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SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 18T4.
NUMBER, 19,,
Life i? St Petersburg.
Letter from Minister Marshall i
Jewell?His I?tressions of the
People and the Climate?A B ill
' /.t the Palace.
A letter from Hon. Marshall Jo well,
United StntcH Minister to Russia, to n
lady relative in Rochester, is published
VJy the Democrat of that city. It is
dated at St. Petersburg, March 5. and
rends as follows :
'I wender whether you don't think T
am loet sometimes. I am not, hut am
quite firmly anchored up in this so-called <
cold climate. It has not been cold nt
nil this winter, though 1 umler.-tand it
is eye*ptionnl. We huvc had about ten
days of zero wrather, not more, and those
Tun 5 dcg. to 10 deg. below, only; n
few days and, nights down to 10 deg
below zero, but most of tho time 20 dcg.
to 30 drg, above, cloudy, sour wanthcr ;
tut now it is brlpht and sunny?n foot
<tr two of snow only. No trouble in
rlecping wnrni nt all. Wood is burned
mostly, nnd cof ts but $8 per cord ;
plenty of coal, but all from England,
and costs about S10 per ton?soft coal.
?llcr.FfS are pcifccrly comfortable, all
tuth d(olle windows, and Gttcd iu dose
ai d tight, so we Fufler most from want
of ventilation. Home-keeping is both
troublesome and expensive. We huvc
a RuFt-ian foolmnn who speaks English,
French aiid German ; a vier man butler
who ?petiks I*"11p 1 i> 11 nnd French ; Oer
matt cork, speaking Russian und Ger
man ; Russian < hau bermaid, speaking
l (.thing cite, besides the se serfs, or
4Alrpikp,' or ptrvntits of the lower order,
who do most of the work in fact. Oh
yrs, and a 'himpistc,' or man to atteud
the door, look after the (ires, aud trim
lamps?a Russian who speaks a little
FrglUli/ nnd French. Resides these,
"*t Lave ? cue or two coachmen, a man
part of the time to bring up wood and
c?yl, a man once a week to brush and
jolish the W*Xfd floors, and n man every
othcr day to come in and water the
flowers, of which every fine house must
hare a lot. Im't this a crew, besides u
French lady's mnid which we always
have. Tho houses are heated by stoves
and grates. We have fifteen fires all
told, in cold wcathtr, and twelve or ten
always in winter.
For two months before Lent, we did
little but attend balls, potties, dinners,
routs m d I rifoituticnp, not going to
bed till next day, most of the time 1
got up at 10, nnd the balance of the
family at 12. In December the sun rose'
at 9 nnd set at 2:50?not much of a day
at best. At one ball at the palace,
there were 2,500 gmsts, 1,900 of whom
cat down to supper at 2 o'clock in the
morning, and 600 took their lunch
?tsnding. It takes 45,000 candles to
light tho palace for such a ball. At
this baft there were more royal persons
than 1 eVer saw t< gethcr before, tho
EtuprcsJ of Russia, Crown Prince and
Princess of Prussia, Prince and Princes
of Wales, Crown Prince,of Deumark?
?the above are all of imperial rank ; ol
.royal rank, there were the Duke and
Duchess of Edinburgh, all the Russian
?Grund Dukes and Lucluescs. Prince
Arthur of England and fifteen or
(twenty Princes from Asia aud Europe
'besides. We had a separate presentation
to them all previously. They till dunced
and mingled with the rtowd. The new
married Duchess of Edinburg, iu whose
/honor this bull was given, wore the
?celebrated Russian diamond necklace,
worth 920,000,000. The Empress'
dress wss trimmed with soltaire diamond
buttons, each one of which wus worth
960,000 or 81,00,000?all the imperial
ladies wore diamond crowns. It wus
thought there were more diamouds worn
?that night thuo ever before at one titno,
?as they came from the three empires of
Germany, England and Kussia. It is
? of no use to try to describe the scene.
A week alter wards there was a small
and select ball given there to 100 guests.
