Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1875, Page 10

ikem ec Sieben tenets mentee as ete ne ere cme aye, | i 10 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1875.---SIXTEEN PAGES. ON THE RAGGED EDGE. Theatrical Features of the Beecher-Tilton Trial. How Beecher and His Wife Now Look and Act. The Set-to Betwoen Monlton and Tracy af the Close of the Former’s Ex- amination. The Witnesses Following: Mrs. Brad- shaw, Mr. West, and Mr. Woodruff. Evarts Splintering Lances with Beach and Fullerton, Special Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, Baooxxxx, Jan. 27.—Lo-day, after an unneces- warily prolonged appearance in the character of a witness, Frank Moulton. made-his final exit. ‘We all felt that the prescntetion of a ser- vice of piste, or some other public “extension” of good wili, ought to have signalized that stage of our fiower-sirewn jonmey to verdict. For ‘wo bave long abandoned sll contemplation of this affair as a serious, matter-of-fact trial; and, if it were not for the depressing gravity and earnestness of Indge Neilson, I should be prepared to sea Shearman give a cue; Beach, Failerton, Evaris, and Tracy start the first qua- drilie; and the whole dismal melodrama end in & tremondous “break-down” by all the char- acters. Beecker's entre-chata, and a brisk adagio by Tilton, would enrichthese proceedings with a something both sppropriate and gratify- ing. ‘THE THEATRIC FEATURES of the extertainment nd augmentation every day. In spite of the Judge's indignant protest, hearty applanse rewards every telliag passage in the forensic dialogue ; while the constitution- ai priviiege of hissing has not boen allowed to ‘become altogether ovsoleta. One of the serious necessities of tho performance is a brass band. ‘There are getting to be a good mang unmeshing and tedious gaps and intervals, which Wagner- ian music could satisfactorily fillup. The dis- position of an. orchestra under tne Banch, to “play” the principalsin and ont of Court, a3 well as to interspetsé the leral proceedings with lively popular airs, is the only thing—barring an. ‘occamonal breath of fresh air—needed to reoon- cile the general spectator to his lot. It is true thst tho general spectator ean keep away. Butto keep away fromthe Beocher trial when you can getin, is » test of eclf-restraint upon which nobody in Brooklyn has as yet ventured. Hence, perbapa, the murderous atmosphere of the Court. ‘The trial bas settled down into A LOCAL INSTITUTION, excelling tho Mercantile Library as s favorite resort. ana seriously defecting the lobbies of the City-Hall, As between 8 meeting of the Board { Supervisors end the City Court, there is posi- ‘tively no choice, Indeed, I am inclined to be lieve thst it wes purely out of consideration for the matinees that Saturday became a dies non. Intrepid persons hang round the side-entrance of the Court, just as, after dark, they hang round Mrs. Conway's siage-door. Gentlemenof stiudivg in the commumty make it a point to be on the sidewalk when Tilton emerges; aid Beecher's entrances and exits are always effected throagh a long and whispering lane of specta- tors. Atreet-cats wait for tho vomiting forth of tho crowd, just 08 they do for the theatrea ; -and The tris] is out,” fixes an hour ia iho ‘popular diary. To have endured & session is a3 neceasary a social prophylactic a3 vaccination it- self ; and he ouly is exempc from the derision of our “first circles” who bas spent five pamnfal hours ou’ tip-toc, drinking in ove of Mr. Bears" ic atgumenta on the admissibility of doc- ‘uumeutal evideace. EDWARD BEECHER, who looks something like bis brother, except that ho wears & giayish-yellow Yeard, withoat s mustache, end odd” white ringlets over bis vars, entered the Court soma time Lefore the great: defendant. He was as compznied by his wife, a comfortably-plump aud metronly old lady ; a Mrs. Pratt, thin and sallow; anda Mrs, Nelson. stall, suarp, and not un- Eke Mis. ‘filton. These three ladies—who seem- ed utterly indiffereut to the curious stare of ths crowd—cettled down like 2 leash of partridges into the seats usually oconpied by Mra. Tilton, ‘Mrs. Shearman, and Field. é Shortly after the commencement of the aea- COLE sion, HENRY WARD DEF azd his fierce old eongort bustied into the cham- ber,—thus avoiding the evidently disagreeable reception which the phalanx invariably “ex- tends” tohim. Poor Caldwell, who has consti- tuted himself Grand Superintendent of the Bosal Camp-Stools.seemea quite abached by this strategic move on the part of Mr. Beecher, and, curving bis back dromedary-fashion, painfully whispered bis salutation over three close ranks A the faithful, Assooa 23 Beecher was seated, ahd the blood had faded out of his swollen fea- tures, he rolled his eyes round the Court, sweet: ing in, es witb a net, alltbe familiar faces with which the audiencejs sprinkled. Waen bison gaze encountered that of an acquaintance, he would gently nod his head and murvaur a greet- ing, which was inaudible io everySodr except bimeelf. ‘That important duty performed, he straightened himself, leaced back m his chair, thrummed With bis fidgers cn his wife's shoulder, and stared, rather vaguely, at Moulton. MES. BEECHER looked whiter and more ghastly stern than érer: There are only two spots of color ir her face, two ecariet beacons of pain, one flancing on each cheek. ‘Those two funeral lamps burned with dresdful tre to-day. -Her lips are always dry, and, when her trembling tongue moistens them, the closes her eyes: as if, indeed, she Were very, very Westy. Spe seldom specks to her husband, who appears equally indifferent to iis wife's suf- ferings, Tho anguish of s cancer;is the rack upon which ler nérves aro stretched, atd the aggravation of her physical torture by the men- tal pain eho too clearly undergoes, excuses tho Listone violence of her temper. She dresses richly. and to-day exhibited on ber stooping per- Fon the handsomest seal-skin sack ever seen by most of the audience. Mr. Bevcher did not stay very long this morn- Ing, but returned shortly after the post-reces- sional proceedings had commenced, and waited Mil their end. MOULTON AND TRACY. Moulton only escaped from the tormentors jase before the hour for recess. He fonced with ‘racy to the very last, and once pierced that broadswordsman 60 ¢ieau through bis mail that the General winced, and called spon the Judge to admonish the witness. Bat the Judge, ruling ont the thrust, refused the admonition; at which ‘Tracy bit his mustache, and eighed for. an hour of Jadge McCue. Moulton shortly afterwards gavoduia examiner the lie direct so obvionsly that ‘racy must have repented having given him the chance. Ho was asking the witness if he (the General) had not dove this and that, and said suck and such, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel inter- view; to ail of which earnest queries Moulton Gatly anid, “No,” and ‘You did not.” At tast the pulling and hatling of the Is dove, aud, responding to Fallerton’s ali," the : MOST DEMAREAELE WITSESS ON RECORD languidly discended from tho chair in which, to avert Judge Neilso, “36 had been tortured for ten days.” suet vefore Moulton was released from his pillory, Judge Morris left the Court with a char- acceristic emirk upon bis Hebraic features. Ina minute or two be returned, piloting into the roum a plainly-dreased, square-shouldered wom- an, who might have been New England Puri- tamem incarnate. Hors was a large, round face, with high cheek-bohes, a wide mouth, bair asceticaliy beemoothed, and eyes closed tight a5 if che were comn: izing. She gasped elient- Js for breath, and mesaced ber coudactor with a trois feminine swoon. So acutely did the poor creature euffer that everybody bad a word of armpathy for her—except Mrs. Beecher. That Spartan wife stared grimly and scorafully at the palpitating woman who was Tilton’s second wit- ness. Mouiton had just stepped down when the exiar called for “MARTHA 4. BRADSHAW ;” ‘upon which thé Pale Calvinist dropped ber head on her left shoulder, and fecbly ed to the ‘@bait. he Sook bai post us ak weve abond to finally pose herself under the gallowe-ttee. Her | testimony was compar: ly unimportant.