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re-cehived alona the hoct of the owl, rnd crles of tnonkeys aud parrots, that ahound o groat numbers here. In this fzittol gloom of for- 2t awed fn close eonepanbmshin of beasts, lute, with nere and the hulldiug having | food, until June 23, 1875, when they were placed some pretension to European stvle sud | in aglass jar with some chickweed and other wtructure. [ta tall palm ad l‘lnt‘h\' tries, -;»vl tender plant-food, and a litile tepld water to thsbeautilil gl foy wive 3t | create n humid atmosphere. Presently the snafls Shantom city to the vision of the weary and roused from their lonz sleep of two years two ‘u-nl-np ressod traveler, as he emerges’ from | months and rixteen dave, and resumeil thelr the sandy plains of the desert.” ‘The dressof | activity. At thedate of writing, onc was stiil the Borber women Is very primitive,—that of | giive and healthy, although sluggish. '::‘:f{::d";:;","ffr“‘.“z eulely of a leather | py jeny Mr, Btearns bronght to the notice of rtosin fs the great ontrepot of the prod- the Colifornia Acsdemy of Scicnees a still more t Central Africa, and 18 8 place of much | remarkable case, A Tieliz veatchit, from Cerros LITERATURE. re ul( pravoked tho dires re: cives from the apectator ver: Mulcnrnp Without coming nto conffizt with hostl savages, ho entered the confiues of Ugun- da, the terrftory of the friendly Mitse, | ever and anon, whether elephant, Hon, or le o Y O nerer 1o cacott Iink | ardcrorsod wie ythy § eatl ty mgaotfs depe, 10- tuthe capital, Over ronds that had beon whlen- | deod, i3 the Afriea of 7 boslai Taney l—n fiett ed and ewept I honor of the strange visimr, | on earth, whore rleh veretation andilwers, like Col. Lone ‘journeyq) until lalied to awalt the | the npas-tree, breathe polson and death! Heal- @ villace Yor his ocoupation, near the | fered here and there over this dark, slient for- reldence of M'tse. On _the 20th of June, all | eat-road, were human ekullsy in fat, every vreparations belng complete, he proceeded to [ memver of the Immzuan tods, belonelnyg to those the Rognl habitatfon. Thonsands of patives | wretelies that had heen sncrificed 1o prevent my called that the remedy had heen kriow onz tima in Germany. -Recently M. de Ches varrier has sent to the French Entomological Society, from Gabas, in Tunle, two specles of B bectles helonging to the Meloliw (Me'or theelus and Mylahrix tenelrosa), which are employed by the people of Amerna In cases of rables, The welght of agrain of corn is given to the patlerit hetween the twenty-firat and tiventy-seventh ® days after the bite. ~ If administered before or nfter these dates, the efficacy of the curd ia sup- [msvfl to be destroyed, The remedy s men- foned in several anclent Arablc works on medi- Hrn., po v. Chicago? daneen, McCli £1.67. Volumes VIIT, and IX. of the fllustrated el tion of the works of Dickens, published by Mersrs Hurd & Ioughton, fnclude ¢ Barnaby Rudge™ apd *Hard Times" The neat awd clegnnt s*'yle of hin edition commends it unre- servediy to tho favor of bouk-busers, “Fho last number of the ITouzchold Editlon of Dickens, from the houze of Harper & Hircs., comprices f one volume ¥ Pletures from Ttaiy, Col. Long’s Travels in Central Africa. Visit to King M'tosa-—"' Naked bordered his path, o cateh thelr flrat | further progress,—to dewer e from Jeaving | TUPEE 3 A 5 AR Zial setivity. Its population numbers | Tstand, lived without food from 1859 to 1805, a | tine. . " Dt . . ¥ Sketelies by Buz, and ¢ American Notes, ot - e et J y Truf N (-3 limpse hite _man. Never bel p 24,000 to 39,000 rouls. “Tho strect e ths of Naked Peopl Ellmpse, of o whily man, ~ Nover Veloro | Uiindall o the manitold atficultion oppon | The ik tiw warks ars asteated by Artbur B, e, i | Poriod of six sears. Mr. Stearns calls attention BRIEF NOTES. Observatlons made doring the past century in all Istitudes show that the years distingutshed by n maximum of spotson the sun colnclde very closcly with those marked by exceptionally se- vere hall-atorms and an unusual helght of the great rivers. Prof. Fritz, of Zurich, has lately confirmed these observations by a comparison of annua! meteorological statiaties, The maxl- e ;mm; of solar-spots occurs ab intervals of cleven cat M. Marlott! has eent to the Roman Academy i some notes on the rate of utteranco of certain Itallan orators. It was cstimated that Do . Lon, 7 Joaka down upon the water from a_bluf-like el- | 10 the fact that the enails which have exhibited evation: hors and there arc the stately palm- | extraondinary vitality inhabit reglons which are trees and large gardens of citron nnd " orauge- subject to drought or are nearly rainless, Th troox, whilst the neatly-whitewashed construc. | L0 kpecies which have come under his ol by minaret and mosque, give |t | tlons arc fournl in particularly dry locallties in yptian city. The strects sro lr- North Ameriea; while the famotis speciinen of Fegtar, nacrow, and badiy-draineds and thus, | the Zidiz descrtorum, found alive in the British in the ratiy seaton, great pools of stagnant war | Muscum after a fust of four sears, {8 n nativeof ter throw o thelr déadly miasma, wenerting | the sterile arcas of Africa auid Asfa. From this the fevers that are sthl prevalent, but are sear- | clrcumatance, Mr. Stearus concludes that the Iy breuming less frequent. Certainly, outside land-tnollusks which * Inhabit these areas have, of the city, or on the oppaite bank of the river, | through eelection. adaptation, and cvolution, in the dosert, I belfovo it to beperfectly healthy, | become eapecially fitted for the cuntinzencics of Tho European prpulntion fs_composcd princi- | thele habitat, and possess a greaterdearee of vio pally of Ureek and n few Itallan morchanta, | tality or nlul]l,r to flve without food than related Frots and the last, * Amerlenn Notes,” by the vigorouy and original pencil of Nast. el bt and, as Col, Jong rode on his falthful | fug the undertaking, Col. Lonz_ suveveded fn stowd, which had carrled him overall thie diM- | navigating the White Nije from Uromtozant Lo cutt ground from Gondokoro, the amagement | Mrooll. e discovered that hetween these tvo of the people was immense. AL the requcst of | points the river passea throtw] ens Into, the Kiug, who stood at tho outer uale of his | ¢ brond lake, witeh he named Lake [irbim. AL palnce to weleome his guest, the Colonel gave [ Mrooll ho it a derperate. fizhit with a horde of an cxhibition of -the paces 'of the animal on | the tribe of Kehn Reza: = hut, —with which hie wna mounted., \Whennt last heleaped | his rifics and _explosive bullets, he was from his saddle, the surpriso amd detight of the | able to wrest victory from the natlves were exchanged for ‘affright, as until | snvages, who were armel with lances onls. sthen thoy had suppored man and horse to bo | Arrived at Fouelra, the mo:t southern oulpost one animal, ol t}lo (llul'crlllfmnl uf (lunllnknlr'n. lllln juunmz The following day Col. Long was recolved by | to the latter place was comparatlvely casy. Mtse o nlntc.z'l‘lmy nalace t?( the Kimr o | reached Gondukoro the 18th of (M.o\mr.{m'luu surronnded by scven hizh walls, separated by accomplished the teip of 43 miles to Utrunda — Farly Times in Sangamon County, HL— * “The Deep Snow” and * Tho Sudden Change.” PRIMERS, ES AT BOUTH KENSING. « APIY, (Two Lecturen.) By Capt. Anar, R $.0 B2 S RINEMATIC Mub . Two lLectnrer.) Ry Peof. Kexxeoy, C. E., Unlversity College, Jam- don, SOUD AND MUBIC. (Two Leclurcs.) By Dr. V. ETnx: W, It ¥ WIHAT THE EARTH 1S COMPOSED OF, By Prof, Mnacar, F. 1t 8. Deliverd in Manches- tar. October, 1970." Faper, lLondon and New Yark: Macmillan & Co,” Chieayo: Jansen, Me- e Trial by Jury-=<Dickens’ Workse=« Science===Primers==-Poems of Places. 