The Nation 1865-10-19: Vol 1 Iss 16

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ne. S Aap VOL. L—NO. 16. CONTENTS. Tar WERK. , idubieewstoas aud 481 The South as ItIs.... . 492 England ; 4193 iti ’ 74 isi > Cimbri 105 Wise Waiting ....: a _ 485° A Visit to the Cimbri 5 Tunis and the t nited States ......... 186 Lireraturr: Very Like a Mistake... eau 186 Literary Notes.. . a ma The Gastein Convention,............ 188 The Works of Epictetus non A New Danger to the South........... 488 The London Times on the Americai Drouyn de Lhuys on Spoliation..... {sy War ee ~t Mr. Greeley on the Right of Revolution 489 Afraja . aM CORRESPONDENCE! FINE ARTS: Letter from ** A Yankee ™ . 490 Mr. Ward's Indian Hunter. 508 Monumental Honors, : .- 491 Music,—The Opera 507 Six Dollars per annum, in advance; Six months, Four Dollars. When delivered by Carrier in New York or Brooklyn, Fitty Cents additiona’. JOSEPH H. RICHARDS, PUBLISHER, 180 NASSAU STREET, The Week. Tr tone of the week has been political chiefly. The fall ciections have begun, and.the results of those at the North are in every way grati fying. On Tuesday, the 10th, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and [owa went up to the polls. The majorities are, in round numbers, 25,000, 25,000, and 20,000 respectively, with the odds all upwards instead of the othe: way. In Pennsylvania, at least, as could not fail to be observed, the issue was really negro suffrage, since, however much it was declined by the Union party, the Democrats affirmed it to be the only question, and macie what capital they could of it. So in Philadelphia, Morton Me Michael was chosen mayor, to be sure by a reduced majority, yet against-a rival who took pains to announce that he considered the ad- mission of colored people into the street cars the first step toward all the horrors of negro equality. So we hope that the city virtually de- cided in favor of abolishing the present disgraceful treatment of an unoffending portion of its citizens. We hope not less strongly thet Newark spoke for a purified and restoree New Jersey when, on thi same day with these great freedom-loving States, it reversed the rul under which it has labored for half a dozen years, and discovered a Union majority that seems destined for long life and power, The Vir- ginia election on the 12th was orderly. What are called * eligib! candidates, that is, those who will not certainly be debarred from Con eress by the test oath, were returned from most of the districts. The constitutional amendment, by which those who prominently partici pated in the rebellion are restored to the privilege of holding oftice, was, of course, “adopted by an almost unanimous vote.” Gen, Hum- phreys’ majority for governor of Mississippi amounts to 10,000, and his pardon has been sent him, though his very nomination was in detianc of the professed policy of the Government to exclude the disloyal trom a return to public trust and station, The successful candidate for the court of appeals is an ayowed opponent of negro testimony, ——— o> - Tue President’s address to the colored regiment of the District on the 10th relieves him of the odium of being the willing leader of the ‘white man’s party.” He told his hearers and the race which they represented that they were not alien, but to the manor born, and he hoped that the capacity of our institutions for the assimilation of every human element would not be exceeded in their case, and that they would remain “ a harmonious and permanent ingredient in the popula- tion.” He called them his countrymen, complimented them for their services in the war for the national existence, and exhorted them to industry and education from the text that “liberty consists in the THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1865. The Nation. 1 Six DoLLaRs PER ANNUM * SINGLE CoPIeEs, 15 CENTS glorious privilege of work.” The suffrage was not alluded to, but was an inevitable inference from the results proposed—one of which, to the horror of his Democratic admirers, was the making white men black, and black men white, with the recipe gratis. . oe THE correspondence between Grant and Sherman, which madi appearance last week, does great honor to both parties, and above all to Grant. His simple and honest soul never appeared to better ad vantage than in the few touching and manly lines in which he ex presses his obligations to his two distinguished lieutenants. His En; lish, too, is a marvel of directness and clearness. In this he has a great advantage over Sherman, whose more erratic genius leads him some times, when he gets his pen in his hand, to take little rhetorical flights which do not add to his reputation, and from which he occasional! comes down witha disagreeable flop. Whenever the history of thi war comes to be written, there will certainly be nothing to record mor creditable, not only to the men themselves, but to the age and society in which they were bred, than the relations which prevailed from first to last between the two greatest soldiers of the s ee rue colored people of Raleigh, who met in convention on the 29ti ult., and drew up a petition to the Constitutional Convention and tli Legislature which succeeds it, cannot be accused of having asked fi more than they ought reasonably to expect. They set forth in simp! and touching language the fact of their great transition from servituck to freedom, and their devout acknowledgments to the Creator for hi merciful interposition. They admit the inevitable helplessness of 1 present condition, their inability to control legislation in their b and their utter dk pendence * upon moral appeal to the hearts and con sciences of the people * of North Carolina. Anticipating the not distant removal of Government protection, they pray these representative bodies in the face of actual hardships from the avarice, perfidy, and inhu manity of many of their employers, formerly their masters—to enall them to work with assurance of good faith and fair treatment. to edu cate their children, to sanctify the family relation, to reunite scattered families, and to provide for the orphan and infirm Such are thei: test demands, Their only assertion is, that, loving the land and it i ple more than ever before, they mean to remain there unless forcibly “+-- - Ir our potion of the state of Massachusetts politics is correct, if appears that Gen. Banks is domiciled wherever hi pleases—whethe now a citizen of Illinois, now of Louisiana, or now. as in the begin ning, of Massachusetts. At any rate, spite of the elaborate arguments to prove his non-cligibility to office, he has been nominated by the Ri publicans to Congress from t Sixth District, and of course will win his seat, to the chagri of those who argued as afores id. Time will show which ps was the wiser Meanwhile it is matter of con g1 tion that the candidate has committed himself to such sentiment is the ‘IT amin favor of granting the right of suffrage to colored men. | elieye this measure to be necessary to the settlement of the affairs of this count! ind have full contidence that it will be adopted. T urs this upon the Constitutional Convention of Louisiana in 1864, and in an address I delivered in New Orleans the 4th of July of this There is something to be augured for the cause of « jual rights when it is espoused by a man who always knows on which side his bread is buttered

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4S The N — Ix reply to the South Carolina de legation which came on to solicit the pardon of Jefferson Davis, the President said, according to a brief and perhaps impe rfect report of the Tribune, that “ sometimes the pecu- liar locality had much to do with pardons,” that “all could not be par- the thing would have to be done gradually ;” that “he | would rather pardon twenty men than refuse one ;” that “ if treason was committed there ought to be some test to determine the power of the | Government to punish the crime ;” that“ | the Government and the Constitution, even if the pardoning power were | exercised thereafter,” We must | confess our inability to interpret them with anything like confidence. the meaning of all this is that doned at once ;” * there should be a vindication of and many other things equally luminous, As well as we can make out, however, somebody will be tried for treason; that probably it will be Jefferson Davis: that all, however, will be pardoned, but gradually, little by little, to avoid shocks to the that pardoning is a difficult art, and needs skill; and that the President isa merciful man, and likes pardoning, and that pardons have some occult relation with localities, nervous system ; We give this gloss for what it is worth. coe Two measures looking to the peace establishment were promulgated on the 12th—a proclamation of the President revoking that of the 5th of July, 1865, which subjected Kentucky to martial law ; and an order from Gen, Grant which reveals the policy of Government in regard to This as was commonly expected, will be composed exclusively of the regular troops, both white and colored. its standing army. body, The remaining volunteer regiments are to be mustered out as soon as practicable, and the others are already being assigned to various posts and forts throughout the country. Of course, colored garrisons will be kept only at the South. oe ——_ Tney have set about procuring an equestrian statue of Col. Shaw for the adornment of the State House Boston. We object to the If the work be botched, it will make three bad bronzes in one and if it were as good as it ought to be, it would be The effigy would feel as uncomfortable between Mann yard in site. enclosure ; out of place. and Webster as the prisoner who halted on the Bridge of Sighs betwixt the palace and the prison. The Webster statue is not to be over-rid- So let us see the monument planted om thie den in this fashion. Com- mon—as yet devoid of art—or on Commonwealth Avenue, if that is pre- ferred, along with Alexander Hamilton, set up by Mr. Lee’s munificence. OS Goy. ANDREW, whom rumor would have appointed to the head of Antioch College, has accepted a very different presidency, of which it would be idle to disparage the usefulness. Emigration Agency, He has been secured by the American Land Company and whose object will be the development of the resources of the West and South, and which, from its financial constitution, seems likely to exercise a potent influ- Col. Frank E. Howe is the vice-president and resident general manager in this city. Andrew will continue to make his home in Boston. ence on the regeneration of the emancipated States. Gov. ~>-— —————- Tue war-drain has not prevented Wisconsin from increasing in On the ist of June, 1865, she 775,620 in 1860; or, a gain of The State treas- 792 as extra pay to volunteers with families, population during the last five years. reckoned 868,847 inhabitants against 93,227 ury has disbursed $2,478, and the contributions to the S She hopes for a million by the next census. anitary, Christian, and other commissions have corresponded to those of other States. the mitigating the port, has been almost eight millions, But, besides these outlays, amount raised by towns and counties for sustaining the war, or hardships of those left at home without adequate sup- in i a Legislature is inclined to hold the President to his rather than his later, Tue Tennessee earlier, A reso- lution introduced into that body on the 10th, which praised the Execu- views of the enormity of treason. tive policy of restoring by amnesty the returned Confederate soldiers | zenship,” “to all the rights, privileges, and immunities of full and complete citi- ation. was tabled, and the followin laconic substitute passed by a | large majority : * Resolved, That we endorse the administration of His Excellency | ton, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, especially his declaration that treason shall be made odious and traitors punished.” > THe prosecution of the Street Commissioners before Gov. Fenton | has failed to satisfy him of the soundness of the charges on which they case has been dismissed instead of the Board, The Comptroller is next on the docket, and to-day will have his first hearing at Albany. * > were arraigned, and the CERTAIN lights of the rebellion, to wit, John A. Campbell, of Ala- bama, John H. Regan, of Texas, Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, George A. Trenholm, of South Carolina, and Charles Clark, sippi, having duly applied for pardon, have been remitted by the Pres- ident from close custody to the freedom of their respective States, un- der a pledge that they will abide therein and surrender themselves to answer any charges that may be preferred against them. The belief has found expression in the Boston papers that the ex-Vice-President will devote himself to a popular inculcation of his new views pertaining to the corner-stone of American institutions, among which the right of the colored man to vote is openly confessed, If a like result is to follow the unlocking of the rest of these distinguished traitors, there will be little objection to their delivery, and certainly less disposition to summon them to account hereafter. We would not pretend to estimate precisely the value of their parole, after the experience the nation has had with that article, at a time when they theught that their necks were not im- perilled by violating, as now they are likely to be by keeping, their word of honor. Yet theirs will be a venial offence if they avoid the hangman by quitting the country; and if they are at a loss to know whither to flee, we would suggest that for them whi servitudo, ibi patria—that is, they of Missis- may choose between Brazil and Cuba, for Kentucky is out of the ques- tion, ass : A sILLy forgery, contrived by the Louisville Democrat, has obtained sufficient circulation to justify an exposure. It purports to be a corre- spondence between posseiney Seward, the governor of Massachusetts, and “ Wm. L, Garrison.” The secretary transmits to the governor the amended constitution of Mississippi, to ascertain if it is satisfactory to the State “ which was the only ‘anti-slavery’ State when the Union was formed.” The governor turns it over to Mr. Garrison to “ reject or ratify it” at his “earliest convenience.” Mr. Garrison examines the document carefully, and deems it politic not to demand as much as would be consonant with his “ ideas,” which appear to be to “ prepare the negroes for amalgamation or extermination, and thus close up the great work for ever.” It is not so astonishing that this stuff should be concocted as that it should be reproduced, as it has been, with even a doubt as to its true character. Mr, Garrison, for the rest, never signs his name except in full. —————__-> Tue guerrillas of whom we still continue to hear in the Southern States are not to be regarded as the unconquerable residuum of the re- bellion. They may experience their keenest satisfaction when attack- ing, as they did last week in Mississippi, a Government train, or abus- ing, perhaps unto death, and despoiling such solitary Federal officers as happen to become their prey. But neither fidelity to oath, nor prin- ciple, nor the exactions of honor, neither Southern independence nor the preservation of slavery,~is the motive of their warfare : simply plunder. We gave last week a picture of some of the disorders in Ala- bama from an officer of the Freedmen’s Bureau. We learn, from pri- vate sources, of gangs which infest the water-courses of the same State, watching for the shipment of cotton, with a view to making a prize of it on its way down stream, and boarding not only rafts, but, in the instance within our knowledge, a steamer even, and, when foiled, firing upon the escaping boat with a dexterity acquired during the past four years. 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The N against the freedmen. These enemies of their kind represent a class | which had a necessary place in Southern society, but will not be toler erated under the new régime—the desperadoes and blacklegs who were | convenient as the instruments of Lynch-law, when abolitionists were obnoxious, and who often enough were themselves deemed proper sub- jects for its application. —= PRESIDENT JOHNSON is the kindest of public men, and as sure of winning a high character for clemency as Julius Cesar was when he pardoned everybody—and we hope the parallel will not hold good by his fall from blows delivered by the hands of his new friends, th enemy. The latest instance of his magnanimity is that afforded by th pardon of Gen. Humphreys. The general was a stout rebel, who had not been admitted to grace, and therefore was not qualified for offic but the chivalrous Mississippians, who care little for * the world, or t Ine world’s law,” nominated him for the office of governor of their State, and elected him by a large majority. The President, to ** make things square all round,” instantly qualified the general by pardoning him, an answer to the defiance that he had received from the gallant repudiators for which, we must confess, we were not quite prepared. Really, when they saw what was the effect of their bold action, the Mississippians must have been vexed at the thought they did not nominate that suf fering saint, Mr. Jefferson Davis, for.the post of chief magistrate of their State. Had they but thought so to do, that eminent personage would have been in Mississippi at this time, helping to reconstruct that State—that is, if the course pursued in the case of Humphreys indicates the line that is to govern the President; and surely, as there can be no accessories in the crime of treason, but all who offend in that way are principals, there ought to be no difference in the treatment of the lead ers in the late rebellion. Any gentleman, therefore, who wasso mistaken in his ideas as to take an effective part in the rebellion, will have to get a nomination to office merely, in a sure State, to secure the remission Such persons as George Sanders, Beverly Tucker, Mr. Mann, Mr. Breckinridge, and others, who are shy of showing themselves oi his sins.

ation. on American soil, must be cheered by what they see has been done, for it opens up the way to the safe return of such worthies to a country which they did their utmost to ruin, and which they hope to help 1

hereafter, on the “ better-luck-next-tim: principle rhev can also se that treason is not a punishable offence, and rejoice accor oly —_—— “> THERE is beginning to be a great demand at the North fo edmen without at present an adequate supply. The employment office in Washington is satisfying its applicants to some exten t last week }it received a requisition from Michigan for four hundred i oO ers, at cighty-seven cents per diem and board, ano \! t for twenty-tive, and still another ’ ) from Connectieut for the same number, Dr. Reyburn, chief medical off I for the District of Columbia and a part of \ , s out 6.000 freedmen in Loudon County who are entirely s supporting. Fairfax County has 3,600, with only twenty-five de] ‘ Gov men | There are 8,000 in Alexandria, a large num! t whor re now idle on account of the reduction in the foree ot ‘ pl = rt} various departments of the army. The hospi : Ss ‘is are numerous and flourishing, with a lat lults an children. The mavors of Waslington ar Alexa Ve s | their willingness to take chat of all px col L people w vel resident betore the war. The number of sick ads dest who received rations last month in the Dis Was 82 il fh pop ulation of 34.208. Two soup-houses, at t i] s shed some time since, are feeding three hundred peop Gen. Swayne informs the B that \ s last winter supplied 139,000 white persons with mea l salt for their sul sistence. Some provision will hay be mad o Govern ment for this class, in order to ] t l« . i even actual starvation. A drought w 5} if middle ot July up to this date has destroy: L three ths of the entire crop ot the State, which has as hittle money s 1 rhe tre i ns schools at Montgomery return 285, those at Mobile 631, sch = o the | four hundred cases requiring medical t vent aby ome wer of small pox. A normal school has been opened at Charlest seve hun- dred colors | pupils, In Gen. Saxt S CUstri t indred and twenty teachers, G Fisk has broken up all the freedmen’s « ps *homes”™ in hy ist ric vith le exceptio! ot ¢ » Nels Kentucky, and thx inmates of that asylum ar eine I pi vy distributed over the State. Those who have been thus dispersed ve been mainly established i good homes in the country. The ex is trom crowded cities and towns to tarms has been larg oe nt ind nunicipal authorities ar res d to provide for their own p . care for their own sick, an their own dead.” On y= septel er, 949 persons Were st sted by Government in Tenness« not one is a burden to-day. Gen. Gregory has arrived in Texas, and established his headquar- tersat Houston.

Gen. Howard addressed the members of the North Carolina conven tion. and a numerous assemblage of the « rens of Raleigh, at the Capitol, on the evening of Thursday t 12th. He s on his way to South Carolina, in conformity with an order trom the President, to ring about an amicable arrangement possible, between the blacks vho were pl nted Vy Gel Sherman 1 thie slands and river planta tions and th former owners of the property thus occupied, who are “earnestly soliciting the restoration of the si ind promising to absorb the labor and care of the freedmen Gen. Howard has plenary powers in the premises. reedmen’s Bureau, dated Oct. 6, 1865, relates to stores to its hospitals, which are thoroughly Cir ular 18 ot the F the issuing of subsi + assimilated to t stenct } y } er 1 hose of the army. “*-. WHATEVER may be the amount of excitement in Great Britain con cerning the Fenians, the movement evidently fills a considerabl place in the mind of the reporter ot thie associated press, to idee from the for Perhaps lie thinks he will find appre ce eign news budgets for the week. ciative readers here. Affairs have proceeded so fu that the prisoners,

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AS4 The Nation. including the editer and proprietor of The Irish People, have been brought before the police magistrates of Dublin for examination. The Queen's counsel disclosed the bloody intentions of the organization, and told of the extensive manufacture of pikes, the finding of revolvers and breast-plates, the intercepting of drafts from America, etc., ete. The Paris Constitutionnel improved its opportunity to thrust at the imperial ally across the Channel. on account of the summary suppression of the seditious print above named—* in sudden forgetfulness of the immuni- ties of the press, without a jury trial, and manu militari,” but “ with that eminently practical spirit which characterizes the English, so that, promptly brushing theories and principles aside, they ran to the point in : Tne present year will probably be conspicuous for its meteorologi- cal and terrestrial phenomena, accompanied by pestilence among men and beasts. The summer season has been extraordinary on both sides of the Atlantic, and the continent of Europe, in the west and centre, has been the theatre of an unusual number of destructive tornadoes, On Sunday week San Francisco experienced its heaviest earthquake, of two main shocks, lasting half a minute, and driving the tide to its extremes of fulness and ebb, Sacramento, Stockton, San José, and Santa Cruz especially, were shaken simultaneously. As there is nothing without its uses, so this visitation will furnish data for calculating with more or less certainty its probable recurrence. This is what has heen done in France by M. Fournet, in regard to the tempests of which that country has borne the brunt. From more than three thousand observations of the weather in the valley of the Saéne, which cover a period of more than thirty years, he has deduced the periodicity of storms with considerable accuracy. Thus, he finds that winter is apt io be ushered in by a storm about the 2d er 3d of December, followed nerally by a second on the 15th. The middle of January is marked by the quantity of rain and the flooding of the streams; and the Winter goes out very often with as rude a blast as it came in. June 20th is famous for the violence of its thunder-claps. The 12th to the 18th of August is a period of constant bad weather, in spite of the Emperor's féte on the 15th; so that the ** Assumption storms” are pro- verbial. We have only mentioned some of the leading dates, but the results of M. Fournet’s investigations are so detailed that an inhabi tant of the region referred to might prudently regulate his husbandry and his out-door engagements for every day of the year by them—not, surely, expecting to meet with no disappointments, but trusting in the long run to be seldom surprised to his detriment. - “> —--- PETROLEUM is not only found in Russia, but has already attained no mean development, and promises large returns in the future. It abounds on the peninsula of Apsheron, in the Caspian, and near Lake Baikal in Siberia, and has just been discovered on the left bank of the Kuban River. It is also met in the same neighborhood on the peninsulas of Taman and Kertch, which are separated by the Straits of Enikale, the outlet of the Sea of Azoy. Lastly, along the Volga, in Kasan, Simbirsk, and Samara, and even in Archangel, the oil makes its appearance. Kertch, Taman, and Apsheron have the only regular works. Four wells in the two former produced, from July, 1864, to July, 1865, nearly 200, 000 litres of petroleum. In Apsheron there are 220 wells of white and black naphtha, which belong to the state, but are farmed out to private parties. The deepest wells furnish most oil, The working of them dates from an early period, but hitherto they have been of little profit. Now that refining processes are improved, and petroleum has leapt to such a rank among commercial products, new vigor will doubtless be manifested in this direction. eee eee Tre invasion of France by English capital is noted as among the peaceable signs of the times. An English house has obtained the con tract for constructing the railroad over Mount Cenis. It was granted only after experiments which themselves cost 500,000 franes. The cap jtal is only eight millions, but is considered ample. A parapet separating the highway from the railway is to be built the entire dis tance. At certain well-known points the road is to he protected against snow-slides by a strong iron roofing. ; sorties —— LAMARTINE is writing for the Paris Constitutionne/ a lite of Lord Byron. fe states in his preface that he had always suspected Moore's life of containing very little of the memoirs attributed to Byron himself, for burning which his friend and biographer has incurred severe reproaches. Te now knows, from the person “for whom Lord Byron had no secret in his latter years,” and who saw the memoirs confided to Moore, that they did not exceed a hundred pages of manuscript; and even if the handwriting had been less sprawling and careless than usual, there could not have been matter for two or three thousand pages of print. Lamartine concludes that the document consisted of notes and memoranda merely. A similar collection he found in the possession of the lady whose testimony he cites, and whose intimate acquaintance he enjoys. Other qualifications for his task he derives from having associated for many years in Florence with Captain Med win, the first biographer of Byron, frequent meetings with Lady Bless- ington, and personal researches in Greece in regard to the briefcampaign in which the poet perished. ESE et ee Tuere existed formerly in Paris, when her streets were not what they now are, an industrious class called gutter scavengers, whose busi nh as was particularly brisk after a heavy rain, that left uncovered small coins or pieces of metal that had a value at the junk-shops. A revival of this class has been occasioned by the extraordinary fall of the Seine, and its shoals and banks now swarm with explorers, who find much better pickings than the streets afforded, Sometimes jewels, sometimes objects precious for their antiquity alone, reward the labo rious search, which is prosecuted with the greatest vigor at the outlets of the sewers. The opening chapters of “Our Mutual Friend” are said by the London Daily News to have been sketched from the life. The Thames employs many low characters in fishing for drowned bodies which afford a revenue in one of three ways—either they are rifled and returned to the water, or are restored for a satisfactory remuneration to the friends of the deceased, or at the worst are turned over to the cor- oner for the sake of six shillings.

