Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 19, 1878, Page 9

THE CIII(:'JAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 187¢—TWE PAGES,. LITERATUR. The Rev. O. B. Frothing= ham's Biography of Cerrit Smith, Gome Doouments Relating to Fed- eralism in New England from 1800 to 1816, The Visit of Lafagette's Son fo America in 1795-97—Gerrit Smith on * Woman's Rights.” o g Art"---The Order of Carthumans A Hurper Memorial---The Index Bociety. 'Ilemurtnble Contest Between. an Eaglo and a Ducke--Sponlancous Fis- sion In an Ancmone, LITERATURE. BIOGRAPIIY OF GERRIT SMITH. GEKRIT SMITIH, A Dioanarny. Ty Ocravita Tinuoks Frotaixauas. New York: G, P, Pnt- pam's Yons, Chicago: Jausen, McClurg & Co. 12mo., up. A81, P'rice, 82,45, 1n a small and retired village In Central New York, remoto from citics aml apart from the world's hizhways, thero las dwelt, durinz o greater part of the present century, a man nos- sessed of enormotts wealth, and of the distine- tlon walch opulenco united with enermetic, ahrewd, independent, awl crratic powers, van command,' 1lis life was prolonzed beyond the cextremo limit of three-scoro years and ten, and to the last its influenco was felt actively, and— vonslstent to fis Inconsistencles—Invariably on the side of humanity, in the aid of tho poor, the fecblc, and tho oppressed. When, in Decem- ber, 1874, Gerrit Bmith passed ' from the carth, there departed the greatest, It not the wlscat, philantbroplst our country has ever produced. Indeed, the world has not for centurles ecen bls equal in this respect. For the love he bore his fellow-mau, pure, unaelflsh, and Jasting, his namo must be bonored, g0 long as [t Is remembered, by all equitable and en- lightened persons. Gerrlt Smith wis o descendant of the ola Dutch burghers who gettled on the banks of the Hudson and the Mohawk. I}s mother belonged to the family of Livinzstones, and the nucestors of lis father, Peter Smith, had lived at Green- Lush for scveral generations, In his early carecr, Peter Smith was a partner of John Jacob Astor in the fur-trade, which was then chiefly conducted with the Indlans of Central New York. To be near the scene of his business-op- cratlons, Mr. Smith removed to the Valley of tho Mohawk, and ovencd a trader’s storsata locallty now situated in the City of Utfea. The vartoership with Mr. Astor was dissnlved, but Mr. 8mith continued his tramsactions with tho Indlons, and bocame through them the * owner of Immense arcas of land in diffcrent parts of the Btate. Iils pos- scaslons wero measured by the square mile, and made him by far the largest landholder in the Btate, if not tn the Unlon. Ile had tho repute of being hard, sharp, and _sclfish; and his cycs arc sald to have had n gleain of fierce wildness 11 them, 11is fourth child, Gerrit, was born at Utl March 8, 1797, Tho Loy, shuwing an,intellectual beut, was educated at” the ncnucm{ at Clinton, taking the higher course when that institution wus chartored as fHamiiton Colloge, and gradu- ating in 1818, at the ago of 21, In tha follow- ini year, Peter Smith” put into the hands of tuis, his sccond son, the whole of his personal and real estate, valued at about 8400,009, on coadition that “his debts, amounting to $76,000, ehould be patd, that he should have the inzomn of il%mt{.mnnd that haif of the remaiving sum, ar $100,000, shiould bo divided equally amon; tho children of his oldest son amd o bis asughter. Gernt Smitk had s talent for offnirs that matched his propension to philanthropy, and ha managed his pecunifary investinents of every sort fn tho hrifticst manner. Ho went on' adding to his Inrgze vroperty, and, despite the Immenee sums aunually eiven away, continued to erow fn ‘wenlthand prosperity. 1o kept np recard of his benefactions, but tho tide flowed ceascleasly, and carcied away, ft {s supposed, ntleast from £30,000 to ,bt)fl [ year, 'The dafly npolications which he received Tor charity ofte amounted to 810,000, and more thay otice went nbovo §100.000, It was his de- Yt to give. In carly llfe be often declared hie meant to die poor, while later it was bis remark that * God grives e moncy to give away." To mecet the endless demauds upon s charity, fo was hiscustom to have at hand checks for varjous amounts, requiring ouly tho anplicant’s nume. % No call of peeullar neceasity,” soys hits blographor, * eseaved his attention, and liis bounty was os dellcato as it was zenerovs,’ At the denth of Iis father, in 1837, ho vald tho eight children of hls Urother and sister their share of tho rmnert)‘, which had so {ncreased as to bo worth $100,000. ‘I'hfs nequitted him o, ol leal oblgation towerd them, yet, in 1360, Lis catate stlll accumulative, ho gave his nephows und nieces an additional §120,000, {n 1403 ho gave (hem a sceond §120,000, and In 1804 a turther gratuity of $80,000,—wmuking in all 320,000 abuve thy sum agreed upon, which ho uppurtioned to his father’s belrs from a volun- 1ary sentiment ot Justice, Ju 1519 young Gerrit was marrled to a daugh- ter of Do Buckus, lirst Preskdent of Ilamiiton College, lis wito «tled within scven miouths after thelr wedding-days and fn 1823 o was cupln warried, taking for bis partner Aun Car Tull Flizhugh, This unfon was o most happy 4me, fasting untfl tho death of Mr, Smith, ho belng survived only three ‘tmonths by his be. reaved widow, A féw weeks after the loss of his firat wifo, Mr. Smith wue [mt in posscssion of his father's estate, and of tho fauuly-man- slon at Peterboro, Madlson County, which con- tinued his home through hife, ‘Ilns dwelling, buitt "by bis father {n 1700 and altered fu 1855, was & square wouden structure, stanllog back from tho village-street, on a domajn ot sonio thirty seres, As the residencs of uman of conspletous name aud wealtlt, tho deseription of 1t has an unusual fatereat: A wile hall ran throuzn it from front to back, ) one sido was tho gencral parlor, out of which opened o small couservatory; on Lhe upposits sido was tho Hurary, & room of twenty feet siuare, uceupicd on two eldea with plain shiel contalning between 1,500 and 2, volun The dinfug-room nidjoiued the Hbrary ; the kitehe en was behitnd, ‘Phe brick ofllce where the busi- Bess was dune stunds a few yards distant from the huuse, ‘The slecping ucvommodation was abundant and etastic, A3 muny us 1wenty-two kucsts found shielter, on oceuslon, beveath the foof. Al the rooms were furnished with ex- treme simpliclty, ‘Thero were no wmrrors, no heavy drapes costly carpets, luxurlous Joun- s or chinfre, The hust would bave nothing too tmo for the humbiest visltor, Atfew cominon prats relicyed -the bareucss of the walls; two Or three tamlly portraits bt n tho moru pri- Yate rooms; an old Dutch cuttie-plech was the only uil-painting that all could sco, and that fow Would stop to took at, Tho stately portlo in frout ol the house -ufiuenml a grandeur which the {nterior, comfortably aud pleasant as it was, id not carry out, ‘The J)inca was a villazs by fuseit, Bome thirty buildings stood on the do- walu. The farm, warden, stables Hoyed a conslderablo fores of men iu severul