PROGRESS.-The Chinese government has made an appropriation for the education of thirty Chinese youths at Yale College.

There are now several Japanese girls, children of wealthy parents, in this country, sent hither with the embassy that accompanied the United States Minister, De Long, to be educated for the profession of teachers in the English tongue, in their country. B. J. Northrop, of Connecticut, has been appointed a Japanese Superintendent of Common Schools. Six Japanese youths, are by consemt of the United States Senate, to be admitted to the Military Academy at West Point.

INDIAN IDOLS IN IOWA.-The Dubuque "Times" says that "at the base of what is known as Capitola Bluff, seven miles from Lansing, there is an Indian idol manufactured out of the solid rock, which has stood there, no one can tell for how many centuries, but which must soon be removed to make room for the coming railroad. At a little distance the idol resembles a huge bear reposing upon its haunches. The strange and uncouth object is still held in the utmost veneration by all Indians, and the various bands, as they pass up and down the river, invariably stop and endeavor to propitiate the idol with liberal presents of tobacco, strings of gaudy-colored beads, pieces of dry buffalo tongue, etc. There it sits, at the base of the bluff, mute and solemn, looking out with expressionless eyes over the bosom of the mighty river that murmurs at its feet, never moving, never speaking, like another sphynx. The ground whereon the throne of the idol reposes is wanted for the road-bed, and the silent, expressionless god, whose brow has been bathed in the morning sunlight of so many centuries, must fall. But a short distance from this is a smaller idol, which had evidently been placed on the side of the bluff, but by some convulsion of nature was overturned centuries ago and pitched into the river. During high-water it is completely covered, but in low-water the head and part of the body are distinctly visible."

The question arises, By what people were these idols set up? Certainly not by the race of Indians who have lately occupied that terrifory. Were they the work of the mound-builders? or even of earlier occupants of the soil? The question may never have a positive answer. That answer must, probably, forever rest on conjecture. And conjecture seems to point to the mound-builders of the Mississippi Valley as the authors of these idols, for they were, it seems probable, emigrants from the Toltecs, the predecessors of the Aztecs.

REUNION OF THE STATES.—On the 24th of April, 1872, all the States of the Union were represented in Congress for the first time since 1861, or about eleven years. This was effected by the decision of that body on the day named, to admit General Ransom as a member from North Carolina. This is a most gratifying event. It is one of the promises which appear on the horizon, of the dawning of a

day, when all political disabilities shall be removed from every citizen of the United States, not under a criminal conviction, of whatever hue or sex. Christian charity, political economy, wise jurispru dence, and the noblest statesmenship all demand that we should be a loving, united people, governed by the golden rule of life uttered npon the Mount. Universal amnesty appears to be one of the imperious demands of the hour.

WAS TECUMTHA SKINNED?-This question, for which rumor has given a reason, was recently answered in the following manner by a writer in the Mobile (Alabama) Register: "In November, 1852, the present writer met at Greensborough, Miss., an old gentleman named Elkin, a participant in the battle of the Thames, from whom he heard some accounts of that action which he had never met in print. As for the story of Colonel Johnson killing Tecumseh, Mr. Elkins said it was commonly reported and not questioned at the time: he himself was in another part of the engagement, being under Lieutenant Colonel James Johnson, who broke the British line on the right while his brother engaged the Indians on the left. Mr. Elkin informed us that the day after the battle the troops were marched out by company to gratify their curiosity by viewing the scene; that precaution being adopted to guard against possible danger from lurking Indians. His company was the first that reached the ground where Tecumseh fell, and they found his body, from the back of which "razor strops (that was his expression) had been cut. The company, composed chiefly of relatives of the men who had been slaughtered at the River Raisin, in that massacre to which Tecumseh had put a stop at the risk of his own life, manifested great indignation at this barbarous treatment of the body of a magnanimous foe; their passion finding vent in tears and curses, and threats of vengeance against the authors of the indignity. Whether from shame or fear, no exhibition was ever made of the disgraceful trophies, nor had he ever heard of their existence during the almost forty years which had since elapsed.

"From our recollection of the manner and circumstances of the narration, we are satisfied that this is a much more correct version than that which represents the body to have been skinned."

Among the valued correspondents of the Editor of the RECORD, when he was preparing his "Pictorial Field Book of the war of 1812," was Dr. Samuel Theobald, who was the judge advocate of Colonel Richard M. Johnson's regiment, and was with him in the battle of the Thames when, it is alleged, Johnson killed Tecumtha. In a long and interesting letter to the writer on the subject of Who killed Tecumtha? written in January, 1861, he says he was one of the Forlorn Hope led by Johnson against the Indian left, where, Tecumtha was in command. One of his companions was Colonel William Whiteby, who was killed. His body was found, after the battle, lying near those of two Indians. One of these, it was alleged, was the body

of Tecumtha. Theobald, desirous of identifying the body of the chief took with him Anthony Shane, a half-breed Shawnoese who knew Tecumtha well, to view it. The body was entirely naked, and several strips of skin had been taken from the thighs by some of the Kentuckians who had reason to remember the River Raisin, and, as Theobald was informed by a soldier who was in the battle, these strips were used for making razor straps. Shane did not recognize the body as that of Tecumtha, and Dr. Theobald believed it was not his.

