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REPORT OF DR. KANE-
'Tba fullowiog is the official, report! of Dr 1
w - ' j. . x-Ti - it iJ 7
, Kaae, commanding second Gnnnell expedt-
T- tion in search of Sir John
; Franklin,
to the
Secretary of the Navy :
iV
Our little party have returned - in health
'and safety.. . 77- 7 7 t -J '
." " We reached. the PanishT. settlements of
tJDnernivik on the 6th . of August. after an
J ; exposing! travel of thirteen, hundred .miles.
""'Duiinff this iournev. which 1 embraced ! alter-
V nate zones of ice and water, we transported
1 t -our boats by sledges, -and sustained ourselves
" in animal food exclusively by our gunsJ ' We
entered port after eighty-four days exposure
"inthe open air. V, 7 7 , ' -':-:s
" I have the honor7 to subjoin a hurried
Outline of our operations and .results in ad
- vance of-more detailed communications. f
- -:-"Mt previous despatches make the de-
-&--rfpartment acquainted with our arrival . at- the
' ' ' : northern settlements of Greenland. Thence
1j j crossed Melville bay without accident and
Smitb's Sound on the 5th of August,, 1853.
' Finding Cape Hatherton,' the seat of my in
' -7 6 tended beacon,' shut out from, the , sound - by
'tae inore promineut,headIand of Littleton ts-
" . land, 1 seiectea mis latter spot ior my juairnx
y- erecting a flag-staff, and depositing despatches.
7 1 To the north the ice presented a drifting
' ' pack of the heaviest description, the actions
7 '! , ; of hummocking . Laving in" some instances
" 7 reared barricades of sixty feet in height. In
4, my "efforts to penetrate 'Jxis drift being driven
back and nearly beset in the , pack; ; I , deter
mined (as the only, means of continuing the
search) to attempt a passage along the ; land
where tbe rapid tides (here of ,12 to 1(J feet
"'rise and falll had worn a nrecarious oneuins.
; Previous to this responsible step, a depot of
provisions with a inetalic lite-boat (rrancis)
was carefully concealed j in . a large inlet in
latitude 78 deg. 2Q min. 7" 7 , r
:J"The extreme strength' of the Advance
enabled her to sustain this trying navigation.
Although aground at the fall of the tide, and
twice upon her beam-ends from the pressure
of external tce7he escaped any serious dls
" aster. ' 'After a month of. incessant labor,
" chered however by a small daily progress,
the new ice so closed around us as to make a
further penetration impossible. With, diffi
culty we found a winter asylum at the bottom
7'of a bay which opened from the coast in lati-
tude 78 dog. 44 min. : Into it we thankfully
'7, hauled our battered little brig on the 10th' of
September, 1853. From this r point, as a
"centre, issued the explosions of my party.
' The winter was'of heretofore unrecorded
severity. . . Whiskey froze as. early as Novem
ber, and mercury remained solid for. nearly.
7f;ar months. The range, of eleven .spirit
thermometers,' selected as standards, , gave
temperature (not yet reduced Y of sixty to
7;ae voxjty-five degrees below zero, and the mean
annual temperature was 5 deir. 2 mini. ;Fat-
'renheiC the lowest ever regis
stored.
i This extreme cold, combined with one
hundred and twenty days absence of sun
gave rise to an . obscure, but .fatal : form of
.tetannt ' (loctjuw y ' TLo osortiuns of Dr.
Hayes, the surgeon of the expedition, , Lad
7,77. readily subdued the scurvy, but these fearful
" tendencies to tonic spasms defied our' united
efforts. This disorder extended to our dogs,
.fifty-86ven of which perished, thus complete-
- ly breaking up my ledge organization '. 'jr.
'' " The operations of search were carried on
! c under, circumstances of peculiar hardship.
We worked at our sledges as late as the 24th
j, of .November, , and renewed our labor in
r r March. r Much of this travel was in darkness,
, , j andJsome at temperature as low L'as 5Q deg.
'r-r The earlier winter travel was -undertaken by
myself in person ; but by the aid: of a . single
team of. dogs, and the zealous co-operation of
H g any officers, we were enabled, to replace the
. parties as they became exhausted, and thus
rv7continue to search until the 12th of Julys It
ly, ia.believed that no.nreyious parties have been.
j 7. long in the field, Messrs, Brooks, McUeary,
t ,Boasall, Hayes, and Morton .successively con
I iributed t to .the . general , result. ;'The men
I ? forked with fidelity and endurance.. u
,Y j-. ll briefly detoU , the explorations pf our
t- TPrty- " n r--vfi yl-vlJT- rft-t i 77.