apacitles, for the wetate was kevt fn excellent nyn:hnum though without ostentation,—tho de- %re to employ wormen belug quite as cou- $iraining on the proprictor as tho necessity for ving the work de i Fhe'door of uhis hospitable monsion was over 00t 1o the wayfarer and the -v.rnng,'u,rl,lna well L shiop, cin. Glllulhu uyited guest and fricod, o wile Shared the kiundly scutiments of the aud, l‘am" devolviug upon a Lousckeeper the admin- rutivn of the large estaollshment, herself :fwmplhhcd tho gentte mission of ditfusiog an Mitoaphera of sercuity through the ioterior, codven hias broke loossl wes tho joyous l;"},t"lhng with whicn her husband was wout to ieonie ber coming futo the breakiost-room. i 8, nevertheless, an onerous care which this : s;lmcxl Luspitality impased upon the women tlosbe family. “Cliey did not profess adiuira- lml: or partiality,” says Mr. Frothingham, * fur s tavernous mode of soclal lite, and would ey -Iwuall ubject to the master's practice of B¢ to lls library or oftice and leaviig to Metths catertafument of unbldden wuests. iles The Qluner-tadle often presented o uegt pbt. The bidding of the New Testa- wags o3 fulilled. The highwuys sud the by- 4 were represerited at the feaste High ond low, great and amall, wise and simple, black and white, Scnatora, politiclaas,. farmers, sat dawn tozether, 1 any objected to promisctinus assovlation, o sldetable was provided; but few went nto _exile. Bugs one who knew him well, ‘I havo scen cating at peace, at one Lime, at dinner. in bis housc,—all welcome guests,—an Irish Cath- olfc pricst, a Hickeite-Quakeress minlster, n Calvinistic Presbyterian Deacon of tho Jona- than-Edwards school, twa Abolition lecturcrs, a Brrunlh-l)ur Boptist, a shouting Methodist, a Whig Pro-Siavery Member of Coneress, a Dem- ocratie offictal of the * Sam-Young school,” a Southern ex-slaveholder, and a runaway siave, Lewls Washincton by name, also_his wife, one or more relatives, and * Aunt Betsy ' /Kelty, And ho managed them all. No onc” was nea- lected. He did the honors of hia table, earving bis meata like a gentleman bred and to the manner born: conversing with each in such a sweet way as Lo disarm nll_criticism, and mak- inz cvery one feel that, if ho coutd be no other than Wfineclf, he would rather be Gerrit Emith than any other lving man.! 1 ‘This gencrous boand, at which every visltor found a welcome place, was abundantly but Rlalnly spread, No wine ywas ever scen there, for fr. Sinfth wasone of the first and stanclieat sup- porlersol thetemperance-reform. Yet, to beono ot its guests, says Mr, Frothingham, * was a ‘plcasre to be long remembered, It was a practical Jesson In humanity that could be ad- nired by those who could not Imitate it.” Un onc oceasion it Is mentloned that thirty persons tock breakfast with Mr. Smnth, scventv or cighty sat down with him at dinner, over 100 at tea, and some lorty remalined over night, The nccasfon was an Anti-Slavery meeting n Peter. boro, of which Mr. Smith was one ol the lead- fuge spirits, ‘When, in 1852-'8, Mr, S8mith occupied for a term of seven monthsa eeat In Concrese, ha kept the smne open house in Wuahington. ‘I'wice n week hio eave o dinner, to which every member of the House washidden, Northerners and Southerners, slaveholders and Abaolition- {sts, Democrats and Whigs, dismissed theie animositics _wnile together under his _roof, * 11is fricndliness, and courtesy, and utaffected humanity, which knew no distinctlon of persons, drew all kinds to- him: his won- derful resources of conversation, his invarlabla pleasantry, his sincere respect for other men's opinfons, and his utter ircedom from dislike to peoplo of views entirely opposed to bis own, bis _unlform dignity, urbanity, and sweetnces, made his frequent citertaninonts pecubtarly at- tractive.' 1t lias been sald with much truth that the books a man reads aro Indices of his character, With this in view, it fs not an Idle tnactes Iearn the contentsuf Gerrit Smith's library. contafned,” says his biozrapher, ¢ about 1,500 volumes, of a miscellancous description,—no works of value, no raro cdition, no fainous conles, nothing that a lover of literature might be tempted to carry away. It was atrongest, though still not remarkadly strong, in dlgests, volunies of diplomutic correspondence, Btate reports, and that semt-professional literature 50 uacful to a pubile wan ! MNtcrature, in fts higheat sense, thero was littie vr none. Tho Greek and Latln classles were conspie- uously absent. An incomplete set of Bancroft’s United States, Motley's Dutch_Renublle, Irving’s Washington, Pres- cott’s Ferdinana and Isabella, comprised the better purtion of the history. Of blography, there was next to none, OI philosopny, natural or wetaphysical, there was nothing. “None of the great thinkers of the world—Ureek, Latin, Italan, Uerman, French, or Eoglish—were thero; not one, anclent or modern, original or translaged, ‘Chere were no essays, no treatises on tho construction of the humau mind or on soclal cthics. Saving two popular volumes by Darwin, thero was no science. A handsomely- bound set of Camubell's Britlah poets compre- hended all the poctry; and this, it may be ob- served by the way, was the ooly sumptuous- tooking work in tho collection, It was appar- ently a_gift-copy, and had not heen much en- Joyed. Thero was no drama, no fiction, no truvel, What was therel tho nstonished reader will ask, Thoro was religlous literoture in good atore} there wera scrmouns, hom.lies, commnen- taries, the works of Wesley, the works of the *pious John Newton, o It was n singularly- untutellectual lbrary, even for a small and miscellancous reador, who dealred only & superflelai acqualotance with books. ... Tiie books there wero cyinced no decfiled or distinctive taste, Thev were not sclected, but were evidently picked up; many were sent by authors and publishers, It wiis not tho library of o cultivated, educated, or deeply-thoughtful man,” Yet Gerrlt Bmith was nelther a shallow nor n superficial mao, He posscased a mind of cx- traordinary ncutencss and loree, but it was occit- pled with tho management of his extonded bual- nces allairs, with his philantnropic achemes, and with the political questions ol the day, Theso left uo room for tho study of Looks. Tho presainz business of an uctive lfe left his in- tellect busy, and vigilant, and keen, The news- apers wers naturally bis chlel sources of fn- rormnunn, and thesa were dafly and dlilizently read, His faculties played easlly, his thoughis flowed freo and fast, mwl 1o write or to speak roquired no effort, and was an exercise ln which ho delighted, At college he had been aistin- uished for hia oratorienl powers, stood high fn fiIs classcs, wasan_cathusiastic reader of good books, and had a fine appreviation of tho best things in literature. Mr. Binith valucd mohicy as o means of efleet~ Ing good, He was endowed with the ability to accumulato it, and enjoyed tho gilt and the usiug of it. In the languago of his blographer, beeause ho 8o prized the capabilitics o1 money, “*ho would place nono of it at the disposal of lns lower nature,~spent nothing on pleasire, noth- ing on amusement, next to nothing on dress, He bought no luxurncs, ornatuents, or trinkets; purchased neither pleturea nor bronzea; forbade uccdiess houschold-decorationss gave no holl- dav presentsd indulged bis |nml‘y Do expons sive duintics, 111s personal expenses were abe surdly small, even for a man ot moderate means,—not for the reason thut he was ascetic, but for the reason that money, in his opinfon, waa worth too much to be wasied on Irivolitics, or things that the rest corrupted and the moth devourcd. 