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WHE CHICAGO RIBUNE : SAT URDAY. OCTOBER 12, 1878—=TWELVE PAGES, LITERATURE. s Recollections of Writers,” by Charles and Mary Clarke. The Family Library of British Poctry---What Is the Bible? The Road {o Riches---The Bod- leys on Wheels---The Pa- cifle States. Mz, Alfred R. Wallace on Tropical Nature --- An Ancient Chapel. The Problems of African Exe ploration === Literary and Science Notes. LITERATURE. NECOLLECTIO OF WRITERS.' Cisarles aud Mary Cowilen Clarke hind a mar- red Jifeof forty-cleht years, During all that time, 83 Mrs. Clarke wriles, they were ** the papplest of married lovers, writing together, reading together, working together, enjoying together the perfection of toving, literary cone soclatton,” The husband, known familiarly to his intimates a3 C. C. C., died a few years axo, patthe wife wtfll lives on at Villa Novello, Genos. Before thale sad separation they had comrleted @ book of recollections of distin. guished Hterary persous, This ook fs now published upder the title of * Recollcetions of Writers.”" It Is an cntertalning, and, in a sense, an instructive, book. Its aim is not high, put It goes piraight to the mark. The pralse of certain writers at times secmns excessive; but this small defect {3 lost sight of in view of reaily valuable contributions to Liography. it there were nothing else to comineud tho baok, the good humor and reckless spirits which 1t commenorates would be suflicient. ‘The Clarkes lived ina literary and musieal cir- dle In which nearly sl the men of their day dis- tinguished [ clither direction at some time wuved. They kuew intimately Jdtin Keats, b Hlunt, Charles nnd Mary Lamb, Douwling rrold, and Charles Dickens. Among thelr less funiliar acquaintances were Shelley, Coles Tide, Godwin, Huzlett, Maceeady, Carlyle, dulssohin, 1 hardly famouy. Slarke wos the cldest daughter of Vineent Novello, the musician, and most of thelr muslenl friends were known to them through bim: while Mr. Clarke was a schiool- mate uml Intinate of Julin Keats, and e mado a triend of Lokeh Tunt early in life. Throush hese two, as well s by reason of his own ac- complishments, be met all the literary peopie of his day. Mra. Clarke's great glft’ to the worhl n her * Concordance of Shukspeare *? also helped to introduce her and her husband to mien of letiers., ‘Tiw: caxav on Kents, written by C. C. C., and printed orlglually (o the Gentleman's Meugazine, wes the foundation of all the other recotlee- tions, amd the most important of all. C. C. €. had a just nporeclation of Keats, oven in the schoolloy days of the latter, when ho used to oy ndvors Guring play-lours and bolidays to work out hils Latin exerciaes, until he fatrly had tobe dnven out for fresh alr and excrelse. Witat a nlty It §8 that Keats, with his vredispo- #tlon o consamption, wss not driven out of dours nitener and carlier! He seems, huw- ever, Incarly ananhiood to have been stronier thiu st youngs men of hils ages for, though of swall stature, ho thoroughly whipved a tmterer-boy In apitehed battle aver an hour long, Reats’ motive for lghting, every way worthy of hiim, was that he found hls” opponent tor- wenthig o kitten, and - interered to stop the turture, Sl more communieative 8 Mr, Clurke's pleture of Keats Nstenfng fn bed to C. C. C.'s plano duwn-staies, “This invident was rald to he the Invplring couse of the passaie in T of St. Arues, when Porphyro {3 Lh;rnmglu the midnigbt musle fo she ball o 2 ‘I tinlsterons midnight festivo clarion, The kettledrum ana far-heard clarlonet, ay 4 cara, thuavh but hn dytng tone: Tie hail woor shuls again, and uib the nolee is yone, C. C. C.'s sweet reasounhieness fs naturall tried bevond enduratice when ho hos to svea of the erities of Keats; ut the sume thue ho umtradicts satisfactoriiy the siily storv that Keats was kilied by eritleism, 110 writes: Io xay that there discusting misropresentationn it notaffect the conrclonsnens and #olf-reapect of heatr wotild bo ta underrate the senultiveness of lls o He did teel and resent the insult, but fur wore the injuetics of tho treatment ho had re- cetveds und he told me ro, *They noduubt had in- Jured bl tn the moet wanton manner: but {f thuy, ver fr One moment suppoxed of even cowed fuapirit by the cceived, never wero they more L Suufled out by an article,” (ndeod? I had fufimtely more magnanimity, in ite fulleat bense, than that rery apoiled, self-willed, and metnsrguied twan.—und [ bave unquesitonable uthority for the Jant terin. We have glven these extracts from the esany on Keuts, thouuh well aware that they are not tew, becaise they seeed oo zood” to pass when coming so temptingly In the way., The essavs on Charles und Mary Lamb—both Ly Mory Cowden Clarke—gro full of new and Lratityjog testimony 1o the beautiful lves of Wose noble souts, The generouity of Lamb was e w question fncontroversy, it appears, Aone n number of his acyuaintunees, when €, C.Coset It torever at rost Lr telling how Lawmb, vutuf hisslender income, had nude an allow: e of L30 per ansum to help support b old Schoolinistress, — Loinb's story of Luw he tired put a do 1s here deseribed rather than recited, Bat the reader can hougino his tellivg of the ay fu whlch his fricudahip with the dog bogan, how he o wearted of ft, sud bow ot fal he “broks fu O by tlring Lis troublesome friena out on one of his lung rutubles, r more probuble s it," writes Ny, Clarke, *that he encouraged {ts voluu- trered companlonsbin, amusiog hs imagination lll:;; ‘I‘;x'::":.by DI(':ul’lllL: Lhe \nlid Impossibility of n creaturs attempting to tire dog,~of ul) animals) il o Not less entertalning ls the paper on Mary Mb, whu wus an early scholmlatre w of Muary Clarke. The pletury of I8 wonderful woimun—stald, severe, sad, Mtctionste, silent, obscrvaut, and calmly fn: llrllmuml—\- 1ult of aucgestivencsa and mean- fug. We huva spacc oily for a hit, relercing to o relatlons of tey yet haif-jovial frlend- iz between the brother and sister: A way of ropeating her brother's words iy when ho spoke Lo her. 1o once aad ::lmlmurunlln wiode of tendernces, beueath uuk, sbrupt wpeech), *'You must’ die firat Bl nodded, with her Iiitle guiet nod and nust dio Grat, Charles, Yea, eF time, e aald fu bl Plucking out the worda In A':u:' T rars, ToaL W M Lween the umile with wiich he loaked at. hot, -+ 1 U3y iater Mol befor “lvv. in presence of friende; as w:“lmllunn with her,” [Just reves Sary Lamb took snu merely beca i, heeBrotor was foud o e e o have no room for au extract from the E:Jhe'r lune chapteron Leigh Huut, which s, ail ui‘:.l.