Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 8, 1874, Page 10

10 THE CANDIDATE. Epitome of His Trials and Tribulations, The Representative of the “Power- ful Nationality.” Securing the Support of “the Comic Weekly. Interview with the Influen. tial Citizen. Necessary Contributions to Church Fairs. The Minor Ils. The man who *‘1ung” for an cfiice and gets it earns the honor—if it be, w.der existing circam- stances, sn bonor—right dearly. In the first . place, ho loses much cash ='ia the next, his peace of mind; and, lastly, whstever litule faith in the goodness of humanity the wilesof a wicked world had previously left inhis heart. Virtually most men wonld much rsther encounter the desdly chances of actusl war than face the mental horrors of & political campaign fora ibig ofice.” The candidate has, first of all, to fight his own party foc the nomination. Asina ‘Yorse-race, there are numerous entries, but some of the contestants sre withdrawn after their “ holding-out " capacity is tested and passed pon. Nearly every man has some kind of A ““RECORD." 4 Happy s the politician who is not thus provided. It e comes out without s record he cannot be asssiled, unless a8 & nonentity, which is not a bad character in_ politics, as will be readilv seon by examiniog the intellectual credentials of seversl of our existing public officers. If the savdidate bus a ‘‘record,” ho may be too heavily weighted therewith to mako & good steeple-chase, especially as the *jumps” on the political course are sure to be numerous and *‘sufl.” Therefore, Lis record drops him. The party needs s *strong” man, and must have him, in order that be may carry the small fry of the *‘scalawag” order on bis trinmpbal car. Every point in the history of every caudidate is thoroughly discussed. Hiu family-traditions are closely scanned ; his code of morals is sbrewdly descantedupon. _He msy drink whisky galore ; e may.cuise and swear, play faro, aud have s knowledgo of bunko, too; ail this is of ro account in pohitics. I'he ques- tionis: Is he geunerally available, and has he mouey 2 ™ THE CONVENTION. ‘The day of the nomiosting convention comes sround. Apart from the delegates, there assem- bles & crowd” of * wire-worxers, —myscerio persons, with brows * villamously lo dyed 'mustsches, red Dbair, and aw- ful squnts, — who _ hang around _the hall, and Lielp'to ** mavipulate ” the divers dalo- Emions. The voting 18 proceeded with. One )y aue the candidates are slatghtored, unti, finally, the contest is brought down to a * fine thing * between two or three hard runners, Thex it become & givo and take. German eays Irishman : * I'li vote for gour mau if you'lll yote for mine.” *Agreed,” savs the son of Erip, and the next ballot makes the Irish candi- date the winner. The second place goes to the German representative, and the Americans—if on the Opposition side—are tailed off on the ocouaty ticket, sad allowed a show in the Con- gressional Distric:a. The nomination over, the successful candidste is 1immediately surrounded by & host of very desr friends, who would bave ‘cut his_throat s moment before, * the bloody chasm " ia bridged over, aud tho party unites sgainst the unfortunate persons Who have been 8o unhappy u8 to receive 8 nom- ination on tho other side. INSTRUCTIONS.: ‘This fairly insugurates the campaign, and the candidate is duly placed “in the hands of his friends.” The awful responsibility of his po- . sition 16 then imprepsed upon bim. He must be extremely cautious in his ntterances ; mast cal- tivate ** the dives "; must see * the captains.of the mess "™ ; must visit every doggeryin towa; mast fawD upou everybody ; must snske every band, po matter how ; must bear to be whispered st by every rowdy, no mat- ter low intolerable his s g breach may be; must be prepared 10 smoke * cabbuge-leat cigars ;” to swill sour beer; to writhe beneath the tortures of rot-gut; to ex- change vows of eternal friendship with every msudlin drunkard in the alums of every ward; must laugh hysterically at execrable jokes, and 8TID approval of base obscenity ; must ackuowl- edge tho public virtue of gambiers, bummera, {oafers, Lurglare, sneai-thieves, pickpockets, snd proprietors of ** drunk-factories ;" must make promises which he knows it will be im- possible to keep; must turn backa block to Overtake and shake hands with a man whom he bad passed by in 8 burry ; must employ a corps of dead-beats to keep other dead-beats from Joing for the other candidate ; must nod to eve man he meets, giving the scquaintauceship the benefit of thie doubt; must be *bail fellow, well met " in every saloon, and always keep say- tug, Boys, come up and diivk with me.” Aleo, be must forpet to take back any change from the bar; he must po into every prociuct of every ward, into overy townsbip of the county, aud there solicit the suffrages of *‘tue people.” This is ovly & very incomplete list of the duties Incumbent on a candidate 1f Lo mesns to wir. THE ASEEKSMENT, As the contest proceeds be is duly assessed ™ by thie ** Ceutral Committee.” The moderate sum demnanded {8 €1,500. 1 be paysit hemay be banuk- rupted. If Lie does not pay i, he is sars to be \bounced” from the ticket.” Finally, he pa; the amount, and fondly hopes that his financial troubles are over. Na such thing. The fall is the great season for . * cronen’ Fams.” Tho latterand the election-campaigns go hand In hand. Wuat religion could never accomlish, fear of loat votes wil. The candidate must ** come down with the_dust” to the prous ladios ¥hio run the bazaar. Ho must alioy his pame to be used in a bogas contest for a gold wateh ora gold-Leaded care, out of which he is generally ++euchered” by 'some obscure pot-hotso poli- Liolan, who brings all bia “mother’s people ” to “wote” for hiy benefit. This worries the an- fortunato candidato ; but he has to keop on give ing. Thero are seveial more: fairs. Ho must attend them all—he must contribote to sil Thes are ingatiable. Young ladies solicit him to take ‘*a chance™ ina wile engraving of some antediluvian saint, who bas bhis * big toe™ de- Ppreeed, 1n the act of crushing an Irish toad out of existence, dow cau herefuse? An old lady makes Lim give something toward hor table, anq 303t goes, »a mfimtam, THE INDEPENDENTS, But now comes uuto bim another great terror. Beaching home at dsylight, ho thiows himseir npon his couch, abd hopes Tor 2 brief ropose. The vauity of mostalsl’ © Ding-ding ” goes the door-bell.” A manmust ses the candidate, snd sanoot be denied. He is the President of an + Independent Club.” "It is an organizatian formed on tho plan of tha - primove) mercensries. It i5 & corcs of | yirtaal “Dugaid Dalgetties,” without Dugaids roughi and ready sendo of military honos, 1; s juedged t0 no party—kmows no political creed, and is, simply, in the market for sale. It is o crouchung, erivcing, meau, pettifogging, slimy, corrnut, tish-blooded thing, without henrt, ani lmogt without head. It ia & political vampire that sucks the blood out of all parties, Tt is 5 political prostitute that sells virtue, and Louor Tor gain. Thia is whiat an * Independent Club facags. Tho President thereof is shown up to the candidate's room. Tuo sleeping parcy, nae ils Yoused. feela liko pitclung the 1ascally o imder .out of the window. but he remembess 11 Boeition. nod temparizes. The Presdont of e L. C. say8 : ** Wo havo 300 votes 10 ciub, Ve bave ssosned you 3200, Day gt and i