Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 13, 1878, Page 3

® ’ “THE .CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. OCTOBER 13, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES FOREIGN. Additional Particulars of the Thea- tre Panic in Liverpool. Thirty-six Persons Crushed to Death in 8 Few Moments. Gambetia’s Recent Speech Intended to Affect the Senatorial Elections. DISASTERS. TIE LIVERPOOL CATASTROPHE. Lrverrool, Oct. 12.—Tnere were between 4,000 and 5,000 persons in the Coliseum Theatre Jast night when the terrible and fatal panie oc- curred. It appears that one of the nerformers was sinzing 3 comic song when a free fight com- menced in the pit. The ery of “Fire? . was raised, and there was a general stampede for the box-ullice entrance, thoush there are said to have been five other doors open for the egress of tbe audience. The police inside and outside the theatre vainly endeavored to control'the frantic crowd. The structure of the theatre at the point where the crusfi occurred is intricate. ‘Thie exits converye into a narrow *well,” and it was fu this well that the suffocations took place,and the dead were piled six or seven bodies deep. An upright partition in the centre of the doorway stopped the passage until one of the men attached to the theatre cut it away, ensbling some of the imprisoned people to es- cape. A scrpe of the rreatest excitement prevailed outside the theatre. The firc-engines and fire- escapes arrived, and ‘the tiremen, joining the . police, entered the building to reassure the people. The manager of the theatre, upon the fitst alarm, rusbed into the pit from the cn- trance and shouted to the people to remain quiet, but all his efforts were ineffectual until he theatre had been nearly cleared, when the dead and injured were carried to the Royal In- drmary. Twoof the dead were women, three were boys, and thirty-two were strong, able- bodied men of the laboring class. SEVENTEEN DROWNED. - Loxpox, Oct. 12.—Seveuteen persons have been drowned at Cortemigha ana Miliesimo, in Fnrmem Italy, by the overflow of the Bormida tiver. & THE EAST. s 8 DISPCTED TERRITORT. CoNsTANTINOPLE, Oct. 12.—The Russizos claim that the territory between Constanti- nople and Adrianople is not affected by the Treaty of Berlin, therefore, under the pre- liminars Treaty of San Stefano, thev have a rignt to occupy it until the definite treaty shall be concluded. TAE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN DELEGATIONS. X% Loxpox, Oct. 12—The Imperial Ministry, which acts in common tor Austria and Huongary, is confident of 3 majority in the Austro-Hunga- rian Delezations, to whom alone it is accounta- ble. WANT TO EMIGRATE. The Bosnian Mohammedan Beys are seeking permission to settle in Servia. DISGRACED. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 12.—Taik Pasha, Com- mandant of Bayazid, has been removed in dis- grace. Mahomed Pasha, Commandant of ‘Alaja-Dagh, has been placed under arrest. SENTENCE CONFIRMED. The Sultan has confirmed the sentence of diath passed on Beys and Kurds for atrocitics cdmmitted. ROUMELIA. Sir Henry Drummond Wolfl, acting oo orders ‘of the Enfilish Government, insisted upon the treaty of Berlin being carried out in Roumelia. ‘The other Commissioners supported him, where- ‘upon the Russian representatives vielded. The Commissioners will start for Phillippopolis ten days hence. GAMBETTA. HIS SPRECI AT ROMANS. Paris, Sept. 19.—Yesterday, at Romans, ina circus erected for the occasion, to an audience pumbering 6,000 persons, M. Gambetta deliver- ed his speech of the scason. After thanking the meeting for their sympathy, he proceeded to review what had been done and what remained to be done by his party, continuing as follows: In 1871, owing to exceptional circumstances, an Assembly was elected which resembled the old Tegime. -ut did not resemble Leard the prophetic woras: _*The future belongs 1o the wisest and jostest party''; thetrial has been made; the Reoublican party by its epirit of wis- dom and justice has won. Fiom the first we had €aid that the Republican party, if it became a party of government. was fione capable of restor- ing France ana winning back the sympathy of the world for her. We traced aline of conduct for ourselves. A day came when, under clerical Jeadenshin, all the reactionary parties made a joint onslaught on the Republic. = France defied thexe attacks; she remained caim, throbbing benesth ber armor, bur resolute. You it was, electors, who by sourspiritof sacrifice. yourfeeiing of civic solidarily, give repreeentatives the mensure of their_strength and tgeir dutics. Thenceforth it was shown that the Repuvlic wae not a chance Government. and that it alone was in a position to insure to France the benefits of order and liverty. Nowthat the victory is won, itis well to see how e can make the best of it, ' We have a Constitu- tion;1do notdelude myself 3s to its jmperfec- tons, but it haszlways protected us frem vio- lence. Recently with intentions easily under- £t00d, disquieting rumors were put in circulation. 1t was eaid that the highest officer of the Rtepuotic would resign if the Scnatorial elections turned out Republican. The propagators of these rumors made a wrong calculution. With the vigilunt mendatories the country bas appointed. there is nothing to fear 2a remards the vacancies or the transmission - of ofice. Not a day would elapse between the resig- ‘nation and the succession. and nopersonal com tition would aris i i i of auy such fail ident He who is invested With such functions most remnin at Lie post to the end. No: the President wili not resign: he must nut resign; he cannot reyien; he has no interest in resigning. We bave plesed. then, the first stage. There are others to ve passed. For me the present situation 1¢ not the definitive realization of our principles. ut one may kee what reforms are forthwitls real- izable. The administration is being rencwed. it must be thoroughly Republican, for France is not 10 2 humor fo tolerate for long this con- Iradiction of a Government demanded by all except I scrvants. Reactionary coteries Lave followed eachother in office, and these gentlemen. with heir usual gisinterestedness, monopolize all Ihe posts. bigand little, withont counting those Lhes created exvretely for their friends. The of- ficials hostlle 3o the Republic must_ therefore be Ousted, and then the French Administration, eo pertect in its unity and neatrality, will contribute to the restoration of the morsl. social, and politi- cal integrity of France. Equally must we give our Zitention 10 the army and i1s reorganization. 1t is the flower of France, the .chief preoccupation of Jour representatives, 1t involves moral and ma- Zerial interests of the highest kind. Much has al- :fa‘élrn g:;: (_::anle. and on Sunday last. at thereview 2 ] 68w many tcars of joy. This was the firet time'that our young resersos passed. into ;lernLnnd file, and that 1he vitality, the youth- (1l fire, the pride. the national feeling aniinating them could be seen. it was felt that day that the army woula no longer be exposed to Lecowming what ft was in crimins] hands,—an in- seament of o poression end that it would theace- ) in maintaining the honor and in- . fleuenden;ca: France. Politics must wot enter the army: the law nnet prevatl there: let it be re- foccied and be apolied from the lowest 10 the highest erades. ‘There is no loftier mission thun thet of the Magistracy. 1t fsnot] who would ever glisht the anthority of its decisions, and I am— declare it openi¥—a partisa of permanency in the tenure of oflice by its membors. To mve it Ip would appear 10 me dencerons. But then it is %l’al 1o be suffered thata whole hody bequeathed & nextiuct Government should elight the new Overament. Such a thing is againstihe very inure of social order. 1tisinordeér to save the aeistracy, to rescue the principle of permanent lenure of oflice, which 15 endangered by excesses %’ zeal. that 1 demand as just aud richteous that the overnwent lay claim 10 the legal guarantees de- mauded by Governments which preceded it. Tne Clerieal question—that i to say, the question of tue relations of the Church and the Stste—keeps all the other guestions in suspense. Here in the Charex it ie that the spirit of the past takes refuse and gathers etrength, - 1 denounce the ever greater er xociety runs from the Ultramontanc pirit— the epirit of the Vatican, of the Syliabns, which is nothing but the abuse of igznorance with the pur- Pote of enslaving. 