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able to comparo thelr different states, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY., MARCH 1, 187—RIXTEEN PAGES! ticular tenderness for his arandmother, whohind fed Mm with 8 bottle. A’ brush was put bofora him, Ho put his hands upon it, and soon lited them with a grave mir, Tho experiment was repeatod soveral times; at the clghth he threw himself backward, without touching the brus! the ninth he mdncted. hesltated,again drew back, and ombraced his grandmother. Memory is also manffosted by a sort of inter- mittent posseasion of recolloctions. A little airl 8 months old moves her arms asg If she werg shaking & bell, Bho s possessed by the fdea of this bell, and often amuscs heraelf with it, When she fs distracted for o thine, she will re- commenes her movements, and repeat this maneuvie more thon tweoty times in half an hour, A little child of 106 months would inces- santly repeat the wopd w-feau (bateau), meaning the liont, which hie Tiked very much; Iater, two hens aloug with the boat engrossed his attantion, RBoma months afterwyard hy mada a journey, and for the‘two words he _had eo often” repeated he substitnted those of sninyer (chemin de fer, . CIILDHOOD. Mental Development During the First Three Years. Sensibility—Movemonts-—~Intelleotual Fag- ulties—Momory-—Association of . fonsations, Ideas, : ond Acts, Abatraction - Comparison -« Jmaginadion --- Gener- alization~-Judgment--Reasoning--Exe pression of Language«Notfon * © of SelfeThe Moral rallroad), Bense. ¥111,—ASS00IATION OF BENSATIONS, IDNAB, AND ACTS, Popular Sciencs Monthly for Mareh, When the young Tledemann, S days old, was placed on his aido, in the position for suck- The readers of the fonthly will remembor | yup T When hio folt n’ aoft. hand on his face, ho the account of “An Infant's Proaress in | was hushed, and sought the bronst, At Laoguage,” by F. Poliock, in our Septembor monthis he had remarked that when his nurse pumber, Wa also published an articlo on took her mantle it was a sigual for going out. s Dabyhood,” by M. | S0 healways rejoiced when that happoned. * Lingual Dovelopment iu DBabyhiood,™ by M. | jiyy)6 child four monthund a_half old, hearing Talne, fu June, 1876. M. Beroard Perez has her nurse eall Ler from bebind a door through just published abook uponan analorous subject thin keylole, ralsed her head, looked rizht und —the mental development of chilren under 8 | luft, nndi at o fresh call, put out her arms, gaso yearsof age. The following resuino of his ?’uru of joy, nr(' desire, ’g{‘ apltn.nm'l flfln“v Tbscrvations fa translated from the Jepue | 24%eR to mako grimaces. Tho mursoof alittio Selentiflqus for November, 18782 girl thres months and a balf old, when voing out with the child, bought a bouquet of violets, L.—BENSIBILITY PLEASURES AND PAINS OF TRE BENSES which sho concealed tn hier bosom. An unclg of the child one day took her in his lap: he had a From tho first month the fetua {s scnsible to the action of cold. Its nervous system com- retty rose in his button-bole; the child put out mences to react. cr arms, pressed the vest with both hauds, upplied her lips to his shirt (ront, und made sucking movements, A child of 6 months Taste.—The first manifestations of plensure In fofaney aredue to taste. A child 3 months and a half old wiil roluse with grimnces a suck- demanded his bottle, with loud cries, the flrst thing In the morning, cven M it had been aiven ing-bottlo filled with wator, or with milk too Ittle sweotened. bim but the moment before. Thus chiidren aasociate thelr sonsations; and almost all kinde of associations, fortultous or logical, may bo observed among them, Touch.~The feather of a quill passcd overthe 1X.~—~AUSTRACTION. cyes and nose of & child fitecn days old will We may study in little children the analysis mako it frown. Agrccable scnsations aro not | which endsiu the {dea of the jndividual, and manifested bofore the age of two months, al- though they may exist before that thae, Tz:";wrature.—’lx|rnnu dio easily of cold even in summer. It s thought, however, that nduits that which ends in the ldeas of form und quan- tity. Attheace of 1 month several children suffer more from culd, because they are better would follow with thelr e{'u an objeet fn mo- tiun near thelr fuces, Children learn only little by littlo to distinguish different colors. Ex- ternal impressions take hold of them by de- grees, **Distloctly to perceivo sensations, and to preacrvo the distinct recollection of thcm. apart from the vague complexity of concom- ftant impressions, which have only slizhtly affected the senses, Isn work of repair that Vislon.—Color ‘attracts a baves lively colors charm it; dull colors alsp please it they nre positive and distinct. Two children, one 3 months, the other 5, were delighted by soma sketches of a graylsh color. E muy bo cousidered as a sort of rudi- Herlag—Oug . ailld, A wauth ol Wiptary abatraction” Notions of _form ‘le';‘g“g ‘\%hcn 45:;“0 mn:flls DYt ost"mil | ouxht to arfsc in conscquenco of the necessity thero is that the dbild should see tshing children like to besung to, and mauy try to soparately (n_order to sco them well, und_from prattle. ‘they please themselyes by makinga | ogpecially lively Impresalons made by certain ob- Jocts, According to Perez, abstraction s not a result of langaage. . Purcly abstract ideas do not exist, und relntively abstract fdeas havo thelr origin indepondently of language. X.—COMPARISON. Comparison, properly spenking, Is not possibla to the now-born chlld for several weeks, A Mttle pgirl of 3 months, before whom were put an empty sucking-bottle and one full of milk, scfzed both, and carried the cmpty ane to her lips. A cakeand s morsel of bread sera placed before achild of 10 months. Mo seized the cake. It was taken away from him, and he began to eryand kick. Presontly a morscl of bread was given him, which ke took, but did not sco his mistake till ho bad bitten {t, when ho threw it awny. The same child could easily dis- tingulsh its'own playthings from those of its couirades, and, while glad to got bold of thelrs, would not permit them to umuso themselves with his, After ftifteen months, and es- peclally between twenty months and two years, chlldren compare s great deal, When about two years and a half they use such hrasca ‘as baby treo Shuln tree), paoa tree &rent treo). Onechild 3 years old knows the vames of mare than twenty trees, and can give their more apparent soecilic characters, XL—IMAGINATION, Representative imazioation ia excrcised at the beginning of Hfe. Buveral facts already given prove this. The vagruo and profound terror manifested by children {8 o _proiluct of imagina- tion, and go are dreswns, The passage from ra- roductive Imogination to creative imagnation s effccted by a changa (o the ordor In which the fdeas aro represonted, n ¢change which frequent- 13{ occura duriug sicep, Creative imagination {s shown {n a waking state by many acts. The child sppreciates fun, and sometimes tries to nolse. Smell.—Children for o long tima show no sen- albility to mood nud bad odors. At 10or 15 months thelr scnse of smell is very livoly, IL—BENSIDILITY: BMOTIONS AnD PASSIONS. Taste.~The emotlons connected withjtasio aro for a long time the most lively, Fear.—Fcar 13 early moullested. A babe of € months will make o face, cry, nud recoil upon the bosom of dts nurse, if ouo ancezes or cries out near ft. Jea/ousy and Anqer.—A little girl, nenrly 3 zonths old, would frown, muke wry taces, kick, and cry, on seeing another tabe on her mother's oreast. A little bav, an the second day, when dresred, gesticulated in a mauner paintul to sce, llnd cspeciallv when his arms were put in the slegves, : Emotlons vary w!th the Ohjects.