(;::l;::’téuil. “ll.?.hu" lulculsung lu the ) uly u ";‘Mlu J“mm:y one from the chopter on fite was & taik at one time of his golng Into Jack Auoti and st & dinner-table where % o e Ject was discusecd, thero chencing to be hu.. seversl memvers of the House, some of 3 et wpoke of the very differens LhIg 1 wab (0 ad. o "Bany duder usual crcumstances sad to vuse, "' ubaerving what pecullarly }‘:L\:‘u: BRIt was 10 fucu that ...mhw.k‘.ma that T nhwul-l Pictuge (0 theweelves the ditiiculty 1l e e wetually cncountercd 1t Jeerold aver- hicutar s ie did uot think he whould Teel this par- By IO then turning 1o tae Piriamentary Uiy By 7S0L Foutia the dinacr-av., Le counted Lirg'uf P #31d. +*Thare ure ten of you wew- Cotylder Mhauieal before we: | suppose you don't il yer dtach s the gecateat fools (n the House, Bty yhn Y st Dteel particularty steaid of erutng yuu. ) t‘ll-:l‘guuul Aacaulay, with lis long howilies 5 Ih‘“'“l’ull Of the Huuse, sy to such & boast é j;:i‘l uwden Clarke acted f Charles Dickeus Lutty i) oy s BHLCUT company whicn weut with Ty, ‘:‘l“" Kingdow. “We remember Mas- ..h“:,”"‘f‘ 1101 bls rewiniscences thut it ur oo £0Josable, or even tolerable, auia- tuat o 'any Lic ever saw, and with one ¢XCep- ‘“:m:u u:xl$ ube he ever beard of. Dickens Sion wigh g P 2O dUning b entire wonuve- Varted gy oy SObanY, and Mri, Clarke bas re- i VL e el Lhat the reader cau uliost ot i bALY K seconud haml, The date o1 e U uglu'ar e Ty warket Tuesire o tho 15th of May, 1849, ‘I'nc entertatnment con- alsted of < Pne Merry Wives of Windsor''—in Which Miss Clarke dcted Jlame Quickiy—ond “Animat Magnetism. . Tie **make-np " of Charles Dickens s Juetice Shatlor was o complete that his own luentity was .almost unrecognizanlo when he came on to tho Atage, anthe curtaln rose, in company with S» Tiuah and Manter Stender, but after a moment's breathlesa nanise thie whole howse burat forth into n f applauaive reception. which teatifed to lers detight of tho assemhied sndienes on heholding the Jiteracy fdol of the day sctually be- fore them. i jmpersonation was perfect: the old, stlT limbs, the aentle ataon of the s nilders, the head bent wilh age, the feeble step, with a cer- 1nin apgrmnted emaetnees of © criage charactetlstlc of the conceited dustico of tha Peace, —were wib ansiimed and maintained with wondeeful nccuracy ; whtle tha nrticuiation, —vart liap, part thickness of niterance, part & kind of impcded sinlllation, like that nf & volee that *‘pines and whtsties in e wound * through loss of teeth—gave consume. wate effect to hia mods of specch., Meark Lemon was Falstaff, and an excellent one : Jubn Forster, Mater Fordy Juhu Lecch, Maater Slender; U, . Lewes, Sir Hugh Erans ; anid teorge Cruikshanks, Anc'ent Piato!, Each ol these” imnersonations, according to Mrs. Clarke, was adimirable and artistie, ~ The cus- wmes were all historieally correct, and great wains were taken to make them picturesque and anproprist Atter the tour was over, Dickens professed Lo he greatly depressed by the prospect of retiring toprivate life. On the last nleht, at Glasgow, bls entinistasm earried him away, ~ Mra, Clarke reports that at the suppor-table he was in the wildest apirits at the brilliant reception and up- roarfous enthualusm of tie awdionce that even- tng, and sald: “Blow Domestic Hearth! 1 shauld Tike to begolng on all overthe Kingdom, with Mark Lemon, Mrs. Cowiden Clarke, and Johin Uum manservant}, and ncting evervwhere, ‘There's nothing fu the world equal to seving the huuse risy At you, one sea of delighted faces, one hurreah of applivan 1" Liszt und Mendelssonn were visitors at the honse of Vincent Novello, Mrs, Clurke's father. Of tho former this is told: The first tme Lixzt cime to dinner he chanced to arrivo lato: the flsh had been takien nway, and roast lamb was on table, witl yte usuai Enullah accom- paniment of miut sance, This latler, n Mrango enndiment Lo the foreiener, %o pleased Linzt's taste that he fusisted on eating i witn the brought-baclk mackerel, ¥n well us with every enccceiing dish thak enme to Lable-—gonseberry tart ami ailt—hg good-uatnredly loting 10 the hilanty elictied by Iin noiversal adeptation aud aduption of miut sauce. Of Mendelssohin Mrs. Clarke writes: Luter on we hadl the frequent dettult of serinz aud hearing Felix Mendelesolin among na, Youth- ful yeurs, face, and tiguee, he loakeid nlmost a hoy when he first became kuown to Vincent Novellu, and - was almest boyish in his unatfected _eave, eiod wpints, and readiness 1o be dehiglited witty cverylhing done for htin and sanl 1o lim, 1lo was warde much of by hits welcomer, who so appre- clated bix genlns m compostiion and so warmly extolled him execution, buth on the orean and on the planofarte, that once when Mr. Novello was orateiug bl to an Enelish i Professor of 2omo uote, Wic Profeasor sald, **1f you don't taka curc, Novello, you'll sponl thal “young man, " l‘l'llu'nlhm guod, 100 genuine, to bu apolled,™ was he reply. 'We had: the privilege of balng with onr fallier when he took youme Mendelseohin toplay on the B, Paul's oreuis, where s feuls (an Vincent No- vello punntugly called thém) were positively astoundiog on” tho pedala of snatrimen Mendelasohn's organ pedul-playing was s eval won der,—s0 masterial, ¥ potent, o extraurdinanly aglio. The last bleca we ever heard hin play in England was Bach's fugue on bis own nunie, on the Ilnnover Square origan, at one of e hcerta #lven there. We had the good fortune {0 hear him Pplay eonie of his own pranofurte compositions, 1he book can bu hesrtily eomeided to thoss who hinve the tuste for liturn {me 1t nat, are_conselous ol tl cies, and desire to suuply L tons of Writera,”” with Le Lumb, Leteh Huat, Dougl Charles Dickens, One vol., 13m0, teresting fuc-shufly letter, York: Jerrold, and Witis an - Cloth, 8173, New Charles Scrabuce's Sons,) BRIISIE PORTRY. Another collection of British povtry has heen mude by James T. Ficlds and Edwin I Whip- ple, and poblished by Houghton, Oggaod & Co. ‘I'bis and all slmilar colleetlons of poetry are en- titled to u hearty reception, for’ the renson that they bring the poets of all times closer to the people. ‘F'hey often establish new relations be- tween the reader aud familiar verses; and they draw foredh mony neglected or half-forgotten pocts fnto the Heht of day. It may be strietly true that everyboily ought to bhave s personal acqualntance with the whole range of Uritish poetry, from Chaueer down to Bwinburne; but evervholy has not such an sequalut- ance. ludeed, few huve any knowledge worthy of the nume of the Briflah pocts, save a half-dozen favorites, and thyse penerally arc grent names, known ouly in - thele most worn possazes, A collection 10r popular reading will uot curreet dellviencics of this natures but it will ielp to nakie theny feas, 4t 1n within th experience of mose readers, o doubt, that vol- winve ke Bryaut's * Library of Poetry s Bong " and Emerson's ' Parnnssus " ars the favaorites in many houscholds, showing by their well-worn edgzea and sotled coruers ow” many hourathey have been fn use. Hours av expend- ed have not | wasted, The preseot edition as been carried out on an origiunl plan, so far us the selectlon and ar- rungement are coneerned. Tus editors have jrone to