Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 1, 1874, Page 13

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1874—SIXTEEN PAGES. - 13 . Rosonberg.—Jobn Pischzak, arrested for meeting be held in the church. Beveral | make or keep it concrete as the Oneida Commu- 18 more liks Hood in the essance of his hum: or COURTS OF LOVE. istory of the Causes Which e Produced Them. and at What Time They Ly Flourished. Thirfy-oue Rules Which Gov- erped Them. N al Cases Considered. il Speci tems of man's invention which “sm- any length of time, that of of the most pleasing and yet in- Springicg ]i:m exxszemdn_. , civilized world was wrapped in gos el ;:Adflt)', and intellectual aarkness, iguorence, CH3 0 epped in mystery ; even its its ogin 2 s rendered indistinct by ”:un:zza Pof time snd romance, and itg the i dissolving -of = 7y e the g Geath ,':m'f sir,—gradual, inapprecisble, doad Bob0 iteireled tho civilized world s Inits pmE (90 ts mandates. and sought to Kiogs bon s supportera. Yet ite laws were ::rc;n:ln:ud by impriaonmenstb nor its‘ ‘;;xj;igy i ty. Nolawless Sheriff unfecling- p u:tidu;':s decrees; no phyeical force com- Ii":debediencewits beheets; yob it was as Bt erfol as though warriors stood ready to en- force submiseion, snd conquered by the power of palic opiaion. It was the recoil from fujus- s, oppression, and licentiousniess. 5 eome poetical spirits IT5 ORIOIN yaa carried back o the age of the equestrian e of tho Tomsns; others, less ambitious, \imtated it to the Gauls sod Franks, who tovaght it principles With them in their de- sasistion of Southern Europe. The Normans by some are said 10 bave first taught as well as <oticed tho lofty and generous maxims of suvalry, And Charlemagno by others is said, b more of wuth, to bave reslized the first idealof & knight. But we fail to tind in su- {bentic records aoy mention of the firsc ex- fvece of kmghts or knightnood, au’ ita birth csn only be placed hwau]i:clure some \mein the tenth cesturs. But,the more we : 1o ascertain zoy thing witn precision con- :::i:; thie inception or growih of cluvalry, the wore go we perceive that it viad etical meita orgn. The tates winch were circulated in tho Middle Ages,especially the mlxx?l&)lux inveptions ruing Charlemagne and Arthur, nudoul :&myti“m\i‘mud the spint of chivalry long before fuch s dignity wes invented or estavlished. Bat, afier its first use, its progress ‘ms to hevo been ropid, for in the ‘euex art of the eleventh century, at the e Fthe frst crasades, it was in the foll vig: time of the crusades, = orof yonth. Vrom that ume to the commence- o t’a{gh fourteeuth century chivalry was ment e fourteeut 2 fiounshing, but the civil wars of the Roses in Ecgiand, the inseitution of & regular system of wactare on the Contiaent, and tue organization of dizciplived armies, weakened its power, aud dostrozed that spiritof individusl valor snd bou- or which was one of iy:d leading chnx:lctz'nancs. Bat ere it died, o Bayard ** sans peur el sans re- roche,” embodied m bis lite all the virtues of frefacal knighs, and since fi,"; ?‘i‘i‘ncuqn Tasso and a Spenser, have crysiallized them in verse. iz FONDAMENTAL BOCTRISES oF CEITALES were morality, bravery, and fidelity—the eleva- Ton of omey ita. bast and uobless result. For bis lady o nigmhenama o scre‘r‘el:: priva- tiona, performed the most nous 8. Ler command he travensed foreign lands, fought the most unequal battles, mmd"d hims;’lf even from ber mide for year, and returned, some- times, only to tind his love the bride of another. At her request he renounced home, friouds, even bis faith; to do her will was Lis only am- xfi:m; to sttain her lovathe sole pursuit of ig life. But where should warrior seck the mead Due 1o bigh worth for daring deed, ‘Ezouyt from love and fume!! . Necessarily therefore his ** fancy lightly turn- e 10 thougits of love.” Questions of casmistry inlove-stters occupied days of study and argu- met, snd > la bello passion " was elevated to the highest rank, its modes and_development Exbjected to the closest scrutiny. For this pur- pose it was necceasaty to establish an authority e ot shoss tems, extiod e ‘were institaf 088 upals, cali e COURTS OF LOVE. The arigin of these courts is wrapped in a darkness a8 impenetrable as that of the com- paxemet of chuvalry ; oven their existencs Lasbeen donbted. No writer gives any particu- lar attention to the exposition of their character, ad their hustory is to be learned onlv from the cactering allusions in _contemporaneous histo- mfl%&e 5“‘{’,“"“‘ :ax;zpouu;lunsb ordthcé and trouveres furnish abundan proof positive of the existence of such tribu- Dulsin the sonth of Fraace, auditisin fact 10 g e aieshs tho ceact e of thelr ! , althoug] e exac ime O leir Tise cannot be told, 1t 15_known of a certainty :lut‘ ‘kh»y were in flourishing condition in the welftn century, THE TEOUBADOURS Eprang up m the tenth or eleventh century, sccmiugly spontaneonsly. In most greai epochs g':‘f;l;::l:;i:i;y, the sge precadiug them orewarning of what we may cxpect. But in the fenth century the civilized mfl_ lgmwe dupfi:{ dnr!;ncas. lI:ly and struggling to form a language gnt Of the discordaut elements of the Latin aud abarisn langusges. Spain was immobile and :‘u;rmm under the thrail of Arabisn power, flded though the cham of thralldom might beve been; Germany was, perhaps. just ro- {cdug in the possession of “tho Niebelungen the ot all the pave endured chivalry is 0ne comprehensible. ‘ed, and England had just been united under M‘Ef:‘mfiot: l:n Allxred. With a:onh 3 dx;k bori- e language was and rapid- I grew into prorainene. - o ¥ ° lhgh;ummeunemem of the twelith century, the time of the firs:_crusades, the Romance ue wad emplosed in poetry, romances, and b tions; andsermons too, were preached and s published thorein. Tibyme was borrowed R e Latn, or possibly the Arabic, s gram- e ‘;lé established, and this constant and varied b Itdx:‘a oew tongue gave 1t a flexibility which « th pted it to poetry and the expression thont. Solter emotions. From that time until 5t the close of the thirteenth ceptury, sy 0UrS were 28 numerous as butterilies in Bac pogyd their inflnence becsme 80 great vejooles aud ings joined thei rapke. They cad trom Court to Court, from country to veaiyynd when they stopped gathered” the ““dma wisdom, and the besuty, ot the cities = em. Though they induiged, not mu- by, n satires and religious odes, yet Ofien h:t‘sh THE DURDEN OF THEIR BONGS. ng s bhey composed what were called ten- ravely dislogues in verse, in which two by ‘ours took part, each extolling the casrms * on;mzms. To some lady or to the King Tos g2 left the decision, and the victor i, tly was rewarded with s laurel ] !01‘,& Bome more golid mark of the approba- i loid or audience. Chivairy bad already, ,,,m“'h degree, raised woman to ber rightfal { houor aud homage, and the influenco tents pradours was alzo sdded to still further €%, and extend her power. As wowan Leh A4 2UDremely interested in matters of nfln.,m" She thus gradually came to bave an g o2 i the decisions of those numerous Queetions which unavoidably would spon- Yol pe Mt in matters of love, or which BegyyeufRested partly by the effect of the Ty spurit of the ‘precediop age, partly by £ H ements snd dietinctions constantly abnormally quickened intel- tme g those who had devoted their Rbjetp) Mtention to the study of such oy From favipg an interest and influ- Yomyy (g0 Matters, ‘tho stop was shoru for MWS. 8Topate to herself the right to give Tthey EE = 2nd thus, not improbably, wers still vty o 0%€loped the characteristics of those Yagy s rbich we have undertaken Lo write. » "; the courts of love mentioned