The New York Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1870, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET UP THE NILE. Tentyra’s Temple Dedicated to the Egyptian Venus. ‘Thebes—Its Glories and Ruins, Tombs dnd Palaces, History and Legends. Works of the Mighty Builders of the East. What Remains After Three Thousand Five Hundred Years. By whe Buropean mail at this port we nave the fol- lowing correspondence irom Egypt, 12 continuous @etai! of the travel of the HERALD’s special writer up the Nile. 2h, Cano, Dec. 27, 1869, DENDERAH, OR TENTYRA. From Girgeb to Keneh 1s a good day’s journey by @teamer. Keneh is the Nile port of Cosseir, on the Red Sea, from which piace it 18 distant forty-seven miles. It isawell built and large town and con- tains some very fine buildings, among which may be named the Prussian Consul’s house. The Consul as aid to have an income of $150,000 per annum. He 1s @ very young mau and probably has taken the consulate to protect his property from governmental rapacity. Tue night of our arrival he invited us to his house, whereaf he did the courtesies of a host according to Arab custom. Keneb being on the eastern bank of the river, we erossed over to the western side at sunrise the next morning to visit the temples at Denderan or Ten- tyra. ‘fhe ruinsof Tentyra are very interesting. One giance at the entire temple at this place and the plan of an Egyptian temple is forever in the travel- Jer’s mind. And its sculptures are also in the most pertect state of preservation, so that alter an exami- mation of them one may havea pretty fair kKnowl- @dge of the peculiar worship of the ancient Egyp- tans. Savants say that Tentyra’s temple, which is Gedicated to Athor, the Egyptian Venus, isnot an old temple; that its oldest portion was the work of Cieopatra. The figure of this famous Egyptian queen ts found sculptured on the back of one temple of colossal proportions. She is here represented ‘with a full, fat face, but the form ta gracetul, and in spite of the somewhat hypertrophied appearance of her features, one 18 inclined to give her the full meed of praise the tradition of her beauty demands. And Attung ts 1t to repeat the Shakspearian words;— ‘The city cast Her people out upon wer, and Antony, Enthroned in the market place, did sit alone Whistling to the air, which, bui for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a yap in nature. Rare Egypt Ber son, Neocwsar (by Julius Cesar), is also close by her. ‘The effect is indved imposing, as, standing before the portico, the graudeur of 1ts columned space and the view of its interior, of all and corridor and ganctuary, bursis upon you. You wili long to hurry through to examine what ts behind the por- tico—to see the adyta and sanctuary of 80 com- plete a temple—but the exquisite architecture of the portico will withhold you. Twenty-four columns, Bere and there veined with blue aud purple, support the portico. Beyond this there 1s a small hall, wuere ¢he sun streams through two apertures slanung through the roof, giving quite a strange effect to the silent sombreness around. Beyond this again is the sanctuary of sanctuaries, sculptured to the full, with corridors outside of it opening into e@hambers around the entire exterior of tbe sanctuary. From a chamber to the left a Might of two stairs on an inclined plane leads te the roof. Once on the roof, which 13 of the same strength and thickness as the walls, the architecture and uses of an Egyptian temple are appreciated, ‘The walls are ten feet thick, the roof is about ten feet deep, and the former rises above the latter several feet, like tue rampart of a castle. From the roof to the walls an ascent 18 made by stairs as wellas to the propyim ana pylons, secret passages from which again communicate with the roof and chambers below. This Temple of Athor is one of the most complete in Egypt. Every part of tt will repay the most eareful attention. 1t will make you long to unger there, that fancy may gloat upon it, that you may carry away a sure wud lasting remembrance of it. Perhaps, if you ave not an antiquarian, you may not care to examine each sculptured fgure and car- touche, for to the uninitiated one and all appear the same. The same offerings appear to be made by Kings wearing the same kind of crowns to deities horn-headed, globe-headed, hawk-headed or lion- headed; still, you will love to stray about its cool halls, and you will reverence it However, if you examine closely, note and compare one cartouche with another, you will find a diiference in each one, Those ancient Egyptians were mighty men. They never lald bands to auything of public interest un- Jess they had thought well of 1t, and then they made # enduring. Though the Ptolemies built the portico, yet over 2,000 years is a loug time, and to think that it 1s almost as perfect as when Ptolemy constructed 4%. Provided that no rough, destroying hand of man is laid upon it it wili last 2,000 years more; for time possesses no power over the Egyptian temples; the pure alr and the warm sun are considerate with them. No stern frosts crack them; no baneful ‘Winds Wow over them; no pelting haustones scourge them. Once dPesied thoy remain enduring and en- durable, That the Jériy pyramids of Gtirzeh appear slightly scarred muat not be aid to time or the ele- aitaia one to human ageuey, to Oatndyses and Mos- Jers; that Abydos is in ruins tb atimbutable to the Persians. ‘here are several other interesting ruins at Den- derah, A chapel of Isis lies behind the temple of Athor; another ruin lies @ short distance northeast of tt; while all around is buried in @ mountainous accumulation of bricks, broken pottery and dust. Considerable excavations have been made by Mr. Marnette, but nothing much has peen discovered. ‘They are still progressing, and often the head of a statue or the capital of a pillar 1s discovered, together with scores of images of earthenware aud bronze. From Denderab to Thebes {takes four hours by steamer. ss ‘Thepes is the great event of the Nile voyage. Thither ali eyes turn coming up.the Nile. The ruins are 60 vast and the glories of Thebes have so often been sung by poets and writers that all hearts yearn jor them, Thebes is described by Homer as Pouring her heroes through a hundred ‘two bundred horsemen and two bundred c From each wide portal jasul We were permitted to slay at Thebes two days, nd I shail therefore give a description of the ruins as we saw them. Contrary to the advice of good fir Gardiner, we saw Luxor and Karnak the frst day, and the second we employed in visiting te Yornbs of the kings, Asgasseef, Abdel Koorneb, the Palace of Koorneh Kemesiuip, the Colossi of Mempon and Medecnet Aboo. THE RAST BANK. Luxor stands on the east side, within a few yards of the tanding piace, Though aif filied up by Arab huts, 4 mosque aud the American Consul’s house, the baif uboccupied will command wouder amd ad- miration. Tuis temple was one of the greatest and most isoportant in Thebes, yet in “Guides” it is spoken of disparagingly. Sir Gardiner goes into = Jew details about it, but not a8 much as it merits, because of the bad effect the wiseradie mud bu within has upon it, and because they occur the finest and best portion of it [1 Unink M10 were Cleared to the floor that such & View ug its seventy-two columned portico aud its grand hdl) would present could not be rivalied by anything Egyptian. From the front pylon, which ts ‘twat fronung Karnak northward, to the rear portico, theenuire leagth of tus grand temple is 635 feet. dts eatire breadth is Lof Known for te close moss ef Arab hute within the courts ergs. preveut measurement; but by going m on ail fours into these Arab buts you will be startled at the profusion ‘of capitals which peep out