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I News Budg SUMMARY OF NEWS For tha Week ending: Dec. Jintrir.x Tin niiicial announcement of the new French Cnliiii. t was made toJday; it shows some changes hi aililithiu to those previously reported. The t'ol i;) .viiiir i the official list of the Ministers: Minister 'of Interior, Duke lo Broglie ; Minister of. Foreign Affairs, Duke Dccazen ; Minister of 'War, ( Jen Du Jjut.rn.il ; Mini.tt'r of Finances, M. Pierre Maime ; .'tin itrr cf Justice M. Depeyiu ; Minister of Fub ' J Instruction and IVorsfiip, M. Fotirton ; Minister of A.'riculture and Commerce, M. Deseilliirny; Min d ' ,ii!.rr of Pi Mir Works, M. de. Larcv;. Minister of tic Ma rine, Admiral D'Ifornoy. MM. Beule and' ij.Pnul and Bathte are the members of the- previ ou;MiniRtry who havo retired.At an influential moethifr held at Rome on the 2Gth, at which Mr. D. D. Field, of New York, and M. Richard, Sec retary of the Paris Peace Society, were present, it w.-n d'.vided that un Italian committee 8hoild he organized iu conriexrtion with th Juridical Con " r: ers of" Brussels : Count Sclopis and Gen. Gari Imldi. were appointed honorary members of the eonuiiittec, A letter from Havana say the people (here would refuse to allow any order from Madrid to deliver up the. Virgiu'ms or make other repara tion' for her seizure and the execution of her crew to he carried out; preparation lor defence are being actively pushed forward; guns are being mounted at suitable points; advertisements apjvear in the different papers for an unlimited number of laborers to work ou the arsenals; volunteers have orders to drill two or three times a week. The - Jvothschilds announce a Kussian h've per cent. loan of 57f,lM),0uy. There wa no increase )f specie in the D;i:ik of Fnince during the past week. DoMF.sTIC. i . The Po'.vhattan, with tho iron-clad Manhat--fa:i in tow, passed out to sea fro.u Iewes, Del.. On Widnesilay niglit, tl.'e 2(.;th. A nittnher of the N'e'.v England mills are about to resume oeraTioiis. The Hiio.i.'.c tunnel was to have been opened ou ' Thursday the 2?th. A mass meeting of workiiig- y. ie!i am I women was held in Independence Square, rniiaueiplua, on ltiursiiay, ppeecnes were maae from three stands; the speakers identified the movement with .the internationalists; the resolu tions demand that the Citv Council fiiul empior- 1.1-1 11 1 1 1 ment Sir the unemployed anil establish supply de , p;!rt;nents for the necessaries of life; the tilth mo- lution is that they hail with delight the organiza tion of the Patrons of Husbandry. The Kound house of t!i.i Central Pacific Railroad, at Kocklin, California,' with nine locomotives and nine, cars, v::s burned on Thursday morning; the town nar rowly escaped destruction. Col. Robert Morrow, i'a lmtster of one of the Arizona departments of the army, coniiuitted suicide on Thursday; he was formerly Private -secretary to President Johnson. W ilson tt Sons" nash factory and planing mill. : i Baltimore, was completely destroyed by fire oa Thursfday .morning; loss, 40,t'HO; insurance, ?'-;,-eiii!; sixty nn-n are tin own out of employment. Five hundred can:d bouts'aVe frozen up at Utica. - .James H. Ingerxoiil and John D. Fanniiigton, convicted Ring men. were lodged in the K. 1'ork Tombs on ".Thai s lay m riiiug. Fdwiu D. Lewis, President of the Fai niers and Mechanics' Bank, w ill act as receiver in Jay Cooke &, Co's b.uik rtiptcy until the creditors appoint au assignee. Mai one, the Georgia, murderer, died defiant and unrepentant; lie wr.ote a letter giving "his religious views, in which he said he had no belief iu the J'.ible nor in Jieli; Tie wrote to the jailor, gloating over the l'lo'.ing of the Judge and the prosecutor;; he was condeuiued to be hung but died on Friday from the. effects of morphine takeu on Thursday ' night. A mas meeting of workingmeu in Pater son. X. J., was called lo meet at the Falls on Sat urday, to make a formal demand on the city for work. The Union ' Banking Company of Phila delphia, has resumed. James Mason has befii ap pointed receiver in Jay Cooke tfc Co' is bankruptcy. The Patrons of Husbandry organized '.a State Grange .at Montgomery, Ala., on the iJHth; the convention was very large, and every part of the State, was represented. Three are dead and five are sick of a party who drank from a .bottle they I supposed whiskey, at Montreal. REVIEW OF THE MARKETS For the Week eading Dec. 2, . 1873. LiVKKPociLtL,' Xov. 2C. Sales of uplands not be low good ordinary!, delivered December and Jan uary, 8 7-l!dt uplands nVt below low middlings delivered November. 8 y-10d: Orleans not below low middlings, shipped "November and December, CJd. Corn 24s. Dd. Lard :'!Js. 3d. Xov. Cotton to arrive firmer. Uplands not below irood ordinary, slurped October-, Xoveiulier and December 8 9-l(xl.; lo Decerning and January, f?d. Fj.lahds not b-low low middlings, shipped November and Decemlter 8d. Orleans not lielow irood ordinarv. deliverable XoVemlnr, Sid. Yarns -and fabrics at Manchester firm, with an upward tcmleTicv. Bacon short ribs 44s. Common rosin Hs. 3d. Spirits tui-pentine 32s. -Xkw Yohk. Xov. 2G. Gold dulrat lOSf-alOa (Joveninient securities dull hut strong. Cotton firm at ltii'ffil ( cents. Flour firmer common to fair extra, ( ?5)$7 60; gxxi to choice $7 6fi2.