Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1874, Page 7

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY,' DECEMBER 28, 1874. PULPIT LECTURES. Tho Reve Mr. Williamson on ¢ The Chances of a Young Woman,* Hor Best Ohance Is to Got Married to the Right Man, ' The Religion of Anoient Egypt---Leo- {ure by the Rev, Mr, Hoisington, THE CHANCES OF A YOUNG WOMAN. LEQTURE DY TRE LV, 3N WILLIAMAON, Tho paator of the Wabash'Avonuo Mothodist Clurch last ovenlng entortaluod his congrega- tion wilh & locturo entitled * Tho Chances of Young Woman.” Tho locture was as follows ¢ Thevo aro only two nges among wmlmn—ymm% and old, According to n temlor social custom, i 14 not delieate to pry into the age of women, 1t s o triflo inrd to sy just when a fomalo child begins to be o youug woman, and it is altogother tou hard to try to sy When o young womsn conges to bo young and becomoes old. If, however, any young woman chanco to livo long enough, sho will pass a sad point, whero eho will glido from ?'m\lh to ngo.. Wonll Linow at sbuut what year this poiut is establishod, Lut wo koep tuo fact to ourselves, All aro young women up to_this point, and all are vldor than young boyond it Whon' I shall sponk of young tvomen to-pigbt, I shall mean all on the narsory eido of my distinction, My roflectious, alxo, shall respeot only tho average womon. 1t is not wortl while to study tho oxceptions to a goneral thing, Escoptions never propagato tholr kind, and 8o tho landicst way to got rid of su pxcoption 18 to lot 1t pnes:and perish, All young womon are &0 mucl alilio, s tho rule ovoribing their naturea; and all_young womon walk one way, is tho rule describing their for- tunes ; and all young women grow old different- Iy, in the rulo doscribiog thoir destinios, Among womien thero hinve been s MANY STHIKING EXCEPTIONS. 1t would bo foliy to hold uy theso #s realizations of what ehould bo ‘the idenl of the avornge young woman, An exception to » rule is " pure naceident. Our bost wisdom sannot plan an excopiion. ‘I'ho preseuceof an ox- coption may stimulato our eflort, but it eanuot Lolp us to its own lovel. Tho best kind of n young woman jsan sverago ono, ILxceptions Movo or below this avorage are unfortunate, and 110 to bo pitied ratherthan envied. Whas, thon, aro tho chnnces of an avorogo youmz.\mmnn? Chonces for what? Chances 1o practically say why shefs in tho world; to justify sho wisdom of tho Providenco that guve to her & belug, and o soluce Lier own Lieart With the consciousnoss of » valnnblo mission, " TUnloss I wholly misinterprot tho nspiration of tho nvernge young wontnn, ber ideat of womanly succesy is not realized in the brillisncy of tho nchiovomonts of certaln excoptional mewbors of Lier gox, ‘I'bo Inrid colors fn which Catharine do DMedici {8 so often painted, and justly becauso of ber manifold eritues, when brightenied by conl- manding _trlents, and by euch a devotiou to art ns graced France with the Lnlace of tho Tuitories, &tll do not bocome alluring cuough to interest an avernge young womun iu the ambition of this oxtraordinary but atroclous Princess, Lot no such fortuuo bo miue, broathes tho spirit of every truo maidon, Theaverage youny man cannot but regard such cruolty, as, on tho whoto, & good deal brave. The Ieague of Bayonno against the I'rotestauts, the nswassination of Conde, and the massacro of St, Bartholomoy, are, by youug men, laid at tho fect of o guitty orn, rather thun upon the soul of » fiuin{ Queen. How many yotuny men huve snid, #WVould thav £ might souis day Decome o Ciosur, B Napoleow, an Alexander, or ovon an Attila, Youug wowon, not ouly have X0 BUCH MABTIAL ASPINATION, but thoy havo not in general any desire at all to be clse than they are. ‘Thoy ure willing to lot tholr oxceptional sisters cujoy tho uncovoted di tietion of raro genius, aud communding intlu- ouce. Tho story of Charlotte Corday by stivred wany o patriotio soul siuce 1793, It was tho young wen, however, who stood with uncovered cady a8 #ho pussed to tho guillotiu It wus n youog wnn who could eay, * Lot us build isr A monumont with this iuseription *Greater than Brutue'” Youuy woman buve no tributo to poy members of their own ésox for oxceptional darifig. Young women edmiro and applaud Tsabolls of Spain, who, though born o real Queen, found it in hor wonunly beart to eay to Ferdinand, after the lory of 1492, *Let us now, in tho rest o our oint reign, call ourselves ‘ King,'" Jonn of Are was pure-hearted and heroic, but 18 she admired by tho averago mniden 7 Tho strong, pure in- Biincts of woman's nature, thon, ore against ox- coptional women, aud in favor of a good, whole- tome, womanly avorage. 1 nm speuking to-vight not to ovade or disguiso the trutl, and gv am froo o sey that A THE SUPHEMLE EATTHLY OIANCE of n young wotnan 1g, iu the fullness of timo, to 80 rofuto hiorsolf to some chosen young man s to wake thom both o ** King,” How to turn some common mau into a monarch, is, and sught to be, {he one and euflicient central ambition of every youn man. Lot no young woman lis- fon fo tho criticism that pronounces this lofty as- iration indelicato and unwomanly. Womau'slifo, )y tho law of God, sud the voice of svciety, sliould be one of rolation, rather than of indo- pendonco, ‘I'hoj necessitics of the case, and her Dwn honrt, aro in nceord in donyivg to her 8 mis- ston apart from man, 'Lho worlk of life erunot b0 done by the limitedvesonrces of individuality, but demands the greatly muitiplied power of & pure and confldoutial partucsehip. Man and womun, associated in tue divive partnership of matrimony, are tho nearest to o porfoct sgoucy “that tinite creatures cau gome, A YOUNG WOMAS TUEA, SUCCEEDS, firat, when shio s sblo to fucludo hers with the living of any young man in such a way as not to sompol an increnso of itu cost; and second, when Jhio does thus include i, 1t} right, of courso, \hat young women eliould linve othor thoughts than” these, but no other thought of o worldly d can bo bulf so impottant to them, or to so- siety, ho oxponse of such o partucrship, of tourdd, may be greater than tho usnsl cost of ono member of i, and yot it meed mnot be. Tho true women in drens nud social entortainments, is an oxponent of tha material fortune of the strong firm sho ropresonts, Bofora sha hecamo o pattner, sho bad learnod tho bigh are of suiting ber pocuniary talls to the roceipts of the concern. Tlers are, howaver, o great many who are fit to bo part- ners, but who are not partuors, and 80 no young woman's euccoss i8 . auite completo " until the union is consummated. Whon wisa and diligent prepsrstion is comploted, sub- soqient dolays aro not apt to bo tedious. ‘L here are four chiances for every young woman to secure tho first eloment of succens: au ability to includa hera with the living of auy young man in such o way 83 not to compol au increare of its cost. TUY FIRST CUANCE 18 TIETY, or Christinn consciontiouness, A young woman without persoual religion! What a'sight] Bucl » young man is bad enongh, but such a young womau is intolerablel A young woman troat- Ing religion with indiffarence or dowial! What notion ean sho have of tho poisonnl eno. vifices that form charactor? Iivine Graco must be at work in a young womun's goul to maka it both lovely and lady-ltke. ‘This firat clo- mont of succoss ealls for genulne womanhaod, No young wowan cau, by any chauce, prediot the amount of material fortuna sho may finall wed, and 80, to be safe, she must train herself to bo contented with tha least, Iaw only once ina whilo disposed to bo positive, becnuse the best-intonded judgments are #o full of uncor- tainty, ond 80 I will ouly uttor this mild decision, that real womnuliood is ‘impossiblo without personnl faith in the Tord Jesus Christ. 