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THI GEORGIA EXPOSITMI. ELIAS YULEE, Editor and Prop'r. GOLDEN DEEDS. The Chieftainess and the Volcano. Few regions in the world are more beau tiful than those islands far away in the Pacific which we have been used to call the Sandwich Isles. They are in great part formed by the busy little coral worms, but in the midst of them are lofty mountains, thrown up by the wonderful power that we call volcanic. In sailing up to the islands the first thing that becomes visible are two loity peaks, each two miles and a half high. One is white with perpetual snow, the other is dark, —dark w'ith lava and cinders, on which the inward heat will not permit the snow’ to cast a white mantle. The first of these has been tranquil for many years, the other is the largest and must terrible active valcano in the world, and is named Kilauea. The enormous crater is a lake of liquid fire, from six to nine miles in cireumlerence. Over it plays a continual vapor, which haugs by day like a silvery cloud, but at dusk is red and glowing like the Aurora Borealis, and in the night is as a forest in flames. Bisiug into this lurid atmosphere are two black cones, in the midst of a sea of fused lava, in which black and pink rocks are tossed wildly about as in a seething cauldron. The edge of this huge basin of burning matter is a ledge of hard lava, above which rises a mighty wall of scoria or cinder ; in one place forming an abrupt precipice, 4000 feet high, but in others capable of being descended, by perilous paths, by those who desire to have a closer view of the lake of liquid fire within. Upon the bushes that gr*w on the mountain-top is found a curious fibrous substance formed by the action of the air upon the vapor rising from the molten minerals beneath ; it is like cob-webs of spun glass. Tre mendous is the scene at all times, but at the periods of eruption, the terrific majes ty is beyond all imagination, when rivers of boiling lava, blood rod with heat, rush down the mountain-side, forming cascades of living fire, or spreading destruction over the plains, and when reaching the sea struggling, roars thundering, in bubbling flames and dense smoke for the mastery with the other element. Heathen nations living among such won derful appearances of nature cannot fail to connect them with divine beings. The very name of Volcano testifies to the old classical fancy that the burning hills of the Mediterranean were the workshops of tliearmorer god Vulcan and his Cyclops, aud in the Sandwich Islands, the terrible Kilauea wrs supposed to be the home of the Goddess Pele, whose bath was in the mighty crater, and whose hair was sup posed to be the glassy threads that cov ered the hill. Fierce goddess as she was, she permitted no woman to touch the verge of her mountain, and her wrath might involve the whole island in fiery destruction. At length, however, the islanders were delivered from their bondage of terror in to a clearer light. Missionaries came among them, and their intercourse with Europeans made them ashamed of their own superstitious fancies. Very gradually the faith of the people detached itself from the savage deities they worshipped, and they begau to revere the One true Maker oi heaven and earth. But still their superstitions hung round Kilauea. There the fiery goddess still revelled in her fear ful gambols, there the terrible sights and sounds, and tho desolating streams that might at any moment burst from her res ervoir of flame, were as tokens of anger that the nation feared to provoke. And after the young Liholiho, with all his court, had made up their minds to aban don their idols, give up their superstitious practices, and seek instruction from Chris u ms teachers, still the priests of Pele, on her flaming mountain, kept their strong hold of heathenism, and threatened her wrath upon those who should forsake the ancient worship. Then it was that a brave Christian wo man, strong in faith and courage, resolved to defy the goddess in her fastness, and break the spell that bound the trembling people to her worship. Her name was Kapiolaui, wife of Faihe, the public ora tor of Hawii. There was no common tru. • and resolution needed to enable her to carry out her undertaking. Not only was she outraging the old notions that itarful consequences must follow the traDS gre- ions of the tabo, or setting apart. Not only was the ascent toilsome, and hading into cold regions, which were ... fnl to a delicate Hawaian, but the actual danger of the ascent was great. V.',id crags, and slippery sheets oi lava, or lopes of crumbling cinders, were stran gers to the feet of the tender coast-bred oman. And the heated soil, the groan ng, the lurid atmosphere, the vapor that i tup from the crevices of the half cooled lava, must have filled any mind v ith awe and terror, above all, one that ha 1 been bred np in the faith that these we;.