At this time the tupjer was laid in the
? Jarge Hall which hi about 100 by 250
feet, and 40 icet high. Forty palm
tiecs, 20 to 30 feet high, bad been
?brought from the geen house j round
< ach was built a table lot 10 or 20
guests; 8,000 candles lighted this room,
to we tat down to tut per in a real pulm
grove. It was m?giiificcnt beyond
description.
Speaking of greenhouses, we visited
one the other day for trees and shrubs,
fern and cacti, only, not flowers, which
hnB 30,000 varieties iu it and 70.000
pots or specimens. All tho corps
diplomatique are invited every winter.
There nppenrs to be no cud to the
money this court spends ou such
occasions. This, of course, is seldom
done. '1 he Emperor is a splendid m in.
very polite, aud for that matter so arc
they all to us. There is little or uo
middle class in Russia. The few live
like prince?. Tbc ninny work and live
like s'nvcs. Very fine and handsome
people are the nobility ; very low and
degraded are the working classes. But
it is vastly improved under this Kin per
or, who is really a just and a good man.
Russia hns its own code of morals, I
suppose, which the people live up to.
From our point of view there are no
morals here. They all cross themselves
on going past a church or shrine. There
is a shrine in every house, in the pre
sence of which no one can wear his hat,
not even ttio Einperor. ?So inside a
Russian door hats off?a carpenter's
shop, saloon or palace?it's all the same.
They keep Lcut rigidly. Circuses are
full Sundays, except iu Lout.
There nro over sixty 'prosswicks' or
fete days in the y< ar ou which no one*
will woik. Sunday is less cared for,
though generally no work is done on
that day. Drunkenness is more coin
uion than iu any country iu the world.
Common people drink nil the 'books'
they can get. Their food is a black,
sour, r}C bread and cabbage soup most
But they arc a good nnturcd, laughing
race of beings. There is but little
social life here, though in fact not much
visiting, as wc do it evenings; So much
social intercourse comes from our schools
and religious affinities, which arc ouljrc
_ly hic.kinir in JJ\t* rniinn-j?. rh it h. tun&iULi
the difference very marked to an Atncri
cau. The, French' lunguage is almost as
much used as tho Russian; more so, iu
fact, in the higher circles. Most of tho
Govcrument officers speak English also,
aud more than one-half the Russians I
meet. AH the young ladies read it, and
they all have English governess ?9.
Ergllsh and American books are iu the
first-class libraries, Russia having bu:
comparatively'little literature of its own
Law aud order here are as much respec
ted as with us. "While the limpcror
appoints every thing and everybody, and
cau do exactly as ho likes, still he
governs by aud through law. The
knout is long since abolished, and a
trial by jury is regular nnd safe. It is
no heathen country by a luug ways, but
the Greek or orthodox church is strict
in its discipline- and thorough iu its
organization.
Divorce is almost impossible. Prisons
arc few. Capital punishment is unknown
except for attempts on tho. Emperor's
life. All convicts arc sent to Siberia,
the worst to work in the mines, and
others ou the land. Their families can
go with them, if they like, so that
country is now full of pretty good people
of this Rind. The natiuti is growing*
rapidly in all the directions of national
greatness. Education is being pushed
slowly but steadily. Most of the people
I mjo cuu alroady read and write. Rut
the rich being so rich and tho poor so
very poor, makes progress very slow.
Tho police regulations ate perfect though
people drive through the streets us fast
as ever they can go. Those on foot
have no rights which tho carriages arc
bouud to respect. Handsome black
Tartar horses go pastouc like the wind,
with little light harness, no blinders,
und low, light sleighs, or sljdges, as they
call thorn. Nobody goes out a minute
horo without being fully wrapped up in
fur, and uo ouo sits a minute in the
houso with them on. Iu tho halls are
servants to tako off aud caro for these
wrappers. In this way they nover ap
pear to take cold. Iu uo othor way
could they live in this very changeable
climato. Not one of us had a cold this
winter. So all tho stories ubout this
being so bad a climate appears to us to
bo u humbug. But great oaro is nccoss
ary, aud that everybody takes of him
self. So in this way wo get along, aud
on the whole lind tho climato not bad.
