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The ninny friends of Mr Ste
phens will be pleased to know that ho is
again strong enough to leave his home,
and that he will visit Atlanta the coming
week, possibly to spend several days.
Oar Literary Department.
The readers of The Sun wi'i find in
its columns to-day, under the head of
‘Literary Notes,” an interesting paper
from the pen of Paul H. Hayne, one of
the most distinguished of modern writ
ers in the field of poetry criticism, &c.
Ic is with pleasure we announce to onr
readers that Mr. Hayne will hereafter be
a regular contributor on tbip line.
"With Dr, Wills and Mr. Hayne, both
engaged on this Department, wo hope to
be able to make The SrN equal, if not
superior, in this respect, to any weekly
paper published in the Southern States.
Oar object and wishes are to elevate
the standard of Literature, as well as of
MotoIb and Politics in onr Home Land.
A. H. S.
VOL. 3, NO. 22.1 ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1872. {
WHOLE.-* Ofl
IUHBB »XJdVJ
Muilc .Votes.
From Messrs. Phillips & Crews’ Music
Parlor we have the lollowing:
“ Coliseun Waltzes," by Johann Strauss.
These waltzes are written in two sharps,
simple and charming—much after the
flowing, easy style of the “Hilda,” that
have so long been popular favorites.
“ Blushing Mom," Polka Reverie, by
Carl Meyer, a duett written in three
flats. This, as n concert piece, would be
really grand. Unlike moct duetts, the
Secundo is quite as full of harmony as
the Primo. a
Among the new vW music, we have
seen nothing that promises to become
so popular as “A Starry Night for a Hum
ble,” by Samuel Bagnal. It is a song
and chorus; the words are good, and
well adapted tc the air.
Another song, entirely new, “Thine
I&nage.” a solo by Franz Aut, is full of
^gnthos, and ulthoagh a little difficult,
will fully repay the task of learning it.
A Linivcm<il System or VV'elgtit* am
Alena a re*.
A large class of cur readers will doubt
less be profounuly interested in a com
munication on the subject that hinds
this article, from Hoc. Samuel Barnett,
which we publish in our issne of to-day.
There is no subject in which the gen
eral business interests of all countries, as
well as progress in Science in all its de
partments, are more deeply involved than
in this; hence, it is a subject which has
oocnpied the attention of the most ab
struse thinkers and the ablest law-givers
in nil ages, and in ali lands and climes
With all the knowledge of the present
advanced stage of civilization in the
most enlightened portions of the world,
only an approximation to the desired
object has been attained.
Tne first essential thing is the estab
lishment of a fixed and determined unit
of linear measurement. This has been
a “Pons asinorum” in the way of all in
vestigators of the “ subject” from time
immemorable.
Moses adopted the average length of
the forearm of man which he styled a
cubit. This was his unit of linear meas
urement upon which his system was
based; but this was far from being exact,
fixed and certain.
Phidon, of Argos, in Greece, nearly
thousand years before the Christian Era,
gave the subject his profound attention,
but with no nearer approximation to
what was wanting than any of his prede
cessors. Daring the entire period of the
Roman Empire no improvement had
been made upon the system established
by Moses, though bat few of the Nations
of the Earth adopted his system.
Their units of linear measurement were
upon no more oertain and fixed a prin
ciple than the degit, (the average length
of the finger), the palm, the foot, or the
stride.
In England, in modern times, from
which our system was derived, the aver
age of grains of wheat was at first adopt
ed as the basis of a proper stands id.
and kuowieuge of nature and imtuaa na
ture, so qualify yon to judge, that to
challenge your thoughtful attention, in
dicates on my part no little reliance in
the soundness of the views presented.
