Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 18, 1877, Page 2

o P B e e e of Mife or destrnction of property by the earth- qnake. Retween Valparalso and the Holivian frontler the shocka were more severe. At Ante Fagnsta, ' IN - HOLIVIA, no lives were Jost, hul the damage to property is estimated at half a million, It lasala the Towns of Calama, Chinchin, and San Pedro have entirely disappeared. ITEM_POR NISMARCK. 1t in reported in Panama that the Fronch steamer BL_Germatn, which left Aspinwall on the Tnt Inst,. is under contract with Lhe French Government to transtort 2,200 aoldiers from Martinique to France on her present trip. COLOMDIA. ‘The last of the revolutionary forces in Colombia have been subdmed, Uen. Fellpe Farias having sentacommission on the 23d inet. to Gen. Core . eoso, offering to rubmit to the anthority of the mation in conformity with the stipnistionsof the Commander-in-Chicf of the 14th proximo. The gner.ilia Chief Quintera Calderan has aleo an- nonnced his willingneen to delivee up his arms, dia. ‘band bis forces, and recopnlze the suthority of the Government, e ————— e FOREST-FIRES. A Recent Scens In Michigan. Correspondence Cincinnatt Bngquirer. Howanp CiTY, Micl., June 11,—** Thank God I Bo exclaimed a hundeed thousand Bichizanders the otlier day when tha cloads poured down tor- rente of raln hour after hoar—enaongh to drown out even a forest fire, Theta 8 something terribla_connected swith such a calamity sa befel Me. Caroicl; there fecling of awe and & chill of fear as one walke over the ‘sth of a tornado; but men who have never wit- nessed a forest fire have bl s faint ides of (ts ter- nible power Lo almost blot a county aff the map, It famore terrible than a toraado—more appaliing thau the swift-moving, rapid-working cyclone. Teopla wwonder how a wildernees of trees, trae clothed in 1ts spring deees, can become 3 of flame, bul everything Is food for a forest fra. 37 the first shcel of dame doea not emite the green pine or devoor tha leavenaf the beech and maple, 1t parches and dries them for the famea to follnw, and the rtout pine, shootinga hundred feel bigh, Decames a beacon-ight for & moment, then swaye, fotters, and goes down with an awful crash, 1o hurn wntil # heap of ashes alono marks the eaeth, Your correrpondent was In Osceola County when the fires frel began, Inthe midst of & wilderners of pine and thicket, milen awoy from village or hamlet, was & ploncer’s cabin. Theclestingarouni 3§t coroptised ahout ten acrcs, Eoma of thn round was ready for corn, and some af | had been rowed and planted, whilo the farest nround was sodamp and green thatong wonld Jave amiled st the (den of Emnl shcets of Aame climbing tnosa tall trees and waying fifty feet abavo them. ~Onc night some hunter bulit's grand fire ncnintt a beap of dry logs. The next day they wera milen away, and the fre had hegun to C'cnu. Little tonguce of flame reached nut after dry aticks and limbe, larger tongmes followed them, and be- fore night the dre had control uf an acra of forest. 'bat wvas start enongh. At midnight the winid came vp freelr, and the heat af the fire: drave lhrnn%h”lhc forest, scorching and bakiug & Lrail far ne t D T afead there fn a fire In the woodn ta the weal of us,** enfdl the pioneer ono morning as wo #toad at his cabin-door. We could scent the ador of bnrning trecs ami leaves, and there wasa smoky look to the forest. At nann the odor wan stronger, tho smoke denser, and the live stack sround the clearing began to ex- hilit signs of alarm. When the oxen werc un- yoked tn be fed they tnrned their heads to the ext, ncented the alr for o moment, and theu chasged acraes the clearingto the cast at full speed, beiny out of sight In two minutes, *+'That means danger!™ said the planeer, in & low voice, and he turned pale. 1le believed tha Oro to be Ina lntgo swamp ten miles away, Lot harndly thought if posslble for the green farest to iguits, Wesat down to dinner, meaning to hunt Tar the oxen afterwarnd; hut bofore the meal was over there was s fresh canse for alarni, A hnek and two does dashed into the clearing, closely fol- Jowed by a fox, n acura of rabbits, and s dozen coans and womlchucks, Tho deer ran to the far «cilga of the cloxring as we wunt out, but the other aufmala scarcely noticed na. **Yon go forward ad far s you ean, and moe ‘what the ger 18, and wifo and [ will get ready 1u'v s fun aid the pioneor, as tho smuke grew thicker. At thst moment & fresh alarm aod & new warn- ing reached us. Thora camca roar like the rea Iven out when rishing in upon a broken beach, @ had not heard it Lofore. L was o steady, ters rible roar, nising abave all othor eounds. A com- ing whiriwind might have created the samosonnd, The rush of & vast herd of bulfaloes might bave <reated auch aroar, It was awfali The pround trombled, the snioke became blacker, and the heat ‘was like the rush of alr from o hot oven, ‘U1t fsn't A mile awny—we mast ran for our Jiven houted the settler, 1le bad threa children, | r!cked npa oy of 7, The piunenr seized his girl, (wo years yonuger, and the wife took the sleeping babu from tho cri- dle. "Thers waan't timo to take down a spare gar- ment fram the wali—to pick up a cherlshed glft or treasured rellc. his way—nurry " I heard the ploneer call d, pasping for breath and blinded by the 1 pushed on after him. ‘The rogr waa louder and grynder and moro trerl- r%bl: Falling upon us aud around us were little - ands of Ore, and to the west, balf o milo away, & 8 n wall of flumo a Landred foet high—a wail ‘which was coming down upon the clearing nt the ata of slx miles an hour, ‘Yho wall of firo was twelvo miles long, and the wators of Lake Erio ‘would have scarcely drenchiod 1t out, " Adeer ran agalnat me aa [ staggered after the pi- oncer, More thao onca | stumbled againat tho small wild animals ruahing hicro and theru through the clearine. My hair und whiskers wera acorch- ing, and my clothini was on fire in a doren placen, ‘when wo roached the ant-door cellar, & place dug infoa hill-slde aboul four hundred foet from tho lonse. 1t was part cive, part atructure, bat well covered with earth, and almast fres from amoke, ‘The two children had passed throngh all right, but the babe waa so nearly sufucated that we had bard ‘work to save ita life, Just hefary tho fames reachied the cloaring tho gronnd trembled as it did aroand (lettyshurg whon 1,00 plecen of artillery thunderad away for hours. The wmoke drove ahe teaving ma & protty view of cabin and clearing for Bve nr six minates. Tiirde droppul down uad died, The deer rushied araund i circles, vometlmon enning il agalnst stumps. The smaller animnala r. , and barked, nnd fought each other, and weveral rabbity fuund .our retreat and rushed In amoug When tno fdames reached thy Ing, 500 feet from our cave, the g un falrly baked. The wild animals fell down snd uled, steam rose from the grees mpa in clowls for a moment, and then fre broke out. Wo wan- dered If the Sames would leap tho clearlng, but that question was spoedily decliled, ‘Fho wall of fire roared and :1nlvom!. rose und foll, and noxt moment was driving abieall on the other alde, The flames seem Lo hayo reached right over tho lenacres and graaped the frcat beyend. Qur cave was like an ‘oven. The earth on the ruof wan s0on baked an dry a4 powder. Tho kreen Joga began to atew and burn, aud in ten minutes ‘W were almost ua wel ae If we had fallen luto the river, and wers hard-prosed for breath, Bried i thio alide of that hill wo were n thy centro of an ocean of lanie, of acres of the hottest Kiud of fire, For mllee Lo tho west tha fire was ealing away st treca and lovd, and {nto tho very ground., 'Tho walls of iro which tsd reached It ted arms ovor e cloaring was now milea to tha cast, North six witles. aouth six uiics; and the pionecr and his wife knelt besido the gasping, flmkln% babo and wept and prayed. That was un awful night, The heat did not abato until after midnight, and al every minute we could heartho dall thud of mighity teces as they yichied to the re and fell among the wroat heaps of coals, From 10 o'clock 1o midnight we cxlllmlunl!rby Iying flat on the ground to wecuro breath, 'The babe seemed cone stantly a1 tho point of death, but the other children suflered Icaw Uinu the prown people. Next morns 1 the wurad bad pessed, Betore us wa leared space, with ovory wiump buraing, aud the ground covereld with welios, coals, and burniuyg brauches, Beyoud the clearihg (he forest wae & strange, lonesomo wight, homo trees bad burnod. sowg Wore burnjog, and uvihers bad Leen robhad of Jewves and smaller linbs, leaving the hlackened trunk s Jandiurk to appall the hoartsof future suttlers, Wo could not Jeave the cuvp that b«J' wor that night. and the next porning everybody was nearly dead with thiret and exhausted with buneer. ‘The ploneer and mysell carried wito and Jittle ones nerrly ha aver ths baked and rmoking ground W 8 cieek, and were forlunate caungh to @nd the half-ron: of adeer in thie blood-warm water, anfinal hiad lain down in the water Lo avoid tho heat, and had bean lites- ally roasted slive, av (hu water was not over alx inchies deep, and the heavy fringe of bushes on «lther mde of the creek bad blazad fercely, 1L was & walk of cleven iiles (o a hawlet,—a yluco which had cecaped aly by a chango of wind und tho continued effurls of desperats men and hieroic women. Yhuusands of acres of valuable timber lad Leen robned, A preen wilderneed, Igo of the clear. ounil In front of (hrough which tho deer bounded and the fox an rulibit’ softly madu their way, had piven place to ruch a pleturo of desolation id the human eye sel- Huzen of ploncers tad lost ista Lad suffered dom rcets wpon. everytinng, Dozens of caphtal revere lossea, The lowly thorn. ing pinc, the eabla, ailll, an wlicd sway beforo that awful Lad cliclcd away (o cre, —etp—— TELEGRAPHIC NOTES. parlal Dispated to The Tribune, Srnvaziecn, 1, Juns 17.