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e et e ety LITERATURE. fergt. Leahy on the Art of Hwimming. The Early American Spirit and the Genesis of It. Scriptural Zoology---Instruction for Builders-~-Parisian Gossip. Familiar Talk About Assyrian lLibraries, Autiquo Volumes, nnd Manifest Alfinities. Carnivorous Plant:, Causes of Floods, and Other Interesting Scien- tific Topica, LITERATURE, NATATION. feissine 18 Tk Brow Strne, By " Leany, Champlon Switner of the Tud chier of Bwimming at » refsen by Mrs, Olfphant, pp. 99, Tondon: Macmillan & Co, Price, 31, 'Euls littlo manunt has a singular intorest apart from the subject it treats. Its author s o ro- tircd moldier, who haw spent twonty-ono years in military eervico, and during that timo nover onco received a raprimand for bad conduct. ‘This extraordinary racord teatiflos to his raro Lonosty and intogrity of charactor. In bis boshood bo fiad au nnconquorable passion for the water, and epent the little timo whon he wight bave boon at school, practicing the art of matation, Ho thus camo up with- out an education, but probably the most accom- plishod swimwmor liviog. Whilo atationed at Aden, on tho Red Sea, o performed wondorful feats in tho cloment Lo dolightod to sport in by winning tho raco in overy trial with competitors. At ons timoe be swam 2}4 miles in threo-quariers of an hour. We borrow bis homoly sccount of how lodidat ¢ Une morning T awoke about 4 o'clock in the mor-~ {ng, and eaw A wbip lylng some distance out at sca ; B thing U bad not kocn befare during my atdy at Aden, Tiiin, X thougbt, wonld bo tine charice {0 aacortain correctly haw long & awim of such s distance would tako, Ly starting from tho Larracks at o certain tinte, and xasortalnlug what timo it waa when I reached the ship, where I conld also probably discover the distsnca T Lad wwum, Such & chance was not {0 bo loat. I yient all the besi swinimers {n tho compantes, fo give them f{ho chanco as well an mynelf, but ‘cte and wi bad mome excuso to offr, 1t wan 100 far,—thiey did not know I thoy could swcim the dis atico, and If thoy gol tired thero was no Loat to Yielp thym,—or they might get cramp, or be attacked by ankerk, Well, I paid T would go at all events, snd thioy exclaimod, * Good-by, Jock] we shant uce you again it you go to that ship,” hut T was notto b dnuntel,—#uch o chanoo waa uot 10 bu Jout. Accord- Inyly T took a cup of coffee, snd staried at6a, m, commeared and ended with o long, stoady atroke, which 1 kuow I conld kvop up bath for tinu and dis- fatice. Tho Aea waa calm, excoptiug a faw largo awelle ; ‘but whon I divected my course to tho whip the sun rove, a4 the glaro of the water, tho awell. and my low posiilon, prevented me from_scolng the sLip for Koo hine, 1then found that T was about 200 yacds wido d detormined to swim that distance on my back, ‘or up to inis timo 1 had boen mwimming entircly on_my ohest,—the best position for a lon distanco—but, as 1 turued over on to my back an gavo s few kickn, T felt the cramp coming on; so I turned back again on to my cheat, sud kicked out wilh maiglt xad main 411 T got £id of if, When I arrived ot tho suip I saked the Coptain what tima it wan, e ro- ted s quarter to 7. I then asked Lim, to the Lest of Bl knowriodge, what. distatice it was 0 & tan-gun bat- tery plazed on'tho odge of Soar Taland. After Joaking at 1t, b sald about 2i milloa at lcast. Thun, seid I, 1 liave swam 216 miles fn three.quarters of an honr, Yio wanted me to go on board and have & glars of grog, but I refused, thinking that it I mtayod sny time I abonil not bo ablo to awim home o well, aud I was most anzious to gob back esrly. . . . tuok my time going Liome, and reached tho land shout Vovloely afler having bren in tho water tliteo boura. Aftorfoaving tho army, * Borgeant * Leahy waa appoinied teschor of ewimming at the Eton echiool, near Windeor, and now for two years, bo tolls wiin his freab-bearted way, ho hus boen engeged in joiting down tho instructions pro- sonted fn this manual. His work has been over- looked by a couple of Etouians i order to insure its appaaranco in * good Englist," but tha edi- tors linve been careful not to Intorfore with the form in which tho suthor had molded it. In this way Ite individualisy bas not beon impaired, sad it bears the sharp and striking impress of fta muthor's gonlus. We heartily indorse tlio semark in the oditor's preface, * that no ono can possibly bo aware of tho instruction and amusement that are to bo dorived from theso Fflkf-‘fl without rosding them, and wo theroforo uvito all to make trinl of their contonts, with the full assuranco that no ono will bo disap- poluted.” [ ANCESTRY OF T'HE AMERICAN NATION, Ty, EARLY AMRRIOAN BPIRIT, AND THE GENESIA OF Itz An Address Dallvered Beforo tho New York iistarical Soctety, at tho Oclebration of Its Soven- teontu Anniversary, April 15, 1875, by Niouanp 8. Kroius, Bvo,, pp, 1l New York: Anson D.Iisn- dolpits Price i s 5 Within the limits of thia essay Dr. Btorrs Las Riven s graphio eurvey of tbo heroditary in- fluencos that, acting with wonderful harmooy upon thye settlers of diverso nationality who col- ouized, Americs, conspired to unito them luto s bomo gencous paople of singular strenglh, on- orgy, and entorprise of character. Ho lLas out- e the history of that glorious century which Vrogan with the coranation of Elizabotb in 1558, sod bas sbown how tho tromendous epirit of in- quiry, of discovery, of progress, of courago, and of fudopendence, which animated and oxslted it, waa the guiding and impelllug forco that brought cach band of pilgrime to our continent, and ans- talved them in all thelr long battlo with hostilo nutare, the still more hostile Indian, and tho ty- rant rulers who pursued thom with dospotio fm- poritious and exactions fn thelr flight across the Bead, . ‘Tho skotch is vivid and suggoestive, prozenting new conceptions of tho origin and growth of the sigor and activity of life aud towper that culmi- uated in the birth of m lusty nation and in the vatly assortion snd acknowlodgment of its fude- pendence. After reading the wddress, avery oiti- e of tho Unitod Statos will foel s moro lofty rrlda. In the Leritago bo hasrocelved through tho 'ilgrims, but which goes baok of them to tho 8nlendid aga from which thoy wers descended snd by which thay were opulently endowed. SCRIPTURAL ZOOLOGY, Bz Awiara: A Drsonterion of Evesr Living Ci:¥a1URR MENTIONED 1N TUE BORIPTURES, FROM TUE Ark 70 THE CoMAL, Dy the Rev. J, O, Woob. M. A, I"'.LH., elo,, Author of ‘‘Howes Without Handi," i, “bvo., 'pp. 119, Philadelphia: radloy, Garrelson & Co. Price, $L.50, It 1 some six yoars since this work wes firat reprintod in Amerles from tho London odition. ha froat futercst which haa been vocently ate cted to Ita aushor by the appesrance of his enloua little volumo upon ** Man and Deast flure sud Herosftor” hiss probably encouraged the publishers to bring out a now edition of tho * Bible Animals.” It truly is & favorable op- portunity wisely approprinted, As {lu title announces, the book contains “'a duscription of ovory lving creature mentioned 1 the Bcrl:l:uu:i" The descriptions sre nat {n 0¥ Case xustive, but give suflicie; - tiou to make clear the toxt or texty w‘t’:?n’ll:“:lrn':n:o to the animal in question. The intercuts of the Viblical student are consequently better served by the work thsn are thaka af the naturst bis- toriau. Mr, Wood i an lutelligant and agreeablo aritor, sud is excellently qualiicd both by his mmmfi .g‘x’dy ;:l \llm animal kingdom and by o u Beriptursl exegesty, BCCO! w,.lkhh“unr:un u ’{5’.’{,‘ esiy, 40 soconplish tha 0 Amorican publisieis have ati 8 work the clesr and quite lm'v.uln‘(duh'gu‘:y%: "gvolm%n.';:yTDr. lllc‘oo&:u:ug au srticle on P ‘ravel in » Rav. Daaiel Marck, D, D, - nda” by the HUMOROUS LITERATURE, ‘Tuz Tarssvas-TgovE Sranza, Edited by R, H, §1op- Dunp. Cowpiled by W, 8 Waiwir, ' Bunrmque, Bquare 1Umo, L' Doston: Willlam Sgare M, v ».oul Compliations axe popular with the reading publio just now, and reasonnbly, too, Itisa convenleut tulng to have the masterpieces at auy author, or the mastorpieses In any dopart- meat of bellos-lettres, brought together and ranged within the compass of singls, small-alzed volumes. 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CARNIVOROUS PLANTS, Thosa wonderful plante that Lave the habit of catching aut consuming insects are at present the favorite objects of oxperiment among natu- ralists, Afr. Lawson Tait communicated to Na- {ure the [nteresting results of Lis lato study of the cconomy of the san-dew and pitchor-plant. 'To dotermino whether the sun-dew absorbs un trimont by ite leaves, Mr. Tait filled throo pots with puro silver sand. In each pot he placed (1) uninjured plants, afier washing them ro. poatedly In distllea water; (2) plants slmi- Iarly washod and deprived of their roots, bury ing oll tholr loaves in tho sand; (9) sumilarly washod and deprived of their loaves, tho roots being burted In tho saud; (4) eimilarly wasbod end four leaves buriod in tho saud, two leaves and 1ho roots being loft above thoeand, Tho plants wero of the speclea Lroscra rotundifolia, and bad seut up o flowor stalk which was in tud. Yor seventcen days ono of the pots was fed with puro distilled water ; another with & atrong decoction of boof ; and tho third with ,0026 por cent solution of phosphato of smmouls. Al wore carofully protected from fusccta, At tho closo of the experimont the plants in the Bist pot woro healthy and flourisking. The plantsin the socond pot wers all much injured. ‘Those of tno second aud third claes were entiroly doad. ‘Tho leaf-ssookd of thoss whoso lesves woro buried wora much blackened a# tho reeult of over-feeding, ‘Iliey had died of too mucn beet- tos. The plunts fn the thiid pot wero more vig- orous aud setiva fn growth thay the plants in tho firet pot. Thowe fiu]krfl"d of their roat and with thelr leavey burigd hed puehed up new leaves ubove the sand. This oxpenment proves that the sun-dew can not only sbéorb nou ment by ity leaves, but can live by thair ald ‘l‘l‘uup. aud that 1utrogonous matorial increases vig ¥, "L'ait has herotofore reported the discovery of ssubstance olosoly rovembling pepsiu in the secrotion of tho Vroscra dicholonu:. e now aunounces that he has found {t 1y the fluid cun- tatned fu the pitcliors of tha Nependhes (pitchers plaute uatirg to the Kast Indios), The fuid in the virgin Michers ravealod ita presence, it at all, in ninute quantities, but that iu pitchers jn- to which tlies Lad fouud thelr way wsu mfig‘l‘y fopreguated with it. In study(ng the astion of wgectd that visited the plichars, Afr, Teit romark- od thet they wore guided by spike- that intorceptad their course in mg"?n?.:‘.“fit rection—to the Uip of the plicher. ** Hore thoy paused, and scomed to eujoy some wecretion which scems to be formod out on L tezed surfaca of the lij ‘Then they revelod ouward, and mob the fate of their companious. I found abou thass iokects 1 this pitcher, u::l u‘gh:‘i'::{“fl L el 3 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY AUVGEST 21, 1875 L&, reawan why they all went to thls pis 1 jait nd Pt sl petiv never sisite seal it Ve od by weld the clay san wtill 1o dotbt theso wau ono. The secretion i which | Jund, Treland, sud Wales. yorn the bongdars a | be tiaecd, b they wero bitng digerted was vors vincid and voryand. In Ao unonenod pitcher the eecte- tion is only famtly acud and not at all vier The wecretion by incteasnd, therefore, an Mr. Darwin s shown £0 bo “he cnfo 1n Jrosera, quality aftar tond han been taken fo. . . eiands whicl lino the hern diffor considera- by from tho Jnenea ( enun’ fly-trap), and they are placod i cunoun little pocketa of evithelisl cells, the moguing of which iv not evidant. GEOGRAPHICAL CGNGRFSS, Tho TInternationsl Googravhical Eshibition now apew-at Paria 18 mootng wlth eucouragiug euccees. Dy o wino provision the toims of wd- mission, in aome cases not shove a ponny, per- it all clasges to improve the opportunity of witnessing its dieplas, Dy this meaus tho exhi- bition is tn the way o accompliehing the yrand objoct of dissemindting s lecruny_aMiong tho nasacs, ‘Thousands 6f visitors daily enter ita doors. On the Sunday whon the Sultan of Zan- zibar was In attondance, 12,000 pereous wero ad- mittett. The ohjects incladed in the exbibition are di- viged into soven groups. Gioup 1. embracos articlen used In Mnthematical Goography, Gaod- and Topography. Group 1L, those in Hydrography snd Miari- timo Geography, Group IIL s devoted to Phveical Geography, General Meteorology, Geperal Geology, Dotobical and G logical Geography, and Qoneral Anthropelogy Group 1V, illustrates IHistoricnl Googiaphy. — Hintory at Geography, Ethnography, and i*hitol. cgy. Gioup V., Kconomic, el winl Siatistical Ooowraphiv. Group VI, Hdueation and the Diffuston of Geozrsphv. Group VIl Explovntions, and Scienutle, Commercinl, and Pleturesque Vosages. From this eoutseration st will bo pocu that the scope Gf tho cullectiou is very broad, swbrasing 3 vaat extent and vanety of interasting objecty. The eatalogue of articles covers about 454 octavo pagos, Tha apaze which Atoerica filla i tlua cataloguo fu ridiculonsly #wall, yet Great Britain and the Colouies 1l Lut 9 pages, aund Genpany fills but 12, Russia covers, with tho list of her orticles on display, 42 pages; Austiia and Hungnry, 445 Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, about 403 and Hollund, 20. Among tho most attractive objects in tho collection are tho Belgian universal moteoraermph, which sur. Pasnes sty apiaratus of the sort yet invented : a Bwodish motoorograph for printing 1 pumbers the deyraes of dry aud wet bulb thermometer, Laromel aued tho’ force of tha wiud; au fu- Bram for determining tho lacalits of heds of iron oro ; wud Mohn's map of churchos etruck by lightnlug in Norway, ‘The map shown ihat two churches aro struck by ligituiug overy throe years, ono of tho two hoing utterly destroyed, #nd this {n o conntry where thunder-storme ace comparatively infrequent. 