1 supposo ovon tho heatt of a young woman 18 uot by naturo just right; that Divino Urace must chango 1t boiora it can bo pleasing to God, and {ut,‘ degper than her nativo depravity, aro hor netinoriva yearnioys attor God and purity, Un- loss thoso procious promptings bo subdnod by wrong prineiples imbibed m youth, tnoy will bo sure fin the end to blossom in fullest moral mag- nificonce, But for the education young Mary, atorwarda Quoou of Beatlnnd, recoived at a cor: rupt French Court, hor manlfold moral dolin- ueucios might havo heen, instead, hor Lright and fmmortal gracos, ‘I'ho purer tho spirit, the moro corrapt its possiblo dofiloment.” But for defective ru‘lglnuu training Mary would not have heon dlsmayed by the Bad reverso of fortune that pxilod kior from o brillisnt throno in Frauco to iho dronry chambors of Holyrood, Let every young woman seok to gain such o strongth of pivua and happy chaaotor aswill placo herabovo iho chungon of materlal fortuno, Bottor than proat Intelligonco is doap plnty to propare young women for any lot, No lifo 16 balt 50 uncertain B8 0 young wotwan's, ginco ahe can have almost pothing t6 do fn cantrolling it, UL BLCOND CITANOH of any young womal to rcourn the first olosent of Buceuss 18 afmplicily. ‘I ho tomptatiune uro so many s 8o strong to lead youny womon to fari actitien] livos, When o womun's naturo ls ona way, pud her art anothior way, her life Is an astitivial oy, Heal womaullucoy and real natur- alnessaro ono nnd the samo thing, What wo aro by naturo dors not alvaye pleaso ns ns wolp n8 what wo canimagine for oursclves as desir- able, An artificial young womaun can nov- or o mistress of any sitnation into which, by tho caprico of . circimstancos sho maoy bo thrust, Ilorcharnotor I8 not strongor thau any addy that may aeenil it, Hor strength fs in hor art, and not in hor natnre, and this Is not always ayadablo, not s It often regarded ns of ns much valua to socioty as to hor who found it, Many forms of arf nro of rare beauty, but an artificlal young woman is a thing of deformity forover, 1f n young woman could foresce the ofovatlon of tho roctal plano whoro sho is deatined to dwell flually, Bome dn‘,'rno of unreal lifo might - bl fmitated, but slio cannot. I sho gain o nature 16fty onough to bo eatlsfied with tho jowest socinl lovel, {f nood be, thoe nobility of her nequiroment will bo lior groatest succoss, Simplicity of chatactor I8 consigtont with vory Inglt {otelligence, To put on somo of the pho- nomena, or trinls of lntulll‘wuul rofiuemont, with- out poscssing them at all, in fact, s to mako ono's lifo mrtificlal, Just think of an artificial Tain, oracason, or ruurisel of an artificial hopo, or atenr, or o smilo, or n yonng woman! Tho mnin way of showing artificial effort is in tho use of words and tones. Just liston to the [ionunoiation of any soting voman whose am- ition is to follow fashion, rather than authority! No {mmg woman neod hopo lo bo consid- dered vory nico, simply by any very nico way sho may have of saying hor words, or of gracing her, inflections. 1" believe artiflcial ways will, at longth, lead to an artificial life. [Tollow and un- menniug actions at lnst bocomo slncoro by pro- ceding from & hollow and unmenuing beart, and overy young woman of hollow and unmeaning heart ?u doomed herself, and sure to doom any luckless young mun with whom her final futura i3 nesaciated.” Ly all moans let mo commond the Christian graco of simplicity aa worthy of any young woman's heartiest approval and foud~ ost eflort, ¢ A young woman's THIRD GREAT CTANCE 10 sticcoed In gnining ite firat cloment is indus- try. Wa hinve just been respecting hor personal character; wo now turn to hor personal sorvico, Aftor a fitnoss to work is work. Tho divino rn.xlneruhlp known ss mmirintony may begin its bright carcer upon o rogular incomo, and 1t may begin with such income only na it Is able to carn and gavo, The duty of tho malo member of this firm is to pour earnings into it, whilo tho fomalo membor must keep thoso oarninga from ruoning out, More depends upon skilfully closing the excapes through which oarnings loak away, than upon the prodigality with which thoy are coutin. uously supplied, It requires ratlicr moro indug. try to savo thon to eavii, Soclnl position is sol- dom conlinued by marringe, The married woman is somatimos raléed, and oftener lowered, by hor touder responres to tho priest, Indusiry can never como amiss, In Juxiry ana sbundance it is ro8ervo powor, in [gm'erty it js salvation. If o young woman have industry, and does not need to bo industrious, sho can casily Iay it asido, but if ebo have industry and docs nood to bo indus- trious, how fortunato, The young women who now dwell upon tha highor social plauea shiould bo fully ACQUAINTED WITU ALL THE INDUSTRY found to bo nacessary for thoso who dwell on the Joweat plane, for, ju tho unaccouniablo fottery of marriage, their plncas may bo exchanged | 1f watrimonial allinuces havo any conspicuous weakuos, 1t is iu the fact that ono of the arso- cinted partics is o often unekilled. Thero can bo no disgiace in learning to do what possibly must eventtlly Lo depended upon for w liviog. Many ~young womon aro willing to cutor hoartily iuto tho idea of on indnstrious lifo, if. allowing tho kingdom of labor to bo divided into coarso and fine, thoy e permitted to cboose tho fino. Tino labor s nat, howover, tho kind Iam menning to urge, hut; rather, the coareo, if by conrso is meant tlint form of work that supplics a good living., An industiions young woman will noyor be a £ up- on iucoine, but a contribution ta it, Sho will re- turn moro to capital than is withdrawn to sup- port ber. Whon tho mutrimomal fivm gots able to turn ono of ity tembers into a picee of flue, or luxucious art, no one hus auy right to criticlse the muuificence. A youuy woman's ~ FOULTII AND LAST OITANCE to sccure tho fivst clemoent of a full .success i horoism, Theroaro respects in which tho gons aral fostune of women is not onviable, Nola vory wido rango Is allowad hor eorts, uor 14 slic paid, always, for what sto docs do & fuir prico, Bug bas no strongth with which to agsert berreul or fanciod Tights, no procodents Lo plond in hor appeal for justice, aud uo Listoria esamples to justity ber declsions, Woman lasno way of compelling socicty to do_anything according to her taste. Suffrage is denied hor, public opin- lon oxeludes hor from cvory opportunity, aid tho strength and uniformity of malo fmnnn makes man hor fatal industrial compotitor, . Lo bear up under all this odds, sho noeds Christian heroism. L suppose society will uever esseutinl- 1y chango in theso particulars, Womun hus been slowly rising for conturics, but not towards a participation in political powor. Thoro can bo no certainty nbout any predictions concerning tho enfyauchiement of womasn, only this aa- surance can bo safe, that personal heroism will bear her up unlil her change cota. Too high an estimato caunot Lo pirced upon tho sacradness and perpotuity of tho tarrioge relation, aud 8o I mean to exalt it by plninly de- claring that o young woman's success iy this lifa is not complete until xhe becones tho trie wifo of a chosen nud true man, Auy modein tenchinga in conflict with this statement are dangerous and imworal. Woman can havo no highor or purer mussion. “Upon tho purity and eaco of this relation tha weitaro of uinan socioty, and cspecially the por- potuity of freo iustltutions, = dopond. I caunot inspire any young woman with a holier ambition than to finally bocome tho worthy and happy wifo of an equally worthy and happy bus- Dband. Matringo is comparatively ensy to offcct, but genuine and immortul leatt unions aro con- summated with some difficuliy. Would auy young woman bo propared tor lier pleasing and Qiving fature in marringo, let hor cstoom its pos- sibles among tho highest attaiuable. 