Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 6, 1877, Page 11

- 'LITERATURE. The Art-Qallery at the Cen= tennial Exhibition. Conservation of the Health of Girls---Juveniles--= Painters, Thomas Carlyle and His Wife, and Edward Irving-—Popular Books. Teohergs of the Antarctic-.flow to Treat Tnsect-Stings—Poverly of Rus- sian Students, Extinction of Races---Arctic Explora- tions--The Iris Family---Brief Boientific Notes. LITERATURE. THE EXHIBITION ART-G. ALLERY.A EXRIBITED BY AL#A-TADENA, BIERSTADT, | 1xaboN, Mana¥, xtc., zrc, With Introduction and Descriptive Text by Epwanp StRARAN, With Sizteen Steel Engravings, India Proofs,and Fifty-two Drawings on Wood. Quarto, Philadel hia: Qebble & Bareie, Chicago: Jansen, Mce lurg & Co. Price, $12.50. This clegant volume arrives on the scene some days too lats to assist in the brilllant and busy spectacle presented fn our bookstores during the holldays. It Is like the wedding-guest who comes to the feast after tha nuptlal ceremony is over and the bride and groom have departed to enjoy their honeymoon. Yet tho taste for fine books has not been so sated by the lavish nume bers that.havo lately trooped from the press in the pomp and beauty of rich bludings, and love- Iy plctures, and cholce accessorles, that wo can- not examing with real eatisfaction any fresh specimens that put forward claima for attens tion. The volume before us {s intercating for sov- eral reason., It is s superior sample of the book-maker's art; Its engraviogs perpetuato the memory of a pleasiog department of the Centennfal Exhibition} sod {ts text furnishesa sprightly sketch of modern art, with a running commentary on the painMngs and marbles which have been sclected for motics from tho allery of the great World's Falr. The engrav- ings are many of them exquisitely executed, as witness the plate facing the frontispicce, the statuc of America, the Ban Giorglo, Venlee, La Premiero Pose, the Breezy Day Off Dieppe, and the coples after Alma-Tadema. But it s fm- possible to apecialize where an entire collection 18 of 8o high an order of excellence, Among the epgravings, as might be anticl- poted, is one representing the “Rizpah,” by Georgo Becker, of Parls, which was universally regarded as thh most striking pleture in the Exhibition. Of the author of thls work, Mr, Strahan rccords & few intercsting reminls- cenices; * Amid_the palnt-shops, and costume- wmarkets of the Latin Quartier {s to be secn often a small, fresh-faced figure, with a goad, squillng m'llv, overshiadowed by an {immeuse- 1y tall ane zlusnf hat; in tho hand an artlst's bux of colurs, whichi Is of o slze almost to drag upon the ground,. and which conceals a large proportion of the person of the walker, s he spreads ls short compasses to thelr utmost distension fu getting briskly over tho ground. It {s Becker. ¢ Come back with your color-box, orin it ln‘yu tho studic-friend from whom he imm. alluding to the Spartan and” his shicld, e takes all jests with a quict, good-natured sinlle, and goes homo to paint tragedy. Wo recollect walking with hiin to the funcral of the ‘ulnmr Ingres, and the difliealty of keeping down' with him, ss he stcpped with mincing tread among the mourners, It was snowing, and he asked a group who passcd on tho pave- ment near the church, ¢ Shall we not scck a rte-ocherel’ while the attendants, opining hat the flakes would have nncommon difticulty 1n finding Alm out, laughed at hisanxicty, even among the solcmnitics of the occasion. Such I8 the pleasant little lad, alivays mild, ncat, and conctllating, who gocs Into bis studio, sclzcs his cnornious brushes, and tRms out for us 5’,“", nln;u'n't' Michael-Angelesque composition of zpali, Aisg remtarks tpon thesiibjcet 6t Tzpahand its author recall a clever bit of art criticlsm fn. seried in an articls upon the Expaosition printed in the National flfl’)lll(. “ Our first visit was to the Art-Building,' snys the writer, *“Hero I om not ushameid to admit that I learned much, Tt had been my impression that the object of the finc arts wis to confer pleasure, and at the samo tinic to reine and elevate the mind. The picturcs that recoived the most marked pralse werc those that represented scenes which a Eurv- son would have turned away from if they bhad occurred in real life, 1 wlil'say nothing of Riz- pabi driving away the vultures from the bodles of her seven sona; this, though ghastly and re- P“M“' appeared to me ot absolutely disgust- ng, and was not destitute of power. But near by lt s ¢The Interlor of & Menageric.! In the kground and around are the cages of the wild "beasts, while in the centre and fore. ground {s & dcad. borae, which {4 being cut up' for the beasts, The process of skinning the carcass, the cmaciated form of the poor burse, aud all the dotalls, aro represcuted with revolting idelity. It you should sec such a thing in real lifc, you would gog and would hold vour nose. ut, when you seeitioa rh-tun:‘ it s bigh art, 1 was glad to be learn- ug soncthing.” ‘That many skillful pictures fn the Art-Gallery were not vulnorable to the keen-edged, fronjcal shafts simed by the above writer is cvilent from the sclcctions presented by Mr. Strahan, aud frow his plouant, intelligent commeuts upon thein and the artists who wrought them, e editlon of the work is limlted to 500 coples, 230 of whiich ore Intended for distribu- tion through the West. THE ITEALTII OF GIRLS, WOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS: Practicat STUDIES rOR YUK CoNsguvaTioN oF ToE HEALTI or Gints, Dy Trilio Guzzana Venoi, A, M., {. D., Anthor of *‘Matern'ty: A Trontlss for Young Wives and Motlers, “ete. ,ete, 12mo., p) 287, New York:J, M. Ford & Price, l!i& There Is need enough of books having for thelr object the nstruction of mothers and dauehters in tho principles of human physlology andof hygiene. It might reasonably bo sup- posed that the Immeuse importauce of these eclences would {nsure thelr belng fncluded among the branches of knowledge decined cs- sentlal to the cducation of every child, but it is uot so. Herbert Bpencer remarks, in his treatise on * Education ¥: * If, by sonie strangechance, not avestige of us descended to the remoto future savo o pie of our school-books or Some college examivatlon-pavers, we may imagine how puzzled an antlquary of the period would 'be on findiug in thon Do indlcation that tho lesrners wero ever likely to bo parents. *This must have been the currfculum for thelr celibates,’ we may ancy bim concluding, ‘I percelvo here an tlaborate Preparation for many things, espe- clally for reading the books of extinct nations od of coexisting wations (from which, Indecd, ecms clear that these people had very littte worth reading in thelr own tongue); but I find !_1:‘ Teference” whatever to the bribging-up of £ l‘:)lrgg‘.