fieat sourves, of course, for their selee- tions, and have choaen muny whichexpress more truly their own preferences than the eommon Judgment. This §s particularly true of thy selecttons from the Elizatiethan dramatists, whom, Indeed, it was difllcult to repre- sent at all furly m o any - other way, The space allotted to Chaucer and Spensur 15 uzrecably large, Btakspeare i unly quoted from the sounets amld songs of the dramos; for it I8 nasutned, and rightly'we think, tiat every- body at ul) Interested tu Encligh poetry will have read thy piays, or have them easily secessi- ble. Beleetlons ™ from the othdr best-known poets sro abundant, Thus Byron is allotted thirty-six pages, Shetloy ten pages, Keats seven gncludlnz *The Eve ol Bt. Agues™ entire) Colertige twelve, Bouthey thirteen, Canpbell elghteen, Burns twenty-aix, Scott twenty-three, ad Wordsworth forty-seven. “The urrangement is chironotogleal, which, fur the cluss of work, Is o mauy accounts hetter than the topical, *The Famlly Library of British Poetry, from Chaucer to the Prescut Time (180018731 Edit- ed by Jumes T, Fie. s and Edwin Whinple, liuntn;n: Hougnton, Osgoud & Co. Price, — 3 TIE BIBLE CRITICISED, “What s the Bible” by J. T. 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It s n short history ot the Freuch people, occupying 108 pages of text and forty-four pages of uotes, written fn simple and idiowatic French, and {ntended meflnll{ for the use of bewlnners In the language, while at the saine timu conveyiug an smount of hlatorical Information about the people. (New York: Henry Holt & Co. Price, 75 cents.) * Ectectic 8hort-Haud," by J. G. Uross, s an attempt to further abbreviate an art which, the proverb to the ¢outrary, s now alu shaort, The poet who wrote that art was long, while )lfe was shurt, (id not livy, it should Le remambered, in the davs of* short-hand, Else he would have maditied bis saylng, \While this muthod contalus sons excellent suggestions, it does not xeem superlor to that of Litnan, Gra- bam, or Monson, whbim we rank In merit In tho order nam “Phere is tho furthier objection to Mr. Cross’ inetiod that uny person who should learn it would bo unsble to read any of the oth- e (**Crosa’ Kclectic Short-ltund.” A new system, adapted both to gencrul use and Lo ve, hatim reportiug, By J. George Cross, A, M. Chicago: 8, C. Uriggs & Co.) “*Catholicity fu_Its Relationship to Protest. antism and Komaots: Being Bix Conterences delivered at Nowark, N, J,, at the request of leading laymeu of “that city, Br the Rev. F.C. Ewer, 8. T, D, hs {5 & Hizh-Chureh view of Catholicity by un of the most eminent Highi-Church clerzvuien tn the conntry, Thero s sumathing sreogant and offenstve in the tane of wuthoritv whicli the writer pssumes, and this somethiog has prevevted us from getting far into the argument, which s thereforo conslened to the fudividus! judgmest of whomsovker 1t may concers. Thu aim of the authior is stated by llnncll to be: “To shaw the scevtic, lrst, why he should be a Chrlstiun rather than su o tidel or & Unitarian in bellef; secondly, a Cathi- olic ratber than'a Protestant; and, astly, an AnFllun Catholie rather than a Roman Catho- L’ (New York: G i Putnam's Sovs. Price, $1.50.) ** (ioodbolme’s Domestic Cyclopedia of Prac. tical Intormative™ Is fntended to e, sy the uatos (odicutes, un ald to bousckeepe Iteon- talns & great variely ol information i regand w furnislifug, cooking, bealiug, ete. Tue autbiori- ties referred to, or who bave given assistauce ig the flrc arations of articleés, are very mwauy and the bighest known 10 this country. ‘The per- sous having coutributed directly to the work are Calvert Vaux, arcbitect of the Cen- tral Park, aud Thomas Wiscdell, architect ; Lewts ds, Banitary Englueer; Col. Georze E. Wanng; Giebrgs Fletcher Babb, srchitect; AMry. Elizabeth 8. Miller, suther of *lu the Kitchen *'; snd Guiseppl Rudawt, lute covk in the Cookiug Nctioolaud chet de cuisioe, New- vort; Auatin Fiiut, Jr., and W, I\ Lusk, Fro- ssors 1u Bellevue Medical College: Abrulbam bi, Protessor i the Colicze of Phystcians d Burgeous; Elwyn Waller, of Coluwbis Cul lewe Scbivol of Miugs; Lealiv Pell-Clark, Vet- erioury Surgeon; Jourson T. Platt, Professur in the Yale Law School. Thig array of vames, and that of the editor, Tudd 8. Goodhuliae, ure guarantees that the Cyclopedis is tlled with uselul knowledge. (New Yourk: Heory ilolt & Cu. Price, 83.) * —— LITERARY NOTES, The pext volumeof tue *‘English Meu of Letters series will Le a iife of Oliver Gold- smith, by Wilitam Black. W. D). Howells bas written a pew story, called “The Ludy of the Aroostook,” which wlil bugin ik Novewmber dtluntic, aud run throngh tures numbers, coming vut in hook-form Inte In De- cember, sfter the January Aante shall have been fasued. Estes & Laariat have ready for thelr Cohweh Serica of fictfon *“The Little Good-for-Nothing," t-anvinted from the French of Alphonse Daudet. Heury Adams has edited a four-volume work to be called “Fhe Lifo and Writlea of Albert Gallatin,” wulch J. B. Lippincott & Co. will puolish, The example of Punch In publishing ita vol- nme of Beaconsfield cartoous has becn followed by Judy, who gnnounces a similar collection Uilustraiing the career of Mr. (Hladstone. . dules Bimon {s about to bring out a work ntwo volumes called *Le tiouvernement do A Tniera.”” Bampson Low & Co. will at the me time publish an English translation of it. Uharles Mathaws' widow has put into the hands of Charles Dickens nbundant materinl for a life of her husband, Including, for the early lfe, an_sutohlography, prepared for pub- lcation by Mr. Mathews, togetier with notes for the continuation of the same, letters, ctc. Mr. Dale senda to the Londun Spectator, with oM aevere comments, 8 literary note rom Lhe New York [ndependent expressing regret that the Messrs, Appigton shouid have printed the “Impressions of; Amerfea” without elving eredit the perlodical for which they were writ- ten, the .\‘mu»nl’f Century. ‘The serles is nut compiete, aceordine to the same authority and the Ameriean publishers, to say the least, tovk Ly the forelqek in priutiog thelr *¥ nandy volume," Rotiert Smith wtites to the Londoo Timet an falluwa: *‘1u Mry Gladstono's articie *Kin Be. yoni Sea. the cauplet from Jieher's ¢Pales- fim is strangely] misquoted. Instead of the ¢ No workman steel, no ponderons hsmmers ruag, Like sone tail paimthe stately fabric sprang, as fucorrectly given by Mr. Gladstone, they should read: i No hammer fell, no ponderous axes rane, Like some tall palm the tysti i¢ surung. ' P’rof, Boers, of Yale, has Jaid out the follow- g course of reading fur the senfor optivnal Ben Jouson, Kol Web- Hir cluss [n Enclieh literature: ceno: Beauniont and Fletcher, Philaste #tery, White Devid; Milton, Paradiso Los L. Browne, lydriotaplia; Pope, Moral Ess and Rape of tae Lock; Hwift, Guiliver's Vov. ages; Fielding, Tom Junes; Boswell's Joln. son; Cowper, The Tasks Wordaworth, Idiob Boy, Winte Doe of Hylstone, Lines Written Near Thitern Abboy, Ois on Tmmortality; De Yuincey, Confesslons of an Opium-Eater; Byron, Maufred and Beppos Sheliey, Ode to o Bkylark and Lincs Written in Euzanean Hllls; Culendge, Ancient Mariner; Keats, Hyperion aud Eve of St. Agnes. Deun Stanley Is to'visit the Marquls of Lorne fu Canada vefore returniog teo En: Mr, Grove, editor of Waemil-an's Maquzine, » that Jie aud the Dean havo been aelichted thus dor with ulf they have secn tn this country, Concerning the Dean's reception at Hartford by Bishup Willlams, the' J'vaf of that city relstes this storys “After the !mn{ und bustie of getting off tho traln was through with, the Deau, who s of dimidutive stature, was descried by the Bishop in u Mittle graup near by, Ap- proaching Dt Bishop” Williams remarked+ ‘Aud thisis Dean Stanloy' *Yes' was the reply, ‘und you, sir. are Blshop Williama?