Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 14, 1877, Page 12

12 Been ee een wHis CHICAGO ‘TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1877— i BLVE PAGES NEW YORK. The Eastern Metropolis After Six Years’ Absence. Old Landmarks Disappearing-—Contral Park-—The Lioness and Her Cubs, East River Bridge-»-Our Correspondent’s Passage Orer It---Some Rem- iniacences. Spectal Correspondence of The Tribune, New Yoax, July 9.-~*' Twenty-ecven bours from the office of Tnx Cuicaco Trinwnz tu the registering of my nama at the office of the Occi- dental Hotel, corner of the Bowery and Broome street, Now York."* ‘That wae my actaal time of transit last week he- tween these points; and [ could not hetp thinking with what a shrug of incredulity anch a astatenent wonld have been received by the Chicagoan of ten ortwenty years ago. Surely this {s perfect annihi- lation of time and space. And yet I reached my Geatination without being fatigued, thongh I was as duaty aan railler, int, on going over the business portion of the city, the paat few days, | was astounded to ioark the creat changes which bave occurred here during my abucnce of six short rears, Many of my old, fainiliar friends in business cir- clen have pasaed away, —croseed the trent Hiver to. the nilent land. Many have succambed to the Ainnaclal pre: of the Inst lve years, and those whom I left in prosperous buniness and enjoying 9 handsome competency have been redaced to tha ranks ofthe Impecuntous army; and a fearfully large army St has become. oun comtencn: Very few bnt those actually engaged in the ship- Ping Guriness canimagine how completely the War of the Rebellion swept ont commerce from the acas. visited the docks where, but a few yoard since, the varinds linca of our splendid European packet-shipe were moored but they were nuw here whe ascen, In place of the starry ensign which tien floated the Ureeze, there were the meteot fas of Old England, the French and German bunting, aud the banners of Italia and Spain, ‘ruiMus.? Avery few years betore the ontbreak of tho Rebellion, America had become the real Mistress Of the Seas, Our magnificent ers whitened every zen with thelr snuw-white aalls, and the tare off ixtea of the vast Pacitlc resuunded with the cheery nongs of the Yankee ta 1 recollect dining with the American Conenl at Kong Kong, China, tn 1885. Several Uritigh om. cers were of the company, aud. while enjoying our cherocta on the balcony whien urerlooxed” the tangnificent bay, one of our new and elegant clip- per-ships, the Goklua Gate, came aweenlng In under a pericet cloud of canvas,—skyenis and Tuynl-sta’n-nail all beltying ‘to a freah wight most “welcome too. ealior’s eyes. The patty eeemed elecirifed and rapt In admiration as the graceful fuerte came to one of tho Engle oiicers clapped me der, exclaiming, **Ah, Captain! ent conntry, aud you certainty bulld ‘autifal vorsela In the world!" nged, und a few inngoificent const- fait to show the utter decadence Haring. CENTRAL PARK. { i0se early oa the mormiing of the *'gel-lo- tlous” Fourth, and, after a whurt stroll aroand the docks to catch the thonsande upon thousands of lnyny excaraiuntate embarking for the yuriowts destinations, 1 betouk myself tomy favorite lwaling-spot, the delightfal Park, whieh is with- ont an equal in this or any uther laud, Many and extensive alterations and improve- anents have been made muce my tant vish, ond ecVeral new statues hava been added to the Hat af notables whoee _**counterfolt, presentments” Attract the gaze. ‘The stutud of Fitz-Greene Hat- ck, Which waa recently nnvelled by President ea, did Not strike me very favorably, The ia hardly that of & poct, ahd [ should hardly ounce it a HuCcEss. lie Menageria I fond cleaned out, Iterall In the reat cage, which wae full of munkeya, bal Doons, and apes, on my Jae! , Was now ‘to he fevu butone 'ittle marinosct, who looked lonely aud forlorn. Wut there was ene ecene wileh slone would repay the visitor for hts the and trouble, ‘This wav the cago occupled by a magaltcent Honean and her threa beautiful lethe cubs, but a few weeks old, Tfound a Jauitor on guard, waom 1 had formerly known and feed, and, recogulzing ine," he took mo tneide the fuclosure, close up to the gate, | Uefore f realized ory position, he shouted, “Look out, Captalnt out” of had turned the corner of short, when f was confronted the” mere, hier magnificent yes fairly davbing fire, while alia mised ‘ono of her enormous. pawa clot ap to my face, & The lit- to darlinga were runulug arennd the cago, pretty und pleytul, ond aa ** fat as butter,” But how that mother watched her pretty bables— gud me too! At Jenzth she roxe and pushad them very gently Into thu darkness of tho caga, as Hf aho feared their abatuction, ‘TAR RAg-NIVER BRIDAE, On the morning of the Sth I went over to Brook+ lyn to obtain a Pots to cross tho beldyes but I was quite disappotated to nee notices posted along the Malle to this cifect; **No Passes lusaed for tho Vreeent!* However, T axcended to the oMfice of Mr. and found ‘the venerable and genial hls deak, of our American the cage Murphy, gentleman ot {ud met tim several years ago, and ho remembered mo aa one of the Polar voyagers, Ma nuked me on wwaose behalf I whebed a perinit, aod I told him that 1 wished to get some items for ‘Be Caicace Trinuxn. “0 certain): raptala, certainiv!" sald be; cmarked, ashe politely handed me s'That Is a wonderful paper, that T see it frequently; and it wen ) while Mr, {irealey Tribune ie in decadence, your Weatorn Thtuene is a great and growing Power." a assented, ud theo { prepared for my siry Pasace tetoxe the * ble Danke f THM DIZZY WALK, Slowly up the Nrooklyn incline I walked, gazin; down on the roofs of the houses tar below, until Hulned tho tower, “77 fect abore high-water mark; and front thie ‘ttad enilnence’ a scene wae anfolded of such wonderful beauty and end then he hie curd: DUNES extent that fear no worda at my eoumund. cam vividly partiay it. Far up the East iver,” Blackwell's Island coult be distinctly acen, wi! tho two sister citles wore spread out befure me like a wap. The lolty aspire of the Trisune uttice and the iwajeatic Post+ Udlice looked Junigniticant enough from the Uregzy altitude Leccapled. ‘There wus Wut onc: ealitary Paseenzar an the beige, and bim Loon overhaul- ed, and we exchanged names, residentws, etc, aa ships meeting on distant, lon ‘fa Bre eager to e xo latfturtes and longitnd Myeampanion wae Mr. W. laud Hoyt, a reaident of Danbury, Conn., and a correspundent of the Nels ‘of that bury, rendeced latterly quite renowned by the wit aud genius of Bailey, thu ** yubay mish of that poner Mr. Hoyt followed wlowly In iny wake, ond, ‘n pleasunt converse we reached ihe tigule of the swaying atructure, where wo halted for acwhila to. take iu the fall beauty uid extent of the wonderfal panurama. down below us xevoral excutslon-steatne ers, dlled to repletion with gayly-dressed peuple, Were cleaving the sparkling waters, stopping then fora short to to give the crowds un opportunity of looking at the std structure abaro thm, while giany handkerc To waved (o tls &supraceful valutation, to which we gallantly re- piled, OLD MEMORIES, Pansing thua, widway on our paseage, we both cewaiued wtlent fora while, —£ lost in recollections of old, familiar scenes, wud Ciuse by A discovered the old Ueckman stroct wharf, whence, forty years ago, sailed tho old Black: Yall Line of Llverpoul packets, uf two. of which, the Caledonia aud Columbus, I was Brat olticer, and which 1 Left to assume ray first commun, when but 22 years of age. Tue lute Capt. C. IL Marshall won the aj and wauager of that Ine af aplenaid and woild-tcnowned auips, But they are gane,- sud my (wo beloved old commanders have long sluce sade Cher last voyage, snd tard thom down, ten Weary with Le march of life, Capt. F. A. Depeater, of to. Columbus, was Gav. ernor of Suilor's Soug Harbor, at Staten Toland, tur twenty-Gve years of more; aud when, of the ao Of tw, they talked of retiring the old gentleman, it af fected hls mind. On the bitterest night iu dal 1 ary, 16, he rose from bly bed io bis ib aud disappeared, nv igure te be alive. Mis lov wife iniesed - bint “ afterwards, and search waa made fur days, wee aud manths, bat no trace of him was discovercd wat six months subsdquent to bie disappe: wheo lis remaine were fuund at Mudson Ci twelve iniles from the Snug-Harbor dock, Capt. Depeater wag a most remarkabie mau, a } thorough salior, an educated. aud sufined jet man, and connected with the oldest Knickerbocker femilies of Gotham. . Exon : URIDOR DIMENSIONS, Det tam spiphing along yarn, Oud F shall close by aupending ‘the ‘dimuuslons, etc., ete.. Of tue the Wonder of the gineteenth century? Cofatruction commenced Jan. 2. 