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TAR SOUTHHN-CRYSALIS Our Peripatetic Commissioner’s Re- port on the Troubled States. AN IMPARTIAL SURVEY OF THE FIELD Reflections on Men and Manners Among the Unreconstructed. THE SPECTRE OF REPUDIATION. ‘Carpet-Bagism in Alabama and in New Orleans, Scenes in Montgomery’s Classic Shades. MonteomeEry, Ala., Dec, 12, 1872, Were the State Capitol edifice—white, domed and ‘@quare set—taces, all alone, the wide sandy stréct ef Montgomery, and from the portico where Davis fna'stepnens were inaugurated. you can take in the whole acene of contention in the motley poil. tea of nowadays. secian: dia ‘The Court House where the republican Logista- tare holds out and receives the sanction of the Governor in this Capito) building is to the left, and was a few nights ago the origin of great hub- Peloo and enthusiasm of the fire-cracker sort, all ged up and ready to be fired off, when at the mMomination of ex-Governor Parsons, George E. ‘Spencer was re-elected United States Senator. In these huzzas you'might determine the ground ob- $eet of all this contest. ‘Te the right of the street are the two hotels, Madison House and Exchange, where the rival parties hold their cancuses. The farthest house, ‘the Exchange, on the public square, into which the @alef street widens, is the democratic headquar- ters, and opposite it is the Advertiser newspaper, @wned by Mr. Scrawls and edited by Robert Tyler, gon of the ex-President. This paper is the mouth- plece of democratic leadership, and Is a good- feoking sheet, well written and widely circulated, fhe republican newspaper is rather a beggarly amir, and lives in hopes of the $20,000 worth of Printing which the Advertiser now receives, Hence on the one side daily appeals to the justice of heaven and on the other to the protection of our country and laws. Itis truly a big thing on thin &e to a stranger to see all this clatter about spoils. MONTGOMERY RAMBLES, ‘The Exchange Hotel, nearer the eye, is Spen- er’s headquarters, an old and wretched hostelry, full of broken chairs, dirty coverlets, dim window panes and naked halls. A good hotel in this capital town might have a cleansing effect on the State Politica. «The food, too, is of @ swinish sort—sau- @age and pig prevailing, and grease spread over all the other viands, so that nobody is in a good sto- Machic condition to approach political questions, ‘The great parcel of treedom’s children and also the a@dvocates of any “local rights” not the other mags feed round in the restaurants convenient to abar. Good oysters come up from Florida and Mo- bile, and there issome game to be had in good agider if man likes toeat with cold feet and beside THE RATTLE OF LIQUOR GLASSES, Around the market house, which is to the right ‘four view, between the hotels and the Alabama River, the negroes get their drinks, and stop their carts before the low, brick jail, which used also to bea prison pen for slaves, but is now the recep- tacle of several prisoners arrested under the Ku Klux act. The square before mentioned, in the middle of the town, is asort of general auction place, and an artesian well of bluish, foul-like water is used to fill the buckets of the country people coming in, some with abale of cotton, others with s pair of mules to sell; and there is a cheerful, rollicking kind of business bounce in that quarter, in relief to the lowering, listening counte- ances of the politicians. If a strange uews- paper reporter walks up the street here he is at once set down as the man who has come on with hat great purse of bribe money to turn the Legis- lature. SOUTHERN INSTINCTIVENESS. Nothing is more pitiful than the crude mental Giscipline as to men and movements in the South- | ern mind. Nobody on the conservative side is in- formed, and few are capable of information as to Jeader, ruler and THE PURLIC TONE OF THE NORTH. they all set out with the idea that some one man, say President Grant, is a scoundrel naturally, and ifhe gives them a little countenance they all St once halloa and believe that he has become the | head protector of their cause, They have been jucated, under a vicious school of stump speak- and journalism, to believe that it is impossible ® man to differ with them and be genuine, Leaders down here are all scoundrels or heroes according to your standpoint, and a public man's ents are seamed right down the side and parti-colored, so that with his back to you he is ail blood red and with his countenance towards you he is as white as snow. ‘The landscape of high and pleasant hilly dwell- dnge and gardens overlooking the plain of Mont. gomery is as fine as the view at Albany, and even sewmpaper correspondent feels that it would be a | Gelight to leave this jar of place-seekers to wander @mong those agreeable homes or even to stand at YWancey’s grave, out yonder, back of the State House, ‘and be at peace. CONGRESS IN AN ALABAMA MESS, ‘The conflict in Alabama is not without precedent dm the United States Congress. In 1839, when Con- met, there were present 119 democrats and fis whiss, besiae five whige from New Jersey whose seats were contested. Had these whigs been admitted the organization of the House would have jallen to the whig party, as a whig Speaker ‘would then have been elected. Hugh A. Garland, Y bi jpher of John Randolph, as Clerk °F it House, opened thé session by ie foll’ of mémbers, He called c) Jersey--that ofie whose a} ena l—and said he should pi Over the other five, as he had no sense sbority to. orde: ft ecide on thelr cases. fumppdiats 2. r and quarrel began, g@ny organized Congress, for three days, when Qnally John Quincy Adams became Chairman pro Sempore by Reterat consent, and extricated the @ouse from its disgraceful position. OPINIONS OF PUBLIC MEN. Senator George E. spencer, who was to have shared in the success of the repubiican party at pat is of the opinion that Messrs, ons gad Smith—both ex-Governors—failed to meet the ition at Montgomery. He thinks they should have captured the Capitol edifice and Super. gseded the democrats there, and says that only a Aittle nerve was required. It was certainly @ queer idea to meet Le! tang and Senator John Logan is reported to have remarked o Spencer:—"Your ly (the Court House Leg- islature) isa revolutionary body. The other body 4s fraudulently in the Capitol, but that is the place for a Legislature to be.” Senator John Sherman @f Ohio, abets_the “gop frie fortunes of Willard Warner, whose side he haa Arh espoused, and rata itgtted ag saath él c in ptate, bu g@howed a political instability dependent upon his ‘al promotion which led him to declare for Tae then lose the su, ‘tof General Grant, which had previously made him Collector of Mobile. Sex. gays that Grant congratulated Spencer Weeks ago