$l V.'lieat irreiil-ir ami held considerably liigher winter red western SI 90. Corn decidedly farmer hut inactive vellow western 74744 cents. 1 ork active and firm at 14 50. Spirit turpentine low er at :Wi-40 ceut. Rosin uuiet. Fi-eighte dull. Nov. i8. Gold R;tive at 1094. Government bonds dull and strong. Cotton linn a 16ilGf cents. Flour firmer with a fair enuuiry it b 85 $7 75 for common to fair extra and t7 y0$ll for good to choice do. AV heat is 2 cents higher win ter red western is $1 65; white western to arrive in December $1 85. Corn 2 -S3 cents lower with a fair demand prime western mixed 7274 cents. Pork quiet old mess $14 50. Beef quiet at 9 50 'alO 50 tor first grade and 8 50 $9 50 for second grade. Spirits turpentine quiet at 39i40 cents. juosiu quiet at to, t reights dull ana lower. Wilmixgtox, X'ov. 26. Spirits turpentine 36 cents; market steady at 36J- cents. Rosin at S2 lo d2 17i; market tor siot strained firm at $2 15. Crude turpentine at 2 for hard and $2 90 for yellow dip, tar the market has declined 5 cents. Cotton market firmer and has advanced $ centy at 14 cents IB. - . Nov. 28. Spirits' turpentine at 36 centa per gal lon for Southern packages; market firm at the de cline of i cent. Rosin at 2 17$ for strained; mar ket quiet. Crude, turpentine at 2 iH) for vellow dip and 2 for hard; market quiet and steady. Tar ill $z .ju per uui.; marset steady, tjotton at 14 eta et. Home Circle. MY KITCHEN GIRL. 0, wliat a dear, cosy place it was ! that little cottage just out of the great city, with its new, bright furniture and pleasant sur roundings ! My face beamed with happi ness as I turned to thank my husband for his thoughtfulness and labor. We were jr.st married, and, although rather ignorant of housekeeping, I insisted that we should not board, knowing how averse ray hus band was to such a life. "An now," said Harry, with, assumed gravity, "Mrs. ."Wilde, shall I conduct you to the realm of labor? You are going to have a great treasure there no rough, raw Irish girl to frighten you to death with her blarney, nor a black cook to order you off your own premises, but a nice little Amer ican girl who.-will be able to help you in everything, and at the same time be a com panion for you while I am down town." "O, how glad I am !" I exclaimed. "But where did you find hev? Not in the In telligence Office, surely?" "O, no," sang Harry, whistling a well known air, "I was tolling Uncle Ned, the other night, what I wanted, and he said he knew a person that would just suit me. It ecms this sx came there, a frhv months agoto engage in sewing, and has been there ever since as seamstress; but her health is giving way, and she thought if she could do ihe work of some small family, just out of the city, it would le better lor her than sewing. I have hardly had a fflinipse of her vet, but Auntie Hi savs she seems very sad, dresses nrdeep mourn ing, and appears like one who had just had some great sorrow." "Poor tiling !" I exclaimed, my sympath ies 'immediately aroused. "But, ilarry, will she know anything about cooking?'' "0, yes," said he, "for she has always lived in the country, and one day site told auntie that she had been through all kinds of housework; but her hands are very small and delicate." "Why, I am getting quite anxious to see her; when will she be here, Ilarry?" "0, next. week," he replied, very indif ferently, I thought, with some surprise, which increased as he said: "And now, my little wife, let "Vis have tea. I want to see vou officiate in your own home." "We descended to tho dining room, I in wardly trembling,, tor l had never made a biscuit in my life, and didn't know whether to put a spoonful of tea in the tea pot, or a cupful; but, oh, what a surprise ! There stood a nice, oval-table, daintry set for two, elegant witlr its white damask, clear china service, fend glittering silver. A bright fire burnt in the grate- everything looked ko cheerlnl and home-like ! Just entering from the kitchen I beheld a, graceiui iorra, clad in 'deep mournmj;; ner face was pale but strikingly beautituJ, and as the jratdiirht flickered down upon her golden hair it gleamed like a crown of glory She greeted us with a ladylike simplicity. saving, l nope you tiave loimd everytinn in readiness; will you take tea now ? You must be iaint after your long ride. I sat down m bewildered silence, and after placing a call-lell by my plate, she withdrew. I "Why, Harrv Wilde, vou have made me ivdd in more than one sense ! Am I dream ing? Is she to be my kitchen girlf "Why, caunot treat her gs such! ' To tell the truths Ilarry looked a little bewildered, too. , . I declare, " he said, "they told me she was refined, but this is a little more than I expected." "But w Tiat a nice suiiper sine has prepar ed, and how 'thoughtful of you to have her 1 - O here to receive us. "Whv, did you think I would bring you to a desolate, uninhabited places VV oukl let you soil yotir pretty hands at the out- t? O, no" (another .whistle.) "I di think of having a little party here to receive you, but conciuaea mat jl wantea you my , . 