in the 485 of the troubadours ac in those of their Among them are the court of court THE LADIES OF ‘GASCONY, of Viscountess Ermengards of Nar- ity v“lnfl that of Queen Elonors, iaon glgg lenry VIL of ¥raoce. Regy enjoyed the presence of one of ™ %mm.l., and ic ig said that Laurs, who lm‘_mimmonmzed by Petrarch, and her # Joy;o® Wembers of that court. The number vy far gentlemen seldom were made Ty oSBTy 0 constitnto s court was vari- %mg.': 1ot often less than ten, snd e i 3 Wore very proliz, and given Iy, E:lgl ‘:t the formality of s judgment at By Bave been weighty in proportion 0 Mmm”"fi un“ who acted as judges m Wact theds judgmants or decrei readored g » 3 :dl::dfiz‘;’ Ty %d wimblbn feclings of tho ges, ere mude subses vi Tulcs called the 1vient to a set of . * coDE OF LOVE,” which seem to have been_ quite generally fol- loned a8 suthority. Tho decisions of one trib- uwal wero also, to somo degree at Jeast, rogard- ed us precedents for another in a similar case. Queen Eleanor, in giving a reason for one of her decisions, said : ** We dare not oppose the de- cree of tho Countess of Scismpagua, who has already pronounced on & similar question.” Anpdrea Capellano, & chaplain at the French Court who tlourished about A. D. 1170, wrote a work in Latin, ** Da arte amandi ot di reprobatione amoris,” which gives the rules or *~Code of Love,” and the time aud manuer in which they were found. This ancient chroni- cler relates that a Dreton koight had traveled into a forest in search of King Arthur, when e waa met by a fair damsel, who told hun that she lnew the object of his search, which could not be obtained without her aid. She also toid him that his Jady had directed him, as a test of his love to her. to find a falcon which was perched -on tue summit of a pole in the court of Arthur. But, the damsel in- formed him, it was necessary for him to prove by some knightly contest it tho ladyof bis choice was the most beautiful of all at Court. After mauy romantic adventures, according to the worthy chaplain, the knight found the fal- con, but was told that he must also take a book coutziving the '*Code of Love,” which was at- tached to tho pole, and publish it in the name of the King of Love. The knight did as directed, aud the thirty-one rules so promulgated becamo the laws of the cuurts of love. However it may be as regards this account of tho origin of the code, it 18 certain that there were THIRTY-ONE RULES which served as the basis for tho government of these courts, aud, as they are not easily Lo be found, we give a freo trauslation of them in their order: 1. Matrunony is no legitimate excuso against love. 2. He who does not know how to conceal can- not love. 3. No one can love two at the same time. 4. Love always either increases or diminishes. 5. What a lover takes from an unwilling giver will not be relished. G. A man should not love except he be of full 2ge. g‘l. A surviving lover is obliged to remsin un- married for two years after tio death of the be- loved. 8. No one, except for a reasonable cause, ought to be deprived of love. 9. No vnecan be io love unless be is compelled by the power of love. 10. Love flies from the home of sn avariciovs person. 11. It is not fitting to love any one whom it ‘would be a shame to marry. 12. A true lover does not desive the embraces of the beloved oxcept from aifection. 18. Love rarely Jasts when divala 14. An easy aliaicment of the dosires renders love contemptible ; diiculty causes it 1o be re- garded highly, 15. Every lover becomea pale in the presenco of the beloved. 16. A: a sudden appearance of the beloved the hear: of the lover bogius to tremble. 17.” A new love compels the old to flee. 18. Uprightness alone makes suy one worthy to be loved. 19. If love grows less, it quickly dies and rarely returns to Lfe, 20. A lover is always timorons. 21. From true jealousy the ferver of love al- ways increases. 42, A suepicion concerning the beloved once having been entertained, the zeal and passion of loviug increase. 93, He sleeps and eats less, whose thoughts are engrossed io love. 24 Every impulse of the lover ends with the thought of the beloved. 25 A true lover ouly thiuks that plessant which will please the Leloved. 26. Love can deuy nothiog to love. - A lover canuot be satiuted with the charms e beloved. 28, A reasonable snspicion compels a lover to suspect evil of the beloved. 29. It is not natw:al to love one grossed in eensunl pleasure. 30. A true lover i assiduously and constantly engaged with the idea of the beloved. $1. Notlung provents one lady from being loved by two knights, mor a knight by two ladies. The troubadours, theoretically, regarded love a8 8 passion which wss only to be gratiied as far as was consistent with honor, and they de- clared that thoso who_sought love for curnal pleasure were blind, and without judgment, and ought to be banizshed from the court of love. Andies 1l Capellano also sa:d, in his trestise, thatno one ought to bLe in love unless bic re- garded hovor avove all things. Tnis rule he declared was in times past regarded as binding, but that in his day mon bad 60 far degenernted tnat they did just the reverse. Unfortuuately this accusation was only too true, and Andrea himself is said, by & contemporary writer, to have been extremely dissolute in his course of life. TIIE SUDJECIS OB QUESTIONS which were the basis of the contests were very diverse, and ofcentimes fanciful, and it scems as though the acme of ndiculousness was reach- ed when we find a company of ladies and_geatle- men aitempting to decide which waa the most convinciog evidence of love—an amorous glance, asqueeze of the hand, or a pressure of the foot. The Countess of Champague, 1n reply t0 & ques- tion aa to whether love could exist between bus- band and wife. decided that it conld not, be- cause lovers in their relations to each other were always governed by good will for each other, 2nd never compelled to do anything, while mar- ried persons wero compolled to give up to esch other, in every rospect. Therp conld. morcover, be no jealousy between them, without which no love could exist, accord- ing to the old rule of love. Ilg who is not jeal- ous cannot love, The same judge had a proto- type of Longfellow’s Miles Standish, upon whom to paes judgment—s sccretary, who, having been emplosed a3 a messenger between a lover and bis lady, broke faith, and succeeded in winning the lady for Limself, and the decision was that the falge lover, who had found a lady so suited to him,—oue who was not ashamed to be & party to such ' treachery,—should kecp the lady, if he pleased, and she him, but that neither ehonld ever have any other lover, nor ever enjoy tho rivileges of the Court, nor title of Emght or ady—emnce be had disgraced the honor of chivalry, and sbe had shucfully declined to one who was only & messengor. ANOTHER QUESTION possessing & more immediate interestin the presaut day, decided by the same Countoss, was, What things could a Iady lawfuily receive from her husband? Lo this the reply wasthat she could accept bodkins to part the hair, love-kuots, \rreaths made of gold or silver, buckios, or belts, mirrors, purses, Tibbons, combs, gloves, rings, spices,and pretty little vages,and, generally speal- 1ng, any small gifts which wero adspted for the adornment of the person, tbe enhancement of the besuty of the face, or which gerve as a keep- sake and memento of the lover, But no mift was to be accepted which raised a suspicion of avaricean the part of the giver. TIE VISCOUNTESS OF NARDONSE was asked tho rather delicate question s to whether,if a lady,bavingbeen honorably attached to & knight, should