Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 24, 1878, Page 9

THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. AUGUST 24, 1878—-TWELVE PAGE has already been 4 and though it does not distinctly refer Bunyan's depression to that source, it Imoiles that tho conncction between them wos close, Mr, Nouree, at varlous con- venlent places, raps the scieotific doubters with a fervor that, {18 to bo_haped, they will appre- clate and profit by. (Springsield, IH.: H. Rokker.) - LITERATURE. Mr. Emerson’s New Essay, “The Fortune of the Republic.” IIORSEBACK-RIDING. The bencfits of horseback-riding have boen overrnted, as all panaceas have been. It Provi- dence Intended that all dfscases should b enred by one remedy, Ilo would not have provided such n multipiicity of doctors and drug-shops. In certain kinds of diseascs horseback-riding 1s “Plain Lectures on the Pil- grim’s Progress” by a ingficld Pastor, the worst meticine that can be taken. Peraons Sp!‘ g o £ predisposed to kidney troubles mizht botter in- duige In any other form of exerclse, and women £ . It 7! & are sometlmes seriously injured by Imprudent Dur aut’s ‘ Horsehack mdmg exercisc of this description, We have no synipa- from n Medical Point of View.” thy, on this account, with those writera who aro forever recommending horseback-riding as the specific for overy complalnt. For the well, all things may be sale; but for the ill, generally speaking, everything that fs violent is danger- ous. It becomes no one lu the latter circum- stances to buy a horseand o to trotting, but to consult a physicdlan and hear what Le bas to pocms of Places---The Riverside Edition of British Poetge-- " A Heart Twice Won."” adyise. Dr, Ghislani Durant has recently written a little treatise on ' Horschack, Itiding from a Medical Point. of View,! the fault of which is excessive enthuatasin, The writer ovidently be- lieves horachack-riding to_he the best thera- peutle agency known; he distinetly recommends it for plethora, auwemia, chlorosls, cachexia, scrofuln, rachitis, syplullis, dlubetes, obesity, intermittent feyer, hypochondrinsis, muscuiar debility, chorea, pthists, asthina, dyspepsia, and constipation. In the treatment of some of the troubies mentlaned, horscoack-riding would un- questionably be uselu, but in thet of others it would be a doubllul remedy, Its therapeutic propertices, in some cases, are 80 {ll-defined that a statement of them in a treatise Intended for popular reading s unsafe and misleading. The hyglente advantages of horscbuck-riding are, on the other hand, aluiost universally ad- mitted. At this polnt wears in complete ac- cord with Dr. Durant, There fs no form of cx- crclse which combines more exactly the quali- ties which all good exerclge stouk! posscss, namely, au abundance of fresh alr, lelsure, leastire in the sct, und refreshment alterward. t 1s, morcoyer, » manly exercise, Involving as- socintlon with the noblest of animials, and in- struction in an art which the greatest warriors have practied. ‘The pnssion for hurses 1s une of the inost rational and casleat understood of all those which man folls into; and we arc only vindicating, not nttacking It, when we tako ft out of the degrading company with health-lifts and patent tonics into which Dr, Durant has in- troduced it. AL the same timoe wo can pac- Elliott Coues on the Euiopean Sparrow in America==Sparks of Science, LITERATURE. TORTUNE OF THE REPURLIC, A new eseav from the pen of Mr. Emerson is po longer such an event as it once was, but it s il au cvent. lie han much to say that the worlidesires to hear. 1fe haslost In manner and tlzar of expression, hut galned new fukiings of T'rovidence, Fate, and Morulity, It has always Iwen n question whether his cesays possessed distinet literary form. Much that be has writ- {en hias been as foreible when the sentences of » paragraph have been roversed as when they Jave been vermitted to remain in the order he Jeit them In. The common and vulgar pubtic tov often found **his words a theorems and his fhioughts o problem.” ‘They knew that he thought deepiy and honestly, but they could never be sure that he had expressed precisely oll that he thought, or that they understood shat he had expressed. Tho parts of his | dun wmuch to enthusiasm, and in view essays wero fragmeotary, and the con- | of the oo that fs n the book aecept the bad hectlon | between then liientt to | o the donbtful. ‘The chapters on tho Meehan- vomt out. This disconnectedness has Iatn i the Paselulogieal Elfests of Horsebait. ity and the spoendix on the Orlgin and grown of lute, It 13 particularlyapparent In Iis | Progress of Hourse-Racea are new and valuavle, new casay, lately delivered asa lecture for the benefit of the O1d South Church, aud entitled “The Fortune of the Republic.” No one can tell nfter reading 1t what the Fortuncof the Republicfs to be, or how it iato be sccom- plished. We know genorally that It {sto be good; that Mr. Emereon fs an optimist, and has great fulth fu the instinets and lopulses of the people. We know, atso, that he places more Inplicit confidencs In the midavce of *tho lireat Admiral? than he used to doj o fact, he bas beeowe of lute years something of a senti- mentalist. But beyond those geucralities wo sre ut a dead loss to say what the Fortune of the Republic is likely to be. Mr, Emerson s still a master of epigram and npothegm, ‘It i#a rule that holds In cconotny as well as in hy- traulics,” he savs, ‘‘that you must have wsource higher (han your tap.” This means that the practical and lower must Lo drawn from the theoretical and higher; the common- est fron the rarest; the simplest frum the most complex; the conditloned from_ the uncondi- tlonet. "There s a scuse in which tals fs true, just as it {s truc, in the opposite sensc, that o natural onler of progression Is from rudimeats to prineiples, and frow facts to classiflcations of tnem. Mr, Finerson {llustrales bis view of the nuvnlml richly and beautifully. Again, we nd bim putting some old truth in strange and attractive culors, us when ho says that **Kevo- tlons beat all innnrgunu," and that *Our natfonal flag §s not affecting as it should Le, becanse It does not represent the popu- latton ot the United Szates, but somo Haltle more, or Chieago, or Clucinnatl, or Philadel- phla caucus,” e deplores, further, the fact it **Auterien 18 provinclal.” [ s an fm- wense Halltax, See the secondoriness and aping uf len and Eoglish hio that ruos through this country, In building, in drees, fu eathg, 1o L y vitlaze, every elty, has its archi- tecture, ity costumes, Ita hotel, fis private house, 18 chim'els, from England, Our polities threnton her, er manners threaten us? We wish the young men fn Chicogo who ape English dress, manner, and aceent mieht read this amt nofit by Ity therg Is such else beside ot ouly 0 11is but {n_afl the essays of Emerson, t Jearn wisdomn from, For ho fs uhwuys ¢ aml wholesome; alwoys o trio American aud a lespleer of shams, Tt is for is we Jove and respect him, and thls more than wuy other quality will zive hima place in hifstory il the afections of his countrymen, (Hoston's Houghton, Usgood & Co. Chivago: Jansen, TOEMS OF PLACES===ASTA. Mr. Lomrfcliow's collcetion of poemaof places has Leen increased by Liree volumes devoted to Asla. The poets are brought into curious com- pany by this new arraugement. Thus we find J. Milton, B. Taylor, and W. R. Alger uniting fu songs of the whole coutinent; W. Bhak- sveare, A. Pope, T. Moore, and Lord Morpeth treating of 8yrla; W. Blakespeare and T, K. Hervey of Cleopatra on tho Cyd- nus 3 1iomer, Aeschylus, Euripides, and R, T. Nicholl of Troy; Houthey, Scott, Longfellow, Moore, and Proctor of the Desert of Arabja; and so ou. Therofs also a_ certain N. Michell wiio rcems to have been Inspired