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'I'tiis CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, ~ JULY 22, 1870—TWELVE PAGES, " LITERATURE. “Eternal” Punishment Endless 7--=A Living Faith. Is Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia «-Sormons to Work- ingmen. Gen, Putnam and the Battle of Bunker 1Iill---Prac- tical Botany. Gortschakoff and Bismarcks-« Physical Manipulatione-- . A Couple of Stories. ABeasonable Topio: The Toe-Trade —-How Ponama Hats Are * Made, » Flora Round About Chlcngn:--Tho Caper and Rock-Rose . Tamilies. Flowers Fertilized by But- terflies--~A California Fungus, Th.e Ant and the Acacia===Treo= Planting=+-A New Crab=s» Tall Tortoises. LITERATURE. RELIGIOUS NOTES. 1S ‘*ETRRNALY PUNISHMENT RNDLESS? ANBWERED NY A RENTATENENT OF THE ORIGINAL Benterunar, Docriixe. By an Orthodox Minis= fer of tho Goapel. J2mo., Irlh. 100, Doston: Lockwood, Brooka & Co. Chicago: Jansen, Mc- Clurg & Co, Price, $1, A _LIVING FAITH, By Gronox S. Mennraxw, 12mo., pp. 282, Boston: Luckwood, Brooks & gi:.mcurugo: Jansen, McClurg & Co. Frico, Tn the title of the essay, * Is Eternal Punish- ment Endless 1" the author appeara to have cn~ tered upon the solution of an absurd propoai- tlon,—the terms eternal and endless Uclng nsually accepted as {dentical. The seeming paradox Is cleared nway when we learn that, in Berlptural Janguege, the phrase ‘“cternal pun- ishment ¥ cxcludes the idea of duration, and means simply the punishment which talkes plazo in eternity, Tho fnquiry into the continuance of future punishment {s limited to an examination of tho original language of the Bible. in texts which speak on tho subject, and i3, within theso lim- Its, searchlog nud scholarly. To judga to ulcety of the learning and aceuracy with which 1t {s conducted, o knowledge of the Greek Is necessary; but the conclusion which 13 reached Is easily understood by every English-speaking pereon. In this, the author declares that the fact of n future punishment Is.diatinetly proved from Scripture, hut the extent of fts duratlon i3 Ieft In uncertainty. To use hls own words: 11 there be any hope for any, it has Lbeen cone ceuled, to cheek presumptusus sinners by the fear of falling unawares into Irvetricvable ruln. It must be admitied that, on the most hopgsul viw that ean bs wentured, tho -darkness resting on tho wmonlan future of him who gocs out of this world of grace sn unbelleving Gospel-hearcr, an Iinponiteut shuner, alienated from Lis God, Is sufllcleutly dense and appalling to rousc the Tving to work: out their salvation ‘with fear and trembling,'— {earlng, ns Chrlst hno bidden, Ifin *who ia able to destroy both soul aud body In hell,? ¥ The papers gathered together ugder the gen- eral head of '* A Liviog Faith " Liave been pub- lished, In the course of the past five years, in the Christian Unfon. They comprise short dis- courses upon religious toples adapled to the hour, and treated- In s dovout, gentle, and lb- cral spirit, The writor recognlzes the truth that many of the tencis which have formed an Imposiug part of Christlan erceds can no longer command tho faith of thoughtful minds, but must givo way to bronder and lcss rigid, though not tess pure and exalted, opinions. The key- note of hls doctrino is struck in the acknowle cdement that— 5 Ifo wha traly rocelven tho Divine Splrtt s quick- ened by it Into lovo and sorvice townrd all man- kind, “Itis misleading to !nr that ealvation lsa matter wholly lietwween tha eoal und Ity God. Thers i3 10 completo salvation in whlch tho o) simply cecapes from suffering, That s no satisfactory honur to Gud which onds lun{mmmnl tribute to Him, ItisMls creaturen that Ie would have us scrvo. All adoration of Him ia to find 1ts comples tion and counterpart in helphg our brethren, aud - all true sorvice of men ls service dono to God. ‘o grect av brothers, therofore, ull who in any way aro tolling for thezoodof mankind, Werccoye nlzn as Lolong o theChelatlan aplieri ovorythitig which makes for humua health and happiness, ‘Tlic cara of men's bodic s Chrixtiun, The guod phy- sician f2 carrylug on Christ's work, Socfsl seformn, practicol Dencvolence of every Lind, lus manlty to the brutes ovun, {8 sorvice 16 God,' To rronwlu goud gavernment i re)lfiluun eoryles, ‘olitical reform”in na trulya Lull ing-up of thu Kingdom of Heuven'as missionary labor among tho beathen, Al promotion of knowledge fs Chrise tlan. Whaover is extendlng In- any alrection vur Kuowledge of 1ho plywical wotld, e of hirtory of the rae, or of tho renlin of abstract thought, 13- thereby 'ml"‘f men nnd dufng Chrls- tian work, ~Whuever, in o humblost wphers of 1ifo, I8 careying other poople's burdena; whosvor briuge minllca h'x tu‘rjnvur{x ln‘nu; ‘I'Illmlumlr 20 wuch ss mves s cup of cold water to a Tittle chlld, fu 50 far dofng Lhrbis's work: Hitkla A strain 80 brond, andencouraging, and sweet as this, will awake o responec in uvcr)' breast, ond help to renew “a llviug faith ™ g ghg blesscdness of unsclfish deeds, . — JOIINSON’S CYCLOPED: JOHNSON'S NEW UNIVERSAL OYCLOPEDIA: A BoIENTIFIO AND POLULAL TREASURY 0F Usge ruL KNoweepun, Tllusteatod with Maps, Plans, and Engravings, I, A. Banx.uw, Prostdent of Culumbla_College, New York, snd Anxony Guror, Professur of - (eology and Physlcal Qeography, Collego of New Joracy, Edltors-in. Chlef. "Jn. Four Volumes. Vol." JI, 8vo., pp. 1,76 thup\: C. U, Q. Palne, Agent, P.-u, Tho favor with which the first voluma of this great work waa recelved is sigually Increased by ancxamination of tho present numbier, which fuore than realizes the original promiso of the editors. The plan of the, Cyclopedis, asde- scrihed in o previous notice, remaing unchanged; but its scope has been materinlly enlarged, The approval accorded to the Initinl fnstallment by the most competent Judges, and the accumula- Hon of unexpeeted material through tho con- tributlona of ablo acholars and wrlters,havo'war- ranted such an amplification of the primary schennie as to admit of several hundred system- alic easuys fn the present volume fu cxcess of those published in tho first. While the departments treating of our own and of forclen Geogrephy, of Blography, of Law, Patuology, Medlciue, Physlcs, Chemistry, aod Natural History, continue unusually accu- ate and complete, the sections deallng with Ancrlcan toples still recelve the cnfef attontion, Intlo cutire serfes of articles, long and short, tle information provided is of the lateat date, aad fu isrmony with the beat authorities, tie second Volume ncludes the toples rang- ing between the letter ¥ and tho torn Locheus, Aong the most extendod snd valuablo papers einbraced in the list we may cnumersts thoso upou Frauce, Great Britun, istology, Hy- !I’ Gne{ Hydrostatlcs, Heraldry, Hefl-Gate, puofs, Tudla, — fudis-Ranber, * Intornational Wi Insanity, Language, Litcrature, ete., ete Wiero there are scores of dearnod anil conpre- enalve casuys, crowded with statistlcs, pre. ented (n tho ost compact foruy, 16 {s hard to @ako a chalce for especlsl mentlow!, " Yolding & compurlson with other works of kind competlng for pubile notls, wo com- :wud this to " the cnc!u} scrutiny of our read- .;t In sclecting a work of the bulk and cost 8 Lyclopedls, & s wlso to luvestigata tho merita of cach one bdding for a purcheeer, Thts now before un will hear n eron-ezamination. SERMONS T0 \Vl)-HKINOM'I-ZN G PEOPLI AND THEIR EMPLOYERS, GLADNEN. 