“ z;llze'y xl-mlnm 'no: l"ux:a been s0 |b‘mrd ratnlng for thi reatest of re- sponsibillties, Evldcgutl Yo thcn,‘ thi: was the wul-colrse of ane of thelr manastis orders.! " I nowledgo of Lhe lawsof 1ifo is the last and ‘cut lkely treasure to be in the posscesion of & most accomplished graduates of our schools, 'l‘nd espuclally is {t wanting to the sex to whom 1t lllmou. needful. Our womien, upon whose nt"n th desw.ndl the welldielug of the race, are aioriously ignorant of the truths ol physlolory ] dnl the sateguards against “debilify Tole 1o usase. The “mournful” result ia vis- m:‘ the nvalid conditlon of the great mu- n-lr"u Aumerican wives aud mothers. The - phn Ation of books Hks tho oug beforc usis & m&\uwnnl.the remedy of thls deplorable mnne“ things. It awakens those most dec ly of umr:!fl 10 a realization of the vital nocessity oo Ttanding the functions of the human my, and of rotmlnfi them agaluat de- o and disorder, It enlighteus tho hnn:' r“m ber duty as the guardian of the of th ©of ber daughters, and luforms the lattcr that s ol;-& to ba cherisbed o order to securs s uummnf.nh-]’ blessings, a sound physical T, Yerdi” trcats blect wil Ly, wd with Bootapisct Tt smigent Boladiy righs 13 aasecting $has + Tras Kiowk: edge never trespasses upon aelleacy '3 and also When he adde, “Let every organ of the hody be called hrrlu flght name,—as tho archies or ol a pljlars ulmlrui. the angics or triangles of x’cnmelflu Eurcs, the pelals or stamens of flowers,—and the absurd no- tions that have driven & study 80 important to the preservation of life from the convorsation and the teachings of home, disappear’’ Ie hufpmlomud his work unnecesearily, indulging In frequent and tircsome digressions for the purnose of making plalner what was alread: [\Inln enough; yet the fmportance and merit of he information he conveys place the book fn the catalogue of useful works, 5 5 -‘IUVESHL‘ES. TIE SKY-GARDEN, Dy Lizzig W, Ciiane. v, Tinstrated by . Whrpe rrn'I::y‘-:;r {inChamp™y, Banate 2nin.. . 11 Bostan: Lockwond, Brooks & Co, g0t Mce Clnrg & Co. Pricn, $5. rEAROFgansen, Mo LONG AQU, A YAt or Citto-Tare, Dy Evits Unar, Ilustrated from Designs | UAAN 32 JuLx I Daskey, and ey, Py Ham 2 Bin p. 210. Hoeton: Lockwood, Bronk l'.'{n ‘ochnmgo: Janeen, McClurg & Co, ln'rl'c: 150, o “*IHustrated by 'Champ' " Isan snnavmcement. that Insures an cager clutch for the book that s fortunate enough to bear It. Wd t¢ ure of & feast upon a variety of designs mif A{;:xl by fresh- ness, vigor, and humor, in an unnaual degree. *How clever the man s!" (s the exclamatfon frequently avoked by his vivld figurcs, which express character in every lne of form and fea- ture. Notall may know who this talented {“Champ"! ia; therclore we borrow afew lincs re- Iating to him fromStrahan's % Art-Gnllery of the Exhibition": *Two Bostonians, both Champ- neys, enlivened the Amerlean colony In Franco eight years or 8o ago—Ienjamin, the eller, an old-fashforicd Jandscape painter, with a soul and heart eternlly young; anda siim youth, J. W. Champney, whio'in those dnya Jived in o very small and very lofty room fn the Ruc de Dau- phin, and carried up Lis own milk in the torning for & home-wads breakfast. Those dnys of student-liberty and findependent for- tune-fighting are over now, and, as *Champ,’ the voung art-adventurer fs famous, _His 1lus- tratfons to Mr, King's work on *The Great Bouth,’ and his charming Centennial American sketchies In a French journal, have won him ad~ mirers in Ameriea, England, aod France, and roctired him compliments in more thut oue ungunEc." The book ta which his gentus has last Tent its llumination s a collection vf charming atorles, all of which have the same little heroinc, and are written for the maln purpose of Interesting children in the brilliant fluwers that blossom “In the 8ky-Gurden,” “Lang Azo: A Yearof Chlld-Life," {s a lively {u\'enllc, written by one who has not forgotten he {ntenalty of childhood's exlmricm-e althongh sho confesses to tho old that has silvercd hor brawn hair, It Is not hard to gucss that the Ellie of her atary Is her own vounger self fdeal- fzed to suit the requiremients of diction. The k will not fail to delight every youthful reader, for v is full of the sunshine flowing from a bright aud cheery spirit. PAINTERS, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF PAINTERS OF ALLSCHOOLS. 1y Louvis Vianvor and Other Writets. 8vo., pp. 407. Philadelphia: J. B, Lippincolt & Co, " Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co.” Price, $10. To call this work a blographical dictionary of paluters would be to characterize It very justly, sluce it contalns sketches of the life and works of upward of 1,000 artists who have excelled {n thelr profession. Thememoirs are conveniontly arranged In the order of the varlous schools of palnting which arose one after the other in dif- ferent uges and countries. ‘The work Is based upon Les Merrellles de la Pelnture, by Louls Viar- dot; but conslderable additlons have been mado from nuuicrous other voluines. The lllustra. tlons, which are in the finest stylo of French en- gravings, arc also chicfly taken from Viardot's work. The book fs very hundsomely publlshed, and may bo commended both for its beauty and its usctulness, ' BOOKS RECEIVED, HANDY DRAMAS FOR AMATEUR ACTONS: New Przcis ron Iloxr, Bcioor, axn PuaLic Exventaxxusy, By Gzonue M, Barzn, Au- thor of ** Ainatenr Dfamas,” ctc., etc. 10Umo., 00, Torton: Lee & Shepnrd, Chlcago: Uinsen, Mechirs Drice, $1.60. 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Hogghton & Co,, Boston), AMEMICAN BOOKSELLET for Jan, 1 (Amerlcan Sewe Campany, New Yori, QUANTERLY JOURNAL OF INERBRIETY—D comber (The Case, Lockwood & Brainard. G any, lartford, Conn. ), "' k"AKlAs for Jsnuary (A. N. Dell, New ork) LIFTELL'S LIVING AGE—Curroat pumbers (Little & Gy, Boston), L sl L FAMILIAR TALK. CARLYLE AND HIS8 WIFE, AND ED~ WARD IRVING. Inturning over somc old papers, the other day, wo came azruss the story of Carlyle's love and marrlage. We have no meaus of proving thotruth of the details, but the leading Incl- dents arc undouhbtedly fact, and there isan alr of veracity pervading the whole whieh fuclines one to giva It trust. Tho talu unites the nam of two great men—Edward Irving, the cele- brated Scotch divine, and Thomas Carlyle,—and therc is so much of romantle futercst fn it that it will bear repeatiug, with some extenslon by additlonal particulars, Ia 1810, Edward Irving, a young graduate {rom the Univeraity of Edinburg, where he bad acuired a tine reputation for scholarship, was appointed, through the recommcudation of Prot. Lealie. to the ebarge of the school at Had- dington. This little country town of about 4,000 inhabltants s situated slxteen milea cast of the capital-clty of Scotland, “in a well- wooded, undulating valley, through which the Tyve meanders.” The village has beauti- ful environs, plcturesque streets, and a Lslf- rulned Gothle church where Juhn Knox used to preach; but, exeept o arket-days, wheo thero Is a stir of life through its malnarterics, It scems to He hulf asleep un the borders of the qulet River Tyne. Trving was **a (all, ruddy, robust, and band- sotne lud," 19 years of age, when he camo to dwell in the aleepy old town, e remaluod but oue year, yeb that was louz enough for him to win the respect of the people, and to leave a cnerished memory, blending a kindly recollec- tion and & profound adwmiration. One of the Trustces of the Haddington School was John Welch, the princlpal physiclan of the place. 