Do I like it? Well, some. Don't be
lieve I should want to spend my life
ho re, though. It io a jroit thing to 32a
for a time, and i find my colleagues
pleasant people, and the social lifo of
indoors was enjoyed for a time. In all
tho elements of Strength and greatness,
America is so fur ahead of Europe tliut
contrast is painful. So my eyes con
stantly turn toward Hartford aftor all.
Hut I read a great deal of politics and
write many lectors, and hear from homo
daily almost.
The Shadow of a Great Sin.
Timiockmoiiton's Ghost.
The trial of Miss Eliza Goodwin, who
was recently brought before the courts
in Louisville upon a writ i1r> lunuticu
ivquirentjo, and discharged, developed
a train of circumstances which not only
outdo tho creations of the novelist and
romancer, but can only Qnd their parali
el in the gloomy and grim Nomeses of
Grecian mythology. Miss Eliza God
will is n member of a respectable family,
a well educated and cultivated lady,
who, wheu a mcro school girl, tweuty
four years ago, made the acquaintance
of Major John Throckmorton, an aocnm
piished and fascinating man of the
world, then twenty years nor senior.
His influence upoti her amounted to an
infatuation which she could not control
She was tpnfiding and inexperienced,
like most school girls of idealistic ten
denotes, ?!jd she vcpy soot! engaged her
solf in marriage to him. When ho had
secured this advantage, ho ruined und
then abandoned her, but the shadow of
the darkness iuto which she fell cnvelo
ped him also, and it has never left him
or her. and never will, although he is
growing gray with years and passiug
the years of passion and sho is a faded,
weary woman, outof whose life hope has
disappeared, and for whom remains only
^the passive obediencp to fate. AYhpn
alie found pereel.r?uinouhed' shj utu fiiji,
throw herself into the slums. Sho did
not bicak under the calamity which
wrecks so many lives. Shed id not hur
ry herself jut of the world. The disus
ter revealed her tohorself, and all tho
aimless mid restless elements of her life
crystali/.cd into ono settled purpose
which, for over twenty yeirs, has abio r
bed^evcry other purpose, hope, thought
and energy of her ^bcing. Sho calmly
and firmly came to her resolve after long
meditation. She could not marry any
other man, for that would ba an irrepara
l?!e injury. She had no desire to injure
her betrayer, as she stated during the
trial. She left his health and his life
in the hands of God.' She did not stop
to weigh any effect her purpose might
have upon Unij relatives er society at
large. In the scopa or her purpose
there were bat two persons in tho world
? her betrayer and herself. For tsvo
long years she sought by Qyery means
in her power to win him back to her;
but when she found this was fruitless,
when she found tint ho hat forever
abandoned her, and that no influence of
hers eonld ever reach him, then she
determined that, as he had wrec ked her
life, she would wreck his; that as he.
under promise of marriage, hud cloudad
her whole life with uuhappiuess, he
should help her bear it, by suffering iu
kind, and that the memory of the ruin
ho had made should ever bo fresh and
constant. Sho has thus far fulfilled
hor purpose. For twenty years she has
been It's walking aud sleeping thought,
aud uo effort of his has been powerful
enough, no strategy cunning enough, to
shake off the silent, relentless spectre
which has followed him with reproach
ful eye and iron purpose, as calm, and
rigid, and silent, as though she wore the
very embodiment of Fate Wherever he
wout in tho city of Louisville she was a
few pae.-s behind him. Did ho go to
cull upon a friend, he know sho would
be upou tho opposite side of tho streot
when he came out. Ho went to New
Orleans, and wheu ho arrived' in that
city she was there also. He wont to
New York, but in the thousands of
strange faces which passed him iu the
busy streets, thero was one familiar faco
always near him. His own shadow did
not follow him moro surely and per sis
tcntly than sho followed. It was all
the same Summer or Winter, iu Spring
or Full, iu storm or shine, by day or by
night. Thus the yoars went ou. She
ucver molested him. She never person
ally interfered with his buciness or bis
enjoyments. She never spoke to him '
v iless he spoke to her, and then the
'jut den of her communication was only j
t' nt it was her futc to follow him through i
l:!e,^ind his fate to bo followed. In all
l?ese years Mnj. Throckmorton has
gvown gray in the shadow, and Throk
tArrton's ghost has grown faded and palo
a -d weary with her restless wandering,
/?jj^nst ho could onduro her calmness,
hb/ofeilencc and her constant presence no
lo'vgor, and he brought her before the
ej^ets upon the writ to which we have
niipwed and sought to establish tho fact
t^^bsho was iusaue, her insanity taking
LH'.form of a monomania. But this
utis.hcv opportunity as well as his. It
vfh the opportunity sho had long wished
aid for the Grst time she had the
ojrtrtioe to tell her story before a public
tpfjaunal*.