1 T 1 jl iT x .l . sell the first evening." llanw has a way ot talking nonsense. sometimes, that might sound silly to a thin nerson, so I won t tell you any more oi our conversation'. How bright the future looked to me True, ray husband was not wealthy, but I prefer an empty pocket to an empty head and, after all, we had enough for a com menCement, ana I know there never was a happier bride in the wide world than I But this story isn't to be aliout myself, however, but our kitchen girl. 1 was most afraid of her at first, she seemed so far alove me, although always quiet an prlite. But finally my diffidence wore off, and one morning donning a huge gingham apron, I went into the kitchen determine to take my lirst lessons in cooking. As I opened the door, a low sob greeted my ear. and advancing 1 beheld the poor girl bow ed in ah agony of grief, great sobs choking her whole frame ""What is it, Marv?" I said, coming to wards her, and speaking as gently as pos sible: "what is it that troubles you? It grieves me to see you sad, for I am very happy, 'and I cannot bear to see any one sulier." Bhe reached out her white hand to me and as I clasped it in mine 1 drew dow the wealth off golden hair upon my shoulc er and kissed! the pale Brow, passing my hand lightly over the temples, where the viens'were swollen fearfully. "JLet me be vour friend, Mary; we are nearly of an age: vou must not weep so There, now we shall be companions for er.ch othe4 and you must tell rae all that troubles you will you not? You came here as a servant, but I cannot treat yon as such, for you are my equal in every sense of the word. 1 am very much drawn towards you and I long to .win your trust and love." "U, you are too kind," she soDDea. is long since I have felt a caressing touch upon my brow, and your words of sympathy are very sweet. I do not want to cloud : i our sunny heart with my sorrows, and will try to be more cheerful." ! V "2s ow, now," said I, playfully, "that will never do ' as a fresh bnrt. nf tnnra fl owed -"I've come down here to get you to give me some lessons in cooking, for I am aMreadful ignoramus; so we Won't talk about it now, but some tmie I ad going to in tne whole story irom you. And now, mst august preceptress what shall be my first lesson? Look at this mammoth bib. I made it on purpose for thi momentous occasion." - She laughed, half sadly, but it was a augh, musical and rippling, and I hailed t as the omen of brighter hours. If I could beer her poor heart I determined to do it-' iu very morning after this I went down to the kitchen for my instructions, and would soon, so Mary saiJ, "surpass my teacher." discovered that the piano was no stranger to her and that she had a voice of rare qual ity, and after the work was done she would lay and sing for me, or talk to me, with lat magic power she always -wielded in conversation. I succeeded in obtaining a ew- scholars for her, and her face gradual- y lost its careworn look, although there was a shade ot sadness that never entire v isappeared, and sometimes she would start nervously at any unexpected sound or voice. t was the old, sad story, of a happy home roken up by death and misfortune, and a penniless girl thrust out into the world. But lere is One who notes even the sparrow s fall! "But why did you go out alone, Mary, to battle with the world?" I said. "Was lere no one to help you?" "Perhaps I did wrong " she said, '.'but oh, I was driven nearly wild by my sorrows, and I could not remain there, amid those suggestive scenes and so I came away. without a word; and, after all, there is no one that 1 care for." ' Mary had been with us aliout a vear. when one evening, Ilarry brought home an Id college lnend, who had become a sur geon of considerable skill. And now just returned froia abroad, he was very euter- I Ws charmed with the grace and manner of Ins conversation, and so ab- orbed dji'l I become m the interesting ac counts of his travels, that our tea hour pass- 1 by .without mv observing it. Finally, I was reminded of the fact by my husband, who said, "Is Mary awav?" "O, ves," I replied, she went-out to see one oi ner ccnoiars this atternoon. l can 1 T.l .T' i. r not think what detai Thanks to Mary's instructions J could irepare a-meal equal to Iters,-now, and Ave were soon gathered round our pleasant table. Suddenly, there wu a .confused sound of ieavv feet, and Mary was brought in by a talwart Irishman who said she had "slip ped upon a bit of ice, and broken her arm." v oraandike, 1 began to cry; but Harrv athered her up in his great, strong arm- .md carried tier up to my room, where we all followed. "Here, Charlie I give tins, cat'c up to you," said he, as he. deuosiud his burden upon the bed, and his friend approached, hed saying, "bhe has tainted.' Middeniv he uwed his ne?.d upon his muds, but only for a moment; then he pro ceeded to set the broken limb as tenderly as a woman - would touch a frail .baby's Once she spoke, incoherently, and her eyes opened m a stupid stare. 