12mo., pp. 241, Toston: Lockwood, Brooks & (g, danaen, MeClure &Co. Price, .\l.gr», The author of this volume offers the wise cx- nmple of a minlster of the Gospel . standing np Inhts pulpit on Sunday and preaching to his people of the thinga which coneern thelr present e, Dondticss, ns cirenmatatices require, fie apeakis to them on purcly splritual themes; but, In the dlsconraca uow hefore us, o deals exclu- alvely with workday, sl what nre called world 1y, aflales, But there should bo no worldly affalrs, according to the common Interpretn- ton of this word; amil all our preaclicrs should trive, as this onc is dolg, to fead their hearers to rut us much devout honesty nnd reverenee into thelr business an they do Into thele prayers, to make thele \m‘l: an actual worship, and to conslder *worldly " affnits ns religions a8 any of those which directly concertt’ tho ‘(:I:'urr hy its Founder, Ifts Word, and the soul's uture, Mr, Glndden has evidently lved In the world and mingled with jts workers, and gabied o ractical Insfght. futo thelr experlence, and come o underataud thefr needs and what will con- duco to thelr highest intercsts, Hoenforcestho wlseat maxims” of political ceonamy with the vigor and sagacity of one wio has ti horoughly atudied the subjeet from alt points of view, ‘There fa neither sentlment nor eint it his doc- trine, but nn nhundance of cominon-sense and good Judgment. 1lis-scrmons nre addressed espeelally to the workingmen, and age_conched® n plain” and {mprossive Inigunge.” They did oud at the timé of thelr delivery, and they will continuoe to o good wherever Uiy ure reud by the cluss for whom they are Intended. = GEN, PUTNAM, LIFE OF ISRAEL PUTNAM (4*OLD PUT '), MA- JOR-OENERAL IN “AUE CONTINENTAIL ARMY. By Iy AE N, Tanusox, With Map and llustrations. 8vo., pp. 389, Doston: Lock- wood, lirooks & Co, Clucago: Junsen, McClurg & Co. Price, $2.50. An cffort hns been made, during tho last quarter of a century, to withdmw from Gen. Putnam the honor previously attached to his fame, of having commanded the American forces at the Buttlo of Bunker Hill, and ta hes atow {t upon an associate oflicer, Col. Prescott, ‘The attempt hos exclted o good deal of enrncst controversy, and oceastoned the reproduction of arespectableamount of blstorlcal literature, The present blography of the Revolutionary hero, threatencd with tha loss of one of the greencat leaves among s Iaurcls, fs onc of the most fm- portant results of tho prolific contest, It ndda 1o new ftems Lo the seanty materials composing Chitengo: tho existing mcinolrs” of Gen, Putuam, sayo In referonce to the great puint in disputo; nand here it 18 exceeds ingly yich In frezh testimony dexterously monlp- ulated. Tlhe author has prosecuted diligent ro- scarches nmong old papers and _documcenta re- lating to the Dml{ period of the Revolution, aud unearthed many fncidents which would scom to fix buyond réasonabla fuestion the fact that Gen. Putnam was the ofilcer {n commaud during the ungugcmcm of June 17, 1775, To tho multitinde:lt witl appear o mgtter of small ftnportanes who led the raw, undisciplined troops that fought bravely, but ineffectunlly, to sustnln, aainst the nnsnull of the British, thelr position ot the lielghts opposite Boston; but, Tor tho sanctity of history, and for the purposcs of truth und justice, it is of conscaucnte to sus- taln, at tho expense of much trouble, the lone st claim or eyery worthy who bore a part in the atrugele for Auserfean Indepondence. 'The so- briguet of “Old Put " kas come down to us ks s synonym for the herole quatitics of energy and courage; and It fa u duty owing fo tha stanch, unsclilsh Patriot that his repute suffers no un- Jwwiul derogation, — < BOTANY. b PRACTICAL BOTANY, STRUCTURAL _AND BYSTLEMATIC: Nne Latver Pontion DEiNa AN ANALYTIOAL KEY 70 118 WiLh Frowsmisg . Pusrts, ‘Tnesa,” Sinure, Onvixaur lpurs, Ernans, AND Giassne oF THE Nonrm N AwpLe STATES East or T Avavst Kouunen, M, D, ¥ in the Collese of Thay Y Unpfuun\y lustea New York? Henry Tolt & Co. MeClury & Co. T'rice, 4. ‘The avowed object of this worlk {s to provide the heginner with facflities tor ncquiring a rapld practieal kuowledgo of Botuny; but o Dbrief ex- amination of 1ty schieme does not Msclose any advantages superlor, or ¢ven equal, to thoac of- fered by the manuals already in use. The por- tlon devoted to Structural Botauy fs bighly con- devsed; bpt this adds nothing to the cenaso ol aequisitlony—on the contrary, it cohances the difficulty and dryness of the subject, by the suppreesion of all explavatory and.intefesting detalls, The keys provided for distinguisking the furms of leaves are Ingenfous and nscful. The anafytleal koy, whichls the ol featuro of tho bouk, I8 zoad aa far s it goes; but, In most cases, i ciables one to refer u flower merely to its genus. No student worthy of tha natiie would be sutlsfied to stop hore. ° A plant {s not ¢lassifled until its specics fs determined; and o key which docs not settlo the matier Is wofully incomplote, Another (ybfculhm to this method of analyals s the vazue fdea It gives tho learner of ihe al liauces of plants, 0 supplement the defleien- cles of Iis system, the author refers the pupil to the text-books of Wood or Gray; but, when these ure In hand, the work of Df, Kochler Is superfluous, It 16 in 1o respeet ensier to thas- ter than tho others, snd It omits much fm- portant matter which they contain, g STORIES. PETER AND POLLY3 on, lioxn Lirm v New LnanAxn a Hunuizo Yeans Aao, By Maniax Dovanas. 