The late venerable John Johnson, of Dayton, Ohio, who was a long time Indian agent among the Shawnoese, informed the Editor of the RECORD, in 1860, that there was positive evidence that the body of the mutilated Indian was not that of Tecumtha. The latter had once had his thigh bone broken, which being badly set, had formed a visible ridge. No such mark was upon the Indian named. In a subsequent letter, Dr. Theobald told

the writer that his friend, Captain Benjamin Warfield, commander of a company in Johnson's regiment, told him that he was ordered to search the battle-field for wounded soldiers, where he found a British one, named Clarke, lying there mortally wounded. He was the Indian interpreter of General Proctor, the commander of the British and Indian forces in that battle, and he asserted, positively, that Tecumtha was killed, and his body was carried off by the Indians. The writer has since been informed by the now venerable C. S. Todd, one of General Harrison's aids on that occasion, that he was told by the celebrated chief, Black Hawk, that he was in that battle, and that Tecumtha's body was certainly carried off by his followers. Testimony seems to show that the body so barbarously mutilated by exasperated Kentuckians, was not that of Tecumtha. It is satisfactory so to believe, for Tecumtha was a humane warrior, when compared with many of his white and red associates in that conflict.

THOMAS BUCHANAN READ.

T. Buchanan Read, one of our best artists and one of the sweetest of our minor poets, died at the Astor House, N. Y. on Saturday night, the 11th of May. He had recently returned from Europe, and had suffered intensely on the voyage from Liverpool in the Scotia, from which port he embarked on the 20th of April. While waiting in Liverpool, for the sailing of the vessel, he took a heavy cold, which resulted in pleura-pneumonia, and death.

Mr. Read was born in Chester County, Penn. on the 12th of March, 1822, and was just past fifty years of age. He showed a genius for and love of art, at a very early period of his life, and at the age of 15 years, he entered the studio of a sculptor in Cincinnati. He was diverted from the practice of the sculptors art, by its more attractive sister, painting, but he sometimes wooed the favor of his first love and now and then made excellent efforts as a sculptor. Among the most acceptable of these efforts may be mentioned the bust of General Sheridan.

In 1841, Mr. Read made his place of abode in the city of New York, as a professional painter, but soon afterward went to Boston, and finally in 1846, he settled in Philadelphia. Four years later he made his first visit to Europe, and from that time, until his death, his home had been chiefly in Italy, in Florence and Rome. His home, when in America, was Cincinnati, a city to which he was very much attached. While in Italy, he always found ample employment and income which enabled him to dispense the most elegant and generous hospitality among all Americans, whether residents or visitors. His home was a cherished gathering place for the

cultivated Americans and English people of Florence and Rome; and in his studio might frequently be seen distinguished personages from various countries of Europe, who were always charmed with the sentiment, beauty and delicacy of execution, of his compositions. Around these compositions, his beauty of expression and delicious coloring were a charm which made them irresistable. One of the finest specimens of his skill may be seen in his Undine" the spirit of the water-fall, which belongs to the Philadelphia Union League Club, and hangs in one of their rooms in the club-house on Broad Street.

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A marked departure from Mr. Read's usual habit, is his vigorous picture of "Sheridan's Ride," which partakes of the fire and pathos of his fine and popular poem of the same title. Mr. Read wrote several stirring poems during the late civil war, inspired by the occasion. He took an active interest in the movements of that war, and was, for awhile, on the staff of Major-general Lewis Wallace, of Indiana.

Mr. Read's poems are very much, in their nature, like his pictures. He first published a collection in Boston, in 1847. Two years later he brought out his more elaborate poem entitled "The New Portrait.” In 1856, his "Home by the Sea" was published. His "Sheridan's Ride" was published in 1864, and had a wide popularity. Since that time Mr. Read has written very little for the press. For two or three years past he had suffered from the miasmatic climate of Rome, for he had continued in that city almost the entire time, without a summer vacation, since 1867. He started for America for the purpose of seeking a restoration of his health, by rest

and change, and was on his way when he sickened and died. His remains were taken to the home of his brother-in-law, Mr. James E. Caldwell in Germantown, Pa. where his funeral took place on Thursday the 14th of May. The bearers of his remains to Laurel Hill Cemetery, were James L.