Jargely with a view to Mr. Longfellow’s emer- gency in compiling these volunies, and who has written an Inordinate atmnount of poctry about obscure places in Asiato help him out. The subject probably grew on Mr. Longfellow as he advanced with it5 else it would be difficult to account for his devoting only four volnmes to England and Wales, and threeto Asfa. Poems of Africa and Amerles are yot to be collected, and then the scrics will be completed. It has at least thrown new lighta both un places and poct~ ry. - (Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Co. Chi- cago: Jansen McClurg & Co. Three yolumes. Price, $1 each.) A BEART TWICE WON. A Heart Twice Won™ haa the enthusiastic indorscment of a eritle who clalms to have read threo-fourths of tho movels published during tho Jaat forty yeara, Ho eays tho plot Is * well contrived M5 and {t {s, at least, thrilling, There are thrce wrecks and as maoy sonderful cs- capes, n marriage by a dying mother's bedslde, anaixluction, numerousforgerics, threeattempt- cd murders, ono successful sourder, a divorce, birthmarks, aud diamonds in bewildering va- riety, ‘The owner of the heart twice won s divorced from her husband. Hels misted by an lotriguing girl, whom ho afterwards murrics. The first wifo Is belleved to boe dead, but reap- prars after six years as ncolcbrated *‘song- stress,” beariug an assumed name. ho 1s vone stantly in the company of her former husband, who doos not recognize h Sho 1a described with a prodigality of udj 5, Which, however, do not* explain tho mir At the time of the divorce e was o *‘plain, sweet McClurg & Co, - Priee, 50 centa,) Mttle ocean _spray, who secmed almost beautiful, although her flogers wera THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS, suinil and Lier faca pale and_swariy; her oye The Rev, Mr. Nourse's “Plaln Lectures on the Pilgrim’s Progross,” to which reference was made last week, beging with 4 comprelicnsive, aud, on tho whole, a satisfuctory sketch of Bunyan's life and work. Wo were somewhat perplexed, un reading this first lecture, by the vbslous Iinpropriety of having so fins a bit of llterary critictam delivered from = Congrega- tlonal pulpit; but, on turning back—as every- body Iu these days does turn back—to read tho preface, the dilliculty was explained, Mr, Naurse has **added fresh literary material to Lo first lecture In the hope thai it tnay meet the need of clerical brethren who may wish to deltverasimilarcourse, butwho, posscssingsmall Nbrarles thewmsclves, aud living too far from ity iibrarfes, ure unable to consult suthorities or “collate oplulons on the subjeet.” It 1s not & surprising fact that the lecture thus prepored shauld be for the rcuder.the nost {uteresting lu the buok. Aim, purpose, motive, are {importaut parts of a lterary schenie. If theso be divided urlost sight of, littls vicor will remala to the finished production. The i of s sermon or other moral discourse delivercd at the cnd of o relizious service is oue thing, and that of liter- ary criticlsin is avother. It the ong kind of work be forelbly sundered irom s oflico and rul. i place of the other, it s apt to vroduce & ecble clfoct, Generally speaking, 1f the disy course changes its mode ot appeal, gets jtselt futo print. and demands a critlcal judzment at leise ure, it 18 coldly received, Bermonsus such have, fu fact, cone out of tashiva tor reading; and the better and truer tho sermon is In §ts place and for its own peculiar work, the less likely it 15 to ho uweceptable in print, Thu Hterary, and artistic, awd sclentiie sermons—which s ser- mons wo deplorably detleient w moral tibre— are those that are applauded by worldly read- ers, ‘tlus is the reasou, perhaps, why tho first lecture of Mr, Nourse, which was not delivered from the pulpit, scems to bg full of good mat- ter, while the others, which are sermous puro und slmple, ouly tend to Iucrease sespect for the preachier, Theru I8 one thing to be sald about Buuyan, wich even Mr. Nourse hus not sald fully, uamely, that nis spiritual depression was {u chict part due to theage ju which he lived. Bad teaching oven wore than bim futo the Slo Is teachers were rizht ju thelr vicws of human eesponsibility hie iad eyery reason to b despoud- eut; he only followed out with a too rigid usic the tram of reasoninyg which hls falth con. brows were beautifully wrched, and her rich brown hawr corried back from her low, broad, )l brow,” Wuen she again mects ler hus- band: “How fair, sad, swect, aud luvel slic Jooks!? iler nut-brown balr {8 pushied bacl from ber Jow, broad, smooth brow, the beautt- tully-formed Jips are slightly parted, aud the beautisul tecth gicam Hike pearls between them, Tne durk vrows are_beautifulty arched, and her curly lushes rested on her transparent cheek.” The * heautiv seen only intevsitied, not changed; aud it lsnot casy tosce why the *low, broad, full, smootn brow, or the * beautifully- archied eyebruws,' do ot betray ber, ‘he secord wile conveulenily ules, and the husband {s able to win tho heart which, un. kuown to bimself, s already won. He falis on his kuees and wildly implores the woinau from whom he s divorced to bo Lits wife. As he speaks great drops of perspiration stand on his pale brow, Bhe takes **her wolt laco handker- chief, snd with her sott, talr baud ' wipes thom away. « After all it {8 the cllinpyo of Eoglish life contuued {u “A Heart Twico Wun'® that {3 most tnteresting, 1t 18 bleasunt 1o think of thy noble Eurl, seated *in a nwufled chale by the well-filled grate of burnlug coal,” touching o sllver bell, and susnmoning Lits valet or lootman uslble reuson, ‘True, the lunguase rl and Countess fs starcliug, Wa are surprised to tind tho Lard habltually sddressing Lils nobls wife simply as Countess, aud 1 fecl likv as thougl,” cte, und *Lwish It was so thut,” etc., aro odd sxpressionstocoma frum the tinely-chiseled Hps® of the uluth Earl of Dal- burst,” (Philagelphia: T, B, Petersou & Bros. Chicago: Jansen, MeClurg & Co.) MR, ALDEN’S NEW BOOK, % Domeatic Explosives " is thetitle of unother collection of bumorous uditorials written for the Now York Times by Mr, Alden, whose **Suoot- fog Btars” was ntly woticed fn thesu columns. Thearticles luthis volumgwere, if wo wistako not, written befure those Included In the “Shooling Btar! collection; at sny rate, they exhibit far more fertility of {uveotivn, and nore genuing huwor, ‘Thers fe much sdmira- ble satiry, tur instance, o ** Refuthng Mose, which exawines ritically the question raised by the discovery of a wonkey's skull in & sack ot Rio coffeo ul Baltimore, ~ Tha discovery ahows tbat monkeys extsted during the carly part of the Rio coilee perfod. ** We may fvel sorry for Moses, but we cannot shut our eyesto this platy utifle fact.” Sr, Alden bas aiso ade s blime discovery 1o regard to cats, which, ¢ ars uniformly counected with bavk feuces; »Where there ur oo bick fences—as |u Lided to bhw. Critics followig the lead of | the Maloe woods, or ou the n—the Macaulay have often fafled to make duo atlow- | nocturual cat is unkmown. 3 lit- Buces jor the refizious troininz of Bunyan, | tle observation will demoustrals” that though they have nuticed the effect of a gloomy sud uscetie {aith on n susceptible nature, like that of Cowper. Even with theso cxplaustions, 1 1 dilicuit 10 understand the meutal lortures which thess men suttered, unleas by supposiug a worbid eunditiva of the body. Without Hippaucy 1t Is reasunabls to belie bat they, aud others like them, suffersd from some derspgement of the vital functions, st that time* little under- :Z;,n‘l. and azgravated by their spintusl excte- Air. Nourse's subjects follow closely the or- der of * Pilgrim's Progress,” begiuning with the start frum the City of Deatruction, and cloamg ®lth the description of the Celestial City. Sbev we singularly ducursive fo wethod, abounding & howilics and_ personal expericnces, and withh casional allugion to locw! eseltiug sins that Jave attiacted the stiention of the preacher, From the Jecture on Vaulty Fair we ratiier thut the practice of keeping bub—bu:: st chiurch tuirs fs bighly disreputable; also, suat the pastor, whols sn Euglishwan by birth, found bliselt, when be caie 1o Awerica. i the Norld though not of i, “Fhe lecture on Doubt- lvg Castle and Glaot Despair b to our mind uch the best fu the collection. 