Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1876, Page 11

CTHIS TCHICAGO TRIBUNKE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1876—TWELVE "PAGES, —_—— e —— e . GERMAN HOME-LIFE. Vicws of ‘a Critical English Lady The Dependent Condition of Married Women in Deutschland, " A Woman Not Mistress of Her " Own House, but * Simply an Upper Servant.” The Women Wait upon the Men, aod Not the Men upon the Women, Marriage-Regulations---Violation of Sanitary Laws by Inter- marriage, Tiéw Babies Are Brooght Up.-The Delega- tion of Primary Maternal Duties, Subsequent Seif-Sacrifice of the Mother in Behalf of Her Children. The Froquenoy and Facility with which Divorces Ara Prooured---** Mor- genatio” Marriages, Notwithstanding All Their Alleged Dis- advantages, tho Women Perfectly Satisfled with Thelr Condition, Frazer's Magazine, Marrisgo is anrely tho golden koy to the celas- tial portals of Liborty. Lot us see how it has farod with our young friend since the frolie fos- tivat of the Polierabend. Tho marriago iteolf s, Ly comparison, but s tame affair, Weddlog fa- vors, marriago-tours, beat-man, bridesmaids, lockets, genoral rogardlessnoss of expenss, and tune de micl, sacred to seclusion and sontiment, sro Lonored in tho breach rathor than inthe observance; and whero people Lave not largo meaus, or, at loast, canoot afford theso luxuries without inconvonionce, wo may fairly applaud the practical common #enso that docroos young peoplo fo love can bo just aa happy at homo s month sooner as s month later. For the ¢ great,” thoso post-nuptial extravagances mroe permissible; for tho * genoral,” thoy are entire- 1y oot of tho queation. Tho bride, aud not (s8 with us) the bridogroom, FUBNIBUEH THE HOUGE plate, linen, and all that 1s roquisite forthe young couplo to set up housokeeping. Tho rifts that flow in are, genornlly speakiog, of ths most moderate, not to ssy ehabby, charzctor; so that the burden and heat of tho day fall upon tho parcnts of the younglady; and, if thero should be half-a-dozen daughters, tho consid- sration of ways and moans {8 apt to bo & rathor Banous one, The Jmot tied, domestic lifo befins. To chooso ono's own drosscs (subjoct to marital approval) ; to have one's coffeo as strong aa one nkes; not to bo stinted iu sugar; sod to go tbrees timos a woek to tho theatrs, with nppropriate variations do toiletto ; to mako one- _welf perbaps renowned sa a Ifausfrau,—who would not accopt such a fate with the raptaro Rood focrtuno proverblally excltos? And yot— snd yei thore have boen found uncomfurtable souls to whom theso delighta bave not sufilced* Of guch misgaldod females lot us koop silenco ; :L 18 over our duty to represont tho bost of its ypo. ‘We, ino England, are accustomed to thiok that, ba her lord ond moster nover so lordly and masierfal, & woman reigos, as a rule, suprame Ia ner own houro; on mattors of domeatio detail, bo ho otherwiso nover 8o deapotic, ho will scarce- y presume to spenk; nor does bhis voice, lond suough, perhaps. otherwieo, ofton mako iteelf beard on questions of household-arrangoment, Meddling men aro altogothsr oxceptional and fr- rogular in English housobolds, The preciso contrary obtalns in Germany ; the husband is tho King, the mfo merely the Primo Miniater. Ho sita in nis srm-chair, smoking perennisl pipoe, and auditing, with all tho so- verity of & Lycurgus the poor little woman's abject accounts, He knowa all about the butter and drioping, awoare at excessca in soap aud wauorkraut, id'abuslve as to fuel, tyrannical as o candles and rea-hernings, and terriblo on eggs #ad bacon. A woman is no moro master of her own houso in Germany than you or I (despite thio Laureato) aro mastors of our fato, She is slaply AX UPPER BERVANT; DRy, of mauy a gemdly-horn and gontly- bred lady it may be said that tho dull drudgery of hor lifo {8 stch a8 no upper ser- vant would ondure, such aa would be soarcely tolerable to * the maid thmt doss tho meavest chars," The maid canat least croep into dim obacurily whan her houra of work aro at au end ; but the iady bas to clotho lserselt insuch rai- ment as bor atation is suppoved to demand, and 10 leave waarinoss of the flesh and voxation of pirit in the kitohen with tho pots and pans. Tha lady fn black silk (reslly au * upper servant ') Nho copsents to suporintond the Browns' gorgo- ous establishment, for tho moderate considera- ton of £50 a year (eversthing: found, and no ln- dslicato inquiries as to perquiaites), would scorn \o employ herself in the menial mannor common ‘o many noble ledice in Germauy. Do I nat, for Instanco,remember my seighbar, prettyiittle Bar- oness B——, like tho maidin tho numery-rbyme stavding **in the gardem, hanging out the clothes”? HaveI not gazed with a tender admiration (of which to this day sho is unaware) & Frau von C——'a fair face, as I watchod her from my window, ironing ber husband's shirt- lronts all through a blazing afteruoon, whilst Bow and agaln s dismond-dvep woula roll from her Lraw'snd fall, audibly hissing, on the iron? Havo I not soen, with & sadnoss L dared not Miow, the indefatigable [fauptmsounmn von %— baking, boiling, stewing, ‘pounding, eift- Ing, welghing, peeling, with ao encrgy that levnfil‘v paralyzod me at my post of obsorva- Hon? Hhe would chaffer with tha peasants who brought buttor and oggs to the kitchon-door, cheapeping their siready miraculously-chesp ©ferings 4 sho wonld ecold tho slavey (who, a# :'n.nrkt?o"' (‘2: nha ;i:v-v “d nll),lllnp blm- girls y on tha shouldors, sud xap kor boys over Abe knckles, avd " P 2 NEVED A4K FOL CHANGE OR DIZST, Who ato all the good things shie compounded ? #uppose her huepand, s big, burly mau, with o ted face, and beery, gattursl voice. I could hear hun'lnonng awsy alf the early part of the sum- mer's atteruoon (the windows were opon towards Lue garden): when st 4 o'clock ha_would cast bis Beal and Pandoffeln, get himsolf into tegimental clothes agsin, buckle in Liy big walat, sod go lw'gnmng down t0 his clab, ogling every girl sud womun ho met by tha WaYs L saw tho oiber day that be Lad beon docoratod with, 1 koow ot how roany, starm and crosved. ind bad grown into & Lisutenant-Colonel ; aud" 1 could not hislp wondering how it was with his r litle wife, who had beon under fire ko long, muched and couvtermarched, and come tho front hke a gallant littlo volun- r, alwave obedieut to the word of ber superior officor, cheery and uncom- Plaiuiug. lins abie, t00, got herglow promotion, .Mud stept out of the ranks boyoud tha kitchens Faoge, beyoud the wholo balleris ds cuisine, wnth the ordor of merit on ber falthful, modest Little breast 2 Ydoudtit. Idaie uay, It Icould Look in upon her now, aie i st} cufing gappie- &isslary boys of 4o askioal, lest they ahould dise o tarb the paternal post-prandial slumbors, and rating the slavoy as encrgctically as over, 10 the householda of military men, or in those of tho hockere Beamlen, TUE WOMENKIND GAIX LITTLE, comparafivoly little, by tho fpromotiou of their lords, No greater indopandanco of ac.lon s grantad them, no widor aphoro or larger iuters esta. \Washing-daya como round ae bofore ; tho potatoos have te Le peeled, the carrots seraped, and the slavoy driven ¢ the stockingn to bo knit= tod. tho shirt-collara to bo ironed, and tho oternal Jocking and unlocking to go on. with vory light modifications, justas it did fivo, ten, twenty yoars ago, Tho masier is decorated, ho has new titlon, Lecomes moro 6xponaive, Eunanlly ornamental, and sublimo; bo goes to the Minfalerium or the Kammer } be nita upon the Houch, or Lo wrangles fn_Parlisment, or bo elaborates the Kriegsptel ; ha comes 1n contact with men of varjoun shades and colors of opinion; at the club ho reads the dally papers and loarns how tno world wn;}a; bo plays whist, goca to the {heatro, and,*if ho hwve nothing to do,.selurns homo again sbout 9 o'clock. Having discussed, 80 far s was prudont, sll political news at the club, ho 18 haidis lizely to bogin on the atato of tha outer world, when he finda mself once more 1n tho bosora of his family. Haaides. women dou't rond (L nawapapera; what is said and dono in thelr infimtesimally-small circte i8 mote to them than ail’ the huge disasters of humanity: tho Kaffeoclack of more_eignificance than Kings nnd Kaisers toppling to their ruin ; tho rumor of nscandal of greator fnterest than all tho vast probioma and conlicts of the social and moral univeree. And no o littlo locat talk i a1l that ia likely to turn up ; and, ae It §s vory local fadeod, and Lay been revolving for the Inat thirty yoars (on his, and the last twenty years (on hor) part (for at thoy both knew s fair amount of town-gossip), Lo conversation is not precisely of & naturs to make them forgat the timo, o bo heedless of the coals and candles. ‘Wo aro sccustomed fa think of Germans that they are & domestic people. Tho truth is, that of domesticities thero is enough sud to spare, but of domestic lifo, a8 we understand it, LITTLE OR NOTHING, Dayond eating, drivking, and slcoping under one roof, the Aexcs havo Littlo in commou. Tho womau 18 & slave of the ring: for tha wife, the baking snd brewing,—for tho bus- band, tho cakes and alo; for lor, tho tho boor and toilng ood anlnnlug.