1 have spoken of the relations Of the Church and the State: I am perfectly aware hnt 1o be correct T should have said of the church- &: but from the govermwental and national point of view it is only Ultramontamsm which persista 3n opposition 1o tie State. The clerical spirit en- deavore to filirate into everything—into the army 200 the mawstracy: and there ie this that is ‘peculiar 1o it, it is atways when the fortune of the Sountry 13 1aling that Jesuitsm rises, Far be it from me 10 wish to put shackles on liberty. 1 am auobstinate partiean of liverty of conscience. Dut the ministers of religion have dutics to_the State, 2nd wnat we exact is the fullillment of theseduties. Anply the laws—all the juws—and acolish indul- gences. If the luw is applicd, order will be re- #tored in France. wituout penecution, by simply cuntinning the traditions which prevailed from the 2urora of the Revolution 1n 1759 till the last glim- merof the revolution in 1848. Ther were mot 2bandoned till in December the mitrailleurs, and 1bose who bleet the mitraillense, combined, In- dulgences must be aolisued. Privileges form haif the power of these men., They live on public credulity alone. Yes, every one must be sabject to the common law. ' Obligatory service et made a reality. Vocations must only be aliowed arter the firstof all vocations—that of serving the Tatherlana—has been_fuifilled. As to public in- struction. it must bethe passionate sohcitude of your legielators, Senators, Deputies, and public gervants. It is their duty to_make the peoffe ot France the most cultivated and best cducated of all peoples. Toatuin thir result, agamn, the enter- prifes of clericalism must be thwarced. The rea- sonimz power of our children must be exercisea: only heaithy and safe notions must be deposited in their minds, inorder 10 acceierate the progress of the public mind. Give them motions of our pub- lic law, teach them their dnties as citizens. make laem not liternte but sensible and patriotic men. Both sexes must participate in this progress, £0 that the women may nol remain’ forei either to our principles or our ideas. Their apirits must be umted if their hearts areto e brought fogether. Professionsl, or rather industrial, chools must he multiplied to give culture of the mind with skill of the hand. Dy this alone the solation of many problems would be aided. Second- ary education shiould be piaced under the direction of the State. We onght not to allow our history 10 be misrepresented In the schools. You know the new breach which the enemies of the State have ovened in higher education, The University, what- everita {mperfections, is &till the refuge of the modern spirit. The distribution of degrees, which Was taken from it_by surprise, must be restored to it. We shall not nezlect material interests, 1am convinced that, above everything. the'soiidity of the credit of France must be safoguarded. What is wealth*—the product of labor; and what is the Ttepubhic>—the Government of laborers. 1t Is French creait which has enabled great works, canals. and railways, which will serve to augment intercourse among peoples by free trade, to be commenced. It is to insare this credit that,l.am for wy part opposed to the conversion of the Rente,' because the interests of thoae who came with confidence, and brought thelr suvings in pain- ful hours for France, ought to be respected. - The reforms. T have sketéhed once accomplisbed, the Repubhic will have definitively entered iuto our laws and havits, ft will be ipvincible, and inessures of clemency and paon will wind up by makng a free and strong France, rdadmired by all MISCELLANEOUS. i TIUE-ANTI-SOCIALIST BILL. BerL1y, Oct. 12.—The Reichstag to-day read Clause V. of the Socialist bill a second time, after rejecting 2n amendment of Herr Haenel, that the law shoula not apply to meetings cou- nected with elections for the Reichstag or Dicts. GAMBETTA'S RECENT SPEECH. Pamis, Oct. 12.—The specch of Gambetta at Grenoble on Thursday greatly pleased the mod- crate Republicans, lie declared his belief in the necessity of the Senate; minimizea his former utterances regarding clericalism, and made a dexterous and effective appeal to tue maunicipal delegates, who form the majority of the Senatorial Electors, to return Republican caudidates. tions will give the Republicans a majority of twenty in the Senate. . _DIED, PAR1s, Oct. 12.—Bisnop Dupanloup, of Or- leans, and a member of the French Senate, died suddenly yesterday, THE LAST FAILURE. Loxpox, Oct. 12.—The Manchester Guardian says the failure of Heugh, Balfour & Co., in that city, was caused by losses on Manchester £oods shipped to India and China. 5 WAGES REDUCED. GLAsGOW, Oct. -Clyde ship-builders have notified their workmen of a reduction of 73¢ per cent in their wages, to date from the 22d of the present month. The. reduction affects 40,000 employes. NEW CALEDONIA. SYDNET, Oct. 12—Adrvices from New Caledo- nia state that the insurrection is spreading, and a further wmassacre of whites by the patives had occurred. e EUROPEAN GOSSIP. STREET-CLEANING IN PARIS. Zuris Correspondence New York Worid. Paris, unlike many of her children, makes her first toilet the moment she rises. Formerly every owner of a dwelling was bound by law to sweep the public road in tront of his premises. He s now obliged to have it done by the public scavengers, at a rate proportioned to the jm- portance of the quarter. The rate is 52 centimes per square metro in the *first division,” which includes the better quarters, and 24 centimes in the second. We have equality aud fraternity in politics, but not exactlyin cleanliness—republic- ans as we are. ‘Tne total rate levied on the city under this head is 3560,400 a year. The cleans- ing is thorourhly done. At ancarly hour in the worning Mollie, the housemaid, has to bring down all the sweepings of ber rooms and leave them in_the gutter,—there are no asb-pits in Paris. Then a cart comes around for the re- moval of this heavier refuse. Longe before this the seavengers have begun to sweep the lighter impurities from the roadway into the gutters. ‘The strip of sidewalk in front of ecach house is still swept by the occupant. The last bart of the work is to thoroughly flush and sweep the eutters, and when this is doue Paris has bad her first morning wash. The business of the scav- engers fs to mafucain her in a state of compara- tive purity for the rest of the day, the principle being that the only way to keep a city clean is never to allow it to get dirty. The scavenging jsthus a sort of preventive service sgainst @matter in the wrong place.” The scavengers are organized in 122 brigades, cach numbering from twenty-five 10 thirty lhands (men snd women), and ofticered by a schief” or *‘aid.”” . Most of the hands ure em- ployed only in the morning, wnen the beaviest part of the work is to be doue. The morning hands are ealled * sweepers," the all-day hands tcantonniers.” The Inst have to water the roads in summer, and keep them up to the mark in general cleanliness all_the year round. The scavengers begin work at 8 in the mnorning in summer, and in the winter at 4, and both in winter and summer their day, if ¢ cantonniers,” ends at 4 p. m. The half day of the *“‘swecp- ers” terminates at 10 a. m. Tbhere are 2,950 scavenzers of both grades, and 170 chiefs. The “eantonniers " are mostly employed in the most. frequented quarters, where the sweebing is going on all day. lo the other quarters the first cleansing is In many cascs also the last. The 2,950 scavengers mentioned above form the per- manent stafl, but the total persons engaged in the service is at times largely increased by the “tguxiliaries,” who are employed as they.are wanted, and paid by the day, or rather by the half-day, us that is-the more usual term of labor. The number of auxiliaries varies, of course, according to theseason. At the pres- cnt moment (summer time) there are 1,920 on the books,—paid from 1 francto 1 franc75 centimes for their morning’s work. Add theee to the pumber given above, and we have in round numbers a total of about 5,000 brooms at work in Paris day by dav. Reckoaing the area at about twenty-ive square miles, this gives 200 scavengers to the mile. or more if we inake the considerable allowance due for the space occu- pied by the houses. T Part of the work of i;reex:)mz:lf done l:,,y ma; shne-broomws et in motion by u horse going a :‘u'ulkin;! pace. Each machine costs $200, and it will sweep 6,000 square yards an hour. A man working with the broom can do but 600; the wachine, therefore, does the work of ten men. It is used only on the larzer thorough- fares. 