1t has been wtimatod by tho Aupirian Commis- elon that all the books thoy bave contributed to the exhibition will bo prerented, at jtd close, to the Fronch Goographical Bociety. Their exum- plo w1l! probably be followed Ly other Comuis- ne, and thus Lo permnneut estaolishmout of noble Geograpbical Library will bo one of tho oxcollent results of the Congrosy. STRANGE ANIMAL. A 'Tasmenian Dovil han arnived at Washington, and was at last accounts vigorous and sprigutly. it hag taken up its headauartors st tho Swith- sonian Inatitute, and, strangoe a8 it may seem, iy a most welcomo guest of tho veuerable Prof. Houry. It is the fimst living specimen of ita genus that has evor reachod tho ebores of Amorica, and it consequontly excites tho liveli- cat curiosity. Tho ecientints bave slylod tho thing Dasyurus ursinus, and elssaod it with tho maenplaly, a family distinguislied tor carrying tholr immature young in abdominal pouches. 1t is found only in Van Diemuw's Land, or® Tas- manis, and, from its fierce disposition and de- structive nature, has got the nawmo of tho Devil in ity native land, It iy sbout the sizoola badger, wilh & stout figuro and o tail baif tha longth of its Dlody. It wears a conl of cosrse black haoir, marked wita white bands. It burrows fu tho ground, never olimb- ing trees after the mauner of the opossum, It is tiocturnal in habit, and prove upon avimuls es lnrge #a tho shicep. Colonfsts have sulfered so sevorely from its depredstions in thoir folds and ponliry-yurds, that they ure to bo excusod for iving it ugly banos. It Ix waid to bo & match tor an ordinury dog in fighting powers, nud ity bito iy vory nev: One of ity odd tricks is to sit on its Luunches and comb its Lead with ity forepawa. Ansthing no bunwn would hardiy Lo expected in 1 vicious markupial, FORESTS CF HONDURAS. The ofticial scport Intoly wade to Lord Derby ou the timber of londuras declarea that tho forests cover an area of ahout 5,000 square miles, ‘Ihieso include o tract 50 miles o width along the Atlantic const, and about 500 aquaro miles on tho Pacific cosst. Tho greater partof this foreat lund is owned by the English Government, though larpe tracts belong to privato individuals. Tho forests abouud In treea of the highost valuo for timber, Tho dyc-wood fustic (Morus tine- toria) is deseribed a8 noorly imperistiable, su- porior to oak, aud a substituto for teak n ehip- building. On the Atlantic coast the voil issn fortifo rnd the chmate 5o moist that cleared patehos in tho woodlunda aio clathed snow with timver in a very briof tinie. It is ontimated that 40,000,000 to 30,000,000 suporticiat fect ot timber might bo cut sunuslly without injury to tho foreuts, which in wmany prris uro ko thick ket ay to bo impenotrable. Yrom 7,000,001 to 8,00.600 foot aro cnv ooch yesr, all of wbich is esported oxcept a reserve of about 1,000.009 feet. Dure ing tho lust ten years tho sum towl of woud exported amaunts ‘to about 45,000,000 teet. Of thie, 87,000,000, foot was mahozauy ; 5,000,000 cedar : 1,000,000 fastio: 1,000,640 Brazil wood 5 500,000 rosuwood, aud 500,060 other woads, T'he United Stotos hax taken ono-fteeutl of thises poct and Great Dritain the rest. CANINE SAGACITY. An intoresting examplo of the exerciso of rea- gon on thoe purl of & doyg is publichedu the Philadelphia Mcdicat Times. Tho 1weidont hap- pened somo thirty years ago, aud is fold os fol- lows: * A man namod Coegrove, tho keeper of 8 low tavern near tho railroad etation, had his arn broken, and cawo many times o tho olica to havo tho dreseingy arranged. ITo was nlway sccompauied by a large, moat feracionu-looking Lull-dog, that watchod mo most attostively, and most unploassntly to o, while banduging his wastos’s orm, A fow wools wfter Copgroves case waa dirchargad, T hoanl 8 noive at the ctice daur, a8 if pomo_ sl was pawing it, cud, on openiny i}, aw there this buge Luli-idog, accom- panled by another dog that held up ouo of ity front Jege. uvideuLly broken, They ontered the office, [ cut sovers! plecay of wooil, ant fastencd them firmly to the leg with adhicsive plaster, af- ter atraightening the limb., They left jmmo- diately. Tha dog that cawo with Cosgrove's dog I uever saw befare nor since,” RAPHIDES, Tn an address lately delivered botore icjon- tifle meoting in England, Irof. dullivor vug- gosted that, 88 the curious noodle-hku crystals called raphides sro preseut in ali wpecios of tho British orchigs, that ordar, 8o far ng it exiats i the Dritish flora, might proporly bo detlued as Qynondrous endogens abounding iu raphides. Micropcopic plant-orystals are of four forme : 1, truo raphidos, occurring locdelv in bundles: 3, long eryatal priame, with sngular shiafts, cceur- ring vingly or in groups of two or throe ; I, ort prismatio” crystals, moro or less sguara; 4. wpwraphides, uauslly with s rounded liguie and wmooth or stellato wurface, Truo raphides ure foynd ip every stege and state of tho phaotin which they cccur during its entiro existence. Presensing & besutiful appearsnce undor tho xulcroscuxa. mouuted on alides, thoy form a val uable addition to the mioroscopio oabinet. CAUSE OF FLOODS. Tle frequent and protracted droughte that have afilicted the osrth during some yeajs vast have beon ascribed 1o the increasivg destruction of torosts, and now the excessvo Fang and flooda of ho presont season aro in & oasuro referved to tho same caue. Porests Luve & groat odect in equshaing the distribution of raw sud check- {og tho dissclution of ica aud wnow under tbe influeuce of tho summer beat. 1o existence of timber on hilisides also tewpers tho tlow of sur- faco wator and routraluy the accuswilation of torrents. It lu & notable fack that the violence of spting and summer oodg is {ncroasivg