—A littlechild 11 montbs old was pleased to hold the nursing- bottle, und to cat various foods; b Joved to play; he showed affection for his parents, and made some difference in this respect botween different persons that he llked. ~ Ho showed aversion for some inanimate objects (hammer syringo): for a littlo black barking dog; and for the caresses of o nefehboring ehild 7 yeors old, who bad played him nore than one trick, ‘The organization of children being more feeble than ours, their emotions aru short-lived, and things mclmuut disugrecable or pulnful dq not long re- maln 80, Animal Sympathy.—Children love snimals, but fu a purely epotistic fushion. A child 6 monthsold, left ulone with o turile, half tore off vue of it feet, and when bis nurse came was pulling ot suother with all his micht, ZJluman Sympathy.~One child n year old, coming home after o month's absence, pald no attention to o cat und dog that he knew woll Lut with a smilo reached out s arma to an old sorvant, Chilaren have anly o germ of trug | amuse those who surround it. At 4 months symp: n,?-, A Httlo child 4 years old lost lacking three days, upm[ Tieaemnnn tried, for one of his dearcst compunlons, ko father of | wmuscinent, to ‘nko ull sorts of movements, the dead boy took him on his kuee whilo sob- bing. The c¢hild escaped, frisked about for a lttle, und, coming buck to the afilicted father, smd, * Now Peater ia dead, you will give me his horse and drum, will you pot?’ Sometimes more scusibility s manifested: n baby ot 16 months would cry to the shedding” of hot tears on scelngr his futher take n shower-bath. The same child at the sume time waa the terror of cats. 1L—MOVEMENTS (FIRST-PERIOD). The now-born child sncezes, Crles aud Tears.—During {ts_first wecks the balo sheds no teare, In o child 77 days old rapid und shurs juspirations approsching to sobblugs in poother child of 183 daya 3. Perez observe a distinet sob, and to take difterent nostures. 'Fhe same faculty mnnulfests itself under the form of destructivy and constractive mania. The nnitation of ges- tures, of expressions, of tho crles of animals, {udicatu the first awakening of the eathetic son- tinient, to swhich, perhaps, we should also nt- tribute the attroction that certaln plctures havo for the child, A littlo boy 81 years old, being ndmitted for somo weeks to play with a dozen Ittt pirls 4 or B years old, chose his favorites the second day. “He bad o strong affectlon for two or thres children more olayful than the others; ho would take them In his armsand caress them, while turning away from tho others, u'uldlng them and striking them. The same ¢hild carly showed a sort of esthetlc mu- sleal sentiment. When listening to the plano, he would exccute rhythmie jerks or starts, At Laughing.—Smiling often occurs befora the azo of o month, ~ Children of 3 months lauwh, but without secming to suspect that the lnugh expresses anything. .. Sense.—A littlo pirl 8 montbs okl would prattle when her mother aang; she had for some time cxpressed, by partlcular sounds, her wish to suck, Various ifovements,—A child 6 doya old left, with his arms free, fn his cradle, would me- chanleally carry bis hand toward Lis foce, and succeed in placing it ahinost uuder his head., Wo miay remark that his father often alept in an onulogous position. Children ralse and Jower thelr arms ond lega with no appurent reason. Bome new-born babes move thefr nyes from the second duy. The son of Tledemann, o phi- lomrher of the eighteenth century, wauld.w‘t’wn insplring, suck anything put in his mouth the next duy after bis birth, 1¥,—MOVEMENTS (SECOND PERIOD). Between 4 and 8 months the child posses over the laterval which separates motion and locomotion. Toward the ngo of 16 months ho cxyccutes many movements—ehaking his licad froms right to left to say no, and bowlng it 1o say yes, ‘The car nud oye liave necommodated themsslyes to distauces. The cyo expresscs many shades of thoucht, feoling, and will, Laughs, tears, and vanous movements of tho hand scrve equally to express cmotion, ’ Vi—VOLUNTALY MOVEMENTS, ‘The new-born ¢bild cxccutes some move- ments that have o definite end. Theso move- ments are probably autoinatic; consclousuvss is, however, bezibning to awaken, Wnen 9 or 8 montha old the ¢hild can put forth n good deal of strenzth. At 4 orbmonths he will muko such o stir that it will take sovoral versons to quict him, Valuntary action fs al- w.l:yu determined by feeling more or less cone sclous. V1.—INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES: CONSCIQUSNESS, ATTENTION, B M, Perez thinka thut mu?{v reflex .actions of tho chlld are accomnanled by consclousness, ‘The oyes of o littte glrl a week otd would some- times taka & rotury movenent, as if trying Lo sceaamething, When some one spoke, or when 20 months children” ars passlonate for the ro- cital of impresstons sulted to them, Lyon at § years they take in enrueat tho storles told them, und often, when these storlcs are repented, they will not permit anv changes of statement, XI5 —OENRRALIZATION, M. Perez does not believe that lonzusge is necessary to the making of a geueralization, He points ot to the ubserver a radiment of en- cralizatlon in children thut caunot talk, A child 8 months old bod, among his fuvorile play- things, a tin box, Into wnich lie put everything that woutd gomtolr. Huving found out the property aftne box to contain otuer things, ho reasoned fm this to unknown objects, nudl be- gou to experiment. He trled to put the legs of nlittle r.hulchl)i jock into the stopper of u de- canter, then a little doll'a cradle, nnd finally the cud of his forefluger. Achlld of 8 months, at thesleht of any young or playtul person, would mnke starts ‘toward her, Besiaes, even at the tiue when children express some general {ulcas by words, they havo otliers which they do not 80 exprees, A chill of 18 months, who was refused the hund when he wished to bo led, left the person who held iim, got down upon the floor, aud began to creen. Creeping was for him a meaus of nolng along—a meauy ot which bo bad a very distinct idea, XIIL JUDGMENT. It to judgo Is to bolteve somothing of somo- thing clse, we cannot doubt that judument s manifested by children. The Young Tledemann mnde a judginent when, scelng his nurss take her mautle, he understocd that she was zoing out. ‘Tlie notlon of quantity fs carly formed by little children, who know very well a largo pleco of cako from a smalt one, The iden of nutnber 18 confounded with that of quantity: a little chtld of § months selzed at the gamo timo two suckiug-bottles that wers offgred bim. A chiint 8i¢ yearsold knows how to count twelve, but hius not u clear iden of the time represented by three days, in o general way the child otten Judges well of concrete matfers, Abstract judg- inents aro more diflicult for it X1V, REASONING. The littlo child rensons, i reason fs only a scrics of consccutive udirments arran certaiu ubjects mude o great nolsv, sunething | cording to the law of “méhunl méfim'fif,‘.'. .f{ Hke surpriso und attentjon, and un’intontionafl | cuild 7 months old sssoclstes the idea of tho direction to her gaze, was noticed, Thls little eirl would suck, but without persistence, all ob. Jacte, besides the uipple, when they were carrled to her hps, dhecried wnd wrung hersell when put {o her cradle, but if her mother took her in ber |rm-' and while singing put hor faco ngalnst the child's, she would cease to cry, Attention.