1H Leugth of river span, 1.u6s fect d inches, Length of each land "span, 430 feel, 1,860 feet 6 Teugth of Brooklyn a A Leugth of Rew Vere boproteie chor brides 5 Witail uf beige, bs Nui ft t. feat etuches, cy bs Bee . a ‘cable, 1544 Inches, j stats uf GAL parallel tot twisted) cel uSse. ClUkEIY WeapDEd LO m Bold cyl> Vitmate strength of cach cable, $1.21 yee # fuuudation below bige eats, Brook: Depa wf" tower foundation below bigh water, New Tes i Ries as bi, ster Hine, 1403 129 Of towers er Hine, 650 8 Dist Wwaier, at wo degtees t. (35 tect. "YS" W7AB Show igtt Of Guors at Wowers above Ligh water, 119 fect incing, « 3 Grade of roadway, 34 feet {o 100 feet. diza OT anchorages at basa, 13UxI19 feet, apa aS ‘heluslve of land seaadittion, Cart. Sam, Tutal cust of brtdg caret si A Canoe Attacked by s Bloose, Aylmer (Ont) Tames. Aa Mr, Platters, of this village. and Mr. T. HH. Eisby, of Ojtaws, wore traveling in 6 canoe on the Upper Gatinean last week, an occurrence took place which might have had disastrons coneequences forthem. They had Jost rounded a point when they found themselves confronted hy ahnge moase, whlch, with two young ones, ras playing inthe wa: ter, Instead of taking to the buah, anit wasexpected fhe would, the anintal made at once forthe canoe, and attacked {t with great fury. Mr, Kirby broke hia padidic over the immenee head of the brite, and Me. Flatters cut off her foot with an ag: Unt thle only weented! to make her more savage. Seeing the finpossibility of escaping they determined tu ahuot the animal th order to save their own lives, If pos- ry Uaitita revolver ended one of the tonghest tights Which ever took piiuce between man and beast In that nelzhoorhood, The two yuung muosa were alterwards captured, CURREN' GOSSIP. MORNING. tO Morningt thon art beautirut Kre yet the euntight glows, Ere Labor's bary hum 1s heard, And all fe aweet repose. ‘The only sonnde that oreak thy calm Are blessings of the sire, When, Snding at) the kindling wet, He tries to start the fre, ‘The dew is glittering all aroand, Like pearle in ocean deep, Tne violet and daisy fait ‘Through grasece ehyly peep; ‘The zephyre waft on ary wings ‘The perfume of the rose; And tnceneo sweet from burning ateaks Aéceads th’ enraptured nose, ‘The aquirre! akips in playfat moed, Anit ite from tree to tree: Abt wonld my heart could be as light— No thonght of csre has he. ‘The birds theit notes are triling forth In music clear and ewect; And some awakencd baby's yell Most take you off you fect. O Morning! thon art beautifnl When all the woou was drieds ‘When air was breathing petfume awect, And steak was rightly tried; ‘When ali was wrapped in slumber deep, And bablea never cried; Bautah! barnt meat, wet wood, ebild'a yella— Of such thy beauty dted, MG THE WASHINGTON QUILT, Columbus ‘Journal. ‘The night the Presidential party was entertained at the Governor's Mansion, in Providence, It. I., Srreatdent Hayes slept under a beauCfolly wrought ailk quilt, with o wonderful amount of fine stileh- ing. The quilt was made in 1684, and was mado historical by being alept under by George Washing- ton, when he vielfed Newport, {n the Inst century. 1 have copted for the lady readers of the State Jour- nal the following integcating letter, which accom: panics the quilt, It will be acen that George Waeh- a n and Rutherford B. Hayes are the only men who ever slept under thls amazing piece of hand- stitching: My fear fon: An {t te your wish and request to have some accuunt of tte elexant hive silk hed qutit fiven you by Your aunt and toy Anstla ENery duhaston, 1 will cratity you aud Inform you that it was wholly wrought by your great-grantimother, Anatis Eulery, before her tatriage to your xreat-grandfath dotin Alay, my honored fathers father. rhe year aio, Mntated I¢ we marked OG sald quilt, cus xratutmother, Anstis Rilery Almy, know: un disliked two names, was su’ leare y would not be added, that on the day the ad fo Trinity Church, Newport, tu she sent a woman privately to baptlted, Now. i 174 listen (9 assure her of the facts and wiren the babe was ery and carried home ant placed arnis, shy blessed. and embraced hi woudersul bed qulit, with ric olg-fashtoned ornaments, and sent her to tay mothe chatoer with ® heart much gratified that the bal ore et name. she was then'ed sears uld, andilved wo years, “1. 73u, iny ton, the valuo of this anctent, beautttul ihegrestly tucressed when you are I ‘me that President Washlogton slept uuder Is er'ahouse, tn Newpurt It. a the only ever did: aficr lopg exainlalog It, sent servant for alarge alizel ta caver ity least (wit) O07 wcetlent might injure the samo. What caro dil the biewod man evince,—though un+ cousetous uf tte antiquity Whilo giving yuu this finportant record will add the ea of yuur crandparcnts, our grandfather, Wilitam Ellery, lved to be 93. Your grandfather, Beujamin Alimy, Iived to 4s vei as erect a3 ian could be, and tlie handaomest vid man ever saw in tay life. Sly aalnted nother, Mary Gould Almy, departed tite 72, And your own mother, that writes, there particula lenow si yearsand 11 manthar Will onigr ade = Hrovidence, Jam. 15, 1855." Katitenina KLLeny, I should aay that Mrs, Mayes, fully as caretal as tho Father of tis Country, tad the quilt carefully coverad to preserve it on the accond occasion of ite uso. It wan beautifully stitched with—i aaould nut Uke to Racks how many thousand evenly-mesaured atitches; ant, white the uno side was a rich, stand- ail-atone ploce of biuc allk, the reverse wae chinta. interesting und valuable relic waa furnished for thls recent, occaslon by its preaent ponsuasor, Mr, Conrad C. Ellery, who tins recelyed the fol- lowing pleasant note from Urealdent Hayes In reo ogalitun of the cajapliment Exxcutive Maxstox, Waaitvatow, D.C, wthsire Conrad C. ilerys broctaenet, ft, ase peansin: | write to thank you for the honor of sleep. ng under the beautiful nistoric. quilt, oure: ured fy fuahington In Newpors I the conllal veledme of tho good peoolat Ithaus | tio many pleasant surrogadings, ali combined ty secure sweet sleep and pleasant dreains, Accept my thanks, And belleve me your friend slacerely, OD, Hares, GRANT IN GERMANY, Avon a Natics Correscyndent of the New York Werld. Conogxx, July 10.—Duriog his passage to Eve rope Gen. Grant {s sald to, have dovoted much time and attention to the study of German, bot I was aurprjecd to discover how profclent he had become in that moat dificult tongue, When ho reached Cologue I waa resdy to receive lim at thé wharf, ard, upon preventing blm with my crodentlate aya Special correspondent of the Mord, I was most cordially received myself, Prince Mamarck and Gen. Grant at once entered a droschkl and were driven rapidly to the Gasthaus zum Adler, which hhad'been graciously sct aside by the Emperor an the General's headquarters daring bis sojourn ip, the city which Coleridge haa rendered famous tor tho extont and variety of ite quills, As. wo pro- ceoded through the etrecie towards our ‘deutl- nation, we found them densely packed enthusiastic multitude waving thelr hats and cry- s, “tis tobe Grant, der Freuud dea Kaiseral tebe Wettgemuthilchkeit!"" Uefore th A large Urano tand wae playing ** The Ue Blue Vanudo" a8 wo entered, ‘The preatest deference wad pald lo the General by the Prince, who, prec private rou German, an DHiace lamarck—"*What will you drink nce Hismarck—~** What w! i @x* President?” ie alt aired Gon, (rant—**Ewill driok the red whisky of my country’s Blue Grass. Prince Blumarck——**That bave we not; will you not rather partake of the stout beer of my palo Uncle's green hotel?" : Gen, “Grant—"*'The stout beer of your pale uncle’ green hotel I Mkenot. To molt gives» shore bain benesth the walstcoat of my blond tallor's bet make. Rather do Tdrigk the to-ma- touch - Letter - pleasing-but-¥et-not-entirely-salie- factory Cognac of the beautiful France. Have you the pluk nmbrella of my dark brother-ln-law's auntt™ 4 4 Eiinee tHamiarek = “What is that you, earl? tet on aid our nanlon alek an the ead PA ght not ye cnos Fe k jourht not wi tw thee sald, Will you to moa Clyar civer thereby f Aud myasit mach Letter. Av Darius to the Aloxauder 000 talenta’ sent, wherewith he Aeia equally with him share would, anewcred thia oni "4 earth cannot two suns bear, nor Asia two kings, Vrince Ulsmarck—**He dreams of to-statu-sp- pettalmng atalre of Boyland and of Russia. Ads intrablo want tu the middle ofbte to-lincwitn - festivity absorbing affairs, he dreains of the ata. craft. “Aftecthe outbreak in Parla te the yroar 15H, when jhe Duky of Unieg the King aut of tits ad, wlahed the Duke the Preal dent Donning, theretore, lis red t#.pute, aud bls horse bestriding, with ferce ausiety ‘erode audSheb se dowd, ae we, tu Ba doe red ae ee eh sit down, ie, 4 dear is", ls ‘Where bave you the Covoac, uf whieh yaa neat weary deni auall, Prout] ye ae ty ac jog my leay rushec = graph office and seat off Uis diepater,, we hone: Post and plessing verigty of convur iD. Max 31, TRADU RL. QuIvs, ‘*The Turke aro reported ae having disappeared from Promisort."” ‘That must be # piace of note. “TN pay you (hat money," wrote e delinguen debtor, ‘'tha Ist inet. Ioan get it, aud thagwill bo the Let prox.” **A Brooklyn dealer," says the Tribuse, **hes two miles and a balf of books forsale.” To trav Shroagh all thet distance in Mterature, it stetkes ‘Ms, «nan Would bave to go by it Halizosd.