1t touches og tar torin of spiritusl doubt * fndigeuous to Le Culviulatic theology ¥ to which reiezvnca the cat Is simply o sympton of the buck fonce, snd that thic latter 13 the resl discase to be'atdacked.” Mr, Aldeu's scientific parodies will be fuund by sppreciative readers full of the tichest humor. . Thoso va Dr. Schlicmann, The Missiug Liuk, the Bosion Arciasalogists. Prof. Proctor's Fredictions and the Thomsonisu 'llzm‘%x);tl;‘: Ji’t.u‘t-{‘x.xln‘:ly ua;uluu. Now Yufik: 0 Flon & Co, Chicsgo: Jausen, Me- Ciurg & Cor) Bags i Say —— L'ARY. The sccond volume of the fourth year of L'4rt (volume XHL of tuo cullection) fs ab baud, snd shows the usual high etandsrd of the mayazine. From the Ulustration of the Hfe and works of Charles Le Brun which opcns the volume, to tbat of the buildings and the art works {u the Universal Exposition which closcs 1t, there is potbing to be improved. The Paris 8alon of 1573 recelves full treatment. Ao foter- vating plate fur artists will be that which gives Guatave Soreau's studies for his palutiug of Moses iu the Bulrustvs. Sowe of the Bue steel engraviogs L this uuwber of L'drt, gola- tly those ol L'dprdon, the Normandy Cavaret, tbe Howautlc House, snd Ls ‘0 Sainte Famille he compared Sous with te Pommler, nothing that can has 4 explosion by steam, but relieve our neigh- ! bors of annoyance by smoke, and we obtain the comfort of having the work accomplished hya DR. LIVINGSTON. Coolldge. Thers are forty-two tllnstrations. OvLr Cirizpy—september (Condacted by T. C. De Leou, Mobile, Ala,). ever hefore heen printed fn a_perfodical, unlces snes O with some of the previous sic t 1 Arl don: 135 Bond street.) FOREIGN MANNERS, If atemperate, wise man should look over our American roclety, T think the first danger that wonld excite his alarm would be the Euro- pean influcnces on this coantey. We buy much of Enrope that does not maka ns better menj i mainly the cxpensiveness which Is ruining that country, We Import teilles, dancers, ring- err, Inces, honks of patterns, modes, wloves, and cologne, manusls of Gothle nrchitecture, stcam-made ornaments. Amcries is provinetal, 1tis an immense Hallfax, 82c tho secondaritess spacc—far less than the steam-cngine or bofler, and scts with the regrularity of clock-work. 'The engina propels one Conrier newspaper and foldiny-machines, and also four printing prestes, one of them a large lithozranhic printing ma- chine, We have had the pleasure of showinz lie new engine to the Provost, Councillor Hatl- lie, the Tawn Chamberialn, Couneittor Willlant Mackiutush, Councior Rose. Mr. Andrew Duougall, und other influential citizens who aro Interested tn the progress of machine-power in nverueas; it will alfond us much satisiuction to explain its working to any person who may de- Puanvscisr—Angost (Chicago College of Fhar- safe, cheap, and convenlent power. The gas . ftacif, Among the etchings " Py Totin, ant. pctieaiele ol o e maiduly (F. Leyvoldt, New CUEINCIs very simole and eflceive. Ty turninz | AN Answer to His Recent Elaborate groupin Enterrement d'un Marias Viliervitie, are | “Yoric). - ! | on asmall gas burner the machinery 1 set in Defense. enwc‘ml'l'v ll|m|fllb|‘|.'. 1")|$‘Colmuh=uln:»iln-:lnn. — i"m”q"' and when the engine has done fts B o Pataanslon Bl A, O T s, FAMILIAR TALK. work the ssme stop-cock sets it mstantly 13 fully {llustrated fn the same manner. (I'ar! T What Mr. Tiurario do Lort, 3 Chadsseo d'Autin. Lun- s *iut rest. [t occuples very litte Mr. Randall Sald About the False Vouchers. BRITISII POETS: p TION, Five moro volumes have buen added to the Rivernide editfon of the Britisn Poets. One of these volumwes Is devoted to Prior, two to Dry- den, and two to Milton and Marvell. ‘The Jives of Prior and Dryden, prefixed to their worke, are by the Rev. Jolin Mitford; that of Milten by Prof. David Massons and that of Marvell In 16 taken from the Edinbure Keview and utinbut- ed to Ienry Rucers. The edition, as fur as Why Livingston's Desire for ** Justice" Is Not Accorded Him. Sketch of Levi Hain, One of the Doector’s Asssociates. The Property Found in the Traders Stors ublished, numbers thirty-two vulute, awd | 908 aping of forelgn and Engllsh Iife that runs ; #ire to ree it The patentecs ure Messrs, Otto & .--Bran New Teabably little rematua to 1 doncr - 1t 1o il | throtgh this country, i huliding, In dress, tn | Crossley, Manchester, wi, aro ‘veoresented in -Bra fiadi Articles and respects—whetlier of binding, printlug, paver, | cating, in books. Every vhlace, cvery city hiag | Hootland by Messre, P, Watt' & Hon, en- edicine. wincers, Glasgow. The principle of the enrlne is described a8 follows: A verv dell- vate mixture of - gas and alr i1 placed under pressure and burned, The eylinder tils during the stroke of the piston with a mixture of gas and air through a slide-valve. When the inwnrd atroke In finished the ias 18 znited by n small flame, and the pressure riscs beranse of the expansion of the nitrogen of the nir due to the heat. The plston thew goes out: at the end af this stroke tne exhaust upens, and the piston returas, cxoelilog the products of combustion, The goveruor acts by preventiug the admiselon of gas when the engine runs toou fast, su that more than $wo, or Indeed more than a dozen, resolutions may bo made without the admissioy ol any ¢as whatever, It atarts at full power un uas beinz Jit, and requires no builer, and es no smell or heat.” " The work done, the meter Is shut and the mansger may turithe kev of the machine-room withuut sny of the arm he has hitherto expertenced on account of the mass of cinders which were nec rily left every night to smolder away in the fires be- neath the boller.—/nverness (Scoliand) Courier. convenicnce in alze, Nterary form. occuracy, or completencss—the beat citition of the British pouts with which we are acquauted, (Bustun: Houghton, Osgood & Co. Clnengo: Jwusen, McClurg & Co.” Price per volume, $1.55). LITERARY NOTES., . Mrs, Ward's *Sensible Etlquette'! has al- ready reaghed s third edition. A “*History of France, from the First Rovo- lutfon to the Fall of ths Emplre,” by Mr. M, Van Laun, will shortly vo published. ‘The work will be In two voluwmes, y Ste Rutherford Alcock’s naw book, ‘“Art and Art [ndustrles in Japan,” Is justout in London, and, belng upon o tople about which there hus been o great populur furor, must buvea large sale. Miss Helen Stanleyy the occasfonnl Parls cor- respondent of the Krening Lost, has made a contract to become the repulur translator of 4 lenry Greville's"” (Mme, Duraud) novels, Bue alone will havo advance sheets for this pur- 105, and the bouka will uppear simultuneously !n Paris and In Ameriea, * L'Afee !’ will be published next month In French and The Florence corresvondent of the New York Times weites as follows: “*If the degrue ol lit- erary enterprise ol un{ countey be s fafe crite. rion'of its actual intelligence, Germany should stand amongs the furemost of civilized natlons, both in quantity and quality of its publications ‘The Lefpate Catalogue for 1877 zivestho tull sta- tistles of the press for the past year, from which nud other suurees I eull the folluwing ficures and facts for the cdltication of Americun read- ers: There wero published 14,000 dHTerent works, containing upwan! of 20,000 voluines, written by 10000 authurs. ‘The total number of priuted volumies 1s computed at 2,400,000, and the buy- crs of these wurks ary reckoned ot about 1,000,000 out of the 42,000,000 inhabitants, Bealdes thess regular worke, there are groat numbers of anonymous publications, pamphicts, ete., and 8000000 of _slmunscs, wilch find buyers In o)l classes. One calendur slune cir- cuiates 500,000 coples. But it Is estimated that onc-hall of the printed matter finds its way buck oguln to the paver-mill to try its fortunes fnoew {ts architecture, its costume, its hotel, its pri- vate house, its church from Enzland, Our politics threaten ber. Her manners threaten un, Life Is grown and growing so cost- 1y that it threatens to kill us. A maa is coming Heertal Correspondence of The Tribune, Bramanck, D. T., Ang. 20.—I wil) answer the “claborate defense® of Dr. Livingston, late Auent at Crow Creck Indlan Ageucy. by * Yankton,®published in Tue Cricaco Trmn- UNE, with a news riaterent. Tux Tuisvse's exposire was the lirst ever made, aslde from a few speculative notes published laat April in axplanation of the seizure of Crow Creek, Lower Brule, snd Cheycune Agency by the military Agents, Capt. W. E. Dougherty and Capt. Behwan, Dougherty, with sutborlty from the luterior Departinent, through Gen, Terry, tovk possession of Lower Brule snil Crow Creek Agencles on the 21t and 22§ of March. A few duys later Capt. Schwan peaceably installed him- self at Cheyenne Agency. Uen, Haminond af rived at Cruw Creek & week after Dougherty successful ‘movement, and commenced his lovestigation, which was not cownpleted on the 12th ot July, when the writer ended his visit there. R. Q. Randall, Chlef of the Division of Accounts, Indlan Bureau, was still st Crow Creei working upon a report to Commissfuner Hayt.” There was A BAYE YULL OP DOCUMENTARY EVIDERCE, but it was not: in official order. I asked Mr. Randall the exact number of ‘falre vouchers in whole or In part. Ho was then listiog them in Lis report to the Commissioner. o anawered, “1can't aoit.” In afew minutes be spoke up and sald: ‘Therc gre elgoty as far as I have complled, and I think that {s about half,” The Arnting Ageut added: * flere is a Mat of thirty- ninc more, aud we believo over thirty of tuem are false."” Gen, Hammond was not at Crow Creck all summer, but it {s a fact that he d vot leave those Agencies to begin his next job at Standing Rock until the 10th of July. Indian-Commis- stoner Hayt's visit to Crow Creek at the same time the correspondent was there had nothtog todo with thc latter's work. Mr. Hayt spent an hour aond o half st Crow Creek, and then ticre s there ) valuo himself un what be can Luy. hut Worst of all, his expense is not his own, far-oft copy of Usborne House or the . The tendency of this is to make af) b alike; to extineuish individualism and chuke upall the chanuels of Inspiration from Gud 1 masn. We lose our invention and descend into fmitation, A man no loncer conducts hi; own life. 1t is manufactured for Wi, The tutlor imakes your dresss the baker your bread; 1he upholsterer—lrom an Imported book of pate terns—vour furpitures the Bishop of London your faith, . Let the nassion for America cast out the passion for Europe. lere let there be what the earth waits for,—exalted manhood, o . . ‘They who ud Ameriea tnsipid,—~they for whom Loudon and Varls have spoiled thelr owan huines,—can he spared to return to those citics. 1 not only see a career at homie for more genfus lllm‘l l" have, but for more than there Is in the worlit, The class of which { apeak make themsclves merry without dutles. They sit in decorated ciub-houses in the cities. and ‘burn tobacro and play whist: in the country they sit idle fu stores and_har-roowns, and burn tobaceo, and guxsip, und aleep, They complain of the flat- ness of Amceican life: “America has no lilu- stons, no romunee,” ‘They have no perception of itsdestiny. 'Thev are not Americans, . . *. The flowerine of civilization ia the finished man, the wan of scnse, of grace. of accomplishinent, of social power,—the gentieman. What hinders that he be born heret The new tlmes need a new man, the complemental mun, whom plaial this country must furnish, Freer awing hfs arms; further picree his eyes; mor forward and furthiight iis whole bulld ond rig_than the En- glishiman's, who we sec is much {mprisoned in s backbune.—Lmerson's Fortuns of the Ko public, . the burro decr—a name: r%nunumaui with ity proper TIE LUROPEAY IOUSE-SPARROV, | English aipellation, for burro is Spanish for jack- Dr. Ellutt Coucs has a very strong article in ‘ariacus columbianus Is the other, and the trus JUNGE CATON VINDICATED. Forest and Stream orinta an editorial review of the note in thelast Atlantic Coutributors’ Club on Judee Caton’s statement that the black-tall decr 18 confined to the Weetern slope of the contincat. The Aliantic writer saye that hohas found black-tail in all the States and Territories between the Rocky Mountains and the Missouri River. To this tho editor of Forest and Stream reolles: The fact {s that there are fwo entirely distloct rpecles of deer lnhnbllln? our Western country, both of which are called, in their respective sece tlons, black-tall. The oue to which the contribut- ing critic refers 18 tho Carincue marcrotis of natnralls called, from the great length of its ears, n rer, but known throuzhaot its range aa the It inliablta the Missourl River conntry, Hocky Mountaine as fsras the eastern foothills of the Sieera Novadas, A wariety of this epecies is found, too, in Arizona and South- ern California, where it1s called by the Mexicans ¢ Germa ¢! ean Nd i black-tail. 1t is most abundanton the Pacific | went on board the steatner carrying bimself snd x.llllxln‘:fl‘hu;rll::n::‘:gSgglfit‘(l::l‘-l‘v:lt;:‘:JI};S;“‘L: sy&n‘fi;:fi:flffis‘ot“:seAl;’::op::n\lllgx‘l:‘:{;‘::“- Coast, but ita range probabiy exivnds castward bu- | the Stauley Commission to the Red-Cloud than even ta read, ofy i other words, author- " o 0 & vond the Sierras, 80 that it no donbt somewbat | Agency, ‘The party respousible fof the cor- shinls 1o aivaned ot the actwal demand of the | ¥ in Amerlca.” Ho says: I do not writo | overlaos that uf the mulo deer, The two specics | respondent's acvess to the papers of tho oftice Ct lor arnithologists] for, so faras Iam aware, was wnarket, and that It s less fuflucuced by the 1 ithologiats} for, 1 I are g0 different In appearanice that one need not be o naturaliat to distinzuish one from the other,—an inspectivn of the tal will declde the matter at once. That of the mule deer (C, macrotia) iv naked below, covered witn short, swhite hairs above, and terminates in a heavy Lrush, or pencil, of black halrs. It 1a os different s can be 1n pearance from the tall of the Virginia di The taa] of the black-tail, on tho oiber hand, is broad, and. except in its color, resembles the tafl of the red deor (1. tirginianus), bat it is black above and white below, The same critic contradicted Judue Caton's statement that antelope shed thelr horne, On this the editor of Forest and Streami remarks: there s not a seientificornithologlst in America, sinong those who have expressed any decided opivion, who are in favor of the wretched nter- lopers which we bave so thoughtlessly intro- duced, and played with, and cuddled, like a par- cel of hysterical, slatepencil-catiog schicol-girls. 