18mo.,pp.208, Boston: James X, Ode Rood & Co. THE DWELLERS IN FIVE.SISTENS COURT, By I, E, Scupnen. Lhno., pp. 282, Now Yorle: Hurd & Ifoughton, . In the multitudo of books put forth {u this Centountnl year to revive fn mature minds the history of our country wrought out a hundred years ago, 1t 1s well that there should oceasfon- ally oceur a volumne pleturing the scenes of that long-past period for the editication of youthful readers, The story Ly Miss Douglos haa not much body, but {ts outlines can be ensily filled out by the imaginution of bright young Amerl- cans, wiul thus be made to nesume n satlafactory eemblance of reality, The priuctpal valuw of the bovk consists fu Its hints of the domestle lifo of the American Colonists, and of the hardships of the Yatrlots duriny their severo struggle for Inde- }]m{xldcnw. It will not bear much eriticlsin asa etion. There are some paees in the latter part of Mr. Seudder's tale of % tTie Dwellers In ive-Sisters Court ! which; discusslng with enltivated in- telligenea inusle, poetry, und Kindred motters in the domuln of esthetles, awaken o gentlo futer- cst, But they are not able to redecin from dull- neas the remuinder of the nur‘r. n which dimby- defined and commonplaco chargeters employ themselves In quite bald and Inslgntficant pur suits, GORTSCIAKOFE AND BISMARCK, THE TWO CHANCELLORS: PRINCE GORT. SCHAROFF AND PRINCE BISMARCK. Ly JULIAN Kraczgo, ‘Fransloted from the Rerue des Deux JMondes by $a2, Frang . 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The lit- erature of the hour should relate wholly to Arctie climates, and to the conditlons of naturo and of human lfe in reglous whero the relgn of frost s cternal; whero the cye over rests on bicak plains and hills enwrapped fu a changelesa, finmaculate vest: whero the only song by oneof the feathered chofr fa comprised {n tho few sweot uotes of the snow-bunting, that acension- aliy interrupt and entranco the brooding spirit of stience; where the only forms of vegetation visible aro rcduced to lichens and mosses, scanty grasscs, stunted shrubs, and n few pallld, starving blossoms, the offspring of the hardiest species of the phenogams; Where animated nature s represcated solely by the relndeer, the white bear, the Avetle fox, the small fleld-mouse, the screaming sen-fowl on the consts, the denlzens of the great deep, and the llmited specos of [uscets that fud the lowest temperature cougenlad; and whero man enyelops Timself in n shaggy Kgreat-cont In the middtunmer'Woontide, aud refofces In o ther mometer Whose nercury never sours aboye 78 degs, Fahrenheit. Ty u atcad ast constderation ot 1o alluring theines, as thoy are portrayed by adventurous travelers, and us they moy be reproduced with eudicasly-delightful * varlutions by u ,vivid fancy, one may, in our’ latitude, fn duly ond Avgust, cool tho hented brain, and revive the lsnguld pulscs, wud nerv the ph{ilml aud mental faculties to u tolerable perlormance of life's dally dutles. But a glass of strung lemonnde, thick with bits of thikling fce, nud equipped with & straw lhrnugl‘\;w hich l? slp the Frntc!ul beverage in long, eloW draughts splunlng out protracted by tho pleasure of imbibition, fa a valuable apant to assist the imagination in its dreams of frigid zones and congeullng sensations, But who ‘irst “concelved the {dea of a trade in {ce, thereby sccuring to tho world a priceless luxury in the hottest portion of the year, whilg he jralned for himsclt, as wo hope, a princely fortunci Next to the man “who In- veuted sleep,’ wo_Invoko blossings on the shirowd, benillcent Yankes who csfablished a conumerco fu this cssentlal commodity, Anclent uatlons and savsge peoples, situated In the nolghborhood of lofty mountalns, have heen Wise enough fn remote thucs of the past, to cool thslnn!'ymer drinks with snows brought down from tht heights'by swift and sturdy bearers. In the Orlent, the practice was COMMOueprob- ably long before the Iwraclites took possos- slon of the Promised Land; and Bolomon, in Ns collection of Proverbs, ulludes to tho cus- tum in the expressive shintlo: * As the cold of suow in tho tine of hurvest, so {s s faithful uessenger to them that send himj for ho re- freshieth tho soul of his mnsters.” ® The Greeks and Romaus, who 1a'd all acces- sibls domintons Xinder contrlbution for luxurics to load their tables, wero not wanting {n an ar- ticle which was u‘munl # necessity to render thelr boverages palatablo In warni weather. From soeveral of thelr writers wu learn the methods by which Lhey preserved fee and snow collocted In’ wiuter or [n summer from the up- msr altitudes, where ‘thuy havo oxisted fn un- minished gusutitics, from age to age, through all the bistoric centurles, They even mantfuc- turcd Ico by sluiple processes from water that s Pea Famtly, Tt need not be laid to the tyro in Botany that the Tomato fs a tember of an order very remote from the Leguminosere. —— haid been®proviously bofled, Neto buflt, largy storchouses for lce amd snow, which yet were unahle to comain an amomt adequate to t demand of the dtizens of Home. The Itallan to tio prosent day, collect n tho caves of {1 TLOWER AND BUTTERFLY. Apnm(xim the show nihlfilnlnlm'xicmlu n \\'l'nlcr, All fluers hitherto knawn, whith depend up- and iu the summer vend 11 the snow-shops, % ; hiulsid 7 which aro kept open night. and day, Ty | 90 ieccts for fertilization, effect this abject by nlao obtaln bocks of feo from the r some arrangement of thelr platils and stamens cesaes of - Mount. Etna, sometimes ex | wherehy the pollen Is carried from oue to cavating farce bodlea from beeath beds | anotlier in the head, boddy, or leza of the winged of Iava which havb pottred over withont melting them, The andtent races of Mexteo and Pern were in the habit of supplying themacives with &now from the voleanie praks round about, that 11ft their majestle hicads e abave the e of pefl:chml frost, Vvisitor; but wo learn from Nature that Fritz Muller, the distingutshed German hotaniet, lias recently discovered'in Itajuliy, Braztl, n plant whose floral organs are so contrived as to sceure cross-fertllization by the fultering wings of a he 1Tindoos living on the plains near Hoog- buttertly, The plant 16 a specles of Jedyehinm, 0 1y, a few miles norths' of Caleutto, produce artii- ¥ joacl ooty red, | fgcond pair of tortolses of the same speclen, clntfee by means of unummtl.