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and cancellation of a certain amount of stock was ap
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ESQ.. and EDWARD S. BIAISON. ESQ., were ap•
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.at the Walnut Street Theatre, to-night, in Rip
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original burleSques, and Bryant's "Shoo Fly,"
which has met with great success, will be pro
d creed.
—At the Chestnut Street Theatre, this even
ing, a good miscellaneous performance will
be given, in which the entire company, in
eluding Morris, the pomedian, Augouste, the .
juggler, and the MOrlacchi ballet troupe, Will
appear. Matinee to-Morrow.
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—A tirst-rate company will appear at Fox's
to-night. The military . pantomime, The Con
script, will be produced, and Banker, the
comedian,..Vivian, the London Mimic, and the
Bizarelli Brothers, will appear.
CHARLES DICKENS,
Death of the Great
Novelist.
SICETCH OF HIS LIFE
HIS VISIT TO AMERICA
Ilia Position in the. Literary World
.. Charles ,Dickens; .-the. great novelist,. died
last night at his residence at Cad's Hill, Kent,
about an hour's ride from London.
Charles Dickens was born at Portsmouth,
England; Feb. 7th, 1812. He was the son of
Mr. John Dickens; a worthy gentleinan who
bad held a position for many years in the
Navy PAY Department, from, which -he .was
retired upon a pension in 1815. Mr. Dickens
waea man of some little literary ability, and
upon his retirement be accepted a position as
reporter on a London newspaper: Charles
Dickens was intended for the law, and was
actually placed in an attorney's. office. But
the drudgery of the profession - was hateful to
him, and after acquiring . a knowledge
of its technicalities, as well as its absiirdities,
which was use ful to him in after life,
he exchanged his position for that of a re
porter-on-the Ttv ;iv7l, and afterwards - upon
r Chronicle. The latter paper had
large influence and circulation. Mr. Dickens
,t.ere first displayed great literary ability. He
published iu thy Chronic/c aseries of sketches
signed 'Artie (derived from a corruption of
SI oses, a name which Mr. Dickens playfully
applied to a younger-brother). These sketches
attracted a great deal of attention, for they
showed-the zinthor to have very remarkable
poWers of perception,. of description and
besides a rich comic vein. These sketches
were published in two volumes in 1836.
Inekwlek.
The excellence and
_popularity of tbe
•• Sketches -- ty . Boz" - induced Mr. Chapman,
of the firm of Chapman & Hall, to ask Mr.
Dickens to undertake to write a story, to
monthly numbers, founded upon the haps and
mishaps of a scientific club (there being a
popular fondness for ridicule of the associa
tions-at that-time). This story . was to be illus
trated by Mr. Seymour, a comic draughtsman.
The first number was no sooner published
under--the-title of Theßirkwirtr7Papers, than
the artist died by his own hatid i -and then Mr.
lialilot.„ K. Browne, under the title of
undertook the task of illustrating
the work. The book was completed and pub
lished collectively in 18374-but even before
this it had attained a degree of
popularity to which nothing in English lite
ature since-the-Waverly novels could furnish
.a.parallel. Everybody in Englandaud Arne
rica
was laughing overthe ludicrous adven
tures of the Pick - Ariek party : the u.iintness
of Sam Weller and his father, and the trial
of Bardell vs. Pickwick. Between the ap
ia-aran ee_of_-1 he- rst-and-hst—n the
author rose to be the most popular living
writer in the English language, and the work
retains its held upon the popular fancy with
unabated vigor to this day, being considered
by sonic persons Dickens s beat work.
Oliver Twist.
The next novel of Mr. Dickens was Oliver
. lis—work appeared first in-mo-nthl3
parts in Bentley's :sliscellaney, a magazine of
which Mr. Dickens was temporarily the edi
tor. Oliver Twist was published collectively
in 1838, and it fully sustained the high reputa
tion of the author. There was not as much
broad genial humor, but there was an exhibi
tion of deep tragic power', especially in paint
ing the darker passions of the human soul,
and the terrible punishment of sin. Some of
the passages in this novel, the death of Nancy
Sykes, for instance, have not been surpassed
in dramatic power by anything in Mr.
Dickens's subsequent works ; and the cry •f
little Oliver for "more" has become pro
verbial.