1t has been found that the washing of the roadways tends largely to their preserva- tion. They are, therefore, thoroughly drench- od and sconred every five or six days. The or- aipary watering of the streets to keep down the dust bemins on the I5th of March on the macadamized pavements, and from a fort- night_to 2 month later on the pavements of aspbalt and stonc. A few years ago the water- jner was done solely by cartss it is now done partly by means of india-rubberhiose covering o iarge circum{erence.aud easily trapsferred from plug to plug in the streets. This system is cheaper by balf than the old one of water-carts, fhoush the latter is still in extensive use. ~ Of the 8,500,000 square metres of surface watered every day, 6,173,000 are covered by means of the 350 carts. the remainder by hand. ~ The carts belong to the cits. The service of horse and driver is performed_by contract at $50 a month for.czch vehicle. Down to 1871 toe \:Emm'nl o’t; street-refuse was farmed out, the ' farmers paying so much for the ‘privileze of removing the mud, ete., to scil as manure. This, ho ever, was found to work badly and the .\n')rk is Sow. T belicve, done by contract, the city re- taininz its ownership of the refuse removed; but on this point 1 am not quite clear. DOMESTIC SCENES IN THE EAST. + An account of a twenty years' rgsidcum ‘among the people of Turkey s published by the Harpers in their Franklin-Square Library, and gives a deal of curious information about the ways ot the people. L Stepping inside the house the ceremonies §:- tending the entrance of another Turk upon life are made the subject of a curious chapter. No sooner is it born than the Turkish child is wrapped in clothes as tightly and compactly as 2 bologna sausare, with & bright-red silk cap and s charm on its head to avert the weril eye.” Onions are sct about the rog:n sh evil. The father, s so0n as the e buwled up, fs ushered fo a0d. takes itin bis arms. He at once goes behind the doorand shonts its name three times into its ear. Then he clears out. ‘I'he friends of the mother bezin to call as gcon as the news is out, and the sic chamber is the scene of a constauy reception, with feasts of sweets, coffee, sherbet, Gambetta predicts that the elee-’| and cigarettes. The assembled ladies treat the infant with feizaed disdain, and every now sad then it is spat upon by one of the visitors. Children are scldom washed. The bath ' is the privilege of those that live to grow up. Ovium is aosed into them frequently. And no diseretion whatever is employed as to diet. The writer says: ** I bave seen a splendid child 2 years old die, after af iliness of seven hours, from indigestion caused by taking su undue quantity of boiled Indian corn, a favorite dish among Turkish children. I have also witnessed two other simi~ larly pasnful cases, one of a girl 9 vears of age, who, after consuming a larze quantity of heavy pastry, was found dead, crouched'up in the cor- ner of a roow. The other of a boy 7 years old whose partiality for pickles killed him.” In Bulgaria the author was present when the family dressed a new baby, They first salted it thorouchly, as if it were a Block Islaad codfish, and then” they wrapped it up. After thatan omelette was maae of three cugs; black pepper was sifted over this.and the child’s head was poulticed with the preparation. The purpose of this is to harden the skull azainst sunstroke. The Turkish cooking is described as fair and the tabte manners as Interesting. * Tbe bhost- ess is the first to dip her spoon into the soup tureen, politely inviting her guests to do the same.” It is considered & great mark of atten- tion on the part of the hostess to pick up the dantiest bit of food and place it in the mouth of aoy of ner guests.” European manners have Iately been rapidly gaining ground, however, aud the author tells of seeing women provided with forks, which for style they pretend to use, but for busimess they still depend on the thumb aud forefinger, and the result of: the fork, which they still clung to, was an oceasional gored” cheek and bleeding nose. Another table fncident fs given of 2 Turkish woman who swallowed o teaspoon- ful of mustard, the novel dish being put on m honor of the suthor who was a guest there. Tears ran down the woman’s cheeks, and sueezes insisted on being heard, but she kept right along aud pretended to be as composed snd happy us any of the rest. A Pashain Albauia, by the way, eats a whole roast lamb ata meal! Returning from the kitchen to the nursery, a few words more about the bringing up of chil~ dren may be griven before closing. The author mourns the waywardneBsiof the young, and shows it by tellinz a story or two to iilustrate how the little creatures behave. Here is one-of the worst instances of misconduct. What cinilized child would ever be guilty of such an nct? «] was once visiting at a Pasha’s house, +where, among the nunicrous company present, a shriveled-up old lady made herself painfully conspicuous by the amount of rouge on her cheeks. The son ot my hostess, an impudent little scamp of 10 years, independently marched in, and, rourhly pulling his mother by the skirt, demanded a shilling. She attempted a compro- mise and offered half the sum, when the young: rascal, casting side-glances at’ the painted old Tady, said: * A whole shilling, or I will out with all you said about tbat old woman and ber rouged cheeks ns well as that other one’s big nose! My friend, exceedinely emburrassed, under this pressure acceded to her son's de- mand, the only way she could see of getting rig of lhis troublesome company.” THE PARIS CATACOMBS. Paris Correspondence New York Graphic. Visited the Catacombs. Down among 3,000,- 000 0f dead Gauls. Visiting days, Thursdays and Saturdays of each wevk., Free. Required to be provided with & candle. Went down with 300 visitors. Waited an hour in the court-yard on the Boulevard d’Enfer. In Knglish it means “Boulevard of the Infernal Regions.” Nice name for a road leadwg to a eraveyard. Frenchy. Each of the 300 had a candle. Waited for the vault doors to open. Lit can- dles. Waited. -Blew ’em out. Waited again. Lit candles. Waited. Blew ‘em out. Occupa- tion of the 800 for an hour. Gate opened at last. Opened at the end of court-yard, where least expected. Lit candles ag: Territic rush to get through first. Never thousht people could be 'so maxious to gt into the dark and silent tomb. den, women, girls, caodles, boys, Americans, Germaus, Freuen, unlit candles, Italinns, Russians, can- dles, Scandinavians, lighted candics, English and Irish, all squeezed pell-mell together. This in broad daylight, within 200 feet of the door to the dark and silent tomb. Candles burned whiskers, clothes, lace, and blacked faces. Man’s arm straieht up in the air. Couidw’t get it down again for pressure of crowd.. Lighted candle in his haud. _Stearine running_ down on $300 dress below. Lace polouaise, sillk velvet skirt. Her candle lit, too, and burning holc through rim of man’s hat. Silk bat. Policemen e candles out. Aiso working-hard to gt ina file. Then it rained. Caudies uvut out, umbrellas put uo. Sluw appronch to Catacomb door. Narrow. Down ninety-two stevs. Twenty minutes’ walk throuzh under- ground passages. Material, stone, and mno Variety of scencry. Wondered where the bones came in. Arrived at last to skeletons. Walls of them. Thigh and arm bone walls as high as oue’s shoulders. Ornamented bottom, middle and top with three rows of sculls. Middle frieze of skulls and cross bones. Color of bones, black walnut. Some growing fungi. No smell. Clavicles, sternums, tibulas, fibulas, ribs, vertebre, phalangeal, digital, and