from underneath, denot- ing We columns thas support them, ‘That any vil- Jui0 Ol ab Arab beggar should have dared to build Bis hut near the magnificence of Luxor ‘will bea miatier of wonderment. ‘ihe thought is apt io strike one that should Ismail Khedive scourge every one Of thove peopie away, alter theymanner of Him who Grove Oul Whore Who polluted the temple at Jeru- waiem, he would be dome a very yreat service to ‘art, for without the least doubt much would be found Delow fo enrich @ museum, This vempie, placed on higher ground than any ethers, wast vave appeared 4 Ut Fivai to Karnak; for from Nie suupendous pillars, ite gvelisk and 118 pylon may ve seen rising magnificently aud proudly mbove te mass Of FUDDIKA Which cumbers it. Beiore the frout pylon Atands @ soliiary obelisk of red granite, the mate of that Which siands mm the Piace de la Concorde, Paris, To We riglit and leit are four colons, delaced, geurred, maUlated aod buried to tae cus ter GroWwLs. Auternng Wwe pyion you th of forty feet, are of near the sanctuary two Corinthian pillars of an old Greek church stand, Side by side with the gigantic columns of the Luxor temple these columne of the Greeks appear puny and insignificant, and is to the credit ‘of aypetan art to be ect me such juxtapo- sition to its Greek rival. From Luxor we hastened to Karnak, situate a mile and @ half north of the former, along what was once an avenue of ram-headed aphynxes. While on this road give roi to fancy. among to the Vemple of Karnak, countless divinities held aloft by stro 1 harp, timbrei, sackbut single futes, rising in m hap, Rameses the Great, retur: subjects; the gi quiver, ornamented to the height ot and Pharaob’s nobles, in their robes after him; and the priests, in snowy linen, with crimson, are before nim, lift ptian skill, come on their chargers from Ethio- ibys, with their burnished arms infant with Voices in the song of victory, and behind all vhe cavalry, pia and of bronze and brass; and the ple of ‘Thebes, the mercenaries an sands follow on foot to see tne sce! while over all shines the warm sun of Thebes. takes place in the year 2670 of the creation and tho Year 1330 betore Christ, Pass over 700 years. The same sun siunes over Theves, its temples and ita ow. cover the plain, the same river flows bard the temples of Karnak and Luxor, the same azure heaven vaults the Theban plain, whioh is as green and fertile as ever; but aday of the year 619 B. O. bas come, and the doom of ‘Thebes immortalized is sealed, for tue madman Cambyses, with bis army, is marching from Luxor to Karnak. For dieties represented by aniinals; for Osiris, the founder of the Kgyptian monarchy, represented py the bull Apis; the goddesses Isis, Athor and Phtnah, represented by hawks and cats, Cambyses, the Per- sian, has no respect. Neither knows he Aimin-Ke, who has made Karnak temple his abode; he knows not ambitious Manau, with the inevitable bawk’s head; therefore he issues the order for the demo- Ittion of the statues, for the aefacement of the sculp- ture, for the destruction of the matchless temple. And thus the city of Thebes the hecatompylean city becomes a waste. After the invasiun of Cam- byses the Kyyptians made an effort, and succeeded fora while, in re-establishing their Indepeudence and ihebes once more to ner former greatness. Once more travellers came from afar to feast their eyes upon the fheban wonders, the fathers of uis- tory, Diodorus Siculus, Strabo and others; but the Mat hasgoue forth sud tiereis none to Blay 1t—a worse than Cambyses came whose name was Lathyrus, What remained after Lathyrus travellers see nowadays at Theves, ‘The matchless avenue ol sphinxes, which lined the whole distance from Luxor tu Karnak 3.600 years ago, may be traced jor about half the distauce. You may say about the great blocks which lie crumbang on each side of you, these were sphinxes once, but few of them retain that tigure and form now. About half way to Karnak you will come to a square hol- low in which there are about sixty statues of Phthah of biack granite, many of wuich are still upright. This hollow was tue terminus of a tern- pie. Proceeding a short distance further on you sec a solitary pyiou and the foundations of a temple may be waced. Jase over the other pylonw and march obliquely to the left, so that you may arrive at tue front of the great Tempie of Karnak. Ab! thac temple. 50 miunyemiment writers have described it, so many travellers nave wailed in sympatny over 1t3 fallen state, 80 Many poels have sung over it what shali a young American say of Karnak? Take your Sir Gardiner in pana, or your Mr. Lane, or your Champoiiion, aud each of them will guide you over the rains. But, in spite of this learned coterig, you will ‘ain linger before une temple pylon, look up the stately height of the propyl, at the wide etibrasures 1n its front, at the Colossi sculp- tured thereon, at the rumous masses of stone look- ing but freshly lalien, to the vista of columns, aud halls, and obelisks, sanctuaries and walls as you stand minion like in the portal. Great is the Par- thenon enthroned upon the Athenian Acropolis; great 1s the Coliseum at Rome with ite sad history; great are the Sagantine ruins and Gotiic Avilla, but greater, grander, statiler by far stands Karnak temple. You pags under the pylon and you come to w épacious area which measures 275 feet by 329 feet, another pylon and a vestibulum terminates this, wilich 1s about flity feetin depth, and you are in the famous hall of Karnak with its 140 pillars, awe strack by their gigantic size and ite aspect, ‘luis mali measures 170 by 329 feet. You could put tae whole of Trinity church within it, and have aciean Passage round about it alterwards, between te walls of the hall. Another hail succeeds this with an obelisk stair standing, one of a pair which stood before the pylon of another ball beyond this, where there is @ taller obelisk and measuring eight feet square, Tbis latter hall is surrounded by ostride pulars, all of which, however, are mutilated. Be- yond this is thesanctuary of sanctuaries, constructed ol exquisitely polished red gracite, with a host oi adyta and jateral aisles aud pasate surroundtng it. Beyond this 18 another hall, and sull another until you have arrivea at the circult wall, atid have traversed the length of 1,189 feet. A temple 1,140 feet long by 329 feet wide! What is St. Peter’s at Rome to thin? But you will not be induced to rush so hurriedly through the temple as all this, The great hall of Karnak will hold you speil-bound, You will Wonder atils length, at ita breadth, at its neight, at the finite and colossal tracery of cnisel over it, at tis stupendous columns, rising Sixty-two feet from the floor and eieven feet in diameter; at the patches of brilliant and exquisite colorimg you will see here and there, and you will want to imagine all this when it was new. Then the ovelmks, with their tops spiring into the clear air and pointing to the all-serene heaven of Thebes, will demand your atten- tion, and the massive osirides, fuircy feet in height, each composed of a single block; the beautiful orna- ture of tue sanctuary and its sarroyndings; the lin- tel stones, forty leet mm length; each and all these are subjecis of wonder, Yet these are but a tithe of what is to be found at Karnak. Mount the circuit walls, the lofty pylon facing the Nile, or the stili loftier propylae, Or the summit of a gigantic col- umn in tye hall, Look around, below, above and ad- miration succeeds to admiration, wonder to wonder. As for the sculptures on the walls they are tuo varied for detail Could one but read them much of the history of Egypt might be read, both sacred and profane. doling Into thts temple to look at the sculptures Is just like gomg to