1lis honse was large, for it answered the demands of bis hospitality. 1fs fabls was pountiful, as it must hive been to feed the peo- Elu wao came 1 fram the highways and byways ut thero was uever the least ostentation. v o 3+ Mr. Smith himsclf considercd wealth to an opporiunity, not 4 clog, and used to epcak ot it as the divinely-ap- polnted means of his _influence.”” Thera wos evigently no eraving s Mr, Emith's nature for tho presenco of beauty In his surroundiugs; there was not tho cstiictic enlture which de- inands tho refined delfichts affurded by oblects of art, by dajuty and elegant expressions of the ’mctlclenw; but thero was tho rurest and ottiest conformanco of his style of living aod micthods of expenditure with the principles of & Ropubilcan Government, with the prevepts of the religion of Chriat, and wilh rational, rigid commoi-sense, Wers his example of no benelit to hls countrvmen In othier respects, it 1s beyoud privo in this: that it teaches the rich aud tne poor, alike, huw to mamtaln fn- togrlty, independence, and fnflucuce, while avolding extravagance, ostentation, and emula- tlon,—the primoe causes of the moral curruption ond tho fluanclal distress that so gencrally afllict our land to-day, Of the effe.t of Mr, 8mith's system of lav- ish und cudless dispensatlon of charltles, there arc opposite opinfona. ‘Thers Is no question but many sorrows wero assuazed and niany aching héarts comlortod h{lhn diifusion ol bis bounty; nar, also, that, by the wholesale and often ‘unguarded man: froud, nnd idleness, und ill-duiue were fn o mul- titudo of coses encouraged, It was de lared by those who opposed his methods of philanthrony that his nepro colonles wusted away,—he had siven 120, acres ot land In Northern New ork to 00 tree eolored men, lopine tu fn- duco them with his atd to becomo industrious and Independent; * Wis runaway slaves camo to no good in Northern citica; he ruined s be. loved Peterboro by excessive indulgence somuch for the villagers that they me quite Inzapavle of doing anything tor themselves, His generosity dricd up tho sources of publle spirit, and wady men positively sordid, lle proposed to bulld aod end u\rnlmhllc Ibrary there, and the awners of desirable land-sites’ were all at once nlscrs, who held their pround at prices so exorbitant that tho schemo was shandoned. 110 voened a froe reading-room, awl the thirst for information, beinz untlelpated, was dis- courazed. tle offered to crect a fuuntain on the common, und the jealousy of the reasi- deuts, each of whom wanted it in front of his own tiouse, caused o bitterucss which thewaters of Bethesda could not cure. Ilo presented & towa-clock to the suthorities, and they grew at once so parsimonlous that he was requested to provide o man to wind it up. The commons nlllmxlwu dilapldated, and remained so, be- cause bo did not choose to repair it at his own expcuse, Tho brood of parasites increased on this branching cak. ‘Tramps, swindlers, cheats, multipticd. Liars sprauz up lke weeds. Bew- &ars {nieated tno county. His bouoty would in mnany cases, If not in ‘most, bave been ore wiscly bestowed on the devouring sea, which it could not polson, or it buried In the grouna, whero it would foroyer Je bid, Ths charity ha most congratulated b { on, the bounty to worthy widows aud old maids, throve e it provoked -u-nxypeoulu to provide better for thelr poor relations,”” 'This Jast char- ity was a £t of 850 1o each destitute aid mald and widow in the State. Alr, Frotbiogzham dues nut commit himsell to an opiulon upon Mr, Swmlth’s habit of bencvoleucs, but {s content to auote opposiug Judgments, nud leavo the reader to decide whicn Is the just one. + In hts youth, Mr. Bnith was strikingly hand- some in person, with frank, winnlug, unJ geoisl manners. Inhiis old age, he s raul to ha been “erander than ever in personal aspect, patriarchal in bearing and ook, courteous i demeanor. He brought to mind the Drures of the anctent worthier who were at the same time rmum and kinga,—the!r white beanits betoken- ng the diunity of the sacred oflled thele atal- wart forms suggesting tho sword nnd battle ax, His cyo was soft, his sxin rudds, his voice deep and Tinctuous. As he atood, listenine or talk- ing, he was & man mafestic and besutiful to Took upon, ; The political carcer of Mr. Bmith sublected him to much snd bitter consure, As n philan- thropist and reformey, his §leas necessarily led him away froni the rézular parties, and impeiled him to “take singnlar positions with regard to many of the acitating questions of Bla A discussion of his courss in public llie, w is famillar to all the wortd, Is purposcly omitte in this briel sketeh, which alms to trive inerely a few gllinpses into the character aml personal habits of & man whosa distinanishing tralt was Tove Tor his fellow-man. .-\lludng hns nirendy been mude to his attechment to R family, and the happiness tuat blessed hes domesti: rela- tious. With one plctare more of the swect s{munthy binding him to his belove:d wife, we close the fnsiructive volume porleaying a re- markable and attractive personage: * Hand in hand the two went through lite together, shar- ing, anad counsehing, and supnorting, Theunion was perfect. Both wero large of tiraln aml henrt. The wifa was the more poctical and deli- cate In mental atructire: bit she was cqually slinple and brave.—cqually carneat in her hu- manity and resolute n her devotion. Her In- terests and his corresponded In all respects, Thelr diffcrences wers as friendly and sweet as thelr sympothies. lier relizion; like his, was “ioterfor and practical; C hut, while his was the more practical, hers was the more Interior. Her intercst in Bpiritualism pleasantly teazed, but dil not vex him. “They sere, In trath, sl in nll to cach other, ‘They left hut two children, Greenc anid Elizabeth (Mre. C. D, Miller). Thelr grand- chilitren and_great-crandehildren wero presons to them as their own$ and the inemory of those that hed died In Intancy and childhood was so vivid as to keep them nlways near. Love ruled and blessed thelr hume.' NEW=-ENGLAND FEDERALISM. DOCUMENTS RELATING TO NEW-ENGLAND FEDERALISM: 18001815, Edited by Hrxny Avpaxs, Joston: Little, Iliown & Co. _Chicazo: .hlmmn. McClurg & Co. Bvo., pp. 437, Price, The excltement, which ran bigh at the begin- ning of this century, between the two political parties styled respectively the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, has long ago died away, and, deep buried under