— New York Commercial Advertasren Casting Pearle—Waiter: ** What woull you be [lcased to order, sir? Wo have patage printanters a Julenne; Feicaudeau de veux, avec croqueles FY Ss tacts; Flasotee ite peru te gotlees tHhem's nearest to Trish stews" =-aionton dleraid, We cannolicara auy particulars of the hunting excursion made by a croas-eyed inan aud anothar fellow lust week. But the croas-eyed ian bax the air of oue who discovers blinsclf in error, aod the basement of the otherfellow's pentaloans ree: bles the top of a pepper-box, and bu does not alt down anywhere. — Lome Sendine, Tom Howard kept a gua shop. Tors wasa frst- class wo! pan. ub distrevalngly duatury tents dispatch of buslnews. | Ito wauld tnoet ats palrous with s'positive promise, which ha woul cites rascy of ate Sy ue au arimury Of uBsnished rites #ud fowllng- pieces. Uus day Bly nelcubor Soy th. who ad ibtsred repeatedly by Tomy habit of (procrustina: Sou, entored cis shop, '* Tom.” said he, ** want you to wal uy for way ldise buym-a ainst, Melt-Guished piece, Gnd ax ligut du the barrel as Mill by consistent’ wity, safety." ‘*0 yeu.” sald ‘Poms °°h vnill Waku ipyomediatdy—you shall bave ble: ¢o dive or six well-directed hota from the i Itence. Put, by the way, how old ia the boyt’ "We to that," replied Smith, ''the boy Is not horn yet; bat L thoucnt I had better get the gun under way. The late M. Ste. Claire Deville wae one day dis. enseing the question uf the advance of knowledza with # famouse anatomist. ** After all," he said, “*you have made great advances; bat don't you think that yon are very mach itke the hackmen, who know ail the streets, Out haven't the remotest idea of what is going un in the nonses?” **T vant to xo to the bad house,” auld 8 German on a City Votok car yesterday. The bel!-punch ) mantoid him there were kapod any a] the Foute. and aeked fue particulare @ ** Vell.” sald ile wi the Teuton, **( vanta to go vere 1 ot mine gluthes and hat a echwin.” Tet out atthe corner uf tL atrect,—Hoston Globe. ‘The other day a boy started to carry home A yel- low-Jacket’s nest to tie to the dod’s tail to hare some fon. He dtdn’t fet, the nent all tho way anit became vo heavy he couldn't carry It; but eceeded in coaxing most of the yellow: Jackets to accompany him the whote distance, and they supplied him with su mnch amusement that he hasn't once thought vf fun ue the dog since, and dyesn't think he ever will. —Murlinglon Hauk- eve, —s AN OLD MAN'S WARNING, aietroit pte Press, Soon after dimuct yesterday au eldctly man, hav: tng the appearance of burbautte, hastily en- tered a Woodward avenue drug store and excitedly calied for the proprietor, When that gentleman came forward the stranger calied ont: **Say, don’t you know that aria green is a rank poirot” ** Of course 1 do,” was the reply. “And yet you ieave a dozen big cana of ft out sidewalk, where fatal results may oc: cur at any moment!" **Oh, they are put ont tates there every day as signs ave the polton for rale.”” és pie e them tight in—take ‘em in this mo- exclaimed the old man. waving bis hand the chandelier, **Suppose a boy comes s'pose'n he thinks that stuf Is ugar, and eate a lotof itt Where will the law pat your” “*Oh, don't get excited. No one can get at the contents of the cana,’? < “*Lwill get excited, sit, when human life in in dangert Tall upon you to put those cuns down cellar at oncet"” *sAnd I refase."* ** You do, el! Well, sir, let me warn yon, Some day a poor, innocent clilid, barely able ta tuddie aronnd, will come along here and ace those cana. ile willgetdown on tis hands and knees and lick, lick at a can with his rosy tongue. In an hour heli be dead, and tho dark shadow of junrder will fall athwart your door, Men will hiss jour name, youll go to tho wail, and at Iast, Uriyen to wiid despair, you'll— ste Mave a gipse of coda?” Interrupted the drug- ‘Tha old man looked at him keenly, planced towards the cool fountain, and ina very soft voice e sald: “*Well, Idon't care If Ido, Put in sarsaparills syrnp and plenty of water.” When he had drainca his glaes he nttered o algh of satisfaction, and passed out without eveu & tlance at the cana, REMEMBERED KINDNESS. Raleigh iN. 0.) Keics, In one of the hotly-contestea fights in Virginia, during the War, a Federal officer fell wounded in front of the Confederato hreas'worka, While 1y- ing there wounded and crying plteously for water, SConfederate soldier (James Moore, of Burke County, N, C,) declared his intention of supplying him wlth drink, ‘The. bullets wore, fying thick from both sider, and Moore's frien ndeavored to dissuade him from suct a hazardous enterpriso, Despite remonstrance and danger, however, Moore leaped the breastwork, canteen in hand, reached. ble wounded enemy, and gave him drink. ‘The Fed- eral, under a sence of gratitude for the timely sor- Nice, took ont hie gold watch aud offered it to hia Dencfactor, but ft wae refused, The officer then asked the namo of the man who lad braved such danger to succor him; tho name was given, and Moore returned unhurt to hi« position bebind the embankment. ‘They saw nothing more of each other, Moore was subsequantly wounded and lost A limbin ono of tho engagements in Virginia, and rotarned to hia homo fu Burke County, A’ fow. daye ‘ago he recelvedl o, communication tram the Yederaf soldier to whom he had glyen the “seu or cold water" on tho ocension alluded to, snnounc- {ae that ho had xcttled an him the sum of $10,000, tobe pald in four equal annual instalinents of $2,500 cach. Investigation had estabilshed tho ae there was no inietako ug deception in tho t A CIILD CATCUES A WEASEL. The Newourg Journal telis tho following story of adventure, the heroine belnga young Miss of 12 yeara, daughtor of a farmer residing near the village of Muant Hopo: ** While suc was engaged feedingahen and chickens, atancarly hour this morning, a weasel made ite appearance among the brood ai iclzel one of the chicks. The plucky Hittle girl graspod the chicken and vainly endeavor+ ed to released tt front the fatal Jawa of {ts Favenou: enemy, Hereft, in its eagerness for blood, fear, {ue waarol held on, resisting all the efforta made to shake himof, Determined not to be beaten in tho contest, the young Alas then eclzed the weasel) = by the napo oof its and ran to tha house, a distance of somo 200 feet, making her appearance in the dining- room, where tho family were seated at Lreakfact, neck with it Gemly etutched In her grasp, her bunds Diceding from repented apulications of its tecth and claws, Here the family dog was called fu, tut the weasel fastened its jawa In the upper Hp of his dogehlp, who with howls of pain ran wildly about. room, The distress of the dog, a great bouso- hold pet, agaia put the tle gir) apen her mettle, and selaing tho Weasel sho choked him uff the dog. but only tu cause him to fasten his teeth in her thamp, which he bit throngh and through, The Buin must neccessarily huve been great; the child uttered no ery of distress, but patiently awaited until the grip of the weusel ‘had been released by ble being choked. The animal wos then killed. —— SORTING BEES, Adrian Tones, Mr. Id Crane, of the firm of Crane & Mason, ta considerable of a wag in lis way, and the other day he engaged the well-known cotured Individual, Joo Clark, to *'sort hla boes." {SHow you want ‘et sorted, boss!" asked Joe. ‘*T want the drones taken away from. the workers, “bald Md, seriously, *'It will anly be a ‘er Crane, I'll do up de job in good atyle, the vccentric darkey, as he whaltiled out tho wide door and up stieet. Whilo waltzing along the of the lib- gral puy he was to receive, the thought sudden flashed acrosa his brain, ‘How's I gpyine to tell dom drones trum do workers?