—Johy U, Sherman, Trys Coy, J. R [luxie, and 0. 'T, Willlams, core voratory, bave fled spplication to orgenize the Fown of Lake Gas and Coke Company of Cook County; capital, , 000, Apecul Dispalch (o The Tribune, McOureon, Is., dune 17. e Cluyton County Tepublicsn Conveotion yesterdsy instencted sheie dulegstes Lo suprort Uesr Ju the State Convention fur Goveruor. ——————— INSURANCE IN MICHIGAN, Special Currespondence of Tha Tridung, Lax sy, ich., June 1d.—Tuo lusuzence Com- missfoner reports the number of companies dolng Lueineas in thls Stato to ba U4, divided aa follows; Michlgan mutuals, forty: Michigan eiock, twoj wthier States, 1083 adlan, threa other foreign, eleven. Compsnies withdrawn: Alllaznce, Uoston; Armenia, Pltabarg; Bangor, Bangor, Me.: Citle zel Newark; Farmers' & Drovers', Loulwville; ¥ranklin, lnalanapolis; Globe, Cinnclanati: Home, Culumbus, 0. : Iludeon, Jeraey Clty: Osweso & Usoudsga Pusaiz, Now Vork; Fetorou, Petcraon, N.Jd.:People’s, Memphla: Star Fire, NewYork:3un, Cleveland. The forty matual companien In the 8tate liave risks In force to the amount of $O¥, 87, 011 anda membership of 51, 640, apainat 32, 051 in i870: amount of fire-nieks written by the Michizan atock companies of the States and forcin Governments, 813 033 Xrem!nm- recelved, $1,040,543; 1o NS0, 087; ageregate reks Tor 1870, s £2, 104, 0003 18; premiims._received, Torncs pald. S, Guth 110, The riske'tn_ 1475 ‘wera $103.074,818:" pramiuims receivod, $2,522,003; Togsce patd, 81,750, 148, WONDERFUL BROTHERS. One Commita m Murder nnn the Other Agrees to Hang forthe Crime---* Saved by a Neck,” tneatn (Ned,) Correspondence New Tork: Merald. n Bloomiield, a little town In the County of Stodilard, State of Missourl, lived two brothers, Polndexterand James Edmondson. Poindexter, the elder, was a smart, Intelligent young man of 27, who hnd for years cared for and protected s younger brother James. - The latter was of feeble mind, but was remarkable for the affece tion displayed toward his brothor. Theslightest wish of Pufudexter wns to Jamces a sacred com- man, and the alfection was returued in an equnl degree by the older brother, Last summer Poindexter had some trouble with a man named William Shaw, and in the tight which eosued Edmondson was struck on the head with a brick by Shaw and serfously Injured. e was contined to Lis room for a” conslderable length of time, and durlug his confinement very naturally gave expression to such remarks as W11 get even with bim," “I'll fix 8haw for this," ‘otc. These expresslons were potleed and remembered by many people who called to see him, though nobody paid any great attentlon to them at that time. During tho ilincss of Poindexter James showed reinnrkable fits of violent anger toward Shaw, whencver ho saw his brother's wound ; and loug afterward, when the wound bad healed, Lo would fiy futo & violent :u gl rago at sight of tho sear In his brother's head. One day 1ast October Poindexter, whila sittin) with his brother, suddenly put his hand to his head, complulntng that 1t ached terribly, and that ‘ha helieved that Shaw had given him a wound frotn which he would never entirely re. cover. James bad his usual paroxysm, aud Poindexter trled to soothe him, mentally find- ing fault with huuself for so thouchticssly :))w::lkmz of this subject before his half-crazed rother. The next day James dlsappearcd, and that night Shaw wis found eut to pleces with a bLutcher knife and quite dead ln his room. Suospicion at once fastencd upon Poladexter Edumondson, becauso of_the former trouble he had bad with Shaw and his threats during and since his ilnces, e was arrested and thrown Iuto prison. For two days the most agonfzing thoughts filled the mlud of Polndexter In regard to the murder, The sctions of his brother Jumes, hls dignppoarance and thy murnler following upon 1t pointed In his mind to his brothier James a3 the murderer of Snaw. But he heroleally kept his muuth sealed, On tho thind day James ro- turued and confessed to his brother that he had murndered Shaw, and wonted to denounco hlmeelf at once and tako hia placo behind the bars with his brother. But Polndextor refused o allow I, In the nost biindiug way and lnthe most sacred manuer ha commanded s hrother never to tell anybody the facts In tho case. Used to ubeying hils brother's slightest wish ho readily made the required promiscs. ‘The'trial of Poindexter came on, and the best altorncys that conld be found wera emoloyed in the ‘defense. They did all that could’ be done, vet um{wuru conviuced that Polndexter was keeping bLack fromn them somo_ Important hout the matter, Thoy urged upon him easity of conflling everyihine to his lint he invarlably reptied thot ho nhout the casg that ha conld tell and The trial ended, and_tho jury rdict of gullty of murder In the attorneyss brought ina first degres, und the unfortunate man was nentenced to be hanged on May 223, 1877, The atforneya tricd by every means to get R new trial, to hava the Supremie Court review the de- ‘vision of tnelower Court, bt in vain, and the young man prepared for his almost unheard of racrifice. Aa. alust resort au appeal was made ty tiov helps for interferenco; butafter every argnment had been oxhausted the Governor firmly refused to tnterfero with the flmllug' of tho Court, The lust hopo was gone, and Yoln- dexter prepared for deatlt, Thn fatal day was drawing near, but the in- terposing hand of Providence was also near. A few dags before tho time set for tho judiclal murder James Edmondson was taken suddenly il at Bloomeld sud lald upon s deathbed. Then, knowing that his lifo was drawing to an owl, e runtessed that ho, and not his brother, hudd killed William Shaw, Proper witnesscs werg «alled in and tlio confession was taken down in writing, As ninatter of course, the ;u-nnlu weregreatly exelted. There were bhut n ew davs Intervening neforo the timo sct for tho exerution. \What was to be dono must bo done qulckly, A publie_meeting was cilled, n guin of ioney ralred and 2 young man seut with all posalblo “apeed 1o Iny the facts before Gov. Phelpa at felferson Clty, Bloomfeld ls o con- riderable distanca frum the railroad station, but the young lawyer who was scit as messen- ger rodo to the nearest raflrond station, and then hastened to Jefferson City and lald the papers bafore Gov. Phelpa, This was on the niday evening preceding the Tuesday when Edmondson was tohavesulTered. The (lovenor granted o respite to August ¢, and then the Jawyer bewsn his ride for.a lfe. Ilo first tels phed to Dexter, the nearvst telezraph station, the result of his misalon, and then, ns fast u3 steam amil horse could carry i, ho haatened back Lo Bloomfleld with the Governor’s arder af commutation, e was ot an hour to soon, althongh . his telegram had been recelved before, Bul there wastio hanging in Bloomfetd an that day, and the people wero all finmensely hanpy. oindexter Ejdmondion conld not apeak when first Informed that his brother had madea vonfeasion. Jamnes died, aud the jailor, without anghority of law, let his brother attem] the funcral upder pguard, Mewsures wero ot onee set on fuol W fnduco the Governor to grant & full and uncorditional pardon, which will 1o doubt be doue In a duy ortwo. . BARON ERANT’B PALACE. The Magulficent Houso 1o Ballt but Sotd Bafore Occupying. onidan Times, Slay a7 Messrs. Diriver have now announced in our aulvertising columns tho salo In ‘Tokenhouse Yard on July 0 of the enormous and vostly manslon which 3Mr, Albert Grant built for himn- soll over ugalust Kensington Palsce, It bos ucver yet been fnbabited, The hours and wrounds are belleved to have cost £300,000, and they oceupy seven ucres of land, To clear tho site_two anclent recdences, with pardens, ald Kensington House and Blr Thomas Colby's mansion, wero demolished, aud a collectlun of small tencinents called Jenoiug's bulldings, coutalning o population of 1,200 In scventy liouscs, was also pulled down, Permission wus obtatned to replace the dead wall at Kensington Ganlens opposite by a light fron raiting, orected at Mr. Albert Grant's expense, and the buund. ury of the new eatate was set back some elght feet from the road tu make the lines true,” A fine lime-tree Ls thus left in the publie (mnP:\th. . The new huuse 18 of stone, and {s constuted byn centrul block and two wings, Itwas ¢ \.