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MY DEAREST HEART.
BY THB LATE rHEBE CABY.
All the dreaming is broken through;
ltotli what is done and undone i rue;
Nothing is steadfast, notiiini? true,
But your love for me and my love lor yon,
M v dearest, dearest heart.
When the wild waves ebb, when the wild waves
'When tii'e winds are lond, when the winds arc
low ;
When the roses come, when the roses go;
One thought one feeling is all I know.
My dearest, dearest heart.
irt.A4:nin le woppv. the vear is old.
And the lijrht of the lily burns close to the mould
The irrave is cruel, me (crave is cuiu.
Hut the other side is the City of Gold,
My dearest, dearest heart.
FRIENDSHIP.
A tiny, slender silken thread
Is friendship, and we make it
Bind hearts aud lives to hearts and lives;
But e'en a breath may shake it.
And oft it takes but one wee word
But one wee word to break it!
It draws the lips in smiliinfr shape.
It draws the look of pleasure,
From eye to eve when hands touch hands,
W hen two hearts lieat one measure;
And draws a meaning from a word
Which makes that word a treasure.
Like strings of a tuneful harp or lute
Between glad souls 'tis holden,
And love's fond Angers on the thread
Make music rare and golden
Make music such as tender hearts
Ixiuld live and near grow old in.
Bnt if a breath mayshake it, let
That breath come near it never;
And never spoken be that word
Which friendship's lie might sever;
Bnt let the cord grow stronger till
The dawning of Forever.
"DIIUTIK. FOR A WEEK."
BY ft. w. EASTETtRltOOK.
"Tom!" and the tones of the master's voice
I ame sharp to the listening car;
'Where is the woman who does this work?"
Said Tom, with a shrug, "I fear
She's had to give up. fine was ghostly white
When she left the office at six last night."
"Well, scratch her name from off of the books.:
Get somebody In that's well.
These women are always In trouble, I think;
And, Tom about Timothy (juell;
WThcn he gets over that last week's spree
Aud comes to his senses, send him to me.
"It's a week to-day since he's shown his face,
But he's got his oats to sow;
And I'll give hiin a hint on the evil of drink,
And let the whole thing go.
Tim's a good fellow he'll steady at Inst;
Who wants young men to grow old to fast?"
So, "drunk for a week" is a young man's Joke,
And sick for a day is a sin ;
The woman who taints is sent out to the dogs,
While the fellow who annus is Kept in.
A ml whv? lli ! that is a riddle conlessed
The answerl'd give.uut it's never been guessed.
OVER THE BILLOWS.
BY B. TURNER LOO MIS.
Over the billows our frail barks are tossing,
Over the billows oflife's chunging sea:
Meeting and parting In Joy and iu sorrow,
Upward and downward still onward wfe nee,
leaving the wrecks of the hopes of ourchildhood
i)iitltlt'K4lv fi-iifchnd bv the teinoest of time:
Sunshine and shadow with joy and with sorrow
Cheering and chilling in every cuiue.
Over the billows our frail barks are tossing,
Ever lured on by the bright star of Hope
Faith is our Captain and Love is ourCoinpass;
E'er bv them guided, encouraged to cope
Even with Death, the last of Earth's tyrants.
To whom the noblest a tribute must pay;
There is 110 harbor where we can evade hiin
lie collects tribute by night as by day.
Over the billows our frail barks are tossing,
Oft being blessed by the presence of one
Gliding beside us in joy aud in sorrow,
Cheering with smiles e'en bright as the Sun.
O! what a blessing is such a companion:
Cheering, encouraging when storms arise,
By the soft touch of the hand of affection
Banishing clouds from love's beautiful skies.
Over the billows our frail barks are tossing.
Oft our loved ones drifting from us away
Never again on the wide sea to meet them
Vainly we search fur them, earnestly pray,
ThAt. the mild breeze of retnrnin&r affection
May waft them back, in their barks once so fair,
Er'e hope deterred Dreakiug iaitn in tue coin-
nii-SR.
Wrecked them upon the dark reefs of Despair.
Over the billows our frail barks are tossing,
Hourly nearing the beautiful shore
Where ileath the tyran, collecteth his tribute,
Stranding our barks as our journeys are o'er,
Henceforth to dwell in that beautiful city,
F.ver illumined bv labors of love
Meeting again with the strayed and the wrecked
ones
God in his mercy hath gathered above.
CELIE.
BY GEORGE SAND.
FIRST PART.
COXTlSUKn.
1 was struck by my preoccupa
tion.
'What is the matter with you ?"
she said as we were passing into
a hall adjoining the parlor where the
voune ffirls had asked us to help them in
arrangine: a charade. "You seem to be
vorv much absorbed this evening. Is
there anything wrong? some spoke
loose in the wheels of Lrnestine's mar
riage?" "No, nothing:," I answered, at ran
dom, for the sake of answering some
thing; "a teeling ot intense weariness
that, is all."
"These children's plays do not amuse
you. Why, then, do you take part in
them: Stay with the spectators."
"It is not that, really, that wearies me.
It is nothing."
"Then it is everything."
"Do you know what splem ii? '
"No."
"You have no time to get acquainted
with it, I suppose?"
"You have only to use the same reine
tiy.
"Yes, some employment for my mind
you mean. What is the best study, ac
cording to you
"That in which one goes the deepest."
"Are you sure, that by giving our
selves up to study, we shall escape the
moments of disgust that cross our life?"
"1 know nothing about it; I presume
00."
"If you do not know, then you have
never experienced such sufferings.
"They arc sufferings, perhaps, which
do not belong to ordinary minus.
"I understand, they are the privilige
ot superior persons like mvselt: 1 did
not know that you could be so cruelly
sarcastic."
"I declare to you that I did not dream
of being "sarcastic ; you attribute to 1110
the acrimony and wit which are your
iwn."
"A sain?"
"Again yourself! I try toamuse'you,
and you want to quarrel witn me:"
"Can I believe, then, that you are ser
iously interested 111 my weariness.-"
"First, tell if it is serious."
"Suppose it is, and don't avoid 1113-
nuestion."
"I avoid nothinsr; but it is just as you
said. 1 do not know what ennui is. and
so find it difficult to indicate a remedy."
"You can. at least, tell me how you
have preserved voui'solf from the dis
ease."
"I have not preserved myself from it;
Wbablv I would not have known how.
1 an pot a strong soul. Ennui is the
malady of people who are too happy. I
have never encountered it on my way;
that is all."
"If I believed you I should fall into
the most frightful despair."
"Whv?"
"I should persuade myself that happi
ness I unattainable, since you have not
sittiiined it."
"Perhaps 1 have not deserved it!'V
"Then who does deserve it ?"
"All who have the will to find it."
'But is it not the object of every one's
search, and does not everybody seek it?"
"Certainly; but everybody seeks it 111
the wrong" way without intelligence,
without persistence, without energy."
This, which she said, with an air of
.utter self-forgctfuliiess and in a general
sense, was so applicable to my own sit-ii.-i
lion respecting her, that cold shiver
jluii .through my whole body, and 1 shut
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my eyea for fear of betraying in my
looks the iinnatieuce which devoured
me. Nevertheless she noticed my shiv
ering, and asfced me witn an aatouisu-
lng ficimte II 1 was in pain.
".Sot at all," l answereu;
I am lis-
I telling to you.
R.,r T bavB dni.l nil that I had to sav."
ti. xttwiiirntinn Is brief and. above
all vague. The conclusion seems to be
this: that I am very happy in being a
prev to ennui."