I am well assured of your interest in
all that pertains to human progress, and
especially in every intellectual effort or
enterprise undertaken in Georgia, with
the view to ita promotion in matters of
science or literature. Nor will that in
terest be lessened by the fact that the
paper is addressed to the University o’
Georgia, to which it was hoped you
would have sustained a close relation,
but for Providential impediments, afford
ing to the educated men of your native
State the light gathered for yourself by
long and honest use of the highest pow
ers of observation and generalization,
and the advantages of contact with a
mind so trained to deal vigorously and
honestly with truth.
Very respectfully yours,
Samuel Babneit.
What tue counter and the count
ing-room aro to the merchant, and the
money vault and desks to the banker,
the studio and round table are to the
LiUraieur. In the volumes that hedge
him about, in his sanctnm of
thought aud of labor, he revels, and the
outside world has no charm half so al
luring as the lore of printed pages. His
pen is his ploughshare of plenty or of
penary; and ouoeide of his peculiar do
main, he is most generally a man of
poor resoarses.
Mr. Paul EL Hayne is an embodyment
of snob a character. In his devotion to
his muse he lives in rural retirement,
and while ho enjoys the company of vis
iting friends, yet seldom seeks society
himself. Aside from the companion
ship of his wife and son, to whom he is
a devoted husband i.nd father, that of
his books and papers affords him most
genuine enjoyment.
Since the close of the war, be has had
to straggle against poverty, and one less
wrapt in love of literary pursuit than
he, would have let fall the pen, and
sought by Bomo other means a livelihood.
But such an episode w*s simply next to
an impossibility with Mr. Hayne, and he
has clang to his muse until 6he, in re
turn, now sprinkles upon him golden
manna.
We have whiled away a number of
pleasant afternoons in his cczr little
studio, and realized much enjoyment
from un interchange of views with him
upon the topics which most interest him,
His library is most valuable, comprising,
beside all standard literature ot the
present, many works of the past centu
ry ando-nturies. A glass case upon the
wall preserves locks from the heads of
•Byron, Shelley, Keits and Leigh Hunt—
the collection a present from the latter to
Mr, Hayne. .1 oal-.ii *>2 oh 1 |
In 186S, while her husband was from
home ona visit to a Northom publish
ing home, Mrs. Hayno undertook, with
her own hands, the affectionate task of
fitting up his studio. Her fancy lighted
upon what will appeara novel idea—that
of papering the walls with prints from
the illustrated press. Tne material for
carrying out this design, lay at hand in
an immense heap' of English and Ameri
can illustrated papers, the files of a num
ber of years. From these she scissored
picture of eminent personages, places of
note, and occurrences of public interest,
and edging them neatly to each other,
papered the entire walls of the room
The rfffct is decidedly happy. There is
hot u br't-ak in any place on the walls—
not a print in me least soiled; and a very
pretty pi.MU'O gallery for a Rural Study
is obuiuaed.
An Indian tribe, numbering eighty
five po-soDS, own and inhabit a tract of
laud in King William county, Va., of
fourh-en hundred and sixty-six acres, af
which sew® hundred and 6ixty acres are
arable. Th^y have a school, a Baptist
Church, and three ministers. Every
mam h t r oi th# tribe, abive the aga ot
fifteen yens, k a member of flic *hufofc.
liii ihUAull JbSa
BY PAUXj n. HAYNE*
This was i the reign of Henry HE, in
1266. Afterward, in 1821, daring the
reign of Edward II, the grains of barley
substituted for those of wheat
hence, it was declared that “three barley
corns,round and dry, shall make an inch
and twelve inches a foot."
This is the basis of onr present tables
upon the subject.
Bat the iadefinitness of this standard
is apparant to all; for how much of the
grain is to be taken off to make it “round
and at what exact stage it is to be pro
nounced “dry?”
The Savans of Franoe took up the sub
ject in the latter part of the last century,
and the result of their labors, was the
establishment of a unit of linear meas
urement by taking for this unit, the
11-10,000,000) one-ten millionth part of
a quadrant of the earth’s oiroumferenoe
on a meridian line, which was accurately
measured, as was supposed by Messrs.
