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OUT THIS DAY-THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTUIIORNE, ea) Hedltion, tho only sets for igs <0; Keout's Comploto We Waylete Wonton tb vais Works. te Dickens" Comp! Thackeray's Comipluta Work: lumen in stock, Cheapest Book-Htore ti Nd for mammoth CauMOKUG; frov. CLAD ‘Thu Book-Donlsr, Comer Madleon and fonrburi-ris. —_—S SWEET LOVE. For The Chieu Tritnine. A carden old; n maiden young; Adlender youth of tiin'tuus tongue, * ‘fo euurve woul dure with longing Ups touch the mnlden's flnxor-tips, « But sigheth low In trembling tone, Theo do 1 fove, and thee Hlonet lho’ carth grow old and sung docoy, Yet will [love my love for ayo!" A brilliant throng: ¢ woman fairy « bearded man of kina ay, ‘ ‘ho darcth all to win his fate, Who scorneth o'er to watch ard walt, duty Masterful, doth elaim his own, And whiap'reth, Thou art ning wlonot The! earth grow vhd and suns decay, Yet will Love my love fur ayo!" ‘ Beneath tho snow tho muld doth Nos ho wild wind waned’ roth, walling bY, ¢ Hodeth not of her n trace i road in all carta’s dwelliug space, 1 here ts tho youth erst at ber ultlo? Hinote, he niurnreth to his brid Tho" carth grow ald und suns Yet will L love my fore for ayo! Yo! aittoth lono that woman fale, . With silvor Hues amid her hale; And only mom'sy doth reeull {hos Worda froin Leardud lips lot fall. a4 Where ts he? fn landy afar 8 foll’wetk bauuty as w weir, nd Voweth still, "thot worlds decay, Yet will Ltove my love for aye!" What thon? gh: y ali swect Jove go for naught? Not wor oat beam of lave ietaught Mita glinpses of a heavenly fame, isk chanyeth never in its aim, eh pale of love in human licart 2oCo wondrous whole parts “a feud unsoen ay Flads chap Riis, 1 portect fove, doth live for iyo! Suexoan, Wi BM. E. Hanaox, $< An nei t AHoer Lezal Quibble, iueldent occurred 4 short time ago In a Abi eGUrt which his given riso to a remarks quibble. Mr. Justlee Hawking was Le Gig bass sentence of death on a prisoner at La tuatiey, "Tho Judge called for his black UAE that cmblem of fyritish justice could ang ipsund. His Secrotury bud forgotten tt, ee tee wus obliged (0 puss tho sentence beat Wi. ‘Tho question ty now rulsed TA BELORCE go pussud Is legul, LITERATUR: “The Secrets of the Great Whisky- Ring” by Gen, John Mo- Donald. The Life of Gen. Hancock, by Dr. D. X. Junkin. Mon and-Ilis Deatiny”—'Prison Dito In Dixte’?—Tit for Tat. Other New. Books—Literary Notes and Announcements. THE GREAT WHISKY RING. Gen. John McDonald's “Secrets of the Grent Whisky Ring" fg now offered tothe pubtic in book-faria. Tun tutuung printed coplous ex. tracts from the sdvance sheets, and ft fs not necessary that any further aecount should bo taken of tho narrative for its own sake, yulgarity of the atyle and thought of tho au Js perhaps more noticeable in the book than In the oxtracts from it. Onlya very course mind vould write a& McDonald docs of the woman Inows as “Byipt. The portratte, (¢ they do to. injustice to MeDonald, Joyce, “Sylph,” and the other princlpal actor In this eplante, are evi enee that pbhysiognomy and phrenolozy for onev were not nt fant, Mr. MeDonatd has original {dens of tho lune aungd. Tle refers to himself ns having de- scented to “humitinting, eligmaticat” dentha; anys that © Gov. Fletcher advised Col. Joyeo and Tnot to act rashly,” and violates the common rules of xrammar on nearly every page, He has some fdea, too, of rivaling Joyce In uso of “bifatutin.’ Te writes ir ono place For werenteen years I wore the gnrb of infamy, that loprous, foul, polluted charnoter which giuaws atsensitive natures ‘like a worm inf the bud!" “A polluting character” gnawing ata “scnsl- tivo nature" fs n mixture which Joyce himself mustenvy. The uttempt to throw n lamoity of romanecs about the disreputnble woman Huw- kins (8ytph) is not anevesainl, Dut as napeci- men of SeDonald’s styic nt its beat it cannot bo omitted: Most honutifulot tee, with oyes of deepest azure, ‘in whose depths the sunbeams seemed to. gathor, and the hres of lovo from: ilantes of iickering coustancy, seomed oyer nnd upon ta melt inte love ftaelf, Her biir was Nko thieads of soll and silver blemted, and when she loosed her locks they fell ike tho Bhitumar af suulight aud quitered like tho glower-the moon throws on the water, Bho was tho essence of grace, distilled from tho buds of perfection, and” with a tengite on whieh the oi) of vivielly and sedition ever cenved rune ming: she wits, Indeed, a ayiph ami siren, whose presemo was like the ilavor of the poppy mingled with the perfumes of Araby. Tho |nsinuattons and charges ngninst Gen. Grant jn this volume nro more flimsy and un- substantial in thoir connection thin when taken: separately In the nowspaper abstract. McDonald admits that no part of the corruption fund was sont to Gen, Grant, but asserts that be had Rillty knowledge of the existence of a Ring, the purpose’ at which was to collect money from distillers for cumpalyn purposes, Thero Is sim- ply the uneupported assertion of this vulgar felon against the reputation of an illustriqns eftizen and soldier. The testimony would not guf- fico tobanga dog, The case ugainst Babcock Js stropger, Ut fs almost convincing, Fuac- aliniles of fatters aro printed showing Babcock’s complicity with the arrangements mado by Me- Donald aud bis assovlntes; and if Babeock wis not paid for his sorvicea he must have been xratultotsly corrupt. An addendum in the shape of an accusation against Gen, Garfield consists of x reported conversation of McDonald with Babcock, in which the latter mado tho silly boast tint tho Chilrman of tho Committee on Appropriations was n friond of tho District Ring, but dented that be was in anywise corrupt or corruptible, Weerets Of the Grent Whisky Ring. Ry Gen, ran a MeDonald. Chiengo: Helforda, Clarke LIFE OF 14ANCOCK. Tho biographer of Gon. Hancock has & task which may. well .exelte the sympathy of his friends, Tho General's Ife has been without varivty. Hoe went to the MUlihiry Acatomy, xraditated without special honor, and hus served {un the atmy aver a{nec, ‘This {3 tho wholv of his career, Ho never \had an fiudenend- ent command. He plinned no cium palgns and fought none. Not like tho whero ho wnsordered. It 1s true howns faithful and brave qs a soldiers honorable and true as a inan. Hut there have been many such among suldiors ind among men. Hlographies aro not written onfy to celebrate goud