Nicholas Nickleby
Next appeared in serial numbers, published
in book form in 183;) The Life and Adven
tures of Nicholas Nickfeby,',' .:Which some
critics have ventured to place at the head of
Dickens's novels,_as, among : the most care
fully constructed and containing the widest
range of character and the greatest variety of
inventive power. The description of Squeer's
Yorkshire school was so accurate that Mr.
Dickens was accused by a number of school
masters of having caricatured and libeled
them.
Master Humphrey's Clock.
During the years 1840 and 1841 :Ulster Hum
phrey's Clock, comprising the stdries since
separately known as "The Old Curiosity
Shop" and " Baruaby Budge," appeared in
weekly numbers. This also was received with
a degree of favor equal to. that which had
been accorded to his !previous Productions,
and with justice. The character of " Little
dell" awakened a depth and fervor of admi
ration which no other character had won.
Barnaby Budge is a graphic story, founded
upon thepopular occurrences at the time of
the famous Lord George Gordon riots.
First Visit to America
After the issue of this volume Mr. Dickens
determined to visit America, where he was
appreciated even better than in England. He
reached Boston January 22,1842. He was re
ceived with the wildest enthusiasm in Boston
and throughout the whole country. The peo
ple expressed the utmost pleasure at his.pres
ence,and gave him an overwhelming welcome
wherever he went, while he was entertained
in the handsomest style by eminent men in all
the prominent cities. He reached . England
upon his return, on June 3d of the same year.
American Notes.
His views of American life and manners
were published upon his return, at the close
of the year, in a volume entitled " American
Notes for General Cireulation.!'
_This work,
although brightened here and there by his
peculiar humor, added nothing to his reputa
tion. It was confesSedly a gross caricature,
and the American people received it with in
dignation when they remembered their enthu
siasm for the author,. the kindly feeling dis
played towards him, and the hearty: welcome
given him uponhia'visit to this country. Mr.
Dickens afterwards apologized in some mea
sure for this youthful folly. •
The Christmas Carol.
_ . .
In 1843 Mr. Dickens wrote the Christmas
Carol,- a most-delightful Christmas story,
Which through the medium of kindly humor
and gentle satire inculcated the virtues of
benevolence and' enerosity. This little story
was received with great favor s and enjoys re
markable popularity to this day.. Several
similar productions
. have appeared from time
to time from his pen, under the general name
of Christmas. Stories. These ha've'varibtiS de:
grecs of merit, but none are equal to the first.
Martin Chuzzlewit.
During the year 1844 The Life and -Adven
tures of Martin Chuzzlewit appeared •in
monthly numbers, and gained some popu
larity, although it.gare great offence in this
country. Toward the close of 1844 Mr. Dick
ens went to Italy with his family, and resided
there for some time. On January Ist, 1846, he
asrumed the editorship of the Lor
Netts, a morning paper, on the IP
- olities. In this, ournal " Play
• elnafilShKATaluu
in 184 G. it is a work of a peck
unique character, containing the impressions
of a literary man, who viewed Italy as a
humorist, not as an artist or an antiquary.
Mr. Dickens soon resigned his editorship.
Dombey and Son and David Copperfield.
His next publication, Dombey and Bon,
came out in monthly numbers <idling 1847 and
1898. In this 'famous novel, the beautiful
sketch of Little Paul and the humorous de
lineation of Captain Cuttle recalled the best
efforts of his rich genius,nd revived the admi
ration awakened by his earlier works. David
Ccipperfield followed 'in monthly numbers,
concluding in 1850. In this year Mr. Dickens
assumed-the editorship-of - a weekly periodi
cal, Household. Words, which had a. wide .circu
lation in England and America. In this mag
azine appeared his " Child's History of Eng
land," republished separately in 1852.. The
story of Bard Times also appeared in is pe:
riodical, and was issued in book form in 1855.
Other Works
In 1854, Bleak House, a noble novel, was
finished, after being issued in monthly num
bers, and in 1856 and 1857 Little Dorritt was
given to the world in parcels in the same
way. Mr. Dickens also wrote, in 1836, the
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi.