——hr him, alitties ; for her, the Shoop-waflc of procodent and tho stocking of virtue,—for him, tho parad- 1ugs and prancings 3 for lber, tho nlppluuu and screwings,—for nm, tho pipings and dancings § for hor, ko dripping-jar and tho menl-tub,—for lim, starsand garters, aud goneral galloonlog, glitter, and sublimity. In s comfo paperthero appeared tho other day, amongat advertidoments for things required, but searcely likely.to bo mot with— * Wanled, » Jady-bolp, with deft fingers, who ean open «OystoL, peol waluuts and prawos, and msko tonst.” 2 Now, what some Epglish wag treats as an fm- poseiblo production, Gorman_ home-lifa offers wholoaalo to the spectator, Tho women is there to ok tho sbrimps, sbiell tho lobaters, and poel the potatoes, of Ler lord and mester. What wouder, then, it he be lordly and master- ful? His crosture comforts aro matorially increased, and his pocket spared, by tho excol- leut existing srrangaments, Tho Hauafrau gaves him o wervant ; ludoed, sho saves Lim uri- koown quantitics, by hor thrife and Inbor. Hho Ling an iotorest in tho firm, such 85 10 paid lureling could havo ; she is to the mannor bora, and kuows lifo undor no other aspect ; nor DOEA BRE TAKE IT A3ISS that her sponsor swaggers aud gambles with the surpius cown that has been rotreuched by tho choose-parings and ' fint-slunnings that Labft- ually exeiciso hor frugal mind. *Afcor visits and finery,” says Hazlitt, “a marricd woman of tho old school bad nothing to do but to attend to her’ housewifery. She had no othor resource, no othor scase of power than to harapgue and lord it over hor domostics, Moderu book-education supplies tho placo of the old-fashioned system of kitchon persccution snd eloquonce, A wall-brad woman now scldom oet into tho kitchon to look afior sorvants. “ortnorly, what waa called *a good mansagor' (*8bo {5 o pricoless Hausfrau,’ writes Goeths of ono of his fair friends to anoshior), an exomplary 1nlstcoss of & family, did nothing but hunt thom from morning till night, from one year's ond to another, withiout loaviug them a momont's rest, eace, or comlfart, Now, a seryant i8 left to do Eor work without this suspicious, tormanting in= terferenco and fault-finding at evory stop, and abo does 1t oll the botter. A woman, from this havit, which at lnet becsme an uncontroliable passion, would scold hor maids for fifty years to- gethor, Now, the tomptation to read the last now poom or novel, and tho nocosalty of talking of it fn tho uoxt complu{ sho goes 1nto. proveut hier. and thio beneflt toall particsis incaleulable,” That o woman should bo_ her husbaud’s holp- meot a8 woll as his honsckesper ; that the no- blost unfon {s not one of supremo authority and abject submission ; that tho wifo should * away lovol to hier Lhuaband’s henrt ;" tuat sho ig thero, not only to esw on his whiri-buttons and darn his socits, but also, {f noeds bo, *‘to warn, to comfort, sud command ;" that her bousoliold motions may be light and free, a urln!. yot & wowan t0o; snd that she may, if sha bo o willed, como **at the lsst to 36t hersolt to man, liks porfoct music unto uoble words," is & view of marrirga too loratical for any orthodox QGorman lady to outertatn, TIE BULJECTION OF WOMAN datea from Lhe Creatioo, and no nowfanglad- noss shall oblitorato the precedont of Paradise. 1 remembor, at _an csthetio toa, 8 quict aud outward!s-insignificant littlo person being called upou by our hoat. ?ner husband s Gorman gontle- man of anciont lneage) to produce somo trans- Ixtions which sho bad mado from onoe or other of the great poets. The veisos wers put into the hands of o certain Dr, R— & man whose high- est ambition 1t was, mirabile dictul to cdgo bimsalf *‘any way” Into socloty. IHo was & purson of sssured atanding snd acknowle cdged merit fn bis own partioulsr circle; kuown a8 & blind Couservative, and as tho recivicne of koveral gold medala * fusr Kuuat und Wissentchaft," bestowad upon him by vari- aue potontates and powers for Lis oxertions an their bebalf. Ilo was, nevertholoss, only thero on sufferanco ; to bo tolerated in considaration of prospective usefulnoss, and troatod, fram that pomt of viow, with a faint concilistory show of shallow cordiality. 1o was as woll be- haved as tho rest of tho company, if his man- nore were not quito o casy as thoirs; 5ot ons folt vaguely that he was in, bat not of, tho * world " ho aspired to fiequent, ‘Tho voraes wors read, and soan afterwards tho Influential editor left the-room. A litile stir of rofiet buzzed through tho party; but auold Mausfreund, takiug “thelr Lost by the arm, led vim apart, **You have commitied o mistake, licber Freund," he smd, ** Your wifo may have talents, but, in yoar place, I would not allow her to have anything in common mit derer Art Leule [with thas uort of people). Thoy ure oaly to Lo tolerated on secownt of thoir poton- tial political udefuluess.” Of courso, porsons with o pedigreo aro blaudly permutod in Ger- mauy, as * Royal and noble authors " efsswnere are, Lo aabble feebly io hitorature, and not to lose Dy tho daubling. It is a mania hiku anoth- or, Buttbere Is a ganeral wswumption fo the world thai 1 peoplod by Genorals’ wivea and Councitors' spouscy, that literary fame in wowan is, o8 Lord Macaulay says, **a blomiab, aud s proof that the porson who enjoys it is woanly bora, and OUT OF TUE PALE OF 00D SOCIETY,” A woman of declared * literary " proponsi- ties must accopt tho fate thruat, nolens vos fens, upon bor, and sit pationtly in that outor court of the Gouliles to which sho is lndisciiminately relogated togotber with Arcadiaps, Bohemiaus, boou-compsnions, and inforior porsons genorally, * 1t ts, of course, out of the question that she should Lo a goad Haus- Jfrau, or that whatshe Lasiu tho place of a mind can bo duvnn up to tha minutly of the atore- room and exigoncies of tho larder. T'ho fiat has gono forth, aud sho munst consolo beruelf with tho thought tuat there is justico in Heavon, in thio pragent insteucs, it will be observed thatthe Jady waa in 1o wiso consulted as to her viows or feoliogs on tho matier; sad it i to bo hoped that the blank, expressive silonce which fell upon the company ou this unexpected rovelation mway, without tho suggested nisrital coorcion, Lavo saved her from furtbior follies of tho kind. Ihave soen Eughsh gentlomen, introduced, without duoe preparation, luto strictly Gennan ciictes, mado misorable for & whole eveuing, aud tirially dnven to tho verge of digtraction, by the entlp, porstent attentiona of the ladiea of the ooeo. When ho realizos thas ho is bolug waitod upon by theso fairdamacls, tho Euglishman jumps wildly and apologetically from hig clsir, ntam- mers confused and bastiful excuees, clutches the cupa and platters out of the ministering angol's Land, aod sutsides, rea sud rufiled, into bis goat. 1o hopen it will not bappen sgain ; ho devoutly truste it is over, Dut, bo ; ecarcaly f hie com- lexicn recovertng ite normal hue, wheu anotner Tavuly beiog is *etaying him” with apples, briogiog bim butter fo a tordly dish, or offeriug sausagoy at bia shrine. Again ho boooced out of s seat liko an ludia-rubber ball, sgain clutches convulsively, apologizes, confouuds bimself in _horrible, polyglot, inarticulnto oxcuses. and aubsides ‘exausted 1oto his chair, Ho looks round and sces that all the othor men aze belng waited upou { he percelves that is {4 ** TUX OUSTOM OF TUE COUNTRY ;" that it proceeds, not from tho paucity of ser- vauts, but from a plentitude of femalo devo~ tlon. 1f servants were wanting, then surely the men would walt upon the Isdiss, o tell . tolf movetrely that when st Itomo your bohavior should ba of tho atrictest Roman typo; he re- minda himaelf that the first condition of good breeding {s, that you ehould Implicitly conform to tho naagos of ‘the mocloly in which you find vourrelf ; he will mubmit ; but, when the third and most beautifol daugbter of the houso presanta him with Haeringsalat, his feolings ato & togathor too much for him, and entirely ovor- come ina good resolutions, e goues through the same frantic furmula sgain, with tho mecret impreasion that he s making » moat abject fool of hLimself, plunges wildly and despairingly st the comeatibles, and nubgiden into a limp and melancholy condition. Ho Is like a bull in a chins-shop, the girla thiak, and tliey hold Brmly to the family crockery and tho beat giass, * Théy are dreadfully rostless, die Englaender," said & voung consin to me; “mea how quiot and well-bohaved out gentlemen aro, and wait for their turn!” This was all the oor, chivalrous young Briton got for hia paina. ’aina! thoy wero tarturea—ngonies. » ZLDERLY MARRFAGES ara very rare in Germaay, where 8 wholesome, common-eenso view of the relatiouship prevails, sud deaigbing elderly spinators and dangcrous olderls-juvenilo bacholors ars comparatively senarc in society. In Hungary, Roman Catholics and members of tho Greck Cnurch may marry st almost any sgo.—males over 14, fonmion over 12; whoreas Protestants may not roarry until the reapoctive ages of 18 aod 156, In Avstrin, por- nond undor ara minors, 8od —must Linvo the cansent of parents to enter tho mar~ riage-state. In Bavaris, tho laws vary coneid- erably with tho districta; in one, *tue: of vailid marriage ban been fized at 14 and 12; in anothor, at 18 and 14; in a third, at 18 and 15, In Hesse Darmstadt, the law of 1832 required thiat overy man should havo reachod he agoof 25 beforo ho venturad on tho role of a Hone. dick; but in 1868 tho rule was modified, and ‘marriaro becamo logal at 21 years of age, Eveu when the legal age is attained, tho cousent of parants and guardiang Is indispensablo, Iiun- nway marriages are, thorofore, impossible, and much after misory is, no doubt, thus avolded ; but, none the less, strange complications, not hiero 1o bo entered upon, somotimes srise. Reforonco haa already beon made to the ox- traoidinary apathy that prevails in matcors sani- tary thronghout the Fatborland. Tho samo ube tusonoss obtrina with rogard to all that concorns Liealth, well-being, and Lappiness, if under hap-~ piness wo include that firat condition of tho mens gana in corpore sano. Not ooly does tho physical education of their women tend in tho wrong direction, but ali that intluonces and do- termincs marriage confirms and adds to forogeno blunders, In the uppor classes marriaga is determined, if not chiefly, yot porhaps doctsively, by moans. Itis part of that peculiar prosale, practical (and yot how fatally unpractical) programme which #ooms the law of tho modern Gorman naturo,— that money, if in & family, sball ot boallowed to go out of it, Iicnce, Dothin the cano of gotd and lands, marriages and_ intormarriagos go on generation after goneration, the rolationships growing over nearer and noarer, moro and moro confuscd, and tho results, as may bo roadily imsgined, ZYED MORY AND MORE DISASTROUS. In no otbor country doga ono meet with tho same number of goitrous throats, scarred necks, spinal-digeases, Lip-dixoases. bad teoth, and gencrally defoctivo boue-structuro, as in Germany, No Lesitation ia felt in speaking openly on mattors that one might, without hypocrisy, be justified {n bidiug under any avaiisblo bushel. *Who s tbat frightfuily-disfigured porson " askad 1ny noighbor, s brilllaut young Lieuton- aut of huassrd, at & family.diober. ' Jck leils sehr an Skroplen,” said tho young lady in ques- tion ou the other sido of me, spoaxing in tho samo level, unomotional tone that sbe might have nsed in asking mo to pasa tho ealt. Alas! #ha had uo uoced to tell the tarribla tale; but in & weoli, neitlier more nor less, sho was ougsged to tho critical Licutonant (ho was over head and cars in debt), who, though o Liad not been too delicate to sncoer at Lier acfeots, was not slow to discover that the beaur yeuz desa casselle made up fora want of oyelaabes, aud that ' G0,000 thialors covered » multitudo of sins, 3 In suothor family, where cousins had fatore marrriod with couefon apparontly since the flaod, tho sole heir to a vast property wasa delicato. spineless boy, & child swhioss bones bad a cruel taodency to work through the skin, and so to slongh away, to the agony of the little sufforer, It waa not possiblo that be should live, and whon, aftor tiwolve yoarsof terrible existeuce, death came and morcifully get him frco at laat, the childless fathor, looking round, TICKED OUT AXOTHER COUSLN, took Lier to wife, and lived to havo threo more childrew, whoreof two were griovously aflicted in mind snd body, but the third, & hectia boy, survived to inlient the ostate. In anothor family, whero tho estates wore con- sidorable, aud whore tho same tmmomorial mare riago customs botweow. near relntives bad ob- talned (uncles marry their nioces in Germany), tho roprosentatives at last dwindled down to tive, ‘The son and botr bles bis brotus out ; the socond daungliter drosrnod orsolf ; tho third daughter bocamo & confirmed hypooliondriac ; tho second son, tormentod with =® torriblo domplaint (Flechde), akin to tha 1eprosy of the anciouts, aftor washing in all the waters that the wells of Gormany afforded, uusblo to find, evou in relig- {on and good works, tho cansolation ho sought, put an ond_to his misorabls existence. Ouly tue cldest daughter remninod ; the ostates wont in tho mslo line, and dovolved upou a distant cousin, & mote ¢ Namenacetler,” stia waid; but thip old feoling provallod ; it waa a pity to take her fortuno away from tho name, nud whon th Namensvetler proposod be was accapted. I saw Lier somp yours Iater ; slie was a_ widow, with ona idiot child, Thero sooms to be & strange {ugenalbility to all phgscal defocta,—to sl tho long train of terriblo copsequences thuat these grievous inherited maladles bring witls them, where iuterestod mottvos couoscl n prodent shortnosa of sight, Tho geographical position of Germauy has hitherto been & bar to any appreciable fusion of blood or mixturo of races in bor population; the few Fronch and Evgliah wto find themusives rettled in Germpn towna are, for the’ most pnrt, too poor to tempt tho nativos into matiiwony (re- momnber tho ** caution " of 15,000 thalers). In commorcinl towns, whero thero is moro |, Yerkehr, tho movey is chiofly in the hands of Jews; and & German Jow ia doubly bound to Justify bis otigin, T'he money-baga will bo kept in the family, Lvon in smaller towns and vil- Iages, it la not tho cuatom, as mith us, for the voung people to seek thoir fortunoe at & distanco, Heimuweh, the mal du pays of the Swias, over- comes the wandoter who passcs even into the next State (as fiom Devonshiro futo Corn- wall), and '» dozen droll romedios are presciibod by tuo old wives for this troublesomo form of .disoaso, undor the influence of which tho sutforer not un- froquently takes to her bed, and soeks solace 1n guawlng an old crusb { ekrust), which sbo has brought from the isst loaf baled at homo, and which 16 supposvd to boan iufalhiblo remedy, THE PRIGHTFUL GOTTRES which one soes in tho 'Fyrol, aud which Scienco ateributes to driuking wator that flaws over Dalotitic rocks, and igmorance lags ot tho door of suow-water, whilst tho hoavy weights the neasants oarry on thoir heads sro supposed by othars to develop this hidoous form of throat- disoaue, are perhaps due quite aa much to tho fact of gbo goitrous mlrn'ln’{ tho goltre Raz Ing upon tha goitrous, aud living I oitrous atmosphera from time immemorial, a8 to