Delampre and Mechain, eminent scholars
and mathematicians.
This unit so established, is in their
system styled “the metre.” It corres
ponds with 89 inches and a fraction over,
in the English system.
But subsequent ooservations and sur
veys have demonstrated the fact, that the
French system so established, is not itself
scientifically exact.
So we are as yet without any known fix
ed and, oertain unit of linear measure
ment. ..
Some most singular and interesting
discoveries have recently beenmade in
the surveys and measurements of the Pyr
amids of Egypt, which clearly indioate
•that the ancient people, by whom-thoao
wonderful monuments were.erected, had
much more nearly roached the great ob
ject desired (*f they had not accurately
and certainly attained it) than any peo
ple in modem times, with all our boasts
of tbe civilization and enlightenment of
the 19th century l
Whether Mr. Barnett will throw any new
light on this subject—Ihejlrslgrealessen-
tial point in the establ lshment of a uni
versal system oi wights and measure*—
we know not; but whether he does or
not his high character for deep research
aud abstruse thought will eecnre to his
paper a close and attentive perusal on
the part of the learned, not only in our
own State but elsewhere. We shall look
with intense interest to its publication.
A.H. S.
It is proposed to publish, shortly, in
tue form of a communication to the Uni
versity of Georgia, a paper embodying
the conclusions derived from close study
of this much mooted problem, the sub
stantial solution of which it is believed
will be found in tbe following loading
points, viz:
1. The entire abandonment of the
elaborate and ingenious system of nom
enclature founded on Greek, Latin and
French, und of any attempt at univer
sality in the words employed to designate
the unite of the system.
2. Tbe expression, on the oentnr , or
hundredths, of each unit by each nation
m its own vernacular tor gue - the units
themselves being still tne same every
where, bat the expression in language
adapted to the familiar, tongue of each
people.
3. A common notation as the means of
universality, instead of a common sys
tem of namee, the units and their written
expression being thus universally the
same, while the spoken expression con
forms to familiar national usages.
4. The words selected to express the
several units to be suggestive of an easy
stand*] d of comparison with familiar
objects.
6. The notation also to be suggestive to
tbe eye, as the nomenclature heretofore
in nse was to the learned ear, but not to
the unlearned.
6. The transition to the new system
to involve the least loss of familiarity
practicable—either with familiar objects
or familiar names.
The proposed system has been reach
ed, not by accident, but by gradual (ap
proaches, as the result of careful study
of first, principles. It propose* to re
duce the number of denominations in
conformity with an observed tendency
among men to nse number* instead —
to simplify oral expression, and to sag
geet & suitable actual system of notation.
The labors of the past, and the volu
minous learning on the subject not be
ing disregarded, it is proposed, however,
to review the subject somewhat after the
legal style of considering the obj*ot to
be attained—the old method—its imper
fections, and the remedy.
It-is believed that the proposed system
will illustrate the general principle that
the final form of the solution of a great
problem is so simple, as to excite sur
prise that it was not the first form thought
of. The writer has for some years past,
so to apeak, lived with tne.proposed sys
tem, thought of it in all its aspects and
relations, modifying it oonatantly to
meet diffienlti'e or incorporate improve
meats, and is satisfied that the form in
which it is now presented to the publie
is at least an approximate solution of a
great problem which has long been re
garded a leading desideratum in the
world of business and the world of
science.
If the great and wise King who, thou
sands of years ago, remarked', “Of the
making of boohs there is no end," could rise
from his grave, and visit the literary cen
tres, and the great Publishing Houses of
.our own time, what would his majesty
fiinFand sag ? How would his mind be
ailected by tne wonderful phenomena of
modern intellectual progress, as exempli*
fiedin countless works upon innumerable
subjects ? We picture him, in fancy, as
at first amazed, then bewildered, aud
finally overwhelmed ; until, as the vast
fields of cultivated thought, speculation,
and philosophy outspread themselves be
fore his eyes, he is ready to exclaim with
the overawed Astronomer, “oh for some
shelter from this persecution of the In
finite !”