-7 i . " Smith's Sound has been followed andsur
1 1; Teyed throughout its entire extent. . It termi
i j nates to the northeast in a gulf 11Q miles in
iU long diameter. A. .-. rt - 1
'V ' 1 " Galand has been traced to jts northern
ace, the coast tending nearly due , east, and
west, (E. 17 deg Ita further penetra-s:-twn
towards the Atlantic was arrested by a
y., glacier, which offers an impassable .barrier: to
,.!fu exploration. ' ThU stupendous mass of
, ice issues m 60 degrees west longitude. It is
- Wident with the axis of the peninsula and
i... & rpfobably Uib only obstacle to the insularity
fc 4f Greenland.. It rises 300 feet in perpen-
4icuUr face, and has been fellowed along ita
Jta 6 me3 m one UQDroken escarpment
"-"lacier runs nearly due north; and : ce-
7 jnexta together by an icy union the continent-
-7? g'i't. explain the broken and. permanently
twsi character of .Upper mith's.5ouhdj its
abufiilant icebergsand, to .a ceftaie' extent;
its lirorouff climai f An -ono.t!..1a - ' u
one the highest sublimity' h; s ,;t ,
"The northern land in(nrT;nli ii.;.
""g has been named Washington, and the
bay1 which: interposes between it and : Qreen
land I hare named after Mr. Vcabody if - l-i
" : Peabody bay gives exit at : its western
curve' (latitude 80 deg. lain.) to a large
channel which forms the ' most interesting
geographical, feature of ' our travel. ' This
channel expands Jto the northward' into an
open and iceless area," abounding' in I animal
life, and presenting ' every character of an
open Idar sca. i 'A "surface of 300 square
miles was seen at various elevations free from
ice, with a northern horizon equally free. ' "A
north wind, fifty-two hours in duration, failed
to bring any drift into this area.
! 4 It is with pain that I' mention to the de
partment mj inability to navigate these waters.
.One hundred and twenty-five miles of solid
ice, so rough as to bo impassable to boats,
separated them from the nearest southern
. . . . a- . i . f i ir
t land. y peraontu. eaortaun .pru jiaa iuay
7 M Mwsy one of the smallest India-rob-
ber boats to within ' 90 miles of the channel.
"My party, including myself, 'were com
pletely broken ; four of them had ' undergone
amputation of toes for frost bite ; nearly all
were suffering from scurvy and the season
had bo far " advanced as to ' render another
journey impossible. To the north of latitude
81 deg. 17 min. the shores of the channel be
came precipitous and destitute even of passage
to the sledge. ! William Morton, '.who, with
one Esquimaux and a "small 'team 7 of dogs,
had reached this spot, lashed by a heavy surf,
absolutely checked his-progress. .
f 4 It was on the westera coasts of, this sea
that I had hoped to find traces of the gallant
martyrs whose search instigated this expedi
tion, i The splendid efforts of Dr Hay now
first known to me would have given such a
travel a merely geographical value. "; Review
ing conscientiously the condition of my party,
it is perhaps providential that we failed in the
embarkations ' f ""; 7 .
; ,:. The land washed by this sea to the north
ward and west ward has been charted as high
as latitude 82 d. SO min. and longtitude 76
deg. " This forms the nearest land to the pole
yet -discovered. It bears the honored name
of Mr. GrinnelL"? ; " - - ; -IV.:
"As the season advanced it became evi
dent that our brig would . not be - liberated.
Our. immediate harbor gave few signs of
breaking up, and cue unbroken ice surface ex
tended fg the sound. It was now too late to
attempt an escape by boats ; our fuel was de
ficient, and our provisions, although abund
ant, were in no wise calculated to resist scur
vy. At this juncture I started with five vol
unteers on an attempt to reach the mouth of
Lancaster Sound, where I hoped to meet the
English expeditions, and afford relief to my
associates. During this journey we crossed
the northernmost track of William. Baffin, in
' , but finding a solid pack extending
from ' Jone's Sound to Hakluyt island with
difficulty, "regained the "brig." . ...7 ... -"
The second 7 winter was one . of extreme
trial . We were obliged, aaa measure of pol
icy, to live the lives "of the Esquimaux, envel
oped is walls of moss, burning lamps, and
eating the raw meats of the walrus and bear.'