goes your hmar:n"omTti!lnkaL Refuse, and wo o’ e wretahed i Erosus, but is compelied to ' donate," ::‘:ldfl:lt; g0as the human vampire to bleed som other Vicum, INFLUENTIAL PERSON ‘Then comes the tarn of infigetial Persons," Lo taust be seen, a3 who 1nvariably trasy 1 candidate with & very high-nosed ang Patroniz~ jog air. Heissorry for the candidaty beresy him, but there is 8 very strong man » againgt him. and e 18 under obligations to the Gupe muscalar person. This—alax, for buman natire ! —is only 3 bid for “stamps.” Infnence » s ‘oommodity. and is in the marker for sale about electicn times. The seller may be 2o Aldertnan, controlling 100 votes; he may be s Communistic shoemaker, controlling t.hmnul,-kmulx and two Journeymen ; he may be a boss drain-digger, * controlling” twen= ty yotes: he mav bea saioon-sharper. having upnder his rascally domination a dozen sots, ready to vote for tho Devil himself for a glass or two of forty-rod. In cither case, ** Monoy makes the mare go,” and the candidate has to bo “liberal” " Dut this is licht compared with the claims of TRADING OBATORS. Tho Iatter are very numerous. Thaey ars, generally speaking, & corse to their em- ployer, and lose him infiuence instead of goining votes; they aro often dircy littlo wieiches, without any visible moans of support ; sometimes crack-brained old fellows, Bourbon Democrats aud Bourbon drinkers, senile, idiotic, and hopslessly corrapt. 1t makes no matter, they must be employed, or they will go sround town cursing the candidata for a g Hint, and predicting awful things for * tne ty"” 1t he should be elected. Their months muat be closod with greenbacks, for to allow them to speak would be doubly ruinous, and 80 our can- didate is blod agun. Perhaps the worst of all this class is the man who approaches tho caudidate 28 the man of power among A PECULIAR NATIONALITY. Every ove must have noticed that. es the eve of an election draws near, the different minor nationalities suddenly find out & thing which they bad hitherto unhappily ignored,—that the; were being politically disrogarded ; that s lac of union was all thal was wanting to make them & mighty power in'the city, and that mass-meet- ngs sbouid at once be Lield at which the Italians, or tho Bohemiaus, or the Swedes, or the Han- gatisus, or the Huns, or Mougoliana should ouco aud forover ussert their digbity and become a mighty political unit. The men who gec up theee mestings fire the heart of their naturalized follow-countrymea by appeals of tho most ktir- ring description, but, if they ssid what merv reaily meant, it would sonod pratty mach as fol- lows : *‘Come together, my broher Boliomians ; promise to vote as we direct you, and we'll seli you to the highest bidder and pocket the pro- coods.” I'hrs is competition 1n the busmess, how- ever, and tlia is parhaps the only kind of trade which is not improved thereby. A disappointed oftice-sceher, who hzs got over bemoaning s fate and can now laugh st his woes, gave & TRIBONE 10porter yesterdsv & full description of an iuteiview ho had before the untortunate Tuesday with an Italian saloon-keeper who proffered Liim. fcr s consideration, nime-tonths of the entiro 1talian vote in the district he lived in. The iaterview took piace at the residence of the candidate, and is worthy of reproduction. Italisn Vote-Controller—sir, I sam the Conto di Humbuggia. Ikeep s saloon at No. 236 — street. L call myse!f now plam Mr. Humbug. It sonnds more Ametican, you know. Candidate—Oh ! It does, does it? Well, Mr. Humbng, what can you do'for me? Italiar: Vote-Coutroller—Of course you have beard of me before—tne groat [talian leader, I hold in my hand GU0 votes. Thev are yours. I have watched your career for years, and now 1 give to you my intluence. To-moirow the Conte di—Hum—plain Mr. Humbug, if you hke, will 1ead bus 63U votes to the polls, Candidate—Well, really, Count, I sm much obliged, very much obliged. The italiaus are s Dation who have always bad my highest regard. Let me seo—the Italians are, sl—descended from tno Romans, are they not? I'm a little off on geogiaphy, but it wasu's the Groeks, was it 2 1talian Yote-Coutroller (with much diguity and three additional inches)—Sir, the Italians are Romans. Candidate—Why, certainly! Romans to the backbone! Of course—Rome's_in Italy. Why didu’t I think of that before? Yes, sir;the Romans, 88 s nation, always had my best ro- spects. Ialways thooght s good deal of the Romsns. Atthe siege of Troy they bohaved thiamselves nobly. 1've read sll about that; bave 1t at my flugers’ onds. Why? lsn't our President calied after the great Koman General Ulyzses, who sailed to Gsul and sle'v tne Vandal Haonibal with his own hand? Garibeldi's a tine man, 100 & very fine *specimen of s soldier. They tell ma he's bard up, though. Ab, yes! the Romens are the fit progenitors of tie noble Italan race. Got some very fine churches in Rome, 1 believe, Itattan Vote-Controller (very grandly)—St. Petei's is st Rome! Candidate—Ah ! St. Petor's. Quitea charch, I've nodoubt. Often heard of 1t before. By the by, what denomination is it ? Presbyterian? Epuscopalisn ? Metvodiat ? Really, I've forgor- ten. By-the-bye, what's the ministor’s name. Italian Vote-Controller—lt is the Church of the ighty Pontiff, Pio Nowo ? ‘sudidate—\Why, of course. How foolish of me to torget. Quite a haadsome old gentleman, too. Saw his portrait at the Lxpouition the oth. er dny holding up two tiogers aud smiling quite pleasantly. Preaches au excellent sermon, ['ve no doubt. Hy-the-bye, do vou know *what bhe thinks of the Beecher scandal ? Ital:au Vote-Controller (very offendedly)—I do Dot, sir, and, Dow that you have showa Low deep 20 Interest you take in, and knowledge you pos- sess of, the beantiful Italia, let us return to hus- iness. AsIbefore said, I control 600 Italian voes in this district. Caodidate—Which you very kindly place at my disposal ? 5 Is%mn YVote-Collector—For tho emall sum of Candidate—$81.000! Why, Count, what a fig- ure! A thousund dollars!” 'Why, tha: would be bribery and corruptivn. Come, now mencion a lower figure. Bo 1easoneblo. Itelian Vote-Controller—Tho. humbugeies at their viila in Itulis stcop not to haggle. For £500 the votes ate yours, Ceodidate—Five” huudred dollars! Must I buy the votes of free and independent citizeos? My sentiments revolt sgainst the idea. Come, n0w, be reasonable. Itahan Vote-Controllor—That is less thana dollar 8 yote. Say £230, then. Candidate (who hopes to get the Count to split the differcnce)—L'll give you $25. Itelian Vote-Collector—Cash 2 Candidate—Cash. Italian Vote-Collector—Done, The money is paid, and the Count leaves the house smiliag, aud the candidate begins to wou. i der just Low many votes the 25 will bring him. THE CARICATURIST. Another cless of men who seck to shars the 8poils of elaction, are thoss unfortanates in the uewepaper profession who, inuoriog the fact that success in that line can oily be obtamed by dint of workiog good brawe very bard for. a loag time, £zek (o Tise suddenly to ominencs on the wings of & comic paper. There is nothing sad- der in the worid thau to waish the efforts of & man who is balf & humorist and conceives hym- solf to be & whole one. It 18 not 50 bad whou he confines hia quips and puus to his own acquaint- ances, and ia satistied with their 18ppreciation, or can smile complacently ot their non-apprecia. tion of Luis sallies, but when one of these