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enna Sera The N Articles on any of the subjects usually discussed in this journal will be received from ir es any quarter. If used, they will be liberally paid for ; if rejected, they will be returned to the writers on the receipt of the requisite amount of postage stamps i Communications which pertain to the literary management of THE Nation should be addressed to the Edite WISE WAITING. ‘Time and I against any ten others,” once said the crafty Mazarin. And it is a self-confidence not unworthy to inspire a wise statesman as well as a cunning politician. Delays are not always dangerous, nor is procrastination necessarily the thief of time, in spite of the copy-book. Quite the contrary, Inactivity is often more masterly than action, and to wait as essential to success as to labor. Especially is this the case in great political crises—at those cardinal moments on which turn the destinies of a nation, For such de lays are not necessarily consumed by idleness and sloth. If wise, they are alive with thought, anxious with forecast, busy with preparation. It is the patience of the husbandman hiding the timely germination and growth of his seed, while carefully providing for the harvest that is to crown his waiting. Crime demands haste as one of the conditions of its success. The wise and prudwnt regulation of human affairs requires patience to discover and apply the eternal law, obedience to which alone can make them permanently prosperous and happy. * Seelera impet it, bona consilia mora valescere.” The insurgent States had to be hurried into rebellion, The nation can afford to wait and well consider the conditions on which it will be safe for itself, or best for them, to receive them back into the family circle again. Haste is the greatest danger of this most critical hour, and, as such, it is the one to be the most carefully guarded against. It is not un- natural that the President should wish to rehabilitate the States with which he is personally identified by birth and abode, and to see them again invested with the constitutional sovereignties, duly subordinated to the imperial Union, from which they had madly cast themselves down through the temptings of a wicked ambition. It is entirely in accordance with the nature of things that Democrats of the old school, who have been hungering in the cold for more than four years after the savory meat and the fat things that their souls love, should long for the joyful reconciliation which shall restore the old aftiance between themselves and the South, and give them another chance to sell their birthright for a mess of pottage. And it is comprehensible that cer- tain of the Republicans should desire to hasten the time when the republic shall enjoy the glorious revenge of showing herself to her enemies, every where, strengthened by her conflict with those that sought her lite, established in the fulness of her sovereignty over all her broad domain, glorious in her strength, and resplendent in her beauty—thi time when the little lord (whose name we have forgotten) who declared in Parliament that ‘the republican bubble had burst” shall be com- pelled to acknowledge that it has come forth unharmed, even from th cannon’s inouth, and when the great lord (whose name we all remem- ber) who averred that the republic was “fighting for empire must admit that, if she were, at least she has won it, and means to keep it. All this can be understood, but it is all argument for wise deliberation and against headlong haste. It is right to learn of one’s enemies, and there is no safer lesson than that which teaches us to do the very opposite of what they wish. Now there is nothing that Southerners so earnestly desire, nothing that their Copperhead allies, who did all they dared to help them when in red-handed rebellion, so impudently demand, as that they should at once be restored to all the political rights of which they stripped them- selves, and to their full share in the direction of the government which they had failed, after four years of murderous and treasonous struggle, to destroy. We submit that the republic would suffer no detriment from the refusal of this request on the part of those whose duty it is to see that she suffers none. We aflirm, on the contrary, that she would run most danger of detriment from thus putting herself into the hands, yet red with the blood of her best and bravest, of her bitterest enemies. We are well aware that this restoration ation. must take place some day. But that day need not be to-day, nor yet to rrow, Some purgatorial intermediacy should surely be interposed between souls just escaped from the hell of rebellion, and the paradis« of power. We hold that repentance, a repentance not to be of, should go before absolution and perfect pardon. We be the conversion of sinners, but we are slow to believe in instantaneous cony sions. Let fruits meet for repentance be first brought forth, then let the repentant prodigals be restored to the rights of sonship and brotherhood, and not before. Time is essential for this, and time every man who regards either his country’s hon ind pros ¥, 4 his own, should demand at the hands of Congress, as the one essential preliminary to a final amnesty and restoration The condition is assuredly not a hard one. ot pr voked nature of the rebellion, of the atrociti which it was marked, of the mourning with which it has darkened al st every hearthstone, of the mortgage it has laid « e industry of the country for long years to come, there is absolutely no demand for ve ince and scarcely any for justice. The magnanimity of the nation towards the men who are now crouching at her feet is without example in son or story. She says to them, with a sublime clemency AD rhe power that I have on you i spa The malice towards you to give y And deal with others better " ut the last condition must be made imperatiy They must deal But t better with others, their neighbors, black and white, and t] trangel that may be within their gates, than they have ever yet done, and it must be made assured that they shall not deal worse with ourselves, vefore we re-invest them with power for evil as well as tor good. And bet t tl th ] time must be given them to furnish this price of merey. One yeur’s, two years’ suspension of national political ri s' What a pe the gigantic crime which has crushed an med a million filled the land with widows and with orphans! No torturing ments, no drawing and quartering, no sk 7 J - j ~ ing with “its bleak and uldered jaws” the doom of a traitor, no statutes gl ine the refuse of the sword—nothing but a ’ ; pension of political rights until good conduct has proved that t! Wi be restored with safety to the nation! Ought reasonable men to ask for more Can the nati with safety be satisfied with less‘ The greatest boon that can be nted to the people of the South for a season is rest from turmoil and excite ment, protection against each other, issistance in removing from th soil the blight with which war, superinduced upon slavery, has cursed 1 The rehabilitation of industry should naturally precede that of political rights, We believe that. outside of a small body of noisy political idventurers, the ereat mass of the Southern people would pretet national supervisi nd protection, for some time to come, to ben left to the tender mercies of the men who have brought their calamity upon them. But whether so or not, if truly penitent, or even content to sul 1 good faith to the arbitrament to which they appealed, they should be willing and rejoiced to purchase peace and safety at so cheap arate. But] 1¢@ Masses, White as well as black, think as th will, the td ‘rather oligarchs, are beforehand them. Ti tend having a full complement of senators an ! sentatives on foot Washington next December, re uly to tak » Ca i «, cajolery, of bribery can open its doors l J to them. It is to feared that a voice potential, “as double as the duke’s.” may be uplifted in their behalf. It will require great firmness nd resolution on the part of the Republican majority to resist the influences that will be exerted to make them consent to their own defeat and the triumphal entrance of the enemy into the Capitol. Delay the chief hope for a righteous settlement of our national aifuirs We think it should be labored more than any other point now at issue, even than the terms of reconstruction. They can wait until the time ha arrived when a reconstruction that shall not be ruin shall be possible. Indeed, after the disgrace which the Republicans of Connecticut have brought upon themgelves, it may be doubted whether this Congress, at least at this time, will be found ready to insist on the only terms of reconstruction compatible with national safety, But the Republicans may be made to see that no good end can be answered by suffering themselves to be swamped by a coalition of Copperheads and rebels,

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The N while much may be gained by waiting the teachings and the influences AS6 of time. Give the nation but time enough and all will be well, while nothing but mischief and impotent repentance can come of headlong haste. ~>-+ — TUNIS AND THE UNITED STATES, Tuat a Tunisian ambassador should come to this country for the purpose of congratulating our Government on the suppression of the rebellion, and offering co dolence on the assassination of our chief magistrate, is a circumstance that has an interest of by no means a common character, It takes the mind back some sixty years, when another minister from Tunis was brought to this country in an American ship-of-war, and who treated with our Government, in the name of his If difference there was, it was in favor of that respectable Mussulman, who condescended master, the Bey, on a footing of perfect equality. to negotiate at Washington instead of insisting upon all negotiations taking place in his tight little Regency. True, our Government, though it restored the Tunisian vessels that had been captured while endeavor- ing to break the blockade our naval force had established before Tripoli, positively refused to pay tribute to the tell the youthful reader that this refusal was no such a light matter in the year 1805 as it appears to be in the year 1865. To plunder the commerce of Christendom, and to make slaves of all Christians, was -which was nobly sustained by the public opinion—of A law so profitable to the Barbarians was not allowed the public law High Barbary. to fall into desuetude, and there were Christian captives in all the Re- gencies, to the number of many thousands, at the close of the last cen- In a tury, when our flag began to appear peacefully on the ocean. short time the commerce of America grew to be important—and im- portant not only to us, but to the owners and others interested in the corsairs of Northern Africa. Our vesse!s that went into the Mediter ranean, or to ports that lie not far from Gibraltar, though outside of the Straits, became the prey of the Mussulmans, who treated us as their ancestors had treated the people of Spain and Italy centuries before. The effect was almost as bad on our commerce as we have seen pro duced from the operations of Messrs, Semmes, Maflit & Co. American slaves became very common in African towns, though not quite so com mon as a certain description of African slaves were in many American towns. Many good men began to believe that Providence had fallen into a mistake in allowing Americans to become slaves in Africa, when it had long been settled, terrestrially at least, that only the descendants of Ham xppointed to profit from that arrangement. ] + were to be enslaved, and that Americans were specially propriety of the change that was coming over the ordering of the | lie . . | fused, and without evil consequences. ation. in 1805, and our proceedings involved us in a dispute with the Bey of Tunis, who sent a minister to this country and asked for tribute, — En- couraged by our successes over Tripoli, the Tunisian demand was re- In 1815 we had war with Al- giers, the Dey having refused even to sell Americans whom he had caused to becaptured. Commodore Decatur soon brought him to terms, and since that time we have had no trouble with the deys and beys, Looking back to the times when Americans figured as chattels in the slave marts of Barbary, it is difficult to believe that such things ever could have been; and yet they were, and they affected the early litera- ture of the country almost as deeply as Spanish literature of the six- teenth century was affected by the Mussulman depredations to which | Spain was then subjected, even when Philip the Second was king, and They could n’t see the | vorld. While American Christians were wondering at what was going on, African Mussulmans were capturing our craft, and fine dividends | were declared in Barbary at our expense. The cruising business went up. There was a lively demand for shipping. Naval stores ruled high, and quotations were most encouraging. Pious Mohammedans thanked Allah for the appearance of a new nation in the West, that new Evening Land which had supplanted the ancient one. They sin cerely entreated him to send them morc But those Barbarians who were of a conservative turn of mind, and cautious, thought that the ness night be overdofe, and that there would bea glut of Yankees. While there was joy in Africa, there was dismay in America. Let nun) 1 Who is curiou n thi subject turn to files of papers that were published during the twenty years that followed the close of the Revolutionary war, and he will be astonished to see how great was w effect of those Afrigan depredations, For a long time our Government submitted to pay tribute to the piratical states and degraded itself in various ways before them. In 1796 a treaty was made with that high and mighty potentate, the Dey of Algiers, in ‘the Government of the. United States of At the eginning of the present century it was determined to try the virtues which it was set forth that America is not in any se founded on the Christian religion.” { force against the corsairs: and the war with Tripoli forms one of the brightest passages in the history of our noble navy. But though the Tripolitans were vigorously chastised, our Government consented to pay money for the American slaves they had in their hands, This was though Lepanto had been fought and won. Had there been a Cervan- tes among the Americans who were carried into the ports of Barbary and there sold, we might almost have been glad at what had taken place, as it would have led to something new in literature. The Tunisian gentleman who has come to this country in 1865 visits us under circumstances so different from those which his predecessor |saw here in 1805-6, that sixty years seem totally inadequate to the > i ay ° f » us) sey; and let | change that has taken place. The seven sleepers, whose slumbers had lasted for almost two centuries, saw nothing more remarkable in the way of change than would be visible to one who had visited America in the days of Jefferson and repeated his visit in the days of Johnson. Such repetition is impossible, but an intelligent Mussulman is quite equal to noting the difference that there is between now and then in He will be able to understand that our system of govern- ment is no longer based on slavery; and he may feel an honest pride in the recollection that his country preceded ours by many years in the America. noble work of abolishing slavery, which was done by Tunis, we believe, in 1846 or 1847. The Mussulman community was in advance of the Christian nation, and that is an honor of which it cannot be deprived, though we may generously envy it the possession of that honor. ome - VERY LIKE A MISTAKE. Some people fail in speech-making because they have nothing to say; others fail because they have too much to say: others, again, because, whether they have too much or too little, they are unable found to say it. In which of these predicaments the President himself on the memorable occasion of his addressing the Fizxst, Dis- trict of Columbia Colored Regiment, in front of the White House, we tind it difficult to determine, * My object in presenting myself before you is simply to 3y his own emphatic declaration he had nothing to say. thank you.” “T repeat that I appear before you on the present occa- sion merely to tender you my thanks.” “TI repeat, I have but little to say.” And the reason assigned for this poverty of ideas is the very extraordinary one that his theme is entirely new, his opportunity is fresh, the occasion has had no chance of becoming trite. ‘I have but little to say, it eing unusual in this Government, and in most other goy- ernments, to have colored troops engaged in their service.” The man who has nothing to say because he ought to have so much, may fairly be classed among the vacant-minded reticents. But Mr. Johnson is not one of these either, for words drop from his lips as if the fulness of his heart forbade their staying in, which hint at thoughts too big for utter- “This is your country as well as anybody else’s * This country is founded *—we presume the President means the Government or the political system of the country—* is founded upon the principles ance from a balcony. country.” We pardon the grammar for the sake of the syntax, of equality, and at the same time ”—he means, probably, for this reason * the standard by which persons are to be estimated is according to “One great question has been settled in * True liberty has been established on a basis more permanent and enduring than their merit and their worth.” this Government, and that is the question of slavery.” heretofore.” are which are at the foundation of all things, and, having discovered what they are, conform our actions and our conduct to them.” Words like those are germs of great orations, such as then and there could not The speaker was holding himself in to the dimensions of “It is our duty to try and discover what those great laws be delivered. 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| The Nation. AST time and space. His task was not to say too much, and incoherence was the result of his attempting to perform it. But they who would put the President in the third category will not be without their rea- sons. The following passage would give color to their suspicion that he suffered from his inability to say well what was in his mind: “The United States has lifted its strong arm in vindication of the Government, and of free government, and in lifting that arm and appealing to the God of battles, it has been decided that the institution of slavery must go down. This has been done, and the Goddess of Liberty, in bearing witness over many of our battle-fields since the struggle commenced, has made her loftiest flight, and proclaimed that true liberty has been established.” To us neither of these explanations of the Presidential harangue is quite satisfactory. It is unaffectedly honest ; it is natural ; it is simple; it is hearty; it is kindly, sensible, and wise. The speaker had a great deal to say; but he seems to have been laboring under some singular hallucination in regard to the class of people he was addressing. After reading the speech through, we turned back to make sure that it was a black regiment that had paid him the compliment of a salute. Every paper in which the speech has been mentioned asserts that it was deliv- ered to the Frst Black Regiment of the District of Columbia: on) his point there is no dissentient voice. But either the editors were misin- formed, or the President was under some kind of illusion. Perhaps it was late in the afternoon, and so dark that the complexion of the men could not be distinguished. Perhaps the black visors of their military caps were taken by the speaker to be the cause of the shadow that rested on their faces. Whatever the ground of his mistake may have been, a mistake there clearly was, for it is evident that the President supposed he was addressing a regiment of whites composed of that class to which he himself at one time belonged, and from which he released himself by such incredible efforts of his manly will. This is a matter on which our mind cannot entertain the faintest shadow of a doubt. The speech itself is conclusive on the question. We will quote a few passages to show that the orator must have pre- sumed that the troops before him were of the Southern white variety : “You have observed, no doubt, that for him who does his duty faithfully and honestly there is always a public judgment that will | appreciate and measure out to him his proper reward.” If the Presi- dent said that wittingly to a company of black men, he must have said it with a great deal of laughter in his sleeve or a great deal of sarcasm in his tone—neither of which we will credit; for the negro whose observation of life could teach him that, has not yet made his appear- ance on the planet. But it was a timely saying for white men, who cer- | tainly have discovered, without much observation either, that amnesty, pardon, and abundant restoration of estate, were ready for those who exhibited the most alacrity in returning to their old duty to the Goy- ernment. This is a fact that lies patent to all observation probably to that of the negroes also, though to them it would hardly be as con- soling as the orator designed. We pass to another point. The President urges, with some repe- tition, on his audience, that “upon the return of peace and the surren- der of the enemies of the country, it should be the duty of every patriot and of every one who calls himself a Christian to remember that with the termination of the war his resentment should cease, that angry feelings should subside, and that every man should become calm and tranquil, | and be prepared for what is before him.” We have heard much of the | anger that still seethes and flames at the South, of the sparks of malignity that will not die with the rebellion; but thus far these glowing embers have been discovered in white bosoms; and the objects of hate are the black people, and particularly the black soldiers, who have done such good service in putting the rebellion down, They are the persecuted party, and the wonder about them is that they bear their persecution so meekly. The President's advice is admirable. It is simply a pity that some person by did not tell him that the men before him were not the men he took them for, and that possibly his remarks might seem to them not exactly pertinent to the occasion. The speaker would of course have been glad to correct a mistake which, harmless as it was, could not fail to produce a disagreeable impression. His kindly nature must have been wounded since, on discovering the inadvertence into which he had been betrayed. ‘ The suggestion, very pointedly reiterated, that “liberty is not a mere idea—a mere vagary;” that when his hearers “come to examine this question of liberty, they will not be mistaken in a mer idea for a reality ;"—this suggestion, we submit, could have been intended for the benefit of those—of all those and of those only—who hold that liberty is “a mere idea, a mere vagary,” and those are the great mass of the Southern whites. To the blacks liberty is a supreme reality, an absorbing and eck stial re ality. They pt i\ with heart and hand that it may not be *a mere idea, a mere vagary,” as many of them begin to fear it will be. Let liberty mean something to us! is their cry. It has been the dream of ages, let it now become a fact! We are willing to make it so if the superior race is willing We wait their pleasure, not they ours, We have already vindicated, we think, our theory of the President's harangue, that it was made in the understanding that a regiment ot Southern whites stood before him. But the point is so interesting that we will push our illustrations a little further, * Liberty does not con sist in idleness,” the orator goes on to say. * Liberty does not consist in being worthless. Liberty does not consist in doing all things as we please. Liberty consists in the glorious privilege of work.” Admir able doctrine! Worthy of a President of the United States, and espe cially tine as coming from aman who had honored work, and whom work has honored as it honors few. low his heart must have beat with satisfaction while he enforced it, as he supposed le was doing, on a company of men who had been, we cannot say educated, but reared in habits of idleness and sloth—in the idea that work was degrading, in the notion that soldiering and hunting were the only work a gentle man could perform; to whom liberty did mean precisely the priv- ilege of doing just what they pleased, even to the buying and selling of their fellow-creatures, and who, instead of being willing to enter inte the new system, which meant fair work and fair wages for all w ithout distinction of color, were complaining that the strong necessities of labor were to be put upon them, And how sad the good man must have felt when he learned that the brave words which he intended should have stirred up his soulless fellow-citizens of Tennessee did actually fall on the ears of men who did pretty much all the work that was done in the States recently in rebellion, who were the working class there. who were then clamoring for land to work on and for tools to work with, who were maintaining themsclves and their families while their white neighbors were subsisting on the Government, and who, in many cases, had laid up money for the purchase of stock, and the extension of their industry. arms and r that And yet this injustice was small in comparison with anoth would have been done if the President had really known that he was addressing black soldiers, for he proceeds to warn them solemnly that “liberty does not mean simply to resort to low saloons and other places of disreputable character ;” that * liberty does not mean that people ought to live in licentiousness.” We would not seem to intimate that black sol- diers as well as white soldiers, as well as all the people for that matter, might not do wisely to heed such a lesson as this, But why the black people peculiarly ? Do the black people in Tennessee support the saloons, the dance-houses, the gin-shops, the gambling-hells, and other disreput able institutions? Are intemperance and las iviousness distinguishing vices of them? Are they above all others infamous for their disregard of the marriage bond? If they are ¢ ulpable in all these points, as doubt- less they are, we should ask. Who taught them? Whoset them the ex- ample ? Who. in multitudes of cases, are dire tly answe rable for their iniquity by compe iling them to concubinage ¢ ' These are painful ques- tions to put, and we will put no more. President Johnson is one of the kindest of men; and, in our judgment, there would have been great unkindness in deliberately charging all these enormitices on poor people who had been more sinned against than sinning—who, in so far as they were degraded, were the victims of a social order which they had had no hand in creating— and whocan do little or nothing for their own moral regeneration in the future until the supe rior class encourage them to pursue a better course of life. This superior and ¢ orrupting Class con- sisted of the men who lay fairly open to the President's earnest admo- nition, and there can be no doubt that he meant to address himself to | that class primarily if not exclusively. That he has missed the oppor- ‘tunity of doing so is a great misfortune.

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ASS THE GASTEIN CONVENTION, by which Austria and Prussia endeavored to settle the question of the disposition that shall be made of the Duchies wrested from Denmark, has given offence to everybody but the high contracting parties. Russia avows her neutrality, which is a civil way of condemning what was done. France speaks out very plainly in condemnation of a course that is really a condemnation of her mode of settling matters when territory England, through Earl Russell, flatly rebukes the two great German powers, and upholds the right of the people of the is to he disposed of. Duchies to have something to say when their countries are dispo of—a doctrine that finds more favor in England in 1865 than it found in 1815, when the robbers and jobbers who constituted the Congress oi Vienna did as they pleased with the many millions of men whom th event of war had placed in their hands. But the most bitter complaint proceed from Holstein, one of the countries so cavalierly used by the con querors of the Danish forces that sougbt to hold the Duchies. Members of the Holstein Estates have addressed the Federal Diet in strong terms. After describing what their hopes had been, because of the victories of the Austro-Prussian armies, they proceed to say that they have been bit terly deceived; and they make a formidable bill of indictment against those who came to their relief, but only to substitute one tyranny for an- other, the second being worse than the tirst. They show that the deliv- erers have done what was not done under the Danish rule: they have not allowed the Estates to assemble, and make known the wants ofthe people, and express their sentiments concerning matters in the settlement of which they have the deepest interest. “ Nearly a year has passed since the Vienna peace,” they say, “ but the Duchies are still without their legiti mate sovereign, and without a representation of the country summoned to co-operate in shaping their present and future. The land has not yet been heard since it passed into German hands. Its bound aries have been altered, different governments have been given it in rapid succession, violent attacks have been made upon its administra tion and the hitherto existing order of its institutions, and its financial means have been disposed of; but it has not been considered necessary to take the sense of its representatives.” A gloomy picture enough, and a correct one; but what good is anticipated by the worthy Hol steiners from sending their complaints to the Federal Diet? That rr spectable body has very little more power in Germany than the Cana dian Parliament has in the United States. It cannot prevent Austria and Prussia from doing as they shall think proper in disposing of the Duchies, those powers having inv ariably treated its suggestions with con tempt, and acted with reference only to their own interests and ideas. Could the Diet do anything, it would speedily settle a matter that has troubled a large portion of the world for centuries; but the Diet is as powerless as the Duchies themselves, and for the same reason: because bayonets are at the command of the Austrians and Prussians. The dis pute has been an affair of strength from the beginning of its present phase. The Germans were too strong for the Danes, the Austrians and Prussians being Germans so long as the Danes were unsubcued, but fall ing back into what may be called their normal state so soon as the Danes had been driven out, and the question came up, * What shall b done with this rich spoil ¢” If there was.anybody in Germany who supposed that Prussia acted from any other motive than the promotion of her own interests, as those interests are understood by Count Bismarck, all we can say is that Whether there can be no there must be some very simple people in that fine country. Prussian policy be commendable or condemnable, doubt as to its plainness. It has been steadily pursued for centuries with a regard for the unities that would have charmed Mr, Curdle, had that gentleman ever directed his studies to the history of politics. There is “a sort of a general oneness ” in her policy that has its merit, though persons of a moral turn of mind have sometimes found occasion to condemn some of its details. Prussia has got poss ssion of Lauen- berg, but that is merely by way of lunch, She means to dine on the Duchies, and evidently she expects that Austria will serve them up to her, after such exhibitions of coyness as may be thought necessary to But what is Austria to have in return for helping Prussia to what she wants? That is the question which puzzles the That she is giving her aid gratis is not to be believed. That save the proprieties, yoserver, The N ation. | . . ve . | is not the way they do business at Vienna; and least of all would they dlo it for the advantage of Berlin, were liberality and magnanimity Austria, like Lovegold, must have something solid, or she will never allow Prussia their i s of action in ordering their foreign policy, to grow in territory, and increase in numbers, at the expense of Ge: many. But in arranging that matter, which demands arrangement so pressinuly, the two powers may chance to afford to Napoleon HL, an opportunity to demand a rectification of the French frontier on the side of the Rhine: and this it is that gives a world-wide interest te th ' whole st hject and compels men to look at it, even whil admitting their inability to understand its true merits. France cannot sneez Without moving the world, and German snuff may set her a-sneezing in avery alarming manner, -- — A NEW DANGER TO THE SOUTH. vorld last week devoted two columns to an attempt to show that if the negroes get the franchise they will inevitably turn Mormons, In support of this startling prediction it cites THe and establish polygamy. | the last census report, Malte Brun, Dr. Livingstone, and Dr, Draper. The census report asserts that there is a great deal of licentiousn: Malte Brun says there is a good deal inongst the negro savages in Africa, and that they are addicted to amongst the blacks in America. fetichism. Dr, Livingstone says that, like the Greeks and Romans, they mingle debauchery with some of their religious ceremonies, Finally, Dr. Draper says that the “ African ideas” are still “in the blood” of the American negroes, Ergo, if you enfranchise them, Mormons th: will become, This is startling; but there is another danger on which the writer lias not treated, and that is the risk of the Southern negroes becomin Mohammedans and cannibals. We are sorry that some Democratic jour nal has not taken this subject up, as we are unable to devote the space to it that it deserves, we challenge examination for it. The idea may seem absurd to some people, but The arguments in support of it ar Foremost the there is already a large body of colored Mussulmans whom our wat numerous and powerful, amongst them is fact that has made acquainted with the suffering condition of their race in thi country, and who have the usual Mohammedan enthusiasm for the props gation of their faith. That Mohammedan fanaticism has died out, nobod will pretend who recalls the Syrian massacres of 1859-60, and who i acquainted with the character of the present Sheikh-ul-Islam. ings of this dignitary towards the Southern whites are, we trust, too well! known to our readers to need description from us; and everybody who has watched the current of events in the East is well aware that the M hammedan virus has grown in Asia and Africa in the ratio of the declin of the Ottoman power in Europe. We may imagine, therefore, what the effect would be of the appea ince amongst the excited and mobile * hands” of the Southern planta tions of a few colored Mussulmans preaching the Koran, polygamy, and The man who doubts their success must be a * What,” as Dr. Draper says, * does the > Did not a large portion of the death to the “ giaours.” very strange sort of person. inexorable hand of History write ¢ civilized world once succumb to these same terrible propagandists, and What is there about the negro, we may well ask, to warrant us in sup posing that he would resist agencies before which the Greeks, tli Macedonians, the Assyrians, the Egyptians, and Persians fell?) What could be more attractive, also, to a licentious race than a creed which each man to keep as Wives as he can aiford to permits many support, and, in the case of extravagant and unscrupulous persons, ot more than they can afford to support, anct which in the “ dancing cd vishes” and * howling cervishes” provides an institution in which the negro love of extravagant and uproarious worship can be fully gratitied And does anybody suppose that the appearance here of the ambassador from Tunis, the most fanatical of Mussulman states, at this particu! ;uncture has no significance ? The subject of the probable establishment ot cannibalism at the South, in case the suffrage is conferred on the blacks. is on approach with great reluctance. Malte touched upon it; the census report is silent about it; and it amon gst the horrible things which Dr, Draper believes to be very likel) which we Brun has not is not EA as Sieled Mane re