® Being suswered 1 the oflirmative the Dean louked up lnqulrnux:( into the tall Bishop's face and contimucd; *1did vot suppuse you were ®0 very tull, Bishop Wittlams,' * The Blshop, with that quick, gental bumor for which he s 80 noted, rephied: *And 1 did not know you were so short,' A rlnging laueh went rotnd, and the two distiuzutshed churchmen sauntered away as though they had been old-time friends, aud had not met before for years.! The fine speeches of Lord Dufferin, which read us it they were delivered extempogancous- Ty, ure really prepared und committed to niem- ory with the wreatest care, He works out o sprect generally tn the morning, and dictates it to hts shoruhund writer, who then transcribes his notes upon large sheets of toolscap, writing vu every fecund lfue, and leaving a margin of half the *page. The extended manuseript Is tlien returied to Lord Dulferin, who Imoroves s composition until somethines searcely n word of the urigluul copeeption remains. The amended copy is returned to the Secretary, who makes n Iresh transcription. This in turn un- dergoea revislon, and u third, and often a fourth and u fiith, transeription will be ordered, until Lord Lullerin Is eattsfil. Then he reads and reveats his periods over slowly, walking up ani down, und reciting paragraph by poaragraph, A reply i Greek which be mude o the Professor of Mctill University wheg ho was given a do- gree took him more than o week in {ts compo- sitlon, [t exeited wonder wud admiration in Canadtun and Euglish Jeuroed clreles as o plece o ullnaud scholurship, PERIODICALS RECEIVED, ‘The Lidbrury Journal for Scptember has in- teresting articles by Justin Winsor, C. A, Cut- ter, Melvil Dewey, aud otners, Wu have received the third number of the Kirografer and Stenograyer, **u quarterly mag- azine devoted to rveform in Orthopraphy, Chrogruphy, Typography, Language, Educa- tion, und Kindred Arts and Sclences,'—rather o comprehensive scheme. Jo B, & E. U. 8mith, of Amnerst, Mass,, ure the publishers, West. cern agent, B, B, Park; Post-Ollice Box, 104, Jtobinsan's Ep'toweaf Literature (Phfladelphia, 1803 Chestnut ‘strect) 18 printing a seriva of civs on the private Hbrarles of Philagelpbia, Thu nuwmber tor October contains o must inter- esting descrlption of the library of Mr, Henry C. lea, the author of * Bunerstition and Forve” 1t 1ssuld, Ly the way, that Mr, Lea (3 now en- faged on u ¢ Listory ot the Inquisition,” and un uecount of the great relizions of the werld, and thelr development fotw practices akin to magic and sorcery. 5 The American Law Heview for Oclober (Hos- ton: Brown & Co.) has tlie following cuntents: ** Money Rocoverles in Patent Suita''; * Exemption trom ‘Taxation by Legislative Con- tract,”” by James F. Colby, Néw Haven, Conn.; * Postponing Priorities” of First-Mortzage Liens,” by Alex M. Clayton, Lamar, Miss.: *The Quality of Property i Fixtures” b (leorge I, Montague; Digest of the English Law Reports; Beleeted Digest of 8tats Reports; Digest of Cuses in Baokruptey; Book Notices; Summary of Events. The Cleago Midical Journal and Eramtuer for October contains the following . orlinnal communications: “The Plementary Bvphilo- derm,” by J. Edmondson Atkinson, M. D, *lutlammatior,” by W, A. Atk A Sodiileation af the Style," by M. D.; Rleney, ceessity of More flerole Treatment of Lumbar Abscess,” by E. Andrews, On Bome Nuvel Modes of Rellef v H. Gradle, M. D, ‘The society roports, clinles] reports, and corre- spundence ‘are us ntercsting and valuable s usual, There are two editortaly, the first on “Tne Late Aqitation Arising from su Advertise- ment," and the second on *Ths Becular Preas on the Treatnent of Yellow Fever," Asinight be expected, the editor scares tue daily papers severely lor presuming Lo express un opinlon about “the proper treatment of yeliow fever, It must bo sald, however, that he shows ot leust us nuch presumption snd lguorance when ho attempts to describe the manner (n which editorinls should be writt tor the dafly newspape 1t thero 1s oue thin writera 1or “the dully press may be supposed to know more about thau the average doctor Knows, it 1 thes way fn which editoriuls should b weltten, (Chicaira Medical Press Assocls- tot, No, 188 Clark steeet.) FAMILIAR TALK, TROPICAL NATURE. Mr, Alfred R. Walluce, in his new book,— “Propleal Nature' und other cssays,—deals with the cliuate und physical uspects of the Equatori- al Zoue, which ha llmits to 12 deg. on each side of the Equator. Fur, sithough tropical coa- ditions vxist up to, und even boyond, the lmits of the Tropics, they are nefther so coustsot uor s0 unlversal ay between the narrower limits, He shiows with great clearuess aud foree the various causes which contribute to the futease beat of tho Tropics,~—causes which arcuotso very patent us ut Urst they sppear to be. 1f, fur exawple, the summer temperature of Loudon ls compared with the temperature of Datavia of tuc same month, when tho sun s at a greater altitude as tie former place than the latter, and rematus touch fouger wbove the lon- 2ou, wo lud & ditference of 90 dew. i favor of Batavie. But even witho heat of 80 des. ut Batavia, it 18 dangerous lor & stranger to expose bimsell to tis sun, while i London such & temberature can be borne with something ap- prouching delizht. Mr. Wallaco shows the vars- ous conditious Which contribute to this differ- euce tn what may bu called the quality of the Leat ot the Tropwal sud Temperate Zoncs. ‘There by, of course, the coustaut dirvet wction of the suu itseli; then thete arw tho beat of Lue sull,whico never wholly escapes ; squeous vapor, an uver-preseut storebouse of heat: winds which aro sloiust Invartably warm, And yet zony Mr. Wullacu speaks of us & tsvored {ru tho bieat {s never oppresstve us it so comes on the vorders or the Troplcs, congeuisl couditios bed caused by the lurge smount of 3GUEOUS Vapor wlways peescut in tho uutnvspiere. The unlwzmity of this equatorial elfmate o il parts of tha globe iaa fentare worthy of remark. The