- the tokens of the fury of a vindictive i.l powerful deity, whose precincts she ) transgressing. Very recently a large t ody of men had been suffocated on the i ntain-side by the mephetic gases of the volcano— struck dead, as it must have -omed, by the breath of the goddess. But Kapiolani, strong in the faith that He, as whose champion she came, wius all suffleieut to guard her from the perils she oonfrouted, climbed resolutely ou, bearing iu her hand the sacred berries which it was sacrilege lor one of her sex to touch. The enraged priests of l’ele came forth trom their sanctuary among the crags, and endeavored to bar her way with threatH of the rage of their mistress ; but she heeded them not. She made her way to the sum mit, and gazed into the fiery gulf below, then descended the side of the terrible crater, even to the margin of the boiling sea of fire, and hurling into it the sacred berries, exclaimed : *‘lf I perish to the anger of Pele, then dread her wrath ; but, behold, I defy her wrath. I have broken her tabus ; I live and am safe, for Jehovah the Almighty is my God. His was the breath that kindled these flames ; His is the Hand which restrains their fury! O, all ye people, behold how vain are the gods' of Hawii, and turn and serve the Lord ! > Safely the brave woman descended the mountain, having won her cause of Faith. In classic times, the philosopher Krn pidocles had leaped into the burning cra ter of Mount Etna, thereby to obtain an imperishable name. How much more noble is the name that Kapiolani gained for herself, by the deed that showed forth at whose oommand alone it is that the mountains quake and flow down, and the hills melt like wax. A Humorous Will. Peter G. Eberman, Esq., is going through : the old wills in the Register’s office, Lan caster. Pa., putting them iu order, etc., and among others discovered one that was j written by a man who committed suicide j in the Susquehanna, at Columbia, more j than one hundred years ago, but which was never probated. We give portions of the will below, copied verbatim : This will be found after my Doth if dhey look sharp. As I noe the people that hes found my carkas is curious about the manner of my deth. wieh is something out ot the way, I’ll give them aul the satisfac tion in my power about it, as I noe the whole matter from beginning to end— which is me own misfortune, thai I mar ried a cross woman that is never plazed but whan she’s vexing mee and spliending me substance, whereby I have been re duced to great shifts, as well the world knows—Fadder McDonough in particular It may be reported, as the world is great ly given to lying, that I died by accident; but thet’s a mistake, for I throwed mesell into the river a Wednesday evening, being tired of the world and fretted out of me life ; and as the little that’s left of me sub stance is not much, I hope there will be no quarreling about my disposing of it in the following manner: There may be in me breeches pocket (as I pat there all I had) about something less than half a guinea in silver and six pence, and some half pence. Give that to little Dolly McGinnis. * * * * Peter Doyle made me pay too much for me cabin and a little bit of potato ground, but I made it answer by chaten the par son, and one way and todder ; so I lave it to me youngest son, Robin, because I love him better than Corney. As for Comey j and his mudder, they’ll provide for them selves. I had ennflf to do to maintain them during my life, and I’m sure I’ll not trouble my head about them now I am dead. My sow and pigs, and me crucifix, along wid me hades, me tobacco, too hens, and me mass book, I lave to Fadder Mc- Donock, for though he squeeze h—ll firo hard, hee’s a good enuflf sowl at the bot tom. Me oak saplin, my dog, my woolen night cap, aud me razor I give to honest Toby Hooragan, the best crature that ever dru breath. I lave him also me good shirt As to the one I have on now, it is not worth anybody’s taking, and so I lave it to me wife, that she may have no rason to complain. Dennis Toole. Feb. 26, 1797. CODOSBIL. I forgive all the world except mee wife, and I forgive her too ; but its aginst mee will, and I do