wafor- tunates who can go 80 far and no furiher, who cen make ooly & sickly imitation of tho ‘man- Derisms of an ackpowledged humorist, rushes into print at his own expense, Lo spoctacle is painful in the extrome. There ougbt to be a law, similas to that sgamat suicide, for the proven. tion of comic popeis whose reading mutter rudely keeps thwariing the intentions of tho publisher; but, a8 there is not, the publisher and tho public' have tv euffer. There is & time, however, when a faint glesm of hope arises in the breast of the semi-Tunny newspaper man, sod thst iy election time. Thoa ho e ju his glory. Iv the first place, there is the comic writiog and cartooning that whick he has Dot had 2 sight of for some time, money. e feels that now bs can find some one to pay for his puns in roady money, and give him. UABD CASH FOR HIS CABTOONS. He conceives a new entorprise {n tho witty Iine, sometbiug entirely Dew—sgomething which when it appoars will oclipsa the powers of Charinari and Punch, and make Mark Twain and Breitt- mann's flashes of merniment road like O11 Bcbool Presbyterizn sermons. « The only thing Deeded to earry the enterprise into effoct is & ublisher; oly means of procuring & pub- islier, & politician. Tuere Lave boen not & e of such papers in Ckicago. They spring up like tbe gourd in the night, and die of dryness befora their infancy is fairly commeuced, Their ex treme mortality is the only good thing in thom, but untortunately their proprictors surviye, They live loug lives in bope, and 20 atmosphers of stale jokes, and die in despair with a bad pun +8pon therr lips. Thera are too many such 1her, 1n Cuicsgo, and it was cze of them who cajled Tecently upon tho same candidate with regand to supporiing Lim in bis great humorous paper. ‘' DER GOMMIG WEAKLY.” The Interviewer was tpare young man with s meénnchol&" l;ld bilv.lfy“!l cast of countenance, 8nd exceediogly seady clothes. subject as foliows. HLe opotiad: Ui Professional Humorist—T have called, eir, to geoif sou will bo pleased, during the ‘coming campaign, to accept the support of my paper, Der” Gommig Weakly, a Lhamorous-political et determined upon.—aud the culiivag test rtyle of Americo-Teutonic wit -:::'}‘:gtmg:-u Candidate—Americo-Teutonic wit and by | Wll;;;‘doen ‘b?tfim“n ? g . Professional Humorist—Oh! the happy blend- ing of the Amertcan school of wit unpgybxl::gr acd the peculiar English which our German citi- zensindulge in. It eanily dome. Firat of sl Jou make your foke in English, and then change the words, That's easily done, t00, when you Onoe get the hang of it. Changs all ypur 18 to @', vour p'a to b's, your w's £27's, your v's to s, your 8’ to sb's, nse the plaral where the singular 14 meant, write ** yah ” for yes,” and the thing is done, The work s quite easy, and the cffect is immenso. Wby, do you kuow, I somstimas make English jokes which, first of all, do not sound & bit funny, but when I pnt “dot” for uat,” and * yai " for “ yes,” and *pooty” for pretty,” thev read a8 2s the best. Candidate—Well, 1ain’t much on humor, and T doo’t soe just how your paper could do me any ood. < Frofessional Humorist—Sir, are you not aware of the fact that a good joke may win an election ? And then boaides the good we ao you, think of the harm we can do your antagouisi. We can pun upon his name; we can hold him niln & thou- sand ridiculous lights ; wo can print his portrait with & squint, or with an ass’ ears _cropping out from his e we can cartoon him; we can write acrostics on bis name. There is no such Powar at election-time 23 humor, and that power propose to place at your dwposal. Der Gom- mig Weakly will probably influence 10,000 votes at the coming election. Caodidato—Well, I suppose you want me to give you a little support,—to buy a few copies of your paper every Saturdsy. Professional Humorist—I have propared a list of charges for our work which I think will be quite satiafactory to—shareholders. Caudidate—Shareholders ? Prolessional Humorist—Oh yas, of course you will bo expected to_take sbares in my euterpriso if yon wish to enjoy the poltical power of humor. I have got you down for five shares out of fifty at $100 each. I retain twenty-four shares for brain-work. The rest is granted to political candidates who may wish to pay me for snp- vorting them. My scale of prices is as follows ;. One_one-line pua, com: subscribiug candidato. One_one-line pun, casti; r ridicul non-subseribing cendidate, .. Ono three-line_joke, laudatory of sub- SCribing Ca0didate, .. onvessees.nrr Oue threo-line jose, aunihilatory of non- subscribing candidate. Ono_acrostic, setting subscribiog candida The same, showing up subscribing candidate, Ogo portrait, Idealizing th suliscribing cundidate. 8 One partralt caricaturiag Won-subscrii: ing candidte, ................ Extra on tho same for & squint.. Extra on the same for pimply nose, Extrs on tho same with both o sbove and & general air of inebriety thrown in ... 0 on no; “y 100,00 N. B. Tho clurges far resding-matier will bs doutied whea the Amarioo-Teutoalc siyle of joke ia order datory of Candidnte—It seems to me that your charges aro a liitlo heavy. Still Ithink I will take the sharesand doa little advertiving. By-the-by, my oppopeut’s uame is Short. Cin't you get up something on bis name ? Professional Humoriat—One of the best names in the world. 1 have thirtesn differont paus on that pame. I'll use them all before I'm done with lim, and if that don't win you your election n_oLh;ug will. When can I receive your subscrip- tion Candidate—Whera is your office ? Professional Humorisi—\Wby I haven't got an oflice yor: but your &8 wiil secure me a priuter and his office will be mine. Next week Der Gommig Weakly will appenr. Till then Mr. Caodidate farawell. 1f the caudidate is a lucky fellow, he may bave a oupla of huodred really honost men around bim, vhodo most of the really work. ThAZ donot bore him by asking money; they do nol crowd axound Lum like blue-bottls tlies around a Ppiece of carrion; they do not seek elevation at bis bands; they work for him because he 18 really a good fellow, and tho best man on either Licket; but tho decency of thia select body- uard is porerally overtooped. and, sometimes, obliterated by the scurvy crowd of wretches chat fatten on the bones of public men. Life 18 too short~much tooshort--forany man torua foroffice more than ouce or iwice, ss Tim Braaley, Jack Stephens, and others have discovered to their cost, as others will yot discover, should they bave the temerity to riak their peace of mind in anotber contest for hooors shrouded in corrup- tion, perjury, fraud, rowdyism, bribery, baliat- box stulling, bogus registraiion, repeatiag, goug- ing, enouldor-hitting, Iying, and genesal seoun- drehsm. Nobody should envy a man who wins an office, unlezs the defeated candidat THE REIGN OF THE PEOPLE. The age of Kings is passing by, A with 1t 7ale by elesgy Brugtitly upon the world thers dswns i Bdvent of the'mase No iouger now, as ipless worms, On subjerts may thay tread, Nor look w.th vilest sorn upon The tears by millions shed. From the long night of § Behold tho taasees wakgy And to their very centre, 10| Tie tiroues of Emplres shake: For Time {a marching graudly on, Acd, in t rapld tignt, Has aliot upon vur race 8 IR Of Educstion’s Lgat. People are going to and fro, ‘While kuowledge is 1wcreased, And, with the ligat of Liverty, From bondage are released : The cries agalust tne