And truly, the hardihood, and acute
ness of modern research, the brilliancy
modern literary invention and the
fores of its imagination, are, wh^n esti
mated by results, incontestibly marvel-
both m kind, and in degree!
Thought, instead of being -wasted,
must 60 often have been the case, before
the invention of printing, or at least, iso
lated, and thus deprived of nine-tenths
of its efficiency and force, has now no
sooner been born in the brain, and orys-
talized into language, than it takes to
itself the wings of the Press, aud flies to
the uttermost parts of earth l In this
marner more real intellectual progress
finds expression, and is endowed with
the power of expansion, in a single
month, than coula formerly have been
spread abroad in the slow coarse of years.
Oar looks involuntarily turn, as we
write, to the dingy table which occupies
a place of honor m our sanctum. See !
how loaded it is with books—all neat,
freehand glittering with typographical
beauty, for these are the latest birth of
press that never wearies, never stops
for an instant, nor is ever known to lack
the means wherewith to glut its enor
mous, insatiable appetite I
Foremost among the various produc
tions of Bolid value *nd interest, we are
attracted by an octavo with the title,
“Pre-Historio Times, as Illustrated by
Ancient Remains, and the Manners and
Customs of Modern * Savages, by Sir
John Lubbock. Bart. D. Appleton«Oo.,
Publishers." We recognize its author as
one of tue ablest archaeologists of Grew
Britain, and indeed of Europe. His
present work is naturally divided into
two great sections. The first section
deala with what we may call the details
of Archaeology proper—that is to sav,
with such antique “remains” as oonsist
of the relics of pre-historio ages, the
ages of stone, ana of bronze especially
tmlli fnAi. imdn iruinnna * * m o/y ilitlllrt'
System of Weight*
Washington, Ga., Nev. 8,1872.
Hon. A. H. Stephens—Mr Dear Sir
Allow me to sail yoar attention, and that
of your readers, to the enclosed brief
of a paper soon to be fesned, concerning
the principles to be observed in a ani-
vereal system of Weights and Measures,
with suggestions as to their application,
and the modes of promoting the general
introduction of such a syteesn.
Tonr established ebsmster as a phflo-
so®hi e*l statesman, make* K peculiarly
appropriate to address to yon such a no
tice spon sash * sabjsek
Your eminently phflosopfcteal tats of
mind, aad native vigor of thoaght, to
gether wifh your enlarged eaperieaoe
Tint* ary.
Died, in Lexington, G*., om the morn
ing of the 28th October, 1872, W» W.
McLbbteb, in the 26th year of his aga
’Hie dt ceased was a lawyer who was admit
ted to the bar about six years ago. When
he wae examined for admission to prac
tice law the Eon. Nathan L. Hutchins,
at that time Judge of the Western Cir
cuit, and before whom youag McLester
was examined, said that he was one of
the b-st prepared applicants he ever saw.
and remarked that he had as dee a legal
mind as it bad been his pleasure to no
boe daring his observation.
Mr. MeLef^er had ability of a superior
order, and his energy, application, and
ready perception of,the true principles
of law governing causes, was remarkable
for one of his age, and gave assurance
that if his life had been spared, he would
have risen to a high grade in the noble
profession which he had selected. For
the year 1871, he was the County School
Commissioner for Oglethorpe county
and was always prompt in the discharge
of the duties required of him for that
position.
Kind, courteous, and firm, he won
friends wherever he was, and never in
dulged in unkind or abusive language
about any one, and was ever ready to
charitably oonstrue the conduct and ac
tions of others.