only ex- ceptions to the rlo ara where there ie n scanty vezetation,—as in Central Indla, where the scanty and {ntermittent rainfall, with Its fearful accompaniment of famine, are, no_doubt, In great partdue to the absenceof a sufficient pro- rtion of forest-covering to the earth's surface; and It Is,”" Mr. Wallace states, “*to a syste- maticplantingof ull the hill-tops, elevated ridges, and lugher alopes that we can ‘alune look for n radical cure of the evil.”” This wonld almost certalnly prosduce not only increased rainfall, but clieck cvaporation from the sofl and give birth to pereuntal surings. AN ANCIENT CHAPEL, The demolition of the Brilge Cnamber st Rochester Bridge has led to the discovery and opening up of the remains of the anclent chapel of Alle Solven, or All Souls, the existence of which was well known to antlquartes, although what remained of the ancient edifice was en- tirely hididen by the surrcunding bulidings, n portiau of the chapel belng, until very recently, sdweliing-house. The whole of the walls of the chapel, up to what ouce was the roof, 44 now ¥lsible, together with portions of the ook beams, wille near where the aitar formerly stood has been found & plseina. The main cu- trance through the porticu, which stlll stands, ia In & perfect state, while the stone moldings of the door and windows, and portions of the bointed arches, may still be traced, The chapel of All Bouls was founded by 8tr John de Cub- ham, who, with ¥(r Rolert hnolics. was the founder of the anclent bridge over the Medwa: at Rochester, aml was buiit in 1399 in accord- ance with the then prevalling custom of bujld- ing chapels near bridges, was (ntended My fur the use of travelers crossing the Lbree pricsts belng appointed to oflls @iate fo ity each with a stipend of L1 paid out of the bridge eatates, Three masses swere reclted daily for the beuetit of travelers, special prayers Letngs offered for the repose of the souls of the principal founders of the bridge. Probably the chanel was dissoived tn the relien of Klizabetn, nain herretzn tue Attorney-Genera) sued the Biridge Warders for the stipeid of twenty-cight years and u half ' formerly patd to the priests, and forfeited tu the Crowb. As It appeared that no ecrvice had been perfornied in the chepel, Judgment was given agalust the Crown. It Is thought probable that the anclent chapel witl be restoredo—London T'ines. TIE ORTENTALINTS, ‘The Congress of Orintalists has Jately been in sessiun at Fiorence, and 2 number of able letters coucerning it have appeared fn the Lon- don Times, being vresumnably from the peo of the new cditor, who fs limasell o distinguished Uriental scholar. Amoug the delesates were representatives of Orfental learning from ail parts ‘of tne world. Varlous entertatnments were offeccd to the Congress. Signor Rosst entertained thirtv of the most distinguished members at dinacr, and all were fnvited to visit the ex-Kini Amiadeus at his palace In the vicin- ity of Flurence. A number of prizes and uwards of ment were distributed. Mr. Charles G. Lelaud, writing to the 2'ress, of Phisladelphia, concerning the Congrees, suys that, as tiie rep- resentative of an outlawed and wandering tongue, the Rommiany, be was included in the Indo-European e . and he add: Iam buppy to say that the fact thut Rommuny has u rupresentative bns been wost cordially wel- comed by Profs. Benfey, Ascoll, sud M. Vam- bery, wiio have assured mu that too litble atteution has hitherto been drawn to this most curious Hindo-Perstan dialect.” Among the nembers wus Renan, of whum the Thines corre- spondent. writcs thus: *\Ye do not easlly con- ceal our aurprise at being told that this ‘mild, placid entleman, whose plysiozuomy ndi- cates rather a countrsman of Rewbrandt than of Rousseatt, portly und comfortable in uis en- casings, and & mouth whose fiue moaeling gives one the lwpresston of tmidity, grest sensltive- neas, ad stucerity, fa the wai who has so lately eiven stich rude ussaults to the old behefs, and such shiaking to the iufallibitists, that wen who five in the faith make him almost a synonyin for rauk and utter skepticlsm.—Nenan.” You lovk twice, three times, and still do not understand Low this wan could be a disturbivg element fo suclety,!? COLERIDGE IN 1830, We found Colerdee bland, smfable, affably- inclined, As he came Into the room, lange- presenced, ambple-countenunced, wood furee headed, e seemed to the younger visitor a liv- Ing aud moving lmpersunation of sowe autlque godlike beine shiedding o light around bim of poetic cffulgence and omnipercipience. He bent kindly eyes upon her whon she was fntroduced to him as Vincent Novello's eldest danghter and the wife of her Introducer, aud spoke a few words of couricous welcome; then, the mu- slvian’s name catehivg his car aud engaging his atteution, he timinediately launched forth into a noble eulogy of muske, speaking of hiy speclal admiration for Beethoven as the most poetleal of all musical composers: und from that. went on it a superh disscrtation opon an fdva be bad couceived that the Creation of the Uni- verse must have been uchleved durlog o grand prevalling harwouy of sphiera) musle. His efe- vated toug, us hie rolled forth his gonzeous sen- tences, bls lofty ook, bis sustaned flow of lunczuave, s subline utterunce, gave the effect of some maguiiicent oruan:peul Lo vur entranced cul It was only when he came to g pause 10 Iis subject—or, rathier, to the closs of what he had to say upon lt—that be reverted tu ordinary matters, learued the motlve ol our visit and the message with which we were charzed, amd sn- swered some wuguiries nbout bis bealth, MENDELNSOIHN, Fellx Mendclssohn was a giited man, a troe genlus: apd he might have ahione in several other flelds, as well as in that of mnusle, had he not solely dedieated himself to thut art! He wus a good plctorial artist, and made spirited sketches. 