avy other renioto caudes sssigned Ly scionco. It iw 1o blemish or dofoct (o eyew that aro used to1t; tho man or girl who loaves tho village wilt ro- turn to sottfo there, aud marry tho lover left bo- hind, and #o the gbaatly disoase is porpotusted, and genoral compizcency provail. The same may bo said with rogard to tho AWFULLY-A¥FLICTED CHETINS, who startlo and hornfy one {u all theso mown- tmn-villages, Whers Nature ia so beautiful and grand, the shock ju almost unondurablo whon tho oye falls ou & row, say, of threo or four of thess blurred, deformod, and degraded spoci- meus of bumnnity sitting ranged uiwn o wall thoir gnomo hka figures, ungatnly limbs, aud awfully-imbocitu countonances atriking dinmay to your vory soul; doficiont as thoy are in un- deratanding, they yet know Low to beg; and will #lin down from tho wall with & weird ogility for which yon lind not given them credit, aud cowo clamoriog round the carriago with lxldnnuuglb— berings, aud ghostly, inarticalsio utterances, The first timo such & wight presented feself to me, 1 turved anay with » Beuso of eickoning disgust. “Tinl" eald o pretty Gormsn friond; ‘*have they nov ey much right to God's dear sunsbine 88 we ? " The words wero 8o goutle that fora moment I felt sbashed; but the nexi common senso rojectod the sofs optimismy, 1t wau falso seatimont after ally for the uuhappy, loathly creaturcs 1d Lavo onjoyed **God'a dear suuthine” just as well whoro thoy would not have ontragod {hat Toverenco for ‘the jmaye of the Maker which cauacs all instioctively to turn away from an ani- wal out of which the God-like, the divine, aw [ :-tull{um 4o mysteriously disappesrcd. 1t soemed to mo that tho police, who wero erm. ployed in coorcing us es to oyr Laestesnd Scheine, would Liave bosn far botter aud miore practically engaged if thoy Lad taken tho help- exs, bidoous gang of moppors sud wmowors un- der thoir charge, and conducted them to » piaco of ssfety romate from the King's highway, Bus such aflicted beingy ave a considerable source of incoms to Lheir parents and guardisps, A Lissty impulse canses tbe travelor to plunge into hia pocke$ for & coin: & falso banavolence, & sense of the awful, lufolle cliaum betweon them and assured me that it was entirely owiu; tho bouse-mother, a lica of Solomon's great Oriontal! vory Lxlug;ln uod wise that sho should be thus de- pleted, and their surroundings, makes his strenzth, snd health, and wandeiing 80 many reproaches to hini; aesln, the dosire to got rid of thin awfui’ blot on 80 fair a creation, an uneasitoxs at thair vary presenco, producea willing apecie from the depth of Tus garmonts : unlesn indecd he bo of the placid fiame of my pretty Dertha, who wiabed them to cnjoy **God's dear sunshine, but did not further that iacxpensive ontortatne ment by sny reckless profusion of coio, Nor 1a it romatkaole (‘lhmmh Helonce disputes the Influence of such painfal phenomona on com« ing gonarations), that, with tho slght of thess ‘poor, afllicted boinga over bofare their eves, and tho knowledgo that they are fertile sources of galn to thelr families, tho Iohabitants of thoso regiona ara equal to tho oceasion, and that tho race doas not dis out nar the supply fail. Let us roturn to tha abeepfold of ordinary homo lifo. After » year's matrimony comes > TUE. CURTOMANY DADY, A German baby {s & pitaous object ; it i pin- doned and bound up, like s mummy, In yarda of bandages, which ara unfolded once (st the out- aida tvice) s day; It in novar * bathed,” but I Rupposo |8 Bomotimea waahed aflor sama ocenlt msoner, Itahead s never touched with soap and water until it s 8or 10 moonths old, when the thick skull-cap of fncrustad dirt that {t bas by that timo obtalned Ia removed by the applicas tion of various unguants, Many Gorman ladies have assured mo that the dine leads of bhair one aces i QGermany ate entrely owing to this- unsavory skull-cap, Whon, having somo juvenile rolatives slaying with me, I iusisted on tloir being *' tubbed,” all my female frionds worn shocked &¢ my ignorsoce and will!u'lnuu. 0 our barbarie bath uffltcm that the Xiog uf Hanove, lost bin sight. ** My friendy, wo are not al blind,” I #aid ; and thenu they wore eilonced, if not convinced. To this terrible saystem of bandapiog and car- rying thochild 10 a peculiar fashion wrapped in a mantle, that ie partly slung round the hips of tho bearer, something after tho fashion provall- ing amovgst Jodian squawi, may bo attributod in o grent degree the number of curved spines, crooked shoulders, and abuormal - developments weo meet with' in Gormsny., Yet, strange to sav, *irickels "~—a diseass only known with us amongat tho poor, who cannot afford the time thetneelves or pay othora to nurse thelr childrea properly—goes by the name of the Engliscie Krankheit. Tio baby, boing born sud swated up, now gota s hugo peassnt-girl v loco harenlis, A mummy is not thing to fondle, nor {8 w little stiff bundle of humanity (which you might atand up on end in tho corner of the room with« out dotriment to its sumptuary arraugoments) an object on which to Iavish,carcazes. Thua the young mother is BOANCELY A MOTIER AT ALL. the maternal functions boing delegated to an- othor, Tho baby does nut lie on the floor or crawl to tho bearth-rug, crowing, and kicking, and curling its pink toes. trampling with its chubby logs, and fighting with its mottled arms, **ag one that beatath tho air.” It does not swarm up andabout its mothor's neck and bosom. find- ing ite httle lifo aud sll its. tinv plansnres in hor arma; {t doesnot fall at length into s slumbor of rogy roplotion, and wifh its mouth opeu, snoozily aatistled, rejoice its mother's eyes for tho besutiful littlo animal that it is, No, it in out walkiug, tied to s feather-bed, and accompanied by » tall soldier, the father of ita poar littlo foster-brother or sister, which i to grow up as it can. 1t comas in presently, and iy takon to Its mamma to kisa; but ita reat tmothor, tho mother that forters aod feeds it, 8000 oarries |t Away agsin, and rosumen all tho privilogos of truo imatornity for the reat of tho day. The lady might sa well bo ita aunt, ** Only that, aud notliing more.” Wo have airoady glanced at tho fives of the littlo men and women that wo have seen trotting to and fro between homo aud echool. 'Whe charming inatitution of a ** nursery,” aas wo un- derstand it, is gcarcely kuown iu Gormany ; cor- tainly only known in the liousss of tha very rich, The “children eat and driok in the common Tohnstube, snd swarm geverally over the prem- iues in their houra of fyeedom. " Tnere will, per. haps, be ndull and distaal rtment, called tho Runrderstube, wiither the aalwart Amme will 1etire to danzle-cub the lJast hope of tho Katzokopfs: but all tho comfortsblo nursory arrangements 8o doar to tho heart of the British matron, tho unflinching tubbings ond sdrub- bings, and syatomatic, undeviating regularity ot all that can contributo to the comfort and clean- liness of ohild-lifo, ARE XOT TO NI THOUGHT OF, To the ordinarv English mind, the idea of the Hausmutter is such a8 the charmiog Gormou wood-sngravings so ploasantly convoy. It isin this humnblo dowoatic attituds that the poets and painters of the Fathorland bave ssnt her out in- to the world; as Bchiller has ropresentod hor sltting amidat hor sturdy Knaben und Afaedchen, spiuning nod wiontng, filling and silling, with presses o'erflowing and Btores over-growing; bambls Whateea " sape Tpicture., It ia ‘Tho artistic upirit hau seized the quaint homolinens, tha picsssnte busy-ueks, the swplo pootrs, aud wholesotno .prose of her oxistonce, But who knows anythiog of the middlo or upper- class mothera ol ormnoy ? Wo bave glanced in pity rather than in blawoe at tho icability of moat mothera to undortake tho primary duty of matornity ; but are not the daties which, in- stead of Iaating over a for montbs, extend over long ycars, patiently and punctually performed by them ? I bave ofton pazod with wistful cyes at tho plain, ploddiog, pathetic patianco of such mothers, Maternsl policans provail largely all ovor the world; but the German mothor “does not only pluck tho feathera from hor breast, and stand an omblom of bleeding maternal plety be- forous, Sho