® He paused ao: wiped the huge drops of sweat from his dark brow, and tho mory he thought the more ne perspired, Suddenly be poked his head Into the drug-store an asked: ‘How's I gwing to sort them buzzera? Hew you know de drones from do workers? "* ** eel of tho ends of the bees," said Ed, wmidae gencral laugh. A BOY'S TRULNFULNESS. Bugington Hawkeye, Jobn Brouguaz, in his **Bints and Poets," tells the beat story, {Ibustrative of a boy's pronuness to tell snd biecalm confidence tn the power of alle, we evor read, A tcacher, after long and patient watching, catches a boy eating an applo in school, amlsdeed ho bad frequently committed and as re. stedly ied out of. ** Abba." exctalinod ‘the acher, **i've caught yoo at it this th ** Caug)it mo at what?" asked the boy, in conwcloue Rating that applic." ** Ain't eating ‘The astunished teacher compelled the oop ig mouth, and a urcat slab o: je woe extracted therefrom. ‘' Dida't know it was those," sturdily asuurted tho boy, . VIOLETS. : ‘To the Editor of The Trivuns, Lawxparg, duly 10.--1 found these verses (writ ten by my little wister, 12. years ot ago) to-day; and, thinking them very pretty and well written consldering the aye of tho welter, Tend them to you for publication, If you will inscrt thom in Your papor, you will greatly oblige Awsts's Siatza, —] Little Violets, purcle aad bh ttle Violets, purple anc jue, O tow dearly | Feve you Hiding yuur beauty ia the grasa, Peeping at people te they puss, Children watch for your pretty Maidens gather you for your And, as you stand on my ti home, You ait the room with your sweet perfume. None wilt miss you more than{t, Little Violets, whea you alc And, when you drop your pretty head, dgwill know that you ore des: Axyiz M, Bo, AWAKE, Aweke, 0 Motless dreamart ‘Vake'up the debt of itfe, And prove yourself a bero tn ‘The great and glorious strife. Cast by your idle longinge— Vain longings ne'er culoy tra There's work enough, and earnest, For idla bands to do, Awake, O listless dreamer! Louk faz, und ove the land ‘You see none idle but yourealf—~ Why thusly do you stand? ‘The world is marching onward With earnest atep aud true; You ldly sit and falter, as * There's naught for me to do, "* -brise and look about yout! You seoa helpless one— (Uve it your ald—God's Ante Records 3 good deed done. + 2 Bise and strogg! dt ‘See dey's not made fur sleep. 4 Wee! when harvest curses, you'll ud ‘Tost thoes who sow will reap. Mirage uw Post, Wis. L. A. Oszonus. MILWAUKEE. The Cream City’s Chamber of Commerce in Danger. Another Suit Against Members of That Organization. A Case to Be Made Up to Test tho Lee gality of **Scalping.” Spectat Correspondence of The Tribune. Mitwauneg, July 12.—The question is being asked in our city, and with much serfousness, “How long shall we have a Chamber of Com- merce among ts!” Since my Iast to you, pub- Ushed tn your issue of the Sth inst., sevcral more suits Lave been commenced against mant- bers uf the Chamber of Commerce, aud it ts asserted that many more are to be instituted, Quite a recent one, commenced siuce my last letter, is that of James Luxern agatust Moak & Seurr, a commission-house. Both of the rm are members of the Chamber of Commerce; and the former isa brother of the Postmaster ut Watertown, Wis, In this case there fs nothing dishonorable charged againet the frm; {tls notin any way alleged that any trickery or anything elae has ben done at yariance or in conflict with thelr dutics as brokers. As the case is one of aluguiar novelty, and the sult tho firet of the kind ever commenced in Wisconsin, 1am anxious, as your correspondent, to seo ft appear “firstly” in Tax Trinunm; and as it is one of PROULIAN INTEREST, T rive it at some length; Moak & Scurr were the whent-brokers for George Overmire, and transacted alarge amount of tusiness for him in puts," “calla,” “ spots,” “ straddles,” etce.; and on June 30, 1877, rendered to Overmire an account exhibit- ittg the wholc.of the transactions,—the account showing a balance due to Overmire of 8368 excess of profits over losses in the yarlous — transnctlons. That balance re- malucd in the hands of Moak & Scurr. Overnire was indebted to one James Luxern; and to bilm, Luxern, Overmire sold the a count,—Luxern receiving it and crediting It as somuch cash received. Luxern demands the payment of the from Moak & 8curr, who RRVUSR TO PAT IT OVER; henco Luxern brings suit to recover that amount, That refusal, a8 1am informed, ts based upon the fact that Moak & Scurr hold a note aguinat Oyermire for a larger amount than. the balance due, but that the note docs nob fall due until next winter, which, of course, is no de- fenre tn law. George VL’. tarrington is the attorney of record, id Rogers & Mover are of counsel for Luxern. Jenkins, Eliott & Winkler aro counsel for de- fendonts, THD COUNSEL OF THE PLAINTIFF CLADE that Moak & Scurr arc simply trustees of so much inoney, $368, which they received from outside partics while they were tho agents of Overmire, and that theys Monks eure, cannot dofenit the sult ff thoy “wore Inclined t do so, on the ground of the transactluns being vold under tho statutesof frauds, Andtley argue, farther, that, allowing all of the transactions to havo been vold, none other than the principale to those transactions could set up that defense, as the brokers were not partics, butsimply agents, interested so far as their commissions were con- cerned, and no further; and thoy, as brokers, having received their commisstons, all their ro- Jation to the transactions had entirely consed, and that they now are simply trustees of Fo much money belonging to Overmirc in their hands, which amount !s claimed by Luxern un- der the assignment of Overmire to him, Tn conversation with scycral attorneys relative to some of the cases pending, and sbout others projected, much stress was fald by several of thein—and partleulariy to the ove I have given you above—on the 4 DECISION OF OUR SUPREME COURT in Hooker m. Knab,% Wis, pp. biL In that case a noto was given forthe difference in the purchaso of 4,000 Iitahela of wheat; the date of tho note was May 20, 1868, and the omount 75. The caso was ou appeal from tho Circuit Court of Milwaukee, where Judgment was ren- dered on the vote. The Supreme Court re- versed the decisiou of the Circuit Court, and the Judge, Cole, anys, referring to the tranvaction; It must bo conceded that the orinigal agreement which formed the consideration of Xho note was ‘void by tha exprows language of tha statute... . ‘Thie questton erlees botween the original partics tothe note, where the consideration may be {n- uired into. And what was the consideration of the note? It was a mero nuillty, For ‘*A con- tract declared vord by statute Is i] nnflity. Ibcannot. for any purpose be as over having hada being or exlatonce,""—Diron, Brandeis va, Neustadtl, Ls Wis. 142- Th Cy of Fond du Lac, Mr, BS jt fs a general rte thats it consideration, for which there te nol, and nevor haa been, any Icgal ability ‘on the part of the party promising, docs not make Scontract binding inlaw, It ix ‘placed upon the fame fucting with a promise which docs pot pure port to be for any consideration, . Within the principle of there authorities, the note had noconsideratton to support it, ‘Tbero never was any obligation enforceaplo In law to de- ite ee Ny the ‘Court, “ The’ Sudament of ‘the, Cirealt doy promis to pay for By the Conrt. + Court is roversed, ant a pow trial awarded, Your readers will seo that, while the easo of Tlooker ¥s. Knab is clear beyond doubt as to tho statute of (raudsin fits application to most of toe transactions taklug place pon the Chamber of Commerce, yet it can hardly be claimed to apply to the ous of Luxern ve. Moak & Scurr. Still another and the GMAVEST OF ALL QUESTIONS is, about = comip up. _ Several parties who have been hoavy ‘losers by acalp- ing contemplate the bringing of auits to recover back thelr Inaves, — golni back us fer as six years, And Jam told thal lawyers of cobsldorable ctuluence here nave given tt aa their opiulon that afl such losses can be recovered at law, and that all the declvions of our courts point In that direction. If such is the fact, the beginning of tho end is at hand, for who could than © scalp” in safety? The moral effect thus produced would be beyond calcula- tion, and would be hailed with unbounded do- -Alght by every right-ininded person. Thavo heen told, within the bour, that one of the most skétltul attorneys in our city has been retained to draw up a contract, for the express purpose of MAKING A THAT CASH, to carry tho cuss to tho Supremo Court, and get adccision thereon, You vau thus see how imi- portant tho matter is becoming. ‘The press hero aro reticent on this whole subject, a8 you have doubtless noticed; us to the abject of whlch reticence varlous surmises are made, and care tain reasons ure given. Fiat Juaritia, pee a CURRENT OPINION. The action of the Loulaiana Democrats in Indicting the members of the Loulsiana Returning ‘Board {9 w grova violation of the pledges given by thelr leaders; aud we predict that, if thelr scheme te carrled into offect, 1¢ will prove for them and thelr party in the South os fatal a piece of policy as could havo been advised by thelr bitterest foes.