commeon school Are upectres from the gr.ve . Of thoss who sought, for weutiah ands, Tue Foople to eusiive. Cold, teartless laws, the instruments Of clauses to oppress, Vanisn before tne People’s claim For awift and just re.iscus: * Ths Sun of Liberty, Names fu the former days thonght great Bhu siok w infamy, Ast, which the lordly Upper Ten Huve claimed as theirw by right, Now stretclies out bar armis Lo bleas “Tue Comumon Peupie's kight : And though no Hepibusis, 1 our day, For graud cathedrais puint, Yet Arc ia Lreer thau of yora From ev'ry impure taint, Stand back, false priests ! relesss your b 4d1 O, rising i their Lignt, The ¥ictimd of your slavery 8ball turn agiin and smiie s In vain on aid of Kings ye call, Or in their strovgth pit trust,— No Monarch's powar can save you frem A retribution just. 036 who have, for ages pust ved the poot with lies, Bebioid your work, ye selfemade Lords, As countleas thousauds rise : Poace! Peacel yo cry, with lifted hands, put ey, asad o v or, ere beaco reign, the'earth ahall grocn ‘With myriads of the slain. ‘What of the night, watchman, and w) "Tliat boom from oror the ses 7 "7 "Tis but the death-knell, b replies, Of failing Monarchy ! But hark! auotiser boom Is heard, Borne on the ocean-waves ; ‘The shackles of thie bondumen fali, And men arise from wlaves, From North o South the tidal wave pFroudly rollivg by s i om peak the mountatn-to Heververutos the ery - P ‘The morniug breaks o'er hill and dale, Ty Wayes And on tha wighty ea ‘While o'er thie gutherin, Tue tiag of Liberty, Forth to the masses’ ref, the world Ta wheeling 10to ue s T ‘While miastrelny of otlier sphares Iu grandly beating times Onward, still onwurd, ues they move Tu this, the Peopit’s day ‘While nation after natiou joins, Columbia leads thy ey Bricks from Babylon and Nir eveh. From a anmmum':nb[un faliht Cieveiand Heraid by W, R, Foaa, Tpon the brick brought by the writer from Babylon is tho standard inscription of Nope. chadoozzar. It given bis name and titles, da scribos the wondera of tho great city, and The inscriptions on the Babylonian bricks are uniformly inclosed in a swmall square, and are Yormed with considerable care aud nicet, . They aPpour to Lave been impressed witt 3. stamp) upon which tho entire inseription, not isolatid letters, was cut in relief. T art, sonearly approscling the modern wveation of prntjug, ia proved 1o have been kuown to the Eyptiacs and Chinere at a very remote period. The Pharaohs stamped their names on' bricks, tne stamp: used being of wood, and several arg pre- served in Enropean collections, But all the in- pressions on Egyptian bricks, unlike thosa of Assyria, are in relef. The Babylonian bricks are of uniform sizo, about 15 inches equaro by 3 inches thick. Tuey aromado of & very tenacions clay mized Wit choped straw, aud burnt hard in a kil They were alwnys laid face downward in a cement. of bitumen 80 Liard a8 to make it almost 1mpos- sible to remove one eutire. Tue Brick from Nuweveh is also rectangular, but omewhat thicker than tho Babylomian, ‘Fhe ineriptions ou these Assyrian bricks aDpear carelees 1n stamping them. On ixia speci tho parallel columns are somsewhat ssegeins tes the impressions are quite distinet. I am unable to givea hiteral translation of the inscription. but presume it 16 of the same general character udo;';lu ;Jl:: {rom Babylon, giving the mame ant o of the monarch reigning a¢ Nine: perhapa 8,000 yoars ago. S RELIEF AND AID, The Amount Which Will Be Required This Winter, . Opinions ef Mr. Trusdell and the County Agent, Reserve Fund in the Savings Banks, Various Amount of Money Expended by the City. Present Condition of the Labor Market. ‘There is perhaps no city in the country which has euch reason to be thaokful for & year’s full meed of blessings as the Chicago of 1874 In almost every respect tho city is much better off this year than it wes lust, even tbe great fire of last July being now universslly ackoowledged to be a blessing in disguise rather than a misfor~ tune. At this time last year the city was feeling the worst effects of the panic, in the shapo of an impoverished working-population, before whose faces Isy the painful prospect of & cold winter andno work. This year thero has been no panic, however, and the only cause to which an increase in the number of sufferers, if apparent, could be attributed wonld be tho natural increase of the city, which has probably 50,000 more population than this time lastyear. In order to ascertain the present con- dition of the poorer classes of this city, and their prospects for tho winter, & TRIBUKE re- porter cailed yesterdsy at threo of the leading public charities of this city and interviewed the beads. Tho first placs callod at way THE BELIEF AND AID SOCIETY, where the reporter mot Mr. Trusdell. Tn answer to a reqaest that he allow himself to be interviowed, Mr. Trusdell said that he had no objection otner than that he had found that an advertisement of the Societs's affairs in the daily press pever failed to produce & rush for relief next morning. = Mr. Trusdell—Of conrse we are glad to ses the worthy poor come, and help thewm all we can, but the class which the newspaper articles send us arethe floating or ccnstiutional paupers, the thieves, brokeu-down bummers, pimps, and gamblors who seek to retrieve their fortunes at our cxpense. I can tell you safely, how- ever, that we have got tho work so eystematized here—onr record of names is 80 perfect—that it is, I may say, impossible for any one to impose upon us. These men come indorsed by clorgymen, merchants, and Aldermen, but I think thiey will 8000 learn that their efforts to deceive are up- avaitiog. Reporter—What do you consider the condition of Chicago to be to-uay 28 compared with this time x?m year, from & relief-sud-aid poiut of view Mr. Trusdell—Chicago ia a great deal better off than she was thiz timo last year. Last year the city was paralyzed by the pauic. This year 1t is & perfect beo-bive, I believe that thers sre st presen: in courso of construction 1,500 housee. Up to winter these all give occupation to large numbeis of brcklayers and outside men. Almost all of thom will be roofed in by winter, aund will then give occapation to a large anmber of finishers. In ths bLurnt district wlone there must 1,000 1 coarse o construction. Wby, ts time lnst yesr I took & drve through tho city, and could not hear a bammer-stroke from one end of 1¢ to the other. The factories were then shuttiog dow, but there 18 nothing of that land to repori, this year. Every day that the fine weatber holds out is worth thonsands of dollars to Cbicago. Money in easy, and pooplo can get the means to complete tHese buildings, and they will all do 80 23 B0on 88 possible, Taks it alcogether, the city waa never at this time of year ic as good abapa as it is at present. ocrter—I am glad to hear that. How 1a the mnpl{;r labor tlus year a8 compared with that of las Mr. Trosdell—Fortunately the supply of labor i8 not 80 large. The surplus of labor whick was left Liete after tte fit, and which persisted in remaining until thelesson of last winter, loft here | in the spring, and has Lad the good sense not to come Eack. _ Reporter—What did they leave for? Did last winter frighten them ? Mr. wdell—V'artly that. bat mostly becanse the prospect of work in tha boginng of tue summer was very poor. Thero isanother reason for the isbor market not being in an overflowing coudition at present. ‘Tho usoal fall imflux of workmon to Chicago bas not yet taken placs, and I Lope that this year it will not. There is by o means (o much work for the workmer that are now here. Reporter—Do you think that the leasons of last winter bave taught the working classes the ad- sautage of preparig for hacd times by saviog up & portion of their summer earnings? . Mr. Trasdell—I thiok thac most of them will not §3ve, DO matter how bitter 2 lesson ther may recerve. 