on his prospects, saying :—‘‘I am of itom your account and Alabama's account— and Warner's account too.” THE MIXING IN OF GOVERNMENT. ‘The interference of the federal execu- ‘tive in politics is a source of uneasiness which does mot seem to give the et a manly confidence that their opinions will, of themselves, prevail, q@hile it does Ls the Wasaeioh tsa | Keeping up a half hold upon Washington, and a! ‘this obstinacy in chereton at home. Louisiana ought to be redeemed from Warmoth; but the way te reach the position should be by Congress de- claring that Louisiana is not insured a republican of Se inteniy th under Warmoth’s constitu- tion. This is truly the case, and, worse than this, ‘the republican ey, made the constitution to keep the State rE ly out of the hands of the white Batives. By the constitution Warmoth is legal- izved—not justified—in almost any course he may take. It is when the shoe pinches the shoemaker that the loudest cry of ously in Arkansas, Florida, . . bama, had been necessary to turn the or rome , Fevolution Would have sides of South- republicans are now east embittered class of all. Poot and Vance, either of whom would gi ch gallantry to debate and win the State some the beaten side, with unworthy resent- ment, helps to elect some second rate personage to involve the victors in the toils of the common- place and reduce the satisfaction, As I came ont of the Governor's office in Georgia, Bey had been hearing @ cheerful account of the State's progress and hopes,a man met me and pid “You have been hearing only his tale. The State carried was and Con; ought to come in and interfere.” pe eaaren Bah! Congress to interfere with a Commonwealth Bnnenely, ropoer@, 1p order.to toh @ de; office-holder’s breeches ! ai eeeps GEORGLA'S GOOD GOVERNMENT, Jam of the opinion that the present government of aan See the nr - - aan ap ecwene a higher grade of men direc: e same class of native white men come cheerfully to the front in the other States the Northern carpet-bag- gers would have done no more than to reign a few ears and leave @large debt unaccounted for be- ind, This debt in is an element of steadt- ness, as well as of danger. The historian of this eriod in the history of reconstruction must not forget that while Rufus Bullock was Governor an 1 in the vast series of frauds which havi oer iment " he soon yeni: ase con> stant wari e. support of the repul in and ef the administration Seabareia Randinatte Cerca le z were picking up rail- and charters ‘under his ale ee be -to theig future contempt a * ny nearly 4 01 main robbery was ing, The debt of Georgia in 1860 was $3,170,750, _ It is now, according to the statement of a republican State Treasurer, Mr. Angier, $30,633,000, inclusive of Bullock’s over-is- gue, The democrats only assume to pay $11,644,500, Bullock’s bonds by the ream, all signed and seale: are now at the side of Governor Smith. Some oj them were sold at twelve cents on the dollar, REPUDIATION. be ea ig is possible as @ political tenet and party cry in nearly every State of the South ex- cept Kentucky, sourl, Mississippi and Texas, It awkwardly appears:that repudiation many years saved Mississippi from sack and rapine at the close of the rebeliion. Having no credit nobody would take the carpet-l re bonds, The negre- ‘ate State debts of the South are not less than 2 000, and in four or five States there is no estimating them, This amount of debt is not equal to the year’s cotton crop, but the manner of its negonasion. and tne paucity of ite resulta upon enterprise inspire the growling multitude with the spirit of repudiation, and many of the negroes do not pencarseanel the meaning or necessity of public cre MISSOURI AND ARKANSAS. Missouri has a debt of about $21,000,000 which she stands so easily with her great resources that her bonds bring ninety-eight cents. ‘The triumph of the conservative party in that State has had @ temporary effect to retard immigration. Middle Missouri contains’ a number of wild des- peradors whose deeds of blooa fill the newspapers and disvourage people from coming in. The same is the case with Arka which has a debt of $12,000,000 itive and $8,000,000 prospective, and yet thig debt has been lied about by the official or- [Mote the State so that few know what it amounts to. The editor of the oficial organ and State printer is by a refinement of the ridiculous, Chief Jus- tice. His name is McClure. He must be a shameless or re to fill these judicial and money-grabbing ositions at the same time, and his origin was the ww Olfice of William Mungen, of Ohio. wanted in Missouri amd Arkansas is security first ana oficial decency afterwards. They should have spilled enough blood im Arkansas to have got the security, as they rush to martial law there on all occasions, but na cannot have baal? while the Chief Justice of the State is the public printer. Powell Clayton, the dictator of Arkansas, is on the average the ablest carpet. r of the South. He is not.a carpet-bagger in any literal sense, because he was a redeemer of that State from the rebellion and had the right tolive there as a restorer of it, Be- sides, he married a native lady there and undertook planting and hard work, brought out his family, rother and mother, all plain, good people. Such a settler was needed by the State, and at one time it was the destre of all classes that he supplant the rovisional government. But ton, like every importation, pincd for the Senate of the United States. me Roland might have said:—‘Oh, Senate of the United States, what crimes, are com- mitted in' thy name |” For @ seat in the Senate Warmoth imperils his head, Patterson risks the jail, Bullock keeps up the pluhder and Pool changes from a statesman toa Cheap Jack. Powell Cli grew tired of the Lord Lieutenancy of Arkansas, ‘wanted the easy and luxurious bench of the Senate, To get it he committed the crime of returning the Wrong man to Congress and certifying to a lie. Aleck McDowell says:—‘That act was the only mean one that Clayton did, and it has made him regretful ever since. It was all done in a moment of passion.”? Call it a moment of rapacity and give the uneasy Senator a new chance! Clayton is a better citizen and ruler than cooler blooded and nominally more liberal men, some of whom were the lawyer's heads of the disfranchising Arkansas constitution. It has rolled back upon them and crushed them, These brindle tails never declared for the liberalism. of Greeley until their nominations were rejected by the President, And neither they nor Osborn, of Florida, can rise to the dignity of such revolution as we have in Alabama and Louisiana. They can- not mix in with those real dilemmas, THE ALABAMA MUDDLE ENDED, Been Oees of Alabama, said this yesterday :— “The rebels in Alabama want no immigration. Thad a letter on the subject from people offering to settle around Montgomery, and ‘aber, the Mayor of the city, wouldn't answer it. The Ad- vertiser, democratic paper here, wouldn’t print it.’ Ex-Governor Smith, another republican leader— described to me as of a native family which would shoot as quick as eat and which was a hard family to quarrel with—said of the new adjustment pro- eye by the Attorney General of the Unitea tates — “We accede to that, and we offered the demo- cratic Legisiature even better terms, They will probably Seeks, this compromise, but they won't like to do it. It provides that the vote of the dis- puted counties shali be fairly counted, might as well have doneit at first, and saved the State all this expense and time,” i may add that in the early stage of this Alabama controversy, before feeling deepened and men pre- pared to lie with uniformity, it was admitted by Pena neerd conservatives at Montgomery that a fair count of Barber and Marengo counties would show republican members elect. It was hinted to Spencer also that he could fix the matter up and fF, to the Senate by letting the democrats have the ‘tate government. Alabama has more to show for its moderate debt than any State in the South—more resources, more new ard profitable rallways—and all that is needed is a truce to @ state of politics in which the mags of the white people have taken no part, NEARLY MURDERED FOR TEN CENTS. Desperate Sunday Morning Barreom Affray ia Newark. Yesterday morning, about two o'clock, a des- perate affray took place in a Newark barroom, kept Springfeld avenues. It appears from the state- at the time indicated two t\zens Irvington, Wiillam Sntties and Abraham Van Cleve, atopped in the~saloon on their way home to get a glass of beereach. The beer wag drawn and drank, and, threwing down ten cents, the Irvingtonians started to go, but were calle back and told that the beer was ten cents jad lass. They mildly remonstrated and said they jad no more money. At this the man behind the bar sprang out, locked the door, and then calling on some six other persons who were present to assist him, they made a@ fearful attack on the unfortunate countrymen, beating them most Gamecctialiy with chairs and other weapons. Out e in their gore, and somehow managed to escape. They fell into the hands of the police. who escorted Sergeant Wilson, ance, and especially at Van C ugly scalp ones, sent for the police surgeon ‘and had the cuts dressed. Fortunately the skull was not fractured. The two were detained till morning, when they appeared before Justice Mills id made a statement of the affair similar to the ove. It is probabie that the tid in the saloon will be prosecuted, Here it may be proper to re- mark that tt is a subject of wonder to many law- ag citize! why His Honor the Mayor d the city authorities generally nave not long ago put a stop to the uniawful liquor trafic at all hours of the night and all day Sunday as well Monday, trafic which they ail is clearly in violation of State and municipal law. Their negiect in this respect is the More noticeable in view of their arbitrary estoppel of a pgaceaae and cor religious procession, intended to give greater impressiveness to the Occasion of laying a church corner stone, THE LATEST DOVER TRAGEDY, David Moore, the alleged marderer of his wife, at Dover, last Thanksgiving Day, stated when arreste t his friend and companion, Thomas Madden, was the real murderer, Marden has all along been wanted as@ witness, out kept himeeif secluded at his uncle’s place, in Succasunna, He has finally surrendered himself, and has given bonds in $500 to appear when wanted by the Grand Jury of Morris county. He says he was in the middie of @ heavy drunken bout when the sub- anguish is heard. Senator Lyman Trumbull hy arte the opinion that Judge Dureli’s action in Louis! is grossly a and tyrannical, 8 » With contesid gojng on simuitane- e ad Bay! wena reached him, and afterwards, when sober, Fept steauy through alarm, la i They don’t | want any justice! They will come down; but they | by one Phillip Hauser, on the corner of Hayes and | Tients fnade to the police authorities that | of) ir were driven into the back yard, streaming | them to the station honse. The officer in charge, | larmed at their bloody appear- leve’s wounds, | ‘Mr. DARWIN'S great-work on the “Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals” is a book of surprising and surpassing interest. It follows in the game track with Mr. Herbert Spencer's theory of evolution; but it is, nevertheless, a thoroughly independent and original philosophical disserta- tlon. Among the many aclentific works which the Appletons have published in the last few years, some of which were the “sensations” of the year, -there 1s no one that more completely appealed to the general understanding or was likely to provoke such universal discussion, Itis equally a treatise on the emotions and expression of emotion. As re- gards animals, Mr. Darwin discusses even such minuti as the wagging of a dog’s tail and the theory of the nursery rhyme— 1 like itt! assy, hei rm, ‘Andifl dewe bare borane do me ne? Harm. The profoundest philosophy is made interesting by the utmost simplicity of argument and illustra- tion, and those parts of the work devoted toan explanation of the special expression of emotion in man are doubly valuable on account of their relations to science and to common life. There is not an expression or gesture indicative of emo- tion in the conduct of man, and not a passion which Inoves the human heart, which ia passed over without analysis. A flood of light is thus shed upon many things which we were accustomed tolook upon only as facts, and which we never thought to regard asthe basia of tnat philosophy which ig to unlock nature’s carefully guarde} secrets. Joy, suffering, anxiety, grief, despair, love, devotion, meditation, reflection, indignation, Datred, anger, disdain, contempt, disgust, shame, guilt, pride, patience, astonishment and fear—in- deed, all the qualities which go to make up the sum of human action and the’ varied expression of animal feeling—comprige the contents, of the volume, and they are discussed from the stand- Point of observation and example; Among the most interesting of these topica ts Mr. Darwin’s theory of blushing, which he regards as involuntary and impossible of being counterfeited, quoting, among other ex- amples, Seneca’s remark that “‘the Koman players hang down.their heads, fix their eyes on the ground and keep them lowered, but are unable to blush in acting shame.” This ia as true at the Present day as in the time of the Roman philoso- pher, and yet, if the theory of evolution be correct and if Mr. Darwin’s principle that the expression of emotion in man and animals was