1f suar-’ riagoe be reckoued less thau the higleat huwan compact, it at ouce decline to uothlug botter than authorized concubinage. TO BECOME THE TRUE WIFE of a truo and chusen man, thore aro bofore young wounen four gonoral chunces: I'irst, moral purity, There can bo no renl and ehorished popularity of femalo charactor not founded in moral purity. ‘Llhero is only ono clnss of young womon for whom all men icel profound reapect, and this fs the clogs whose moral purily isag clear and undoubtod as tho moridian sunshino or tho eryatal snow, Love is impossibla un- less rospcet precedo it. All tho purty any husbaud would bave bis wifo ‘possoss ho knows must pro-exist in tho maidon. Fomalo impurity is always n pervoraion of undoflled in- stinets, It in 08 truly tho nature of woman to bo pure, as it is tho nuture of o flowor. Young wonen aro not moro than half awaro of tho power of thelr puro lustincts to restraiu and captivate worthy mon. Christinn purity, bow- ever, does not fmposo upon young womon tha scaticium of tho extrema prude, A prade is ono who, though conscious of instinctiva purity, foara to trust her lustincts unlesa well guarded by ronson and conscionce. ‘oauty of personal appearance, of face and figuro, nccomplishmonts of miud, and gracos of ricl omotion, are all very attractive and worthy, but infinitely less signiticaut than moral purily a8 o wifely charm, Il'urity of character will grow, like atrongthoning intolligonco, or matur- 1ug norvo, if suitably encouraged. Tho infatu- atad dovotes Julinna” thought to mortify hersoll into grester woral purity Ly immuring herself in a stono coll ab Norwich, but hor charaoter was unchanged by tho crnol suporstition, With Madame Guyon, to Sronlolo porsounl it rily, no young wotnan need abandon horself to a lifa of mystio ploty and socinl isolation. Moral purity cannot bo fostored Ly eolf-inflictod bodily or mental tortures, but by infloxiblo resolution novor ta doviato from ity straight path a minglo lino. liolding on to moral purity liko that, moral purity will grow and_ strongthon. Of nil tho charms of female mind and mannor, morak purity, 1t kopt unaullied, in destined to Bo- curo tho grentest - magnificonco, and to shino maost like the stars, forever and forever. A young woman's second chuaneo to soeuro tho socond olement of o full s 66 {8 by her RETIRING IN UL, 4 To great nequirements certatnly thero can bo no excoptions lalen, if their manifostatlon bo suit- ably modose aud ' womanly, Thore s, howoyer, romnrikably hittlo fagcination to v man's nffection in tho prodiglous intelligence of some wonderful women, Aon are ko glad that all women aro not wrofound! Qod has but littlo work In tlua world for profound peoplo to dol Hnoh choico souls oie wo much groator than tho numborless small opportunitios about thom| Luerotin Marlo Davidaon was exceedingly beau- titul, and 8 pootees of oxtraordinary gonlus oy woll. At 4 yoarsof ago sho wioto admirablo vorses, Sho had ranged ovor the widoe flold of Tinglish literaturs at an ago whon childron, gon- oially, aro trombling in the inysterious prosonce of ln{\lul niphabets, But then sho was doad at 17, Ilor example cannot bo commondad s wor- thy of imitation by our ayornge woman, worally surc to bo o true wito, 0Of ull deop ond unlndylike misfortunes nono #eom to mo to ag nll appronch the offense of o dombuvorwg and bold iutelligonce, No lady can aflord to hold an opiunfun " in whoso bolulf who must now and then contond in urgmment, Sadumo Do Btael may bo _admirod for hur peor- lena brillinucy fn conyorsation, but we foel snfest fxom her iulluouce whon wo thiuk of Lor caged rosenco in tho Dastllo. God's young women oll tho display of thoir ~ jntolhgouce m check, No ono s bruised by tho bluntnoss of thole satiros, —or ent by tho Incurable inclsion of Uholr reparteo | “T'hoy nover say **no” ju argumont im"“ moro tha oneo, nor do thoy glory in pillaging somo unfortunnto soul who chanced in his assault to min]udge of tholr rosources. A young woman’s intaltectunl nodesty i tho beautiful prico she pays 2t raro intolligonco conceded. Young women toach tholr ‘strangth by nhrlukmfi 3 they bocomo really irreslatiblo whon, i tho fullnersof their art, thoy shrink away from contentlon bo- foro they areopposad. Youuoo, contrary to thansunl IAHIIIonnuwndn{u I am insisting that young women ate fully ‘succosaful only when, lmvmf Joarnod well tho art, thoy ronliza the exaltod fact of congenial wifehood. I would hinva no other ambition com- parablo with this, Not even our purest imagina- tiona can bo half as holy. Bo far ng our various syatoms of oducation nnd fashions of morality {all to proparo our youuF womon for compatont nnd sntistled wives, thoy are valuolews, or ovon criminnlly noglectful. Tvery womnn finally found out of wifchood, hay wandored, or_boen diverted from hor triio misslon, and yot, unless n congoninl nuion cat bo ofccted, I truat no unfon at all will ocour, As tho bont of all earthly blossings Is Ohrintian wedfock, so THF WORST OF ALL CURSES ' s & matrimonial falluro. ‘Theso fallures ar comiug to be by far too frequont, in part, or wholly, owing to mutunlly defectivo propura- tions on tho part of principls, Young womon aro Inrgoly responsible for tho youug men who refer thom, Preferences nra not given until hoy aroinvitod, Mon whoso responscs aro worth cntortaining nra invited only by veilod affection. Plaln and obtrusive affection” is mot whmh:‘t, Tho most fortmmzo oloment _of tho femalo charactor is hor iustinets, She knowa Loy to do all delicato things without learning how. Young wamen show thorr most decided proforonces by tholr hardest efort not to_show any., ‘Ll only art that ia really admissablo i such an amount an may bo noeded to set Naturo olf to advantago, Naturo has mnny shnrp cornors to bo rolieved by rounding them just s littlo. = Sho has many good intentlons to acquaint with the ways of tho world, and o wenlth of privato refloction to patisfy of its impracticability. Thore can bo 10 objaction to any young woman's resorting to somuch of nrt ag will finish her nature, and mako it popular, Ilor heart may bura with tho fervid glow of o full nffection, but lot no veil o lifted which now conceala Lier great acknoyl- edgment from tho eyes of Lho world, Affection is too tendor and too coatly to be viewed ofton, or publicly. Its glowmyg faco aud passionnto hand must bo kept concoaled, Only to somo innor confldenco_moy this voil, at lnst, bo raised. When faith is mutually plighted mutual tostimonies of this high regard may bo exclianged, but hardly till