1 caught a won that sounded' like "Charlie" then the truth dawned upon me ! After he had done all . that he could, Charlie turned to us, saying r "My friends, you have restored agreat blessing to me ! You may have noticeiUmy emotion when first saw her lace; it h one that has been constantly before me for the last three years thought I had lost it, and have searched every where, litree years ago l met and loveu tins vouug iau, out just i was 1 1 .1 ' 1 . - 1 j. i. T about to declare niv affection for her there came a summons urging my immediate pre sence abroad. I leit a note for her, which I have since discovered she never received nor any letter that I have since -written During my travels I could not forget her, imd immediately on mv return 1 sought her home, but it was in the possession of Strang ers, and no one could tell me her where abouts. Mv search has been in vain until to-night; aud now the shock is so great can hardly master myself." He was deathly pale, and I began to fear we would have two patients instead ot one but he soon rallied, and obtained his sell control;. Wasn't I happy? "I knew there was a man in the case, somewhere !" I cried, wiping my red eyes, "and it alwav puzzled me to know what there could be interesting in that little Charlie Iivin down in the corner house, and. why Alary took such a fahev to him but, oh, to be sure, whv it's because his name is Charlie Then I 'had to jump up and congratulate him again, until Harry said, turning to hi friend, "She is always telling me that it is I w-ho made her wild, (VV lkle) but 1 think you are the one now. How our Marv gathered strength eac day, and how carefully the doctor attendee to her . wants, I shall not give you an ac count nor how beautiful she looked in her white bridal role, as she was led to the altar nor one of the pleasant receptions she gave us in her elegant home. It was all like a fairy tale; and now it is over, and I am all alone in my little, pleasant home, looking, but without success, for another "Kitchen Girl. The Adoratiox of Woitax. The adoration which a young man gives t woman whom he leels to be greater an better than himself is hardly distinguish able from a religious feeling. What dee and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art, or mnsic? Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vis tas, or calm, majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies, all bring with them : the con sciousnees that they are mere waves an THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, pples in an unfathoraalde ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest mo ment passes from expression into -silence; our love at its highest flood rushes bevond its object, and loses itself in tho sense of divine mystery. Is it any weakness, pray, to bo wrought on by exquisite music? to feel its wondrous annonies searching the sublest windings f your soul, the delicate fibres of life where no memory can penetrate, and binding to gether your whole being, past and present, in one unspeakable vibration, melting you in one moment with all the tenderness, all the love, that has been scattered through the toilsome years, concentrating in one emotion of heroic courage or resignation all he hard-learnt lessons of self-renouncing sympathy, blending your present joy with :iast sorrow, and your present sorrow with all vour. past iov? If not. then' neither is - - " . it a weakness to bo so wrought unon bv le exquisite curves of a woman's cheek and neck and arms, bv the liouid denths of her A 1- icseeching eves, or the sweet childish pout of her lips. For the beauty of a love.lv oman is like music; what can one sav more?" Beauty has an expression beyond and ar above the one woman s soul that it clothes, as the words of genius have a wider meaning than tho thought that prompted' uem; it is more than a woman s 4. i love that moves us m a woman s eyes it seems to be tar-oti mighty love that has come near to us, and made speech for itself there; the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us y something more than their prettiness y their close kinship with all we have nown of tenderness and peaco. The no- lest nature sees the most of this impersonal expression in beauty, and for this reason no noblest nature is often the most blind ed to the character of the woman's soul that ie beauty clothes. Whence," I fear, the tragedy of human life is likely to continue for a long time to come, in spite of mental lulosophers, who are ready with the best receipts tor avoiding all mistakes of the kind. The Dead Alive. In the retreat of the French army, Captain Gronovv tells us iat General Ornano, a Corsican second usband of the beautiful Comtcsse Wal wska, and a distant relation of- the Bona artc family received a severe wound from the bursting of a shell, which killed his torse and several soldiers who were near urn. The General'said-de-camn. on look- mr around, observed Ornano lying on his ack, to all appearance dead, with the blood flowing from his mouth. A surgeon soon arrived, and declared that life was extinct. The aide-de-camp and a few soldeirs oom- iieneed digging a grave; but the ground was so hard, owing to the terrible cold that irevailed, that thev could not make it deep enough to cover the body; and, being press- l lor tune, they arranged the supposed corpse