Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 29, 1876, Page 9

Pt LITERATURE. Yaine om the Amcient Itc- gime In France. gtartling Contrasts of Wealth and Poverty in 1789, An Intensely-Polished Aris- tocracy and a Thorough- 1y-Imbruted Populace. The Reign of Terror the Natural Conse. quence of Henerations of Grind- ing Oppression, Whisky-Troubles in Qur Country Nearly a Century Ago, The Insurrection in Pennsylvania Buring Washingtow's Ad- ministration, Sir Walter Scolt's First Love, and How He Acted on the Death of His Wife. The Flora Round About Chicago: The Lily Family. Peouliarities of Some of the Leading Members of the Order of ' Lilyworts, Remarkable Instances of the Vitality of Seeds---Discovery in Egyptes=A Boa-Constrictor’s Eggs, LITERATURE, THE ANCIENT REGIME IN FRANCE. Yo On1a1sa 07 CONTRMPORABY FRANCE! TR ANe omxT Nxatue, Ny HiproLyre ApoLmie TaIsw, Authior of A History of English Literaturo,” ofc. Tranalated by Joun DUnAND, 12mo., pp. 421. Now York: Henry Holt & Co, Chieago: Jansen, McOlurg & Co. - I'rico, $2.60 M. Taine hna illuminated diverso intricato subjects with his brilliant gouius, but nona that b3 fine heretofora diecusaed hias lio thrown into 50 vivid o bght as thie of the ordor of things prevailing in Frauce. When he bon treated of tho nationality and tha literaturo of England, or of tha art of Grosde, of Italy, and of the. Neth- erlands, he bas mado mauy origiunl and wtritog obsorvations, that have conveyed now idoas aud suggosted unaccustomed trains of thought. Novertholess, o was, In theso cases, doal- log’ with topics tbat were essentislly foreign in thslr chinracter; and. however familiar ho might make himself with their details, they confd oot bo induced to yicld up to his kcrutiny, to bis intelligonce, the whole fine essenco of their ivuer nature. Much coucerniug them that was irug, aud that Liad bhithorto been hiddon, could bodiscovored by hla faculty of divination; yot tpain many thinge as truc, and perbiape papablo i0 others, would Lo misunderstood, or would Altogether elude his approhionsion, and'therefore creato in lifs roador & fooling of dissent, or con- Ydy a senao of his limitations and bia occasional failnros. Bat, In delincating the lifo of his own country, fo snalyzing tho spirit that has animatad it, in tracing to their origin tho circumslances that bave befalton 1t, and in mccounting for the ox- teptional conduct it has eoxlibitod, he is tho romploto master of bls thome. The multitndl- oua'particulars that enter juto the problom are fully known to him, and the explauation foundoed opon intellectusl nud temperamental idiosyncra~ uieg {s thoroughly open to his percoption. He is bimeolf a Frenchman, with an undorstanding broad enough to comprehend all the mprings of feclivg and of action that have their sourco in lis raco; with scholatship sufliclent to enablo bim to reviow with minuto rosesrch the whole sarios of events that donstitulo tho record of the nation; and without that depth and warmth of beart that would intorfero with tho calm, Judicial datles of tho historian. Rowornelossly ho ronds awsy tha voil that hides tho follies, tho orrors, tho fatalilios of Lis countrymen ; and tho spectaclo revealod, at which Lumanity shuddors,excitos in him no emotiou. Truo, his mind kindles with tha con- templation of the scenes himsolt conjures, and, with the eplendor of impassioned rhetorle, their effects are intensifiod; but bLis Losom throbs With no eentumont of sympathy. Borrow, ro- grot, tidignation, sliame, tind no expression in s demesnor. Cold, stoical, fusonsible, ho stands whilo tearing away from poor, Ppiteous, fragilo Trauce tho robes that conceal hor weake nesé sod her doformity. Thero 18 roason for satisfuction that thiwis so, It §s good that the world should bo told without roservo, without 8xcudo or pervorsion, the manifold causos that bave operated in shaplug the caroor of an erralic uation ; and never before Las tho atory Leeu so comprohonsively snd uo truthfully ro- poatod as by the gifted, ghtlering, undcrupu- lous Taino, The point of time from which Taine stirveys the paug of Krance la tha your 1789, whon the bation was Lopphng on the bnnk of tho Hevoln- tion, No glauce is giyou forward to the dread- ful gulf which yawns bofore 1t, but tho entiro Mtantion ia concontrated upon the preseut situ~ Mion, and upou tha long soquenco of oventa tuat had led up to this perilous hour of its dos- tivy, With vivid pon-strokes, which scarcely oy hand bat his could dash off with such pow- erful aud picturesquo force, ‘L'utnu fllls in tho lcufimonm panorawa with sivglo portraits and With crowded tablesux, until tho mup of cyutu- nes dy spread Lefor tho eyo with tho distinct- Uess of . & visiou, Heenes {n tho conrt, the tastlo, the camp, the couvent, the salon, tho counting-houve, and the cattage, are reproducod with tho fidolity of the photograph ; aud tho moing, presslng throng shat psoples thewn are Deithor automsts nor_lay-figures, but merry, obile, mad, masquerading Frenchwmen,—in thio Opper circlon, playing at tho great game of Lto Fith wumptuous olugsnce and artiticiality ; and, lu the lowar ranks, figutiog the wolf at tho door, with the deaperae tlercances of thu fam- Whing brate, Tho contrast is frightful, aud re- Salves the wacrot of tho downfall of tho Hiate 4mid grim and protractod convulsions. Tow & eanvas g0 widely spread aud so thickly Glled, it s troublesomo to woloct iuolatod frag- Menta that will convoy an_adaquata ides of the tignlticance of tho cntire masterpiecn, yet a pict- Gretakeu hero aud thero from tho collcciion wili givo ome bint of tho workmuuship of the suthor, and of the drift of his exposition. A ;fim drawing-room in the palace of tho di hh"‘ o lzl:yu dazzling figuros and accossorios Swapeuded from the sculptured cofllug, peopled with thortuag Cupids, desvend, by gurlauda S iowera wud tilge, blazing chandelicee, whosa splendor iu en- by the tall mirrors; the light strcatus dowa i gildings, diamouds, and Leaming, arch o on'flue busts, and ob (he capacious, Ly, sud warlanded dredses, ‘The sklrly of the forka, ranged In u circls, or 1n_tiers ou tha beuchies, Joria & Hol eepatter, covered with pessls, gold, ailver, n'v'u”'" $langles, lowers, snd froite, with thelr artie Sidal bloswoma, goosuLerrios, chorriys, aud 5, Gldantio -um;:‘en scarealy au Mo L Liack coste M Ve barweny, Wi the it oo jickles gnd knots, with cravats and rufive of Jeco.In 4ilk coatu and veals of to huvs of the falln -u{l"" of & delicate rodo-tint, or of celsstal Liud, oo liished with gold brald aud embrofdery, the tmen led et an tuy woussi. My Bud woilien sach "‘ "}lw; lous 1Ley asu sl of tle accompllsliod clase, 1rd witls every grace which raco, education, fortuue, ,m“"ium fustuin cau bestuw; they sre perfoct of eotf Kiud, - Thru is not & lollet Lere, an uir of the \hldz. lotie of the vuice, an sxpression o lauguage, Bihtis uot » masterpieco of worldly culturs, the dis: o teosence of il that is exqulsitely elsborased oelad ast.... It dn sadd that & hum thousand A7e Tequired to uake au ounce of the unique Ptume uaed by Pazelan Kiogs; such is this drawing. strawbere thio brilliancy, uowadays, €0’ disturb wiersd ' and di Faom, tha fratl vl of ersatal and goht cuntainiog the subatance of human vegetation, To fill it, s great uflll-vtrlr‘{ b2d tu ba traneplanted to s hot-hause, and L] siorils in friit and flowers, and (non, In the -royal slemuto, its pure sap i con mtrated into s tew dropa of aroma, The price 4 sxcessive, hut only at {hin price caa tio most delicate porfumos be manufac- ured, An oxamplo of portrailure chosen from this gamio gallory of artatucrata oxlubit zofined traite lika the following: Was any old In thoso days? 1t ia the Revolution which broughit old age into the world, Your grand- fatber, my cbild, was Landaome, olegant, neat, gener- ous, perfumed, playful, amiable, and affectionate to the day of his death. Pcople then knew how fo live and to dlo; thore was no such (hing as troublenome Infrmities. 