‘\l’rl;u- . The cording to Hlu||L'I|lunlfl|' Mr. F.'T, Knowl brown and eilded Iron screen Is plerced by cotes at each sle,and a carrlage drive teads up to the houso, Tho entrunce partico s supporicd by two great plllars of rod Aberdeen marble, cadl 0 oye plece, This portico gives admlssion {n o very light and lolty contrul Lall, with fluted whitegaarble colunins and stone Caryatids to support its roof, Tue vlew 1s bounded ou each slo by the staircass windows in stalucd-glass, representing frult and flowers, ‘Tho stairs of cuch slde are marble here, os aro the tiests' stulrs, as opposcd to thosd of the n:x-v-uui throughout the bullding, The fluor of the gccuunl hall l:h a tessclated pavement, It gives upon 8 marblo- paved conservatory, roofed by a high glass dome, Afew palne and ferns placed In this conderyatory at present show how it may here- after be decorated, Right and left of it are tvo drawing-roams, the blue and the yeliow, thelr cellings paiuted, as are thoss of thé other prins cipul rootns, by Mr. Frederlck 8ang, Along the whole south front of the Luuse runsamarble terrace descending by steps o the wardens; and the visltor on bhis frat eutrauce futo the hall Jooks, at - present, through the conservatory upon the lawns and sbrubberies, and the “green banks which have been bulit up to bound the view at the extremity of the estate, I, bowever, bofore enterlng tho couservatory e turns to the rigl or left, e will find on unv slde o great dinlnge. hall divided into two by duars which riso it will with the vool, and having {ts celling paluted with duslus relatiug to the chase, (5:1 tha samno side1s a Jibrury and e billland-room, The authors whose busts are tirured on the celiing of the library are Chaucer, Bhakspeare, Miltou, Bacon, “The other wing of the manusion Is uccupied by the long pleturs gallery which W meant to peceive the collection now dis. peraed, snd by the Unestapartuent in tho house, & wusic sulon or ball-room ju white and gold, with paluted medailions of femole faces un ita walls aud painted ceiling. Fluted shafts ol white wmarble are. l:lu-ud 1 scis at two poluts, su as to suggest a division of the batl Into three. There 2 shnllur yugeestion fu the pliure gallery, There is 8 llght " worulog-room i the frunt of the house on cach side. ~Above are three doors, with sultes of stats bedrooms and baths, B low s & largo kitchen, fitted Ly iterrlng & Sou, uod celtaruze pud servants’ opartuents extens 61V6 €00UZL to recall Whe wtenaluabiy pis el TiE cricAco TRmustY JUNBAY, June 15, 1877, under the Houses of Parliament. The honee is warmed throughout by hot-water pives passing under brazen geatings. The skirtings in the Assagea ara of inarhic; in the rovs of wooi. he loors of the principal roums areof parquet erie in oak, and in the others of pitch pine. The oak paneling of the dining-rovm walls is particularly good. The stair balustrales are of Iron, palnted In white and gold and sur- mounted by a hand-rall of maple. The service stalrs are’of stone. Walnut-wood 18 largely need in the doors. In the grounds in front of the house there I8 a remarkable triple elin, three trees rising from one stock, and (n the routh gardens there are ancient. lmlh)rrrlfl. ape le trees, and othier frult trees, Latrels, Wlacs, aurustinus, and other ahirubs bave been planted within the last four years, hut nre naw well erown, and thrushes Lave nlrendy buflt among them. Water fowl are kept uwpon the Iake, where there is also a miniature boat-house. Hot-houses, an American bowling-alley, an orangery, a 3wiss chatet, the stables surmount. cd by their dock, and Iuvln{ sixteen stalls amd four loose boxes, completo tho out-door build- ings. Gigantic Inttice-work las been erccted on which ivy s belng tralned to prevent the Fnrdem fruin belng overlooked by the nefgh- horlug houscs and to obvlate the” aceretion of fncunvenlent rights to light and air. —————— THOMAS H. BENTON, Personal Reminlscences by a Friend. 81, Lowlr Repubiican, The flon. John F. Darby delivered an address on Col, Thomas I1. Benton last evening before the 8t. Louls Historleal Boclety. Atter aliusion to Bentou's pecullarities, streugth of character, and ks cml{ struggles, ha related numerous {n- cidents of his personal courage, nllmllm.lI to his rencontres with Foote and others. When he wna first nomtnated for the Nenate, the opposi- tlon to him_was very bitters The Conven- tion was held at' the old Missourl Hotel, on Muain street. In one of the rooms o delegate lay dying, and four stout negroes wera placed ono at each corner of tho Led and ho was carrled to the Convention,where e cast his voto for Benton and died, When Denton went to Washington Mlssourd had not hiecome a State, and it required the Compromnise billgof Henry Clay to gain its admission, lle was kept vut of” his scat about twenty-two months, but in all this time ho kept busy and nmulm‘ the Srnnlth langunge, having atreml: learned French' from his ‘asgoclations with French families in 8t. Louis, When the great treaty was mado with Spaln lio was the only ono In tho United States Senate whio could read the document, He was always at work, and Mr. Webster onve patd him u neat complinient, say- g When the Benator from Missourl spoke on asubject lio evinced suchsound and thorough fim“ch tiat lie was always cdificd to hear hlin. Cal. Benton never avalled himself of the suin- mer hollday, bnt while others were at watering- places recuperating and taking pleasure, ho passcd his time in the Congressional Library at bard work and study. Ilisability was so marked that the seutence of Dr, Johnson on Uoldsmith was recalled: % Thers wus nothtug in the world he touched that he, did not adorn.” Iiis enemles admitted his grand ability, and Jim Greene once sald, ** We can beat the old fellow, but we eannot get any one to fill his place,” He had the power through ability of retalning posi- tion more than any other man in the United Stutes Henate, He opposed the rallroad system for a lomg time eud made some isnaragin comuparisons between MMl nois _ “ant Missourl on_ that = score. Oneday, reprosenttng o railroad committee, Mr, Datby Went to Col. Benton to sccuro his ald In o schemo for the benelit of the city and State. He spoke of Douglas having favored the move- ment In anotlier direction as being conducive to hila rwrsunnl popularity In - his designs on the Presidency. - Benton replied: * Douglas can never o “President, his legs are too short, nnd i coat-tall hangs like a cow’s, teo closeto tho ground.” Benton then ald help thom, and the speaker stoted that ho had his frank on a bill which ha introduced in the Thirty-seventh Con- rrens, providing for the locatlon of a central !:l(;hmy to oxtend from 8t. Louls to San Fran- iseo, 1lis _speeches read better than they were de- livered; his cloquence and reasuning were the most powerful which this country has ever pro- duced, Ho never uacd the phrase * fellow-citi- zena ™ {n hus speeches, but plain “cltizens,” 1o alwaya spoke of himsclf in the third person, in this wisu: sicero was to Cataline as Henton Is to that nulliticr, Calhoun,’ In one of his campalgns up the country, after a speech, Mr, Darby sald to him, ¢ Colouel, I belleve yuu are makiug an impreasion on these people.” He replicd emphatically: * Always the case, sir; nlwnys the case. ‘Tho terms of Thomas M. Ben- ton aud the people aro synonymous.’” e onco spoke at Boonvillo and then at Fay- ctte, At tholatter place ho sald: “Ispokoat the Town of Bounville last ulght, Before I came old Doc Loury apd othiers of Iis class sald T wonid not be thire but when I arrived amd comicnced speaking they walked in quletly and took seats, ko n lot of disreputablo cliar- acters nt a baptizing." 5 At anothier timu e was'the guest of Junes 8, Rolling, who showed llur wreat attentfon, After o speeeh Col, Benton had made, Mr, Rol- Jins zot o morning papor, and, tinding its com- wments of o usture unusually strong {u praise, ran up with it to Col. Bentou, who was still in bed, **llave you read &, air? Does it do jus- tico to the subjoct i Tho reply was that [t akl. 1 know il ubout it, sir,’ re?lhw Bentun, with great aignity, “T wrote it-all inyaelf, sir.’ ‘The speaker alluded to the number of dla- tinguished men who left North Carollna to ren- der pulilic service Lo other States, Col, Beuton was very proud of his origin aud apoke with preat pride of the fact that twenty-slx months befora the Declaration of lml«x\oudun«n North Carollna had thrown oft tho British yoke, and Col. Benton liad salds *Thero it i thal the aplrit of opposition to tyrauny origlnated,” After his trouble with Charles Lucas a chal- Jengzo wos sent him by another member of tho Lufly, which recoived no notlee, On'the some street with him lived a man unamed Strother, for whom Col. Benton had great contempt, VWhile Strother was ding o his frout steps Benton would say You seoundrel, dun't show {mmacll in my” presence. You \'Mnfmml. don't dare 1o show yourscif,? Btrothier chullunged him, hut Benton replied that ho had promised nis wifo b the time of his murrjage to glvs up dueliug. Strother threate ened o personal assault, but the Colouel was al- wayd arned to recelve hin, When the Whig party thought they could de- ug thelr votes to Gov, Hogprs, ‘fm]. c mil‘t; feat Benton by F" Benton was still el After the clection, invited oll parties to drink champagne, an Bogga, {n his ubsequiousneas, ald up lenton'a credentials, and, with great Hourlsh, presented them to bim, remarking, * Col, Benton, L will boglad to hear from you at Washington," & Yes, alr,”” o thundered, *yon shull, str," o Imflu crept awany greatl; ininished, The speaker wlluded to the Tact that Benton's sucvess was preutly due to the excellent traln- fug of his muther, —————— Ulstory of the Small-Fox, Nineteeni Censury, Ilow small-pox first arose awong men It 1s aiflicult to conjecture, It has been supposed that it may have been originally derved from sumu disease in tho cawel, Its history Jeads to the settled belfef that, while few pursons ure not,readily susceptible of 1t, It ncver oceurs now excent from contagion, It docs not ape pear to have been known In Europe till the heglunug of the cighth century, No mentiun of any such discase 18 to be found hy the Urcek or Rowsu authors of antiquity, Now, what- ever may have been thu deticiencles of theso ancient ” physteians, they wero excellent obsorvers amd capital describers of dlscase; and it seems to ing scarcely possible that o disorder g0 dnmulve‘ and *marked Ly characters to dellults ® sud couspleuous, should have cscaped thele notice, or 1f known should have bien obscurely portrayed fu tholr writings. On the other Land, Mr. Moorg, fn his learucd uud fntereating “lllsmry of Small-Pox,"” las shown that it prevalled i China aud lindostan from avery early perlu,: even mara than 1,000 vears before the ndvent of our Bavlor. That It did not sounce make its way westward futo Persia, and thouce fnto Ureeve, may be attributed partly to the horror which the complalut cverywherd Inaplred, and the ate tempts which were consequently made to check ita progress by prohiblting all commualcation with the sick, partly to the Hinlted fntercourso Which then touk vlaco mmong the Fastern na- tlons, but principally to the pecullar position of tho “rezlons: through which the fnfec. tlon was dlstributed, separated as they were from ths rest ol the world by fmtnense deserts sud by the ocean, The dlsease s sufdl to have brokeu out In Arablaat the slego of Mecea in the year In which Moham- mod was born,—that Is, it the latter half of tho sixthcentury, 1t was widely propagated by his wars, and by those of the "Arubs afterwurdss; aud it ls Teuenguy beleved to have flest founa catrancs futo Europe ut the thne of the over- throw of the Gothie monsrchy In Spaln by the Muors, when, to avenge the well-kuown out- rage upou his daughter, # Count Julian called he Inveders.” Whensvever and whercsoever it came, It spread with fearful rapidity and havoe. What is worthy of special remark s thls: that while alinost all men ure prone to take the disorder, large portious of the world Lave rewalned for centuries entlrely freo from it, uotll st leneth {4 was e ported, and that it then {ofalhbly diffused and estublished ftsell fu thoso parts.” Of the more woderu history of the disease our knowledye {s e precise and sure. it teads uniformly to the same concluslon. There was nu small-pox in the New World betore Its discovery by Coluine bus in 1392 I 1517 thy dlsease was fuported into Banto Domingo. Three years later, In ono of the Spantsh expeditionn from Cuba to Mexl- ¢o, & negro, covered with the postules of minall- pox, waa landed on the Mexican const. From him the dlicase spread with such desolation that within a very short time, acvordiog to Robertson, 3,500,000 persons were de- stroyed within that Kingdom slene. 8mall- pox” was Introduced into Iceland in 1707, when 11,000 persuns wero earried off by fts rav- ages—more than a fourth part of the whole pop- ulation of the. Ialand. It reachcd Greenland still later, appearing there for the Arst time In 1747, aud spreading eo fatally as almost to de- poptlate the country. Evidence to the same effect Is furnished by the results of vaccination {n soine countrles, "To take one Instance: Vace cination was adovted fu_ Denmark In 1801, and made cumpuleory in 1810. From that timesmalle vox disappeared altogether for ftteen years, whereas, during the twelve years preceding the ntroduction of the preventive disorder, uY- wanls of 3,000 persons dicd of the small-pox in Copenbingen slone. ———a— MODERN CREDULITY. Some Fresh Uinatrations of Its Absurdities Chambers Journal, " ¥ Those who are laboring, either as Individuate or u suclsl Institutions, {o raise the level and {inprove the tune of ilte awmong the mass of Lhe neuple are repeatedly confuunded by dis- hearteuing cvidence that gross superstition, Ig- norant credulity, still cxist amoupst ts to a Jamentable degree. Even comfortable farmers with their wives and children, small shop- keepers In country towns, and working- men and women in large towns, are o be found among the dupes of fortunc-tellers and witch-finders; albelt gervant girls arg the most numerous victims., Wh ether, thronch the aitency of school boards or Loard achools, edu- catlon will reach down deeper Into socioty Lhan 1t docs at present, ‘the next generation must show; but nothing less than mental {mprove- ment, whether given by achools, by healthy 1it- erature, or by other agencics, wiil cure. the evil, To prove that we are nut overdrawiog the pict- ure, it will suflice to cive n few Jottings so re- cent {n duteas within tho laat ten years, mostly derlyed from authentle police roparts. Al Madeley in Stafforushire, in 1867, s man went Into a velghbor's house, and there found a child troubled with severe cough. The father had delayed sending for a doctor until he had tested the eflcay of a remedy which be declared Tiad never falled. This remedy, or charm, ron- sisted In cutting & few hafrs’ from tho part of tho patient’s bend where it jolus the neck, placing them between two thin slices of bread- and-butter, awl giving them to = doy to eat. Realsting his nelzhbor's expostulation at such an absurdity, the father of tho child adminis- tered this delectable sandwich to a dog; {f the animal had sickened, a doctor for tho child would have beon seut for; but as Rover did not scem Lo caro much about It, tho invalld ws loft tu recover without medical atd, At Btratford-on-Avon, In the same year, a whole fumily held firm to & bellef that they wero visited by beings of very exceptional char- ncter—sometimes - human “creaturo carrving his head under his arm; somctimcs o headlcss l.u:ln;f that descended the chlmney s sometimes o headiess couple Lthat tossed the "beds aml the Inmates about, and mado havoe with the furnle ture. Nelther ridiculs nor serlous talke could shake them in this bellef; they declared them- gelves to be bewltehed, and ‘that redef could only be tound by deawlng blood from the per- gon supposed to be the witch. Unfortunately for her, the foolish peoplo suspected a woman named Jana Ward, who lived a door or two off. ‘Ihe father pounced upon her one day hield her tirmly, and cut lier face with a knife,” The fam- 1ly professed to be at unce relieverd by this moide of breaking the spclly thoy all slopt well, that night, which they declared they had not done for sume time previously. Jane Ward, of course, did not approve of such an extraors dinary proceeding, and the Mazistraies commit- tedthe manon a charge of cutting and malm- Ing. ~1f the memory of Shakspeare has refined hils birthplace, this refinemaont certainly had not reached the family I question, About the same period, the law had to meto out Justice to an evil<loer in -Devonshire, who had nct with n dupo’ of almost Incredible sitll- ness. A laboring man at Modbury, whose wite had an attack of paralysls, beloved thot sho was “lll.wish’a” by some one, avparently a modification of the old bellet In tho " Evil Eye.” Having heard of n woman at Plymouth possessing magle power, he went and “sought her out as a means of ascertaining who was tho Nl-wisher. ‘The * wise woman ' was equal .to the