4 The Doctor had an only chill," thus the story runs, **unfortunately a dauzht ‘Unfor- tunately, because, belive Minsetf a - s=holar, and having good cducational kleas about developiug the intellect, ho wanted a son upen whoin to put them {n practice, He probably made no secret of this regret; ut all events, fittle Jane discovered what the fact was, aud had her own reflections about It. The preat instrumant of intellectual trainthg, sho bad heard her parent say, was the Latin lunguage. Bo, furtively pro- rurlm_.:n.uuu gramniug, and porlng over s declensions and conjugations until ahe had mas- tered the diftizultics, she wasted an upporiunit, to show her father what sort ot mental mat-:rial he had ju a duughter, There was something Huclly dramatic iu her procedure, She kept hey :vhu e plun a scret. The fitting thue cawe at s, *‘It was evening, when the dinner bad soft- encd out the aspenitivs of the day: the Doctor sat u luxurious lelsure, in hls dressing-guwn snd slippers, sipping his coffee. “Thar tic of the denoucinent had come, Uunder the folds of the crimson table-cloth tho little actreas was hidden. All was weil. Suddenly, Latin douns, prooouns, and verbs wers correctly and stcadily conjugsted from under the table. The Doctor smothered bis child with kisses, snd detarinined to put hiy educational schemos In band ot once.’ e Forth Irviog was ongaged as with Edward tutor to the llttlc Jane, who was now D yesars old. The youth entered upon his work with eothuslasm, for the futelligenes of tho pupll ‘wus suth a4 Lo muke the labor of teaching & con- tigual delight. **Qathedark wiiter-orulngs, when he arrived bafore breakfast o glve his les- son, he wonld aeize i pupll in Lis arms, take her out fn the open air, and show her the atars and constellatfons, and tell her thele naince, Setting her before him on the table, he wonld impart to the ehitd rudimentary notiona of meta- hysics, outlines of th 8 of higher “mathematics, hi uver possessed more maguetle power than Ed- ward Irying. Tlis influcnica over tha little girl quickened lier intellect into new life. Between teacher and pupll the warmest affcction sub- Alsted, which grew and strengthened by dally Intercourse. Thera were not wanting predictions that the affection between teacher and pupll would de- velop into s tenderer passion, and that Irving would sometime woo Jane Welch for his wife. But this was not to be. At the end of 8 twelve- month Irving left [{addington, and, according to our atory, weént ‘to Kirkaldy, where Thomas Carlyle happened to be st the time, The two {{Iflfill were both natives of the Counly of umfriosshire, (o the south of Scotland. - ing was born in Annan, in the year 1792, and Carlylefn the Town of Ecclefechan, In 1795, ‘The circumatances of thelr first and last meet- ing aro related by the latter in the closing para- graph of an article on thedeath of Irving, which appeared in Fraser's Mogazine in 1835, “The firat time I saw Irving," writes Carlyle, 1 was six-and-twenty yeara 250 (1803), in his na- tive town, Annan. “Hla was fresh from Edin. burg, with college-prizes, high character, and promise: he had comne to see our schoolmaster, who had aleo "been his. We licard of fames Professors, of -high matters classical, math- cematical,—n whole wonderlaud of knowledge: nothing but jn(. health, hopefulness without end, Jooked out from the ‘blunming young man. The last time I saw him was three montns ogo, fn London. Fricndilness stili beamed in his eyes, but now, from amid unquict fire, his face was flaceld, wasted, unsound; hoary as with ex- treme age: he was trembling over the brink of the grave, Adlen, thou first friend—adlieu while this confused twilight ot cxistence lasts! Might we meet where twilight hasbecome day 1" When the two youths came together again after Irving’s year at Haddiogton, the latter had much to say of the remarkablo endowments of the “dearand lovely child' whom he bad had asa pupil. Finally he took Carlyle with him one Bntunla{ toatay over the Sunday at the house of Dr. Welch.” **Jane was at_home, and delighted to sce her old teacher, But tho young man with him,—hardly past his boyhood, for Carlyle was_three years Irving’s junfor,—so awkiward and yet. so bright ; who told her storics of Dumfriesshire fotk-lore so vivid and graphic that shic scemed to be llving in _Ecclefechan,~ what waa she to think of him? The young man, liowever, went aud came again, went and canic many times, watched the child's growth foto fale womanhood, stimulated her mind by his welrd thoughts, and became her suitor,” But It was sixtecn years ofter his first visit Lo the home of Janc Welch that they became man and wife, Jane waa then a youns woman of 20, aud Carlylo was 82, The newly-wedded palr moved to a small estats at Cralzenputtack, In Dum{ricaahire, which Mrs. Carlyle bad inherit- ed. In 1828 Cariyle thus described tho place in a lettor to a friend: * Our residenco is not in the town {tselt (Dumfrics), but fifteen miles to the northwest of it, among the granite nills and tho black morasses which .streteh westward through Qalloway, almost to the Irish 8ca. In this wilderness of heath and rock, our estate stands forth a green ossls, a tract of plowed, partly incloscd and planted ground, where corn ripens and trees allord a shade, although sur- rounded by sca-mews and rougli-wooled sheep, Here, with no small cffort, have we bullt and furnished a neat, substantial dwelling; here, In the absence of o professional or other office, we live to_ cultivate lMterature nccording to our strength, and {n our own peculiar w:fv. & b Thisnookof ours is the lonclicat in Britan,—stx one likely to visit ine. mites removed from .nf + + o Icame hither solely with the desirn to shnplify iy way of life, and to secura the Inde- B:ndeurn thmu§h which I could be enabled to true to mysclf. This bit of carth {3 our owu; here we canllve, write, and think, as best pleases oursclves, even though Zoflus himself were to be crowned the monarch of literature. Nor is the eolltude of such great importance; for s atage-coach takes us casily to Edinburg, which we look upon as our Dritish Welmar. Angl bave Inot, too, st _this moment, piled upon the table of my little library a wholc cart-load of Freneh, Gerinan, American, and English our- nals and_periodicals,~whatever may be their worth! Ol antiquarian studies, too, there is no lack, From some of our helghts I can dusery, about aday's journcy to the weat, tho hill where Agricola and his Romans left a camp be- hind them. At the footof it I was born, and lhel;«'a both father aud mather still live to love me. It was durluz his residoace on the secluded farm of Cralgenputtack that Carlylo wrote souie of his bost essays, as those on Burns and on (ierman Literature. It was here too that he cumYoscd his master-plece, Sartor Resartus, which was published fu ]ymru in Fraser's Maga- zine. In 1834 Carlyle left Cralgenputtack for London, making his home {n the suburbot Chel- Ieflblfllcfl! he still resides. When Mnninrct Fuller visited London, {n the summer of 1340, she was several times tho Ruest of Carlyle, Inaletter to Emerson sho wrote, {n describlng a dinner-party at his house: “I had, atterward, some talk with Mrs. C., whom heretofore | had only saen ¢ for who ean apeak while her husband fa theref I like her very much; sho is full of grace, sweetness, and talent. Her cyes are sad and charming’ Some years later Moncure Conway recorded o visit to the home of the philosopher, His description of the housc is os follows: *“In n modest old mansion, apart from the ereat whirl of fashion, resides the man to whose wonderiul genius, more than to that of any other, {s to bo attributed the intelectunl and aplritual activity of the current anerntlnn. ‘The very house lic inhabits s slaniticavt to him, He poiots to the bricks and mortar, piied up in thotime of Queen Annc, and breaks out in o straln like this: ¢ Look ut these bricks, sir: not onc of them is a He. Let o brick be once honestly burned, snd the cement good, ond your ‘wall will atand till the trump of Doum blows it down! ‘These bricks arc a8 sharp na tho dic they were put up {u, and tho mortar {8 now limestone, T'he houscs all around us crumble; the bricks fu them were made to crumble after sixty ‘v that being the extent of most of the cares. They are of a pleee with the general rottenneas and falschood of the time.! " Passing from the house to its occupants, Mr, Conway continucs: **A strantro thrill ed over me when I first stood face to face with theso prand features, eo heavily marked with timo and fate, Ie met me pipu in mouth, and ver: cnnllula For a few moments I was lefs with Mrs. lyle, and had reason to ro- member what Margaret Fuller had written of her large, earneat cyes, years mzo. 8lels in- klndl{, Y 3 deed a help-meet for Carlyle. Chegrful, w(u{. and frank, she converaed most pleasant! of the habits and