‘n{: A sttt | 0L the order Piperacer, besting bright-reds | Testud' elephantopus, awd brought from the scentless flowers, ‘The corollns ™ are tubular hale o eihe pround ks fliled with Cdee | Ul T Shorie and, when Tylibiown canc-atalk, swhich aro - non-onductors of | 0 lfiulzflnlnlly i the form of o wheel, with heaty gl wpon these e | placed ©pans | g stanens aid pistile protruding like spokes. ot tnglazed earthen, which at nhehit are fiiled Wwith cool botled water, Ifthe sky s clear, by eunrise the pann are covered with thin sheetd ol fee, These are varefully gathered, and stored for lmussmrmuun to Caleuitin, where it Is taken by night In baskets lined with straw mats. In France, i the scventeenth century, the practice of colleeting snow and fee I winter for The boney in the tubes cat be dealne el by only o single specles of but- terfly © inhabiting Tiajaby, = the Callidryas L’hilea, nud the malea alone have a probosc’s Jong enough for the purpose. When nlh:hllni: on theflower to el the honey from the mouth of the vorolla, the winize of theinseet necesearlly hit the fiat, outstretehed stam: As If tose- that the party wonld reach Bei ter part of June, the River Ob, The which had for its spectal of the mouth of the Ob, left Moscow May 11, The two parties will mect on the river, and ro- turn together to Germany fn the autumn. frme Jocafity heen deposited TALL TOBTOISES. Tha two Giant Tortalzas brought homa by the shilp Challenger from the Galapagos Archipel- 2g0 are now In the Zoologlcal Gardens, London, One of them I8 100 years old, and the other 40, It 1s atated that the larger one will walk off with | two men standing on Its beck, and not cxhibit {heleast Inconvenlence fram thelr welght. A ing tho Oardens, form a uniqu aut Tartofacs. BRIEF NOTES, The first Doctorship fn Medicine accord &d to Awotnan by the Academy of Zurich has been granted to Miss Francisca Tlburtias, a 1ady of tnard fn the tat. and from there proceed down sceond German expedition, ohject_the exploration Albermarle Island, bave also fn the Gardens by the com. maader of {he ship Petrel. These, with the Al larger n{mulmunn of Testudo Indica previ- ottaly tnninbf scrics of living ——e —_————— NASBY, Ho and Isaker Gavitt Ga to Indiana - on a Political Mission, The Mistakes tlnt They Made, and thy Dire Rosult. Taledo Rlade, Cearronit X Roans, Wick 18 1w TAR STATHY Uv Rextucky, Jooly 15th, 1870.—Man fa uy but ffq days and full uy trouble, 1 can't understand )‘Aly lfe should be slch n conundrum; Ten's anderstand why things shioodent ga on with o more perfect Joomenls and an casfer goit. In short, why shdudent everyhady, cxcept the. black Republikins, hey preelsely wat they want without all this trouble and perplexity to git 168 Feelin ft to be my dooty to do suthin in tho Interest uv “CTilden and H eform,” 1 concloods od ta spend 8 porshen uy the money Ling John Morrinscy left with me, to Inflovence voters in o lower county in ln}mnv; anel, o da {2 effectoo alty, 1 mndo perfect preparathien Leforehand o Mpeln eamner woa” quita regularly pursied. | cure e diesdon of the. it to the | B and miadle alch arrangements oz wood result In l‘llfi(m;u.lu adopted !(:lr Lh(-h"qr(:ficrvulm]n‘lwn:}l:;b winge, the anterlor nur!n!-e of the stamecHs ..J’).enu. 2 n_mrerd:ummlru ien 1y the sooperiority uy puck them in ||llla.\_\l| ch \r.u-«.’ Aurrouw o "l‘ll ! | dissolvesinto n viscons aubstance, whiell glues The bonor of Ruighthood has been onferred itden and Reform " over Hayesand Wiiedlor, gtruw, ond othey Apteanducting materialy, minine cffectially to lhiuh]el't vith Which | by Queen Vietorts upon Prof. C. Wyvilie HP‘%{,"E(”N" the peckin, Tintendid It to be N England eatland, the weal are brought i contael. “After viaiting Thombsau, the Director of the Clvilian, Staff oy | STective. have, for two or three centurles, provide ed themselves with an anomal supply of fee, which was stored on thelr estates, In Spaln, Portugal, and vther countries in South- ern Enrope, the inhabitauts have secured snow from the .ountalns in sparing quantitios, Tnour own countey, ruda fee-houzes” were constructed for the sturlng of | arly two centurles ngo; but,.aa late us 1620, fee was n_scarce articlo In even the lnrgest cities of the North, In 1825, it Wwits by o means a eommon commodity In the City "of = New York,—its use Leng re trfeted chiefly to butchers, flshmongers, nnd . confectloners, The refrizertor fn - the atore-rooim and the lee-piteher on the sldeboard were ot yet estubilished Institutions, even In the moat “luxurious homes, At present the metropolls of Amerlea gonsumes from 1,000,000 10 1,600,000 Lona of fes” anntally, which 1s pro- vided by seven or efght companivs, employing capltnl of £8,000.000, more than $,0X tien, ik more than - 4,000 horses. ‘Fhe caplital invested in the teatlle theoughout the United 8tates s es- Limuted ot $30,000,000. ‘The lest attes Mr. Frederlek I With n cargo of 1 cluster of flowers, the butterly futlers to another, where It leaves some portion of its burtten of polien, and takies up more,—thus performing an essentlal serviee o the plant which ptfords §t. subsistence. Unless thue for- tllzed, the flowera of the Hadyelinn nre sterile, —the pollen droppling Srom the stamen wpon plstil of the same corolla, taking no cflect, The colors of the Colludryar ure yellow, oramge, aearlet, and red; wnd M, Mutler considers thiut the frequent oveurrence of orange-colored flowers In unjnhf- are nn mleption to this genus of butterfiies, which are very abundent fa the reglon. —— A CALIFORNIA FUNGUS, Tt the sumumer of 1675 the oltve and orange trees in Southern Californin suffered great dam- nge from the attack of g fungus whichappeared on the leaves and brauches, The ollve-trees uf- Tected by the pest ylelded no fruit, and the ces only an inferlor crop, Irof. W. G, Furlow, of Harvard University, has had spect- mens of the fungus under exumination, and ro- ports n the Journal of Sclence and Artx, that it was mamlde hy ory , who salled 30 tons to the Ixland of Mar- thnique, In 1805, 1o persevered o the enters | g Identienl with the £ Naltcing, which has e, bty for the first, ten years, with Himited | 15,1900 o o ama, B v Th 1815, e cbtaimel the monopoly of | hEeh Kiows In Burope sluco 1820, It I not ilmited to the orange and ollve, but §s found on the willow, oak, biveh, hawthorn, qume, pear, amul other trees. In thc examples which Prof, Farlow hus studled, the leaves unil twlgs sus- taining the fungus were covered with o gumniny ubstance, supposed 1o be Induced by inscets, As fungl of the group to which the Fimago be- Iongs are inelined to nttack trees that have pre viously been infested with inseets, the 1'rol sar conchiules that, inthe present instance, th discase In the result of the depredations of cer- tali Jnseets which have themscives deposited the gum, or have, by wounds, caused Its vxuda- tlon from the trees; The fungus bas aggra- the trouble; but ito real oriin 13 to be looked for *further hack than the fungus ft- self—to the fuseet, or whatever It may be, which hns made theluxuriant growth of the fin- £us possible. As aremedy, nlkaline soaps are -recommended fn the case of the oranges; but, for the olives, less henefit In to be cxpeeted from this treatment, on account