. 'flam;.n' gcl4 17.—Last Tuesday evening, by xme Olark, of Staunton, a small bhar honsu mileg {rom this city, was perform- vl d;dmm duties, she dropped = coal-oil i ; stove, which exploded, instantly P éh ;:n in flames, and burning her Gearh s Dgered1n great agony four hour, b, reliesed her sufferings. Wiat adds 'uloh“.m“ the mccident ju that tho lady been married on Thnrsda; to Mr. g%, Duppe. Tovitations s been Yeddigg g hlll vreparstions for the by " ® Sompleted. o expectant groom ige liserrs, ,Carlinville to procure tho “bigygeeose and returned just_ in timo to Bty o flb{u&o her last. ‘The invited' bmact e e losttend the funeral ob- 10 thy g ediin L o v:‘rfi:;?tezdnx participat- L g Pervertea Taste. Ve T8 404 almost brutal sentiment death by in watching an ac- 01 Tesshed ity SL0S08 With horrible contor. %‘fi"d“ i extremity in England the otber fl“‘-“' Pl Theatre Royal, Cambridge, the Which 5 pied by & raving sort of tragedy, is brougiit to justice. ~The 64 ey arBELeE Tefused to do more Ry his Loge ‘D sppear on the ecaflold and :gn_eamoq under ils dangling . . ‘!mcnxlu.u dropped, bat the ey, 3 80dlence wonld no b eatisfied. M, 1ig g oodh 1t declinod to leavo the Wanager solemulv camo ont and ’ ologized for being umable to gratify his rhs by sctually hanpivg the asor unloss Lis own cousent, which he was Lardly like- Iv to give. “Bring Lim out with the rope round Lis neck,” shouted theso pleasant peopls, and, their demand not being grauted, they growlingly and reluctantly left the house. A eurions story is this for the studont of ethics. We doubt if tho theatre-zoers of & Nevada miniuy-town would ever attain equal sublimity of brutality. TiE JAPANESE COURT. As it Wau, and s 1t Is. From a Lecture by Minister DeLong, Upon arriviog in Japau my first duty, of course, ‘was to present my letiers of credence to His Majesty. To my surprise I was informed that I could oplv do 8o at an sudience, at which, al- though His Majesty would be present, ho would be i a great part concenled from view, either by tapestry or by screens, aud was further assured that an audienco in this form was the only way in which it had been accorded to others. I at once declined to be thus received, insistiug that, 2s the represeutative of the Premdent of the Duited States,.X was entitled to stand in the full presence of His Majeaty, and that to submit to anything else was to adwit an inequality bighly dercga:ory to my Government. This point was at last conceded. It was then proposed that I should hand my lotters 10 the Prime Minister, who, inmy presence, should hand them to His Majesty. This I likewise declined to do, re- spectfully mssting that, as I was the bearer of & communication from the ruler of my peop'o to the 1uler of tbeirs, it was my duty to place the sume persooally in the bands of His Majesty. _ It may strike yon that these matters were un- important, but they were far from beinz so. I was laboring to surike down an oriental dogms of supetior.ty by asserting and maiotainiog un- equiveeal equality. Priorto being received, 1 way turnished with a diagram showing the var- ious approchcs to the castle, the ontrances thereto, the halls, apartments, and rooms there- in, which I was to cnter or pass thiongh. This | diagram was so specific 18 o indicate the exact standpoint 10 be occupied by my suite and my- self, and also by the leading oRlicers of the Jav- aneio Government when in the immediato pres- occe of His Majs y. The form of co-emony descrited was that, when arrived at the castle, 1 was to be received at che entrance by & Vice Miaister for Foreizu Affaira: by bim, with my suite, I was to be escorted to & room io the castle where I would be met by tho chief Miuister for Foreizn Affairs, anl with hium there partake of refreshments which I would find vrepared. After which I would be intro- duced to al! the otherofficers of State, who would :etire immediatels, After which, at the sound of mut e by tho C.ur: band, s:gnifying that his Majesty was ascending the throne, I wonld pro- ceed to the audience, escorted by the Minister. At the fime appointed I s<t out oo mv journev for the castle, surrounded and escorted by o larse tody of troops, foot aud ho:se, provided more for my protection_than my howor. The street corners were guarded by c.wpanies of infan:rs, with ropes strowhed across them to: keep back the rurging multitudes who had astembled to see the foreigneis pass, and who grected our arprosch with inenlt ind derision. Tuus at- tended, I at last reached the reception-roum, where 1 was waited uron as per prog:amme, and introduced to all of the bigh ofticers of Btate, arrayed 1n their indescribable robes of ceremony. Presetlv the music, as it was called, was beard ; it seemed to come from all quarters of tho castlo at onco; the air was slow and duge-like, played upon reed instruments, pitched to. the bighest key, and it sonnded to e ke a solemn protest offered by twenty-five centuries of seclusion against the approach of progress in the nine- teenth century. The way to the audience-cham- ber and the approsches to the throne itself wero thronged with courticrs and officors, each bowed almost to tho grotnd, with their lands resting upon their swords in instant proparatios, and their keen eves glarice lLiko basiliska. Immediately to the right hand of His Majeaty s gword-bearer held a balf-drawn sword ready for him to grasp, whilst immediately belund him was & perfect arsenal of most murderous- looking weapons within easy reach. My sensa- tions can easier be imagined than described. I fouud His Majesty ecated upon a throne which 1 cancot attempt to describe, the whole canooied by most magnificent diamask, aund flanked by griffins, birds, and animals in autique bronze. We here repeated the prearranged con- gratulatory speeches, which sounded in the at- mosphere of sach sarr.undings as false and hollow as language couid. This being ended, I advanced immediatelv to His lajesty and hand- ed him my letter, receiving bis own for the Presideat in return. Wlale doing tis, I noticed that His Majesty was very much acitated, he being o youth of only about 1) yesrs. This ceremony being concluded, we retired as we bad been received. 