originally ac- quired from the necessity and usefulness of the forms of expression, we see no reason why a know- ledge of all the causes and processes of emotion should not lead to a mastery so complete as to enable an actor to blush at the shame of his ideal. The study of nature, still in its infancy, must lead to some surprising results, and one of them is likely to be that wonderful self-control which is an attribute of deity. These considerations make Mr. Darwin’s new work not only a valuable adiition to our knowledge, but invaluable as an aid to further scientific investigation, LitTLE, Brown & Co., of Boston, have published in a volume of only fourteen pages an account of the sphynx recently erected at Mount Auburn, accompanied by two photographs of the monu- mental statue. This little book is valuable to artista and people of artistic tastes more on ac- count of its suggestiveness than for any other reason, It raises the question of the true concep- thon of art memorials of great events in history, and especially the propriety of adopting the forms of the ancient Egyptian monuments in modern re- publics. - intended. for the use of schools and colleges, the chapters from “Grote’s History of Greece’? which relate to the Persian wars. Thus everything that can be sald on the irruption of the Asiatic bar- barians into ancient Greece is brought into a nar- Tow scope, and placed within the reach of all stu. dents of history. “IN THE GOLDEN SHELL,” @ story of Palermo, by Linda Mazini, and Miss Yonge’s novel, “P’s and Qs,” have been sent us by Macmillan & Co. in vol- umes 80 charming in size and type as to be just the books for the library lounge on a lazy afternoon, They are like the Tauchnitz series, but are bound in cloth, and are just sufficiently flexible to be easily held in the hand. AMONG THE DELIGHTFUL GiFT Books of the season is Mr. Bryant's ‘Little People of the Snow,’ pub- lished by D. Appleton & Co. The poem is a fairy story of singular sweetness and delicacy, and when we remember that it was written by the ven- erable poet in hisseventieth year we cannot but feel surprise at the sensitive imagination which clothes the fulness of his years. The volume is illustrated from designs by Fredericks, the pictures uniting sketchiness with imagination, and in many parts of the volume they are as consecutive in | story as the poem itself. HARPER BROTHERS will publish in a few days a second series of the descriptive history of the earth, by Elis¢e Reclus, this volume comprising the ocean, the atmosphere ane life. Reclus is a thor- ough student of nature, and, though not so flippant and sentimental as Michelet, is fully as interesting. The submarine plateau, ocean currents, the Guif Stream, every feature of marine conformation, a consideration of waves, tides, tidal waves and ocean phenomena, together with many interesting matters to which we have not even space to allude, make the first part of the volume as captivating as it is valuable, The second part, in which M. Reclus discusses atmospheric phenomena and | Meteorology, is not less valuable and instructive. His rain map of the world, and the information he brings together in regard to winds, clouds, rain- | falls, storms, hurricanes and cyclones, are use- | fal in themselves, and taken in connection with | the operations of our own Weather Bureau must | prove an important aid in pursuing the subject, In the concluding part of the work M. Reclus dis- cusses the earth and its flora, the land and its fauna, earth and man, and the work of man, He brings much learning and enlarged observation to all of these topics, and has made a volume which must be regarded an important contribution to natural science. It is illustrated by many engray- ings and twenty-seven large colored maps. Mn. F, G. Dk FonTarne’s “Cyclopedia of the Best | Thoughts of Charles Dickens” is now finished, mak- ing a large and handsome volume. The title of the work is the best possible description of its con- tents and character, the book being a full realiza- tion of the aim of the compiler in every respect. The subjects are alphabetically arranged, begin- ning with Little Nell in the old abbey and ending with the depravity of youth. By this we would not be understood as meaning that it is anything like “the elbows of the Mincio,” though its Meanderings constantly touch the .sympa- thies of the young. The work is one which is capable of affording a peculiar kind of § divertisement, Open it where you may some o!d familiar face is sure to beam out of ita pages. Leaving it over, like Mr. Davidge mouthing his words as Crabtree or Sir Hugh Evans, | one discovers in quick succession that ‘‘Barkis is willin’;" hears Betsey Trotwood crying ‘Janet! donkeys |’? gets a glimpse of Captain Cuttie, Bunsby and Mrs, Macstinger; finds himself in a medley of characters and characteristics; is reminded over and over again of Christmas, churches and church- yards; listens to the autobiography of coaches and coachmen and convicts and courts and country gentlemen; takes @ lesson in deportment from Turveydrop; dines with Dick Swivelier and the Marchione: oh Mrs. Bagnet’s birthday, with Micawber and the wife of his bosom, with Pecksnif and Tis interesting daughters, Charity and Mercy, and poor Tom Pinch and the selfish Jonas Chuzzle- wit and the gushing and voluble Mrs. Todgers; with Mrs, Jeliaby, the philanthropist; the Veneer- ings, the hollowest of fashlonables; Mr. Pickwick, the most learned and gentle of men, and William Dorrit, the meckest and yet proudest of prison- ers for debt; meets Joe the fat boy and Jo the poor wretch of “Tom-all-alone’s,” and Smike, the loving, the sorrowful and uncomplain- ing; sees David Copperfield and his child wife Dora, | and little Paul Dombey and Floy and ‘Wal’r” and old John Willets and Joe, his son, and Dolly Var- den, Joe's sweetheart, and the raven and Barnaby Rudge; looks in upon clergymen and lawyers and doctors and adventurers and scoundrels and thieves; even learns to swear softly with Manta- lini, to grow jolly with Mark Tapley, to moralize THE HARPERS have collected in @ single volume, | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET. ‘with Satrey the mythical Mrs. Harris, to enjoy what te another’s with Skimpole, and Anally to follow to the grave the tenderest crea- tions of Dickens’ imagination, After this who Would not say that the book ts one “indispensable in every library 1’ It is published by E. J. Hale & Son, and ts sopplied with an index almost as good as the book itself, Tag APPLETONS have just published Mr. Walter Bagehot’s volume on “Physics and Politics,” the Second of the international scientific series, of which Professor Tyndall’s “Forms of Water” waa the first. Thé subject is one of too much Impor- tance to be dismiased