thon. Lo no young womiun allow lorsolf to bs ex- Imuutezi of vesourees. Nover Purmlb tho most zesulto eurlosity, or the most friondly concorn, 1o find tho lowest dopthy of your characters. Guin tho reputation for rosorve power by re- sorving it. Do ublo to bo moro beautiful than you are beantiful; todress botter than you do dross ; to bo more agrecable than you are agroe- nblo ; to siile more sweotly than you do smile ; to o apprecinted more than you are appreciated; aud to do much work you do not do. Nover Iot it Le waid of you, o8 itis said of & book, “T Dbave read ity Jast chapter;”™ or, A8 W0 0 ofton way of an cntortaiumont, ¢ Its surprises aro all now fumiliarn” Whoro js o fuscinntring powor i A LIVING ENIGMA, So concenl your power ns tu clude the wkill of oxpetienco to anticipate. Always keop your au+ woutnten in doubt us to mauy of your subtlcat intontions, Whon stormy scenes would now oud then oceur botweon Josephine aud ihe groat Emperor, she would say, with bittor om- phasia: *They upeals of your star, but iv it iy stor that rules thoso events,” Lvery young mau, in the pride of his indepondonco, iv reahity lies prostrato nt the feet of tha joung woman who bas skilltully studied bim as capiro for lier majesty to rule, 1¢ thoto is anything a young man is always roady to revero it is resere power. o will re- #peek ity compliment it, foar it, love it, aud, tiually, in desperation, ho will offer to marry it. Even Poeabontus gained in John Rolfe au ole- gaut lover, because of bor resorvo puwer, mado actual in suving the Jifa of Smith at ouo time, and tho whole colony at anothor. We mown the fate of tho giltea Blary Itubinson, who,n her high dromatio art ut Drury Lauo, played all lor reservo power of purity boforo tho lechierous Priuca who plutted hor ruin, Sucli, thon, uro somo of i important chances for tho nverago young woman to succeed ; fvat, by learning the arts of wile~ hiood, and second by becoming n wife. Of all tho winning gracon for young women to gain, uauo are ko beautiful us the teuder sweotness of o Chiistina’s trust, A Clristinu womunliness is moro musical than a poow, mote delicately shaded tban Rapbaol's St Cathorine,” and moro worebinful thtn tho loftiost snint. You noed have no-resorvo power of trust iu Josus ' Christ. Your wholo nutures may revel in tho mptures of faith, whilo they aro subducd by the mnisrey of ity ipline, ~ For yotr first” and firmest friend, young women, chooso tho desr Redeemer. —_— THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT EGYPT, LECTURE IY THE NEV. MB, JOISINGTON, The Rev. Mr. Hoisinglon, who has been af- flicted with Llinducss for more than twenty years, but who i thotonghly versed in theology, nuoient and modern, delivored a yery interosting leoturs on **‘'ao Rtoligion of Ancleut Egypt "in the First Metbodist Church, corner of Clark and Washington strects, lust ovouing. Tho speaker said that ol Igypt had two schools of theosophy, as thoy called it, ouo known aa tho estolary, or taught from within ; tho other known us the extolary, or taught from without., The former was secrot, somowhat liko & Ireo-dnsons' Lodgoj tho latter opon and on to tho masses by tho fow of tho hiighor echool, who presumptuously placed themsclves as mediators botween the Infinito Ono, for whom they had no name, but fu tho ex- istonce of whom they had the firmest falth, THE MEN OF TUE ESTOLANY SOHOOL thought that too much knowledge wonld be dangerous for the masses, snd altowed tho light to shino upon them only little by littlo. Their toaching waa figurativo,—the most anciont form of Hterature. Whon they wished to describo thobe- ing that auswered Lo their iden of God, thoy made o clrclo, on which & figuro was enthroned. When thoy wished to reprosout any particular function of procroation or spontancity, thoy did so by writleg down the figuro of some animal or otber thing that answered most nearly to thelr idea, ‘This was tho Innguage and the religion of sym- bolism, and so muich did the Egyptian languagoe parlako of the religious cast, that, after writton tongues camo into fashion, the hieroglyphics of Lgypt woro regardod us usoloss to tho pro}muu of clvlllznnun. Altor o lrnnge poglect of two thousand yours, it remained for modoru Science to unoarth tho long-butled mystories of tho land of the Nile, and rovoal to tho astouisued gazo of tho modern world that mnuy of tho londing ideas oven of Christianity wero gatherod from tho arohives of Ligypt. The Greoks nc- knowledged thoir indobtodnoss to the Egyptinns for their plilosophy. The wholo Valloy of tho Nilo showed that tho Egyptiony wore A NELIGIOUY PEOPLE, and boltoved, not alono in the oxistonco of o Creator, but also in the soparato existonce of Dotly and soul, in their reunion, and in = future life, 'Tho lecturer then, at some length, pro- coeded to deserlbo the nucient furma of foith In voguo at Thobos and Memphis; liow tho fgnoraut masses of tho extolary school camo to regard images of bousts, mere symbols of spooial tunctions, as gods—n doctrine uttorly vopudiated by the brlliant intellect of tho estolury school, Lut, for this, the henthens should not bo too harably judged, because Oliris- tlanity itsoll had developed sabuses and supor- atitions at varianco with true roliglon, Symbols in Christinn ehurchos knd beon bwed dows Lo« foro and worshiped as things diving by ignorant people, but theso churches did not tench such wosship of imngos muy moro than did tho higher school of Egylli teach worshlp of bousts uud roptilon, 11e hiad & high respect for tho Methodist Church, bocsuso the members thoreof held that roligion wastaught from within and should_not rely upon ontward form for in- struetion, Yot in miauy couutrios of Buropo the Hiblo bind been tanght tho pooplo in s symboli- eal form, and aven to this day, in some distriots ot Germany, the scones from tho Old and New "Peatumonts aro often roprosonted upon & kind of roligiona stugo, r, Ilvisington wont on to deseribe THE ANALOGY EXISTING Dbotween aomo of the Euy\xlmu mysterios and oo uf the Dible, eapocinlly in regard to the CGiad Oslris, supposed to ba the only ona of tha immortal Clods who loft tho highost sphore aud camo down upon carth to asswme the form of mang was slain by an ovil God, pemed Lypho ; doscanded into a lower region, shnilar to Limbo, aasumod his mortal form wgaln and relgned tho #un of tho Lgyptian houvan, This was only ono of the very stmtling coincidoncvs of tho traditions of Mosoy and those of the Egyptions whioh Dr. Holglngtou degoribed, Hovorol extrnets wore read for him of bouks, taured aud otherwive, publishod fu Bgypé, which sorved furiher to oluckdato is monning. e spoko of tho * 500K OF THE DEAD," rocontly trauslatod from the hioroglyphles of Egypt and publishied In London, after tho orlg- inal monnseript hiad beon oxhwined from an Fgyplian tomb, whoro it had Il foragos, Tl was_tho Egyptian Biblo, and the Christinn word nplu"llrnll to hayo somo singular rolntion with it. Varaes from * 'Tho Book of the Dond " woro fonnd in_the cofling of wuminies, and tombs and oboliske wore covered Wwith ox- tracts from it. Tho lecturor, who was vory attentively listonod to, cancludod by descrlbing an anciont Tgyptian funoral, nnd tho pecudiar boliof entortauiad by tho Igyptians rolutive to tha fulure_abode of good and bad, Irom their ‘*Sacrod Lake,” tho Graeks hind borrowed the River Styx, and from tholr * Elysipoot” a