it to plaze Faddr McDon. , ough and keep mee own soul out of purgatory. I don’t ritel know where I j shall go to, but I’m pretty asy about that, \ as I got absolution cuningly to-day widout the pTaste’s knowin’ what I bad got in me hed. Dennis Toole. Tbk oldest of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence, at the time that | historic instrument was adopted, and signed, on the 4th of July 1778, was Benjamin Frank lin of Pennsylvania, who was in his 71st year The youngest was Edward Rutledge, of South Carolina, who was in his 27th year. Three of the signers were over 90 ’years of age when they died, ten were over SO, and eleven over 70 years. The last survivor of the signers was Charles Carroll, of Carrolton. Md., who died on the 14th of November, 1832, in his 96th year. John Adams and Thomas Jeffer son died on the same day, July 4th. 182$, the former in his 91st year, and the latter in his 84th year, and when they were gone, Charles Carroll was tha only remaining one of the band of patriots who signed the “Declara tion." LET US HAVE LIGHT! HE WHO CANNOT REASON IS A FOOL-HE WHO WILL NOT REASON IS A BIGOT SAVANNAH. GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1875. The Papal Assault on the Common Schools of the United States. In all public controversies it is important to ascertain who the parties are, ami to know precisely the positions taken by the coatest -1 ants. And it is just and fair to let an antago nist state his own oase in his own way. The triends .of our American system of | common schools have recently been startled by the discovery that a largo and respectable ; portion of their fellow-citizens have reached | the conclusion, that these schools, as now j organized, ought to be abolished; that the State, as a political organization, does not possess the constitutional right, aud if it did, is not a tit institution to provide for and di ! reet the education of its youth. This opposition to our school system is nil ! the more formidable, from the fact that it is a necessary part of a great and aggressive ! movement, recently inaugurated, and now | being vigorously carried on by the most powerful ecclesiastical organization on the ) globe. That general movement may be understood jby reading the recent decrees of the Pope of Rome,‘‘the Vicar of Christ,” the “infallablo head” ot the Roman Catholic Church. In his famous encyclical lettor of December 8, i 1384, he inserts a long I ist of doctrines and opinions, each and all of which he commands all members of the Catholic communion to treat (veluti fprobataeproscripta* atque damna | tag) as reprobated, proscribed and condemned. In tho long list of opinions thus proscribed and condemned are: The liberty of the | press; the liberty of speech; tho liberty of I conscience und worship; the separatum oi the ! I Church from tho Stale, uud the secular edu | cation of youth. These are cited, and they form but a small | j part of tho liut, to show how extensive uud ! aggressive the movement is. j During the ton year* which have elapsed Biuco this general order was issued from the ■ Papal headquarters, the subordinate leaders have not been inactive in obeying its man- j dates. Let us reconnoitre the positions now occupied by that portion of tho Pupal force to which has been assigned tho special duty j ot destroying the common schools of the ' United .States. The latest and fullest report * of opeiations will be found in a volume pub lished in Boston, in 1872, entitled “Public | School Education,” by Michael Miller, 8. C. , S. R., Priest of tho Congregation of “Tho ' Most Holy Redeemer/' After two introductory chapters on the al leged depravity of tho American people, its literature and its press, tho author dovotas a chapter to proving that the public school system of tho United States originated in ti purpose to expel religion from tho nation. Near the close of the third chapter ho says. “Wo may then confidently assert that the defenders and upholders of public schools, without religion, seek in America, as well as in Europe, to turn the people into refined Pa gans. ***** The object, then, of these godless, irreligious public schools, is to spread among the people, the worst of re ligions, the no religion, the religion which pleuses molt hardened adulterers and crim inals; the religion of irrational uuimuls. llow far this diabolical scheme has succeeded is well known; for there ure at present from twenty to twenty-five millions of people in the United States who profess no distinct re ligious belief’”—pp. 