Apt, industrious, and brilli*nt,he was
making his mark and would have in more
riper years have coped snoeeesfnlly with
the ablest veterans of the Bar, and
would have written his name high on
the role of fame had he not been cut
down in the opening dawn of a bright
manh*iA/1 Bet K/im f ■ — ic •Hnti
death loves a shining mark,” and often
strikes when we least anticipate.
Bis father preceded him to the tomb
five weeks, and little did he think in
his dyiag hours that his only son and
child would so soon sleep in the giwve
by his side. Yet that father. Gray Mo-
Leater, aud his son, W. W. MoLeeter.
have gone down to the grave amidst
the team and sorrows of many relatives
and friend*. Peace to their ashes.
” Grwi b* tbs tor* *b*v*
Fri*a4* mt onr tttte 4*y*.
Hob* ks*w the* oat to lor* th**,
Kao* Mated SU* bat t*rc*lM.”
A Farm*
Cupid aud Campnspi'' oi Juuu L.Tv, a
poet unluckily known to most readers as
tho author of that extravagant book of
phrases run mad, “ Eupho>dus ana Hit
England. ”
SONG— [Appellet Sings at hit eatel.]
“Cu[il i snd my Campiepe played
At cards for kisses: Cupid paid 1
He staked bis qiiirsr, bow acid arrow*;
His mother's dorrs, and team of sparrow*;
Loses them, too—then down he throw*
Tho coral of bis lip. the rose
Grown < n his cheek, tbut none know* how;)
With these, the crystal of hia brow.
And then, the dimple in hla chin;
All these did my Camptupe. win ;
At last, he ret her both hia eyes; 5
She «ym ! and rapid blind did rite."
with tneir rude weapons, “megaiithio'
monuments and mysterious “tumuli,” to
which section belong, likewise, * series
of elaborate treatises on the “Danish
Shell Mounds,” “the Swiss Lake Dwell
ings,” “the Flint Implements of the
Drift Period,” “No American Archaiol-
ogy,” and “the Gave Men.
The text is illustrated, and made the
clearer to ordinary students by a profn
sion of tne best wood engravings; repre
senting more than a hundred different
objects of interest, from the onrions
bronze knives of Denmark and the Kal
muck axes, to fragmentary specimen*
of human skulls, which belonged, per
haps, to the “Gave Men” of epochs so
infinitely remote, tnat the strongest im
agination faints iu the effort to recall or
realize them 1 It iB remarkable, the au
thor tells us, how greatly these skulls,
although sometimes discovered in tne
same locality, differ from each other.
Borne are long-headed, others Bhort-
headed, or, to imply a scientific no
menclature, they are, in turn, “dolic
hocephalic” and “brachycephalicl” One
of the most noteworthy was discovered
in the cave of Engis near Liege;
and it might have been taken for the
head of a modem European, since no
murk of degradation appeared in any
part of its structure. Very different is
the case with the celebrated skull found
in a limestone cave between Eiberfeld
and Das*eidorf.
“Under whatever aspect we view this
cranium,” says Huxley, “we meet with
ape-like characters, stamping it- as tbe
most pithecoid oi human crania yet dis
covered 1
From the first and longest section
of “the Pre-Historic Times,” we pass to
the concluding cnapters which treat of
the life and customs of “modern sava
ges.” Herein is matter of profound in
terest to every intelligent man, whether
he be a scientist or not.. From a pro
digious mass of facts admiral ly digest
ed^ we learn all it is necessary to learn
of the untaught, uncivilized and wofullv
degraded tribes of the human rooe, al
though in more than one instance we
hesitate in regarding these peoples as
human at all.
A few examples of the habits of the
lsweet among these savages will explain
our doubt.
The Mincopies, or inhabitants of the
Andaman Islands, live in huts scarcely
large enough lor a m*h to turn about
in. They subsist chiefly on iruits and
shell fifeh ; are tattooed instead of being
clothed, and 6eem entirely destitute of
the sentiment of shame.