After Little Dorrit came his great libmani
tarian novel, Hard .Times, in which, with a
deeper insight than was usual with 'biin,
Dickens attacked the peculiar difficulties of
the working classes, notably their exclusion
from the benefits of a reasonable divorce. A
Tale of Two Cities resembles Barnaby Budge
in being connected with a definite historical
event: it depicts the Reign of Terror with
originality and power. Great Expectations is
an excellent romantic • tale,cast in autobi
ographic form; it contains one of Dickens's
best plots, with a denouement singularly start
ling. Our Mutual.Triend, the title of which
_gave Mr. Dickens's friends the chance to
twit ~ good-humoredly about his syntax,
followed. This modern fiction attacks the
conventionalities and pretensions of society,
but must be granted inferior to the satires of
Thackeray in this vein. A degree . of artifici,
ality, or stilted ingenuity, begins to be evident
about this time in the writings of Mr. Dick
ens. The youthful verve that imagined, the
ehatacters of Sarah Gamp and Richard Swiv
iller is replaced by elaborate verbal gymnas
tics and - a hard, strained 'effort at cleverness.
Some sketches__and_ children's.. stories, some
of - which - 'appeared in Amerinan peri
odicals,—and a charming set of desul
tory short sketches, including the
Uncommercial Traveler—were interspersed
between his graver labors of this period. Nor
must we forget the admirable. Christmas
tales, in the production of which Mr. Dickens
inaugurated a kindly and especially character
istic custom. The last holidays saw the tote
(Arising of this agreeable Christmas habitude
of the romance. His last.and very successful-
Christmas tale was "No Thoroughfare," a
story of robbery and attempted murder in
-the-Alps, in writing which he had some in
considerable assistance from Boucicault, and
i n whose subsequent dramatization his friend
echter made - an -- elTective point: in the
personation of a treacherous Swiss. In
the present year Mr. Dickens _begair-to
publish "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," re
verting for this occasion to that serial form
which he has erected into a special favorite
and success. In the day when he first adopted
this piecemeal form, it was considered the
-stamp-of--v-11' /garity-and-eltarlatanism. M-y
-friends told me," remarks Mr. Dickens ' in re
curring to the days of Pick - wick, " that it was
a low, cheap form of publication, by which 1
should'rffin -- all my rising hopes ; and bow
right my friends turned out to be," adds the
novelist, " everybody knows." The ex-repor
ter was in fact following a sure instinct in the
*-loption-of those-dreams-of a periodical-in
tercourse with the reader, which he had
thoroughly learned from the reg
ular press. "Edwin Dreod," the un
finished romance, is the broken
column which will be the monument over
Charles Dickens's grave. Its pages touch,
with exquisite grace,the antiquity and quaint
ness of the old cathedral town of Rochester,
near which on Gad's Hill at Higham, lies
Dickens's estate and retreat. Thus, with an
interrupted masterpiece, closes thei list of
Dickens's novels, so long and imposing. Ra
pidly written ; printed month by month, so
.that the end of a romance would sometimes
forget the beginning; sold like sensational
newspapers, each chapter by thousands of
copies •, reproduced, pirated, imitated, un
rightfully dramatized, translated into the
circle of modern languages,—those are 'the
titles and dates of these inimitable fictions.
Dickens in Amerlea.
In 1842, Mr. Dickens made. his first visit to
America, a young man, filled with prejudices
:against this country and ready to turn the
keen point of his facile pen against every
peculiarity of our people. A flying tour
through the country afforded him no oppor
tunity of gaining any true knowledge of
American men and manners, and many of his
accidental associations tended to deepen and
exaggerate the preconceived notions which
the popular young novelist brought with him
from Engiand. •He went home to write his
"American Notes," filled with clever spleen,
and came back to America twenty-five years
later, with generous retractions of the folly of
his youthful judgment, with his mind ma
tured, his experience enlarged and his heart
warmed toward the nation that enshrined
him so affectionately among its household
gods. _ .
Mr. Dickens arrived at Roston, on the oc
casion of his second visit, on November 19,
1867. An extensive series of " Readings" had
been arranged for him --- 13V - his agent, Mr.
Dolby, comprising most' of the principal cities
of the Union, and he made his first - appear
ance before an American audience at the
Tremont Temple, Boston, December 2, 1867,
reading " The Christmas Carol" and " The
.Pickwick Trial." His first appearance in
New York was at Steinway Hall, December
fah, and in Philadelphia, at • Concert Hall,
january 13th, 1868,.