ehnracters. Con- apicnous virtues or great opportunitics ont- braced and followed by glorious achievements are the ordinary provocations to Iife-writiug, It is avi Inversion of the truo order to bexin the life Nratand thon examine it with umagnifying gluss for ovents worthy of notice, — - Tho present author, for’ instance, 1s much moved-by Gon. Hancovk's efficiency ns n regl- mental Quurtermaeter; yet wo do noticarn from tho narrative that his Invors in procuring and forwarding bard-tack und snit-horso for hls mess were specluily trying, Rewhnontal Quartermasters in those days could uot bave heen so, fe moro herolo than thoy arc now. Littl 8 to be procured, and that little was supulled by tho Government, Arranging for transportation was not a mighty task. A fow. mules more or less, a gang of drivers, anda funrd might be got togothor without any strain on the intellect of a Quartérmaster. Yet Gen. Hancock's solo title to renown previous to the Civit War is made to consist of his elliciency a4 au Quartermnster or Comimiseary, his sucecss In drawing up “ papers,” and bis yallant servico na ot reerutting oMcer (much ayalnst his will, Jt {9 true) during most of tha ox- clting perlod of tho Mextean war Ho did not reach tho front until a short time before the fail of the City of Moxico, and ho served 03 Bub-Lieutonant during tho stege, History knows him no moro until tho breaking out of the Civil War. ‘Tho most Interesting chaptor in this volume fs that which desoriles the battle of Gettysburg. Yhough Gen, Hancock {8 mado tho principal figure of tho engagement, and tho richt pro- portions of tho nurration thereby destroyed, the author has not oxtrayagantly svt forth the chur- acter of his services to hls country on that great day, Of Gon, Hancock's personal bravery and good fighting quatitles thore can bo no doubt, It would bo nu ungrateful country that should dispute them, Tho record of ble ciyit experience In Now Orloans {¢ meugro. It conslats malnly of bis publishod orders and tho lotlors to Gen. Voasu, Nolther thle author nor any other that wo havo seen attempts to deni with the realinconsistonoy: of Gen. Hancock's conduct at that post of duty. ‘Tho Goncral, after baying promulgated tho most ndyauced doctrine concorning iyi} liberty, was remoyod for Inaisting upon military inters forence with an clvetion and tho orgunizition of amuuicipal body, Ho found bis own theorica totally fmprauticablo, Tha was hia only civil experience. It added nothing to his reputation atthotime or sinew. it will add nothing now, ‘Tho only testimony to tho, mort of it adduced Jn the book isa complimentary iypeengs from Androw Johnsun and an extract from. the Suwhern Kevicw, A vory sutull degree of Itcrary merit isavinced in this book, ‘Tha facts are not skillfully mane aged, ‘Tho narrative doos not always escipe bee ing dull. 1¢ was luovitable that the aecount of three years of minor military operations should ho at tlinos tedious, but a more practiced writer might have arranged the material fn a more ine yiting way, No private lotters of any moment ware wiven ta tho author, Gon. Hancock seoms not to baye been a lotter-writer, The sow scrappy notes to his relatives and friends hero ubiished pro as dry und barren usa leat out of ast yenraxlmunac, The correspondence with Gen. Shorman already published tn the newss papers ty the solo exception, and that contains Au ono lotter of inportinia. (oife of We 5, Hancock, By Rov, ), X. dunking iate Chip> lain U, 8.Navy, and Frank Ul, Norton, {us- trated, Now Yorks D, Appleton & C —— rt v0.) MAN AND, HIS DESTINY. Mr. Joel Tiffany in “Man and His Destiny" ondoavors to show that “a Presence aud Power ills tha Universe"; that. “this Presence und Powor tenia to produce n race of individualities, whioh will crabruce, when complete, ull that pertains to tho material and spiritual universe, agd thug become tho true song of tho Inilnit and the finite; that “tho Individuality comes Ffrom tbo witerlal aud finite aidv of oxistence, through the brooding or Jmparting presonce of the Jadhie’s that “the spiritual personality comes from the Inflult and absolute"; and that “the fudividuality becomes immortal, through itg union with tho personal, giving it tho senso of Individual entity aud identity.” ‘This much wo learn from tho preface, It indicates with su@olent clearness the charactor aud scopy of thy book. Part 2 is devoted to & demon: Ny ' Conturl on, but like one of bis soldiers, he went | stration of tho Probable Existence of Spirit ‘ual Beluga Separnte aud Diatinet from Material ffeinugs; Fart Ei, forth tho Bible view of Spiritual Presence Vowers Part Ml eme braces deductions from the previous fete and theorles, Mr, ‘Vittuny writes with clearness and a fogieal method, ‘The epeentetio true, to n arent extent fanciful Mgnitled, and consletent with revented religion, (¢* Man anid Ifa Dostiny Ace cording to, the Tenehings of Philosophy anid Revelution.” Hy Joel Titfuny, Chicuyo: Legal Netes Company.) PRISON*LIVE IN DINIE, Bergt. Outs’ little book Ix written without art, It goes tothe heart Ina direeter way, Its shinpliclty, earnestness, and dignity excuse the slight biemfahes of atyle, and the hemeliness of the Insiseunggo ts itrelf a recommendation to fae yor. The prison chiehy referred to le Ander: rouvitte, The tnutterahie horrore ut that foul atyo are described hereng falthfully ng words ent dusertbo them. Exuggchation att tho hest inust be well-nigh tinpossiblo; and thore is nonttempe RL overstatemont, ‘The norrater had n nina varied experience than some of his companions, No esenped and was not reeaptured untit he hart renched 0 point nerrly 200 miles distant from the prison, Bloodhouuds rati hk dawn, bat he was iiscovered by aechtent, his captors being in geurch of deserters, nut of escaped prisoners, nm Andersonville ts printed 8 Volume da an appendix, fy vonfirimntion of sonic of its statements Sergt. Outs gives his recolicetion of tt vote in prison, Whar MeCtel- fan was nominator for tho Preaideney on na plat. Torm tht dechtred the War to be fillure, and it was well tuulerstuod that hia electlun would resutt fn peace and tho relenso of alt prisoners, fA dnllot was trken io the prison. (Sergt, Oats ¢ then temporurity. ty Cunip havin.) fe 8 att itt! teachings of east: for tut, each candiditte, Pou for Ltncatn and was, ithout 8,000 for Little Mac. Does the reader of to-day tine derstand that vote? What did it menns} What did