— ving, mostly, the original Bappiness, of the ton honsehoid before Mr. Beecher trespassed ‘upon its serenity. After recess, the prosecution treated the ene- my to a surprise in the person of ‘ME. WILLIAM F. WEST, the official accuser of Mr. ‘Tilton before the Ex- amining Committee of Plymouth Church. ‘The defense were, of couree, prepared to seo Mr. ‘West on the stand; but they were not prepared to find him a plain and candid witnoza against his pastor, The drift of his evidence was, that Mr. Beecher had constantly, and sometimes an- grils, protested against an investigation into the charges which existed ‘‘derogstory to his Christian charscter.” Particularly loath was Mr. Beecher to have Tilton stirred up,—discouraging by threats aud expressions of anger overy at- tempt to revive the buried secret. ‘Mr. West is of singularly-insignificant appoar- ance, to be concerned in this romantic spectacle. His counterpart may be discovered any day in any large dry-goods store, measuring out tape, or doing brisk business in spools of cotto: The regnlation mutton-chop whiskers, slig! moustache, aud feeble chin, aro all faithfully conserved in Mr. West's tout ensemble. Tho religious element crops out in the almost min- isterial sobriety of his necktie. His forchead ia a trifle broader than that of your average knight of the yardstick, aud his eycbrows are thick and shaggy,—these being the only points in which his appearance differs from that of the typical “counter-jumper.” His voice is acareful and elaborate drawl—though it is only just.to say that his enunciation 18 perfectly clear, and his yocabulary copious. West evidently has brains, ‘but you have to drill a holo through 2 feet of of Plymouth Rock to reach them. His showing of Mr. Beecher's hostility to investigation was thoroughly passionloss, cold, and trathful. Be- ing negative sort of testimony, and delivered ‘With judicial indifference, it fell rather flat upon. an audience educated by this time to relish Moul- ton’s sauce piquante. While West was testifring, the defendant's face became suffused once more by the maur- gent blood which will, sooner or later. i DUENCH HIS BRAIN. A ‘That the inundation was painful, Mr. Beech showed by forcibly compressing ‘hia lips with two of his fingers, as if he could shriek were it not for the crowd and the circumstances. But bo, by and by, grew cool; and when West, descending from the chair, solemnly nodded to the preacher against whom he had been bearin, such signidcaut witness, a smile of the mosi malicious scora curled his pastoral lips. ‘West had passed into history and out of Court some moments beforo Mr. Fullerton called “FRANKLIN WOODRUFF.” But Mr. Woodruff maintained the business reputation of his honse by sharply stepping to the chair the instant his name was flung upon the auditorr. Thus challenging inspection, he looked the typical American merchant,—largo~ headed, open-taced, wide-chested, with plenty of 200m in his physical economy for every vital or- an, aud a spacious brain-pan fully occupied, ois poseessed of a remarkable persou,—tho Spread of hia shoulders and the girth of his breast being exceptional. Honesty, candor, and ebrewdness are tho characterivtics of his face, which is broad and ruddy, with closcly-cropped gray side-whiskers, a firm mouth, and biuish-gray eyes. Hissonsivle, unostentations manber show- ed convincingly how surerior is the training for such experiences as the present, which commer- celal habits provide. To Mr. Woodruff, as to Mr. Moulton, the trial wes a matter of business,— not mete sentimental gingerbread. The Gospel of Trado is a hard, practical book, and tts read- ers ret a trick of looking at everything betwoen ledger-lints, Ho had just opened his mouth to testify toa certain famous interview: in which Gen. Tracy had taken part, when Mr. Evarts vro- fected his features in high reliof against the window, and ssid, “I object.” At this, of coutse, there was AN LAMEDIATE BATTLE, Evarts wound 2 blast of detience upon the Beecher trumpets, aud Fullerton, himself wax- ing red, forthwith out with his blade and began to cutand thrust, But Evarts was too apt a master of fence for Fullerton to subdue: so Beach, flaid aud silvery, rose to his collesgue’s assistance. Tho rest lookett on. Fullerton, ro- inforeed by Beach, went of like a Catherine- wheel, celuging the enemy with brilliant repar- en sat down. Not so Beach. With Evarts, an Ionic column, bebmnd him, he carnest- ly and forcibly insisted upon bis point, and keel qilite passionate ax he proceeded. Faller- tou’s sang froid makés Evarts furious. Beach's cs Lim. So, when bis opponent had finished, Evarts, in tones of icy sarcasm, sub- mitted’ his own argument. Both showings wera go specious that His Honor asked time to docide ; snd be béd scarcéty made the request before it wwas the hour to adjourn. So, up to the present, ‘Mr. Woodruff has said nothing. * ‘Tho question at issue mvolved TRACY'S RELATION TO ik. BEECHER; andthe two most interested epediafors of the strngzle were certainly the implicsted lawyer atid hisclient. Mr. Beecher fidgated in his chatr, rose and whispered to Shesrman, scribbled in a note-book, pared his finger nails, thranimed on his wife's shonider, but ail the time watched the debate withan anxiety whicli is daily growing upon him. Tracy frowned aud gnawed his au- oer) lip, but otherwise kept his teclings to him- self. ‘The Beecher party seem to keep a roster of their women, from which they de 4 FEMIXINE REPRESENTATION for Court~duty every day. The younger Mrs, Beecher, Mrs. “Itosie” Raymond, and the field corps of gensdarmeric, are olf guatd just now. In their place, the three ladies _elsawnere men- tioned were on post. During West's examina- tion, he quoted Sir. Beecher as appiving a stroug, not to sav unearorr, Saxon monosylabis to Meu- dames Woodbull and Claflin. Some of the ten- der sex snickered ; but the Beccher women hero- {cally swallowed the epithet without so mnch ag a gulp. Docros Syntax. ee ee eee THINK NOT AGAIN OF ME. ‘My heart is locked within my breset, ‘Its throbbing all are still i It has no object here on ‘No mistion to fulbill : ‘Tuen turn swey, thou friend of mins, ‘And once again be free; With others Ict ty tove be shared— ‘Think not agahi of me, Go yeninong the proud, the gay, ‘And revel in thelr mirth + But ob! forget that you and I Have ever met on earttt, My soul can ne’er be Linked with thine, ‘Ay heart beats not for thee ; ‘With others let thy love be shared— ‘Think not again of me. Guovitixn Corrics, 18 ———— The Ofenheim Cxse. The great Ofenheim caso, which has now talen the form of a criminal process against tiio Epp, ex-Managing Directors of the Lemberg-Czerno- wiez Rashigs, is exciting attention. in Anstro- Hungary. “itis now sixteen months sinca tho then newly-appointed Minister of Commere, Dr. Banhans, laid the line under sequestration, after a serious official controversy, in the course of whicb his own fall trom office was confidently predicted as the result by Ofeuheim's support- ers, Who were numerous in the Legislature and strongly represented in the press. ‘Three months later the commission charged with the inquiry into the affairs of the company, which bad been largeiy aided by the State, recommended Herr Ofenhim’s arrest for fraud, which was duly car- ried out. He was released from prison on fin ing bailto the required extent off £100,000; but the inquiry still wont op, and he has been brought to. trial on no fewer thao ten distinct charges connected with