—A child ot 17 days would follow with its ecycs a llghted candle that was passed beforo bim, Another, st the agoof o montb, would give sustalued attentlon to the ot of sucklugs its fixed cyes would shine with pleasure, and would from thne to thne balf vell themselves under his eyel His sucking- bottle was tlled with sweetcued water, After u slight. hesitation, he continued his sucking with the sumine expression of voluptuous attentlon ns it the bowtle had contalued milk, ~When giyen pure water, he tasted I, let 3t, {ook hold agafn, and {hen nbunioned It, frownlng nid moking a mouth, A child 8 month old would leok tixedly, for three or four miuutes, ut the reflcction Iy o wirror of the light on o table. In forty-five days he would follow with bis cyes a dol} dressed fu bright bluo, thut ulittle gl dauced before Bim u yard off. Thirteeu duys after his birth the sun of ‘Tledemann gave ottention to the estures of thuse who spoke to him. The at- ention of children i8 very short-lived, but it {s ofteu profitable, movementsof mustlcation, und tho resulting sensations, \Whon he sces his nurse cat, ho thinks that what ha eats {s good for her, nnd thut what {s good for her will be good for him. And, as ho knows by oxperience thut the nurav «an divide with bin'ifshu pleases, he begivs to cry, iz order to mako her doft, It {s very diil- cult to distingush that which {s consclous from that which 1s uncouscious in the total monfesta- tions of apparently ratlonally ordered feclings, ideas, wndl oranic [mpulsvs, A child whoso ather often went fishlug was accustonied to cat fried fish. Oneday his father, coming howmus after the hour of supper, ato alone, * Me want Iry, papa; me want 17y, antd he, king to wot Alie attentlion of bis father; he flulshed by gote ting under the tabls uud pulling his futher'sJeg, #afewant fry, not kittvi me fry; me want fry,"" His idca was to linltuta the cat In getting unuder the table, s0 a8 (0 get some fish, Con- etious acts are mingled with reflex acts, Chlldren often show a great aptituds in appro- printing the oxpericnces arlslug fu new clreun- atances. A e child, in Wie nelghborhood of 9 years old, would sometimes, at the table, Btaul_somethtny; fram his veignbor's plate, He would at once compare the stolen morsel with Lie own plecs, then he would hurey und come vress it 5o thut bis Jarceny would “be'lesa ap- parent., XV, OF TIIB EXVHESSION OF LANGUAGE, Lunguace {s only a superior application of the {acunlty ot expression pussessed by ull anlmi 1t Is based ou the correspondance between taly externel movements with cxperienced seu- sutions, Children from the first wouth Yy vrattle, sob, but without sttaching any signillcas tou to thess acts, sociation und asort of seloction reuder ihess movements aud theso feellugs consclous and voluotary, Hereditary fotluence ought to interpose lnuiu early prog: language; for little children quickly rees of learn to distivguish toues of plcasuro Vile~MEXORY, Hercditsry memory fs 1anifested In the first selex actions of the fufant. ‘Vhese awaken the consciousness, uud the child’s own memory often unites Jtself with thue. fu a few months & child has already o lnz personal recotlections, A little girl three months wud s halt old could iudlcate whera her - foct were; she also dlmni\lhhw her dress, which she scemed to take for s part of ber person. Bhae bad & passlon for color; the word pieture made her amils, A little boy 7 months old had a pare from tones af anger, olc, At 8 months the child mokes futoutional gentures in asking for or refusing a thing, **A child of 7 months, who had never seen me,' enys M, Perez, “amiled a8 to an old acquaintance on hearfug mo pronounce his name! At O months ho will givo littlo crics of pleasure and of appeal,some of which were evident attempts to imltoto n dow, a eat, & bird, At 11 months he underatood some littla phroses. A child 13 monthd old, precoctoys in lanzuage, used a core taln number of words inwtheir ordinary sonse, A littlo eirl of 10 months pronounced fntolligi- bly many words, nnd passed casily from in. artfculate to articulate sounds that she sought by instinct, but_was aided by fmitation. She ended by reproducing the last tonle svliable, of which aho could modify the articulation in con- formity to the law of least effort. For & long timo sfic sald only dous for fambour (drum), fe caye(coflec), ye for Plerro (Peter). Binco then ahe says a-bont for tambour, a-leau for galeaw (cake). ‘Fhe Jearning of languawa scems in gens eral toobey the I of lenst effort; it 48 influ- enced by temperament and by surroundings. The words most easily Jearned by ehiidren are those which exnress the entient qualities of objects, or the part which produces the princloal and dominant Impresalon. A littlo girl 20 months old called the decanter ve Suerre, frinss). A little chilld 9 years old called all dogs wa-wa, exeept his grandfathier's dog, which he did not call by his vwn name, but only distinguished it from others. Eome ons madefor bim a little ronnded Ogure of paper; e eald tefe, the naine by which he desiguated the bosom of his nurse. Intellt- gent children often forget words that have no meanlugs for themy chiliiren of less intelligence, on the contrary, sometimes roplace ldeas by words, ‘The mania for jabbering syllables with- out slgnitication is common with chitdren, even the most {utellicent, No doubt they rest from the effort of mind that thelr first essays In talk- Ing cost them in making this nolse, wlich, with- out requiring any cxertion, charing and stuna thelr ears. XV1. NOTION OF SELP: PENSONALITY, REFLEC- TION, The notlon of sclf may bo considered, to a certain extent, os hereditary, and already exists inz among the impresstons of fatal life. It 18 duveloped littlo by little. ‘Ihe personnlity of little children is concestrated o the sphera of emotion. They do not know distinctly either themselves or anything else, but they nro sensl- ble ot the presence ol objects, and they are sene sible of themsclves lving, feeling, mid acting. At 8 months the notion of personallty 1s al- ready outlined. When children begin to speak of themsclves they employ the third person. M. Percz does not conclude fram this that chil- dren are unable to separato thelr muonnlll’y from oxternal objects. 'Lhie words J, me, Paul, Charles, ete, nallke express the notlon ot per- sonnl individuality; they dcu(finum the persons olity of the child, n personality that he well koows. When betweon 2. tud 8 years old the rentiment of personality fs aflrm- ed and oxoggerated, A child was very delleate “pefore the sge o 24 months, His scelf-loys had to bo correctod. When 8 years old he fell, wid befora getting up he walked on all-fours, making bullove thut hy had not fallen. At nnother tiine ho stumbled on the stalrease, and rolled over two or thres ttmes, purposely bumping his he:d with a nolse. Ho protended to have fallen for fun., o was usually peduntie, exotistie, und concelted, but from timo to time would show sympathy and difidence, XVIL TAN MORAL S8ENBE, The child has not the nbsoluta fden of good and bad; but he has the objective {dea from the ageof Bor 7 months. For him that which fs ermitted §s good, that which is forbidden Is nd. A child 7 months old had lcarned from its mother, who had scolded und shakaon it, that it oupght not to cry to be taken up or held in arms if its wishes were not immediately granted, Whea 10 mounths old the child began to get up ftsclfin o hesitating way,—n moral belng, A little child of 11 months obeyed his father very well, partieularly when asked to do nnyzhlngllor. the ‘amusewent or pleasure of otliers, For littlo childron, the moral law s fncarnated in their parents, A littlo boy, staying for two or three months with his uncle, would show how his mother mnnaged {n reference to him, und ery and gesticulato if things wers not done os shio did them, He would himself follow the rule of conduct that he tried to ftnvose npon others, **It ks very bad to lle,” sald he, * thut gives mamma muct pain,—that makes her ery.” As for the rost, the moral acnse is slowly moal- fled, according to the clrcumstances fnwhich the cbild {8 placed, Both sympathy and the desire to vlease play an important part {n the develop- ment of the moral tacaities. A lttlo girl of 40 months was greatly nfllicted when her mother aald to her, * 1 am aucry with baby.” Bho was, for the moust part, indifferent to her father's scoldlngs, whom sho was accustomed to liearery out at her, and threaten her, The young Tlede- mann, waen he was 2 years and b months old, said, when ho thought “ho bad done something ood, ** Everybouy will say thut is a good littlo E ‘Wheri hio was nnu| u,v‘ if he were toud, ‘he nefghbors will sco you,” he eensed Inime- diately. 