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The to oct Hut bt anYbouy s yposes that w terive ail our in as to nevro weaknesses and tend mistaken. The disgusting nature of the subject, and the inability of most of our readers to read Greek and Latin with ease and tluency. must form our excuse for withholding the authorities on which we rely in this matter for the present. When the proper time comes we shall re veal them, and lalso produce an @ priori arzument, which we are at present preparing, which we flatter ourselves will be found to be unan swerable, that the well known love of the negro for tender meat—a which has been remarked by some of the most accurat philosophic tray ellers—is « ipable, under certain social and politic ul conditions, of being developed into acray ‘for whit babies, and that this cray net would if once in possession of the franchise, embody in legislation in thos States in which his race w in a majority, by exacting tithes of thei offspring from w lite i 1 rh rorror Wii ’ th V hame ol negro suifrage inspires so many of our Southern brethren is doubt ] lue to their Knoy l of the existence of this ta unonest thre colored population, but whi with that d 11 ve which las lways marked th lan \ When touching upon neg ilties, they for the present refus eveal 7° ?>e DROUYN DE LHUYS ON SPOLIATION, DipLoMAtists must have bad memories, or they must suppose that all other men have them, for they write as if the most common transae tions were unknown to the world at large. M. Drouyn de Lhuys, in that diplomatic circular in which he euts up the Ga Conventio states that the arrangement made by Austria and P for a division of th spoil torn tmmediately by their armi from Denmark, has no other foundation than fore mid that its ) I ‘ ton IS ike V nience of th pohating parties, who have polled the people of thi Duchies, Denmark, and Germany. * This,” says the French minister With as much gravity as if he thoueht le ere Imposi upon all the workl without-the least danger of being detceted ‘this isa practi eto which Europ has now become unaccustomed.” There is nothing to be said in defence of th iction of " but they have done nothins more than was done by France in Italy. afte he conelusion of the Italian war, the governments of those countries consu tine nothing but their own convenience when Sayoy and Nice were annexed to th ren h Empit L pled of annexat cin cer tain quart sas that which has fol of Lau 1 thousand ts hold of L: ‘the only real treaties them ; Luenber Mr. Carlyle tells and your treasury full,” } a of army, and a treasury which, if not full, is respectably f in exactly tin me way. us that are a well-trained arn which cynical sentence, if ne is certainly trne as Prussian practice, rnished, which is more than can be said of most European publi hest Ha a men and money, and opportunity to use them in the business of terri torial acquisition, it is the most natural of all Government to employ them as it has employed them—just as Napole IIT. made jects to effec use of his soldiers and the money he borrowed of t something in the way Th ench Minister Affairs should be so blind to the folly of reproaching Prussia tor doing by France herself, Italy her Austria aided Prussia. At Berlin they have but it aries” for Franc wonder is, that the F helpin has been done that what in much the same fashion small pretensions to saintliness ; does not Lic the sinners of Paris to reproach them for their fallings aw iy from grace. M. Drouyn de “violence and conquest pervert the notions of right and the consciences of Lhuys tells the allies, through his cireular, that “nations.” Not the least doubt of the truth of this piece of comm place can be so much as hinted ; moralist—and that but how happens it that t] lis profound yet greater moralist, his Imperial master—should b€engaged in organizing violence in Mexico and in striving to cor quer that country? Whose notions of right and whose cons were perverted by the French invasion of Mexico, and the waging o. N in the mouths of ation. war against I." 9 lolier French soli1ers, WHose Mexicans by sole sustaining power ot in’s thi Bad as nsidered, it is a Maximili Prussia’s conduct mav be « compared with what the French Emperor has done in Mexico. Wil liam I. has violently added a German duchy to a German kingdom; and though he has broken his word to do this. it does not follow that the Lauenbergers will inv the worse for his actio ind it is the pe ple’s welfare that deserves most to be considered in all transactions like that in which the Prussian monarch has engaged. Napoleon Ill has sent French soldiers to a land that is four thousand miles from France, and the population of which bear n ] ] who had t ved it all from him, nomi t] rh he had no 1 t to dispose of a Mey n acre Ilis career ¢ violence and conquest ™ I in Azte ind, it must strike most m is as much worse than that of William I. in Germany as accidental homicide is worse than deliberate murder, Itis not impossible that the Prussian sovereign has been forced to the line he has adopted by civeumstances; but we know that the French sovereign coolly attacked Mexico,and that he meant to be paid for attacking her by compellit her to cede to him a portion of her 1! +", } ‘ territory ils Violence Is periect—his co est 1s n SO ¢ , 4 certain, MR. GREELEY ON THE RIGHT Rasu writine ten in ly he writer in tron! na hring vASH Writing often iny ves the writer in ruta ie ui brings a mee to his friend. Ill-considered printing, by reason of its greater publicity, is far more embarrassing in its « seg es to the printer, und, if he be a representative man, may s sly damage the cause with which he is identitied., For tour \ rs Mr. Greeley has had practi il und very unpleasant experience in thi At the outset of the rebellion, before the war of words was silenced by the roar of a more dreadful irtillery, Mr. Greeley amazed his old Whig associates, whose political text hook \ 3 W } ‘s reply to Havi 1. 1 t! ( li ii columns of the 7ri , that the S ern St shad as ¢ l ht to lissolve the Union in 1861 as the At ( nies had to sever their connection with G1 Britain in 1776 Since that unfortunate « : I S ern 1 Is, nor Northern sympathizers, n perso! enemies, hav } ted Mr Greeley to rest, and it is dou! hat he w hear th ist of it during the term of his natural lit Vice-Pres t Stephens, in his applica i i tion for pardon, defended the a nw m i pard necessary 1 ] ; ippealing to the 7 Secess ‘ st 1 in its $ texts fo1 iny number of leading articles. Copy s who opposed the w ee } he ~ % ] } > 4] 1; wert t With their sharpest wea] sil 1¢@ Words of the editor. rh blow Gealt his antagonist by Thurlow Weed was a simp ; I reference to the opinions of the former, avowed at a time when the heresy of State rights should have been exposed and denounced by thi triends of the country in the str ngest languag It is p rh ips not too nuch to say that nothing uttered bv anv unofficial person so hurt the cnuse ot tl | lon ast Lis ¢ 1 ssl 1 Wi sery dl icy tik l » that ca se is unc ted As a rule, Mr. Greeley submits silently to the consequences, but has recentiv encul wred his otherwis idmil ib] letter to the Wisconsin Republicans with an explanation. After quoting the declaration of self-evident truths,” he says T st nt—thoug ts precise words are Jefferson's, endorsed by John Adams, Franklin, Han A, and their compeers—is a condensation of he political faith of John Hampden, Algernon Sidnev, Milton, Locke and : the gr confessors and mar tvrs of Anglo-Saxon liberty. as reproduced ithe fe ‘ lence oO umes Otis, Warren, Patrick Henry, and their mpatriots. If it is not sound and just, then my grandfathers were bot 1 forsworn rebels and traitors, and the American Revolution a& suceess iall say that ‘ten mil i ions of people hy lie | OKe it, as rightfully as three millions of pé e vy he fame of neestors.” I deny that any State has a con o secede from the U1 /fny more than a county has to secede ma State: but I affirm the it 4 people to frame and alter their poiutical institutions according to their calm, delib

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490 erate judgement and collective w l nse of what is due to their own safety and n Chis doctrine has been re-aflirmed in our day by John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, and other discerning, conservative thinkers, no one dis nting or demurring ‘I did propose, in striet accor after full and fair diseussion, should decide, by an open, popular vote, question of Union or Disunion I believed that they would, by a la: majority, vote to stay in the Union; j lance therewith, that the Southern people, and [ have now no sI , that thev would have done so Most surely, they did give a lar majority for the Union in the elections held by them during the winter of 1860-61; as they had given, the November previous, in the Presidential contest. And the arrogant precipitancy wherewith the oligarchy of South Carolina hurled their State into secession, refusing to wait for any show of consui ion or co-operation, with the kindred refusal in most States to submit the ordinances of secession to a popular vote, showed clearly that the conspirators were fully aware of the truth. In fact, they opened fire on Fort Sumter precisely because they found it impossible to maintain in peace even the appearance ot popular support. ° You must sprinkle blood in the faces of the Southern people,’ urged one of them ; and his ruthless counsel was followed.” Perhaps the impracticability of Mr. Greeley’s plan is a perfect an- swer to his argument. He shows plainly that in the rebellion of 1861 the popular voice was not regarded and the popular will was power- less, In the nature of things, could it have been otherwise? Move- ments such as that which culminated in secession are not of the people. They are controlled by a few bold and dexterous leaders, who, so far from shaping their actions by the will of the masses, mould that will to their own designs. Thi y appeal to the emotions rather than to the reason of the people, and the latter, calmly passing judgment on the original question, are carried on the top wave of excitement far beyond it. our own Revolution—in no other particular resembling the slavehold ers’ rebe lion. W he n the coloni ts first prote sted anit st the injustic e of the British Government and prepared to enforce their rights, inde- pendence of the crown was contemplated by very few of the people. Even while the great Declaration was under debate, had the question of its adoption been submitted to the popular vote, the re sult would have been at least doubtful. But the impetuous harangues of orators, the exciting language of the press, and, lastly, the stirring words of the Declaration itself, bore down the opposition. But, admitting that a fair vote of the people of the Southern States on the question of secession could have been had, we deny its binding toree. The people of a State can no more vote it out of the Union than the people of a county can vote it out of the State, and for the same reason. New York County cannot vote itself out of the State, because the rights of the people of Kings, and Oneida, and St. Law rence, and other counties are involyed. South Carolina cannot vote herself out of the Union, because the rights of the people of New York, an‘l Massachusetts, and Ohio, and other States are involved. Even had Mr. Greeley contended that the votes of the people of the whole Union ought to decide whether it should be dissolve ad, his po sition would not have been impregnable. The right of revolution is fully recognized in this country at least. Whether that right may be exercised ina particular case is a moral and political question that can- not be decided by a yote at the polls. Majorities can be had for the wrong as well as for the right s Connecticut has just conclusively proved, Tire p ‘ople ota State, under the influence of ambitious anc reckless leaders, might inaugurate a wicked re bellion,as in 1861: under the guidance of pure patriots they might achieve a righteous revolu- tion, as in 1776. The weakest point in Mr. Greeley’s position is found in the fact that. sof the / Times and Saturday Revie like the sage ‘ a lik " , in deciding upon the justifiability of an attempt at revolution, he treats the motives of } . lnc: Semesenanbe £0 x ee ee ‘ those who Inaugurate It as of no consequence. He asserts in substance that a desire to revolt is all that is necessary to make a revolt lawful. This, with all respect be it spoken, is simply twaddle, There is no suppo-t to be found for any such doctrine in any s\ stem of ethics or in the practice of any Christian state. In order to justifv even an attempt at revolution, its instigators and conductors, whether they form a ma- jority or minority, must show not simply that they have a good chi nce of succeeding, but that they have grievances such as the conscience of the civilized world will recognize as grievances indi wich there is no possibility of redressing exce pt by an appeal to force The N highly impassioned, instead of This was true, in a measure, of ation. Correspondence. LETTER FROM “A YANKEE.” To THF Eprror oF THE NATION: You, amone others, have done me the honor of making a letter of mine, published in the London Spectator of August 26, the subject of repeated comment. Iam, I trust, not quite so unwise as to attempt to argue down adverse criticism, and the editor of THE NATION is, I am sure, not so unfair as to wish to gain a point by misrepresenting a writer whose statement he seeks to invalidate. I therefore attribute to inadvertence and excitement some errors on your part in regard to the letter in question which I beg leave to correct. The first is a statement, more than once made, and repeated to-day, that I said that “the best people of the North hold the negro in ‘unutte rable loathing.” You are quite in error; I said no such thing. I mentioned a single instance in which a gentleman, known to me as a benefactor of that race, and, as lam, an ardent advocate of their unconditional and well secured freedom, used that phrase to express his personal fecling toward them. But what I did say was, that the mass of the people here had “an antipathy to 4 3 * If Tu NATion means to deny the truth ot al contact with the negro.” this statement, I certainly shall not sustain it by argument or evidence. In the assertion, too, that | spoke of “ the ‘awful’ culf of separation which ex in ists between the two races in this country,” the word “awful,” which, my judgment, gives that clause its character, does not appear in my letter. And if Tie NATION means to deny that there is a gulf of separation between the races in this country, I shall only wonder why its conductors expend so much money and ability in building a bridge over solid ground. But were it not for the following paragraph in your article of October 28, in which you have thought it proper to attribute motives to my letter, and to deduce from them an estimate of my personal tastes and sympathies, I should not trouble you with this communication. You say of “ A Yankee re t that “ his letters have all been more or less marred by his attempting to sect English sympathy for the free States in the late struggle by showing the existence here of strong aristocratic or caste feeling, and by making out Northern society very much less democratic, and far more ‘genteel,’ than ‘good society’ in London has been pleased to imagine it. He has evidently supposed that if he could preve that we had not departed so very far, after all, from the at British model, that we still retained a class to be despised and a class to despise it, the English public would at once reeognize the wrong it had done the North, and fall upon its neck and blubber out its sympathy. This, in our opinion, was a great mistake, though one into which it was not unnatural for a writer who evidently himself winces under democracy to fall.” Now I wish to say very distinctly that the letters in question were writ- ten entirely without the intention of “ attempting to secure English sympa thy for the free States in the late struggle ” by any means whatever. They were written with no purpose of conciliation ; but merely in the belief that telling the simple truth, although it might be disappointing or unacceptable at times, would in the end be of service to both countries, Great Britain and the United States. Deliberate conciliation is, in my judgment, very poor business ; and I cannot understand how a man who ever beholds his natural face in a glass can be false to his inteliectual convictions. And so far have I been from attempting to secure British sympathy in the correspondence in question, that the editors of the Spectator, remarkable as they are among journalists for candor and moral hardihood, have several times expostulated with me upon the repelling manner in which I presented my case. But my reply has always been that although I intended to be fair, and desired always to be considerate of the feelings of my readers, I must tell the truth, and tell it just as I saw it and felt it, or tell nothingatall. 1 have not songht to pre sent a picture of my country adapted to the prejudices of my readers, If they could sympathize with it as it was, I was glad; if not, 1 thought that we had better do without their sympathy as best we could, Least of all have I sought to please what you call ‘aristocratic’ tastes. A democrat, pure and simple, from conviction, I should have been very false if I had yielded for conciliation’s sake one jot of the political principle to If, indeed, I thought that democracy filled society with coarseness, brutality, low tastes and habits, I which is due the real glory of this country. am sure that the editor of Take NATION would be among the last to think it strange that I should “ winee” under it. But believing, as I do, that democracy softens the manners and elevates the tastes of a people, and, by widening the sympathies, increases and diffuses that mutual respect and consideration which is the charm and the safeguard of social intercourse, eS ees : j | {

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The Nation. and, ina word, makes a higher sty le of rentlemen and more of them than aristocracy, I do not wince under democracy, and do not like to be repre sented as doing so. I think it more than probable that it is this view of the that effect of democracy upon manners has been mistaken for a desire to represent it as something better than it seems to appear in the eyes of my censor. As to the logical dilemma prepared for me by the editors of the Spectator, THE NATION, and the Jadependent, to wit : that either there is no antipathy against social intercourse with the negro here, or else that the bestowal of the elective franchise upon negroes will not be followed by intermarriage of the races—that gives me no trouble, as they may see who think it worth their while to read two forthcoming letters upon this subject. A YANKEE. NEw York, October 12, 1865. The word “awful,” it is true, was ours, not “A Yankee’s.” It was ascribed to him by a typographical error, but the “ gulf of separation” between the two races, as he described it in his letter to the Spectator, was “awful.” It is also true that he did not state in express terms that the best people of the North held the negro in “ unutterable loathing,” but he produced ene of the “ best people,” a “ gentle, firm, wise man, with a large soul and wide sympathies,” who did feel for the negro “an unutterable loathing,” and presented him to us, as we understood it, trsteay and as the Sp If the gent] certainly understood it, as a representative man. before us in that char of “A Yankee’s” to eman in questi Was not brought mn acter, he was absolutely useless for the ILis English public the purpose argument. appearance on the stand was clearly intended suggest to the question: “If a man of this stamp Is thus, how must the common run of Americans feel 7” “A Yankee the NATION is mistaken in supposing that conductors of TH! soctil equality between biacks and whites. are “expending money or ability” in trying to establish relations of We shall never urge anybody to invite a negro to his house, or give him The social people are matters of taste, with which we have nothing to do. his daughter in marriage, any more than we should think of urging “A Yankee” to prove his democratic feeling by associating with white hackmen or hod-carriers What we do seek for the negro is equality before the law, suc] 1a Parisian water-earrier and thy This position, A °7>% +] } has prevails betwee Due de Rohan, or bet ween a London cabman and the Earl of Derby, accomplish dl, we propose to leave him to make his own social eet his wife, and his invitations to dinner, as other men get them, as best he can, To support our assertions with regard to “A Yankee’s” mode of working on English opinion would require a long review of his other For inclination, and, as the matter is of minor importance, We with considerable wise excellent and able letters. this we have neither space ne ] we willing to accept his denial as conclusive. shall look for his escape from the “ logical dilemma ” interest. >: MONUMENTAL HONORS, To tHe Eprror or THe NATION he The genius of Byron has popularized the story of Marino Faliero, the Venetian chief magistrate who, in a fit of resentment for a private wrong plotted the ruin of his country. The crime of Faliero was punished by a shameful death, and the republic stigmatized it with an ignominious com memoration by substituting for his portrait, in the series of ducal efligies, a tablet with this incription: “Ts Is THE PLACE OF MARINO FALTERO, BE HEADED FOR TREASON.” The case of Faliero is by no means the only one where the public justice of Italy has pursued the name of a rank offender with a vengeance extend ing beyond the scaffold. Travellers, who knew Genoa before the progress of modern improvement had shorn even that emphatically “slow” city of many tokens of her quaint medieval grandeur, will remember seeing, in pub lic places, inscribed tablets erected by the government to the perpetual infamy Several of these curious memorials are still preserved +] ne of flagrant criminals. in the court of the University, and copies of others are to be found in old municipal records. Thus, in 1550, when the traitor Stephen Raggio, a protetype of our own Ruffin, had anticipated his execution by suicide, the memory of his crimes was perpetuated by a public inscription, which was not removed until 1816. Another lapidary record of the same year transmits to posterity the in- famy ot John Paul Ball i traitor and “ veet lium famosus ex? which latter phrase m be Genor I nf s} Another, of 1672, rms the like good serv for the name of Rap! de la Torre, a rebel and ! Raphael Sx sof his Many other instances of this monumen repr mm t he d from Italian history, and even our own country is not wholly war r in analo gous examples. Not many years ago, the town au s stiv cel brated country village in New England cut down, in spite of urgent remon strances, an ancient and majestic elm standing on the private grounds of a resident of the town, because, in the course « s slow grow ts trunk had gradually encroached on the sidewalk to the width, perhaps, of a “ select man’s” hat-brim. The owner of the tree put up a tablet to commemorat | this act of petty tyranny. But he either superabounded in diser n, or was deficient in courage, and he did not venture to record the names of tl } officials who, in the pride of municipal de spotism, had sa¢ ced the vener ated tree IIence the satire was pointl ss It is, 1! rsona and, stigmatizing the act rather than the act uly. Besides, being only an expression of private indignation, it hes nity of a public and authoritative sanction. Modern indulgence usually exc mpts humble political offenders t the extreme penalties with which their transgressions were visited by criminal jurisprudence, while greater and more conspicuous consp rs against the liberties of their native land are seldom so much as « efor any other tribunal than those of conscience and of public o} s 3 is still at liberty, and in the full enjoyment of the fruits of his ¢ The malignant and mischievous incendiaries, To s an ar ‘ if not pardoned, and the philosophic and now persecuted Greeley’s ! versal amnesty’ would embrace not only these w s and his spond ents Sanders and Tacker, but Wirz, Champ Fergus Quantrel], and Blac} burn. Even the ove row of the s les ltr rt posed usurpers had erected in honor o \ x . 1 their 3 and inscriptions from public monuments, and the remoy 1 their portraits from national galleries, have been generally considers is expressions of par- tisan animosity, and as a mode, if not of viola v, at least of suppressing his torical fact, while the exclusion of the busts of Luther and of Cromwell from the Bavarian Valhalla and the British Parliament House has been almos ! universally condemned, even by those who dissent frot r theok land political opinions ar lisay t } s ve « snirit which savors rat! f religious in ra rm han ( a love rty ro ut We have] and . 7 . s who have car ried with them to tl ] : 1 rning 1 1. or whoar now enjoving the best « rthls reward of y le and matriotism, the approbation of a grateful country rs W ce Flovd, have died lespised even by their accom . M » | s who, having been spared by our regular criminal tribunals and by the handed ven cance of popular justice, still live nf is and contenter Our patriots, dead and r, have d w hose 1 ntal honors which older nations so profusely stow on d ! ’ norary greatness ; our p parr s1 ‘ se so est s of national exeeration, of which I have « som s. The history yf even a great and good man may sometimes be epitomized in a single din that of the bad there is fr itly some salient f aome damning lie, some crowning t of meanness 0 wrong, th ire na of which may serve as a per tal | nd M 0 1 une sciously wr their own truest epitaphs, and the \ t lives of our promins citizens, the multiplicity of their official a m,and the n ssity ‘ uncer ¢ V eX press r is i pu rst ar constantly making the nyuag irt « s iS the lawyers say, constantly bringing from then rances Ww 1 or deed which a tly character- ize and represe! the man who g ves them voice id substance The use of such typi expressions, the specification of such distinguishing acts, in monumental inscriptions, at once the fittest and the fairest method of to alter es the transmitting ag nory of men eminent for good or evil It avoids the necessity of pronouncing a public judgment on their career, the danger of tarnishing by a solemn and lasting stigma, or of elevating by hyperbolical praise, characters whose real guilt or real worth is disputable. Friends and enemies alike must acquiesce in the truth of the record derived from the tongue or the Known official acts of him whose life it commemor ates Each will interpret the words, each « xX] lain the act, in accordance with his views of the character of the man. The patriot will find in the self written epitaph of a patriot, he who sympathizes with treason in that of a traitor, aphorisms, opinions, or facts which commend ‘iiemselves to his

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492 The N moral sense, and each will be free to judge the statesman of opposite prin ciples on evider the truth of which none can gainsay. f To exemp Instead of refusing room to the bust of the late Chief Justice Taney in the halls of the Supreme Court of the United States, let us place by the side of the noble and expansive traits of . - , R 3 P pinched and Mephistophelean features of his successor, with this in script on Ile DECLARED THAT IN THE OPINION OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AND ESP? IALLY IN THAT Of TH FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION Usirep States, * THE NEGRO HAD NO RIGHTS WHICH THE WHITE MAN WAS BOUND TO RESPECT OF THE The doughface, the Copperhead, the theologian who finds Scripture authority for the existence and specilic character of Southern negro siavery, will approve these words as the expression of a political, a social, an econom ical, a divinely revealed religious truth; the advocate of universal liberty will condemn them as a flagitious libel on modern civilization, an atrocious calumny against the noble founders of our commonwealth, a stupendous lie invented and pronounced for the most nefarious purposes—and yet all will agree in the truth and appropriateness of the inscription. In like manner, neither friend nor foe could object to this legend on the pedestal of Millard Fillmore’s bust : AN ACT TO AMEND AND SUPPLEMENTARY TO AN ACT ENTITLED: AN ACT RESPECTING FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE, AND PERSONS ESCAPING PROM THE SERVICE OF THEIR MASTERS APPROVED SEPTEMB 1 win MILLARD FILLMORE.” R18, 1 And as this is rather a short inscription for the image of so conspicuous a personage, we might add a paragraph from his Albany and Buffalo speech of 1856, in which he threatened the Union with the vengeance of the South, and prophesied, if he did not invoke, a pro-slavery rebellion, in case the people should dare to elect to the Presidency his Republican rival instead of himself. Both those who admire and those who view with loathing and with scorn the official career of Franklin Pierce—for even he had his admirers Did not Hawthorne write his biography? Even he had his detractors Did not the /ivra/d habitually style him “ poor Pierce” ?—will read with ‘ jual satisfaction this record beneath his portrait : ‘| HAVE NEVER BELIEVED THAT THE ACTUAL DISRUPTION OF THE UNION CAN OCCUR WITHOUT THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD; BUT LF, THROUGH THE MADNESS OF NORTHERN ABOLITIONISM, THE DIRE CALAMITY MUST COME, THE FIGHTING WILL NOT BE ALL SOUTH OF MASON AND DIXON'S LINE MERELY IT WILL BE WITHIN OUR OWN BORDERS —IN OLROWN sTREETS—BETWEEN THE TWO CLASSES OF CITIZENS TO WHOM LHAVE REFERRED. THOSE WHO DEFY THE LAW AND SCOUT CONSTITUTIONAL OBLIGATIONS WILL, IF WE EVER REACH THE ARBITRAMENT OF ARMS, FIND OCCUPATION ENOUGH AT HOME,”’—Leller lo Jefferson davis, Judy bt, 1560. So when a marble likeness of James Buchanan shall recall to the spectator the late John M. Clayton's judgment on his physiognomy, he will acquiesce, whatever may be his political opinions, in the fitness of writing under it, in letters of blood, the word LECOMPTON In like manner the words and deeds of Wood and Vallandigham and Voorhees and Booth, of the late Martin Van Buren and James K. Polk, and of a certain always tvo late American general, who being now forgotten shall be nameless, as well as of hundreds of other statesmen and soldiers who in their time have been the glory or the shame of their country, would furnish abundance of appropriate and pithy illustration of their monumental efligies. Cannot some one of your contributors who has leisure and means of refer 1 article on the eminent men of America as characterized VIATOR. ence furnish you a by themselves * Kiome, ITALY, Sept. 25, 1865. THE SOUTH AS IT IS. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. XIV. RaLeienu, N. C., Oct. 5. I REACHED this city on the evening of the 27th of September, at an hour somewhat later than I had expeeted, having been detained in the morning at Pittsboro’ by an incident that I have learned to look upon as a common occurrence. My landlord was obliged to despatch servants through all the neighborhood to get a note changed, but their endeavors, whether honest or otherwise, were not successful, and after being kept from the road for more than an hour it became necessary to depart and leave with him five dollars in payment for one night's stay. The ordinary charge was two dollars in silver, he said: in greenbacks he ‘d have to charge four dollars. Throughout the country districts there is yet a decided distrust of paper money—a distrust quite natural, founded as it is upon all that the people know of Confederate notes and bonds, and upon their ignorance in respect to the national cur- ation. farmers some who had heard of greenbacks before I tendered them, but had never seen any and hardly liked to receive them ; they ’d been told the Government would call in all that kind of money in a year or two and repu- diate ; understood the traders did n’t ‘low ‘t was worth dollar for dollar: they ‘d need some money, though, to pay taxes with, and Government money ‘d ought to be good for that, they reckoned, for the present anyhow. Not knowing how far confiscation measures may be pushed, they are not a little anxious to have on hand money with which to pay whatever tax bills may be presented. Some one of the many pamphlets setting forth the country’s ability to bear the burden of the national debt would be profitable reading for these North Carolinians, and I think would be willingly read. If not more necessary, the circulation of such a work would be much more easy than that of any tract purely political. Raleigh is a less considerable city than I had supposed, and the business part of it is neither large nor handsome; but its broad avenues, abundant trees, gentle declivities, and rather elegant private residences, make it the prettiest Southern town, and with the most external evidences of taste and refinement, that I have yet seen. Its name of the City of Oaks must have been given it, I should say, by some one approaching it from the pine lands to the southward, for the number of those trees is not remarkable. The first days of October here are very enjoyable, being hazy and cool without frosts, and the moonlit nights are even finer than the days. But the air is heavy and motionless and cannot expand the chest ; it brings with it a faint sus egestion of decaying vegetation, and one begins to think of Carolinian slow fevers and agues. I have been attending some sittings of the colored men’s convention re cently held in this city. The first steps in the matter were taken by negroes resident in Newbern, and it seems to have been generally thought by the people of the central and western counties, by such of them as took any thought at all about it, that the call was issued prematurely. They would have had it deferred until after the adjournment of the State Convention, thinking it more proper to address the Legislature in the event of the con- vention’s leaving the colored population unnoticed, An appeal to the con- vention would wear the appearance of addressing itself not alone to the kindly feelings and the sense of justice of their white fellow-citizens, but partly to their fears also, and thus would provoke resentment. Moreover, the petitioners would put themselves in an attitude of complaint, when as yet they had sutfered no injustice by any State action. But, on the other side, it was argued that in this State the negroes were surely suffering enough at the hands of individuals to justify them in petitioning ; that in other States their brethren were suffering under unjust enactments, both ancient and recent ; that in the North Carolina statutes there were evils to be cured, and there were other evils to be prevented from getting there ; and, | finally, with regard to the body before which the negroes’ petition should be laid, that North Carolina would be more likely to slight the claims of her colored citizens after she had obtained full power to legislate for them as she pleased than now, while it is still doubtful if justice towards them may not be the lowest price at which she can purchase the enjoyment of all privileges belonging to a State in the Union. So it was decided to adhere to the original call, which was sent as far as possible throughout the country districts, and on the day of assembling nearly forty counties were represented. Some of the delegates were duly elected by meetings regularly organized for that purpose; others were sent up from churches, from | prayer-meetings, from neighborhood conferences where a few men met together in secret. Of course, many were unprovided with credentials, their constituents, very probably, like themselves, being unable to read or write, and but little versed in the business of politics. “ They ‘d hed no time fur credentials,” one said; “ they ’d hed to run off in the night season fur fear ;’ so it was voted that the convention should be a mass convention, and all should be entitled to seats who had come up to attend. This motion, for which everybody voted, did much to take everything out of the hands of those who originated the convention, but, perhaps, made its action more truly represent the opinions and feelings of the colored people, not of the coast counties and the eastern cities, but of the whole State. For at this present time the negroes in central and western North Carolina have given but little thought to political subjects, and take no great interest in them. In Wilmington, Newbern, and Beaufort, judging by their representations at the convention, the case is different. The session was held in the African Methodist church, a small edifice in a back street of the city. The delegates were about a hundred and twenty in number, but crowds of colored citizens were interested spectators through- out the four days, and the house was always filled full. It was neatly but cheaply furnished, the only ornament being a large plaster bust of Lincoin, reney. In Davidson, Randolph, and Chatham counties I found among the | fix d to the wall above the pulpit, against a background of mourning drap- BTM © ahaha ots. er