1do not know of any iwprovemont fn this respeet. Reporter—How much money have you got to earry on vour winter's work ? Mr. Truedell—That I caanot tell you, it oot Iy- ingin my live, but I do know that it is amply sutl- cient if the people aro not stirred up to sach ac tion as last winter by tho organized atracke upon the Socie:y's taude by the city suthorities. Reporter—How does the work run now ? Mr.Trusdell—Wearereceiving from twenty-five to teirty applications, and payiug out about” $300 daily. But this is pethaps the least imprtaut of the good dono by tuo Society. There is hardly a bospital or chantable institution in the city which bas not received largo sums from the So- ciety. There are st our disposal beds in the dif- ferent boupitals, a8 followa: Forty fu the Afercy Hospital, 25 i the St. Lako, 25 in the St, Jo. 8epb, 15 in the Women's and Children's, 15 1 the Alexian Biothars', 15 ia the Habnemaaon, and 12 10 the Eye and Ear. Each of theao tables reo. Tesents & gift to tho hospital of $1,000. 'Tho So- ciety haa 8180 endowed ali the Irea dispensarics in the city. It 18 also at present bLnild- 2_15 an 014 People's ome,” which 1 b completed this winter and Lo ready to ac- commodute from 75 to 100 poor old people. This Bouse will be fres to all aud quite nntrammeled by sectarianism. This iostitution is an expanded form of the * Old Ladies’ Home,” Taoe man- ogers of this institution vacated thoir charter and reorganized undor & nevw one, the Relief and Ald Society giving 850,000 to build the new edi- fice, which will bo the finest of its kind tius side of New England. Thus you will see that the work of the Relief end Aid Society cannot be meavured by the statements inits monthly re- port. TOE COUNTY AGENT. ‘The next place at which the roporter called was the office of the County Agent on Canal street. Here he found Mr. Diedan struggling with an army of whitewashers, who belabored tho walls of the large, long room with their brushes as eervatically 1a though they were a committea of investigation prepanng & majority 16port. Mr. Dieden lpolagri)zed forthe (opg’].tmayg:nn- dition of the Agency, but added : Mr. Dieden—The Commissioners Like me to keep thinga well whitewashed. There's nothing Like whitewash to make things look clesa. The reporter could not Lelp smiling at the County Agent’s ingenuous, bue unintentional, eniticism of his superior officers, and began to make his inquiries &3 followa: Reporter—Ar. Dieden, Low do you find your wark this year a8 compared with that of Jasts County Agent—An increass i notod. We have about 600 more familfea on ovr hands than we bad this time last year. TReporter—Indesd. To what do you attribate this incresse? 5 County Agent—~The chief canse is the firs of Iast July. Out of the 600 fanuliea 350 may be put down s being driven 10 us by the fire, the otber 250 being set down 28 natural increase. A large proportion of lhnuagbnlmed out by the fire were of the very poorest class,—Hebrews, col- ored people, Bobemisns, and the liko,—a ;‘gapln with 1o settled means of gaining s Livelthood. They huddled together befora the fire and man- aged to get along, but now they are obliged to WE: o ug, b;ing;cnm:ed :ibonl, rter—To what cause do yon attribute nstahl increass of 250 hmihu’? 5% o County Agent—The general claim of the ay plicants ia want of work. M Heporter—Do you take their word for this ? County Ageut—Ob, ne. I periodicully send visit- ore ronnd to the mlhn%—mflu, 0 McCormick's, Schuitler’s, and other iarge factories, aud also to maay of the amaller factaries, to find out how they are enploying labor, Ifind that they ae THE ‘CHICAGO ‘DATLY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1874--SIXTEEN PAGES. all running with & small complement of hands, and have been dolog so for the last thres months, As far sa I can see, there is no pros- pect of improvement, Raporter—Do you think that the lesson of 1ast winter has had a beneficial effect upon the poor of the city? County Agent—Yes; I beliove that thereare s great mapy who ha id up ttle money im anticipation of hard times this winter, These will not appear ‘here uutil every cent of it is used up. As = general rule we may be proud of our poor. They fight hard against poverty, and do not appeal for re- Lief until hope of finding work is gone. The professioual relief-seeker is getting much rarer every day, the precautions we tako to insura our not being deceived making it very difficult for fhem to aucceed in overreaching us. Reporter—How has the summer been for work ? County Agent—Quite dull; but the people s0em to have, vr%pued for it a litsle by looking beiter after the dollars and cents. Teporter—What is the prospect for the winter ? County Agent—I think the increase in applica- tions will keep on. Tho generslrun of my basi- neas hag’been atendily increasing of late, and I $0e 5o promige of decrosse. 'Chis time last year I was employiog seven assistsats. This yoar I am omploying twelve, and m{ have just as much work as thoy can sccomplish. I do not snticipate say rampus this winter, as there was Inst, Lowever. People are begiuning to under- eiaud that the bard times are not tho fault of anybody .or class in particular, and thev show & disposition fo sccept the situstion mora calmly. This fecling prevails to quites surpnuing extent. Another good feature is the fact that as soon as it becamo _spparent in the spriug that thore was promise of & dull sam- mer, & large pumber of heads of fomilies went abroad to look for work. I know of 250 families whose supporters bave gone elsewhers. Of course this i’cu the families poorly off at firat, but I gladly belped them through until their sup- porter was able to send them mopev. Au eu- deavor £o do better like this should always be Dbo encouraged. THE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU. The next place at which the reporter called was tho oflice of tho Yonug Mon's Christisn As- sociation Employment Bureau ou Fifth avenue, mauaged by Mr. J. 1. Hitchcock. This gootle: mau stated that tho supply of labor was pretty muck the samo this year as usual. In tna eacly part of the Besson the aplications for labor were not 80 plertiful as now. As comrared with fhis ti.ne last year the demand for labor showed s great iucrease. This was mainly due to the ac- tion of the Cuy Council 12 deciding to put down additionsl water-pipes, the laying of which would supply work for some time to = Inigo body of men. Thia job would supply the means of life to the bone and emew cluss of laborers. The rebuilding of the new fire dia- trict would supuly for some‘months yet work to the mechanio class, Unfortunately thers was still ia the city a large intermediate class of men who, while oot mechanics, did not wish to verform fiard labor, These peopls ware always on the look-out for janitor and light-porter jobs, but it was impoasibis for even & wmall portioa of tbem to get work. - Mr. Hitchcock seut men from the