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THE CIIICAGO TRIBUN. — LITERATURE. Lifo of Turner, the Creat Painter. The Territory of Arizona—-A Mas- ter-Key to Mysteries, fLouis XI.---Devil-Puzzlers--= Oliver Wendell Holmes ---Novelettes. Art-Notes---Tho Art Journal---Mr. Lennox's Turner---Chinese Public Granaries. The Flora Round About Chicago: The Olive Family=«=" Milch Cows" of the Ants. LITERATURE. TURN . e LIFE OF J. M, TURNER, R. A. Fouspen o8 LRTTERS AN Pareis Funxianen wr ilis FIUGNDE AND FRLLOW-ACADEXICIANS, By Warten ‘Lnonxntny, With Tllustrations, Fac-similed In Colors, {from Turner's Original Prawings, New York: Henry Hult & Co, 10mo., . R, When, sonie twenty years nco, Mr. Thornbury concelved the fden of writing & blography of Turner, s first step was to address o note to Mr. Ruskin to nscertain {f it was the Intention of Turner's eloquent culogist to conclude his grand tribute to the genfun of the great painter with a history of the artist's personal lfe. Mr. Ruskin disclatmed any such intention, and, cu- conraging Mr. Thornbury toundertake the tusk, gave bim a bit of fmportant advice. . Fix at the beginning,” he wrote, * the following main charucterlsties of Turner {n your mind, as the keys to the secret of all hie sald and did: Uprightness, Uenerosity. Tenderncas of heart (extreme), Senauality, Obstinacy (extreme). Trritghillty. Infdelity. Andbesure that ho knew his own power, and felt himselt utterly nlor.c In the worid from Its not being understood. Don't try to mask the dark side.”” During four years after the reception of these ords from 31r. Ruskin, Mr. Thornbury labored diligently In the collection and arrangement of materlnls for tho contemplated blography. Every facility waa afforded him which one could lope to have who had not enjoyed the advan- tage of an actual nm]uulmunm with the man whose life hie was ambitlous of vortraylng, Ture per kimeell had left scanty records, aside fromn 1ds mubtitudinous pleturca wnd sketeli-books, for the use of u blographer, Ife had heen too busy transeribive the miracles of Nature to keep n petty account of his own dall acts In thd pages of a jJournal, an he was no nore eiven to writing Tetters than to other cerenmonles of a socfal na- tare. But the friends who survived him, grati- fied to show tu the best of thelr ability what manner of man he was who had won thelr Tearty affection as well as admiration, freely euve &(r. Thornbury the store of anecdotes and semintscences In their pusscssion, and fu every way pussible alded him to an understanding of Turner's peeubiar tralts and habits, Palnters, eneravers, art-critics, ari-dealers, also willingly lent thelr help to Mr. Thornbury's roject,—furnishing needful evidence coneern- ot the date, the sales, and the final disposition of Turner's pletures, with uscful facta rolating to the hlstory of engraving and palnting in En- ghad prior fo the advent of Turner, and of the sdvance ol these arts durlue bls tine, aud Ly s ¢fforts,. ‘The iuass of Informntion referring tatho dlstinguished artist thus gathered to- pether by Mr. Thornbury was scrupulously Incorporated In his work, und could mot full to uvest it with valuo and Intcreat. But, unfortunately, he who fad succeeded so well In collecting cssential matertals for his deslizn had not the capacity to tie them to advantage, aud produce elear nnd Wivld cifeets with them, He did the best ha rould, which was to lay his luformation before the reader, Lot In o loose, confused manner, ralenlsted to convoy indistinet and often con- tndhtory fmvreasfons. He dld not bimself comprehend the [dlusynerasfes of Turner's nius, the eccentricitics of his dispusition: wow coukd lie futerpret them to others? In nt- tempting to reveal the motives of tho artlst's umatle conduet, he mroped biindly: for his own mind was (n the dark, and bis {llflgm(‘llll were mnncquunui‘ narrow and Insufficleut, His afm was to do_ Justice to o unique and magnificent renlug, and his sympathies and couscience were th carncetly enlisted; but e wanted tho reach and the keenness of Insight that would enable him to analyze and estimate correctly the conllicting and complicated elnmients of o slngular, mysterlous, powerful individuality, Turnerfs 1ot to bu measured by the stand- trds ect for common men, 1§¢ was that strange, inexplicable phenomenon in Nature, a genlus, the manifestations of which seem bevond the cunitfol of ordinary laws, Why should the vain effort ho persisted In of holdiog them subject to commonplace custotns, and_to the tribunal wpplled fo the every«day world? Turner wus cruelly decried In his art and {n his life, for the ¢hief renson that in_both he doparted from the urual metbods, and was, therefore, suspectod wnd misunderstond. It was_not agreeable, it was hut natural, to hhin to'disclose the seeret workings of hismind, or the impulscs of his hature, to a curious public; and the public vever forgaye him, e waa moat singular in his tastos and hublts. Ko loved solltude,—liko nost ardent worshipers of Nuture,—and hated meddlesome, fmpertment, babbilng intrud He cared nothing for sumptuons living and re- fined surroundings. 1118 parents were obscure people. flls father was n laindresser, with no mind above the saving of o hulf-penn) wus brought up to yulgr, the clreumstances of his afte 3 chance i Wieso practices, 1118 mother was & Herve-tempered woman, who went. insano whilo Turncr was stilla youug fad, Inheritance ac- Jounts for muny of "hls juost striktog peeullsrl- Before he Wud come of age, :u'rm:'g'umll l‘lll mlm'l mnl;mnfil'hylfi.d:::%%‘[:m nent fn love. The steps With whom he had ul\uhw?l?,"“m AT bis detters trons lier durlng g years; and, when at last they ;hu uv‘culll ;Iugu for H.n'sr rom fntole u tyranny, urner wi man to luve lightly ur often, n‘:‘xfi' Il‘l‘t,)t »fl'fl Tactied the aze of 83 when Lie ouce mare gave Uls alections Lo & womnun. A secopd flfup- rantment—this thne, It 18 sald, the yesult of s want af courage to make a proposal—tinally tettled the matter of his cellbacy, snd doomed Lim totheloneline L ol bachelorhood, Turner was sec [ belug miserlys; bug he taved und acenmulated property that He might begueath It to a noble charity, ° Ho had been topressed by art-dealers In his youth and 10th witiheld paration of two ct, sho was on sake of freedom ubscurity; and, when ho urew [am Lo showed . ' the tenavity of bis m::,_ tentment b ami small exactions, Yot s frien s Llogrupher testify that ¢ was fuexorably Just,—demunding only that Which was lifs due,—und thut he could be nobi; Kenerous, But this mun, who wus so emmfi aud vundemned by critics und incddlers on every haud, never himeell meddled with, or passed iudmucm upon, uny one. Savs ouo of his few Ife-lonyg friends. “Mr ureat intimucy with i arose from nls confilence that { had uo deaire to huow lifs secrets, control his actions, or sug- rnsl changes In lls course of Life, He never uterfered “with or condemned the habits of ollln-n, If hethought them Iucorrect, be was ent on the subject; and, if any excuse or pal- Yation could be made, be wax always ready to ccept, adopt, and promulgute the excuse. I uever heard hlm wpeak il of any one.” The unanimous testimony of ull who knew him is to the same effect: 1 unever heard bim speak L1 ot oy une.? urner was denied the gift of speech, and or- uarlly sald put little, and tuat in the fowest Dossible words. But, Iif’ be apake at all of the b‘urh ©fa brother-urtist, it was ulways In terme 41 gllm" um hn} 1o jealousies, and no desire e geul Pl patigens Kenlus, or binder the success, of vo Waa un Incessant and patlent worker, and fererlet o day puass without diligent. toll at bis b fl'tfl Yucation, He was foud of avimals and § ttle ehildre; . and they returned hly affec- l..