in decent order, aud covered it with snow instead of earth. After this was done. the aide-de-camp reported to the Emperor Napoleon, w ho was not far off, the loss that he army had sustained in General Ornano, who was only twenty-six years ot age, and the, youngest officer of his rank in the arm v. Flic Emperor, who was very fond of the General, was deeply grieved, and exclaim ed: "Poor fellow ! He was one of" mv est cavalry officers," and, turning to one of his orderlies, desired him to go immedi ately and find out all about the wound which lad caused ins death, lne officer, in or der to satisfy himseil upon this point, had the dead man taken out of the snow, and, ou looking at the wound, observed that the o( iv was still warm, xurs and flannels were accordingly heaped upon the corpse, which was placed upon a shutter and taken to headquarters. Alter much care and per severance he was restored to life, to the joy oi the Emperor and the whole army. Hindoo Bel l e s . "The Hindoo wo men," says a 'writer in Frascr's Magazine, "attracted me most by their graceful car riage, their picturesque drapery, consisting of a full skirt and a sort of burnous, which passes over the head, almost completely veiling the face. These varv in color, being sometimes bright blue and pink yel low, tho skirt often bordered with a hem of some other color, often very gaudy, but the dark skin harmonizes it all. The most artistic to my mind is the deep indigo blue, but it is more rare in the north-west than iu southern India, where almost all the lower classes oi women wear it. it is pleasant to vatch the easy grace with which they walk, bearing round, red earthen-ware or bright copper water jars on their heads, steadying their burden with one well shaped, sruall-wnsted, dusky arm stretched up to its full length, and covered almost to the .elbow, and sometimes above it, with numbers of bracelets. These are sometimes silver, and oltener, plated metal or red and green glass. I once heard of a school, the pupils of which were trained to walk about with tumblers of cold water on their heads; and when I saw the firm footed, easy grace- of these burden-bearing women, I regretted that the practice was not Universal. The pale-faced raco may perhaps pride itself on its superiority in the use of the contents of its head, but these dusky daughters of the 6un certainly out do their more favored sisters in the use - of the outside of theirs. They carry every thing on their heads, jars of water, pieces of cloth, baskets of vegtables, huge bun dles of sugar-cane, fuel, anything and ev erything, leaving their hands free for any additional burdens. They do not even carry their little black babies in their arms, but either balance them astride on their shoulders with their little hands on their mother's head, or else.4istride on one hip, encircled with a strong arm. I have seen a woman with four water-jars towering on her head, and her little baby on her hip walking along with a springy grace, jing ling her silvery anklets and toe-bells as she went.. ; 1873. AVCED0TE OF CILLULE&MCKEXSJ The following anecdoto of Dickens, as related ly himself, contains a moral that peophho are .addicted to slander might study with great profit, and to such wo ad vise a careful reading': j I chanced to be travelling some years ago, said he in a railroad carriage between Liverpool and London. Besides myself there were two ladies and. a gentleman oc cupying the carriage We happened to be all strangers to each other, but I n"ticcdat once that a clergyman Mas of the party. I was occupied with a ponderous article in the Times, when the sound of mv name drew my attention to the fact that a con versation was going forward among the three other persons in tho carriage with re ference to myself and my; books. One of the ladies was perusing "Bleak House," then lately published, and the clergyman had commenced a conversation with the ladies by asking what book they were read ing. On being told the author's name and the title of the book ho expressed himself greatly grieved, that any lady in England should be willing to take up the writings of so vile a character as Charles Dickens. The ladies show ed great surprise at the low estimate the clergyman put upon an author whom they had been accustomed to read, to say the least, with a certain degree of pleasure. They were evidently much shock ed at what the man said of the immoral tendency of these books, which they seem ed never before to have suspected;' but w hen lie attacked the author's private character, and told monstrous stories of his immoral ities in every direction, the volume was shut up and consigned to the dark pockets of a traveling bag. j I listened in wonder and astonishment behind my newspaper to stor ies about myself which, had they been'truo, would have consigned any man to prison for life. After my fictitious biographer "had occupied himself for nearly an hour. I with an eloquent recital of my delinquencies and crimes, I very quietly joined in the con versation. Of course I began by modestly doubting' some statements which -I had just heard touching the author of "Bleak House" and other important works of a similar