city to the country just ss soon a3 he found work for them. Last Friday he sent twenty men to Indiana to work on farms. Last week he succeeded in providing nivety-four men with omployment, and the waek before not less thso 133, He expects that during the year Le will provide work for botween 8,000 aud” 10,000 porsons. o hoped that tiua winter the labor- ing classes would find work in the city. ~Ho "hoped that the work of laying the pipes could ba continued through the culd weather. It might not prove so chesp, bat 2 coutiuuance would prove s giest blessiug to the poor. There was no doubt thatthe hard- shup of last winter bad not been tbrown away upon the laboring classes of Chicago. Hs had lumself noticed 8 greater teodeucy to save in mauy cases, and many petsons who had left tLe city during the summer hid told lim that they would aot winter in Chicago agaun if they coald belp it - TR SAVINGS BANKS. With s view of ascor:aining just how well ¢ Isboriug classes ware prepared Lo meet ths priva- tions of the winter, already at our doo1s, & 'Ta1p- UNE reporter was dispatchied on a tour of investi- gation, which has developed sous interesting statistics, and demonscrated beyond s persdven- tore the fact that the cisss referred to are in bettar condision to go through the winter of 1874 than they were that of 1873. The number of thiose realiy needy was much greator Inat yoar thao this. The cauees which accousnt for this gratilying exhibit are various, but the three principal ressons are : Furst, au unusually warm and pleagant fall, extending to Nov. 1, permit- ting of the ‘prosecation of a large smouut of outdoor labor, which otherwiss wo1ld have Lesn poatponed until 6pring ; second, the expendture of an extraordivarily 6 sum of money by the Board of Publio Works in various improvements; and third, the immeuse reflux from the city of an army of liborars, drawa hatber by various causes from othier citica duning the past three years. ‘There is more work to do; and a le¢s number to do 1t, this year thau last, although wages aro a trifle lower. Laboers in Chicago to-day are men who belong here; wlo Lave made it their bome, and who do not beloag to the trampivg fraternity. They srethrifty, in- dautrious, ard economical. The suiplus of their wages is carefullv boarded, either at bhome or in saviugs banks, sgaiust that proverbial aud iney- itable " rainy dav.” ‘That thev are growing more : couomical every year is shown Ly citing the fact that oat of the eizlteen savings banks m Chica- 80, fifteen of them show a total increase of de- posita during the past yesr of over $100,000, and tins, too, right in the teeth of the paoic and bard times. The fourteen savings banks vigited in Chicago had oa deposit, Oct. 27, 1873, thesnm of §8,471,936.56, and on the same dats in 1874 the sum of $8,573,3.3.95,—an increase of £101,- fD‘i.SD‘ The figures for each bank are given be- ow. 0ct. 27,1874, $ 808,33 3,813,000,00 woenenn..$9,471,996.56 $9,573,399.95 In these banks there had been opened, up to the first-named date, 116,760 sccounts with de- positars. This number, on Ooct. 37, 1874, fiad iy creased to 197.203, sbawing the number of new acoouuts opencd during the vear to be 20,423, The bighest number of sccounts belongiog to auy ono bank is 70,5C0. This, of course, means tho nuwmber opoued to date, s large percentage of them being dead as this writing, The smail- est number of accouuts on the books of auy one bank is 171. Of the accounts now in force, each one will aversge §220. This gives a over 88969 depositors in Chicago bauss, ~ Of this number. 25 per cont ara and women, 10 per cent are carponters and ma- chuntats, and 85 per cont are people working at & trade. ‘The proportion of servant-gisls to tho whole oumber is remarkably large. Many who had considerable sums iu savinga banks “at the time of and since the panic have Ueen indaced to draw them out and place them elsewhere, only to find thas the income there- {frow is not forthcoming, and that they cannot recover income or principal as surely and certafn- Iy as under the ol¢ regime. Confidence in say. ings banks as an investment i growing day by day. A iaw roquiring sworn statements from such ivatitutions would perfect and strengthen this confidence. Tue balsnces in banks were decreased during the early fall by the withdrawal of reserve fuuds deposited by laboring men. This witkdrawal was causod by the presence 1n Chicago of Iarge numbers of laborers from abrosd, which made the supply greater than the demand, and those who = wers thus thrown out of employment wera obliged to draw on their #aving to live. Now that this surpjus of Jabor- 1og men Lias beon driven to otler cities, & siesdy increase of deposits is looked for even through the winter months, . EMPLOYHENT ON CITY WORKS. During » brief conversation with Mr. B. 8, Hayes, City Comptroller, he expressea himpelf 23 belioving the prospect for the poorer clasges this winter to be much brighter than at the same time last year. He said the destitate Iaboring clasaes bave beon mostly driven of, and those remaining have more money than is usual at this 8eason of the vear., A visit to the office of the Board of Public Works showed an unusually active condition of work in that departmeut. During tha Iast three months there have been employed by the city— Besides this number, the v: et-rail- way lines employ about 150 men on Tepairs to hich makes a graad totsl of 2,100 lspor- ers, recelving wages at a geason of the yoar when out-door work is usually out of the question, the Iast six months there haa been expended for labor and material— Of the sewe: $ se2.51817 O tho citz-sop b g{' 3: Vater o . SSLA3 Making a total of.... . ,748,681.34 A lsrge proporbion of this bes been disbursed IDg men. ‘DI‘:MQ:aKlm l“ theso figures, t::‘ nn‘yl ;“:m to hold that there is to be any general suffering smoug the laboring classes this winter is simply terous. A One of the banks mentioned in the above list, duging the past thirty days has opened sccounts w‘i‘t?x over 800 depositors, the sums deposited varying from €10 to $1400. Ar. Henry Greenebaum is very enthusiastic over the pros- the prospect of a prosperous winter. THE CONTBACTORS. The condition of the workingmen emploged by contracting builders is not materially tmproved. Ou the contrary, thers appears to be a pretty general conviction that this clase of laborors cannot boast of having been sufficiently pro: dent—even where they have Liad stesdy employ- ment duriug the building season—to carry them through the severities of the long winter now approaching. The foremen state that the men are constantly asking for advinces of money, for the reason that, otheriwise, they could pro- cure no food for themselves and families, as the small grocers are too distrostfal of tho sit- mation to grant much crudit. The ready- cish eystem for groceries appears to be pretty pgenersl, except in special casea, where the‘cusiomers owned a littlo prop- erty, and are well kuown to the dealers. At least three-fouiths of the men employed by tho builders will be mozo or less hard-presssd dur- ing tho idle season, acd very many of them ar sure of bemg reduced to 2ctual destitution.— chiefly new arrivals here, who bave large fami- lies; and who had not the means, on arnving, to purchase homesteads, however nmble, It is, ;‘;n?’alnnrc rate por day paid to theso men is On tho 30th of June the Counell appropristed for sawersge purposes alona .Wl.flg.