labors of Carlvle. She thought the life of Frederick the Greata ter- rivle piece of work, and ardently wished that Frederick had dled when a baby. ~ Her wisdony, which saw all thls unwrappl mf of the moldy forms, cven of Kings, to bLe all for Hecuba, pleased e much, During all the heated and nolay argument of the evenlng, she dld not suf- fer tho suu of her genlal nature to go down on one wrath,” The portrait of Carlyle {s paluted fn the fol- lowing strong cularss all asd almost slen- der, coutrary to iy expectations, with a longish head, bent forward from somewhat stooping shoulders, with & magniticent brow, overhange lug a Wue eye that suggests a tenderncss vrhlth nowhere clee appears (s lis manner or convers sation, but which one can_Imagine wus fn the ascendunt when the Iife of Steri{nz was writtens with n short beard and muatache, giviog an fm- presston of granfte on the lower fuce; witha 1zt and ruddy color, which overspread tho face with deep flushes durlng conversatfon: with a volee wlilch began gently, and rose In a momnent to a toruado; with @ hiabit of bursting out inta loud and ahnost convulsive laughter, which often ended {uafit of cougling; with nervous noveinents of hngers and shoulders, hinting strougly of overstudy: with aterrible undertone {0 all these—most of all to the laughiter—of painand grief, Carlylo seemed to me one of the most fearful and fascluating of all the quen I have ever acen, and, whilst {n his presenee, 1 remembered the weird finpresstons ol wingled beauty and awe which I had when Journevin thro the Mamnioth Cave," For thirty-two years Carlyle and bis cherlshied wifs sojourned together, thie recipients of man loy- and of *morv than common sorrows;? hen Death camo between them suddenly, aud Carlyle was left alune. *It was with no ‘coun- terlcited sorrow." says tho unknown writer from whose eketch we'have borrowed the par- ticulars of his love-life, “*that thy gray-headed man stood in wournful silence within the walls of the beautlfut otd church st lladdingtos, when, lu the spring of 1840, the dust of nls Fl".h- ful spouse was laid to mingle with that of her father.” Iryiuz, the beloved teacher of Jans Welch, aud the friend wio hud futroduced to licr the youth destined to be her lifc-companion, died in ™ 183, at Glasgow. In tho contribution to Fruser's Magazing, lu which Carlyls delivers a fervent eulugy upa_u the virtues of the dead, by grandiy writes: ¢ Closcd are thoao lips. The lasge heart, with {ts. large bouynty, where ~wretch- edocss found “solaccment, aud they that were wandering in darkness the Iight as of & home, bas paused. The strongman can no 1ore: beaten ovn from without, undermined from within, he bas had to siok overwearled, as at pightfall, when it was yet but the wnid-sca- soa of day. [rving was cars and some mmonths old. Bcotland sent bim forth a her- culcan man; our msd Babylon wors him and wasted bim, with all ber coglues, and it took her twelve years.. Ho sleops with his fatbers, inthatloved birth-land: Babylos, with allits deafeniog inanity, rages on; hut to him hence- forth fnocaous, unheeded—forever.” From the testimony of one who knew him well, Carlyle quotes: **But for Irving, I lad never known what the communion of man with man means, 11is was the freeat, brotherllest, brayest hnman soul minc ever came In contact witliz I call him, on the whole, the beat man 1 have ever, after trial enough, found {n this world, or now hope to flud.” POPULAR BOOKS. The splendid holiday book, *The Anclent Muariner," fllustrated by Dore, has lad an as- tontshing sale In tho West. Jansen, McClurg & Co. distributed 500 coples, and could have disposcd of 300 more, but the publishers’ stock ran out before the demand was supplied. Fri- flfi ‘morning before Christmas s consignment of 1 cog:.!u was recelved at 10 o'clock, and at 5 p. m. Baturday thic last one was zone. A single order from a country town calied for sixty-tive coplee. The popularity of *Ilelen’s Babies ' remains undiminished. The publishers have fssued 100,000 coples, and of theae the Chicago house already mentioned has sold fust 10,000, SPARKS OF SCIENCE. 1CEBERGS OF TIIE ANTARCTIC, BIr C. Wyville Thompson recently gave a lecture fu Glasgow upon the pecullarities in the physical conditions of tha Antarctic reglons. In the months of January and February, 1874, the Challenger was crulsing in Antarctic waters, and the observations made at that time fur- nished the speaker with the materials for Lls address. The peculiar conformation of the fce- bergsa filllng the sca south of L. 60 deg. was the subject of particular discusslon. The bergs en- countered by the Challenger were universally table-topped and perfectly flat, with a covering of dazzlingly-white snow. Home of the larger ones were ous or Lwo intles In Jength, and had evidently preserved thele original position. Tne average height of thesa bergs was about 200 feet. ‘Thelr sldes were blue, the pale tint of the upper part deepening pradually to the base. Vicwed closcly, the face of the berg was seen to Do teaversed with a delicate ruling of faint-blue Hnes, separated more widely aa they neared the top, Sir Wyvllle deems the evidence nearly con- clusive ihat these fcehergs bave thelr origin on Taud which Is comparatively low and flat, and bordered for a conslderable distance by shallow water. I concelve,' he says, ** that the upper part of one of these feebergs, including by far the greater part of Its bulk, aud cubminating {n the portlun expused above the surfuce of the scs, was formced by the pfllng-w) ol suceessive layers of soow during the perjud, amounting perhaps to centurles, “during which the leecap ‘was slowly forcing Itsell over the low land and out to sea, over a long extent of gentle slope, untll it reached a depth of conslderably be- yonid 200 fathoms. Tha lower specifle welisht of the fee then caused an upward straln, which at length overcame the cohesivn of tho inass, und portlons were rent ofl aud foated away, It this Le the trus history of the formation of these fcebergs, the absence of all land-debris in the portion cxposed above the surtace of the sca ls readlly underatood. If any such cxlst, it must bo contined to the lower part of the berg, ~—to that part which has moved upon the fluor of the fuc-slieet.” i A IIOW TO TREAT INSECT-STINGS. A writer {n the Londun Garden cives the fol- lowing hints on this subject: * The pain caused by the sting of a plant or inscct {s the result of a certaln amount of acld polson Injected into the blood, The first thing tobe donels tu press the tube of a small key firmly on the wouud, moving the key from side to slde to facllitute the expulsion of the sting and its accompanytng ofson. ‘The sting, if left lu the wound, should c carefully extracted, otherwise It wiil greatly fucrease thie lucal {rritation. The poleon of etings being acld, common sense points to the alkalics as tho proper means of cure. Among the most easlly-procured remedles mnay be ‘mentloned soft’ ‘soap, liquor of ammonta (splrits ot hartshorn), smelllng salts, - washing soda, quickilme made inte a paste with'water, lime-water, the Julce of an onlon, tobaceo-Juice, chiewed tobaceo, brulsed dock- leaves, tomato-Julce, wood-ashes, tobaceo-ash, and carbonate of soda. 1T the stlng be scvere, rest and coolness should be added to the other remedies, more eapecially in the caro of nervous subjects, h‘uthln&: {ssoapt to make the polson active as heat, and nothing favors its activity lcas than cold, Let the body be kept cool unil at rest, and the activity of the polson will be re- duced to & mintmum, Any actlve exertlo whereby tho circulation Is quickened, will crense both pain and swelling, It the swelling be severe, the part may he rubbed with sweet