marry, she would be obliged to deny her firat lover his accustomed favors, to which she replied that tbe suparvention of the nuptial bond did not rightly exclade the first at- tachment, unless the lady deired to whally re- nounca love. ANOTHER AMUSING DECISION depending ou oue already mentioued is the fol- lowng: A knight was deeply in love witha Iady who wss, however, engaged fo nnother: ehe promised to retura his affoction if sheshould cease to love the first. Shortly after, however, sho married thir first lover. The rejected suitor domanded the favor, wiuch she refused. on tho ground that she had not lost the love of ker firat Tover, and subsequent husband. Quoen Eleanor, to whom the perplexing question was referred, held that she could not overrule the decision of the Countess of Scismpagna, who bad solemnly pronounced that true love could not exist be- Tween husband and wife, and she should, there- fore, decido that the lady must accord her prom- ised favor to the knight. The following will be found consolatory to those who find 18 dificult to always worship at one shnine: A happy lover asied permission of bLis lady to pay attentions to anotber far one. Leave was given, and his_attentions wera for & time transferred to another; but he soon re- turned to his first object of affection, who, how- ever, indignantly repulsed him, claiming that he bad rendered himself nuworthy by asking and then socepting such a pornussion. Queen Eleanor, hawaver. favored tho follower of Bng- bem Young, sayimg such is the nature of love! Oftentimes lovers pretend to desire other bonds to prove their fidelity and constancy to the ob- ects of their affections. To refuse their ove or caresses for such a pretext would transgress the laws of love, at least beforo it is certainly kuown that the lover has failed in his duty. Modern Enoch Arcens may find rest unto their troubled souls by the decision of the oft-menticned Countesa of Sciampagua, who deolerod that & iady, although Dbaving boou abandoned by her lover, who bad wadertaken & long voyawe. and never wriiten to her, was not jue:ified in sccepiing a mow love, since she ia not justified in lesving hLim until he be proved 2o be unfa: "t he f3et taat ho did 20k 5end losten or saesagas oould be explained who is en- on the ground of extreme prudence and care to prevent the knowiedge of the intimacy becoming known.” But time and spaco forbid a more extended mention_of these curious questiona -and decis- ions, and we Lissten on to THE SAD CATASTBOPHE which in the thirteenth century devastated the Jand of this gay raco of Undines, closed forever the courts of love, and gave to doath the hap- less race who created them. The unprovoked and most whuman war with the unoffending Albigenses, the horrible massacres, and the sub- jugation of Provence to tho fiorce Charles d'Anjow, were the leading causes which ex- tinguished the Provencal language, and com- pelled the muses to flee from & land of carnage nu;l‘ desolation. But, though their fate soems sa Through the agen oe incrossing purpose runs, And tho thoughts of men are widancd with the prog- ress of the suns. ‘They lived in and for themselves: they form- ed their thought on no model, imitated o style, but spoke in a simple manner the instictive out- pourings of the heart.. They died and loft no mark, but Through the shadow of the globs, we aweep intoa younger day. Through their mistakes aud shortsightodness can we learn that only by availing ourselves of the wisdom of all pust ages, only by living for a purpose, can we make & mark upon the sanda of time that will not be obliterated. Conpaccro. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. A Four-¥iill Tax Recommendecd—It Will Produce 81,275,290. An adjourned moeting of the County Commis- sionors was held yesterday afternoon, Mr. Ash- ton in the chair. ‘I'he other members present wero Messrs. Johuson, Jones, Russoll, Clough, Busse, Herting, Bogue, Lonergan, and Reelle. THE TAX LEVY. The report of the Committes on Finance, fix- ing the tax levy for the ensning year, was read, a8 follows : Your Committee on Finance, having had under con- sideration tiio financial affairs of the county, lwg leave to submit the following estimate of the Amount Te- quired to be lovied on county taxes for 1674, belng & mills on the dollar valuation, and they therefore revommend ihie udoption of suid estimate dud the fol- lowing resolutions : ESTIMATE—OLD INDEDTEDNESS, Intercat on $2,439,000 7 per cent war bouds. . reerrensaneen e $172,150 Intercst on §33,0007 per cont bouds issued to Lic Tressurer of the Grace- Iand Cometery Improvemeut Fund, 2,310 Interest on $250,000 7 per cent Pul Bunlding Funds.... . 17,500 ———§ 191,90 YOR COUNTY PURPORES, Circuit Court, salury of five Judges..$ 17,500 Superior Contrt, sulary of three Judges 10,300 County Court, salary of one Judge... 7,000 35,000 Insane Asylom. Poor Houso. County Ag: Ot-duor relief, ouwide towiis. Siate tutions, care of p County Hospital, Connty Ageut. e Clerk for County Superintendent of Schools. . . 's cle: Per diew aud mileage, Board of Com- miissioners, .. Clerk of Board of Commissioners. Coroner and Deputy. Tloads und bridges, Contingent expenses, Errors, abatements, tc. Interest on $333,000 7 Eor o Sinking Fu of indebtedness incurred since the 8tk day of August, 1670... Grand total............ .. £1,205,2 Resowved, That the sum of $191,940 be, and the same is hereby, levied as 8 tax upon the taxable property,, Doth the resl and personal, in the County of Cook, for tho purpose of paying iniérest on the indebicdness of the county existing on the 8tl: duy of August, 1870, us 6ot forth in the foregoing estimate under the bead of #old indebteduoss " ; and Fesolved Jurther, That the sum of $1,083,550 be, and the same 16 Lereby, lovied a#atax upon the taxable property, both real and personal, in the Couuty of Cook, fo county purposcs, as set forth in the forego- ipz ostimate under the head of county purposes mnounting in the aggregato to $1,275,290, Commissioner Bogue said, in making out this appropriation, the Commiitee had been guided by the expenditure for the different institutions, and the appropnation made December, 1573, in.:ing ten_months up to tho st of Octoler. t year $100,000 were appropriated for the In- sano Asylum and Poor-House. During the ten mounths §75,000 had been expended for tho In- sape Asylum and $49,000 for the Poor-House. Upon this basis the aggregate for twelve months Liad been arranged, sud the Committee bad gone through all tho items in the same way. The report was unsnimonsly concurred in. ELECTICN JUDGES. On motion of Commissioner Lonergan, William O'Brien and Herman Lincture were appointed Judges of Election for the First Preciuct of the Twontieth Wurd, in the place of H. Raskey and S. Blazoly. RECORDER'S OFFICE. A communication was_read from Mr. White, owmor of premises_on Fifth avenue, offeriug room for the Recorder's oftices at a rent of 4,000 per annum. Commissioner Lonergan moved to refer the matter to a sclect Commiittée of three, the Chair- man to be one. Carred. The Chairman nominated as his colleagues on the comuittee lesars. Lonergan sud Johuson. Commissioner Clough moved to instruct the Committee to sdvertise for propossls for the offices, but the motion was laid on the tablo under the rules. After transacting buosiness of mioor impor- tance,the Board sdjournad to Mondsy afterncon. CRIMINAL NEWS. CRIMINAL COURT. Judge Moore—John Keenan, convicted of driving away horso and buggy; was relesced. —November torm will open to-morrow, with Judge Booth on the Bench.