. From beginning to end, Mr.Dickens' course
of readings was a wonderful success, and the
source of unbounded pleasure to the thousands
of intelligent people who everywhere flocked
to hear and see the man with whose works
they were so intimately familiar. Every look,
gesture, or expression was conned and dis
cussedln all circles, and the eagerness to hear
Mr. Dickens only increased as the time of his
return-home-drew-near:-
Mr. Rickel* during his last Visit to Amer
ica, which was purely a professional one, al
lowed himself almost no opportunity for social
intercourse with our people. -.Doiroting huh
self to a systematic fulfilment of his public
engagements, he could Only snatch glimpses of
American society as he encountered it upon
the streets during the daily "constitutional" .
walks which were his regular recreation from
the fatigue and excitement of his Readings.
Rut the hearty and generous receptions.
which , were ever,ywhere lavished upon
him
,by; . his 'enthusiasticaudiences melted
away anyvestige of the old: feeling that may
have survived the lapse of time, and when he
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1870.
took his final leave of his American audi
ences,' it was with such expressions of manly
gratitude and deep appreciation as forever
blotted out the last remnant of bitterness that
may have lingered around the recollections of
the sharp and unjust satire of the " American
Notes," ,
Before leaving America, Mr. Dickens was
- a handsome banquet at Del-
York, on the evening of April
responding to an eloquent
I , lr .
Jg and honest testimony to the
change which twenty-live years had wrought
in his estimate of America. He said:
" This is the confidence I seek to plade in
you, that on my return to England, in my
own English journal, manfully, promptly,
plainly in my own person to bear for the be
hoof of my countrymen, such testimony to
the gigantic changes in this - conntry as I have
hinted at to-night. Also, to recall that where
over I have been lathe smallest places equally
with the largest, 'I have been received with
unsurpassable politeness, delicacy, sweet
temper, hospitality, consideration, with unsur
passable respect for the privacy daily enforced
upon me by the mature of._ my,avocation -here,
and the state of my health. .. •
This testimony, so long as I live and so long
as my descendants have any legal right in my
Looks, I shall cause to be republished as an
appendix to every copy of those two books of
mine in Which I have referred to America.
And this I will do and cause• to be done,-not
in my loving thankfulness, but because I re
gard it as an act of plain justice and honor." -
Taking leave of his last American audience,
in New York, April 20, 1868, Mr.. Dickens
closed his Reading with this touching speech :
"Ladies and Gentlemen: The shadow of one
word has impended over me all the evening,
and the time has come at last whenthe shadow
mu - it - fall: :Nis but a very short one,- but the
weight'oftinell things is'not measured by their
lengtli; and two much shorter Words expresS
the whole realm of our human existence.
When I was reading David Copperfield'
here last Thursday. night, I felt that there was
more than usual significance for me in Mr.
Peggotty's declaration-: - My future. life lies
over the sea.' And when I closed this book
just pow, I felt keenly that I was shortly to
establish such an alibi aS would have
satisfied even the elder Mr. Weller
himself. The . relations that have _ been
set—up between us- in— this - -place—rela--
tiobs sustained on my side, at least, by the
most earnest devotion of myself to my task;
sustained by yourselves, on your side, by. the
readiest sympathy and kindliest acknowledg
ment—must now be broken foreVer: - But I
entreat you to believe that in passing from my
sight you will not pass from my memory. I
shall often, often recall you as I see you now,
equally by my winter fire, and in the green,
English summer weather. I shall never recall
von as a mere public audience, but rather ass a
lie S t -of personal friends, and ever. with - tile-
greatest gratitude, tenderneas, and considera
tion. Ladies and gentlemen, I beg to bid you
farewell. And I pray God bless you, and God
bless the land in which I have met you."
After his return home'he continued to give
readings In different parts 'of England, but on
the evening of March 16th last ho brought to
a close at St. James's Hall, in London, his se
ries of public readings. • He . said, in his re
marks at the close :
"1 have thought it well, at the full flood-tide
of your faier, to retire upon those older asso
ciations between-us, whleli - date from much
further back than these, and henceforth to de
vote myself exclusively to the art that first
brought us together. [Great applause.] La
dies and gentlemen, in but two short weeks
from this time I hope that you may enter, in
your own houses, on a new 'Series of Read
ings,' at which my assistance will be indis
pensable ; but from these garish lights I
vanish now for evermore, with a heartfelt,
fteful, respectful and affectioiate___fare
well."