73-4. The scope of the discussion may be seen from the following titles—Chap. IV “Expose of the Public School System.” Chapters V, VI. VII and VIII are devoted to the discus, sion of the “Evil Consequences of the Public School System.” Chap. IX, “The State, its UsurpaMon of Individual Rights, its Incoin- * potency to Educate.” Chap. X, “The State a Robber—Violation of our Constitution and Common Law.” To those who have so long and so earnestly labored to establish and maintain our noble system of public schools—which are open und free *to all—the following paragraphs will sound strangely: “Truly this godless system of education, if carried out to its#logical consequences, will disrupt society, destroy tho right of the Chris tian society entirely, bring back on the world the barbarism, tyranny and brutality of Pagan antiquity, and make slaves and victims of its children and their posterity forever !” “Who does not feel most indignant at the State for having introduced such a godless system of education? And for the support of this system of education—of this prolific mother of children of anti-Chrint —we are enor mously tithed and taxed. Horrible!”—p. 164. “Again,” lays the author: “If the State taxes us as a religious and Christian people, for the education of our children, it must give us a Christian education. If it cannot, or will not do that, it must cease to tax us, and leave the education of our children to ourselves.”—p. 168 And again: “It is well known, however, that between the Catholic faith and Protestant creeds there is a gulf, which cannot be bridged over. It would, therefore, be simply impossible to adopt any religious teaching whatever in mixed schools, without at once interfering with Catholic conscience/'—p. 201. Lest this doctrine may seem un-American and unpatriotic, the author devotes a large portion of Chapter XII to the praise of the Catholic Church as the champion of free in stitutions. In reading this chapter, one is half inclined to think the author is indulg ing ia a little covert humor when he says: “AH these cardinal elements of free gov ernment date back to the good old Catholic times, in the Middle Ages, gome three hun- ( dred years be!ore tho dawn ot the Reforma tion/'—p. 247. Our readers will do well to read from the pages of Hallaiu the history of those "good idd Catholic time*!' 1 The author, doubtless has hit) eye on those “good old times” when he say s; “Ihe non-Catholic has no conception of | the treasure the l. nion possesses in these ; thirteen millions of Catholics. * * * They are the salt of the American community, and tho really conservative element in the Ainer ican population. In a few years they will he I the Americans of the Americans; and on them will rest tho performance of tho glori ous work of sustaining American civiliza tion, and realizing the hopes of the founders of our great and growing republic/’—pp. ! 2D2 h We vuajr well believe, that when all this come? to pass, we shall have brought over to America tho “good old Catholic times of the Middle Ages.” Thus far the author has spoken only as a citizen of the republic. In Chapters XIII, l XIV. and XV, he speaks with the awful authority of the church, llero we see the weapons of the priest Hushing in the fight against our school system. It is curious to notice that ho draws upon the Bible for only | one tsxt, and that ho uppvars to have used rather as a compliment to the snored book * than us dangerous to our schools, llis weup- I were torged and tempered in the arsenal of the \ utioan. On the Vatican Hill he has planted his butteries, with which to demolish 1 the American school house. In opening Chapter XIII, the author says : j “8o far I have spoken as an American citizen. I have shown to all iny lellow citizens the tree with its fruits—tho public school system iu broad daylight, All who I call themselves Christians or consider thorn - | selves men of common sense and warm pro ; motors of tho happiness of their fellow-citi zens, will agree with mo in saying, that the ! public school system is a tree, of which we may say what God said to Adam of the tree standing in the middle of Paradise : ‘Ol the tree of knowledge of good and evil thou i shalt not eat; for in what day soever thou . shalt out of it, thou shalt die the death/ ; It is now time for me to speak as a priest of I the Roman Catholic Church. It is tho duty j of tho Cutholio priest to teach the ohildren of tho Catholio Church tho langmigo of their I spiritual mother —the Church. This lun i K ua g° is oo other than