in pro- voruon to the denudation of forest aud wood- isuds, When will mou learn the unwiedom of disturbing tbe equilibrlum of Naturo, aud take cary not to set desolatiug forgesat work by tish disrogard of sught bus thair immodiste pes- soual juterests ? NIGHTINGALES. Thare are some pocullar facts concornlng the distribution of the nlghtingals in Ewropo. Iils 4ound s far ocil 2 Hweden and A8 fur was) 82 timiting ity babitat e England, 12 upp s tho bird lv restricted tn those portians ol o tertiary peological formntions, 1 uay b inferrad that the itmects on wisica it lives dono voil_prevmila, nnnlors of nizhtitgnies o wuet w0 be Rl year o year. FREMIST S8 L In e deserted ked of the [ already 1el b Lones of tro w 435, hias recontly fond o fan: policohibic pesod, It is6iucied jonn hay light convex ewrface saud thr facns on the unter ¢ A Ak ouger ool bave niso \in 1 HORTIGULTURAL CGHGRESS. Conge 1970, FAMILIAR ALK, ASSYRIAN LIBRARILS The excavatioos prosecutad it ravenled to 6y the fact that the ancie were a buok-teading people, that o The Asgyrion Jibraries were under the en Jibisrian, nud tla books stich as in modory collection:, (Lo titet Bibrarian whoso name has come duwn £o us wes Mul- Anna, the don ot Gandhn, 12 saperintended tho library of ono of the ealy Ki Geness ne the birthplace of Abrakzm, signet-cvlinder of Mul-Anna, has beon re ored and is vow in Enrope, and the peababili: i that it was stamped upon Looky over wh its owner liad charge wore than 4,000 yoar up As thofeivilization of Babylonia wax oldar thut cf Asgyria, its libraries wero of 8 ore cient date, nud sorved ma models for thoxe e-tay- Iudeed, tae buois lishod in tho latter country, which wadoe up the collecticnr in tho Aseym cities sroro the greater part of them copies or Lut tlese old-timo hooks were not the tnixhod specimens of the printer’s aud bivder's art thut we diawn by the reader frow the hbraries of to-day. Thiy wero rude. clumsy affairn made of nhects or bricks of clay called tablots, These bricks were zes, tho largest mearuriug abous Y Inter editions of Babylentan works. of different inches by 617 inches and having o fiat surface. ‘T'ho kmaller ones were slightly convex, and eoiwo of them woro acarcely more tban an inch long. On both sides of theso bricks the writing, or priut, ns it may bo properly called, was stamped, while tho clay was moist, with 8 metal stylus, uf- ter which the brick was Lardened in the cun or Ly fire. The cunolform #yntem of writing was the in- vention of tha primitive poputation of Iabglo- nin, aud way derived fron thein by the Asoyri- Tty wodga-shared characters woro rtamged ans, upon the bricks, and, aitbough sbarply dedued. woro olten 6o tiue a8 to ba wcatcaly distinigichs- Ag o eryutsl lens was found on tho sito of Nisuveh, it may Lo sur- nacd that tho Assyrian boola weve printod and AL auy rate, the thiscovery proves that lchkes were in use blo Lv {ho unaided cye. used by the belp of magnifviug glasdes. by bwoof tho oldest swoug o historic na- tions, Luch important eity of Babyiounis and Avsvria Bibrury, aid tuis way ace R had ut okt one g cowmnodatzd in ro0; 0 the lume's palace, exeavationuhave been tadein Cabylomia, but dr. Lay twdrosws in the palace of Scnnachor bis grandson Aesaurbanipal, or Baniwospsius. ‘The fuilowit inseriptiou, duwwovered an une of the tablots, shows that tae libraty was Lkept opon to tho prople Palace of Asshur-panispul. being of _the worll, Kinug oz Aw the god Nobo aud the and opoued the cvey 10 oo foundlaifon of government, et Jecta. The groater portion of thiy library was deo- pokited in tha Dritish Musouo, and cunoiform scholars havo long since Leen on: in dociphering its contentn, many of them auded copiva o latet at countre which arn covared wIth tccondary or nistain means of wibuisience whoro the briury Notwithetanding the muncian waily eantur-lin Eagland atd on_ the Contivent, thore does not g disstion of their furces from secies of Bntish clephant and ovu epeein of don, Dr. Gladstone int snplemont of the Tangitadinal tiog of wi e- | 1 . Cihese inelude o withiall the teth rrevent, r aistinal Fousha, mingl2d An Iutaruational Hoitieu'tursy Exhibition awd , timilar 1o the une held et Plorence Iant year, iy to bo convened at Aunstordenm in eveh have ARALTIANK ic hbiaries wero pnntained for tieir amstiuetion, and that theso were conducted very much uftor the fan- ion of similar institutions of the yyerent dav. oA wero ranged Gpon siselves and wero catalogued for convenience taof Cr, o citvof the Chaldees," which in tusntioned Tho found the **Roval Linrurv of Nimeven" in auld of 10 whom dass Tramit (Lo god- Jdegs of knowledgo) nave given the cars to Lear iat 18 thi true They revealed to thie Kings, my piedecossors, this canaifornt writ- ing, the manifesiation of thoe god Nebo. the god of supremo Intaliigence. I wroto 1t upon tan- letas I aiguod and arranged them ; and I placed thiem in the palace for the instruction of my sub- Tho books beme editions of Naubyloninn wouks, it is expected that thoy will » A resent nur. tJ ine 8 deress; ton ui ket is claimed ta be the moss o o | rnewent bonnd voluma in extence. It nenpy of tho id Teatament. writion nearly threo cen- ies beforo Cord, [t wad found in the veer . and has kice then remained i tho posscesion of the High Priestsof the Samari- tine, who bave succcsstvely guarded it with Jonloam eaze, TLwas shown i 156 o e Eiza Rogar Ly it then custolian, Salameh. The 2 boaund tog etont The outer caver, Waich teof papsias, Liks tuat o which the hook jv wrtten, eave thatibie ittin tiscier, does noy extond across the Vesi, it wooden (rames al topend Lottom holl the bisdwg finn, The votiow 34 neatly § mches ek fnd. etoent Uit the exterior 19 nomowhat worn with b 12, 1'1 uu’umn i thie exact condition tn whic Noau the Monastery of St. Hubert, In nien Lasembours, and known s the ¥ et ol Louts the nl, lina been tately rent to Puiia by wis Enghing boolisoller who prrchassd it o L., and Lopes o well it for 6,000, ‘T'he taok wea denatived by Mabillon i venteenth century, bu: Lir upwardd of ivo venrs his Licen mierinz, and was rded an lort. 16 18 wiitten in 1n aisrd coninIvs vorned 10 Lonor of the King t) whomit wan preeented. Oue balf of the roover s of dvory axquimtety eatved. and tho hatf 15 of wronghs sl repreronting the stio owned the manueer:pt. The work i £ tho warvals of madieval ealigrapiy. THE ASTOR LIBRARY. 