—Tho new Grand Jury for the term will be sworn in to-morrow. TUSTICE COURTS. Justice Bouvden—Andrew Gobert, arrested for assaulting Edward Hitland, at the County Hos- pital, about the 1st of last month, with & pair of, shoars, with intent to kill ; held to tho Crim- inal Court in bail of $1,000.—Anthony and Lowis Morgan, arrested for robbery of 870 from Josoph Gruonhut ; held to the Criminal Court in bail of $500 each.—Friday Moore, arrested for tho eamo offense; continued till the 3d inst. in bail of 500.—John McLane, arrested for the larcony of a horso and buggy from . F. H. Gardiner; beld to the Criminal Court in bail of $400.—William Jones, arrested for digorderly conduct, fined $25.—3chacl Fitz- gerald and James Johuson,arrested for assauiting officers Mclninerny and Kelly at Bridgeport Fri- dsy afternoon; committed withont bail tll the 10th inst.—Martin Bonfeidtand William O n, arrested for aseault; continued till the 4th irst. in bail of 2500 each.—J. H. French, arrested for disorderly conduct ; fined §25.—J. H. Campbell, violating sewer ordinauce ; continued till the 7th inst. Justics Scully—Jobn Ssatry, and J. B. White, srrested for throwing three-card-monte; fiued £100 oach, and sentenced to the Bridewell for ninety days.—James Murphy, arrested on the charga_of larceny 28 bailes; beld to Criminal Court in baul of $300.—JerrysLorden, arrested for burglarionsly onteriug the coal oflice of Miller & Leibenstein; held to the Crminal Court iu bail or $1,500.—Maurice Hagerty, and George Arlington, arrested for barglariously en- toring the house of Joseph Hogan; held to the Cruminal Court in beil of $700 each,—John Har- ey, arrested an a warrant for larceny ; continucd till the 7tn inst. in bail of #700.—Joseph Zeni- scheck, arrested for violating 12 o'clock ordinance; fined $20.—Louis Rathesck, arrested on same charge; continued tiil the Tth inst.—Hermana Zigler, arrested for violating fire ordinance ; contmued till the th ivst,—James Martin and Harry Howard, ar- rested for an attempt to commit robbery ; con- tinued till the 4th inst. in bail of 81,000 each.— Petor Lawler, £ddie Bowen, Teddy Twohey, and Louis Rosenbarg, arrested for burglariousiy eatering the gon satore of John Batler; con- tinned till the itn inst. in bail of $1,500 each for the thres firat uamed, sad $500 in the case of saulting George Starr with 5 desdly weapon with intent to kill ; continued till the 7ch inst. in bail of $1,500. — Same, , arrested on second charge ' of @ like »ature on com- puaiut of Christisu Zsckman : continued Gill the 7th inst. in bail of 1.500.—Charles Baruessy, a-rosted for disorderly conduct ; fined $20.—Pafrick Foley, arrested for the Iarceny of & pair of boots belonging to August Griestman ; held to the Criminal Court in bail of $300.— Frank Norman, armrestod for the larcony of clothing belonging to_Eliza Miller, of Racine, Wis.; beld to the Oriminal Court in bail of £500.—P. Dykmau, arrcsted for cruelty to ani- mals; continued {ill the 7th inst. in bail of §.00.—John Hader, arrested for violating fire widinance; continued till the 7th inst.—John Mitchell, arrested for plaving the ‘confidence pame; held to the Criminal_ Court in bail of 3800.—James Murphy, arrested for the larceny of clothing belouging to Edward Knowles and Sandford Deitz, at No. 189 West Kinzie street; held {o the Criminal Conrt in batl of $300. —Thomss Hassett, arrested for the larcenyof a horse and wagon belonging to William Griffin ; held to the Criminal Court in bail of $500.— Joseph Lewis, arrested for assault with a deadly Wweapon with ‘intent to do_bodily injury; con- tinued to tho 4th inst. in bail of 3500. Justice Eaufmann—Fred Meyers, arrested for disorderly conduct; fined $50.—Charles Condor, arrested for same offene; fined $50.—William Toley, alias Bulger, Leld to ths Criminal Court in bail of §1,500. ESCAPED. Agnes Stuart, the young woman whose arrest on the chargo of larceny, in purloining_articles from the Palmer House, was mentioned yester- day in connection with ber severe illness at the Central Station, escaped from Police Head- uartors at 2:30 o'clock yesterday morning. fficer Hall was in charge of her, but, having passed several sleepless nights, fell aslocp, sup- posing thst the woman was too ill to require much watching. It ia feared that the prisoner has committed suicide by drowning, for she was 10 an ineane state dunng the night. Detectives have searched closely for ber, without obtaiuing any clew of her whereabouts. Station-Keeper Rickey is in no wise to blame for the woman's disappearance. MISCELLANEOUS. Arrests—William Lee was arrested yesterday aftornoon by Detecuve 3lcGarigle, who found him 10 poseession of a new dark-mixed Chin- chills overcost and a Lorse blanket, which he waa endeavoring to sell for a trifling sum. The property is at the Central Station.—At 12:30 yes- terdny morning, while Officor Ringrose was traveling bis beas on Loomis street, noar Mon- roe, his attention was attracted by a noise in & stable in the alloy in rear of No. 519 on the last- named thoroughfare, and, on ruoniog to the spot to inquire the cause, two young men started and ran. He ordered them to halt, bat they did mpot heed him and he fired a shot at them. The roport of the pistol brought Oficer Esrly to his assistance, and they overbauled and arrested the parties after the latier bad endeavored to retarn the fire, aud failed to do &0 because of defective cartridges. The prisoners gave their names as Georgo Arlington and Morris Haggerty. Thoy had broken into the stable with the evident in- tention of s:ealing something, and Liad thresten- ed to shoot a young man named Henry Nutt, who was aleoplug in it. SUBURBAN NEWS. NOBWOOD PARK. The sociables at the residence of Lenox B. Shephard, Esq., Fndsy ovening, under the auspices of the Reformed Church, was largely arlended. An interesting and amusing feature of the entertainment was the old style of dresses, ete., worn pursusnt to request,—ladics appear- ed in the styles of the seventeenth century, and in the fashions of almost every succeeding gen- eration. The gentlomen also did themselves credit in the variety of fashions displayed in their raiment. This feature was very arusing, and added greatly to the enjoyment of the occa- sion. The mext sociably will bo held ot tho house of Jobn F, Eberhart, Esq., at which music will be made the principle featura. WOODSTOCK. The theme * Honesty " will be handled at the Eaptist Church Sundsy evouing; consequontly all are invited. The oyster-supper given by the ladies of the Congregational Church at Deacon G. F. Barrows' Friday evenivg was a flattering success. Toe church was algo open to receive guosts, snd & very plessant time was had by all, "I, J. Dacy has broken the ground for a mew brick biock in the burnt district on the South Side. It is to be three stolies in height, 48 feet deep. and 21 fect front. When completed it will be nsed for & wagon manulactory. The McHeury County Teachers’ Institute was held at Woodstock last week. There were over seventy teachers in attendunce, and the interest manifested throughout canuot but result ingreat good to tho causo of education in McHenry County. ‘The dramatie society organized in this city decided not long ago to present to the public the piece entitled, ** Blow for Blow,” but at the 8t rehearsal one of the *‘stars” used the box- ing-gloves with such efect that the balance of the company bave been laid up for repuirs ever since. A mew piece is to be selected. OAK PARE. The subject of geveral interest to-dsy in Osk Park will be the dedication of the new aad ele- gant church-building of the Congregational So- cioty, situated on Lake street, and in the most accessible portion of the village. The