place of happiuoss, the “ Jiyslan Fiolds.” i S MINNESOTA DEMOCRACY AND THE NORTH. ERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. T'o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: MivNraroras, Minn,, Dee. 24,—I ask space in your paper to correot an error or two into which you hnvo fallon {n rolation to the position of the Domocratic party of this Stato towards the Northern Paclfic Railway. In your fsaue of tho 224 inst., you soy oditorlally (wponking of -tho proposod subsidiea asked for by tho Northorn and Sonthorn Pactfic Rallways): x5 1In support of thla‘jolnt scheme of giganilo public ‘robbery, the Democratio papcra of 81, Louis and of 81, Paul aro both enlisted, ey urgo upon tho Demo- cratto party, iu Congreas and out of it, to support and a1d Uils widloealo cliomio of publlo, roblery snd con- fiscation. Thoy scom to think that thero is now n chancofor Denocrals to maka frieuds witl Mamunon, and to go in and have thoir full abare In tho divislot of tuo apolia of tho plundered ‘Crensury, Thus tho 8t, Lowls Republican ohamplons th: Yexas end of ihe subsidy, whilo the 8t. Paul Pioneer olamors for tho ralicand thraugh the Northern wildernces, ‘Cha Democraty und carj L’b-lngfic" of tho Bouth aro ex- Recled to support {hin scliome, In tho first place, **Thore' milllons in it ; ? and, in tho noxt pince, hav- ing yolod £500,000,000 to Tom Beott, Jay Cooko & Co,, Congrems cannat well rofune to voe iive or six hundred other miilions to tho jupecunious people of tho Southierst States, Ono of tho chief issuca of the campaign in tlus Stato last fall was this very question of Bubsidy to the Nortuern Pacifio Hailway, Col. W. 8. King favorod a bill such ns is nosr boforo Congress, asking the Government to guarantea & per cent interest on tho bonds of the Northern Pacifle,—not only the bonds lo be issued for tho construction of the remaindor of tho road, but upon all the bonds already issued, Col, King was nominated by tho nasisiance of these very spoculativg bondbolders, npon tho specific agreement of working for such méasure. Tho Uon, F. Wilson, lifs Domocratic opponont, openly opposod this mensure, and, inovery specch ninde by him during tho campaign, denounced tho schemo, as TnE TunuNe now donownees it, an & gigantio schieme of nublio robbery.” Mr. ‘Wilson was dofented by tho vota along’the lino of the Northern Pacitio, which was cast for Col, Xing almost solid; defented becanse he occupicd the ‘sama honorable_grownd which Tz Ciucado TumoNe now ocoupfes. One word moro: Tho St. Paul Pioncer in not o Democratio papor, and does’ not’ claim to be. It iy owned bya uonq;lm\y of ring-spoculators, and tho hoavicat stockholdor is Col. Willinm 8. Ki Republican Congressman oloct from this distriet, Yo my sortain knowledys, this is trus. “I'lio position of the Demoeratio party n Minno- rotn to-dny 18, * No more Congressionnl subsi- dies to nnything,” Will you print tho above ns o watter of J USTICE, Seven Metals, Intho discovory of tho motals men flrat assorted their masiery over Nature ; yet tho dis- covery is still progressing. Botoro tile fifteouth contury only geven were positively known, Thoy were each hold sacred, smovg tho nncients, to somo ruling doity. Guld—is.destructible, mallen ble, the richest in coloring, the most precious of decorntions—was consecrated 10 Jupiter, or the sun, and bad already sssumed the snpremacy which it has novor lost. 1t was coined iuto the heavy davics of P'orsis and (ho nurcus of Im- perinl Romo. It was used to gild tomples and wtaluoy, wos wronght into rich jewelery, and wovenin delioato thronds that culivened tho tlowered atnfls of Babylon. Goll wines and gold-boaring streams wore found in Arabin, Syrin, Greeco, 1taly, and Spain, and tho pursuit of ‘the precions metal was carried on with various success by cotintless thronga of minors, Tho richest mincs, at least in lator ages, wero thoso of Spain; and the enormous pro- dueiivoness of tho Spavish soil was slowly ex- hausted by tho suceessive labors of tha. Cartha- ginians and tho Romans. o succossful way their industry, that but Jittle gold or silver can now be found i a torritory whero tho preolous motal onee Iny scattored i boundless profusion on the surface of tho earth. Silvor ranked next to gold, and was naomed from tho soft. light of tho moou. Who richesy silver miney wero thuse of Spam, It was wrought nto cups, viwes, lamps; adorned the bolmots and shioldy of warriors; and formod the costly myrross with which the Rtomuena ladios shucked tho nnntcrit{ of Lactautius or Jorome. Tho Lesutiful silver coivs of tho Groek nnd Roman eities ill modorn colleotions, Fivo otlier motaly — itun, copper, morcury, lead, aud tin—wore ¢m- ployed by the ancients for various purposes ; thoy ‘mado steol by u rude process, and brass without discovoring zino, . Tor many ages no addition wos mado to tho sacred soven. Throo thousand yoars passod nway before it was suspected that the number could bo inereased,~—a momorable example of tho slow- ness of human apprehension. - At length, in 1400, autimony was added to the metallic fuwil, and not far ol from the period of tho discovery of a new world, the chomists wore about toenter upou frosh fiolds of scionce, scarcoly less bound- less or Inviting. , ‘A second metnl, bismuth, camo 1n almost with tho Rolormation. Ziue, porkaps tho most im- portant of the now family, may bave proceded tho athors ; 1t wns certainly doscribed loug bo- foro, It s, indcoed, quito curious to notico how tho bright metnl had beon coustantly forcing itkolf upon tho nttention of ecaroful .observers, and_had yet been wholly ovotlooked, had beon used by the ancionts, in tho form of an ocarth, to color coppor into brass, and givo it a_shining surface like gold, was ween dropping from the Turnacos of tho iliddlo Agos, or moited in rich tlakes from their walls, ‘I'wo magicians, or philosophors, at last detoct~ ed tho error of ages; and Albortus Magnns aud Paracelsus, probably both discovered that zino woas a8 indestructible nud as freo from forcign subatances ns gold. 1t seemed & puro olomont. Parncelsus who was fondof peuctrating to the sourco of things, admits that he could not toll how thio bright motal grow ; nor in the helght of their magio renown was it ever foresoon that tho rate substauce tho sorcerors hsd discoverod would one dny shed knowledge, in tongues of firg, from Loudon to Japan. 