that of the Supreme Head if the Church—tho Pope. Now the language of the Vicar of Christ in regard to godless education is very plain and un mistakahle * * * Our Holy Father, Pope IX., b* that Catholic* con not ‘approve of a system of educating youtti un connected with the Catholic faith and the power of tho Church, and which regards the knowledge of merely natural things, as only, or at least primarily, tho ends of earth I y social life/ ” —pp. 2U7-8. In a fo t note, referring to the above pas sage, the author quotes the Latin original ot the Syllabus. Prop. XLVIII., in which the Pope, by his Apostolic authoritiy, commands all Catholic everywhere to hold tho advocacy of such schools us a doctrine “reprobutam proecriptam atque damn atom After quoting from several other orders and rescripts of the Pope, und from resolu tions und addresses of lending bishops of different countries, the author Huys : ‘The bishops of the universal world/* united to the Vicar of Christ, speak with authority; their judgment cannot be gain-said. Peter has spoken through Pius; the question is set tled, would that the error, too, were at an end !’—p. 313. Finally, near the close of tho volume, the author sums up the strength oi his position thus : ‘The voice of common sense, the voice of sad experience, the voice of Catholic bish* ops, and especially the voice of tho Jloly Father, is raised against and condemns tin public school system as a huge humbug, ‘in 1 juring and not promoting personal virtue und j good citizenship, and as being most perni oious to the Catholio faith and life, and all good morals/ A pastor cannot, therefore, maintain the contrary opinion without in curring great guilt before God and the Church. He cannot allow parents to send their children to such schools of infidelity and immorality. He cannot give them ab solution and say Innocent Sum.* —pp. 3 it 70. The author of this volume has done the country this service at least: he has very clearly and boldly stated the question; he. has showii us his commission and the mus ter-roll of his forces; he has shown us where the batteries ure planted; and we muy now see clearly the field on which, and the force by which, the great battle is to be fought to determine the fate of our Americun system of education. Thk flow of Jesuits into England led re ceritly to an interrogation of the ministry by ! Mr. Whalley (known as the friend of the 1 Tichborne claimant), to which Mr. Disraeli j replied that their presence in the country was, under the act of George IV. known as the Emancipation Act, a misdemeanor, but he ad ( ded : “During the period which has elapsed since the passing of that act, now nearly half a century, the government of this country has, I believe, in no instance proceeded against any Jesuit for committing a misdemeanor under its provisions, and so far as her Majes ty’s present advisers are influenced by the circumstances with which they are acquainted the same policy will continue to prevail. At the same time I beg it to be understood that the provisions of the act are not looked upon by the goverment as being obsolete, but, on the contrary, as reserving powers of law of which they will be prepared to avail them selves if necessary." (Cheers.; Secret Political Societies. The Inquisition was tho greatest, most ter rible, '.ud cruel of secret societies, and in des potic countries tho friends of liberty have uften toll themselves compelled to conspire .se cretly in order to save their cause nnd them solves. But it is always a question whether, even under such circumstances, the secrecy is an advantage, uud whether the universal dis trust und consequent terror which it breeds are not the source ol more cruelty and suffer iug than its benefits can offset. In this country, however, secret political associations aro un necessary and suspicious. What, cannot be douo openly in such matters should not be done at all, and the man who proposes se crecy presumptively means mutohief. The Euow-Nothiug was one of ti.o most con spicuous illustrations of a political secret so ciety, and it gave us neither groat men nor good measures, and soon disappeared. But it wo cannot heat the political Roman C huroh in a lair and open American contest, wo deserve defeat. The intentions of the Roman hierarchy are frankly published. The I’ope, who is received by his Church as the iulallible representative ol God upon earth, has solemnly declared in the Syllabus that Church and state should bo united, and that tho Church should control the schools. The hreemau s Journal, iu Now York, says plainly that “the school tax iu itself is an unjust im position.” Tho Tablet announces that it is opposed to “purely scculur schools.” The Lutholic Iclcgraph. in Ohio, asserts that “it will ben glorious day for Cut holies in this country when our school system shall he shivered.” Tho Catholio Columbian, the or- ! gan of the Roman bishop ut Columbus, Ohio, says that “Catholic parents cannot be allowed the sacraments” who send their children by j preference to the public schools. Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, writes that he does not I approve the public school system. Bishop ) M’Quaid, of Rochester, insists that tho ques tion be brought to tho ballot-box. And the J Rev. Air. Btack, a Roman clergyman who does ! not acquiesce in the w.ir upon the schools, and 1 who bus been suspended by his bishop, said ! iu his letters to Harper’s Weekly lust July 1 that the school question will soon he made a distinct issue, aud that then “tho watca-word tor Catholics is likely to be tho principle en unciated by Bishop Gilmour, of Cleveland, ‘Wo are Catholics first, citizens next.' ” Hero is a policy fatal to American repubii mm institutions frankly announced by the Roman priests and press as one that will he pushed at the polls. There is no reason for forming secret societies to oppose it. Secret societies breed only ii li.iite mischief, and the American who will not openly declare his op .... kn „ v cry suspicious arid doubtful character, who desorvtM to he watched lest ho bo caught doing the dirt) work of the enemy.—[Harper’s Weekly. Thk Tablet of New York puts its opinion of Protestantism into the following passage: “All this [i. #•., the sacrifice of the mass] u thrown aside by that hell-born “ism’ whose only dogma is u protest, and whose only wor ship is to listen to u fellow-creature talk. Throughout all its Protean forms its only worship consists of sermons, as they cull them, and that only once in seven days, sparsely garnished with irreverent addresses to the Deity and religious songs, much as a leg of mutton is by a skilled cook, with car rots and turnips carved into fantastic shapes with a frill of curled paper on the extremity of the bone by way of a benediction. The toe timony of all the ages is rudely stuffed down the throat of time by a miserable parody ol the Christian religion, which made its noxious appearance in the middle of the second thousand years of the Church,” etc., etc. It is sometimes suid that Romanism be comes liberalized by its contact with Ameri can institutions. 'that may be so, blit the liberalizing influence lias hardly yet reached the New York Tablet. Eiiward M. Fav and Agnes Lunning ol San Frnnoisco were engaged to be married He was a Protestant, and she a Catholic. A fow days before that fixed for the wedding. Archbishop AJemuny sent tor the couple, arm they went to his house. The Archbishop told Fry that if God blessed him with children, h< supposed lie would have them educated in the Cutholio Church. Fry said he “didn’t under stand theological terms, but lie didn’t pro J propose to put a mortgage on his unborn I children/' “Then I cannot grant you a dis- : pensation,” said the Archbishop, “and w ith out it you cannot ho married." “The devil I can't.” said Fry. “I’m about tired of th* ■ Catholic Church, anyhow,” said Mrs. Fry i that was to be, and they hunted u Protestant . minister, and were married. Shoddy Aristocracy Kebuked John 8. C. Abbot tells how he was once walking through the saloons of Versailles “the most gorgeous of all earthly pullace* with an American lady by his side.” She, filled with the true shoddy admiration for such trumpery, exclaimed : “Oh I wish we had an aristocracy, and a king, nnd a court.’ Mr. Abbott’s comment on this characteristic outburst of our commonplace caste, begins . •‘Silly girl.” But to our glorious Whittier's views on the same subject: “ Land of rnv love ' to me more fair Than gay Versailles, or Windsor's halls. The shingly, painted where Th** freeman’s vote for freedom fallM. The simple roof, where prayer I* made. Than Gothic groin and colonnade, The living temple In the soul of man Than Rome’s sky-mocking vault, or many spired Milan.” —♦ The Roman Catholic Church in Nica- j ragtm observes eighty-two feast days. Es timating the laboring population at 24,000, and wages at thirty cents per day, the country anstains an annual loss of at leant $3,600,000, besides a vast diminution in its agricultural products. VOL. 1. NO. 1, thk ANSWER TO .