oll, or & drob or two of laudanum. Stings in the eye, ear, mouth, vr throat somethnes Joad to serlous consequences; in such cazes medieal ;‘,‘l‘"‘,fi'“ should always be sought as suou as possi- e, POVERTY OF NUSSIAN STUDDINTS, A luege portlon of the students of thie Rus- sian universitica arc young men without neans, who support themselves, during thelr term at schicol, by giving lessone, Many attending the Unlversity at Moscow are fu a partleularly des- titute condition, especlally among those iu the medlcal department, A good many scholar- ships, of the amount of from 05 to 280 yearly, have heen founded by Government aud by prie vate persons; and sifll there ars iany fuss than are necded by fudigent studenta,” It s proposed to ralse theee scholurships to the amonnt of §25 annunlly, From 1870 to 1573 the University reglsters show that 3221 stu- dents had tinlshed thelr course, and 5911 had been obliged to discontinue for lack of mcans of support. This want of resources i dezreus- ing the attendance ot.oll the Russtan univer- Altics. I 1350 the students at St, Petershurg, Moscow, Kasau, Kharlotf, and Odessa, num- bered 85015 fn 1571 they were 5,501; but {n 1875-'6 there were only 4,402, EXTINCTION OF RACES. Inan address upon tho present positton of Authropology, dellvered before the Hamburg meeting of German naturallsts, Prof. Virchuw advanced an opinion opposcd to the general {dea that races low io the scalo of fntelloctual dev opment must nceessarlly fade away when brought in contact with uivilization. 1le ascribes the extinction of such races to barbarous treat- ment by their superlors, and to the practice of wrong methods in the attemnts to clevate them. Tue theory that Inferjor races must Lecome ex- tinct is contradicted, in the wplulon of M. Vir- chow, by tho history of the Europeans them- sclves. = " If tho civilized people of the present day,” lia argues, be conlsdered as the product ol "a higher development, we cannot reward the p‘mlmfny of such o development us a canse of thio extinction of such people as are now on the sumg platform of ealiure which we ourselves once oceupled.” ARCTIC EXI'LORATION, In a communication to the London Geograph- feal 8oclety, Dr. Petermany, the ticrman geog- rapher, commends i the' highest terns the eflicient scgvive rendered to Sclence by the En- glish Arctie expedition, He considers the fal- lacy of the continuous navigabitity of the Smith- Sound roule completely established by Capt. Nares, and mlyo: the Novay-Zembla and East-Greenland routes to the Pole. Huebelleves there I8 & great opey ull along Northern Siberia, anl states that Prof. Nordenskjoid fu- tends fu 15D to sall right weross fran Norway Lo Behring Stralt, o likewise asscrts that a Bwedish and u Duteh expedition huve been de- cided on, but that Weyprecht's plan for eatub- lishing stations fn the” Arctie regtons for cons ll(nuc obscrvation s us yet hupeless of exceu- tion, &t TILE TIIS FAMILY, A paper read before the London Linnean Bo- clety, Dec. 7, on the Jridacee (the Iris Family) states that altogether ubout 700 specles and sixty-five gencru are now recoguized. Of these, 819 specics are found st the Cape in Bouth Af- yica, ninety-four in Europe and North Africs, eightv-nine In Temperate Asla, elghty-two fn Tropleal America, flity-six fu Troplcal Africa, thirty-four i South Aweries, thirty-ono fn Australia, and one in Polynesia. The crocus, {rls, aud gladlolus are amouiz the most comwnon specles cultivated fu our gurdens. BRIEF NOTES, Count T. Balvadorl announces the discovery in New Guineaof & ucw specles of Bird-of- Paradise, of the genus Drepanorus, ‘Che Russlan expedition uuder M. Potanin, which {s bent upon penetrating Mongolls, has been stopped by thu Chinese authoritles at Toolty, s short way within the Mopgolisn froutiers. A pumber of Frenchmen, {n & laudable spirit of devotion to Bclence, have signed & published letter pledging them to will tholr bralo, or any other part of tne budy, to the laboratory of the Anthropological Boclety, as subjects for” experi- reot end obaervation. M. Jules Trebeau hus beon dispatched by the Freach Geographical Soclety upon a tour of exploration into- French Guinea, a countr whicl fa almost unknown. M. Trebean wifl proceed up the River Marort to fts source, and return by the Oyspok or the Amazons, accord- fog to convenience. The United Etates steamer Gettyaburg dis- covered a valuable bed of light ahades of pink cpral, on her passage from Faval to Gibraltar, in lat. !5 deg. 80 min. N., loog, 11 deg. 33 min. W. The least depth found was thirty fathoms, but it was eurmlsed that the coral coines to the surface ot some point near the anchorage. ‘The French sclentist, M. . de Fonvielle, rrulvsln ngainst the scheme of using ballvons n the prosceution of *Arctie exploration. In the present atate of acronautleal science, there is no certaln means of directing a balloon and insuring its progress Independent of alr-cure rents; lience a reffance upon it for scientific ex- ploration Is finpossible, 1t Is proposed by an American company to In- troduce fur-seals from Alsska into Loke Bu- pertor. The temperature of the lnke is reganled na cold enough, and a petition will be presented to the Canadlan Parlianfent ond the American Congress to protect the anfmals from alaughter for twenty years, At the end of that perfod It 18 supposed the animals will be accllmatized, Mnlflu\'c accumulated 50 a8 to afford valusble sport. The project for creating an inland sea In North Afrl:a is dpe for comptetion, Capt. Ttoudalre has returncd to Tunfs, having accom- plehed his survey of the Algero-Tunfslan de- ])Yflflr‘ll)l‘l. The trigonometricn] measurements ave all been taken, and a Cominission for overs reclng the preliminary steps, of which M. Do Lesscon is @ member, has been appointed by the Preaident of the French Academy of Sciender. TRAILING ARBUTUS. Well, well, thiaIn pleasant! 1Mow are vou, Joe? 1 nave come for A’FM smoke and talk, you see, 1wl be married on Tuesdny, yout know— tinod- by to old-bachesor waya then for me. A fair fittle widow with golden euris, And lauzh Jike tho tinklc of silvery bell, Acchieek like the rose, and & heow ke pearls— They nay { am Jucky: I cannot tell, For theae women are quecr things at their best. But my life, so recklern, wild, and free, Hun tired me—I wanted a home and rést, Some one o care for, and care for me, Lut you have Lxen down to the woudlands below, Tieen making e paradise out of your den: Ierc's trailing arbutus; don't laugh at me, Joe— I've been roamning in lands where my fav'rite don't Fo And tfic st of (t—rell, there's a story to o With the xigh 1 Jet fali: I tel] you, friend Joe., It brings back the promise of what might have e ! O beautiful blossoma! you kpeak of the morn Tue aweelest my thifty years ever hase scen, Eome time In_onr Iife, Joe, & golacu hopo's born. What! whose Is this picture: No! yes, 'tis vlenc, \\‘htnrrcnmc;q It? Wheroisste? Tell, tell me, ald boy ! Your cousiu!’ What! No! Joe, I've ecarched for her tan, — This womn giost precions, “Twan five years ago— No, elx—in the monthwhen the bright roses biow, And the trallmz arhutus with beautiful vloom Mads fleaven coms down to that one little ruom, That I caught the Gest clance of the brautifu) bige Of her eyen. and the aweet faceracarnest and true, We loved, but we talked 1ot as most Juvers do. DId she know that | loved hinrr That 1 neverknew; Hut 8 woman, with her mtuitions ao fine, Muat have svunded each chard in these heart- throbs of mine. Otber mornings we gathered these beautiful thinzs, — The ch‘mdn golden-lined, aod the moments bad winws. meeting pure accident—parted the =am: r mel again—yes, all the Fatea were to b e, re ie she, uy * due, tell me, for shame! enzacenient—the widow,~well that's buta W My Feam, For naught’ shall come ‘twixt thee and me, Vio- ene. You nced me my darling; yon cry to me there; Lifc's parrow's nre lining Four sweot face so folr; So foded, so weary, the hollow eyes shame Some b?'w for thelr tears,—gone her beautlful oum— Oh, no, Juo! not gone fromn me to the dark tomh! Cnrsen! Who has wrought (his? Why are women made With souls llke the bloszoms, thus to be repald? Harry Lee's wife, aud they had been muarried four years! Handsome wan of the world, full of folbles and aicers,— Loosoa llitle. Tho Fatea! how did they como to tnate? Sha wan 80 full of love, and he sa full of hate. My darling, | would have been constant and true, Letiing teara never dim the heautifal biae, The sunsliino vf yonr magnificent cyes, And 0 xhe In rafe from s al) In the skiest Well, ‘tis better: 1, too, a hase tyrant might be. Half s mea of old Sotan have taken degree, While the good fellows, cheated by grace snd a curl, Will go marry the wickedest fllrt of & gir), And leaila dog alte ut +* sty Fairr,” Keeping up Madam's graces and aic, Toften hare wondered Eow it could be ‘That angels would fancy the fellnws like me,— Selfiah men recking world-wide for virtue untold; While we glve them the drass, we will covet thy #old, Poor things! how they fancy the best of life's wine, And ‘:fi I:‘JM them the drege. But these women Y i Tlave nerves like the steel, with a nature so fine Thut they'll cling to the bascet, be constant and trues Though rometimen 1 think they cesee lovlug,— don't you? Mow can & soul dwell In perpetnal cloud, Wenving ot all times about {t & shroud, AndJover Bab! ‘tis nonscose—we read of snch things— "Tls duty thot holds them, but love taketh wingv. Had we inet, she a wife, an unloved one, I frec, Her safterings would have been hell unto me; Uut each vlunce of my eye and each touch of my ha Buac'd kuve measured 8 sin we could not under- stand, And the poor Witle thing, 1t s better sho's dead. **You know T have honor." Thank you, Joe: that's well nald. “*And tho a"true woman."" Thaok God, she {n deal? S0 she treanured theso blosso ms and loved me; 'tls well. ol f:lulld1 all tho thoughts of this hour I can't o And he'a married again whife her memory's green Hearce oue year. O iny dorling, my sweet Violenet *I'i» no uln to love you. Ilere, Joe, give me this, And a spray of the tralling arhutne to kiss, Nosentiment ‘twist the widow and me— Bhe han loved n her way—we sre even, yoa sae; And I'll show her the pictur and arbutis-epray, Aud tell hera Qittlo wbout it, some dng‘. Tnen she'll sbiod ove bright tear; wilh u delicate race 16, willFall in the meaties af costitest lace: Willarranze all hor drapery Into its place, And fuwardly contrant the much-fuded face With her own, beight and rosy; then kindly witl ey, ‘*0Clarenca! how sad!" ina womanly way; **Don't show themngain; here, take them, | pray, ™ 8o 1'll Tock them up snfely, but iy heart of hearts Will carry thelr inisge—no, never'to pert; And wonictimes, 'mild the glory und ruses of June, T'll faicy an angel cumes down to my ruoim, And breathes o'er iy spirit a fracrunt perfime, And leaves on uy brow u tremulous kiss, 1 nover bave klssed her! Ah! that would be bllss, Hut relmfu;htr. Joe, come 1o my wedding! All Tight Nest ‘I"fwullfv. e ready. Good-night! Leonle aud 1 will sal) onward serenc, Hut o Heaven 1 hope to clalm Vlolens, Cuicaao, Exua I'assuong Browx, B sty THOSE FEMALE BULLDOZERS, 40 the Editor af The Tribune. C11C4G0, Jun, 5.~1t was no sudden autbreak of patriotionn that fnduced the colored women of Loulslana to rise aud drag their male perfur- ers from tho platform. It was the spirit of the woman who, several years sygu, stabbed her children on the banks of the Ohilo rather than sta them renwnded back to slavery. These women knew that a Democratic triumph meant bondagy fur them and thelr ehlldre Chey had tastedd the sweets of lberty, and knew [ts worth, and in their way—as there wus no other—hud taken weans to perpetuste it. Every mother In the land will sympathize with thein. In the meantime, wo gorrow for the discomiited Tyl denlte ' that gocs to Washilogton with the hu- ulllrl‘nixllng cutfesston that the wolnen huve hlx;lt- o him, 3 Dou't dresm, boy. < e— THE TRIBUNE IN MISSOURI, Ta tAe Edlior of Th Tribune, GarLaTivy Mo, Juu, 3.—Find luclosed price of DaiLY TisUNE for another sixmonths. Ican- not do without it. I fntend to take f¢ until Huyes is inaugurated, and perhaps through his Adminlstrativn. Every man fn this country who voted fur llayes belleves be is olected, and they cxpect bim to be {nuugurated, aud that, too, without *wah.” The Repubiicans don't waut uny wer, sud the Democruts can't afford {1, We Luve some Nusby's fu vue town who prato about Tilden or war, but they will be iuvlsible sbould it come. Yours, B. e —— How the Kats Got the Coru, Middletown (Conn.) Press. A family o Ihl;flll?:ge Bad ldd“n'wny . b’fi of dried corn for tho winter. Ths bag contaluing It was hung by & stout string from & nall driven in the of au outhouse, so as to bo out of the reach of rats. Tho 51{‘ rodents, however, msnaged to secure it. 0 bag was drawn up by the string and lald snuglyaway on the beam, and the very lust guln of coru was _shetracted througn & Liole tu the bottow of the bg. COLORADO. The Town of Rosita, and the Sil- ver=Mines Surrounding It. ‘Wet-Mountain Valley and Its Ranches ---Farms and Dairies, Climbing the Sterra Majada-«sRock Cane on===The City of Puehlo. For Tha Tribune. Rositr, Col.,, at present bLut little known to Eastern people, bids falr to be one of the largest. mining towns In Bouthern Colorado. It fs situated fifty miles southwest of Pueblo, 1nld- way between the Hardscrabble and Sangre do Christo ranges of mountains, In what is known us the Blerra Majada range. The altitude is 8,600 feet above the sea-level. It was first Jald out as n town in 1873, when It had about 200 in- habitants. At the present writing there fa a population of over 1,500. Its supply of educa- tional advantages consists of a graded school for young ladics, & public, and o sclect school. Several religious societics have built kouses of worship that are now occupled by thelr respect- ive denominations. One newspaper, the Rosita dndez, 18 published by Mr. Charles Baher. There are four hotels that loox as if they were doing good husines, o city express, and a post- office, which has a dally mail. A small army of freighters’ wagons are employed to bring mer- chandlse from Pucblo. The growth of the town s due-to the RICH VEINS OF SILVER found In the surrounding hills or mouotalus, Silver was first discovered here In 1871, since which time there have been innumerable lodes located and recorded, and many of the mines have been developed and are producing ore In paying quantitics. The oldest and best devel- oped are the Pocaliontas, Humbollt, Virginia, and Leviathan, Tho first threa are located tipon a rich and extensive veln,—the Pocahontas be- ing down some 800 feet. It has two shaflts, two levels, sud a tunnel. A lato srsay, which was taken out of the 300-foot level, shows: silver £1,500, gold 349, and 20 per cent copper, to the ton. Thislsong of the six silver inines of Colorado that recelved o medal awarded by the Centennial Expusition at Philadelphis. The productivencss of the veln is ugpon an av- erare with all first-class yelns known to exist, and the quality of ore cannot be excelled, It has ertablished its Intrinsic value, and the value of thesurrounding district in which it 1ssituated. THE HUMBOLDT s upon the same vein, and s fully asrich as the, Pocahontas. The Minnebaba, prospected by Messre. Gibson, Rich & Camp, aud located uh the 30th of October, aseayed, fwo fect from the top ol the ground, two and a half ounces. These gentlemen are confldent that they have struck a rich and large-yiclding lode, and will work It until they are satisfied that they have been deceived by Mother Earth, orare mado millionafres. These mines aro all eaafly reached by wagon, and have timber and water In_abundance. ~All that is needed Is capital to push toward develop- ‘ment these enterprises, snd Rosita will be one of the most flourishing towns among the 8ierra .