his management. Among these are the having misappropriated £190,000 by dividing this sum secrotly among five promoters, he himself being the chief ; raising the compensation charged by landowners in many cases to a higher figare in the accounts, and pocketing the differences ; reserving a sub-contract for timber for himself, and supplying ench bad staff that the line lost £7,000 on the bargain; defracding the State of atamp duties, lergély on the false pretéhce that the contracts were signed in England; and ob- taning privately a concession for himself and certain associates to carry the lino on into Bol- davis, in order to sell it to tbe Company with- ont the knowledge of the shareholders, each of the confederstea pocketing £10,000 by tho trasaction. As Herr Ofenheim lived for some Years with all the magnificence proper to a -rail- road king, and as several eminent persons, in- cluding Dr. Giskré, the ex-Minister of Com- merce, bave their names mixed up with thé scan- dais reported on-by the Commission, the trial is naturaily looked forward to with groat interest at Pesth and Vienna, pccslcciiaise a ‘The Gee as a Scavenger. From the Schoharie (N. ¥.) Renublican, A mouse found its way into the hive of one of our amateur bee men, not jong since, and the intrader was found desd and completely imbed- ded in wax, The mouso, having a sweet tooth, crept into the hive to steal honey, but, unfortu- nately, eroused the inmates, and before be could find his way ont again was atung to death, By and by decomporition set in, and Mr. Mousey began to disseminate a bad smell, which bees cannot tolerate; but, finding it, impossible to hustle him over the ramparte, as they do other nuisances, they went energetically to work and zesled him up in wax, hermetically sealed him, in fact, eo that not the slightest odor escaped to tho high-toned, inhabitants, make the hive unpleasant for @ttremely néat And aisanly ON A LIQN-HUNT. The Adventure of an Ameri- can Tourist in Algeria. What Befell by the Way, in a Camp of Monkeys. A Small Monkey-Wrench and a Large Monkey-Rescucs In Camp with the Arabs, and Lions Uncomfortably Near. 4 Night-Alarm---A Day of Excitement--- Final Reward of American Yalor---And Als Well That Ends Well. Svectat Correspondence of The Chicaan Tribune, Laauouar, Algeris, Africa, Dee. 1, 1874.—Col. Burger, the United States Cousul at Algiers, tells 8 food story about a young American who came to him last winter to procure his assistanco in making progarations for. 5 lion-hunt. Ho said he Wanted to kill exactly threo lions ; noth- ing less would do at all, He wanted the skins, one for himeelf, and one each for a couple of friends to whom he had promised them. Ho Jnid befor the Colonel the most gigdntic, and, atthe same time, apparently tho most feasible plans for the annihiliation of those threo lious. And not only did be make the most elaborate preparations himself, but he hed the Colonel busy himself for several days in procuring lot- ters to parties in the interior inviting assistance. When fully armed and equipped, he departed, with great ado, for tho interior. In about two weeks he returned sadly demoralized, and bear- ing as trophies the skin of a wild sow, which looked suspiciously well-dried, and » snipe | ASTABT FOR THE LION COUNTRY. Now I bad an ardent desire to call on 3 lion in his Jair, and also to have a shot at bim; bat I did not want to be made the butt of one of the Colonel's jokes, Inthe course of my medita- tiocs on the subject, I made tho acquaintance of 8 young Frenchman named Antoine Belioin, who shortly after informed mo that he wished to go lion-hunting, if ho coud find company. Iat onco acquainted lim with my desires in thet ro- spect; and, after some further talk on theBub- ject, we concluded to go together. Tho next day we busied ourselves in quietly making in- quiries and arrangements. We first secured the servicés of a good Arabic dragoman, aud a young Arab boy as cook sna geuoral servant, The dragoman had hed some ex- perieuce with lions, aud Imow all Algeria well, His namo was Hahmoud, but we soon shortened that into Hammy. We followed his advicoin making our purchases ond ‘arrange- mente, and on the third day after we took leave of the Colonel and our friends, telling them wo were going off for a few days’ shooting, and boarded the cars for Blidab, a place about 30 miles southwest from here. We found Dida a very interosling town of 10,000 inhabitants, with rather a French appearance. After Waiting 9, day, we took the dicenco to Medeah.. A dili- gence here is a very heavy, clumsy affair, come- thing liko a large omnibus, but divided into three compartments, the inside, the front, and the top. En route wo passed through the Gorge of the Chiifs, a aeep, long gap through the Atlos Mountains, resembling somewhat tho Gap 6f Dunios, at Killamey, but mich larger, and covered with vegetatiod. Until tho French occupation it was’ impassable, but French enginoera have coustructel! a road through it; which 1s a marvel of enginéoring skill, It is blasted in some places for hundreds of yards through solid rock ; in sonie places spapming immense chasms, aud sometimes built out in the chapnel of the stregm whicli flows through the Gorge far below. A SIDESHOW OF MONKEYS. Abont $ miles from the entrance of the Gorge, in a deep ravine running oi to one sido, ig what is known as “Moukey Valley, where thore arealot of wild monkeys. By paying.a coupic of francs toan old Arab, whom we found in a hut close by, we were led off this ravine for about s quarter of s mule, and, after hanting around foratew minutes came upon a whole colony of our cousins. Tero, were probably a hundred altogether,—some hanging from the trees or perched upon them, in all shapes, aod a few scampering about ‘on the ground among the unde:growth,—and all jabberiug rapidly and vebomently. They were not alto- ether wild; and, after a few minutes, some of em even ventured to come towards us. Others soon followed, and in a quarter of an hour they were all within 50 yards of ua, and a few even ventured on the trees above our heads. Jaa rash moment, I tried to enslave a email one which 1 caught under some bushes. But tho moment I caught it I thought bediam wes broken loose ; Ley all seemed to object,—ihtes or four big males especially, I paid no atten- tion to their remonstiauces, and turned to go away with my little prisoner, when endden- ly o great old grammy fell on my head and suoulders, from someirheré up in the clouds. So I said I thought eo 80, too, and Isid the little monkey down, and quietly took a wali. WhenI reached the hut I needed s surgeon ands tailor more than usual. Ido, not remember whether Iwas very mach scared or not, butI do know that I thought afterwarde, when calmly meditating about tho future, that if lions were mach largerand moro savage than that old monkey, I did not believe I wanted to see any of them. TUE JOURNEY CONTINUED. But we still took onr way to the end of the Gorge, and then on a gradually ascending road, —until wo reached a high plateau, and tuero was Medeab. ‘Tis place, lie Slidab, eeems to have been built and improved in a large measura by the French, although many of the streéis are narrow and rude, aud ned with native shops, asin Algiers. We remained over night to per- nut our dragoman to make eome further propar- ations. - We finaly told him we thought we could get slong with what we had,—and he could buy the balance of the town when we camo back. {esoon became satisfied that he waa in Joague with the sbopkecpers, and probably di- ‘vided the profits with them. The next day, in the forenoon, we traversed a very eandy, hilly eountry, almost entirely barren; but in the Afternoon the couulry became gradually more fertile, but still eandy and rolling. We ssw some very benutiful valleys, weil wooded, and sometimes cultivated to