the Louvre at Paris, Napoleonic and war history of Frauce may be read in the latter; why not Eyypuan history in the former? The Louises and the Napo- leons are seen at the fronc of Baibec pictures on the wails of the Louvre; the great Kameses or some other Pharaoh may be seen on the temples of Piosopols, Magna, or modern Karnak, ‘The second day we crossed tue river to visit the colossi of Menpon gnd the tombs and temples of tho western bank. The modern name o1 the King's tombs is Bad ei Molook, signilying the “gates of the kings.”” Oy gate ts be kings! What a ea significatjoy! Foy yong but Kings entered tuerein, aud it opened to "feat ‘The Libyan range is at Thebes, just two miles from the Nile, at a point opposite Koornei, At this point a ravine opens in the range of hills to the widta of about two huadred feet. When you enter it you are in the most desolate, dreary, forbidding, barren, stony region in the world, Not @ blade of grass, no,. not one, nor surub, nor any green thing is visible; it 18 brown limestone rising in strata from the bottom of the ravine to the summit of the hill on etther side, while the base is covered with debris, great rocks crumbling or crumbled, over which tne sun pours his fercest every day throughout the year. You follow this ravine, winding and deviating from polat to point, fora mile and a balf, until you are baited by a crosé Mili, which bars all further pro- cedure, Here are the tombs of the kings, #0 far opened to the number of twenty-one, each one of which 18 @ palace cut and chiselied out of the solid rock, stuccoed and painted all over. ‘There are forty- seven of them in tuis valiey, but twenty-six of them Temaima undascovered, where it may be supposed kings still lie, “every one in his own house.” Keen- siguied, knowing travellers have been here, Belzoni among the keeuest, yet there are twenty-six still undiscovered, which is, perhaps, ail the best for the great dead who still lie there, but nevertheless aloss wart. If one had only the money, they could be discovered, doudtiess, but moneyed traveliers are not often found who could spare time and money to proceed to work. Some day, I hope, we shail havea national museum in New York, and some enterprising man with the proper spirit and amui- tion will fill an Egyptian room with the riches of these undiscovered tombs. THE TOMBS. Str Gardner Wilkinson, for the better description of them, has numbered them in red paint, respect- ively from one to twenty-one. No. 17 was discovered by Belzoni, and is the most superb of all for the spaciousness of the halls within and the exquisite paintings which adorn its walis. These pabiiugs generaily treat of religious subjects, of the death of kings and the transmigration of sqnis through va- rious subsequent stages. One particular King, Set- a i tic I. father of Rameses the Great, ls recog! mail these sets of paintings. He is represented offering sacrifice to Osiris and Isis, as being judgea by Ouiris the judge of the dead, while the goddcss In another pidce he of truth and justice stands by. is seen accepted by Osiris, wno holds out his sceptre towards him as Ahaguerus 18 gaid to have done to Esther, his queen. One hal to the right at the furthest end is not quite completed, @ penciling of red, with another of black over it, as if o master artist had superintended the work. Lhe outlines are bold and masterly, and they have not all that stiffness which the skeleton Sir Gardner would lead aud the paintings present most vividly. taowe rich raiments in which the figures are palnved mere made of the tomb penetrates 320 ieet into the rock, and over wali and cetling of pasaage and hall i# paced te stucco, which bas retained tie paintings for over 3,000 year. rawing of ope to __ betleve, Egyptian dress Tomb No, 11, calied the Harper's tomb,-from the ween at the exweme ‘$18 Sino 16 figure of @ harper which w chamber to the right of the pi fe. paIDied With iuteresting subjecls, ‘be TOMATO [OF with covered cloistera 18 all filled up with adobe huts Proceeding the mosque you fourteen, oolunis Imagine yourself one thousands proceeding tn stately procession flags and stand- ards streaniing in the breeze, the types of Egyptian ; armed men; gaily painved inscriptions, fantastically desigaed, wreathed around or flowing from them; Pharaoh's ensigns before each division of the procession; wild music re psaltery, double and efodious symphony, clear and loud in the lucent air of Thebes, while the King—even Pharaoh—is in his own chariot; may- from mis conquest ol the world, grander and loftier than any of his chargers such as were only reared for @ Pharaoh’s foemen, as proudly as if they kuew they were to grace @ Pharaoh’s triumph, and the chariot is of gold and sliver, sparkling with pre- cious stones, with its war furniture, its bow and ‘state, wend ‘on high their active young men; bat wi not do it, 60 that be could say he had sat in Josephine. Madrid he must needs throw Dimself of Plulip LY. and test the luxury of Isabella’s couch. You may irace You coula aimost tell of wuat whom tots tomb was constructed ts Rameses III, ig 405 feet in length, and arranged in halls lt nly interes! reserved as two acter, are even taste and skill of the former. ig a section of the wal) prove the ancient Egyptians to have been far the moderns in humaa anaiom: a learned in Egyptol tion inter! walls of enunent Greek and Roman visitors. which are open this tomb 1s the most elegal tomb eafely at a hand gallop. bagus of red are ail that unlearned 1n anit care Lo visit, “By the life of Pharoah,’ ee terrible aspect of frownin; of Pharoah while smiting bis captives. catacombs of Assaseef, Garduer praises one of them most Suhoalasacally, because 1b was 862 feet long, when he wrote his book, and had many chambers and gregt halls; but since that time the Arab miners have destroyed the finest portions of it, 80 that itis actually not worth visiting, besides the mepnitic odor issuing out 1m interests. Neither are the tombs of Abdel Koor- neh interesting. Onefecis inclined w laugh at Sir Gardner for his zeal." The paintings alone at No. 35 will repay a visit, The sunali temples of Dayrel Baliree and Dayr el Medeeneh are very interesung, and well worth the trouble of @ visit to them, but I have no space to describe them, other portions of Thebes more lia- portant deserve attention. The Rarnccg OF Memuontum lies directly below the grotvoes of Koorneh. Though in @ most ruin- ing, the Ramestuin 18 @ favorite with all visitors, All admire the bell formed or lotus fower capitals, as well as the columns of the portico, because they donot present that heaviness which the crowded state of others naturally had, and they are Over sculptured, besides being in bet- ter proportion to the size of the por- tico, rom @ distance the Raminesium looks as imposing as any in Kgypt. One reason for this ig that its ruins, is portico, its propylw is much higher than the red mounds of débris which always are found in tho vicinity of Egyptian temples. ihe real grandeur and coarms of the romans ruins of Egypt are obscured by theae mounds, which, in very many instances, such as before Dendera and Abyaos, rise lugher than the ruins themselves. For a par- allel case imagine the national capital at Washing- von surrounded by refuse heaps rising to a level with the suminit of the dome; where wouid the grandeur and beauty of it be? Do men light a candie and put it under a bushel? For the reason, then, that che Ramesium 18 more freed from obstructing dust hills aud mud huts, and what is left of it is seen to good advantage from afar, is that travellers as soon as they descry its rus yearn to view them closer. This temple palace was 600 feet in length from Portico to circuit wall, by 180 feet in breadth, but the greater part of itis in too ruinous a state to enter 1nto details. Before the portico Me the rains of the largest statue in Egypt, of 387 tons in weight, so says Sir Gardner. 