"'vnt mp tnnitv vou! If vou
hnvfinoken the truth, if vou have only
moments of disgust pass over your life,
it Droves that ordinarily vou love life,
o".i that T-on fwl It verv intenselv. and
tiv tbnt. it. is vers-interestine-1
to vou. When it weighs a little heavily
on rnn. von cnmnlain of vour destiny. I
Virorvtwlv mount indulsre In these I
mnwla- it'is nor evervbodv who has en-1
ergy enough to wish to be always con-
tent with his lot."
"That is to say that my energy at
times comes near to making me a cow
ard !
"I did not say that; I do not consider
it wrong for a man to be anxious to pre
vent fate from leading him blindfold. I
only say that when you are calm you
ought not to complain of a few hours of
restlessness, lou would noi excuange
these alterations of doubt and desire for
the commonplace life of those who know
neither joy nor grief ?"
'Certainly not: But you seem to say
that vou are one of that class."
'I hardlv know of what class I am. 1
think we do not chooseour life, and that
we ought in every case to live in peace
with ourselves without asking too often
if we would not like some other life bet-
ter. But see, they are bringing us our
costumes, and the girls have come to
claim you. You promised to dress your-
self as a Turk."
"Yes, yes, as a Turk," cried Ernes-
tine, entering. "vve cannot dispense
I with the Turk."
I dressed myself as a Turk with con
scientious resignation. Mile. Merquem,
with her usual address, had persisted in
her habit of avoiding all personal ques
tions ; but she had testified to a more
marked interest in me tnan on any
other occasion, and this was the first
time that we had ever talked together for
Ave minutes without her finding some
pretext to take flight. Her life among
the men who surrounded her was au
eternal fuait ad salices, the more dis-
couraging that it seemed to be without
the least premeditation, W as she too in-
nocent to know that the woman who is
most desired is she who is most skillful
in concealing herself?
I was the direct subject, this evening,
of such an experience. It must have
been that the Oriental costume that I
had improvised had transformed me, for
I made a very fine appearance by candle-light,
and I heard the little Malbois
expressing to Ernestine her opinion of
me in the clearest terms, and with the
evident intention that I should not lose
a word of the pretended confidence.
This young girl was remarkably pretty
and of an astonishing Doiuness. couiu
not remain cold before her ingenuous
allurements, but I found that I had,
without much effort, all the virtue nec
essary to make me appear indifferent to
thein. I was so at the bottom of my
heart, and the sacrifice seemed very lit
tle, when I gazed secretly at the beauti
ful hair and ehasto shoulders 01 tne in
vulnerable Celie. Undoubtedly, in the
eyes of ordinary observers,' she was
eclipsed by the humid eyes and the vol
uptuous torm 01 bmma, oui in mine sne
had the advantage of being an ideal, aud
an ideal perhaps unattainable
She pertormed in these improvised
scenes, always taking such thanKles:
parts as no one else would take, and
dressing herself in the most absurd fash
ion to appear old or comic. She did not
succeed, however ; her graceful figure
and her childlike smile were always vis
ible uuder the disguise. She was not
the least bit of an actress in the world ;
she could not disguise her voice, and
dould not avoid laughing at the comicali
ties of others. She had an especial fit of
laughter at the 6ight of M. Bellac, whom
Mile, de Malbois had muffled up, willing
or unwilling, in a woman's cloak and
hat. 1 would not nave nenevea tnat sue
could have been surprised into such
hilarity, and that a comic image could
have appealed so strongly to her tran
quil imagination. Here was food for
new reflection; was she always free
from all contention of spirit? or was she
only verv easily impressed and very
nervous? in eitner case ner laugn nau
the frankness of the purest innocence
"You seem to amuse yourself greatly,
I said to her as 1 passed her.
"Yes," she answered, immediately re
suming her serious air, "I amuse myself
too much for the mistress of the house
I am afraid that it is perhaps hardly
proper;" but the last word escaped her
with a burst of inextinguishable laugh
ter
Come, I thought, she is a woman ; she
she is not always mistress ot herself,
She must weep on occasion as easily as
she lausrhs. And who knows, the
laughter of this evening may perhaps be
soon succeeueti uv sous itnu tears 111 me
solitude of the night.
As for my observations ot her situa
tion in regard to Montroger, they led to
nothing new; as at other times, she
treated him with a mixture of deference
and patronizing kindness with which lie
was content at the time, but of which he
complained afterward, lie was urged
by the girls to dress himselt afso as a
Turk or a uninese. tie rejected tne 01-
fer with horror. Perhaps he was afraid
of proving deficient in liveliness, or of
appearing ugly, -f-rnestine, who had a
spite against nun, pretended that he
wore a corset, which would not allow
him to take this or that pose. Mile.
Emma, who wanted to make me believe
that she had never aspired to please him,
declared that lie wore a wig, and that he
was afraid of letting it fall 111 arranging
the turban.
On my return to Lie Planner, I was
deliberating how I should set about my
investigations and continue my search
without exciting the attention of Mile
Merquem to my proceedings, when one
of those unforeseen events, which should
always be t-'ken into account, disturbed
the established order which usually
characterized our conventional visits,
The following Thnrsday, Mine. Mai
bois, who had come with her daughter to
pay a visit to my aunt, asked us, with an
air. of pretended indifference, if we had
seen Mile. .Merquem that morning.
otvet," answered my aunt, "but
we. expect her as usual."
I believe you need not count on her,"
said the lady; "this is the time of the
equinoctial winds, ana Mile. Merquem
is probably engaged 111 some wrecking
business. You don't know that she di
rects these things in jierson ? She does,
thouih; it amuses her; it is regula
plav ! She dresses herself like a man,
and goes to the sea with the people of
the coast. Aotto mention its ugliness,
her costume is perfectly useless. Think
of it a woman in a tarpaulin hat ! And
then it s a pertect farce : hhe mounts a
barge that is perfectly secured, and nev
er leaves the shore; she gives the most
extravagant sums to skillful swimmers
who risk everything to save unknown
people, and who, out of cupidit3', expose
their families to desolation. Iu a word,
she shows a great zeal which some peo
ple admire, but which I think rash and
unreasonable. That is my opinion; I do
not conceal it from her ; I am frankness
Itself."
"It seems to me," said my aunt, "that
you reproach her for acts of devotion
and courage which do honor to her.'
"Xo, no !" observed Emma. "Mamma
speaks 111 that way out of friendship to
her. For my part, I do not conceal my
admiration for her. 1 only blame her
for the tiirpaulin hat and the fisherman's
gaiters. They certainly are not pretty !"
"Have you ever seen her so?" asked
Ernestine.
'No, indeed! nobody but she would
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be out in stormy weather; but I Lave
seen in the album of an amataur of our
acquaintance a sketch that he made from
memory after having met Celie one day
on the shore, returning from one of her
expeditions. It's a perfect caricature,
and it cave me real pain to see ir,"
"How good you are ! ' 1 said in a ser
ious tone which deceived no ouc. We
euangea tne conversation, ana me gina
retired to tne garden,
-As soon as they were gone Mme. de
Malbois resumed. "Don' t think," she
said to my aunt, "that I blame Mile
Merquem for dressing in an eccentric
manner, But I cannot say everything
before our girls. I am pained by the
imprudence of one whom I love, and
whom I believe to be very estimable in
spite of calumny.-'
"If she lias committed no other ini-
Prudence." answered my aunt, "than
that of exposing her life, or at least her
health, to save the shipwrecked, I must
admit that 1 cannot join you in tne posi
tiveness with which you blame her."
'I see." said Mme. de JUaloois, "tnat
you have never heard the adventure of
the child."
'Let me hear it," said mv aunt a lit
tle sharply, "since you are so anxious to
tell it. For my part, I should like to
know it in order to have still another
reason for esteeming Mlie. Merquem."