metacar- pal bones piled up at raodom behind walls. Tons on tons of solendid fertilizing material Iying here yielding no profit. Thought sadly of the apples, pears, and peanuts it might raise if ground up and properly utilized. Man ahead of me, probably_dentist. = He kept pulling oug skull’s tceth. Eye to business. Hands ditto. Couldn’t sink shop. Rulivg passion stroug in death. Bome leaps aated thus: 1863, 1860, sud so on five years more or less down to the period of the first French Revolution.: In‘more ancient portions quotations from Seripture miucled with re- marks by Jean Jacques Rousseau to remind onc what a solemn thiny death is. As if any one needed prompting or information to such effect. Especially down here among the dexd men. Came at last to a well of clear water. ‘Tons and stacks of bones all about it. Nobody was thirsty. But lager just then would have sold 4t a quarter a giass, aud *‘whisky sour™ at a dollar. Came at last to bones of 1795 and 1780, First French Revolution. Citizen Jacques and gullotined Marquis thrown into a diteh, all mixed up together. Lots upper jaws in skulls which roared the first Marseitlaise. Very quict now. Egyeless sockets out ot which eyes looked at the head of Louis XVL when it rolled into the paskez. Very quiet. Still, nignt and day they kept on grinning at the bare recollection. That is, as well as the lack of under lawa would allow skulls to grin. Curious commingling bere of under jaws. Duchess and tish-woman, Marquis and shoemakers’ check by jowl. Girls' ribs and blacksmiths® shanks scross each other. ‘oe bone of Count and finger bones of vld washer- wotman side by side. - Skull of idiot and philos- opher touching each other. Crossbones of infi- del and priest wired together. But when these dry bones arise, according to programme, won’t there be a row before they’reall set right again? Came out to air and sunshine about a miie from starting-place. Men more or less streaked with stearine and white mud. Women ditto. Gave our half-burped candles to old women at exit door. Ditto the 300. Somebody makes a banl of candles each visiting day. Catacombs good investment for Pa Keeo strangers in Town one more day to visi¢ them. Hence bones of grandfatlier are turned to some account. Probably pay as well for. show as if ground up 1nto fertilizing dust. MARRIAGE IN RUSSIA. London Pall-all Gazette. Russian marriages are generally arranged through priests. A well-bred bridegroom must present a gift to a monastery and avother to his parisi-church; the bride, through her friends, 1is expected to clothe some statue of the Virgin witha gown of silver brocade, enriched with more or less jewels according to the viety of the donor; and in some parts of Southern Russta she adds a gift of two white doves to thic Pope, which looks rather like a retic of the worship of Venus. The consent of parents is necessary for a marriage until the age of 36 in the case of men, 25 in that of women; but yous people are at liberty to appeal to the civil authorities it consent be arbitrarily withheld. In this event the parents are called upon to show reason for their refusal. The reason must not be mercenary, unless one of the youny people be heir t0 a lunded cstate: then the question is referred to the Marshal of the nobility -in the district, whose decis- ions urc based upon chcdlennv rather thao upon fixed principles. ‘These appeals are rare, because the Russians are a marrying peo- ple, and dispose of their children early. In the middlc and lower classes men marry at 20, when not drafted by the eonseription. In the higher aristocracy a young man goes the **erand tour’’ before settling down, but be is often betrothed, before starting, to 2 young lady not yet out of the school-room. There is no country that has so few old maids 8s Russia. When a girl bas reached the age of 25 without finding a mate, she generally sets out on what - she culls a pil- grimage. if poor,—on a round of trarels, if rich; and in either case she turns up some years later as a widow. Widows are plentifui as old spinsters are scarce, acd widows whose husbands were never seen are MOre nUMCrous than tie rest. Etiquette forbids auy sliusion to 2 lady’s dead husband in ber presence, and ihis is some- times convenient, When a couple are eneaged, 2 betrothal-feast is held,.aud the bride-elect has alock of her hair cut off in the preserice of witnesses and given to the bridegroom, who in return ‘presents a silver ring set with a tor- quoise, an almond cake, and a gift of bread and salt. From this moment the two are plighted; por can the relatives break the match except with the consent of the parties themselves, which is_signified by a return of the ring and lock of hair. Somuch importance is actached to the ring that among poor people who can- not afford’ silver and a zurfb oise, tin and a bit of blue stone are substituted. These betrothal rings are kept as heirlooms, but must not be made to serve twice; a son cannot give his bride the ring which his mother received, for in- stance, though why this shonld be so s a inys- tery which the clergy, who sell the ring, could best explain. Oun the wedding-day the bride comes to church dressed in. white; but it is only among the hizhest classes that the bridal costume s entirely white, and that a wreath of orange-flower blossoms i8 worn. WATCHING BOILING DUMPLINGS, St. Sylvestre’s nizht in Hungary is one of the most romantic moments of the year. ' All sorts of superstitious beliefs- are attached to this night. Maidens of all ranksand all ages throvg to the shrine of the excellent saiat, who is sup- posed to know all about the future busband of every uumarried lady of Christendom,—a be- lief which costs him dear. If he hasn't been’ driven crazy long ago by the thousands of ques- tious addrdssed to him on thisone special nignt, at the moment when the cloek strikes 12, he will surely become so now, when the number of eligible husbands diminishes in the same dezree 2s the number of unmarried ladies eazer to change their position increases from year to year. Asa civilized salut, whose prestice has outlived that of a great number of lis brethren, St. Sylvestre gives his attention first of all to the salons,—that is, to those who should fill them, but wio on this niglt prefer to fotlow the {ouuz people to the kitcheu, where the young adics are occupied with the manufacture of dumplings. Such 1 culivary exertion in elab- orate evening-dresses must have an important canse. The dumplings prepared by those deli- cate hands are no ordinary dumplings, whose destiny is to be eaten. Fate has cliosen this simple farinaceous food to be the interpreter of its decrees. Every youns Iady of the company writes the names of all the eligible gentlemen of her acquairtance upon seraps of paper,which she hides in the dumplings, and at the moment the clock strikes 12 she throws them into boil- ing water. Now, it fs the habit ot dumplings, when sufficiently cooked, to reappear on the surface of the water, and_ the first dumpling ‘which reappears on St. Sylvestre’s Eve contalns the youny lady’s doom,—that Is, the nawne of her future husband; the second dumpling showing itselt on the surface bears fnvariably the name of the happy lover’s rival; while thi third contains the name of the miserable crea- ture who bas been refused by-the more or less fascinating lady. The screaming snd laughing of the young people, the blushing aud frowning of all those youthful aces at the moment when the boiling water sends up the first herald of matrimony, is such a pretty sight that it is not to ve woudered at when the dumplings some- titwes guess rightly.—Eechange. MARINE NEWS. . PORT HURON. - Pomr Irmoy, Mich., Oct. 12.—Down—Props Manitoba, Monitor, Nebraska, Newburg, Vulcan and raft, Forest City and consort; schrs Emma’L, Coyne, Sonthwest, % Up—Props Mary E. Mills, Metropolis, Russia, Vanderbilt, N. K. Fairbank, Ocesu and consort, George King and barges. Burnside and barges; schrs Michigan, Ahira Cobb, C. H. Johneon. H&l- vetia, E. A. Nicholton, F.A. Morse, Jennie Grabiam, Tenry Folger, C. M. Neelon, Ina, Join Magee, David Vance, Sunrise, Charles’ Hinckley, 1. D. Root, Butcher Boy, Wind—North, gentle, Porr iluroy, Mich., Oct. 12—10 p. m.