%fi. Dur- unfortunately, spparent that the Relief and Aid Bociety must calculate on baviog to provide out- door relief for this class of people, who, partly through their own mprovidence and partiv through the pressure of *‘hard times' npon the resources of capitalists, ace helpless to aid themselyes. Tho preseat prospect is that the approaching winter will be 0o of grest pii- vatiun, and that tho Reliof and Aid Society otficers will fiud their hanas fall io the matter of alleviacing diatress or averting starvation, THE BOLLING MILLS, A reporter called at the oflice of the North Sids Rolling Mills for tho purpose of aacertain- ing what thoy knew concerniug the condition of the labor market. The conversation was as fol- lowss Reporter—How many men have you employed at the mills?. Mr. Hannab—We say we employ 1,500, though it 18 ditlicult to tell how many we havo sctusily, 28 some of the men have sasistants whom they pay. We have in the neizhborhood of 1,200 now eneaged, only & small part of the works not being 1o operition. We bave made 42,000 tons of iion and steel rails, which is @ good year's work. Reporter—Do vou expect to rup all winter ? Ar. Hancah—That depends npon orders. They are slack now. Reporter—Have yon no auticipations of more ? Mr. Haunsh—We hope to get them, and are puttiog in ore, conl, eto., feelng confident of orders ; if we were not tanguine we woald not make preparations to £l orders, Last year this time, wa bad no more aliead than now, but thoy Leld out all the year, and 1 do mot thiok 1873 will be 8 good as the present year. From io- quiries now aod then, the company believes we will work the largest part of tho winter, if not the whole of it.” We intend to run the blast~ furnrces anvhow until Janoary. Reporter—How many men will be required to run them ? Ar. Haonsh—Retween 400 and 500. “ Repuiter—How loog will existing orders kee you going ? Mr. Hanoab—Not more than a month. Reporter—Have aoy of tue men saved their summer earnings to keep them during the cold weather ? # Mr. Hanosh—Some of them save, bat the Isrger part never put bv aaything. ' Quite a ouiber bave been garnisheed, and the grocers and other emalt deafers sronnd the mills will not trust aoybody, siuce ic is hard work makiag col- loctioos. . Reporter—Wiil the majotity be asle to go through the winter witbout asking relef from the Aid Society ? Mr. Haonsh—They ought to be able to, bat some of them will not. ) Keportex'—? -Did any of them receive assistance last Tear Alr. Hannah—Yes; but not very many. Once in & whils applications would be made to the Ald Society for relief, and the epplicauts wero seut to the Company’s office for indorsement, and such sa were considered wosthy wers recom- mended, bat the uoworthy ones wera not. Ido not thini very many were belped. Reporter—Iiow do the present wages average with those of last vesr, prior to the panic? Yr. Hannaa—The reduction sincs September last year bas oeen sbout 80 per cent for men who work by the ton. For those who work by the day it has not been a0 much. Reporter~—Do you believo that the men have sayed 38 much 28 List year 7 AMr. Hanosh—Not any more, certainly. Wages make no cifference with them. They are hizh livers, and buy the best of everythiug, and all they can get credit for. Of course all do not. Sume of them are economical, and are quite well off. 5 Reportor-~Onght not all to be able to save enongh to keep them through the winter if there was 0o work ? Mr. Hannah—Yes ; they get as good pay as any class of workmen in the conntry. Reporter—And if if they suffer 1o winter, it is the result of their own 1mprovidence ? Mr. Hannai—That ia the way I look atit. Quite » large number of them, however, have not had .ze':fy work. The north puddling mill, for inatance, was run very httle duriog the first balf of the year, and some of those employed there may not be able Lo get through the winter witliont id oven if they hsve work Nearly evervthing is rmoning vow, and our pay 1olls thus month will aegreyate £75.000. THE IEON-WORKERS. Mr. Skelkel, treasurer of tue firm of Crane Bros, & Co., Jefferson streat, stated to a TriBusE reporter that they Lave 550 mea employed, and it s noc likely that sny ° of them will need relief. Ho could nof sav whether they are tlrifty or not, but they received good wages (about the same as obtaned this time last yeer), and as there is no fear that a reduction in the number of haunds will be necessary he did pot apprehend any distress smong the emploves. Carllo Mason (firm of C, Mason & Co,, North Clinton strect) said that they bad tifty men at work at present, and they expected to have double that number empioyed before many woeks. ‘Their business was brisker generally in winter ¢ atany other season, as it consited of ropaitiug and fitting up steambosts and provellers which lay up durin the winter months. Moro machinory b besu called for within the past month thian daring the whole season preceding. Tae estimates for work bad bean set down’ from 25 to 30 per cent lower than Isst vear, and, 88 & consequence, the wages were fully 15 per cent lower. Lo was of opinion that their workmen we:e saving. When times visited them before they wore all gnm;:\ propared to meat them, having money in ] Credits which were extended duriog 1ast win~ ter have matnred and been extendea sgain. Re- sponnible pergon, howover, have no dificulity 10 gotting credit, but it was not eo ensy to de. termino Low to mse it. It was very hard to make coffections. Manulfactaring for some time psst has been spasmodic. The value of machinery hsd much depreciated, and mauufacturers can hope for nothing more than to draz along, doing their bost to keep their mon at work. . —_—— DREAM-LIFE--LIFE-DREARS. "Tia & strange [aculty we each possess, Which vesta thiugs most nnlovely with new loveliness, Sowme homely thing, to others small may scom; For us, it lxys the corner-stone to some right dream, Wiiich leads us on to a far-distaut day, Or takes us back to childhood's sport and play, Those dream not most who, when their eyos ar» closed, Visit fantastic scence unsecn by day, Aud, when they rise from their deas-bought Toposs, Fut all this imagery {rom their minds away, And, turning to the business-side of life Forgat thair dreams of youth amid la slrife, Bat e who dreams when eyes ars open wi Unleeding aught, but that with second -!;::' He sees Uie phantoms pust bifin glide, More plainly scen than thoss we ces at night, Yhen yietding to *tired Natare's s weet restorar,” Onr fancy takes its flight ; These dreams sro tipped with silver, and are bright ; For, when the Night bath wrapped_ber mantle ronad, Lusky and sad for her departed Light, These dresma among her garment-folds are found ; And forth they coms by m to oar sleop, d, turning o'er and o'er our weary minds, Amauss themaelves and us, 10d from us keep ‘The trontiles which by dsy do baunt mankind, Thus do we live; and, liring, dream awsy Joat lalt oz ives. Tha remiaing pur: #peat as all do spend their Lives oy day, ‘W live—wa dream ; s And by our dresmge-=ws live, Mrowauxsz, % MEXICAN WONDERS, —_— The Great Pyramid of Tlzs, cala, _— Human = Sacrifices «-- T}, © Hand, e In the besutifol land of Mexico,—ths Jap, lives only ou memories of s wonderu} alf-way betweas tho shores of tho By o) Sk peschy aud the City of Mexico, which 1y O $pain wsasiled * Tho Veni o e o orld,” are now to be fo ing g the oncepomertal o 