ieaaty to those tebe] olticers who watehed 15 so closely? It meant that we were willing to chit nid starve: to ondire the horrors of prison-penss to die, or worse,—to become lina. fics and idiots, If need be, rather than seu the War closcd with dixtonor to the alntorient ta, Ut sald toe thove Rebels, * Do your waratr we'll nover aisk you for peace” “(Prison Lito in Dixte." Ny Scrgt. Oats, Culengo: Chlengo Book Concern, —- TIE FOR VAT. Falling fn love wh an actress is not an un- coinmon fate-for young Americans, nor ts the process of disillusionment alwaya A long orn trying one. Butitisa tle out of tho usual for young Amerieans who go to Germany to offer marriage to Frauleins they aco: theron the stage, without previous inquiry us to hare acter or condition. Our heroin the present mars ratlve wasto thisextent an unusual person, ‘It takes him seareely three weeks to run the gamut from "do" in ndoration to “sol” in consolation. ‘The object of Ms affections is characteristienlly. surprised, not by uls avowal of love, but by lis olferof murriage. It would be crucny to the author to sy morointhis pluce, Nutt doesseem strange that tho young netress, having pparently, analinost. Inilnit. enpaclty for proving berselt unworthy of honest Jo should haye been ecaimht (1 so bokt ane unticeessary wu adventure as that whieh brin o the story toan ent. celit for Tat. A ‘Teutouic Adventire.” ly the Mar- chioness Clara Langa. New York: GW. Put: uum’s Sons.) ENCYCLOPEDIA . BRITA? Tho Amertean reprint of Vol. XI. of tho In- eyctoprdia Britanntea is at hand. 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An American Civil Code,” In which bo adyo- entes tho doing away with all nanevessmry dif. fetences of law bowWean the suyeral Stutes, und tho adoption of 1 uniforin or National aystom of rights and romedies. ‘Tho generat notes, notes of oxchauges, und notes of cases contain much mutter of general Interest, Publlaned monthly by Little, Brown & Co., Bostot, dass, TITERARY NOTES, “Tho Frivolong Girl’ bas run through six editions, Br, Aldcich's “Stillwater Tragedy" has boon recolyed, but fg too Inte for notico this week, Prof. NordouskJOld will soon publish an ac. count in Enylleh of tho *Voynyo of the Voga," Tho Examiner thinks that “Washington Square" wilt bo ono of Henry James, Jr's, moat, popular works. Bir. Longfollow‘’s new volume of pooms, “Ultima Shuto," will be published by Houghton, Millis & Co, Bopt. LL Forney’s "Lives of Ianeock and English" comes to hand very Inte this week, Hubbard Hros,, of Paiadelphia, are the publishors. Messrs. Houghton, Mililin & Co, will publish “Tho fron Gate and Other Poems,” by Dr, Oliver, Wendoll Holmes, on tho Lth of Suptem- Or, Bosses, Little, Trown & Co. will publish shortly a History of tho Conquest of spala by Arai sian by Prof. Henry Coppée, of Lehigh Unl- voralty. Mr, John Dartlett, whose Familiar Quotn- tons’ bag mot with w very large aula, big coin. pleted a companion yoluine—an index to pus- suxes and puruses froin Shiakspuuro, which Lite Ue, Brown & Co, are publishing, Henry Iolt & Co. announce that in tholr pop. ular * Leisute-tiour Series” they will jublieh the now volumo of sketches by Chorles Dickong which has beun unearthed by Stra, Bentley. It fa entitled * Tho Mudfoe Papers, ete." and will be printed horp under apocial arrangemonta, Whon Bir. Jobn Morley aasumed tho editorship of the * Liberal" Ball Mall Gazette tt wis wil tho unterstuuding that be should remuln the tamlual oditer of the ere lahtiy Atevlew, und ru- fat tw La ee oF rele rane aerate ann pra’ allure, now lett tho Lire view tur woud, an Indication that the Guzetic ls prouperous, ‘Tho Auguat numbor of the Antiquary (J. W. Bouton, a boautitulissprinted English ungue zino edited by Edward Walford, contains ncn othor articlea “Old Clusgowy" "The Orthogra- phy of Ben Jonvon’s Name," by te kon; * Books, Curlous nod ture,” by Cornelius Waltords “be Shakapesro Death” Mask," b, Lant Ronald Gower; n ninber of roview rt cles, a full pteuing of thy uicutligs of antiqua. rlan soclotlts, and some well-iilled columus of antiquarian notes, uews, correspondence, and queries, Anow work by the Duke of Argyll, ontitied “The Unity of "Nutr, will be pubtinted in sucecaslye articles in the Contemporary evic, beginning with the Bopteimber Issue, iY 4 discussed hy topleg fire to bo “ho Unity of Nuun” Alle wi elerence to tho Unity of Nututey VY ‘Truthtulness of Muimun Knowledge Considered in the Light of the Unity of Nature,” and * Tho Morat Character of Mui and thy Origin of Hes Hyion Cansidgred from tho Sume Pojutof View. The Spectatur is very much suryrlicd at Mr, Ruskin’s criticism on Wordsworth (nthe "vas granteimiiuded article misnumed * Fictlon~Fuir and Foul,’ " which appears in tha August Nine- fecnth ceney iveuye: “Tho sironyth of Mr. Muakia's cridclgus is the kiud of sireugta wo “Ido tot remember the exact quinbor should hy pected from a mers man tho vortd. ‘The workness of Mr. Mtsiein'e crticban JA tho Weakness we should have expected Fram 1 Inere min of tho world, He secs what 8 feeble In Wordaworth nan ntere ninco Ore world would see dt, Hosees what le pretty ia ere man of the world would sve tt, He fnile to seo what (s grand Just ast n nat fall ty see | eritletsin I. In short, tho opltiolhm of n clover Philietino. rather than the esitichin cf tha hast dollente and eloquent. writer on the benuty of nature and art that Boe glial bas over known,” THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. That Peanut Stand, To the Ealitor of The Chteag Tribune CiIcAGgo, Sept. e=1 fully Indorsa tho state: ment of Mot. Cy ty Tn Tetuuse af the txt, That peanut stamd fs mitisanee there tn many: wave, Why don't the South Turk Conumisdane ors do thor duty in removing ite nV. of thea workt would Confederate Specehon, ‘To the Editar of The Chicago Tritune, Pants Cauncn, Va., Aug. d—The Northern masses ought abe able ty lear the Democratic slumpora even here, only «ix miles away from the Cupitnk tt would solldify the North forthe Ropubtican teket fast; enough, Lheard a De, Culver. a Georgian, who has written a disserta- tot on tnanee, which, it f4 mld, Gen, Maneoels dylorava, sny that “ tho Nepullivans deeltre that were n Natlon. We aro n Nation only go furans ote Interconrse with other nations Is converned. Eneh State isa Nation, Wo area confederntlye Union, mi the mune oeension Gen. WIL 1. Leo (Fitzhue, of Confedorate fame) suid: * Wo fought fur tour yeitrs for kent ina war like thit of tho Revolution.” ‘These orators’ Fpecches abound fn such utterances as the above when they come before Virginis ig HO Tho Fifteenth Amendment, To the Edltor of The Chicago Tribune, Cincang, Sept. 2.