1 have held a tight reinon this controversy from the lirst, and probably know more of its fusido bistory thau any otber verson; and I am in posi- tton to allirm that the sneers, the invectives, thy ridizule and abuse, ond the wild assertions of practical resuits of financialzaln or loss thai the Lassion to uppear in tyve, aud to study and In- vestigate profoundly every current fntellectual problem without reard to the amount of pub- Die interest there muy e in the speile topic; o practice quity the reverss of publishers and authors in Eoglund aud Amerten, who {uvariably try to cater for the popular taste, and make thelr books to sell.” ACTING-AGENT DOUUGIERTY. ‘They were in bis custody, und tbe Ilepartment knows he was tho man, sud not Mr. Hayt or Gen. Hammond. The correspondent had com- pleted his work when Mr, Hayt arrived, snd his notes were his own? It he co-operated with the correspondent, Iam not awure of ft. All ne did to help him was to ask him at Yaukton ot to scnd out lis report, as it mught em- bacrass the lezal status of thu case against Dr, Livivgston. With felgned regret tbe correspondent answered *Too late.” Mr. Huyt 15 w gentleman, und knows his_own busi- ART NOTES, ‘The French have made up their minds to es- tablish tn Parls @ permaaent school and exhitt- | the leader or Jeaders of the pro-spar- | ** In niue years of campaigulug on the plufus, I | pegyhotter than be'does o reporter's. M the tion of Induatrial Desigu, on thomodel of the' | tow faction, result from o frantic | the Rocky Mountalus, and on the Pacille Cosst, | correspundent, “who operated as the flgurc- Musoun at Bouth Kensington, despale fu tho face of tho fucfa ~which | we bave fiever met o reliable bunter who Wid | yeqq'tor the dissemiuation of theso disclosures, 1ot belleve and strenuously affirm that autelops shed thelr horus, and the fact has been koown to nsturalists for about ten ‘)'unrs. We must not be understood os maintaining that thut the whole born 18 shed, as 5 the cuse with the deer, Itis only the sheath that drops off, leaving the vore of the horn clotied with u soft, halry skin, which grows hanl fu a short time, and within n month or two attoins its full leugth, This shedding takes place lu late November or De- ornithologists coolly adduce, The fact that the sparrow is u nufsance ln a varlety of ways, that it does not du any aporeciable good, that It dues a very obvlous’ amount of damage, that ft. harasses, drives off, and sumetimes destrova ugeful native birds, and that {c bas no place in the naturai ccononty of this country, are patent to every one who will take the trouble w sco for Bimself. These same tacts, some or all, are dlsagreeably obvious to many persuns, especlal- was acting under the orders and pay of sotuy wne not fn the newspaper business,’ be has not found {t outyet. Il¢ would be glad to hear from his puymaster. The man who gives an item thinks be ought to be pald. My experienco ot the Missourd is: % What will you give for u regular bair-jifterd" ¢ Isu't that wortha V4% LIVINGSTON'S TRIAL. Everybody In Dalkota knows that the Terri- 3. Vibert's pictare, *“The Apothcosts of M. Thiers,' whicl was much admired at the French Balon this year, Lias been purchased by the State for thy Luxembourg, Thu amount pald for It was ,000 franca. Russta has bad a great success fn the Art De- partinent of the Parls Exhibition, Three of her artlsts hiave obtaiued tirst medals—Antokolaky, all brought up i Hussla, snd obtained there thelr first artistic inspiration, Bome of the Euglish collectors of puintings saro being heavily swindled.. A pieturs of the Murrlage of the Virmn, attributed to Rubens, whicn Mr, Walrond waye 1,450 uineas for o fuw yenrs 220, only fetched 10 at his salo the other day: and the so-called ‘Iitlan reccutly sold amonyg the Novar collection for an cven smaller sum had vost the Duke of Bucklugham over £1,000, Upon the whole, however, more money s wade thay lost in pletuces, ‘The criminal case aguinst lemr-nmu has been transwitted to the Departmeut of Jus- tiee,and 1n the opinion of the United Stutes District. Avtorney, the Hov. Hugh Cuampbell, that Departineut Knows its business. — Mr, Campbell has been engazed at the Deadwood nud Fargo terms, and bas bad vo time or dlspo- sition to push su fmportant a case beyond its tlme, He save he will doit without fear or favor at the September term at Yaukion, While Livingston {s ** valoly hoploring the Governs ment to areest him and give him s tral,” the Depurtment hias iufurinution thut he is finplor- Lu the witnesses nratust him o * o West." A VERY MECENT FLEA was sccompanied with the promise of $150 to pay expensvs. Thut too will be proven upun by uny person or persons whoss suthority has any welght in o question of this kind.** Bl‘- Coucs makes tho following specifications of lis geoeral charge agalnst these birds; 2, They neglect entirely or perform very fn- sufilciently the business they were imported to do. Inepite of some zood service at ane scason of the year, lu o few particular localitics, ugainst some particutar Kinds of lnscets, 1he state of our shiade trees remains eubstantially s it waa befora their introduction. Some of the decrease of noxious lusects ul timesats due to their periodical decrease, with wihich the sparrows bave pothingtodo; and, in spite of sseertatlons to the contrary, people are still sceraping trees, and emplovivg the usual de- 1enses against Inscets, lu precisely those plazes Prof, tI. D. Garrlson, of Chicago, recently de- livered o lecture ou *Evolution before the Royal Polytechnic Iustitution of London. Mr, Licbermaun bas receutty proved that the blucor ereen color of birds' cgus isductoa bile plament which resembles blilverdlo In cer- taln respocts, Theshella frequently coutain o second coloring watwr—iot u bile pigment— which exhibits & charucteristic wbsurption spec- trums. ‘The British Museutn bas acquired the collec. tion from Maltu—wmade by Admiral Spratt and Dr. Lewis Adutns—of the rewsius of pigmy ele- BOOKS RIECEIVED. ILow 70 Pansr, By E. A. Abbott. Bosto toborte Brotbers, "Chicage: Junsen, MeClurg Co, P i honts fuund in the caves and flssures. 1lun- | thu Dactor’s uccomplices, 11 not directly upou Eobdrars Waronic_aws Coxvoittion. fy | Whero it was seld that tho sparrows baa dono | Hredy of framments of anfmals ot all uges have | himself, Livinzstou uiist bave heard of the David J. Il Now York: Sueldon & Cu, | th business. c been found, so that the kuowledge of thoscex- | law's delays loms before this expericnce of his Cnicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co. 2, 'They uttack, harnss, lizht agatnst, 012pos- | yiney creatures may now be wade falrly exact.— | own, He'ls a favored crimual, ‘They ure won- ErrueNts o NaTUnAL Puiiosorar. Dy Elroy | sess, drive away, and sometimes actually kil | agrencewm, 5 erally jugeed and boarded at thy Btate's vx- M. Avery. New York: Sheldon & Co, Clicugo: | various of our native’ birds which are much pense for six months before even un fudictment \Jansen, M Co. EiiMExta or Hooxnpevina, I Palmer, New York: Jansen, McClarg & Co, Sir Witllam Thomson writes to Nuture defend- fngz Mr, Hughes® claln to the invention of the microphone, fntimating that Mr, Edison did not fully understand the circumnatances when he ad- more nsectivorous by nature than themsclves, and which wmignt do us hetter service if they were equally encouraged. A depredatlons fn the {3 tound, If the Doctor hud stolcn u horse or s brace of chicken cocks hy would have been sweating i the Yaokton Jall during the dog y Jdoseph HL Sbeldon & Co. Clilcagu: Taz Recrow's Wire, A novel. Philadelphla: T k.fit,.'fi'.:."g,,.‘}’,’{,"“{}..,".fi?: and the gralu- | vanced his Lasty charges of ‘pluiurism, aud cx- 3;{.‘:,“‘,.'.1,.’{'.',‘:3‘{,..‘2.'3‘;,‘.’(.2:. '-I:’drl‘:f ‘!‘l?l’l.c«ill‘lll > Bneyarsen & Jron. Chicagor Jansen, Mes | i Y pressug the hope that % Mr. Edisou will rtract | cotartaus, and s out s e s sup Tiitons. Aworel.’ iy Edwin Lametor Bynncr, | 4. ‘Thov are personally obnoxious and un | his secusations ot bud faith pubiicly aud 8mplY | by bis brad in bis father-iu-iuw's churct, and suthor of **Nimport." lostan: Lockwuud, | pleasunt to mauy people. Thelr perpetual au- | 88 b has mads them. thaaks the Giver of ull good things that he wus Brown & Co, Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co. | tica in sprinz und summer arc offenslve und em- Maj. Ford bhas performed good service by showing that, If_dynamite 1s poured into water, the sand falls to the bottum, and the pitro- glycerive floats on the surfuce, aud explodes with Its usuul violcnce il the temperaipire ls sliehitly increased. 'This will explaty thdBausa ol muny of the serious explosions with dynamite when used in wet holes. Among the new appliances for war is a hand- torpedo. 1t fe made of gun-cotton forined fnto & cake or bull three or four pounds in weyght. Ong end of u loug cond is uitached to cuch charge una the other to s sort of pistul fn the band of the operstor. When the torpedo Is thrown into & boat or ou tho deck of a vesscl, o touch on the trigier of tho plstol detonates the un-cotton, and ai explosion with very destruct- vu results follows. Prof. Hucckel, of Jena, bas anawered Prof, able in His name to distribute a few baptlamal founts. Every thicf cries out * Sensationulism ** when be Is caughu aud the facts arc retalled to the vifv. The bliger tho thiet the bigger the ** sensation " cry. y TIE PALYE VOUCHERS. Livingston’s friewd, “Yankton," admits in explavation that Livingaton evaded the routtne work required by taw in drawiue s voucher fu the nume of Sevart Hooker for 81,160 which Jtooker swears lic never knowiugly signed. The movey, Hooker makes ailldavit, he never got, and_Livingston aduits he dido't, but ex- plalus that it was parceled out toall the em- ployes cuguged {n cuttiog aud hauling lows for u wston sthool-house, That explanation tu. volves a case of perjury, & cuse of false Ifarep- resentatipn, und a case of direct violation of law. Under oath, ag an Ageut, ho certilles that Hooker performed the worls, und in order to barrassing to women and sgueatnt: tncessunt turmoll irritates Invalids and nervous veople, nud Lthey foul steps, window-sills, amd trellis-work so that servants frequently will not stay ut s houss whers they are Kept. . 4. ‘I'hey have, ot present, practically no natu- ral enemivs, vor any check whatever upon lime itiess incrcase. This would be undesirable, even i the case of the wost desirable binds, As the cuse stands, we are repeating the history of the sah'te weed and the Norioay ral, Dr. Coucs suggests that thelr uscfulness be practically tested. % Lot the authoritics of auy vi our luree cties, preferably Bostow, whero the birds are said to have done so much good, and where the sparrow combination talks loudest, turnlsh to proper persons, say 600 sparrows, whose stomuchs ahall bo cxamined Ly somu compotent butanbt aud entomologist togetlier. men; thelr RIODICALS RECEIVED, MoNTHLY—Buple llwr‘lacllblmr & Co., New York). Contants; Leady for the Ride ™" {Miustrated), by Il C, Bunner; ** Huntiug the Mulé.Deer in Colorado® liustrated), b *vThe Wind-llarp." by Lucrece; Iu hy Georze Edear Moutgommery: oxv, " XL (llustmted), by Edward Begleston; *Pue Engadine ™ (ttustrated), by Georu He Mc- Clellsn; ** Morcedes, ™ by Julia . . Dore; ** Eine Junf ik * by Charluado Ki The Govl lll‘" by Auna . Irackett; **College Fellow- " by Charles ¥, Tuwing; **Tobouth Africa ! I (llustrated), by W. J. McKav; m FurmeLife" Ollustratod), by Manrice ‘Thompsons ¢4The Traneportation Questiun, Il{ Sleptien 1), Dil- uyes; **Fhe Drazon Fiy,® by Henry . Cornwell; A Bpool ot 'Thread (luizated), by Cuarlcs 10 Clark 31y Walvea, ™ hy T, 18 ubpuxtous fuscets shouhl be found to forin § Virchow's fuimous speech delivered wt Muuieh | securo bis signature to the lylufi voucher makes **Muily, " by Julia 8chayer; 3 the greater portion, or even uny constderable | at the weeting of Uermisy uaturalists ana phy- | Wiw belleve that it 1s for his owu regular 1t Pleasunt” fur Brother duck,* by Bret Uarte; | portion of the fusd o1 these birds, 1 would | siciava. ‘the title of bis vawphlet is *Frelo | wages. 1€ thero {8 auy consolation iu that *+ Ni; and ’D C ry 1 | yield the cuse as far us this particular count 18 | Wissenschalt und Frele Lehre,”” the motto, | explanation to 4 man who secured his B s aluar | voncerned,” o dues not wdvocate thelr exter- | Supavidi progradiamur. Viechow tad denlod | position throush the fuflucucs of the Eviscopal 01’3'0;»':5’;' l““‘"‘;_ ifuntion, tiut, sa o toeasure of national ecouo- | that evolution could ever chiauge an sov lnto u | Church, and beld (6 by virtue of his member- wy, be believes that (1) they shioull be left to sulft fur themsclyes, and (2) that the legal pen- alties fuor kidlog them should be wbollsbed. * Lot the boss kil them If thoy willy or let them be entrapped and used as plecons or gluss. buils ure now wsed,—Iu shouting-mutches suong spurtswen,” DIANE DE POITIERN AT 60, In an authentic description of the lifa of Diane du Luitlers, ouc of tho wost remarkably ol thu royal favorites, we are told that “the wan. Hoeckel reusserts the possibility, and moro than Euulblmy. of that chunge. aml revreseuts Virchow as the ally of the Jesuits,— Academny, Mr. F. Galtou siys, s reported fu the Royal Geograplueal procevdings, that he has uo doght. that un pxtension of the nethods of lustratioe the facts of physical geography—as by Prof. Tyndall aud Dr, Carpenter—on w small e, und on o lecture-roviu table, 18 perfectiy feasible. ‘Lhus, s every thundes-shower shows abilp therewitl, he is welcome to It If be pre- fersto be stamped & perjurer, we will grant lifut bis prefercoce. "He ust brove, however, to cscape Lhe chare of cmbezelcwment, that he distributed that $1,160 equally aud faiwriy. To do that he will HAVH HIS HANDS PULL. Another voucher of §i50, slgned by Jobn Fleury, fa explatned {n the sswe way, Jobu Fepre ¢d the work dane on the school-bouse, But Jubn's uaws fs leglbly sicned to that voucher, and John never wrote hls nsme in bls aelirua ** (1 AveLeTox's Jo N AL—September (. A Co,, New Yo LContents: Fronti ot to **A Leap-Yenr Humancy" fred Fredericis; wi **Thu New York Post- lew (Wit silnetrutions), by Leander ¥, Richardsons **The Trunale. Bed, " by John James Patt; ** In racusy' (with tlnetrations by {'arlos Saneom) y Will ‘Wallace Iarney; Pust k. by 4. Stan: ge Kxpericnce,” by Lucy ¢, Volces of Weatiiusler Abbey' (con- | ¢ ot in the strects the phcouiucus of croston aud - et The 2 luoin). by tho oy, ‘Kreawolt Waldun: AU (000 LR 0 aliuost fabulous duration of | debualilon, ho hs h doubt that, o Tecture- [ fifee Hucatwrite, Ehoro s by of foreey Voraeurs; e It 3. lobinson her beauty was fu ereat degres diie Lo th pro- | table; withiwean bo. supply water, and WL 4 | yyetean very eastly shiow To tho jury whuss x‘l“m'.:r;’;“":l&.’“"fi:“m’: Hay cautious which she adopted.” Wuen she en- | SErVEl GUARULY " : A bund traced ft. Gen, Stanley exaninod a few the uaiy phenomena of Tiver-action, such as the autie of materlals, the stratitication of du- posits, and the forwation of dultas, might be successtully shown, Prof. Paley writes to Hardwicke's Science (Chapter X1V, to conciusion); ** Souutuin-Laurel, ™ by E. 3, F.: ** Otsego Leaves: [, —The Bird Primeval, ™ by Sussn Fenimore Cooper: ** French Writurs and 111, ~Eduuard Manct, " uy Willam Miu- The lomestcad Lawo,™ by Aifred 4. L3 ol the self-cvident casca ageiost Dr, Livingston uud his comment was, *“There’s prool that would couvict Livingston if his own brother Lean't state indetail the ‘I'hat would bu sitogether tered her tftleth year bur charms were thoso of awoman of %3 To uccount for a fact 50 ex« travrdinary, her enemles inveuted u story to the cilect that she dealt dn the black art, and that wus ou the jury.” GUovernuient's cuse. *Editor's Table;" ** Books of thu Day." | she wa ol for ler percuntal besuty to | Gossip, suggesting tuae the dlackness of St | too generous a tublication, and would, be Lu T c—September (J, u.u l.’lu‘ ‘mnun': ‘fim‘:‘xfindul by |'m|.u!v hands, Bug | LPaud is largely duo to tho wctlon of a minute | #peaches ™ for livingston's uitoruoy, 'fhcy pncott & Co., Puilladeluiila). Contents: **Qur janc'd wagle was oo wheh any lady | fungus on Lhc stone, In support of the posi- | would tuke their retuiuer and scod bim to .