1 have been thus particular in describing this reception in order that I might contrast it with certain ceremoniss that oce.rred prior to my de- parture. Shortly before my successor arrived, my colleagues and myself wcre invit:d to at- tend with the Grand Duke cf Geroa, then in Japan on a visit, o review of troops in Jeddo, and & breakfsst at s snmmer lLowse in the grounds of the castle; proceeding thither in carTiages, we found a lorze body of troops, in- cloding all arms, artillery, cavalry, and infautry, awaiting us. Soon after, the Grsnd Duke, ac- comyranied by his suite, arrived and exchanged salatutions with us. Immediately thereafter Majesty came driving racidly from tho castle, escorted by sbout 100 mounted guards, present- inga very dashing appearacca in their uniforms of ecarlet, greecn, aud gold, with their tall plumes, bright lances, and penons glittenng n thesun, At once the review commenced, snd was.pronounced in every way highly creditable by the Italian, Euglish. French, and German mili;ary snd naval officers there present. the troops being armed, equipped, and drilied ia ex- act conformity with the kystem prevailing at present in France. s The review being ended, we proceeded at once to tho palaco grounds, whero His_3ajesty. descending from his carriage, surrounded Ly Lis chief officers of Stato and housshold, received us informaltr, and at once preceded ms, accom- panied by tbe Giaud Duke, in 8 promenade of neatly two hours’ duration tbroughout the grounds. His Majesty was dressed in foreign stvle, wearing a foreign sword and cocked bat, 2nd €0 were ail of his officera and attendants dressed, Tlustrative of His Majests's character, 1 may mention that he exhibited to us with great plaasure 8 hittle spot which be had prepared withiu ihe grounds, upoa which was erected a peasant’s thatched hut, a perfect medel of those commonly seen tbhroughout the country, sur- rounded by & garden in whick wero growing all classes of grain, flowers and vegetables commouly raised by the fermer. This he had bad done to familiarize bimself with agriculture and to understand the habits and wants of his veople. One thing very remarkable was observed br me Guriog. this promenade, namely, that mowhere throughout theso = extensivo grounds, diersified by bills, vall &nd ravines, and 1n many places covered with a dense growth of trees, was thero a single soldier, police, or other guenlsmap to be scen, thus roving how compietely His Alajesty relies for i personal protaction upon the devotion of Lis subjects. The promensde being ended, we proceeded to a pavilion situated in snother portion of ihe grounds, peor o waterfall and » emall lake, Thero wo found our breakfust awaiting us. Tho tablo was furnished sud served in foreign stsle, and whilst oceupied with our breakfasi we were entertained with mueic farniched by s band of Japanese musicians using exclusively foreign note-books and instruments, and discoutsing foreigu mirs. These musicians came suddenly from several little wooded glenw, and areembling upon the lasn across tha Xfi;a lovked very dash- iLg in their scarlet uniforms £nd plumed caps. The Europeaus present at tno breakfast, includ- ing the Iialian guests, who may b preenmed to have been connowsseurs, sssured me after the entertainment was over that they were sur- priscd and delighted with tho excelience of the music. While eitting thera ot the- tablo opposita this mysienious potentate, who was mingling thus familiarly with his foreign gueets, aud obgerving him dressed in foreign etsle, sporting a mustacho and paitaking of o mesl served in o forcign manner, I contrasted it with bis appearance and surroundings when I was at firet received ; and when I listened to that mueic, aud reflected that those musicians who were execnting with so much excellence the *‘Marseitlaise,” **Wearip, of the Green,” ard Sherman's ** March Throug] Georgia,” were the same men who ouly four short yesrs pgome by had filled thut old castle with_such weird barbarian music as that to which I bad listened upon the occasion of my first andience, is it at all strauge that it should have seemed to me more magical than real ? Again, on the occssion of my last audience with [l Majesty, in biddiug him .farewell, and introducing my uccessor, we wero received by His Majesty almost without ceremony, in a draw- icg-room, without the scmblance of a throne, and there our letters and speeches were receive and exchanged in_a_manner customary with tho Lresident, of tho Uvited States upon sumilar oc- cagions. —Every fashiocable woman in Paris hangs to ber belt an alms-bag, a fan, & carc-cuee, o rocket-book, an umbrella, & tureip-watch, a pin- cushion, sawe ivory tablets and & little mirror, And the sons of women like these are expected tlu")mod(flu nonscnse ous of Germany some MARGATE Still Another English ‘Water- ing-Place. Character of the Visitors---Prevalence of Babies, Yulgarity and Boorishness of a De- cently-Dressed Crowd, Begging as a Fine Art. R Special Correxpondence of The Chicago Tridune. Manoate, Sept. 20, 1874—To Americans, whose Lizbit it is to flee away from the sea and the mountains with the esrly youth of the antumn, bastening citywmds and bomewards for the opening of the public echools the first week of Soptember, a letter from an English watering-plage at this date may seem to como ™ & day after the Yair.” But it must be remembered that THE ' sEASON" at English summer-resorts lasts longer than the fashiorably-idyllic seasoa does with us. Here September breath is infivitely more ewecet, and touches the world witn marvelously more of tondemess, than on our Westem @de of the sea; heve the Frost-King, with iiis courtly retinne of wind, aud rain, and antumnal blight, comes more leisuraly, and comes mora gantly, than ho comes to the eyries in the New-England mountains, or to the popu- lar resorts and secluded nooks on our suusct side of tho giittering waters, wkere our peoplo seok to Iudo themsclves from the too fervid presence of the American summer. In England there 18 not the trauscendently-lovely period when summer—almost dead—revives to o flush of coior that puts to pallid sbame the glory ond radianco of her primo— the period when Tyrisn dres fal of therr splondor besido our foreats; when ltalian ekics grow dim compated with the turquoise lustre of our beaveus, when Clande-like at- mospheros ensphero every vies of land or sea, whea every bitof landscape and glimpso of fac- reaching vista glows with & gorgeousness of Luo and tiut that proves Naturo to work in Titian-liko moods.—the peerless period that we call our Indian summer. But, not baving thiy radiant seasoa, the English climate makes CEBTAIN FAID CO'CESSIONS, of later frosts, of a longer vivid green upon sward and foliage, of a softer influence in the air far on to October. At this present writing tho leaves of the trees have not lost a single tint of their color, and scarccly onmo bas falln upon the green verdure below. The mornings and eveninga ave cool,—not with the criap, bracing vigor of clull that builas us up in America after the flaccid and nerveless prostration which o often comes in \he wake of our iztense summer, but with & motst, penetrating coolness, that imperceptibly decpens, momeut by moment, iutoa brilliant and grateful warmth, like that of the sweet- scented, exhilarating noous of our Indian £um- mer. For his reason, therefore, as also for tha one that the English people, witt all their getting, have not yet got the wisdom of our Republican idea of popular edncation, and therefore need yot leavo the seagile thot Johuny, and I3obby, and their sisters may work with fresh vigor iun their seed-time in the public schools, the season at the English watering-places lengther:s some- times even tothe cna of Octcber. All along the coast, where we have wandered. from one populous ard fachionable resort to nzother in the last two weeks, we bave sern the MEREY CARNIVAL OF FASHION AND GATLTY kept up with uabated vigor. Belles and beaux flutier and flaunt with a8 brave o zest as if these chill mornings and