1tis a monster statue of sienite granite polished ag smooth as a mirror. The iconoclastic hands of the Arabs have been laid upon this also, for they have constructed milistones from the face, #o that this hero of @ statue was not even respected when low. legs and levelled 1c fro! but pagan Arabs with chi lron-hearted Cambyses smote it at the its pedestal to the dust, land hammer defaced it. THE COLOS8I. From the Rameseum to the colossi of Memnon is but @ step. Now you stand in the shadow of the famous colossus and repeat to yourself the sweet tradition which fable has woven about it. There are two Colosal seated on thrones about fifteen paces apart, looking eastward, but there is only one vocal Memaon, which 1s the northernmost or the one nearest to the Kameseum. The story that, every morning at sunrise a sound iasued from 1b similar to the breaking of @ harp string. Straoo, whose curiosity must have prompted bim to rise early to satisfy it, says that be heard a sound, but whether it proceeded fj one in the crow—for ‘Thebes itself—he was not certain. m the statue or from some ere were curious people in But there were not wauting those who aifirmed stoutly that the sound emanated from Memnon when the sun wuched ita lips, Every morning Memnon sung. “Ob, sweet story; ob, romantic fable,” It prompts you to look kindly at Memnon, wishful that 1 were true. What a charm is there in a well devised story. Sir Walter Scott has restored knight errantry from the obioquy into which the satiric pen of Cervantes ad castit. Washington lrving has made ali Eng- lish readers love the simple ‘Rip Van Winkle,” out bere fabie, with a simple story of two or three words, makes you reverence a stone, while 1ts mate. much better preserved, 18 disregarded. The lips, eyes and the points of Memnon’s feet have been de- stroyed. ta eutire body was also broken in pieces by that mad Cambyses who has been the bane of Egypt, but Severus restored it with hi biocks of sandstone chiselled in the form of the deity we see to-day. To climb to tne lap of Memnon is a labor even to young student would great When a traveller visits Versailles or must sit in the chair of Napoieon or When he visits the royal palace at into the chair Memnon’s =) tue Trianon he How much greater is the »> :or of having sat in the lap of Memon, the dutiius son of the morning | LOOKING DOWN ON THEBES. From the lap of Memnon, twensy-five feet above the green area ot the Nile valiey, the ruins of Thebes are seen, with other ideas than that of taking a good view. You may perhaps wish to restore Thebes in your mind. Nothiog 18 easier, Gorgeous Karnak ‘and Luxor are before you, Medeenet Avoo and the Stygian Lake are on yourright. The Rameseum, the palace of Koormeh are on your left, Dayre el Medeenel and Dayre el Bahree, the grottoes or the Libyan Ilills, the Gate of the Kies d the Valley of the Queens are behind you. Tie r easy. You nave but to lay anu avenue of splinxes, broad as Broadway, froin le to the feet of Memnon, age another from behfad Memnon to the palace of Ra- meses, at the base of the Libyan Hills; reconstruct the rutued temples and palaces of the kings, betweeg the kameseum and the furthest edge of the Stygian Lake; reconstruct Luxor and Karnak, with long lines of sphinxes between; fill the intervening space with the city of Thebes, tifteen miles in ¢ircumference, with numer- ous Obelisks and statues rising above the houses; peopie the plain aud city with baif a million of people, and you have Theves—royal Thebes—the queen city of Egypt, which haa her chariots by the thousands, and her warriors by the hundred thousand; whose fame was sang by Homer over Greece tour thousand years ago, and lives still in undying verse and in her monumenis, ‘The temple of Medeenet Aboo is undoubtedly one of the most graceful and artistic in Egypt. Battle seenes and victories are engraved turee inches deep on the walis of this temple. Scribes reckon up the hands of the slain aud deliver the number ww the king, Who is seated on the hinder part of a chariot; a@ King of colossal stature has a host of men by the hair of the head, whom he is about to smite to death; then he rides in @ chariot of State, sur- rounded by his nobles, and offers sacrifices to the eel alter his victory over foreign enemies. An gypuian king erected 1t some 700 years before Christ. An Egyptian Pharaoh usurped the throne and had his own figure sculptured over the former— Nectavedo Il. effaced Lirbakah’s name and intro- duced his own instead; and succeeding Ptolemies and Cleopatras have inscribed theirs among their ps: decessors, and so on the work was continued i Egypt ceased to have aking. Invading Arabs first commenced the work of ruin, Coptic Christians com- pleted it. A pylon of granite, fanked by t wo pyra- mnidal towers, two succeeding great courts and a noble hall of assembly admit you into the holy of holies, the nayos and adyta. ‘The second court 18 by tar the grandest witbin the temple. It measures 12% feet by 133, aud is surrounded by a peristyie of noble pillars, of varied design. Coripthian pillars of @ Christian church stand here before noble ostrides ans! circular bell-topped Egyptian columas. ‘rhe Cbristians erected their church in thts area and framed their pillars out of tne solid arcnitraves, wach (hey removed from their place for that pur- pose. itis tempting, one 1s well aware, to have such abundant means at hand for the erection of a church to God; but the area tad suiticed more than enouga had they bat left it in ite place, One good of a corridor bebind ene church 1s preserved for the unqualified admiration of ali lovers of beanty. robbed them of tveir former beauty that disappoint- ment is sure to follow # visit tothem. Uowever, fall under the same conditions. tent. MUMMIES. Thos I have done Thebes son true, ont #tili I have gone over 11. doubt, may wish to souvenira here, ddr can Consul, and the abundance of Luen, Ww. for @ iair price. souvenics M they but express & WisB Lo Duy. resurrected mumyniés. «opis a good hand, sir, Look at the teoth, the eyes, care mud buir, capital mummy, 6. ebiG’s Jo0l, & It 0. 17, but does not descend so abreptly into the ground, Ag No. 6 1s resting, id > though not #0 above mentioned; still jubjects, which aro of @ widely -<auferent char- fresher, but not painted with the ‘On the right of the entrance passage jevoted to the illustration of generation and gestation, which behind On the wall be- hind the sarcophagus ihe youthful Adonis 1s depicted seated on a glove, and according to Sir Gardner, who y logue, it 14 thought to refer to the fasoes suas dissoluwon is followed by reproduc- Toub No, 2 was open during the time of the Greeks in Egypt, and numerous are the inscriptions ona al nt. It escends on an incline of tive feet im firty; you may ride two horses abreast to the furthest end of the A most beautiful sar- cop! granite is found at the end of the tomb, @ little frayed on one side by the rapacious hauds of souvenir gatherers, This tomb 1s the great regort for those who wish to lunch after visiting the four best specimens of Kings’ sepulchres, as these repeat, those ancient yptlaus were giants. Continual visits during & Nile voyage into their tombs and temples stamps & clearer idea of thein on the mind than all the books that could be read, and they inspire respect and re- spectful admiration for them, notwithstanding the colossi, or the dread look CATACOMBS. From these royal abodes of death—this Topnet of a valley—travellersa Ce hasten W visit tie strong, deathly currents would kill the xcenest of ous state, with but the