11 1<% tho Astor Library esntained 20,060 voinuncs, ‘Ihe number on it shelves st the rreaent timo ww 150,000, During 1871 the addic uons smoupted 1o 1605 velumes, sbout three- foarths of which were donated. Tho Astor g not s citeulating Wbrary, snud its plan doos not mprelieud the purchaso af Ligit und opliomernl Inoruture, Its object in to pracurs books of ribstantial aud permenent value, puch 88 die- crumating seadets dediro Lo perure or consil, “Thy nutnber of reacler for 1474 was 34,454, nug 127,070 boviia. Tue readers admitted to the wleaves during 1934 wero , At (wvo-<osonthe «f thewo weia in tho departiient of patontd, Aty reupoumt-la pereon bringi . the Supe: ident, OF presintt e gosranteer, is admitied within the alcoves, sud alluwed accere 10 the shiclves jn pereou, i MARIFEST AFFINITIES, The curiosity of & littlo 10-vear-uld had bLeeu greatly excited by & Lat that was found o morimg in her bod-room Langini by it heols to the nail euprorting a picture. '£he odd aud un- Lidden vivitor was permitted to occupy through the duy the lodgmg it had seizod withont eotisid- ering the question of righits ond pioprietics, o wea, of course, the euvject of a great doal of -carching vet distant exumination by the i sive chid, Finally sbe broke out i o thouglt- il tone of voice: ** Mamnia, does the Lat be- long to (e oo famil Why, no: what i the world iwado you msk that?” was the respunsive nuery, Ob, nothing, only i ki ich big vary, ) — POLITICAL NOILS, Tho outlook {u Olto is becuming evory day more encouraging for the Ropuvlicans, A few weoks ago tho Deinosrats were cunddent and loud, but nuw they sre crawing emall, Houator Morton has gouo tu New Lngland to #elset a vchinol for hin won. Privato letters caived in Indianapolis stato that he has cons! cd ¢ muko several speecuas tu Maine, arter which hie wili returo aud tago furthor part in the Obio campaign. Dan Voornees thinke time 18 coquired to niake tho isene plain in Obiv, but bas Lopos that the nowspapers will clear up all doubts fu the minds ot the people. Thero doen vot soams to be much donbt of that. The nowspupets ara the mis- stonaties which are bringing the poople of Ohio tu repcutanen. Ar. Thurman undoubtedly did mako thoze omplatic ustclances concorning Ham (ary and the Cotholica which tho Put-m-Bay correspond- enut of the Cloveiand Leader uttribused to lim; but ko never mcant them for publication, Now e feeln bound to douy that ko ever wado them, but ho finds o reasousble difdculty i inducing tho public to believe him, ‘Tlse torm of the Hon. Morgan C. Hamilton aa Uuited Biatos Henstor from Texas eoxpires in 1577, and alrcady tho subject of the succession in being canvassed in that State. Gov, Cauke, Gov, Throckmorton, tho Hon. John II, Roa- gon, the Jlon. Johu Haucock, nnd many other promtoeut men, aro spolen of n conucction witly the placo. “This bhard-money gentlemaw, BMr. Bird should wrblo 0o moro—it iu tho song of & mock™ ng Bird," says tho Cincinnati Commercial ; and such Boema 10 ba tho geuoral fmpression, Mr. throw gl RO tory o | Jind mado o fatal biuodor whon ho sppeared asa The library comprisgg treatises on | chsapion of Ohis Dewacracy aud hord-masey at ageieulturs, Astrooowy, aud geatwar, *col- | tho samo tune. 'Lhero aro w0 priuciplos moro lactions of auciont proverbs, tables of laws aud precedents, coutracts and lewnes, public dia- wtchios oud privete corrospondonco. pravers und osut fablow, didactic treatises and hints on governmont, tables of cubo roots aud other mathomatical forunhe, heta of smmals wnd ntones, of conatrioy and towns. af gods wnd temples, of fuyreign products, sud, above ull, au- uals and bintdricsl document Wheu tue YCualdean or Kingdom was subdued by the Tiabgionian its laogusce v queriug people. Thua ume tho extonsive crented aud stored in in literatnry 1ts it w thom. To aid tho As work of reviving 3 eatioct tougna sSetnitio Awavrisn woro compited, amt theso, prosorved tu tho presant day, cusble our savants t recover to loug-loat laupiage of the Chal- decs—tho privstly caate of Jabyloma. Awony the toxt-bookd of ihe s gasge now in tho ritteh Mu mar, cunumtng of five party; § the Aceadian Lauguage; (4) & Dictivhar o Dictionary of the Chataciers of the Anariar Cuaolform iha Bamo characiera. rouged fu cansow iu the order of their pagitg, Mauuals of matbematicel und unououncal Cle cu0 sciences undoubtedly oniguated with tho Caale dees, snd_ by thein ‘wore nnparced to other ua- Hovoral treatises on arithmeio wero found In the libiarr, and iu & fraggmentars cone dition a wultiplieation tablo like that nluch bas olico a2 Also abundant in the collection. tions, givon so much Lonor to the name Pythasoras, A long work on astronomy aml astroluy coveriug 70 tablaty, way dzawy up for a i Habylon who reigued about 2,000 15, C. tha Hobrow Puatoe. lectton of fragnmientary myths and cousiats of twelve books, mach Look al 1u 8 sign of the Zodino and uarratiug t| tures of & wolar hero. *‘I'ho bool wtory of the Deluge, which bear roscmblouce 10 the account in ¢ gruup of legonds contais one Wl very fully the building of the Lfower of Babel whilo s tuird group pressots us with w history of the Crestion uud of the Katlof Man, similar t0 e furniubed than vsn be fonad in the Mosalo nar- tbat of the Diblo. " More details, Lowever, rative.” Thete 18 Teasou 10 -belisve that the Awsyrians soietuned made use of parchuieut or papyrus i torisl Lias survived tho destruction of theiy cltica and Bot Leyard etalos {hat in the Niwovel writtog, but no bit of shia parwlhsble 1 palaces. iorary there Y woro dusguverad & uumbar o tolt on leatber, papyrus, or parchment. clay sasly mey uiiil be seen haivs forthe o¢ Birips of skiu by alioh the essl wag fa v dhom, I gon mabwd, sud ngtancey, (40 Liry asive e Lomiten 0F Adege riang, not only was ite cilture approrated, bt extirpated by tho con- procoss of had libratices wad inried tn tho gravo of & doud langnage. This language, uow Lnown as the Accndiau, liad con- eequently to bo studiod by the Avsyrizus £4 the clasnica sro etudted by the rebolars of modern timo, for tho troaaures of Luowiedgo vesled up stident i Lrd cTauers. dictiouaries, an phrase-books of Accadfisn, aud disn lan- herd s a vant oncyclopedia of Assyrio-Uabvlonian gram. (1) & Losieon of Ae- wyrian dynumytus; (3) an Asayrian Grommar ; (4) riting 3 (6) a wecond Dictionary of "I tabletw or leaves of {liie work are numbored, and wers probsbly are Lo catalugue of thiis work montions separate trestives on the Pole-star, on comets, an tho movoments ot Vonuw, otc., sud at she cud teils the reador to wiite down tho number of the tublet ke wiskios to cousult, and the hbrarian will thures upon hand &t to um.” Aumong the religioud writings thers is a collectivn of bymne to the godv, which tnstvle bave much resetablance to ‘Lhere is nléo » vast cole logends turown luto b pootical form. * Lne of thers oiics oring advons Wore onigie ually indepeudent lays, and tha eleveuth i (Lo plecas of tine clay, beanug tus Lnpression of soals, which bad evidently baon attacbod, like wodern otioisl soads of - wax, $5 docuwents »Rp ‘fhe documents themssives had poished, 1o the | [{ the watks of ks thumb aud doges fatally autagonisiic to each othor than those which e espouses. fho Now York World notices 83 & surprising fact that wome of tho 1az-wousy payers i tho Wost are actonlly printing long srticles to prove that tho valuo of gold varics, whilo that of greenbacks veioaing tixed, ‘I'lio worst of it is that some of tbo dunderheaded editors are incapa- plo of appreciating tho argumenta wiuch domol- ish thoir position, and actaally glory fu thewr owa igaorance. 