Claghorn, Henry C. Townsend, Alfred D. Jessup, Gen. Hector Tyndale, Ferdinand J. Dreer, Geo. W. Childs, George Hammersly, P. F. Rothermel. He was ever attended in sickness and in health, by a most loving and faithful wife. Mr. Read's death is a sad loss to American Art and Letters.

A Red Rose from the Ulden Time; A Ramble through the Annals of the Rose Inn, on the Barony of Nazareth in the days of the Province; based on the Old Inn at Nazareth." A Paper, read at the Centenary of the "Nazareth Inn," June 9th 1871. By MAURICE C. JONES, of Bethlehem, Penn., small 4to. pp. 50. This is a charming bit of local history which carries with it some interesting illustrations of colonial life. It was given by Dr. Jones at a dinner at the Nazareth Inn on the day above mentioned, and includes a history of "The Rose," its predecessor. The picture was perfected in its present form by the hands of the venerable antiquary Andrew G. Kern, of Nazareth, and James Henry of Bolton on Lehietan, President of the Moravian Historical Society.

The origin of the name of "The Rose" Inn, is curious. The building was completed in 1752, and in 1754, a coat-of-arms appeared upon it, in the form of a full-blown Scarlet Rose. It was not the choice of caprice but the memento of an historical fact. "When John Penn, Thomas Penn, and Richard Penn, released to Letitia Aubrey, their half-sister, gentlewoman, the five thousand acres that had been confirmed to his trusty friend Sir John Fagg, for her sole use and behoof by William Penn of Worminghurst, in the County of Sussex, Esq. it was done on the condition of the payment of ONE RED ROSE, yearly, for all services, customs and rents."

The Moravian Society sold The Rose Inn for a private residence. It was demolished in 1858. The little work descriptive of it and of its successor, the Nazareth Inn, was edited by the accomplished Moravian historian, Rev. Wm. C. Reichel, whose foot-notes are valuable.

Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society. Second series, vol. 11. 1870-1872, 8vo. pp. 226. İn addition to the usual records of the proceedings of the society, the volume contains the following papers which were read before the members, at stated meetings: "The Early History of Morris County," N. J., by Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, D. D.; "Sketch of the Rev. Barnabas King, D. D." by Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, D. D.; "Obituary notice of Rev. Daniel V. Mc. Lean, D. D." by Mr. E. H. Finch; "Memoir of Andrew Kirkpatrick, chief justice of New Jersey," by James Grant Wilson; "Memoir of Richard S. Field, late President of the New Jersey

Historical Society," by Anthony Q. Keasby; "History of the Constitution of New Jersey, adopted in 1776," by Lucuis Q. C. Elmer; Letter of Morgan L. Smith relating to the life of Dan'l. G. Burnet, the first President of Texas; Selections from correspondence and papers, among them a sketch of "The New Jersey Church of Warren County, Ohio," by A. D. Schenck, U. S. A; “Why New Jersey is called a foreign country ?" an answer to a letter from C. C. Haven concerning Paul Jones's flag; "Memoir of John Rutherford, late President of the New Jersey Historical Society," by Robert S. Swords; and a "History of the Election of William Pennington of New Jersey, as Speaker of the XXXVI Congress," by Hon. J. T. Nixon.

The volume also contains a copy of the first message ever sent by telegraph across the Atlantic, as it was forwarded from New York to Trenton, at about four o'clock in the afternoon of August 16, 1858, by the House printing telegraph, and received by the operator, John H. Wright, on pink silk. It was as follows:

"LONDON, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT, VALENTIA VIA TRINITY BAY, TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON. THE QUEEN DESIRES TO CONGRATULATE THE PRESIDENT UPON THE SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL WORK IN WHICH THE QUEEN HAS TAKEN THE DEEPEST INTEREST. THE QUEEN IS CONVINCED THAT THE PRESIDENT WILL JOIN WITH HER IN FERVENTLY HOPING THAT THE ELECTRIC CABLE WHICH NOW CONNECTS GREAT BRITAIN WITH THE UNITED STATES, WILL PROVE AN ADDITIONAL TIE BETWEEN THE NATIONS WHOSE FRIENDSHIP IS FOUNDED UPON THEIR COMMON INTEREST AND RECIPROCAL ESTEEM. THE QUEEN HAS MUCH PLEASURE IN THUS COMMUNICATING WITH THE PRESIDENT, AND RENEWING TO HIM HER WISHES FOR THE PROSPERITY OF THE UNITED STATES. VICTORIA, QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN."

The Life and Times of the Rev. John Wesley, M. A. Founder of the Methodists. By the Rev. L. TYERMAN, author of "The Life and Times of Rev. S. Wesley, M. A.," (Father of the Revds. J. and C. Wesley.) In three volumes, 8vo. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1872.