does more. Ebo—I know of no otlior phrase that expreases what I mean— BIE ' KFFACES " NERAELY. She loses vanity, solf-care, aod all fominine woaknesses, for the sake of her offapring. ‘The momey snved docs mot go to buy hor delicato laces wherewith to soften tha cruel lines that timo liss drawn sbont bor neck and browa; 1t i8 apontin frosh ball-dresaos for her girls, No charoung olderly coquetries wske Tior plcturesquo or gracsful. Bettha and Jortha waut new hats : her gown is ill cut, lier shocs aro appalling, her trimminge are dieastrous; she in a!togethor dowdy, dingy, oud ** common "-look- {ng,—for the young poople must huvo thelr day, and tho Geveral's towpar is ko short, sho daio not ask him for more mooev; and, as for her, what does 1t matter 7 Who will look at Ler, or care what mbo weara? Aud, in the samo endur- ing mood, sho gits fn ungraceful garments long hours at balls, or tramps after hor ofspiiog at icoics, bound ever to keop the betrothied vigi- untly in Lor oye. knowing no rost, and oxpect- ing no thauke, Indead, it in this sinple, nucon- scions seitishnens that gives hior a glory not otherwieo ber omn, and makes tho lLeart warm towards her plain, hard face, Buch peraovering, scrupulous economy com. mands our respoct and admiratios. A love wg wife will boar hor part choorfully so long s tho heat and tho burden of the day be equally Lotne. No tiue woman will lamont over the dinner of horba 8o Jong s tho lovo bo there, But, whoro tho sacritlces are all on ono eido, and the-indulgences all an the other; when tho'mau presonts o splondid front to the world, and the womsn dradges away ber daya in sordid detatls, tho spectator is apt 1o bo wroth at the injustice of her situation, and to lat his indignation vex bim an » thing tbat 1 raw, For the country thet Inventod the Ewipecibliche, this narrow view of *woman's aphora” is, to noy tholeast of it, a lutlo paltry; ana the quizotic epectator would prefor leds magniloquent words, sud more Tiberal decds, ju the placo of them, 1t Liss boen mado a mattor of raproach to Ger- man women that they are, outsido of their own porsonal affairs, INCAVADLE OF ENTHUSIASM. That thoy are capablo of lttls ejaculatory abrieks and spasmodic Rdjoctives, 18 conceded’s aod how should more bo oxpecied or required of thom ? Ground down by sordid detaild ; living &3 though porenniat war-prices woro 8o unalter- abla coudition of things; iuspired by that deeary ** carefulnioas about mauy things ™ that #eomy to her the normal law of hor boing, bow thould the opprossed Haunfrau Lo vmx' enthusi- aatio on Iarge outwide quostions ? And whon you add famine prices to thodo ol war, increasod and evor-increasing taxation, highor bouso rent, nipping cconornlo, is it auy Wonder if tho iron of the res angusta domi entors fvto her soul, eausing ¢ 1o cleave to tho duet, and her body to the ground? Every itom of Lousehold-oxpendi- turo {s reckoned Ly the husband at its minjmum cost, and 00 wargn is lett forthelittle fomintve, floshly weakuewses fn tho mattor of bumble charities or modest finery, lle knows so well tho coet of averything, reckoning it at its choay- cat, that 8bo cannot, deapito bor culinary atill. tivs, *coak™ bor poor httlo_houschold-uo- counts, 18 thia n ntate of thiugs likely to take a woman out of horaolf, and make lior enthuai tio for tho glory of the Fatherland 2 Hto bas given uncomplainiugly bor husband, hier sous, lor brothgrs ; and she has hor roward united Gervisuy, in gapy o the family circlo, and black gowns on tho furaily clotheg-pops. Bhe tremblos st wars and rumors of wars; what {s matoris] inber shrinks Irom furthier and cruelos sconomtoy ; what 8 spiritusl trombles at tho thought of frosh sacritice, and weeps,—woops tears of blood, it tay be, romaemboriug past Le- Teavemonts. ¢ Yot, showd you venturs tolet your pity bo- cowa vocal, 5 BUE WILL ¥LY AT YOUR THROAT, truo womal &8 sha is, bug Ler cLaioy the tight. or, and call opon you loudly to witnes tue rantcro of thoss hurgings. You will bo in tho uaual enviable position of tho unwary eympa- thizer who enters fnto matrimonial difforences. Tue counlo mi roappesr shortly, enlaced loving- ly in intertwining srmr, and politely Igxnore vour exiatenva. Buch is eratitndo ; but'l, who lava :h’n” urknt.I? Oamnr:lmheu.lnm not hleeg l}:c:r old Took, f my words may haply, against their Wil do them sarvicn. ) e 2 German phyniciaus will tell you, with jare- maida prolonged antd sonarons, that the womien of their countrr—the women of the npper clanses, that in—are totally unafitted for tho fatigues and duties of materaity, Bs inbent. apcy, by edncation, by projudice, by cootinued intermarriagos, by defective dies, puor noutiabe ment, horror of exercino, hatred of freah and cold water, tha German lady has per- sintently enervated hersolf from generstlon to goenoration. '* Look at our prettiest girls,” crled an eminent \»h{nicnn to me: '‘they are like those flowers that bloom thelr brief hour, and {ade, sud fall, to make room for fresh blos- soms, who, ln turn, will bloom, fade, and fa)l alno. Thoy are all birichsuechti ; they eannot fulfill thie functions that Nature intouded svery mother should folfill,—not ons hera or thers, but sll; thoy have no conatitution, no atam- ins, no nerve, no phyaique, no race." The Ltype Is Indistinct and blurred, marred by ecertain constitutfonsl defects that you point out to them in vsin ¢ thero i n want of lime-deposit in the bono-ayatem,—Lenco tho ter- rible teoth thst mark a German woman's nation. ality nloe timoa out of ton. Iow can they have * pluck,” and peryn, and sound, firm flesh, strong musclo, and healthy bono, if they haso no fresh air, no regular exerciso, ho proper nour- ishment, and, above all, 9 X0 DEYIRE TO CRANGE, alter, or amend tho order of thelr nnhealthy livea ? For, with them, the question of reform fn 1atters hygienic principally liew: but they turn & deaf car to warning, think they are moro comfortatle asthoy are, and don't disguise the impatiouce they feel at onr profecsionnl pratings. **But perbiaps it doesn’t matter so very much, apart fiom fudividual comfort; for fook at your mev. what 8 stalwart race they aro,™ * TLiat 18 truo; the man's education holps him over the stnmbling-block of inlierited maladien; hio nourisbies bimself well, Lives in the opou air, and sssimilsten his food. For the rest, s man's neck and shoulders aro no: bared: and, if Lo logea bLis técth, provident Nature bhides:tho gap by an opportune mnatache. No!” erjed tho Lopelesa Iteformor, **if ever raform be feasiblo, it will be foasible only throurh German women tnemselves, and no German weman will ever sea it, and to no other womau would they for a mo- ment couuent to listen |* Y Iehall bo asked, are German women never pretty, then 7 OCRMAN GINLS ARE OFTEN CHARMINOLY PRETTT, with dazzlivg complexfons, abundant, beautifal bair, and clear, lovely oven: but tho splendid matrop, the sound, bealthy, well-developed woman, who has lost no grain of beauty, and gainod a certain magnificent maturity, such as wo 800 duily, with dauglitors who might woll be her younger eisters,—of such women tho Fathe erland bias faw sgbcimens to whow, ‘Tho * palo, unripenad beauties of the North.”" do votripen; theyfade. *'Tho style is thoman," esys Buffon; and what stylo is to literature, tante to dross, and refinomont to manners, din- tinction s to beauty. There must bo acortain line, cortain proportion, & hoalthy developmont, & bisrmony, grace, and strength, before we cun acknowledgo that a grepter than the mora pass- ing oprottinces of youth, freshnets, snd good looks, is there. Polieh, luogarian, and Ausirian women,, whom we, in a genoral, Inconclusive war, are apt’ to ol 88 Germans, 0ro *' beunlifal excend- ingl: but biero wa come upon aunotber race, or rather such & fueion of other races ns may help to contribute to the cbarmiog rosult. Polie Iadies bave & specisl vivid, delicate, spinted, hsonting loveliness, with grace, diatinction, and elegance in their limbs aud fuaturos that is all thatr own; you cannot call thew fragile, but thoy aro of 8o fino a fibre, and so dalicate a col- oring, that thoy only just escapo that apprebens wion, Of Polish and Hungarisn pur sang