'I'wo centuries followed, during which no me- tollic_substnnco was discovered. Parncclsus found no auceessor ; Albertus, almost the thist man of keignce in Europe, wus remembored only a8 o gorcoror. It waus not until 1733, thue tho vust field of metnlic discovery bogan to opou upon man. ‘I'wo vainable and well-known motals,~platinam and nickel,—among soveral others, ficst appearod_about the muddle of tho oightcenth conlury, Tho number of the motuls now rapidly oulargod; galvanism lent its aid to dinsolvo tho bardest onrihe ; aud ot length, in the opening of thio nineteonth contury, n cluster ot briliiant discoverloy nyouscd the curlosity of seionco. Tiach eminent philosopher scomed to produco now motalw, Berzolins discoverod threa; Davy, tho Paracclsus of bis ago, is tho seiontliis paroiit of fivo~potussium, sodinn, bariuw, stroutium, calclum, The numbors advanced, until already moro Lhau fifty motuls, of varions importaues, hivo boon given ta tho arts, Tho now oxperi~ ments 1 light have addod emsium and rubidium ; and no limit can now by tixed for tho metallic fumily, which for so many nges ombraced ouly seven mombors, tha embloms of the ruling gods,—Once a Weel, Dr, Rencaly and Nagnn Charta, Tr. Kenealy has issued o address to tho poo- plo of Englaud, Walas, sud Scotland, calling upon them o foun o Magna Charts Association of Grent Britaiu, tho objeot of which 1 tu rostoro Magna Charts, ovory clauso of which ho declares lins boon gradually ropenled. Ifo proposos to have committecs formed throughout tho hlufi- dom for the purposo. Ivery porson who sub- soribon 1 ponny o wock shnil be ontitled to be n wmomber of tho” Assoclation. Lvery twenty-four persony who subseriba to 1oceivo "two coples of tho Lnglishman weokly fros, ¢ Let mo huvo," oy bo, *a nllion subseribiers, and within two years 1 #hall havo o fund In hund which will ou- ablo mo to roturn 100 mombers of tho middlo und tho operativo class to Larliamont, and with thoso men nollug with mo, I will dostroy tho despotism thet now exists, Dut why should I not huyo wwo, threo, l{vu millions of whbscrivors to tho Agsociation? Why shontd I nat, in bwo eutd, havo o sum doposited in the names of tho "'rustoes for this grand Loague which will enablo its mombord to roturn 260 membors of tho oper- ative and middlo clnssos to tho Ilouse of Com- mous, und with thoso what wonders may there not bu nohlovad ! Uive thom to mo, and 1 will lond thon on to such o viotory ovor class logislu- tlon ug was nevor kuown {u Englund before, und Iwillso crush the worpent-houd of despotism that it novor bl rovive,* TILTON AGAINST BEECHER. A stinglng Reply to Mr. Beecher's Prommeciamento, Mr. Tilton Insists on Golng Into the Courts with All His Evidence. o Charges Mr. Beecher with Secking to Contrayeno ihe Endls of Justice by Cunniug Stratagem, Fram the New York Sun, Dec, 26, Thaodoro Tilton has nddrossed the following eard to tho public concorning the two trisls, the one clvil and the other criminal, involving bia controvorsy with tho Rav. Honry Ward Boocher : v B, TILTON'A GARD, Mr. Beechor’s pronunciamonto 1n the Ohris- lian Union this week roquiros e to roply as fol- lowa: g 1. 1have charged tho Rev. onry Ward Beechor with goduction and adultery. - LCheso charges I have alrendy proved to the full beliol of threo- quartors of tho peoplo of this nation, Inchidivg almost unnnimonsly tho logal professton, who, abovo all othur classos, arc moet compotont to wolgh ovidence. I now wait to repeat and sol- emnizo this proof i a courtof law. To this oud, two actions aro ponding in the City Court of Brooklyn, These are, first, n civil suit tnstituted by me ageinst Mr, Becoher: socond, a ortminal indistment proourcd by Mr. Boscher against me. Tho flrat of those causes, namely, mine againgt hiw, {s cantlnually thwarted by his atrango and unexampled demand for a catalogua of the par- ticular datcs and places at which ho committed bl acts of adultery. What s tho practical effoct of this domand? Tho soxual Intimnoy betwoon Dr. Bocchior and Mys. Tilton oxtended (nccord- Iug to thelr own account of it) from tho fall of 1808, through tho whole of 1809, into tho Bpring of 1870—overlapping threo succossivo yoars; nnd yob Mr. Boocher, whilo pubticly askivg for what ho calls tho fuliest investigation, requests moto dwarf and shrivel my proof of this pro~ longed criminality to two particular days, name- 1y, Oct. 10 and 17, 1808; o limitation which kus couusel ara willing to enlarga 20 as to fuclude an ontire autumnal month, dutlng most of which Mr, Boocher waa nbsent from Brooklyn, sholtered ina salo wlibl boyoud ou opportunity for crimo. It isan affront toothics and oquity, nud n miracle impossible, to lmit Mr. Beoclior's four- teon moutus of adulteries 80 two dayiw USWILLING TO APPEAR IN A FARCE, Accordlnglyl[iivc the publfo duo notico that, 80 far 08 thie civil enso is concorned (which s the only one controlled by me), I shall go mnto Conrt ou tho firat day when I am pormitted to carry all my evidoncoe with me, but never while I muat lenve ninc-tenths of this ovidence outside {ho door. Inother words, to try Mr. Bocebor for adultory, withi the adultery earefully forbidden to bo proved, i & fare ot which I ani not. burle- quiu enough 1o play in those sad days. 1L Monnwhilo, sinco Mr. Beechor i1 seaking to baflle my caso ngainst kim, I challenge him to cnd this by-play of strife over 8 bill of particu- lars by callivg up his case against me. This Lo Ling power to do at any moment, What is this cnso 2 On the 3a of Octobor Inst Mr. Beecher wout before n Grand Jury in Brooklyn, and by his own oath procurod agaiust mo_au iudiotment for libel, ‘Fiis indictment Iurnishos tha best cao to tost tho roal issuo botweon Mr. Bescher aud me. ‘Pius roal issue is_not whether he shail puy mo o hundred thougaud dolars for ruining my home (though not a_ponny of this monoy would 1 accept, even if a hundred juries should multipiy it to o million), but simply whether tho Rev, 1leury Ward Boechor is guilty of sednction and nduitery, And whatever complications mny cxist in my oivil action oguinst dir. Boockor for damages, eliciting his ceaseless domand for par- ticulars, on the othor hand, simplicity itsel? i uot mora simple than Mr, Doocher's criminal oaso agninst me for fibel if I haye accused bim fuliely. In this criminal caso 1 sball neither troublo bim for partioulnrs, nor drivo him from tho Special Term to tho Genoral, nor drag him to Albauy to tha Court of Appoals, nor compel him to ury his causo with n more titho of his ovidence, nor in_any mabner impose ou him goksamer's weight of diliculty in his bringing me to 1nuucn. Moreover, in his crimiual caso he will bo relieved of his jh-omoncd fears of civil damages; lio will havo tho astack iustead of the dofonse ; bo will bo entitled to tho lnst word to the jury; and if I have borno falso witness againgt m ho will Lo able not only Lo prove me giilty, but to send mo to tho penitontiary, GIANGES OF TIICK: 111 1 am advised, and belie that tho cun~ nitg manngors of Mr. Beocher's uufoty are scels- ing Lo contrayouo tho ends of justico by the fol- Towing stratagom, to wit: us soon as DMr. Beecbior's conusol shall have rostiictod mo 5o a8 to make inadmissible my proofs of Lis fourleon monthe of sdultery (thus cutting tho very Lioart's core out of the civil suit), their plun then is to suddenly withdraw the criminal indicimont agninst me ; which withdrawal js to bo explaned to the public by AMr. Boechor's chief champiou and fellow-suloror under a chargo of seduction, the editor of tho Brooklyn Lagle, aa an acl of unoxamplod maguavimity shown to me by ir. Beceher, By this plan_of operations I am to be pre- youted trom trying Mr. Bocchor i tho civil suit ; Mr. Boecher 8 at the ssme timo to be saved from the grim necessity of trying mo undor the criming) indictmont : und do, by theso two do-~ vices, Mr. Loechor s to osenpo trial attogothor, 1 respoctfully request all fair-minded possons to unito in dotermining that dMr, Beecher shall not bave the moral support of the community, oithor in thus compelilng mo to restrict miy lvmnlu of hig aaulterics of 1808, 180Y, and 1870 0 two days, nor in hiy schome of firsy procuring against mo a criminal indictment for tompornty mr;lnz, and thon withidrawing it from subsequons tridl, THE PARTICULARS. IV. Touching Mr. Boochor's renewed demands for impossibla particulars, I hore repent in sub- stanco