At one time every member of our party, with
the exception of Mr. Honsall and myself, was
prostrate with scurvy and unable to . leave his
bunk.. Nothing saved us but a rigorously or
ganized hunt, and the aid of dogs, in procu
ring walrus from the Esquimaux, the nearest
settlement of which people was. 60 miles dis
tant from our harbor. -. ,7.7.'. 7 , .
. ''With these esquimaux a. race of the
highest interest we formed a valuable alli
ance, sharing our resources, and mutually de
pending upon each other. - They were never
thoroughly to be trusted, but by a mixed
course of intimidation and kindness, 7 became
of essential service. 7 , 7 , -; - 7 7 7 7 ' 7
V I have to report the loss of three of my
rojri ra JcS -Wave men who porLuUc J in (be di
rect discharge of their duty. Two of these
acting carpenter Christion Ohlsen and Jeffer
son Baker Klied of lockjaw ; the third, Peter
bhubert, of abscess following amputation of
the foot., .Mr. Ohlsen was a valuable adviser
and : personal friend.' He acted in eommaid
of the brig during my absence upon the sledge
journeys. . 77 -,"'. -:; j ..I '
" Knowing that a " third winter would he
fatal, and that we were too' much invested by
ice for an expedition from the Sound to liber
ate us in time for . the present season,, I aban
doned the advance on the 17th of May, and
commenced a travel to the South. . The sick,5
four in t number, were conveyed Tby our dog
sledge. ' I had to sacrifice, my collection of
natural history, but saved the documents of
the expedition. , .7 r 7-. i;"' 4
. '.' The organization of . this journey ;was
carefully matured to meet the alternating con
tingencies of ice and water, It consisted of
boats cradled upon wooden runners, with les
sor sledges for the occasional relief of cargo.
With the exception of reduced allowances of
powdered breadstuff and tallow,- we depended
upon our guns for food ; but a small reverse
of Borden's meat biscuit was kept unused for
emergencies. Our "clothing was rigorously
limited 1 to our fursT"-We walked in carpet
moccasins.'V ' ' :' ) ' ' - : " ; -. .
"'."Our greatest difficulty was the passage of
an , extensive zone of ice which intervened be
tween the brig and the nearest southern water.
Although this belt was but eighty-one miles
in linear' extent, such was the heavy nature of
the ice and 'our difficulties of transportation,'
that its transit ' cost ni thirty-one days of la
bor, and an actual travel of three , hundred
and sixteen miles. : .
-' From Cape Alexander we ' advanced by
boats, with only occasional ice passages at the
base of glaciers.' " At Cape York I erected a
cairn and pennant, with" despatches for the
information of vessels" crossing Mell viile bayf
and then,' after cutting up' my spare boat for
fuel, embarked for the north "Greenland "set4
,tlementSi' fia;,--f,i v v; f.w it t
" Wo arrived at TJpernivik (as before "sta
ted Von the 6th of August; without disaster,
and m excellent health and spirits. Through
out this long journey my companions behaved
with admirable fortitude. I should do them
an injustice if I omitted to acknowledge their
fidelity to myself and gallant bearing jin times
of privation and danger. " ' " r ;.
' From Upernivik I took passage for Eng
land in i the Danish brig Marianne j but, most
fortunately' touching at Godbavu (Discos) we
were met j by pur gallant countrymen tinder
Capt. Hartstene. ; -They had found the ice Of
Smith's Sound still unbroken, but) ; having"
met the Esquimaux near Cape Alexander,
had heard of our departure, and retraced their
steps - They arrived' at Disco,: : but (twenty
four hours before our intended departure for
England. Under these circumstances, I con
sidered it obligatory upon me to withdraw my
contract for passage in the Marianne, ftnd re
turn with the Release and Arctic. - ' .. ' 7 "
i The present - season . is regarded as; nearly
equal in severity to its predecessors. The ice
to the north is fearfully extended. ' and ' tle
eseape of. the searching squadron froni beaet
ment - is most: providential.' - The rapid ad
vance of winter had already' closed' around
them the young ice,- and bat for the power of
the steamer and the extraordinary, exertions
of Capt. Hartstene an imprisonment would
have been ineyitabl. - Not only Smith, but
Jones and Lancaster Sounds were closed with
an impenetrable pack ; but, in spite of these
difficulties, they ' achieved the ' entire circum-?
navigation of Baffin's bay, and reached the
Danish settlements by
forcing ' the-? middle
ice.
