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aARREL OF THE LOCKS.
BY XOVCS HOMO.
Between two locks a strife arose,
(Not locks of ?iair they'll do for jirosc,)
Both claimed the foremost rank and place
To guard by night the human race.
Says number one, " 'Tis plain to see
The highest rank belongs to me;
I bar the prison door, and stand
To save from pillage, all the land."
"That may be so," says Number Two;
"And it seems yrcat to such as you !
But, Brigadier, I guard each door,
In all the land, for rich and poor.'!
"And as a slave might do thesamo,.
And never own a dicent name!"
With haughty air says Number One,
As if the victory lie had won.
But-cannpt-help an,aftoUftut;
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For such as yonliejloveSlo'pfclc I"
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"Butjvorso than that," roars Number Two,
"The convict rakes and puzzles yoit
lie digs or climbs with stealthy mind
And leaves you, bolted, far behind !"
At this the first prepared to spring,
Insulted by the odious lling.
The second bold and saucy still
Advised tho first to make his will.
"For you," says he, "so grand and tall,
Must like Goliath stoop and fall,
If you attack me! You began
This mean assault upon a man !"
At this this brazen key turned round
And interposed his diction, sound.
Like some brave ollicer whose sight,
Restrains two villains from a fight.
Thus men for rank and preference wago
A shameful contest full of rage.
Thus nurse or vent their petty spito
Without regard for truth or right.
Thus each imagines he Is great
And fit to bear the cares of State.
Thus kings and beggars are akin,
And thus the undeserving win.
LCIU KYRUX.
Ills Vulgarism and Ills Innovations.
From the Loudon Saturday Review.
A curious controversy has recently
sprung tij) in the Tones wa to tho accu
racy of a well-known line in Ciildc
Harold. More than fifty years have
elapsed since the publication of the
last eanto'of that poem, and during
that time may thousands of readers
must have learnt by heart the address
to the Ocean, and many hundreds at
least have been shocked by tho tin
grammatical substitution of "la'" for
"lie." It is rather odd, therefore,
that the reading should now be un
dergoing a discu.-sion as animate as
though the flaw had just been discov
ered in Mr. Tennj'soh's last poem. It
is yet more surprising to find that
there .'ire still mniv n,rsnns vvJm imf-
content with adndrinir the ma-Wi-;
cent viL'or of Brvon's poetry, insist I
upon believing siiat it is absolutely
free from faults. One class of enthu
siasts holds that "lay," being obvious
ly a vulgarism, cannot have been
written by Byron. The various read
ings which have been suggested are
so obviously feeble, however, that
this mode of escaping the dilliealtj'
does not deserve any serious notice.
Mr. Murry's statement as to tho au
thority of the M.S. is conclusive: and
none of tho verbs which C!in be su'o-
stituted for "lay" have any merit be- j
vend that of being intransitive. An-
'other class admits that Bvron made a
mistake, but regards it as wrong to
dwell upon it. One of these gentle
men quotes a phrase from Etujlish
Bards and Scotch Itcvicwers.
"Cut hold!" exclaimed a friend; "here's
some neglect:
This that and t'other line seems Incor
rect."
What then'.' The self-same blunder Pope
has got;
And careless Drydcn ." "Ay; bat Pyo lias
not."
Indeed ! 'tis granted, faith ! But what carol?
Ri tter to err with Pope than shine with Pye.
This is all very well ; but it does no,
meet the case. Neither Pope nor
Dry,den, as far as we can remember,
t liritirrVilttrrt.oonnrt tilorlcrA nnr&filvoa lo
A .-''.. ,.. -J 7, ;5
rnniu.ainiiioHJtsHaiivai nasriiiiuie una
pa fticularbl under. Pope, indeed, nuT
unfrequehtly falls into grammatical
errors from an excessive love of com
pression ; and it may bj for upon
the subject we must admit our entire
ignorance tnat Pope does not. But
then there is no necessity for "erring
with Pope" because you do not "shine
Willi Pye." The argument would be
effective or ly s against critics who
should main'tain that Byron was in
ferior to Pye because he'had fallen in
to blunders from which Pye is free;
and nobody, as far as we know, has
said anything so silly. Whatever
may be Byron's merit3. they surely
should not blind us to hi3 faults. He
can't have faults ! lepiies a still more
enthusiastic writer. B3T011 is by far
the greatest 01 English poets since
Milton ; and therefore we should
humbly submit to any
VULGARISM OR GRAMMATICAL SOLE
CISM of which he may be guilty. Byron
must be regarded as an infallible be
ing who is "super grammaticam."