\'tm to the Desert.” by J. I liustested); | may praciwe without endaneeriuz — her | tiou be fustances the fact that thu sides expused | Europe. @ Modera Kashmir, " by Edward C. Bruce (hitua- | soul,—the maugle of amigbllity, tegular | to sunlight arc not neurly s black us the uorth LIVINGSTON'S ABSOCIATES. H:;'Tn:l.l'l f\’i"r l.’::lx:ly'nlb‘y' Sl:llumln,wd); : .';xu Labits, and, abuve all, vieorous cxerclse, Sho.| side, whish the sun sehlom or never reactics. 1L Lev! Hafn, whose house st Wesaington Il e . 13 ean, 4 ulso appears that sundstone I smoky places 13 not shitlarly alfected, Particles ol the coatiug scraped off wud washied fn soap snd water do not tury white, as one would expect them to doSf the discoloration wurs duc to suioke wlon. Prof. Palvy admits that the chauges way be duy where she rewalued uutll wid-day eogsged Jn | to chemleal actiou, but beleveas that it caunue rendiug, be v Iwrly »0 explained without wuking allow Six juontbs belore ber death, says Branstome, | socvs for actinic action on tho exposed sides; 4§ saw lick 50 bandsowme that o beart of ada- | axaln, bo thiuks that the theory of & fungua i aull uo cuametic to approach ber, denoune- g every compound of the kind. She aross overy morning et 6 o'cluck, plunged luto a cold bath, and hud no sooner Ieft her chamber thau she spruug futo the saddle, sud, having gulloped a learuo or two, returued to ded, |a & yendezvous fur the most successtul horse- thiel gune that cver operated in the North- west,' was one of them, Liviugston’s dofend- cr, Yaukton," says be bus been there. That may gecount tor bis busiuces ol writing down the Governuent and staudiug by the * plunder- jug Pharlsee,’ ‘To this borse-thief Livingston, upen * Yauktou's owlug, bas udvauced $i for the suke of s chtidren. Hufn, besides oe- ing w borso-tblel, s **a poverty-strickin crea- Vision of the Tarn,' b ohn B. Tabh; "‘l‘lu'uuflh Windiug Ways,”™ by Eilen W, O1- noy: ** Personal Sketches of Some Frencn Lit- teruteurs,” by Arihur Veaner: Deed,™t by ltebscca Mardiig Davis ‘Tantab,” by E. 8., ** Across Stranwe Waters, " by Louise Chaudier Moulton; * ly's Earolug, ** by sherwood Bon: “Feacher |u tbe United States dounld: '* Our Monthly Gosaip; turo of the Day." & y . . * Litera. " ' mant could bave been tuseusible tu charma, | st Jeast o rutivnal bypotbesis, aud worthy ofdus | ture.”” Haiv awore that hu uever recelved $30 caraorio Wonuy—-Sogtember (Cathollc Pulica- | Uil Juat bueo ridinne o horsebuck, und kept | consideration. trow Lavivgston, aud thatw voucher for that el Marmoniee oy ‘ontents: * T84 | her seut us dexterously std well s sbo bad ever —— smount wnust necessarlly be lalse, Liviog ssPearl,™ The duue iu ber youtl.! SPARKS OF SCIENCE, Kha Dress of Wameu. v Neva York Sum. Jmpe taut rumors come from Parls that be- foro tiu cold weatlier is upon us we alall bo prutifio 1 or irritated by vsscutial chauges i the sbape of gowus for wowen, For a long timu uow the dress Las been worn very tliht, and it caunot be denwed that to all zood f i tlgurcs, at least, such a garmvut is wore ston wnswers that ke {3 a - perurer, Upon tue delcuse’s preseutstion there fs not much difference fu the two men. Oue belongs to o **burse-tiiel geng,” sud thy other o wb fudiau-thie! gung,” Hobbs' cloice, if you pledse. Oune ie 3 * poverty-stril <reature,” aud tbe other is iu-stricken creature.,” PUOBABLY BOTH AKE THM LATTKE. It Livivzston's case can staud uuy moro explaustious as the foregolug, by hus cot s Que Lady," *“ho Bollandiat Acta ‘Towbse of ine Housc of davoy," ** A True Lover, LY M 0ne o Ope,™ L Lriel **Euzlish Su 0 in Undrees, ' 'reated Wisdun, pe du Vega, ‘Worles and Ustholic Education’ In Ircland,” +‘lac du Satnt Sacroment.” *'Tbu Euglish Press and the Pan-Asglicsa Syoud;™ **New Publicatious.™ cptember (D, Lotheop & o, PROPULSION BY GAS, It may be news to wany, perbaps to most of our readers, that a strong motive power, under perfect cuntrol, can bo obtained by the appliva- tionof ordivary coal gus. Our 1ssue of this . Tl ¢ cl nig than sowy of Lhoe styles it replaced, aud, | vue. He takes futo bl ewploy borse-thicve: o etV odegtie ey “toesd | week 1 brinted by an ougioo driven by this | (s e it oastialy sorves the euds of Dol | becomes —thele beuctuctors’ aid - et :’ “‘('J."’,:"C’...E.'.’“fi'e Xl;‘l-luv:u.'&an". ll,l.‘ l{;"l“' novel power—ous of Utto's gas-cngines, whica n.»-;ul,v aod ':Ilall""' 1. scems :‘ pl‘:"'. &u fiw& fi‘ {“fll‘lh at l:!hu Gu'vm::mcm lo:‘ “.u'ulqdmm 1. 3 . A oty Ldtes. g nlses i Uuless suinetbing very wudl etier sul - y o evideuce vl peers. wob' o Jobn Browmioln, and otbers” and thers s ::3?;:;‘::;‘1:':‘:":;:":? u‘.;‘r‘:":‘;,‘_ tuted. The rumlors are tu the ellect thut the | duore the testimony of the employes ut Crow B e ar” (scribuse & Co. Ty enain oo of the bollee end | Pauter won I the timo of Mall Autieute, | Creek, Lower Brule, Cheycuue, Suudiue luck, orkr - Ansong the conteioators 1o tals. b englue takes tho place of tho boller and | 5oy yhich causes & far from raceful enlarge- | aud Berthold Agencies. Every Agent turos up steam engipe hitherto used, uud by the chaugs we 0ol oLty free oursclyes from dasges of Ure arv Cells ‘Uuaxter, Thowas Dano Euglisl weut at cuch uide of tho bips, 15 Lo be evolved Cragch, Lousa M. Alcowt, Samue! his posu st the ovidencs of the very meu that e for moderu use. Bugield, bas uthized, through their iguorame, W rob 4 tory 1s divided fnto three judiclal districts,’ Slemirudsky, aod Bedlich, True, that nond of | |y agricuiturists whose flelds and gordens are | cember, some lttlo thuo ulter the ratting sea- l:mgvru as the Yankton, Dend’woou. and Fm.._,‘; umr!:; h}rn R’!Imu‘llllz. ’l‘n Plhlf.“r‘l’)mr Sonae: 3.': ,';}‘: Lulalled. ‘AI‘l of tl‘»fi-ernfl facts Ary lmlm{'md sou I3 vyer. Districts. Thfx \'lnnkwn Court h-.x; not becu in word. ‘Foe tirst {s 0l e 3 v competent oruitholoriats generally, Nona e £ slnce the Juspector went through w Lithuaaian, tho third a German, But they wers | of thom are publicly dlsuuted, 5o far aa T know, SCIENCE NOTES. feastin b i Cro the Government. If they will do as friends, they will do as witnesses. The Agent's superlor capacity as o thief aoesn’t give him zny sdvan- taize over the Iaborer in & court of justice, It v the fashlon among Agents and thelr friends to “poor devil,”! ¥aquaw man,” * half-breed,* ‘‘roustabout,”? *‘bad man,’ hard case,” ete An Ageut of fthe kind under conslderatios uean’t Intentlonally surround himself with Lt best intellect of thenge. Bigger men than him sclf he geards against. The witnesses neces garily have neither a church nor political bistory They may bo *“drift," but they came out Wea upon thelr own mution and ticket. LIVINGSTON DENIRS that he hind au interest in the Crow Creek Hotel, and the managet of the liotcl nwears he got all his heef from the Azency eattle. 