character. The man stared at me,!. and evidently considered my appearance on the conversational stage an intrusion and an impertinence. "You seem to speak," I said, "from personal knowledge of Mr. Jickens. Are you acquainted with him?" Ie rather evaded the question; but follow ing him up closely, I compelled him to say that he had been talking not from his own knowledge of the author in question, but ie said he knew for a certainty that every statement he made was a true one. I then ecame earnest in mv inquiries for proofs, which he arrogantly declined giving.' Tho adies sat by in silence, listening intently to what was going forward. ,Au author they had been accustomed to read for am usement had been traduced for the first time in their hearing, and they were-wait ing to hear what I had to say m refutation of the clergyman's charges. I was taking up his vile stories one. by one, and stamp ing them as false m evety particular, when the man grew furious, and asked me if I knew Dickens personally. I replied: Per fectly well; no- man knows him better than I do, and all j'our stones about him, i from beginning to end, to these ladies are unmiti gated lies." The man became liid i with gc and asked for my card. 'You shall have it," I said cooly, and, taking out one, I presented it to him without lxnving. We were just then nearing tho station in r Lon don, so that I was spared a longer inter view with my truthful companion, but if I were to live a hundred years I could not forget the abject condition into which the narrator oi my crimes was plunged. 5 His face turned as white as his cravat, and his lips refused to utter words. He seemed like a white vegetable, and, as if his legs belonged to somebody else. The ladies became aware of the situation at once, and bidding them "good-bye" 1 stepped j smil ingly out of the carriage. Before I could get away from the station the man had mustered up strength sufficient to follow me, and his apologios were so nauseous and craven that I pitied him from my soul. I h ft him with the caution, "Before you make any charges against the character of any man again, about whom you knowr nothing, and of whose works vou are utterly ignor ant, study to be a seeker after truth, and avoid lying as you would eternal perdition." " If You Love me, Lean Hard." The' Boston Recorder relates the following: "Miss Fiske, while in the Nestoriau Mis sion, was at one time in feeble health, and much depressed in spirits. One hot; Sab bath afternoon she sat on her mat on the chapel floor, longing for support and rest, feeling unable to maintain her trying posi tion until the close of the worship. Pres ently she felt a woman's form seated at her back, and heard the whisper, 'Lean on ine.' Scarcely yielding to the request, she heard it repeated, 'Lean on me.' Then' she divid ed her weight with the gentle pleader, but1 that did not sumce?. In earnest, almost re proachful tones, the voice again urged, 'If you love me, lean hard This incident is worth a whole volume of commentary on the nature of true love, which is happiest when it can do most lor the loved one." If those men who are gifted - with the power of intellect to praise, in "glowing sentences, God's goodness, could but in spire the hearts of men theirs would be glory. ; ; v ' ' ., - . f" True -K eli giok. Saving religion will not pat all the big strawberries at the top, and all the little ones atfjho bottom. It will not make one-half pair of shoes good leather so that the finst shall redound to the maker's credit, and the second to his cash It will not cut Jouvin's stamp on Jenkins kid gloves; or. make Pans bonnets in the back room of a Boston milliner's shop; nor let a piece of velvet that professes to meas ure twelve yards come to an untimely enc in tho tenth, or a spool of sewmg silk that vouches for twenty yards be nipped in the bud at fourteen and a half; nor all wool delaines and all linen handkerchiefa be amalgamated with clandestine cotton; nor coats made of old. rags pressed together be sold to the unsuspecting public for legal broadcloth. I The Lapland. Fisheries. A curious Btory is told of the fishermon in a Lapland lake. They have a set of littlo fellow workers who do them very great service. With the first beams of morning light the sea swallows come flocking around the fish ers' huts,, and by their shrill cries wake them up. "It is time to begin business," tho birds say in language which the men well under stand. So they make haste and bestir them selves, fetching out their nets and launch ing their little boats on the lake. And now they look upward for a sign which way to row. The keen-eyed bird, as soon as they see-them set off, hover over the waters, hith and thither, until j they espy a spot where the fish are abundant. As soon as they see a school they wheel about in cir cles and cry at the topr of their voices to call the boatmen to tle spot. Then the men pull awar with a will. They know that their guide never deceives them. They cast in iiiu nets, ami soon nam - in euuugn to feed the hungry nestlings they have left in the little huts on shore. And now it is the bird's turn. " It would surely be most ungrateful if. thev' refused