portico and propylw stand- thmg, however, came of this spoliation of a fue tempie—much of Ube orginal coloring and newhess ‘Yhe queens’ tembs are realiy not worch visiting afver those o! the kings; for fire aud aimoke have 80 those who Nave picaty of time iii do well to see everything. Besides the temples above montioned there are two otters south of Medecnet Aboo which Ine area of the Stygian Lake tay still be casily traced from the propylae of Medeenet Avoo, but 1 am not certain Unatit would repay travelling around is vast ex- vase manimies ana over iMibL, an AlbericAa resident here for some siX years, Mustapha Aghia, tie Ameri- »Prussian Consul, have an b Lkey will eel] to buyers ‘Traveliers will get tueir JU of Mum- mies by the wholesale; whole mMutoumies, heads of mutamies, bhamds, (cet, limbs; trunks of mummies; human, animal and bird mummies, until they will umagine that the venders OF tiem are themselves ieee a mummy, are we the euger inguiry of a dozen inummy pediers. we a ‘fin @ beauurar head, sir. foot, Will you buy, sir, Buymummies? ‘This is the song of a mummy pedier. Startling in New York, bat not in Thebes, for you hear it from dawn to evening. ‘Tne sellers of mammies are round in Thebes. tory of kings, purchased by & gentleman in the portico of the Rameseum and before the tombs of the kings:—-furee men’s heads, one woman's head, one cnild’s nead, #!X hands, large and amai twelve feet, entire; one infanv’s foot, plump; one foot, minus a toe; two ears, One part of @ well pre- served face, Lwo jos mummies, one dog mummy.” As for images and scarabil they are countless, Oh, certainly Thebes is the ptace to buy souvenirs; such that will make timid woman pale end innocent children cry; such that will make old men, old heo- ple, think of their graves and Atheists thoughttt FAREWELL 10 THR COLOSSL. The genial sun just vouched the lips of Memnon and his mate as we leit Luxor next morning. Ah, thoge two cologsi sitting complacently on the plain of Thebes will surely haunt tue memory. Forever, while you live, if you think of Egypt after seeing them, your mind will revert to those two stavues, which have gat like guardlan watchers of the land for over forty centuries, The Nile, to which they have always looked each year, lays 108 tribute at their feet, ‘Tis rd who have seen the sun first of allin that plain, yet never have they seen 1 sot. They have seen countless generations come, go, born and buried, still they sit ever slient, ever mo- tonless, never voicing their sorrow nor walling their loneliness; never more greeting the morn, Bor disturbing their oWn harmony and majestic stlll- FEMALE SUFFRAGE IN UTAH The Act Passed the Legislature and Signed by e@ Acting Governor — Wives, Concu- dines and Spinsters Granted the Elective Franchise. SaLr Lake Crry, U. T., Feb. 12, 1870, Among the recent political mancuvres of the Mormon autherities has been to confer the elective franchise upon the women here in Utah, The Dill as amended passed the Legislature on Thursday and ‘was signed to-day by Mr. Mann, who 4s Secretary of the Territory and acting Governor. The mass meeting of women held in this city nearly a month ago, and the similar meetings held since then in different towns and settlements in the Territory, were intended to. convey the idea to the outside world that those meetings were voluntary gather- ings to show that the women of the Territory were in favor of polygamy and opposed to the Cuilom bill and to any bill that had for tts object the aboli- ton of polygamy. Everybody here, howe’ understands that those meetings were arranged by the authorities, and that the nolding and the charac- ter of them only confirmed to observant and intelligent people the fact of the existence and power of that moral despot- ism which women here, a8 well as men, are subjected to. The majority of the people here, both maie and female, have been so instructed and controlied that they dare not do anything of moment without being told tq do it, and, having been told, dare not disobey the mandate. This ts self-evident to every one who comprebends the secrets of Mor- monism. So that so long as the present system con- unues to have sway, as it has at present, the fact of the women having the right to vote means only that so many more votes can be cast as the Mormon men want them to be cast, Tat is the plain English of tt, divested of all simulation of fairness and freedom. Orthodox Mormons have admitted to me that they believed an honest, unconstrained and heartfelt vote of the women in Utab would be against polygamy. But should a vote of the women be taken now on that or any other question the machinery, chicanery and des} of the Charca are still so strong and salient the result waula be, of course, just whatever the authorities desired to have tt. The foliowing is the bill as tt passed the Legisi: ‘An aot conferring upon women the elective franc! BrovioN 1. se it enacted by the id Asembly of the Territory of Utah, That every woman the ago of twenty-one years who has ts Territory ‘OF special election, six months next preceding an; Dorn or naturalized in the United States, oc who ts the wife, widow or the daughter of a native born or naturalized citizen. of the United Btates, shall be entitied to vote at jan Ao this Territory. . Bro. 2. All laws og parts of Inws conflicting with this act are hereby repealed, Approved, February 12, 1870, ‘fhe following is the letter serit to-day to the Speaker of the House oy the acting Governor on re- turning the act, after having amxed his signature: Exkourive Orriox, Urau Texgrrory, Feb. 12, 1870, To the Hon. Oxon PRATT, 5} ‘of the House :— 1 the honor to inform you that I have this day ap proved, signed and deposited in the Secretary's office “an Act" conferring upon women the elective franchise, In view Of the importance of the measure referred to, it may not be considered improper for me to remark that I have very grave ‘aud serious doubts of the wisdom and soundness of that iiuical economy which makes the act alaw of this Terrl- ory, and that there are many reasons which, in my judg- ment, are opposed to the legislation; but whatever these doubts and reasons nay have been, in view of the unanimous ¢ of the act in both the House and the Council, and in deference to the judgment of many whose opinion I ver much respect, I have, as before stated, approved of the bi hoping that (iture experiences may approve the wisdom of our action, and that the same may be found to be in harmony with the spirit and genius of the ago in which we live. 8. A. MANN, Acting Governor. AS the act becomes a law on and after its publica- tion no time has been lost in publishing it. It was signed only # few hours ago and is even now in print; so that the women can vote at the municipal election on Monday if it shall be deemed advisable or necessary for them to vote, Some of the Gentiles and liberal minded Mormons have been opposed to the pi fe of the has met. with ch prompt approval—only two days before the nicipal election—by the acting Governor, seeing that its object was and its immediate object will be to strengthen tne hands of the Church authorities; but others of them believe that this female franchise 1s a two edged sword which will eventually cat, not the way tt 1s now intended, but tne cord that now binds so many men and wonien in moral aud intel- lectual benighted bondage. Brigham Young en the New Governor of Utah and the Cullom Bill. (From the Sait Lake Telegraph—Srigham Young's organ. Personally we entertain no dread thoughts of either ‘‘serious disturbance” or ‘open war.” Past experience has taught us the lesson that there 13 a “Providence in the affairs of men,” and with that assurance we can listen to a good deal of bombast serenely, come from