of the stellate hulrs borne upon the leaves and twige. In the courso of his Investivations, Prof, Furlow lus ar- rived at the conclusion, that the fungus de- serfhed l:{ Berkeley and brsmmcrm under the name of Capnodium Citrl, and that deseribed by Montague under the numeof Anteanaria ehroplila, ‘are but two states of the Mumagy salicina of Tulasne. et TIHE ANT AND THE ACACIA, . At n mecting of the Linnxzan Boclety, Lutidon, June_1, Mr. Francls Darwlu, son of Clarles Darwln, read o paper recounting his researches concerning the glandular bodies on dcacla aploerocephala und Cecropla pdtata, which serve s food forunts, Inthe Acacie, the glands are of two kinds,—one situated at the base of the Ienves and seeretivy honey, and_the olber tip- Elanlx or seven of the lowest Jeaflets of the iplunate leaves, In chu[rlu, the glands aro eyifdrical, and develop fnto flat cnsnjons ut the bases of the leaves, ~ Mr, Darwln found that tho grlands wevo humulnfgous u structure; and infers that they are related to the terration- glands of Relnke, and, In_ certain cases, are con- verted into stores of nourlshment for the tribo of ants which make thelr home In the tree, Mr. Belt, fn liis * Nutupalist {n Nicaragua," the trade with Havang, tog r with valuable Ivilegzes from the Cuban ermnent. In 1817, e sent varzoes to Suvannal; the followlng year, to Charleston; and in 1820, to New Orieans. And stil] his returns were rmall, owing to fro- quent disasters, smong which the losses In his cargoes In- consequence of long voyages wers the most fuportant. Ilis entlie” snlpments amaunted 1833 to 4,853 tons only, - In Muy, 1583, Mr. Tiudor shipped’ a cargo of 180 tons of jee to the Enst Indics, The pussnge occupled months, during which 64 fons of fee melted away, und‘.’omoruwcw wosted fn the {?m'uey uy‘» the Ganges, When dellvercd at aleutia, the remainder of the carzo was rapldly soid at & remuncrative price, and yet at half the cost of fce manufuctured by the intives, Up to 1838, Mr, Tudor conducted the entire forelzn commieree Indce; hut, wince that fime, othier traders hava embarked I the business, and other ports have discharged cargoes bDowmd for distaut shor Boston still malntalnn o su- premney in the traflle, shipping (u 1874 above 30,000 tons, In sending eargoes to Caleutta, it i8 now ealeulated that “onc-half witl be lost hy the way., I'or the storuge of ice in warth countrics, it Is necessary to ennstruct houges of imtmense capacily, Ong wus bullt fn Culeutta In 1815 which cavered over three-quarters of an acre, and would contaln 30,000 tons of ice, Its I.rlglu Dirlekewalls were 198 feet by 178 fect Jongs, and thelr helght wus 40 feel. The exports to Eysland Jong nzo amounted to 1,000 tons per nuntim, and they are constant- 1y Incrensing, ulthough Norway has been o com- I:cllwr in the trade since 182, and Cannda has atcly entered juto the teafie. The entire ship- menta of {ee from Northern eities amounted ln 14970 to above 500,000 tons, and 1n 1875 to uot luss than 900,000 tons, ‘The greater part of this guuumy s taken hy the cities on our own outhern shores. Thic exports Lo forelgn coun- tries hud In 18780 deelared value of 313,018, and o real valie of prabably three or four tlines that sum. A lurge part of the demand in the Houthern States, in South Ameriea, the West Indles, and the conntrles of Southern Burope, 18 now supplicd by artificial fee, TPANAMA ITATS, The light, handsome, durable hat eommonty known as the ! Panama'® {8 mads of the young | descrlbes e catloge selation thay exlale hos i;mlc‘.lo(l e :}u“ ph’ll?l cflllcrluby Belenze the srows du Central Americs, whero that ene arliedovien palata. The treo ls an inhabltant | emy o vegetation, the leaf-cutting ant, abopnds, sof the Andeg, where it attalns n helght of only ! This fusect employs the leaves of trees fdr the 7 feet, while the full-growu leaves are 10 feet or | roofiug of its ncsts, and makes so heary s de- wore inlength, These spring dircetly from the mand for the mnterialas todefollate and destroy grouud, on slender, threvcoriiered petloles or | BIeAt, numbers of forest and cultlvated shrubis aotalks, which meusure about 8 feet,and the und trees. By providiug food fn its honcy- fan-shuped blndes are about 2 feet long, Each secreting plands for a harmless species of ant,— the Peeudomyrima Uicoler,—ihe Acucln secures Jeat 18 four-parted, and cach part s ten-cleft; so that, when folded, as In veruntion, the resldence of large colonies amoung fus the lJeal comprises elghty separate layers. Dbranches, which set as a police to protect it froin the depredations of the leaf-cutting ant, It is the young, unexpanded leaves that are used fu tho monufucture of, hats, The Psrwdomyring swarni over the twigs and branches of "the Acacia, aud, bumfi natural . and sixteen ure ordinarily reguired, though, for the finest fabries, twenty-four are necessury, antagonists of the leaf-cutting unts, kecp them When the legves are cut, they are splt, with an effectually at bay, —— Instrument t*lh:d a pleadera, Into strips of the requisits wldth, and are then bolled to toughen TREE-PLANTING. the fibre. After this, they are hung up to dry Musgachusetts lus (nsugurated a movement for the encouragement of treeplanting, which and bleach in tholsus, During thislast process, the strips roll at the sides intovord-like strands, should stimulute similar cfforts In all other and are then ready for weaving, The strands States In the Unlqn. A few months ngo, Prof. are from one-fourth to one-fortleth of un fuch tn £ 2 Smay Dirssioput uhs lotuals Garde ¢ 0 unetot etic of anduc Arnold Arborctum, of Harvard University, dianeter, and tho longest meusure 273¢ Mches, | 204 s o y A common hut may e waven it Iou?finya; but | publishied, In tho Report for 1875 of the Massa- one of the finest toxture cannot be comploted in chusctts Board of Agriculture, a paper ndvocnt- less than as many monthe, The best hats cost in ing the culture of forest-trees on paor and worn- the market from 830 to 8100. Buperlor apech i ! out lands in the State, The Massachusetts tiens ore sometimes sold for §150, and ucen- Boclety for Pramoting Agricuiture has now re- sloually one {8 £0 finc as Lo command the high y printed the paper, eularged by directlons for the price of §500. They are manufactured n Eeua- plantlog aud management ‘of seedling-trees, dor, Now Granada, aud i the villiges ou the | und present it to the pubile gratuttously, Tho pper Aninzons. Th first were cxported by | Roclcty also offers the fullowiog lst of priz way of tho “Great River in 1850 and: ten’| Das iy d ¥ it One thousaud dollurs for the best plantation years ngo, 100,000 hats