'riuiro were doctors and experts in
a.:i;ndanco, who narrowly watchod her
aij&e oatratcd this twenty years' story,
lyjfthey fouud uo traces of insanity in
if*"-* There was but one expert who
>ed her a monomaniac, and he has
b^vj-i connected with an insano asylum
f?'.r tinrty years, and acknowledged that
ho expected a liberal fee for his opinion .
lie had concluded, ou general principles
t - it Miss Godwin, was insane because
sflj.waa' different from other women, and
ot.lipr women similarly situated would
lr ye /rieved until they died, or reckless
ly gone to the bud?a ruliug which
wauiiL courugn a great ui.iuy very sane
p. ','plc, who happeu to be inflexible in
P'irposjfcjijij^b the insane asylum. Ths
j rlty did not accept the opinion of the
cjfpert, but acquitted her and lelt her
1 ric to do as she pleased. During the
trial Bhc did not follow Thookuiortots
and there will bo some curiosity as to
lw'.r future ooursc
t"*8 episode may divert her from her
se, since, she has had the opportu
> tclr-|ier sttry iu tho most puplic
u s..v. i. ^ ~>n7rT<"xtcw her.-CQurae^
"VYhcthcr she abandons or continues to
follow him, matters little now. Iu all
these twenty years her amends for tho
great wrong which he inlli ctcd upon his
victim, and there uro 'very few peopl*
who will not 1 >ok upon it as au i istincc
of poetical retribution in a case iu which
the law affords no adequate remedy and
social forms are more liable to f a vor the
stronger than the weiker party. Tho
Nemesian idea is completely exemplified
lie ruined her life. She ruined his.
lie destroyed her happiness. She
destroyed his. The two are even.
From a Florida let'er; '1 have been
very much interested in the Indians
here, a portion of the last remnant of
the Sctuiuclcs. Contr.iry to my expec
tations, they arc physically a splendid
race of men. I have seen oid Tiger
tail, young Tiger (his sun), and big
head Tiger, (relatives) Johnny Jumper
Billy Harncy, etc. Old Tiger (as tho
name is generally abbreviated) is over
eighty, h is hair perfectly white, over
six feet iu height.but ttraight as an ar
row, and still hunts and travels with his
tribe. Most of.them speak a few words
of English, but they disliko to use it.
They live entirely separate from thu
whites, and retain their own customs,
laws and dress. The. head dress is u
turban, formed of a roll of some bright
colored cloth, about threo finches in di
atnetor, which surrounds the head, leav
ing it bare on top, where the hair is cut
about an inch long, They generally
wear a calico skirt, sometimes a coat
ovor it, sometimes deerskin leggings
sometimes not. They have a settled
aversion to pantaloons, I don't thiuk
there is a pair in the tribo. Old Tiger
generally wears two coats for show,
Young Tiger is a fine looking fellow,
with au open pleasant csprossiou, six
feet high, and woll made. Ho puts on
his full regalia of head work one day,
and, with an oaglo feather in his tur
bau, ho looked every iuch . an Indian,
lie gave us tho Semiuolo warwhoop.
which is a clear screooh of Aion aio n
aiou poo o ah. Speakiog, of costumes,
I saw one evidently a dandy with a
gorgeous turban, brilliant calico shirt,
to/are Marseille* vest, etpreterea nihill.