'There Is nothing to tell, for no one
knows anything. The inhabitants of the
cove of La Canielle have each a different
story. What is certain is, that after a
frightfully stormy night a very beauti
ful child, saved, it is said by Mile. Mer-
quem in person, was confided to tne
country people who bring it up witn tne
greatest possible care. Mile. Alerqueui
goes to see it every day, and she intends,
as it appears, to take it to her house, to
educate it and to adopt it, in which she
will commit a great fault, and bring a
serious stain upon her immaculate repu-
tation."
"How so?" I asked with an air of ut
ter simplicity, on purpose to force Mme.
de Malbois to be explicit.
"How !" she exclaimed ; "don't you
understand that this child, fished out of
the open sea, may very well have come
by land Irom Switzerland or Italy, ior
example? His age corresponds exactly
with a pretty long absence ot uene's
some ten years ago."
"Oh: very well; tnen you tninK
"I think nothing at all, but they say
sol Mile. Merquem sees only her
frien)js she doesn't know that there are
wno about her. She thinks
that she is priviliged to dare everything
aud to risk everything. Instead of nat
tering her and abusing her with this no
tion, her intimate friends ought to warn
her M. de Montroger to begin with,
who is not altogether beyond the reach
of remark himself in this mysterious af
fair."
'Are there any more
said my aunt in an ironical tone, as she
rose to go to tne door witn Jime. ae
Malbois, though she had made no signs
of going. "Mile, Merquem is the child's
mother, M. de Montroger is his lather,
and that is what prevents him from mar
rying any of the girls that some people
throw at his head!"
Mme. de Malbois understood her, and
withdrew furious.
"That wicked woman is odious to me,"
said my aunt, as soon as she had gone.
"I hope I may never see her again v
"I hardly think that she will come
here again," I answered ; "but she will
be an unrelenting enemy."
"I accept as mine the enemies of Mile.
Merquem. Do you think I am iu the
wrong?"
"If it is a wrong, I share it with you."
Such was my real thought, and yet I
was not conviuced that the defamation
was a calumny. It was perfectly admis
sible in niv theory that Celie might have
been a mother. I accented it as proba
ble. I even felt quite sure of it.
Admitting this hypothesis, to conquer
her would be more difficult than ever.
Protected by her maternal affection she
would be stronger ; but it 1 should ac
quiesce in her error.' it 1 should be
ready to love the child? Who could say
to what heroic actions a design as reso
lutely tormeu as mine mignt leaci me r
As, in spite 01 the predictions ot Mme.
de Malbois, there was not the least prom
ise of a storm, and as Mile. Merquem s
carriaare had iust appeared at the end of
the valley, 1 tooK a sudden resolution
I gaye up the pleasure of seeing her,
and invented a pretext for being absent
for the rest of the day. I took passage
in the carry-all that ran between the
neighboring village and a village on the
coast, and in an hour gained the sea
14 rw in 11-111 a- nr. mi- hi ti tlio liuao ot rlio
cliffs, which separate to form a little har
bor at the old tower ot la Canielle,
soon found myself at the fishing villase
called by the same name as that ot the
chateau.
I had never been there before, and
was unacquainted with the immediate
neighborhood of Mile. Merquem's res
idence. I was fully resolved to explore
it with care, but it promised no easy
task to inform myself of Celie's manner
ot lite without her knowledge. In com-
ing to walk over her grounds at the very
time that she was visiting at my aunt's,
I could not be accused of seeking an in
terview with her.
The place was remarkable. From the
foot of the old tower the cliff precipita
ted itself by three or four fantastic breaks
the last of which descended sheer into
the sea. At about a hundred paces from
the hamlet, a road, marked by cart
wheels in the sand, wound round the
escarpment and lost itself in the smooth
but mounded curves of 'the valley. This
was probably not the way that a person
from the tower would take to gain the
shore with the greatest quickness, for I
perceived here and there the marks of
a giddy foot-path which followed the
projections ot the clin. naturally.
asked myself if the mistress of the chat
eau was in the habit of descending or
climbing these layers of blanched sand
stone, which, almost always veiled in
mist, appeared from below much higher
than they really were,
1 hough monotonous, the coast is beau
tiful. This paler sea is rarelv blue, but,
if it has not the fresh tones and the pure
lines of the Mediterranean, it has in fine
weather an infinite variety of delicate
shades and changing colors. The high
natural walls, which, oy their white
ness, might give the name of Albion to
the French shore as well as to the Eng
lish, are veiled in the mists that seem
like rosy gauze. When the sunlight
pales, the grey aspect with which all
objects are invested is never uniform
There are opalescent reflections which
vary from clear blue to pearly white
ness. The horizon is often lost in the
fog, and then the sky and the sea be
come but one, and the spectator seems
to stand at the very entrance of infinity
The hamlet was composed of about fif
ty huts grouped on the edge of the shore
and about the same number of little
scattered houses in the grounds beyond
Doth, in all, containing three or ton
hundred inhabitants. The little harbor
was good for barges, but difficult to en
ter on account of large blocks of, fallen
stone, some of which represented the
shattered front of some formidable ruin
I knew from Montroger that guillemot
built their nests in some of the reefs
along the beach, and to be prepared for
all chances, nau brought my gun as
pretext and an excuse; but it was writ
ten that fate slionld fnvor the beginuiu
of my enterprise. 1 had not gone ten
paces along the village when a voice
hailed ine by name. It was a roug
voice, as hoarse as a sea-wolf's, and yet
it was the voice of an artist ot my at
quaiutance Stephen Morin, a good fe
low, devoted to marine painting, who
was in the . habit of spending eigl
months in the year 011 some sea-coast of
4.' ranee, with hvs leet 111 the water, the
sun 111 his lace, and the wind 111 h
hair; so he was as sunburnt as a sailor.
as bristly as a sea-porcupine, and as ca
10ns as a lonster.
Ho was not a friend of mine, lull of my
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DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, SCIENCE,
friend Andres, who had a higher opin
ion of his character than of his talent,
and who was in the habit of giving him
good advice without much result. Ste
phen Morin was not gifted, and yet he
was a born painter. He had never had
any other aptitude, any other joy or am
bition or thought, thiin painting. He
had a genuine feeling for it, which he
expressed in just and passionate words;
he adored it, he was absorbed in it and
lived in it. He worked like an ox;
his pictures sold badly, but they sold,
and he was content; he needed so little
to live, and he had so strong a faith in
his future. Yet he had passed his novi
tiate and made not the least progress, but
he had no suspicion of it. He took all
observations in good part; he desired
and valued criticism, and would say en
thusiastically, like a man suddenly en
lightened, ''You shall see next year!"
Next year he would return loaded with
studies, in which it would seem as if lie
had labored with the greatest possible
pains to reproduce the very same faults.
Andres, who loved him, was grieved to
see him persevere in this painful and un
profitable course ; but he was afraid to
treat him with absolute sincerity, know
ing that 011 the day that this obstinately
nopeiui soul should be discouraged, he
would be in danjrer of his reason or his
life.
In any other circumstances I would
have cared very little to meet this man,
at once pleasant and disagreeeble, slov
enly in his habits and absolute in his
ideas. lie had no particular attractions tor
me, and his brusque and vulgar man
ners were not particularly pleasing; but
here he seemed a perfect godsend; he
might serve as a reason for mv walks
and as a cloak for my investigations, for
1 saw plainly, by his careless dress and
his easy air, that he was settled here for
the rest of the season. So I ran up to
shake hands with him with an eagerness
that would have surprised any one but
him. Happily he was one of those per
sons who are always systematically pre
pared for anything, and whom nothing
astonishes. "I excused myself internally
by saying to myself that the man was a
good fellow, according to all accounts,
and deserving of more regard than I had
ever shown him.