Separation from his Wife.
In 18.58 Mr. Dickens separated from his
wife amicably, after having lived with her for
twenty years, several children being born to
them. Mr. Dickens has simply explained that
the cause which led to it was uncongeniality
of tern •er and that no s ecial blame attached
to elt • er party.
AS a literary force, Dickens is at this mo
ment the greatest in English literature. The
easy; popular king of the whole world's enter
tainment, be dies with the sceptre firm in his
grasp. That he is not cultivated,—that he has
no religion beyond a prayerless, tempera
mental good nature,—that he contemns the
deeper problems of modern thought' and is
ignorant of the leading forces of modern
society, is probably his strength. Only in
his half-divine, impartial ignorance—that
ignorance which was the might of
l and of Shakespeare can
the artist so possess his soul as to do justice to
his art-creation. If Dickens were a philoso
pher like Mill, we should never have heard
the exquisite non sequitur reasoning of Mrs.
Harris. If he bad bad, like Matthew Arnold,
the Academic spirit, he would be still paring
away at the faulty construction of Pickwick
and of Islickleby. If he had been born, like
Tennyson, with the love of classid calmovhere
would be his fair-scenes in the Curiosity Shop,
his tumult of low life iu Oliver Twist? It is not
fOr the philosopher, for the scholar, that we
are to look in Dickens. By so much as he
should have educated and polished himself,by
so much would he have escaped from the
grand popular audience he was born to charm.
It is as a man of the people, comprehending
intimately their wants and humorsi as .a
genial and _ coMpanionable spirit, of
which the world gets fewer to its
share year by . year ; as a common friend of all
that is whimsical, and good, and bright, and
hind in this century of tuimoil—that Charles
Dickens appeals to the age and leaves it
darker by his loss. Eulogies of his goodness
and pleasant greatness will be written in
every language that has a literature ;' for he
has interpreted hie century to the world and
to futurity.
Sad Accident at lli'Veytown.
The Lewistown 'Gazette, says: The grist mill
and paper mill of C. P. Dull, at M'Veytown,
was entirely
_consumed by fire bet Ween one
and two o'clock on Sunday morning. The
establishment was one of the best water-power
mills in this country, with h run of seven burrs,
and was a large building. The alarm was
flpromptly given, but with such rapidity did the
ames spread that not an article of value was
saved by removal, The mill had, as near as
could be ascertained, the folloWing contents:
1,800 to 2,000 bushels of wheat; 1,000 bushels
oats ; 700 bushels corn; a large quantity of.rye,
barley and .buckwheat; 7 tons chop, and 60
barrels of flour.
Adjoining the building was erected two
years ago a paper mill, with machinery cost
-ing-about--SO,OOW-which-was-also-totally-don=
-sumed, together with about $l,OOO worth of
paper ready for market. The total loss will be
from $20,000 , to $40,000, on which there was
only about_s4,ooo 'insurance. A 'day or,,:two
previous to the fire the owners weremaking
arrangements to increase the insurance.'
The cause of the fire is not definitely known ;
the night engineer left the paper-mill aCten
minutes to twelve on Saturday night, with the
fire properly secured. It originated in tilde
basement et the grist-mill, where the boilers
were placed to run the paper-mill. Since the
fire a - large 4uantity of grain has been taken ,
out which fell to theliaifernent,bat it is almost -
worthless;
n to an elogpaent
Hts Lust Farewell.
Dickens's Place in Literature.
DESTRIJCTIVE FIRE.
SPOTTED TAIL.
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE
-BRAVE.
" :p'
Grant---Washington -The Quakers—The
Prospect of War- —Philadelphia
-"Things In General.
The greatest curiosity that man desires to
see is found in the different varieties of his
own species. In the interior of Africa is said
to be a race of bipeds with spilleS so elongated
that the owners use them as - : cows -use their
tails. An enterprising - Englishman once
brought a party of Northmen for exhibition
in London. They pined even amid the luxu
ries of woodcock and•our friend the Widow
Cliquot. What they partook of for lunch,
when they called for "halt a dozen fried,"
wasnot half a dozen fried oysters, bat of fried
candles. They one day gave the slip to their
custodians. They put to sea in their canoes.
They were swamped before making the first
five miles of the British Channel.
A Japanese embassy visited this country.