17 any one had the gout, he waixed along tho mame and made na faces ; Eeuma well brought up concealed thelr wuiferings, 'Thore was nons of ihat morption fu Lusineaa which spolls a matr inwardly 4 dulle bin beain, People knew how to ruln them- saives without letilug it appear, Iike good RAmbl who loa their monoy without ‘unessinoss or spi A man would ba carried half-desd to s bunt, Itwas thnught better to dio at & Lall or & play than in uno's Led between four wax candles and’ borrid men in black, Peoplo wero philosophers; they d!d not sesuma 10 be atatere, but often wors 80 without makin & die- plny of 1t. T one was discreet, it was through {nclt- nstion and without pedantry, Peepls enjoyed this life, and, when the hour of depariura came, they did not try to disgust others with Iiving, ‘Tho children of this polishod and decorous- race wero coples of thoir oldors,—assuming with siort-clotlios the grace and proprioty of deport- mont that, tn tho procosa of yecars, ¢eame to bs «worn with the case of s settlod habit Fren in the last yearsof the anclent regime, little Boya hoir hislr powdered,—8 pomatumed chiguon, riuglet, and curln; thoy wear tho sword, the chapeat under the arm, & {riil, and n cost with gtlded cuffns they kiss youny Iadies’ iands with the alr of Witle dan: dies, Alasa of G yeara s bound up in & whalobouo walst; Ler Isrge hiop-nietticoat aupports & skirt cov. cred with wroathnz sho wesra on her head a skiliful combination of false curls, pulls, and kuots, faatened with pina sud erowned with plumes, and so high that feequently the echin s balf-way down (o her fect; sometimes they pue rovge on her face, Hhe fatire Indy, and she knows it; sha ia fully up io ber part, without effort or inconventence, by forve of hont; tho uuique, the perpetusl fustruction ahe gets In that on 'her deportment; sald with truth that the fulerum 'of iu this country Is the dancing-master, could ket dlong withi him, without any others: withoul him, the ollera are of no nes. For, without himy, how eanily, sultably, and grace- one actions of 'dally life, anding i ofisriog tho acam, nd awiling, bafore oyea so sxperienced, and before auch a ¥olined public 7 This 10 bo thie great thing for them when they hocome nen snd wornen, and for this reston it is the thing of chief fmportanca for them ss childron, Along with graces of altitude und of gesturs, they sircady have 1hoso of the mind aud exprosslon, Hcarcely i their tongue looseiicd whew thoy learn to apeak thie pollshed langusgs of their parents, Men and women who Lavo boen trained from {nfaucy iu & achuol of mauners =0 precise and infloxible nover lay aside their fine breeding in any circumatances of aftorlife. Whon the lloy- olution hind finally overwhelmed thom, they sub- mit to its rudo reversos with the moat oxquisite graco: Thoy aliow thomselves to be taken, going quietly to prison; o make su uproar would bo bad tantas it ia nece aloye sll thingy, o remaln whiat thoy ‘are,— well-bred peoplo of nocloty, In prison, Loth men and women dross themaclves with grent’ care, pay sach ollier visitn, and keep up a drawlug-roons; it inay ba at the end of & corridor, {n the light of thfee or four canllles; but hero thoy circulate fests, composs mad- Figals, alog wongs, and pride thomselves on belng aa fi:llam, a3 gay, and a6 graclous as ever: need peoplo moroso and' {li-behaved becauss accident Las con- slunod them 10 8 poor fan 7 They preserve their dig- uity and thelr smilo before (heir judges and on tiis cart ; thie women, eapecially, mount tlie acaflold with tho oaxo and serenity characterstic of an evening on- tertmnment. It A tho supremn clarsctoristic of guod-breeding erected Into au uniquo duty, and bo- como to this aristocracy a second nature, which is found iu fts virtues aa well as in it8 vices, In its facul. tlev aa woll as fta_impotencies, in its proeperity an ot itu fall, and which adorns It even in tho death to which it condutcts, Now set over against thoso scenos of dawty, luxurious aplendor that il the.wholo space whore Kings, nobles, and clergy abide; certain viows of the lifo of the peasant ana tho lnborer, tho great workiug classes, from whom tho larger purt of tho rovenucs of tho State are wruug: La Bruyero wrole, just & century before 1749, * Cer - taln savaie-lookiny beings, male and female, ate seen in the country, black, Livil, and suuLurnt, and bo- loning o the' soll which {uey Qig dnd grub with tn- vineible stubbornuers, They scom cupablo of artieun lution, and, when thoy stand “erect, they dleplay hu. mun lipeatacuts, They aro,in fact, men, They ro- tiro st night to theiz_denw, whore tliey liva ou blsck bread wator, aud roots, hwly syeie otler hutan bo- ingy the troubleg! sowing, plowing, and barvestin, st e sliowi not Bo" I want ot "th sl they lave planted.” Tney continug of it during twenty-five yesrs after (his, and dfe in herds, I estimato that in 1715 mare than one-third of ‘the population—o,000,000—perish with hupger and of destitution, . . , “In 1725, says BL, blmon, vith the peofusences of Btrasbourg uml Chantilly, e pooplo 1 Noruwiidy live ou o grass of tho flelds, The frat King in Furopo ia great aimply by belug 8 Kiug of beggurs of all conditions, and by tieniug his Kingdom f1to a vast hospital of dying people, of whom their all Ia taken withiout a murine,” o In 176, throughout {ho plain of the Toulousain, they eat only maize, o mixtura of flour, commou sceds, and very llttle wheat; those on the mountain feed, s part of tho year, on chostuuts; tho potato s hardly Xinown, nud, according to Arthur Young, ninety-nine out of 100 peasants wontd vefuso toeat it, According to the ropocts of Intendants, ‘bnsiu of foad, in Normandy, la ot in the elaction: trict of Troycs,buckwhoat In tho Marchoand in Limon #ln, buckwheat with chestuuts aud radishios; it Aue vergue, buckwheat, cliestuuts, mitk-curds, sud & little ralted goat's meat; in Beauce, o mixture of barley and ryos iu Berry, o mizture of barley and oats, Thure is 10 Wwheat-bread; tho pessant consumes inferior fiour only Lecauss Lo 18 nuable to poy 2 sous o pound for bi bread, There {8 no butcher's meat; at bast Lo kills ono plg o year, s dwelling is bhilt of clay, roofed with thatets, without windows, sad the floor s tho beaten earth. ., . #The pewsants arogeuorally feolle, emaciated,” und of alight ststure, . , . An Englisiman’ who has not traveled fmagino figure made by infinite. 1y the greater part of the countrywomen in Franco," Arthur Youug, who-stopa to talk witn one of tuese, in Champagne, says that *This womax, at 10 grest dis- tance, might havo beon taken for 60 ‘or 30, her Sgure waa 80 Lent, and ber faco so hardensd and furrowed by Iavor: but shosaid showasonly 23, . o Marris takes place os oarly as with the grand solgniors,’— doubtless for fear of the militfs. * Lyt the popuiation of the country 18 no greater, bocsuss slmost every fu. fant dies, Mothers having'scarcely any milk, thelr infanta eat the food of which T spoko (inado of rye, and biaok and heavy as load), tha stomach of a glrl of 4 yeara being as bl ax that of a proguant woman,* This dreadful dostitution and midery of the poasantry aro roforable to two causos: fnado- quato tillage of the eoil aud oppressive taxa- tion, One-guartor of tho Iand of Franco was suffered to be n barren wasto, and tho romainder waa 5o poorly cultivatod that it yielded only the lightost Larvests,* A year or two of drought sufticed to reduco tho peoplo to s condition of famino. Out of every ozt deaths, Taino osti. matos that at loast oua was caused by sfarvae tion. Inthorural districts, taxation was so bieavy that of large estatos ono-haelf tha not product, and of small onos the wholo net prod- uct, went to tho Chuarck and futo .tha Biate Uroasury, Al the end of the yoar, proprietor and Isboror, who lad each subsisted uwpon 25 or francs' worth of foqd, and had dressod tn homo-mado clothes manufactured from the wool und bair of sheap sud goats, found themsclvos without a son {n their pocket. The tax-gathorer had takon away tholr entire savings. 