From tlte Miluxtukie American, Oct. 19. ,
Heathenism in Hilwaukie-A Dead Body to
i i i'-t bV Burned.'""" '" i i;i
- For the sake of the fair fame' of the city and
the reputation of the better portion of our cit
izens, who profess to be Christians and en
lightened people," we should like to have the
record which follows wiped from our memory
and blotted - from the list of ' horrible acta of
which our city; has too long been the' scene.
But this is impossible.1- Already the meagre
accounts' have flashed to tbe borders of our
country,' and the whoJe civilized community
have shuddered with horror at the terrible
thoughts suggested, and any attempt to cover
it np or apologize . for. its enormity, I would
make, us, in a degree, parties to it. ..r
"7 Yesterday afternoon, immediately after din
ner we were startled by the information from
a citizen of the First Ward, that at that mo
ment a man, by the name of Pfeil, a resident
of the First Ward, and who lives in one of the
elegant dwellings . upon tho lake bluff an the
North Point plank road, was preparing a pile
of : wood and other combustibles for the pur
pose of burning the body of his wife, who died
the night beforo We could scarcely believe
it anything but a hoax. iWe, however, re
paired at once to the office, of the Sheriff and
found that it was true, and that Sheriff Cono
ver,. Under Sheriff Beck, and their deputies,
hdd already gone to ihe scene of . this heathen
funeral. i I
On arriving at the bouse we found a sight
that probably never before met the eye of an
American. The heathen Pfeil had got a gang
of men at work drawing sixteen cords of wood
and arranging it upon tbe Lake shore in the
rear of his house, for the purpose of burning
the body of bis wife, scarcely cold,1 according
to his (and as he says) her : ideas of : burial.
There were the shavings, the turpentine 1 and
the funeral pile of 16. cords of wood. ;It was
a sight to make Christian blood run cold and
civilized and enlightened, minds shrink with
horror at the contemplation of the moral, de
pravity that in broad daylight should, attempt
such an ungodly act. 4 : " 7 x
' We were anxious to see the man.' who was
thus bedeviled and .behcathened, and found
him in remonstrance 1 with Sheriff Conover,
and stoutly claiming his right to burn his wife
as he had laid out. - But the Sheriff told him
that it oould not bo done in this comonunity,
and ' at once took charge of . matters, . and
changed the programme. ; .Acting in concert
with Pfeil, was a man whose name our citi
zens will be shocked with wonder to hear Mr.
Wendt.' He also claimed the full right of Mn
Pfoil ! to burn his wife,5 and said to the sheriff
that he bad no business to interfere '' He vas
present' to assist Mr.',Pfeil in the heathenish
rites of burning. ; ; 777"7P- 7
The body lay'upon a table enveloped: in a
shroud all ready to be carried out at the back
door, and placed upon the' pile. ' - '"' i . V"
? The' Sheriff told the man that if he should
persist "" in any ' such attempt "to outrage the
cherished moral, sentiments ef the city, that
ere the pile had been halfconsumed .there,
would be ;a maddened crowd 7 about him that
would put him also upon the crackling flames
to meet a doom noE entirely' .unjust .for .his
monstrous crime. But no talk' and no remon
strance" could convince, him or "Mr.1' Wendt
that they had ' not a perfect right to perform
any heathenith practice with the body that
tneir.neJiisu morauiy mignt uicrate. -J-uey
said " there was no law against it in Wiscon
sin," and it might have had weight with fools
and beathens, but those who "kuow ; all ; law
comes from the moral sense of the community,
and such be the congelation" of public senti
ment,' were not prepared to listen", to :such
Stuff. - '- - -.,t
At length the Sheriff ordered a coffin and a
hearseTo give lhewoman a decent and Chris
tian buriai." ' This Pfeil doggedly, and tacitly
assented to. as by this time a large crowd 1 of
people had Congregated around the house,' not
without all the while' reiterating bis right, to
burn her and bis'detetmination'to do so' if
the officers would '- permiV it. Jlr. Conover
offered to allo him any form of ceremony, '
any peculiar mooe oi iunerai . rite, " dus wie .