7 el 8 how s enfechled | Clirg & Co. Price, 20 centd per volume. Phiefly cnuaged in the sale of sriues, raki, beer, | forms in what may be considered more eavora- | Foresta pronounces sixty wonds in 8 minute, i m‘:fm‘: of'{.“":fi;&’;,’ :{,‘5";.{‘[!,“'.‘.}';‘.l}""’g'.,.';'f f.‘: 'fi'“&‘;‘éé;"fi‘i,"g‘.‘."},‘é'.’.. g},l ".fi,’,‘.?,é‘i,,,pclm contdi- *[hie tectures in the first three of Lhicee brochures | ¢ ,..,..;1 Truits, meats, anid veucmhlci, thie Araly, | bie reglona.” By reason of thelr lotiz sleep or Masslmo &’ Azaglio ninety, (Hoberti 100, Rataz: " by the inneriost palisade stands the mansion | tlon, and two days liter ftarted for Khartonm | were delivered befors the pupils in the sdentifte | Turk, and Copt controlling, tili of late years, | hibernation, during which there fslittie waste | 150, Mamell 180, and Cordova210. it Is possi- 1 Longerlty of Snaily Withoot Foot—Nest-Salling | by tis inpermost paiisads stande tho, mansiont | p:scite e bt of ‘o whance of cliuatt, | courso at Soutts Konelngton, and arc of s high | the Dumlovce slement, Lt Sop, S of 'sital forse, thay® ata enabled o maintain | ble'to pronounceln tha Itallan tnizno 300 words Fishes-~Commensalism-Prehistoric licre a8 frregular soldiers,’ or fvory-hunters for | thelr hold upon ifo when niors highly-organ- l"""""" bya row of columns fu the interivr. With health considerably restored, hie retirned in a minute. Glbbon once observed that a faclle o roet " ' alatinguiened visitor, | the 20 Gondokoro in Decumlzer, Early n tha fol- oaler of merit. The fourth pamphlet contains the Interior uf Afrien, by tho_ fvory-merchants, | ized sulinals would inevitably perleh. English orator pronounced 7,200 In an hour,— Rining. famous Mtse cmme to the door of | lowing year ho madg a tour of expluration b lln::c nd{nllrlx‘allflfle?lrlnrlnl«:nfitl:llcrtr;l;:lllz!lfic';\ltfifi who arm, equip, and turnlsh them with the nect ——— L. e,y 120 {n 8 minute, ond two in a second. T hls palace, disclosing o figurc thus por- the Makraka Niom-Niam country, an secount of | prepared £oF L unders| ug of non-sclentillc | cepary *sucsuc? (heads) and other trumpery for TUE GOURAMI. Prof. Aqasslz, who hias heen studying the cole thascd ¢ 110 nppears 05 years of g | which occuplos the Jatter part of Yiis volum Bepenrss. Tliey, ‘use all fllustrated with Hine | which Ivory 18 exchnniced by the ssvage. A pal- | The method by which the Gourami (Asphrone- | lectlons mada by the Challencer Expedition, re- ~ LITERATURE. certainly more than #ix fect hihs s face 14 [ Tho narrative of Col. Lony 18 Intcruatin als, [/ oudcUts, et aco and scyeral weil-bulls govermnent bulldings® | oy o1y one of the nest-bullding Gsncs, cre- | Ports that hic has never ezamined any nicoholic CENTHAL AUNILA, fl?.c'“fiii‘...’;‘iflmi?fi’n‘?.fi‘:fi'i'ui-’r'w'ffe'fy-‘-’ffii Wi and othor “irato o alorers, Hume (huria | POEMS OF PLACES. Edited by Losarzitom. | crathat lic alongade.’” tully obrerved in his private aquarum by M. ?;H,'::{:,;:{t,‘“',’,{ °:;?,:'Efl‘g'e .‘;"‘:‘n';’e}gr'l‘(“‘fi“"‘"' i CENTRAL AFRICA: Naxep Taurnn or Naxen | (1) fon; hls feature s ymDe | of noveity must pertain to uil ecorda of travel | - EwiXer—Vel, 1, Insrr aan Saveroyol, Tl tiegro, altiough possessine a country in- | Carbonnier. We borrow the account of the | properly would require the dilizent Jabs ' g {:“:""‘rk#;,.fi“fi',’,fl,'}' O s co Elglxl"”:le:l!‘fig"hl“:v&;?f‘l“l;h{nrfi"r i drosscd | In Central Afrlen, olthoughy tiey luve nu diu El‘-&?"!}flié‘&}%‘-‘ffim‘i"fi‘m‘ Jomer 'H:‘;"’;‘,‘ habited by the elepliant, jarafle, and ““‘;{""' process from the columns of Nafure: “The | sinzle herson torqsnnmyeur elfi?y i 4 R O A A Sancntoanan | It a Jong clonk, common {n fushion to that wom | portaut discoveries o report far’ the betefL 88 1 per votume. 91| and ownlui L cor e goat, ol U sheep, 88 | 1oty antmal constructs anent of frotl of con- | #I1 be istributed, by Bir, Wyrlle Thompeon & s Y e At Lane, of e e e i teh L o2 | Jeada o & e oot s capacity for souud | Thesecliolecompifations by Longfellow bring | yny of them a8 a'beast of burden. The cow i | siderable size, fifteen to cighteen centimetres B et "’»'xn 1 il clalty (s | tho Egyptian sian. | Husirated from Gol. Lot | Loxturo g wf bluo eloth trimuned W BOME | (Ll fnente, and feds th lossen the trastworti- | togethr fn a naturaiand convealent ansoclatton | kept by most trlhes sl or it T leesito e | horizontal uiametr, aud fon 1o twelve contls | " x oy hls supervislon. K Harpor & Bros, Chlcago: “ndlny Dros. & Co. white turbans his wafst encireled by o belt In | hess of what e styles with a charasteristle | tie gems of songz which commemorate famous | forining no part of their diet. The animal fs re- | wetres fn helglit. e prepares the bubbles in nte paper read hefore the London Linnwean i On the departura of Col. C. B. Gordon, C. B, of the Royal Enginecra of tho agllsh army, from Cairo for Gondokoro, the scat of govern- ment of tho Equatorfal Provinces of Epypt, over which Lie had been appointed Gavernor on thio resfgnation of 8ir Bamuel Baker, Col. Long, cl ot whiich {8 suspended | flourish % Naked Views of Noked Peo ple,' 5”?:1:!‘:!‘3{‘:&‘::1‘5};&,‘;:[1 tcc't"lnrle lnunsml tn | Itis book I accumponied with a iap and 1us- sandals of Moorish pattern procured fruin Zanzi- tratiuns, and s printed fa consse type that Is bar. He ndvanced to meet me, with @ graceiul | very gratefut to the cycs. salutation, 0a I diamounted from ¢ Ugunda,’ to —— whom nlternatcly his oyes wandered with al- BANGAMON COUNIY, ILLISOIS._ sarded” by the suvages as In some sensen eacred | ¢34 a1 (which he sucks in 4 ¢ i s . While Col. and then expels), ff.:,‘,‘g‘ :J.", “}:‘:}&Ef “fl;ur;‘.fi.fi" at Fflfk,,,u,, strengthening them with mucous matter from pativa one duy brougnt him 8 gourd of | his mouth, and brings them Iuto the nesm. milk. Burnbig with fever,” ho writes, L | Bomctimea the buceal secretfon will fall him, drainea at one draught o goblet full of the " fouming _futd, crc the sense of tasto whercupon he goes to the' bottom fn scarch of Boclcty states that 254 species of butteiflics have or pleturesque lozalitics In varied lande. These been thus far eaptured in Malaccn. Of these, ¥ 1nat two numbers are filed with poems which take for thelr themes secnes and cvenls oceurs ring within the boundarles of France snd Savos., The editor disclores in these volunies how dili- wently hie has gleaned n the broad flelds of thirty-six are endeml, rixty-five are common s Aseam or Nepaul, thirtyight to Monlmein, thirty-three to Ceylon, nincty-four to Pensng, forty-six to Slngapore, l to Sumatra, cighty-seven to Java, thirty-uine to 12 to_Borneo, forty-ono most an expreesion of fear, that gave me the | [ISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF 8 bocsy, and how lear-seaiiig 9 is recognition some conferve, which ho sucks and bites f : # AR LLOE 9 o A¥y oar- detect the nuuseous mixoura my stotn- 'y s fora twenty-six o China, twa to New Iebrides, an American and ?n En\llh(uranr. [;flm h‘ugmb;ex; 'l']‘l“l:"if,’é‘g?ol.'!“““’ rugtanlied g 84 frosit from Hr\a‘l‘l’{: wllf'\}}l L.\u(\ng:ls.‘l'un;::xf\i, 8 of heauly fn the siructure and sentiment of :.fi',f‘},,,aé"?cr' .‘l..k.’,‘:|,“,'-’¢',hcfi'm|_ ,,“x'mgfl.,l in | lttie, in order to stimulate the act of sccrction. x to-Australia. From this it ecems that - soms yoars an oflicer ol 10 eneral ul P mctrical voinpositions. A, Powen, Under the lolent retcling the unsavory potlon, seven- | The nest got reudy, tho femnle 1y induced to elizhtlis of wmfi. was ,mmly‘th{;muflnc of the | enter. .