there ia littlo to be found ; women of tho Jatter raca aro of a more robust and substantial build, with dark hair and comploxion, fine flashiog evea, and prooanced type; and who that remombers the women of Linz and Vieuua will refuso thom o tirat prize 7 They poasess o 8PECIAL BEAUTY OF THEIL OWS, & beanty which i8 raro In even tho loveliost En- glishwoman ; raro indoed and exceptional ever, whoro olsa; & boauty that the ariist eye appre- cistes with 8 feeliog of delight, Tuoy bave the most dolicstely-articulated joints of sny woman o tho world. Tho junctufe of the Land and wrist, of foot and sukle, of the nuyue with the back and shonldera, is what our neighbors woutd call “adorable.” But, atas that it should be so! the full, gracious figures,—types at once of strength and hlczi-ue.,—«tpu supplo, slender ‘waints, tho dainty little wristsa and hands, ve- come sll too soon hopelesuly fat, from ths por- sistout idleuose and luxury of tho nerveloss, un- occunlod lives of theso graceful ladica. Bat marriage. interesting as it may be from a ersonal point of viow, means more thaz th t means, from the politico-econowical stan rolnt population, and, Alaltbus notwithstand. ng, withio cortsin limits, nations! prosperity. Wo lhave sesu tho lots and hindorances, the just csuses and impediments, that make marrisge in Gormavy » matter of difficulty; theso are $0 manifold and multiform that it hay Lecomo a josting tabit of specch to say, bofore the kuot can bo tied, s man must producs not only bis baptiam and confirmation Scheine, but vaccination, chicken-pox, nettle-ragh, and every - other sort of cortilicate, to prove that he bas'| possod through thoss unavoidable forms of in- fantile suffering to which even sturdy German fleah is heir. In fact, tho restrictions Inid npon tho holy eatate aro as pumerous as thongh it waoro a 6tate of vico rather than o atate of vir- tue, “ The latent utatistics tell ua that marrioge, which ia rockonod at 19 per cent in Lucland, and ag 30 por cont iu Ireland, obly reaclies 19 per cent ir Gormany;; aud s0mo uneadinesn ik felt in tho Fatherland at the manifcst sigus of s decreaming population. 'he subject is ona to claim tie gravest con- sideration of her vasy legisiaturs, Tho hatred of compalsory couscription, a hatred which tho Iato wars Lavo now aud again {anned aimost futo franzy, Prmlucuu & avrious oftfux of population, Hans Aliche! turns resuive, escapes to couvoniont nenfral ground. ovades couscription, snd fu Atneries or Australia is freo to marry, fo be- come » houwe-father and prospetoun citizou, Tho returns of the [astconsus show that, in Prussis prover, the decrosco of populstion it F LITTLE HIONT OF ALARMING! A Botweon 1BG1-'G4 thete was an jncresse of 8,400; but betwoen 1¥64-'67 thero was s do- creaso of 12,422 and betwooa 1807-'71 of 56,440, Allowing for tho Inss of lifo in tho last two wars, dnd for the Prussinusoldiors quartered in Frauce st the timo of tho census, the loss of population In ten yomys amounts to 52,000, And, aa theso flgures are derived from suthontic Gorman sourcen, 1t s only fair to presume that they ere, spproximately. cotrect. Having witnossod tho obstructive rogulations restnieling persons fiom ontering unoh the mar- riod state, & corcain binok wonder falis on tho mind of tho vutvider whau bo recognizos, on the athor bund, the fact that tho knot, 8o ditticutt to tio, can bo Joosed with extraordivary onse, 'Lhe bonds that roquired 15,000 thalers before they cowld he rtecognized aa suthenlic, the chams that called for such asmdulty in foruiug, urd wlipped with the calmest aud most carclens cavo, should auy motivo sutliclently strong arisa to sugaest the dosirability of such slippines. Thore naod be nothing very seandalous or excoptional in_the cake. Alexandor unsheathn hus sword : ++Our tempers are incompatible,” ha #ayu; o swing, and a slaslh, wud the Gordian knot erod. Adothend discovers au alectivo aflini- ty wich the sympathietic soul of her hus- band'a Jugendfreund, swhoke munners aud mus- tache aro woro congeninl to her fastidious soosibilities than thoso of har lawfnl spouss. “ Bring tho fateful scievors,” whe kighs faiutly to tho threo old immemorial ladies in waiting'; snip, snap, tho uncongonial bonds sro sovojed in & second! Tho matier creatos gossip, or rathor confirua it, but can scarcoly bo sad to provoke scavds); it iw loss than & nine daya' wouder,—Indesd, it s no wonder at all, an tenient woclety prudently abataing from judy- wont. Itis v3id that divorea fu uowadava looked at askance from high places,—the ofticial tone of the I'russian Court being vsteutatiously cor- rect on matters domentio (witnoss tho now hise torio **Dear Auguuta” “telegrams): but tho elasticity of (erman views ou such powts s not likely to be waterially affected by » stern masquerade tn the ntercols of worulity, aud bocinlly the pactios concornod HUFFER NO INJURY WHATEVES, Wa havo glunced 1n s former chuptor st the extraordimury licenss that llustrates German rociety of an earlior epoch, The histories and iographios of that wnd subsequont Gimes aro fiited with unedifying oxmnvles; wo ¥ooa King of Prussin with four * logal " syouses,—a pres l:dulcroun formuls of approbat und consent eing wrung from each retinug lady in turs. Ltoyal sud Borenw porsoda present a 10 noro dig- nitfed aspoct in multers matrimouisl than the courtters, stateamen, aud whola cluster af iiri- table geiuses by whom they ure wurrounded, ‘I'ho buslmnd farthful to ons wife, nad the wite fuithlul to oue husbund, ars tho oxcoptiony, ot tho raln; 150 ecruplo was felt by un ¥ lncompati- Lle" pair i speaking freely of the demrability of s dissolutivn of partuorship, Why thoy eLoald hisve gona thiough succoss ceretontes fs tLg chivf westory: bi osable shing was 40 contido your pancliaut to tus wife or husband of your bosom, recolve his or lier confidance 1n roturn, exchange benisans, and g0 on the flowety navof freadum rojolcing. ' The mark of such morals i stamped plainly o the very froot of German society, The matter is gooerally falt to ba ono that . CONCXRNA ONLY THE CHIEP ACTOBS IN IT. You do not moddle whon & man buya a house, lotaa farm, changes his banker, or dissolves partnerabip; a sociable scce:tancs of accom- plisbed facts, an abstontion from any unneces- narily-severs criticiam, a atretchiog out of the olsatic mautle of charity, which covoreth a mul- titudo of aivs, is supposed to be the appropriste tone., Aoy other wonld savor of suporfluous and malignant bypocriny. You are not to judge, lost your turn coma to be judged also; bo can- tioua how you throw the invidious stone; bo- rides, why disturb the merniment In hsll, and dash the general beard-waggings. by your atilted picaties of objection? Toleratlon is our firat doty to our neighbor, and to afficher wuch super-squesmishoess is simply to s againat good-fellowship. The mantla of Cato has fallen 1n vain on your censoriuus ahouldars, and “pnssle judgment * caonot boe allowed to wmeddle with privata matters, To rorsons who hava lived long fn Qormany, Lho exsmples of apouses whio hava dissolved their union, and, after years of estrangemeut, have been romarried, eannat be altogethor tnfamil- iar. Tho writer romemhora a cags of Lwo broth- era marryiog two aisters (thoy woro from the German provinces of Ruasia), changiog part~ neng and, on death removing ona of the Lus- bands and cno of the wives, tho original pair (now widowed) were for the second time united 1u the Loly bonds of malrimooy. It is quite trno thatzhio caso was_oxcoptiousl, but it was told sityintinito cackling dolight and amusement Ly an uémirmg circio of induigent frisnds. Injitho tamily of the writer, o gieat-nuncle gecmod to havo reached tha acino of skilli prac- tice kn this matter of tha dissolution of matri- mouyi’ Ho sat down every evemug of his life to play a rubber of whiat " WITH 18 THNEE DIVORCED WIVES ; they.