with a paragraph, and if dis- cussed at all it must be in connection with nation- making as we see it in our own Republic and the age of discussion as it has been developed on this Continent. Yur only object in referring to the work is to point out another important addition to Political science, and the application of the princi- ples of “natural selection” and “inheritance,” with which Mr. Darwin has dealt so largely, to political economy. ‘Mrs. BROWNING’s “Lady Geraldine’s Courtship,” which now bears the imprint of James Miller aud is illustrated with engravings by Linton from de- signa by Hennesgy, is one of those gifts which can only be given to her to whom it would be a pleas- ure to —— read aloud the poem: Made by Tuscan flutes, or instruments more various of our own: s Read the pastoral parts of Spenser, or the subtle over- Jo Found in Petrarch’s sonnets—here’s the book—the leaf is folded down | imoders volume—Woodworth's solemn Seat times Verse, or Tennyson's enchanted reverie— 10 Howitt’s bg Or trom Brownin, me “Pomegranate,” which, if cut le, Shows ‘a heart "wilh! blood tinctured. of @ veined humanity, « “ THe Harpers have just added William Black’s “Strange Adventures of 4 Phaeton” to their library ‘of select novels, and published “Middlemarch,” George Eliot's latest work, in two handsome vol- umes, uniformly with the distinguished lady's other novels, “MODERN Leapgrs’’ ia the title of a book of biographical sketches by Justin McCarthy. Brig- ham Young is the only American who figures in the volume. The book has no great value except for people fond of dates, but is useful in gathering a@ hasty knowledge of the subjects of Mr. Mc- Carthy’s facile pen, It is published by Sheldon & Co, SHELDON & Co. have in press and will issue in January @ new edition of Mr. Richard Grant White's ‘Words and Their Uses.” Mr, White has so thoroughly revised the work ag to make it almost new in topics and treatment. “A JOURNEY TO EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND” is the title of a work by Henry M. Harman, of Dickin- son College, which is published by J. B. Lippincott 4 Co, While not contributing much that is new in Tegard to the countries visited, it partakes suf- ficiently of personal contact with men and things in those distant lands to repay perusal. “SONGS OF NATURE” is another and the last of the annual reissues of short poems, selected from the magnificent volume of ‘Folk Songs,’’ published by Scribner & Co. some years ago. It is, of course, & companion volume to those which went before it, and is equally excellent in selection and iilustra- tion, The songs and poems are nearly all from the most modern of the modern poets, and the book is a delightiul souvenir of the approaching Christmas time. “ROUNDABOUT RAMBLES IN THE LANDS OF Fact AND Fancy,” by Frank R. Stockton, and published by Scribner, Armstrong & Co., is a collection of stories and sketches which will principally interest young people. Its chief charm is in the illustra- tions, which are generally unpretending and some- times very grotesque. They seem to have been gathered from many sources, a few of them being taken from the illustrated edition of ‘Lady Ger- aldine’s Courtship,” of which we bave already spoken. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. + While not sharing in the Delsarte notion of man- ufacturing actors we cannot doubt that the study of such scientific works as Mr. Darwin’s “Expres- sion of themotions in Man and Animals” woula prove @ valuable aid in dramatic art. Particular movements of the features and gestures being expressive of certain states of the mind, a thorough knwledge of these movements and a co! plete understanding of the philosophy and methods of expression seem absolutely necessary to great success, Most actors fail because they cannot express emotion in the ordinary and natural way. Stage blushing, especially,is an awkward and in- complete performance, accompanied only by a few signs of the emotion, such as hiding the face or turning away the head. The reason of this is, a8 Mr. Darwin shows, that the blush is involuntary and cannot be counter feited, and yet we cannot see why study and prac- tice should not enable a person to acquire some- thing akin to the mental attention which influ- ences the capillary circulation, and thus make the voluntary blush feasible in the exhibition of human emotion, But whether blushing canor cannot be counterfeited—and we have spoken of it because it is an extreme and difficult case of expression— Mr. Darwin's book cannot fail to prove invaluable to the actor; for the book, as its title indicates, is a complete treatise not only on emotion, but the expression or signs of emotion. We hear that the German opera company at the Stadt Theatre intends producing Wagner's “Lohengein.”? The company is not a strong one, but it gives German opera acceptably, and that is much for people who are anxious to hear more of Wagner’s music. Miss Neilson made the following pretty little speech at the close of her engagement at Booth’s Theatre on Saturday evening :— LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—I desire to thank you, but this brilliant assemblage and the remembrance of the crowded and sympathetic audiences which have nightly honored me Gentive me of all power to adequately express what I eel. To have won so rapidly and cordially the approval of both the ress and the public on this my first visit to your eautiful cit; life which I can never forget. Thank you; you. I am proud to say that I shall have the honor of appear- ing before Sa again next Sprin ind while bid- bing you a brief farewell let me say with Juliet, “Stay but a little, I will come ag: ” EDWIN FORREST. Meeting of Actors at the Metropolitan Hotel Yesterday—Resolutions of Regret and Condolence. A meeting of the actors of the city of New York was held yesterday afternoon at the Metropolitan Hotel to take fitting notice of the death of Mr. Ed- win Forrest, About forty gentlemen were present, and, after afew words from Mr. George Clarke (one of Mr. Forrest’s favorite pupils), the follow- ing.resolutions were unanimously passed :—~ Whereas the Almighty has, in His good time, seen fit to remove from our midst, ripe in years and with an hon- ored name, Edwin Forrest, the Nestor of the American stage ; therefore be it solved, That in the death of the man, who may be almost been the representative of the dra country, and whose indomitable will, larg. intellect and devotion to his profession have rendered him an honor to the walk of life which he adopted, that, not alone the stage, but the entire intelligent portlon of the community have sustained @ loss that will deeply and profoundly telt, Resolved, That we recognize in the carcer of Edwin Forrest a bright incitive