\‘fu leas curious Is tiie way In which the cowl—a practice, by-the-by, common to aill male brings the eg from” the bottun Central Rmmnn, Wwho mever drink itk | Into the nest. He sccus unable Lo bring them untens thus taixed. This fetlsh and | upfuhls mouth; lostead of this, he first takes superstition thercby Insurcs ‘:rolcctlun for the | 10 an sbundant supply of alr; then, descendine, cow, liere, o8 on the Buhr-cl-Ablad (White Nile), | ho places himself” vinder the coes and, all ut mysterlously connected with the unknown: g | onee, by a violent contractlon af the muscles In shadow possthly of the old Eyyptian worship.” the interfor of the mouth and pharynx, he forces To supply the need of avimal food, the tribes | out the alr he had accunulated, by ‘his gills. aloug the Nile feed upon the ants which infeet ‘This air, finely divided or pulverized, In some the eounteys Col. Luiigonce observed the man- | surt, by the lamellm nud fringes of the gille, cs- catehingt these fnsects, which wos us fol- | capes fu the form of two jets of veritable gas- luws +Seated around an_aut-hols were two | cous puwder, which envelops the eges and ralscs very pretty maldens,whowith sticksbeatuponnn | them to the surfoce, In this maneuvre, M, inverted gourd-* bourtnah," in cadenced time to Carbonnler savs, the Gouram| quite disappeared anot unmusical sung, that seduced from fts | ina kind of alr-mist, and, when this had dsal- hotu the unwsry ant, who, appruaching the Eatml.lm reappeared with n inultitade of alr- orifice, was quickly sclzed, and pushed (ito a | bubbles, like little pearls, clinging all over his mu‘s of u“J' 1o prc\;int l‘:nh eu;: ?.Tn;erc to 7 await 8 suflicient number with which to furin o repust," ‘The epa of the crocodlle are regard- COMMENSALISM. cd ns o great detleacy, snd, in the dry season, In many of the classes of the antmal kinzdom telbea In the vicinity of the Nilo resort to the | there arc species which are unable to maintain mf[ u‘gil Iem lut&;é‘v’:{lflf&‘l’l“ffl:lmy upon this | yye strugglo for existence without help from The ‘fnhabitants of Ugunda wear o simple others. Some of them live entirely at the ex- garment of cloth manufactured from the bark | pensc of thelr nulehbore, aud are wnercly para- of 2 gpecics of wild fig. Tho strips are sewed | sites. Othiers simply bnjoy the protecting com- toguther neatly into & large plece, which I8 worn | pantonship of those tnore favored than them- like the Romai toga—this two ends Im\n;f tied | ocee and aro called m . Lozether over the left shoulder, The Rivngl Ves, At cssmules, or com- and Unyorl tribes, in muny cases, wear the sanio | mensale, beeauso they ehare the food of their garment: yet the great” portion go cutirel hosts. Mr. Fritz Muller has lately dlscovered naked. The men of the Barl tribe muke no at- | gt Itajahy, Brazil, o new case of commensalism tempts at covering the persond but the women ! \rc:?nzlnuu With strips of fincly-cut leather in two caterplilars, which he describes Ina letter T et front, and a long bushy tall reaching | Published In Nature, *The larger eaterpillar,” Liangluge i front, anda Lo b s cover th | lic writes, “sith red licad, protected by lon, skin with u coating of grease and vxhde of fron, | branchy stinzing.bairs or thorus, lives on mul- alter removig nli the hulr from the head an berry and other trees, Like other caterpiilars iy, The F men wear a small skin of the | protected frum enemies by odor, stinging-halrs Teopiard, wild-cat, of deer, across the shoulder, | or otherwise, it sits on the 'upper_side gt leaving the reat’ of the poreon exposed. An | the leaves, and s light-colored, the head claborate head-lress coustitutes tho entlre | red, the "lorns white, Across its back, wardrobe of the women, between fts thoras, there sits & small blackish “Ihe inkubitonts of the Nlam-Nlam country mwr}»lllnr' protecting itselt by the thorns of Incase the legs, arms, aud neek withsteel, brass, the larze companion, 1 took oft the small or copper rings, and plait the halrin namerous caterpitlar from the largo-one, but it soon ve- 4 Vife, Mre, S. Tlic ceremony of presentatfon accomplislied ’}{ “{" W T e et Baaty . Rpuaro Mtse del 1o his Royal seat at the cn urpices of tho Oid Eettlera’ f ¥y B e e s wiich was thrown, | etavo pe- 77, Speiugicids Bhwiu A wlhion a cloth wrought fu gold, formed the Royal | §ir, Power lins devoted somewhat mora than i:l‘{l‘:;:: nE::“:v’fn l‘g;lvfiq lfl“"‘f&‘l‘fi?‘fifi!’vfl’fl‘,‘wfi four vears to the prepuration of this work, aud s y v whiteness, o8 If_to say, ‘Zn | hns, 08 the result of fo much labor, avcumus I::«’:?:;:‘.‘:‘f-:;f-;‘.“““"y Cul.. Lmu;' was fvited to sit Inted, and presented In syatematic form, o large I the pressiy ohis King-_ton l;fl{\:;";fvg; amount of readable and Interesting materlal re- ¢! Ry o a mortal e % betorg oo 0 e e followed, during | LWing to the bistory, of e carly gruths of beiiich the Colonol scannod with obsorvant eyo | Sanwamon County. 1he plan of the hook the Hall of Justice,” in which the audietica that of o blogsaphical dietlonary, in whichare was held, The sides and cefling of the large | ranged tn alphabetical order persunal sketehes, ered with cotton cloth, on which | remintscences, and ancedotes, more or less ex- the hrand, *V oy ped. n“;:"‘_;::"l’;;flnfi'yf,;:z“gflfl;:fifl:; tended, of all tho resldents in the county pre- suttoners of the King. vious to the date of Dec. 31, 1840. Prefacing ”“”r‘f-‘:fi.‘:’ “.'1'5.“&’a'if.fi;‘. t‘:{{::lu“"llnnlflflhl,"' wera | the main hody of the book is a concise nceount f! (am,-lnlnu lr:p 'urlnm'el “rith ‘:I'llg g}.nrfn :[: of the leading cvente fu tho organization and hrul n thelr gleaning eyes, el . Dhick board ¥ that showed tcm fo bo of soino “"gl:“;'}"&:[,:::“:;':"::hm Hiaidanta g tio forelgn origin. Their dress consisted ‘ol a e ool pantaioon of red and black Rannol with black [ introductory record fs that of ‘“Tho Decp stripes, bordercd with black: a tunic of | Snow # which fell throughout Central Illinois {fil.l flnnn&ill xm‘“l;mckwhrvfi'\lx:fi,z ‘L;u;nl,m at tho close of the year 1830, Prealdent Sturt- e acroas the Liredst, HOMW L& evant, of Ilinols Coileze, s quoted as sayhus of o peculiar nonkoy-akiu h” red cloth turbany | or'ihig weathor which Iulio\vcdqllxn glorni s )"I,z aroundd which is wound in tasteful coils a finely- L lulted rape-cord,—badgo Tnd. instrument. ot | 188 consolation that such a winter ihas nover oc: r/ % curred but once in the memory ofman. o« o #r';:}f::s?du(gxwhuugg&xfisn&mr:r:‘:l‘:* ’.ffi'u“' In the interval between Chrl{tmnl, 1850, and 4 Januar) 1531 snow fell over Centtul icmbers of the Court allowed to wear this | Tiiindic ta a dopth of fully three feet on n fovel, color. ‘Then came o ratn, with weather sa cold that it At tho closo of tho audlence, tho immolation | frozo as it fell, forming a crust of lee over this of o fow of lis Majeaty's subects took place, | threa fect of snow, neatly, ([ not quite, strong s un auguet finslo of an imposiig ceremonial, | enyugh to boara man; and, fnally,0ver thiscrust #3tau suddenly roso from his scaty o slight | of fue there was n few fnclics of Very lieit snow, but slenificant contraction of the eyo bad caused | The clouds passed away, ovd the wind tlie disappearance of the * Marsalal,’ \ho, quitk | come down upon us from ‘the northwest with to do thelr master’s will, snatehed from their | extraordivary ferocity, For seeks, certainly turbans tho plaited cord, and, selzing thelr un- | pot fess thm twwo wieks, thy mereury in thie reaisting victims, to the number of thirty, amid | thermometer-tul.e was not, io any ono worning, howls and fearful yells, crowned in bload tho | hizher than 12 dugrces below zero. This stiow- slgnal lionor of the white man's visit to M'tae.” | fall produced’ constant