'T'he moral sense I8 one of the facnitics most susceptibleot modifleation by education. ‘The love of justice sometimes manifests itself. A little boy, the first time he told a lie, wus shut in the closet, and when he was set free he eried out, struck with the finportance attuched to h's fault, “But, mamma, perhaps I am not pun- isned enouch for a fautt so prave.’? Somo chil- dren are open-handed to liberality; others, ou the contrary, have the instinct ‘of ownership stronely developed, The fustinet of approprine tion is also manifested, and romcetimes beconies the inatinct of steallng. ¥inally, slmost alf chil- dren ara cruel; It fs hiord to prevent them from hurting noimals, A llttlo giel ‘Jm;'cnru ofd, very affectivnate und caressing, passed three-fourtha of the day tormenting on old dog. ‘The hest children aro petrayed into striking cveu those they fondly Jove. CoNCLUSION. Wa find_the germs of all the facultles In the 1teto ehtid, und scunsations are t food upon which they grow. \Wo may even that the easontial faculties are inunute, slnee the nervous centres thnt wanifeat them are already organ- ized at the moment of birth, The method fals lowed by M. Perez1s the sclentitic method; ob- servation abounds in his worlc; perhans, ho- over, some {nductlons reposs upon disputable interpretations, But, be this ns it muy, the bouk of 31, Perez 1s full of tntercat, and cannot full to be of greut utility In a stndy so fmpor- tant, 80 curloua, und 80 long negiected os the psychology of infants, —— THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE, Marguorite's Complalnt, To the Editor of Ths Tribune. CuroAao, Feb, 28.—Any ono may notlee that our strect-cara aro “‘bullt under scventy-five patouts,” Now, what I want to kuow fe, why cannot some ono {nvent a “suventy-sixth pat- ent, In tho shapo of a speaking-tube, for In- stance, in order to enable the conductor to call out the namer of the streots without keeping the car-door open abott one-third of the time, and making the cor colder thaw thero Is any necessity forl I sucha thing could possivly bo done, I know the ladics of the SBouth 8ide—who are necessitated to rldue in those cars—would kuow how to appreciate it Manaussirz. 1s This u Botution of the Chinese Quostlon? To the Iiditor of The Tribune, Cmicago, Feb, 23.—Have not the States pawer to tax the Chinamen, so as to diserlninate agamst thelr labor? ‘Thelr wazes conld be tuxed, ‘which would compel them to demand more from employers than would be patld, Thelr property could be taxed at highor ratas than the property of citizens, which woyld make it unprotitablo for them to hold propévty, ‘Thelr income from any source could be tuxed so bigh as 1o Jurzely ubsort ft. ‘Tits would make it undeairablo for them to 6.0 this conutry, and thuse here would ‘¢ tho United Status, iey are not citizens; have no rights under Stato or Federal Constitutions; amt thero may bo nothing In any of these Instruments to pre- vent the enforcement of such taxation, Sugpest thts to your Califurnla uvxchanges. Slould Callfurnta pasa such lawa the peoplo there would bo sble to enfurce them, even il they should bo u little extra constitutional, Axzuioa, Informatlon for Represontative Wilson, 3 To the Editor cf Ths Tribune, Periy, Fob. 27.~The fntelligence of the averago legislator Is beautifuly illustrated in your report of the discussion upon the vluss lemslation contemplated by flouse bill No. 171, rgported in Tue TRIDUNE of Fob, 20, as foliows: Mr, Wilson apoke In favorof the bill, stating that ‘Chicago had o large number of wmen who wora unlicended luwyurd, und who swindlod ltigants vut of tholr monoy. 1t Is not an untommon thing, even iu our day, for men, Lefore uudertaking to speak upoun given subject, to acqualnt themsclyes to somo extont with that subject, und had Reoresonta- tive Wilson beforu speaking taken the precau- tion to exumino a copy of the Rovlsed Btatutes af the State of {1liuots, Chup, 80, be would have discovered the followlugt J 8zc. 130. That no peruon shall practico, act, or ADpOAT Ay 8N wituruoy or couusclor bufore sny Jusilce of ko Peacy lu this Stato in any civil ur criminal action or suit about to be comnienced or thou ponding, unless such person is & regularly liconsed attornoy fn accordanco with the laws of this Blate, except that plaintifta shall Liave the liu- srly of prosecuting aud defondants of dufendiny uite befor 10 their 3 - Justico umfi"n?é'fl"%'a:fim. this act anall [ apply to Juatice's Coutts In citles of 100,00 in- havliants or over. 8rc, L1, Any lu'rmnlhnl. shall be founa guilty of a violatton of {his act aliall bo fined In a enm of not less than 86 nor tnore than £50, or be imprise oned in the Connty Jail nut excoeding twenty dnys, or cfther or both, In tha diacrotion of tho Court; and jtahall ho Inwful for any petson ur pere runs hiaving paid any moncy or otlior thing to such erscn, 10 maintnin an nction for the recovery of tie monoy so pald or tho value of the thing so given, Approved May 23, 1877, In force July 1,1877, S Noramz, The Accldent to Mr. Shays, T the Editor of Tie Tribune, CrticA@o, Fob. 23.—I notlce in yesterday's Times o speclal telegram in regard to the accl dent occurring at Chenoa, As it ls not reported correctly, 1 will give you the facts. Mr. John I, Bhays, my som, travels for Edwin unt's Sons. Il was etanding In the store of Jewel & Glbson, waiting to sell a bill of goods, Mr. Qibson wna showing n new pistol, which he took from his own stock, to bis partner. Not know- Ina It was tonded, 1t dischared, and the balt en- tered the ton of the rizht hand of Mr, Shays, near the.wrist. A surgeon promptly examined the wound, aud advised him to jmmediately ro- turn home to his friends, He took the train, und reached the city about10 o’elovks arrived at home, 740 Monvoo ‘strect, nud jmincdiately se- cured the serviees of Dr. Beabe, who s attend- fnge the case. ‘The ball is still in the Dand, und causes mucn suffering, but ho passed a more com{ortable night. Ho will have to let go his arip on hardivare sachiels for sume time, % Jony W, Suaxs, Life-Insuranco. Ta the Editor of The Tribune. Cnicaau, Feb, 23,—In Tue Trinuxa ot the 24th, Mr. Shufeldt gives us ono of bis peculiar screeds on life insurance. 1 do not kuow what inotive lie hoa in trying to lend the publicto be- lleve that lite comnpanies return $1 for every $4 collected, but it is wronz, Mr, Shufeldt, al- though a lawyer, seemns to forget thut the laws of Massachusutts, New York, Illinols, and some other Buates, eompel life companies to rolain so much of tho receipts ns will umount to the pres- ent value of future claims, and what s called o reservo; algo, that tliere are other cxpenditures besides losses, Now, lut us look at some vlnln;rncls: I have not the records of all the companies at land but I will take those of two of the leading and most promisfug unesas fllustrative,~the Mutual Beuetit of New dersey and Connectieut Mutual, ‘Ihe total recelts of theso two_compuuies from date of organization to Jan. 1, 1873, wers: $174,730,154 40,400, 224 1vv v vins cearse 8221,145, 370 Total «0 aes uoe Tetnrned In lorses, dividends, endow- erenders 123,021,347 74,630,413 22,003,588 ———— 221,145,370 ‘The taxes hayo been nbout 84,600,000, so that the romaining $18,000,000, or sbout 8 per cent, has been all thiat has beon used to manngo those two larice institutions, including commissions, salarles, ote.; also another—no swall ftem—pres miuwm on bonds, ste, which in 1877, for ono of theso companies alone, reached over 8300,000. Durlnyg the year 1877 all the companics (forty- two) reporting to the Now York Department Jan, 1, 1878, showoed recolpte: In promiums..e.. r Biltes. ey coe veaaie Expenses, 1axod, dis- counts, olC.eereee o0 ..800,105, 00 +724,071, 003 76,428, 14C BAalanco e vacssniennas 514,818,661 The facts arc that life-Insuranca companies were nover in better condition than to-day; il thoso that have pussed throuch the storms will o ahiead with fncreaved vigor. Becauso some of our natlonal banks have beon fmprudently manazed nud gone out of busluess, it does not prove that the whole banking systom is wroniz, or that there are no zuod baulks,” It is the same with Iife companies; beeause some have rone out of esistonee, do not_giva the fmpression that ail gre doing wrong, Duc credit should be given to all companles that can sliow such u record a8 above, especially with such small ox- ponses, A ltzlo charity, friem] Shufelut, It you please: W. L. PouLsON, by 3 Anothor “Hernld" Canard Explodod. To the Editor of The Tribune, NEw Yorg, Fob, 20.