** cut for partuers, nhufiled, aud tallied of tricks and bonois, ” with all tho 'gay philosophy of foiks for whom words ad no moanlog, aud Incts uo moral. No one bore animosity to auy- body elso ; the thieo ladies hnd all tried tueir haud at 1t, but they bad hield bad cards; the luck was against thom, and they oach successivoly throw up the gamo, and awoie o the conviction that their terriblo old Uenorsl (ho was » Water- 100 man) yas much moro praciicable aa & part- uer ot the card-tabla thau a8 o compavion for lite. It wad moiely a matter of mutual accom- modation ; thero was no ill-will and no_regent- ment ; the arrangement was couducted in tho moyt business-lite aud least emotional mauner imaginable, and the resnlt proved to be eminont- )y satisfactory Lo all partios. The wubjoct of marriage cannot be dismissed w;“‘hguu briet glanco at that supreme slam calies THE **MORGANATIC " MARNIAGT, — & miscrable, shulling compromiso, sipposed to Lave beeu invented for the preservation of youth!tul ltoyalties from matrimonial fndikcro- tious, Nino times ont of ten a morgsnotic mar- ringe means the lefl-handed fufatuation of a Grand Duke for a baliet-dancer, but not alvays; und the Eoglish mind 15 apt to feel 1ntensg die- gust when an English Duko's davghter warriea & wmall Beronity, and is oot allowed to yo to court fn bor husband's name. Nor can we ad- wire the position when a remolo Prince of the Blood, marryiug a lsdy of most anciout hinoage, briugs the **bar simator” into the coat-of-arms of biiy children. No matter that the mother was noblo; she ought to hase boea Royal ; fidelity, purity, and truth avail notling, her children cannot iuberit their father's styles and titles; othier titles and styles must be invented for tuem. According to the goepel of heralds’ oftices, und the jargon of ceremonials. they aro no: oflicially recognizable. Neither is it & very plessant spectaclo when @ poor soung Princelet, iusiguificant swong insiguilicAucios, marrying modestly, ®ith his ouly availabje hand, tho mailen of bis choice, 18 suatched frow tno Licarth that was bright, and the home that was vocal with shrill, piping trebles, to give the logal dexter palm to tlio 'rincess fato 1mposcs oo Lis obscuro Rosalty. The giuister union is at an eud; it min vain that the illegal loft hund 1w bedewed with loving, faithfai tewrs, and claspod with closa-clinging kiedes; ho waves it in the witd dospair of fnoal tarowell, and the curtain falls on the poor Littls domestic drama, to rise on ono whero only right hands couut, aud hoars are not included 1n tho #COAL-TORPEDOES.” A Confedernte Invention. Bavswatem, Dec. 28.—To the Edilor of the London Times: Perbaps a short account by one who I8 acquaintod with the origin aou object ot the conltorpedo, reforred to in tuo telegram from your Prussian correspondent, in the Times of yesterday, may interost some of your readera, In tho winter of 1363 = Capt. Courtouay ob- tained from the Confedsrate War Dupartment the facilitics for makiug somo ozperiments with his coal-castings at ltichmond. Va., to be used for collapsing the boilers of the enemy's war wvesnold and transporis, by introducing the sham conl 1nto the Govornmont cosl piles at the va. rious United States naval depots along the cosat aod on tho great riverd in tho interior. Tho experimonta wero 80 successful that tho systom was fully adopted, and operaticus were commenced shortly aftor tho date of the follow- ing lettor, which foll into ths hands of tho Fed- eral War Department, in whoss possession it atill remaios ¢ TucpMoxD, Va., Jan. 19, 184.—Mx Dran!CoroNmr ¢ Thope you buva roceived my leitera. ' 1 wrolo you tao to Mobilt, one to Columbia, aud tws to Beanden, 1 hiave et with much drlay and_snuoysuce slice you left, Tho castings have all been complted nomea Time, aud the coal §s 60 porfect that the miot critical €50 couid nog dotect {t, The Preaident thiuke thom perfe.t, but Mr, Seddon will do_nothing without Con- greavionsl actiot: 80 I huve been engaged for the Das two weekn i getting up a bill tust will ‘covermy v at leaat, it bax miet his upproval, und will go to-day to tho Senate, and tirnce to the House fu wcret uenslon. 1. provides that tho Secreary of War shall bave the power to organize » * Secrot Service Corps,” commis- ston, enlist, and detail parties, who aball retaln foruer rank and pav: aléo givo such compensation as hie niy deem At, not 10 exceed 30 yer cet, for public property partially or tolally dostroyed; alio to advance, Whed Recessary, out of tho Seeret Karvice fund, muoney to parties engaging to injurs the enomy. As wo0u as the bill becames law, TLave no doubt I shail get a sultablo commisxion and mosns 10 Progresa with, and that all the appolntments sou and I bave 1nudo will Le confiriaed, - Your friend, T, L. CoURTENAT, Cal, I, B, Clark, Seventh Missouri Cavalry, Maj.Gon. Trice's eadquarters, Arksnsas, Tho torpedoes were irregular iron or steol castioge, three-cighthia of an inch thick, oxcopt at the core-holo, which waa reiuforced Lo allow s thread being turned in it to receive tho fuse or plug. ‘Tho models wero takon frow polylaternl ploces of coal piclod st random from a pilo, not Bo large ag to requite M trinming® by the firo- wan beforo bewg shoveled into the furnace. Tho interor wns rendered mnooth by ceutrifugal motion with emery to reduco tho risx of oxplosion by chafing while introducing tho charge. The shell being tilled sud closed mith & bresy plug, it was dippod by mioans of & string into a boiiug mixturo of voal- tar, pulverized coal,—eitbor authracite or bitu- minous, whichover was desirod to be represocut- od,—auil & suall Juautity of rosin or boeawax ; tuen snstantly into a bicket of iceld water, the result being a coating of avout three-quarters of an inch i thickueas, which gave the abell, whou the surface-gioss had beon ecrapod off, tho ex- act rosomblance of & lump of cosl—in weight, smell, and gensral appoaranco. + Bovoral of these wero droppod into tho United Btates Government Ccal Dopob at Fortreas on- roo, and led (0 tho destruction of thoe now stoop of \war Chonatizo und also of the splenitid steam- or Greyhound, used as tho hoadquarior-bost of tho Army uf the James, the tliustrions coms mander of which, Gen. B, F. Butlor, sud Ad- miral Dorter noarly lost their lives, hoving just loft the vessol betore hor boiters collspued. Both tuese vessols had coalod-up from tho semie pile at Fort Mourao ehorsly beforo, The voal torpedo haw, to my kuowledge, boen sorionaly exainined aod cousiered by more than ous Govorpmont, snd sums of mouey hsve Bewsn awarded by two of them for saapics and information counectod with their munufacturo, Itis very probabto that the *‘coul torpodo,” which can be mudo of less size, and, thureforo, woroe ditlicult to detuct, aud more easily havdlod and distributed, ww our knowlsago of fulminates sdvances, may play » couspicuous part in the noxt maritimo war. A few voars paat the whols wysten_of torpedo attack “or defeiss wan de- nouucod s barbarons and outaide tho laws of war und common humauity. Loth Adwiral 8, P, Lee, commandiog the Uuitod States squadron on the Jainos River dur- iug tiranvs Petersburg campaiga, and Admiral Dahigron, commguding off Charleston, 8. 0., proclainiod po quacter to Confoderats torpedo overatord; eud aftor the destruction of the United Hiates aluip Comoiodore Jonss in tha Jumon River Ly tho submarine torpodoos nt Doopbottom, in chiarge of Comuander Huntor Davidson, O. 8. N., ono of tiu operators, » war- rapt oftieer in tho . B. Navy, who fell into tho ouomy's hands, was huediately dmg to dsath in 1364, Now, in ‘1873 the "United Stulos Navy is aliead of all others intho scionco sud prastico of offousive turpedo warfare, sud main- talus an elsboiaie torpudo achiool ay Newpors, R.L, throngh whi o 0 mdl,m;oug which ail oficors aze obligad to During the Raevalutionary War, and again ar Iate a8 the War of 1812, tho Britlsh pro nd Rnula denounced tho use of the rifto by the Tn0rican Lroons aa Larbatous, and tha pioking off of men at lonz rangos as murdatous and [ne hu zr"h“'w ’[elnpcru mu'rgm. . The blowit.g up ot Graot's popder hnlk af City Point, in 1364, was oot mzdp'inhm! your dorraspondon: suproses, by an inforis! machine on tho villain Thmas' model, but by a volcania fass, with a gimlst polnt, which wae fcrawod Into & barrol of fixed ammnnitinn oo board, or on its waytothe powder vensal moared off City Point, and contsinlng nearly 400 tonz of powdor and ammunttion—the raserve aup: ply of tho “Grand Army of the Potomac,” then {nvesting Potersburg and Richmond. 