=At present thore ia practical mullittcatlon af tha Fifteonth Amendinent ina number of States of this Union. ‘This amend ment the Natign Is in honor Lound to enforee, Ifitisenforeed there will bo in a number of States an ignorant negro minjority, with tho ine stincts and projudices of slavery still clinging to them (the South clilins), controling legislation ani possessing tho olllecs of trust aud power, Junorant rule Js migrate. (Vide 8. C, in S74 and Ist.) Tt doesn't stand to reason that an inferior clus should rule a butter chiss when. the tnajor- {ly fs comparatively small, and the money and power ta with the minority, 8 ignorance tho Southerners are combating, ond net color, Iet them put an eitueationul or property qualification ot sut- frugp in thelr Bintes, Then their yrievance would be rentuveds thore wentd be pence bee teen the rices; and the North would be entis- Red, There Js nothing i tho Constitution neniust this, Tho honor of the Nation would be muliitatned, If tho negro milorities demurred, they would ylekl to pressure from, the North, If, while the tegrees consented, the Southerners refused unconditionally, nothing wale reared but tage inand thrash them again. Exodus, preeeded ns it must almost: necessarily bo by muilifieat{on of the Fifteenth Amenduent, {5 not the solution of the Southorn question. it necessury to preserve the Union, the Bnited States clin put a qualification on he sullrage, Itwould be better for the Stutes te do (tof themacives, Younn Rurunnican, Weat Jackson Stroct Etuprevements To the Laltor of “The Chicago Tribune. Crtcaqo, Sept. 2.—Thu eltizens of this streat will bo glad ta notico that Ald. Smyth is trying to Jearn of Commlesionor Waller why tho water- maln was not towered ton secure depth pre- vious to tho improvement. It isn faet well remembered that during tho cold winter of "6. tho servieco pipes on this street were pretty enormity frozen. An it fs Cearad that owing to tho lowering of the rond-bed, and the substitu- ton Of fifteen inches of stone, that mack carth having boon removed, that the danger from trost will be cmiunced; for jpis x faet well known that frost will peuctrate stono much moro rendily than earth. Obviously, then, it {60 great oversight nat to huve lowered the main, which will he only four fect. below the top of tho roudway, when It ought fo ho six. Mr. Walker's exptnnation that “thore bag been. Tore stone put on thin earth taken froin the street" is specious, but not to the point. Expes lence has domonsteated that the mnin is not enottgh, and tut tha hnprovewtont will ely aiginent the danger from trust, ‘The wi faur weeks since calling attention te these [neté, ‘Thero are other respects in which the plan of Improvement seems to be defective, or othor- wigo the speellication not complied with, It bas Devn noticed that the rul-boxes of tho kervice- pipes are onty four feet, whereas plumbers nro. regiired to put them in five, ‘The gutters, too, are deteetive, being only a atripof pavement substantiatly on thy sane plane with the street. Ja ft a fact that tho Department has put so much work on the market that tis unable to give 2 propor enpervidon, and that the tpartant Ine terests of one linprovement aru in Jeapardy? CB CAnti Mr. Ezotl, of Okotona, Milas, Mexponds to Mr. Kern ‘To the Kultor of ‘tne Chicuge Tribune, OxOLONA, Mist, Aug. SL—A short timo ago you published tha resolutions passed by a high= ly-respectatle portion of the eitizens af Oko- ona, denouncing the writings of ono Will H. Kernan, You at the same tine publisted Kor- nan’s letter making foul und slanderous charges against tho eharacter and standing of tho per- gous Whose nates appeared og official actors in the mecung, Agnin, on tho 24th inst., you published anothor of bis letters, which is mado up of an entire thsue of fabrications and falsehoods agalnst the ae pers, which letter is headed © Willant Bverlastingly Renda Hs Teaducers—Composl- Hon of Vnat Okolona indignation Meoting— Mr T Ant Pronont Standing (nn Chole Carre u ‘—In which letter Kern says “ Nota representative ettizen of Okolona took part in the provoediogs,” and furthur saya All tho Apeotubiifty und all the deeeney of that corn: munity set thelr faces ke adamant apninet tt, becnube all tho respectability and all the do- goney of that community ure my unllluching rhonda,” Naw, to show you how basely yalso ara the charges of thls calumalator, [ inclose ta you tho same resolutions, indoralyy both tho resolu- fons aud porsons whose waltes appear fi then, slgned by all of the Jendlug citizens of the town, Including men ot a) professions and oeenpa- vons,—doctors, lawyers, bunkers, ana mer: chants, Many of theas men kre woll and favor- ably known ‘from: one ond to tho othor of this vast country of ours; and if you will look at the books ut the Commercial Age noy in your oly or Messrs. Dunn & Co, you will be able to seo thetr status; and i refer you to tho seme authority for my awn in tho nino of E. Ezell & Son, in his last, Willlam makes 0 profuse display of editorial glorification over himself. 1) thinic much of this fa Darred by tha statute of [imlta- tions. A, Y. Harpor, of tho boasted States, who give Rlin tho moat toplotticul put of uny of them, reversed ull ho eid by publiely cownlding Williuin in tho streots of Vicksburg a short tine Ago, wd othors of them ailkht have done the sume thingit hohadany longer polluted thostate with bia presonce, His illustrious frioiwdsy, dei Davis and Bob Toombs, inay stl adhere to bla, but tho misses af Southern people who tre now to all tholr_feoltngs and hopes as true to tho Amoricny Constitution and Union as you aud your people are, detest and abhor the font culumbies continually heaped upon thom by this wendieant. | Wo huve with ua two gentle. inon—Dr, It. M. Tindall, Dostiinater bore, nnd the Hon, W. D, Fraser, both Republicans—whom We preaitine you will belluve. Thoy have writ- ton you youching forthe respectubllity of the persona whoge nines appenred in tho resolu ous, ‘Tho writer of this is anol) man who noyer wis Ww secossionist, who in 1800 wus n dovoted adherent of the «roat statesman of Mlinols— Stephen A. Douglas aver: whose remulns your clty hus honored itwetf in building 3 monument