1o wus un exceilent classical setolar uud ouce, at tho house of au English musical Protessor, whose sou had been brought up for thu Church, sad had been s University student, there chuncing to arfse & dfference of opleion betweeu him aml Mendelssohn as to soms in the Ureek Testument, when Wua takon dowd te o declde the. question Mendeissohu proved ta e tn the right, Ile was well read Ju Engllah litepature, and lurzely sequatnted with the best Engliehh poels. Once, happening 10 express o wishty rend Burns' poctos, and reevetting thac he eouid Bot wet them before ha | sturtive next mornfoe for Germ Nuvello and C, C, C. procured a fine pausculine Scottish poet at Bleke, cester ¥quare, on their way down to the boat b waich Mendelssolin was o leave, and peach there In time to put {uto his daud the wian for ook, and ta” sce his wratiled ook on re. celving the gift. To I3 persvs to this incident we OWe the charlng two-purt song, * O wert thou In the cudid blaat,"—Ulecollectivia of Writera, SPARKS AFRICAN EXPLORATION, The African expedition under Mr. Kelth John- alou, urpuuized Uy the Afacan Cosmivtee of the i now cuwpieting ils sland early i Nuo- Soure weekw will bu” spent_In welentife tlon In 1o coadt regluns uesr Zauzivar be- the party fnully nacchos for the interior, the raute to ba thun takew beinz from Dar-es-ou W the norty eud of ke Nyases, nnd bonce Panganyika. - A geologist Las bee sppoluled as Laut nod second iy command tu Sle. Joba- -Atreacusn, 1u connection with the above, a learned paper recently read by M. H. Dureyrier will prove fu. terestiug. He poluts out how 1aucn yet remaing 1o be done before our kuowledge of Atrica bs anything like complete, He shows that scarve- 1y u century ago thes map of Africa was filled with the must faatastic errore. The Nile tsaued trom the mouutains uf the Moon, the Satura was coly s sca of ssnd, and the Niger and Sen- egal formed & slugle river. Tos sccand balt of the ninetcenth century warks & new cra fo geog- ruphy, sad wmost particularly ju the weography ol Alrics, In which there now remata only geven regions, vast, it is true, on whict she zeal of ox- lorers nust be exescised. “fuwas regiony are” the porth, the Sabiars sud the Livyan Des- ert; fu the weat, the country between Lie Joliba and tue coast of Guines; in the ceutre, the ubper course aud the sources of tue Dluge and the Shari; iu tbe cast e juterfor of the Cape Guardafui und the chaiv of lofty wouut- alus in: tus Equaturial Zoue; al the eentre e completivu o1 the basine of the Nile, the Congo, uud the Ogove; oud, toally, lu the south the busiv of the Cusene. Tue Babara, with the Libyan Desert, furis ultogother a great natural regivu, braced Ou vUr Wave ratber after tae fo- lurin: u ol the uatives than according tu the discovencs of European vovazers. This region 13 tiul oIy neageat to us, but it is also much the most extéusive, measunng 5,730,000 square olsetres, o suverticies eual to uli Europe, cewt the balt of Russia. ‘The Sahara, w splie of 1te desolute aspicl, 13 far from deservitg our disdain: its populatious bave » bistory ss old ss a0l By bty aid 11e 0dvey 2 Jeviels woich do o [ 13 :hlc wreatest honor to their creators and maln- ainers, Addingtogether the arensof these seven great lacunce, we find that they amount to upwaris of 1L000,000 square kilometres, more than one- third of the African Continent. But there Is no reason to_be discouraged st this large figure. 8ince the beginning of "the present century the discavery of Africa has proceeded at 8 mean rate of more than 234, uare kilomat| :F yeac, and it it gocs on at this rate the whole of the Alfrican interlor vught to be known In Tess than forty-elzht vears. But this caleulation takes no account of the reametric prosression of the fig- ures of the discoveries, which now produce in one vear more than in the first twenty years ot the centary. 8tiil further, in connectlon with this subject, it 1s Interestine tanoticea correspontdence Iately passing through the columna of the Londun Times with reference to the use of elepuants in Alrican exploration. The importation amd usc of Asistic clephants was at dret proposed, but several writers sav that the African elephiants can easily be tamed. Mr. Sclater, the Secretary of the London Zoological Socluty, potnts to the fact that the Alfricun clephants therc are as tame and gentie as any of thelr Asiatic cousine al 8ir Samucl Baker says Lhst to his knowi- edue clephants re used ss beaste of bunlen by the Nubiuns in the Souidtan, whu sre noticeably kind to all animals and funit of them. 11 Af- tican clephants cau be used in the manner indi- cated, the problem of explorations vn that con- tinent will soon be solvell. The great il ulty heretofure has been to get transportation. anley started on liis last expedition with sev- cral hundred burden-bearers, and they were of course siower amd much Tesa ciliclent than cle- phauts would have heen. 'l discussion of fthese subjects throngh the London newspapers shows, by the way, what oo hnbulse has of fate been eiven to Alrican exoloration by Stanley’s succesd. 18 THE EVOLUTION THEORY ATIIF- 1STIC? Prof. Simon Newcomb's ahiress. on his retir- ing from the anuual Presidency ot the American Ausaclation, is a stugularly lucid explauation of the state of the case as hetween the ferv oy en! and the meshan'ce’ explanations of the operas tlons of Nature, Tne drlit of his arzument In best seen fo the summary with which the ad- dresa eoncludes, and which s In aubstance as folluws: Fiest, when men study the operations of the world around them, they tind sume of these plalnly deterinbied by law, while others apoear tu be purely arbitrary, This latter cluss of vperations wen attribute to the direet retion of supernutural betnes,—guids: aud they furtber wscribe o ilicse wods sltns, desizus, to be at- tained through these futerveutions fo the vourse of Nature. Further, men believe thems eclves able to discern these deslens, and thus to expluln these arbitary operations, But, as kunowledue advances, oue alter anutlier of thease uperations ts luund to ve reatly determined by law. Finnl causes baving thus, one by one, disappeared from "every thicket which” has teen fully cxplored, the “question arises whiether thev now hsve or ever had any existeoce at all, On tue one hand ft mav be ialwed that it s unphilosuphlest tu belleve lu them when they have been sought ju valn fn overy corner Ioto which light cun_penetrate, On the other band, we have the difficulty of sccounting for those very laws by which we tind the course of Naturc to”be determined. Tuky the Jaw of hereditary descent: how id such a law, or, rather, how did such u process, trst commuence! It this 18 not as legitfmate w’ sub- Ject for fnquiry as the question how came the noud. “the eye, or the first ' gerin, futo existence, it 1s oniy becouse it seems wmore dullcuit to Investigate, When the ductrlne of the univeraality of natural law fs curried so far asto include tho geneatn of living beiwze and the adaptations to external elreum- stances which we see {n thelr organs and their atructure, it Is otten pronounced to be athelstic, Whether this fudzment s or s not correct, Prof. Newcomb would not undertaka to decide, but suld that {t fs very eus” to propound the test question by which its vorrectness I8 to be determined: s the general doetnine of causes actine fu gpparently nlind obedlence to inva- rlable law In fusell atheistiet ™ If it {s, then the whole progress of our knowledee of Nature hias been in this directlon, for it has con fu reducing the operations of Naturd to such blind abedlence. 11 the doctrine fs uot uthelst- fey then tiere is nothine atheistic (o auy pliase of the thieary of evolution, for thic consists solety in mecounting for certain natural laws.