‘FATHER takj; MY HA Mi.” Th,> way I- dark, my child, but ... , i I would not always have ihe- u„n t | Mv Ci-iding* i 1 lucaui 11 *o, but I Will tube- thy han . ' Atul thro.*!, , lu . ' Leah safely homo My child. TI"- >■ • lon*. my child, but it j m i,. .N"t one .t.-p loni-er than I* in,, i, Ami tlum Hbuit know at last 7 t, l , li ’’ -tana when thuu ..halt 9.1 bat the (foal how I dl.l take , hv hand And quick au l i,| u - Lead to Heaven'* cat,- My child. -t When thou Chat, reach the border' . ’ll) which 1 lead thee a. I take thy h/,, L " a And saf* and blest itli me shall rt?t -My child l for lam with thee—u ill riiv i . 1 1 To let thee freely naan, u ill mfe.Mhy'l 7 a And ihr-u/fh the thron- Lead .aln alone My child. “ rile croati la heavy uivt-hii.t .t ti wio, ai,,.,.ii,.,.,,:,.,!!: 1 : I 'Vi •wn Receives crown My child, THE “PROBLEM OF I.XF u The Lecture Delivered to an T and Enthusiastic Audi--a, . Tho reception of Mr. Theodor,, ; - Wednesday evening by un audio..,.-,• v. jammed the largo hail of Coop,-,- i ivus more than he would have. -... | merely as a popular lecture, . U , , | plain that the people had (In, i dal suit in tlicir minds, and j,, groat majority friendly to th< ■ They applauded him long and J., liiH entrance, the clapping ol 1,.,, ~, „ , stamping of feet stopping several turn only to be renewed. Tho gath.-m ■ v , geodin quality as well us in , notaruhlde -butiulooks about li| congregation of a prosperous ,-hu. -j woman outnumbered die men, „nd ti-..-. were no indications that di-ndli,-,.1 . "tum-mus. Thu seats had nearly ~11. , ■add at seventy-five cents eight, and speculators did a In •msiucss inter. Nobody except Mr. Tilton wan , i platform, lie spread out Ins ,-. little desk, but did not in ..; ~ often refer to it. Repetitions of tin, i I„r.. uiu.nui mg,my miring I v . had iixeil it in l,is memory ; l,ut ti,. wlm lm(l previously heard it, said that - this occasion his delivery was unusual , good. It was certainly excellent. Hi voice was strong and nmsicul, hi.. lion skillful, and his gextur - tally effective. Thu audience was ti-. attentive during tin, hour und almll 11, m ~ . lecture lusted, aud very free with np|,i ~, ... •V more congenial audience is ... M-,, , tnot by any lecturer. They seemed ml, Uni with especial euro for hints „t the .-, I.d, and whenever any of tho was at all applicable they Upplwi l ,!. 'The lecture, ontit'ed the "Frol.:, m ..f Life,’’is (he ideal ol U s.-hool boy e,,ni| nitiim realized. In it, Mr. Tilton ~ words will) the sumo exactitude that 1- -•ted Mi. Everts in the trial. It is iw , “M’lo of pure English, worth prinlin a textbook, ’i he sentences a,-. ~, , of graceful, correct constriieiioo. amt nearly every one of them contain t m i'hor or a quotation of proverbial i . All ages and many langmtg, -at die*., from, and hundreds of historical ,-1, tors are ranged like tho figures m a w. works show. The hearer in reminded of ibout all the heroes and heroism th -t 1 lias ever heard of, and the |. t ; lllt those doers and deeds inculcate n.- ,j -■ peuted in improved wording. Th m , i lea of the lecture is that the I- ,i , m ~, lifets the development of exult- i . , ter. [N. Y. Sun. ♦ Mb. Gladstone has made a, , tho epithets applied by the l’,-.,- n, enemies, especially the rulers of. |„ t not exhaustive, but, us is fr,-q - of the other collections, it ,-mil.u,. hoice specimens, in time tlie•. need of an alphabetical arranm-m an index. The objects of the F-, pleasure are “wolves, pi-rfidinu I’. sees, Philistines, thieves, ii-.--: Jacobins, sectarians, liars, hyp IropsicaJ, impious, children oi sin and corruption, enemies of ~ 1 . tellites of Satan in human l!< sh, m of hell, demons incarnate, stinkiu .ij .- men ihsuc! from the pits of hell ' the conductors of the nation and j traitors, Judas, led by the spirit ,nd teachers of iniquity.” —• • -4 ► • - —■ - In a memoir on cyclone aud wu‘ - • - \f Mouchez publishes sum oi. • made by him while upon the o- m, I A'hieh, if correct, are quite import..ri-. A cording to his account, ut or m ai th, ace ol the ground the current of air m - •yclone is'always from below upward, while in whirlwinds the movern- it, i ~ - the contrary, from above down .-. .- Iu the former case, the winds are v. tuus ispiration ;iu the latter ease, the u and - from the cloud in the form of a ; it tube, which terminates iu a pi, ut. M. ouchez is consequently led to believe hat waterspouts huve no relation what : ver to cyclones, having, in fact, au ..pp -.ite appearance and cause, an opinion :.1 wieh some other scientists concur.