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The T , * » ; , , " . , ery Just over his head were inscribed some of the closine words of the last inaugural address—that passage which begins thus: ‘“ With malice } * 1 . , , . " towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the richt } 1,,) + . . ’ “2 Among the delegates were some that wore the Federal uniform, and

these were treated with much respeet by their fellow-members. In pursu ance of a fashion that seems to o! rere, one of them. a se re was chosen to oflice, and served among the vice presidents, He

others, was a fine-looking you ’ ng fellow, perfectly neat and ¢ shining. iis.” There were several men dressed in black broadcloth, ministers a button polished, and even his face black as ary black man goin’, 11 nd chap . lains, who did a large share of the talking, and bore a main part in the management of the business, and here and there was a

younger man, nattily dressed, and evidently a hotel waiter by profession or a barber; but tl great majority were mechanics and plantation hands, men who had grow: up in ignorance, whose forms were bent with long labor, whose faces expressed patient endurance rather than thought or any passion, and who

for the most part sat mute on the benches. On two or three oceasions some one of these men would rise to deprecate long discussion of things mer formal, or debate that was only personal, beginning his speech perhaps i i thi ay ‘My de: brothe lad ’ lan lf j his } } this way: ¥ dear brothers, | do nt place myself in this honorab tion as a Henry Clay or a Webster, fur I know I kin not do it, ior tO Ss] hor 1 ] afore you. I know | ’s a poor, destituted, onlarnt don’t-know-A-trom been rocked in a hard cradle, from my youth up to the present ag then he would go on to urge the propriety of at once transactin © home, and, F all sary business, so that delegates could } ie ik warming as he proceeded, would very likely fall into the sing-song of the class-meeting, and bi

nea to those whose excit At th y unintelligible > end of id not kept pac his remarks, however, there was always renewed diligenet

jut these men though ignorant were intelligent, and often spoke exceedingly well. “ ¥« said one of the eleverest among them ves, We are ignorant We know it. 1am ignorant for one, and they say all niggers is. They say we do n’t know what the word constitution means. But if we don’t know

enough to know what the Constitution is, we know enough to know what justice is. I can see for myself down at my own court-houce. If they makes a white man pay five dollars for doing something to-day, and makes a nigger pay ten dollars for doing that thing to morrow, do n't I know that nin’t just They ’ve got a figure of a woman with ¢ lihung upthar sir; Mr. President, I do n't know what you call it—(‘ Justice,’ ‘ Just well, she’s got a handkercher over her eves, and the sword is in one hand and a pair o’ scales in the other. When a white man and a nigger rets into es, do n't I know the nigger is always mighty light ? see it? OWT ANT PSPUAE Sheek Beh Sg; Si ‘ rs ag ~~ — 1 . of this s s recus ws ofa c terest o¢ I 1 With horns us r as , tor ‘ ‘ a > m veracious ¢ Ww ev Ww } rt ) could extort f walter alt 4 aa oO has fallen into s Ir i 1 news, t and or i yy iras Two men, for inst vou! 1] e one man from intoxicat pping his voice at

ms " ‘a Set rv 1 soniv W ¢ to ous t ‘ r place res t s T ~ wea s s fat rs house , lor s at h ‘ ‘ ] nt s i « } col re. sir, to rs Liis op } sat kis ha v t f such ins ~ on n I Tix i twee ick . oma i 1 t once s It ‘ll s to get it hntiemen t best to Vb re the law silv obtained ‘ 1 justiv offend = ire v rejected ‘ on gt v AY ging « red red people Sal istructors of i come here to ‘4 il Cacll , - l e I'd 8 L Suds : wiped YON . ¢ 8) 1such an institu so. There w s But, as a rest lon Wheneve ishing urs, ? ts, bawling o ill ne, and Cnn y thoy vears Ctie to to i nti i trace I Death of—a word a; the other

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AOA The Nation. replying—* the Emperor Napoleon—gone to St. Cloud,” and likewis« slur- could be given without an increase in the income tax ; and no ministry would wr over the words following “ Napoleon.” Thus people bought the paper, dare to propose an increased income tax in order to give a subvention to any and yet, when they discovered their mistake, they could have no remedy, as one interest, however popular. If any very general distress should ensue in } » venders could not legally be aceused of any direet fraud. But the trick, the agricultural districts in consequence of this pestilence, there will doubt- hen diseovered, killed the goose that laid the golden eg@s; and also, as less be large funds raised to relieve the distress by private benevolence, and ap evening newspapers came into fashion, the people refused to pay six- possibly a Government grant in aid; but this is all. , 1 pences and shillings for extras. But, as I have said, in the year 1848, the During the last week, the public attention has been called to the subject annus mirabilis of revolution, the night news-venders were in their glory. of electioneering expenses, and has exhibited as much interest in the matter Every day throughout that eventful summer we heard the news shouted as it is capable of feeling about anything in this dead hot season—which our of some throne upset, some story of the barricades, some battle, that had purists in language are so indignant with you for describing as a “ heated been won or lost. And one evening in the close of that long troubled sum- term.” What Rabelais called the “ maucvais quart Cheure” has arrived for mer, when the deluge seemed to be beginning to sub I remember successful candidates—the time when the bill has to be settled, and our hearing the familiar shout of the newsboys approaching the quiet Belgravia papers are filled with the statements of expenses which returning officers street in which I then was residing. As the hoarse broken ery grew. are now obliged to publish according to a recent enactment. It is not to be nearer, I heard the doors of neighboring houses open, and people flocked out | sapposed, however, that these statements represent the whole of the expense into the streets to buy the supplement. Going myself to the window, I incurred, or in most cases anything like it. The agent simply returns the ig tone, “ The cholera! heard the words shrieked out in a dull, g the items which will bear inspection ; but in addition to these there are a num- ” cholera ! the cholera is here! It was thus that the first tidings reached ber of charges which, though not directly illegal, are still kept sedulously London of the disease having appeared in England ; and those who learnt | in the background. In our great boroughs there is no such thing as it in the same way as I did myself, are not likely to have forgotten the direct bribery; the constituencies are too large and too independent to be sensation. purchased, But indirectly there is a great deal of corrupt influence. A The whole scene flashed upon my mind the other day, as it must, I friend of mine, not long ago, was contesting one of the metropolitan should think, upon thousands of other Londoners, when taking up the | boroughs on advanced liberal principles. During the course of his canvass morning newspapers I saw that the true Asiatic cholera was once more in | a local solicitor called upon him, and said that he highly approved of his England. Ilow far the report was due or not to a false alarm is not clear as | principles, but that, as a poor man with a large family, he was always yet. This much seems certain, that a sailor died during this week at South- | accustomed to earn some hundred pounds for his professional services at ampton of a disease so like cholera as to deceive the doctors who attended | election time, and therefore wished to know whether my friend could retain him. Whatever one medical man with us asserts as a fact, a dozen others | him as legal adviser. The offer was not accepted, and the attorney went are always ready to dispute on “d priori” grounds; and so doctors have | over at once to the opposite camp—my informant’s opponent being, I should come forward to declare their conviction that the disease of which the man | add, not a conservative but a liberal of less advanced opinions. This instance died in a few hours was not of the Asiatic type—a discovery which appears | is, | should say, the rule rather than the exception. In all our large con to be considered eminently satisfactory even for the unhappy man who died, | stituencies the local lawyers and the local politicians expect to be retained in Up to today, no other well-authenticated manifestations of the epidemic | behalf of one candidate or the other. They will not desert their party have been reported, and therefore it is not impossible the case may be an | unless the inducement offered be something extraordinary ; but, as between isolated instance. Whether it is so or not, there can be no reasonable doubt | men professing more or less the same liberal creed, they will invariably that the cholera is coming. The theory suggested by the Zimes, that it support the man who, in our English phrase, “sets money rolling.” was likely to remain confined to the basin of the Mediterranean, has been | Nobody except the member and his committee really knows what the cost upset by its recent course, and no reason can be assigned why its gradual | of the election is. The worst feature about the affair is, that the expenses march westward should be barred by the Straits of Dover. If we had no | are largest in those very constituencies where men of no local influence or former experience to go by, it would be difficult to suppose the extraordin. | moneyed interests have the best chance of succeeding as a candidate. Very ary atmospheric conditions of the season did not portend the approach of | great personal popularity or strong territorial connection will often enable a disease. The strange heats still continue, though ina somewhat abated form ; | man to get a seat in Parliament free of expense; but the ordinary run of and day after day we have skies as clear, if not as blue, as those of Italy. For members have to pay terribly for the honor of writing M.P. after their many weeks past we have scarcely had a drop of rain, and already there are | names. Probably there neyer were two elections conducted more strictly on general complaints of the scarcity of water. Still, with the shortening days | purity principles, or with more genuine enthusiasm on the part of the con- the nights are getting chilly, and within a few weeks, at the latest, we may | stituency, than the contests which resulted in the return of Mr. Mill for expect the first touch of frost. Under these circumstances, we may fairly | Westminster and Mr. Hughes for Lambeth. Yet the expenses of these two expect not to be fully visited by the cholera till next spring. At any rate, | elections were respectively two thousand and eleven hundred pounds, This the public has made up its mind the epidemic will not come for another six | expense has been borne entirely in the case of Mr. Mill, and partially months at the earliest ; and when the British public has once made up its | in that of Mr. Hughes, by the voluntary contributions of their several com- mind upon a theory, it takes a great number of facts to disturb its belief. A | mittees. But, as a rule, constituencies will not pay the expenses incurred good deal may happen in half a year ; and we are not much given to trouble | for their candidate’s return. It may be right theoretically, as Mr. Miil con, ourselves about remote evils. Meanwhile, we have the usual outcry of the siders, that they should do so ; but they will not do it as a rule. Anybody, press calling on somebody to do something to make our cities more whole- | therefore, who wishes to represent a London borough, must make up his some. I wish most heartily we could have six months of Imperialism to | mind to spend from one to two thousand pounds, supposing him to be on clear away the “ rookeries”’ and slums of our great cities, and to drive broad | the popular side and to have strong local support. Failing this, his legiti- open thoroughfares through the quarters where the fresh air can now never | mate expenditure will be some five thousand or upwards ; and this,expense, penetrate. But if ever we are to accomplish in England with our free in- | it must be remembered, recurs every time there is an election. One of the stitutions the work that Napoleon III. is doing in France, it will be after a | most popular of our London members, whose seat was never in danger, and pestilence, and not before it. whose re-election was not opposed, stated that he had to pay a thousand The cattle plague is progressing with alarming rapidity, and there is a} pounds for his election. Nor will this calculation seem improbable when report, though not a very clearly established one, that the “ Rinderpest”’ has , you remember that to send a circular by post to each of the electors in the already shown itself amongst sheep. If so, the calamity will be a very serious borough of Lambeth, for instance, would entail an expense of at least a one indeed. The idea that the malady could be trodden out, as it were, by hundred pounds. Of course, if you stand for a smali borough, the cost of the killing every animal infected, has been much combated of late ; and yet the | canvass is far less ; but then, if you are not known to the constituency, you veterinary authorities seem utterly at a loss to suggest any remedy for the must spend largely in order to create a local connection. There has been a disease. Just at this season all the local agricultural societies are holding good deal of talk whether all the necessary expenses of a contest ought not their annual meetings and dinners ; and, naturally enough, the Rinderpest is | to be borne by the state or by a special rate, and all expenses not so paid the one subject of discussion, to the exclusion of the old malt-tax grievance, declared illegal. But nothing, you may be sure, will be done at present. which is now searcely mentioned. At all these gatherings the farmers The expense of getting into Parliament confines membership, as a rule, to are urgent in their declarations that the Government ought to indemnify the wealthy and educated class; and there is no wish on the part of our !l in order to stop the spread of the plague; and ruling classes to reduce the cost of a seat so that anybody who likes could some of the Tory land-owners who preside on these occasions have supported !| be returned if he happens to suit a constituency. them for the cattle they |} the justice of thedemand. But it is absolutely certain that nosuchindemnity| The one striking social incident of the week has been the exodus from 6 a eat antes: tN eh

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; 3 Nereida The Greenwich Hospital. was the grandest ; Of all the monuments of London, this river-side palace and sentimentalists cannot help regretting the departure of the colony of brave old tars from the walls where they lived as the pen sioners of the nation. But the regret is sentimental only. For many years past, the wards of Greenwich Hospital have been comparatively empty, be- cause retired sailors preferred living in discomfort at home amongst their own people, to living amongst strangers away from home in comparative luxury At the noble river-side college they were well fed and clothed and housed, and kept in pocket money, but were under restraint ; had to be in at fixed hours, to conform to written rules, and to submit toa discipline, lax indeed, but still obligatory. So year after year the applications for admission became fewer and fewer ; till at last, with a good sense rare in our public acts, a Dill was passed enabling Greenwich pensioners to draw their pensions wherever they liked, without residence being required of them unless they thought fit to prefer it. This week the new act came into operation ; and all the hale and able-bodied pensioners availed themselves at once of the privilege. There is now nobody left at Greenwich Hospital except two or three hun dred old men, too infirm or friendless to find a home elsewhere ; and as they die out their places are not lik ty to be filed up. The truth is that the age of almshouses is past. Chelsea Hospital is deserted in the same way that Greenwich was, and now that we have onee broken through our national reluctance to interfere with an established institution, | have no doubt many other ancient charitable foundations will be subjected to the same reform as that initiated at Greenwich. Of Fenians or Fenianism we have heard nothing during the past week. The whole affair has missed fire in the most lamentable way, even as a “newspaper sensation ;” and the chief wonder now is whether the Govern ment will be able to justify itself for the vigor of its repressive measures. However, I doubt much stir being made about the matter even when Parlia ment meets. The ministry have only to look wise and say they cannot state all their reasons consistently with che interests of the country, and then no party will like to demand further information. I hear that the publication of the names of the subscribers to the Con federate loan—particulars of which we have received this morning—has created great dismay in Printing-House Square, or, to say the least, it is not of English public opinion had a direct personal, pecuniary interest in the success of pleasant for the public to be informed that the “leading organ ” the Confederacy. But on Monday we shall hear more about the matter. Waiting further information, I own it seems to me improbable so shrewd gentlemen as the editors of the 7imes should have taken Confederate stock in their own names, not in that of some friend or agent. Meanwhile, the » rumored claims of your Government with respect to the Prioleau case have excited no attention. Our public is weary of all mention of the Confeder acy, and is not inclined to quarrel about any problematic dividend from its liquidation. o> A VISIT TO THE CIMBRI. I AD often heard in Venice of that ancient people, settled in the Alpine hills about the pretty town of Bassano, on the Brenta, whom common fame declares to be a remnant of the Cimbrian invaders of Rome, broken up in battle, and dispersed along the borders of north Italy, by Marius many cen turies ago. So when the soft September weather came, last year, we sal lied out of Venice, in three, to make conquest of whatever was curious in the life and traditions of these mountaineers, who dwell in seven villages, and are therefore called the people of the Sette Communi among their Italian neighbors. We went fully armed with note-book and sketech-book, and pre pared to take literary possession of our conquest. From Venice to the city of Vicenza by railroad, it is two hours: and thence one must take a carriage to Bassano (which is an opulent and busy little grain mart, of some twelve thousand souls, about thirty miles north of Venice). We were very glad of the ride across country. By the time we reached the town it was nine o'clock, and moonlight, and as we glanced out of our windows we saw the quaint up-and-down-hill streets peopled with Young girlsstrolled about the picturesque ways with their lovers, and tender couples promenaders, and everybody in Bassano seemed to be making love. were cooing at the doorways and windows, and the scene had all that surface of romance with which the Italians contrive to varnish the real commonplace ness of their life. Our ride through the twilight landscape had prepared us for the sentiment of Bassano ; we had pleased ourselves with the spectacle of the peasants returning from their labor in the fields, led in troops of eight or ten by stalwart, white-teethed, bare-legged maids; and we had revelled + .} in the momentary lordship of an old walled town we passed, which at dusk seemed more Gothic and Moyen-Age than anything after Verona, with a fine | Nation. church, and turrets and battlements in great plenty. What town it was, or what it had been doing there so many ages, | have never sought to know, and I should be sorry to learn any ing abou t The next morning we began those researches for preliminary information concerning the Cimbri which turned out so vain. Ind is we drew near the lurking-places of that ancient people fased itself into shad wy Cc nje ture as to the best means of vetting to the Sette Communi, and the caffetiere at whose place we took breakfast knew nothing at all of the road, ¢ xcept that it was up the mountains, and commanded views of scenery which, verily, it would not grieve us to see. As to the Cimbri, he only knew that they had their own language, which was vet harder than the German. ‘The German was hard enough, but the Cimbrian! d At last, hearing of a famous cave there is at Oliero,a town some miles further up the Brenta, we determined to go there, and it was a fortunate thought, for there we found a nobleman in charge of the eave who told us CX thy how to reach the Sette ¢ mun Phe iv s Re 4 r caVes as to dampness and darkness, but on the whole too Stygian in its « s to ba pleasant, and I enjoyed the ride to Oliero much better. You pass a bridge to get out of —a bridge which eet Bassano lown to the Adriatie from All alon mountain scenery, Brenta-washed, and pi rushing ¢ full of e mills at Bassano rrows in the bottom-lands, and tob: Maize covernment Farm houses dot the valley, by soldiers for the monopolist and now and then are passed villages, abounding in blond girls, so rare elsewhere in Italy, but here so numerous as to give Titian that type from which he painted. At Oliero we learned not only which was the road to the Sette Communi, but that we were in it, and it was settled that we should come the next day and continue in it, with the custodian of the cave, who for his breakfast and dinner, and what else we pleased, offered to accompany us. We were early at Oliero on the following morning, and found our friead in waiting; he mounted beside our driver, and we rode up the Brenta to the town of Vals tagna, where our journey by wheels ended, and where we were to take males for the mountain ascent. Our guide, Count Giovanni Bonato (for I may as well give him his title, though at this stage of our progress we did not know into what patrician care we had fallen), had already told us what the charge for mules would be, but it was n t to go through the ceremony CeSSATY of bargain with the muleteer before taking the beasts. Their owner was a Cimbrian, with a broad, sheepish face, and a heavy, awkward accent of Italian which more marked his northern race, and made us feel comparatively secure from plunder in his hanis. He had come down from the mount top the night before, bringing three mules laden with charcoal, and he had waited for us till the morning. His beasts were furnished wit’: comfortable pads, covered with linen, to ride upon, and with halters inst: ad of bridles, and we were prayed to let them have their heads in the ascent, and not to try to cuide them The elegant leisure of Valstagna (and in an Italian town nearly the whole population is elegantly at leisure) turned out to witness the departure of our expedition ; the pretty little blond wife of our innkeeper, who was to get dinner ready against our return 1 up her baby to wish us buon reo} rehiet ; chiekens and chil with Count Giovanni gving splendidly ahead on foot, and the Cimbrian bringing up the rear, we str m the broad rocky valley between the can the ascen It was a lovely morning; the sun heights, and prese was on the heads of the hills, and the shadows clothed them like robes to their feet ; and I should be glad to feel here in New York the sweetness freshness, and purity of the mountain air, that seemed to bathe our souls in a Idlike delight of lit \ noisy brook gurgled through the valley ; the } t } the trees: the Alps rose, crest on crest, around us: and } } J , among the bDaid peaks, showed tl 1e wooded height where the Cimbrian village of Fozza stood, with a white chapel gleaming from the lofty grove. Along the mountain sides the sm heart of th e curled from the lonels } melanch f shepherds, and now and then we came upon one of those ges Which are built in the hills for such travellers as are re overtasen there vv storms The road for th with masonry of smal! stones, where nature has not shored it up with vast most part winds by the brink of precipices, walled in monoliths, and is paved with limestone. It is, of course, merely a mule- thrilling to experience, how the mules, path, and it was curious to s vain of the safety of their foothold, kept as near the border of the precipices as possible. For my own part, I abandoned to my beast the entire re8ponsi

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n { } ' he re I ii ! lor ly | Wiis ¢ . niv ie the out } suppressed wails of terror from the evidence of vanity and daring in her mule. before, the Cimbrian came behind, and we had | until we stopped under a spreading haw de of the path, to the grea iin ( ( Wile t hi ) l ‘ such slight serv we my eves and holding my me Was only aml u ts capt ney, and continuall: . breathe our adventurous beasts Here two of us dismounted, and, while one of other in her novel attitude of cavalier, vanni and the Cimbrian. and in his own tongue Briick, which, pronouncing less regularly, we Brick, in compliment to his qualities of good fellowship. visage was bordered shone upon it: he loo between him and the ] by a hedge | ye LL8O 8CU 1, Pensk rt vanni was curious enough. dismay of the second lady in the train gave Count Giovanni strod I listened t ( hi uy 1OS upon fis t ss Wus ecasionaily 0 itl Phe mule of the perl ,¢ hiv own, b 7 Tr rentie rider; Wihiliec hail equal stoli ily } ittle coherent conversation tree, halfway up the mountain, to 41 : batel ] tale lac eS BACT hed Tine o the talk of Count Gio This Cimbrian’s name in Italian was Lazzaretti, made His broad, honest of red beard, and a light of dry humor ked, we thought, like a Cornishman, and the contrast stretti expression of Count Gio Concerning his people, he knew little ; but the Capo-gente of Fozza could tell me everything. Various traditions of their origin were believed among them; Brick himself held to one that they had first come from Denmark. As we sat there under the spreading haw-tree, Count Giovanni and I made him give us the Cimbrian equivalent of some Italian phrases, which the curious may care to see in correspondence with English and German. Of course, German pronunciation must be given the words: English. I go, Thou goest, He goes, We go, You fo, They go, I went, Thou wentest, lle went, Good dav, Good night, How do you do? How goes it? I, Thou, He, she, We, You, They, The head, Breast, Face, Arm Foot, Finger, Hand, Tree (beam), Hat, God, Heaven, Earth, Mountain, Valley, Man, Woman, Lady, Child, Brother, Father, Mot! er, Sister, N Stone, Cimbrian. I rehe, Du gehst, Ar geht, Hamish gehen, Hamish setender gehnt, Dandern gehnt, I bin gegegnt, Du bist gegegnt, Der iganget, Uter tag, Uter nast, Bie estater t Bie gehts? I, Du, Di, Borandern, Ihrt, Dandern, Da kof, Pe tten, Denne, Arm, V uss, Vinger, Hant, Pom, Hoit, Got, Debelt, Erda, Ps rk, Tal, Mann, Beip, Vrau, Hint, Pruder, Vada, Muter, Schwester, Stone, German. Ihr geht. Sie gehen. Ich bin gegangen. Du bist gegangen. Er ist gegangen, Guten Tag. Gute Nacht. Wie stcht’s? Wie geht’s? Ich. Du. Er, sie. Wir. Ihr. Sie. Der Kopf. Brust (/talian petto). Gesicht. Arm. Fuss, Finger. Hand. Baum. Hut. Gott. Himmel. Erde. Berg. Thal. Mann. Ve ib. Frau. Kind. Bruder. Vater. Mutter. Schwester. Stein. Yation. and instead of creeping l meadow and pleasant valley walled in by lofty heights of along by the brinks of precipices, we began to wind through bits of Though September was bland as Jane at the foot of the mountain, we found its breath harsh cold on these heights; and we remarked that hough there were here and there breadths of wheat, the land was for the most part in sheep pasturage, and the grass looked poor and stinted of summer warmth. We met, at times, the shepherds, who seemed to be of Italian race, and were of the conventional type of shepherds, with regular faces and two elaborate curls trained upon their cheeks, as shepherds are always carved in stone over the gates of villas. They bore staves, and their they saluted us courteously, “‘ Ah, The people are poor and the air flocks went before them. Encountering us, and when we had returned t } 9 oras ir greeting, they cried with one voice: r is not this a miserable country? iseold. It is an unhappy land!” And so passed on, profoundly sad ; but we could not help smiling at the vehement popular desire to have the region abused. We answered cheerfully that it was lovely country. If the air was cold, it was also pure. he last moment, just before We now drew in sight of Fozza, and, at t parting with Brick, we learned that he had passed a whole year in Venice, where he had brought milk from the mainland and sold it in the city. He declared frankly that he counted that year worth all the other years of his life, and that he would never have come back to his native heights but that his father had died, and left his mocher and young brothers helpless He was an honest soul, and I gave him two florins, which I had tacitly ap pointed him over and above the bargain, with something for the small Brick or bats at home, whom he presently brought to kiss our hands at the house of | the Capo-gente. The village of Fozza is built on a grassy, oblong plain on the crest of the | mountain, which declines from it on three sides, and on the north rises high above it into the mists in bleaker and ruggeder acclivities. There are not more than thirty houses in the village, and I do not think it numbers more than a hundred and fifty souls, if it numbers so many. Indeed, it is one of ' | the smallest of the Sette Communi, of which the capital, Asola (I spell from the Venetian pronunciation), contains some thousands of people, and lies not farfrom Vicenza. The poor Fozzatti had a church, however, in their village, in spite of its littleness, and they had just completed a fine new bell ] e ‘ . P - tower, which the Capo-gente deplored, and was proud of when I praised it. The church, like all the other edifices, was built of stone; and the village at a little distance might look like broken crags of rock, so well it cons yrted with the harsh, crude nature about it. Meagre meadow-lands, pathetic with | tufts of a certain pale-blue, tearful flower, stretched about the village and southward as far as that wooded point which had all day been our land- mark in the ascent. Our train drew up at the humble door of the Capo-gente (in Fozza all doors are alike humble), and, leaving our mules, we entered by his wife’s invitation, and seated ourselves near the welcome fire of the kitchen—wel come, though we know that all the sunny Lombard plain below was purple with grapes and black with figs. Again came from these women the wail of the shepherds: “ Ah, lords! is it not a miserable land?” and I began to doubt whether the love which I had heard mountaineers bore to their inclement heights was not altogether fabulous. They made haste to boil us some eggs, and set them before us with some unhappy wine, and while we were eating, the Capo-gente came in. He was a very well-mannered person, but had, of course, the bashfulness | naturally resulting from lonely life at that altitude, where contact with the | world must be infrequent. His fellow-citizens seemed to regard him with a kind of affectionate deference, and some of them came in to hear him talk with the strangers. He stood till we prayed him to sit down, and he presently consented to take some wine with us. After all, however, he could not tell us much of his people which we had not heard before. A tradition existed among them, he said, that their ancestors had fled to these Alps from Marius, and that they had dwelt for a A ceneral resemblance to German and English will have been observed | long time in the hollows and caves of the mountains, living and burying in these fragments of Cimbrian, while other words will have been noticed as quite foreign to either. There was a poor little house of refreshment beside our spreading haw, century, had little or no intercourse with the Italian population by which and a withered old woman came out of it and refreshed us with clear spring | they were surrounded on all sides. water, and our guides and friends with some bitter berries of the mountain, | and it was seldom that any Cimbrian knew its language. good for the blood. their dead in the same secret places. At what time they had been converted to Christianity he could not tell; they had, up to the beginning of the present They did not intermarry with that race, But now inter- which they admitted were unpleasant to the taste, but declared were very | marriage is very frequent; both Italian and Cimbrian are spoken in nearly When they had sufficiently improved this fluid, we all the families, and the Cimbrian ig gradually falling into disuse. They mounted our mules again, and set out with the journey of an hour and a still, however, have books of religious instruction in their ancient dialect, quarter still between us and Fozza. Aw we drew near the summit of the mountain our road grew more level, | brian. and until very lately the services of their church were performed in Cim- b Ly PE pc OAD Petia 2 06