To see these high caste Orientals as, they_
moved` in procession through - the streets
brought out the entire population of Philadel
phia. Everybody remembers their princely
bearing. Everybody who saw them in the
dignity of their pomatumed pig-tails and al
mond•shaped optics, looked upon them as so
many Chesterfields in pongee and turned-up
shoes. _" Little Tommy," though a peasant
boy, received adulations that brought snuff.
colored blushes to the cheeks of the artist
who was his adopted father. The Japanese
came and went. They neither came nor went
"Like a beautiful dream."
They were the guests of- the city. They left
us with the impression that the Japaneke are
the Yankees of the Malayan race, and that
the higher castes of their society are as polished
as th e_higher_ castes of our own.
• To-day we have a party among us cut out
after a very different pattern. It arrived last
midnight. It is marls-up of Capt. Poole,
S. A., and the'four Sioux magnates -on their
way to the setting bun .from a conference
with the authorities at Washington. The
subjects-are-four -illustrious -aborigintis =from
'the Indian Reberve.' Theyare "friendly In
dians." Though full of fight,they expend their
ire, not upon white men, hut upon the tribes
siirrounding - them. The name of the Grand
Mogul is Spotted Tail. Spotted Tail is a
celebrity among the Lo's. Show us an uglier
visage than that of our friend Spiitty, and we'll
show you : Mr. George Wood, the iron founder,
a gentleman who will immediately . get a,_cast
of his visage_to place upon andirons to keep
children from falling into the tire. Just now
Spotty is suave and conciliatory. His belly is
lined With fat capon. HiS weakness is for
half-roasted sucking pig. Meet him in a se
cluded place, with grin, war-whoop and toma
hawk, and we can imagine, ou this side of
Tartarus, no spectacle more harrowingly
bonnie. His complexion is just' the color of
a whisky-still in want-of--eleaning. Like his
comrades, be parts his hair in the middle;
that this capillary covering is matted with
dandruff .has not, apparently, acted detri
mentally to his nervous sensibilities.
next dignitary to Spotty wears the sug
-g Men
Spotty, Swift also is a chief. These two are
inseparable companions. Swifty thinks there
is no Injun living who is the equal of his
socius ; while the. socius looks upon Swifty as
the King of Germany looks upon Bismarck,
or the Pope upon Cardinal Antonelli.
• •
IFast Bear comes next. The difference in
iteratity of meautng — bi3tereen the ail
"fast" and "swift" is puzzling to a 'rench
wan. To the American it is less so. A fast
horse may stick fast. A fast man may do ditto.
In fact,the latter pretty generally does. As the
adjective that indicates speed had already
'been appropriated by Swift, the handle of the
ursine patronymic in the case of Mr. Fast
may be set down as susceptible, of double in
terpretation. Having paid his money, the
reader may take his choice. That Fast is fast,
in one sense or the term, is shown in the vigi
lance with which Captain Poulki sees that the
gentleman gets no whisky. With a pint of. obi
Bourbon under his hat,, the havoc com
mitted in Chestnut street yesterday by an in
sane steer would probably he child's play in
comparison with the mischief worked by
the non-tractable Lo. ,
The last of the Quaxtette is an incarnation
of ugliness called Yellow Hair. As the cov
ering of his cranium is in texture and in hue
the counterpart of the tail of an undertaker's
horse,the significance of this particular cogno
men presents to us an enigma which to
Gueru, the interpreter to the party, is alike
inexplicable. The fo„ur of these ge,ntlemen
aborigines are attired alike. They wear short
white shirts. To this article of apparel they
seem to have become reconciled. At first
they fretted under the restraint of gusset and
yoke. In cold weather the Indian enjoys his
leggings and his blanket. In summer time,
with no toggery upon him but his moccasins
and ear rings, he experiences all that beatific
oneness enjoyed by. a newly-weaned ,shoat -pig
*hen taking a first *allow in a newly-made
mud-puddle.
The interpreter, Mr. Gueru, is a charaeter
of exceeding interest. He speaks the Sioux
language as perfectly as the English. He
knows the Indian all the way through. By
the play of Ids facial muscles he can tell
whether the Indian means friendship or mis
chief. We had a living hippopotamus here
some time ago. A native Lgyptian was his
keeper. The relation between the unwieldy
behemoth and that keeper were the relations
existing between Mr. Gueru and this savage
quartette.