heathenish mode he bad chosen.--a But per, !ho
would give'nb d'irectidhs, and consent to noth
h)r! Mr. Wendt "said; "Gentlemen, it makes
no difference with us if wefcanho; o "on !in
our way. ij:- a V'--1
1 As Boon as tae coan came,' tne oneru or
dered the corpsS put into it," and Srisely stood
over it' till it was done and' the lid screwed ;
down. Some ijrentlemen near by helped -to ;
place the coffin in the hearse, and it moved ;
... i
away, followea Dy a carriage containing omy
the infamous -husband - of the dead, v (We
thir k Mr. lYendt got into the carriage, to
get er with Dr. Young, afterwards.) ,
, . Sheriff , Connover and. Under Sheriff Beck
wert to the burial place, and saw the body
safely put into a Christian tomb, and away
fron the hands of the moral monster who had
IW 1 so long in the 'sight of churches and
schJ ol housesi and learned no better than to
do s tbe natives upon the "banks of tho Gan
get: "Dr the' Indus.' -1 ' ;
; . - jus ended the most outrageous attack up
on (ac. morality of our community ever .made
t orse,f possible, than the shooting of the
lairnted. Adams .-. ; . .... r. ;
71eil calls bimseif , a Russian, and we be-.
Jieve is a man of property and education. . Ilis
bouie ia. an elegant one, and filled with" the
airs of luxury and elegance. Ilis wife is
kwa t) tive been a. porn Brahmin, a lady of
culture and refinement,- although Pfeil says
she repeatedly directed him to burn ber body
when dead, she having been ' sick for three
years. .-:. : ! .
,If it had , been some drunken creature, we
slould not have wondered so much;.' but an
educated mill, and backed by such a citizen
as Mr. Wendt,. Li surprising beyond measure.
But we do not like to let the, matter rest
here There is something dark' and ;oovered
up in this affair which calls for a coroner's
inqdest, and one should be held to-day upon
th body." Public sentiment .demands . that
sueh an outrage should be sifted to the dregs;
and if any iniquity has been transacted it
sLould ferreted out. ' Let the matter be taken
ia hand at once, and the body taken from the
vault, and a full examination had of that and
the facts connected with the death. .'- . "
, After this has been done, let some steps be
taken by which it shall be ascertained wheth
er there is not some mode : of converting the
heathen in our midst. . . . .; .-
, Origin of Tea.' ' ; ; V ,
- The Chinese have the following ; tradition
relating to the origin of tea ; Darma, a
very , religious prince, and son of an -Indian
king, came into China about tho year 519,
purely to promulgate his religion, and with
the hope of alluring others to virtue by his
example, pursued a life of unrivaled mortifi
cation and penance, eating vegetables and
spending most of his time, unsheltered by any
dwelling, in the exercise of prayer and devo
tion, After continuing vthis .life, for some
years, be became worn put. with fatigue, and
atc length closed his " weary eyes in sleep
against his will ; but,; on awakening, such was
his remorse and grief "for having broken his
vott, that, in order to" prevent a relapse, he
cut off his eye-lids, as being tho instruments
of his crime, - and threw them on the ground.
Returning to the. same spot on the - ensuing
day, "he found them changed into two shrubs,
now known by fhe name of tea. Darma, eat
ing some of the leaves, felt much vigor im
parted to his mind, and lethargy which had
previously overpowered him intirely disap
peared, lie acquainted his disciples with the
wonderful properties of the shrubs, and in
time the use of them became universal."
"The Influence of Womex. It is better
for you to pass an evening once or twice a
week in a lady's -drawing-room, even though
the conversation is rather slow, and you know
the girl's songs by heart,-than in a club, tav
ern, or the pit of a theatre.- All amusements
of youth, to which virtuous women are not
admitted, rely.' on it, are deleterious in their
nature. - All men who. a void female society,
have dull preceptions and are stupid, or have
gross tastes and revolt against what is pnre.
Your club swaggerers, who are sucking tho
butts of billiard cues all night, call female so
ciety insipid.- Poetry is insipid to a yokel;
beauty, hasno charms for a blind man; music
does not please a poor beast who does not know
one tune from another; and as a true epicure
is hardly ever tired of water sanchy, and brown
bread, and butter, I protest I can sit ibr a
whole night talking to a well regulated kindly
woman; about her girl coming out, or her boy,
at Eaton and like the evening's entertainment.