He was living in the house of one of
the best conditioned fisherman of the
hamlet, a very neat dwelling, where he
had hired two small rooms.
"Come in come into my caboose," he
said to me, "and drink a glass of cider
and spoil a cigarette I know you don't
like a pipe. I'll not ask what chance
brought a gentleman like you among
these savage rocks; that is not my affair,
but it gives me pleasure all the same.H
You shall tell me yes, I was thinking
of that as I was looking at my sea, my
chief study this year; I said to myself,
the only thing that is wanting is an ad
viser, and just then yon pass under my
nose."
"But, my dear friend, I am no judge
I know nothing about painting."
"Yes, I know, but you have a good
eye. 1 have seen yon at Andres's; yon
made some suggestions which he listened
to. Besides, the picture either likes you,
oritdon't. I am going to try."
And he placed hu easel in the best
light, after having passed a damp towel
over the canvas to restore the freshness
of the tone. I was obliged to make an
exclamation of applause or drive him to
despair, so I shut my eyes and exclaim
ed "That is it, my dear fellow ! I am
no judge, 1 confess ; bnt 1 am completely
deceived 11 that is not the very thing!"
lie was ready to embrace me; and J
had such a horror of myself that I look
ed at the picture and all the sketches
that he showed me with a determination
to find some merit in them. I did not
succeed; but I was so uneasy in my con
science that 1 began to regard the poor
devil with a positive tenderness. He
was a hundred times better than his pic
tures, and the end that I was pursuing
perhaps had not half the sincerity and
the reason of his unrequited passion.
He soon perceived that 1 was ill at
ease, and said, "I abuse your good na
ture; you have had enough."
TO BE CONTINUED.
Ar.('DOTKS OFPITBfC JlEN,
BY COL. J. W. FORNEY.
NO. XXXIX.
I was introduced to Charles Carroll, of
Carrollton, grandson of the illustrious
patriot of that name, at Barnum's Hotel,
Baltimore, in the spring ot li;, and al
ter a friendly conversation upon public
affairs he cordially invited me to visit his
estate at Doughoregan Manor, in Carroll
county, Maryland. There was something
so s;ncere in his manner that 1 yielded to
his wish, and one afternoon in July of
the same year I took the cars for Elli-
cott's station, 111 company with a young
friend. When we readied it, on a bright
moonlight night, we found a carriage
waiting to convey us to the larm ot the
Hon. Edward Hamilton, then a Kepre-
sentative in Congress, aud the neighbor
and confidential friend of Mr. Carroll.
Mr. Hammond had been an invalid, and
was confined to his room, but came forth
and greeted us with an old-fashioned
Southern welcome. A number of the
young men of the vicinity came in on
horseback to loin our merry party, and
it was very late when we retired. The
next morning we passed over to see our
host at Doughoregan Manor, lie received
us like a knight of olden time. We found
ourselves 111 the midst of a vast estate,
nto which all the modern improvements
in agricultural had been introduced. He
showed me a thousand acres devoted to
the cultivation of corn, then in full leaf
and tassel, promising a bounteous crop :
he carried us through his slave quarters,
and when I remarked that this system
could not last, he turned to me with an
expression I shall ever remember, and
said : "So far as I can help it, it shall
not." He was a Catholic, like his great
ancestor, Charles Carroll ot Carrollton,
who was born at Annapolis, September
2U, l.ii, and who had died November 14.
1832, in his ninety-sixth year. He poiuted
out the exqusite marble oliigies of his
deceased relatives 111 the beautiful chap
el, without seeming to think that he
would soon be one ot the occupants 01
that beautiful chamber of the dead. 01
gentle, polished manners, handsome
presence, large acquirements, and gener
ous, even profuse hospitality, he was s
type of the patriotic school, of which hi?
grandfather was one of the finest ideals.
As a citizen of intrinsic and historic
merit, an authentic sketch of his
may not be out of place :
Charles Carroll, , grandson of Charles
Carroll of Carrollton, and son of Charles
Carroll of llomewood, and Harriet 'hew,
a daughter ot the late ('met Justice
Chew, of Pennsylvania, was born in Bal
timore on July 25, 1801. He had one
brother older than himself, who died in
his infancy, and lie remained an only son
with four sisters.
The preparatory studies of Mr. Carroll
were made at home under a tutor, from
which he was sent to St. Mary's College,
Baltimore, and afterward to Mount St.
Mary's, Eminettsburg, in Maryland. In
1818 in company with his cousin, Charles
Harper, a son of the late General Harper,
he went to Europe under the charge of 11
tutor, and was placed at the College of
St. Stanislaus, in Paris. He remained
there until 1821, when he returned and
entered Harvard University, Cambridge,
Muss. A few months before the gradua
tion of his class, in 1823, owing to some
dilllculty with the professors, a large por
tion of that class was dismissed, and
their degrees were not given to them for
many years afterwards.
Mr. Carroll, returning home, entered
the law office of the late General Harper,
and in 1825 lie married Mary Diggs Lee,
l'iUiddaughter of the lute Thomas Simon
ee, Governor of Maryland. At the
death of Charles Carroll of Carrollum,
Mr, Carroll cuine into possession of the
estate called Doughoregan Manor, which
lie held undivided until his death. A
large number of slaves were bequeathed
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to him by his grandfather's will, and he
set himself to work to renovate and im
prove the lands, which were considera
bly run down by being leased for long
terms of years.
He greatly improved the mansion house
and grounds, and succeeded in a very
short time in bringing nearly the whole
estate, consisting of two thousand acres,
under prosperous cultivation.
For many years he was a Whig in po
litical sentiment, and although always
posted and taking great interest in pub
lic matters, he never held any position
ot political preferment, but devoted his
lile to the development of his property
for the benefit of his family. His slaves
were always treated with that kindness
and consideration which he felt was their
due, and having always professed the
Catholic faith, their religious education
was guarded with the same care as was
tnat ot his own lamuy.
In 18G0 an aftection'of the heart, from
which he had long been disturbed, de
veloped more fully, and in December,
1862, he died, devising his estate of
Doughoregan Manor, and all the rest of
Ills property equally among his seven
representatives. He left as heirs three
sons and three daughters and the infant
children of a son who died a few months
previous to himself. His views upon the
subject of slavery are perhaps best set
forth iu his will, which is thus des
cribed :
"I have always regarded slavery as a
great evil, producing injury aud loss in
grain-growing States, but an evil for
which we are not responsible who now
hold slaves, considering that God in His
wisdom placed them here anil permitted
them to be introduced. My experience
and full convictions are that as long as
we nave that class ot labor among us.
they are as a mass better cared for and
happier than if they were free and pro
viding for themselves. I therefore give
all my slaves to all my children, with
these positive injunctions, that none of
them shall be sold except among them
selves, and except for those crimes for
which they would be punishable by the
laws of the State, or for gross insubordi
nation. 1 also direct that they shall con
tinue to have the advantages of the re
ligious education they now receive, and
that their morals aud habits be watched
over like those of children. It may here
after be found advisable to remove them
to the South to cultivate cotton, where
the climate is more congenial to their
health, while it removes them from the
pernicious influence of the low whites,
who now corrupt them. In this wa3'
they can be made profitable, aud eventu
ally a fund provided to establish them at
some future day in Africa or in the West
Indies. It is niy wish that my children
shall not transmit them to any of my
grandchildren."
It was a sad yet happy day and a half
I spent among these interesting men.
Amid their abounding hospitality there
was still a presentiment upon me, and so
when I returned to AVashington, and
found Sydney Webster, private secretary
of President Pierce, waiting for me at
the station, I knew something had hap
pened. He had come to announce that
Andrew II. Reeder had been that day re
moved as tiovernor ot Kansas, it was
the beginning of the end. Jefferson
Davis, of Mississippi, was too power
ful for either Hon. Asa Packer or my-
seit.andour gallant friend was eiected
from his place only because he refused
to consent to the conspiracy to make
Kansas a slave State.