to ark his resting-placo. el ally, Yours very rev ELON EEL. —— en NOTHING REMAINS, For The Chtenga Tribune, Nothing romatna of unrecorded ages ‘Nhat Ho in tho sllent cemetery of Tlinot Thelr wisdom way have shamed our wisest ES hm ‘Thelr alory may havo beon Indeed sublime, Tlow wenk do seein our striviugs after power, How poor the grandest eiforts of our brains, If, out of all wo ory, In ono short hour Nothing romaine! Nothing remains Wut tho Eterna) Spaces; ‘Time and decay Uproar Tho Forvatetreess Keven the mighty incuntalns loavo thelr places, And sink thotr haughty hoads Lencuth strange Bens, + The great Wurth writhes In somo convulsive apaymn, And turns tho proudest citics into plans ‘Tho luyol len becomes n yawning chisii~— Nothing remained Nothing romains but the Eternal Forces: ‘The wad seus eeuso complitiulag and grow dry; Mivera aro dratned, and altered in thelr courses, Grout stars pays out and vanlah from tho aky, Inous die, and atd rellylons perishy Our rarcet ploastires wud our keosest Palos Are awept away witb all We bate or eberbh— Nothing remains, Nothing romuing bus tho Hternnl Nameless And All-Croative Spirit of the Law— Puconprobonied, comprehousiye, Liuncless, Juvingibly, vestettoss, with no tlaw, So Sul of Jove Ut tuust create forever, Destroylng that it may, create aguin— eros and pettae ty a (steavars ; lity fort ols utter ment vy) Tuts thls, Fomnaiuat : Hua WHEELER, Prevent wenkness and degenoration of tho Midnery und Uriutary orgbue~Mult Uitlere, r Bont Ro note to tho Commissioner dome , SCIENCE. The Recent Boston Meeting of the American Association. A Test of the Working of Prof. Bell's Wonderful Photophone, Crookes’ “Radiant Matter Tuhas "—Magnelic Survey of Missouri—Fish-Cullure. Astronomical Uiseorers—Forestry—Selenre—Teaeh. ing in the Mubite Schools. Epectat Correrpondence of The Chteago Tribune. Bostos, Mass, Aug. $1, Your correspond. enthas been favored today with an oppor- tunity to test the working of PROF. WELIIS WONDERFUL PHOTOPIONE. ‘The apparatus was set up in the top story of the Institute of Technology, the speaking transinitted being arranged on the’ roof .of the adjoining Museum of Natural History, Wo first tried the arrangement for the pro- eluction of sound by fight, described Ine ny last fetter, ‘The perforated brass wheel was set in rapld but silent motion, and the Hght passing through the holes was received at tho focus of a lens on the oppostt side of the room, npon a small ri. ber disk, constituting the diapuragin of the hearing apparatus, A clear, lond, musical sound was heard, interrupted as often as the fhnud was placed across the benin of sunltght Here the rhythinteal impact of the beam of light on the rubner disk was the solo orlgin of the suund,. Ne aerial yibra- tlons were used to produce the sound, and no electricity was employed fn its transmils- sion, With the selentum cell for a receiver, the sound heard was much louder, and wos mininly discernibio when n sheet of ard rubber was helt In the path of the light, thus completely cutting off all visible radia- {ions ‘The mirror-transinitter on the roof of the Natural History bullding fashed its messages across to the large parabvlic re- ilector In the Institute. In the focus of the teflector the selenium cell was aljusted, and the local electric current through tt In- eluded two ‘telephones. DPacing one to ench ear, I heard distinctly, “Tow do you do? How do you do? and other short sentences of Hike fmport. When the operator was singing, the thne of the tine could be made out py merely watching the variations in the transmitted light. Thus both the eye and the ear were calied npon to attest tu the success of the expertiment, and hunan speech was Mashed through space by the swift-wlnged messenger, Light. Can Sclenee enter any further into the domain of tho marvelous ? Of almost equal interest to the physicist Is the display of ” CROOKES! “ RADIANT MATTER TUBES,” exhiblied by Queen & Co, These tubes are exhausted to a mitiivnth of an atmosphere, antl are supposed toushiblt the effects of molecular tinpacts In what Crookes calls the fourth or ultra-gascous state of matter. Cer. taly it Is that a pleee of platinum teld iu tho fuens of nm hemispherical cup of aluminum, constituting the. negative pote of the tube, {8 heated to white heat when the current “from an Induetlon call is passed through the tubes also, alight fin-wheel Js set. splinting along the glass rails Within x tube from one end to the other, and backagaln when the current 15 reversed. We have ordered a full pet, of these tubes for Jinporiution, and the Chicago Electrical Society will have the opportunity of seeing tham wher they arrive, So large vo number of papers has been Presented nt this session of! the Assoclation— 280 tn all—that Lean refer ta onty a few of the inmost important. Prof, FE. Nipher, of Bt Louts, has been engaged for three years iL A MAGNETIC BURVEY OF. MISSOURI, mul the first statement of results lins great selentitie result. Forty-five stations for magnetic observations hns_ been established; aud the observations for. yarintion or deelnation of the needle haye been completely. reduced. ‘The | lines of equil magnetic vurfatfon from) geo graphical north, prestrh arent ‘Irregu- irities, and the deviations bear a close re- Intion to the drainuge system of — those regions, —tho needle showin a tendency to Bet at right angles to the Salloys and witer- courses, The hypothests fs, that the may- Netic needls Is neted on by earth-currents, which bend around the dey hills and mount alns, taking by preference the conrse of the dumper valleys and the streams. According ton well-known faw, the need{e fends to set feross tho strean-Hnes of an electric cure rent; aud, [f earth-currents exist, having general rection from. east to west, the i> normal deviations of the needle are Uierely fully necounted for, Lt is pronased ta searelt for these etrrents according to Matteucel's method, employed in’ Europe’ many, years Ayo} that 4s, by long telexraph-lines crounded at each end ant without a battery, ‘That earth-currents do exists a well-known fact, Itremains to Investigate thelr alree- Hon and strength, > In the bfologleat section, Prof, G, Brown Goode, of Washington, read 1 review of THE WORK OF ‘TIE FISH COMSISSION during the frst decade of Its existence, Congress authorized’ tho appalntment, of a Commissioner pf Fish and Fisheries, Feb, 9, 1871,—so tint the present