sieizghing for ninc Phis fearful human sacrifico terminated each in- | weeks," ‘Fhe snow ond the cold were exceed terviow which Col, Long had with tho King dur- | jnly destructive to deer, I.urk»{s. and otlier ing his residenco at tho Court. wild game, which died ot starvation. u the gurden near tho palaco was situated Yet o still more extraordinary freak of the Malacean butterflies preponderate to India. The Sumimncr School of Blology in connection with the Peabody Academy of Scfen t Salemn, will be resumed during the present year, Tho sesslon last scason was so succesefuf as to war- rant the permanent establishment of the fnst(- tutlon. A Summer School in Geology will bo conducted durine slx weeka in July and Angust, by Prof. N. 8, Shaler and Mr, Willlam N, Davis, #f.y 8l the Muscum of Comparativa Anatomy fn Cambridge. A fortnight wiil be spent in pre- varatory work, after which the thne will be oc- cupied [n feld-study In Massachusctts and MNew York. ‘The loss uf Iife and property caused by tho late cyclone-wave in Bengal has arouscd o ges- eral Teellug dn Indla and England that tho phenomena of these storms should be studied with reference to the protection o! the peoplo againat thelr recarrence. It 1s suzueated that o line of meteorological statfons ne cstabiished along theAndian cnast, with a full equipment of instrments. It s belleved that, by a care- ful system of observations cartind on at these stations, the laws governiuz the cyclone may be, In no long time, rlcm’l{ understood, aud thelr octurrence foretold, so that measures may be taken In geagon to prevent exteusive damago belng wrought by them. e et— MR, RANSOM TO '’ INDEPENDENT.” To the Editor of The Tridbune. ATLAKTA, Ia., Feb, 6,—The comments which you made upon my communication of the 20th ult. on the questlon of arbitration, while not re- garded as quite fair, wero not objectionable when coupled with the modifications of your article which called it out, and as controversics with the editors of great journals like Tz Trisuxr are not profitable to the proprictor, nor generally entertalning to the public, I for- Lore to cumber you with arcjoinder, But some remarks made by one * Independent ' in your Isaue of the 24 lust., referring In terms uncom- pliinentary to myself and Mr. Marvin, scem to the Egyptlan army, was designated as Chlet of 8tafl of the expedition, Tho party put them- seives en route for Gondokoro Feb. 24, 1875, travellng by rallroad to Suez, thence by steamer to Sonakitn, on tho Red Sca, and by camel ncross the desort tract of 238 miles botween Suez and Berber, on the Nilo, and from there on to Khartoum by sall. The Journoy from Cuiro to this Jast polnt was sccomplished In twenty days and without any uncommon adventure, After a stay of a few days In Klinrtoum, now acity of between 20,000 and 80,000 inhabitants, the routa was resumcd to Gondokoro, 1,000 miles sbove, ot the White Nile. The river was now navizablo il tho way by steamer,—the mass of matted grass which entfrely obstructed the passage of Sir Samuel Baker, lu 1870, having ‘been very recently removed. The tremendous task had been performed by a battalion of Boudan soldicrs, under the command of the Governor-General ot Khartoum. “The ua- wicldy, putrid mass of vegetable matter, ofter tbrea weeks of {ndefatimable labor, ylelded to the offorts of the devoted ‘Land, many of whom fell o proy to tho malarla, malignant fevers, and dysentery, or, livinz still, arc victims to tho dread *gulnes-worm,’ that in- {cats the watcr and warslics of thesg rivers. At the momont that the tightly-wedged mass of +5od! rave way, a mass of hippopotawmt, with which tho river from this polat to its source was wonderfully full, wore borne fn Its fnextrl- cable embrace, pressed in and crushed to a jelly, whilst the air resounded with thele horrld and terrified roars. A Nilo boat was carricd away at the samo time, and disappeared beneath the crash of *sod,’ that now with scvered frogments was to drift away with tho current," A lino of seven steamers of light draft, which had been brought from England by Sir Bamucl Baker, wos at this thne established on tho river, —— BOOKS RECEIVED. A PRINCRSS OF THULK: A Nover. By Witi- 1431 sck, Anthor of < Madeap Violet," etc, 1tmo., pp., 404, Ruw York: Harper & Droe, Chleao: J{adlcy Brox. & Co. ~ Price. 81,10, MADCAP VIOLET: A Noven, Dy Wittian “of ¢4 Daughier of leth,* ete. Paper. New York: Harper & Bros, Chicapo: Hadley liroe, & Co. Price, 75 cents. TIE SUN-MAIN: A Roaxtr. iy tho Author of Asliste o elc, “baper. 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Inorder to take | cal TR e e U | U et WISTREE A | pelle TR I | oo, - | it T G 6 BGEEER | 2 e i o | Sl i Pty i, T s it o okoro (a ncs Ol mifles), in the o en Change,” which occurred Dov. 20, 1880, The AT ECEIVED. e v lng | aniesttetized with ether; ft recovere ! g Scrvice ot the Equatorlal Provhices, The | shuwn through the harcin, aud tho curlous in- | moruing swas mild, with a settled ruln' ecaduatly T slinrpencd to s point, snd, by frequent rubblug i red again ho and his fellow-advocates of the compromise with o stick, broad ne assago Lo tho latter post was made by mutes gathered about him in a spirit of friendll- | changlug the anow on the grouud {nto a miser- -the expedition in twenty-six days. The country ness. * They surrounded me," anys Col, Lont, | able siush, * Suddenly o binck cloud came are kept bmul.i!ull{- white. The | sowmewhat, but after two days it died. The o kobt beaatifally U, oss | suisller caterpillar has mow Tefe Its uiave o | BV TESC lo iy Qeiugs and wo o Che i | inore caslly comprehend the truthfulness of this | i i AR compels u LT carrfuge of the head, while riugs | taken refuge on another caterpillar In the saine | wegnfession whien we {der tho political Through which the Nile runs, from Fashods, un | ¢ cxamined éarefully the gilt triminings of ny | sweepiug over the sky from the northiest, ac 0: oal Com- | S o Gre worn 1 the noee, cars, and | buxi on this It sita somewhat farther forward, cn we conalder the pal an- Kh ) - 1l nd luuglied §n astor ent at N " < ny—A Deciston on the Neglizence of Feliow- | Of br! 4 ", o 4 A b | tecedents of the great majority of the men 32:‘(‘;‘:2‘, ;’,‘a‘;';;,u,;.‘:,'fi,,‘f“'.!‘,,“',’:;':',““,‘,‘,&;,ggc,,‘,’.“,, {inffartn, aodt 4 wy Larbouchs ish Ty heated ‘;;{';;"',‘P‘{,l‘,',';",‘:,,:;’,‘;"'g{;u 'i',:{::’,‘ ks 1ot D e et vt HovanRifcet on | mouth. Tho Mictoos luscrt, in o hole 1 the un- | 45 the base of the iulomen. L its former | Eescton PLtio Retnl st sacsifics mado 1t cr lip a pleco of ivory about the size of a Mexi- Tost, the place where the small caterplllar sat can dollar, which caukea the 1ip te projeet over looks pale, as {f It had been scourcd, The the mouth In a repulsive fastiion, Thie Gooruli- | small caterplllar from abiove cats small holos ‘wasto of pestiferous swamped inovass, i1 whose $black, stinking mud? the river perpetually threatens to loso ftsclf. The stream s fujl of uptey-Procegdings of Failury to Give No- S Pijtsbarg, Fort \Vl{nc & Chicago 1taile lCnmpuny va. Hazen—Llability of Lominon rle 3 head. When no longer seuted upon his throne, | sjush were changed fu o twlukling Iuto 1w, M'tacis very gay, and laughed witha frecdom | It Is related of “one traveler on horecback that soon conyluced me wo should bo great | eaught In this storm, that lie hud barely closad possilile for the bill Lo hocome a law,—the r.blny solid Democrats fn the Senatu and the 160 n i “ patriotic” ex-Counfederates of tho House. ¢ 3 - % H ) (o ey caf o . 