occasion. Bhetold hifm that his wife would have to ** sco the plancts,’ and to gather cer- tain herbs in the church-yord for twenty-ono nighta, Moreover, certaln’powders were to be burnt in the firc, onc in the morning and one fn the evening, and the ninety-first psalin was to be read during theburnings a “skin® was to bo worn round the neck, put on for tho first time on o Sunday. A plece of parchinent was given to him _under tho uame of a “‘charm,” bearing cabalistic afems of hilcrogiyphics, with o fow scn- tencea: ** Whasocver beareth this elgn, all splir- it will do himn homare;” “This sign aainst witcheraft, putrld Infectfons, and _sudden death3" % Whoso beareth this -|gn need fenr no foes” “This 18 o sign agalust witcheratt, and sulclde, and cvil demons,” Tie_foollsh man lent a willing ear to all this; and, as ho had saved a littie money, he became a weleome dupe to the wise woman, who tleeced him wo the extent of more than £4. As lits wife becamo more “{l-wish’d” than ever, or at any rita moro paralyzed, his eyes were opened a little; he told his grievances to a Maglatrate, and Im- prisonment with Lard labor was allotted to the wisa woman. In tho fashionable Town of Tunbridge Wells, o arrled woman, touched with jealousy, weat, in 1808, to_ascertain whether o fortune-teller vould conflirm ler auaplelons, The fortunes teller, an atl man, repliod In the allirmative, undertook * to Lewileh the other wainan*! by burning o certain chemicaly and money was siven to him to buy the chemical, The wife, on returning home, and befng attacked with rather sudden nnil sevore palus, suspocted that the maa bad bewitched her fustead of the other woman. This ubsund [dea led to w chiarge being brought against the man for wrongly bewitch- ing but the Maglstrates resolved itsimply Inton of obtalning money under falso pretense, and punished him aceordingly. Tho sama year nreschited an incldent at New- bury, strikingly Mlustrating the proverh that “a’fool and hls money ars soon parted,” A wumrfm:\u -Jost his watch, and consulted n »cupning woman "' about it. Bhe undertouk, for & feo of 12 shillings, to show him in o glass the tman who punuuu.-;l the wateh. On the silly noudle giving her tho tuney, sho bronght o sort of birdcage filnu, and requested him to look In ft; he did so, snd saw * something that looked llke o man's whiskers, but uo face.” Tl pald a sccond visit, and gavo her money to buy some **etufl’ al & chomist's, * The *‘cunning woman " went to his house, the next day, took tea with him, told him that the peraon who had the walch wus **very heart-hearted," and demand. ed 9 or 10 shillings wherewith Lo buy some more *“stuf.’ Another day came, and " with It a demand for more money, which the dupe rave, and so on untl 43 shithings in ail bad been thus transferred. Al the Inatructions sho guve im was to “keep at home till mblnfeht, when tho inan who had the watel would bring it Of coursn the watch never wade its appearance, aud tho only consolution for the Berkshire man was to 5“ o ‘“cunning woman' punishicd for frund, A martied womnn at Cuckfleld, fn Busscx, belug atfected with some malady which her friends could not understand, Iinpuled ft to witcheraft, A “cunnlug man,” who had a *"hook of mecromuncy,’ was consulted, His book told Bl that u charm must ba tried at widnlght preceding the Babbath, the plavets being favorable, The cunulug men aud the frionds of tho slek woman met vecretly provide cd with some new pius, which were stuck in cer- tain positlonss somethin: was burned, jsrgon read out of tho book, ejaculations uttered fn n commanding tone, In the expectation that oo Invisible witeh would be driven up the chimnev, Pryinz nelgbbors, however, spoiled the charm, anil the woman's {liness had to be attended to by & madical practitioner. A mixture of witeh credulity and spiritual- {stlo credullity showed itself Jn & ainzular way, in an advertisement which appeared in one of ha Jouraals devoted to that class of subjects, *A’zenticinan, helng bewitched by a hired man. witch In bis immedlate nelghborliood, hired and avowedly pald durlng thirty-ive years a fixed tsum of noney yuarl& h{ miscreants for his ‘erimiual services. » . Would be zlad to meet with any medium who might be able, by spuc- tral siglit, by clalrvayance, or by trance, (0 furd such clow as might Identlfy the eaid wao- witch.” Poor gentleman! his mird was evilent. ly thrown off {ts balancs by somg one of the braln dlseascs which now occupy 8o much of the attention of thoughtful physfclans, A dclusion, ut once rad and tudicrous, tonk hold of a Devonahlre youtha few yearsuio. He was lubl)ocl occasionally toepllévtic Bis, and anxiously souybt for preservatlon from lua mal- ady, On ono occaslon he was known to stani autside the parish church aud collect o peuny cach from thicty unmarelel womeo, wherewith to purchase o riug to wear asa charm agaluat el Tu 16870, a woman in Barostaple market-place was suddenly attacked by au old man, who scratched her with a needle, drew blowd, and exclaimed: * You bave had power over me lonyg cuough, aud now I will be ruvenged!” Tue uld of a wmagistrate belug obtalued, the old mau de- clared that he had suffered atliiction through her for four years, that be_had had four compialnts upon bin at once, that he had loat funrteen canaries aud about ilty goldinvhies, sud * ore thay 100 persous” had tuld bl that he would B e o LT P e ———————————— getrid of all his troubles if he could anly *fetch " the blood out of the old woman. fie ‘wns rather disconverted at bet puniatied for ;ulhmflll;(z this singular maode of disenclianting himsell. The bellef In & myaterious power attributod ton corpse by some old superstitions ts alimost incredible, At Bewdiy, In the year justnamed,” A man was found drownad ln thie 8evern. When the inqueat was over, a woman came, bringing with her a boy afflicted with many unsightly wens on the neck, Bhe bepged permlission to draw the hoy's hand nine tuunes over the do- ceased man's throat, fn order Lhiat, as the bady decayed aml wasted away, so might the hoy's wensl ‘The Chief” Constable (rath- er” unwiscly, we think) nacceded to this strange request. About the same timo a Suf. folk man died of typhold fever,and superatition Ted to deplorabletonsequences, An ol “wise woman " persuaded a_neighbor, whose son was aficted with some discase, to submtt the dis- cascd part of the boy’s body to the touch of the dead man's hand, The typhold was communk- cated tu the poor boy, froin hiin to other mem- bers of the family, abd from them to the neiehe bors; several deaths oceurred, and the village Jong retnained in n tainted state. w0 young girls went to consult n Berkshire fortune-teller In 1871, 8ho shutlied « pack of cards, made 8 michty fuss with them, and de- clared that they revealed the wora * London;" that one of the rirls would oblatn a good situa- tion there, and then marry a widower; that the othier would fare even Letter, and be married to a gentleman with plenty of money. 8he in- duced both girls to oblain " goods from trades- men in the town and bring them Lo her house, also wearing apparel, promising that she would send these artibles to them when they reaclied London, The mother of onc of the silly dupes detected the fraud r.ul fn timo. It was onlya case of fortune-telling cheatery, but it shows In le! lnwmy forms this stupid credulity manifests self. P In the same year n well-to-do farmer at Tl- cliester, a shrewid man of business, was troubled with a strange fatality among hls cattlc. le- lieving that they had bieen *overlookeld ! by a witeli, ho applicd a ' wise woman" to remove the spell, Acting on her advice, he heaped up a vlla of faj 5"“ around the body of the anhnal which had Jast died, bucled the carcars, and pronounced over it an Incantation she had pro- ¥ided. A veterinary surgeon was alao called in, The remalpder of the hend recovered; but the farmer and his neighbors attributed tho goud result to the * wiso woman ¥ rather than the surgeon. In 1872, the Dorset magistrates had to try “eunnimg man,” e bad undertaken to eiire an eplleptie Idiot boy, and fleeced the poor parents out of .w"]i £201In clghteen months,— partly for supposed bebefit to the hoy, nnrily o charm away an ovil spirit which the father belleved himself to be haunted with. The wife was tnore credulous even than the husband, and was the chiel agent In holding Interviews with the knave, and paylng hita money. At Payhembury, In the nelzhiboring County of Devoi, an Instance oceitrred in the same year of fatal results Howing from thu depression of spirits conscquent on witch-belief, A young marrled woman tnnde acqualfitance with “u white witch ™ during o visit to Taunton. Aflter her return homu she told her husband and friends that ghe had heen “overlovked ' by the witeh; she hecamo nervously depressed, and ended her brief carcer by drowning