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I begged the Capo to show us some of their boo nd he brought us ; bu they mu \ 5 troul | Ww two, one a catechism for children, entitled “ Dar Kloane Catechism vor 2’) you COI M w I grin Baloseland ri tit hn Z pr it Von siden Komonii n vie Il ole ( { 1 1 ‘ = ss Gasang. 1842. Padov: The other book it grieved me to see, for it in the world ! proved that I was not the only one tempted in modern times to visit these And Tam bou : I he mask s ancient peo} ibitious to bear to them the relation of discoverer, as it) face, he was satisfied v what | e him, t t Was not! were. A Hi tch Columbus, from Vienna, had been before me, and I He had told us cas yth Was nephew ofa manofa certain ricl could only come in for Amerigo Vespuggi’s tempered glory. This German = and ancient family in Ven Who sent him money while in the army, but savant had dwelt a week in these lonely places, patiently coiupiling a dic- | this made no great impression on 1 and though | knew there was e1 h tionary of their tongue, ich, when it was printed, he sent to the Capo. noble poverty in Italy to have given rise to tl TOV lam magnanimous enou to give the name of his book, that the curious | conta, non conta ite, yet Leonfess at it Was wi i sl < of surprise I may buy it if they like. It is called “Johann Andreas Schweller’s Cim- | heard our g and servant saluted by a lounger in Vals .wW S brisches Wérterbuch. Joseph Bergman. Vienna. 1855.” conte, servitor 8 f I looked narrowly at him, but there was no ray of Concerning the present Cimbri, the Capo said that in his community they feeling er pride visible in his pale, languid visage as he responded, “ 3 were chiefly hunters, wood-cutters, and charcoal-burners, and that they prac. 4¢?, ¢d Yet after that revelation we simple plebeians, who had been ticed their primitive in those gloomier and wilder heights we saw to all day heaping shawls and books upon Count Giovanni, demanding met the northward, and descended to the towns of the plain to make sale of th offices from him, and treating him with good-natured slight, felt uncomfort favots, charcoal, and wild-beast skins In Asola and the larger commun abl in his pre em and we med the appearar Moour cay ge with our ties they were farmers and tradesmen like the Italians; and the Capo driver, who, having started drunk from Bassan n the morning, had kept believed that the Cimbri, in all their villages, numbered near ten thousand, Grunk all day at Valstagna, and who now drove us back wildly over the road, He could tell me of no particular customs or usages, and believed they | and almost made us sigh for the security of mules ambitious of the brinks did not differ from the Italians now except in and language. They are, Of preci ices

of course, subject to the Austrian Government, but not so strictly as the Italians are, and though they are taxed and made to do military service, 25 Cents a Month! $3 a Year! Profusely Illustrated! THE SUNDAY MAGAZINE. nothing more worthy to tell us; and, as if to make us amends for having Edited by Dr they are otherwise left to regulate their affairs pretty much at their p The Capo ended his discourse with much polite regret that

come so far to learn so little, he said there was a hermit living near, whom

we might to see, and sent his son to conduct us to the hermitage. It . as . ‘ . AUTUMN. By the Editor W : istration by B SET Fos R turned out to be the white object which we had seen gleaming in the wood : , } ° ° 1 14] THE OLD AGE OF ST. PETER By BR E. H.P M R M.A on.the mountain from so great distance below, and the wood turned out to l 4 HOW THE MINISTER COMFORTED HIS CHILDREN By t Rev. W. F. Stevewr Ile was warmly dre son, Dublin grove, in which we found the hermit cutting fagots,

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sed in clothes without rent, and wore the cl al knee ipripneIagng arma ga . THE PITMAN TO HIS WI By Dora GreeNwett. With an illustration by breeches. Ile saluted us with a cricket-like chirpiness of manner, and was Robert Bart ; greatly amazed to hear that we had come all the way from America to visit), progRaAPpHy IN HALF A VERSE. RB Rev. W. ARKor, author of “Laws from % » } mR t Eeik , R r.a ol AWes ITror was built upon the side of a white-washed chapel to Heaven for Life on Eart St. Francis, and contained three or four little rooms or cupboards, in which GARDENS AND GARDENING. By Professor Batrovr, Edinbur him. His hermitage

1¢ hermit dwelt and meditated. They opened into the chap l,of which the ANNALS OF A QUIET NEIGHBORH dD By t \ r. Wi an i tration by

hermit had the care, and which he kept neat and clean like himself. Hi Pr. Salmat told us proudly that once a year, on the day of the titular saint, a priest “EVEN AS THOU WILT.” W : by Fred. J. S$ a came and said mass in t] chapel, and it was easy to sce that this was the ABOUT RICHARD BAXTER. By W.L. ALExanver, D.D., 1 " great occasion of the old man’s life. For forty years, he said, he had been THE STORY OF BEUGGEN CASTLE, By Joun De Lrer1 Wi strationas, devout ; and for twenty-five he had dwelt in this place, where the goodness ‘*COFFEE-POT SAM.” Bya\ teer Miss r of God and the charity of the poor people around had kept him from want. PRAISE GOD UPON THE EARTH Isa CRAI With ar istration by J. Wolf. Altogether, he was a pleasant enough hermit, not in the least spiritual, but STRAIGHTWAY, By ALexanper Ra gentle, simple, and evidently sincere. We gave some small coins of silver NOTES FOR READERS OUT oO} HE WAY to aid him toc ntinue his life of devotion, and Count Giovanni bestowed he stately blessing, “ Jddio vi benedica, pad i Pres ALEXANDER STRAHAN & CO., So we left the hermitage, left Fozza, and started down the mountain on ivS Grand St., New Yor] some coppers with t ‘ rk, foot, for no one may ri le down those steeps. Long before we reached the Anp SoLD BY A | s LERS bottom, we had learned to loathe mountains and to long for dead levels —— —_— during the rest of life. Yet the descent was picturesque, and in some things JUST PUBLISHED even more interesting than the ascent had been. We met more peopl : now melancholy shepherds with their flocks; now swine-herds and swine CARROLL’S NEW PRACTICAL CATALOGUE herdesses with herds of wild black pigs of the Italian breed ; now men

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Long- man, and to be published here by ~ Messrs. D. Appleton & Co., promises, from the description, to be a work of more elaborate art than we have lately seen applied to books of this nature. It is entitled, in full, “* The Life of Man symbolized by the months of the year, in their seasons and phases, with Passages selected from Ancient and Modern Authors, by Richard Pigott, accompanied by a series of twenty-five full-page illustra tions, and many hundred marginal devices, decorated initial letters, and tail pieces, engraved on wood from original designs by John Leighton.” The twelve sections of the work accord with the months of the year, the pro gress of nature fram the seed to the decay of the tree, and the physical and moral development of human life. The passages culled from ancient and modern writers will be given in “the typographical characters of their respective periods,” set in an elaborate frame-work of marginal devices, vig nettes, etc. There are to be medallion portraits, “from the infant to the patriarch,” with floral emblems, symbolical attributes, ete., ete.—in short, a wealth of pictorial illustration that, if under the guidance of good taste, may make a striking book in a class where inanity has been the general rule —While the Iliad receives its full tribute of translation in all Engllsh metres, and in none—five new ones are readily counted up since Lord | Derby’s success—it is curious how totally neglected is the other masterpiece of antiquity, the acid of Virgil, surely the easier task of the two. This was not always the case. 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It is certain that their respective excellences would have been more congenially exemplified if they had changed task the unquestioned fire. and force of Dryden would have served him better with Homer, while Pope's finish and precision would have rather aceorded with his early master and prototype, whom he imitated in his first work, the “ Pastorals.” A new version of the Jneid has been undertaken by that inished scholar, Professor Conington, who has edited the original for the ‘ Bibliotheea Classica,” and published translations of Horace that were warmly admired. —There seems something of a return to the cood old days—when men of real learning and distinction were well pleased to fill subordinate offices that connected them with libraries, and so served the cause of letters more effectually, perhaps, than in stations of higher pretension—in the elevation > of Rev. R. Payne Smith, sub-librarian of the Bodleian, to the préeferment of *Regius Professor of Divinity elect in the University of Oxford,” one of the most important and dignified offices of the University. It reminds one of the time when the mighty Dr. B ‘ntley himself did not disdain to be king’s librarian, and Dr. Conyers Middleton was head of the University Library of Cambridge. Mr. Payne Smith has chiefly been before the public in con nection with Syriac studies, and has edited in that language and translated “The Commentaries of St. Cyril on St. Luke,” and “ The Ecclesiastical Ilistory of John of Ephesus,” a unique record of a stormy period of Byzan tine history. —Whoever feels annoyed at departures from minute accuracy will find plenty of cause for animadversion in the current periodical writing of Eng land and the United States at the present day. In both countries, a desire to say smart things leads people to venture on remote allusions with an air of familiarity that only thinly covers the ignorance beneath. Perhaps the worst offender of this kind is Dr. Doran, now editor of, or at all events chief writer in, the Atheneum. In every slipshod coluran that he writes the characteristics just mentioned may be noticed. In the last number of the “ Atlantic Monthly” a reviewer, offering corrections for Mr. Brooks’s transla tion of Jean Paul’s “ Hesperus,” says: * The famous African prince, Le Boo, deserves a note,” a most unkindly way of turning the mild Polynesian, whose portrait, with his hair clubbed and queued in the fashion of the day, looks sadly from Keate’s “ Account of the Shipwreck of the Antelope in the Pelew Islands,” into an African negro! It is strange, by thie way, that none of our modern book translators have turned this charming book into a new “ juve- vile.” And again, says the critic, * Zaevnabula means specimens of the first printed edition of a work ; also, the first impressions of the first edition the firstlings of old editions.” Gustave Brunet’s “ Dictionnaire de Biblio logie” would tell him that the word, derived from the Latin zacunahulum cradle), was first used by the Germans to designate works produced in the infancy of the art of printing, before A.D. 1500, and has been generally adopted from them in that sense. Even in the “ North American Review ” a writer quotes the well-known tripartite division of mankind as into “men, women, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagus.” We never heard before that any doubt was entertained as to Lady Mary’s womanhood ; the mot, attributed to the fust Lady Townshend, was really “men, women, and Herveys”—allud ing wittily to the general eccentricities of the race, which reached almost to insanity in the famous Prince Bishop of Derry, and to the personal pecu- liarities of Lord Hervey Pope’s “ Sporus—the mere white curd of asses’ milk ” of the Moral Epistles. —A work of interest to all who use “Chatham’s language for their mother tongue,” or are, in other words, of English descent, is in preparation vy a gentleman of antiquarian name, Rev. Samuel Lysons. It is entitled “ Our British Ancestors ; Who and What were They? an enquiry serving to elucidate the traditional history of the early Britons, by means of recent excavations, etymology, remnants of religious worship, inscriptions, crani- ology, and fragmentary collateral history.” The numerous local antiquarian societies now flourishing in nearly every county in the kingdom have brought together a vast quantity of facts bearing on these subjects, that only want arranging by some master’s hand to bring certainty into ques. tions that have hitherto been in too great a measure conjectural. Mr. Lyson’s book will be published by Messrs. Parker, of Oxford, —Mr. Matthew Arnold’s brilliant essay, contained in his late volume, ‘Pagan and Medieval Religious Sentiment,” will probably make many readers acquainted for the first time with the name of the Abbé Migne. It is incomparing the meagreness and sectarian narrowness of Protestant theo- logical literature with the all-embracine, world-wide scope of Catholic studies, as represented on the shelves of the British Museum Library, that Mr. Arnold is so greatly impressed with the gigantic proportions of the series of volumes bearing the name of that ecclesiastic. Both the man and his work, indeed,

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The Nation. SOL deserve to be better known, especially by all who are interested in books. | brings to his subjects tl : wadaden nialk eatin The world has seen no such instance of devotion to an object, and its suc-| researches since his antiquated rival wret r Ie lr ¢ nis W cessful prosecution with the most limited means. The Abbé Migne was | supplied with apparatus for studying the book usefully Ss a, t s, born in the first year of the present century ; after embracing the ecclesi- | plans of cities, ete. Messrs, Appleton, in their reprint, have added to these astical profession, he early showed talents that placed him in con with | some staring prints « é t prove 8 the literary relations of the Church, and established in Paris in 1833 the | we rk for the scholar’s use : ‘ ss irs religious news} per, Uni s Reliaienr. This was only a whoare to be weaned from Rolli Vheir edit of ve I third is in press step to the object he had at heart, and daily saw the need of—the supplying and will speedily apy at as moderate a price as possible the means of theological study to -A chronicle of the book taste of t] lav wonld be verv in plete that body of his fellow-priests, who were too often obliged to remain in ig omitted any allusi to the fashion for ‘“large-paper”™ copies now fi from the scarcity and high price of the books that they required. He gradu with virulence and an unhealthy disregard for } niary considerations an ally perfected the plan of a * Cours complets de la Science Theologique,” and | our would-be amateurs. When a book, by its embellishments or the p so pressing was the need to be supplied that, in a few months, he able tion of its mechanical execution, becomes a real work of art, a large-paper to depend on twenty thousand subscribers The establishment of his vast | copy often stands to an ordinary one in the same rel n that an early pr book manufactory, “ Les Ateliers Catholiques,” followed, of an engraving bears to a common impressio1 r} ast ayinatiy cess necessary for the production of a volume is performed. He commenced | men often delight in possessing as fine a specimen as possible of a favorit with a complete collection of the Greek and Latin Fathers, the former to | author or edition, in the same sp that led Alexander to enshrine the Iliad Photius (A.D. 863), and the latter to the time of Innocent III. (A.p. 1216), all | in the most costly casket afforded by the spoils of Darius Phe indulgences from the best editions, or edited by competent scholars expressly for the ofa taste of this kind is of course not only excusa i sudable. When work. With the Abbé’s energy a few years served to complete this series old stereotype-plates, however, are printed off on paper of exaggerated size, in 397 volumes, Ww h were supplied to th subseribers in a bandso in rinciple of a“ riv of text rur — rial octavo form, averaging 500 to GUO pages, and at five S per \ slum it eX ec pose ‘ singe in the This undertaking, which the united publishing force of Europe would hav witl I what it really been afraid of venturing o1 ly stit ed the Abbé to further exertions. should imply, the matter becomes simply ridiculous, and those whose money It is impossible to give here even the names of the different series of books is obtained on such shallow pretensions deserve litt real sympathy Ac that followed the “ Patrologie ;” among them are a“ Cursus Completus” of quaintance with large-paper copies forms no branch of bibliography proper. Biblical commentaries, 28 vols.; collection of ‘“ Orateurs Saerés” in two They are generally treated sportively, as exemplifying the fopperies that often series, making together 102 volumes; collection of works on the evidences attach to serious studies. The greatest of modern | . collectors, Richard of Christianity, o1 trations Evang¢liques,” 20 vols.; and the work | Heber, would never admit a large-paper book into his library The whole that Mr. Arnold esp fers to lopédie Théologique,” a collec thing is perfectly arbitrary, reducible to nd rules, and depe ng entirely on tion.comprising in 165 volumes about cighty separate dictionaries, relating the fluctuations of ividual taney | early s AD. 1500, were | ery subject of archieological, literary, and scientific interest that not accustomed to this luxury ; 1 first W scertained book on large paper videst sense be brought into connection with Christianity For was the edition of Livy printed by Aldus about the vear 1518. 17 ily copy recondite information there is certa niy no similar repository in known t » be pre served was b tt Lord Spencer at one of M. Renouard’s existence that can compare with it. At the present time thi auction sales for £99 Ls. sv far the . imber of class ditions on kept in stock, manufactured, and often edited at the Abbé’s estal large paper have no extra value on t nt, but are rather regardedas exceed in number one thousand volumes, of high critical value ; lumber. There are two curious except s: the Hesiod, edited by Robinsor all of one size, representing publishing resources that throw into the shade | and printed at Oxford 1757, is worth, for an ordinary it arto, fifteen anything done elsewhere by individuals or societies since the invention o shillings. Ten copiesonly were printed or ; \ ’ a folio: thev printing. So vast are the plans of this indefatigable man that, if he is spared | are worth over one hundred guineas. ‘7 ist. copy s r at an auction a few years longer, the complete idea of his * Bibliothéque Universelle du) at Brighton, wl no one Was a S\ ventv v a Clergé,” in two thousand volumes, will probably be successfully carried out.) Since, two guineas and a ha t was subsequently pur sed by Lord Visitors who feel sympathy with his objects find the Abbé a spare, hale, Vernon for one hund l and vy - I ot r imstayr is ae and active old gentleman, full of amenity, and a devoted son of the Church, | curious: Dr. Wells's edition of XN five volumes octavo, is a \ ry which he has supplied with an armory of the faith. ordinary book, “ neither eri 1d vw 1 about two pounds \ set on ve papers C1 . \\ ns’s lib —An instance of how often the pur of ine book, besides encour : ‘ : , : , : : rar he first tollo ® . ¢ r wou v com aging art and literature, may prove a good pecuniary investment, is given mand one the ciamal suai teu é fe ree by the market price, at the present moment, of the original grand fo ite a isin al ian : ars edition of Audubon’s * Birds of ica.” "The work was completed in 1840: |... , ete 5 : ectors is a i arge-paper copy oO M r’s \ | or e, prob when Baron Cuvier pronounced it * the lent evel ES i os ; a : raised by art to natural science. A fe l be pro-| a.) = Pe “- ‘ wipes cured for from $500 to $600; now $1 ind copy ; igs 7 ‘ . Ss gs at a “er ae : 1. country wn in Yorks i s sin oS r S100, and would bring and it would not be possible to procure one of any kind for $1,200. As RE AR) ese only one hundred and seventy-five copies were printed, and several of thi I Wes ae , : have been lost or destroyed at the South, the price is certain to advance, and oer te a ae ; will shortly range as high as $2,000. in it sep : ‘ - —Prof. Philip Smith has carried nearly half-way to completion bis pro. at last turned to s 1 t by a German, I Gomperz. It proved to jected “ Universal History” in eight volumes. The third, just published in) be the collection of some tentl-rate I irean } . er or nhist. and England, brings the narrative down continuously from the creation to the contained n iw ti t ves i cobwels s brethren on fall of the Roman Empire in the west, and closes the division of ancient morals, mus il rhetoric, « \ ¥y uninterest in nim history. This the publisher puts forth as an independent work, which may portal German tet ty, however, has grappled with the rabbish, and occupy the place once filled by the “ Ancient History” of Rollin. This it| Mr. Gomperz has edited and printed at ] ‘from the half-charred frag- mey do at the great marts of intellect, but in out-of the-way places there is ments, a work by P ] is v In it ! 1ins the process of a good deal of life left in Rollin yet. A late New York publisher, one of investigation by ind Lis ariy propounded, and the esser of Bacon's the few who in former times made a fortune by his business, used to tell the reasoning on thats story how for fifty years, whenever work was slack for the men in his print n scat throw ht on the ttle onder ing-office, the standing order was, “ Put them on Rollin,” and however larg: Kas : inced by Mr. Bentle en Ha the number printed, the demand was always sufficient to consume them all nstal y Emmeline | formerly Governess It is difficult to account for the enduring popularity enjoyed by a work so Ibral.im of Egypt,” a designation t sounds odd} diffuse and feeble, unless its sincere tone of piety had something to do wit] governess in the family of, et« » verv. existence of it. This will be found as noticeable in Dr. Smith’s book. He writes with with strict Mohammedan mn reverential feeling on the disputed points that often vainly a rthodoxy, and is suggestive of the present atitudinarianism, when “ Selim of men who can grasp but a few isolated points of the great argument, and , wears a repeater, and Zuleika takes Morrison's pills.

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The N The great French royalist orator, M. Berryer, is employing his leisure in his countrs at at Angerville in the collection and revisal of his speeches at the bar and in the Chambers, where during so many years he stood forth conspicuously as the sole champion of the elder branch of the Bourbons that represented in his eyes the principles of law and legitimacy M. Berrver'’s recollections extend as far back as the trial of Marshal Ne y;, whose advocate he was, and will be full of interest to the forensic and parliamentary -It is strange that the Hungarians—for so many centuries after the fall of Constantinople regarded as the bulwark of Christendom in the East —should turn out to be indisputably members of the same race as their op ponents and assailants, the Mohammedan Ottoman Turks. As historical data on the subject were wanting, the question of Hungarian affinities has long engaged the attention of their scholars, it could only be settled by ethnolo gy and philology, and the adventurous journey of M. Vambéry to Bokhara, Samareand, and Central Asia (republished by Messrs. Harper) was under taken for this very purpose. Ile is considered to have proved satisfactorily the connection of his nation with the Altaic race, and rather with the Turco Tartar section of it than the Finnic. M. Vambéry is now engaged upon a comparative dictionary and grammar of this widely-spread idiom, furnished with which alone a traveller may make his way from the shores of the | Adriatic to the great wall of China or the frozen sea of Kamtschatka—the | same speech that by the western ‘Turks has been refined into a language un equalled for copiousness, regularity of structure, and power of expressing exact shades of meaning. Among Messrs. Longmans’ announcements one is struck with the ap- | pearance of a new edition, “revised by the author,” of a book published forty-five years ago, that has long taken its place on the library shelf, and whose author we took it for granted had some time since gone to join the Humes and Robertsons of a past generation. We refer to ‘‘ The History of the British Empire from the accession of Charles [. to the Restoration,” by George Brodie, Historiographer Royal of Scotland. Mr. Brodie’s history, dealing with the much debated men and opinions of the Commonwealth time, was conspicuous for an advanced liberalism—not so common at that day as now—that especially moved the ire of Robert Southey, some of wiose idols it effectually dethroned. The new edition will appear under the title “Constitutional History of the Reign of Charles I. and the Common wealth,” and will be amended by the results of half a century’s later re searches. —The changes in the condition of Spain by the introduction and devel opment of the railroad system in that kingdom have made Mr. Ford’s well known “ Hand-book ” nearly obsolete, and though it will always be valued asa book of reference on all matters connected with the Peninsula unri valled for the extent, veracity, and curiosity of its information, the tourist of the present day requires something more directly bearing upon the great questions of travelling, eating, drinking, and sleeping. All that is wanting in Ford’s classical work is proposed to be supplied in a new “Guide to Spain,” by H. O'Shea, just published by Messrs. Longmans. How to get from place to place ; where to sleep ; what to eat, drink, and avoid ; the price of train and correo ; the name of your landlord ; the reputation of his cellar ; the state of his beds; and other similar matters of personal concern, are all well illustrated in his manual. It will be weleome to many of our country men, with whom Spain has always been a favorite region from the days when Captain Slidell Mackenzie’s “ Year in Spain” first made it familiar ground to his readers. This very work was recently recommended by a cor ' production of Mr. Stidell of Trent notoriety,” though published by Murray, and received with high praise by respondent of the Athenaeum as “ the the “ Quarterly” of the day. —Mr. J. A. St. John, the well-known man of letters, is preparing for early publication a new “ Life of Sir Walter Raleigh,” based, it is said, to a considerable degree on new materials. Raleigh has hitherto not met with such a biographer as his achievements deserve. The American portion of his career of discovery yet needs, in particular, more illustration than it has ever received. Valuable matter for its elucidation has been accumulated by American scholars—as Mr. 8. G. Drake, of Boston—and much relating to it will be found in the transactions of our historical societies. A life that should do justice to the great qualities of the man would be received with unusual favor. Much about him still remains in obscurity. It is a singular fact that even the fate of his descendants is not known. The posterity of his son, Carew Raleigh, can be traced to 1695, after which our information ceases, and it is not known if the family is extant or extinct. Little has been added in England to the facts collected by the laborious antiquary

Oldys for his “ Life of Raleig in the last century, but the recent opening

ation. - of the Public Records to the historical enquirer leads us to expect important revelations on tmaany of the mysterious circumstances connected with the hard treatment and fate of the founder of Virginia. —Mrs. Browning's (Miss Barrett's) translation of the “ Prometheus Bound” of Mschylus no longer remains an unequalled achievement of feminine learning. A new version of the trilogy, or three connected dramas, by the same author, “ The Agamemnon, Choephora, and Eumenides,” has just ap peared, the work of Miss A. Swanwick, a lady whose «ébuv¢ in literature was made by the performance of the task—searecly less diflicult—of translating “Faust” for Bolin’s edition of the works of Goethe. The merit of this version attracted so strongly the notice of Chevalier Bunsen that he warmly recommended the Greek tragic dramas as subjects for Miss Swanwick’s study. The result appears to justify his and her confidence, and her versions are generally praised for closeness to the original, and terse and forcible versification. In critical difficulties the authoress was assisted by Prof. F.W.Newman. Mrs. Browning was probably too much of an original poet to be a good medium for the transmission of another’s thoughts, and Miss Swanwick has a field before her unoccupied by any competitor worthy of notice. oe THE WORKS OF EPICTETUS.* WHILE there have been several translations of the writings of the Em- peror Mareus Aurelius into the English language, there has been but one of the writings of Epictetus. The reason is that this one was so admirable. | No separate translations would have been so valuable, probably, as the four editions of Mrs. Carter's version, She was qualified for her task, not only by her fine Greek scholarship, but by her power to enter into the spirit of her author, and to reproduce his thoughts in vigorous language of her own. In presenting the works of Epictetus tothe American public, nothing more was required than to compare Mrs. Carter's version with the latest edition of the original, that of Schweighiiuser, published in Leipzig in the year 1800, nearly fifty years later than the edition that she used ; and to make such alterations in her style as might be necessary to adapt the book to a more modern public, the literary English of a century ago not being entirely suited to the literary taste of our time. These two things Mr. Higginson has undertaken to do. The alterations in the text are few and unimportant. In that respect, the results of the editor's faithful scholarship are valuable | chiefly as giving us the assurance that we have the original in its best form. | Neither are the alterations in Mrs. Carter’s English as many or as radical as one might have supposed would be necessary. Mr. Higginson’s pages read more smoothly than hers; the obsolete words are dropped ; phrases once clegant are set aside for the elegant phrases of the day. The old-fash- ioned garb of the version is exchanged for the easy walking dress which modern books put on, and the paragraphs move more gracefully, to our think ing. Not that all Mr. Higginson’s alterations are improvements. We do not think they are. An over-refinement occasionally impairs the force of thought or of illustration. Epictetus was a slave, not excessively polished, probably, in his speech. Arrian, his reporter, was, it is true, a man of let- ters, and an accomplished one. The Greek is his, not Epictetus’s. But for this very reason, here and there, the harsher word should be used in prefer ence to the softer one, as best expressing the philosopher's idea. Thus we like Mrs. Curter’s “ wretch,” “ pitiful wretch,” “ fool,” better than Mr. Hig- ginson’s “unfortunate man” and “foolish man.” We like her “not to burst with passion” better than his “ not to be petulant.” When he sub- stitutes for her phrase, “as if you had swallowed a spit,” his own, “as if you had swallowed a ramrod,” he puts into the mouth of the heathen sage a proverb which he could not possibly have uttered ; a proverb too which is no more expressive than the one he employed. Indeed, te most people now, the spit would be more suggestive than the ramrod. On page 114 0f the new edition we read: “ Do you not know that it is the divine you feed, the divine you exercise?” Turning to Mrs, Carter we find : “ Do you not know that it is a God you feed, a God you exercise ?""—which is not only stronger, but more consonant with the Greek thought. “Such a one bathes in a mighty little time” has a flavor about it which “such a one bathes hastily’ has not. “ By nature it loves nothing but its own needs” sounds tame by the side of “ No animal is attached to anything so strongly as its own inter- est.” Here is a case where, on the score of taste, opinions may differ, but it is precisely one of the cases where we should give the preference to Mrs. Carter. She says: “Fool, sit down now and pray that thy nose may not run; Wipe it, and do not murmur.” Very inelegant, but very pithy. Mr. Higginson gives the same passage a more elegant, but less piquant turn ** The Works of Epictetus. <A translation from the Greek, based on that of Eliza- beth Carter, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.’ Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1565.