the nehes of extinct fires, its past existence Is scarvely known except to the curfous students of history In the present gen- eration, We, who wero nghast at tho late treason of the Bouth In attemoting to dissolve the Unlon, are many of us unasware that, a little over seventy years ago, an influentisl body of mien in New England, gufded by able leaders, considercil themeelves amply justified In_plot- ting tho severance of the Confederacy of States, and the formatlon of a new Natlon, to consist of New England, New Yerk, and perbaps Penn- sylvania, A history of this movement, or of Federal- ism in New England, waa Introduced futo the recent bingraphy of (icurge Cabot, one of the anmlnum. men conneeted with the party {n Inssachusctts, and a good deal of bitherto un- nublished matter referring to the subjoct was there brought to lght. The volume now beforo us-adds o considerable contribution to thess materials, which will bo exsinned with satisfae- tlon by readers who deslre to be famlliar with the viclssitudes through which the Amerlesn Republic passcd infus carly carcer, The hulk of the volumo s composed of the ** Revly to tho Appeal of tho Massachusetts Federaltsta' hy Jolin Quincy Adams,—a document withheld from print by politic considerations duringz the life-tlme of ita author. Extracts from the ne papers of 181323 and_from tas cor spundence of the leading Federalists of New Eneland, fill the remainder of the book. NOVELS, BESSIE IIARRINGTON'S VENTURE. By Juuia A. Matriuews, Author of *‘Jack Grangor's i Dorton: Roberts liros, Chicago: Cous!n, " etc, Janton, McClurg & Co. _10mu., np. 368. NO-NAME_BERIES. TIE WOLF AT THE DOOR. Boaston: Itoherts firos. 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Contentss ** Divine Rotrinution,” by Francts T Tatton; ** The Chareh and Clvil Law in Kcot- land and Amerlea,” oy Alexander Tavior Inness o Eastern Problem, ** by Danlel 8, llms’or{: Catholic Elements in Presbyterianiam,” by Moreta; ** Christlan I'heology in Its ind ¥ Ivo Atthiade,” by Ransom 1% Walch: ** tienuineness of the Pentateocn, by Willlam Ilenry Green: ** Evalutionlsm He- specting Man, andthe Dible." by John T. Duf- flelds ** Condittonn of Bucceneful Prayer," by William M. Tuylor: ** Contemporary Phlloronhy: Historicat," by James McCownh: ¢ Materlalism 1 the Paipit," by George P, Fisher: ** Cannla- try: Theological and Lewal," by Francls Whar- ton, PENN MONTULY for January (Penn Monthly Amsociation, Philadeinhin). Contents:~ **Tho Month,” **Tho Condition of Women ine Soathorn Rlava,* by Conntess d'Istrl Christianity on the Wane Among_Us1™ by Prof. Tiobert Ellla Thompeon: ¢ In Our Solar Syatemn Part of & Vortex Ring!” by W, L. Welle: * Do fe and Writinga;" +*Egypt as It 1n:" Quincey's ¥+ Naw Hooks 8T, NICHOLAS for February (Serlbner & Co., Now York). Among the tontributors to thin number are tha anthors of ** Chronicles of the Echoenberg.Cotta Family.” Loutea M. Alcott, Julla E, Bargont, Suran’ Coolidge, “Frank It. Btockton, and’ Willlam M. Tileston. There aro nbont forty filustetions. AMETICAN LAW REVIEW for January (Little, ‘0., lioaton). ALMANAC FOIt 1878 (Puck Publishing Company, New York), VICK'S ILLUSTRATED MONTILY for Jannary tiamen Vick, Tochester, N. Y.). ATHENEUM for danuaty (Suringfleld, 11,), Comspleta Preacher. toe Jannary (ftoligious News. papar Agency, New York). and M FAMILIAR TALK. LATAYETTE'S SON, While the Marquis do Lafayctto was an exile from France, and contlned by the Austrians n vrisoner at Olmutz, his son, George Washing- ton Lafayetto, fled for safety to the Unlted States, e reached our shores, landing {n Dos- ton, In August, 1505, iu company with his ac- complished tutor, M. Frestel. Gen. Georgzo Washington, then Presldent of the United States, was informed by Gen, Kuox of the ar- rlval of young Lafayette, the non of his old and dear friend and comrade-In-arms. Gen. Knox, addressing the Prestdent at Philadelphia, the then scat of Government, wroto as follows: *Tho son of Lafayetto fs here, accompanied by on amlable Frenclunan aa his tutor. Young Lafayette goes by the name of Motier, conceal- fug his real nawe lest some injury should arise to his mother, or to s young Mr. Russel of this town, now in France, who assisted in his c cupe. Your namesake (Georze Washington Li faycettc) is a lovely young man, of cxcellent morals and conduet,” The arrival of young Lafayette fn our coun- try hapvened ot ub unfavorable moment. when the relations between Franco and the United Btates were In 8o delleate o condition that Waslitugton was greatly emborrassod concern- fng the proper mode ol recelving one whose father rested under the displeasurs of his own Govermment, yet to whom thio Unlted States owed deep dubt of gratitude, The Presklent [ «d not to accord a public recoznition to ! ette, but tinmediately wrote to Mr, ticorge Cabut, of Boston, asking him to conler witn the youne nan and explain tho motives which constralned il tothis declston. * To expressall the sensibility,” sald the President, *¢ wiileh has been excited In my breast by the receiot of voung Lofuystto's Ictter, from” tho recollection of lis father’ rits, scrvlces, and sutforings, from my friendstup for him, und from my wisties L0 become a triend and father to bis son, in unticcessa Let me ina few words declars that I will bo's friend; but the manner of be- coming so, consldering the obnoxious light in which his father Is viewed by the French Gy crnment, aud my own_ situatiou ns Exccutive of the United States, requl mory thne to con- sider In allits relations tran 1 con hestow on it 8t present.’ Washlugton further desired Mr, Cabot to convey tu Lafayette unequivocal assurances of lus regard, to expluin that fv would bo better to deler n visit to Philadelpnia until the fecling wath bis presence In Ameriea mizht exeito had fubly declared jtsclf, and Snally 10 advise tho young man, who was' now but 10 years of age, to enter the college st Cambnded fu order to {mprove the passing time, so preclous in his vouth. in the conpletion of his education. Washinston also. desired Mr, Cuvot 1o draw upon hin for any amount that niht he necded to defray the cxnenses ol Lalayette aud bils tutor whllo {n thus couutry, Mr. Cabot lnrumpllg ncquitted himself of the duty fuiposed upon blm, caresutiy adheriug 1o all ‘the Presldent's dircetlons, ‘Tha revly to Washingzton, in which b vecounts the arcum- rhlm\'l of lls visic to Lafayctte, states os Jol- uws: The letler which you did mo tho honor Lo write on thy 7th waw reco ved Just ovenlug, when T e mudiatoly walted on the genticmen Who wera tho hject ol it They werd In 8 state of anz.ety ro- spectinga uew place of residenco, where they nnght ive ennoticed, Consnlerations of the kind which you Lave mentluned, und sowme othore, render this elieible for the pecsent: but 1t s foun, fmpracticable here, Already M. Motler1s known 10 foo piany persvns, ", .. 