As the captain of a ship "makes it"
12 o'clock, 00 Byrcn's language must
be taken not as recognizing, but as
constituting, the law. We do not
know, indeed, whether this privilege
is limited to Byron himself, or wheth
er a usage once consecrated by him is
supposed to become henceforward part
of the language. The extreme of fa
naticism would be reached by the ad
mirer who should continue piously to
commit the same blunder as the god
of his idolatry. If everybody who
misplaced words could take refuge
under the plea of Byron-worship, the
sect would be painfull' numerous. It
is to be hoped however, that the ad
mirers of popular authors will ?how
their enthusiasm in some other way
than by barbarously mutilating their
mother tongue. Precedents can be
quoted from widely read books for
nearly every pestilent misuse of lan
miage which is current among us. To
take an obvious instance, Dickens did
much towards hopelessly confound
ing the prevalent confusion between
"mutual" and "common," when, in
spite of protest, he insisted upon giv
injr to his novel the title of Our Mu
tual Friend. There is always a ten
dency towaul degeneration though
the inability of the careless and igno
rant to recognize the finer distinctions
between nearlv synonymous words.
and per.-ons who are capable of better
things should do their best to reit
any authority, however venerable,
under cover of which attempts are
made to obliterate shades of mennimx
A willful blindness to the errors of
Bvron, even if it does not involve
the condonation of similar errors in
inferior writers, is to be condemed in '
the interests of poetry as well as in i
the interests of the language Itself. 1
A poet is an artist in words : and pop-
lllnr ronrlur .iri tint. !wrra linir irronf.
ly the charm ofthe most exquisite .
poetry depends upon the line sense of
proprieties of language which they
consider as iinical and pedantic. The
misuse of a single word may destroy
the charm of a passage as decidedly
as a false note in music. It is the ily
in the pot of ointment which poisons
the sweetness of the sentiment ; the
little rife within the lute which intro
ducea a jarring note, even when we
are scarcely conscious of the cause of
our annoyance. To what, for exam
ple, is owing the enduring charm of
such an exquisite lyric as Plerrick's
or of Cowner's "Loss of the Roval !
George?" The sentiment in each of
tnese poems is notonly commonplace,
but it is delightful because common-
place. The beauty of them depends
upon the expression in the simplest
ii'KUage. of thoughts which are fn-
But of cour eit
exnrezs common
iC'ughts rh sitrinle lahjiutnre. or Tate"
ami ..Brady, to say nothinir aMDr?
aWatts,.. would be great poets.gfdflUiei
quality needed is an exquisite sense of
propriety in the use of words, which
is amongst the rares-t endowments,
and which, where it exists gives a
charm, as unspeakable as it is impos
sible of analysis to the utterance of a
truism which in less skillful hands
would strike us as trite and weari
some. To maintain a high standard
of excellence in poetical workman
ship is therefore the main service
which criticism can render to poets ;
and more harm would be done by en
cournging laxity in such matters'than
even by a grudging recognition of the
merits which make us unwilling to
admit the existence of faults.
The controversy, therefore, may be
summed up very nneiiy. Jiyron nas
clearly injured a fine passage by a
gross vulgarism, and it is a thousand
pities that it cannot be excised. But
it cannot neither be excised nor over
looked by a critic who is faithful to
his duty, and we should not coi.set to
sacrifice the language to the inter
ests of u Byron or even a Shakspeare.
It is rather curious to discover that
Byron should stili have disciples
ready to propo-e such a sacrifice. It
might have been supposed that the
Byron fever was over. No writer of
anything like equal power ever com
mitted so many
POETICAL PINS
for tho sake of temporary popularity,
and Byron committed them with his
eyes open. We need not dispute the
statement that he is the greatest of
our poets since Milton. Our judg
ment will probably depend upon the
relative importance which we attrib
ute to different poetical endowments.