siuniner makes the tenth of the work of the Commission. ‘This work is naturally divided into three sections: first, tho systeinnttc Investigation of the waters of tha United States; second, Inyes- tleation of past and present methods of fsh- eries, including statistles of the production Rad vommioree of fishery-products; third, tho tutrudttction and multiplication of food- Ashes thronghout the vountry. For the enr- rying out of the plans Involved inthis dl- vllon of tho work, mimerons spectullsts have been cinployed; und the simmer. season has heen devoted to work at tho seu-shore, #This work consists of dredgtans and traulings; the collection and suitable preparation of the various fornes of (shes. for preservation In musviuns; the study of tho hublts, tines o£ spawning of Nshes, ete, 5 the tomperature of the waters Iniabitedt by thems methods of captura: thelr tood ant enemies; nid methods and appilances of artl- fivint propagation, Among tia results is the dlseoyery of at least 100 species on the At- nntic const, Uae of these are new to Selence, Sixty and more have been added Upon the west const; and about 1,000 specles have been added to’ the fama of New En- gland, A chomieal sualtels is now In prog Tess lo detormino the chemient composition and nutritive yalno of fist, Some 10,000 -speclmoens of fishes and 240,000 ot Invertebrates hayo bven sent out to fifty muscunms of schools and colleges, fn fsh-culture thoroughly | scientille ap. parntus has buen devised, 30 that millions of eyes con now be hatched; In 1873 the breed- Ing of cod and lnddoek was accomplished nt GEitcesters in 1870 the propagation of the oyster was accomplished; in 1880 Mr, 1. By Karll, of Watikegan, found tho ppawnitis pince of the Shanta munekeral, aud succeed . ed inthe artiteial hatching of its eges. It follows naturally that the irst honor prize, thy gift of the Enineror of Germany, was awarded to Prof, Balrd, as the first fish- eulttrdst In the world, ‘At {s pleasant te record in the work of the American Association that ' AN ASTIONOMICAL DISCOVERY hos been made during the progress of this session. Prof, Pickering reported that a body of unusual spectroscople suspect was discovered during a swoop of tia heavens on Saturday night. In thesu spectroscuple: observations with =o trect - vision apectroscopa «oh star appears ay # colored band of Iight, while a planctary nebuls appears as a bright potut, in searching for nebulo by this, tuettiad, Prot, Mekering had up te Saturday algh found only two, thongh tho speetra of abut 100,000 stars had beon oxuminud. Hut on rday wleht ona was found showhng pecullar charnetertstics, ita, spectrum being coniposed of three faluthands. ‘Chis body has beun catalogued ns a star, and is known as Ocltzen Tria Lesa than one-hundredth bart of the heavens hus been examined by Unis methad. * t the Suratogn meeting ten speelal com- miitees were uppointed to report. this your, Only two of these reported at length on questions of public iniportance, ‘The Com- Anittes on CULTIVATION OF TIMDER AND THE PRESEN VATION OF FOHESTS reported quite at length, rehearsing 4 miem- otal addressed to Stato Legistatures, It in- vites attention a the importance of proteet- ing the existing woodlands against needless Waste, aud to measures tendluc to the proper 00, Sa 'RIBUNE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1880—TWELVE PAGES. malntennnes of onr timbor-supply. he Committee recommended ews for the protection of trees along highways, for the cneauragement af” farest- culture by rentasion of {axes and by prenitms, and for the prevention of forest. lites, Italan sugwzosisthat prizes be offered for essaya tun reports upon best methods of forest-eulture, aid that educational Institue tong be encouraged to Introduce courses of instruction “In. practical Arbor- Fendt, aA further recomtirenda- Hon ts, the | appolntment of oa Commlssionor of Forestry unter State aus nunlogous to the Commissioner of ‘The report was signed by the Ht alormain, sit taclies ny Tal Ae mbiridees and Dr. b, Mongh, of Lavvtlie, Ne Ye vee The ather repart referred ta ahove was real by Prof. i. 1. Youmans, editor of the Popwars tt, On Gray, | SCIENCE-TRACHING INTHE PURLIS SCHOOLS. iL consisted of a severe erltique. on the inethods of Instruction fir Selence tiiuse in public schools, and gaye reasons for the growth and continuanes of these false pss tems, ‘The American Association ating to advance Sefency by the prowotion af orbsinal investigation; and Itts pertinent to Inquire it the schools of the Nation favor this object by fostering those early inental tentencles that Tead to original thought. ‘The selentitie method is a systematic exerelse in trith- sceking,—a metho of forming judgments wit is characterized by the tost vigilant precantionsagalnsterror, Our public schuols daliapplly, nuke but little tse of this method in the work of mental cultivation. ‘The reason for this defect 1s traceable to the grading system employe ant fostered i our’ public-school system. ‘Tihs early effeeL of grading was to fx anit consolidate Irrational methods, As a couse: «ptonee, the Seience-teaching is enrried on by tnstruction, the pupil fs tiled with informa: ton Sn regard to Selenee, and Ig not prt to work wpont the subjects of Selence, and [snot taught to think for Ninself. As thus treat- ed, the Selences fall below other studies asa meats of menial cultivation, Mathematies requires more or Tess Invention and annlysts fn solution of problems; the rational study of Langinves strengthens the mental processes by tualytion! aud constrictlye tasks; but the Hy ae passively seetriradl in thelr re- This is not selentiie education, be- cause there Is no practice in the selentiic method, ‘The pupil does not know the sub- Jeets he studies by aetial fntercourse with the faets, ant becomes merely an accumulator knowledge, of serond-hintl The xelen- tific method requires that the mind shall exerelsa itso netivity | lirectly upon the subject-matter of study, ‘The com: non method gives only the semblance of knowledge.” As remarked by Agassiz, “The pupll studies Nature in the school-rooin, aud, when he gees out of doors, cantot find her” The masses of chifdren fu the public schouls heeessitate sification; mud tht Is to grading aud an elaborate mechantent system. Gradation assunies and enforces nunlformity among pupils that js false to the facts, Wile ditvercnevs in capneity, aptitude, attainment, and