weut down mmunliy to | of & acres st with larch, or Scoteh, vy rsi- Para; but fashion decrocd that the “ Panaiha® ean plne, not less than 9,700 trecs to shiould ot continue in high favor, and the ex- | the nere; $000 for the sccond-bast plantation of port las dwindled down one-half, while the the same; $100 for the third-best; “8800 for tho Pprice lins dropped from $10 per dozen to $15, hest Plammlun of i neres set with white ash, SPARKS OF SCIENCE. not less than 5,000 trees to the acre; and §400 for the second-hest plantatlon of the same, The FLORA ROUND ABOUT CHICAG. Tar Carer AND TiE Rock-Rose FAsuries,— prizes witl be awarded §n the summer of 1577, A Tho Polanisia gravesleons; m humble weed grow- cltizen of Bostuu Lias offered to superintend the Importation of the plucs and larelics, which must ing along the borders of the streets and [n the wuste places near the lake-shore, 18 nuw in blos. be brought from Europe. The ashes will probably bu ratsed fram sced. According to the esthnntes som, s leafy racemes of small white flowers, and ita tri-follato leaves, bave, ns u whole, of Mr. Sargent, the pluntations will return to thelr owners a handsomo reward for the capital ratlier & protty nspeet; but the plaut has that uzly and most unnatural trait, o vilo &mell, and labor invested, while uscless Jands will be turned to account, und madu In obvious ways nu It fs the only representatlve of tho Copperadis cee, or Caper Family, found in the Nurthern ornament and advantage to the Stute. Btates eunst of the Misslssippl, The order fn- THE BULTERPLY. cludes nbout 830 spetes, which chletly divell In The common butterfly ealled the Painted the Troples, aud especlully on the Continent of Lady, or Vunessa Cardui, 13 an Inhabliant of all countries Iylug withiu the Temporute und Trop- Afrlea. ‘They aro mostly of small dimensions; yet one larize specles, the Cratevs eceela, of 1eul Zones, with the exception of the Contlnent of South America, and the small fslands lying Mndagascar, attalns so Jargo o etem that planks 4 feet wide are cut from ft. The well-known east and west of North Amerden. In fact, 1t |y pleklo ealied Caper-sance 18 mado of the flower- the only member of its tribe that can be prop- orly termed g cosmopolite. It hag been the custom of natirallets to conslder the Old World as the primary home of the specles; but Mr, 8, 1L Scudtder Lrings forward the theory, fn the Nuturallst, that I had its orfgin {u the New buds af differout specles of Capparis, grow- | Woeld! Wl nreseiien of the thacet i te Iug fn the south of Europe, and in | guores of Hehrines Straits, as testiticd by tho countrles lylog on the - Med- | Warner, fs, says Mr. Seudder, “an ndicition iterrancan, "The plant grows in dry und rocky placess sud s slender, tralling stéins, starreil With blassums tho whole summer through, grat- tly tho eye with thelr brauty, The Ca paris Wdata, a small tres growing ubuudam)y in Northern Africa, bears” pungent limes, which, when drled, form an fmport: ingredient of tho food of the natives, 'Tho sshes of the roots yield a considerablo amount of salt, Of the Ruck-Roso family tacer) wo have three specles, ‘The Frostweed (Helbanthemum Canadenae), which Wooms from June to August, grows in sandy sofl south of the au(v. The pop- ular nnne of this piaut is derived from tho fuct that cryatals of feo slioot frum the cracked bark nuar thie root fn tho autumn, = The Hudsonla to- mentosa I8 found fn tho sandy hilla ut Milier's Statton, and - at Tolleston, Iud. Itisn swall, heathelike shrub, bearlng awl-shaped leaves, aud bright-yellow tlowers fn Mavaud Juue. The Finweed (Lecheg mcflqr i3 sumctimes met with {n dry places south of Chicago, It is but o homcl{ Tiorb, with fuconspicuous Sowers, continuing ¢ lmugb the summer, Tha Rock-Roses, of which there ave nearly 200 #pecies, oveur lpuflngl{ n North Ameriea, raro~ 1y in Bouth America, almost never in Asla, and very commonly fn Bouthern Europo und North- criv Afrkes, ‘Llie family 8 not noted for marked qualltics, very “few of tbo weibers aflording products useful to mankind, The Cistus ercticus ylelds the balsamle substance called Ladanum, and from the trunk of the Cahlogpersum Gosyp- piuns s obtained the gum Kuteera, which jn Ju- dia takes the place of I'ragacauth. N, B.—In lust week's articlo un “The Flora Round About Chicago,” the saplent compositor —inay Heayen bless hin f—~cxclanged the word Tamarinds for Tomatoes, in the list of food- _blants wentioned as belongivg to the Pulso or. of fis routo from' America & Asiaz aud this passuze must havetaken place in thoes s far distant that it has had_opportunity to push {ts way to Australia und New Zealand, and there to becae a0 moditicd as to establish a peculiar ruve, onco diguitied by a specitic name,!” el et e A NEW CRAB, Dr. Thomas II. Streots, U. 8. N., aunounces in the Naturalist the dlscovery, at Palnyru Istand,—one of the Fannlug group, fn the Pa- cifle,—of & new speciea of erab, for which he proposcs thaname of .dasecla Aolothuricola, It is arasitical fn habit, being what Van Beneden crins a $frec-messmate,"—that {s, one which eats at the swine tuble with its boat, instesd of drawiug {ts subsistenco from tho bodlly sube stance of the anlmal which barbors (1. The crab was found in the cloacal dilatation of the alinentary caval of o bolothutlan (sca-slug), It belouge to the fumily LPortunide, or Bwiniming Crabs,und 18 an aherrant form, unjti he nata- torfal with the gressorial specics, peclinen was o female, and Dr, Streets thinks it may prove to Lo of the specles dswla o re, uf which Dana found a male furm on the corul reef of onp of the Feejee Islunds, g —— SIBERIAN EXPLORATION, Tho German cxpealtion explorlug Western Blberta, under thy direction of Dr. Finsch, left Tyumen April 33, and, following tho course of Mo River Irtish, arrived ut Bemipalatensk, where they were hospltably entertaiued by thy Russtun Goveroor, Thelr next balt was at a | Kblrgls yourt, whence, at last accounts, they were preparlug an excursion {nto the inoun- " talus on the Chiueso border. Itwas espected | ~St Foud 240 the sliip Chvllenger. At the Itumslan Sclentific Congrras, which meets at Warvaw in September, the g uestion of adopting the Gregorfan calend Tor discussion. The French Government ia tak'mg active measures for n reform In ita system of educa- tlon. Primary InMruction has recently been made obligatory; and M. \Vnddlnfwn proposes to organize {ndependent Univers Lyous, Bordeaux, and Nancy. ar will come u — THE SONG OF CUSTER AND HIS MEN, High on the hills, in canp, we slept, raldier's tent of alars; Wille on hin mund the lzat vidette Thonght of hinJove aul