Nothing in Byron appeals lo our deep
est niorul sentiments so forcibly aa
some of Wordsworth's odes and son
nets ; nor is he ever f-o purely and
ethereally poetical as Shelley in his
loftier modes: but if sheer strength
of linau passion, finding expression
language of corresponding vigor,
K,ves nian a t,tle to thelnghest place
iu poetry, it must ue admitted mat
Byron can put forward a very power
ful claim, in spite of all his aiiecta
tions and his brutalities. We ai'e nev
er in favor, however, of arranging
poets in order of merit as young gen
tlemen are being arranged just now in
the Mathematical Tripos of Cam
bridge. We know of no satisfactory
scaly which will enable ua to any, for
cxampio, thai "Childe riarol.le" de
s?rV,t,t,n;?, ?s '1 ul thp "?f
?lou 9J r 1W1- ?Ut' ccnsidenn?
hov conspicuously Byron's poetry u
a mixture of strength ami weakness,'
of ennobling and debasing passions,
and how, even in his loftiest passages,
there is preemptible a fal.e note of af
fection, we should have thought that
the day of indiscriminating admira
tion ought to be over. Iu the very
passage, for example, which has pro
voked this dispute, the use of the
word "I:ij'M is by no means the worst
fault. The sense of the eternal and
unchangeable character ofthe ocean
is, indeed, given with admirable pow
er, though we might r.ii-e objections
t; 1. lie or two phrases, but when By
ron gives a misanthropical turn to a
reflectionjjw.hich jarather'melancholy
than terrible lmifIaTeiy be
comes pfarTlmtrun natural. It , is
not a true antrtllesla to say that the
oc?an despise? thov;I?':trenrth which
i.i.in 'vhMs for earth's de-lrutioii.
Man Citonet destroy the earth any
more than he can destroy the sea ;
and the sea, so far from being a mas
ter who -can, whenever it pleases,
send him howling and shivering t"
his gods in its playful spray, is iu
fact a very trustworthy servant. e
feel that the noet is willfully dwelling j
upon the destructive agency cf the '
ocean, and willfully turning away '
from its great advantages in a com
mercial point of view. The power of
man is shown as much fn shipbuild
ing as in building towns, and the
ocean would not have been able to
"mar the spoils of Trafalgar" if it
had not been helped by the English
cannon. It is not necc-sary that a
poetical argument should be bound to
logical forms; but in proportion as it
is palpably distorted for rhetorical
purposes i' necessarily loses its ofiect.
The samo sense of incongruity pur
sues us through'! Byron's poetry, and
makes us feel that it is not the utter
ance of the deepest emoti.ms of hu
manity, but of sentiments distorted
and perverted by the irregular pas
sions of nature stained by more than
the average allowance of corruption.
Excessive idolatiy of popular wri
ters is indeed a common failing at the
pre'sent day, and in one sep.se it may
urge-t some excuse for an exaggera
ted estimate of Byron's poetry. Asa
rule, the living idols are those who re
ceive tho most unmixed incense.
There are two or three authors at the
present day whose merits are undeni
ably ureal, and who may very possi
bly deserve most that is said of them
even by
rNDISCKIMINATTNG WORSHIPERS.
At the same time no repnt-ition is
quite safe till it has survived the gen
eration in which it was fostered. We
may safely say that Pope was a great
writer, because admiration for much
of hiwork has remained in spite of
his dethronement from poetical su
premacy. But the a!I-swaIlowing de
votion fo modern writers is not only
rash, in so far as it is premature, but
it is r.lmoit certainly wrong in many
point-, because it insists upon -overlooking
the defects ot its idols. We
may say with considerable confidence
that certain writers have obtained
such a position that whatever tSiey
write is certain to be received with a
chorus of adulation. There may be
an undercurrent of disapproval grad
ually accumulating, and calculated, it
may be, to produce an exaggerated
explosion whenever it becomes eafe to
give it a vent. But at present anv
hint that there are spots upon certain
suns is received as a proof ofthe
mean jealousy of the observer, and he
is summarily ordered to hold his
tniinim Pnni- TT'-ri, ctifToroil in Ilia
dayfroin excessive adulation and the I
milia&tireverybody.
is nareuougli- to
H
'hct.h.m.h. -. .yT .i.
recoil from adulation. By this time
we might have hoped that a calmer
judgment would have succeeded. It
seems, however, that the zeal for his
honor burns as brightly as ever in
some bosoms, and one reason J3 that
his fame is felt to provide a conven
ient counterpoise to the fame of the
idols who are now most fashionable.