0 T8 ouy g REPUBLIC OF TLAsCaLs, Not many leagues avay lay the Kingdon the powerfal Montezuma, 0uSAnds of e ' worsbiped and dreaded him. At thy gop, ) parts of his Eingdom, his subjects werg E with awe at acconnts of hig Breatoesq, The Republic of Tiascala being con, warlike and valorous peopls, it had iy exrly. i asserted Its independence, and, though 1,,_,,“!' the heart of & country whose Tumerous ang. ‘3 Kings were governed by one monarch, Mog, Zums, it had for years maintained ftg tighty self-government, and had won the fear lu‘du miration of all that fierce aad warlke Ppeopla, §um bsd much assisted them in and msintaining thewr own rights, hayi 23 sho had to Switzerlang, T OB b, A MOUNTAIN-WALL OF FROTECTION, which fortified throe sides of their copy Several leagues of the Temaining by ary Iy open to tho spproach of the droaded Aztecs. Straichtway this httle iy set to work, pothing dsunted st the p ness of tho task, aud built 8 wall, 9 fest g sad 20 thick, for & distancs of 2 mileg~py completing the breastworks Natare had throm up for their benefit, Seventr-four years ago, at the quering army, Napoloos. cheerhed 5?."‘&%2;.‘: ward to the combat by the cry of . Erance, forty cenmries loos down ugon This wag the battlo fought at the foo of e ation i tho *Litle Captarms 120 borial retay d ity Here, on_auother continen| thoussnds miles away, in the Leart of ths ;inw‘n x.,uf lic, lies ANOTHER PYRAMTD, ono of the world's ankunown wonders, Mishty oattles hass boen fought st its base, Torgp massacron havo bathed its mndiog stairvyest buman blood. Strange and asfal Processiony bave wound aroand it from base to ages, 3 o shiping multitude below bave knelt, whils sy :ificu mlu‘:l. revoltiog have besn made on theak ars on its summit to the * Unknoy C-Tu':e of C:ul;s." s Gt g o great Pyramid of Egynt, Cheops, co an area of 11 acres, and rises to 4 hax:ffl o{r:ni 3 Prramid’s base covers 4 acres, and its sidearise to the haigh: of 177 fons, wwhile the plutform on its summit is more thay Sn acre in extent. Its walls ar posed Inyezs of brick and oly: > o olden times, waen by eop'e th this llmdb;ru‘a was tha‘l ;f’ézp %fiwl‘:'fi': temple. i8 summit altars wers roared worshup to the anfal o was offered. "A stauwsy woand round the oufeide of thy building, leading from it fost to the aper; and, ou the great fesst-dsym, an imposing gro: ceseion of priests, carrying in wheir ranis the Lrisoners to be sacrificed ia_honar of the dag, marched up the pyramid’s side. A briliusut gpectacls 1t was, 2, clad In their scarlot rones, and besrmg gorgeous banners made of the festhers of their tropical birds, they ascended the stairway, in the tall view of the peosle, siogiog meanwbile cusuw to the “God af War” and the *God of Aw,” The victims, who for maoy s month have lived on the beatand most fatteningof food tne land coutsined, and daily Lsen truned for tuis ordesl, are brought forth. One by one tary areluid on the altar. A dextrous movement makes the keen koife glistea in tha sir & mine nte, and then s deep gash in the side ia made, THE HEART IS TORY OOT, mhnbog with blood and quivering with lifs, a4 thia body is quickly borns away to gracs soms lordly mansiaa. - g So on and on, through the long list of captives taken ia war, or the pest and most beau:ful of their young men and msidens, these hums buteliors sla7. = After an atiack on the City of Mexico, 3nd 2 defeat terrivle for its slaughrer snd the b ers taken, Hernando Cortez with a handfal o followers, resting on the hills above, looked dors on nsceno like this. . Comrade after comrade was lod forth and slii to appesse the bloodthirsty Mars, and theit hearts hang in the noonday zun, Irnu;dny_!lfl blacken and Jie, until agother day of® sacriict chrooicles another dreadtul holocsust, ‘This trath is confessed: that man's worst foe2s mus; He, he slone. No tenunt of the wool Preys on his kind aud laps his brctuar’s blood, His feliow loads where hidden pitfails e, 4nd drinks with ecstasy his dying ngh. The remains of these pyramids ara found s} thiough the country of Mexico, and even serot the Gulf into Yucatan. Most of them an solid throughout; Lnt, io some rooms bars been discovered, thongh whether they wern in- tended for tombs, or s the * Holy of Holiss to the outer temple on their sumauty, oo cot can tell The only volca that comes to us from thelr strong depths is that which shois their kadred- ship with the roined palaces that are foundin the surronnding conutry. This is s impress of s hand lxid flat agaiust a surface. [tis as large 8 life, ia stained red as blo>d, and appears @ the walls of temple, pyramid, sad pslsze. Not long g0, oo the porthern frontier of Washington Territory, the impreasion of THIS SAME RED EAND was_found; and occasioually, among some of our Indiaus, on tents and batfalo-robes, has beea seen some mysterious sign. Myaterions [ say, bacause nallndnln knoyws its meaning,~using only as o talisman. f\Va call ;hn & new world. What do we know of its ago Thers ro_records In exiatence, hflafi down from the sncient City of Mexico, which are accoants of tribes who, ce- taries before, coming from the Nffi built and founded a Kingdom in that . Where does that North lia? Why is fl-\m“n voica to break the long silence of ages, and us where this strange, but not uncivilized peo: ple came from. Only the red band beckous scholar and inveatizator backward to r.h-N: templation of a time snd s people "’“"“"‘,i, ments, whose majestic and beautifol palaces v wall with the architectural beauties of the i World, and fill us with wonder, and a It hich longing for a better kaowledge of & ”'B- inhabited our coustry loug ages ago. CATH#MOR, Oh1 grandest of the chiefs of old, Now ‘.’x’:mum “neath the hallowed mald Of Erin greca, whoss swords to-dsy. Aro shieathed beneath a tyrant-sway L Oh ! could thou walk thy echolng. Divided by & thousand rills, And rouse again, aa long ago, Tha liearts of ifo sgainat the fos, And lead them, restless a8 the wavs, To bear Oppression to tho grave,— Oppreasian that for ages guus Haut ro aud desolativu strowa ‘Whera thou, in wanton freedom wild, A Chief unconscious, roamed a child, And scattered wide with cureions toss The ripened thistle's suowy floss | Though nover more, by hill or streaz, 8lall ‘L\a bebeld lmllul and gleam. Of steel--lad warriors, stern and bold, By thee 10 death vr victory rolled,— SULL, minstrel's song, and mossy stoas On mournfal beaths that rise aione, Tuy fame and deeds boyond decsy Preserve il Time shall fade 3way; Aud hearts of heroes, fko 3 fame, 8hall brighten still at Cathmor's Ramé, And, lowly a8 they bow and wesp Above thy long, last, dreamless sleaTy Hueiloud lamesit with bl resth, 'hed aud ‘warriors wraj = ¥ P0G, Moaots B Parents and Children. . &l Lady Morgan told Lover that it was of h‘;fima she was tinking wheo n her * Lifo sad TS of Salvator Rosa ™ sho abjected ao strousle {27 father's opposing bis chilas biss. She sit: am at & loss to accouat for thae Llind m;uwmm- which wa aee parents so often hlxd o children’s wishes. For my part, if I Loy and he even desirea to becomo & _lug:'l{l gl sbould certaioly not oppose Lim. Oa U 't'wfl trary, I believe I should make him & o d pair of pistols sod a good hoise mmlm shonld oniy sy to him: Ay dear .drb'. buby very unhsppy at the choice you_have mfl ot g So BTy s rin I Tt name pursus it! Only 3 man,’ '::a %0, giving him my bl.uln‘,” I'd lechiss 8ok his fortace as be pleased.’ PO