\-" lwnlx fntereat, Lo “hud & true avgler's T "; tabilug, sud generally bore with bim fheoythe country a rod bound up with hls uefl(nblu totton umbrella, * His success,” 9 & frlcud who often fished fo_company with wor, 43 a0 augler was great, althoughwiththe 4 tackle fu tho world. Every fiah be canght Lo showed to e, and appealed o me to declde whether the slze Justitied him to keep it for the table or retyrn # to the river; his hesitation was alten almost tonching, anl he nlwaya gave the prisoner at the bar the benelit of the donht.’” This locllent betrays the tenderncas of Turner's heart, which Ruskin de- clared to be **extreme.'” His patlence and tenacity of purposs are likewlse amply demonstrated In his habits as a fisherman. The son of his friend, Mr, Trimmer, * well remembers secing Mr. Turner sit on the lawn at Brentford, fishing In a pond for earp. It was A mging wet, dreary day: but the Indomitable sportsman mitizated tho scveritics by adopting a kitelien- chair for his seat and a board for resting his fect on; and, thus, equipped, with one hand he held Dis huge nmbrella, and with the other his rod, The weather was as undesirable as it possihly could be; but there he nat il the dinner-bell rnnf. with the quiet fortitude of a hero, not to be Hehtly turncd from his piscatorial purpose.’ Turner's love for Nature, and for his art, by which he beeame hier exponent, was the master- nseton of his soul, He Intensely enjoyed work: ng over his vlcturcs, and no palns were too ereat by which he could_add to thelr finish aml expressfon, Whenever he parted with one of these pruducts of his wonderful genlus, however much the sale flattercd his prute or awelied his income, he wore far days a monurnful and dejeet- el look. On belng pressed by his friemis for the reason, he would exclafm with deep pathos, “T've lust one of my children.”! 1t {a the Tute of genius to dwell in solitude: and, the more_exalled ore its faculiics, the fewer ure the chances of Its finding berfect com- panfonshlp. It wos the destiny of Turner to abide In an exceptionally remote and _grim {so- lation. No sweet domestie tics gave him thelr solace, amd thelr tender, retinlvg influences, Ilis exceeding reserve and limited conversation- =l power, sud his eceentric habits, cut him oft almost totally trom the pleasures aud amenl- tles of socinl Intercouree: and the world's lack of appreciation of his surpassing talents, the lgnorant eritivisms and - the maliclots censures that were perpetually hesped ‘upon him, mor- tally Lurt his sensibilitics, and strengthened his aistike and distrust of common mankind, “Be sure that o kuew his own power," said Ruskin, “and felt hinisell utterly alone in the world from its not befngr understood.” Wnat wonder that, in the bitter disappolatment of the fondest hoves of hia affectional and intel- lcctual nature, superadded to the untoward circumstances of his heeitage and carly trafulng, lio closed his heart and sct. is face arninst nil enve & loving, faithful few, and followed n course of life which rendered hitn linble to puin- ful nccusations! If there is excuse for crrin humanity in an unfortunate inheritance of temperament and disposition, in o faulty educa- tlon, and tn a universal denfal of understanding oud uyanthy' then there {8 palliation for the worst failings aud infirmvities of Turner, In this sccond edition of Mr. Thornbury's Hte of the famous puinter aro incorporated seve eral previously-unpublished lettera of Turner, and nnmerous ancedotes; while the Appendix hias been nllluchd by the record of fourteen yerra' sales of his plut\lru. The facsimiles in colors from Turner's drawlogs, wlhich accom- pany the volume, are crude. They could searcely be otherwise at the price for which the book 18 offereld. Nevertheless, they are to be prized for the suggestions they rive ot the art of the greatest landscape-painter the world has yet scen. ARIZONA. ARIZONA AS IT 184; on, Tux CoMiNg Couxtny. Comblled_ from - Notes of Travel, Durlng the Years 1874, 1870, and 1870, Wy [hikax C. Hopar, ~Now York: Nard & Houghton, ~ Chi- 0: ladley Dros, & Co. 10 mo., pp. £73, Trice, $1,50. The author of this work flrst entered Arizona, In quest of hiealth, in 1874, A few months’ res. idenca In its mild, pure climate healed the mala- dy of which hy was suffering, and {nspired him with a egrateful destre to publlsh to the world the charms and promlscs of tha remote and nl- most unknown country which had conferrea upon him the cholcest of all blessings. A tour of cxploration through differcut parts of the Territory was prosecuted In the following two or more years, und the observations made by the way upon the resourcesand prospeets of the country were combined n the present volume, The work thus accomplishied was a uscful onc. Tt bears evidences of belng thoroughly and hon- catly donc, and 1t offers to the citizen of the Unlted Btates desirablo Informatfon regarding the character and existing development of a considerable portion of the vast dumaln west of tne Missourt, It 18 fourteen years since Arizona was formed fnto a Territory, with boundaries fncluding about 122,000 square miles, or 78,030,000 ncres,~ o arca nearly three times ag largo ns the State of New York, and one-third larger than the whole of tho Now England Btatcs. The seat of Government_has been soveral times remoted, but was In January last located at Prescott. The Territory I8 divided fnto six countics, nnd has o total population of about 80,000. The largest Sowns are Urescott, with 8,500 inhab- Itauts; Tucson, with about 4,000; ana Yuma, with about 1,600, No railroads as yet interscct the country and ufford Jts pooplo ‘avenues for swift travel nnd transport; but two great trang- continental lines are projected and sur- veyed ocross the Territory, One runs along tbo Thirty-second Parallel, travers- fvg ~ Bouthern -Arlzona, and {s commonly kuown as tho Tesas Paclfic Rallroad; the other {sthe Atlantle & Pacitie or Thirty- ty-fifth Parallel route, and runs through tho northern portion of the country, Schemes for soveral other raltroady are under consideratlon, which will connect the chief towas of Arizona with leading liucs east and west, A thousand miles of telegruph have alread: been constructed by the Milltary and Clvil- Servico Departments,ond are undereflicient mane agement, ‘Two areat stage-lines hiuve been in operation In Arlzona for many years, and n systew of minor nugo and post routes is regi- larly maintained. 'our newspaners aro pub- lished fu the Terrltory; the Miner, a dafly and weekly, of independent poiltics, at Preacott; the Cltlren, a weekly, at Tuckons the Enterprise, & weekly, at Prescott; and the Sentinei, n week- Iy, at Yuma.. The Legislature has made pro- vialon for an_ excelicn{ system of comuon schools, and Prescott has'a schivol-houso bullt after the most approved plan, ot a cost of 212,000, Bchools are belng established in all the towns affording us masy us o_dozen puplls, and, saccording to M, Iodze's showing, take precedence far in advances of churches. There are ten inflitary pusts In tho Departinent of Arizona, for pro- lon against the 26,843 Indians {nhaviting fi:fll.