'Pho day-laborer, who owned nothing eavo hla two hands; and oarned 10 sons & day, pald 8, 0, and 10 Jivros poll-tax. Tho poor maclanio, wwhoso sole pos- nossion was bLia trado, was often taxed 18 and 20 livred for bus poll-tsx and tho faille. ‘The duty on salt, of which the peoplo wore compalled to uso o prescribed amwount, edded to ather grind- 1ug imposts, wo lpoverwhed thom tins, fn cop- uequenco of failuro to pay it, thore wore annually 4,000 wotzuros of dwollings, 8,400 imprisonmonts, aud 500 soutoncecs to floggipg, exilo, aud tho golleys, Ia it strango that, when the flzed limit of Liuman ondurance was roactiod. thoso wrotclos, imbruted by ceturies of foul troatmoant, nvnn%uu their wrongs with the ma- ligoity of furioa? Tho vilest doods that have mado the Frouch Rovolution a bosror to tho civ- iized world aro 1ationally accounted for when wo read jn those pases of tho excessive luxury, idlonesy, aud nogloct of every duty but that of being polite and swmiable, which charactarized thie arisiocracy, sud of tho appalliug want, aod bardsuip, aud distress that pioched, sud stunte od, snd starved tho people. M, Tawe divides bis massive and lmpoging work uto five books, in whicn he considers, ro- spoetively, the atructure of aociety; Ite -habits aud characters; the intellectusl moods and the systent of philosophy that evoutuated lu a revo. lationary spirit; tue propagation of tius epirit among the bigher and nuddlo olassen; and, finutly, the condition of tho people, This mode of arl emont ia effecfivo, as It soparatos a vaut subjoot, by & naturat division, Inte soctlo that cau’ bo more eamly comproliended, u the. sulvey aud as parts of » great whole, than were they blended in un uabrolien counection. The stylo of the narrative is glowing and vehement, but not beyond the ecapacity of the subject, Novor did a theme offer more potent occasiuns for vnjoying tho sloquonce of su impassionato writer, M. Tawo bas made s magilicont use of his opportuuitics, sud bos produced a bistory that 18 at once the most powerful, trutbtul, and elrcumetantial thut has yot boen written of the Ancient Regime 1o Frauce, 2 BWING'S SERMONS, Tavrud ¥ou To-Dav, Becoud Borles, By Davin BwiNg, Putor Cowral Church, 1umo., pp. 294 Clitcaghs Janus, McUlurg & Co.” Price, 150 ‘The truthis which the pastor of the Central Church teaches to the poople are brosd and froe, W'hey are not Lulf-truths, or hawmopered truhs, wearing the fetters of m cresd, and put forth eautiously, with coly se muok of . 6 gone | manutactusre of United Hiates Ifllwx. TN CHICAGO TRIBUNTG: SATURDAY, APRIL fenturos visiblo aa woro disclonod yoars ago, when, from Ignorance and grosansss, men wors incapable nf approhonding the fullneas of their apiritusl senso, Tuey are revealed {n thefr perfect beantv and purity, with & confident trust that the world is now resdy and waiting to receiva thom with an hooest and cordisl recog- nitlon, Herein lies the power of the popniar prescher Ha has tetained a close relation with the peoplo. Ho hae forsbornoe to shut timsolf upin the study, Imbibing from old-tims books the doctrines that were suitad to buried gouerations; ho bhaw not held himsell apart a4 a belng inolated from the avery-day in- teresla of the living world, On the contrary, ho han mingled intimately among men, studviog, an tlo phyatclan watchos the symptoma of his pationt, the necds, the longings, the rostrictions, and the capacitios, of & pragressive humanity, An bo apeakn to hia listenors, hio addrouscs them from tho vantage-ground of fo-dsy, outof the cumulative oxperience and wlgdomn of the ene lirhtened proscnt, and with a clear realization thst it Is now, (n the pineteenth century, the year 1876, Lonce tho multitudes love to hear him, re- Joicing in the plosaant assuranca that, while their bottor natnres are appoaled to, while thoy arastimalated to highor thoughts and nobler deods, their common-scnee and_ reason will he respected,~that tho divine rigtits of theso facul- ties will Ls proporly acknowledged. The sorimone ju thin collection are average specimena of the prescher's ability, s essayn aro of very avon l’lll"l_",—ll.ln productiona of a caltured mind o fecling b sad s babitually calm, sober mood. 'Thoy are far romoved from aby taint of seneatioualism, —captaining intringia ovidoneo that whstevor of celobrity thoir author ias obtained has come unsought, as tho legiti- fate reward of an earnost and lil declara- tion of vital and etaruai truths, SKETCHES. 3 Meworiza oy FaMILIR Hooxs, By WiLuiax B, Rsxb, LL, D. WITn A MENOIR OF TIE_AUTilOR, Edited by Marox MARLE, 1250, pp, 20, New York: E. J. fiale & Son, ‘The sketches presented In the above volume wors originally contributed to tho Now York World, and sbout five yoars ago wero put out collectively under the title of * Among My Booke,” This earlier name, which Lsd baon vréviously appropriated by Lowoll for ous of Lia scries of emsays, has uow beon discarded, in ordor that the book may havo the rdvantsge of a distinotive Individuality, Mr, Rood was u gontloman of talent and sdu- cation, who, in the loisure of a long lifa, maiutly devated to tho legal profession, enrichied his mind with the fruits of extonded travel and read- ing. Ilo wroto froquently for the pages of the Aorlh Amerwcan Review, ‘s prohfie pamphleteer,” and tha anthor of momoirs of his grandfather; Goun. Josoph Roed,—tho firat Snnmaq of Wash- ington,—oud of bis grandmother, Luther De- Beadt, s womsn distingushod for active Ioyalty during tbe American Itovolution. Mr, Reed was brather of I'rof. leed, of Pliladelphia, the gentle, thoughtfal schiolar whose loss on the Arctic, in 1854, was mourned by a wide olrole of admiring frienda and rendors. Mr. It op- pointed Miniator to Chiua by My, Buchanan, and “r; iu February of the curront year, at the age ot 70. "The papers, which aro hero profaced with s momoir by Manton Marblo, are sbort and in- formal, their leading thoughts grouving nbout suoh topics a8 Autographs, The ‘Lheatre, Thack- oray, Methoirs of tho Enet, Junius, American History, Books of 'Travel, and Houry Reod, PHILADELPHIA GUIDE-BOOK. THE OFHCIAL GUIDE-BOOK TO PHILADELPHIA; A Niw HANDUOOK YOI BIMANOEIS AND Ulrizens, Dy Tuoureon WesTcoTT, Author of “A Jilslory of Philadeiphis,” ecte, Iliusirated with Nearly 10u° En- m:ll:wt. 10mo., pp. 425, Philadelphia: Yorter & Coates, This may be commended asn very complote sud trustworthy havdbook for the guidanco of atrangers who viait tne city of Pluladelplna, It givea a history of tho city, and full descriptions of all its public buildings, institutions, avd Inces of iuterest, A chapter 1 dovoted to the uternational "xhibition ; and nnother arrauges & programme for tho traveler who has six days to spund 1 the city, and & diepoaition to make the fulless uae of them. DAVAULT’S MILLS, Ons can say of ‘* Davault's Mills," by Charles Heury Jones, what Charlotte Bronte eaid of a noyel: **Ihave road a new book,—not a reflec. tion of any other book, but nnew book." ‘Fhe story s purely Americau,—depicting Amorican Ife in rofined city-circles. ju countrs-honues, at tho sonsido, {u church-oircles, in & manufaccur- ing town, among young mon at clubs, high and low churchmen, lawyers, busivess-men, manu- facturors, operatives, and strikers. It lends us thronglh tho pleasant paths of sentimont, the mission-work of churches, fasblonabla lifo of young 1ladics, nnd scones of fenud, dissipation, murder, and sudden death, There is enough of mentimont to ploaso without palling; of Hensatiou to exelto tho in- terest winlo kooping within tho bonnds of prob- ability. The plot {8 intricate, but distinct ; tho charactors original and lifelike. ‘The moral fs purd; the atvio admirable, Mr, Jones haa fing command of language, sud a Lappy graco of ex- proralon, which will please porsons of taste and culture. - Ho seoms oquatly folicitous in describ- ing legal trials, church-dissousions, the chat of soclety, the tendor talk of lovors, and tho gossip of scandal-mongers, The story is well told, and tho events wear an air of probability. br. Davault is a ¥ain, _parso-proud, nverbomng. rich man, who Lns made Lis way from poverty, by epergy and unscrupulous selflsiness. The 80n of poor operativos, ho bocams manager and partoer in the mills, nudor Rawley, their former owaer; at his