—Having just returned from Brazil, permit mo to reply w brief to the article in extenso from the New, York Herald under the caption * Afllicted Brazil" which nppeared {n your widely-circulated journal, issuc of 10th nst., and which 18 well caleulated to mistead thosa who are dlrcciing their atten- tlon to that country in marketing our Awmericsn manutfactures, The City of Para, on her lnst trlp to this port from Rio, teok on board at Peruambuco n Mr. Smith, sent out by tho proprictors of Scribuer's Magazine, who had epont somo four months in the Provinca of Ceara, and who went from huy to hut, aud witnessed the horrible sconcs of starvation ond death which that obscure prov- inco 8 mow afllicted with. The Provinco of Cearals o small provinec on the northeast const of Brazll, and for many years hing been imore or less atlleted with droughts, ‘There nré no rlyers in the provines beyond nero sfreams, ntirely dricd up, in _consequence of the Ly of the drought of 1877-'75, ‘The relntions ot this provinve have nothing to do with the cultivated and fertlle Provinee of Brazil, any more than the Black IHils would have to do with the rest of Amerlcan_terrltory, ‘Therofore, this bix seareeraw should bo unders stood. ‘T'he Inhabltants of Ceara are, fo gencral, o miscrable set of mixed breeds,—Indinns und negrovs,—and nmoro worthless und Idlo set cannot be faund on earth. ‘Ihe Government s shipned provistons wid done all that luy in its power to mitigate the sultering, mueh In the camo manner that the United Siates alded all in {ts power to our own afllicted South, ‘The Yrovinees of -Rio do Jauciro, Minna Ueraes, Bt. Paulo, nnd others ars advanclng rapidly, and the City of Rio de Janeiro s wel paved, orderly, und as (ine a clty os there 8 in the world, wlich its chuyming by sceures 1o ft. ‘The Engllish trado {s o large one, snd the French huve the retall trade rrutty much in their own hauds, "The whole of this trade can bediverted tothe United States very easily, whieh the large amount of orders for glassware and machiuery which I brought with ma fully proves, Lamshippingzoodsconstuntly, and zoout ngain on May Lnext. "Tlhe young . man who brouzht hoima the data from which the horrible detnfled aceount was prepared, of courze was anxlous to Justlty the necessity of his trlp, and Jience hia umazination sided "him fargely In $Yorking up lsn'm.erlnl to stugger the peoplo of the Uxfilcd. ates, 1t Is dae, not only to Bruzil, but to thoso en- zazed in trade with Ut country, to understand this matter, nud tha ldea of nuking ant that the whols ol Brazil fn aillicted, simply beeause an outlying provinee containing a workless set. uf natlves has been willfcted with a scourue, 1s preposterous, 1t {s bad enough, but, ns stated, whut uceurs ot Deadwood City might na well bo applied to the whole of 1he United States, Joux C. Xer Horemn, Importanes of Cultlvaling the Memory Wiile Young, To the Editor of The Tribune, CiticAgo, Feb, 23,—T have o littla®thought to bring to that grandest of all shrines, Tue Home, which 1 hopo may be docmed worthy of admls- slon. Waolinve all seen the *dull boy " In achool. Perhaps some of us have pitied him; but proba- bly the mojority have oxperienced only teclings of contempt for the *dunce,” Ilavo any of us everreally endeavored tostudy out thereason why somesrodull] There, tor lustance, 18 theother ex- trene, o remarkably bright, siuort boy, Why do we call lmsmart] Tecauso he gets his lessons caslly und well, makds ant remarks, retorts, ete, ‘Whaut enables hiin to do thist Anything but o goud memory, which pluces whiot he has studied, i read; und heard, and thouizht athils tonguo's end, the samu servant supplyluge a good vocabu- Inlr,\" c'll appropriato words o express himsell with . Nuw cons{dor the brilhant orator and states- man: What would his oratory amount to but for tho wemory to bring to his uso fucts, incl- dents, anewdoies, forwer thoughts aud ideas, and language to relate und express them Tradesmen, morchants, professlonat en, all, everybody, ars Immenacly benetited by a wood wemory, 18 uot, then, ono of the moat lmportsnt of dutics of parents the cultivation of memory in thelr children? ‘The fact that the benulits of memory fucrease immousurably faster in ratlo thon compuund interest—the “first year's los- sung remembered {netend of forgolien theme selves preatly alding to push forward the student fis the second year, und 80 Increasing— would scem to pes special reason for come meneing and pursulug « coutinuvus und judds clous system of excrcisos for the memory at and {rom a very early ago. I awm opposcd to conflu- ing youog fldren {n school dunufi long, “weary hours, for thelr undevelope mitecles and Tunga need continuous exercise {n pure alr ns cssentials to health and lifg itself, But this nced not provent mothers, nnd all having the caro of children, commencinj glve them, whila very young, little, saying, songe, yerses, cle,, to commit to memory, miv- fug that faculty an carly atart, and judictonaly accelerntine fta growth, 1s tiot this an fmportant_matter to tho future wolfaro of the clildren? Can they suecced in anv calling, whother 1n the industiies, the arts, or the pralessions, as woll witly a poor, unculti- vated memory ns with 0 good onei Yet how many parents’ over carcfully constder this mate ter, and profit by the imevitabla coneltiefonsi Moltiers, you can nll help your ehildren to vosacss n goud memory, It requires nelther professors, nor schools, nor expenso to inake o berluning, You can commence at once, et your littlo oncs interested nnd engoged in com- mltting somethiug to memory, nml fullow 1t up, Wit 1. Dorr. Forolgn Langunges In Our Oommon Schools, To the Editor af Ths Tribune. Cnitcaao, Feb, 28.—Our publle schools have been graded so Lhat 1t begina at A B C and ends at the studles of tho High 8chool. Very wisely our eduieators proceed step by stop to fmpart the knowledge of what they teach, beginning with reading and writing, then adding somo ele- mentary arlthmetie, then some spelling, then somo geography, nnd so on till the coursecis complete for a good common education, as {o- tended by our Coustltutlon, Under the presont pressuro we are forced to admit that o !ormtm‘langungn taught fn the pri- mary schools must tako the place of one of the neecssary branches requived by tha constitution- al enactment. 