— Hotton Journal (Rep). We cannot afford to stoop down to the Jevol of Wells or Anderson, or even to dignity ip Shem by punishment. It smacks too much of un- ‘] dignified revenge, snd too little of the magnanim- {ty of Southern men and Democrats, to pause in the work of reatorstion and rehabilitetion to hunt upand manacie the Wellses and Andersons. Those Wey dead lasues.—Nasheitle (Jenn.) American (dan.). We think the [President's Civil-Service] order ia & very good one, oud one that is eminegtly ful iw wnd proper; but, ws for its effect being sume- thing wonderful, evile of civif-Servi do not believe. id a remova) of tl re glad, however, the dent haa made the order, and hope he will **bounce " Vhe dret man that catches disregarding it. — Beloudere (1ui,) Northwestern) Lep.). Wo trust that the people of Louisiana, when they come to soberly reject upon the danger of these political trials, will beattate to p ultimately precipitate ¢! Let tho North be e peoule Lonisisns. having the expiring embers of c into uew lify by infudiclous political prosecutions. —WasAington Republican (2ep.). ‘The jollification at Tronton cannot deceivo the people. Mr. Robeson's record ts made up and Maecharacteristice known, althouch investigation ingeniously batiicd tay not have Orougct out all the facts. “His seputatton cannot be drowned tn hogvheads of champagne. or clarified by a acluge Of poxt-prandial eloquence. fis example is one tu be shunned, not followed; his scoool of puittice te one of pestilent doctrine. He belongs to the cra ofshoddy patriotism wh:ch is bappily passcd.— Philadelpata Times (ind. ‘The attempt to fill the country with **ebeap silver” would bring to us the silver which ia ae a. drug a the: Euro) can market, ane wo shonld get it cheaply, cepeciasly as we are produc- tng Aftyorelsty suilionwa yearof it, Whe should have an spparenily cheap money, juetas green- heap. prices would adjust nee by appearing 66 rise, gold would 8- ‘as itis Low practically, and be 80105 pernapa, the silver dullar insicad of tho greenback being the atandard. and tha attempt (shonld the Towa noneense prevail) to fay all Aational debts in achenp currency, wonld disgrace and degrade the national reputation for sense and Integrity. —Hardford Courant (Rep.). Itia now said that Mr, Tilden is at tho bottom of tho movement ogainat the members of the Louisiana Returning Board, Tt {¢ to bo hoped the report fe tre. Me. Tilden has a personal motive for Baling ont whatever of wrong-doinz may have marked the proceedings $y Loutaana, Let others, who nro also anxtons to discredit the Hoard, jotn thom, and let us have a fair (nveatiza- Mion, withont whitewashing, We have yet tu reo any evidence that the Republicans, asa body, or any Republican in particniar, je nfrald o} truthful testimony, - Noston Advertiser (Rep. Wo shall bogin to rca of what stuff Gov, Nicholle ana the so-called ‘better class'* of Lon- iniann Democrate ara really made, The indictment of the Returning Board has no reference to the al- leged offenss. No man in Loniaiana oxpecta that the status of any ons now in office, from Preaident down, will be affected In the slightost degree by the rewult of the trials, whatever it maybe, But ‘the indictments will serve to show which faction la uppermost in Louisiana; whether Ntcholla can or caunotdetiver tho goods that lic sold ad readily In Apriland May lant, If he can, all will bo well, at Teast for the present; If he cannot, it will be inter. eating to aco What Mir. Matthews, Me. Forter, and severat other yentlemen prominent in conciliatory police will say about it.—Clecelana Leader ep.) Gov. Chamberlain pictnres the ‘Adminis. tration ag abandoning the Southern Republicans, Me representa it as aa seizing the fruits of d puted success,for itsclf and Heny tng them to the very men who gaincd them. Aji thie wonld be forclile if it rested upon n just statement of tho caso. But it does nut, ‘The Preeldent sacrificed hothing which wae mot alrcady Jost, Under the old poilcy every Southern State but two went out of Republican hands, These two could not have been carried under itagain. The I’resident simply withdrew the troops, and then the Packard and Chamterlain Governments crimbled to pieces, They could only have been upheld by military force, ond military force, with @ Wenncratle louse, was no longer practicable, This te the key of the ease. and this is what Gov. Chamberlain does not meet.—Albany Arentng Journal (iep.). The Southern Democracy will remain united. They will be united in defense, not of the man, but of tho principle. ‘They will atand by Mr. Hayes, not because he i President, but because heleright. Inbonor they canio no less! Mr, ayes, in his action concerning Louisiana anit South Carolina, returned to the paths from which President after President had strayed, The South cannot, for her own eake or the country's rake, allow him, for that rcason, to be atrickiun down, It ls not necessary that political parties shall break ranks, or Domocrats become Kepubileans. The strictest party allegiance, an wo tunderatani It, In compatible with the cordial support of whatever ia just and right, by whomsoever done. The coun- try is higher than party. Mr. Hayes is sseailed, not for what hole, but because of whathohasilone. On that platform’ the Youthern Damoeratwcan uphold and defend him!—Charlesion (%, C.) News and Courter (Dem. ), Tho Almighty, in His generons and noblo gifts to America and Americana, hag ‘made thelr mountains the storehouse, nnd them the custodians, of this precious metal. Tait showing to the world A proper spirit to say thatso much and no gore shall go forth with ths broad stamp of this Gov- ernment on ite face? Oris itexactly just to the minor, who deprives himaelf of tho comforts of Nfe, enduras tho bardehtps of camp, and accepts the lottery of the mines, to compe) him to seok A market in foreign lands for tis *dust'—taken from American inince—Inthe form nf bullion? We have sliver, ‘That is, our steters, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, hove it in unlimited quanti- tea; and wo have in our own State the men and the grain necessary to bring It forth. Why cannot sur Gorernment say to them, Go and dig It outs wo have tho miats ready to coln it, and all shall bo stamped that you will being. Constantly ‘refnsiny todosoissimply saying, Wo oro afrald ofter a that it {a no better than Govornmont. certificates of indebtedness; or elee wo are acting the dog in the mangor.—Zopeka ( Kas.) Commontcealth (Rep, ). Bpocially noticeable are the remarks of the (Mississippl Hepoblican State} Committee in ra- gard to President Mayes. They indorse bis cours: and commend him tothe support ef Repabil North and South, Much importance in to be at- tached to the uttornnces of Miss! pee Republicans upon thie point, They have fonght and bled in tho cuuae of thelr country, and they owe thelr oppres- sion and discomftura in the fluid of politics, which is to them tho field of frecdam, not to the act of President Hayes, but to ovente tha. preceded his Administration, ever which be has no contro}, and which now, Sf he wero so dispored, bo could not {nfluence dircetly, The Ievublicans of NMiasis- aippl are naw content to awalt a division in tha Deimocratie pacty in that Bate. intending to throw thelr atrangth with those who shall recognize thoir righta and respect the Constitution, ‘This oppor- tunity will dopend very Inrgoly upon the vote of Ohio in Octoberse ‘Tho waves aro rolling in that di- rection, and if Obto ahall carry the Republican banner'to triumpn, those waves will elovatea party into power in Mlsciasippt that will give electors, now virtually diafranchiscd, thele rights.