building is constructed of stone, and its oxterior presents & beautiful and massive appearance. The entrance to the cburch is from the south end. Tho vostibules on the first and second floors are large and elegant, being 16 feet wide Dby 55 feet long. The audience-room is renched by two sfair- ways, and is 55 feet wido and 61 feet long. At the south end of the audicuce-room is & gallery, the dimensions of which are 16 feot by 55. From the tloor to tho ceiling, which is most hand- somely aud_elabcrately Trescoed, the distance is 38 feet. The scats are arranged n eenceutric Tines, and are made of black walout, aud neatly upholsiered. The windows are large, and have massive mouldings. The glass is stained in such & manner a8 to produce the most pleasiny effect. The seatings in the audience-room wi easily sccommodate 550 persons. The interior finish of the room and the architectural design of the same are pleasing and imposing. On the first floor of the bmilding aro situated tho lectare-room, two parlors, infant class-room, kitchen, and_the pastor’s libs . _‘The lecture- room 18 45x55 feet, sud furnished with chairs. With it are connected the two parlors, and by menns of folding-doors the three rooms may be converted into oue large room when occasion may require. The ceiling of the lecture-room and parlors is frescoed, aud the finish of the rooms is in keeping with that of the remsinder of the building. The pastor's study is connected with the pulpit in the sudience-room by means 3: a stairway, and with the lecture-room by & oor. ‘The ladies of the Society have farnished the carpets, cusbions, and the pulpit furniture, at a cost to themselves of about $1,600. The hoight of the steepla is ‘156 feet, snd the weight of the bell is 2,500 pounds. Thecoat of the lot and building was about §47,000. Mesu:s. J. W. Scoville, 8. E. Hurlbut, and the Hon. H. W. Austin have constituted the Building Committee. ‘The bmilding and lot are held by the Ecclesiastical Society, a body co-ordinate with and including the church, and whose officers are J. W. Scoville, 8. E. Hurlbut, George Eckart, H. W. Austin, 0. W. Herrick, Trustees; F.D. Sherman, Clerk and Treasurer. The Congregational Society of Osk Park was organized in 1863, with 13 members ; 208 bave since united with the Society, 72 have removed elsowhere, and 6 have died, leaving st present a membership of 143. Three pastors have minis- tered to the Society; tue Rev. C. E. Dickinson, now of Elgin, from 1863 to 1867; the Bev. U. W. Fairfield, uow of Monros, Michigan, from 1867 t01870. From 1870 to the present time the Rev. Georgo Huntington, the present psator, has ministered to the Church, and by his faithful- ness and punty of examplo has endeared himself to bis people. Among the members of the Church are some of the wealthiest citizens of Oak Park, and successful business men of Chi- cago. The present officers of the Church are 8. E. Huribut, A. Ridell, G. E. McNeill, A, T, Hom- ingway, Deacons ; W. ¥. Furbeck, Clerk and Treasurer, The dedication will take place this afternoon ot 2:30 o’olock. The following will be the order of the exerciees : Beport of (thBolrd of Trustees, vmn, Responsive rudlng;:f l;un.lmld xxiv and cxxdl. terlude. Prayer of Dedication by the Rev. George Huntington, Iuterlude, Hymn, Reading of Beripture, Dedicatory sermon by the Ker. E. P. Goodwin, D, D., of First canmnggn:l Church, Ohicago. yer, Hymn. Beuediction,- In the avening at 7:30 o'clock s wnion praise speakers will be present to make short ad- dresses. ‘WHEATOX. Bome of the workmen employed upon the new echool building were recently injured very so- verely by a fall. The Sunday-schools of the town of Milton have effected an organization for the purpose of more efficiently carrying on'their work, which will be suxiliary to the county organization, The officers are E. D. Bailey, President; P. W. Stacy sod N. E. Gary, Vice-Presidents; J. Buusell Smith, Becretary. Committees have been ap- ‘pointed to visit the different schools in the town. A meeting of the organization will be held Fri- day evening. A Republican mass-meeting was held at the Court-House Thursday ovening. The Hon. Sid- ney Smith was present and made an address. Other speakers were present, and a genaral good time was bad. Tho political excitement in Da- Dpage County seoms to contro upon the election of a Steriff. For that office thera are three can- didntes, Walter 5. Wilson, Republican; Jobn Kline, Opposition; and Robert Tator, Inde- pondent. - Euch candidate thinks his chances for olection best. 1t is thought that the business men of Wheaton won!d need only about two_ordi rooms in which to traneact tno entire business of Chicago. As an example of their ecopomyof room the room known a8 the Post-Oflice is an excallent one. In it is a bank, a book store, a news-depot, a brokor’s oflice, & Justico's office, a notary public, an insurance office, s Bible depository, & doctors office, a drug-store, & real estate agency, and Iast, but not least, s Post- Otfice. this same room. 00, are gotten up all sorts of caucuses, meetiogs, and schemes, It might be thought that thix'room is {all enongl, and that in it can be found evervthing to maie life desirable and pleasant; but no. There is a gloom sbout it, & something that engeuders at once a feeling that something is wrong, that something is wanted to make up a complete world. The editor of the local psper seems to think that he has discovered what that some- thing is, and has made application for room for his printing-office. The first quacterly meeting of the Wesleyan M. E. Cburen commenced yestorday at 2 p. m. ‘There will be services to-day at 10:30 s. m. =nd at 7:30 p. m. M. C. Hazard conducted s Bible-reading at the Wesleyan M. E. Church Friday evening. The trial of Matt Rickars, for illegally selling intoxicating liquors, bas boen delaved until the 4th inst. on account of Mr, Rickert’s ill health. A musical concert wili soon be given by home talent; These concerts have, in the paet, been liberally patronized, and will doubtless receive the encouragement which they deserve. F. J. Gary, of Westeide, Ia., is viciting rela- tives and friends at Wheaton. Mrs. ). 3. Goodel! has returned from her tour to Omaba, and thinks her health has been im- proved, LAEE. A meeting of the Lake Trustees was held in the Town-Hall, yesterday afternoon, with all ihe members present except Colwan and Tabor. In the continned nbaence of Preeident Tabor, Mr. Montgomery was zgain called to the chair. After reading and spproving the minutes, allowing several bills smounting in all to $354, the report of the Commitee on Water and Gas, to whom was referred Hequembourg's fifth eatimate, was asked for, but, a8 Colman, whois Chairman of the Committes, was absept, they were aliowed further time to Teport. On motion, the bids for water-pipes 18 adver- vertiged were opened. The bids 2s opened are as follows: For water-pipe, per ton, Farrington & Branch, $75.54; Chasles C. Webster, $57; R. A. Abbott, $30; F. 8. Wood, £60: C. E. Hequem- bourg: #60.75: E. Meson, $56; A. Lake, $00. A bid was also submitted from the Northwestern Gas ood Water Pipe Company, offenng the Wyckoft wooden pipo as follows; $-inch at 50 conts per lineal foot ; G-inch at 83 cents, and 8- inch at #1.10. For the laying of pipe as per specification, the bids were as follows: Farrington & Branch, 321¢ cents ; Charles C. Webster, 379 cents; K. A.Abbott, 29 cents ; C. E. Hequembou: 2,35 cents; A, Holstein, 20 cents; E. Msson, 321 cents ; A. Luoke, 45, On motion, the bids were 1eferred. Thie bids for several other improvements were also opened and referred. A lotof mioor busi- ness was then transacted, atter which the Board sdjourned. 