to share their supplies with so , useful a servant. More than this, tne servant would soon refuse to help such a short sighted master. The poorer fish are tossed up in the air, and are caught in a twinkling by the birds. It would bo a rare thing indeed for one to fall in the water. The birds hover near the boats till they come to shore, and sometimes help themselves from" the nets. As soon as the fishermen go home,- their boats are quickly'cleared of every thing remaining in them by these greedy little scavengers. Looks of Literary Womex. Very intellectual women are seldom beautiful. Their features, and particularly their fore heads, are more or less masculine. But there are exceptions to all mles, and Miss Lankton was an exception to this one. She was exceedingly feminine and prettv. Mrs. Stanton likewise is a handsome woman. Miss Anthony and Mrs. Livfiaatffcare both plain. Mane and J ano Porter were wo men of high brows and irregular features, as was also Miss Sedgwick. Anna Dicken son has a strong, masculine face; Kate xieid has a good looiving, though by no means a pretty one, and Mrs. Stowe is thought to be positively homely. Alice find Plufibe Carv were both rdaiu in fea tures, though their sweetness of disposition added e-rentlv to their nei-sonnl annenrineo. . - . . . . . Margaret Fuller had a splendid head, but ler features were. I rregular, and she was " nnethino- i.nf tularin thmiirh cmnMimPs in the glow of conversation she appeared almost radiant. CharlottoTlronte had won- drouslv beautiful dark eves and perfectly haned head. She was small in d m nn- tiveness. and was as simnlo. in her manner n n i.l,;Ll .Tnlin Word TTvn ?a o fino. lookni.fr wnm'in. weariiio-an nsnect of o-raee and refinement and great force of character in hnr f-Ann. nn, rnman-o l.n.ira I n n. wav resembles Charlotte Bronte both in nersonal anneafanee and in the muI exneri- Booth nor Marian Harlan can lay any claim to handsome faces, though they are splendid specimens of cultured women, while Mary Clemmer Ames is just as pleas- ina- in fnnns n W u-vitino-s nro frr.nreful aiul popular. 1 - Historic Spots ix Down Town New Yn-Rir. Says the Christian at Work . "We advise the neonlo who live in Brook- lvn, Jersey Citv and up town New York to take this prper and go on an exploration, Go to No. 1 Broadway, and remember that I ft F George Washington and Lord Cornwallis treatment of the lower external convolu once lived there. ! Go to the United States tions produced certain movements of tho Treasury on Wall street, and remember angles of the mouth; the animal,, opened that in front of it used to stand a pillory and a whinniiior-nost. In a building that, stood where the United States Treasury il Oi . - stands George Washington was installed as President. In the opeu balcony he stood With silver buckles and powdered hair, in dress nf Anrt rJTV velvet 7Pmde in thos davs dressed more than we moderns. Think of James Buchanan or General Grant in- augurated with hair and shoes fixed up like that. V Go tn tho. comer nf Pearl and Broad streetsand remember that was the scene of Washington's farewell to the officers with whom ho had been so long associated. Go tn nonnl ctwnt vnI mmf.inl.r Hint it n.-c so called because it once was literally a canal. 1 lie electric telegraph was born in the steeple of the old Dutch church, now the ISew x ork Tost Office; that is, Benjamin Franklin triado thpin his first exneriments in electricity. When the other denomma- - F . tinna ehnro-A the IWeh elmreh with l.eincr slow, thev do hot know that the world o-ot its lightning out of one of its church steeples, . . y . . . pi.- it v tt .i ii i rr Washington lining was born in William a religious point of view, and again re street half way between John and Fulton, sumes hy saying that Professor Ferrier fur- 'Knickerbocker was considered verv sancv. butifanvman ever had a "rifht to say mirthful th np-a -about New York it was Washington Irving, who was born there, At the corner of Varick and Charlton streets was a house in which Washington, Johu Adams and Aaron Burr resided. George Whitfield preached at the corner of Beek-1 man and. IN assau streets. - Camera Oescura at Central Park, There i3 at the Central Park, on an el- evation near the upper end of the Mall, and closo by the Casino, a very ugly and mys- tenons-looking bmldin?. which, no doubt. has nuzzled manv of the visitors to this section of our great pleasnre-ground. A half-hidden little sign informs the curious - J- - . ' that it is a camcra-obscura; but, even with this information, one would hesitate about r ; Dto 18 , entering the very inhospitablo looking structure. If, however, ho overcomes tho very natural repugnance excited by the outward aspect of the building, and enters, he w ill be5 rewarded for his temerity. Ho will find himself intt dark rotunda, with a circular, white table in the centre. Prea ently, ingeniously placed lights in the up per portion of the rotunda Vill cast picto rial reflections upon the table, showing, ; with marvellous accuracy of detail, succes, sive pictures of the park. Every one, at times, Las found amusement in the moving panorama reflected in a camera; hero it