Divorco lawyers are knowu as 'patent
separators.
A matter-of-fact old gentleman thinks
it must be a very small baee ball that
cm be raught on a Sy.
The Bonds.
iii .";? Iii tt .! ?o ??? ?? ._??[? j ?
Things sometimes taken ourjous turn.
It has been so with that darling finan
cial measure of the administration last,
winter. We are advised that tho irtrgo
majority of the bond holders of the
Stale sc'-Mii to think that there is uo hope
for them, except iu tho success of the
Conservative party,.
The bond-holdera arc of three clusso s
?the holders of the old bonds, of the
talid new bonds and of tho repudiated
conversion bonds. The holders of thcold
bonds are supposed to have paid dollar for
dollar or at a very alight margin. They
aro, therefore, not very anxious to " fund
at fifty cents discount. They are, no
doubt, right to suppose'that tho'Demo
crats would take care of their own bonds.
Some of the holders of the valid new
bonds will fund and others will not, be
cause they think that can't do worse
whatever happens, and they may as well
wait. The holders of tho conversion
bonds are very much disgruntled. They
are just as badly treated as they can be
and, like drowning men eatching at a
straw, would like to soc the State turn- I
ed over to the opposition, believing that
they would at least get back tho money
paid down. It has been generally sup
posed that thesa conversion bondsvwerc
hypothecated by Kimpton for a kittle
or nothing, aud were principally in? the
hands of a heartless ring of speculators.
From tlie1 best information we can get.
L would appear otherwise?that they
were believed to be in New York the
very best security the Stato had to offer
and were bought by everybody?the
shoemaker, the tailor, the savings bank,
the banker, the merchant, the widow,
"the trustee and others, all over the
country, at prices ranging from fifty to
seventy two cents' and hard money for
them paid to Kimpton. The holders of
these bonds, therefore, ? have tho most
Jjl^flfl*/^^ credit of
the State, and hcIpl?/swuTiJ?u?_^!r.*M*
vorhat hue aud cry that hurries ot r good
name from Dan to Rershcba. These
men think that the State has played the
strap game or soiuei other confidence
game upon then, and tint the least
that could be done would be to appoint
a commission to find out lio?V much each
holder actually paid to the State, and
what became of tho money. If the
State got it and used it iu good faith,
then they think the original amount
ought to be refunded. If it was stolen ,
or other bonds were re issued by the
agents, then they think tho State should
punish those agents, bat its creditors?
third party without notice?ought uot
to be made to stilTer. In the mean time ,
they arc busy inventing somes phraseolo
gy in which to express their disgust for
South Carolina and the majority who
rule it and have ruined them?Union
Until.
. A Curiosity.
In an old fashioned wooden frame,
bearing the inscription, "S. Brand, Car
ver and Gilder, No. 27 High Street,
Ed i lib ugh," but exhibiting uo other
marks by which its age could be decided,
was recently found the following doeu
ment. Apart from any historic value
which may be claimed for it, the descrip
lion is porfect in its simplicity, and pro
scnts the picture which is painted by
our imaginations, ol what might have
been the aspect of Jesus of Nazareth to
the eyes of the generation that beheld
him walking in their midst. The epistle
is said to havo been takon by Napoleon
I from the public records of the city of
Rome.