To praise Byron is by implication to
accuse certain modern writers of de
fects from which Byron was compar
atively free. In fact, our modern
school of poets is weak precisely
where Byron was strong. With all
nis aiiectations and ins weaKnesses.
he did not fall into the errors of nam-
by-pambyism; and heat lnist made a
j protest an exaggerated and a brutal,
but still a very effective, protest
against the adoration of mere pretti-
lies, which is so fatal a defeat of our
thafcthereffijfcaTaslonB, though we
ifreque'&tlyTttty to ignore the fact.
Some of our poets seem to write for
IU mi; IrtUl.
tiie benefit of vounsr ladies, and to be
I ... , I, W ;..., y.i,;nl.. m 1:.. ,,..., . :...-
(tin niliiil-. I uil-lljl n; iiu lllill UWl 111"
room tables; others seek to please
small literary coteries, and lisp with
affected simplicity in the archaic cos
tumes; and some who boast of shock
ing the proprieties only succeed in be
ing indecent without showing the
masculine vigor which alone can be a
partial excuse for neglect of conven
tional decorum. Byron is the last of
our poets who, with all his faults, can
be said to have written for grown-up
men, and to have made passion, in
stead of refined speculation, the mo
tive power of his poetry. Perhaps it
is natural that, when looking back to
his writings from mote sickly and ac
ademical performances, his merits
should lie unconsciously over-estimated.
But, for all that, the sacred rules
of truth forbid us to sanction the use
of "lay" for "lie," whatever the in
genuity of the excuse put forward in
its favor.
u 9
The Airless 3Ioo:t.
Among the illusions swept away by
modern science was the pleasant fan
cy that the moon was a habitable
globe, like the earth, its surface diver
sified with seas, lakes, continents,
and islands, and varied forms of veg
etation. Theologians and mvant
gravely discussed the probabilities of
its being inhabited by a race of senti
ent beings, with forms and facilities
like our own, and even propounded
schemes for opening communication
with them, in case they existed. One
of these was to construct on the broad
highlands of Asia a series of geome
trical figures on a scale so gigantic as
to be visible from our planetary
neighbor, on the supposition that the
moon people would iccognize the ob
ject, and immediately con&truet sinii
lar figures in repiy ! Extravagant
and absurd as it may appear in the
light of modern knowledge, the estab
lishment of this Terrestrial and Lu
nar Signal .Service Bureau was treated
na a fciible scheme, although practi
cal difficulties, which so often keep
men from making fools of themselves,
stood in the way -jf actual experiment;
but the discussion was kept up at in
tervals, until it was discovered that
if there were people in the moon they
must be able to live without breath
ing, or eating, or drinking. Then it
ceased.
There can be no Iife without air.
Beautiful to the eye of the distant ob
server, th moon is a sepulchral orb
a world of death and pilcnce. No
vegetation clothes its vast plains of
stoiiy tie.-elation, traversed by mon
strous crevasses, broken by enormous
peaks, that rise like gigantic tomb
stone- into -pace ; no lovely forms of
chnd float in the blackness of it sky.
There daytime is on'y night lighted
by a ray less sun. There is no rosy
jnost receutschooLpf art.., inhere are
Chords inlt$g" liumabtjartT' jaUli
poor M3unpy; and. we inayJ'3tRV
dawn in the morning, no twilight in
the evening. The n.'hts are pitch-'one
dark. In daytime the olar beams are
lost against the jugged ridges, the
sharp points of the rocks, or the steep
bldes ot orofunud abv-i-; .and Wie
eye sees only grotesque shapes reliev
ed against fantastic shadow
ed against fantastic shadows buteR as
link, with none of that pi
6 fra-
dation and diffusioirof lhtht, none of,
the subtile blending of lipht wrd 1
-hadow. which make the chaim of a
1 terrestrial landscape. A faint con cop-
I tion ofthe horrors v. fa lunar day may
1 be formed from an illustration
repre- j
senting a landseane taken in the moon
in the centre of the mountainous re
gion of Arlstarchus. There is no col
or, nothing but dead white and black.