1t was accomplished by & momber of the ** Becrot Borvico Corps,” who enterad the Fad- oral outliaes as a rofageo and obtainad omploy- ment st City Point, tn ths Quartermaster's or Otdnonce Dispartmont until an opportunity oftared, Ilia fura was regulated for shree dusa from tho timo ho crushed tha vial of suloburo acid contained in the licad of the fusc; it took that tine for the releascd acid to est through tho copper plates placed under ft and comwmuni- cato mith the composition beneatt them, wheg the fuse exploded. In thomeanwhile the opers. tor made his escapo, and, Laving carrfed out hia dnfssnsmn outerprise, roturned safely to Rich- ond. It s fortunato that Thomas and his a3snciates woro ignorant of the certainty of the McEvoy voleanio furo and rotained tho antiquated and Sxpkl;ded cyslem of tho clockwork firing ap~ aralus. In concluafon, I may say that it was proposod by & committes of the Faulan Congrest assome lod in Now York fn 1867 to distribute & quanti~ ty of coal torpedoea in tho cosl cellars of Her Majesty's Ministers aud prominsnt public men in London. bat was abaundoned on the suggos- tlon that many kitchens in Loudon would hava Irish maids connected with*ine scullery departs went. 1 am, sir, very reapectfully, E. A DOOMED FAMILY. The Fathier Commits Sulclde, and the Motner f% Killed by ller Son~'Two of the Sons Murdered, nnd 2'wo Daughters Die Insanc—Another Son Sentenced to Death for Murder., Sedatia (3o.) Lixzos, The Tarley family, of Copper Connty, can safely bo denominated a **doomed’ tribo,” Dr. Jesse W. Turley swas the father of a larga family of childron, sud moved to Pettis Connty in 1855, His boys woro very mischievons, and gave him much tronble. David, particulariy, was always in some kind of a broil. Ho got into a didieulty which promiaed to givo him considerable troubla, and fled tho State and wout to California in 1857, During the War Davo's father killed himself, hia older brother diod, his younger brother ascidont- aily killed his wother, sud was himsoll mardered n khort timo aftorward by the bushwhackers, and bis cldost sistor becama insane and ( Tho oli man having left cansiderabla vrovarty, aud the family having beea effectuslly thinned out, Dave roturued to Missouriin 1553, roceived & baudsomo sum of money, cotnmenced a lifo of dis- tipation aud extravagance, and scon ran through with it all. IIe thoan promied to quit whisky and do better, and ono of hLig friands loaued him wouey to stert o esloon at Georgatown, Bat Dave provod to be his own best customer, aud made Lis *ranch,” as he ealled it, o parfect hioll He took from Sedalia a lowd and notorious woman to tigorgetuwn, whero their condict was such a8 to bring down upon thewr heads the anatho- mus of every reapectablo person in tho piaca, Dave was gonorally feared. and was olwnys roady with his knife and revol Mo shot st soveral persous for imnginary offenses. and used his kuifo on several occasions, s dwfied public sonsi- ment and the laws of tho country, Tu oue affray with an_ofticer Dave was badly puuiehied, sud when able to navigate bo pulled up staken aud roturned to Californin, Join Tare loy, Auothar one of the boyw, was killed in a row, About a year ago, in Wentern Kansan, Jim Ture loy, the romaining brother of thin band of dos- poratoos, a¢ the timp was in the Colorado Pen- itentiary, for shooling a man at Central.City. .'\u woon a8 releasod, ko also skipped out to Cali= lornia. Col. John F. Phillips, in whose regiment Jim Tutloy sorved during the War, has just received a lotter from Jim duted Sacramaonto, Cal,, Dee. 29, 1875, from wlhich tho following extracts are tuken: It is with sorrow [ am compolled to ask yony sssistanco 1 tho caso of my brother David, Laust April hie shot and kitled aInau in this coune ty, aud s at this time nnder sontenca of death, h & boon denicd a new trial by tho Suproma Court, Atone time. fn 1869, the fimo whon Dave was living orich thet woman (lobiuson) in Qeorgetown. I thonzht, from bis actions. that ho was insaue, and {got a docior to go and sog him for the purposs of getting an order to sond bim to the Asvlum st Fulton, Get the afldavits of a8 mauy persons na poxalble to the fact that David was 1psane, and that ot 0ge timo £u order waa made committing him to nu fveane osylumy and get u Judue of some contt to certify ta tho good charscter of tho porsous waking such atlidavits, o It you kpow where my sister Juliaia, toli ler, for God's #ake, and for poor Davo's sake, to attend to this minttor numediately, a8 there is no timo to lose. Lvery ove who kuew Dave knew that Lis was not a sane man: alio, that in. savity runs in tho family, Grandfaibor Turiey was {usfl:mo when bo left Cooper County for Calie fornia." . . . Tuquiries wore mado and tho facts ascertained that no papers had ever boen tiled setting forth Dave's insanity; that Lo was uevor exe amiusd by experis, or ordercd to Lo gont to the asylum. Tho evidenco at tho trinl showed that Dave had shiot this man for using abusive words wiile drunk, and that the fatalehot was tired whilothe drunken mau was walking sway from lim. Iy was cold-blooded murdor. 1t ho shoald be ro- lensod—of which there is not the lezs: prospect —ho would probably kill wusther wau 1w I thau s year. ilsistoo dangerous » wan ta turued loose upon suy comumunity. _— MY CREED. 1 Girm Veliave that to un hero sro given Tred meeds of strength, sccording to our Xeng Some painlesn tread the Tongher patlis (o Leavan, “Thiot pasvsgelens would Ly 10 weaker men, Some rave tha torrent's flood and lghtning's fash And noek o God of Terror in tho 3 And Lear bis waraing voice b thauderods craah, Who would deny bitn In u caliver lic. Some Snd It only in tumnlluons rage Ul deadly tight, where wichs b savage rofl, Who, I the spau f tueir fuiiyion's gange, Would steru rufuse bt If o Merey's Gol, Some deem him by obeinance ofly won, “And sue by fncense, jowel:d robes, and ruch, Who, passtug by the Carpeuter’s Mock Bou, Would gatier i (elr garmeonts from Lig'touchs Some know ki only s & plessant mood, Suown i birds, graxs, towers, siars, snd KatureW wirl; Lt they would deem thla God of thelr creca rude, Thebuking Satan for the slus of carth, Same eagely mold bim to their ahape and wilt, Au phuntasy hown by thoir sickiy breath, Fromout a protoplaamie speck, aud still Tudr Uods uu'er reacts but Lo tho grasp of dosth, And these do meot in fronzied, will array Of batttiuy socte, and burl fleren epithets, Aud graap from esch s etatr of Falth away, Auid deews bis victor who most strife begeta, 0 struggling seeta! O men of eroeds | learn thls: Thougl fiathe ye do not tred biay seohs abvcure, il they may not the hesveuly poriats miss, And yours, though bulder, sy not be as sure. And when, at bars of Heaven, yo suppliant watt, Aud Lack trough dust of croode sew your Uret starly Ye'l) Luow thot many footwayk reach the gate, Which, in thelr course, Lavo wandcered far upart, And some, maybap, whom ye Liave pueliod asidy, And scofTed and stoned for sheir ungatuly e, Nor Learing ehurnh-phiylactery for gulde, WALl irst Liave reachod the gato and waterod da, I'bold 1o effort can bo purposcless, o tral youl of gowd. thutigh they do blend With crror® frults, which yer da ticok coufoss Tha bope 19 feach UnLo & pesfect end, And formu are selfisl outerwraps at best, Hindering the pilgrim's fight uuto the gosl; ‘Thio licathen's Fag, o Fiorethan ritual veity Cau Litda the rotted kerael of w avul, I clalm God {n tha essence, not in wold "I'ne shapes xnid statures of tho varione kinds Of buing and of power whith each do buld Aw slaclute, aru fushlons of our winds, Somatend them down {o fire, somo worship stanof Sowe swo Creation’s germ Ju trampled clod § Bt to frall pirit-forns their Lyos aton “And ull, unwitting, oien the scfosams G Theso ara but vehicles through which we take Our troubled, parcliod, sud tired latutes up Frons out the woddon Tuts of eagth, 10 slale Our thirst tu thy cool draughita of Mercy's Cup. OB I wheu will cresds litiglous see arixbt, Aud own tbat Law wich all nauiud doth movey Tio crecd of crevds, anit God:like cesence trildy Fused 10 swoet faith—Sel(-Sacrince snd Love 0axLA¥D, Jam 15 1618 [Py