opportinity exist. aud are the prime data of eficient mental cultivation. ‘The ef fect of tha graded system sta suppress Indie vidunlity. “Che public-school system fs thts: at war with the selentiie method; anda sys- fem which deals with the average nind, and never pets at the Individnal mind, must brenk down at te point where all true edue | cation really beging,—that fs, in promotin selbculture, ern u Mt 3. ce OCONOMOWOC. A Successful Seaxon—The Hotcin~Row= ing and Yacht Clibs—#inh-Storica— Sonie of the Visitors. Bpeetal Correspondence of The Chicaga Tribune. Ocoxomowoc, Wis, Sept. 2—Thls litte city Is about to part with one of the most suecessfitl seasons ju the summer-resort busl- ness ever yet experienced. Since the tst of dune our hotels and bearding-houses have been filled with guests from abroad. They have turned our quiet streets Inte seenes of activity, (ried to empty onr likes of the dnest of the thiny tribe, and suceeeded generally in having what they enme for,—a good tine. Durlug the coming month the greater part of this influx will Jeave; and, when the plea begins to yeturn ta its natural condition, will seem lonesome enough for those who re- minin behind. At ls true there have been but few onter- Juhments given here this yeay, and thal our visitors have remained comparatively qulet; Dut It was because they preferred so to to. They enme hereto be away from the ditsty and nolsy, overcrowded cities, and found that in a pleasant retreat more comfort could be obtained by “ taking it easy” than by roel around, Stil, we had plenty of tops,—one every week, and someties two and Chree,— chough at least to satisfy those whosp fell mitions ran In that direction, Among our happy citizens may be mene tioned the hotel-men; and they have reason to beexultant. Chose who on former acea- sions here bat reasonuble success have this sttnumer been si more successful; and a good summer-hotel here fs beghining to bo recognized as 0 handsome plece of property. A eorresnandant of a Chienge papier saysthat but tivo hotels have dong aly hnnstucss at all, antl refers to tho ‘Townsend Youse as one of the unfortunate. ‘Phisisn downright false. hood, ‘Tho proprietors of tho ‘Townsent House are more than satistied with the result of this summers Duslness, and are iideed. surprised that it was se great in proportion to other is, ‘Phe olier hotels have been just-as suecessful in polnt of mumbers of Biests, and haveto case te complain, “The secret of Ocotomuwoe's belay an attra and stecessful resort he erent ¥ difference in the hotels, One inay stay: six weeks, and change hotels avery week, atl experience the same results that he we ant had he pone 1 places fifty nties apart. Bach, house fins its mode of entertiining guests, antl sticks to it, The eyune wen here have had enterprise enough this year to argaulze a Ttowlng Club, They” have ordered aw bourd barge tor pra tleay and have enlisted tha Lnterest of our citizens suficlent to have them offer to share expenses, We have now a Yacht Cinb cone alsting of some sixty members mid sixteon good large yachts (one steam), and a good Jtowlng Club, to enjoy our excellent water- priviteges, ‘Che Mississippl Valluy Anateur towing Association are talking of thelr annual regatta here next sum it they do, wo ase sure thoy will bo well plensed with the advantages offer Wo aro to faye a Gartioht and Arthie Clb efore long. Some 600 stantot oll army. innakets were recelyed here during Inst month, and glivered principally to known Hancock inen. ‘Lhe Garfield atte porters do not wish to be overrun hn this manner, and WIH stand prepared to strike ab a minnto’s notles, Oconomowor cannot passa summer with- out acldng soma new tl ory ta her Ist, Tho latest Is as follows: AC young min, white boating In one of the large dakes In this vicinity, recently, observed a commotion Un the water near at hand. Approaching tte apot he saw two enormous pickerel, vite of Which was altemptiig to swallow the athor ron first. Shey atlempied to swin off, but the forea’ expended by ane ti propelling liself forward Was Inreuly counters neted by'that of the other, and nelfher could get nway,” When secured they were found to welgh respectively twenty and thirty poms, At fs often the caso that fishing parties so- cure Buch heavy strings of (sh that thoy can- notlift them, sd are forced to diy trenches up to the hotel to tlont them home tn, This fs not exngeerated, No true fisherman would think of dividing the string in two, Prominent among the yialtors whe have been here this summer aro Maj, Wait, Presi- dent of the Lite Rock (Ark) Bauky Shelekio, President of the Litthd Kock Gas Company; anc George E, Dot lawyer of the sawe place, ‘hey are at the Townsend House, T, Andrens, ‘of tho Western tlistorieal Company, Cilengo, was here lust Monday, Soin 800 histories of this (Waukesha) coun hy Published by hin, were delivered here thls wook, : Mra, Samuel Hills, of Chicago, has | spending the summer at Woudlands, Judie sinaill’s resort. Mix. W, Elphis of Chiengo, Is at tho “Nemabln” Place, 1 Suunult. Aisa Suttle Dobblus, of Chicago, ig at. Woodlands, Miss dative Nowell, 0! Kenoshn, ts a wuest of Col, Warlun Parks, Miss Gerlle Russell, of Sil waue, ig at fe ss we BUN hatu’s, iy Nixdost, of St, Louls, Is at Chubb's, Blry, U. 11, Morse, of Chicago, also sporting the summer at Chubb's, Mre, >. VY, Kelloge, uf Chicaxo, Is at Woodlands, Mr. nnd Sfrs. W, 'P. Lancock hive been ab Gitford’s during the summer, Mts, We 1. Egan, of Chica, ig a, guest of ony Sclufetit, ho fton, ‘BEM. Glover, 6 St. Louis. Is a guest of Henry Lapham, Mrs. Frank 1. Pearce, of Chicago, has been spending several weeks here; sho expects to Chicago, who have been here ditring the stunner, tetured. home tils week. Mrs, Il. Updike ‘and family, of Chlearo, have heen Ruests of George’ A. Scavern's during the past weel. * i Prominent pinoy reeent nrtivals and pers manent guests at the Townsontl House from Chicago we find: Mr. and Mra. We Re. Kiny nnd tivo danghters; John W. Marsh ‘and wifes I. W. Itlee and wife, of the Natlonas Hotel, Reporter; Mr. and _ Mrs. a Bullock: % Fosters. Augustus Warners Mra, A. #.” Barrell and daughter, and her niece, Miss Bessto B, Adan; Mrs, W.G. Atte and daughter; Mrs. PW. Chuan ype aut her ister, Neg, A Le Hisher, ekfaridl; ex. vs Korn, wife, and-sone | © peel Veale Miss Anta Wells, of Chicago, 13 hore, av: guest of Charies A. Dupree, Wear diiron Ne copesai die apg sabe Je Ne Colby ai 1 I Tait, and Ferd W. Peek and Wife, all of ont eng, At Woodlands: Mrs. LS, Reynolds, Mtr, and Silse Dobbins, Afra, Brin et Hes at ¥. Rello; nnd two children, $9 Nl Underwonn strs, Kbnball, Mrs, Galownaye allot Chicago: Mr. and. Mrs, Nobert G, ‘Shomas and child, of Brooklyn, N. Y. “Setar Tan! “FUNNY MEN.” ; Garfcld. on Himsolf and Tot Corwin. 