doath, Davault bonght the mills, ot an unjust prico, from Dauntel Rawloy, the heir, whd was ignorant of tholr value. The atory fiuds Rawloy o poor laborer in tho mills; accident discovers to him that tho logal titto Las nover passed from him, tho salo having been mado a fow wecks beforo ho bocame of nge, {lo wina tho millaina suit at law, and Davault ts ruined, but for the liberal justice Rawley ahows hlmfi influenced therounto by the good Mr, Brent- wick. ; T'ho manager, Daw; Aarschot, the striker Laban Fiade, tbe attornoy; Mr. Brontwick, tho clergyman; aud Martin Drow, the young mau of fashion, aro charscters full of lifoliko intereut,— ori md. yot natural, Thioro are aoveral lovors woolng and wedding in tho bool ; othors woomng and not winming; a dissipated youog men; & murderor; n fasg young tady, full of #aucv cnat; a lawvor's clerk anxious to sustain the diguity of the profession ; and many othor people pleasant to meat with in & story, CORRECTION, * TIn the roview of “Tho Automaton Ear, and Otlior Bkotches,” by Floronce MeLandburgh, which appeared in Tne Trinuse of last Sntie- day, & typographical error occurrod - which do- mands corroction. Tho senteuco which read : **And it is ouly bacauss tho author claime Lor- selt capable of oty so woll that we ask of hor in every case » fiuished performance," was written, *And it is ouly bocauso the anthor #hows hareelf onpablo,” elc., ote. BOOKS RECEIVED, Hinte ow Cnresk-Masina: New Editon, To AHICIH 16 ADDKI) AN ESuA¥ ON BUTTER-NAKING, I L D, Ot Syrcosa: ‘Trualr, Sind A Stouror rux Dav, By Qui. da,” Authior of ¥ Btsathuwore,” ete, 12m0., pp, 434, Philadelphis s J, 1, Lippiucin & Co. Price, §1.60, Lutsunx-Loun Sentes. Misw Morwy, Ly 1), L. BuzT, 16mo,, pp. 203, New York: Heury Holt & Co, Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co. Frios, $1,25, PERIODICALS RECEIVED, Wids Auake for May (D, Lothrop & Co., Boston), Among 1ue contributors o (his number sre Edgar Fawg la Forman, Mary E. C. Wyetl, JuliaA, Eastmsn, alre, E, D, Cheney, and Dr, E. Tourjee, "Tuere aze thirty-ons illustrutions, Santtarian for day (Campbell & Co. New York), Weatern Journal of Education for April (Jobn W. Brown, Chicago) Nationas" leaehesol Monthly for May (A, 8, Barnes & Co., Naw York and Chicsgo). LITERARY NOTES. Dret Harte's atory, '* The Roso of Tuolumnoe," ia tranwlated in tho laat number of tho Revue des Deuz Mondes, The Athenceurn inforws us that Miss Braddon, {he prolitlo novelist, intonds makiug s tour In tha United Btates aud giving public readluge, The London magazine Helyravia, late the property of Miss Braddon's husband, has been purchased by Mesars. Chatto & Windus at the prics of £12,000, The London magszine Temple Bar will begin i= May Anthony Trollope's naw story, entitled #‘The American Senator," the sceus of which is lald in Eogland. Cassel, Petter & Galpin, lishers of llustrated works, London pub- nto the have farund & firat volume in qnarto, writton by a Mr, Ollior, and pmlu!el{ luntrated, which the Acadriny aags is a carefully-written and, on the whole, trustiworthy history. 1n the first part of Dir, Furnivall's edition, for the now Hliskepeara Society, of Hatriwon's ** Do- acription of Lngland In Bliaksposia's Time, 1617-'67," will be & copy of Norden's map of London in 1693, .n,u-v-d by Vander Koera. Sapaaf tho routes of Bhakspsare in hus jonrnays from Htratford to Londoo will acoompany I'art 1L neat year, The foliowing gentlomen have been desig- oated a8 mombers of the Euglish Cul?nght Commission : Lord John Manners, the Karl of Devon, Sir Charioa Young, fiic Hoory FHolland, Bir John Iloss, Sir Louis Mallet, 8ir fI. Drum- wmond Woiff, Kir Julits Benedict, Mr. Daldy, Mr. Frande, Mr. Harschell, Me. Jenkins, Dr. W. Hmith, Mr, Fltzjames Btephens, aud Mr. A. Trollopa, The Atlantic for Juno will contain ‘* one of the mont striking papora ever written by Mark Twam" tho beginoing of s seiisl story en- titled *'The America®,” bLy lleory James, Jr. 5 & socand paper b; Mr. Adams” on * Tho Htato and the Railroad ;" a aketch of ** A Bhaker by W, D. fowelln; Mra, Kemblo's p3" & ¢ Centeunls] Iymo,” by Mr, Whittler ;' and posms by T. B. Aldrich and ofhera, e London Publishers' Circular saya thab ¥he penuy-drosdful atyle of literaturs, like * Tyburn Dick" and * Claude Duva),’ oatinot be Bnpgllulnd by any amount of ¢ goody ' religions books. 1t is no uso for Reverend gentlemon to write down to tae people. The twaddle of the D. D.'ats only relished by old laaies ; and the truc way to crowd out the depremsod literaturs is to fill ita place with something thrilling or fas- cioatiog, whero'the moral purvoss s hidden under tus interest of the story or description.” The promiged blo%n Ly of A. T, Btewart, by Gen, James Grant Wilson, mill bo largely from dota furnished the writer Ly Mr, Stewart him. soif. Boms time sago Gon: \Vileon prepared a aketch of Mr. -Stewart's lifo for publication ju A,g:lc(am' Journal, but when tue proof was nubmltted to Mr. Stowart for revision Lo ex- presicd the deairs that nothing of the sort should bs printed uutil aftor hLis death, Mr, Stewart thoreafter talked freoly with Gen, Wil- son &4 to the fucidontd of Lia life, 5o that the book Into which the origlnal sketch will bo ex- tended will iave tha charactor of semi-nuthor- fzation, It will probably bo Hluntrated with & portrait made from the mask snd skotch taken from Mr. Btowart's face after death. A curious book I+ td be pulbiished by Roberta Dros, as a subscription work. * The Abbot Ae- morial ¥ will comprise mamoirs of mauy ropra- sentatives of that name, sthich ia cortainly well known. Amoug the mambars of the fatwily to be commemorated will bo I’ruf. John Abbos, of Bow- doin Collego ; Dr. Benjamin Abbut, of Phillips Acadomy, Kxotor, N. if,; Dr. Abiel-Abbot, of Leterboro; Ur, Abiel Abbout, or Bevarl{ i the Rav. John .. Abbot, of Borton: and, i is to be supposed, the literary family headed by Jscob and Jobin 8. 0. Abbost. ‘Lhe work will bs edited by Prof. Ablel Abbot Livermors and ‘Frof- Goorgo Jacob Abbot, of Mcadvilla, Pa, Tho Japancso romance, '*Chiushingars,” which G. P, Putoam's Bona Lave nearly resdy, wiil (snya the Now York Tribune) be a curiosity in more reepoecta than ono. In & lterary aspoct Is lunbl,:my gonsational ptory of **Tha Loyal League,” and tho murdora in ‘it are enongh to atock tho Bowery Theatro for & Fourth of July porformanca, Mechanically, the book will ba producod in Japancse fashion, and, for proof of 1ta puthienticity, has what is supposed to bo an address from the author to his readors in the onigiunl Japauese mcript. It ia bound ke an English book, but the lines rou the loug way of the page. Bome carlously embowsed clothe bave boou imported from Japan by Mesars, Put- nam in which to bind the book, and on tiua the Izbols will bo posted. There will be 30 allua- trations in black and bluo }nerhnpsbenmxu each is gtruck off with » blow of the hammer), which havo beou printed in Japan fo slowly that the ook has been waiting for them many woeks, Theao are niore delicate in expression than usual, although thoir lack of perapective makes them unintelligible without study. Tull description of oach cut, o English, will, however, aid tue curious, s, FAMILIAR TALK, THE WHISKY REBELLION DURING WASHING: TON'S ADMINISTRATION. The trouble which tho Governmont is experi- encing at tho proseut day, inits endeavor to gather in the taxes imposed upon the manufac. turers of whisky, recalls to mind the oxtrome difticalty, culmiuating {n an getual Zobellion, whicl, nearly n century ago, attonded its efforta to rajue arovenuo from the samo potent and mischievous article, The war of the Amorican TRovolution, by which our nation achioved its in- depeundence, left the country in an {mpoveriehed and woll-nigh bankrupt condition. It was by dint of the. wmost skiliful mauagement, by the uso of tho most sagacious expedients, and by tho oxpenditure of tiroless yeot oxlauative invonttons, that the statesmen and flnanciers at ilie head of affairs were able to carry the Btates safoly through tho trviug, threatening yeara that followed after tha close of tho dosolating