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° my N 1 t »{)° 1e Nation. 50: . thus: “You might as well kneel and pray to be cured of your ecatarrh. ies demonstrated a provi c ! el ce was destiny We Take care of your disease, rather, and do net murmur.” it that every man’s providence is destiny. Th . Ss, in Whatattit , ; — , s he stand bet s he passive of ve 8 ot s towal In the preface to his edi Mr. Higgiason says very justly: “ Unless a does h , Is he passiy i Ov : } . : ; . : +. it, or not Does 2 ’ Z ’ rT SS of rv new English version is be popularized, there seems no use in making it at bmi ; ; , oe es 7 ; ‘ , ‘ ’ it. submit to i eae} or s he star passionless all Now the chief, almost the only, defeet in his version is that the s vie ii, subm . nt I \ ia ior ; ~ _ . : , : and purposeless, in its prese) Vin ui 8 rs is not sufficiently “ popularized. It follows too literally the Greek idiom. and pury i til . . “1 . ms : the belief, Sit to be «¢ rt r ! } We marked a great many s,of which the following are fair speci the bt = ‘ A . > . oe . 8 Was filial he Was i ata s ‘ AIs(™l 2 0 i t mens: “It is said that there are those who will oppose very evident truths, tu ! : aun \ ‘ Ally P — , } ss on i ( yf) and yet it is not easy to finda reason which may persuade such an one to alter . Us his opinion.” “Ts there any likeness, then, between reading such a petition n both = a ae eee . ' from any one as, ‘ft entreat you to give me permission to export corn,’ and, and rehearse } benefits Ou) Wwe D whet) ‘lL entreat you to learn from Chrysippus ? “For by this way of reasoning | We dig, or plough, or eat, to sing this hymn to G a sa . : * 1 ‘ ~— si 1 F . : —_— who has supplied us wi hese inst r it must be said. Is it then only in the greatest and principal matter, that | . he aa PI With € Ms . , . SPs a‘ , - , is God, who has ven us hands ar or ns of diges “ s ive of freedom, permitted me to desire at random 7? When a person enquired, us to grow insensibly. and to breat n sleep These we : how any one might eat to the divine aceeptance.” ‘“ Nothing, perhaps, is | ever to celebrat it to make the theme of the et on vinecet hem necessary to be said to this, but that | do not want them.” “ What is your | that he has given us power to appre te these Ss. al se them we aga foo ; What clse.can I do. id mn a ymns own, then? The right use of the phenomena of existence ‘Do we not re. hat ¢ an I ‘ old man en = :, Wor : 2 , : ; le 4] ; : ou have anything but what is best what is it w , Sos member that no one either hurts or benctits another, but only the principles | Goa + Lift up vour head like a man fre m bond Dare to look up which we hold concerning everything ? Any reader can, in a moment, t » God, and say,‘ Make use of me for the future as ¢] wilt. Tam in cor cast these sentences in a shape at once more natural, more intelligible, and | munion with thee ; lam one with th [ refuse ng that seems good to more popular thee Lead me whither thou wilt ; clot! Y atey iw . nol Op ar. e - 7 ees Ifa man eats judiciously, gratet hands t i decen The book itself is deserving of all that scholarship and art can do for it. | ly, must he not eat acceptably to God It is a most noble book. There is nothing in it that is not noble, and caleu . hi ‘ah 22 m s Ye hk rere 1s ne ea thing With Bpictetus as re « lated to ennoble men and women. The tone of it is lofty and brave. It teaches, and on the very highest gounds, self-reliance, self-respect, independ “What fig lercules w have ma here had been ° . . , . °° . . i , ' t "I ] ; ence of circumstances, of fortune, and of p ypular opinion ; patience, fortitude no lion, or hyd: lnjust and al. ‘ e i ni , x a ‘ san cleared away ” wral | St = Reasor steadfastness, truthfulness, simplicity, temperance, purity, humility, cheer. |. ‘ ae i . n ; . aa 7 , ay uterest fulness, and gratitude. Its doctrine is grand without being impractical! is, there too is our piety directed and firm without being hard, and rigorous without being cold. Epictetus . + » : " . . . ° hh forowin PASS about ce h n . ‘ st teach r , confined himself to the sphere of personal lies. He was nota theologian ‘ i ee caching ws Agee ae : ; , . . : know: “ Since, at all events, one must die w 1 would vou a metaphysician, a scer, ora prophet. Lk with no broad social ques- | : ; ° , : ave death find you? For my ve , ennta } on ania ied tions, that interested humanity at re those questions were not have death find ee -OF my part, 1 would Dav _ ae — : beneficent ublie-spirited. noble acti If « t ) kes n } ich ¢ propounded in his time. His business was with the soul of each man; and | 7°BETCERS, | 7s a a ‘ rar . - 44 . — situation, it is eno l ‘an stI L ¢ t mv } nds to 4 i an aay. * he went about it in thorough earnest. The first sentence of the “ Enchei: Bee Se: GROee , . aL my oa iod and say, ‘1 ank thee that thon hast brought m sto b am Sad th the ‘dion.” or “ Manual,” states his main doctrine : thank thee that thou hast brought me into being I am satisfied with the time that I have enjoyed the things which thou hast given mx Reeeive “There are things which are within our power, and there are things | them back again, and distribute them as thou wilt: for they were all thine,

whic h are beyond our power Within our power are opinion, aim, desire,! _ 4d thou gavest them to me And again, on p. 300: “* Never say of any aversion, and, in one word, whatever affairs are our own. Beyond our powe Tl : : 1] - a y 1 : : “er . ng. HAVE LOst if » have restored Has Vour chi i l tis are body, property, reputation, oflice, and, in a word, whatever are ne ; aS you on . properly our own affairs. ‘The things within our power are by nature fre estored. Has your wife died Sie 1s restored Has your estate beep unrestricted, unhindered ; but those beyond our power are weak, dependent, ; taken away likewise, is restored But it was a man who took restricted, alien. jit.” What is it to you by whos nis who gave it hath demanded it a ae “r- —— , : again? While he permits y to possess hold s something not yor This is the key-note of all the Stoical teaching ; but the modulations and , ae ee : ang eee ge ‘ . . 2 . own, as do travellers at an inn combinations of Epictetus are richer and sweeter than we hear from other Tl hi , , . ‘ : wse are high teachings So f m rur 34 pat lL with the performers on that key. Both parts of his theme, man and circumstance,} ||, ‘ . i . . = deci wm ne , — . * a ‘ . , « , | Sublimest precepts of the New stal And thev we itte nthe are treated with a breadth and a delicacy which leave little to be desired ‘ i o . : tin th " Gret c ty ° Pa ) . } } = - a first century of the Christian era ( stianitv had n pre On the personal and human side we have words like these, which sound as : tig ' proclaimed | smanel ] T , —, ) i a : ‘ ae one much abroad. They were delivered by a I who lived in Rome, ¢ if they might have been Sp ken vy the lips of the Great Teacher i. : : ; : a ? y - n Rome, at | first as a slave, afterwards as a im W inishe rom Rome, retired es 1 ¢ Ay: : 4 — _ ¢ ‘When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room, remember | '° -*! aS, . is soph) re He may pos never to sav that you are alone: for you are not alone, but God is within s ily ich in Forum ora u't ut nota “Tf the mere external image of God were present, You would not tO} word in his discourses. howe, closely t may resemble those of the act as you do; and when God himself is within vou, and hears and sees all pat 7 1} ss ‘ , — 9 = , — , ipostie In some of their s rays e smaliest a ntavuee with him are you not ashamed to think and act so % Knows he not the God within Sy , . i? him’? Knows he not in what company he goes?’ “1 have one whom | | OT #48 Gospel: nor does a single passa verso faintly, the thoughts must please, to Whom f[ must submit, whom [ must obey, God and those | that were always uppermost in the apostle’s mind here is no hint of his who surround him. VW hat tyrant is formidable? What disease Wha central doctrines or of his distinetive doctrines: no trace the influence of poverty What injury 7 ‘ ae as : : ‘ . ve his mind orcharacter. There is nothing in these writings of | etus tha But the individual is not placed in a sublime solitude. may not have been his own—the product of his own philosophical principles We may regard them asa pure prod the Greek mind in its finest “Tlave the very leaves and our own bodies this ¢ mnection and sy mpathy | mood. Of eo ere are many things wanting, that we miss. There is with the whole, and have not our souls much more % * All is full of beloved ¢ : . : a ; no confession of the Christ: there is no ar belicf mmort But ones; first Gods, and then men, by nature endeared to each other. “ What , t do: you mean by thieves and robbers Phey are people who are mistaken how no must the man have been who reached so k a pinnacle of good about good and evil. Ought you not then rather to pity than to be angry | ness and faith without the aid of hopes that seem to us so all-important ! with them?” “ If you eall for hot water, and your slave does not hear you, |“ Some men,” said Mr. Beecher once, “ can do more with a jack-knife than or, hearing you, brings it only warm, or is not at home perhaps, is it not 2 : ‘ : z 5 aig, te - ; t others can with a whole chest of tools pleasing to God that you should abstain from anger, and should not burst eager é with rage? Slave! Will you not bear with your own brother, who has How well Epictetus lived up to hi we do not know with God for his father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same / certainty. He was sim} 1 his his in his way of life; his high descent ? ‘How does he suffer who puts his slave in chains? He companions in his later years werea child whom he adopted because its “What is the punishment of suffers from the very fact of chaining him.” those who do not take all things contentedly ? To be as they ar Shall we throw such an one into prison? What prison? He is in prison already.” Almost the words of St. John. “ This is the condemnation that light is ] i come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light A popular cyclopedia, under the head of Epictetus, declares that “ the Sto parents abandoned it, and the woman whom he employed as nurse for the child. Origen preserves an anecdote of him which, if true, proves him aman who “recked his own rede When Epaphroditus, his brutal m ter, put his leg in the torture, the slave quietly remark: You will break ny leg Presently the bone crushed, whereupon the slave, in the same } tone, added Did I not tell you so?”

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° HE LINDON TIMES ON THE AMERICAN WAR. i wi = i = Ve f all l _ wal | \ we \ reStephens, on t t vers, an vel ce not, th r of tl issays on . rin ym that journal All other attempts that hay t / Tiines tor i Nunder Wonsis s, and luring t war, bear ) 1 me relation to this ¢ that a i spear bears toa Toledo ra As regards manner, it might be put nds of any | nneras a model in tl rt of attack. Every line is Lit restt ned and « wad OS ! h la ving mucl ives on the n L of the readet iran on th " ) ‘ Ww ! mstitut political writ und 1 fa whenever they characterize the whole literature of a country, « of the surest indices of a high state of cu But they are not characteristics of either English or American journal! } fF} +] ‘amount of. ince Wal In The newspaper writing of both coun | placed on wieat m t almost called mere screaming, in epi ms, and reckless assertion, is lamentable. Matthew Arnold bratality ” of journalism, borrowing his term from the French, amongst whom the art of writing fincly, delicately, keenly, but nevertheless cuttingly whenever necessary, on the topics of the day, and for hasty con sumption, has been carried to a pitch of perfection from which it is still far distant amongst us or the Englis! Mr. Stephens reviews the whole course of the 7imes on Americ: \irs since L861, its utterances on the causes of the war, its comments on the progress of the struggle, its predictions as to its results, and its correspond ence from New York: and more entertaining reading of the kind it would be difficult to light upon. Some of the hits are exceedingly happy, as when he compares the attempts of the “leading journal” to show that slavery had nothing to do with the rebellion, to the efforts of a looker-on at a cricket match who should a lopt the theory that the ball had nothing to do with the game to account for the movements of the players. Nothi in be more amusing than his criticism of the ridiculous homilies it preached on the conduct of the Americans from “ the * philosophical bystander’ point of view.” In November, 1850, the Times declared that “the South, even if united, could not resist the North for three months.” In April, 1861, it hopes tha “ the certain failure of attempts at coercion will be discovered by the Wash ington Government soon enough,” ete. In May, it pronounced the reduction | of the seceding States an “ inconceivable idea.” In July, it favored South ern independence as the issue in which, “ after infinite loss and humiliation,” the contest must result. In August, it was still more confident. In January, 1862, it said “ there were nine millions on the side of the South,” and eight millions wavering in the border States. During the summer it proved that } the blockade was impossible, and the attempt to enforce it would only * slight ¥ aise the price of cotton 7 ln January, too, it allowed two months for the further duration of the war. In March, it complained that its ealeu lations had gone wrong owing to “the unexpected and astonishing resolu tion of the North In May, it said the Federals had “ established an ascend ency in th: field,” and that “the whole story was a mystery.” In. declared “ tuo superior numbers and resources of the North as certain in the end to prevail.” In July, it recovered itself after MeClellan’s defeat, and for two years a half prophesied steadily in the old direction. In Sep tember, L862, it pronounced the talk of putting down the rebellion “ mere verbiage.” In January, 1865, it predicted that the “ North would soon see the ent rprise was hop less.” In March, it declared that “they might as well try to save the Union as the Heptarchy.’ In May, it told “these poor drowning wretches (the Unionists) that they had no chance whatever,” and should * bow low like children to the teaching of the right “The poor wretches,” says Mr. Stephens, “would not drown, but the 7imes was not disheartened Ile gives many paces of this sort of thing, accompanied by comments of his own fhe following is a good specimen of the way in which he searifies his victim “The great mass of prophetic matter in Times thus implied a false conception of the tacts sut it Was ipable of even holding steadily to one conception Before the war b and in the spring of 1862, its pro phecies were diametrically opposite to its prophecies at most other periods. In the spring of IS64, it was neutral. The 7imes in 1860 anticipated Mr. Sew ard’s prophecy that the North would conquer the South in ninety days. In i861, it prophesied that the North would abandon its attempts in sixty days And (November 4, 1852) it endorsed Mr. Jeff+rson Davis’s assertion that the war could be carried on in Virginia for twenty years after the capture of Richmond. Mr. Seward was wrong, and Mr. Davis was wrong: the Zimes had the curious felicity of combining both blunders **“ The Times on the American War. A Historical Study.’ By L. 8S. Loudon: Wil elam Ridgway 130. The Nation. OF the « t 7 : to the connection of slavery with the war, the w rs rted year that ‘slave of the me ¢ id protection another; that ‘slavery was the cause and protection a pretext ;’ that ‘slavery had little to do with the war, and protection much ; that ‘it could be all but demonstrated * that slavery had nothing to do with it at first, and ‘ quite demonstrated ’ that slavery had since passed out of sight ; that ‘some people thought’ that ‘ aboli- tion was at the bottom of the whole business, and that it would vi pr »bably be the result ” and hat ‘slavery was the reel on whit h thee sil In othe r was wound,’ though not material of which the coil was n words, the Zimes knew nothing about it. “+e APRAJA.* cism of a book like this, which so many have read with unmixed delight. Indeed, Afraja is one of those books which fix for themselves, and at once, the place which they are destined to ke ‘p, and :of this romance could have done little mor perhaps at the first the er t . than exult in it, and offer the homage of undivided praise to the interest of its narrative, the beauty of its style, and the unfailing purity, simplicity, and sweetness of its feelin At any rate we can now have no other office. ess remembers too well to require rehearsal from us t! story of the young Danish nobleman who goes to Norway from Copenhagen 1 to seek his fortune among the stormy scenes and stormy men of that wild northern land; how he relinquishes, 6n the suggestion of the crafty old merchant, skipper, and fisherman, Neils Helgestad, his purpose of takin possession of lands given him by royal letters, and tarns trader ; how his good heart and clear head make him hateful to the hard, money-getting race with which he has east his lot ; how his pity for the miserable Lapps (whom the Norwegians in the first half of the last cen tury hated and misused with more than our despite for the negro) brings him at last into trouble and Afraja; how he is saved by the friend whom Neils Helgestad tried to murder ; low implicates him in the charge of treason made against their old chief in the end he marries Helgestad’s beautiful good daugliter, Iida, when all the hard old man’s schemes have crumbled into the reveries of dotage ; and how he lives and dies a happy and honored man in the Norwegian home he has chosen. But fine as the story is, it is but a minor charm of the book, i. there is the closest stu ly and shar} st delineation of the charact« r in whic of the men and nature of that melancholy region where the scenes are laid. The fresh, cold, sal t winds of the teeming northern seas blow through t book ; the brief, lovely summer of that climate bri ens it; the wild and terrible splendors of its winter are there ; the descriptions of nature are as “LOTS, It sees to us novel and unhackneyed as the narrative and the el that the author does not once fail in any part of the work ; and we can well of character as he painted are still, as he told Mr. lor, to be found in the Loffoden Isles. All that rude life of fishing, and hunting, and trading, and combat with the loth elements for existence, is conjured before the reader, and whi peruses the book the people in it have a substance and reality absolutely unknown to the characters of any other fiction of this class. The old chief, Afraja, who lives withdrawn among the bleak hills with his people, and them spells wl only meets the Norwegians to sell tich his sorcery has invented against evil weather, has just that measure of fanaticism, ferocity, and good ness Which belongs to the savage. His daughter—whose hapless love for the Dane is the most pathetic sorrow of the book—the poor, gentle little Gula, is drawn with the sweetness, and tenderness, and passion proper to a 1 barbarism by her long association with Ielgestad’s nature reclaimed frot e childhood. Hel family, but full yet of the strong impulses of her savag hearted, ill-starred son, BjGrnome, who loved Gula as hope gestad’s | lessly as she loved the Dane, and Helgestad’s daughter, Ilda, are both own children of that calm, balanced, and strong-willed man, in whom respect and liking for his victim, the Dane, struggle hard to the end with his greed of gain and his purposes of treachery. Ilda is, indeed, a wonderful creation, and might stand for the type of the clime in which she was born. Her beauty is the beauty of the north—rugged and almost stern in its splendor ; her love is warm as the summer, which at last breaks fervently from the heart of the north; her truth is endless as the summer day. She is infinitely good ; her whole nature is bent to tenderness and pity, but she is so well controlled that it all seems the effect of studied principle in a soul ignorant of impulse. Altogether, the book is one of unspeakable charm, as many people must know, since the present translation has passed to a seventh edition, It enriches a literature poor in fiction, and it is the best romance of its class in *** Afrajat or, Life and Love in Norway. From the German of Theodore Migze, | by Edward Joy Morris.” Seventh Edition. Philadelphia: Lindsay & blakiston. 1505. sect oom

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The N The translator has performed an eve German—perhaps in any language thankless task with admirable fidelity and spirit, which is the limit set to vad “ Afraja ” and even to the reader of German it the performance of translators. ‘Tio those who do not r in the favor; ay,' hi sl ceneral exce llence of the translator's English, as original, his work is a priceless is inoffensive, Which, we dare en mentioned before. Occasionally there is a lapse from the where he says that in a certain harbor so many ships could /ay ; and what does he mean by as an unexpected surprise ? ad a th N Harpe r Pembrok« The close of Hand-book for Travelers in ui ad pre ai Kast. Fou r & Bros., w York. By W s Fetridge h edition 1865.) } ¢ civil war has gi the ven a very strong impetus to the travel from this country to Europe rhe s s of the popular European lines have all been crowded, since the fall « tichmond, to the utmost of their The number of tra u capacities. and business during mated by the tens ot lantie ar ical, polit rs in pursuit of pleasure months of this year is esti native wanderers across the At information as to the geograph evland and the Continent, and more or 1Ous possessed only of the ‘al, and social I less the modes and r direction of European travel. It is not surprising, ce, thi ‘ is a very lively demand by them for books which p: ive them the enlightenment upon these subjects needed fora] and pleasurable e1 ment of a visit to the Old World Mr. Fetridge’s compila 1, the fourth annual edition of which is before us, meets this demand n wably, but not by any means fully. We do not doubt that it is findi eady sale. B his is due to the fact that it has no competitor in this particular field of literature on this side of the At lantic, and that it te mp il oly ims to « 1 ly in one, comparatively cheap, volume all the necessary int ion that can found otherwise only in the very high-priced volu of M ‘ker, and other European ade mecum publishers ther t] ic worth. During a late the Continent, we had cece: nd found that its short this is the opinion of all the int tour of tical merits. ts relative value to a prac if not outweigh, its ellign nt, educated, and observing test, 4 } Ana Comings Wh American travellers whose criticism of the bool heard expressed, We do not deny its usefulness to that numerous class who make the rreatest possible amount of sight-seeing in the least possible time heir principal ai ‘Those bent upon “doing up” Europe in as many months as might profitably devoted to a single city, will be satisfied with mere cursory views of the several count they pass through, and with skipping lightly from one object of interest to another, and to them ‘ Harper's Hand- book fu hall the guidance required. But to those who seek a more thorough : “Ui intance wit intellectual tthe material and condition of the Old Worid, and ntent pon instructive udies of the various phase sand manilt utlol tf Kure pean iile, a briel use of it will soon disclose its inadequacy Th imperfections of this euide avise from its too comprehensive scope. In an octavo volume of less than six hundred pages, the collator attempts to all that 5) embody f all the Cc Britain, of a the material naturally involves The process, Which renders a superficial and incomp xed limits of ! r the Ameri raveller to know of Creat untries, of Egypt, Syria, and Palestine corresponding condensing ‘te treatment of the several , wi im is desirable f ntinental « vastness of i ubjects unavoidable. With fi portant a question with the compiler as what to include in his work, that he 1 the best however, but just to s that in ter incorpe es anything like “ated are space int to omit was as It is, he could under the cir rated. Still an eX most attractive b it las done ¢ 4] he mat an oun 0 touched Some of those most sting ican travellers, as, ure devoted, wl ile S cumstances as to the , hot « haustive notice. to Amer twenty-four pages the countries upon recely ily th among the , Germany, t for instance > WwW ich pain is given fifty. 7 rictness of the chapters devoted to Russia and the Seandinavian ec ries borders on the ridiculous. The { arrangement of tl tents of travel, means and tim ter of wee and the information given as to routes -of intercommunication by land and water, charac- esses, ete., e accurate, With few exceptions. A certain art taste, and is not apt to li opinion of the compiler's fitness as is with which each country introduced to The accompanying railway 1e work in which the | Ss rood, loot w? te LOTeIB, CX} ic., t lippancy of © works of offends good in press cC Te a judge. The hi the traveller might be ] map is all but worthless. That th very hig nop cr Witil a storical sy rop rly dispensed with. porti mn of t } nited States is hastily dis} sed of is both out of place ina foreign guide-book, i so marred withal by errors of fact and even more censurable faults, that it } the re and experience. where it statements It must impair the confidence reposed by any American in which he cannot test as her were best entirely erased, and belongs. out of his own knowle : saa : “ uted ie@itin its spac tril In the preface to the fourth year, much improvement is claimed for the new edition. We : unable to discern any but trifling changes. In the preface of the preceding edition, Mr. Fetridge lays claim to originality of compilation. This we take the liberty to dispute. A comps s book with the popular European hand-books will readily revea Lin sources of his material. In conclusion, we bee to suggest to him and his publishers that, the pecuniary suecess of their enterprise b they could well afford to banisly from its pages the hotels, tradesmen, and shopkeepers which forbid any pretence of disinter ested advice. eing now assured, es undiscuised putts of , ? . . eu UN fa Crono i“ Religious Worship, conside) dep bian. (A. H. Baily & Co., London.}—This pam and Spanish, is before us ; and it is a mie aspects. By a Colom- leat phlet, pr remarkable production, from the pen iDlIshe 1 lately’s ation. of that illustrious South American, General Mosquera. The object ot to prove that religious liberty, pure and simple, has a direct tendency agency in promoting public wealt Che autl \ . ms reference to the subject in other pomnts of view, : tr = Vv as tion of political economy. His style, too, being terse, clear, and cor tr perience in the practical treatment of the« ; ! ; rty } | il icise to an extreme | ! . legislator of Colombia, three times pres phant general in wars for its defense, a \ decree repealing mortmain and redu the 1 to submission to the constitution and laws, his come before the world with much greats speculative writer. It will excite surpri this production a new proof of the versatility of Gen. M ments and talents, for it is very rare to find \ educated man so highly distinguished in practic: ! legislative, and diplomatic life. He is now Colom} 3 I Prussia, and Italy, and President elect for U] As a sample of his argument, 11, which follow a description of the pref : monopoly of “ religious production * From this monopoly it results that rea 1 by the Roman, Greek, and Anglican churct menting in order to secure their existe s in the future, become inalienable in their! : Not only do they pass from the possession of diverted from their ordinary scope of operatic movement which, under the imy pr opment of productive resources, puises « | i rendered lat causing them to circulate among those mo: = therefrom. This first consequence produces another = “If the Roman, Greek, and Anglican « - periodical contributions and accidental offer community for the satisfaction of their pe : the forms of worship over which they pr pose of exercising their monopc taining amongst them relig . ‘ above-mentioned churches, | : which render them independent of th lus of interest is weakened, then, if 1% lus of duty is not, unfortunat of « that under such as c . Anglican Catholics v ’ Poetical Tributes to the Mem 4 of A I l | ! & Co., Philadelphia.)—A few of the ] is Colles l newspapers merit the preservation they | re | do not. The connection between great national events and numbers, is curious if somewhat oceu Itisa fi 1 be no explanation for it, that a gushing of common hought int verse is invariably produced in the comm are stirred out of common, for speaking in pr on thes } . , so that It aime ! rv t ‘ That the 1 t -¥ occasions only ind 1 } for the auspicious moment that is t would not wholly deny to s i Ise, abound ambush But vet we atflatus, nor refuse to believe that the Was ! q} ) lyn vu compulsion to write, and to writ \ \ writers of these tributes to Mr. Lincoln s spell that bowed the heart of every 1 with s . material symbols of this sorrow, so wit ! displayed according to his means and : lamented subject of both, if he was the humblest badge along with the costliest, s s u ances must have outweig with hi k a value analogous to that of the ser published, They will help the s t t torian h ter to f a tolerable idea of the state of t] } ASsuus tion Curious Facts in the Tis yor I S By | ( 1B pincott & Co., Philadelphia.)\—Beetles, grasshop 5 lice, scorpions, and spiders, are the principal subjects ot ss lation, intended by the author to increase t] studies, by attaching tO as mal sek Ss pos extl fact. It is really surprising how supers S$ exis world over in regard to the creatut here cons in the materia medica of more ignorant s is branches of Mr. Cowan's investigations. Perhaps the whimsical specifics which world, though most of ther u dients of the hell-broth in t w s’ ¢ ! } r we are assured, “the bed-bug is sometimes giv . rv Ohio as a cure for the fev al acu 1} Oo} lady-birds, is treated luminously, and wil 7 at n ‘ reader, for they are surely few from whose experic been omitted. Yet its wealth of titles I B bee,” “* Lady Lanners,” * Dr. Ellison,” * K ( lands in its honas, and its high repute as a true-love \ lo it from the medicine-chest, ‘ Was ¢ : ( for the colic and measles, and m 8 perl - toothache when compressed into the hollo Lascelles Wraxall ' ] \ 7) S. Felt —The adve foot of the moun ide, ¢ | the River Leone,” h est 1D n A icans. We confess t " : so much alik