1n connection with bide opeued, aa reported in the above meeting, it would be well to compare the prices Hequembourg is at present getting for water-pipes snd what he offers to do ihe same work for in his bid submitted yesterday. In this bid he offered to furuish pipe for $69.75 per ton, which, alongside the sums Le been getting, allowing & fair average, is at the rate of &151 per ton Iaid in the gronnd or simply delivered about $140 per ton— overdouble the amount asked for yesterday, show- ing that competitionis s good thing. Hegquom- botrg claiws that the price of iron was higher wheu the conuract was signed than it 18 now, buc weil-known iron-dealers gay 1t is not so. Let tne people ponder on this, and blame all to tho old Board. The new or tho preseus Board nct rightly in letting contracts, and are not in_favor of allowing contractors twico the worth of a job. The fire-alarm telegraph line has finally been started, and by acotiser wesk it is expocted it will be in condition for the tramsaction of the businees it is intended for. The contract for the live was let to the American Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph Company of New York and Chicago, the cost to be $160 per mnile of single wire, and #210 per mile of doubls wire. ‘The alarm boxes, the same 28 used in Chi- cago, will be furnished at §350 esch. Thae fol- Jowing places will be supplied with the alarm boxes, but a8 yet no definite system of numbers has been adopted: Town-Hall; Vailaca and Forty-third streets ; Statestreet, near Forteth ; Forty-seventh and State streets ; Fifty-tirat and Wentworth svenue ; Fifty-nioth and Wentworth avenue; Sixtieth and Wentworth avenne; Wright and Sixty-first streets, and near the Nor- mal School. . A mecting of-the Republicans was held last night at the car-shops. The meoting was ad- dressed by tho Hon. Sol Hopkius, member of the State Legislature from thut district, George 3, Bogue, tue would-be momber, sod eeveral oibers. Another meeting of the samo party will be held at Englewood to-morrow evening, at which, in additiou to Hopkins and Bogue, ' tho Lake voters will listen to Sidney Smith, the Con- gressional candidate from the First Congression- al District. The Oppusitionists held their meet- ing last night at Heury Schoare’s Ten-Mile House. In the Btock-Yards Precinct over 800 names are registered, and that, in addition to the (00 which Englewood has mansged to geton its books, will make times lively m Lale Tuesday. It ia generally sssertod that the number of votes caat will not be less than 1,500, 8s it is known that a large number of citizens, either throogh negligence or ignorance, have failed to register. ‘The Oppositionists claim that their ticket will be carried by & large majority at the Stock-Yards, enough, they say, to counterbalznca any majol ty Englewood mayadd to the Republicans. It is only o matter of conjecture, however, and there is very Jittle doubt but what there will be considerable scratching. The long-promised water test will at last tako place. Friday is the day set for the display of the powers of the Holly system of water-works, and the Stock-Yards is the placa. This is not & cortainty, however,—Hequombourg never says anything for & certainty,—but it is confidently “ipectod that the telograph line will be com: pleted far enough to make use of it, and, ifit 16, the water will squirt from ten nozzles at unce, néar tho Transit House. On the following day it is arranged to have another display at Engle- ‘wood with the same tests. —_————— Failure of B Communistic Experi- ment, New York (Oct. 28) Dupatch to the Lostrn JournaL A svecial duspatch from Whiteball, N, Y., says: The attempt to form au association of Commun- ista on the Island of Valcour, in Lake Chaum plain, bas, aa might hava boen anticipated, sig- naliy'and’ ignominiously failed. It was made without reference to any well-settled for- mative principle, and was, it is claimed, a shrewd scheme to make a poor farm of 60,000 acres productive by hoiding out inducements to immigration in the form of com- manity of goods and community of persons. This whole magnificent esite, the nursery stock of which alone Alr. Shipman, the pruplaor, pretends to valoe at 560,‘0({0. is worth but_about 8500, Three years ago Shipman paid £7,600 for the property o the island, and the “Homestead " is perhaps worth between $2.000 and $3,000, and o this there are geven or.eight families, worth perhaps $7 or 38 apiece, they having gone thither for the se of casting 1n their lot with the Communigia. The father of the community is Col. Jobn Willcox, who has just returned frous the West. He h2s boena student of Communism as at various times it has appeared tn Americs “sod other parts of the world, but is _incapable of profitiog by the failure of the Moorhouse scheme, Which was tried in Hemilton County, New York, some thirty years ago, and of which thia Valcour schemo is an almost exsct repeti- tion. All the persona who wers enticed $o join the Valcour Island exmmmt have now become dlsgusted with it. It has no religious feeling to nity has, and nothing to act asa substitute there- for. Icis perfectly natural for it to fail. The people are now moving away from the ialand, and 1t is thought that in a few weeks not more than eight or ten persons will b left there. OUR HUMOROUS POETRY. Lowell says tha ** True humor is never divorced from a moral conviction.” Inveatigation shows that, while sentiments of beauty and humor are incongruous, morality and humor nearly always coexiat. If the latteris genuiue, it utters hu- man instincts and has blood-warmth. Eolian sentiment and the quiverings of worn-out nerves are raison d'elre for 80 much modern’rhyme, that ‘what is matured by the air and suashing of com- mon days should be as welcome 88 wholesome. Lives doomed to ceasleas activitiea and sordid calculation, cannot always be healthfully fed by scientific truth and sombre reason. There should be sunny hours, in which rich resulte are reaped, through the consciousness of pure enjoyment. Rbythm is not sufficiently an undress for broad humor; the mood must flow free, heroand thers, a8 water finds its course. Still, there is & certain pleasure in the contrast between funny ideas and poctic array, es in 8 rosy chud strutting in its mother's gown. Our literature of this kind is more promisiug than abandant. Fitz-Greeno - Halleck and Joseph Rodman Drako were our first writers of serio-comicpostry. Together they wrote poems satirizing men, man- ners, and New York City lifo s balf~century ago, which, through numerous local allusions to what is now obsolete, are unenjoyable to-dsy. Dr. Drake left few poems. These, however, evince a delicate, rapier wit. Halleck was en- dowed with sentiment and fancy; but the influ- ence of Moore and Byron pervades his writing and his surface-blosgoms thrust no deep roots into human pature. His naturally sertons mind made Lis poetry more burlesque and mocking than bhumorous. He haslefta fow earncst and charming poems, but his brillisnce dazzled and led him astrsy. He wrote lively, graceful vers de sociels, 28 3 man of the New York world fifty yoars since. In “Faony” he ridicules the beau-monde of the period ; the poem is smart, lightly sneering, but diffasive, stretching purposcless through 1,200 lines. Fanny's fatber *nussed hiy earnings” till he could “set up in Hanover square;” and his daughter fed, in dreams, on * social splen- dor and success.” The goal attained, sorrow and ruin a8 quickly overtake them. Misa Fan- ny's linguistic attainments are thus catalogued: She cousa spesk French and Ttalian equally