1t{s a deplorablo spoctaclo. Gov. Hendricks refused to Lo {uterviewed by a correspondent of tho Bt. Louis Tines ad to the curreney outlaog, LUt was quite fres with gou- oral olservations on the prosperity of the Dem- cratie party, Ile will cnticise ueither Thurman vor Kelley, His policy mauifestly isto mako wany frieods and ou fow eucmios 8 pasrible, He Lns posinive views on all subjects, noverthe~ less, but, llka tho proachor, thinks thero ta time for all things, Siy! Sam Cury ssys he would swoar, if ho wore not. a Coristian, Lat bfin swear, by all mezus. 1o is oot Christian ovough to burt, Sam is all the tuno talking about thie depression ol tuavufco. taring mndustrics ; and when o reached Spring. floid, O., in his travels, lio started in the sams old strsis, But tho beauty of bis oloquence was wacred by the patent fact that atl the milly in that pluce wero running on extra time. Mis attention was called to tue cirounstanco, and he * | mado but a lamo attenipt to explain the causes of the oxceptional induatry. OId Bl Allen ssys of Thurman: * think my pophiew has made a mistake, nod the peoplo sre in no temper to overlook such blunders. Thurway, you kuow, i & lawyer, and thoy aro much given to spocial pleadivg, and are ravoly, \f over, atatosmen. Thoy mro politicisns who make brilliant efforts, porhisps, but uever louk shead, whilo statesmon always foroses rasalia.” Ue ia eapecially disguutod with tbe practice of reading spesches, aud thivks no *‘sistesman” would dosuch a thlog., Tweod waa & * utstos man," In Massachuaet:s as [u New York the oaneus shiows & largo incresss of population in the cities and manufacturing towuy, sud & correspoudiog docrosse fo tho rurst ditelets. The order of vopulation in the large citica will probably be: (1) Doston, with 835,000; (4) Worcestor, with £0,000; (3) Lowell, with 48,000; (4) Cambl with 46,0003 (3) Fall River, with 43,000 to 4 000. It s expected that tbe total population will be 1,700,000-—» grainla the whole Stata ot 18 1 | ver cent over the yeported figurcs of five years sg0. Partof this gain is undoubtedly dus to wore careful coumeration, i PEESONAL Ara. Livermors ls aluo at the Twin-Mountaiv Tjouse, ) g | fug 8 play. “P'll tatk It aver with Buaan,* Ls the latest eateheward, Tho gisudson of oue of the graves of Capt. Coak {8 goug to the Ceutouuial. Draotuer Moody tbreatous to sus the man who . | write# hin blograpby. ‘The Usotbsr i3 quite right. Wbatever & mau imsy kave been, i It ts whispered that Theodors Tilton is writ- in manifeally unjust to cast it in bis teoth at wuch & time ag this, A Wissousln farmor calla his mules Facts, they ch atubborn things, ureka, Cal,, hag & nervy female gambler, who by wame taeana manages to win every time, and {lieatens to cloan out the faro banks in that way. ‘Iha steamer which brought Moody snd Sankoy over was balsated vith sermons ypresonted to them by Feglish divines, A large aesortmont will ho conmtantly xapt un hand, ‘Lha Itev, Dr. Mar. Now Ifaven, ¢ g Mo wili pre church tu-morrow. ‘I'ia Collogo of Cardinals tx dawn 04 Antonolll becausa biw rezeived tho order of tha (nlden Floeen from Alfonso, thay being aluist unanie wously Carhiely Tyudall's pragor-gauve s (0 rocoive a teat in France. Thae pricsis refuso to pray for tho Ho- publie, and vhe radicals propose to keep it goiug without them. Tun'L it ratber & coviradiciion thal Mr. Dans rhould atudinuely dernle a rosl Lumorist like Joln Paul and tolerate such su cxasperating nin- compoop au Uli Perkins 7 Toves Las not had any floods this weason, nor earthiquakes nor storms, but Dio Lewis is in tho State, and she would willingly cxchiange with Tenneasee, Lotisiana, or even (Jeurgis. Young Williamson, of 8an Fraucisco, showed lia was not afraid by touctiog hiv tougua to sirychnino. s courago wad duly accredited to bitn ov & neat aud inexpenaive tombstoua, * Lattlo Noll ' is to marry aud quit the stage. Waould that all Iadies who live upon the banjo, kick-ups, and unenltivaled voices would gener- onkly do the same thing sod leave the tiold cloar for realty capabie artiats, It In Col. Boston now. The amphibions war- rior hould hove Lien promoted to bo a Com- wmedora instead, borause it would bave rhymod €0 much betier with Lure, whon (. W, Childs cawe o handlo s olatuary, It wau charsctoristic of ths Dike of Came bridge that he eslied Cel, Baker * the beut fol- low that over lived.” Ratod by the moral siand- ard of Ilis Royal Hignore, Mina Dickinson's tos- timony showed Lo actually wax. Kalakaua iy locturing on tzwpersnce to hLia army, Lut tho New York municipal bili for wine and brandy for his eutertainmout hss been Lieard of in his dominion, anl ruiued the tom- perance busivess for Kalakaus. Gon, Spiouer used to say thats woman had oot the nerva to steal moro than $2 at a tune. One of Treasurcr N aw's young ladies has shown tou tiled tho norve the okl watch-log alloved her g2z, by making sway with 220, Among the seaets of Duncan, Bherman & Co. ardg yomo bundreds of shares in the Yubs Dam Caual. From tho froguoncy with which tha ca- sial hias been namod to the bankrupts, ona might think they had shures fn nothitog olse. It is boldly charged by a Louisville, K5., paper that tho sons of the lato lev. Mr. ‘Trask chew' to- bacco In a disgustiog manner; Lut whether lhis isintended as s compliment or s reprosch by the Louigrille, Ky., nowapsper, 1t ia impossibla to detormine. Lordon papers stato that Max Strakosch has offe;od Mivs Noilwou §300 a performance far & season of 100 nights, and that tho Iady declined the offer. It is a prettystory, but Strakos:ii's late cxperiences with hor would rather judicate thiat the London papera have inverted the sctual facta, * The doves circlo around my houss and barn, and never coms dowa for carrion. The