is only the same thing enhanced in interest by the greater magnitude of the appara tus. There are certainly, thus afforded very charming glimpses of the park scene ry and park life, of crowding vehicles and thronged paths, and the park visitor missoa a pleasing entertainment if he neglect a .visit to this queer little art-rotunda. We believe that it is destined,not always to re main in its ugliness. In every other in stance the park architecture not only satis fies us on account of its useful service, but because of its charming devices; and, in keeping with this really admirable aesthet ic spirit, a new structure has been designed, in which the camera will soon find moro -artistic and suitable housing than it has at present Correspondence. For the North Cifxolina Gazette. Messrs. Editors:- I have just finished reading a communication from the London, correspondent of the New York Presbyte rian, relative io the , meeting of tho British Association aft Bradford, England. I found it so interesting that I have thought that extracts from the article might be equally interesting to vour readers. Says the cor respondent : "There" is no meeting in the year which brings together so large a num ber of intellectual men as the annual gath erings of the British Association. The paper which attracted most, attention and seems likely to leave its mark on -science was one bv. Professor Ferrier, on the localization of the functions of the bram. He has carried further the researches of Fritsch and Hitze, and established beyond controversy that the 'excitement of certain convolutions of the brain produces certain definite movements in particular limbs. Pathology has before pointed to similar results, as in the retnarkablo result , that palsy of the right side of the body is asso ciated with a diseased condition of tho left, side of the brain. But now we have a se ries of experiments, by tho aid of chloro form, which open up a wide field of obser vation. Professor, I erner has operated on nearly a hundred animals of all classes l i i . i i i .. , ; on nsii, irogs, iowis, pigeons, rats, guinea piffS, rabbits, cats, dogs, and monkeys. His manner was to give chloroform, and i i i i r f- At - i . j "'on remove a nonionnie skuu, , aim, while the creature remained in a state 01 comparative insensibility, to stimulate the wain y ciecinmv. v o are toiu mat bo -little was the operation felt that a monkey Willi one suie oi its sivun removcu,na ueeu known to awake, and proceed to eaten neas, or eat bread and butter. In the caso 01 cats, Professor Ferrier stated 'that on ap vVg tlic electrode to'a portion of the su- ICTOr CXICmai COnVOlUUOn IUU UU1U1U1 lifted its shoulder and paw (on - the oppo site Side to that stimulated) -, as ltL about to walk forward: stimulating other parts of the same convolution, -t brought the paw suddenly back, or put out its foot as if to grasp something, or brought forward its hind-leg as if about to walk, or held back its head as if astonished," or turned v it on one side as if looking at something, ac- cording to the particular side stimulated. The actions produced 1y stimulating tho various -parts of the middle external convo- lntion were a drawing up of the side 01 the fa', & backward movement of the whis- kers, a tnrningol the head, and a contract "on oi tne pupu respectively,, a similar I. ' ""ft'''- us mouth widely, moved its tongue, ana uttered cries, or mewed in a lively way, I . . .. ' 111 i i A 1 ? sometimes starting up anci jasuing its uui, as m lunous rage. 1 he stimulation; oi one part of this convolution caused tbean- mmi to screw np ns nostras ou ine samo side; and, curiously enough, it. was that part which gave off a nerve to the nostril at the samej time.' " . , The correspondent says : "It ttaa : onco believed inai ine mam acieu as a wnoie. or that, as phrenology seemed to teach, its ionctions were intellectual,, ana goyeruuu the moral nature; butjntli every treso dis- 1 COVerV WUat a t ICC per mVBMJrv . 1U, WI- hinfl its action V Here the correspondent asked the following questions, which are grand to contemplate: "What is the very life! Where is the foimative will 7 Where tuts 'enthroned the subtle mind, that rules 1,1... i - , 1 au this complex, yet simpie, macmpery i VV here the SOU1 inai ffiases IUO CUaracier working through those wondrous convolu uonsr iiere ine corresponuem uranenes ou I xuennore musirait w memo iiy rcies- once human subjects to the curious . dis- ease caueu apnasia : uen a certain por- won in the lront part oi the left side oi tho orain iccomes tusorganizeti ny disease, tno patient loses the power of expressing his mowgrns iy wurus, eiiuer spoKen or : win ten. He can comprehend what is said to him. His organs of articulate speech are not paralyzed, and he retains his power of writing for be can copy wors.when told to do so; but wbeuasketl to give'M'xpres- J sion to his thoughts by speaking an lwri- ting, or even to tell his name, he is,-1 op- 1 I less. - j I I would like to give more of the arli I T 1 .11 ' V. j .1 11 J as a Know your intelligent reauere can wen appreciate it, but I feel tl.at.l havo alrea- j dy trespassed on your .valuable space, I - CKESCLi I -