They have "no idea 1 of a God, or a fu
ture slate. , After death, the corpse is
boned in a sitting posture. When it has
deoayed, Vie tkeieion is dog up, and eveny
one of the relalons aop 1 opriate a bone I
In the ease of a married mau, the widow
claims his skuB, and wears it lovingly
suspended by a oord around her neck.
“It forms.” (as the author observes, with
a grim sort of humor,) “ on exceedingly
convenient box for small artiolss f ’
(del! ye dainty dames of Christendom I
•aly think of a bevy of handsome, b*'
imoonsoiable widows entering society
eaca wn-u uit_ omnium ui tue Ueai im
parted” dangling as an ornament at the
end of her watch-cuain. What a dia
bolical groiesquirie is associated with the
bare conception of such a picture 1)
The Andaman marriages last only until
the child is born and weaned, when the
mau and woman separate, each seeking
a new partner; ft statement, by the way,
which sugeests io onr mind a somewhat
odd possibilify, but one logically con
nected with the idea of Andaman cus
toms.
Suppose that a woman among them
has survived her three, or we will imagine
her round dozen of husbauds, must, she
wear the skulls of all the defunct in the
picturesque fashion described ? Such
a rattling of “ death mementoes” would
certainly be more impressive than melo
dious l
The aboriginal Australians occupy very
much tbe same moral level as that of the
Andaman Islanders. They own no
houses, go partially naked, and feed up
on fungi, frogs, snakes, dog, and occa
sionally whale flesh. When a whale is
washed on land, for they have no means
of capturing them, it is considered a
grand occasion. Fires are immediately
lit to give notice of Ihq joyful event.
They then rub themselves all over with
blubber, aud also, anoint their favorite
wivesjafter which they out down through
the blubber to the beef, fairly eating
their way, by degrees, into the fish, and
climbing in and about the horrible car
cass, choosing titbits. For a week, and
upwards, they remain near the huge, de
composing mass, gorged with putrid
meat, and bursting all over into boils,
from high feeding.
“There is no sight in the world,” re
marks CapfiGray, in his “Explorations of
West Australia,” “more revolting than
to see a young, gracefully formed native
girl stepping out of the carcass of a pu
trid whale.”
Indeed, we should think so. The no
tion is siczening. ,
But the Savages who “cap the cli
max,” as it were of wickedness and de
pravity, are unquestionably the Fef te
ar, s. They sesm a race of devils, not
men; wholesale murderers, parricides,
and inveterate Cannibals. They enact
upon earth such hideous ro'es as befit
only the nature of fiends, red-hot from
the bottomless pit, and steeped in iff
unspeakable lusts, and beast-like feroci
ties.
Parricide is not even considered a
crime; nay, it assumes the aspect of a
positive virtue, a pious duty! Parents
are killed, as a matter of oourse, by theiv
children. Sometimes the aged people
make up their own minds that it is time
to die; sometimes the children intimate
that they are burdensome and must be
disposed of I There are two modes of
patting them out of tlie world. One is
strangulation, the other burial while the
victim yet lives.
8* fond are the Feejeeans ot human
flesh, that they assume all the airs of
epicureanism oonoerning it. They dis
like the taste of white men; prefer gen
erally the flesh of women and consider
the arm above the elbow and the thigh
as the best joints.
Enough, however, of these terrible,
biood-freezing details. Regarded
naked facts, and ic their simple enormi
ty, they must strike the student of hu
man nature and of moral* as the most
appalling of mysteries. If we oontera-
A JS'aMS in ms SAND.
Alone I walked tho ocean strand,
A pearly shell was in my hu d:
I etoppfd, and wrote upon the rand
My i anie—the year—tho day.
Ae onward from the spot I passed,
One lingering look behind I cast;
A wave came rolling high and last.
And washed my lines away.
And so, methonght, 'twill shortly h*
With every mirk on earth f>cm me;
A wave of oblivion'd sea
Will sweep acroa* the p act
Where I have trod the »andy shore
Of Time, and been, to be no more;
To leave co track nor tree.