—Cinein- nalt Gasette (Rep, ). ‘Thoro throatons to bo some disturbanoo of the Union Pacific Railroad Ring, Secretary Schurz hae appointed Government-Ditector Harrison, of Indiana, the only one of the crowd who bas shown 8 disposition to tell what ho knows of the frregu- larities and corruptions on tho inside, to find ont what has become of soma $304,000 of bonds that rank as '* lost"? on tho dooks of the railroad, but on which the rallroad and the Govorument ara con- stantly paying intercat. They mysteriousty dlsap- ‘peared, as alleged, atthe timo that the Company made their forced change of mcadquartore from New York to Toston under Jim Fisk's perseca- tions. ‘There havo bocn javastigations by the THrectors, but they always stopped just boforo finding out, or ole the resulta wore aappressed, One of the luveatizations le reported to snow that the bona went Into the pockets of Sidney Dillon, i. ¥. Mam, and a man named Crane, all connected with the Company, and there have been suspicious efforts on the purt of Mr. Blaine and alao by Wiit- fam E. Chandler, who le une of tha attorneys of tho Union Pacitic Ring, to suppress the facta, “It ta to be hoped that Mr. Schurz and Mr, Harrison will be moro successful In plelous mystery. — Sp (nd, ). Tho repeal of the coinage regulation of 1873, and of the sectlon of tho Revised Statutes of 174 demonctizing silver, iv the thing needful, In other words, reatore ths old specic basis, Wo fan not resume without the use of both metals, Teeinonetizo silver. Make it unifmited legal-ton- is Id none: Let_us robin; ngha this somewhat sua- (Mass.) Lenudlican 1869, and July 14, 1870, tA\ for now, but {t wantyan arrangement patented by which there shall hher as much ullver coined In doliara sa shall not domonetize gold. No silver advocato ever Proposed tademonotize gold, The object of demonetizing silver wos to wake gold dearcr, Que object in remonetising sllver iv to wake gold cheaper. It is the Double Standard that must be appited, ‘And we do not want to try avy now experiments. We want, preparatory to Teunmption, tho motalilc moasure that existed at the tiuie of the susycusion of apecie nayments, ‘Tho (Gazette ta ready to run with the chariot whoas wheels ato dollars of gold and eilyer, bnt tho po- sition that it occuptos ls that of the dug tled uniter the wagon. The position is not. very uscful or or- namental, but the moremont ie progtcasive. —Cin- einnatt Commerctat (Ind. One of our cxchangos, trying to apologize en. Grant's shortcomings seacivil oficer, pays: 8 Mi hilo the President who, though Himeolf honest. hada futal incapacity to discern dlanonesty in others, bad continually about bim alk the most suspicious partners or advocates uf the liloge. kind of carnival of political money making and apecuiation had evt fn. ita logistation aided in blowing tho babole, Tho cltics of the country began to be covered with coat- ly marble palaces, each involving fat contracts ta ‘be paid for by public taxation. A Ring was creates with sovereign power to iniprove thy District of Columbia, under whom a debt of 825,000,000 was Hed up in about two years, bankrupting tho Dis- Triet, ana throwing the debt upon tho shoulders of the people of the country, There were revenue frands, Custom-House extortiona, pension swin- dies, and Tndlan-supply: steals withouthumber, A Secretary of War, dlegraced by official bribery, was permitted to resign, ‘Che groat Whisky Hinge of jt. Loule, Chicago, and other citles made hay while the aan abone, and with such honor as proverblally prevails omong thloves, paid tuelr regular end lib- eras sum Or apenas to te campaign treasury of the party."” Wo do not observe that any ono has taken up Mr, Blatno's positive misstatement in what he saysasto the Southern SI atrikiug ous from thelr Constituttons the dlatinct recognition of the fre authority of the Fedora! Government, ft the eleven States which went into the rebellion, ning recognized the supermacy of Federal au- thority in their State Constitutions, if wo may as- Congress by sumo that Loulslana and South Carolina (hitherto Repabdlican) do, f those Slates not being before us, jensce, wo are HOt believe, {sailent in regard to wecession. But, on the otber hand, titutiona of North Caro- ina, Atsbams, ppl, and Texas, all oF which have been amended and three of which have been revised entirely very recently, all retain posl- tions on this potns. ww Constitution of 1675 of North Carolina, furinatance, says ju the declaration of righ Aut. L. Sec. 4. ‘That this State shalt ever remain a meimbor of the American Union; that the peuple there. ofurepart of the American uations that there lsuo Tight ou the part of the Btatctowccede, and that ail at- se tempts, from whi pO! te Gleotve said Union oF to sever sald gatlun, Guglit to be restated with the whole puwer of (he Blate Dlssleslpi says (u the Constitution of 1898-'D, which has been vince amended, and to which amend: inenté are now pending, without uifecting this ecc- tion: Sk3. 20. The right to withdraw from the Feders! Vulou on account ‘of any rea? of suppoied grluvances. shail wever be assumed by this State, aur shall any law by passed In derogattoa of the paramount allextance of the citizens of (his State to the Goveraimentot the United states, Alavaws saya In the Cunatitation of 1874-'5: Src. 35. The people of this Sista azcept as final the filabliehod tact that trom the Federei Union there can ‘Do secession. Texas says tn the Constitution of 1875-6: Sectiou 1. Terasiva free and, Independent state, subject only to the Consitution of the Caited States, ‘We have quoted denouyh to prove the falsity of Mr, Diaine's statement tuat the Southern States which Lave ** chauged thelr Const{tutions” since the period of reconstruction have. ‘In every tn- atauce save One, etrack out the paramount oathor- fly of the Union andthe paramouut alicglance of the citizen to tha Nations! Governincat,"—spring- Meld (Mass.) Kepublican (Lad. Je A FAMOUS MOSQUE. 9 The Church of St, Sophias=-Cons stantine’s Golden Temple. Twice Destroyed and Twice Rebuilt --«The Glory and the Shame of Christendom.” Q. TW, Stoddard in San Francis:o Chronicle, Over the roofs of Stamboul rise the thousand minarets of the mosques that are acattered cvery whero through the length and breadth of the greatclty. More thana inillion souls aro within enll of the muczzins who proclaim Mohammed the prophet of Allali and prayer better than pomp. Iu8tamboul the mosques are numerous, and threo or four of them aremarvela of archi- tecture. Close to the Seragtio there is a temple that ecems not to have been mado with hans, Indeed, tradition attributes much of {ts beauty to the angels, under whose {nmediate dircetion it wasreared, Looking upon this supurb struct- ure over the roofs of Stamboul your cye fa fixed inwonder and delight upon the nine domes heaped together one upon tho other like acius- ter of huge bubbles with the largest one floatin; at the top, where ft seems to swint In the air ant suspend the others, Tho minarcts that spring from the four corners of the bullding are as slenderiy and elegantly proportioned as wax tapers, and the three galleries that cirdie them afenschastennd as slenificent os ff they were jeweled rings betrothing earth and heaven, hhis miraculous inosquc—it is as voluptuous fn form as any Queon of tho Enst—is AYA BOPIAY” the 8t. Sophia that fifteen centuries ago snrany into extatence as if by mage, and was dedicates by the Emperor Constantine to the Divine Wis- dom, the Word, tho second person In the Holy Trinity. Is there a temple under the sun whose history {s more remautic, whose fate fs moro pitiful, whose fiture 1s more uncertain? Listen tothe marvelous story of St. Sophia: Inthe twentleth year of the relzn of Constantine, A. D. 825, the same in which the Council of Nice was opened and the foundations of the new. city walls and palaces of Constantinople were Inid arore tlils temple of Divine Wisdom. A hundred architects superintended {t; under each archi- toct were 100 masons. An angel had appeared. to the Emperor in a dream and given orders as to tho distribution of these artisaus and the