3 s ! Aureaions to lose ttaclf, Tho straun 18 Tl 91 | fritnde. We atrolied throuh the numerous | bis ambrelia, inving dropped s Tolua an the | - pior for, fasinr ltoo Ly rkisg Ko | Goorahain soualled | byrasson of thel gl e e et Save” s Wierss | Those with **Indapendent,® fook down with | copled with herds of clophants and buffalos, | Bicely-constructed Luts, shadod by the ubiqult- | horse's meck for the puipose, cro thu wind | erof Countles to Iveus Coubty isondaz vTolo. | St Lt TFGHEG SWhien younies whilst o farge | bect observed,! ningled ]".‘r’ and scorn upon the common herd ! e Toara of the lippopatami aro suld by Col, | ous bananu-trees, folloted by tho whole of his | reached Wi, At tht Instant water was drip- | do. Wabasls & Western lallond Loinpany M. | Lolw traverses tho exterlor Dist, to adinft o ——— of “retall * Itepublicans like Morton, aud 8her- | Toog to e tho only sounds breaking the « ter- | Rurewn, by whoni hols greatly beloveds o8 ft | ping from everythine abunt him: but, when e | Lrvoke-NonPayment ot fure, When o liar to [ 1ol LRGCERE e in letigth and one fuch In PREMISTORIC MINING. an, aud Gartlcld, ‘aud Kagson, who were so | Lo e b e “thronghiot (s | docd holy by the whola peoplo, whn, oa tima | firow tho Faine taut, fce tattled froi them.” | Hocoveryy GO0l ve, LystarThisslit, of lute o i T nmotr ceail Nofori:the Now: Fork Acade |k ioall gatrotlc atntimentsand love of conn- dreary wilderncss, Wore 0“‘1 tound 1o bo,us @ goucral rulc, o | Within fiftcen minutcs the traveler's horse was | PP 1o bet of Wite'In Procuring Divarces | iamciery ki s [ r =[xy atn rappase tietili; L Jwil mithecte & + Lavillty of Judge for Judiciul Achi™ ¢*Ab- structs of Other Lato Declalans. AMERICAS LAW REGISTRI for January, | Con- tenta: **The Docteine of Notica to Princlpal fram Previons inowledgy (o Azent:* *Suprowe Conrt of Rhodo Isiwud=In lte G, 11, Corlise—Prosls dentiul Llector Howding Ofice’ Tuder. Untted biutes—Vates for Inalinble Terson Do Not Elect e ext Highest; **Leig v, Mayor of Annap- olls—Power of Conrts th Lxamtue int the Pawi- ing of & Statute Huving tho Apparent Pornm of & Valid Acts” ** Hanllion ve. Slarks—Ilolder of lylug, miserable scty who, although certalu of | walking on solldly-frozen road. The rider Vel put o deatll, woulll somotimes dafy his | was at-tlis timo four miica from Spriniicld, autbority,”” On u lator visit to tha haram, the | and, when he arrived at that villagoend at- familinrity of the King's wivos with the hand- | ombted to dismount, his coat was ike a muli somo stranger secmeil to arouse the jealuusy | of sheot-iron, and he found himsclt held flrm uf the monureh, and he abruptly brought the visit | to his scat. W Ha tiien ealled for help, and two, tos couclusiot, -nxlnzi. with n elgnilicant flash | men came out, who tried to Uee him offs but his of th eye, “ Lut Us Jeave thein now, us they | elathies wero frozen to the saddle, which they will annoy you. o1t varrle 4 ey e aters it tho fobabltanta of | SySirthedsand thety cartlad iy oyl saddlo to Ugunda uron mixed race, descended from o Tho Riongl tribe manufacture mucry,anl my of Scfencrs by Mr. A. A, Jullen, on Pre- thelr ik Jars aud pots are sald by Col.” Long i " 0 e e e saly rasg. hi Afes, | Listoric Itemalus lu Westorn North Caroling, a lnown to polson thelr lauges and arrows are the | Mminute delineation was nade of an extensive Yunbaris, Theso people dip the r.nm. of these [ series of anclent excavations extending from fmplements of war In the juice of g tree belong- | Mitchell County southwand futo Georgla. Theso fuz to the fally of Euphorblas Qflunh"rb« ar- | cuttings were evidently cxccuted for the pur- borescei). 'The Lree grows to the heightof forty < et s .2 et trani having o dlamotér of {hry | pose of inlutn for mica and steallta,—ou fodus- foot "1t In cactusitko in sspect, and it (s cover. | bry still actively prosecuted fn the reglon. Tho ed with thorns which rendera hedge or thicket of | coarse cranite strata contalning the mica ary dourkeeper i the houso of the latter than sitat ! the feast with your patriotle ex-Confoderates who are now so soliitous for the honor of the country and its glorious flag. But * Independ- ent " takes the further high frnunll of right as o reason for the compromiec. This sapient mind {s tho Orst to recognizo thls reason, as tho other distingulshed vocates of the measuro lave rovognized In the emergesey such a perfl to the peace of the country as to justity Gondokoro, situated on the right.bauk of the river, which rhua about ten feet ubove the levul of tho water, {s a liitary encampment of straw huta inclosed by a high straw pallsade, 1t #]noks out unon'a country not unpleturesque, ~—thie mountains fn the distance; the ueass-coy- ered land, dotted here and there by tall, stately treeas flocks of sheep,goats, and cows; aud nicely, coustructed villages,'” constituting an azroeable chango from the long streteh of monotonous wcontry Iying north of it Tho eucampment e A e e ey af many | S A e koctod. gt | {6 fpencerable, I Ta. plaoted 5 a defense | disided into soft and bard bands, which Lavo fu- | c L comst Ll T O e orenti: Was reached the 171h of April, aud, threo days | union of the Arab with thonegro. 1n this way | ey e o 4 covelll [ T e & 2 i b 5 et ey pa A S e : . which Liave fu- i, makiug tha measuro tempora:y only in YoterCol. Gurian retuined to Khartoum 1o | lie aceounts for tho ahsonvo of tho flal nose and eye-wltnesacs, | that the chanze = of tew- | iao Circumstunces Were Such o to Put ‘Prudent | grouud the villages of the Yaubarl,—the young | fuenced the tharacter of the minlnz both in s operation, and bence a mere expedieat. Tho cditorlal eolumns of Tne TRINUNE bear me out in tho statement that the strougest argument iu tavor of the bill was that comumnotlon and ossible civil war would result from its fallure. fcCrary's whols argument in its favor wus based upon this idea, In his Ianzuage, it would #ayert the borrors of & duul Presidency,” and, as the mover und In part father of the measure, y he should know best tho ground upon which he acted. . I do not want war. I know personally what war means, learned from four years carry- ing a_gun, Bub there was no danger of war, Tue TIGUN® apent two months In ridlculing the'**wah" and “gosh " scre clther *‘whistling through a : stly scouted the {dea that ‘wer was | veratura in this storm was so great thick lips {shing the pure African, und | ayd switt that *Chickens and geese, nlso for tho eollcg-cutor of tho Usundas. Tio.cllcs liogs and cows, wero frozeu in the el 14 In support of his theory the fact that M'tec biad | they stood, and, uniess they were extricated by {n Lis pusscaslon a yoluininous Arab mauuscript, Etding the ice trom abont tholr. fect, remalned worn aud discolored with uge. thero to perish.? A drover with o herd of l"urnmul'll\l Col. Luny was detalned at tho | from 1,000 to 1,600 hogs was overtaken by the Court of M'tae Ly scvere lliness, Muanwhile | audaen colil on thy open praleie, efrhit mnles ho was porslstently solidiing of the Kiug per- | from the nearcat town. o left his hoga, aud r{{nlmlnn to cruss the upper part of the Victorls | pode with his ten to the villago for s ut{,—ml W Man un Ingulrys **Stapleton va, Meynolds— Temoval of Causen from btato Court ta” Foderal Court—Remoral by Una Defendant Is Removal ay Lo A" *sAbutracts of Other liccent Decisloan, ** PESN MONTHLY for Jayuary (Pean Monthly Avsaciation, Pblladeiphia). “Contenta: **The Month; " *Two dchools of Polltical Ecunomy. ™ by Mauricoe Block; **Art-Muscuins, " by Chrls- topher Dreaser; **Phonetle Spel ¥ o Lurestry Question, " by Thumas eelia Come wmerclal’ Lihle Condensed Clasalcs,™ Ly 11, . Ward: *¢ Now Nooks ' REPUBLIC for l-'elmuryl (!.'qulbfla Publishing Compauy, Washington, "D, b NATION Al TEACHERS' MONTHLY for Felrnary (A, 8, Darnua & Co., New York und Chlcago). L‘lll‘"{{‘\!