evenings were not belring each other to weave tho summers winding- shect; ehowy equipages dash through the streets. bearing to and fro artistic creations of form and color in dainty costume, as if to-day were the very blossom-time of tho fearcn, and wot the dying beauty of the vear : children not upon the sands with s fresh 2 glee 28 if the worid were new-torn, and all its rovalty of love- liness created newly for to-day 3 even ‘the bath- inzmen and womep ply their busicess, not as briskly ns a week or two ago,—for, after all, it must be that many of the summer's. butterflies have flown, althongh 70 man are scill left,—but etill with profit; and the bathers plnnge snd sport in the foamy billows, and find the water warmer and the bath more delightfal than when the bathing-machines were finst sent into the waves, in Julv. Americang who have mever visited Englana always wonder why fachionable London should malko its annual hegira to BRIGRTON golate in the vesr. Brightonis the queen of English wate:ing-t laces, but it does not hoid its ccurt tiil November, when with us the bitter winds sre daching _the early snows through the sireets, when the ckies arc leaden, and the hoarse ‘billows dasn and tret upon our rock-bound New- England cosst, and find thozo gravite ricks desolate in _their utter solitude, as1f human life bad never breathed upon them. In November we think more of our furnaces and of our gas- bills than we do of sentimental eaunterings by a moonlit eea; more of our buckwheat cakes and hot steass than we do of pleasaut drives for miles beside & gleaming, silvery ocean; more of our resuecitated furs “and our new winter-parments than we do of pretty coquetries on Dotel-balconies in the filmy tulies aud vaporous ‘tissucs of evening Cress. Brighten, facing the eouth, bolds the warmth and brillianey of early autnmn till Christmas. It is aimost without foliaze of any kind; eo the mournful rememtrances of a dead summer, the dry and colorless leaves, never Etrew its putbe. Sunchine cnfolds it, and ' soft soa-zephyrs caress it. Loudon is hidden in fog, and is oppressive, not only to eyes aad lungs, but to spirits; &0 Brighton rules tho fashionable world I Y Tegnaut empress ull even Brighton's suuehine grons pale, and the merry Christmes-chimes toll the knell of its *‘season.” MAROATE. the watering-place whence I write, seems & veri- tablo twin-vister of ita peighbor, Ramsgate. They are both upon the little Isle of Thanes,— Margate apcut 4 miles north of its sicter-town. Thov are sisters, not in topographical consan- guimty.—for Margate'’s cliffs are more varied and pictw esque, its1ange of inland ecenery more extensive and interestings its jetty more famous than any feature of Ramegate architecture; its byways more ancient and iutercsting; and its out-lonk upon the water unobstincted by anght more than & white-wivged veeeel or & smeking steamer betweea 1t and tbe Arctic Sens. Margate and Ramsgate reseinble each other in the general styie of |§:ir dwellings,—0 1 er cent of all the Louees in both t.wns, | earicg, 1 g neral appear~ arce, ndubitable proot of being ludgiug-Louse: while overy third or fourth Dnsmess-place m both bears a eign to tell the thirsty wayfarer— and the English wasfarer is evidently in & chronic _condition of thiret—* Licensed tosell wine and epirits TO DE DRUNT ON THE PREMISES.” Tovariably the name of the seller (often a Wwoman, I regret to say), with the word “ Li- censed,” is painted in Duge letiers dircctly over the words, “To sell wine and epirits,” those words, m their turn, bemng dircctiy over tio legord, in blazing copitals, *To be drunk ca the premises.” I or somo time after coming to Tngland. the juveniles of our perty, resving these chaiacteriztic signs from the opposite side of the strect, failed to dizcover the obscure inti- mation, **To sell wine aud epints,” and tancied tnat the reason theywere £o cunlinually shocked by the erectacle of dranken men and women reeling toand {vo in the streete, or snoring like fillky swine on the curbetoues and in tho gutter, w28 that Sally Snogg and Bill Teges announced on their buginess sigus that they were *‘ Liccused to be drunk on the premises.” Tut the close resemblance of theso places to ench other i6 in the appearance of THEIR SUMDMER-VISITORS. They are the same closs of Loudciaers,—well-to- do trades-people ; clerks on their short holicay; shop-girls wno Lave managed to rave 2 liitle money out of their smell stipends for a Urief pluy-time on the terrace anfl inthe ses at Margate or Ramepate; thritcy young farmers from inland, with their buxou camnetion-tinted brides; *pele aftorneys i scedy lawyers™-clerks, who choge to invest the ‘price of a guit of new clothes in two orthree, dayn of refreshing at the seasido; ehowy bellea* shose Inces Indefinitely suggest Valeucioones and lbread, and whoae velvots Lave a mag:ilticeut perspective of silken sheen against a sbabby Poctpround of " cotfom: who' weer brilliant jeweE'Iy on the morning promenade, #md go into ihe sea with falgo bair piled high apon tbeir heads, like Gothio cathedrals or b attlemented towers : who leave carmine ‘rowdar 2 od Blanc do Perle with their brushes and towels in the bat- ing machiue, that they may come from their o filp" blooming and radiaut as Veni1s from the sea, or a8 brilliant aud glowing as A nrora from Lier chamber of the East; whcse obeso mammas emeoll significantly of Lors, nnd wha se rotund papns eometimes stand upon'the sands * to call oot 2o the sportive Naisds: - “'Wrry! *Orry, my darlink! or you'll catch that hawful 'eader a-comink !” In both places, too, oue eees the che ap snobof London; the high-toned restaurant-j woprietor; the theatrical swell who dons Lis walking gentleman's attire, invests balf 1.is capital in ypomndes and curing irong, aud flits aw: to flit awhile on the jetty aud in the terrace. while the taud plays, with the fair damsels whose prudent 13 a4 have & wise caution as to briny-headers, bat none as to adventurous swells. “Thera ouo sees, too, mauy & mother whose olive-Lranclies mutter ten and twelve strong, sud the appoarancesof the family, with nurses and_perambuli:tors, on the £ands, is quite of a patriarchal pictuie. Let me hero patenibetically insert a mention of tho fuct that such is THE MARVELOUS FECUNDITY of the Dritish matron that the buby-wa gons are all built to carrv (o, and we seldom see one that Las not its full complement.