\ln’J:uh range. Copper and iron ore also abound in farge quantities. There {s already onc emelter in operation, at alittle town called Moorsville, sbout two miles from Hosita; and apother one s being estab- lished at Rosita,—the Pennsylvania Smelting Company, owned by the Humboldt and Virginia Company. This latter is expected to bein operation about the 1at of January. WET MOUNTAIN VALLET 1s situated between the Saugre de Christo and the Slerra Majada ranges, which ure met on our approach to the Rocky Mountains, This valley Is ten miles wide and thirty miles long, shun- dantly supplicd with water,whilc such timber ss cedar, cottouwood, onk, and quaking-ash sbounds, of cxcellent quallity and easfly obtain- ed. Portions of the valley liave been taken up by 8 bumber of energetic men, who are not dis- maged Ly the sight of anosw, which {s perpetual- Iy fu slghit about two miles away. Mr. G, Wheel- cr Las taken up a half-section, which ylelds abgut two tons of the finest upland huy to the acre, This land last year was not inclosed, and cattle roamed over it” at will the year round. Within two njles of the Bangre de Christo ranie, Mr, G. E. Gelsinger located o ranch some four years ago: and last year he was nble to produce 200 bushels of Early-Rose po- tatoes to the acre, some of which weigh two pounds s plece; also, bects and turnips, the average weight of which s from seven to ten pounds spicee, and oceasfonally oune in four that brings the scales down at six- teen pounds, In the same vielnity wheat is rafsed which gives forty bushels to the acre. In connection with the farm there {a A DAIRY that ylelds a handsomne proflt, Mr. Martin, the superintendent, Kindly permitted us to look fnto the mili-house,” There we saw rows of large pans filled with deliclous sweet cream, waiting to be made into hutter. The milk- house I built across a clear-running creck,—the floor bclmi mavyuble, to enable them to keep the butter solld fu warm weather. We saw a thou- sand or more pounds of rich yellow butter, as sweet as any ever turned out ol anr own Elzin dalry; and we recretted exceedingly that wo could not introduce some of these frigraut tea- pound rolls to our Chicago market, Game shounds in this rerlon, such ss grouse, prairie<hickens, white quail alsv, antclope, cinnamon-bear, black-tafled deer, and elk,—the lust two of which were crossine {he mountains at the time of avisit afew weeks spo, belng driven by the deep snows, which begin to fall as carly ss Octoberon the Sangye de Chiristo range, Tefore leaving Rosits, we climbed to an ele vated polat on THE BIERNA MAJADA, where n view was commanded of tho Sheep Azuntains on _the South, the Slerra Madre on wust, and the Ilardscrabble range on the uorth. The 8lerra Madre was covered with snow, while, where we sut, it was too warm for wraps of any kind, and the honcy-bea and black-ly were buzzing about our ears. We also hiad a fine view of Rosita, and many of the mines around it. After leaving the train, on our return to the East, we passcd over a wide plateau of land, where we saw _large herds of cattle grazing on what appeared st first ujm to be dried grass, but was in reality the much-talked-of Gramma grass, After & drivo of sbout twelve miles across this apparent desert, we cawe to the mouth ofa gulch, called ROCK CANON; and well Is it named, for high, stupendous rocks mict the gaze on cvery side. Wo were awed Into silent admiration of the handiwork of Nature,— perpendlcular rocks of 1,300 feet, without a hush or bracken to break thelr barefaceduess, Hedged in cmunlculty ut times, wo would think we could never get further on our way: but, golug another wagon-length, we would comne to & bend In the road, whereby we could see our way out of this rocky dilciuma, We followed the bed of 8 clear nountaln-stream, crossing aud recrossing it many times before we left the canon, Hlere and there, in sheltersd nooks, we found the speckled trout, and occaslouul); beavers dammnied the way. Thesun's rays pei trate thls gorge for about two hours euch day; and, when & suow-sturin cormcs, one can scarcely tell day from night, Leaving this canon, wa passed over another pluleluu of ubout twenty uilles, where we wers nearly BMOTHERED WIFIL ALKALI-DUST, untll the Arkuneas River wus reached. Therea change was met in the clemcuts, and wraps werein demamd. The storm, that had been brewing in the mountsins wll day, now reached us, sud pelted us without merey; and, to wld to our very unvomfortable situation, we must meet with'an accldent in the shape of the sundering of tho kingbolt of our conveyunce, ‘Ihis, uf course, neceasituted some Alter unloading ourselves sud belong- Ings, and replaving the pin with wood and ropes, we proceeded on vur way, aud reached PUEBLO at dusk, This city Is situated on the Arkansas River, and [y the termluus of the Denver & Rio Grande and the Topeka & Santa Fo Rallroads. Tt hus a population of over 5,000, aud its public schools will cowpare favorably with those of our uwn Garden City, They have just com- loted a buflding for educativual purposes, that Flas cust soune $40,000, which will' alford ample factlitics for thorough education to those who may cuter its halls. The city ulso bas charters ranted for gas-works und strcet-rmlways, und i‘. already supplicd with the Rolly syslcin of water-works. The storm having sbated, jwe exchauge our mode of couveyanve for the steain curs, aud we procecded un our wuy, passing over plalus cov- ered withsnow as far as the eye could reach, dotted here aud fthere with the' Spanish sword: grass (the root of which is used by the Mexjcans 28 a substitute for soap). Large bands of ANTELOYE 5 were seen rangiog the hills, and "created some excitement among the passengers, sud somo shots wero fired, but fell ‘just short of their fn- tended victims. We followed the fertile Vulley of the Arkausas River, snd on through tne southwestern part of Kansas, rich with fts fast- growing agriculture; and still oo, through the Btate ol Missourl, to our home fn Chicago, Lisv- ing passcd over 1,150 wniles of the most plctur- caque and varied sueucry i tho world. 1 am thoroughly convinced thal the Anterieas need not seelk the Old World to obtain his eed. . ed recreation, while he can find such grandi snd sublimity of scenery, and such & sofs and bleasing atmosphere, s arc contained ‘within the boundary-lines of the youngest lh;fr otco;nl Rs. Unifon. ————r— THAT SPRINGFIELD SEANCE, To the Editor of The Tribune, - - SrRI%arIELD, J1l., Jan, 4.—Io your Saturdaj’s fesue of tho 23d of December appeared s Jotter of which I was the subject. 1 large headlines which read se follows: ' Ex' posed—A Bplritualist Medium at Bpringfeld, - 1., Brought to Grief, and the Modna Operandf of Perforining the Tricks Explained.” As the headings indicate, the letter purported to be an’ expose of & certain mediumn who was none othee than myseif. The lctter appeared to have beenr: written by & person pretty well posted in the affair, or your corrcspondent has shown a re- markable adaptabllity to the business of ‘rés rting” or “tolerviewing " as s carried on at he present day. Even though the report ig correct In the main, there sre a few points to which I wish to call attention, and correct any :fl}s:dlmpreu(un which might bave been pro~ m):’); rt:?