bersell, We are not told whether any good result followed the exhiortatlons of the Coroner to the jury, to ‘o thelr best todisabnse the minds of thele ncighbors of this ignorant supcratition,” Onone partlenlar Moniday morning, In 1874, tha pitmen at Bedworth Colilery, Warwi(ckshlre, uhsumuclf refused to descend the pits. They roamed Idly about Dedworth all day, losing a day's wages, and {n_ all pmlmb[lllly spending something addltional for drink. The resson ussirned was that the ** Soven Whistlers™ lad heon heard during the proceding night in the neighborhood, aud _that this alwaya presaged somo_ colllery disaster, Whetlier these whistlers wera birds, ghosts, or devils the pltnen Al not kuow, mnor conld they bo certain that —the number was exactly; seven but they hail heard the crics, and that was cniough, In a recent article on "hyn- terlous Sounds” wo endeayored to show that the sounds produced by thease M Whistlers' praceed. o4 (rom birds fying overhead during their mi- frrations. One more example, and our budget shall end. Ita dato Is so recent as December, 18573, Oue day an aged wowan at Long Compten, War- wickshire, wos returning with bread from a haker’s shop, when A man ran up to lier, and woumded her so severely fn the leg with a hay-fork that she died the next day, The maa had for yeara entertalued a bellot Lhat fiftcen or sixtean witvhes In Tong Compton, whose names he gave, had bewltched him, and interfered with his work. The Super- intendont of Palice told the Corener and }nry that mnn( of tha villagera belfeved in witcli- craft, snd that tho older women wero those on whom the accusationa of the bewitched mostly fell. Tho misuse or, mlatuterpretation of thie Bible Is often noticcable in tho conduct and lislt-crazy reasonings of thess superstitions folkss tho muan pointed to thres verses in Levitleus and ono In the Acts of the Apostlcs to show that he was justified in killing the poor old woman wlo **overlooked ™ him., Baron Bramwell, whotried the prisoner o tho case Just adverted 1o, and who belleved that superatition had driven the man half vut of his wits, * hoped that something would be done to disabuse the people of a bellef fn witcheraft," CGomls hut we fear this Improvement will be tardy unless the intelligent middie cluss can nm&uirc morg real infludueo with the humbler and Ignorant class than they scem at present to posscas, “‘U'he lonezer the publication of this artfele ia deforred, the mora numerous (apparaitly) would b the avallablc examples of Lhess mingled diy- plays of credulity and_roguery, While wa are How writing S;lmw. 1870), the country nowspa- pers tell us of o euse which eams before the nistracy, A youty wutun complained that sho was **overlooked ' by nwitch; a * cunning man " undertook, for o fec of three shillings, Lo wrlte out n *euese,” the ultering of h would kil the witeh, The fes was pald; the curse was written and uttercd, but the witch, gomuhow, refused to die; and so the ailly t:lvl male public tho broken promise of the cunoing man, ———— “PONGO.” “The fierlin Gorilln—<Tlow Tin Eat Stocns, wnd Amusos 1meelCan Itors, Curresvandence New York Warlil, TLoxpox, May t.—A distingmshed personage, whose arelval “licro un w visit i awsited with considerntlo cirtosity by the public and with reat futerest by Mr. Darwin's frionds and enc- niles, 88 Just now receiviog lunuacrable colls from his large circlo of fricnds in Berha, {le Iy called * Pongo,” und is the most interesting re- it of o Prusslan sclentifle expedition: into the tnteriorof Afelca, Wihcn first he was tuken to Herlin a spucial banguet was given fu his honor, and be atonce becamo the pet ol fshlonable and educated peonle there, We ahall probubl weleomo Uim as warinly lere, for his adyent will bo reirarded asa brilliunt addition t the llons of thu scason, An account of ia habits, furnisbed by a corre- spondent Inthe Prussian Capital who f8°on teeins ofgreat Intimacy with hun, witl, L think, 4 tereat Ponga' s now, the writer bes leves, *nearly threo years old, and he fs about three feet blgh; fus Dudy I covered with soit lllks balr, mlxub with grray, and reddish un the head. 1 huy o powertul Torm, ulur orms smooth-pollshed black face, well-shaped cars, anda largo, sharp, and mallclous ey witich gives him a stoliingly Duman appearas, \When one has thu pleasure, as 1 hai this wee! of spending a murnlug with him i his apar! ment, ho strikes {nu«unur hnvinz ot over the slight feellng of disapointment which s produce el by the abacnzs of ‘auy bridge to his noss—as belngz singularly lke u” yery minusing, playful aml goud naturcd negro boy, rather awkward In eome of his gestures, and {n i mode of pro- «resston somctimes distinetly apelike. Asho sity, Juoking solemnly round him, ho appears to be thinkingof what the next Joke shall be, until presently somsthilng fu your geatures ar volee lxlc.uca him, aug then suddeuly he claps his hands tog:ther und nods with an alr of wreat delight. ‘]lu 1 very suciable, and distingulshes young froin old and mals from female visifurs. 1ln 14 oxcecdiugly attachod to the soclety of children of Sor & years oll, plays about with them ad thowsh recognlzing thenias playletlows of his ownagze, chases them roundn cawe, allows them to lmll hius about, drag bim by the lee, and roll him over and over, swings with them ou the trupeze, kisses them i they witl atlow him, and permits them to taks avery Kind of liberty with him, without making asny unfalr usg ot his superivr strength. With older chillren he secins to understand that be wmay be more rough, and, whon hoe is racing sbout with them, he slyly upsets w chalr, and takes the oppartunity of giving them fricndly buxes on the ear, When Fadles visit bim in Lis larve eage, which i3 sultably furnished with salus, chalrs, and tatle, trancze, and all kinds of gywm- nastic appliances. they have bothing to fear, cxeept fromy Dis sutmewhat fmportunate amiability, Tle 13 particulaely delfzited §f they take bim up fu thelr avins be embraces them, ond leaus bis head szatnet thelr ehoulders with a grateful and vratiled alri ho ts by no picans willlug to be set down agalv, Tho Berlin ajua- rium, fu whick he now hiolds vourt, s rich iu varlctles of the larger moukevs, and when he poea futo the monkevs' cage ho rules thera supreme. Even the chimpanzee, who re- sembles very much in bis clever human wave au old favoritsof Londou ut the Zoolugleai Gur- deus, treats Llw oy distluctly bis supesior. .the meal beging, conslsting of gravy soup, ‘Tho gorilla, however, appears to recognire the cliimpanzee ns llunrl{v his equal, chooses him alutost, exclnsively for his playmate, and be. stows fricndly but ratherrongh varesses on him, Iles fond of getting hold of the ehimpnnzee, keeping him down aml_roiling over him on the ground. Bometimes Tachego manages to allp from under him, and then Pongo sprawls awk- wardly on the floor on hoth handa, and lvoks tp with an_cxpression of accented defeat. 1le walks on the sules of his feet, leanlng at the smine time on the outside of the hand, but he turns oat his toes far more than the chimpan. zee, and he carrfes his hiend more grandiy erect, this seeming to Loths mark of high soclal standing, When In high kpirits he ina o way of shuwing the top of hlared tongrue, which males his black fuce look all the more lke thatof o negro boy. Ilis mode of 1ife fs ax hunan as aro all his ways. Iiu slecps on a mattress rolled in A ru, and at about B v'elock in the morning he rlzcs In hisbed, aits up, vawna, scrutches himselt, nnd remalns i nsleepy, ltatless condition tiil he has taken his mlik, which he drinks out of o tumbler, e is now wideawake, und lenves his redd nud looks about In the roum for something tu play with, and pérhaps, tf he s allowed, to destrug, tor he Is as inischievous ns any child or s any monkey, ‘Thea he looks out of “window, claps lifs kands, and, for want of more suitible companionship, begins to vlav with his keeper, T'hls man maust be continually in attendance on hiusy he does not allow himeclf to “be left alone for a single moment. I he iinds himself afone, he utters the shritlest erles untit he regaina the society of man, At 0 o'clock the gorilla is tub- bed, an operation In which he takes tho greatest delizht, expressing his approval in bass notes, whicly perhaps, it will be fipolite to call grunt- g, 1o takes his imcals at the usual German hours; for breakfaat he lias sausnges, preserved meat, cheese, and thio favorito Berlin white beer, It ts extremely fanny to eco bim try o hold the class with' his {at, short fingers, While he is nsnlnunsz himsel! with his feet. Hels fond of fruit, wiiich ho cats with the most gentlemanly deliheration, cavefully removing the stoie, when eatliig cherres or otlier frult of the kind. At 1 o'clock the keeper’s wifo brings him his lunch and hie scems 1o possess 8o punctual an internal monitor