'The teaching” of a foreign Jan- guage to sumo tender children during theschool lours, while other tender children remain in the room, {8 s loss of timo to both thosc who are taught nud thoso who are supposcd to study something clsa in thut same room. Our Commuusvealth owes education to all our children. And onc-fifth recolve none. One- fifth knock atv the door of, our common schools and ore refused adouttance. Ton thousand ehil- dren in Chicago rosm in the strects, wander and receive no Instruction to make them good and intelligent people, Far from that, they are by force mixed with the scum of soclety, aiul learn what mukes themdrunkards, thieves, murderers. sAnd stlll we are asked to squunder our money to teach a forclgn language in our public scliools, Geutlemen of the Board of Educatfon, zive us, tirat, accommodations and teachers for thosa forsaken children; tint {s your tirst und most sacred duty; then you may, when our scholars become of oge, say 14 years, stuff them with (erman, French, Scandinavian, Spanish, or any langungo they inny digest. Hut, as it is, teaching German in our common schuuh is unjust to those poor, cast-out chil- dren. 1t Is overfeedling those who eonjoy the benellt of our achools nnd refuslug a morsel to those pour, famished thousands, 1t Is giving lile, knowledge, llizbt, and protection to some, and plunglng others into darkucss, vice, an degradation, Why, it we look at it candidly, we wonder -at the scltish persistency und fuconsistency of thosa who press the messure, In Germany the administration is more revere than ours. " The teaching of forclgn languages I8 forbidden un- der beavy penalty In the conquered provinces of Alsace ninl Lorraine. 'The German, of course, is not a forcizn lauguage In that country, It the law is good theve lor the natloosl langunge, it should be rond hicre, unless we come to tho conclugion to becomo Germans, But, nay; our German-Amerfeans, by renounemg thelr al- legtanco to the Emperor of Germony, prove thelr preference for thelr Amerfean cltizenship. Before 13 or 14 yecars o child cannot even embraco all the brauches of a good English edueation cfliclently, successfully. The vxceps tion would confirm the rulo. ‘Then tondd to thoso studivs 8o nrduous s branch as a forelgn language must hinder success and efliciency in ourcommon schools, thus lowering the standard of a system of lcuchlnf: which was supposed to bo the flrst In the world. An answer to the above {s: “Abolish the High Bchools, uud then wo will grant you the excluslon of Qerman from the common schools, und the proceeds of the cconomy will be worth thie whitls to bufld new schools aud give teachers to yA‘)ur 10,000 forsaken children,” ~True, if not £oOd, A petitlon of 16,000 names was preacoted to the Board. Thousands of those naines aro gen- crally given, pro et con, yery indifTerontly, and 1f 15,000 wero appended to the above petition it would bo o“f to tind 160,000 to momorialize agalust the object thereof, Let the Board ‘declde for once, and give us resty TRo AMERIOAN, ‘Vox Replics to His Critlo. To the Editor af The Tribune, Cmrosgo, Feb, 28.—[f Wm. M. D, would devote alitto moro time to the study of the subjeet ho thinks ho is dlscussing, aud less to trylng to appear amart, bis writing upon spell- ing reform would not be so flippant and super flcial, Ho enya: Vox {8 very prolific in nssertions of what the peoplo will do, und what they never witl do, 1 re- member that not nany years ago persona and per- sons asserted that the Amorican pooplo never would nvolish slavery. ‘I'bis {8 & remarkably absurd comparlson. Tho | South did wot volunturlly emaucipate thelr elaves and reform their labor system of their own volition. ‘The change was wrought by the applieation of Irresfstiblo military force and tor- ritic slaughter. Are the peonle also to be com- pelled by force and arms to adopt his * Ameri- can system of apelling " g Further along in his communication Wi, M, D. puts some questions which he evidently be- lieves to bo unanswerable, und makus objections 10 tho e sign of the long vowel sound, which ho regards as suro death to it. Ho saya: If Vox etill feels ltko dofending bis final-c-Indox of long vowels theory, will ho plense ahow ua how 1o willindicato the Jong a in such words, for ine stance, na native, cavrics, ialthless, sacrod, vallao; or tho foug o in notion, rotate, ice, coral; or the loni 6 in petition, rofarin, relnburse, ote, 7 And, after hio bas all the long a’s fixed up to his notion, how will he desitmato the broad o in pa, father, far, ctc.? O courso fio will dollght in :mi;muxg 1ight on his systom, 1f he roally has falth nit. 1f Wm, M. D. had ever givon ony thought or study to the syllsbleation of the English language he would have learned that the loug or short quantity of the vowel depends upon whetner the word or syllable divides on the vowel or consunaut, ‘Tlie guneral rule or anajo- Ky of the lauguoge §s that when the word di- vides on the vowel it 18 *loug," and when on thie consonant the vowel §s short. The tonguc oaturally giides into this usage, and {o that way and for that reason ft has become tho genursl o custom,—with some cxceptions, of course, as there are to all inguistic rules, ‘Lake the very words he cltes, and thelr aylla- ble division shiows whether thu.vowel {s long or short (except the word faithless), viz. 0~ tive, ca-price, sa-cred, va-lise, no-tion, te, co-rul, re-form, re-inburse. D‘vmo on the con- sonant and sue what o change {u the length of the vowel sound {8 obscrvablo to the ear: Nate {ve, can-rice, sac-red, val-ise, not-ate, cor-al, otc, “Pils will bo nore cléarly ecen fu coghute Worts, us In pre-fer, pref-erence, pro-pose, prop-osition, re-peat, rop-ctitton, or in such words as re-va- tabllsh, co-operato. Thousauds of other ex- amples might bo given Il necessary, Aund right -hére let we observo {6 has not bicen generally understood thut aoy system of orthography {8 designed to teach” accent and syllubleation, Sm-hlng 13 to follow and imitate thellving voles, Spolllug nust comply with pronunciatlon, and not the latter to the “former, Ienco, the pro- uuncation of a word tells whero it divides into syilables und glves tho atress on the vowel, whether long, or short, or medium, If more than this 1s required on the printed pago it can b obtajned by using aceent or other discritical slzns such as thoso cmployed in pronouncing dictlonaries, and cousequently there is no need of Wistigurlng the alphavet by the injectingof n parcel of alien or fnvented " characters, which the publie can never be Induced to naturalize or adopt, centurles alnce tho moditled § 1 the form of j was jocorporated {nto the English alpliabet, wind it may be other centuries before another now letter1s ndopted. \What, theu, 18 the uso of wasting timeo and breath on tho un- attaluablo und Impracticabled Wi, M, D, astcd Vox, ** Will he designats the broad a in pa, father, far, ote.d” "As Vox doces not pronounee those words with a broad o sound ho s unaole to desiznato it in them, ‘The broad ¢ 15 neurd in such words as wall, oll, fall, and W, M, D, evidontly belug a Scotchiman, vronounces themn as it spetlod “paw, fuwther, Does not Wm, M, D, know enongh to know that al aud ay ropresent the same diphthoug souud, nnd thut by the usuage of the langusge the { 13 changen futoy at the end of wordsi The roslduc of his criticlum {s too puerile to notice, 0X. ———— The Leglon of ITonor, New York Worid, . President Grevy, when o waas clected, was ouo ol the few men in France who did not be- lung to the Legrion ot Houor, and, as it would Ruye been anomalous for the Presideat as Grand Aluater of thy Order to bo undecorated, tho Counell und Chapcellor mot aud {nvested bim with tha Urand Cross, 'This was not strictly legzal, but it was ju pursuance of the precedent In tho cass of M, Thicrs, Wuen, 1n 1872 the reconstituted army was reviewed at Lnsfi- champs, the Cabluet resolved that the Presl- dunt could not fitly hold Lo review without the und ribbou, and sccordingly bestowed it upoa {m, . Thiers buttoned hid oyercoat over the decoration aud held tho revisw io peaco, THE DFADLY DISEAS That Has Come with the Introduotion of Chinese Women, Amerlean Youth Contaminaled and Ru. " Inod by Contact with Thesa Females. Appalling Btotoments Mads by Medical | a copy of the only roport whiey Praotitionors in 'Frisco, Hew the Women Aro Parehased and Given Up to Conrlesan Practiees. * prelal Correspondence af The Tribune, BAN Franutsco, Feb, 22.