a small ex- tent. Of to our right was a high range of mountains. We arrived at @ place called Bou- Khari about sundown, and there found tho ground covered with a light fall of snow,—the first we had seen, except on the tops of some of the peaks of the far-of Greater Atlas range. Boukbari is a small and unimportant place,—but foliof Arabs, who are vory much the same as in Algiers, except, if possible, a trifle dirtier. Some or them looked perfectly disgusting even in the moonlight. We were roused froma very good sleep in a Very poor hed, vory early, and were put on the way long before daybrealt, with nothing inside but a cup of Arab coffea, which I liked better than Fronch-coffee, even if it was full of ands. Our route was very ubinteresting. ‘There was nothing around us but dreary, arid plains. with an occasional hilly section, “Moun- tains still visible, but far away. ‘Ihere seemed to be scaxcely any cultivation; but we saw occa sionally cattle and mheep ie herds, and oven camels. That night at Ain Onssera, wo had our firet experience . ‘IN A CARAVANSERY. Tt was large, square, white house, with loop- holes all around, ahd fashioned something like a fort. Inside was a large, square, open court, in the centre of wuich was = fountain. On one side of the house were stables for horses, camels, and other live stock; on the other side were quarters for human beings. The ac- commodations wera very poor, In another lét-. ter I may give a fuller déscription of Arabic cus- toms, but in this Iwish to speak of the lion- hunt; Since we left Blidah we bad been aseid- nously making inquines 2a to the whereabouts of lions, but had met with uo success. But here, soon after supper, Hammy came to ug bringing another Arab, and abont the filthiect, one we had yet seen. Hammy said that this man’s tribe had been suferivg from the aitacka of three lions, who had killed a great number of ther sheep and cattle. STBIBING A TRAIL. ‘The place was Boskhil ef Bakbra, the tribe was called Ouled Sidi Slimen, and is was a day's travel to the weet, The msn had just loft fis tribe's camp that morning, aud was to return tho nextday. Nuthing could be moro favorable for us, and we resolved at once to go aad relieve { that poor, afllicted tribo at any cost. Suifering humsnity called out for succor, and we flew to the rescue. Wo didn’t exactly fiy eithor, neither did we walk: we rode camels. ‘If the reader has never ridden a camel, my advico is, to be thankful, and don't. I had been sca- aick on tho ocean many times; but now, strange to say, I was sea-sick on land! At any rate both Antoine and myself went through all the motions of soa-sickness before we had gone five kilometres, There is a long, swinging motion, something like the rolling of a ship, coupled with # pitch and a jork, which, - alto- gether, is not pleasant. But the novelty of the thing gave us nerve, and we rode the last half of the distanco in good shape, ‘The diatauce was esid to be about 90 kilometres, or Cd odd miles, aud we finished it in seven hours and threo quarters, ‘Ihe soil everywhers seamed to be nothing but sand, excopt in valleys, and on the sidea of the mountains, For 40 miles we tra- vereed nothing but sand, although the country was quite rolling. After tht we reached’ a rather fertile section. At the close wo came to a range of hills, covered with timber, such as white oak, cedar, ote., togthor with a great deal of ntuoted undergrowth; and, following the edge of the wood for about an hour, we desceuded gradually into a beautiful valloy, full of vegetation, whero we soon came upon c AN ARAB CAMP or douar of about fifty tents. Around the camp was a framework, or fence, made of tree brauch- es and undergrowth, and about 8 feet in height, intended, perhaps, a8 a protection axainst wind and wild snima's. ‘Tho tents wore placed in tia form of s circle; the open space in tho ceatre Deing used to keep the live stock in at night, in: times of danger, and during the day timo used as a common. When we arrived this common was full of people, men gathered in knots, und talking loudly, while women, were runmng overywhoro, ‘most of thom screaming, and all jabbering at a frightful rate. Wo- wore’ taken immediately after dismounting and leaving cur camels outside tho circle, to the tent of theSheik. ‘Tie Shoik was sick, but anothor man wasactivg for him. Our dragoman explained whowe were, and our ob- ject, and did itin such a mauner that wo wero yory kindly received; andeven allotted quarters in a tont next to the Sheil. Meauwaile wo had ascortained that the excement was owing to tho retuen of a party whohad been out huuting ihe lions. ‘Yhey had killed one lion, but had had two of their own number killed and another severely wounded in thsaffray. Tho wounded man wasn relative of tho Sheik, aud was not expected to live. ‘They Led not found the other two fions. oun, TENT was made of skins fairly tinned. Tt was square at the base, but had o single pole at the top, aud the entrance was at tho side. ‘Tho aperture, which extended nearly to tha polo st the top, ‘was covered, when necessiry, with a long strip about 2 feet wide, which was attached ht the top and reached to te ground During daytime aud in fair woather this strip was oxtonded on poles, ‘There were thick woolen mats on tho ground, Later in the evoning the Shoik sent us an earthon vessel full of a soit of Irish stew, which the Arabs call cotts-couson, and also some dates. Bath wero relished after or long ridé, altnongb, Idare say, the cous-coustn would never be & popular dish in a first-class American rostanrant. We walked about tho camp after supper, for tue purpose of acquainting ourselves os much ag possible trith the hablts of teso strange people, the reault of which oxamization I have not time to recount now. But all tie camp were asleep by 8 o'clock, including oanolves. _ A RIGHT'S 1LAnM. No doubt wo sleep sotndly, becauso of the fatigue ; but what occurred that mght was about ent to cluze a Tesurection i any modern graveyard, Auyway ix awoie us. What raised me from my innocent slanbers was a cow stop- ping on my anclo, a sheepetanding all over me, and three or four more iround ine, wherovor they could haig on, two cimels heads and necks poked in at tue dorr of tle tout, and swinging all around the inside of tle tent, like horizontal pendulums, and the wtole of them crying out to the very beat advantage in their several dialects. I did hot mind tho no:se ab all, I rather ‘ked it; it was rather reassnring. But { lid object to having 5 utablo made of my bed-rom just at that time. In addition to tho otber nrise, Antoine was over in another corner pottndinf some of tlie animals, and felling at them in Fretch, which, of conto, they could not underatid, as they had been brought up oh Arabic. I:seconded his efforta, bat we could. not got oniof them to stir, By this time wa had began tanotice that there was a petdemontan on & latfer “Beile transpiring ontmde. So We left tho nimals ir posstssion snd went outside, wherowo learned that a lion had leaped over the inclosire and into the midst of the live stock, captureda sheep. and bounded away again. All the aninals bad become terri- fied and sought eheltcr 1 the tents, under the brngh, and elsewhere. About fifteen miautes after we heard considerablegrowling geome dis- tance away, which soundedas if there was moro tan one fion there. ‘Thatwas all; but the con- fusion in thé éa:np lasted intil miotn:hg. Meaa- while, to make mutters wore, it hed rained con- atderably. : FIRST DAY'S ADENTURE. Sometime after breakfst, our drogoman brought us the news that ilwaa decided to foi- tow the lions immediately.; They bad found the place, about a quarter of {mile from the camp, where the lions had eatenthe nadja, or skeep, aud it was thought they culd be atiacked, as the ground was very soft. ‘We sent the drago- man to