One of the great benefits a man may" derive
from a woman's society is. that he is bound to
be respectful to them. ' The habit is of creat
good to your moral man, depend upon it. '..
:Uur education maKea us the most eminent
ly selfish men in the world. ' TYVe fight for our
selves, we push for ourselves, we yawn for
ourselves, we light our pipes and say we won't
go out ; we prefer ourselves, and our ease.
and the greatest good, that comes to a man
from a woman's society,, is, that he has. to
think of, somebody besides himself, somebody
to whom be is bound to be constantly, atten
tive and respectful. Tuie7cera.
IIow tuet Obtain. Wateh; for the City
of" Rio De Janeiro. The "city is supplied
with pure water, "fed :by -a splendid stone
aqueduct, leading from the Cbrcovado moun
tain. The summit of that lofty1 mountain
(only .five miles distant from the city,) is
crowned with wild forest trees,- which being
cooler than the surrounding atmosphere con
denses the vapor, and this 'falls showers
into artificial lakes. The. acqueduct, after
descending the mountain, extends across a
deep valley resting on a double tier of lofty
arches, one above the other, and the water is
conducted to the reservoir," as it is brought
down the hill-side, by stone troughs laid on
the top ot this two-story bndce. The whole
of this work of utility is highly . ornamental
to the city,- and reflects lasting honorT upon
the name of Vasconcellas, under whoso vice
royalty it was constructed. All the fountains
in Rio and there is one at almost Jcvery
eorner-c-sra supplied from this ; source.- The
aqueduct !s built in imitation of tho Alcantra
aqueduct, at Lisbjin, 'and is.e called Arcos' do
Vanaco.. T , ... x,.,-iA, -,-t
A torso man at a tea "party, overheard ono
lady eay to'anotber; "I have something for
your private ear," and immediately exclaimed:
" 1 protest against it, for privatcnng is illegal.
, The Rothschild Family.
. : There is . a golden ..romance clustering
around this family, which makes the death of
one of its prominent 'members a matter of
historic notoriety... .... f"
' The Baron Solomon, whose funeral took
place recently at Paris," with somewhat of
publie . solemnity,' was the fourth son of the
founder of his house, ' and was at his death
aged eighty-two. - Ansel m, the first son, who
was at the Frankfort house, has some time
since passed away. - Nathan, the second, who
reigned over the great. London house, is also
gone ; and of the second generation of these
moneyed Mohicans there are. now left but
James, also of Paris, and Charles, of Naples
Not so much in the loss of their persons, how
ever, as of their powers, have the Rothschild
family received a severe - blow ia iha death of
two of its members the only ablo one survi
ving' being James,' who both in monetary ge
nius, elevation of character and range of mind,
was the star of the house of Rothschild. r An
selm was great by his sagacity; Nathan by his
industry; James is by his genius. Anseltn
singularly combined the instincts of a low
cloth Jew wkh the penetrating vision of the
statesman. Nathan united all the steadiness
of a merchant with tho craft of a' smuggler,
lie it was who, while established at Manches
ter, amassed an enormous fortune by smug
gled trade during Napoleon's blockade of tbe
continent. . He knew the result of the battle
of Waterloo two hours before it reached the
British Government, and we should fear to
surmise what each minute in each of those
hours was in his hands worth. . But James
has, in addition to the sagacity of the one and
the industry and craft of (he other, that which
they did ' not possess great genius, ' a most
courtly bearing, and polished cultivation of
mind, which makes his relations with the roy
al house of Europe wear more the character
of a diplomatist, while those of . bis brothers
Anselm and Nathan, never rose above the
Jew. y, . .; , i 1 , t 1 f; '
. The . sumptuous palace in which Solomon
died was, of course, known to , all Americans
who ever visited Paris ; to many, perhaps,
was also known" the humble . house on t the
Ghetto of Frankfort, in which he was born.
But a few years ago. and the windows of this
house on the Ghetto weie always seen once
within the annual circle, on one - particular
night, to -wear a glitter of light, which, ' as it
was east from the old Jewish lamps,' threw a
strange, ghastly, glimmer on the dingy, de
cayed and dust eaten dwellings around, lhis
night was the eve of the Jewish New . Year's
Day, ; when were gathered, no matter . with
what amount of travel, the five sons of Frank
fort, Vienna, ' London,' Paris, and Naples,
around a withered, but shrewd-looking He
brew woman. This was the motfirot-tbe
money Gracchi, . who still clung to the old
Ghetto house from which the family had star
ted. The house yet stands, but its stair, on
the , New Year's Night, is uilent. The win
dows throw their glitter no more. The moth
er is dead ; three of tho sons have departed,
and - the two that are left of Paris and Na
ples Lave no talisman left to attract them to
the old homestead."