‘:l.nr elght different Reservations within lus mits, Tho climate fs reprosented as in tho highest degree saluorious and delizhtful, On the sum- mita of the ioftiest mountalu-peaks, suuw re- malus from ten to twelve months of tho year, At altitude of 6,000 feet,—that of Preacott,— there {8 & anow-foll of from a fow fuches toa foot or more, which In extreme cases lnats for several wecks. Tho four seasons are hers dis- tinet and extremely pleasant, and tho nigh's are coul the year round, At lower altitudes tho temperature Is warmer, until ut Yuma, which {s bnt 160 feet above tide-water, the thermometer guun ruus up to 110 deg., and sometimes to 130 ow, ‘Fhiere are two rainy seasous each ycar,—ono usunlly occurring in February and March, umd the other in Jullv and Auvgust, Tho rainfall ranges from twelve to thirty Inches in the mountains, and from onc to ‘twelve inches in the valleys. The dountry is traversed by numerous mountain-chatus, the bighest ponks c‘:t which reuch an elevation of 13,000 or 13,000 eet. The ?n( want of Arizoua s water for pur- poses o {rrigation. Owing tothis scarcity, only 2,500,000 acres of its urable land are now sus- ceptible of cultlvation. Mr. Hudee advocates the coustruction of artesian wells st differeut polnts fu the Territory,—belleving that by their meaus the requisite supply of water to frrigate the descrt wastes, and render them prohtfe of rich barvests, can be provided. The larger por- tion of Arizona fs adapted Lo stock-rafsing, und 0,000,000 of ucrea are covered with nutritious g‘mneu and supplied with wbundant molsture, Nearly 2,000,000 sheep ure now ranging over these " graziug lands, sud many thousands of borses aud cattls have been lutroduced within the last year, Contrury to the received opinlon, Mr. Hodge tates that timber (s plentiful cnough lu the Territory to supply the needs of successive generations. It grows aloug the water-courcd, aud covers the mountain-slopes with immeuse forests. The mincs of gold, silver, coffee, lead, Iron, coal, and otber winerals, wre practically exhuuntless, and must form tLe chiet source of the wealth of Arizova for many years to come. Ar. Hodge devotes a long space of his book to an account of the various winng enterpriscs tiow |u uperation, and of the promlse which they held out to capltalists sud men of caergy, Hu also gives Intereating detulls of the fauns and Hora uf the tountry, of its uatural curiositics, of tle varied sud maguificent scencry, of routes ot travel, distaoces from point to polnt, cost of Mv'og, aud wuch other futeligence of yalue to those looking to the Great West for s home or s place of temporary sojourn. e A KEY TO MYSTERIES, (SI8 UNVEILED: a4 Mastxg-K5Y 10 Tus Mys- TERIKS OF ANCIENT AND NODEWN BCIENCK AND Tuxoroav, Byl P. BLATAvESY, Corresponding Secretary of the Theosophical Soctety. Vol Il —TusoLouy. New York: J. W. Boaton. $vo., pp. 602, Price, $3.75. " ¢ Tho suthor of this elaborate sud ambitious SATURDAY, QCTOBER 6, 1877—TV 1KLYVE PAGES, 9 easay In polemies s commendably candid In the spirit of her preface. She there expresaes the desire to keep it out of the hands of *many Christlans whom {ts perusal would not benefie, and for whom it was not written,— . . . those whosc faith i thelr reapective churchen 1s pure and rinvere, and those whose sinicss lives reflect the glorious cxample of that Prophet of Nazareth by whose mouth the Spiritof Truth rpake loudly to Ilumanity.” Bhe also asserts that shc hies always avolded debate with Qod- fearing pricats and clergymen, leat she might be gulity of the cruelty of hurting thelr feel- fngs. But, she continues, *“An analysta of retiglous helfefs in general, this volume ~ s In varticular dirccted ngninst theological Christlanity, the chief opponent of free thought. .. . 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Thera belog but one T'ruth, man requires but one Church,—the Tem- ple of God within us, walled In by matter, but penetrable by any one who can find the way: e pure In heart sce God.” NOVELETTLS. MY MOTIHER-IN-LAW. Boston: Tockwood, Brooks & Co. Chicago: Jansem, McClarg & Co., Tladley Heos, & O HIS GRANDMOUTIIERS, New York: G, P. Put- nam's Sons, Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co. 10mo., pp. 102. Price, $1. BShakspeare asks, * What's In a namel" as thongh it wero n questlon of small account, whercas 1 really fs o matter of serious moment. The pert title, * That Huabanid of Mine," mado the success of tho Look that bora it. True, the story was apley enough to sustaln the spark of curlosity its plquant name smote Into life; but it was the happy thought waich selected a saucy exclamation as the address.by which v abould be known, that determined the fate of the work, A lucky hit is surc. to tempt many repetitions, and we have two here In the noveleites styled respective- Iy “My Mother-in-Law® and ¢ His Grand- mothers,” The character denominated by the tiest appoilation hns long been the subject of potulnr Just, and her mention s sutlicient to provoke expectation ot something farcieal and extruvagunt. . Ilis Grandmothers” presents an {dea cqually ludicrous and umuu(nE; aml therefore It I8 rio surprisa that both books Liave cnjoyed a large sale. iey are sketehy, ofry affalrs, yet fIll a useful Jace {u the depdrtment of Light literacure. hey fllustrate the facility of averago Ame writers for graceful, Nvely varration. It is su prisiug how many of them have the faculty, And [t 18 a gracious one. A very thin story will quite disarim criticism when adorned with the ei:muln‘z. winning charms of casy, felicltous rhetorie. LOUlS XI. TIIE REION OF LOUIS XI, By P, F. WiLLErT, M. A, Fellow of Excter College, Oxford. With Map. Now York: G, I, Putnam's Sone. Chi- casol Jansgn, McClurg & Co, 1Gmo., pp. 300. Price, 8L.2 This dellueation of the events and character of the refu of Louls XI, {s to bo commanded to the usc of students, and to the general reader. The information it gives is clsewhere confined to the largo works uf Slamondl, Michelet, Kirk, aud others, and Is nssoctated with the narratives of different epochs and personsgos. In tho present manual, the ablest of the Valols is the rominent figure of the drama throughout, and l’ne courso by which he elevated France intoa united and peaceful Kingdom s clearly brought out. The book s conveunfent In slze, and com- blucs the merits of the popular series of “Epochs of History." 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Wanixg, Ju., Col fllllni E‘;f'“" for Sani- tary and Agricultursl Worl s ow York: D, Van Nostrand, 18m0., po, 1 ONE SUMMER. Moston: James 1. Osgood & . Chicago:’ Jansen, McClurg& Co. 18mio,, [¥ , 234, Prico, 2 P&EHB OF PLACES, Edited by Hzwny W, LUKOVELLOW, BWITZEGLAXD AND AUNTIIA. Dostou: Janies R UVsgood & C Chicago: "ldl&flrcl. & Co. 18w, po. 203 ELEMENTARY LESSONS IN PIYSICAL GEOG- HAPHY. By Aucuinarp Guikx, LL.D., F, R, ¥,, Murchison Profussor of (Jm!ufi: sud Miner. alogy a_the Unlversity of Edinburg, ete. 11~ lusirated with Woodcuts snd Ten Plates. 0~ don and New York; Macmillan £Co, Chicazo: .]l.-iueuh l’;gltlmi & Co. 1Umo., o, 376 tice, §1,70. TUE RELIGIOUS FEELING. A Stvor vom Farry, DBy Nswuan Suiri, New York: SBerib- nor, Armstrong & Co. Chlcago; Hadley Brow. &Co. 12m0., pp. 171, Price, $1.43. PERIODICALS RECEIVED, LITERARY WORLD for October (E. U. lismes & Co., Buston). LIFTELL'S LIVING AGE—Currens numbers xx.m-u & mé' lhmm. NATIONAL TEACHERS' MONTHLY for October A, 1 & Co., New York sund Chls . A’i‘ml{:fl(‘l‘al Btoptnm!.a:r (g;fl:lnllld. fifl.’ FAMILIAR TALK, ART NOTES. M. Lionel has lately presented a falr example of the paluter Constabla to the Louvre. Walter Shirlaw is to be Professor of Drawing and Painting at the Art-Students’ League, New York, this winter. The excavations st Delos for the purpose of revealiug the anclent Temple of Apolio have been suspended for the presont season. ‘Tho fresh pictures of the Freuch artists will be hung iu the Balon of 157, sud the best of those heretofore exhibited will be placed fu the Parts Expoaition. Cabarel s cxceuting & commission from the nmenty which comprises eeries of large pietures unon Biblical themes. They are des- tined for the Pantheon. An ctehed portrait of M. Gambetta has been executed by Prof. Legros, and will soon be pub- Ushed. The last sitting for the icture was se- cired by the artist during a recent sisit to Parls. Gerome has finished the clay model of the group of two gladiators taken from his famous pleture, “ Pollice Verso,” The work will be ul‘t‘l«'; in bronze, and placed in the coming Expo- aition. Merle Is painting a Charlotte Corday for tho next Salon. Melssonuler Is engaged on a pict- ure of the time of Henry I1., which Includes o number of fzures, and affordls a fino opportuni- Ly for studien in costume. A monument has bLeen lately rafsed to the memory of Jordacus, at his hurial-place in Butte, 1olland. Jt consists of a bronze hurt of the painter on a sauare pedestalwithenryatides, and ‘an nscription stating that the work was ralsed by prisate subscription during. the ter- centenary of Nubens in Antwerp, The fine group of St. John, which was molded in clay l»{ Thorwaldsen, and et above the en- trance of the True Chiurch at Copenlingen, has been copled in marble by Danish sculptors, to fusure its nrescevation, * The wpr is to replaca the original picce, The Corcoran Arpm"ma will s00n be In pos- sesston of the pleture, by Georze 1. Boughton, of Washington Teving's. old Buteh Governor of New York, Wilhelmns Kleft, known as William tha Testy. The work was ordered by the Trus- tees of the (iallery, and has stimulated the best efforts of the artlst, An elegant restdence, destgned by the French architect, M. Escaller, I8 belug erected for Mile. Sura Bernhardt, at the corner of the Rue Forthne and the Avenue de Villeurs, Parls. It {8 In the stvle of the Henalssance: and one of the most mportant fentures of the bullding ta u Jargze studio for the use of Mile, Bernbardt, which will be adorned with beautiful furniture ud decorations. Among the Art-Notes (n the current number of the Art Journal is the statement of the do- nation to Yale College, by Mra, Caroline M. Btreet, of New Haven, of $30,000 for the estab- lishment of Profescorships in the Yale Bchool of Fine Arts. The husband of Mra. Street, st his death twelve yeara aro, bequeathed £200,000 for the vrection of the Art-Bullding fn the col- Jege-grounds of New Have Also, from a London Journul, is _given acvount of an American’ sculptor, Edward Kerneys, who has carried to Lonaon, and s exhibiting, gronps in tlay representing the more promincat’ animals of “the Western pralries and mountains,—the opussutn, the panther, the deer, the cusote, the ravew, the bison, and the rattlesnuke,—ull modeled from life, after long and often dunger- ous study, This exhibition is sald to be one of thoart-attractiqns of the season, platis=Cin MR, LENNOX'S TURNER. "The history of the manner In which Mr. James Lennox, of New York, sccured his first pleture by Turner for hils gallery of paintings is related in Leslie's Autublography, and repeated fn Mr. Thornbury’s Itfo of the celebrated artlst, As the account will have an Interest for many read- ers, we venture to copy it. It fell to my Jot,” writes Mr. Leslle, *“to sclect tha first of his dletures that went to Ameriea. Mr. vames Leunox, of New York, who knew his plctures only from engravings, wished very much to pos- seas one, and wrote to me to that effect. I re- pileil that s rooms wero full of unsold works, and 1 had no doubt he would part with one. Mr. Lennoxexpressed his willinzness togive £500, and left the choles to me. I ealled ou Turner, and asked if he would Jet & pleture go to Amer- ica. *Noj they won't come up to the scrateh.! 1 knew what he meaut; for another Ameriean had offered him a low price for the ‘Temeraire,’ 1 told him o friend of mine would give £500 for anything he would part with, His countenanve brightened, and he rald at once, ¢ fle may have that, or that, or that,"— pointing to thres not small pictures. 1 chose a *Bunset View of Stafla,’ which I had admired more than most of his pictures, from the time when 1t was first cxhibited. [t was n an old frame, but Turner would lave a ver: handsomo new one made forit. When 1t reached New York, Mr. Lennox was out of town, and we were In suspense some time about its receptlon. About a fortnight afterits arrival ho returned to Now York, but only for an hour; snd wrote to me, after o hasty first f.'lnnu-. 10 express hls great disappointment. fle sald he could nlmost fancy tae pleture had sustalned sume damage on the voyage, it _uppeared to him so indistinet throughout. Still he did not doubt its being very fing, and ho hoped to sce its merits un further acqualntance; but, for the present, ho conld not write to Mr. Turner, 8 he conld only state his present impression. * Unfortunately I'met Turoer atthe Acadzmy anight or two after I recelved the letter; and he asked me if T had heard from Mr, Lennox. 1 wus obliged to say *Yes! * Well, and how does hs like the picturc?’ *Ho thinks it {ndis tinet.' ¢ You should tell hiny,? by replled, *that Indistinctness {smy forte.! “Inthe meantline I had answered Mr, Len- nox’s letter, polnting out, as well as [ coald, tho merits f the picture; and concluded by saving, * 1M, fu m record view, it gains your csthination, it wiil nssurcdly gain more and iore every thne Y“" look at it.* Mr. Lennox, in reply, said, You have exuctly described” what hus taken place. I now wimire the Ylumm greatly, and [ have brought one or two of my friends to seo it 28 1 doj but [t will never be u favorite with the mujtitude. I can now write to Mr. ‘Turner and tell him conscientiously how much Lami de- lighted with fe.'* CHINFSE PUBLIC GRANARIES, There lias existed n system of publle grana- ries in China since a date Jong hefore the birth of Clirlst. They are established by privatd char- ity, and are sa well approved that in the single Provinee ot Chill no fewer than 1,005 are wmaln- tained. During tho last century the Govern. ment ordained the ercction of a granary In ev- ery district of the Metropolitun Frovince, and vrovided careful laws for thelr manugement. ‘The methiod of supporting these lustitutlons s thus described tn an Eoglish exchange: * The grauary having been erccted, the surroundiug land-owners are encouraged to send {n presents of grain us thelr weans will allow, and the local authorities are suthorized to offer them in ro- turn Mandaring' buttons, varying In rank nce vording to the quantity of cram subacribed, When the granary s sufficlently full, two o cers chosen from tholocality aréappointed to sue perintend it, an) the work begins, As thegran- arics are futended to self-supporting, ang -for the assistance of the people fn ordinary ycars us well as for their relicf in . ties of fumiue, 1t 18 part of the systent, in the spring of the year, when food begins 1o get searce, to advance gratn to the poor of the dis- trict, who return it at harvest-thne with futer- et fn kind ot the rate of 10 per cents Two- the of the futercst thus paid are appro- priated by the oflicials, one-tenth s devoted to 1 d the remiaining seven-tenths, after the ne rv repairs (o the butldingshave tieen pald lor, are posited I the wrunary," The worklog of this system is shown in the case