1 Livingston didu’t met his share of “the proceeds, he wat awindled out of “a falr (livide,” me the code runs. ‘The explanation of the proofs of the steamboat transactiont would he caulvalent ta furnishing an oppor tunity for the accused to manifacture evidencs. After Liviooston had heen caugbt with by housa [ disurder, he tarned In ts the Govern. nent 81,100, the proceeds of Azeney wood and erops sold for two quarters. This was a tacyt admission that lie had heen oblized to disgorze thut much. There ia suflicient eviilence to prove that the Azent featnercd his neat with the pro ceeids of hav, potatoes, and wood. Livingstons denfal of this travsaction, or of any other atmounts to nothlog, 1le would deny any crim. inal charge {[ Le was Innocent, and ke would deny it all the same {f ho was guilty. Ile can cive vulfy' one auswer from the very nature of the mnan’s moral maxe-up and position. ° TR TRADER'S STORE was scized by Acting-Agent Doucherty, npou authority found in Agcut Livingston's ‘clmr- book several days alter Dougherty bad sup- planted Livingston. Hudson had been trading without = license, snd the Devartment onlered him closed up, but Livingston Ignored the in- structions. ‘There were fndian goods found in the store, but not s tithe of what would have been found had the same been selzed on the dame day that Dougherty became Agent. The 1aistake the Government made was In over- louking this receptacle of Agency supplies. In the trader’s warehouse largo quantities of zoods were found. ‘They were {n transit from the Goverument warehouse to the trader’s store. The employes of Ur. Livincston will swear that Awency coods were found scattered all over the premises, lu every nook and corner, Besldes their evidence, 1 have Geu, Hammond's, Capt. Dougherty's, R, (. Randall’s, and Corporat Laugtres’s oo the same nolat. TNE PROPERTY found {n cxcess of his property rotarn Is sdmite ted ju Livingston's answer, but explained by the Government requirement that all tools in the Indisus’ possession ure turned Into the Ageut for winter sturage. That is a very pretty cxplaaation upon Its face, but what becomes of it when it Is pricked with the fact that the larger portion of these tovls was found in unpacked packages, and were Lran-new articlesl Hun- dreds of new butcher-knives, axes, sbovets, boes, fish-lines, cte., were fuund stowed away and no sccount imnade of them o the property-recurn, Probably Liviogston would iike to have the same explanation mada of the extra medicices found on hand and not reported. The Indians don’t turn’ them in when the snow flics, aud then come after them In the spring! Livingstun reported to Washington 1n Lis last rcport that o had 300 acres under cultivation, and by actual measurement It was discovered there were only 140 acres under cul- tivatio d hie was over sevon years oducatiog his wards up to tbatcxteusivoscale. Asto thelr religious and educatioual progress, Dr. Livingston did nothing beyoud w contribution towards bulldiue s chapel, and tho gifts of bap-~ tismal fonts and atained glass windows, to ad- vaaca his standing in the church. THE DEATIL OF HOOKER. Beyert Hooker, # Swede, shot himself through tho heart. Ho wasa leading witness ugainst Liviogston, and was talkea into the belief that he would bLave to go to fail for slgn- ing w false voucher. The Government bad every incentive for protectiog this witness, and 1t is stated by tuose present at his examination by (ien. Hammood that the Inspector was re. markably patient und quiet withhim, The:ewas uot cveu the coloring of Intimtdation. Whils Hammond would have him live, there s palpa- ble renson for Livingston wishing hitn iy *h—l." Hammond was ot Red Cloud Agency when he shot himself. He bad becn there several days betore,cud did oot reach Crow Creck until thres days afterwards. Tha chbarge that Hammoud fothinidated Hooker is a slander upou its face, Hooker's educatlon to rezard Imprisontnent as worse than sulclde mav by given as fils excuse for resortiug to the pistol as u quencher of fiis mental apguish. ile bad $300 on his persou wheun be fired tho fatal shot. He was not pen- niless. Aflidavits aroon file that Livingston, Cierk Russell, and the trader, Hudson, inthal- dated aud threatened Itovker. Hooker hiniself complaiued of thelr intimidation to Capt. Doughberty. JusTiCcE. 4 Tae Trinvxe, caitorlally, lus done Living- ston justice, Iwill not try to improve upon dering Plarisce.” 1 might, however, supple- ment b with this Byroole curse, putting the wards tnto tho mouth of Whita Ghost, the Chief of the Crow Creck Indians. [He lived through s Clirtstmas week, upon Liviogstou's onler, on berries pleked from the bushes and coffee mede from wild-cherry bark.]: May the grass wither fromn thy foet ! The wooa deby tuee stelter) Earth & homet T'he dust & grave! 'Tlie sun his light! And Heaven her God ! ————— A SUPPOSED CAUSE OF HARD TIMES. To the Editor of The Tribune, OMam, Aug, 21.—~Is not the principal canse of the hard times iu tho United Btates attribu- table to the fact that Great Britain, Germany, France, aud the Latin Union have practically de- stroyed the moncy puwer of sllver by prohibitivg 1ts freo and unlimited colnage! On the principle that the dearcr moncy occomes, through ita scarcity, the cheaper property s, it is to be pre- suwmed that the mavufacturers snd traders will bo contlually lowering their prices to meet tho coustantly increastug valus of colo, b is truc, oue may say such s not the case in the United States; that bere, though we have an abundauce of money, Droperty was never 8o cheap, But is {t oot tho fact thatGreat Britaly, Uernany, aud Frauce are tlo prlm:lua{ murkets of the world, sud that the quotations of thuso countries wovern prices everywhere, particularly in the United States, th&frlndpa‘ scller to tho peopte of Europu! Buch belog the fact, ls it auy woudcr thst our manufactur- crs, unablo to «ompets with the cunstautly fall- fng markets of Kurope, caused by the crime of demouetiziug silver on the vart of Great Brit aiu, Gerwsny, sud otber nutious, are closiog up thelr establishinents snd throwing so wany peaple out of work! As tho luternational fouctary Conferencs is now in sesslon, is it not u gguod tlme for TUE TRIBUNS tolet a little day- light {uto this thing! E. ¥, Txsr. INCOGNITO. a8 passionly deep of nlx! Jusk the calw of lonsliness, Thu sbwenca uf the reflex light. Like decades roll the weary yeare, Like leagues stretch out the endless miesy Too weury are my eyes for tears, “ou weary aru 1oy lips for smbles. My face alie? A strango belief Uptldd we there, Who realize Aud live the nuble calm of grief, Know well taat there ars noble Ues, My slience folds me closs aboat, Aud bolds me back from common sin, - Aud shuls the pryiog world witnous, Aud y owa bilter heart withia. Uuhappy? 1t that mea; tand Apart in quiet Jooelin 8 baod, o5, Nor uota thy streichiug o "Fheu | 2 all unhappine Waorda, {dle mockerics, ars valn— A S The sweel, dumb comfort of & smile. 80 let the al atill remaln, And let the idle wurld go by; 1've borua uloue my bitter VIl hive alous my stugle He. CLins B. Kzxxie. e ———— A Boutire Tree. Nesuda Currespondence an Fraacisco Bulletine A scrubby atunted Juulper troo iKrows on uearly ull theriazes sud Liil-tops. ‘The berries very gbundand sizo of the Eunnar crry known fu cowmerce, from which distilled the insolriug spirit, gin: but I can- not suy whethier it i3 the saue or not. The tree i quite Hke the cedar o bark ana wood, but dilfers very greatly fu size aud sbape trom that noble and stately sou of the furest.” The needlcs, which arg the ouly appruach to folluge, and represcut the faves ol ondinary treed, are full uf u cowbustible il which goes off like & flagh upou the spplication of s mastch. Trees thestze of au wpple tres produce us tine s fire s 1 cver saw. A solid volumu of fame shot up to three times thele blebt, and sheets of dyluic fire were carried off Ju the wind, ‘Tho heat was futense but of bricf duration, As s00n &3 the tullaze aud loose vark were cousuwud the tire vavished a8 vulck us it cate, aud in four or five uituutes @ beautiful green tres with l‘uwfln“ prige sud vigor of middle age, was changed lote acharred and blackencd truuk, stretcliug it desd Hwbs skyward Lo mute reproach fos our wautou play. that withering characterizailon of “The Plun-" 3 brauchies sud healtby roots, apparently in the BRI . oo [,