caces; Till morning shot ity purple Prophetic uf n storm, Then burst along that fleld of blood "Tho bugle's lust alurin ] Onco more wemonnt, and ride away, — The savage llm’)urfllc; And wearted hoofx did beat the clay, Ae unto death we flew, TUe munntaing It thelr (hreat'ning brows, ‘The hills with plne are dark, Aud oot shad] pour where whter fows, When Battie nakes his mark, No hunter tracks thie antclope Alonz the Redbud ridye; Out path la on the pathies) scope,— The waters have 1o bridye, Long, weary miles we rode that woek, O'cr bl nutl gorgen vast; We strulu’d onr cycs trom every peal, Wo found the Sioux ut last, The bagle sounds the last nrmrv. Each horseman draws his refn: Boon shull burst the furious fray, Al battle blazo simain We Leard the click, behind Of weanly hidden foes; But littlo thought by battle's edge ‘Weeoon should sfeep in rowe. tho ledge, Andt where you sce those flowers bloom, Along that singitg ntresm, Onc moment more, the erack of doom Bhall rend tho rusy dresm | A thousand foen ure fonnd before, A thuusand inore Lehind; And battle will pe hattle nore, Forblood is ju the wind! And now they come, with furlous bastol Euch tree and rock afinme! The front of war we oft kave fuced, Here dleath hath secret alim, The holts of wralh fall thick and fast, Ench hiero finds his houry And valor's arm will fall 4t last Befare the unequal power! The combat thickens on these hillst Jieneatli us cach, u grave! And furioun every demon yelis, — A tewnpert for the brave. The deluge ralns Infernal halit And yet wo hold the tield; L The Serenth koasw not how to quatl, Tor yet know huw to yleld, In front, In rear, un fank and fank, Denth's drrkenng chciis awrep, And horrld whirlvinds on each ruik, Red as the lghtuinge, luop? We frunted nortn, we fronted sunth, Then eart sl weel away; Our front was in the battle's mouth, Frout ever ud we way. Jieart of the Seventh! die we murt, Var death Is thick nlngg round; Well Hight each guilant heatt to dust, WIth focs upan the groind! That bsttle-tlaz ! how Cauld we ylola? A hundeed y ] Brighten the atars upon its shicld; Wo dare not bring It shuige! A hundred widows now are made Atomgthat bloody glen ! ut whit ure we to wife or mald? Cloxe up the ranks avaln Our place s fu the battl's roar, Ur 1 8 soldier's gray Gud bless the hearts whith wo adorel Your blessings un the brave! Two hundred empty saddles now, And horses in the dust? nd yet there's not uno paliid brow: We can, we wlll, we must! We launch that etandard once again, ‘o match = bitter foe. And, though Lo lndred men are alala, "Thiat flag keepy bonar's glow N ‘Thinned are the ranks which Custer led Fhis morniny to the fray; That empty saddie! Cunier's dead! Cura'd L the foe to-day 1 A dery chlef, o mighty man, Abalwark In his breast: 118 humy was in the hattle's van— Can buitets give him rest! Ms raged upon that battle-plaia, A llon I his wrath And from his hand, the leaden raln Smoto devila from his path1 His eplrit lives in every frame Arouid bis bloody bed s And double death we deal with fame, For living and the drad Impetiioun as the cagie's win No foe could ciirb his firs Caught In tho tolls which dev: A mnatchicss nian expires! And action 1» the eoldier's life; On fame his heart lo set; 'The world demands this savage atrite, liere's debtor and tho debt ) A hapleralot la thine, sweet wives, Mo know thisdlsiul scene; w"j |mll;ll=|m wine lllrt'fi huudred lives Span this gory grevn! i e oe ki, e fling to thee, Above the battle's roar; We die for counlry and for yo, « Adleu forevermore ! pring, And now to death we fearless rush, Nor unavenged wo die: A mogntudu-storm, the foe wo crush, And peal the batilusery, Like rocks we atand, tke lions fight, Liko vagles in the alr! ‘With bloody hands the Soventh's might Math writ its glory there! ‘The foc, they thin our shattered fles, As fast thelr rifled crack ;. Our dead, Ihulv lie In ghastly plles Aloug our bldeous track ! Like ungry wolves, the demons yelll For blood huth made thein mad; We dress our ranke du face of bell, And tzht behind the deadt Three hundied wen, with thund'ting strides, Charg'd to the gates of helt! . ieeo Runidred uien Ul day ave dicd, While deaf ning devils yell! For cald, and sthif, und siill, aud lone, Last gf this bloady (ray, tan the hills of Lujthe fforn, 1u sloeps n crioison clay? atrong, 80 proud, that rosy morn, Sevonth drew.lta réin; Ere set of sun, by battle tora, Thoy all are with th There, on eternal il “Fwo thousand piles away 3 Nao flowers on the soldier's breast, No shrpud but purpleclay ! Eternal {tim hath setiled there, Upon the soldict's braw; Tho bugle's note ahall waste on sir, ‘They're death’s and glory’s no Deep In the taugled wilderne: One common fflvu iney dus United in their laut distreas, They sleep with arms entwin'd, ‘There Honor I8 the last vidette, Which guards the gallant dea ts blasing etar shall never se But flanie abuve their head: No miorruw comea with bloowing light To toss its waves on high, But glory haogw & banucr bright Acruse the loving sky! There {n the flux of far-off life, Wheu tasscled telds of corn Shall, wulnf. wark these hilla of atrife Alung tho Litcle llor, ‘Thea men will tell what here befell, Theeo Liearts which uace were warm, = AVith song and feast tho story awell, ‘The Bory fght and slorml ek ~d'sssde ties ut Larls, Twantid that my work shood connt for the coz, and ho need um{ nfiuml result In & glorlous harvest in Novenber. 2 I'hev alluz notised that cf o speeler kin he Interritptid at the rite time, and ef the foller wat interrupts happens to ask’ n fqueetion on wick the apccker i3 perfeckly postid, his prompt anct alluz put the l{nullluner, or internipter, to fMite, and wins for the specker the rympathy of tha People, I perposed to Interdoosen neiy fjee In atumnpin, by takin with me My uWn Interrupter, fo that Leoor e ro thnt Lhe quertes ho shond wood be alch that I cood properly anser, ang HIIM.'A' with effeck, HReHy Byeryape thl sclectid ez the questions I wantld nsked neg enc— Wat In the amount 1y the nastinel debt? ET Linkin bed bin defeeted, wood that debt hey Lin Incurred} the debt a bLlessin, p “'-'II'I:! Inull the {m:urrin uy pertikelerly ez it was ineurred to glve frecdo: 154,000,000, nigzerat B o I8 1t not the’ wisest thing we kin do to git down to a T»ld DAAls to-wunst { Iadent the Western furmerought to swet aud scald to pay the debt to the Eastern capitalisti 1 writ these questions all down, and arranged for the answers, You gee they give mo a chance, ef I cood hev em nsked fuorder, to glva the Republiking sich o hidin ez they never hed. ILgive me an upportoonity to show that the debt was made fu the interest uy Ablishnism ; that, ef the Republikin party hed neversiceeeds ed, there never wood hev bin no debt; that to Bit back 1o gold wood rooln everybody; and hat the Estern bondlotder wantedd the West- ern farier to pay (he debt unyway, I'declled to toke Issaker Guvitt with me to act ez Republikin tnterrupter, and T hed to git him up ez e Republikin,d 1t wuz o hand Joh,— || the hardest I cver undertook. T'o inetamore Lvlmm.