of the time Lhat this shoutd be brought Aliat he i3 always extremely iinpatient it i Is not there to the minute, and “aiways goes down tu the pussage to look for it when he hears the beil ring. 1le begins by looking intu the glaeses aml tries tosteal something out of them, wheres upon he usually hns his ears boxed, and th|eu rico or veretables bofled with meat, ‘ete. Some- times it finlshes u? by amost weleome slice of roastelcken;thisis lisgreat treat. The keeper's wilo {8 mistreas of tho ecremonles, and sces that he behaves himsell with propriety, Under her chastening eye he ls careful to use’his spoon respectably, “After his meal, howaver, hie wants o siestity ke all-other Inhubitants of tropleal climates, After a sleep of nbout an hour and n lalt he 8 ready for more play. In the after- tioon he has gomae frults, and iu the evening tea or nfll, and bread and butter, Ho goes to bed at llo’cfnck, Iyinz down on bis mattress to he wrapped up fu'the woolen blanket. Ife always nalsts, however, on his keeper sitting by him 11 lic Is nslecp, which svon comes to hilw. He prefers, luwover, beingnllowed tosleep with the ecl;‘xcr,mulllwn he Pnuhlsnrm roundhiskeeper's neck and leans his head aguinst him, e slecps uninterruptediy nll night. In this way of life he biaa Hyed and thriven, until he has Increased in welght some thlrL‘y-xuvun ounds. A short Umt aro ho fell 11 with bronchitis. ITeds very restiess and Impatlent {nvalld, and seemeil utterly wretched and far from amlable fu tem- ver. Many doctors assembled round him every day. 1le “was trented with . quinfne and Ema water, and n uniform, molst temperature was kept upin the room. Now, huwever, he hns vompletely recovered, Great anxiety was mani- fested Ly the peofilu of Berlinduring his iliness, and mate than & hundred carda o day were left upon hinn I{o may be scen now n-the highest. slata of caprice and enjoyment. He 13 very much attnchied to. his keeper, aml has a great respect for Dr. llermes, the doctor of the aquarium, whom he treats always with marked conslieration, and whose boy Is oneof his favorito play-fellows, I know numlnF more lmman than {0 sce him having an elaborute romp with this boy, runuing round the table after him, skipping slong the shelves, Widing himself undor the table, upsetting chafrs, and ultimately allowlng himself to be eaught, and eoing through all his lmrhxrmauro- of walking up aladder, sliding down tho sides of it, and Lummlm,r‘ over head-awd-lcels, Iylng on the Hoor, and rapping with delight, nod ultimately Jumping into the trancze alongside of his littlo play-fellow, putting his arms round his neck, and sitting there with his cap on his head and o pipe in his mouth, swinzing backward and_ for- 3”&) ln"mu(mhlu enjoyment with tho son of his uctor,’ ————r—— PRINKIPO. The Vale of the Rwoet Waters=--Tho Tark's Enrthly Paradise. Constantinople M(lyflngnfl‘ San Francisco Chrond- 4. Off in theBen of Marmora, on a spring morn- Ing, the ey discovors a little wreath of islands 1Iu.nlnu,au{rmnuy,dnnd:llku n mid-alr. Thess Lalry Istanils, nine iu pumber, arc frequ by the wealthy Conastantinopolitans, who seek re- posa i the lonely and lovely valleys where the bun scems to ahine forever, and where tho harshest sound that falls the cur Is the sllvery ring of the husbandman eharpens his scytho in the mendow, or the chorus of flsher-boys aini- Ing over thelr nets on the shore, It 18 but on hour nud a hali’s sall from the Golden *Horn to PIriukipa, the chief Island of tho group, yet once beyond the vontuglous huery of the clty you find yourself ainklng cotnfortibly Into one ol the easy<halrs ou deck, Inhaling the deliclous Aeu alr atd ubsorbing the sunshine with g physical delight, do not wonder that Eine Jerors aud Knp fled to these sen 1slunds for reposs cenrity, 1t gecins as i nothing worldly ought Lo touch th hores, The steanier that riuns over and back 388 the sea sorning and evening {s the only sugyestion of an earneat and vigorous life, We set sall in the mornlng anid find oursclves almost immediately under the enchanting fn- NRuenve of the new atmosphere, ‘Tho ripples nparklo fn the sun; o fou rds wheel on lazy wini and bear us company; now and again # tish teaps from the water, the white gulls seream and dart upon ity 1hero 13 a splaab In the track of the sun where the sea Is paved with iold, and we rouso oursclyes from a reverle as deep almost as the sca. Nothing comes of it; we fall upon a basket of fruit, and lauuch a flect ol orange-peel calques in vur wake, we roll Lthe fumed tobaceo of the land in weuppers of rice pu- hor and eweeten the nir with the aroma thereot, 0 oue talks wuch; every one scenis Lo be Jook- Ing with contented eves {ulo the future or the pust. Aud 80 we drift up to the shallow shore, umder green hille, where a narruw dock reaches fur vut Into decp water, This is Khalk), one of the falrest islands of the group, but we don't lund hero to-day. We lean over thae rall and sce the rope thrown lazlly ashore and as lusily mufihl and alipped over the ons post vu the dock, Bomebody gocs on sliore very quletly, aml some other body steps notsclessly ou bourd § wo nre cuat off without - comment, and 8o drift toward Peinkipo, We sca the three prassy Ills of Khalk!, crowned with the convents al tho Blessed Virgin, 8t. Georze, and the Holy Urinity. \We learn 1hat there arc students Lthere —tirceks, many of themn, that there la aliv an Ottoman Naval Collce over the hill, and that Khialki ts mnuch resorted to by the rayahs, the non-Mussuiman subjects of the Sultan, Itscems to as that nothing cun be tiner than to bo & ray- ul aud » student, aud to lle all dday on those green, grecu slopes, looking off upon the spar. Kling sea,and tistening to the study-bell,growing ever faluter and fuluter as we fall silecp, lapped Iu o mieadow of sweet clover, Lriukipo ts the larzest of the Princess Islands. It bas its village, its hotels, with Laths along the shore Just under them, A bigh road, in capital repalr, inakes the cirenit of Exm island, aud a swarin of doukey-boys llzht unon you us vou come toland, and It° were vain to wave them back or to lly from them, for they will track you to the graveor uet theie fve, The summer village looks alimost like » colony of play-houses. "It s go neat, so pretty, so un- troubled. Wreaths of Uuwers hang over the duoors and the windows of almost cvery Tiouse. Bo they welcome the return of sprivg in Prinkipo. “Stately Turks are brene up and down the village strects fn vedin chairs. Pipe-beaters follow them, aud frow time to time, as the ponpous Effend] waves his hand, his box Is turned towand the ses in o shady spot, the stalwart carriers dash (ho sweat from their forebeads and soust at the- feet of their master, the plpe-boy uncoils tbe pliant tube, laya a live coal upon the bowl of the nargileh as it ’slts in the grass, snd the wext lialf hour {5 iven o sereno snd secret thoughts. A Prince nthe lsle of Princes is & mau to put your taithin; you will slways kuow Just where to fook for him, and you wmuy be surc that he tukes uo Iuterest n’the affalrs of otber wen, ond that nothlug cau disturs the placidity of his lle,—unless the bottom shouldjsuddéuly drop out of his sedau chalr, . We hired u set of dunkes-boys Lo walk be- blndmu:nrugertmll tance, “Alono we did 1t One alter the other, fdliug here aud (here, gettiug astray In the viseyn=da, Widivg smoug rose-gardens, pausingto inbale the warm odors steeping in the suw, or to cateb the refrain of sumo singer bLuried {n the wood on the bill, There 13 a Greck convent above the road, Lidden 4ike s ovet Ju a deeobotlow. Whenthe Ewpress Irene, a cootemporary of Charlewmsgne snd Haroun-a)-Raschild, wis dethroned. she wua sobbed of all tho treasures of the crown, and then banlshed to this convent, wbich hersell bad bullt, Later sbe was scut tu Lem- n0#, Bud there divd, but ber body 1s still treas- ured In this convent, and when the cungeierors of Constantinople senttered the dust of the Byzantine Eonperors to the whids, the sarcoph mrus of Irene alone cxenped destenetion, High on a summit of apenk In Prinkljpo thers f8 n clolster and a kitchen, Our path Jay through a feagrant forests we canght glinpses of broad blue scas and of 1alands that swam ne. low us ns wo elimbed toward the summit of the peak, [fere, in an arbor that hung upon the edge of ruace, A monk served ns bread aml wine and omelet. He also hrought the con. soling narglleh, and as we feasted und fatiened we looked doswn upon a pleture that can never fade from mcmorf. 