well ‘As Chinese, Portuguese, or and, What fa atill more surprising, she could spell Most of our longest Engliah words off hand ; Was quite familiar with Low Duteh and Spanish, And thought of studying Modern Greek and Dazitsh, While outwardly the father *“trod grandsur's pinnacle,” *scandal hinted that cash was scarce with him, and credit altered.” To roassure tha worid, & great party is given: Some five hundred cards of invitstion Bade besu znd bella in foll costume appear. Tnere was a moat magnificent variety, A1 quite select and of the first society,— The arbiters of fashion and gentility, In different grades of splendor, from the hesd Down to the very toe af our nobility. If the following verses outline the manners of the time, wo rejoice over » grest improvement in the behavior of the best society : g It would be A violation of the Iatest rules To treat the sex with to0 much couztesy. The zectlemen— Lounge in gracefnl attitudes,—are stared Upon, the while, by every fair one's eye, And stare themselves in turn ; are prepared To dart upon the trays, as swiftly by Tho dexieca: Himan Lears thom, acd totate eir share, at least, of coffes, cream, and cak, 1 2w to b tho ton. i Tis now the rage To deem a rong like bugle-notes in battle A signal-note, that bids cach tangus's artillery rottle. The next day, *paymeat is stopped,” and father and daughter sink into obsounty thi h soveral hundred lines. ~There is in Hm‘u poems no humor resulting from permanent con- trasts in buman nature; all is shifting sad evanescent as a bubble. More than twenty years sgo, James Russell Lowell gave our. literature poems in an in- digenous dialect, and by these laid tha basis of his subsequent popularity. The first ** Big'low Papers” were written during the Maxicsn War. Toeir shrewd Yankes inaight exposes the cun- ning greed hidden beneath aragged clozk of boasting. National weaknesses reveal them- selves in 8 most Daive mannor. It 18 carious that no dialect, however awkward, can degrade digoity and nobility of sentiment. The portraits of demagogues Who impress on the poppylar mind The comfort an’ wisdom o’ goin’ it blind, ot anawer to the life. The Honoruble Preserved 00 8aYS : The fust thing for sound polititians to larn is, That truth, to dror kindly 1n all sorts o harnees, Muss be kep' in the abstract,—for, come to apply i, You're ept to hurt some folka’ intereats by ir. T willin’ a man should go tollable atrong in wrong in the abstzack ; for that kind o’ wrong- Is otlers unpoplar, and never gets pitied, Because it's & crime no one ever commitied, Through all these poems the sacred, Puritan convictions are enhanced by the racy, homely idiom. There is a tender, pootic mysticism, and Jove of Nature, blended with satire and Yankeo shrewdness, in some of the later comic poems, ‘We kmow how Ploasure doos make us Yankees kind o’ winch Ez though 'twuz sumthiu’ paid for by the inch; But yet we do contrive to worry thrn, Ef Duty tells us thet the thing s to du. Itis pleasant to hear the world's beauty de- seribed in_common phrases, and to feel that wearers of cowhide boots are stirred by the sweet revoalings of tho poetry ensouling nature and ife. We acknowledge the brotherhood be- tween the former and the post whosa rhymes aro perfect time and measured melody. The latter 18 most valuable to blinder spirits, since, a1 800n a8 aught awakens its proper feeling, the “tvirtuo has gone out” of it, thoagh there may have beeu no word spoken: Our spring gits everythin’ in tuze, An’ gives oae Jeap from April into June: Then all comea crowdin’ in, afore you think, Youug oak woods mist the side hill woods with pink} “Che cat-Lird in the Isylock-bush is loud ; Tha orchards turn to heaps o rosy cloud ; Tt coders tossom 1, though ferr folzs inow 1, An n sunshine, like s poet. C m:' “"ff’;'“‘:’.““ wwith quiverin’ wing Clim! inst the breze with quiverin’ O givint away .13 i mock deapalr, e Runs down 3 brook of laughter thro' the air. Lowell's comic writings are calm, strong, and healthy in sontiment, and profitable studies in language. The worth of words is revealed by quaint spelling (siuce the Yankeo diatect objects to overdraping its ideas), ‘John G. Ssxe is a moralizer, apt to sea surface- snggestions and conuections of opposites ; ho is more satirical and facetions than humorous. His picces nearly all leave on our minds & sense of effort. His longest poems must be ephemersl, gince, when passing customs are satirized, the wit bocomes less apparent as tho years o by. Miss McBride " was written in 1846. Ths re- verses of & soap-boiler and his prond dsughter aro related. Asin “Faong,” there are hits at {fashionable frivolities, and 8 home-thrust at our most vulnerable national affectation : Of all the motable things o earth, The greatest one is pride of birth Amongour “ fierce Democracie,”— A bridge acroes s hundred yedrs, Without a prop to save it from sneers, Not even a couple of rotien Peers ; A tiring for laughter, flouts, and jeers, Ta American Aristocracs. # Progress,” a poem of 480 lines, of which 400 have at various times boen: quoted, 18 full of felicitous language and facetions wit. Saxe writes for amusement, and he amuses. His place is unique, sud there ianone among onr wits to dispute it. The long poems fatigue, since “”“’“fi“ folly is not always a pleasant pastime at which to sssist. Excessive sharpness wounds'both object and apectator. due meéasure to literary women, - Who write lyrics, heoiliess of the scorching buns; Dress up their sonnets, but neglect their sons, ‘His classic pua is good : Eu-ryd-i e coied aa Toud a8 loud conld be, In a place where nobody rides at all, Among the best satires are thoss in “ The Devil of Names,” Who cheats by falso graces and duplicate faces, And by hiding bad things under plansible phrases, Is the wa 34 To think it, snd. = ity pure B oo Vio. “The Cold Water Man ” and * The Briefless Barrister " aro the beat samples of punning and facetiousness. They are perfect in cheir kind and manner. For a time, Baxe, Lowell, and Holmes, were the only writers who wero at all successful in oomic . Ouiver Wendell Holmes is genial, rdxg\agrt{l{omtmly sad when he is not jest- iog; radiating, his humor, ripe, sunny, 15 niian samnar. Ho i nover Sipgaat, 4ad Saxe motes thaw Saxe; shough the two latter are off i tew compared, ‘yet the resemblance is more, in Jemification than spirit. Sympathizing with Suflering bumanity. for “hearta that break pod (Eive mo sign” his medical lore | hasbreda tenderness.’ For this reason, he ia perhaps our truest humorist; the dimpling mils and the tear appear togother. The physi- cian pities bidcen sorrow, and the wisdom of hia craft leads him to aak whence and whither. Ha ia that anomaly, a reverent doctor. Like a par- ;l;ls{:lrxilflg\gug]the {):owerlu! trials of Lis child, logly and apeaks ches long tho plesssat hours. £ he m’;fiuuv s Learned the art of arts—to dine ! (Nature; indalgent to nur{d;.ily b Kund.treated motber, taught s al 10 feedy— He can also can talk after dinner; in festival poems he is imcomparable; his phrases e smooth and graceful, and affcct us like a cordial. Ho is_seldom sutiric, but has well hit &The Moral Bully ” who * baits his homilies with his Drother-worms.” “The Stethescope™ song is & ballad for the profession. Here ia a little good advice : Don't catch the fidgets; you has Just in the focus n? a n:i\'al!l !::‘:,ma FHsTice Fretful to changes and rabid to discuss, Fall of excatement, always in 2 fuss. Think of the patriarchs; then compare 28 men ‘Those lean-cheeked ratriarchs of the iongue and pen, **The One-Hoss Shay,” *Contentment,” and the class-songy, equal any prescription for