crow iies around trring to apy ovut corruption. There aro Joves 1u tho ciurchios and there are crows.” —3r. Beecher’s Tiein-Mowntain Sermon. Beatiti- fully satd. But toll us : Is Dr. Bacon a dove or acrow? A Pistatield (Mass.) mau belisves that thore will bo & soparazo Leaven for women, a4 all 2ho foohshness in this world can be traced to them. Massschusetts is rapidly becoming o Leaven upon eatts, a9 all tho men are lesving it, but foolishuesy still romatny iu she person of the Pittaticld man, 1t ta 5ad to see Iutolligent men taken in by fle- titious lotters wvrotending to be from Joha Dright avd Thomas Carlyle, in which these dis- tinguished moen declino $ho degreos lately voted them by certain American colloges, Even Car- Isle wonld pot write so asinine & lotier as the one altributed to him, Col. Anthony, under tho carefnl nursing of his boroic sister, colobrated the 100:h day sivce Lie wounding. by dressing bimeolf aud taking & waik, Hutherto the dressing haaall beon applied tolils wound. It takos two rclays of two per- 5008 Lo compreas tho wubclanan artery for tho roduction of the tumor. Lottery agoncies tlourish in Yaukeedom, The polico of Boston a fer dovs vince made s doe seont acd arrcsted s number of dealers. The busiuces Liad been carred on in o sly way, 80 that half tho uawspapars wero aetonished to hoar of its osistonce, ‘Tho shrewd Puritans alwsvs were fsmous for trying their luck. Long Branch strives for publio patronage by the rottannesd of 1t pahice forva. Justice Lauo haviog fined tho proprietor of & Louse of ili- famo 250, Cbiof of Potico Groon interfered, cslled tho prisonor Lis particular fricod, and or- dered Lis ioutant reloase, at the vame time threatening the Juslice with arrest. Asido from bLis groat merit ad ;an actor, Edwin Adams {8 ono of tho most genisl and compan- ionsble of gentlomen. His fucd of anecdoto 18 unlimited, atd his Irish brogue and Ironch sc- ceut (nimitable. Tho occasivual informal re- coptions given their friouda by Mr, Adama snd Col, Rice, st the Fremont Houso, are very moch eujoyed. Whore i3 tho sentintent of thie great moral en- gluos now? Tho Cincinnati Eaguirer sava: * A refroshing vevival sosson; three mucderers amble ainily away o thoir suriculara ;" and the 8t Loutd feepublican endeavare to rebuke it by an allusion to ** Mr. Gabriel's uurivalod solo on the tromboue.” Ta!mage and his Descons are sadly noeded u the Weat, ; Tise congrogation of Trinity Church, of New Orloans, Lave at last conseatod to allow their Reetor, the Rev, Dr, Samuol 8. Harriv, to scaopt the thrice-ropontod call of 8t. James Church of this city. On two previous occasions Trinity utterly refussd to aliow the reverond gentlsman o sovor his copnection, but b last yleldod re- grotfully to his wishes, A Baltimore docior lo using & camel's bair brush to cleauss tho throst of s little scariatiua pationt dropped 14 into tha child's windpipe, caasiug doath by suffocation. In making outa certilesto of death his gave scariatina as the causo. 'The affair bas just Joaked oat, and now the authorities and the doctor’s brother practi- tioners are makiog painful inquiries. Tramp. tramp, tramp, go the army of vagrants and tuleves over New England; and the poople cry in valu for rolisf, The fault ls not so much with the Iaws as with the teuder-hoartad peoplo themueives, They veliove good sud bad shike for fear that some yeal casas of sufforing way ocour, The trsmpsdo oot infest Newton, the Mayor of which has lesued & proclamation wara= fug theni away, In July a divor in submarine srmor, working at & wreck op tho coss: of Normsuly, wes asized by w davil-tish, who beld fast tos b- borlog rock. His comrade came (0 bis anco, snd wag seizod aleo. It was ouoly with great dioulty thoy could giva the aigoal thay they neeaed holp. Osbers weut down, QCut- lasscs wore brought, and the monsier's arms werg Lowed off, Now sll thoso pler-gosra wuo have admired Misa Victoria Vokes, of the famous Vokes fami- 1y, insy adwire her more. Bhe set & good exam- plo and taught & vevere lesion in New York last Mondsy. As she was walking dowa Broadway, from the Fifth Aveuus Hotel to the Fifth Ave- uus Thoatre, & Stradgs man scccstsd her sod attempied t0 pud his mm srousd ber, b B, an sloquent divine of 810 Cincago this morne arri hiu ths Itev. Mr. Bartlett's i ver-handled nmbreHa. promptly knosked nim down with her heavy «i1- Tho men ran sway, by ths police aro looking for him. Plucky little Vokes! How wo do honor theo, The Fraphis FuRgastA A rovival of *Fun in a Fog," with Mies Vokes In lLer juetly colobrated ** Umbrells Dauce." Dr. Konealy, who is, of courss, nothing if not » Tichborno man, has protested in Parliament sgalust thoe lenity of Col. Baker's mentence. Tichiborne in aontenced to hard Iabor, but Bakoer a rentouced to Imprisonment withous hard fabor. Kouealy thought this mo pusishment, Hut s member mentiooed that whon the learned Doc- tar was onco found guilty of brutal treatraent of his illegitimato son, and sent to prison for o month, he thought the' ponality severo unough, though thero was no hard laborin it. Konealy thought this referonco to his personal history unneceesary and unpardonatile. The revival of *'The Gilded Ago™ st the Union Squara Thostro, New York, Mondsy uight, wnd a great success. Mrs, Join T. Havmond appearcd as tha herolus, and hor performance is warmly commendod by all the critics. Hor #tagn namois Marie Gordon. Miss Grace Btuart, whuse dobut s Ewmily Hateking waa noticed by Tuc Tnincse yestorday, made o bad faiture. ‘Tho Now York Tribune ssys of her: * Miss tuart appeared, it 18 true, lo & weuk part; but even iu this whe could scarcely be heard, and, whilo 8bo wan evidently frightened, sho seemad 28 ovidently to be sell-satiafiod. 8he will be wise orofraln from an euldoavor in which success acemo an fmpossibility,” Liverpool Post: Mr, frving, deaplte the atate- wonts to tho coutrary, playa Philip in the Poat Lanresto’s ' Queen Macy,” which will be pro- duced {h tho Lyceum aftar * Masboth,” fixed for the midale of Septembor. The part of Cardinal Lole, or that of Cranmer, wonld Liave given Mr. Teving grester opportunities of datmiuisbiog bimself, but, unfortunatoly, neither of theso prrta {s suitable for soprasentation ou tha siage by roason of thelr distinetive rellgions enaracter. From tho firat Mr. Tennyson bas taken 12e denp- ont intereat in tho arrangementu for the produe- tion of tho play, aud ** Queen Mary * may possi- bly be the procursor of anothor dramatio work from tha pen of the gonial Leuresto. CURRENT OPINION. The Ropublicans never wora more strangly lo- trenched in correct principles tboo in the posi- tion thoy hse takon reapecting the currcucy question in this canvass. All oxperienco, ail weience, all cammon senae, ars in their favor, A party lsving clearly che right on itawids needn ouly to bravely espouso tha right aod stand tirtaly by 18, apd may safoly let tha oilives take caro of themuelves.