no- ture of thelr work, Five thousand masona were placed on the right aide of the buttding and 5,000 upon the lett. ‘The Euperor, dressed In coarsé Aner, bis head bound with a cloth aid a stick in his hand, daily visited the workmen and las- tened the progress of the building by BRIDES AND girts, Tho walls and arches were constructed of rice, overlaid with therarcst tnarble, graniteand porphyry; Phrygian white fmarble, with rose- colored eel Rec marble from Laconica; blus from Libya; black Celtle marble, with white velns; Bospluris marble, white, with black veins; Thessatian, Molossian, Proconnesian marble; Keyotion starred granite and Saltie porphyry al i these were lavished upon the ner Wills of the Temple. Antique columus were brought from the ruins of the most fa- nous Lemples of the ancicut faith and wrought into the structure—columns of Isis aud Outtley pillars from the Temptes of the Sun at Baalbok, of the Sun and Moon at Hellopolta and Ephesus, of Pallas at Athens, of Phoebus at Delos, and ‘of Cybele st Cyzicus. The mortar was made with barley-water und the foundations were comented with a tastic mado of lime and hur- ley-water, The chalk-white tiles from Rhodes that covered the arch of the cupotas bear the inscription: “God has founded It, and ftwilt not be overthrown; God will support [tin the blush of the dawn.” These tiles were lafd by twelves, aud after each layer relics were built in thea the priests sang hymns and satd prayers (or TUB DURARILITY OF TH BDIVICH and tho prosperity of the church, When tho question urose whether tho light shoutd fall upon the high altar through one or two arched. windows, the Emperor and the architects were iu a hot dispute, but an augel Hppunred and dl- rected that the light shquid fall through three windows, in honor of tle Father, and of the Bon, and of the Holy Ghost. The altar, more costly than gol, was ta be composed of every precfous material, bedded together with gold and silver, incrusted with pearls and jewels, Tho tabernacle was u tower of gold, oriamented with goidon lilies, aud above it was across of td adorned with precious atones antl Wwelgtlug five aud seventy pounds. ‘Ine throne uf the Patriarch and the seven scate of the priests were of silver; about the altar were golden pillars and by the pulpit stood a golden cross, 100 pounds ju weight, glittering with carbuucies and pearls. Tho sacred veauels were of purest gold; there were 47,000 chalice cloths worked { pearls aud jewels. Four and twenty colossal booka of the Evaugelists, with yolden covers, welguied each twonty hundrodwelght. ‘The gold in THE VINE-FORMED CANDELADRA for the high altar, the pulpit and tho gallery for females amounted to 5,000 hundredwelztt of tho pureat guallts, ‘There were two candelabra adorned with dgurea, all of yold, each weighlug 14, pounds, and acven golden croauca of 100 potnde cach. The doora were of lvory, amber, and cedar, the principal door of silver. Three doors wero vencered with planks sald to havo been taken from Noah's ark. Above the holy font lutho church thero were four trumpets blown by sculptured angels, supposed to be tho very trumpets at whoso blast the walls of Jericho were overthrown, ‘The floor was to have becu paved with gold, but the wiseJustinian abandoned this idea, feariog that his successora might bu tempted to disman- tlethe Temple, The Goor was therefore of clouded marble, over which falnt waving lincs imitated the advance of the sea, and from tho four corners of the Temple these mimic waves flowed silently toward tho four vestibules, in the mannerof the four rivers of Paradise. At the fountain of the priests twelve shells re- ceived tho raln-water, aud twelve Hons, twelve Jeahants; audtwelvo docs spat it forth again. Ay angel gaye the plan and the name of tho Temple. TWICH THA TAMPLE WAS DESTROYED by fire and twice rebuilt; twice the great dome fell, and twice tt was restored. Tho arches, bay- ing resounded to the musie of Chrysostom's volce, came at last to ccho the blasphemlen of infidel and the groans of the wounded and dying. At tho capture of Constantinople the clergy, the virgins dedicated to God, anda mul- titude of people of all classca crowded Into the church sod sought refuge before the high altar, Mohammed, at the bead of tho Osmanils, rode into the sanctuary, forced his way through the affrighted throng, and, leaning’ from his horscat tho altar, he cricd; There {s no God but God, and Mohammed His ta prophet!" A. hideous scene of slaughter followed, and the Temple was desecrated, The Suitons have dceepoited ft of its pictorial beauty; bave aided minarets and abutwents to support the totter tog eoutheast wall; have caused the rich frés- coca to be pinatered over with o yellowish sub- stance; bave ehinped away, wherever it wos possible, the carved symbol ‘of the cross; have hung great disks graven with the names of the four companions of the Prophet over the ser- aplims under the dome, with thelr sleuder wings crossed above and below them, BENEATH THE CUPOLA is Inscribed, iu fantastle and beautiful charac tera, a ue from the Koran: “Goa is the light of tho heavens and of tho earth.” As we en- tered the porch of St. Sohtla, protected. by our dragouan, we wero gently but emphatically re- questud to put olf our shoes, We could keep on our hats if we chose,—you always wear them iva mosque,~—but we instinctively doffed our hat atthe threshold of the ancient church and entered It stovking-footed in solemn silence, eariny our shves in one hand and our hat in he other, The trat impreasion we received was alaiost overpowerlng. The vastness and elegance of the interior, the solemnity and imajesty of thy decorations, the tranquility that religious broods over all the place, Alls one witl awa. Theseraphims fold tueie six great wings above you, aud from the walla from the marble Ralleries, {rou the shadow-filled cupolas, a hun- dred vague forins gradually discover themselves —the ghosts of the saints and angels that once hallowed this lovely temple. 1 know uot how uiany crosses I traced in the mutilated sculpturing. The orignal croas is gone, but the chisel has left the form there as exact as ever. There are MADONNA PACES that seem to exhale from the thick, dull plasters that have been laid over them. You see them, gehen hardly convince yourself that you sce hem, they are so like balf-lmayined pletures. In the apse—the hollow snd naked apse that once sheltered the bib altar—there is a shadow that haunts you; you turoto it egaln and avain and study it from every oart of ths building, By and by the shadow begiusto take shape. It isa faut cloud that deepens to certain lights, and when you are at the exact sugly and the fortuuate hour has come you see it plaluly enough,—the sorrowful, but forginng counte- nance of the Redeemer, ag {t looks down upon the desolated aud desecrated sauctuary. ‘The apse of St. Sophia ts duc east, the boly house ol Mecca ts southeast of Stambonl, therefore, as every Musgulioan must pray with bis face turn- ed ta Mecca, the Mibrob, or Mussulman altar, is erected {nan angleof themosgue. Almostany hour of the day you Snd rows of the prayerful stretched crosswise through the moague, pros- trating themaclves ow the rich carpets that corer the inarble tivor, The Turkish chant bas no more method in lt thao alark’s song. It {6 npparently the spon taneous expression of the alnger, who voluntare ily yields to every passion of tho tieart, ang finda a rensual pleasure in the distracting yq- Rarics of hia own delightful voice, We pnnicad to listen. The youngster was rocking his body. to and fro and aending his deliclous notes alate Mko vocal sunbeams sparkling among the ning domes of the roosque. He stopped siden) 4 like a bind ina cage, atartled and curious; thet stretched out hia elender hand for ala, garg us a babyscowl that had something of inberited hate tn It, and ehut hts smatl mouth with scorn, We passe on and Hatened among the columng ata little distance, He stretched his nevic ang stared after us; again began rocking to atal fros piped alittle, chirped softly to himectf, nnd hen, with one daring ficht, soared into tig seventh heayen of melody and floated there in, an cestary of fanotictaa, During the seven holy nights of Islam, in the last month of Ram. azan, 10,000 lanterns blaze hefore the legend at the top of the cupola: “God ts the light ofthe heavens and of the carth.” The lanterns are FANTASTICALLY MINGLED with huge shell and glittering pendants. The mosque {aa