—baby of /5 monihs pulling away at a oostle, while baby of 18 months sucks its thumbs. For the British id ea of the Seriptaral injuucilon 18 evidently a literal oue, and its lofiicst ides of the Idivice 1ntent i to increaso and multiply b umanity, cven though ita foums be gross aud its pature low, _ratwer than {o ewnoble and dignify it. Babies in Evglard are go plenti- ful that they become chenpened in value, as does every commodity with which a m 2rket is glutted, So cheap do they become that vie are hocked countless times to see tho belijless littlo onos banging cver the nides ‘of t:cif persmbulators, one on ¢uo side and_ove the other, (00 sleepy aud tired to ery, while nurse Fmai!)u wiih her friend, and never carcs to seo that the poor little Leads are rubbed by the wherils with every 1cvo- lution. e eeo them drawin gz hungrily on empty nursing-bottles, filling therr little stomacLe with wind, and creating the vacuam that nature ab- bots, every moment of the tay. We eco them dozzled by tho eunshine alciost to blinduces ; we gee them blinded Ly the wind; we ece tuem clulled to the marrow ; wo ece them ecoiched to {he brain ; we see them tormented. slused, ill- treated every wav, till we feel liko uttering a Jrayer of tlaukspiving for overy Lead in_our ro- sarius, that, in our_beloved ccitn:ry, babies do not ccmo ro over-abucdantly that they Lecome A DRTG IN THE DOMESTIC MARKET, and are kuccked and tossed about us thoneands of Erglish babies ere, with the probably unree- cguized but actuating idea that there aro flenty niore to come : therefore, why 1o oversolicitus about these ? The Englieh peoplp boast largely of the productisenocss of their wonien; but rew of them ccre to reflect npon the jropcrtion of the children nho die by discaso, neeglect, sud acci- dent, to those who are born. ‘As, st Ramegate, the chief ¢mployment of the summer Labitues 1s to sit upon the sands cn beuches ananged like the sceits of an amphithe- atie, there to fitt, to_gostip, to read nowspapers and nevels, and to dream ¢fay-drenms in the ef- fulgent glory of golden lishu reficcted from zn azure sea; KO, at Margate, the grest pastime is to TROMENADE OB TO ELT UPON THE JETTY. This jatty, if it were 8 long finger i Chicago Inid upum-the davcing wriers of Luke Mictigsn, we rhould call, I suppoze. a wharf pier. Itis along suretch of 1,240 fect of weodeu planks laid uron wrought-iroa girders, which reet upon iron columra, eunk into the bed of the sea, Thw structure is 20 feet wide, and 20 tect above Ligh- water mark, and is 1t cortan hows, as the Ter- race i~ at others, tie fashionable promenade of tuo town. The best t: to visit this jetty, ani to study the most ral.ont characteristics of th: Englieh snobs and swells of. the tradco-peoble ciuss, is upon the'arrival and depsiture of the Loudon s:camers at the head of tie jetty. Then a iocker-on in Ilargate can scarcely the citicism cf Tetor Pindar’y, wi tougue in Alargate leains to repeat: Soon ax thou gett'st beside thy pler, AL Margate will be out to crow, And people rush from far and rear, s 4f thou had'st wild Leuats to ¢ho Here, 88 soon 28 the incomung steamer is stes, when her cloud of biscis rincive i» 16t secn to defile the luminous hor:zen, wu lour or more vetore Ler arrival, the jetty 1S COVERED WITH PECILE from one end to the ctlier; €0 tlat cne paturally woadera where space is to be {cund for the dis- emtarking of th:o Locdon tassengers. Here the youtbs and maidens flirt, and fhiunt their new Taiment, unwittivg, i their *vealhcod,” that the wholo universe—terrestrial, stellar, and solar—wosg not called into being by Creative Force mercly that boys and gide might bave their blissfal riot 1n & Wworld :f coquettish graces, of shallow artifices, of paseional attiaction, of witlees glee aud pleeful illiness, liere, tco, rest upon the berches arcuzd the railinge. ja a8 and mammas who bave outlived the roseate tropical 1ime of emoticnal youth, and who bave lived to Lelieve that the !aands of life bold no better gift for mortals then a good diuner, Here comes the valetuditarian, wrapped in bis Ulster, thoogh the sun snd tho wind scem really to be experimenting upon him, 8s upon the tiaveler in the fabie, whese raiment they scught to remove,—who tinds it tho Lest place on the whole Kentish coast from whick to lay kold upon the vatalizing irtiuences that fcat g0 buoyandiy uron the wiugs of the sea-breezes dasbing over the Margae jetty. But 1t is when the stesumer finally reaches the landing, when the passesgers bave crawled up the steep stairway Which lcads from the deck 1o the pavement cf the jettv, and with pallid faces, heavy eyes, and evidenlly drooping SEirits, puts tbe misarable ordeal of eriticism and comment befcre their absorj:tior: into the crowd, that TIE YOLGARITY AND DOORISHNESS of a decently-dreesed. crond at s ccmmon En- Jish watering-place Leccmes diegustingly evi- ent. Of cowrse, these are not of the Letter claes of the English people,—of the cluss whoio fine breeding and cultated nrderstanding minke the English name 1espected wherever tho En- glish tongue is spoken. Of course, they are cockmeys, exulling in an unwonted liberty from shiope, and stalls, and counters, avd thus inclined to ran into an unwonted exuber- ance of expression and mauners in their brief bour of leisure a nd enjovment. Of course, 1hey none of them juclividually represent the typical Enghstman,—{cr the typical Enghshman is of the Army, the Chureh, the Bar, ard not of the shops. Of course, these peorle are shutont by the rigid tarriess of Lritich caste and couser- vatism from the refining infiuences of social, mental, aud esthetic culture. Of couree, Ly the very coustitutionn of English society, havive been born of ceavee and 1nl-bred parents, coarfe and 1ll-bred they witl tive and die; for a beor's son cannot rifa, throngh public echools, free lectures, pelitical frecdom, and the Republican amtition of roankood to grow to ite fullest rtature, to be what manya peasant’s son s in America,—3 g,entieman, “And yct these peopie do make TI'E, RIFRESENTATIVE ENGLISHE CROWD, the crowd th.t surrounds one on Stnduys in the rarks, on Lol iaay exemsionr, during Royal pro- cessions, et6. : and can justly be 8.0%zen of a8 an Englieh crov+d, in right of the numorical superi- olity of jus!. such people over all their classes in tho Kingdora. As ooe by one, and two by two, the paseen- gers whey hiave been buffeted by the rough Eeas off the Jorth Foreland walk through tbe aisle mada or them by the police,—looking, many of them, as if the awfal mal-de-mer Lad alinost riven’ ecul and body ssunder. and bad allowed *them on ly feebly to pocome again united, —look- ere-on, with course lsughter, gmeot them some- what ttius : “Wisll, old hoss, better try ses-sickness instens1of bell-fire next Sunday! ™ Thlfs to a pale, worn voyager, whose peculiar garme:nts and style of heati-gear marked lim to the kezen eight of the Londouer as a Dissenting mz.iter. “derc'y one Lhat hove up her last Christmas ng 1" pod 4 _ Miis to a timid-loclire gir), whoee cheek was a'Lsolutely ghastly with illness, ana whose Jips tlarched” o even o more deathly hue as she cenght the sound of this brutal zemark. “Lord, mum! did you ever try a hittle sip of ‘brendy, now, for your itsides #” This’to a corpulent matran, whose elephan- tine grace and :eony compiexion betizyed a too incinate mcquaintance with the cap thst does not cheer ko much a8 it inebrintee. And so_the fun goes on, day after doy, when the Lorndcn steamer comesin; and coteries of perfamed, curled, jauntity-dressed swells, with | moustechts wazed to n Napoleouic audacity of . asecrtiveuess, betray their fatal lack of all'the digrity of manlinees by such ntteracces. Oreof the principal buildiugs belonging to the corporation of Margate, but located a Little way out of the town, in a tubnrb called West- trook, 18 the benevolent ingttution for the pur- pose of giving sea-bathing and the bepefit of ocean-Lreezes to SCROFULOUS PATIENTS. 