obtain. pormssion for us to go along with the parz, which was ac- corded, with thie restrvation, however, that if we should kill'y lion we shouid uot claim the ekid. This we entirely contrary to our wishes, of course, Ltt wo accepted the }. conditions rather than mist ho hunt. ‘Tbe party consisted of wine persons, besides our party, which madétweive. The mn who had killed the Jlon the day before, and who sebmied to be a very kuowing old fellow, wa: given the lead, or command, ‘Ihe Arabs wer armed with very rude funs with very long barels, and vory shout stocka, Antoibo and I haddéch s breech-loader of English mancfactare. something like the Sharpe's carbines which wee used during our War. Woe started ont on horeback, first poingto the placo where the lion had eaten their prey, where wo found som wool aud bones, und a grost_ many tracks, wich led off towards the hills. We bad not gon more than 3 miles when it commenced to rin, ard it war soon potting down such torrents 1s to destroy tue trail, and we were compelld to return to the camp, drenched to the skin. |The raio continued until latein the afternoon,when it grew much colder. " A SECOND SGT. At night it was ‘decided v pat out a stroug guard all around tle camp.' We were given our choica of positions, and .we ieiccted a place on the side from which the liothad come the pre- ceding night. We did this béausé we wanted to be whero wo would gel o sliot if ho cime, and because there wa 4 bligiit rise in tho ground before us, which woul enable us to sco the beast better, as tho skywould be bebind him. Iwill only say that Woraited the night through, but in valu. Wo rmained in camp all nest day, asleep moat of theime; and at night again took our positions. Itiad snowed during the afternoon, and’ the nig was quite cold. ‘The aky as quite clear, au'we could distin- gush objects s hundred yard away. We waited until 8 o'clock, and I told-Atoine that I woulda doze nlittie while, but forbn to wake me if anything camo, before he « anything else. Just as { was commencing tosleep he punch- cd me in the ribs. I aised up cn my knees, and, looking in tho direction in which he’ pointed, I saw juat over the little hull the outline of a lion's hea andback. It was coming slowly towards us. Isxaminod my gun, 4nd put it in proper trim ad position. In a short time the complete formof the beazc was clearly cutlined upon tho skybehind iin. He was coming with a leisurely, -at-like tread. He paused for a moment when b reached tho crest of the hili, ‘Then Antoine ulled nis -trigger, 4nd the cap snapped. Tlie lia heard thie, and immediately turned snd facd us, although he could not very well see, us, ® we were in the dark and lying flat on the grand, Just at that moment, to add to our wubppiness. tlie head and body of another lion bean to grow upon the line of thé top of thé ill, This one wo could easily see was o femm, while the other was amale. Bat the last ovedid not reach tho top of the hill. Antoine bad's-capped his gun. Ho told me to take the one a my side, which was tho female, atid lie woull-teko the other. ‘We both took aim and fired! mmedintely there | was a most deafening roar, fliowed by others nearly as bad, and then coninnous. growling. As soon as we fired we bad filen baci & litle, and Isid flaton the grouhd antdmmenced to re- load. On looking up we eat the two lions to- gether slowly going down thebill on the other side. Trashed forward to ge another slot be- fore they ‘dieappeared, but 20 cap suappod, arid by the time I bad snottr ready the lions had disappeared amoug the udergrowth in tho edge of the wood. We did no‘follow them, but wo heard thom growting for teen minutes. By this ime thé whdie camp Wasi an uproar, ahd it was finally dacided nof to fuite the lions that: night, but to take the trail ea: in the morning. oa... -BECOKD DAY'S ‘About three hours Jaier th same party that hdd etattad after‘ the’ lions “bforé How strack the’ (rall-byain:: “It was not ditkult to follow, for |, there wus, now and thea, biog upon it... Ib led !as up and around tha side of a hill, | Wo came to the table-laud batween that and au- other lull, Wo went. down this for an hour or more, whon tho leader, who was 3 hundred yards or more in advance, motioned us to s.op. Ha rode back to us, spoke something in Arabic to ; those in advazce of us, when he left his horse and went ahead on foot, We all then dismount- | ed, left tho horsas in charge of threo of the men, and followed, at some distance in the rear of the loader, in perfect silence. Ina few minutes we began to hear a noise, which at once gave us to understand we wero near the object of our search. It was a deep, rambling growl. Wo now took our way tore. cautiously than before, until we came to a placo where there was an ab- rupt deacent for about 50 fect, Here the trail struck off to the right, and descended. Inlook- ing down into the narrow valley below us wo saw to the right athicket of dense undergrowth. {t was from thencé the noise proceeded. ‘fhe brush was 60 thick that, notwithstanding the elevation aud our downward view, we could seo nothing. The spot where we halted was covored with fair-sized trees, mostly white-oaks. We immediately placed ‘ourselves. at the brink, side by side, with our guns rendy. ‘Thus far wo had made no noise, but one of the Arabs, in getting into his position, tad slipped and let his gun fall against somo récks. Immodiately there traa a loud growl, and the malo lion LEAPED AT ONE BOUND into the open space at the foot of the declivity. shall never forgot the feelings of that momes: ‘Tho m:gniticent beast stood there for a second, tho vary personification of power and rago,—his heavy mano stood out like bristles, nis’ eyes seemed tv flash tire,his mouth, widely distended, emitted a roar which caused the very rock under us to vibrate. It was bata second, although it seemed an age. Niné guns flashed’ before him ; but their leaden hail scemed only to add fuel fo bis rage, aud not to weakon him. We were too high for} him to reach us. . In bis rage he tore the earth before him with his paws, and roared until my nerves seamed charged with 8 poworful current of electricity, and I could but with dificulty reload my gun. ‘But suddenly he darted away to the right. ‘T'uen the leader cried out for us fo CLIMB THE TREES, and everybody ran for x tree aud commenced to climb. In my nervousness, I found I had left my gun. Iran back to get it, and just as I had reached the tree, and commenced to climb, tho lion bounded up the hill at the side, Hoe paused for s moment. I was unable to climb, I dropped my gun on tho ground, and then dropped myself. Tcaught his eye. Somebody says if-you look a lion boluly in the eye he wou't harm you. As a lost resort, 1 tried it on this ove; but he muat have been a diferont kind of a lion, ‘or else my offort was 3 very weak one. I siw that he had made up his mind to eat mo, and my fook did not seem to make any appreciable change in his line of con- duct, 0 I just set my hair all on end, whitened up my face, and started down tie other side of the hill on a little sweepstakes of my own. But it was unnecessary, for at that moment the men in_ tho trees opened on the lion, and one ball went throagh ins heart, and ho fell from mid-air with a gigantic bound but balf com- pleted. ‘Che men jumped down, and rushed towards him, butthey stopped very suddenly, for the old King of beasts, royal in death as in life, by a terrible effort, sprang up on his hauncbes to leap. again o¢ his dostroyers, when death séized him, and he fell short of his mark, OUB REJOICINGS were cut shoré by somebody raising tho question of the whereabouts of the liou- ess. Iwo ofthe Arabs atarted down to tha thicket, A moment later we heard a couple of shots and a shout of triumph. We all immediately went down, aud found the lioness quite dead, and aluidst