New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-25


domestic manners. Witness her graphic picture
Of An individual often dresdfully misunderstood.
"Thsre 10 great deal Of human nature in hens.
They have the came qualities that people have, but
unmodifed. A human mother loves her children,
but she 10 restrained by q sense Of proprety from
tearing other mothers children to pieces. A hen
has NO such checks; her motherhood exists without
any qualification. Her intense love for her own
brood 10 softened by no social requirements. If q
poor lost waif from another coop strays into her
realm, no pity, no sympathy springing from the
memory Of her own offspring moves her to kind
ness; but she goes at it with demoniac fury, and
would peck its little life out If fear did not lend II
wings. She has q self-abnegation great as that Of
human mothers. Her voracity and timidity disap-
pear. She goes almost without food herself, that
her chicks may eat. She soatters the dough about
with her own BILL that it may be accessible to the
little bills, OF, perhaps, to teach them how to work
The wire. worms, the bugs, tho flies all the choice
little tidbts that her soul loves she divides for her
chicks, reservng not morsel for herself. All their
gambols and pranks and wild ways she bears with
untiring patience. They hop up by twos ard threes
on her back They peck at her bill. One saucy
little imp actually jumped up and caught hold Of
the little red lsppet above her beak, and, hanging
TO il, swung back and forth half dozen times and
she WAS evidently only amused, and reckonod 1t o
mark Of precocity." "The Place Of Abraham Lin
coin in History" is ably discussed in an elaborate
paper by Mr.. Bancroft, showing the subtle niasna
which contaminated American politics from tho
influence of Slavery, and the recovery Of national
health by the uprising OF the people during the pro-
gress If the Rebellion. "In some respects Abraham
Lincoln was peculiarly fitted for his task, in con-
nection with tho movement of his countymen.
He was OF the North West; and this time it was the
Mississippi River, tho needed outlet for the wealth
Of the Northwest that did it's part i'll asserting the
necessity of Union. He was one Of the mass of the
people; be represented them, because he was OF
them; and the mass of the people, the class that
lives and hriyes by sefmposed labor, felt thst the
work which was to be done was work Of their
owns the assertion of equality against the pride OF
oligarchy; Of free labor against the lordship over
slaves; Of the greay industrial people against all
the expiring aris.ocracies 81 which any remnants
had tded down from the Middle Age. lie was Of a
religious turn of mind, without superstition; and
the unbroken faith of the mass was like his own.
As he went along through his difficult journey,
sounding his way, he he'd fast by the hand OF the
people, and tracked its footsteps with even feet
His pulses bea, ,ginned with their pulses. lie
committed faults; but the people we.e resolutey
generous. mrglanimous, ard forsiying; and he in
his turn was wiling TO take instructions from their
wisdom. The measure by which Abraham Lincoln
takes his place. not in American history only, but
in universal history is his nroelamaton ofJanuary
/ 1869, emancipating all slaves within the insur-
gent States. 1, was, indeed, military necessity,
and IL decided the result Of the war; II took from
the public enemy one or two millions OF bondmen,
and placed between one and two hundred thousand
brave and gallant troops III arms on the side OF the
Union. great deal has been said in time past OF
the wonderful results Of tho toll OF the ensayed
negro in tho creation Of wealth BY the culture OF
cotton and 1t is in part TO the aid of the negro
In freedom that the country owes its success in its
Of regeneration, that the world OF man.
kind owes the continuance Of the United States as
tho example Of Republic. The death Of President
Lincoln sets tho seal 70 that Proclamation, which
must DO maintained. IL cannot but be main.
tanned. IL 10 thc ohiy 700 inht eau raiei)
carry OF the 'hunderbolt. lie came 10 it per-
haps reluctantly; he was brought to adopt it, as
it were, against his will but compelled by inevta
bio necessity. He disclaimed all praise for the sct
ssyilg reyerently, after it had succeeded, The
nations condition God alone can claiEl.'" Several
poe,eal contributions from iavoriic writers give al
agreeable variety 10 the contents Of the volume.
A TREATISE ON ASTRONOMY. nv ELlm LOOMS
LII. ID. svo. w. 31S. Harper BIothrr'
The writings Of Professor LOOMS on the
mathematical and physical sciences find appropriate
sequel in the present volume. Evincing the accurate
learning and the power Of exposition which distinguish
the author. Il completely secomplshss its purpose rs
practical text book for classes in college and the higher
schools The language is simple, exact and coacisei
the necessary mathematical discussions are limited to
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