1t is called the Lioyal (everytbivg in England is called * Royal,” from an_aperient powder to & hoepital or & barbor) Sea-Batbiug Infirmary. In this institution, founded 1n 1752 by Dr. Lettson, 200 bods wers Lhrown opon duiing epring and welves with it. summer,—thus ensbling many bundreds of pa- tients to participate in advantages which are usnally monopolized by the healthy both in body and in fortune. The expenses of this charity Dbave been almost cntirely defrayed by voluntars aid, and by weekly payments of a few shilliugs from each of the patients. The present Di- rectors of the hospital, copmdering that tho indigent came from far and near a8 to the w=aters of DBethesds, concluded Iast vear that it was expedient to make tke charity one of national importance, and » 5 shilliny; annval subgeniption-list was set cn foot. to which the contributions of everybody, poor and rich, who had 5 elulliogs to spare, wers so- licited. During the last year oves 00 was col- lected ; for the English people, cairying the weight ofits costly Lauble, Royalty, on'its back, is accustomed to give money witbout looking for any return. Oue of the things that impress an American ‘most forcibly in Great Britaiu is THE SADDENING FREQUENCY of its cbaritable institutions and the multiplicity of its beggars. Saddening, I meau, not that the needy should be too well provided for, but that. in the wealthiest nation of the world, thousands and tens of thousands of God's creatures, un- able to win a foothold for themeelves, are thrown into the bosom of charity to support the lite that otherwise would perish, The crown- diamonds, kept in_the Tower, aud exbilited to adwiring Mouvarchizts, and to calcnlating Re- publicaos (from o far country, where a man takes his crcdentials for homor, aud po:ition, and fame, from the God who made bim, and not friom arbitrary eocial conditions), at 6 pencea bead, are valued at a sum the interest ou which for & year, roughly calculated at Western rutes, would pay our President's sslary for half the usual tarm of ofice. And yet millions of En- gliebmen groan under the ifon heel of poverty, because, treated like children by the compara- tive few, who, born to rank and wealth, guide the ebip of state, they have all of & child’s in- efficiency, improvidence, 1gnorance, and willful- ness, atd, in too many instances, come upon the nation 28 a cluld comes upon its parent lor sup- port. Itceems that the lower classes HAVE NO SELF-RESTECT; they often choose rather to beg than to work; they aro rever educated by social influences to any iucreared measure of personal dignity, more 1han tle cattlo they feed or the beasts they drive afeid. Soitis tbatin London one cannot nalk the length of o block that he does not pass romea institution for providivg for paupers that which drxu.men!, properly wfused with a raticnal pride of character, should provide for themsetves, ocaring the umversal inecription, + Surparied by volun'ary contributions.” Aud pe canuot walk half a block in London, or drive astiect's lengih in Margate, that mendicancy uces not assail bim with piteons _com Laints, which, if unheeded, not uvfrequentl. tu:n into wvituperation and ngult. DEGGING 13 ALN.0ST A FINE ART in Englacd; so that, when we rde vat throngh the coustry-roads, Lordered witls therr beautiful wreen bedges, or walk through the sylvan laves that are such lovely feutures of Enghsh rwal scenery, s frequently are followed by comfort- ubly-dressed Loys, evidently the children of decent parents, who assume tho professional whine aud the despairing look of the ex- perienced beggar, and bescech uy, “ for the love of God,” to give but & peony. And we often give the penny to 1id ourselves of objectionuble companionship, although we have a profound snd aLid.ng consciousness that the renuy goes for murbles or for sweets, and that we, by our conardly concession to an miquitions pracuce, have, in some slight degree, strength- eued the grip of the spacoLda of meanness aud poverty upon the lower classes, Butween Maigate aud the pretty little adjacent Lamlet of St. Peter's is also a collection of beuses, known as Drarer's Alms-Louses. The nucleus of this charitalle ente:jrice was mado by 8 wealtby Quaker, who died in 1803. ‘Fhcy ate intercsiing clLiefly from the fac: that the orig .ator of the institution was 2 pauper. boru in & worcbouge, who earned his £1st money by Lerd'ng sw.ne on the gite of there Lcuses. He afteraurds 1an away to sea, terved ou a French me:chzni-ieseel, after many vears amassed & iarze fortune abroad, and, dying a bachelor, left i Diepenty to this benevolent onterprie in England. M.reate, althongh, like Ramsgate, an Elysium of cockineye, is not ulwess withont MORE DISTINGUISHED VISITORS, Fhe Queen Lonored it by virit in 1585, which is a fact preserved in all tue chrovicles of thecity. iler Alsjecty spent everal of the earlier years of her hife 1n Kent, with ber widowed moxer, the Duchess of Keot ; acd we have vitited, 1n Bruadetairs and in Ramsgate, the unpretending Unelling in which tle young Princers snifled aver ker bard antbmeric-lestons, aud sulked at ;e frent wit:dows Lecause a drizzling rain beat déwn upon the gloomy sea and Lept ber pleas- ure-boat 1 port. T1he Iron Duke, too, honored the town with his presence in 1827; aud there ace those yet liviug who can dercrite Lis imperial prescuce as 1w military step rang along the pier. SCTHEKN, THE ACTOR, ig 82id to have avenged his inenited dignity 2s s yentleman. iv 2 somenbnl peculior mauner, in cue of (be numerous botels that face upon the ‘Terrace. A party of army-cfiicers made a feast, and invitea Sotbern to tlhe Lanquet a8 the chief guest, He accepted tho invitstion, ate of their viands, and araak of their wines, 28 a gevtleman Goes dine and wine with theee who scek to bonor bim witn respectful and friendly courtesies. But it came about that, as the wine was in, tho wit was ouf, and wild jokes and harum-scatum etcries of mad escapades avd tecklees advertute were tho order of the hoar. ‘Ihen one of the couteous army-ofiiciale, for- getting that Sothern was gentleman as well a3 acter, ard bad joined them in a social and not profes~ital way, Legan rudely to tessa bLim to wive an exbibition of bis diumacic alility. Of conrse, ho felt irgignant that he should be cal'ed upon to 11+ Li- 41t u; 02 a fextive ce:asion for the amuremert of oue wno thus showed that e tought the actor's rather than tbe gentle- :.on's companionebip ; but be Letrayed nothing of bis feehngs Lill the ery became general, 1o tl:e wine-excited company, for an exhibitivn of Sothern's ekill. Tuen he gave them the exhibition they desied. He introduced a druuken scene, rendering the stupid, leertog, biccoughing inclriste with such contummate wkill that when, in une of Lis reeling gyratiors, lie eaught the corner of the table-cover in hus hands, aud, with the staggering dignity of drunkenness, drew it towards bim with allits coslly weight of cut glaes, it# crystal decanters, ita delicate epergnes, no one of the company bad reason to Buspect that there was s revengefal methcd in his maduess. Lut wheo. next dav, that festive comyany seutled & emall bill of £(0 or £70 for damages, they found it to be the moet cxpeusive drametic entertainment they ever attended in the role of deadlieacs. BerTHA Davse. —_— CAXADIAR ITEMS. Special Disgatek to The Clicugo Tribune. OtTaWa, Can., Oct. 17.