‘mfi]eeuim to the Ifi&er in r}uesflo]n 18y d CAre vi e, 80 1ar as 1 aj concerned, foyr the mm‘;rr’k, “that m re ance was not very prepussessing.! only eay that I was not personally consulted in that particular; but it ‘would surély indicate that your corresponident has never seen me. If Tins, Lie {s not of the oplnion of .my lady fricnds. 8o far ns reference to ray mother, I J:Ink that was out of place. For ccrtain faulis T possces. she s not to blame; her teachings were goods and, If not posseased of an abundant amount of ‘worldly ;fnodx. she has qualities of mind and lieart which more than compensate. Your correspondent was mistaken fn the name of the young Jady referred to as having been ene @aged in the traisaction, My motives for en< Eaging in this puerilc farce were varous: not slnply from the love of fun and Irolic (although I'do not claini to be exempt from & love of such things); uor was it my design Lo decelve, mis- };.;:1, (o'rt throw odium upon any one not deserv- e first (so-called) Splritual manifestations k ever witnessed I concelved to be a deception of such a tranaparent nature that only those who were go dull that they could not distioguish day from nlgm. or those who were determined to be fooled, but what would see durl( the wholo state of the case. It took s long tfme tocon- ¥ince me that any one sincerely believed in the nonsecse, purported as being reoplo who had taken thelr departure from this ife. But such was not tle case; men and women who were In the prime of intellectual life, people ot education and culture, openly and uncompromisingly proclalmed the! fef in the stupendous folly, Had it_been simfly & questlon of bellef, I "doubt {f I should cver have become notorlons through the medium of your excellent paper. What I had witnessed awakened in mea desire to know mors abong this phenomenon (as it s ulleda; to Jearn what it kad derelngcd, and of what benefit it was to mankind, I had )SM opportunitics toread and observe, which I' did, and became fully con- ¥inced that there was 1o substantia) init, but the tendency rather bore to the opposite alde. What has Spiritualism developed? Nothing. It has been tried to bo utlllzcd?len finding loEl cows and treasures; but a colored boyonamule, or a poor detective, even, have been found far preferable, as far as results are concerned. Enterprisiug mediums have among the won- der-Joving attalned somo notorietyin the lecture field, In the show business, and in the practice of tricks and deceptions of varlous kinds, but they have, as a general thing, come to grief by exposure. ho f.mndpll inducement with me in entering upon this work was to expose thia class of vampires that are derlving a support from the credulous class of people, My chosen profession, even in Illinols, the thiird State n the Union in polnt of material Frenlnno, 1s not guarded in any way. The law uterg‘?:el no barrier to Ignorance and {ncapac- ity. 1s I contend {s & wrong to the profes- lon, aud a greater wrong to the people. Whera other callings and professions are protected, that of medicine {3 not; hence the number in f¢. remarkable only for thelr want of Intelligence ’-nd |lm:k of capacity to rise above their present evel. . Spirituallsm fornishes a large show of auch pretendera,—at least a Jarge sbare of them. tlaim to be Spiritualists. I can clearly seo that humbug and” deception would offer’s shortor road to a livelihood, and perhaps to s com- ctency, If pushied with vigor; but I don't think t tho best or more certaln way, for I bellcya such things will not last. £ don't belleve there is any real excellence without labor. It may with ‘aa much propriety be claimed that the #pirits_could make a good blacksmith of i {riend Burchctt, without the waste of scveral long yearsof irksome, unpald labor in his ap- renticeship, as that they can make good pro- esslonal juen out of such undisciplined ma- terlal. Apy reasonable person: would as soon cxpect that spirits would make a profound scholar out of a blockhead as that they would make a good doctor out of such. This'ls ons of the subjects upon which mankind are partica-. larly credulous aud easily imposed upon. Somae of the ways of these long-haired and longer-earéd healers, amid thelr [ncantations, would causs an Indlan Medictne-Man to laugh; ho would think Lie was not the greatest fool in the world, and I would think so, too. I never tried to exercise my healing power fn this absurd wey, because I think it would be s criminal deception. I expect continued stud and patient application only to bring the requi- site for a reaponsible position. Yet I doubt not I could do It more adroltly than these Jumsy pretenders, I will add, by way of parenthesis, that most, it not ult, the belicvers iu this nonscnse, in case of polsoulng, or a bleeding vessel, would atonce consult a physician or surczeon. In il 1 “did undertako (and my range wae reasonably wide) I succceded, and was proe nounced a success, and fully {ndorsed by Spire ftualists por excetlence, us ono of the most brille fant mediuma. Whether my acts have beor :-mmficndahh.- oruot, 1 will leave to the publiy 0 judge. . B l’dcny belug exposed, ss_your correspondens stated, " I had determined to expose tho whole thing that nhf‘h: anyhow. If the faithful choee to magaify this nonscnae into somethlug super~ uatural, it was not iy fault. lh-fievlluuy. Uronran 1. WiiguTr, et MA VOURNEEN, MA CREE. * Oh! bad I first met thee when fond Hope was twine Iler n\rfiml wresth ‘round my free, careless e urt,— A heart wildly dreaming, never divialng How through'teard thu bright visions woold ssdly onie by spirits of. - ‘The Jetter bora . hE, 5 i { [ 1 depart: ' Jlad 1 met thee when bright fnthe distance was . leaming nj Love, like s atar o'er » calm summer-ses, Alt thenlsd my neart uever waked from {tadresme In, To lflfl't:"l snd angulsh, Ma Vourneen, Ma Creo! Ma Yourneen, Ma Vourncen, that ssd heart (¢ breakings ‘Thou urt gone from me, Lo And L from a falve dream y 1knew not I loved thee, Ma Vaurneen, Ma Cree! But my kmnl cchoes now cvery word that wae upoken o As yoi bevatbed yoar Tast kiss oo my celd, dewy TOW 1hare w:,h o'er my heast I} ta laat chord s roken— 1 feel that | love thee, my lost Dermot, mow! ‘Thou art :anlu thou art gomel The blue waves are heaving Beneath the light barque that 18 bearing thea far Y::mlhl nomg nlnuqluv'd oues. Aly lons beard I+ weavinj Pright vialons for thes, Oh1 bright md the atar € ls wave 'That {a gulding thee on where the freo O'cr the'fur.distant **Land of the Brave and the Gulde fi’e'- ssfo o'er tho mad waves that ‘rovad o taving, Oer ‘x_ui"li.?u Sea‘at trouble, Ma Vournees, Ma Ureo croes the wide ses, 1 king— Thou art gons! thou art gone! The blueskyln ladnicas T sotlly reected fn you silttarlng wave: 1ts Lrightness 1o shadow'd—my young heart io sad. - Is lled with the deep, mouraful thomghts of the rRve; Eartts loveliness fadisg, my spirit tarns pining Away from the Present (0 the beautlful Pas Till "Hope whispers, My Own, that a bright silver in ath eac:fn‘gh\omy cloud, that will light o'erus cuat Ma \';:nmn_ul tho light from the dark cloud le ' Earth's radiant shecn ls now aded aad disn, Volces from the lose, walllog tomb are soft ealls ing My uawme in tones sad a2 & funers] hymn. Al{fl s grave, Love, my beatt is, where Wo's droop+ 1og willow Bends lgw' J'er the tomb where hopes witberand op: The r:nl-c?‘}uuu of gladness, like yon gleaming o oy, . But bides the Beart's angulsh, dark, dreary, and "t deep. S s 3, Trom the recelpts f cotton'at 1t 18 estimated, from the ts of cotton af the sbipping polnts Quring ufc frst sixtecx weeks of the prescat coltou yeur, that the cxop is 4,500,000 balcs, which {5 lerger than “aoy previvus wop sluce L§ily cxcopt that uf laas year. % R