Letter of Pubmus Lf.ntui.ur to
the Senate of Rome,Concerning
Jesus Christ.?It being tho uuual
custom of Roman Governors to advertise
tin Seuate and people of such mntoriul
thiugs tis happened in their provinces,
in tho days of tho Emperor Tiberius
Coosar, Publius Lcntulus, President of
Judoa, wrote tho following epistle to the
Senate, concerning our Saviour :
"There npponred in these our days, a
Muu of grout virtue, named Jesus
Christ, who is yet liviDg amongst us,
and of the People is accepted for a Pro
phet, but his owu Disciples oall him
Tho Sou of God?He raiscth tho dead
aud oureB all manner of diseases?A
man of stature somewhat tall and cotne
ly, Tvith a very reverend countenance,
such as the beholders may both love and
fear?His hair, of the colour of a cheat
nut full ripe, and plain to His ears, hut
thence downwards it "is more Orient,
curling aud waving about his shoulders
?Iu tho midst of his head is seam, or
a partition of his hair, after tho manner
of the NazaritCB?His forehead plain
and very dclleato?His face without
spot or wrinkle, beautifiod with a lovely
red?His noso and mouth so formed as
nothing can be reprehouded?His beard
thickish, iu colour like the hair of his.
head, not' very long, but forked?His
look innocent and mature-?His eye*
gray, clear and quick?In reproving, he
is terrible?In admonishing, courteous
and fairspokcu?Pleasant in oouvcrsa
tion, mixed with gravity?It cannot be
remembered that any have seen him
laugh?But many have seen him weep
?In proportion of body most excellent'
? His hands and arms delectable to be
hold?In speaking, very temperate, mo
dost and wise?A Man, for his singular
Beauty', surpassing the; Children ot
Mcu."
Cnrions Calculations.
There is something wonderful in fig
ures; and numbers, when calculated,
startle us by their immensity. We talk
of millions and billions with lit lo
thought of the vastness of the suras we
name. The lips may utter the words
glibly, but their" understanding fails
to grasp their real significance. Take '
our owu national debt as an illustration.
Every boJy knows it is large, but few
have ever stopped to consider its appall
ing maguitudc. A few calculations will"
not, we trust, be uninteresting to our
readers:
Let us suppose that the national debt
is, in round numbers, $2,500,000,000.
If an experienced cashier was to com
mence counting this, at tho rate of three
silver dollarsJSj fcriB^gork dil
"VigeuTT)' g'g^wW^BH^BMBHBBj^fc
iu the year, it would take him^mou^
one hundred years to complete tho
count.
If the silver dollars were placed side
by side, touching each other, they
would reach nearly three times round
the world; they would pave a highway
tho width of Chicago's street more than
200 miles in length.
If each silver piece be estimated an
ounce in weight, and the money loaded
j into carts containing one ton each, and
driven one before the other, eaoh horse
and cart occupying two rods, tho pro
cessiou would cxteud fivo hundoed
miles.
Or consider that only about 1,000,
1)00,000 minutes have alasped since tho
birth of Christ, and that if ono dollar
hud been put away each minute, day
aud nignt, since that event, the accumu
lation would amount to but little more
than one third of the debt this nation,
now owes. If this calculation was ap
plied to Englaud or France whose
national debt is neatly twico as large as
ours, the result would bo still more
startling.
A smart city billiardist picked up a
countryman, and induced him to play a
game of billiards?oue hundred pointa.
The city boy took tho cue and ran the
game out without a stop. Tho country
man quietly laid down his cue and star
ted for tho door. Said tho billiardist,
Here, come back and pay for this
game." "What game?" said country.
"Why, tho game we just played."
"We?" said the countryman; "we? I
haint played no billiards as I knows of.
I gue^s, mister, sco'n as you played the
gamo alone, you'd better pay for ifc
alouc !" Whereat the countryman
walked out and the smart city boy cogi
tatcd.
A Ludicrous Incident.?A few
nights hi ace ho mo one stealthily tied a
leg of one of the tables under the shed
belonging to a colored man to the rear
platform of tho Bleeping coach at Flor
ence, on the Northeastern Railroad, and,
as a natural consequence, when the
train started, the table went off for a
trip to Charleston.' Amid the wreck of
element*, and the crash of worlds of
crockery, tho table went, revolving din its
way, truo to its attachment and despite
I the wild cries ol tho proprietor to "atop
dat train."?Union-Herald.