We had jointly recommended the ap
pointment ot Andrew 11. Keader to this
post, really in response to President
Pierce's suggestion, who was anxious to
give it to a Pennsylvania!!. When Reed'
er accepted he was in high favor with
the Democracy of the old Tenth Legion
of Pennsylvania. An extreme sj'mpa-
thizer with the South at all times, his ex
perience in Kansas completely converted
him. Honest, nidependant in lus cir
cumstances, a very able lawyer, and an
entrancing speaker, he was just the char
acter tor a new country, just the man to
save the Administration from fatal com
plications. When the President nomina
ted him, Hon. Richard Uroilhead, then
one of the Pennsylvania Senators, and
always the rival of Reeder, or Reeder of
him, did not conceal his disappointment.
but Judge Packer, who lived in the same
Congressional district, was too strong for
Brodhead to tight, and Keeder was con
firmed. Then our friend went forth to
Kansas, free, fair and unprejudiced. He
had not been there long before he wrote
back to us, denouncing the open frauds
ot the slaveholders. 1 well remember
the effect produced upon our minds. But
Jefferson Davis' friends we're potent with
the Executive; their falsehoods were
credited ; Reeder's statements discredited,
and a brave, honest mail sacrificed. The
news ot his dismissal, after my agreea
ble visit to Charles Carroll of Carrollton,
was the gloomy sequel ot a happy day.
What rendered it more unpleasant was
the fact that 1 was at that time one of the
editors of the AVashington Union, the
Democratic Administration organ. Many
will blame President Pierce tor consent
ing to the proscription ot Governor
Reeder; but 1 can neyer forget that
when I told him that I could not remain
in the Union, and write in support of the
policy which had displaced Governor
Reeder, or even consent to let others do
so, he refused to accept my resignation
and I continued under the proffered gen
erous condition that the paper should re
main silent on the subject. And so it
did, until I formerly retired, and re
turned to Pennsylvania to make James
Buchanan President.
Of the parties to this event. I have
named, incidentally and otherwise, three
only survive ; but Charles Carroll of Car
rollton, Andrew ll. lfeeder, iiichard
Brodhead,aud Franklin Pierce have been
gathered to their lathers.
WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
HAS DOXE FOU EQUAL. BIGHTS
The JVetc Xationol Era, of AArasbing
ton, has made an abstract of the several
measures adopted and secured by the Re
publican party for human liberty in this
country. We abstract from this article
as follows :
The first blow at the "Divine" institu
tion of slavery was a bill, which became
a law 111 August, lsul, confiscating all
property and setting free all slaves used
in aid of the rebellion
January 25, 1802, a law was passed
prohibiting the use of the jails of this
district lor the imprisonment ol tugitivi
slaves
The great measure emancipating the
three thousand slaves of this district
passed both houses of Congress and was
signed bv the President 111 April, ltb
Ou the i:fth of March, 1802, a bill be
came a law forbidding and punishing
the return 01 mgitive slaves, coming into
our lines, by naval and military olhcers
March 0, ot the same vear, the presi
dent had recommended the passage of
joint resolution proposing a co-operation
between the General Government, and
the slave States for the general abolition
of slavery, 011 the principle of compensa
tion to owners. During the month a bill
covering this suggestion passed botl
houses and was sighed by the President
April 10.
The bill abolishing the. long existing
odious distinctions 01 tins District agains
the colored people, such as taxing them
for the education of white children and
denying them all benefit from the tax, lie
came a law 111 Slay, 1802.
June lfth, 1802, the President slgnei
a bill, which had passed both Houses,
prohibiting slavery forever in all tl
Territories of the United States.
June, 1802, a law was enacted estab
lishing diplomatic relations with the Ite
public ot Liberia and ilayti.
In July, of the same vear. a law w
passed conferring upon colored person
the right to testily in courts ot justice
also prohibiting the mlcr-Statc const
wise slave-trade.
In July, 1K02, a bill became a la
I iifuiuiK iiiii 11 ll 1 1 j will
lines whoc masters were in rebellion
JOURNAL.
AGRICULTURE,
and all slaves foundmin places captured
by our troops.
July 7, 1802, President Lincoln ap
proved a bill punishing the infamous
practice of using the American flag for
the protection of vessels engaged in the
slave trade, in open denance, as naa
grown to be the practice, of a plain con
stitutional provision. Under tne pro-
isions of this act one Gordon, captured
bile engaged in the slave trade, was
tried, convicted and executed.
July 17, 1862, a law was enacted "au
thorizing the enlistment and military or
ganization of colored men.
September 22, 1862, President Lincoln
approved a bill declaring that on the first
of January ensuing he should issue an
other proclaiming persons free in such
States as might be named. And on that
ay the immortal declaration declaring
all slaves forever free in Arkansas, Tex
as, Louisiana,Mississippi, Alabama, t lor
ida, North and South Carolina, and Vir
ginia-was issued.
March, 1803, a taw was enaciea incor
porating an institution for the education
of colored youths, to be located in this
District, from which has grown up tne
Howard University.
A law was enacted in February, 1864,
enrolling all colored men, whether slaves
or not, into the National forces, allow
ing loyal masters a bounty of $300 for
their slaves afterwards reduced to $100
bounty. But this was wholly repealed
in 1867.
On the 11th of June, 1804, a bill be
came a law placing colored soldiers on a
footing of equality in all respects with
hue soldiers. 1
June 28, 1804, a bill was signed repeal- J
ng the infamous Democratic mginve
slave law. j
In 1864 a law was passed allowing col
ed men to contract for carrying mails.
The vear before, the act was passed pro
hibiting all distinctions on account of race j
or color iuthe public conveyances in this
District.
The law creating the Freedman's Bu
reau was passed early in the year 1865.
January 27, 1865, the famous thirteenth
amendment to the Constitution, which
had previously been approved by the
Senate, passed the House of Representa
tives, forever abolishing Slavery in tne
United States.
During this vear acts were passed re
pealing the various measures enacted by
the Southern States under Johnson s
rule, designed to re-establish slavery in
mother form, authorizing the disgrace
ful apprenticeship system, the law in re
gard to vagrancy, and authorizing the
whipping of negroes.
The same year a law passed abolishing
the system of peonage slavery in New
Mexico.
In December, 1865, a resolution passed
both Houses of Congress appointing the
joint committee on reconstruction, to
whom was referred tne creuentiais 01 au
persons claiming seats from Johnson's
reconstructed States and all measures in
regard to reconstruction.
February 28, 1866, an act was passed
declaring that none of the Rebel States
ere entitled to representation in Con
gress until Congress shall have declared
such right.
In April, 180G, the Civil Service Rights
bill, which Johnson had vetoed, became
law by receiving the necessary two-
thirds majority.
June 13, 1806, the iourteentn amend
ment was passed making all persons born
or naturalized in the United States cit
izens, prohibiting the States from pass
ing any law which shall abridge the an
nuities or privileges of such.citizens, de
fining who shall be Senators or Repre
sentatives, protecting the civil rights of
all citizens, declaring that the validity ot
the public debt shall never be questioned,
and prohibiting the United States, and
the several States, from assuming or pay
ing the rebel debt, and rendering it il
legal and void.
In Deeember, 1S06, Congress passed
over Johnson's veto an act establishing
universal suffrage in this District.
In January 1807, a bill was passed de
claring that within no Territory ot the
United States should suffrage be denied
on account of race, color, or former con
dition.