cold! Tho Arabs ciatmetl to havo Ialled her; buf I knew, and go did they, that it was false. ‘Two men were left in charga of the bodies ; and the remainder returned to camp. In the general rejoicings that night, after tho lions. had been broughé ia. though often invited, Antoine and I took uo part. But in the motding, after maiing some preeents to the Sheik, who was now revovered, and tuking our leave, we mount- ed oat camels aud returaed to Ain Oussera car- avainsary. D. THE DEAD OF 63. ‘We iniss them when the shadows fall ; We mias them at the bugle’s cal ; ‘We mis ikem by the camp-fire's glow, — ‘Phe myatic chord of friend and £08; Wo miss the muste of their tread O Slavery! give back our dead. ‘No Liss of shot, no scream of shell, Noemnity white hot from Hell No gles froin Iahes vf bayoriet, No sifphur-fog where gunicts met, No kzaty sign from picket lect, Disturbs them on their silent beat, Yo canon pealing on the air, No sil with Lar und star go fair, No bugle’é ewell, tio toll of druin, No fuluts, nd storms, no sjées to’ come; Xo sombre turch at trenches play'd;. Now breaks their jong, their still parade, No victors’ shiiat or anthoms peal, No cenotaph or marble seal Set whore the broken rauks liave stood, No th inka of coming raultitdde, Can now recall the last tattoo- Of those who fell for me—for you, No longing for tho waited figlit, No onnteraign at dead of mighty At daivn uo thonguts of far-oi hériés, At ebilly eve no duty comes; But a: the last Grand Reveille: “ Pull in—the dead of Sixty-threa!” The gallant stond, pursuit, retreat Surrender after sad doteat, a4 ‘The scout support {n line 100 ‘The agohy by prison’s gate, ° The saddest of a soldier's ¥¢ Xo more shall haunt thelr long'repose, 7 No sergeant's roll; no neighing stesd, No more inspector's call, they heed 5 No weary burdens now {hes bedr, _ Bat, free from pain, corrosive caré, By Jasper-gate thetr roll is paid, ‘Usra by the homes with hands not mada, Our trophies are but rusted steel; Their joats are spread at home with th’ Leal? Discharged from the dons of siti, Enlisted with the sati they wil Expecting, when the Judgmont sounda,, Promotion at the last Grand Rotinds, A Creniation fn Ataska, A Sitks correspondent of the San Francisco Alta,.in » recent letter, writes : “The Hoona tribe of Indians, a fow weeks ago, sent 3 deputation of well-armed warriors to this place, where the Sitkas live, to treat with them for the full -alue of a certaiti demised agiiaw of the Hoons tribe, whiose existence a Sitka buck a few months before had,: by tho accidental dis- charge of his gun, cut short. The. council was held last night’on the beach at Indiaa Town, & few yards from our commanding ofiledr’s house ; the Hoonas taking care to leave some of their number in the canobs and afloat. Evidently the redmen are not of an over-confidingnature. After mueh arguing for and against, the cash valaa of the defunct lady of Hoona descent vas found to be 1000, yards of calico, four cainphor-wond boxes, fouiteen muskets, and rixty blankets; terms, cash, The succeeding’ night was then devoted to a universal spreein the Indian townio honor of their guests. A few nights after, when the Hoonas had gotta home, & Chilcat Indian, who was on a visit to bis Sitka brethren, repai their hospitality by making mincemeat of s stal- wart Sitka warrior, aud then absconding. Tho Indian's body, two days after his crossing the Styx, was consigned to the fut.eial pile, as is the custom of the Sitkas, ‘lie ccettition grounds ate within from 50 to 3(0,yurcds distant from the commanding officer’s Texidence,. and as T stood near his houee taking items of ‘the impos- ing exercisea the wind wafted delicious fumes from the burning flesli right over, into, and all around the house. The cup, filled with fire- water, freely passed nthong the mourners squatt- ed sround the blaze, weich at times leaped to a height of not Jess than 10 feet, while a stalwart ‘bnek with a pole was working hard all the whilo a etirridg up the fire and turning over the body. But the mourners finally, oue by One, wero over~ come by grief and othee manifest causes, and were led away .by commiserating acquaintances, while the corpse became reduced. to, ashea. and charred bones, which were tlien collected and “gathered to his father” in a sort of largo'dog- kennel of chicken-houze on stilts, each of which constitutes a family mausoleum, and is nevet mora than. 20 yards from the family resi- denca; while undar the ash-box burrow dozens of coyote dogs, also belonging to the family, whose accorded ptivilége it is to there make ther homes.” Purely Parisian, . - The scene is Jaid in Paris—it couldn't very Well be lnid anywhere elsé.. Dec. 19, in the evening..s young Woman had a quarrel with a mati—appereutly s love quarrel—it » room on the third floor of a bouso-in the Boulevard Menilmontaut. Mado. furious by the quarrel she threw open the window and jumped ont, ‘There was a hard wind biowing at the time, aud this, makiig a balloon of Ler bhirts, sustained her woiglit so far as to let her gently down into the deep snow, and she called’a cab and drove away. ‘The man, not to be outdone by s woman, when be saw that she had jumped out of the wwindo} laced & pistol to the sido of bis head and ‘fed. The bail entered the right ear and came out of tha loft, abd. now he who was dea! rojoican in his Heertap, ‘The. couple, bare since made up, and area bappy as turtle doves. It ii {Yory shoouing they were Bot both ililed, , = T until THE HUB. The Great Mass.Meeting- in Faneuil Hall. t Tho Excitement Compared to the Old Anti-Slavery Days—Philligs to the Front. Whittier’s Failing Health---A Great Political Writer Dying. Emerson Hale and Hearty---His New Book and Its In- dications. -Bpecial Correspondonce of The Chtcagn Tribune, Boston, Jan, 26.—Tbe great mass-meeting in Faneuil Hall to protest against the military in- terferenco in Louisiana turned out to be the moat interesting and exciting public meeting which has been held in Boston since the old anti-slavory days, say those who remember thoze fiery times of trial. The secret of this oxtraor- dinary interest and excitement, as well as the suggested comparison, lisa in tho fact that Wendell Phillips was one of the speakera. THE MEETING opened quietly and tamely enongh, though hisses and applause were now and then heard in antag- ouistic neighborhood; but all at once a new im- petus seemed to be given: over the whole vast assemblage & wave of subtle excitement stirred, “What is it?” “What is tho matter?” were the questions that sprang to s hundred ling 1m that first moment when the restlees stir, the atmosphere of something unusual, began to bo felt, Grndually oye followed eye, and tho question was answored, aa Wendell Phillips was perceived in the gallery. Mr. John Quincy Adams was speaking when Mr. Phillips was first generally recognized, and it waa with some diffi- culty and amid s good doal of uproar that that gentleman concluded. When the President at- tempted to introduce snother speaker, ho was met with such a persistent and finally stormy call of “Phillipa! Phillips!” that for a time it seemed asif every thing must give way to that call, But order was at last restored, and Mr. Frank Bird, s gentleman with whom ifr. Phillips crossed swords s few years ago in the Guberna- torial fight when Phillips was up for Governor, came forward. His speech luckily was briof, and immedistely upon his retiring commenced the storm of cries again for “Phillips!” The President used his most strenuous argument again for order. Arrangements bed been made with certain gentlemen tospeak; if the audience would be patient and hear them throngh anybody else might take the ball and carry on tho speak- > ing till nightfall if they chose. This not over-cordial or courteous allusion to Mr. Phillips was received with various