—The lumber trade is begining to look up again, and freighting in Ottawa is more active. T.D. Harrington has been installed Sover- cign Grand Inspector-General of the Supreme Couneil of the Thirty-third Degree A. and A. Rite of Free Aasons of Canada, by the Hon. Albert Pike, 8. G. L G., of the Southein Distnict of the United States, in obedience to o warrant granted to that effect by I R. H. the Priuce of Wales. Toroxto, Oct, 17.—R. Ramsav Wright, B. 8. C. M. A. of the Edinburg Univemity, the newly- sppointed Professor of Natural History in the University of Tcronto, gave Lis insugural lec- rday at the Convocation, in the pres- e Lieutevant-Governor, Premier, and other digsinguisbed visitors. The Globe etrongly approves tho views of Prof. Goldwin Smith, Piesident of the National Club, which is made up of members of the Can- ads First party, whose opinions be expcunds. The Hou, Ecward Blake recently adopted their platform in a politiczl epeech, and numbers of ihe yonnger politicians are idemifging them- I THE WEATHER. WasmmseToy, D. C., Oct. 17.—For the North- west nud upper lakes, and thence to Missouri nrd Kentucky, rising barometer, northwesterly winds, and cool, clear weatber. LOCAL OBSERVATIOSS. CRIC4GO, Oct, 17, 1874, 52| Fi dour oo § | 3! £ |pirection and eration. | & | 8 | & Vorce of wina.| Testhers AR s l B ' d 6:638. m..20.99 46 69 |W., fresh. . Fair, . 8. Fair, 11:182. m..,29.95' 61 , 61 [N. W., P 169" 62 | 40 [NI WS, freshi] Fair. I %40 p. m. 5:53p. m..[:0.€8, 63 | C6 9:00 p. m..[29.9: 10:18 p. 10..|20.56 49 | 64 3' 52 ' 63 THE SHOEWAKERS’ GRIEVAKCE. Bostoy, Oct. 17.—A - meeting of shoe and leather dealers to-day, to combat the Gallatino petentecs, wes attended by over 200 persons. Rerolutions were adopted declanug the cemands of tue palentees exorbitant, and expressing a determioation to strennously resist them ; also, nsking the co-operation of marchaots, and urging Congress to opposs any farther extension of the patents, Telegrams of sympath; DRt 20 otlier citios were receivedwith cheeta: ALEXANDER ANDERSON. The Author of “A Song of Labor.” Scotland has produced poets, philosophers, bistorians, and men of science, whose influence Lias been felr, aud will continue to be felt, by every succeeding generation of the buman race. And happily this fertile natioual intellect, from which sprung the steam engiue, and many other of the fairest fruits of modern cuiture, is by no means extinct, but flourishes a8 strongly to-day o3 it did 50 or 100 years ago. It is my intention, in this paper. to speak of one who will yet rank alongside of Burns and Carlyle, being made of kindred stuff, and having the same large-hearted, heroic, maoly intellect, the only difference, perhaps. being in size. His teachings are pure, and broad, and healthy,— which cannot always be said of Burns, more's the pity,—and he seems to understand the truth of Carlyle’s words, when be says: *It i a high, solemn, almost awful thought for every individual, that his earthly influence, whica has bad n commencement hece, will never, through sll ages, were he the very meanest of ns all, have sn end.” From these words of grand old Thomas, it will be seen thatitis every onme’s duty to help his brother upward from the earth-desire; aud, seeing that a poet is allowed to have a deeper insight into human lifo and fears, it is more especially his duty to wake the echoes of the world with snatches of song that will enable us to look up to sume:hing nobler and truer,—tar **beyond the usclers film of creeds.” Having premised this, T would now Graw a little closer, and speai more porsonally of the wan, and of what he has done for the march of n.\inlé and the uuiversal regemeration of the world. Born of humble parentage, in Kirkconoel, a village in Dwnfrieshire, Sco:land, some_twenty- nine years ago, 1t may readily be surmised thac Alexander Auderson received but a Lmited eda cation. Nor does it eeem that he was more anx- ious than other boys to unprove his brief time at school; for, speaking of the spot whercin cluldhood he wandered, he says: X ree it till, the very same. As when, o smooth-faced, stardy duffer, 1 weut to sckool, and, to my ehame, Grow tired of knowledge, and had to suffer. While receiving the rudiments of educa- tion, he was pot remarkable for ansthing above the common, except being rather stiff to e in when cngaged in thosa eucounters to 1 boys are more or lees addicted. In his pe- culiarly-humcrous way be ssys: **I fought my rivals Iike a fool, and thrashed them, for I knew no better.” And here I wuuld remark that the child was father to the man, as his after-achieve- ments in lnnfinlge and literaturae show. From boybood he passed to beardless youth. ond then first-love shed its rosy light over him, ‘makiny his brain and bosom glow, and arousing thoe poctic fire, thereby enabling bim to sing, in real Byrouic strains, his woes to every listeving tree. But these whims of a hot and fickle youth passed away with the pasviug years, aud the poet s0on found his Lieart saving to him: Tuy manhood now must bave heslthier strife, And bores of bigher bsams, And more of work In thy daly life, And less of the early dresiza, This was & manly way to look forward to what Mr. Ardersou saw iwu-tivevitably be s life of mapuzl lsbor, and is characteristic of. almost overy verse that Loy falen from his lips. In fact, to my thinling, there has uot been a Scotch post since the days of Buins, in whese writings the true ringof manly irdependence i8 60 conspicuous ds m those of Alexander Aoderson. This is not ghown forth, however, in an arrogant mauuer, Yut in tho spiic of one who has generous impulses, and whois hopefal and cheeiftl, having the moral courage to keep on the even tenor of bis way, whazever may betide him. He bas 8o far sliown tho world that, thoagh he can soar into tho bigher realms of sonl and intellect, e is still vtted for the common nses of life, and is not afraid to meet the material exactions of & work- ingman's existence becauso they are unpleasant, but ratker delights in thinking he is a working- man, ablo to faskion & watchword for Lis toiling fellows, that will Lelp to cheer them onto ugher 2ims and nobler deeds. ‘Our voet first commenced to work 1n o quarry. but pasced from this to the railway, and is 8t pregent bat an humele son of toil. working with yick and shovel on the Glasgow & South- western line, snd liviog with his pa- cents in the peacefal littls village wherein Lo was born. After resding most of the Ex glish cluesics, and making himeelf well acquaini- ©d with modern literature, * Surfacemen” (this \was uow kis occuration, and is the nom de plame under which bo writes) took a fancy to learn Freuch, for the sake of being sble to read cele- trated ‘productions