—Up— Props Portage, Nyack,' Peter Smith, Arizona with Allegheny, Glasgow and barges; schirs Red Wins, )en Spry, Trinidad, C. G. Trump. F. F. Parana, izz1e A. Law, Homer Hine, Norwood, Down—Props Inter-Ocean and tow, Birckbead and barges. Salina and barges, Colliuberry and tows gchrs Sweetheart, Pleister, Gerf. F. Sigel, Angus Smitn, J. H, Mesd, C. Neldon, E. Corning, Mears, Joln Kilderhouse, James C. Harrison. Wind—Southwest, lignt; weather fne. Prop Peter Smith arrived this evening with the steam barwe Salina and tow, the Salina's shaft be- iug broken, Weather fine. BUFFALO. Burravo. Oct. 12.—Charters—Coal to Chicago, 25¢; lamber from Demil River to Buffalo, §2. Clearga—Props India, Duluth; IL. ¥. Schnoor, Toledo, 0.; D. M. Powers, Newburg; Badger State, Chicago: schrs Morning Light, G. B. Slosn, R. B. layes, Goshawk, J. 0. Thayer, H. C.Ricn- ards. Chicago C. ‘ent (500 brls cement), Sandusky: Cor 4 b (330 tons coal), Josephine, Toledo: Timothy Baker (68 cords stone), Gen. Worth K. t 6p. m., 11th: Westward—Props Milwau- kee, Chicagos Scar Undine, Toledo. Eastward—Props Champlain, City of Concord, Oedensburs; sehrs North Star, Kingston, Kote Eelly, Oswego. In Barbor—Lady Dufferin. MILWAUKEE. Spectat Dispatch to The Tribune. MrLwAUKEE, Oct. 12.—Tntelligence hus been re- ceived here of the Arrival at Riga, a Russianport in the Baltic, of the schr John C. Schuette, witha carzo of naval stores from Wilmineton, N. C., for the Government. The voyage occupicd less than two months. and is considered an excellent one. The steam harge Gordon Camphell is here with ber consort, thescow Selt, for repaira upon her Doiler, which will occupy a fortuight. The' oyly arrival thus far to-dny is the schr Reuben Doud, from Racine, in quest of a earge. Special Dispatch 10 The Tribune. Muwaykee, Oct. 12.—Clenred—Schrs Oliver Mitcheli, Ttasca, Pathilnder, Marengo, Thomss C. reet. 2 o Charters to-day—To Kingston, schr Riverside, wheat ut 7 cents; Canadisn prop, name unkuown, wheat at 6% cents. THE MARY M’VEA. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. Coriryewogp, Ont., Oct. 12.—Cupt. Mallens, of the schr Maty McVea, of Chicago, arrived here by the stme Northern Belle, and reporte his vesscl caught in a heavy squall on the night of the Sth on Lake Huron, off Walker's Point, Maritoulin Tsland, losing her mainssil, foresail, and jlbboom, leaving the vessel belpless. She drifted toward shore until 4 5. m. of the Sth, when the anchors were dropped. At 6 5. m. another severe squall, coming from the westward, she dragged anchors and drifted on the rocks, ind it is teared that, before ussistance can reach the vessel, she will he 2 total loss. The cargo consisted of 12,000 bu of urain and 120 brla of ‘pork. The créw wers saved. LAKE FREIGUOTS. Grain freights were dull and easy under big offerings at Bigc for corn and 33(c for wheat to Bufalo. The charters were schr Halatead, wheat to Buffalo at 33ic; schrs Montcal und Brightie, corn_ at 3%c. To Goderich, schrs C. A, King, oats, and Col. Ellsworth, comn. To Kingston, the barge Keating and the Garden City, wheat. To Colling- wood, the M. C. Cameron, oats, and the Lottie Woll, corn, Capacity: 77,000 bu wheat, 75,000 bu corn, and 30,000 bu onts. MARQUEITE. Special Dispalch to The Tribune. MAnQuETTE, Mich., Oct. 12,—Arrived—Prop Cormorant; schr Charles Wall. Cleared—Props Anna Smith, Swain; schrs Shaw- nee, Negauuee, Maxwell, Passed up—Ptop Pacific. e —— Origin of Words. New York Times. Mauy of the commonest words in use at the present day have u sufiiciently curious origin. * Dollar”” gacs back to the dayswhen the siver of Jozchims-Thal, in Saxouy, was s0 highly es- teemed that the country-folk, in takiom pay for their produce, were wont to sa; Joachims-Thaler,””—a name which, shortened into Thaler, is the lineal ancestor of **dollar.” 1t gave oceasion for one of the keenest jests in history under Frederick the Great, whose new coinage, with the inscription, in Reichs- thaler”” (one State dollar), was read by the cotiquercd Saxons, **Ein Releh stahler? (he stole a State). ‘T'he eruel Count of Merode,wno attained an evil pre-eminence amonir the ruflian- 1y lenders of the Thirty-Years’ War, mave to his followers the name of **Merodeurs,” since cor- rupted into marauders. The now familiar term “roue,” originally applied to malefactors bro- ken on the wheel (roue), was first used in its present sense of *debauthee ? by the Duke of Orleans, in 1716, with reference to his rogsteri ‘boon-companions. _The latter declared that it jmplied theic readiness to be broken on the wheel for their master’s sake; but the Duke, when appealed to, uuflatteringly explained it as merely siguifying that they richly-deserved such a fate. Jobn Sherman, Cincinnati Neics, . «Qlivia” has been writing a gushing letter about a_magnificent statue of a lloman giadi- ator, at Saratoga, whose * face and figure bear a strong_resemblance to John Sberman.” Now Mr. Sherman is, intellectually, as every one knows, a remarkably strong 1nan,—few stronger have come to the front in our political history,— but his figure bears about as much rescmblanee to a Roman gladiator 8s wbat of a pulled-out telescope does to u bull-pup. To speak more accurately, bis fizure is of the type of a Loug Jobn cigar; and *“Olivia " is a very wickedgirl to e deceiving the public in this fashion. ive us a’l VICTOR HUGO. The Great Frenchman at His Home in Guernsey. i Hanteville House—Its Tnmates and Ist Treasures. Translated for The Tribune from the Paris Figaro. People may remember a strange rumor cireu- lated on the Boulevards a short time ago,—a rumor of which several journals made mention. It was reported that, at the conclusion of the Literary Coneress presided over by Victor Rugo, grave disorders were noticed in the phys- ical, ana even intellectual, condition of the great poet. As,” in short, Victor Hugo sud- denly left Paris, and as we had little or no news of him, it appeared to me interesting to follow him to Guernsey, and to get, if it were possible, a glance at Hauteville House. That desire gave me the opportunity of making one of the pret- tiest journcys imaginable. 1 especially recom- mend it to independent tourists who like to move out of the beaten paths. A few days at Guernsey do more good, { aflirm, to thE Parisian nerves than a month in the Alps or Pyrences. At Gucrnsey, in the open ocean, one cin imag- ine himself on a large ship laden with perfumed gardens, woods, -aud pretty little houses,— breathing the saline of the sea in all security, in a climate alike unknown to excesses of hea, cold, or dampness. It is perfectly true that Victor [Tugo bad been sent here (Guernsey) by order of his physician. The latter recommended that he should not work or recelve visitors. He had his bloud warmed by the sittings of the Congress and by the discussions iv which he took so prominent a part,—this in the middle of one of the hottest sumimers ever kuown to Paris. Morcover, the existence to which be was condemned at Paris was dangerous for a wman of 76 years, however robust and well-preserved he might be. After the evening-meal, always a very copious one for Victor Huwo (for he is a good liver, as Balzac was, and as Sardou is), he used to stay in his drawing-room, in the Rue de Clichy, breathing an air heated by gas,—receiving at every step the homayres of a crowd of flatterers who pressed arouud him like the faithful around their Goa. It is not nstonishing that this brain, already overcharged and excited, felt 2 moment’s lassi- tude. Victor Hugo Das, therefore, come here to stop a few weeks of the holiday-time that still remaius to hir before the openiug of the Legislative Chambers. He has with him the two httle children of Charles Huzo, George and Jeaune, aud M. and Mme. Lockray. For the fil eight days the great man re- maived completely shut in. _iis house saw no oue and received no one. The door was closed 1o bis most mtimate friends, even to the old gentlemaun of the island, who was an almost Quily guest during the fourtecu years® exile. The poor old feillow wandered through the streets of St. Pierre, repeating iu_ niournful toues, “I have found Victor’s door closed.” At theend of a week the life-giving aond salubrious air of Guernsey had done its good work. The door of Hauteville House was opened, and 3 man _carrving cariously-formed iustruments entered. This man was a photog- rapher. Vietor Hugo, knowing what he had to do, put his right band in his waistcoat, took meditative and sombre air, and placed himself in the corner of his balcony, facing the oceany— the one looking at the other. The photographer religiously took the last pose of the great man. Finished, Hugo invited the artist to breakfast, that he might tinish his work, after digestion! This is the fact, and not the joke of ncor- respondent in good humor. - It must be sgid that Vietor Huzo adores photography. No ceiebrated wan bas occupied him- self more than he - with the trouble of snhowing himself and posterity under all forms and in all jmaginable situations. It is generally supposed that he passed the cight- een vears of the Empire in cursing it in prose aud verse. We must renounce this illusion. * It is not so. He passed the time of his exile in getting himsell photozraphed! Thuos Guern- sey has become the Paradise of photographers. There is one there at the present time who has a spug little fortune, the larger part of which he made in photographing Hugo. Auother is just commenciug. 