In February, 1867, the fifteenth amend
ment, securing to colored men the right
of suffrage, and forever prohibiting its
withdrawal, passed both branches ol
Congress.
In March. 1868, a law was passed
striking the word white from allzthe or
dinances of this District, destroying all
discrimination against colored men in
such laws or ordinances.
In May, 1870, the bill known as the en
forcement act became a law, its object
being to protect colored men in all the
rights to which other citizens are en
titled.
In April, 1871, Congress passed what
is known as the Kn Klux act, giving the
President power to protect the loyal peo
ple of the South against organize'd bands
of assassins, and rendering the people of
a county or city, under certain condi
tions, responsible for tne damages there
in bv these outlaws.
During the same time, what was the
record of the Democratic party? What
did it do, except play into the hands of
traitors, raising its hands iu holy horror
at the idea of giving the ballot to all cit
izens of the country alike ? Let every
one judge for himself which party is to
be trusted in the tuturo.
THE "GREAT YEAR."
Tlie Latest Scientific Sensation.
AVe have all heard of the "great year,"
which is supposed to be equal to twenty-
six thousand, or, more accurately, twen
ty-five thousand eight hundred and six
ty-eight ot our years. v e are told that
it has its seasons spring, summer, au
tumn and winter and that ever since
the Deluge the denizens ot those por
tions of the earth lying between the Po
lar circles have been enjoying the sum
mer ot the great year. Tins astronom
ical period is measured by the procession
ot the equinoxes. It mav be necessary
to explain that the procession of the
equinoxes is a continual shifting of the
equinoctial points Irom east to west. If,
for the sake ot illustration, a particular
point in the heavens where the sun cros
ses the equator this year be noted, nex
year the sun will cross a little to the
westward ot that point, and so 011 every
year until a complete circle has been des
cribed by this shitting point; or, rather
till an entire revolution has been made
which will be twenty-five thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight years. But
there are said to be some other condition
entering into the problem which reduce
the period of revolution to twenty-one
thousand, This is, of course, an imagi
nary method ot representation ot the
procession of the equinoxes. This shift
ing ot the points or contact between the
apparent path of the sun and the equator
is an effect of the spheroidal figure of the
earth, and is caused by the attraction of
the sun and moon upon the excess of mat
ter about the equatorial regions.
AVithout entering into any elucidation
of the scientific problem, it will be suffi
cient to sav that Alphonse Adhemer, an
eminent French, mathematician, has de
monstrated that during half the "great
year" the sun shines 011 the Northern
Polar regions seven days longer than 011
the corresponding section of the South
Polar Zone. That is, for ten thousand
five hundred years the Northern region
have ten days more of sunshine than the
Southern. This distrovs what might lie
called the isothermal equilibrium. Seven
days, or rather nights, of extra freezin
adds to the cap of ice that covers lb
South Polar Zone, and slowly and stead
ilv it is pushing up in the direction of
the Antarctic Circle. AVhen the period
of ten thousand five hundred years has
been completed this cap win nave reach
ed the seventeen degrees of south lati
tilde, mid will have changed to some ex
tent the shape of the earth. Thecentr
of gravity will have shifted some three
or lour miles to the south.
Thou comes a change. The earth will
AND GENERAL NEWS.
21, 1871.
have passed around to the other side of
this imaginary orbit, or, rather its pro
jected axis will have toppled over, and
the sun will shine on the South Polar re
gions seven days longer than on the
Northern. The effect will be to melt the
cap of ice, and in the course of centuries
cause a general breaking up of that sec
tion of the ice cap that has pushed itself
beyond the Antarctic Circle. Then comes
the mighty catastophe. AATiile the freez
ing was going on and the ice accumula
ting in the South Polar region, the earth's
centre of gravity had shifted a few miles
along its sxis in the direction of the
South Polar, drawing with it the vast
body of water on the earth's surface. A
glance at the map of the world shows
that nearly three-forthsof the water sur
face of the earth is in the Southern Hem
isphere. AVhen we remember that the
Southern oceans are much deeper than
the Northern, we can form some idea of
the vast preponderance of the water in
the Southern Hemisphere.which, accord
ing to M. Adliemer, has been increasing
ever since the last Deluge established a
temporary equilibrium. As soon as the j
ice cap is broken the waters will rush ;
back to the Northern Hemisphere, and
will overwhelm islands and continents
in their flow. New oceans will be formed
in the Northern Hemisphere, and new
continents will rise in the Southern. The
most comforting part of this theory is
that according to M. Adhemer, we will
still have 6,300 years of grace before the
deluge overtakes us in which to get ready
our "arks," and make preparation for
saving a fragment of the race from des
truction. THE AMERICAN W03IE1V ABROAD.
The women travelers from the other
side of the Atlantic. '
Whence do they come, and why. these
innumerable women.? There is not a
table d-hote in Europe at which they do
not sit in rows. There is not a picture
gallery in which they do not herd to
gether in gay, fashionable groups; nor a
public promenade or ball at which they
are not the prettiest and most numerous
of young people. They travel with or
without matrons ; they have good or bad
manners, as the case may be ; but they
are there, unmistakable, national, irre-
pressable. some are invalids; some
mere pleasure seekers; some intent on
art, and others not; some make you ill
ith horror, others make you proud to
call them fellow country-women. There
is no possible kind of women winch can
not be found smong them ; and yet they
are in a certain way alike, at least in not
resembling the women of any other na
tion in such a way as to deceive au intel
ligent foreigner. In Switzerland, last
summer, a very clever Polish lady, who
had been asking many questions about
America, finally posed me by saying :
"There is one thing 11 cannot under
stand ; perhaps you will have the good
ness to explain it to me. It is la de
moiselle Americaine. Where are the men
of America and the married women ?"
Not Ions; after, a French lady, almost
the most intelligent woman I ever met,
asked ine the same thing, and added some
not unjust criticism upon the ways and
manners of the majority of the demoisel
les Americaines she had seen.
Again, I happened to go for a few mo
ments to tne nouse 01 a friend in Italy,
on tne same evening with tnree other
American girls ; and this is what a grande
dame who had seen much of many socie
ties said of us, her German husband
agreeing with her. She said :
"I cannot believe that those were un
married women. It is not possible. You
are fooling me. But they come into the
room with, perfect composure, they walk
up to you calmly to say good-evening,
they converse with you fluently on any
subject that arises, their manners prove
them to be married women."
'And yet," said my friend, "I assure
you that they are, every one of them,
unmarried.
The countess shrugged her shoulders
and said:
'Of course, since you say so, I must
believe, but I do not understand your
demoiselle Americaine."
I could tell a dozen similar stories out
of my own experience, all leading to the
same general result; namely, that the
young women of America have made a
certain impression in Europe, that they
are regarded as a class apart, and that
even when they are accepted as all right,
they are not thoroughly understood.
Even those who believe much like other
women, whether their lives be gay or
quiet ones, can be distinguished from
both the English and Continental teune
fille. It is perhaps somewhat in favor of
the Americans trat the difference is no
ted, and they are of course received
everywhere with respect and pleasure
No women, it is conceded, are more truly
charming and dignified, and they do
much to remove the bad impression
caused by another class of their country
women.
A RITSSIAX COMPARISON OF MA
RINE GERMANY WITH RUSSIA.