atrifo with Eugland. There was uo monoy in the Treasury, and there waa very little in the bionds of the people. Commerce and industry hiad to bo newly creatoed, and time aliowed them to develop iuto prospority, bofors tley could yield roturna in adequato proportions for the soppors of the Government. Meauwhilo, tax- ation was resorted Lo as & desporato yet ime perative modo by which meana for establishing the credit of the country could bs socured. When, early in 1780, Iamilton, the natuto Sec- retary of the Troasury, sout into Congross hLis tirst roport npon tho public credit, ho suggested thio levying of & duty upon spirits of home-maus ufagture and upon stills, The ides was for the #tmo belng rejocted. It tonched anintersst that was peculiarly sensitive, and the Congressmen who guardod that iuterest succeeded in dofend- ing it from an unwelcoms interference. Yot acarcoly & twolvomouth passed ore Hamilton again proposed the moasuro, &y s necossity to which tho afstiliin g industry must bs made sub- mis¥iye. Aftsr a furious debato in the Na- tional Logislature, during which tho most vio- lont antipathiy to the priuciplo of taxation came to the surface, aud tha moat bitter donunciations of g partienlar form of it wore openly ex- prosued, the bill passed laying an oxcie upon domestic hc‘uuru, nnfiim: from 0 couts to 80 cunh; per gallon, according to the quality of the articlo, Le lam, which went into effect in the urrlng of 1791, waa repnguant to tho citizens in all parts of the éounutry, but was especially trri- tating to the community dwelling west of tho Alloghenles in tho State” of Ponusylvania. Tho factious spirits assembled in this region wore descendants of mingled Scoteh and Irigh na- tionalitles, aud wore naturally givon to much whisky aud to excessive pugnacity and stub. bornuess of tempor, Thoir chiof occupation was distilling; honce ths excise law affectod them vory noarly, and roused to the highest ex- cltement their combative propensities, InJulys mueting wss couvened ot Ied Btono Old Fort, st which, under the leadership of QGallatin, Findley, aud Smilio, it was ruua‘vod that Com- wittees shoold bo formed fu the dinffectod counties to dovise ways for the protection of tho peopla from oppressivo taxatiun, Through tho summer tha agitation was kopt active by in- flummatory declamations which ardent speakers poured out 0o coutiuuous asscmblages. Violout worda wero gradually oxchanged for violent decus, and in Beptember nn unhappy Colloctor of Rovenues for the connties of Al- loghony and Washivgton was ueized by a mob of mon in disguise, and tarred-and-foathored. An attonipt was mado by the District Court to in- lict pumesbment upan the perpetrators of this outrage; bat the individuat upou whom dovolved the duty of arrestiug tuo oifondoru was subject- ed to sull worse treatment than tha Colloctor whose fato waa to bo avongod. Ile was whipped Prior to being investod 1u o coat of tar-and- festhors, nud was tho rabbed of his monoy sod Loruo, and left for hours tied to a treo i tho forest. 'There was no freodom in the rebollious counties, whora mob-law reigned despoticatly, Whoever darod to oxproas milegisuco to tho Governmont, or to agdist in tho oxecution of 18 decroe of taxation, suffered in person and property from the vindictivenecss of the excited populace. Tho juuocent aud the gwlty, who drow suspicion upou themsolves, wero alike brutally Laudled by s horde of tyruuts who kuew uo mercy, haviug onco usurped the right of redressing their fatcied wrongs. The Governieut was greatly ombarrassod by the insargout attitude sxsuwed by & portion of 1ty subjocty, u8 1o provision had yot becn made for auding the Judicisry In the execution of tho laws, Ior s time the policy of temporizing was tried, with an apparently qutoting sifect ; but in uminer of “1793 the rebols roussd up to re- newed activily, and demonstrations of violonca were energetically resumed. ‘Yhe hoatliily to tho exciuo-oiliclaly was 80 oxtrome that it bo- came alumost jmposuible for thom to obiain the neceseary fadllities for transacting thoir busi- n while socially thoy were put hiterally under the ban. By a regulasly-organized sohems of 20 IRI—"TWELVE PAGES ontraciam, they wara excluded from all aswoci- ation with the commanity in which thev lived, either iu Iriendly or commoercial rolations, In fact, they wara isolatod from their kind, When vows of these fresh aggreastons reachod Philadelphis, the Dresident sud Secretary of Hiate wero absent ol thoir respoctive homon, and it fell upan Hamiiton atone to ment tha exic geney. He wam eager for the proscention of vigorons measures, and drafted proclamations for Washington to put forth, aud urged the At~ torney-Geueral to bribg tho jeaders of Lho In- surrection to apoedy juntice. Dut the Presidant was loth to make use of military forco until tho civil means of coerclon ad Laea exhauatod. Warrauta ware (ssucd for tho approbonsion of the rsbellious distillera ; but these could not be oxocuted on account of the syatematized oppo- sliion of tha entire populace,” The life and the, roperty of every official wera in constant copardy, ‘Their oflicos and their homes were usnatlod by night, and themselves fired upon in the opon day, and in froquant cases woro treatod to an application of tar-and-feathors, supplo- mented with other reflnemants of lngenious torture. In Juve, 1793, thirty legal processcs belng {saued agaival prominens distillers and rioters, twenty-uine wera ruccesafully worved: but, as the Marshal wan preparing to exccute the thir- tieth, ho was pravented hy a voltey of shot from o pody of srmod meu, The next day an Assuult Was made upon the house of the [uspector at Pitteburg, which was renswod the day afier by au incioasod force, under the command of & notod rebel known a8 ** Tom the Tinker.” After s prolonged wiege, during which the building waa bravely dafeuded by su officer and elovon men dotalled for the purposs from Fort Pitt, the garrison were compelled to surronder by the Lousg being hred about their ears, 5 Tue rebels, growing coursgrous ovar their caroor of victory, ventured to intercept the muils betweon Philadelphis aud Pittaburg, and pos- sessed themaclyen of tha contents of ofticial let- ters. Ther also summoned the ofiicers of the mulitia to assemblo their companies at Drad- dock'a Field, ou the Monongahels, Aug. 1, and to come provided with their arms and with four days’ rations. At this merious crinis the Goverument set about the work of quelling the robsliion in good earncst, A call tor 13,000 troops was made upon Penpeylvacla, Virginia, Maryland, aod New Jerney ; and the number was afterwards swelled t015,000. Tho citizenn of theso Htates showed, their loyalty by hastening to make up the quota required,—oilicers who had merved fo the lRevolution enlisting ss pnvate woldiers, atong with men of wealth, and even Quakers, who put aside thoir tenacions seruplos sgatnst warfare in this exceptlonal in- stance, whon tha jutegrity of the nntional law was endaugered. Gov. Loe, of Virginia, was appointed to the command of tho army. Hamilton recolved the permission of the 1l dent to accormpany the troops on their march. * In & Gaverumont like vurs,” hie eaid in his pe- tition to Washington, ‘1t caunot but have a fiood effect for the person wha is understood to 0 the adviser or proposer of m measuro which 1uyolves danger to hin foliow-cltizens. to par- take in that aanger: while not to do it might liave a bad offect.” The troops wera encamped at Carltsle, and thitbor proceaded both Washington aud Hamnilton at the close of Heptember, In suswer to the call for & Convention at Brad- dock’s Field, Aug, 1, 7,000 *‘citizens of tha Wentern country ™ musembled, stoutly forsitied with arms and & belll rorent epint. The plan which they hastilv concocted was to attack the national troops at Piitsburg, aud, in the event of success, to uulte with the adjacent countica of Virginia, secodo from the Union, sud estab- lish ap independent Btate. In accordeuce with this schemo, sn onsiaught nponthe fort at Pitts- burg was mado the following morning. The placo was 