1t was ot Ihls moment of solicituda that I ar- rived 10 teatify 1o thom the bepignity of yoor in- watlons, o ., A couversationsuce which had for ite Object & reliof frous their present per- lexity with the least possiole deviation from: the vath you bad proposcd. Iu sdditlon 1o the wo- thea uleendy explaned for romoving farther from Cambridge, 1t was ureed that the studics now sctually pursuinz by M. Sotlee are entirely dif ferent Trom those prescated by any of wur Univer- shiles, aud that your deslrea, therefore, will ba beet accomplished by w coutinuunce in Lis prescut coarse under 3. Frestel. 1t was admitted, how- ever, that other aidy would be requisitc L those branches of educatlon wlich M. Freetel docs not With s view to thess, aud to combine then - mbstincuce from soclety, it ls thought scck 8 position mear soww " principal town, wheto il the desiderata cau be found, No determlnation was forwed, and we parted to redect mure va tho sicp nd {o examine if there were aay sitas ation fu tlui quartee which would corceapond with o [ 10 go' Nuw York fu the Fridav's stage, where they expect to be ‘accommodated bu s country-Louss which (s in the posscsuiun of thelr fricud, M. Lacolumbe, sad with whom they remaln in’retirement until you shall direct othérwlse. —Sept. 10, Nov. 23, the President addreased a letter to young Lafavette, in which he expresscs his Woruy iutereat u the welfare of the son of hls ol triend, but still urge aerving the fncounito w now retained, On 1 ¢ of the follo tnz Mar-th, the President agaln wrote to Li favette, Inviting blm to repair to Pailadelpnia wth M. Frestel, and become a guestin his house, Inctosed In this ecommuunication were the follow. ing remobution and order passed in the Iouse of Revresentutives, March 13, 173 Information havinz hsen glven fo this Homse tuat & #on af Gen, Lafayetto 14 now within the United States: rieeolrad, That 8 Committer he anpointed to tn. qmre Into the (rath of sanl inforniation. and re. purt therea, and what ineaentes it swould he Jroprizty of pr Motier ind u propee to tke, if the snme be troe, fo evince the gratefnl enes entestained by this country for the nervices of the father, Mr. Livinzaton, the Chalrman of the Com- mittee appuinted in accondance with the above resolutton, Informed younz Lafayette of the netinn of the Ilouse of Tlenresentatiyes, and ad- vizedl him to appear fmmnodiately i Phila delphia, and place bimsclf imder the protection and within reach of the gratitnde of that body. From thls time the” younz exite, with hls tutor, wan an {ninate of the household of Gen, Washington while he retnained in Amerlen, Having learned that his Inther was released frum captivity, an:d azaia In Pars, Lafayetteand M. Frestel eatled from New York for France the 23th of Uetobey, 15 It was the testimony uf Washingion, borne to the father of George W. Lalayette, that * lis conduct, aince he firat. ect his foot on _American grround, haa been ex- wmpiary {n every point of view, such as lias wained him the esteem, affection, and conti- dence of all who bave had the pleasuro of hls acyualntaoce.’” GERRIT SMITH AND *IWOMAN'S RIGI'TS.” Tt might reasonably be supposed that a man who, like Gerrit Smith, advocated, with all the means In his power, every measure that prom- Jscd to amnctiorate the condition of humanity, who Iabored with untiring zeal in the canse of temperance, of Ahotltion, and of every scheme appealing to chivalry and philanthiropy, would have espoused with carnestness the movement having tor {ts chief alm the edimlission of women to the full rights of citizens, IHe was, Indeed, futcrested In the agitation of the subject; but he discerned, with a keen, uncrring eye, the weakness in the arguments mainly relicd upon for the support of the enterprise, and the fatal mistakes in the management of the causc by Lhe parties most concerned In It. Ho believed in the equality of the scxes, In the rizht of woman to the privileges of cducatton, and of cmployment In any field of work for which her qualifications fitted her; but it was his con- vietlon that the first step to be taken towards hiet cmancipation - from the dlsabilities fettering her should be the institutfon of a re- form fn dress. Untii this should be done, he was firm {n the opinfon that all efforts for (n- creasing the efliclency of women must fail of their full accomplishinent. He dirceted tho argument agalust women, *that they were wantine in respect for thelr own dignity, werecreatures of fashion, stothful, capriclous, valn of the siiken chalns dl(‘)’ wore, Their passion for dress, their persistcuey in wearing o aress that condemned them to a life of disptay, made them slow nnd fnactive, ine Jured their physical nealth, and dootned thein 1o sedentary occupatfvus, was, in hils judgment, at the root of the whole evil compiained of.* In repiy to an m‘ulm put to him by Mrs, Ellzabeth’ Cady Stanton, for the reason of his Jack of falth {n the woman's novetnent, he gavy a reply which has, with soms error, 50 much sound sense In ft that it s worth serionsly meditoting: 1t {suot o the proper hande,’™ he sald; * the proper hauds arenot to be found. The present are, althoueh {n advance of auy former age, Is, neverthelees, very far from belnix suflletently under the sway of reason to take up tho cause of wownan and carry §¢ furward Lo sue- cess. Only lot womun attre her person fitly for the whole bettle of Jle,—~that creat anil often rough battle, which she is as much bound to fight us man is,—aud the common-sense ex- pressed in the changs will put to flight all the nonsensleal fancies about bier inferlority to man, No more will then be hieard of ler belng made of e finer maternl than man is innde ofs and, on tho contrars, na more will then be heard of her ‘belng but the complement of man, and of ita tokine both & man andn woman (Lhe woman, of course, but a small part of it) to make uv s unit. No more will it then be sald that there is eox in nind—an wriginat sexunl difference in intelloct. What n plty that 80 1nany of vur hoblest women make this fool- iali ndnisslon! It is made by the great majori- ty of wotnen who plead the cnuse of wonian,' “Tam annoyed that the fntelligent woinen engaged in the * Womnn's Rights movement* sa not the relation between their divss und the opprussive evils which they are striving to throw off. I am smazed that they do not sco that their dress {s indispensablo to keep in countenonce tho policy ana purposcs ‘out nf which those evlls grow, 1 hazard nothinz in saving that the relation between the dress and the degradation of our American. women s .as vital as between the uses of the Inmate of tho harewm and theappareland tralning provided for her” “\Women are holding thelr meetings; and with great ability do they urze thelr clafina to the rihts of property and suifrace. But, as fn the case of the colored man the great needed change Is u himself, so also fn the casoof wowman the great needed change Is 1n herself, [ what -comparative avall b her exercise of the right of suflrage if she [s still to remain the victim of her present false notions of hers sell nml of ber relations to the other sex i’ honext *Womnn'a Richts Convention’ will, T take it for granted, differ but little from its predecessors, It will abound