whom it may. To the war expectation now 80 prevalent in the East there can only be disappointment, and General Shafer is as likely to be as proper a Governor as far as that 1s concerned as any other man. There can be no war with Ura on any pretext whatever. Some of us may be silly enouga to say ugly and provoktl tings, and dreamy enough to anticipate all sorts of magnificent results; but there 18 @ heap of Senge out here in the Rocky Mountains, among both men and women, and. the talk of war anywhere is to-day regarded as sheer balderdash. We have no personal acquaintance with General Shafer, and, therefore, can disinterestedly tender him the advi to pay no attention to the folks down Easton w war question, but to come out here when he 1s ready, mind lis own business, and he wili get along wel) enough. His “wisdom and discretion,” ‘“igno- rance or opstinacy,” should he have eituer of these commodities even in superabundance, will make not a whit of difference to affairs out here; still we should like lim with the former rather than with the latter, still, be it either way, progress and de- velopment are written on the scrolior Utah. have neither time nor inclination for war, and we won't have it; it don’t pay. * bed > hid ’ ala our citizens be attacked—be they poor or r igh up or in low estate—wherever we cal we shall defend t A h the truth. [¢ ‘de Beets Sone rally suppo vernmen| esigns eating this question of polygal i} at is Aita tday. In this cage the Telegraph Wil have something to say, always assuming the position that what is constitu. onal should be obeyed; what is not must be re- sisted. We will not, however, anticipate in this or anything else, but hold ourselves in readiness to defend whatever. we believe to be right. ¥ in relation to the Cullom bill, now pending in Congress, the Telegraph says:— The last news from Washington ts very encour- aging to the friends of this anu-polygamic bill. it is said that the billis sure to pass tne House, and thought it may be retarded In the Senate. atillevery- thing 1s very hopeful. We haveno idea that Mr. Culiom has Tauch Ww do with the bill, ag it has its birth and perfectionment tn tis city, He ‘will, how- ever, have @ lasung notoriety in that connection. We know not a single Gentile in thia city who does not say that he 1 not opposed to that bill as it is. But while they may be opposed to polygamy itself, they cannot go tne whoie length on disfranchising men for the faith they yet may have. There 1 enough of folly aud outrage in the Culiom bill to defeat its purpose. When men fight the faith or the ingtitutions of the peopic of Utah fairly we have uo Objection to thelr course; but when they resort to inquisitions we are opposed to them, and shall do our best to expose their folly and wickednegs, A PeccLIAR SvIT.—A suit has peen brought against Gideon Haynes, warden of the Charlestown (Mags.) State Prison, by Mr. H. L. C. Dorsey, of Paw- tucket, the well known benelactor of prison mmates in various parts of this commonwealth and other States. Mr. Vorsey’s benefactions have taken the shape of donations of pouléry tor the purpose of pro- viding prisoners, om ceriain days named by him, ‘with a roast turkey dinner. On Ohristinas day, 1863, the suin Of $766 altogether was sent to Mr. Haynes for thie purpose, and & receipt was acknowledged. ‘The donor, it seems, took a notion to vieit the prison on that day under an allas, and bearing @ letter of introduction from himself. He discovered that the terme Of nis donation were not fulliied as be in- tended, aud stewed ‘Ken tustead of roast turkey was given the wen. e (ext tat he bad selected ‘Was not preached frora by te chaplain. This vexed him aud he sent a demand to the warden Jor the ‘hie & Tnere’s @ LICe foot, air; & bay’s fool, a womay’s 100%, o ayl'e rewura of the monoy, Tae werden at him the balance remaining in bis hands, and ihe portion | spent he pow gues to recover. WASHINGTON GOSSIP. The Saints in Congress—Saint Pomeroy, of Kansas, as an Apostle of Temperance— Whiskey and Ale Forbidden in the Capi- tol Restaurants—Eidict Against Down- ing and “Hole-in-the-Wall”—Re- vels Commendation of Sumner— Those Expensive Investigating Laxarles—Piety and Selling Cadetships—The Proposed Celebration of Wash- ington’s Birthday. WasainaTon, Feb. 17, 1870. Hide not your light ander a bushel. ‘Let your light shine before men. Show good example to your neighbors. Not only be pious yourself, but make everybody else 90, If you don't believe in “nips straight” permit no- body else to ‘‘nip” likewise, Whiskey is distilled damnation, also wine and beer. Drink it not, therefore; nay, nor keop it at all for use; despise it and hate it; and ought not your The above is pure Congressional doctrine, which I am preaching, according to the gospel of Saint Pomeroy, of Kansas; Pomeroy, of unspotted virtue; Pomeroy, the temperate and philanthropic; he who chgmpions women’s righters or wrongers (as you please to term 1t); and who is at the head or tail of every righteous movement in the country. Saint Senator Pomeroy has one remarkable quality— he always goes the whole hog; no animal fraction will do for him. It must be the en- tire animal or nothing. Pomeroy don’t drink himself, because he is opposed to distilled damnation. It aon’t agree with nim any more than political or other kinds of damnation. Being radi- caltothe backbone, of @urse he don’t believe in allowing other people to drink any more than him- self. If whiskey or ale 1s bad for the Senatorial saint of Kansas, it can’t be good for any other saint, orsinner either for that matter. And Pomeroy, being the head saint of the saints of Washington, has naturally become the mouthplece of the temper- ate saings of the District, who want tippling abol- ished hereabouts by act of Congress, which 1s believed tobe the most terribly solemn method of exorcising the evil spirit of drunkenness. The tem- perate saints of the saintiy District entrusted Pome- Toy with their petition asking whiskey abolishment tn toto throughout all the square miles surrounding the capital, and Pomeroy presented it to tne great Senate of the Unitea States, which is so famous for its temperance, both in drinking and speaking. Simultaneous with thts saintly attack on the tip- plers, the temperate editor of the great temperance journal of Washington makes an onslaugnt upon our catereristical friend and fellow citizen, George T. Downing, who haa charge of the cutsine of the House of Representatives. George is attacked in the most Harrls-ing manner, accused of selling in- toxicating drinks to members of Congress and others, in his restaurant under the Representative Chamber, and ot thus violating Joint Rule No. 10 which prohibits the sale, exbibition or keeping of “spirituous or malt liquors or wines’ within the Capitol building. You must know that some two or three years ago Joint Rule No, 19 was adopted through the tnlaence of the Congressional ‘emperance Society. Before that time Senators ana Representatives could have their “nips” without dimiculty on the House side or the Senate side. The restaurants in bow wings id tn luguors and cigars unmolested. No- iy and Senator This or Representative That Me Ride pote no difficulty in Ing gloriously elevated without leaving the Capitol. It was supposed that the joint rule would work wonders in makin; drunken donators and members of Co) sober It did aot work, however, as expected. The restau- rateurs made a little show of observ: the rule—a very little show indeed—so little, in fact, that few found difficulty in getting their “nips” whenever desirable. And tnose who failed to get it there easily procured it at Whitney’s or Sanderson's. So it continued until recently. Oysters and ale were to be had at any time, and