ro- storing a0 cquable fiow of auimal spirits. Bret Harte and Jobn Hay form a separate class among humorists. Bret Harteis a true poet, whose alert sympathy divines the tratha Mlustrated by all nature and life. In his best poems, his bumor portrays noble souls in whimsical forms, aud our smile is not contempt, but - pleasure, for we ara honored that humanity draws one breath, By eatire, on the contrary, shabby woakness is clad in her garb, which should adorn high-soul- ed actions, and then wo repudite the brother- hood of man. Beliwtling skepticiem ‘wearies 3 we permanently enjoy what exalts appreciazion of our knd. The poems which are most popa- lar, and which Lold the fallest and finest flavor of Harto's gouiug, describe men of the Far West, whose manuers aud speechsre pungect aad aromatic, like their resin and pines. The hard strfe for existence has thero stripped naked the surfsce of humsn voices, without uproot g tensciows bumen sympachics. In “Flynn of Virginia” we recognize the bond of brotherhood, warm and vital. ~ We see him in the tunnel, aud free honor, through him, shaggy, borny-handed men who shoulder pick and shoval, being assured that lnightly blood yet flows in knightly veins: Tbar in the drift, Back o tae wail, 1l hield the timbers Ready to fall, Theu in the darkneas 1 Leurd bim call, Bun for your hifo Juke, Dialect poetry is a vigorous outline-drawing of picturesque humanity, done in broad, telling strokes. In “ Chiquita™ sud othars is evident a dreadful apathy concerning tha value of a human Iife, which is_eugendered by a social state n which necessity canzcs overestimate of endur- ance in man or beast: - We came to the ford, and Cuiguits Bucklad right down o Ler work, xnd afore I could ook satar Jee ot e ford, and there was th J et at the for was and me stan ot g, And twelve-hundred dotlars of horss-flesh afloat and. A drifum’ to thunds er, ‘What did you say ¥ Oh[ the neyey Drowned, I rockon ; lsestways, he never kem back to deny it, Of humorous poems not in dialect, “The Lost Galleon " ranks first. - The lines dow easily, and. one is wafted to ths zone of calms and lulled in the repose of a far past century, where Under the equatorial Just where the Exst and West are ons, You'll find the misaing galleon, 3 Riding the sess, with sails all set, Freah aa upon that very day Bho sailed from Acapuloo Bey. Hare the galloon waits to gain the missing day, *lost on the trackless, boundless main,"— tho day sacred to her patron-saint, which in 300 ears she will save, and x-emrz‘a‘§ “‘in the glow of setting sun,” to Acapulco Bay. Johu Hay is kin to Bret Harte in stvle and Both perceive, in the stern. rocky un- derstrata of mankind, bare of verdurous graces, outwardly bard and pitiiess, golden veins thresd- iog in iron-bound darkness this human waste. Tney disdmn to refine this nztive ore, sod offer it unsifted and unameliod, erimy and ehapeless, for acceptance or refusal Contrasted with onr overpolish, it msy bave » certain piquant value, though the lesson abides that qualities has an i value equal io all men. The father of *Little Breecbes ” says ** he don't go much on religion ; he dqu't pan out on the prophets, and free wiil, and that gort of thing;" but believes in ** God and the angels since one night last apring.” The rude words flash full on us the unressonableness and futility in creods of more refined apeakers. Loug search reveaiing no trace of his lost child, the hopeless futhor pravs ** down on his marrow bones,” and afterward finds 1n a sheep-fold ** Litele Breeches” chirping *‘for his chaw of terbacker.” The ensuing profession of faich bes trays this profane speaker kindred to 5t. Augus- tme and all holy men. Abont h3 shaggy, Ao~ kempt head is revealed feith's aureols. He does not elegantly, like AMrs, Browniug, say, * Around my weakness, His comploteness; around my rextlessness, his rest.” No. This is the phrase- ology : * How did ho git thar ?” *‘The Angela.” ey jist scooped down and toted hum to where it woe 8afo and warm.” *‘And I thiok that savin® a little child . . . is adarued sight better than loafin’ around the Throve.” This man’s hard, not overclean hand has, nevertheless, » fi;ht grip on the immutable. This tattered raiment of words discloses fig- ures of noble proportion. Jm Bludso, who *‘got out of tho habit of living like yon and me,” was bratal and profsne; but “ e nover flunked, and he never lied;” ** Ireckon he never knowed how.” Chevalier Bayard might be proud to receive such praise. 7Tnis mau’s Titan pride and reckless daring sealed bis doom ; but, in tte midst of the fiery horror, * they &l bad trust in his cussedoess, and knowed he would keep his word.” He weren’t no saint, but at judgment I'd run my change with Jim, "Longside some pious gentlemen that wouldn’t shook bands with him. Theologyis hit alike by missiles from strect and Jaboratory. The sum of our real possessions is small, and we will havo none waich human ex- perience has not assayed and minted. “ Ho secn his duty, and went for it thar and then,” as did Sir Plalip Sidney. * And Christ ain’t a-goin’ to be too hard on 3 man that died for mea.” In the bamor of Harte and Hay there is a residunm of moral effect ; the grotesque trucery vaniahes, and the moral is plainly seen. Genuine bumarists are rare. Purity aod af- fluent sympathy, and a cordial quality alien to our stern, Puritan linezge, belong to the humor- ist. The epirit which denies"” (the spizit of Mephistopheles) sces in tho incongruities of human fate subject for satire and scorn. ' Homor 88 keenly aiscerns this unsymmetrical destiny and its incompatibility, with the noble forces en= gaged; but it can smile, knowing the fleeting nature of this unfitness ; while sarcasm1s bitter, because the future offers it no ample dues for the present. 8. C, et gt Scemly Jollity. The following fun is reported in the trial of the Rev. Glondenning for the ruin and death of a femalg of his flock : “Mr. George P. Howell, called, testified_thst he knows Mr. Glendenging, :ud knew Mary Pomeroy. “+1am an Elder of the church. connected with it sinco it was orgat anaso thst thero was an impression < sregation leadenning was engaged to Mary Pomeroy. Glendeuning i o me that'he made a present to Mary of s gold watch, chain, and I think bo mentioned sleeve-buttona. 1 remember his reasons for giving her the watch ‘as that she was tardy in attendance. 2ad ha wanted her to know the time.’ [Exclamations of surprise from the Iadies.] . +Dr. Tmbrio— Did he give her the chain for [Great-lsughter, Glonden- Have been Iwas the same reason ' ning joinicg in.}" Voters in Germanys The whole nuwber of Parlismentiry electors in the German Empire is 8.500,000, but of these only 5,250.000 weut to the polis at the last election. The Bismarck partyis known as the party of Natiopal-Libe: n% out of the 5,250,000 men who voted, ooly 1,600,000 sup- ported National-Liberal candidates. ' Next in strength to them come the Catholic yoters, tha members of the Centre party, and thess at the inst clection polled 1,560,000 votes, or within 50,030 of thie numbers of the Bisroarckians. The Progressists polled 480,000 votes; the Con- servatives (vho on many guestions are atome with tho Catholics) amounted to 375,000; the Socialists and extreme Democrats numbered 870,000; the * German-Imperialisis ™ aod the ** Liberal-Imperialists " together polied 400.000; and the Particalarists ana Nationalists—Poles, Danes, Alsatians, and Lorrainers—had 430,090. Some of thess 2re also Cathoucs. o Some of the Boston morslizt who are a shade hypercritical about what plays thay witness, g0 to ses ‘‘The Now Xag " “Lecause i is * founded ca a Bibla story,’ % £