of three granaries, whblch, fu fourteen vears from tuelr foundation, returued to the orfginal cous tributors the full amount of graln_advanced by thew, and still bad suflicent «urn and rice to supply the needa of the ueighborhood. Iu times ol fumine, the gralu s dealt out Grst to the woniet aud children,and then tothe men, Cooked grafn and riee are also provided for thusy lu fmmediate nced of food. Tu prosperous yeurs, interest ou the gralu advanced s strlcely de- taunded; but, when the harvests turn out bad- 1v, the intercst §s remitted, and the orginal loun fs even allowed to atand over until tho uext sea- son. Thervis a great desl of chorltable work perforined in Ching, votwithstanding the repu- tation which the people bear for cruelty sud hard-heartedness. In nearly every large town aud district, there are asylums for the szed und the urphnunr in addition to the establishments for the ef of the poor. Colleges, schools, snd sucleties are also sustalued for the struc- tion of the chuldren of the pour, tor the presvr- vation of life, for the burta of the dead, for en- couraeing husbaudry, and for various othee be- nevotent ubjects, P ART JOURNAL, The Art Journal tor October, published by D, Appleton & Co., New York, is an cxcellent and sttractive uumber. Charles Wyllys Elllont's article, *“low to Decorste Pottery sud Porce- lain," will bs welcowe o many, as it gives the artietic printiples which should gulde such work, as well as the necessary description of materials, with directions for their use. It is fllustrated by eigbt forcible wood-engravings. The first of 8 suries of articles on “ The Art of Dressiug aud Bolog Dressed.” by Percy Fitzgerald, adds to the direct usefuluess of the number. Its three steelcngruviugs are: “The Bou- quet,” a uearly full-length fewale figure from tho pieturs by'A. Toutwouche, Chevalier of the on of Honor: an odd-lookl pleture of “*Saacho Panza and His Dunkey,” from a lit~ tle paluting by Edwin Landscer; and a repre- scotstion of the statue of *Elaine, the Lily. Mald of Astolss, by the Eogllh scalptor, T. . Willintnson, fah artist, § fn y—thiree el his talent and » xketehes has the Hustratio 1t Juhn I fnced to the An tione of iy paint 5. Chapter 8 ot il nuimber of awl Mrs, Susan N, (' nt Architecture In Boston " con- taina eleven eharming litthe pletures of towers, which adorn that eity, As , Two cireumstances have given to Boston it ex: entlanal opportunity for the Improvement of fisarchitecture. These have 1, a voung e an reads heen the great fire of 1832, and the redemption of the area known as the Back Bav. The great fire threw fnto the hands of a wealthy community an Aladdin-like ;mwtr to have what they desdred, and to wish for what they pleasil.” Our awn popular Amerifcan painter, lobert Swaln Gilford, Is represented by two engravings of his pletures, ~huath African scenes, but totally uniike; one heing o view “On the Nite:™ anit the othe “The Palma of Bukra, Sahara Deaert.' Thy are accomumniedg by brief blography, veey wi come: to Western readers, Lucy 11, Honper'sde. seniption of the Hotel des Ventes, usually called the Hutel Dronot,—the great Art-Exchanmee of Paris,—and other articles and additlonal filns- trations, will bo found fu this valuable vumber, ARTIFICIAL EGUG-ITATCHING, From time finmemorial the Egyptlons have resorted to the artificiol process of egg-hatching for their chief supply of poultry, and through- aut the country there are Lulldings erected for the purpuse of relfeving the dotnestle fowl—or of performlng in n manncr supposed to be supe- rlor to her own—the inaternal duties shich Na- tare delegated to her, These ezg-hatching cs- tablishments number in all sonie 60V, according to the statements of Mr. McCoan, aud in them 12,000,000 ehickens annually chip the shell. Tlhie mahmal, o8 the bullding 1s ealled In Exynt, “Is constructed of burnt or sun-dried bricks, and conatsts of two parallel rows of smail chambers and ovens,—the Iatter uppermost.—each ahout eleven fect square by about five feet high, and divided by a nurrow” vaulted passage, through which the rearer enters to watch the progress of the operation.” The Lusiness is prosecuted during two or three months i the sorine, and, as soon as the season bewine, the eges are brought fu by the neighboriug community. A careful exainina- tion, to detenmine if they are feeundated, re- aults in the rejectlon of about one in five. The remainder are plared on mats or straw sprinkled with bran, on the floor of the chambers, The ent fs produced by the consumation of gleh, a fuel wm‘wumltd of dune and ehopped straw, and Is maintained at a steady temperature of Trom 100 to W& dee. Fahr. by the tralned skill of the operator, unalded Ly the thermometer. The egizs remaln [ the ovens about twenty-one daye, and nearly two-thizds of thein are suc fully hatched. “The onerator of the mahmal velves one-half of these us pavtnent jor his trouble mud expense, aud the orizinal owners of the eurs peceive the othier half, Mr, McCoat from whom' theee particulars are taken, atatos that the larger makmals, which contaln 08 many as twenty-four chambers, receive ubout 150,000 €Zes every season SPARKS OF SCIENCE. FLORA ROUND ABOUT CITICAGO. Tue OLive Fasiny,—There s but ane mem- ber of the Otive Family (ncluded in our natlve flura,—the common White Ash, Fraxinus Amer- fcana, which grows on the bauks of the Dess plalnes River, ot Maywood. Vet In our wardens and greenhauses several representatives may be found. The dear, old-fashioned Lilac, Syringu, is onc, which ‘all the throng of new and more briltlant exatics cannot wean us altogether from, The Privet, Lewustrum, which fs planted in hedees, 1s another; and the Jessumiues, 1ast but not least, ciose the list. Thero are inall aliont fifty species of Ash, most of which are natives of Europe and Amer- fca. The wood of the majority of them is m.ivny valued for its strength and elas- tivity, which adapts 1t especally to tho mavafacture of acricultural and “other {m- Jemeuts, I some . specles [t fs fine- y grained, and thercfore ia vrized Ly cabinet- ninkers, The Europenu Ash, F. exvelsir, 13 oncuf the most clegant of ormamental trees; aud It may be sald of spectes Indizenous to vur own land and to the south of Europe, that they are distinguished for lightness and graceiuiness of nspect, A nunber of varfeties have been produced from the European Ash, as the Weep- g Asii, with houehs drooping to the grouuds; thy Curled-leaved Ash, with dark-green, wrinkled Jeaves; and the Entire-Leaved Ash, in which many or all of the leaves ore shnple. The Mannn-Ash, or Flowering Ash, inhabiting the south of Europe, ylelds the substance know in commerce as Manng. Incislons are made dafly in the burk of the tree, in July and August, always on the same side of the tree, and grudually proceeding from the base to the lower branches. The pum cozes slowly from the cuts, and, as 1t hardens, f8 gathered h*‘ the collectors, 1t ds hght aud porous, of u yetlow- ish color and a sweet taste, and acts as o gentle vargative. Each season the cuta nre made intho Manua-Ash jopposite the incislons of the last year; and this olternution Flvu the bush time to heal. Several other specles of Ash, erowing fuworn climates, yleld u shoilar substance, The bark of several” inctbers of the genus is also bitter aud sstringent. In the European Ash the drip from the leaves after raln s so in- fused with Lnls principle that nothing will grow under the trevs. ‘The Ash In n eacred tree In the mytholocy of the Scandinavians. It is the Yoedrusil, whose