stronger beverages were obtainable when called for under the designation of “trong coffee.” ‘The temperance editor, however, went down one day to enjoy his crackers and cheese, when he was horrified to see people swallowing ale aad whiskey. Forgetting to pay for the cheese and slso the crackers, he hastened from Downing’s saloon, rushed madly to his sanctum, seized his pen and wrote down in words of hottest indignation his horror and amazement at the un- douvted violation of Rule No. 19. The result was that big Sergeant-at-Arms Ordway, and little Sergeant-at‘Arms French, the twin guar- dians of Congressional virtue, felt constrained to unite in the following order for the enforcement of the spipituous pronibition:— Fepacany 17, 1870. To Captain Jou Coxson, Captain of the Capitol Poll S1g-Joint rule 19 makes it ibe duty of the arms of the Senate and House of supervision of the presiding bilcors of the two houses respec- tively, to enforce the provisions of said rule Sapiriiuous oF malt Hauors oF wines shall be offered for, sale, exhibited or kept within the Capitol er in any room or build- Ing connected therewith, or on the public grounds adjacent eto. It having been publicly stated in the newspapers that the above rule has been secretly violated by the keepers of the restaurants in the Capitol, you map direction of the Vice and Speaker of tl House of Reprosentatives, hereby required to see that the above ruleis entorced, a1 Tor that purpose are authorized to require extra duty of the men under your command, and to place a sufficient force ad: jacent to the suspected places to ‘out this order. |OHN R, FRENCH, Sergeant-at-Arms, United States Senate. |. G. ORDWAY, Sergeant-at-Arms, House of Representatives, ‘The further resuls was that, when Senators, mem- bers and others went to either restaurant to-day and called for their ale or their ‘‘strong coffee,” neither article was to be nad. Senators, members and others vigorouslyad——d French and Ordway and joint rule No. 19, but to no purpose, Neither Down- ing nor ‘Hole-in-the- Wall” would consent to violate the rule after the promulgation of the French-Ord- ‘way edict. “sorry, gentlemen,” would Downing reply to piteous appeals for aawipe. “Sorry, very sorry, but cant help it, If you oviain me a license I will be po) to supply you with any beverage you may lesire. Downing (George T.) 1s @ most polite and states- Manlike, as weil as diplomatic, colored restaurateur. He would go any length to oblige, but ‘‘you couldn’s expect hint to ruin himself.” ow, isn’t this a very absurd piece of moral disci. piine for the great Capitol of a great nation? Don’t it show that ators anc members have a most ex- alved opinion of their own virtue? Don’t it exmibit immense confidence in themselves when they pro- claim, by act of Congress, that they are afraid to allow whiskey and ale within easy reach of their lips, lest ad imbibe too freely and make tuemselves drunk: REVELS ON SUMNER. ‘Writinf of tippling and Downing reminds me or Reveis, the colored Seaator. They say that after Revels went home, the first time be was introduced to Sumner, somebody asked him what be thought of the Massachusetts statesman. “Well,” responded Revels, according to my infor- ‘Sumuer is @ real good feliow. He 1s 80 good, Tm gorry nis skin 1s white. but i :—If Sum- ner’s, skin is white bis heart is as black as any of ol Yety good, indeed, for Kevels, wasn’t it? INVESTIGATIONS THAT HARDLY PAY. Latter day Congressional investigating commit tees appear to be very expensive luxuries. They cost @ mint uf money and give very little value. During vhe summer there were three or four gala- vanting committees roaming all over the country in search of all kinds of information. The Ways aud Means Committee went from Washington to Van- couver to pick up facts tuat might just as well have been obtained here in this city. The gold investiza- tion by tne Banking and Currency Comunittee got an appropriation of $4,000 to pay for witnesses, and I am informed there will have to ve @ deficiency bill brought in for $2,000 more, 000 altogether to bring @ number of witnesses here to testify on a variety of subjects not at all germane, and, what is worse tuan all, the whole thing is to end in smoke. Purturiunt greenbacks, nascitur ridiculus nihd. The great labors of the committee will amount to nothipg. They haven’t uneartied a singié fact not previdusly known, except perbaps a few httle insignificant taiogs screwed out of Corbin and Catherwood, whichMaiter all, were generally suspected before. Now, besides this $5,000 for wit- nesses, there lias necessarily been incurred @ heavy bill for printing and stepographer's fees. Then there is the cadetsnip investigation. ‘Three thousand dollars are to be expended tor witnesses necessary to that investigation also. Goodness only knows how many other similar projects to waste the public money may turn up during the balance of the seasion, YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION AND BRIBING MEMBERS. One of the parties mixed up with the cadetship bartering proves to ve a pious youth of Philadeipiia, | a quondam protege of Greeley. Hig brother was member of Congre: jt session, aud is a con- testant fora seat now. Auotuer of the carperbag members accused of selling out was formerly & Methodist minister. Another very good proot of the moraie of the House. CELEGRATION OF WASHINGTON'S GRAND HOP AND SUPPER. ‘The wealthy reaideuts of Washington are resolved to commemorate the auniversary. of toe nativity oi the Father of bis Country in Opriave Was. One bundred of the vest citizens have got together, BIRTHDAY—A wubscribed Atty dollara apiece, engaged Meson ) Med, ond arranged for @ grand pal and supper. it +} are all go weil adapted to a “home nyt ned foo Am payee ‘ ever neni ple interested are General “sherman, Aa ft ‘D, Cooxe, Wm. 8. Huntington, A. 8, Sol BoP Bron nt Me tak, Admiral’ Dabigres, , . “Merric! Lewis Jonnson and H. Kilbourn. PROPOSITION 10 MAKE THE ERIE CANAL A PUBLIC HIGHWAY. The following bil! was introduced tn the United States House of Representatives on Wednesday by Hon. David 8, Bennett, of the Buffalo district of thi¢ State. It was ead twice and referred tothe Com: mittee on Commerce. It is entitled “A bill to prow vide for the better protection of the northern and northwestern frontier, aud to facilitate commercd and diminish the expense of the exchanges between States: — Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rapes Gentatives of the Uniied States of America in Con~ gress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasu: ig hereby authorized to issue to the Comptroller o! the St New York, on the credit of the Uni States, coupon or registered bonds, of such denomi< nations, not less than one hundred dollars each, he may think proper, to an amount not exceedin fifteen million dollars, redeemable in coin at thi pleasure of the government at any ume after ity” years "rom" date, “aud ‘Deariig rom | date, and A at the rate of four and a half able se! coin: mi-annually in fore the said vonds shall delivered to ‘the Comptroller of the York, the Legislature of the said State, mentor by joint resdlution, shall have pi for the State that all that portion of for paying of which the revenues of eeanais ‘are consti ly appropriated snall be te) ; that therea(ter no tolla nor tax o! any description shall be levied or collected. by, that stare upon any property transported thre or’ upon any of the canals, except @ uniform not exceeding one-half mill hing thousand, poun: Pe mile, to be collected Lor purpose. of defray~ the annua! cost of the maintenance of the sai canals; and that any exeess of’ appropriation o tonnage dues shail be applied to toe emiarzemen' of the Erie and Osw canals, and