5 Spreiat Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, Cc ELAND, O., Aug, 31—L recall a most ing conversation which I held with Gen. Garfield, {1 August, 1877, while on the way from Cleveland to Columbus, just prior to the opening of tho campaign of that year. Te had been speaking of the polltieal prose heets, and in some way tho’ conversation drifted around to ‘Lom Corwin, whom Gen, Gartield greatly admired in. some respects. Hg referred to the fact of Gov. Corwin hav= Ing so much of a reputation as a wit, and then remarked: ° “In later Ife this witty proellvits, and tho reputation which he had gained for making. humorous speeches, was the source of great sorraw and regret {o Carwin, Ile sald to ma that the great mistake of hls life Iny in tho fuet_thut he hind ever allowed hime self to make nn funny speech, Ho said that when a man once gets a reputation In that respect fs auditors never Jook for or expect anything of merit or of a solid naturo, and are disappointed If the speaker does not constantly keep them Jaughing. ‘Tho people don't give a inan with a reputation for wit credit forany depth of thought or particular Strength af character. * Corwin always thotisht that he might have risen much higher if he had never got a reputation ay a wit, (atm free (o say that tle general fudg- nent in this respect ty true, but In Corwin'’s ease there was an Injustice done, ‘homas: Corwin was a statesman.” An the sine connection Gen, Garfeld went: onto relate an jneklent of his own lilstory,. whieh does not ippeatr in any of the biogra— plies, and whteh ly now probably entiral: forgotten, Twill reent! It as. neatly a8 possi- De ln the pral’s own words; “You would hardly suspect that I onco Gen, aways on the very yerge of gaining a reputa— tlon as a wit, would you ? 1 replied Bint 1 had never had occasion to: {Mink of sited a thing, “Well it [4 nevertheless true. Thad atong fe quite nu itehing in that direction, and carried ft so far in the campaign of 1860 ns to take v speech that was pronounced by those Who heard it us ‘funy.’ [t was dellvered, L bell ty Coltumbus, and was yublishedt quite widely, and the comments of the press called a good deat of attention to tt. Chad up to that tne not imade a wide reputation in the States, but the flattering notices ot this brought me Inte considerable prom- we, LD recelyed a large number of Ine vitations. to spe in varlous places. L thousht the matter over quite fully, and saw thot the thine had come when L must fake my place in the fleld elther as aman of wit or ns finan who dealt with subjects more in tho way of matter of fact, Tsald to myself that L could gaia quicker tnd probably wider repus tation as a in amor, ora “funny man? us it is: no finn as a nian who dise elssed subjects after the usual matter-of-fact way? but know myself well enough to une derstand that 2 could nob Tonge hota ont hn this direction, aud, when DT hind failed ass man of wit, Eeoutd not thes begin to discuss, inninatteroftact way, Lt wasn good deal of astroggle, asd think of It now, but 1 dee termined to repress the wit, or the attempts at wit, and so accepted an Invitation to speak in Cincinnati, ant proceetted in the most pr sy way possible ta prepire a speech on the issues of the day, . There was large crowd ont to tear ue. ‘They expected to have someting after the Corwin stamp, 1 was fully awares but I-didn’é permit Luvs ftoindnige In wstngle hunor- dn nore disappointed audi. ence It was ni my good fortune ‘to ad. dress, ‘dL some of those present talkin; the matter over after the meoting hnd closed , and they made stich renurks ag: tL dle ous atlustor ey an eniinent | return Saturday, Pine Wilting twwar, spe Chirag, i$ a guest of James B. Crumimoy, Sumuiite Mry, a, J. Muediung wal fills, of sve anythlug very funny about that syeecl’s] ‘J thought that fellow was tha coming ‘Tom? Corwin’; tHe aust have left his funny velnt athome,’ ote, Lever had any ‘funny? rey nation to contend against after that speccti. “Poor'Tom Corwint tie died, ke many another man who lid made a reputation a witty mut, bi great distress of mind. Core wins Was, In reality a man of most pro: found mind. Hoowns one of the best lawyers this, country produced, Tie sat himself down to the task of discharg- Ing the vast debts that tung over him on hia return from Mexico; and, bad ft wot been for his sudden de he would have accom mished it, Tw: mt at his death, A, company of Ohio people were gathered at tha louse of Mr Wetmore. Corwin was seated on a sofe, and was in hls best humor, elo was (1 the ufdst of ous of fis happiest anecdotes, when, rising to emphasize some polit by a gesture, ta was stricken by pa: ralysis, Je fell Into my anus, and was carried by Whitelaw Reld and myself to an adjoining room, and placed upon a bed. Ha died next days? Gany. 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It Is a matter of common, observanco thas , trees und thelr branches fall during the preva. luneo of storms, and from porfeatly obviaus causes, But closo observers umong ‘those fae anlar with tho woos will tell you that oftops thues those things occur Just bufore 8 sovero storm, and are tho Bign or Corerunnur of Its ape proach, ‘Chis phenginenon was withessed bya urmer af Oswexo ‘Town while an ble way laa Sunday to atsend divine sorvive at tho Thomp- son schoolhouse, who observed a large limb bronk and fall off from a tree by tho ruadgide. ‘There was nv wind stirclog at tho Haw aud no ApPPErENt cause for the phenomenon. Ha suya that he then taade uphis mind that 4 severe stort was close at band. 2fo reculled tho cir cuubtauca that ut Hannibal a your ago, during tho campniceting scevice, 8 large h-treo full Upon the cumnpemecting tnt, who, buppily, the congregutlon was: only a emul child way inthe tont p tho child was not onty wat fujured, wut nal oven awakened. There was no wid at tho timo; fu fact, the atinuspbere waa unusually welt. Ore ‘Was HU apparent cause for the tall a tees bur a heuvy stort Sollered shortly ance, as junday's storm succeede: 10 and nuiet of the dav bofure, i i 1% ta tl falucand