Lranches were sald to spread over the wholo warld nud tower up to the beavens, while its routs penetrated to the under-world. * It {s sug- gested that the Cristmas-tree of modern Gers nuny umr have grown out of the mytn of the Ygudrasil, The Lllac Is » native of the north of Persia, and was first brought to Vieniu by Husbecr, who also futroduced the ‘Tully into European gardens. The shrub posses strong fehirifugal yualities, and hus been wuccessfully used in malarious districts as a remedy for lutermits tent fever. It 15 a remarkuble fuct that all the specles of the uroun of Oliveworts will graft upon each vther. Thus the Litse will eruft upon the Asl, and othier members of the Order, * The Jusmines will not graft on any spe- clea of the tribe, and this circumstunce contirme ed several of the eurlier Lotanists n the opinfon that they shoukl not be clussed with the Olfves worts, They are now, howeyer, generally ranked together. The Jasluuwis are chiclly fnhabltauts of Tropical lndin, ‘The st important representative of the Oleacere 18 tne Olive, from the frult of which Olive-Oll §s cxpressed. ‘The bark of this tres possesses the qualities of the Cinchona, and has been much used gs its subititute, The wood is fluely velned, aud hos un azreeable perfume. The i)llvuwnru nuber 2 specles, and the entire group Is composed uf trves or shrubs, They are distributed over the ‘Temperate and Torrid Zones, but are scarvely Known beyond 65 deg. N. lat, LIZARDS, Mr. Henry Gliman contributes au fmportant nnte to the dwerican Nuturallst on the change of color in the lizard, His obicevations were made fn Florida, where tho species are very sbundant and beautiful. After ample fnvesti- gatlon, hu states pusitively that the lizard has In a remarkable degree tho power of assuwintng Qifferent tints. ' For {nstance,"—to use his own words,—* I bave scen asimall yellowlsh- brows Jizand, on quitting the ground, " instantly assume the dull-gray hue of the weather-beaten fence-rail it glided upon snd aloog. Pasdsing under some olive-tinted foliage, it would next adupt thut color, o be succeeded: by o full brlsht-greca of emerald-llke glow, as it reached sud rested underneath the lJnrn,\‘- of rass and other leaves of vorresponding shade. ‘Tne origiual yellowish-brown color would aafn be wssumed ou the Hzand returing to the ground. Each of thechanges appeared to be @lmost fu- stantuncous, s the entire serics could not huve oecupivd much more thau onejuarter of o winute of thue,! SMILCII-COWS " OF THE ANTS, 1t fs u well-known fact In natural history that certain specles of the Ant are (n the habit of dumesticatl Plant-Lice, keepln herds of these Insects in their nests, in order to feed upon the sweet sccretion which the Aphides give furth from the two tubes projectivg from the asixth scguent of the body, The Plant- Lice have been facctiously termed the *millch- cuws " of the Ants, because the latter seem to coax the Aphldes, by stroking the tubes genly with their anteoue, to give out the coveted fuid. Prof. Leidy states, in the Procecdings of the Philadelpbln Academy of Natural Scicnces, 1877, that, lu searching forunimals under stoucs in the wouds uear Pliladelphia, be found the Yellow Aut, Formlca tlave, in posses- slun of large wvuwbers of other fu. seets, “lu o one fnstance, & compam- tively small colony of the Yellow Ants bad thrve different insccts in thelr possession,— conslstiug of s svevics of Aphs, a Coccus, and the larva of au iusect, probably Coleopterous. Thoe Aphides were kept fu two scparate berds, aud these wore separuted from a berd of Cocd ‘The larva wos fu the widst of oue of the former berds. Inu larger colouy of the Yellow Ants there was o berd of Aphides which occupled the under part of oue margin of the stone, and was altanet ten fnches loug by three-fourtha of an el in Ureadth, The sxme colony also pos AReparate henl of Cocel, closely crow, oaupsing almast a square | f xps bothicolonies the Apbls and the Coeens were the rame. The Aphis i« pale yellow, with white tubereles on the dorsal surface of the abdom- inat segments, The Coscus is of a dark-red hue. Both Aphidea and Corrd, with fow exceptions, adhiered to the under surface of the stones, and were not attached toroote, They appeared to be carefully attended by the Ants, which surround- ed them. The larva alluded to was aimost six millimeters long, was covered on the back with a thick white eotton-like accretion, It was also carelully attended by the Ants, which were fre- quently observed to stroke it with thelr anten- na.. The Aphides and Coccl were all in goold condition, butl without vidble means of subsist- ence exeepting the neighboring grass.roota par- tally extending Into the earth heneath the etones, to which it s protable they were at times tranaferred by thelr masters,' STICKLEBACKS, The pretty little Stickleback, which Is one of the neat-bulldinz Ashes, ia a favorite inmate of nquarins, yet its miechievous propensities render it a dangerous companion for other small fry, A writer in Hardiwicke's Seience-Guasip relates an Interesting expericnce with the mintature ma- rauders. A handsume specimen in his suit of brizht colors was brought to the owner of an aquariug, who accepted the gift rather reluct- antly. The flsh ** was tame, came and took food from your band, and beeame a favorite; but he soan bezan to pluck st the snalls, and killed them. He then bit pleces out of the tafls and tinn of the fish. Not satistled with this, he used to meet the fish, swim under them, n?l up his rtickles, anid rip them open. At firef T could not Imagine how It could be, but at last we saw it done,” Of course he was taken out, but the fiah all died off from wounds which he had fnflicted, though not perceptible to me. ‘I had no lving thing lefr. Alter awhilo 1 put in some mnalls and tadpoles. A friend brought me four Stickles,—three males, one female, I put them in, and one of them began altnost Immediately to bulll s nest. Ile was indefatizablo in his attention to it night aud day, hover- Ing over 1t and fanning the water: mean- while the others were killing the snails and Liting off the talls of the tadpoles, a0 that they could not swhn, and fell to the Lottom, dying oue after the other. In about seven or clght dava the young ones were swimming about over the nesty we counted seven, The parent kept them there, and drove the others away furfous- Iv. However, they suon lost their protectors he was fluating dead In about three dava after the hatehing, which I hear s nlways the case, 1 do nut think he ate auyfhing all the time. . From that thme we saw no more of the voung oues until by chance we saw two belind a stone, as thoughi they were biding. The fetnale went up, put her head in, and swallowed thiem both: they were nearly half an fuch Jong and very slender. Thad’ the cannibals taken out and went duwn {oto the sewer.” SPIDERS, In reference to the query, why epiders build webs in the corners of dark closets which are seldom opened, and therefure bave no flics in them, a writer fn SclenceGossip sucgests: (1) ‘Thot epiders are not desiened to walk comfort- ably except {n lnes of thelr own spinnior, aml therefore make webs for thelr convenfence: (2 they need homes for themselves and eqes, and soennstrict webs to serve this especlal purpose; (3) there may be a surplus of web-making mae terlal, which, atter fly-catchinge wevs arc cog- structed, i uscd in makine cobwebs (nout-of- the-way places. These last are, as a rule, fre rezular masses, exhibiting little of the skill and evldent cconomy of