And yet with Him Who cannts the sands,
And hold the waters in Hia hands,
I know a liitlng record stand*
Inscribed rgalnet my name,
Ofall this mo ita! pirt baa wrcyi. bt.
Of ah this thinking coni h«a thought,
And from ihe»e !!••• r r ; r.-oo'enie caught
For r vt • - sR
Religious lufoimutlon.
— Tito Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, of Lon
don, is an open communion Baptist.
The Catholics of Williamsport havs
organized a temperance and benevolent
society.
The Bishop of Ontario is going to
Europe. He is suffering from failing
eye-sight.
The New Yo/ k city mission, wk’ch
has been iu operation lor nearly flity
years, supports eight mission stations
and forty missionaries ; ami holds four
hundred services a week, at an expense
of only $50,000 a year.
The Rev. Mr. Stanley, a Protestant
Episcopal clergyman in Savannah, has
made arrangements for Sunday evening
services in the theatre. Lectuies are to
be delivered to the young men of tho
oity.
—The fifth biennial meeting of the na
tional conference of the Unitarian church
lias been in session in Boston, with 678
delegates present. The reports show pro
gress of Unitarianism throughout tho
country,
- Iu St. Petersburg, the Jews are be
coming recognized nt last. Mr. Abraham
Warehawaki, Councillor of Commeroe,
has been decorated with the Order of St.
Anne. Mr. Abraham ElikuHarkawi has
been appointed Librarian in the Depart
ment of Hebrew aud Samaritan MSS.
in the Imperial Library. Dr. Zioa has
been elected Professor of Anatomy ix
the Wayennoi Medicinskoi Academy,
As appears from the Austrian “Red
Book,” Count Andrassy has treated tho
Roumanian question very coolly. Upon
the proposition of the English ambassa
dor to send a warning to the Roumanian
government in expectation oi the riots
against the Jews, he rejoined, “ that tho
proposed step will not promote the per
sonal safety of the Jews.”
—The so-exiled “Old Catholic” move
ment ha* disappointed the expectations
of th* sanguine, and the fears of its ene
mies. Dr. Dollinger, in his address at
Munich li>st year, propkecied that thou
sands of the clergy were to embrace tho
rsform movement, nut to-day the entire
unmbsr of priests within the “Old Catb-
olio” organization throughout Germany
numbers only seventeen out of about
twenty thousand Roman Catholic cler
gymen. They have no okurches except
those which are occasionally lent them
by the Luthsrians, and one or two oth
ers of which they retain a very precari
ous poseeMion. They are as destitute ot
In Bavaria, which is
* .*■? h » d ' °° ia . tsgaass ssss
of science, we are duven towards the vh n. +H. TWv-W
matenalutio conclusions oi Darwin; but
if, on the other hand, we are mot dis
believer* in the orthodox Bible doctrine,
the entire oase is susoeptible of a la id
logical explanation. In these heethen
cannibals, and in every brutish, degraded
race akin to them, we appreciate in its
lowest manifestations the oonxequenoes
of “a fall,” whoa* vsry depth and degra
dation points to the onginsl supernal
heights upon whion “man,” as the aroh-
fcype of “humanity” once stood exalted.
while the Roman Oatholics have used
means to bring about the greatest “re
vival of religion” ever known, whioh has
had the effect of heading off the new
movement. Moreover, the seventeen,
are divided among themselves as to what
oourse to pursue. Altogether the move
ment is not likely to upset the papaow*
or reoonsiruot the eoclesiastioal Churok
of Europe.
WANTS TO BE A SQ.AW.