what my countol presented boforo tho court n fortmght ngo, in pmmrh Tuliliment of their pledgo to supply o6 a Lulf how's no- tico oll the particulars which sossed, Thoy aro thoso: Yhat Alenry Ward Beechor _commi nots of adultery with Mrs, iizaboth . Liiton on the 10th and 17th of October, 1868, and ub intorvals thoroatter till tho spring of 1870 ; that the said nots wero committed at 124 Columbin stret and 174 Liviugstono atreot, in the City of Lrooklyn ; that confessions ot theso ncts were mado by Mra, Yitton ou the 3d of July, 1870, and at other tinios ; that similar confessions wera made by Mr. Beechor on the J0th of December, 1870, aud ot othor timoa ; that tho contessions of Mra. ‘Iilton_were_miado to Mrs, Martha B, Bradshaw, Ars. Emma R, Moulton, Mr. Francis D, Moul- ton, myself, and othors ; that tho confessions of M. Doochor wero mado Lo Mr, and Mrs, floul- ton, mysell, and othoers,—to say nothing of a aories Of Mr, Boocher's lottors, by which ho makos plain confesslon of his gullt” to il who can read and think, E ‘THEODORE'S DEMANDS, And I rospectfully submst that the statement of partionlar, of whicl tho forokoing 1 a digest, and which way laid by my couusel before the court and tho public mauy duys ago, is sufll- crontly oxplicit t0 warrant mo in now domanding that Mr, Becclor shall either bo estopped by public opinion from imposing unheard-of ro- striotions ou my ovidonos iu_tho civil cano, or olgo that ho shall forthwith begin Liv eriminal prosocution. Turthesmoro, I askt all juet mon to join with mo in doclaving that, if Mr, Boccher shall still furthor olog aud bamper thoe clvil notion on_the ono hiand, und af the samo timo shall withdraw tho criminal prosccution on the olhor, thus using Loth theso casos only to prevent me from submitting to a Juty tho ganoral fuot of his long- continued adultery, Mr, Boechor shall than bo deomed fo havo confessod judgmout, and munt stund self-ncknowlodged a8 guilly bofore the civilized world, Turopons TiLroN, Buoowys, Doe, 35, 1814, R o e SN A samson Who Lifted §,000 Poundy . and Mow e Did WO poH- tho Rov, From the Baltiwore Awmerican, It was oveuing, and the crowd of “Fakira™ that usually iufest Iolidny streot, noar it moro, woro out in full force, when Lrof, Corkor, o distinguishod Itineront from tho Soutl, appears ed upon the scono, and, wounting & curbstono, lot out his porsunsivo sloquoncs, - Tho Frofemsor wuy & lean, cadavorous-looking indiyidual, within Rorgoous nocktie, n gronsy snit of clothes, & uhovkluiz bad hat, and au oxconsivoly dirty abiri, The hat was cocked back jauntily, exposiug n \'ur{ buld hoad, adorned her and tioro by small tufls of thin, blonde halr, which served to point out the moro fortile spota ln his cranium, Il smiled goad-naturedly and talkod In w por- foct streakt, whilst Jestor, the tndomituble tooth-pasto man; Towers, the proprlnzur tho great Amoriean Jung-toster, and Calklns, tho votoran poddlor of tho Baudiich lslaud pusto Llacking, ono coat of which I warranted to keep a pair of cowhildes liko mirrors for six waolt, all locked savape, and inwardly oxecrated the ex- tromo volubility of Prof, Corker, When a good Loalthy crowd lind gathiored around the I'rofeu- sor ho nunoutncod that he was the only living man in Amoriea who oxhiblted ong of ** Ioudi= im‘u Nattonal Strength~Lestors,” and sct forth ta virtuos, snying, * Auy man kin telf his powers ton hair by lifling the lover, an' I only charges tho lvin sum_of 19 cents. I hov linown men to 1i£t 2,000 pounda onsior on my machino than thoy could Iift 1,000 on another,” To_any follor that Jifts 2,000 pounds I will Elvu #1, an’ to s man who_jorks her up to 2,600 I'll givo §5. Now, who'll talo n chnnco?” Roveral protty hoalthy- looking mon horo como up and ook ‘a pull at tho machine, Ono lifted 1,160 and tho othor 1,700 pounds. * Putty good hist," remarlk- ed Prof, Corker, ns ho squitted & mouthful of tobnceo Juteo against tho curbstone, *but not nigh o poworfil oz 1 hov soon.” Ab iy mo- meut a very strong boy eame up and ralsed K00 with enre. Prof. Corker kald ib was o * rignt smart Wit fur n boy, but I knowed a follor in Now Orlenns that hadu't ent nuthin fur a whole day, an’ bo Jorkad hier up to 2,000 like n firt.” The romarkablo powoers of the New Orlenns man in- duced sovornl ambitions auditors to try thoir stronpth, aud for sovoral minutos Prof. ‘Corkor ook 10-cont atamps with nmazing rapidity. Aftor annmbor of mon had tried their strength, a {lashy-looking young man, with red hair and @ very frockled foco, pushed his way through the crowd and remarked to Trof,” Corker, ' Yor, sy, if & follor Jorks up 2,600 ho gots a fiver?” * You, sir,” said Trol. Corker, 1 will" “Well, now, nponen 1 do It an’ you haint got tho chinnge, how thon " T'he Professor oyed tho physieal” devel- opmonts of the nowcomor, and, notiinding them murnlnty‘ onid, with an injured airs I ainlno bilk, an’ I'll put up:.tho fiva dollars uutil you mako thatrial,” Whilo Prof. Qorker was making ho nbovo aunouncement, tho strauge youug man closely examnined tho machine, and finatly said, “All Klght." ‘Tho money was thon placed in n bystander's honds, tho erowd wea pushed Dback, tho young man spit upon his hands, winked kuowingly at tho crowd, and graspod tho handlo,” 1lis back bent n trifle, but 1t _straight- onod ngain immedistely s he ralsed up the handles, and a8 he raised tho fluger o tho 1ndi- cator, ib flirted around with uuaccouniuble rapidity, until it reached BADD pounds, was tho oxtremo eapaoity of the machino, crowd was astonished ; Prot, Corker modo n rush for the machiue, tho young man grabbed tho &5 from the stakeholdor, and a8 ho olhowed his wiy through the crowd snid: * Look a-hear, old Corke, 1 haint hind nothin’ to ont for g weelk, I'm o brothor of that air Now Orloans follor it lifts & ton, an' tha only difforonce atween us is, that I ue'd tor run o Littlo Giant Liit- ing Machine myself,” Tho Professor wworo that somothing was wrong, and on procuring o light ho discoverod that tho un- kerupulous young Samson who had fust thon doparted with tho £6 hnd, whilo oxaminiu, tha machino, lookened & serow which Tald tho spring 5o that & 5-year-0ld boy might, it 80 disposed, have putlod tho whole interior’ of tho machino out by the roots. Prof. Corker lontned sftorwards that tho real name of tho young Samson alluded to above wns Brooks, and that bio way a one-horso ** Fakir," who had, dur- ing tho carly part of tho ovonine, sold Bickly's sealing wax, a composition warianted to repair anytlung from a broken snucer to a fracturod wooien leg, on thio othor sido of the strect, At Inst nccounits Prof. Cotkor was searchiug di gontly for Brooks at the various hash outabligh- monts ou Market space. Tho Contenninl Exhibition. A London lofter, dated Dec. 11, to the Cinein- nati Commercial containg the following bit of Information concorning the progeess of tho Con- tounial 1ixhibition ; 4+ Col, Forney Is naturally in_high spirits at 1o cordin} tortus in which the Englisk Goveru- ment Lns tinally acceded to the thrico-ropented invitation of tho Presidont to unite in the Iixhi- bition, Some of us may ontertam & donbt whethor tho iuvitation was not ropeated twico too ofteu, but wo cannono_the loss apprecinte tho unweariod devotion of tho Colonel to the task in which b bLns for fivo monshs concon- trated his powors, and the achievemont of which is unquostionably duo to Lis