—Okio Stale Journal Eoglish journalista azo very complaceatly con- trasting the prompt movement of justica in tha cane of Col. Baker with the dolaye and vezatious impediments which so olften mark ita course in i country when men of wocial or political prominenca are the defcndunts, They forgcet, howerer, that Lsd Col. Valentine Baker beoa caught in any part of the United Statea in tho Act of forcug & young lody to defend her virtue by taking ier own Life Le would bave beon hung before tho train moved on.— [*hiladeiplia Iress. Aftor wuvestigstion, tho Nov Yotk Sunan- pounces that there fu nothing iu tha Tilden par- nlysis story, Tho Goveruor is m * tough old kuot,” and uobody need bo borroying troubls on Dbusaccoot. 'Tho boot 14 on_the other log, 80 to speak ; it ia the veuerable Obio Govarnor who is the parnlytic. It 158 bard work for tim 1o sign lis uamo. His lungs aze believed 1 b2 in s govd nlate of proscrescion, Loworer, and Lo cap awenr with & vigor thut puts tne lengu:d pere formances of the young mon of tuls geusration to shume. —Springfieid Hepublican. It was at Youngstown, O., that’ Judgo Kelley implored the operative to ** clutch capital by the throat.” The rolling-mills at Youngetown are running doubie time, wnd the employes are too busy earning honest wages to murdar their em- ployers or ta buta the mille, Keliey's doloful recital of the wrotebedneso and want of * Iabor” is out of tuoe with the facte, and he will have to walt & whilo bofore La Bocs tho ncouea of the Fronch Nevolution re-enscted here. It much timos ovor do come, they will bs cuused, aa in France, by a wwollen volume of bredeemalls cutrency.—Loslon Journal, The Canservative party in tho South are now mauiog overtures iu good taith to the freedmen, and if theso overtures are accopted in the samo gpirit the broach wHich bos hitherto soparated tho two races will speedily be' healed. If re- jected, a8 Dougluss and Langstan advieo, that breach will e so widenod nna doepened that fu- turo union may bo impossible. Much more than 1nere political ‘snpremacy doponds upou the ac- tion af tha colored votars of the Boutl: in the ap- proachiug clections, They will decide whother whites and olacks are to dwoll together in nnity, or coufront each otbor forover a8 lrreconcilstle foes.—St. Lowis Republican. 'The Boston Pilot gives Don Butlerthis strafght sbot: It might bavo been Yatter, on tke whole, it Butler had not oxpoeed the old soren. ‘There can bo little good front an after-dinnor spoceh that harps bitterly upon tho striog of re- hyglous batred and raco prejudicor. To refer at such o gathering to the burniug of o convaut by & linow-Nottung wob, was littie short of incen- disniam. To call tho Puritavs bigots could do 10 earthly good st such a time. To uay that *the Insh’ would rule New Eugland, aud New En- fand would rule the United Stales, was davgoi~ ous biathorakite,~1f Gou. Butler meaut it 24 the papors ook it. DBut did be mesn it wo? W7 ibiuk not.* It the Hon. Moses W, Field, of Micligen, wers o graduate from a luualic-zsyivo, bo could ave hardly concocted a wore ridiculous apd absurd document than the call to the + Grosnback Couvention™ which he has juss siguod, Ita terms will bo found fu suather col umn., It 14 aunounced that Mr. Koiley, of Penue wylvania, and Mr, Gordon, of Georgia, will ade dress tho Convention, aud that Mr. Carpanter, of Wiscousin, will jon thon. Porbaps thess an- nouncoments are corroct, but surely Alr. Carpun- 1er can hardly bave givon iu his adlesion to s party jed by Buch crazy fanatics and demagoguos 23 hio i8 boro assoctated with. If Lia has done so, Lo has given more authority than his eoomies cauld give ta the repoct that he wishien to porms- neutly retire from pablic life.— New York Tiues. The Liberal Republicane of Olio—thods who ‘want into the Cincinuati Convention for the pur- posos of veform and wers sold out thera by tha Gratz Drown aud Greoley cotmbivation—ars now working cordiaily and hesrtily to defoat the De-' mocracy in that State, Not s seformer -monf thew iv 80 Ilalwflder;“l . u‘zuh uum;au um': x;ulu - cal roform baa aoytbiu, opo for, even nega- Aively. from that aource. Mr. I, W Bird did ok sgres with them at Cincinuath, d he does not agros with thom now. Wnaat ho does expecy from the trinmph of wuch 8 crowd as Gov. Allea and Sam Cazy bave aftor thom, it would be herd to toll; bat ju = laster to the Tribune, bewaiting the wickedneas of lhnnplflv h{ nnon‘ h:nd de- riri ! & new oo, hio ¥ welcomss omeny O o e sacoins I Buoh 1a. h{e.Botion Advertiser, ‘The Rome (Gs.) Orurier reprosents Alexan- der I, Gtopliens a3 boldlng views of fomuce aureeing with thoie of Pendleton and Gov, Allen. The ssme paporeays that Mr, Steplioos will uot bs a candidate for Governor of Georgir. It eiates che matter thua: **This much we are sutlorized to state upon the authority of that distuguisbod gentlemsn, Mr, Btepliens in per- focily satiatied to loava the field open o younger men, aud has no doubt that the Demoaralis aity will place jn nomination the. right wan whbeu the stme for molion comes, The gentle- wen with pitchforks in their bands and Layseed in thew bhair nood not fear Mr. Htsphans in the Quberuatorial race. If they can win the sup- port of the Grangors, they sro at perfecs liberty to vinit all the Granges listhe Btate without fear or molestation, as far es the ‘Hage of Liberty Hall' is concerned. The unkindest cut of all! Tobe Philsdelphia Inquirer anya thal Mr. Delano musb go, aad suggests for bis succosvor—William Welsh, of Philsdelplua! It says: * Noother man would bring to ths ofice uch peculias Bloess ss Wiil- ism Welsh. ie bus made the Iudian problem the study of years, hes wsen it aud revolved it in all its beariugs. and come to his oonclusions through patieut inquiry. He hes shown bimself thorouglily tnformod on Iudiau sffsirs, and sa oarned the gratitude of his couuttymon. by ex- posing thy gurmnll u which has made the In- dian Oftice & sbawe sod a reproach, Lot Mr. Dolano, who has demoustrated ive place o Mr. Welsb, who Las s the tasny, sbove all men, beat suited to the olice S ety sdatatary o 1 12 4 wol nently satis{ac :shr” # euidant, flr’w. poopls uds Q Phil d u’ onpuylvacia, snd, 283ve :{1. Yy #&c "t the eatirs eouatis.”