by foreign authors 1o their own tongue. Mastering tlis, he passod on to German, Italian, ana Spanish. in succession,— learning tLem il to the perfection required to enable him toread their books. Tlus in itself was no ordinary achievement, considening the disadvautages he had to contend agsinst; and, when allicd to the ability of speaking to the world from the broad level of humanity, is cer- tainly worthy of our love and admiration. “-Surfaceman” began very easly to string his fancies into1byme; but it wasnot till be be- came n contributor to the Feople's Friend that ho came under my nctice. Sinca tuen I have often enjoyed the beauty of his though:s, snd been charmed by the purity of his teachings. fis rcaders have had the finer feel- jngs of their wpature drawn out. by his poems of the affections and have also had their 1isible facuities touched by his exquisite humor. Ho often writes with great pathos and tender- uess, but most of his poems are of o cheering nature, euch a8 his ** Soog of Labor,” which commences thus : Lot us sing, my toiling brothers, with our rough, rude ‘volces, & s0ug That stull live, nor to us, in the after-ages, wroug, Buz forever throb und whisper strength to nerve our fellowkind, As they rise to ful our footsteps and the space we leavs Dehis ud, What tlongli hand snd form be ruged, better then for lator’s mart ; I have never Leard that Nature chsnged the color of the heart. ‘The God ahove hinth made s cme n flesh znd blood with Eings, But tha lower use is ours, and all the forcs of rozgher thl) ngs. ‘Then, my Lrothers, sing to Labor, a8 the sun-browned ‘giant stands, Liko ani Atlas, witd the world speaking In his mighty hands, Bravny-srmed, and broed, snd swarthy, keeping in with: shout and groan, In the arch cf lfe, the keystone, that the world may thunder on. The foregoing is a pieca which, I am certain, neither Tennsson nor Longfellow would feel ashamed of. As bas been aid, **Iti no one can read throngh without being conscions that & genuine poet penued the lines ; and thas 4 fine spint, that might yet ba touched to finer issues, of which this was but the baif-fulilled promise, was actually sioging. all unconscious of bis powers.” : A It there is a poet living who can sing of the throbbing imjulses of this inquiring age, and who is likely to chants pean over our victories as digplayed in the triumps of Scieuce in this event- fal'era of the world's history, that poet is ** Sur- foceman.” Indeed, that mighty mouster, the steam-engine, seldom flares along our view with- out reminding us ot Lis aadress to his fellow- workmen : Arm to stm, and let the metals into proper range be thrown; Let us shape the iron pathway for the monster coming i on3 Mako bis footing sure and steady, Atting for a thing Iike bim, Rolling out his teven-leagued paces smoother than & bird can sldm, Drawing city unto city, finging, with his grasp of Kations oio shape snd method, 0 bis muscles shake and reel. O what strengh shall behia portion in the coming ch of time, When his sinews swell and ripen into firm and perfect bS 15 the untied monster that, like Gulliver, Jead Busy peoples to each other, only with an iron thread. There is o hearty earnestners about ** Suiface- man's " poetry whicl at oo engages the read- er'e attention; and keepa bim epeli-bound till he Tenches the end of the poem. If this can be taken 28 & mark of merit, Le rises above a good many of cur modern poets of some of whosa pro- ductions it is necessary to read page after page before we can feel in the least interested. ‘As will be geen from the pieces which have al- readv been quoted, his poems have, in many cases, been colored by the pature of his cailing. T'ms bas been the caco in every age and among all uations, from the time of lum who sang 4 the tale of T'roy divine,” down to the present dey. and ko it should be. Before the poet can have an effect on the world, the world must £rst have an effect on the poet. How else could any age or poople produce 8 man who will speak forth earpestly aud melodionsly what the heart of it weans? This, Isoppose, is the resson why Carlyle thinks there oughtto be literary mea poor, 80 that they may kuow from experience what it really 18to lve by the sweat of their brow. 1t would be an injustice to pass over without comment ** Butfaceiman's " pocms, wrilten iu the from Cincin- | language which Ywus d.d 80 much to mako clastical. They are munt‘I‘y of a hnmorous tarn, relating to child-life, and for photographic ao- caracy have seldom been excelled. It 18 in thees that he shows most strikingly his deep insight into the workings of the human heart. In them his invenuve tacalsies are shown to most advan- tage, and, sccordimg to Pope, * Whataver praises may be given to works of judgment, thero i " not even a mingle beauty in them to which the invention must not con- m:;:. 7:11:\;5 ;)imwinz that inve:.tion is one of ncipal faci i pn;!;ued? ties of which & poet must bs 0 not suppose, nordo I wishit to be in- ferred that these productions wnich I have been cotsidering (some of which show great acquire- ments of knowledge on the part of their author) are in any way indicative of & high state of cul- ture among the c'ass to which he belongs; but would rather regard them as another 1siance of the possibilities which one earnest nature. trea- diated with warm sympathy, aud a des:ro that the bearts of his toiling fellows shounld fiush mto ampler blossom at hearing of his songs, can ac- complish, no matter how low its owner's station or how humble bis lot in life may be. It is an- other stnkiug illusiraticn that education, and through it moral and social improvement, are witbin the reach of all. As a fitting conclusion to this article may state that ** Surfaceman’s” collected poems were first published in October, 1873 and weto very favorably received by the leading Englich and Scoten reviowers. Since then, bis teeming broin has not been idle, and 1 believo the public may soon expect auother volume from lispen. After what I bave eaid already, it is ncedless for me to say thac 1 wish bim every success, and will hail with great satisfaction ap American edition of his poems when it comes. OBSOLETE STATUTES. Laws Connecticut People Have Fore rotten. There are a number of laws in the statute- books of all the old States which are now never enfoiced. Of uome such still existing in Con- necticut, the Hartford Fost discourses pleassutly a8 follows : ** While very excellent as viewed from a purely religious standpoint, snd doubtless meeting at the time of their enactment the views of a large majority of the citizens of the State, auy at- tempt £ enforce them in this generation would be laughed to scorn. Whether we are more wick- ed or only a Little wiser and = little more liberal than our forefathers, are pcints on which thezo will be found 2 wide diversiiy of opinion. Few are aware that & person taking a ride for recrea- tion on tio Sabbath dsy, with bis family or oth- erwise, becomes_liable to arrcst aud fino, yob such ig the law. Sec. 1 of Title 61 reads: 44 No pervon ehall do any secular business, work, or labor, works of ner