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Tiliii A'i'LAJN TAJS U JN fKBMS OF 8UB0CRTPTIO OAJ1.Y und WEEKLY Dally—Sln«le Copy * Twelve Month*....$10 00 | Three Month* 3 oo fflx Months 6 00 | One Month 1 00 Clobs for Dally—Per Annum * Three Copies 27 00 I Eight Copie* « Poor •• 55 00 Ten “ ~ 0 -' ftra •• 43 00 I Single p»per 6 WeeVly—Per Annum « Single Copy 2 00 I Ten Cople*. 18 0 Three Cople* 6 00 > Twenty Copies 28 0t Fir* Copies 8 00 311ty Copies ..65 00 One Hundred Chiles ™ 06 Weekly for Six Wontti* i Single Con v 1 001 Twenty Cople*. 15 >0 KS 9 60 Fifty Copies 54 00 STftSl .7..« 4 00 One Hundred Coplesfto 00 nfcnftwSIs ..... 7 «> I SinglP Pemr 6 cts 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.