that. the Eric and Oswego canals shall, at as early @ Gay as be fitted for navigation by boats of not less_ than tons burden -by an of thelr; locks and by such deepening and widening of thew prism as may be necessary to their navigation by SEO. 2 And be it further enacted, That so mach of said bonds as shall be in excess of an amount equal to thé canal debt of the State of New York, which is to be discharged in the manner provided above, shall be retained by the Secretary of the until the Legislature and authorities of the said State snall have made provision for the execution of the work herein stipulated to be done u) the Erie and Uswego canals; and that, therealter at the ve; nthe Cy progress, the while the said worg re- tary of the Treasury shall deliver to the Oomptrolier of the State of New York an amount of said bonds, gon c. the pee nee the vee a sball havo properly and satisfac one Within, the Ubree Months then last past. . Sgc. 3 And ve it ir enacted, That the Prest- dentof the United States is hereby authorized to appoint, with the consent of the Senate, three Oom- missioners of the United States, whose duty it shall be to supervise aud inspect the work done upen the krie and Oswego canals in compliance with: the stipulations of this act, and upon whose report, once in every three months, the Secretary of the Treasury shall deliver the bonds, a8 above provided, to the Comptroller of the State of New York; the said com- missioners to receive for their compensation not more than at the rate of $5,000 per annum during actual sereice, with ten cents per mile for the ex- pense of actual travel in she performance of their juties. Sgo. 4. And be it turther enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. HOME FOR YOUNG WOMEN. Where Young “Homeless and Friendlies» Women Have a Home and Friends. Among the many charitable institutions with which New York abounds there ts one which, although not quite so well known to the charitable public ag it’ might be, docs m= its smaliand at present limited way an incalculable amount of good. It is the “Home for Young Women.” Everybody who is at all familiar with the ins and outs of a great city like this must know how many are the trials and dangers which a young girl, without a friend in the world, has to encounter, and how many, discouraged by the buffetings they receive in their struggles for their datly bread, fall by the wayside and are heard of no more, eave in places where even their own names area reproach to themselves. Girls leit desttute through tne death of their parents, or who have been once in good circumstances, but through some untoward event or another are compelied to go alone and unprotected to seek for weir livin; wherever they can get. employment, are numbe among the hundreds in tuis city every year; and up tothe time when the ‘Home’ was established no well organized effort had been made by private are tocome to the assistance of persons or u cl It wae started, as all such charities are started, in @ very modest way. Several wealthy ladies were its founders, and, through their influence, it was placed on @ good footing from the beginning, A amall house tn Amity street was leased bv the ladies shortly after the organization of the association, but it was soon found that their work would be 80 ex- tended that better and larger accommodations would have to be procured. ‘Two large houses were accordingly leased in Fourteenth street, but even these after @ time did not aiford room for the many young girla who applied for and were given admis- jon. ‘Through the influence of certain persona of wealth and the energy of the ladies woo had the Home in charge, funds suificient were tats obtained to parchase the present dwellings in Waverley place, where the Home 18 now located. The houses are large and well ventilated, are neatly furnished throughout, and every eifort is made by the Mana- gers to render the institution as much @ home: in reality as tneir means Will allow. It has nothing of the air of an ‘“asylam’” about it, and although the young women are subject, as matter of good order, to obey certain rules and be eer these circie” ‘that the inmates do not feel at all uncomfortably constrained by them. During the year just past about two hun- dred persons bave enjoyed the comforts and privi- leges o1 the place, and overa thousand young wo- man have been-cared for since the institution was established. Excepting those who are sick or out of employment, all pay for their board, which varies from three dollars to six dollars’ week, ac- cording to the size and location of the room occu- pied. ‘This paying for board of itself robs the insti- tution of ali character of an asylum of “charity,” Which to some is so distasteful. Many of the in- mates are teachers In schools or private families; several are pupils in the school of design, The majority of them are young ladies of re- finement and nigh accomplishments, who trust to earning their livelihood, nos from the drudg~ ery of “servant's life,’ bul trom their fitaess as teach- ers, copyists and artists, and their ability to do em- proidery and other light work. The social and religious influences of tue institution are 1té princi- pal features. There are times for receiving company, and at such times enjoyment of the social customs Of iife is maintained as in any of the social gatber- ings of private families. There are family prayers every morning and a Bible class once a weeek. Tne library is well selected and weil patronized. It may be said, in conclusion, that there ought to be more Institutions of this Kind in the city, Tne amount of good that Is done by the Home 1s incalculable in Ingny points of view, and in default of the existence of other charities having the same ends to serve as it serves those who suffer from a plethora of this world’s goods should give of their abunaance to the institution, that 1t may not be hampered by “qimited means,’? but still go on doing good as it has been dotng for year 3. JOURNALISTIC NOTES. There are twenty towns in England, two in Wales, four in Scotiand and three in Ireland In which dally papers are published. ‘Tue Crawsord County Press is the name of @ paper just started at Prairie du Chien by H. J. Hofman. It 18 democratic tn politics. Donald McDonald, the oldest newspaper man In Montreal, died in-that city on the 11th ult. He was 8 native of Inverness shire, Scotland, and emigrated to Canada in 1815. William H. Goodrieh, who retired from the Hart- ford Courant a year or so ago to try book publishing, has sickened of tne change and has returned to his old position on the Courant, Atlanta, Ga., has a new paper. Mr. Otto Palmer 1@ publisning a journal for our German friends under the name of the Atlanta Deutsche Zeitung, Dr. Uh. Raushburg 1s the Engitsn editor. Michigan has twelve daily newspapers, over one hundred and fifty weekile: ye On ete quarteriies and three annuals. A pap recent been started called the Grand Ledge Independent. ‘The receipts from sales of Cincinnati newspapers for the yearending December 31, 1860, were as foi- lows:—Enquirer, $172,387; Gazelle, $216,947; ie mercial, $251,847; Volksblat, $07,060; Times, $127,000; Volksfreund, $70,008, ‘A comical transposition of type occurred in a re- cent number of the Butfalo Christian Advocate as follows:— \daries of the world gnd 5 o 01 on are aa eae of this slagle species of bird cannot be unuer a4 The New York correspondent of the New Orieans Picayune writes as follows about the new daily to be started in Philadelphia:— William J. Swain, son of our long-time friend Swain, of the Philadelphi about to tr Journalistic r wbout the 1st of April. It will be itics and about double the size will be en ® penny of your trely new—pi and ite make pest.