Solomon, originally of Vienna, but more
recently of Paris, who Las just died, . and
Charles of Naples, were always considered
the most insignificant of the brothers. He of
Vienna was a fat, pompous old man, proud of
his living in fellowship with bankrupt' Aus
trian nobles and drunken Transylvaman Bay
ers ; and Charles of Naples delights in playing
the Senile Beau with the penniless princesses
and countesses who abound at the enlightened
Court of the rung or xsomba. in rosier
days of youth he affected a tender passion for
the Sontag, and the loiterers made much mer
riment in watching him follow her with amor
ous eagerness as he passed through the streets
of Frankfort, bowing and smiling, and chat
ting, while his red, rubicund face beamed with
fat and with fatuity. He married, when yet
young." a Miss Hertz, a girl of singular beau
ty ; and as he might have wedded a large for
tune, the old father, who was alive, at the
time, cursed him and cast him from him, and
refused to his last hour to take him to his
heart . or house. During the residence of
Charles at Naples, it is well k lown to all the
habitues of that court that the beauty of his
young wife inspired King Boniba with an in
tense admiration,, and in the absence of the
excitement of a new miracle, he passed so
many hours in love-toying at the feet of the
lovely Jewess as to force her busband to fly at
discretion, 'and for a time take up l:is '., bags
and walk. Baroness Lionel Rothschild," wife
of the member for London, is the offspring of
this union of Baron Charles and Miss Hertz,
and possesses all the fascinating gifts of her
mother, fortunately without any of the foolish
attributes of her father. She is a woman of
singular beauty of both mind and person.
In England, tho three present representa
tives of the house Barons Lionel, and Mey
er, and Sir Anthony Rothschild live in that
sumptuous solitude and domestic magnificence
with which the Jews so deeply delight to sur
round themselves, like some few of the Cris
tian Israelites in our own palatial avenue
With the exception of Sir Anthony, who is a
senile sensualist and gourmond, . they extend
but little hospitality, and wrap themselves up
in a selfish indulgence. Wheu, however,,
they do receive, ' it is' with an oriental gor
geousness; and the Maitres do Cusiue cf b t'.i
Sir Anthony and Baron Lionel are among the
most cunning chef in Europe. - Tho ; resi
dence of the one in Grosvenor, Place, ani of
tho other in Ficcadijly Placed next Aps'cy
House, the' town palace of the Duke of Wel
lington, are f urn kshed with ari' affluence of
splendor, 'and their ordinary daily life is fut
rounded, -like that of all the wealthy Jews;
with every appUapee of luxury. '.Indeed,- one
pf the banquets givep by Baron RoihsehUd,
at 'his country villa,, equalled any thing nsver
told in story of the luscious oriental feats. It
was in summer, and the banquet was served
ia the beautiful conservatory. Music floated
around, .ud art lent it lovely light every
where. .The Sevres,, on wLicU dessert was
served, contained each a different -picture of
rare artistic excellence, , which might havo
been dreamed by Veronese or Claude Lor
raiue. ,a ; i ''
' ' Fall of SebastopoL -
A foreign journal thus briefly condenses
the leading facts in connection 'with tho fall
of 7 Sevastopol .'-.
At daybreak on the 5th instant' began the
terrible boinbardiueut which -Prince Oorta
chakpff, in a despatch to Lis Imperial master,
profanely but tersely designates as a ' fire of
bell." It was continued without, cessatiou
the whole of the day. At night a .- Russian
man-of-war in the harbor was set on fire by a
shell, and burned to the water's edge. On
the Gth the bombardment continued. On the
7th another Russian vessel was destroyed by
the Allied fire; and during the night a violent
explosion in the doomed city announced to
the Freneh and British that .the work they
had undertaken went bravely on. " When day
dawned on the 8th the flames of a vast con
flagration were' observed in the centra of Se
bastopoL At noon on the 8th a day to be
memorable in the ' annals of Europe and of
the world tbe long-delayed and anxiously
expected assault upon the-Malakoff was order
ed by General Pelissier.-.' Attacks were aim
ultaneously made by tho French mpou tho
Careering Bay Redan and the Central Bastion;
and by the British upon the Grand Redan.