The rocks reflect passively the light
of the sun ; the Craters and abysses
remain wrapt in shade; fantastic
peaks rise like nhantoms in their gla-
cial cemetery : tho stars appear like
snots in the blackness cf space. The
moon :s a dead woriu : sue na.i no at
llf. .-.-..
. -
mosphere. From "Earth and Air,"
by S. S. Conant, hi Jlarper's Maga
zine for March.
ON -tfAUI-IAGK TO YOUNG MEN.
The true girl has to be sought for.
She does not parade herself as a show
goods. She is not fashionable. Uvfii-M-illv
she ia not rich. But. oh ! what
a heart she has when you find her! j
so large and pure and womanly.
When you see it yon wonder il those
showy thing. outside were women.
If you gain her love, your two thous
ands are millions. She'll not ask you
for a carriage or a first class house.
She'll wear simple dresses, and turn
them when necessary, with no vulger
magnificat to frown upon her econo
my. She'll keep every thing neat ami
nice in your sky parlor, ami give you
such a welcomewhen you come home
that you'll think your parlor higher
than ever. She'll entertain your true
friends on a dollar, and astonish you
with new thought how little happi
ness depends on money. She'll make
you lve some, (if you don't you are
a brute), and teach you how to pity,
while you scorn a poor fashionable
society that think it-elf rich, and
vainly raies to think itself happy.
Now. do not, I pray yon say any
more "I can't aford to marry." Go
find the true woman and you can.
Throw awav that citra , burn up that
switch eane, be sensible yourself, and
seek your wife in a sensible way.
Nebraska Press.
Strange Coincidence. Mr. Cran
dell. whose death ve chronic e this
morning, was from Rockford, Illinois.
Last Tlfursday he received a paper,
the Rockford Rcgixttr, in which his
death wa announced, and he cut out
the article and sent it back to the edi
tor with the statement that he was
yet alive, but did not know how long
he would live. This he sent at eleven
o'clock Friday morning; at half-past
three in the afternoon of the same day
he was struck down by a plank 2x0,
falling off a pile of lumber, striking
him in the head and never more re-;
aind his consciousness. Truly, "m
the midst ot lite we are
Lincoln Journal.
in death."
OL. IT. ISO. 21.
t---,-
A 11EJ1AUICABLE CASE.
Fallu:
e of a Stronsr Shoiviucr ofClr-
cumstnutiiii Ev'ilcncn.
From the Spriugfli !d Republican.
The tnobt remarkable murder trial
which Boston has had since the fa
mous Webster-Parker ease, more than
twenty years ago; closed at 10 o'clock
last evening, when the jury returned
a verdict that Leavitt Alley was not
guilty of the murder of Abijah Ellis.
IriftJl 1 t! r n .. lj. I, In lliflliiln.f.li
liuianuiiMii in ii:c nvu iii:u. mi1
victims were both men of wealth and
of strikingly similar hibits ; both
were hard creditors, ami the incentive
alleged in each case was the inability
of the murderer to meet a certain
payment. The horrible circumstan
ces attending the finding of Ellis'
body just after tho mysterious shoot
ing of Charles Laue, a wealthy tner-
chant, in bhv.own doojfway and thet
consequent excuemenc, equaien m in
tensity only by the discovery of the
charred remains of Dr. Ptirkman, a
,.. ,. ... ;,, .