~—Z'opular SUIENCE NOTEN. It is stated 1 tho Chemical Juurna' that gly- cerine r=tands both lactic and afeiholle fermenta- tions. Ove-fi1eh of glycerine added to mitk ata temperature of 16 des. to 20 deg. C. prevents it from turning sour for elrtit or tén days, ‘The exorbitant price demanded by the patent- czs of the Bell telephone for their instrumenta causcs no Nttle discontent in Eonviund, whero that form of the telephone has the fletd to teeif, sufur us the Jaw 33 concerned. It Goes seem rather extartionute to levy trom twenty-five to thirty putnds sterllug ou the purchase of an - strument that could besold witha profiv for mauy sulllings. The result ie, that the 16 boldly intrineed: the reparate parts elephotie are tor sale everywiere at a low price, uiid s0 people are enabled 1o make tetephionss for themsceives, Analysis and oxsmination of the dead Rocky Mountain locusts by the Uniteld Stutes Entor logial Comtulssion showe {hat these Insects luralsh a new oit which witl be christened ca op- tine, angl 0 very large percentage of pure formie acid. Though this acld cXists i tne ant and some other msccts, it 1 with diflienlty obtained w large quandiles: whereas by the action of sulphuric aeid upon tho focust Julces, it passes oft with great readiness, and in remarkaole quantity aud gravkiy, Tue vartous uses ot 2his acky s @ therapentie, wre capable ol geeat uod valuable extension, where it can be obtaines 80 readily, and in such quantity.—Druyyis Circwar, In a very fnteresting article on tho Geologleal {hstory of New York, by Prof. J. 8. Newberry, of Colambla Collee, f5 this graphic piture of the city before the ol peeind, He unys: S In the misddie and later ‘Tertiary epochis—the Mioceue and Pliveene—all the worthern portion of the coutient stood higher above the vea t uow, forwe fiml aliers to markne deposty that ages uod die nninense wumbers of tords, or submerged vatlevs, which (ringe the coast are, e Dana Jone wlnes potited out, the resuts ot subacrlal eroston and proofs of elevation. A reniat climate then prevatied to the Arctie Sen, and all tue continent was covered with @ mire Tuxuriant flors, and luliabited by u more varied luuna, thun can be Tonml pny- wucre o on dts surface. This was, in- deed, for Ameriea, the golden age of nui- mule and planis, and W ol respects but pne— the abeerce of man—the country was o (ne teresting und pleturesque than now, We must 1magiue, therefors, that the bills and valleys uboitt the presvat site of New York were ou vred with novlu trecs, amd u dense undergrowth of apectes, for the must part ailferent from thust Buw LIVIug there; s tint theso were the homes and feeding-grounds of msuy kinds of quudruveds und binky, which lave sin became extinet, "The broad plain which sloped gently seaward from the highlands must have bren covered with a sub-tropial forest of yrant :rlm and tungled vines tecmiug with animal ifn.* The Nation prints the fo uote on Prof. Du Boba-Revimund’s uditress, “Crvilization and Belence, largely hiown 1 Awericin readers through the trausistion of it It Lopsar Seence Monthy & £ Prof. Du flols- iteymon, s+ Civilieanion and Scienc B sowing futeresting valuable wddross on “las boen widety read through its translaiion W the Sopelar Scence Jionthly, Probably sll whe lave read lhe ad- dreds have fell huw tnadeauate—alinost ludlcrous- ho explavutlon given o the duafall of the ancient world, namely, the Jack of drearms, or, &t vottuin, a deliciency 1 the techuicul power over Nature. " Lurens pointe out, well enouzh (roim vur dodos and’ Bearuolo wars, that the: or urms ary not long tu indinz their way 1o the wavazis, aud_that Odwacur wonld Bave verthirown the Ttoian Eupire ail the cartiee 1f there bad been DELOF Weapons within his reack. The woral causcs of ihly vreat catastroptis Du Meymond doed not peem to ntlce, when b describes C the lamps no scullery-gizl would tolerate now- ad, Lut by the Iyt of which **Cusar wrote ja *Uouiimentarles,’ Clcero rounded his periods, and lluruce gave the last nolish 1o his *Odes, tae reader caunol help asking whetlier these are uot after all 8 higner vroduchon or civilization lusn keroseuo lamps or g Loreus, however, auwwers pertlusotly that theey ts proved bere u Jow degree of Techiik in regard to wbe laws of dame; but bow in regurd Lo the working 1 the wetals of waich the lamp Is ma s remsrks upon the connoction of Wwonvibelem with scicutite progress accany @ §00d part of the srticie und uzo w ell worth resding. — A Mighty Hunter—An Eagilsh Omcer Who flas Slaiu Four ilundred Tigers. It bas not futlen to toc Tot of wany men to slay nearly 300 yigers—io say nuthivg of smaller game—in n Wfethoe, even when one’s whols bave bevu devoled to such pursuits. M. d'Harancourt, a Freucthman, who has been vursulng the avucation of o **buuter wllparts of the world, clatins to be tho greateat tizer- Willer 10 the world; and, baviie achicved this reputation, ke Js bow, it aupeurs, reclioiug on Lts Isurels {u the diguitled pusitioo of Theer- Slayer o Generad oF the Government of the Straits Settlcments, baviug beew engazed, 80 it i reported, 1o destroy these ausmal at 10 per A kUil otiicor o ludis, boveid, euergls Lead, - Maj. Probyn, Superintendent of Polilce, in Khandelsh, must run this slayer of tigers protty closely fn his claim to the title of . champln tiger-killer. During the last threa or four years Maj. Probyn s eliot not lesa than 400 tizers In the district of Khandefsh alone, and the fm- munity from the ravages of these animals whicn he accuredd for the fnhabitanta of the district has even overcome the auspicion with which tho natives too often regards any Englighinan wi.o killa a tiver. “The destriietion of these nes I8 loohed npon by certaln clissca as an act of sacrilege, certaln to be visited with feariul pun- Ixhiment on the willage conniving at the arct, Ma], Probyn, however, having practicallv rid the district of the presenca of the upwelcons vlsitor 6 carned the gratitnde of the Inlab- itants, recently, when there was a talk of his leaving the nelghtxrhood, they memotial- tzed the (invernor o{ Kombay not™ to remove hiin, Doubtleas there are other districts in In‘lia whera hls presence wonld be equatly wel- cowne to the people—If unweleome to the tigers, ARMY NEWS. HEADQUARTERS OF TIIE ARMY. Wasnnarox, D, C.—Lieat.-Col. Alexander Chambars, Twenty-first Infantry, 16 heroby relieved from receuiting aervice, Ly the direction of the Secretary of War,a Board of Officera—to consiat of Licat, -Col, Emory Upton, Fourth Artillery, Surgeon J. R, Smith, alnf, J, C. Tidball, Second Artiltery, Capts. llichard Lodor, Fourth Artiliery, and Lotenzo Lorain, Third Ar- Ullery —14 apuointed to meet at Fort Monroe, Va., Get. 10, 1478, 10 examine Intoand report npon the clafina and auaileations for promation to of Second Llentenantin the Arny of cummirsiuned officers ns may be ordered Seryt, Charles Dodge, Jr.. pencral scevice, wiil In peraon_for examination to Col. Ugton, ident of the Buard, iy dircctinn of the Beeretary of War, the fol- Towing w snodituted for paragraph 2 of General Oritera No. 18, of 1871 The Secoml Comptrolier of the Tresanry baving, by fetter 1o the Second Auitor, dated the 20th of June last, decldert that **the dny an which rervice begins and the day on which service ends snonld bs couted in the putation of wazes earned,t ayments for servlces of ofiicers aud noldlers wiil, Bereatier, caver muth tho daics of commcncement anl espiration of sernice. Suldiers dischareed by expiration uf torm uf enhatment can be re-enfisted on the day aller their dlachare, thas making their Dpay continsnu: v ‘I'he Buperintendant Mounted Recrnliing Serviea will cause Bity recrutte to be preparcd and fore wardvd utider proper charse to Caddo, Indin Ter rilury, for saelenment to the Fourtn Cavalry. DEPARTMENT OF DAROTA. Tzapquantens, ¥r. Pavt, Miss.