“' WOULD for February (8. R. Crocker, 0ton), crowth, coustautly renewed, furming an ef- | prehistorfs and present timen. “The ancleut toctial guand awalnst the enemy. The mllx{ workings have been discovered in the soft velus, jules of the Euphorbla fs” s deadly pol- | und cunsist of two classes, In one, deep wom. Uho food of the Yanbaris con- | shafts have been found, suinctlmes contalninig slsta of tho *dourah®—a specles of Sor- | tools; and these are ascribed to the Spunlards ghum _resembling broom-corn—aud elephant. | or to stlll later adventurers, The other cluss tneat. Ono of thelr weapons is a four-pronzed | consists of apen excavatlong, oceasfonally con- wooden arrow, with whiehi they shoot birds | nected with small tunnels; and these are So great fs thelr dexterity in theuse ol this | pronounced undoubtedly of prehistoric origin. fplement that the bird ‘at which they ulm {8 | Astics have been discovered {u soms of the fnextricably cmibraced by ita four polits, and | mines, showing the use of fire, us in the tunnels falls lwl&unly to the ground, of the Lake Superlor mines, From appearnnees Col. Long found the natives of Central | ft fs judzed that vast c’unhtllluul wica have Alrica penerally destitute of an Idenof the | Leen taken ont in preblstoric thnea; and it 1s Bupreme Belng.” Desirous of ascertaining it the | consldered that in thess miyes tho source hus hurry “Y the rear-guard of tho cxllcflltlml, An whose charge wero the bagzagu and supplies of “the entire party. Belug, Inthe abscnve of his superior oflicer, ln command of tho sltuation, Cul. Long immodiately turned his restless, Tonging eyos to the undiscoyered country sur- roundiugthe source of the Nile. o burned to ald bis unme to tho lung and honorable st of udvonturcrs who bad shiared fo the honors of openiug up to the worid unexglored portions of tnat mvaterlous reglon. Cal, Uordon hatt been nformed of his ardent deadro to engaize In this work, aud had mwls no objectlon,—tegurdiug §t, lowaever, as under existing circumstances utterly hmpracticablo. With 1o one to opposo the achome, Col. Long yanra, in order to return northward Ly tho | of tho partybelng mors or less frozen before hltn’lNun of sEcke. At last M'tse very un- lhellerpwmymlvhcd. The abandoned anlmals wllllj\k y grauted thio request, and, on thy 14th | niled oue upon another for warmtl Those on of Julj, tho explorers started for tho luke. | fho (nside smnothered, and those on the outsfde :J’"K waa doomod not to accomplish bis schems, | frozo; and, the next morning, o pyramid of 500 hawaver, for the King had given sccrot ordurs | dead swing was heaped up on the” proiric. The el o Divinty, ho asked | been discoverod of the mica pistes exteuslvely | it S o tho Kioi b BVl socrul opdurs | dend sl was euped up ot the pralic, Fhe || seston, o for Pebruaey (Chlcago Colloga of | Afisciat Suomn - Where s your (ather 1" . s o 1l - gun; J mal life from this extraordinary fall of the #Where do you think hio has gonel" e 3 ol - : thars wero no storch o proviilon at Gondosuro | s, coubelied o P to (Rtase | temporature lssald to have been vory greal. Tk e odrh W Pl £ FII% ONSERVATORYT AT VIENA. | Lo Crostiletng. e i had the.forth T :‘(;‘is}u ; cu:, :1 K Iv.»mr:w“-‘y‘;nh nl:“ l:‘wrr:éz nz;‘vfi EOnk, St Dnbea b umo‘fi byylh“e e :: rondo- ~ P lbl)m.l'l, éuu think be hus gone to Heaven?” Note bos already been 'made of the destrues .\:nbafl talked wir bus the folluws In the North vompany. _Yet, in the fuco of thess cmbarrass- While f Ugunds, Col. Long uoted that the TRIAL DX dUILL {\'h'fl‘ vl.llmwsflmou Alsdain e sald to ma; | thon of tho Obscrvatory at Vilns, in Western who fulled to avall thomeolvas of Foot oppor- mevls,—clther of which was enough to insurs tha failure of hla enterprise,—the ambitious sol- dier perscvered fn his desperate plan. His train conslated of & rook, a groom, LITERARY NOTES, The Pebruary number of the Art-Journal con- talns o second chapter of the “Scencry of the country is rolilny und pleturosyue, Y 1 | MSTORY OF TRIAL BY JURY. By WitLiax oven ot bt L b proyred | “ponavrn, A A Lata Fellow ot iy ¢ ; ' Hlorte pecies of wild Bz, fromn the bark of which 3.?1‘]‘!-‘?:?;";}"!’.‘:' y‘:-’:‘-‘. -f‘"fi'a"; }l:‘-'llunlul.n {":-;::A“r:\ tunity in the Jato “trouble,” ¢ncouruged there- to bya faw lightheaded “Generals® Tike your $+100,000 Corse,” of Clilcago. He fa oqual to wihon't bother mo with such {deas that come | Russis. From the Athencun wo cull the few from the *canlssa! (Gowdlokorl); yuu kuow that | particulars of the bistory of the lustitution 4 I e climb up there. h @llow: **Founded by the Emperor Al- | “allof us® Helknap. But bis “nine men y a | the nativas manufucturs cloth, Indlan corn, ANy ABTLroN ManoaN, Eugs Anthor of | Pacitle Ralway3 an urticly an # Norwoy" & “",;.‘]f:‘l:..‘.‘l‘i{t"zbmc‘ o an which tollow; *Founded by the Emperor P — ar-c R - b ! i P perior to all otbier F ol o5 | buckrain® 100,000 men wonid bave dwindled druf m:a.“: avalet,—all oqually un{nnhml ::ug‘f:‘ fl?‘:lll:llu;fi lu:fa:m‘,‘md h:nl‘;ar-v?:)q‘:n‘u: o “;‘l“h-(l‘.:& x,l' lula":"nu.:“' )\:oa‘sei’nrv%un“!“[&f-fl'. contingation ol the xorles of illustrations of races met by Col. Long south of Khartou, exander the First, at tho beginning of the pres- o nfew ward buuniers at tho frst sound of servants,—~and o giard of the two soldicrs mentioned, whu wera” nembers of the *Houdanish Corps,” and stanch com- radea In ariny, Illa suppllea comprised a fow pounds of augar, collee, aud bread ga change of clothiug for himself; a small stock of trumpory for usuin traflle with the natives; and a bottia of Isudanun and a bottle of chicrodynu, for medlcines. Art-objects exhibited at the * Centennfaly o saper treating of “The Use ol Ornnental forms in Ornatnental Arty? 8 sketeh of tho wiWorks of Edward J. Paynter, i A" the sixth fnstalitment of the essay on “Traditions of Chrlstian Art3" a reviow of current Art in Paris und Rome, aind of the London Exbivitionas and the ustial collection of Nutes. ‘The catire list of P ‘haro Industrions and honest. Moat of [ ent century, its groatest nctlvity commenced the lrlln‘dnlu unuln:md. ‘(c:tlwwih;kg :hllg_l'l of | under the Dircctorslin of V. Slavinsky, who me wild beast ol the lolns, Like the Niam- o ¢ 03 ten year ¢ ;?hl‘"fl‘- !|1°¥F=ulml1 the 'i}lm‘k, lt;rms!.ln‘rln_‘nut":”l :ufi‘heltlfig Sflfr‘\{‘n‘a‘-:ml‘s’&un'fl;léx‘r‘:fl)hy '-unlfi': with rings of fne wire. 13 50 e ches fn ert e [« lower ln‘;?hnu and mamu’u.u under llr. in- fi‘;m é‘::l:{h:.t{;'l:r:{:Ilg‘nt:‘l‘l:::l: lln“slrlurfl. :u troducing cithera plece of copper or well-! inped presided over_ successively by MM, Ilous- bewdd, **hiold 1 fte place by alicad ko a nall” | chneyiteh, Fues, Sabler, ~Guasew, —aud tities. - Tue only frults aro the banana aud plain. | Price, £2.60. tain, From tho babasa delicious, unfermented | This {8 & reprint, with soma jnconsiderablo llquor 3 extracted, which i3 8 fuvorite beveeago | additions, of o valuable work pub e § Y publislicd about 3,,",‘&:"3 !,‘;2{::‘;_..“,:;’,,{2"‘;;,{{:‘{,; ‘I‘:‘:m:fifi tweuty-ivo years axo in England. 1t {8 a clear, from dourah. . The cattle of the country are of cxhaustive, and sblo trentiso on the hlstory of supsrior bmm1 but the un}ly animal food eaten | triad by juryin sll countrics. The uuthor has is furnished by the sheep and goat. “The women | reviowed the anclent laws of Ffeandinaviy, Ger- real danger, *Independent’’ hus character- fzed tho “writer as an * vxtreme hater of tho Bouth.,” WIll he polnt out one word o this or former communications that gives color ta the statement! [ will venture a guess now, When the llon's skin Lehind which he skulks is strip- ped off, the full, long caraof a Tilden mas will stand out betraylug bis sssumed “indcpend. s tho papers onmerated are embellishicd with fu- | 47, 2 salataif Acod amon, ) ! ity S ek 8 o tila wrehched ?:'5‘9\;» o Colood fety tltiesoll, and tho mun cocliy J-‘;‘?,";':‘éfi‘(fi'«f:} many, and England; bus snown tho growth of | tervsting ustratign, e, fullplate vigrav- ,‘}l;‘;;}g';:;“,;;fl;‘;a‘;:m K;‘%r: ‘yfiz ;u"finl ongt Efiflffi!kflf prescit Directur, bg:flfihm‘m vace. JAMES A, RuxgOM, e L} - 'l ¥ v] clianz ngs rel g e ughier, childrew, is thus desvribed: #The 4ol Pt Srote shotography, though Gugse days ufter 1 1, Fi Ivory. 