to those who have entered upon the actor's life—a life which has already given many ex- amples of g: and rectitude—and in the case of the deceased has tended to elevate the stage and call pe ag its objects by votariesof the drama in his native land, Resolved, That while we deplore his taking off as a Joss to his profession, still we bow our heads 10 ‘submission to a mightier will,and find consolation in the fact that kd- win Forrest was taken from a life of sufferiny where trouble cannot reach him further. The itie «tring may be snapped, but the memory of the actor, the scholar and the man carinot perish, but will live to @’ bright and glorious future. ANOTHER MAN GROUND TO DEATH ON THE NEW JERSEY RAILROAD, Yet another unfortunate man is to be added to Saturday's list of victims on the New Jersey Rall- road, Shortly after the two men were mangled to death in Jersey City a young man named J, H. Ennis was crunched into @ shapeless mass on the Hudson county side of the Passaic River, near the Centre street bridge, in Newark, He had, with others, been cognged in putting up a new telegraph line across the meadows, and, when work was through, started 6 go to Newark. He walked along the track, and, seeing @ train approaching from New York, stepped over on the other track and into the jaws of another coming from Newark. His head was crushed into a jelly and almost severed from the body. The latter was reduced to a sightiess masm ‘The remains were gathered up and tacen to Har- rison township, where, to-day, Justice Sheppard will hold an inquest, to one AMONG THE KANUCKS. Talk with a Republican Eng- lish Annexationist. Energetic Protest Against Things As They Are. CANADA’S BANE OF HAPPINESS. Some Suggestions Worth Pondering. PICTURE OF MONTREAL Discontent Among the French Farmers. WHAT POLITICIANS SAY. The Queer and Quiescent City of Quebec. QUEBRO, Dec. 9, 1872, T see that a paper in Toronto exults in the reflec- tion that the HeraLp Commissioner, in hunting over the land for professing annexationists, chases an ignis atuusas delusive and soul dispiriting as the philosopher's stone. It is true enough in Upper Canada I stumbled across none of that fraternity, so infatuated with us as to want the Stars and Stripes in exchange for the Cross of St. George; yet, while I did not meet them in the flesh, I know that they exist as I know that Orangemen and United Empire loyalists exist, though I am not aware of having met any ag such. What occurred to mein Montreal illustrates the ‘Way public opinion works in this free country. Learning that your correspondent was in town, a gentleman connected with a leading bank sent a Note to the hotel, stating he would be pleased to see me in the evening, as he had something it might be worth my while to know. He said, when we met, he was 4 REPUBLICAN AND AN ANNEXATIONIST; that lots of young fellows without family wealth, connected with mercantile and banking concerns, were in favor of annexation; that they were dis- contented with their circumscribed means of living; were forever looking wistfully towards the United States; that the old fogy element gave them no encouragement to advance themselves, but on the contrary took every opportunity to check the enterprise of youthful manhood and keep things in the old ruts; that in consequence ofthis thousands of young men throughout the country gave themselves up to lives of dissipation, labor had come to be despised, and rich merchants’ sons thought it the correct thing to squander the fortunes of their fathers, All this he told me very rapidly as though he wished to put me in posses- sion of his views ina twinkling. He declined to allow publishing his name, being the cashier of a bank whose directors were loyal Englishmen, and his prospects might be imperilled were it known he held sentiments ADVERSE TO BRITISH CONNECTION. Tremarked—"Don’t you think you are mistaken about a check being put on the enterprise of young men? These cities of Toronto, Ottawa and Mon- treal appear to me flourishing, and the young men especially seem the most bustling, active chaps I ever met.” He sneered broadly and said—'‘All delusion, sir. You see some fine stores no doubt, but there ts more surface or tinsel wealth than you dream of. There are rich men of course, but let me see one of them who has @ generous confidence in any young man trying to advance himself. Let me see which of them will lend him a $100. No, sir; the spirit of old fogyism is all over this land straight away to Halifax, and there you will find it worse than any- where ejse, As for the young men you see on the strects, stick in hand and walking as for a wager. | they are mostly loafers, who would feel ashamed to be caught working for a living.” ARDENT SENTIMENT, Furthermore this ardent republican declared the “old fogies” (he was death on the old fogies) ob- structed emigration, wanted the land to remain just as it is and all in their own hands, They Planted themselves against the policy of aiding emigration through the medium of the State. Many of them are united empire loyalists (the tories of the Revolution), who hate the United States and all connected with it; have no objection to a war that they may show the damned Yankees they can lick *em now as they did in 175 and ‘12, Everything they do is done slowly. They put on aristocratic airs of the most offensive kind, toady to titles, jook down on honest merit, and are the sole and only cause of the country’s backwardness, Then he went into raptures union with the United States would be sure to bring high—wages to the workmen; fields for investment to the capitalists; openings for taient and enterprise in all directions; quicker life, greater comforts, security about the political future, and a greater sense of the fundamental equality of allmen. Tapering off here for a while, he launched out into an analysis of the harm done | the country by holding her present anomalous position, He said the eternal apprehension under which Canadians labor regarding the United States aay ing the moral and material life of the nation. ey have Fey <0 CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE, It presents itself to them with lowering doubt and dread. Consequently it depresses the spirit and energy of the people: hag speak in abject tones of America; they allow themselves to be bam- boozled, cheated and outrageously insuited by the United States; and they are without the pluck to say a word in retaliation, Americ: State would resent. walks vigorously in upon Cana- dian fishing grounds and takes the bread out of the mouths of Canadian fishermen. She robs Canada of | the only hope she ever had of having a safe and ca- pacious outlet on the Pacific. Yet Canada speaks nota word. She does not even complain to Eng- | land—afraid