demonstra- tions, according to the various tempers of the listeners. It was rather trying, however, to have the general plan a1 order of the méeting dis- tarbed by an uninvited guest who was ih known and confesded antayoniam with tHe purpose of the meeting ; who came there, as thoy ell know, to protest against their protest. It was not the least interesting feature of the occasion either, that a food many of those who wete in exe thy with the meetitig found themselves unablo to répreas their desite to bear their unidvited guest,—a desire that madezitself manifost in np- iistakable ways several times. But order car- ried the day through all the storm, however, tin- til at last Mr. Phillips rose to his feet, amidst A GENERAL CLAMOR OF APPLAUSE. But. it was in vain for him toattempt to speak iu the gallery as he first intended. Cries of | * Platform! Platform!” was too strong a hint for the, Chaittvan to ovetlook, and, tising, he gave what invitation he could by glance and sign to Mr. Phillips, ia the general uprozr, Down he came, swift of foot, but unhurried, and with that old fire in his eyes which 80 many recalled from the old days, aud that balf-contemptuous eutl to his up which is stich &tité indication of the scath- ing sarcasm which lieg in wait for hie opponenta. ‘As he appeared upon the platform thies roug- jug cheers were given for lim, wllich the oppos- ing hisses could not affect mich, excent to en- bahce the excitement. The memorable speech Which followed has already been reported ver- batim in the newspapera, but no reporting can convey Weudell Phillips eloquence of mainnor atid tone, bis singular magnetism of presence, {| when he is at the white heat of his earnestness. ‘The tone, therefore; in which he called the Com- mittee to account for the arrangement which, purporting to invite and to iepresent the ci 2nd of Boston, lett out, accorditg to Mr. Pi lips, all the lewding men of Boston, way charged with that scathe of cool contempt which is at once s0 stimnlating an excitement to a crowd, upon whatever topic Mr. Phillips speake. When in tliat ctear voite ha said, ‘I lookéd over tho | list bf. gentlémon who summoned to Faneuil } Hall the peopls- of Boston, and I said: ‘If this | be the voice uf Boston, who aro the Bostan men ' who summoned us to thia expression of Boston | opinion? Who are the men that vote, aud pay } taxes, and bear the sliame or the glory of being | the citizens of Boston, that summoned this meet~ ing? The fires name is Mr. Charles Fraucis Adams, of Quincy, a very worthy’ gentle: man’”—when this wos uttered, this climax réached, the tumult fiom his opponents became so atormy that fora time it ivas impossible to proceed, and the President had to rise and put in his plea for order.. This being restored tem- porarily; Mr, Phillips proceeded to break it again by his stirring accusations and statements. Every moinent he was interrupted by ietort, and | question, and counter-accusdtion, by © APPLAUSE, HISSES, AND LAUGHTER; ‘The most exciting point was towards the close, when, in direct roference to the protest againut | Grant's action, he said: “If you pass theco résolutions, geitlemen, I say ih the présence of God Almighty "—hisses, and a cry of ‘Ho don't | know you!”—the blood of more thai ® hun: dred" blacks and 8 hundred whites will be upon your skirts before the first day of Janu: Here a violent interruption of hisses. ‘Thien Mr. Phillips coolly: “I know why I tatne hheré!" and a voice in response, ‘“ Yes, to make | arow!”. ‘The laughter and applause bere was prolonged and. uproarious, The. President } springs to bis feet and cries, ‘Hear him, hear | tom! Order, order, order.” And thenthe samo voita who had just iilterrupted to euch effect shouted langhingly, Mesmermise him.” After | this, Mi. Phillips procecded with but few inter- } ruptions to the close of his specch, The brightest speech, always excepting Mr, Phillips’, was that of .. Lee, who followed with the words: “i liaven’t the- slight est intention to apesk, but I do want to say one thing. We have against us here, we have invited. the most formidable ora- tor known in the United States, Itis only a week since, spéiking to ons of tho inost distin- garshed literary men of this State, he said: 'T goin tobear that fellow, and, in spite of my reason, in spite of my knowing that he is talking sometliing with which I don’t agree; HE CARRIES ME GFF MY LEGS AT ONCE.” ‘This gentleman wé have invited to speak: no- body proposes to answer him; in fact, he is gen- erally ubanswerable.” Laughter and applause met the Colonel here at the outset, and followed him to the close of his remarks, of which the above is the key-noté of the spirit and temper of the whole. TaE MEETING CLOSED shortly in s good deal of “disorder, the excite= Ment increasing instead of abating as certain resolution was read by a gentieraan on Mr. Phil- lps’ wide, tenderitig thailks to President Grant for the prompt manner in which he had met the Louisiana question. Throughout sll this tn- mult of biases and shouts of “Put him ont!” “Who is it?” “Another Phillips man!” Phillips himself sst calm and collected, listoning and lodking on Ike aby ordinary dpectator, but now aud then’ lifting his head, and squanng his shoulders 48 if he would like to meet all this single-handed and alone, and fight i¢ out. When he first appeared it was no that he bad a worn look, as if of fatigue and approaching age, which his close attendance for the last six months in the sick-room of his wife niight fally account for. But, after hia a reception; and his crossing swords with the gentlemen who had called the mecting, ten years seomed lifted from him. It was the war-horse scéoting the 01d fields of battle again, Funuily enough, next day, und for davs after, the principal talk about the meeting, the principal excitoment, was sot the maia ol ject of the meeting by any means, | but Wendell Phillips, and the part he had taken ib it. Men met each other on the streat, || snd, exchanging a word or two, would say: ‘Did you hear Phillips?” and, “I'd have given ten dolisra to have heard him,” if the ques- j Ont. ing, disclaiming tho criticiam of Grant ascrived to hum, tamed the possible effect of the meeting. PERSONAL, And, speaking of Whittier, overy friend admirer of his will bo sorry to hear of the meee feebleness of his health this winter, Never strong, the inclemency of this season has told hardiy upon him, and hia immediata friends ara extremely anxious about him. Ho is at present the guest of ex-Gov. Claflin, and under the care of Dr. Clarke, who is generally spoken of in Boston as‘ Tbo in Education Man* Another prominent “New England acter, W. 8. Robinson, better known * abroad as “ Warrington,” the great political correspondent for so many years of the Spring field Hepubtican, and who st one time wielded an immense power in the politics of Maszachusetts, is lying dangerously ill at his residence just out of Boston, But while the younger men’ decling in their health, Emerson this winter wears a hale avd hearty front which promises good work yet, Emerson, it must be remembered, has a night to take seniority over Whittier by soveral years, for he1s past 70, while Whittier is just beyond 63. ‘MR. EXERSON’S LAST BOOK, as it msy be called, though it’ is only 3 compilation of poems by varions ‘an. thors which he has been collecting for yeurs, is extremely interesting, both as ahowing tho taste of'tho New England sage and sas pleasing and curious collection of poams, Tree membering the author's eeeay upon Love, where the passion is treated with a certain chilly phic losophy, which seems to hayo a singular lack. of the human element, it is rather surprising to find euch ardent verses as Spenser's “Bride” apd Richard Lovelace's ‘Teil me not, sweet, I am unkind.” But the surprise is s most delightful one, and brings us a good