The party arrived, as we have said, late last
night. The Indians wanted sleep. They were
first taken to supper. About his rations
_
Mr. Lo ispaktietilar. Lo is a carnivorous
animal. For syllabubs and Wane mange he
cares very little. -He is equally indifferent to
"the delightsof Charlotte russe or calves-foot.
jelly. li e is not" the ass snuffing up the wind
in the wilderness." What Lo told us through
the interpreter, this morning, is that he loves
beef. Lo not only loves beef, but love's it
properly cooked. Like ourselves, Lo enter
tains an aversion to frying pans. In his own
Country,,if he cannot get wood.upon which to.
broil his antelope steak, he does the next best'
thing: he broils it upon the dried ordure of
the buffalo. The Los ate heartily. Mr. Kings
ley attended carefully, to their requirements.
- To — " - grub" - Spotty by - contract wouldn't fie a
very paying business. To the Indian the
dyspepsia is as little known as consumption is
known iu Cairo. To appease the appetite of a
- Sioux,nothintr more is necessary than to bring
him continuous supplies of rare beef.
The strangers were provided with quarters
in the uppermost story of the house. • They
viewed the cosy matresses with contemp
tuous, grunts. They asked for two double
bedded. cots. Old Spotty and Swift Bear took
the one, while Fast Bear and Yellow.. Hair
stretched their beautiful bodies upon the
latter. ' The Interpreter and thiptain 'Pool
occupied-the adjoining - Et:IOU'. .., •
All told, there are not 30,000 redskins iu
PRICE THREE CENTS.
the country. The Sioux are supposed t*
number 28,000. Their tract of territory is 20
by 400 miles In area. Much of it has never
been trodden by white man's foot. Not even
the Government perfectly understands the
antrum prompting the action of these
nolnadic tribes. If they be the descendants of
the New England Indians their degeneration`'
from the original stock must certainly be con
ceded. Take these four as representatives of
e ,, elite - Among_theio,—iridtheßikarantenef-ther
canaille' an be little short of hideous. Rather
than die by the hand of either we'd personally
yield our life to the crash of a tumbling, wall.
Our visit to these braves this
morning was timely. We found also- in
terviewing them Mr. William Welsh, the
artist Shinn Counsellor Damon Kilter°, and
Mr. Wm. S. ' lrwin, of the Star Nickel Plating
Works in this - city. --The retentiveness. of
Spotted 'Tail's memory was shown in his re
cognition of this gentleman, though the last
time he saw him was fifteen years ago.
lady, stopping at the Continental, was also
presented to him. She was the wife of an of- ,
Beer to whom Spotty bad received. the honor
of introduction when stationed on the distant
frontier. - - Whoever buys Spotty for a'fool, we
opine, will have unrequitedly parted 'with his
money. Spotty is agenius. His affirmative
and his negative are expressed in. the same
grunt. Like the -" altro" of the Italian.'
his grunt is of universal interpretation. R
alike positive, negative, assertive and inter
rogative In its signitimice. Spotty's hands
and feet are the only delicate _portions _of _
physitple. -It is understood that with his in
dividual band he has taken sixty lives. The
last life he took was that of the chief of a rival'
tribe. He shot his enemy at Agalala, lu the
presence of Capt. Poole. He has five wives
and eleven children. His tribe - are polyg—
amists. His government -is an absolute -
despotism. He holds 1n- - his hand the`:
life of every subject. The administrative
power rests in the hands of such savages as
his comrades the Bears and the misnomer in
moccasins called " Yellow Hair."
The conversation we had with the inter
preter was rather too general to be of much
interest. The interrogatories we would have
made were just the interrogatories that weren't
to he answered.
What we wanted to get at was what the
delegation Malted at Washington. The
answer was they Wanted clothingost_otall,
r sier
As-foaiillif moat
ial - implements, the Quakers
are attending to their wants in that direction.
Spotty says that the best thing that the Go
vernment could do for then' would be to scalp
the Commissioners, by whom they are cheated,
and by whom alcoholic liquor is smuggled
among them.
The annexed bits of conversation will give
an idea of the degree of intelligence and acti- ,
men possessed by the _lndian, Spotted Tail:
" What is your religion?"
" W_e adore the_snn."
"Have yon no images or' idols?" • " ' - •
" None. .