Tho l rench were repulsed from the Career
ing Bay Redan and the Central Bastion, and
the British from the Grand Redan.' and both
suffered severe losses. But the glory ' of the
day was in no wise dimmed by these "casual
ties, iney but showed the -difficulty and
peril of the enterprise; and enhanced the
splendor of the -ultimate triumph. -.The as
sault of the ii rench upon the Malakoff, bril
liantly made and desperately resisted, was
entirely successful. They made good their
position, and held it against tbe whole force
that Prince Gortschakoff could bring against
them. The struggle was hand to hand the
French fighting with the energy inspired by
hope and the consciousness of a good cause,
and the Russians with, tho ' obstinate courage
of despair, i But the bravest resistance and
it must be added that ; the Russians fought
well was useless against the dashing bravery
of the "French. The .Malakoff was taken,
and the fate of Sebastopol was sealed., The
day closed upon a scene of such horror as
history has rarely had occasion to recount.
Findinff it useless to continue resistance, the
Russians determined to abandon the southern
side and to transport the remnant of their
army to tbe North. By orders of Prince
Gortschakoff, the mines were sprung in every
direction ; the town was set on fire in 7 several
E laces and utterly destroyed ; the ships in the
arbor were burned or scuttled, and an im
mense quantity of provisions and military
stores were consumed. ....-
All night long the lurid glare of the burn
ing city illuminated the French and British
lines, and on the morning of the 9th it was
found that the long coveted prize of the war
was a heap of ruins, that the Russians had
totally evacuated the town, and destroyed the
bridge of rafts which they had formed across
the harbor within the last few weeks in antic
ipating of the inevitable catastrophe. So
great was the haste with which the operations
was effected, that they . left not . only their
dead, but upwards of five hundred wounded
men among the still smoking and burning'
rubbish. Such, in a few words, is the history
of this magnificent achievement . ' '
Happiness. Happiness is to be attained in
the accustomed .chair at the fireside, more
than in the honorary occupation of civil office,
in a wife's love infinitely more than in the fa
vor of all human beings c-le ; in childhood's
innocent and joyous prattle more than in the
hearing of flattery ; in the reciprocation of lit
tle and frequent kindness between friend 'and
friend, more than in some occasional ' and
dearly-bought indulgence; in the virtue of
contentment, more than in the anxious
achievements of wealth, distinction and gran
deur ; in change of heart more than in - the
change of circumstance ; in full, firm trust in
Providence, more than in hoping1 for fortune's
favoi ; in a growing taste for the beauties of
natur, more than in the feesiinple inheritance "
of whole acres of land ; in the observance of
neatness and regularity, Lousehold virtues,
rather than in the means of ostentatious, and,
therefore, rare display; in a band-maiden's
cheerfulness, more than in tho improved tono
of politics; and in the friendship of our next
door neighbor, more than in the condescend
ing notico of my lord duke. Mirtgria 1
How to Gain a Reputation. A Frenh
author finding his reputation impeded by tho
hostility of tho. critics, resolved to adopt a lit
tle Btratagcm to assist him in gaining fame
and money in spite of his enemies.. He dress
ed himself in workmanlike attire, and repaired
to a distant province, whore ho took lodgings
at a farrier's shop,' in which ho did a little
work at the forge and anvil. , Bat the greater
p?.rt of bis time was sacrctlv devoted to tho
composition of. three large volumes of poetry
aid ("scats, which he published as the works
of a Journeyman Blacksmith. ' The trick suc
ceeded all Y ranee wa? m amazement ; th
pocinsof this "chill of nature," this "untu
tored gemup,"- this " inspired son of Vulcan,"
as he was now called, were immediately prai
sed byevcrybody. The harmless deceit fill
ed the peckfcta of the poor poet, .who laugh
ed to iwe the - etitice writing - incessant praise
on an author whose every former effort, they
r.ale a point of 'abusing. '
... .. . i M
7y Witness, you have said that whilo
walking with au umbrella over my bead you
fell into this reservoir and was baiily injured.
Did you break any bones, sir. at tbat time Y
I did, sir " What bone?" WUleboncs.'r
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