—Ia it safo toen- courage or permit the continued contact of ono certaln element of tho Chineso population of thia country with the whiteal 1 refer to tho fo- malo Chinese, tho character of whom Is too well known to nccessitate any longthy annlysis here for the purpose of ostablishing thejr entire lack of morals and their pernicious habits, Inmy Jast lottor I showed, on tho authority of representative Chifneso themsolves, how great 1s the population of Mongolians on our coast. You will find it stated there thut 2,000 0f the 82,000 Chincse in 8an Franclsco alono aro fo- males, Thesa women, 08 the public fs waell aware, . ARE LEWD IN BVENY BENSE OF TIE WORD} the reputable Chinese womaen—iwives.of proml- nent merchants—may be counted on your fin- gors. It I8 o customary thing for the Chinescto tell you, when you ask why more virtuous women do not cotma to this conutry, that the customs of their country do not permit virtuous femalos to go so far away from the land of birthy and then they will ndd that, even were this not so, there could hardly Lo any {nduce- ment on the part of the males to bring wives (this higher caste of Chinose soclety) to a coun- try whore there is so strong o fecling agaloss the immigration of thelr raco, In this, wo thiol, _ d THE CELESTIALS ARE EMINDNTLY WISK. You nt the East do not know all about the condition of this peoplo as do we at the West. You have not had them thrown nmongst you in such great numbers, and you canunot have the samo sdvantagea for studying thelr peculiarities ns havo'we. You have fow men ond. fower women. Here we can sco at every turn ‘tho hor- rible condition that exlsts, and cannot help be- Ing made awars of the sors Lthat comes ot the presence of this elemont here. The medical journal is, no doubt, the proper placo to discuss this subject ln its sickening de- tail; but we should not turn our oyes from n mere outline of the matter ln o daily newspaoer. No onccan dony that the fufluence of the Ohl. neso courtesan upon the white race HAS DBEEN TERRIDLE in the past. There are degraded white men, and othiers who claim respeetablity, who are guilty of this unhallowed association. Safd the San Froncisco Medlco-Lilerary Journal n short time spo: “If{t is through tho Chincse womon that our patfon s threatened with destruction, why do not the Americnn womon at least ralao their valco to repol them 1" ‘The statcment may be r&ucsfianed and denied by thoso who are favorable to tho contlnued {immigration of the Chincae, but 1t atill stunds forth as the trutl that of the Chineas women who como this cofintry ninoty-nine in every 100 are practically slaves. Thoy are sold for a torm of years into the most lvathsomo soryituda by their ?nrunu in China for s stipulated sum, and are then brought to this country to pander to the passlons of our.youth, und polson the nation with n virus 3ONM VENOMOUS AND DEADLY 7THAN 7THE BMALL-TOX. It 13 n discase that reaches over to the third nnil fourth eencration, whils small-pox beging and ends with its victim, . The testimony of medieal men—and they aro the oneswho have the beat nvenues for the eathering of information on this vital subjsct— is that the Chinese courlosan has planted a volson-trco on this Contlnent whoso branches will overspread the Contlnunt unless the ax s soon lald at the root. Question the medical oractitioners of this city, and they will {u!l you that thousands of our " youth bave hud thele lives ent short, or ugefulness ru- ined, through this very channol. 1t can bo dis- tinetly und nnerrlnfily iraced back to ita source. 8o It wiil bo scen that the lowest classes of tho white raco are not the ones who sutler from thia contact. In Chinatown, in 8an Franclsco, several streots are devoted to meresntlle and manufacturiog purposes, whilo TUE ALLEYS ARP LINED WITII TilR TENBMENTS OF CUHINESE COURTESANG. This reglon is dirty and flithy; the sun never shines {n somo of them. And yot whito men go there and nssociate with the depraved Inmates, und those who bave witnessed scenes cnactod there say that for benstiinass they ** would put a Nero to blush.” "fhe people liera rafso thelr volees when It fs found that «l leper exlsts in the Chineso quar- ters, Away bemust go. And yet it {8 not contagious. fn tho same meighborhood, in open daylizht, hundreds of Chioeso courtesans aro saturated with o ar more loathsoma disease, “whoso slightest touch s worse than death, and they are allowed to spread the virus far und wide,"” JUST THINK OF TIIS A MOMENT, Doctors sgy It is not exaggerating ‘to say that one-half the Chineso servants of San Fraucisco employed fn m-uunr and aristocratic fawmilies ero reeking with this horrlble dfscase. ‘“I'iey cook the tood on which white peopte lve, and the children of the whites ars nursed by this class of help! Contemplate it; vou who know how dire Is tho result of such contact! While medieal works call the discase by varlous unmes, let us designate it s **the foul, contagious discade,” A Chivaman named Wong Ben, who {s In tha cmploy of the San Francisco polics force, says thero are rogular female slavo puyers here who buy women i Chiva for 200 or $300, and scll thém here for or $000, and that they are forced fnto o Jife of prositution, and, when disensed, ars kicked out to die like a dog, I mention this merely to show what {s thoughbt of tha practice by one of thelr own race, nnd one who ought to knaw what hels talking about. > THE REV. A, W. LOOMIS, Presbyterian ission, corncr ot Stockton and Bacramonto sticets, testitles that Chinese women here aro nothing mare than slayes, Dr. J, C. Coorb, & prominent physician and a member of tho Bun Franclsco Board of Health, says the foul "diseass {8 very geuneral suiong tho youth of this city, und that ho Lns treated boys from 12 to 10 years of age—any number of them—who contracted discase from Chineag women, Dr, H, II. Toland, sn old practitioner and founder of the Toland Medlcal College, nnd who stands at the head of the proluealon, says that white boys ns younz as 8 and 10 years of egu visit the Chinedo women; that somo of the worst cuses of discaso that ho has been called upon to treat have beon among children, The women do not caro how youngs the bo; long as they have monoy. Every, Bays, as man a8 o dozen Y youn| men and boys comg to his ofllce for trul.zlquluu; ne- thess fiithy dlscases comes from Chinese women, TIE DISEAEE 18 HEREDITART, and will be transmitted to unberu gonorations. of disesscs contracted in Clinatowsn. tenthe of I might go on with theso {ustauces of direct testimony froln unquestioned authority, But theso ars onough, The fact remuin L caten into the heart-core of thousandsof the youth of this elope. T might, in conclusion, quots the words of ono who hias studied this subject: 1 the future historfan should ever be called upon to wrlto the * Conquest of Ameriea by the Chineso Government,’ lis_opening_chapter will be an account of the tirat batch ol Chluese cour- tosans, and the streun of duadly diseaso that followed.” 0. —— Mme. Recamlor, New Orleans Dicayund's Barwy Leiter, M. do Pootmurtin has 1|m glven us an inter- coting sketeh of Mime, Recomifer, He was n- troduced Lo her the 28th of May, 1846. Suo was then 60 years old; she woro o silk dress the color of ‘dead leaves, und—don’t fajnt {—a green silk ahodo over her eyosl I translate his de- scrintion of her: 1 have just recelved & good losson,—1 havv just scen a thousandih vxample of thy vaoltas “vanitatum. lre was Chatcau- biland, thers waa Mmne. Recamler, Hp was fn o recess,—pluoomy, sileut, bored,—scarcely visible through a cloud of oplumed {facer don't know what time will do with his works and rop- utatiout but I do know wast timo has douo with the beauty of Mme. Recawier, who las lived fifty years to please, but not one hour to love. Mme. Rocamier was acharming model, who has beou und doubtless witl be coplod,— wratched coples they whl be. Ido wish there had been, this evenlug, a congress of coquettca n Mm, . Recamler avo ki to Them: Jrasing room, 1 ko that Lo-marrow] |y, tho beat, gentlest, tnost “?Ji’f‘.‘ifl'!.