’Wsowe to Messrs Hurd <§ Houghton, of
the famous “Riverside Press, Cam
bridge," an “advanoe” copy of a work,
sure to delight all lovers of English
Dramatio Literature; a collection,
namely, of “s r mgt from Old Dramatists,
edited by. Mrs. Abbv Sag* Richardson.' 7
Years ago, the author, or wa should
rather say, the compiler of this dainty
volume, made for her own delectation, a
collection of lyrics from the works of the
early play-writers, comprising the grace
ful little songs scattered through the
plays of Shakspeare, Baa urn out,
Fleteher, Greene, and Lodge. This
Vulume, tiny enough to slip into one’s
pocket, happily suggested to her tbs
present larger, and of course more
satistaetory compilation. For the sake
of clearness and easy reference, no less
man seven sections, or distinct divisions,
have been adopted, under the titles of,
“Pastorial Songs and Songs of Nature,”
Love Songs,” “Songs of Thought
and Feeling,” “Son.’a of Sorrow,”
“Comic Songs,” “Baoohanalian Songs,”
and “Songs of Fairies, or Spirits.”
Generally, these lyxica have been taken
in tact from tha body of some old English
Drama, or else they hove been lonnd
among the fugitive verses of the dramatio
poets who were in the habit of interspers-
ing their plays with songs.
The greater part were once fashiona
ble madrigals, set to mssio, and song in
the preaenoe of tbe f ir and noble,
whose “ears,” alas I for many a century
past have “ been staffed with dust 1”
The editor thinks, and justly, that a
company of exquisite lyrics, so bird-like
aad natural, will be the more appre
ciated because our great poets of the
present day seldom write Bongs.
The age of harmonious ditties, fulfill
ing all the conditions of pare lyric art,
of swift, and sweet, “ swallow flights of
6ong,” went out with the reign of the
ttjwund Charles; but it may be feat ju
dicious collections, like Mrs. Bi bard-
eon’s, will, in dae time, revive the taste
lor one among the purest and most de
licious departments of poesy. At least,
let as hope ae I
The foil wiag spssmss flwxa this
book will eberm the ear and lu*r of ev
ery genuine lover ot “ mania wedded to
soft words.” It » taken from “The
A Washington Bella Fall* in Lor* wltk
» Comanch* Brave, and has
to b* Exported.
Washington Correspondence of the Boston Traveler
Among the red men now visiting ths
capital to smoke she pipe of peace is a
youthful Comanche brave, who has at
tracted no little attention from the ladies
of Washington. The other day, daring
the virit of several families to the hotel
where he is stopping, he saw a pretty
young lady of about his own age, the
daughter of one of the wealthiest men of
the city, and fell so violently in love with
her at first that when the party left the
house he followed her to her residence.
For two or three days subsequently he
was observed hanging around the vicinity,
occasionally catching a glimpse of her;
and, strange to say, the yonng lady has
oonceived an equally violent passion for
him. On Saturday last she went out
riding with him in the elegant barouche
belonging to the paternal mansion, and
when those having charge of her strictly
forbade any farther exhibitions of such
bad taste on her part, she frankly de
clared her intention of wedding the Co
manche. On the other side, the yonng
Indian has been sapplied with money
and declares that he will not return to
the happy hunting-grounds ot the Went
unices the object of his devotion shoald
go with hiai. Of oourse such a deplore
ble state of affairs Las necessitated
some action on the part of thp
authorities. Tbe Commissioner of In
dian Affairs has heretofore been notified
that the susceptible Comanche must bp
made to leave the city forthwith, and a
thousand dollar draft has been tendered
by a brother of tbe mieguidad girl, as a
bonus for his departure. But the Co
manche is inoorrigible, and steadily re
sists all overtures M^The delicate cirecufi-
stanoes of the oas<*and the fear of theft
names being given publicity in the event
of a denoument, have so far worked
upon the relatives of the girl, that she
will betakes hence to New York on tha
duoogb train to-night, and notwith
standing the lateness of tbe
quietly take passage for Ex
early steamer, the antmstod
whose daughter she «,
o«h«c way to sure her
pr**hlecMoa.