waterfal that distin. Lulshes the fiy-catching web., BRIEF NOTES, The centennary of Haus Christian Oested, the discoverer of the laws of electro-magnetism, was celebrated in Denmark, Aug. 14. Mr. Layard, the British Ambassador at Con- stantinople, has obtamed a flruan from the Sultan, allowing excavations at Nineveh, The largest nquarfum-tank lao the world s now {n the Westminster At}unrlnm. at London. It 1s 150 feet jong. twenty feet broad, and bas a capacity of 84,000 gallons, The Central Pucifie Rallroad Company pue- pore planting nYeclu of the Eucalyptus on both sides of thelr line through about 500 miles of the valleys of California. "It Is estimated that B00,000 trees will be required, and 40,000 have ulready been purchased, Mr. 8. E. Cassino has projected the publica- tion of @ popular Sllustrated “work on Amenican ferns. The drawinza wiil be from sketelies by Mir. J, H, Emerton, and the text of I'rof, Eaton. The plates will be colored, snd the work is promised at a low price, Trof. 0. C, Marsh has describeda fossil Jzard found in a bed on the eastern side-of the tock: Mountalns, which proves to be the largest land- snlmal vet known to Sclence., It must bave been trom fifty to sixtv fect in length, and was provably a herbivorous reptile. Ameng the anclent_copper instruments col-. lected for the State Historleal Society of Wis- cousin, by ita Sceretary, Prof. J, D, Butler, (s a vopper ax, weighing four pounds twelve and one-quarter ounces,—the heaviest pre-historic object uf copper hitherto discuvered. A deposit of fine. white marble with amber- eolored velns has been discovered at Tehachepa, Kern County, Cal. Tt is sald to be dentieal with the ancient yellow marble of [taly, which {s highly prized by “antiquarisns, but the original source of whicli hus beeu for conturies unknown A larze number of Rattlesnnkes, nesting 1n the homes of the Burrowing Ow), bave been killed on the Btaked Plaln by Lient. C, A. H. Me- Cauley, He examined the contents of thelr stomache, but in no fnstance found that they liud fed on the birds with whom thiey were do- mesthated. Tn Southiern California the tomatn s perennlal, A vine in Los Angclus has beeu trained over th sunnv slde of a house, and {8 now twenty-five feet Wigh. It hias blossots anil at the same time fruit n all stages of growth, In San Bucneven- tura, & grape-vine ted seventeen years ugo weusures forty fnches around the stem, and cov- crs au area of about clghty feet. [t yields an annual crop of about 1,000 ‘pounds, shigle clus- ters avernging three and a half pounds. In the proceedings of the Philadelnhia Acnde- my of Natural Bclences, Mr. Joseph Willcox makes an lnteresting ol vatlon on' the Crow- Bluckblrds of Florida. Ho notleed 8 commotion among the binls on the bank of a river, and, secking the cuuse, saw o large Bass chuslng o Lol of swall fry, which, in their desperaty efforts to escape, Jumped out of the water, and some of thein so (ar as to laud on tho s ‘The Blackbinds, eagerlv watching the operatlon, a8 though famillar with tho results, seized upon tue unhappy tlsh before they could wmnke thelr way back to the water, and swallowed them with a rellsh, e —— THE PROPHET'S MISSIUN AND FATE, When Church and 8 n crime becol N a8 eae prckiics bd the Sonsciente hoxh, 'hen pious prelates e conscience bush, Audeeds ‘are dome that make the devils blush, No partiean arlses to dlesent— Proclaim ** [ will be heard, cry **Repent," Then comes 8 man with couraze {o proclalm The moral Isw, in God Almighty's name Penounce the bypocrisy of his time, Aud show toall'the wickeduess of crime— A Providentlal man, chosen, inspired, Whowe stticere se-ul 1o Holy Ghost has fired To sound the trumpet, to kive the alarm. Tho dry boues ratile at the coming storm Aronyed by the Heformer's trumpet-blas Dust-covereil skeletone stand up aghast. The Prophet says. ju language most sutlime, Ubey the nural IAw unstaloed by crime. In rolling back Corruption's murky tige, (iud acuds an honest man 1o be 1ho guide. Behold the envious bricsts onite in wrath, Aud wo to him who dared to crous their pathi; ‘The crosw, the stake, and pervecotion shuw The fate of rightcous herues here below, u every age Harubbas is released, And with oppressore gocs the facile priest. ‘The moral hero mects Lhe world's rude :l:nck. And bullde bls buse on the eternal r No monuwent's erected o'er hie dust; No **glory crawns® the mermory of tha fust, o Hacroduess of & Au_eminent Britlsh stated traced his owh sense of the sacredness of & prom- {se 10 & curious leason he got frow bis {ather when he wus @ boy. When howe for the holi- days, and walking with bis tather in the gardeo, blnh hthtr"‘x’jlslud tw & wall which he Inteude: ave pulle lown. w“un,‘vnhl the boy, 1 should so like to sec & wail putled dows.” . S \Yell wy boy, you shall,” sald s futhe The thing, boweyer, vacaped his wewory, sud during the boy's absenice 8 vumber of fmprove- nicots were eclux made, aud among thew this wall was toru down and a new one bullt up in When the boy came home and saw i, be said: " On, futher, you promised to let mo seo that wall pulled down. " lustuntly the father remembered bis uromnhlo‘i sud wus deeply paiued to thiok that he seemed carcless about bis plighted words *My boy,"” hu sald, “‘you are right. I ald romise, 0d I ought ot 10 have foryoiten. It oo Late now t0 do just what I sald I would, but you wanted to see a wall pulled doswn, and su(nu shall.” And he actually ordered the macons up and made thetn pult down and rebuild the new wall, that as nearty a3 possible his promise might ho maude gond. ‘It cost me twenty pounds,’ he said to a friend who was bantering him about it * but,” he sald, I it had eost a hundred, I should have thoueht It a cheap of Impressing on my boy"a mind xs longas | 4 the tmporance hat a‘'man of hovor shoulid attachto his plighted word,”* 4 FATHER TOMAZIN. His Contumaciaua Deflance of the Lasvs nnd Authority at the United Stntes=The Fruit- leas Attempts (o Get Him O the White Earth Reservatlon, F At Paul Pioneer-Presr, 0at, 3, Futler Information received from the White Earth Rescrvation, and which is confirmed by Col. Kenble, the United States Indian Inspect- ory who arrlved In St. Paul yesterday aftecnoon, shows thut his removal, or attempted removal, of Father Tomazin from the reservation had no connectlon whatever with the relizlous quarrel between the Epfscopatians and Catholics on the reservation. The facts unquestionably are that for two years Father Tomazin hna been trymge to make all the trouble lic could on the reser- vatlon, ond Iast kpring Mr Ewing, one of the Booard ‘of Peace Commis- sioners, who I8 a _ zealous Catholic and extremel v tenacious of the rights of Cath- oliea on Indlan reservations, wrote to Dishop Seldenbush requesting him to order Tomazin off the reservation fn mnsc«‘ucnuc of his re- peated viodations of law sud his seditious aud wlisorderly practices. At the smme thne, con- formably with the report of the Commlasioners on Tomazin's mixconditety the Commissioner of Indfau Affairs dirccted Agent Stowe to order Mm off the reservation. Btowe acjualnted him with this order, and requested bim v Jeave, but hie pald no attentlon to the orler. Some two or three weeks ogo Col. E. C. Kemble, Unltea States Indian Inspector, who had been to Ited Lake on Indian business, arrived at the White Larth Agency, when he was tnformed by Agent Stowe that Tomazin recently, without his per- mission and in direct violation of law, which he lad repeatedly transgressed, had taken several Indian - cloldren from 10 