'n ', yl . w"i r."
will be remembered that some work
men near the Cambridge gas-works,
on Thursday, the 6th of November,
discovered two barrels, containing
the mutilated body, floating in the
Charles River. They were packed
with horse manure and shavings, and
in one of the barrels was discovered
a piece of brown paper with tho name
of Mr Schouler. a billiard manufac
turer. Investigation proved that a
teamster, Leavitt Alley, was in the
habit of removing these sli livings to
his stable. Following the clew to the
stable, it was found that a dry manure
..i... J4i . ill 1VUIUI CO Wl llll v.i-. I I
heap had been recently disturbed ;
blood was also found upon some
boards near by. It was proven that
on Wednesday morning Alley had
started from his stable with four bir
rels, and a teamster, in jumping from
the wagon, had ascertained that two
of them were heavy. Two of the
barrels were not satisfactorily ac
counted for, while a man testified to
seeing the team ami barrels with a
man strongly resembling Alley upon
the mill-dam, where they were sup
posed to have been thrown into the
river. Alley was owing Ellis some
$2K), was in great need of money, and
Ellis was known to have been search
ing for the suspected man on the
night when the murder was probably
committed. A new ax which Alley
had purchased ashort time before was
missing, and its very existence was
denied. In addition, blood stains
were found upon the clothing worn
by Alley, which were identified by
experts as human gore; and a woman
had heard strange noises, like the
rolling of barrels, in the stable on the
fatal night. Lastly, it was shown
that Alley had been abundantly pro
vided with money after the death of
Kllis.
The testimony for the government
was entirely circumstantial. It was
not claimed tnat any human C es j
saw, or human ear heard, the doing
of the atrocious deed. The case had
been carefully worked up and pre
pared by the best detective skill and
professional ability that could be
brought to bear upon it, and, a? the
facta already given were clearly
brought out, the outlook for the pris
oner was certainly a dark one as com
pared with the Webster trial, when
the whole case turned upon the iden
tification by a dentist ot a gold plate.
The stains of blood found in the pris
oner's stable and on his clothing were
submitted to chemical lesls, by skill
ful experts, and then examined
j tlirougli a microscope and proneunc-
ed by them to be not only human
blood, but that of tho murdered man.
A physician testified, from an exami
nation ot the deceased s stomach,
that he must have met his deatii be
.. . . - .!.'
tween (i and 9 o'clock on tho fatal
evening; and, altogether, the case
; ogamst Alley was anout as strong a
as circumstantial evidence ever
presents.
The prisoner's counsel, however,
! appeared to fully appreciate the aitu-
l,a ti 0,11 fr and developed an unexpected
strancth. ,Tb controvert tho theory
thatXAlIey had committed the mur
der iuaquarnrl. they luirocXuecevi-
denco from prominent citizens of New
Hmpe,hire that he hud always been
a quiet and peaceable man, with a
reputation for hone.-ty and integrity (
above reproach, in the fa-e of whi. h
the comnii-inn of -o horrible a crime .
iiitiv. io iii uiaiij rv.iii9 u ttuiiucuutjiivna icnuui'u a)ies Clint CltV VaS
seemed most ;:iihkc.y. Yne prosecu- citation of printed papers he very
tion liini claimed that Alley was in I properly did not undertake to answer,
debt to Ellis, and without money to i except in the most general way, when
meet an engagement which feil due I separated from the original authori
at the ine ofthe murder; hut the Uc.
defen-e clearly proved that tl
oner posut ssed cwddernLle p
in New Hampshire and had
e pris-
property
money
in a bank. A strong po.nt against
the accused had been the fact that
II..MI..I. t.n l.n.I .... ... .T-.
iiiuiixu ue mm mu, mucu reauy mou- ject. There :s a uomnti uaniouc
ey on hand just before the murder, view of Mary Stuart, just as Father
immediately aftr it he had consider- Burke gave us the Itomaii Catholic
aide in his possession. But the de- view of the in issnere of St. Bttrtholo
fense disposed of this by evidence ! mew and of the revolt of the Nether
that a loan of $125 was repaid by his ! hinds-. Now, when a historical sub
sou the evening before the murder. ,ject has become a matter of eeclesias
There remained the evidence of the : tical di'i'erence of oninion. as Mary of
........ ...
blood which the prosecution had pro
fessed tc prove was not only human
blood, but that ot the victim himself.