prosenco amang us. 1is jutelligouce und his bonkommie, lus wido ne- paintance with American and bis iuterest in English affairs, his intimato acquaintence with tho private history of Liucoln's administration, which porsosses such a romantie interest for tho Lnglish, his rich fand of anecdote, which rarely faily to fascinato tho table,—theso havoall mado him & prominent tiguro in this losser of the two seasons into which London life is divided, in which & lion is always in demind, ‘The Colonel anvounced tho conclusion at which the Euglish Governmout hnd arrived 8¢ » divmer to which ho bad fovited about twenty of his frionds,— both Amorican and Linglish,—aud the congratu- lations were henrty, Among tho guesty pres- out woro Col, ‘orbort, our Consul at Puris; Mr. 3loran, Gen, Dadenu, Mr. Cuuliffo Owon (Di- roctor of South Keusington), Mr, Baruot, of Bultimoro ; Joaquin Miller, Idmmud Yates, Mr. Sauer, of the Now York IHerald; Mr. Dleiro Gerard, of the Now York Workd; and Col. T'ullex, of the Cosmopolilan. Mr., Smalloy was unabls to bo prosent, beiug in Paris. Why Gen, Sehonck was sbsent I cannot say, Bpecclios wero made, sontimonts wore drunk (out no one. elso was jn that condition), and felicity reignod in overy broast, unloss it bo that of Jouquin, who, 1 thought, was disposed lo resent tho por- sisteney of tho waitor in_offering him things aftor he had ouough., ITor somo timo nll who hiave boen interested in tho Contennial Exhibi- tion have fixed upon Mr. Cunlufo Owen as tho mnn to undertako tho superintondonco of tho Euglish Division at Philadelphia, in_caso, his Goverumont should detormtno favorably, Mr. Ovwen lias no aulmrlor in energy and ready intol- ligence, and his qualities were manifosted in lus ndmirablo work at the late Vienna Exposi- tion. Lmuy romatk, also, without going into particulars, that every American In Lutope hag reason to own a dobt of gratitudo to Mr, Owen for his gonorons eudenvors to save their section in that cxbibition from disgruco. I was Luppy to receive the information from Mr. Owon, by whoso sido I had the good fortune to sit nt Col. Torney’s dinnor that, it his sorvices wero de- manded at Philadelphia, he would endeavor to go. Aslhey certainly will bo domanded, there 16 0 fair prospect that Americn will have a vigitor of whom sho mny nover have heard, but who would be of incomparable value us au adviser in any plac whera musoum buildiug, art-training, or industrinl eduention nre ordoers of the day, A&rcmlyvmr. Owen liag beon Col. Fornoy's bost adyisor.” A Sleeping-Car Episodes Tha Uniontown (1's.) Standard nnrntes this oxauting incident : ** A Tow nights ago a lndy pe- sengor on tho westward-bound train, Connell- vill6 route, engaggd a borth in ong of the palics sloaping-conchici® When sho was ready to retiro sho took from hir eatchel a gum-bod, which sho intlatod and placed upou the regulat bed in tha berth she was to ocoupy. 1t happenod that Lior berlh was vory closo to the Btove, and tho night being rathor ‘cold, tho porter firett up pratty llvely. ‘U'he heat from tho stove caused the gum- ved to expand until the pressuro got ko great that it collnpeed with o tremendous shock, wim- ilar to the report of n cranon, and, tho pukson= gern Juipod ou of thelr borib in thow night- clothes, thinking thero was a colllsion. 'The foreo of tha collapso throw tho Indy ngainst the cuilivg of tho berth, Lut did not urt hor boyond o slight bruise. Whou the real rtute of niluirs wis inown, and the Indy was found to bo unlwrt, the thing created considerablo morriment among tho pssongors, and that Indy vows sho will nover take any moro gum-beds with her when sho goes a-traveling,” AMUSEMENTS, HATSTED-ST, OPERA HOUSE, Gorner of Halstad aud Iarelsou-sts, TRIUMPEANT SUCCESS ! TART WREK TRICHARD 1L, Wednor Felday~tinly Ny . Now Year's Matl Batuniay Night. Batneds My Kully & Laon! LE PE MARQUERITE ovonfug and Hat on Now Year's ay, tprainldeviens i clonults Erotional I t Appotntimonts, ARRIVAL AND EXPLAXATION 0P copiod. rive 02 Ll sy and Thitrsday—Onfy N AT Matinoa~ HAMLET, #~ Remoniber, thy ONDAY, Doo, 23— ennslation of Hervo's comlo oporn, ¥ Kunday ozeep indy uL 8100 A, 1 CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD, l ‘earner Mactionsslyy wnil 0t e e Lo Lolds L AR MoVIOKER'S THEATRE, of tho Brilliant Kingagomont of EDWIN BOOTH. AMonday and Tuosday—Only Nights of Richard LXX. ++ KDWIN DOOTIH, AL B AR ocond wook of (ho groat auct " TIT FAUST! wererersTHIE ONLY LEON, KELLY & LEON'S FAMOUS MINSTRELS In & il of yunclvallod comiealltion. vory Evonlug it Wodnowday and 5 S grand purformancos Now ¥ea turday Matinoos. Y, HOOLEY'S THEATRE. GREAT HOLIDAY T irdny 1 onday, Dec. %, evory nno, Grand Spnoial Matinea on which oeonslon witl bo revived, by foat siccess of tha soagon, Dion tou. ASTIRATS Whioh atinined n £an of 160 roprasontations at the Unlon Bquaro Theatre, Now Yark, ark, Now Sconto Kffoots, Klo- nnd an Unegualod Cast, “{n proparation—Tho Buston 3uscum's groat sucaoss, s uston Musounu gr ons, _RAILROMD TIME TABLE, DEPARTORE OF TRATNS, n ot Baturiay ox- ‘oxcopted, | Ar- (Sherman iHonse), a aOmalin Night lizo: alitaoport & D W aDubtiaug Night lix. via Clintoii 41 i a lycenort & Dubugno 13 ross. ubuquo liavross. rosh, elln and IKinzio naland Kinzio.sts, and soot s Ticenty-teconist, saudieast carner of* Randolph, Stadison, Mail (via Day Kxpr Fackson A ‘Atlantic Kxpress, Night Kz pro Morning Expros Nlgnt iixpress, pross, GUAND RAPIDH. 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Cruaso, N aul & Minucapolfs theougt| s nlso, vin Mifiwsukoe, Afenashin & Groon Hay. 00, Mudisun, Praifi Milwaukoo & La Grosso Tiéinigr. ) Arrivs, Looal,., soal, 9302 m, * 7:45 p. m. in, Ositkouh, i * 4:00p. m. s’ nistia, Greon| *5:00 0. . [*11:008, m. + 820 o110 g, ILLK’-;QI? CE’:(['I‘IO.“\L TAILROAD, af Tcenty.econd-at, ot s A e Ticked §t. Louis Rxpres St Ci 0.t N ot Naw Orlosy elugtielil. Peorly Dubuano Dubuaus & Fi. Do Glluan Lasaonior, P Louis Fast Lino. New Orleans joux Qity Iix, 0 16) Ttrrive, & Koo Depots, oo and al depiots, t af, Lake-st, Ind anil Cinal and Sixteentlesto, CHICAGY, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD, , ianu-av, and Sixteenth. Ticket ‘Oces, 63 Clarks Mafl and Expro Utiawa and St ant Sity, Lo, osopl ol Taxus Expcess.v... Aurors Passouier, Atrora Bassenger, Aurvra Passonier Dubng; Siouxf o Nt [Eap, chlson & Suny From Central Deq seeond-st, _Tic Dubiwiug & st Uity Kep. Line, tor Onalid z h Ruuaa Cltg, Ladvommurt AMondota, Ottawa & SiFhtor Pass Kanas Oltg, Leavomwari, AL, Bt Fosep ey 1 Diwacra ey Avsommodaiion| 'k Doymer’stiroye Accomuadation) Do e Agcainty o Areice, ity Bxp. for Omilia., faot Laike-tt,, and depot foof Tieentys ires 131 Hatorpiiatcs i et togt it & G uross (dally), Arrive, * 9:058, m, 7:35 p, m, el 8:25p. . 7158, . CINCINNAT! Freom Pittabury, Cincinnl ner Clinton and Carroll. Sandolplissty wnd uf deyor. AR LINE AND KOKOMO LINE, o St Lauis Railicay depot, enr- Weat Sidde, Ticliet agice, 191 Tndlanspolte, Loutas(llo & Clacin.| | arriee, nntl Day 3press ..o, * 8:008, . |* B ]mllnlm“nl:lhx};u?:vlllu& Uitaniss] 00y fia o pian, atd (oS cenvennys 7:30p. m.]_7:408, m, From depot carner PHTSBURD,“CINCINNATI & ST, LOUIS RAILROAD. {hinton awt Cirrotiaa T Calimbive Pt Night Izapross (fuily il ices SO Iransimiphester il et ST4e Teate, Columbue, Pittst York i * 8:000. m, 730, tn, . 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