8o ably defended by Col. Butler. tho commander of tho garrison, that the besiegers noon concluded their attack and retreated. ‘Tho intelligenco was about this time brought to the insurgenta of the approach of five Com- midsionors sont by the Government to offer tho final alternative of a peaceful submission, or a trial of stronathin the fletd. A meating was held on tho 14th ; but the minds of the rebely wore now 80 inlinmed that they could with aifli- culty bo persuaded to deoute a Commuttes of {iftecn to confor with the Commissioners, Gal- Iatin, whohbad in the begioving exertod all his influence to sirencthen the oppasition to the excise luws, now endeavored to rotrieve hie mistaka by allayiug tho excitoment of 1ue poople, and turning them from what had become tou evidontiy & ruinons course, But it was easior-to kindle the coutiagration thas to subduo it, &8 the arch-instigator fearned to his cliagrin, and bis utmost art was neoded to in- duce the fusurgent Aspombly to ineert in the resolutions adopted a clause .promising submis- ston to the State lawd in consideration of lement treatment from the Government. Tha conrultations between the Commissioners and the Commitleo of Conference resulted la no decisive agreement, and the question of ac- cepting the proffered amuesty was submitted directly to the peoplo. In every township ex- cept in that whore Gallafin rosided, the propo- mtion way rejected. nud resolutions of unabated Liostility wore adopted in ita place. Finally, in angwer to a fresh proclamation from Washing- ton, Findloy and a cordjutor were appointed as delegates ta present tho canso aud the disposi- tion of tho people to the Presmdent, A frigid rocoption by Washiogton, and a view of the military forces preparea to subdue the rebellion, conviuced the dolegates of tho futility of fur- ther remistauce, and they returned to the revel- lious distzict 1z extreme alarm, ‘When the national arniy loft Carlisle, tho last of Hoptember, Washingtoa roturnod to Philadel- phia, and Hamilton tovk up the march with the troops, ‘Their progress was one of considerable bardship, as the woather was incloment, aud the roads across the monntains wero diticult to travo:se. Dut nowhere did they moos with armod resistance, Tho foo vanished before them liko the dissolving mists. 'Tho army passed through the Inenrgont country, srcesting individuals, and dissipating every vostige of organized opposi- tiou. When the rebellion had thus been lald perlectly proatrate, Hamilton lcft tho army and rotutned to Philadelphia, Tlo mam portion of the troops fcllowed bim late in November,—a detachment of 2.500 beings loft in winter-quar- ters to hold in due subjection tho couquercd counties. 'The instigators of the insurrection wero purdoned by the clemency of the Govorn- ment, and thus ended a rebellion, which, puny snd contempublo as it wasin real might, yet subjocted tho authority of the nation to a grave sud suxious test, SIR WALTER SCOTT, Ina rambling sketch of Sir Walter Beots, which {8 united with other slwilar papers in & 1ately-printed volume by Mr. W. D. Rtood, thero aro some disclosures mado with regard to the early and unforgotten love of the poet-novelist. A lottor addressed to Mr, Hteed by & friend of Heott affords the following Information : 1 quite sympathize In the fnterest you feel about the 1sdy »8 to Whose name you inquite,—thn tirst love of B Walter Soott, Sl vias the ouly daugliter (sald to buve been 8 beautiful blonde) and helress of Kir John Stuart, 8 landed getleman of Forfarshire; and, alightlng the future suttor of ** Waverly," she’ miar. ried Mz, Willism Forben, whio afterwards succeeded to & Daronetcy, aud wan al the head of n great Lauking eatablishment at Edinburg, The Iady berselt diod in or about 1811, and was at thal thne toudly portrayed v Sir Waller s the *Matilla' of his okeby:” alto, you muy recol- lect, an iho poum refectiug s young puet, aud preferring to - bimebot fadeed s binder, whitch would not souud so well 1u poetry, but a war- rlor-chivf, You will Bud_ severul references to et in the latur journals of ir Walter; one paskage I recall {itioro b ueya ls met ier mother bs apiuiiuuucat. sol haviug acen ber for mavy year, aud that tliey passed Hio ol ‘oveulog . both i tears for- tha loug wince departed onc, In speaking of Beott's lifo-fong sorrow for the love of Lis youth, Lis son-in-law ways : 116 nover wrato either sonuats, oF clegled, or mon« odics, oF even su epilaph o hiN wife; but what an epitapl fs Lis Diacy trougbout, and what a picturs hiave wo iu hifs entry about thio ltublo lutlers which be carved In the day of youug passion amiong the grave- stones of 8t. Audrow’s | ‘When Scott was 20, ho married alady of French birth and parentage, Charlutte Margaret Car- pentor, A8 sbo lay on hor doath-bed, and her usband know the end was near, ho loft Abbots- ford not 2 roturn until all was over. Ale, Reed remarks upon this singular procooding : What can it mein? Tsad hisown account of it: + ay 13,—Charloito unable 10 ako loave of mo, belng tn'a sounid sicep aftera vory indifferent night, . Per- bapu it {s as weil; 1t witbiers my huart to tink of it but, fnar Lprosent letlargio siate, what would my presence bave avalled2—and _Anne has pramised cloes constaut luieliigence, 1 must dine with Jobu allentyue to-day, en familie, 1 caunot belpit,” U be 10k, Loth, and 14th, notulog; audou the 15th s 1vod the melancholy Inteliigeuce that sl over at Abbotaford.” ‘Thenhe hurries bome, aud meots * poor Auvie,”" who did watch, and {s Lysterical and snve out, *Poor Maminal—gone forover!” And ho visits tho chamber of death, sud writes in his Disry thevs striking words, thu beat detcription of ply fter- doath tust I kiiow of [ have scen bor, The By 1 behold is, aud i¢ not, my Olarlotle, tuy thisty years' couipanion, There 14 the samu syinnieiry ‘of for though thess iiba aze rigid which were ouce ¥o grace: fully elautio; but that yellow mask with pluched fo tures, whict scema to mock life rathur tiaa to eimuls 18, can it b the faco that was ouce wo full of lively oz~ preaslon? 1 dare ot look on it agas ol SPARKS OF SCIENCE. THE FLORA ROUND ABOUT CHICAGO: THE LILY FAMILY, Bavaral reprosontatives of the superb order of Lilies (Liliacewr) will be found in the firat spring-bouquets which the ramblers in our woods blad together. Tho groves av Riverside tgure | yicld two species, which thickly aprinklo tho aoft, green carpet spread under tho troes. These are tho White Dog's-Tooth Violet, or Adder's ‘Tongue (Erythionium albidum), and the Purple Wako-Robin, ar Birth-Root (Trilitm recurs- atum). Tho first |4 & pretty, delicate flower, liko s small whita Lily crowning a simplo stom (or ecape as it ia called, because It springs fram the root), which is shoathed st tho bssa by two long, smoolh, shining leavon, that ars somotimes &plashod with apots of brown. This constitutes the entiro plant, which, with a slight pull, will broak off low down ia the soft mold, loaving tho acaly bnlb bohind deaply Luried in tho ground. The Yellow Addor's Tongus (E. Americanuni) is not common n our vicinity, but baa boen Eatuerad at Maywood, . The Purple Wake-Robin, which abounds in the Woods round about us, 4 neither handsome nor frageant, yet it adde variety to our flora, and color to the green groundwork of the copses and thickets, The dark, muhogany-colored flower mits in the centre of & whorl of three ample, ovata leavea that murmount the simple atem of the plant. A much more showyand boandsomo apccios, the 7. grandiftorum, graws pleatifully in the ravines at Glencos, This bas s Iargo flower, with three green sopals, and three white petals which change with sge (o a roge-color, Ia the woods at Hinadale there may occasfonally be found sti)) another Wake-liobin, (7. erectum, var. declinatum), tho petala of which sproad out inatead of standing upright, as in the 7, recurcatum, Aloog in tho firet days of Masy, tho Ballmont «(Uyularia grandiffora) suapcods ita pale-yel- lowlish flowers, angly or in pairs, from the “tip of ita forked stome, which are sbundant in the mouwt woods., The flower lias the true