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DOG their incidents as to be a little tiresome The pertinacity with which pio hunt buffaloes, kill bears and panthers, sand fight Indians, is not relieved in any way that we can see in the present work, We do not observe anything new concerning wild nature and wild men in it, and we doubt if the sang froid and frequency with which Sir C. F. Lascelles Wraxall’s bs man butchers Indians will improve the tone of the yout in Which his adventures will probably be for the most part digested The book is no worse in other respects than neers i tl J spect ( erature trap beave ck woods hful stomac! others of its We believe that on first looking into it we felt some slight desire to be told by the editor who the backwoodsman was—to have him in some way proved and identified—but we doubt now whether we wish to know more of | than we learn the book. Poetry of the Age of Fuble Collected by Thomas Bulfinch. Boston: J. E. Tilton & Co.—Son avo, Mr. Bulfinch wrote a pleasant book called “ The Age i (4 n which } recounted many of the old Brit ish legends of K his kniehts, and he followed this book with another « 1“ The Age of Fable,” which, he says, “ was an attempt to convey + ? ( iowiedye of iit rods and voddesses, heroes and hero ines, of ant quity, as a welledueated gentleman or lady of the present day has occasion In carrying ¢ his nteel purpose, Mr. Bulfinch had frequent oce: ym to quote from the classic and modern poets verses touch ing mythological subjects; and the present volume presents “ these poetical citations and ustrations increased in number and in length.” The reader may judge of the fi y of Mr. Bulfineh’s idea in producing the book to say that we find the prettily-printed collection a very dreary at most well-educated ladies and gentlemen will find thems equ ed with the memorable verses cited, and | will have lit ad the rest. Our Artist in Cuba. Fifty Drawings on Wood. New York he artist-) with which, he tells us, he was persuaded to give per sy Geo, W. Carleton. (Carleton “many misgiving manence and pul ity to the carel sketches of his pocket book. He ex- hibits a nice sense of the ludicrous with a very creditable command of his pencil. The subject t delineated for their humor, such as buildings and landscapes, are especial! | lit impress of fice lity to the original scenes. The text is neither a necessary, nor in most cases ¢ by omitting an Oceci Lyries of Lif By Robert Browning. (Ticknor & Fields, Boston.)— This volume continues the illus | series entitled * Companion Poets tor the People,” in licious imitation of continental, and especially German, publications of a similar character. The form is handy, the typography and paper excellent. The illustrations are rather indicative of merit than meri torious. The lyries embrace some of the most famous and perspicuous of pieces of great beauty. Mr. Browning's poems, with many sho The North American Review. (Q inasmuch as the re thay juarterly or month l tober.) The present number isan un usually good one, be said of it what can rarely be said of fa useful quali we shall cal analysis of Jefforson’s character, padding,” though one or two are wanting in that very periodical writing which, for want of any better name, “The Political Opinions of Jetferson ” i in which what is now seen to be in his opinions, or mischievous in his influence, is traced to the effect on ly be ca ed tv ol an able reshness.” “OneCOUS him ot the TMV idualistic philosophy ot the Locke school, by which all his A curious illusfration of his defects as a statesman is furnished by the fact on which the reviewer comments, that he looked with distrust on all forms of industry except agriculture, knew had a mysterious dread of credit, and political ideas were permeated, nothing of trade, commerce, or finance viewed merchants with great suspicion. The article on “ John C. Calhoun” is a somewhat extended biographical sketch, accor L by acommentary on his writings and political opinions. As an is less acute than the preceding one on Jefferson, but is more interestin Like all that Mr. Parton writes, it is very vivid, and it gives us a picture of great distinctness Phere was probably nothing in Calhoun’s carcer more singular than that aman of his puritanical cast of ver a society so little puritan in all its lead the South, unless it be that Southern society should have produced hin His narrowness, thoroughness, inten | nt to make up a style of man which we é grounds to find representing South Carolina. “Study of Language, or Physic: is an able and instructive re view of Max Muller's last book, and deserves careful perusal at the hands of and there are but few persons of culture The cle on“ Belligerent War Vessels in Neutral Ports” is a clear and careful exposition of the rules of international law has either originated or contirmed or elucidated. We character should have d that absolute sway ne incidents as that of sity, bigotry, personal purity, we should never expect on ¢ prio | Science, every body interested in tl esl who. nowadays, are not whieh the have no hesitation in sa) , in style and temper, impartiality and can dor, it fi s ses V n has appeared on the same subject on either side of Atlantir h its advoeacy of the American side of all disputed points is st pronounced, it will, if read in England, as we hope it will be, produc »l impression. Mr. Norton’s “ American Political Ideas” is a strong statement of the principles on whicl ry] tical and social system is based, and he deduces from them an obligation ine nt on the Government to carry them out in the re-organization of t South. We have seen these views characterized in an otherwise able critique of th number as * New Englandish,” with an insinuation that they would not id currency in any other part of the coun the necessity of preaching them. tr which, if true, si ' good, and contain not only criticism The literary notices, as but wuld criticism iblisher might have dispensed with the | for effectiveness of touch, and bear the | AF | By Edward Joy Morris. the drawings, and would be improved | lv, that it does not contain a single article which can | John Huss.’ The Nation. The Atlantic Monthly for October is uncommonly like 7'he Atlantic Monthly for September. “ Saints who have had Bodies” is a reply to Mr. Higginson, showing that mental activity increases vitality, and that mental progress in modern times “has not been purchased at the expense of the physical frame.” “The Author of Saul” is a pleasant notice of Charles Heavysege. “John Jordan” is an exciting sketch of a Southern Union scout by Edmund Kirke. Mr. Longtellow’s “ Noel,” verses in quaint French, addressed to Mr. Agassiz, with a basket of wine, last Christmas, are the gem of the number. Mr. Wasson continues his review of “ Wilhelm Meister.” Another chapter of “ Dr. Johns,” and a long poem on Abraham Lincoln, by Brownell, make up the number Z Harper's Monthly has a decidedly military flavor. Three of the five poems were inspired by the war, and are matched by an equal number of prose ar ticles—one consisting of extracts from Major Nichols’s “ Story of the Great March ;” another being Gen. Jordan’s remarkable exposure of Jefferson Da- vis’s incapacity as Commander-in-chief of the Confederacy, from the point de vue Beauregard ; and the third, a paper on “ Fighting Joe Hooker” by a very partial admirer, who attributes the general’s difficulties to his being by nature nothing if not critical. The rest of the number contains the usual variety of fiction, and a characteristic articie on the cinnabar mines of New Almaden. “+>. BOOKS RECEIVED. _ DANTE As PuILosorHER, Patriot, AND Port. By Vincenzo Botta.—History oF ENGLAND. By James Anthony Froude, M.A. Vols. II. and IV. Charles Scribner & Co., New York _ THE GULISTAN, OR RosE GARDEN. By Musle-Huddeen Sheik Saadi. Translated by Francis Gladwin. With an Essay by James Ross, and a Preface by R. W. Emerson. THe AppLe or Lire. By Owen Meredith. Ticknor & Fields, Boston. AMERICAN Criticism. The North American Review and the * Life and Times of * American News Company, New York. JOLLY AND Katy IN THE CounTRY. By Alice Gray. [Fireside Library.]|—Wanpen- INGS OVER BinLe LANDs AND Seas. By the author of the *“ Sendnberg-Cotta Family.” Robert Carter & Bros., New York. "RAJA; OR, LIFE AND LOVE IN Norway. From the German of Theodore Mii Seventh Edition. Lindsay & Blakiston, Philadelphia. THE ARTIST’s SON, AND THE EMIGRANT’S Son. From the London Religious Tract Society. Henry Hoyt, Boston. THE SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR 1865. London and New York. Edited by Thomas Guthrie, D.D. Strahan & Co., THE CHILDREN’S PROGRESSIVE LYCEUM. Second Edi tion Sela Marsh, Boston. By Andrew Jackson Davis. West Virernta: Its FARMs AND Forests, MINES AND OIL-WELLS. J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia By J.R. Dodge. ANTHONY Way™MovutTH ; oR, THE GENTLEMAN ADVENTURERS. ston. J. E. Tilton & Co., Boston. By William H. G. King SonG or THE Rivers. By Emily T. B. Bennett. Dexter & Co., New York. Fine Arts. MR. WARD'S INDIAN HUNTER. LAST week we spoke of the excellent portrait bust of Doctor Dewey This week a more important work of the same artist claims attention, the group which has been for a few days past on exhibition at Mr. Snedecor’s gallery. The subject is a young Indian of one of the North-western tribes, ‘still hunting” with his wolfish-looking dog by his side. The figures are somewhat larger than life ; the man would perhaps be eight feet high, were he to stand erect. The hunter is a young man in the prime of life. He is advancing with long, stealthy strides, his body bent forward, and his eyes intently fixed on His left handis held up close under the left breast and shoulder, With his right hand he holds, by a leash, his eager dog, checking him, the leash passing around the game. and init he grasps his short bow and one arrow. the clenched hand that grasps it. He is naked, except that a piece of buffalo skin is knotted around his waist and falls about to mid-thigh. This group is in plaster of Paris, evidently a cast from the clay model. A plaster cast fares badly on public exhibition. The material is the most ungrateful that can be used for works of sculpture. The clay of which models are made is beautiful in comparison, its color is better than the opaque white of the gypsum, and the slight gloss of its constantly wet sur face is just sufficient to prevent the shadows from being too gloomy. It would be in vain to paint the plaster the same color as the clay: that would only make it worse, forit is not whiteness but opacity that is wrong. Moreover a painted surface is an ugly surface, where one color of oil paint is applied, and there are practical objections to the use of water color as in fresco. We must take Our statue in white plaster, until the artist cuts it in marble or casts it in bronze. Then it certainly gains a new charm, from the semi translucency and beauty of surface of the marble, or from the subdued lustre and sharp, emphatic shadows of the bronze. The plaster cast “ fares Sut perhaps badly,” we have said above, because it does not attract. he % Bea SP wba 13

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The N sculptor of noble ambition and proper self-confidence ought not to object to show his work in this unpleasing material, its true merit as a work of art dull in flashes, shows minutie of form so accurately. can be so accurately estimated the white surface, neither transmit ting light nor reflecting it The sculptor ought not to be unwilling to let the people see his work in this unbeautiful guise, for they ought to learn to judge of pure form and to love it. The sculpture. noblest form, that of the human body, is the worthiest subject for of body and man made the clothes. The true form man, that is the matter of the sculptor’s tudy. God made th But modern art Our modern that You cannot imagine is weak and slow when it tries to represent the naked body. statues look wiadressed, is not an uncommon complaint ; nakedness which is unconscious of clothes, they do not have. clothes upon the Theseus, nor even upon the Day and Twilight of the Lau rentian sacristry . but modern fisher-boys and Cupids and other naked figures * Let be un seem to need Mr. Dick's preseriy him ption in David Copperfield, Well, if statues look % People who wear modern If rain, he must study people who measured for a suit of new ¢l dressed, is it not because the iodels were so clothes a cood “ studies of the nude.” not any sculptor wants to ari a are not un accustomed to go naked. It ison this account that we welcome this statue. The Indians of the Northwest hunt, fish, and play ball entirely without clothing. They are accustomed to cold and heat 1 exposure to all w ier, and the under taking of all sorts of exercise, either almost or quite naked. Here, then, among the Crows, the Sioux, the Chippewas, and the Ojibways, is a chance » study aright the form of man It will be urged that this is but a degraded type of mankind, this race of brutal savages, incapable of civilization, incapable of merey and of truth But all things must be looked at from a stand-point from which a clear view of them is possible Your young Sioux may be an unreclaimable savage, belonging to a race from which the world has nothing to ex pect, but he may still be a brave fellow, capable of wonderful endurance and fortitade, a mighty hunter, cunning, quick, and bold, in splendid physi cal condition. And for his beaut of form, let us ask the sculptor whose work is before us. Common rumor has it that Mr. Ward has carefully studied the Indians of the plains, and has spent among them one summer at ast! And here, before us, is his report. A finely made young man, slen owerlul, not an athlete in the way a prize-fighter is, ner tl ul der but solid and like the Farnese Hercules, rather a gyvinnast than a boxe . yet with muscies His tiawnds » feet are especially beautiful, delicate as a yomau'’s, well arched up underneath. The limbs are rather slender in pro- portion to the trunk, but hard and compact; the legs indeed are as well strung and as well adapted to their uses as the tireless hind legs of his dog. Look at the face ; if that mask were to be shown you, fished up out of the Nile, you would s was certainly the mask of an American Indian. There is, indeed, not much intellect in it, nor any high moral qualities, and its ‘expression just now is that of strained eyes and subdued eagerness, but it is not brutal, not lower than humanity. We shall not get the highest art from the study of Indians, but we shall get art which will truly repre the The differences in bodily form between the red rac sent the form and the action of the human body in natural if not in highest developni nt. of Ameriea and the highest type of Caucasian manhood, are not sufficient to sensibly lower the former from the ideal standard which we base upon There is a curious analogy between the wild the the character of the in relation to the deer, man in relation to the civilized man, and wild beast the domestic animal. Every one has noticed in for instance, the flat muscles, thin and lying close along the bone, tapering rapidly down to long and hard tendons, which play close under the skin, every motion showing the action of the machinery. If we compare this character of the form of the wild creature with the fuller and larger muscles of, for instance, the bone, the tendon al the ox, forming flesh almost to the junction with as in cultivated plants sepals and stamens are forced most di appea ai into petals—we shall find a relation which is repeated in the varieties of The Indian of the plains does not have large calves and fully habitué mankind. developed fore-arm; the of our gymnasiums who so carefu he greatest projection of the The and slow, the muscles appear to be differ, measures the circumference of the arm at biceps, would despise an Indian warrior for his slightness of make. formation of flesh is very slight white race, and act without showing th ent in quality from ours of the r action through the surface, except ‘by the corded tendons, of which every motion is This, of will convince an observer, is singularly confirmed by the statue before visible. which a careful examination of the subject ation. us. The extremities, of course, show the difference the mos reilly and the right leg alone will demonstrate the whole matter t “ will take the trouble to compare it with models of est: shed excell of Greek or other work of pure Caucasian typ. At present, with no chance to study the form of man among the tailor governed races, we are compelled to go elsewhere for our only procarab models. It might be well to forbid all our seu s to exhibit any more statues until each had modelled in wax or clay six portrait statuettes mu life, of naked Indian youths, or of Chagres negroes, if they prefer, or of Ceylon divers—at least of men whose daily work is done unclothed Feeling as we do about this matter, we should have been glad to have had this statue entirely undraped. We do not believe in that bit of bison skin; it cannot stay where it is if there is hard running to follow, the thought is unavoidable that the hunter would have thrown it down wher his quiver is, for it would be a serious encum n study Le we find this drapery skilfully disposed, and are ready to believe it no set ous injury to the group as a work of art, but it seems to detract from 1] naturalness of conception of the whole work, and to be certainly anneces sary. It is probably a concession to a supposed popular feeling, and may be defended as such. The light that falls on this statue from the two skylights of the v ra ery is unfavorable to the front view, and indeed very unsuited for ghe group There is one place from which a gocd view can be had, wl the statue stands in the middle of the gallery, and facing toward Broadway ; let the spectator go behind and to the right of the statue and abo it ten feet off There is beautiful action in the figure as seen from that point The modelling of the extended left leg is most admiral The di eate and minute forms about the Knee are surpassingly truthful and beau tiful. The right foot, with its clinging toes, lio g¢ the ground firmly as the weight of the body is thrown upon this foot, is something worthy of study. The action of the right arm is peculiar in this, ts position does not show at once what it is doing ah Ast\ Fiance might leave the impression that the hunter was exciting his dog, but a look at the muscular action of the arm shows its backward pu The ling of the arm itself is vindicated at the expense of the expressiveness of upon the leash model the whole group. Exhaustive criticism of the group we do not propose to give, but a word must be given to the dog, an admirable stud: His feet in their pressure against the ground seem to us as fine as anything in this modern branch of art, the representation of animals ¢ a. 2 It is a capital dog, altogether; we are only conscious of a the that his fur might have been carried farther toward completion without disobedience to the law of limitation by material. ~ >. MUSIC. THE OPERA. OwING to the quarrel between the theatri some new arrangements have been made with regard to the advertising and periormances at the various piaces of amusement One of these is the appearance of a new programme, in the form of a paper ca ‘ We have had several such papers before: The Entr’ Acte,1 0 The Prograr ne, a wretchedly printed sheet, fu ot advertisements and putts; The P? was well and cleanly printed, and contained some news, musical, arti and otherwise; and The Prima Donna. very much like it, which took its place at the Opera for the first two weeks of the season. The Playhill was t 1 with very impertinent items about matters, including criticisms and accounts of parties and dinners, and even rumors of engagements and marriages. People in this country have not yet reached the point where they are anxious to have all their private affairs publicly talked of ; and the tolerance of this paper by Mr. Maretzek so long, and n into the opera-house, was a valid reason why sympathy was withheld from him in his recen tournament with the J/erald The PI ty Will has n It Stage me of the bad and very few tl , . te ood Qualities of black headin The is printed badly, with a very ugly, yr and con tains little except selections from various papers on the war of the man- agers, and notices of various places of amusement. It is a question whether any such thing is wanted. If it is, it ought to be better made up, and not soil everybody's gloves. It should contain the a sis of the plot of the opera, with an account of the circumstances under which it was written and some notice of n of the music. Then people might having it, and would not need to be turning over libretto leaves throughout the performance. 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~ » = ns ev war ee a — had heard much better operas at Lima than were ever given in New York low their usual standing. Bellini was obliged to shi ind Mazzoteni cut off his sustained notes even shorter than usual But, in the rest of the opera, and as a work of art s any one act in anv of Verdi's operas, unless, indeed, in “ La Traviata sini, Which affeeted all his works It may be seen in his choruses, which are almost in unison—a style so much abused later by Verdi—while Ros I Puritani” was written expressly for Paris, and particular pains were taken to make the sini re very full, and in the elegiac grace of all his melodies. yle purer and the work more symmetrical and artistic. A great advance was shown in the instrumentation. It was produced in 1834, with a cas membered—Grisi, Rubini, Tamburini, and Lablache. A year erward Bellini died. On the evening before his funeral the 7’2é¢tre Italien ‘I Puritani,” and with the same cast. The singers were reatly ‘ 1,and the remembrance of their dead friend so overpowered them that they were scarcely able to sing their parts. The audience was move ! t to tears. The funeral took place the next day in the church f the Invalides, at which a “ Laerymosa” was sung to the tenor melody in the third arranged for four voices without accompaniment, by Rubini, Ivanoff, Tamburini, and Lablach: The rendering of * I Puritani”™ the other night was, in spite of some draw ‘] ‘ 1° most satisfactory that we have heard since La Grange was here. Miss Kello } DACKS, x with a little more study might be as admirable an Elvira as he is a Margheritu. She needs to throw herself more into the part, and assume a little more fervor and earnestness. In the last act she was simply the distracted E’rira brought t reason by the shock of fin ling he r lover. In th ul part she was Miss Kelloge, singing Hlvira’s music and playing nadness. Her singing is beautiful, but somehow she made us feel her own personality too much Son vergin vezzosa”’ was bedutifully given gracefully and clearly, the music being just adapted to her style, and called dow showers of pra idits and an encore We hope to s Miss Kellogg show what v wes. eftafidan? aha nomacu —e ae sf : 1 what we are confident she possesses rare talent for the tragic as well as the lighter character of passion, but at present it is rather obscured by the latter, and needs careful cultivation. Mr. Irfre was rather disappointing at first. His throat seemed to trouble him, and he could with difficulty raise his voice He failed in rendering “Ah! se © cara.” After the first act he steadily improved, and in “Da quel di” he was fr quently interrupted by reox, and was loudly encored ; we were glad that his manifest effort was so well appreciated, Ww e pains to studv it a little before they came, or leas t 00ks ) Mi v of “\ k M if tossi made her ¢ | . eame ) e 1 opera at Lim: ol i ‘4 \ anxious to hear her, as we remembered being told last wint py a French gentleman of considerable cultivation and experience that he Weean hat lly it (ules insuch an estim ite ol Miss de Rossi 8 powers, She is a good singer, and will prove a very useful one. Azueenc is a very difficult pra he f | well Her acting was up to the mark, and her sin was almost equal to it. She put much dramatic power in her tirst sc and ‘én the last act she felt the whole foree of the music and the words. and did much to sustain the piece. In fact, Azucena is the great character of this opera, and demands great power It is for that reason a good test of merit. Bellini and Mazzoleni were ;: both unequal to their parts and deed, if they have any fine or delicate appreciation of music they are not much to be blamed. How can any one, especially when tired and over WV 1, sin the music of * Trovatore” with any feeling of pleasure, after it has become familiar to them. Such staff as this speedily becomes thread bare, and we can imagine no such extinguisher of fecling as being obliged to repeat over and over again such very improbable and forced dramas as this one from the Spanish. It would not be tolerated an English play Yet the Academy was crowded alm to overflowing to hear it as an opera with an audience cultivated in inverse proportion to their numbers. Ther ire several | iant passages, like the “ I] balen” and * Di quella pira,” which are simple in themselves and easily understood, and never fail to eall out applause, though they merit it as little as the “Anvil Chorus.” The final act including the “ Miserere,” the tower scene, and the prison scene, outweighs i Tuesday brought us “TI Puritani,” ever welcome and ever beautiful. This s almost i last development of the real opera 8 ria, yet this, like all Bel lini’s operas, is lyric rather than dramatic. It s little consistency as a whole, but is a beautiful collection of odes and sonnets. Norma” is consid ered his mastor-work, but we always hear “ | Puritani” with more pleasure a ri of sad pleasure, filled even at this time with regrets at the author's early d when his life was promising so much. Bellini’s stay in Paris had ¢ tly improved his style. {Ie felt a reaction from the music of Ros Vation. The audience was more than usually cognizant of the fine and delicate | points, and displayed its appreciation of them. Yet the dialocue of Bellini 1 and Antonucci, in the second act, which was remarkably well rendered, with um st ‘rfect acting, and a fine appreciation by the singers of every word seemed hardly noticed, expectation being concentrated on the duet “S joni la tromba.” This, too, was finely done, with energy, yet without th: }extreme loudness which usually «« stroys the expression of the sone. An tonucci is raising his reputation more and more at every uppearance, * Martha” is not a grand opera, but it is a pleasing one. Written by a German in the French school, it combines the sparkling brilliancy of Aube: with a certain homely quietness that renders it very attractive. ‘“annot always be strained up to the high points of tragedy, and it is ver pleasant to refresh ourselves by listening to such ligl it, pretty music as this sare very simple and sweet, and are remarkably well harm The melodi ized instrumentation can be fairly judged of from the overture, w] is, in this case, a mere réswmc of the airs, or table of contents. That do not prevent it from having effective contrasts, all of which were well 1 lered by the orchestra under Mr. Bergmann, on Friday night Phis op shows a careful finish throughout, and every air and concerted so thoroughly worked up apd polished that the piece seems symm and ther fore affects us more agreeably a a whole than mi othe rs \\ hi i have more ric line BN of melody and which cout passages of much greater effect. Miss Kellogg's self- possessi hh ightness render her very suited to the part of Martha; she sane “1 Last Rose of Summer” very charmingly, simply as it was writte1 lisfiguring it with any cadenzas or flourishes. She was well suppot Miss Phillips as Verney, who gave her part with equal feeling aud trut Mr. Irfre’s voice seems to grow continually weaker. He yet san Via with good taste and deserved his encore. The finest scene of the eveni was the concluding quintet of the third act. Its simplicity makes it on the more beautiful, enabling the hearer to follow with ease the thread each voice and keep the various melodies as well as the harmony. costumes were not all correct. That of iene! was very bad. The scenery too, was worse than usual, if worse can be where all is bad. There is no Italian village anywhere in the neighborhood of Richmond Park, if we re member our geography aright. It is rather amusing that, though midnig strikes in two-thirds of the operas that are given, it usually strikes only six and never more than eight. One can bardly help counting the strokes of : clock, and it is a little annoying to have it always several hours too slow. We wish the reception accorded to “ Martha’ might induce Mr. Maretzel to give up the Italian for awhile and revive “ Fra Diavolo,” which pleased so well last winter, and also bring out other French operas, s1 “ Massaniello,” “ Stradella,” “ La Dame Blanche,” which has had its thou sandth repetition in Paris. Works of this lighter school would do mue! purify and refine public taste, and then we might demand “ Les Huguet * Roland a Roneevaux ‘La Reine de Saba,” and other grand operas new and old “ BLIND TOM.” There has been on exhibition at Dodworth’s Rooms a musical wond blind negro boy who plays on the piano with some accuracy various comp cated pieces. Blind Tom, for so he is called, was a slave on a Georgia pla tation and was regarded as almost an idiot. Accidentally his musical fa ties were discovered, and he was immediately shown around through various Southern cities. As the war has abolished slavery he can now safely brought North, and is presented to the publie as the greatest prodi vy of L e, far surpassing what the boy Mozart once was. Some of our readers ay perhaps recollect an article in the “ Atlantic Monthly,” some two years aco, Which contained most extravagant laudations of him, a tithe of whiel are tru This boy, very dull and unintelligent in every other direction has evineed a remarkable aptitude for seizing musical ideas and for expres= ing them in his own way upon the piano. His memory is an uncom one, and seems the more so from his general stupidity. His blindness is hindrance, but goes partly to account for his facility of remembrance. 1 blind nearly always have a strongly developed hearing faculty: in this cas it is chiefly concentrated on music. After once hearing a piece, he can giv a transcription of it retaining the general idea and flow of the music, | filling up the harmony himself in a clumsy way. We have heard almost + ¢ wonderful things done by persons of correct ear, who knew that they had i gift, but were never considered prodigies. He can tell, usually correctly the names of notes in various chords struck even in rapid succession. His own compositions are destitute of any merit, and seem made up chiefly ot reminiscences. He plays with little expression, though he renders some few pieces, such as Gottschalk’s “ Last Hope,” with tolerable correctness. The exhibition was very distasteful and painful tous. The boy was ap Our minds