deal nearer to Emer- son in vine of it, The pages devoted to the comic snd bnmorous aro another sar. prise, and suggest a question, whether, after ali, we who have been in the habit of meer ing Emerson and listening to him for all thess yeurs, baven'r blundered a zood doal in oar esti- imation of him, when we pronounced him lacking in humor, ‘The man who takes such poems into his beart as “Trothful James,” “Tho Que-Hoss Shay,” and “The Courtin’,” must have the spice of wit and humor very largely in- corporated in his nature. Take it allin all, the work ig a study of Emerson's mind, much more than his own compositions, for the selections, running through long series of years, point ere and there to the various ‘moods of the day - and the hour, which no individual work could do. Asa specimen of book-making in paper, and flexibility of binding, the book is a marvel, and one feels like chal- lebging all the book-making world to rival it if possible. In view of the admirers of English books, who often draw such invidious com- parison between A-nerican and British workman- ship in this line, it is specially delightful to find such satisfactory opportunity to make coonter comparisons, and the whole Amorican publicowe a debt of gratitude to J. BR. Osgood & Co. forgiving them this opportunity. One thing ought to be said en passant, and thatisthat we must hot put foo great stross upon tha suggestiveness o} Emerson's taste in “be collection, for the reason that he has declared that some of the poams were valuable to him for certain spociat lines rather asa whole. It is a great pity that we cin't be spécially guided to these lines, for it might save us somo bumiliation when we confi. dently quote to bolster np our own opinions that Emerson had already indorsed us. 3 The tributo in the preface to Lord Byron's genius shows that Emerson bas the universal mind, the great and subtle instincts, which can make snre and just estimates. Altogether, more delightful book, abd = more delightrat key to what was hidden before from the ordinary observers and acquaintances’ cya in Emerson's character, cannot well be found outside of this compilation. which ho en- titled Parnassus. If we miss some sweets tist we have welcomed before in othér collections, or that we have cherished in our own reading, wa find that Emerson meets all this inck in the words of the preface, when he says: “I ag aware that no two readers would make the sania selection. Of course I shall giadiy hail with tha public 4 better collection than mine.” B.A. a COLD EN COLORADO. A Graphic Account of 11, and One ta De fLatcen Cautiousiy. Tho Fort Wayne Sentinel has been intérviewhi a gentleman from Colorado ih fezard to the col weather there, and the followibg incittent by “Lone Bill,” the Colorado geutleman mep. tioned, is the réault + “One night Scarred Pate, the biggest tay and best ouchre-player in Heleus; was, beas in’ all tho boys at the gamo and gittin’ away with thur stainps like Hubtiiit’, 16 "ud eu:t up axful cold that afternoon; ‘iMar warn no thermometer, an’ wo couldn't tell bow Tow she'd got. But tito’ we'd a red-hot fire in tho stove, aiid # act rouid hed ont breaths friz right up, and we bid to knock off the icicles from our months every few minutes. ‘The bibdlé on thd dice of citilis craéked and fell off, and no one would tech a spade, cos ‘twas sa cold. Well, Scarred Pete neid tivo bowets in’ three kings. Long Jim had three aces, 4 queen and the ‘little joker.’ Scarred Pots put down his right, Long Jim foliowed with hia ‘joker.’ Scarred Pete took an ace with tho left. Long Jit gobbled up tivo of hia kings with two acca. Pete swore no man ever before'd ‘played it at low’ on Him and he’d ba eternally caterwatiled if Jim hadn’t stocked the keerds: Thet there was jist the prettiest little row ‘VY éver sawn. Pete got Jim down, and afore & minute their breaths bad friz tighter’ a vice: The boys éaw ib was ll ub witit both ou "em if they weren't got free: You sea there wasn’t no Water nor notbin’ to thaw ‘em cuts that; 60 they pulled Jim and Pete ‘longside tha stuv. 'lwan't no ude. They'd friz go tight that “ hot pitch woaldi’t inélt "era. “We had to Jet ’eht lle thar all that night You see everything was fz up; no axeg not nothin’ to chop the ice off. Next day they atdid thar, and next night. Yes, stranger, for thre days and nights Pete and Jim’ wera friz to- gether. They stick closer'n brothets, now you tnay bet your bottom dollar. The fourth day ib began to grow a little watmer, and by night thé - weather was col’able. We also sot ronnd’ playin keerds, an’ me ab’ Ugly Sam had just b get in Some big licks—me’n Sam wid paic how. “ Allof a suddink like, we heatd an awful crash, I looked round, su’ condemn my pictet, ef them two 'Xahoos on the floor hadn't thawed it. Yes, sir, aud thar they wero aclawin’ and puuchih’ and gougra' just Where they'd left off afore they’d-friz together. By that time te'd all warmed upto it, aud there was a neat littid fuss | Well, stranger, an’ I'm a tellin’ vou fax, knivet was used purty lively. But durn‘d ef ‘swasnt 90 old bo one could dtaw blood. After an hour or go the fix let up. Jim and Bote fot oitto thtit feet, lookin’ ds fresh ss roses. Hadt't msde no - more. imyression on thet ‘ selves than a flea buitin’ ‘gaicst a barn- door. Well, that pity broke up . ‘bout morning. We didn't think anything of ittills day or wo after. ‘Then sho began to thaw, stranger, thera was the awfullest time you evel heeid on.. Them as got cut in the litzie muss it the store begun to bleed like stuck hogs. Fact. I bled more’n a gallon, and thought I'd have to hand in my chetks, But all but ove feller got fixed up and did purty well. Scarred Pete snd Long Jim was purty well tuckered out though. You see when she got warm, why we began ic ort o’ thaw ont, and the jabs and cuts we got that night began to tell on us, and the bigget - the cut the moze we bled, Now, stranger, that was only ono of thé effects of that little cold snap, twaan’t nothin’ to what append attat ward!” Here Lone Bill began to. move uneasily about. Noficing that we watched him ratber curiousi rr he remarked: “You see, sdon as I git od warm { feel nneasy like and sinart, an’ Have light out into the sir. This ciimato don’t suit ’xactly, an’ I'm goin’ to strike tor old Mon- tany agaiv. Icum down har in Injisny to 8¢@ ‘bout some people, sort of relatives liké. I ttied to get 'em to come out o” this,—ptill up stakes and go wher s man can breath eaay. Saying this, Lone Bill epat with amazing so curacy at anail-headon the wall, and, wiping his mouth with the cont-tail of bis linen dustér, tarned bis melancholy face and No. 14 boots to- ward the do Halting with his brawny hand on the door knob, he hesitatingly eaid: *+If yousbould preat anything I've sed, au’ ef you've got ruom, just say that Lone Bill will swar to anything he’s said. Athomel'm sbmetimes known as the ‘catamount,’ an’ ito man don’s call me a list twic't.” ‘We hastened to assure him that we supposed him to be truth emcodied, and that apy maa who could dispute his word waa no better than hé aliould be, aud a horse-thief into the bargals, Daim cea aeer An Attempted Interview. rom the Madison (Wis.) Democrat. ‘We are informed that a Chicago Times report- er undertook to get up an interview with Spe Horn, yésterday, in bis room at thé Park, The sage of Gedarburg suavected the “ cuss,’ afters few conundrams had been put, and the interview ended by the door being rapidiy cl we suppore by & andden gust of wind. . some slight movemeat the reporter found bim- self if the ball, and he supposed the Speaker ‘remained in ne room. As the doot lowed Par 3 sreporter Heard Fred W. say someth‘ng oe ‘retarene® tioned was amongst the nnfottunate sbsens. ‘This Phillips torre, and ,Whittier’s letter the **g——~d fool,” and supposed he had te aptie che of the bolters.