But the defense introduced experts,
who not only denied that the bhod in
question was that of a human being,
but showed that the
nest scientihc,
....
authorities agree that the difference ' Certainly tlTeevidence is accessible to
between human and animal blood the reader, and there are eloquent d
connot be determined after it has vocates v. ho thunder for her itd
dried, as was the fict in this case. On against her. Only let us not mistake
the whole, therefore, the scientific,
testimony not only served to confuse
the jury, but positively helped the
prisoner's case. The defense then
proceeded to still further dispute the
web of circumstantial evidence which
had woven around Alley by satisfac-
torily accounting for every hour of
his time from the moment Etlis di3-
appeared till the time his body was
discovered
When the defense rested their case.
1 public opinion and expectation had
naturally, and justly, very much
changed, and the probability of his
conviction had practically disappear-
ed. No one had seen the murder,
.- .. ".... r.... i,.. ... v. . -w.. ,
and the natural imlipeaition to con -
ilemn n man on circumstantial evi-
dence alone was strengthened by th
tact mac mucu o: wont appeare i
strongest in this evidence had Ieei
overthrown by the defense. These
considerations, joined with the tradi-
tional principle of holding every man
innocent till his guilt is proven be-
yond the shadow of a doubt, resulted
in a verdict ot not guilty a decision
of the case with which the public
will not be inclined to find fault.
.ifr g.
... ... ...
It is no secret that Prof. Agas3iz is a
strong opponent of the Darwinian
theory of natural selection. Not long ,
, ago he was introduced to a lady whom
, he was quite sure of having met be-
; fore. She told him that he was mis-;
taken. He laughingly replied:'
"Well, wo have known each other,
but I presume it
both toads !"
was when wo were
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' OFFICIAL PAPEU OF THE COUNTY.
LOST IX JIOUXT VESUVIUS.
Correspondence of the Sun.l
Naples, Feb. S. In September
last, two tourists, an Englishman and
American, obstinately disregarding
tbe entreaties of their guides, insisted
upon being lowered down into the
dark caverns immediately under the
orifice of the crater of Mount Vesu
vius, and those- daring tourists have
not ince been heard of. Wlin th.,
1 1. J....A . . ..I. 1 VT .. . ..
iiiieu wuii
horror, and for weaks suc
ceeding the disaster lew tourists ven
tured to the summit of tho burning
mountain. Fashionable adventurers
for whom the icy heights of the Mat
terhovn or Mount Blanco had no de
terring awfulness or horror, winced
'fei1 of PProcI. mg Mwr rtNtU
of Vesuviuo, afW it had so mysterlk
ously become the impromptu. tomb1ofg,
tea iuugi.niiinHhojhol'a''aM" -Jr
misgivings aFout their doom.
Recently a similar calamity occuf
ed, ami almost under the same clr-.
cumstauces. The victims in this fn-
stance were Jean Le Mieux, Belgium,
and Loins Schmidt oi Berne, Switz
erland. They were remaining at a
respectable locanda or boarding house
on the Chiaja, when a party Was form
ed to make the ascent together, and it
is strange that on the morning of tho
night when they started for Hesina,
(a village at the foot of Mount Vesu
vius where horses, staffs and guided
are procured), Schmidt received a
letter from his sister at Genoa, in
which she stated that it would noS
reach Naples long in advance of her-
self. Schmidt therefore bogged hid
companions to release him from his
promise to start for Hesina that night,
but as he had projected the excursion,
they insisted upon hisgoing. Schmidt,
after making arrangements with his.
landlady for the reception of his sist
er, started with his companions on
Tuesday night for Vesuvius. They
left Hesina at one in the morning so
that they might reach the base of tho
crater in time to witness the rising of
the sun above the peaks ofthe sur-
rounding Alps and ApenniueB.
Having reached the end of their ro
mantic journey the summit of tin
volcano everything was quiet as up
on some secluded rustic hill, and Lo
Mieux called upon any of tho party
t join him in going down tho crater.
The guides are always provided with
pipes, cither for that purpose or for
assisting Iumbersoine travelers up
the iast section of the steep ascent.