‘ a Croes-Rowds Democrat Into o Republi- hit s taste that requires gentus; but 1 unders teok it, uwd succeeded to soine extent, 1 pows dered his noee, I hed b shaved, and 1 puL on htin a cleaw shlrt. * T mado hin back. s Ixots, lievin first furoished him with a puiry and then T put an him o decent soot of close, 2nd made Wim wedr eniobout the corners awhlie till he fot yoosed to em, nnd coon appenr casy e em. Their I' took hit and coached tlim fn the quees tlons I wantid him to ask. 1 hed him Tepeat em over avd over acin tl he led em by hes and I told him exaetly where in my Epeecl wantld it to zit In With cech uv ‘em. rmlcvl ey speech to bhin a dozen thn hed hint interrupt me, with b rather the questions I hed prep nod then J made the ansers, In all the minutis, even to sot down disconfittid, Igot him go well instructld that T futtered myself 1 ahood gzo through with a wet shicet and a flowln Rale, und shood dceamplish o Lig vork far the party, Tlafled to think wat a 1ot thinz it wood be to hev Israker dressed up ¢ Republikin, with his nore powilered, and to | hiin usk me sich questions oz 1 ¢ askin em cz u Republikin, and me utter shume, The fust nlte Tapoke Thed (¢ all arranged, Tasaker wux to 6ot tn the awjense, and at “the proper time, In all uv wich he waz nstracied, e wnz tocuninen-e, ftwaz u ble wmeerin, the :'k'uul-lmu:u uz full, and I Loped for greas iinies. Alurs for inan expectnshuns £0 hizzy drammin lxp'lh pured for Nim, and fustructld him ils lushin when be I hat bin thra tha dag that I dida't i nothin uy wat he wn 1 Lig pinzedn the fuy Fpeeeh, and hedn’t thi fntroduchssu-2I think T wiz dwellia aats the horrers uy missegenashen—when up e gat. Great Meavens! " Te woz ez deunk ox & blled owl, and Bedn't any more idec uy wat Ly wuz doln than a Soo Injun. Riuz to his feet, he wwayed ground unstedily, and remarked that he Led a question to aslk. In agony, for § caodent help mysel, [aed, “ Ask it “ Ez a Republiking" sed he— The awience ull laffed, for they knowed by Lis nose that he wuz no tepublikin, “Eza Republilin I want to koow whether a debt which wiz fneurred to naminate “Iiden, and bring shout the Messing uy u Snthern Cons | federisy, oughtent to be pall by the bloatad Democrusy uv Noo York, wich nominnted Til- den and pald the 1tkker bills uy the specker on 1 the platform, who uwes ine for more than four 1 vecrs' bourd, and never pald for & drink in his | e onless 1L wuz a mistake, and wich brot me here to lnlcrm’pt him, wich 1 swear I won't do onless he— " “8it down, you fdeot,” I yvelled, “and don’t Interrupt me “wnen [ um discussin great con- stooshtiel spuestions,” “Jdeot rrmrual!," selled Iseaker, In o drunk- en rage; “Icome bere on yoor acconnt, and at yoor cxpetzc, to play Republlicu and fntterrupt you, and [ won't take no idcot from you or any other man." And the infooriated beest made his way thro that uwfence, and [rmclpcmld hisself onto me, and dragrg.d me off the platform, on whale't me il T ¢hot I hed gone: thru the entire Rebellion, 1 hed 1o filce afure cz to wat wuz mneant by bee Iniwlflleul. /v course the meetin wuz broken np, and tho awjence dispersed fn norow. Issaker n his dritnkenneas went to the nearest bar-room, and told em all ur our arrangement, aud before mornin hed not only rpeit the maney 1 hed ]ilro‘ yided hitm withs, but bed pawned the cloge 1 hed furnlshed him, and I found bim {n the mornin & mere wreek, ‘! Parpon,* sed the Inebriatid lunatie, % I don -ugpuac Iliey bin uv much yoose to the party, and hovn't turthered the coz to any alurinin ex. extent; but Iher hed a good time! Let us g onito the nest town atonce, Get me_unothe suet uy close, und let us go on electin Tilden it ’| this \\1(‘ And, by the yuy, can'tl fill inmy spare t{me byarrangin on oif nltes to be a Dimor crat to interrupt a Republikin speckeri™ 1 didn’t unser him,~I witz too sick. But witherin him with o cuss, [ bade him depa and borrowed money uy the Committy to g onto m?‘ next appiutinent aloues. It 1s slogler, yoo can’t make a Dimocrat with. out whisky; but, by the time they have takey enuff uv it to make ew secoor, they are so burn out that they hayen’t eny senso anyhow, and aln't sny a'wm 10 the party exvept to be votid It{sacold world, and [am tired uy ft. Ef ] didu't hev tollable hope that Tilden wood be elected, and [ wood eit that Post-Olls, 1 shood give up all hopes uv reform, and_lay me down and die. Prrronzus V. Nasuy, Wich wood like to be Postmaster, ——— IN SHADOW. Alaal my life ts sunless, gray, and cold; The path I Journey va 18 rough aud steep: My shonldera Lremuble *neath my heavy crona; The sharp stonca cut and brulss my weary fect. If 1 wero sura that Gud did will it so, 1'd journey on without a doubt or fear; 11 this paln were the s»dce of my fair crown, ‘What would it watter If the way were drear? I wonld not pine If all my dsys were dark, 1€ rest grew near as each one pasa-cd by 1f lope—eweet bi ra'—did neatte [n tuis heart, What reason would I have to grieve orsight Alast 1 know—and sad the knowledge is-- That all this shadow was not sent by Gad: Lynz yea 0 [ chose this Tali\ mywell; 1dreamed not u my youth lifo could be bard. No tender prayer may Iaend up to Him, Tatighiens 1 1t bo Hia wily iy loads Whii naught 10 cheer me, must I journey on. Until Ireach ot laat Death's grim abode. 1 migtt have kept a1y way 'neath Sammer-akiy Andllstoned to ihe gladsome song of birds, And roamed 8t wlll acroas the meadows fair, And won dl"mn friends sweet smileo sod loving - wor But, in my pride and fu my sclf-concelt, 1 ahut my eyes to what God beld for e, Aund, turniog from the mesdows meek and low, 1 strodo owards these helghta bealds tho se. What doth it profit me, this wondrons helght? The clouds below we tilde the vallcys sweet, Wkere'er I turn these tired eyes of mine, ‘The view i3 cold—no cheering warmth | mest, Alag? what might bave been had I bug heard Gods volce, which bade me dwell in awcet com ten I I wure bearing but the crose He gave, With each new trial would Ho seud ma stre; I'va learned ot last how very wesk Lam Sowetlinea wy tired limbe réfuse 10 sla; Peruiaps He soes e, though I see Him not, And, ev ! dle, will Teach (o o Lis Laud, o Farg Warns agta.