in richteous de- matuls and noble sentiments, but not in the evidonee that they whoenunciate these demands. and sentiments are prepared to put themselves In hurmony with what they coneeive and de- mand, Inu word, for the luck of such preparae tion, and of the deep earnestness which alone can promnt to the nreparation, it will be, a8 hos been very other *Woman's Rights Convention,® a fallure.” HTJART,” Tha fourth and coucluding volume of L'Art for 1577 equols fn futercst and attractiveness any of its predecessors, It |a enriched with beautiful etebings, .woodscuts, and hellograv- ures, ond with valuable papers upon the art of the past centuries and of the present age. Conspleuous smongz these last s o scries of four Jectures delivered by M, Georges Berger, ot the Natlonal School of Fine Arts, upon Nicolas PPaussin, whom Mr, Ruskin calls **the great master of elevated fdeal landseape,” aud whom, Her{.:er properly places at the head of the French school of” painting, Foussin was born In Normandy near the closo of tho six. teenth century, and died at lome fn 1065, at theare of 71.° Nut, says Berger, * He owed nothing to the Ttalian art of Lis day, althourh b passed his life tn Italy,” Iis works wire concelved and exeeutod fu the severu sivle ot the cluesle paluters, and were characterized by & noble truthfuiness, purchiased. It must bo sald, ata {oss of freedom and ingenuousuess. number of reproductions in black aud white of his fmportant works are usca in illustration of the lectures, Nut the least futeresting of these 18 the portralt of Poussio executed by himself, A eseauy upon ceramic biblfography, by Champflcury, tho librarlan of the Sevres Mu- seumn, deserves particular mentfon; ss do u couple of articles, upon the Treasure of the Royul House of Austria, snd the Royal Muscum of Avmory at Vieuna, by T, Chasvel. 'These, Wke the six articles upon the Provinelal Mu. scuins In Franee, ure protusely snd clegantly f}- lustrated, The biozraphical “sketchos of B venute Cellind, Fra Fllll]::m Lippl, Jacqucs C: Tot, and 'uilip Koulnek, with deseriptive ac- vouuts of the Drawings of Iubens in the Brit- ish Muscum, the French Engraviugs of ilio | th entur‘y, the Druwings ot Eugene fu, the Cullection ol Errars, the Origin ‘aienee of Delit, und o coutinued list tuo to cuumerale, eive awple scops for the 1 as an abettor ot the pen, Of _tho many etehings in the volume, scveral may ba speciled us of striking excellence. The onu_etched by Gaujean after Henner's pieture of Buxanuah at tho Lath, now Iy the Luxel bourgz Museun, s cxaubsitely beautiful, The whole work is unusunlly clear, yet soft ang detleate as a fine pencliing, The ahmost micro- seople lines modeling the figurs of Busannah give it the supple grace and clustle movement of tife. Waltner's ctehing after the Portralt of a Young lady by Faul Dubols, 13 lkewise o suporh spechinen ot this deligutful branch of art. There Is u study for days ot rich reward i the collection of srtistic and lierary treasurce brought tozethier fn this admiruble “periadical, 1t is imported for American subscribers by J. W. Bouton, New York. e — CANTIHUBIANS, A Carthnsian wmonastery is bolug erccted in the viclaity of London, the buildings compris- log which will cover uiuc acres. According to thelaws of this sclicious order, cach monk dwells by himsclf, aud 13 coinpelled w keep per- petual silence. To mitigats somewhat the scverity of these rigurous rules, be is atlowed three roows of moderato siae, which sowmctimes forw sn fndividual house, and a emall garden, which ho fs atllberty tocultivate, Tho Carthuslan onder of mouks was fuounded by 88, Bruuo, fu 1008, ‘This devotee, in company with slx plous fricnds, sceluded himaelt frum the world fn w desert place near Chartrense, In the Diocese of {irenoble, France. From the name of Char- treuse, the Latin of which Is Cartusium, the onler which he founded took frs title. St. Brimo amd his companions dweit In separate cells, sccing; ane another only onSundavs, Thev Wwore coarse garments, and subsisted wholly un vesetables aud bread. The rutes of the urder wre written out fn 1134, _};{ Guigo, the fAfth Prior of La_Chartreuse, 2 _Pope expressed his approral of the order In 1170, and from that date It increased rapldlv., In 115031 the Car- thuatana appeared ln England, and the name of their monasteries was then corrupted from Chartreuse-houses to Charter-houses. Anorder of Carthusian nuns was eatablished in France in but the law of silence, being regarded ay oppressive o women Lhat men, was not o tizorously nsisted upon as ju the case of the MUnKs, s ART-GOSSIP, The fund accumulating for tle ercction of a statne to Borns ot Kilmarnock has reached £2,000. A number of competing models have been sent n to the Committee having the mat- terin hand. M. Viollet-le-Due, the distinguished French author and architect, has Juct publisiied a work on Russlan Art. It s divided Into two parts, swhich cansider respectively the past and the fu- turcof art in Hassia, The bovk i adorped with ninety-seven wooid-cuts Interspersed thronzh the test, and fourteen copner-plate en- gravines and eizhteen chromo lithozraphs, ‘These ure sald to be very falthful copies of the pletures which they reproduce. “There §s an encauracing rumor sfloat, te the effect thas the artists of New York ore exbibit. ing, o the works eneaging their attention thils winter, a more declded pational spirit than ever before. In many ot their pictires, old Distorieal buildinze, and vountry-streets which have o Jo-ud character and trudition, are brought Into prominence, In u word, aithongh there artists have studied abroad and aequlred a forelzn style of teeatment, they are cndeavorlng to portr: distinetively Amcerlcan subjects In a iwanne harmonizing with thelr pecultur gentus and ex- pression. The Exhibitlon of the Amerlcan Art Arsacta- tlun, to be held {n March, fn the Kurtz Gallery, New York, promises to be u eratlising suceess, More than 14 pictures and marbles lave been enzaved [fromn artists in Europe, amonz whom ore entimerated Dureneck, Chase, Welshi, Dyer, and otber Amerlean students fn Munich, and Bridmman, Baco (Gawiens, and Volk, Amerl- can students in Varis, ~ The Assoctatlon enrolls nnlul\}{'ll! meinbers Walter Shirlaw, President; 8t. Gaudens, Vice-President; Wyatt Eaton, Seeretary: L. C, “litTany, Treasurer; and It Swain Gliford, Welr, Colinan, Homer Martin, La Farze, W, Sartain, Lathrop, ‘I, Moran, Warner, and Mrs, L. D. Glider. —— 'PITE INDEX SOCIETY. The Congress of Lilrariaus, which met ot London last October, has led to the formatlon In that city of an assoclation calling ftself the Index Soclety, Its objects arc: 1, to furm in- dexus to stundard works now without them, and to enlarze und re-edit Indexes alread, made; 2, to complie subject fndexes of sclen: lizerature, und art: 8, to secumulate materials fora general reference index. Already above seventy zentlemen have beecome members of the Soclety, and o general efrcular, or pros. cctus, Has been {ssued. Toe subaweiption wiil he one puinca per year, and the publications given for