Schmidt agreed lo accompany Lo
Mieux, and iu spite of the remon
strances of their guides each took
hold of a loop and swung himself
over the gloomy void whence issued
the tremendous showers of a dies ami
streams of lava which burned in a
single night the famous cities of Pom
peii and JlercuJaneum. The guidea
cautiously lowered them down until
the rash adventurers announced that
they were standing on firm ground.
The guides' last warning to them was
not to venture inward. A call from
one of the tourists above was answer
ed with a faint hollow, " Va 6e?io"
(all right) from the headbtrong explo
rers of the mysteries of the burning
mountain.
Whether they were smothered with
fumes of sulphur, or, missing a step,
hurled into the unknown abyss of tho
volcano, nobody on earth will ever
know. Contrary to the advice of the
practised guides they let go tho loop
ed rojws. and ventured into the fatal
darkness of the crater's recesses. Tho
tourists above cried out impatiently
ami in vain, but no response came af
ter the first and only " Va Itene." Tho
guides and the friends ofthe unfortu
nate ones remained until near sun
down, when all hope of their reap-
' nearancewa' abandoned. J beguuJett
- . ,.
were lowered down repcnteuiy, aim
several of the excursionists went as
far as the ropvs would allow iu search
of their fatally venturous comrades.
This is the third instance of a disasttr
of tiiis nature within the past leu
years.
v . Mr.
..vjr-
I'roudc'rf AsAtlaiit-.
zr i
-EV-3
for the
iriooaoiil fu nnnn
Mi.
"Proude's histaridirHMc afJNk.atHMi'-
racy? thy havebeu-turgod wlthpthtf
UJUU.HJ UlfWIl
reriHMtv or acultiarttiisal, zaal.t.uetMLL.
lh$ tempi r of truth-decking. "The
charge of forgery or perver-ion of
manuscripts he offered, in the most
maulv ua,-. to leave to the only satis-
factory tribunal. The chaives of falso
These charges relate chiefly to Mr.
Fronde's view of Mary, liucen ot
. .ntlaruL and however he mv uis-
jK,se of them, he wiil not, of course,
dispose of the old feud upon the sub-
- . .. . . . " . l-
- 4 . v
Scotland not unnaturally has, there
will be tremendous aignmeuts upon
both sides, but never a settlement.
Misa rftricklund, indeed, is not at
Mar'--! S&IgTious faith, but thono who
are are uifluftmly of opinion that she
-.-K.
is blaL-klvniaficned. Perhaus she is,
passionate vituperation ofthe eppo-
, site counsel for argument.
In speaking of Sophia Dorothea,
the unhappy wife of George the Firs
. of England, Thackeray says : "Shi
' has bewitched two or" three persons
who have taken her up. and thev
won't believe in her wrong. Likd
Mary of Scotland, she finds adherent
I ready to con.Hpire for her, even in hrs-
fnrv ur! n?lf tr in tiRVi!
to deal
with her are charmed and fasetr.aietl
"j t -" 1 1 ..-.-- ------
Ktul bedeviled. Hovt devotedly Mtea
Strickland has stood by Mary 3 111110-
j cence! Are there not scores of ladies
1 h, this audience who persist in it too?
! innocent ! I remember as a bov how
lljlltii;cilL . i iciifriliurx no i
j a great party persisted Ia
Caroline of Brunswick was
declaring
1 uniuiiiicui iiiuii.onii i s ii
no ...A.i.r
, ed angel. So was Helen of Ureeec
innocent. She never ran away with
. t:. t. .!..-.,- ......... I'mtuii
1 Mpnelnus. her husband. ill-u?ed hr-
rail-, iiiu iitiii;viiua ,j uuiip iijn.
j and there never was any seige of Troy
, t all. So was Blue-beard's wife in-
nocer.t. She never peej
, closet where the other
d into the
wives were
with their heads oft". She nevemlrop
ped tire key or stained it with blow!,
and her brothers were quite right in
finishing Bine-beard, the sowi-nlly
brute! Yes, Cainline of Brunswick
was innocent ; and Madame Laflferjro
never joisoiied her hnsland ; anil
Mary of Scotland never blew ip her:
ami poor Sophia Dorothea was never
unfaithful; and Eve never took the
apple it was cowardly fahrleitttoK
of tho serpent." ErtfTOR's KaY
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