sapect of the Lily, but makes very little display, as ft re- taine ita porianth (sapals and potala) it a half- open atate. The leaves of the plautclasp tho stem with their base, encirchng it completely. ‘Yowards tho middle of May, tho Falee Solomon's Boal (Smilacina slellata) will unfold {ta starry blossums i damp, grassy places. The plant Rrows from 1 to 2 feet high, bearing along its mogla stem from soven to twelve slightly-clnsping leaves, and st the top s raceme of from fivo to twenty emall. neat. whito Gowers. At Gibson's, & sta- tion not far ouc on the Michigan Contral Riafl- roul, ocenrs tho S, frifolia, & species bearing ouly threo Jeaves; and st Pins Htation, on the Micbigan Southers Kailroad, ocours the 8. bifo- lia, n dwarf mpecics, having generally two leavos only. Ta Juno, the &, racemasa, a atout apaciea With meuy lcaves, and, after the blossomn have allen, palo-red, purpic-dotted Lerrics, will be found ib moist copses. Abont the same time, twospecien of Polyqomatum, P, biflorum and £ gigantinm, cammouly calied tho Smaller and the Great Solomon's Heal, come fnto tlower. Tho foliage in this genas atrongls resombles that of the Sntlacinas, but the little, greenish, giobu- Iar flowers aro Awung from the axila of tho loaves on slender, swaying atems, or pedicels. In May, the beautifnl Wild Hyacinth (Scilla Fraseri)” ornaiments with lavish prodigality th e prairies and wild open suaces to the ecost and the west of us. Its graes-like leaves and dense racemen of pale-bins flowers proceed diroctly from tho turriculated bulb, which has the flavor of the onion and iseaten by the Indians. A wmouth later, the Wild Leek (Athum triczeum) scents tho grovelandnat Riverside and Maywood with its odorous blossoms, Their pungent amell betrays their afiinity with tho Allium, The feaves of this upecieR come up early in tho apring, and perich betore the flowor-stems shioot above the soil, allowing them to stand bare aud unprotected. Thu A cumium grows freely on the prairies west and sontt, Its tlowers croivn with loose, drooping umbels, capies from 1t0 2 feo: high, and it leavea ara often a foot long. ‘The 4. Canadnse occura in tho same locality, but with leas frequency, Toe Faiso_Asphodel Toficldia glutinosa) I abundant at Pine Station aud south of Hyde Tark ; and the Indiau Cucumber-oot (Medeola Virginiea) is found at Gibson's, Both species are slendor herbs. with modest, unattractive flow- re. and oro of interest chiefly to the botanist. When tho summcr-sune bave grown hot, and kindied 1nto hucs of tlame the cheeks of the clierry, ond the berrr, and the currant, then the Wild Orange-Lily (Zilium Philadelplacum) litts uyp its glowiug cups, lilke buroing censers offer- ibg oblations to tho tiery Dav-(iod nblazo in the hedvens, Then, tco, the ‘Furk's-Cap Lily (L. Superbum) reveracs its brilliant bells, turning them down like empty chalices, but betraying, in the warm tints that tlush their wurface, the touch of the fervid sunshino. ‘Iheso are the lnst of tho family of Lilies that have their home round abond Chicago,—tha whole ocomprisiug ouly twenty species out of tho mixty-five de- #eribed In Gray's Flora. ‘The order of Lilywoits ia large, embracing somewhers near 1,500 different apccics, tho greater port of which aro natives of temperata climatos. It fncludes many of the most bezu- tiful exotics in our gardens and green-houses. The gaudy 'Lulips which decorate our bordors in spring time, tho stately Crown Imperial, the various-hued Day-Lities, the sweet Lily of the Valley, tho Aloew, the Tubeross. tho Hyacinth, the Yunces, and tho Star of Dethlehem, aro all mombers of the lovaly tribe. And go, too, are tune Asparagus, the Oblon, the Garlie, the Clive. and the Bhallot; the T4 plaut, which forms tho main artielo of diet of the Sandwich-lslauders, and the great Dragou-Tree, which 1 tho gisnt of tha order, aud is named among tho Inrzest of the forest-treea that tower above thar brothers, Atnong tho useful members of the family is the Zhormium tenar, or Flax-Lily, of New Zealand, & perennial plant, with leavos like the Iris, fromn 2 to 6 feot long, and a tall, brauchivg panicla of brownizhi-yellow flowere, ‘The fibro of the leaves 14 fine, strong, and eiky, aud was manu- factured by the Now Zealanders into cloth and ropes beforo they ever loarned any arts from the white man. ‘Ite fibre bas since beon importod into Earope for making twino and ropes, but the plant itself ia too dalicato to thirive, cxcopt inthe southory portion of tho Continent. Iu its native conutry it is largely cultivated, In Liberin and Ramtschatka tho bulbs of cer- tamn epecios of tho Lily are grown for use tne anmo as potatoes; and, in Europe, tho yonng shioots of tho Polygonatun (Solomon‘s Seal) aro ontou as a substituto for asparague. Tho Tar- tarsarasnid to derive & partof their food fromtho bulbn of tho Dog's-Footh Viotot (Erythronium). ‘The basa of the tender muerleaves of the Graas- ‘Lreo (Hanthorrea) of Australia is eaten by the aborigines, and, when roasted, forms an agreea- bio dict. 'The plants of thia peculiar gounty have sbrubby stems, sometimes {4 feot high anda foot 1’ dinmoter, which termiuato in tutta of long, wiry foliago, from the centre of which rised a denso cylinarical spike of flowers. T'he Grass-Trees bavo a slow grawth, and it [s com- puted that one specics, tho [, hastilis, voquires centuries to reach tta full dimensions. Yrom the Lalyworls we derivo' the woll-known drug catled Aloox, which is the driod juico of various apecies of Alne growing in torrid coun- tricy. A species cultivatod at the Cape of Good Hope yiclds tuo Iargest quantity and tho best quality ; {M thio drugt 48 obtaivable from several iudividuals of the gonus that grow in the Bar- badoes. Bomo of the Aloes are highly orns- montal plants, Their leaves are thick and largo, ofton attalning tha leugth of 8 fest and ud are prolonged into & hard, claw-like point, one-half or three-fourths of an iuch in ength, Hedges mado of theso piants aro im- penotrablo to cattlo. A fibre 18 obtained from their long, tough leaves that is sorvicoablo for making ropes, tets, etc. 1n Jamaica it 18 woven into stockings. Many othor of the Lilyworts are used in medi- cino in differont parts of the world, as the order abouuds in an acrid or;uaussous ;principle. and, 10 some ypacios. in & violent polson, 'The fetid bulb of tho Crown Imporial secrotes dosdly juices, and even tho Loney distilled from its tlowers iy said to be ometio. The Squill mara- tima, 80 much omployed In pharmacy, grows wild i the soutueru countries of Furopes, aud ita bulbs not uncommouly atiain the size of & man's hosd, The Asphodel wlso contaius & bitter principle ; yet in Apulis, whore a spocies covora the plalus with ite foliage aud flowers, the shicop flud it excellent unzmg. sud tho swine are ravenously foud of the bulba, ‘I'hesweet-scented Tuberose {;o.unuu- the won- dorful power, of emitting sparks of tiro in sultry evenings, From the fading blossoms the wis- charge is most froquout, aud sometines theso dars out scintillatious of flawmo in great abuu- dsuco when the atmosphere ia laden with olec- tricity, It [a in theovening hoors that the Tube- rose extales most stiongly its dohicious fia- grunce, vhowing thiat Nature fs then mout st Iy at work iu tho mysterious laboratory secreted in the hoart of Lho Uower. VITALITY OF SEEDS, Amobg tho botanioal notes in ths Naluralist, there ate some interesting facts bearing upon the question of the vitality of seods. The authority for the data is P'rof. Ernst, of Caracas who rolates that, iu 1867, tho market ocoupyiug the Plazs Bolivar was removed by order of tho CGovernment, aud the ground devoted to the pur- poses of a park, ‘Lo carry out tho plan, 6 feet of tho goil was taken off, loaving a fresh surface exposed to tho alr Numbera of weods fmme- distely spraog from this uncovered lsyer of earib, among whick were ibuumerablo plants of tho Broterow trinwreala, 8 spovies growing only iu & Jocality south of she plazs, w‘innu §-wsa Jndged imposaible thst sesds could be borns to the apot whiera they had ro quickly germinated, ‘T Profenror