palace of tire, Onthe night of the Predestination—the night on which the Koran was sent down from heaven—the Sultan repaira with his whole court to 8t. Buphia for midnictt prayers. At the close of the servico he retires to the Sernelio, attended-hy 9 thousand torch. bearers, and there his mother brings him a yin fin slave, who is at once borne oney to xem. From the dome of 8t. Sophia fashe crescent that {s visible 100 miles atsea, Jt ina: be seen even from the summit of the Bithynian Olympus. It stands where the cross stood, and marks the glory and the shame of Christenio The teniple that was the pride of the earth hag fallen from the hauda of angela tobe ths threat. old of that baremn wherein Is publicly sacrifieed the lily ofjverginity,—and at a ridiculously carly age, too, a ne _ THE ELECTRIC CANDLE, Tho Wonderfal Light It Sheds, ‘The London Financlul Opinion sent a specis) feporter to witness the experiment made atthe Enst and Weat India Docks, on June 20, of the new Electric Light: Tho experimenty appear to have been most high- ly auccesstnl, and to have surprised even the ex- Forimentaiiate theniselves, On a previons occasion he random stcam-engine—provided for the gener. allon of the clectricily, and having, of course, nothing to do whatever with the merits of the new candie—broke down, much to the disgust of the spectators, many of whom had come to witness thi trini from great alstances. ‘Thue, among the vi {tors were Prot, Lichig, Dr. Itnbvoch, Maj. de Win: ton, Capt. Sale, R. E.. Mr. Penn, Mr. P. de Nev Foster. Mr. Spicer (the distingulahed ga engineer), Prof, Abel (from the Royal f.aboratory, Woolwich), Mr, E. J, Reed, C. Mr. Adame, Engineer of tho Great Eastern, and a variety of gentlemen connected with the Government tele- grapha and the principal ratlways of the Kingdom On the second occasion, however, the experiment necmed to have snccceded from end tocnd. Tha steam engine azed for generating the electricity was an S-horec power, of which only 25§-horse Power was need for the purpose of producing all he experiments, We learn, bowever, from per- sons who wero there, that the 24-power wan by no means requirod, and that for all the electricity that waa wonted, a boy turning o fly-wheel would have answered the purpose caually woll. One corre- spondent of Financial Opihion asys that a plnce Mluminated was a yard, so far os he could maxe out, 110 by 80 fect, mthér more than les say, to 10,000 square fect, or over 1, square yards, or we might take le ‘at something Itko the apace contained in @ square of which the sides ahould measure thirty yards. This space was lit ap tna surprising manner by four electric can- der, no much ao that any ordinary person contd read handbills, letters, sec nails, floss. oft rope, bell-bandle: asclearlyas in the day. time. The trio Inmps were turned out, and fone lamps, each containing four gus-Jete of a good size, were tugned on, ‘The sixteen gan-jete, far from illuminating the space contained in the yard at large, lefteven the marquee, in the centre of the yard, ina kind of misty fcg. The differtneo, In tact, fs etated to have been really aurprisine, Not only does this new ivht which is'desertbod as Sueculterly whtle-while Nght, prodace o power of Q equal, Jumination which {9 to thatof acandie ns 400 to one, dut brings ont colors in tho Breatest, perfection. ‘hos, it appears that somebody bad” brought with him a ‘card of patterna In different textures and every variety of tint, Placed where the rays from one of the lamps fell directly on them, the greens, blues, yellows, reda, pneples, aud cyen the mont delicate tints of atrsw cofor, were aa clearly distinqulsha- blo as indayticht."” Another fingular polnt ta the absenca of heat given out by the light, a feature which will come directly home to all those who are condemned toune gas in thole houses, and wherover else men congregato. Wo are told that upon the globe of an electric candle, equal to 400 candles, the iand mey be placed. Wo all know whit the reault would be of putting the hand pun aglobe aurrounding a gna-light of 400 candles, The objection we notice is, that onc of these cle. tric candles burns ont in an bour, and the question would be how to substitute fresh candles: but the robability is—the aificuity is so trifing—it will {etmmed lately overcoine, This new electric light appoare to be the startii point of an incatculable revolution in the waua inethods of lighting, for that everybody will be lad to eubstitnte ‘electricity for gas cannot be lonbted, Mut there fa nv reason why it should do the gas companies any harm, for, enormously wealfhy as they are, they have only got to talo up the Jablochkoff candice, and tho public, in conaider- ation of theirdoing so, will forgive them all the sufferings they hava {nfletod, in retarn for 10 per cont, and Xper centoverand above the 10 per cent, an which, if it were placed on the top of St. Paul's, would probably be as plain to the naked oye as the cupola itself, —<— TO MY MOTHER'S SPIRIT, dedicated to Sir John Arnot, tate jayor of Cork, Lreland, and Member of Pars Wament for Xineate,—one of my dfothery dear friends, tm the ol old tine, Bweet Spirit, why thus gaze ‘With thore sdoyes upon thy erring child ? O why thus, oat the baze Respectfully 4 So golden, dost thou a 9 mournfully mild? ‘Thy deep-bine eyes, with look of of, but with thes jense eternal All'd, Doth search my whole }1£0's boo’, Perchance to have all Jo thin thee Kill ‘ot still that old, sad smilo 1 et and wonder if from thy bright sphere, Where there can live uo guile, ‘Thow can'at endure to gaze upon & soa) eo sero. Mother! That emile still thore! How can I gage upon that Anxol-face, In this my dumo despair, And not be blasted through my soul's deface? O Wretch! to cavse thee pain, Through the eternal yoars, perhaps, to last) Why doth not God wend rata Of biselng tire, thy gullty Son to blast? Hat no; still eamo, sad amilo T've sown of old a thousand times, to greet. ‘The Traants ‘twould beguile ‘Hi ever from ala cherlah’d ain, so sweet. If thou would'st on me frown, *Twould ease the dull, dead pain of this lost seal, ‘That doth, from foot to crown, Bcarce own one spot free frow ite ana’ controt, I might toatranger plead © ‘The blasted hopes of jife, the cruel stings of wnen, A tiven beart decaye Like oak once struck by lightning, cleft again But thou knowest too well Mine pught bavo been a far more worthy Jife, Had 1 but clung to spell ‘Thy presence cast or ere I chose Mel's atrifa ‘Thou wilt not frown on met ‘Thon lot me bide myself away, I dare not look on the I dare no longer catch thino eyes’ sad ray! ‘That which was ell my Heaven, When, young and truc, I own'd ‘thy heart's aweet i Tecatce dare tell, 1s even Now my deepeat—aye, dark: Jotr 10, S77, bearts are paror than freighte of gold. ‘They'ye ered away from thabUreen, Crees jo A Wherv verdure aud aunshine forever smile, overty, lonol: They come tn their aoly a wei Hearteoro and sad, wi r-staloed chuck, ‘They eee o'er the far horizou's breast . ‘That Emorald spot that onc gave them rests But sicknoss, and sorrow, death hath coma, And driven them off from that sunny bome, ‘The mother there, with a joyices eyo, Bescechinwly Iifts up ber heurt on high; ‘Then fondly watches the little ones round— Yet not even there is a solace found. She looks far off Jn the fading Heb, As tho last glimpse of Erin recedes from her sigh, ‘Vhe chiidren care uot; they kuow no griet— Thetr life to that period was bright and brief, For a mother's heart, hows'er great ber wo, Will cherish and fondle where’et abe'li go> he Hrebietd tet al with Levee chsitoniog wing, o' HT ebield them al] with Love's sbeltering wi Her beastie batk to 3 marrow bed, th Where lately ber burning tears were abed; ‘Toe love of ber gitinood, bupe of ber life, Lies there, and uo peace bas the widow hfe: "Neath the willow's shade, o'er the Westeru ware, Hey heart is back to that lonely grave. Ubicauo. Datst ¥. CoLtugmr. ee Extraordioasy Accidoot, Hnoreiile (Tean.) Caronicl At Belton, Ua., last week a Me.Gardnsr, a worthy citizen, wes out et work on ble farm. with three cbildren ossleting bim, and they wore all resting wader the shady bank of astream. when suddenly e large dead tree uear by commenced falling, aud tame down upon them with a crash. Oug little Ra: was killed instantly. Two other childres were brown into the creek, one mortally and the other seriously hurt ‘The fatuer bimsclf bud » uarrow ctcaye, his horse, attached tothe plow, was ie