1t is the one who took the pose of which I Lave just spoken, soon to be made public. Two or three more journeys to Guernsey, and this photoprapher will be inde- pendent. At the present moment Hauteville House is almost filled with the fawily and guests of Hugo. There is, first_of all, Mme. Clenay, wifc of the engraver. She is a sister of Mme. Hugo, and, therefore, sister-in-law of the poet. It is she who is charged with the keeping ol Hautevitle House, and she lives there the whole year through. Mme. Juliette Drouet, the de- voted friend, does the honors of the apartments of tbe Rue de Clicby, at Paris. The poct owed his safety in the coup d’etat of the:2d of De- cember, 1852, to her, it is @ said. Mme. 'Lockroy, the widow of Charles Hugo. M. Lockroy, who divides his time evenly between Parisand Guernsey. Thetwochildren of Mme. Lockroy, George ana Jeaune, both super- latively beautiful, especially little George, who resembles the sculptured god of a Grecian artist. Mme. Menard, a triend of Lockroys, daughter .of Dorian, the Mivister of Public Worles during the sieze of Paris. Little Mile. Menard, 5 or 6 years old. M. Richard Lesclide, the private secretary of the poet. Lastly, the nephew of Mme. Drouet, and his son, who is the sawe age as little George Huro. Iought also to mention au oceupant of aunother kiud, but one who has more notoriety than those of the others. It is Senat, who always bears upon his collar the famous verses: Je voudrais qu'au logis quelqu'un me ramenat. Mon etat: chicn; mon maitre: Hugo; mon fiom: Senat. 'This ereybound, often seen trotting along in the strects of Guernser behind the petticoats of Mine. Caenay, has never lert Haateville House, and it is probable that he will end his days in exile. M. Hugo, wWho is a Senator. would ao well, It scems to me, out of rospect to his col- Jeagues, to chanze the name of his dog. 4 ‘The recent arrival of Mme. Drouet’s nephew has brouzht up to thirteen the number of suests at Hauteyille House. In prescuce of this fatal number, Victor 1fugo has ordered a table to be Flaced in the dining-room for the four children. Those scated at the table will then number nine. ‘This superstition the venerable Huzo ex- plained at breakfast the other morni His son Charles died at Bordezux on u 13th, and there were just thirteen in the car in whicn they rode towcther to Bordeaux. % For the reasons of health that I have already pointed out, M. Hugo is far from being as act- ively employed as lormerly. One of the coms panions ot his exile lately told me that in for- mer days the poet was always up at 5 o’clock in the morning. e jould swallow two fresh eggs and a cup O black coffec; then sct to work, without truce, zill 1 in the afternoon. To-day he gets up much 1ater, scarcely works at all before breakfast, takes a turn in his little garden, reads or writcs for an hour or two, gets into u carriage abont 3, and returns fo dinner ut 7. Ile appears rather sad, speaks little at the table, and does not cheer up till even- in: when Mme. Lockroy sits down_to the piano aud makes the children dance. The old poet looks at them with tenderncss; ad- dresses them a compliment or word of ud forzets evervbody, £ as to be able to occupy himsell wich those little beings whom, as we ail know, he adores. Jeanoe has light hair falling over her forehead, @ la chien, as 1 believe this latest fashion is called. * [ wish you would brush back your bair,” said her grandfather to her, the other day. “ Woinan, like man, shoulu go through this world with uucovered brow.”” After he calied: * Citizen Jeanne, now be superb.” ‘The little one daises her head hign, throws back her hair, and, after she has becn enough admired, jurops upon the old man's Kknees, where she is covered with kisses. 1 bave just visited Victor Huzo, at Hauteville House,~that house made . jmmortsl by the worls aated thence. The Capital of Guerusey is St. Plerre, alittle town in the form of an amphiteatre. on the seasiae; the red tiles of the houses and the pordering frames give it a very gay appearance. Owe of the narrowest streets of “St. Vierre is calied Hauteville street. Need we add that it is here that the poet’s bouse is situated! The dweiling from the extertor is notning extraor- Qivars. It s moderately bizh, two-story, gray, dismal, without elegance, when scen trout the sad .and solitary street. It does not even possess, in view, a precty little garden, like the greater number of houses in Guernsey, usu- ally before the door, to make it graceiul and coquettish. Two solitary grcen oaks halance their branches at the entrance. We enter at once, and feel ourselves in an exceptional house.—one possessed aud arraneed by an art- ist. To the dining-room! Oune whole” side is decorated with old squares of fatence,—formins, soto speak, & wull,—with most original eiTect. In this is encrusted old Rouen disbes, insteau of being suspended by a wire arrangement. The effect is admirable.” A statuette, in old Rouen china, of Notre Dame de Bon Secours, presides over-the repasts. One 1s quite astonished to tind suchi anemblem ‘in such a spot. The sight of the Virein ought to have iven pleasure to the three priests whom Victor Hugo invited to bx;enl:!ns: in this same dining-room. (The Cure &’ Aurizny rabbed his hands with joy, and said, “We are then going to convert Huea.”) 1 think on that oceasion the master had the good taste to hide from the gvod priests’ view the three panels that tace the statuette of. the Vir- ?n. which represent—The knd of the Lord; he End of the Soldler; The End of the Priest. Between the windows there isa mreat ar ¢nair- Noone is permitted to sit upon thi 1t is chained and padiocked. You ask wl arm-chair represents. You are answered ancestors.”- In truth, on the back is painied the family-arms, with this haughty device: X Eqo Iiugo. - We go up-stairs to the first floor by a narrow, dark staircase, entirely esrpeted with # sors of felt carpet, now a3 little the worse for wear. Mirrors here and there appear to our view. (L counted fifty-six in the whole house.) We are DOW in the back gallers. Itis a magniticent room of enormous value, crowdédiesen to over- burden with objects of taste and princely luxu- ry. Here is a dais supported by four beautiful fillb-hranze statues. such as oue might think to ave been stolen from a nuseum at Venice. The walls proan beneath Langings of tapestry ornamented with pearls and birds wrought in gold. They formerly belonged to Christine, of Sweden. and. I believe, decorated ber bedroom at Fontainebleau. Hugo bought them at a fabutous price, estimated to be but one-fourth of their real value. Antique Chinese silk-stuffs cover the ceilings of this marvelous room, In the centre is a long table, before which are ranged arm-chairs. On’the middie one of these is read in gilt, Pater; ou the one at the richt, Mater; and on the lett-hand side one, Filius, and underncath this, Amatus-amat. At the end of this Jarge chamber is Garibaldi’s bed. Hugo offered the Italian hospitality alter the affair of Mentana, out Garibaldi never came tosleepin the bed. In tne evenivg, if | may belicve the fndiscretion