'They are very skillful In"ta tho jury from ite hirth, with the changes malo o 2 % children, devoted to solar photography, s, i ml‘:n:nnfimu:uf{llzr‘lm fin‘u ik n:md“\}“.' Anfln work] ng 0 m%._mm u““':"ll,:fi,?v'::v' fu it from timo o time; and las provod most | P4'lE Setraders $The Spaulsh Flower-ir, D | wiuld take between bis handa the head of the | who comnenced this It By ' complained that WINTER Dby Murilto; and the statue of “Dr, Pricstly," by Ji ¥, Willlamson. FAMILIAR TALK, COL. LONG IN CENTRAL AFRICA. A review of the receut barrative of explora- tion fn * Central Africa®™ by Col. C. Chaille Long Bey §s given m anotlier column. To this 15 added, in tho following paragraplis, a further abstract of the observations made by Col. Long upot tho men and things noted slopg his lac of travel: Bouakim, & fort on the Red Sea, is a village built of coral stouc, owing It3 1mpurtance Lo its exports of gum-Arabic, vory, aud othor produc! of Boudan and Abyssinie. The camel-drivers sccompanying tha caravans which cross the des- ort from Bonakim to Berber sra a nomadic race, descended from the Blsharceu and Amri Arabs, and arc more noticeablo than auy other natives who congregate In the town. Col, Long thus describes o typlesl specimen of tho tribes A stall plece of cloth encircles biv lofne; sbort in fmy 0f 800 negro porters und elghty ongo- owce fvory-huuters, returning from Gondokoro ta their pasts fn the futerlor, ~ For thy remaln- der of the way be and hie littls bund of six men would have for companionship au envoy of King 3M'tec, and his few followers. A storm of rafn, with violent thunderand lgbtniug, broke upon tho camp durlng their fest nlzhit out, completely drenching tho travelers, from that hour they worg subject to {ncessaut roputitiuns of the sauio uxpericucy, In threo or four days Col. Long was attacked with fover, wblch thereafter bung sbout him, while tho uther mombors of his troupo suffered miserably from discases of yarls oua forins, With no medicines, proventive op curatlve, n:cowl‘?' was jruposaible 50 loug as tho e e ot 1 nilit ts yatlko, one of sevoral militar; ca- talilsod by BiF Bamuol Daker Ly 113, waa reacticd after & march of cleven days, This substantlal fortification, comnanded by Maj. Abdallah,—a soldier who lad served it the Mexican campaign under Bazalue,—was found {n a state of perfect cleanliness und order, and {ta garrison, slibough weakened by disease, excellently disciplined, “After a sojourn of el ut days, Col, Long nigain sct forward with s ralu- forcerment of one soldicr and suveral donkeys. ‘Tha record of lis journcy thencsforth continues ueatly finish concluslvely that It grew out of tho custom of ‘The nhabitants of Ugunda were estimated | aking the witucsses of any deed thc by Col. Long st 50,000 The governmout of R Y Mhiae is auite civiitzed fn foru The Ntats | Judges of the facts, The prescnt method, sorvice {s divided amung chiefs, who compase a | therefore; of requiring that the jury should sort, of Cablnet. Tho' * Kahatan,” or Pring | know nothing of the facts of the vase whicl th Minister, und the % Kongowee," or General-h are callod on 1o decide, b diametrically oppose Chlel of the army, outrank all other nificials. | 10 the primitive usage and fdea, “Thcre are Although the zovernmont Is despotie, the Kiug several valuable suggestions offured, which full is alugularly beloved by his people, The habita- to the ground when tho author Urat published tious of the Ugundus are formed of sugar-cane | thei Decanse they were I advanco of_the age, and thatebed wfih Junglo-grass, ‘The Iuterior s ‘The world was not preparod then to admit that dlvided futo spartmeuts, which are kept very it might be proper for a valld verdict to be miven clean. by l:":’fl”&?“l )I‘Jll'y‘ |I;:‘1i;xl:°l Cunx?xuslllnlr.\ sppointed fu Bugland “{n 183 exumiug th! uy'l‘lgo("!mfi:; L }‘,“““,E,';{,‘f,},fi.{{f,f‘ lf.‘!fl',:““_‘m very question hud condemucd thu practies of de- Wmiity, o skys, % ar0 tue chronic condition | Mjending a umanimous vendlet:” though Atr. b th whole of Central Africe. - i swonth of | Hienry Hallam, in his well known work, 4The April slono _sffords a slight respito, during Hiatory of the Middle Agea bad called it Ha which time tbo heat Is excessive; but the nights | Dreposicrous rollc of barharism e aud though, are always cold, the scarcity of 'wood rondering even s century before him, Benthan Lad em- the natives rcally miscrablo at ulght, During [' foyed ail lid learnlug on tho same side, Dub otber inonths ncessaut ralns full; the days are hio miserable fallur of justico fu scveral aluiost Qurop sud humid, but th nighte kre vory sold, | Worid-wide trialy, durlig the past five or uix Whoh, "liowever, the sun broaks through the | JSars: bus opened mien's ayes duew (o the ln- clouds, its ravs ure slmost insupportable, Un the ;x:rmu necessity of o radlcal chango in the east coat, on the equatorlal line, the seasous ury system; and some, jumping tothe opposite aro affectod by the ‘nonsoon-winds that blow | XIIERIC; have proposcd & total abulitlon ot jury- rodigal Abldy, and gathering a mouthful of | thy jocality wus not well adapted to it, Soveral Eullrn, cie:t it upou tils forchead and eves, | fine serie ‘vh vever, have bagn recently obtaln- Waldly in turn was applicd by the son to differ: | g3 and some beautitul specimens of these wero b parts of tho body,” exhibited at the Loau Collection at Bouth Ken- _Col._Loug succeeded fn abtaloing da the | gngton. 1t la inatter for groat regret that both Niam-Niam country a spocimen of the diminu- | b rreat cquatorial and plioto-hellograph, us tive Akka tribe, full-grown wumnnhfl yuars | ywull ga the results of a large wumber of obse of uge, and only four feet high, was thers pre- | yyions, were destroyed by the unfortumate fire, sented to hln, © Bhe had beeu” & slave ut the | yoiwithtauding tho exeértions wudo to save Court of ths King of the Monbutto, and, hav- | yhen, ing no n‘x lfihmeul to lxom’u rr u‘lmfér::udl'lqm; companied her ucw proprietor to jatro. x 0 o e ore Jor canbiiala but #Ticke | (MAIE-TITICACA CIRUSTAEEA. | Tiekl V—as the Akkg woman was nsnod—d e We n Las dus ! gured, In clured that they only ato human fesh when Na- the Bulletin of the Muscun of Comparative ture demanded w change from the regular dict | Zoology, the collection of crustacea made by o(‘ Mml?l“' n'}“iu\r(l-t}‘tvkl was “:‘{-“i‘.’,‘:’“.ffifif?l’s" Profe, Agusslz and Gorman ot Lake Titloues, of soking after the manner cdy | 4y W ; “ whizh iy this; A huge bowl fs tilled with to- Excepting," he remarks, u specics of Cypris, Dacco’ and. clay, sonjetimes of & uestionsblo | all the spedmens collazted belong to ous win- nisbure; the fumes uro fubuled unu\lhnnnnku phipodous geuus, dllerchestes,which had bitherto falls stupetied or deadly sick,—this cifect slne | affordod but onc or two authentic fresh-water belng sougut for." spetles, runing from Malne to Oreon and the Tu the closing chapter of his book, Col. Long | Straits'of Mugellan. Scveny new spccies are do- sums up his {inpressions of ** Central Africa® | geribod in ihts paper from Lake Titicies, Bev- in