tue first yesr will probably be s Trom tne following: Tmlex to Kvinble! uns in England”: Index to Falgravy I elieh Commonwealth '3 Index to the Perey So- (‘(efi"s Pubit-ations; Index of Paiuted Portrast: of Uritieh Wortlies; Iudex of British Existing, Dortnant, and Extiuct Titles of Honor; tand- List of Political Economy; un ludex of the County Histuries. It fs hioped that this Soclety will forim a centre for hterary Inguiry, from which subscribers can soliet informatton by post or by personat access. A fall repore will Lo published anuually. By icans ol some tine form systemn of Indexing, on which olf persuns cngaged In thy worg ean azree, 1L s honed that A marked fmprovemeat in the composition of indexes will resutt, and thus une lunurtant alin of the Soclety be uccomplished, A MEMORIAL, The Marper Brothers have fitted up the pri- vato office of the tirm fn tne Duteh style, usn memorial of the muther of the founders of the house, who was of Dutch descent. The rvom 13 finisted and decorated after plans furnished by Mr. J. Cleveland Cady. No expensc hns heen sonred in completiug the scheme; the work las been throuzhont honestly doue, {n the spirit of true art, and the effect §s execedingly rich, yet ¢haste. The windows are of stalued irlass; the timbers of the celing and the wainscoting, of solid mihozany: the upper part of the walls 18 finislicd witn oak pancls contaiug o series of naintings: the mantel-pleco §s o black marole, and ail the furniture of solid mahozany. ** Thy whole room is the quaintest of the quaint,' says the American Arehitect and Buildiag Ners, =*u pluce to hnier fn. - New oddlties conrtant- Iv strike the cye; while the friezo of palntings besuch artiste an Frederlcks, Ahbey, Nust, Homer, Reinbiart, Parsons, cte., aro worth aspes clal visit, To the Harpers the reom s tull of family sugzestionss and, in occupving it, they may {airlv bosatd telive in the very presenve, of their sturdy utcestry,' CAMERICAN ARCIITECT.* Messrs. Osgood & Co. fasue a prosoectus for the third year of the dwmerican Architeet and Bullding Nees, in which attention is called to the departinents of Sanltary Seience und Dee- orative Art, which f2 (s the purposo to make of distiugulshiug lmpartance. Matters pertaining to teetnieal eduvation in architecture and con- struction witl as hervwoiore bu o prominent leatare of the beriodical. A series of yapers on perspeetive will be bewun early I the current year. Euch number contains two double pae of desizus for buildings, public works, uud houschold art-decoration, TIE CHAMPNEYS, Mr. J. W. Champney, tha artist, and his wife, tha well-known suthor of * In the Sky-Garden," and *All Around a Palette.” will In February teave thedr home In Decrfleld, Mass,, for u visit to Drazil, Mrs, Cliampney will wilte fron there a svrics of artleles for Serdner's Lonthly, wlich her husband will ilfustrat INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The Legislative Assembly of Australla have given their support to the project for an Inter- l‘l;_l‘l’unnl Exhibition to be held st Melbourne In V. SPARKES OF SCIENCE. PAGLYE V. DUCK, An exciting contest between an eazle and a duck,] with the life of the latter ns the tremen- dons atake, Is deseribed by a - writer tn Forest and Strewm, The duck, o Dlue-bill, kad been winged by the wnter, snd dronpeit fnto the waters of a lake over which it was pusstuze, As the sportsmau was about to firea sccond timo upon his wouuded viethm, a maznificent bald eugle rughed upon the scene, and, with a bold, wwife duscent, alned to capture the flosting bird. The duck was tooquick for this new encmy, and vanishod likos flash bencath the vell of waterd, This was the openfng actina battlo between the two birds that way watehed by the writer with the deupest fnterest for an hour amt o half, Itis usual, savsthe narrator, for awinged duck to preserve ltself from capture by the bunter sittiug in o bout, by divtug, and, after a considerable tlme, cominz to view ut somudistauce from tho spot wheueg it disap- peared,—often rislie fn the rear of the boat, under Which iU bas passed whilo ot o depth in tho water, But, in the prescot case, the hunted creature came to the surfave every tinie exuctly ab the volnt from which 1t dove out of sizht, Ine stinet sévined to teach it that this was the ong absolutely sifu spot, sluce the cazie must bo varrled by L in hls rapid course, sdmitting of ne pause ub the point where ho planned to selze s preve ‘Mo sooner bad the esvle darted over tho spot,” says the observer, *than the dueis world reappear dn alnost the exact lo- cality, Nor was the sazuc \'ulbrluvml by tho cagle avy the less futercstl e sdopted p great vanetyof L hids, and pursucd thom with unilagszling zeal. A tumcs hie would placo hlmscit su e surfuce that bis ereat outstretehel wings woald alinost dip the water, and, wovine slowly, notselessly, and stealthily wlong, orecise acat, would try tu steal upon his prev. When he thought hs hadt ap- proached os near us could fu tlis way, be would dart like a flash, with bls urcat claws dis- fgim. Then, azain, he would placs htmseld i the zenith of tho wid fall, rather than -dari, but sthl with aston- lstung ceterity, Somethmes he would Uy hst- lessly shout, a8 18 ho lau given up the chase, and as much as 1o eay be dud not cure much for duck any how. Theusuddenly trom thls Hatless mood e would bound with cleolrlc sapldity. Then he woutd make a successlon of durts, ono followinz the other with the greatest ce- lerity, whecling und boundiug ™ as #{ he tended to reizo his perehing himself upon a neighboring tree sat periectly motlonless. Bupposing he ha given up In despair, we resumed our aport, But scarcely halwe hegun, when the saime ‘whir! Alied our ears nsat the first, and the contest was renewed with ten-fold vigor. He wsed luas stratesy now, hut more bull-dog pertinacity. He secined to have determined to'*fight It out on that line I It took all summer.'* The ik had grown botd by the success of its defensive strateay, and now beeamo actunlly reckless, walting untll the eagle had his claws nearly upon it hefore diving out of sight. At Jast, ‘it walted just one instant too fongs the cazle stuck his sharp talons {nto its back, and bure it off {n trivmoh, SIPONTANEOUS FISSION. A writer In Iardwicke's Science-Gosstp has been to fortunate ns to witness twice withie scven weeks the phenomenon of spontaneout fission exhibited by an anemone. The specimen. 