An article in the Moscow Gazette of
the 6th inst. compares the marine for
tresses of Germany with those of Russia
The writer points out the great impor
tance for the German navy ol the har
bors of AV llhelmshaten and Jvief, and
shows that when the projected canal be
tween these harbors is completed, Ger
many will be able suddenly to combine
her N orth 00a fleet with that ot the Bal
tic, and throw her whole naval force into
either of those seas. Another advantage
possessed by Germany is that she does
not require any ships ol war to protect her
principal harbors, such as Konigsburg,
Dantzig, Stettin, Rostock, iuoeck, Ham
burg, and Bremen, as they are suffi
ciently protected against the attack of an
enemy by their geographical position and
a few coast batteribS. In Russia, on the
other hand, the capital itselt is exposed
to the attack of a hostile fleet. "St. Pe
tersburg was built in such a hurry that
the most Important precautionary meas
ures were disregarded ; and it was placed
close to the sea, although there was noth
ing to prevent its being built ten or
twenty versts higher up on the banks of
tne Neva. . xiienrsi 01 me uisauvaniages
caused by this mistake was the exposure
of the city to inundations, which might
cause losses of many hundred millions of
rubles. In 1824, when St. Petersburg
was much smaller than it Is now, the loss
caused by the inundation was valued at
a hundred millions. The second disad
vantage that of beiug defenseless
against a hostile fleet is even more im
portant; it compels Russia to keep i
strong fleet iu the Baltic, merely for the
protection ot the capital. And
even this fleet, which cost sixteen mil
lions, does not afford complete security
for it would pot be able to resist the at
tack of a first-rate Power." The article
concludes by urging the government, to
strengthen the tortincattons ot 1 ronstaut
which, it says, are old-fashioned, aifd no
longer capable of resisting modern ar
tillery, and. to build a huge earthwork
five versts long on the coast south of the
capital.
RIDE ON THE NARROW UAIGK
Grace Greenwood writes as follows to
the New York Times :
"I should have chronicled some time
ago an excursion 011 the Denver and Rio
Grande Narrow Gauge Railway, AVe
went about fifteen iniies as far as the
rails were then laid. It was a charming
dav. AA'e had a pleasant- company of
citizens and tourists, and all went 'merry
as a marriage bell,' in the old days, when
marriages were 01 sonic account. On the
railway you are at once struck with the
reduced projiort ions of everything from
the locomotive, which seems like a small
variety of the 'iron horse' a very lit t ti
mustang to the lamps and windows in
the cars. The cars themselves nto bright
pretty, diminutive affairs, cosy ami com
fortablc. It seem like playing lit rail
roading, especially as there is marvel
ouslv little noise or motion. Never hav
1 known a train to glide along so smoothly
NUMBER 15.
aud quietly. The little engine 'buckled
right down to her work,' like Chiquita,
and made no ado about it for several
miles, when, I grieve to say, she suddenly
balked and had to be 'switched.' AVe
took another horse and went on merrily
to the end of the road. Here we alighted
and watched the men lay rails and drive
spikes. The remorseless officers of the
road insisted 00 your correspondent pay
ing her way by driving a spike. It was
a cruel task 011 my 'muscular Christian
ity. The newspaper report said that I
drove the spike home trhimnhantlv '
But I really thought it wouldn't 'Vo
home till morning.' This narrow p-aun-e
road, when finished to El Paso, will be a
wonderful route for pleasure as well as
commerce as it will be almost unrival
ed for variety and grandeur of scenery.
The mountain views, the picture of river,
and park and plain, between Denver and
Colorado City, are especially magnifi
cent." GREAT FIRES,
The Historical Conflagration.
The fearful destruction of life and
property by the ereat connairrarioii of
October 9th in Chicago, has turned at
tention to the previous great fires. The
following is a brief summary of them.
It will be seen that none, execnt. the
Great Fire of London and the burning
of Moscow, in any degree, resemble the
destruction at Chicago.
A. great fire took place at Lon
don Jindge, heginningon the
Southwark Side, and commu
nicated to the other side,
hemming iu a numerous
crowd. Of those who threw
themselves into boats and
barges, about 3,000 were
drowned. A great part of
London, north and south was
burnt a. D. 1V
The great fire of London whose
ruins covered 436 acres, ex
tended from the Tower to the
Temple Church, and from the
northeast gate to Holboru
Bridge. It began at a baker's
house in Pudding Lane, be
hind Monument Yard, and
destroyed in the space of four
daj'S, 89 churches (including
St. Paul's), the City Gates, the
Koyal Exchange, the Custom
House, Guildhall, Zion Col
lege, and many other public
buildings, besides 18,000
houses, laying waste 400
streets. About 200,000 persons
camped out in Islington and
Ilighgate fields Sent 2-C. 1 fififi
Burning of Moscow, by order of
tne tussiau Governor Kostop
chin, to prevent its occupation
by the French. It was set on
fire in 500 places at once, and
11,840 houses were burned to
the ground besides palaces and
churches.. Sent 14. 1S12
City of New York, 600 ware-
nouses, anil property to the
amount of $20,000,000... Dec 10. 1SJ5
At Charleston, S. C, 1158 build
ings, covering 145 acres April 27, 1838
New York City, 40 buildings,
loss $10,000,000 Sept 6,1830
Pittsburg, 1000 buildings, loss
ariout u,ouo,uuo April 10. 1845
Quebec, Canada, 1500 buildings,
many lives, anu an immense
amount of property lost.. Mav 28. 1815
In less than a month afterward,
idoo dwellings in all, two
thirils of the city was destroy
ed June 28. 1845
New York City, 302 stores ard
dwellings, 4 lives and $6,000,-
000 of property. July 19. 1815
St. John's,NewfouniUand,near-
ly the whole town destroyed,
6000 people deprived of
homes June 12. 1816
At Albany, COO buildings, be-"
sides steam Doats, piers, dec. ;
24 acres burnt over ; loss $3,
000,000 Sept. 9. 1818
At St. Louis, 15 blocks of houses
and 2d steamboats, loss esti
mated at $3,000,000 May 17, 1819
At Philadelphia, 350 buildings;
loss estimated at $1,500,000;
25 persons were killed or
drowned, and 120 wounded
July 9. 1850
ban J- rancisco, l al., over 200
buildings destroyed ; estimat
ed loss about $3,500,000 : many
lives lost May o'to 5, 1 851
San Francisco, 500 buildings.
estimated loss $3,000,000. June 12. 1851
Montreal, 1200 houses destroy
ed ; estimated loss $5,000,000
July 12. 18.VJ
Syracuse, N. Y. ; twelve acres
of ground burnt over, aliout
100 buildings; loss $1,000,000
Nov 8, 1856
Key AVest, Florida; 20 acres
burnt over, 110 houses; loss
$2,750,000. Mav 10. 1850
The city of Charleston, S. C,
was almost totally destroyed
by fire with great quantities
of naval and military stores
Feby. 17, 1805
t he cay of Portland, .Maine,
nearly destroyed by fire, and
10,000 people rendered home
less; loss $15,000,000 July 4, 18(50
A HOMERIC PROSE POEM,
"On a pine woodshed, iu allv dark.
where scattering moonbeam-;, shil'tinsr
through the row of tottering chimney
and awnings torn and drooping, fell,
strode back and forth, with stilt and
tense-drawn muscles and peculiar tread.
a cat. ins name was,orvnl; on yonder
neighboring shed his father caught the
rats that came in squads from the streets
beyond Dupont, in search of food and
strange adventure. Grim war he court
ed, aud his twisted tail and spine up
heaving in fantastic curves, and claws
distended, and ears flatly pressed against
a head thrown back, defiantly told of
impending strife. AVith eyes n'grim and
screeching blasts ot war, anil steps as si
lent as the fulling dew, young Norval
crept along the splintered edge, and
gazed a moment through the darkucs.