of & servaat, Vietor Huzo comes and spreads his elothes upon this bed that they may not et any bad folds, Beside this is the famous wnting-table with the inkstands. It is a souvenir -in bowor of Alme. Victor Hugo. List to the story: One day, passing throush the iariet-place in Guernsey, Mme. flugo saw a bit of u child, 6 months old, carried by a liztle «irl of no more thun 5 summers, who did not know hoss to aut along with her load. The little nurse stagmered, eried, suffered. Undoubtedis the mother of these poor children was absent earning a liveli® hood for herself aud her family. She had, therefore. contided the care of her last-born to another of her cnldren. Mme. Huzo thousht of all this, and, moved by pity, conceived the idea of founding a nursery at Guernsey, to which mothers might send their children while they were at work. To raige the necessary funds she orwanized a grand bazar—a charity sale. She had tie idea of asking the four greatest writers of the age for their inkstands, with an autograph showing their authenticity. The four writers wer¢ Alexandre Dumus, Lamartive, George Sand, Victor Hugo. They replied to the appeal of the generous woman, and each sent the inkstaud with which he had written a chef-d ’ocuvre. The table was put un for sale at 2,500 franes, but did not find a purchaser in Guernsey. Victor Hugo bonuht it, and kept it for bimself. Around the Garibaldi bed are some rsre Gobelin tapestries. One of these pictures a paval combat. The servant who shows the house to visitors said, ove day, in pointing- out this marine subject: ‘ Look, sir; this represents the Battle of Waterloo. The bie man in a splendid uniform is Wellington, The little Adwiral in front is Napoleon.™ Garibaldi’s room leads to a conservatory. The interior is entirely . covered with a: viue, from which clusteriug grapes hang at tbis mo- meut. Hugo comes here very often to seek re- pose, or read. Later, when we entered, he was there. On the table 1 saw a Tew books,—a novel, ‘ Manette Solomon,” and s vo.ume of Spanish poems,—the iltustrated journals, and pamphlet with the last wrand speech of Hugo, at the Literary Coneress. s We now go to the top story, or, to speak more exactly, we go v to the roof. The poet has had a belvedere built thege, whieh e’ uses - as a study. It is impossible to conceive a finer view than ome gets from tiis - serial room of glass. Hard 1t was for us to leave this enchanting spot. At our fect the furthermost rocks of Guernsey plunge themselves into the ses. Everywhere the great ocean. At the extreme noint of the port we view the old castle and the red-coated soldicrs of Great Britain. In froot, the Islands of ierm and Sark bar the horizon like a colossal dyke. Ou the rizhe the lines of Jersey are vaguely to be seeq, siways in_a per- petual fog. Aud finally, in the far, far dim dis- tance, the coast of France. But it takes clear weatlier to view it. This is the tnagical pano- ruma before which Victor Ilugo has worked for sixteen years. When I descended, I found the old face under a huge straw bat. in his garden, playing with bis little granddzughter, and following with rapt attention the” frolics of young George Hueo, who Wwas blowing with terrible effort'a tiny craft across the fountain-basin. o A. PERIVIER. THE METROPOLITAN. An_ Ineffectual Attempt at -Laylng the Track. Shortly before 11 o'clock lzst night the oflicers of the Metropolitan Street Reitway ~ Company and a force of about filty men took possession. of two blocks of Lake street east of the bridee, and began tearing p the pavement in the mid- die of the street preparatory to laying down their tracks. Mr. Hough and a couple of his en were arrested by the police for obstruct- ing the strect, and, per order of Mayor Heath, a large detachment of police camc at onee upon the groiiml and prevented say addi- tional work. President Hough says he will make out a good case of trespass agaiast the city, as he claims tnat recent decisions in the courts have sustained the char- ter and all its prnivilewes. On the contrary, Mayor Heath says he will not permit it, and he briugs the police to his aid in suppress- ing the new company. It is plainly evident from last nizht’s action that the mectings_for a compromise with the West Division Street Railway that bave taken place during the past week have failed. At 2 o’clock Mr. Hough ave bail in $200 until Moaday. ———— A Father's Mistake. Ecening Auburnian. With the carcless inditlerence of man,a father often does not recognize his own offsprime when he sees it; but there is not the fond mother who cannot pick out her dariing among a thousand. An_ instance of this kind occurreu in Auburn a day or two ago. A promiuent hardware dealer was presented with a little daughter some time azo, and recently he had the infant sit for a photograph at the studio of Squyer & Wright. Later he called for it, but a clerk was the onlv person in attendauce, and the father was showu the pieture of several Dabies. He selected those he supposed be- lonzed to him sod started for home, On the way he met several ladics and exhibited the likenesses, which were very much adinired. When_he reached his residence he zave thein to Lis_wife, who glanced at them aud exclaimed, 4 \Why, these are not photographs of our babv! This child is 1S months old, at lvast, while ours is onty S.” Tne parent wasin dismay. He repaired the evil as tar as was possible, by immediately returning the pictures, but the little joke still clings to hitn. e Where Genulne Othellos Mav Be Seen. Troy Whig. The Court of Moroeco has an indescribabie alr of romance about it. It1s hunz with mats and scarfs of ay, warm colors, and dis variety of’ attraciive lnick- Iy embrofdered silk handker X narette cases and holders, brillintiy luminated braceiets und vecklaces made of an aromatic comuosition, tautastically embroidered stippers, delicate pustilles aond an astonishing varicty of gilt acd tipsel ornaments. -Every- thing scems to_send forth the most delicions odor. The air is heavy with Eastern periumes and spives. Olive-wood souvenirs, in the shape of canes, paper-cutlers, paper-weights, and sleeve-buttons, are spread temptuigiy before you. Strange-looking musical fustruments, iar-trumpets, balafans (a very primitive sort of piano), spears, zucs, and aueer-looking dirks and battle-axes appear. Then the tall band- some Moors, with “liquid eyes ™ and lanuuish- ing manners, Inokine like the staze Otheilos in their picturesque red tarbouches and fluwing, many-colored robes, standing in toe tent and around the Court, add greatly to the romaatic scene. —_— ‘An Incident of the Pestilence. 7Y New Drleans Denocrat. Tn the bezinning of spnnz a father left his blooming and healthy family of five children, to cross she ocean, v his way to Parson a business tour. He had promised cuach child 2 present when hecame back, toys such as children dream of ; inimitable plasthings that can only be found in Paris, the centre of art in allits phases; glorious speciimens of inzenuity that miake the. bappiness of those wild little creatuyes who are at the same time our misery and influite joy. A toy trom Paris is a giit from fairy iand, and as_such do the children await its coming. Business having detained the fatzer abroad, ke, io ordes not to disappoint the i . children, purchased the toys and sent them to New Orleans by steamer. We think of his beating and happy heart when he dispatched the package that was to give so much joy to the jittlc ones he doted on. ~Ah! there are abysses in tis world wherein the buman heart sinks, and that are full of jutting rocks that tear it to” pieces! When the packaze arrived in New Or- ledns the five children were dead, PROVERBS. The Cranes of Ibycus—Adages Ancient and Madern. For The Tribune. “The Cranes of Ibycus" is a proverb well koown to the Greck scholar; but, to us less favored mortals, not given to the classics, Schil- ler’s pocin with the above title has been but 2 beautiful fiction, until a recent occarrence opened our eyes to a full appreciation of its. merits, and to our ignorunce of oneof those “remarkable incidents wnich, witnessing for God’s inscrutable judgments, are eszerly grasped by men.” Ibycus was a Iyric poet ol Rbezium, who flourished 510 B. C., and, while journeying to