and 13020 years of aze, or caured them Lo be taken, from “the reservatlon to 8t. Joseph. Amongr tliese were two chiliren of Holeag-the- Day, whose mother complained to the Agent thut {hey had been taken nway by the priest without "her ~ consent. Other’ parents made simllar complaints. On heanng this, Col. Kem- ble went un the morninr of the ITth toses Father Tomazin, and endeavored to talk to hine kindly and. courteously, but the Iatter would not listen to him and bevame very viotent, when finally Cal. Ketable told him that e must leave the reservation, Theretinon, as already rolaced, the priest went to his chureh and begun ritging the belland about forty hudtuns and hnlt-breeds ~—two-thirds of them ihe Intter—asrembled ot this summons of the priest. In the afternoon, the chureh-bell still ringing the loud alarnm, Col. Kemble served the following onder ou Tomazin: Witz Eantin Aopscy, Sept. 17, 18 The Rer. lqnaling Tomazin—Sim: Your adms n to me this morninz that you had recently removed from the reservation several Indisn children wlkh no other anthority than that of your relution &4 sulritnal adviser, niakes It necessary for me to re- mind you that You have trespasscd upon the au- thority of the United #tates over the Indinne, and committed an Infraction of the law. Also (hat you were In Aprll last potified hy the United States Agent here, acting under authurity of the Ilonor- ably Commisaloner of Indian Affairs, to withdraw from the rescrvation. Your disrezard of thia notice and persistent misdemneannrs muken [t my duty to require you to fwwmediately leave the reservation and not to retnrn. Y 11 thereforo take with you your persanal effects, ur obedi- ent servant, Eowann ¢, Kewnie, Unlted States indien Inspector. ‘The pricst, surrounded by his armed Indians and half-breeds, would not listen to the rewding of this order, Interrupted it with violent pro- testations, and turned away to mako a loud and inceudiary speech to the “Indlana, To make aure of his ground before proceeding further, Col. Kemble then telegraphed to Commissioner Smith to knuw If there was any reason why ‘Tomazin should not be removed, und fuforming bim that he had nxaju been removing children trom the reservation without permission of the Agent. The Commlssloner reaponded by gly- fug him inatructions to remose Tomuzin at onces and subsequently e recelved another dispateh whick induced him to nrnin juter view — Tumazin aud see whether ho ‘would peaceably obey: the orders of the Comie missloner. He'went to his house fur this pur- pose, und Tomazin was just driviog out of the rate of bis vand with o horse and wagon, when hn was Intercepted by Col. Kemble, When the Iatter unidertook to tell Wi of the orders of the Commiastoner tbe priest, In lowd and fnsolent Tangunge, sald he did not eary_ unything about the onders, and endeavored to drown the volee of the Inapector {na solsy barnvizue to those near l?‘, accompanfed with violent westiculations. He maked the Indiun Chiel who was present It they were golne to allow him to be taken from the reservation. They safd * No.” * Why dow't you tell hitn so, then ¢ sald Tomaziy to - the Chief. This the Chlef proceeded. to do till he was brought up with & round turn by a sharp reori- mawd from Kemnble, “Uhis convineed Col, Kemn- ble that the attempt to rewove Tomazin would result In forcible resistance by lifm snd his Iricols, and he 80 telegruphied "to Washington., He was speedily advised by the Commissioner that a detschment of troops had been ordered to White Earth to uselst Wim In carrylng out the order. In the meantime he received by mail a more explicit order from thy Commis- aloner by direction of the Secretary of the Iute- rlor, and it was stated In the order that fi wos made on the spectal recommuendation of the Catholle Peace Commisalor wing,: to whom the matter had been referred for fnvesti- pation. ‘Thetroops tinally urrived un the 27th. Col. Kemble wanted Col. Bates to assist him in arresting the retractory priest, hut this the latter deelined to do on theground that his orders were smply to prescrve the peace, Col. Kem- ble then undertook to arrest him himself, aud for that purpose went with the Agent o the priest's residence. They knocked ut the door, hut no answer was i They kept on knock fnz, but there was o response.” Thy Agent then entered the hotse, but could find nu Tumazin in the lower roomys. Ile went uy-atalrs, whero he finally found Tomuzin, and told him Col. Kemble wi tosee bim, wnd for what pur- pose. fn:d 1o ubey this polite sum- wmona, Finally Fufrbauks, a Red-Lako trader, enme upon the scene, and woa sent up Lo per- suade Tomnzin to come down aud obey tho orders of the Inspector. After a lone {nterval of tedious and fruftless negotiation be pre- tended to yicld, and said he would leave the Ieserve os “desired after he hud bad u cup of teu. This was readily assented to by Col. Kemnble, e took his lewsure with his tea, aud finally camo out aud was wulking away on tho Detrolt road, with the apparcnt desteu of Jeayv- {ngr, when lie _suddenly turned and rushed {nto thu church, This complicated the sltuution, It was evident he wished to be enrolled among tho saiuts aud martyrs by making it necessary for the representatives of the Government to drag bim away from the horne of the altar, and thus commit what plous Catholles would regard us o plece of sacrilcee, Kemble frst thought of starving him out, but Col. Hates refused hlm the guard required tor & regular sleite, and, atter waiting for three mortal hours, and sending uno envoy after snother to persuade the prlvit to surrénder, which be _obstivately refused to do, Kemble made up bis miod to use force, when, sas 8 last resort, Col, Bates and nuother oflicer, who was a Catholiv, undertook to nefu- tlato with the besivged martyr, e finalty promised them be would gos he accordingly came out of the church ana walked down the vosd fu the direction of Detroit. Kemblo wanted to send the Agent after bim to mako sure that he played no tricks, But Col, e aud his brother officers interposcd with the as- surance that ke would certaluly go off the reservation aud kcz{) off, slnce he hud solemuly vromised them that he would doso. It hus siuce been ascertained thut he did not leave the reservation at all. Me seercted himsell at the home of une of bis friends titt all the troops were sent away, except a sinull detachinent feft as 8 g for Muj. dtowe aod untll Col, Kemble bad left, und very lthely ho is now back agwin in his - old quarters. We have thus minutely narrated the course of these fncldeuts which o vividly lustrute the obdurate cussedness of Father Tomaziu, n or- der to correct false impressions which may have been reccived from previous accounts we have published. It remaing to wld that we ure fur- ther informed that of tho 850 Indlan besds of familics vn the reservation, only about forty or fifty sympathize with the coupse of Father Tom- szin, and two-thirds of these are ball-breeds whomn hu hiss managed to ¢et under his futlu- enee, There are not more thau thirteen to ff- tecn Indians amony his followers, All the beat wmen amoug the Catholics on tho reservation condemn his course, sud the great body of the Indians bave taken no part in wod bave no sym- pathy with his defiant, rebellious, and unlawful procsedings. . \ A PRAYER, ©0,God! ‘s feeblo cuild, I ery thee, I cannol keep « Awake sllday:weary 1 lie: Hock me. ] pray, 10 sleep. How sweet such verfecl rest to take— ‘Ta know alj tol) were o'ery ¥or, whea God rocks W alesp, we wake Tastad farovesmore,