“"“‘ Luous, most svpathot e, mmfi o What must bo the fate of (ha nihepsy s04clie, by CATTLE-PL:\GUE Dr. MoEachan 1, ; 're MoEachran In Reply 1o Dr, Tho Weatern 8 “reo from 0= Tho. taten ¥ren from (e o To the Tiditor of The Tripus MoxTREAL, Feb, 24— sonq OU by thig myy has be lished with my sanction, fn why e that tho statement which | g o0 s having mode In your fssue at 1he 1‘1::::5::“'_’1“ . manufactured one, % [ g not find to exist In Canoda or the Wl:nlcr: s‘;t\:‘dlum. great ezl Tlorols whot Ll sag: eportor—*¢ Is th of ‘“)1(""]\1["’[‘,."”‘5““‘" :m o0y evidenca of the dieenyy r. McBachran— 40, crnmont, 1 ¥ilIed Sapain " oo T theGo, Hamiltoh, Toronto, Kinzston Gy 000 In tho Provinice of Quabiee. Krom my fny there 1a an entire ubence of €ontagoue g’m the liornet caltle of both Onlapin n g0 1n Ropartor— Wl threa monthy prori ?nl‘\‘kgfin‘l‘ly lor;u d\n Pprotect tha co imphortation ol 18ea; 5'3‘;";‘[' = cased cattlo fr 7, McEachran—'*Tho time win tabe ;zafiwlmm?m\xud :n tho Eastern States, m;:i oporter—**\What al \Vgnmm Bt s the extent of thy diseargyy ol B'l,‘cEnc‘hmn-';I“rlnm ing nted ere 8 no aclu the Wettern Stater, If the 1o Uity fro om the v"é&:; tiries T hay Uzt el Tl Posantionay iasaren wic"i T inoy ato tlon ey shortly be removed. o ro" 1Ue Brbi; I “further confirhation of the needed, it may bo adduced from u?:?;fl,: iten from th Montreal Jerald, which i it o ¢ information on the ¢ to the Governmeut: sublect furaihg Or7AwA, Fob., 21,—3r. Hick Mauuger of he Grand “Lrank Raihway of QLo hus been in active communication u{m h, ornment Hero_respecting tho recent ouiey Council fn roanrd to 10y tmporiatjun et transportation throuzh Canadn of Upjies g2 caltle, 'Tho Governinent have intime Sl the Westarn States of tho Unlon wii) un"' o Tecossary ateps 1o UMK Against tho coypry spreading into thelr torrltorice, tAlch are orxcd entfree fram It thoy (tha Governmenty wil oy all fhetr Influonco Wit tho irilish Gererpr il U germit the hipment of cattle from fha Ren tatcs throuzh’ Canadion porin: an) they ot falr prospectof succcas, Jr. Popd ruey st s sparcd 110 excrtiona to ameliorate the evl efey of tho recent action Luken i Encinnd, and |cclt it 1o supponeil, In constuat communteitomuios :Ix‘x;l';‘n:at‘euu‘ lll.n\Vlllllllhlrmn.‘\\'lfll Lho view ammn' o nctive stops 1o preve the discaso in tho States. P oot 110 spiekde ‘Ihe extermination of the cattlo at B suflcrlnq from what * Veteriuarian tl;:‘me: tocall * distillery-cough,” by orders of the Government, ncunghuu the best adviee, is o clont exposition of hls want of fnformation op tho subjeet, Others, llke hitm, have tried tosey. resent that it was n]cum—pneumonh butin g mild form! Coucelve s fire in n bulilsgs slow, smoldering, if you will,~what wonld yoy think of n person whio tricd to quiet your fean by saying it was a silld form of fire! The firs may or may not spread, ‘accordiniz to whether it comes in contact with toflammable materis| ornct, To argia that the disease has existel slnco 1848, and has not overrun the country, fs shinply trifling with the question, when we cap. sider the development of the eattle-trade,~tis railroad-cars used for carrying discased cattlo jn tho Enst to-day being next week sent Wess to carry healthy oues, with the certatuty of inocu. lation; the samo with steamboats and erery cattlu-carrying conveyance, thus increasing the risks of contugion to Western stock a theu aund-fold, With regard to tho statements of Dr. Det. mors_ relative to roports of dlacase st Chieszo, the above would be ample to shos that the Dos tor had jumped at hasty, and consequently, wrong conclusions. Tho lohuwmg extract from Mr, Baker's letter will fully controdiet by ‘¢ possible suppasitions ™ s to what Mr, Baker wrote me. Mis Jetter is dated Chicao, Feb. §: T havo not hoard af nor*secn any contagions dir. onses nmongst cattlo hare, excent Texas lever, with which you are familfar. AusTix H. Daxen, Vetarinary Sargeon. AIn conclusion, I am plad to s that Dr. Preo- tice bas been apuointed to investizate the mat- tor, and sfnceroly hope be will be able to coo firm my report that the Western States ars fres from dfsease. ~ Yours respeetfully, D. MoEacunay, I\ R C.8. L WESTERN PATENTS, List of Patents Tssucd to Weatern Inventors Epecial Dispasch to The Tribune. WasmNaToy, D, ., Feb, 23.—A. Il Ennd Co., patont-solicitors, report the followieg pat~ cents {ssucd to Western inventorst ILLINOIS. L. F. Burrell, Chicago. bolts. 0. W. Nichols, Chicago, feathor dusters. T, I Furiong, Chicage, horao boots, . 8. Knapp, Chicago, llelining-rols. G, Kelly, Ohlcaxo, steam holler, cle, ¥, Buumann, Chica alt-xiln floors, 0. ¥. Bearch, Con , sulky plows, Stromborg, Chicago, portfolios, | 1t. 8, Chaftee, Springileld, smagazine dro-army, 11, I, Binck and D, L. Ircland, Spriugteld, cot fln‘ ullxc.,uo((u:npu;lmln)|u.u i . 1L, Dartels. Eigtu, ofl-cans, ¥, L, Twitcaell nnLnl J. 1, Clark, Elfzabethtows, fire-cacape lndders. 1. Condon, LaSslle, croas-bar for doors. ,D. E. Jil.uup} \\l'heollnfl, and L. E, Walters, Bu- rington, key-faatonsr, DN no?m. Wheeling, husking and prusiagée Yli':,l.‘l' 8, Porter, Ottawa. vnnl:lu-lwlngv. L. Raux, Oswego, nntl-friction beanng. J. 11, Greer and P, O'Mair, Sterling, stone, g. ll-fll“mg"i)mxlm' Eur{\-y'vhnlm, , Friond, Dacatur, baskets. L. L. Haworth, and A. Hall, Rockford, cult: vatol @, 1, Livesoy, Ashley, feather-ranorator, WISCONSIN. (38 08 lflemnenhcr.[ llll}vwxe?"l::'u balazeen J, M. Perkina, Kaclne, foldim 3 ¥, dicbunouyh, Eau Chatre, circular sawizg: machine. T, G. Mandt, Stoughton, platforn aprioga for N. 0. Decrlicld, corn-planters, d.' ; Ttowsll, Apploton, gate-rolls. MICUIGAN, ; J. C. Linnell, Adrinn, exhanst-pipes, 7, C. Linnell, Adriau, exhauet-pipes for Ixs* el tnd cnglnes. 72 35 Wonnchry, Bouth hay City, loadiogsads artitclal . d. Henn londing lumber, MINNESOTA. 8t, I'au), oplomelers, 8. Bocringer, B nneapolis, pouckca for lelter-at L, Hule, M rlora, o 1a] caskels. J. I, Nolson, Burlington, bulal ca 5 Craver & Wishart, Urinoell, delving-wheelt | Af so. Burnhai, Parkersburg, ‘aprivg-oed bob m{;z“-l'l‘rlneo. Mount Pleasant, machine for sharpe oning mower and reaper knives. . Jo RAuxmmmn. fwon Clly, stove-pipe thimbled INDIA Bpees, Indlanapolis, prain-car doort. J' 1. Queat, Now Albany, envelopet. A [ Sovton, fiichmarih o e, © Liitle, Evanaville, Inili-sawinz - Wy il Sassott. Kokomo, baud-cutters for threty ers, A Disgusted Dominle. OTTAWA, Ont., Feb, H.—The sermon dfillm‘ ed by tho Rev. A. A, Cumeron, ufig: ey Boptist Church, Inst eveniut, coutGi, e Foniarica ubout. tho State ball last WedieCr! nlzht Which nro the subjuct of mucl xj\um ey ment to-duy. Mp. Caineron §u1l1’ll"‘i_A“ il living ropresentative of royulty ut. |" Wollzed There was a joweled Princess” und o0 Ktders Qovernor-General, If ho over WebL 180 Hall he would go o8 aamlumuui_l st home ps 1 L:'.-n!?umnu. He would mve ogibey the Eoglish gentleman, the not act ! o Chinco, Lo would go usa wieo NG gt como lome as o fcol. Lo woull qu.m" Yoms tho dignity ot mauhood, and would l:n - without having the crown of M‘r"fumm- lled by Inaulgenco in intoxicating ekt Idea of werds were Intended Lo convey fl‘! “conduct of the disgraceful ucts that murked ;d“’ o bost® somu would-be jrentlomen who b y ed with lovitatiuns on thut occasiot- 5 e —————— D.F J. H, Thowo Wicked Itussians A Letter dn New York sun. PR o A curlosa fotk eatme o lignt the oiter 44y now closgly events fni ” showlng ack parts u'x’lhe world ‘can b nu.ennm Gorei cach bther, It camo to the potles g jusl ment that a ship loaded with nrlrm‘. tions was on fts way to Doluiros simits 029" Turtuguess territory fin closo BIORCEpifesy luland. ‘The snip, which hiad 8 l':“ outal was seized at Adon, und found s cargo not cont ot mllrui\rd‘ ey waurllke stor or tamo from HUsi® Uy o orlglual At raviug Uity cx‘g:x;al:‘“ A Afihuns bave cotlansed 80 uneXoect oy, has found fu Cetywuyw, King { Hroublo ally who may give Euflnu\l Lhor Bhiere All bos beca sbly $o do- frritatios, astuuns, or sny UHECThy mfi"&'.%‘.{'::':{é‘.. il Qg-m: wil b :;’f.'aw iine B, Salla boun o, i Loz, Your drugglet keeps bto Frice, ot 2o