Corinth, came to 2o untimely end at toe hands of hizhwaymen, who believed their sin would uever find them out, no living creature being in sizht save a flock of cranes which hovered a o- meut over the prostrate body, and then flew away. Ibyeus, lifting his dying eyes, implored them to avenge his death: By you, ye cranes, that soar o high, I not anather voice be heard, Be borne to Ueaven my murder-cry. - The assassins, some time afterward, sittingfn theopen tbeatre at Corinth, observed some crané iu the air, and one of them said jeeringly. to his companions, “*Behold the avengers of Tbycus.” Of Tbycns! That name s0 blest = With new-born sorrow fills each braast; As waves on waves in ocean rise, From mouth to month it swiftly liest Of Ibyens whom we lament, . Who fell beneath the murderous hand. What mean those words that from him went? . What meuus this cranes’ advancing band? The woligh of the assassin and the recent dis- appearance of the famous poet excited saspi- cion. The men were scized, put to the torture, and, confessing their zuilt. were executed, and “The cranes ot Ibseus” henceforth became a proverh almost synouymous with our *¢ Murder will out.” Apropos to this subject, how few of us zive due consideration to the real value of proverbs. The indifference, perhaps, arises “in a great measure from the obscurity attached to the tcaning of 2 larze ‘nuwiber resulting from the o1 ion of the verb often noticeable, especially among those belonging to the ancients, who, perhaps betleving **brevity -to _be the soul of wit,” rendered them as concise as possibles while others may have Jost their beantiful significance by falling under the condemnation of the contempt bred of famliarity, havinr been so constantly dloned into our youthful ears by way of pointing a moral,~when, for instance, our ardent anticipations have been clouded by an admonishing voice sugeesting *the slip be- tween the cup and the lip;? onlittle would-be omissions of duty until & more convenicns season bave been met by the disaerecabl® warning to *“Pat not off till to-morrow what can be done to-dav.” But, looking back over “the long aisles of the Past,” bow many ghost- Iy *“might have beens” loom up from shedowy nooks, which an attention to some wise proverd would have changed into the happy ‘-have beens.” Lord Chesterfield avers, *“No man of fashion ever uses proverbs.” O wise Lord Chesterfiela, puffed up in thine own conceit, there is ample evidcuce that they have always been held in ereat esteemn by the “true intellectnal aristoc- racy of 2 nation.” Aristotle i3 said tv have been the first collector of them; Cervantes val ued ‘them; Luther’s works abound in thems Lord Bacun declares that * the zentus, wit, and. spirit- of a watioy are discovered i its prov- erbs.” Our Lord IHimself, ou several occa- sions, made use of the sayings then popular with the people. y It is saia Catierine di Midicis induced her son, Charles the Ninth, to consent to the mas- eacre of St. Bartholoinew by urging upon him the proverb, * Clemency is sometimes cruslty; and crueliy, clemencv.” And_gwain, we read that the hovor of Louis the Fourteenth was saveld by a well-known adage, when, at the seize of Dousy, he fouud himselt and saite unexpeet- cdly under 2 heavy cannonade from the beseized city, and would havevielded to the entreaties of those around him not o expose so important a hfe, bad not M. de Charost whispered, .~ The wine is drawn; it must be druniz” Ivis amustueto note the different garb the same proverb adopts in different countries, susz- cedted by the peculiaritics or.:haracterstics of its own lund. For instancé, the Enwlisn_speak of “currying coals to Newcastle;” the Greeks have it, *owls to Athens.” these birds abound- ing there; the Rabbis say, * enchantments to Edypt;” the Orientals, “ pepper to Hindostan;” the Duteh, *fir-trees to Norway.!” Says an interesting writer: ““Make hay while thg sun shines’ s truly English, and could have had its irth only under such vari- able sics as theirs. And agsin. *Bir and empty, like_the Heidelbere tun,’ could bave its home only in Germany,—that enormous. vessel called the Heidelbery tun, constructed to con- tain nearly 300,000 flasks, having now stood emoty hundreds of years. And the Cormish provern, *He who will not be ruted by the rud- der must be ruled by the rock,” sets us at once upon some rocky und wreck-strewn coast: we feel that it could never have been the suying of an tnland people. ° Perhaps the shortest proverb in the world is the Gerinan, ** Vo'l—toll.”? The Greek proverbs abound with allusions to tiology of the country, and its poecry story; while the Ttatian, althouzlh con- r many that are beautiful and wise, are yet pregnunt with’ the sweetness of revense; for instance, take the following: *“Wait tune and place to act thy revenge, for it Is never well dovein ahurry”{ and again: ¢ Revengelsa morsel for God.” Yet there are some among them that may well claim our scrious attention in these degenerate days, two of which mav be quoted by way of warning or enlightroment: “The Devil’s wmeal is all bran”; and *The robes of jawyers are lined with the obstinacy of suitors.” Spanizh iiterature has been found to contain from 5,600 to 30,000 -adawes, and, indeed, it is said 1o be “richer in this province than any other literatur the world, both as-respects quantity and quality,—some of them reaching the *hirht of evangelical morality,” as, for it stance, ‘God never wounds with both hands,” and. *Peace, and patience, and death with peni- tence,’—evicent!y intending,” says our author, Mto zive the sum and substance of all which in Jife is to be desired the most.” From the ancient heathen world comes down to us this sublimne imaze of the sure and silent approach of Divine retribution, or Nemesis, a3 tuey termed it, in the adage, *'The teet of tue avengive deities are shod with wool.” As a'pruof of the great antiquity of proverbs, it may be said that Aristotle, more than 2000 vears ago, conla spedk of them- ‘as the frag- ments of an_clder wisdom, which, on uccount of their beauty and-aptness, had, amid a geueral wreck and ruin, been preserved.’? The people’s ¥oice, the veice of God we call; And what are proverbs but the people’s voice? Coineu drst. and cnerent made by public choice. Then sure they must have weight and truth withal, Beri. e —— Horrible Death of a Texan. Sherman (Ter.) Print. g Mr. Allen Roberson, brothier of Jason Robert son, of this place, was buried liere last Saturday worning. Mr. R. had recently removed from St. Paul’s Valley, N. C., to Cooke County, and while on a trip to Shermun for lumber to im- prove bis place, with his teams, bis nose bled considerably, after which he laid down uader his wazon to-rest and sleep awhile; and. at- tracted uv the blood on his nose, tie’ fly which sis the screw-worm, it ls supposed, de- posited the germs in his nose. After he cane to Shernan he comolaloed considerabiy of paln in his nose, but did not kuow the cause, but suppused it was from a_catarrh from which be sulfered ocessionally. The pain begun to met worse, whew a pbysician was called o, 2nd it was soon found that he had screw-worms in his nosgiis, and they had probably worked their way iuto his lungs. Several worms were taken _from his nose, but remedies were applied toc Iate, and he diéd after severe suffering, i L A New Stimulant. * Pitcherine ™ is a new stimulant, for the dis- covery of which maukind fs Indebted to the Austfalian aborigines. It is smoked and chewed, or applied in a plaster bebind the ears. Acvording to the !ln'.mm.y used it produces ei- ther pleasant exhilaration or intense and con- tinuous excitement; like the cocon leaves of the South Americun Indian, it invigorates and keeps up the strength throuza periods of pro- tracted exertfon; andin battle ft supplies, when requisite, the Daten courage infused by brandy and bhaog. —_— Silver and Copper In Georgin. Geergia Neics. Last week, from tie Lincola Couaty miues, worked bv a blind mule, 1o carloads of lead and silver ore (twenty tons)were shippéd to ewarls, N. J., and one carload of copuer bra (ten tons) was seut to Busten. This wesk o carload of each Wil be shipped, makine five car- loads in all. Tiis ore :ells ac from 32,000 to | £5100 2 ton, aud finds ready sate. ——