8 Sacartia sphyrodeta, had been preserved fo an aqualum for nearly a twelvemonth, during which 1t had erown and thriven satisfactorily. “Previourly to Its first divislon, says the ob- terver, 1 had noticed for severat davs that the bass hind lieen growing more oval in outline; and, to my surprise, on the morning of Sept. 10, T tound it divided lato two, right ncross the centre, The severance was not quite cumplete when I first discovered it hut became a0 tn the course of acouple of hours; the two portions drageing themsclves away from cach other, until they were about half an loch apart. The severcd elges of each zradually closed together, 4 suture was forined, ani in the course of a few days 1 had two perfect anemoncs. " Buth of these throve well, putting forth ten- drils and increasing In size. Presently ths larzer of the twn, and probably the parent anemone, agaly clongated fta hasé preparatory toa sccomd fiasion. . This process once begun, * the base anpeared to separate into two lobes, which gradually dragged away from each other, maging orent woich extended upwards, till only the mouth formed a connection between the two. This eventually pave way, and tha tisslon was complete,~the whole performance oceupying about flve or eix hours. A few acon- tia were thrown out, but these wero soon withe drawn, and the healing process commenced. ‘Two davs later I was teeding my stock, and of- fered food to thetwo halves, both of which’ reized it greedily, but soon expelled ft through the purtially-healed rents fn their columns.” ARCTIC RELICS, In the autumn of 1596, Willem Barentz, & Dutch navigator of conslderablc emlnence, made a gojourn on the Island of Novaya Zemloya, and bullt 8 house for the accommodation of himsclf and party, ‘I'hls house has lately been scovered, atd ita contents, iter the lapse of 1y S0 years, were found 10 be fo a perfect stale of preecrvation. A clock atill atood on the wall; and seamen's clicsts, halberds, ana tnuskets, with varlous Instruments for raviga- tion, were ranged about the habitation. "A flute, a quill pen. and candles in zood condition, were amongz the ortieles recovered. An An- rterdany flug, the first European standard that ever passed a winter in the Arctte reglons, was Iikewise tu the lot, ud a historical scroll signed by Barentz, and hune in the cbimney when he leit the Islnud, ‘These relles have been pre- sented to the Duteh Govermnent by the English fimlcmen into whuse posscssion they had allcn BRIEF NOTES. Ona of the rarest of American ferns, the Botrychuim lunaria, has been found near Syra- cuse, No Y. 5 Mr. F. G. Waterhouee, Curatorof theMuscum of the South Australfan Institute at Adelalde, will send to the t'arls Expusition of 1573 a col- lection of specimens of toe natural history of Australin, and slso of native weapons auidtlme- plemnents, A splendld specimen of the Pappenheim Archreopteryx, o reptlle-toothed bird, wos found o few months nxo of Solenboten, 1t was ut flrst offered for atout £6,000 to the Munleh Museum, whien faled to purchase the fossll, The price then went up to $M00, which was pald to zecure it for a Frankfort collection, It 18 o well-known fact. that the stamens of the Purtulaevn, one of the gayest of our garden- fluwers, arc sensiiive, moving upward at the toucl, It has recently been observed that the Mauens of the common Parslanc, a member ot the zenus Portulacea, possesscs the same sensl- tivences. In this they resemble the flowers of the Opuutia, or Prickiy-Pear, a cactus ol which ot specles grows wild in our viclnit, From threo to foar tons of Watcreresees (Nas- turtlum_oflicinalis) are sold m London cvery week, The plant was firat cultivated In Enropa at Erfurth, atout the middic ot tho slxtecuth centary; but it was not until_the beeinuing of the present century that its cultitre commenced in England, Several specles of the Crucliers,ta which fu cress belongs, were uscd by the Greek Ateress and learn more wit,"” was a popular Greek proverb. Prof. Edward 8. Morso passed through Chi- cogo, Wednienday, the 18th, un the wavto noints fu'the West where he fs engaged to deliver his popular lectures on Naturul Sclence. e wlil return to Toklo, Jupan, the 1st of March, taking Tifs fawily with b, Prof. Morse bue engaged 1o {1l the Chuir of Natura) History in the Uni- versity of Tokio for a term of two years, bein. ning in July, 1577, He speaks with the utmoss enthusiasui of the futellizence and politeness of the Japanese, and rejolees, for personul as weil as stientifie reasons, that his lot is cast for o thme among so futercsting und wnloble & people, NIGHT. ‘The ann has aet, the day {s gone, And Niztt nscends herebo Wr; ¢4 in hier atarebespas Khe fitles snpreme o'cr hal Tnruttied lie the glasy scas, And solily sluh tno dark'ntug trees, While In ihe dark-blue East tho moon Yeeps o'cr the hills at deep'ning glovm. Calny, starry Night! sweet time of Thy silunt refen tv loved and ble Bright moon and stars their vi While Earth below les hushed While, cool and fragrant, gentle pales Hreathe throneh the quiet groves and vales, Aud, in the clovered meudows falr, ot tukllugs 1l the dew-fresh alr, O, pure aud lioly Is the mood Tnsinred by Kvenine's solitude, W hien ail the vust empyreal dome, With myriad ploncts uvecatrevn, Inupires an awe no'ur folt beforet You kneel, you worship and adore: Yeu sce the great Creator's nanie Embvlazoncd high in jets of fama, 0 GoAl yon oright, celestial chart Pruclzims how great and good Thou art, Enchatara wurldt At fills iy woul; Methinks § hear thera as they roll, As they their mighty elrcults run, Hevolving "round Lh niral sun, Aw countless &y the xea-shor sands, Yet all crcated by Thy hands. Mere, In tho still anr sotemn Nignt, Leneath the glorics of Thy might, 1 st sud view with longing cyes ‘The wondrous clockwurk in the skles, Conmsting of the myrad spher In wotion far unreckonod years— Thy Will Omunipotent the Key ‘That wound the vast machinery, 0 lives thers 'ncoth yon vast exps ne One who aflirma all came by chunce Who svos tiie lower-enamelod And vet insists there fs no Uod h wer Diving; Who, seeinz. hearing, can exist A pour, deludod Athuiet? : Yes, all, in vea, n sky, on land Beats impreas of o Maker's hand; All governed by Il graclous 1awd, Kach atom cu the tilorfuns Caual pon the grassy sward, 1 humoly siug Thy praise, O Lord, bioux " BRUBAKER. ——— A Parrot's Practical Joke, Tn his uow volume o the voyage of the Chale Jeuger, Bir C. Wyvllle Thowsou relates an in deut which may be cited ta proot that suim; are ot destitute of the scns: of humo veesel stopped at whe port of Balila, Brazll, and sumu of thu voyagers went to Ssuto Amaro, a town about twenty miles distant. ‘Thero u new luu of trmnway had receutly been laid, with o aparp incline to a steamboat wharl, Dr. Thome. sou's party arrlved iu scason to take the trial tripon the new tramway, As the truck that casricd thyg party went down tho inclluo tha ayouized tries of a chilld, followed bylow woans, werg lltml:lpt\lruutly frow bencath the wheels, Instautly the brake was apolicd, snd the truck stopped with o sudden ferk. The scicntitle party Jwuped out aud looked arouud and under tha truck {u vaiv. A lot of swarthy native chiidren stood ucar the rulls, looking™ on vaguely sud curlously, but uot us It anythlog had happeued to any of thelr nuwber. \When the passengers, wystied, returned to their seats, a parrot, hanging (n 8 cage on the truck, burst out luto a loud, wucking laugh, and was at once recog~ us the performerin the previous screamlog aud uvsuisg, Althuugh Dr. ‘Ihowson s not fawillar with Bablsu patols, be {s convinced that tho observations thercupon sed by the truck-driver to the parrot included svme vigues wus lapguage.