essity ad mercy ex: epted, nor kaop open any shop, warehouse, or workbouse, nor exposs to s:le any goods, wares, or mercbandise, or any other 1inerty, DOF engage In’ any sport, game. play, or roc- Teation ‘on the Lord's day, Letween the rising of the #un and the setting of the same, nor shall any traveler, drover, wagoner, or_teamster, travel on said day, be- tween 'said times, excet from mecessity or chznty, zud every person s0 offending shall pay & fine not ex- ceediug $1, nor less than 31" ete. If this law shonld be enforcedaccording to its strict tetter, 1t would throng thbe station-house every Sunday with worthy citizens of Hartford who liad started for s quiet afternoon drive to Wethensfiold, East Hartford, or any of the d- joining villages or towns. And further than this, if the team should be a hired one, the per- eon letting the came for travel oiher (to quote the words of the law) than from *necessity or mercy,’ would be lable, under Sec. 10 of Title 52, to & fiue of §20. Bat the officer who would sttempt to prosecute under this Iaw would be very apt to got & coat of tar and feathers for his troable, oven in the good, law-abiding State of Conaecticat. “*Wenow come to another eingular Iaw,2s found in Sec. 199, Chap. 10, Title 12, of the Kevised Statutes, 08 follows : 4¢ Eyery person who shall be guilty of blasph palnat God. oF either of tho persons o ihe Holy Tane ity, or tiie Christian religion, or the Holy S-riptures, siall b punished by fine, not exceeding $100, and by imprisonment iu o common jail, not exceedug one year, and may also be bound” to his good behavicr at the discretion of the court.’ « Blasphomy was made a capital offense in tho code of 1642, and remained o uctil the revision of 1784, when the penalty was chenged to whip- ping on tue maked body, not exceeding forty stripes, and sitting in the pillory oue hour. the revision of 1821, the present provisions wera enacted. Webster defines ‘Llasphemer’ in these words: *To speak of the Supreme Being in terms of impions- irreverence; to revile or speak reproachfuliy of God, Clirist, or the Holy Spint. Now the question very naturally arisea whethier, under a strict constrnction of the statute, any person speakiog diedainfully of the Trinity (from the fact that they deny it) could not be_prosecuted! However, aithougi simiiar laws will be found on the statute-booss of sev- eral of the States, and pear'y all of thesoin New England, prosecutioue Lave béen of very rars oc- cuarrecce, and for many years past noue have beeu beard of. 4 At the time of the adoption of the State Con- stitation, its authors scemed to have quite a8 strong & fecling as tae early set:lers in favor of the suy.port of the Gospel, and took good care to provide legally for coutributions : hereto from all persons who were received into _cuurch mem~ berslup. And st that time, not to be a charch- member was nearly equivalent to being beycrd the pale of society. “ifhe following is an extracton this point from Art. V1L of the Const:tution : 4 And each and every society or denomination of Christians, in this State, shall have and enjoy the same and equal powers, rights, and privilegee ; and hava power snd autkoriiy o support and mainiatn the miuisters and teachers of their respective denomina~ tions, and to build and repair their houses for public woraliip, by 5 tax on the members of any such society ouly, to be 1aid by a major vots of the legal voters as- sembled st any soclety meeting, warned and held ac- cording to Law or in any other manuer. “+ A very wise and jus: deci~ion as to the forca of this article on religion i3 that the Legislature cannot divide an ancient, local, or territorial ecclesinstical socioty into two or more such sgocieties, nor divide the fuud owned bv scch ancient Society, and assign s poction of it toa vew society. This was the ruhing in the case of the Second Ecclesiastical Society versus the First Ecclesiastical Society of Portland. * Sec. 10, of Chav. 4, Title 7, of the Statutes, provides that this tax sha!l be Jaid on the mem- bers according to the a<sessmont or ‘graad List * last made out according to law, or accord- g to tho next legal hist, and shall be psyable within one year. It is farther provided that rate-bills shall be made out against the mem- bers of the Committee of the society who shall apply to & Juatice of the Peace of the county for a warrant directed to the collectors appointed to . collect the tax, authorizing thom to levy and collect the same. Under this Iasw, if, at & meet- ing of tho membora of the Pearl Btraet Church, it shonld be decided to expend $50,000'in the improvement of the church edi fice, an assessmen: based oa the grand list could be made on the property of sli the members of the society, and they conld ba compelled to pay the amount assessed. Resignation of membership after the vote had becn passed would not free & member from this oblieation, if opposed to such expenditure, ha baving been a member of the socioty at tho time of the pas- enge of sad vote, and therefore mutually in- volved with the other members. It is not known that any funds have been raised under this law for the past fifty years or more, as thers 1 little diffculty in secaring voluntary contributions. Bat if the msjority of the members of sny church organization choose to tase advantage of 1ts provisions. they bave full legal authority to do so. The injustice of this constitational pro- vision is that no person can become a mewber of any ecclesiastical orgamization without, in fact, submitting his eutiie property to tax by s majonty vote of the members theieaf, for use for charch porposes.” —_— MAKINE DISASTERS. Savrr Stz Magie, Mich., Oct. 17.—The pro« ouller Manistee ran sground in the Noebish )I.".npidx:i-;. 10 this morning. Tugs are going to er relief. Tne schooner Fostoria, laden with coal, struck arock mear Detour lLght, and sunk inthree minutes. We are having the hardest galeof wind we have Lizd this season. Marringe in California. The San Francisco Chronicle has poiated oub gome curious features of the Civil Code relative to marriogen 1n Californis. The law provides three distinct wags in whic & conplemay marry: First, a contract, followed by & consumaio second, the old-iashioned method by sulemniza tion: and, third, by declaration of iotention, signed, acknowledged, aud filed like any otber legal instrument. Fhe first matriage under the third of these methods was recently made in Stcckton, and has already created o very favor- able impression 28 a converient and inexpensive plap, a8 it requires no fugd or worry, DO minié- ter, no Justice, vo anything, but two parties to makes contrsct and scknowledge it befores notary. The Jaw mokes this marriage binding if it is followed by a mutnal assumption of martial rights. 23 the fifty-fifth =ection of the Code pro- vides : * Marriage is & personal_relation ansiog outof a civil contract, to which the consent of parties capable of meking it is neccesary, Con- sent aloue will not conatitate marriage ; it must Do followed by a solemuization or bv & mutual assumption of s martial rights, duties, or abli- gations.”