of offending America. The natural | effect of all this is to. take the starch | out of the people. Buffeted, kicked, cuffed, spat upon, fuey loseall national spirit. They are satis- | fied to @ mere colony of England because the | manhood is squeezed out of them, They are emas- culated through fear and indolence, Content to be allowed to earn a little pittance, they are valor- ous only when there is no danger that the small means they possess will be taken away from them. And thus thi ERY ANNEXATIONIST, an Englishman by birth, spoke his mind. He put me in possession of the foregoing views in about ten minutes, Then, taking his hat and in a low tone of voice bidding me not reveal his name, he took a most ceremonious departure. INSINCERE POLITICIANS Now this was o trae blue annexationist who would listen to no suggestions about independ- ence. He may have been soured against Canada for not furnishing him with a fortune, yet there are a few of his suggestions not unworthy of consider- ation, There isa certain tyranny of public opinion in Upper Canada that crushes a iree expression of sentiment on such an important question as British connection, which most undoubtedly must come up for discussion within the next five yeara, and agitate both Bed 88 no subject agitated them before, I find, however, tiat the public men whose names are familiar at our side in connection with either independence or annexation are not to be relied on for sincerity. There is Joseph Howe, who by the way declined an interview with your correspondent, now in the Cabinet at Ottawa, careful, very careful, to sup- reas all his formérheterodoxy. Same way with Young and MacKenzie. The latter was trong supporter of the Union side in the war, and that of course left him mall, persecuted minority, but allof them talk like this:—“We are tolerably well satisfied with things as they are for the present, but we can’t, tell what afew years may bring about.” Here, you perceive, is the feel- ing Oo! insecurity and uncertainty about the future to which my republican friend alluded, PICTURE OF MONTREAL. Very few of those stopping at St. Lawrence Rall, Montr appeared to trouble their heads about the fu or Canada. They were mostly rich lum- bermen, steamboat owners and captains laid up for | tne Winter (six montis long), yet disposed to chase the chilly hours on the fiectest wings of leasure, They seemed to do nothing all the day iong but laugh, drink and tell stories, ft is a won- derfull gay place for a city so tcebound and snow- clad. Everybody seems to have devoted Summer savings to Winter extravagance. Balls and par- ties follow each other in endless succession. Sleigh bells fill the whole sky with music, and the laughter and nonsense of these happy-go- lucky Frenchmen give a carnival air to the streets, It is @ solid city, with maby fine buildings of supe- over the happy change — with sublime impudence that any little | rior arc)itectural design and many squalid oned scattered through the second rate streets, If two or three blocks were burned down around it and the sidewalks, doors and windows washed with a hose wee the Bousancours Market of Montreal would make the finest appearance of any in the world, It is of gray stone, and on the front facing the St. Lawrence is higher, longer and as imposing as the Treasury at Washington. Let the plethoric corporation of New York think of that and blush for the foul plague spots on Fulton and Washington streets. If Montgomery had captured Quebec, anc consequently conquered Canada, the population 0! Montreal would be now as large as that of Philadel* hia, 1t is amagnificent site for a city, and the Win- er, thongh long, is drier and healthier than im New York, Im American hands the city would be four times larger and ten times wealthier, but in the hands of a New York corporation it’ would have no such grand line of docks and no such mar- ket place, THE FRENCH OF MONTREAL are well off and are troubled little about the futura of the political situation, Material comforts have @ very soothing effect on a Frenchman's naturew Down this way itis different. Mr. Marchand, mem- ber of Parliament from a Frenen district here, told me the other day that the French in his neighbor- hood talk freely about annexation, Mr. Porting member from the Gaspe district and formerly come mander, for sixteen years, of the Canadian navy cruising in the St. Lawrence fishing grounds, is not disposed to agree with Mr. Marchand, and ir. Fleming, from Aylmer county, agrees with neither. Mr. Marchand says the French farmers have be- come discontented of late, THE FARMERS DISCONTENTED. They were formerly as weil off as the American farmers across the border, but they are growing poorer every year. They talk openly in favor of annexation, which is significant, as, only for the French, Canada would long since have been part of the United states, Mr. Fortin eri- cans have destroyed the Can: fisns eries, which were once # ‘eat. source of wealth, They come on Canadien, fishing grounds with better equipped vessels, &¢., and they cutout the Gaspe fisherman right in his own bailiwick. ‘These people are more or less incensed against America, and want nothing to do with bs He thinks there isno earnest feeling for annexation among the French of Lower Canada; but, Nike alk the other politicians of the Dominion, he has no dependence on the future and cannot guess what may happen. Mr. Fleming, who is extensively acquainted in all Lower Canada, believes there is a great deal of nonsense talked about both aunex- ation and independence; that there is no feelin, worth noticing in favor of either, id that if it ha an existence it would find expression somewhere. QUEER AND QUIESCENT QUEBEC, Ifany town in Canada would be lifted a trife higher in the scale of prosperity by American money and energy it is surely the town of Quebec.. For magnificence of scenery and location there is no town on the whole broad Continent, like ft. Even now, with the thermometer below zero and all the hills and plains bearing their burdens of snow, it presents views of un¢xampled ree but the town itself is faded and trade languishes in its crooked, climbing streets. Quebec is like an old and mildewed Mansion, where the gloss haa gone from the furniture, the mirrors are covered with measles, the damask curtains hang limp and lifeless, the chandeliers muffle themselves in spider gauze, the carpet, ashamed itself, turns =i face the to floor, the helpless door handle leaves itself in your nand and the red tassel to the window blind shrinks into a single pale woollen thread, The army gone and the Parliament gone, Quebec has littie left but her. Unequalled scenery, and that will bring griat to her mill every Summer for all time. If I were a Quebecian I should surely