—llerealter wheuevee ap enilated man is tried by General Court-Martial In this deportment and acquitted, the President of the Court will, In writing, nuiily the commanding officer of the prisancr that there in no longer any necessity for keoplng the man in confinement, Capt, Joseph Lawson, Third Cavalry, ia herchy detaflud an Intpector of Indian Supplica at Red- Cloud Agency. Company ¥, Seventeenth Infantry, now ot Forl Snelling, will proceed to Fort Siseeton, ana thers take post, Lieut. Francls Wondbriawe, Seventh Infantry, with o guard of Sve enllsted men. will proceed frunt Fort Enolling to Furt Leaveaworth with ‘eleven Nez Peree prisoners, and will then tutn the [u- » over to the commanding officer of tho last~ named post, Hospital Steward Henrv C. Bloom, TU. 8. A.. will proceed 1o Faort Sha ith those companicd of ch regtment which under orderd tu take station AL rort Shaw, snd will then report tu the commanding officer for duty at that post. DEPARTMENT OF THFE MISSOURI. HEsDQUARTERS, Fonr Lravexwonti, Kix.— The tolepram from this ofce to Capt. Luke O'Rellly, Ninetecnth Infantry, Plercevifle, Kau., ordering him to retarn, with his own company anu Cnpt. Tuwie's, to Fort Lyon, Col., Is hereby confirmed, Tho telegram from this office dirceting (ol. Jef- Davle, Twenty-third Infantey, to retnrn with ferson to bis Mation. at Port Leavenworih, Kan. Lieats. W, ¥, Rice and P. T. Brodelek, ¢ master and Adjatant of bis regimeot, 3 he contirmed, b Actinz_Assistant.Surgeon W. Battour, I S, A.. will proceed hence 1o ort Wollace, Kanszn, and report for temparary duty to the commandiug ofticer of that past, In compiiance with the summour of the Ne- corder In the cass of Fitzlahn Futfer, rie Shorkiay. Fificentls Infantry, will proceed to Guvernor's fsland, New York liarbor, and re- port fo Maj. Gardner, Judge-Avocate, Recorder of tuw Cuurt, Maj. . G. Swain, Judge-Advocate, will pro- ceed In chiargu of tho ‘remaina of the late Liel Col. W ewls. Ninetevuth Infantry, to Xandy i, ‘whers "they will bo_delivered {ntu ta¢ Landeof tho family forinterment. DEPARTMENT OF TE HEADQUANTERR, BAX ANTONIO, Te: ie Toal Quarterinasters at the several poets in thin de- vartinent, aud the Depot Quariermaster at Suan Antunlo, will forward to the Philadulpnia depot of the Quartetmaster's Departent, mvoleed to Capt. Jotin 8. Rodgers, Military Storekeeper, all the old patiern folded eampalgn hats on band at the re- specilve statione, with o view to thelr being vltered 50 s to conform to the new style, now being fustied to the szmy. “The fellowing ofiicers are hiereby relleved as mem- bers of the Giencral Court-Mal Laredv, 7Tex.: Capte, J. 8, A t'oe, and C, O, Dradley, of the I'wentie funtry; and First-Lient, 8, tllery; t=cond-L1 nlry, and W Dt Al cund Artilivry, are LB Ldgerton hereby dlelatled in taulr st ‘lflm Lieut. W, A. Thompson and Kecond Livuta, digers. Fourth ( A o0 Twentieth [nfantry, ore heredy detailea as nemnern of the Ueueral Court-Martial mstituied at Fort Clark, fexas, vice Capt, W. L. Kvil “Tenth Tutasitey, aud Kecond Lisate, ¢ AL 0'Con i Elghibs Cavalry, liercby nor and John tinest, Jr., rehieved, DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO, UgabquanTine, Santa Feo 2 Mexico, — AL the ‘request of ‘the Interior Department the Warin Spring Indians, numberine 260 suuls, mora or lces, mow heid us prisoners of war at 0jo Callente, New Mexico, wlil bo retnrned to thair proper uzency st San Carlos, Atleona, Company 1, Ninth Cavalry, Ia hereby detatled as escort for the purpore above mentloned, and wilt proceed under coumand of Its Seeond Lientenant, -« W, Merritt, Ninth Cavairy—to Ofo Cahente, New Mexico, ¥iesi-Lieut, I 1L Clark,, D'ifteenth Infantry, will at ouce roceed to Fort Usiden, New Mexico, and relleve PivsteLiont, W, 0, Cory, Lificenth iufaniey, o 3L and A B, ut tisl belng wo relieyes Livut. nee o Ojo Culienite, Mow ‘iret-Licut, Geurga A, o ¥, Of command f Company autes s who, upnu belu relieved vy | proveui ot uncy Maccy iecutly and tolieve o Flftoentiy uf comuaid of C o who will report for [ “Tue 10itowins appolatments to 1 the district ure livreny name 5, F, llerlow to be Fumze Arent . auerque Lo between Sanla Fe and Sew desice, F, . dpare 10 be Porage Agent st Las Lunse, New Mesico. Adolph Lea to be Furage Ageut st Leusbucy, Nuw Mezico. Forage Agencies e tho Attye Bernalilly, 155¢ LLANEOLUS, Leaves of ahecnve ilave bevn granted Ma). G. A, Gordun, Fiith Cavalry; [ Q. Thooiae, raymase ter; Capts. Jumve A, Snyder, Third Jufantry, and A. B, Kaufan, Eigbtt Cavalry: Chaplain M. J, Kelly: Lleuts, Georgo U, tlodd, Third Cavalry; Jawes I Lone, Twenty-Efth Tufamry; I Trown, Firth Anhllery; uud Fraok Tuylor, Pwens ty-fourth infautry, PROMOTIONS, The actlon of the War Departient oo the ques- tlon of Btiing the vucancles in iy rauk of Cap= 1alig prowutes the foltowing onlcers: First_Lieulenauts (o bo Copisine—Edward W, Ward, Fiith Covairys Joan [, Maturken. ¢ Masou Carter, l-‘u“n lufautey: , Eleventh Infautry @ euth lufantry ; Th 8. uberte, Riley, ‘Tweuty ! sle, Tweaty-third lufuutry: apg Viowds F. Mere it Tweuty-fourtn futantry, Becuud Llsutcuaule to by First Licutenante— Charies 1. Watl b Cavalry: Geuree P, Borden, il lnfantry: Francis W. Mausueld, Eloventn tufuutey: Geurge L. Kinzie, Fifteenth infante Georga” H. Rouch, Seveulecuth tufantry; Juscpli W. Duucin, ‘Twoaty-test lufantey: Edward 1. Pratt, Twenty-tbird lofsutry: aud Wil 1L\, James, Twenty-lourih Jufantey, 1t is expected shul the wisty-8ve vacancics ou the sotized livk will by glicd aunin;t this mouts. et 3 THE NIGHT-WIND. el me, O tbuu Nizht-Wind, what thou haal vevn R Ax Loy nuat come wpon thy way 1g-ulebt. " *rL bsve sces the bride dreased 1L sowy anc The colined foss beueath the taper's g 1 waw tho Chrigiian ie, us watuts of ol Fhe miver, fov, clulching b bazs of puld Jaaw a wother clasy hier vabe fu deati— Abotuer walch Lur Daw-barn's vpeuing Lreath, 1 saw tke druubard rosus dbont the sriet - Hits bunzry culldren, 100, with vbuelcss feet 1 waw buthi Juy uud Sorrow v Ihelr race— Sorruw vatran. forduy stopuc vft upac 3 Yet, tbought 1, Suttw Lt e oad Ua brecze, For' mourufully it agued hwid we ey, i iy