down, with tail awag triumphantly,
Then, with an imprecation of a growl
perhaps an oath in direst, vcngcncc hissed
he started back, and, crooked m 1h1v
like a letter S, or rather like a I" invert
ed, stood in fierce expectancy. ' 'Twin
well.' AVith eyeballs glariug. cars aslant
and open mouth, in which two rows of
fangs stood forth in sharp and dread
conformity, slap una post from out lh
dark below, a head appeared. A dread
ful tocsin of infernal strife young Nor
val uttered; then, with face uiiblauclicd
and mustache standing straight before
his nose, and tail Hung wildly to tin:
passing breeze, stepped back in caution
invitation to the foe. Approaching each
tlieothcr,aud with preparations dirc.cach
cat surveyed the vantage of the field
Around they walked. with tailsupHft and
oacKs raised ingn m air, while irom their
mouths, in accents hissing with consum
ing rage, dropped brief but awful sen
fences of hate. 1 wicc around the root'
they went in circles, each eye upon tin
foe intently bent ; then sidewisc moving
as is wont with cats, gave one long-
drawn, terrific, savage meow, and buck
led iu. The fur Hew. A mist of hair
hung o'er the battle field. High above
the dm ot passing wagons rose the
dreadful tumult of the struggling tat
Mi gleamed their eyes in lrcnzy, that to
me, who saw the conflict from the win
dow near, iriught else was plain but
gory stars, that moved in orbit most ec
centric. An hour ihcv struggled in tem
pestuous tight, when fainter and fainter
grew the squall of war, until alt sound
was hushed. I hep went I forth will
lantern unit lim field surveyed what
saw IS Six claws, one cur: of teell
perhaps a handful; naught else except a
solitary tail. That tail was Noival's;
by a ring 1 knew it. The ear was but
we'll let that matter p:iss. The tail will
do without (he car, ami l hereby hangs a
tall." '
ADArEnTIKlNG HATE8.
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MELVNGE,
Spurgeon has dropped the "Rev."
Society calls loudly for a new dance.
Patagonia has a meerschaum stratum.
England is to have a Female Medical
College.
Mourners should use mauve-tinted
note-paper.
Is the Tammany Eing made of brass?
No! stefa)l.
A man ought to keep out of trade if he
can't get tin.
Gao is dead. lie was an Italian, and
wrote histories.
The drought caused a AVabash farmer
to blow his brains out.
A Frenchman has made a lamp-wick
that will bum five years.
It is said that every Prime Minister in
Europe is a Free Mason.
Could a grasshopper play at cricket if
it had the mind to do so?
A gastronomic paradox to become ro
tund, cat square meals.
During fifty years Amherst College has
graduated 2,000 persons.
AVliut becomes of all the crows that
the cocks give every day.
AVcstern adaptation ol the works of the
poet: Loathe the poor Indiana.
The nearest the Parisians can now
come to mutton is a little raw weather.
In the United States there are now
four hundred professional wood engra
vers. Mrs. AA'iuters of Indiana has gone to
her reward, with the aid of a kerosene
lamp.
Kentucky farmers are cutting and
shocking, positively shocking, their
corn.
A Liverpool man was arraigned for
genially setting his wife on a red-hot
stove.
It is estimated that the orange peel
thrown on the pavements " in London
kills more than all the English rail
roads. '
I aiiies Fisk keeps a scrap book iu
which he lias pasted 17,400 notices of
himself.
A vagrant elephant, succumbed to
pitch-forks and hot irons at Mariden,
Connecticut.
Two hundred thousand orphans are
bequeathed each year to public and pri
vate charity. .
A Sioux City girl has $18,000 in the
bank. Emigration to Souix City is in
creasing rapidly.
Saratoga girls organized an anti-kiss-
ng society, but lo out ot the oo members
were fined the first week.
There are t wo classes of men ' who
catch at straws drowning men and lov
ers of juleps and cobblers.
Samuel S. Marshall, aged 100, of Ver
mont, has iust emigrated to Michigan in
the hope of prolonging his life. .
Pittsburgh young man took matri
mony and small-pox at the same time.
rue honeymoon wasn't a success.
AA'hv is a man searching for the phi
losopher's stone like Neptune? Because
he is a sea-king what never did exist.
AVliat did that young lady mean when
she said to her love : "You may be too
late for the cars, but you can take a
buss?"
An editor says that a Scriptural test of
one's horticultural friends is, "By their
fruits we shall know them," and adds
that he has none.
A lady editor in the East says that if
men want tueir cnuuren to iook ukc
thein the fewer jaunts they make to Cal
ifornia the better.
November 13th is announced as the
time for shooting stars. Quail can be
shot after October loth, or a little mora
than a month earlier.
It is reported that Bismarck among his
other accomplishments, is a grand musi
cal composer. lie is now engaged iu
making an overture of peace.
A sentimental young man thu3 feel
nglv expresses himself: "Even as Na
ture benevolently guards the rose with
thorns, so does she endow women with
pins."
The latest extract from "Avhat I know
about Farming;" Catch your butter Hie
late in August. Select the deep yellow
ones if vou would get good sweet salea
ble butter.
AVhen coming home from "courtin,"
quite late at night, an lowan discovered
the sehool-ooiise on lire anu put it out.
The citizens think of making the .young
lady a present.
A IJiehniond judge has just sentenced
an old man of eighty winters to a twenty-
live years' term m the Mate prison. He
couldn't have punished him much worse
it he had sent hnu lor tile.
A Pittsburgh lady so loved a Pitts
burgh doctor that she was willing to take
him even with the name of Oldshue;
and the happy couple get along with that
ease for which a pair of Oldshucs are
proverbial.
A Boston paper propounds the follow
ing connunilrum lor Jjarwm : l pon
what principle of selection is it that of all
the darker colored horses which have
white feet, twice as many of thein have
their feet behind as before?
The New York 7'imes relates that the
fish Commissioners of the State liave
taken 500,000 white fish eggs from Lake
Chainplain for hatching elsewhere. Half
a million eggs is a great many, looks and
like ova doing the business.
Apropos to the many remedies proposed
for preventing boiler explosions, the
Louisville Ccurier-ifournal savs the only
absolutely sure way to keep thein from
exploding is to till them with ice water
and set them in a cool place.
A quarrelsome couple were discussing
the subject of epitaphs and tombstones,
and the husband said : "My dear, what
kind of a stone do you suppose they will
give me when 1 die?" "Brim-stone, iny
lovc!'' was the aft'eetionaie reply.
Laura de Force Gordon insisted, in n
recent lecture at Stocton, Cal., that she
was "an American citizen and over
twenty-one years of age," which pro
voked a crusty and disgusted benedict to
exclaim. "You bet you are!" Sensation
in the audience.
The Mobile lUijister thinks that if male,
and female "interviewers" were to mar
ry from one generation to another,
their ofispring. if the development theo
ry is correct, would, in process of time,
"exhibit a rear development especially
adapted to be kicked."
One I J. Smith, arrested the other dar
in New Orleans on a charge of having
committed a murder at Carrollton Ga.,
fifteen years ago, said he had quite a
number of unpleasant ditliculties iu his,
life, but he could not, rciueiulicr whether
he had killed a man of that place at that
time.
It is related of a member of the Bos
ton bar that once meet ing in the dog day
the estimable sou of a father of rather
equivocal reputation, in an absent-minded
moment he amazed him by inquiring
how the old gentleman stood the heat.
The old gentleman hud been dead two
months,
A widow advertised iu Chicago, ask
ing "every Christian in the city "to send
her fn cents as the amount would not
oppress them, and the collection would
benefit her greatly. For a wondor, llio
class called upon did all contribute, u
requested, and the widow realized twen
ty cents.
A citizen of Marion, Ohio, 'wax bitten
by a rattlesnake last Tuesday, and swal
lowed seventy-two grains of carhonalc
of ammonia and oue-tialf gallon whiskey
in thirty-six hours, without becoming
intoxicated ill the slightest degree. Such
a man will ccrlainly not die of a litllo
snake-bite.