like to seo! the Stars and Stripes waving from that citadel that looks 500 feet down on the spot where Mont- gomery fell. Then Quebec would put on the looks of a rich and happy city, and not those of broken down gently —ot poverty in the garb of second hand finery. But I shall return to Quebec and the polittes of Lower Canada again, THE FRENCH CANADIANS. Discontent of Jean Baptiste Farmer= tion—Fatal Dry Rot in the Dominion= A Minister With a Hard Row to Hoe. QurBrc, Dec, 12, 1872, In my last letter I related, on the authority of a, gentleman (Mr. Marchand), who holds, according to the political economy of the Dominion, two pop- ular representative offices—namely, member of the State or Provincial Legislature and member of the that the French farmers of Lowér Canada wero discontented and spoke openly in favor of annexa- tion—in favor of anything that would bring a change. This deserves a little more extended Notice than I gave it in my last. British power in the Canadas has al- ways been the conservative French ele- ment, not that the French loved elther British connection or the Britishers, but they Yankees with the same horror as their fathers viewed the disciples of Voltaire and as the royalists of '90 viewed the red-handed followers of Robes- pierre. With a wisdom not commonly credited to English statesmanship, the French on the surren- der of the provinces to England were guaranteed the full and free exercise of their religion, and thia guarantee has been observed down to the present time, through all the mutations of parties and palaces The French were grateful for this, Eug- and sacrificed nothing by the toleration she ex- tended, as in return the French declined to take advantage of her difficulties when they might have done 8o with success, Had Jean Baptiste assisted Montgomery out of his Vga poke at Quebeo the English flag would have no on any port of this Continent to-day. In | the gratefal loyalty of his heart he stood by Eng- land, though @ time came when this loyaity was severely tested by the English party in Canada shutting out lrench Catholics from holding office. | Even then Jean Baptiste remained impassive. He showed a philosophic contempt for office and learned to be happy on very limited resources, WHY JEAN BAPTISTE 18 UNQUIET. But the spirit of the age is abroad among the French Canadians, the sptrit of unrest and of earning for larger activeness and fuller comforts, They no longer dump loads of valuable manure | into the St. Lawrence, but use it on the land, They have learned much of the United States—that the Catholic religion is free as the air of heaven there, that the rouge ogre is nowhere to |} be seen, that farm products bring high | prices and labor is well paid. Numbers of them have been across the border and brought back to village ears wondrous tales of the Republic—ot its wealth and toleration, its grand churches, its comely farms, its comfortably clad people, and | thns the awakening which has occurred. Bet a | feeling of this kind once in motion and there is no earthly poweracan stop it. Discontent multi- Plies itself f ast s mustard seed, and this is of that character that sees a practical way towards a | happy cure. The confederation of the provinees | has had something to do with this state of affaira. Lower Canada has lost its individuality. It is boxed up now with four other provinces, includ- ing that with which it was ever heretofore in an- tagonism, DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE PROVINCES, Upper Canada is distinctively English and Protestant; Lower Canada 1s essentially French | and Catholic. In Toronto, Hamilton, London and other parts of Upper Canada reside that abnormal class of Christians called Safe, Meron bigoted race animated by the lowest instincts of religious fanaticism. With them the French have, of | course, nosympathy. It is hardly to be expected they could ever reach a friendly understanding with men who hail with delight such toasts as “To hell with the Pope.” No doubt what- ever but this confederation scheme has in- trinsic elements of weakness in it, and if an explosion that will blow it to pieces fails to take place, before many years it wilk be much at which to marvel, There are no French in Toronto, except a solitary barber or confectioner here and there. Same way in most of the towns of Opies Canada, Ottawa, Prescott, Kingston, Ham- il fi on, London, &c, Toronto might be transferred rom England, and ite general features would re- main ag they are. Its population is English, Scotch and North of Ireland people. The French have no standing in Upper Canada, and conse- queutly appear to have no interest init. I wonder how long the present State of Texas, with an ex- clusively English-speaking Popoat linked to Mexico, would care to stand it? From all I have here sald, derived from inter- views with Frenchmen, who knew whereo! they spoke, it is evident the Dominion contains within itself the germs of dissolution. I omit to speak of | New Brunswick or Nova Scotia, where ox alread: | know there is serious discontent. If tf manhoos of Nova Scotia spoke {ts voice It would be four- | fifths in favor of annexation to the United States. | The task @ Minister has to perform in harmonizing ne ° CONFLICTING INTERESTS of a confederacy just formed in face of the United States cannot be lightly estimated, Were there no United States for a neighbor, but say Mexico in- stead, the Dominion would be an assured success for all time. ‘ Speculative statesmen in this region of the world, arguing from the anarchical condition of the South, say the American Republic must sooner or later go to pieces. In thatevent Lower Canada would be pr y willing to cast in her lot with the New Englan aitoy ether would make a eomapact confederacy of admirable compounds, Be that as it may, there is food for reflection in the discontent of the French Canadian farmers. DELIGHTS OF THE DOMINION. In opposition to those who delight in pointin; out the advantages of connection with the Unite States Is a clase who are never tired describing the delights of Canada and the ultra perfection of tho Dominion government. The snow and ice are pleasant; hunting in the wild woods is glorious (and so {t 1s); mutton, beef, tea, sugar, beer and whiskey are excellent and cheap; @ suit of Scotch tweed for $15 can be had anywhere; no taxes; a kindly government, neither seen nor felt; full jus tice before the law; strict protection for lle property; freest exercise of religion, and many other attractions I cannot think of now, but to the existence @f Which I can Sear witness Why Lower Canrda Wants Annexa-, federal or Dominion Parliament—the statement? The mainstay of» viewed the levelling, godless and revolutionary” States and New York, which they think . foothold »