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pare ntly showing off under con pulsion He appeared on the stage, ar AETNA INSURANCE COMPANY, OF HARTFORD, being placed in front of the audience, repeated m«e chanically form « INCORPORATED 1819 CHARTER PE! 1 words that he had been drilled Gentlemen and ladies, I shi | 0 you to-night the boy Tom. It is wonderful how this boy bei n the seale of animated natur y stupid and unintelligent,” « Speeches Paid up Capital, ? a $2,250,000 00 such as these he made 1 time to time, his memory b ogged by th Assets, July t, 1865, - - 3,850,351 78 erson in attendance, whe lea could be seentodawn upon him by th ting up o is face vy should be given a plano at laced ; ; : s > ghting up of his face. f CROEEE De GIveR & PANO BRC | Losses Paid in 45 Years, . $17,485,894 71 n some asylum, and not prey of an avaricious showman. ts ws Sel rn, PP: L. J. WEN s ‘ 4 mm st JONA, Gi Ww \ Ss FISK & HATCH, BANKERS, Insarance against loss and d } i iN ,D DEALERS IN NEW YORK AGENCY, 62 WALL STREET ] \s \ ATEKYX \\ GOVERNMENT SECURITIES THE MANHATTAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. 156 AND 158 Broapway, New York At \TS F Cay} al > wd tt vi ‘ RED, and a Nel | & over 1K n ! ind te ! he ‘ « ad, BEAT I Di SO 4s : iny ins it cus st ALLM \NI lhe Profits f £19,601 NLAND NAVIGATION RISKS CARGO FREIGH s Oss Of which th 12.65 » DAMAGE } IRE i Paip IN Go.p, Pap IN The Con h 7 \ ire “ ASSETS, OVER ELEVEN MILLION DOLLARS t \ ‘ aes ] United States and S of New ¥ Stock, ¢ Bru a t 2 S404 SCRIP DIVIDEND. « IFTY Loans secured by Stor and oth ) Premium Note 1B R Real 1 B d M other sec ariti« MES LORIME HAM. | United States Gold ¢ n w) Cash in Bank R ROBERT M. ¢ AM. YY ae EDWARD A ANSBURY, 2d \ P TOHN C. GOODRIDGE, Secre rRUSTEES E. W. CLARK & CO., lo D. J !) 1 usG . , — Charles Den rT c. AH BANKERS AND BROKERS, W. HLH. M Watts $ Henrv ¢ 1) i Il; il ee eine ° a ts dial oe We. ¢ F B L > H THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA, P Lewis Curt Vm. 8 pag Charles H.R He K. Bo I B. 4 » . _ . ‘ Lowell Holbr \ nE D P WoR ALERS IN RNMENT BONDS AND TREASURY NOTES, CERTIFICAT R. Wart W ide I’ | r Royal Phe!ps seph ¢ i J James L I OUART MAST ronHeERs Caleb Bar I. Henry B o 2H. M : ‘ — \ Pp. pillot JOHN D. FONES, Pr COM ) D INTERES \¢ s CHARLES DENNIS, Vice-Pres — asin —— s0LD —— , W. H. Hf. MOORE, 24 Viee-P ‘ pia indies sities paunauned J. A. CHAPMAN, A . ’ Insurance Scrip. BROWN, BROTHERS & CO., ay WILLIAM C. CILMAN, Mi 4L STREET : WALL STREET, 4} PINE STREET, NEw YorK Iscue. in New York, Circular Credita for Travellera, available in any pa BLYS AND SELLS INSURANCE SCRIJ The Nation. 509

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~s mh | The THE MORRIS FIRE AND INLAND INSURANCE COMPANY, COLUMBIAN BUILDING, 1 NASSAU STREET. JUNE 1, 1865. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, $5,000,000. 57. CASH CAPITAL, parp ry, AND SURPLUS, $885,040 POLICIES OF INSURANCE AGAINST LOSS OR DAMAGE BY FIRE Issued on the most Favorable Terms. B. C. MORRIS, President. WM. M. WHITNEY, Secretary. HOFFMAN FIRE INSURANCE OOMPANY. Office, 161 Broadway, New York. Cash Capital $200,000 WILLIAM B, DIXON, President. JOSEPH W WILDEY, Secretary The National Park Bank of New York. $2,000,000, | SURPLUS $1,200,000. This Bank will issue Certificates of Deposit, bearing interest, on favorable terms. J. L. WORTH, Cashier. CAPITAL New York, Aug. 21, 1865. BAIRD & BRADLEY, CHICAGO LOAN AND COLLECTION AGENCY. Investments for aterm of years made for Eastern Capitalists. Estates amply secured by First Mortgage on Real Estate in Chicago and vicinity, with semi-annual interest payable at any point East. Real Estate purchased, managed, and sold for Eastern parties. Notes collected and avails promptly remitted. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK, oo” ~t & : 29 Prine St., NEw York, Has for sale U. S. 73-10 Notes, all sizes; ernment Loans. B. SEAMAN, Cashier. ANTHONY LANE, Asset. Cashier. PHENIX INSURANCE COMPANY, BROOKLYN, N. Y. ca OFFICES, 1 COURT STREET, BROOKLYN, N. Y. ” 139 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. CasH CAPITAL ASSETS Insurance against Loss by Fire, Marine, Lake, Canal, and Inland Transportation. STEPHEN CROWELL, President. EDGAR W. CROWELL, Vice-President. PHILANDER SHAW, Secretary. NIACARA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OFFICE, 12 WALL STREET. CasH CAPITAL INCREASED : Surpuus, JAN. 1, 1865, Losses equitably adjusted and promptly paid. orm ons 279,258 CHARTERED 1850, Cash Dividends paid in fourteen years, 248 per cent. NOTMAN, Sceeretary JONATHAN D. STEELE, President. N | | Corporations and | $1,000,000 00 | 1,500,000 00 $1,000,000 | >| » ation. ‘The A Weekly Journal of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art. Nation: the of It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to Tus journal will not be organ any party, sect, or body. the discussion of political and social questions a really critica spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred, | The most criticism of books and works of art will form one of its prominent features; and pains will be taken to have this |task performed in every case by writers possessing special qual ifications for it. of treated It is intended, in the interest of investors, as well as the public generally, to have questions of trade and_ finance ;every weck by a writer whose position and character will give | his articles an exceptional value, and render them a safe and trustworthy guide. A special correspondent, who has been selected for his work with care, is pursuing a journey through the South. His letters | appear every week, and he is charged with the duty of simply reporting what he sees and hears, leaving the public as far as | possible to draw its own inferences. It embraces among its regular or occasional contributors the fol- lowing names: Henry W. LONGFELLOW, JAMES RussELL LoweLL, Joun G. WHiItTIiER, SAMUEL Exror (Ex-President Trin. College, Hartford), PROFESSOR TORREY (Harvard), Dr. Francis LIEBER, PROFESSOR GOLDWIN Suitru (Oxford), Proressor Cup (Harvard), HeENkY JAMES, also, One Year Certificates and all other Gov- | CHARLES E, Norton, JUDGE Bonp (Baltimore), EpMUND QUINCY, Proressor W. D. Wurrney (Yale), Proressor D. C. GruMAN (Yale), JupDGE DALy, Proressor Dwiaut (Columbia College), Proressor TAYLER LEwis (Schenectady), N. TourevEnerrF, AveGuste LAUGEL, JUDGE WAYLAND, FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, Rev. Dr. McCLintrock, Rev. Dr. Jos. P. THompson, Rev. Purtires Brooks, Rev. Dr. BELLOws, C. J. STILLE, Henry T. TuckerRMAN, 3AYARD TAYLOR, C. A. Bristep, C. L. Brace, WiiuiaAmM Lioyp Garntson,

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The ation. D1 I SYDNEY GEORGE FISHER, TERMS :—Six Dollars per annum, in advanes Six months, Fe THEODORE TILTON, Dollars. When delivered by Carrier in New York or Brooklyn, Fifty Cents additional JAMES PARTON " ; aaa ane ae N, JOSEPH H. RICHARDS, P SHER, GAIL HAMILTon. 130 Nassau strect, N. Y, WILLIAM KNABE & CO.’S ONE PRICE ONLY. Celebrated Gold Medal GRAND, : ‘ Writing Paper cheap at LEACH’S, 86 Nassau Street. SQUARE, si Envelopes cheap at LEACH ’S, 86 Nassau Street. SCHIEFFELIN YTHERS & CO W. H. Schieffelin & Co., UPRIGHT Blank Books cheap at LEACH’S, 86 Nassan Street I PIANOS. Memorandum Books cheap at LEACH 'S, 86 Nassau Street aSEN ) ‘i tc™= Pens and Pencils cheap at LEACH’S, 86 Nassau Street. PERU, These instruments have been for thirty years before the Pocket-Books cheap at LEACH’S, 86 Nassau Street. Indigo, Corks, Sponges, public, in competition with other instruments of first- Portfolios cheap at LEACH’S, 86 Nassau Street FANCY ¢ ps, | IFUMERY, I t Cash Boxes cheap at LEACH'S, 86 Nassan Street - ; W ae cam ee eee Stationers’ Tinware cheap at LEACH’S, 86 Nassau Street maintained their reputation among the profession and the 4 ee9yunt Books cheap at LEACH'’S. 86 Nassau Str public as being unsurpassed in every quality found in a Black, Blue, and Red Ink cheap at LEACIUS, 86 Na St T. G. SELLEW, first-class Piano. Arnold & Boss's Fluid cheap at LEACIDS, 86 Nassau St MANUFACTURER OF DESKS AND = ray 300ks cheap at LEACH’S, 86 Nassau Street. 650 BROADWAY. Scrap Books cheap at LEACH'S, 86 Na ee : ; aa } OFFICE FURNITURE, AND ‘ CROSBY'S OPERA HOUSE, Cuicaco, Inn. Schools Furnished 107 } ss Naseat vy with Desks and Seats, Locking Ink-wells, Outline Maps, J. BAUER & CO., Agents. == superior PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS for s LIBRARY AND s FURNI E MADE TO etc.; object teaching apparatus. with th ti rove aaa : ; ents fo MMON AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS, and Creat Improvements in Sewing om ma a ar a : ieteiia, 6 Machines. “Messenger.” Liberal terms to agents, . : trv ’ ' a AMERICAN SCHOOL APPARATUS EMPIRE SHUTTLE MACHINE! eels oo soil: | hain icles Salesrooms, 536 Broadway, N. Y., MON] ’ \- ' , 250 Washington Strect, Boston. The Third Annual Term ancl ee ae arictote rany school for details, send fora

This Machine is constructed on entirely new principles oft 6 for Women. with hom monathic | Recor ; a e eo Sik), of mechanism, possessing many rare and valuable im- | ,, ranches taucht all other 1 bie , 7 wre * i iit i Jhik Labe arta 0 1 atl ‘ * ot . i = i i eos experts, and pronounced to be SIMPLICITY and PER- | po.) pyweitth st ©. New Yor Add

FECTION COMBINED LM W ARD. Deat It has a straight needle perpendicular action, makes the cial ail LOCK or SHUTTLE STITCH, which will neither RIP nor WILLIAM SELLERS & CO., RAVEL, and is alike on both sides, performs perfect sew:| COOKING AND HEATING BY CAS. eon WAMILTON & EET. PHILADELPHIA ing on every description of material, from Leather to thé 1.6 HAMILION SiTARET, PHILADE! 1LA, finest Nansook Muslin, with cotton, linen, or sik thread, — from the coarsest to the finest number. Having neither CAM nor COG WHEEL, and the least 7 ‘TR QA @ "ING STOVES y MAKERS’ TOOLS possible friction, it runs as smooth as glase, and is | EAGLE GAS COOKING STOVES AND MARKER TOOLS. EMPHATICALLY A NOISELESS MACHINE! | RANGES. SHAFTING, with Ba i Socket Bearings and Double AGentTs WANTED where none are established, to whom | ’ t 1 t a liberal discount will be given GUARANTEED TO BANE PERFECTLY. T. J. MCARTHUR & CO., | ’ e Manufacturers and siete ag | HEATING STOVES, GUARANTEED TO HEAT ROOMS A complete ass PULLEY WHEEL PAT 536 Broadway, N. Y. Bes ; ‘ eae . PERFECTLY. TERNS, from w Cas 8 finished work will b MAKE YOUR OWN SOAP WITH pre furnis ’ RAILWAY EQUIPMENTS, TURNING and TRANSFER B. T. BABBITT’S KEROSENE OIL COOKING STOVES, rABLES PIVOT BRIDGES Pure Concentrated Potash, The best in market, have r¢ anteed to BAKE PERFECTLY S ke or OR READY SOAP-MAKER. oe ee nee ? GIFFARD’S INJECTOR, “ MACHINISTS’, FOUNDERS’, SMITIIS i BOILER SIDE OVENS, and guar- Sole Manufae sand I

Smell. Warranted double the strength of common Potash, and EAGLE GAS STOVE MFG. CoO.. ; . cs - superior to any other saponifier or lye in the market. y Ms 8 “3 ERS. JI i ; 174 Broadway, N. ¥ Put up in cans of one pound, two pounds, three pounds, (4 Droadway, ww. 1. six pounds, and twelve pounds, with full directions in | = FINKLE & LYON’S English and German for making Hard and Soft Soap. ter" Mustrated Cata oe IMPROVED One pound will make fifteen gallons of Soft Soap. No | lime is required. Consumers will find this the cheapest Potash in market. > ] Lecture-Room and Sabbath-School Settees | EI } '1T TRNITTPE! ee ‘ecueaiieiiais ‘i | ae SUREIEC ES LOOK-STITOH SEWING-MACHINE. B. T. BABBITT, ie ed cancel a 3.—M led chine is not preferre¢ 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, and 74 Washington st., N. Y. IN EVERY STYLE, to al larket for family use | MANUFACTURED BY AGENTS WANTED. 538 Broadway, N. Y. | CROVER & BAKER’S ROBERT PATON, .wow Tf ' ree i BOYNTON’S FURNACES. SEWING MACHINES 24 GROVE STREET, NEW YORK R 7 p = Wines WERE AWARDED THE HIGHEST PREMIUMS | 1 : : pt At the State Fairs of . , , : s ee ;, ron FRANCIS & LOUTREL, New York, | Illinois, | Virginia, iT a : New Jersey, | Michigan, N. Carolina, 15 MAIDEN LANE. NEW YORK ARDSON, BOYNTON & CO., Vermont, Wisconsin, |; Tennessee, ‘Water 8 - <i . Pennsylvania, lowa, Alabama, STATIONERS, STEAM PRINTERS an, ee eee Ohio, Kentucky, | Orevon, Indiana, Missouri, } California, AND PIANOS And at numerous Institute and County Fairs, including BLANK-BOOK MANUFACTURERS, all i Fairs at which they were exhibited the past three td iter teen r hin re r Sa 4 pr age E years tionery, Diaries for 1s66, Expense Books, etc. O

t St The GROVER & BAKER ELASTIC-STITCH SEWING | solicited. : MACHINE is superior to all others, for the following rea RAVEN & BACON'S PIANO-FORTES. ESTABLISHED 1829 —= JOHN V. FARWELL & CO., 1. The seam is stronger and more elastic than any other. = . . . . WHOLESALE 2. It is more easily managed, and is capable of doing a \ Seine ea —_— nents aoa greater variety and range of work than any other, DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS : New York ret for more thas 3. It is capable of doing all the varieties of sewing done shire ne ? : by other machines, and, in addition, executes beautiful 122,44 & 46 WABASH AVENUI embroidery and ornamental work. CHICAGO t Sesmiahe 2 ine pT ON eM GROVER & BAKER 8. M. CO., . rchasers. Pictoria r irs sent by n 195 Broadway, New York. AND NO, » COLLEGE PLACE, NEW YORK Wareroom, 125 ¢ s Ir . York

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CRUS eSRS AND PULVERIZERS, | : DRY WORKING ilk} (| | IN THE WORLD rT DOSTO l LING & MANUFACTURING CO PATI rt BOSTON, MASS ! } { workil i \ “thar t s of ore per ! to 1 ! t fits tons in The P \ ) rizes to dust n¢ ore per hour, ; eld of twenty- d wear, as com- unps ibout one-tenth ;—the ition without further tained by screening, but i ‘ Pi / i i ( 7] po r re Phe « f r, per to le than by any other ! i rel I f Franklinite i Let ir f ds refu.ly study the prac al sand processes offered, working in East Boston, Mass. Weask ‘ " Allofo ! hines ar " le in our own shop No ( WAC Vor FICERS OF THE COMPANY: P ident—HORATIO R, STORER ( \ tand Treasur JaAcoB J. STORER Co ¢ Envineer—Jas, D. WHELPLEY. ! ie. rORS: \. Blanchard, Benjam P. Cheney, Bradley N. Cum- a. j hod ¢ vin. H kh. Stor Jacob J. r, James D. W | Arey 1 New Ye CHA HW. GARDNER 1h Cor STREET. LANDT PHELPS, DODCE & CO., Im] ra and Dealers in iN-}t it SHEET-IRON, COPPER, BLOCK-TIN, VIRE, AND METALS GENERALLY ; Manufactur of COPI t, BRASS, and WIRE, Wand 21 Cliff st., New York. DECKER BROTHERS IANUFACTURERS OF PIANO-FORTES. rOOMS BLEECKER STREET, MArsie BcihpriNna,) NEW YORK, MARVYVIN’S PATENT FIRE AND BURGLAR SAFE. Economical Housekeepers Use Py SALERATUS Pyie’s O. K. Soap tEAM TAI t Py e's BLvetne PowpDER. » want the best goods, ful everywhere. Each package Manufacturer, New York Articl des ed 1 ull wh ve ht Sold by best Grocers f James Pyut The N DEMULCENT FOR CHAPPED AND TEN TOILET Nation. SOAP, HANDS AND BATH USst VDER FOR MANUFACTURED ONLY BY J.C. HULL’S SON, 32 PARK ROW, N. Y. Upwards of 100 styles of Toilet and Staple Soaps, Fors by all Dealers. FLORENCE SEWING MACHINE 505 BROADWAY. N. Y. CO., Mik BEST FAMILY MACHINE IN THE WORLD, Wonderful ReverstsLe Frep Motion SELF-ADJUST ING Tensior No Suarling and Breaking Threads. Four distinct Stitches. KEYS’ AMERICAN UNION WRITING FLUID AND COPYING INKS THE CHEAPEST AND THE BES Always clean, and flowing freely from the pen, the inks are rapidly taking the place of all others, and merit the special attention of the penman On trial they will be found superior in every ct to the imported inks now in use REEVES & CO (Successors tod, G. K MAN FACTURERS AND SOLE PROPRIETORS 03 Washington Street (near Reade), N.Y THE BEST SEWING-MACHINES IN THE WORLD. THE WEED MACHINES, With all their valuable improvements, entirely overcome allimperfections. They are superior to all others for fam- ily and manufacturing purposes, simple in construction, durable in all their parts, and readily understood, They have certainty of stitch on all kinds of fabrics, and are adapted to a wide range of work without change or adjust ment, using all kinds of thread. Will hem, fell, bind, gather, braid, tuck, quilt, cord, and, in fact, do all kinds ot work required by families or manufacturers. We invite all persons in search of an instrument to execute any kind of sewing now done by machinery to inspect them, and recommend all parties engaging in the sale of sewing- machines to make sure they secure the best by examining the WEED before purchasing. They make the shuttle- stitch, which ¢ innot be excelled for firmness, elast icity, durability, and elegance of finish. They have received th highest premiums ‘in eve ry instance where they have been exhibited in competition with other standard machines. ‘he company, being duly licensed, the machines are pro- tected against infringements or litigation. Reliable agents wanted, to whom we offer great induce- ments. Every explanation will be cheerfully given to all, whether they wish to purchase or not. Descriptive cir- culars, together with specimens of their work, will be fur- nished to all who desire them by mail or otherwise, WEED SEWINC-MACHINE CoO., Store, 506 BROADWAY, N. Y. OAKLEY & MASON, STATIONERS PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS, $ AND BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURERS 21 MURRAY STREET, OLD STAND OF PRATT, OAKLEY & Co., Between Broadway and Church Street, New York. Lock-Stitch Sewing Machines FOR FAMILIES AND MANUFACTURERS HOWE MACHINE COMPANY, ,ELIAS HOWE, Jr., Pres., 629 BROADWAY. THE Agents wanted, WHEELER & WILSON’S SEWING MACHINES, ROADWAY, N. Y., MAKE THE LOCK-STITCH, highest on account of the elasticity, perma- and general desirableness of the stitching, 625 B and rank nence, beauty, when done, and the wide range of its application of American Institute | | | | Report | j THE UNIVERSAL CLOTHES WRINCER, Withl COG-WHEELS. I World's I n London, the Mechanics’ Institute, ind Eleven State Fairs have decided that the U. C. W. is THE BEST. \ O WARRANT IT THE BEST and most durable Wringer iad Over 200,000 have been sold, and each family can stifv to its superior merits, It * iis cost in clothing every year. ORANGE JUDD One of © most useful arcicles in my house.”’—Mre Hlenry Warp B HER I heartily commend it.”"--Rev. Dr. BeLtows Call or nd for ] rated cireular, with testimonials tail p sand ns to salesmen. Me de rapidly selling them in every town R. C. BROWNING, 47 Broadway, DECKER & CO., AGENT, New York (:ENERATI MANUFACTURERS OF PIANO-FORTES. ) BROOME STREET One Block East from Broadway, N. Y. Our lietrumei combine alt the improvements Of REAT WORTH known in their manufacture. and are warranted for the term of seven (7) years JESSUP & MOORE, 27 Norte SixtH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, 128 WILLIAM Street, New York, PAPER MANUFACTURERS, allaye on hand, or make to order at short n e, all quali ties of Book and News Printing Papers at current market prices "NITED. STATES STEEL Factory, CAMDEN, N. J. R. ESTERBROOK &CO., STEEL PEN MANUFACTURERS 108 ARCH STREET, Philadelphia 12 JOUN STREET, New York. PEN WORKS, WAREHOUSES ‘ i Samples and prices on ‘ation. Lots made to orde applic of any pattern or stamp required. CAUTION, American manufacture, and and fineness of point to the best These Pens are of genuine ] sticity, eal lin fir i imported. » Americ The fac-simile of our signature is sufficient secnrity against foreign imitation. R. ESTERBROOK & CUO », therefore, sure to gain the confidence f im public. of th JOSEPH CILLOTT’S STEEL PENS. OF THE OLD STANDARD QUALITY. seph fiiott, Warranted. ana Designating Number. a fremak Jrom No. 700 to No. 71. With Designatins Numbers. TRADE MARK: or Descriptive Name, New Series, Good a RADE MARK: Etficks ott nam. For sale by JOSEPH GILLOTT & SONS, 91 Jobn Street, New York OWEN, Sole Agent. THE BEST PIANO-FORTE. ONE THAT WILL LAST A LIFETIME. Seven Firet Pre miums in one Silver Med ; six State stitute hav led tl at Scale Piano- Fortes ¢ others in the Essent in Touch, Tone, Power, HENRY four weeks; two Gold and Fairs and the American In WM. B. BRADBI RY'S New ‘THE BEST.” They “ E os, all Perfect Piano-Forte,” viz yugh Workmans ly “They are the best square piano-fortes I have. ev - rye d upon.”’—-HARRY SANDERSON, ‘They are very superior instruments.”’—-GoTTscHALK * Their superior excellence fully proven.”’—W. Bera! **Tadmire them in the highest degree.”’"—G. W. Morgan Call or send for a Circular, with Illustrations and Testi monia!s of the most eminent artists and amateurs WM. B. BRADBURY, 425 AND 427 BRooME STREET, NEW YORK, IPED RR NRL Ro wm hee a

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