1f ever tslands tloat, theso falands float. They are the hauuta of fiying istanders, and that {s why the air fs so still, ang 8o restful, and so magical. On the one hand the eea amld aky le down together, and on the other the glamour of Bramboul filaminates tha horizon ltke o mirage, In the distanco wo dis- cover the lttle Loat returning forus, She sits Jike a binl upon the water, with foam-white tail-feathers and loug, dark wings of smoke, Think of saying fare- well Lo thise dreain-nooks of the world; think of plunging again _into new flolds with tne conscionsness that vou have, in all human prop- nbility, seen the best, and that ono expencnce 1aid «0 suon upon anotner s suro to deaden the flavor of both. Like sca flowers tho 1stands reem to drift away from us, and fn secret [ am hinlf convinced that yonder, between sca and sky, flunts Asfiton; “and yonder, within the mayde circle of the waves, sleep the Ilappy lales, the Islands of the Blessed! ILisa lone deivo from Pera over the dusty hills to tho vale of the Sweet Waters, but on Friday-afternoon the road Is lined with car- ringes, and the groves' on the banks of that prete; am, the waters of which ate worthily called sweet, resound to the musie of many a mandolin and the eny laughter li“ women, Af- ter mosque the legular Friday (Thty of all Mus- sulmans {s to say thelr praycrs In state on that day. fter prayers tho de- vout ~and “indiffcrent ‘hasten to the vale of the Sweet Waters and give thelr souls to the luxury of life. The apectacle is bothcharin- ing and unigue: stich o scenc ean only bo Im- agined by the student of Enstern poctry, for It 18 one of thie most joyous, brilllant, and” plctur- esque that can be coricelved of. flere s a gar- den party, o carnival costume, held in the mldst of green pnstures and beside still waters that rival those of the Vale of Coshmere, As we drove Into the mouth of the valley our road wound under luxurions boughs, (lense with black shadows; on one haud n narrow stream flowed nofsclesaly, one shore was a bed of moss,thc other n willerness of foliaze through which even the birds might find it ditlicult to poss. White swaus safled up and down the streams; yellow leaves floated upon It} its waters were g0 clear “and .tranquil that they seeined, even {n the shadow, Jike a decp river of amber, landsome broughame, and driven by English coachmen, wero wheellng up and down the avenue: the cuntichs that accompanied them cast now and then o watehful eye upon tho Circassian and Givorglan houris within, whose dazzling beauty was only holehtened by thelr mnsks of snd whito lace that hal? conccaled their featur, DE"E in the valley there'ls a summer palace of tha Bultan. Yousce it in the midst of velvet lawn, smong (*y?rcslu, and nimosas, and foun. tains,—a cate of white and gold, such as might houso the binls of Paradisc, Flocks of peacocks cover the lawns and strut nbout with thelr fan-tails spread, os proud g any Turk in the land, Some of the docorative but unmusieal birds were posing on the pedes- tals and urns that stand io tlsefmlcn,—n highl effectivo but rather theatrical display, for witeh the birds may be pardoned. The stream broad- cns below the summer-palace; tho groves scatter thomsclyes .over tha meadows on cither side} a thousand caiques are in the water, crowding their way op and down between tha shores, loaded with pleasurc-secks ers, The shores themselves nluolum¥ awarm with women and children,—Iit 1s thelr hollday, and the men are graclously permitted to cone and gaze upon the garden of girls, but they are scldom nllowed to fiar‘n in the infantilc sports of theso wives and daughters of the harem. We enter ong of the calques ond seat oursclves cautionsly in tho bottom of Ity nothing can be nors uncomfortabla or more ingcenre than theso tottering, fat-bottomed, ll-balanced boats, ‘The oarsmun sits with his back to the bow, ana is obliged Lo throw an cyo over his shoulder every five sccomds, to avold the vossibllity of - drawn by fina horses . colllsion, and, with this donble duty on his ° hands, he is ccrtalnly excusable for an occasion- al disaster, We had our bow stove in, and wero drawn on shorc as speedily as zmullm'. to avold Lelng crushied In the kinmense throng of | thiat - choked tho ~ stream for < tWOR6f 1o thrce mites, and rendered &“*¥erotds” in the sweet waters far from enjoyable. Ou tho shore were muititudes of “wumen® wranped in sllks and satins of the brightest colors and seated upon. rich Persian carputs spread under the rees, Theso woinen were generally fn groups of threo or inore, awd wore attended by Nubisn slgyesy who also-»wgro- the rmluunk upon thelr faces, though they wors as hlack a8 ebou{. Banda ot siugers,” dancers, Instrumentall magiclans, snale-charners, and story-tellers wander unnnd‘du\m the shors plying thelr trades and making~tho valley re- sound with the confusion ol Babel. In evey - group, the nareilch seut up its fragrant lo-. censy and half the world reemed to bavfeeding upon houeyed fritits nnd drinkine sherbetorvakd. -7 Doubtlcss this lutter liquor flowed frecly, ‘for the tumnult Increased ‘a8 the afternoon waned, and the dancers, who danced never so wildly, werc n !ru‘uent demand, Thero were tents pitched In the amaller groves, tnd from these niore roserved vireles eanc yushing lnughter und the click of plasses, and the ymlty patter of applauding __ kids, ‘The Turein — does enjoy itaelf on a Friday, even though that black glant of w cunuch Is seated without the curtalng of the tent, The sojourncr In Pera can tonch the two extremes of Orlental enjoyment when lie drifts over to Prinkipo of a sunny spring morniug, and lounges in tho sowni-sulitude of that slumbrous fsle, aud when, weary of professlonal sight-secing aud the hum of ‘business {n tho Frank quarters of the town, ke takes carriage or mlt{m! and comes by land or sca to tho vale of the Bweef Waters, and enters for o o= ment into the spirit of the fefe. Your practical Molommedan Fm-‘ licnce to indulze bis vyes with & vision of the jurn to come; for it not Inrumlml him who (s faithfid a river and the lower of womnanhood, togethier with mest and drink? Alns! we of the Western Woild must content ourselves witha gllmuuofnwmth}nmr such as the lost I'erl bad at the eates ol Edeo C. W, 810D0asD, —_— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, Loxnoy, June 17.—Artived ont, the steamer Ville de Iaris, from New Yotk, and Pengsylvanis, frow Phlladelphia. New Yonu, June 17, —Arrived, the steamer City of Richmond, frown Liverpool, pupai i 8 i elal 0 The Tribune, Y.Awnmff"lllrh.. Jone 17,—Fiftacn thousand cels bave becu distriboted in tha Iakes near this city, 3ud 5,000 ln the Shiswassco River, ————————— A Remarkablo Food.Presorvative, Nein Orleans Democrut, A practical physiclan—Dr. J. W. Davenpart, of Dallas, Tex.—has obtained s patent which promises to be uf greatuscfulocss. Itissimply a fuid for keeplug all kimls ot friits, veceta: bies, wnd meats, fresh and sweet, The shi of the chiemist has been to discover Lhe Ingredicnts of a plekle whicti would arrest the process of decomposition and extinguish the erm of de- cay of all sulual and vegetable sulstanees, without hupairing thclr Havor or imparting tuo them any iujurious cffect, 1t fa slmply 3 ilckle of the most fncxpensive sort, costivg lcn than brine or vilcgar, in which aoy vegetahle may be kept i ogeu vesscls, submergad for montts, and. when taken 1 he found as pure and fresh as when the vegelahles camo from the garden or the meat from the butcher's stall, This pivkle wmay be furnlshed and prepareid st a cost e cents per barrel. The pickle is so ncarly tasfe. less and palatablo as to demonstrato ita lovcus ousneas, aud yet, from the apecimen we saw ves- terday, green corn whicn had heen finmersed in it for twelve months, when bolled, could not be dlatinguished from the corn which had been gathered that morning, Mutton and porks chops, and even fat pababottes, J»laccd n this plekle weeks ago, whe bjected 1o heat, hal Ppresscved all thelr orf, (rushiness sud tavor, ———— A Nolse-Extingulshier. New York Tribune. Ererybody that travels has experienced tho annoyincs 0f having his cars deafened when 08 bn‘.mi a steaboat by theroar of escaplug steam, Sometimos accidents bave occurred durinz the racket of “blowing oif" simply becauss tha Captaln cannot make his ordurs Leard, and everythiug hus to Lo donu in dumb show while the ‘dlsturbagco lasts. Happily an inventlon called tho gplral cxbaust-nozzle s destined o choke olf the nolse. It operutes by break- ing the waves of sound, the eh‘sbln)fi steam be- ing surroundegd with a wire liclix, und obliced to pass between the wires. A report adopted by the Committee on Scienco und the Arts ol the Franklio lustitute suys: ** Iu view of the an- noyance, fright, and danger grlsing from the roar of escaping steam, and of the completenesd with which tho nozzle destroys this roar, we .mz of the opiniun that Mr. Shaw kus doue a grea service to the community, and particularly 10 the transportation fntérests, In overcoming sh obnoxious aud dangerous featnve In the use -.( steam; aud wo recommend tle oward to bim ¢ the Scott legacy premum wnd welsd fur W3 splral oxhauit-uozzi.” P ineat _ or