" What are your religious ceremonies ?"
'" The principal one is the great sun dance
once a year. We had it just before I came
away."
" Did they treat you well in 'Washington?"
"Yes - ; but we want to go home. I want my
wives."
" Are you pleased with Gen. Grant?"
'• Very much. off
offers to educate one-of
my sons at his own expense. He-wants the
oldest. I want to send him one only fifteen
years old."
" •.'
" Because lie recently killed a grown Indian
in a fair haruFt - e-band fight -- Getr:'Graiit ie'a
great man."
"Do yon - like-the Quakers ?"
" 1 haven't seep much of them. 1 hear they
are good people."
" How many people are you chief of ?"
" About 5,000. We aro called Whetstone or
Brules Indians."
"Do you expect-to-kill-any-more-meT?"
(With a sardonicgrin)—" I don't know."
We then left Mr. Lo and his party to take a
trip to the Union League and •the United
States Mint. To-night we expect to dream of
them. Pocahontas may have been beautiful.
Had she in the least resembled Spotty Tail,
we think, to get u inspiration enough. to
• " e_her_s iaxe-puzzbutan-urtis
even if his perceptions were quickened . by
a quart of fire-water.
CUBA.
Toting Cespede's Exeention—ffis Wife
a Prisoner•--More !Spanish Troops Sent
to the East.
_HAVANA, June Diario of yesterday
publishes full particulars of the capture of
Oscar Cespedes, son of the Cuban President;
_ .
He was an estimable young man; married,
and, at the time of capture. commanded a
party of insurgents. The wife of the young
man was taken, with fifteen other ladles, a
short time thereafter. As yet - these have not
been released.
The Pajaro del Oceano, which left hero yes
terday, carries about 1100 soldiers for the East
ern and central departments. There is a little
skirmishing going on in the mountains, which
iunounts to very little. But the Captain- Gen eral makes up for the want of news items by
forwarding each day telegraphic accounts of
surrenders and small lights. The season is un
usually warm and rainy, and the country is al
ready very sickly.
rosthcanone Denunciation.
ln the attack on the Conga between the
forces of Col.Villares and the Cubans.in which,
by the way, the latter came out best, a young
American named Edward H. Ruud was
wounded and taken prisoper by the Spaniards.
The Spanish report has it that he died front
the effect of the wound received, while the
Cohan report States that he was shot.: Public
opinion takes it that the Spanigh report is the
true one. Shortly before his death, and im
mediately after the engagement, knowtug
that his end was nigh, he wrote the following
letter in English :
"We were taken to Cuba by Jordan and his
officers under false pretences; they telling us
that the war was to last only six months ; that
the Cubans bad the best of the struggle, and
were in possession of the greatest part of the
island, excepting a few cities; that we were
to serve as cavalry. I solemnly declare that
the whole of this is false ; we have been mis
erably deceived, and treated like dogs ; the
negroes were better treated than us ; they had
horses to ride, while we were compelled to
walk over stones r aud bear during the whole
way insults front the negroe4. I speak
the truth in this moment that 1 am to appear
before God and be judged by men. I hope
God will take mercy on a poor fool, and re
ceive my soul in His glory, because I am inno
cent."
in'
—Out on the frontier,sinsas, audiences,
at the theatre have an-original way of applaud
ing actors and actresses. They give a regular
- Indian yell, patting their mouths with..theik:
hand all the time. A certain ; English
.actress
was so applauded, which frightened her so
she ran out the back way, hired a carriage,
and rode tweuty-flve miles to - the nearest • rail 7.
-read- stationi: - leaving:thaplay7in - theTmiddle; ---
She said she was afraid they would, scalp her..
—Mr. Spurgeon is alio% 36 years Old, and
preached 1,000 4ertnonB before he . waS 21. For
the last live years 25,000 copies- a-week of his -
sermons have been sold. Not less than 14,-
COO,OOO copies have been sold in England, be- •
sides :100,000 copies in America. From n”^
three volumes have been published in Welsh,
German, French, Swedish, Dutch and Italian,
besides separate sermons in Gaelic, Tamil and
the Maori language of New Zealand.
' man in Kentucky has got a hen that
lays eggs with raised figures on the big end. • ,
She is probably Workingoff_a - rtifeltiplicatien
table which"she swapwed iu - hQr youth,