the following encrgetle languaze: *Central | ery] of thew are rewarkablo utuong the Urchedlc Africa 1s no Puradise, but 8 plaguespots snd | s for their wbuormally<developed epicemal the begru—the product of ‘this pestlientlal | uyq tergal aplnes. Bumo urs olio potoworthy Throws Winter now bis wrap o'er Natnrae's face, While sho, I calu repodc, foclince with matchless rACo, Dyelnsmz ‘swoet dreams, snd hiding from the m 3 Hor treanured buds, tograce the Spring-time warm. Wintar—so rich In Jowela—brinze them forth T'a decorata the Lrice, NOT cOYnLs Lielr woptl} ‘hile homely weeds bend low o wear the crown Which proudest soverelgn never yut mighy owa, Lavish la Wipters 'ang the ing stroain Lie ciirious goms, bright in 1 y gleam; Aud icy labyrinths, bullt by s aud. iry-landj More woudruus atv than scenes in Wile soarkiing crystals cover tha softsnuw: Such beauly rarc & beavenly bisth doth show, Comes now force lorvas with 4 wall and hawl, While Eart's bard face v hid banea cowl, Like somo steru mouk who seaks 8 Lieaven to win 1n durance vile, nor Ails hi piy bin, Bul tortures his durk svul by Lrgoding o'cr bis dla, ! And trees, hiko meudicsnte, now smpluring stand MId wintry blast,—s shivering, naked band, — $tretching thote withered Hinbe on svery hauds \\'hlllldu he and groans sre leard throush alf the aud, Neptuny's old faco bears dlorly-rnnuwcd L.TH 1le restless grown, nor doth In"bed recline: While 's frull children sulfer wrong snd sliswe, And cruvl war dul& sl tlho world laflame; jid b . fove i - vrotch, often devold of comparatively deep-water forns of a famil aro alfectud b tho inondooiirindg that blow | trials. ' Thie, howover, s ot eccasurys BOF | yoyure, with woll-carved though dellcate hibs, | FeRlonTris & misctels, Wietil, MU0 L Ctiuunle | ooty reguvded. Ca fanlly | Ad Soetiienco and fswlne, o tho tempest i, o repeas with fustgniticant variations themelan- | year,—a wind aud & wet wind. ‘The ¥ | would it be sdyuntuvwm. No country which - ¥ all lfuuxlunnurbcllel u o Deity, wold enthuel- | commouly regurded ws pre-eminently lttural ot awertal o s 100, conanmnag Aro. choly. declaration of “raln and wmisery by day, ey e‘l’l’puomd by tho Eurupnn;"b[:m:: l:'" x::‘."n""wn"{fi,‘lwfl'fn; '::f"'u"'_fu‘la‘l} l!flé‘i;’- }’:{:&fbl‘mfl'{;fl’u:“:fi:;;‘;ng‘;?&"“‘u: Ratic trayelers huve Lorotofurs endeavored ta | 1 believe that bo OreAestida have herotofure | (O RAMEHY (o P it snd misery and raln l.q might.” May 80 ho writea: * W marched seven hours and u Lalt to day, lhmu;fih raln und mist. The water that weary obliged todriuk la exccrable, "1 e spongy eurth quickly absurba tho ralo, save Ahut which ficro and thiere collocts fu great bules, the trumptug-ground of clephaut and buffule. ’:;xrh\lv.ul:ll-‘l; :fl wixture nlht;:‘ulrlu:u:mlonl; and ngue parched with fuyer, We are obligod todrink. Ptid odors arise from tha latier s the precursor of all diseases, and espe- ar ] ries are lgnorant wud narrow-mnluded; th L :ll‘fil‘yfl meuulgrllun. to which the native Buu- uy ‘lwn!m:nhy p{luludlt'fi or fattorys it x'a"fic.-ldfl 0 trus cin than the power ingl (Ot 10t ot Tuly Col. Long budo adicutor | iy arbiter or both lak wad fuct. Lek & teor i0rs R eact feoth bis ’“‘;1“""[ lw«.l 3 L0 | thirds majority decide in all civll, and even fote exte ¢ jourual will lndicato tha | crigijual cascs. except murdver, und’ litigation ,f;')'; s ls;;fif’::";:::fl'e g&(_’_lvm"":" "11';‘:3:‘%‘ would_bo expedited, bribery rendered far more fouis butitk was. imsde, The ]uu'."lczrm N OF duticult, and the sneers anid fings ad the uncor- Froin woos lko thedc, bo odcre watery grave ‘I'u 3l who venture on the treacheroud wave; Gt rlses from his bud, sud, foawlng in his baste, Anil in rage, lays Jargest conntries wasta. | “Fa allure Barth’s suns, who ne'er Lls power will endow him with, Thisis the naked truth that | been fouud at a depth sv great us "‘Z““ futh- 1 would prusent to the reader, in contradlction { gins, uulvas it bo Orcheatia (Talitrus) rasiliensls 10al] thuse claptrap peans which are sung of | Dana, and Nicw Nelia Dang, dredged lu the this benighted country, The bumanitarianmay | horbor of Rio Junelro (ut whut depih i3 pot pause to consider the cost at which be seods Ll specitied) by the Wilkes Exploring Expedition. ciwsarics fu the laudable elfort to humanlae | Tye narive species usually inhablt th shores and civilize u country whera Nuturo bus placed | guove lowswater mark, and the preViousty- a barricr, uot alone in 1h polsuned arsow of the | described freshiwater spocies ars found fu tii savage, but in the more deadly-poisoned sir” | ghallow walcr of brooks, povls, or vdges of Lalr, grown (0 an enonnous bushy mass, is u subject of grealest care and vane fty, aud every lelsure mowment on the wuyslde s spent in stralgbtening out *his kootted and comblned locks,’” over which is spread a plaster of tallow of deadly-odored smell, which drips in great streams wheu in the ow, Boneath the wavce bls tressurcs vast aro strown, Whita-winzed mcsscngers, ladea with human lite, Ewbraced by bum, have fallen in tlo atrife; i v vhil falut und weary children, secking slesp, * o f venlicts extinguisbed. The rewmedy = - I U » o i Toast twcity foot bigh. At 1 p- 1o, storm—the | (3L Of vanlicts ot e tltng b <ok | SuB, of furms a whitenwd crust upon bls hesd 8 aker. Are rockod o reat upon the biliowy aesp: I paas AL g on alnort sphytale | Bk eati, wecommecied by ssheeof gbiviog T BA4¢ hep owand putting 1t iuto precise, | and ahoulders wheu not thus exposcd. Thess HPARES OF SCIENCEs REMEDY FOR NTDROPHOBIA, | Cocwo i e food of the party,—a potage of “dourah M ovcar | that fu their vividuess nearly blluded every voc, PR people, however indifferent to rauk and position SNAILS. In1750 Linneus suggested the use of the | it Men are like hymns,” remarks an cxchange slonalivaffording a eratcful change, This un- | and left the scarcly-perceptible path almost ln- DICKENS. when once you are under thelr escort in the Mr, Robert E. O, Stearna gives, In the Amer- | common bliatering beetlcas a remedy fur bydro- tean Naturglist, some instances which bavo | plobla. Iu 1856 s pamphict by M. Salut ilom- come uuder bis motice of remarkable longovity | bourg on the treatmout of tho diseuss by the in soalls. A colloction of nlno specimens of | sdinjulstration of » specice of Melue, a veslcat- the Lulimus pallidior was givey him tn March, | og bectle, wag laid before the Entomological 1873 They wero confined fu @ box, withous | Bocioty of France, and the fuct wus theo ree vislbte fa thy succeedlug gloom. 'We were com- | BARNADY BUDGE; axu, HATD TIES. By A e i - R Slael-Biato iuiritons. Limu. Now york: nznd nn ’l.hr&gzh gr::tm:‘nk‘ h!oruu'. tuat g‘::«."gfi&f%}?' Gulcazas dunuas, NECluzg, al m en _obse o reys of | PIGTURKS ¥LOW ITALY; BKETCHES BY BOZ; the suy, and whoso perpetusl shades | - axp AMBRICAN 'RO12. "By Cusares Diex! whwlesume dlet fnduced Increased disease, and 1t {6 not stranze that Col. Long, looklng uit of welancholy oyes, could sev_nathing uleasunt fn the present or future of Ceutrsl Atrice. 1t is tobe rewmarked in bls favor that he bare up biavely vuder bia burdes of miscry; but, bavig descrt, are here, as you incet them, over readyto extend politencas, and {avariably rise to thelr tcn‘ly‘l‘l uu'}w, 23 YOu pass thew'ln the strests or RTS8 Berbor, & village oo the Nile, 283 miles south- Weat of Hotakls ia but & Gollection of mud sharp, blunt, and hesty; thepy are lovg-metre, - slaw, welghty, and dignlfled; there arg hallejus ub-tuelre ey, wercuriul, fervent, aug inspie- ugs and thero ars eixhits-and-soveas weo, gun- tle, genlal, aud delightlul. There aro slso soms | 4 pecullar motres,' K . newspaper, * There ‘are sbort-nielro wes, !