Six biographies of this remarkable man had already been written, when this one was undertaken

by an English divine. Hampson's, ready for the press when Wesley died, in 1791, was extremely meagre, and partisan in its tone. Coke and Moore's, issued the following year, was written in haste to secure the market, and was very imperfect. Whitehead's, completed in 1796, was a partisan work. Southey gave a charming literary tone to his biography of Wesley, printed in 1820, but it is full of errors in dates and so made confusing. Moore's published in 1824, is mostly a reprint of Whitehead's and is the fullest and most truthful of any printed before it. In 1831, Watson issued from the London press an avowdly popular life of Wesley" with special reference to general readers.

These comprise all of the biographies of note. Several sketches of the life of Wesley have been published, which may not claim the dignity of biography. All have been out of print for sometime, excepting Coleridge's and Watson's; and a full and reliable history of John Wesley and his times appeared to be wanting. Such an one Mr. Tyerman seems to have given us in his three volumes of several hundred pages each.

The life of John Wesley is intimately connected with American History, and is specially interesting to a vast body of American citizens because he was not only the founder of their religious sect, but was a champion of that religious liberty which our national constitution secures to every citizen.

John Wesley was the founder of Methodism, not only in Great Britian, but in America. In 1770, he sent out four lay missionaries to this country, and so laid the foundation of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America. Assuming the office of Bishop, he ordained the Rev. Thomas Coke of Oxford, bishop of the church in America. That was in 1784. Coke was authorized to confer the same office on Rev. Francis Asbury, who became the first resident American bishop of the Methodist Church. It was Bishop Coke who issued the biography of Wesley in 1792.

Mr. Tyerman's work has been constructed from a vast amount of original materials in his own possession and others. Wesley's letters have been freely used in it. The author has so attempted to make him his own biographer. He has not attempted to reveal the philosophy of his life in a labored essay. The facts are sufficient for this. He seems to have tried to be non-partisan and honest with Wesley's correspondence and writings. "Nothing" he says in his preface, "likely to be of general interest, has been withheld: nothing derogatory to the subject of these memoirs, has been kept back. Whatever else the work may be, it is honest."

This work contains a clear general history of a sect whose influence in the religious world has been marvellous and benign. Its leading idea has ever been that which Wesley avowed, namely, the entire freedom of conscience. 66 The Methodists" he wrote, " do not insist on your holding this or that opinion, but they think and let think; neither do they impose any particular mode of worship, but

you [proselytes from others] may continue to worship in your former manner, be it what it may. Now I dont know any other religious society, either ancient or modern, wherein such liberty of conscience is now allowed or has been allowed since

the days of the Apostles. Here is our glorying, and a glorying peculiar to us."

It was this liberty and the social tone of the Methodist Church, which caused it to take a powerful hold upon the popular mind, and which it has never relaxed. The growth of the denomination has been, and still is wonderful, notwithstanding schisms have crept into it-in fact divided it early into the Wesleyan and Whitfield Methodists, the latter denouncing the doctrine of sinless perfection attainable by man, which Wesley preached as truth found in the Bible, he thought. They have since divided upon questions of church government and polity, and yet they are kept in close connection by identity of religious doctrine and the exercise of religious freedom.

Of the early struggles of Methodism with persecution, derision and human infirmity, Mr. Tyerman's volumes give most interesting details.

Around the world. Sketches of Travel through many Lands and over many Seas, By E. D. G. PRIME, D. D., with numerous illustrations. New York: Harper and Brothers, 8vo. pp. 455. This is a pleasant and very instructive record of a journey around the world during the lapse of a year. The journey may now be made, by continuous travelling on the established routes, in seventy-five days; starting from New York, and travelling to the Pacific coast at San Francisco by railway, thence by steamer to Japan and China, and so on to Calcutta; thence across the heart of India by railway to Bombay; thence to Suez, and so on to London or to some Italian or French port by steamship, and finally crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a similar conveyance. This was the general route of the Author of this volume, who spent a year away, for he made many excursions far aside from these great routes of travel.

Dr. Prime, having before become familiar with Europe, he devoted the most of his time to more Eastern lands, and thereby he has been enabled to make a more extended record of those countries which were until recently almost a terra incognito. He aranged his journey so that he should experience the least inconvenience from excesses in temperature. He travelled through countries where the range of Farenheit's thermometer is for long periods, at 120°, and yet his journey was so well-timed, that he did not, during the whole year, see any frost, nor experience a degree of heat above 80° in the shade.

The work is full of valuable information, and might serve as an excellent guide to persons about to take the journey and desire to see all that is best in the countries visited. The illustrations add much to the value of the work. They are well engraved wood cuts.