holiaves that thia soeds of thesa planta hiad romained dormant for thirsy yoars undor the ald mirket, and that, on being sub- ected to mosture, warm'h, and stmosphere, oy rovesled their untmpaired vitality, Tho sccond casn in point fall ander the notlos of the eamo obacrver. Dnring & twelvo years' Atudy of the flora in the region round about Caracas, Prof. Erast had not once met with the Buepherd's Purse (Capsella lmrsa-pastoris). But, two yeara ago. a portion of tha garden of the monnstory waa geaded for the ezection of a new buildiog.” By 80 doing, s constdorahls dopth of roll was removed, and, in tho donse growth ©of woeds that very soon covered tho fresh muc- face. thero wora thousands of specimons of tho Btiopherd's Purss. Prof. Ernat concluden that ho soads of thase plants had remalned Iatent in the noll for an unknowa period. AN EQYPTIAN DISCOVERY. Bome Arabs digging smoog the ruins of the great Temple of Karoas, in January last, came tipon & sandatons cist butled In the debrin, Ine side of which wan the sculpturad figure of a fe- mala hippopotamun fn green baealt. The mona- ment, incindiog the slab, fa 3 feet high, and s admirably carvod and polished. A long i ip- tlon In bieroglypbics runy along the back, anothor In cut on the ulab in front of the figura. ‘The inseriptions contain the names of Psamme- tichun 1. and bis Queen and daughter, and also of & bithorto uoknown King, A BOA-CONSTRICTOR'S £GGS. A bon-constrictor at the Contral Park, New York, recently deposited twentr-ane sgge, sbout tho wize of bou's ogga. Boven of tho egys wore slerilo,—the oiliers haviog esch a young boa within. Oos chipped tha shell aa soon a8 it wan Iaid, but died immedistely. The remainder par- isbied Lo the egg. —— THE CENTENNIAL. ' Ta the Editor of The Chicago Teidune ; New Yonx, April 35,—In Philsdelphis, I no- ticrd the other day in one of their dailles s criticism on your Phiiadelphhia correspondant Lo tho effect that Lis viows of tho city and ita provisions for tho Ceotenniat were projudiced and exaggerated. Bo unfortunato was my own oxperience there, in my attsmptatofind anything barely docent, that it bas occurred to me to write to you a liue, simply to tell you that your correspondent could ecarceiy do juatice, If be tried, to the ulter miserableness of evorytuing. I bave, truo, my New England love of country, the ucutennial thoroughly at heart, =zud am only too earnest in my wish that {t should be a mucccas. But first, ono year iy not too long a time to got tho buildings and all their belongings in proper shajie ; the citv is disty beyoud belief ; the hotels are mean and wretch- * ed, aud the rastauranta are really noworthy an Arkanean village, Dadly-cooked food, greaso overioppiog everything, chipped, coarse dishes, soiled linen, and uacivil, neglectful, polsy waiters, mako up tho sum of all their restau- rants without exception. A small, new botol has bsou built. *“The West-End," and, with all itu pretenee, its restaurant only aurpasses the othera in_linen, crockery, cutlery, aud waiters, —ita food is quito a3 hud aa clwowhore, I take my meals here at the Bruoawick, and livo much more chearly than at the most inferior of the Philadelphin rosturants ; their * sddition and maultiplication " are poculiar ; while bers we havo but vno systemn, and 1t canuot bo swerved from. Philadelpliia prefors to make money out ol uer cuteipsiso. I found thera many of the nittle, petty awindies go commen in France. My room ot the Weat-End, for ivatance, was 22, and whea I paid my bill thoy ebarged mo 83 because WO Wero tno Persous. Tho Mercanuile Library, which ought to bs a verpotual benodiction, 13 simply revulsive tu enter. Men @it with their Lata on, walk heavily, tatk aloud af they wish 1o, shiove chairs over uncovered floors, and leave pools of tobacco bofore vvery paper. Agaiv aud again I ssied mypeif wiile 1n Philadelphia, 1s thore no oscape from this mortifying pomition 1 which we will he piaced befors our foreign guesta this gummer 2 Newspupers have every- thing in their power, and the Pinladeinbia pa- pers cither do not or will not see the poaition ot affairs, and attempt to remedy them, Tho Mor- cantilo Library reading-rooin alono 14 enough to braud ug ns wost coarse and brutal. Better bave a amell entrance fes to it, aud then muke it somewhiat an approach to the Kursaal and othier reading-rooms ou the Continent, It is very up-hill work attempting to better things at this eleventh honr, but ray editor whoe will be instramental in sendiug_ even one good restauratenr to Philsdelphta for the smwmor, witl lave exhibitod more real love of country than all the Philadelptyane combined. Renpecte tulty, ManTia, FROM HEINE'S * DREAM-PICTURES.” Tramstnied Srom the Germua 1 0 The Chicago Tribume by Thern wan n garden radiant clad, Whore wandered 1 i wpirit glad Thero flowers of boauty erceted me ; 1 roved and gazed in ecstasy, The nong-birds warbled from their thrcats A throng of wwest, melodious notes; While, ag with gold, the sun, enbound, Lent radiance to the Sowsrs srvund, A fragranco flosted o the #ky, The Lreozes wafted softly by, And all things shimmered in s laogh, ‘Aud bade zo of their joys to quatt, In centre of this flowery laud, Awpring, in marblo, cicar did stand; There wet a lovely maid my wight, Who waalied, ths while, a robs of white, "Thie Leauteoun matd, swift Lastenod sha, Aud hummed a tune enchantingly § # Flow thou on, O Littla spring,— Whiteness to this ratment bring,* 1 went and atood me near to her, 1 whispering stood her questioner : “0n ! telt me, wondroug-iovely mafd, For whom this robe of white displayed 1 “ Prepare 1" wha sid, in hurried bresth ; ** 1 wash for thee thy robe of death,” Aud this scarce spoken, whin from sight Bhe vanlshiod ss s ray of light. And quick, \:I ‘magic-spell, 1 stood Witbiu a wild and gloomy wood; “Che treea towered o'er twe fo 1 Amazed 1 stood, with louging aky,—~ 1 ut iark 1 what echio dull resonnda Like far-uff stroke of ax it sounds ; T hnstoned forth through thickel-weald, ‘And came upon an open feld, In centre of this green-laid plain, A glaut oak-tres ¥lood ammain Aud 1o ! Lehiold the wondrous maid Ve 0ak's truuk flayed with hatchet-blada, With stroke on stroke, uncesingly ‘Thie while she sang and flayed the tree: “ Iron of polished, glesmtng face, Fusbion quick tils vaken case," 1 went and stood me near to ber, 1 whisperiug stood her quostioner: #0h1 tell ruv, woudsous-lovely mald, For whora ils work of thine essayed 7* 4Ty time s short,” sha Lurried esid,— T make for thea when desd ;' And thia acsrco spoken, when from sight ho vanished aa & ray of light, Obacurs and far outapread beneath, Lay uauglit save wild aud naked beath Hewildered by tho aceus 1 saw, Alune I sbudderiug stood lu awe, 1 anward streyed, and soon percelved The gloon by streak of light relisved ; Aud thither sped I at s Lound, Aud Io} the beauteous mald I found, Upon the heath there staod the matd, Aud thrust within the ground s spade; Ay sight quick 1o and from her fied, Bo lovely, yet & horror dread, a1d, awift Laatened ehe, \ue enchautingly : 0 Utile spade, 80 keen and wide, Soth broad and deep this earths Qivide." 1 went and stood me near (o ber, . I whispriuy etood ber iuestiouer : $Thou wondrous Lur and lovely matd, Whiat weans this opening bere dlaplayed 3 * D atlll 1 she sald In Lurried broath,— 44 grava 1 fasbion for thy death" ‘And, &8 sha thus to me rephed, abe opened deup aud wide ; Axd, ss 1 gazed wittun, thore came A cliflling hudder through my frame, Aud in the deep sepulchral gloom 1 plunged, sud wi ed in my room. The Purification of Ymoke, . An spparatus for washing emoke, aud se depriviug It of its character s a uuisance, is in operation at a factory at Menilmoutans, Paria. A tive sbower of wator, traveling in tho direce tion of the wmoke, and at live times its valoaity, 18 projected intu thoe chimuvey, where it mixes with the smoke, taking up the soluble gasos and precipitativg the impurities carned up witlt the wmoke by the draughi. The foul witer is discharged juto e cistern, where it is colisoied, and a fine biack patat is got from ik